One of the best “short” analysis of how the USA got to where we are relative to health insurance. Imprimis is a publication of Hillsdale College. ========== Imprimis – September 2018 By John Steele Gordon The following is adapted from a talk delivered on board the Crystal Symphony on July 25, 2018, during a Hillsdale College educational cruise to Hawaii. Perhaps the most astonishing thing about... Read more
Archive for the ‘Socialism’ Category
A Short History of American Medical Insurance – Imprimis
October 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, SocialismIs the Government Really Helping the “Poor”?
October 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, SocialismQuite interesting. The picture often looks quite different when you put all the variables on the table or into the algorithm. ====== By Phil Gramm And John F. Early ‘The War on Poverty is not a struggle simply to support people,” declared President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. “It is an effort to allow them to develop and use their capacities.” During the... Read more
Marx’s Apologists Should be Red in the Face
May 5 | Posted by mrossol | Communism, Losing Freedom, SocialismWSJ – 5/3/2018 Paul Kengor OK, one of my daughter’s favorite professors… ===== May 5 marks the bicentennial of Karl Marx, who set the stage with his philosophy for the greatest ideological massacres in history. Or did he? He did, but deniers still remain. “Only a fool could hold Marx responsible for the Gulag,” writes Francis Wheen in “Karl Marx: A Life” (1999).... Read more
Death by Diversity
June 20 | Posted by mrossol | Europe, Politically correct, Socialism, Western CivilizationAnd this is what some folks are trying to sell to America. ========= WSJ – 6/19/2017 By Douglas Murray Europe in 2017 is racked with uncertainty— the eurozone crises, the endless challenges of the European Union, national elections that resemble endless rounds of bullet- dodging. Yet even these events are insignificant compared with the deep tectonic shifts beneath the Continent’s politics, shifts that Europeans—and... Read more
The Dutch, Welfare and Immigration
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Europe, Immigration, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Socialism, Western CivilizationInteresting 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
