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		<title>The Left&#8217;s Use of Black People</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How progressives keep African Americans in a perpetual state of grievance.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/de-blasio.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248375" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/de-blasio-450x340.jpg" alt="de-blasio" width="336" height="254" /></a>Back in the day, when hunting was the major source of food, hunters often used stalking horses as a means of sneaking up on their quarry. They would walk on the opposite side of the horse until they were close enough to place a good shot on whatever they were hunting. A stalking horse not only concealed them but also, if their target was an armed man and they were discovered, would take the first shot. That&#8217;s what blacks are to liberals and progressives in their efforts to transform America — stalking horses.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at some of the ways white liberals use black people. One of the more obvious ways is for liberals to equate any kind of injustices suffered by homosexuals and women to the black struggle for civil rights. But it is just plain nonsense to suggest any kind of equivalency between the problems of homosexuals and women and the centuries of slavery followed by Jim Crow, lynching, systematic racial discrimination and the blood, sweat and tears of the black civil rights movement.</p>
<p>The largest and most powerful labor union in the country is the National Education Association, with well over 3 million members. Teachers benefit enormously from their education monopoly. It yields higher pay and lower accountability. It&#8217;s a different story for a large percentage of black people who receive fraudulent education. The NEA&#8217;s white liberals — aided by black teachers, politicians and so-called black leaders — cooperate to ensure that black parents who want their children to have a better education have few viable choices.</p>
<p>Whenever there has been a serious push for school choice, educational vouchers, tuition tax credits or even charter schools, the NEA has fought against it. One of the more callous examples of that disregard for black education was New York Mayor Bill de Blasio&#8217;s cutback on funding for charter schools where black youngsters were succeeding in getting a better education.</p>
<p>That was de Blasio&#8217;s way of paying back New York&#8217;s teachers union for the political support it gave him in his quest for the mayor&#8217;s office.</p>
<p>White liberals in the media and academia, along with many blacks, have been major supporters of the recent marches protesting police conduct. A man from Mars, knowing nothing about homicide facts, would conclude that the major problem black Americans have with murder and brutality results from the behavior of racist policemen. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are about 200 police arrest-related deaths of blacks each year (between 300 and 400 for whites). That number pales in comparison with the roughly 7,000 annual murders of blacks, 94 percent of which are committed by blacks. The number of blacks being murdered by other blacks is of little concern to liberals. Their agenda is to use arrest-related deaths of blacks to undermine established authority.</p>
<p>Liberals often have demeaning attitudes toward blacks. When Secretary of State John Kerry was a U.S. senator, in a statement about so many blacks being in prison, he said, &#8220;That&#8217;s unacceptable, but it&#8217;s not their fault.&#8221; Would Kerry also say that white prison inmates are also faultless? Johns Hopkins University sociologist Andrew Cherlin told us: &#8220;It has yet to be shown that the absence of a father was directly responsible for any of the supposed deficiencies of broken homes. &#8230; (The problem) is not the lack of male presence but the lack of male income.&#8221; The liberal vision is that fathers and husbands can be replaced by a welfare check.</p>
<p>Liberals desperately need blacks. If the Democratic Party lost just 30 percent of the black vote, it would mean the end of the liberal agenda. That means blacks must be kept in a perpetual state of grievance in order to keep them as a one-party people in a two-party system. When black Americans finally realize how much liberals have used them, I&#8217;m betting they will be the nation&#8217;s most conservative people. Who else has been harmed as much by liberalism&#8217;s vision and agenda?</p>
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		<title>Obama vs. Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have we reached the "post-Constitution" stage of our history? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-10-12-obama.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245394" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-10-12-obama-438x350.jpg" alt="2014-10-12-obama" width="332" height="265" /></a>Suppose you saw a person driving his car on the wrong side of a highway, against the traffic. Would you call him a stupid and/or incompetent driver? You say, &#8220;Williams, what kind of question is that? Of course he&#8217;s one or the other!&#8221; I&#8217;d say, &#8220;Hold your horses. What are his intentions?&#8221; If the driver&#8217;s intentions are to cause highway calamity, one can hardly call his actions stupid or incompetent. Given his intentions, he is wisely acting in a manner to achieve his objectives.</p>
<p>This observation lies at the heart of my colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell&#8217;s column last week, in which he says, &#8220;Pundits who depict Obama as a weak, lame duck president may be greatly misjudging him, as they have so often in the past.&#8221; After suffering an elective trouncing at the polls, President Barack Obama issued Congress an ultimatum, saying that if it doesn&#8217;t enact the kind of immigration law that he would like, he will unilaterally issue an executive order to change the nation&#8217;s immigration laws. This threat, along with other abuses of his office, is not a sign of presidential stupidity or incompetence.</p>
<p>Obama is doing precisely what he promised during his 2008 presidential campaign, to cheering and mesmerized crowds: &#8220;We are going to fundamentally change America&#8221; and &#8220;We will change America. We will change the world.&#8221; Obama is living up to those pledges by subverting our Constitution and adopting the political style of a banana republic dictator. He showed his willingness to ignore the Constitution when he eliminated the work requirement in welfare reform laws enacted during the Clinton administration. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, was enacted by Congress and hence is the law of the land. Obama has used executive orders to change the law on several occasions. Ask yourself whether our Constitution permits the president to unilaterally change a law enacted by Congress. For a president to do so is for him to behave like a banana republic dictator.</p>
<p>As Sowell says, &#8220;people who are increasingly questioning Barack Obama&#8217;s competence are continuing to ignore the alternative possibility that his fundamental values and imperatives are different from theirs.&#8221;</p>
<p>The recent elections, which gave Republicans control of both houses of Congress, clearly indicate a repudiation of much of Obama&#8217;s agenda. But the question is whether the Republican majority has the courage to act on that repudiation and stop the president from running roughshod over the Constitution. Because Article 1 of the Constitution grants Congress the power of the purse, there is not much a president can do without a budget appropriation. The question is whether Congress has the guts to exercise its power.</p>
<p>We can rightfully condemn the president for picking and choosing which laws of the land he will obey and which he won&#8217;t, in violation of the Constitution&#8217;s Article 2, but is his administration&#8217;s executive branch that much of an exception to the other branches of the federal government — the legislative and judicial branches?</p>
<p>The legislative branch is bound by Article 1 of the Constitution. Section 8 of Article 1 delineates the scope of congressional power to tax and spend. Nowhere within Article 1, Section 8 is Congress granted the authority to tax for at least two-thirds of the federal budget.</p>
<p>The courts are bound by the Constitution&#8217;s Article 3. Part of the courts&#8217; responsibility is to ensure that the executive and legislative branches of government uphold the Constitution. In that respect, the courts have been grossly derelict, particularly during and after the New Deal era.</p>
<p>Seeing as all branches of federal government ignore most of the provisions of the Constitution, I think we can safely say that we&#8217;ve reached the post-Constitution stage of our history. Washington politicians are not to blame. It&#8217;s the American people who&#8217;ve lost their love and respect for our Constitution. Washington&#8217;s politicians are simply the agents for that contempt.</p>
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		<title>Will the West Defend Itself?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 04:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISIS can be defeated -- if we have the will to do it. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isisi.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242010" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isisi-450x337.jpg" alt="isisi" width="290" height="217" /></a>The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), sometimes called ISIS or IS, is a Sunni extremist group that follows al-Qaida&#8217;s anti-West ideology and sees a holy war against the West as a religious duty. With regard to nonbelievers, the Quran commands, &#8220;And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out.&#8221; The Quran contains many other verses that call for Muslim violence against nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule.</p>
<p>Contrast the words of the Quran with the statements of limp-wristed Western leaders such as this by President Barack Obama: &#8220;We have reaffirmed that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Islam teaches peace.&#8221; While reacting to ISIL&#8217;s slaughter of British citizen David Haines, Prime Minister David Cameron said, &#8220;Islam is a religion of peace.&#8221; Then there was the U.S. secretary of state&#8217;s explanation: &#8220;The real face of Islam is a peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings.&#8221; But John Kerry and other Western politicians calling Islam a religion of peace doesn&#8217;t make it so.</p>
<p>A debate about whether Islam is a religion of peace or not is entirely irrelevant to the threat to the West posed by ISIL, al-Qaida and other Middle Eastern terrorist groups. I would like to gather a news conference with our Army&#8217;s chief of staff, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno; Marines&#8217; commandant, Gen. Joseph Dunford; chief of naval operations, Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert; and Gen. Mark A. Welsh, the U.S. Air Force&#8217;s chief of staff. This would be my question to them: The best intelligence puts ISIL&#8217;s size at 35,000 to 40,000 people. Do you officers think that the combined efforts of our military forces could defeat and lay waste to ISIL? Before they had a chance to answer, I&#8217;d add: Do you think the combined military forces of NATO and the U.S. could defeat and eliminate ISIL. Depending on the answers given, I&#8217;d then ask whether these forces could also eliminate Iran&#8217;s capability of making nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>My question to my fellow Americans is: What do you think their answers would be? No beating around the bush: Does the U.S. have the power to defeat the ISIL/al-Qaida threat and stop Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions — yes or no?</p>
