Feb

25

Government Monopoly = Poor Health Inspections

February 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

For some reason Americans have been convinced that their savior comes in the form of Government bearing gifts of regulations and handouts. God forbid, far too many believe, that people were left to sort out their own behaviors through voluntary association. After all, the evil profiteering business owners would as soon poison their patrons [...]

Dec

18

Rendell’s Department of Manna Busy For Holidays

December 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Governor Rendell has been hinting that he will announce further suspensions of the basic laws of economic gravity and push for The PA Department of Manna to bestow upon 1 million PA residents more “free” health care!
He will accomplish this feat by suspending the laws of biology with a government edict that will reduce health [...]

Dec

18

Pension Update

December 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The Post Gazette has a second in its series covering the fat benefits programs for government workers. Today’s covers the politicians themselves.
“In 2012, the cost of subsidizing pensions for state workers and school employees is expected to jump from less than $1 billion to more than $3 billion a year. The increase is being [...]

Dec

18

Fat Govt Employee Pensions Hang Taxpayers With Costs

December 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment

We’ve talked about the mess before: Fat government unions trade votes and contributions for pensions and other benefits that are far more generous than anything the private sector can afford to offer, and stick the hapless taxpayers with the costs.
Says the Post Gazette,
“The average pension in the two systems for those at normal retirement [...]

Oct

9

Bond Rating Up for Pittsburgh… But other Shoes Will Drop

October 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment

We’re all happy that Pittsburgh has managed to up its horrific bond rating from Moody’s Investor Services - from Baa3 to Baa2– to an average credit risk among most municipalities, and well above that of GM’s (which does not say much…).
However, knowing the degree to which balancing the deficits came with as little cutting-pain as [...]

Sep

22

Government Loses Hundreds of Laptops

September 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment

There was a day when the Census Bureau simply did its constitutionally mandated job: counted the number of people in the U.S. But that went out the window with the shift from a liberty based consensual republic to something completely different: a pseudo nanny state run as a collectivist democracy. To hell [...]

Mar

30

Milkers of PA Hurt Giant Eagle Customers

March 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

An old milk price law has been used by Giant Eagle’s competitors to hamstring the popular GetGo Fuel Perks program.

Mar

29

AARP Strongmen

March 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Mar

28

Elderly Vote to Stick Others With Tab for Free Lunches

March 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment

After voting the same, lousy way for 50++ years, the lengthy, expensive bill for their indiscretion and lack of self control has come due.

Feb

22

Government Schools: Monopoly = Mediocrity

February 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Americans are sadly duped into believing that Government Schools are the only way for education to work, when all the evidence proves each year the product gets worse. How long will it take for them to get fed up on the lies and myths they’ve been fed by the Education Industrial Complex?

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