Your town could pool that money and build you a much nicer park that you would actually use, and that doesn't consist of endless thousands of square miles of non-utilized resources, or worse, resources gobbled up by well connected corporations on a no bid, possibly no-pay basis.
FYI, his budget called for an immediate cut of 15% to the DOD, and an immediate halt to all war funding (ie bring the troops home). Cutting the DOD budget by 100% wouldn't get us to treading water. We have to make sacrifices to bridge this budget deficit, or everything shuts down at once in the most catastrophic way possible. Do you really want a second Civil War to break out over this crap?
If there is no money, and no prospect of money, then it is a waste of taxpayer dollars, and shouldn't have been done in the first place. Ever think of that?
Then someone opens up a bypass for Watosha County, and they lose out on vast sums of revenue from said highway, forcing them to get their act together and fix the damn road.
If we didn't have the DEA, everyone would just start doing heroin! If we didn't have the FBI, everyone would start murdering each other! If we didn't have the Department of Energy, physics would stop working! If we didn't have the Department of Education, we would have "teachers" teaching kids about how Jesus rode around on dinosaurs and how gays are the products of Satan.
Because we all know that states don't already set the curriculum.
Fleeing debt is not theft any more than declaring bankruptcy is. It is merely a recognition of the truth, that the debt is unpayable, and that the government is no longer by or for the people.
Understand that theft is the act of taking something, not the failure to give something at a later date. Failure to pay a debt makes you a deadbeat, not a thief.
This is not flamebait. I work in a university setting (but for a private company, thank God). I have seen these people build brand new sparkling building after brand new sparkling building while their students can't find work anywhere. PhDs in the hard sciences are working for less than $25K a year. I have people with masters degrees in hard sciences applying for entry level technician work. And on top of all the building, their administrative budgets are ballooning like crazy. First we had a president, and several vice presidents and their associated staff. Now we have a Provost as well. Then that Provost wanted vice provosts, and they all wanted big staffs. They DOUBLED the amount of bureaucracy. And for what? And where do you think that money came from?
Free money is poison, and student loans are nothing but free money. At least as far as the universities are concerned.
It is wrong that the loans are guaranteed by the government, meaning that the banks are free to issue as many of them as they like with no risk.
Whenever a government sanctioned opportunity for free money is created, the end result is tragedy. Free money sounds nice, but it isn't free. Someone has to pay.
Sorry, what free market? You can't have a free market with a central bank that sets interest rates automatically. The US and the West are all mixed markets.
Give credit where credit is due. In this case, it falls directly upon the Federal Student Loan program stripping away all risk from lending to students, basically paying banks to wrangle would-be students into debt bondage (I say bondage because the loans can NOT be discharged in bankruptcy).
That's great, but what do you do after a big engineering firm blows up and suddenly you are competing with 50,000 professional engineers with years or decades of experience for maybe 5,000 jobs?
No-one can see the future, least off all a public high school brainwashee/graduate.
If I had it all to do over again, I probably wouldn't have gone to college. I would be far, FAR ahead of the game, simply by starting at a menial job and saving to open my own company. No debt to service, and four extra years of savings.
The government pays once, then the defaulter pays again if they can ever get a job (ie their wages will be garnished).
It's the most outrageous racket of our time, worse than just about anything else out there outside of the sheer printing of money by the Federal Reserve.
A hundred years ago, people feared that the US would become a Catholic nation with the influx of immigrants from Ireland and Southern Europe. Today, we don't really care if someone is Irish or Italian or whathaveyou. A hundred years from now, no-one will care if you have slightly darker skin. Hopefully they won't care about your skin color at all.
It would have taken shorter if the government didn't impose a NASA monopoly on manned space flight. If the US government had wanted to get to the Moon, they could have just as easily contracted Boeing to do it, and refrain from imposing that monopoly.
Why do people have such a hard time understanding that the private sector can't do anything in the face of government guns telling them they aren't allowed to? Take away the threat of force (ie the regulation), and they will not only do it, they will do it CHEAPER.
