Well, if you're working in a business, and you're not employed in the government, it's now time to begin making plans to hunker down for a long, grueling, slow-down, courtesy of a government whose members appear not to have the faintest clue about how a real economic system functions. No one is even pretending that the Pelosi pork-barrel express, masquerading as a "stimulus" package, is going to stimulate anything other than Democratic fund-raising. Not even the Congressional Budget Office likes it.

Are my worst fears come true? Has our new President, despite all our high hopes, simply caved in to his party's left-wing? Have we all been duped, after all?

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Call me crazy, but I think it is dead wrong to restrict immigration into the United States on the grounds that we are somehow "protecting" American jobs. In contrast, I think a better way to create jobs in the US is to encourage MORE immigration, from a much wider variety of countries.

The idea that immigration somehow deprives current Americans of their jobs stems from a mistaken interpretation of how the economy really works. You really can't think of our economic system as some type of pie that can only be cut up and divided in so many ways. It is not a static "thing," but a vibrant, growing, inter-connected system.

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News flash: The global warming scare is based on bad science, and if we're not careful it could lead to disastrous economic policies.

As an environmentalist myself, I firmly believe in the wisdom of managing our resources wisely, and behaving as responsible stewards of the planet. And I'm definitely sympathetic with the intentions of those who are sounding an alarm over global warming. Nevertheless, far from the unanimity we frequently read about in media reports, the fact is that climatologists do not all agree that the climate is warming much at all, and if it is, to what extent this may be caused by human activity.

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All my life I've rebelled against the "common wisdom" or whatever the correct thinking was at the time, and this is surely a symptom of my vast ego. A person must be supremely self-confident, even conceited, to willfully spurn the collective opinions of others in such a flagrant manner as I regularly do.

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