Republic Rules - The U.S.A. is a great representative republic.

The job of government is to provide certain services that we, as individuals, can’t provide for ourselves… police and fire departsments, the military, building roads and bridges, and so on.  I object when either elected officials (politicians) or bureaucrats (career government employees) overreach and try to control the lives of citizens in a manner beyond […]

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In general terms, there are two prevalent types of governments.  Those where citizens have freedom from government interference and live in a state of mutually-rewarded cooperation with each other… and those where there is less freedom and many rules of conformity, which are commanded by a centralized authority.
Each has problems… but I choose the one […]

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Or maybe I should say:  misery loves company.
It is the nature of many, if not most, things to have a cycle.  The economy expands and the economy contracts. Global temperatures go up and global temperatures go down.  Breathe in, breathe out.  Nature at work.  That’s just the way it is.
Anyone who expects the economy to […]

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In my observations, I’ll often reference “WE” (usually capitalized), by which I mean WE, the people.  But does that mean I speak for everyone in the U.S.?  No.
The “WE” I like to speak of is a reference, of course, to the preamble of the Constitution of the United States.
Likewise, did the Constitution speak for EVERYONE […]

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We’ve all heard the very old saying:  “waste not, want not”.  (There’s actually a follow-on sentence to it:  “The less we waste, the less we lack in the future.”)  The point, obviously, is that you should use the resources you have efficiently.
It was an article about wasting food in Britain that made me think of […]

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Continuing the discussion of yesterday…
 Just as an amalgam of metals becomes a stronger combined material than any of the individual components (which surrender some of their own unique chemical properties in the process),  the collective PEOPLE of our country… the “melting pot”… is stronger by becoming “one”.  It should be obvious, then, that WE cannot […]

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A few days ago, I was making a quick purchase and handed the clerk a ten dollar bill.  Despite the cash register doing the calculation and displaying the amount of change I had coming, this young man - perhaps 18 or 19 years old - had considerable difficulty counting out my change.   Unfortunately, it is […]

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I’m convince a large portion of the U.S. population has no grasp of basic economics, don’t bother to think through the cause and effect of attempts to control prices, and believe the lies they hear from their so-called leaders without questioning the motivations of those political animals.
We have just learned that unemployment jumped dramatically… from […]

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Con men often scam their victims using a method that has come to be known as a Ponzi scheme, which works like this:

Initial victims are promised future rewards, usually a high interest rate, for money invested now.
The con man keeps that money.
The con man finds another victim, pays some of that new-found money to the […]

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I have suggested our country needs a special energy initiative, much like the space program, to focus on a national effort to become both more energy efficient and energy independent.  An intensive research and development program is exactly the type of thing our government should be doing to help protect our long-term interests… especially given […]

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