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Jobs, Yes. Via More Government, No. -

The Truth About Fannie and Freddie’s Role in the Housing Crisis - Separating economic myth from economic fact [Reason]

Evidently, Franklin Delano Roosevelt believed that organized labor ought to remain outside of government. He is said to have recognized the horrible prospect that conflicts of interest would arise in such a relationship. History has born out his concern, as state governors across the country can attest to.

Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to a similar conflict of interest concerning military contractors and government. Eisenhower saw similar problems in the intellectual pool of expertise that is paid to serve the government, and, vicariously, themselves.

Now that a bipartisan coalition in the House has voted to repeal ObamaCare, an even larger bipartisan coalition has approved a Republican resolution directing four House committees to "replace" that ill-fated law. Cato scholar Michael F. Cannon argues that it's a bit premature to be talking about replacing ObamaCare. "No matter how good the Republicans' proposals are, they will be utterly ineffective so long as ObamaCare remains on the books," says Cannon.

GM's IPO: Finally Taxpayers Get a Break -

General Motors has announced it will take its stock public as a move toward repaying its bailout package. About time, writes Daniel Ikenson: "A GM initial public offering is the right move, and cannot happen soon enough.

One thing we have to understand is that medical care is not all about choice

sometimes there isn't even time to choose, but having the choice when there is no emergency is definitely proper and needed for innovation and overall freedom. That being said, giving total control in leviathan style to a central government agency is not necessarily the way to go. Maybe it would be better to do it by state and gear any support more locally since it is unconstitutional in terms of where responsibility lies and we are already putting too much power at the Fed level as it is.