New York Young Republican Club Blog - Page 9

Editors note: This article, written by guest contributor Eugene Schlanger, was originally published at The University Bookman. Recently, Forbes magazine attempted to measure the effect of Ruth Lilly’s $185 million bequest to the Poetry Foundation. That foundation, which publishes Poetry magazine, claims that it reached 19 million new poetry readers last year. John Barr, its president, a poet and a former investment banker, suggested this was positive evidence of the growth of the public’s awareness... Read More→

One of the most important issues in reforming our schools in New York is the end of Last In, First Out. The push by Senate Republicans and Mayor Bloomberg to do away with this terrible policy is the right thing to do. Governor Cuomo understandably has many issues to deal with in terms of the unions, and does not want to needlessly antagonize them. However, his hesitance to support the GOP Senate bill could have an incredibly damaging effect on the children of New York City. One of the few positive things... Read More→

Many constitutional conservatives originally suggested the idea of a national primary day, back in 2008. This idea seemed to stand in sharp contrast to the Democrat’s undemocratic system of proportional delegates and superdelegates. We Republicans seem to like the winner-take-all system, mostly. The idea was meant to quickly decide our candidate, so we can spend more time and money beating the Democrats in general election races. Perhaps, this idea needs to be resurrected again. Back in... Read More→

Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment Hitting 10.3% in February “Warren Buffet said Wednesday on CNBC that the U.S. unemployment rate should be in the low 7% range by late 2012. If that is going to be the case, the job creation environment must change dramatically from what it is today.” http://www.gallup.com/poll/146453/Gallup-Finds-Unemployment-Hitting-February.aspx Meanwhile, the Labor Department reports unemployment dropping to 8.9%. “The unemployment rate dropped in February to 8.9% as the... Read More→

With the tax revolt against greedy public sector unions continuing in Wisconsin, I thought it might be interesting to quote the great economist Ludwig von Mises on coercive labor unions.  From his A Critique of Interventionism: If employees receive the right to shut down an enterprise as long as its owner rejects their demands, the control over production, in final analysis, has been placed in the hands of labor unions. The problem must not be obscured by the confusion between free collective bargaining-the... Read More→

The non-partisan Government Accountability Office recently released a report detailing how the federal government wastes HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars. This results from the duplication and inefficiencies across the vast wasteland of government bureaucracy. “So what?”, you may ask… How about $200 billion over ten years by consolidating data centers across all agencies? How about $62.5 billion across 18 food assistance programs? How about $2.9 billion across programs designed... Read More→

Here’s a short but sweet blog for a Friday night…Obama wants to emulate Ronald Reagan’s success in the 1984 elections. He’s hoping to ride a new economic expansion to a second term. There are many problems with this “hope”. First of all, we have a pending, but huge inflation problem on the horizon – Reagan had rapidly declining inflation. Second, taxes were dramatically cut in 1982, whereas taxes are increasing now to Jimmy Carter-era levels. Third, we... Read More→

Not long ago, liberals scoffed at the notion promoted by former Secretary of State Condi Rice and the last administration that the Middle East was ripe for democracy and that, if given the chance, the local population would embrace freedom, however difficult the transition might be. “Oh no!” our liberal friends retorted. The Middle East, according to the Democrats, was too “politically entrenched” and had too long a history of authoritarianism to allow democracy to “take root.” Therefore,... Read More→

At first, it is easy to be enraged by the radically left elements of the Democrats. It’s also easy to be amazed at how unapologetically far-left unions and their supports have been at rallies in the Midwest. It’s almost as if they are socialist and don’t care what the rest of the country thinks. You may think, “can they really be THAT myopic?”. Well, yes they can. I was stymied at first, then came to realize the union protests are a political Godsend. We have an... Read More→

At last Thursday’s monthly meeting of the NYYRC, club member R.D. Ferman recommended starting a Republican/conservative book exchange. As a complement to this idea, the blog committee has offered to create a discussion pages for books that are being read by our members.  If you have any requests for books, please feel free to comment at the bottom of this page and the Blog committee will create an online discussion forum. Reading what the greats have said before us is the best way to sharpen... Read More→