Green Police: Audi Super Bowl Ad
Absolutely hits too close to home. Even the non-political types who were watching the game were upset by the commercial. It may have started a small “tea party” on its own.
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POLITICAL: Green Police: Audi Super Bowl Ad
Monday, February 8, 2010
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INTERESTING: 1962 Pa. coal town fire still burns
Sunday, February 7, 2010http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_re_us/us_centralia_s_final_days
Few remain as 1962 Pa. coal town fire still burns
AP
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press Writer
Fri Feb 5, 10:40 am ET
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After years of delay, state officials are now trying to complete the demolition of Centralia, a borough in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania that all but ceased to exist in the 1980s after the mine fire spread beneath homes and businesses, threatening residents with poisonous gases and dangerous sinkholes.
More than 1,000 people moved out, and 500 structures were razed under a $42 million federal relocation program.
But dozens of holdouts, Lokitis included, refused to go — even after their houses were seized through eminent domain in the early 1990s. They said the fire posed little danger to their part of town, accused government officials and mining companies of a plot to grab the mineral rights and vowed to stay put. State and local officials had little stomach to oust the diehards, who squatted tax- and rent-free in houses they no longer owned.
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Interesting in that the gooferment created the problem and can’t solve it.
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POLITICAL: Who’s “manning the walls” in the Obama administration?
Sunday, February 7, 2010http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/specialengagements/moviespeechafewgoodmencodered.html
American Rhetoric: Movie Speech
“A Few Good Men” (1992)
written by Aaron Sorkin
Colonel Nathan R. Jessep Addresses the Court on “Code Red”
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You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives…You don’t want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty…we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use ’em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I’d rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to!
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This rings true more today that ever.
Who’s “manning the walls” in the Obama administration?
Sorry, but the Department of Defense and the National Guard should be deployed here at home. Like the Coast Guard should NOT be off gallivanting.
We have bases in reportedly 170 countries. Time for a base closing commission of taxpayers.
Did you know that the Constitution only authorizes a permanent Navy. The Army is only allowed for two years. Guess the Dead Old White guys understood about the dangers of a permanent army. What do you think they’d have thought about the alphabet agencies: FBI, DEA, BATF, CIA, NSA, yada, yada, and yada?
Argh!
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QUOTE: Epitaph on the Politician Himself
Friday, January 29, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/47878.html
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Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
~Hilaire Belloc, Epitaph on the Politician Himself
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ROFL!
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POLITICS: My SOTUA!
Thursday, January 28, 2010http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/01/27/a-10-point-libertarian-sotu-address/
A 10-Point, Libertarian, SOTU Address
Posted by Jeffrey A. Miron
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1. Abandon Obamacare
2. Forget Cap and Trade
3. Reject the Card Check Bill
4. Withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan
5. Legalize Drugs
6. Scrap the tax code and replace with a flat tax
7. Expand free trade and immigration
8. Stop the bailouts
9. Cut spending
10. Cut spending
BONUS – Cut spending
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1. End the war. Bring the troops home. Close foreign bases. Department of Defense is NOW in charge of national defense. All national defense.
2. Income tax is over. A drastically reduced Federal budget will be funded on import duties and excise taxes.
3. The drug war is now OVER. All non-violent drug offenders are granted a Presidential pardon. All violent drug offenders MAY apply for clemency.
4. The death penalty IS cruel and unusual punishment. All death row inmates are commuted to life without parole.
5. All welfare (including corporate welfare) will be phased out. All immigration rules will be phased out.
6. The Federal Reserve is to be audited. Legal tender laws are NOW unconstitutional.
7. Social Security and government pensions will be securitized by bonds. National assets will be pledged as collateral for these recognition bonds.
8. All “government entities” are suspended effective immediately. All especially the IRS, BATF, etc. etc. etc. will be shutting down. If States wish to fund an entity like the FBI with funding based on population.
9. All bailouts are to be recalled. Automakers will be spun out to the citizens.
10. All “health care” and “health insurance” rules are to be phased out.
That’s my LIBERTARIAN SOTUA (State Of The Union Address)!
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RANT: The police need some moderation
Monday, January 25, 2010Death by Checkpoint: A Murder in Massachusetts
via LewRockwell.com Blog by William Grigg on 1/24/10
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Kenneth Howe of Worcester, Massachusetts was beaten to death by police last November 25. This is the official conclusion by the Essex County Medical Examiner, who ruled that the official cause of death was “blunt impact of the head and torso with compression of the chest.” It is profoundly doubtful that the killing of the 45-year-old Howe– carried out by a swarm of 10-20 tax-feeders at a “sobriety checkpoint” — will be prosecuted as a criminal offense of any kind, let alone murder.
