BHO's financial “reform:” It’s all about the boodle:
In Chicago, and in Chicago-on-the-Potomac, “reform” has always entailed wealth redistribution under the guise of public service. And it has inevitably led to more corruption. A dominant constant in corruption and “reform,” Merriner concludes, is “the steady expansion of governmental intervention in the economy and everyday life. The problem, corruption in government, always has galvanized reformers to reduce the amount of corruption with stricter laws and regulations. By the now the true remedy might lie in addressing the other side of the equation: reduce the amount of government.”
Or as I put it in Culture of Corruption: As government grows, corruption flows.
Along with an ocean of boodle. Read more...
Defining the conservative versus liberal divide - truth or arbitrariness?
The real differences over liberal and conservative judges is most fundamentally about the world in which Americans will live. Whether we live and will live in a nation in which there are absolute truths or one in which we are at the hands of political arbitrariness in which our lives and property are up for grabs.
Our country is being governed today by those with the latter view of the world and, fortunately, more and more Americans are deeply concerned.
Canada, Sweden & Finland recently cut spending - and their worlds didn't end!
...Spending cuts have proved politically sustainable in other advanced countries. Economist Tyler Cowen, writing in The New York Times, notes that in the last two decades Canada, Sweden and Finland all cut government spending 20 percent within a few years when faced with structural budget deficits. It may have been painful, but no one saw starving people in the streets of Ottawa, Stockholm or Helsinki...
Barack Obama's project of turning the United States into something more like Western Europe has stirred strong opposition and generated much less enthusiasm. What's happening in states like Virginia and New Jersey -- and what happened not so long ago in Canada, Sweden and Finland -- suggests that voters may support spending cuts more than most American politicians and pundits have assumed. And much more than a value-added tax. Read more...
80 Afghan schoolgirls suddenly fall ill -- more Taliban [muslim] morality? - Jihad Watch
In Chicago, and in Chicago-on-the-Potomac, “reform” has always entailed wealth redistribution under the guise of public service. And it has inevitably led to more corruption. A dominant constant in corruption and “reform,” Merriner concludes, is “the steady expansion of governmental intervention in the economy and everyday life. The problem, corruption in government, always has galvanized reformers to reduce the amount of corruption with stricter laws and regulations. By the now the true remedy might lie in addressing the other side of the equation: reduce the amount of government.”
Or as I put it in Culture of Corruption: As government grows, corruption flows.
Along with an ocean of boodle. Read more...
Defining the conservative versus liberal divide - truth or arbitrariness?
The real differences over liberal and conservative judges is most fundamentally about the world in which Americans will live. Whether we live and will live in a nation in which there are absolute truths or one in which we are at the hands of political arbitrariness in which our lives and property are up for grabs.
Our country is being governed today by those with the latter view of the world and, fortunately, more and more Americans are deeply concerned.
Canada, Sweden & Finland recently cut spending - and their worlds didn't end!
...Spending cuts have proved politically sustainable in other advanced countries. Economist Tyler Cowen, writing in The New York Times, notes that in the last two decades Canada, Sweden and Finland all cut government spending 20 percent within a few years when faced with structural budget deficits. It may have been painful, but no one saw starving people in the streets of Ottawa, Stockholm or Helsinki...
Barack Obama's project of turning the United States into something more like Western Europe has stirred strong opposition and generated much less enthusiasm. What's happening in states like Virginia and New Jersey -- and what happened not so long ago in Canada, Sweden and Finland -- suggests that voters may support spending cuts more than most American politicians and pundits have assumed. And much more than a value-added tax. Read more...
80 Afghan schoolgirls suddenly fall ill -- more Taliban [muslim] morality? - Jihad Watch
National Security Adviser Jones: Jews Are Greedy Merchants
Was the Joke Anti-Semitic? Well, the White House must have thought so. The White House transcript sent to reporters after the event conveniently began a couple of minutes into the speech. The video of the event posted on the Washington Institute Web site started right after the joke, you can even hear the end of the laughter.
Its interesting that the same President that sees racism in the legitimate actions of the Cambridge Police and the State of Arizona, hides the anti-Semitic prose of its National Security Adviser.
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