http://libertyworks.com Political commentary informed by the Declaration of Independence Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:54:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems that we, like Phil Connors, leading character in the movie Ground Hog Day, are stuck in a insipid time warp.  We awaken every morning to yet another rerun of the political pitch for Extreme Makeover, Health Care Edition. Saturday morning it was the President's "weekly address," posted in ... http://libertyworks.com/ground-hog-day-deceptions/ Two recent reports, when connected, seem to explain each other. Report # 1 The Wall Street Journal found that the Obama Administration has directed the US Import-Export Bank to loan $2 billion to Petrobras, Brazil's state owned oil company.  The money will fund exploration and drilling in a massive, off-shore oil ... http://libertyworks.com/connecting-the-obama-and-oil-drilling-dots/ Yet another negative employment report was released Friday - 36,000 jobs lost in February. President Obama appeared on TV to claim, preposterously: ...this was better than expected...and shows the measures we're taking to turn our economy around are having some impact. Not to be out done, Senate Majority Leader Harry ... http://libertyworks.com/reaganomics-will-create-jobs-again/ Perhaps the one leftist/big-government idea that has been a more obvious failure than any other is the idea of government decreed price controls. Price controls have been tried many times, all over the world, and are usually the last phase of failed experiments in government central planning and regulation.  The ... http://libertyworks.com/obamacare-meets-obamanomics/ Previously: Prelude Act I Act II During Act II, the Health Care Summit, Representative Joe Barton articulated the principles that have guided Republicans' response to the Democrats' massive health insurance and health care regulation bills: I do think, though, that there is a fundamental difference in the vision that you and your ... http://libertyworks.com/the-great-health-care-melodrama-act-iii/ This week we have seen what post-Constitutional government looks like.  No-limit government means our liberty, rights, and prosperity are always subject to the whims of erratic political forces in Washington. Whether or not we the people will be subjugated by an authoritarian government take-over of health care, with it's  resultant ... http://libertyworks.com/democrats-grim-choices-in-post-constitutional-america/ The so-called bipartisan summit took all day and, after the first hour, anesthetized the TV audience. It didn't turn out the way President Obama and the Democrats had hoped.   The Republican leaders, starting with a very articulate Senator Lamar Alexander were obviously better organized and in better command of the ... http://libertyworks.com/the-great-health-care-melodrama-act-ii/ On Monday President Obama posted his version of ObamaCare on the White House web site.  As we noted in our previous article, it isn't in legislative form, ready for Congress to vote.  It's a marketing brochure, mostly recycled from previous speeches and campaign communications. The so-called "President's Plan" is merely a ... http://libertyworks.com/obamacare-3-0-more-of-the-same-flim-flam/ This week, President Obama and the Democrats are producing a five-day Health Care Melodrama.  Liberty Works will provide updates as each act and scene unfolds. First installment in this series: Prelude [caption id="attachment_4415" align="alignleft" width="280" caption="ObamaCare"][/caption] Last year the House and Senate each passed a version of ObamaCare.  This morning the ... http://libertyworks.com/the-great-obamacare-melodrama-act-1/ This week, President Obama and the Democrats are producing a five-day Health Care Melodrama.  Liberty Works will provide updates as each act and scene unfolds. In best melodrama tradition, the Obama script is contrived to present to the audience - you - an emotional story of good Vs evil.  The entire ... http://libertyworks.com/the-great-obamacare-melodrama-prelude/ The private sector's ability and willingness to generate income and profits for government to seize through taxation is rapidly diminishing due to the increase in federal power and intervention. The drop in individual income tax revenue in fiscal 2009 was the steepest since 1939.  As the chart shows revenue continues ... http://libertyworks.com/alarming-data-big-government-starving-itself/ On February 4 President Obama submitted his proposed budget to Congress, including the most spending and largest single year deficit in the history of America. On February 18 he announced the formation of a yet another Washington "commission," this one to study government deficits and recommend ways to reduce them, ... http://libertyworks.com/another-commission-to-save-congress-from-itself/ UPDATE: This week President Obama began a campaign style tour to hype the "success" of the Recovery Act or "stimulus."  He said without it there would heave been "a catastrophe." But he did not provide any details as to the nature of the catastrophe.  Considering the data below it's pretty ... http://libertyworks.com/recovery-act-one-year-progress-report/ The Obama Administration's economic team sent a report to Congress Thursday projecting 96 Thousand new jobs per month for the remaining eleven months of 2010. Just two weeks ago, in his State of the Union message President Obama sneered: We can’t afford another so-called economic “expansion” like the one from the last ... http://libertyworks.com/pitiful-jobs-projection-from-the-obama-team/ Vice President Biden appeared on the Larry King program Wednesday.  When King asked him about Iraq he said: I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the ... http://libertyworks.com/blame-bush-for-everything-except-success-in-iraq/