Log of Failed Liberal Policy

[P@triot]

Failed Liberal Policy:

Obama's Stimulus: A Documented Failure

Obama's Stimulus: A Documented Failure | CNSNews.com

 

[P@triot]

Failed Liberal Policy:

An audit by the Department of Energy reports it was "unable to locate $500,000 in equipment bought with stimulus money," reports CNSNews.com.

You fucking idiot liberals just continue to support failure, incompetence, and waste. Why should you parasites care though, since it's not your money being wasted by an incompetent unconstitutional government...

Energy Dept. 'Unable to Locate' $500,000 in Equipment Bought With Stimulus Money | CNSNews.com

 

[Chris]

The deregulation of Wall Street destroyed the world economy.

The lowering of taxes for the rich created most of the National Debt.

 

[Full-Auto]

The deregulation of Wall Street destroyed the world economy.

The lowering of taxes for the rich created most of the National Debt.

Just the rich?

You are easily defeated with that nonsense.

That extra 70 billion a year doesnt even scratch the deficit.

 

[P@triot]

The deregulation of Wall Street destroyed the world economy.

The lowering of taxes for the rich created most of the National Debt.

Actually, the communist policies that you advocate destroyed the world economy (just go ask Greece stupid). Greece had nothing to do with Wall Street and you know it.

You just won't admit the truth because then your communist dream dies.

 

[P@triot]

Failed Liberal Policy:

Poverty in 2011 might have reached highest level since 1965

The liberals (communists) have American's right where they want them - completely dependent on government.

US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s

 

[Bfgrn]

those are generally policies of people who would be identified as radical right wingers today.
Except for gay rights. You can stick gay rights up your poop shute.

Did you notice one thing?

All those liberal policies were opposed by Conservatives

They were "liberal" in the sense that would be called "conservative" today. Today "liberal" means people who want as much gov't control over every aspect of people's lives as possible. Which is what "conservative" meant in the 18th century.

Bullshit Monica for the elite.

Classical liberals assume a natural equality of humans; conservatives assume a natural hierarchy.
James M. Buchanan

 

[P@triot]

Failed Liberal Policy:

Two new reports out yesterday continue to knock down President Obama's promises about Obamacare: his "If you like your plan, you can keep it," and the promise to significantly shrink the ranks of the uninsured.

According to a new study from consulting firm Deloitte, almost one of out of 10 employers said they are going to drop coverage for their employees because of Obamacare, while another 10 percent said they "remain unsure" about what they are going to do. As the vast majority of Americans have health insurance through their workplaces, this is a huge blow.

Morning Bell: Obamacare Leaves As Many Uninsured As It Covers

 

[Bfgrn]

Failed Liberal Policy:

Two new reports out yesterday continue to knock down President Obama's promises about Obamacare: his "If you like your plan, you can keep it," and the promise to significantly shrink the ranks of the uninsured.

According to a new study from consulting firm Deloitte, almost one of out of 10 employers said they are going to drop coverage for their employees because of Obamacare, while another 10 percent said they "remain unsure" about what they are going to do. As the vast majority of Americans have health insurance through their workplaces, this is a huge blow.

Morning Bell: Obamacare Leaves As Many Uninsured As It Covers

Surprise...a lobbying firm who contributes 25% to Democrats and 74% to Republicans says something negative about a health care bill that has been labeled 'Obamacare', but is actually a Republican/Heritage Foundation bill from the early 1990's.

The whole idea behind the Republican bill in 1993 was to move away from employer based insurance and offer an individual mandate instead of the employer mandate focus of the Democrats at the time.

Let's let Robert Moffit, who was deputy director of domestic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation back in 1994 explain. Here is what conservatives said when THEY proposed the individual mandate in the leading Senate alternative to the Clinton plan.



Personal Freedom, Responsibility, And Mandates
by Robert E. Moffit

A Snare And A Delusion

Employer-based health insurance in this country is the product of wartime economic and tax policy of the 1940s. There is no reason why health reform in the 1990s should be governed by those unique circumstances and outdated tax policies.

