Today’s Blogmarks
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 in Quick Links
- Don’t blame greedy corporate interests, blame the government
While many pundits are pointing to corporate greed and a lack of government regulation as the cause for the American mortgage and financial crisis, some analysts are saying it wasn’t too little government intervention that cased the mortgage meltdown, but too much, in the form of activists compelling the government to pressure Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae into unsound — though politically correct — ending practices.
I’ve been saying this to friends and family for a long time. Government policies that forced banks to lend to unqualified minorities led them to make bad decisions to make quotas. Of course now the Congress steps in to “fix” the problem they created. - Libertarian Group Condemns Sarah Palin for not killing disabled baby in abortion
Provenzo, who writes for the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism, not only bashes her for allowing Trig to be born, but says she should have made the so-called morally justifiable decision to kill him in an abortion.
This is just so wrong, I don’t know what to say. Abortion is one issue that Libertarians usually agree to disagree on. - School policy sets 50% as minimum score
Pittsburgh Public Schools officials say they want to give struggling children a chance, but the district is raising eyebrows with a policy that sets 50 percent as the minimum score a student can receive for assignments, tests and other work.
Apparently the school administrators in Pittsburgh don’t know how to do math. Why should we expect the students to know how?
Tags: 9-11, abortion, america, Capitalism, Libertarian, mortgage crisis, Pittsburgh, pro-life, sarah palin, school
