The share of U.S. income made up by the private sector hit a historical low earlier this year. The only real growth is in the public sector, which doesn’t create wealth. This bad trend must be reversed.
Archive for May, 2010
Study finds increased gov’t spending results in unemployment
How’s that stimulus jobs thing working out? Congress readies another big spending ‘jobs’ bill.
School bus driver berates little girl for her ‘churchy’ views
Parents have to sue to get video evidence and seek firing of bigoted driver.
Free speech regulation masquerading as ‘transparency’
Every effort to erode liberty and free speech always is disturbing. What is truly alarming about these recent examples is how new and proposed violations of individual rights are lathered in transparency rhetoric. As an advocate of real transparency, I’m concerned that such a masquerade impedes both free speech and transparency.
Democrats Stop McCain effort to Send 6,000 Troops to Border
Democrats also repelled more than $2 billion in additional border security spending proposed by border state Republicans John Cornyn of Texas and Jon Kyl of Arizona. There will be no move on border security until the Democrats get amnesty for illegals.
All the military chiefs have asked congress to wait for the report
There is nothing in the constitution that guarantees a citizen a right to serve in the armed forces. You can’t be too tall, can’t be too short, can’t be overweight. Unit cohesion is critical to combat effectiveness.
Texas congressman complains about terrorists crossing Mexican border
After the Department of Homeland Security issued a terrorist alert for the Texas-Mexican border, a Texas congressman is trying to wake up congress to the very real threat to our national security represented by terrorists infiltrating our porous southern border.
The Eternal Energy Crisis
Oil imports have been one of the colossal policy failures of U.S. history, aggravated by the steroid-bloated canard that the problem can be solved by erecting windmills and clapping solar panels like limpets to almost everything.
US money supply plunges at 1930s pace as Obama eyes fresh spending
Despite warnings from the IMF that the gross public debt of the US will reach 97% of GDP next year and 110% by 2015, Obama and the Democrats continue to push unfunded spending. The money supply in the US is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933.
Senior citizens will be more dependent on traditional Medicare than they are today and will have fewer health care choices
With the freezing of Medicare Advantage payments in 2011, Congress has set the stage for a progressive reduction in seniors’ access to, and choice of, the popular Medicare Advantage health plans.