Other than the military and perhaps NASA, can the government do anything right? If not, why would we want more of it?
From the CNN.com article:
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius echoed Gibbs, telling CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that a final health care bill will include competitive choices for consumers in one form or another.
“There will be a competitor to private insurers,” she said. “You don’t turn over the whole new marketplace to private insurance…
Step 1 – Make unionization of government employees illegal.
Step 2 – Privatize as much as possible. That means the universities, the prisons, highways, state parks, etc. Sell everything possible into the private market and let entrepreneurs make a profit off these ventures. The state will get a lot of immediate money, and the quality of the institutions will improve.…
I think Paul Begala is helping me to have more empathy. When I read his words I think that perhaps I get a taste of how liberals feel about Rush Limbaugh. That is, in Paul Begala I see someone who is full of hate and for personal gain is willing to say anything as long as the ends justify the…
Today is TEA Party Day, as hundreds of thousands of protestors show up to over 300 demonstrations around the country to protest…well, what exactly are they protesting against? According to CNN.com’s report, “The White House has plans to counter the tea party message with an event to remind Americans that the president cut taxes in the stimulus package.” Unfortunately,…
Thomas Frank, as is his practice, starts off his latest WSJ op-ed piece with an insult as he states “South Carolina’s governor is touchingly naïve.”
You would then expect to read an article explaining why the governor is naive, but the article does nothing of the sort. It merely throws insults his way, and assumes that we agree that…
Free markets and capitalism have gotten a bit of a beating lately in the press as they get blamed for the current economic downturn. In response, politicians are calling for increased regulation by the government, ostensibly to better “serve” the general public. Proponents of increased government regulation theorize that a relatively small number of government employees can effectively direct and…
Julian E. Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, claims that the GOP’s “small government” talk is hollow. I couldn’t agree more, and therein lies the secret behind Obama’s win in 2008. Obama did not win because young people were finally mobilized to vote, nor because of his campaign’s mastery of…
The headline reads “Obama plan would boost small businesses via lender incentives“. What the article is talking about is Small Business Administration (SBA) loans. I got one of these loans for my business in early 2003. It was for $100K, and took me five years to pay off. I wish I had never gotten the loan in the…
Does the FDA save lives by preventing bad pharmaceuticals from going on the market? Sure it does. But did you ever think to ask yourself whether the FDA saves more lives than it snuffs out? “Wait a minute!” you say, “The FDA isn’t killing anyone!” Oh really?
Let’s imagine there is a disease that infects 500,000 people each year, and…
“Obama moves to separate politics and science” the headline reads. If Obama was going to start funding churches, would you call that a move to separate church and state, or would you call that a move to bring church and state closer together? And yet if you read the article, the way in which Obama is separating politics and science…
The callers to Jack Cafferty’s show seem to think that nobody has any money other than the federal government. This latest $410 billion spending bill (how many bills above $400 billion do we have floating around anyway?) includes funding for a honey bee laboratory and swine odor and manure management, amongst other things.
One of the callers points…
Big businesses don’t care about people, they just care about profits. Therefore, the government needs to step in and make sure that businesses treat people right.
This is the mantra repeated in word and deed by liberals, leftists, and the Democrat leadership. But it is 99% false. In truth, the more government regulates business, the more business regulates government, and…
In an interview with CNN’s John Roberts Clinton claimed that “there’s 100 economic studies which show that you get a better return in terms of economic growth on extending unemployment benefits or investing money in energy conservation jobs to improve buildings than you do giving people in my income group a tax cut.”
Really? Granted, the “or” in there means…
Rush Limbaugh once again took advantage of an unsuspecting mainstream media that, for all its hatred of Limbaugh (after all, he has no training as a journalist but makes gobs of money as he claims to be doing journalists’ jobs for them), can’t seem to leave him alone and therefore helps him maintain his status. What was Limbaugh’s crime this…
Some say greedy businessmen. They’re right. Some say greedy politicians. They’re also right. It was the combination of greed–businessmen for money, politicians for power–that created this mess. You could say that if the businessmen weren’t greedy this never would have happened, but that would be to ignore that it was politicians who created the incentives for businessmen to exercise that…
I met Michael Leavitt when he was Governor of Utah. Seems like a nice guy. I’m also Pro-Life. I think there are some extenuating circumstances that might justify an abortion, like a woman/girl being raped, incest, or if the life of the mother is at risk. But when a woman consents to have sex, gets pregnant, and then gets an…
