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Expensive German Wind Power
Is 2.5 times more too much for a good cause?
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The wholesale price will be US 21¢ per KWH, plus retail markup to pay for distribution and billing costs. Compare this to the average US retail price of 11.28¢
(v)Via Instapundit
Recent Posts
» Fort Hood Parallel Universe
It is shocking when a Christian commits violence.
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11/06/09 - DocsOnTheWeb by 911Doc
"Bobby Lee Smith, in a rage fueled by his fundamentalist Christian beliefs, went on a murder spree at Fort X today, killing 13 and wounding thirty. The FBI has arrested all known acquaintances of Mr. Smith, and has taken his family in for questioning." (satire)
(M)Will The Truth Be Hasan's Last Victim?
11/09/09 - LegalInsurrection by William A. Jacobson
The facts about Nidal Hasan's killing spree at Fort Hood.
» CBO Rates Republican Health Plan
R: Let's do the obvious and uncomplicated things first.
L: You have no regulatory vision.
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11/05/09 - Washington Examiner
The Congressional Budget Office analyzed the Republican health care plan. It would reduce insurance premiums and cut the ten-year deficit by $68 billion.
It would create high-risk insurance pools, allow purchase of insurance policies from any state, and reform malpractice rules. It is not a government insurance plan.
(v)Via Instapundit
(M)We have millions of administrators in government, with more on the way
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July 09 - EasyOpinions
Medicare Myth: Low Administrative Cost
Medicare claims 3% administrative overhead, compared to 12% for private insurance. But, Medicare doesn't count all of its expenses, and private insurance is burdened with taxes that are part of its "overhead". Medicare overhead per patient is actually 25% more than for private insurance.
• We Can't Stop Government Growth
We will rise up to limit the government and restore our freedom.
Yes comrade. May I ask, do you intend to finish your soup?
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11/02/09 - Independent.org by Robert Higgs
[edited] "Every genuine solution must be implemented by enough people and money, through ideological conversions on a substantial scale, if such conversions are possible at all."
"The troubling fact remains, that if any truly effective measures are approved to limit the government, the rulers would likely resort to whatever legal or illegal violence proved necessary to prevent those measures from taking effect."
(M)Via Cafe Hayek
» Rules For Radicals
They have money and principles; we have neither. Which do you want to take from them?
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08/04/2000 - Miyamoto's PR Resource
A version of Saul Alinsky's political handbook "Rules For Radicals". Machiavelli wrote "The Prince" in 1505 as a guide to getting and maintaining power from the top down. Alinsky presents ruthless tactics for gaining power from the bottom up, aimed at the underbelly of the tolerant modern state.
This is a key to understanding current politics.
(v)10/23/09 - Wall Street Journal by James Tarranto
Rules for Presidents
(M)10/24/09 - Vancouver Community Network
A simpler version of Rules For Radicals.
(M)"The Prince" by Nicolò Machiavelli, free online.
» Don't Reinflate the Housing Bubble
If we stoppped pushing houses, the voters might suspect it was wrong to do it last time.
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10/17/09 - Washington Examiner by Michael Barone
[edited] "Our financial system broke down because government policies created a housing bubble of more construction and increasing prices. The bubble broke. Democratic policymakers are responding by trying to recreate the housing bubble.
(v)Via Instapundit
(M)10/16/09 - WSJ by Peter Walliston
"Barney Frank, Predatory Lender"
Mortgage brokers are supposed to be the villians. But, they could only produce what bigger lenders wanted to buy. They could only respond to demand, not create it themselves.
The principal buyers were government insured banks, government enterprises such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, federal housing agencies, and private companies forced to comply with government mandates about mortgage lending.
(M)10/18/09 - Washington Post by Charles Lane
"Doubling Down On the Wrong Housing Policy"
The government encouraged a teacher to put her retirement savings into a new house.
• Blunting Costs of Healthcare Reform
Healthcare reform is going to be great and less expensive. That is why we senators are excluding ourselves, federal workers, unions, and the people and political players in our own states.
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10/09/09 - WSJ Opinion by Kimberley A. Strassel
Powerful senators want "reform" for the nation, so long as it doesn't disadvantage the people who support or vote for them.
