printMy mother was saying, “Do you remember the post you wrote in May of 2006 titled ‘Holland Keeps Afloat; Why Can’t New Orleans?’? Well, Time magazine has finally caught up with you. In November of 2009, Time ran an article with a similar theme.”
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I’m afraid BAB will be closed to comments for now until, well, I can be assured that the time devoted to moderating this well-supervised, interactive, labor-intense forum is time well-spent.
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Merry Christmas and a happy Hanukah,
ILANA
Update (Dec. 14): Bar those few faithful souls whose commitment to my causes I appreciate more than they know, I’m afraid the response to our Christmas appeal has been poor.
Those of you who have my P.O. Box are welcome to use it (and keep it private).
What are you supporting? A marginalized voice that beats most well-funded group thinkers out there in coverage and commentary.
On the topic of those fattened collectivists: Neil Cavuto has begun, lately (on December 11, 2009, to be precise), to cover the discrepancy between the respective incomes of workers employed in the private vs. the parasitical sector. Cavuto got his column “idea” from USA-Today data.
I beat both entities to it.
Let’s see, when was my “Life in the Oink Sector” written? September 25, 2009. That column was cited by the New York Times’ “Economix” blog. Needless to say, the Times would have never ever bothered to apprise its readers of the cost “of these pampered pigs”:
“There are upward of 20 million of these pampered pigs, hogging 87,000 different institutions in government and public education, where the payrolls are always lard-laden in comparison to private-economy paysheets.”
Ultimately, what neither the Times nor Cavuto will ever do for you is speak to the economic-cum-moral principles that differentiate the voluntary sector from the work force that uses FORCE to keep itself larded up.