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• Why not give cash instead of Medicaid?

  
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  This question is kicking around the blogosphere and Twitter. The current interest is inspired by the incorrect view that the latest Oregon Health Study paper shows that Medicaid does not improve physical health outcomes but does confer financial benefits. In fact, though the study does show it confers financial ...
  1 week ago

• Mental illness: more profitable than you might think

  
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  Add the mentally ill to illegal immigrants and non-violent drug offenders, and you have the magic profit formula for America’s private prison industry and its shareholders. Mother Jones  has a timeline illustrating how deinstitutionalization has moved thousands of mentally ill people out of hospitals—and into ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unsustainable and unconstitutional General Welfare spending

  
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  According to deficit forecasts in President Barack Obama’s latest budget, the national debt will surpass $20 trillion by 2016 . If this occurs (and it is almost certain to occur), then Obama will add more to the national debt during his presidency than all prior presidents combined, despite collecting projected ...
  2 weeks ago

• Waste

  
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  This is a picture of food that’s not fit to be sold in a supermarket. See anything wrong with it? Try this one. No? This food was rescued from being turned into landfill and instead was delivered to roughly 30 projects around London which feed people. The charity who collects the food and sends it all ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thoughtcrime - 25 Apr 2013

  
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  How exactly can you be for enlarging the middle class while against the redistribution of wealth? Previous Thoughtcrime                                                                                       Next Thoughtcrime
  3 weeks ago

• Chicago fast-food and retail workers go on strike to raise minimum wage to $15.00

  
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  Chicago fast-food and retail workers begin mass walkout   – Hundreds of fast food and retail employees in Chicago began a mass walkout Wednesday morning, calling for the city’s minimum wage to be raised to $15 an hour. WLS-TV reported that the protest, organized by the Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago ...
  3 weeks ago

• More government control over your life

  
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  $3 MILLION RETIREMENT CAP IN OBAMAS BUDGET WOULD NOT APPLY TO HIM President Barack Obama’s 2014 budget puts a $3 million cap on tax-advantaged retirement accounts to crack down on “wealthy individuals” using these investment vehicles to earn “substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blunt instruments

  
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  A couple of weeks ago, in his column in the Western Mail, Dylan Jones Evans made the remarkable suggestion that the governments in Cardiff and London should use their purchasing power to buy enough electricity and gas at a low price to supply all pensioners, and then make it available at a special "vastly reduced" ...
  3 weeks ago

• Video, audio and summary: Jim Wallis debates Jay Richards on Christianity and the common good

  
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  I had to re-post this post again because Facebook decided to mark it as SPAM. This is the same post I put out 4 hours ago. The video recording: The organizers of the debate tell me that the video will be posted shortly after the debate, and I will link to it in this very post. The audio recording: Click here ...
  3 weeks ago

• Video, audio and summary: Jay Richards and Jim Wallis debate Christianity and the common good

  
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  Note: if you are having trouble liking this page on Facebook or sharing it on Twitter, please click here for an updated one that is shareable . Something went wrong in Facebook and they’ve marked this post as spam! But the new one is fine for sharing. The video recording: The organizers of the debate tell me ...
  3 weeks ago

• Not ONE program / service for taxpayers should be cut while subsidies are given to big banks

  
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  Bloomberg : So what if we told you …the largest U.S. banks aren’t really profitable at all? What if the billions of dollars they allegedly earn for their shareholders were almost entirely a gift from U.S. taxpayers? image  recall-all-republicans The top five banks — JPMorgan, Bank of America Corp., ...
  4 weeks ago

• Competence in policing

  
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  David Montgomery, Sari Horwitz and Marc Fisher have a great story in the Washington Post about how the police tracked down the murderers in Boston. Also see Spencer Ackerman in Wired magazine. On a similar theme, look back at the attack at Times Square in New York. We in India fare dismally on this. Lacking ...
  4 weeks ago

• 52 Percent of Americans Want Government To ‘Redistribute’ Wealth

  
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  "Thats not fair," is the plaintive cry ofevery toddler ever born, though my own son quickly memorized myconstant response: "Not getting your way isnt the same asunfair." I may need five minutes alone with the American public,however, since many of my countrymen apparently think its "unfair"that other people have more ...
  4 weeks ago

• Great news: Majority of Americans say wealth should be distributed more evenly

  
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  Terrific. Interesting, but not for the reasons you might think. When I saw Gallup’s headline I assumed the data would show a distinct upward trend in the numbers over time, partly because of the seemingly endless economic malaise and partly because the left’s been hammering harder at “income inequality” ...
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• Crooked government workers

  
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  24 IRS workers in TN accused of theft Feds say they stole jobless benefits, welfare, more By Brian Haas | The Tennessean First it was the families of dead people and state employees. Now, authorities say Internal Revenue Service employees in Tennessee were stealing unemployment and other benefits while ...
  4 weeks ago

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  Democrat Architect Of ObamaCare Now Not So Excited About It’s Implementation And The “Train Wreck” That May Result: What he may really be upset about is that ObamaCare will not redistribute the wealth like the Democrats wanted.
  4 weeks ago

• Where socialist/communist revolutions always lead

  
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  GOVT BACKERS WREAK HAVOC IN VENEZUELAN TOWN BY  MARKO ALVAREZ  ASSOCIATED PRESS AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos LOS TEQUES, Venezuela (AP) -- The motorcycles roared into the center ...
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• Cartoon Of The Day: Obama Bail Out

  
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  [IMG: http://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Bail-Out.jpg]
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• And whose fault was inequality?

  
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  While we’re on that subject (surely, there’s no need to ask?) I’ve been thinking about the big increase in inequality that took place in the 1980s . In 1979, people in the 90th decile of the income distribution had 3.4 times the income of people in the 10th decile; by 1990, this ratio had risen to 5.0. It ...
  5 weeks ago

• Weekend Reading: The Property Illusion

  
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  I have no doubt that given the need for sources of revenue by Uncle Sam and other sovereign governments, the topic of “the protection of property rights” will be increasingly brought front and center in the public arena. We saw this play out in Cyprus just a few weeks back, and we witness another example of this ...
  5 weeks ago

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