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SOCIALISM:

Europe is experiencing the devastating effects of labor unions empowered by a grant of coercion from the government.

"Not only did they stop working but they also turned to paramilitary tactics. They seized refineries and fuel depots; they closed fuel pipelines going to Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports, and massively disrupted rail travel. The fuel shortages have crippled the economy. Strikers stopped work at two of France's three liquefied-natural-gas terminals. All 12 French refineries have gone on strike. The country has also started to import electricity as the wave of protest action took hold of energy supplies. Students have taken to the streets, and the police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse protesters in cities like Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, and Bordeaux."

This is the path we're on.

TAX AND SPEND:

Hungarian government seizing private pension funds. If we don't reverse course on the road to serfdom, this will happen here.

Retiring Ohio Republican Senator Voinovich wants to increase gasoline taxes by 25 cents a gallon. Anybody who thinks Republicans are our friends is nuts. I'm sure many will say Voinovich is a RINO. Baloney. He's a typical Republican.

Republicans couldn't save us from our debt even if they wanted to.

"The only specie of Democrat that's even entertained the notion of entitlement reform was the Blue Dog Democrat. As of this morning, that particular specie is extinct. The remnant of the Democratic caucus consists of aging, hard-core liberals who have spent a political lifetime accumulating anti-Republican bile against the policies of Reagan and the Bushes."

The same people who controlled Congress for the last two years.

REGULATION:

Pennsylvania state government to regulate all food in government schools. This is going to turn out badly.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Chuck Schumer blames oil companies for rising gas prices. I don't think it's going to work this time. The Fed gives new meaning to the term monopoly money.

Inflationary monetary policy has created the biggest gap between rich and poor since the 20s.

More mainstream criticism of the Fed's devaluation of the dollar.

GLOBAL WARMING:

More nonsense about we're not going to have any energy when oil runs outs because investment currently lags behind the current expected date when oil will run out. But investment won't remain at this level. As oil reserves begin to run out, whenever that is, prices will rise. That's the role speculators play. Rising prices will provide incentive to research alternatives. The invisible hand works. The last thing we need is government to interfere. All that does is create problems.

If BP didn't put profits before safety, how come they had so many safety problems on Deepwater Horizon? This sounds like a whitewash. BP must have pleased the gods of government.

Obama's EPA is in the process of creating expensive new regulations for appliances for every room in the home. Who will suffer the most? Poor people. Poor people always suffer the most from government action.

POLICE STATE:

Rape survivor "devastated" by TSA groping. Government doesn't give a damn, but it does care about the press. Government will modify this policy to allow the rich and politically connected, which includes news people, to opt out. Airlines losing business because of police state policy. And this point can't be made often enough:

"Oh. And note that there is no mention of the sexual assaults that are now routine in American airports. Such things are not for hoi polloi."

If anybody else did these things to an American, they would be convicted as a sex offender. There should be no double-standard here. The government should have no powers other than those granted by the people, and the people can't grant powers they don't have.

Website dedicated to TSA horror stories. Website posts letters to airlines and tourist destinations complaining about TSA.

WAR:

Nobody takes credit for an apparent missile launched from either over, under, or on the ocean near LA. This is has gone viral.

Praise for a book that refutes neoconservatism from the libertarian point of view by a conservative.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Strategic summary of India.

POLITICS:

Congressional Black Caucus unhappy that black tea party candidate plans to join.

"The CBC is currently made up of 41 House members and outgoing Sen. Roland Burris (Ill.) — all Democrats. 

West and Congressman-elect Tim Scott (R-S.C.) are the first black Republicans to win House seats since Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.) retired in 2003."

This will be interesting.

The top 50 big earners in politics. This is a good reminder that government exists for one and only one purpose: to enrich and empower the aristocrats at our expense.

Forget all the claims by all the pundits. Democrats got creamed because some Obama voters turned against him. But why? Because the country keeps going downhill.

Lew Rockwell finally admits:

"Even State voting is not immoral, if one intends to advance liberty."

It's about time.

Lord Geithner's father funded Obama's mother's work in Asia.

MISC:

There are wolves in government, then there are government wolves.

Koch versus Soros (with Glenn Beck).

Red meat has a calming affect on men.

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TAX AND SPEND:

This is the inevitable result of giving government power to tax and spend:

"A federal contractor speaks at an air base and essentially tells workers that, if they want to keep their jobs, they’ll vote for primary-loser-who-refused-to-go-away Lisa Murkowski, because she’s on the appropriations subcommittee that steers a lot of money to Alaska — a subcommittee the other candidates won’t be able to get on."

All government spending is done to buy votes.

REGULATION:

Any article that begins with

"The US Federal Communications Commission should allow..."

has no credibility.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Obama backs Bernanke's devaluation of the dollar because he wants to collapse the US economy.

Sarah Palin knows which way the political wind is blowing, so she's criticizing the Fed. It's good to know she's listening to Ron Paul. In the old days, she was for bailouts, but now that the people aren't, neither is she. Typical politician.

Local gas prices have risen 22 percent in a week. Fed blamed. Gosh, you think? Actually, it isn't as simple as that. This new round of inflation hasn't even hit yet. This 22 percent rise in fuel prices is a consequence of the Fed's past inflation just catching up with us. The Fed started the inflation ball rolling in a huge way two years ago, and it just gave it another big push. We're going to suffer tremendous inflation for a number of years at least.

HEALTH CARE:

You know how the health care establishment is always telling us to eat lots of fruits, but not many nuts? Naturally they got it wrong.

"Human Ancestors Skipped Fruit, Went for Nuts

If you go back far enough, our ancestors were probably mostly frugivorous. How far? New evidence pushes it back past 4.2 million years.

Anthropologists examined the enamel microstructure of the teeth of Australopithecus anamensis (of “Lucy” fame) and found that while they were not equipped to deal with acid erosion from flesh fruits, they were made for the heavy mastication of abrasive, tough foods, like nuts, roots, and insects. The jaws allowed shearing and lateral chewing.

This diet corresponded with our move down from the trees and on to two feet. No longer were we tree apes dining on fruit and leaves; we were ground dwellers, trawling the grasslands for dense calories, fashioning tools to dig up roots and bugs and crack bones, and standing upright to reduce our sunlight exposure and keep an eye out for predators (and, eventually, prey). This new evolutionary path set us apart and helped make humans, and their brains, what they are today. Fruit is a tasty and nutritious addition to the diet, but it can’t beat dense roots, nuts, and animal foods for spurring, aiding, and abetting higher evolution."

