Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Concerning the To Kill a Constitution article:
I was just looking for a signature gathering program to recall a Taft CA (Kern County) Judge Craig Phillips. The Chief Judge liver Wendell Wanger had said after a second arrest five months after I filed for a 2005-2006 arrest & incarceration, that it seems like the problem is with the Kern County Judiciary. The intimidation and lack of governance (according to well-established law) failures are occurring here in Kern County. I am from south-central PA & plan to be here for a while & export CA & U.S. products, but the local Taft Judge & Prosecutor have crushed that dream & now I have a car stuck in Sri Lanka I cant get back to.
--Kerry Fritz II
CA
Monday, March 15, 2010
Concerning the f37 article:
U.S Rules.!~~~
--BooskiiDanielleManaging Editor Jeffery Smith replies --
American regulations? Americans are bossy? ???
Monday, March 15, 2010
Concerning the Foldvary on Natural Monopolies article:
it was reasonably good however i wanted more indebt anlisis and the easy understnding was great
--dillon david
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Concerning the Foldvary on Capital Punishment article:
i feel that it is the right thing to do since the person took another persons life away
--Gaone masiloThe publisher replies --
Are you sure that more killing is what you want? And then I suppose, if you are consistent, you want those killers in turn to be killed also? It might be better to focus on ways to improve society so that there are fewer killings, not more.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Concerning the Are young Chinese overeducated? article:
When job focussed education is seen as the answer to unemployment, the result is eduflation. Employers demand more qualifications for the same job, not because they are needed, but to reduce their heaving stacks of application forms.
--Diana E Forrest
UK
Friday, March 12, 2010
Concerning a letter below on this page:
Concerning the Foldvary on Natural Monopolies article: "should healthcare be a monopoly?" --henryThe American Medical Association is a monopoly.
--Warren Chamberlain
Massachusetts
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Concerning the Foldvary on Natural Monopolies article:
should healthcare be a monopoly?
--henryThe publisher replies --
Monopoly is an important topic, but in the health care issue there are other, more pressing issues. For example, in the U.S. there is no health care monopoly, but the system is clearly broken. Medical insurance is far too expensive and inefficient, with stupid restrictions and burdensome paperwork rules. Mainstream medicine does not prioritize good health and prevention, and is biased against innovative forms of treatment. You will find lots of room for improvement, no matter where you look.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Concerning the Cities Invest in Stored Wind Energy article:
you should make the steps shorter and simplar to undersatnd!!!
--elizabeth
florida<33
Wednesday March 10, 2010
Concerning the concdefi article:
WHAT IS THE TRUE DEFICIT-WHEN YOU THROUGH IN UNFUNDED SSI-MEDICARE & MEDICADE-WHY ISN'T THE TRUTH BEING TOLD TO THE PEOPLE-HARRY REED SAID SSI WAS GOOD FOR 40 YEARS WHEN G.B.TRIED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM-WHAT DOES HE SAY NOW--ANYBODY ASKED HIM ?
--JACK McDOWELManaging Editor Jeffery Smith replies --
please use lower case -- thanks.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Concerning the Role reversal -- Brazil slaps trade sanctions on US article:
It would be helpful for more people to keep up with the Progress Report if you would add a RSS feed to the website.
--Chuck
NYThe publisher replies --
Great suggestion, and we have followed it! The Progress Report RSS feed is available here. You can also find the link to our RSS feed on the front page of the Progress Report, on the left where it says "XML" and also at the foot of the page.
The URL is http://www.progress.org/feed.xml
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Concerning a letter below on this page:
"Managing Editor Jeffery Smith replies -- While Im no expert on Social Credit, Id say there are similarities and differences. Mainly, the rent dividend paid to citizens is a true dividend, a true share of a surplus, and not something cranked out at the printing press. That said, there are times when it is appropriate to print new money (or do it electronically). Who should get it? I say everybody, but only once, when they most need it, when theyre first entering the workforce. Theyll have no savings of their own, so theyll need it, and theyll be expanding production and consumption, so the supply of money needs to rise, too. What are your thoughts?"I could express my thoughts better on this subject in the discussion room. My question was intended to provoke additioal investigation and discussion.
