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By compatriot, on March 31st, 2018 from FEE.org As a policy wonk, I mostly care about the overall impact of government on prosperity. So when I think about the effect of red tape, I’m drawn to big-pictures assessments of the regulatory burden. Here are a few relevant numbers that get my juices flowing. Americans spend 8.8 billion hours every year filling out government forms. The economy-wide cost of regulation reached $1.75 trillion in 2010. For every bureaucrat at a regulatory agency, 100 jobs are lost in the economy’s productive sector. A World Bank study determined that moving from heavy regulation to light regulation “can increase a country’s average annual GDP per capita growth by 2.3 percentage points.” Regulatory increases since 1980 have reduced economic output […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 30th, 2018 The statistics below and to the right are occasionally compiled. I carried one such list on a card in my wallet for a decade. The numbers ebb and flow year-to-year, but their position on the causes of death list rarely move much. There are 32,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms. The U.S. population is 324,000,000. Thus: 0.00987% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. -80% are through criminal activity, gang and drug-trade related This is one cost of “our” war on non-prescription drugs. -60% of those deaths are by suicide A similar per-capita rate to non-gun-owning countries. -8% are by police. -3% are accidental discharge deaths. Look at how those deaths distribute across the nation: […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 29th, 2018 The division of our culture by age has been one of the most successful divide and conquer strategies of the new world order. They are schemers with an unbroken success rate on the long-term stage they choose for their play. While it took them a century to break up the nuclear family and the ability for youth to learn from older people who earned their respect, or even who served as bad examples, the globalists did indeed pull it off. From the Captain Capitalism blog comes a nice recommendation for the upcoming generation. Under the linked headline, I republish one section out of many that were SPOT ON. I encourage you to click the link and go read the article. […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 28th, 2018 There is a big push going on to disarm the peasants. Staged false flags, hoaxes, highly-organized children marches, media and political figures have masses eager to give up on self defense are becoming a regular part of the media landscape. Many worry that “They are going to take our guns”. That is not what will happen. They are hastening us into an internal war, also-known-as “civil war” between the armed and the unarmed with the politicians and many of their palace guard on the wrong side. Other than the thoughtless sheep, players on both sides know that removing millions of privately owned firearms is not going to happen through protests and legislation. Violent force is the only way. Those […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 27th, 2018 Once again the collection of megalomaniacs, sociopaths, psychopaths and sexual deviants that prowl the halls of congress have sent a resounding “Okay for us, but not for the peasants”. My wife of 16 years and I are among millions of happy couples who met on the Internet. Ah, but congress can’t take the chance that someone might have fun without permission. Here is the message that greets anyone looking for personal ads at probably the most popular online meeting place today: https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA US Congress just passed HR 1865, “FOSTA”, seeking to subject websites to criminal and civil liability when third parties (users) misuse online personals unlawfully. Any tool or service can be misused. We can’t take such risk without jeopardizing all our other […]
By compatriot, on March 26th, 2018 – Bigger Threat Than Google Headquarters for the Fourth Reich Microsoft, previously absent from any conversation regarding censorship and resulting tyrannical behavior, has now moved to the head of the class when it comes to Deep State, globalist tyranny. Notification of Changes to Microsoft’s Terms of Use Last night at 6:46pm Pacific, I received an email from Microsoft advising me that the terms of my usage agreement with Microsoft had changed and by virtue of the fact that I was using their product, I have offered my implied consent to the new policies. My wife and I reviewed the major points of the terms of of service over dinner. Her concluding comments included “Microsoft thinks that they can takeover […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 25th, 2018 Either trade crosses borders or armies do “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations… entangling alliances with none” – Thomas Jefferson The knuckle-dragging Neanderthals of the Potomac Swamp have their hearts set on an escalating trade war. Centuries of human experience explain to anyone paying any attention at all exactly how this will work out. Either the Trump team and the ossified congresscritters are idiots OR they want war. There is no third choice. Well, unless you count “They are idiots AND they want war” as a third choice. Oh well. I can’t control it. I don’t endorse it. I am in the stands watching the show. Every once in a while a particularly amusing bit shows up in […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 24th, 2018 THEY can access every part of your computer, your cell phone and your smart appliances. THEY can turn them on even when you have turned those appliances off. THEY monitor, collect and store every bit of electronic traffic coming to or from you. Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Of course “the founding fathers” did not anticipate personal computers, e-mails and cell phones. Therefore invading our privacies on those was […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 23rd, 2018 The bad news: A predator took out our good rooster leaving us with two lonely hens putting out a fifth of our regular egg consumption (Missy loves to include lots of eggs in our diet … fresh are particularly welcome). Though I don’t remember ever enjoying the crowing of our rooster, we surprisingly missed it right away. I patched a hole in the fence that had a trail of now deceased rooster feathers, reviewed the heck out of our game camera, but still do not know who or what took him out. I was amazed to run across an advertisement listing 9-month-old chickens, at the very beginning of their egg productive phase for only six dollars each. The going rate […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 22nd, 2018 Those of us cheering serious threats to the District of Criminals superstars, and their Deep State operations, need to keep in mind There is nothing they won’t do to avoid a fair trial. The flailings of this wounded beast are extremely dangerous to anything nearby. In the case of the globalists, that means everything on Earth itself. Thus, while we celebrate The Donald’s continuing survival along with every exploding minion out of the ObamaBushClinton administration, the thump-thump-thump of the war drums provides a counter-melody that wrecks the beauty of this music to my ears. Reading the article below by Paul Craig Roberts inspired me to check on the status of Rothchilds’ war machine activities in Europe, Arabia and Asia. As […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 21st, 2018 Alfred E. Neuman Those who see chemtrails, Potomac Swamp corruption, organized evil, criminal international bombings, central bank theft, pharmaceutical poisoning, looming WWIII, false flag EMP, and other assaults you read about here are accused of being constantly negative, unhappy. Click the video button to the left for an important musical accompaniment to this article. Why should the ignorant have all the fun? I grew up in a world where the phrase “Fat, Dumb and Happy” was okay to say, we all knew what it meant, and understood there were times to choose one attitude over the other. I ‘run in those circles’, among aware friends, and find we as a class are more at peace than those we consider oblivious. […]
By compatriot, on March 20th, 2018 The lack of preparedness among city people is truly horrifying Sunday, March 18, 2018 by: Mike Adams Tags: Austin, chaos, city life, civil war, Collapse, disaster, lawlessness, preparedness, social chaos, survival (Natural News) Most people who live in cities are stunningly unprepared for almost any kind of disruption, and the situation has grown far worse in recent years. Although I usually stay out of large cities, I just finished some travel that took me through several cities (and a few suburban areas, too), giving me a fresh new look at the situation. My conclusion? Red alert alarms are going off about the exploding problem of homelessness, lawlessness, gang activity, open drug use and what seems to be […]
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