October 31, 2008 – 2:53 pm
Australia has socialized its medical services. Australian friends tell me that providing basic medical care for free is the only fair and just thing to do. Well, how fair and just is this?
A German doctor hoping to gain permanent residency in Australia said Friday he will fight a decision by the immigration department [...]
October 31, 2008 – 2:45 pm
Quote of the day.
Obama laughs off the charge of socialist behavior — and to be fair, socialism isn’t the precise term to affix to his ideas. It’s more like Robin Hood economics. On a recent campaign stop, Obama joked that, by the end of the week, McCain would be accusing him “of being [...]
October 27, 2008 – 3:26 pm
Obama, 7 years ago, lamented the fact that the Civil Rights movement wasn’t able bring about more wealth redistribution.
If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so [...]
Congratulations, you paid off your mortgage. Do you really think that you own your home now? Actually, you don’t. Sorry. The government can still find ways to take it away from you.
That’s what Kermit and Dolores Atwood discovered .
Two stories caught my attention this morning. First, the current immigration bill would create a work database for all Americans.
The so-called Employment Eligibility Verification System would be established as part of a bill that senators began debating on Monday…
All employers — at least 7 million, according to the U.S. [...]
George C. Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals wants to force you to buy healthcare. He doesn’t care if you want healthcare or if you think you need healthcare.
“Anything short of an absolute single-payer system requires an individual mandate. If you don’t have that, then people will [...]
Let me share two jokes with you. The first is from the Soviet Union:
Three prisoners in the gulag get to talking about why they are there. “I am here because I always got to work five minutes late, and they charged me with sabotage,” says the first. “I am here because I kept [...]
February 26, 2006 – 4:26 pm
Madison’s liberals spend a lot of time talking about helping the poor and improving the lives of the poor. This is, bluntly, a load of hogwash.
The Capital Times published another article about Wisconsin Health Care for All and their plan to offer health care to everyone in the city of Madison. In this article, I [...]
February 16, 2006 – 9:53 pm
Employer provided healthcare is obviously a good thing. It’s so obvious that a local, Madison grass roots group is pushing the city to mandate health insurance for all local employers:
A grass-roots group of Madison-area residents wants the city to require employers to provide health insurance through a mandated fee. The group, Wisconsin Health [...]