I do not look to govt at all to solve my problems. My point about the "free market" was that AT&T has used govt regulation to keep their competition down. So it is not truly a free market.

I usually vote Repub or Liber and have never voted Demo but you really can't sit there and point your finger at the Dems and say Big Govt is all their fault. Repubs are just as guilty. They may talk a good game but they have not delivered.

I have been to commercial dairy operations and do not agree with your last link. The animals there are treated humanely and we are using them for what they can provide us - milk products. When they are finished with that job, they go onto their next job - dog food and other consumables. We do the same thing with people (anyone who works to produce something they can't enjoy), what's so wrong with doing it to animals?

Executive Orders
"Executive Orders
You can expect to see more of those."

You can count on them, especially after what is likely coming in November.

The result will be more talk of revolution, more movements to succeed from the union, and the continued weakening and eventual breakup of America. I fear Obama will be the catalyst of all this and he will be our last president. I hope I am wrong, but fear I am right.

Meanwhile, Europe falls, Russia returns to communism, China along with Russia stand as the two superpowers.
By EOC

Hopefully, if November sees a re-balancing of power in Congress, we'll avert disaster. If not, we MIGHT see a lot of unrest bubbling to the surface but a major blowup will wait till 2012 unless the Fed tries to "control" the dissenters too much.

could indeed get ugly.

Your posts don't always follow that neat 1-2-3 series of definitions. The Supreme Court ruling clearly supports Def #1.

Also many big businesses stick to Def #1. So you can't lump all big business as bad.

jes pointing out a little inconsistency there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S4LhpVzJPo

Not entirely Doc. Here in Missouri you can opt out if you prove you have the funds to "self insure"

imagine that. China along with Russia stand as the two superpowers, and they spend one tenth of the money we did on armaments.

"and no the 'free market' does not offer another choice in my building"

And THAT, Weasel is exactly the problem we have and why Bozos like Obama get elected nowadays. As wonderful as the free market is, it is not always going to satisfy your every dream.

When that doesn't happen, many misguided individuals immediately think we NEED government intervention because OMG the free market isn't giving me everything I want and more!!

As comforting as this sounds to people who think the government is great, all government intervention does is create more problems than it solves.

You need to forget about big government as the answer to everything. It is not. Even when things aren't going your way, it is not the answer.

8 more billion for the black hole called Amtrack

Staple, I'd rate him the greatest president -- if we were talking planet of the apes.

I might just trade my restaurant for a hot dog cart. No employees. Less taxes. Less insurance. Less overhead. You may be on to something there buddy.
Oh and when you place your order be sure to ask for extra "oregano". I'll stash it underneath.

None of the above

WHAT IS THE STATE OF THE NATION???

he never told us did he??????

Haha. Matthews forgot the President was black because he looked...orange. Like they did his makeup with self-tanning lotion.

I see some of the comments I make being used by fellow posters......

don't forget....POLITICIANS ARE SCUM...and possibly the most impotant one this year.........

DRIP..don't return incumbent politicians

WEASEL ABUSER.....duz a hot dog cart qualify as a restront???? musturd an' kraut on mine.....beer??? yep! oh! one mo' thing......it's PRESIDUNCE....

104 (I, I've, I'm, I'll or I'd)

22 (My, my, Me or me)

That is from the NY Times prepared speech text. Considering the speech lasted 70 minutes, that's a personal reference every 33 seconds.

He referred to himself as I 75 times and me 10 times. For comparison, Bush used I 27 times and me 2 times during his 2008 speech.

I just watched a used car salesman trying for over an hour to sell me a lemon.I was fooled once,but now I see through the half truths.Sorry,but in 2012,as Donald Trump would say...."You're Fired!".

Let's Take the "Crony" Out of "Crony Capitalism"

http://www.blog2.tshirt-doctor.com/?p=6233

when I am made the INQUIZATOR I will get information outa the bad guys.....

nope no water involved...or a board to lay 'em on..no black is negative red is positive make sure his balls are wet...stuff....

just a tape looped so osamabama does his speechs......oh they'll talk..and talk...and talk....

TSHIRT....go talk to Joyce M/B she has a email you will L U V.....

Ok, I will admit that I am confused. I thought Obama was already President. Last nights speech was not a SOTU address. It was a campaign speech. There is a difference Mr. President.

I didnt know they taught physics in the trailer parks. It is obvious they didnt teach when to use a "S" and when to use a "$"

There's SO much irony in what Sarkozy (Sar COZY) is saying at Davos. True capitalist wouldn't be caught dead at a place like Davos. It's a meeting set up by crony capitalist and politicians so they can cozy up to each other. Citi's stock is in the tank now! Yeah, thanks to the American taxpayer for bailing them out. If it wouldn't have been for that welfare check, Citi would be at zero most likely now. The politicians on BOTH and the crony capitalist didn't have the courage to let the market take care of bad players, so now we are stuck with these legacy financial systems forever. Yes, we'll bail out these clowns again, the next time their investments go OOPS!

The act of staple removal requires the appropriate amount of mental dexterity required to judge "O"'s speech as "great".

As described in Newton's third law of physics, there is an equivalency to Staple Remover's reaction to last evening's speech.

Reaction of Idiot (A)-Staple Remover = Action of Idiot (B)-Obama

Chuck, i read all lefty and righty blogs with a skeptical eye. :O) thanx

MeFein, i'd been trying to include economics in my blog while studying it myself. i think i've gotten .0000001% through with it! :O)

"Big Business" is the same as "Big Government" from what i see.

corporatism is evil!!!! :O)

Both my son and I commented on the “look” on TOTUS' face. He looks down on the rabble – down his nose and has that haughty arrogance that only a narcissist could engender. He is purely the most self-centered person I have ever seen. He tells us it is “not about me” so many times but, he cannot possibly escape the fact that it IS about him--he IS Washington--has been for the better part of a year......and he STILL doesn't get it....and watching that idiot Pelosi seated behind him bob her head with that "I just swallowed a frog" look on her botox-ravaged face...it was enough to make my son and I reach for a barf bag.