(M)10/14/09 - PJTV: Medically Incorrect (video 3m)
Baucus Bill Bull: Hypocrite senators Want To Pass a Doozy
» Remembering What Didn't Happen
Think about the wedding, the punchbowl, and spilling it all on your parents.
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10/06/09 - Advice Goddess (video clip 4m)
Elizabeth Loftus is Prof. of Psychology and Law at U.Cal Irvine. She explains how 1/4 of study participants were given false memories of their childhood. A good reason to believe the evidence, not the story.
(M)Prof. Elizabeth Loftus: What's the Matter With Memory (video lecture 71m)
» What Is Defensive Medicine?
I love that rush of fear when I don't test for something.
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Engineering motto: If the tolerance for error is zero, then the cost has to be infinite.
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09/29/09 - 09/08/09 - Happy Hospitalist
A four part chart shows why doctors order lots of tests, and patients like this. This is expensive. So what?
(v)Via OverLawyered
¢ Memo - Health Plan Deficit Reduction
We are going to rearrange it all, anyway. Just make it look good now.
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09/17/09 - EasyOpinions by Andrew Garland
An internal memo about the health plan, on how to remove any deficit. (satire)
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09/17/09 - OpenMarket by Hans Bader
Cap-and-Trade legislation would cost middle class taxpayers hundreds of billions. Household taxes could rise $1761 per year, a 15% increase. Jobs in steel, paper, aluminum, chemical, and cement manufacturing would migrate to countries with lower environmental costs than the U.S.
Taxes on business would be directly passed on to consumers.
» Obama's Speech On Healthcare
We need quality healthcare, at low cost, with no restrictions, by friendly and unhurried doctors, and ... a chicken in every pot. That is my plan. Really. We should do it.
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09/09/09 - PowerLineBlog by John Hinderaker
A review of the main quotes and distortions.
Obama: "This insurance exchange will take effect in four years, which gives us time to do it right." But wait! Obama says this is an emergency, without a moment to lose. With four years to spare, he could stop cramming the bill down Americans' throats.
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"You will all be rich and happy"
(When we get this darned bureaucracy working)
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09/09/09 - Cato by Michael F. Cannon
Quotes from Obama's speech, and the real-world translations.
(v)Via Instapundit
(M)09/12/09 - Ed Driscoll
Analysis from Mark Steyn, Thomas Sowell, and especially Shikha Dalmia:
"[edited] Obama the bipartisan embraced every bad, big-government idea from both sides. If he prevails, the American public won’t get 'choice and competition', but will get a one-size-fits-all, government-prescribed health care plan that it can't refuse or challenge.”
(M)09/09/09 - The Atlantic by Arnold Kling
Obama: "Reducing waste and inefficiency in Medicare/caid will pay for most of this plan."
Kling: "If we don't pass this plan, does Obama intend to keep the waste and inefficiency out of spite?"
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Arnold Kling blogs at Econlog.Econlib.org
(M)07/26/09 - EasyOpinions by Andrew Garland
I have that analysis somewhere. Here it is. No, thats my grocery list.
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Where is the policy paper, Obama's careful plan and research on healthcare reform?
» Why There Are No New Jobs
Marx revealed that business owners are leeches on society, draining away the wealth that rightfully belongs to the workers. At least, the ones who have jobs.
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09/05/09 - Commentary Magazine by Jennifer Rubin
Obama has utterly ignored or rejected proposals to promote private-sector job growth. The threatening environment of higher taxes and deficits causes companies to make only critical investments and slow down job creation. Obama cannot have a recovery by attacking private businesses while expanding government.
It turns out we need those private-sector employers.
(v)Via Instapundit
» Czars in America
My Czars have my full support, but you can't hold me responsible for what they do. It is silly to think that I can watch every action of 31 people.
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09/05/09 - Hot Air by Ed Morrissey
Barack Obama’s 31 czars are a dramatic executive overreach. This is far more imperial than any Bush action.
(v)Via Instapundit
» Death Panels in Britain
We don't kill them. They choose to die when we stop feeding them.
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09/02/09 - PowerLineBlog
Under NHS guidance, patients are diagnosed as close to death without allowing that the diagnosis could be wrong. This creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where food and fluids are denied until sedated patients die. Nationwide discontent is building up, as family and friends witness this denial of care.
