hugo

My steps might mildly reduce the population of the totally stupid, the ones who burden the rest of us anyways.

The answer to high health care costs is simple. Eliminate the FDA, eliminate licensing requirements for health care workers and make all drugs available without a prescription to anyone over 18.

It is sad that Russia is the only major nation willing to battle the spread of Islam.

I actually prefer these stats on external debt: Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom) #1 Ireland: $7.58 per $1 of GDP #2 Liberia: $7.14 per $1 of GDP #3 S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe: $5.13 per $1 of GDP #4 United Kingdom: $3.87 per $1 of GDP #5 Guinea-Bissau: $3.36 per $1 of GDP #6 Netherlands: $3.29 per $1 of GDP #7 Belgium: $3.01 per $1 of GDP #8 Switzerland: $3.00 per $1 of GDP #9 Hong Kong: $2.90 per $1 of GDP #10 Austria: $2.05 per $1 of GDP #11 Mauritania: $1.84 per $1 of GDP #12 Burundi: $1.83 per $1 of GDP #13 France: $1.73 per $1 of GDP #14 Sweden: $1.73 per $1 of GDP #15 Denmark: $1.67 per $1 of GDP #16 Portugal: $1.62 per $1 of GDP #17 Spain: $1.61 per $1 of GDP #18 Guyana: $1.53 per $1 of GDP #19 Congo, Democratic Republic of the: $1.52 per $1 of GDP #20 Sudan: $1.52 per $1 of GDP #21 Gambia, The: $1.52 per $1 of GDP #22 Sierra Leone: $1.50 per $1 of GDP #23 Greece: $1.48 per $1 of GDP #24 Germany: $1.44 per $1 of GDP #25 Lebanon: $1.43 per $1 of GDP #26 Norway: $1.40 per $1 of GDP #27 Latvia: $1.39 per $1 of GDP #28 Finland: $1.35 per $1 of GDP #29 Kazakhstan: $1.32 per $1 of GDP #30 Laos: $1.32 per $1 of GDP #31 Estonia: $1.29 per $1 of GDP #32 Qatar: $1.26 per $1 of GDP #33 Italy: $1.17 per $1 of GDP #34 Congo, Republic of the: $1.14 per $1 of GDP #35 Kyrgyzstan: $1.13 per $1 of GDP #36 Belize: $1.10 per $1 of GDP #37 Hungary: $1.08 per $1 of GDP #38 Madagascar: $1.05 per $1 of GDP #39 Bulgaria: $1.01 per $1 of GDP #40 Togo: $0.97 per $1 of GDP #41 Croatia: $0.97 per $1 of GDP #42 Australia: $0.93 per $1 of GDP #43 Jamaica: $0.92 per $1 of GDP #44 Mongolia: $0.91 per $1 of GDP #45 Slovenia: $0.90 per $1 of GDP #46 Bhutan: $0.88 per $1 of GDP #47 Seychelles: $0.88 per $1 of GDP #48 Uruguay: $0.87 per $1 of GDP #49 Nicaragua: $0.86 per $1 of GDP #50 Guinea: $0.86 per $1 of GDP #51 United States: $0.86 per $1 of GDP #52 Moldova: $0.83 per $1 of GDP #53 Zambia: $0.82 per $1 of GDP #54 Marshall Islands: $0.80 per $1 of GDP #55 Cambodia: $0.80 per $1 of GDP #56 Grenada: $0.80 per $1 of GDP #57 Central African Republic: $0.80 per $1 of GDP #58 Dominica: $0.79 per $1 of GDP #59 Saint Kitts and Nevis: $0.79 per $1 of GDP #60 C?te d'Ivoire: $0.78 per $1 of GDP #61 Slovakia: $0.77 per $1 of GDP #62 Rwanda: $0.76 per $1 of GDP #63 Honduras: $0.76 per $1 of GDP #64 Bahrain: $0.76 per $1 of GDP #65 Ukraine: $0.75 per $1 of GDP #66 Ethiopia: $0.75 per $1 of GDP #67 Panama: $0.72 per $1 of GDP #68 Argentina: $0.72 per $1 of GDP #69 Canada: $0.70 per $1 of GDP #70 Israel: $0.70 per $1 of GDP Our external debt is a minor problem compared to the internal debt. Expect Japan, burdened entirely by internal debt, to be the first Keynesian socialist nation to implode.

