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Paul Krugman: government eliminates opportunity cost

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Monday, June 13, 2011
Paul Krugman: government eliminates opportunity cost
William Anderson

Ever since the Progressive Era, Americans have been bombarded with the notion that all goods really are collective in nature. Thus, we hear about "our food supply" and "our oil," and "our healthcare."

If goods truly are collective, then it ultimately is up to that most collective entity, government, to "distribute" them. Pay no attention to the real problems that arise out of the notion of collective things, which is nothing but socialism using different terms. And even Paul Krugman cannot "solve" the central problem of socialism: economic calculation.

In his column on Medicare, Krugman manages to wrap a falsehood around a central kernel of truth, that being that on paper, Medicare costs less than private insurance. He writes:

...here's what you need to know: Medicare actually saves money a lot of money compared with relying on private insurance companies. And this in turn means that pushing people out of Medicare, in addition to depriving many Americans of needed care, would almost surely end up increasing total health care costs.

The idea of Medicare as a money-saving program may seem hard to grasp. After all, hasn't Medicare spending risen dramatically over time? Yes, it has: adjusting for overall inflation, Medicare spending per beneficiary rose more than 400 percent from 1969 to 2009.

But inflation-adjusted premiums on private health insurance rose more than 700 percent over the same period. So while it's true that Medicare has done an inadequate job of controlling costs, the private sector has done much worse. And if we deny Medicare to 65- and 66-year-olds, we'll be forcing them to get private insurance if they can that will cost much more than it would have cost to provide the same coverage through Medicare.

And what causes this problem? Private enterprise, of course:

And then there's the international evidence. The United States has the most privatized health care system in the advanced world; it also has, by far, the most expensive care, without gaining any clear advantage in quality for all that spending. Health is one area in which the public sector consistently does a better job than the private sector at controlling costs.

I will give Krugman his argument as far as it goes, but I think that a few points just might be in order, points that Krugman conveniently ignores.

The first is that Medicare is NOT subject to state mandates, and that is a huge factor, as mandates drive up the cost of insurance. (I won't ask why Krugman ignores this point except to say that it does not fit with his narrative that socialism is morally and economically superior to private enterprise.)

Second, Medicare sets the payment schedule and doctors that treat Medicare patients have no other choice. Patients can sue insurance companies and the media generally will side with patients and doctors in having the courts order insurers to spend lots of extra money. However, that does not happen (to my knowledge) with Medicare.

Third, there is no way that the advent of third-party payments will NOT result in higher costs, as decisions for care are made by people who do not have a direct interest in the outcomes. Keep in mind that if we had third-party payments for buying other things, like food, then food prices would be higher than they are now.

Fourth, Krugman falls for the silly doctrine that medical care is "different" and not really subject to the laws of economics. Now, keep in mind that when we say that something is subject to economic laws, what we are saying is that it is a scarce good. If economic laws don't apply, then the good cannot be scarce.

I cannot believe for a second that Krugman would claim that medical care is a non scarce item, yet, he writes about medical care as though it is not scarce. For example, take his long-held view that medical capital drives up costs. If that were true, then it would be the first time in economic history that the presence of capital (at least developed in a free market) forced real costs to be higher than they would be in the absence of capital.

Would Krugman ever write that the development of the assembly line made automobile costs higher? If that were true, then the story of how Henry Ford was able to bring down the price of a new car from about $1,000 to less than $300 simply would be non-existent.

If, indeed, capital were to be responsible for higher real medical costs, then one would have to look at other factors to see why this would be so, for it makes no economic sense by itself. Unfortunately, Krugman is not willing to go outside the narrative that medical care is "different."

Moreover, if government by taking over payments can eliminate opportunity cost (or make it substantially lower), then why does not government involve itself in everything else and lower costs? For that matter, if government by simple fiat can create such miracles, then why has socialism failed in places like Cuba, North Korea and the U.S.S.R.?

ARAB HEADS EXPLODING over news that Israel's oil and gas reserves could rival Saudi Arabia's

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ARAB HEADS EXPLODING over news that Israel's oil and gas reserves could rival Saudi Arabia's

barenakedislam | June 13, 2011 at 5:45 PM | Categories: Islam and the Jews | URL: http://wp.me/peHnV-vgd

Even better, while oil shale and gas reserves have been found in Israel and Jordan, NOTHING has been found in the West Bank and Gaza. Think of the implications - Israel could replace the Islamic terrorist nations as a major oil/natural gas supplier to the world. Israel sitting on 1.7 billion barrels of oil and 122 trillion cubic feet [...]

