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TAX AND SPEND:

I made a half-joking comment about Europeans making Germans angry by forcing them to bail out the PIIGS because making Germans mad hasn't worked out that well for Europeans. Now I read this:

"Potentially the fate of the global economy now lies in Germany's hands as it heads the effort to keep heavily indebted Greece (where people mutter about a "Fourth Reich") from going under and pulling down other Eurozone countries with it. On Monday, Chancellor Angela Merkel successfully steered approval for a $175-billion Greek bailout through the German Parliament, a deeply divisive measure for German taxpayers who will foot more than half the bill."

I guess it's only natural for people to be reminded of Germany's record, but then why are they making the Germans angry by stealing more money from them? It was the punitive action toward the Germans after WWI that led to WWII. Please, let's not do this again.

The budget plans of Romney, Santorum and Gingrich would all increase the national debt just like Obama. Only Ron Paul's plan would reduce the debt. It's interesting that Romney's plan would grow the debt the least of the three big-government Republicans.

HEALTH CARE:

Nice graphic called the ultimate guide to eating paleo.

How more natural agriculture increases yields and profits.

POLITICS:

Paul now tops Obama in a head to head poll nationally. Who were they saying is unelectable?

Ron Paul explains his attacks on Santorum, not Romney, just as I expected.

"As for the Texas Congressman's attack ads, which have been harsh on Santorum but absent on Romney, particularly in Michigan, Paul said that "right now the anti-Romney candidate is Santorum, so I have to get his votes, as I did at one time with Gingrich.""

Paul wants to win, he has a strategy to win and he's executing that strategy well.

Romney went for a stadium speech like Obama in 2008, and nobody showed up. This looks terrible.

LOCAL:

Government traffic planners blow it again. This isn't about incompetence. Government planners don't fail because they're stupid. They fail because they have no prices to guide them. Because government funds itself through theft, it cannot perform rational economic analysis. No matter how smart and benevolent the central planners, all government activities are doomed to be less efficient than if they were performed by market actors.

"“Imagine what this interchange will be like in 15 years after the area is more fully developed ... . Existing roads — many of which are already a hodgepodge of corrections — and new ‘fixes’ will only complicate the convoluted traffic design,” Sue Shay of Centerville said in an email.
Last year, Miami Twp. police reported 18 crashes at the Austin-Ohio 741 intersection and 25 crashes at I-75 and Austin. Despite new signs and other changes, the area requires heightened police attention, Major John DiPietro said.
Some people point to the fact that traffic projections used in the design were completed about a decade ago, in 2003 — five years before construction began.
Transportation officials say such a gap between traffic projections and construction is common."

Another example of all government programs including building roads are performed to loot the people first and secondarily provide services.