Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Tax and Spend

Description of the corruption of science by government's system.
"Similarly, professors at prestigious universities are compelled to follow “party lines” and to be prolific in their output of published articles. In order for funding to continue, the physics department must conduct experiments and turn out a steady stream of Ph.Ds for the scientific establishment in the military and the commercial sectors. Their experiments are usually expensive and take months to set up, so the funders expect results that will profit them in some way. LIGO and the Large Hadron Collider are two of the most notorious in a long list of experiments that are searching for phantoms."
In the private sector, if science is wrong and the company makes a failed investment as a result, scientists get fired.

Taking a break from serial vacations costing taxpayers millions of dollars each, Michele Obama talks about the prison-like aspects of living in the White House. I'm sure she's right. I've often called the White House the world's most guilded cage, and here's what the First Lady said,
"... there are prisonlike elements, but it’s a really nice prison. You can’t complain. There are confining elements."
I doubt anybody feels sorry for Michele Obama.

Graph shows only Japan and New Zealand in worse fiscal shape than US, but the article says it's Japan and UK. I think the graph is mislabeled.

Taxpayers forced to pay $900,000 each for 24 bus stops.

To answer Cato, yes, today's Republicans are bigger spenders than Bush the Younger. They spend more every year. As the Democrats push for more, the Republicans get right behind them and push for more too.

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