Category Archives: Economics

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 8/11/2018- Special Elections: Blue Wave Or Toss Up?

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 8/11/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the recent special elections in Ohio and several other states and try to discern if these elections are a harbinger of the “blue wave” or of a mixed bag of election results.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 12/23/2017- Handing Out Presents- Who Got Gifts And Who Got Sticks And Coal?

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 12/23/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis hand out presents to the good and sticks and coal to the bad.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/29/2017- God’s Character, Christian Evangelism, and Obamacare

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/29/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis start the show with a discussion of God’s character and the implications of that. We then move over to debates with the Christian community  regarding how to evangelize Muslims and other non-believers. We finish with the Republican betrayal of the people who elected them, in part, to rid us of the albatross of Obamacare. We expose liars and phonies like Rob Portman, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain, etc. who ran on the promise to repeal Obamacare then voted against it.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/1/2017- Ohio Budget Disaster, Ohio Health Buffoonery, And Another Special Election Disaster For Democrats

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/1/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the Ohio legislature’s sudden reckoning with the budget that they created by giving a tax and spend RINO governor everything he wanted so he could be elected president and get them all Washington DC appointments. We discuss the Kansas budget issue and work to debunk the socialist argument that lower taxes caused the problem. We also discuss the Ohio Department of Health and their complete disconnect from reality in ignoring the homosexual community and the inherent danger of doing what they do while encouraging them to stop smoking…huh?

Article links- Dissolve Illinois?

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 5/6/2017- The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday May 6, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the pluses and minuses of President Trump’s executive order on religious liberty protection, the Johnson amendment and the possibility of its repeal (the GOOD and the BAD). We also discuss the replacement of the Affordable Care Act with the American Health Care Act and that it’s really not that much different and looks like a health insurance corporate welfare program (the UGLY).  

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 4/29/2017- Touching The 3rd Rail With Cyndy Rees

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday April 29, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis interview Cyndy Rees of 3rd Rail Politics (www.3rdrailpolitics.com). Common Core, charter schools and lots and lots more.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 4/22/2017- Electoral Economics In One Easy Lesson

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday April 22, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the current state of the Ohio economy and how that will affect the attempts by Governor John Kasich to run for either Senate or President in 2020.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/23/2016- Republican Convention Follies

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday July 23, 2016. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the conventions and the political insanity that is just really commencing. We spend some time talking about the potential vice-presidential candidates and also discuss John Kasich’s political suicide by not attending the Republican convention.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 1/16/2016- The State Of The Union-Real And Fantasy

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday January 16, 2016. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis dissect the President Obama’s State of the Union address to Congress. We discuss what he said, what he meant and what the REAL state of the union is. We also discuss “conservative” New York Times columnist’s article hit piece on Ted Cruz that even leftist Mediaite had to say “wait a minute here” when analyzing it. This leads to a discussion of definitions.

Article links – Breitbart outlines the top ten lies in the State of the Union address

David Brooks accuses Ted Cruz of “murdering Jesus

Mediaite analyzes David Brooks rant

Jeb Bush attempts to hijack the definition of “conservatism”

 

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/6/2015- Camp American, Informal Fallacies, And The Ohio Budget

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday June 6, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk about Camp American, informal fallacies and how those fallacies and the inability to recognize them affects society, the Ohio budget process, and John Kasich’s gamble in running for president.

Article links- John Kasich Exposes his strategy of throwing conservatives under the bus while expecting them to vote for him anyway

John Kasich explains that he doesn’t like to be confused with facts about Medicaid expansion