There are things that people say. And then there are things people do.
And you can tell their priorities by one of em’.
You can “tell” me all flippin day long that you CARE about educating America’s youth. That you CARE about teaching.
But when you don’t DO anything that shows you care about educating and teaching, forgive me when I call bullshit.
Because it’s hard for a person who wants to get elected to tell the people doing the electing that they need to suck it up.
While I’ve only been politically jazzed for 2-3 years now I have always wondered how “other people” vote. You know, do they vote for what’s good for them and them only or do they vote for the better of “the system”.
For example, if a road is going to run through my backyard means I lose my house but it’s good for the community, should I vote for it or against it.
Can you imagine how different a father would discipline his children if they could somehow “vote him out”? The only reason we successfully raise our children is that we create rules that they otherwise would not generally abide.
Same for politics.
Posted in Economics, Politics: International, Politics: National, Welfare
Tagged Denmark, Employment, Leftist, Liberal, Unemployment
Free. Freedom. Liberty.
Ever stop to consider what those words mean?
And what “life” would mean without them?
Posted in Liberty, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly
Tagged Leftist, Pennsylvania, Taxes
I suspect the media is much like everyone else; you get on board a winner.
For example, a study found that while it may appear that money wins elections, it’s really a winner that wins money.
But they dispute the commonly held assumption that the spending causes the win. Instead they point out that anticipated win – or possible win – will often attract the campaign money. When candidates obtain large amounts of money it is usually because they are seen to be the best candidate or the one mostly likely to win. Based on Levitt’s study of campaign spending by the same candidates against the same competitors over decades of US congressional elections, it was found that ‘the amount of money spent by the candidates hardly matters at all. A winning candidate can cut his spending in half and lose only 1% of the vote. Meanwhile, a losing candidate who doubles his spending can expect to shift the vote in his favor by only that same 1%’. The Freakonomics authors conclude that campaign spending has a very small impact on election outcomes, regardless of who does the spending.
To expect the media top act any better is, well, perhaps unfair.
But jeez…
Posted in Elections 2010, National
Tagged Abuse of Power, California, Democrat, House of Representatives, Leftist, Main Stream Media, Politics
Recent analysis of changes to Hong Kong are getting press in the Economist. A new law is going to be passed setting a wage floor in Hong Kong. For years, the city has managed to grow, thrive even, without the common law known as Minimum Wage.
The legislation is set to impose a minimum wage between $3.00 and $4.00 American. Not much by our standards, but then again, perhaps our standards are a bit exaggerated.
Posted in Economics, Liberty, Lobby/PAC, Politics: International
Tagged China, Hong Kong, Leftist, Minimum Wage, Politics, Unintended Consequences, Unions
I am a new comer to politics. And economics. While it’s true that I’ve always resonated with Republicans and Conservatives, I’ve never really been all that serious about it.
This has been true all the way through Bush vs. Gore; I just really didn’t care.
I guess marriage, home ownership and parenthood will do that to ya huh?
With that said, I’ve never really understood the trade deficit. Am guessing many others don’t either.
Posted in Economics, Politics: International, Politics: National
Tagged Deficit, Economy, John Stossel, Leftist, Lou Dobbs, Politics
We continue to pour more and more money into public education and we get worse and worse results.
If this were a business, it would go out of business.
At some point, we are going to have to stop and make a decision between ideology and results.
Dollars per Year — UP
Graduation Rate — DOWN
I’m not so sure; in fact, I tend not to think so.
After all, the net works much like any other service/product. Companies wanna profit from it. And the best way to profit is to make it as good and fast and available as possible.
However, not everyone agrees with me.
Posted in Politics: National, Technology
Tagged Abuse of Power, FCC, Internet, Leftist, Net Neutrality
Just this afternoon I experienced a classic fundamental of economics: Consumption.
I had lunch at a pizza buffet. All the pizza and soda I could consume for the low low price of eight dollars American. of course I had to render to Caesar, so it REALLY was about $8.50, but I digress.
At some point I pushed away from the table satisfied; I was fat dumb and happy. Full.
Posted in Economics, Health Care, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Democrat, Leftist, North Carolina Politics, Politics, Socialism
Some time ago {okay OKAY! It was this morning!} I was arguing with Liberals. 
We were talking about what a government can do, should do and then, what they WILL do. In our examples, we specifically were speaking about the “common good” as it relates to non-National Defense.*
For example, can/should/will the government regulate medical doctors? How about florists?
Another example, can/should/will the government regulate the workplace safety?
And even another. Can/should/will the government regulate food quality in our grocery stores? How about stereo component quality?
As you can imagine, a very clear divergence of opinions evolved.
Posted in Economics, Liberty, Politics: National
Tagged Global Warming, Leftist, Socialism
