Category

Sustainability

• 03.04.10
  Unseriously, we need to cut the deficit
  Bash the Messenger, Stimulus spending, Sustainability (0)

  The next time anyone suggests that we take seriously something that President Obama said, we should point to the media attack on Jim Bunning. The next time anyone suggests that we need higher taxes to pay for important social programs, or to bring down the deficit, or anything else, we should point to the media attack on Jim Bunning. The scandalous behavior of the media and everyone else who participated in the orchestrated smear campaign on the Senator from Kentucky shows the pointlessness of any of this. I say orchestrated, because there is no way that ...
  
  
• 03.18.09
  Do American horses speak Belorussian?
  Sustainability, Welfare-police state (0)

  I hope the Animal Services and Enforcement Director in Kalamazoo County doesn't hear about this. Or if he does, I hope he doesn't like it. Just because an impoverished cat owner in Belarus sends the animal out to beg money for its own upkeep doesn't mean the impoverished horse owners in Kalamazoo County should do that, does it? Because if that's allowed, it might argue against the idea that leftish people now owe the rest of us support money for our upkeep.
  
  
• 03.18.09
  Comprehensive
  Regulation, Sustainability (0)

  Today I came to realize that in the world of politics, the word "comprehensive" is a near-synonym for totalitarian. In Tuesday's WSJ there was a letter in response to an article explaining how cap-and-trade is a corrupt, expensive system. The letter-writer said we should instead think about the benefits of having a "comprehensive" energy and climate system. And then there are the people who say we need to make all of our existing health systems fail so we can have a "comprehensive" system of national health insurance. (They don't say so quite that explicitly, but this came ...
  
  
• 03.16.09
  Horse trading
  Limits on government power, Stimulus spending, Sustainability (3)

  Horses may be going hungry, but here's some food for thought. It's inspired by a front page story in Sunday's Kalamazoo Gazette. The article explains that people can't afford to take care of their horses, but they're required to anyway, even if they've lost their jobs and incomes. There is no longer a market for the animals, so they can't be sold. And the other alternatives (such as euthanasia) are even more expensive or non-existent. Kalamazoo County's Animal Services and Enforcement director explains: Winter time is tough, with people being laid off and home foreclosures. ...
  
  
• 03.05.09
  More time with family
  Sustainability (0)

  I wonder if the Obamanites have lost confidence in their ability to blame Bush for all of the economic troubles: The person Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wanted as his chief deputy withdrew from consideration Thursday, dealing a setback to the agency as it struggles to address the worst financial crisis in decades... "a personal decision" to withdraw from the process, according to a person familiar with her decision ... No tax problems or other issues arose during Nazareth's vetting... Geithner has been criticized for staffing his department too slowly...Five weeks into his tenure, he has yet to name a single ...
  
  
• 02.27.09
  1933 Pro-Inflation Propaganda Film
  Stimulus spending, Sustainability (0)

  This was fun to watch, but I should have paid more attention to the title: "1933 Pro-Inflation Propaganda Film." Up until almost the end I thought it was making fun of the "Inflation is Wonderful" idea. But it wasn't. Maybe Obama could use it as part of his sales campaign. I enjoyed some of the pronunciations, such as the way Nineteen Thirty-Three is pronounced -- especially the first syllable of "thirty". I wonder if that's a pronunciation that's still heard anywhere.