WHO PUT THE CHILL on American businesses? Hmpf. I would've thought that Obama in campaign mode would jumpstart the economy, given that he would be 'out of office' - so to speak - and unable to screw it up even more.

GET RID OF IT: Americans will never 'grow up' as long as we have Medicare.

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. But as long as we have 'Medicare,' we’re going to continue ... to behave as if we think there is one.

It is not possible to do otherwise. When people don’t see their arrangements for medical care as a fee-for-service proposition, but rather as a collective “social insurance” scheme, in which the emotion of the moment will always be the tiebreaker for lawmakers’ decisions about other people’s money, no one has to 'grow up.'

Our political class has been steadily infantilizing the American public for at least the last 50 years; this - near-bankruptcy and defacto slavery - is the inevitable result.

Read the whole thing.

OBAMA'S JOB RECESSION:

[T]he failure to ignite small-business job creation has to be laid at the doorstep of the Obama administration, and the economic policies that threaten higher taxes and regulations virtually across the board. On Thursday this week, the president again promised House Democrats to raise taxes on successful top small-business owners. What a great new idea.

So mom and pop don’t feel like taking a risk in this environment. Higher tax-and-regulatory costs have put these entrepreneurs in survival mode. They’re playing their economic cards so close to the vest, business activity has buttoned up tight.

'Nuff said.

HARDLY ANYONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED that Medicare's financial problems have already been solved.

So why isn't this front page news? Why aren't people dancing in the street? Why isn't the Obama administration boasting about this accomplishment far and wide? Probably because Medicare's financial problems are slated to be solved by the unconscionable rationing of health care for the elderly and the disabled.

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A BREATH-TAKING FLIPFLOP. Economist turned liberal shill Paul Krugman contradicts himself in a mere two short paragraphs:

Second paragraph: “[T]here’s nothing about the form that makes Medicare unsustainable...”

Fourth paragraph: “So Medicare will have to start saying no...”

If Medicare in its current form is sustainable, then why will Medicare have to start saying no?

Krugman will turn 65 in 2018 and thus be eligible for Medicare. Any bets on whether he will choose to enroll? My bet is that he will choose to “sacrifice” himself by staying on his private insurance so that the little people will have more Medicare for themselves.