Actually our trade deficit is quite manageable, Let me requote: The government has promised the baby boom generation medical and retirement benefits that cannot be met without massive tax increases or massive cuts in benefits and our current candidates for Prez seem to be promising more healthcare benefits. A little info: Rank Country Public debt (% of GDP) Date of Information 1 Zimbabwe 189.90 2007 est. 2 Lebanon 188.00 2007 est. 3 Japan 182.40 2007 est. 4 Seychelles 143.30 2007 est. 5 Jamaica 134.30 2007 est. 6 Italy 105.60 2007 est. 7 Egypt 105.10 2007 est. 8 Sudan 96.90 2007 est. 9 Singapore 95.30 2007 est. 10 Belgium 86.10 2007 est. 11 Sri Lanka 85.90 2007 est. 12 Israel 82.70 2007 est. 13 Greece 81.70 2007 est. 14 Bhutan 81.40 2004 15 Cote d'Ivoire 81.00 2007 est. 16 Hungary 70.20 2007 est. 17 Jordan 67.20 2007 est. 18 France 66.60 2007 est. 19 Portugal 65.80 2007 est. 20 Germany 65.30 2007 est. 21 Canada 64.00 2007 est. 22 Morocco 63.60 2007 est. 23 Philippines 62.30 2007 est. 24 Cyprus 61.50 2007 est. 25 Austria 61.00 2007 est. 26 Uruguay 60.30 2007 est. 27 Mauritius 59.90 2007 est. 28 Ghana 59.60 2007 est. 29 Argentina 59.00 June 2007 est. 30 India 58.80 2007 est. 31 Turkey 58.20 2007 est. 32 Nicaragua 56.20 2007 est. 33 Ethiopia 54.50 2007 est. 34 Tunisia 54.50 2007 est. 35 Colombia 53.90 2007 est. 36 Pakistan 53.80 2007 est. 37 Albania 53.70 2007 est. 38 Panama 53.60 2007 est. 39 Kenya 50.80 2007 est. 40 Switzerland 50.20 2007 est. 41 Netherlands 47.70 2007 est. 42 Costa Rica 47.40 2007 est. 43 Aruba 46.30 2005 44 Bolivia 46.20 2007 est. 45 Croatia 45.60 2007 est. 46 Poland 44.50 2007 est. 47 Brazil 43.90 2007 est. 48 Papua New Guinea 43.70 2007 est. 49 United Kingdom 43.30 2007 est. 50 Vietnam 43.30 2007 est. 51 Malawi 42.20 2007 est. 52 Sweden 41.90 2007 est. 53 Malaysia 41.00 2007 est. 54 Dominican Republic 40.40 2007 est. 55 Serbia 40.00 2007 est. 56 Norway 39.10 2007 est. 57 Bosnia and Herzegovina 39.00 2007 est. 58 El Salvador 38.30 2007 est. 59 Montenegro 38.00 2006 60 Bangladesh 37.90 2007 est. 61 Gabon 37.90 2007 est. 62 Thailand 37.60 2007 est. 63 Syria 37.30 2007 est. 64 Cuba 37.20 2007 est. 65 United States 36.80 2007 est. 66 Spain 35.70 2007 est. 67 Indonesia 35.40 2007 est. 68 Slovakia 34.80 2007 est. 69 Finland 32.90 2007 est. 70 Yemen 32.90 2007 est. 71 Zambia 31.90 2007 est. 72 Czech Republic 31.10 2007 est. 73 Taiwan 31.10 2007 est. 74 South Africa 30.50 2007 est. 75 Ecuador 30.40 2007 est. 76 Honduras 29.30 2007 est. 77 Peru 29.30 2007 est. 78 Bahrain 28.20 2007 est. 79 Iceland 27.70 2007 est. 80 Venezuela 27.00 2007 est. 81 Trinidad and Tobago 26.50 2007 est. 82 Denmark 26.10 2007 est. 83 Macedonia 26.10 2007 est. 84 Slovenia 25.70 2007 est. 85 Moldova 24.60 2007 est. 86 Paraguay 24.60 2007 est. 87 Uzbekistan 24.10 2007 est. 88 Namibia 23.90 2007 est. 89 South Korea 23.80 2007 est. 90 Tanzania 23.60 2007 est. 91 Guatemala 23.30 2007 est. 92 Iran 23.20 2007 est. 93 Qatar 23.20 2007 est. 94 Mexico 23.10 2007 est. 95 Saudi Arabia 22.60 2007 est. 96 Mozambique 22.20 2007 est. 97 Republic of Ireland 21.10 2007 est. 98 Uganda 20.60 2007 est. 99 China 18.90 2007 est. 100 Romania 18.70 2007 est. 101 New Zealand 18.30 2007 est. 102 Bulgaria 18.20 2007 est. 103 Senegal 16.10 2007 est. 104 Gibraltar 15.70 2005 est. 105 Lithuania 15.70 2007 est. 106 Australia 15.20 2007 est. 107 United Arab Emirates 14.80 2007 est. 108 Nigeria 14.80 2007 est. 109 Angola 14.70 2007 est. 110 Cameroon 13.80 2007 est. 111 Hong Kong 12.80 2007 est. 112 Ukraine 12.40 2007 est. 113 Kazakhstan 11.80 2007 est. 114 Algeria 9.70 2007 est. 115 Latvia 8.80 2007 est. 116 Kuwait 7.80 2007 est. 117 Russia 7.00 2007 est. 118 Botswana 6.40 2007 est. 119 Wallis and Futuna 5.60 2004 est. 120 Azerbaijan 5.40 2007 est. 121 Libya 4.80 2007 est. 122 Estonia 3.80 2007 est. 123 Chile 3.60 2007 est. 124 Oman 2.80 2007 est. 125 Equatorial Guinea 2.70 2007 est. 126 Luxembourg 2.60 2007 est. We have a huge economy that is why our debt figures are so big. If you look at Europe and Japan they are in even worse shape than we are. The dollar won't fall much longer. The problem is Keynesian socialism.that has taken hold of the Western world and there will be an international crisis. It took Marxist socialism 75 years before it fell on it's face. Keynesian socialism does not take over the means of production, it is simply a parasite which feeds off capitalism and therefore takes longer before it pushes a nation to a crisis point. I give us about another generation before the crisis really hits. There is going to be a political bloodbath with the old against the young.

