Posted By Alan Partis on March 15, 2009
In a column I wrote yesterday, I lamented the fact that Obama’s graph seemed truncated and caused me to be suspicious that further back data would not support his thesis as much. Further research on my part has borne this out. Piketty and Saez do have a graph that does back 67 more years than the one Obama published.
Posted By Alan Partis on March 14, 2009
I heard Mike Malloy, a liberal talk radio host, the other night make the claim that 1 in 9 homes in America are now sitting empty due to foreclosures. That’s patently false, but the figure was used repeatedly and was the basis for all his following arguments in support of the economic plans and policies of his champion: B. Obama.
Posted By Alan Partis on March 14, 2009
People who are serious about improving the environment should focus their energies on helping poor nations produce more wealth and freeing the people therein from the shackles that keep them bound to their condition.
Posted By Alan Partis on March 14, 2009
Conclusion: raising taxes does more to hurt the middle class than cutting taxes does to help the wealthy.
And THAT is how the rich got richer.
Posted By Alan Partis on March 14, 2009
It is time for the public to hold their elected officials, and each other, to higher standards. We live in a country where we expect the rule of law to prevail. We must be consistent in our approach; we cannot simply pick and choose which laws we enforce and which people will be held accountable. Justice must be blind and it must be consistent.
Posted By Alan Partis on March 10, 2009
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is currently up by 300 point at this point today and it’s being framed as a big positive response to an announcement by Citigroup that they’ve been profitable for the past two months.
Posted By Alan Partis on February 25, 2009
Are you insulted when someone thinks so little of your intelligence that they will tell you bald faced lies because they know you will either take them at face value and believe them, or at the very least will not hold them to a higher standard? Are the politicians right? Are we, as a society, that stupid?
Posted By Alan Partis on February 20, 2009
For such a supposedly brilliant mind, Hillary Clinton’s vocabularly seems strikingly small. Â Sarah Palin was ridiculed during the 2008 Presidential campaign for her limited vocabularly and overuse of the phrase “ya know.” Â Caroline Kennedy was similarly ridiculed. Â Hillary, it turns out, also seems to have her own favorite crutch word: crisis.
Posted By Alan Partis on February 19, 2009
So why do I think Roland Burris is an idiot? Simple. His actions either prove he’s an idiot, or they prove that he thinks all his supporters, and the folks in Illinois, are idiots and will believe his protestations of innocence even in the face of the body of evidence and facts out there that say otherwise.
Posted By Alan Partis on February 18, 2009
If you set up a system of any kind in a society, some segment of society will try to scam it. There are but two responses: either don’t set up the system in the first place, or don’t complain about it afterward.
Just a boy from small-town western New York (Batavia) with strong convictions and a desire to express my opinions. I'm married and have a daughter with whom I am taking great pains to brainwash into my way of thinking (so far with great success).
Though I am a software engineer by day, I read a great deal about current events, history, and economics and philosophy. I'm certain that many of my former teachers will be pleasantly surprised to hear this. I've grown very interested in trying to help educate others about the liberty guaranteed to us in the United States Constitution and the economic theories on which this Country was founded.
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