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The murder of Kenneth Howe at an East Berlin-style checkpoint in Massachusetts is a sobering illustration of a principle none of us can afford to forget: While government cannot produce anything of value, it excels at making “criminals” out of innocent people, and corpses out of living human beings.
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FROM MY LUDDITE FRIEND
On Jan 25, 2010, at 9:05 AM, LUDDITE wrote:
I admit that some of the articles you send are devastating and sad. But I have to believe in the scheme of things it’s just like reporting on the wars…you only see the bad news in the media and hear nothing of the good. You have probably sent me 50-100 articles…they are likely tens of thousands of good endings that no one reported. It appears to me to just represent a microcosm (?sp?) of the bigger populace….we area more angry, more sinful, more violent bunch of people than we were 50 years ago.
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The gooferment is force. And, that is the root of the problem.
In a system of “law and order”, the police are out of control. If you were examining a manufacturing process’ sample, where the incidence of defects is SUPPOSED to be zero, that had a large number of true positive defects, you’d designate the process as out of control. You wouldn’t blame the sample or say that the defects were acceptable because the process was turning out lots of good stuff.
Would you?
I would quibble that the media really only reports the most egregious examples. If they don’t have video, they don’t cover it. Unless there are 51 shots in minutes, (indicating that some had to reload), they don’t cover it.
And, we don’t see all the “little intrusions” into our lives, where we are “scared” into compliance. Argh!
No, I think the police, and the militarization of the police, is unacceptable. The corruption of the political class by money is unacceptable. The failure of civic virtue in the people, as evidenced by 51% are takers, is unacceptable. The failure of the currency, as evidence by all the unfunded gooferment “guarantees” like SocSec, is unacceptable.
We have so much that I find unacceptable, I just don’t know where to start! So I’ll start by convincing you. :-)
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We’ll see if I can convince LUDDITE! I r an injineer; not a politician.
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MONEY: Obama made your contribution
Monday, January 18, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/47719.html
January 17, 2010
Obama Promises $100 Million in Aid for Haiti
Posted by Laurence Vance on January 17, 2010 05:12 PM
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It sure is easy to spend money when it is not your own. How charitable of Obama to donate $100 million of other people’s money. But shouldn’t America do something to help Haiti? No, America shouldn’t do anything. This $100 million comes out of the pockets of American taxpayers. In a free society, no one should be forced to fund foreign aid to any country for any reason. But what about individual Americans, shouldn’t they do something? Individual Americans may do something and can do something, but it would be wrong to say that they should do something. Who is to say whether John Doe on Main Street in Topeka, Kansas, should donate to the Haiti relief effort? It would be nice if he did, but only God alone can say that he should.
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This is how I felt when I first heard it — robbed!
There are a lot charities that deserve our support. Voluntarily! SUre, President Obama can pledge 100 million. It’s not “HIS” 100 Million. It was ours.
I have less problem sending some of the military to help out. Like a hospital ship. Like “spare” troops sitting idle, “guarding” Arlington. But we have several wars going on.
I have no problem with VOLUNTARY charities. I do have a problem with “charities” that have no connection to Haiti that are soliciting. And, those with HIGH administrative rake-off. And, those like UNICEF that have an agenda.
I pray for the poor people of Haiti. But, you have to admit that the political corruption down there has made it a worse disaster.
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POLITICAL: Sue a government hospital, in a government court?
Monday, January 18, 2010Patient sues after learning UCH records search could top $1 million
By Shelley Rossetter, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, January 9, 2010
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TAMPA — A man attempting to learn whether his surgeon made mistakes at University Community Hospital found that access comes at a high price.
To search through years of records for adverse incident reports on his surgeon, William D. Raulerson would have to pay UCH more than a million dollars, he discovered.
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An “interesting” legal tactic to defend a malpractice suit.
My thought is that after we get Obama-care, who will the injured sue? A government hospital, in a government court. Good luck with that! And who are you expecting to win?
Argh!
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MONEY: Gooferment wants to turn savings into guaranteed income streams
Sunday, January 17, 2010http://www.newmediajournal.us/government/01152010.htm
Government
Retiree Annuities May Be Promoted by Obama Aides
BusinessWeek.com/Bloomberg
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The Obama administration is weighing how the government can “encourage” workers to turn their savings into guaranteed income streams following a collapse in retiree accounts when the stock market plunged.
