Posted on 09/02/2010 10:30:26 AM PDT by jazusamo
“Last Tuesday, Dr. Thomas Sowell was interviewed on The Rush Limbaugh Show by Walter Williams”
Wow, there’s a sentence that sends chills through the hearts of Dems, especially the race peddlers.
The risks and burdens of excess regulation get back to my point that we must make the case afresh for the virtues of limited government.
Blagovitch got charged, but not yet convicted, of selling the Illinois Senate seat vacated by 0bama.
Politicians who break the law are and should be charged and convicted.
Talking about how, once we win political power, there will a judicial price to pay for our defeated opponents, is 100% pure unadulterated banana republic!
Politicians who engage in cheating and stealing criminality should be charged and convicted irregardless of their “socialism”, and irrespective of which party has power in Congress.
Hear, hear. (or whatever it is...)
Yet we’re not ever supposed to speak (or think) ill of “The American People(TM)”.
Sorry, I distrust at least half of them, and that was a long time ago.
My tagline expresses my concerns. If folks like McCain return to fight us from within our own ranks, it may very well be the difference between getting our nation back on track, or going over the edge.
This guy that has been around Washington, D. C. for 28 years said, "You have nothing to fear from an Obama administration."
He believes it. Is he going to help us un-Obama the nation? If anyone thinks so, they just haven't been paying attention. Soros has Obama in his hip pocket. He has McCain in his hip pocket.
McCain has a trail of endorsements for things Obama has done. He is for the most part, a fellow traveler.
Sowell has very good reason to be worried.
“Degeneration of our culture”. So true. The only votes for Obama came from the evil and the naive. There are too many in each group. God bless the great Dr. Sowell. Bob
You are spot on.
Every well-intentioned alphabet soup agency is the creation of derelict Executive and Legislative branches of government passing off the horrible unintended consequences as the "responsibility" of others. The cure is always eventually worse than the original disease.
As far as I'm concerned, regulations that impact the financial and societal health of everyone and not passed by Congress and signed by the President are unconstitutional.
The damage done and the wasted wealth is beyond imagination, and both parties are equally guilty.
NTSB, EPA, ADA, CWA, even the behavior of agencies like the Forest Service, the National Parks and even the Corps of Engineers have let arrogance and abuse balloon beyond belief.
Remember every one of these agents of fascism (look up its definition) started off mildly as advisory agencies.
Yeah. Good luck with that.
The trivial example I always quote is the "strictly voluntary" seat belt law of the late 50s...
In addition, in the current financial atmosphere, many people are having trouble paying the mortgage or the rent, and having to choose between meds and food.
Needless to say, those can't afford the for-pay premium "Rush 24/7 membership."
We are talking past shows that have aired, right?
Sorry
““The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.””
That was not an Sowell quote, but reflected the same sentiment. The quote was in a Czechoslovakian newspaper I think.
Over the last twenty-five years the leftist media has learned their mistake with Ronald Reagan — they let him come to full national prominance to begin with.
Since that time they have learned that they must run an early and rough belittlement and marginalization campaign against any effectively eloquent conservative political figure. If they avoid letting such individual come into the full flower of their communication skills and connection with the electorate, they can keep the conservative movement leaderless in the eyes of the nations voters.
They let Reagan make that connection and they will move heavan and earth to keep someone in his mold from reaching the final stage without demonization having occured to that figure for years and years of their rise to prominance.
We cannot name a big picture, good communicating conservative leader that hasn’t recieved this treatment since it started with Gingrich in 1990. They will “Bork” them all.
Look at Sowell’s prominance and forty years of national recognition in his fields and have you ever seen him on a national network? Even as a non-politician, he is seen as such a threat that they must pretend he doesn’t exist.
Winning seats doesn’t mean anything if the winners are as incompetent or corrupt as Boner and McConnell. I am not optimistic. Our only hope is states demanding their rights.
McConnell and fellow RINO Trent Lott raise money for RINOS, and Lott ridicules the Tea Parties.
There is still no excuse for the 80% of the money spent that was pure pork, misdirected or simply stolen through sweetheart "consultants" and other fees.
I can't accept that this is "unavoidable overhead" to accomplish real positve results.
I don’t listen to radio but I believe the for-pay premium is for past shows, his regular show is on locally and is streamed.
I was pinged to the show last week with Williams and Sowell but by the time I got to it Sowell was signing off, wish I could have listened.
First off, we have the fundamental problem that these agencies believe that no matter what, regulation must enlarged and made more stringent every year or life ans we know it will end. There is a point at which the job is essential done and we reach a "maintenance" level.
Second,NO agency should be allowed to have an unelected bureaucrat write edicts that have the force of (criminal and civil) law. Laws are the sole business of congress. Any and every new regulation from the EPA should be voted on and passed [individually] by congress and signed by the President before having any force.
The IRS is another glaring example of laws being written by regulators.
Absolutely no one but congress can/should pass a law that can take my property or incarcerate me. Congress has no Constitutional authority to "delegate" lawmaking to anyone. What congress has done in this regard is no more lawful than me using a gun to take your property.
We don't need to reign in government, we need to amputate its arms and legs.
“Even in the best of circumstances, environmental regulation is usually needed to prevent backsliding and to keep a level playing field.”
Funny you talk about this; just this week I perused this discussion of the Chesapeake Bay; begin here and go on.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2575702/posts?page=87#87
Seems even in the name of “PC” environmentalism, the gov types are killing what they say they’re trying to save.
I don’t agree with such abuses either.
Federal law permits a wide delegation of authority from Congress to executive agencies. This is a weak point in the federal administrative state in that Congress can curtail that delegation any time they want.
Regulators often have priorities that defy common sense but are based in law and the regulatory mind set. In essence, left to their own devices, regulators fear to make any exceptions because they believe that to do so would soon invite more exceptions and become unmanageable.
That's pretty much my point. Congress has no business giving "law making" authority to agencies. Yes, congress made the laws abdicating its responsibilities, and yes congress can reclaim its responsibilities. That doesn't make these delegations of authority and responsibility any more Constitutional. Simply more illegal laws, IMHO.
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