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| Last Updated: Aug 15th, 2008 - 11:26:43 |
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16 March 2007
Thought for the Day
Expand your mind, open your thoughts, determine the facts and think logically.
There must be a way for us to help politicians understand what will make us a wealthy and happy country.
Devoting all that energy to an "Anti-smacking" law sure don't cut the mustard.
Productivity growth for the decade prior to 2000 was 2.7% but since this Labour government came to power it has sunk to an average of 1.2%.
Labour sure is transforming the economy. . . backwards!
Mar 14, 2007, 18:00
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16 March 2007
The Importance of Statistics - Lies, damned lies. . .
As you know from a previous newsletter the "unemployed" number around 3.9% but the jobless number around 7%. Unemployed is a recent category for anyone who has not managed to have one hour's employment in the last month and is currently(?) actively(?) looking for employment. We also know that the "unemployed" are being actively pushed into "sickness" categories as these are swelling amazingly.
This activity can only bring disbelief and disrespect upon the official figures promoted by government. To hear the government and the opposition quoting any newly released statistics about crime or health is to wonder if they are talking about the same country.
GDP numbers are always quoted selectively and politicians in power "forget" to quote the real number after inflation and per head of population. The raw figure always seems better!
So after a while we turn off the figures and don't believe very much from the spin doctors at all.
We are not alone. . .
Mar 7, 2007, 09:56
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16 March 2007
Law-Enforcement Socialism
Our governments have been running law enforcement and police activities seemingly for ever. We just assume that that is the way it must be. However, if you have noticed we now have a competing industry of security firms and private detectives providing what our police force cannot.
We have alarm systems on-line to security firms - not to the police department - but to private industry. This is like the health system. We pay our taxes and the government promises to provide the service and then doesn't. So we pay again for a private service to do the job.
Perhaps we should privatise law enforcement completely. Privatising the food industry seems to work very well. Imagine what it would be like if the government nationalised Foodstuffs and Woolworths in an effort to get lower prices and better quality to all. Just seriously imagine this.
You can't.
Neither can I.
This article discusses the concept of getting socialism out of law enforcement.
Food for thought - ?
Mar 2, 2007, 12:45
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16 March 2007
How Society Works
And for the intellectuals:
Our quest for a modern understanding of the most productive society can be aided by looking at history.
Here is an interesting study of the first person to understand the theory of the division of labour; one of the cornerstones of economics.
It may not be who you think it is.
Mar 1, 2007, 12:37
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