WUI (Writing under the influence)

One way to imagine how we would all live under Obama is to consider how so called native Americans live on reservations. Unless a particular tribe runs a casino...

Will they be allowed to run casinos? Maybe they will be taxed more and the money will be spread around the tribes that are less industrious.

I have to admit that it is tempting to consider not having to work to take care of my family. Obama will take care of them and I will just play poker and smoke cigars all day. Yeah, my children will have to attend public schools but that would be OK since they would not have to work very hard to make it in the Obamaland.

Can I retroactively ask for a free college?

More on how FDR screwed America and how Obama will screw it again.

With victory in sight, Barack Obama’s supporters are predicting that he will give us a new New Deal. To see what that might mean, let’s look back on the original New Deal.

The purpose of New Deal legislation was not, as commonly thought, to restore economic growth but rather to freeze the economy in place at a time when it seemed locked in a downward spiral. Its central program, the National Recovery Administration (NRA), created 700 industry councils for firms and unions to set minimum prices and wages. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), the ancestor of our farm bills, limited production to hold up prices. Unionization, encouraged by NRA and the 1935 Wagner Act, was meant to keep workers in jobs that the unemployed would have taken at lower pay.