Nationalize?

Bolivia just ’nationalized’ the entire nation’s gas wells, refineries, and privately owned companies.  The word ’nationalize’ is a euphemism, and means “seize.”  Since gold and silver are going up nicely, isn’t it logical that these tin horn dictators, who have squandered their nations wealth with fancy palaces and untold luxuries for their rulers, would run […]

Grand Theft

Let’s turn the clock back a couple of hundred years, OK? The Founders wrote a Constitution, which gave government permission to do certain things. It wasn’t a “Ten Commandments” type of document, which prohibited things, by saying “Thou Shalt Not…” It gave the government a few limited powers, and among them was, “To coin Money, […]

Production

Maybe I should have said “government production,” because that’s what most think government does. “Let’s get a grant from government,” “Let Uncle Sam pay for it,” “That’s Washington’s problem,” or phrases like that, dominate the news media day after day, week after week, and year after year. If someone or some governmental entity at state, […]