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Capitalism: A Love Story Review

I saw Michael Moore's new movie on opening night tonight--"Capitalism: A Love Story." Moore's blade is still sharp, and he sticks it in the Wall Street banks and brokers, Countrywide Financial, WalMart, the...

35 comments    unemployment bush greed
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What Socialists Want -- and How the Free Market Might Provide It!

Different people have different preferences. Some value personal freedom. Some value safety. Everything in life has a price. To obtain maximal safety, you have to accept minimal freedom. To obtain maximal...

156 comments    freedom retirement choice
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The Corporate Entity

This is a chapter from a novel that I completed writing in 1983 and self-published in 1985. Was it a good novel? I'm certainly not in the best position to judge. I was very young at the time, and I had just...

39 comments    business corporations proxy
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Unions Will Be The Death of Us Yet

By Don White I didn’t want to join a union in 1963 when I went to work for the Associated Press. But if you were going to work there, the late AP Bureau Chief Jerry O’brien of the Salt Lake City office...

8 comments    obama freedom constitution
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Liberty and Justice: Why, How and for Whom?

The following essay was not written by me. I am merely giving it a new place to appear and a new readership. This is an essay that my father wrote and published in 1989. It helps explain why some people...

19 comments    politics environment freedom
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WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

Bird Flu Survives in Landfill is an article posted on Facebook from Discovery News Channel. It has sparked much conversation about the affects of viruses, waste products, landfills and the health of the...

35 comments    money free cancer
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THE FREE MARKET SYSTEM ISN'T FREE

FREE ENTERPRISEIf nothing else recent events involving Big Business, and the fact that our government leaders feel the free market business model, that the U S...

4 comments    finance marketing income
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Marx Was Right

I am not yet 100 percent positive that Marx was right. But if the middle class doesn't get some help and we fall into the mother of depressions, he will have been proven right. Karl Marx was a smart...

4 comments    education politics history
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Why do intelligent, well educated people who live in a free country choose to work at jobs they don't like for...

The reason people stay at jobs they can't stand is incredibly varied, incredibly diverse, complex. I think it's safe to say no one in this position took a job thinking, I absolutely hate this company, I...

0 comments    life careers jobs
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Tragedy of the Commons

The theory of the commons is only practical during periods of social unrest; ie: wars etc; The juxtaposition of this theory is that on the one hand, it cannot work without chaos; at the same time; if it does...

0 comments    social issues capitalism
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