Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Principled Politics – 11/25/09

[The very liberal] Arianna Huffington at The Huffington Post, Nov. 23: Just as Katrina exposed critical weaknesses in the priorities and competence of the Bush administration, the unfolding unemployment disaster is threatening to do the same for the Obama White House. . . .

WSJ: The Uncertainty Economy - Tim Geithner is not the Democrats' biggest problem. - Nurturing a fragile economic recovery into a durable expansion requires policies that restore public confidence and reassure investors, risk-takers and employers. The Democratic agenda is doing precisely the opposite, which is how you get subpar growth and fewer new jobs. Read more…

John Stossel: We Pay Them to Lie to Us
When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician. When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a politician… Medicare is already $37 trillion in the hole. Yet the Democrats proudly cite Medicare when they demand support for the health care overhaul. If a business pulled the accounting tricks the politicians get away with, the owners would be in prison. Read more…

"The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish." -- Frederic Bastiat - (1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848

American Presidents Do Not Bow – by Susan Dale at HumanEvents - We are alone in all the peoples of the world who understand what real freedom is, its having been inculcated in each and every one of us for our entire history as a nation... Read More

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