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Medicare Fraud Is the ByProduct of Bureaucracy

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on October 25, 2009 by Gordon AndersonOctober 25, 2009

Why bureaucracies are so easy to defraud and cannot responsibly administer social welfare.

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Government Ponzi Schemes, Part IV

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on October 23, 2009 by Gordon AndersonOctober 23, 2009

We punished Madoff and Wall Street. Now let’s work on cleaning up the other half–the Federal Government.

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Government Ponzi Schemes, Part III

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on October 22, 2009 by Gordon AndersonOctober 22, 2009

We punished Madoff and Wall Street. Now let’s work on cleaning up the other half–the Federal Government.

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Government Ponzi Schemes, Part II

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on October 21, 2009 by Gordon AndersonOctober 21, 2009

We punished Madoff and Wall Street. Now let’s work on cleaning up the other half–the Federal Government.

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Government Ponzi Schemes, Part I

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on October 20, 2009 by Gordon AndersonOctober 20, 2009

We punished Madoff and Wall Street. Now let’s work on cleaning up the other half–the Federal Government.

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Why Would Someone Who Believes in Evolution Support Federal Health Care?

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on October 18, 2009 by Gordon AndersonOctober 18, 2009

If you are a believer in the theory of evolution you understand that chances of evolution to occur are much more likely when many members of a population freely interact with the environment.

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Liberty in a Nation-State?

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on October 16, 2009 by Gordon AndersonOctober 16, 2009

A “state” is a politically unified territory. When national group controls a state, any minorities living in that state tend to be oppressed and treated as second-class citizens. The Holocaust in Germany is an example of the idea taken to the extreme, with Hitler’s attempt to create a pure nation-state.

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Federal Health Care Bureaucracy

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on October 15, 2009 by Gordon AndersonOctober 15, 2009

The federal government would create a bureaucratic monopoly on health care, ending innovation and causing rationing.

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Planning for Competition vs. Planning for Profit

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on October 13, 2009 by Gordon AndersonOctober 13, 2009

The end result of government planning for profit is that government competes with its own citizens, and eventually defeats them because it has the unfair advantage of force.

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A Constitution as an Operating System

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on September 4, 2009 by Gordon AndersonSeptember 4, 2009

The video below describes a concept in my book, related to three major organs of society and how they need to work together for the whole. In the present world, the relationship between government, culture, and economy is not well … Continue reading →

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