Archive for September, 2011
Agenda 21 Attacks Capitalism – Just The Numbers, Mam
By Les Dunaway
In a debate co-sponsored by NYSE and Corporate Responsibility (CR) magazine’s COMMIT!Forum the Agenda 21 people made clear their agenda – the destruction of capitalism. Of course, anyone who has looked at the website wasn’t surprised.
[Reuters report] [Advisor One report]
Limited Government Is Good Business – Just The Numbers, Mam
By Les Dunaway
“When institutions protect the liberty of individuals, greater prosperity results for all.”
Adam Smith in “The Wealth of Nations”, 1776
This truth is a key measure of the fitness of a government to survive. When any government fails this test, the citizens of that government must resort to another statement, written the same year:
…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…
from “The Declaration of Independence”, 1776
GOP Nomination Not Over
By J. Randolph Evans
The Chicago Cubs led the New York Mets by 9½ games in the National League East late in the 1973 Major League Baseball season. Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra summed up the situation like this:
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
Yogi Berra was right about baseball in 1973. The Mets ended up winning the division in the last game of the season.
Coaches and Losing Records
By J. Randolph Evans
Once upon a time, there was a new football coach at a prestigious university. Now, this was not just any university football program. It was a team that had a long and storied history of success. Yet, recent troubles had prompted the university to bring on a new coach – full of promises of better things yet to come.
The Long Road Back – Just The Numbers, Mam
By Les Dunaway
Well, we now have President Obama’s plan to “to put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working”. A long list of business leaders had little hope that the speech would contain anything substantive. They were proven right. What we got was more of the same, both in terms of the programs offered and the tax increases to pay for them.
There’s no mystery about what needs to be done. Paul Ryan’s budget would have done it. The Heritage Foundation has published a plan. Art Laffer has a plan to address the hardest hit people and areas. Read the rest of this entry »
