Thursday, November 12, 2009

Free kibbles

ECONOMY:

Russian President Medvedev outlines radical embrace of economic freedom in Russia.
""Instead of an archaic society, in which leaders think and decide for everybody, we shall become a society of intelligent, free and responsible people."
...
"Inefficient enterprises must go through bankruptcy proceedings or leave the market," he said. "We won't be protecting them forever.""
Wow. That's a great idea. We should try that here. It's just stunning how far we've enabled the two parties to drag us down and behind the rest of the world.

TAX AND SPEND:

How Orwellian is this story? The government borrows $700 billion, gives half of it away to politically connected companies and now Obama claims he wants to uses some of the rest to lower the deficit. That's like blowing up a dam then trying to claim credit for putting a piece of the dam back up. But deficit reduction is the best possible use after all the damage government has done.

WAR:

Fort Hood shooter to be charged with premeditated murder. That's fine as far as it goes, but what about treason? If they don't charge this guy with treason, it will be a continuation of the institutional failure due to political correctness.

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