I have posted some articals and links there that can help us better understand the basic idea of Social Credit and how I think it can be linked to the LVT.
http://www.progress.org/cgi/webbbs/config.pl
The money is initialy issued debt free and distributed as the Citizens Social Credit,by the taxing or governing authority then the LAND VALUE TAX is used mainly as a means to retire the surplus money and extinguish it in a constant cycle.
The total outstanding money supply per capita can easily be monitored and adjusted as necessary to foster full voluntary employment and exchange of goods and services.
The printed money or electronic credits are actually backed by the aggregate market value of nature and distributed to us on a monthly or annual basis as our natural equal share of the value of our commons.
I really think some coalition between Geonomicists and Social Crediters needs to develop.
I think it would be a good idea to invite the Pilgrimes of St Michael as guest presenters at the annual Georgist convention in Albany this year.
--Warren Chamberlain
Massachusetts
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Concerning the Will GM Products Market be Free or Manipulated? article:
they are trying to avoid having u healthy...
--adfasdf
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Concerning the Thus Spake Geothustra article:
G-Wizz and G-wiliker, the Guru Geothustra out-spake the G-man. The following quotes are pertinent:"I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders any more. It is because they are no longer needed. The message is clear. You no longer want to be led from the outside. Every man must be his own leader. He now knows enough not to follow other people. He must follow the light thats within himself, and through this light he will create a new community." --- Laurens Van Der Post
Serve no more, and you are at once free! I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, just that you support him no longer. Then you will behold him, like a colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces. --- Etienne de la Boetie, 1553
--Nus
FLManaging Editor Jeffery Smith replies --
Was Boetie really that long ago? Seems like only yesterday!Don't resist. Desist!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Concerning the Role reversal -- Brazil slaps trade sanctions on US article:
"JJS: A safety net is important, but not just for Big Business. Bigger picture, if society shared its commonwealth fairly, then all members of society would enjoy a safety net. Such an extra income apart from one’s labor would not be a subsidy but a social salary, a share of society’s surplus. "How does the Geonomic idea of a Citizens Dividend compare with the idea of Social Credit?
htap://www.michaeljournal.org/soufin7.htm
Financial Credit is, at birth, a property of all of society. It is so because it is based on the real credit, on the countrys production capacity. This production capacity is made up, certainly in part, of work, of the competence of those who take part in production. But it is mainly made up, in an ever-increasing part, of other elements which are the property of all.
There are, first of all, natural resources, which are not the production of any man; they are a gift from God, a free gift that must be at the service of all. There are also all the inventions made, developed, and transmitted from one generation to the next. It is the biggest production factor today. And no man can claim to be the only owner of this progress, which is the fruit of many generations.
--Warren Chamberlain
MassachusettsManaging Editor Jeffery Smith replies --
While I'm no expert on Social Credit, I'd say there are similarities and differences. Mainly, the rent dividend paid to citizens is a true dividend, a true share of a surplus, and not something cranked out at the printing press. That said, there are times when it is appropriate to print new money (or do it electronically). Who should get it? I say everybody, but only once, when they most need it, when they're first entering the workforce. They'll have no savings of their own, so they'll need it, and they'll be expanding production and consumption, so the supply of money needs to rise, too. What are your thoughts?
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Concerning the The Flow of Money From Rented Land in Iowa article:
You are assuming that all land is passed to heirs free and clear. What about the out of state investor who purchases Iowa land from a local. The local keeps the money and may purchase a retirement home in town, etc. In these cases, there is a net flow of out-of-state money into Iowa. I know this occurs. I have done it.
--Terry Wostrel
Colorado
Tuesday March 9, 2010
Concerning the Dalai Lama's Recommendations article:
exllent !
--dondup tashi
Monday March 8, 2010
Concerning the The True Causes of Poverty in Kenya article:
Poverty and Corruption are the leading ones Find more about poverty in Kenya at htap://exitpoverty.org
--Exit Poverty
Monday, March 8, 2010
Concerning the Co-ownership article:
This seems similar to Islamic banking.htap://www.islamic-banking.com/what_is_ibanking.aspx
htap://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_32/b3946141_mz035.htm
--Warren C.
