TRYING TO THINK--OUCH

THINKING MY THOUGHTS THROUGH
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I haven’t fully come up with a statement of my theory of government. Below are links that I use to look and assess government. Less government sure, but how much less, cut which programs? How in the world to garner enough support to change anything?
Thomas Sowell writes articles which I follow and there is a link to him on the Drudge Report in my Old Standby links section. Below is a link to an article he wrote about college education. If you read that article thinking that too many people go to college too easily you start to get a picture of what is wrong with sending so many so easily to college. Also the problems with government bailouts of all kinds not just in education.
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/04/22/the_economics_of_college?page=1
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Next is a link to the number of Government Employees, directly paid to work for the government, around 20 million. That is local, state and federal. Does not include the millions getting assistance (cash or food or whatnot). I’m not certain about those but the 20 million is fact.
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http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=228
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Next a link to OMB site for citizens to check on spending. I was shocked to see that a government agency actually put out this site. Maybe there is hope.
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http://www.fedspending.org/
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Below , a quote from the link above on their welcome page. I’m always amazed at the information that is out there and how easily available it is to look at. Computers can be
an essential tool if we use them.
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We hope you will explore this site. But mostly we hope you will use the data to hold our elected leaders and government agencies accountable for their actions.
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For the emotional yes even inspirational aspect of my thinking there is the HBO mini-series John Adams, which just finished. For those who are interested in this sort of thing and don’t get HBO John Adams releases on DVD June of this year.
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWEyZTEwODk2YWM2YmM5NGM0ZWQ0ODc4YjdmOWIzNTk
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I put it in my save box in Netflix.
For Books look to the right of my blog page lower down there are some. A great movie is Fountain Head based on Ayn Rand, decent movie GREAT theory.
Newt Gingrich’s books and web site are all geared to actually doing something to change politics as usual. His book Real Change gives an actual blueprint. His other programs for solutions can all be found at his web site. He is the only person I know that actually is trying to make basic change in our system of government.
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http://newt.org/
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Also more to the point “American Solutions, For Winning The Future”
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http://www.americansolutions.com/
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Well enough food for thought for now. Kind of makes me think fasting might be a good thing. lol
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Regards, Live Dangerously