Rattrap’s Rants

Archive for the 'General' Category

09 Jan

Pledge Now!

I Pledge to Join Young Americans for Liberty

23 Dec

COMMON SENSE HEALTH CARE REFORM

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. [...]

02 Oct

Cash for clunkers: Epic Fail!

Chris Edwards at Cato details the programs failureshere

11 Sep

Entitlement spending, simplified

Obama Care and America’s Entitlement Kids

10 Sep

Health care reform

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 [...]

09 Sep

Fined for not purchasing?

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 [...]

13 Aug

Government Incompetence

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 [...]

05 Aug

545 vs 300 million

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 [...]

21 Mar

The Second American Revolution

The Second American Revolution

19 Sep

School Choice Explained

It’s obvious now…

H/T John Locke Foundation

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