: About Me

I'm a computer programmer who has been writing as an "aspiring statesman" off and on for over ten years now. Up to now, it has only been a hobby, so it has been more "off" than "on". However, if my writing could pay a few bills, then I'll put more effort into it (at least until I find higher paying work in web design or data analysis again).

My passion is ...

Liberty

I know too much about ...

Beer

My parents always told me ...

That I'd have difficulty getting along with people if I insisted on what's right

My childhood ambition ...

Become a chemist or physicist

My favorite memory ...

Disneyland

Why I write ...

Because I care; I want others to see the epiphanies

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Thomas Sowell, Science News, and (with several grains of salt) Glen Beck

My first job ...

Clerk, sorting and filing paper (lots of paper)

My best moment ...

Having my homebrew selected to be brewed by Widmer

My inspiration ...

Martin Luther, who started with 95 simple statements nailed to a door

Politics, News & Issues > US Economy Should eliminating federal deficits be a priority of the U.S. government?

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Deficit spending is to the economy what cocaine is to the brain. It initially feels good, but it hasn't actually created any new resources. Instead, it has wasted resources that should have been saved. With cocaine, the resource is dopamine. Re-uptake is inhibited, so one feels dopamine more... until it is lost. Then one needs even more cocaine just to feel normal. The brain "habituates". As long as the user can get ever larger doses, s/he will be in denial about the inevitable slide toward bottom. S/he may claim that cocaine provides a net benefit. "Bottoming out" is when there's no dopam...

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