<p>If our military tells us that we do have the capacity to defeat the terror threat, then the reason that we don&#8217;t reflects a lack of willingness. It&#8217;s that same lack of willingness that led to the deaths of 60 million people during World War II. In 1936, France alone could have stopped Adolf Hitler, but France and its allies knowingly allowed Hitler to rearm, in violation of treaties. When Europeans finally woke up to Hitler&#8217;s agenda, it was too late. Their nations were conquered. One of the most horrible acts of Nazi Germany was the Holocaust, which cost an estimated 11 million lives. Those innocents lost their lives because of the unwillingness of Europeans to protect themselves against tyranny.</p>
<p>Westerners getting the backbone to defend ourselves from terrorists may have to await a deadly attack on our homeland. You say, &#8220;What do you mean, Williams?&#8221; America&#8217;s liberals have given terrorists an open invitation to penetrate our country through our unprotected southern border. Terrorists can easily come in with dirty bombs to make one of our major cities uninhabitable through radiation. They could just as easily plant chemical or biological weapons in our cities. If they did any of these acts — leading to the deaths of millions of Americans — I wonder whether our liberal Democratic politicians would be able to respond or they would continue to mouth that &#8220;Islam teaches peace&#8221; and &#8220;Islam is a religion of peace.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unfortunately for our nation&#8217;s future and that of the world, we see giving handouts as the most important function of government rather than its most basic function: defending us from barbarians.</p>
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		<title>Do Statistical Disparities Mean Injustice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 04:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why discrimination can't be to blame for unequal racial representation. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-23-at-1.01.47-AM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241566" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-23-at-1.01.47-AM-450x337.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-09-23 at 1.01.47 AM" width="306" height="229" /></a>How many times have we heard laments such as &#8220;women are 50 percent of the population but only 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs&#8221; and, as the Justice Department recently found, &#8220;blacks are 54 percent of the population in Newark, New Jersey, but 85 percent of pedestrian stops and 79 percent of arrests&#8221;? If one believes that people should be represented socio-economically according to their numbers in the population, then statistical disparities represent injustices that demand government remedies. Before we jump to conclusions about what disparities mean and whether they are indicators of injustice, we might examine some other disparities to see what we can make of them.</p>
<p>According to a recent study conducted by Bond University in Australia, sharks are nine times as likely to attack and kill men than they are women. If sinister motivation is attributed for this disparity, as is done in the cases of sex and racial disparities, we can only conclude that sharks are sexist. Another sex disparity is despite the fact that men are 50 percent of the population and so are women, men are struck by lightning six times as often as women. I wonder what whoever is in charge of lightning has against men.</p>
<p>Another gross statistical disparity is despite the fact that Jews are less than 3 percent of the U.S. population and a mere 0.2 percent of the world&#8217;s population, between 1901 and 2010, Jews were 35 percent of American and 22 percent of the world&#8217;s Nobel Prize winners.</p>
<p>There are other disparities that we might acknowledge with an eye to corrective public policy. Asian-Americans routinely score the highest on the math portion of the SAT, whereas blacks score the lowest. The population statistics for South Dakota, Iowa, Maine, Montana and Vermont show that not even 1 percent of their populations is black. In states such as Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, blacks are overrepresented in terms of their percentages in the general population. When this kind of &#8220;segregation&#8221; is found in schooling, the remedy is busing.</p>
<p>There are loads of international examples of ethnic disparities.</p>
<p>During the 1960s, the Chinese minority in Malaysia, where Malays politically dominate, received more university degrees than the Malay majority — including 400 engineering degrees, compared with just four for the Malays. In Brazil&#8217;s state of Sao Paulo, more than two-thirds of the potatoes and 90 percent of the tomatoes produced have been produced by people of Japanese ancestry.</p>
<p>Blacks are 13 percent of our population but 80 percent of professional basketball players and 65 percent of professional football players and among the highest-paid players in both sports. By stark contrast, blacks are only 2 percent of the NHL&#8217;s professional ice hockey players. Basketball, football and ice hockey represent gross racial disparities and come nowhere close to &#8220;looking like America.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even in terms of sports achievement, racial diversity is absent. In Major League Baseball, three out of the four hitters with the most career home runs are black. Since blacks entered the major leagues, of the eight times more than 100 bases have been stolen in a season, all were by blacks. In basketball, 50 of the 59 MVP awards have been won by black players.</p>
<p>If America&#8217;s diversity worshippers see underrepresentation as &#8220;probative&#8221; of racial discrimination, what do they propose be done about overrepresentation? After all, overrepresentation and underrepresentation are simply different sides of injustice. If those in one race are overrepresented, it might mean they&#8217;re taking away what rightfully belongs to another race. For example, is it possible that Jews are doing things that sabotage the chances of a potential Indian, Alaska Native or Mexican Nobel Prize winner? What about the disgraceful lack of diversity in professional basketball and ice hockey? There&#8217;s not even geographical diversity in professional ice hockey; not a single player can boast of having been born and raised in Hawaii, Louisiana or Mississippi.</p>
<p>Courts, bureaucrats and the intellectual elite have consistently concluded that &#8220;gross&#8221; disparities are probative of a pattern and practice of discrimination. Given all of the differences among people, such a position is pure nonsense.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[When terrorists finally exploit our open borders, how will progressives save face? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Border-Fence.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238489" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Border-Fence-450x327.jpg" alt="Border-Fence" width="271" height="197" /></a>Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera accused Matt Drudge&#8217;s website of &#8220;the worst kind of jingoistic rhetoric ever&#8221; for carrying news stories about the dangers of illegal immigration. He said Drudge &#8220;is doing his best to stir up a civil war. I mean, shame on Matt Drudge.&#8221; Republican Rep. Todd Rokita and his Indiana delegation have been criticized for suggesting the possibility that Latin American children pouring across our southern border are carrying deadly diseases. Some of them have already been discovered to be carrying lice and suffering from disease. We&#8217;ve yet to find out what kind of communicable diseases they could spread to American children when schools across the country are forced to admit them.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, many people approach our recent southern border problem as a &#8220;humanitarian crisis&#8221; and hint that congressmen who want to make securing our border our No. 1 priority are, as President Barack Obama says, &#8220;mean.&#8221; Others who argue for border security run the risk of being dismissed as racists. The Democrats are hoping that painting the Republicans as mean racists will help them with the Latino vote in November.</p>
<p>Securing our border is not only an immigration issue but, more importantly, a national security issue. International terrorists know that our southern border is insecure. They can simply fly to a Latin American country and then sneak across the border with deadly germ or chemical warfare weapons and dirty bombs, which could be planted anywhere.</p>
<p>According to Breitbart, &#8220;a leaked intelligence analysis from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reveals the exact numbers of illegal immigrants entering and attempting to enter the U.S. from more than 75 different countries.&#8221; It reports that 28 &#8220;individuals from Pakistan were caught attempting to sneak into the U.S. this year alone, with another 211 individuals either turning themselves in or being caught at official ports of entry.&#8221; Texas Gov. Rick Perry says that the number of apprehended illegal aliens who come from countries with &#8220;substantial terrorist ties&#8221; is at a record high, countries such as Yemen, Somalia and Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>On top of this, individuals from nations currently suffering from the world&#8217;s largest Ebola outbreak have been caught attempting to sneak into the U.S.</p>
<p>Deroy Murdock&#8217;s article titled &#8220;The Southern Border: Our Welcome Mat for Terrorists,&#8221; for National Review Online (April 25, 2013), reports that &#8220;Somalia&#8217;s Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane told authorities in 2011 that he earned up to $75,000 per day smuggling East Africans into America. His clients included three al-Shabaab terrorists. As the House report states: &#8216;Dhakane cautioned that each of these individuals is ready to die for their cause and would fight against the United States if the jihad moved from overseas to the U.S. mainland.&#8217;&#8221; Many Syrians and Iranians have been caught making illegal entry. Both Syria and Iran are supporters of Hezbollah, have chemical weapons and materials for dirty bombs, and hate &#8220;the Great Satan.&#8221;</p>
<p>Murdock makes reference to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency study titled &#8220;A Line in the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border.&#8221; It explained that between September 2001 and September 2012, there were 59 homegrown violent jihadi plots within the United States. The study said that the more violent threat to Americans is the ability of Islamist terrorist organizations, resulting from their growing presence in the Western Hemisphere, to exploit our porous southwestern border and enter the United States undetected.</p>
<p>Here are some questions that should be of concern to every American: Can the U.S. Customs and Border Protection assure Americans that it has arrested every terrorist attempting to make illegal entry to our country? Can it assure us that there are no terrorist cells operating in our country and awaiting word from our enemies to attack us? There&#8217;s another question that&#8217;s just as important: If there is a terrorist attack through our southern border, will Americans allow President Obama, congressional Democrats, the news media and progressives and liberals to deny that their weak border security policy was responsible?</p>
