Reinke Faces Life

Hmmm, Google lagging behind the tech curve?

http://tinyurl.com/vbvda

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061025/D8KVS3P00.html

NJ Court Stops Short of Gay Marriage OK
Oct 25, 3:58 PM (ET) By GEOFF MULVIHILL

***Begin Quote***

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey’s Supreme Court opened the door to gay marriage Wednesday, ruling that homosexuals are entitled to the same rights as heterosexuals, but leaving it to lawmakers to legalize same-sex unions.

***End Quote***

I think the issue is about the WRONG question entirely.

Once again the politicians, and judges are really nothing more than unelected politicians, have once again succeeded in misdirecting us.

WHY is the gubamint involved in marriage at all?

Marriage “regulation” stems from the racist past when busy bodies want to prevent black men from marrying white women.

The Constitutional State has no business in anyone’s “marriage”. Gay, straight, or Irish / Italian.

This is the proper role for Churches.

The various laws and tax code “giving” benefits to “married people” is just wrong.

SO, let’s focus on the correct issue. Get the gubamint out of the marriage business. Period!

http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=8549.0

***Begin Quote***

The real problem with school is not that it is a monopoly, controlled by the unions, or funded by a gang of violent thugs.

***End Quote***

On the contrary, the whole concept of a government funded and run system of public education comes to us from pre-WW1 Germany where the purpose was to train young men to be good soldiers (i.e., cannon fodder). I remember some specific points from somewhere about: discipline; answering to bells; and separation from their families. In the USA, it was championed by avowed socialists who saw it as a way of getting the country to adopt socialism.

It worked.

***Begin Quote***

The idea that most kids need anything more than the basic skills of reading, writing, and dealing with money is crazy, and even these skills are not best taught by schools Students should be free to learn what they want to learn, based on the opportunities and responsibilities which their parents provide.

***End Quote***

Agreed. But where do they learn all the skills prized by the state like conformity and obedience to the enlightened? Where do they learn contempt for their parent’s religious beliefs? When do they learn the state’s religion — relativistic secular humanism? Where do they learn violence? Where do they learn that they are just powerless cogs?

***Begin Quote***

I wish I had been taught: political principles, Libertarianism, non-violence, practical economics (financial independence), the Bible (not religion), the science of health (not medicine or biology), committed relationships (not sex-education), gardening, solar power, biodiesel, building, computer programming, practical design (not art), etc.

***End Quote***

I’d throw in: Individual self-reliance, Independent inter-dependence, and the teaching of the meme’s: Christ, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Churchill, Mother Teresa, and perhaps Harry Browne.

***Begin Quote***

2. The second is that kids are entitled to an education.

***End Quote***

There is no “right” to an education. And there is certainly no “right” that makes me pay for it.

***Begin Quote***

Want to deregulate the schools? Let students choose teachers, and teachers compete for students. The one thing that would do the most good for education, is to make the whole thing voluntary. Make no student attend any class they didn’t want to attend, and make no teacher teach any student that they didn’t want to teach.

***End Quote***

Repeal mandatory attendance laws.

I wrote a transition plan that says it would take us 40 years to kill the gubamint’s skools.

***Begin Quote***

If a teacher didn’t have any students, they wouldn’t get paid.

***End Quote***

Sounds right to me.

http://tinyurl.com/umrgy

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2006/10/25
/should_we_trade_at_all

Should we trade at all
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Dr. Williams serves on the faculty of George Mason University as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and is the author of More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well.

***Begin Quote***

You might wonder how it is possible for, say, the sugar industry to rip off consumers. After all, consumers are far more numerous than sugar workers and sugar bosses. It’s easy. A lot is at stake for those in the sugar industry, workers and bosses. They dedicate huge resources to pressure Congress into enacting trade restrictions. But how many of us consumers will devote the same resources to unseat a congressman who voted for sugar restrictions that forced us to pay $21 more for the sugar our family uses? It’s the problem of visible beneficiaries of trade restrictions, sugar workers and bosses, gaining at the expense of invisible victims — sugar consumers. We might think of it as congressional price-gouging.

***End Quote***

Doctor Williams has a unique ability to frame an issue so even I can understand it.

Tariffs, taxes, “price supports”, “price floors”, “minimums” are all just things that make us poorer.

