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"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." ---Winston Churchill
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Foundation for Economic Education Articles about the Great Depression Coast: “[State controlled] education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” – Joseph Stalin Competitive Enterprise Institute "[I]f you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with." --Ronald Reagan “Give me four
years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be
uprooted.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) |
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Winston Churchill
Thomas Jefferson’s Moose and the Scientific Facts By Theresa Camoriano I just read a short book entitled Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose, by Lee Alan Dugatkin, which describes the scientific theory of degeneracy, which was popular in Europe for almost one hundred years, from the mid 1700’s to the mid-1800’s, and held that all life forms in the New World were degenerate (weaker and smaller) as compared with the Old World, due to the cold and damp climate in America. This theory was created by Count Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon, who was the most respected natural historian in Europe. (click to read more)
I came to this country in the middle of a recession, and I saw the economy revive and prosper when the government eased the tax burden on people and businesses. People were free to use their talents without the interference of central planning. Today the opposite is taking place, and we see the opposite results because central planning results in wasteful spending, corruption and the suppression of initiative. I am afraid these transformers of America are destroying the future of our children. I hope the free spirit of America triumphs. – Svetlana Kunin
Thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding education, specifically the issue of charter schools. Currently Kentucky doesn't have any charter schools. Since 1991, all of our schools have elected school based decision making councils who make significant decisions about the governance of their schools. (click to read more)
President Barack Obama grimly warned America this week that if his health care plans fail, the nation will go "bankrupt." Sure, adding another trillion-dollar entitlement program to our $12 trillion of debt may seem like a counterintuitive way to stave off economic ruin, but who are we to argue? – David Hirsanyi
Tis the week before Christmas … By Henry Lamb 'Tis the week before Christmas and all through the land, not a freedom is safe from Obama's hand. Bankers, bewildered, before him now bow, while automakers, thankful, praise his cash cow. With energy and health care nearing control, his grasp on the nation is as he foretold. The people are stirred by his escapades, and are somewhat shocked by the history they made. Obama is not what he promised to be; he brings, instead, tyranny. (click to read more)
What the advocates disregard, he notes, is that every dollar spent on federal programs is a dollar that is not invested or spent elsewhere. An extravagant program can create jobs in one place only by endangering them in another. …Every big new appropriation represents money that has to be paid back with interest, on top of the $12 trillion we already owe. – Steve Chapman
House Democrats Push for More Bailouts and Fewer Jobs -- A column by Congressman Geoff Davis Since our economy was thrown into crisis by last year’s financial meltdown, Congress has been examining ways to reform how the federal government regulates financial institutions and other critical components of a strong economy. Last week, the Democrats’ proposal (H.R. 4173) was debated on the House floor and, yet again, two fundamentally different approaches to the private sector were on display in Washington: more government control versus limited good government. (click to read more)
The truth is that if you go into a local Starbucks the chances are that the barista will treat you decently. To some extent, that’s because he or she hopes for a tip, but more fundamentally it’s because that employee wants you to come back for another Venti Mocha. If you don’t, the coffee oasis could go out of business and the barista could lose a job. At the Department of Motor Vehicles, on the other hand, you’re likely to receive far less considerate treatment, because the employees don’t worry about whether you’re a satisfied customer or a potentially returning patron…. In every sense, private, for-profit businesses are more directly and immediately accountable to the public than are taxpayer supported bureaucracies. Instead of agitation for more governmental expansion to clamp down on executive compensation at banks and hedge funds, wouldn’t it make sense for the feds to look first at their own bloated payrolls? If we’re truly concerned about the perverse practice of rewarding incompetence, the right place to begin trimming salaries and slashing jobs would be with the federal government’s own recently re-enforced army of 2.2 million often overpaid personnel. – Michael Medved
Bills would place state spending online FRANKFORT, Ky. — Legislation filed for the 2010 session of the Kentucky General Assembly would make state government open, better, smaller and — most important — less costly. (click to read more)
The White House and the Senate Democrats are working on a new jobs bill. The White House said this new jobs bill could create twice as many non-existent fake jobs as the last one. – Jay Leno
Kentucky Deadline to Switch Political Party Affiliation is December 31, 2009 (Frankfort, KY) If citizens want to change their party registration in time to participate in their party’s primary election that determines nominees for United States Senator, United States Congressional Representatives, state legislative races, and other partisan offices, they must do so by December 31, 2009; otherwise, they might miss out on their chance. (click to read more)
With each increase in the minimum wage, black teen unemployment rose relative to whites and teen unemployment rose relative to adult. Why? Put yourself in the place of an employer and ask: If I must pay to whomever I hire $7.25 an hour, plus mandated fringes such as Social Security, vacation, health insurance, unemployment insurance, does it pay me to hire a worker who is so unfortunate so as to have a skill level that allows him to contribute only $5 worth of value an hour? … Teenagers tend to be low skilled…. That means they will be the primary victims of a minimum wage law. … Black teens are far more likely to come from broken homes and attend some of the worst schools in the nation. Therefore, a law that discriminates against the employment of low-skilled workers will have a greater impact on black workers. …For Congress to enact higher and higher minimum wages, to benefit their union supporters, is shameful and cruel. – Walter Williams Councilman Downard files Resolution Regarding Kentucky League of Cities Louisville, KY – Metro Councilman Kelly Downard has filed a new resolution calling for the suspension of future payments and reduction of membership dues for participants of the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC). The resolution (attached) calls for Metro Government to suspend future payments to KLC until they meet the 30 findings outlined within the report issued by the office of the State Auditor. (click to read more)
What is slavery except the usurping of one man’s liberty and private property in service of another man? … For Reid and the rest of his Democratic cohorts some men were in fact born with saddles and others meant to ride them. To the new left a just government - a moral and compassionate government-is one that secures the newly discovered right to healthcare (or housing; or a job; or food) by confiscating the property of some in service to others. – Joseph C. Phillips
The left is more interested in redistributing wealth than in creating it. – Dennis Prager
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