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Monty Python on Death Panels (humor, video 2:00)
» Free To Choose
The most important single fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Videos of the 1980, 1990 TV series about economics and freedom by the late Nobel economist Milton Friedman.
A presentation about freedom, markets, capitalism, and prosperity. Friedman is clear and direct. It is a first course in free markets and free minds, and was a popular success on network television.
(v)Via Chicago Boyz
» Canadian Healthcare Is Sick
Canada needs change. Maybe private healthcare?
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08/15/09 - Google News by Jennifer Graham (CP)
Dr. Anne Doig is president of the Canadian Medical Association.
"We all agree, the system is imploding and more precarious than Canadians realize. We are all running flat out, trying to stay ahead of day-to-day demands. The current system is not sustainable."
(v)Via Docs On the Web
(M)08/15/09 - Docs On the Web
The health care bill is the worst abomination since MTV stopped playing music videos.
Taking from specialty care to fund primary care will produce savings because more people will die. Here is the theory and the reality of preventive care.
» What Work Means in Life
You say you are happy doing that?
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08/18/09 - Mike Rowe of the TV series "Dirty Jobs" (Video 20:34)
What he has learned from surprising and dangerous jobs. He describes his personal anagnorisis, the point, especially in a tragedy, at which the hero recognizes his true identity or situation, and peripeteia, a sudden change in fortune from learning the truth.
15:55 The war on work. We have forgotten the benefits and satisfaction of doing a trade and learning from others the practical nature of what life demands.
(v)Via Docs On The Web
» Electricity Situation in Britain
Honey, no lights, no TV, no internet, and the food is warming up. Are we still environmentalists?
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08/12/09 - Chicago Boyz by Carl from Chicago
Electricity has to be generated from somewhere, and traditional sources are Coal, Gas, Nuclear, Hydroelectric, and Insignificant.
Britain’s electricity demand peaked at 59 GW (billion watts) in 2009. 45% from North Sea gas, 35% coal, 15% nuclear, and 5% other. By 2015, modest growth will require 64 GW. From where? Our generation plants are aging, and there is nothing planned to replace them.
(M)Problems with Green Energy
» Progressive Redistribution -> Low growth
I gave up half my income for the good of .. something. That's what LBJ did in 1970.
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08/11/09 - Chicago Boyz
President Lyndon Johnson publicly admitted that his “Great Society” was a redistributionist scheme. He gloated that future generations would just have to live with it. This policy choked off growth during the 1970’s by doubling the Capital Gains Tax.
So what have we lost? Long term U.S. economic growth was 4.5% from 1780 to 1970. Recessions were followed by high growth recoveries. The per capita growth rate was 3.5%. In 1970 that growth rate dropped to 1.5% and stayed there.
GDP would have increased by 4x from 1969 to 2009 at the 3.5% rate. GDP has actually increased by 1.8x at the 1.5% rate. Without LBJ and “Limits to Growth”, our per capita economy would now be 2.2x larger.
(M)Stimulus Shrinks the Economy. The money is nice; the taxes and inflation are a killer.
» Government Medicaid Rx
Don't look, government healthcare and sausages are being made here.
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08/10/09 - The Independence Institute (Video 1:30)
Oregon provides Medicaid through government rules drawn up by political lobbying each year.
Government raises costs; it requires that many services be covered by regulated healthcare insurance, the services that provide income for influential provider groups.
Emergency services don't have a lobby, so forget about them. Priorities: (High) Stop Smoking, (Low) Head Injury.
(v)Via Cafe Hayek by Don Boudreaux
(M)08/25/09 - Insureblog by Henry Stern
Mandates increase insurance costs for Shelley Roche in Maryland. (Video 2:21)
» Spot the Astroturfers
They're fanatics. They made their own signs.
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08/06/09 - Looking at the Left by El Marco
A picture essay with commentary about political demonstrators at a health clinic for-and-against healthcare reform. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi visited that clinic. Which are the concerned citizens, and which are the hired demonstrators?
El Marco: This is the first time in my life that I can recall a government in North America organizing protests of one group of citizens against another. This is standard operating procedure in countries with left-wing governments.
Pelosi said recently, about critics at town hall events: "I think they’re AstroTurf. You be the judge. They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care."(v)Via Ed Driscoll
» Is the Science Debate Over for Climate Change?
