I don't think you understand what a Libertarian is. George Washington was a Libertarian. Thomas Jefferson was a Libertarian etc. They believed in Government, too.
Government is Good
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Yeah, I don't have any roosters crowing near me therefore everything the government does is good.
Did you like it when the government invaded Iraq? I mean the government did it therefore it had to be good.
What a completely twisted article full of fabrications and half truths. Let's take a look at the realities related to a couple of the items in the article..
The original technology of the NIST time server came out of AT&T Bell Labs and was used for maintaining synchronous telephone networks world-wide. NIST has been harshly criticized for decades for its inability to properly keep crime despite having the most expensive and finest equipment to do so. The British have been keeping accurate time since the 1700s. There is a reason that the world uses Greenwich mean time as the standard and not anything done by the U.S. government.
The FCC Part 68 and UL 15 standards are the weakest of all the major nations. The standards such as VDE in Germany are much better.
In terms of radio spectrum, the FCC has held back progress for years due to their poor policy and mismanagement. The non-interference standards used for radio spectrum were not invented by the FCC but by the private sector.
Let's first comment on who your town inspectors are. The inspectors are people who are so incompetent that they failed to make it in the trades. They now survive by taking $20 gifts (bribes) to pass stuff that they are incapable of figuring out.
No resulting fires in your house? From a broader level all the electrical items installed in your house must be "U.L. approved". The U.S. government has proven to be completely incapable of policing "U.L. approved" items, and will effectively let any piece of junk in from overseas with a fake U.L. compliance label . There are over 500,000 examples of electrical failures each year in the U.S. causing an associated 20,000 home fires leading to over 50 deaths.
Licensing? In many states HVAC people are not even licensed. They are the most incompetent of all the trade people in terms of not knowing the basics. What does it take to be licensed in a trade in most states? Take a test that a 5th grader can pass and provide a letter from someone stating you have worked in the trade area.
The original technology of the NIST time server came out of AT&T Bell Labs and was used for maintaining synchronous telephone networks world-wide. NIST has been harshly criticized for decades for its inability to properly keep crime despite having the most expensive and finest equipment to do so. The British have been keeping accurate time since the 1700s. There is a reason that the world uses Greenwich mean time as the standard and not anything done by the U.S. government.
The FCC Part 68 and UL 15 standards are the weakest of all the major nations. The standards such as VDE in Germany are much better.
In terms of radio spectrum, the FCC has held back progress for years due to their poor policy and mismanagement. The non-interference standards used for radio spectrum were not invented by the FCC but by the private sector.
Let's first comment on who your town inspectors are. The inspectors are people who are so incompetent that they failed to make it in the trades. They now survive by taking $20 gifts (bribes) to pass stuff that they are incapable of figuring out.
No resulting fires in your house? From a broader level all the electrical items installed in your house must be "U.L. approved". The U.S. government has proven to be completely incapable of policing "U.L. approved" items, and will effectively let any piece of junk in from overseas with a fake U.L. compliance label . There are over 500,000 examples of electrical failures each year in the U.S. causing an associated 20,000 home fires leading to over 50 deaths.
Licensing? In many states HVAC people are not even licensed. They are the most incompetent of all the trade people in terms of not knowing the basics. What does it take to be licensed in a trade in most states? Take a test that a 5th grader can pass and provide a letter from someone stating you have worked in the trade area.
Almost all of this is state government, not federal. The majority of issues those who are against the government have are with Federal overreach. Not state.
Try again?
This is exactly the point that FC and others don't seem to get. Most "conservatives" are very supportive of good local government and schools. They want local services and infrastructure (water, sewer, etc.) delivered efficiently to the local community.
Furthermore the "conservatives" want a limited role of Federal government and a reduction of the obscene federal budgets & overreach. The Federal government in the U.S. was originally established to provide for a national defense, it's role has grown to be much larger including all sorts of social benefit programs with questionable results.
The FDA has issued a draft guideline to change the policy on blood donations. It had previously prohibited donations from homosexual men.
The new guideline? Homosexual blood welcome. Yikes!
Scientists say this change is long overdue-
and we'll never see snow again because of global warming.
#science
#government
The new guideline? Homosexual blood welcome. Yikes!
Scientists say this change is long overdue-
and we'll never see snow again because of global warming.
#science
#government
An investment firm created an inflation index comprised of the prices of the top 500 items purchased in the largest 50 cities.
The government claims that prices have gone up by 7.2% since 2011.
But the cost of living for what people actually buy, (top 500 items in largest 50 cities) has gone up over 47% since 2011. This also implies that we've had a massive loss in real gdp over this time period, since a higher inflation rate wipes out nominal gains.
http://patrickbarron.blogspot.com/2015/05/us-inflation-up-471-and-real-gdp-down.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chapwood-index-reveals-government-grossly-120000951.html
The government claims that prices have gone up by 7.2% since 2011.
But the cost of living for what people actually buy, (top 500 items in largest 50 cities) has gone up over 47% since 2011. This also implies that we've had a massive loss in real gdp over this time period, since a higher inflation rate wipes out nominal gains.
http://patrickbarron.blogspot.com/2015/05/us-inflation-up-471-and-real-gdp-down.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chapwood-index-reveals-government-grossly-120000951.html