by George Donnelly

Category: Opinion

Healthy Food is not More Expensive, Junk Food is Subsidized

Post author By George Donnelly
Post date July 16, 2011
8 Comments on Healthy Food is not More Expensive, Junk Food is Subsidized

In this chapter of that larger tragicomedy, lawmakers whose campaigns are underwritten by agribusinesses have used billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize those agribusinesses’ specific commodities (corn, soybeans, wheat, etc.) that are the key ingredients of unhealthy food. Not surprisingly, the subsidies have manufactured a price inequality that helps junk food undersell nutritious-but-unsubsidized foodstuffs like […]

Tags agrobusiness, food, Government, healthy, junk, subsidies

Opinion

Lemonade Stand Kids Need a National Union

Post author By George Donnelly
Post date July 16, 2011
4 Comments on Lemonade Stand Kids Need a National Union

This was not “the law’ that shut down Skylar Roberts and company. These are thugs. Every human being is free to engage in economic activity as she or he sees fit. When other people force your decisions upon you, that is exploitation and slavery. The bottom line here is that two or three big people […]

Tags georgia, kids, lemonade, stand, union

Opinion

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET Needs a Bolder Goal

Post author By George Donnelly
Post date July 15, 2011
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We demand that Barack Obama ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington. – Adbusters Adbusters is “a global network of culture jammers and creatives working to change the way information flows, the way corporations wield power, and the way meaning is produced in our society.” Sounds […]

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Libertarian Opinion

The Free State Project is NOT “Open Source”

Post author By George Donnelly
Post date July 15, 2011
10 Comments on The Free State Project is NOT “Open Source”

The FSP (Free State Project) is an open source solution for how to achieve more liberty. – Carla Gericke New Free State Project (FSP) “president” Carla Gericke posted on Facebook today that the FSP is an open source project, or something. That is simply false. An open source project can admittedly take many forms but […]

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Libertarian Opinion

Instead of Making More Rights, Let’s Revoke Corporate Special Privileges

Post author By George Donnelly
Post date July 15, 2011
2 Comments on Instead of Making More Rights, Let’s Revoke Corporate Special Privileges

The ability to access broadband internet is a right, and should be defined as an essential utility. Just as you’re surprised when you flick a light switch and the light doesn’t come on so are you surprised when the internet goes away in your house. The internet is used for communication, entertainment, business – an […]

Tags Andre Vrignaud, broadband, comcast, corporate, data cap, privilege, right

Libertarian Opinion

Don’t Confuse Fascism and Socialism

Post author By George Donnelly
Post date July 15, 2011
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Though I am concerned that these customers appear to be treated so poorly by the company that they voluntarily pay to take care of them. Oh wait! LOL socialism. (in reply to a video called Scumbag Police:Bodyslams 84 yrs old lady with Alzheimer’s) – Manuel Lora Manuel was attempting some sarcasm here, since in market […]