Mark Steyn's Stack of Stuff

Mark Steyn sat in for Rush today.

I present his stack of stuff below. If you go to the actual page, you can find the links to articles he references, but his own words are not transcribed on the site, or here.

Mark Steyn's Stack of Stuff
December 29, 2010

Author and cultural commentator Mark Steyn filled in for Rush on Wednesday. Rush will be back on January 4th.

"The more government tries to do, the less it can do." -Steyn

• FOX: Video: New York City Tow Truck Destroys SUV
• AP: Airlines Play Huge Game of Catch-Up in NYC Area

"The can-do technocrat nanny mayor of NYC has a vast bureaucracy that can regulate the trans-fat contents of every food item, but cannot plow the streets. When big government tries to do everything it fails to do its core responsibilities." -Steyn

• HE: I’ll Stop The World And Freeze With You
• NYDN: Death of Newborn Baby Among Several Blizzard Tragedies as City is Accused of 'Dropping the Ball'

• TIME, June 2007: The New Action Heroes: Bloomberg and Arnold

"The 111th Congress ran up more debt than the first hundred US Congresses combined. That's the spectacular rate at which the 111th Congress dug us into an ever deeper hole." -Steyn

• WSJ: Answers to Many Taxing Questions
• NYT: New Team Helps Steer Restaurateurs Through a Thicket of Red Tape

"So many people think like Forest Gump, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Well, it's not. It's more like a jar of jalapeños because what you do today can burn you in the rear tomorrow." -Congressman Louie Gohmert

• BI: 16 US Cities Facing Bankruptcy If They Don't Make Deep Cuts In 2011
• AP-GfK Poll: Baby Boomers Fear Outliving Medicare

"In New York City the richest 1% of taxpayers account for 50% of revenues. How many guys like Rush do you gotta chase out of town before you've got a serious hole in your treasury coffers?" -Steyn

• WT: Home-Price Dip Casts Pall on Economy
•WT: Draconian Moves a Must for Local Budgets

• PT: Christmas Program Honors Jackson's Life