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Day Without Heroes? Ordinary People Never Had a Chance

Last update March 9, 2017

Like many ordinary people there is nothing different or special about me. I’m white. My parents aren’t immigrants. Neither am I. The gender I was born with is the one I’ll stick to. I’m straight. My job does not make me rich but I don’t make minimum wage, either.

Filed Under: Economy

Cheap Labor for Auto Manufacturers is Already Here

Last update January 8, 2017

Democrats won’t see the humor in a big U.S. auto manufacturer hanging up plans for production in Mexico. They won’t admit that they have already handed us the solution to manufacturers leaving the U.S. for cheap labor elsewhere. Cheap labor is already here.

Filed Under: Economy

Working Class Must Fail So the Left Can Prosper

Last update September 21, 2016

How does it feel to live your life as the punchline of a bad joke? Working class Americans can answer that. They listen to the same joke and the same promises every four years even though everyone knows the truth: the working class must fail so others can prosper.

Filed Under: Economy

Debt and Spending Blame Game a Winner for Both Parties

Last update August 31, 2020

Every time we choose a new president we decide our nation’s future, or at least that’s what we are told. It’s almost never true. Even the brashest, most out of control presidential act can be stopped dead in its tracks by a simple court decision.

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: federal budget

Skills Training is Bad for Your Career

Last update September 14, 2015

It should not be a shock that President Obama sees workers as a collective instead of individuals pursuing goals and careers. He has a habit of viewing things from the left. Somewhere below his Oval Office perch employees fill slots in an economy he still wants to engineer.

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: jobs, middle class

Greed Makes Us Great: Two Stories About the Left

Last update August 29, 2015

Show me a country where competition isn’t fueled by greed and I’ll show you a country not worth living in. In America greed makes us great. Just look at the lines at your local convenience store when the lottery jackpot soars.

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: Donald Trump, middle class

Housing Is Not a Right and Neither is Success

Last update July 13, 2015

Trying to connect the dots between housing, equality, and success in a way that makes sense is quite a stretch, even for Barack Obama. Our incomes are not secured by our equal protection rights. Neither are our houses, though they had a lot to do with the bad mortgages for unaffordable dreams that helped cause the president’s Great Recession.

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: jobs

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