Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Friends Getting Favors

I'm super short on time so here's a couple of quick hitters for today to hopefully get this thing started.

First off, in case you don't own a TV, it's now official, John Bush won the election. No, that's not a typo. As Richard Epstein put it in Reason Magazine, "It’s just two members of the same statist party fighting over whose friends will get favors."

Speaking of statist parties. Canada's own statist party, the federal Liberals have decided to enter the baby raising business along with the provinces. The Canadian Union of Public Employees is quoted in the Winnipeg Free Press as saying, "Canada will go from patchwork to excellence if all levels of government work together to create a public, non-profit child-care system." So parents can now look forward to lineups and long waiting lists for child-care as well as health-care. Wonderful.

Someone please tell me how it's fair for parents to confiscate the income of non-parents in order to pay someone else to raise their children so they can go to work and make more money.

Oh yeah, I forgot, friends getting favors.

1 comment:

jaydee said...

Imagine their surprise when they arrive and realize that the United States is not the only country with a wasteful, anti-democratic, statist ruling party.