The Founders of the United States of America built a government on a power base from the People. The Peoples' power of liberty was understood to be God-given, not government-granted. The People voluntarily cooperate to govern themselves mainly at local levels, then at State levels, and finally at Federal levels.
They rightfully distrusted distant Federal power, so they devised a rule book, the Constitution of the United States, to specify the basic relationship between the Federal government and the States' governments and the People. The design was to have a Federal government with strict boundaries around it; so, they allotted only a few designated powers to the Federal government with all other powers retained by the States and the People.
These designated powers are contained in Article I, Section 8, and there are only eighteen of them. The Federal Government is ONLY supposed to operate within those strictly limited powers. However, the last century in America has seen a massive move of the Federal Government outside of this box.
We must reform this relationship.
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For those of you who do not support the new law in health reform, keep reading. Those of you who are in love with the new law, just move on to the next article. You won’t like this one.
Those who are still reading, ask yourself a question. Is Barack H. Obama an idiot or is he a genius? Seriously, is he monumentally dumb or is he an evil genius? I propose an analysis of Health Reform that may enlighten. (more…)
Read THIS ARTICLE from the NYT’s Nicholas Kristof.
Many features of healthcare should function as a “public” service…like fire protection or police. Few would argue that trauma care or truly emergent care, like a heart attack or stroke, should be denied to anyone, regardless of ability to pay. So, why not fund it publicly and organize it publicly alongside “traditional” American medical care. Why must we pursue an “all or nothing” approach? Some of healthcare should be thought of as a public good, but some of it should be thought of as a consumer good. But, do it at the most local level possible, not Federal, like we do police and fire. (more…)
Marked inflation in the prices of goods and services should be what we fear. Most economists with a brain will agree that true inflation is fundamentally an issue of the supply of money, not what happens to prices, which is what most consumers understand inflation to be.
Our money supply is controlled by the Federal Reserve, and Ben Bernanke is the director of the show there. In order to fight our recent economic burst bubble, Bernanke and the Fed have massively inflated our supply of money to attempt to re-inflate the bubble. The increase in our money supply in the last 6 months has been unprecedented in all US history. (more…)
My jaw nearly dropped while reading THIS ARTICLE advocating special privilege to low-income people in expanding home ownership efforts (presumably through government subsidy).
To quote:
The timing is right. Now that prices have collapsed in many areas, low-income Americans might be able to afford to purchase homes for the first time in years. Sales of new homes in June were down 21 percent from last year. This would seem an ideal time to encourage low-income families to buy homes.
Huh??? Am I the one who is brain dead or is this really happening again? (more…)
Long live Switzerland.
I MUST provide a link to an article in the New York Times from this morning. My regular readers will be all too aware of my strong feelings towards individual liberty and privacy. But to hear it from a liberal European…and in the New York Times…oh my goodness. (more…)
