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POPSCoercion and Freedom if you were to ask, say, the average senior citizen whether Social Security, Medicare and prescription drug subsidies should be continued, he would probably answer yes. The same would be true if you asked a college professor whether higher education should continue to be subsidized, or a farmer or a dairyman whether their products should be subsidized, or a manufacturer whether there should be tariffs and quotas on foreign products that compete with his product. The problem with congressmen producing favors and privileges to all interest groups is that it creates what none of us wants: massive control, numerous dictates and micromanagement of our lives.
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POPSGuess I do hope that the whole organization that is built to monitor the Restaurant Menus will include a cast of thousands. Just how many restaurants are there in Kaleeforniay? What is the penalty for posting incorrect carbohydrates? Can it be possible that civilization has existed for thousands of years without sodium content reporting requirements?
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POPSWhat Happens When You Don't Build Power Plants But Britain will be green, green, green. Of course lots of that will be because people will have to start crapping in their backyards - but think of the wonderful flowers that will grow. And the huge increase in green jobs (making candles, digging up peat to burn for heat, etc.) will more than offset the loss caused by going back to 19th century technology.
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POPSFree Speech in Hawaii? Now imagine the weeping and wailing and knashing of teeth if the Bush Administration were doing this. Why no outcry? Well its Hawaiian Natives and Democrats and such.
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POPSHilllarycare Preview 2155 Mixed Sex Wards? Oh come on - there won't be any more private or semi-private hospital rooms. You will be on a ward and its going to be with whoever they want to stuff in there. Women and Men together? Its cost-effective. After all - the health care bureaucrats need their year-end bonuses. And don't you just love the weaselly worded response from the Health Minister. Does it remind you of someone parsing the meaning of the word "is"?
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POPSBritain Slips from Fully "Free" Economic Countries Just why would you believe that the government would be able to spend all this money better than its individual citizens? Well, they have "free" health care, and "free" pensions and lost of "free" stuff that they get by shoveling 45% of their entire economy into the maw of bureaucrats. And then they wonder why they aren't happy?
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POPSAll Your Organs Belong To Us You income is ours, your children are ours to educate and indoctrinate as we please, your health care is ours to determine, and now when we kill you off your organs are ours too. UK Government 2008 Soon to be the mantra of Hillary/Obama care?
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POPSFour Percent Success If this wasn't a government agency, but instead a private company, all those in charge would be fired immediately. And yet, this is twice the success these clowns had in 2006 so its great news. Pathetic
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POPSProgressive Thanksgiving Prayer: Blessing of the Taxes Now, everybody knows that Thanksgiving observance does nothing more than perpetuate the Holocaust of the Native American. What positive meaning could be found in such a grotesquely shameful holiday? Well, my admirable laser-sharp mind of an economist with three PhDs immediately found a brilliant, socially significant answer.
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POPSSave The Planet - No More Fresh Milk This is why you have to raise all those taxes for global warming. It takes hundreds of government bureaucrats to come up with plans like this. And just think how many people will be needed to kill off half of Britain's dairy cows.
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POPSWhy Government Will Always Grow Larger Because the plebs have found out (yet again) that they can vote themselves bread and circuses. We are back to the point in America where over half of the population gets their money from government in one way or another--working for local, state, federal government; working for a company that supplies government with products or services; gets welfare (and that includes Medicare and Social Security). Why will Social Security never be reformed? Because its just too much money for old people who vote. Right up until we go broke paying for it.
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POPSMyths of Inequality Beware the politican promising that everybody will be equal. That means everyone but the politicans will be serfs.
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POPSDear Taxpayers A satirical press release from the Club for Growth by "Tax 'Em Till They Bleed" Chuck Rangel
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POPSFarm Subsidies - Money for the Rich The US used to make fun of the Soviets and their "5 Year Plans". The US farm programs make the Soviets look like a bunch of hicks in the way that it lards up money for extremely selective groups and people. If we want to save some money - how about knocking off all the "price supports" - just give the farmers money for not doing anything. It would be cheaper for us all around.
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POPSGobbeldy Speak Perhaps one of the best examples of government non-communication I have seen in quite some time
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