Jun 07
Government Made the Rich Vastly Richer; Impoverished Millions of Others Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” stated on June 4 that The coronavirus pandemic has produced “one of the greatest wealth transfers in history.” “This is the first recession where big business … is coming through virtually unscathed,” even as 21 million Americans are …
May 30
Just 4 states: New York, New Jersey, Michigan and Massachusetts, account for over half of America’s reported coronavirus deaths. Ironically, those 4 states are the states where governors were most extreme in their supposed efforts to fight the dreaded virus. Michigan’s governor even banned gardening and banned people who owned two residences from traveling between …
Apr 26
A shocking story in Politico details the utter lunacy of the U.S. government’s COVID-19 measures on American agriculture. In a free market, agricultural producers stay tuned to demand from grocery markets and restaurants. Farmers supply foodstuffs in close relation to market signals from months or seasons earlier. But in a government-directed, centrally planned economy, government …
Mar 31
The Coronavirus panic is threatening long-established constitutional rights around the globe. Ancient cornerstone protections of English common law–including rights to speedy and public jury trials–are being suspended in Scotland. Over a virus which appears to bring a death rate less than 1 percent.
Sep 20
Michigan’s government, like governments elsewhere, requires new clinics and hospitals to get government permission before opening or offering new treatments. The State’s “Certificate of Need” Commission determines if a new startup clinic might bring unfair competition to preexisting, entrenched hospitals. (And people wonder why health care costs are so high!) On Thursday, Michigan’s government commission …
Sep 05
Socialist California’s growing servant class California has America’s highest taxes, highest-paid government employees and largest government programs for “fighting poverty.” Its politics have been identified with pro-government extremism and socialism for several decades. What has this increasing socialism wrought in California? Californian’s middle class wages rose by just 1 percent in 40 years. The state …
Jul 28
Puerto Ricans enjoy many benefits from being associated with the United States. Puerto Rico’s residents are U.S. citizens and may freely move to the U.S. mainland. For years, the most productive Puerto Ricans have done so, leaving hundreds of thousands of nonworkers to pay the Island’s exorbitant tax rates. The Island’s remaining voters have voted …
Feb 18
For years, NASA’s websites provided much basic science information. One such web page stated the common-sense point that the Sun was the primary driver of the earth’s climate. But such basic science contradicts the current propaganda narrative of the government’s scientist-activists. The current NASA message is that carbon dioxide–a trace gas in the atmosphere–is the …
Jan 29
CENTRAL PLANNERS WORLDWIDE WERE STARTLED weeks ago when the voters of France descended onto Paris streets wearing government-mandated yellow vests in a massive protest against the French government’s numerous carbon taxes enacted (supposedly) to “fight” manmade global warming. The yellow vest protests brought the French government to its knees. French president Macron was forced to …
Oct 18
From FEE (Foundation for Economic Education) (quoting the Wall Street Journal): During the 20 years before the War on Poverty was funded, the portion of the nation living in poverty had dropped to 14.7% from 32.1%. Since 1966, the first year with a significant increase in antipoverty spending, the poverty rate reported by the Census …
