Wednesday, October 29, 2008

life

Watch to the end

A Reminder

In case being pro-life ever strikes you as extremist, opinionated, weird, or meddlesome, watch this video here.

Secret Police- In America

So just how did people in a democracy ever agree to allowing their government to start a secret police service? This video shows how its done.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Japan's bailout

Japan tried bailing out its banks in '98 and '99. The result-it didn't help the economy and in 2003 the government had to take over 2/3 of the voting stock so that it would control the company. As usual, once the government begins to intervene in business it has to take over more and more of it to fix the problems caused by earlier intervention. The Japanese only spent 10.1 billion "saving" banks, and already it looks like nationalizing the Resona bank will become a model for future government action. Resona is going to cut the salaries of its almost 20,000 employees by 30%-these are the kinds of results government bailouts lead to.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

The Bailout

For an interesting read on a better and simpler solution to the economic crisis, read this article. It recommends letting the companies go bankrupt instead of bailing them out. Funny how government got us into this trouble in the first place by promoting the lending of sub-prime loans and then try to get credit for "saving" us taxpayers, all the while exacerbating the problem by promoting the idea that we are in a depression.