American companies have responded to the Democrats’ new health care entitlement the only way they can – by anticipating how much it’s going to cost them to implement: On top of AT&T’s $1 billion, the writedown wave so far includes Deere & Co., $150 million; Caterpillar, $100 million; AK Steel, $31 million; 3M, $90 million;…
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Maxine’s View on the New Health Care
Let me get this straight…… we now have a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president that also hasn’t read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a…
Principle: Welfare Entitlements are Inherently Wrong
Why? Because by definition they take money (property) away from its rightful owner and bestow it, unearned, on another person. Government actions that violate this principle inherit this inherent flaw and are wrong because of it.
I’m not a big Ann Coulter fan,…
I’m not a big Ann Coulter fan, but given what goes on in many mosques, Muslim students should be ashamed of themselves http://bit.ly/d4J1AU
Grandstanding Buffoon Misses Point in Teacher Firing
Quanell X, grandstander supreme and champion of criminals, among other well-deserved titles, completely missed the point in the recent flap in Houston after a teacher allowed students to hit the class bully. The man is so wrong, so often, that he must be doing it on purpose. The X-man’s take: "What that teacher did was…
What Libertarians Stand For
Guy McLendon, Harris County Libertarian Party chair, on libertarianism: Libertarians traditionally have no truck with either party. “We’re neither far right nor far left” he said. “We basically align ourselves with Ben Franklin, who believed that government should neither spend all your money nor tell you how to live your life.” Is it just me…
DemCare Will Raise Costs and Lower Quality for Those Who Pay
Does anybody believe the Democrats’ numbers saying their health plan, such as it is, will be a budgetary gain? The idea is ludicrous, as is the notion that quality of service will improve. Working Americans from the middle class will pay more and get less. William Gale, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and…
This is Why the Death Penalty is a Good Idea
The Houston Chronicle’s Anita Hassan writes: A 4-year-old girl was shot to death in the parking lot of a north Houston apartment complex in an apparent carjacking Sunday afternoon, police said. Police are still investigating the killing at 1351 Greens Parkway. A suspect armed with a semiautomatic weapon approached the father, demanding the car keys,…
DemCare Passes House, Unfortunately
Once again Democrats have voted to take money from people like me – who work for a living and vote for non-Democrats – and give it to their constituents as payola for their votes. This is what liberal politics is all about, using other people’s money against them by creating welfare programs that in turn…
219 members of the House just …
219 members of the House just voted to socialize American medicine; may they suffer defeat at the polls in November. http://nyti.ms/aLUhBB