Apr 21
Venezuela, a South American country with dynamic people and the world’s largest proven oil reserves, has suffered under the curse of socialism for two decades.
After the Venezuelan government took a hard-line turn toward socialism in the 1990s, the government took over most industries.
Now the government of the oil-rich nation can’t provide enough electricity to serve its long-suffering slaves . . ., er, ‘citizens.’ See here.
Apr 20
Federal “workers” are generally paid 1-1/2 to 2 times what workers in the private sector are paid for the same type of work. Yet this fact greatly understates the luxury, power and security of federal employment.
Private employees are lucky to have 2 weeks of paid vacation per year. Federal workers with seniority get more than 5 weeks paid vacation plus almost 3 weeks sick leave (which many manage to take as vacation time, illegally).
It is a common practice for federal workers to take countless 3-day weekends each year.
The government also gives its workers 10 PAID holidays each year.
This gives federal employees some 8 weeks off per year, paid.
Source: Marin L. Gross, “National Suicide” (2009) page 80-81.
Apr 20
American colleges have become bastions for pro-government totalitarian ideology and discrimination. Many campuses impose speech codes.
The University of Delaware is a government-owned university subject to the Bill of Rights. Yet students who staffed a YAL (Young Americans for Liberty) table were told they couldn’t allow free speech on a ‘free speech ball.’
The students presented an inflated ball to students who chose to write on the ball using a permanent marker.
Soon, government campus police told students that they needed to monitor and regulate the writings on the free speech ball. See here.
The F.I.R.E. (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) organization has sent a letter to the University over the police-state situation prevailing at U of D. See here.
Apr 18
More than 100 peer-reviewed studies have found that increasing (or establishing) a minimum wage law causes higher unemployment.
Unemployment, in turn, is correlated with a number of measures of social ills, including increased suicide rates, rates of first admission to mental health facilities and rates of alcoholism.
Now, just weeks after the State of California imposed a $15 per hour minimum wage, UC, Berkeley has been forced to cut 500 jobs. See here.
Apr 18
On Monday, May 2, 2016, Marc Marono’s exciting new documentary, “Climate Hustle,” will be shown in Bozeman, Montana at the Regal Gallatin Valley Cinemas. The address is
Regal Gallatin Valley Cinemas 11,
2825 W. Main Street, Bozeman, MT 59718,
(406) 586-7469
A contingent from Lysander Spooner University will be there.
Apr 18
Witness modern Venezuela. A generation ago, Venezuelan voters cheered when socialist Hugo Chavez was elected president.
Chavez’s socialist government took over the mining, industrial, energy, and shipping industries. Chavez imposed censorship on the media, jailing critics. Wealthy households were raided and had their belongings taken by the state. Companies were banned or fled.
Chavez provided “free” benefits such as health care, housing, education and food.
Now Venezuelans are suffering from massive waves of illnesses, yellow water, energy shortages, and dirty air. See here.
Apr 17
The New York Times just ran a story on April 12 claiming that climate change has caused record-setting numbers of forest fires and of acreages burned. See here.
The story, headlined “Wildfires, Once Confined to a Season, Burn Earlier and Longer,” proclaimed that
“The 10.1 million acres that burned in the United States last year were the most on record, and the top five years for acres burned were in the past decade. The federal costs of fighting fires rose to $2 billion last year, up from $240 million in 1985.”
Of course, these claims are untrue. The graph above shows that the total acreage burned by forest fires has declined significantly since the 1920s and ’30s.
Apr 17
“Just 6 percent of people say they have a lot of confidence in the media, putting the news industry about equal to Congress and well below the public’s view of other institutions.” See here.
For years, ‘mainstream’ news has parroted the positions of government. In fact, government agencies have been repeatedly caught secretly paying journalists for pro-government news.
Democrats were more likely to trust the news media than Republicans or independents.
Apr 16
One of the most prominent “science” voices in America–“Bill Nye the Science Guy”–has recently said he has no problem with the jailing and imprisonment of climate-change skeptics.
Nye also said he supports the chilling effect that governmental investigations and persecutions have on doubters of government-approved science. See here.
Nye said:
As a taxpayer and voter, the introduction of this extreme doubt about climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen… So I can see where people are very concerned about this, and they’re pursuing criminal investigations as well as engaging in discussions like this….That there is a chilling effect on scientists who are in extreme doubt about climate change, I think that is good.
Apr 16
Socialism is something that should only be wished on one’s enemies.
For years, Venezuelans have voted for overt socialists. It all seemed great at first. “Free” health care, education, food, shelter, clothing, etc.
The government ‘paid’ for everything with abundant oil. But now oil prices have hit rock bottom and the Venezuelan government owes its contractors millions.
Venezuelans now lack basic toilet paper, cable TV, phone service and medicine. See here.
