Time to Get Tough (23 page)

1
Sara Murray, “About 1 in 7 in U.S. Receive Food Stamps,”
Wall Street Journal
, Real Time Economics, May 3, 2011.

2
“Wholesale Prices Spike on Steep Rise in Food, Oil,” Associated Press, March 16, 2011,
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=13146470
.

3
Tom Shanker and David E. Sanger, “U.S. to Aid South Korea With Naval Defense Plan,”
New York Times
, May 30, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/world/asia/31koreanavy.html?pagewanted=2
.

1
F. Michael Maloof, “Guess which country kicked out U.S. congressional delegation,”
WorldNetDaily
, June 18, 2011,
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=312317
.

2
GAO Report No. GAO-10-304, “Iraqi-U.S. Cost-Sharing: Iraq Has a Cumulative Budget Surplus, Offering the Potential for Further Cost-Sharing,” Government Accountability Office, September 13, 2010; accessible text file available at:
http://www.gao.gov/htext/d10304.html
.

3
Jim Geraghty, “Obama: On gas prices, ‘I would have preferred a gradual adjustment,'” National Review Online
The Campaign Spot
, June 11, 2008,
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/9477/obama-gas-prices-i-would-have-preferred-gradual-adjustment
.

4
Neil King Jr. and Stephen Power, “Times Tough for Energy Overhaul,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 12, 2008,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122904040307499791html
. .

5
Posted by Ed Morrissey, “Obama: I'll make energy prices ‘skyrocket,'”
HotAir.com
, November 2, 2008
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/02/obama-ill-make-energy-prices-skyrocket/
.

6
Jeff Cox, “Gas Prices May Be Falling, But Food Keeps Going Up,”
CNBC.com
, June 23, 2011,
http://www.cnbc.com/id/43498072
.

7
Lucia Graves, “Obama Says He Has No Regrets About Solyndra Loan,”
Huffington Post
, October 3, 2011,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/03/obama-solyndra-loan_n_993085.html
.

8
Brad Plumer, “Five myths about the Solyndra collapse,”
Washington Post
, September 14, 2011,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/five-myths-about-the-solyndra-collapse/2011/09/14/gIQAfkyvRK_blog.html
.

9
Lucia Graves, “Obama Says He Has No Regrets About Solyndra Loan,”
Huffington Post
, October 3, 2011,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/03/obama-solyndra-loan_n_993085.html

10
Brad Plumer, “Five myths about the Solyndra collapse,”
Washington Post
, September 14, 2011,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/five-myths-about-the-solyndra-collapse/2011/09/14/gIQAfkyvRK_blog.html
.

11
“Hugo Chavez Mouthpiece Says U.S. Hit Haiti With ‘Earthquake Weapon,'”
FOXNews.com
, January 21, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/01/21/hugo-chavez-mouthpiece-says-hit-haiti-earthquake-weapon/
.

12
Rob Hastings, “Saudi Arabia is ‘biggest funder of terrorists,'”
The Independent
, December 6, 2010,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-is-biggest-funder-of-terrorists-2152327.html
.

13
Thomas W. Evans, “Sue OPEC,” New York Times, June 19, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/opinion/19evans.html
.

14
Robert Zubrin, “Obama Covers for OPEC,” op. cit.

15
Thomas W. Evans, “Sue OPEC,” op. cit.

16
Ibid.

17
Khawaja Mohammad Hasan, Abu Dhabi, “Cheap, clean & green transport initiative,” Khaleej Times Online, January 30, 2011,
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=/data/openspace/2011/January/openspace_January29xml§ion=openspace
. .

18
Rob Lever, “Amid US gas boom, split over ‘fracking,'” AFP, June 26, 2011,
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j_sM-PZ5NWAybKbWdOMpoXvh67ng?docId=CNG.bb9547ce35c8697828233d280f68bf54.291
.

