Life Without A State

You may have seen that video in which I was interviewed by an alien named Jaz talking about the Sun and stars. It was very well loved. Now the same producer convinced me to be interviewed by “Delta Mike,” regular reporter on the Onyafone channel. What emerged is a rich 26 minutes concisely covering topics that range from Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn to psychopaths to Syria, winding up with a picture that paints the prospect of global financial collapse in a different and refreshing light. I’m thinking you will enjoy this.

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This Is Why People Hate the Federal Government

From Businessweek on July 11, 2013:

This Is Why People Hate the Federal Government

Defense Secretary Hagel is begging Congress to stop spending cuts, while officials within his agency are telling employees to spend down their coffers.

From Chapter 10, A Terminal Toolbag:

“State structures rarely have any mechanism that adjusts their size to the needs of the occasion, and most commonly measure their success by the level of next year’s budget increase. So they overgrow if enough money is available.”