Our health care system is dominated by government, and therefore it's corrupt. The fruit lobby is way more powerful than the nut lobby. 'Nuff said.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

The Chicago Carbon Exchange is officially closed.

"Barack Obama was a board member of the Joyce Foundation that funded the fledgling CCX. Professor Richard Sandor, of Northwestern University had started the business with $1.1 million in grants from the Chicago-based left-wing Joyce Foundation enthusiastically endorsed by Obama."

I should have guessed he had his hand in this.

POLICE STATE:

Armed agents raid barber shops to stop unlicensed barbering. This is a good reminder that every law government passes gives government the power to kill citizens. The law of government is simple: submit or die at the hands of armed invaders. Every law is a capital crime if government's victim refuses to submit. People should not be subject to death for failing to obtain a barber's license or any other peaceful activity. All laws giving government power to aggress against peaceful citizens are illegitimate.

POLITICS:

Cantor criticizes Pelosi's attempt to become House Minority Leader. That was stupid. He should let Democrats self-destruct.

Indonesia's volcano god Merapi may keep Pharaoh Obama from visiting.

Establishment Republicans are mad at the tea party. Not smart.

I wouldn't call this election the best Republicans showing ever. I'd call it the worst Democrat showing ever.

MISC:

If you think government contradicts itself, you don't understand the nature of government.

"One sees the same apparent contradiction in the treatment of tobacco:  its use is to be discouraged or prohibited while, at the same time, tobacco farmers receive government subsidies.  I said “apparent” contradiction, because the function of government is not to pursue socially beneficial policies and programs, but to use its coercive powers to benefit special interests that are then rationalized to the public as being “socially beneficial.”  The inherent contradictions in all forms of government are seen in the proposition that the state exists to “protect life, liberty, and property,” a notion that is the first act of every government to violate."

If you think government contradicts itself, you have fallen for the lies of the aristocrats. The government is remarkably consistent. It consistently takes our power and wealth from us in order to enrich and empower the aristocrats and their cronies.

More and more people realize the US is a banana republic.

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FREE SPEECH:

Numerous online services such as Hulu and CBS TV are blocking access to Google TV. How much do you want to bet the companies blocking these services support net neutrality?

FEDERAL RESERVE:

A brief history of the debasement of money highlights principles understood for thousands of years, but as fresh and destructive when central banks do them today as they ever were.

"Croesus soon learned that his wars were more easily funded when he debased his coins, allowing him to create more currency than his supply of precious metal would otherwise allow. In the process, Croesus illustrated two rules of money creation that would appear repeatedly in world history. First, entities charged with the coining of money—including Lydian rulers, medieval goldsmiths, and modern central bankers—have an inherent tendency to inflate its production, and they will almost always do so unless limited by institutional factors, such as the existence of competing currencies or the establishment of a strong metallic standard. Second, when money creation is a state function, its abuse will benefit the expansion of the central state, facilitating the redistribution of wealth to the special interests of the political class and the financing of wars that citizens are unwilling to finance voluntarily."

But Ben thinks it'll be different because he's the one debasing the dollar. It won't be.

"The results for Nero were the same as in contemporary times. Prices rose, because increases in the money supply do not magically increase the store of real wealth, so that when the new money is spent, prices are bid upward. Those groups in society that are not favored by the political class pay for such lavish spending in the form of higher prices, thus promoting divisions in society that otherwise would be less acute."

Sound familiar?

"Oresme noted that one of the trade-offs that results when the prince debases the currency to enrich himself and his court is a general decivilizing of society. Since prices rise when debased money circulates, individuals face higher levels of scarcity than would otherwise be the case, thus hindering the development of the division of labor and the societal interdependencies that it engenders. Since trades necessarily decrease, we witness a decline in social cooperation."

Debasing the currency also debases the society. We've sure seen plenty of that. One obvious consequence is people blaming producers for their "greed" instead of putting that blame on the king where it belongs.

"Taxation amounts to a wealth transfer forced on present generations, while debt amounts to a wealth transfer forced on future generations; given the political resistance to such transfers, inflation becomes the preferred form of redistribution for at least two reasons. First, when the new money reaches the politically preferred groups in society that get to spend it, prices have not yet risen. They will eventually rise in response to increased demand for goods and services that result simply because the new money is in circulation. This allows the government to grow without risking an immediate political cost. Second, the rise in prices is equivalent to an increase in taxes, with the difference being that while taxes affect disposable income at the time they are imposed, monetary inflation affects disposable income at whatever point in the future it causes prices to rise. This form of finance—economists call it “inflation as a tax”—is preferred because people often do not make the connection between the increase in prices and the previous monetary inflation. In fact, they often blame “greedy” businesses for raising prices, when those businesses are simply adjusting to increases in demand. The lag between the initial money creation and the increase in prices makes their relationship less obvious.

That one class benefits from inflation while another is forced to finance that benefit creates divisions in society which, in the extreme, can lead to revolutions, such as in France in 1789. The effects of monetary inflation also explain the rise of the Jacksonians in the United States of the 1830s."

That should sound frightening familiar to Americans today as well.

"The creation of the Fed may have been a defining moment in the centuries-long debate over money creation, as central banking has been a feature of nearly all twentieth-century monetary systems. However, recent events suggest that the creation of the Fed was not the last word, as a movement spurred by the financial crisis of 2008 has taken on almost Jacksonian proportions, calling for an end to the Fed or at least the emergence of some institutional constraints on the Fed's ability to inflate the currency at will. The crisis had the salutary effect of making the relationship between money creation and the politically preferred groups in society who profit from it obvious."

Boy is that an understatement.

This claim that 100 percent reserve banking wouldn't work during Christmas is just silly. People would save money before Christmas. They have Christmas accounts for that sort of thing.

POLICE STATE:

Invading police electrocute to death yet another innocent American.

"Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman informed the local press that the county medical examiner will perform an autopsy on Neill, which will inevitably find that something other than the repeated taser assaults — perhaps coronary artery disease, a drug overdose, or “excited delirium” – was the chief cause of the 61-year-old’s death. It’s not that the police killed him, you see: He just happened to die while being electrocuted by the scrum of armed tax-feeders who were, after all, only there to help."

The phrase "to protect and serve" is accurate: they protect and serve their political masters at our expense.

