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<title><![CDATA[Ralph Reiland - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14527.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ralph Reiland]]></description><category domain="14527">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[So Much for This Year's Labor Day]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/articles/63997/so-much-year%E2%80%99s-labor-day</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of course, nothing helps families make ends meet like higher wages,&rdquo; President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address on Jan. 20, 2015.But rather than those higher wages being produced in the free market by way of higher productivity, better education, improvements in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Poor: Reagan vs. Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://triblive.com/opinion/ralphreiland/4693923-74/income-percent-reagan#axzz2f36Z9G00</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I think the poor need another Reagan in the White House.The income of black heads-of-households dropped by 10.9 percent from June 2009 to June 2013. This decline in black income is more than double the overall 4.4 percent drop nationally in real, adjusted for inflation, median household...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Raising Taxes Obama's Top Priority?]]></title>
							<link>http://triblive.com/opinion/3011188-74/taxes-obama-recession-economy-tax-business-2009-economic-raise-august#axzz2DLzv01BW</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here&rsquo;s President Obama in August 2009 discussing the link between tax increases, recessions and business growth: &ldquo;The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession because that would just suck up, take more demand out of the economy and put business in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fiscal Nightmare of Government's Creation]]></title>
							<link>http://triblive.com/opinion/2722481-74/federal-percent-fiscal-government-2011-cbo-debt-revenues-tax-trillion#axzz28jJ4iiy5</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The way the federal government runs things already is bad enough, but it&rsquo;ll just get worse in the years ahead, according to the government&rsquo;s own top-level number crunchers.In fiscal year 2011 &mdash; Oct. 1, 2010, to Sept. 30, 2011 &mdash; the Congressional Budget Office...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Fact, We're Going Backward]]></title>
							<link>http://triblive.com/opinion/2596285-74/percent-rate-labor-unemployment-august-average-17-double-economic-growth#axzz26kildYPF</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They say the economy is moving in the right direction, that we should stay the course, that it takes time to pull out of the recession that began in late 2007.In fact, things are getting worse.The economy was creating 153,000 new jobs per month last year. That dropped during the first...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Central Planning a la ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://triblive.com/opinion/2508889-74/health-care-central-emanuel-obamacare-board-guaranteed-system-advisory-age#axzz25VAanGOs</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Central planning is tricky. Castro decided that individualism was an obstacle to economic development "&rdquo; and nearly half of Cuba's 7,000 doctors fled to the United States.The Maoists in China targeted the nation's most productive farmers as insufficiently self-sacrificing, and tens...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Managing the Non-Recovery]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2012/08/22/managing-the-non-recovery/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Where are the jobs? That's the first question we should be asking in what's now become the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression -- or, more precisely, the longest non-recovery since the 1930s."More than 23 million Americans are either unemployed, underemployed, or have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did Obamanomics Fail?]]></title>
							<link>http://triblive.com/opinion/1907678-74/job-obama-obamacare-federal-care-cost-economy-free-investment-money</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the economy on the ropes, President Obama wasted his first two years in office employing every trick in the book to get ObamaCare passed, according to no small number of top Democrats."I think the manner in which the issue was dealt with cost Obama a lot of credibility as a leader,"...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe &amp; the Trouble With Socialism]]></title>
							<link>http://triblive.com/opinion/1829654-74/percent-greece-italy-debt-encouraged-government-governments-increased-levels-money</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Greece, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Italy (and California). In each case, the promise of more bailouts and a steady flow of cheap money only produced more reckless behavior, excessive levels of government spending and record levels of debt.The psychology isn't hard to understand.Tell an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Chu Plan Works as Expected]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2012/03/13/the-chu-plan</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The administration's pie-in-the-sky energy planning is working exactly as one might have predicted."Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels of Europe," said Dr. Steven Chu, Director of the Lawrence National Laboratory, in an interview with the Wall...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President Is Anti-Jobs &amp; Anti-Growth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/reiland/s_782197.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In putting together his fiscal 2013 budget -- more a political speech than a realistic effort at fixing anything -- President Obama didn't have to do a lot of homework or original thinking.The budget's three key proposals could have been directly copied from the protest signs in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Economy Drowning in Obama's 'Fairness']]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_781061.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA["If you make more than $1 million a year, you should not pay less than 30 percent in taxes," asserted President Obama in his State of the Union speech.That would effectively double the tax rate on income from capital gains from the current 15 percent rate, producing a triple negative...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Recipe for Stagnation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_775388.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kicking his re-election message into high gear, President Obama declared last month that a "You're on your own" economic system "doesn't work."Given the level of taxes, regulations, federal deficits and the overall intrusiveness of government, Obama is erecting a straw man,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe's Collectivized Train Wreck]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_766885.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder," said British historian Arnold Toynbee.We're seeing exactly that today in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Ireland. In all those cases, the ineptness of government and the mismanagement of domestic economic policy have turned once-great nations...