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Popular and multi award-winning gospel star and producer John P. Kee comes live backed by the exuberant New Life Community Choir. Among the impassioned praiseworthy 18 spirituals Kee and company perform are "I Believe" "Greater" "Right Here" and "Wedding Song."Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSIC DVD/CONCERTS Rating: NR UPC: 012414313997 Manufacturer No: 1241431399

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This flawless feel-good musical features a classic hollywood score including till there was you 75 trombones and trouble. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Robert Preston Shirley Jones Run time: 175 minutes Rating: G

Director:  Morton DaCosta, Scott Benson
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Company: Warner Home Video  (1999-02-23)
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Johnny depp is icabod crane an eccentric investigator determined to stop the murderous headless horseman. Christina ricci is katrina van tassel the beautiful and mysterious girl with secret tires to the supernatural terror. Special features: exclusive interviews with cast & crew cast bios and much more. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: Johnny Depp Christina Ricci Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R Director: Tim Burton

Director:  Tim Burton
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Company: Paramount Home Video  (2000-05-23)
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/23/2006 Rating: R

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Takes viewers to the home of returned Peace Corps Volunteer Thurman Matthieson. Thurman talks about Cameroon where he served as a volunteer. Reveals some of the core values of the Peace Corps through the comments of several volunteers. Gives viewers insights into the uniqueness of the Peace Corps as a development organization and as a method of promoting cross-cultural understanding.

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Written for those who are trying to nurture authentic faith communities and for those who have struggled to retain their faith, The Tangible Kingdom offers theological answers and real-life stories that demonstrate how the best ancient church practices can re-emerge in today's culture, through any church of any size. In this remarkable book, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay "two missional leaders and church planters" outline an innovative model for creating thriving grass-roots faith communities.

Author: Hugh Halter, Matt Smay
Hardcover:  224 pages
Company: Jossey-Bass  (2008-04-14)
ISBN: 0470188979
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Life in Sassafras Springs has always been predictable, boring even, but one afternoon that changes when Eben McAllister's pa challenges him to find Seven Wonders in Sassafras that rival the real Seven Wonders of the World. The reward? An adventure that Eben's been craving -- a trip to Colorado.

Even doesn't think he'll have any luck -- he can't think of one single thing that could be considered wondrous in Sassafras -- but he's willing to try. Little does he know that the Wonders he'll discover among his neighbors, friends, relatives, and family will give him the adventure of a lifetime...without ever leaving his home.

Author: Betty G. Birney
Paperback:  224 pages
Company: Aladdin  (2007-02-27)
ISBN: 1416934898
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We are Kevin & Evie O'Rourke. Evie is now in her eleventh year as the publisher of Tewksbury/Wilmington Community Values Magazine. Kevin is the publisher of Dracut/Lowell, now in ... (more...)

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Human Values Online - A comprehensive database and analysis of values; Humanity Quest: a community and portal for the exploration of human spirits, values, attitudes, principles and ... (more...)

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eBay is a community that encourages open and honest communication among all its members. Our community is guided by five fundamental values: (more...)

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To promote Judeo-Christian moral values and to reduce destructive behaviors contrary to those values through education, active community partnering, and empowering individuals at ... (more...)

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Legacy of Community Involvement. Numerous educational, economic-development and human-service programs receive support from the R.J. Reynolds Foundation and the employees of R.J. (more...)

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Post-election analysis by Dushaw Hockett of the Center for Community Change: Who are the real winners of yesterday's election? Not Democrats. Not liberals. (more...)

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We appreciate the value of multiple perspectives and diverse expertise. Innovation: ... We are not afraid to take informed, responsible risk. Community: We share an infectious sense ... (more...)

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Fine organic and fair trade coffees from around the globe roasted fresh daily. Espresso drinks as culinary works of art. Indulgent chocolate drinks. Virtuous teas. (more...)