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TAX AND SPEND:

In an article exposes the debt and Orwellian language used to describe entitlements, we get this gem:

"The estimates of the unfunded liabilities keep rising. The most shocking is the estimate of Prof. Lawrence Kotlikoff of Boston University. He says the U.S. government is in the red by about $200 trillion."

This estimate is suddenly gone mainstream. I've seen it repeatedly in the last few weeks. It's about time.

If Republicans end these jobless benefits, unemployment will drop significantly.

Soaking the rich is not only immoral, it's counterproductive.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

New climate change game has Soylent Green-like scenario where the player can kill people and turn them into food in order to "save the planet" from global warming. You can't make this stuff up.

POLICE STATE:

Cop gets two years for murder. The surprising news is he got anything at all. That's highly unusual.

With all the criticism over the nude-scanners and gropes, expect the bureaucrats to change the policy in some way that will enable rich people and the members of the press to avoid both. The rest of us will be forced to submit. All policies, no matter how well-intentioned to begin with (and I have no reason to believe implementing these scanners was well-intentioned, it seems more likely they're being implemented to make Chertoff rich and empower government at our expense), end up benefiting the ruling class and oppressing the people.

WAR:

Newly empowered Republicans make never-ending war in Afghanistan a priority. Great. They won't be happy until we're bankrupt or all Afghans are killed. Lindsay Graham wants war with Iran too. When you're an aristocrat, you can never have enough war.

"Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada, told reporters that there will come a point where Iran's nuclear program will reach the state that a conventional limited air strike "won't take them out."

"We're probably even past that point," he said.

"Instead of a surgical strike on their nuclear infrastructure, I think we're to the point now that you have to really neuter the regime's ability to wage war against us and our allies. And that's a different military scenario. It's not a ground invasion but it certainly destroys the ability of the regime to strike back.""

This is how twisted the minds of aristocrats become. Memo to Graham: Iran already has no power to strike the US. It can close the Gulf of Hormuz, which I assume he means, but that's not striking back at the US. Iran can't harm anybody in America, but if you force American troops to attack Iran, they will certainly kill many Americans.

POLITICS:

If  Pelosi becomes minority leader, the Democrats are almost certain to get spanked again in 2012. It will show that Democrats absolutely didn't get the message, just like Republicans didn't get it in 2006.

MEDIA:

Newspaper tries to blame the last two years of economic problems on congressional Republicans because they opposed Obama's agenda.

MISC:

Why did we give government the power to regulate marriage? It's just stupid. People should be free to form whatever kind of relationships they want.

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SOCIALISM:

Obama gives GM executives permission to rent private jets. He's such a benevolent pharaoh.

Delta flight attendants reject union.

"The Delta flight attendants have voted against unionizing. This is rather amazing considering the fact that Barack Obama engineered a change in the voting rules that was designed to pretty much guarantee a pro-union result."

I bet union leaders are livid.

TAX AND SPEND:

The British government is punishing its airlines with higher taxes on passengers.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The Chinese government shows once again that it is head and shoulders smarter than our government:

"Unbridled printing of dollars is the biggest risk to the global economy, an adviser to the Chinese central bank said in comments published on Thursday, a day after the Federal Reserve unveiled a new round of monetary easing.

China must set up a firewall via currency policy and capital controls to cushion itself from external shocks, Xia Bin said in a commentary piece in the Financial News, a Chinese-language newspaper managed by the central bank.

"As long as the world exercises no restraint in issuing global currencies such as the dollar -- and this is not easy -- then the occurrence of another crisis is inevitable, as quite a few wise Westerners lament," he said."

But Ben won't stop, and Obama won't stop him. They're destroying the dollar, our economy and our country on purpose. I like the allusion to the Titanic. The Fed gives new meaning to the phrase "stop the presses".

Why Bernanke is destroying the dollar.

"The problem with Bernanke is that he is working with mainstream theory and ignoring history. He thinks deflation is bad, but unlikely to happen. If it does happen he will use weapons of mass economic destruction to stop it. In reality, deflation of prices is a normal aspect of the market economy as the production of goods outstrips the production of money resulting in higher real wages in a growing economy. The healthiest of economies will exhibit falling prices."

I think he's doing it on purpose. He can't be that stupid. He knows what happened in the Wiemar Republic. He knows what happened in Zimbabwe. He knows he's following the same path. Granted, the egos of aristocrats often make them think that they can repeat the same policies that have caused so much harm in the past, but they won't this time because they're in charge, but frankly, I never believe they believe it. Einstein called it insanity, and maybe that explains it. Maybe Bernanke, Obama and others are neither stupid nor evil but insane. This summary of Bernanke's record is devastating. Why would anybody trust this idiot who has been wrong so often? Don't believe me?

"Chairman Bernanke is infamous on the internet because of the YouTube video that chronicles his rosy view of the economy from 2005 to 2007. He denied there was a housing bubble in 2005, he denied that housing prices could decrease substantively in 2005 and that it would affect the real economy and employment in 2006, and he tried to calm fears about the subprime-mortgage market. He stated that he expected reasonable growth and strength in the economy in 2007, and that the problem in the subprime market (which had then become apparent) would not impact the overall mortgage market or the market in general."

"He described the Fed as a type of superhero for financial markets. In discussing the Fed's role as chief regulator of financial markets, he made powerful claims concerning the Fed's ability to identify risks, anticipate financial crises, and effectively respond to any financial challenge."

Superhero? That seals it. He's insane. This gets back to my contention that the Ivy League is the world's foremost organization for brainwashing smart people with stupid, destructive ideas.

"In preparing for this lecture, I began to realize just how obvious a choice Bernanke was for chairman of the Fed. From the point of view of banks, corporations, and Wall Street — also known as the "corporatocracy," a government run for the interests of big corporations — who would be better than someone who literally wrote the book on bailing out the banks and Wall Street during a financial crisis?"

Even those big corporations won't benefit from the crackup-boom. Maybe I just don't understand the power of the irrational feeling that "it can't happen here". It can, and it is happening here. I would call that irrational belief a form of insanity.

The whole world is angry at the Fed.

"Global anger at a fresh round of liquidity injections into the U.S. economy swelled on Friday asGermany called the move "clueless" and emerging nations protested that it will wreak havoc on them.

