While Bill Clinton fiddled and faddled and spent the Reagan peace dividend on self-aggrandizement, Osama Bin Laden famously attacked American interests around the world with impunity and from the lawless safe-haven of Afghanistan. George Bush, a mostly feckless President before 9/11, became a ruthless warrior and brought Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden to justice and kept [...]
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Liberal Trail of Tears in California
Posted in Central Planning Failures, Inside the Liberal Mind, tagged bankruptcy, California, higher taxes, Liberalism, urban decay on May 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I am going to write a longer piece with excerpts from the following article, but couldn’t wait to share this absolutely amazing laundry list of how Liberalism has DESTROYED California. If you want a roadmap to best-intentions Liberal hell, this is it, Exhibit A, and the prosecution rests (not really, but you know). Enjoy: 16 [...]
Oil as Barometer: A Tale of Hoodlums
Posted in Central Planning Failures, tagged "I am not a crook", Cristina Fernandez, hoodlums, Hugo Chavez, obama, Spain on April 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The rising price of oil in recent years has really exposed some power-mongering heads of state who are more than happy to use the iron fist of government to impose their will. In Argentina, we have President Cristina Fernandez going the full monty on nationalization of the country’s largest oil company, most of which is owned [...]
Statists Wreaking Havoc: Argentina Enters the Case Files of Liberal Stupidity
Posted in Central Planning Failures, Inside the Liberal Mind, Liberal Fantasies, tagged Argentina, price controls on April 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel, ever spinning…” So the song says, which is what I think of when the same central planning failures are repeated over and over again through the course of human history. Liberal fantasies refuse to be vanquished, no matter how many economic and [...]
Freddie Kreuger Shatters Another Liberal Utopian Dream
Posted in Central Planning Failures, tagged electric power, Pakistan, subsidies on October 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
In this essay, I will delude myself into thinking that if I can give Liberals just one more example of central planning failures, they will see the light, all the while knowing that they are beyond help and beyond being awoken from their utopian dreams that destroy worlds like so many larvae destroy a nice [...]
The Obama Era: Big Government Does Less While Collecting More
Posted in Central Planning Failures, tagged obama, US Post Office on September 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There is Obama’s lofty rhetoric about “hope” and then there is the cold reality of a big-government statist who seeks to push America backwards towards a system of a small power elite doling out special privileges and exemptions to those who remain appropriately obsequious to the regime. We know what he did to American health [...]