Universally poorer.

Every family in Amerika is paying to subsidize the sugar producers in the South, their lobbyists, and the politicians that they have bought and paid for.

When the final history of mankind is written, gubamint will be recognized as the ultimate mental disorder. It will probably be cited as worse than any genocidal maniac who used gubamint. It will be that quain period in human development when, like the Salem Witch trials, Human sacrifice, race wars, and (my particular favorite) genocide, the participant in the era didn’t realize just how STUPID they were being.

Similar to sugar, there are: minimum wage laws, milk price “supports”, minimum cigarette prices, and all manner of other gubamint actions that make us poorer.

What have you done about it?

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15391426/site/newsweek

Remember Global Cooling?
Why scientists find climate change so hard to predict.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Jerry Adler
Updated: 5:41 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2006

***Begin Quote***

Oct. 23, 2006 – In April, 1975, in an issue mostly taken up with stories about the collapse of the American-backed government of South Vietnam, NEWSWEEK published a small back-page article about a very different kind of disaster. Citing “ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically,” the magazine warned of an impending “drastic decline in food production.” Political disruptions stemming from food shortages could affect “just about every nation on earth.” Scientists urged governments to consider emergency action to head off the terrible threat of . . . well, if you had been following the climate-change debates at the time, you’d have known that the threat was: global cooling.

***End Quote***

And, you’re surprised when people don’t believe what they are told.

Weather forecasts. Economic projections. Points spreads.

How many people keep score of their predictions?

I do. I don’t make any. Any more.

The worst part of being a IT Architect is to make long term plans and be unable to change the future.

I call it the “Dephi Oracle” problem.

Yup, I see the brick wall you’re running headlong for. You, it’s still there and your speeding up. Gonna be a crash. Hay, listen up.

Klunk!

Yeah, I know if I was a better predictor, I would have been able to make you listen. Right!

What’s your prediction score?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff113.html

The Church’s Losing Strategy
by Michael S. Rozeff
October 24, 2006
The Louis M. Jacobs Professor of Finance at University at Buffalo.

***Begin Quote***

If churches are so short-sighted as to agree to play ball in the state’s ballpark by the state’s rules, and even anxiously elbow their way into the park to sample the goodies, they will have no one to blame but themselves when the state locks and bolts the exits.

***End Quote***

The oft repeated canard “those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it” could be amplified to say “those who don’t understand history are condemned to repeat it”.

In the Middle Ages, the Church was a counterbalance to the State. Who hasn’t read the government propaganda The Three Musketeers, where the valiant servants of the King battle against the evil cardinal. Unlike most kids, I rooted for the Cardinal’s Guard. Even at that tender age, I understood that the Church was voluntary, but the King wasn’t.

At one time in America, before the Gubamint changed it to Amerika, there was lots of competition to help the poor that didn’t involve the theft by the gubamint called taxes.

In my lifetime, I knew people who got help from: the fraternal organizations like the KofC, the Lions, and the Masons; all manner of vets (VFW, American Legion, & DVA); from the Churches (generically referring to the Catholic Church, the various flavors of Protestant, the major strains of Jewish tradition, and even something called the Ethical Culture Society), as well as ad hoc efforts by the local fire department, PBA, or such.

Now they are all but a shell of their former selves. They ceded the moral high ground to the gubamint in exchange for the proverbial thirty pieces of silver.

I remember a time when the poor were really educated in schools that really worked. There were public schools, but there was real competition for students. Parents sent their children to the Churches for a “good education”, or was that an “education in good”.

Eventually, the State’s high taxes and “free offer of education” seduced people into believing they could get something for nothing.

The Church’s didn’t fight that battle, when they could have won. Now they have to fight the battle when they are doomed. Remember Winston Churchill’s advice about fighting that went along the lines “when shall we fight?”. If you don’t fight the battle sooner rather than later, then you will fight it when you are weaker.

The Churches didn’t stand up and fight when it was easy and they were strong. Now they are forced to fight when it is hard and they are weak. Remember the parable of “The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp” http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/790.html

And, the cause of Liberty has lost a valuable ally in the war to keep the overbearing gubamint in check.

http://tinyurl.com/y2uuyx

http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/jay_leno_garage/
3475911.html?page=1

title

***Begin Quote***

Just think: In those days a 17-year-old could go to the motor vehicle bureau to get license plates for a homebuilt, motorcycle-powered vehicle. The folks at the office would say, “What kind of car is that?”

