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Exporting jobs – Walter Williams -- Let's look at a few of the reasons why some U.S. corporations choose to carry their operations overseas. Much of it can be summed up in a phrase: less predatory government and the absence of tort-lawyer extortion….American workers are just about the most productive in the world -- however, our government and legal establishment have reduced that productive advantage. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3036

Is Adequate Progress In Education Really Adequate? After four bad years, schools must take a “corrective action”, that is, replacing staff, implementing a new curriculum, and/or expanding the school day. If a school fails to make “adequate yearly progress” for five years in a row, the school must be restructured. …A more important and far-reaching response would be to initiate comprehensive parental choice in education. http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=152

The anti-sprawl movement:  anti-minority and anti-immigrant The United States has been at its greatest and most successful when it has been inclusionary, not exclusionary and elitist. Our economic and land use policies should create an environment of opportunity so that minorities, immigrants, and all can prosper and create further opportunity for those who follow.

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Tax deductible health insurance for individuals – just what the doctor ordered  Rather than worrying about the consequences for their health care coverage each time they change jobs, workers should be able to rest secure knowing that they, as well as their families, will be covered regardless of their job status.  Workers could also choose the plan that best fits their needs and the needs of their family while protecting them against gaps in coverage when they change or lose their jobs.  http://www.ntu.org/taxpayer_issues/ntu_issue_briefs/ib_ntu_146.php3

Getting a handle on growth (sprawl) Cox and others like him think government should take a hands-off approach to sprawl. "What business is it of government to control sprawl?" he asked. "Sprawl is the representation of people's preferences with respect to living and working. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10000868&BRD=982&

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The East Coast blackout http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3031

Taking the “Public” out of education http://www3.baylor.edu/Church_State/journalfall2002.htm

A nation of hamburger flippers? Looking at gross domestic product, real goods production as a share of real (inflation-adjusted) GDP is close to its all-time high. In the first quarter of 2003 -- the latest data available -- real goods production was 39.2 percent of real GDP. The highest annual figure ever recorded was 40 percent in 2000. By contrast, in the "good old days" of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, the United States actually produced far fewer goods as a share of total output. The highest figure recorded in the 1940s was 35.5 percent in 1943; the highest in the 1950s was 34.9 percent in 1953; and the highest in the 1960s was 33.6 percent in 1966.  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3029

California’s real elections – by Thomas Sowell Between 1995 and 2000, California had a net loss of more than 600,000 people to other states. People are voting with their feet.http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3021

“Buy American” provisions in defense authorization bill – if you thought $250 toilet seats were ridiculous http://www.ntu.org/taxpayer_issues/ntu_issue_briefs/ib_ntu_146.php3

Taxpayers friends in Congress are saluted (none from KY) http://www.ntu.org/news_room/press_releases/P0305taxpayerfrienda

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The failure of the social market - As the Germany of today nears a zero growth rate and a staggering burden from its welfare obligations, German politicians entertain a host of measures in an attempt to revitalize the world's third largest economy. Yet so long as the welfare state remains intact, Roepke's "intolerable contrast" threatens to destroy this once great economy…Yet just as booms ultimately turn into busts, Germany must now reckon with the rot and indolence that is a government managed economy.  http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1281

Bustamanta the Chicano Racist – Michelle Malkin --Now that Democrat Cruz Bustamante is California's gubernatorial recall front-runner, we can look forward to in-depth media investigations of the Latino candidate's long-held ties to the racial separatist group MEChA, right? Ha. …MEChA's symbol is an eagle clutching a dynamite stick and machete-like weapon in its claws; its motto is " Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada (For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing)." …"Aztlan" is the group's term for the vast southwestern U.S. expanse, from parts of Washington and Oregon down to California and Arizona and over to Texas, which MEChA claims to be a mythical homeland and seeks to reconquer for Mexico (reconquista). http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3039

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