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$18.5 billion in Medicaid for illegal immigrants. That's just healthcare - and it's nearly 4X this ask for the wall. ILLEGAL immigrants, not legal.

Medicaid is not what the figure you quoted represents. I read the Forbes article from which your source drew its data and the majority of the cited costs are not Medicaid. You're misrepresenting the data. The article includes all kinds of indirect costs like forgone tax revenue and tax advantaged bond financing from non-profit hospitals, tax breaks for insurance provided as employee benefits or unpaid emergency room visits causing higher costs for all patients. It even includes $1.5 billion in charity care voluntarily given by physicians as a "cost". It doesn't show any evidence that illegal immigrants are using that healthcare, it just takes the total costs from a number of areas then assumes illegals use the same amount as legal residents and ascribes that cost to them. Even the author recognizes the shakiness of his figures:

I recognize these back-of-the-envelope figures are crude, but they are the best estimates I could make

Whatever the case, your assertion of "18.5 billion in Medicaid" is wrong and not even supported by your own source.

$18.5 billion in Medicaid for illegal immigrants. That's just healthcare - and it's nearly 4X this ask for the wall. ILLEGAL immigrants, not legal.

They may not qualify, but they still get the benefits.

"it's easy to spend other people's money" = Republicanism in a nutshell

What planet are you from?

On EARTH the tax & spend people call themselves "liberal", "progressive" or "socialist", but in reality are Marxist. Bloomberg describes how the Democrats want to reverse tax cuts and add $1 Trillion on tax hikes IF they win this midterm and in 2020. For sure they will use some of the tax money put more people on welfare so they'll become dependent on gov handouts.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

https://www.atr.org/democrats-...

https://www.watchdog.org/natio...

https://www.reviewjournal.com/...

http://illinoisreview.typepad....

Here's the truth:
https://www.investors.com/poli...

All of that is leading to not only an end to the sexual revolution, but back towards gender segregation.
-A lot of professional men won't take private meetings with female suborbinates, and forget any kind of business travel where it's a man and woman coworker. Some women have noticed this and tried to say "Don't avoid women just don't sexually harass!" after they so thoroughly obliterated the line that asking for confidence it won't be crossed by something innocuous is a joke.
-I can't imagine being a male on a college campus these days. Just about any alcohol is grounds for 'I was too drunk' (no matter how drunk the guy also is, he's always at fault*). 'Affirmative consent' is an absurd minefield 'Can i touch your breast now? Can I touch your butt now?'. Consent can be retroactively withdrawn years later. And it's guilt upon accusation with virtually no due process, judged by someones whose mandate is 'believe the victim no matter how many problems the story has', punished by expulsion, which is a major life destroying consequence. How long until college men avoid college women entirely?
-At first, #metoo exposed some awful perverts doing some awful stuff. But, surprising no one, people soon were getting their careers destroyed over incredibly trivial stuff, and vague recollections of things decades old. A lot of guys suddenly thinking Mike Pence doesn't seem so crazy after all with his 'never alone with a woman besides his wife' rule.

While I'm sure some of the rabidly man-hating women welcome it, I gotta think most women don't want a world where men and women are terrified of being alone with eachother. But it's still heresy to suggest any solution other than forcing men to walk blindly through the minefield.

*- My all time favorite case: A girl goes into a guys room, he's black out drunk and mostly unconscious. She proceeds to give him a blowjob. Texts her friends about it, confirming this version of events, then goes back out partying and gives another guy head. Almost 2 years later, *she* files a Title IX complaint against the blacked out dude, claiming that because she had had a couple beers, he had assaulted her. Despite seeing the texts confirming he just laid there passed out, he was found responsible for sexual misconduct and expelled (eventually, a judge in a real court overturned it). That's right, the college said he had sexually assaulted her by receiving oral sex while unconscious.

Isn't this a violation of both net neutrality AND 1st amendment.

Yes, but not for the reason that you think - this has very little to do with people commenting on porno, and everything to do with a content-discriminatory tax on pornography.

You can try to dress it up any way that you like, but content-based taxes are unconstitutional. This way, > that way, and especially when adding mandatory filters.

But it's not as if politicians have sworn to uphold the constitution or anything...

You know - the guy whose wife got almost $1 million from Hillary! cronies - while he was "investigating" Hillary!'s illegal email server.

Yes, Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Director of the FBI. A long-time and close Clinton ally, Terry McAuliffe, directed in total $760,00.00 to Jill McCabe's campaign for Virginia State Senate.