“Oh, I made it myself.”

“Lights work? Horn work? Okay, here are your tags.”

Can you imagine?

***End Quote***

This article gave me a new respect for the American ingenuity of days gone by.

I already like Jay Leno. This just added to that.

This article begs the question of why the gubamint is involved with cars and roads.

We could do much better without their “service”.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs51.html

How Government Destroys Moral Character
by Robert Higgs
October 23, 2006

Robert Higgs is senior fellow in political economy at the Independent Institute and editor of The Independent Review. His most recent book is Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy. He is also the author of Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11 and Against Leviathan.

***Begin Quote***

“Thou shalt not steal” is a rule as old as human society itself. It must have been, else no complex human society would have proved viable.

***AND***

Government as we know it, however, rests entirely on this kind of sociopathy. Rulers take what does not belong to them and dispose of it to suit themselves.

***AND***

In some cases, especially in societies with governments that attempt to justify their existence and their actions on “democratic” grounds, many people may be taken in by this ideological sleight of hand. They may actually believe that “we tax ourselves” so that the rulers “we choose” can dispose of the loot in ways that “we voted for,” failing to appreciate the gulf that separates this pristine ideological vision from the sordid facts on the ground.

***AND***

The prevailing attitude seems to be the one expressed by farmer Charles Fisher, of Tulare County, California: “Whether it’s right or wrong, if they are offering it, you’re foolish to turn it down.”

In that single sentence, Fisher has encapsulated the rotten core of the welfare state, and he has concisely expressed how such a state destroys the people’s moral character. The loot is there for the taking; you’re a fool not to take it, notwithstanding that your taking it may be wrong. Financial gain trumps moral probity. Don’t be a chump; take the money.

I don’t know Charles Fisher, but if he is like a great many others who profit by despoiling their fellow man, with government acting as the facilitator of the crime, then I suspect that he is probably not the kind of man who would pocket his neighbor’s wallet if he saw it fall to the ground unnoticed, and he is almost certainly not the kind of man who would wait beside the road to carry out an armed robbery of the first passer-by. Yet he will steal from countless strangers – in effect, a little bit from everyone who pays federal taxes – “whether it’s right or wrong,” simply to bulk up his income from farming. (Needless to say, the so-called disaster payments rarely go to anyone who has suffered a genuine disaster; like most of what the government does, this program is for the most part a sham from the get-go.)

***AND***

“The state,” Frédéric Bastiat told us long ago, “is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.”

***End Quote***

I think, in a nut shell, that this fellow has wrapped up the issue of “government theft” and put a bow on it for us.

Taxes are theft. Thou shalt not steal. Seems pretty obvious to me. You?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/adams8.html

‘Down, Down to Hell! and Say I Sent Thee!!’
by Charles Adams

***Begin Quote***

Nero in one of his fits of madness, said that he wanted to abolish all taxes and make a beautiful gift to the human race.” Not a bad idea, unless you want civilized life. For taxes are the fuel that makes civilization run. But if you have bad fuel with impediments, or not properly designed for the engine, then civilization will run badly, and that has happened too many times in history to need explaining

***End Quote***

I am not sure that’s true.

Back in the “golden age”, post-Civil War to pre-WW1, there was negligible taxes and liberty abounded. It wasn’t Nirvana, but it certainly was better than now. I’d like to see it.

If a service is desired, or needed, then the market place will supply it.

Now that’s not a naive wish, but just look at the real world. The market place supplies “stuff”. Greedy people in search of profit anticipate what people will want.

If one thinks of a government service, then see what the “overhead” of that service is. So, let’s take schools. Just compare what the gubamint gives away free and it’s private market alternative. Back during the NJ Florio tax revolt, I showed that total taxation divided by total student (including parochial and private schools) was about 10.5k per student and the most elite Pton school only charges 10.2! There is a cost of using the gubamint as a market intermediary. It’s at least half to two thirds. Parochial grammar schools currently charge about 3k versus the gubamint ~10k in the 90s. Arghh!

