"Root Cause Analysis" of the World's Current Problems by Mark Steyn

Read today's Mark Steyn column for a take on the West's real problem!  Very interesting perspective, and one I agree with whole heartedly!

Comments?

How the left MSM taints our process for 2012

Read this article from Investor's Business Daily on a meeting this Monday at the White House between BHO and the lefty MSM setting up talking points for the 2012 race.

This is how they will operate.  The MSM is not a news gathering industry, it is a left support industry, and at this time is not ashamed to admit it.  They should be ashamed!

Or do you think that is proper activity for the Fourth Estate?

COLLEGE - the next bubble

"One of the oldest economic maxims, 'if you subsidize something, you get more of it' has created the next trillion dollar-plus bubble for which American taxpayers will be on the hook. The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education discovered that published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, while median family income rose 147 percent. What is driving those costs? The idea that every high school graduate should attend college, and that government -- meaning taxpayers -- will guarantee loans made to those students. ... [A]s college tuition costs increase, the government makes more funding available to students to pay for them. The more funding available -- guaranteed by the taxpayers, so that colleges never face the possibility of a loan default -- the more they can raise their tuition costs without ever having to worry about getting stiffed. ... If college tuition, aided and abetted by government subsidies, continues to almost triple relative to family income, at some point the amount of debt incurred to obtain a college degree will surpass the additional income one may derive from it. Considering that any attempt to reign in government's role in facilitating these runaway costs is inevitably characterized as 'depriving needy students of critically needed funds,' the trend is likely to continue. Or at least it will until the bubble pops, exactly like the government-abetted housing bubble did. Are Americans ready for another trillion dollar bailout precipitated by irresponsible government?" --columnist Arnold Ahlert (my emphasis)


Mr. Ahlert sees clearly the problem of Government subsidies.  We had all better start listening!

Two articles that will help you understand the "Green" Scam

Marita Noon explains how Europe is leading up the "Green" movement for very selfish reasons having nothing to do with our planet, but with their potential salvation on the rest of the worlds backs!  read about it here.

And

Amy Oliver explains how the "Green" movement is polluting the planet, not saving it.  Can you say: "Unintended Consequences"?  Read about it here.

It is important to understand the actual motivations of the greenies and their effect on our planet.

Suggested 2012 Campaign Slogan for BHO!

I liked this one best! See all 10 here.

Where we are headed!

Workplace Violence?

Fort Hood Massacre was Workplace Violence?

A very sad commentary on the current Administration!  Think about this when you go to vote!

Great Krugman Analysis

You might need a bit of economics background to full appreciate the five pics of Paul Krugman, but they are right on!!

Enjoy!

Or do you think they are biased?

If you believe this.....

I have a bridge in Manhattan I would like to sell you!

December 7th Japanese lunch for Obama's kids!

Thankfully, only 14 more months of this!!!

Think about this!

"Joanne Rowling was a welfare mother in Edinburgh, Scotland. All that has changed. As the writer of the 'Harry Potter' novels, having a net worth of $1 billion, she is the world's wealthiest author. ... How did Rowling become so wealthy and unequal to the rest of us? The entire blame for this social injustice lies at the feet of the world's children and their enabling parents. ... [T]he millions of '99-percenters' who individually plunk down $8 or $9 to attend a 'Harry Potter' movie, $15 to buy a 'Harry Potter' novel or $30 to buy a 'Harry Potter' Blu-ray Disc are directly responsible for contributing to income inequality and wealth concentration that economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says 'is incompatible with real democracy.' ... We just can't blame the children for the unfairness of income inequality. Look at how Wal-Mart Stores generated wealth for the Walton family of Christy ($25 billion), Jim ($21 billion), Alice ($21 billion) and Robson ($21 billion). ... The blame for this unjust concentration of wealth rests with those hundreds of millions of shoppers worldwide who voluntarily enter Wal-Mart premises and leave dollars, pounds and pesos. ... In my opinion, my recently published book 'Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?' is far more important to society than any 'Harry Potter' novel. I'd like to know what it is about me that explains why millions upon millions have not purchased my book and made me a billionaire author. Maybe Krugman and the Wall Street occupiers have the answer." --economist Walter E. Williams

REMEMBER: the class warfare on the left is simply "jealousy" masked to further their agenda to aggregate power they cannot achieve on their own in a free market environment - and you may quote that original sentence if you like!