Archive for the ‘Big Government’ Category

Why Government Needs Downsizing – Example #1 (many more expected!)

With nonsense like this going on, it won’t be long before even liberals begin demanding the downsizing of government – that’s the only effective way to limit it’s intrusion into our lives.
Troopers raid popular bars for unlicensed beers | Philadelphia Daily News | 03/08/2010
IT WAS ELIOT NESS and the Untouchables, as played by the [...]

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Source of Healthcare Price Increases

This chart illustrates the decline in personal responsibility for healthcare costs over the last 50 years.  Now I have to find the best source for healthcare cost increases over the same time period, but I would guess the correlation between these two factors will be quite high.  It’s what always happens when people can use [...]

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Most outrageous Obama action yet

Last week, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes Interpol, an international police force that functions as an agent of international tribunals and foreign courts, immune from the restraints of American law.  It is outrageous to grant any foreign police force that operates without accountability to any US institution immune from the restraints [...]

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Taking the National Debt Seriously – WSJ.com

From yesterday’s WSJ Opinions, Lawrence Kadish discusses the utter folly of creating more government obligations.
It is the interest on the national debt that makes our future unstable. The exploding size of that burden suggests that, short of devaluing the dollar and taking a large bite out of the middle class through inflation and taxation, there [...]

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