The Basics

American employers -- more than employers in other nations and more than American employers in earlier downturns -- have imposed the costs of the recession and, increasingly, the costs of doing business, on their workers, and kept for themselves damn near all the proceeds from doing business. (Harold Meyerson, Washington Post, 9/6/10)

Ask business leaders why they are not hiring and they will cite uncertainties around regulation, health care costs, the effects of massive federal deficits, etc. Ask the Left and they will tell you it’s all about greed. This notwithstanding that the last time we looked, the 500 companies that make up the S&P 500 (for example) are PUBLICLY OWNED! This is ignored by those who want to promote the illogic that it is all about The Man keeping the working class down.

Gotcha!
There are few things more satisfying than catching liberals in their own deceits. In a column (9/2/10) that examines the issues surrounding the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein first says that the revenue collected from taxing the rich would be used for deficit reduction…

“…forgoing $700 billion in revenue over the next decade that could be used for deficit reduction.”

However, he closes with his real wish for all that extra dough…

“using the money to rebuild the country's aging infrastructure…”

So essentially what he wants is to fund more make-work projects for unions. An official RedStateVT "GOTCHA" to Mr. Pearlstein.

Something…Anything
President Obama, looking for ways to jump-start the sagging economy and create new jobs, called on Congress on Monday to approve a far-reaching plan to rebuild and modernize the nation’s transportation networks — roads, rail and airport runways — over the next six years. (New York Times, 9/6/10)

So we are now on what....Plan G for turning the economy around?

Like Minds
We hear that South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham has characterized President Obama as “tone-deaf,” picking up on a characterization first mentioned by RedStateVT.