"And then the Witch Doctor (Muhammad) he told me what to do"

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"And then the Witch Doctor (Muhammad) he told me what to do"

barenakedislam | June 13, 2011 at 7:05 PM | Categories: Laughing at Islam | URL: http://wp.me/peHnV-vgE

He said, "OO-EE-OO-AH-AH-TING-TANG-WALLA-WALLA-BING-BANG, OO-EE-OO-AH-AH-TING-TANG-Kill all the Jews and all the infidels...."

Re: Government “Waste” Is the Least of Our Problems

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Give me the job.... I could do some serious trimming.

On Jun 13, 4:02 pm, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> welcome to the ills of socialism and it's destructive nature
>
> On Jun 13, 2:44 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
>
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>
>
>
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> > Government "Waste" Is the Least of Our ProblemsByAnthony Gregory| Monday June 13, 2011 at 10:41 AM PDT
> > Sometimes I swear we are living in a dystopian novel whose author is courteous enough to provide us mere extras in his story with plenty of comedic relief to make the days tolerable.The USA Today headline reads:"Obama, Biden again target government waste."Yes. That's in fact what it says. The administration that has given us a $3.7 trillion budget is so concerned about wasting money, you see, that its Vice President is heading up a "Campaign to Cut Waste." The White House brags of having trimmed $33 billion of waste in the last year. That amounts to less than 1% of the budgeta budget that is, in nominal dollar terms, approximatelydoublewhat it was a decade ago. Back in 2001 I remember thinking about how small our government was, and how if only we doubled its size, and were careful to cut back about a percent of that sum that happens to be "waste," we'd be in great shape. Oh wait a second. That's not what I thought at all.
> > Yet all this talk of waste misses the point. Perhaps there are better uses of our tax dollars than "waste," but I must say, I prefer so-called waste to most of what the government spends money on. Government is destructive. Most of what it does is harmful. Being an agency of violence and the threat of violence, the institution of government runs counter to economic progress as a general principle. Even worse, its coercive grip strangles the freedom out of people as a matter of course, and, far more often than Americans seem accustomed to recognizing, it kills people.
> > If only the regulatory state's budget were a matter of "waste." If the federal government did not spend billions to hire and empower regulators who each spend hours a day sending out edicts to business, telling employers who to hire and not to hire, commanding state governments and industry on the parameters of infrastructure and architecture, imposing rules on pharmaceutical companies concerning which drugs they can produce and sell, strong-arming commercial enterprises into the advertising guidelines chosen by politicians, telling banks what interest rates ought to be, instructing telecommunications businesses on the rules of speech and the distribution of information, threatening farmers and corporations with invasive environmental regulations, imposing speech codes on workplaces, dictating what furniture and employment standards companies can utilize, forcing national standards on food manufactures, controlling the business practices of bars and restaurants, deciding which immigrants were free to enter the county to work and which ones were not, setting tariff rates for international trade, determining which education policies passed federal muster, overriding the decisions of doctors, medical professionals and patients, imposing billions of hours of ridiculous paperwork onto the private sector, spying on our communications, diverting resources from economical purposes to counterproductive ones, threatening peaceful entrepreneurs with fines and imprisonment for their consensual business activities, and otherwise obstructing the economic growth made possible by the free market, we would be so much better off it should make any thinking person angry to contemplate it. Indeed, if the government simply took the same tax dollars it spends on regulation, used it to buy up as many products as that money could buy, and dumped all those products into the ocean, the economy would rebound almost instantly and we would likely witness the greatest genuine boom in American productivity in three generations, as the money being wasted would be so much healthier for growth than the money being spent as it is nowon destroying wealth on an atrocious scale through the crippling burden of regulations. The pharmaceutical regulations alone, once unenforced, would translate into thousands of lives saved, as the FDA notoriously kills Americans in large quantities by depriving them of life-saving drugs. This would be a great and moral end in itself, but it would also be a boon for the economy.
> > Or what if the warfare state money were simply wasted? Pentagon waste has got to be the best thing coming from that department. When Obama decided to stop spending so much on Cold War weaponry that would never be used and divert the funds to 21st century killing machines to deploy against insurgents in Pakistan and other such places, many cheered but I did not. For a weapon that gathers dust is the best kind the military buys. One could correctly argue that the thousands of nuclear weapons, by their mere existence, pose an existential threat to humanity and should be eliminated, but the point stands that so long as they have the potential to be used, better that they not be. Nevertheless, the U.S. military establishment, at nearly a trillion dollars a year when all is carefully accounted for, makes us less safe, hinders our freedom, and, most important, actively and energetically pesters, harasses, oppresses, tortures and murders foreigners in numerous countries. Millions have been slaughtered, directly and by stealth means, by the U.S. warfare state, only in the last couple decades. If Obama wants to cut down the budget by more than $33 billion a year, he should look first to this monstrosity, probably the greatest threat to world peace currently existing, and slash away. But short of that, he should convert the entire military machine to one of "waste" as opposed to engagement and activity. A trillion dollars spent yearly on waste, or to pay personnel to sit around and play blackjack all day, would be far better for American freedom, American wealth, and global affairs, than allowing the status quo of murderous war to continue.
> > Then there is the U.S. police state. If only its budget was wasted! Instead, billions are spent tracking down, trying, and locking people into cages. Many of these peopleabout half at the federal levelare nothing but offenders with no victim. Drug offenders, tax offenders, gun offenders and other violators of laws that don't belong in a free society. If this money were spent on building huge modern art projects and launching them into the sun, society would prosper significantly relative to where it is thanks to how the money is actually spent. Surely, building prisons and not filling them with peaceful people is infinitely morally preferable to building prisons and housing harmless souls inside their cages. These cages, which have in many cases become torture chambers and rape rooms, are the great domestic atrocity of our time, so putting an end to them is a moral mandate in itself, even putting aside the billions that could be saved by ridding of them. And with each innocent man caged, we lose the chance of that person being out there in the private sector actually producing wealth, which we desperately need in this time of recession. And this doesn't even account for how much federal criminal justice programs, by their very nature, foment social conflict, subsidize gang warfare through drug and gun prohibitions, and generally make us less safe, less free and less wealthy.
> > Then there is all the welfarecorporate and individualwhich distorts the economy and poisons the social fabric. In the long term this, too, is more destructive than mere government waste, as the opportunity cost of businesses catering to politicians rather than customers is unspeakably immense, and the encouragement of people to rely on the federal government rather than on each other for support is a rot at the core of the culture's character and the key method by which the empire and police state maintain the trust and love of the oppressed masses.
> > I do not want to understate the evil of government waste. A billion dollars stolen from taxpayers and sent down the drain is an injustice and a moral disgrace of national importance. But government is an organ of plunder, economic dislocation, mass imprisonment, social destruction, persecution and mass murder. Given that it steals our moneycertainly a great evil in itselfwe're generally much better off the larger portion of its budget goes purely to waste.http://blog.independent.org/2011/06/13/government-waste-is-the-least-...