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		<title>Please Stop Helping Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2014 04:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Riley masterfully explains the left's destruction of the black community. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/please-stop-helping-us.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-237296" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/please-stop-helping-us-235x350.jpg" alt="please-stop-helping-us" width="235" height="350" /></a><strong>[Author Jason Riley will be featured at the David Horowitz Freedom Center&#8217;s August 7th gathering of the Wednesday Morning Club. For more information, click <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wmc-jason-riley-tickets-12278722991">here</a>.]</strong></p>
<p>While reading the first chapter of Jason Riley&#8217;s new book, &#8220;Please Stop Helping Us,&#8221; I thought about Will Rogers&#8217; Prohibition-era observation that &#8220;Oklahomans vote dry as long as they can stagger to the polls.&#8221; Demonstrative of similar dedication, one member of Congress told Vanderbilt University political scientist Carol Swain that &#8220;one of the advantages and disadvantages of representing blacks is their shameless loyalty. &#8230; You can almost get away with raping babies and be forgiven. You don&#8217;t have any vigilance about your performance.&#8221; In my opinion, there appear to be no standards of performance low enough for blacks to lose their loyalty to their black political representatives.</p>
<p>Riley says that between 1970 and 2001, the number of black elected officials skyrocketed from fewer than 1,500 to more than 9,000, but black poverty has remained roughly the same. Between 1940 and 1960, when black political power was virtually nonexistent, the black poverty rate fell from 87 percent to 47 percent. Riley points out that there has been significant achievement among the black middle class but that wide black-white gaps remain with respect to income, educational achievement, unemployment, labor force participation, incarceration rates and other measures. Despite political gains, there have been dramatic reversals in teen unemployment, crime, out-of-wedlock births and family stability. Political power is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for socio-economic progress.</p>
<p>Riley lays out the devastating deal black political leaders and civil rights leaders have made with labor unions, in his aptly named chapter &#8220;Mandating Unemployment.&#8221; Black leaders of the past recognized that labor unions were hostile to the interests of ordinary blacks. Frederick Douglass, in his 1874 essay &#8220;The Folly, Tyranny, and Wickedness of Labor Unions,&#8221; argued that unions were not friends of blacks. W.E.B. Du Bois called unions &#8220;the greatest enemy of the black working man.&#8221; Booker T. Washington also opposed unions because of their adverse impact on blacks.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s black leaders have little reservation about giving their support to union policies that harm their constituents.</p>
<p>They support minimum wage increases, which have had a devastating impact on black employment, particularly that of teenagers. Recently, black teen unemployment reached 44 percent, but few people realize that during the late 1940s, before rapid minimum wage escalation, it was less than 10 percent and lower than white teen unemployment. Black leaders also give their support to a super-minimum wage law known as the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931. The legislative history of Davis-Bacon makes clear that its union and congressional supporters sought to eliminate black employment in the construction trades.</p>
<p>Riley&#8217;s &#8220;Educational Freedom&#8221; chapter details the sorry story of black education. Between 1970 and today, educational spending has tripled and the school workforce has doubled, far outpacing student enrollment. Despite these massive increases in resources, black academic achievement is a national disgrace. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the nation&#8217;s report card, black 17-year-olds score at the same level as white 13-year-olds in reading and math. White 13-year-olds score higher than black 17-year-olds in science.</p>
<p>A number of studies show that black students who attend private and charter schools do far better than their peers in public schools. If there were greater parental choice, through educational vouchers, black achievement would be higher. However, teachers unions see school choice as a threat to their monopoly, and virtually every black politician, including the president, backs the teachers unions.</p>
<p>At an 1865 gathering of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Douglass said everybody had asked, &#8220;What should we do with the Negro?&#8221; Douglass said: &#8220;I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.&#8221; Later on, Washington explained, &#8220;It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges.&#8221; It&#8217;s the abandonment of these visions that accounts for the many problems of today that Riley&#8217;s book does a masterful job of explaining.</p>
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		<title>Spending and Morality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2014 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The curious practice of government theft for the "common good." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Government-Money.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235829" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Government-Money-426x350.jpg" alt="Government-Money" width="286" height="235" /></a>During last year&#8217;s budget negotiation meetings, President Barack Obama told House Speaker John Boehner, &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a spending problem.&#8221; When Boehner responded with &#8220;But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem,&#8221; Obama replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m getting tired of hearing you say that.&#8221; In one sense, the president is right. What&#8217;s being called a spending problem is really a symptom of an unappreciated deep-seated national moral rot. Let&#8217;s examine it with a few questions.</p>
<p>Is it moral for Congress to forcibly use one person to serve the purposes of another? I believe that most Americans would pretend that to do so is offensive. Think about it this way. Suppose I saw a homeless, hungry elderly woman huddled on a heating grate in the dead of winter. To help the woman, I ask somebody for a $200 donation to help her out. If the person refuses, I then use intimidation, threats and coercion to take the person&#8217;s money. I then purchase food and shelter for the needy woman. My question to you: Have I committed a crime? I hope that most people would answer yes. It&#8217;s theft to take the property of one person to give to another.</p>
<p>Now comes the hard part. Would it be theft if I managed to get three people to agree that I should take the person&#8217;s money to help the woman? What if I got 100, 1 million or 300 million people to agree to take the person&#8217;s $200? Would it be theft then? What if instead of personally taking the person&#8217;s $200, I got together with other Americans and asked Congress to use Internal Revenue Service agents to take the person&#8217;s $200? The bottom-line question is: Does an act that&#8217;s clearly immoral when done privately become moral when it is done collectively and under the color of law? Put another way, does legality establish morality?</p>
<p>For most of our history, Congress did a far better job of limiting its activities to what was both moral and constitutional. As a result, federal spending was only 3 to 5 percent of the gross domestic product from our founding until the 1920s, in contrast with today&#8217;s 25 percent.</p>
<p>Close to three-quarters of today&#8217;s federal spending can be described as Congress taking the earnings of one American to give to another through thousands of handout programs, such as farm subsidies, business bailouts and welfare.</p>
<p>During earlier times, such spending was deemed unconstitutional and immoral. James Madison, the acknowledged father of our Constitution, said, &#8220;Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.&#8221; In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 to assist some French refugees, Madison stood on the floor of the House of Representatives to object, saying, &#8220;I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.&#8221; Today&#8217;s Americans would crucify a politician expressing similar statements.</p>
<p>There may be nitwits out there who&#8217;d assert, &#8220;That James Madison guy forgot about the Constitution&#8217;s general welfare clause.&#8221; Madison had that covered, explaining in a letter, &#8220;If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one.&#8221; Thomas Jefferson agreed, writing: Members of Congress &#8220;are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare. &#8230; It would reduce the (Constitution) to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and, as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please.&#8221;</p>
<p>The bottom line is that spending is not our basic problem. We&#8217;ve become an immoral people demanding that Congress forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another. Deficits and runaway national debt are merely symptoms of that larger problem.</p>
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		<title>White Privilege</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 04:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The obscene ideology being promoted by thousands of public school teachers. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/white-privilege1.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226295 alignleft" alt="white-privilege1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/white-privilege1.jpg" width="224" height="168" /></a>What would you think if your 8-year-old came home and told you that &#8220;white privilege is something that white people have, meaning they have an advantage in a lot of things and they can get a job more easily&#8221;? You would have heard that at the recent 15th annual White Privilege Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, attended by 2,500 public-school teachers, administrators and students from across the nation (http://tinyurl.com/lkoqj9b).</p>
<p>The average parent has no idea of the devious indoctrination going on in classrooms in many public schools. What follows are some of the lessons of the conference.</p>
<p>In one of the workshops, &#8220;Examining White Privilege and Building Foundations for Social Justice Thinking in the Elementary Classroom,&#8221; educators Rosemary Colt and Diana Reeves told how teachers can &#8220;insert social justice, anti-racist information&#8221; into their lessons that &#8220;even little kids&#8221; can understand.</p>
<p>Kim Radersma, a former high-school English teacher, hosted a session titled &#8220;Stories from the front lines of education: Confessions of a white, high school English teacher.&#8221; She said that teaching is a purely political act and that neutral people should &#8220;get the f—- out of education.&#8221; (http://tinyurl.com/q5adt2d). She also explained: &#8220;Being a white person who does anti-racist work is like being an alcoholic. I will never be recovered by my alcoholism, to use the metaphor. I have to every day wake up and acknowledge that I am so deeply embedded with racist thoughts and notions and actions in my body that I have to choose every day to do anti-racist work and think in an anti-racist way&#8221; (http://tinyurl.com/q4z969q).</p>
