It is unfortunate that I don’t have time to post here as much as I used to, so what I’ve decided to do is find other articles worthy of your consideration and post them here. I will always give attribution so you can’t accuse me of plagiarism (steal from one source it’s called plagiarism, steal from many it’s called research).
BK
Only dead fish go with the current
Save Wrath for Obama
By Quin Hillyer on The American Spectator on 4.15.11 @ 6:09AM
Ladies and gentlemen, this nation is in deep, deep trouble. We have a president and a Senate majority and four of nine Supreme Court Justices who believe that property, earnings, and even rights all belong to government, and that those blessings are merely doled out to individuals as the government sees fit. The government rules the people, not vice versa.
We also have a president who believes that a cut from the federal government is the same thing as a cut from the things the feds help fund. In his speech on Wednesday, he accused Republicans supporting the Paul Ryan budget of aiming at “a fundamentally different America than the one we’ve known throughout much of our history. A 70% cut to clean energy. A 25 % cut in education. A 30% cut in transportation.”
Well, no. This is a lie. Even if Republicans may propose a 25 percent cut from federal government support for education, that is not a 25 percent cut in the nation’s education: It’s a 3.68 percent cut in total government support for education (local, state and federal combined). And that doesn’t even take into account how much other money goes to private education (more than 6.2 percent of American students go to private schools). Considering how much waste and duplication stems from federal education programs, and merely clutters up the works, that’s a 3+ percent which, when cut, might actually improve the quality of education by removing red tape. Likewise, a “70 percent cut to clean energy” is merely a cut to federal support for otherwise unwanted, non-competitive clean energy programs – but it’s not at all a cut to clean energy itself. It’s only a cut to clean energy itself if government is the be-all and end-all of all “investment” and all progress.
Read the rest of Quin Hillyer’s article here.
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