How many police cases are solved in the U.S.?

How many police cases are solved in the U.S.?

30.5% of police cases are solved in the U.S.

Its citizens wait an average of 11 minutes for the police to respond to their calls.

What is the difference between Detroit and U.S.?

What is the difference between Detroit and U.S.?

Detroit debt is 18 billions.

Each citizen's share of this debt is $25,714.28

U.S. debt is 16,742 billions.

Each citizen's share of this debt is $52,931.56.

Detroit filed for bankruptcy on Jul 18, 2013.

How the government annoys you.

How the government annoys you


The government steals you regularly and increasingly.

The government prints money regularly and increasingly making you poorer.

The government chooses winners and losers.

The government spies, controls and manipulates you.

The government takes away your freedom.

The government makes itself bigger and bigger.

The government tries to dictate what you have to do.

Fascination with something

Fascination with something motivates a desire to be part of it and loves everything about it.

It creates a comfort zone, the place you know.

How to dismantle an organization not organized under a single leader?

How to dismantle an organization not organized under a single leader?

Organizing  groups of people to achieve  different goals.

Debilitate any formal authority and interactions.

Create new situations and tasks.

Equip the organization with new methods.

Spread negative reinforcement.

Is a Fair Trial Justice?

Is a  Fair Trial Justice?


Justice is a concept involving the fair, moral, and impartial treatment of all persons.

A jury is intended to be an impartial  panel capable of reaching a verdict.

 A fair trial is a legal and ethical concept  that's used to describe the procedural rules  of a court.

The chief purpose of a trial is to secure  fair and impartial administration of justice  between the parties to the action.

The Justice Department budget per employee.

The Justice Department budget per employee.

The Justice Department said it would weigh whether to file federal criminal charges against George Zimmerman.

A jury of six women found George Zimmerman not guilty.

Legal experts say "in a not guilty verdict, this is the end".

The U.S President says America is a “nation of laws, and a jury has spoken”.

The Justice Department had 111,993 employees in 2010 and    $27.1 billion budget in 2013.
$241,979 per employee.

How Many Workers Does the Army Corps of Engineers Have ?

How Many Workers Does the Army Corps of Engineers Have ?


The Army Corps has about 37,000 civilians and soldiers delivering engineering services all over the world.

They deliver public engineering services from disaster mitigation and response to reducing environmental degradation of public works projects. 

They have a tendency to get sued a lot.

New Jobs Available in Government

New Jobs Available in Government:

Moles to find whistle-blowers

Abilities specific to this particular job:

Moles must push information they have excavated  from their  deep runways into the shallow offices.

How government works

How government works

Government keeps power in the hands of unaccountable staff.

A staff who ignores the law and doesn't report unlawful conduct to law enforcement.

Government defends staff supremacy to keep the public completely in the dark.

The difference between the individual liberty and a government-led social justice.

The difference between the individual liberty and a government-led social justice.

A government-led social justice is a complexity of requirements expanding  outward, too big to avoid endangering the public and a collapsing constellation of  massive and drifting bureaucracies.

The individual liberty is the act of making  choices free from external restraint and outside of governmental control .

Why the Fed will not end its $85 billion-per-month bond-buying.

Why the Fed will not end its $85 billion-per-month bond-buying.

 The Fed buys bonds previously sold by the  U.S. Treasury to “members of the public”  (to some extent to individuals, but mostly  to financial firms, in the United States and  abroad) and to the central banks of other countries.

The government will need to borrow more,  and the U.S. Treasury will need to   sell more bonds.

Why does Wyoming has the smallest share of its population on food stamps — 7% - and registered double-digit year-over-year jump in use?

Population, 2012 estimate     576,412   
High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25+, 2007-2011     91.9%
Home-ownership rate, 2007-2011     70.5%
Housing units in multi-unit structures, percent, 2007-2011     15.7%
Median household income, 2007-2011     $56,380
Persons below poverty level, percent, 2007-2011     10.1%   
Land area in square miles, 2010     97,093.14   
Women-owned firms, percent, 2007     25.5%   

What is the difference between an average student and a gifted student?

What is the difference between an average student and a gifted student?

An average student will not expect that even if she/he works hard, she/he still won’t do well.

A gifted student knows that if she/he works hard, she/he will do extraordinary well.

Why a plane crashes on landing

Why a plane crashes on landing:

The landing gear gets stuck.

The plane lands  on its belly.

Faulty landing gear

The plane overshot the runway

Landing on heavy wind.

An emergency landing.

Plane skidded past the landing strip.

Trim the plane for maximum glide.

