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Justifying government interference by demonizing, oversimplifying.

This week, the House passed a bill that imposes further regulations on financial firms - on executive pay which is bad enough in itself, and to add insult to injury, on the way those firms and employees do business. The bill is "aimed at preventing...

Published 08-02-2009 11:00 AM by Despina Karras

Filed under: economy, capitalism, free market, business concerns, investors, economic crisis, regulation, government, economics, federal government, action, government intrusion, government expansion

Scare tactics worked for stimulus, won't work for health care

It has now been 190 days since the stimulus bill was passed. Back in February, President Obama spoke before Congress and stated , "the recovery plan and the financial stability plan are the immediate steps we're taking to revive our economy in...

Published 07-26-2009 5:31 PM by Despina Karras

Filed under: stimulus package, deficits, universal health care, public healthcare, economic crisis, government, Freedom, government option, federal government, health care benefits, health care reform, health care debate

Our tax dollars at work?

$18,000,000 to redesign a website that was lunched less than 5 months ago… that makes sense! ABC News reports: For those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds...

Published 07-09-2009 9:54 AM by John Gibson

Filed under: stimulus package, spending, government

Another Czar, Another Blow to States' Rights.

President Obama wants to add yet another czar, a Health Choices Commision czar this time, to the growing list of these unelected officials that are handpicked by the President and go through absolutely no confirmation process. A Virginia paper recently...

Published 07-07-2009 8:17 AM by Despina Karras

Filed under: health care, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, regulation, government, Heritage Foundation, transparency, Freedom, insurance, government option, federal government, Obama promises, czar, state rights

Looking to the Founding Fathers for Answers

Yesterday, in his weekly address, President Obama called on Americans to "summon the same spirit that inhabited Independence Hall two hundred and thirty-three years ago". This is one time when I can get behind President Obama's sentiments...

Published 07-05-2009 8:26 AM by Despina Karras

Filed under: wasteful spending, cap and trade, capitalism, stimulus package, government spending, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, economic crisis, government, cap and tax, government option, federal government, founding fathers

Numbers, Myths, and Realities Behind Health Care Reform

I was just looking through a memorandum released by Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The memo detailed some recent poll results and what he views as the findings. He also outlines a list of "realities" and "myths"...

Published 07-02-2009 11:58 AM by Justin Higgins

Filed under: health care, government

The Failure of the So-Called Stimulus

This week will mark four months since President Obama signed the stimulus bill into law. Four months later, unemployment has reached a 26 year-high, and only $44 billion of 'stimulus' money has been spent . Ironically, a recent Rasmussen poll...

Published 06-14-2009 10:03 PM by Despina Karras

Filed under: wasteful spending, capitalism, stimulus, job losses, tax issues, spending, government, deficit, billions

What We Can Learn From Venezuela

This week, the wacky government of Venezuela banned Coke Zero from being sold in the country. Citing harmful ingredients , it claimed to be protecting the health of its citizens, while the government purports to conduct an investigation into potentially...

Published 06-12-2009 10:14 AM by Despina Karras

Filed under: capitalism, free market, business concerns, health care, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, government, insurance

Our Physicians Say No to Socialized Medicine

When medical decisions happen, the two most important people involved are always the patient and the doctor, period. Proposed "public health insurance" and other socialized health care components take decisions out of the hands of patients too...

Published 06-11-2009 12:06 PM by Justin Higgins

Filed under: free market, Obama, health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, government, insurance

Government Health Care = Loss of Life, Liberty + the Pursuit of Happiness

A recent column on CBC.ca written as an open letter to Americans provides somewhat of a defense of the Canadian health care system. Much of what writer Neil Macdonald says betrays the insidious ways in which being beholden to the government, such as with...

Published 06-05-2009 7:56 PM by Alexa Shrugged

Filed under: health care, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, government, Freedom, Canada

Single Payer Health Care Off The Table?

In what will be good news for many proponents of a capitalist health care solution, President Obama announced today that a single payer health care system, like some of the socialist programs of Europe, is off the table. While this is good news, he also...

Published 05-14-2009 2:59 PM by Justin Higgins

Filed under: free market, health care, government

What unions may have learned from the federal government...

Former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao had an important piece in the Wall Street Journal recently about the lack of transparency of union leaders on the issue of how they spend union dues. She wrote that “Fifty years ago, Congress passed the landmark...

Published 05-12-2009 11:00 PM by John Hanlon

Filed under: stimulus, spending, funding, unions, government, EPFA

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