Uwe Reinhardt and Alan Krueger tell us that the tax treatment of employment-based health insurance now is sharply regressive. And, Mark Pauly confirms, it contributes to market distortions, high costs, and lack of portability in health insurance. Americans today get tax relief for health insurance on only one condition: that they get it from their employer. This has tied health insurance to the workplace in a way that no other insurance is treated. It means that if we lose or change a job, we lose our health coverage.

Pauly also tells us that employer-based insurance hides the true costs of health care. Thus, there is no normal collision between the forces of supply and demand on even the most basic level. Most workers do not purchase health insurance; it is purchased by somebody else, usually the company. For most workers, it is a “free good,” an extra, that automatically comes with the job. At least, we live with that comfortable illusion. But, in fact, it is not free at all, and the employer gives us nothing. Because too many people think that the employer’s contribution is the employer’s money and not theirs, the consumer’s perception is distorted (as is the provider’s), and health spending is not subject to market discipline. Likewise, because too many people still do not understand this reality, “hidden taxes” through the employer mandate are politically attractive. Such a mandate thus serves as a psychological snare and an economic delusion.

Karen Davis and Cathy Schoen suggest a payroll tax to finance reform, whereby the employer pays 8 percent and the employee pays 2 percent. If one of our tasks is to make the true costs transparent, this suggestion does not help very much.

In his otherwise enlightening paper, Reinhardt calls attention to the virtues of a “mandated purchase” of health insurance. And he warns that calling an employer’s “mandated purchase” a “tax” comes close to debasing the English language. But, in a similar context, Reinhardt uses the word contribution to describe suspiciously similar functions. Suffice it to say, the campaign for linguistic precision is hardly advanced by using the word contibution to describe the state’s forcible extraction of citizens’ money.

In another context, Reinhardt proposes perhaps the best single reform idea to date. He suggests a simple financial disclosure on the part of the nation’s employers, requiring every employer to put periodically on the pay stub of every worker in America something like the following: “We have paid you X thousand dollars in health benefits. This has reduced your wages by X thousand dollars.” We would add: “Have a nice day!„5

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/13/2/101.full.pdf

 

[Neotrotsky]

Log of Failed Liberal Policy


One only needs to look at a synopsis of Papa Obama's
term to see most of their failures

 

[P@triot]

Failed Liberal Policy:

Yesterday, the Senate narrowly voted (51-48) to raise taxes on 1.2 million small businesses, which will likely kill more than 700,000 jobs at a time when nearly 13 million Americans are out of work. Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Jim Webb (D-VA) joined all Republicans in bipartisan opposition to the tax hike.

The Ernst and Young study on the impact of this tax hike showed that it could kill more than 700,000 jobs. This isn't surprising, since the businesses it targets are some of the country's most robust job creators. But it is surprising that a majority of the Senate would go along with this plan when the country is suffering from 8.2 percent unemployment.

Morning Bell: Senate Votes to Raise Taxes on Small Businesses

 

[P@triot]

Failed Liberal Policy:

According to the Labor Department's July jobs report, the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3 percent, 12.8 million Americans are out of work, and 5.2 million have been out of work for at least a half a year.

The question isn't what has slowed the economy—it's really what Obama Administration policy hasn't slowed the economy? The policies of the last few years has been unequivocal job killers.

The Administration's foot-dragging on free trade agreements has killed job creation. The extended moratorium on oil drilling, followed by new regulations, killed job creation. President Obama's refusal to build the Keystone XL pipeline killed jobs. Ever-expanding Environmental Protection Agency regulations kill jobs. Extending unemployment insurance—part of the failed "stimulus"—was a humanitarian gesture, but it killed jobs. Even increasing deficit spending has a job-killing effect, the opposite of what Obama espouses.

And then there's Obamacare, which if it goes into full effect will be one of the biggest job killers of modern times.

To all of this, President Obama said, "We tried our plan—and it worked."

And they're not done yet. The Democrat-led Senate just tried again last week to raise taxes on small businesses. The Republican-led House stopped that plan and passed a bill to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax policies for next year and thus defer part of Taxmageddon, the biggest job killer we now face. But will Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) even allow a vote on it?

Reid is a major driver of these tax increases and job-killing policies. He has abused his authority as majority leader to block the minority party from the opportunity to offer amendments more than 60 times, more than all of his predecessors combined.

