Senators introduce more invasive net neutrality bill.
ECONOMY:
The middle class is not a collective.
Pat Buchanan laughs at the idea that our economic troubles are lessening.
TAX AND SPEND:
Naturally Obama's claim to want to freeze domestic spending is untrue. He wants many exclusions to continue increasing the looting of the American people in favor of his faction of the ruling class.
Report claims federal deficit will hit $1.5 trillion this year. That's not counting entitlements and emergency spending for the wars. More bad news.
"CBO’s forecasters don’t see employment returning to anything like normal before 2016."That illustrates how badly government has damaged our economy, but this forecast only works if government doesn't do anything more to damage it, and you know it will. The Christian Science Monitor points this out, sort of.
Several videos of anti-tax humor. I keep saying ridicule is the most powerful weapon we have against government.
Big government insider Robert Rubin warns of huge economic problems that appear any day due to our national debt. You don't say. I guess it's good that an insider is saying this, but this is like warning about the barn gate being open long after the cows have run away.
Here's a viewpoint about the fall of the Roman Empire you never hear about.
"One of the great weaknesses of standard accounts of the Middle Ages is that they compare the poverty of the provinces with the wealth of the city of Rome in the early Empire. This is completely misleading. The comparison should be between the provinces in the first century with the provinces five centuries or more later. Here, the typical serf was better off under the manorial system of the so-called "dark ages" than the slave had been in Augustus' day. Farming was more efficient, due to crop rotation. Metallurgy was more advanced. Road building was not, but the roads had been more for military control than trade.
Economic historian Robert Latouche as far back as 1956 argued that, in comparison to the heartland of Western Europe in the early Roman Empire, economic conditions were better during the dark ages. Another economic historian, Rondo Cameron, two decades ago wrote that "medieval Europe experienced a flowering of technological creativity and economic dynamism that contrasts strongly with the routine of the ancient Mediterranean world.""
"In the Western half of the late Roman Empire, the barbarians were the feared invaders by those who lived on the tax revenues of the enslaved citizenry. From the point of view of the taxpayers in the Empire's heartland, the barbarians were the liberators. They offered a barrier between ex-Romans and the tax collectors sent by the central government.
Crossing the line of barbarians was a risky proposition. No one knew how he would be treated as he crossed through the line. No one knew what kind of living he could make on the far side of that line. But everyone knew that the tax burden would be reduced, permanently."
We're quickly reaching a similar point today.
"Karl Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opium of the people. Government debt is. The true faith of the West is not faith in God. It is faith in faithfulness of governments – the United States government above all."
No kidding.
EDUCATION:
Woman jailed for lying about her address so her children could escape one of the government's dangerous schools. This is another example showing how government uses laws of aggression to oppress the people. All laws of aggression oppress the people. The only legitimate laws are laws that respond to aggression, and if we are to return to the rule of law and become a free country, we must abolish all laws of aggression.
HEALTH CARE:
Diabetes rises sharply in the US to 26 million.
POLICE STATE:
While Janet Napolitano works to turn Americans against each other by encouraging them to spy on each other, Britain goes a step further by employing citizens including children to shoot radar guns at their fellow citizens. The speed with which our government is conquering us and marching us down the road to serfdom and totalitarianism is spectacular. Who said government couldn't do anything fast?
Lessons from the bombing of the Russian airport. They all boil down to government can't protect us. The Founding Fathers understood that and explicitly told us so when they wrote, "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Another important lesson: if your government sends troops to other countries and kills their citizens, some of those who survive will strike back.
FOREIGN POLICY:
US officials pressure embattled Egyptian leader to reform. The protests are having an effect. In response, government is cracking down.
Haitian history lesson as exiled dictator returns.
MISC:
I do not understand this unlimited data plan stuff. Bandwidth is not unlimited, and it should be allocated by price like every other scarce resource. I don't want to be on a network with people who are hogging all the bandwidth without paying extra for it.
The freest country in Africa is called Mauritius, a little island east of Madagascar, and ranks between Chile and Luxembourg in the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom.
Ford building cars that communicate traffic information to each other. This is a fabulous feature and will lead to much safer highways in the future. But you know they're communicating more info than that. If every car was anonymous, that would be great, but you know it won't be that way. Every car will broadcast and ID, so they're building a real-time map of the location of every person driving a car, and police and other bad guys will use that map against the people.
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