Rattrap’s Rants

I Pledge to Join Young Americans for Liberty

I am incensed by this headlong rush to get a healthcare bill on the President’s desk before the State of the Union address. I am incensed that I will have to pay for Nebraska’s Medicaid in perpetuity and Louisiana’s roads. I am incensed by Democrat leadership that is forcing an unpopular bill down our throats. [...]

Chris Edwards at Cato details the programs failureshere

Obama Care and America’s Entitlement Kids

Okay here are my ideas, so that we can, once and for all, put to bed the notion that all we conservatives haven’t put any ideas forward.  I believe that single payer means that the consumer pays for their health care directly and the only exception would be catastrophic events.  Health savings accounts would provide [...]

I would like to see someone find the place in the US Constitution where congress has the authority to fine the citizenry for not purchasing something.
Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote that if America were to lose its freedom, it would not be through violent foreign conquest, but rather through the “soft despotism” of innumerable governmental [...]

How is it that the government which:

Forced the ponzi scheme called social security on the country – now broke
Forced medicaid on the states – now unsustainable.
Forced medicare on us.  Caused them to go broke.
“Manages” the post office – never broke even.
Created Amtrak – also never broke even.

Now wants to force government run health [...]

545 PEOPLE By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY [...]

The Second American Revolution

It’s obvious now…

H/T John Locke Foundation