The Johnsonville Press Daily Edition
Today’s Submission by: Mike Stuzynski
1.  Suggestion of the Day:  Learn how something works by taking it apart and putting it back together.  This tests not only your curiosity and knowhow, but also your ballsiness.  Anyone can dismantle a Bic pen—you can’t figure out how to put it back you just throw it out.  Go ahead; try it on your X-Box.  It’ll be funny.
2.  Quote of the Day:  “Gentle reader, we see God through our assholes in the flash bulb of orgasm.”  –William S. Burroughs
3.  Random Fact …

The Popular Capitalist View

A key part of the Popular Capitalist program is to reduce the cost of living. A lower cost of providing the necessities puts the rudimentary task of paying the cost of sovereignty more easily within the reach of the political economies of regions with modest resources. This allows those political economies and thus most political economies to offer its citizens opportunities to reach beyond mere survival and build capital that will benefit their communities for years to come. Also, a lower cost of the living beyond survival makes those efforts at building capital more attainable.

Draine on Society

There are two forms of government economic policy: monetary and fiscal. Monetary policy is conducted by a central bank, or the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States, while fiscal policy is conducted by the Department of the Treasury and the Legislative Branch. This article will examine both forms and evaluate their relative effectiveness in promoting economic activity and growth in times of recession.

When I received my absentee ballot to vote in the special election to replace the late great Ted Kennedy, I felt an immeasurable disappointment with the names I saw on it. The choices, as I saw them, were these: a giant douche, a cold-hearted woman, a babbling hypocrite and a space for me to waste my vote. To be honest, no candidate on the ballot seemed capable of filling the position. Over the course of several days I deliberated and resolved that I simply could not make a decision. And …

Local Group Urges Senate to Vote Down S-3157
Today, the State Senators of New Jersey are being asked to vote on S-3157. If signed into law, it would extend the time citizens must wait between submitting petitions for charter changes from 4 years to 10 years.  This is unreasonable, undemocratic, and harmful overall to civic engagement, and we are asking our State Senators to vote against this measure.

On Tuesday October 20th I stood in a line for forty-five minutes to see Bill Clinton speak on behalf on Governor Jon Corzine. The line, of which I was a part, began at the College Avenue Gymnasium and wrapped all the way around Bartlett Street to Sicard Street behind the Student Center and across from the locally famous bar, “The Olive Branch”. And so, after forty five minutes of patiently waiting to be let in to this Corzine/Clinton rally, I finally reached a spot on College Avenue where I …

Gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett’s belief that imposing a sales tax upon services can automatically facilitate the reduction of property taxes is fundamentally flawed as it incorrectly assumes that consumers will continue to spend on those services at the same rate after these sales tax increases are implemented. Imposing a sales tax on services would ultimately result in consumers spending less on these services in New Jersey thereby increasing the probability that New Jersey consumers will either stray to neighboring states to pay for these services or will simply not utilize …

The Popular Capitalist View

The election of the next New Jersey Governor is fast upon us with only one real issue being addressed, that of property taxes and the public education system which it currently funds.  Each of the three major candidates – and by “major” I mean that they are on the ballot and on television – has taken up a predictable strategic position on this issue.

I am blessed to live in Stonier Hall on College Ave my first semester. Across the way from Brower, across the street from the student center, it is in the center of everything. And at this moment in time, I am typing in the midst of an 12 hour party on the Brower steps, a rock concert/voter registration fest with the tired title, “Rock the Vote.” As the Rutgers Democrats and Libertarians and a whole slew of other organizations are handing out treats and strange “commemorative” posters of the President …

A Timid Observer
It’s quite amazing to see, especially nowadays in our current political climate, how easily people take very vital thing for granted.  I’m talking specifically about government.
It seems that a good number of Americans don’t understand anything about government, nor how broadly dependent they are on it, even while saying things like “Keep your government hands off of my Medicare!”