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Posted in Z Miscellaneous
Are Obama’s policies burying the US economy?
Gerard Jackson Monday 28 March 2011
When Obama ran for president I warned that the man is a dogmatic leftist and Americans — those with any sense, that is — would rue the day he sat in the Oval Office. Since then I, along with many others, also pointed out that if unchecked his policies would result in economic stagnation and inflation. Well, this now seems to be the case. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Bernanke, deficits, Democratic Party, Democrats, dollar, Economic growth, Fed, Gerard Jackson, government spending, inflation, Keynesianism, Obama, Recession, Unemployment, US economy
A carbon tax will devastate Australian manufacturing
Gerard Jackson Monday 28 March 2011
Mark Dreyfus, Federal Labor Member for Isaacs, is another lying Labor Politician who cannot get his story straight. A recent article of his (Shades of Goebbels in ‘truth campaign’, The Age, March 11, 2011) was riddled with so many lies and distortions in defence of the Government’s destructive carbon tax that it would take a very long article to refute them all. I’ll therefore focus on the one lie the refutation of which explains why the carbon tax would savage the standard of living. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Australian economy, Bob Brown, carbon tax, Economic growth, Gerard Jackson, Greens, Institute of Public Affairs, IPA, Labor Party (Australia), manufacturing
Will Japan’s disaster deepen the US recession?
Gerard Jackson Monday 28 March 2011
Japan’s tragedy has led some economic commentators to ponder the possibility that she might try to fund a recovery by selling masses of US treasuries which would raise interest rates and therefore deepen the depression. The thinking behind this view is based on the assumption that in buying huge amounts of treasuries Japan — and China — helped drive down interest rates by raising bond prices. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Bernanke, deficits, Democratic Party, depression, Economic growth, exchange rates, Gerard Jackson, government spending, inflation, interest rates, Money Supply, US economy
Can We Save America?
Steve McCann Monday 28 March 2011
Sixty years ago in February I came to the United States. I was classified as a “displaced person” from World War II with no identity or knowledge of when, where or to whom I was born, an orphan who had miraculously survived on the streets of a war ravaged city somewhere in central Europe. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in socialism, socialists, US economy
Air Cover for Libyan Rebels, None for Cuban Freedom-Fighters
Humberto Fontova Monday 28 March 2011
“Where are the planes?” kept crackling over U.S. Navy radios 50 years ago. The U.S. Naval armada (22 ships including the Carrier Essex loaded with deadly Skyhawk jets) was sitting 16 miles off the Cuban coast near an inlet known as Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs). The question — bellowed between blasts from a Soviet artillery and tank barrage landing around him — came from commander, Pepe San Roman, who led an amphibious force of 1500 Cuban freedom-fighters. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Castro, Che Guevara, Cuba, Humberto Fontova
ACLU v. Religious Liberty
J. Matt Barber Monday 28 March 2011
Irony is defined as “the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.” The term doublespeak means “evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.” There is perhaps no greater example of ironic doublespeak than inclusion of the phrase “civil liberties” within the inapt designation: “American Civil Liberties Union.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Z Miscellaneous
American jobs, factories and investment: the picture is grim
Gerard Jackson Monday 21 March 2011
The Washington Post recently published a story revealing that if the hidden jobless were included in the unemployment rate it would jump to 10.5 per cent. (Hidden workforce challenges domestic economic recovery) This is a damning indictment of Obama’s economic policies and Bernanke’s monetary mismanagement. Even more damning is the fact that Obama appears completely unfazed by the situation. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Democratic Party, Economic growth, government spending, manufacturing, taxes, Unemployment, US economy
Garnaut and Gillard’s carbon tax plan is an impending disaster
Gerard Jackson Monday 21 March 2011
Professor Ross Garnaut’s call to cut income taxes by $5.75 billion for low and middle income earners is an indirect admission of the ghastly costs of Julia Gillard’s destructive carbon tax. It is also an admission of Garnaut’s commitment to the tax that should raise serious questions about his economic competence. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Alternative Energy, Australian economy, Australian manufacturing, Bob Brown, carbon tax, Economic growth, Greens, socialism, solar energy, taxes
Green economic policies would devastate living standards
Gerard Jackson Monday 21 March 2011
The theory of a steady state economy (stationary economy) is not only central to green thinking, something that Senator Bob Brown admitted, it is in fact the green fanatics’ ultimate goal. It would also be a totalitarian nightmare. I think it best to begin with description of a steady state economy followed by the greens’ main criticisms of economic growth and ending with an explanation of why their green utopia would be a vicious tyranny. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Alternative Energy, Australian economy, Bob Brown, carbon tax, Economic growth, Gerard Jackson, Greens, rental resource tax, solar energy
Castro condemns Jewish American aid worker to 15 years in prison
Humberto Fontova Monday 21 March 2011
On Saturday Castro’s court handed down a sentence of 15 years to Alan Gross, a contractor for USAID jailed in Cuba since Dec. 2009 for bringing cell-phone and internet equipment into Castro’s fiefdom. Mr Gross was trying to help Cuba’s tiny Jewish community communicate more freely with the outside world. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Castro, Che Guevara, Cuba, Democratic Party, Humberto Fontova, Obama
Jewish family slaughtered by Palestinian terrorists
StandWithUs Monday 21 March 2011
StandWithUs is horrified and grief-stricken by the savage murder of five members of the Fogel family. Palestinian terrorists slipped into the house while the family slept, stabbed the parents, slashed the throat of 11-year-old Yoav, knifed 3-year-old Elad in the heart, and slit the throat of their three-month-old baby, Hadas. The mother tried to fight back but was murdered. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Israel, Jews, terrorism, terrorists