Good piece, thanks for posting. Stossel is maybe this generations Milton Friedman - he has a way of making the complex really easy to understand.
And this is ALL enabled by the government (Federal) just being able to PRINT MONEY!
As much as it wants.
With nothing backing it.
And the states and individuals who benefit don’t even question it.
oh yeah, hate lawyers, can’t abide them, until you need one. Try navigating the legal system without one.
At least tapeworms and ticks don't eat better than we do...
You all know D.C. was a swamp 300 years ago full of rats bugs and all kinds of nasty critters. Some things never change.
The only way to deal with Congress is to institute: term limits, performance based pay, nationwide recall procedures, and a strict code of ethics enforced by an outside panel of retired judges. Otherwise members will continue to line their pockets by relying on insider trading and rewarding their cronies with profit laden government contracts. I am so sick of seeing these scumbags treated as royalty when they are proving themselves to be the lowest of the low!
And there haven't been any major floods for years. I don't know if flood insurance covered the Sandy storm surge.
After watching most of the SOTU message,I just about threw up seeing some of those applauding the president when he should have been getting pelted with overripe fruit.