Finance Overhaul Casts a Shadow on Farms
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 15th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Finance Overhaul Casts a Shadow on Farms
We’ve Become a Nation of a Million Rules
John Stossel, RealClearPolitics
Something's happened to America, and it isn't good. It's become easier to get into trouble. We've become a nation of a million rules. Not the kind of bottom-up rules that people generate through voluntary associations. Those are fine. I mean imposed, top-down rules formed in the brains of meddling bureaucrats who think they know better than we how to manage our lives.Cross them, and we are in trouble.The National Marine Fishery Service (NMFS) received an anonymous fax that a seafood shipment to Alabama from David McNab contained “undersized lobster tails” and was…
The Democrats’ Middle-Class Problem
Joel Kotkin, Politico
Class, the Industrial Revolution’s great political dividing line, is enjoying Information Age resurgence. It now threatens the political future of presidents, prime ministers and even Politburo chiefs.As in the Industrial Age, new technology is displacing whole groups of people — blue- and white-collar workers — as it boosts productivity and creates opportunities for others. Inequality is on the rise — from the developing world to historically egalitarian Scandinavia and Britain.
