They are worried that Republican Scott Brown might beat Democrat Marth Coakley for the MA Senate race tomorrow. That would give the republicans enough votes to block the movement of the final House-Senate medical fascism bill to a final vote.

So, of course, they want to change the rules to fit their needs.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100118/D9D9U7Q80.html

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No kidding.

Government spending cannot increase productivity, and cannot bring prices down to levels that more closely reflect value. Only the free market can do these things.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/14/news/companies/banks_quarter/index.htm?source=ft

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Is it POSSIBLE that the robots in the TSA can actually use their own judgment?

Jeez!

Check out our recent pod on air security and private markets for a wider perspective on the history of how the feds took over air travel routes.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34855425/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/?GT1=43001

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But... But... We were told many times by the pop media that there was a "profit" coming from the bailouts!

As Zaphod Beeblebrox would say, "What gives, what gives, what gives, what gives, WHAT GIVES?!"

Take a look at this video. In a recent debate Coakley, who is running to fill the seat left vacant by Ted Kennedy, claimed that the Taliban was no longer in Afghanistan. Regardless of whether one thinks the US government should be involved there, the question the reporter asks her is a valid one. Rather than answer the question about if she still believes that, her people shove the reporter to the sidewalk. Cute. By the way, the dude who did the shoving is Congressman Marty Meehan's cousin, Mark. Markie is along-time Dem functionary.

This might be the event that sends her opponent, Scott Brown to Washington.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8CdfQGlgVw&feature=player_embedded

Nothing like saddling potential employers with more taxes, regulations and worries about the future. Yeah, that's a prescription for job growth and productivity.

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/business/national/story/986106.html

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Isn't it nice to see the politicians being "honest"?

There's a line from Radio Birdman's most recent disc that fits this kind of corrupt mentality: "You just make it worse."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34830451/ns/business-stocks_and_economy

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Dig.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6962632/America-slides-deeper-into-depression-as-Wall-Street-revels.html

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A-member when ABC reported that "on the 11% of bailout money that's been paid back to the federal government, the treasury has made a 4% profit!"

A-member when we said such reporting was basically like laying down on the mud for the politicians and their cronies, because the FEDERAL GUBMENT HAD NOT BEEN PAID BACK 89%!

Now, ahh, now, we see our point being made, weeks later. Jeesh.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60A4XU20100111

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And, of course, the vast numbers of people who are no longer even LOOKING for work is not counted in the unemployment figures. But that's okay, because there's no WAY prices are going to start rising to make it worse... IS there? :-)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34764269/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/?GT1=43001

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But remember, the TSA should get MORE money after it fails, over, and over, and over...

Don't you worry! And certainly don't bother thinking about a private system as possibly being more accountable and responsive!

And that Constitution thing? Hey, planes go over state borders, so why not MISREAD the document and get involved in air travel regulation? 

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/ids-of-tsa-employees-at-logan-airport-stolen

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But, it's such a shock!

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2010/01/04/democratic-leaders-plan-secret-health-reform-deliberations.html

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How is that possible? You mean, the man has been right about economics? Woah!

http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/opinion-la-times-ron-paul-s-ideas-no-longer-fringe-r-1262620257

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Jeez.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126168307200704747.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_news

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Incredible. When will people see that they should not be comfortable with a group of people -- called the government, and those who voted for the ones in office -- taking their money against their will, and throwing it into the cesspool of government?

Enjoy the ride on the bus tomorrow, kids.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view/20091225mother_threatens_suit_after_student_is_suspended_over_peppermint_oil/srvc=news&position=recent_bullet

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091227/ts_alt_afp/usattacksnigeriaairporttravel_20091227214321

In the upcoming audio production, we will take a look at the inefficient and immoral government air security paradigm, where it comes from historically, and what kind of alternative would be better.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091227/ap_on_go_ot/us_airliner_attack;_ylt=...

Now it goes to 'conference committee' with the House version.

There are differences, such as the Senate provision to provide abortions, and the House provision that creates a so-called 'public option', but in the end, these differences do not matter. They will compromise, and they will produce a final bill that has as its central axis the mandatory elimination of all preexisting condition clauses currently in use by private insurance companies. A few years after that, the politicians will be able to do anything they desire, because the rates for private insurance will have gone through the proverbial roof.

This has been the trick they played in state after state throughout the late 1990's and early 2000's, and it will be what they do nationally.

Interesting. It also shows the hypocrasy of these state politicians when it comes to RECEIVING unconstitutional handouts from the feds. Why aren't they consistent?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091223/ap_on_re_us/us_health_care_deal_stat...

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Our prediction is coming true, unfortunately.