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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/09/fixing-government-in-new-jersey.html

Monday, September 04, 2006
Fixing government in New Jersey
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But it is not likely to be as easy as it might sound. Gov. Whitman slashed government spending and in the process gutted the DEP, but that approach has come back to haunt the state as several high-profile contamination cases in North Jersey show. The McGreevey administration, on the other hand, was a bastion of patronage and unnecessary government growth — boosting the state’s payroll without improving its provision of services.

Both approaches were failures and now the state is facing a fiscal implosion that, because of the competing layers of government, inefficiencies and the state’s culture of legal corruption could lead to a property tax revolt.
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I think you hit the nail on the head when you said “both approaches were failures and now the state is facing a fiscal implosion”. It’s the approach is always flawed when it starts with the gubbamint. Argh! Best way to handle the toxic site problem would be to “sell” (i.e., give some one the property with a chunk of change) the property to someone, anyone, or group. At least there would be someone to hold accountable. Rather than the faceless nameless stupid gubamint.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/taylor/taylor130.html

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Educational priorities in America’s schools, public and private, are rarely based on definitive long-range goals to meet the complete needs of students. There are certainly many fine educational examples, but too often those are limited in scope and not district-wide. Many occur by happenstance, or are brought about by a few excellent teachers, many of whom often provide instruction in unapproved ways; using unapproved materials; unsupported by administration.
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It need not be that way. There are fine models that America could replicate, in public and in private schools; in day schools and in residential. One model would be the educational whole-child philosophies and whole-life focus of The Institute of the Deaf, Sint-Michielsgestel, The Netherlands.

However, American educational decisions are too often made by people who put power over scholarship; ambition over the best interests of children.
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It’s most interesting how the subtle change in motivation from the US government school (i.e., treating the deaf) to a private school (i.e., the priest educates people who happen to be deaf) produces remarkable results. We have to get the government out of all sorts of things that it gets into because it wastes time, money, and people’s lives. imho

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/dont-believe-inflation-numbers.html

You can’t trust their numbers. They get to manipulate us by manipulating the stats. And, we believe them. Sheeple!

http://www.newswithviews.com/Evensen/greg2.htm

HOW TYRANNY CAME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
By Greg Evensen
August 30, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
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It’s time to return to a gold and silver money standard, eliminate the Federal Reserve …
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I agree with that remedy. The debasement of our currency has allowed all manner of mischief. It has put us on the treadmill of inflation. It has allowed our gubamint to spend outside of any reasonable control (i.e., honest accounting). AND, worst of all it has hurt the poor and old. We need to solve this problem first. It’s is the root of all the other evils.

http://www.file.sc/7575f2/

Hi,

As you probably know, I listen to Free Talk Live (http://freetalklive.com) on a pretty regular basis when I’m commuting via podcast.

[No, not because it’s free!]

It’s an entertaining pro-liberty show. Recently they did a rendition of a Register article that went into the chemistry of the recent English threat.

Having attempted to make explosives in high school chemistry, (hey who knows why; the nerd herd thought it would be a kool if we could blow up the darn place; that’s why I think of any school — public or private — as a prison!), I KNOW it’s not as easy as one might think. Thermite is pretty easy. (And a hoot, when the good brother teaching chemistry singed his arms putting out the fire we created. Accidentally, of course.) Phosphorous burns nicely as well. (Note, don’t throw water on that fire. I remember the same Brother panicking, doing it, and creating a nice steam cloud. Whatta hoot!) Leaving the bunsen burners open just sets off the gas alarm; no boom. Oxygen in a bottle is lame; unless you can put it under pressure, but Boyle’s Law works against you.

So, I listened with a big chuckle as Ian read the article about how do actually do the chemistry in an airplane’s lavatory (laboratory). It his a chord ’cause I know first hand that blowing stuff up isn’t as easy as it looks on TV or james bond movies.

Any way, I snipped it out and put it on a free site for your enjoyment. Yell if you need it done differently.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200608/POL20060831b.html

‘Throwing Money’ at Poverty Won’t Solve Problem, Expert Says
By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
August 31, 2006
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Ron Mincy, professor of social policy and social work practice at Columbia University, said the government must take action to increase earnings if anything is to be done about poverty, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Tuesday.