19
David Ropeik, “How Risky Is It, Really?”
Psychology Today
, May 31, 2010,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-risky-is-it-really/201005/it-s-not-justabout-oil-in-the-ocean-it-s-how-it-got-there
.

20
“Natural sources of marine oil pollution,” GPA,
http://oils.gpa.unep.org/facts/natural-sources.htm
.

21
“Top 10 Proofs Obama Wants High Energy Prices,”
Human Events
, June 20, 2011, p. 19.

1
Transcript, “The Democrats' First 2008 Presidential Debate,”
New York Times
, April 27, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/us/politics/27debate_transcripthtml?pagewanted=print
. .

2
Kathy Chu, “Most Americans think China is No. 1 economy; it isn't,”
USA Today
, February 15, 2011,
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2011-02-14-chinapoll14_ST_N.htm
.

3
“The China Job Drain,” Alliance for American Manufacturing,
http://www.americanmanufacturing.org/china-job-loss
.

4
Gideon Rachman, “Think Again: American Decline,”
Foreign Policy
, January/ February 2011,
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/02/think_again_american_decline
.

5
Ibid., and Graeme Wearden, “US-China trade deficit grows to record $27obn,”
The Guardian
, February 11, 2011,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/11/us-chinese-trade-gap-grows
.

6
Peter Navarro, “How China unfairly bests the U.S.,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 21, 2011,
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/21/opinion/la-oe-navarro-trade-china-20110621
.

7
Ibid.

8
John Hechinger, “U.S. Teens Lag as China Soars on International Test,” Bloomberg, December 7, 2010,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-07/teens-in-u-s-rank-25th-on-math-test-trail-in-science-reading.html
.

9
Andrew J. Rotherham, “Shanhai Surprise: Don't Sweat Global Test Data,”
TIME
, January 20, 2011,
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2043312,00.html
.

10
Anne Flaherty, “Pentagon: China's Military Power Growing,” ABC News, August 16, 2010.

11
Aprille Muscara, “Wikileak Cables Reveal China's Modernising Military Might,”
Global Issues
, January 13, 2011,
http://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/01/13/8172
.

12
Bryan Krekel, “Capability of the People's Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation,” The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Northrop Grumman Corporation, October 9, 2009, 52,
http://www.uscc.gov/researchpapers/2009/NorthropGrumman_PRC_Cyber_Paper_FINAL_Approved%20Report_16Oct2009.pdf
.

13
Scott Robertson, “AISI calls for China currency remedy,”
Metal Bulletin
, April 7, 2010.

14
Ibid.

15
Alan Tonelson, “Economic Watch: It's Time to Stop Kowtowing on Yuan Manipulation,”
Washington Times
, March 30, 2010, Section A, p. 4.

16
Patrice Hill, “Penalties sought for China over currency practices,”
Washington Times
, September 16, 2010,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/16/lawmakers-seek-penalties-for-china/
.

17
Chris Isidore, “How ‘The Donald' could incite a trade war,”
CNNMoney.com
, April 18, 2011,
http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/17/news/economy/trump_china_trade_war/index.htm
.

18
James Bacchus, “What A Trade War With China Would Look Like,”
Forbes.com
, February 2, 2009,
http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/31/trade-wto-china-opinions-contributors_0202_james_bacchus.html
.

19
“National Income and Product Accounts Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 2011 (third estimate) Corporate Profits, 2nd quarter 2011 (revised estimate),” Bureau of Economic Analysis, report released September 29, 2011, .
http://www.beagov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm
.

20
“Weekly Address: President Obama: ‘We Can Out-Compete Any Other Nation,'”
WhiteHouse.gov
, January 22, 2011,
http://m.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/22/weekly-address-president-obama-we-can-out-compete-any-other-nation
.

21
Jamie Reno, “'Made in the USA' Makes a Comeback,” NewsMax, November 2011, 23.

22
Ibid.

23
Ibid.

24
James Bacchus, “What A Trade War With China Would Look Like,” op. cit.

25
Patrice Hill, “Penalties sought for China over currency practices,” op. cit.

26
Adam Smith,
Theory of Moral Sentiments
(Cambridge University Press, 2002), 95.

27
“The Makings of a Trade War With China,”
The Daily Beast
, September 27, 2010,
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/27/the-makings-of-a-trade-war-with-china.html
.