We have our own consensus here in government. The debate is over.
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08/05/09 - OpenMarket by Marlo Lewis
There are three basic issues in the climate change debate: How much has the world warmed? How much from greenhouse gases? What will more greenhouse gases do? These issues are not settled, not even close, and here is why.
One of many points. The U.S. surface temperature record is supposed to be the best in the world. But, it is riddled with false warming biases. "We found stations located next to exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near structures that absorb and radiate heat. We found 68 stations at wastewater plants, where waste digestion raises the air temperature."
Nice graphs with medium scientific detail. Readable, or watch the video.
(M)Dispelling the Global Warming Myth
» Ten Questions For Your Congressman
Do you expect me to have answers for everything?
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08/03/09 - Washington Examiner by Hugh Hewitt
Ten questions and honest answers about current healthcare reform. Ask your Congressman or Senator. Question 4: "If seniors will be allowed the expensive, most effective treatments, how will costs be controlled?"
(v)Instapundit
» Health Care Reform Removes 5 Freedoms
We are all in this together, so you will pay for us.
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07/24/09 - Fortune at Money.CNN by Shawn Tully
The fine print in the Congressional plans removes many freedoms of the current system: To choose your doctors, To keep your existing plan, To choose what's in your plan, To choose high-deductible coverage, To pay your real costs and be rewarded for healthy living.(v)Instapundit
» Screening for Terrorists
My shrimp catcher is 99% accurate. So, why are there so many snails?
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If your test is wrong 1/100, and you are looking for 1 in 10,000, then 99% of your detained people are going to be innocent.
(v)Via Schneier on Security
¢ Not Just Words
Words are powerful. Numbers are cold.
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Obama doesn't respect numbers.
» Hidden Victims of Health Reform
Somebody is going to pay, but I don't think it will be me. Right?
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07/24/09 - WSJ by John Fund
Health reform will require some people to sacrifice. Democrats have kept that knowledge from those who would bear the brunt. They convinced healthcare industry groups not to run the “Harry and Louise” style ads that opposed HillaryCare in 1993.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.): "The pressure has bordered on extortion." Newt Gingrich: "Groups were told that they would give up their seat at the table if they ran ads. They weren’t told that they would be the lunch."
Losers: Young people, Small businesses, Health savings accounts, Medicare Advantage.
(v)Via Instapundit
» Why Doesn't Obama Get to Work?
I was happy to be an inspiration to you all.
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3/11/09 - Small Dead Animals by Kate
Carol Platt Liebau was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review (from audio):
"Tom Pirelli is the one who did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in, talk to people, and then leave, as though his arrival had been a benediction in itself. But, not very much got done.
You see that and think, gosh, maybe that's the way the guy operates. He had his eye on bigger things. But, now he's President; there isn't a bigger or better thing."
(v)Via Ed Driscoll
» 20 Questions for Obama
I can restate my policy goals, but I'm not a detail man. (chuckle, smile)
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7/22/09 Economist Keith Hennessey
5. You proposed spending money from the TARP to prevent foreclosures, help small businesses, and to buy toxic assets from banks. In June, CBO found no evidence that any money has been spent for any of these programs. How many foreclosures have been prevented, how many small businesses have received loans, and how many toxic assets have been purchased?
(M)11/3/08 National Review
All of Obama's promises have expiration Dates.
» The Good Intentions of Welfare
I miss having responsibility for my life.
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Economist Walter Williams, 1983 (video 27 mins)
Influence and Access to Good Schools
Minimum Wage, Licensing, and Labor Laws
The Welfare System and Conclusions
The government offers help, but in a way that leads people to a life of dependence and broken families.
(v)7/22/09 Cafe Hayek by economist Don Boudreaux
¢ Borrowing Costs Per Legislator We'll pay you to put away the national credit card.
» EMP Attack
Honey, the TV is on the blink. And, everything else.
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Consider a nuclear explosion 200 miles up. It emits a powerful wave of radiation which causes a huge electrical wave. You won't feel much, but it will fry all the electrical systems and digital electronics that we depend on to run everything. How will we survive?
(v)Via Instapundit
» Obama is Jimmy Carter Reborn
Make no mistake, no one can fix our problems. Don't blame me.
