Tom Woods: The Federal Government isn’t Going to Limit Itself (VIDEO)
Tom Woods is a particular favorite around here. Read more…
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Tag: federal government
Hold Worst Polluter On Earth — Government — Responsible For Its Injustice
The EPA spill on the Animas. We have said this multiple times in this space. There is no greater polluter than the government. Yet so many environmentalists place such faith in government. It’s strange. It’s like a girlfriend who thinks...
Push paper, make $120,000/year. Life of a Federal Employee. (A video featuring me from 5 years ago)
Where does the time go? (And the tax money?) Read more…
How the Federal Government Continues To Victimize American Indians
As we have said before, there is no group who has gotten a more rotten deal from the US government than the American Indians. And that deal continues to this day. Many American Indians live in the last pockets of...
Schools Want the Sky to Be the Limit on Loans (Student debt bubble? What bubble? Say lobbyists)
The student loan program has long been a mess. In 2009 the government cut out the middleman and made it even worse. (If you can believe it.) Student loans are couched as aid to students. They really are streams of...
Texas farmer wins 30 year battle with federal government (BLM), Gets land back
A 30 years war against the Feds, and the guy was victorious. Good for him. Read more…
Prison labor company features promo video touting “BEST-KEPT SECRET IN OUTSOURCING”
A growing workforce. Get this, the company is called UNICOR. Didn’t the scientist in Terminator 2 work for that company? Or maybe it’s the company in Robocop. Whatever. If you want your call center needs met at “offshore prices” time...
NSA’s Water, Power Supply Under Threat in State Legislatures
Greenpeace and the Tea Party on the same side of this one. The states have finally started to reawaken to their power. A good trend. Read more…
Top Democrat sets off intraparty fury after saying Obamacare passage was a ‘mistake’
Schumer, Schumer, Schumer, that’s what you get for telling the truth. You see, come what may, no matter the reality, if everyone stays on message there no problem. Read more…
Big Brother is Watching: The government wants to study ‘social pollution’ on Twitter
This isn’t new but it deserves attention. Much of life, and especially political life is engaged in online these days. It’s no surprise that the government is interested in controlling what goes on there. Read more…
Report: Taxpayers Spent Millions On Union Work
Why should we expect federal employees to actually work for us? Wouldn’t our money be better used if we paid these federal employees to organize their unions so that they can figure out how to squeeze more money from us?...
Please, FedEx, Fight Back Against Federal Extortion
As Bill Frezza correctly identifies in the attached piece, the federal indictment of FedEx on drug trafficking charges is a shakedown pure and simple. For $1.6 billion. Cough it up FedEx. Read more…
