http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/shortmovie.php
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Give them a sign.
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They are out their on the orders of the politicians you’ve empowered.
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LIBERTY: Give them a sign
Sunday, July 6, 2008
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RANT: The Social Security scam
Saturday, July 5, 2008http://www.freestateproject.org/node/13577
http://www.freemindstv.com/episode68.html
Free Minds TV July 4, 2008 (EP 68)
At the 22 minute mark of this video, FreeMindsTV tackles the Social Security Scam.
Forced “saving”!
Younger workers are screwed.
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They nail a few points but overlook many of the flaws and falsehoods of the “plan”.
* It’s racist. It’s sexist. It transfers money from poor minority men to rich white women.
* It’s inter generational socialism.
* It’s unfair to people who die young; cheats their estate of all their savings.
* Ties into cigarettes and the morality around that. Politicians can’t get us to quit smoking because of its impact on tax collections and life span. If we seriously quit smoking, social security would go broke faster!
* It has been changed by politicians to our determent over time — from voluntary non-taxable to involuntary taxable! What Congress bestows; can and will be changed.
* An American educated economist in the 70s successfully moved Chile from socialistic social security just like here to private system without government control. Much to the people’s benefit. In a country where 70% of the people were illiterate. Amazing how people can understand and manage their own money.
* It has a negative rate of return. Not counting inflation, I’ve seen studies that assumed constant value of the dollar, and estimate the ROI of SocSec at between a negative one and two percent. Figure in inflation and it’s a joke.
* It ties into the inflation rate in several ways. Social Security takes your ‘contribution’ wink wink in more valuable dollars now and pays you back in less valuable dollars later. Then you get to spend your social security check on much more expensive stuff. Since inflation is not uniform across products.
* It give the politicians yet another slush fund. And, employs all those relatives and voters.
* It distracts the tax payer from the real issue — liberty!
Argh!
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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church – Chapter Seventy Three – Tunnel rat is only one
Friday, July 4, 2008It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Seventy Three – Tunnel rat is only one
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com
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LIBERTY: gooferment, the meme that kills people
Thursday, July 3, 2008http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/07/02/the_ultimate_resource
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The greatest threat to mankind’s prosperity is government. A recent example is Zimbabwe’s increasing misery. Like our country, Zimbabwe had a flourishing agriculture sector, so much so it was called the breadbasket of southern Africa. Today, its people are on the brink of starvation as a result of its government. It’s the same story in many countries — government interference with mankind’s natural tendency to engage in wealth-producing activities. Blaming poverty on overpopulation not only lets governments off the hook; it encourages the enactment of harmful policies.
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Yup, gooferment, the meme that kills more people than any disease.
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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church – Chapter Seventy Two – Biting Off More
Wednesday, July 2, 2008It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Seventy Two – Biting Off More
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com
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LINKEDIN: The 3 minute LinkedIn Overview video
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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RANT: If wishes were horses … …
Tuesday, July 1, 2008http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/grand-theft-society.html
Grand Theft Society
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
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A core problem with government is that its managers believe that all reality will conform to their wishes if they issue the right orders, pass the right laws, and put the right people in charge. Reality resists this simple-minded approach …
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(1) Reality is; laws are wishes.
(2) If everyone agreeed that your ‘great idea’ was a ‘great idea’, why do you need the guns of gooferment to force folks to comply?
(3) Even if your ‘great idea’ is passed into law — with credit to Harry Browne — it will be implemented and enforced with a different understanding and agenda.
(4) Gooferment is aggressive force that not only MAKES me doing something regardless of how I feel about the matter. It forces me to PAY for things that I am morally (religiously) opposed to. Cite the Amish and to a lesser extent the Quakers. And, it forces me to PAY for force being APPLIED to you.
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MONEY: Gooferement rip off
Monday, June 30, 2008http://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, 2008http://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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LIBERTY: How is the Gooferment responsible for oil speculation and its pain?
Sunday, June 29, 2008My Luddite friend was griping about oil speculation; I, of course, blamed it on the gooferment. He queried "Huh?" (No, he’s much more literate. But basically that’s what he meant. It’s more fitting with the label I’ve hung on him.)
The Gooferment encourages speculation and actually is responsible for it.
(1) Ensures it
Every since Carter, we have not had a rational "energy policy". Carter, a Navy nuke engineer, should have, upon the Arab Oil Embargo, set us on a course to nuke power. France gets ~3/4 of its power from nukes. They allow private sector experts to template a few designs and safety controls. ISO900X. And, then you can’t argue it’s not safe. Cite Navy. Cite France.
Our gooferment is going to let Chinese slant drill from Cuba to off-shore Florida for 18 Billion Gallons of oil. But Americans can’t do it without a spill. Cite Louisianna oil rigs in hurricane Katrina — that was a real eco disaster.
ANWAR?
We ain’t build a refinery in thirty years.
(2) Insures it
Where do specs get the capital necessary to speculate. Gooferment insured banks!
(3) Ignores it
Energy isn’t even on anyone’s radar.
(4) Profits by it
Taxes are a percentage of the price. Higher price; higher receipts. Coincidence? I think not.
(5) Corrupted by it
Where do campaign contributions, graft, and lobbyists come from. Those desiring favors. Oil, power companies. Anyone who wants a hand out?
(6) Empowered by it
It puts them in the driver’s seat. With everyone looking for a politician to ‘save’ us from the problem they created.
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