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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2010/12/giving-states-veto-is-bad-idea.html

Monday, December 20, 2010
Giving states the veto is a bad idea

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I would dismiss this as a joke, but given the looniness we’ve seen grow on the issue of federal power it obviously is not a joke.

The this, in this case, is an amendment that would grant state legislatures the power to repeal federal law — two-thirds of all state legislatures would need to vote for repeal. It has the backing of folks in 12 states (the story says legislatures, including New Jersey, when it needs to be made clear that full legislatures are not on board in most cases) and some in Congress — which leaves me wondering if anyone is thinking clearly out there.

The amendment is being pushed as a way to trim federal sails and force national lawmakers to consider the impact of their actions on the states, which sounds logical in theory but would create chaos in practice and do little more than further empower small states and, more ominously, make progressive reform impossible.

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So how do YOU prevent “unfunded mandates”?

The Dead Old White Guys HATE democracy as “mob rule”. And, we are PROVING them correct.

The Seventeenth Amendment killed the feedback loop from Trenton to DC.

Will the Trenton crooks pick better crooks that the bosses do for “We, The Sheeple” in Nu Jerzee to rubber stamp?

I bet yes. For only one reason, Trenton Crook wpuld pick someone to go to DC and make sure that (1) they were no unfunded mandates; (2) they “get” as much as they “give”; and (3) conduct that causes “We, The Sheeple” to get upset (more) with Trenton is not tolerated.

Sorry, but you “Secular Progressive Socialists” have to remember the words of the Iron Lady! “The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” –Margaret Thatcher

The States’ “veto” is just trying to de facto repeal the Seventeenth.

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FROM A BLISTERING EMAIL ABOUT THE TSA AND THE FOURTH

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Dear Mr. Reinke:    Thank you for contacting me with your concerns about Transportation Security Administration (TSA) aircraft passenger screening procedure. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue.    The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun using advanced imaging technology (AIT) at 70 airports across the country. This technology allows screeners to take a snapshot of passengers without any physical contact to determine if there are dangerous weapons or other contraband hidden under a passenger’s clothes. TSA maintains that passenger privacy is protected by separating the officer attending the passenger from the officer viewing the image and blurring the face of the passenger. The viewing officer is remotely located and images cannot be stored, transmitted, or printed, and they are deleted immediately after viewing. In addition, passengers who do not wish to receive AIT screening can opt out for a physical pat-down.      During consideration of the “Transportation Security Administration Authorization Act” (H.R. 2200) in the House of Representatives, an amendment was considered that would prohibit TSA from using AIT machines for primary screening, require TSA to give passengers a choice of a pat-down search instead of a body scan, and prohibit TSA from storing, transferring, or copying any images. This amendment was included in the final version of the bill passed by the House of Representatives. The “Transportation Security Administration Authorization Act” has been referred to the Senate and is currently pending before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, on which I serve.    In addition, the “American Traveler Dignity Act of 2010” (H.R. 6416) has been introduced in the House of Representatives. This legislation would clarify that TSA and its employees can be sued for subjecting airline passengers to advanced imaging technology or physical contact. This bill is currently pending before the House Judiciary Committee, and similar legislation has not been introduced in the Senate. Please be assured that I will continue to monitor the progress of this legislation and will keep your views in mind should it come for a vote before a Committee on which I serve or the full Senate. Thank you again for contacting me. FRL: mts
Sincerely, Senator Lautenberg
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SO why do I need TWO US Senators? I get the same response from both of them. So let’s just cut staff and save a lot of money. Argh!

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FROM A BLISTERING EMAIL ABOUT THE TSA AND THE FOURTH

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Dear Mr. Reinke:

Thank you for contacting me to express your concern regarding the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) use of whole-body imaging. Your opinion is very important to me, and I appreciate the opportunity to respond to you on this vital issue.

The failed Christmas Day 2009 bombing on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 brought renewed attention to airport security. One specific concern has been the possible increased implementation of whole-body imaging (WBI) technology to screen airline passengers. As you know, WBI is currently being used in major airports across the country to screen passengers, and in some cases it is being used in place of metal detectors. TSA is using this new technology to conduct full-body searches without physical contact between a TSA representative and a passenger, allowing screeners to detect prohibited items, such as weapons, explosives and other metallic and non-metallic threat items concealed under layers of clothing. However, there have been a number of legitimate concerns regarding health implications of WBI technology, as well as privacy concerns due to the details of the images.

