Scott Brown: Remarks From Sunday’s Campaign Rally in Worcester

Thank you very much.  What a privilege it is to share the stage with John Ratzenberger, Lenny Clarke, Doug Flutie, Curt Schilling, Fred Smerlas, Steve DeOssie, and many, many others – and my favorite singer, Ayla Brown.

As you know, Curt Schilling made the news just a couple of days ago when my opponent didn’t recognize his name.  Of all the many false accusations she’s made in this campaign, one of the strangest was to call Curt Schilling a Yankee fan.  Let me properly identify the guy she’s been smearing on the radio: His name is Curt Schilling, formerly of the World Champion Red Sox – you know, a baseball team that plays at Fenway Park.

Doug Flutie, what can I say, great guy, great career, and I am proud you are here.  John Ratzenberger, a wonderful actor, you brought a lot of laughs to us during your many years with Cheers.  Fred and Steve, you are legends and good friends. Ayla, thank you for again sharing your beautiful voice.  Millions have seen her on national TV, and going through this campaign I’ve got an idea of what Ayla went through on “American Idol.”  She had to deal with Simon Cowell, and I had to deal with David Gergen.

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Tags: Afghanistan, American Idol, Ayla Brown, curt schilling, David Gergen
Posted Jan 17th 2010 at 6:35 pm in Congress, News, Obama, Politics, State Politics | 60998111 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/01/17/scott-brown-remarks-from-sundays-campaign-rally-in-worcester/Scott+Brown%3A+Remarks+From+Sunday%27s+Campaign+Rally+in+Worcester2010-01-18+02%3A35%3A46Publius

America’s New Year’s Unemployment Hangover

One cannot drink oneself into sobriety. Yet that is precisely what Congressional Democrats and the Obama Administration have attempted with our economy for the past year with predictable and painful results.

Unemployment continues to stand at an official 10% for the third month in a row, the worst joblessness in 27 years.  The real unemployment rate is far worse.  Included in the December economic figures was a shocker – the percentage of adult men who are working has fallen to the lowest level in recorded U.S. history at just 80%.  That means that one in five men in this country between 18 and 54 are neither working nor claiming unemployment.  They have fallen completely out of the workforce.

That helps explain why December’s unemployment rate remained at November’s 10% rate in spite of an additional 85,000 Americans losing their jobs.  At the same time the new jobless claims were added, many of the previously unemployed were simply removed from the workforce numbers altogether.

Economists estimate our true jobless rate as high as 17%, and that could grow in coming months as more Americans exhaust their unemployment benefits and lose homes to foreclosure.

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Tags: bailout, Barack Obama, cap-and-trade, congressional democrats, deficit spending
Posted Jan 13th 2010 at 1:59 pm in Congress, Obama, federal spending | 5936281 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/jcarter/2010/01/13/americas-new-years-unemployment-hangover/America%E2%80%99s+New+Year%27s+Unemployment+Hangover2010-01-13+21%3A59%3A12Rep.+John+Carter+%28R-TX%29

Obama Completes the Liberal Hat Trick

In hockey, rough sport that it is, it is rare that one player scores three goals in one game.  They call that a Hat Trick.  In the game of politics, Obama now has managed the Liberal Hat Trick in the minds of the American Public.  In November, he may just find out how rough politics can be.

Of course, many people have known for a long time just how liberal Obama is and was.  There were many warning signs in the last election cycle.  The public however, in this slightly Right of Center nation, either was so tired of ineffective Republicans or, with the help of the Media, refused to acknowledge the warning signs.  In doing so they elected Obama with 52.9% of the vote – a victory but not an overwhelming victory.

Large margin or not, since being inaugurated, Obama has run quickly to the Left. In doing so, he fulfilled Reagan’s warning that Democrat Presidential candidates run as moderates but are determined to govern more to the Left, i.e. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.  The Obama Administration’s response to the terrorist bomb attempt in Detroit completed that process in the minds of the American public.

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Posted Jan 4th 2010 at 6:58 am in Big Labor, Congress, News, Obama, Politics | 54938103 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2010/01/04/obamas-completes-the-liberal-hat-trick/Obama+Completes+the+Liberal+Hat+Trick2010-01-04+14%3A58%3A19Thomas+Del+Beccaro

Obama’s Anti-Capitalist Policies Are Anti-Job and Therefore Anti-Recovery

Amidst polls showing flagging public support, the Obama Administration has decided to address the one poll, among all others, that will determine Obama’s political future: the unemployment rate.  As Scott Rasmussen points out, the unemployment rate has a lot to say in deciding a President’s popularity rating and election results – which is probably why Obama announced he would hold a jobs summit with small business representatives among others.

Speeches and photo-ops, however, won’t change the fact that Obama’s policies are anti-capitalist and therefore anti-job and anti-recovery.

It’s important to note that the secret to capitalism is not all that secret.  It’s right there in the name CAPITALism.   Our system relies on:

• Step 1.  The ability of some to aggregate enough capital, i.e. save money, so that they can . . .
• Step 2.   Invest in productive enterprises, i.e. start or grow businesses which  . . .
• Step 3.   Employ people – people who  . . .
• Step 4.   Have the ability to buy things, i.e. purchasing power (critical in a 70% consumer driven economy) – which in turn  . . .
• Step 5.  Creates profits for sellers and . . .
• Step 6.  Savings – and the cycle renews.

The Left’s political policies, however, are sworn enemies of that simple and effective economic process.

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Tags: Barack Obama, federal stimulus, government intervention, Harry Reid, higher taxes
Posted Nov 25th 2009 at 8:13 pm in Economics, News, Obama, Politics, Uncategorized | 3307476 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2009/11/25/obamas-anti-capitalist-policies-are-anti-job-and-therefore-anti-recovery/Obama%E2%80%99s+Anti-Capitalist+Policies+Are+Anti-Job+and+Therefore+Anti-Recovery2009-11-26+03%3A13%3A00Thomas+Del+Beccaro

Senate Health Care Bill: $370+ Billion Tax Hike

The Joint Committee on Taxation just released its analysis of the tax provisions in Reid’s Health Care Bill. It estimates a total of just over $370 billion in higher taxes. Its report is below:

Tax Provisions

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Posted Nov 18th 2009 at 7:29 pm in Congress, Healthcare, News, Politics | 3340260 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/11/18/senate-health-care-bill-370-billion-tax-hike/Senate+Health+Care+Bill%3A+%24370%2B+Billion+Tax+Hike2009-11-19+02%3A29%3A23Capitol++Confidential