The U.S. isn’t Greece but . . . It takes twice as many firefighters to put out half as many fires as it did 30 years ago. Fewer fires because of better fire safety is one reason, but another is the dispatch of overqualified firefighters and their vehicles to things that aren’t fires. In Orange County, Calif., only 2% of responses involve... Read more
Archive for the ‘Socialism’ Category
My Education in Home Schooling
July 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, SocialismAnother thoughtful article. Has merit. ===== By QUINN CUMMINGS I don’t know how most people spend their second morning home schooling. I spent mine hyperventilating into a paper bag. After less than 24 hours of educating my child at home, I was struck by the realization that I wasn’t up to the task and should move immediately to Plan B. Except I didn’t... Read more
Food Stamps…
July 26 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, Socialism, The LeftNo, I’m not kidding… ===== Reporter Elizabeth Harrington writing at CNSNews.com, July 17: During a pen and pad briefing with reporters on Capitol Hill, [House Democratic whip Steny] Hoyer was asked if any Democrats are “reconsidering the wisdom” of letting the Bush tax cuts expire at year’s end for the top income earners given the still struggling U.S. economy. “I haven’t talked to any... Read more
Mass Murder and Evil—From Oslo, Norway to Aurora, Colo.
July 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, SocialismBy SOHRAB AHMARI The massacre at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater has left at least a dozen innocents dead. This weekend also happens to mark the one-year anniversary of the Breivik massacre in Norway. As Coloradans, along with the rest of the nation, come to grips with the Aurora killing, there is much to learn from the Norwegians about how to... Read more
Steven Malanga: How Retirement Benefits May Sink the States – WSJ.com
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, Economics, Socialism, Tax IssuesThe Pols keep promising… ============== Steven Malanga: How Retirement Benefits May Sink the States – WSJ.com.
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Liberty and ObamaCare
March 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, ObamaCare, Socialism, US ConstitutionFirst sentence captures it. =============== Few legal cases in the modern era are as consequential, or as defining, as the challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that the Supreme Court hears beginning Monday. The powers that the Obama Administration is claiming change the structure of the American government as it has existed for 225 years. Thus has the health-care... Read more
