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A Radical Plan To Save America’s Economy In One Year

Posted by freedomforall 2 months, 2 weeks ago to Economics
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"The policy measures I suggest are a kind of fiscal time machine – A way to turn back the clock on collapse. Some might consider them “radical” but they are only policies that America USED TO value and that we have been pressured to forget. Can the modern American brain with its steady exposure to big government and socialist programs handle such a shift? It’s hard to say.

I think if people are desperate enough they’ll accept any solution that they feel works. And for now the elites that created the crisis are the only group offering a way out (a false way out). If I could snap my fingers (or if I was king for year), this is the list of actions I would undertake to save the American economy before the end of 2025 (or at least set it on the the path to resurrection)."
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  • Posted by GaryL 2 months, 1 week ago
    Just two things will solve a host of major problems! Term limits, get rid of every lifetime politician and abolish the Federal Reserve. We are in debt for well over $35 trillion but to who? Don't give me that crap about China, it is to the big fat cats running the federal reserve and our entire economy.. Here is a good read and we have all heard it all before but never all in one place In two parts so it fits here. Why should you vote for Donald J. Trump? Here are quite a few reasons why.

    Too many coincidences is not a coincidence

    “Things you must know to be informed...
    YES, THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN USED TO WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS.

    YES, CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI'S NEPHEW

    YES, ADAM SHIFF'S SISTER IS MARRIED TO ONE OF GEORGE SOROS’ SONS.

    YES, JOHN KERRY'S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH'S SON IN IRAN.

    YES, ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN CAMERON IS MARRIED TO SUSAN RICE, OBAMA'S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.

    YES, CBS PRESIDENT DAVID RHODES IS THE BROTHER OF BEN RHODES, OBAMA'S DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.

    YES, ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAIRE SHIPMAN IS MARRIED TO JAY CARNEY, FORMER OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.

    YES, ABC NEWS AND UNIVISION REPORTER MATTHEW JAFFE IS MARRIED TO KATIE HOGAN, OBAMA'S FORMER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY.

    YES, ABC PRESIDENT BEN SHERWOOD IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH SHERWOOD, OBAMA'S FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER.

    * YES, CNN VP VIRGINIA MOSELEY IS MARRIED TO TOM NIDES, FORMER HILLARY CLINTON'S DEPUTY SECRETARY.

    THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A "STACKED DECK". IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE NEWS MEDIA WAS SOMEWHAT RIGGED AND YOU COULDN'T PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE.

    Now you know why no one is investigated. They all have their hands in the cookie jar! You might remember James Comey who investigated the Clinton email scandal and the Clinton Foundation, and made the final decision to not recommend prosecution by the DOJ.

    It turns out that the Clinton Foundation was audited by the law firm DLA Piper. One of the executives there was in charge of the Clinton Foundation audit.
    Who was it? Peter Comey, James Comey’s brother. Peter Comey held an executive position with the Washington law firm that did the audit of the Clinton foundation in 2015. Peter Comey was officially DLA Piper “Senior Director of Real Estate Operations for the Americas,” in 2015 when the Clinton Foundation scandals first broke and Hillary was preparing her Presidential campaign. Not only was DLA Piper, the firm where Comey’s brother worked involved in the audit of the Clinton Foundation, but according to the foundation’s donor records, DLA Piper has given between $50 - 100k to the Foundation.

    It gets even cozier. DLA Piper executive Douglas Emhoff is taking an extended leave of absence from the firm. Who is Douglas Emhoff? He is the husband of KAMALA HARRIS! Just a coincidence? Amazing if it is. You can't make this stuff up!

    And it only gets worse. This "Family Tree" will make your head spin . . THE SWAMP IS DEEP!!

    Dominion (voting machine provider) serves 40% of the US market. It is in 30 states - - The state of Texas rejected the machines.

    - Admiral Peter Neffenger is on Biden's transition team.

    - Neffenger was the President of the board of Smartmatic.

    - Smartmatic (another voting machine supplier) entered into an agreement with Dominion in 2009.

    - Smartmatic counted votes in Venezuela.

