John Geraci: Government Spending; The Discovery of Common Sense
‘Government is like an infant: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.’
Economy
Tariffs Won’t Fix the Rust Belt or Small Towns
Trump’s tariffs may be a big shift away from globalization or just a bargaining ploy. Regardless, tariffs isn’t an antidote to devastating changes.
Stay the course on tariffs; The Donald is saving us from imports and the federal government.
Billionaire Bill Ackman’s feet got cold over tariffs. He’s calling for a 90-day delay on imposing tariffs on the world because the Dow fell precipitously. He wants to avoid Trump taking the blame for a global economic meltdown.
Insurrection: Dead Bureaucracies Engaged in Zombie Regulating
President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been systematically exposing MASSIVE government waste, fraud and abuse.
An Update on China’s Strategic Goals and Initiatives, Part I-The Trump administration is developing countermeasures
The overriding strategic goal of the Chinese Communist Party (and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in particular) is “to restore China to a position of glory and influence commensurate with its ancestral heritage.”
Krugman vs. Trump on tariffs
President Trump imposed tariffs on nations that take advantage of our free trade policy. The cheaters include nations that we protect with our military at our expense. Our NATO allies roll us like we are the town drunk.
The Trouble With Tariffs
Focused, temporary tariffs designed to level the playing field may or may not work as designed. Permanent tariffs kill capital which kills jobs.
Vance Destroys Anti-Tariff Argument
When I was in college, I worked in a factory and it paid for a house, a car and college. I can attest to the skill level.
‘Free Trade?’ Americans for Years Haven’t Even Been Able to Afford Walmart
For decades Globalists allegedly justified their sending tens of millions of jobs overseas by screeching “Cheap stuff!!!” at the top of their lungs.
The Private Sector. They Expect Results. So Should The Public.
As bureaucrats in the US and elsewhere, are being required to work and justify their existence, they are upset. Welcome to the real world.
Trade whores Can Canada survive a 19% drop in its GDP?
As you read or view media reports on Trump’s Trade Wars, bear in mind these facts. Mexico’s GDP is $1.8 trillion a year. Its exports to the United States are $506 billon a year. Exports to the USA make up 28% of its economy. Exports to Mexico make up less than 2% of our $27.7 …
Federal Land, Affordable Housing…Affordable Food?
On March 18th, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner announced their collaboration in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Why Don’t We Return to Charitable Giving? Why Must Everything Go Through the Government?
It was back in 2023 that one of my fellow parishioners at St Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church told us that the Estill County Community Food Bank was losing the ‘extra’ money coming from the federal government in COVID-19 ’emergency’ money was ending. The parish council then decided that we would take up a quarterly …
When Does an Energy Source Really Work?
When you do the math – the real math, the “big picture” math – you find that wind and solar energy cost about seven times as much as traditional sources like gas, coal, oil and nuclear power plants.
Putting It To Rest
As the nation hits its taxation stride on its way to April 15th and President Trump’s DOGE continues to reveal profound waste and fraud, a review of the nation’s finances is long overdue.
Killing the Middle Class
Democrats want a nation of renters, not owners. Party operatives have thrown everything at the middle class that they have. The big three are mockery, closing factories and replacing mortgages with student loans, where instead of getting a house for $100,000, you get a piece of paper that says you are smart.
Patience please: Reversing the wreckage of the Biden administration will take more than two months
Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is perhaps best remembered for repeatedly insisting that the persistent inflation plaguing the Biden administration was merely “transitory”—right up until the day she declared she was “ready to retire the word transitory.” Speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Summit in December, Yellen expressed regret over the administration’s lack of …
The Homebound Hustle
With the genesis of COVID-19, an unprecedented and universal revolution in the workplace irrupted in such a compressed period of time, we still feel its consequences.
What Trump Said; His SOTU announced at least 3 major news stories that the media then ignored
“The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.”
Europe’s Descent Into Darkness
Europe and NATO have been asking themselves of late if they can depend on the United States to be there for them in case of attack by a foreign enemy. But the real question is whether we can depend on them to be worthy of our blood and treasure.