Massachusetts
Monday, March 8, 2010
Concerning the Gasolines True Cost article:
What is the date on this article? I like it we need to use less gas so the price goes down.
--Joseph
Monday, March 8, 2010
Concerning the Thus Spake Geothustra article:
“What is this foul stench I smell?” asked Geothustra. He went to the edge of the merchant shop zone, and there he saw a mountain of garbage, and toxic water flowing from it."Could that be another high rise building owned by an insurance company or bank?
Or could it be the power plant that supplies all the power to light it it up at night?
--Warren Chambarlein
Massachusetts
Monday, March 8, 2010
Concerning the Thus Spake Geothustra article:
Fred, you are a wildman! Excellent. I hope Geothustra will wander down to visit us again.
--Lindy Davies
Waldo County
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Concerning the Foldvary on Saturday Delivery and USPS versus Private Enterprise article:
I dont agree with it. If you do online business, customers dont like to wait until the next business day (Monday) for items they have paid for. Also, when some pay bills by mail, are the bill collectors going to take that into account; I dont think so. So, what happens is, more people will have late fees and companies make more off the consumer....a win for them, a loss for consumers. Also, the postal service says they are losing money but the price of shipping is still going up; the service at some of the local post offices is shabby, stuff is still getting lost and broken and items going from one town to another within a metro area is taking even longer to arrive. So, they need to hire more people....one thing Ive noticed regarding all businesses over the past 10 years; customer service is lacking extremely and incompetence is an every day thing. Treat customers like they are of true value and business would not be lacking and maybe, just maybe they will see their business and bottom line improve. Also, you might want to get rid of some the management; they eat up a lot of the profit.
--Msrozz
Friday, March 5, 2010
Concerning the Land Crisis in India article:
heloo, this is truth.
--santhakumaran
Friday March 5, 2010
Concerning the Stop Killing Prisoners article:
it should be aloud in all states
--nick
Friday, March 5, 2010
Concerning the Foldvary: Ammonium Nitrate Should Be Regulated article:
that is messed up
--nick
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Concerning the Prices are rising fast, even if the governments CPI isnt article:
The UK inflation measure excludes housing costs so how informative is that?
--Diana E Forrest
UK
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Concerning the Support This Bill article:
another way, the government is once again postponing much needed change.
--Jon Rogers
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Concerning the Foldvary on Jury Duty article:
Right On, Right On. Im sitting in "Jury Duty" right now. Im only 20, never voted, but hey a free 15 bucks. Except, I spent 2.50 on the bus. It "started" at 8.00, bus I had to take either came too early or too late. So I came early n waited outside in 40 degree weather. Then they let us in, sat around for a haalf hour. Entered the main room, and got talked to for half an hour. A few ppl were "Randomly" selected to leave early. At around 11:30 thats 4 hours stairing at the wall, or being on a slow computer running windows 98. Anyway at 11:30 they come in and say "Lunch Time" you may go home. Come back at 1:30... Wtf? I cant leave the bus would take too long and would cost another 2.50, So here I am, sitting, waiting. Waiting to wait. 15 Bucks for 5 hours of my time, (Probably about 7 or 8 hours Idk yet) doesnt seem right.
--Charles Zippel
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Concerning a letter below on this page:
Concerning a letter below on this page: Monday, March 1, 2010How about a net worth tax? Each person would at the end of each year prepare a net worth statment listing all assets and liabilities and then pay a 2% tax on net worth.--Warren C.
Net worth includes produced goods. Why do you want to tax production and goods? Why not just tax land and pollution?" --Fred Foldvary
Net worth includes the value of produced goods but does not tax production. A net worth tax taxes only the acccumulation of produced and unproduced wealth (land).
I am all infavor of a land value tax but a net worth tax would accomplish almost the same thing because most net worth is just the accumulation of wealth and a good portion of that wealth is land value which is part of the value of stocks bonds and mortgages.
A net worth tax of 2% would hit most all of the same people, the top 400 families in the country. They probably own most of the land anyway.
A net worth tax might be more politicly popular in the sort term.
