What’s your experience? ====== With all the talk currently being bruited about the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty, I am reminded that for a year, between 1964 and 1965, I was the director of the antipoverty program of Pulaski County, Ark., which included Little Rock, the adjoining city of North Little Rock and the surrounding rural area. I was then... Read more
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What I Learned Fighting Poverty in Little Rock
January 23 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, Socialism, The LeftWhither goes France…
June 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Debt, Economics, SocialismMy ‘friend’ John Mauldin has a few thoughts on France. Interesting. ========== Austerity is a Four-Letter French Word By John Mauldin | Jun 21, 2013 The France that I see as I look out from the bullet train today is far different from the France I see when I survey the economic data. Going from Marseilles to Paris, the countryside is magnificent. The farms... Read more
Banning Background Checks. No, not kidding.
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Obama, Socialism, The Left, US Constitution“I’m from the Democrat Party, er, Government, and I’m here to help protect you.” I think the Left needs to figure out that they are not addressing root causes… ========== Are criminal background checks racist? That’s the startling new legal theory that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission unveiled this week in lawsuits against employers. It’s another example of how President Obama’s appointees are... Read more
USDA’s Raisin Brand
June 11 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, SocialismReally? ======== If the government confiscates your property without compensation, that’s a violation of the Constitution’s Takings Clause. If it confiscates your property as part of a longstanding government program, that’s business as usual at the Department of Agriculture. Or at least it was until Monday, when a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that raisin farmers can challenge federal regulations in court before... Read more
Government Gone Wild
May 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Socialism, The LeftWild and not going in the right direction… ========= Of all the excuses, explanations and alibis pouring forth in the saga of the IRS kneecapping of conservative groups during the victorious Obama 2012 campaign, the one that deserves attention is this from David Axelrod: “Part of being president is that there’s so much beneath you that you can’t know, because the government is... Read more
Flight Delay Rebuke
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Debt, Sequester, SocialismIf you ran a business this way… =========== It isn’t quite Ronald Reagan breaking the 1981 air-traffic controllers strike by firing 12,345 of them, banning them from government employment for life, and decertifying their union. But it’s close enough for cheering. On Thursday night the Senate unanimously reversed the Federal Aviation Administration’s sequester furloughs, and the House followed on Friday with a... Read more
