…servants’ such as teachers who don’t teach, and making sure that people become dependent on government services or handouts rather than even having a chance at functioning in a free market economy. By what right or rationale do we justify new taxes so that state and local governments have it easier? What about the people who produce the income and make the taxation possible? The fact that this point goes largely unchallenged, by most Republicans… Continue reading →

…un control, socialized medicine, fascist controls on industry, or whatever comes next down the pike. These polls almost always end up suggesting the same thing. About a third of Americans won’t be willingly sold into slavery. Another third will, perhaps out of ignorance, fear, ideology or even smug confidence that their own gang will be the ruling authorities, so what the heck. Another third of Americans wobble in the middle. In the heat of emotio… Continue reading →

…this overrides all of his other considerations.” [Sources: businessinsider.com 5/21/15, and TheAtlantic.com 5/21/15] How many things can you find wrong with this statement? I’m reminded of Ayn Rand’s idea that there are no conflicts among rational men. “Rational men,” in this context, refer to individuals who do not seek to initiate force or fraud against others. She’s right, that there need be no conflicts among rational people by this definition… Continue reading →

…part. It’s business as usual for a Clinton, and business as usual for any Democratic presidential candidate whose words (if not all her actions) square with the conventional view that the purpose of government is to serve others, on the backs of those who actually produce. Hollywood and other rich celebrities will cheer her on, just as they cheer on every progressive socialist redistributionist who runs for national office, because it makes them… Continue reading →

…deny objective facts, the harder it hits you when the results of all that denial finally come crashing home. Don’t citizens have some share of the responsibility for their own complicity in this self-defeating and self-deceitful scheme? I would say yes. While it’s true that the complexities in the Social Security system are complicated, contradictory and complex, it’s also true that people know that politicians (in both parties) are filled with l… Continue reading →