A very high-level and important person said that this is the answer President Obama gave when he was asked why he did not introduce the Bowles-Simpson (let’s call it BS for brevity’s sake) recommendations as a bill in the US Congress: The Chicago Guys would not let me do it. Just who is the President […]
Government spending and national defense are among the key topics whenever Ronald Reagan’s legacy is discussed. Reagan is credited with rebuilding the military into a force capable of projecting America’s presence anywhere in the world. He is also criticized for increasing the national debt even though federal revenues increased during his administration, which is an […]
The Mission statement from OccupyWallStreet.org reads, in part, as follows: “#ows is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt […]
This column debuted a year ago and proceeded to make a troubling announcement: World peace has broken out. The political implications of world peace are dramatic — but difficult to credit. A year later, however, the Annunciation of the Peace has turned into something of a cottage industry. The AP’s Seth Borenstein reports: We’ve never […]
Some newspapers in North Carolina would have one think that a reorganization of the wasteful policies of Medicaid would “imperil health care for the poor.” Actually, nothing could be farther from the truth. Medicaid is a wasteful raft of policies that have little restrictions on the use of taxpayer money to pay for every ailment […]
South Carolina Sherriff Chuck Wright has made headlines this week after encouraging women to arm themselves with Firearms. This all came about after Wright was upset at how a rape case had been handled. He said, “I can tell you that our form of justice is not making it. This fellow that has been charged numerous times […]
When you see that macho ‘burly-man’ senior on the AARP commercials threatening the Super Committee from discussing any reductions to SS/Medicare, show him this chart: You know the ad I’m talking about. The one where the burly-looking senior looks in the camera like John Wayne and intones something to this effect: ‘You mess with our Social […]
Opposition to crony capitalism, we’re told, is motivating Occupy Wall Street. The protesters, we’re told, are simply fed up with a business cycle wherein politicians push legislation to benefit large corporations, receiving campaign cash and other perks in return. In this the age of TARP bailouts, stimulus packages, and quantitative easing the complaint sounds reasonable, […]
Carolinas HealthCare tells state regulators they want to expand. Here we have another regulated business having to ask the state for permission to add capacity. That wouldn’t be so bad except regulation, which is always touted as serving the people, has only served the medical business, not the public. Using the information given in their […]
Does this government represent you? 78% of us say that America is on the wrong track. Only 15%, near an historic low, feel America is headed in the right direction. This implies that a supermajority says that their intention, their well being, and their very dignity are being violated. The “ruling junta” governing the U.S. […]
