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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-11 05:10 PM
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NH is burdened by a plague of locusts called Free Staters.
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/10/jason-sorens/leveraging-institutional-change/

When they finish us off - they're coming for you.

Sorens, the figure head, says...
“The ‘collective action problem’ helps to explain why only narrow interests will successfully organize and achieve policy victories, and why these will come at the expense of the citizenry. Interest groups can achieve these victories only because voters are deeply, irremediably ignorant of philosophy, politics, economics, and public policy. Trying to educate voters is hopeless because they lack the proper incentives to learn and employ political knowledge.”


This is the man who came to gloat yesterday in the capital of my state - the Koch brothers now own NH.

Read up...
http://ilene.typepad.com/ourfavorites/2010/10/the-koch-empire-and-americans-for-prosperity.html
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