Take any government service and you can see the inefficiency in not paying directly.

If you can buy it for a dollar, it will definitely cost two if the gubamint does it and they will have collect four in taxes to have that two.

Obviously, I’m just making up numbers but I know in my gut it’s true.

In 1975, I bought my house and had private garbage. I paid 62.50 a YEAR and they took the cans from the side of the house and put them back. Two years later, the township went into the garbage business. My taxes were raised $285 a year just to pay for the new “service”. Argh! And, the I have to put the cans at the curb and take back up! The funny thing is that it was the SAME company! I just got to pay more for worse service.

So, clearly, if we said no taxes, then I’d STILL have to have my garbage picked up. And, I’d probably have choices like I used to. The incumbent could probably give me a good deal based on signing up lots of my neighbors. And, after a while, there’d be lots of choices.

Only with a gubamint “service”, do I get the “opportunity” to overpay, for a service I may not want, delivered badly, with no one to complain to!

http://www.shadowmonkey.net/articles/general/revolutionaries-a-new-kind-of-candidate.html

***Begin Quote***

How about, instead of electing yet another harvest of gray-haired hand-shakers who have no interest in office other than the cost of their influence and vote… instead of letting the reins of power stay in the hands of a group of people who have so thoroughly corrupted their offices… and instead of simply handing the power of office back to yet another generation of partisan hacks of either color…

***End Quote***

Candidates that don’t sign the small government pledge, don’t get my vote.

http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7B5D03143E-4044-489B-8DA9-6E3747C05B2E%7D.gif

Many a true word is said in jest.

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle389-20061015-03.html

Isn’t This Supposed to be Fun?
Darian Worden

***Begin Quote***

The Rutgers Libertarians had a lot of fun at our anti-drug war brownie giveaway. We got 120 individually-wrapped brownies from a wholesale club. To each of them we attached a pro-liberty message:

• You own yourself.
• You ALONE have the right to decide what to put in your body.
• The War on Drugs is harmful to the liberty and safety of people worldwide.
• The Libertarian Party has opposed drug prohibition since its founding.

Brought to you by Rutgers Libertarians—http://rlibertarians.tripod.com

***End Quote***

I love it. I didn’t know that there were “L”s at RU. They better escape the “Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee” at their first opportunity. I’d suggest the Free State Project in NH.

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle389-20061015-01.html

***Begin Quote***

No decent country should have a standing military.

***End Quote***

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701263_pf.html

No Death Benefits for Studds’s Spouse
Wednesday, October 18, 2006; A19

***Begin Quote***

BOSTON, Oct. 17 — The federal government has refused to pay death benefits to the spouse of former congressman Gerry E. Studds (D-Mass.), the first openly gay member of Congress.

Studds married Dean Hara in 2004 after same-sex marriage was legalized in Massachusetts. But Hara will not be eligible to receive any portion of Studds’s estimated $114,337 annual pension because the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act bars the federal government from recognizing Studds’s marriage.

***End Quote***

Watch how fast this gets changed now.

My question would be: Why is the gubamint involved in pensions anyway? Why is it involved in marriage — gay or straight? Why are they involved in all sorts of things, other than defending the States and maintaining order among the States (It’s supposed to be the United STATES of America!)?

There should be ZERO federal employees! Zero pensions! And, zero taxes!

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aef6sR60oDgM&refer=home

Bono, Preacher on Poverty, Tarnishes Halo With Irish Tax Move
By Fergal O’Brien

***Begin Quote***

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) — Bono, the rock star and campaigner against Third World debt, is asking the Irish government to contribute more to Africa. At the same time, he’s reducing tax payments that could help fund that aid.

***End Quote***

Personally, I see nothing wrong with that move. I don’t think ANY taxes should be paid. It’s theft. Anything you can do to keep a robber from taking stuff is justified. The gubamint is just robbing him.

If I had a critique of him, and all the other so-called liberals, as opposed to the Classical Liberals who wanted Liberty, it would be to advocate the use of tax money at all for anything, even worthwhile things like poverty relief. After all, if it’s a good idea, then people will do it willingly. Loot at charity, disaster relief, telethons! Why send money to the government, incur a handling cost of say half, to have them send it to the charity? Go direct and avoid the middle man.

