George
Will is a well known and respected political commentator. He points out here
the heart of the Liberal agenda. The purpose of these liberal policies are to
help fellow liberals. With the Reinvestment Act, part of the bill was aimed to
deliver more money to "unionized, dues-paying, Democratic-voting
government employees." In this aspect, the investment was a success. He
points to the profound irony of when John Kerry went on to speak in Indonesia
about climate change while at home he owns numerous mansions and a yacht,
contributing to the 'climate change' he is trying to prevent. Then, liberals
speak of the conservative agenda as being only backed by the influence of the
Koch brother, while ignoring the fact that they too have powerful millionaires
at their back, such as Tom Steyer.
The
documented failures of ObamaCare and many. Hillary's solution, wait and just
let us fix it. She says that we shouldn't just throw the baby out with the bath
water. She points out to the good things that have come from the law, such as
people able to stay on their parents insurance until the age of 26, but there
her list ends. I don't see her logic, if in almost every aspect the law has been
a failure and not achieved its expectations, why keep it? So more younger
people can stay on their parents insurance, does that mean it's worth millions
of people losing their plans? Is that worth millions of people who work for
small business having their premiums increased? The pros and the cons don't
even out, not even close. The problem is the entire bill, if all the parts of
it are bad, we shouldn't sit around and fix every little part, the bill needs
to be scrapped and a new solution needs to be made.
Over
the past year Common Core has been quite a controversy. The thought of a
federally created standards doesn't sit well with most people. Neither does
trying to develop a standardized way to test all children. It ignores the
uniqueness of individual children and treats them like numbers. According to
Neil McCluskey at the Cato Institute, "So is the Common Core a bad idea?
Absolutely. It is a federally coerced, one-size-fits-all regime that ignores basic,
human reality."
A restaurant
in Florida has started putting an ObamaCare surcharge on its checks to help offset
the cost they will incur by being required to offer more of their employees
insurance. Now some might see this as some business who is just trying to get
their 15 minutes of fame for pulling this stunt. However, the company has hired
a consulting firm to help them determine what their cost of offering insurance
to all full-time employees. Clark, the restaurant owner, estimates the cost
will be around $500,000 and hopes that with this surcharge they will be able to
raise $160,000. It seems those in Washington who passed the bill would tell the
company to just reduce their profits, because you know, they know the books
better than the business owner.
I have
already addressed this in a previous post, that the President has called for an
end to Austerity! This is an excellent article because it 100% rips on the
notion that we were actually instituting austerity measures. Then it goes at
Krugman who has been claiming the European Austerity measures have nearly devastated
nations. Here's a little taste of the article, "In 2008, the federal
government spent just a hair under $3 trillion. After six years of President
Slash-and-Burn, spending has shrunk to almost $4 trillion. If we keep cutting
like this, it will be down to $5 trillion before you know it."
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