As shown by the number of people who believe in Creationism, er Intelligent Design, and believe macro-evolution does not happen a bunch of people don't know or believe in science.

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While partially correct most people do not know the state government actually caused the crisis. I think it's very telling saying "capped retail electricity prices" was part of the problem. Most people who want government regulation use the CA energy crisis, if it is used, as an example of why deregulation cause problems. They are dead wrong about that. CA did not deregulate energy, all the state did was change the regulations. Owning both electrical generation and the distribution of that electricity was made illegal. Then people were able to choose the retail sellers they bought their electricity from. Those retail sellers were not allowed to raise their prices to users but generators were allowed to raise their prices to retail sellers. When the prices retailers had to pay was higher than what they were able to charge their own buyers, the end users, they were left with stopping the sell of energy or with going bankrupt. The entire crisis was caused by the state government.

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Because it's too expensive. There is no place in the world where nuclear power can stand on it's own. Nuclear power depends on government for it's existence.

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Nuclear power is Hooked on Subsidies.
"How do France (and India, China and Russia) build cost-effective nuclear power plants? They don’t. Governmental officials in those countries, not private investors, decide what is built. Nuclear power appeals to state planners, not market actors."

Oh, about CATO:
"The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization — a think tank – dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace. Its scholars and analysts conduct independent, nonpartisan research on a wide range of policy issues."

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How is Mountaintop removal clean? How is coal mining safe? Ops, that's in China. 19 killed in coal mine accidents in U.S. in 2012. Now how many have been killed by solar, wind, and other alternative energy sources?

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General Electric-designed reactors in Fukushima have 23 sisters in U.S.

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I've never heard "greenies" insist on Sea Salt.

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Do you have actual data to back up how many bats are being killing by wind gennies? I recalled people opposed to wind gennies saying they killed a lot of birds. However studies have shown cats kill more birds than wind generators. The article Do wind turbines kill birds? has a chart of statistics showing how many birds are killed by different things, from cars, wild and feral cats (but not pet cats?), to windows. Some may have a problem with the chart though, out of seven killers of birds 5 of the statistics are provided by the American Wind Energy Association, one by treehugger, and one by American Bird Conservancy. Sciam asks the question Are Wind Turbines Getting More Bird and Bat-Friendly? It partially answers by saying stake holders from AWEA, ABC, and National Audubon are working on ways to reduce bird and bat mortality rates.

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Physics isn't the only science. Agriculture, the study of growing food, is science as well. "Agriculture, also called farming or husbandry, is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel and other products used to sustain human life." There's also biology and medicine. A number of sciences exist to not just keep us alive but to improve our lives. There's even Biophysics.

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Other mass media companies do the same thing, as do advertizing and public relations businesses. They get paid for that.

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The FAA, FCC, OSHA, HUD, and others are not Constitutionally authorized, so abolish them. The Fatherland, er Motherland, oops Homeland Security Agency isn't authorized so dissolve it. The military is authorized, but Constitutionally congress has to fund it on a yearly basis. The USA's Founding Fathers feared a standing army. Eliminating those parts of the federal government that is not Constitutionally authorized, and reducing the size of the military and the government budget can easily be cut in half.

Okay, so the FAA may be constitutional though I don't see how, but then perhaps it belongs as a part of interstate commerce.The FCC is not though. I challenge people to find OSHA in the USA Constitution. Because as James Madison, who largely wrote the Constitution wrote:
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.”

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Investing is precisely what I advocate everybody do. I blame education, or lack thereof, for people's unwillingness to invest. Ariel Community Academy in Chicago does what's right. It is a pre-K to elementary school that teaches students how to invest. However it's reviews have gone downhill since I first learn of it.

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I would love it for the federal government to stop taxing people's income. Tax corporate, and any other form of business that has limited liability, income but not individual income.

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Somalia Vs Free Market

"Why is it that the stupidest talking points also tend to be the most heavily repeated? If I had a dime for every time I heard Somalia used as an example of libertarianism or free-market capitalism, my fortune could possibly rival that of Bill Gates."

"Somalia has no form of government. That means it’s under anarchy. Libertarians and free-market capitalists do want government; they just want to limit its power over the people, especially the market. Therefore, Somalia is not an example of either libertarianism or free-market capitalism."

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I agree about legalized theft by government however there's little hope finding a nation with more freedom than the US. Even with said freedom being whittled away. Look at Singapore, where Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin decided to become a citizen of, renouncing his American Citizenship. It bans chewing gum. Business Insider has an article on How To Travel In Singapore Without Getting Caned.

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