Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Written by Gary North on March 12, 2013
Gary North’s Reality Check The best way to send a leftist into apoplexy is to show that rich people have some advantage that poor people don’t. “Unfair! Unfair! The government must do something about this!” Rich people in the United States have longer life expectancies than poor people do. This information has been available for […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 11, 2013
In 2012, there were 1.5% more rides on government-subsidized transportation. In response, 80% of all public transportation programs were reduced. This is how government operates at the local level. This information comes from a recent report from the American Public Transport Association. The head of the APTA blames volatile gasoline prices. A 2012 report by […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 8, 2013
Does the end justify the means? Should we fib for Jesus? Are little white lies for the masses OK, if you are pursuing the Social Gospel? Jim Wallis thinks the correct answers are all “yes.” He was approached by producers of the big budget History Channel series, The Bible. He is proud of that show. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 1, 2013
Obama says Congress must raise taxes on the rich. Public opinion polls say most Americans agree. Most Americans are thieves. They want all of the government-provided goodies at someone else’s expense. That is what the welfare state is all about. Speaker of the House Boehner says “no deal. Cut spending.” If he deviates this month, […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 18, 2013
In this brief interview by Charlie Rose, the screenwriter of Lincoln refers to Tea Party members as psychotic. Reagan voters, too. He says that the welfare state is community. He says that climate change threatens the species. All of this is as accurate as his script, which says that Lincoln pushed hard to get Congress […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 15, 2013
Should the U.S. government default? Wrong question. The right question: Can the U.S. government avoid defaulting? The answer is clear: no. It will default. It is $222 trillion in the hole. That’s the present value of its future obligations. Of course it’s going to default. Would that be bad? Not for taxpayers. Would it be […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 13, 2013
“Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There’s a land that I’ve heard of once in a lullaby.” The tax increases and the deficit spending you propose will hurt middle class families. It will cost them their raises. It will cost them their benefits. It may even cost some of them their jobs. And it […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 6, 2013
Birth rates are falling around the world. Japan was first. Then Europe. Then China. The U.S.A. was the hold-out. Now it has fallen below 2.1 children per woman–replacement rate. White, college-educated American women are down to 1.6 children. Mexican birth rates are way down. So are Mexican-American rates. Latin America is down. The immigrants kept […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 31, 2013
“The owl of Minerva flies only at dusk.” I came across that phrase many times over 45 years ago, when I was writing my first book, Marx’s Religion of Revolution (1968). (You can download it for free here.) What does it mean? Wikipedia explains. The nineteenth-century idealist philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel famously noted that […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 30, 2013
You are stuck with Obamacare if you need health insurance. If you can pay for treatment, you can get treatment far cheaper with no waiting period. Here’s how. No rationing. No standing in line. I like the hospital ship idea. Get on board, sail 200 miles outside the USA, and you get cheap, efficient care. […]
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