I like your doublethink there. You cry bullshit to the fact that anyone could build a rocket to Mars for $100 billion while in the same post talking about how easy it is to get there for $20million. Nevermind the fact that you can't tell the difference between a robotic probe and a manned mission, but that's just stupid. You are using doublethink to justify a government monopoly on space travel.
It probably would have solved all of those things, but for the fact that we don't have a free market, and haven't since 1913.
But still, that is a strawman. I will address the issues you raise separately. Global warming is a "problem" not a "destination full of mineral wealth". Insider trading is a "crime", not a "destination full of mineral wealth". Poverty has been reduced from something which afflicts 99% of the population to afflicting less than half, in the face of a world full of oppressive, thieving regimes in the two hundred or so years since free markets took over. Same with hunger. Renewable energy has advanced by leaps and bounds when funded by private funds (to the point that I can buy a system to run my whole house for less than $6,000 from sunelec.com), rather than public funds being squandered on companies that everyone knew to be non-competitive from the start, private industry CREATED international air travel, and it was very nice until the government took over, same with sea ports, private interstates (ie toll roads) are much nice and better maintained than public roads, pollution is another one of those "problems" rather than destinations, and consumer reports has done more for auto safety than the government ever did.
I never said anything about Adam Smith. If you want to talk Mises, go to mises.org. I'm not interested in talking to a buffoon such as yourself.
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Uhhh, you didn't pay attention. The DoD saw the largest cut, losing some $200 billion of it's budget. Further, this budget stops war funding.
Your town could pool that money and build you a much nicer park that you would actually use, and that doesn't consist of endless thousands of square miles of non-utilized resources, or worse, resources gobbled up by well connected corporations on a no bid, possibly no-pay basis.
FYI, his budget called for an immediate cut of 15% to the DOD, and an immediate halt to all war funding (ie bring the troops home). Cutting the DOD budget by 100% wouldn't get us to treading water. We have to make sacrifices to bridge this budget deficit, or everything shuts down at once in the most catastrophic way possible. Do you really want a second Civil War to break out over this crap?
If there is no money, and no prospect of money, then it is a waste of taxpayer dollars, and shouldn't have been done in the first place. Ever think of that?
If they don't want it, they can sell it to a private company to run, and they can turn it into a toll road. Problem solved.
Then someone opens up a bypass for Watosha County, and they lose out on vast sums of revenue from said highway, forcing them to get their act together and fix the damn road.
Funny how market forces work, isn't it?
The hobo down the street doesn't contribute as much as to the Federal budget as I do, therefore he should pay for a portion of my insurance.
I consider having home insurance to be vital to the general welfare of the neighborhood.
Yes, they should. That is the point.
If we didn't have the DEA, everyone would just start doing heroin! If we didn't have the FBI, everyone would start murdering each other! If we didn't have the Department of Energy, physics would stop working! If we didn't have the Department of Education, we would have "teachers" teaching kids about how Jesus rode around on dinosaurs and how gays are the products of Satan.
Because we all know that states don't already set the curriculum.
Raptor Fucking Christ.
Fleeing debt is not theft any more than declaring bankruptcy is. It is merely a recognition of the truth, that the debt is unpayable, and that the government is no longer by or for the people.
Understand that theft is the act of taking something, not the failure to give something at a later date. Failure to pay a debt makes you a deadbeat, not a thief.
This is not flamebait. I work in a university setting (but for a private company, thank God). I have seen these people build brand new sparkling building after brand new sparkling building while their students can't find work anywhere. PhDs in the hard sciences are working for less than $25K a year. I have people with masters degrees in hard sciences applying for entry level technician work. And on top of all the building, their administrative budgets are ballooning like crazy. First we had a president, and several vice presidents and their associated staff. Now we have a Provost as well. Then that Provost wanted vice provosts, and they all wanted big staffs. They DOUBLED the amount of bureaucracy. And for what? And where do you think that money came from?
Free money is poison, and student loans are nothing but free money. At least as far as the universities are concerned.
