Rich TAkes! June 1, 2011

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An Open Letter to the Speaker and the Minority Leader

June 1, 2011

Dear Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell:

There is no better opportunity for those associated with the Conservative Movement to make a strong, bold, and principled statement to the American people than the approaching debt limit vote.  We write to you today urging that the debt limit not be increased unless the legislation includes substantial steps to change the spending ways of the federal government.

We believe the fundamental components necessary to any agreement to raise the debt limit are:

Continue reading An Open Letter to the Speaker and the Minority Leader

Song of the Day: Can I Tell You?

Don Kirshner “discovered” Kansas playing at a high school hop in 73 or 74. This is the strongest tune from their initial release, Kansas: “Can I Tell You”

There is only one verse, repeated three times. Nice fiddle playing, too! John Brown at Parker’s Ferry is portrayed on the album art.

The lyrics:

Can I tell you something
Got to tell you one thing
If you expect the freedom
That you say is yours
Prove that you deserve it
Help us to preserve it
Or being free will just be
Words and nothing more

PS, this is the theme song of Rich TAkes!

Star Parker on Stossel and the Ubiquitous Welfare State

“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”

 

Anytime the government interferes with natural economic laws and individual freedom and liberty, there are unintended consequences.

Star Parker tells of her experiences on welfare in the 90s. She thought it was great, and hung out at Venice Beach most days. I thought we reformed Welfare back then (after Clinton vetoed the Bill twice, he finally signed it) sadly, things have not changed all that much today.

 

High Time to Reform SSI and ADHD

Nearly any normal eight to ten year old boy can easily be classified with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Sadly, we seem to be incentivizing parents to seek such a diagnosis by dangling Federal Supplemental Security Income checks of up to 700.00 per month for each child classified as mentally “disabled”.

Long term damage to the child’s mental health and self-esteem is nearly always worse than the diagnosis.

From the Boston Globe:

SSI has clearly given some hard-up parents a strong financial incentive to seek federal aid by having their children classified as disabled — and in some cases to get drugs prescribed. “To get the check,’’ one regretful mother told the Globe, “you’ve got the medicate the child.’’

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Some advocates for the poor defend the current system as a substitute for welfare, the only recourse for some needy families. But the damage done to children who are misclassified as mentally ill is incalculable: Some linger in special ed classes when they are capable of accelerated work; others come to believe themselves to be impaired when no such impairment exists.