Pilot inexperience and excessive speed.

Landing gear failed to deploy.

The engine stopped working.

Attempting to land during a rainstorm.

Aborted  landing.

Attempting landing without gear.

Electronic interference and airplane dysfunction

The best ways to survive a plane crash is to  choose the right seat to avoiding smoke inhalation.

 A look at real-world crash stats, however, suggests  that the farther back you sit, the better your odds of survival. Passengers near the tail of a plane are about 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows up front.

The New American Job

The New American Job:

The part-time job.

The number of workers employed part-time because they couldn’t find a full-time job increased by a seasonally adjusted 322,000 last month.

What is a  part-time job? :

 The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does  not define full-time employment or  part-time employment

A new way of governing

The selective enforcement of laws.

The government delays the insurance mandate for  businesses, though not for individuals,  of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

The government  rewrites via regulation the laws it dislikes.

The Law Against Free Market

The Law Against Free Market

Tesla has won lawsuits in several states giving it the right to sell its cars directly to customers.

But Virginia recently slapped down Tesla’s attempt to sell its electric Model S directly to customers.

Automobile dealers associations have been trying  to prevent Tesla Motors from opening its own
dealerships.

Tesla is banned from opening dealerships in Virginia.

The law is restrictive and  intends to prevent large car manufactuers from  selling directly to customers.

The car-dealer lobby has worked hard to  ensure that  You Can't Buy a New Car Online.

Since the late 1990s, car dealers have used their  considerable political clout to pass or better
 enforce state franchise laws that in many cases  make it a criminal offense for an auto manufacturer  to sell a new car to anyone but a state-licensed  car dealer.

The Privilege of Large Employers

The Privilege of Large Employers:

The Obama administration said it is delaying penalties for large employers who don't provide  health insurance coverage to workers under  the federal health-care law for 2014.

If You Are Self-Employed You Are Required to  Have Health Insurance or  Pay a Penalty.

Number of employees of EPA

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has 17,359 employees  (2011) and a budget of $8.682 billion (2011), $500,144 per employee.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China (MEP) was set up in March 2008 with  two Chief Engineers one Minister , five Vice Ministers and one Member of the Leading Party Group of MEP,

The modern "global middle class”

The modern "global middle class”, status defined by education or simply in monetary terms, is engaging in political activism to save  its economic self-interest as in the past the French, Bolshevik and Chinese Revolutions did .

The modern "global middle class” knows that the only way to save its status is being the “new part” of the “new big government”, an ineffective, unresponsive  and corrupt "system".

How Lobbying Spenders Make a Law

U.S. Senate passed a giant, 1,200 page immigration bill.

The Senate bill provides $50 billion for border security measures.

Boeing and a team of companies including L-3 Communications and
L-3 Government Services, Washington D.C.; Unisys, Reston, Va.;
Perot Systems, Plano, Texas; Kollsman Inc., Merrimack, N.H.; and
DRS Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, Palm Bay, Fla.,
have formally placed a bid.


Boeing Is Top Lobbying Spenders In Washington.
Boeing spokeswoman Susan Bradley says the company recently decided to re-engage with the Washington legislature on issues of what she calls “business competitiveness.”


Total Lobbying Expenditures
    for Parent L-3 Communications in 2010: $4,930,000

Total Lobbying Expenditures
    for Parent Unisys Corp: $906,349

Total Lobbying Expenditures
    for Parent Perot Systems in 2006: $247,713

DRS Technologies announced on September 25 that it has been selected to be a member of the Boeing Company SBInet team.
The work will be performed by DRS Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group of Palm Bay, Fla.

The new enemy of the Government

Bitcoin is the new enemy of the Government.

Banking regulators in California, New York and Virginia in recent weeks have issued warnings to virtual-currency exchanges and other companies that deal with bitcoin that they could be closed down if their activities run afoul of state money-transmission laws.

The US Treasury will insist that virtual currencies comply with anti-money-laundering laws.

US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issues guidance on virtual currencies, suggesting Bitcoin
exchanges are in for greater scrutiny.

FinCEN’s reg ulations define currency (also referred to as “real” currency) as “the coin and paper money of the United States or of any other country that [i] is designated as legal tender and that [ii] circulates and [iii] is customarily used and accepted as a medium of exchange in the
country of issuance.” 

In contrast to real currency, “virtual” currency is a medium of exchange that operates like a currency in some environments, but does not have all the attributes of real currency. In particular, virtual currency does not have legal tender status in any jurisdiction.

This guidance addresses “convertible” virtual currency. This type of virtual currency either has an equivalent value in real currency, or acts as a substitute for real currency.

