Ex-Porn Star Tells Her Story

This is an economics blog; but this story was too good to not be shared. This is a potent interview. In it you will learn about what really goes on in the porn industry in grotesque detail. Everything from women being held at gun point, gang rapes, stalkers, HIV/AIDS, STDs, rectal muscles falling out on to the floor during production, vaginal walls protruding from the body is discussed.

My Life in the Porn Industry from p4cm on Vimeo.

Check out more from the Passion for Christ Movement website.

08 Election Map is Still Interesting

Although it will be two years old in November, I still find this map to be very interesting.



You can find the link to the real map here.

Wile E. Coyote Economics

(Finally, now that school is over I get a chance to do those fun and creative nostalgic blogs that I said I'll be dedicated to creating. I haven't created a nostalgia based blog since the Scrooge McDuck Against the FED post and the Ghostbusters post.)

So what does Wile E. Coyote have to do with economics? It's simple. Everything that the government does simply makes things worse. They passed Sarbanes Oxley in 2002 which had the opposite effect of what they intended. The intent of the act was to "restore investor confidence" in U.S. Financial Markets. Instead, the SOA drove business outside of the United States. The number of American Companies de-registering from the U.S. Stock Exchange tripled a year after the law was passed.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, otherwise known as the stimulus bill, was created as a response to the economic crisis of 2008 and the perceived threats of the future. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was passed because those who supported it thought it was going to prevent a depression.

What marvelous foresight!

Not only are we entering Great Depression level unemployment, neither of these packages seemed to be getting us out of it. I know a predictable response: "the stimulus package wasn't big enough. We need more spending!" And if we buy into it, they'll manage to drag us deeper into the depression.

Like that rascally Looney Tunes icon, every time they react to something they make things worse. They keep cutting of all our economic branches. One day, they are going to strike at the root. Watch the video. I think you will get the symbolism.



Thanks to SpeedyStupidChicken for uploading this video. You can subscribe to his channel here.



[Update: After I finished this post I did a google search on "Wile E. Coyote Economics" and found this video and a few articles with the same idea (1,2,3). So much for me trying to be a blogging genius lol!]

Is A Food Bubble Imminent?

Books I've read.

Since I eventually want to run for office once day (I do not know what office I would want to run for, I just know I want to run, locally) I thought it would be helpful for potential voters to know what I have actually read and what has influenced me.

This list is by no means comprehensive but does cover the most influential works.

So I guess I should say that if I read the entire Communist Manifesto I wouldn't put that up on here, because that would suggest, according to the intents of this blog post, that it influenced me in some way.

(By the way, even if I did post that I read the Communist Manifesto it would influence me so far as to not implement Communist ideas into our laws. They would compel me to get whatever resembles Communist thought or legislation in our current system abolished)

Here is the list:

Economics
1. The Alpha Strategy
2. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism
3. Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse
4. An Introduction to Economic Reasoning
5. Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, The Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts will make things worse
6. End the Fed
7. Inherit the Earth
8. Honest Money
9. Mises on Money
10. Economics in One Lesson

Religion
1. Is Jesus Coming Soon?
2. Cambridge Companion to St. Paul
3. Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling
4. Logical Defense of the Faith (Booklet)
5. Paul the Jewish Theologian
6. Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel: A Message for Christians
7. 101 Questions & Answers on The Prophets of Israel
8. Introduction to the Prophets
9. The Case for Christ

Chapters from Books
1. The Socialist Tradition: Moses to Lenin, The Jewish-Christian Traditions
2. Pagan Christianity
3. Applied Economics, The Economics of Medical Care
4. Liberal Fascism, Liberal Racism: The Eugenic Ghost in the Fascist Machine
5.Puritan Economic Experiments
6. The Housing Boom and Bust
7. Jesus The Pharisee
8. Lessons for the Young Economist

Influential Articles
1. Imagine an Occupied America - Ron Paul
2. The Austrians Were Right - Ron Paul
3. What Do Our Tax Dollars Pay For?
4. Iran's Fist is Clenched for a Reason
5. The Mindset That Got Us Into War Is Alive and Well
6. The Antiwar Republican
7. 100 Years of Medical Fascism
8. A Strategy for the Right

This post was updated on 12/12/11.

