This article analyzes the socio-economic cost of war on drugs. Highlights its impact on young individuals, and their education and careers. Brings into focus the broken and dysfunctional families, destroyed communities, adversely affected economies, corrupt government officials, law enforcement and judiciary. Explains, why war on drugs is helping related criminal enterprise to grow in size, wealth and power.
This article analyzes the conflicts of interest between consumers, providers, health insurance companies, employers and government, in the light of current controversies under newly enforced government mandates. Highlights the real causes of rising healthcare costs and solutions for those. Provides a historical perspective. Explores the effects on individual rights and choices. Explains why the benefits and services like healthcare should not be tied to employment.
This article analyzes the issues of income inequality and crony Capitalism, by comparing the history and present state of capitalist and non-capitalist societies. Shades light on possible solutions awaiting in the next stage of social and economic evolution. Brings into focus the pre-occupations and assumptions in the bases of current economic and business structure, and effectively questions some of those.
This article analyzes currently proposed immigration reforms, in the light of the concepts of limited government and economic growth. Shows, how immigrants push up the supply and demand curves, spur growth in business activity while creating new jobs in the process. Highlights the fact that immigrants are driving wages down only because they are illegal, and have to accept whatever is offered.
This article analyzes the dilemma of continuously falling and pathetic standards in our public school systems. Covers all the aspects, important factors and popular arguments on rational bases. Compares public education system with privatized education system. Shows, how a privatized school system can automatically take care of all the grievances with current public school systems. Addresses the cost affordability issues, too.
This article analyzes the the most commonly used economic indicators and compares those with more efficient alternatives. Discusses the scope and range of indicators like GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and GDE (Gross Domestic Expenditures). Shows why GDE is a better economic indicator than GDP. Brings into focus the other hazards attached to GDP like Keynesian crepe and big government spendings.
This article analyzes the effects of restrictions and regulation imposed on the movement and mobility of individuals, goods and services. The most basic and common excuses given by governments, in the favor of these regulations are, protectionism and security. Highlights the fact that these regulations neither protect nor secure. These actually destroy the individual freedoms, economies, social fabric, peaceful societies, and ethics and morals.
This article analyzes the effects of market manipulations on economy and its growth. Provides a full blown historical perspective, in the light of current developments. Explains, what made us the greatest economic power, ever, and what is causing our decline. Highlights the fact that by steering away from the greatest constitution and the best charter of freedom, ever, we axed our own foot. As a result of that we are, now, losing our leadership position in the world.
This article analyzes our conflicts with Muslim world, in the light of latest ISIS offenses in Iraq. Brings into perspective the whole cultural, historic and evolutionary cycle of monotheistic religions. Compares the history of islam with other major religions. Connects the broken links and discusses the policy options to fix the mess we got ourselves in. Highlights the concerns of Muslims, playing a big role in overall worsening of situation in Middle East.
This article analyzes the potential candidacy of Hillary clinton for president of United States in 2016. Highlights the Hillary’s involvement in all major foreign policy disasters of last two decades. Warns that “first woman president” is going to be a disaster even worse than “first black president”. Stresses on the fact that the election of U.S. president must be purely on the basis of merit, not on the bases of ethnic background or sex.
This article explores the real causes and solutions related to recent mass uprisings, especially in Middle East. Analyzes the post-uprising trends and current situation in those countries. Reveals the disturbing fact of those countries still being in the strong grip of status quo. Finds out the reasons for these regressive chain of events. Proposes the true, obvious and feasible solutions. Brings into focus the basic issues with thought process and societal structures.
This article analyzes the strangling effects of excessive taxation and government regulations on our economy and finances. Answers the arguments presented by big proponents of big government, taxation and welfare, with the help of a common sense, hypothetical example. Unveils the fact that all this presumed current need for welfare programs and unemployment is the result of excessive taxation.
This article analyzes the causes and horrors caused by perpetual state of war, in the light of current scandal related to Department of Veterans Affairs. Clears up the big media and political clout, and explores the actual causes and solutions. Brings into focus the fact that the root cause of these issues is unbearable cost of continuously on going wars. Uncovers the real beneficiaries and sufferers of wars.
This article analyzes the human learning capacity, educational systems, in general and public educational systems, in particular, major issues with educational systems, and possible solutions. Provides a broader historical perspective. Brings into focus the development and growth of human minds, originations, sophistication and implementation of ideas, and resulting evolution of human societies.
This article analyzes the the cause and damages attached to terrorism and War on Terror. Provides a historic perspective. Performs a cause and effect analysis, and reviews the cost effectiveness of War on Terror. Sheds light on U.S. foreign policy and aftermath of post 9/11 wars. Article has special focus on Pakistan. Explores the role of Pakistan and the cost it is paying for being a U.S. ally in War on Terror.
This article analyzes the debacle of Obamacare. Points out to the fact that it was upheld by Supreme Court only because of a reason repeatedly denied by president Obama and his administration, the fact that it is a tax. As a matter of fact the largest single tax hike in human history valuing upto 700 billion dollars. Proves that it has failed to deliver almost every promise attached to it. Concludes that in no way, it justifies the enormous cost.
This article analyzes the notion of “helping the poor”. Provides a historical perspective. Compares freedom and opportunity with dependence and welfare. Examines the roll of government interventions and regulations in rapidly growing gap between rich and poor. Reminds the readers that our Capitalist economy was able to make this gap narrowest, ever, in human history while creating the biggest and richest middle class, ever.
This article analyzes the continuously worsening human rights situation in United States, since 9/11. Criticizes AUMF, NDAA and patriot act. Highlights the constitutional issues attached to post-9/11 continuous state of war. Raise the question, is this really worth over a trillion dollars in spending, loss of thousands of soldiers, over a million deaths, immense loss of property and business, and giving away our freedoms?
This article analyzes the increasing religious polarization in India, under the microscope of 2014 general elections. Provides an extensive historical perspective. Adds the context of overall South East Asian and global politics. Gets to the roots of this issue. Covers all aspects. Finds out, why religious extremism is getting stronger and stronger, in a society where people of different religions are living together for centuries, over centuries.
This article analyzes the budgeting, overspending, borrowing, debt, taxation and insolvency issues related to federal government and its agencies, in the light heavily advertised transportation cliff. Emphasizes the fact that these so called cliffs are not really cliffs. Proves that it is not a revenue issue, it is actually an overspending, resulting from corruption, inefficiency and carelessness. Proposes more common sense, free markets solutions to the problem.
