Monthly Archives: December 2011

The Fiction of Failure – Don B essay

As a professional in using data to draw conclusions and extrapolating possibilities from facts, it’s more than a little embarrassing to listen to our governmental leaders describe our system as being a complete failure.  If we view this in terms of our free market system’s current problems, they will simply explain it as the greed [...]

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Teacher furlough bill in PA Congress – A Don L editorial

Rumor has it that the directors of the Vienna Boys Choir are entertaining thoughts of expanding the choir to men of all ages.These days many men in our Pa. general assembly are singing with that high-pitched angelic voice that results from the lack a certain body part historically associated with ” manhood ” and ” [...]

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An additional approach to avoiding Obamacare – Health Care Compact

Use the leverage of the state legislatures to affect the vote of the federal public servants: Explanation of Health Care Compact

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The basis for nullification – presentation from Tenth Amendment Center

10th Presentation (9 08)  

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Payroll tax cut: good for now, bad for later (note: 2012 election is now)

President Obama’s latest effort to not only extend the payroll tax cut on Social Security but to actually increase the percentage from the current 2 % to over 3% is very deceiving. The intent is to spur the economy and that is a good thing. However, who is going to pay for this in the [...]

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The problem of Legislation from the Bench – A Don B letter

Don Bessler THE LAW OF THE LAND It has become more and more obvious over the years that the fear the founders had about the power of the judiciary to legislate from the bench has come to pass. With the requirement for Senate approval of Supreme Court justices, it has become purely a political arrangement [...]

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