Ouch. Lack of relevant, up to date information can sting.

Your elected officials get to choose from a selection provided by a host of private insurance companies. This is NOT what a single payer system is. A single payer system means only one provider of health care - the government. One choice and one choice only - the government. Therefore, with one choice and one choice only --- Who do you think you are that you get to decide what healthcare someone else gets? What gives you that right?! If I choose that I do not want government healthcare that choice does not infringe on your freedom in any way, shape or form. Yet, your choice to limit my choice to one - takes all of my freedom away. Not sure the Constitution gives you that right. Wise up.

"Promote" and "Provide" mean two very different things. Promote does not mean give you something. And, your elected leaders do not get socialized medicine. What they receive you will never have access to. Socialized = Government owns it. They own the hospitals. Doctors work for the government. The government gets to decide what services they will provide. You have no choice or say in the matter. That is what socialized means. Now, if you want to call "healthcare" (which is not medical care) a right, then you would not object to the Canadian Supreme Court ruling in 2005 that the Canadian healthcare system denies a citizens right to life. That is how bad the Canadian medical care system had gotten, as a result of government...

You can cut all you want, but Washington will just put it back into place slowly, and in the cover of darkness. You want to change Washington, and get us back on the path of private property rights and the rule of law? Try this - invoke Article V of the US Constitution. States Legislatures must do it, not the US Congress. The states create Washington, not the other way around. They should now re-shape Washington, by making it very clear what limited government means. Washington is not invited. 1) The federal government can not educate our children. This power is reserved by the States. 2) Nominees to the Supreme Court require a 2/3 vote in the Senate to be confirmed. 3) All Senators, and House of Representatives are limited to...

Insightful, yet incomplete? The price of labor comes to mind. We all think we're worth more than we're paid. And, we all think that we contribute more than the other guy, yet are not compensated accordingly. Many of us understand the reasons why, and attempt to resolve the discrepancy through competition. Yet, an "opportunistic" politician will play the envy card in the hopes of swaying those that do not understand the reasons why some make more than others, and portray government as the only solution to an "unfair" free market. Which, I think, gets us back to the point of Walter Williams insightful piece - let the free markets allocate resources. And - let the schools teach what a free market is and how it benefits everyone,...

She's embarressing

You pick a few exceptions in an attempt to prove the rule?

Government creates misery and disappointment. That's about it.

Government jobs are jobs taken from the private sector. These private sector jobs create wealth. Government jobs do not.

Data point. There has not been one shred of evidence presented that high levels of CO2 will lead to the catasrophe predicted. There has been no evidence presented that an increase of ~ 30% in CO2 concentration has caused most of the warming we have experienced since 1850.

One of the e-mails exposed pointed to concerns that the oceans have warmed at 1/2 the rate of land over the past few decades. The e-mail goes on to note that skeptics will take this as evidence that the temp. record has not been properly adjusted for the urban heat island affect.

Of course, not that the raw data is reported to be gone, we'll never know. (Echo Bad Albino Bob in Arizona point that if they had something compelling they would be welcoming...

Very interesting point. Be careful, though. Trolls can't deal with those that exercise critical thought - otherwise known as common sense.