    - Smartmatic is connected to Philippine voter fraud.

    - Smartmatic is run by Lord Mark Malloch Brown who works for George Soros (-he and Brown are life-long friends).

    - Brown chairs the Boards of a number of non-profit boards including the Open Society Foundation.

    - Brown chairs the Centre for Global Development.

    - Open society of course is owned by George Soros.

    - Smartmatic partnered with DLA Piper Global.

    - Douglas C. Emhoff works at DLA Piper Global.

    - Douglass C. Emhoff is Kamala Harris's husband.

    - Guess who owns Dominion? - -Blum Capital Partners, L.P.

    - Guess who is on the board for the company? -- Richard Blum.

    - Richard C. Blum is Dianne Feinstein's husband.

    - Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul is also a major investor.

    - An aide to Nancy Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, was hired by Dominion Voting Systems.

    And it goes on.....
    - Dominion Voting Systems is listed on the Clinton Foundation website.

    - Dominion Voting is listed as a $25,000 -$50,000 donor to the Clinton Foundation in 2014 by The Washington Post.

    - Georgia Governor Kemp used Dominion Voting after Texas and Florida rejected them.

    - Dominion has a lobbyist named Jared Thomas.

    - Jared Thomas was Governor Brian Kemp’s chief of staff and press secretary from 2012 to 2015.

    - You must remember the Feinstein-Kavanaugh-Soros connections to understand this next information
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  • Posted by mccannon01 2 months, 2 weeks ago
    Definitely a good start! Too bad these words and solutions are likely to be lost in the ether until the big crash. Big government will not go down without a fight.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 2 months, 2 weeks ago
    There was that president of a South American country who gave a terrific speech here in the past year. In it he explained that now the way America operates financially is the Treasury issues the bonds and the Fed buys them all with newly-printed money to the amount needed to keep the country going. He then went on to say, "You might ask, 'Why do they tax us if this is keeping the country running?'" That was very thought-provoking. So, when I read this author's take on removing the income tax I just think that's impossible in America because income tax is a control mechanism...a behavior adjuster. And, of course, the government loves having all that money to do whatever they want. You hear that we're paying the pensions of the citizens of Ukraine? I may have this all wrong, though. I'm all for eliminating income tax. It's a sham, really.
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    • Posted by 2 months, 2 weeks ago
      Taxes get stolen directly from people via companies who can't resist and stay
      in business.
      Then the fedgov withholds funds from state governments to keep them in line.
      Florida to Texas should withdraw consent from the thievery and keep the funds
      in private hands within each state. Then let the people decide what is important
      enough to voluntarily support financially, if anything, in competition with private
      businesses offering the same services.
      The fedgov doesn't provide anything worth the destruction of civilization which
      is where the current policies lead.
      Secession is the only peaceful response to tyranny, treason, genocide, and theft.
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      • Posted by CaptainKirk 2 months, 1 week ago
        You are right. But the problem starts 1yr before Income tax. When we got the Federal Reserve.

        We should nationalize it. If the gov creates nice bonds at 10% interest (Crushing, but great for the average person, so they don't need to gamble in the stock market). Tax Free Earnings.

        THEN that is the M1 Money supply.
        The M3 is created by letting the small/local banks lever up their deposits/loans. Typically it is 15X bigger than the M1 money supply.

        BTW, assume the Fed Window Charges only 1% per year in interest to these banks. That means the fed collects 15% (against the M1 supply!).

        Yes. That's the first THEFT. It funds the corruption on K Street. END THIS. So that our government COLLECTS 15% and pays out 10%
        And we use the remaining 5% to pay down the debt.

        But this would CRUSH the central banksters, and damage wall street and K street, while saving mainstreet.

