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Stand Up For Freedom - Ezra Taft Benson

The Delusion Of Good Government

Uncertainty = Business Freeze = No Investment, No Jobs

"A Time for Choosing" by Ronald Reagan

Government Control

Unions conspire with politicians to rip off taxpayers

by John Stossel

Steve Melanga of the Manhattan Institute complains that politicians get union political support by granting government workers generous pensions and health benefits. After those politicians leave office, taxpayers are liable for trillions in unfunded promises.

"It's squeezing out all other spending," Melanga says. "Where are we going to get this $3 trillion dollars? ... When they're (government workers) allowed to retire at 58 and the rest of us are retiring at 60 and 67 -- and by the way we're living to 80 -- it's crazy. The public sector is the version of the European welfare state which, by the way, in Europe, they're actually rolling back."

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Keeping the Poor in Poverty

School choice, lower taxes, job creation: These, and not welfare payments, are what would really help the poor.

In his autobiography, former British prime minister Tony Blair recounts the political epiphany that caused him to break with the old-style class-warfare–based Labour Party that he had grown up with. “In a sense they wanted to celebrate the working class,” he writes, “not make them middle class.”

In many ways, the Obama administration and congressional Democrats appear to have the same attitude about the American poor.

They talk frequently about the poor. They lavish programs upon them. (Last year the Obama administration increased spending on means-tested and other anti-poverty programs by $120 billion, to a total of just under $600 billion.) But they seem curiously indifferent — if not actually hostile — to proposals that might actually reduce poverty in America.

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Who Is Your Enemy?

Our Father, Who Isn’t in Washington

by Lisa Fritsch

Family devastation was one of the most damning aspects of a slave-owning society. A constant pain to the slave was not having “relations.” This broken human link weakened the resolve of slaves to fight for freedom, giving slave masters greater power.

Today our very own government plays the role of master. The advent of public housing and public assistance programs landed our community in peril. As the government replaced fathers with welfare checks and food stamps, out-of-wedlock births in the U.S. went from five percent in 1960 to 38.5 percent as of 2005 among the entire population. For the black community, the statistics are worse — up 70 percent today.

Family structure is vital to an individual’s prosperity and success. Government will have people believe that those 70 percent of black children born out of wedlock are safe as long as there are enough food stamps, public schools and universal health care to go around. But some of us know better.

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Clever political ad: "Big Government On My Back"

"Gainful Employment" Proposed Regulations Gone Awry

by Lanny Davis

Suppose that a conservative Republican Administration, in the middle of high unemployment and an economic slowdown, proposed new regulations that would most hurt lower income people and minority groups and the for-profit colleges and universities that serve them? Can you imagine the cries of outrage from liberal critics, condemning "hard-hearted" Republicans targeting the most vulnerable young people in our society?

Yet that is exactly what the Department of Education's proposed "gainful employment" regulations would likely do.

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Socialists Dominate "One Nation" Rally

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Not to worry, no one was there...



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I Want Your Money

UK Proposes All Paychecks Go to the State First

by Robin Knight

The UK's tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the government would deduct what it deems as the appropriate tax and pay the employees by bank transfer.

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Science Czar Would Use ‘Free Market’ to ‘De-Develop US’

In a video interview this week, White House Office of Science and Technology Director John P. Holdren told CNSNews.com that he would use the “free market economy” to implement the “massive campaign to de-develop the United States.”

“A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States,”

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Fall of the Republic

Why Switzerland has the lowest crime rate in the world

Milton Friedman defends capitalism to Phil Donohue