And so castles made of sand fall into the sea, eventually. ~ Jimi Hendrix Seems to me Ron Paul is the only one willing to even acknowledge the problem. Let's just close our eyes, put all our trust in welfare cases and hope for the best... Peoples jobs are dropping like flies too.. had a buddy call yesterday, inspected houses. Not anymore.. but he's gonna keep trying and start his own inspection business after his boss couldn't afford to pay him and they had a bit of falling out... I just found out too, my families former business, a block plant, sold in the late 80's to some conglomerate, around since the 1940's, closed it's doors.. still know a lot of folks that worked there.. Good paying jobs, crumbled into the sea... If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. ~ Thomas Jefferson. "The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. Both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." - Ernest Hemingway Interesting guy here... Welcome to the investment section of my website. First, a few things about me... I used to consider myself Republican, now I know I am a Libertarian. Bush made me one, by forcing me to look at what other Republicans have done through history after his miserable financial and political moves. Liberatarians primarily believe in government as simply a mechanism to provide protection from invading enemies and a very minimal social framework for the Individual to live freely and be judged based on their fruits of labor. For the People, by the People, is my belief of what government should be, not the Socialist Welfare State this country has become. You get the idea of what a Libertarian and I think about government by reading the Bill of Rights and American Constitution, two documents that have been massacred through the years. In my view, the corruption, greed, war, and a large portion of suffering around us is an outgrowth of a bloated socialist state. This state has grown to such cancerous proportions that it's inhabitants are mostly slaves for the state, who siphons an ever larger piece of the fruits of our labour away for the state's own benefit to be redirected at their choosing, usually into the hands of the elite or corporations offering the largest lobbying payouts. The state believes it knows how to best use your money, or time/toil spent acquiring that money, aka your life, for you.... Here's a link to the rest.. Funny, he has Ron Paul at the top.. Kmunk V5 - Kmunk Investment Home He has lots of "bad" things to say... Quite a shame it's the truth.. So the question becomes.. What the hell can we, and are we, going to do about it? Any ideas? The sad part is under either major party we will end up with more unfunded entitlement programs. I don't think anything will happen withou a major crisis to reverse the path to serfdom we have been taking. I'm afraid you're right.. They who can do something, don't care. They wont be here to live the hell they create. Plus, they're too busy patting themselves on the back..

Of course our candidates for Prez ain't talking about this.

Yep, if i had millions before the age of 18 it probably would have done me more harm than good.

Diana I felt sorry for, not Britney.

THE AGE OF CONSENT SHOULD BE LOWERED TO 14. DAD'S SHOTGUN, AND PROPER PARENTING, SHOULD KEEP SEXUAL AGGRESSORS AWAY FROM 15 YEAR OLD SUZIE. Damn caps lock. Is is time government gets out of the nanny business.

I still occasionally think about Miss Fiorino my home room teacher in 9th grade.

Somehow, I believe if a woman had molested me when I was 14 it would have done me little harm.

Actually, government tends to make the playing ground unfair. Why do you think there are all them corporate lobbyists in Washington DC? Those lobbyists are usually trying to get government to give them a competitive advantage through some government action. The FDA and DOT have greatly reduced competition in the transportation and pharmaceutical industries as just a couple examples of government restricting competition.

Natural selection works without "we" having to do anything besides stop robbing from Peter and giving to Paul.

Er...the post office was a government imposed monopoly. The federal government finally decided to allow competition. Utilities is an example of a natural monopoly. Phone service , in the pre-wireless era, was a natural monopoly that needed government regulation. That is no longer true.

Government is essentially immoral. Herbert Spencer Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. Herbert Spencer How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. Herbert Spencer In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. Herbert Spencer Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. Herbert Spencer No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. Herbert Spencer Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. Herbert Spencer Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. Herbert Spencer

To paraphrase a certain jewish philosopher the poor will always be with us. We don't need to subsidize them.

They also cause the growth or creation of several businesses.

Wrong, there are few cases of natural monopolies. Technology is making those fewer. Phone service was once a natural monopoply. Most monopolies and oligarchies are the result of corporations getting benefits from government; often in the form of setting up barriers to entry. Contagious diseases throughout history have always been more prevalent among the poor. God, in his divine wisdom, limited the number of misfits before man decided the misfits needed help.

Thank God abortion is legal or Al Gore would be President. A lot of Aristotle's beliefs were proven wrong. Spencer''s basic point that subsidizing the poor is bad for society has IMO been proven correct.

A truly wise man.

I will once again vote against socialism and vote Libertarian.

That is because Democrats have to have the black vote. Republicans do not. The most liberal member of the Senate will get his comeuppance in the general election.

That is gonna bite his ass come November.

He will lose to McCain.