Liberty and Tyranny

by Mark R. Levin

  30 “The Truth About Oil and Gasoline: An API Primer,” American Petroleum Institute, June 6, 2008, 9, http://www.energytomor row.org/media/resources/r_454.pdf.

  31 Editorial, “Our Thorny Oil Patch,” Investor’s Business Daily, March 13, 2008, A12.

  32 Max Schulz, “Energy and the Environment: Myths and Facts,” Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, April 17, 2007, http://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/Energy_and_Environment_ Myths.pdf.

  33 “The Truth About Oil,” 11.

  34 Editorial, “Record Profits Mean Record Taxes,” Investor’s Business Daily, Feb. 12, 2008, A10.

  35 Steven Mufson, “Ethanol Industry Gets a Boost From Bush,” Washington Post, Jan. 25, 2007, D01.

  36 Matt Crenson, “Biofuels Boom Raises Tough Questions,” Associated Press, March 10, 2007.

  37 Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (New York: Harper, 1975), 82–85.

  38 James Sherk, “Auto Bailout Ignores Excessive Labor Costs,” Web Memo 2135, Heritage Foundation, Nov. 19, 2008, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Economy/wm2135.cfm?renderfor print=1.

  39 Mickey Kaus, “Where Do Detroit’s Inefficient Work Rules Come From?” Kausfiles blog, Slate, Dec. 9, 2008, http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2008/12/12/where-do-unproductive-work-rules-come-from.aspx.

  40 Ibid.

  41 Doug Bandow, “How Should America Cut Its Oil Dependency?” Detroit News, Nov. 30, 2007, 15A.

  42 Eric Peters, “Cost Is No Object When It’s For Our Own Good,” online posting, Nov. 20, 2007, National Motorists Association, http://www.motorists.org/blog/cost-is-no-object-when-its-for-our-own-good/.

  43 Editorial, “The Environmental Motor Company,” Wall Street Journal, Nov. 19, 2008, A20.

  44 U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Union Members Summary,” Jan. 25, 2008, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm.

  45 George McGovern, “My Party Should Respect Secret Union Ballots,” Wall Street Journal, Aug. 8, 2008, A13.

  46 Will Wilkinson, “Failure: For Our Future,” Fly Bottle blog, Nov. 14, 2008, http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/11/14/failure-for-our-future/.

  47 See Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (New York: Random House, 1994).

  48 See Jim VandeHei, “Kerry Donors Include ‘Benedict Arnolds,’” Washington Post, Feb. 26, 2004, A01.

  49 Barack Obama, “The Democratic Debate in Cleveland, Feb. 26, 2008,” transcript, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/politics/26text-debate.html?ref=politics.

  50 Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, “Offshoring, Outsourcing, and Production—Relocation—Labor Market Effects in the OECD Countries and Developing Asia,” Working Paper Series, Peterson Institute for International Economics, April 2007, http://iie.com/publications/wp/wp07-2.pdf.

  51 U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Labor Force Statistics from Current Population Survey, Table 1, Employment Status of the Civilian Noninstitutional Population, 1942 to Date,” http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaatl.pdf.

  52 Ibid.

  53 David Levey, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, “2006 Was a Record for U.S. Exporters,” Invest in America, Feb. 2007, http://www.trade.gov/press/publica tions/newsletters/ita_0207/2006_0207.asp; White House, Office of the Press Secretary, “Fact Sheet: United States and India: Strategic Partnership,” March 2, 2006, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060302-13.html.

  54 U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, “Impacts of FDI [Foreign Direct Investment],” Invest in America, http://ita.doc.gov/investamerica/impacts.asp.

  55 Ibid.

  56 Lawrence W. Reed, “Great Myths of the Great Depression,” Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Sept. 2005, http://www.mackinac.org/archives/1998/sp1998-01.pdf.

  57 Ibid.

  58 Ibid.; Paul M. Johnson, A History of the American People (New York: HarperCollins, 1988), 740.

  59 Ibid.

  60 Amity Shlaes, “Don’t Repeat Errors of New Deal,” New York Post, Nov. 10, 2008.

  61 Reed, “Great Myths,” 15.

  62 Robert VanGiezen and Albert E. Schwenk, “Compensation from before World War I through the Great Depression,” U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Compensation and Working Conditions, Fall 2001, http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20030124ar03p1.htm.

  63 Meg Sullivan, “FDR’s Policies Prolonged Depression by 7 Years, UCLA Economists Calculate,” UCLA News, Aug. 10, 2004. See also Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian, “New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis,” Journal of Political Economy 112.4 (Aug. 2004), 779–816.

  64 Ibid.

  65 George Allen, “Reagan Tax Cuts Lifted Americans,” Townhall.com, Aug. 13, 2007, http://townhall.com/Columnists/George Allen/2007/08/13/reagan_tax_cuts_lifted_americans.

  66 Editorial, “Still Morning in America,” Wall Street Journal, Jan. 20, 2006, A14.

  67 Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 58.

