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Rob Harmon discussing a market solution to keep streams flowing by selling large consumers of water "restoration", and using the proceeds to pay those who owns water rights to allow it to flow.

European Debt Crisis explained in pithy 4 min cartoon. No surprise, it was the banks and the government.

Michiganders who fled the state in 2007 took with them almost $1.2 billion more in paychecks than the paychecks of those moving in. In other words those leaving are not just unemployed, but people who wish to keep their own money.
Government solution? A higher gas tax. That'll keep them out!

Did you engage in some contractual responsibility? Don't worry kids, we're from the Government, and we're here to help you get out of that nasty agreement you made. Work for our gang and we'll REALLY help! We won't mention where this money is going to come from - rest assured, it's MAGIC money - we're the Government - we pay your debts with MAGIC and pixiedust (which debt gremlins are allergic to... trust us... we only want a bit of your soul... just kidding... sign here.)

"...the Post Office, the second-largest civilian employer in the United States after Wal-Mart with about 536,000 career workers." Amazing but not particularly surprising. Here is a solution. Since it will be difficult to delete the post office (it's a small part of the Constitution they DO choose to follow) let's require the Post Office to charge what each service actually costs! No more loosing money and it will finally give visibility to just how inefficient the institution is.

Consider these questions:

If you owned a printing press in your basement and could LEGALLY print your own money…

1. would you choose to pay your bills by printing the money you needed?
2. would you choose to pay your bills by going to the bankers for a loan?

The national debt is currently 13.7 trillion dollars (you can round up to 14 if you ignore that piddling little GDP of Denmark). The American people could work together, movie-montage style, collecting every single physical dollar and cent in existence and they'd still have to go to Vegas*, hit the roulette tables, lay it all on black and win. Four times in a row. That's how you know you're doomed - most people crushed by debt imagine cleaning up at the casino OR having all the money in the world. When you need both, you're buggered.

Applying freedom personally... why the brick-to-the-head of politics is not the solution.

One small example of market solutions to government failure. In this case water management.