Interesting articles to read for March 13, 2009

Some interesting articles to read:

Jonah Goldberg on never letting a good crisis go to waste.

In 2008, US household wealth fell by over $11 trillion. Here’s an idea. These people haven’t been punished enough. Let’s increase their taxes and let the government take whatever they have left.

The CEO of Blackstone says that 45% of the world’s wealth has been destroyed by this financial crisis.

The honeymoon is fading quickly .. which means that the Obama administration has to work even faster to get its agenda passed before it’s too late.

Barack Obama’s tax policies are going to turn Silicon Valley into a ghost town. How is that? By increasing taxes on the achievers. Let’s kill innovation for the sake of government power.

The Senate still has to have its way with this “cramdown bill” and it looks like we may have a vote on it this month. Look for the interest rates on new mortgages to go up as soon as these ignoranuses pass this thing.

Some politicians, including Republicans, are actually starting to feel sorry for Timothy Geithner. No way. The guy is a tax cheat - a willful and conscious tax cheat. If he can’t handle the job, find someone who can.

Obama’s third pick for Deputy Treasury Secretary has officially withdrawn his name from the candidate pool. That’s his third pick in just one week, by the way.

Freddie Mac is going to tap into another $30.8 billion in taxpayer dollars.

Some governors like Rick Perry of Texas rejected some of the federal stimulus money for unemployment because it would require a change in the state’s definition of unemployment.

Obama is going to be the first president since Grover Cleveland to miss the annual Gridiron Dinner. Not much of a jock sniffer, I guess. Maybe if they could just make hammering high-achievers a sport. Wait! It already is.

Utah’s solution to budget woes .. put a tax on caffeine. I know it’s hard to believe, but I drink decaf.

What would Bernie Madoff’s punishment be if he lived in countries without our judicial system? I rather like the idea of hanging him by his …….. oh hell, never mind.

How come we never heard about this guy trying to build a dirty bomb in Maine last year?

Atlas Shrugged updated for the financial crisis? WTH?

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