Salatin: ‘Folks, this ain’t normal’ — exit dietary crisis with local food, I
Farmer Joel Salatin tells the argument of his book, “Folks, This Ain’t Normal,” in 4 minutes. For more than 15 years I’ve known about Joel Salatin . Without exaggeration, he IS the cutting edge of the food freedom movement, the family farm’s rebirth, and the New Agriculture, holistic farming that works with nature instead of […]
Possibly, if we concentrate, we can ignore ‘Union’ for sake of locale
President Barack Obama reaches to shake hands with a member of congress as he arrives to deliver the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Localism vs. the grandeur of Washington Last night when I came upstairs my wife, Jeannette, was sitting […]
Promises are a hallucinatory drug; it doesn’t matter Uncle can’t pay
Ida May Fuller was the first person to get a Social Security check. She paid in$24.75. Her check is for $22.54. She collected $22,888.92 in Social Security benefits. By Gary North Garynorth.com Here is the first political jingle I ever heard. “They promise you the sky. They promise you the earth. But what’s a Republican […]
Area power co-op a model for city investment club; profit paid as rebate
Technicians provide electrical service to a neighborhood. They work for Volunteer Energy Cooperative just east of Chattanooga. A co-op model used by VEC could be ideal for creating an internal market for capital in Chattanooga, with profits paid in terms of rebates, discounts or refunds. Chattanooga could create investment co-op along lines of Volunteer Energy […]
In 1990s, pro-life pressure against abortion clinic intensifies (II)
SIMPLE CLAIMS Two elderly women join 2,500 other right-to-life demonstrators in a “life chain” Jan. 20, 1991. Chattanooga Women’s Clinic opened in Chattanooga in 1975 and is reported to have destroyed nearly 35,000 boys and girls. The operators of the clinic ran a rough shop, with numerous injured women, numerous lawsuits for negligence, protests by […]
Noogacentric path more brightly lit in Shuman ‘local economy’ book
Michael Shuman, in this 27-minute chat, sketches out the main ideas of local economy. Local economy is about us. National economy is about them. In simplifying my theory to these few words, you see why the ideas of local economy and free markets are compelling. They aren’t about mere economics. But more. We come now […]
Unpaid moral debts of DesJarlais reflect unpayable IOUs of the people
Dr. Scott DesJarlais, as seen on his re-election website, looks over an X-ray of a patient in Jasper, Tenn. By David Tulis The re-election of federal Rep. Scott DesJarlais to an East Tennessee district puts us in mind of the Massachusetts Body of Liberties that the Puritan founders in the colonies drafted in the 1640s […]
Noose continues to tighten, but no government or empire lasts forever
People drop mail off at the Hixson branch of the U.S. Postal Service, a legal monopoly that in September hit its F$15 billion borrowing limit from Uncle’s treasury department. To argue against such coercive state monopolies is to enter into the perspective of ”voluntaryism,” a helpful framework for viewing liberty. By Carl Watner, Voluntaryist.com Voluntaryists have […]
Centralization reaches peak, faces irreversible breakup
“Centralization induces apoplexy at the center and paralysis at the extremities.” — Lamenais By Gary North Teapartyeconomist The present political system is clearly insane. It suffers from schizophrenia. Around the world, almost no one trusts the politicians, yet almost everyone votes for incumbent politicians who promise to reform the government. Voters now suspect (correctly) that […]
Econ lesson No. 2: Centralization destroys opportunity, prosperity, risk
The eye at the top of the pyramid tells of Uncle; in his world, relationships are vertical and most of us are at the bottom. In a decentralized society under God’s blessing, horizontal relationships among equals (more or less) are more common. By David Tulis A handy way to perceive the free market and local […]