Unions not only destroyed many once-proud American businesses, but also promulgated such evils as a 40 hour workweek (remember that?), health and safety regulations on the job that have saved many workers’ lives, paid vacations, and the now-discredited idea of defined-benefit pensions, plus a particular horror this country used to value called “job security.”
And let’s [...]

I believe the economic prediction economy has recovered and is now quite healthy. Indeed, here in Florida economists never really felt a recession. If anything, the recession created a greater market for them than ever, since local news media here have been running, “Economist says real estate has bottomed, now is the time to buy,” [...]

We seem to have collectively decided that at least 15% of our working-age population is no longer necessary to keep our country’s businesses running, and every year we have a larger number of surplus people as we shift more jobs overseas or automate them out of existence. We basically have two choices: we can either [...]

The overwhelming majority of governments over the centuries and millenia have been dictatorships.

In a fantasy libertarian paradise, each citizen works hard out of enlightened self-interest. No one uses force on anyone else, since my rights stop where your nose begins. If you accumulate a whole bunch of property, bully for you! If I fail in business or some other endeavor and suddenly have no money for food, [...]

One of my wife’s friends is a doctor’s wife — who is now on an austerity budget because, she says, her husband’s pediatric practice now sees an average of seven patients per day, down from an average of thirty patients per day a year ago. He’s laying off two more of his office staff people [...]

I find it amazing that so many people who talked a good “free market” game were so quick to use my tax money to save their wealthy friends’ millions when said friends made poor bets — and lost. I know we’re all supposed to blame Obama for everything bad that’s happened in this country since [...]

Carolina Launch Pad names 2010 class of entrepreneurs
CHAPEL HILL, NC, January 8, 2010—New participants in Carolina Launch Pad will move into office space within the next few weeks as the pre-commercial incubator located at RENCI begins its second year.
Carolina Launch Pad, funded by RENCI through the UNC Office of the Provost, targets faculty, staff and [...]

On the last Thursday of every month, liberals gather at Shakespeare’s English Pub and… drink. Liberally. There may be a similar group near you — find out at http://livingliberally.org/drinking/ — and if there isn’t, you can start one. Video courtesy of http://www.internetvideopromotion.com ~~
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Let’s all blame Obama for everything bad that has ever happened to any American, anywhere in the world.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, can we please pull together and try to solve this country’s problems?
Thank you,
- Robin