Tolerant left heads to court – demands private business change
November 20, 2008
As I was driving into work this morning, something on the radio got me thinking about how the left likes to use the judicial system to reverse the will of the people. It’s a pretty solid tactic if you can get aways with it since instead of having a normal discussion and a vote on an issue, one only need to convince – or coerce – between one and nine justices to your side of the issue.
Redistribution – evil concealed by money
November 19, 2008
Another great Walter Williams column today. I enjoy reading Prof. Williams since he does something similar to what I try to do here at Conservative247. He just does it so much better.
So, can an evil act be “transformed” into something that seems much more legit? Onward to your next lesson – using great analogies – about conservative principles.
Congress sucks, but my guy is great – he brings home the bacon
November 19, 2008
Of course, this particular Republican is from Michigan, one of the many elected leaders from that state demanding a federal bailout of the auto industry. During an interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox News, Joe Knollenberg, a Republican congressman from Michigan, told Cavuto it’s not his money.
Republicans like Knollenberg loose elections because of policies like this, and he did.
Obligatory link to the “How Obama got elected” video
November 18, 2008
I’m not a big fan of man-on-the-street political interviews by radio and TV shows. Generally, they pick out the people who give funny or uninformed answers and play the answers for laughs. The video, provided in this post, is a bit different. It’s edited in a biased way, but the effort by John Ziegler at How Obama Got Elected is linked with a Zogby poll of 500 Obama voters. I’m not surprised by the results at all.
Everyone lines up for a bailout
November 17, 2008
The day the $750 billion dollar federal bailout figure was mentioned, every single Fortune 100 company, state and city chief financial officer started planning. Not only would this level of federal involvement in these institutions be unprecedented, it would actually dramatically change the way everyone did business.
Let’s say you owned a small ice cream stand in a city with three other ice cream stands. The owners of those stands paid their employees too much, offered crappy service and featured ice cream that tasted terrible; they were going bankrupt. But since those stands employed a total of 100 people, the government came in and offered grants and subsidized loans to these owners so they could continue to keep the doors open. How would this government action change your business plan?
