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We've been back to the barricades ever since, making the principled and documented case against bailout/stimulus economics and the numerical fictions they require, while also pointing to unaddressed economic nightmares long before the rest of the country caught wise.

I just spent five minutes on Fox Business Channel talking about the pension skullduggery of public sector unions and the politicians they elect. Do you remember who was talking about such obscure concepts long before Chris Christie became a household name?

Why just today there was fresh news about efforts to roll back a totally underreported government perk that was featured in the story above: The ability of public sector works to skip out on paying their traffic tickets in California. Since lawmakers still haven't come to the grips with the fact that we are out of money, such rules remain stubbornly in place, requiring eternal vigilance hopefully leavened by cruel and/or sophomoric humor.

Though Recovery Summer has been the most prominent of the green-shoots B.S. campaigns by the current administration, the White House has been telling us that happy days are here again since not long after Obama took office. And we've been there to throw cold fundamentals on the vaporware.

It ain't personal, it ain't about pre-post-colonial mindsets, it's about how Keynesian economics does not work no matter which smartypants is pulling the levers. We have some fundamental structural policy problems that are limiting our prosperity and freedom, and we want to have an honest, fact-rich conversation about that. In 3-D. With knives.

Look, people, we are NOWHERE NEAR our target of 1,000 donors for this week-long pledge drive. Seriously, flow 25 clams this way, that'll help loads. Everything you need to know about giving is at this link. Your money allows us to do journalism, and get out into the public square talking our crazy talk. Give more, get more. Give less … [shudders].