From Unsustainability To Insanity

GOVERNMENT DEBT, LIABILITIES ARE DROWNING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
By Howard Rich || News of the national debt eclipsing the $16 trillion mark has prompted another round of hand-wringing and finger-pointing from the two political parties responsible for its escalating accumulation.
In fact, one of those parties — in an effort to pick up some election year traction [...]

Rich: Frenchman’s Folly

By Howard Rich || British Prime Minister David Cameron caused an international stir last month when he addressed a meeting of the world’s largest economies in Mexico City. In his remarks, Cameron referenced a specific component of France’s new €7.2 billion tax hike program — a 75 percent “super tax” on annual earnings above €1 [...]

Is Barack Obama A Fascist?

AND WHAT “-ISM” IS AMERICA UNDER HIS RULE?
By Howard Rich || “Barack Obama is a socialist.”
Heard that one before? Of course you have. In fact if polling is to be believed, it’s more likely than not that you have accepted this premise at some point in the not too distant past.
Two summers ago a poll [...]

Rich: Search Wars

By Howard Rich || At a U.S. Senate hearing last September Nextag CEO Jeffrey Katz testified that nearly “30 million shoppers” used his online marketplace each month, sending “over $1 billion of sales to our merchant partners.”
Does that sound like a struggling business to you?
Katz believes so – which is why he wants governments around the world [...]

Rich: Soda Wars

“GIVE ME ‘BIG GULP,’ OR GIVE ME DEATH”
By Howard Rich || New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has declared war on the “Big Gulp.” In fact he’s declared war on any soda or sugary drink that’s larger than sixteen ounces (or contains more than 25 calories per eight ounces). Bloomberg’s Orwellian assault on beverage freedom in [...]

America’s “Failed States”

CALIFORNIA, ILLINOIS BRING GREEK-STYLE FISCAL TRAGEDY TO AMERICA
By Howard Rich || The Eurozone isn’t the only economy reeling from “failed states.” The United States has several of its own – most notably California and Illinois.
According to the CIA’s world factbook, California’s economy is the ninth largest in the world with a gross state product of [...]

Rich: Barack Obama’s Jobless Rate Reality

RECORD NUMBERS OF WORKERS ARE GIVING UP HOPE
By Howard Rich || For the third straight spring, the American economy is experiencing a “failure to launch.” Our nation’s unemployment rate continues to inch lower — from 8.2 percent in March to 8.1 percent last month – but it’s dropping for all the wrong reasons (i.e. people [...]

Selective (“Journalistic”) Bombing

Some say this website has evolved beyond being a mere blog … but one thing that isn’t up for debate is the fact that we are a biased outlet. In addition to breaking news on a daily basis we are actively attempting to influence our readers’ thinking on the various issues we cover.
“Unfair, Imbalanced … [...]

Nikki Haley Vs. The Club For Growth

SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR BACKS CORPORATE WELFARE FOR FOREIGN COMPANIES
Earlier this month, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley was the featured speaker at the winter meeting of the Club for Growth – a national organization that represents itself (accurately, in most cases) as a leading voice for fiscally conservative reforms at the federal level.
In fact, Haley was busy [...]

Rich: On Government “Waste”

By Howard Rich || Generations of big-spending Republican politicians would have you believe that “waste, fraud and abuse” are the root causes of government’s deficit spending problem. Meanwhile generations of bigger-spending Democrats would have you believe that the problem of waste, fraud and abuse in government is overblown.
Both perspectives are flat-out wrong.
Waste, fraud and abuse [...]

Rich: Deconstructing Obamacare

By Howard Rich || The stated objective of Barack Obama’s socialized medicine law is to expand access to quality, affordable health care in America – hence the statute’s title, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”
As far as intended outcomes are concerned, greater access to lower cost health insurance is certainly a desirable objective. Shrinking [...]

More On “The Recovery”

Americans for Limited Government chairman Howard Rich wrote an excellent column earlier this week that addressed America’s lingering – and looming – employment problem.
Rich’s piece focused on a frightening surge in long-term joblessness, as well as the precipitous decline in the size of the nation’s labor force, concluding that “most Americans aren’t experiencing the economic [...]