Wow. Only the government.

I wa watching TV tonight and there was a commercial for a $2 bill designed with a special decoration commemorating Yellow Stone National Park. There is also a COA from the Fed and Treasury.

How much do you think it costs for a $2 bill and a COA. For two esentially useless pieces of paper? $10. lol Give the government $10 and they will give you $2. ...only the government!

This is in response to Gard's remarks on the podcast dated 12-9-10

In this pod gard discusses how the rich pay a disproportionate amount of tax.  If you applied this to bar tabs for ten people, you would get something like this e-mail which I received at work one day

As an aside, the accredited author denies having written this, and makes no comment as to the validity of this analogy.

Subject: Taxes explained in beer

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100...

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/17/2528138/bank-of-america-says-it-won...

*Beware- Bee in bonnett*

This morning, I stopped by my new employers office to gather some information that I'll need for my first day on Friday. While I was waiting to see my supervisor, I noticed this on the wall.  A license for a security alarm for a private business.

Gard posed this rhetorical question in a recent podcast.  Seems especially ironic that the U.S. would arm antagonistic nations.

Of course, we all know why.  The federal government gives the foreign nation dollars with which to buy military equipment.  The foreign nation then turns around and buys the equipment from an American manufacturer--Lockheed, General Dynamics, Boeing, Raytheon, or whomever.  Or, the federal government gives the foreign government the equipment directly.  Either way, whether the foreign government acts as a middleman or if Washington pays for the equipment, American taxpayer dollars (or dollars printed up by the Fed) end up in the accounts of the politically connected military contractors.

Every once in a while I feel like calling somebody up in Washington and poking them right in the cognitive dissonance.  I don't know if this type of thing will actually help them "get their mind right" but it does make me feel better :)

You might have to adjust your volume down a wee bit.

LINK

http://www.moneymorning.com.au/20101022/eco-terrorists-gaining-the-upper-hand.html

A strong free market article written by the guys at Money Morning Australia. Very sharp commentary fellow conspirators you will like it allot! I dug it. Check it out. Not all Austrian or Classical Liberal, but an interesting perspective.

cheers,

mothyspace

According to Wendy Greuel, the City Controller of Los Angeles, the city recieved $111 million dollars in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus money. And with that money, they created....>drum roll<...54.46 jobs.

http://controller.lacity.org/stellent/groups/electedofficials/@ctr_contr...

Now, this raises two questions in my mind.

#1 How do you create less than half a job? .46?

#2 I wonder how many jobs would have been created in the private sector, if for example, someone was able to start a private business with $111 million dollars?

Hello everyone. :) New forum member and fairly new to the Libertarian movement.

As I've done some reading, and a lot of podcast listening, I've cemented myself into the liberty way of thinking. It's been wonderful to finally find a political movement that I can fully get behind. But, naturally, the more I learn I occasionally have a question, and I have, quite literally, never met another libertarian here to converse with or ask. I tried to start a lib student group when I was in college, got zero responses aside from the occasional, "yea, good luck with that," So, I thought I'd come here and ask.

Excellent article by Mr Kevin Carson:

From: Center for a Stateless Society (http://c4ss.org/content/3202)

"Free Market Capitalism" is an Oxymoron

Posted by Kevin Carson on Jul 17, 2010 in Commentary • 31 comments

http://www.citywire.co.uk/money/morning-line-the-mortgage-timebomb-and-i...

If the government bails lenders out when they get into trouble this time round they'll never learn

Bastiat's worst nightmare...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703950804575242433435338728.html

Detroit Shrinks Itself, Historic Homes and All

From the Financial Times (Kindle U.S. edition):

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/01/jobless.benefits.bill/index.html?eref=rss_politics&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_allpolitics+(RSS:+Politics)&utm_content=Google+Reader

This is one man's view on the state of the dollar.

As a loyal Toyota owner I've been somewhat dismayed at the media circus surrounding Toyota's product failures.  When Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that all Toyota owners should immediately stop driving their vehicles and take them into the shop, I thought something was afoot.  Even coming from a government official, such a statement seemed extreme and rash.  Well, it turns out that where there's smoke there's fire.  And neither are probably emanating from under the hood of your car.

This is insane.  People are actually defending the exorbitant fine imposed on a swiss motorist for speeding.  This just goes to show that speeding tickets are not about safety, they are about "revenue generation."

Check out the comments on this story.

I always thought of Switzerland, with it system of Canton and history of banking secrecy, as a place of relative freedom.  With the recent news of a ban on the building of minarets and now this story on speeding, the sheen of Switzerland has faded.

Ben Bernanke is Time magazine's Person of the Year.  According to Time, "The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. Thank the man who runs the Federal Reserve, our mild-mannered economic overlord."

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375_1947251,00.html

First Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize, now this.

Darling to unveil bank bonus tax

Problem is the public will very much support this measure