Regulation-Happy Government in Greatest Need for Regulation

“Tickler,

[There was an article] about Wall Street and JPMChase losing 2 Billion and the Government wanting to impose more regulations…

Why isn’t anyone mentioning the fact that the Government is losing many more billions every month and no-one is talking about adding more regulation to them. In fact you can bet that JPMChase has a budget they try to follow and the US Government hasn’t approved one for three years, We need more regulation and fiscal control over the biggest bird-dog operation in the world.”

Dad

 

Hypocrisy, Dad, hypocrisy is why.

Self-Obsessed: Obama Drops His Name Into Other Presidential Biographies

The Heritage Foundation’s Rory Cooper tweeted that Obama… dropped his own name into Ronald Reagan’s official biography on www.whitehouse.gov, claiming credit for taking up the mantle of Reagan’s tax reform advocacy with his “Buffett Rule” gimmick. My first thought was, he must be joking. But he wasn’t—it turns out Obama has added bullet points bragging about his own accomplishments to the biographical sketches of every single U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge (except, for some reason, Gerald Ford). Here are a few examples…

via Obama Drops His Name Into the Other Presidential Biographies « Commentary Magazine.

Jerry Brown vs. Chris Christie

Now, no one will confuse New Jersey with free-market Hong Kong. Still, because the challenges facing the Golden and Garden States are so similar, the different paths taken by their respective governors are all the more striking. And these two men are by no means alone.

Our states today are conducting a profound and contentious rethink about the right level of taxes, spending and government.

McGurn: Jerry Brown vs. Chris Christie – WSJ.com.