FBI No. 2 did not disclose wife's ties to Clinton ally, records show

Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife

Bureau boss McCabe under Hatch Act investigation>

Jill McCabe's campaign appears to be have been a front for receiving a monetary bribe in exchange for obstructing or delaying the Clinton server-gate investigation past the presidential election. There is unquestionable evidence that he tried sitting on it:

Justice Department investigating McCabe’s handling of Clinton email probe

McCabe, FBI Knew About More Clinton Emails Well Before Comey's Announcement in 2016.

Washington Post: IG was investigating why McCabe appeared not to act on Weiner emails

$760,00.00 is an insane amount of money to donate for a state senate seat in Virginia, vastly disproportionate to both the value of the seat to the Democrat party and to what other candidates receive. What you need to know to understand that this was actually a monetary bribe directed to her husband is that in Virginia any money which is not spent on a campaign can be kept for personal use.

Leftover campaign money can fund almost anything in Virginia

If we include the recent revelation that McCabe's signed the FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campagin, it then appears that, all together, Hillary Clinton bribed McCabe at the least to:

- Help Hillary win the election by covering up or delaying revelation of evidence against her.

- Make false charges against Trump before the FISA court and then spy on the Trump campaign.

Clinton allies in the Obama administration gained access to secret FBI intelligence on Trump using hundreds of unmasking requests.

If you're leaving a state that has high unemployment and a ridiculously high cost of living, amd high taxes, going to a state with low costs, high pay, amd low taxes, recognize that those conditions were created by policies.

Well, turns outs out California is doing great. Unemployment is only 4.9%, lower than Texas at 5%. What a huge difference!

Of course, Texas has a history of poverty and failing schools as well as a dangerous obsession with bathroom inspections.

Even Texas's own governor admits that the state has a problem when it comes to transportation and congestion. And in fact, the California High-Speed Rail project is not light rail, but like the Houston-Dallas link a inter-city connection.

Furthermore, no, Trumpcare does not grant states more freedom. Of course, it turns out, somebody who voted for it admitted they didn't read it.

Maybe that's your problem? You didn't read it, so you couldn't find out what was in it?

Not quite a billionaire, but: http://watchdog.org/212919/uni...
Union leaders are just crooks and worse, they fool folks like you into defending them.

I don't think you're being honest. I can't think of a state that requires anything definitive.

You must be dishonest, so dishonest, you don't think anybody has heard of Voter ID.

Somehow that's racist. Black people they tell us can't either get an ID or they can't be trusted to have it on election day. I'd think they're the racist ones saying black people are so stupid and irresponsible, however somehow it's not.

Nothing racist about saying that IDs are deliberately made hard to get for many people, due to mysteriously shutting down locations, only opening them at certain hours, and other effects.

Maybe it's just the black people that are also Democrats, which seems consistent.

Yep, that's what happened in North Carolina.

I have a voter reg card, I've never been asked for it nor any other identification in the 30+ years I've been voting. Not once. I've lived in three different counties. Same thing.

Counties are not states. See

Here are the dead voting - http://watchdog.org/57643/md-d...

Then you read the article, and it says:

"At least two dead voters showed up to vote at least once in a Maryland general election between 2004 and 2008, according to a voter registration watchdog group that has reviewed thousands of voter records this year, 1 percent of the rolls in the largest counties."

According to them. But...

"The group – Election Integrity Maryland – filed a complaint with the State Board of Elections Aug. 30. The group said it found several potential dead voters, voters who registered after they had died and a living Maryland resident who has been voting twice in elections for years."

But potential is the key word.

Here's another article:

Which says other things.

http://articles.baltimoresun.c... - in this case they were able to prove in court a lot of dead people voted. The Democratic judge didn't care. He didn't invalidate the results even though it's clear the ballot box was stuffed and Sourbrey lost by less than 6000 votes.

No, they weren't able to make that proof.

Again, from your own article:

"But others, including city elections administrator Barbara Jackson, said incorrect registrations are common in Baltimore and not necessarily evidence of fraud. Many people fail to notify the election board when they move and continue to vote from their old address, she said."

