Murphy's Fourth Law: If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
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(The Hill). "Now is the time to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, and when we do that, we will create or maintain some nine million good-paying jobs,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “We cannot be a first-rate economy when we have a third-rate infrastructure. Everybody knows that.”
As usual, this socialist political whore is hyping special interest infrastructure vendors. Actually highway roughness and count of structurally deficient bridges have steadily declined over the past generation, despite raids of fuel taxes by parasitic transit authorities (see NCPA #767), not to mention that the US ranks #12 in infrastructure competitiveness (and by far, the largest country among the dozen)--and in fact has tracked the OECD average over the past 40-odd years.
(The Mackinac Center for Public Policy). The Michigan Legislature voted on a bill last week to “take all steps necessary to ensure maximum state and local control” over school lunch nutrition mandates, removing power from the federal government. What do you think?
yes, because it's much easier for Snyder and the repukes to ENRICH their friends by giving them the contracts for what will be cheap, crappy food!
It's so much better for nutritional elitists to control taxpayer funds on what other people's children can eat (or don't eat and throw out, given the general distaste for centrally planned menus/rulemaking). We need to apply the principle of Subsidiarity to school lunches, i.e., provide the local schools the authority to prepare meals that most kids will accept and provide enough sustenance to last through the school day...
(continued from yesterday's FEE post on open borders).
Name calling Ronald? I thought Libertarians were better than that. Challenging your opinion does not constitute spam. I'm a big fan of liberty always, and FEE usually, I understand the economic arguments for liberalized immigration, and I agree with them in theory, but immigration is not just an economic issue about the efficient allocation of labor. It is also about bringing in people who are hostile to our rights of property, self-determination, and liberty, who will vote accordingly. It is also about an intentional or unintentional destructive burden placed on our countries resources as allocated by the nanny state. Fix the nanny-state and big government intrusion, tell me how we'll maintain the fixes, then we can talk about utopia.
Do you have any clue how ethically repugnant you sound with xenophobic stereotypes? My ancestors from French Canada migrated during the Gilded Age; the French in New England worked hard at occupations like logging, farming, and working at textile mills (under what some today would call sweatshop conditions)--no Big Government handouts. Extraordinary work ethic, too proud to accept charity. I also attended high school and college with Latinos, some of whose parents worked the hard life of a migrant farmworker--like Franco-Americans, they have a hard work ethic and are devout Catholics in general.
The proper solution to the welfare system is to reform or eliminate it. Every legitimate immigration study I have seen shows that immigrants are net contributors to government budgets; they also tend to be younger and healthier and if anything help to shore up poorly funded health and retirement programs.
Finally, I stand by my statement that the anti-immigrant populists, like you, are spamming immigration threads. Try to count how many people have expressed unconditional support for liberalized immigration like I have. This is a free market thread and I doubt that I've seen more than a handful. You anti-immigrant types repeat the same old same old arguments that have been around since the Know Nothings and the KKK.
(follow-up comment; the respondent accused me of making it personal)
You are trying to make this an ad hominem issue, and it's not; I'm pissed off by hypocrites who say they are for free markets and don't see the contradiction of restrictive immigration policies, and all of you anti-immigrants repeat the same old arguments (and don't hand me the embarrassing "some of my best friends are immigrants" line). The fact is your initial comment explicitly references "those people" who are out for our tax dollars, don't care for our values, etc.--you can't walk that back--and that's where the "namecalling" (blunt honesty) is coming from. We have had overly restrictive immigration policies over the past 90 years; it has cost the US economy growth.
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John Denver, "Take Me Home, Country Roads". My last experience with WV backroads was when I was returning my cable equipment to some nondescript strip mall I had never been to. Somehow my GPS (I recently did a writeup in my software blog of a previous adventure) had led me behind the mall unknowingly and as I followed the road maybe a mile or so, it rapidly transitioned from smooth pavement to a winding one-lane road little more than two tire tracks of gravel. I quickly backtracked and discovered that I had turned a couple of blocks too soon, and the GPS had been quiet when I passed a back entrance to the strip mall; there had been no markers to the mall. I've had my fill of getting lost on WV backroads.
