Paul Gessing's Archive
The cough drop mandate and more on the birth control controversy
Why not mandate the government pay for cough drops? This short video asks the question in hilarious fashion:
This article raises additional questions about the need for the federal government to purchase birth control.
McDonalds’s responds to public pressure. How about the government?
When something negative enough comes out about a corporation, the tendency is for the business to respond to public pressure and change whatever is causing the embarrassment. With the government, that is not quite the case.
Take the case of “pink slime,” the unofficial “food” that McDonald’s had at one time used in their hamburger patties. [...]
The illegality of common core standards
The issue of federal involvement in education policy has bubbled below the surface of American politics for years. President George W. Bush really pushed the federal government into education in a big way with No Child Left Behind. Now, President Obama is using “Common Core Standards” to further involve the feds in the classroom. Among [...]
Great video on economic freedom
The Libre Initiative held a conference in Albuquerque at which I had the opportunity to speak last week. Their mission is to spread the message of economic liberty among Hispanics in the United States. One tool they showed the gathering is this excellent video on the special relationship Hispanics have with economic freedom and why [...]
Lottery winner on food stamps: the problem with welfare
Shame is a powerful human emotion. Unfortunately, governments do everything they can to reduce shame and replace it with dependency. The single greatest problem in New Mexico is the “culture of dependency,” not just among welfare recipients, but among businesses that feel they must rely on government subsidies to succeed.
Unfortunately, the attitudes that have [...]
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Sony Dreamworks closing shows fallacy of film subsidies
It has been reported that Sony is closing its its post-production facility in Albuquerque and moving it to Vancouver. Reason cited? Subsidies, of course. New Mexico “only” offers 25 cents on the dollar to film companies that set up shop in our fair state. Vancouver, Canada, (where much of the work will be sent) offers [...]
Coming soon: Screenings of “Sick and Sicker” and ObamaCare discussions
Back in December, we at the Rio Grande Foundation hosted a showing of the film “Sick and Sicker” at an event in Albuquerque that was followed by a discussion of health care reform issues. led by Dr. Deane Waldman, a member of the RGF’s board of directors who is also a pediatric cardiologist.
We are [...]
Complaining about partisanship from your own party?
“I’m shocked, shocked, to hear that gambling is going on in this establishment.” That quote from “Casablanca” comes to mind every time I hear a politician bemoaning the plague of partisanship. Normally, whining about partisanship is done by someone like Sen. Olympia Snowe who is in the minority party and doesn’t really believe that fighting [...]
Rio Grande Foundation Hires Thomas Molitor as the New Mexico Watchdog
(Albuquerque) The Rio Grande Foundation has hired Thomas Molitor as the new, New Mexico Watchdog.
Molitor is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley, School of Economics. He spent 15 years in the corporate communications field where he occupied senior management roles for agencies inside the four largest communications holding companies worldwide – Omnicom, WPP, Publicis [...]
