The civil unrest earlier this year in Greece, the protracted fight over public employee unions earlier this year in Wisconsin and now a crippling strike in London during the holiday season all serve to illustrate a very important truth. Once the government starts handing out goodies, it’s hard to stop.
That Penn State’s program had a pedophile in its midst is not the felony. The felony is that upon discovery of that horror, considerations other than what was right for the victims of unspeakable crimes carried the day.
If you need a clear object lesson on the pitfalls of trusting in grand, government-created schemes handed down from Olympian heights, the national Emergency Alert System test should serve nicely.
With the best of intentions, the government has become the driving economic force in both higher education and in health care. In both cases, costs are out of control.
Last week, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, MPAC, yet another government panel that you probably didn’t know existed, voted to impose massive payment reductions upon doctors who see patients under Medicare.
The three Republican front-runners are now each out with tax proposals. None of the three has yet touched many hearts nor quickened many pulses.
Today, if you want to live where the average income is highest, it’s not Silicon Valley. It’s Washington, D.C.
At over $1 trillion, total student debt in the United States now tops total credit card debt.Many debt-laden graduates will never get the money they paid out of their degrees.
Most hippies grew up, cut their hair and got jobs. You have to wonder if the occupy Wall Street Crowd, forty years of ever-increasing statist welfare coddling later, will ever feel compelled to do the same.
America is perhaps the only country on Earth that could have midwifed a company like Apple.We would do well to remember that and to remember why it is so.
Wax eloquent all you want about small business, Mr. President. The truth is that if I weren’t already in business, I’m not sure how enthused I’d be about starting.
Gov. Perry stumbled all over himself when the question of in-state tuition for the children of illegal aliens was raised in the GOP presidential debate last week. He needn’t have. He stands on solid ground and should say so.