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Six months as President, Barack Obama is driving south into the political speed trap known as Carter Country. It is a sad-sack landscape in which every major initiative meets with failure and scorn from political allies and foes alike.
(v)Via AdviceGoddess
» Cloward-Piven Plan for Socialism
Cloward: The ruling classes use welfare to weaken the poor. Poor people can advance only when the rest of society is afraid of them.
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Columbia University political scientists Richard Cloward and Frances Piven proposed to bankrupt the welfare system and produce radical change. This is called the "crisis strategy" or the "bankrupt-the-cities" strategy.
They proposed flooding the welfare rolls with new applicants, more than the system could bear. They hoped that the resulting economic collapse would lead to political turmoil and socialism.
The National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) used the Cloward-Piven strategy to produce the welfare crisis that bankrupted New York City in 1975.
Veterans of NWRO went on to found the Living Wage Movement and the Voting Rights Movement. Both use Cloward-Piven and are spear-headed by ACORN.
(M)Liberally Conservative: Cloward-Piven as it is being applied now to US politics.
» Hospital Sues Mass Medicaid
When the state won't pay, we raise prices on the sick.
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Boston Medical Center is suing Massachusetts for not paying $100 million if its bills. That expense increased the cost of everyone else’s health care.
Elaine Ullian is CEO of Boston Medical: We believe in health care reform, but it was never, ever supposed to be financed on the backs of the poor, as has happened in Massachusetts.
(M)More: Political Contributions required for Medicare Reimbursement in Illinois.
» Personal Tour of Canadian Health Care
If you are tired of waiting, you can come back and wait tomorrow. Or pay at the private clinic.
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7/13/09 - PJTV (video 21m) by Steven Crowder
The wait times are cruel. A sick baby is sent home by one hospital after a quick look. Her parents try again at a 2nd one, and the baby needed a week of treatment.
That is what the world is like when you are a cost rather than a customer. When you want care under socialized medicine, you are a pure cost.
(M)More: Begging for Medical Care
» Global Warming Best Predictions May Be Wrong
It is sad when you can't predict the past.
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Gerald Dickens is Professor of Earth science at Rice University. "There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way climate models link temperature and carbon. They do not explain what appears in the geological record."
(v)Via Riehl World View
(M)More: Dispelling the Global Warming Myth
» Federal Reserve Failures
The government bankers will save us! They probably caused the problem in the first place.
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[edited] In about 1927, the Federal Reserve started buying large quantities of U.S. stocks on the open market. This produced an unprecedented stock bubble. The Fed only managed to reverse this in late 1929 by choking-off normal business credit.
The Fed stood by, pleading impotence during the following panic. The U.S. money stock lost one-third of its pre-crash value. This "great contraction" was the worst credit-crunch in U.S. history, producing the "national bank holiday" of March 6-12, 1933.
Regardless of this and later mismanagement, Congress rewards the Fed for its failures by giving it more powers.
(v)Via Cafe Hayek
» Sotomayor Condones Discrimination
Judge Andrew Napolitano: [edited] When you elect a liberal Democrat as President, you get Sonia Sotomayor, a judicial nominee with strange ideas.
Like, if you take a test, and you pass the test and you’re supposed to get promoted, well, you won't get promoted because not enough people from another race passed the test. A lot of Americans will reject that attitude which she embraced.
(M)Sotomayor Snubs the Senate's Questions
07/28/09 - American Thinker by Rick Moran
She repeated her bizarrely brief opinion that the statue outlaws racially disparate voting qualifications: "A law disqualifying felons from voting constitutes a voting qualification."
» Despair Among Business Owners
Let them drop their pretenses and join the workers.
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Business is down 10-20% or more. They have laid off staff or have 4-day weeks to keep staff. They see nothing that will benefit sales, cost reductions, or efficiency.
What is happening is an outrage. We will all be casualties of being controlled by bureaucrats and politicians who never, ever, ran a business or created a job. Job losses, cost increases, and inflation will get worse.
(v)Via Riehl World View
» John Holdren is Obama's Science Czar. Be afraid.
You have to break some eggs to make a world omelette.
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In 1977 he proposed forced abortions, sterilizations through drinking water, babies seized from teen/single mothers, sterilization of undesirables, and a global government through an international police force. In writing. No kidding.