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Ryan Hawk Mr. Edward English 3 4 January 2009 Reflection on Recycling Activity Recycle. What a vigorous word that never quite pronounced itself in my daily activities, at least not until a month ago. As I sipped the remaining drop of diet coke and mechanically threw the empty container into our overcrowded garbage disposal, the word recycle bombarded my mind. Quite a while back, my family had planned, what seemed like an organized and easy arrangement, to recycle and earn a little cash for recreational activities, but it seems that they, including myself, have become very lazy and unmotivated to go through with the task. Well, I realized that I needed to do something about that. I began to remember various commercials, which have become increasingly popular, about becoming active in the ?green? community by recycling and saving energy. So, I consciously plowed through our pantry and retrieved a separate garbage bag, proudly hung it on the knob outside our pantry and threw the vacant can into it. With no further delay, I motivated my family into a recycling plan, which involved recycling empty soda cans and paying monthly visits to my father?s company called Bighorn Bolt & Anchor. My father unselfishly let me recycle some usable pieces of steel he had been using for boat projects. Within a month or so, I had obtained over three hundred and sixty four cans of diet coke, amazingly, and about fifty pounds of steel. With my truck loaded and ready to go, I drove down to the Empire Recycling Center near West Park Plaza, and deposited my treasures. I proudly went home with fifty seven dollars in hand. Now having finally recycled, I hope to put my newfound habit to use. Through this experience, I realized that recycling is a way of life. Once we have made that choice to implement all the steps of recycling in our daily lives, and stick to that choice every single day, recycling becomes second nature to us. Sure there will be lapses; because we creatures have habits. But no matter, we push on. Every small contribution to the recycling movement and the initiative to protect our environment adds up to how our present society eventually shapes our nation?s and the Earth?s future. As I press the issue further, I have begun to recycle even more products throughout my household, such as light bulbs and newspaper, even though they do not hold a high value in the recycling market. Along with recycling new products, my family and I have also planned to establish a neighborhood recycling program, which involves distributing a separate recycling bin to neighbors, which will be collected each month. Within the course of this experience, a new sense of accomplishment has publicized its way into my life, and even though the activity may be petite and vigorous, there are no regrets. Now that the habit of recycling has pronounced itself into my life, I feel that it will become an unregretful habit throughout the span of my life, and hopefully influence others to follow in the habit of reducing, reusing, and recycling. Please comment or give me corrections. (more...)

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I over-analyze every little thing, always see the flaws, and can always pick anything apart and find a way to show its futility. Therefore I can never genuinely enjoy things. It is as if this life of profound thinking and hopelessness is all I am destined for. I am not emotionless, in fact, I am very emotional, and I definitely have my preferences in life, but these feel like surface things. In fact I block out emotion with apathy. I can be enjoying one of my favorite things to do and get to thinking about it, then I just become depressed because I find it so useless and think that my mild amusements are devoid of any true point. I just need a true meaning, and I still have not found one. In a way apathy is one of the most intense pains of all. You just feel this need for something more because when you get down to it, nothing seems to have any value at all. I do sports, do well in school, and am considered important to my family. Everyone thinks I have a bright future ahead of me, but really, what does it matter if I am changing things for good as president of the United States or if I am sitting on my butt on the side of the street asking money? I need some deeper value than that. Really, who is to say that 'good' things are good and that 'bad' things are bad? How is pleasure really preferable over pain? How is happiness really preferable over sadness? I always need a lot of time to myself to think, and all I can get to is this, something which I am not even sure makes sense to anyone other than me. I have felt these feelings to some extent since I was a small child, at an insane age to be thinking like this, and have progressively gotten worse. As a teenage Nihilist, I really wonder how bad things will be for me when I am older. I just need some true reason, a way to think that things truly matter. I know that I will probably be given some religious-type answers, but I am Agnostic and have been for a vast portion of my life. I think about how in 150 years from now there will probably not be anyone left to remember me - I have always thought about this, and apparently, it is actually common in Mexican culture as 'the third death.' I feel as if I have the potential to do great things in life, but I am always scared I will disappoint, and I still wonder whether or not any accomplishments will be worthwhile in the long run. Just think of all of the people who had your typical lives with family, friends, and job. No matter how valued they were to their social communities, so many of them were forgotten, and so many of them may never have felt as if they had truly made something of themselves. Do I need to loosen up? How do I actually stop and enjoy life without seperating it layer-by-layer? Thanks. I need to correct a mistake. I said "...sitting on my butt on the side of the road asking money," but I meant "...asking for money." Another error. "...family, friends, and job," should obviously be "...family, friends, and jobs." (more...)