        Meanwhile. ZERO income tax on individuals.
        ZERO inheritance taxes.
        But PROPERTY taxes make sense to me... UNTIL MAYBE you retire. AFTER 62, ZERO property tax on your PRIMARY RESIDENCE. (if you own more than one residence... You don't need the tax break on the second residence nearly as badly).
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        • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
          You get my vote, CKirk.
          The federal reserve act is the license to steal for the banksters.
          "Passed" con-gress without a quorum by corrupt con-gresscritters following instructions of the banksters.
          Seize all banks assets and pay down the national debt created because of the Federal Reserve Act.
          (Sorry to the shareholders invested in a massive cartel profiting by stealing from the American people.)
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        • Posted by mccannon01 2 months, 1 week ago
          I disagree with property tax because it is a declaration the government owns your property, not you. It is the same as the old royal rent. You can test this declaration by not paying the tax and see how long you get to keep the property you think is yours. Property tax is a fascist construct where the government pretends you own it as long as you do what you are told with it and pay the "royal rent".

          Income tax is communist where the government declares it owns your production (in the name of the people, of course) and we all play the game of "How much do I owe?" when in reality it's "How much will the government let me keep?". As long as there is any income tax it will never be ZERO on individuals because they will pay higher prices for goods and services to cover it for another.
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          • Posted by CaptainKirk 2 months, 1 week ago
            So, how do we cover the local infrastructure?
            I certainly don't want a BIG HOA running things.
            I live in an HOA... Not great.

            Of all my taxes, my property taxes are the least offensive and don't go up like my home owners insurance.

            At the end. The government has a GOAL of protecting that property. We just live in such a screwed up society where we are taxed by people who want us dead. It's hard to compare.

            How do you fund the local infrastructure, schooling, fire dept, etc?
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            • Posted by mccannon01 2 months ago
              I haven't been back to this thread for a while and missed a lot.

              "So, how do we cover the local infrastructure?" There are ways to tax and raise revenue without placing a lien on your property or confiscating your production at gunpoint - an abomination on a people calling themselves "free". Tariffs and sales taxes on non essentials is probably the best because EVERYONE gets to see what it is. You want more stuff from government with a tax for all to see? Maybe the people will decide they don't want or need as much government "help" and will endeavor to do more on their own. Keep in mind the greatest government expenses are not in building roads or sewers.
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            • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
              Voluntary contributions direct to the people doing the job.
              (If you don't pay for fire dept., your house can burn down
              and your insurance cost will be much much higher.
              Yes, insurance is another insane rip-off forced by banksters in league with insurers.
              Without home mortgages home prices would be 80% lower and insurance much lower.)

              Home school or hire a tutor that you have personally vetted as competent and idiologically sound. Public school is a POS.
              (If you have no children, you don't have to pay for others' offspring being indoctrinated as in public schools).
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              • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
                I object strenuously to the government indoctrination centers (public schools). I hated going to public school, but I was forced to attend. I have no children but have to pay for others' children to be indoctrinated
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                  • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
                    Looking back at what I can learn from YouTube and Chat GTP now (on my own), I think even in the 50's the so called "instruction" was pretty lame.
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                      • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
                        good for you !! No wonder there is so much school violence. The kiddies are forced to sit there and listen to crap and its boring. I was bored out of my mind and couldnt wait to get OUT each day, and then finally when they couldnt keep me in high school (where I was far more interested in playing pranks on the "teachers" . I was a bad boy. I did ok after I got out, and started and sold a number of companies and now live happily in retirement. Retirement isnt boring, as I can fill my time with rewarding things that the government has nothing to do with.
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                      • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
                        Competition is the savior of the people. The whole idea of an ever expanding federal monopoly is a terrible one. Let the cities and states do what they think is best.
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                          • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
                            competition makes me work harder if I want to succeed. It doesnt benefit ME as a producer; it makes my life harder. But, overall it benefits everyone in that it keeps people who are just in it for power from exerting that power over people unmercifully.
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                              • Posted by term2 2 months ago
                                I would dispute a bit on the "equitable" part. The insurance company will charge as much as it can get away with, and still get the customer to actually sign up
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                              • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
                                The problem was the regulations and price fixing the government did. It promoted inefficient operation, and when the high prices weren’t mandated anymore. Of course companies were hurt.
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              • Posted by CaptainKirk 2 months, 1 week ago
                again, maybe in the Gulch.
                But if we could fix the BNKSTERS control.
                Stop the income tax.
                And stop the K-Street funding of the RNC/DNC (ie, hijacking our elected representatives)...

