From Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1970 Nobel lecture, accepting the prize in literature: The spirit of Munich has by no means retreated into the past; it was not merely a brief episode. I even venture to say that the spirit of Munich prevails in the 20th century. The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden... Read more
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Why aren’t we helping the poor? – B Gates
March 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Socialism, The LeftMr Gates gets another one right! ===== From an interview with Bill Gates in the March 17 issue of Rolling Stone: Should the state be playing a greater role in helping people at the lowest end of the income scale? Poverty today looks very different than poverty in the past. The real thing you want to look at is consumption and use that... Read more
The Troubling Numbers in the Obama Budget
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Socialism, US DebtI think the key item Galston brings up is that in the past much Federal spending contributed to infrastructure improves – these provided a real multiplier impact. Spending on consumption.. not at all. ===== When he was governor of New York, Mario Cuomo famously remarked that “You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose.” To which he might well have added, “And... Read more
As Ukrainian President Flailed, Allies Jumped Ship – WSJ.com
February 24 | Posted by mrossol | SocialismThink “Arab Spring”. A lot ‘fell’ pretty fast… The US administration needs to figure this out. ============= As Ukrainian President Flailed, Allies Jumped Ship – WSJ.com.
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ObamaCares New Theory of Employment
February 6 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCare, Socialism, The LeftI guess you can ‘spin’ anything. ============= The Congressional Budget Office report estimating that ObamaCare will cause the economy to lose the equivalent of 2.5 million workers is remarkable on its own. But the reaction from the left—giddy celebration—is another order of magnitude. U.S. politics used to have enough of a center that politicians could agree that fewer Americans working and others working... Read more
What I Learned Fighting Poverty in Little Rock
January 23 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, Socialism, The LeftWhat’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
