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Happy New Year to all member of our group!
Just last month Scientific American reported on evidence relating to why big government is not such a hot idea: http://socialismdoesntwork.com/power-cor rupts-what-else-is-new/
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One of the chief culprits responsible for the negative side effects (runaway spending, corruption, miss-allocation of resources) of big government...

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The science of global warming is not directly related to socialism,
however its political aspect as become a powerful tool statists and
socialists use to pass laws and impose their ideology on the populace.
The linked video is a fantastic presentation about the problems with
the global warming theory and a short discussion of the Cap and Trade
legislation at the end.

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As debate starts heating up in the Senate, prepare yourself for Thanksgiving with liberal relatives. Please read the article "Putting the Health Care Debate in Perspective: Are People Dying on the Streets?"
http://tinyurl.com/yl8xj29
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Are people in America dying on the streets while every other civilized country provides health care to its citizens? To answer this question, first

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Even if regulations are initially good intentioned, competing special interests, including the ones of the politicians themselves who must combat public opinion, are likely to result legislation producing the worst possible outcomes. Can we say Obamacare? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424 0527487044024045745236...13159447566.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook# articleTabs%3Darticle
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The Wall Street Journal writes that Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a health-care leviathan that counts as the biggest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal. ...

Socialism Doesn't Work Congratulations to Virigina and New Jersey! So a nice simle and outrageously unrealistic promisses only go so far after all!

Socialism Doesn't Work Have a good election day tomorrow. Next year that day is going to be a lot crazier!

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This is an interesting article about the government's role in the current financial crisis: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424 052748704107204574475110152189446.html?m od=WSJ_hps_RIGHTTopCarousel#articleTabs% 3Darticle
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In The Wall Street Journal American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Peter J. Wallison writes that almost two-thirds of all bad mortgages in our financial system were bought by government agencies or required by government regulations.

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"In the long fight between Karl Marx and Milton
Friedman, even the democratic socialists of Europe had to admit
that Friedman won in a landslide. Although media attention was
rightly focused on the dramatic economic changes transforming
Asia and the former East Bloc, fully half of the world’s
privatization in the ...first dozen years after the Cold War, as
measured by revenue, took place in Western Europe." http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/12/th e-unknown-war
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The defeat of communism 20 years ago was the most liberating moment in history. So why don't we talk about it more?

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Now about that Noble Peace Prize gang? At any rate, here's an article about important matters in the healthcare front: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_ id=10622 http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_ id=10622
Despite New Deficit-Cutting Claim, Baucus Bill Is Just Tax-and-Spend | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Inst
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Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and coauthor of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.

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The following joke is based on a Fox News viewer email: How Obamacare will be free for all? Simple…
http://tinyurl.com/ybf4jrj
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The following joke is based on a Fox News viewer email: How Obamacare will be free for all? Simple…

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This is a great piece by Dick Morris about the expenses of Obamacare to the middle class. Obama and many Democrats keep promising they'll only "tax the rich" so they have to use back door methods of taxation without having to call it that. http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/09/2 1/obamacare-losing-everyone/
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The British health care system is not that great (to say the least). Here's an article about the subject from October '07, before Obama became the Democratic presidential front runner. http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1019/p04s0 1-woeu.html
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A report from the Healthcare Commission says that patients at many health facilities face long waits and uneven quality.

Socialism Doesn't Work This is a wonderful piece by George Will about why people don't believe Obama anymore about health care. http://www.newsweek.com/id/215301/page/1
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Socialism Doesn't Work "ince President Clinton spoke of health inflation in 1993, health costs continued to rise faster than wages, but President Obama refuses to acknowledge years later that the U.S. health inflation rate is almost identical to rates in government-run systems."
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President Obama delivers a great speech on a mediocre health-care proposal.

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This is a great writeup about the history and failures of socialism: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Socia lism.html
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