Where Are the Feds Getting All That Money? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 21, 2020 $2 trillion! That is the amount of free money that the feds are distributing to the American people to help them get through the coronavirus crisis. Most everyone is receiving a part of this free money. And the feds are just getting a good start! When the gift-giving is all over, it is expected to add ...
The Leftist Life of Healthcare Delusion by Jacob G. Hornberger April 20, 2020 Amidst the difficult times in which we are living, there are moments that provide comedic relief. One of these is when leftists point out all the faults, failures, and foibles of America’s healthcare system and then conclude, “Capitalism has really failed us and so we need to turn to socialism.” That’s rich! It would be difficult ...
Just Keep Drinking the Arsenic by Jacob G. Hornberger April 17, 2020 A person comes into a doctor’s office not feeling well. The doctor diagnoses an upset stomach. He prescribes a daily dose of arsenic to his patient, telling him that he will start feeling well soon. That’s what U.S. officials have done with their shutdown of businesses and industries across America. Faced with the massive adverse consequences ...
Functional Healthcare and Judicial Systems by Jacob G. Hornberger April 16, 2020 lAs I continue to emphasize, there is only one way out of the deadly coronavirus morass — a free-market healthcare system. A genuine free-market healthcare system — one in which healthcare and the state are totally separated — one in which the government plays no role whatsoever in healthcare — one in which the healthcare industry, not ...
Why Do We Need a “Safety Net”? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 15, 2020 One of the core principles of statists (i.e., people who look to government to take care of people) is the concept of the “safety net.” It entails using the government to provide assistance to people to ensure that no one falls off the “high wire” of life and hits the ground and dies of starvation, illness, or ...
The Big Con of Social Security and Medicare by Jacob G. Hornberger April 14, 2020 Longtime supporters of The Future of Freedom Foundation know that we have always called for the repeal, not the reform, of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and all other socialist programs. In my introductory essay in the very first issue of our monthly journal — January 1990 — which was called Freedom Daily at that time, ...
The Banality of Evil in a Time of Coronavirus by Jacob G. Hornberger April 13, 2020 When Hannah Arendt wrote about the concept that she called “the banality of evil,” she was referring to people who are engaged in evil but who actually believe that are engaged in good. They aren’t evil people, Arendt said, just good people who are unwittingly engaged in evil. You couldn’t find a better term to ...
Is It Time for a New Direction? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 10, 2020 If Americans are not doing some serious soul-searching in the midst of this crisis, they need to start. Where America goes from here is not some sort of esoteric debate. What we do at this point has life or death consequences. Get it wrong, and suffer more death, suffering, and impoverishment. Get it right, and America moves ...
Those Dastardly Russians! by Jacob G. Hornberger April 9, 2020 Those dastardly Russians! They are at it again! What are they up to now? They are shipping medical supplies to the United States to help America deal with the Coronavirus crisis! What could be worse than that? Imagine: Trying to befriend us again. Who do they think they are? Those Russkies ...
Dogfish Head Hand Sanitizer by Jacob G. Hornberger April 8, 2020 As most everyone who reads my work knows by now, I hold that a free-market healthcare system is the only — repeat only — solution to the deadly coronavirus crisis and, in a broader sense, the overall decades-long, ongoing, never-ending healthcare crisis. One alternative is to continue with the system we have today, one in which ...
Faith and Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger April 7, 2020 One of the downsides to socialism is that it inculcates a mindset of dependency on government largess not only within the minds of dole recipients but also among other people. This is particularly true when the generations living at that time have been born and raised under socialist programs. When libertarians propose the repeal of these socialist ...
Only One Way Out of the Coronavirus Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger April 6, 2020 The first book that The Future of Freedom Foundation published was entitled The Dangers of Socialized Medicine. Published in 1994, it was a little book consisting of various essays that FFF had published since our inception in January 1990. It was coedited by Richard Ebeling and me. At the time, Richard was the ...