The US Treasury and Labor Departments will ask for public comments as soon as next week on ways to promote the conversion of 401(k) savings and Individual Retirement Accounts into annuities or other steady payment streams, according to Assistant Labor Secretary Phyllis C. Borzi and Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary Mark Iwry, who are spearheading the effort.
Annuities generally guarantee income until the retiree’s death, and often that of a surviving spouse as well. They are designed to protect against the risk that retirees outlive their savings, a danger made clear by market losses suffered by older Americans over the last year, David Certner, legislative counsel for AARP, said in an interview.
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Content Editor’s Note: The Obama Administration is going to try to force investors to structure IRA and 401k accounts into what amounts to a US Treasury debt-backed government annuity. This is an attempt to divert hundreds of billions of dollars of private retirement accounts into federal government debt. If the Chinese won’t voluntarily buy more US debt, the government will simply force it on American investors whether they want it or not. Just more freedoms being taken away.
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Last time, the trial balloon was “enhanced social security”. Considering that “Social Security Insurance” is broke, that was a lead balloon!
Now they are back with another one, “annuities”, in Treasuries, and I’m sure sold by the Administration’s friends at AARP, packaged by Goldman Sachs, insured by AIG, and delivered by a GM car. (OK, the last is a joke! But this whole think is a joke.)
What those unfamiliar with annuities does is ROB the estates of these people. And, make the gooferment your heir. Argh! As if the Death Tax wasn’t bad enough.
OK, for ha has, why not convert social security into annuities? Sure cause then people could sell them out.
BUT, (there is always a big butt), then we would be FORCED to recognized how underfunded all these “insurance” programs are.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Too many wars and things like wars
Friday, January 15, 2010http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/
January 15, 2010
Talking Points: 1/14
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Another $100 million of American tax money heading to Haiti
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BO’R brings up a good point: American aid will be stolen by a corrupt “government”.
He argues for intervention. Sorry, but it’s not our place to “give” freedom to the people of Haiti.
We have too many “wars”: “OCO — Overseas Contingency Operation aka Terrorism”Afpak, Iraq, “Some Drugs”, Poverty, yada, yada, yada.
Sorry, we have way too many wars!
Time to condense. Like Campbell’s soup, DoD: brings ALL the boys and girls home, condense all the intelligence into DOD, and let’s cut the foolishness. Save some bucks too!
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POLITICS: Name a gooferment program that works
Monday, January 11, 2010http://libertyunbound.com/article.php?id=449
Bridging the Two Libertarianisms
Carl S. Milsted, Jr.
What does the nonaggression principle really mean for libertarianism?
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People routinely send mail by government post, drive on government roads, rely on government food inspections, walk on government sidewalks, and enforce contracts in government courts.
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I once heard on Free Talk Live http://freetalklive.com/ one of the host expressed the paradigm: “Name one program that works? And, if we can agree it does work, how much does it cost? How much should it cost?”.
So let’s look at your examples:
- Mail: Even with funny accounting — they don’t count the cost of capital assets like real estate and equipment depreciation — the cost is absurd. And, they have to enforce the first class mail franchise with a law enforcing their monopoly. (The famous one dollar minimum for express delivery services.) It’s laughable when the USPS compares themselves to FedEx for package delivery since in some areas they subcontract to FedEx. And, let’s talk about lost mail. We have very little statistical information but that doesn’t mean they are flawless.
- Roads: In New Jersey, the roads are a disgrace. And, we had a gas tax trust fund that was raided by the goofenors of both parties to fund their pet projects. We have no way to know if there is a better way since no one is allowed to try a different way. We can look at the road in Disney World and other amusement parks that are in relatively perfect condition. Hard to imagine that a consortium of WalMart, UPS, and others couldn’t do as well. As a proxy, look at the Air Traffic Control System, that is run totally be the Federal Gooferment. Vintage 1950 computing causes massive delays. The roads are comperable. Where’s the innovation like in computers that makes roads better.
- Food Inspections: We can point to the fact that most “inspections” are either not done or don’t protect the people. A recent press story said that the gooferment accepts 10 or 20 times the level of filth in meat than McD’s does. We have no idea how much this “gooferment inspection” costs, but are people relying on that or the fact that they trust WalMart to sell them good stuff.
- Sidewalks: Sorry, but those are foisted on the property owner. Even when the gooferment destroys them, the land owner gets stuck fixing them. (I know personal experience.)
