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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

ACTA signed.

ECONOMY:

Apparently this video predicts:

"The data is clear, 50% unemployment, a 90% stock market drop, and 100% annual inflation . . . starting in 2012."

I didn't watch it. As pessimistic as I am, even I find it hard to believe things will collapse that far, that fast. I think it will take a few years to collapse that far, but if we elect another status quo president in 2012, it will fall that far in the next few years.

TAX AND SPEND:

Did we really need the census to tell us that Washington D.C. is the wealthiest community in the US? No, the more it gets reported, the more people wake up to the looting done by our government.

Cain's 999 plan will raise taxes for most people. The same was said about the flat tax. We shouldn't have to be stuck with a highly progressive income tax, the most punishing income tax known to man, because it's the status quo. The problem with 999 and Perry's flat tax is they attempt to be revenue neutral instead of reducing taxes. In other words, both support the status quo of titanic government.

REGULATION:

Louisiana outlaws cash for second-hand sales. This is going to create a huge black market and a bunch of new criminals just to satisfy the whims of Louisiana's rulers.

"Hardy says the bill is targeted at criminals who steal anything from copper to televisions, and sell them for a quick buck. Having a paper trail will make it easier for law enforcement."

Did you think that government existed to make your life easier? Boy were you wrong. You exist to make life easier for government agents.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

In Wall Street Journal op-ed, Ron Paul explains money, the Fed, Austrian economics, and how the Fed created the current recession. No other presidential candidate has this depth of understanding of economics and therefore how to fix our economy. This is why we should elect him president.


The very sad truth about the Fed:

"In reality, there is no QE1, QE2, TARP, etc. These are not separate stimulus efforts that actually started and concluded independent of one another. They are all a part of one long fiat injection into our economy that never ended.The Fed is ALWAYS creating fiat. Some of it is reported, most of it is not. Ask yourself this: Are interest rates still at near zero? If the answer is yes, then the fiat still flows."

Bernanke never talks about how much money he's printing to hold interest rates at zero. They don't stay at zero on their own.


GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:


Remember that hole in the ozone we're supposed to panic over? Remember when government banned the most effective refrigerant known to man over it?

"Remember we first found the ozone hole when satellites that measure ozone were first available and processed (1985).  It is very likely to have been there forever, varying year to year and decade to decade as solar cycles and volcanic events affected high latitude winter vortex strength."

Imagine that.


POLICE STATE:


TSA and Tennessee state cops randomly searching trucks. Who needs warrants or even probable cause? This has to be exactly what happened during the rise of the Nazis.


WAR:


Libyan rebels claim they have captured Qaddafi. Now they report they killed Qaddafi.

POLITICS:

Cain tied to a corporate electric utility scandal.

This scandal about Cain using campaign money to buy his own books from his own company seems like cut and dry corruption to me, but I don't see the problem with Romney purchasing services from an old ally. He has to buy services from somebody, so why not an ally? The only question is the amount of money involved, and that's a matter of degree, not a fundamental problem. What both these scandals remind us though is that politicians are working to enrich themselves, not for the rest of us. Some are just smarter at hiding it.

Obama's approval rating hits new low among blacks: 78 percent.