Nov 03

Overpaid government ‘workers’ are bankrupting major cities

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America has moved toward becoming a feudal society like the tyrannical fiefdoms of yesteryear, with private households mired in poverty, debt and hopelessness while those in government live like kings (pun intended).

The average federal ‘worker’ is paid about twice what a worker in the private sector would make doing the same type of job.

At the state and local levels, the situation is often better; but sometimes worse.

Here is a Reason Magazine story about how lavish pensions for city retirees in Dallas are now threatening to eat up one-fifth of the City’s budgets.

Nov 02

New York Times quarterly earnings fall 95 percent

America’s government-supporting newspapers are dying.

Now the New York Times–America’s premier pro-government newspaper–is reporting quarterly earnings that are 95.7 percent lower than just a year earlier. See here. comic_book_swap_qyzmsd

Nov 02

Life is improving for most people on earth; in spite of governments

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Life expectancy, world health, literacy and education, average interior living space, and the cleanliness of environments is gradually improving throughout the world.

See here.

But this progress has been IN SPITE OF, rather than because of the world’s governments, which have constantly sought to repress and control the world’s subjects. See here.

Oct 30

Fifty-seven percent of doctors ran their own practices in 2000; that figure is down to 33% as of 2015.

The immense paperwork burdens, high malpractice premiums, and overregulation of medicine has driven most doctors to large, centralized institutions.

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Oct 27

“News” establishment begs critics to stop criticizing

The safest profession in the world is probably journalism in support of the state.

Undoubtedly, the most dangerous profession in the world is journalism in opposition to the state.

For years, America’s pro-government (“mainstream”) press has promoted an agenda of increasing government power and control. Political movements which threaten the dominance of established government have received endless criticism from “the press.”

Now, as readers and viewers abandon the government-supporting press in favor of alternative news outlets, members of the “mainstream” press are literally begging critics to stop criticizing. See here.images0HBF7F0Z

Oct 26

“Affordable Care Act” incentivizes poverty

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“If you like your current plan, you will be able to keep it,” said President Obama.

“Let me repeat that: If you like your plan, you will be able to keep it,” he said.

This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released an analysis of the Obamacare insurance exchanges that indicates there will be five states in 2017 where only one insurance company is offering health insurance plans through the exchange.

In Birmingham, Alabama, according to the KFF analysis, the monthly premium for the second-lowest-cost silver plan for a 40-year- old nonsmoker will increase 71 percent — jumping from $288 to $492. In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, it will increase 67 percent — jumping from $295 to $493.

In Phoenix, Arizona, it will increase 145 percent — jumping from $207 to $507.

But overnment apologists are quick to note that, if you make less than 400 percent of the poverty level, the government will subsidize your insurance premiums.

The government’s lesson here: Keep your income down, so you can get other Americans to subsidize your insurance.

Or, if you do not earn enough to buy insurance even with a government subsidy, you can go directly onto government-provided health insurance.

In July, the number of people in the United States enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program exceeded the entire population of the United Kingdom. It also exceeded the population of France.

As of July 2015, 37.1 percent of Americans are insured by the government.

See here.

Oct 24

Growing numbers of poor Americans find retirement elusive; they must work till they die

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Sad story from the Associated Press. America has become a two-tiered society, with those in power pampered in luxury while those without government positions live lives of poverty.

For years, the U.S. government has punished savers, entrepreneurs and investors. Social Security, for example, takes money from people’s paychecks during periods when they most need money to build their careers, families and homes–and transfers that money to wealthier Americans.

Studies of the impacts of Social Security and Medicare show that Americans save less, invest less, and work fewer total hours in response to the program.

Some 40 % of Americans reach retirement age without any significant savings or investments.

While government “workers” have never had it so good, a growing proportion of Americans must look forward to lives of misery and poverty in their old age.

Oct 22

40 percent of government temperature adjustments are fake–based on no actual thermometer data

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NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been “adjusting” the ‘official’ temperature record at an increasing rate. Now,
“more than 40% of their adjusted monthly temperatures are now fake – i.e. no actual thermometer data behind them.” See here.

Oct 22

Overregulation will soon push thousands of doctors to abandon Medicare patients

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If America’s health care industry were free, it would provide ever-higher quality medicine at steadily-decreasing cost. This is the pattern in most high tech industries where government control is limited.

But since 1965, the U.S. government has been overregulating health care–driving costs higher and higher.

Now, unless Congress approves some type of massive bailout, doctors will soon begin abandoning Medicare patients in droves. See here.

Oct 20

UN bans skeptical media from upcoming climate conference

The United Nations has refused to accredit three journalists associated with Canadian climate skeptic Ezra Lavant.

The UN appears to be blacklisting skeptics from covering the upcoming global warming conference in Marrakech, Morocco. See here.

The UN accuses Lavant’s “Rebel” journalists of being “advocacy journalists.”

Yet opinion journalists comprise a large proportion of the thousands of journalists who cover the UN’s global warming conferences.

“The UN even welcomes global warming lobby groups, including “community organizers” posing as journalists. Greenpeace-style blogs, like Canada’s own DeSmog Blog attend in full advocacy mode, as well as other small websites like The Tyee and the Vancouver Observer, both supported by Tides.”

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