Posts belonging to Category Politics
Posted by Jagadeesh Gokhale on July 30, 2010
By Jagadeesh Gokhale
The annual bloviate-fest on Social Security has begun, even before the Social Security Trustees’ report has been released this year. Apparently the report is to be released next week — after a three-month delay from its statutory release deadline of April 1.
There’s concern from groups interested in preserving Social Security that President Obama’s National Commission on [...]
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Tags: Health, Welfare & Entitlements, social security | 
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Posted by Alan Reynolds on July 30, 2010
By Alan Reynolds
From January 2009 to the present, President Obama and his team have repeatedly made grandiose claims about the economic benefits of shoveling money at shovel-ready projects or green jobs. “It is largely thanks to the Recovery Act that a second Depression is no longer a possibility,” said the President. He also claimed that lavish spending [...]
Categories: Politics, Tax and Budget Policy |
Tags: Federal Reserve, federal spending, Finance, Banking & Monetary Policy, GDP, gdp growth, Government and Politics, recession, stimulus bill, unemployment rate | No Comments »
Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell on July 30, 2010
By Daniel J. Mitchell
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Peter Ferrara of the Institute for Policy Innovation explains that Washington budget deals don’t work because politicians never follow through on promised spending cuts. This is a very relevant argument, since President Obama’s so-called Deficit Reduction Commission supposedly is considering a deal featuring $3 of spending cuts for every [...]
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Tags: Baseline Budgeting, big government, Budget Deals, Budget Gimmicks, Budget Summits, Current Services Budgeting, Government and Politics, government spending, higher taxes, tax increases | No Comments »
Posted by Daniel Ikenson on July 30, 2010
By Daniel Ikenson
What explains the chronically misleading depictions and interpretations of international trade in the Washington Post? Is it economic illiteracy? Intellectual indifference? Institutional bias? What?
The opening paragraph in Neil Irwin’s story (online, July 30, 2010, 9:13 am) reads:
The pace of economic growth slowed this spring, according to new government data, as Americans remained reluctant to consume and [...]
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Tags: imports, trade, Trade and Immigration, Washington Post | No Comments »
Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on July 29, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
President Obama today touted his Race to the Top program, which pressures states to, among other things, adopt national education standards. Also today, the New York Board of Regents revealed that it had been misleading its citizens for years, giving them an inflated notion of how well their children were performing academically. Last year 77 percent of students [...]
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Tags: Education and Child Policy, national education standards, Race to the Top | No Comments »
Posted by Sallie James on July 29, 2010
By Sallie James
An update from my post yesterday about the bill to establish a Commission to End the Trade Deficit (now called the “Emergency Trade Deficit Commission”): apparently the bill that passed the House was different from the bill initially considered, and to which I linked (and commented). My apologies.
The bill that was passed had many of [...]
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Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell on July 29, 2010
By Daniel J. Mitchell
The “appearance of impropriety” is often considered the Washington standard for corruption and misbehavior. With that in mind, alarm bells began ringing in my head when I read this Washington Times report about Jacob Lew, Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget. A snippet:
President Obama’s choice to be the government’s chief budget officer [...]
Categories: Politics, Tax and Budget Policy |
Tags: Beltway Elite, big government, corruption, Finance, Banking & Monetary Policy, Government and Politics, government intervention, government spending, Health, Welfare & Entitlements, lobbying, Political Philosophy, regulation, Regulatory Studies, Sleaze, taxation, Washington Insiders | No Comments »
Posted by Walter Olson on July 29, 2010
By Walter Olson
The Chipotle Mexican Grill heralds its “Chipotle Experience,” in which customers can watch their food being made behind a glass partition. Now a Ninth Circuit panel (including famously liberal judges Stephen Reinhardt and Dorothy Nelson) has ruled that the “experience” violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, to quote the AP, “because the restaurants’ 45-inch counters [...]
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