It was just another day of polite sparring with minarchists – those in favor of minimal government – when I realized that minarchists are actually anarchists! I was bowled over by the realization that limited government fans who won’t force me to participate in their government forfeit that organization’s claim to being a government. Minarchism: […]
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Advise your Kids to Repudiate the Debt
A dad who told his kids about the latest federal government expenditure of their future production got an unexpected response: his poor son – astonished by the news – broke into tears. Son: “Our money belongs to us. … Is it a joke?” Dad: “It’s not a joke.” Son: “Isn’t it? We don’t have any […]
Saying that “our ideals give us the strength and moral high ground,” the Commander-in-Chief issued a bold decree Friday night revising and simplifying the government’s terms of service. “This grand step forward is dedicated to the proposition that all men are equal,” he said during an open-air speech at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Formalizes New Powers […]
I‘m having a good laugh this evening at the CFO of Sage Electrochromics, Mike Kennedy, who’s upset that his $65 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy (i.e., the little dictators doing business as “The Government”) is taking too long. “I’m guessing that we will have the money by the end of the year […]
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The “Crisis” is not the Crisis!
After reading my many criticisms of the people who do business as “The Government”, a friend of mine asked me what I think Barack Obama should do to resolve this financial “crisis”. I realize the importance of offering not only criticism but also solutions. It’s only fair. To criticize is to go on the offensive. […]
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Obama Masters the Statist Shell Game
The more I learn about the nature of government, the more bizarre politicians get. This four-minute speech by Barack Obama reaches new heights of irony and baldfaced absurdity. It’s doubletalk. It makes no sense. Mr Obama’s pronouncement is an example of the ongoing statist shell game where everything is reversed – good to bad, right […]
Some love a vigorous exchange of ideas, while others dare not speak too much for fear of revealing the contradictions in their own thinking. I ran into an example of the latter the other day by way of a tax accountant, Joe Kristan, who advocates the creation of a special IRS unit to go after […]
According to BusinessWeek’s Michael Mandel (Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme?), Social Security has all the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme – except that we can count on harnessing the free dividends produced by inventors of future productivity-increasing technology, thereby extending its sustainability indefinitely and … insert random leap of logic here … magically converting […]
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Yes, we CAN Count on Charitable Giving
Americans’ charitable giving continues despite the economic downturn. I contrast this fact with the common opinion that, if not for government aid programs – e.g. food stamps, Social Security, unemployment insurance and Medicare – poor people would be dying in ditches by the side of the road while white men in top hats told them […]
After seeing my article about the bank bailout being a fraud, an acquaintance commented “all government programs are fraud.” While I wanted to agree initially, I later thought “this can’t be true!” The Bank Bailout is a Bait and Switch When I said the bank bailout was a fraud, I meant it was a deception, […]