<p>But the propaganda and lunacy go even deeper. Jacqueline Battalora, professor of sociology and criminal justice at Saint Xavier University, informed conference participants that &#8220;white people did not exist before 1681. Again, white people did not exist on planet earth until 1681&#8243; (http://tinyurl.com/lkoqj9b). That&#8217;s truly incredible. If Professor Battalora is correct, how are we to identify William Shakespeare (1564), Sir Isaac Newton (1642), John Locke (1632), Leonardo da Vinci (1452) and especially dear Plato (428 B.C.)? Were these men people of color, or did they not exist?</p>
<p>John A. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Powell, a University of California, Berkeley law professor, told his audience, &#8220;And right now, I&#8217;m going to suggest to you that race is driving almost everything that&#8217;s happening in the country.&#8221; He explained the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans by saying, &#8220;They took money away from protecting the levees because the levees were protecting black people.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Stephanie Baran&#8217;s message to conference participants was that capitalism is the cause of racism in the world today. This adjunct professor at Kankakee Community College, who calls herself a vulgar Marxist, added that racism was invented in Colonial America by white capitalists as a tool to divide labor and keep the working class in their place.</p>
<p>Educator Paul Kivel explained what he sees as Christian hegemony, saying, &#8220;Very simply, I define it as the everyday pervasive, deep-seated and institutionalized dominance of Christian values, Christian institutions, leaders and Christians as a group, primarily for the benefit of Christian ruling elites.&#8221;</p>
<p>Speaker Leonard Zeskind, citing work done by the MacIver Institute, explained that &#8220;the longer you are in the tea party the more racist you become.&#8221; He added, &#8220;Parents put their kids in private schools because they&#8217;re racist.&#8221;</p>
<p>University of Iowa Professor Adrien Wing gave some of her observations about white privilege, asking, &#8220;Does having a black president change that? Has it changed that? Unfortunately, it hasn&#8217;t. &#8230; (President Obama) ends up being the front man for the system. &#8230; He works for the master of the system of white privilege.&#8221;</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t imagine people being stupid enough to believe all that was said at the White Privilege Conference. There&#8217;s something else at work. I think it&#8217;s white guilt. That&#8217;s why, for almost three decades, there has appeared on my website a certificate of amnesty and pardon that I&#8217;ve granted to Americans of European ancestry in the hope that they stop feeling guilty and stop acting like fools (http://tinyurl.com/opd8vgd).</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which should we be ruled by? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/constitution-2-SC.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224491" alt="Stock Photo of the Consitution of the United States and Feather Quill" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/constitution-2-SC.jpg" width="341" height="226" /></a>Let me run through a few good ideas. I think it&#8217;s a good idea for children to eat healthful, wholesome foods. In the raising of our daughter, before-dinner treats were fresh vegetables, and after-dinner treats were mostly fruits.</p>
<p>I arrive at my gym sometime between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., at least four times a week, to lift weights and use the treadmill. During the warmer months, the treadmill is substituted by a weekly total of 40 to 60 miles on my bike. My exercise regimen is a good idea. Another good idea is to wear a bike helmet while bike riding and wear a seat belt when driving my car. Among many other good ideas is the enjoyment of two, maybe three, glasses of wine with each evening meal.</p>
<p>You say, &#8220;So what, Williams? What&#8217;s your point?&#8221; There&#8217;s no question that all of those actions, with the possible exception of the last, are indeed good ideas. As evidence that my exercise regimen is a good idea, my doctors tell me that at 78 years of age, I&#8217;m in better health and conditioning than most of their male patients many years my junior. My question to you is whether these commonly agreed-upon good ideas should become the law of the land. To be more explicit, should Congress enact a law requiring every able-bodied American to lift weights four times a week and bike 40 to 60 miles each week? Just look at all the benefits of such a law. Americans would be healthier, and that would mean lower health care costs. People would have a longer working life. Men would have the strength to protect their women and children folk from thugs. In a word, there would be no downside to the fitter population that would come from a congressional law mandating physical fitness programs. We might title such a law the &#8220;Improving American Health Act.&#8221; The law would impose fines and penalties on any able-bodied person not found to be in compliance. What congressman would have the callousness to vote against such a beneficial measure?</p>
<p>Needless to say, there would be attacks against the Improving American Health Act, launched mostly by libertarians, conservatives and some Republicans.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These people would argue that Congress has no constitutional authority to enact such a liberty-intrusive law. Their arguments would be on weak grounds. Our Constitution&#8217;s Article 1, Section 8 says, &#8220;The Congress shall have Power To &#8230; provide for the &#8230; general Welfare of the United States.&#8221; Our Constitution further empowers Congress to enact the Improving American Health Act by its Article 1, Section 3 — sometimes referred to as the commerce clause — which grants Congress the power &#8220;To regulate Commerce &#8230; among the several States.&#8221; After all, good health lends itself to more efficient interstate commerce and a larger gross domestic product. Sick Americans adversely affect interstate commerce and are a burden on economic activity.</span></p>
<p>I have no doubt that people who don&#8217;t want to see a healthier America — again, mostly libertarians, conservatives and Republicans — will bring suit before the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that Congress has no such authority under either the general welfare clause or the commerce clause. Would you prefer that Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., speaking for a majority, concur by saying, &#8220;This court is guided by the U.S. Constitution, and we find no constitutional authority for the Improving American Health Act, despite Congress&#8217; nonsense claims alleging authority under the general welfare and commerce clauses&#8221;?</p>
<p>Or would you prefer that Justice Roberts, speaking for the majority, engage in mental contortions in which he agrees that forcing people to exercise exceeds congressional authority under both the commerce clause and the general welfare clause but says the Improving American Health Act is indeed constitutional under Congress&#8217; taxing authority?</p>
<p>My bottom line question is: Should we be ruled by what are seen as good ideas or by what&#8217;s permissible by the U.S. Constitution?</p>
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		<title>The Truth about &#8216;Wage Discrimination&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government's futile attempt to combat "inequality." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1e120686562e69a46fcdf51a22673b2e.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223915" alt="1e120686562e69a46fcdf51a22673b2e" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1e120686562e69a46fcdf51a22673b2e-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>&#8220;President Obama Vows Zero Tolerance on Gender Wage Gap,&#8221; read one headline. Another read, &#8220;Women Still Earned 77 Cents On Men&#8217;s Dollar In 2012.&#8221; It&#8217;s presumed that big, greedy corporations are responsible for what is seen as wage injustice. Before discussing the &#8220;unjust&#8221; wage differences between men and women, let&#8217;s acknowledge an even greater injustice — which no one seems to care about — age injustice.</p>
<p>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, workers ages 16 to 24 earn only 54 cents on every dollar earned by workers 25 or older (http://tinyurl.com/n6puf6j). This wage gap is 43 percent greater than the male/female gap. Our president, progressives, do-gooders, academics and union leaders show little interest in big, greedy corporations ripping off the nation&#8217;s youth. You might say, &#8220;Whoa, Williams! There&#8217;s a reason younger people earn less than older people. They don&#8217;t have the skills or experience.&#8221; My response would be — if I shared the vision of the president, media elite and do-gooders: Just as there can be no justification for big, greedy corporations paying women less than they pay men, there&#8217;s no justification for them to exploit the nation&#8217;s youth.</p>
<p>The 77 percent median income statistic, used in discussions about male/female differences in earnings, tells us nothing about differences that might explain the differences in income, and it leads to stupid discussions. Let&#8217;s use some common sense and look at some differences between men and women that may have a bearing on earnings.</p>
<p>Kay S. Hymowitz&#8217;s article &#8220;Why the Gender Gap Won&#8217;t Go Away. Ever,&#8221; in City Journal (summer 2011), shows that female doctors earn only 64 percent of what male doctors earn. But it turns out that only 16 percent of surgeons are women, whereas 50 percent of pediatricians are women. Even though surgeons have put in many more years of education and training than pediatricians and earn higher pay, should Obama and Congress equalize their salaries? Alternatively, they might force female pediatricians to become surgeons.</p>
<p>There are inequalities everywhere.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Asian men and women have median earnings higher than white men and women. Female cafeteria attendants earn more than their male counterparts. Females who are younger than 30 and have never been married earn salaries 8 percent higher than males of the same description. Among women who graduated from college during 1992-93, by 2003 more than one-fifth were no longer in the workforce<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, and another 17 percent were working part time. That&#8217;s to be compared with only 2 percent of men in either category. Hymowitz cites several studies showing significant career choice and lifestyle differences between men and women that result in differences in income.</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to 2010 BLS data<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the following jobs contain 1 percent or less female workers: boilermakers, brick masonry, stonemasonry, septic tank servicing, sewer pipe cleaners and trash collectors. By contrast, women are 97 percent of preschool and kindergarten teachers, 80 percent of social workers, 82 percent of </span>librarians and 92 percent of dietitians and nutritionists and registered nurses.</span></p>