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Re: Did Weiner Secretly Convert to Islam to Marry a Muslim?

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Weiner was raised Jewish but admitted to growing up in a non-religious
household?
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who really cares if he's a jew and she's a muzzy?

being a jew because his mother was a jew is total bs

On Jun 13, 2:16 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://floydreports.com/did-weiner-secretly-convert-to-islam-to-marry...

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Re: Muslim sues Diocese Of Allentown over Ramadan lunch break

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why would the diocese hire a muslim?

do synagogues hire muslims?
do xian churches hire muslims?

they can't be forced to ... it was a mistake that they're now
regretting

maybe they'll learn something from this

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Re: Government “Waste” Is the Least of Our Problems

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welcome to the ills of socialism and it's destructive nature

On Jun 13, 2:44 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> Government "Waste" Is the Least of Our ProblemsByAnthony Gregory| Monday June 13, 2011 at 10:41 AM PDT
> Sometimes I swear we are living in a dystopian novel whose author is courteous enough to provide us mere extras in his story with plenty of comedic relief to make the days tolerable.The USA Today headline reads:"Obama, Biden again target government waste."Yes. That's in fact what it says. The administration that has given us a $3.7 trillion budget is so concerned about wasting money, you see, that its Vice President is heading up a "Campaign to Cut Waste." The White House brags of having trimmed $33 billion of waste in the last year. That amounts to less than 1% of the budgeta budget that is, in nominal dollar terms, approximatelydoublewhat it was a decade ago. Back in 2001 I remember thinking about how small our government was, and how if only we doubled its size, and were careful to cut back about a percent of that sum that happens to be "waste," we'd be in great shape. Oh wait a second. That's not what I thought at all.
> Yet all this talk of waste misses the point. Perhaps there are better uses of our tax dollars than "waste," but I must say, I prefer so-called waste to most of what the government spends money on. Government is destructive. Most of what it does is harmful. Being an agency of violence and the threat of violence, the institution of government runs counter to economic progress as a general principle. Even worse, its coercive grip strangles the freedom out of people as a matter of course, and, far more often than Americans seem accustomed to recognizing, it kills people.
> If only the regulatory state's budget were a matter of "waste." If the federal government did not spend billions to hire and empower regulators who each spend hours a day sending out edicts to business, telling employers who to hire and not to hire, commanding state governments and industry on the parameters of infrastructure and architecture, imposing rules on pharmaceutical companies concerning which drugs they can produce and sell, strong-arming commercial enterprises into the advertising guidelines chosen by politicians, telling banks what interest rates ought to be, instructing telecommunications businesses on the rules of speech and the distribution of information, threatening farmers and corporations with invasive environmental regulations, imposing speech codes on workplaces, dictating what furniture and employment standards companies can utilize, forcing national standards on food manufactures, controlling the business practices of bars and restaurants, deciding which immigrants were free to enter the county to work and which ones were not, setting tariff rates for international trade, determining which education policies passed federal muster, overriding the decisions of doctors, medical professionals and patients, imposing billions of hours of ridiculous paperwork onto the private sector, spying on our communications, diverting resources from economical purposes to counterproductive ones, threatening peaceful entrepreneurs with fines and imprisonment for their consensual business activities, and otherwise obstructing the economic growth made possible by the free market, we would be so much better off it should make any thinking person angry to contemplate it. Indeed, if the government simply took the same tax dollars it spends on regulation, used it to buy up as many products as that money could buy, and dumped all those products into the ocean, the economy would rebound almost instantly and we would likely witness the greatest genuine boom in American productivity in three generations, as the money being wasted would be so much healthier for growth than the money being spent as it is nowon destroying wealth on an atrocious scale through the crippling burden of regulations. The pharmaceutical regulations alone, once unenforced, would translate into thousands of lives saved, as the FDA notoriously kills Americans in large quantities by depriving them of life-saving drugs. This would be a great and moral end in itself, but it would also be a boon for the economy.
