Category — economy

Next to the teleprompter, Obama relies most heavily on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s playbook. There is little Obama has said or done – from his relentless conduct of class warfare to favoring political cronies with federal cash – that FDR didn’t do, or attempt to do. The parallels are striking.   Read the rest of this entry »

President Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack thinks 46 million Americans on food stamps is not nearly enough. And so, the Department of Agriculture is offering non-profit groups the chance to receive $75,000 grants for projects designed to boost food stamp participation among those who are eligible but have yet to sign up.   Read the rest of this entry »

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an early adherent of Rahm Emanuel’s philosophy regarding crisis and opportunity. With unemployment at almost 20%, Roosevelt used fear and economic uncertainty to breach the Constitution with an alphabet soup of overlapping interventions in the economy.* FDR Goes to War is a surprisingly short, but detailed account of a president, whose failed policies are still echoing through the present day.   Read the rest of this entry »

President Obama has adopted a divide and conquer strategy to win reelection. He seems intent on pitting non-whites against whites, atheists against the religious, the gun-phobic against Second Amendment advocates, city dwellers against the heartland, and most important, everyone against the rich. Is this a winning strategy? Not normally.   Read the rest of this entry »

Many think the Founding Fathers were a bunch of old-fogies who lived way before iProducts, and have little to contribute in handling modern economic issues. Those people would be wrong. Today’s biggest problem is a stumbling economy that is not generating jobs. This is only the second time that the American economy has not come roaring out a downturn that was measured in months, not years. The other time, of course, was the Great Depression, when we followed the same economic policies as today. What would the Founders think about our current economic problems? Here is what they said in their own words.   Read the rest of this entry »