The "Public Option" in 40 Seconds

Classic!

Some Perspective on the National Debt

It's often claimed by the Left that the cost of the Bush administration's war on terror is comparable to the entitlement spending planned by the Obama administration. Here's a bit of perspective on President Bush's war spending relative to national debt:

And Bush's deficit compared to Obama's?


There is simply no comparing the Bush administration's spending to that of the Obama administration's.

The Left and Cutting the Minimum Wage

The liberals on Digg.com were all aflutter today because, in a segment on Fox News, someone dared to raise the question of whether or not lowering the minimum wage would ease unemployment. Oh the audacity!

The idea of reducing the minimum wage to lower unemployment is based on the understanding that if the amount of money a company has to pay its employees is set at X, the number of people it employs is Y and the minimum amount each employee must be paid is Z, then the smaller Z is the larger Y can be. Which begs the question, is it better to work for less than the government-mandated minimum wage (which currently sits at $7.25 an hour) or to not work at all?

Let's turn to the Nobel Prize-winning economist (back before the Nobel Committee became a glorified cheer squad for liberalism), Milton Friedman for a fuller explanation of the minimum wage:



Of course, to understand Friedman's explanation of the minimum wage, one first has to move away from appeals to pathos - something which is utterly impossible for the Left to do. Nonetheless, if there were a single thing the government could do to decrease unemployment in this country without also further increasing the national deficit, it would be to decrease the minimum wage.

So, when the Left argues against lowering the minimum wage, one can't help but wonder: Why? Either it's because, in their economic ignorance, they see it as a cause for "social justice" or it's because they're being politically pragmatic and understand that the more people reliant on the government for sustenance, the more votes they can count on come election day.

Terrorist Soapbox

Image from Red Planet Cartoons

55% in New York Oppose Civilian Terror Trials and 59% of Americans think KSM should be tried in military, not civilian, court. But, hey, this administration has never been one to let public opinion get in it's way.

Al Gore Gets it Wrong, CO2 Lags Behind Temp

Just Like in 1968