Entries Tagged as ‘Free market’

April 25, 2008

The limited free market

Hot Air complimented McCain on his free market view with respect to Ethanol:
It’s an essentially agnostic point of view on ethanol itself, but it’s the proper conservative response. If ethanol can succeed in a level marketplace, then it should continue. If not — and there are plenty of reasons to suspect it won’t — then [...]

April 3, 2008

Are you sure that politicians don’t create jobs?

Michelle is criticizing Hillary’s plan to boost the economy.
The post is titled:

Video: Politicians don’t “create jobs”

In there she talks about her near vomiting experience:

I did a brief segment on Neil Cavuto earlier today about Hillary Clinton’s new jobs program. The woman can’t pay her campaign bills, but she’s a whiz at coming up with endless plans [...]

March 17, 2008

Yet another Boo Freakin Hoo moment…

Brought to you by Michelle Malkin… err… Paul Krugman:
Last week, Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary, and John Lipsky, a top official at the International Monetary Fund, both suggested that public funds might be needed to rescue the U.S. financial system. Mr. Lipsky insisted that he wasn’t talking about a bailout. But he was.
Where is [...]

March 1, 2008

Republican double speak: selective personal responsibility

Contrast two HotAir stories. One about a young woman getting drunk to the point of dying and one about telecom companies requesting immunity from lawsuits.
In the first case (I blogged about it here), HotAir was saying how allowing the mom of that woman to sue her friends (who participated in the binge drinking) would reduce [...]

February 17, 2008

The bogus Republican free market

On This Week with George Stephanopoulos, McCain reinterated his support for drug reimportation to lower the cost of prescription drug. This is now a new position.
What’s funny though is the cowardly attitude of McCain. If you said the US government should fix prices, all the Republicans would be up in arms about government interference in [...]

January 29, 2008

Answering Jason, part 3

So here is another post on his answer to my post regarding getting the youth vote…
Liberals do crave governmental power. They are collectivists. And they fight for the power to control us through regulations and bureaucracies under the ruse of social justice. Their policies to ban smoking, guns, transfats, and their policies to mandate healthcare, [...]

December 6, 2007

The three point plan of shortsightedness

Hot air has a clip with Michelle Malkin arguing there should not be any bailout of homeowners in trouble (because of risky mortgages).
You know what, I agree with her that people should be held responsible. The problem is that the cost to those people is huge and even worse, the effect spill over beyond those [...]

July 11, 2007

Playing Monopoly and the Estate tax…

I was playing Monopoly a few days ago and I had a question for our free market loving friend.
 Would you play a game with me if I started with 10 times the amount of money you had? How about 100 times? 1000 times?
Obviously, everyone will agree that it would be unfair… Maybe we could even [...]

July 6, 2007

The limit of the free market

Tonight, Michelle Malkin, replacing Bill OReilly, had some guy and his girlfriend on the show. Hopefully Hotair will post the clip…
The guy was the owner of some porn website. I don’t recall the original reporting on the issue but it sounded like the guy tried to get ‘young looking girls’. It still appears that all [...]

July 3, 2007

Idolatry of the free market…

This is an interesting article at MSNBC about the legal powers of fine prints in contracts…
The author asks this question:
Still, consumers could always read the small print, and if they don’t like cell phone rules, they should just avoid cell phones, right?
Not quite… when you realize that about every cell phone vendor has that in [...]