> Or what if the warfare state money were simply wasted? Pentagon waste has got to be the best thing coming from that department. When Obama decided to stop spending so much on Cold War weaponry that would never be used and divert the funds to 21st century killing machines to deploy against insurgents in Pakistan and other such places, many cheered but I did not. For a weapon that gathers dust is the best kind the military buys. One could correctly argue that the thousands of nuclear weapons, by their mere existence, pose an existential threat to humanity and should be eliminated, but the point stands that so long as they have the potential to be used, better that they not be. Nevertheless, the U.S. military establishment, at nearly a trillion dollars a year when all is carefully accounted for, makes us less safe, hinders our freedom, and, most important, actively and energetically pesters, harasses, oppresses, tortures and murders foreigners in numerous countries. Millions have been slaughtered, directly and by stealth means, by the U.S. warfare state, only in the last couple decades. If Obama wants to cut down the budget by more than $33 billion a year, he should look first to this monstrosity, probably the greatest threat to world peace currently existing, and slash away. But short of that, he should convert the entire military machine to one of "waste" as opposed to engagement and activity. A trillion dollars spent yearly on waste, or to pay personnel to sit around and play blackjack all day, would be far better for American freedom, American wealth, and global affairs, than allowing the status quo of murderous war to continue.
> Then there is the U.S. police state. If only its budget was wasted! Instead, billions are spent tracking down, trying, and locking people into cages. Many of these peopleabout half at the federal levelare nothing but offenders with no victim. Drug offenders, tax offenders, gun offenders and other violators of laws that don't belong in a free society. If this money were spent on building huge modern art projects and launching them into the sun, society would prosper significantly relative to where it is thanks to how the money is actually spent. Surely, building prisons and not filling them with peaceful people is infinitely morally preferable to building prisons and housing harmless souls inside their cages. These cages, which have in many cases become torture chambers and rape rooms, are the great domestic atrocity of our time, so putting an end to them is a moral mandate in itself, even putting aside the billions that could be saved by ridding of them. And with each innocent man caged, we lose the chance of that person being out there in the private sector actually producing wealth, which we desperately need in this time of recession. And this doesn't even account for how much federal criminal justice programs, by their very nature, foment social conflict, subsidize gang warfare through drug and gun prohibitions, and generally make us less safe, less free and less wealthy.
> Then there is all the welfarecorporate and individualwhich distorts the economy and poisons the social fabric. In the long term this, too, is more destructive than mere government waste, as the opportunity cost of businesses catering to politicians rather than customers is unspeakably immense, and the encouragement of people to rely on the federal government rather than on each other for support is a rot at the core of the culture's character and the key method by which the empire and police state maintain the trust and love of the oppressed masses.
> I do not want to understate the evil of government waste. A billion dollars stolen from taxpayers and sent down the drain is an injustice and a moral disgrace of national importance. But government is an organ of plunder, economic dislocation, mass imprisonment, social destruction, persecution and mass murder. Given that it steals our moneycertainly a great evil in itselfwe're generally much better off the larger portion of its budget goes purely to waste.http://blog.independent.org/2011/06/13/government-waste-is-the-least-of-our-problems/

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Re: Busting the rituals that are destroying the USA.

