For years in innumerable talks with people with leftist views I have been looking for a simple way to lay down my position to spare myself lagging discussions doomed from the start with neither side having a slightest chance of convincing each other. Such a cut if found would put an end to the...
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Social healthcare – baby died waiting for a doctor
Last month a three-month old child has died in a central city hospital of a Russian city . Natalia Kazakova woke up at 6 AM to attend to her crying baby. As she has discovered the boy has high fever, she immediately called for an ambulance. The ambulance arrived in...
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Escape Attempt
Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall was destroyed. In November, 1989, East Germany and West Germany met as a single, free nation. The country was divided in 1945 by World War II victors into two new countries. East Germany was controlled by the communist regime of the Soviet Union. West Germany was a democracy...
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It’s Not Just ACORN. Let’s see…
The scandal following the revelation of the major national community group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) poses more questions about justification of the governmental funding of other community groups. “Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation said these community organizing networks ‘basically get paid to make noise’...
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Illinois Budget Demystified
This article is an attempt to decipher the official public documents that the office of governor Blagojevich published on the official state web site under the name “Illinois State Budget Book Fiscal Year 2009”: http://www.state.il.us/budget The total projected revenue of the state is more than 51 billion dollars. This is huge pile of money,...
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Who Do We Save?
The government is helping us to survive during the recession by saving our… jobs! Indeed, when certain number of new positions have come up on the market – it is easily recorded and subsequently reported to the public. But how about the number of jobs which do not disappear from the market? Do you...
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Cellphones for the Poor
How much do you pay for mobile plan? $50, $80, $100? Here is what they pay: …The free phone is not, as it is for some others in the program, their sole form of telecommunications. Out of the roughly $1,600 they make each month after taxes, they pay $159 for a landline telephone, high-speed...
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Obama Czars
The general consensus on the size of Obama’s “shadow cabinet” varies between 21 to 28: David J. Rothkopf, PolitiFact.com, etc. The Czar is a poorly defined un-constitutional position, not subject to US Senate deliberation, not reporting to any cabinet member. It’s a person with wide no controlling legal authority conveniently defined exclusively by the...
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Art of deception
The main reason government is raising taxes is because people let them. As long as people agree with the current tax system and spending structure, the government will continue robbing us. This video illustrates one of the best financial deception techniques – large numbers:
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