Underdog Militia Report

Just kidding… They already looted the last of the Gold reserves in the 1970’s.

The Onion strikes again.

Helping the homeless stay homeless, while subsidizing independently wealthy real estate speculators and rent seekers.

There is always going to be homeless because of mental illness, and to a lesser extent business failures.  However in a free market where people are allowed to succeed or fail without government interference, those entrepreneurs learn from their mistakes and eventually pull themselves up by their bootstraps.  The fiery furnace of the free market tempers the blade of innovation.  Hence the allowance of those temporary failures eventually leads to a higher standard of living for the average member of civilization

Here is the problem.  There are those who are using the government as a tool to guarantee profits and success for themselves.  This eventually leads to a reduction in the standard of living for the average member of civilization as a whole.
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Joe Musso announced that he is going to run for mayor of the city of York.

I actually agree with one of his goals: “— Promote a police chief from within the police ranks.”
I’ve always supported promotion from within. Promotion from within encourages people to do their best in expectation that they may someday earn a promotion. I’m not just writing about police departments. Too many companies are run by people with the “give the new administration, management, supervisor position to my old (college, other company) friend”.

Now it may seen ok to the HR manager who doesn’t give a shit. The message it sends to the rank and file who worked hard for years is “fuck you, I don’t give a shit about you or the company. I’m just here to line my own pockets.” It also says to the rank and file people who worked hard— “don’t bother giving 110 percent because your hard work is not going to be rewarded.”

Back to Joe Musso. Here’s the problem. Years ago when he first got on the York city council, he bought city owned property for pennies on the dollar from the city, and then he turned around and sold the property at full market value. I believe he pocketed a nice profit too. There was an article in the local newspaper about it when it happened.

At least this parasite lost 5 million playing poker. Yahoo News
That is much better than having tax dollars being used to ship jobs out of the USA. An earlier post about GM shipping jobs overseas

Most people are blind to the reason that the economy is such trouble. A number of things are contributing to the death of the economy and liberty in general.
1. Fiat currency distorts the markets giving an incentive to decision makers in industry to lower quality. A commodity based currency would also encourage longer term planning in all levels of investment, production, and quality.

2. Regulations raise the cost to enter a given market. Most regulations are lobbied for by Corporations that already dominate their market. Example- The top tier oil Companies that dominate the oil exploration market, lobby for regulation that stops smaller independent oil exploration companies from drilling for oil, hence they keep the price of oil high. An article about peak oil scam

3. Prohibition & legal extortion. There is a gigantic parasitic industry that profits from making war on the liberty and rights of the people. First you have private prison and subcontractors lobbying lawmakers to pass new laws and to upgrade what use to be a petty or summary offense to a misdemeanor and/or felony grade with much higher incarceration time. Many things that are felonies today were either low grade fine type offenses or didn’t exist as a crime as few as 5 to 10 years ago. Then you have taskmasters (law enforcement) running and getting elected to offices so they can pass more laws and increase penalties for petty offenses and/or victimless crimes. Then you have judges taking bribes to send teenagers to private jails.
Of course they lobbied the legislatures to pass laws that exclude a significant percentage of the population from the jury pool, thereby guaranteeing a high conviction rate. All of these things take up a growing portion of government spending. Not the mention the lost productivity of formerly productive citizens who are locked up. In the past decade law enforcement & incarceration has surpassed education as a percentage of most State budgets including my home State of Pennsylvania. (continue reading…)

I do believe in free markets. However this is not free market or free trade.

GM to take our tax dollars and move production overseas

A little over a year ago I decided to put out all the information I have about the diseased corpse that calls itself society.

Here it comes.