I’ve been saying that that if our education system – the Government Education Complex – falls, it will fall quickly. It will appear unassailable up until it simply collapses of its own weight, expense, and internal contradictions. I think that is starting to happen, and I think the Parent Trigger is an idea that will accelerate that process. That is why it deserves support.
I doubt if I was the first person to use the phrase “Government-Education Complex,” but I use it often to describe the current education system. Others have clearly started to[...]
Economics · FIRE · Health Care · Politics
The solution for health care – to the extent that it can be called one – is to transition, as rapidly as possible, to citizen/family empowerment. Individuals and families need to be empowered with choice, and collectives (governments, hospital associations, doctor’s associations, and insurance companies) must be aggressively disempowered to the point where they are mere servants of families and individuals.
Economics · Regulation · Taxes
Into this tragi-comedy of political idiocy, unemployment, and huge deficits, defenders of the bailouts point to a paltry few pennies returned to the treasury as a sign of “success” while ignoring the billions (or trillions, even) in lost revenues based upon bad government policies.
This question should be asked of every interested person who might vote in the next few elections. Everyone. “Can you govern yourself, or do you need a Federal Czar to[...]
Not that he means to, but one wonders just how his Bozo consultants managed to get him elected. Here we have an election where, according to many surveys, the electorate[...]
OK, so the pun in the title might not make sense just yet. Of course, if you can come up with a better title, be my guest. When the Rolling[...]
Kudos to the California NAACP for endorsing the California Parent Trigger Legislation. This marks one of the few times an NAACP chapter broke from the NEA/AFT dogma that defends the[...]
Health Care · Politics · Taxes
If I appear to be aggressively flogging the issue of Mitch Daniels and moving toward taxing consumption, it’s only because, at the national level, there is no more important issue.[...]
Let’s start with this. If Mitch Daniels is running for President, he’s made the strategic decision to run on bold policy, regardless of the risk. If he is not running for[...]
Clarence Page, of the Chicago Tribune, is using Christine O’Donnell as a backdrop to defend the concept of the “elite.” What’s so bad about “elites?”: That’s why O’Donnell’s desperate attempt[...]
With state and federal revenues crashing in the “great recession,” proponents of transforming America’s awful education system have a powerful new weapon. Better yet, it is a double-edged sword that[...]
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