You may be happy to know that the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed H.R. 2200, the TSA Authorization Act, which included an amendment prohibiting TSA from utilizing whole-body imaging as the first-screening device at airports. Accordingly, TSA would only be allowed to use this technology for secondary searches of individuals who have already triggered primary metal detector alarms. Further, the amendment requires that screeners disclose that millimeter wave imaging could allow a TSA worker in a remote room to see through their clothes, and affords passengers the right to request a pat-down search in lieu of full-body imaging.

As your United States Senator, my top priority is protecting the safety of the American people. While it is essential that security officials have the necessary tools to screen and identify terrorists attempting to commandeer aircraft, it is also important to uphold the civil liberties of law-abiding citizens traveling through our skies. While the TSA Authorization Act has not yet been considered in the Senate, I will certainly keep your views in mind when considering this issue. Please rest assured that I will work hard to keep our nation safe and our individual freedoms intact when considering any legislation.

Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future about this or any other matter of concern. I invite you to visit my website (http://menendez.senate.gov) to learn of other important issues to New Jersey.

Senator Menendez

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Obviously, my email wasn’t read. THis is a canned response. You can hear them saying: “TSA crank; send him the T letter”! Argh!!!

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http://www.keywestlou.com/2010/12/i-lay-by-pool-yesterday-working-on-my.html

My Life in Key West
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2010

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Other topics include the military officer who refuses another deployment to Afghanistan because he is a birther

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May I suggest that you update your ‘lingo’ about the Army Officer, who’s refusing deployment?

You called him a “birther”. Which means that he disputes that Obama was born in the USA.

Now, while that is a perfectly good concern, (as a lawyer, you must know about “evidence”), it doesn’t accurately describe the fellow’s position.

He’s a “proof-er”.

He, like I, have not seen “evidence” that Obama satisfies the Constitutional criteria to be President.

Sure, we’ve heard a lot of lips move, and websites pontificate. But evidence?? Hardly.

See, imho, the most telling fact in this whole debate is that Obama and his supported have spent literally millions to prevent any disclosure of his “paper trail”.

Why is that?

So, us, “proof-ers”, say we just don’t know.

Perhaps a small distinction, but we want Key West Lou to be “hip”.

LOL,
fjohn68

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http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/stop-the-start-treaty-and-senatorial-pork/

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The treaty limits the US missile defenses and the preamble suggests that we would not engage in any new military technologies to thwart nuclear weapons! It also says we cannot convert any of our rockets into interceptors and it locks in about a ten thousand Russian edge in tactical nuclear warheads. It reduces strategic warheads — where there is now rough parity — but not tactical ones where Russia has a huge advantage.

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Why would any American support such a treaty?

The Russians are not our friends, not peaceful, and not wealthy enough to compete. But they are chess players. And, if they can get us to forgo our advantage or ignore their strength, they win and we lose.

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http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/which-republicans-sold-out/

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So who sold out?

Thad Cochran, Mississippi

Bob Corker, Tennessee

Mike Crapo, Idaho

Tom Coburn, Oklahoma

Lamar Alexander, Tennessee

Johnny Isakson, Georgia

Let’s remember.

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=230049

Who fed the tiger?
Posted: November 18, 2010
Pat Buchanan

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Review commission chair Dan Slane says his members have concluded that “China is adopting a highly discriminatory policy of favoring domestic producers over foreign manufacturers. Under the guise of fostering ‘indigenous innovation’ … the government of China appears determined to exclude foreigners from bidding on government contracts at the central, provincial and local levels.”

Imagine that! The Chinese are ignoring WTO rules and putting China first. Don’t they understand how the Global Economy works? You’re not supposed to tilt the field in favor of the home team.

One knows not whether to laugh or cry.

The policy the Chinese are pursuing, economic nationalism, was virtually invented by the Republican Party. Protectionism was the declared policy of the GOP from the day its first president took office in 1861 to the day Calvin Coolidge left in 1929.

