Kudos to sighphi!!!
Isn’t it Ironic how the Government forces us to pay for ‘Slut Protection’
while they continue to Prohibit and Demonize the Worlds Oldest Profession?
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| — | from the Capitalism FB page, in regards to the Sandra Fluke/Georgetown/contraceptives/Rush Limbaugh/”slut” comment brouhaha |
From the Charleston City Paper…
Dismantling a bloated federal government is a primary concern for conservatives today, but former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum has spent a career promoting big government. Conservatives have also made putting an end to massive government spending a top priority as well, but Santorum has a record of championing out-of-control spending. And while many believe that our debt is the greatest threat to our national security, the former senator has always considered everything but the debt to be a far greater threat to the U.S.
In a 2003 Wall Street Journal column “Big Government Conservatism,” The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes explained George W. Bush’s distinct GOP brand. “Reagan was a small government conservative who declared in his inauguration address that government was the problem, not the solution. There, Bush begs to differ,” Barnes wrote. “The essence of Bush’s big-government conservatism is a trade-off. To gain free-market reforms and expand individual choice, he’s willing to broaden programs and increase spending.”
During the Bush administration, Santorum was just as much a poster boy for big government as the president. Throughout Dubya’s debt-doubling agenda — No Child Left Behind, Medicare Plan D, you name it — Santorum was completely on board. And for that entire period, the Republican Party was completely off course.
From Before It’s News…
Republican Congressman Ron Paul from Texas, states on his website:
“Buried deep within the over 1,000 pages of the massive US Health Care Bill (PDF) in a “non-discussed” section titled: Subtitle C-11 Sec. 2521— National Medical Device Registry, and which states its purpose as…….. He quotes that part of the law and then goes on to say: “In “real world speak”, according to this report, this new law, when fully implemented, provides the framework for making the United States the first Nation in the World to require each and every one of its citizens to have implanted in them a radio-frequency identification microchip for the purpose of controlling who is, or isn’t, allowed medical care in their country”.
From The Economist…
AMERICANS love to laugh at ridiculous regulations. A Florida law requires vending-machine labels to urge the public to file a report if the label is not there. The Federal Railroad Administration insists that all trains must be painted with an “F” at the front, so you can tell which end is which. Bureaucratic busybodies in Bethesda, Maryland, have shut down children’s lemonade stands because the enterprising young moppets did not have trading licences. The list goes hilariously on.
But red tape in America is no laughing matter. The problem is not the rules that are self-evidently absurd. It is the ones that sound reasonable on their own but impose a huge burden collectively. America is meant to be the home of laissez-faire. Unlike Europeans, whose lives have long been circumscribed by meddling governments and diktats from Brussels, Americans are supposed to be free to choose, for better or for worse. Yet for some time America has been straying from this ideal.
From The Washington Examiner…
Nobody expects the Republican presidential nominee to be a libertarian purist, but it helps if he or she at least has a libertarian streak. In Rick Santorum’s case, he’s actively hostile toward libertarianism, and that’s an obstacle not only to him winning the nomination, but also to having a chance in a general election against President Obama.
With Santorum emerging as a true contender for the Republican nomination, he’s been coming under fire for his many votes to expand government. He took earmarks, voted for the Medicare prescription drug plan and backed No Child Left Behind. He pushed dairy subsidies, steel tariffs and sided with unions over workers.
From BBC…
Prime Minister Mario Monti has announced the Vatican must pay taxes on non-religious property, from which it previously enjoyed an exemption.
The annual cost could be up to 720m euros ($945m; £598m) according to municipal government bodies.
Italy’s Catholic Church has 110,000 properties, worth about 9bn euros.
