Maggie's Farm

US public wary of deficit, economic intervention. Rightly so. Only fools trust a government. Related: 100 Stimulus projects to really piss you off. You earned this money, friends. Has anybody thanked for it you, lately?

Via Never Yet Melted:

The danger liberalism poses to the American experiment comes from its disposition to deplete rather than replenish the capital required for self-government. Entitlement programs overextend not only financial but political capital. They proffer new “rights,” goad people to demand and expand those rights aggressively, and disdain truth in advertising about the nature or scope of the new debts and obligations those rights will engender. The experiment in self-government requires the cultivation, against the grain of a democratic age, of the virtues of self-reliance, patience, sacrifice, and restraint.

Iran, welcome to the intertubes. The revolution will be twitterized. Related: State Dept appreciates Iranian debate

Join a union, and get tax-free med insurance. Like a free toaster? We Maggie's Farm slaves need a union now. Fellow slaves, when did we last get paid?

Hey, Conservatives. Time to connect with your inner Visigoth.

Drunk pedophiles in Canadian government? It hasn't been disproven.

Lots of smart people are bearish.  Morgan Stanley's Roach certainly is. Kudlow, much as I enjoy him, is a perennially sunny optimist by nature, so you almost have to discount him.

AmeriCorps scandal update. Michelle

Autistics quicker at problem solving. h/t, Marg Rev

Mr. Free Market with an alternative to the no-stab knife

Is it all about shoes? Pointing out the dangers of socialism simply won't sway liberals in the health care debate.

The first female President. From Sissy:

Muscular prose reflects muscular thinking (Churchill, Reagan, GW). Flabby prose reflects flabby thinking (Chamberlain, Carter, Obama). Never use one metaphorically-charged noun or active verb when a string of colorless nouns and passive verbs will do.

We're with Frank J of IMHO, who twitters "If you wanted someone to speak forcefully on Iran, you should have elected a president with testicles."

 "The people of Iran will not forgive Barack Obama for siding with the evil regime." More at Gateway. Plus the American  kid who is trying to save Iran

Signs of recession: All You Can Sex flat rate

Putin warns the O about increasing corporate taxes. America is the world's driving economic force, so the rest of the world needs our spending back.

Will Feds refuse to bail out California?

Related: The "Public Option" is the Son of Medicaid. Henninger. He also explains why state legistators have become irrelevant, often corrupt clowns: they have nothing to do because most spending is mandated leaving them little room for their own fun spending of your money.

Related: Stan Greenberg on Why Health Care could fail again

Why would anybody go into medicine if the government is going to make your decisions for you on a cost basis, if you are essentially on the government payroll and compensated on a money-losing basis (after overhead, Medicaid is a money-loser for doctors and Medicare pays them for office work at clerical rates), and yet you remain entirely vulnerable to lawsuits for every outcome?