Peter Ferrara's Townhall.com Column

It’s Economic Growth, Not Redistribution, that Lifts Everyone, Including the Poor

2012-11-16T09:21:00-05:00

Peter Ferrara Column
Indeed, in 1900 only 2% of homes in America enjoyed electricity.

Benghazi: Obama’s Shameful Dereliction of Duty

2012-11-01T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
Enough facts are in the public record about the Benghazi murders of Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 others, including two Marines, that a final judgment can be rendered on President Obama's handling of the affair. Obama's actions, or inactions, amounted to dereliction of duty, and worse.

Our Liar President

2012-10-27T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
Dorothy Rabinowitz, one of the best writers of our time, encapsulated the Obama Presidency perfectly in Monday's Wall Street Journal.

Obama’s Real Unemployment Rate: 14.7%

2012-10-18T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last Friday that 114,000 new jobs were created last month, according to its Establishment Survey of business payrolls that has been emphasized by the Obama Administration. That is pitifully weak, especially for what is supposed to be the fourth year of a recovery (the National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as officially over in June, 2009).

Medicaid Plan Shows that Obama’s an Enemy of the Poor

2012-10-10T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
As in so much else, Progressives hold an outdated conception of the debate over entitlements. They conceive it as the Left supporting generous entitlements for seniors and the poor with no questions asked, no obligations expected, versus the right supporting no safety net at all, let private charity handle it, and if some of the poor have to starve, and some of the sick suffer or die without health care, because private charity is inadequate, so be it.

Why Seniors Should Prefer Ryan’s Medicare Plan to Obama’s

2012-10-04T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz described the Medicare reforms proposed by GOP Vice-Presidential nominee and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as "literally a death trap for seniors." White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that Ryan's reforms would "change Medicare as we know it."

Obama’s the Biggest Spender in World History

2012-09-27T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
On May 24, 2012, Rick Ungar told the readers at Forbes.com that President Barack Obama "is the smallest government spender since Eisenhower." "[O]ur president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States president since Dwight D. Eisenhower," Ungar insisted.

Obama Bent on Re-creating ‘The Grapes of Wrath’

2012-09-17T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
President Obama started his Democratic Convention nomination acceptance speech with one overriding truth: “But when all is said and done – when you pick up that ballot to vote – you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation. It will be a choice between two different paths for America. A choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future.”

No Mystery to Slow Growth: Progressives Are the Problem

2012-08-06T10:57:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
The Big Picture Lesson of the 20th century was that capitalism works and socialism and communism don't. The rest of the world learned that lesson far better because they and their close neighbors suffered far more with the socialist and communist progeny of Saul Alinsky's first radical. But America should know better because it has enjoyed most the workers paradise of capitalism.

Barack Obama’s Calculated Deception

2012-08-03T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
Calculated Deception. That is the central theme of the Obama campaign. Calculated Deception is the term I use for Obama's rhetorical practice of trying to take advantage of what he calculates the average person does not know, and his party-controlled, so-called mainstream media won't report. And that can be seen over and over in the Obama campaign.

Obama Promised Not to Raise Taxes on Middle Class; He Lied

2012-07-27T09:36:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
When he was asking for our vote in 2008, then candidate Barack Obama famously promised the American people, "I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Obamanomics Is Final Nail in Keynesians’ Coffin

2012-07-17T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
Keynesian economics is the false vision of human action that says the way to promote economic recovery and renewed growth is through increased government spending, deficits and debt. If that sounds nuts, that's because it is.

Obama Redux? Welcome to Argentina

2012-07-12T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
With a second term for Obama, the world-leading America we have known and hoped to leave to our children will be gone. Last Friday's jobs report confirms that Obama is well on his way to transforming America into a third world country, with declining living standards and perpetual economic stagnation.

Barack Obama's Perfect Plan for Economic Decline

2012-06-27T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
On June 14, President Obama announced his economic plan to finally bring economic recovery and growth to the U.S. in a much ballyhooed address in Cleveland. He threw down the gauntlet to Mitt Romney on the issue, saying "more than anything else, this election presents a choice between two fundamentally different visions of how to create strong sustained growth; how to pay down our long term debt; and most of all, how to generate good, middle-class jobs...."

The Green Path to Poverty

2012-06-15T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
What would you do if gangs of robbers roamed your neighborhood at night, breaking into your neighbors' houses and stealing their family jewels and life savings? You would arm yourself, and your family members of sufficient age, to defend your property. Or you would move to a safer neighborhood.

Nutting and Nonsense

2012-06-03T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
Obama campaign operative Rex Nutting surprised a lot of people with an article on the Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch website claiming that the "Obama Spending Binge Never Happened." Adding a new chapter to Aesop's Fables, Nutting fantasized that "under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s."

Hugo Chavez Here? Second Obama Term Would Mean No Independent Judiciary

2012-05-27T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
President Obama's most blatant first term abuses can be struck down by the check on Presidential power by an independent judiciary.

Obama’s Unemployment Rate Is Stuck at 11 Percent

2012-05-23T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
This latest recession started in December, 2007. Since the Great Depression 75 years ago, recessions in America have lasted an average of 10 months, with the longest previously lasting 16 months, not counting this latest spooky downturn.

Barack Obama’s Debacle

2012-05-17T00:01:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
Obama has already succeeded in fundamentally transforming America, from a prosperous nation that draws people the world over, voting with their feet, to a rapidly declining former superpower on the fast track to a third-world status similar to Argentina or Venezuela.

Paul Ryan Schools Georgetown on How to Help the Poor

2012-05-15T12:09:00-04:00

Peter Ferrara Column
On April 26, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan delivered the 2012 Whittington Lecture at Georgetown University focused on his 2013 budget and its implications for poverty programs and the poor. That budget has now passed the House of Representatives.