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Tuesday, March 23. 2010

"The Bully State." That is the perfect term.

Some pundits have said that Obamacare completes the welfare state project begun back in the Progressive era and by FDR and Johnson. Does that mean there is nothing else they want to do?

Cobb has a message for black male youth. h/t, Vandy. I wonder whether Cobb appreciates that his message is for everybody (he probably does).

Federal efforts on education do not work. Of course not.

Explain to me why anyone would equate racism with being opposed to goverment medical care.

Google vs. China

Guardian admits wind causing Arctic ice loss

Sharpton: �Americans Overwhelmingly Voted For Socialism When They Elected Obama�

British Wind Farms Failing Due to Lack of Wind. I have an idea for all those bird-chopper wind machines: Plug them all into a power source and use them as fans to cool the rapidly baking planet.

No chance that courts will strike down individual mandates. I agree. "Commerce" has come to mean anything.

Repeal is hokum. Sad to say, I agree. Adjustments possible, but repeal will not happen.

Krauthammer has it right:

"We are on our way, there is absolutely no chance we are not going to end up with national health care."

And Krauthammer said our system will soon look like the one in the United Kingdom and in Canada.

"This is nationalizing health care, the insurance companies are now utilities, they are contractors," Krauthammer said. the government makes all of these decisions, only a matter of time and will probably happen after the Obama administration. But he will be remembered as the father of national health care as they have in Canada or Britain and it starts tonight.

Lowry: Dem win is built on sand

Zomblog: The real reasons Americans hate government healthcare

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The WSJ reported on an alternative energy fair in DC many years ago that had a demonstration windmill that was plugged in for power owing to the absence of wind.

#1 rhhardin (Link) on 2010-03-23 07:09 (Reply)

I just got caught up on my reading from the weekend. With regard to the next great generation, I think it's going to take the best of the last two generations to make change in this country if we are going to survive. Putting the genie back in the bottle after running amuck for the past 40 years will be extremely difficult, but not impossible.
One thing we have to learn if we are serious about winning this battle, and this will be hard for a lot of people to understand is we have to play just as dirty as our enemies, maybe a lot worse. That decision has to be made at the individual level. We now have to fight as if our lives are at stake.

#2 jappy on 2010-03-23 09:31 (Reply)

Somewhere along the way someone is going to recognize that many of the economic problems facing our country are due to our lack of savings. Of course, it is hard to save when taxes and inflation are high, questionable to save when you are taxed two and three times on investments and stressful to save when you cannot predict how our politicians will take away your hard-earned savings to redistribute it to those who have not bothered putting a few bucks aside.

#3 jma on 2010-03-23 11:09 (Reply)

Savings don't matter if they don't go into productivity.

You can't save for the future as a nation except by raising productivity. Money does no good whatsoever as savings.

Tomorrow's goods and services will be provided in total by tomorrow's workers.

Today's savings go more into government bonds than into productivity. The difference between the ditch digger and the power equipment operator is capital, namely somebody's savings.

Which is to say that the government is eating up all the productivity.

#4 rhhardin (Link) on 2010-03-23 11:36 (Reply)

It's a funny thing. If I want to purchase a health-insurance policy that is offered in a state other than one where I live or work, I don't have the option to do so, because of state regulations.
There is no constitutional reason why the federal government could not insist that such restrictions are preempted under the interstate commerce clause, but they have not so far done so.
It seems to me that if health insurance is now regulated under the commerce clause, then I should now be able to choose from any policy offered in any US state or territory.

#5 DOuglas2 on 2010-03-23 13:09 (Reply)

Amen, Jappy. If we don't just lie down before the Progs, we are headed for massive civil disobedience, outright resistance, confrontation, rebellion, the ladder of escalation....defeat, overthrow the Prog government by whatever means necessary, a government now governing without the consent of the governed, indeed, in defiance of the governed.

#6 greenmtnpunter on 2010-03-23 17:27 (Reply)

British Wind Farms Failing Due to Lack of Wind. I have an idea for all those bird-chopper wind machines: Plug them all into a power source and use them as fans to cool the rapidly baking planet.

Better to ship them out to the Great Plains. Lubbock to Fargo traverses a great wind tunnel.

#7 Gringo on 2010-03-23 21:20 (Reply)

His Hopeful Changeness had a father who seduced a young woman and, apparently, married her when she was well along. He abandoned her and his son soon after he was born.
If Obama is the father of national health care, he's done just about the same thing.

#8 Geoff Brown on 2010-03-23 22:32 (Reply)

"And Krauthammer said our system will soon look like the one in the United Kingdom and in Canada."

Dare I suggest more like the UK NHS? The "Canadian" system is actually somewhat of a fiction since healthcare is really a provincial responsibility.

There are 10 provinces and 10 systems.

I think your new US system - because it is a centralized top-down system pushed from Washington - will likely end up being far more expensive and inefficient than our network of systems.

Good luck!

#9 JJM on 2010-03-24 01:12 (Reply)

Howdy JJM
Considering how inefficient and expensive your 10-network system is, that's a really really ugly sign. Alas, you're probably right.

#9.1 Geoff Brown on 2010-03-24 09:14 (Reply)

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