“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
How far we have moved away from these founding principles, the underlying philosophy, of our country.
I tend to read a bunch of articles over the course of a week, so I thought I would share some of my favorites from the past week. I am going to try and do this every Wednesday. This is by no means a complete list, but it does include most of the articles that I had particularly made note of, at least since I decided to publish such a list.
Probably like a great many of you, I am getting sick of hearing about the fiscal cliff, or more accurately, of hearing about the proposed “solutions” to the fiscal cliff.
It seems that the President and Congressional Democrats, and to some extent Republicans as well, think the only solution is to tax the “rich” and maybe talk about some spending cuts, maybe, some time in the future. I think history has pretty well shown that when the government talks about tax increases
There has been a lot of talk lately about the “good ‘ol days” in the 1950s, when we had good economic growth, strong labor unions and high top marginal tax rates. One of my favorite blogs, Cafe Hayek, has done a number of posts regarding this. I would recommend that you take a look.
I was watching the John Stossel program on Fox Business News last night, primarily to see the segment with Yaron Brook. The overall theme of the program was charity, but towards the end of the segment with Yaron Brook, a somewhat offhand remark was made and then repeated by John Stossel about how John D. Rockefeller saved the whales, something you are likely to never be taught in your Environmentalism class.
This morning while browsing through the channels when I came across Carol Roth, speaking on Fox Business News where she was talking about the reasons why the economic recovery is still tepid. I am paraphrasing a bit as I did not rewind the clip to make note of the exact wording but I believe it is fairly close.
“Amercian consumers have a lot of credit available. They have been deleveraging and their home values have been increasing. It is the uncertainty about the future that is keeping them
The tragedy in Connecticut has stirred many emotions across the country. We are raised to treasure our children and to have so many innocents killed is truly abhorrent. My heart goes out to the families of the victims and to the whole community that has suffered this unspeakable event.