Posts Tagged ‘ Regulation ’

75% Say Free Markets Better Than Government Management of Economy, Political Class Disagrees – Rasmussen Reports™

July 26, 2010
By Tickler

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 75% of Likely Voters prefer free markets over a government managed economy. Just 14% think a government managed economy is better while 11% are not sure. These figures have changed little since December. Polling released earlier this week showed that Americans overwhelmingly believe that more competition...
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Obama as anti-business moves into mainstream discussion | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

July 14, 2010
By Tickler

Complaints about economic uncertainty created by Obama’s health care bill and the financial regulation bill have already been percolating for a few weeks. Much of this was kicked off by an explosive indictment of Obama’s policies by Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg – who has been a key business ally of the president’s – in...
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Momentum builds toward possible end of this U.S. agency

July 14, 2009
By Tickler

I think I’m in favor of this. Any reduction in the secrecy and power of the Fed is a good thing. Just not sure if it will expose just how many amateur academics are sitting on that committee and tank the dollar even more in that light. I’m ashamed of them. Really poor decisions...
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Mary O’Grady Says Latin America Needs Economic Liberalization and Property Rights, Not Foreign Aid – WSJ.com

April 9, 2009
By Ticklers Wife

Exactly! I am so tired of these bureaucrats who perpetuate poverty, not cure it, because it gives them a job. Mary O’Grady Says Latin America Needs Economic Liberalization and Property Rights, Not Foreign Aid – WSJ.com. Share on Facebook
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Bush Tried To Rein In Democrat Driven Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae

January 8, 2009
By Tickler

In yet another article about the Democrat responsibility for events that led to the hell we’re in now (and frankly most of the hell this country’s ever been in). Read the full article here. Excerpts are included below… Mr. Bush wanted to limit systemic risk by raising the GSEs’ capital requirements, compelling preapproval of...
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GET OUT THE VOTE!

October 20, 2008
By Tickler

We conservatives need to get out the vote now more than ever. Much like the Democrats encourage each other, with the motivation and intention to skew the election results away from the stance of the population, rather than any interest they claim to have in providing fairness and true representation of the country’s views....
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Obama Votes Present on Fannie/Freddie

October 15, 2008
By Tickler

Again, the WSJ is on the ball today… If Sen. Obama were truly looking for a kind of deregulation that might be responsible for the current financial crisis, he need only look back to 1998, when the Clinton administration ruled that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could satisfy their affordable housing obligations by purchasing...
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Why Do Our Taxes Go To ACORN?

October 15, 2008
By Tickler

You might ask, as I did when I found out the Democrat shell company ACORN is federally funded, why this is the case. A Wall Street Journal piece today lays out some detail we didn’t know, and now we feel like being militant ourselves. “But the organization’s real genius is getting American taxpayers to...
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