Writes George Will:
Progressives are forever longing to replace the governance of people by the administration of things. Because they are entirely public-spirited, progressives volunteer to be the administrators, and to be as disinterested as the dickens. ...
Professor Obama, who will seek reelection on the 100th anniversary of ...
From Mark Steyn in the Orange County Register:
[T]he governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in fundamental ways that make limited government all but impossible. ...
The result is a kind ...
From Duke Visiting Professor John David Lewis in Pajamas Media:
The essence of a dictator’s method is not to write harsh laws and enforce them rigidly. The world’s most destructive thugs have wanted something different. They have wanted to impose their wills on a compliant populace using arbitrary power — power ...
David Harsanyi summarizes it nicely:
You will, of course, need to be plastered to buy Pelosi's fantastical proposition that 450,000 words of new regulations, rules, mandates, penalties, price controls, taxes and bureaucracy will have the transformative power to "provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in ...
Ensuring that our kids have enough to eat during summer months is critically important, especially during these tough economic times… Unfortunately, despite repeated efforts, the number of children participating in federally reimbursed summer nutrition programs in 2008 was the same as it was 15 years ago. (emphasis added) -- Senate ...
In defense of government rationing of medical care, philosopher Peter Singer writes:
The task of health care bureaucrats is then to get the best value for the resources they have been allocated. It is the familiar comparative exercise of getting the most bang for your buck.
Indeed. Bureaucrats will get the best ...
The Rocky Mountain News has a good, and scary, critique of how Obama's so-called "stimulus" package expands health care entitlements. Funny how this crisis brings on leviathan, as historian Robert Higgs has written. Here's an excerpt:
It would be bad enough if the $800 billion-plus stimulus package - which could pass ...
The U.S. House voted to pass a bill to expand eligibility for the State Health Insurance Program. Having government tax citizens to provide health insurance for kids is great way to build allegiance to the state, and hence an electorate who will demand yet more government programs that empower ...
In the Washington Times, Robert Moffit sums up the implications of Daschle's proposed Federal Health Board:
"Details kill." That's Tom Daschle, President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of health and human services and the nation's new "health-care czar," explaining to the Associated Press why national health reform has failed in the ...
Imagine a country where the government regularly checks the waistlines of citizens over age 40. Anyone deemed too fat would be required to undergo diet counseling. Those who fail to lose sufficient weight could face further "reeducation" and their communities subject to stiff fines.
Is this some nightmarish dystopia?
No, this is ...
