The government is screwing up the economy; here's how to survive and succeed in spite of that.

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Is Medical Care a Right?

When any of us suffers an injury or serious illness we require medical care, so it must be a right that we receive it. Right? When a large number of people begin to insist that something is a right, we can be sure that the politicians will begin crafting the legislation to declare it ...
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10 Ways the Greek Government Screwed Their Economy

Photo by Aris Gionis 1. Created a Latin American style corrupt economy The economic history of Greece is a prime example of systemic Third World level corruption and careless spending. Greece always had a very poor fiscal reputation. Ever since the US sponsored Marshall Plan in the 19...
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Trade and Commerce: the Pillars of Peace and Prosperity

Photo by Gage Skidmore “A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is ...
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Should College Athletes Be Paid?

Every March the nation is transfixed by the specter or young athletes competing for their schools and states in the NCAA college basketball tournament. Students travel the country competing in games that generate more ratings than some professional events. March Madness sweeps the cou...
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Greek Communist Party election rally - Thessaloniki, Greece

Greco-Communism: The Cause of the Greek Economic Drama

Until recently, there was more socialism in Greece than was ever seen in the Soviet Union. Higher education, stipends and food for students was provided for free by the State. Public sector workers were entitled to  fourteen month salaries for a year’s work, in addition to social bene...
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Unemployment

10 Ways Unions Hurt the Economy

Photo by LendingMemo 1. They Limit Jobs Labor unions act like cartels in the way they seek to restrict the number of workers in companies or entire industries in order to drive up the wages of remaining workers. Of course this means less jobs for everyone else and an increase in labor...
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Falling Apart

But who will build the roads? No, seriously–they’re falling apart

America has a serious problem. It’s one that is addressed even less than our national debt. Yet if massive action isn’t taken soon, it could become a very serious public safety concern. That issue is infrastructure. Collectively, the United States receives a D+ rating on all our bridg...
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What about Capital Day?

 Should Black Friday be a national holiday? Henry Ford wrote in his biography of the mutually beneficial partnership of Capital and Labor.  He opposed labor unions because he felt they undermined that partnership and turned the two sides against each other.  In this regard, Ford was r...
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Freedom is not Absolute: The Subjective and Relative Nature of Human Liberty

Recently I came across a friend who was espousing that Americans were not truly free. How can anyone who is supposedly free be required to pay taxes, they asked? Freedom is absolute, they proclaimed; you are either free or you are not. But freedom is not absolute. It is a relative and...
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10 Predictions for the Next Decade

1. Digital Storage In the next decade we will see personal storage devices for digital media abandoned for cloud storage, as large capacity cloud storage will liberate people from the need of having external hard drives. However, it will be short lived, as by the time people switch to...
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

— Calvin Coolidge

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