Harsh criticism poured in as President Barack Obama headed for Asia on a trip he had hoped to use as a springboard for pressuring China to revalue its yuan but may end up in a fractious Group of 20 leaders summit next week."

And no wonder. Literally weeks ago Lord Geithner pushed an agreement at the G-20 that nations will not devalue their currency. The G-20 agreed. I pointed out at the time this was baloney because the Fed was already planning to further devalue the dollar. Now the world is pissed, and Americans should be too. US aristocrats have turned out country into a banana republic.

""With all due respect, U.S. policy is clueless," German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a conference.

"(The problem) is not a shortage of liquidity. It's not that the Americans haven't pumped enough liquidity into the market, and now to say let's pump more into the market is not going to solve their problems.""

Everybody seems to get it except US central planners. I find it hard to believe our central planners are any stupider than others. This is further evidence our central planners are intentionally harming Americans and others.

EDUCATION:

The Dept. of Education is using its control of money to control college curriculums. Federal money always comes with strings attached. It's always poisoned by politics and from the original sin of theft euphemistically called taxation.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Scientists admit they don't yet understand the role of clouds in climate change. But we do no one thing: the earth has never experienced runaway global warming despite having up 16 times as much CO2 in the atmosphere. That tells us that the earth has natural feedback mechanisms that minimize the impact from greenhouse gases, and clouds are almost certainly an important factor in those feedback mechanisms.

NASA being sued over failure to provide data from FOIA requests.

Great video: I'm a denier.

California greens try to demonize the oil industry for funding efforts in support of Prop. 23, but it turns the greens, funded by our tax dollars, outspend the oil industry by 3:1.

POLICE STATE:

Lawsuit against nude-scanners at airports.

POLITICS:

All of you who thought Nancy Pelosi wouldn't run for minority leader don't understand how power-hungry and corrupt these aristocrats are.

How many times are Americans going to allow Democrats to get away with the old "we suddenly found an uncounted bag of ballots from a strongly Democrat precinct" fraud in order to steal an election? Democrats pull this in every tightly contested election.

Michael Barone compares this election to the 1946 election of Republicans that reduce the size and scope of government. I don't today's Republicans will do that.

Cronyism in Alaskan politics? I'm shocked.

Independents shifted toward Republicans in a big way. That's because independents spanked Republicans for big, bad government in 2006 and 2008, and they spanked Democrats for big, bad government in 2010. The people can't be any more clear: they want the government off their backs, and they're going to continue to punish the party in power until the aristocrats get it.

MEDIA:

MSNBC suspends Keith Olbermann for donating to the campaigns of Democrats in a symbolic gesture to make their news organization look less biased. It didn't work.

MISC:

That conniving opportunist Valerie Plame has gotten way more than her 15 minutes of fame.

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ECONOMY:

Jobless claims rise again. This time, it's no surprise. Government has made this the new normal.

TAX AND SPEND:

Republicans promise to continue to steal money from Americans and give it to senior citizens forever. That's not change just as we expected.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Ron Paul might end up as chairman of the monetary policy subcommittee of the finance committee. That would be interesting, but I have zero confidence that John Boehner will do the right thing.

Simple allegory about the business cycle.

Ben Bernanke is destroying our economy through inflation, which means devaluation, of the dollar. Is he doing it on purpose as I contend?

GLOBAL WARMING:

NASA sued over failures to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests. This will amount to nothing. The government doesn't force itself to undermine itself.

WAR:

Republicans promise to never end the war in Afghanistan. Aren't we so happy we elected these small-government supporters?

POLITICS:

Brain-dead Californians elect dead Democrat over live Republican. Maybe they're not so brain-dead after all. No damage done.

MISC:

Live crab vending machine in China.

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ECONOMY:

Democrats blame the economy for their crushing defeat, when in reality they should blame big-government because it trashed the economy.

The economic collapse of the US written to the tune of Bye, Bye Miss American Pie.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

And right on queue, Bernanke announces it will devalue the dollar by printing up another $600 billion and monetize that much federal debt. This money will end up pushing up the stock market more, creating the illusion the economy is doing better, but in fact it is making us all poorer because our dollars aren't worth as much. Interest rates immediately shot up after the announcement in anticipation of price inflation.

A short history of money manipulation.

HEALTH CARE:

I wonder how much Tom Daschle got paid to pretend that people support Obamacare. Promoting the Big Lie, even when everybody knows it's a Big Lie, pays.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Pharoh Obama's trip to India has a bigger carbon footprint than many cities.

California voters continue to destroy their state by defeating proposition 23 which would have suspended CO2 caps and by electing Democrats. They also refused to legalize marijuana. The people who are leaving must be the rational people, leaving only the loons behind.

Issue of National Geographic highlights the hypocrisy of the global warming frauds, mentioning how Greenland was warmer during the time of Eric the Red in an article about how man-made global warming is returning Greenland to that warmer climate.

WAR ON DRUGS:

What in the world are Americans doing in Cuidad Juarez, besides getting murdered? Why in the world would anybody go to this city where drug cartels control the city and massacre people several times a week? These are more victims of murderers, prohibitionists, and their own stupidity.

POLITICS:

Ron Paul wins 79 percent of the vote in his district.

Nothing is going to change.

"Wolf Blitzer of CNN just asked House Minority Whip Eric Cantor to name one specific program that the Republicans in the House are going to cut now that they have a majority. Cantor couldn’t name one. Blitzer then asked him the question a second time. Again, Cantor couldn’t name one. Not one."

Of course not, but by winning the House, hypocritical Republicans positioned themselves perfectly for 2012. They can force all kinds of meaningless votes on the Senate and vetoes on Obama, pretending to be government cutters without actually cutting anything. And the economy will continue to get worse. Then  in 2012 they can sweep both houses and the presidency and get back to vastly expanding the size and scope of government and their power and wealth just like they did in 2000. America is screwed. This is eerily similar to what happened in 2006 when voters resoundingly rejected big-government Bush the Younger. Democrats promised responsible government. Then they won big, except for Obama, in 2008 and governed just like the Republicans had, but worse. The people keep rejecting big government, but all the two parties deliver is even bigger government in response. They're so corrupt, it's all they know how to do. I reject Tucker's implication that voting doesn't matter. If we would elect a group of people who would actually cut government programs, it would matter. The problem is voters never do that, and the two parties have so thoroughly corrupted the system, that it's nearly impossible, nearly being the key word, to do so.

"Elections deal with superficial issues, not fundamental ones."