--Warren C..
Massachusetts
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Concerning a letter below on this page:
Concerning the Tax Favors for Government Employees? article: "In the UK I have also heard whingeing about the high pay of pulic employees. What they have is not haloes but unions. As a result they have a living wage and are less likely than private sector workers to get means tested government in-work benefits. These top ups to ripped off employees are in effect subsidising the private employer. Whats wrong with everybody getting enough to live on?" --Diana E ForrestThat is right and the goal of the international money elite is to bring down the economies of all nations through debt crises and force them to destroy all the labor unions. Labor unions are the last bastion between us and slavery. Instead of being jealeous of union workers wages we need to form more labor unions and join with them in solidarity.
--Warren C.
Massachusetts
Monday, March 1, 2010
Concerning the Tax Favors for Government Employees? article:
In the UK I have also heard whingeing about the high pay of pulic employees. What they have is not haloes but unions. As a result they have a living wage and are less likely than private sector workers to get means tested government in-work benefits. These top ups to ripped off employees are in effect subsidising the private employer. Whats wrong with everybody getting enough to live on?
--Diana E Forrest
UK
Monday, March 1, 2010
Concerning a letter below on this page:
Concerning the History Is Driven by the Little Guy article:"Since most of my ancestors were here, and I have some real knowledge of what they did or did not do over those 272 years of war, labor, and sacrifice before 1892, I beg to disagree with him. And I also have a PhD in American History."--William Leavenworth Maine
You must know one of my ancestral relatives from Maine, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
My ancesters arrived here in 1638. What can you tell us about "King Phillips War of 1675?"
Would you say that Metacomet of the Wampanoag was one of the little guys?
And how about all that heavy lifting of his heed on a pike in Plymouth Massachusetts where a mere 50 years earlier his Father Massasoit welcomed the pilgrims to the shores of this continent?
No wonder we are afraid of illegal immegrants.
--Warren Chamberlain
Massachusetts
Monday, March 1, 2010
Concerning the The Spoils of War: Billions Over Baghdad article:
This story is so outrageous I thought it deserved headline treatment, so that is exactly what I gave it, here: htap://www.opednews.com/articles/Progress-Report-Is-steali-by-Scott-Baker-100301-664.html
--Scott Baker
New York
Monday, March 1, 2010
Concerning the Tax Favors for Government Employees? article:
"There should be no tax favors for the employees of governments. Tax breaks for “public service” amounts to a tax-free increase in their wages, which does not show up in the government’s budget. It is not just sneaky and unfair; it implements a political bias for government and against private enterprise. "Your article certainly reveals your bias against governments working in the public interest and for private enterprise working for the private interest.
There are so many items in this article that annoy me, I do not know where to start and there is not enough room on this letters to the editor page to respond to it fully and properly. I hope we can discuss this more in the discussion room, if you would care to repost it there in full.
htap://www.progress.org/cgi/webbbs/config.pl
--Warren C.
Massachusetts
Monday, March 1, 2010
Concerning a letter below on this page:
How about a net worth tax? Each person would at the end of each year prepare a net worth statment listing all assets and liabilities and then pay a 2% tax on net worth.--Warren C.Net worth includes produced goods. Why do you want to tax production and goods? Why not just tax land and pollution?
--Fred Foldvary
California
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Concerning the Foldvary on Saturday Delivery and USPS versus Private Enterprise article:
Yes, please demonopolize USPS. I use Fedex UPS only. Mail carriers at USPS use inter-office politics as a way of not doing their jobs. Never had any delivery problems with USPS/UPS
--chauncy
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Concerning the Foldvarys Economics Quiz article:
very gud quiz
--Protima
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Concerning the History Is Driven by the Little Guy article:
Howard Zinn couldnt claim a single ancestor who was here for the heavy lifting that shaped this country between 1620 and 1892. That might explain his infatuation with mediocrity. It wouldnt explain the leaders who made the decisions and toook the risks that won 7 wars with the Inidans and French, two wars with the Brits, a war with the Mexicans, a war with the South that the South nearly won, a war with the Spanish, two wars with the Germans, and a war with the Japanese. Since most of my ancestors were here, and I have some real knowledge of what they did or did not do over those 272 years of war, labor, and sacrifice before 1892, I beg to disagree with him. And I also have a PhD in American History.
