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Wednesday, May 16 2012
The Deadweight Ratio
An augmented compilation from various sources:

Every state has one set of people contributing to the coffer—namely, private sector workers—and another drawing from it—namely, government workers and welfare recipients. The ratio of these numbers has been termed the “deadweight ratio”.
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Tuesday, May 15 2012
The Ant Gets His Just Desserts
CLASSIC VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no f…
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Friday, April 27 2012
Reuters on Zimmerman
Once in a while you see a shining example of good balanced reporting…as opposed to the blatantly slanted, misleadingly edited crap that is the standard output of mainstream American media.

These are just excerpts. For the full story, Google “Reuters Zimmerman”, it should be required read…
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Friday, March 16 2012
Oh yeah? Well fix it!


Without doubt one of America’s greatest problems is the growing gaps that exist between the really successful 3 to 5%, the semi-successful 45% or so, and the rest, a growing mass of people who essentially exist on what they can glean off welfare (or their parents, which amounts t…
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Monday, February 06 2012
Knight on Fleeing ex-cons
AV Press reports today that Steve Knight “wants to enhance the penalty for ex-convicts who run from law enforcement.” Knight would prosecute a felon who evades law enforcement in the same way as a felon who possesses a firearm, adding a mandatory one-year sentence on top of any other punishment …
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Tuesday, August 17 2010
What Means "Equal" ??
marino once rhetorically asked the liberal branch to explain… “Those evil debt collectors. Why should anyone have to continue making their [insert any commodity here] payments? Why can’t [everything] be free? “

Naturally there was no cogent response from that side, but t…
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Friday, December 18 2009
Should We Have Universal Health Care?
I asked the question if “we” think society should provide universal health care as a so-called “right” but got virtually no response. So here’s a more comprehensive suggestion for debate. It will likely piss off everyone, which probably means it isn’t that bad an idea.

The reason I asked the…
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