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The 6 Economic Charts That Vintage Media is Hiding From You

Business Insider offers 66 charts that are said to worry Wall Street insiders, but these are the six I found most troubling.

These charts align perfectly wtih David Stockman's must-read article, highlighted at Peak Prosperity. The piper will be paid.

Hat tip: Lee Cary.

THE UTTER BRUTALITY OF THE SEQUESTER: EPA Outlawing Sales of Wood-Burning Stoves by Private Citizens

Because there's nothing to cut, don'tcha know?

Our ever so helpful government has decided that your wood burning stove is now a danger to the world. In another attempt to outlaw the off grid lifestyle, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the same agency that was recently caught using drones to spy on Americans, is now going after home owners who use Wood Burning Stoves to heat their homes.

Shortly after the re-election of President Obama, the agency announced new radical environmental regulations that threaten to effect people who live off the grid. The EPA’s new environmental regulations reduce the amount of airborne fine-particle matter from 15 micrograms to 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air.

This means that most wood burning stoves would now fall into a class that would deemed unacceptable under these new draconian measures. The EPA has even launched a nifty new website called "burn wise" to try to sway public opinion.

On their site, while trying to convince people to get rid of their old stoves and buy the new EPA-certified stoves, they state that these older stove must be scraped and cannot be resold...

The local air pollution agency says I can’t sell my old wood stove to help pay for an EPA-certified wood stove. Why is that?

Replacing an older stove with a cleaner-burning stove will not improve air quality if the older stove is reused somewhere else. For this reason, wood stove changeout programs usually require older stoves to be destroyed and recycled as scrap metal, or rendered inoperable.

Let’s hope this doesn’t fall under the jurisdiction of the newly created Department of Homeland Security Environmental Justice Units? The next thing you know we might all be getting a knock at the door….. Your Neighbor reported that you might be burning some wood, do you mind if we take a look around?

The federal government bureaucracies are completely out of control. You can't buy light bulbs, or shower heads, or toilet tanks, or automobiles, or baby strollers, or insecticide, or anything else without the unelected fourth branch of government having its say so.

Cutting 80 percent of the non-defense and intelligence bureaucracy would go a long way to healing some of our economic woes in this country.

Hat tip: BadBlue Prep.

The Horrifying Chart I Recommend You Forward to Every Democrat Voter You Know

Along with a polite thank you note. You see, a picture -- along with the appropriate captions -- really is worth 1,000 words:

A. President Obama is inaugurated.

B. President Obama signs Obamacare into law. Thousands of pages of law and tens of thousands of pages of regulations (which have yet to be completed) have thrown large regulatory roadblocks at small businesses and either prevented hiring, forced layoffs or compelled the move of workers from full-time to part-time.

C. President Obama signs the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill into law, which prosecutes not a single banker and also fails to address the cause of the mortage meltdown, Fannie Mae. Just this month, the federal government itself admitted that "no one has any idea what compliance with financial regulations, including the Dodd-Frank financial reforms, actually costs."

D. President Obama signs an Executive Order creating a de facto "DREAM Act" amnesty for illegal aliens in the United States, bypassing a Congress that was unwilling to pass legislation to do so.

And a postscript: Obamacare really doesn't even fully kick in until January 1st 2014. Combined with "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" and untold new EPA regulations headed at energy companies, this administration appears bound and determined to crush entrepreneurship in the U.S.

Gird your loins.

NOT AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE: Most Irresponsible Spender in World History Urges Kids to Learn to Budget

The only man who makes George W. Bush look thrifty by comparison has proclaimed April the month of the year during which we should teach young people "how to budget responsibly". Seriously.

“I call upon all Americans to observe this month with programs and activities to improve their understanding of financial principles and practices,” [President] Obama said in an official proclamation released Friday... “My Administration is dedicated to helping people make sound decisions in the marketplace,” he said.

...The proclamation on the White House website links to two other government websites: the site for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and MyMoney.gov, which includes materials from 21 federal agencies.

Listed among the “popular topics” on MyMoney.gov is “Managing Debt and Credit,” which includes a link to a page on the Federal Reserve’s website called “Getting the most from your credit card.” Tip 2 on that page is: “Stay Below Your Credit Limit.”

When Obama was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2009 [the debt of the United States has increased about 60 percent or] $6,140,111,383,879.54... That means that under Obama the federal debt has increased $53,377 for each one of the 115,031,000 households the Census Bureau says there are now in the United States...

As an aside, the President is required by law to submit a proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year during the first week of February. He is two months late in doing so... and counting.

"Sound decisions" indeed. If you're of the Cloward-Piven School, that is.

Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Immigration ‘Compromise,’ A Catastrophic Deal

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The 6 Economic Charts That Vintage Media is Hiding From You

THE UTTER BRUTALITY OF THE SEQUESTER: EPA Outlawing Sales of Wood-Burning Stoves by Private Citizens

The Horrifying Chart I Recommend You Forward to Every Democrat Voter You Know

NOT AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE: Most Irresponsible Spender in World History Urges Kids to Learn to Budget

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