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Washington can’t meet the Cheerios Standard
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
I think it’s time we applied the same advertising standards to Washington’s legislative products that the feds apply to breakfast foods. The Food and Drug Administration rapped General Mills this week for making misleading claims about the benefits of Cheerios. The food manufacturer says the whole-grain [...]

It’s going to dead people:
Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president’s stimulus plan — including an Anne Arundel woman who died more than 40 years ago.
The woman’s son, 83-year-old James Hagner, said he got the surprise when he checked his mailbox late last week.
“It shocked me and [...]

David Hogberg at IBD is doing the job the government can’t/won’t do: Tracking porkulus waste. His analysis found that “$154 million in stimulus funds is going to low-traffic rural airports that already get subsidies and tax breaks — and whose net economic benefit is a matter of considerable debate.” It’s not just Jack Murtha’s airport/radar [...]

Sorry to interrupt all the liberal blogosphere’s unhinged GOP-bashing over conservative opposition to flu pandemic funding in the porkulus bill, but…
Well. Just an inconvenient reminder:
“All those little porky things that the House put in, the money for the [National] Mall or the sexually transmitted diseases or the flu pandemic, they’re all out,” Schumer said.

“Porky [...]

Well, it didn’t take long for partisan Democrats to blame the swine flu outbreak on the Republican Party.
Here’s the line: Since House Republicans all opposed the trillion-dollar-porkulus, which included funding for pandemic preparations, it’s all. Our. Fault.
No, really:
When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed investment in pandemic preparation, [...]

You’ll remember President Obama’s aggressive lobbying for the porkulus package at a Caterpillar plant in February. Obama grandly promised that if the stimulus passed, Caterpillar would rehire laid-off workers — a claim that was refuted by Caterpillar’s CEO.
How’s it all working out for Caterpillar? Not so well:
Caterpillar Inc., the world’s largest maker of bulldozers and [...]

The government of the Northern Mariana Islands is applying for federal stimulus money that would go to foreign welfare recipients. The money would pay for food stamps and job training:
The CNMI government, through the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, has filed an application for a $3 million grant that would allow the inclusion of [...]

Ay caramba. Look what the green job boondoggle in Spain bodes for the porkulus green jobs here in the U.S. Confirmation of what we already knew, but extremely useful nonetheless:
Every “green job” created with government money in Spain over the last eight years came at the cost of 2.2 regular jobs, and only one in [...]

We have a President and majority in Congress who don’t read their own massive spending bills before passing them into law.
Now, the trend is catching on at the state level.
Oregon Democrats tapped an economist to attack a GOP recovery plan…after admitting he didn’t bother to look at the GOP bill before testifying against it.
Because [...]

Caption contest.

Credit-unworthy.

The bridge to Microsoft.

Prescription for pain.

Getting a clue.

Last month before signing the Generational Theft Act of 2009, President Obama and Bozo the VP Joe Biden extolled a solar panel manufacturer that outfitted the Denver Museum of Science and Nature. I pointed out the generous government help the company received. Now, the Colorado-based Independence Institute provides the rest of the story — and [...]

Hey, Associated Press: Way to look after the public interest! A month after the Generational Theft Act was rushed through Congress and signed into law, the news service tells us that the jobs projections were basically pulled out of thin air.
The title of the AP’s penetrating, belated analysis: “Bold claims of stimulus jobs can’t be [...]

My syndicated column today tallies up all the craptacular spending that’s been going on while the AIG-bashing hypocrites on the Hill crow about $165 million in corporate bonuses none of them bothered to stop before they rushed to fork over billions to AIG in the first place. I mention the little-noticed $6 billion GIVE Act, [...]

Rx.

“This has been welling up for a long time.”

Sinking ship.

Chains you can believe in.

I’ve reported to you over the past month on Sen. Jeff Sessions’s battle to ensure that stimulus money didn’t go to illegal aliens. He fought the good fight and lost.
Now, it dawns on USA Today that — you don’t say! — the stimulus money might find hundreds of thousands of illegal alien jobs. Way to [...]

My syndicated column today spotlights the return of thrift in individual American households — a phenomenon that stands in stark contrast to the unmitigated profligacy embraced by Barack Obama’s White House.
Opposition is growing to the confisctory spending train: Witness the Senate Republican success in delaying the omni-pork, coupled with the aggressive House GOP call [...]

Gee, how many times do you think this scenario is being played out across the country:
The Town of Union is getting $578,661 in federal Recovery Act funding for a homeless problem that may not exist within its borders.
The money is coming from the federal Housing and Urban Development program to pay for homeless prevention and [...]

Down the drain.

“It’s not a stimulus bill, it’s a strangulation bill.”

Calling all photoshoppers!

Bryan Wills e-mails:

I’m not sure if you are an iPhone-person or not, but knowing you share my disdain for the bailouts I thought you would appreciate this:
I am an iPhone developer and I created a free app called “The Bail-O-Matic: Responsibility Remover”. It is essentially a giant red button that says “BAIL ME OUT” on [...]

Stain.

Oink, oink.