--William Leavenworth
Maine
Friday, February 26, 2010
Concerning the Bertrand Russell Anti-War article:
0. Will you consider to correct the misprint "Nagasaik" ?1. I cite the texts by Russel about nuclear weapon in my articles. That is all I can do to push Dmitrii Medvedev to read them. I do not know what can be done about Russia: the ministers there do not know even the First law by Newton. Their slang is at the level of kindergarden.
2. I am Russian. Sorry about the Medvedevs nuclear doctrine. Sorry about the Putins wars. I did not vote for them. I know what happened within two years after the Soviet-German pact (1939). Past year Ive red about the Russian-Chinist pact(2009). I do not know what can be done about this, and I afraid of year 2011.
--Dmitrii Kouznetsov
Friday, February 26, 2010
Concerning the Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Big Pharma, deceivers all article:
you are so on point!i worked for big pharma for over the past 20 yrs, and the have outsource 40% of there business and jobs to (other countries such as india and other places). they are now hiring asian workers to replace american workers in this country, because it is cheaper and more more for its stakeholders! they are killing americans with their products and giving jobs to foriegners because its cheaper. you do the math or read between the lines.
--dee white
DE
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Concerning the Torah-Based Economics article:
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Concerning the Saving the Penguins article:
I think that this is a great article and you should put it in the newspaper!
--brianna
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Concerning the Ignorance, Apathy, Greed article:
I was trying to find another factor beside of ignorance, apathy, and greed. I could not find any other character or social ill that is not caused by one of these three. I think you summed it up pretty much!
--Mark
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Concerning the Napoleoni on 10 Things You Dont Know About Terrorism article:
waw tis s asme. never nw that
--joshep
nj
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Concerning the Special Valentine Treat article:
Comments: Sounds like Henry George.
--V Diamond
MD
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Concerning a letter below on this page:
"There is a necessity for a stock market. However, that the stock market’s primary purpose is financing the nation’s business is pure fiction; trades in the stock market have little to do with capital investment: "On this issue, I find myself in 100% agreement with Mr De Bruycker
--Warren C..
Massachusetts
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Concerning the Gadsden Purchase Land Deal article:
I think that the deal was made based on the necessity of the individual as well as the need for transport. I am alo interestedin finding out if i might in some way be related to this infamous person! If so that would be interesting.
--ada gadsden
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Concerning the f37 article:
It was a verry interestin report! I used it to write a school report! It was verry helpful! I had no idea it was "the Maine" being sunk that caused the war! Thanx SO much!Scincerally, Tavita Holder PS Plz dont reply back... Thanks :)
--Tavita
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Concerning the Taxing Stock Trades article:
For centuries, as modern economies developed, the hidden hands of the alert and powerful were busy structuring property rights to gain, or retain, title to wealth-producing sectors of the economy. Patent laws were being structured to monopolize technology and stock markets were being structured to both harvest those profits and further monopolize industries.That stock markets are crucial to raising investment capital is a myth. Most stock traders have no contact with new issues of stock and those who do are primarily taking an already established private company public.
Most corporate investment needs are financed from profits, liberal depreciation schedules, and borrowing. A stock is taken public primarily to put those values in play to join in the game of making money betting on whether stocks will go up or down which is really gambling not producing.
Expanding markets means increased profits capitalized into the value of a company’s stock and, with the potential for profits thoroughly analyzed by the market, those capitalized values are claimed before those profits are banked. (...)
