NOTES

Introduction

1 Popularly attributed to Balfour, responding to Churchill’s The World Crisis.
2 Butler University Commencement, remarks by Governor Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., May 9, 2009, Hinkle Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana. Full text available here: www.in.gov/portal/news_events/38894.htm.

Chapter 1 | The Skeptics

1 In the pages that follow I use the term Skeptics to refer to those who, throughout history, have doubted both the feasibility and long-term sustainability of democratic self-rule. They should not be confused with the ancient Greek Skeptics, or Skeptikoi, who questioned the ultimate certainty of man’s understanding and knowledge of the world.
2 Meet the Press, May 23, 2010. Full transcript available here: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37279599/ns/meet_the_press/.
3 Face the Nation, Nov. 28, 2010. Full transcript available here: www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/FTN_112810.pdf.

Chapter 2 | The Red Menace

1 Niall Ferguson, “Sun Could Set Suddenly on Superpower as Debt Bites,” Australian, July, 29, 2010. Article available here: www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/sun-could-set-suddenly-on-superpower-as-debt-bites/story-e6frg6zo-1225898187243 .
2 Ibid.
3 David Brooks, “National Greatness Agenda,” New York Times, November 10, 2010. Article available here: www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/opinion/12brooks.html.
4 Kenneth Rogoff, “History Will Rue US and Europe Debt Woes,” Financial Times, April 4, 2011. Article available here: www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1399efba-5eea-11e0-a2d7-00144feab49a.html#axzz1MRKozpcX.
5 Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, “Growth in a Time of Debt,” paper prepared for the American Economic Review, December 31, 2009.
6 Mark Steyn, “Dependence Day,” New Criterion, January 2011. Article available here: www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Dependence-Day-6753.
7 2011 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds. Report available here: www.cms.gov/ReportsTrustFunds/downloads/tr2011.pdf.
8 These are publicly available numbers. One nonpartisan source, Prudential, compiles these particular numbers: www3.prudential.com/signature/Social-Security.html .
9 Milton Freidman reported the quote later. He notes it here in an interview with the Heartland Institute: http://www.heartland.org/article/12013.
10 Andrew G. Biggs, “The Market Value of Public-Sector Pension Deficits,” American Enterprise Institute’s Retirement Policy Outlook, no. 1 (April 2010). Available here: http://www.aei.org/docLib/2010RPOno1g.pdf.
11 Robert D. Kaplan, Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (New York: Random House, 2010), p. 36.
12 Ibid., pp. 36, 41, 145.
13 Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), p. 638.
14 David Ignatius, “Washington’s Broken Politics Weaken America Abroad,” Washington Post, Nov. 14, 2010.

Chapter 3 | The Great Inversion

1 Chris Edwards, “Overpaid Federal Workers,” The Cato Institute, June 2010, www.downsizinggovernment.org/overpaid-federal-workers.
2 “The Trillion Dollar Gap: Underfunded State Retirement Systems and the Roads to Reform,” study by The Pew Center on the States, February 2010, p. 44. Available here: downloads.pewcenteronthestates.org/The_Trillion_Dollar_Gap_final.pdf.
3 Karen Tumulty, “State and Local Workers: Gone but Not off the Books,” Washington Post, March 9, 2011. Article available here: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030806199.html.
4 The details are of this anecdote are drawn from the op-ed “Michigan Forces Business Owners into Public Sector Unions,” by Patrick J. Wright and Michael D. Jahr, Wall Street Journal, December 25, 2009. Article available here: online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703478704574612341241120838.html .
5 Brody Mullins and John D. McKinnon, “Campaign’s Big Spender: Public-Employees Union Now Leads All Groups in Independent Election Outlays” Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2010. Article available here: online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303339504575566481761790288.html .
6 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf.
7 Stephen Losey, “Few Employees Denied Step Increases for Poor Performance,” Federal Times, March 2011. Full article here: www.federaltimes.com/article/20110322/BENEFITS01/103220301/1001.
8 Ibid.
9 Georgetown University’s law library has a list of federal department, subcabinet agencies and other federal entities here: www.ll.georgetown.edu/federal/executive/index.cfm.
10 U.S. Federal Register 75 (2010). Available at: www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html.
11 John Lanchester, I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010), p. 39.
12 “Democrats Not Sacrificing Too Much in Reform Effort,” NewsHour, July 30, 2009. Transcript available here: www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/north_america/july-dec09/pelosi_07-30.html.
13 Arthur C. Brooks, “What Really Buys Happiness?” City Journal (Summer 2007). See also Brooks’s work on gross national happiness and his book Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism (New York: Basic Books, 2006).
14 Lanchester, I.O.U., pp. 131, 132.
15 Richard G. Anderson and Charles S. Gascon, “A Closer Look: Assistance Programs in the Wake of the Crisis,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, January 2011. Report available here: www.stlouisfed.org/publications/re/articles/?id=2067.
16 “Sebelius Has a List: Political Thuggery from HHS,” Review & Outlook, Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2010. Article available here: online.wsj.com/article/SB10001.424052748703597204575483900330728436.html .

