Monday, 7 July 2008

Socializing Health Care Is Bad Idea

One of the major issues of this year's presidential election is the growing costs of health care. Much of the discussion this year by Democrats has been on the adoption of some type of single payer system in the U.S. Moving us down the path to a socialized health care system.

While I share most people's frustration over the costs of health care, we need to reject liberal solutions proposed by Obama and his fellow Democrats. Why? Let's ask the architect of Canada's socialized system what he now thinks about his own creation.

Once again we see that liberalism fails wherever it is tried.

Posted by brians at 10:04 PM in Political Issues
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The Price Of An Increased Minimum Wage

Today the Courier Journal has a wonderful sob story about how difficult it is for teens to get jobs in today's market. I assume the point of the story is tell us how rotten the economy has become. The gloomier life is the more likely people will respond to Obama Mesiah's promise of hope and change.

I don't see it that way. I see the higher teen unemployment as the natural result of raising the minimum wage. Last year when the left railed at the inequity of a low minimum wage, they claimed that people couldn't make a living on the minimum wage. At the time, I and others pointed out that most of the people who make the minimum wage are teenagers. They would be the ones most effected by the new law as companies tried to get by with less labor.

Low and behold the laws of economics work. Now we are seeing a difficult time for teenagers trying to get jobs. I don't think it is mere coincidence that a rise in teen unemployment lines up perfectly with the increase in the minimum wage. Unfortunately, the article ignores the effect of raising the minimum wage on job availability. I guess that would hit to close to home for the useful idiot class. They would have to come face to face with the reality that their liberal policies are the root cause of higher teen unemployment.

Posted by brians at 8:28 PM in Political Issues
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