This is an example of how words reflect thought. Tucker shows his collectivist leaning here. Elections don't deal with superficial issues. Elections don't have a will of their own. Candidates deal with superficial issues. Voters often have the power to reject Republicans and Democrats in favor of other candidates, but they never do so. My ballot had five libertarians on it. Voters could have put a libertarian in the governor's mansion, the US Senate, the treasurer's office, the attorney general's office and the auditor's office (I think those are right), but they refused to do so. Elections aren't our problem. Voters are our problem.

Remember all the flak Republicans gave Nancy Pelosi when she demanded the Air Force provider her a giant, personal jet? It'll be interesting to see if Boehner gives it back and takes a less expensive personal jet.

Boortz recognizes the same thing about Republicans failing to take the Senate that I did.

"I've been wondering aloud for weeks what the effect might be on 2012 if the Republicans had both the House and the Senate ... with Obama standing alone as the champion of the Left at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It would be a classic "me vs. them" and would be so easy to spin in to an "Obama as besieged underdog" scenario."

That's for sure. Don't get me wrong. As the economy continues to get worse over the next two years, even while Bernanke continues to inflate to make it appear less bad than it actually is, the mainstream media will blame House Republicans for blocking Obama's agenda. But Obama is probably happy at the situation. For a year his party had a big majority in the House, a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and the presidency. As much as he tried to blame Republicans for his failures, it was obvious to everybody Republicans had no power to stop him. Now they do. Now he can blame them with some credibility. His Alinsky techniques might be more effective. But I doubt it will work for him. Unless we suffer a major terrorist attack, it's hard to see how Obama can win in 2012. I doubt even starting a war with Iran will save him.

Democrats can't blame spending because they significantly outspent Republicans.

MEDIA:

The media covered Christine O'Donnel more than any other candidate in this election as they tried to use her to paint the entire tea party as radical and dumb.

MISC:

Sparky Anderson placed in hospice because of dementia. That's sad.

How to choose a VPN service so you can be anonymous on the internet.

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SOCIALISM:

Because the private sector provides cell phones and the Indian government provides toilets and running water, Indians who live in slums tend to have working cell phones, but not working toilets. This is a good reminder that government is the enemy of civilization.

THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

Why should a police officer be allowed to carry a gun to the polls but not the citizens who empower him? This is bull****. What part of "shall not be infringed" don't these poll workers understand?

TAX AND SPEND:

Germany refused to steal billions from its people for a stimulus boondoggle, and as a result its economy is growing while ours isn't.

"Germany has been scolded, even browbeaten, by Obama administration officials, from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on down, for saving too much and spending too little."

Savings drive economic growth, and people can't save money that the government steals from them or borrows in order to steal from them later.

REGULATION:

Intel may be in a lot of trouble business-wise. The FTC has ruled that it will determine the specifications for Intel chips from now on. You think I'm kidding?

"After considering public comments, the FTC modified the proposed order to allow Intel to manufacture and sell a chip that it had in development before the proposed order was negotiated, but that would violate that order because it does not contain a required interface. The FTC modified the order to allow Intel to ship this product until June 2013. All future generations of this chip must fully comply with all specifications of the final Order."

If this ruling stands, and given the FTC's power there's no reason to think it won't, this is likely the kiss of death for Intel. AMD may be the big winner.

EDUCATION:

Reaffirming their commitment to big government and using it to control and loot the people, establishment Republicans refuse to abolish the Dept.of Education. That's why this election will make almost no difference.

Union teachers using school equipment to promote Democrat candidates.

HEALTH CARE:

Evidence bolstering the case for refusing a flu shot.

"Interestingly, the Sydney Morning Herald recently reported that Australian "public health experts have called for an independent body to monitor drug safety after it emerged that young children were more likely to end up in hospitals because of side effects from a flu vaccine than they were from the disease itself. The analysis contradicts government safety advice that the harm did not outweigh the risk and raises concerns about the Therapeutic Goods Administration's assessment of the vaccine.""

Sounds like government: seizing people's money, ordering them to do something dangerous, and making them sick so they have to pay more for health care.

"Not only do flu shots weaken your immune system, expose you to toxins, and cause allergies and other adverse reactions, they don't work.

Yes, you read that correctly. Besides being fraught with complications, flu vaccines simply don't work to decrease flu incidence or flu mortality. Flu vaccinations keep coming up short in study after study – way short – when it comes to having any measurable impact on what matters most, which is reducing illness and mortality from the flu."

Only government.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Global warming correlated to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, a natural climate cycle spanning about 70 years.

POLICE STATE:

Government will not be satisfied until it has destroyed the airline industry.

More nude-scanner information. Printable pamphlet informing airline passengers of the dangers and their rights regarding the nude-scanners.

Man who lived through Pinochet's Chilean fascist police state says the US is a fascist police state too.

"A police-state uses the law as a mechanism to control any challenges to its power by the citizenry, rather than as a mechanism to insure a civil society among the individuals. The state decides the laws, is the sole arbiter of the law, and can selectively (and capriciously) decide to enforce the law to the benefit or detriment of one individual or group or another.

In a police-state, the citizens are “free” only so long as their actions remain within the confines of the law as dictated by the state. If the individual’s claims of rights or freedoms conflict with the state, or if the individual acts in ways deemed detrimental to the state, then the state will repress the citizenry, by force if necessary. (And in the end, it’s always necessary.)

What’s key to the definition of a police-state is the lack of redress: If there is no justice system which can compel the state to cede to the citizenry, then there is a police-state. If there exists apro forma justice system, but which in practice is unavailable to the ordinary citizen because of systemic obstacles (for instance, cost or bureaucratic hindrance), or which against all logic or reason consistently finds in favor of the state—even in the most egregious and obviously contradictory cases—then that pro forma judiciary system is nothing but a sham: A tool of the state’s repression against its citizens. Consider the Soviet court system the classic example."

Sounds like the US to me.

"By a 6-3 majority, the Supreme Court has explicitly stated that Congress and/or the Executive is “uniquely positioned” to determine who is a terrorist and who is not—and therefore has the right to silence not just the terrorist organization, but anyone trying to speak to them, or hear them."

Bye-bye due process, which has always been a sham anyway. No need to bother with that facade any longer.

