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Old 12-31-2013, 06:36 PM
 
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Anyone surprised by this? Not me considering our out-of-control legislature.

Freedom in the 50 States 2013 | Overall Freedom | Mercatus Center
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Old 12-31-2013, 06:56 PM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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I'm suing you for the two minutes of my life you just stole.
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Old 12-31-2013, 08:26 PM
 
Location: Type 0.73 Kardashev
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Anyone surprised by this? Not me considering our out-of-control legislature.

Freedom in the 50 States 2013 | Overall Freedom | Mercatus Center
Mercatus Center?

Well, OK then, if the Koch brothers say so...
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Old 12-31-2013, 08:33 PM
 
Location: Someplace Wonderful
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Mercatus Center?

Well, OK then, if the Koch brothers say so...
Do you live in California?

Do you know how the legislature over the past couple of decades has stolen private property rights of the citizens here?

I suggest you step outside your ideology and learn what's really going on before you roll your eyes and bring up one of your left wing devils...
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Old 12-31-2013, 10:05 PM
 
Location: Where they serve real ale.
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"NEWS FLASH! Right Wing group says they don't like people who disagree with them. News at 11:00."

The OP just doesn't seem very bright to me.
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Old 12-31-2013, 10:07 PM
 
Location: Where they serve real ale.
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After the Koch family provided more than thirty million dollars[2] to George Mason University, the Center moved to George Mason in the mid-1980s before assuming its current name in 1999.[2] The Mercatus Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit and does not receive support from George Mason University or any federal, state or local government, but rather is entirely funded through donations, including some from companies like Koch Industries[3] and ExxonMobil,[4] individual donors and foundations.
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It's just another right wing Koch Brother's front group trying to pass off opinion as fact and completely failing to be objective in any way.
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Old 12-31-2013, 10:15 PM
 
Location: Overlooking the vineyards, olive groves, cattle and horses in the hills of San Miguel CA
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+1 on that...

The Mercatus Center is a conservative think-tank at George Mason University, in which Charles Koch sits on the Board of Directors.

Try this:

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/cam...rcatus-center/

Hey, it's Greenpeace... but at least they do their homework... seven paragraphs and a simple graph on that one page of their site is all it takes to eviscerate whatever 'pretend' credibility the Mercatus Center might be hoping they have with anyone outside the fact-free world of the Koch brothers. If those spunky lil bean-sprout-munching scamps at GREENPEACE can do that using just facts, it's not even worth considering the efficacy of this pseudo-study that has propaganda written all over it... pun intended.

"prop·a·gan·da/präpəˈgandə/ noun. information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view." The Mercatus Center promulgates propaganda as its mission statement.

A nice piece on the Mercatus Center by someone with an ongoing grasp of actual facts:

The Mercatus Center: A Tentacle of the Deregulation-Loving Kochtopus Helping in the Effort to Deny Climate Change and Eviscerate the EPA | JONATHAN TURLEY

One of the first rules of any analysis of a 'News Story' is to consider the source. Consider it considered.

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Old 12-31-2013, 10:21 PM
 
Location: Someplace Wonderful
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"NEWS FLASH! Right Wing group says they don't like people who disagree with them. News at 11:00."

The OP just doesn't seem very bright to me.
And you, apparently, have no interest in how the California state legislature continues to steal private property from homeowners.

Not surprising!
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Old 01-01-2014, 01:30 AM
 
Location: Bike to Surf!
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Huh. How about that. I guess I didn't just bike down from the house, that I own, to the point to go surfing for a few hours Sunday. Then I didn't grab a shower and a bagel and walk my family to church. Afterwards, I didn't visit with friends and neighbors for a bit before spending the afternoon doing some yard work and then spending a bit more time with the family before the workweek began.

No, that was a dream. In reality, I spent the weekend in the nanny state government housing project with my government-mandated same-sex life partner. I wasn't allowed outside to minimize my ecological footprint, I sure as heck wasn't allowed to even THINK a religious thought, and the government-owned utilities were shut off a dusk to ensure a zero carbon emissions day mandate.

The freedoms I dreamed I had are clearly only available to me if I own an arsenal of assault rifles and a Ford Excursion SUV to carry them to the border in Texas, or some other equally awful place, to spend all my free time "defending" my freedoms against terrorists and socialists by eating a lot of processed meat and starches and complaining about how Obama[care] is the worst thing to happen to America since the War of 1812.

Thanks for setting me straight.
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Old 01-01-2014, 02:02 AM
 
Location: Boulder Creek, CA
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Huh. How about that. I guess I didn't just bike down from the house, that I own, to the point to go surfing for a few hours Sunday. Then I didn't grab a shower and a bagel and walk my family to church. Afterwards, I didn't visit with friends and neighbors for a bit before spending the afternoon doing some yard work and then spending a bit more time with the family before the workweek began.

No, that was a dream. In reality, I spent the weekend in the nanny state government housing project with my government-mandated same-sex life partner. I wasn't allowed outside to minimize my ecological footprint, I sure as heck wasn't allowed to even THINK a religious thought, and the government-owned utilities were shut off a dusk to ensure a zero carbon emissions day mandate.

The freedoms I dreamed I had are clearly only available to me if I own an arsenal of assault rifles and a Ford Excursion SUV to carry them to the border in Texas, or some other equally awful place, to spend all my free time "defending" my freedoms against terrorists and socialists by eating a lot of processed meat and starches and complaining about how Obama[care] is the worst thing to happen to America since the War of 1812.

Thanks for setting me straight.
We're glad you finally got it. Now go forth and be not free and miserable. Evil CA says so.
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