- Courts: That’s why we have Judge Judy on TV. The gooferment’s courts are backed up and capricious. And, heaven help you, if the gooferment has an interest in the suit. Sue the gooferment in it’s own court and be surprised at the result.
And on, and on, and on.
I have yet to see a gooferment program that works. Or even not working, do it at a reasonable cost.
I notice that the author didn’t cite: schools, dmv, health insurance, health care, foreign policy, DoD, and on, and on, and on.
My solution is to be pragmatic.
Let’s have an exit plan. It may take decades to “unwind” these programs, but let’s start.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: You can’t make this stuff up
Wednesday, January 6, 2010http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/travel/80731457.html
A bomb scare Tuesday at the Lindbergh terminal at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport brought things to a virtual halt.
By ABBY SIMONS and SUZANNE ZIEGLER, Star Tribune staff writers
Last update: January 5, 2010 – 7:17 PM
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Portions of the Lindbergh terminal at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport were evacuated for about 90 minutes Tuesday afternoon after a bomb-sniffing dog reacted as though there were something suspicious on a bag found in the baggage claim area.
As it turned out, the battered pink bag was airport property, the one crews put on the carousel to mark that all luggage has been unloaded.
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Left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing.
It leaves me speechless!
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POLITICAL: Top 10 disasters of the 2009 Obama administration
Monday, January 4, 2010*** begin quote ***
Libertarians release
Top 10 disasters of the 2009 Obama administration (in no particular order):
1. Cash for Clunkers
2. War escalation in Afghanistan
3. Giant government health care expansion bill
4. Post office loses money hand over fist
5. Stimulus package
6. Expansion of “state secrets” doctrine
7. Big increase in unemployment
8. “Bailout” Geithner as Treasury Secretary
9. Skyrocketing federal spending
10. Huge federal deficits
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“Cash For Cluckers” was a bone-headed move on so many levels, but it was “cheap” in comparison to the items lower on the list. There’s no way I’d give it the #1 slot!
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POLITICAL: Fire “Big Sis”!
Friday, January 1, 2010Napolitano announces international airport security campaign
By Tony Romm – 12/31/09 04:30 PM ET
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The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday announced it would launch a campaign next week to strengthen security screening procedures at a host of international airports.
The effort is part of the White House’s heightened response to a Christmas Day attempt to bomb Delta Flight 253 in Detroit, a flight that originated in Amsterdam.
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A story about a lock, a barn door, and a horse comes to mind!
Fire “Big Sis”!
She gets paid the big bux to ANTICIPATE and preclude problems.
Anyone can react. And, “everything worked” shows her to be incompetent.
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RANT: Air travel sucks
Thursday, December 31, 2009Note: TSA at PHL is now enforcing a “two carry on bag limit” as you enter their lines. People are being told “Either consolidate or check it”. I’m sure the airlines are happy about this now that they all charge extra for each bag (i.e., 15$ to 100$).
Today, my wife’s nephew, his wife, and their twins had an “interesting” experience. Driving them to the airport, they found that their flight had been cancelled. Hubbie was booked on a later flight and Wifey with kids was delayed until the morrow. (Good luck finding a room on New Year’s Eve!)
Conflicting directions of where to check in. United moved them to US Airways in a different terminal. Then the lines again. Conflicting directions. More problems.
It all worked out. But not without a lot of angst!
Argh!
Confirms my firmly held conviction to never fly again.
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RANT: Fire Napolitano and ask Hillary some hard questions
Sunday, December 27, 2009http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091227/D9CRN3B02.html
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says there is no indication that the man who attempted to destroy an airliner in Detroit on Christmas Day is part of a larger terrorist plot. Napolitano refused to say whether Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has a connection to al-Qaida
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Doesn’t anyone think she should be fired? Like the baseball manager who gets the ax for a poorly performing team, it may well not be her “fault”, but she’s the “manager”. TSA and Homeland Security “failed”; with some blame left over for Hillary and the State Department. (How did he get a visa?) Bet the next Czar of Homeland Security / TSAwill do better. (Or, they should be fired too!)
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RANT: Congress “fixes” the Airlines; we should “fix” Congress!
Saturday, December 26, 2009http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds/2009/12/22/congress-fixes-airline-customer-service-with-new-law
Congress Fixes Airline Customer Service With New Law
Posted in December 22nd, 2009
by CAL, Curmudgeon at Large
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I would like to comment, but being Christmastime and all, there’s a risk it might make me appear to be all curmudgeonly. But, still.