                We would be 90% better. Maybe 95% better. I would gladly pay my Property Taxes, which are like 30 times less than my income tax on a good year.
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                • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
                  I see your point and certainly agree that the feds must be crushed.
                  But when I buy something, it's mine and I shouldn't have to pay tribute
                  or have my property seized (stolen) by local/state government by force
                  of arms for so-called 'services' that are better provided by free market
                  competition and voluntary contract.
                  I do not own any 'real estate' because I won't be robbed in that way.
                  It's not much different from 500 years ago:
                  https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
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                  • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
                    Property tax is really a form of wealth tax (about 1-1.25% of the value of the property in most places). You had to buy the property with after tax money, and then they assess new taxes on the value of it . Very upsetting.
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      • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
        I agree. Secession wont be allowed however. It was forbidden when the south wanted to secede and it wouldnt be allowed now. The feds are too strong. It must be weakened by passive resistance bofore even secession would succeed.
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    • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
      One could argue that the income tax should just be eliminated, and the federal reserve just prints whatever money the government wants to spend. Let the dollar just depreciate as it will.
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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 2 months, 1 week ago
    That fact that anyone thinks Comrade Kabala is fit for "Leader of the Free World" (as opposed to pure TDS voters) tells you everything you need to know about the prospects of America's near future.
    With the amount of indescribably stupid people with driver licenses and hence the ability to vote, tells us in no uncertain terms.... We are so screwed .
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    • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
      I find it incredible that anyone actually believes Kamala is the best pick for any job involving power over other people. She is a disaster.
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      • Posted by tutor-turtle 2 months, 1 week ago
        Way too many people in this country are not taking seriously enough is what other countries (friend and foe) think of what is happening here.
        Ours friends can no longer trust us (when I say "us" or "we", I mean our present government) to help them, or even to keep our word.
        We are destabilizing the worlds financials systems (hence BRICS). We are a dangerous country to be associated with socially, financially or militarily.
        Our foes are giddy with pleasure: we are weak and woke, we are leaderless and pathological liars, both greedy and stupidly short-sighted.

        Allegedly, half the country supports the most stupid, Marxist, dishonest, soulless, Godless creature to ever hump their way into high office.
        Lord help us if there really is that many brainless, people of voting status in our once great Republic.

        Two results are absolutely certain if the election is stolen for a second time:
        1) The dollar be be dropped as the worlds reserve currency, putting this nation and the western world into a full financial depression, the likes of which no man alive has ever seen.
        BRICS has more members joining every month, they know the ship is unsound, floundering, at great risk of hitting the tipping point.

        2) Our enemies will take full advantage of a weak, feckless and patently incompetent HairAss administration.
        Be it North Korea, Iran, China, or any number of Mideast/African/South American countries we have totally Effed-Over in the past 70 years.
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        • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
          The situation is VERY serious. I voted, but I am only ONE vote, and what will happen in a couple of weeks is not under my control. Kamala and her backers are very dangerous and evil people, who should be considered our enemies and treated as such.
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          • Posted by tutor-turtle 2 months, 1 week ago
            Besides people receiving multiple absentee ballots in the mail, there is a frighteningly new scam unfolding:
            The Rats have devised yet another strategy to steal votes: Foreign ballots.
            You may or may not have heard, if you (an American citizen) live or are traveling outside the country on election day, you can request a ballot to vote in any state, regardless of your actual domicile.
            The Demon Rats have requested tens of millions of these ballots.
            Many times in excess of actual absentee voters!
            There is little doubt of how these millions of absentee foreign ballots will be used.
            We are fighting the worst kind of treachery against our once proud Republic.

            These Traitors need to be exposed and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.. or there is no law.
            Such be the case.... All Bets Are Off.