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I believethe only structure I need for my life is the
following:
* Thou shalt have no other gods ...
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ah, another jewish myth believing patriot

wake up!

On Jun 13, 3:09 pm, Jonathan Ashley <jonathanashle...@lavabit.com>
wrote:
> John,
>
> 1) I have elucidated many if not most of the fallacies of YOUR New
> Constitution repeatedly.
>
> 2) You never answer any pointed questions that I (or anyone else) raise
> about said fallacies.
>
> 3) No, I am not a fan of the document created by the founding fathers. I
> am a voluntarist. I believethe only structure I need for my life is the
> following:
>
> * Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
> * Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the
> LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
> * Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
> * Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon
> the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
> * Thou shalt not murder.
> * Thou shalt not commit adultery.
> * Thou shalt not steal.
> * Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
> * Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet
> thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor
> his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
>
> I see nothing written there that says "Thou shalt accept the rule of
> governments" that create inane, arbitrary laws designed to control my life.
>
> It is important to note that YOUR New Constitution is
> socialist/fascistic mumbo-jumbo.
>
> On 06/09/2011 07:07 PM, NoEinstein wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Dear J. Ashley: Do me a favor. Please elucidate any supposed fallacy
> > in my New Constitution. I applied simple, unselfish principles to
> > write everything. The Founding Fathers never explained the principles
> > they used. Do you dislike their work, too? ï¿½ J. A. A. ï¿½
> > On Jun 6, 4:23 pm, Jonathan Ashley<jonathanashle...@lavabit.com>
> > wrote:
> >> John,
>
> >> I certainly don't want you repeating your fallacies.
>
> >> On 06/06/2011 12:04 PM, NoEinstein wrote:
>
> >>> Dear J. Ashley: I read you reply, below, in the 'lead-in' to my
> >>> posts. I replied to this at another location you are sure to see.
> >>> Forgive me for not repeating things, here. ï¿½ J. A. A. ï¿½
> >>> On Jun 4, 9:38 pm, Jonathan Ashley<jonathanashle...@lavabit.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> John,
> >>>> 1) You wrote, "Since the Secret Service seems more inclined to go along
> >>>> with the 'protocol' of ritual, than they are inclined to obey their
> >>>> sworn oaths to uphold the Constitution..."
> >>>> Where can one find the oath "to uphold the Constitution" you continue to
> >>>> claim Secret Service members have sworn to uphold?
> >>>> As far as I have been able to find, agents are sworn to sacrifice their
> >>>> life for the President and be ï¿½worthy of trust and confidence.ï¿½ I am
> >>>> hoping your superior intellect can point me in the right direction.
> >>>> 2) If you are looking for "true American patriots" you won't find them
> >>>> among any of the folks you mention in this diatribe.
> >>>> 3) You should look into the proper usage of "(sic)." Just because you
> >>>> placed "President" in quotes before using it does not make its usage
> >>>> appropriate.
> >>>> On 06/04/2011 02:12 PM, NoEinstein wrote:
> >>>>> Memorial Day rituals include watching TV broadcasts from the Capital
> >>>>> lawn. There, thousands of smiling people sway to the patriotic music
> >>>>> while feeling good about the sacrifices made by so many thousands of
> >>>>> men and women to keep our country free. Military officers in pristine
> >>>>> uniforms carry our Stars and Strips. The sameness of such solemn
> >>>>> rituals helps maintain the delusion that all things areï¿½ well in this
> >>>>> country. Instead of active revoltsï¿½like author Dick Morris manages to
> >>>>> bypass advocating in his bookï¿½Americans have their ï¿½fighting
> >>>>> instinctsï¿½ placated by harmless ï¿½bombs bursting in airï¿½. The fact is,
> >>>>> such fireworks displays are little more than loud eye-candy that
> >>>>> effectively cause most Americanï¿½s to figure the battles have been
> >>>>> fought. But has any ï¿½warï¿½ to right our countryï¿½s course been won?
> >>>>> Dick Morris consistently misses the point when he figures the needed
> >>>>> ï¿½revoltï¿½ to save the USA, economically and socially, can be won while
> >>>>> saving the failed rituals that brought this country to the brink of
> >>>>> ruin in the first place. He talks about some vague ï¿½conservative
> >>>>> candidateï¿½ winning the 2012 Presidential raceï¿½ against Barack Obama.
> >>>>> Morris, like most at Fox News, smiles so broadly in talking about the
> >>>>> 2012 race for President, that he, effectively, is endorsing having an
> >>>>> unconstitutionalï¿½ Manchurian Candidate President from Kenya, who is
> >>>>> THE most hurtful man to the USA in our entire history, get aï¿½ ï¿½second