Chapter 4 | The Shrunken Citizen

1 “Students at Schools Named for Presidents Don’t Know It,” Orlando Sentinel, February 21, 1995.
2 Matthew Ladner, “Freedom from Responsibility: A Survey of Civic Knowledge Among Arizona High School Students,” Goldwater Institute Policy Brief, no. 09-04 (June 30, 2009). Full report available here: www.goldwaterinstitute.org/Common/Img/Freedom%20From%20Responsibility.pdf.
3 Molly Henneberg, “North Carolina Schools May Cut Chunk Out of U.S. History Lessons” Fox News, February 3, 2010. Article available here: www.foxnews.com/us/2010/02/03/north-carolina-schools-cut-chunk-history-lessons/.
4 Daniel J. Flynn, “An FBI History of Howard Zinn,” City Journal, August 19, 2010.
5 Charles Krauthammer, “Don’t Touch My Junk,” Washington Post, November 19, 2010.
6 “Economic Characteristics of Households in the United States: Third Quarter 2008,” U.S. Census Bureau, April 2010.
7 David Horowitz and Eli Lehrer, “Political Bias in the Administrations and Faculties of 32 Elite Colleges and Universities,” Center for the Study of Popular Culture, August 28, 2003.
8 Michael Medved, Hollywood vs. America (New York: Harper, 1993), pp. 220–22.
9 “Order in the Court; A Texas Judge Blows the Lid off Trial Lawyers, Inc.’s Secret Asbestos Litigation Scam,” Trial Lawyers Inc.: “Asbestos: A Report on the Asbestos Litigation Industry,” 2008, by the Manhattan Institute. Full report available here: www.triallawyersinc.com/asbestos/asb04.html.
10 The numbers here come from the Internal Revenue Service and were compiled by the National Taxpayers Union. They are available here: www.ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.html.
11 Andrew G. Atkeson and William E. Simon, Jr., “How to Revive the California Dream,” Wall Street Journal, January 10, 2011.
12 Congressional Budget Office calculates that the United States ran a $3.2 billion surplus in 1969. For a more complete list of historical budget data see www.cbo.gov/budget/data/historical.pdf.
13 To my knowledge, the most prominent exception to this general mistake was economist Paul Krugman, who correctly noted the reliance of the surge in revenues on the stock market. I rarely agree with Dr. Krugman, but in this instance he deserves credit for spotting a major phenomenon that almost all the rest of us missed.
14 Martin Crutsigner, “Was the 2001 Slowdown Really a Recession?” Associated Press, published by USA Today, July 30, 2004.

Chapter 5 | The Obamacare Steamroller

1 Paul A. Manner, MD, “Practice Defensive Medicine—Not Good for Patients or Physicians,” AAOS Now: Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, January/February 2007.
2 “Defensive Medicine Among High-Risk Specialist Physicians in a Volatile Malpractice Environment,” Journal of the American Medical Association, June 1, 2005.

Chapter 6 | Taking on the Statist Quo

1 In final negotiations, the legislature voted to put half of any such excess into the Teacher Retirement Fund and refund the rest to taxpayers.

Chapter 10 | Change That Believes in You

1 Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose (Harcourt, 1990), p. 121.
2 Ibid., p. 120.
3 Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr., “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State,” 2011 Edition, Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2011, p. 2. Available here: cei.org/sites/default/files/Wayne%20Crews%20-%2010,000%20Commandments%202011.pdf.
4 Robert Samuelson, “Why Japan Fell . . . and What It Teaches Us,” Newsweek, November 12, 2010. Available here: www.newsweek.com/2010/11/13/samuelson-why-japanfell-and-what-it-teaches-us.html.
5 “Nuclear Power, A Changing Landscape” Statement by IAEA director Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, Ankara, Turkey, 2006. Available here: www.iaea.org/newscenter/statements/2006/ebsp2006n011.html.
6 Gabriel Calzada Alvarez, “Study of the Effects on Employment of Public Aid to Renewable Energy Resources” Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain, March 2009.
7 During the 2008 Republican National Convention, former Maryland lieutenant governor Michael Steele popularized the slogan “Drill, Baby, Drill.”
8 “Republicans Are Losing Ground on the Deficit, But Obama’s Not Gaining,” Pew Research Center for the Public and the Press, March 16 2011. Available here: people -press.org/2011/03/16/republicans-are-losing-ground-on-the-deficit-but-obamas-not-gaining/.
9 “The Coming Reset in State Government,” Wall Street Journal, September 9, 2009.
10 “Vote for Agony,” The Economist, December 2, 2010.