Why every quarter U.S. GDP Growth Is Revised Down?

Why every quarter U.S. GDP Growth Is Revised Down?

Because downward revisions are more common than upward revisions. 

Because consumer spending is  more than two-thirds of the U.S. economy  and government controls about 40 percent of consumer spending.

Why entitlements will not fail?

Why entitlements will not fail?

Because everybody feels that we have a right or a claim to something.

Because they are payments made directly to individuals.

Because the federal government wants to be legally obligated to make payments.

Because they make up the major part of the federal budget.

Because the government assistance to individuals is mandated by law and by need.

Because everybody wants the right to a particular privilege.

Because an individual qualifies simply by virtue of his or her circumstances.

Because the mayority of the people does not believe the idea that everything  should be obtained through effort.

Why America is not Europe?

Why America is not Europe?

Because America has CME Group Inc. (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), the world's largest futures exchange company; the world's leading and most diverse  derivatives marketplace; the place  where the world comes to manage risk.

Why central banks cannot stabilize financial markets?

Overburdened central banks cannot stabilize financial markets without governments reforming economies and banking systems.

Central banks are out of control, they have persistent policy problems; they do not have the independence to determine the best way of achieving its policy goals; they cannot solve economic problems; they are unable and unwilling of dealing with a bubble economy.

Why Mt.Gox, the world's largest bitcoin trading exchange, has halted withdrawals of customer funds in U.S. dollars?

Why Mt.Gox, the world's largest bitcoin trading exchange,  has halted withdrawals of customer  funds in U.S. dollars?

Because the Tokyo-based exchange is the only FED concern nowadays.

Life's greatest pleasure?

 Life's greatest pleasure?

Rowing (sport)

What makes you average American ?

What makes you average American ?

To land in the middle quintile – where you are richer  than 2 out of 5 households but poorer than 2 out 5 households – requires  an income of between $34,738 and $55,330. 

That – and that only – is the average American family. 

You are only “average” if you have pre-tax income of between  $2,894.83 and $4,335.75 per month.

Anything below this and you are below average. 

Anything above this and you are above average.

The war between government and technology.

The war between government and technology.

The Texas state government has banned drones for most private use.

The state of North Carolina is considering a ban on  direct sales of Tesla vehicles.

The state of New York considers Airbnb illegal

Ride-sharing startups like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar  face constant threats and hurdles as they  expand outside of the Bay Area.

 Bitcoin,  suffered a recent Fed crackdown as the most active exchange  for the popular crypto-currency.

The ways things are going, 3-D printers will be  banned because some fanatic will hack software that lets him print a 3-D gun.

There is no bigger menace for a human being than when government goes to work.

There is no bigger menace for a human being than when government goes to work.

Oversight and accountability are unknown words  for goverment.

Government is extreme.

The U.S. government is really spying on American  citizens.

Bad guys and terrorism were always the excuses of totalitarians to harm, harass or invade the liberties of individuals.

How many spies the U.S. Government has?

How many spies the U.S.  Government has?

3 million.

The official intelligence agencies in the U.S are:

• Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Independent agencies
o Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• United States Department of Defense
o Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
o National Security Agency (NSA)
o National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
o National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
o Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency (AFISRA)
o Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM)
o Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA)
o Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
• United States Department of Energy
o Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI)
• United States Department of Homeland Security
o Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)
o Coast Guard Intelligence (CGI)
• United States Department of Justice
o Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
o Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of National Security Intelligence (DEA/ONSI)
• United States Department of State
o Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)
• United States Department of the Treasury
o Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI)[7]


The three biggest employers are

CIA = 135,000e employees

FBI = 30,485 employees

NSA= 30,000 employees

The rest of the intelligence agencies have around 500,000 employees.

Total amount of official spies in the US is around: 700,000

This number is three time bigger if we account spies outside the U.S. and independent contractors spies.

Total number spies the U.S.  Government has:  it is around 3 million.

Freedom literacy

Freedom literacy is a new skill we need to live in this new world of individual  responsibility and Government's collection of  electronic data

 Very few countries have taken the initiative  to improve freedom literacy and capability.

If you don’t do that, this is not something  that grows with you or that people acquire by  their daily lives.

Recording everything you do, forces you to be aware of where your go and what  you do.

The more we focus on our freedom and are conscious  of it, the more likely we will not take it  for granted.

How to limit inefficient government bureaucracy, tax rates and tax regulations?

How to limit inefficient government bureaucracy, tax rates and tax regulations?

Place a civil servant a congressman and a senator in a dreary office rented by them and tell them to run a business for a year.

