Category Archives: ECONOMIC POLICY

Includes unemployment figures, debt, deficits

Corn Belt Apostasy at the Argus-Dispatch?

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Designated2

The secret, dirty cost of Obama’s green power push* Catch the title of this lengthy AP story that we noticed earlier today in qconline – the online news outlet operated by the Midwest oriented Small Newspaper Group,  a privately held … Continue reading →

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Bruce Braley’s Clunker Legislation

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Designated2

George Will writes today in Human Events describing a study authored  by Ted Gayer and Emily Parker for the left of center Brookings Institute about the effects of the Cash for Clunkers program inflicted on America at the beginning of … Continue reading →

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Video Presentations

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Designated2

This site has been perhaps 99% the text and still graphics variety of blog presentation.  Video expose’s are occasionally referred to but we prefer to set forth written commentary and chronicles. We have noticed more and more that news and … Continue reading →

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Tom DeLay – Texan With A Pair – QC Times – Pairless

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Designated2

And we are not referring to the boots DeLay wore on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ This Newsmax article highlights an interview with the former Republican leader in the House.  It was conducted by Steve Malzberg on his Newsmax TV show.  … Continue reading →

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NYT’s Friedman – US Needs to be More Enlightened . . . Like China

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Designated2

Thomas Friedman, the New York Times (NYT) columnist, should be proud. The Obama government is now operating in the same style as that Friedman has so admired, the Chinese Communist People’s Republic! An excerpt from his column (NYT, Sep 9, … Continue reading →

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Marco Given A Trade Route?

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Designated2

This is the GOP’s “Great Hispanic Hope”?  The effort to defund Obamacare must be a dead issue in the view of the Democrats and the Establishment Republican leadership ( we hope to prove them wrong). By joining Ted Cruz and … Continue reading →

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The Government is So Corrupt It Is Lying To Itself Now*

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Designated2

You have to read the story at Conservative News Service (CNS) to get the full absurdity of what is going on. Basically the nation’s debt has been set 16.699 TRILLION dollars. By law it cannot be exceeded.  So in spite … Continue reading →

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By The Numbers — It’s Obama’s Fault

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Designated2

A profoundly damning recitation. The following citations are sourced and provided by Republican National Committee RNC), Obama By The Numbers.  Its length perhaps imparts tediousness (we should know) but that is  more a reflection of  the extent of the abysmal … Continue reading →

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Dismal Obamanomics

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Designated2

First thing this morning I opened my e-mail to receive a forward from our illustrious senior editor about today’s job report.  Dismal it is. But in forwarding the CNBC article he pointed out the confusing choice of words that might … Continue reading →

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Obscene Government Waste — Alan Caruba

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Designated2

The one thing the “sequester” did was to get people asking why government spending could not be reduced. Adding to the drama of the automatic cuts was the sky-is-falling, government-services-will-stop, and comparable lies the President and his cabinet secretaries told … Continue reading →

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