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Category Archives: Capitalism

Fortune Magazine – Designing the less than ideal health care system

Oh, how I wish the world worked the way Shawn claims it does! I’m guessing he is a believer in that seldom found commodity called “compassionate capitalism”, where companies honestly compete with each other, pay real wages, pass savings on to consumers, etc. In Mr. Tully’s world, it is the regulations that we place on the health care industry that are the real problem. If we just deregulated them, freed them from the shackles of state regulation, which the Heritage Foundation calls “excessive regulatory intervention” then, like all our other deregulated industries, magical consumer savings would appear and the industry would be “fixed”.

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I Don’t Watch CNN (and neither should you)

It boils down to this. Do I want to get my news from the glorified stenographers at the major news outlets (CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc.) or would I like to get it from someone who is actually in tune with the absolutely ridiculous state of our government and media services.  Time and time again we [...]

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Thoughts on Patriotism

The second paragraph of the declaration of independence contains the following words: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted [...]

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