Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in incentives, Politics on Sep 10th, 2010
Actually, we don’t get to see it! They just pick up the factory and machine and take it to a private coffee shop. On the agenda over espressos and lattes, according to more than a dozen lobbyists and political operatives who have taken part in the sessions, have been front-burner issues like Wall Street regulation, […]
Posted in Government Gone Wild on Mar 8th, 2010
From today’s WSJ: Everyone knows Democrats are planning to use the budget reconciliation process to get ObamaCare through the Senate. Less well known is that Democrats are plotting add-ons to that bill to get other liberal priorities enacted—programs that could never attract 60 votes. … One of these controversial measures rewrites the Higher Education Act […]
Posted in Corporatism on Aug 24th, 2009
Here is the whole thing. Below is the “top” 20: I honestly do not know what to say. 12 of the top 20 “donors” are unions. The top 20 “spent” nearly $600 million during this time. Part of me is shocked at how … little … this amount is, given the trillions of other people’s […]
