(Bloomberg Opinion) On Friday, Germany announced plans to switch away from Russian oil. It’s a laudable goal, but the logistics of doing so present an immense hurdle.
With (almost) no oil production of its own, Germany depends on imports.
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is the federal government like a business where more spending is usually a good thing? no. we ve been there and done that. this is the same retread of the stimulus that got us in more hot water when president obama promised that the $800 billion stimulus would prevent unemployment to surpass 8%. that was a failure. and so this idea that somehow the government spending money gets us out of the ditch is wrong. it s individual businesses spending money. president clinton said, there s $1 trillion that businesses are sitting on. why are they sitting on it? they don t have the confidence in the marketplace or the government. the tax cuts help, but we need to empower businesses to hire. it s not government spending money. it s the individual and small businesses having confidence enough to hire. megyn: president obama called
mr. ryan, we see right through your party. the only scheme is the one you re trying to pull off on the american people. joining me now is bob shrum, nyu professor, and michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee and msnbc analyst. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. what do you make of paul ryan s pitch? on the rev-o-meter it s a full blagojevich. you mentioned medicare. i mean it would voucherize medicare and cost 9 average senior 6,000 more a year, all to give tax cuts to the people at the top. the republican argument is that those tax cuts help, because you