I think that poverty around the world is universally caused by governments. Just as in nature, an animal gets a parasite that eventually kills them, humans have this mental parasite called government. And, it kills.

Like the balance of good and bad bacteria in our bellies, we need government to preserve the peace and maintain order. (A joke in today’s world.) When it oversteps that simple mission, it causes all sorts of havoc.

Corrupt government, dictators that loot the treasury, and theocracies that enforce beliefs are all examples of impoverishing governments.

It’s further humorous, in a sad sort of way, that people are starving and we are talking a dealing with their governments as if they were legitimate. We should have a list of those countries that are impoverished and punish those governments with ostracism. Too many people in your country starving, you’re not invited to the next state dinner. If our businessmen can not trade with their counterparts in your country, then you can’t buy anything for yourself personally here. Loot your country’s treasury, don’t plan on buying investments here. Kill your citizens, and don’t look for our protection from their relatives. Maintain peace and order like a civilized government should, hey the door’s open, pull up a chair, how can we help you?

It’s government that impoverishes society, oppresses their minorities, and kills their citizens. Stamp out that plague of gubamint.

http://www.njeminentdomain.com/state-of-new-jersey-eminent-
domain-date-of-valuation-blight-declaration-and-constitutional
-considerations.html

Eminent Domain: Date of Valuation, Blight Declaration and
Constitutional Considerations
State of New Jersey

***Begin Quote***

In the case before Judge Costello, the gap between the declaration of blight and the filing of the complaint was 18 months (April 12, 2004 – October 21, 2005). The Court felt there was no substantial time delay in pursuing the condemnation process. Therefore, no constitutional implications were raised by the use of a significantly earlier date. The Court referenced the New Jersey Supreme Court case Jersey City Redevelopment Agency v. Kugler, 58 N.J. 374 (1971), where the gap between the declaration of blight and filing of the complaint was 9 years.

***End Quote***

I think that this whole thing STINKS!

The dead old white guys would be taking down the long guns from over the mantle and strolling down to the Town Green to form the militia.

I think that the gubamint should have to get permission from the people to use eminent domain. It’s a blunt tool that is too easy to abuse.

For their friends, they condem and pay top dollar for a toxic waste dump to put schools on. For their enemies, they’ll condem your house for any reason. And the Intelligent Designer will have to have mercy on you, if your property is wanted by a campaign contributor.

We need to stuff this genie back in the box!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/11/
60minutes/main2082140.shtml

Duke Rape Suspects Speak Out
60 Minutes’ Ed Bradley Talks To The Accused Lacrosse Players,
Who Have Never Before Been Interviewed

***Begin Quote***

The three players are white, and come from wealthy families; the accuser is black, a local dancer hired to perform at a team party. Over the past six months, 60 Minutes has examined nearly the entire case file, more than 2,000 documents, including police reports, witness statements and medical records. The evidence 60 Minutes has seen reveals disturbing facts about the conduct of the police and the district attorney, and raises serious concerns about whether or not a rape even occurred.

***End Quote***

I wasn’t there. Innocent until proven guilty.

And, it does sound like the DA used the case for politics.

What a surprise, the gubamint abused it power.

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/10/expanding-marriage.html#comments

Friday, October 13, 2006
Expanding marriage
South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press
The Blog of South Brunswick
posted by Hank Kalet @ 3:05 PM

***Begin Quote***

Gov. Jon Corzine has finally come straight out and defended gay marriage. This is good news for those of us who believe that gays and lesbians deserve the same rights as the rest of us.

***End Quote***

At 7:15 PM, Libertarian at 08824 said…

And, why is the government involved in regulating marriages anyway? We know it was originally to keep the races from marrying so why continue the practice at all.

http://www.epic.org/privacy/medical/

Supreme Court Ignores Appeal in DNA Database Case

***Begin Quote***

The Supreme Court this week chose not to hear the appeal of a
Washington, D.C. resident who argued that the collection of his DNA for
a federal database violated the Fourth Amendment. EPIC filed an amicus
brief in support of Lamar Johnson’s petition and emphasized three
particular flaws within the DNA collection program. First, the DNA
profile stored in CODIS contains more information than the unique
identifier the government claims. Second, the DNA database allows for
partial profile searching that implicates relatives of profiled
individuals. Third, the retention of the blood sample from which the DNA
profile is generated presents an opportunity for future privacy
violations.