There is a necessity for a stock market. However, that the stock market’s primary purpose is financing the nation’s business is pure fiction; trades in the stock market have little to do with capital investment:
Buying a stock from a broker does not add one red cent to the corporate treasury and provides no investment capital except if the stock is newly issued. But new issues by major corporations are fairly rare because issuing new stock dilutes equity and depresses stock prices. As a result, the bulk of shares now traded on the stock markets were issued twenty or fifty years ago. Since then the shares have passed through many hands, and their prices have fluctuated over a wide range. Yet all these transactions have been strictly between the buyers and sellers of stocks, aided and abetted by stockbrokers trying to eke out a modest living…. [S]peculators are not really interested in the company whose stock they temporarily own. They want to take their profits and get out. They are not investing in the proper sense of the word; they are simply gambling. Ownership of corporations has become largely a game of chance in which the individual players try to guess what the other players will do.
htap://www.ied.info/articles/the-simplicity-of-eliminating-monopolization-of-technology/patent-profits-collected-through-the-stock-market
--Gilbert De Bruycker
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Concerning the Foldvary on Protectors and Predators article:
I couldnt agree more... The Police in the United States are the biggest predators that the world has ever seen....It seems that the Police in this country have forgotton who their real bosses are. I am a victim of numerous unwarrented attacks by the Police. I am sick and tired of the way the Police act like I am somekind of enemy. I have NEVER done anything to have done to me what the Cops have pulled on me. Just the other night I was going over to a friends house and I turned down the wrong street, which was a dead end, and when I turned around I saw a Boca Raton Police car drive by, and I said to myself "What is this piece of SHIT going to pull on me" well my answer wasnt to far in coming. I turned the corner and went in the direction that the cop went because I believed that that was the direction that I was supposed to go, (remember this I was just going over to a friends house, I had not been drinking or doing anything else)But, after a couple of seconds I realized that I went the wrong way, so I pulled up to the stop sign at the next street and made a left after I came to a COMPLETE STOP and I also used my turn signal,(To Make sure that this PIG had nothing to HARRASS me for). So I (Knowing that I have to turn around)turn into the first driveway I come to on my left, which was about 200 feet from the corner. "WELL" I dont think I have to tell you what happened next, As I turned into the driveway the COP who was STALKING me turns on his noise maker and his lights, so I back out of the driveway and start driving in the opposite direction from which I came and when doing so I stopped next to this cop and I ask him, "WHAT DO YOU WANT< WHY ARE YOU PULLING ME OVER"? Well the first thing that comes out of his mouth was a Screaming Tyrade, He starts yelling at me at the top of his voice, "What in the Hell are you doing? "Dont stop your car next to me" "Pull your car over and put your hands on the steering wheel" So I do what he says, and when he gets to my window I ask him "why did you stop me" and his reply was "your tire touched the corner of the white line at the stop sign" and I told him that he was full of shit.. So now I give him my registration and insurance and he goes back to his car and after a few minutes he comes back and gives me my stuff back, and I ask him if that is all (mind you he never gives me a ticket for his make believe charge)and he says yes so I say good bye, and before I could pull away he says to me "you dont mind if I search your car do you"? and I say "yes I do mind" and then he starts to have a coronary, and says to me "why wont you let me search your car"? "you dont have anything to hide do you"? "Like Guns or drugs" (This cop acted like he was having a temper tantrum) and I say No, and then I said to him "I dont think the reason that you pulled me over warrants you ripping my car apart and violating my rights" and that is when it got real weird, this guy looked around and he got this look on his face like he was going to do something to me. (well knowing that he could have done anything to me that he wanted to and gotten away with it, like what had been done to me countless times in the past) So like an Idiot I said to him OK you can search my car. (Which I regreted doing seconds after I got out of the car). (I had been pulled over by a Boca PIGS in 2001 and was railroaded into a DUI, and when this piece of shit searched my vehicle then, he came out of my van with this marijuana joint that looked like a profeesionaly rolled cigarette, mind you I do not or did not smoke Marijuana at that point in my life, (I did when I was younger but not at that time) So to my amazement this COP gets out of my car and says that everything was in order. I was expecting him to come out of my car with some Heroin or some Crack, or something that would put me in prison. I am sick of the LIES and the Intimidation that these people are doing. I would like to see someone come up with an organization that people can go to when they are Harrassed or Railroaded by