What is the main difference between Europe and America?

What is the main difference between Europe and America?

The location of the financial assets.

Banks dominate finance in Europe, especially in the struggling south.

Some 85% of financial assets  in Italy, 87% in Spain and 96% in Greece are held by banks and other credit institutions, compared with less than 30% in the U.S. So when the banks don't lend, European economies can't grow.

Even if U.S. banks are struggling, U.S. companies can raise funds from the markets.

When fiscal and monetary policies do not work.

When fiscal and monetary policies do not work.


No matter how many quantitative easing programs  you can use.

In 2006, 63.4% of the American working-age population was employed. That percentage declined to a
low of 58.2% in July 2011 and now stands at 58.6%.

Freedom and security never matched

Freedom and security never matched

According to the US Government:

Every time  Americans makes a call, the US Government  gets a record of the location, the number called, the  time of the call and the length of the conversation.

Every time  Americans send and email or visit a website the US Government gets a record of it.

Every time  Americans pay with a credit card the US Government  gets a record of it.

Every time  Americans create information the US Government "maps" individuals connected  with that information.

The US Government surveillance of people is breathtaking.

 Is the US Government out of control?

Why poverty in America is concentrated most heavily in the mid-western states and old industrial north east?

Why poverty in America is concentrated most heavily in the  mid-western states and old industrial north east?

Because few rural areas are experiencing population growth

According to the Department of Agriculture 15 per cent of the US population spread across 72 per cent of its land area and those aged 65 and over account for 15 per cent of  the rural population but 12 per cent of population  nationally.

Economics is not a highly sophisticated field of thought.

Economics is not a highly sophisticated field  of thought.

You don't need to be an economist to know  what was wrong in the past.

And about the future, careful economic analysis  and data are unable to kill personal interest and ideology at time of making tough choices.

Another victim of Fed exporting inflation overseas:

Another victim of Fed  exporting inflation overseas:

Turkey

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
9.1% (2012 est.)

SOURCE: 2013 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

Another typical effect:

Antigovernment protests spread as more than  100,000 people took to the streets across Turkey.

Every government knows that the only way they do anything is the way they've always been doing it:

Every government knows that the only way they do anything is the way they've always been doing it: proposing to expand its reach into  the existence of a massive government.

Personal income in U.S. in March 2013

Personal income is an individual’s total earnings from wages, investment interest, and other sources.

Disposable income is total personal income minus personal current taxes.

In March 2013, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

Personal income  was:               
$49,584.00   

and

Disposable personal income (DPI)   
 $33,216.00

How many hedge funds are in the U.S.?

Hedge-fund databases, BarclayHedge  contains 4996 hedge funds and 24376 Funds (hedge funds + Fund of Fund) .

Morningstar’s hedge fund database contains data on 7,000 actively reporting funds from more than 3,700 managers. Additionally, Morningstar offers historical information on more than 12,000 dead hedge funds.

One man alone means everything

One man alone means everything

IRS employees ratios compared with Germany

IRS employees ratios compared with Germany

The IRS has 93,337  employees.
According to the IRS 2009 Data Book.

United States of America - population:

311,591,917 (2011)

One IRS employee for 3,338 Americans

Germany - population

81,726,000 (2011)

The German IRS, the BZSt, has 1,400 employees
According to the Bundesministerium der Finanzen 2006 Data Book.

One BZSt (IRS German equivalent) employee for 5,837 Germans.

Number of self-employed in US

In 2009, 15.3 million individuals in the U.S. were self-employed, including both those who had incorporated their businesses and those who had not.

The self- employment rate, was 10.9 percent, rate at a four-year low.

In 2010, 11.5 percent of immigrants in the U.S. were self-employed, rate at four-year high.

This country can accomplish great things if we pursue our own individual ambition.

Government is a separate, sinister entity that is  the root of all our problems.

Democracy is working as well as we know it can.

Individual ambition is as a virtue.

We can do big and important things alone.

This country can accomplish great things if  we pursue our own individual ambition.

How the government can help the poor

Do not make the poor a government employee

Do not invest in government employees

Do not place barriers to entry in any market

Do not make war on success

Do not help to the entrepreneurs

Do not grease the wheels of financing

Do not increase access to government contracting

Do not try to fix the economy

Do not try to move the economy

How much money has Apple in China?

According to the Apple earnings call, the company had a whopping $137 billion dollars in cash at the end of December.

 About two-thirds of that money, "about $91 billion," was "offshore" at the end of December, according to Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer.

 Apple employs 43,000 people in the United States and 20,000 overseas,