Roy Cordato is Vice President for Research and resident scholar at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, NC. The JLF is a public policy think that focuses on North Carolina state and local policy issues. He is also visiting faculty at NC State University where, under the auspices of a grant from the John William Pope Foundation, teaches “Political Economy of the Market Process,” a course which focuses on the economic and ethical foundations of a free market economy.
And just like with the Climategate emails, the greens have hammered it in themselves with a star-studded ad that portrays the totalitarian mindset so perfectly and so disgustingly, that it stands alone, and without comment as a self-indictment. Warning: the video is very graphic in terms of gore.
The backlash was so quick and so universal, that the “10:10″ campaign responsible for it pulled it within hours. Thankfully, in the age of the internet, that will do nothing to stop its dissemination.
Franz Oppenheimer explains in detail the manner in which the state seizes control of society, one stage at a time.
Rising healthcare costs and continuing recession-related fiscal problems have impelled numerous world governments to introduce a “fat tax.”1 Support for a similar policy is growing in the United States, which according to leading intellectuals suffers from a collective “weight problem.”
Brick and mortar institutions of higher learning, while still in their early stages, are dying. You need only look at your recent Wall Street Journal or Financial Times newspapers for an example of discouraged companies refusing to hire overpriced labor. Colleges are simply churning out graduates who demand wage compensation for skills they haven’t developed. As an example, look at the unemployment rate of MBA’s in 2009 versus 2007.
Unemployment Rate among US MBA Graduates
