19 Aug 2009 What’s Happening Now

Posted at 03:29h in Blog, Environment and Enterprise Institute, Global Warming, National Security/UN, Property Rights by

6,000 surgical operations may be cut to make up for budgetary shortfall in Vancouver. Would 6,000 Canadians trade health insurance for health care? (Let’s ask when some of them visit.)

Via Twitter, @ruffedge asks: USA or USSR?

How much would you spend to apply a solution that doesn’t work to a problem that doesn’t exist? Me: Not so much. Congress: $8 billion. (H/T Celebrity Paycut)

Media Matters lied? Say it ain’t so!

The Cash for Clunkers program’s rules say dealers will be reimbursed within ten days, but dealers have found themselves on waiting lists. Reminds me of this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this. You can’t make government efficient by passing a law saying it has to be.

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