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I'm a 16year old girl who's a junior in highschool... I just recently deactivated then deleted my facebook last week. I keep having impulses about typing in facebook.com and checking photos or something. I used it quite a bit, and absolutely all of my friends and basically everyone I knew had a facebook. Now that I have deleted it, I don't know what to do, because I'm used to being on youtube, yahoo answers and facebook for at least 4 hours a day. The deletion process takes fourteen days, and I can recover my facebook if I want within the next four days. Do you think I'll regret deleting it? Do you think I should simply let my 30albums, 600+ friends and three years of wall posts just be deleted? I guess I was just frustrated about how people judge you based on your pictures and so many girls write "ooh so pretty" and people value themselves on how many wall posts and picture comments they recieve. What do you think about facebook? Is it a community that I shouldn't ever want to return to? (more...)

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Hello yahoo community. I am curious about something. As many of you probably know times are getting tough therefore we've had to cut back on some spending within my household, however we have always had a strong sexual drive. As money gets tighter and tighter, our sexual drive gets stronger and stronger. My question for you does semen or "sperm" have any nutritional value because im thinking about cutting my girlfriend's meals down and just letting her feed on that. I've started feeding her only 2 meals instead of three a day. To replace the missed meal i give her some of my love juice. I'm curious as to how long this can sustain her. Thanks in advance! lol thanks my friends like it too :p t-shirt: actually i thought it was funny before and after i wrote it. huntley: haha yea, girls love our love juice don't they? ;) nicole: um yes its quite possible but we will never know. lilred: haha thanks for your insight jolly roger: haha its not canabilism if your not the one eating the sailors ;) opc: haha its good for the skin? really? i'll have to replace my lotion with it then. (more...)

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the rolling stones illustrated-"will cause our children to be immoral and indecent" Uncle toms Cabin-the "n" word was used To kill a mocking bird-conflict with community values where the side walk ends-"suggested drug use, the occult, suicide,death and violence..".....my favorite clam...."Dreadful" talks about how "someone eat the baby" Where's Waldo-a tiny pic of a cartoon women is seen without her bikini top on at a beach...but did they ever find Waldo? Diary of Anne Frank-get this the book was a ..."real downer" James and the giant peach-"suggested" drug use...wtf the Lorax (by Dr. Suss)- it insulted the foresting industry little house on the prarie-offensive to Indians Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-poor "philososphy of life'...another wtf Catcher in the Rye-"anti-christan views" Fahrenheit 451-used words hell and damn gone with the wind- the "n" word Goosebumps- LMAO..."scary content" Judy blume series oh judy blume is b/c the content is "too real life" these books are banned in some schools (more...)

