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September 26, 2011 Libertarian
Commentary on The News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2011 Crash of 2009 - Stupid government
The
five stages of freedomJobs Act Might Be Worse than Nothing (ECONOMIC POLICIES FOR THE 21st CENTURY) There is no reason to believe that a collection of measures to temporarily increase after-tax household and corporate income, transfer more money to state and local governments, and change terms of unemployment insurance would reliably boost growth... I think that the article does not go far enough: the jobs act IS worse than nothing, and history shows that to be the case. Look at the economic downturn of 1939, and the last three years. Mama's Note: Almost everyone is ignoring the most basic rational observation: when one is in a hole, the first thing to do is STOP DIGGING. By Claire Wolfe “Where is Spartacus?” So asks David A. McElroy,
while making himself crazy with political frustration and setting
himself up for more. But Spartacus is … right there in your own mirror.
If you can only recognize the reflection.
McElroy’s frustration makes me want to propose the five stages of freedom, to match the famous Kubler-Ross five stages of grief. Hers are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. For freedomistas I propose: (Read
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For David and me, it felt a little like the Blues
Brothers. It was Chicago, most everybody in authority was looking to
get us if they could, and we were on a mission from God. The biggest
difference was that only David was wearing a suit. That, and the fact
that he looks nothing like Elwood. The Taking Tree: a political parable By Garry Reed The short film was made for their client, The
Institute for Humane Studies. Other recent projects include David
Kelley of the Atlas Society discussing the philosophical differences of
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged characters, Professor Antony Davies of The
Institute for Humane Studies on the monstrous US federal debt, a third
episode on medical malpractice tort law for the Pacific Research
Institute, a pair of videos for the ongoing "Bankrupting America"
series produced for "A DC-based nonprofit."
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