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• 09.21.09
  Ingratiate
  Welfare-police state (0)

  I posted the following comment on Banion King's blog at SCSU Scholars: I used to hear that kind of talk a lot back in the 1960s about how private charity was demeaning. But now that we have govt entitlements, note what happens when recipients show something less than fulsome gratitude toward the government. See Clarence Thomas, for example. Or the townhall protestors who accept Medicare but who speak ill of government involvement in health care. The left treats them as a pimp treats a prostitute who tries to get free of his control. It was in response to an article that included ...
  
  
• 03.18.09
  Do American horses speak Belorussian?
  Sustainability, Welfare-police state (0)

  I hope the Animal Services and Enforcement Director in Kalamazoo County doesn't hear about this. Or if he does, I hope he doesn't like it. Just because an impoverished cat owner in Belarus sends the animal out to beg money for its own upkeep doesn't mean the impoverished horse owners in Kalamazoo County should do that, does it? Because if that's allowed, it might argue against the idea that leftish people now owe the rest of us support money for our upkeep.
  
  
• 12.06.08
  How to make layoffs a good thing
  Tax policy, Welfare-police state (0)

  Don Boudreaux of Cafe Hayek makes the case for layoffs on NPR's Planet Money. More specifically, he explains how restrictive labor laws that make it harder to fire employees or lay them off also make it too expensive and too risky to hire employees in the first place. If there is anyone unfamiliar with that argument, now there is no excuse not to get familiar with it. I certainly buy it, but there is also the matter of making it politically palatible. Too many libertarians make the argument, which is fine as far as it goes. ...
  
  
• 10.17.08
  Plumbing the depths of leftism
  Bash the Messenger, Welfare-police state (0)

  Before getting to Joe Plumber, let me point out that I didn't watch the debate. I haven't watched a presidential debate since Lieberman vs Cheney, and the last one before that was probably Bush the First vs Dukakis. I prefer to watch the post-debate spin. Wasting time on the actual debate would hinder me from concentrating on what's important. So here's how the left-wing activist group Associated Press is trying to spin it in an article by John Seewer. HOLLAND, Ohio (AP) — Joe the Plumber's story sprang a few leaks Thursday. Turns out that the man who ...
  
  
• 10.12.08
  No other gods
  Welfare-police state (0)

  For a moment I thought Obama was showing signs of being something that people of the younger generations may have read about but have never seen: a liberal. It was when I saw the headline: "Obama: 'Subsidize' Americans who can't afford health insurance." That's something I could support. Provide health care vouchers for the poorest of the poor. In itself it wouldn't be enough to deal with the problem of people who have chronic, pre-existing conditions that would price anyone out of the health insurance market. But it could do a lot, and ...
  
  
• 08.07.08
  Pioneer Railway
  Welfare-police state (0)

  From a WSJ article about the comeback of the Children's Railway in Hungary (aka the Pioneer Railway). It's run by childen aged 10 to 14. Fun wasn't the goal in 1948, when the line was created by Stalinist apparatchiks to train future rail workers and instill political obedience in youths. Say, what? Install political obedience in youths? Would a government on our planet ever do such a thing? Well, maybe it would. After all, what's the purpose of seat belt laws and mind-numbing safety warnings on anything you can buy at the hardware store if not ...
  
  
• 06.26.08
  The great uncompromiser
  Bash the Messenger, Welfare-police state, electoral politics (0)

  Over at townhall.com there is an article by a Christopher Wills titled "Obama record shows a liberal open to compromise." And what are the examples of how Obama has ever been open to compromise and where he departed even a tiny bit from hardline left positions? There are none. The only substantive examples show an unwillingness to compromise one iota, for example on abortion. Towards the end of the article there is this statement: "While Obama could compromise on crime and gun control, he didn't budge when it came to abortion." But examples of actual compromise on those issues are nowhere ...
  
  
• 06.04.08
  All your police are belong to us
  Welfare-police state (0)

  Wow! Barak Obama really IS for change. He's no different from the Clintons or Bush in that he, too, wants to nationalize and centralize our once-federated system of law enforcement. But he is different in how he's going about it. Back in the day, when Bill Clinton was president, he climbed into a church pulpit and proclaimed his Crime Bill to be the Will of God. He was trying to provide supplemental funding for local police departments. And funding of course gives control to the funder. But according to this note in The Weekly ...
  
  
• 06.01.08
  Opiate of the people
  Welfare-police state (2)

  Karl Marx said religion is the opiate of the people. Paul Greenberg doesn't believe it. He says socialism is the opiate of the people. Not quite. He should have said socialism is the crack cocaine of the people. It makes them feel they can do anything, such as enact nationalized health care without having any idea how to avoid the adverse effects it has had for every nation that has tried it. It's a sense of hubris much like that which made George W. Bush take us to war in Iraq. It's ...
  
  
• 05.31.08
  I’ll obey the law if we can make a deal
  Bash the Messenger, Welfare-police state (0)

  NYT: "Deal to return children to sect breaks down" A deal?   Who said anything about a deal?   The Texas state supreme court ruled that the state acted without authority when it confiscated the children.   End of story.   What's there to break down? I thought the children were to be returned to their parents, not to a sect. Still, plans for the release had seemed to be moving toward resolution in her courtroom. Then came the snag over conditions. Under one provision, the parents would have had to stay in close touch with state child protection officials and could have been ...
  
  

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