Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
A trial balloon was recently floated in the state of Utah. The government wants residents to register their gardens with the state. This is from the state’s website. How much food do we produce in Utah? Registering 10,000 gardens is an opportunity to find that answer as well as display our agricultural heritage. This challenge [...]
Continue reading →Some American factory workers have a hard time competing against slave labor. It is clear that something should be done about this. Some Americans think there should be tariffs imposed on goods produced by slave labor. It won’t work here. The slave labor here is hired by the U.S. government. Have you heard of Unicor? [...]
Continue reading →The Obama Administration likes to say that the auto bailout money was good for the economy. But when the government has lost $25 billion out of $85 billion spent, it does not seem like a good business decision to the rest of us. According to the Treasury Department report, the GM bailout will lose at [...]
Continue reading →Meter maids in Hermosa Beach get anywhere from $67,000 to $93,000 a year. I grew up next door to Hermosa Beach. My girl friend lived in Hermosa Beach. My parents bought a home in Manhattan Beach for $8,000. Today, that same 900 square foot home would sell for a million dollars. It was three blocks [...]
Continue reading →President Obama has added to the burden of Americans. He has determined that it is now the responsibility of taxpayers to police the world’s treatment of women. He has signed an executive order which establishes a new foreign policy objective: ending violence to women everywhere. It is a good idea to end violence against women. [...]
Continue reading →The U.S. Treasury, which has not conducted an audit of the nation’s gold since 1954, decided to do an audit of the gold stored at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, a private corporation. This of course had nothing to do with the fact that the House of Representatives finally has demanded an audit — [...]
Continue reading →The U.S. Postal Service owes a staggering $5.5 billion to the U.S. Treasury to cover retirement health care benefits for its employees when they retire. Not that it matters. The Treasury is running a Ponzi scheme. It was not going to invest the money. It was going to cover existing obligations. The Postal Service says [...]
Continue reading →The U.S. government has an agency, the General Services Administration. It supervises real government-owned estate. It supervises government purchasing. It also throws terrific parties. Expensive parties. You may have read of the party in Las Vegas that cost taxpayers $800,000. That got a lot of attention three months ago. Well, the GSA is at it [...]
Continue reading →A resident of Oregon blatantly collected rainwater in his governmnent-authorized ponds. For this, he was sentened to 30 days in jail and fined $1,500. He must also pay to remove the ponds. The media are all over this one. This is a great human interest news story. What has received little attention is the fact [...]
Continue reading →You’ve heard of the FBI, the CIA, and the BATF. You may have heard of the NSA (“No Such Agency.”) But you’ve never heard of the FPS, have you? Come on. Admit it. The FPS is the Federal Protective Service. What does it do? It monitors 13,000 private security guards who are said to be [...]
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