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Month: November 2009

  • Hitting a Flat Spot?

    George Rebane I think we may have hit a flat spot in all the “jobs created and saved” until election year.  It’s not called the American Re-election and Redistribution Act for nothing you know.

  • Time for a 28th Amendment

    George Rebane When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson The following was forwarded by an RR reader.  Please think about it, and do something. Amendment 28 Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does…

  • Stupid or Evil – Pick One or Both

    George Rebane Boy, are we getting what we deserve.  The USSR in the depths of the Cold War could not have prescribed a more draconian regimen of self-destruction for the United States than the one we ourselves are putting in place.  Its architects are the terminally corrupt politicians in Washington who are cheered on by…

  • Internet Conversations – Sackheads & Scattershots

    George Rebane The comment thread under my recent column in The Union’s online edition started out normally – with the usual acrimony, vitriol, and inanities – and then morphed into a disjointed discussion on ‘handles’ and ‘sackheads’ and privacy, and even “public safety”.  It brought to a head something that I have been thinking about…

  • An American Tale

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  • CARB’s Nevada County footprint

    George Rebane Last Friday I attended a forum on California’s toxic business environment, and left stunned.  The forum was held at the behest of Assemblyman Dan Logue as part of his ongoing investigation of why businesses in the state are heading for greener pastures elsewhere.  In attendance at the Rood Center were also Representative Tom…

  • E Pluribus Union

    [This editorial appears today (14 November 2009) in The Union’s print and online opinion sections (here). This is the submitted version. gjr] George Rebane The case has been made that public sector unions (PSUs) are bankrupting governments across the land.  Moreover, they are a “bad deal for taxpayers and representative government”.  Failure to cure the…

  • Obamacare – any way you slice it (updated)

    George Rebane Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay. – Milton Friedman The von Mises Institute is a leading source of Austrian school perspectives on economics and public policy, and an oft quoted source on RR.  It just published ‘Obamacare is a Devastating…

  • It’s not for the lack of trying

    George Rebane

  • Econ 101

    George Rebane

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