08.22.10
This one’s easy enough to smack them down on
How’s this for obscene? FHer apparatchiks are advising FHer Congresspeople not to bring up cost reduction when discussing FHer-care.
The main point on which they attempted to sell it to us (and never did, per poll numbers both before and since its passage) was that it was going to make the American health care system less expensive.
Well, okay, now that we know what they’re terrified of us bringing up, let’s bring it up – often and loudly.
08.14.10
Ever heard of Dr. Quentin Young?
Well, here’s who he is - a bona fide Marxist and longtime associate of the Most Equal Comrade, the one from whom he learned about, and became enamored of, single-payer health care.
08.09.10
Even when the money is pulled out of thin air, the party dispensing it calls the shots
Jeff Perren at Pajamas Media on how we’re throwing phantom dollars at an idiotic product no one is going to buy. The Chevy Volt is the ultimate symbol of where we are as a nation.
08.01.10
And this is in New York, mind you
How much bluer can a state be? Yet 56 percent of New Yorkers want to see FHer-care repealed.
07.28.10
That was the way products were foisted on the public in the Soviet Union: “Here’s what we’re offering. Be a good comrade and like it.”
Auto industry analysts doubt that the Chevrolet Volt is going to rock the car market. Still, Chevrolet is going to spend our tax dollars to make a bunch of them.
Welcome to the insanity of The People’s Republic of Obamica. Windmill farms as far as the eye can see, solar panels on every rooftop (each of which is painted white, of course), “community” gardens where “food deserts” once sprawled, light-rail public transport systems criss-crossing the land – and all of us lined up like cattle staring blankly to get our portion according to our needs.
07.26.10
Britain begins to get a clue
Just as the People’s Republic of Obamica embarks on the path of statist ruin, the UK moves to decentralize the NIH.
07.15.10
“Please don’t put your faith in market forces”
Daniel Henninger at the WSJ asks: Are we really okay with having this guy foisted on us by recess appointment? He says that Donald Berwick’s appointment as Medicare / Medicaid head is a bigger deal than Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation, and BN agrees. Most of Henninger column consists of a litany of Berwick quotes that provide the most chilling insight yet into the mindset of this character.
07.14.10
If I were the US Chamber of Commerce president, this would just make me all the more vocal about what I see happening
This is really rich, coming from hardcore freedom-hater and friend-of-communists Valerie Jarrett.
07.10.10
We’ll just pretend there’s a market for it
Andrew Wilson at The Weekly Standard on how those loan guarantees The Most Equal Comrade announced for the two solar-panel companies have nothing to do with wealth creation. More like the opposite.
07.07.10
The regime certainly does have its disingenuousness chops well-honed
TCM is going to recess-appoint hard-core socialist and death-panel lover Donald Berwick as Medicare-Medicaid head on the basis that Pubs have been “playing games” and “stalling” his nomination – a charge that even the NYT knows is a smokescreen.
06.16.10
It means “make certain things more expensive and thereby distort the free market”
Chris Horner on what The Aquarian Totalitarian means when he says “make green jobs profitable.”
06.15.10
These Freedom-Haters really do think wealth-creators can keep coughing up the moolah, no matter what’s imposed on them
HT: The Other McCain
06.06.10
Are you ready for a “health development trust” and “party discipline”?
Take a few minutes to get acquainted with the Blue Sky Inititative.
06.05.10
Where in the hell did the stinking government get the idea that whether a business model is sustainable (jeez I hate that word) or not is any of its business?
The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the plausibility of taxing websites like the Drudge Report. Out of concern for the institution of journalism, doncha know:
The ideas being batted around to save the industry share a common theme: They are designed to empower bureaucrats, not consumers. For instance, one proposal would, “Allow news organizations to agree jointly on a mechanism to require news aggregators and others to pay for the use of online content, perhaps through the use of copyright licenses.”
In other words, government policy would encourage a tax on websites like the Drudge Report, a must-read source for the news links of the day, so that the agency can redistribute the funds collected to various newspapers. Such a tax would hit other news aggregators, such as Digg, Fark and Reddit, which not only gather links, but provide a forum for a lively and entertaining discussion of the issues raised by the stories. Fostering a robust public-policy debate, not saving a particular business model, should be the goal of journalism in the first place.
The report also discusses the possibility of offering tax exemptions to news organizations, establishing an AmeriCorps for reporters and creating a national fund for local news organizations. The money for those benefits would come from a suite of new taxes. A 5 percent tax on consumer electronic devices such as iPads, Kindles and laptops that let consumers read the news could be used to encourage people to keep reading the dead-tree version of the news. Other taxes might be levied on the radio and television spectrum, advertising and cell phones.
Where to start with the totalitarian nature of this whole line of thought? It’s naked redistribution. It’s naked censorship. It’s blatant propping up of an industry, which is waaaaaay, waaaaaay outside the government’s constitutional purview.
Take a good, square look at what’s happening folks. We can’t procrastinate this fight. This is the domestic front in World War III.
05.26.10
There is nothing over the top about calling them evil freedom-haters
A thorough look at the new Medicare & Medicaid kingpin Donald Berwick.
05.19.10
It’s happening here
In his Townhall column today, David Harsanyi examines the chilling facility with which the legitimization of despotism insuates itself into “respectable” discourse in our society. He uses three examples, one from the arts/entertainment world (Woody Allen), one from the journalism/punditry world (Thomas Friedman) and one from public policy – specifically, public health policy – circles (Donald Berwick, who is poised to pick the personnel who will streamline Medicare for the Age of TCM).
What Harsanyi is demonstrating is the principle that Orwell and Hayek so urgently pressed back in the mid-twentieth century: Vague, nicey-nice tofu-and-sprouts variety collectivism always winds up justifying obliteration of the individual human spirit. We are seeing it demonstrated before our own eyes: influential people casually endorsing unfairness of the most totalitarian sort in the name of ridding society of unfairness.
Some are more equal than others. The worst rise to the top.