It is wrong that the loans are guaranteed by the government, meaning that the banks are free to issue as many of them as they like with no risk.
Whenever a government sanctioned opportunity for free money is created, the end result is tragedy. Free money sounds nice, but it isn't free. Someone has to pay.
lol, a European claiming their economy isn't down the drain. Now THAT'S funny!
Call us back in two years and tell us how well your economy is doing, if you still have any form of communications.
Whoops, replace "automatically" with "arbitrarily".
Sorry, what free market? You can't have a free market with a central bank that sets interest rates automatically. The US and the West are all mixed markets.
Give credit where credit is due. In this case, it falls directly upon the Federal Student Loan program stripping away all risk from lending to students, basically paying banks to wrangle would-be students into debt bondage (I say bondage because the loans can NOT be discharged in bankruptcy).
That's great, but what do you do after a big engineering firm blows up and suddenly you are competing with 50,000 professional engineers with years or decades of experience for maybe 5,000 jobs?
No-one can see the future, least off all a public high school brainwashee/graduate.
If I had it all to do over again, I probably wouldn't have gone to college. I would be far, FAR ahead of the game, simply by starting at a menial job and saving to open my own company. No debt to service, and four extra years of savings.
The government pays once, then the defaulter pays again if they can ever get a job (ie their wages will be garnished).
It's the most outrageous racket of our time, worse than just about anything else out there outside of the sheer printing of money by the Federal Reserve.
Yeah, a semiconductor is what you get when Gustav Mahler sleeps on the train tracks.
Yeah, we made these in physical chemistry lab 7 years ago. Not really a big deal.
Everyone fears change, not just white people.
A hundred years ago, people feared that the US would become a Catholic nation with the influx of immigrants from Ireland and Southern Europe. Today, we don't really care if someone is Irish or Italian or whathaveyou. A hundred years from now, no-one will care if you have slightly darker skin. Hopefully they won't care about your skin color at all.
It would have taken shorter if the government didn't impose a NASA monopoly on manned space flight. If the US government had wanted to get to the Moon, they could have just as easily contracted Boeing to do it, and refrain from imposing that monopoly.
Why do people have such a hard time understanding that the private sector can't do anything in the face of government guns telling them they aren't allowed to? Take away the threat of force (ie the regulation), and they will not only do it, they will do it CHEAPER.
Really? Who were the astronauts that went on those 8 missions? Oh, there were none? Oh, you can't tell that we are talking about MANNED missions here?
The density you have exhibited here shows that we as a species will never be able to leave this gravity well. Too bad.
I like your doublethink there. You cry bullshit to the fact that anyone could build a rocket to Mars for $100 billion while in the same post talking about how easy it is to get there for $20million. Nevermind the fact that you can't tell the difference between a robotic probe and a manned mission, but that's just stupid. You are using doublethink to justify a government monopoly on space travel.
Nice ad hominem. No facts or arguments needed. You should run for office.
It probably would have solved all of those things, but for the fact that we don't have a free market, and haven't since 1913.
But still, that is a strawman. I will address the issues you raise separately. Global warming is a "problem" not a "destination full of mineral wealth". Insider trading is a "crime", not a "destination full of mineral wealth". Poverty has been reduced from something which afflicts 99% of the population to afflicting less than half, in the face of a world full of oppressive, thieving regimes in the two hundred or so years since free markets took over. Same with hunger. Renewable energy has advanced by leaps and bounds when funded by private funds (to the point that I can buy a system to run my whole house for less than $6,000 from sunelec.com), rather than public funds being squandered on companies that everyone knew to be non-competitive from the start, private industry CREATED international air travel, and it was very nice until the government took over, same with sea ports, private interstates (ie toll roads) are much nice and better maintained than public roads, pollution is another one of those "problems" rather than destinations, and consumer reports has done more for auto safety than the government ever did.
I never said anything about Adam Smith. If you want to talk Mises, go to mises.org. I'm not interested in talking to a buffoon such as yourself.