DO YOU REALLY WANT A GOVERNMENT THAT CLOSES PARKS TO PUNISH YOU?
Do you really want police departments to have military vehicles, military arms, and swat teams?
Do you really like being farmed like farm animals?
If you do. THen you’re welcome to it.
But those of us who don’t. Well. We’re going to have to eventually do something about it.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-05 10:33:00 UTC
SUCCESSFULLY AVOIDING DESIGNING FEATURES TODAY. 🙂
I cant seem to figure it out. Gotta be a better way. Easily distracted by shiny news objects. Even after six cups of coffee.
But that said, It is 5:30pm here on friday. And i did something today. I think. Maybe.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 10:31:00 UTC
“WHY I MAY NEVER BE ABLE TO GO BACK TO AMERICA”
I’m not sure I want to. But there is a serious chance that I never can. Because of the state.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 07:22:00 UTC
DESIGNED TO FAIL
The purpose of the health care act is to force a total takeover of 1/5 of our economy by the state.
Higher premiums. Less Coverage. Rationed health care. That’s what you wanted. That’s what you’ll get. We are not a small european country consisting of closely related individuals.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 07:21:00 UTC
It’s easy to post from your blog to facebook, but not from facebook to your blog. But I like writing in facebook more than my blog. It’s sort of like talking to yourself while walking down the street. 🙂
Reminds me of Adam Smith.
Although I hope I don’t fall in a tanning pit in my bath robe….. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 06:46:00 UTC
THE BIGGEST MISTAKE IN WESTERN HISTORY? STATE CONQUEST OF THE TEMPLAR-BANKERS
Imagine Protestantism, if the church evolved along with the Templars into an independent bank, with its own security (insurance) rather than being conquered, suppressed and disbanded by the state?
This is the missing feature of western society. We had the church and independent banks. But without the church, and with state-run banks, there is no way to control the protestant moral code by institutional means.
WE (I) NEED TO CHANGE THIS.
THE MORMONS HAVE THE DOCTRINE WRONG BUT THE MODEL RIGHT
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 05:55:00 UTC
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/10/shale-revolution-saudi-america-was-the-worlds-no-1-petroleum-producer-in-june-for-the-8th-straight-month/AMERICA NOW WORLD’S NUMBER 1 OIL PRODUCER
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 03:56:00 UTC
http://www.economics21.org/commentary/longer-maternity-leave-not-so-great-women-after-all#.Uk50Mqb9F5Q.facebookANOTHER FALLACY: MATERNITY AND PATERNITY LEAVE
Contribute to glass ceiling. Have high career costs. Contribute to income inequality.
There is no free lunch.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 03:55:00 UTC
http://www.economicshelp.org/wp-comments-post.phpMORAL BLINDNESS OF MACRO ECONOMISTS
I try to convince macro people all the time: politics is a moral enterprise. If people want to punish immorality they will proudly suffer to do so. And americans feel in a punishing mood.
Your argument presupposes the absence of moral frustration in the populace. But every single measure that we have tells us that people see our elected officisls outside the local level as immoral. And the entire edifice corrupt.
If the choice is conquest of ones way of life, or ruin, plenty of people will choose ruin.
That is what is going on.
Do not mistake electoral minority numbers as insufficient. A desperate minority of five percent can quite easily bring a government to its knees.
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-03 08:43:00 UTC
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/10/a_primer_on_mal.htmlMAL-EMPLOYMENT (OVER EDUCATED, UNDER EMPLOYED)
About 1/4 to 1/3 of people are overeducated for their positions.(weighted toward the social sciences).
But over-education only applies to College Level Occupations. Low and semi skilled workers are not sufficiently educated (as are germans because of their apprenticeship approach to education.)
American society envisions that everyone can join the middle class; that education is not job preparation, but indoctrination in the cult of democracy. And that we are all capable of learning independently. All three of these assumptions are empirically and logically false.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-03 03:22:00 UTC