            Pray that does not happen.
            Ugly will discover a whole new meaning.
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            • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
              The provisional ballot scam is another one. if y ou dont. have ID, you can vote anyway on a provisional ballot which will count as a real ballot UNLESS somehow its disapproved within 5 days after election day. This is filled with fraudulent intent
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                • Posted by tutor-turtle 2 months, 1 week ago
                  In what way? For good? Or Ill?
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                    • Posted by tutor-turtle 2 months, 1 week ago
                      France has 48 million voters. Paper ballots. Results were counted before midnight.

                      India has 969 million voters!
                      Yet this third world nation counted all their hundreds of millions of ballots paper ballots before midnight!

                      So why is it the most advance country in the world can't keep pace with a ginormous mud-hut country?
                      Unless it is being done on purpose.
                      And what is that purpose?
                      To Cheat!

                      These traitors to our Republic need to be treated like the traitors they are: stood up against a stone wall and shot.
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  • Posted by GaryL 2 months, 1 week ago
    Continued!.

    - You must remember the Feinstein-Kavanaugh-Soros connections to understand this next information.

    - Debra Katz (Christine Ford's lawyer) worked for George-Soros at the Open Society Foundation.

    - Debra Katz (Christine Ford's lawyer) also worked at Project on Government Oversight (POGO).

    - POGO is funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundation.

    - POGO is the co-signer of the letter Diane Feinstein presented against Kavanaugh's nomination.

    - Kamala Harris did not prosecute OneWest Bank for their fraud when she had the authority - Soros owned OneWest Bank.

    - Now you know why a woman who placed 7th in her own State when running for President is now VP!