<p>For people having limited thinking skills, differences in earnings cannot be explained away. For them, Congress has permitted — and even fostered — a misallocation of people by race, sex and ethnicity. They&#8217;ll argue that courts have consistently concluded that &#8220;gross&#8221; disparities are probative of a pattern and practice of discrimination. So what to do? Maybe President Obama and Congress should require women, who are overrepresented in preschool and kindergarten teaching, to become boilermakers, garbage collectors and brick masons and mandate that male boilermakers, trash collectors and brick masons become preschool and kindergarten teachers until both of their percentages are equal to their percentages in the population. You say, &#8220;Williams, to do that would be totalitarianism!&#8221; I say that if Americans accept that Congress can force us to buy health insurance, how much more totalitarian would it be for Congress to force people to take jobs they don&#8217;t want?</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s School &#8216;Punishment Equality&#8217; Folly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 04:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The racism of the Left is revealed in a new Department of Education policy. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/800px-Japanese_high_school_classroom.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223583" alt="800px-Japanese_high_school_classroom" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/800px-Japanese_high_school_classroom-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>George Leef, director of research for the North Carolina-based John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, authored a Forbes op-ed article titled &#8220;Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd Lengths.&#8221; The subtitle is &#8220;School Discipline Rates Must Be &#8216;Proportionate.&#8217;&#8221; (http://tinyurl.com/mxnlg9h). Let&#8217;s examine some of the absurdity of the Obama administration&#8217;s take on student discipline.</p>
<p>Last January, the departments of Justice and Education published a &#8220;guidance&#8221; letter describing how schools can meet their obligations under federal law to administer student discipline without discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin. Its underlying threat is that if federal bureaucrats learn of racial disproportionality in the punishments meted out for misbehavior, they will descend upon a school&#8217;s administrators. If schools cannot justify differentials in rates of punishment by race or ethnic group, they will face the loss of federal funds and be forced to undertake costly diversity training.</p>
<p>The nation&#8217;s educators can avoid sanctions by adopting a racial quota system for student discipline. So as Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, predicts, &#8220;school officials will either start disciplining students who shouldn&#8217;t be, or, more likely, will not discipline some students who ought to be.&#8221; I can imagine school administrators reasoning this way: &#8220;Blacks are 20 percent of our student body, and 20 percent of suspensions this year have been of black students. In order to discipline another black student while maintaining our suspension quota, we will have to suspend some white students, whether they&#8217;re guilty or not.&#8221; Some administrators might see some injustice in that approach and simply ignore the misbehavior of black students.</p>
<p>Leef cites Manhattan Institute&#8217;s Heather Mac Donald, who wrote in City Journal (http://tinyurl.com/9k648fj) that &#8220;the Departments of Education and Justice have launched a campaign against disproportionate minority discipline rates, which show up in virtually every school district with significant numbers of black and Hispanic students.</p>
<p>The possibility that students&#8217; behavior, not educators&#8217; racism, drives those rates lies outside the Obama administration&#8217;s conceptual universe.&#8221; She quoted Aaron Benner, a black teacher in a St. Paul, Minn., school who abhors the idea that school officials should go easy on black students who act up because (as a &#8220;facilitator&#8221; said) that&#8217;s what black culture is. &#8220;They&#8217;re trying to pull one over on us. Black folks are drinking the Kool-Aid; this &#8216;let-them-clown&#8217; philosophy could have been devised by the KKK.&#8221; Benner is right. I can&#8217;t think of a more racist argument than one that holds that disruptive, rude behavior and foul language are a part of black culture.</p>
<p>If Barack Obama&#8217;s Department of Justice thinks that disproportionality in school punishments is probative of racial discrimination, what about our criminal justice system, in which a disproportionate number of blacks are imprisoned, on parole or probation, and executed? According to the NAACP&#8217;s criminal justice fact sheet, blacks now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million people who are incarcerated. Blacks are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites. The NAACP goes on to report that if blacks and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rate as whites, today&#8217;s prison and jail populations would decline by approximately 50 percent (http://tinyurl.com/7g2b32h).</p>
<p>So what to do? For example, blacks are 13 percent of the population but over 50 percent of homicide victims and about 46 percent of convicted murderers. Seeing as the Obama administration is concerned about punishment disproportionality, should black convicts be released so that only 13 percent of incarcerated murderers are black? Or should the Department of Justice order the conviction of whites, whether they&#8217;re guilty or not, so that the number of people convicted of murder by race is equal to their number in the general population? You say, &#8220;Williams, that not only is a stupid suggestion but violates all concepts of justice!&#8221; You&#8217;re absolutely right, but isn&#8217;t it just as stupid and unjust for the Obama administration to seek punishment equality in schools?</p>
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		<title>Is There Wage Stagnation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debunking the Left's phony statistics. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/111.png"><img class=" wp-image-221378 alignleft" alt="111" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/111.png" width="300" height="227" /></a>Many economists, politicians and pundits assert that median wages have stagnated since the 1970s. That&#8217;s a call for government to do something about it. But before we look at the error in their assertion, let&#8217;s work through an example that might shed a bit of light on the issue.</p>
<p>Suppose that you paid me a straight $20 an hour in 2004. Ten years later, I&#8217;m still earning $20 an hour, but in addition, now I&#8217;m receiving job perks such as health insurance, an employer-matched 401(k) plan, paid holidays and vacation, etc. Would it be correct to say that my wages have stagnated and I&#8217;m no better off a decade later? I&#8217;m guessing that the average person would say, &#8220;No, Williams, your wages haven&#8217;t stagnated. You forgot to include your non-monetary wages.&#8221; My colleagues Donald Boudreaux and Liya Palagashvili discuss some of this in their recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, &#8220;The Myth of the Great Wages &#8216;Decoupling&#8217;&#8221; (http://tinyurl.com/oq7z4a3).</p>
<p>They start out saying: &#8220;Many pundits, politicians and economists claim that wages have fallen behind productivity gains over the last generation. &#8230; This story, though, is built on an illusion. There is no great decoupling of worker pay from productivity. Nor have workers&#8217; incomes stagnated over the past four decades.&#8221; There are two routinely made mistakes when wages are compared over time. &#8220;First, the value of fringe benefits — such as health insurance and pension contributions — is often excluded from calculations of worker pay. Because fringe benefits today make up a larger share of the typical employee&#8217;s pay than they did 40 years ago (about 19 percent today compared with 10 percent back then), excluding them fosters the illusion that the workers&#8217; slice of the (bigger) pie is shrinking.&#8221;</p>
<p>The second comparison problem is a bit technical, when the consumer price index is used to adjust workers&#8217; pay for inflation while a different measure (the gross domestic product deflator) is used to adjust the value of the nation&#8217;s economic output for inflation.</p>
<p>Harvard University&#8217;s Martin Feldstein noted in a National Bureau of Economic Research paper in 2008 that it is misleading to use different deflators. Boudreaux and Palagashvili point out that when more careful measurements have compared worker pay (including the value of fringe benefits) with productivity using a consistent adjustment for inflation, they move in tandem. The authors say: &#8220;The claim that ordinary Americans are stagnating economically while only &#8216;the rich&#8217; are gaining is also incorrect. True enough, membership in the middle class seems to be declining — but this is because more American households are moving up.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Many economists and other social scientists determine well-being by looking at income brackets instead of people. When one looks at people, he finds considerable income mobility. According to a report by the Department of the Treasury titled &#8220;Income Mobility in the U.S. from 1996 to 2005,&#8221; there was considerable income mobility of individuals in the U.S. economy during that period (http://tinyurl.com/5sv8799). Using Internal Revenue Service tax return </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">data</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the report says that more than half of taxpayers moved to a different income quintile over this period. More than half of those in the bottom income quintile in 1996 had moved to a higher income group by 2005. The mobility also goes in the opposite direction. Of the highest income earners in 1996 — the top one-hundredth of 1 percent — only 25 percent remained in this group in 2005. The percentage increase in the median incomes of those in the lower income groups, between 1996 and 2005, increased more than the median incomes of those initially in the higher income groups.</span></p>
<p>Boudreaux and Palagashvili conclude that &#8220;middle-class stagnation and the &#8216;decoupling&#8217; of pay and productivity are illusions. Yes, the U.S. economy is in the doldrums, thanks to a variety of factors, most significantly the effect of growth-deadening government policies like ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank Act. But by any sensible measure, most Americans are today better paid and more prosperous than in the past.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/law_hammar_xlarge.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220998" alt="law_hammar_xlarge" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/law_hammar_xlarge.jpg" width="315" height="222" /></a>What kind of rules should govern our lives? I&#8217;d argue that the best rules are those that we&#8217;d be satisfied with if our very worst enemy were in charge of decision-making. The foundation for such rules was laid out by my mother. Let&#8217;s look at it.</p>
<p>My mother worked as a domestic servant. That meant that my younger sister and I often lunched at home by ourselves during our preteen years. Being bigger and stronger than my sister, I seldom divided the food evenly, especially the desserts. After a tiring day at work, Mom would be greeted by sob stories from my sister about my lunchtime injustices. Mom finally became fed up with the sibling hassles. She didn&#8217;t admonish me to be more caring, fair, sensitive and considerate. She just made a rule: Whoever cuts the cake (pie, bread, meat, etc.) allows the other the first selection. With that new rule in place, you can bet that when either my sister or I divided food, it was divided equally.</p>
<p>You say, &#8220;That&#8217;s a nice story, Williams, but what&#8217;s the point?&#8221; The point is that the principle underlying Mom&#8217;s rule is precisely the kind that is necessary for rules to promote fairness. In general, the rules that we should want are those that promote fairness, whether it&#8217;s our best friend or it&#8217;s our worst enemy who&#8217;s the decision-maker. In the case of Mom&#8217;s rule, it didn&#8217;t make any difference whether I hated my sister&#8217;s guts that day or she hated mine or whether my sister was doing the cutting or I was; there was a just division of the food.</p>