Free trade was the policy of a Great Britain whose clocks those generations of Americans cleaned, even as the Chinese are cleaning ours.

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It’s interesting to note that the Federal Gooferment was SUPPOSED to be funded by tariffs and excise taxes. If “We, The Sheeple” had stuck to that and followed old George’s RX about “entangling alliances”, then it’s hard to imagine we would not be much better off.

Sometime some one will have to explain to me how “global free trade” helps Americans?

We’ve demonstrated that the “Rich Globalists” seem to have done better than the average Detroit worker.

The Rust Belt comes to mind.

So how do we reverse course while it’s still not too late?

<1> We have to kill the FED. Andrew Jackson was right to kill the corrupt central bank.

<2> We have to create a link between gold and the dollar. Clearly, we need an AUTOMATIC AUTO-PILOT to control spending in the District of Corruption.

<3> We have to learn from the Bank of South Dakota. That’s a model of how to control local funds for the benefit of the “We, The Sheeple”. Note: That “bank” only services municipal Gooferments. No cash cow for banks to leech off of.

<4> We have to kill Fannie and Freddie. And, all Gooferment Sponsored Entities.

<5> Zero the corporate taxes! Only real people pay taxes; so let’s “de-cloak” how much we are really paying in taxes.

<6> Campaign Finance Reform: Only real people can give a candidate money and only from the region they will represent.

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I DVRed BO’R’s show. I listened to the one about interviewing ex-President Bush … and had an observation.

He thinks picking Dick for VP was a good choice.

Still.

I thought that was a blunder when he made that decision. And, still think it to this day.

One important role of a CEO is “succession planning”. By picking Dick, he abdicated that responsibility. And set the R’s up for failure.

If he had no choice but to pick Dick for the First Term, he should have (imho) made Condi the VP in the Second Term. And say Colin Powell Secretary of State.

That would have set up a Condi for Pres and Collin for VP in 2010.

We should have a tradition of one term Presidents. Or even amend the Constitution to either make it one term or remove the restriction.

Argh!

Let’s secede and start over.

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President Obama, at a news conference, at the end of the G-20 Summit on Friday, said: “I want to make sure that taxes don’t go up for middle class families starting on January 1st.”

He’s either a fool, a liar, or both!

What does he think has been going on? Does he really believe that taxes haven’t gone up.

Cigarettes? The devaluation of the dollar. Insurance.

Does he have any grasp of economics?

Or is he just the “teleprompter president”, who reads whatever “barbara streisand” is displayed for him by his handlers?

Argh!

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I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703708404575587340376814562.html

Theodore Sorensen Dies at 82

Around my high school — eons ago, told to me by Brother Cronin, in a rare moment of honesty, that he thought — and several of the other Brothers thought — that Sorenson wrote JFK’s ‘profiles in courage’. And, further that old Joe paid ‘Theodore’ a princely sum to do it and keep his mouth shut. That earned ‘Theodore’ seat at the table and they knew he could compromise his ethics for a check. I just wonder….. when I read this headline I remembered that. FWIW. It was my first “tin foil hat” experience that I remember. Where an authority figure speculated that we might be consuming a load of “barbara streisand”. As Judge Judy says, “I should have put on my listening ears”, because I think we have been fed a lot of “barbara streisand” from a lot of “authority figures”. Argh! Too late we get smart?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/nyregion/06ctgov.html?_r=1&bl

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Still, Connecticut voters could have been forgiven for wondering whether Friday’s official results would actually spell an end to a race that featured an unprecedented two-hour extension of voting hours in Bridgeport because of a ballot shortage, dueling transition teams from both candidates and a spat on live radio between Mr. Foley and the state’s top election official, Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz — not to mention a bag of uncounted ballots, discovered two days after the election.

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Yeah, I’m sure that if the party bosses need some more votes they can discover them. And, you expect “justice” in America?