    VERY SCARY STUFF and obvious why they need President Trump out of the picture!
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  • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
    How about-
    1) Eliminate all government deficit spending immediately. Just force budgetary restraints.
    2) Deal with the resulting recession by reducing the most onerous of the regulations that stifle innovation
    3) Eliminate ALL tariffs to allow cheap foreign goods to be purchased inexpensively by americans and therefore have more money to live on and grow our economy. Tariffs just inhibit the domestic economy by siphoning off consumer funds. Chinese stuff costs 1/3 of what american similar stuff would cost. Even 100% tariff wont do much except make consumers give our government money to waste.
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  • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    I have this funny feeling that we are going to get another round of inflation in 2025 even if Trump is elected. There was a LOT of money printed in 2024 by biden that will probably surface in 2025 in terms of higher prices
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      • Posted by term2 2 months, 1 week ago
        The really bad part is that the government gets to spend the printed money, and we all have to pay for that later in terms of inflation.
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          • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
            And therefore, instead of raising rates in order to cut down lending, the direct approach would be less harmful to the people and the government budget. Restrict lending by making banks keep greater reserves. That cuts the supply of loans and the lower interest rates do not enrich banksters (even more than usual) at the expense of everyone else. This could have been done for the past 100 years, but no, higher interest rates must be used instead to protect banksters. Thieves and traitors.
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              • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
                I understand that point of view, but you are thinking like one of the defenders of the current banking cartel - not that you actually are one.;^)
                They decided to use interest rates because it benefits the cartel, not because it's less intense.
                Rates are the most intense on the common customer/citizen who has no choice in the matter and is being robbed by the system.
                You have stated that 'someone' needs to manipulate the banking system to stabilize it.
                The system has been less stable under the Fed than it was before the Fed.
                Prior to the Fed only wars or tulip craziness could cause economic calamity and that was very infrequent.
                Since the Fed stole power, it has been one calamity after another.
                The only thing that has saved the cartel is the demand for dollars due to the petro dollar.
                The system isn't there to stabilize the economy; it's there to benefit the banking cartel.
                There is no one who can be trusted to have this power, and that has been proven repeatedly over the past 111 years.
                Who has profited from every single calamity? Who has been protected against all losses?
                It's obviously only working to enrich the cartel, so let's just keep on doing it.
                The very definition of insanity - unless you are the cartel.
                Manipulating an economy is never easy and the proof is what a disaster it has been for everyone except the cartel.
                The foxes have been controlling the hen house for 111 years. That is never good for the hens.
                The people have been treated like cattle to be slaughtered for 111 years by the cartel.
                Rates should have never been manipulated to moderate demand by the cartel that caused the demand.
                Punishing the victims has been done for 111 years. Time to punish the perpetrators in the cartel.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 2 months, 2 weeks ago
    Another "go along with this plan concept" would be to create the same relationship between Federal and State and apply that to Town/city and State.
    The State should do less, much less and the towns and cities more.
    I'd like it if there were No Cities, they suck and mankind should never live on top of one another.
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    • Posted by 2 months, 2 weeks ago
      With internet connectivity and (assuming) AI taking over many physical
      jobs the city concentration of people may have fewer advantages.
      After just spending a few days in NYC, and occasionally visiting a nearby
      metro area, I much prefer less urban life. I lived in an urban high rise condo
      years ago while on a consulting engagement and it wasn't satisfying for me.
      That said, I do enjoy a more varied selection of affordable restaurants than
      available where I currently live. NYC isn't affordable.
      I have lived overseas and enjoyed that. I'm seriously considering relocating
      to a different continent with less intrusive tyrants.
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    • Posted by JakeOrilley 2 months, 2 weeks ago
      Agreed OGC - Cities should handle their own issues, not rely on the state. Counties should handle their own issues, not rely on the state and the Fed. And each state should handle their own issues - and get their hands out of the feds pockets. The only thing that should be on the fed is collective defense..... Simplistic, I know, but dang - something has to be done....
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        • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
          "could it have been done without government oversight? "
          Yes, just as many of the large corps cooperate to achieve control over the fedgov scum, they could have cooperated to build out transportation.
          It would have placed the construction cost and maintenance on those who had the most benefit. Smaller states and regional companies would
          have paid for branch lines. It might have taken longer but the cost and maintenance would have been much less and there would have been
          no excuse for the federal fuel tax, imo. Instead there would have been tolls on those using it most and the lower costs passed on in lower product
          prices. Free markets instead of force.
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            • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
              Yes, when free market competition is allowed it does take time to sort out the most effective way forward. (I remember that oil field photo, too.;^)
              It's rare that complex things work perfectly the first time, but the free market is the most efficient path. Government force is not.
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            • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
              My answer was that the state govs only have to arrange for right of ways and let the free market build the roads.
              No public funding is required or wanted. Since the point of free market construction is to enhance profits they
              are careful to construct things that do so, including making sure that the rights of way are continuous.
              Otherwise the construction doesn't fulfill the goal.
              If a state government doesn't participate by acquiring the rights of way, they lose out to other states
              and their economies and employment loses as well. They also lose at the polls when the private entities
              expose the fact that the state gov has not acted in the interests of their people.
              Free markets work. Governments waste, corrupt, lie, and enslave.
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                • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
                  Some 160 years of it, government has been exhibiting control on larger business
                  in order to gain more and more unearned power and wealth.
                  Companies responded in the most efficient peaceful way:
                  by corrupting government and using it to eliminate competition and end the free market.

                  Glad to have a rational conversation with you! ;^)
                  You want some 'body' to limit business?
                  Who is qualified and won't be corrupted by the power?
                  Let's discuss.
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                    • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
                      From wiki:
                      "British joint-stock company founded in January 1711, created as a
                      public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of the national debt. "
                      Just another government approved con.
                      Sort of like Wall St. and the banking cartel. Special laws for "special people."
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                        • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
                          They are recently left-biased. When the banking cartel gained power in 1913 they had no such bias.
                          They just wanted power and wealth and controlling government was the way to get it.
                          That was especially true when the country was being founded and the Constitution excluded a Bill of Rights.
                          The federalists favored strong central government and a national bank; some wanted a monarchy.
                          Fortunately Jefferson and anti-federalists opposed them or the country would have been bankrupted in the
                          18th century instead of the 20th.
                          Wall St. and the banking cartel have been thieves for centuries before they leaned left.
                          That's where control was easier to obtain recently so that's where they corrupted.
                          They aren't bound to any ideology.
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                        • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
                          Why did many of the male children of the gentry in England seek their fortunes in the military?
                          Did they have to prove themselves to get respect or they'd never be able to feel self respect?
                          Read any Kipling?
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                    • Posted by 2 months, 1 week ago
                      Unfortunately, yes, there are often irrational discussions.
                      Sometimes that is the case with discussions of monetary policy by "experts"
                      in monetary policy, likely due to the 'human nature' of the "experts." ;^)
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        • Posted by JakeOrilley 2 months, 1 week ago
          Agreed on the interstate commercial activity - just not using it with the sledgehammer way they are currently using it....... a landowner in NE can't do anything to a stream due to the ICC saying it might affect a farmer in GA.........
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            • Posted by JakeOrilley 2 months, 1 week ago
              Absolutely! And it was done under time and under budget.
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                • Posted by JakeOrilley 2 months, 1 week ago
                  AT THE TIME....it seemed like the thing to do, to provide power to the areas in the southwest. AT THE TIME there was no idea that so many people would move to the area, because it was so dang hot....and then they extended the power further and further, and with the availability of affordable air conditioning which was not available at the time of the build......so many things going on..... but to answer your specific question, AT THE TIME - I think it was a good project based on the information that was available.

