Thank you Democrats for giving us all such a supple example of big government and socialist modus operandi. These people just can’t help themselves because the ends always justify the means… and we’ve got to have a health care bill… anything… it’s a crisis…
So much of a crisis that labor unions, big supporters of the Democratic Party, have struck a deal, whereby their members would be exempt from a tax on high cost “Cadillac” health care plans... Read More→
This is the most common type of argument I get, and I’ve seen it take the following forms:
1. Government Service X works, and that’s socialism, therefore socialism works/is great.
2. You wouldn’t want to not have Government Service X? No you wouldn’t! And Government Service X is socialist, therefore, you can’t say you don’t want socialism.
3. Conservatives, if you really hate socialism, I demand you immediately call for all services of type Government Service... Read More→
One of the chief culprits responsible for the negative side effects (runaway spending, corruption, miss-allocation of resources) of big government socialist programs is that someone has to be in charge. Someone has to make decisions about distributing some one else’s money to affect the lives of yet others.
In this December ‘09 podcast, Scientific American reports how “recent research finds that a feeling of entitlement to power can inspire hypocrisy.”
And hypocrisy, as... Read More→