John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," while Bernie Sanders' platform appears to be "Who wants free stuff?"  The Progressive/Obama Democrats promise to deliver through ideology and legislation what we can have only through science and industry – a practice that goes back to Jack Cade's comic relief speech in King Henry VI.  There is meanwhile a scene in the original Gilligan's Island in which Gilligan, upon becoming the dictator of a banana republic, tells his people, "I promise you this, that, and the other thing."  Schemes of this nature always crash and burn when they run up against the basic, impartial, and nonpartisan laws of science and economics. Consider for example a 50-year-old small business owner in the People's Republic of California who wishes to buy basic medical coverage.  I selected California because it is a typical progressive...(Read Full Post)