-
What is Barack Obama's stimulus plan really accomplishing? Looking strictly at the numbers, one can't help but conclude that it's accomplishing very little. Unemployment is at 9.8 percent and is only expected to go up further, perhaps as high as 10.5 percent . It is expected to remain at...
-
President Obama has chosen his battles. Not the battles in Afghanistan or Iraq. No, he is dithering and indecisive there. Instead, the president has identified and declared war on enemies much closer to home: free speech, the free press, and free enterprise. President Obama is not the first American...
-
When President Obama promised during the presidential campaign that he would transform America, the American people did not anticipate that this transformation would manifest itself through a comprehensive overhaul of the American system that has provided so many people comfortable and fulfilling lives...
-
Michigan's economy is on the precipice. The state's unemployment rate is 14.7 percent, the highest in the nation. Over 632,000 jobs have been eliminated under Governor Jennifer Granholm's watch. Another 360,000 are expected to be lost by the end of next year, bringing the total jobs lost...
-
Is the public option portion of the health care bill dead? This is the discussion in the wake of the public option amendment votes in Tuesday's Senate Finance Committee meeting. Jay Rockefeller's amendment would have created a pure public option that was essentially an extension of Medicare....
-
The free market has spoken. Consumers of news and information are not using newspapers as a major source of information the way they did years ago. There are now so many new resources for consumers to get news and information, most of it online or on cable, that large numbers of people are canceling...
-
Obama is talking out of two sides of his mouth once again. He says he supports free trade policies as he hits tires manufactured in China with a 35 percent tariff, an increase of 31 percent. This move could not come at a worse time. As our economy struggles to gain footing, the last thing the president...
-
The president has been beaten about the head and shoulders regarding health care reform the last few months. The American people don't like what they have been hearing and reading about a public option because they know full well it would steer large portions of the American public already insured...
-
The Cash for Clunkers program has encountered some serious problems, many of which are still lingering. The most common complaint is that many dealers still have not gotten their rebate money from the government. For all its flaws, though, it did teach us one thing and that is that the American consumer...
-
President Obama released his massive $3.6 trillion budget back in February. Some called it ambitious. Others called it a spending blowout that was nothing short of irresponsible. Obama's budget handed out money to programs in such massive amounts that it would cause the United States to run deficits...