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The Biden administration’s urgent need for a reset

March 1, 2022 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

by Richard Schulman Joe Biden wanted to be a reincarnation of FDR, but his template was the anti-capitalist FDR of 1933-1937 – when the US was deep in a world depression and suffering unprecedented unemployment. Neither of these exist today. If Biden really wants to recover his reputation, he needs to transform himself into the […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized  Tagged: 600-ship Navy, ability to fight a two-front war, Biden administration blunders, Covid, CPTPP (new 11-nation TPP), crime, education, elections, Green New Deal, illegal immigration, inflation, missile defense, trade

Green New Deal fails cost-benefit analysis

November 23, 2020 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

The Green New Deal fails any rational cost-benefit analysis, even if atmospheric CO2 is as serious a threat as climate alarmists believe it to be. Respected commentators who are not “climate skeptics” (Nordhaus, Shellenberger, and Lomborg) agree that the GND is a wasteful expenditure of trillions of dollars better spent elsewhere. by Richard Schulman Progressives […]

Filed Under: Climate  Tagged: 2009 cap-and-trade bill (ACES), Bjorn Lomborg, Green New Deal, Michael Shellenberger, nuclear energy, William Nordhaus

USMCA puts US under UN

January 6, 2020 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

The Weekly Trade Report – by L.C. The USMCA may move soon to a vote on the Senate floor, but the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) writes that “North American trade policy is too important to rush.” Congressional leaders leading the stampede are behaving like “timeshare salesmen…in trying to create a sense of scarcity and urgency […]

Filed Under: Trade  Tagged: Green New Deal, International Labor Organizatin (ILO), Paris Agreement, right-to-work laws, Trade Promotion Authority, USMCA, WTO

Democrats’ Green New Deal borrows from Green Party, Club of Rome, Malthus, Marx

March 3, 2019 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

The Democratic Party and environmentalist movement have merged with the Green Party and adopted its program. “The Democrats Stole the Green Party’s Best Idea. The Green New Deal used to be the eco-socialist party’s signature proposal,” a columnist for The New Republic writes. But those with a longer memory than The New Republic‘s columnist note […]

Filed Under: Energy  Tagged: Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Chuck Schumer, Club of Rome, fossil fuels, Green New Deal, Limits to Growth, Paris Agreement, Ross McKitrick, Thomas Malthus

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