"The Sun did locate one voter identified by the Sauerbrey campaign, Ora L. Lewis, who listed 913 Whitelock St., a building that was razed several months ago, as her home address on her voter registratio

I don't think you're being honest. I can't think of a state that requires anything definitive. Somehow that's racist. Black people they tell us can't either get an ID or they can't be trusted to have it on election day. I'd think they're the racist ones saying black people are so stupid and irresponsible, however somehow it's not. Maybe it's just the black people that are also Democrats, which seems consistent. I have a voter reg card, I've never been asked for it nor any other identification in the 30+ years I've been voting. Not once. I've lived in three different counties. Same thing.
I found an illegal working at a construction site. He said Maryland hooked him right up to vote when they gave him a license. He even said he's not here legally, they didn't care. Motor voter at work. Another guy from Virginia also said he was hooked right up to vote. I talked to a construction foreman from Arizona, he said it was very common there.

Here are the dead voting - http://watchdog.org/57643/md-d...

http://articles.baltimoresun.c... - in this case they were able to prove in court a lot of dead people voted. The Democratic judge didn't care. He didn't invalidate the results even though it's clear the ballot box was stuffed and Sourbrey lost by less than 6000 votes.

Amazing thing, when you die, you always vote for Democrats. Funny how that is. I don't recall ever seeing anyone accusing a dead person voting for Republicans.

Do you have ANY idea how much government business Google has? Do you have any idea how many people switched back and forth between being Google employees or senior government officials? More than 250.

It isn't a conflict of interest unless Thiel is involved in assigning contracts that his own company is bidding on.

People may have forgotten that Bloomberg, a Trump hater, reported this activity.

Google itself, has had nearly weekly meetings with the Obama White House.

Google employees were Obama's 4th largest source of cash in 2008, and 3rd largest source in 2012.

More than 250 people have shuffled back-and-forth between the Obama administration and Google.

Massive centralized government is in the process of uniting with the political party of big government, and the multinational corporations who control communications and monitor the public. Those communications companies are running "fact checking" sites that rule opposing views as lies without any legal process or appeals, and frequently putting 10 to 20 times the emphasis on negative news for their opponents as on negative news for their allies. Start shining-up yer jack-boots folks.... we are becoming a fascist nation and it's a good idea to be on the side of the national socialists when they begin to assert full control - George Soros has said so - Google him.

No joke. That actually happens.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/specialreports/solyndra-scandal/
Solar http://watchdog.org/212170/surprise-solar-liens/
electric is never a http://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/energy-advantage/the-greatest-leap-of-mankind-unlimited-free-energy-dr-kent-moors-picks-revealed/
scam

Maybe you should ask the people of Chattanooga before you make such moronic declarations.

Even the sticker price for their Internet (apparently, $58 for 100 Mbps) is more expensive than what I'm getting here, and that isn't counting the massive subsidies:

http://www.americanlegislator....

Chattanooga’s fiber network added to Tennessee’s already staggering municipal network costs. And, as with all publicly-operated networks, the burden on taxpayers forced to pay for this network went undetected. The EPB launched Chattanooga’s project in 2010 and built the network almost entirely with taxpayer funds; EPB’s electric customers financed a hefty $160 million loan, while federal taxpayers paid for the other $111 million as part of the 2009 stimulus bill. EPB’s Internet and cable television customers will pay for the remaining $29 million.

and

High-speed Internet service is great, but there is no real demand for the speeds EPB offers, which reach nearly 200 times faster than the average broadband speed in America. EPB offers a one gigabit-per-second service to all homes and businesses in the region, yet only a handful of residents and 20 odd businesses subscribe to the exorbitant $350 per month gigabit option. Ironically, most taxpayers who paid to build the network cannot themselves afford the service fee.

More info:

http://watchdog.org/1019/tn-ch...

http://www.washingtontimes.com...

That is, regular tax payers are forced to pay for massive bandwidth that almost nobody wants or needs; but those high numbers give nerds like you a hard-on although even you can't actually use them. And neither the financials nor the speeds are in dispute; it's simply that the people responsible for this kind of government waste are trying to put a positive spin on it.

Thanks for clarifying exactly how much you know. Usually one has to really reach out to get someone such as yourself show their full range of understanding but in this case you've made it easy.

You're welcome. Thanks for pointing to Chattanooga, presumably the best example you could come up with: it is an excellent illustration of how utterly broken municipal broadband is. Do not want.

Here in New Hampshire, the State is forbidden by law from using ANY automated license plate scanner technology. We are the only state to have passed such legislation. Not by coincidence; we have some two dozen hardcore libertarians in the State Legislature and thousands of liberty activists, with more moving in all the time. And you can join us http://freestateproject.org/

No no no no.
See, you dont get to intentionally create a problem, and then use the problem as your proof that it doesnt work; It doesnt work because of your sabotage, not because of inherent qualities. Self fulfilling prophesies that you brought about are not proof of dysfunction.