Way to go, Congress. Can you imagine any other American business or institution other than the airlines so tone deaf as to ignore thousands of irate, tarmac-stuck, can’t-use-the-toilet customers? Again, thanks Congress. You fixed it. And Mr. Airline, you are lucky you didn’t get worse. You could have been shot.
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May I blame the gooferment for the reason they pass a “Traveler’s Bill of Rights”?
Can we spell “regulatory capture”? That explains the FAA.
The Air Traffic Control system si generously credited to the 1950’s. Airports and their gates are a locally controlled joke.
How about if we make the airlines responsible for: the ATC, the airports, and their security?
Bet that the cost of fuel would give us a digital control system. Bet that the airports would be models of effiency and convenience. Bet that the security would be easy and transparent.
It’s the gooferment that is the problem.
Every time; every where!
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POLITICS: Unemployment numbers are misleading
Saturday, December 19, 2009http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2009/12/18/unemployment-lies-and-deception
Unemployment Lies and Deception
December 18th, 2009
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As far as I know, unemployment numbers are based on those who are reporting to the government — those who are collecting unemployment insurance.
Guess what… unemployment insurance RUNS OUT. And then, you are so worthless, you aren’t even counted as a statistic! You are essentially written off the books.
Yeah, this really gets under my skin. And we aren’t even talking about UNDEREMPLOYED people!!
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And, don’t forget the underemployed and the old farts who are now “retired” for want of anything better to do.
I fault the gooferment and it’s absolute stupidity.
First, average wage in gooferment is twice that of private industry. Regardless of how they slice and dice the numbers, gooferment workers are in the ascendancy in both quantity and money. TARP — bailout to the banks; should have just let them fail. (Cynically, I’d bet that they’d have figured out how to survive. The bail out of AIG was a direct payoff to Goldman Sachs. The same Goldman Sachs that paid gigantic bonuses.)
Second, every dollar the gooferment “gives” in unemployment benefits has to come from some taxpayer. Remember Basiat and the unseen victim. In this case, we now have four generation of “welfare farmers”. Some of those on “welfare” are rich companies and individuals. Milk and sugar subsidies come to mind.
Third, the poor economy has landed hard on the young and old. Youth unemployment — especially minority — is skyrocketing. And, the older workers are being forced into early retirement; some after burning through their savings from reduced retirement portfolios.
My solution is reduce gooferment. They need to cut, cut, and cut some more. Some entities need to be killed — Agriculture and Education would be my starting point. We need to cut the corporate income tax from 30+ to say ZERO. (Corporations don’t pay taxes. Only real people do. Corps pass them along or go out of business.) When Ron Paul campaigned, he asserted that cutting gooferment back to 1990 levels would allow the income tax to be ZERO.
Not like any of this is going to happen. But I wouldn’t trust anything the gooferment says or does. This included “running health care or health insurance”.
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RANT: Do we remember Pearl Harbor?
Monday, December 7, 2009Tommorrow, December 7th, Americans MIGHT remember the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. On a Sunday morning, 68 years ago, the US Navy were the recipients of a well-planned and poorly executed raid.
Twenty Five Hundred deaths that day; uncountable more in the resulting war.
Generations disrupted as they were in WW1.
And, the “cure” to the “Great Depression”. Would this be the beginning of the Leviathan Gooferment State?
Donning my tin foil hat, I call your attention to the role of FDR in provoking, if not orchestrating, the war he needed to restart the economy.
Our entry into WW1, by the “peace candidate” Wilson, allowed the seeds of WW2 to be sown. Our entry into WW2, by the instigator FDR, allowed the creation of a permanent “warfare” state.
This day is a reminder that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
… … not for the military invasion or aggression, but against the politicians who would enslave us in debt, welfare, and the never ending “war”.
Argh!
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POLITICAL: Organ shortages kill people
Tuesday, December 1, 2009http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117021
Another deadly government dictum
Walter E. Williams
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The Institute for Justice is not challenging Congress’ ban on compensation for solid organs such as hearts, kidneys, and livers. Instead, the lawsuit challenges only the provision of the National Organ Transplant Act that bans compensation for bone marrow. The premise of the Institute for Justice’s legal challenge is that there is a fundamental biological distinction between renewable marrow cells and nonrenewable solid organs. In the case of bone marrow, the donor’s bone marrow is completely replenished in a few weeks. That’s less time than it takes for the human body to fully replenish a pint of donated blood that is often sold to blood banks.
