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The Dutch, Welfare and Immigration

March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Europe, Immigration, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Socialism, Western Civilization

Interesting comment regarding America liberals trying to turn an “immigrant country into a welfare” state.  Not sure its really true, but, nonetheless. A good article to focus on what the press seems to MISS. ======= WSJ 3/14/2017 By Leon de Winter To hear the international media tell it, my country has changed from one of the most tolerant, affluent and easygoing nations on the... Read more

How To Stop a Rogue Federal Agency

February 9 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Socialism, US Constitution

========= By Jeb Hensarling WSJ 2/9/2017 The Obama presidency placed no greater burden on America’s growth potential than the avalanche of regulations that smother the U.S. economic system. The most destructive and dangerous of the new regulatory bureaucracies created by the Democrat-dominated 111th Congress is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB stands with ObamaCare as a crowning “achievement” of Mr. Obama’s transformation of... Read more

Thomas Sowell Says Farewell

December 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism, The Left

This country will be the worse off with him ‘gone’. ========= WSJ 12/28/2016 From the final syndicated column of Thomas Sowell, 86 years old, Dec. 27: Looking back over the years, as old-timers are apt to do, I see huge changes, both for the better and for the worse. In material things, there has been almost unbelievable progress. . . . Most people living in... Read more

Regulation: Meeting Its Match in Idaho

October 18 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Law, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Socialism

WSJ 10/14/2016 =========== Boise, Idaho In the capital of the potato state, lawmakers have a power that few of their peers enjoy: They can review, and reject, new regulations coming out of executive-branch agencies. This has saved Idahoans from a slew of laughable and businessunfriendly restrictions. At the start of each legislative session, lawmakers spend weeks examining every proposed new regulation. They have the... Read more

Don’t Worry, the Kids Will Pay

August 29 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Obama, Socialism, The Left

Change the Left believes in… ====== WSJ 8/29/2016 As President Obama ends his second term, he’s leaving plenty of political parting gifts. The latest is a 35% single-year increase in the federal budget deficit, and a rising trajectory of spending and debt as a share of the economy. Hillary Clinton’s campaign promise of more “stimulus” spending next year suddenly looks a lot more... Read more

How Elites Forsake Their Countrymen

August 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism Tags:

A phenomenon not unique to America. ====== 8/13/2016 WSJ Peggy Noonan. This is about distance, and detachment, and a kind of historic decoupling between the top and the bottom in the West that did not, in more moderate recent times, exist. Recently I spoke with an acquaintance of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and the conversation quickly turned, as conversations about Ms. Merkel now... Read more

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