"So! To sum up: The U.S. government can decide unilaterally who is a terrorist organization and who is not. Anyone speaking to such a designated terrorist group is “providing material support” to the terrorists—and is therefore subject to prosecution at the discretion of the U.S. government. And if, in the end, it turns out that one definitely was not involved in terrorist activities, there is no way to receive redress by the state.

Sounds like a fascist police-state to me."

Me too.

WAR:

This essay brings up a good question: If Jonah Goldberg wants Jullian Assange dead, why doesn't he murder him himself? Calling for Assange's murder is as bad as David Broder advising Obama to attack Iran so he could get re-elected. These incidents show the depravity of the ruling class and their propagandist minions on both the left and the right.

"The differences between Jonah Goldberg and Julian Assange are legion. Assange is a courageous iconoclast, brilliant, angry, driven and effective. Goldberg is an idiotic, chicken-hearted coward with limited talent in his chosen field. When he calls for the assassination by those employed by or ostensibly on the side of the US government, as he did publicly a few days ago, it tells us more about Goldberg’s own concerns and lack of character than Assange’s alleged "crimes" against the corporate state."

Well said.

Call for a war tax instead of printing money to pay for wars. I think just calling to end the wars is more likely to be successful.

"Amidst all the low-brow invective, Tom Brokaw, the respected former national news host for NBC News, recently wrote a fine opinion column for the New York Times, "The Wars That America Forgot About."

He quite rightly asked why the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been ignored during the election race. After nine years of combat, 5,000 US dead and 35,000 seriously wounded soldiers, and expenditure of over $1 trillion – silence."

These wars are off the radar. One probable reason is the casualties are so low. After nine years, the casualties are an order of magnitude lower than the casualties in Vietnam. It seems that's below the threshold where Americans care. That's a terrible indictment of the American people, but I bet it's true. Another reason is both parties support the wars. If the aristocrats don't want to talk about the wars, then their accomplice press won't talk about it either. The American people would care about paying a war tax, that's for sure, but again aristocrats won't consider it, so neither will their accomplice press.

"The Iraq and Afghan wars are ignored, Brokaw rightly says, because Americans are totally focused on high unemployment and economic insecurity. America’s wars have become irrelevant."

But they're not irrelevant. They money spent on these wars plays a role in making our economy weaker. Not like the much bigger expenses, but a role. And the entire military budget plays a huge role.

On the $80 billion intelligence budget:

"Let’s face it: this “intelligence” gambit is nothing but the latest government hoax to extract money from your bank account and to subject you to wholly unjustifiable deprivations of your just rights. If you think it’s anything else, you probably have not paid it much attention or given it much thought."

I'd like to know how many real plots they stopped in the last 10 years. Not bogus plots created by FBI agent provocateurs, but real plots. I have no doubt that we could have vastly superior intelligence at a small fraction of the cost by employing competing private sector firms instead of these Cold War dinosaur bureaucracies.

Terrorists set off 16 bombs in Baghdad. Yikes. This is strong reminder of the violence US aristocrats unleashed on Iraq when they sent US troops in. It's also a strong reminder that after we effectively defeated al Qaeda in Iraq as a military force, the Iraqi central government has failed to police the country. There's nothing more Americans can do there except provide targets and recruiting incentive for al Qaeda. Bring our troops home.

TERRORISM:

Letter bomber attacks foreign embassies in Athens.

POLITICS:

Obama is catching heat for calling Republicans enemies. To Obama, they are opponents. They are a competing faction of the ruling class. To the American people, both Democrats and Republicans are enemies, because the ruling class is trying to conquer us.

If the tea parties survive to 2012, they'll look a lot different if Republicans win the House. If Republicans win the House, they can try to pass all kinds of small government legislation to fool the people into believing they want to shrink the size and scope of government because they know it will never pass the Senate, and even if it did, Obama would veto it. I expect Republicans to play a really good game for two years until they regain control of all of government, then they'll drop the pretense and go back to their government-worshiping ways.

Latinos making headway in the Republican party.

LOCAL:

Facade of downtown building collapses and falls ten stories, but no one was hurt. Wow. Note to self: Don't walk by this building.

MISC:

The inconvenient truth about blacks fighting on the side of southern states for independence in the war between the states.

"Wesley cites Horace Greeley's American Conflict (1866) saying, "For more than two years, Negroes had been extensively employed in belligerent operations by the Confederacy. They had been embodied and drilled as rebel soldiers and had paraded with white troops at a time when this would not have been tolerated in the armies of the Union.""

Somebody upset the Lincoln cult's apple cart again.

Free kibbles

TAX AND SPEND:

Who gives a damn about government giving $1 billion to dead people? This is undoubtedly the least destructive thing government does. These stories are pushed by aristocrats to create the illusion that there's such a thing as good government. There's not. They're pushed to keep us divided into partisans so we can't recognize that government itself is evil. We're 202 trillion in debt, and the aristocrats are distracting us with this bull****. If government only gave away $1 billion to dead people, we'd be tremendously better off. Government waste isn't the problem. Government non-waste is. The trillions government spends perverting our economy from a productive private sector economy to a parasitic political economy is the problem.

This modest proposal to cut all government spending by 10 percent per year every year isn't a bad idea, but I prefer abolishing all of the unconstitutional bureaucracies and laws and holding all other spending flat.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

A call for fraud laws to be applied to government officials and grant recipients. Absolutely.

"Few examples are as immediate, costly and far-reaching as the new ozone, dust, mercury and carbon dioxide rules that EPA regulators are trying to impose, under the guise of protecting air quality, planetary climate and human health. Few corporate executives or citizens are as exempt from basic legal standards as the energy and climate czars, czarinas, bureaucrats, and government-funded scientists and activists who seek to inflict their anti-hydrocarbon agenda on us, regardless of the science – or the impacts on jobs, prosperity, families and civil rights progress.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s new mercury, ozone and soot rules alone would eliminate up to 76,000 megawatts of generating capacity by 2015, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation calculates. That’s 7% of total US electric generating capacity – enough to power 38,000,000 homes under normal conditions. It’s 1.2 times the all-time peak electricity demand record for the entire state of Texas."

But it would have to be done by the state prosecutors. The feds can't police themselves.

WAR ON DRUGS:

Study determines that alcohol is the most dangerous drug.

"MCDA modelling showed that heroin, crack cocaine, and metamfetamine were the most harmful drugs to individuals (part scores 34, 37, and 32, respectively), whereas alcohol, heroin, and crack cocaine were the most harmful to others (46, 21, and 17, respectively). Overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug (overall harm score 72) [emphasis mine], with heroin (55) and crack cocaine (54) in second and third places."

