Tipping Point

How long before the expansion of government regulation causes a collapse.  It happened in the Soviet Union.  It is happening in Europe.  Sooner or later it will happen here.

Unmet Needs

[This] is a world of trade-offs, not solutions--and whatever trade-off is decided upon will still leave unmet needs.

-- Thomas Sowell

Budget

The GAO report could have been used as a step-by-step instruction manual for producing real cuts to government spending. Why wasn't it?
"Because the constituency for spending is still strong in Washington," says former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R- Holland, who has the perspective of three months as a private citizen. "Appropriators don't want to cut spending, and the bureaucracy is a big advocate for growing government."
So instead, Hoekstra says, Congress "worries more about how to gain a political advantage than actually solving the problem."
 
--Nolan Finley

Shocking

More Americans work for the government than work in construction, farming, fishing, forestry, manufacturing, mining and utilities combined.

Over the period 1970-2005, school spending per pupil, adjusted for inflation, doubled, while standardized achievement test scores were flat. Over roughly that same time period, public-school employment doubled per student, according to a study by researchers at the University of Washington.

Be careful

Be very careful about what you believe today.