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Do they advocate for girls to value looks over the substance of their personality? To have a bad personality means that any friendships will suffer... does Yahoo Answers advocate for this? Question: Is a US size 14 fat???? Question Details: I wear a size fourteen(After going down from a loose 16,to a good 15,which then led to a loose fifteen to fourteen.yay!) but im not stick skinny,I hold my weight better than some,but that doesnt mean anything.ihave belly,but its like,my chest goes beyond it,but i have a large....back porch,if you will. BUt im in a US size fourteen,I am about 5'2 to 5'3 in height,and wear a 36B in bras.Am I*gulp*fat?Please be realistic,and dont say yea your fat cause your waist exceeds the 'teens'in size lol. Love you guys:) The reason I dont say my weight is cause its out of proprortion to my body image.I will tell you people my waist circumfrence.yay!32 inches,this has shrunk from 34-35.And most of my fat is in the hips and butt region Im not sayin my weight cuz its outta proportion but heres my bmi-29.1.overweight,not obese.and im telling you,i realy dont have big boobs or belly its mostly hips butt thigh,but just barely in the thigh Also,Im pear shaped,and im not saying im small chested but im not big.im more small medium with hips. Deleted Answer: Wouldn't it be worse to have a bad personality? Violation Reason:Community Guidelines and/or Terms Of Service Violation I am saving a PDF file of this. This means that I am saving all the stuff I wrote, the URL and the time that I created this PDF. To Yahzmin: She was asking whether or not her stats made her fat. I told her that her personality was more important. That is answering her question, but not as she'd like. Does "not as she'd like" really count as "not answering her question"? As for "Any answer must make a sincere effort to actually answer the question. So, you needed to get that out of the way first, before you made the referent to the 'bad personality'." I did answer her question, just not as she liked. It truly is amazing that in answering the question of this person, some of you advocated for me to address her "weight" issue and not her personality. I guess you advocate for her to be vain? I know a woman who is her size and is the most beautiful woman I've known in a long time. Her personality has made me look past her weight... yet the way some of you work, it's as if her weight should be an indicator of her worth. (more...)

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An ethical core value that is important for social workers to have is integrity. This is the standard of deciding what is right and wrong and what each of us ought to do usually in terms of rights and obligations, benefits, common good, least harm, and social justice for all individuals. These are all central to what social workers want to create en equal Social workers must adhere to the ethical principles of integrity on maintaining a high code of behavior, honesty, trust, being respected, and having a sense of justice and fairness. Being honest and having integrity can be guide for everything that one does. What to do when no one is watching, knowing the difference between doing the right thing and wrong thing, and keeping your word are all examples of integrity. These are attributes that social workers should practice as professionals and in their everyday lives. Having integrity is respected both in personal and professional relationships .One needs to display a certain amount of sincerity and morals when working with clients. A social worker, specifically, must uphold the highest level of morality and maintain that level when other people try to challenge their views and test their wills. When social workers are challenged with ethical situations, they have to maintain a sense of integrity to their profession, ethics, and principles. We need to understand that clients have different values and beliefs from our own and as social workers we have to be open to learning about these differences and behave in an ethical manner. Diversity means different things to different people. For me, diversity is and never was a bad thing. Diversity is the difference in the decisions we make, and the way we think, act, behave, and choose to live our lives. For this reason, I respect every individual for who they are, regardless of our differences. Some people make excuses to discriminate based on differences such as race, culture, and ethnicity. Instead of discriminating, we need to be involved in celebrating diversity and differences. We can do this by being open to learning from individuals of other cultures, and through understanding the value of diversity itself. For example, I am biracial. My mother is Mexican and my father is Black. I was raised in a community in which the population was mostly Spanish. From that aspect, I learned to speak fluent Spanish by my family as well as from my own culture. My cultural background has therefore provided me with the capacity to work effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures. When I moved to California, my viewpoints were broadened by other cultures, and I was more open to learning from people of other cultures. I am convinced that if we appreciate and value differences then we can recognize the strengths between different cultures. I am culturally competent in my language ability to relate to individuals who speak Spanish in that I understand their culture and therefore can meet their needs and assist them with services, resources, and information in their language choice that aims to enrich their lives and well-being. Above all, if we continue to be a voice for the most helpless in society, then we can change the inequality that is prevalent among the poor, vulnerable, and oppressed individuals, and help them to have more dignified, productive, and fulfilling lives. One of the core, ethical principles of social work is that all people have the right to be treated with respect and dignity. We must ensure that each individuals? human rights are upheld. Because each person has a right to be treated as a whole person, this requires us the professional to not only be concerned about the individual, but also their family, community, and environment. Social workers help address problems of people who are disadvantaged and poor. They help them gain access to resources and support that enhances their well-being and helps them to be self-sufficient. Social workers must come together to change the social conditions that contribute to economic inequalities by challenging unjust policies and practices at every level. This includes making sure that those in need receive resources first, and that resources offered are distributed fairly. Social workers are concerned with well-being of individuals who are the most helpless in society. They work with women and children, the elderly and disabled individuals who are more likely to live in poverty. Not having access to resources, transportation, education, employment, and child care can make it difficult for them to fully participate in their communities. Being able to work and provide for our needs and those of our families is essential to our well-being. Individuals susceptible to living in poverty should not be deprived of their basic necessities that can sustain their lives. Before we can address changes for those living in poverty, first, we need to look at clearly what is causing poverty. There are many (more...)

