Over at Downsizing the Federal Government, we focused on the following issues this past week:

• The Washington Post does a nice job describing how Solyndra is just one of many energy subsidy failures of recent decades.
• The cheerleaders for federal redistribution schemes would have the public believe that it’s all about “helping those in need” when in fact it’s really about fostering dependency on taxpayers.
• Chris Preble on cutting military spending and rethinking our grand strategy.
• U.S. policymakers should be asking: What have other countries privatized that we can privatize in this country?
• Chris Edwards on crumbling bridges and infrastructure fear‐​mongering.
• The “minibus” spending bill is largely business as usual.

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