Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts
Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Musings of a wise man. Will this November's presidential election come down to a choice between a felon and a pied piper? People who call Barack Obama a lame duck president seem not to have noticed that he is exercising more power than ever, and has turned the Republican Congress into a lame duck branch of government. The best New Year's ... MORE
Michael J. Hurd: The Psychological Cost Of Socialism
Ruining lives of the poor. Bernie Sanders is an outwardly socialist candidate running for president who might actually get somewhere. In some polls, he’s neck-and-neck with Hillary Clinton for his party’s nomination. No, he will probably not get the nomination in the end. But he could, and he’s having an impact on his party. Thanks in part to ... MORE
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central planning,
collectivism,
economics,
government,
politics,
poverty,
psychology,
socialism
Individualism Is Battling The Politically Managed Mind
by Richard Ebeling. Eroding the freedom to choose. Wherever we turn we are confronted with politicians, political pundits, television talking heads, and editorial page commentators, all of whom offer an array of plans, programs, and projects that will solve the problems of the world – if only government is given the power and authority to remake ... MORE
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central planning,
choice,
control,
freedom,
individual liberty,
individualism,
politics,
socialism
“Democratic Socialism” Means The Loss of Liberty
by Richard M. Ebeling. Democratic Party hopeful, Bernie Sanders, recently outlined what it means for him to be a “democratic socialist.” The problem is that the same label might be applied to most of the other candidates running in both the Democratic and Republican parties running to be the nominee for presidency of the United States. One ... MORE
Joe Carter: How Property Rights Saved The Pilgrims
Socialism nearly killed them. This week school children across the country will be hearing the tale of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. You probably heard a similar story when you were in a kid that went something like this: The Pilgrims sailed over to America from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower. During their first winter in the new ... MORE
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collectivism,
economics,
food,
production,
property rights,
self-interest,
shortage,
socialism
Trump on 60 Minutes: “We Need Socialized Medicine”
by Emily Zanotti. This weekend, I got my third health insurance cancellation notice in three years. First, they cancelled the wonderful individual plan we bought for ourselves before the Obamacare law kicked in, after threatening to raise the price on it by over 50%. Then, they cancelled the plan we selected from the then-nonworking ... MORE
Crony Socialism: Government Bailouts Do Not Save Jobs
by Doug Reich. [Back in 2012,] in a bizarre harangue delivered to the DNC delegates, ex-Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm hysterically chanted that hundreds of thousands of jobs were “saved” by the federal government’s bailout of General Motors. According to her, these jobs were “saved” thanks only to the largess of the Dear Leader and ... MORE
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bailout,
capitalism,
crony capitalism,
cronyism,
economics,
government,
politics,
socialism,
tax
Sorry Leftists, Your Swedish Utopia Does Not Exist
by Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein. As a Swede living in the U.S., one of the most common reactions when I tell people where I am from is the question of why I would ever leave Sweden in the first place. Many Americans seem to truly believe that life in the Scandinavian
countries is superior to that in virtually all other places on earth,
and that ... MORE
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economics,
free market,
free trade,
politics,
production,
prosperity,
redistribution,
socialism
Thomas Sowell: The Left Has Its Pope
The Pope is unwittingly calling for more poverty. Pope Francis has created political controversy, both inside and outside the Catholic Church, by blaming capitalism for many of the problems of the poor. We can no doubt expect more of the same during his visit to the United States. Pope Francis is part of a larger trend of the rise of the political ... MORE
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capitalism,
collectivism,
communism,
economics,
liberalism,
Marxist,
politics,
religion,
socialism
Walter E Williams: Liberal Reasoning - Idiotic or Dishonest?
A very convenience understanding at minimum. Many people argue that liberals, socialists and progressives do not understand basic economics. I am not totally convinced about that. Take the law of demand, for example, one of the fundamental principles of economics. It holds that the lower the cost of something the more people will ... MORE
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demand,
economics,
incentives,
liberalism,
minimum wage,
progressives,
reality,
socialism,
tax
Obama Promotes Socialist Agenda As Middle Class Values
by Susan Jones. President Obama was in the middle of a Labor Day speech on middle-class values Monday, when he veered off-script for a moment: "Now, we're entering into political season," Obama said. "I'm so glad I'm not on the ballot," he ad-libbed, as his audience laughed. "But it's political season," he said, returning to the script. "It starts ... MORE
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central planning,
coercion,
collectivism,
government,
middle class,
Obama,
socialism,
values
Robert P. Murphy: Capitalists Have A Better Plan
Listening to the feedback of profit and loss. To early 20th-century intellectuals, capitalism looked like anarchy.
Why, they wondered, would we trust deliberative, conscious guidance when
building a house but not when building an economy? It was fashionable among these socialist intellectuals to espouse
“planning” as a much more ... MORE
Michael J Hurd: Obama’s Phobia Of Ayn Rand
The philosophy of reason is not the president's ally. In a speech at Georgetown University this past May, we learned two things about President Barack Obama. One, he loves the Catholic leader, Pope Francis. Two, he hates Ayn Rand. No, it’s not really a surprise. But the specifics of Obama’s comments — and the fact that progressives ... MORE
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Ayn Rand,
capitalism,
economics,
government,
Obama,
reason,
redistribution,
socialism,
wealth
John Stossel: Lots Of Democrats Want Socialism
The unintended consequences of socialists. Nearly 10,000 people turned out to hear Bernie Sanders in Wisconsin. Why? Apparently, many Democrats want socialism. Sanders is the Vermont senator who is running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Sanders calls himself a "democratic socialist," not to be confused
with New ... MORE
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central planning,
collectivism,
Democrats,
envy,
politics,
redistribution,
socialism,
wealth
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