The more power the state takes over health decisions the more we will see of this sort of thing. Make no mistake. For the most part you are not a human in the eyes of the state. At least that is true if you are not powerful. No, you are a number to be managed.
Source: Who decides whether your sick child lives or dies? You or the hospital?
Completely unacceptable that the parents aren’t in control. Sarah Palin was correct about “death panels”!
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Can these 41-foot-high walls protect the country from another tsunami?
Source: Ominous Views of Japan’s New Concrete Seawalls
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Drunk driver caught on video driving the wrong way down a freeway before crashing and killing mother-of-one, 23
By Hannah Moore For Dailymail.com
PUBLISHED: 11:41 EDT, 24 April 2018 | UPDATED: 14:15 EDT, 24 April 2018
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Shocking video shows the moment an intoxicated driver speeds down a freeway on the wrong side of the road and crashes head on into a young mother, killing her.
Guillermo Suarez, 31, was seen driving east along the west-bound side of the I-20 Freeway in Duncanville Texas on Saturday when he set off a fatal multi-car crash.
His actions took the life of Amberly McCrae, 23, who left behind her nine-month-old son Jace.
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I’ve ranted on this before. As a fat old white guy injineer, why aren’t the ramps “trapped” to get the wrong way drivers?
If parking lots can afford to do it, then why not the Gooferment roads?
What no one’s relative sells them?
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Democrats are odd creatures. In my experience, they get bent out of shape when you talk about how their party wants a gun ban of any sort. Then, you get candidates like Scott Wallace in Pennsylvania. This Democrat very openly wants a ban on certain guns, and he even says so .
Source: Pennsylvania Dem Candidate Calls For Gun Ban
There is no doubt what the liberal left agenda is for everything, it’s Gooferment control. Then, the next step is genocide.
Argh!
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/04/mark-nestmann/are-you-ready-to-work-until-you-die/
Are You Ready to Work Until You Die?
By Mark Nestmann — April 20, 2018
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Social Security suffers from a fundamental problem: it’s a Ponzi scheme, referred to in more polite company as a pay-as-you-go system. Benefits aren’t banked for payment to the persons who earned them. Rather, like a Ponzi scheme, early “investors” have first access to the funds. The so-called Social Security Trust Fund doesn’t exist, at least not in the form most people believe it does. It represents only an entitlement to future benefits, financed by future payments from workers.
Ponzi schemes work as long as the numbers of persons paying into the system and those receiving payouts stay in the same approximate proportion. The proportion of people paying into the Social Security system to beneficiaries is now at a historic low. And in the next 25 to 50 years the ratio will go even lower. In 1960, the worker-to-beneficiary ratio was 5.1:1. In 2005, it was 3.3:1. In 2020, it will be about 2.6:1. It is projected to be 2:1 by 2060.
Unfortunately, even that projection is optimistic because millions fewer workers will be paying into the system than even the most pessimistic scenarios estimate. Researchers at Oxford University estimate that a stunning 47% of US jobs could be eliminated in the next two decades.
Bridging the enormous gap between the benefits promised to retirees and the resources available to meet those promises requires a long-term infusion of trillions of dollars. The Board of Trustees for the Social Security Administration (SSA) publishes an annual report on the sustainability of Social Security benefits. In 2012, the board projected that full benefits could be paid through 2038. In 2016, the board projected Social Security would be insolvent in 2035. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan federal agency, projects an insolvency date of 2029.
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That’s the problem with Gooferment. It makes promises that it can’t keep.
I remember my family discussing many things but Social Security was described as the sacred cow of FDR. My uncles blamed it for breaking up families by permitting old people to move to Florida.
Only later, in college economics, did I realize that Social Security was a “plot” to transfer wealth from poor minority men to rich white women. Conspiracy Theorist supreme! (YACT = Yet Another Conspiracy Theory) It also deprived the poor of their only asset that they accumulated that should have been left to their heirs.
Even later, I heard about Chile who privatized their “social security” system and turned it into a national asset of capital formation. I attributed their success to the fact that the population was illiterate and the designer made it brain dead simple with strict rules and animal logos. While the people may have been illiterate, they certainly understood it was their money.
Where is “We, The Sheeple” DEMANDING “social security” reform. If MetLife did what the Congress has done, then all the executives would be in jail.
Argh!
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Should James Comey be Prosecuted?
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IMHO in one word — yes!
As should everyone who was involved.
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http://highexistence.com/self-help-minus-bullshit/
The 7 Universal Life Lessons Contained in Every Self-Help Book Ever Written
As Jon Stewart once said, “Bullshit is everywhere.” It stinks up politics, news, TV, school, religion, and of course, many self-help books.
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1) If you CONTROL YOUR MIND, you CONTROL YOUR LIFE.
2) FOCUS YOUR THOUGHTS in order to CONTROL YOUR ACTIONS.
3) Controlling your mind takes PRACTICE EVERYDAY.
4) Goals are useless unless you create SUCCESSFUL DAILY HABITS to achieve them.
5) Results TAKE TIME.
6) BLAME NOTHING.
7) DON’T BE AN ASSHOLE.
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Interesting list.
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Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, Pensions really are in crisis, but the story is so full of large numbers, obscure projections, and dry terms like “unfunded liabilities” that not many people are paying attention. The same is true for a lot of other big trends out there, which is why those sounding the alarm eventually settle on pithy/scary (if not always accurate) terms to get people’s attention.
Source: The Pension Crisis Gets A Catchy Name: “Silver Tsunami”
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http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/15/fbi-clinton-foundation-investigation/
Behind The IG Report — How The Obama Justice Department Tried To Shut Down The FBI’s Investigation Into The Clinton Foundation
RICHARD POLLOCK — Reporter — 8:37 PM 04/15/2018
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The Department of Justice Inspector General report on the “lack of candor” by FBI deputy Director Andrew McCabe also documents for the first time the Obama administration’s effort to shut down the bureau’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation, according to a review of the report by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.
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The question is how much additional pressure did the Obama administration apply upon the FBI to end its investigation of the Clinton Foundation. The IG’s report is silent on this point.
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Seems factual that the BHO44 DOJ interfered in the Clinton Foundation investigation.
How high did the interference go?
To BHO44 himself?
Who knew what and when?
Argh!
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Interesting personal experience
Had to send a return via UPS. Since I had some other stuff to send, I used them.
I usually use USPS priority mail that costs 6$+ and change with a free envelope.
UPS was 10$+, but they charged separately for the envelope.
If UPS is a proxy for the “real cost”, then this explains how the USPS loses so much money.
Time to put the USPS out of its misery.
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