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Category Archives: free market economy
WHY ROMNEY?
I was recently asked the following question: Why do you like Romney so much? And my answer, finally, after almost a month of cogitating, is as follows: This is a complicated question, but definitely one worth answering. Let me start … Continue reading
YOUR RETIREMENT MONEY REDISTRIBUTED (RERUN)
I thought I’d rerun this rant from November 2011. I have been thinking about a couple of progressive concepts that the Obama regime is likely to employ as a temporary way to feed its spending addiction. (I say “temporary” because … Continue reading
Posted in bureaucracy, capitalism, centralized planning, community organizers, Czechoslovakia, democracy, dictatorship, economy, free market economy, loss of freedom, megalomania, Obama, Obama administration, socialism, socialism, U S Constitution, unelected bureaucrats, unrestrained greed, USA, USSR
Tagged Community organizing, Czechoslovakia, Democratic Party, Iron Curtain, Obama, redistribution, retirement accounts, Teresa Ghilarducci, United States
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OKAY, GURU OBAMA, NOW I HAVE TRUE UNDERSTANDING!
In the summer of 1965, my parents made the potentially life-stopping decision to escape from what was then the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR), to give themselves and their progeny (including moi), a chance for a life in freedom and dignity. … Continue reading
FAILED STATES
Foreign Policy has released its annual review of failed states. (h/t Via Meadia) Interesting things to be noted here: 1. there is a very high positive correlation between state centralization (communism, socialism, fascism, corporatism, Islamism) and higher state failure rating, … Continue reading
Posted in bureaucracy, democracy, dictatorship, free market economy, Obama administration, socialism
Tagged Failed state, Foreign Policy, South Sudan
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COMRADE ROMNEY BREAKS COVER
Finally! The Hill reports that Mitt Romney has jigged, jagged, did the Vienna waltz, zigged, zagged and sashayed, spent 15 minutes doing a square search and finally did the spinning dervish, and came out believing that the individual mandate is … Continue reading
THOSE ZANY FRENCH SOCIALISTS!
They shoot horses, don’t they? It’s like this. The French (socialized) medical system, often touted as the best in the world, has spawned a dearth of general practitioners in the countryside. (h/t Ricochet) But Francoise Tenenbaum, the Socialist vice-president of … Continue reading
Posted in bureaucracy, free market economy
Tagged country doctors, doctors, France, free enterprise, socialism, Socialists, veterinarians
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YOUR RETIREMENT MONEY REDISTRIBUTED
I have been thinking about a couple of progressive concepts that the Obama regime is likely to employ as a temporary way to feed its spending addiction. (I say “temporary” because the Obama regime, like other “progressive” regimes, has no … Continue reading
Posted in bureaucracy, capitalism, centralized planning, community organizers, Czechoslovakia, democracy, dictatorship, economy, free market economy, loss of freedom, megalomania, Obama, Obama administration, socialism, socialism, U S Constitution, unelected bureaucrats, unrestrained greed, USA, USSR
Tagged Community organizing, Czechoslovakia, Democratic Party, Iron Curtain, Obama, redistribution, retirement accounts, Teresa Ghilarducci, United States
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FEARING 9-11
The Obama regime rightly fears September 11 (h/t Gateway Pundit). On that day in 2001, professional Islamic “world community organizers” attacked the United States on its own soil, creating a huge scar in the national psyche and, incidentally, a tremendous … Continue reading
Posted in community organizers, Czechoslovakia, democracy, dictatorship, free market economy, Islam, loss of freedom, megalomania, Obama, Obama administration, socialism, socialism, unelected bureaucrats
Tagged 9-11, Community organizing, Czechoslovakia, Muslim world, Nationalization, perverting the date, September 11, United States
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