With all the discussion in Washington about raising the debt limit, I thought it would be useful to link to one of the most accurate debt clocks on the web. The US Debt Clock at USADebtClock.com shows the debt, the unfunded liabilities debt, and the per person debt. Plus a lot of other information.
“There’s some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and … you use an ATM, you don’t go to a bank teller. Or you go to the airport, and you’re using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate.” Obama replied when asked about a report that shows businesses are spending 2 percent more on employees since the recession officially ended, but 26 percent more on equipment .
If we get rid of the car, the airplane, the tractor, electricity, and running water, we’ll have a lot more employment too. It won’t be good paying and it won’t be jobs that people really want, but there will be higher employment.
Banks and “investors” who fund socialists should be forced the bear costs of doing so. Perhaps they will be more careful in the future – as Thatcher said, eventually they run out of other people’s money. Now they are trying to get “other people’s money” from the IMF and EU.
When you relay on force instead of freedom, the goal becomes to polarize. Many politicians in Washington have that as their goal – less freedom, more polarization between groups.
“Documents made public yesterday by Judicial Watch describe extensive collusion by Federal Communications Commission officials with a left-wing advocacy group in a campaign to expand government regulation of the Internet.” FCC control could give the FCC the ability to regulate content. You may like that not if you are an Obama fan, but the short answer is, no one should control the Internet. Read more
“[W]e are on the verge of having way too much dictatorship in Washington, D.C. … Our rights come from our creator, not our government. … The mainstream wants balanced budgets, sound government and personal liberties — that is mainstream. The shift is in our direction — obeying the Constitution for a change,” – Ron Paul, May 31 2011
Then TheHill.com states: “Paul … faces an uphill battle as many Americans consider his positions to be on the far fringe of the right-wing.”
It is good to know that the “Constitution,” “personal liberties,” “sound government,” and “balanced budgets” are considered in Washington to be “on the far fringe of the right-wing.”
It shows how much freedom we have lost.
Baltimore police detain someone for taking pictures. They admit it is not a crime, but then detain him. This officer shows his ignorance. Officer Scheidt in particular does not know the law.
They seem to think that you can not ask an illegal alien to provide ID, but you can ask a citizen to do so even when the police have admitted that he was not breaking the law. Talk about a kafkaesque world.
Exercise your rights or lose them.
[Update June 2, 2011]: It appears now that the MTA admits the officers were wrong. “They can most certainly take photos of our system,” Ralign Wells, the MTA Administrator, said. “We’ll look at our training processes, we’ll look at whether any administrative situations need to occur with those officers,” Wells added.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D.-Fla.), chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, denounced Republicans last week for believing illegal immigration “should in fact be a crime.”
Rep. Wasserman Schultz missed the “illegal” part in “illegal immigration.” HINT to the Rep, illegal immigration by definition is a crime.
Talk about a fool.
Maybe, things that are “illegal” are no longer crimes? Gives a license to everyone.
NFTA Police in Buffalo NY threaten to “f***ing break your face” if he records. The video says it all: