Conservative Patriot's Blog – February 2012 Archive (17)

In his budget for fiscal year 2013, President Obama advocated as a vital goal that the United States reduce its dependence on foreign sources of oil.  However, in a seemingly contradictory move, the president also sought an end to tax benefits given to the oil and gas industries while advocating massive government spending in renewables, says Robert Bryce, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute.…

Over the course of President Obama's years in office, the creation of new federal regulations has accelerated unabashedly, consistently leveling new costs on consumers and businesses alike in the name of aggregate benefit.  However, further investigation finds that justifications for new regulations are increasingly concentrated into two areas that are untrustworthy, says The Economist.…

With seemingly every day bringing more bad news from Europe, many are beginning to ask how much longer the United States has before our welfare state follows the European model into bankruptcy.  The bad news: It may already have, says Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

• This year, the fourth straight year that the United States borrowed more than $1 trillion to support the…

If polls are to be believed, unionism in general is becoming increasingly unpopular with the American public.  This might explain why overt attempts to gain legal concessions, such as the Employee Free Choice Act, have not been met by the federal government with overwhelming approval.  Nevertheless, unions continue to gain concessions on the local level that perpetuate their damaging effects, says Michael M. Rosen of The…

American public education needs a complete restructuring in order to support the development of critical thinkers ready to assume their positions as productive citizens of a free society.  Neglecting to change the system will only contribute to America losing its position as the leader of the free world, says Linus Wright, an undersecretary of education during the Reagan administration and senior fellow with the National Center for Policy…

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President Obama has continued a campaign for economic fairness throughout his last several major speaking engagements, including the State of the Union and his budget speech.  To this end, the Obama administration seems content to force American corporations to continue to abide by one of the most abusive corporate tax rates in the world, as this is a tax on the "rich," says Aparna Mathurm, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise…

The state of Texas, one of the largest producers of wind energy in the world, can learn a great deal from European countries' experiences.  While environmental advocates argue that targeted subsidies will reduce emissions and create "green" jobs, the experiences of Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom suggest that this may not be the case, says Josiah Neeley, an energy and environment policy analyst with the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

In 2007 the Spanish government…

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An energy boom is revving up the U.S. economy, says the Wall Street Journal.

• The use of new drilling techniques to tap oil and gas in shale rocks far underground helped add about 158,500 new oil and gas jobs over the past five years, and economists think it has created even more jobs in companies supplying the energy industry and in the broader service…

 Because of a thriving economy and a multitude of job opportunities, Americans enjoy an income that far exceeds that of all other nations. However, Americans also spend a disproportionately large share of their income on health care, far exceeding allocations by all other countries, says Christopher J. Conover, a research scholar at Duke University's Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise…

PATRIOTS: Joanne & I attended Mass in Florida today and the following letter was read in place of the usual Homily. At the end of the reading, applause and words of "its about time" echoed throughout a church filled with more than 1,000 people. This letter has renewed my commitment to rectify the mess created in large part by the complacency of my generation, and to pass to our children and grandchildren the gift of "America" entrusted to us thru the great…

Americans consume nearly $100 billion dollars' worth of medical devices annually.  Medical devices include simple things, such as cotton swabs, as well as complex instruments, such as pacemakers and artificial joints.  Beginning in 2013, a 2.3 percent tax will be imposed on the manufacture and importation of medical devices in an attempt to offset a portion of the $1 trillion cost of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  Though…

 A new report from actuarial consulting firm Milliman, Inc. shows a provision of the health reform law intended to tax health insurance companies to help fund coverage expansions will be paid entirely by state Medicaid programs for the portion assessed to Medicaid managed care organizations, says PRNewswire.

The report concludes the cost to states is greater than previously thought, with…

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