Musings on the Week
Musings on the Week
May 31, 2014
Economy – “We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.” Mitt Romney.
Politics
– Barack Obama put his hand on the
Bible (twice) and swore to “preserve,
protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States,” which is by far Obama’s
biggest lie!
Politics
– Democrats are privately
criticizing Obama, calling him “detached,” “flat
footed,” and “incompetent” for his mishandling of the succession of scandals that won’t go
away.
Politics
– Out of the 195 House-passed bills that are now stalled in the Senate,
only 31 were written by Democrats, and many have been
awaiting Senate approval for close to a year.
Politics
– Hillary Rodham Clinton will be branded as a continuation of the Democrat
culture of corruption, begun by her husband and
continued by Barack Obama with all his scandals.
VA –
Only 56.9% of employees believe they can
disclose a violation of law or regulation without fear of reprisal and only 46.1%, feel “a high level of respect” for their senior leaders.
Politics - This week’s distractions from
the stagnant economy and ObamaCare: another mass
murder by disillusioned youth and more empty
saber rattling on the Ukraine.
Media –
The Obama administration
addresses problems not according to their intrinsic seriousness but according
to the political impact when the media notices them.
Economy – “The Great
Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by
government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private
economy.” Milton
Friedman.
Economy – According to the BEA, the real gross domestic product actually decreased
at an annual rate of 1.0% in the first quarter, rather than the .0025% increase originally estimated.
Economy – According to the CBO, the economy would have been better off today if the
government had done nothing instead of spending
and borrowing $6 trillion.
Economy –
The left loves the new economics book by Thomas Piketty,
but the data has been found to be manipulated and
selected based on its political agenda.
Inequality
– A Chief Executive (CEO) now makes 257 times the average
worker’s salary
in the U.S., up sharply from the 181 times in 2009, which is progress under
President Obama?
Healthcare –
Most ObamaCare deadlines have been erased or
extended, most rules have
been excised or rewritten, and most of these
changes have made the system work worse.
Healthcare –
Rising
ObamaCare costs can no longer be denied, with rising premiums and rising
hidden costs of co-pays, deductibles, and co-insurance requirements
Housing –
Mortgage
giant Freddie Mac reports that many of the nation’s single-family housing markets are stalling, after
earlier premature announcements of a recovery.
Environment –
The
EPA should never have been allowed to define carbon dioxide (CO2) as a “pollutant” because now it is been used
as a weapon to close down coal energy plants.
Environment –
The EPA’s
own model, ironically acronymed MAGICC, estimates
that its new policies will prevent a grand total of 0.018ºC in warming by 2100, at the cost of billions.
Environment –
The World
Health Organization rescinded it ban on DDT, while the
U.S. government refuses to admit its mistake exposing children to mosquito
carried diseases.
Environment –
The one
thing that global environmentalist can do is to exaggerate
effects and ignore results, since the whole movement is a stealth redistribution of wealth scheme.
Marriage –
A state
defined civil union covers personal inter-relationship legal, contractual
privileges, while heterosexual marriage expands to
define family and religious needs.
Crime – Black mob violence is becoming
the norm, as Memorial Day riots and knockout games were
suppressed or ignored by the media since white victims are not
newsworthy.
Economy – “Indeed, a major
source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what
they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in
freedom itself.” Milton
Friedman.
Foreign
Policy – Obama’s West Point commencement remarks
reinforced the perception of his “Obama Undoctrine;” basically
lots of empty talk unbacked by coherent actions.
Middle
East – Slinking out of Iraq
after inability to sign a Bilateral Security Agreement was exit strategy, so now Obama
embraces this same strategy for Afghanistan - with same results?
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
www.ReturnToCommonSensesite.com