Elite Control Via Choice Management is Experiencing a System Failure in the Presidential Race

 

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Why the Federal Reserve's Plans to put More Pain on Main Street Won't Stop Inflation

 

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Why America Does NOT Have a "Two-tiered Justice System"

 

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Sabotaging Instant-Runoff Voting (Ranked Choice Voting) With "All Hat Primaries"

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Most Red States are not "Welfare Recipients" from Blue States

 When you look at this study, the numbers are surprisingly close. Take out west Mississippi and South Carolina and the "Red States" get out what they put in.  That is really surprising because FEDGOV runs a trillion dollar debt every year. You would think that the average state would be getting much more money from FEDGOV than its citizen's pay in, since so much spending is with borrowed money and not taxes. But FEDGOV is so spendthrift that they can borrow a trillion every year and the states don't really get more than they put in. On a per-capita GPD basis they do pretty well too considering that there are more retired people in red-states.

Big, empty states tend to do the worst. They are most dependent on federal funding. Overall though, it seems like FEDGOV is spending so much on empire that the states could do without them just fine. Not that I advocate that. FEDGOV could try ditching imperial ambitions and keeping the money home in order to foster national cohesiveness. 

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Gaining Momentum: The Movement of Western Oregon Counties to Leave and Join Idaho

 This was something advocated in Localism, a Philosophy of Government. Written in 2012, it is more relevant today than it was the first day the ink dried. Counties should be able to change states if they feel like the state capital or the rest of the state does not share their values or is taking advantage of them. What is just, should they be forced to stay and be governed by the people in Eugene and Portland who look down on them? 

I was surprised that most counties in eastern Oregon had already had votes to leave...

Sinema Goes Independent

 Arizona Senator Sinema leaves Democratic Party, registers as independent. She is left, but has often served as a brake on the far-left elements of the Democratic party. Maybe if all members of the legislative branch were independents, they could represent their constituents and not a party HQ'd in DC and funded by global, not even American, money. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tired-partisanship-senator-kyrsten-sinema-abandons-dems-goes-independent