wisconsin: the state ouroboros

let's say that all workers in wisconsin were part of a (the) public union ... including the governor. and all these workers are paing tax. so, they'd be protesting the gov (of which they are a part) to force themselves to pay themselves more. 'course, right now there's still a bit of a private sector there - but the more the private sector is taxed, the less it will exist, until the delivery boy at pizza hut has to pay for the whole shebang

ron paul is the *only* republican who can win

i have to join the chorus rebutting trump. ron paul is the only person i will vote for as president. if he does not run, i will draft him; if he is not on the ballot i will write him in. the only reason he will not be president is if republican infighting stops him. he is the only republican who can beat obama, and he will beat obama if he's the republican nominee; and he will do it on the same platform he has run on his entire political career. he's the only person who truly deserves the presidency

ideas pit against themselves aka the heliocentric dillemma: anarchy, individualism, self-interest, darwinism

we exist socially (interdependently). when we talk about things like "self-interest" it *can sound* like - "i don't have your back". what's ironic is that, most people discussing these things want to empower/free/help the person they are discussing them with. so in a very strange twist in reality, discussing self-interest is an act of (randian) altruism. and because of this paradox you will likely never hear a person practising self-interest self-identify - the exception would be if they value you (tremendously)

the next bubble: green tech and failure

Ron Paul recently had a subcommittee hearing where they discussed the fed's impact on unemployment. about halfway through the economists were asked what the next bubble would be in

my opinion, you ask? we're already seeing a bubble in commodities. what's coming? they said it usually occurs in industries with a lot of confusing innovation ... how often have you heard "green jobs" and "green tech". there are jobs around here for carbon trading. that's an industry that destroys wealth and prosperity. unemployment benefits stimulates unemployment - aka failure - but this is worse: we're paying people to make viable industries fail. and even for those green jobs that seem viable - they're being artificially supported, which means they're part of the overall malinvestment indicative of a bubble