Take gummint money, get monitored. It’s a long arm that has no ending.
Rather than pay more money to Medicare doctors simply for every procedure they perform, the government will also evaluate whether patients are healthier, among other measures. The goal is for half of all Medicare payments to be handled this way by 2018.
Gummint gonna evaluate us. That’s nice.
You sigh, the song begins, you speak and I hear violins
It’s magic.
— Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne
Like the alleged living wage, which if mandated by government magically adds to prosperity, as we hear from our socialist friends and neighbors, who have unswerving belief in the power of government to save the world.
He can who thinks he can. The little engine that could. Socialists, democratic or the other kind — think Soviet, think National as in Germany in the ’30s and ’40s, think autocracies all over the world who run the banner of gummint uber alles.
These living-wage people need a new name. C’mon, reinvent yourselves. The red flag don’t fly hereabouts. We are too bourgeois, for all our flirting with pie in the sky before we die.
Such as Illinois Democrats spending, borrowing, spending some more, and look where we are now, will you? Heading up that old creek sans paddle in a cast-iron canoe. Not there quite yet. Give us time.
As for that mandated wage — telling employers what to pay employees, or else, or else what? After that, what? Tell them how to price their goods? Prix fixe for all!
That’s mandated wage all over, a fixed price. There’s a labor market, out of which can be priced hordes of people not worth the price. Wages are competitive or not, right? We can price ourselves or be priced out of that market.
Socialist policies do that. Want to know about democracy in the workplace, and anywhere else you look? It’s the will of the people. When they say free market, that’s what they have in mind: lots of people vote on what to pay for things and that vote prevails. It’s their money.
So when there’s something to sell, a man’s time for instance, democracy calls for open bidding, not a state directive. Free market, unhindered by government interference.
No price-fixing.
The state’s attorney general exceeds her portfolio?
Lisa Madigan blocks Northstar Lottery deal
The attorney general says a “termination agreement” struck by the Quinn administration is illegal and will hurt taxpayers—and therefore she’s spiking it.
The illegal part I get, but since when does the AG decide against anything but her own voting and endorsing patterns on whether it’s good for taxpayers.
. . . which is why a strong police presence is needed in black neighborhoods.
it is precisely in response to the disproportionate criminality among the black population that the police are deployed in much higher numbers in black neighborhoods, where they are trying to save innocent lives. . . .
And more here about black women at risk and Andrew Klavan rapping . . .
Let us now praise the Pope for making a good point:
There are sins of speech and writing and drawing (and lots of other things one could mention). Not a new point but appropriate in its Charlie Hebdo timing, EXCEPT for its confusing moral with political freedom, two quite different and not in themselves synchronous things.
Freedom of speech as generally if not universally understood refers to POLITICAL not MORAL freedom, which I am sure the Pope realizes. He should make that clear and not confuse matters by promoting a moral (personal) obligation rather than a political (governmental) requirement.
Lots of immoral things are legal, dear Holy Father. Please, make that distinction next time the spirit moves you.
G.K. Chesterton Academy of Chicago
If you were unable to join the thousands who marched with us in downtown Chicago, check out the photos posted on our Facebook Group page. 
Namely that my wordpress blogs whose url I am renting by the year, OakParkNewspapers.com MyJesuitLife.com, are inaccessible to me as owner/administrator. Again, what is WordPress doing to me????
. . . Why so? I cannot imbed a link in anything!!! WordPress wordpress wordpress, what the heck is going on?
Call off your tired old health inspections — of abortion facilities in our great state of Illinois. http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2015/01/gilligan-abortion-facilities-the-only-places-illinois-lawmakers-refuse-to-inspect.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FbYHz+%28Illinois+Review%29