The perceived dangers of heroin and cocaine are really the result of the war on drugs, not the drugs themselves. During prohibition, people tended to drink much stronger and poisonous alcohol because it had to be made in secret. Many more Americans became sick and died from alcohol during prohibition than before or after. The same is true with drugs today. There was no great cocaine problem before government made it illegal. It was an ingredient in coca-cola. There was no great opium problem before government made opium illegal. There were opium dens. The problems arose when government banned these substances, forced their production onto the black market, and forced drug users to buy a super-strong, dangerous supply on the black market. The same is true with steroids.

POLICE STATE:

Another letter to Disney regarding the nude scanners. Letters by themselves are worthless. If Disney sees a drop in revenue, then their officers will pay attention. For this to work, it has to be letters and a significant boycott.

Crime is making a comeback in America. These are signs that America as we know it is collapsing around us. You can bet more and more Americans will be prosecuted for defending themselves too.

Banning cargo traffic from Yemen makes no sense. The last people who want to have bombs blow up on planes are the people on the planes. The next to last are the owners of the planes. After that are the insurance companies. The cargo and insurance companies are in the best position to deal with this problem. This strikes me as another example of government doing something just to say it's doing something, and what it's doing is counterproductive.

WAR:

Long list of sanctioned American military abuses.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Brazil has been rapidly climbing up the wealth ladder, but after electing a former Marxist rebel, that'll quickly turn around.

POLITICS:

Here's your real radicals:

"If you want to see pictures of politicians likened to Hitler, you wouldn't find them at any Tea Party rally ... but you did see them at this Rally to Restore Sanity over the weekend."

I was too busy enjoying Halloween to pay attention.

This observation by Boortz shows how fast Americans are becoming fed up with the federal government:

"It took House Democrats 40 years to become out-of-touch enough to get thrown out of office in 1994. It took 12 years for the Republicans to be repudiated in 2006. Now it appears that the current Democrat majority has lost voter confidence in only four years."

This is because the problem is government, not one party or the other.

Harry Reid is pandering to the Hispanic vote by promising to bring up the Dream Act in the lame duck session. Maybe this might excite them, but they don't have to vote for Reid to do this. He's be smarter to promise to bring it up in the next session of Congress and not the lame duck session.

Rudy Guiliani fears the tea party.

"Rudy himself then appeared (well, his talking head did, anyway), and announced:  “We need a strong Republican National Committee that will punishRepublicans who criticize other Republicans.  Look at all those incumbents who lost in the primaries!!” (emphasis in original)."

The ruling class is scared, but I don't think they're scared of the tea party today. The ruling class knows what's going on. They know their charade is almost up. But they expect the people to remain docile even as they turn us into paupers. The tea party is an indication that the people will be anything but docile. I'm sure they all have escape plans, but they don't want to use them.

Gerald Celente gets it right:

"Regardless of who wins, nothing of consequence will change.  Campaign 2010 is no more than a "Political Reality Show.""

""Republicans ousting Democrats is like the Gambino’s replacing the Bonnano’s.  "Whoever wins, the people lose.""

Government is the ultimate monopoly, using its power to legalize its crimes.

This libertarian pledge to America sounds similar to my hope for a president who will nullify 90 percent of government.

Polls show how angry Americans are, but they're going to get angrier when the country continues to go downhill after this election and even more angry when the country continues to go downhill after the 2012 election.

"In the weeks leading up to the election, poll after poll after poll has shown that the American people are angrier at government than at any other point in modern U.S. history."

I doubt that. I bet Americans were more angry during the Civil War, but they didn't have polls back then.

"Both political parties are busy pointing fingers at each other, but what all the major polls in the weeks leading up to the election clearly show is that the American people are placing the blame on both the Republicans and the Democrats. In fact, as you will see below, a clear majority of the American people now wish that they could throw every member of Congress out of office and a clear majority of the American people now wish that they had a third political party to vote for."

As positive as that is, it won't change anything this year.

"There are 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. At the very most, about 100 of those seats are actually "in play" – meaning that they have a chance to change hands.

So that means that we are going to see at least 335 of the exact same faces when the U.S. House of Representatives begins a new session.

The cold, hard reality is that our current system greatly, greatly, greatly favors incumbents.

Over the past five elections, incumbents have been re-elected to the U.S. House of Representatives at an average rate of 96 percent.

Wouldn't you like to have a 96 percent chance of winning?

Sure, in 2010 things will be a little different, but we will still likely see incumbents winning at least 80 percent of their matchups.

So much for "change," eh?"

We created the two party system over centuries. We have nobody but ourselves to blame for it. But we still have hope Americans will vote a fierce libertarian into the presidency in 2012.

Conservative sees three different tea party factions, but he fails to mention libertarians, probably on purpose. Of course maybe most libertarians have come to the same conclusion I have: the tea party is still part of the problem. But libertarians would be stupid to cut themselves off from tea partiers. The tea parties will evolve, and the more we can get educate them toward libertarian positions, the better.

Tom Delay is just now going to trial? Whatever happened to swift justice?

"At the heart of the case is one transaction: DeLay's political committee in Texas sent $190,000 to the Republican National Committee, which donated the same amount in noncorporate money to seven Texas candidates supported by DeLay."

If this is accurate, that charge is ridiculous. This just shows the law is ridiculous.

MEDIA:

CBS affiliate's reporters mistakenly leave message on Alaska senatorial candidate Joe Miller's message machine relating how they can make up stories about him. Conservatives are up in arms, but this just sounds like they were joking to me. Obviously they're hardcore Democrats, just like the vast majority of news people, but it doesn't sound like they seriously planned to make up a phony story. If they were serious, they wouldn't be laughing.

MISC:

Android reinvents keyboard for mobile devices. I have no idea if this will be revolutionary or ignored.


In the wake of Oracle acquiring Sun, Openoffice.org declares independence and spins itself off as The Document Foundation, taking 33 developers with it.


I think kinect brings the final piece of technology to make 1984 real. Check out these features:

"Kinect uses a motion sensor that tracks your entire body. So when you play, it’s not only about your hands and wrists. It’s about all of you. Arms, legs, knees, waist, hips and so on."

"As you play, Kinect creates a digital skeleton of you based on depth data. So when you move left or right or jump around, the sensor will capture it and put you in the game."

