Who owns the US debt?
Geldpress breaks it down for you, with actual numbers: Hat tip to Conservative Grapevine. ..bruce w..
Category: Stimulus
More finanicial perspective
Remember those “massive Bush/Republican deficits”? Bush was a piker compared to Obama and the Democratic Congress. From Greg Mankiw via Instapundit. ..bruce w..
“This redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought”
Wisdom from the Monty Python crew: Hat tip to Steve Hayward over at the Corner at National Review Online. ..bruce w..
Quote for the day
“Can you imagine a world repopulated by senators? The living would envy the dead.” — U.S. Representative Randall K. Jepperson IV in Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
“The country’s in the very best of hands!”
Synchronicity strikes again. Even as the Senate moves towards passing what may be the single worst and most disasterous piece of legislation in our generation, I happened to turn on TCM this evening and found the 1959 film version of “Li’l Abner” (itself based on the 1956 Broadway musical). Just a few minutes ago, a […]
Losing the New York Times?
First it was the NY Times editorial telling Tom Daschle that he needed to step down as the Obama Administration nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services — which Daschle did the same day the editorial came out, specifically citing the Times as he did so (“I read the New York Times this morning…”). […]
Stimulis: the performance enhancer
Yeah, this pretty much sums it up: Hat tip to Mark Hemingway at the Corner at the National Review Online. ..bruce w..
The fallacy of small percentages
[UPDATED 02/04/09 — 1124 MST] It appears that Josh Marshall (see below) is just echoing President Obama (maybe that’s what Josh means by “Talking Points Memo”), who said in different interviews yesterday (scroll down to “Little Pork Spending in Bill”) that “most of the programs that have been criticized, as part of this package amount […]
What’s up with Thornton, Colorado?
The wonderful Stimulus Watch website gives you an opportunity to see what funding is proposed in the House Stimulus package for any part of the country. I decided to look up Colorado, and in particular Parker, which is where I live, in hopes of doing some first-person investigation of any proposed projects. Nothing. In Parker, […]
Perspective on the “stimulus” disaster
Visualization is the key to comprehension: Hat tip to Mother, May I Sleep with Treacher? ..bruce w..