> >>>>> chanceï¿½ at the White House.
> >>>>> I almost gag each time Barack Obama bounces down the steps of Air
> >>>>> Force Oneï¿½every bit as well as Fred Astaire could have done. At the
> >>>>> bottom of the planeï¿½s stair our ï¿½Presidentï¿½ (sic) is greeted by
> >>>>> saluting, smiling soldiers. Those are caught in the God Damned ritual
> >>>>> of looking up to whatever crook happens to be squatting in the White
> >>>>> House. None of those soldiers, not even generals, have yet to honor
> >>>>> their sworn oaths toï¿½ ï¿½protect this country from all enemies, foreign
> >>>>> and domestic.ï¿½ The vote is still out whether Barack Obama can qualify
> >>>>> as a domestic enemy. *** Unless the US Secret Service says,
> >>>>> definitively, that Obama isï¿½ domestic, then I side with the thousands
> >>>>> of computer savvy graphics experts who know that all LAYERED PDF files
> >>>>> are contrived documents. And if Barack Obama, indeed, presented such
> >>>>> a contrived ï¿½long formï¿½ birth certificate, then he should be hanged
> >>>>> for TREASON on that fact alone! Since the Secret Service seems more
> >>>>> inclined to go along with the ï¿½protocolï¿½ of ritual, than they are
> >>>>> inclined to obey their sworn oaths to uphold the Constitution, every
> >>>>> compliant member of the Secret Service looking the other way to W. H.
> >>>>> criminality is giving aid and comfort to the enemyï¿½treason. A lot of
> >>>>> strong, and should have been smarter men, are going to hangï¿½ unless
> >>>>> one of those men is moral enough to DO what is right for America, and
> >>>>> to crap-on any ritual that would do otherwise!
> >>>>> The reason Fox News and other media outlets play down Obamaï¿½s
> >>>>> contrived citizenship in this country is because all of those know
> >>>>> that nothing would shoot-down faster, the (G. D.) rituals of our
> >>>>> unconstitutional two party political system, and the spaced-out (in
> >>>>> time and place), unconstitutional presidential primaries. Our country
> >>>>> would forever be changed, not by me, but by Donald Trump. Heï¿½s the
> >>>>> first ï¿½public figureï¿½ brave enough to point out that Barack Obama
> >>>>> isnï¿½tï¿½ lily white. Sarah Palin, reportedly, has urged Trump to
> >>>>> consider running as an independent. I want ALL serious candidates for
> >>>>> President to run as independents! That way they can say to HELL with
> >>>>> the wasteful, unconstitutional and immoral political primaries!
> >>>>> Instead of spending billions on the primaries, the candidates would
> >>>>> only need to raise, like, five million dollars each to support the
> >>>>> needed preparation for the several, aired presidential debates and the
> >>>>> nationally televised personal interviews (Barbara Walters and Katie
> >>>>> Couric excluded). The advent of their being TVs in every home has
> >>>>> shot-to-hell any rationale for having a bunch of FOOL presidential
> >>>>> candidates crisscrossing the country to press-the-flesh with typically
> >>>>> apathetic voters. Making unkeepable promises to those same disparate
> >>>>> voters borders on bribery. ï¿½Vote for ME, and I will do this for you!ï¿½
> >>>>> is the promise that got Obama elected (gag). But never more! It will
> >>>>> only take one or two other public figures, with the strength of
> >>>>> character of Donald Trump, to ï¿½fire the SECOND shot heard round the
> >>>>> world.ï¿½ ï¿½Revoltï¿½, Dick Morris! ï¿½Revoltï¿½, Bernie Goldberg! ï¿½Revoltï¿½,
> >>>>> Rick Santorum! ï¿½Revoltï¿½, Sarah Palin! ï¿½Revoltï¿½ all true American
> >>>>> patriots who are out there!
> >>>>> Itï¿½s appropriate to honor our military on Memorial Day. I think it
> >>>>> would be nice to have a few people be vocal regarding my spending
> >>>>> fifteen years of my life Penning and Polishing my New Constitution of
> >>>>> the USA. Over the past few years, Iï¿½ve written essays totaling more
> >>>>> words than the novel ï¿½War and Peace.ï¿½ The theme of most of those
> >>>>> could be: ï¿½Economic doom or Capitalist prosperityï¿½! Read my book
> >>>>> touting the latter cure for our woes. The simple cures are the best!
> >>>>> Respectfully submitted,
> >>>>> ï¿½ John A. Armistead ï¿½ Patriot
> >>>>> AKA NoEinstein on Googleï¿½s sci.physics news group.
> >>>>>http://groups.google.com/group/politicalforum/browse_thread/thread/eb...
> >>>> --
> >>>> Freedom is always illegal!
> >>>> When we ask for freedom, we have already failed. It is only when we
> >>>> declare freedom for ourselves and refuse to accept any less, that we
> >>>> have any possibility of being free.
> >> --
>
> >> Freedom is always illegal!
>
> >> When we ask for freedom, we have already failed. It is only when we
> >> declare freedom for ourselves and refuse to accept any less, that we
> >> have any possibility of being free.
>
> --
>
> Freedom is always illegal!
>
> When we ask for freedom, we have already failed. It is only when we
> declare freedom for ourselves and refuse to accept any less, that we
> have any possibility of being free.

