Can it be true? Can it be possible that the very thing that has made America great is no longer? It sure seems that way; with a $700 billion dollar bailout (chocked full of pork and earmarks), the buyback by the government of bad mortgages (at the behest of a so-called Republican), and the overall [...]
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Is Capitalism Dead?
Posted in Gov't Idiocy, tagged America, bailout, capitalism, community reinvestment act, Economics, free markets, freedom, french, government, inflation, sarkozy, wall street journal on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fixing Education: Is more money the answer?
Posted in Gov't Idiocy, tagged choice, education, kansas city experiment, money, public, school, spending, students, survey, test scores on May 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Whenever something that is government-run fails, people always want to fix the problem by throwing more money at it. This is often the case with public education here in the United States. Although it is true that our students are not nearly as educated as they could or should be, more money is [...]
Gas: The problem with price controls
Posted in Economics, Gov't Idiocy, tagged controls, crisis, Economics, free-market, gasoline, oil, price on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here we go again. With gas prices going up it didn’t take long for many of my lefty friends to start calling for price controls. We can’t let those greedy oil companies make all this money while consumers suffer, they cry. The biggest problem with this “problem solver” is that it is not one at [...]
The Epitome of Government Planning
Posted in Gov't Idiocy, tagged construction, government, I-70, planning, traffic, transit on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On my way to work today, perhaps the most important stretch of highway in Colorado, Interstate 70 between Denver and Golden, was condensed into one…. single…..lane… for construction at 9 a.m. on a Wednesday. Let me repeat. A major artery of the Colorado transportation system was funnelled into one lane during rush hour [...]
