Tea Party Culture

YES! Patriot of the highest order.

Taking questions about the GOP primary

Do you think the ultrawealthy have an inordinate or inappropriate amount of influence on the political process?

Griffin: I think they actually have an insufficient influence.

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We don’t have free market health care in the United States. This much is clear. Individuals don’t have market incentives to pay attention to prices, shop around, and to be judicious with their health care choices.

Case in point: A middle-aged man goes in to the hospital after a car accident. The next day, the hospital operates on his leg, gives him stitches in his forehead, and re-inflates his deflated lung. If the man had shopped around, he would have known that the hospital in the next county had cheaper stiches, the clinic down the lane had a special on lung inflations, and the athletic center on the nearby campus was re-setting legs for a discount. The free market would make sure he knows this and has the chance to do some shopping around for his various wants/needs.

Case in point II: A woman goes to the doctor for a strange tingle in her arm. The doctor suggests a series of tests to determine what the problem is. These three tests cost $1,500, $800, and $550, respectively. If we had a free market system, the doctor would explain the costs of each, and if she didn’t want to have all three of those tests for whatever reason, she wouldn’t. Because, of course, she knows better than the doctor, and it’s always better to save money than to play it safe. 

Case closed. Costs going down all around America. Especially in the poor parts of town.

I am absolutely convinced that the government ruins everything it touches. It has the reverse curse of Midas: everything it touches turns to poop.

The reason I believe this is simple: I pay attention to facts. I don’t let bias cloud my judgement like liberals do.

Try this experiment: go to your nearest public library and find a free computer. Do a catalog search for “government efficiency” and see what you find. What? No sources. Hmm, that’s surprising. Not.

Another experiment. Go to your child’s school and ask the smartest teacher there if they can name one government program that has solved the problem of poverty. What? They can’t? How shocking.

Not.

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R.J. Matson

Well, welcome to the free market ladies and gentlemen. If you work hard you are rewarded.

Every time. No exceptions.

It is obvious: No successful person is lazy, and no lazy person is successful.

The system is flawless. And this graphic is proof.

(via occupywallstreet)

You know what drives me up a wall about daily savings time? Everything!

Who needs the government to come in and tell me what time my watch should say? If I want to change my clock forward in the spring or backward in the fall, that should be my personal choice.

Why don’t those stupid bureaucrats go back to doing what they do best: not helping me.

We’d like to welcome ourselves back after our mini vacation. We were spending some quality time with those who matter most to us: with all the silly Occupy shenanigans of the past months, our accountants were not able to hold daily conference calls. But, fortunately, we caught back up with them and now all is well.

We can now get back to making our wealth trickle down again. You’re welcome.