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Month: February 2011

  • Siren Song of Norway

    George Rebane American progressives cum socialists frequently wax eloquent about the Scandinavian forms of governance, and pointedly ask ‘why can’t we be like that?’.  What is the ‘that’ that so enamors them to countries like Denmark and Norway?  Norway especially is the oft-cited posterchild of “socialist capitalism”.  Perhaps this is because we recall the beauty…

  • Local 39: Unions Eating their Young?

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular commentary on KVMR-FM 89.5 that was broadcast earlier this 4feb2011 evening.] In Nevada County Local 39 of the International Union of Operating Engineers AFL-CIO enjoys the membership of about 555 of the current 825 employees, or about 2 out of 3 county workers.  Our county, like…

  • The Liberal Mind – Taxes to Mandated Spending

    George Rebane The recent national debate on socialized healthcare (aka Obamacare) has illuminated the way progressives, and presumably all collectivists, organize their thinking on how the government can determine the allocation of your funds and assets.  The main enlightenment here is that they see no difference in a government's taxing a citizen to obtain revenues…

  • Healthcare on a Leftwing and a Prayer

    George Rebane My email this morning contained an “open letter” by local resident Michael Anderson to the Tea Party Patriot leadership.  It was published in Jeff Pelline’s blog and sent to me by the ‘duty reader’ of Jeff’s output.  Michael excoriates the policies and efforts of the TPP and the Republicans in Congress to roll…

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