Double Birds

Jack Abramoff recently gave an interview on how he had bribed at least 100 congressional offices .  He said that those numbers were pretty low when it comes to lobbying. Michael Moore entertainingly depicted the revolving doors between Goldman Sachs and Congress.  But like many on the left, he doesn't grasp that the problem isn't that the power of government can be bought and sold.  The problem is that government has power at all. Governmental power is greater than that of any corporation or individual.  Government can take money it has not earned.  No other entity can legitimately do that. The big banks that received the bailouts, received them from the government.  On their own, banks have to get their money from people who voluntarily give it to them.  But not if they lobby Congress. Notice that once lobbyists get some tax money, they can use our taxes to bribe Congress.  Congressmen and crony corporations use the revolving door of lobbying to ...

Hawaiians—tired of waiting for bureaucrats to pull their heads out—build their own road: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/09/hawaii.volunteers.repair/index.html Road anarchy (building roads without government) is possible!

The Road Idea Contest got delayed like I-15 under stimulus package construction.  I learned a lot from this contest, and will make future contests even better. I received a great road idea from Scott Brusaw of Solar Roadways.  His company wants to build solar panels into our roads . A solar road could: Power the cars that drive on them. Generate heat to keep snow from forming ice "Paint" itself with lights Power the world Pretty cool idea.  I hope Scott can succeed in changing our roads.  Under our current system of state and federal control of roads, innovation is difficult to accomplish.   Check out his TEDx talk . The road contest was meant to be a mental exercise to get people out of the paradigm of socialized roads. For example: a private company would lose customers if it fined them for driving too fast.  A competitor who figured out how to let people drive safely at 200 or 300 miles per hour would gain the customers. Roads are so ubiquitous, that it...