The Economics of Ron Paul

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Economics, politics, ron paul

 In “The Economics of Ron Paul”, Lew Rockwell writes:

“In Dr. Paul’s view, if we seriously paid attention to the teaching of economics, and the population understood those truths, the central bank would be closed, the bureaucracies would be shut down, taxes would be repealed, spending programs would be abolished, and regulations would be stripped from the books – for all these efforts to manage society not only fail to achieve their stated objectives; they also reduce our living standard and artificially restrict the scope of freedom in our lives.”

“Dr. Paul writes that freedom is all of a piece. You can’t pick and choose. Moreover, it is impossible to speak of the future or of human needs without trusting economic freedom and disempowering the state to intervene in every area of life. Without sound money, there is no protection for savings and property, nor capital accumulation, nor long-term investment, nor entrepreneurship, nor social advance. Without the right to own and control property, we have no real say over our lives. Without the freedom to make contracts, to take risks, and to live in whatever peaceful way we choose, there is no hope for the future.”

Illiteracy at Prescott High School

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education, government school, illiteracy, prescott

The 2007 post that was here had a photo of the Prescott High School marquee after a prankster put a message there full of misspellings and improper usage. I got a request from the Prescott Unified School district to take the post down on 9/1/2015 because that post was showing up first in some search engines when one searched on PHS. I do think the prank was humorous, but I agree with PUSD that it is inappropriate for a prank to appear first in search results.

For real info on PHS, here are two official links for you to follow:
Prescott High School
Prescott Unified School District.

To those who linked here, I’m happy you liked the photo and text.

Undecided Apple Tree

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prescott, weather

Up until last week it was so warm, I doubted that it was really fall. Seems this apple tree in my yard felt the same confusion. It’s leaves are half green and half brown.

iMac

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apple, comuters, imac, os x, windows

About a month ago we bought a 24 inch Apple imac. This thing is huge. We decided that we have had enough MS windows, thank you. There are lots of applications we use that are not on Linux. And the only downside of Apple is the cost upfront is higher. We bought 4GB of ram from a third party supplier and installed it ourselves, cost $171 delivered and about 15 minutes of labor. Apple wanted big bucks for added memory. We also bought the Parallels program that enables Windows (in our case XP) to run within a window on the mac. Of course this requires a copy of windows, which we had.

Here’s Gary with the new iMac.

Thanksgiving …

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thanksgiving

I’d like to wish all who visit this blog a Happy Thanksgiving!

I don’t write much personal stuff here since this is very public, and I’m not. Without going into much detail I am very thankful for my family, my health, my dogs, my community. Thanksgiving was a very Big Deal in my family when I was growing up, more so than Christmas. I have wonderful memories of helping my grandmother prepare and cook the meal, of relatives gathering, and playing with cousins not often seen.

Want to know what I’d like to see on some future Thanksgiving? No news stories about traffic jams, monumental airport screw ups, or folks camping out for a $10 big screen tv on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

And I will not be shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. That’s “buy nothing day”.