28
Jacob Greber, “Krugman Says China Is Devaluing Its Currency, ‘Stealing' Jobs,” Bloomberg, October 23, 2009,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aUVeLdpK4Yqg
.

29
Peter Navarro, “How China unfairly bests the U.S.,” op. cit.

30
Ibid.

31
Josh Kraushaar, “Nerves Show on Team Obama,”
National Journal
Against the Grain, June 28, 2011,
http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/against-the-grain/nerves-show-on-team-obama-20110628
.

32
Government Press Release, “China to Boost Military Spending,” INTERNATIONAL PRESS SERVICE, March 4, 2011,
http://infoweb.newsbank.com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated5&p_action=doc&p_docid=134C3E70680B7700&p_docnum=1&p_queryname=1
.

33
Siobhan Gorman, August Cole, and Yochi Dreazen, “Computer Spies Breach Fighter-Jet Project,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 21, 2009.

34
“Spies Breach Pentagon Fighter-Jet Project: Report,” Agence France-Presse
,
April 21, 2009,
http://infoweb.newsbank.com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated5&p_action=doc&p_docid=127BB775B218BCD0&p_docnum=1&p_queryname=19
.

35
Krekel, “Capability of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare,” op. cit., 7.

36
Ibid., 52.

37
Ibid.

38
Government Press Release, “China to Boost Military Spending,” op cit.

39
Aprille Muscara, “China: Wikileak Cables Reveal China Focus on Military Upgrades,” Inter Press Service English News Wire.

40
Kelvin Wong, Nichola Saminather, and Hui-yong Yu, “The Chinese Go on a Global Homebuying Spree: Facing domestic restrictions, buyers boost markets abroad,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, June 23, 2011.

1
Ronald Reagan,
An American Life: The Autobiography
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), 233.

2
Gifts to the United States Government, U.S. Department of the Treasury,
http://fms.treas.gov/faq/moretopics_gifts.html
.

3
Barbara Hollingsworth, “Virginia's ‘Tax Me More Fund' is a big flop,”
Washington Examiner
, March 29, 2010,
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/virginia-s-tax-me-more-fund-big-flop
.

4
Ronald Reagan,
An American Life: The Autobiography
, 232.

5
Ibid., 233.

6
“Economic Overview of Federal Tax Expenditures,” Invest in Kids Working Group, The Partnership for America's Economic Success, February 20, 2007,
http://www.partnershipforsuccess.org/docs/ivk/iikmeeting_slides200702weinstein.pdf
.

7
Stephen Ohlemacher, “Half of U.S. pays no federal income tax,” Associated Press, April 7, 2010, available at
MSNBC.com
,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36226444/ns/business-personal_finance/t/half-us-pays-no-federal-income-tax/
.

8
Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames,
How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer to Today's Economy
(New York: Crown Business, 2009), 148.

9
Jason Pye, “Top 1% pays more in taxes than bottom 95%,” United Liberty, July 30, 2009,
http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/top-1-pays-more-in-taxes-than-bottom-95
.

10
Neil Cavuto,
Your Money or Your Life
(New York: Regan Books, 2005), 84.

11
Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames,
How Capitalism Will Save Us
, 148.

12
Ronald Reagan,
An American Life: The Autobiography
, 232.

13
“The Dead Enders,”
Wall Street Journal
Review & Outlook, December 1, 2010,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703326204575616843991237032.html
.

14
“What Do Corporate Income Taxes Cost American Families?” Tax Watch, Tax Foundation,
http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/corporate_income_taxes_cost_families-20080818.pdf
.

15
Ronald Reagan, “Address to the Nation on the Economy,” February 5, 1981, transcript available at
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/20581c.htm
.