The Nanny State

We can dance around the problem all we want but the end game is exactly like David Warren of the Ottowa Citizen outlines here.  We, the West, have to dismantle the egregious Nanny State that has evolved over time into a debilitating debt creation machine that is burying us alive.  As Warren points out, no one signed on to comprehensive daycare, which is where we are now.  Warren is right too, when he says the only ray of light on the horizon in terms of coming to grips with this problem is the Tea Party Movement.  This spontaneous uprising on the part of average, main street Americans, suggests the American people get it and are ready for a real change in the system, not just this dangerous game of piling on more debt and finding a new way, say a value added tax,  to cover the the ever growing shortfall.  One way or the other, the entitlement generation is in for difficult years ahead.

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Unfortunately, the joke's on us.

Christie strikes again

Watch this for an entertaining 5 minutes of a politician speaking the truth to a government employee:

Another Indian-American politician of note

Bobby Jindal, Indian-American governor of Louisiana, has been a very successful GOP CEO of a southern state and is about to be joined by yet another Indian-American, Nikki Haley, poised to become the next governor of South Carolina.  What's happening here with these Republican "ethnic" politicians?  George Will in one of his more insightful articles provides the answer here,  Given history, it is most interesting that these "new" faces on the political scene are surfacing in southern states and even more interesting that they are surfacing in states that appear to be moving forward these days.  South Carolina, for example, has landed several major plants from Boeing and German car companies, as a result of lower taxes and an environment conducive to business interests.  California, Washington state and  some of the other blue states would do well to study these laboratories of capitalism to get themselves back on track.