***End Quote***

Like the gun records that weren’t supposed to be kept for more than a few days, the government lies!

Police State?

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle388-20061008-03.html

One Answer to Vance’s “Supporting the Troops”
by James Glaser

***Begin Quote***

At the end of Vance’s column he says another thing that I and all veterans can get behind.

And when they are all home—from Iraq and everywhere else in the world—I support using the troops to actually patrol our coasts and guard our borders. I support the troops so much that I don’t want them sent to fight any more foreign wars.

***End Quote***

Return to the original intent of the Constitution. No entangling alliances. We aren’t, shouldn’t be, and can’t be the world’s policeman. Nor can we afford it.

imho

http://darianworden.tripod.com/prop/posters.html

I particularly liked “PATRIOTISM: America was created by people who always obeyed the government”

SAFE FOR WORK

SAFE but UNSETTLING

In my Libertarian American, you’ll have:

• gold coins to use (no federal reserve),
• get your whole paycheck (no taxes), and
• keep all you ever earn (no inheritance taxes).

You’ll be busy though, because you’ll be making lots of choices:

• how to educate the children; no state skool.
• what drugs to buy at WalMart; no gubamint permission required to buy medicine.
• what to do with all that extra money; there will be many private charities appeal for some of your surplus.
• what type of ammo to buy for your gun; self-defense.
• what insurance company to contract with for police services; no thugs in uniforms from the central committee with diktats.
• what fraternities / sororities, clubs, and associations you will join for various benefits (Consult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville for how it was); no gubamint free goods to lull you into slavery, poverty, or stupidity.

Ahh, it will be great.

Remember in post-Civil War to WW1 America, the economy was booming and there was a gradual decline in prices. Life expectancy surged. The rising tide lifted all boats.

The spirit of the Statue of Liberty was in the land.

We can be there again.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/norwood1.html

Public Schools Have Flunked Out
by James Erwin Norwood

***Begin Quote***

Public schools have stayed in business, in spite of their bad results. Their failures have not been punished by bankruptcy or loss of jobs. Their failures have been rewarded with more money, which has operated as a perverse incentive to fail again and again.

***End Quote***

So when does the plug get pulled?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory121.html

The Drug War’s Immorality and Abject Failure
by Anthony Gregory

***Begin Quote***

If the idea is to create a drug-free America, then we can safely say that after hundreds of billions of dollars spent, millions of arrests, and decades of escalating police and military efforts, the war on drugs is a complete failure.

***End Quote***

When you consider all the costs of the drug war, imho one can’t possibly come to any conclusion that the actual direct and indirect costs far exceed the the benefits of that war.

If we could predict that drug abuse kills X people and the drug war kills Y people, then we could make a case that if Y is greater than X, should end the drug war?

The interesting part is that if you get a drug warrior on the record, they won’t admit that. “If saves just one person, it’s worth it.”

My gripe is that the whole drug paradigm, (i.e., that I have to go to a modern day medicine man / witch doctor, bribe them to give me a piece of state approved paper, then take that receipt has to be taken to a state approved building, where a bureaucrat checks with an state regulated insurance company to see how much I’ll pay, and then if I am lucky I’ll get what I need.

How about everyone buzzes off?

I’ll figure out what I need. And, I’ll go to Walmart and buy what I need. The State can just butt out. If I harm myself, then it’s my problem.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/peterson7.html

Economics In One Lesson: With Apologies To Henry Hazlitt
by William H. Peterson

***Begin Quote***

I close listing those five scarcity-coping tickers in my one lesson in economics as: 1. the law of self-interest, 2. the law of scarcity, 3. the law of opportunity cost, 4. the law of trade mutuality, and that miscoping 5. Gresham’s law on inflation.

***End Quote***

You have to love it. But what about the “broken window”? maybe that was number 6. And, it just didn’t fit.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff110.html

***Begin Quote***

***End Quote***

We often say that gubamint is hypocritical. Here’s a classic example. I bet if internet gambling was kicking in 50% of its earnigns to the fed and state then there would be an exception carved out for them as well.

Under the heading of laughing at big gubamint, they cetainly provide enough material!