Communism
Comrade Elena Kagan’s Senior Thesis on Socialism
From the National Review.
The Daily Princetonian has an illuminating article on the young Elena Kagan, Class of ’81. Under the tutelage of Sean Wilentz — lefty historian, friend of the Clintons, and notorious Bush-basher — Kagan wrote a thesis called “To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900–1933,” which first raised eyebrows when Kagan was being considered for Souter’s seat last year:
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Sweden’s March Towards CAPITALISM!
In The Capitalist Welfare State, Lund University economist Andreas Bergh explains how Sweden has managed to increase economic productivity despite its large public sector.
Bergh says that despite popular mythology, Sweden is not a socialist success story but instead owes its economic growth to the lowered tax rates and deregulation of the early 1990s, which allowed innovation and investment to flourish. Bergh also discusses how Sweden’s national voucher program revitalized the country’s educational system and warns that Americans who are hoping to emulate Swedish success by growing the public sector are learning the wrong lessons from Sweden.
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Sweden’s March Towards CAPITALISM!
In The Capitalist Welfare State, Lund University economist Andreas Bergh explains how Sweden has managed to increase economic productivity despite its large public sector.
Bergh says that despite popular mythology, Sweden is not a socialist success story but instead owes its economic growth to the lowered tax rates and deregulation of the early 1990s, which allowed innovation and investment to flourish. Bergh also discusses how Sweden’s national voucher program revitalized the country’s educational system and warns that Americans who are hoping to emulate Swedish success by growing the public sector are learning the wrong lessons from Sweden.
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Your Tax Dollars Go to IMF to Bailout Greece
HT to JS whole emailed me this MSNBC clip this morning.
First, the US contributes nearly 20% to the IMF. Second, AIG (who, as I remember, was bailed out by the US government–using our tax dollars) is a key supplier of Credit Default Swaps (CDS) on Greek debt.
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