Forgiving student debt? Bad idea.
At over $1 trillion, total student debt in the United States now tops total credit card debt.Many debt-laden graduates will never get the money they paid out of their degrees.
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At least the hippies had some clue.
Most hippies grew up, cut their hair and got jobs. You have to wonder if the occupy Wall Street Crowd, forty years of ever-increasing statist welfare coddling later, will ever feel compelled to do the same.
Remembering Steve Jobs
America is perhaps the only country on Earth that could have midwifed a company like Apple.We would do well to remember that and to remember why it is so.
Save the half trill’ and get off my back, Mr. President.
Wax eloquent all you want about small business, Mr. President. The truth is that if I weren’t already in business, I’m not sure how enthused I’d be about starting.
Be yourself, Rick. You’re on solid ground.
Gov. Perry stumbled all over himself when the question of in-state tuition for the children of illegal aliens was raised in the GOP presidential debate last week. He needn’t have. He stands on solid ground and should say so.
Cuban on taxes. Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban caused a stir earlier this week on his blog. He opined that paying taxes is, “the most patriotic thing you can do.”
MSNBC may say “Lean Forward.” But they’ll always lean left.
MSNBC’s current promotional campaign is an implicit endorsement of big government. Yet one of the campaign’s central illustrations would be vehemently opposed by MSNBC if were proposed today.
What if a candidate told the truth?
Members of the ruling class from both sides of the aisle, together with various media elites, are all over Rick Perry for his comments regarding Social Security. Their criticism of Perry is condescending in its assumption that the American people can’t handle the truth.
Obama’s State of the Campaign speech.
So now it’s the American Jobs Act and $400 billion in the form of money that we don’t have to be thrown at fixing roads and bridges and job training for the unemployed.
The triumph of ideology over experience.
The countdown has begun toward President Obama’s much-anticipated “major policy statement” on jobs. If you watch it, keep a company called Solyndra in mind.
Bureaucrats vs. business? Bet on the bureaucrats.
Regulatory capriciousness is putting a chill on business investment. It’s a huge reason that the economy is stuck. Yet Obama will never mention this fact in his Sept. 5 speech on jobs.
Insulated from reality.
When the president delivers his major policy announcement on jobs and the economy Sept. 5, let’s all make it a point to remember last year’s $20 million jobs program in Seattle.
Understanding our low voltage economy.
The Chevy Volt, a darling of the Obama administration, is little more than a gussied up golf cart built with taxpayer funds. GM almost literally cannot give the things away. Yet Obama dares lecture automakers about the market.
Reality acceptance.
The human capacity for self-delusion is the only thing that explains why the left continues to cling to a tired and discredited belief system.
The useful Tea Party.
Administration apologists are blaming the Tea Party for the recent downgrade of U.S. debt by Standard & Poor’s. I disagree. I think the Tea Party forced a useful debate exactly as the founders would have hoped.
The markets know that the piper must be paid.
The piper has arrived in Europe, seeking to be paid for 60 years of social entitlement spending. Everyone knows that the piper’s next stop is the United States.
If it doesn’t hurt, it’s not a cut.
Following 9/11Continental Airlines was in nowhere near the financial trouble the U.S. government is in now. Yet Continental’s CEO made dramatic cuts to his company’s expenses to ensure economic survival. No one in Washington is making any such proposal for the United States.
Where are the cuts?
Aside from throwing out a number ending in the word, “trillion,” what specific spending cuts are any of Obama, Boehner, Reid, the “Gang of Six” or anyone else proposing? When does anyone propose the the U.S. actually spend less money than it is currently spending?
The late-season comeback that Boomers need.
The 1978 Yankees staged a dramatic comeback to save the season and save their reputation. We Baby Boomers need something similar.
Recent presidents explain why we’re broke.
If the government stopped wasting money tomorrow, the country would still go broke. Such is the magnitude of the entitlement state.