Let’s talk about what its like to do business with the government versus the private market.

Example 1:
The WSJ today (non-Op-ed for once ) discusses recent government involvement in the management of GM.  For example, as part of the plan to cut costs, GM proposed to close and cut ties with 1,300 under-performing dealerships.  But [...]

Sorry about the rant, but I’m just angry.
I was reading about the plans to “extend” pieces of the stimulus package.  Mind you, this is not a “new” stimulus package (cause that would be political suicide), but simply an extension of the first one.
Proposed items include extending and increasing the homebuyer credit, extending unemployment benefits and [...]

Rod Blagojevich was on Chelsea Lately a couple nights ago and his interview solidified what I think bothers most Americans about our political culture: Exploitation.
To define, to exploit is to abuse, take advantages of, or use other people for selfish purposes.  As it relates to politics, to exploit is when one uses their [...]

Congress is a body of people who were hired by US and paid by US (partially) to make important decisions that affect our lives. These decisions often reach into the future and affect the lives of our children and our children’s children. Some of the bills they vote on are over 1,000 pages long. Yet, [...]

Remember this video where Rep Brad Sherman D-CA questions the auto executives if they flew on private jets to Washington?  It was the beginning of a lot more populist rhetoric from the House.

Well maybe you’ve heard about how the House of Representatives recently tucked a purchase of 8 private jets into a defense funding bill.  [...]

A team of prominent atmospheric scientists sent this Open Letter to Congress today .
OPEN LETTER TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
You have recently received an Open Letter from the Woods Hole Research Center, exhorting you to act quickly to avoid global disaster. The letter purports to be from [...]

Congress spends a lot of time passing new bills, but how often and how much time do they spend looking back at the effect of these new laws? How often are bad bills repealed (or those that we have not been able to implement effectively)? I think doing so would be an extremely good [...]

Independence.  Most would agree that it is illusory rather than reality.
Whether we are talking about public accounting and clients, government representatives and campaign financiers, or traders and “inside” contacts - it doesn’t really exist.  And although some efforts are made to avoid conflicts of interest, the reality is that most people are looking for information [...]

We’ve already had these two posts on the AIG outrage and the ridiculousness of the Congress’ response.  What I think is more ridiculous, is how people are getting caught up in less than $200 million, some of which was probably earned, instead of focusing on the bigger issue…
AIG disclosed that it paid $105 BILLION (that’s right, [...]

For the last eight years, everyone has been discussing the far-reaching use of “executive power” by Bush and whether or not he overstepped its limits.  But what about the misuse of power when the executive and legislative branches collude? 
I’m extremely disturbed by the Bonus Tax Bill that the House passed yesterday.  It stipulates that any [...]