<p>Think for a moment about rules in sports, say basketball. One team loses, and the other wins, but they and their fans leave the stadium peacefully and most often as friends. Why? The game&#8217;s outcome is seen as fair because there are fixed, known, neutral rules evenly applied by the referees.</p>
<p>The referees&#8217; job is to apply the rules — not determine the game&#8217;s outcome. Imagine the chaos and animosity among players and fans if one team paid referees to help it win or the referees were trying to promote some kind of equality among teams.</p>
<p>Billions of dollars and billions of hours are spent campaigning for this or that candidate in our national elections. You can bet that people are not making those expenditures so that politicians will uphold and defend the Constitution; they&#8217;re looking for favors. The Constitution&#8217;s framers gave us reasonably fair and neutral rules of the game. If our government acted, as the framers intended, as a referee or night watchman, how much difference would it make to any of us who occupies the White House or Congress? It would make little difference, if any. It would be just like our basketball game example. Any government official who knew and enforced the rules would do. But increasingly, who&#8217;s in office is making a difference, because government has abandoned its referee and night watchman function and gotten into the business of determining winners and losers. Unfortunately, for our nation, that&#8217;s what most Americans want.</p>
<p>Thomas Paine said, &#8220;Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil.&#8221; Our Bill of Rights is an explicit recognition of the Founding Fathers&#8217; distrust of Congress. Just look at its language, with phrases such as &#8220;Congress shall not abridge,&#8221; &#8220;shall not infringe,&#8221; &#8220;shall not deny,&#8221; &#8220;disparage&#8221; and &#8220;violate.&#8221; If the framers did not believe that Congress would abuse our God-given, or natural, rights, they would not have used such language. If, after we die, we see anything like the Bill of Rights at our next destination, we&#8217;ll know that we&#8217;re in hell. To demand such protections in heaven would be the same as saying we can&#8217;t trust God.</p>
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		<title>Black People Duped</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 05:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why political power hasn't solved black socioeconomic problems. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/obamaNAACP2.hero_.reuters.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220226" alt="obamaNAACP2.hero.reuters" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/obamaNAACP2.hero_.reuters.jpg" width="270" height="221" /></a>People in the media and academia are mostly leftists hellbent on growing government and controlling our lives. Black people, their politicians and civil rights organizations have become unwitting accomplices. The leftist pretense of concern for the well-being of black people confers upon them an aura of moral superiority and, as such, gives more credibility to their calls for increasing government control over our lives.</p>
<p>Ordinary black people have been sold on the importance of electing blacks to high public office. After centuries of black people having been barred from high elected office, no decent American can have anything against their wider participation in our political system. For several decades, blacks have held significant political power, in the form of being mayors and dominant forces on city councils in major cities such as Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington, Memphis, Tenn., Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, Oakland, Calif., Newark, N.J., and Cincinnati. In these cities, blacks have held administrative offices such as school superintendent, school principal and chief of police. Plus, there&#8217;s the precedent-setting fact of there being 44 black members of Congress and a black president.</p>
<p>What has this political power meant for the significant socio-economic problems faced by a large segment of the black community? Clearly, it has done little or nothing for academic achievement; the number of black students scoring proficient is far below the national average. It is a disgrace — and ought to be a source of shame — to know that the average white seventh- or eighth-grader can run circles around the average black 12th-grader in most academic subjects. The political and education establishment tells us that the solution lies in higher budgets, but the fact of business is that some of the worst public school districts have the highest spending per student. Washington, D.C., for example, spends more than $29,000 per student and scores at nearly the bottom in academic achievement.</p>
<p>Each year, roughly 7,000 — and as high as 9,000 — blacks are murdered.</p>
<p>Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is another black person. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011, there were 279,384 black murder victims. Contrast this with the fact that black fatalities during the Korean War (3,075), Vietnam War (7,243) and wars since 1980 (about 8,200) total about 18,500. Young black males have a greater chance of reaching maturity on the battlefields than on the streets of Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, Newark and other cities. Black political power and massive city budgets have done absolutely nothing to ameliorate this problem of black insecurity.</p>
<p>Most of the problems faced by the black community have their roots in a black culture that differs significantly from the black culture of yesteryear. Today only 35 percent of black children are raised in two-parent households, but as far back as 1880, in Philadelphia, 75 percent of black children were raised in two-parent households — and it was as high as 85 percent in other places. Even during slavery, in which marriage was forbidden, most black children were raised with two biological parents. The black family managed to survive several centuries of slavery and generations of the harshest racism and Jim Crow, to ultimately become destroyed by the welfare state. The black family has fallen victim to the vision fostered by some intellectuals that, in the words of a sociology professor in the 1960s, &#8220;it has yet to be shown that the absence of a father was directly responsible for any of the supposed deficiencies of broken homes.&#8221; The real issue to these intellectuals &#8220;is not the lack of male presence but the lack of male income.&#8221; That suggests that fathers can be replaced by a welfare check. The weakened black family gives rise to problems such has high crime, predation and other forms of anti-social behavior.</p>
<p>The cultural problems that affect many black people are challenging and not pleasant to talk about, but incorrectly attributing those problems to racism and racial discrimination, a need for more political power, and a need for greater public spending condemns millions of blacks to the degradation and despair of the welfare state.</p>
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		<title>Schoolteacher Cheating: Cheating Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2014 05:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Philadelphia-School-Cheating-Scandal-Widens.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217956" alt="Philadelphia-School-Cheating-Scandal-Widens" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Philadelphia-School-Cheating-Scandal-Widens-450x335.jpg" width="270" height="201" /></a>Philadelphia&#8217;s public school system has joined several other big-city school systems, such as those in Atlanta, Detroit and Washington, D.C., in widespread teacher-led cheating on standardized academic achievement tests. So far, the city has fired three school principals, and The Wall Street Journal reports, &#8220;Nearly 140 teachers and administrators in Philadelphia public schools have been implicated in one of the nation&#8217;s largest cheating scandals.&#8221; (1/23/14) (http://tinyurl.com/q5makm3). Investigators found that teachers got together after tests to erase the students&#8217; incorrect answers and replace them with correct answers. In some cases, they went as far as to give or show students answers during the test.</p>
<p>Jerry Jordan, president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, identifies the problem as district officials focusing too heavily on test scores to judge teacher performance, and they&#8217;ve converted low-performing schools to charters run by independent groups that typically hire nonunion teachers. But William Hite, superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia, said cheating by adults harms students because schools use test scores to determine which students need remedial help, saying, &#8220;There is no circumstance, no matter how pressured the cooker, that adults should be cheating students.&#8221;</p>
<p>While there&#8217;s widespread teacher test cheating to conceal education failure, most notably among black children, it&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, published by the U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s National Center for Education Statistics and sometimes referred to as the Nation&#8217;s Report Card, measures student performance in the fourth and eighth grades. In 2013, 46 percent of Philadelphia eighth-graders scored below basic, and 35 percent scored basic. Below basic is a score meaning that a student is unable to demonstrate even partial mastery of knowledge and skills fundamental for proficient work at his grade level.</p>
<p>Basic indicates only partial mastery. It&#8217;s a similar story in reading, with 42 percent below basic and 41 percent basic. With this kind of performance, no one should be surprised that of the state of Pennsylvania&#8217;s 27 most poorly performing schools on the SAT, 25 are in Philadelphia.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Philadelphia&#8217;s four-year high-school graduation rate in 2012 was 64 percent, well below the national rate of 78 percent. Even if a student graduates from high school, what does it mean? What a high-school diploma means for white students is nothing to write home about, as suggested by the fact that every year, nearly 60 percent of first-year college students must take remedial courses in English or mathematics. What a high-school diploma means for black students is nothing less than a disaster, as pointed out by Drs. Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom in their 2009 book, &#8220;No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning.&#8221; They state that &#8220;blacks nearing the end of their high school education perform a little worse than white eighth-graders in both reading and U.S. history, and a lot worse in math and geography.&#8221; Little has changed since the book&#8217;s publication.</span></p>
<p>Hite rightfully said that test cheating by adults harms students, but that harm pales in comparison with the harm done by teachers awarding fraudulent grades and conferring fraudulent high-school diplomas, particularly to black students. You say, &#8220;Williams, what do you mean by fraudulent diplomas?&#8221; When a student is given a high-school diploma, that attests that he can read, write and compute at a 12th-grade level, and when he can&#8217;t do so at the eighth-grade level, that diploma is fraudulent. What makes it so tragic is that neither the student nor his parents are aware that he has a fraudulent diploma. When a black person is not admitted to college, flunks out of college, can&#8217;t pass a civil service test or doesn&#8217;t get job promotions, he is likelier to blame racial discrimination than his poor education.</p>
