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Fixing Budget Deficits: Reactionary, Revolutionary, or Integral?

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on July 23, 2011 by Gordon AndersonJuly 23, 2011

The large budget deficits by governments at all levels and increasing income gaps between the rich and the rest are the result of poor fiscal management and regulation by governments. We hear increased emotional rhetoric as 1) people paying taxes … Continue reading →

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When Government Payees Outnumber Taxpayers

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on June 29, 2011 by Gordon AndersonJune 29, 2011

The inability of the United States and state governments to produce responsible budgets is part of a widespread problem in which the number of people receiving some type of government checks outnumber the people who don’t. In 2007 the Christian … Continue reading →

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Will the United States Collapse or Decentralize?

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on June 24, 2011 by Gordon AndersonJune 24, 2011

I wonder whether the United States will act like a big bubble with its elites clinging to power and collapse like the Roman Empire, or eventually rise to the challenge and transform itself, decentralizing and seeking constructive social solutions like … Continue reading →

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Corporate Taxes, Mass Envy, and Economic Justice

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on April 13, 2011 by Gordon AndersonApril 13, 2011

In recent days it has been popular to attack General Electric Corporation for not paying any corporate taxes on the $14.2 billion in profits it made last year, $5.1 billion of which was made in the U.S. When the country … Continue reading →

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Growing Patent Abuse by Corporations: Seed extinction and bio-piracy

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on March 29, 2011 by Gordon AndersonMarch 29, 2011

Some large corporations are now using patents to gain monopoly control of products that have been used by traditional societies for hundreds of years. These patent abuses are particularly alarming in the areas of medicine and food, the things necessary … Continue reading →

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Seven Moral Reasons Governments Should Not Borrow Money

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on March 16, 2011 by Gordon AndersonMarch 16, 2011

As we watch the out-of-control debt rise in the United States, it is worth thinking about whether it is wise, or even moral, for a government to borrow money. I will argue that, in most cases, it is immoral. Borrowing … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a Government-Caused Bubble

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on March 4, 2011 by Gordon AndersonMarch 4, 2011

Cybernetics is a simple way to analyze systems of any type, and can be used to graphically display government tinkering with normally stable social systems. The black box is the simplest way to describe inputs, outputs and feedback without having … Continue reading →

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Ending U.S. Pension Fund Bubbles

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on February 19, 2011 by Gordon AndersonFebruary 19, 2011

There is a long history of economic bubbles in the United States going back to the Mississippi bubble in the 18th century. Bubbles are caused by speculation in which people grow wealthy by some scheme in which later comers to … Continue reading →

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The Coming Economic Revolution in the United States

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on February 15, 2011 by Gordon AndersonFebruary 15, 2011

While we watch revolutions for political democracy in Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, we are distracted from thinking about the revolution aimed at economic democracy growing in the United States. This revolution, symbolized by the Tea Party, is leading a growing demand … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Economic Incentives

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on January 27, 2011 by Gordon AndersonJanuary 27, 2011

In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama spoke about his desire to see the U.S. government create incentives to help revive the ailing economy. For the most part he presented a general vision of a prosperous … Continue reading →

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