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DC Earning the Public's Distrust]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_764383.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The good news is that Americans' distrust of government is at its highest level ever.It's good news because it shows the public recognizes how poorly we're being governed. Not much good comes out of trusting people who shouldn't be trusted.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Circling Back to the Iceberg]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_752463.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only 26 percent of the public approve of President Barack Obama's handling of the economy in the latest Gallup poll, conducted Aug. 11-14, while a whopping 71 percent disapprove. That's down from Obama's previous low point of 35 percent approval on this top issue.The public's growing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare: Survival of the Well Connected]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2011/05/25/survival-of-the-well-connected</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got all wound up in March 2010 about the passage of Obamacare and told the assembled conventioneers at the National Association of Counties that the bill's reforms were going to make health care in America "very, very exciting"?To lift "the fog of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Not Getting What We Pay For]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_714299.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Washington, D.C.'s, workers enjoy the highest salaries of any U.S.  city, with a median household income of $85,198," recently reported  CNNMoney.It's even higher for federal workers in the city, with an average  wage last year for civilian government workers of $81,258 per person  (not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Inflated Self-Esteem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_709088.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Inflated self-esteem can be decidedly counterproductive.American students, for example, took first place in self-judged  mathematical ability in a comparative study of eight countries, but last  place in actual mathematical competency.Korean students, in contrast, ranked themselves last...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Maureen in America Again]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2010/11/08/its-maureen-in-america-again</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Especially after bad days, liberals like to go to columnists like Maureen Dowd at the New York Times for some reassurance that everything's fine with liberalism and it's just the rest of us who are a bad mix of weird, greedy, ethnocentric, dumb and scary.Like a lighthouse in a storm,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fairness at an Unfair Cost]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_701191.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We raise taxes on things we want to discourage, like cigarettes.President Obama's proposal to increase taxes on capital gains and  dividends is a clear formula for a higher cost of capital, just as  higher taxes on cigarettes produce a higher price for Marlboros.A higher cost of capital...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who's Being Reckless?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_698931.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With 15 million workers unemployed and another 11 million  underemployed, President Obama decided last week that the answer was to  increase the amount of anti-rich red meat that he's throwing around.At a Labor Day rally in Milwaukee, Mr. Obama declared that the United  States "didn't...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Robbing 'Rich' Wrecks Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_693792.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats in Congress, frightened by what voters are likely to do in November, have been given their marching orders by the Obama administration. We are to be told that we're in "Recovery Summer," a turnaround that's the direct result of unprecedented government spending on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Jobs But More Benefits]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_691746.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pushing for more billions in deficit spending to extend jobless benefits to a record 99 weeks, or nearly two years, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently declared that more red ink and more dependency on government checks for longer stretches were the best ways to stimulate the U.S....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Small Business, Big Approval]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2010/05/04/big-government-vs-small-busine</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the owner of a small restaurant, it felt good the other   morning to open the newspaper and read this sentence: "Be proud,   small-business owners! You're now the most trusted group in   America. Listen up, federal government! You're neglecting small   business -- and most people...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Playing Doctor]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_659372.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As I'm writing this, they're in a panic in Congress, voting in the wee hours, bribing reluctant senators with millions in slush funds for their respective states, all to ram through a health reform bill that few if any of the lawmakers have even read, let alone intellectually reflected...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Grinch is so Green]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_658481.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is a tough time of year for eco-friendly global planners.In Copenhagen they tried to put together a deal to save the world's forests while we rode around with millions of Christmas trees tied to our car roofs.Among the ruses that came out of Copenhagen, they called on rich countries...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama: Kamikaze in Chief]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_655231.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a new picture of President Obama that's sticking in my mind like a song that keeps playing in my head (the one that kept playing for me last week was "Empire State of Mind," especially the lines by Alicia Keys).In this mental picture of Obama, he's crunched down in a tiny cockpit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Expanding Government: We've Seen Enough]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_647289.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA["You ain't seen nothin' yet" was Ronald Reagan's standard rally-ending line during his 1984 re-election campaign. He won 49 states, losing only his opponent's home state, Minnesota, 49.7 percent to 49.5 percent.Obama could use the same "ain't seen nothin' yet" line, except Reagan was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Private Practice Gets the Obama Treatment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_640552.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Reiland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I guess we're supposed to look at hospitals now and see nothing but gigantic butcher shops, filled with greedy doctors who are unnecessarily sawing off our feet and taking out our kids' tonsils in order to pay their country club dues and buy a new Mercedes.Here's how President Barack...]]></description>
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