Special Report: Massachusetts Special Senate Election

UPDATE: Linked by Smitty for Rule 5 Sunday.

PREVIOUSLY:

Ladies, wouldn't you like this guy to represent you in Congress? And by represent I mean that if you live in Massachusetts please vote for Scott Brown in the special election on Jan. 19th.

Seriously, check out his site. The man is quite the Silver Fox. And I'm saying this as a very confirmed heterosexual male.

Picture credit from here.

Thanks to Di for the link.

Bill Whittle Fires Off

Stick with it for the entire 10 minutes.



This reminds me when leftists resort to calling people 'racists' and 'fascists' when they can't refute facts.

Thanks to Jim.

Recovery: Don't Believe The Hype

Innocent Bystanders has the graph showing the projected unemployment numbers without the Stimulus Package, the projected unemployment with the Stimulus and the current numbers.

Makes you wonder if it wasn't one big pay off.

Job Related.

December job reports are in. Buried in it is this gem:

Unemployment remains the Achilles heel of the economic recovery, which started in the third quarter of 2009 following the worst recession in 70 years. Creating jobs is critical to sustaining the economic recovery when government stimulus fades.

For the whole of 2009, the economy shed 4.2 million jobs, the department said.

Still the job market continued to show broad improvements last month, with a number of sectors showing gains.

Professional and business services added 50,000 positions, while education and health services increased payrolls by 35,000. Temporary help employment rose by 47,000.[emphasis mine]

The best way to create jobs is for the federal government get out of the way. The government really can't create a job. They help create the atmosphere for a business to operate in. As to how hostile or how friendly the atmosphere is depends on taxes, fines and penalties imposed on those businesses.

This should be self-evident to everyone from the high school drop out to the Dean of every Ivy League University. Even though I would expect the high school drop out to have a better understanding of how it worked.

As for the temporary help, it was December. Retailers everywhere hire extra help to help cover for the holidays. Much the same way that tax offices will be hiring extra accountants between now and April 15th. The holidays are now over and so are the temp jobs.

Don’t forget, the Stimulus was needed to keep unemployment below 8%. Change!

Thanks to Ace for the links.

Way To Support The Troops

You would think that something as simple as hanging a yellow ribbon around a tree would have universal support.

Not so.



It's a reminder than all politics is local and more people need to get involved.

And Now, Some Eye Candy

The F-22.

Damn, she's pretty.

Very sleek looking.

Flying side by side with the F-15. Compare the two aircraft. Notice how smooth the F-22 is compared to F-15. Stealthy.

The underside of the aircraft. See the zig-zag pattern on the landing gear door and the missile hatches? That's very similar to the same type of construction of the bay doors here.

Thanks for the pictures, Dad.

Unions And The Free Market

From Friedrich Hayek himself. Talking in an old TV interview about how unions are detrimental to a free market society.



Added because it's Hayek related

It's on! Keynes VS. Hayek.

Without the Keynesian public policy initiatives, the economy would not have become supercharged from 2002 until 2007, the credit crisis would not have occurred and the nation’s growth during the next decade would be higher and more stable.

You will never hear this discussed in our congressional hearings—they will be busy bashing business leaders in the private sector.

Hayek would say, “Just leave it alone and the economy will do fine.”

Keynes would say, “Intervention by government is essential to avoid disasters.”

The Achilles heel in Keynes’s thinking was the assumption of wise governance.

I clipped this from the second page of the article but be sure to read the whole thing.

An Open Letter To Congress

Yeah, it is a few days old. But it's nothing that repetition of the message won't hurt.



Hat tip to Ace.

More Crap From The Health Care Bill

If the law is ever changed to allow gay people to get married, this will be their reward.

Some married couples would pay thousands of dollars more for the same health insurance coverage as unmarried people living together, under the health insurance overhaul plan pending in Congress.

The built-in "marriage penalty" in both House and Senate healthcare bills has received scant attention. But for scores of low-income and middle-income couples, it could mean a hike of $2,000 or more in annual insurance premiums the moment they say "I do."