Not sure I agree with Reihl completely, and there are others that don’t as well, but it is definitely worrisome that Boehner can’t stand firm over 10s of billions of dollars when a fight over a trillion or so is in the offing. We MUST cut spending and we MUST defeat the left’s agenda of social(ist) engineering. Boehner has to be strong. Riehl World View: To Boehner, I Guess November 2010 Was No Big Deal. Writing for Big Government, Mike Flynn lays it out. Unions have been a positive force in many ways, but even pro-labor icons like FDR and George Meany knew they couldn’t work in the public sector. In essence, the public sector union, to borrow a phrase from Marx (which we almost NEVER do), carries with it the seeds of its own destruction. Because public sector unions negotiate with politicians, their entire structure becomes part of the political process. They support politicians with forced union dues, which ultimately come from contracts that negotiate how the taxpayers’ money is used. We have reached a point at which covering the bill run up by unions and their stable of politicians can only mean ever increasing, unsustainable tax burdens. Flynn’s concise money-quote:
There’s more here, so read up. This corrupt setup has to end, which is why unions like the SEIU are becoming more adamant that it doesn’t. Washington Post reports: Obama joins Wisconsin’s budget battle, opposing Republican anti-union bill. Well of course. It has been apparent to us for some time that the Obama administration is in favor of anything that continues to drag this economy into the ditch. It is consistent with his basic view that America is unexceptional, immoral and needs to be taught a lesson. It is consistent with his lack of support for Mubarak (our ally) in Egypt, leading to his defeat by a so-called democracy movement that now appears to be embracing theocracy. It is consistent with his reaction to the police investigation of a possible break-in at the home of a black Harvard professor, a situation he actually knew very little about before he commented. So why not side with the unions, since every fiber of his being says unions need to win at all costs. Ever the street corner organizer, Obama backs the thugs. Wisconsin’s current governor is making decisions that should have been made long ago under less stressful circumstances, but the various public service unions, and in particular teachers’ unions wouldn’t hear of it (see video below). Now, faced with the current situation, they wish to “negotiate” with a state government that’s too broke to make ANY promises. Too little cooperation, way too late. Good article on RedState. The Employee Free Choice Act (Card-check) is a way for unions to legalize their bullying of workers who may not wish to vote in favor of unionization. Call the act “Free Choice” is such an obvious deception, it is amazing to us that no main stream media question it. Or maybe it’s not so amazing. The undeceptively named Secret Ballot Protection Act comes down on the side of the worker, unlike the so-called “Free Choice” Act. Congressman Donnelly: this is a law we can get behind. Can you? Stanek Sunday funnies 1-2-12: Death panels – Jill Stanek. Just read and be informed. The Washington Examiner comments that, according to the latest census, states with the fastest economic growth are also those with no income tax. The reason seems obvious: the income tax (both federal and state) directly penalizes economic success. The left consistently defends income taxes, and in particular “progressive” income taxes based on an odd reading of “fairness” and a need to continually fund money-sucking (read “corrupt”) social programs that almost never work as advertised. There are a lot of things the new GOP House needs to do, but I would add this to the checklist — educate the public about the basic dishonesty of the income tax, and about how what is billed as fairness is actually costing us jobs at all levels.  Obamacare Today a federal judge ruled that the insurance mandate aspect of Obamacare is unc0nstitutional, according to this story at Bl0omberg. This is great news, although it doesn’t mean the fight is over. If a combination of the courts and the incoming House can cripple this evil bill, it will continue to be good news. If the GOP wimps out as it has in the past, we’re in big trouble. We’d like to see a ruling on whether the congress actually has the authority to insist that insurance companies provide coverage regardless of pre-existing conditions. While we’d like to see all people taken care of, this can’t possibly work. Insurance is based on transferrence of risk. Insurance companies accept risk based on what a basically the odds of something happening or not. Obamacare basically says the insurance companies have to bet on everybody, regardless of performance. This is ridiculous, as every bookie knows. No one places bets on lame horses. We believe the best ways to provide health care are to:
Conservatives have been chastised, (rightly) for excoriating Obamacare as socialism while defending Medicare. Both programs inevitably create overutilization of medicals services, and drive costs up. Conservatives should be consistent, but unfortunately it’s political suicide to say anything about the Medicare sacred cow. Unfortunately, that’s a bud that should have been nipped in the 60s. The conservative position should be that expansion of socialism in America is not only undesirable, it’s morally wrong, even while admitting that Medicare is probably at the root of some of the cost problems we have now. In any case, the fight isn’t over, but today’s ruling makes the future sound a little better, if the GOP doesn’t go wobbly on us. | ||
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