Your proof is an oft repeated myth which has no actual connection to actual USPS finances.
Also, the USPS, and their employees, are not funded by taxpayer dollars.
So you're wrong about that too: we're not on the hook.
None of the taxes you pay during the year go to the USPS.
It is soley funded by the fees they take in, whether its from selling stamps or shipping packages.

Further, the USPS could be made even more profitable by bringing back Postal Banking. Most other nations have it.
And we used to too. It provided banking services for those the banks refused to provide service too. And still do. (Ah....the free market...)
When Postal Banking went it away it was replaced by the notoriously awful payday lenders, which is a lbight upon the earth.

Oh, but dont take my word for any of it.
Simple actual research from primary documents, such as the USPS financial report (I've read it, have you? Guessing not, or you wouldnt have linked to that about.com article) would find all this for you.

None of this would mean much if the prevailing myth about postal finances were true – that the Postal Service is losing billions of dollars a year delivering the mail because everyone’s on the Internet, taxpayers are on the hook for this, and so drastic cuts are needed.

Here are the facts: The Postal Service isn’t funded by taxpayers; it earns its revenue by selling stamps. And it’s operationally profitable. Last year it had a $623 million operating profit; the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 produced $1.1 billion in black ink.

[..]the overall loss was due to congressional mandates, particularly a requirement that the agency pre-fund retiree benefits to the tune of about $5.6 billion per year.

[..] the Postal Service would have recorded a net profit of $600 million without the annual payment

The USPS is the only quasi-government agency to be ordered to pay a part of its earnings into the U.S. Treasury in order to hold budget deficits down. Its leaders have been trying for the past seven years to get this unfair payment removed, but have so far been unsuccessful due to the Tea Party/Republican politics in Washington.

elsewhere: the 2006 congressional mandate that the USPS pre-fund future retiree health benefits for the next 75 years, and do so within a decade — an obligation no other public agency or private firm faces. The more than $5 billion annual payments since 2007 — $21 billion total — are the difference between a positive and negative ledger

The new USPS Financial Report issued Friday further validates the claim that the Postal Service is neither broken nor in crisis. Excluding the pre-funding expense the USPS has turned a $660 million profit delivering mail in fiscal year 2013. Showing again that Senator Carper, Senator Coburn and Congressman Issa are manufacturing a postal financial crisis as an excuse to dismantle it. Standing in their shadows are vultures named FedEx and UPS.

http://www.carper.senate.gov/p...
http://watchdog.org/135210/pos...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://www.wausaudailyherald.c...

I can't deal with people who make things up. When you've decided to tell the truth, let me know.

Isn't it amazing what you can find when you actually look at what is happening?

Here's something that Trojan could never come up with on its own, plus a bunch of other stuff. I bet it is a revelation that male fruit flies prefer hot, sexy younger female fruit flies, and who could have guessed (or really cared) that it was because old hag fruit flies don't have as much female hormones to attract them. (Headline: "Female fruit flies suffer from menopause, film at 11!") Perhaps most useful of all: most chimpanzees are right handed. The manufacturer of chimpanzee scissors is ecstatic to get that information to help his business.

The NIH is also dumping almost a quarter million dollars into industry to get them to develop more products that they could have paid for with a pittance of their current profits and will be selling for a goodly amount of money. Do you really think the taxpayer should have to pay a company to develop a product that apparently nobody wants because no company is currently producing it already?

Would you like to know why fat girls can't get dates? Was there really any question that drunk men sometimes try to coerce women into unprotected sex?

Should we mention the CDC?

Among them: spending $1.75 million over seven years on a "Hollywood liaison" whose job was to help movie and television studios develop accurate plot lines about diseases. To pay the position, the CDC tapped into an account that was supposed to be used to develop responses to bio-terrorism.

Yes, a movie being more accurate about a disease is a good way to respond to a biological agent. And God knows that the movie industry couldn't have paid for someone to help them make movies more accurate.

Defend the NIH for the right things it does, but don't let that blind you to the stupid stuff it does. And don't let it confuse you into thinking that "freedom to perform research" requires public tax dollars. If you look at this article, which I believe is talking about the same Origami product my first link is, you'll note:

Also supporting innovative condom research is the Gates Foundation's Grand Challenge Explorations grants, a commitment of $100M to encourage scientists to expand the pipeline of ideas to fight our greatest health challenges.

So the idea that private money cannot fund "freedom of research" is just ridiculous.

