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Freedom Politics
by Thomas Sowell

Reckless spending

Nothing more clearly illustrates the utter irresponsibility of Barack Obama than his advocacy of 'high-speed rail.' The man is not stupid. He knows how to use words that will sound wonderful to people who do not bother to stop and think. High-speed rail may be feasible in parts of Europe or Japan, where the population density is much higher than in the United States...

http://tinyurl.com/4j5gwox



The power of the rich

Cafe Hayek
by Russ Roberts

02/22/11

I think fixing the relationship between the financial sector and the power of government, particularly the Fed, is the single biggest problem we face as a democracy and as an economy. The exploitive nature of this relationship, what is often called crony capitalism, has led to terrible misallocations of capital and to resentment from the body politic about the fairness of the political process...

http://cafehayek.com/2011/02/the-power-of-the-rich.html



It?s freedom we need, not the nanny state

Adam Smith Institute
by Tom Papworth

02/22/11

Paternalism, or (as it is now called, in a strange shift of gender and status) 'the nanny state,' has always had its defenders amongst the elite. After all, it is the elite who define what is good; what is virtuous. It is little surprise that they would seek to defend their mores, even to the point of crushing the individual freedoms of others. Over time, this has taken many forms...

http://tinyurl.com/67s6s2n



The system makes no sense

The Partial Observer
by James Leroy Wilson

02/22/11

There are people, Democrat and Republican alike, who believe 'the system' does make sense, and is fundamentally good. They also believe it is sustainable; the only problem is sin. Democrats and Republicans differ only on what the sins happen to be...

http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=3582


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