Tag: Health care
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Government-run health care focus of June 6 demonstration
This Saturday, Wichita-area citizens will have an opportunity to let their fellow citizens and the Obama administration know of the dangers of government control of health care. The event will be on Saturday, June 6, 2009, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.
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Demonstrating against government control of health care
Today a dedicated group of citizens worked for two hours to get out the message that government control of our health care is not in our best interest. Another protest will be held on June 6. One of the banners (and an adorable puppy) promoted the website Free Market Cure.
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Sedgwick County industrial park chasing uncertain industries
Sedgwick County is considering becoming a developer of an industrial park. The county is limiting itself to deals described as a “home run,” meaning a company that plans to hire more than 1,000 workers. The problem is that there are few of these deals each year. Maybe just five to eight. But Sedgwick County’s policy…
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The audacity of hopelessness
By Gregory L. Schneider President Barack Obama has had his way with business in his first hundred days in office. He is the only president in American history to fire a CEO of a private business, Rick Wagoner of General Motors. He called bondholders of Chrysler Corporation speculators after they refused a government-financed deal that…
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Government-run health care focus of May 24 demonstration
Next Sunday, Wichita-area citizens will have an opportunity to let their fellow citizens and the Obama administration know of the dangers of government control of health care.
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Is it greed when someone else pays?
A letter to the editor in today’s Wichita Eagle under the title “Greed rules” states, in part: “There is no reason that the United States remains the only civilized nation in the world not to have a single-payer health system except that greed rules our country.” I wonder: Is it greed to want someone else…
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Walter Williams on the housing crisis
Economist Walter E. Williams explains the causes of the housing crisis. Then, why would we let these same people who caused the housing crisis take charge of health care? Short and worthwhile viewing.
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Articles of Interest
Bailout costs rise, local election turnout, health care, light bulbs, newspapers, Kansas coal prospects.
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Articles of Interest
Us v. Them: The People and the Political Class (Jack McHugh, Mackinac Center for Public Policy). “The fundamental problem facing our nation is that true representative government has been supplanted by an inbred, self-serving, self-perpetuating political class that does not represent the people. As a result, the government has escaped the control of the people.”…