Sunday evening reading 2

I’m going to begin this with a cautionary tale that isn’t being has now been released until tomorrow (so there’s no link). The article by writer Carter Clews is called “Barack Obama’s Soylent Green Rationing Rooms”. Since it’s now out I can save a lot of space from my original post and drop the long blockquote.

The analogy is interesting in that the movie portrayed dying as a pleasant highlight from the overcrowded New York City of the year 2022. But the society depicted in the movie could be compared to that of Zimbabwe.

Now on to more simple links.

We know that Obamacare is going to cost money, and the Heritage Foundation has calculated the impact that a 5.4% surtax on high earners could have on small businesses throughout the county as large numbers would be affected. It’s somewhat on the down-and-dirty side but imagine what would happen to the unemployment rate if even one job was lost from each affected business. It’s bad enough for many businesses that the minimum wage just went up.

Chiming in further on the financial side of Obamacare, Matt Kibbe at Townhall.com just calls Obama a “flip-flopper” on the tax deal. Didn’t John McCain want to tax employer-provided health benefits?

Needless to say, the mainstream media breezily dismisses the claims of right-thinking experts and others who see socialized medicine as an expensive and nettlesome boondoggle. Julia A. Seymour and Sarah Knoploh from the Business and Media Institute break down the media coverage of the topic since Obama took office and unsurprisingly find it generally one-sided in favor of socialized medicine.

Speaking of items which could affect business, “card-check” is not dead but being revived in other ways. The editorial writers at the Center for Individual Freedom make the humorous comparison to the old “Saturday Night Live” land shark skits in this article. You know how much I love Big Labor.

Turning to international affairs, blogger Hans Bader notes that the strife in Honduras has encouraged a neighbor and longtime foe of America to make his own bid for lifetime rule. It seems that Democrat presidents are a little weak on foreign affairs according to Bader. And as a twofer Hans also has his take on Obamacare.

All in all, as Rich Galen posits at Townhall.com, it was a bad week for President Obama. But it was a good week for finding interesting items that I encourage you to read.

Sunday 9 p.m. Forgot two I’d saved for this occasion. One is a New York Times travelogue on the local crab houses – I know, given the source it’s just what we need, more tourists and (gasp!) growth.

The other was written by Eastern Shore Delegate Michael Smigiel and points out the real reason Maryland’s going headlong into allowing speed cameras.

I didn’t add these originally because the links weren’t in my “Blog ideas” folder, just added to my favorites for the occasion. So here you are.

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2 thoughts on “Sunday evening reading 2”

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