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John Hospers, Only Gay Presidential Candidate to Receive Electoral College Vote, Dies at 93

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John Hospers, Only Gay Presidential Candidate to Receive Electoral College Vote, Dies at 93

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From Reason magazine/reason.com. I had become FaceBook friends with Dr. Hospers in the past year and had read his book, "Libertarianism," in high school.

JOHN HOSPERS, RIP

Jesse Walker | June 13, 2011

That stripe in Virginia is Libertarian territory.

John Hospers, the Libertarian Party's first presidential candidate, has died at age 93. He was both the least and most successful of the party's nominees: His 1972 campaign received fewer popular votes than any of its successors (not surprisingly, since he was on the ballot in only two states), but it also was the only campaign to get a vote in the Electoral College, thanks to a libertarian-leaning elector who couldn't bring himself to cast a ballot for Nixon. (Hospers told the tale of his presidential run in an entertaining memoir for Liberty [pdf].)

Hospers was a rarity: a professional philosopher who admired rather than despised Ayn Rand. He had a brief friendship with the novelist that ended, as so many of her friendships did, with Rand expelling him from her life; you can read his memories of their relationship in another two Liberty articles [pdf andpdf]. Despite their falling out, she was an influence on Hospers' politics, tugging him in a libertarian direction even as Rand refused to apply the L-word to herself. Along with his many books of academic philosophy, Hospers would write Libertarianism (1971), a general introduction to the libertarian worldview.

Hospers was more hawkish than most members of the libertarian movement, pushing back against the LP's dovish positions through his involvement with the Defense Caucus, which supported a more active foreign policy. Later he joined the GOP, where he was a member of the Republican Liberty Caucus. As a result, many people associate him with the right wing of the movement, but that was only partly true: He leaned left on many environmental issues [pdf] and, as an openly gay man at a time when that entailed greater risks than now, he was certainly no social conservative.

Hospers wrote a film column for Reason in the '70s and periodically contributed articles on other subjects to the magazine as well. I knew him slightly when I worked for Liberty, and I found him unfailingly courteous and friendly; we disagreed on many things, but he always came across as someone who enjoyed rather than was offended by disagreement. Requiescat in pace.

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Fwd: [LPNOVA] John Hospers, RIP

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Obama is the wittiest, funniest, smartest, most fabulous person on the planet (Video)

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Obama is the wittiest, funniest, smartest, most fabulous person on the planet (Video)

Scotty Starnes | June 13, 2011 at 2:30 PM | Tags: cocaine, coke, President Obama | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5s3

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I do think someone is a coke addict.

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Remember those Fat Cat Wall Street Bankers Obama dislikes? Well, O is now asking them for Campaign Cash

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Remember those Fat Cat Wall Street Bankers Obama dislikes? Well, O is now asking them for Campaign Cash

Scotty Starnes | June 13, 2011 at 3:31 PM | Tags: fat-cats, hedge fund managers, President Obama, Wall Street, Wall Street bankers | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5sc

As with everything Obama says or promises, you can expect an expiration date. Obama slammed Wall Street executives and bankers, calling them "fat cats." On the other side of his face, he was hiring these fat cats and bailing them out. Now that 2012 is right around the corner, Obama is reaching out to this fat cats he excoriated in the hopes of building his $1 billion dollar campaign coffer.

Obama is your typical two-face, talk out of both sides of your mouth, politician.

