Oct 02
The “Affordable Care Act” was enacted by Congress in 2010 with claims that it would bring average savings of $2,500 per year per household.
It has actually caused health care prices to explode faster than Medicare and Medicaid did.
In Minnesota, average premium prices are set to increase by 50 % to 67% in 2017. See here.
This while annual economic growth hovers around 1% due to overregulation and taxation.
Stay tuned!
Oct 02
Governments worldwide have always sought to control the message. In recent years, a fake “grass roots” movement to give government more control over election ads has arisen, calling itself the “campaign finance reform” movement. This while government agencies spend hundreds of millions annually on ads, messages and propaganda (on top of all the other ways that government agencies influence people with punishments and rewards).
Every claim offered by the campaign finance movement is false.
Now it is revealed that the U.S. government paid AT LEAST A HALF BILLION DOLLARS to just one public relations firm to produce and distribute fake “al-quaeda” videos. See here.
(Note that this dollar amount is almost one-quarter of the total dollars spent in 2008 by Barak Obama’s successful presidential campaign!)
Note that this story should also be filed in the ‘fake threat of terror’ file. Almost every claim made by governments about ‘terrorism’ is untrue. (And state-sponsored terrorism vastly overshadows all private ‘terrorism’ in the world.)
THE COVER STORY IS THAT THE MILITARY WAS USING THE VIDEOS TO ‘TRACK’ VIEWERS. YAH RIGHT.
Sep 29
An economy may be measured in many ways. But the percentage of Americans who say they are in the middle or upper-middle class has fallen 10 percentage points, from a 61% average between 2000 and 2008 to 51% today. See here.
The reality is even worse: only 20% of American households actually possess the income and assets that characterize the middle class in financial terms. Decades of savings-robbing government programs such as Social Security and Medicare have robbed the American people of their financial substance.
Sep 29
Virtually every claim made by the government regarding the threat of manmade global warming is untrue or inaccurate.
This summer the government-supporting press has been blaring headlines about melting ice in the Arctic.
Yet Arctic sea ice appears to be growing rapidly; perhaps at a record pace. See here. 
Sep 29
As a candidate on the campaign trail in 2008, Obama once said: “If you’ve got health insurance, we’re going to help that employer save $2,500 per family per year. … Those savings are going to be passed along to the workers.”
But the “Affordable Care Act” has actually spiked costs (just as did Medicare and Medicaid before it). See here.
Average cost of health care is going up by about 10 percent annually. Economic growth is still hovering around 1 % per year.
Sep 25
Arctic sea ice is now almost 50% higher than 2012, higher than last year, and about to pass all recent years. The government has been claiming Arctic sea ice is at or near an all-time low.
Sep 23
When the Berlin Wall came down, socialist East Germany was more polluted, poorer and sicker than West Germany.
According to David Legates’ “The Experiment: Capitalism versus Socialism,”
“State-guaranteed health care in the East did not translate into a healthier society. In 1990, life expectancy in the West was about 3½ years longer than in the East for men, and more than 2½ years longer for women.”
Sep 23
Headlines have blared this year about Arctic snow melt. But as Tony Heller’s Real Climate Science website points out, Arctic ice is actually growing rapidly. See here.
Besides being the shortest melt season on record, and the earliest start to winter on record, the Arctic is also seeing the fastest September ice growth on record.
Ice extent is 40% above 2012, higher than last year and about the same as 2013.
This despite the fact that the summer started very warm.
Sep 20
Supporters of the “Affordable Care Act” said that the Act would save the average American family $2,500 per year. Instead the Act has increased health care costs by thousands of dollars per household.
One-third of American counties now have only one health insurer.
Insurance companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Their reaction is to pull out of markets and seek to make up for loses by raising premiums significantly in 2017.
The Kaiser Foundation expects an average increase of nine percent for policies on the exchanges, but in the individual market, the increases will vary by state- averaging 14 percent, but may be as much as 25 percent in some markets.
Of the original 23 co-op exchanges, only 3 are expected to survive through 2017. See here.
Sep 18
Industrial production and coal-fired power plants were exploding worldwide after World War II. Carbon dioxide release into the atmosphere was also increasing rapidly.
Hundreds of scientific papers have documented that global temperatures appeared to have been declining between the 1950s and late 1970s.
But today’s government-funded scientists seem to ignore this data–or pretend that it never existed. Government agencies appear to have “adjusted” the global temperature drop of the 1970s so that it is barely visible in modern temperature data sets.
