Dear Mr. Obama:

CBS radio news this morning ran a clip of one of your recent speeches.  In it, you criticize insurance companies because they “ration coverage … according to who can pay and who can’t.”
Further pondering of your point leads to see fascinating possibilities.  Not only insurers, but all producers who greedily refuse to supply persons who don’t pay should be set aright.  Now I’m sure that you don’t ration the supply of the books you write according to any criteria as sordid as requiring people actually to pay for …

From Cafe Hayek

The President is a man of principle. The WaPo reports:
Obama said he told House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) that his core goals — lowering health-care costs for businesses and individuals and expanding coverage to the uninsured — remained non-negotiable.
So what better way to increase productivity and lower costs than to add 111 new boards and commissions to the slick infrastructure of health care provision in the US?
1. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61)
2. Grant program for wellness programs to small employers (Section 112, p. 62)
3. Grant …

From Cafe Hayek, a Letter to the Editor of the New York Times
Columnist Paul Krugman writes that policies to promote “job sharing” are “worthy of consideration” (”Free to Lose,” Nov. 13).
Let’s start at the New York Times.  I know several economists currently without jobs (and certainly without regular newspaper columns).  I propose that Times Co. chairman Arthur Sulzberger reduce Mr. Krugman’s presence on the editorial page to, say, one column per year.  The remaining hundred or so columns that Mr. Krugman would otherwise have written for the NYT can be …

President Barack Obama’s inaugural declaration that “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works” is further evidence that the wisdom and values that animated America’s founding generation are lost – evidence that too few Americans today possess a mature skepticism of power and a love of liberty, and that too many Americans today are subject to adolescent crushes on charismatic charmers.

If Thomas Jefferson thought as Mr. Obama does, he would have written in 1776: “We hold this …