From The New York Times:

WASHINGTON — A few weeks before announcing his re-election campaign, President Obama convened two dozen Wall Street executives, many of them longtime donors, in the White House's Blue Room.

The guests were asked for their thoughts on how to speed the economic recovery, then the president opened the floor for over an hour on hot issues like hedge fund regulation and the deficit.

Mr. Obama, who enraged many financial industry executives a year and a half ago by labeling them "fat cats" and criticizing their bonuses, followed up the meeting with phone calls to those who could not attend.

He didn't criticize the million dollar bonuses his regime gave Freddie and Fannie executives.

The event, organized by the Democratic National Committee, kicked off an aggressive push by Mr. Obama to win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash — in part by trying to convince Wall Street that his policies, far from undercutting the investor class, have helped bring banks and financial markets back to health.

Love it when a liberal news rag busts another liberal myth. For decades, Democrats have attempted to paint, with great success, the Republican party as the party with deep corporate ties. OpenSecrets.org exposed this myth recently by showing corporations, Wall Street fat-cats, Bankers, Lawyers and Unions donate the most to....Barack Hussein Obama and his party.

Last month, Mr. Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina, traveled to New York for back-to-back meetings with Wall Street donors, ending at the home of Marc Lasry, a prominent hedge fund manager, to court donors close to Mr. Obama's onetime rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. And Mr. Obama will return to New York this month to dine with bankers, hedge fund executives and private equity investors at the Upper East Side restaurant Daniel.

"The first goal was to get recognition that the administration has led the economy from an unimaginably difficult place to where we are today," said Blair W. Effron, an investment banker closely involved in Mr. Obama's fund-raising efforts. "Now the second goal is to turn that into support."

Do these idiots not read the economic numbers? Things are worse.

...Executives at large investment banks, a group that gave generously to Mr. Obama in his last campaign, are remaining on the sidelines for now. Only a small handful of such donors have appeared in Mr. Obama's joint campaign filings with the Democratic National Committee, though officials there said more would appear in the coming weeks.

...To offset those defections, Mr. Obama's campaign has deployed a corps of loyal Wall Street supporters who have fanned out to defend the president's record and stoke fatigued donors. They include Robert Wolf, the chief executive of UBS Group Americas; the hedge fund managers Orin S. Kramer and Eric Mindich; and Mark T. Gallogly, a co-founder of Centerbridge Partners.

...Members of the president's economic team and his chief of staff, William M. Daley, a former banking executive, have been more active in reaching out to Wall Street executives about policy issues, donors said, along with Mr. Messina and Patrick Gaspard, the D.N.C.'s executive director.

The campaign and its allies are also seeking to recruit a new group of high-level bundlers, supporters who recruit other donors. They include Antonio Weiss, the global head of investment banking at Lazard; Charles Myers, a senior managing director at Evercore Partners; and James E. Staley, the head of JPMorgan Chase's investment bank.

Sure sounds like someone is kissing up to these special interest groups and lobbyists. I thought Obama wasn't going to let special interest groups or lobbyists have a seat at the table. It's because they're in his bed.

Obama is a fat-cat loving whore!

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'MUSLIM MAFIA' - the book that Terrorist Front Group CAIR is trying to get a court to ban for the THIRD time

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'MUSLIM MAFIA' - the book that Terrorist Front Group CAIR is trying to get a court to ban for the THIRD time

barenakedislam | June 13, 2011 at 4:00 PM | Categories: CAIR Nazis | URL: http://wp.me/peHnV-vft

The powerful Washington, D.C., Islamic lobby group CAIR, established as a front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, is asking a federal judge to expunge all copies of 'Muslim Mafia,' the book that exposes CAIR's ties to radical jihadists and terrorist organizations through original documents secured in a daring undercover operation. WND (H/T Susan K) -After filing two [...]

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John Hospers, Only Gay Presidential Candidate to Receive Electoral College Vote, Dies at 93

John Hospers, Only Gay Presidential Candidate to Receive Electoral College Vote, Dies at 93

JOHN HOSPERS, RIP

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Obama is the wittiest, funniest, smartest, most fabulous person on the planet (Video)

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Remember those Fat Cat Wall Street Bankers Obama dislikes? Well, O is now asking them for Campaign Cash

Remember those Fat Cat Wall Street Bankers Obama dislikes? Well, O is now asking them for Campaign Cash

'MUSLIM MAFIA' - the book that Terrorist Front Group CAIR is trying to get a court to ban for the THIRD time

'MUSLIM MAFIA' - the book that Terrorist Front Group CAIR is trying to get a court to ban for the THIRD time

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