  68 Abraham Lincoln, “Reply to New York Workingmen’s Democratic Republican Association, March 21, 1864,” The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol 7 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 259–60.

  7: ON THE WELFARE STATE

  1 David Walker, “Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: Action Is Needed to Avoid the Possibility of a Serious Economic Disruption in the Future,” testimony before the Senate Budget Committee, General Accounting Office, Jan. 29, 2008, http://gao.gov/new.items/d08411t.pdf.

  2 Ibid., 8.

  3 Ibid., 17.

  4 Henry Rogers Seager, Social Insurance: A Program of Social Reform (New York: Macmillan, 1910), 4–5.

  5 Social Security Administration, “Henry Seager’s 1910 Book on Social Insurance,” http://www.ssa.gov/history/seager.html.

  6 Geoffrey Kollmann, “Social Security: Summary of Major Changes in the Cash Benefits Program: 1935–1996,” Congressional Re- search Service, Dec. 20, 1996, http://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/crs9436.pdf.

  7 Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Message to Congress Reviewing the Broad Objectives and Accomplishments of the Administration,” June 8, 1934, http://www.ssa.gov/history/fdrstmts.html#message1.

  8 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Coming of the New Deal (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959), 308.

  9 Milton Friedman, “Social Security Socialism,” Wall Street Journal, Jan. 26, 1999, A18.

  10 Social Security Administration, “Trust Fund FAQs,” June 3, 2008, http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/fundFAQ.html.

  11 Wilbur J. Cohen and Milton Friedman, Social Security: Universal or Selective? (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1972), 36.

  12 Social Security Administration, “65 Years of American Life: Social Security and Other Signs of the Times,” Oasis 46.3 (2000), 13, http://www.ssa.gov/history/oasis/ann2000part4.pdf; Jo Anne Barnhart, testimony before the Social Security Subcommittee, House Committee on Ways and Means, May 17, 2005, http://www.ssa.gov/legislation/testimony_051705.html; Social Security Administration, “SSI Federally Administered Payments,” 2004, http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ssi_monthly/2004/table01.pdf.

  13 Richard Wolf, “Social Security Hits First Wave of Boomers: Drain on the System Picks up in Jan., When Millions Born in ’46 Start Taking Benefits,” USA Today, Oct. 9, 2007, 1A.

  14 Helvering v. Davis, 301 U.S. 619, 635 (1937).

  15 James Madison, “Letter to Edmund Pendleton, January 21, 1792,” The Papers of James Madison, ed. Robert A. Rutland et al., vol. 14 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984).

  16 Harry Truman, “Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 7, 1948,” http://www.c-span.org/executive/transcript.asp?cat=current_event&code=bush_admin&year=1948.

  17 Lyndon B. Johnson, “Remarks with President Truman at the Signing in Independence of the Medicare Bill,” July 30, 1965, Lyndon
Baines Johnson Library and Museum, http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650730.asp.

  18 Ibid.

  19 Larry DeWitt, “The Medicare Program as a Capstone to the Great Society—Recent Revelations in the LBJ White House Tapes,” citing White House tape WH6503.11, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, May 2003, http://www.larrydewitt.net/Essays/MedicareDaddy.htm.

  20 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, “Your Medicare Benefits,” August 2008, http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/10116.pdf.

  21 Hoover Institution, “Facts on Policy: Medicaid and Medicare Claims,” Nov. 21, 2006, http://www.hoover.org/research/factson policy/facts/4680256.html.

  22 Wolf, “Social Security Hits First Wave of Boomers,” 1A.

  23 “2007 Annual Report of The Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds,” http://www.cms.hhs.gov/reportstrustfunds/downloads/tr2007.pdf.

  24 Greg D’Angelo and Robert E. Moffit, “Congress Must Not Ignore the Medicare Trustees’ Warning,” Web Memo 1869, Heritage Foundation, March 26, 2008, 1, citing Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees, “A Message to the Public—A Summary of the 2008 Annual Reports,” March 27, 2008, http://www.heri tage.org/Research/Healthcare/wm1869.cfm.

  25 2007 Trustees Report.

  26 Hoover Institution, “Facts on Policy: Medicaid and Medicare Claims.”

  27 Congressional Budget Office, “The Long-Term Outlook for Health Care Spending: Appendix A—Medicare and Medicaid: An Overview,” Nov. 2007, http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/87xx/doc8758/AppendixA.4.1.shtml#1070033.

  28 “State Expenditure Report Fiscal Year 2006,” National Association of State Budget Officers, Fall 2007, 50, http://www.nasbo.org/Publications/PDFs/fy2006er.pdf.

  29 Hoover Institution, “Facts on Policy: Medicare and Medicaid Claims.”

  30 Martha Derthick, Policymaking for Social Security (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1979) 166.

  31 Congressional Budget Office, “Long Term Economic Effects of Some Alternative Budget Policies,” May 19, 2008, 8–9, http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/92xx/doc9216/05-19-LongtermBudget_ etter-to-Ryan.pdf.

