Sunday, December 5, 2010

Hardcore Capitalist's Perspective - 12/5/2010

  • State Dept Buying Surface-to-Air Missiles
    Will the government never be able to grasp the most basic economic concepts? In an effort to rid the world of Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), the US State Department is using your tax dollars to buy them up and destroy them. Only problem is, this is only increasing the profits of MANPADS producers, which in turn is causing them to produce more MANPADS. ...Yeah.
  • Schumer Wants End to TSA Storing Scans
    Sen. Schumer (D-NY) wants to pass a bill that fines TSA workers who store or distribute nude scan images. While laudable on Schumer's part, we need to be realistic. This is the same TSA who told us the bald-faced lie that not only were nude scan images not being saved, it wasn't even possible to save the scans. A leak of hundreds of saved scans from Orlando debunked that deception. What guarantee is there that the TSA would actually abide by this law? What we need to do is abolish the TSA entirely and allow private firms to provide security once again.
  • State Legislators Bolt Democratic Party
    State lawmakers are defecting to the Republican Party, following last month's GOP electoral wave. In one case (Louisiana), the defections have actually caused the state legislature to flip from a Democratic to a Republican majority. The number one reason these ex-Dems are giving for their switches? Economic philosophy. The Krugmaniac Keynesianism of the Democratic Party is crumbling.
  • 14 y.o. Drug Cartel Hitman Nabbed
    Another tragic symptom of the Drug Prohibition: a 14-year-old kid was found working as a hitman for a drug cartel in Mexico. Does anyone really think that people would be sawing off other people's heads for marijuana, if marijuana were allowed to be a boring, old consumer good, sold in stores alongside alcohol and cigarettes?
  • KKK Snowman Causes Controversy
    I can't condemn this strongly enough, but I also hope that this hateful racist's neighbors respect his private property and his right to free expression. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, let even vile racists like this man "stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
  • Censured Rangel "Still Loves Congress"
    Comments David Shellenberger: "The harm Rep. Rangel has done to the country goes beyond his ethical violations. The National Taxpayers Union gives him a grade of 'F' on his votes on taxes, spending, and debt for every year in the period of its ratings, back to 1992."

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Published at RightOSphere.com.

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