Thanks to Instapundit for drawing attention to this Financial Times report showing how ultra-rich elitists and politicians flew to South Africa on private jets, which meant both big carbon footprints and also resulted in ordinary people missing a key soccer match because the airport was too cluttered for many commercial planes to land. The Hypocrite-of-the-Year [...]
Archive for July 8th, 2010
Big Carbon Footprints for the Elite, Missed Soccer Matches for the Peasants
Posted in Climate change, Elitism, Environmentalism, Global warming, Hypocrisy, Soccer, tagged Climate change, Elitism, Environmentalists, Global warming, Hypocrisy, Soccer on July 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Sexual and Racial Quotas and the Dodd-Frank Bailout Bill
Posted in Bailout, Financial Crisis, Regulation, tagged Bailouts, Discrimination, Financial Crisis, Regulation on July 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Hudson Institute provides an additional reason why the Dodd-Frank bailout legislation is bad for the American economy. But this shouldn’t be too surprising. Senator Dodd and Congressman Frank are akin to a couple of foxes designing rules for the construction of henhouses. So we get government-mandated racial and sexual discrimination in addition [...]
Bashing Bush-Obama Statism on CNBC
Posted in Big Government, Capital Gains Tax, Corporate tax, Economics, Government Spending, Keynes, News Appearance, Politics, Statism, tagged Keynesian Economics, News Appearance, Statism, Tax Increases, Unemployment on July 8, 2010 | 7 Comments »
In a debate with one of the hopeless ideologues from the Center for American Progress, I criticize the corrupt deals between big government and big business, I warn about the big tax increases scheduled to take effect next year, I explain that Republicans did Obama a favor by blocking a bill to subsidize unemployment, and [...]