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Why are only the doctors and hospitals allowed to earn money from transplants?
We know that free markets are the ultimate in democratic freedom. No coercion. No fraud or force permitted.
Think of a poor family that has bury a loved one. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to have an “inheritance”? Why bury or incinerate the “family fortune”?
We have abysmal rates of organ donations. We have waiting lists of people dying. All because of our cultural reluctance to permit the buying and selling of organs. Free markets always “clear”. No free markets have “waiting lists”!
So lets nuke UNOS and put our friends at WalMart in charge of solving the problem.
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QUOTE: Thanksgiving lesson
Thursday, November 26, 2009“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” – Margaret Thatcher
Thanksgiving?
The Pilgrims starved until the dismissed their “commonwealth” of socialism and allowed private enterprise.
If there’s anything to be thankful for, it’s that lesson.
Happy T-day, all.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: 5B$ down the rathole
Sunday, November 8, 2009http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Freddie-Mac-posts-5-billion-rb-3083454207.html?x=0&.v=3
Freddie Mac posts $5 billion loss
* On 7:00 pm EST, Friday November 6, 2009
By Al Yoon
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE – News; NYSE:FRE – News), the second largest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Friday posted a loss of $5 billion in the third quarter and predicted it would need more government support amid a “prolonged deterioration” in housing.
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Well, isn’t that just great!
If it was a real business, we could just let it go to bankruptcy court.
Another “gooferment sponsored entity” that’s a rat hole for the taxpayer to pump more money into.
I’m sure the congress critters will certainly give them more money we don’t have.
Argh!
And, what’s the impact on the country, the taxpayers, and the people.
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RANT: Just like our depression!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114878
What really caused the Great Depression
Posted: November 04, 2009
Walter E. Williams
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Professor Hanke says that the lesson to be drawn from business cycle history is that, if left to run their natural course, severe downturns are followed by rapid snapbacks. The 1921 recession is a good example where wholesale prices, industrial production and manufacturing employment fell by 30 percent or more and reached their low in mid-1921. There was little government intervention, at least by today’s standards, and the economy recovered naturally; and by early 1922, it had fully recovered and the nation was off to the Roaring Twenties.
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So what are the bozos in DC doing?
Yeah, raising taxes, spending us into debt, and making “rules”.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
POLITICAL: ‘Too Big to Fail’ Doctrine
Sunday, November 1, 2009http://www.breitbart.tv/fdic-head-time-to-put-an-end-to-too-big-to-fail-doctrine/
FDIC Head: Time to Put an End to ‘Too Big to Fail’ Doctrine
(About two minutes of SFW video)
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Can she say “credit union”? FDIC is broke and she’s championing “more”. “To big to fail” is absurd. The corporation is a CREATION of the gooferment. Just mandate a SIZE limit. How about a billion? Once it exceeds a billion it must divide in 30 days. Spinning stock to it’s holders. However the BoD wants to do it. But split. Seems easy to me. Let the IRS, SEC, and FED enforce it. No extra agencies or power required.
And, may it embarrassing to earn more than the President in salary!?! Thus we don’t need a pay czar either.
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RANT: The Obama don’t get the flu shot?
Sunday, November 1, 2009“President Obama just declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency. First the swine flu’s a big threat, then it’s not, then it is. Make up your mind. This thing’s like the Brett Favre of infectious diseases.”
— Jimmy Fallon
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Note that not only do the Obama children NOT go to public skrool. They don’t get the flu shot either.
Do as I say; not as I do?
And, by the way, did anyone notice that the gooferment, which wants to run “health care”, didn’t get the vaccines done in time for the season. If you did that at one of the evil drug companies, what would be your title? Yeah, unemployed!
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RANT: Dial 911 and die!
Friday, October 30, 2009http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/arrest_is_made_in_killing_of_p.html
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The pastor, Edward Hinds, had called police from his cell phone around 5 p.m. Thursday, authorities told CNN, but the phone went dead. A 911 operator called back, and the janitor, Jose Feliciano, allegedly picked up the phone, saying there was no need to send an officer, then hung up. Police could not trace the call, and no officer was sent.
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Yes, I guess it was too much trouble for the doughnut eaters to go “protect and serve”. Wonder if the mayor, police commissioner, or one of the other komisars would get that response? Nah, I’m sure they have armed security details. Paid for by the taxpayers, of course.
Argh!
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