Under the Government’s Wing
Is this astonishing video of a protest turned near riot related to a wrongfully imprisoned innocent, wanton murder of grandmothers, or government confiscation of children? Nope. It’s over a proposed 32% tuition increase for the University of California system. It’s a symptom of the inevitable collapse of a society built on an entitlement mindset. Don’t…
And in a sentence, posted by Kevin Boland, we have the perfect summary of the government stimulus program: Ed Pound, the director of communications for the Obama Administration’s “stimulus” website (recovery.gov), dropped a bombshell in interview with the New Orleans Times Picayune, stating that the Obama Administration has no idea how phantom congressional districts –…
Unsurprisingly, Kate Brewster, of Poverty Institute fame, is inclined to cheerlead for stimulus money: “It could have been worse” might not be an inspirational slogan, but it aptly describes the situation in Rhode Island and other states thanks to unprecedented federal efforts to fight back against one of the worst recessions in memory. She goes…
Here’s the stimulus story in a sentence: The government — in which I’m including the entire structure from the town to the nation — insulated itself from the souring economy and is now attempting to justify and perpetuate the scam by touting its own health. A little bit of basic math puts this in perspective:…
Sometimes news out of Europe suggests the possibility that another revolution may be coming, such as this story from England: On Monday afternoon, the mother gave birth to a girl by Caesarean section. And 28 hours later, social workers arrived at the maternity ward to take the baby into care, after serving child protection papers…
Common-sense government at work: Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school. Regulators who oversee child care, however, don’t see it as charity. Days…
An interesting find by Joseph Bottum. Belmont Abbey College, an institution sponsored by Catholic monks, opted to remove provisions for abortion, contraception, and sterilization from the healthcare plan that it offered employees, as it must do as an institution run by believing Catholics. The matter will end up in court, but the Equal Employment Opportunity…
My vlog, this week, addresses a thread through our Congressional delegation’s healthcare forums, indicative of their worldview and illustrative of the problem with with progressive thought, generally: I’m curious how many people could explain the vlog’s title without watching to the end. (Actually, probably only those within a pretty narrow range of television experience will…
Comment-section conversation to the previous post, and to the prior post on the same op-ed, brings to mind the basic philosophical problem with public-sector labor, these days. It was once cliché to think of government jobs as akin to government bonds. The work (or the investment) isn’t going to make one rich, but it is…
Whereas I focused on the likelihood that international governments’ participation would ultimately exacerbate the problem of “too big to fail” and risk taking among large banks, Matthew Lynn argues that the big banks will leverage salary caps to hinder the one thing that could truly restrain their pay and risk taking — namely, competition: They…