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OH OH I KNOW! Let’s have a war on poverty. We can pass welfare programs with lots of rules and bureaucrats.

Oh yeah, that’s right, we’ve done that!

(For those edukated in gubamint skool, let me remind you of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty.)

Well if I was the devil, then here what I’d do to make people poorer:

* Create a system that devalues the value of money. That strategy worked to bring down the French Monarchy.

* Increase taxation, have lots of different taxes. Make it complicated so that experts will have to be hired. And, hide them so no one really knows what they are paying in taxes. Make them waste their time with meaningless tax exercises like saving receipts to see if you exceed the medical deduction threshold.

* Grow the government. Every regulator needs a citizen to regulate. Like that joke about the Agriculture Department employee crying because “his” farmer died.

* Criminalize everything. Make drugs expensive. Make everything as difficult as possible. Make people seek permission from various levels of government and agencies so that they can make the applicant figure out deadlocks of conflicting requirements.

* Impose criminal sanctions of victimless crimes, imaginary crimes, “conspiracy”, racketeering, or lying to the government.

OH yeah, that’s the way things are!

http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/118/5872/fair.asp?wid=118&nid=5872

THE “FAIR” TAX IS A WELFARE SCAM
Monday, August 28, 2006

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The “Fair Tax” is at least as bad as the income tax in every way, and worse in some ways. It’s not a tax cut. It’s not a tax elimination. It’s just a strengthening of the tax system by linking it to a welfare program — just like Social Security, which has been a “third rail” issue in American politics for half a century precisely because millions of Americans have a vested interest in keeping the checks coming.

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Oh just what we need is another “dole”! Fair tax, Flat Tax, Income Tax, or Estate Tax is just tax. More of the same piled higher and deeper.

Taxes are an immoral theft of both people’s time and their past, present, and future effort. It’s an ineffective way to accomplish things. It’s inefficient in both how much it costs to collect them (i.e., we pay for the IRS and we spend time filling out stupid forms) and how much it misses (i.e., underground economy).

Let’s start getting out of this hole now!

The “gubamint” is the oppressive government.

It’s the logical sum of all government at all the levels. It includes the bureaucracy that serves it. As well as all the things that it creates, usually to hide in plain sight, like the NGOs, the Fed, and the cartels it “recognizes”.

It’s the patriot’s pejorative term for the federal leviathan, huge bloated states, and nosey intrusive local governments that have far exceeded their Constitutional limits. It’s that regulating rule-making taxing gang that can always find a way to screw you, and goes out of their way to do so. Backed up by the SWAT team, it “rules” us with force. It’s the complete opposite of freedom and liberty. It’s the thing that the dead old white guys were so afraid of. Remember that genocide goes hand-in-hand with gubamint. It’s the ultimate expression of force.

It’s guestimated that one in four people work directly for gubamint, or are dependent upon it. That includes those that suckle at the gubamint teat, like the military – industrial complex, the “government school construction” industry, and the “political / legal” consulting industry. And, doesn’t count but doesn’t ignore all those dupes, sheep people (i.e., sheeple), who draw a “welfare” check (like “social security”).

http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett200405120748.asp

May 12, 2004, 7:48 a.m.
Repeal the 17th Amendment
It’s where big government begins.

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There is only one time when a U.S. senator is really free to speak the truth — when he’s announced his retirement. Since he no longer has to worry about raising money, pandering to voters, or retaliation from his colleagues, he can say what he really thinks about issues no other member of the Senate will discuss. For this reason, it is worth listening to Sen. Zell Miller, Democrat of Georgia, who recently spoke a truth that no senator except a retiring one would dare say.

On April 28, Sen. Miller, the last genuinely conservative Democrat we will likely ever see in the Senate, laid the blame for what ails that august body at the door of the 17th amendment to the Constitution. This is the provision that provides for the popular election of senators.

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Sounds like a good idea to me! Where do we start?

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http://www.njeminentdomain.com/state-of-new-jersey-eminent-domain-fines-eviction-and-videotape.html

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Under the threat of a $4,000 per day fine from Superiour Court Judge James Hurley, the Halpers vacated their 75-acre farm peacefully.

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Wave good bye to your Fifth Amendment!