By: Chuck Muth
Muth’s Truths
BYE-BYE WALMART
I tend to be a rather loyal customer, especially when it comes to doing business with a company that shares my limited-government/free-market/anti-union philosophy. So I’ve been a steadfast Wal-Mart shopper for many, many years now, venturing into Target only if I couldn’t find what I was looking for at Wal-Mart – which was rare.
And then along came this big announcement last week: “The nation’s largest employer has broken from the business community,” reported The Hill on Tuesday, “with Wal-Mart’s endorsement of a legal requirement that all employers provide health benefits to their workers.”
This is horrifically bad public policy. However, using the government to force all of its smaller competitors to provide expensive health insurance to their employees is a GREAT deal for Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart may have thought it a smart business move to assist the Obama administration in its march to socialize our health care system, but at least one exclusive Wal-Mart shopper that I know will no longer be shopping exclusively at Wal-Mart. In fact, I bought my daughter a summer dress and some new patio cushions at Target just yesterday.
Wal-Mart’s leftward march may be cutting off its nose to spite its face. If the company’s executives continue to undermine the efforts of limited-government conservatives, who will be on its side when the big, bad labor wolf shows up at its door again?
- Chuck Muth, editor
INQUIRING MINDS WANNA KNOW
“On more than one occasion, I have asked myself how it is that in a country where twice as many people call themselves conservatives, liberals are able to control the media, the schools, the courts and are able to put a radical leftist like Barack Obama in the White House.”
- Columnist Burt Prelutsky
ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN
“The Cap and Trade (energy bill)….gives federal bureaucrats new power to regulate a wide variety of household appliances, such as light bulbs and refrigerators, and further distorts the market by providing more of your tax money to auto companies.”
- Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Texas Straight Talk, 6/29/09
THE NO-JOBS STIMULUS
“(I)t’s worth recalling that Mr. Obama’s economists predicted late last year that the stimulus would keep the jobless rate from exceeding 8%. That was a percentage point and a half ago. It’s far more likely that the economy would have been better off without the spending…”
- Review & Outlook, Wall Street Journal, 7/3/09
DEBT BOMB
“(The United States’) debt stands today at a staggering $11.5 trillion – equivalent to over $37,000 for each and every American. And it’s expanding by over $1 trillion year. The mountain of debt easily could become the next full-fledged economic crisis without firm action from Washington, economists of all stripes warn.”
- Associated Press, 7/4/09
CHANGE ONLY AN IDIOT COULD BELIEVE IN
“Do you see our economy improving? Have you noticed the improving employment figures? Are you impressed by the burgeoning national debt that your children are going to have to pay back? Are you looking forward to seeing your health care rationed? How about the nationalization of General Motors, Citigroup and others? That’s why you put that (Obama) bumper sticker on your car, isn’t it?”
- Talk-show host Neal Boortz
OBAMA IN WONDERLAND
“Don’t ask, for the moment, why Congressional Democrats need to find an extra trillion dollars to pay for a socialized medicine scheme they insist will ‘reduce costs.’ We’re WAY too far into Wonderland to worry about that.”
- Columnist Vin Suprynowicz
NOBODY LOVES A TURNCOAT
“(Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen) Specter left the GOP precisely because he expected next year’s GOP primary to be insurmountable given deepening conservative hostility. He figured he’d be embraced by the Democratic left for having occasionally fought for their positions and having been vilified by the right. But Democrats aren’t cooperating.”
- Kim Strassel, Political Diary, 7/1/09
BAAA-RACK
“We are becoming a nation of braying sheep, using the same words and phrases over and over again.”
- Columnist Bill O’Reilly
STOP THE INSANITY!
“Rather than go through a long and tedious accounting of what he did with whom, where he used state money and where he didn’t, it would be far better for Gov. Sanford to resign now.”
- Columnist Ken Blackwell
ROMNEY RISING
“If Mitt Romney had convened a conclave to set about systematically destroying his potential presidential opponents, he could have done no better than this.”
- Columnist Matt Lewis
FED-EXCESS UPDATE
FedEx Express is claiming that its ground (as opposed to Ground) delivery drivers are an “integrated” part of its airline and, therefore, should remain under the Railway Labor Act. Unfortunately for FedEx Express, the operative word is “integral,” not “integrated.” Find out why this latest FedEx claim doesn’t fly HERE.
Also, a couple weeks ago FedEx’s hired guns put out a BS “8-out-of-10-people-support-free-ice-cream” poll which should embarrass the professional pollsters behind it. Read “When a Poll is Nothing More than Propaganda” HERE on FedExcess.info.