(v)Via Ed Driscoll
(M)More at OpenMarket
» When Politicians Go Bad -- The Government We Don't Deserve
Hey, it's only money.
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California has spent all its money, and it is spending more. It's politicians think criticism is terrorism. Obama thinks CA is a model for us all. Bill Whittle at Pajamas Media. Video 5:30.
(v)Via Instapundit
» A hack-door bust-out Howie Carr: The public-sector unions are busting out the commonwealth of Massachusetts. You don’t have to be a gangster to bust out a joint, just crooked and greedy. Shady parties worm their way into a legitimate enterprise and then slowly strip it of all assets, reducing it to a hollow shell, driving it into bankruptcy, busting it out." (v)Via Instapundit
» Smallest Political Quiz Are you Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian, or Statist? (v)Via Econlog: Personality Profile of a Free-Marketeer
• Gaining Power Through Public Policy Why regulate? Because we make money at it.
» Brace yourself for higher taxes Catch me, I'm slipping.
• Obama: Honduras Should Accept Tyranny One man - One vote - Once
• Introduction to Medical Billing Doctor, how are my billing codes doing?
• Predicting No Climate Change The crystal ball is cloudy. Give me $1 trillion.
¢ Better Bank Robbery I didn't mind. It was for a good cause.
• EPA Supresses Climate Study That Gallileo fellow wouldn't toe the line either.
• Windmill jobs are expensive We're creating jobs here. Don't look over there.
• The Medicare Tomato Market We used to buy great tomatoes when you were little.
• No progress on energy nuclear energy The lights are on. What energy problem?
• Medicaid and Its Children You can have all the care you want. We'll find the money later.
• Lack of Competition in Health Care Insurance You are a caring doctor. Treat the poor for free.
• Changing Oil Prices Are Not a Conspiracy We can't eat it, or save it, so we sell it.
• Universal Health Care in Italy A delay? But, I have already paid.
• Phony Jobs Claims I'm not lowering your salary, so that is a raise.
• Economists Surprised That People Read the Paper Don't read that! Do you want to ruin the economy?
• The Climate Change That Isn't How dare you criticise our consensus of government researchers?
• A Liberal Judge My personal history tells me what the law means.
• My Fantasy Beats Your Reality Follow me, my plan is on this cocktail napkin.
• Stimulus Shrinks Economy Look at the pretty money. Ignore the taxes and inflation.
• Access vs Honest Reporting If we tell the truth, we can't report at all.
• First, Let's Pay All the Lawyers Sue the wealthy person who is responsible.
• Homeopathic Waterboarding (smile) Talk to us Hamid, or we will do Homeopathy upon you.
• Medical Rationing Details Take two aspirin and don't call back.
• Did You Love "Life After People"? If only we didn't litter so much.
• The Will to Have Efficient Cars I say do it, and it shall be done.
• Good Guns Don't Make News Prevented deaths are hard to count.
• Treasury Recalls All Dollars (smile) We'll take the money now. You can earn it back later.
• Freedom Supports Our Humanity Freedom is more than money.
• Bombing Japan Was Not a War Crime War is life vs life. Killing some saved more.
• Personal Experience of Terrorism Life is wonderful and fragile. It must be defended.
• Together, We All Pay More For Healthcare Waiter, bring me two of everything.
• Fact Check on Obama Obama's facts don't hold up.
• Why Test? You Are Already in the Hospital Sorry, no CT Scan. We already know you are sick.
• A Quick Explanation for the Recession Will you believe it, if it is not complicated?
• We Can't Stop Carbon Emissions Only the rich dream about reducing carbon output.
• An Artwork Thought to Have Merit You never know what will please the critics.
• The Revolutionaries Ayers, Dohrn, and Rudd Together, they set bombs for a better world.
• The Policies of Bush -- I mean Obama Does not a rose by any other name still smell as sweet?
• The Godfather's White House Is Obama basing his administration on 'The Godfather'?
• Regulatory Costs 4,000 new regulations each year cost $trillions.
• A Close Look at the Business Bailouts John Stossel of 20/20 examines the bailouts (video).
• Publicly Challenge Politicians Talk to politicians publicly, not one-on-one.
• Obama Team: No Nuclear Energy Current waste storage sites are cancelled.
