Latest articles from The Insiders Guide To Politics (http://insiderspolitics.com) http://insiderspolitics.com 2008-11-21T17:03:31+01:00 text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/the-principles-of-anarchocommunism-a241.html Very brief dissertation on the reasons that develop one to Anarcho-Communist thought. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/pacifism-a240.html Not only opposition to war, but opposition to violence and physical coercion is a humane objective. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/how-to-make-fema-a239.html We have all seen the political positioning and the media fanned flame of blame game for the response to Hurricanes Rita and Katrina. We have seen everyone from the janitor of the Superdome to the President of the United States blamed for the weather. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/rising-insurance-costs-to-a238.html The constantly rising cost of insurance has forced many employers to eliminate health insurance benefits for employees. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/libertarianism-and-socialism-a237.html Considerations on the idea of liberty, economically and politically, between these two divided camps. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/seattle-lawyer-and-financial-a236.html We are destroying our freedoms and slowing innovation, due to our belief that we can regulate morality by laws, that we can protect the most ignorant or mentally challenged individual in society by making a law; hardly possible. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/conservation-of-water-in-a235.html Water Conservation in larger cities is less of an issue publicly than in smaller cities, yet in reality it is more important in larger cities to conserve to allow smaller cities to exist. This is ironic, however truth because a small city that saves a lot is a mere drop in the bucket to the amount of water a big city can save. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/silicon-valley-brain-drain-a234.html We have brain drain issues in Silicon Valley, we have taught so many students from India, Pakistan, China all kinds of heavy duty industrial high tech studies and research and now that they cannot find jobs, many will be going back to those countries to work and with them all our technology. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/we-do-not-have-a233.html Our trade deficit is directly proportional to our attacks on US Businesses and Entrepreneurs. We do not have an upside down trade deficit because we cannot compete. We can compete with any nation. We have bad policies, over regulation, too many lawyers and lawsuits. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/retirement-age-will-have-a232.html With people living longer we have some problems as those with pensions will be receiving monies much longer than anticipated. They will be using hospitals and need care longer and all of this will cost us more. Also at issue is Social Security as we have been listening to in the news lately. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/maryland-lawyers-and-politicians-a231.html We know that in Maryland, which some call “Merry Land” due to its completely liberal skew that Sarbaines Oxley laws were born. These laws no matter what anyone will tell you, have done more to upset our trade deficits with China than any other single factor. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/experts-a230.html Over-professionalism and cronyistic bureaucracy serve to subjugate those who pay the taxes or produce the real value. Ivan Illich and many others are excellent resources but they are taught against in our media to the most part. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/uncle-sam-cracks-down-a229.html In a move that rocked the online world and left many Internet marketers shaking in their boots, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initiated a sweeping crackdown on what they termed "Internet Scammers" and "Deceptive Spammers." text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/timber-dumping-a228.html Recently in Professional Builder a cover article discussed how the industry was concerned about the anti-dumping tariffs of Canadian Lumber. I understand how they fill from a cost stand point, however let us discuss the hardships that Canadians have placed on trucking companies going into Canada with US goods. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/housing-bubble-interest-rates-a227.html What has really changed in the housing market with regards to timber dumping from Canada, lumber costs since the Professional Building Magazine issue in Sept. 2001. How is this affecting the housing market or the predicted housing bubble burst which was suppose to cripple the economy. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/steel-import-tariff-taxes-a226.html US Steel prices have cost franchisees in my company and our team thousands of extra dollars due to the import taxes, which were imposed. Let me tell everyone when they raised the cost of steel we were forced to seek to build the truck beds out of other materials, and once businesses do that many times they never go back and thus the steel industry is forever damaged. text/html 2007-11-25T21:01:46+01:00 http://insiderspolitics.com http://insiderspolitics.com/trade-policy-hurting-industry-a225.html The steel tariff taxes a few years ago hurt industry and small business and we as a civilization are still paying for that boo boo. This problem was affecting our team in my company and costing our franchisees money and ROI time, due to increased costs in new equipment.