Archive for September 15th, 2009

Answering liberal objections #2: “If we can afford Iraq, we can afford health care.”

September 15th, 2009 | Category: news

You know that tired old bumper-sticker bromide, “It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber”? It’s alive and well. Says New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof in “The Body Count at Home”:

“After Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans, eight years ago on Friday, we went to war and spent hundreds of billions of dollars ensuring that this would not happen Read more

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Answering liberal objections: “But you have good insurance!”

September 15th, 2009 | Category: news

I’ve decided not to blog specifically about Obama’s speech after all; plenty of people have done that already, and I’d prefer to spend some time debunking popular liberal arguments instead, one at a time.

One accusation I get a lot when I say I oppose the current healthcare “reforms” under consideration is, “Sure, you say we don’t need reform, but that’s only because you have good insurance. If you didn’t, you’d know why we need [a public Read more

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