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Tooth Fairy Government
I call it Tooth Fairy Government: they steal your quarter, put it under their kid’s pillow, and then make believe the world is 25 cents richer.
If you are the child on the receiving end, you like Tooth Fairy Government. It promises to buy your car, pay your mortgage, send you to college, pay for your health care, create a green job for you, pay… Continue
Added by Tim Nerenz on December 6, 2009 at 8:26am — No Comments
What Comes After Stupid?
One of my previous health care posts was entitled, “Quit Talking Stupid”, but I should have stopped at “Quit Talking”. This week, the Senate will vote on a new Health Care Bill that redefines stupid.
The “cost” of this bill is scored by the Congressional Budget Office at $849 billion, and CBO estimates it would reduce the deficit by $130 billion.… Continue
Added by Tim Nerenz on December 6, 2009 at 8:16am — No Comments
Affirmative Action
You either believe that institutionalized racism is wrong or you don’t. I happen to believe it is wrong, and therefore oppose Affirmative Action in any form.
To support Affirmative Action, you must first accept its perquisite belief that people of color and women are inferior to white males. This is a vile and ignorant idea; one that people of… Continue
Added by Tim Nerenz on November 16, 2009 at 7:50pm — No Comments
Public Option Airways
Every time we fly we are treated to a dose of applied Libertarian philosophy – we are told to put on our own oxygen mask first before we choose to help others.
Simple principles, really: no person has a claim on the life, liberty, or property of another; voluntary exchange is the only just relationship between equals; you can not give a thing you do not… Continue
Added by Tim Nerenz on November 16, 2009 at 7:42pm — No Comments
Cap and Trade
We do not use too much energy because we are wealthy - we are only wealthy because we use energy. Energy equals prosperity.
Do you want to Cap your prosperity? Do you want to Trade your prosperity? Nancy Pelosi is betting your job that Al Gore might be right about Global Warming. Did you give her your permission? Your job is not Nancy's to wager; your choices are… Continue
Added by Tim Nerenz on November 6, 2009 at 8:49pm — No Comments
Channeling Enron
Ever wonder what happened to all the scummy-bears who did the creative accounting at Enron, Arthur Anderson, and WorldCom? I’m guessing they must have all gotten government jobs from the stimulus money.
Because politicians are not smart enough to think this stuff all up on their own.
If you recall, the House version of health care was scored by… Continue
Added by Tim Nerenz on November 2, 2009 at 9:23pm — 1 Comment
One in a Row
President Obama’s new policy on medical marijuana brings to mind the old saying: even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in while. That was back when you could say “blind” and “acorn” was only a single nut, not an organized mob of them.
Let’s give credit where credit is due – the President’s decision to discontinue federal prosecutions of medical use of marijuana is practical,… Continue
Added by Tim Nerenz on October 23, 2009 at 5:07pm — 2 Comments
Counting Snouts
In my speech at the AFP Town Hall Meetings in August, I used the phrase “snouts in the trough” to describe trial lawyers and malpractice insurers. An apology is owed; no, not to them, but to all the other snouts who were not given their due.
When I go to see my doctor, he spends a few minutes with me reviewing my vitals, asking how… Continue
Added by Tim Nerenz on October 3, 2009 at 7:16pm — No Comments
18 Means 18
It is wrong for the government to deny rights of seniors solely on the basis of their age; equally wrong for juniors, sophomores, and freshmen.
There is no principled reason to deny adults the right to choose for themselves whether to drink alcohol or not. This is a matter of personal preference and belief.
Rights aren’t rationed out like some… Continue
Added by Tim Nerenz on September 20, 2009 at 6:01pm — 1 Comment
Thou Shall Not Steal
There are only two ways to get the money to pay for government: either tax Americans who are living, or steal it from generations of Americans not born yet.
Deficit spending is stealing from future generations; in the fiscal year coming to a close this month, we have stolen nearly $2 trillion more of their money, and Congress will take another heaping helping when they pass the 2010 appropriations… Continue
Added by Tim Nerenz on September 4, 2009 at 9:53pm — No Comments
Tim Nerenz Health Care Town Hall Speech
So why are we all wee-weed up about health care? Because our politicians are forcing us to take sides in a contest between insurance companies and government bureaucrats. If that were a death match, most of us would be secretly hoping for a tie.
They are making this way more complicated than it needs to be.
Two years ago, I was wheeled in to Aspirus Hospital in Wausau, Wisconsin,… Continue
Added by Tim Nerenz on August 29, 2009 at 12:45pm — No Comments
Lessons Learned and Re-Learned
Note to business students: if you have just spent $50 billion to acquire GM and Chrysler, do not pay people $4,500 to buy a Honda.
The government’s Cash-For-Clunkers program is out of money; it only took one week to burn through $1 billion, and now they need $4 billion more. That must be some kind of new record… Continue
Added by Tim Nerenz on August 10, 2009 at 7:38pm — No Comments
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