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CONVENIENCE TRUMPS PRIVACY

Convenient communication trumps privacy.  Who would have thought?  It was not too long ago that privacy was a hot topic with the public and the government.  Getting information from the government, or a private corporation about an individual is nearly impossible.  Take Ontario Hydro for instance.  I wanted to know whether my tenant, in my Continue Reading

ENTITLEMENTS

“Entitlements” is a word North Americans will see a lot of in the future.   Nicholas Eberstadt who is an economist and a demographer with the American Enterprise Institue, wrote a booklet entitled “A Nation of Takers:America’s Entitlement Epidemic”.  In 2010 U.S. governments at all levels transferred more than 2.2 trillion in money, goods and services Continue Reading