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source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/gutzman/gutzman18.html The 2003 invasion of Iraq was sold to the public at the time as being justified in part by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein?s possession of weapons of mass destruction and his harboring of al Qaeda terrorists. In the wake of the Bush Administration?s 2003 invasion of Iraq, word leaked out that several prominent figures around Bush long had wanted to invade Iraq; for them, 9/11 was the perfect cover, and the WMD and al Qaeda arguments mere window dressing. By the time the world knew the justifications were false, Iraq had been conquered and Saddam had been removed. President-elect Barack Obama now says that he is going to reverse the current course of the US economy. This contraction, largely the result of the popping of the Fed-induced housing bubble, would come to a natural end in a matter of months anyway. That?s how the market works: if there is a government-induced binge, the fever breaks and the patient can return to health. But the average American has been brought up to believe that good economic times are the results of proper government policy, and that bad times result from its absence. Like some 18th-century physician with a bag full of leaches, knives, glasses, purgatives, and emetics to leach, bleed, burn, and blister a sick man before inducing diarrhea and making him vomit, government hovers over the American economy, eager to make him sick in the name of restoring his health. We have seen the same scenario play out many times in American history. The finest medical care available in America killed poor George Washington in 1799, and the latest economic voodoo caused the recession of 1929 to last a decade and one-half. When finally the government laid off the taxpayer and the business owner in 1945, the US economy boomed. What a remarkable example of statesmanship! The lesson historians drew was that not only was Franklin Roosevelt, the bleeder and blisterer who had stretched the previous recession to seven times the normal length of an American recession, a great statesman, but so was Harry Truman! Barack Obama, it seems, wants to be judged in the same way. His soon-to-be-predecessor, George W. Bush, has emulated Herbert Hoover in responding to the current contraction with a spate of inapt federal measures: nearly $1,000,000,000,000 in handouts of newly-printed dollars to US banks and insurance companies have yielded no discernable result. In fact, federal "oversight" appears to have been totally absent, as the same inept colossi whose institutions tottered on the brink of insolvency before this great looting of the taxpayer now claim not to know where the money went. What to make of this? Why, that more of it is "needed," of course. Thus, $17,000,000,000 was handed over by Bush and his minions to insolvent American automobile manufacturers. No moral, philosophical, or constitutional justification of handing, say, GM ? with a current value of ?$60B (that is, negative sixty billion dollars) ? a few billion was even attempted. No one said how this "loan" would make the great Midwestern dinosaur solvent. Why not? My prognostication? Because it won?t. All this "act of statesmanship" has done is keep GM in business so that GM can demand more money from the government in a few months. And more a few months after that. And more a few months after that. The calculations here are almost entirely those of brute politics. GM is "too big to fail." That is, its unions control so many votes that they, like plains-state senators demanding agricultural subsidies, can twist this gift out of the taxpayer. Comes word now that the steel companies are lining up at the trough. Surely the paleoconservatives will muster the same arguments in their favor as served so well in the case of the Big Three: great countries manufacture their own steel; steel workers are highly paid; some of them were navy SEALs; my sister doesn?t want her husband to lose his job at the steel plant; and (the only one that really matters) if the Republicans don?t join the Democrats in this measure, highly organized and politically mobilized steel workers will vote Democratic forevermore. I predicted that the Big Three would get our money. I predict that other decrepit industries will follow. AIG spent part of its federal gift on lavish retreats for senior executives. Chrysler put some of its taxpayer "loan" into advertising to "thank" taxpayers. This obscenity was rather akin to Stalin "thanking" the kulaks for their land. Barack Obama just announced that he plans to have the federal government resolve the economic problem in part by "modernizing" libraries and offering tax reductions to "workers." The library gambit is all about pork-barrel politics: every substantial community has a library, and so a measure like that will mean a federal expenditure in every congressman?s district. Since the early nineteenth-century days of Henry Clay (Pat Buchanan?s here's the rest of the article: Since the early nineteenth-century days of Henry Clay (Pat Buchanan?s hero), greasing the skids that way has been part of the art of buying votes. No need to explain how expropriating money from its owner to purchase a new rug or computer for a library helps the economy. Barack Obama just announced that he plans to have the federal government resolve the economic problem in part by "modernizing" libraries and offering tax reductions to "workers." The library gambit is all about pork-barrel politics: every substantial community has a library, and so a measure like that will mean a federal expenditure in every congressman?s district. Since the early nineteenth-century days of Henry Clay (Pat Buchanan?s hero), greasing the skids that way has been part of the art of buying votes. No need to explain how expropriating money from its owner to purchase a new rug or computer for a library helps the economy. Tax reductions to "workers," in classic Keynesian analysis, are a wonderful way to address economic contraction because "workers" (that is, unskilled employees) tend to spend a higher proportion of their income than the more affluent. Obama?s conclusion, then, is that America, with virtually the world?s lowest rate of savings, suffers at present from too much savings and too little spending. He wants to reduce the savings rate even further. This is what Keynesianism has given us: gigantic debt and ever-declining savings, despite the fact that everyone knows that societal investment (read: savings) is necessary to heighten the future standard of living. The Clay platform was based chiefly on the idea of "internal improvements," meaning federal financing of roads and bridges throughout the country. Again, if roads were built throughout the country with money provided by the Federal Government, locals would see the wonderful benefit of supporting Henry Clay. Obama understands this perfectly well. Like the Feiths and Abramses, the Cheneys and Wolfowitzes, and like George W. Bush himself wanting war with Iraq and seizing on the first excuse that came to hand, Obama has been handed a perfect cover for doing what he was disposed to do all along. An orgy of public spending outstripping even the super-profligate Bush?s was the desire of the leftward-most senator before the contraction, and he can justify it with economic bunk now. As CNN.com reports, "Economists from across the political spectrum agree that if we don't act swiftly and boldly, we could see a much deeper economic downturn," Obama said. "That's why we need an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that not only creates jobs in the short-term but spurs economic growth and competitiveness in the long-term." But "economists from across the political spectrum" do not "agree." Keynesians and Chicago School monetarists who slathered credit for the bubble on Allan Greenspan and failed to predict its popping, which they still find inexplicable, agree. Austrian School economists who castigated Greenspan during the bubble, forecast the current contraction, and see worse to come as a result of the government?s response, disagree. Vehemently. But, as one of the Austrians recently said, "Being right is overrated." They are now in the position of the bystander who cannot reach the child in time to push him out of the way of the bus. Obama has adopted Bill Clinton?s tactic of referring to all government spending as "investment," but his taxing and borrowing to pay for wasteful government programs will only make matters worse. The American economy is like big, healthy George Washington that fateful day in 1799. How much quackery will the government inflict? Reduced saving means reduced future standard of living. Heightened government spending means reduced saving. Taking money from the politically weak to give it to the strong is King John?s model of government. And George Bush?s. And Barack Obama?s. In recent days, some paleoconservatives have labeled observations such as these "ideological," people who object to the Big Three Rip-off "ideologues." Was Robin Hood an "ideologue"? Was King John a "statesman"? There is still time for Obama to decide that unlike the second Bush, he is not going to follow King John in taking money from everyone else for the benefit of the well connected. He can still refuse to follow Bush in exploiting others? misery for his own ideological ends. The signs are not promising. (more...)

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