LIBERTARIAN: Anarcho-Capitalism

Monday, June 13, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/assets/2016/06/443_Dalley.mp3

Lew on Practically Everything

LewRockwell.com

Lew strives to present a diverse daily selection of interesting articles from our writers and other sites, but he does not necessarily endorse every view expressed. He does, however, believe that each piece will repay your reading.

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Lew has a great explanation of Anarcho-Capitalism.

“On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.” — Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) 

AND some great quotes: (from memory)

The difference between GM and the Government is that you get the car and GM can’t make you buy one.

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Mises.Org has Rothbard’s material downloadable for free.

https://mises.org/search/site/rothbard

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RANT: Big Medicine may be playing “We, The Sheeple”

Sunday, June 12, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/06/bill-sardi/cant-afford-cure-cancer/

We Can’t Afford To Cure Cancer
By Bill Sardi
June 7, 2016

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Someone has said there are just too many jobs in the pursuit of a cancer cure to allow any therapy to be proven and put into practice.  Recognize the nation is dotted with cancer research centers that hold billions of dollars of debt.  For example, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington holds $176 million of debt.  [Moody’s Investor Service] Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the nation’s cancer research center, holds $1.9 billion of debt.  [Moody’s Investor Service]  A cancer cure would leave research centers like these on the hook for loans that could not possibly be paid back. 

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It’s a scary and cynical.

But one must be always suspect the monetary motives.

Unfortunately we can’t overlook the example of “March of Dimes”.

They set out to cure polio. And they did it. Or at least, Sabin and Salk did. 

Then they “retargeted” to “birth defects”.

Never have to worry about going out of business again.

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4045

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Compensation of Leaders     (FYE 12/2014)Compensation% of ExpensesPaid toTitle
$503,692 0.24% Jennifer Howse President

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And that ½ million dollar salary is safe!

Argh!

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LIBERTARIAN: What Tom Woods Told the Libertarian Party’s National Convention

Saturday, June 11, 2016

http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-671-what-i-told-the-libertarian-partys-national-convention/

Ep. 671 What I Told the Libertarian Party’s National Convention
31st May 2016
Tom Woods

What’s the best way forward for the Libertarian Party? There’s some pretty strong medicine in this one, especially toward the end. Key point: product differentiation. We’re not 30% different from Republicans and Democrats. We’re certainly not “fiscally conservative and socially liberal.” So what are we? And how should we spread the message? Juicy stuff here, I promise.

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Economic progress eliminated child labor; not Gooferment “laws”.

As usual, the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats see the parade passing them by and then run to get to the front and pretend to be “leading”.

The leftist do gooders signed petitions to eliminate “child labor” in Bangladesh. The result documented by a latter study was that children starved to death or they were force into child prostitution. 

Great result!

Listen to Tom illustrate why “libertarians” are uniquely qualified to lead the way.

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POLITICAL: How should Libertarians vote in the upcoming Presidential election

Friday, June 10, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/06/walter-e-block/hillary-bernie-donald-gary/

Hillary, Bernie, Donald, Gary: A Libertarian Perspective
By Walter E. Block
June 4, 2016

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I am glad you asked. Here is the plan. In states where either Clinton or Trump is leading by a wide margin, vote for, support Johnson. Trump either does not need our backing there or, it will do him little or no good in any case if he gets it. However, in purple states such as Florida or Ohio, in which the polls indicate a virtual tie between Mr. Pretty Good and Mrs. Evil, then and only then pile on in behalf of Donald. He will need every bit of sustenance we can give him on such occasions. Who to support financially? Both. Let us hedge our bets.

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Sounds like a plan!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: End the National Flood Insurance Program!

Thursday, June 9, 2016

http://www.emergencymgmt.com/emergency-blogs/disaster-zone/end-the-national-flood-insurance-program.html

End the National Flood Insurance Program?
The media spotlighted the issues!
Eric Holdeman | June 4, 2016

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In the Frontline program, the question was asked about how much profit the insurance companies make on the program with no good answer from FEMA. And I personally was amazed that FEMA paid for the litigation costs for the insurance companies, leaving the poor claimants to fight the insurance companies on their own dime. Clearly, reforms are needed — big reforms, not just tweaking the program.

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Here’s yet another Gooferment program that is Crony Capitalism (i.e., handouts for Big Insurance) and a subsidy program for the rich.

After Sandy, folks like myself who paid for “flood insurance” for 30 years found out they got no benefit because it wasn’t their primary residence. When I asked what I paid for, I was told: “I guess you made a mistake.” Argh!

Yet, “rich people” get their houses rebuilt time after time. 

In places in NJ where the Gooferment has rebuilt the same communities over and over under the guise of “flood insurance” and “helping devastated families”.

