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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

FCC to take more control of the media.

SOCIALISM:

When Greeks rioted over austerity measures in Greece, many warned that those kinds of protests would soon be occurring here. Today they're happening in Wisconsin. Somebody should tell those protesters that Nazis expanded government while the Wisconsin governor is trying to shrink it, albeit very little. According to this article, the Republicans engineered Wisconsin's fiscal problems with vote buying programs.

"“Since his inauguration in early January, Walker has approved $140 million in new special-interest spending that includes:“• $25 million for an economic development fund for job creation that still has $73 million due to a lack of job creation. Walker is creating a $25 million hole which will not create or retain jobs.
“• $48 million for private health savings accounts, which primarily benefit the wealthy. A study from the federal Governmental Accountability Office showed the average adjusted gross income of HSA participants was $139,000 and nearly half of HSA participants reported withdrawing nothing from their HSA, evidence that it is serving as a tax shelter for wealthy participants.
“• $67 million for a tax shift plan, so ill-conceived that at best the benefit provided to ‘job creators’ would be less than a dollar a day per new job, and may be as little as 30 cents a day.”
State Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, sums up this scheming accurately when he says: “In one fell swoop, Gov. Walker is trying to institute a sweeping radical and dangerous notion that will return Wisconsin to the days when land barons and railroad tycoons controlled the political elites in Madison.”"

How do you spend money on health savings accounts? That's another example where a tax break is being presented as a spending increase. What's a tax shift plan? It sounds like tax breaks for job creators which is another example. Of course the first one sounds like a stimulus boondoggle which, like all stimulus boondoggles, was probably a big vote-buying program and reward for his donors.

TAX AND SPEND:

Prediction that Social Security won't go bankrupt. Seniors will vote for rising taxes and seizure of property of others to fund it.

Boehner says he won't pass a continuing resolution for the budget. I guess he wants to have this showdown ASAP.

The government always lies about its budgeting, but Obama has a new one: not counting the interest on the debt.

Americans like to talk about cutting federal spending, but when presented with a list of 20 classes of federal spending, a majority of those polled only supported cutting six.

"Much less support for cutting programs now than in 1980 when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated"

That tells you that the tea party movement is less committed than the Reagan Revolution. We're doomed.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The Fed is creating a bubble in farmland prices.

Almost invariably revolutions fail in practice because they empower another government in their wake. In the case of the Egyptian revolution, the new power is the old power: the same generals. One way to insure real revolution is to dump the fiat currency and make it worthless so the government can't fund itself. Oh my gosh. Look at the rate of inflation in Egypt.

HEALTH CARE:

Analysis of study claiming to show that eating fiber from whole grains increases longevity actually shows that people with a healthy lifestyle tend to eat more whole grains, and it's the healthy lifestyle that increases their longevity.

Obamacare and the IRS.

"The Internal Revenue Service says it will need an battalion of 1,054 new auditors and staffers and new facilities at a cost to taxpayers of more than $359 million in fiscal 2012 just to watch over the initial implementation of President Obama's healthcare reforms. Among the new corps will be 81 workers assigned to make sure tanning salons pay a new 10 percent excise tax. Their cost: $11.5 million."

Insanity. Obama waives Obamacare requirements for four states including Ohio. Yay for us.

POLICE STATE:

TSA agents busted for stealing from unsuspecting travelers.

WAR:

Author claims that the ruling class is destabilizing the Middle East so it can start another war in the Middle East and use that as an excuse to seize more wealth to cover up the failures of their banking system. I guess that means Bernanke is destroying the dollar on purpose. I do think Bernanke is destroying it on purpose to prop up the ruling class, but I don't think the goal is to destabilize the Middle East to start another war. The ruling class isn't stupid. They know the country can't afford that. They're just trying to steal as much money from us as possible through inflation until the people will no longer stand for it, then they're going to push to make to make the IMF the one-world central bank. China is competing on this, wanting to make the yuan the world's reserve currency, so the ruling class is ginning up anger against China too. I think the protests in the Middle East are just a side-effect that will turn around and bite the ruling class as the people in some of those countries significantly improve their circumstances, inspiring people around the world to do the same.