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  • No Business Like Gov Business

    09/25/2012 6:58:26 AM PDT · by expat1000 · 3 replies
    Sultan Knish ^ | 24 Sep 2012 | Daniel Greenfield
    Most people have already been primed by decades of songs and shows to pick the right answer to this one. We know that corporate boardrooms are full of menacing characters who are always laundering money, dumping toxic waste on children's playgrounds and plotting to blot out the sun. And then they temporarily step out to work in government for a few years before returning to do their sun-blotting duties. A choice between big corporations and big government is a choice of choices and no choice at all. There isn't much good that can be said about corporations, just as there...
  • Shall We Allow Poorly-Run Enterprises to Phase Out Instead of Saving them with Taxpayer's Money?

    05/14/2009 9:43:19 AM PDT · by Vigilanteman · 7 replies · 572+ views
    My daughter (a chip off the old block) has one final hurdle to clear to make the varsity debate team. She is suppossed to write a letter addressed to Barack Obama to persuade him "to let poorly-run enterprises phase out instead of saving it by taxpayer's money." She's asked me for suggestions but I don't even know where to start on this one... How can you save a poorly-run enterprise by taxpayer's money? What is defined as a poorly-run enterprise? What makes it that?? I've got my own ideas but I don't want to jepordize her chances by insulting some...