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Scrooge & redistribution.

The economic equality that liberals say they want has been attained before. It was called 18th and 19th century Europe and the equality consisted of equally-shared misery..

Scrooge & redistribution.
posted on: Sep 21, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

When you can’t pay the piper you can’t call...

When the money drains away, the power to control events drains away with it. So the Brits learned in 1939. So we are learning in 2012.

When you can’t pay the piper you can’t call the tune.
posted on: Sep 13, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

If the grocery store were the doctor’s office.

If we bought groceries in America the way we buy health care, the cost for food would explode and most of our political debate would be centered on finding some policy to deal with high food prices.

If the grocery store were the doctor’s office.
posted on: Aug 23, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

Waiting for “free” health care.

Assuming that the purpose of a health care industry is to prolong and improve human life, legislating away money as the economic mechanism for clearing the market and substituting in its place time is the worst possible allocation of resources.

Waiting for “free” health care.
posted on: Aug 16, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser
Nice little chicken stand you have here.

Nice little chicken stand you have here.

posted on: Aug 2, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

If you harbor any doubt as to how far we have strayed from the founding vision look no further than the story involving the fast food chain Chik-fil-A.

Controlling guns won’t control violence.

Controlling guns won’t control violence...

posted on: Jul 26, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, together with a chorus from the media and the far Left, is using the occasion of the senseless murders in Aurora, Colorado to again call for greater restrictions on gun ownership.

FDR was finally forced to “get it.”

FDR was finally forced to “get it.̶...

posted on: Jul 19, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

Everything that government does and every benefit that the government provides – every highway, every bridge, every dam, every naval vessel, every fighter jet, every Humvee, every public school, every firefighter and every police officer – comes from the fruits of the success of the American people.

A choice between two futures.

A choice between two futures.

posted on: Jul 12, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

Two items hit the news on the same day this week. First, San Bernadino became the third California city in less than a month to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. Second, CNBC has again ranked Texas as the number one state for business.

It settles nothing.

It settles nothing.

posted on: Jun 28, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

The healthcare debate springs from the false premise that only the government can ensure “access” to health care. Nothing that the Supreme Court said changes the fact that we are debating the wrong things.

Small business. Not big government.

Small business. Not big government.

posted on: Jun 21, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

America’s entire $15 trillion economy stands on the shoulders of men and women who run, nurture and, when necessary, act as blood donors to the small businesses they themselves started -- a fact to which the Obama administration is utterly blind.

He said it because he believes it.

He said it because he believes it.

posted on: Jun 14, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

Only someone with a faculty lounge worldview could say with a straight face that the problem facing the economy derives from the fact that state and local governments need more money from the federal government in order to hire more government workers.

The politics of smaller pie.

The politics of smaller pie.

posted on: Jun 7, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

Interrupted from time to time by brief and usually mild recessions, since World War II the American economy grew at such a rapid clip that politicians were largely insulated from having to make difficult choices. That day may be over.

Step away from the Big Gulp, ma’am!

Step away from the Big Gulp, ma’am!

posted on: May 31, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg would make it illegal for convenience stores, restaurants, theaters and other food-selling venues to sell sugared soft drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces. This is necessary, says Nanny Bloomberg, to curb the growing obesity problem in the Big Apple.

Who’s really in charge of the economy?

Who’s really in charge of the economy?

posted on: May 24, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

Today in America tens of thousands of cosseted and unaccountable bureaucrats, all safely beyond the reach of those we elect at the ballot box, have become the determinants of economic activity.

Will we ever get serious?

Will we ever get serious?

posted on: May 17, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser

The government has borrowed money over your signature and made promises in your name to the point that your household now owes $520,000.

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