Tag Archive: economic freedom

McDonald’s Hiring! But Why?

The proud announcement:
“McDonald’s Corp. will hold its first national hiring day April 19 to fill 50,000 openings at its restaurants nationwide. The company, based in Oak Brook, Ill., says it is making a concerted effort to add staff as its business improves and as more of its restaurants stay open 24 hours a day.”
The news …

Federal Budget Pie Chart

Ramirez pie chart

Sometimes a picture is worth even more than a thousand words.
To hear the debate in Washington D.C., you would think that cutting back by 1.5% or 2% on the federal budget will be the end of the world.  While the economic conditionof the country is circling the bottom of the toilet bowl there are prominent …

Isn’t Socialism Great?

It just dawned on me that for the past several years I have been earning more money than General Motors!

Nationalizing Health Care: The Path to Total Control (part 2)

The thick, heavy layers of taxation and bureaucracy of the federal government are actually much more suffocating than the political milieu our forbearers experienced under monarchies in England the Europe.

Government by Coersion and Intimidation

The blood of American tradition is squirting out in all directions. We are dying of cultural exsanguination; and Barack Obama is the assassin.

Taxing the Poor to Pay for the Rich

The AVERAGE federal employee earns twice as much as the AVERAGE private employee.

Obama to Regulate All Life on Earth

It is the beginning of the end of private enterprise because permission to operate all aspects of business – and as a consequence, private life – will be controlled by federal bureaucrats bringing about Marx’s goal of nationalizing the means of production.

The Tempter Cometh

The tempter comes and suggests that we can stop global annihilation, or misery, or destitution, or inequality if you will only eat of the tree. The message is seductive, but the fruit is poison.

You Are A Conservative If…

Some people are very shortsighted and want something today and are willing to trade something very important for it only to later mourn the loss of what they can never reclaim.

Cash for Clunkers and Kooks

Borrow from your enemies, require your friends to pay it back; turn their assets into junk…