So it can track your every move.

"Kinect ID remembers who you are by collecting physical data that’s stored in your profile. So when you want to play again, Kinect will know it’s you, making it easy to jump in whenever you want."

It can differentiate everybody in the room.

"Kinect uses four strategically placed microphones within the sensor to recognize and separate your voice from the other noises in the room, so you can control movies and more with your voice."

It can also differentiate the voices of everybody in the room. Now that it exists, all they have to do is build it into the TV, and big brother will watch us 24/7. They probably don't even need to build it into a TV. All they have to do is invent some sort of game that people will want to run all the time. At first people will voluntarily broadcast their every move and sound to the server somewhere for government to monitor, but they'll quickly evolve this technology so it's on all the time. Obviously there's currently bandwidth limitations to widespread audio uploading, but by the time they have the bandwidth for that, Americans will already be conditioned to have this running 24/7. A Google search turned up nothing about this possibility.


Is the International Space Station worth $100 billion?

"Asking the International Space Station to justify its existence is a tall order. NASA estimates the station has cost U.S. taxpayers $50 billion since 1994 — and overall, its price tag has been pegged at $100 billion by all member nations."

"Now, as NASA celebrates the 10th anniversary of astronauts living on the space station — and with construction essentially complete, the question remains — will the International Space Station ever really pay off scientifically? [Graphic: The International Space Station Inside and Out]"

Debating this is useless. There's one and only way way to discover the value of the ISS. Sell it. The ISS is worth whatever somebody will pay for it voluntarily and not a dime more. I'd be shocked if anybody would pay $100 billion.

"Naturally, Tara Ruttley, NASA's associate program scientist for the International Space Station, said she sees things differently. "I think those who are naysayers haven't given us a chance — haven't given us enough time to show what we can do," she said."

Naturally. That's the excuse government-worshipers always use. Ten years isn't enough. If it was in use for 100 years, the head bureaucrat would still say it wasn't enough. No amount of time is ever enough for government because government can't be effective since it operates without prices and profits to guide it.

Central Planning Is Our Problem

Central Planning Is Our Problem
by Mark Luedtke

I applaud Michelle Obama for highlighting the issue of childhood obesity. Who doesn’t want children to be healthier? But more central planning is not the solution.

From the establishment of the American colonies until 50 or so years ago, the American people were the healthiest, best educated people in the world. Everywhere Americans traveled, they strode like giants among men. But in the last 50 years obesity and diabetes have exploded in the US. American life expectancy has flattened and is even backsliding in some areas. American children consistently rank among the lowest in math and reading scores compared to children of other developed nations.

Life expectancy in Washington D.C. is far and away the lowest in the nation. Life expectancy is backsliding in the south and Appalachia. Scientists predict life expectancy will soon decline all over the US. The reason Americans were so healthy and rapidly advanced in life expectancy in the past is they took care of themselves and each other in a system of voluntary exchange, largely free from government coercion. But since progressives took over both the Republican and Democrat parties at the beginning of the 20th century, that’s dramatically changed.

A lot of our health problems have arisen from government’s century long takeover of the health care industry. As Milton Friedman pointed out in 1997:

“Government’s share [of health care spending] went from an eighth of the total in 1919 to a quarter in 1965 to nearly half in 1997. The rise in the government’s share has been accompanied by centralization of spending—away from state and local governments to the federal government. We are headed toward completely socialized medicine and are already halfway there, if, in addition to direct costs, we include indirect tax subsidies.”

Prophetic. Government dominates our health care system significantly more today than in 1997. Wielding regulations like lightning bolts, striking down the competition, and offering subsidies like mana, aristocrats created Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Medicine as their servants. In return for tribute the aristocrats empower them to loot billions from us. We suffer increased costs and a reduction in quality of service and outcome.

The same thing has happened in agriculture. Wiping out the competition with strokes of their pens, aristocrats created Big Ag, corporate farms and giant food corporations to serve them and pay them tribute. In return the aristocrats empower them to loot us too. The result is our overpriced, unhealthy food supply.

A hundred years ago people cooked with healthy fats like butter, lard and coconut oil. In 1911 Proctor & Gamble introduced the fake oil Crisco, but fake fats didn’t replace healthy ones in the American diet until the FDA adopted policies based on a fraudulent study by Ansel Keys in the 1950s. Keys ignored data from 15 countries in order to produce his fraudulent report that saturated fat caused heart disease. We still suffer the consequences today.

The FDA also created the famous food pyramid that promoted the consumption of grains and very little meat and fat, even though grains are toxic to humans - we never evolved to eat them - and we need large amounts of healthy meat and fat to be healthy. Still today, commercials for whole grain foods, supported by the government despite their toxic effects, are everywhere.

As if government hasn’t made us unhealthy enough, corn subsidies and regulations have led to virtually every processed food product in the marketplace containing one of the most dangerous substances in our food supply: high fructose corn syrup [HFCS]. The rise in obesity and diabetes tracks the increase in HFCS in our foods.

In a marketplace free from government coercion, people wouldn’t spend their hard-earned money on toxic products. Fierce competition would make healthy food abundant and significantly cheaper. Processed crap would be virtually non-existent. We can use reason to deduce this, but we can also see it by looking at foreign countries. Up until a decade ago, the US was the only country on earth that suffered from these products. But as other countries become Americanized, their populations are experiencing similar obesity and diabetes epidemics. Blaming corporations instead of government for these problems is like blaming dogs for their bad behavior instead of blaming the master that trained them.

But it’s hard to educate Americans about healthy diets because over the last 100 years the government has seized monopoly control of our school system too. Instead of heeding Thomas Jefferson’s warning against compulsory education, the progressives forced Karl Marx’s scheme on us. Imprisoning students at the point of the government’s gun in mind-numbingly boring and regimented indoctrination centers modelled on the Prussian empire’s schools for creating mindless military drones for eight hours a day, most of which they should naturally spend playing, crushes the ability of independent thought from students which makes them easy prey for advertisers even as adults and makes them fatter. Plus they’ve been brainwashed into thinking government works in their interest.

The way to make children healthy again is to abolish the Dept. of Education, the Dept. of Agriculture and the Dept. of Health and Human Services and get all levels of government out of our economy. This would re-empower people to think, act and cooperate in their best interest in a competitive marketplace. Government cannot solve our health problems because government is the problem.