Boiling Frogs
ObamaCare is merely the natural extension of the welfare state we’ve evolved into over the past century. We now offer 99 weeks of unemployment insurance, which acts to discourage its recipients from...
View ArticleObama’s Failed Central Planning
Many national economies are having trouble these days as they are either slowing down or not expanding. Remember, the only way to a successful economy is through continuous expansion. Two of the...
View ArticleAmerica Is In Worse Fiscal Shape Than Detroit
By Greg Hunter, USAWatchdog.com Professor Laurence Kotlikoff Video Report Boston University Economics Professor, Laurence Kotlikoff, says, “The country is in worse fiscal shape by many miles than...
View ArticleStar Parker on Reforming Social Security
Parker’s got some interesting ideas on how to effect a transition in a way that would be harder for the media-Democrat axis to defeat. They don’t seem entirely fair, in that they give only a certain...
View ArticleObama, Monarchy, and Inequality
It baffles and frustrates me after reading a Wall Street Journal article about the French government subsidizing 75% of young workers’ pay to companies just so the employer will be motivated to reduce...
View ArticleThe insane failure of the “war on poverty”
A few days ago, we posted “The inmates are running the asylum . . . and it’s driving business abroad,” which included this discussion of the aphorism “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing...
View ArticlePoverty: Another War We’ve Lost
Because this is near the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s declaring war on poverty, there has been a lot of attention paid to the problem that I’m betting will somehow survive even longer than...
View ArticleStar Parker: Welfare is harmful to everyone
Those who are made dependent and their children, those who pay, the whole society . . .
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