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• Ignore the promises of cuts - the state is set up to spend

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Fifty years ago, we made the choice to be a high-tax nation. Now we have a golden opportunity to change that, says Philip Johnston
  12 hours ago

• ATOS flouts Disability Discrimination Act

  
  Benefit Scrounging Scum — Authority: 121
  via Dont get mad, get equal treatment It wont come as a surprise to many disabled people to hear that ATOS* are flouting Disability Discrimination law by insisting the £60, 000 pa they pay for doctors to assess benefits claimants** only go to doctors who are free of General Medical Council Conditions. There are ...
  2 days ago

• Time to give flat tax concept a decent burial

  
  Alliance Party of New Zealand — Authority: 111
  Alliance Party co leader Kay Murray says it is time for National and ACT to get over their fixation with flat tax and return to reality. “Flat tax is an outdated idea of the 1980’s. All flat tax does is give the already wealthy a license to print money while destroying the living standards of low to middle ...
  3 days ago

• Do obese people deserve medical treatment? (smokers, drinkers, hang gliders, homosexuals)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Faced with an “obesity epidemic“, that has dramatic consequences for medical costs, pundits have proposed different solutions, ranging from excluding obesity from health insurance, government-run prevention campaigns, higher taxes on junk food, or higher premiums for fat people. The possibility of greater government ...
  3 days ago

• Latte Links (12/4)

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 140
  Some miscellaneous items from around the net. Rasmussen Reports: 62% Oppose Single-Payer Health Care System Big Hollywood: Review: ‘Going Rogue’ Reveals Palin’s Ready to Lead by Brigadier General (Ret.) Anthony J. Tata (USA) The Spyglass: Politics and the Christian tongue WSJ: The Welfare ...
  4 days ago

• Friday night funny: Pork flu, food stamps, birth certificate

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 500
  All from ECM. Granite Grok : IOwnTheWorld : IHateTheMedia : And here are some more from iPandora . Happy Friday! Posted in Humor Tagged: Bankrupt, Birth Certificate, Deficit, Food Stamp, Government Spending, Japanese Beef, Kobe Beef, National Debt, Obamanomics, Pork, Pork Barrel, Porkbarrel, Welfare, ...
  4 days ago

• Do We Want a Welfare State?

  
  Perfect Argument — Authority: 152
  Medicaid is a program for people who cant afford health insurance.
  5 days ago

• Care homes failing 80,000 elderly residents

  
  Politics Forum and Political Blog discussing and debating political and social issues. — Authority: 153
  One in six care homes are providing substandard care for elderly people, an official audit has found. By James Kirkup , Political Correspondent The Care Quality Commission said almost 4,000 residential homes and other agencies - providing care for more than 80,000 people - must improve the quality of ...
  5 days ago

• Twelve policies that undermine civil society

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 500
  I noticed this “web memo” on the Heritage Foundation web site. Basically, they just list the twelve policies and then write a couple of short paragraphs on how each policy negatively impacts civil society. This is a good introduction to Christians who want to think through whether some government policies that ...
  6 days ago

• Read the Numbers: Obama Will Bankrupt America

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  When President Barack Obama entered office in January, the greatest problem America faced was neither the war in Afghanistan nor the recession. It was the imminent crisis of the welfare state. Not only has Obama failed to deal with this crisis, he is pursuing policies that will bankrupt America. In March, the Peter G. ...
  6 days ago

• Deacons, Secularism, and the Welfare State

  
  Acton Institute PowerBlog — Authority: 515
  A few weeks ago Hunter Baker posted some thoughts on secularism and poverty , in which he wrote of the common notion that since private charity, particularly church-based care, had failed to end poverty, it seems only prudent to let the government have its chance. Hunter points out some of the critically important ...
  1 week ago

• The Destruction Of Freedom

  
  Politics 24/7 — Authority: 130
  By POLITICS 24 / 7 guest blogger Michael Duminiak There are those who claim that the reduction of freedom is not the foundation of the Obama Administration.  As one who believes that Obama and his allies are indeed basing their agenda on the destruction of freedom, I think it is important to examine the ...
  1 week ago

• Welfarism, its consequences and an interim solution

  
  Boatang & Demetriou — Authority: 421
  Libertarianism is obviously the purpose of individual responsibility and contribution for the benefit of the individual and society as a whole, among other things, and that is why is it so opposed to the concept of the welfare state. Although I have stated that in the 21st century some form of safety net is a ...
  1 week ago

• Immaculate Conception: The Inner-city Version

  
  Secular Right — Authority: 488
  Seven and a half months into Ta-Shai Pendleton’s first pregnancy, her child was stillborn. Then in early 2008, she bore a daughter prematurely.  Soon after, Ms. Pendleton moved from a community in Racine that was thick with poverty to a better neighborhood in Madison. Here, for the first time, she had a full-term ...
  1 week ago

• Maguindanao Election Massacre: A Quarrel Over Economic Bones

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 134
  Its sad and sickening to learn how political violence has resurfaced, where 52 people have been reportedly massacred in Southern Philippines. This from the New York Times , ``The death toll in Monday’s election violence rose to 52 on Wednesday, the Philippine authorities said, as six more bodies were recovered. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Robert Samuelson: The Assault on Americas Youth

  
  Cyberhillbilly — Authority: 116
  From Samuelsons latest: One of our long-running political stories is the economic assault on the young by the old. We have become a society that invests in its past and disfavors the future. This makes no sense for the nation, but as politics, it makes complete sense. The elderly and near elderly are better ...
  2 weeks ago

• SPEAKO DA LINGO?

  
  A Tangled Web — Authority: 539
  Well, HERES a surprise...   "Immigrants who don’t understand English have been able to buy language certificates that give them the right to settle in Britain. An investigation by The Sunday Times has found that staff at English language colleges in London and Birmingham have been offering migrants who speak ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Democrats: Lying Their Way to More Power?

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 139
  The record of the Democrats since attaining office has not been good, at least from the perspective of the average American. Let’s look at their key agenda points: Global Warming, as such has long been seen as a lie. That lie was unarguably exposed as such the other day. We’re told that the bailout spending ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health bill: pass or not, the insurance companies win.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  It seems to me the insurance companies win if this bill passes, and they will win if the bill is not passed. The american people and small businesses will lose either way with increased rates of 15% per year and/or it will remain the same and they won’t have coverage, but the insurance companies will show profits. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Dithering on Afghanistan

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 748
  The situation in Afghanistan is like a poker game. There are only three options for action: raise, call or fold.  The President seems to be unable to pick one that doesn’t have Americans on both sides of the debate pulling out their hair. During his campaign for the White House President Obama said, “We have ...
  2 weeks ago

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