The unintended consequence of this incompetent's flailings is that I too find myself lured to the promise of "change" in 2012.

And as long as Barry tries to ram his unwanted healthcare and cap and trade down our throats, I am confident that he will go down as the worst one-term president in the history of the nation.

In short, he's learned nothing and his handlers seem to think that the only error he's commited is that his "delivery" of the message was flawed, not the message itself. A frickin' amazing...

Stocks were down this morning ...

But overseas stocks were up ...

The only job growth is in ... the public sector (i.e., gub'mint) ... no net new jobs in the private sector.

Butt's correct: "We's SKREWED!"

Everyone kept or keeps on saying Mr. Obama is a great speaker but I could not see it. Each time I watch Mr. Obama give a speech or speak, I don't see how people arrived to that conclusion. But last week, it finally done on me why I could not see it; the reason was I was seeing something different. I saw him as a salesman who uses pretty words to convince you to buy something. I also see a parent who believes they are 100% right and should not be questioned or corrected; a parent who also refuses to listen to their adult child b/c they are intellectually beneath them, therefore, should be relief and happy that say parent is in control. I am always seeing an invisible finger wagging at me when I watch him.

Also, he, his administration, and the Democratic Congress need to STOP blaming Bush. The job was not given to him at gun point, he requested the job. NO need to remind us that the economy starting tanking under Bush, because we were there when it happened.

To President Obama: YOU ASK FOR THE JOB, NOW TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND START WORKING TO PUT IT ON A HEALTHY PATH. ALSO STOP WITH THE SPENDING (SPENDING ONLY WORKS IF IT CREATES WEALTH, SO FAR THE SPENDING HAS NOT DONE THAT--THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO START NEW EXPERIMENTS SUCH AS GREEN JOBS) AND START REDUCING THE ENTIRE FEDERAL BUDGET (EXCEPTION MILITARY AND NASA) BY 25%, PERFERABLY 40% AND REDUCE TAXES FOR ALL. IN ADDITION, WE WANT HEALTH CARE REFORM THAT IS MARKET NOT GOV'T DRIVEN. BTW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BY CUTTING MY INCOME TAX B/C ACCORDING TO MY PAYCHECK STUB; MY FEDERAL TAX WITHHOLDING HAS INCREASED ON JAN 1. I apologize for the scream Mr. President but you are not listen—you maybe smart but you are not the only intelligent human, please listen and stop with the social engineering because it only dumb down the American citizens. The only way to reduce poverty in this country is by making it very uncomfortable and holding them responsible for their actions. In the U.S. if you are able, there is no reason for living in abject poverty.

Fox news has the highest ratings of any of the network news shows.

O'Reilly is still the most watched new program of all the networks.

Tonight we will talk again about Sarah Palin.

Then we will talk again about Glenn Beck.

Then we will talk again about our high ratings.

18 minutes of most every O'Reilly show that is not consumed by commercials is focused on one of those three topics.

Then we will play hold up your A-B-C-D cards and see who wins the quiz.

That network is really getting annoying.

Maybe he can use the new iPad to craft his iSpeech for display on his iPrompter.

Speaking of which, I can wait to get the new Max iPad

Hey doc, thanks for the point of view yesterday, btw. I do actually read blogs from other sources, I just stay skeptical when I do. I'm more interested in what you and others think yourselves than what you read or saw somewhere else. But keep on bloggin' mon!

Interesting video t-shirt but if you understood the Austrian Theory of Business Cycle you wouldn't be blaming "Big Business" for our current troubles.

Well SEC it seems to have the effect of raising my taxes and cost; this it turn caused me to raise my prices to cover my cost making my business less competitive. I am now lying off workers to offset the reduction in income because of decreased sales. This is having a negative impact on my companies return on equity, price-earnings and price-book ratio, fundamental analysis and prospective earnings growth; this it turn discourages investors and is making it difficult to raise capital.

The net effect is my business will not be able to hire for several years and may have to continue to lay off workers to continue to do business. Further any investment funds that are holding my stock will be impacted as I reduce or eliminate dividends and my stock’s value reduces.

Great, now they're going to white out the name ":Stimulus II" and type over withe the name "Jobs Bill."

Do these Nimrods actually believe their own horse droppings? Do they think they can legislate job growth?

The Dems seem to fall into two categories:
Those who think their legislative taxing and wishing and renaming can make jobs happen.

Those who understand that the only way for government to help is to get themselves out of the way, (dragging any other obstructionists with them) and let the private sector have at it.
The Dems who do understand this know that they can't lessen the power of government, because their supporters won't have it.

I guess since Neal is off this week, someone should re-state the obvious: the Fair Tax would create more jobs than the ACORN census workers could count in 10 years.
Seriously, if you could start a company knowing that the company itself would pay no taxes, and you would pay no income tax on what you earned from that company, how long would it take you get a start-up going? The local governments that issue business licenses would be overwhelmed.

"Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem

http://www.blog2.tshirt-doctor.com/?p=6657

From Obama's speech last night: "So tonight, I'm proposing that we take $30 billion of the money Wall Street banks have repaid and use it to help community banks give small businesses the credit they need to stay afloat. (Applause.) I'm also proposing a new small business tax credit"

I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! He really thinks we are idiots.

You can expect to see more of those.