Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Free kibbles

Hayek suggests that a role of government should be to protect the return of investment in foreign countries from political losses - i.e. the government should negotiate treaties that restrict the foreign government from seizing the investment and return on investment. That sounds like a specific aspect of free trade.

The top 1 percent of taxpayers payed 40.4 percent of all taxes in 2007, a record high. Doesn't that just tell us that the top 1 percent are richer than ever relative to the rest of us? Not that I care, but I think this information from Boortz feeds wealth envy instead of reducing it.

10 reasons the US health care system is far better than advertised. It's important not to lose sight of this, but we can't deny the system needs serious reform. Obamacare is not reform. It's oppression. Freeing the system from the government money, regulations and mandates that make it so expensive and reduce the quality of care is reform.

Senate Democrats vow to pass health care bill without Republicans. Duh. Did anybody think Democrats would let Obama's signature issue fail just because Republicans didn't support it? What Schumer is really saying is Democrats will use some fast track rule to take the filibuster out of play so they can overcome the resistance of their own party.

It's about time the health insurance industry is pushing back at Democrats who demonize them.

White House propaganda video wants us to believe that Obama does not support a government take over of health care. Forget all the things he said before he came into the public eye. Forget all those things Democrats are saying. Just drink the kool-aid Obama is pushing now. Don't worry. It won't hurt a bit. Apparently the video is in response to actual videos of Obama on the Drudge Report.

I'm not surprised that Health Care Sec. has no idea of provisions in the Senate Health Care bill. Measuring gender sounds like some transsexual issue to me.

House Democrats are using budget tricks to hide the cost of their health care plan which would actually cost at least $1.7 trillion over 10 years. And since government programs always cost a lot more than projected and work a lot worse (right, cash for clunkers?) it'll cost a whole lot more than that.

The White House asking for people to report websites and casual conversation about Obama's health care oppression plan is fishy.

Now the White House is backtracking on taxes on the middle class. There must be an internal debate about how what's more damaging - new taxes or more debt. Obama will pick whichever he thinks is most damaging. Since raising taxes on the middle class would cost him more support, he can probably do more damage to the country by not raising them.

Federal tax rates are on pace to drop 18 percent this year, yet Obama's spending plans are on pace to crush us. Good thing Jack Kemp isn't here to see just how phenomenally wrong his starve the beast idea was.

Obama is having tremendous success at driving jobs out of the US. He loves that. This article mentions the last 3 years, but you know Obama's policies have accelerated the movement.
"Speed to market and the domestic shortage of science and engineering talent are two key drivers for offshoring projects," the board said."
If engineering talent is so hard to find, how come nobody's hired me yet? If there's a shortage of engineers, somebody should be paying me big bucks. Where are they? It just goes to show the failure of hiring managers, complaining about the lack of talent on the one hand and ignoring available talent on the other. But the reason the speed to market is going up in the US while talent is going down is government. Funny how this article conveniently forgets to mention tax policy and government interference in the marketplace.

Two stories illustrate how teachers unions harm the education of children. These are exceptional cases. Teachers unions do most of their damage daily in their standard, insidious way.

Why would it be controversial to have future presidential candidates prove they are natural born US citizens? That should have been law for centuries. Regardless of what you think Obama's citizenship, his candidacy exposed a glaring hole in our law that should be closed. This just shows how politics creates stupidity. I'm sure if a Republican president had the same birth certificate issue Obama has, Democrats would be pushing this law and Republicans would be fighting it. The difference would be the mainstream media attacking the Republican on a daily basis over the issue. I think it's funny Little Leagues check birth certificates (I'm sure they accept visas and green cards too) but we don't check for presidents.

I'm surprised at how long it took MADD to get in the news complaining about Obama drinking a beer on TV. The mainstream media must have buried this story to reduce constituency infighting.

Ohio town rings up 10,000 traffic tickets in first tour weeks with red light cameras. That's $1 million plus court costs sucked out of the Heath economy in one month. Talk about taxing your town into poverty. Our government at every level is so destructive. It's nuts. Note to self: avoid Heath at all costs.

Mob of police taser pregnant mother and grandfather at baptism party.