Reading summary: this seems pretty stupid and a little fear-mongery for slashdot.

Click link: Fox news, figures. Usual shit reporting and lack of detail. Obamacare not mentioned anywhere in article.

Click link in article to watchdog.org: not much more detail, more zomg fear crap, still no mention of obamacare.

Read comments on watchdog.org: ok, I’m out

Not saying there isn’t something to talk about here, but linking to fox news for this kind of topic is like linking to a local news report on heartbleed. We aren’t the audience for this level of reporting.

So you repeatedly looked for "Obamacare" information in a story about the dangers to infrastructure posed by EMP? (And that is modded "informative"?!?!) Yes, I'll agree with your assessment that you "...aren’t the audience for this level of reporting." You don't seem to be up to that level. On top of that your post isn't really anything other than an anti-Fox News troll.

There is plenty of fodder in those stories for good discussion by anyone that is interested. You apparently aren't.

Experts: Civilians not ready for EMP-caused blackout

On multiple occasions during the past 155 years, large enough CME’s have disrupted electrical systems on Earth. One of the largest recorded solar flares happened in 1859. The CME, called the Carrington Event, disrupted telegraph systems in Europe and North America, and lit up the evening sky.

A solar flare in 1989 caused a blackout in Quebec that lasted more than nine hours, and systems as far away as New Jersey were also damaged. In 2013, Space.com ranked the solar storm that caused the blackout as the fourth worst in history.

Space.com ranked a solar storm in December 2006 as the worst, and U.S. government officials reported that the event disrupted satellite communications and GPS signals for about 10 minutes and damaged the satellite that took the picture of the storm.

A joint study published in 2013 by researchers at Lloyd’s of London and Atmospheric and Environmental Research found that a similar event today would cost the world economy $2.3 trillion.

Risk of another Carrington-class solar flare is expected to peak by early 2015. In the summer of 2012, Earth narrowly missed one estimated to have been more powerful than the Carrington Event and 35 times the size of Earth.

You forgot to mention her stance that only the government can define who a journalist is. So in her worldview, citizen journalism and blogging is not covered under the first amendment of freedom of the press. Ya, she's a real fascist piece of work! The more you research who this women is, the more worried you should be.

http://watchdog.org/100682/feinstein-wants-to-limit-who-can-be-a-journalist/

Obamy!

I think a better thing to do would be to simply allow the stores to sell it at whatever price they'd like, and then do away with the official exchange rate. That official exchange rate is a perfect example of the road to hell being paved with good intentions - they want to forcibly give their citizens more purchasing power on the global economy. Sounds nice, but in the end nobody is going to deliberately give themselves the shitty end of the stick.

On this note, it's pretty hard to argue that any country is more free market capitalist than the US (some are, but not many) yet we've already reached and passed a condition where the government thinks some places are selling TV's for too cheap. How's that for irony?

http://www.koamtv.com/story/20161570/oklahoma-law-limits-bargains-on-black-friday

Oklahoma enforced that law on black friday in 2012, and it angered people so much that it was repealed:

http://watchdog.org/89682/ok-black-friday-reform-signed-into-law-after-years-of-debate/

Yet another case of good intentions gone bad - I personally like walmart, and laws like this obviously didn't stop them.

• 1) Citizens are demanding benefits and entitlements from the Government without regard to overall programme cost or the contribution of the individual citizen. These entitlements are causing the overspending (not the defense budget which has been shrinking in relative terms for 60 years, even if it has grown in absolute terms although at a slower rate than the overall economy)
• 2) Politicians must grant the wishes of the citizens or they will not even have a chance to be elected. Therefore, politicians promise lies and bad policies are put in place. Pork programmes are demanded by citizens and granted by politicians from the public purse.
• 3) Politicians are continually growing the size of Government. This is a non-productive sector which consumes resources from the productive sector, and lately has been interferring with the ability of the productive sector of the economy in generating wealth. Of course Government regulation is needed to enure fairness, but outfits like the EPA have gone *insane* with regulation.
• 4) Besides the increased size of Government, individual government worker salaries and entitlements have increased to the point they exceed salaries in the private sector. The benefits of civil servants (eg. pensions) are now the largest source of debt in the US economy. Unfunded liabilities of entitlement programmes (mostly pensions etc) are now around $US 60 TRILLION (or a staggering $238 TRILLION according to Niall Ferguson's estimate) and far far exceed US defence spending at $0.8 TRILLION per annum, and falling (while also providing jobs and high-tech innovative industries with R&D funds).

