Government gives more special privileges to itself. Democrats and Republicans in the California Legislature once again have broadcast this troubling fact: They are far more concerned about the ever-expanding demands of a relatively small group of public-sector union members than they are about the welfare of the citizens of our ... MORESteven Greenhut: More Perks For California's Ruling Class
Government gives more special privileges to itself. Democrats and Republicans in the California Legislature once again have broadcast this troubling fact: They are far more concerned about the ever-expanding demands of a relatively small group of public-sector union members than they are about the welfare of the citizens of our ... MOREKarin Agness: Congratulations, Grad, Your Unemployed
The grim reality for today's graduate. Just when it looked like the job market was going to rebound, recent unemployment numbers revealed a disappointing reality. The April unemployment rate decreased to 8.1 percent from 8.2 percent; however, the percentage of working-age Americans in the labor force dropped to its lowest rate ... MOREJim Picht: Reflecting Badly On The U.S. Government
What Homeland Security does best. It’s an economic truism that everything we want has a cost. Milk, gasoline, liberty and security all have price tags. We can’t have all the security we want without giving up something for it, anymore than most of us can have a Ferrari without giving up food and shelter. It isn’t just money you give up when you buy a ... MOREJohn Stossel: Improving Life For Workers
Let competitive markets work. It seems intuitive that a free market would lead to a "race to the bottom." In a global marketplace, profit-chasing employers will cut costs by paying workers less and less, and shipping jobs to China. It's a reason that progressives say government must step in. So America now has thousands of rules that outlaw wages below $7.25 ... MORE
Jeffrey Tucker: A New Way To Soak The Rich
Incentives for voluntary redistribution. You might have noticed that lots of people are really down on the so-called 1%. It drives many people, especially politicians, absolutely bonkers that there are lots of people out there sitting on millions, billions. Populists imagine that these people do nothing but hoard and count and let out menacing ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Drop And Give Uncle Sam 20
Government seeks to cure the epidemic it created. At a “Harvard Thinks Big” confab earlier this year, evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman offered his own bright idea for tackling the nation’s obesity epidemic. Merely medicating it won’t do, he said, and education is well-meaning but ineffective. His answer? “Coercion. … We should start telling ... MORE
Sarah Burge: Vast Police Databases Raise Privacy Concerns
Databases track movements of law-abiding citizens. Police departments across the Inland area have embraced a new technology that helps officers on patrol to locate stolen cars, felony suspects and more by instantly scanning the license plate numbers of passing cars. But as these license-plate scanners become more common here and across the ... MOREThomas Sowell: 'Meaningful Work'
No job is menial. "Education" is a word that covers a lot of very different things, from vital, life-saving medical skills to frivolous courses to absolutely counterproductive courses that fill people with a sense of grievance and entitlement, without giving them either the skills to earn a living or a realistic understanding of the world required for a ... MORETerrence Scanlon: Picking Seniors' Pockets
AARP doesn't care about elderly members. I’m going to come right out and say it: AARP is about money and power. That’s all it’s interested in. Formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, the nation’s largest seniors group hasn’t cared about its elderly members’ well-being for eons. It’s been too busy building a financial empire. ... MOREDaniel Miller: Words To Avoid Online ...
if you don't want the government spying on you. The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S. The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', ... MORE
Phyllis Schlafly: It's None Of The Government's Business
Individuals forced to feed personal info to government. What is it about bureaucrats and school personnel that they want to pry into the personal life and habits of American citizens of every age? There seems to be no end to the imperial demands by government and schools to require both grownups and kids to reveal personal information. The use of ... MOREWalter E Williams: Our Nation's Future
The fruits of Congressional overgrazing. Our nation is rapidly approaching a point from which there's little chance to avoid a financial collapse. The heart of our problem can be seen as a tragedy of the commons. That's a set of circumstances when something is commonly owned and individuals acting rationally in their own self-interest ... MORE
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