Morning Bell: Has Anything NOT Killed Jobs Lately? Unemployment Rate Rises

 

[P@triot]

Failed Liberal Policy:

A Philadelphia woman is subject to a $600/day fine if she continues to feed needy children in her neighborhood without receiving permission from town officials

Philadelphia woman faces $600-a-day fine for feeding needy neighborhood kids | Fox News

 

[P@triot]

Failed Liberal Policy:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKCFj_JYb9c]Why Obama's Stimulus Failed: A Case Study of Silver Spring, Maryland - YouTube[/ame]

 

[P@triot]

Failed Liberal Policy:

Treasury: U.S. to lose $25 billion on auto bailout

Treasury: U.S. to lose $25 billion on auto bailout | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com

 

[antagon]

Hall of Shame

 

[P@triot]

Failed Liberal Policy:

The wind production tax credit is set to expire at the end of this year, which has the industry crying out for continued subsidies.

Heritage's Nicolas Loris has made the case that the wind energy tax credit makes as much sense as a VHS production tax credit. Can you imagine the logic: "We can't afford to lose our VHS tape manufacturing plants. They provide valuable jobs. Americans need a variety of ways to watch recorded entertainment."

Wind Energy Subsidies Are As Useful As VHS Tape Subsidies

 

[bluecoller-eddy]

I'm going to present private sector employment, because republicans hate government employee's

Romney said of Obama, “he wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government
workers. He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not
get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back
on government and help the American people.”

private sector jobs

Eight years of supply side vulture capitalism.
Jan 2001 --111,631
Jan 2009 --110,985
---------------646 thousand jobs lost.


11 years,8 months of supply side vulture capitalism.
Jan 2001 --111,631
Jul 2012 --111,317
---------------314 thousand jobs lost.

Three trillion dollars in tax cuts in 11 and 1/2 years, and we wind up with
314 thousand jobs lost.

For Republicans, Lying is a way of life.


---- bluecoller -- the grumpy old kraut-------

 

[P@triot]

I'm going to present private sector employment, because republicans hate government employee's

Romney said of Obama, “he wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government
workers. He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not
get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back
on government and help the American people.”

private sector jobs

Eight years of supply side vulture capitalism.
Jan 2001 --111,631
Jan 2009 --110,985
---------------646 thousand jobs lost.


11 years,8 months of supply side vulture capitalism.
Jan 2001 --111,631
Jul 2012 --111,317
---------------314 thousand jobs lost.

Three trillion dollars in tax cuts in 11 and 1/2 years, and we wind up with
314 thousand jobs lost.

For Republicans, Lying is a way of life.


---- bluecoller -- the grumpy old kraut-------

Except that we haven't had supply side venture capitalism since the 1800's. A great example is the current recession, which was caused by Bill Clinton and his "Community Re-Investment Act" which forced banks to give loans to people who didn't previously qualify (because idiot socialist liberals believe that that everyone should own a home even if they can't afford it). So over time, these people who couldn't afford the home and would NEVER have gotten one under true free market capitalism started falling behind. What did they do? Turned to credit cards. Then the credit cards started piling up. Eventually, they defaulted on both the homes and the credit cards and the banks didn't get their money back. Now those banks can't make as many loans and they have to start laying people off. Without jobs, now those people start defaulting on their homes. The entire thing snowballs.

It's comical to watching the mumbling, bumbling, stumbling buffoon's known as Democrats create the problem with their communism/marxism/socialism and then blame the "free market" and "capitalism"....

 

[P@triot]

If his policies are so "good" for America as he keeps claiming, why did he make sure the majority of them go into effect after his final election? Oh, that's right, because these are going to cripple America and he knows it.

Americans are learning more about the "fiscal cliff" approaching at the beginning of next year, when tax rates for families and small businesses are set to spike and new taxes in President Obama's health-care spending law take effect. But unless there's real change in Washington, we're also headed for a steep "regulatory cliff" that could compound the damage.

After three years of bureaucratic excess, the Obama administration has been quietly postponing several multibillion-dollar regulations until after the November election. Those delayed rules, together with more than 130 unfinished mandates under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law, could significantly increase the regulatory drag on our economy in 2013.

Rob Portman: The Regulatory Cliff Is Nearly as Steep as the Fiscal One - WSJ.com