<p>Politicians, civil rights organizations and the education establishment will do nothing about the fraud. In fact, they give their full allegiance to the perpetrators.</p>
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		<title>The Politics of Hate and Envy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 05:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the left demonizes CEOs but not much richer professional athletes and actors. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WalmartProtest.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217452" alt="WalmartProtest" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WalmartProtest-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a>Part of the progressive agenda is to create hate and envy. One component of that agenda is to attack the large differences between a corporation&#8217;s chief executive officer&#8217;s earnings and those of its average worker. CNNMoney published salary comparisons in &#8220;Fortune 50 CEO pay vs. our salaries&#8221; (http://tinyurl.com/c2b24rv). Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf&#8217;s annual salary is $2.8 million. CNN shows that it takes 66 Wells Fargo employees, whose average salary is $42,400, to match Stumpf&#8217;s salary. It takes 57 Wal-Mart employees, who earn $22,100 on average, to match CEO Michael Duke&#8217;s $1.3 million. At General Electric, 44 employees earning $75,300 a year match CEO Jeff Immelt&#8217;s $3.3 million salary. For people with little understanding, such differences seem patently unfair. Before touching on the fairness issue, let&#8217;s look at some high salaries that progressives ignore.</p>
<p>Forbes lists the &#8220;Highest-Paid Football Players 2013&#8243; (http://tinyurl.com/kw4dv3d). Drew Brees, quarterback for the Saints, earned $40 million. If the average Saints organization employee earned $45,000, it would take almost 900 of them to match Brees&#8217; salary. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady earned $31.3 million, and Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant earns $23.5 million for playing basketball. It would take the earnings of more than 1,200 workers making $45,000 a year to match the earnings of Brady and Bryant.</p>
<p>But the &#8220;unfair&#8221; salaries of sports players pale in comparison with movie stars. According to Forbes&#8217; listing of the highest-paid actors (http://tinyurl.com/k3p8djs), Robert Downey Jr. earned $75 million from June 2012 to June 2013. Channing Tatum: $60 million. Hugh Jackman: $55 million. Let&#8217;s suppose the cameraman working with Downey earned $60,000. It would take the salaries of 1,250 of them to equal his salary. Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s 2012 salary came to $165 million, thousands of times what the earnings of people who work for her are.</p>
<p>Though sports and Hollywood personalities earn multiples of CEO salaries, you&#8217;ll never find leftists and progressives picketing and criticizing them.</p>
<p>Why? The strategy for want-to-be tyrants is to demonize people whose power they want to usurp. That&#8217;s the typical way tyrants gain power. They give the masses someone to hate. In 18th-century France, it was Maximilien Robespierre&#8217;s promoting hatred of the aristocracy that led to his acquiring dictatorial power. In the 20th century, the communists gained power by promoting public hatred of the czars and capitalists. In Germany, Adolf Hitler gained power by promoting hatred of Jews and Bolsheviks.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not equating America&#8217;s progressives and liberals with Robespierre, Josef Stalin and Hitler. I am saying that promoting jealousy, fear and hate is an effective strategy for leftist politicians and their followers to control and micromanage businesses. It&#8217;s not about the amount of money top executives earn. If it were, politicians and leftists would be promoting jealousy, fear and hatred toward multi-multimillionaire Hollywood actors, celebrities and sports stars. But there is no way that politicians could usurp the roles of Drew Brees, Kobe Bryant, Robert Downey Jr. and Oprah Winfrey. That means celebrities can make any amount of money they want and it matters not one iota politically. Do you think President Barack Obama would stoke the fires of hate and envy by remarking that he thinks that &#8220;at a certain point, you&#8217;ve made enough money&#8221; — as he did in a 2010 Quincy, Ill., speech — in regard to the salaries of Winfrey, Brees and Hollywood celebrities?</p>
<p>Why the high salaries? Ask yourself: If a corporate board of directors could hire a person for $45,000 who could do what a CEO could do, why would they pay CEOs millions? If an NFL team owner could hire a person with the athletic ability and decision-making capacity of Drew Brees for $100,000, why would he pay Brees $40 million? If some other actor could have created as many box-office receipts, why would movie producers have paid Downey $75 million?</p>
<p>There&#8217;s another important issue. If one company has an effective CEO, it is not the only company that would like to have him on the payroll. In order to keep him, the company must pay him enough so that he can&#8217;t be lured elsewhere.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 05:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When trashing the Constitution is the politically smart thing to do. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/VoteHereSignBethelFellowshipSTP640.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213800" alt="VoteHereSignBethelFellowshipSTP640" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/VoteHereSignBethelFellowshipSTP640-432x350.png" width="302" height="245" /></a>Politicians can be progressives, liberals, conservatives, Democrats or Republicans, and right-wingers. They just can&#8217;t be dumb. The American people will never elect them to office. Let&#8217;s look at it.</p>
<p>For years, I used to blame politicians for our economic and social mess. That changed during the 1980s as a result of several lunches with Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., which produced an epiphany of sorts.</p>
<p>At the time, I had written several columns highly critical of farm subsidies and handouts. Helms agreed, saying something should be done. Then he asked me whether I could tell him how he could vote against them and remain a senator from North Carolina. He said that if he voted against them, North Carolinians would vote him out of office and replace him with somebody probably worse. My epiphany came when I asked myself whether it was reasonable to expect a politician to commit what he considered to be political suicide — in a word, be dumb.</p>
<p>The Office of Management and Budget calculates that more than 40 percent of federal spending is for entitlements for the elderly in the forms of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, housing and other assistance programs. Total entitlement spending comes to about 62 percent of federal spending. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that entitlement spending will consume all federal tax revenue by 2048.</p>
<p>Only a dumb politician would argue that something must be done immediately about the main components of entitlement spending: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Senior citizens indignantly would tell him that what they&#8217;re receiving are not entitlements. It&#8217;s their money that Congress put aside for them. They would attack any politician who told them that the only way they get Social Security and Medicare money is through taxes levied on current workers. The smart politician would go along with these people&#8217;s vision that Social Security and Medicare are their money that the government was holding for them. The dumb politician, who is truthful about Social Security and Medicare and their devastating impact on our nation&#8217;s future, would be run out of office.</p>
<p>Social Security and Medicare are by no means the only sources of unsustainable congressional spending.</p>
<p>There are billions upon billions in handouts going to farmers, corporations, poor people and thousands of federal programs that have no constitutional basis whatsoever. But a smart politician reasons that if Congress enables one group of Americans to live at the expense of another American, then in fairness, what possible argument can be made for not giving that same right to other groups of Americans? Making a constitutional and moral argument against the growth of handouts would qualify as dumb.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s examine some statements of past Americans whom we&#8217;ve mistakenly called great but would be deemed both heartless and dumb if they were around today. In 1794, James Madison, the father of our Constitution, irate over a $15,000 congressional appropriation to assist some French refugees, said, &#8220;I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.&#8221; He added, &#8220;Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 1854, President Franklin Pierce vetoed a bill intended to help the mentally ill, saying, &#8220;I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity&#8221; &#8230; and to approve such spending &#8220;would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.&#8221;</p>
<p>Grover Cleveland vetoed hundreds of congressional spending bills during his two terms as president in the late 1800s. His often stated veto message was, &#8220;I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.&#8221;</p>
<p>If these men were around today, making similar statements, Americans would hold them in contempt and disqualify them from office. That&#8217;s a sad commentary on how we&#8217;ve trashed our Constitution.</p>
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		<title>The Pope and Capitalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Explaining the great blessing of the free market system to humanity. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/PopeFrancis-finger.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213362" alt="PopeFrancis-finger" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/PopeFrancis-finger-450x339.jpg" width="315" height="237" /></a>Pope Francis, in his apostolic exhortation, levied charges against free market capitalism, denying that &#8220;economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world&#8221; and concluding that &#8220;this opinion &#8230; has never been confirmed by the facts.&#8221; He went on to label unfettered capitalism as &#8220;a new tyranny.&#8221; Let&#8217;s look at the pope&#8217;s tragic vision.</p>
<p>First, I acknowledge that capitalism fails miserably when compared with heaven or a utopia. Any earthly system is going to come up short in such a comparison. However, mankind must make choices among alternative economic systems that actually exist on earth. For the common man, capitalism is superior to any system yet devised to deal with his everyday needs and desires.</p>
<p>Capitalism is relatively new in human history. Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. With the rise of capitalism, it became possible to amass great wealth by serving and pleasing your fellow man. Capitalists seek to discover what people want and produce and market it as efficiently as possible as a means to profit. A couple of examples would be J.D. Rockefeller, whose successful marketing drove kerosene prices down from 58 cents a gallon in 1865 to 7 cents in 1900. Henry Ford became rich by producing cars for the common man. Both Ford&#8217;s and Rockefeller&#8217;s personal benefits pale in comparison with that received by the common man by having cheaper kerosene and cheaper transportation. There are literally thousands of examples of how mankind&#8217;s life has been made better by those in the pursuit of profits. Here&#8217;s my question to you: Are people who, by their actions, created unprecedented convenience, longer life expectancy and a more pleasant life for the ordinary person — and became wealthy in the process — deserving of all the scorn and ridicule heaped upon them by intellectuals, politicians and now the pope?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s examine the role of profits but first put it in perspective in terms of magnitude.</p>
