Simple Utah Mormon Politics

Despite the fondest wishes of Franklin D. Roosevelt's cheerleading "historians", FDR made America's economic situation substantially worse. Not even World War II could bring a halt to the Great Depression. Ironically, FDR's policies prolonged the Depression, and it was actually his death near the end of the War that helped the Depression to end. The energetic productivity of World War II ended the Great Depression? Well, then, in these current times of economic uncertainty, why don't you tear your house down and rebuild it? That will ensure that you're extremely productive for a while. During WWII, historians and even some economists told us how much better of we were because we were in a war. Unemployment was way down, they cheered, even though a lot of the newly employed were coming home in body bags. We built lots of bombs, tanks, and airplanes during the War, but building weapons of destruction does not make a country productive. Real productivit...

Based on my unscientific observation, it seems that very few Mormons believe that people have much effect on the warming of earth. Does this mean that most Mormons have their heads in the sand? Does it make our Church look a bit hickish? I think it makes us look kinda smart. In a recent letter to the editor of Brigham Young University's Daily Universe, a writer bemoaned the supposed sad state of man-made global warming acceptance at BYU: The denial of global warming seems to be epidemic in Utah. Even among students at BYU, the reality of global warming has been treated with skepticism and even animosity. I can’t help but to ask, “Why?”... Why? Because we've already found the true Most Mormons would love to drive a hybrid car or put up solar panels and wind turbines in our back yard--if someone can get them in our price range. religion, and the Church of the Man-Made Warming Globe isn't it. Mormon scientists responded to the above letter with the following : We the under...

Do you have a friend or family member for which nearly everything seems to be a crisis? Isn't it annoying? Doesn't it eventually become depressing? Have you noticed that almost none of these "crises" really is that big of a deal? Your federal government has taken lately to calling nearly everything a crisis. If you're as sick and tired as me of one presidential administration after another running from panic to panic, perhaps you'll agree that it's time to get someone in the federal government who actually knows what they're doing. 9/11. To me it seems like crisis mode began with the attacks on September 11, 2001. The dust had barely settled when the Bush Administration dusted off the several-hundred-page U.S.A Patriot Act. No one had a chance to read it, because according to the conventional wisdom of the day, we had no time to waste. Only if we passed this draconian new law would another attack not be imminent. It was critical to cede to gov...

Every function of the Federal Reserve can be accomplished without a Federal Reserve. Why then, do we have one? For precisely one reason. To enrich the few at the expense of the many. Does it seem to you that you are one of the many at whose expense the rich are getting richer? Your mind is not playing tricks on you. The Federal Reserve is the primary cause of this phenomenon. According to Investopedia : the Fed's job is to foster a sound banking system and a healthy economy. Wow. They pretty much suck at their job, don't they? Investopedia continues: The biggest customer of the Federal Reserve is one of the largest spenders in the world - the U.S. government. So, the Fed provides its services for free, right? Nope. Every dollar that the Federal Reserve loans to the United States government comes with a price. It's called interest. In other words, every dollar that is loaned by the Federal Reserve to the United States government must be paid back with interest. Ba...

Are you of the opinion that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor, because government has given them too many breaks on their income taxes? Or are you of the point of view that it is immoral for government to given Earned Income Tax Credits to those who haven't earned enough many to pay any taxes? I'm neither, actually. I'm of the opinion that the income tax is an unconscionable affront to our sensibilities and that it should be abolished. Worse than the money that it takes out of our pockets is the surefire way in which it gets Americans to hate each other. Government has the means at its disposal to raise enough revenue through taxes other than the income tax to satisfy its enormous greed. But, like so the Income Tax was not instituted in order to give the Federal Government more revenue. It was established in order to give the Government more power. many other government programs, the Income Tax was not instituted in order to give the Federal Gover...

A recent article on USA Today asks: Could We Be Wrong About Global Warming ? The answer? It depends on the meaning of the word "we". True science has always been about the free flow of ideas. Today's so-called "science" of global warming has, however, come to more and more closely resemble the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. Fortunately, as more and more scientists rise above the crowd of politically motivated pseudo-scientific sheep to demonstrate what science--unaffected by politics--really points to, we may have happily avoided a modern-day Global Warming Inquisition. If, like me, you belong to the side of the debate that is open to the free flow of ideas, then you can confidently say that "we" were not wrong. To the Spanish Inquisitors, everything was settled. A consensus had been reached. If someone violated the consensus, they stood to forfeit much of their property, and they might perhaps have been thrown in prison. As the Inquisition gat...

Democrats are very quick to accuse Republicans of the sort of deregulation that creates crises on Wall Street. They're correct. However, Democrats themselves have been guilty of the same immoral sorts of deregulation. It was the Bill Clinton administration that made it possible for some Wall Street tycoons to make it rich in the financial markets at the same time that you and I are losing our shirts. How can Goldman Sachs be increasing profits by over half when yours and my 401k plans are floundering? Because of deregulation by Democrats. Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is also a former CEO My greatest worry during the current barrage of revelations regarding Goldman Sachs' chicanery is that we'll take our eye off the juiciest target--the Federal Reserve. But hopefully that won't be too difficult now Goldman and the Fed are two whores in the same bed. of Goldman Sachs. In 2008, when Lehman brothers--a strong rival to Goldman Sachs--asked to become a "b...