“They took our jobs!!!”  This is the mantra that the creators of South Park have so endearingly given to middle class America.  However, despite their malicious intent, they may have stumbled across something.  Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the new economic data for the month of June and the http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-08/u-s-payroll

          Claude Frédéric Bastiat was a nineteenth century French political and economic philosopher who warned the people in his writings about the dangers of the abuse of law and the nature of government.  Bastiat states that the law should be established only to protect a citizen’s life, liberty, and property.  Furthermore he w

          Thomas Hobbes, a seventeenth century political philosopher, advocated in his famous work Leviathan that the fundamental role of government is to protect its citizens.  A fine goal to be certain but where does one draw the line for what is acceptable protection and what is unnecessary?  It has become more and more evident that the current systems in place unnecessarily restrict our liberties more than offer us any real protection.  The United States Department of Agriculture is just one example of one of those unnecessary

          Claude Frédéric Bastiat was a nineteenth century French political and economic philosopher.  In his famous work titled That Which is Seen and That Which is Unseen, Bastiat sets up the parable of the broken window.  The lesson of the parable is that the destruction of capital only hurts economic growth instead of he