Obama vs. Peter Schiff

Now that school is over for me I finally have time to work on my blog more. So, as I've expected, as soon as the Healthcare ill....I mean bill was passed the Obama Administration would attempt to tackle financial reform. As I've also expected they are once again playing the blame game and chose Wall Street as their opponent, all while failing to address the underlying problems that really caused the crisis.

I recommend this book so you can read it and understand what really happened.

Meltdown: A Free Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse


In this post I just wanted to do a little Youtubian compare and contrasting. One person in this video is an economic genius, the other one isn't; One of these men is absolutely correct about financial reform, the other one isn't; and one of these men holds what should be the most prestigious office in the country and has the power to help pass a bad bill that will kill businesses, the other one has the power of influence and is running for Senate. Who could I possibly be talking about? Barack Obama and Peter Schiff.

Watch them as they both take on financial reform. Two men. Two different arguments. Two different conclusions.



"This crisis was caused by the failures in the financial industry. What is clear is this crisis could have been avoided if Wall Street firms were more accountable, if financial dealings were more transparent, and if consumers and shareholders were given more information and authority to make decisions. But that didn't happen." ~President Obama




"If this bill existed 40 years ago it wouldn't solve the problem." Peter Schiff

"Government laws normally achieve the opposite effect of their stated purpose." Peter Schiff

So who was right? I have my opinion: Barack Obama blames the wrong people all the time, Peter Schiff was right on the money. Barack Obama uses accountability and transparency on Wall Street as reason to pass his financial reform bill. Yet Obama said nothing--zero, zip, zilch--about making the Federal Reserve more accountable. Obama didn't support the audit the Fed bill.

By the way, I am not a Wall Street Lobbyist or any of those people that Obama accuses of opposing his plan. In fact, I am finishing up college and I may want to work at one of those small firms his bill will possibly kill.

Related Articles:
Financial Reform Bill 101: What is Means for Consumers
Financial Reform 201 ***This is a must read article! It addresses the real causes behind the financial crisis and how to solve it.

The Difference Between a Tea Partier and a Socialist

Washington Post columnist Robert J. McCartney went to the Washington Tea Party expecting racism and violence. Not only did he find neither, he found that he agreed with some things (not a lot) the Tea Partiers had to say, and disagreed with their solutions.



The first comment is typical:

I part ways with the tea party on how to solve the problem. They want only to slash government. I'd be willing to raise taxes as part of the deal.

Even John Maynard Keynes, arguably the economist most influential to American economists and most damaging to the prosperity of the United States, said that you do not raise taxes during a recession.

The second one is disgusting:

Some participants had far-out views. I heard proposals to repeal the progressive income tax, abolish the Federal Reserve Board and privatize the U.S. Postal Service.

Basically, he wants the solution without getting rid of the problem. Keep the Fed. Keep the U.S. Postal Service publicly funded. Keep the progressive income tax.

That's what he calls "progress."

You can read the rest of his article here.

Oh, and while your here check out the Hayek/Keynes rap. "Fear the Boom and Bust"

E-mails can be funny sometimes

As the title says, e-mails can be funny sometimes. How true this is the world may never know. I think I'd give Obama more time before I create a picture like this. (A more accurate artist might have had some of that poo hurled back up top.)



(P.S. Why have my last two blogs referenced poo?)

Deep Doo-Doo

I don't remember where I found this picture, but I do remember the shock value of it.



As shocking as it may seem, human created problems have human created solutions. José Piñera has offered solutions to our mess.

Kill Bill (Part One): Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act

This video shows a business owner's diminishing incentive to hire workers all because of the health care bill. One minute and twenty seconds explains it all.

Lessons from the 2010 Census

So my university just gave every student a Census form. These are my thoughts about what I read on the form. Believe me, the form says a lot more than "check here, dash there, gimme yo' address."

(There are two articles dealing with this topic that I linked to this blog that I really would like for you to read. If you are short on time, find the last two sets of words in blue.)