Argh!

In a real free market insurance, an insurance company would NOT insure a repeated loss for a house in a river valley time after time. Unless the premium was astronomical.

The Gooferment subsidizes poor decisions at the expense of the Taxpayers.

Sounds like this program should be killed immediately!

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LIBERTARIAN: Nuke the the IRS, the TSA, the VA!

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

2016-Jun-08

http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2016/06/03/get-rid-of-the-irs-the-tsa-the-va/

Get Rid of the IRS, the TSA, the VA
by Ron Paul, via The Ron Paul Institute

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Three recent stories regarding three government agencies — the IRS, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) — show why we should oppose big government for practical, as well as philosophical, reasons.

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The TSA, VA, and IRS are just three examples of how government cannot effectively provide any good or service except authoritarianism. Individuals acting in the free market are more than capable of providing for their own needs, including the need to protect themselves, their families, and their property if the government gets out of the way.

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When the “homeland security” reaction to 9/11 was to create a whole new bunch of Federal bureaucrats, I was appalled. As result, I, and a lot of folks, just stopped using Air Travel unless it was completely unavoidable.

The VA has been a failure.

And, the IRS is just a political tool for who ever is in power.

Time to nuke all three.

Then, there are many more organizations to go into the shredder!

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RANT: Anything and everything “named” by the Gooferment should be names for a vet

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/south-brunswick-cranbury/articles/east-brunswick-street-signs-memorialize-township-1

East Brunswick: Street Signs Memorialize Township’s Fallen Heroes
By PAUL ENDLER, SPECIAL TO TAP INTO EAST BRUNSWICKJune 1, 2016 at 10:13 AM

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EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ – Memorial Day, originally known as Decoration Day, to commemorate those who died during the Civil War, was observed in East Brunswick this afternoon before several hundred citizens in attendance at the Veterans Park at the Municipal Complex in town. It was the 20th Annual Memorial Day Observance in East Brunswick with Mayor Kevin McEvoy hosting  the event as Master of Ceremonies.

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Those that have paid the ultimate price are more important to remember than any politician!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The Gooferment enables bad debt collectors

Monday, June 6, 2016

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/292786/john-oliver-buys-forgives-15-million-medical-debt/

John Oliver buys, forgives $15 million in medical debt
In News by Jamie Peck / June 6, 2016

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In the type of detailed 20-minute segment the show is becoming known for, Oliver examined the debt-buying industry, a poorly regulated field wherein companies buy people’s debt for pennies on the dollar and harass them into paying it, often by illegal and abusive means. He also discussed “zombie debt,” i.e. money which debt collectors try to extract that people are no longer actually obligated to pay. The show even sent a correspondent to an industry conference with a hidden camera to watch collectors gloat about how consumers don’t know their rights. (Also illuminating: An Arkansas lawmaker joking with the House Insurance and Commerce Committee about how he has to protect the bankers or his banker wife won’t let him come home at night.)

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Saw this episode.

It was funny and shocking!

I demonstrates that Gooferment, its politicians, and bureaucrats are not interested in the welfare of “We, The Sheeple”!

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VETERANS: Remembering D-Day?

Monday, June 6, 2016

2016-Jun-06

https://www.army.mil/d-day/

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On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which, “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. The cost in lives on D-Day was high. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s crack troops.

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How many folks will remember this fateful day?

The fact is that it was probably necessary for the events at the time. 

One can not underestimate the courage and bravery that it took to hit those beaches.

When you hear that today’s students demand “safe spaces” from ideas that upset them, think of those men who created the “safe space” they enjoy.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The economy is “improving”?

Sunday, June 5, 2016

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/record-94708000-americans-not-labor-force-participation-rate-drops

Record 94,708,000 Americans Not in Labor Force; Participation Rate Drops in May
By Susan Jones | June 3, 2016 | 8:49 AM EDT

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The unemployment rate in May dropped to 4.7 percent, BLS reported, less than half of its Obama-era high of 10 percent in October 2009. But the labor force participation rate has deteriorated over Obama’s two terms.(AP File Photo)

(CNSNews.com) – A record 94,708,000 Americans were not in the labor force in May — 664,000 more than in April — and the labor force participation rate dropped two-tenths of a point to 62.6 percent, near its 38-year low, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.

When President Obama took office in January 2009, 80,529,000 Americans were not participating in the labor force; since then, 14,179,000 Americans have left the workforce — some of them retiring and some just quitting because they can’t find work.

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Tell me again how the economy is “improving”?

When will “We, The Sheeple” wake up to the fact that the “books are cooked”?

How do we reverse the trend, smaller Gooferment every time at all times.

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