I, for one, am happy that BP put aside $20 billion into an escrow account. I’m afraid that they’ll file for bankruptcy and we’ll lose any ability to get them to pay for anything.
Michelle Bachmann isn’t so happy with that turn of events:
The president just called for creating a fund that would be administered by outsiders, which would be more of a redistribution-of-wealth fund.
Posted in Diplomacy, Elections 2010, House of Representatives
Tagged Abuse of Power, BP, Michelle Bachmann, Minnesota
For years we have heard about the horrible labor conditions of third world countries. 
That people are being forced to work long hours in slave labor conditions for wages that are drastically lower than corporations can pay in America.
We never hear, of course, that these laborers voluntarily put down their farming tools and made their way to the cities to find this work. This work, that they hope, will transform their lives from one back-breaking agricultural labor to one of living the middle class dream.
Posted in Economics, Politics: International
Tagged China, Communism, Employment, Free Market, Socialism
If you needed a reminder that Obama hasn’t ever managed anything, this should serve as an illuminating example:
Clinton said in a television interview in Ecuador on June 8 that President Barack Obama had ordered the Justice Department to challenge the Arizona law because he did not believe states should set immigration policies, which could differ.
“President Obama has spoken out against the law because he thinks that the federal government should be determining immigration policy,” she said according to a transcript posted on the State Department website.
The big deal?
The Good Govn’a of Arizona has this to say:
“If our own government intends to sue our state to prevent illegal immigration enforcement, the least it can do is inform us before it informs the citizens of another nation.”
And she’s right.
Management 101.
Posted in Diplomacy, Immigration, Politics: International, Politics: National
Tagged Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politics
And the hits just keep comin’. 
When Congress passed the Consumer Bill of Right’s Measure everyone thought it was just the greatest idea EVER.
I didn’t so. When given the choice of who should protect my money; me or the government, I chose me. Every time. Me.
Well, guess what happens when the government takes care of me? They don’t.
Posted in Economics, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Credit Card, Leftist, Politics
Just another in a long line of laws that are making things more expensive than they need to be.
Just as America is trying to turn the corner and get back on our feet, the Feds have issued another decree that’s gonna make it harder to make it.
Posted in Economics, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Leftist, Politics, Profit
Trade, the exchange of goods and services, makes all people wealthier. 
It always has. And as long as personal liberties are enforced, it always will.
Consider how we normally trade; money for goods.
This weekend my young nephew was in town and the kids wanted to play Wii. We only had one controller so I needed another. Out to the store I went.
Posted in Economics, Liberty, Politics: International
Tagged Economy, Employment, Free Trade, The Economist
Leftists. Gotta love ’em.
Take the question of having to identify yourself to the government.
On one hand they say it’s a matter of individual privacy. On the other, they say it’s their right.
I stand pretty much with Rand Paul on the Civil Rights thang. I think that the government should create laws that make it illegal for the government to discriminate on all the things that we currently list. However, I do NOT think that the government should be able to restrict the individual Liberty of a private business owner.
That’s NOT to say that I would discriminate personally. I think it’s reprehensible. And, from a business stand point, a horrible decision.
But. There are certain times when I think discrimination is okay.
There are a number of things wrong with Unions. 
They reduce jobs. They price out the under skilled of a job. They make products more expensive. They force restrictive trade agreements. Really, there’s no end to the nastiness they elicit.
But the story of the retired Marine being forced to join a Union is a perfect example to illustrate just how ugly I think they are.
Posted in Liberty, Lobby/PAC, Politics: National, Republicans Can Be Leftists Too
Tagged Abuse of Power, Employment, Leftist, Massachusetts, Unions
The idea is a good one, and noble too.
I just don’t think it’s gonna work.
It’s been tried before. And it’s failed before.
The idea, of course, is to make available a large number of bikes to the public so that they can:
Posted in Economics, Energy, Politics: International, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly, Transportation
Tagged bike, CO2, Global Warming, Liberal, Minnesota