Yes, I just scanned parts of my form. No, you can not have my social security. (Hint: It doesn't ask for it.)



I absolutely agree with the first two sentences. But what about the third and fourth? I mean, what kind of citizen wouldn't want to give all their personal information in order to appropriate money to "the elderly, children, roads, and other local needs."

First thought: Hey wait, did they say local?

Don't you think local private organizations know their neighborhoods enough already to provide for its services, and don't need some government bureaucrat to dole out other people's money to them. How slavish--no, how servile!-- are we that we have to ask our government for money to help the elderly in our communities? Our children? Our roads even? Look at the psychological dependence to government provisions that is being cultivated here.

And what low view do we have of the rich in our communities that we simply just don't ask and write them letters to help us out? I would rather wear out the rich with my numerous letters, than ask some state representative to take from everyone else to give to a few. (On a side note, this also sets precedent for the government to control even more of our money. "If they ask us for this," they reason, "we can do such and such with their money." Am I on to something here? Maybe I am wrong.)

Remember the parable of the Unjust Judge. Although the immediate context is dealing with prayer, I think the concept of perseverance is very helpful in this instance. The idea that if we keep on praying, and we keep on asking for our needs, and then acting on them seems to be a solid one to me. Remember what the unjust judge said: 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!'"

Second Thought: What can't a private business (or Church) do that the government can't do slower and less efficiently? In fact, James, the brother of our Lord, has the antidote to this dilemma: "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."

Notice the context, James, a Jewish-Christian, is talking to a community of Christians, an illegal group/religion up until the third century (so there is no Christians asking the government for squat), which implies that he or she is engaging in private charity. There was no providing for the needs for the Christians or Christian activity.

"So what" you say? "We have evolved since then?" Maybe, but just because Christianity is no longer illegal doesn't give Christians the right to ask the government for money.

"But I wasn't thinking about asking on behalf of my church, I was thinking on asking on behalf of all people?" Unfortunately, "all people" don't need "government money." Only specific people would need money. That would mean that the general welfare clause that you trying to appeal to wouldn't work. Speaking of "government money", like I've mentioned in previous blogs, the government can't create wealth, it can only transfer wealth already in the economy (think about it, they can only get money through taxation or inflation; if I am missing something let me know, but last time I checked, they don't sell products and therefore don't generate wealth). Why put a bureaucrat between you and those elderly and children you so care about? Why not cut out the middle man and keep it between you, the donor, and the people you want to help?

Third thought: Faith and no works often equals justification for socialism. Take James again: What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

So when people, or other Christians, see that Christians are living by the creed and not by the deed, doesn't it make the justification for socialism swing more in their favor? "But what you Christians doing to help the poor?" they may ask. You and your church better have deeds to answer with. The temptation to ask the state for your money, if you won't give charitably, seems to be at an all time high at this point.

Fourth thought: It just isn't the government's job to take care of roads, children, elderly, and local needs. Small limited government and private charity works. When people are in need, we have telethons now, hope for Haiti donation campaigns, and private charity rushes to local needs. Whereas the government (think Katrina) can do so little when the going gets tough. Do you think that's a bad comparison?



What is this United States Code, Title 13 (Sections 9, 141, 193, 214, and 221) and Title 44 (Section 2108)?

What is the true purpose of the Census, ya know, according to the original intent? Chuck Baldwin, the 2008 Presidential Candidate of the Constitution Party, wrote an article on May 19, 2010 discussing this very topic. Check it out here: The Census is for Counting, not Prying.

But if you don't read the article here are some key excerpts.

In the original Census of 1790, the information requested was simply the number of persons in each household and the name of the head of each family. That’s it. Accordingly, when I filled out my Census form earlier this week, the only information I provided was my name (as the head of my household) and the number of people living in my home. The rest of it I left blank.

I'm thinking about doing the same.

The constitutional requirement for the Census is found in Article. I. Section. 2. Paragraph. 3...The purpose of the Census is that of counting the US population in order to apportion among the states the number of representatives in the US House of Representatives. That’s it. Nothing more. Nothing less.

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