A couple of citations/references for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States#Unfunded_obligations_excluded
http://silverdoctors.com/niall-ferguson-us-unfunded-liabilities-top-238-trillion/
The "100k" club, the number civil servants drawing more than $100k per annum is *soaring*
http://newjersey.watchdog.org/2013/04/15/100k-club-3/

So while you may see fiscal conservatives as "meanies who don't care about the poor" this is a mistaken view. It is the liberal spending policies of the Obama Administration (look at how spending has *increased* massively, even after the economic bailout) that are destroying the US economy and will ultimately hurt the poor far far more than fiscal conservatism would (which would reduce entitlements and wasteful programmes in the short term, but grow the economy in the long term which would allow more tax to be generated which would only then get redistributed to the poor; as JFK said about the importance of this, "A rising tide floats all boats").

The reason you repeat the fallacy of US defence spending is the result of several factors:

1) Cultural Marxism is now dominating the discourse. Marxism lost the economic and political battles, but has won the cultural battle. The cultural narrative is now directed by marxists of the Frankfurt School, and they are ensuring that America marches to its destruction while the population is misguided and misdirected by Marxist memes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M

2) the mainstream media are either too incompetent or complicit in this scheme (most journalists and editors now come from schools with programmes that are aligned with Cultural Marxism - which is why many newspapers enforce follow and enforce the Politically Correct narrative).

3) Much of the US population has a woeful knowledge of geopolitics and history. They can easily be swayed by false memes because they don't know much about the history of plac

Do you really think old-school strong arm tactics would work in today's globally connected world, with a cell phone camera in every pocket and 24/7 shock and awe news? Not a chance

These days, a union is a vestigial lump that drags down the workers. Don't get me wrong, they were great 100 years ago, and I thank them for dialing in the 40 hour work week. Good job on that one. Now go away, you're not needed anymore.
What good have the unions done in preventing jobs from being shipped overseas?
What have the unions done to slow the encroaching robots, per TFA
Have the unions done anything to keep American jobs out of illegal hands?
Unions haven't even been able to keep pay rates increasing to match inflation. That should be an easy sell.What good are unions doing today, other than keeping the spectre of the old boogey man from breaking your legs if you misbehave?

You think the rich and powerful are destroying the unions, but you're missing the fact that the rich and powerful *ARE* the unions. Union bosses are getting paid well into the 6-figures for NOT doing anything.

Here are a few links, cuz I didn't feel like littering my paragraphs with [source website] every 3rd word.

Transportation Union

Eight of the union bosses on the taxpayer payroll at the Department of Transportation make more than $170,000
labor unions have in recent years become “increasingly dependent” on public sector unionization because private sector unions’ membership levels have plummeted

Teachers Union

Of the more than 7,700 words written by Feaver in the past couple years, he mentions kids, students or children a collective 16 times. The word training appears twice, but only once in reference to teachers honing their skills. Feaver mentioned retirement 44 times in the compiled writings.... Talk of pay earns another 40 mentions ... Health insurance also earned high mentions from the union president, grabbing 21 references.

Union boss boss

The union leader has earned well over $200,000 every year since he was promoted to Secretary Treasurer in 2003.
The president is also onboard with Trumka’s message. Obama’s union connections are well documented: White House visitor rolls show the godfather of organized labor [Trumka] making some 70 visits to Obama’s White House.
...a major contributor to Democrats during election years, spending almost $1 million on the 2010 midterm elections, 93 percent of those donations going to Democratic candidates. In 2008, over a million dollars, a full 91 percent of the $1.3 million the union donated to congressional campaigns, went to filling Capitol Hill with Democrats.

Sorry but you are full of shit.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39166
http://missouri.watchdog.org/5937/dead-voters-in-missouri/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/starting-friday-protective-orders-easier-to-get-dead-voters-votes-count-new-va-fiscal-year/2011/06/30/AGbcVtrH_story.html

Voting fraud is almost a national tradition.

Corporations are simply groups of individuals who freely enter into an agreement. A marriage is a corporation of sorts, and so is any charity, club, community Web-site, etc. Any corporation consists of an explicit list of members, and acts on the basis of their rights as individuals.

New Hampshire actually still has the highest business tax rate in the nation, which is what's keeping it from being the wealthiest place in the world, and something that I hope my fellow Free States will soon be able to change.

Don't confuse Free State Project as a central organization, which just promotes NH as a destination for libertarian political migration, with the much broader decentralized Free State movement that is now forming in and about New Hampshire.