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Sunday (Un)Humor: The Government Subsidizes What?
Professor Art Carden has developed some exceptionally silly walks and is seeking payment for his work. Since he cannot find anyone to pay him voluntarily, perhaps he should apply for a government subsidy for producing silly walks. But while silly walks may benefit society, the fact that people will not pay for their development voluntarily indicates that people do not value silly walks as much as other things people would pay him to do. Are some subsidies valid, though? What about for food? Or for education? How about subsidies for clean energy? Is government assistance definitely better for society?
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Here’s a program the government should subsidize.
It has become clear that we are on the cusp of a glorious transformation of American society. Only now have the respective progressions of technology, government services, and—most importantly—social attitudes aligned to give our government the opportunity to banish the twin scourges of terrorism and crime from the shores of this Sweet Land of Liberty! Think of it: NO terrorism and NO crime.
How could we eradicate those plagues? The same way we got rid of Polio: inoculation! All terrorism and crime could be prevented by use of a medication that has a track record of efficacy spanning almost 80 years; a medication deemed so safe and effective that it’s on the World Health Organization’s list of Essential Medicines!
Here’s how it would work. At each citizen’s annual Patriot Scan, a licensed health professional would administer the Sodium Pentothal™ before asking a series of questions that may be quite brief. Assuming that his answers are satisfactory, the citizen will soon be on his way, secure in the knowledge that he’s done his fair share to keep the Homeland safe.
The Patriot Scan could also be a cost effective “one stop shop” for citizens to ensure that their: (i) papers are in order; (ii) fines, fees, and taxes are current, and: (iii) cellphone is backed up!
After all, can any of us truly be free, when even one is imprisoned by their fear of terrorism and crime?
(With my apologies to Mr. Swift.)
Sodium Pentothal!!?? Are you kidding?? They'll just use water boarding instead cause it's a lot less expensive.
They'll tell you its your annual bath.
It's good for your teeth!
Patriot Scan?
You ever seen the Census clusterfuck?
Oh I'll give you a "sample" all right.
Never going to happen. The banks will never allow anything to significantly compete with credit scores as a means of controlling and regulating behavior.
There must always be terrorism and crime...this keeps the majority of people just scared enough to embrace their imprisonment.
...Subsidy Declined.
I liked this video.
It's like 'Von Mises 101' for kindergartners!
Happily approaching enslavement, a technical servant for an un-named derivitave company of 'THE Corporation' (of Mortgage Holders) likes to quote the works of one 'Jonothan Swift', apolegetically; describing the coming (and surely assured) 'new world order' in laughable terms. "Here’s how it would work."
In the meantime, a 'highly trained' pilot who can't follow Visual Flight Rules, slams the tail of his 777 on the outer wall marker of San Fransisco's 'international airport', and the 'PTB' state that the investigation 'could take years'. Two people were killed, and 158 people were injured. It was 'much fun' to describe the 'South Korean pilot's inabilities' (because of his particular ethnicity).
'Captain Trips' DOES, NOT, EXIST!
There's always KickStarter! LOL
Call it "Sunday Education", or maybe deprogramming.
Seriously people don't get this. Subsidise corn production, get invert corn syrup (AKA High Fructose Corn Syrup) in everything. It's cheap so what do they do? Yeah lets turn it into ethanol and burn it. You get corn fed animals, corn fed chicken. The effects go on and on.
There are multiple levels of fuckedupness involved.
Don't forget the GMO's...
Most agricultural subsidies are for grains, (and therefore meat and dairy as feed)... Which funnily enough are exactly the things implicated in the obesity epidemic sweeping through western countries.
If you push down the price of HFCS for example it reduces the input cost of producing things which use HFCS... So we're talking sweets, chocolate bars, sugar drinks. People eat more of that crap.
The irony being that the visible cost is reduced (e.g. the price at the register), but due to the subsidy, the unseen cost is still there...in the form of higher/misallocated taxes and a weaker dollar...and we haven't even touched on medical costs both present and future.
Speaking of subsidies: http://farm.ewg.org/region.php
Without subsidies we would have a better society.
We would also be much richer, much healthier, much freer and much happier.
Fuck Central Planning in all it's forms. Subsidies are nothing more than theft, perhaps cloaked in good intentions but most likely not.
How about subsidizing the Ministry of "No Time to Lose"...
It is good to see you, my friend.
SEMPER FIDELIS!
Looks like the gov needs to subsidize the movie industry now. Don't worry, consumers will spend. They are just waiting until all of this weather stops. Too much damned weather...
Box Office Report: 'Lone Ranger' Marks Third Big-Budget Bomb of Summerhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-report-lone-ranger-581303
yo tempo correlation not = causation
this was a shitty ass movie brah
The point of the article is that it's the 3rd (by my count 4th) box office bust. I don't care if it was "shitty"; that is redundant.
So Jerry Bruckheimer [of Zeta Beta Tau], is losing his touch... Don't worry ~ 'subsidies' are surely forthcoming...
Cheesepope Hollywood only does "shitty ass" movies which promote "shitty ass" cheesepope-approved messages and themes.
For fuck's sake people are shelling out over $10 to see them. Even Goebbels would be blushing at the gall of the cheesepopes to CHARGE people to view propaganda films and sue them for unauthorized distribution.
Are some subsidies valid? Let's see...
Things people do not see as valuable will not be economically sponsored.
Government uses tax dollars collected from the people and then turns it over to select entities which the people have already economically voted to not support.
For subsidies to be "valid", we'd have to assume the gub'mint knows best what to support - and that is, of course, completely a laughable idea.
