Archive for June, 2009
New York Times Article About Health Care Rationing Overlooks Reality
Posted by: | CommentsIn a New York Times article entitled “Health Care Rationing Rhetoric Overlooks Reality” published on June 17, 2009, David Leonhardt writes the following: Today, I want to try to explain why the case against rationing isn’t really a substantive argument. It’s a clever set of buzzwords that tries to hide the fact that societies must make choices. In truth, rationing is an inescapable part of economic life. It is the process of allocating scarce resources. Even in the United States,... Read More→
It’s a strong government that creates oligarchs, not the free market. The son of Jewish parents, Abramovich began his business career selling plastic ducks from a grim Moscow apartment but, within a few years, his vast wealth spread from oil conglomerates to pig farms. Russia’s richest man has flourished under president Vladimir Putin, with critics saying he used his government ties to take over former state-owned assets and reap the profits for personal use. The above is from the Daily... Read More→
Obama the Great Inventor of History
Posted by: | CommentsI recently had a conversation with a Democrat whose one complaint about Bush was that he invented his own words. But now, with the election of Barack Obama we have a president who invents his own history. Nearly every Obama policy is now apparently supported by a history that never happened. First there was the torture that was never perpetrated against Germans by the British under Churchill (it was) and now there is a new history of the Middle East. More on Obama’s new History of the Middle... Read More→
The following appeared in an online forum: If it was up to the companies, men/women/children would still be working from dawn to dusk for slave wages in unsafe conditions. If they got hurt because of the company’s negligence they would be fired and thrown out into the streets. From what I can gather, the above is a common sentiment among socialists and communists. But it is in fact false. If I were operating a business in a market where all my competitors are heartless employers who work... Read More→
Obama Thinks the United States Is One of the Largest Muslim Countries in the World
Posted by: | CommentsIn an interview for a French TV station, Barack Obama said the following: If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, uh, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. When you invent facts in order to desperately make others (Muslims?) like you, you end up sounding silly. Maybe it’s wishful thinking on Obama’s part, but population wise, the US is not even close to being “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” The US has between 3... Read More→
