There is much speculation that if the Republicans meet with BHO and his comrades to discuss health care, they will be walking into a trap. They are concerned that if they don’t go along with his idea to force socialized medicine on Americans that the Dems will pound away at the theme that the Republicans are “the party of no.”
And they’re right, they will. But rather than fearing the label, the Republicans should embrace it. If the Republican Party intends to get back to its pro-Constitution, free-market, small-government, low-spending roots, it should be proud to be called the party of no. Read Full Article
I recently read a fascinating book about chaos theory — Chaos, by James Gleick. Oversimplified, chaos theory is about the underlying chaos that exists in seemingly orderly systems.
The so-called butterfly effect comes into play here, because a small change in initial conditions can dramatically change the long-term behavior of a “system.” A system, of course, can be just about anything — the weather, a mathematical formula, a sporting event, even a student’s school career. Read Full Article
Even though Social Security and Medicare guarantee to bankrupt America, we should not lose sight of the fact that there are scores of other government programs that are both immoral and costly — and that need to be abolished.
Take unemployment benefits, for example. If Obama and progressives on both sides of the aisle continue with their never-ending extensions of unemployment benefits, we will look back on 2009 as the good old days, a time when we had only a 10-20 percent unemployment rate (depending on how one wants to calculate it). That’s right, unemployment benefits make the average worker worse off, not better, because, like minimum-wage laws, they cause unemployment. Read Full Article
As the U.S. edges ever closer to coming face to face with the consequences of its $100+ trillion of debt and “unfunded liabilities,” the cries from the never-give-up-the-fight progressives over “unfettered” capitalism are becoming increasingly louder. The coalition of communists, Marxists, socialists, progressives (a.k.a. “liberals”) — along with those who are simply envious, ignorant, or angry — are calling for capitalist scalps.
They say that the worsening depression (euphemistically referred to by politicians and media pundits as “recession” — and one that is on the verge of a rebound, at that) is a result of capitalism run amok. More regulation and more redistribution of wealth is the only thing that can save America, right? Not quite. Read Full Article
In this, the final installment of “Saul, Barack, and Me,” I’d like to discuss Saul Alinsky’s views on self-interest, which he summed up in Rules for Radicals as follows:
Self-interest, like power, wears the black shroud of negativism and suspicion. To many the synonym for self-interest is selfishness. The word is associated with a repugnant conglomeration of vices such as narrowness, self-seeking, and self-centeredness, everything that is opposite to the virtues of altruism and selflessness. Read Full Article