How is a poor artist to survive after he gets a college education in creating things that no one wants? How will he survive when no one will buy his paintings of trees and clouds when he sits in the park all day every day? We should all just shut up and work harder so he can live his "dream".....
Reminds me of a joke:
A prostitute waks up to a man and says, "I'll do anything you want for $50, but it can only be 3 words long."
The gentleman thinks for a moment and then hands her $50 and states, "Paint my house."
i know we've all seen the anti christian art...but how about poop on buuny...no picture sorry, use your leftist imagination.
We need 6 year term limits for Congress. The subsidy would be job training for Congress to obtain jobs in the private sector.
Maybe Congressional pensions should be paid in gold bullion [starting with one ounce for each year of service]... See if that changes things in any way...
I'd rather see them all choke on their worthless paper someday, then give them any gold.
Nice points but too late, we are much too far down the rabbit hole.
The corn lobby has ensured that corn is grown to increase it's cost as a food for humans and livestock so it can be put in gas tanks to gunk up engines and increase car sales.
The FED has subsidized banks at the expense of taxpayers and punished savers.
If the government has demonstrated that it will punish citizens by making sustenance and saving harder, indeed living itself, what besides decapitation of the power structure will change it?
"what besides decapitation of the power structure will change it?"
Given the absurd level of pro-state and anti-capitalist sentiment and mentality and culture out there, that would probably just lead to a communist coup.
It would take at least one whole generation being raised totally off the government's tit to make such a thing as a return to smaller government plausible. The people have to want it, unlike bigger government, which they can always be convinced to want via offers of handouts and favors.
Either currency collapse, or government collapse, would serve the same purpose (as decapitation of the power structure). And we're headed there. Which one? Ask Schrodinger's Cat.
Fracking has had the perverse effect of helping the ethanol program by holding down the cost of nitrogen fertilizer. It would be more efficient to burn the natural gas in autos but that would bypass those with vested interests in corn based ethanol production.
There's a Koch brother for that.
Is government assistance definitely better for society?
Not the way it is currently done but social efficiency may be enhanced by open source software solutions along with the elimination of government in its current form.
You may choose what we have ( Coke) or you may choose Soros' open society of new economic thinking (Pepsi). The choice is free, but unfortunately being free is not one of the choices. You can choose not to choose, then Cass Sunstein chooses organ donation on your behalf. It's an open society... like an open house or open kidney. Trust the nudge of the algorithm.
www.tradewithdave.com
An end to subsidies wouLd kill off the military overspending, the TBTF banks and the pharmaceutical companies. If there ever was a way to fix the USA then this it IMHO.
When most people think of subsidies, they think of social security, food stamps, etc. They have no idea of the scope of corporate welfare.
Government is not about giving people what they want. If they want something thay can pay for it themselves.
Government is about giving people what they don't want but, they ought to have.
this "professor" is obviously unemployed and himself on half a dozen subsidies
and he walks like a faggot
He walks like a bundle of sticks? Where's your fucking video, tough guy?
gales, gales of derisive laughter Bruce.
I was under the impression that GOVERNMENT was, is, and will always be a subsidy. IT IS NOT the governments money to give away, loan out, or to subsidize fucking anything! It's the taxpayers money, our money.
You, sir, are spot on!!!! +1000
"IT IS NOT the governments money to give away ..."
Mental exercise for democratards: why do so-called democratic (and populist) governments try so hard to promote the (absurd, offensive, insane) message that government is or can be "for the people, of the people, by people"?
Hmm......
Well they stoled your money. That's why they do what they want to do with it. Similar to a thief who steals your corvette, and decides to sell it.
Sublime.
Not sure if as an American finding British humor becoming American humor is actually good or bad? The Brits are certainly ahead of us though.
Orwell was British.
So when does 'america' join the E.U?
Just askin'
We unofficially are already part of the E.U., as the FED is propping Euro Banks with currency swaps and taxpayer money sent to the IMF to benefit the Brussels Banksters (the cabal that is behind the Euro debt serfdom scheme).
The U.S. is different from the E.U. in name only; debt serfdom for all!
.Gov at work ... The Sequester is not working
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/metro-rips-out-phantom-planters-flowers-at-dupont-circle-station/2013/07/06/4220cef4-e5ce-11e2-80eb-3145e2994a55_story.html
The money quote:
"It turns out I underestimated Metro bureaucrats’ capacity for folly."
Statists make me physically ill.
Sunday humor, the original "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8
I was reminded of Benny Hill! GOOD ONE!
And now, for those of you who don't like 'Sport',...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL2EAq1dcdM
war on poverty, war on drugs, war on .... et al
We should have a war on debt. Then it's guaranteed to never go away.
There are two kinds of torture: 1. Just plain mean torture where you want to inflict pain ! 2. Torture .... with the specific objective of getting information ! #1 has no remedy .... but #2 could be a lot more effective by using safe and sane and humane waterboarding .... if that had been discovered 1,000 years ago .... think of all the suffering from real torture .... that might have been avoided .... that's the real crime .... waterboarding is a blessing ! Monedas 1929 Comedy Jihad World Tour
More silly walking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcz-Oho0tlU
/sarc off
This is actually a rather serious topic that should be explored in more depth.
I saw a show recently that stated that a collection of something like 11,000 arrowheads were part of some univeritie's collection and another expidition was in the planning to collect more. The team was mostly Phd's and the facilility to store the artifacts was enormous.
With college tuition and student debt at all time highs while teachers complain endlessly about workload and pay, why is there no discusion as to whether there should be some limit on the cost benefit of artifacts & other "studies" that are nice in times of plently, but that maybe should be curtailed in times of want?