  32 Nancy Pelosi, “Statement on ‘Cover the Uninsured Week,’” press release, April 28, 2008, http://speaker.gov/30something/newsroom/pressreleases?id=0631.

  33 See Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, and Cheryl Hill Lee, U.S. Census Bureau, “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005,” GPO, Aug. 2006, 22 (Table 8), http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p60-231.pdf.

  34 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Overview of the Uninsured in the United States: An Analysis of the 2005 Current Population Survey,” ASPE Issue Brief, HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Education, Sept. 22, 2005, 4, http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/05/uninsured-cps/ib.pdf.

  35 Conrad F. Meier, “Politicians Using Flawed Data of Uninsured Population,” Heartland Institute, Dec. 2004, http://www.heart land.org/policybot/results.html?artId=16014.

  36 Daniel Martin, “A&E Patients Left in Ambulances for up to Five Hours ‘So Trusts Can Meet Government Targets,’” Daily Mail (London), Feb. 18, 2008.

  37 Ibid.

  38 Celia Hall, “Patients Wait Year for Hip Surgery,” Daily Telegraph (London), Dec. 21, 2006.

  39 Ibid.

  40 Tom Leonard, “British Cancer Boy Needs £375,000 for Pioneering US Care,” Daily Telegraph (London), Jan. 23, 2007.

  41 Sarah-Kate Templeton, “NHS Dentists Play as Patients Wait,” Times of London, March 30, 2008.

  42 Sarah Lyall, “In a Dentist Shortage, British (Ouch) Do It Themselves,” New York Times, May 7, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/world/europe/07teeth.html.

  43 Laura Donnelly, “Don’t Treat the Old and Unhealthy, Say Doctors,” Daily Telegraph (London), Sept. 26, 2008, http://www.tele graph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576704Don’t-treat-the-old-and-un healthy,-say-doctors.html.

  44 Steve Brusk, “Clinton Drops Hospital Story From Stump Speech,” CNN.com, April 6, 2008, http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/06/clinton.hospital/.

  45 Editorial, “State Denies Cancer Treatment, Offers Suicide Instead,” WorldNetDaily, June 19, 2008, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67565; Editorial, “Fix This Medical Ethics Glitch,” Oregonian, July 29, 2008.

  46 Ibid.

  47 Edmund Burke and Edward John Payne, Burke, Select Works (Clark, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2005), 71.

  48 Jeffery M. Jones, “Majority of Americans Satisfied With Their Healthcare Plans,” Gallup, Nov. 29, 2007, http://www.gallup.com/poll/102934/Majority-Americans-Satisfied-Their-Own-Healthcare.aspx.

  49 Tom Daschle, Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis (New York: St. Martin’s, 2008).

  50 Tony Blankley, “Daschle-Obama Health Care Possibilities” (citing Daschle, 179), Townhall.com, Nov. 26, 2008, http://town hall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2008/11/26/daschle-obama_ health_care_possibilities.

  51 Blankley, “Daschle-Obama,” (citing Daschle, 125).

  8: ON ENVIRO-STATISM

  1 George Reisman, Capitalism: A Treatise On Economics (Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson, 1998), 81.

  2 Gerald and Natalie Sirkin, “DDT, Fraud, and Tragedy,” American Spectator, Feb. 25, 2005, http://www.spectator.org/archives/2005/02/25/ddt-fraud-and-tragedy.

  3 “The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1948,” Nobel Foundation, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1948.

  4 J. Gordon Edwards, “A Case Study in Scientific Fraud,” Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, 9.3 (2004).

  5 Malcolm Gladwell, “The Mosquito Killer,” New Yorker, July 2, 2001, 48.

  6 Tina Rosenberg, “What the World Needs Now is DDT,” New York Times, April 11, 2004.

  7 National Academy of Sciences, The Life Sciences, (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences Press, 1970).

  8 Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962).

  9 Ronald Bailey, “Silent Spring at 40: Rachel Carson’s Classic is not Aging Well,” Reason, June 12, 2002, www.reason.com/news/show/34823.html.

  10 Rosenberg, “What the World Needs Now.”

  11 Gladwell, “The Mosquito Killer,” 42.

  12 David Brown, “WHO Urges Use of DDT in Africa,” Washington Post, Sept. 16, 2006, A9, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/15/AR2006091501012.html.

  13 Marjorie Mazel Hecht, “In Africa, DDT Makes a Comeback to Save Lives,” Executive Intelligence Review, June 18, 2004, http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/sci_techs/3124ddt_africa.html.

  14 Steven Milloy, “Day of Reckoning for DDT Foes?” Washington Times, Sept. 24, 2006, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/sep/24/20060924-085112-7380r/quoting In the Matter of Stevens Industries, Inc., et al., L.F. & R. Docket Nos. 63, et al. (Consolidated DDT Hearings) Hearing Examiner’s Recommended Findings, Conclusions, and Orders, April 25, 1972: 93, 94.

  15 Milloy, “Day of Reckoning.”