I want to wrap up the Tea Party talk and, hopefully, address all of the issues that I left out of the last post and touch on the ones that were raised in the comments there.
I found out this morning that Bill Simmon and Steve Benen talked about my tea party post on their Poli-Sci-Fi [...]
The mantra of the Obama administration.
And they don’t intend to let the AIG crisis pass without using it to justify expanding the powers of the federal government.
“Our system failed in fundamental ways. To address this will require comprehensive reform. Not modest repairs at the margin, but new rules of the game.”
So said Treasury Secretary Timothy [...]
This morning, my 9YO son kept saying, “You need capitalism,” to his 4YO brother.
Can you imagine the music to my ears those words are coming from one of my dear children?
Actually, he meant capitalization. The 4YO needed to capitalize the word he was writing.
Still, music to my ears.
Someone left a comment on on my post “The Future of Small Government Voters (part 2),” with a link to a post about the beef recall. The recall was due to the plant violating federal regulations by forcing downed cows to slaughter. The violations and abusive treatment of the animals were discovered [...]
One of the more popular arguments against free-market capitalism is product safety.
The argument goes something like this: We need the government to regulate and inspect products for our safety. If the government did not perform this function, the greedy businesses, which only care about money, would not make safe products and we would all [...]
Here’s an old political cartoon from the Cold War era. It’s amazing how the more things change, the more they stay the same. I can’t even believe this is still relevant, but it is.
Hat tip: Jeremy Ryan.
Everything I love about capitalism and everything I hate about capitalism all rolled into one.
