What's "ours?"

"It's just fine if you call it 'our country,' but if you insist on calling it 'our government,' you haven't been paying attention." --L. Reichard White, April 16, 2011

Their Calculator doesn't go all the way to the top

The way the U.S. banker/government axis calculates unemployment, if things got so bad everyone gave up looking for work, the unemployment rate would be 0%.  No, I'm NOT making that up.  --L. Reichard White, Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:11 AM

Fair weather advocate -- or are you serious?

"Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons." --Ron Paul

Fringe benefit

If you learn how to win elections, afterwards, you can do pretty much whatever you want for at least the next four years. --L. Reichard White, Monday, April 04, 2011 5:46 AM

Re-mem-mem re-mem-mem-mem-ber when?

Remember when you "pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands?"

When did it become a "democracy?"

Why?

--L. Reichard White Friday, March 25, 2011 5:21 AM

Three BIG whys

1. Instead of "National debt" why don't they call it what it really is: "Government debt?" 

2. Why did they borrow rather than pay cash? 

3. Why should we, let alone our kids, grand kids and the yet unborn, pay it? --L. Reichard White, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:52 AM

Unrecognized opportunity

It's not criticism, it's an invitation to learn. --L. Reichard White, Monday, March 14, 2011 6:02 AM

Where inflation ALWAYS comes from

"There is perhaps no empirical regularity among economic phenomena that is based on so much evidence for so wide a range of circumstances as the connection between substantial changes in the quantity of money and in the level of prices." ... "It follows ... that inflation is always and everwhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output."  --Milton Friedman, quoted in Judy Shelton, Money Meltdown (New York: The Free Press 1994), p. 176 & 177

There is no such thing

There is no such thing as a menial job. --L. Reichard White, Monday, March 07, 2011 6:10 AM

Meditation # zero

If it's not here-now, it's a prediction. OR a memory. --L. Reichard White, Sunday, March 06, 2011 9:38 PM

Of carts & horses

You have to be able to be wrong before you can be right. --L. Reichard White, Saturday, March 05, 2011 10:24 AM

Who do YOU trust?

I want community watch keeping markets honest, quality high, prices low, and products safe and evolving, not some tired, old, lazy, corruptible night watchman who lulls consumers into a false sense of security -- and in all likelihood has already been bought off by lobbyists, post-retirement job promises, or large campaign contributions. --L. Reichard White, Friday, March 04, 2011 8:51 AM

Easy way out?

It's easier to die than to be left behind. --L. Reichard White, Friday, March 04, 2011 8:36 AM

The unfriendly option

The difference between collective bargaining with governments vs. with private companies is that if governments give employees too much, they can't go out of business.

What do governments do instead? --L. Reichard White, Sunday, February 27, 2011 11:26 AM

Dead wrong

The notion that people who commit suicide with guns wouldn't do it without one is like the notion you wouldn't eat because you don't have an electric can opener. --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:37 AM

Do you need permission?

If you must obtain the permission of society before doing something that does NOT harm another person or their property, you are not free. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right, permissions are granted to slaves by a master.  --James Cox

What it used to be good for - - -

"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value -- nothing." --Voltaire

At least when it was paper rather than computer entries -- 95% or more is now such "megabyte money" -- you could use it for heating, wall paper - - - or in the bathroom.

Progress? Are you sure?

Change isn't necessarily progress. --L. Reichard, White, Wednesday, February 09, 2011 1:55 PM

Who's in control of you?

Do you listen to the commentary - - - - or do you observe and decide for yourself?  --L. Reichard White, Monday, February 07, 2011 11:10 PM

Paradigm

Yes indeed, look to the Egyptian uprising in early 2011 for the paradigm: To nervous governments, "we the people" are the most feared terrorists. --L. Reichard White, Sunday, February 06, 2011 9:09 AM