[fRtF] 8/19 - Easier Than You Think

Thought of the Day:

"In the US we can buy a hamburger for 79 cents [$1 now]. If the American taxpayer was not involved in subsidizing the beef industry, the same hamburger would cost over $12. Meat in America today would cost $48 a pound if it were not for the American taxpayers subsidizing the grain, the irrigation water, the electricity, the grazing on public lands. How many people --even in America-- would go and spend that amount of money on meat if it wasn't subsidized? We can't afford roads, or schools, or health care, and yet we are paying $11.21 for every $12 of something that is helping kill one out of every two Americans today."
- Howard Lyman, Rancher turned Vegan, 1996

Easier Than You Think
http://www.ReasonToFreedom.com/Easier_Than_You_Think.html
Easier Than You Think, by Richard Carlson, offers simple advice for dealing with the complexities of modern life. Carlson is helpful to those of us fighting the good fight for reason and freedom, people in the RLM (reason-liberty movement). And he's helpful to people sitting on the sidelines simply trying to live their lives in ordinary peace and benevolence.

- The Way-Back Machine -
Double Tax Toll Roads, Conflicts and Bankruptcies
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/Toll_Roads_Conflicts_Bankruptcies.html
The opposition to the Austin Toll Road mess starts spilling the beans and reveals some more of who's "getting the money" for screwing the taxpayers.

- Two Previous Weeks -
Reason 101, Pillar 10: Freedom
http://www.ReasonToFreedom.com/Reason_101_P10.html
Reason's tenth pillar. A practical common sense description of what it takes to be a person of reason and what such a practical philosophy promises for the future.

Hotel Rwanda
http://www.ReasonToFreedom.com/Hotel_Rwanda.html
Hotel Rwanda is a gripping, moving story of an ordinary man's struggle against extraordinary evil. It's a true story, a relatively simple story, and a story that haunts you long after the credits scroll by.