So....What would it take to change your mind?

I've been phenomenally busy at work.
I'll be incredibly busy for the next four weeks.
So I'm thinking about posting nothing but updates to this chart until I have time to write something else. 

Obama predicted terrible, terrible things if we didn't pass his pork-laden stimulus bill.  Horrible things. 

A gang of idiots passed his stimulus bill. 

Ever since then, things have been worse than his predictions of what would happen without the thefts/giveaways. 

Is there anyone out there who can still defend this crap?  Anybody at all???

When thieves are in power, people with money hide their money.  It really is that simple. 

On Price Controls At The Olympics

To charge fair market value for something like the Olympics would be unfair. 
Therefore, price controls were put in place. 

Here's the great Tom Woods, star speaker at the Texas Libertarian Party's recent State Convention, on why you've got empty seats:

The British Olympic organizers restricted ticket purchases, rewarded corporate purchases but not corporate use, imposed price controls on tickets available to the public and state violence against the resulting scalpers (touts) — and are distraught and surprised over the empty seats that characterize so many of the Olympic events so far. To reduce the embarrassment and sense of scandal, organizers have carted in British troops–dressed in their camo!–to fill seats at gymnastics events, while other easily manipulated, low-time-cost groups on the government’s payroll are also being bussed in to other sparsely-attended venues.

Meanwhile, many thousands willing to pay market prices to attend Olympic events are told to bugger off.

And they always act "surprised", don't they? 

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has been having fun for the last 5 years or so, working the word "unexpectedly" into the reports of markets and prices reacting to incentives in ways that surprise the Statists but not many other people.  Go here for a sampling....

All the more reason to lose this moment

All the more reason to lose this moment....