201007 OBITER DICTA: WINTRY-MIX IN FEBRUARY 2010
Steven Alan Samson · Digital Commons (Liberty University) · 2010
George Will introduces the dream team he would have shoulder the burden of entitlement reform, beginning with the next presidency.Although there is much in this scenario to pick apart, Will strengthens his case by emphasizing the importance of ensuring that all Americans have a stake in the system.Turning retirement and health savings accounts into heritable property, which can be acquired, held, and traded on the open market, is the sort of privatization that can breathe life into an insolvent system.Unless we repudiate the class warfare of our zero-sum political game, simplify our byzantine tax structure, and stop subsidizing protracted retirements from anticipated revenues, we will steal our children's nest eggs and bury ourselves in the potter's field.http://townhall.com/columnists/KenBlackwell/2010/02/06/defending_pitchfork_bens_c urious_legacy?page=full&comments=true Ken Blackwell reprimands President Obama for his pointed scolding of the Supreme Court during the State of the Union Address.Here is the offending passage: "With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests --including foreign corporations --to spend without limit in our elections.I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.They should be decided by the American people.And I'd urge Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to correct some of these problems."