Background on Bill Clinton's mission to North Korea. Of course it always helps to know in advance it's going to be successful. What kind of crap is that? How deeply in the tank for Obama do you have to be to spin this North Korea mission to say Obama let North Korea save face? North Korea dictated the terms. Obama followed them like a good lap dog. How is this Obama allowing North Korea to save face? Kim had all the power, and he got exactly what he wanted.

The devastating consequences of rent control on housing.
"When rents are held below their market-clearing value, people take rental units off the market or convert existing units into condominiums, luxury housing, or offices. Something like "key money" might also emerge, whereby the rent is held artificially low, but the landlord demands a massive payment to rent the apartment's key. Other enterprising landlords have attempted to get around the restriction by providing "furnished" apartments, for which the tenant pays the controlled rent but must also pay a marked-up price to rent the apartment's furniture. Government officials and landlords find themselves in an endless cat-and-mouse game of regulate-and-evade that has created its own legal infrastructure in the form of the New York City Housing Court. The court has fifty judges and handles over three hundred thousand cases annually."
What an unbelievable waste of resources.

Mises scholar has good laugh because the Government Accounting Office just happened to notice that the US Post Service is poorly managed. This essay contains a long list of the government programs that have been identified as high risk by the GAO, and as might expect, nothing has been done about them. Medicare heads the list starting in 1990.

Rich, elite moralists like Al Gore attack regular Americans.

Republican congressman warned Rahm Emanuel to stop using Chicago-style intimidation tactics in Washington. Emanuel laughed at him, busted his knees with a baseball bat then warned him if he opened his mouth again, he wouldn't be so nice.

What Latino voters are Republicans afraid of alienating by voting against Sotomayor? Only 58 percent of Hispanics support her and only about 10 percent voted for McCain. Give me a break. This is more propaganda spun by the liberal press to pressure Republicans to be more like Democrats. I still want to see somebody challenge Sotomayor on her wise Latina comment versus the rule of law and to challenge Sotomayor to explain Obama's desire for an empathetic judge shows he does not support the rule of law.

Hillary Clinton trounces Sarah Palin in polling for president. Having those two run against each other is a scary thought.

Great line:"A funny thing happened on the way to saving the world’s poor from the ravages of global warming. The poor told the warming alarmists to get lost."

Hurricane predictions scaled back. This is getting to be a yearly occurance as the global warming alarmism fails to materialize. Unfortunately, all it takes is one hurricane to whip the alarmists propaganda machine.

This is the kind of dangerous insanity this global warming fraud is sparking: scientist wants to hurl comets at the earth to move our orbit farther from the sun. This is what passes for rational thought among the frauds.

The double standard of artists depictions of Obama versus Bush. Double standard? Who would have ever imagined.

Cato has become almost married to this idea of school vouchers. I don't know why Cato doesn't realize that if vouchers become big political business, they'll become as corrupted as everything else government touches. Vouchers are no silver bullet for education. Vouchers are just another government gremlin currently in cute form.

Of course if America is at war and enemy combatants are on US soil, the president has the power to send the military after them. I'm glad Bush chose to do otherwise. This illustrates another tremendous danger of war and why we should end the military phase of the war on terror. Unfortunately neither party wants that because it gives them tremendous power. I'm still confused about the legality of using military assets in a natural disaster. Obviously using hospital ships and search and rescue resources saved lives during Katrina, but we don't want the president to have the power to just decree that. Posse Comitatus should allow for that.

Obama uses Chicago tactics to bully the press into news conference.

Austin Bay provides a brief summary of recent US-Russia relations, points out the mischaracterization of that history by Obama and warns a repeat of the Russian invasion of Georgia might occur.

The left's phony millionaire funded activists accuse real small government activists of being phony and paid for. I wish somebody had paid me to go the tea parties like ACORN paid for the leftist troublemakers who showed up. Michelle Malkin is exactly right about this being projection, but in a dishonest fashion.

Seven obvious lies of the Obama administration.

Democrat congressman from Louisiana found with cash frozen in his freezer is convicted on 11 of 16 counts of corruption.

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