All Posts Tagged With: "pork"
Corruption in Government? Shocking!
It’s funny how the people who push hardest for government intervention in more and more areas are the first to gripe that everything has become politicized. What were they expecting? Did they forget that government is a political institution? Paul Krugman and Chris Matthews, among other Progressives, are apoplectic because two senators of the minority [...]
20Apr2010 | Sheldon Richman | 3 comments | ContinuedGovernment: More Incompetent than Ever
Most intellectuals support big government, and millions of people depend on it. So why, with thousands of laws, millions of employees working to carry out those laws, and trillions of dollars spent, is it in trouble? The most popular big-government programs–like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid–are going broke. These entitlements account for more than half [...]
19Apr2010 | Jim Powell | 1 comment | ContinuedWhy Did the “Stimulus” Fail to Help the Economy?
Attempts to “stimulate” the economy through massive government spending may put money into the pockets of politically connected people, but it does nothing to restore the economic factors to their proper balances.
20Jan2010 | William L. Anderson | 28 comments | ContinuedTo the Point
I’m not an expert policy analyst, but a comment in today’s National Review made a lot of sense, “The problem with trying to spend $1 trillion quickly is that you end up wasting a lot of it.” I thought, “Hmm, that is probably really true.” Then I got to the part of the package where “$87 [...]
5Feb2009 | Margaret Morgan | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Bacon Explosion, Metaphorically Speaking
This past Sunday, I joined hundreds of thousands of other individuals in reproducing this year’s latest culinary sensation: The Bacon Explosion. Though ours didn’t turn out quite as prettily as the one pictured here, we deemed it a success.It is worth pointing out the irony hidden in this barbequed-bacon wonder: The very year this “massive [...]
4Feb2009 | Margaret Morgan | 0 comments | ContinuedEmergency Stimulus?
Last week congressional Democrats unveiled their $825 Billion dollar ‘stimulus’ package. Some big ticket items in this “emergency” bill are:$600 million for the federal government to buy new cars* $650 million for DTV conversion coupons $50 million for the National Endowment of Arts $200 million to go toward planting grass on the National Mall*I wonder [...]
19Jan2009 | Ben Stafford | 6 comments | ContinuedThe Politics of Freedom
Thomas Paine said that freedom had been hunted and harassed around the world and that only America offered it a home. Today, it seems to many Americans that freedom is on the run here, too. War and taxes, the nanny state and the Patriot Act, unsustainable entitlements—all threaten the liberty we enjoy as Americans. But [...]
1May2008 | David Boaz | 8 comments | ContinuedLeviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution
By Michael D. Tanner Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1Mar2007 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedFunding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel
Taxpayer funding of science in America is pretty meager compared to total federal spending. But legislators and interest groups intent on grabbing tax dollars for themselves don’t care whether the budget item is great or small. In recent years, federal funding for scientific research has become a prime target of the wastrels, and this pottage [...]
1Nov2000 | Jack Sommer | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Political Racket: Deceit, Self-Interest and Corruption in American Politics by Martin L. Gross
Ballantine Books • 1996 • 263 pages • $12.50 paperback Dr. Peterson is Heritage Foundation adjunct scholar and Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of business philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. Martin Gross, whose title here tells it all, sifts through a lot of political dirt. He names names—including ethically challenged politicians and special-interest PAC [...]
1Jun1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued-
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