‘Business’ Archives
Securities and Exchange Commission Employees Watched Porn While Our 401Ks Got Screwed
If Jenna Jameson had been committing securities fraud and decided to make a movie about it, these guys would have been all over it: WASHINGTON — An agency watchdog says senior employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the [...]
Please Democrats, No Sachs Before a Fight
I’ll believe that Democrats are serious about battling Wall Street greed the day they stop not only funding it with taxpayer money, but also refusing to accept political donations from the same industry they demonize. Until then, there’s this: Goldman Sachs gave $4,463,788 or 75% of it’s political contributions to Democrats in [...]
Obama to Host Entrepreneurial Summit, Teach Attendees How to Mecca Lotsa Money
Hey, now here’s what our economy needs — a little instruction in entrepreneurship in this tough economy! With the unemployment rate going through the roof, we need to give people from every walk of life in this country access to knowledge that can help them be successful no matter what their economic status or background. President [...]
EPA Wants To Limit Use of Deicing Fluid at Airports (And How Environmentally-Friendly Is a Plane Crash?)
I feel safer already: Pilots, airlines and airports are warning the government’s proposed environmental restrictions on deicing fluid used to keep planes from freezing up and crashing could pose serious safety risks. The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal seeks to limit the amount of the toxic deicing fluid that trickles off of runways [...]
Why Are the President and Democrat-Controlled Congress Being So Racist Toward Black Farmers?
And they call Tea Partiers racist? Nearly two months since the administration announced a $1.2 billion agreement to settle decades-old racial discrimination claims against the Department of Agriculture, the nation’s black farmers are still looking for the money. And the checks are not in the mail. A March 31 deadline in the federal court [...]
Have You Heard That Idiotic Census Ad About the Buses?
Of course you might have heard the ad — the government’s spending millions of dollars to air it — but if you haven’t heard the ad, you might have seen it on a bus: The government is spending millions of dollars of our money to remind us that, without the census, the government wouldn’t know how many buses they need. [...]
300 Businesses: Health Care Bill is Costing Us a Fortune! — Waxman: No it Isn’t, it’s Saving You Money!
Frankly, I think that the left-wingers in charge of Washington right now absolutely love to hear the private sector begging and complaining that’s going on, and as such, the more people plea with them, the more aroused they become. Think of the current administration and their left-wing accomplices in Congress as political bestialists who [...]
The Billionaires Club Decides the World Has Enough Non-Billionaires
Billionaires are trying to figure out how to keep the world from having so many non-billionaires on it. What could possibly go wrong? Some of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education. The [...]
White Barbie Doll Cheaper Than Black Barbie Doll at Wal-Mart: An Economics Lesson for Race Pimps
Jesse Jackson is en route as we speak: Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that of the doll’s white counterpart at one store and possibly others. A photo first posted to the humor Web site FunnyJunk.com and later to the Latino Web site Guanabee.com shows packages of Mattel’s [...]
Denny’s Grand Irish Slam
I’m of Irish descent, and as such am used to the traditional references about the Irish so this kind of stuff rolls off my back. But what I do find amazing is that ad agencies continue to fail to thoroughly think through some “jokes” they use in their ads. Maybe the fact that we Irish are traditionally thick-skinned and [...]
