Why the Government Shouldn’t Run Anything Extra

By: halsted (Diary)  |  April 27th at 05:46 PM  | 

Sometimes small examples point out huge issues. Two local radio commentators were talking yesterday morning on a Charleston, SC radio talk station about the issue of providing IPad2’s to children in a few local schools. One caller pointed out that it might be preferable to use the money for merit pay for better performing teachers. One of the hosts stated that “the money was allocated | Read More »

Liberal Arrogance

By: halsted (Diary)  |  October 29th at 06:29 PM  | 

I noticed that the Democratic Congress and Vice President Biden are talking up the results of the stimulus package. Everyone who paid attention knows that the stimulus package was not intended for stimulus or, if it was, it was only a peripheral goal. The idea of that package was to use the crisis to advance liberal programs which would not have been passed through the | Read More »

Using Health Care to Control Everything

By: halsted (Diary)  |  October 23rd at 06:18 PM  | 

The administration continues to talk about the health care “crisis” and is prepared to spend over one trillion dollars to insure about 16 million people (of their estimated 40 million without insurance). That works out to about $62,500 per person. Why not just buy them a policy at a few thousand a year and save a bunch of money? Because that is not what this | Read More »