the police who will believe them, and not dismiss the citizen who is making the claims of Harrassment or false arrest as being a crack pot or a liar. and someone who has the power to over rule the lying cop and his partner in crime the Judge. As we all know the Judges in this country go along with "ANYTHING" that the Prosecutor and the Cops bring before him. ALSO, Something has to be done with these Prosecutors in this country, they are the most arrogant, self serving, lyingest and most contemptable people in the law inforcement chain. It is my firm belief that if a prosecutor prosecutes someone who is later found to be innocent of the crimes that he put them in prison for, he should have to serve out the sentence that he caused the innocent person to get, and no special accomodations should be made for him or her, like protective custody, because they dont deserve it, (remember this prosecutor has just committed one of the most HEINOUS CRIMES KNOWN TO MAN, Passing false whitness against his fellow man)Something has got to be done, and it needs to be done soon. The Biggest criminals in this country go to work every under the guise of being people of honor and people of justice and people that we are supposed to trust to help us when their is some injustice being done to us. As for me the next time that I am accused of doing something that I havent done and these SCUMBAG PIGS try to work their "MAGIC" on me I am going to treat it as a DIRECT THREAT on my life. Because it is nothing short of that, A DIRECT THREAT ON MY LIFE AND LIBERTIES< and it is also an attack on my family and all of those who love and care about me. I want to start an Organization that will be a voice for those who are oppressed by the true terrorists "The Police" that we as a free society have to fear. And these officer of freedom will have to be armed so that if they whitness an ARMED ASSAILANT, (Meaning a Police Officer) Attacking an innocent person, That innocent person would be able to rest in assurance that their life will be protected with the same vigor that the Governments HIRED GUNMAN is using against them to steal their life, rights, and property. Thank You for taking time to read my little tyrade, But, I am sick and tired of hearing about these THUGS using their positions of trust and integrity to PLAGUE our society with the crimes that they inflict on the good and Honest people of our Nation on a Daily basis., Thanks Again Dennis Lyons
--Dennis Lyons
Monday, February 22, 2010
Concerning the The Double-Edged American Dream, Part Two article:
I thought you did a wonderful job of twisting the truth. So, I didnt like your specious article one bit. Its riddled with half truths and distortions. I think you should move to Cuba where they will be "fair" to you because they treat everybody the same.
--sally polly
USAThe publisher replies --
If you really thought that the article had half-truths and distortions, you would have been able to name some. But you completely failed to do so. If you want to be taken seriously, you will have to learn to use reasoning, not insults.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Concerning the Taxing Stock Trades article:
Good article, Fred.Ive been worried about this stock transaction tax for over a year and still cannot find a connection between stocks-investors-savers and the lenders-debtors-mortgage defaulters that caused the financial crisis.
This is like a new type of class warfare where the reckless mortgage defaulters and lenders that caused the crisis walk away, receive bail outs and tax credits, blame stock investors and demand that the savers and investors pay higher taxes.
This trans tax would rip the fragile economy to shreds.
--John
MI
Monday, February 22, 2010
Concerning the currency article:
Jct: Quite the list of leads. See my old not-updated one at htap://johnturmel.com/urlsnat.htm for leads to other time-trading networks.
--KingofthePaupers
Monday, February 22, 2010
Concerning the The Failure of the Economy and the Economists article:
"The economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller argue that what is missing in the worldview of todays economists is sufficient attention to "animal spirits," by which they mean the psychological and even irrational elements that pervade economic behavior, too."What "Animal Spirit" is preventing us and our society from seriously considering the adoption of the Land Value Tax?
--Warren C.
Massachusetts
Monday, February 22, 2010
Concerning the Taxing Stock Trades article:
"On December 3, 2009, there was published “An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Financial Transaction Taxes.” In claiming that stock trades have little economic value, these economists ignore the benefit traders provide in thickening the market for longer-term investors. More importantly, they ignore the fundamental economic law of exchange: trade is mutually beneficial. When people swap goods or stocks, they do so for a reason, as the trade provides greater utility. If you would rather have cash instead of stocks, how dare these economists say this trade is without value! "Yes Fred but is it not also true that trading stocks is only speculation and has no real investment value, raising new capital for new capital investment in products we all need.
How is a tax on stock trades any different from a tax on real estate trades? What is the utiliy value of any stock other than the ability to collect more rent in the form of dividends and "capital gains?"
