I see an economic diasater coming...

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I listened to Bill Moyers this morning.http://billmoyers.com/  He talked about how The state of North Carolina is almost ruled by the very ,very rich.Art Pope's name came up time and time again.He is a very wealthy individual with more than a personal fortune behind him.He has managed to get the Republicans so firmly planted in the government.That a bunch of new restrictions on voting rights have emerged.To keep the republicans in power.  http://billmoyers.com/  triffid

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This week on Moyers & Company, "State of Conflict: North Carolina" offers a documentary report from a state that votes both blue and red and sometimes purple (Romney carried it by a whisker in 2012, Obama by an eyelash in 2008).  Now, however, Republicans hold the governor's mansion and both houses of the legislature and they are steering North Carolina far to the right: slashing taxes on corporations and the wealthy, providing vouchers to private schools, cutting unemployment benefits, refusing to expand Medicaid and rolling back electoral reforms, including voting rights.


First it was Wisconsin. Now it's North Carolina that is redefining the term "battleground state."  On one side:  a right-wing government enacting laws that are changing the face of the state. On the other:  citizen protesters who are fighting back against what they fear is a radical takeover. This crucible of conflict reflects how the battle for control of American politics is likely to be fought for the foreseeable future: not in Washington, DC, but state by state.

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Some info on Art Pope himself.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Pope


Pope is chairman and president of the John William Pope Foundation, which he founded with his father, John W. Pope, in 1986.[21]
As of June 30, 2010, the Pope Foundation had nearly $136.8 million in assets. It has made over $89 million in grants since 1986, including over $9 million in grants made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010. Over the last 25 years, half of the Pope Foundation's grants have gone to support public policy, conservative organizations and think tanks in North Carolina, with the largest single recipient being the John Locke Foundation. The Pope foundation has donated more than $28.7 million to the think tanks, including $17 million to the John Locke Foundation,[13] for which Art Pope was the founding chairman.[22] Eighteen percent of the grants went to support higher education, including Campbell University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Seventeen percent has supported national conservative and libertarian public policy groups, including The Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute. Ten percent of the Pope Foundation's grants support community philanthropy, including the Habitat for Humanity in Wake County and Food Bank of Eastern & Central North Carolina. The Foundation's support for the arts includes grants to the North Carolina Symphony, Carolina Ballet, North Carolina Theater and North Carolina Opera.[23]
In 2011 Indy Week reported that the Pope Foundation failed to file tax returns for the years 1996-2004 until 2005. The foundation reported to the IRS that they were unable to file timely returns due to complications from a hurricane, lack of staff, and personal circumstances of Art Pope.[24]

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http://www.examiner.com/article/bigfoot-hunter-body-possession-of-rick-dyer-will-go-on-tour  This man claims to have killed a bigfoot and will yake it on tour.Most likely a hoax in my opinion.triffid

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I watched a tv show on public tv about the" Fraser report on economic freedoms in different countries".
It seems that several countries have turned around their economies.A good lesson to us all.Chile now has an extreme poverty rate of only 3 percent.Way down from 40 percent 40 years ago.The USA used to be number 3 in their ranking,now its number 19 due to  recent downward trends in property rights.
It seems that when people depend only on themselves and not the rich or big government.They are able to live useful,happy lives.
http://www.fraserinstitute.org/research-news/display.aspx?id=18849