MONEY: Gooferement rip off

Monday, June 30, 2008

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-29-Scratchoff_N.htm

Scratcher lottery tickets under fire
Updated 15h 17m ago | Comments136 | Recommend38
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

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Feeling lucky today?

Then don’t buy a $20 scratch-off ticket for the New Jersey Lottery’s “$1,000,000 Explosion” game.

Your chances of winning the $1 million top prize are Z-E-R-O.

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Just in case you thought your gooferment was looking out for you?

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LIBERTY: GOOFRERMENT? You decide.

Monday, June 30, 2008

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2008/06/30/government-the-man-made-disaster/

Government: the man-made disaster

By Michael Hampton on Wal-Mart

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When disaster strikes, too many people look toward Washington, D.C., for the federal government to save them. But what happens when the federal government caused the disaster? Or at least made it worse than it would otherwise have been?

This we saw in New Orleans in 2005. We finally know why the federal government prevented Wal-Mart from delivering water to Hurricane Katrina victims: it was free.

Federal Emergency Management Agency head David Paulison said June 19 that the agency had negotiated a contract with Wal-Mart to deliver bottled water for the next disaster, and the company did indeed deliver 550,000 liters during this month’s Midwest flooding. And got paid for it.

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As it turns out, for years the Corps of Engineers has been building wingdikes and weirs in the Mississippi River to channel the river’s flow. Three university professors last March warned that these structures have caused the river to rise even higher in floods than it otherwise would. And the only reason St. Louis isn’t underwater right now is that dozens of levees upstream broke, flooding out countless acres of Missouri and Illinois farmland and small towns.

Ironic that flawed levees would cause a city not to flood, but the water has to go somewhere.

Ironic, too, that those same small towns got new levees after the flood of 1993 and the government updated its flood maps to show these areas as low risk of flooding. So almost everyone canceled their flood insurance.

This is all so utterly predictable. We all know that government is incapable of doing anything very well, except perhaps killing people. Whatever it touches ultimately ends up going horribly wrong. It’s time to tell the government to keep their hands out of everything we don’t want turning into a disaster.

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You really have to look at gooferment with a critical eye. Could it be that it is the single thing that is killing us. Literally and figuratively?

How much of a slave are you? I can’t even calculate it.

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