Trading stocks is just a form of speculation that is no more useful than fliping real estate. Does flipping real estate "thicken" the market for long term home owners?
How much of a stocks value reflects the underlying value of the real estate and other privileges owned by the companies who originaly issued that stock?
It is an asset tax, just on a different asset than land, however a tax on land values would be better than a tax on real estate transactions, so wouldnt a simple tax on assets be a good idea?
How about a net worth tax? Each person would at the end of each year prepare a net worth statment listing all assets and liabilities and then pay a 2% tax on net worth.
--Warren C.
Massachusetts
Monday, February 22, 2010
Concerning the Taxing Stock Trades article:
Considering the apparently never-ending TAXing situation under which we the people are burdened, which resulted in the tragic event in Austin last week, I was inspired to WAX poetic from a Georgist perspective:Natures Manifesto
Time to transcend the animosity, and plant a righteous seed
Time to manifest our divinity, thereby the world well feed
Time to abandon concepts dim-witty, like war which makes us bleed
Time to share the commons in equity, love neighbor as best deed
Time to nourish and bless all humanity, just bear good fruit not weed
Compare the above with Joe Stacks Manifesto closing words below:
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
--Nus
FL
Monday, February 22, 2010
Concerning the To Kill a Constitution article:
The simplest way to start turning a lot of this around: end the legislative "2/3rds rules."The initiative process has had a very deleterious effect on Californias system of governance, but a group of dedicated grassroots activists is currently attempting to use this highly flawed mechanism in a way that actually serves The People and not the special interests who pay by the signature to get measures on the ballot.
This genuinely grassroots effort (no special interest funds whatsoever are backing it) is aimed at getting an initiative on the November 2010 ballot that breaks all the rules. Its got a short and simple text: "All legislative actions on revenue and budget must be determined by a majority vote." The California Democracy Act would end the legislative "2/3 rules" that allow a small minority of right-wing legislators -- who put the interests of corporations and the very wealthiest among us over the vast majority of those of us who call California home, who place the budgeting process into a state of gridlock year after year, and who block funding for education, social services and infrastructure we all need -- to continue doing so. To learn more or to sign the petition yourself, please go to htap:// www.ca4democracy.com
--Joanne
California
Friday, February 19, 2010
Concerning the Foldvary on Concealed Weapons article:
2nd amendment pride. god bless America where a man can still bring his gun to town with him. justice in in the eye of the gun holder not the jury!
--dustin wilkes
Thursday February 18, 2010
Concerning the Stop Killing Prisoners article:
it's playing god. Some people believe that all deaths should be natural. Other people believe murder is a part of nature.
--?
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Concerning the Foldvary Says Colombia Ruined by Drug Wars article:
Missing some details,good info though.
--Jason
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Concerning the Immigrants Human Rights Will Be Respected article:
Human rights are human rights. Human rights have nothing to do with citizenship in this country or any other country.We hold these truths to be self evident that ALL Men (persons) are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalianable rights...it is to secure these rights that governments are formed among men.
That is what our soldiers are supposed to be fighting for all around the world to secure these rights for every human being in the world, reguardless of their religion or nation of origen.
Certainly the very country that is founded on the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights should have the mandate to fully respect the fundamental human rights of anyone, who by any means, finds himself within the boundries of the United States.
--Warren C.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Concerning the Eminent Domain Abuse article:
It seems odd to me that anyone would be offered more for their property than, say, 25% more than the valuation at which they pay property taxes on it.Property should be assessed every couple of years, the valuations put online for all to see, and those valuations should be used where eminent domain is needed.
And I suspect that good valuations -- valuing the land first -- will actually lead to less reliance on eminent domain. All parties will be operating with the same information about what the land is worth.
--Wyn AchenbaumManaging Editor Jeffery Smith replies --
Denmark used to list a property's value in their phone book!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Concerning the Immigrants Human Rights Will Be Respected article:
i didnt know this country was a free for all
--sarahManaging Editor Jeffery Smith replies --
Neither did the Indians.Neither did the Neanderthals.
Change never ends.
Actually, historically, this country more than most was a free for all, built on immigration alone.
Maybe we can make all Earth into everyone's Eden.
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