Friday, November 03, 2006

What is The Business Cycle?

What is The Business Cycle?

The Real Estate market is deflating right now. This is a great opportunity to do things differently in the future as long as most folks’ home value has evaporated right before their eyes. It is the result of our backwards tax policy that punishes the good while rewarding the bad. How? Just having a habitat on a piece of land will cost you plenty. But a vacant lot is barely taxes at all. Fix your house up or build an addition to accommodate your growing family and your tax goes up. But be a slum lord, let your property decline or even board it up and your tax goes down drastically. In other words, use your land to shelter your family and get slammed with higher taxes. Or just hoard the land forbidding anyone to trespass, let everyone else along with government tax money build up the infrastructure around your hoarded property then sell the property for a killing in a few years.

However, your unstable, unfair, backwards tax policy that causes this boom/bust Real Estate cycle, (commonly referred to as the Business Cycle) is not the worst aspect. The worst aspect is it prices about half the people in this country and most people in other countries out of a home. The weakest live in the streets while more than enough houses sit boarded up waiting to be sold in the future for enormous profit. Or governments own them for the people. The system, while very profitable to those with the means who know what they are doing playing the cycle, breeds the vast majority of desperation, poverty and crime. The richest should not be allowed to rent the earth to the poorest if for no other reason than to reduce the need for the negative behavior that this desperation causes.

So the next time someone steals your purse or knocks you in the head and takes your wallet ask yourself this. Wouldn’t it be better if we quit taxing good things like houses and began taxing bad things like land hoarding? Crime, besides not usually paying, is hard nerve-wracking work that takes effort. If the criminal had owned a house and been allowed to participate in a real full employment society then he would have too much to lose. Land hoarding strangles job growth especially in the construction/renovation industry. The killer is half the house tax money usually goes to fund the local public school system that is slowly destroying our youth’s thinking ability. Instead the educrats focus on control, conformity and compliance with the wishes of the state in all matters. To sum up, we are doing something stupid to fund something stupid. When we get the chance, let’s not screw it up in Cuba and use this numb skull system.

Tomás Estrada-Palma

Thursday, November 02, 2006

CLINTON INTERVIEW

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

VIA LARRY DALEY

The Miami Herald Wins!

The problems of alienation of readers are doing great harm to circulation, of all papers survey in study the Miami Herald lost most circulation!


take care be well

Larry Daley


The Miami Herald wins!

The Miami Herald recently won the contest of the newspaper that lost the most circulation in competing against other mostly liberal newspapers across the nation. A report by "Editor & Publisher" indicates that:

"Losses at the Miami Herald were steep. Daily circulation fell 8.8% to 265,583 and Sunday fell 9.1% to 361,846."

It is obvious that the protest of the Cuban exile community against the racist remarks of Herald editor Tom Fiedler had its effects.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/fiedler.htm
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_ content_id=1003316421

This should be a wakeup call to the McClatchy Company, who recently bought the Herald, of how the newspaper does not represent the interests of a large section of the community. Most of the Herald employees do not even live in Miami-Dade, but rather in neighboring Broward County.

Dr. Antonio de la Cova
Indiana University

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Via Larry Daley

MASS ARRESTS SOON!


After finally producing a very frail and sick Fidel Castro for brief taped video, it seems clear that the feared Cuban leader is dying and trouble is expected by the Cuban government. A reported sent out prior to this "appearance" suggests mass arrests are expected (footnote 1).


Reports of plans for immediate emergency mass arrests are coming out of Cuba (footnote 1). These detailed and very bureaucratic plans are to be activated by trigger events such as the death of Fidel Castro etc. Such plans were carried out in 1961 during the "Bay of Pigs" invasion with foreign embassies reporting in excess of 300,000 arrests. Various Cuban repressive agencies are to coordinate actions and are to target a series of different classes of people for arrest:

1- Predominantes

2- Desestabilizadores
3- Moderados
4- Clandestinos activos
5- Clandestinos pasivos




Footnote 1
ACTUALIZAN TARJETAS OPERATIVAS PARA INMINENTE DETENCION DE OPOSITORE

Posted by: "PL" pl.nospam@pandora.be cubaverdad

Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:28 am (PST)

Actualizan Tarjetas Operativas para Inminente Detenci? de Opositores 2006-10-27 Guillermo Fari?s, Director de Cubanac? Press Santa Clara, 26 de Octubre. Las tarjetas operativas de opositores al gobierno fueron actualizadas en la provincia de Villa Clara desde el 15 de Octubre pasado ante un inminente Estado de Emergencia.

Una fuente dentro del Ministerios del Interior que pidi?no se revelara su nombre indic?que las tarjetas operativas para la detenci? del personal No Confiable en Tiempo de Guerra (PNC-TG) constituyen la base de un sistema de encarcelamiento preventivo.

Se prev?que un tr? de oficiales con un representante de la Contrainteligencia Militar (CIM), otro de la Contrainteligencia Civil (G-2) m? un tercero de la reserva ejecuten las detenciones planificadas, todo esto tras decretar la Figura Jur?ica Constitucional de Estado de Emergencia.

La misma comunicaci? tambi? acot?que las tarjetas han sido divididas en 5 categor?s de personas a detener; que son:

1- Predominantes
2- Desestabilizadores
3- Moderados
4- Clandestinos activos
5- Clandestinos pasivos

El motivo de la actualizaci? considera el informador es la previsible muerte del gobernante Fidel Castro a quien se supone mortalmente enfermo, tras m? de 37 d?s sin ser visto por la ciudadan? de la isla.

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Nota de Miscel?eas de Cuba: El art?ulo anterior ha llegado a nuestra redacci? por mediaci? de la activista cubana residente en Alemania Maria Elena Morej?, quien adem? ha respondido por su trascripci?. A ella nuestro mayor agradecimiento.

http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=751


take care be well

Larry Daley

Monday, October 30, 2006

Castro’s Surgical Procedure

Castro’s Surgical Procedure


Watching Castro walk with his strange waddling gait, his frantic waving arms and his voice that is several octaves higher than normal it is confirmed now what medical procedure Fidel underwent. He had his cojones removed after his prostrate swelled up like a cantaloupe. Reports however say he’s thinking of redecorating in lavender including a pricey bidet for the bathroom and pink curtains. Quiche has become el comandante’s new favorite dish.


Tomás Estrada-Palma,

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Raul Castro Press Conference

Raul Castro Press Conference

REPORTER:

Jefe Raul, Your brother's cancer's rectum?


RAUL:

Why no. It's damn near killed him!