• Housing Crisis in a Nutshell Easy loans and old analysis fueled the market.
• Obama is a Gifted Talker Obama's words impress people. Reality is not persuaded.
• Government vs The Market Government intervention is causing the pain, not the market.
• Tolerance, Muslim-Style The Islamic republic of Chechnya, Russia, encourages honor killings.
• Why Should I Believe You? Trust seems to be tribal, not intellectual.
• The Hamas - Israel War What each side does when fighting.
• I Won't Do the Paying The Rich have options. They won't work hard to pay high taxes.
• Politicians Like Thoreau They like his quiet observations and ignore his tax protests.
• Obama Challenges Us He challenges us to follow his plans and requirements.
• Iran Might Stop Killing Brits We'll stop killing you if you let us develop nuclear weapons.
• The Solution Is Simple Many people think they could solve all the problems if they were in charge.
• Where Did Barbers Go? They were regulated and trained out of business.
• Nurse Practitioners They are inexpensive, friendly, and can't help you much.
• Elevator Lawsuit Safety We don't unlock the escape door because you might sue us.
• Medicare Witch Hunt They will eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse by eliminating doctors.
• Delayed Medical Tests Your doctor isn't allowed to do his own lab tests. Will three days be OK?
• Teleprompter President Obama is a fine orator, with a teleprompter and an ear bug.
• No Effect On Unemployment Spending during the Great Depression did not produce lasting employment.
• Obama Praises Lincoln He thanks Lincoln for making Obama possible.
• Charming the Barbarians They won't want to harm us when they know how friendly we are.
• Trusted Public Bicycles Paris supplied bicycles on the honor system.
• Audacity to Do Nothing Who built the economy? Not politicians. They should get out of the way.
• Non-Union Businesses Grow Faster Union activities slow the growth of businesses and jobs.
• Survive "Obama Care" How to survive medical problems under socialized health care.
• Failure of the New Deal A planner of the New Deal testified that it didn't work.
• Friedman On Greed Government is less greedy than business. Really?
• Obama's Feet of Clay We are quickly finding out about his feet.
• Spending Did Not Help Japan They spent a huge amount. It didn't help. Instead, it hurt.
• Will You Bet On Your Opinion? If you want to direct the economy, why won't you bet on it?
• Leftist Arguments: A or B It depends on who they are talking to.
• Che Guevara's Message He wanted youth to conform and individualism to disappear.
• Benefits of Health Savings Accounts They benefit everyone, not just the rich.
• Interrogation, Torture, and Rendition The possibility of torture saves lives in war.
• Modern Law Makes Us Powerless If it is new, it is probably illegal.
• Too Many Federal Laws Five years and a $5000 fine for everything.
• I Pledge to Obama Obama inspires celebrities to work for a better world (satire).
• Safe, But Also Sorry Children should not fear adults in an emergency.
• Good/Bad News on Parenting Children grow up to be themselves, no matter what you do.
• Geithner and SE Tax He was informed in writing to pay his tax, but didn't.
• Predicting Doom is Illegal Being too negative in S.Korea is a crime.
• War Between the Sexes I want to be liked for my personality.
• Stimulus Boondoggle Enjoy the view of the new roads and bridges. And, that is the good part.
• The Economy is Not a Machine Want to fix the economy? It isn't in any one place.
• No one can make a pencil It is the result of 100 years of practical research and cooperation.
• Pelosi-Obama-Reid Economy Productive people will not work for corrupt politicians.
• Tennessee Sludge Spill, Government Disaster Government ignored safety to save money.
• A British Political Arrest The British government bends the law to arrest a critic.
• Self defense and security Her parents died because she couldn't carry her gun into the restaurant.
• Job Creation - Elevators We could have 500,000 new elevator operators.
• People Versus Politicians Loopholes for sale.
• We Don't Raise Our Hands With Obama Obama doesn't like the wrong questions from the press.
• Carbon Dioxide Does Not Drive Climate Even if there is more, it can't absorb much more heat.
• Islamic Cultural Identity Firing rockets is in their blood.
• Crisis Hysteria Markets will adapt, but they need some time.
• H.L.Mencken on politicians He didn't give them compliments.
• Diplomacy and Terrorism Talk doesn't work. Either they win or we win.
• Effect of torture on morale It decreases US effectiveness.
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