Monthly Archives: April 2010

Social Security: Time To End It

Posted on April 19, 2010 | 1 comment

And here’s how. First, you have to admit that what we are doing is a form of a Ponzi scheme. I am paying for the folks who came before me in order that I might be taken care of by those that come after me. I am NOT, in any way, taking care of myself.

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Tar Heel —- Purple?

Posted on April 14, 2010 | Leave a comment

Check out this video of Libertarians discussing immigration, gay marriage and abortion.

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Tax Day Tomorrow: Nearly Half of Americans Pay No Taxes

Posted on April 14, 2010 | Leave a comment

Tomorrow is April 15th.  It’s the day of reckoning for millions of Americans who have a tax bill to pay Unc Sam.  Are you one of the lucky few many?

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Where Liberty Clashes With Liberty: A Study of the Leftist

Posted on April 13, 2010 | Leave a comment

So, what is Liberty? What is a “human-right”? People say all kinds of things are human-rights. In fact,in many nations, more and more things are becoming human-rights.

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How To Sell Less Beer: And Lose Money Doing It

Posted on April 13, 2010 | 2 comments

Okay, so, let’s say we own a bar.  And we sell, among other things, beer.  And we need the revenue we bring in from the sale of beer to buy things we like, need and want.  Here is how you DON’T increase that revenue.

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Hurricane Season

Posted on April 12, 2010 | 2 comments

It’s time.  Time for that annual prediction made by predictors.  And what they’re trying to predict is the hurricane season.  And to be honest, I feel sorry for ’em.

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Conditions of Being Poor

Posted on April 12, 2010 | Leave a comment

A reader called shenanigans on my last post.  While likely that the average salary in the United States is higher than the average salary for the rest o the world, what can someone in those countries purchase with that salary.  Is there a measure by which we can gauge “quality of life”?

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Can You Really Be Poor?

Posted on April 12, 2010 | Leave a comment

There is significant talk about the poor in America. And to be sure, there are those who have an those who have not.  But can you say that America’s poor are truly poor?

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Our Plan Is So Good—We're Gonna Tax The Hell Oughta Ya

Posted on April 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

So, at a time when the country is strugglin’ pretty mightly [notice I avoided saying that we are struggling like we haven’t struggled since the Great Depression?  Yeah, cause sayin’ that is kinda stoopid.  We aren’t strugglin’ like we was strugglin’ as recent as 1981] the administration is worrying about a lot of other things besides that strugglin’.

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America Spends More Money on Health Care Than Any Other Nation in the World

Posted on April 9, 2010 | Leave a comment

And there is a family in Raleigh, NC that thinks THAT is a pretty cool friggin thing.  “cause no where else in the world does a population of people have the money to spend on technologies that cost so much to develop.

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