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http://gopleader.gov/Contact/default.aspx

May I suggest the idea one inet pundit had? A flat 10% across the board cut. We’re paying a lot of bureaucrats well, let them figure out how to do it. If the administration wants to favor one program over another, fine. As long as the year over year total is 10% less, I’d suggest that you agree. Simple, easy to communicate, and dramatic. Then insist on the same every year. imho!

p.s., if the math is too complicated for those smart folks, as a fat old white guy injineer I can demonstrate “move the decimal” and cut that amount.

fjohn reinke

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance213.html

The Libertarian Pledge to America
by Laurence M. Vance

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Here is the Libertarian Pledge to America:

   * I promise to end the war on drugs.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Energy.

   * I promise to abolish all anti-trust laws.

   * I promise to abolish the Federal Housing Administration.

   * I promise to abolish the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae).

   * I promise to abolish the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddy Mac).

   * I promise to abolish the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae).

   * I promise to repeal the Fair Housing Act.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

   * I promise to abolish the Federal Trade Commission.

   * I promise to abolish the EPA.

   * I promise to abolish the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Education.

   * I promise to end federal funding and control of education.

   * I promise to cease funding Head Start.

   * I promise to cease funding the National School Lunch Program.

   * I promise to repeal the federal minimum wage.

   * I promise to repeal the National Labor Relations Act.

   * I promise to repeal the PATRIOT ACT.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Homeland Security.

   * I promise to abolish the TSA and return airport security to airports and airlines.

   * I promise to repeal all federal gun regulations.

   * I promise to abolish NASA.

   * I promise to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts.

   * I promise to abolish the National Endowment for the Humanities.

   * I promise to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

   * I promise to cease all drone attacks and covert activities.

   * I promise to bring all U.S. troops home from foreign soil.

   * I promise to close all foreign military bases.

   * I promise to stop meddling in the affairs of other countries.

   * I promise to limit the Department of Defense to actual defense.

   * I promise to end all federal bailouts.

   * I promise to stop funding the UN, World Bank, and IMF.

   * I promise to end all foreign aid.

   * I promise to end all farm subsidies.

   * I promise to repeal all trade restrictions, import quotas, anti-dumping laws, and trade agreements.

   * I promise to abolish the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission.

   * I promise to repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act.

   * I promise to repeal all Affirmative Action, minority set-asides, and public accommodations laws.

   * I promise to repeal the Family and Medical Leave Act.

   * I promise to cease funding Planned Parenthood.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Health and Human Services.

   * I promise to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

   * I promise to end Medicare and Medicaid.

   * I promise to end all federal funding and control of medicine and medical research.

   * I promise to abolish the FDA.

   * I promise to abolish NPR.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Labor.

   * I promise to cease funding any scientific research on climate change.

   * I promise to end the FED.  

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Might it not be easier to itemize what should be kept?

I’d add:

* Repeal the 16th Amendment — the income tax.

* Repeal the 17th Amendment — the direct election of Senators that destroyed the feedback loop to State Gooferment and permitted the unfunded mandate.

* Repeal the legal tender laws

And, I’d add one positive “right”: Federal Courts must always find ANY evidence of innocence admissible, timely, and required. To deny any convict the chance of exoneration by DNA evidence for “technical legal reasons” (i.e., not raised on a timely basis; waived by counsel; expense; other administrivia) is unconscionable.

That’s why secession will be easier. Smaller is better!

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https://formerspook.blogspot.com/2010/10/chicago-way.html

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ADDENDUM: And oddly enough, a similar scandal is unfolding in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, where Democratic incumbent Patrick Murphy is in the fight of his political life. Hundreds of voters in the district were warned that their votes might not count unless they returned an enclosed absentee ballot to a post office box in Bristol, Pennsylvania. The box was controlled by Murphy’s campaign manager, who then “re-mailed” the ballots to the local election board.

As National Review has learned, there was a sudden surge in Democratic absentee ballots in the district last week, and many were mailed in identical, pre-labeled envelopes. Local GOP officials say some of the suspicious ballots were post-marked as far back as August, suggesting they had been held by a third party–perhaps the same individual who controlled the P.O. box where they were mailed? You know, the same guy running Murphy’s re-election bid?

At this point, there’s no proof that Congressman Murphy was involved. Officials with his campaign insist that no ballots sent to the post office box were discarded or tampered with.

Riiiighhhtttttt…..

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There ought to be a law!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams53.1.html

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What about the politician who tells us that he’s not going to raise taxes on the middle class; instead, he’s going to raise corporate income taxes as means to get rich corporations to pay their rightful share of government? If a tax is levied on a corporation, and if it is to survive, it will have one of three responses, or some combination thereof. One response is to raise the price of its product, so who bears the burden? Another response is to lower dividends; again, who bears the burden? Yet another response is to lay off workers. In each case, it is people, not some legal fiction called a corporation, who bear the burden of the tax.

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So the corporate tax rate should ALWAYS be zero. Anything higher and it’s the politicians trying to sheer the sheeple!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/quinn/quinn41.1.html

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The delusions continue. Unless American union workers are willing to work for $7 per hour with no benefits, the manufacturing jobs are not coming back from China. The corporate oligarchs and their bought off cronies in Congress sold the country down the river over the last 40 years. Mega-Corporation profits are at record levels as goods are produced by slave labor in the Far East at 80% lower costs than they could be produced in the U.S. With 86% of the U.S. workforce in the service industry, introducing tariffs on imported goods and devaluing the dollar will further put the squeeze on the American middle class who already have been systematically screwed by the ruling elite over the last 40 years. Our society took 40 years to dig this hole. It is now so deep, there is no way out. But, look at the bright side. At least we don’t have to watch bread lines stretching down the block when we are watching our 52-inch HDTV, holed up in our 5,000 sq ft McMansions, ignoring the monthly mortgage payment bill, and waiting for our unemployment funds to be direct deposited into our bank accounts. I get all teary thinking about it. This is the iDepression 2.0.

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The delusions are going to lead to a very hard landing!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer1.html

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Is there a case to be made for voting? Indeed there is, if one believes that social order is a quality that can be instilled, by violence and other coercive means, by political authorities. I do not accept this proposition. To the contrary, I believe that social order is the product of unseen, spontaneous influences of which most of us are not consciously aware. The study of economics helped me to understand how we respond, marginally, to fluctuations that are continuously generated by one another’s self-seeking pursuits. I also came to understand that politics – like a rock thrown through a spider’s web – disrupts these informal processes as well as the existing patterns of interconnectedness upon which any social order depends.

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Don’t vote; is just encourages them?

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http://www.lifetrekcoaching.com/current

PROVISION #691 (10/17/10): Touch Matters

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The Manifesto, titled “How to fix our schools,”

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Sorry, but it asks the wrong question. And, compounds the issue with a bad sentence construction.

“Our schools”. They are NOT, by any stretch of the imagination, “mine”. I get to pay for Gooferment Skrules, but have no input. (I’d shut them down. In an organized fashion. Over 40 years. And return the responsibility to the parents.) And, please don’t tell me to vote and lobby. That’s a rigged game that benefits the politicians, bureaucrats, and their fellow porkers at the trough.

The question SHOULD BE: Why are we using the 1800’s Prussian model for “schooling”? (Hasn’t the world changed a little? Education hasn’t.) That model had different objectives — cannon fodder, factory workers, and Sheeple to be led by the elite. (Notice where politicians send their children. Those are the elite. It ain’t us folks.) Phoenix University, home schooling, and Bill Gates are all clues that education is not found in Gooferment Skrules. Those seem to be nothing but training for prisons.

So we fix the Gooferment Skrules by growing out of them. First, we get Gooferment out of the operation over 20 years; 5% per year. Second, we get Gooferment out of the funding of education over 20 years. A lot of details to work out, but let’s set the direction to free posterity from the tyranny of out-of-control Gooferment.

http://www.spinninglobe.net/amishmudsill.html

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There was nothing popular, local or personal about this artificial conceit of forced schooling; its purpose was to weaken people’s capacity to educate themselves, to break their loyalty to family, church and land in order to release customers and workforce for élite schemes of economics and social ordering.

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Well written, basic little L libertarian doctrine.

http://ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle592-20101017-02.html

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We must choose a different course. No one who claims to be a libertarian can deny that taxation—having begun as nothing more than simple banditry—represents an institution nearly as ancient as Humankind itself. Nor that taxation is still theft. Nor that taxation is slavery. Nor that taxation is the fuel of war. I will reiterate: taxation is theft. Taxation is slavery. And taxation is the fuel of war.

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