Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Politics on Dec 5th, 2012
The entire fiscal cliff debate is sickening. Maybe I ought to post on it some time, but I have tried to stay out of it. I’d just get eaten up by the sausage grinder myself. In any case, this headline greeted me tonight, “Poll shows support for raising taxes on the rich” and down in […]
Posted in Health Care on Dec 5th, 2012
We already knew it was a morass of regulation, but Goodman here makes the excellent point that the private insurers implement much of the government health care “system” today … here is one excerpt: In both cases, the underlying premise is that there is some fundamental difference between public and private health insurance. This is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 5th, 2012
Biggs and Richwine examine the American Time Use Survey to find that: What we found was that during a typical workweek, private-sector employees work about 41.4 hours. Federal workers, by contrast, put in 38.7 hours, and state and local government employees work 38.1 hours. In a calendar year, private-sector employees work the equivalent of 3.8 […]
Posted in Politics, Voluntary Society on Dec 5th, 2012
It turns out that when the people who live in areas where fracking would be a profitable and valuable option, they vote in favor of it. In the local elections that were held just to the south of where we live here in Rochester, candidates who ran on an anti-fracking campaign appear to have been soundly thrashed […]
