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Tag Archives: economy

Another Stimulus

Well, yet again the government thinks that it can fix all its problems by giving people the illusion that they have more money. Thanks for the loan I’ll have to pay back in my taxes (or, worse, they will just inflate the currency to pay it out)! I think I might just mattress (yes, I’m using that as a verb) the money, or spend it on things one might need if we go into a depression, like long shelf-life food [...]

When is democracy viable?

As I’ve been reading various books, an idea keeps popping up. Suddenly radio playlists, MTV, and A&R guys aren’t the all-powerful gatekeepers anymore. At long last the music industry is becoming a democracy. In our governmental systems, we elect representatives to make decisions for us, sending them to Washington to write bills, oppose bills, pass bills, or veto bills. We ideally find candidates who will make similar decisions to those we ourselves would make. We elect them in a process [...]