America's Richest Counties; Reliance on Government Spending

Map of Virginia highlighting Loudoun County (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

America’s Richest Counties on Forbes

When Scott York first showed up in Loudoun County more than two decades ago, he found a rural patch of northern Virginia with 80,000 residents and 300 dairy farms. Today, there are 320,000 residents and only one remaining dairy in Loudoun County, which has become the richest county in the nation.

In short, as the article at Forbes continues, it practically congratulates Loudoun County building it's own economy on the unreliable. Especially concerning its closeness to Washington D.C. Which is what Scott York acknowledges.

Yes, it can be considered something of a 'great achievement'. Yet the tone used, that he came upon this semi-rural area of Northern Virginia and has seen it turned it into a modern, affluent community isn't as great as it seems. Going from 300 dairy farms to only one in the county isn't something to brag about. Wiping out practicality and local production for less geographically-important "production" for modernity isn't, fully, a great decision. Sure, it brings in the dollars but what happens when reliance on government spending, even indirect reliance, falls out?

Even worse, what if the government looks to economic 'grabs' to recollect on and pull themselves up. For they will see the receivers of windfall from the government as the ones who should first put funds forth to financially help them out. All in all, Loudoun County's riches aren't that remarkable given a fuller, potential picture.

When the government stops spending, the county stops thriving. Basing most of your local economic "boom" on one thing, sort of like putting all your eggs in one basket, isn't a good idea at all. Things like this is why the federal government hasn't, for a long while, represented ordinary Americans. And i doubt the lower middle class and poor feel much of the so-called riches in Loudoun County, Virginia either.

The Economic Collapse: Large Cities All Over America Are Degenerating Into Gang-Infested War Zones

Large Cities All Over America Are Degenerating Into Gang-Infested War Zones

Large U.S. cities that the rest of the world used to look at in envy are now being transformed into gang-infested hellholes with skyrocketing crime rates.  Cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Camden, East St. Louis, New Orleans and Oakland were once bustling with economic activity, but as industry has fled those communities poverty has exploded [...]

Egyptian Magazine, Rose al-Yūsuf, Claims Muslim Brotherhood “Infiltrated” Obama Administration

Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration

An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy. The Dec. 22 story published in Egypt's Rose El-Youssef magazine.

While what any pro-Government news outlet, from any country, says should be taken with a grain of salt, this is definitely something interesting to look at and into. While we have plenty of groups crying about the separation of religion and state in this nation they're surely being pretty silent over allegations like these, against the Obama administration, coming out every few months. Regardless, we know the majority white, liberal politicians won't ask questions about the Obama administration. They don't want to be called out for their typical racism, as is the heritage of the Democratic party.

Yet, it goes further than that. The media is in their pocket so much that they won't even ask the challenging questions involving this administration. They won't even criticize the bumbling, gaffe-y Joe Biden.

Obama Administrations Gives NHTSA Enforcement Authority of Mandatory Black Boxes in New Vehicles

Another spit in the face of privacy in this country. The Obama administration has granted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration the 'right' to make black boxes mandatory in all new cars built in the United States. Which, it's said, will be policy in full effect by September 2014. Expectedly, the black boxes they will be able to record plenty of information about vehicle operation.What will be recorded is, as outlined on Occupy Corporatism, includes:

• vehicle speed
• whether the brake was activated in the moments before a crash
• crash forces at the moment of impact
• information about the state of the engine throttle
• air bag deployment timing and air bag readiness prior to the crash
• whether the vehicle occupant's seat belt was buckled

While this may seem all good and well in figuring out the causes of vehicle crashes, after they happened, in an attempt to reduce vehicle accidents there is the likely potential for the information to be gathered outside of such events. Actually, you can be sure the government will use this new "authority" as a Trojan Horse to mandate surveillance in all vehicles as time passes. What's about "safety" today will be about audio and video monitoring in the future. This sort of a creeping surveillance state of sorts needs to be resisted.

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Wired: U.S. Attack on Iran Would Take Hundreds of Planes, Ships, and Missiles

English: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Should the U.S. actually take Benjamin Netanyahu’s advice and attack Iran, don’t expect a few sorties flown by a couple of fighter jocks. Setting back Iran’s nuclear efforts will need to be an all-out effort, with squadrons of bombers and fighter jets, teams of commandos, rings of interceptor missiles and whole Navy carrier strike groups — plus enough drones, surveillance gear, tanker aircraft and logistical support to make such a massive mission go. And all of it, at best, would buy the U.S. and Israel another decade of a nuke-free Iran.


U.S. Attack on Iran Would Take Hundreds of Planes, Ships, and Missiles


Since i know very little about Iran's defensive capabilities (and only average knowledge of our offensive capabilities) i won't be leaving any commentary on this. But this article above, from Wired, is an interesting read nonetheless.