                  An interesting discussion, and thank you!!!
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                  • Posted by JakeOrilley 2 months, 1 week ago
                    And in regard to the water in the area/region we now have Mexico City about to run out of water with Mexico owing (based on a agreement made with Mexico for water from the Colorado) us many years of water...... That agreement was - not the best that could have been made.... and still Mexico City is about to run out of water - and I know that the US will be blamed.......
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                      • Posted by JakeOrilley 2 months, 1 week ago
                        Of course not. And I apologize for not being more clear - at times I do not explain the reason for the thoughts behind a statement. I was referring to US - Mexico water sharing agreement. The agreement quotes are directly from the congressional reports, and the quote on how Mexico is not living up the the agreement is from the BBC.

                        "Colorado River. The Colorado River flows through seven U.S. states before reaching Mexico;
                        97% of its basin is in the United States. Under the 1944 Water Treaty, the United States is
                        required to provide Mexico with 1.5 million acre-feet (AF) of Colorado River water annually.
                        This figure represents about 10% of the river’s average flow."

                        "Rio Grande. The Rio Grande is governed by two separate agreements. Deliveries to Mexico in
                        the northwestern portion of the shared basin (near El Paso/Ciudad Juárez) occur under a 1906
                        convention, whereas deliveries for the southeastern portion (which is below Fort Quitman, TX"

                        "A bilateral treaty signed in 1944 says the two countries must share water sources along their arid border.

                        Mexican farmers say they need the water themselves, in what has been one of the driest years in decades.

                        But the US says Mexico has recently not been fulfilling the agreement and owed almost a year's worth of water.

                        Last month, hundreds of Mexican farmers seized La Boquilla dam in Chihuahua state to stop water being diverted to the US, leading to violent clashes with Mexico's National Guard. "

                        So again, apologize for not having enough info for my comments originally but with the water agreement, although they did not "build a canal to carry water to Mexico City" there is an agreement that ties in the water that comes from the Colorado, and thus the dam, and the water that is used is MX.
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  • Posted by term2 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    competition is the savior of the consumer.....
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      • Posted by term2 2 months ago
        I dont think I would like to own an insurance company. you cant really predict the weather or how many accidents people will have, or what injuries they will have... I have to hand it to the companies that ARE out there. Its a tough business for sure
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          • Posted by term2 2 months ago
            Statistics and Probability were a couple of college classes I just could GET. So I have to hand it to the actuaries who get it right. I have no idea how they do it.
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              • Posted by term2 2 months ago
                AI will make the predictions of the actuaries more accurate. For example, I can look at the bills for restaurants I have frequented over the last year to predict how much I might spend the next time I go to a particular restaurant- BUT if I used AI to look at typical inflation numbers or local restaurant prices I might get better estimates.
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                  • Posted by term2 2 months ago
                    What I meant is that AI can provide more information to make the actuary predictions better. Eventually, AI will be able to do anything humans do- I mean after all the human brain is something that eventually will be understood and artificially made to produce the same results. Its just a chemical and electrical device after all- just happens to be in humans.
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