<p>Between 1960 and 2012, after-tax corporate profit averaged a bit over 6 percent of the gross domestic product, while wages averaged 47 percent of the GDP. Far more important than simple statistics about the magnitude of profits is its role in guiding resources to their highest-valued uses and satisfying people. Try polling people with a few questions. Ask them what services they are more satisfied with and what they are less satisfied with. On the &#8220;more satisfied&#8221; list would be profit-making enterprises, such as supermarkets, theaters, clothing stores and computer stores. They&#8217;d find less satisfaction with services provided by nonprofit government organizations, such as public schools, post offices and departments of motor vehicles.</p>
<p>Profits force entrepreneurs to find ways to please people in the most efficient ways or go out of business. Of course, they can mess up and stay in business if they can get government to bail them out or give them protection against competition. Nonprofits have an easier time of it. Public schools, for example, continue to operate whether they do a good job or not and whether they please parents or not. That&#8217;s because politicians provide their compensation through coercive property taxes. I&#8217;m sure that we&#8217;d be less satisfied with supermarkets if they, too, had the power to take our money through taxes, as opposed to being forced to find ways to get us to voluntarily give them our earnings.</p>
<p>Arthur C. Brooks, president at the American Enterprise Institute and author of &#8220;Who Really Cares,&#8221; shows that Americans are the most generous people on the face of the earth. In fact, if you look for generosity around the world, you find virtually all of it in countries that are closer to the free market end of the economic spectrum than they are to the socialist or communist end. Seeing as Pope Francis sees charity as a key part of godliness, he ought to stop demonizing capitalism.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2013 04:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do employers really pay half of all Medicare and Social Security taxes? Or do workers pay it all? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/social-security-taxes.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211046" alt="social-security-taxes" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/social-security-taxes.jpg" width="289" height="181" /></a>There&#8217;s more to the deceit and dishonesty about Social Security and Medicare discussed in my recent columns. Congress tells us that one-half (6.2 percent) of the Social Security tax is paid by employees and that the other half is paid by employers, for a total of 12.4 percent. Similarly, we are told that a Medicare tax of 1.45 percent is levied on employees and that another 1.45 percent is levied on employers. The truth of the matter is that the burden of both taxes is borne by employees. In other words, we pay both the employee and the so-called employer share. You say, &#8220;Williams, that&#8217;s nonsense! Just look at what it says on my pay stub.&#8221; OK, let&#8217;s look at it.</p>
<p>Pretend you are my employer and agree to pay me $50,000 a year, out of which you&#8217;re going to send $3,100 to Washington as my share of Social Security tax (6.2 percent of $50,000), as well as $725 for my share of Medicare (1.45 percent of $50,000), a total of $3,825 for the year. To this you must add your half of Social Security and Medicare taxes, which is also $3,825 for the year. Your cost to hire me is $53,825.</p>
<p>If it costs you $53,825 a year to hire me, how much value must I produce for it to be profitable for you to keep me? Is it our agreed salary of $50,000 or $53,825? If you said $53,825, you&#8217;d be absolutely right. Then who pays all of the Social Security and Medicare taxes? If you said that I do, you&#8217;re right again. The Social Security and Medicare fiction was created because Americans would not be so passive if they knew that the tax they are paying is double what is on their pay stubs — not to mention federal income taxes.</p>
<p>The economics specialty that reveals this is known as the incidence of taxation. The burden of a tax is not necessarily borne by the party upon whom it is levied. The Joint Committee on Taxation held that &#8220;both the employee&#8217;s and employer&#8217;s share of the payroll tax is borne by the employee.&#8221; The Congressional Budget Office &#8220;assumes — as do most economists — that employers&#8217; share of payroll taxes is passed on to employees in the form of lower wages than would otherwise be paid.&#8221;<a id="itxthook0" href="http://www.creators.com/opinion/walter-williams.html#" rel="nofollow">Health</a> insurance is not an employer gift, either.</p>
<p>It is paid for by employees in the form of lower wages.</p>
<p>Another part of Social Security and Medicare deception is that the taxes are officially called FICA, which stands for Federal Insurance Contributions Act. First, it&#8217;s not an insurance program. More importantly, the word &#8220;contribution&#8221; implies something voluntary. Its synonyms are alms, benefaction, beneficence, charity, donation and philanthropy. Which one of those synonyms comes close to describing how Congress gets Social Security and Medicare?</p>
<p>There&#8217;s more deceit and dishonesty. In 1950, I was 14 years old and applied for a work permit for an after-school job. One of the requirements was to obtain a Social Security card. In bold letters on my Social Security card, which I still possess, are the words &#8220;For Social Security Purposes — Not For Identification.&#8221; That&#8217;s because earlier Americans feared that their Social Security number would become an identity number. According to the Social Security Administration website, &#8220;this legend was removed as part of the design changes for the 18th version of the card, issued beginning in 1972.&#8221; That statement assumes we&#8217;re idiots. We&#8217;re asked to believe that the sole purpose of the removal was for design purposes. Apparently, the fact that our Social Security number had become a major identification tool, to be used in every aspect of our lives, had nothing to do with the SSA&#8217;s getting rid of the legend saying &#8220;For Social Security Purposes — Not For Identification.&#8221;</p>
<p>I wonder whether political satirist H.L. Mencken was right when he said, &#8220;Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Does Washington Know Best?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2013 04:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you trust Congress to oversee every stop light in the nation? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ap_capitol_nt_110928_wblog.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210737" alt="ap_capitol_nt_110928_wblog" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ap_capitol_nt_110928_wblog.jpg" width="246" height="188" /></a>According to some estimates, there are more than 100 million traffic signals in the U.S., but whatever the number, how many of us would like Washington, in the name of public health and safety, to be in sole charge of their operation? Congress or a committee it authorizes would determine the position of traffic signals at intersections, the length of time the lights stay red, yellow and green, and what hours of the day they can be flashing red.</p>
<p>While you ponder that, how many Americans would like Washington to be in charge of managing the delivery of food and other items to the nation&#8217;s supermarkets? Today&#8217;s average well-stocked U.S. supermarket stocks 60,000 to 65,000 different items from all over the U.S. and the world. Congress or some congressionally created committee could organize the choice of products and their prices. Maybe there&#8217;d be some cost savings. After all, what says that we should have so many items from which to choose? Why wouldn&#8217;t 10,000 do?</p>
<p>You say, &#8220;Williams, those are ludicrous ideas whose implementation would spell disaster!&#8221; You&#8217;re right. Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek, one of the greatest economists of the 20th century, said it is a fatal conceit for anyone to think that a single mind or group of minds, no matter how intelligent and well-meaning, could manage to do things better than the spontaneous, unstructured, complex and creative forces of the market. The biggest challenges in any system, whether it&#8217;s an economic, biological or ecological system, are information, communication and control. Congressmen&#8217;s taking over control of the nation&#8217;s traffic signals would require a massive amount of information that they are incapable of possessing, such as traffic flows at intersections, accident experiences, terrain patterns and peak and off-peak traffic flows.</p>
<p>The same information problem exists at supermarkets. Consider the challenge in organizing inputs in order to get 65,000 different items to a supermarket. Also, consider how uncompromising supermarket customers are.</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t tell the supermarket manager in advance when we&#8217;re going to shop or what we&#8217;re going to buy and in what quantity, but if the store doesn&#8217;t have what we want when we want it, we&#8217;ll fire the manager by taking our business elsewhere. The supermarket manager does a fairly good job doing what&#8217;s necessary to meet that challenge.</p>
<p>You say, &#8220;C&#8217;mon, Williams, nobody&#8217;s proposing that Congress take over the nation&#8217;s traffic signals and supermarkets!&#8221; You&#8217;re right, at least for now, but Congress and the president are taking over an area of our lives infinitely more challenging and complex than the management of traffic signals and supermarkets, namely our health care system. Oblivious to the huge information problem in the allocation of resources, the people in Washington have great confidence that they can run our health care system better than we, our physicians and hospitals. Charles Darwin wisely noted more than a century and a half ago that &#8220;ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.&#8221; Congress exudes confidence.</p>
<p>Suggesting that Congress and the president are ignorant of the fact that knowledge is highly dispersed and decisions made locally produce the best outcomes might be overly generous. It could be that they know they really don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re doing but just don&#8217;t give a hoot because it&#8217;s in their political interest to centralize health care decision-making. Just as one example, how can Congress know whether buying a $4,000 annual health insurance policy would be the best use of healthy 25-year-old Joe Sanders&#8217; earnings? Would he be better off purchasing a cheaper catastrophic health insurance policy and saving the rest of the money to put toward a business investment? Politicians really don&#8217;t care about what Joe thinks is best, because they arrogantly think they know what&#8217;s best and have the power to coerce.</p>
<p>Hayek said, &#8220;The curious task of economics is to illustrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.&#8221; We economists have failed miserably in that task.</p>
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