9 Huge Government Conspiracies That Actually Happened

The Article: 9 Huge Government Conspiracies That Actually Happened by Christina Sterbenz in Business Insider.

The Text: We all know the conspiracy theories — the government’s plan for 911, the second gunman who shot JFK, the evolution of the elite from a race of blood-drinking, shape-shifting lizards.

But the people who spread these ideas usually can’t prove them.

As the years pass, however, secrets surface. Government documents become declassified. We now have evidence of certain elaborate government schemes right here in the U.S. of A.

1. The U.S. Department of the Treasury poisoned alcohol during Prohibition — and people died.

The 18th Amendment, which took effect in January 1920, banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol — but not consumption. Despite the government’s efforts, alcoholism actually skyrocketed during the era.

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How To Get Out Of The Jobs Crisis In Under Two Minutes

Allocate more funds to jobs that boom the economy–not bust it in the longterm.

The Outspoken And Omnipresent Dudes You Love To Hate: College Conservatives

You know the type. You’d like to call them complacent, but that would mean that they had actually achieved something on their own besides making the five-minute drive to class in their father’s Mercedes. As insufferable as Donald Trump, but lacking the professional experience that might begin to justify the inflated sense of self. The characteristically glib condemnations of the “lazy” poor while they have yet to clock any hours in the real world. The college conservative. They’re everywhere.

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How Unions Destroy Their Own

The Article: How The Unions Destroy Their Own — As Viewed By A Life-Long Union Supporter by Rick Ungar in Forbes.

The Text: My connection to the union movement has deep roots—roots planted in my being while growing up in a northeastern Ohio steel town. It was a place and a time where the protections and earning opportunities made possible by the union resulted in an era of middle class creation and social advancement for the many blue collar workers that formed the very heart of Youngstown, Ohio.

Men and women who were willing to work hard on the day or night shift were spurred on by the knowledge that their union was also working hard to insure that the working class would earn not only enough money to care for their families, but would have enough left over at the end of the week to put some aside for the college tuition that would insure that their own kids would not have to spend their life in the steel mills.

While these union workers may have been toiling away in manual labor jobs that required more brawn than brain, they were anything but stupid—and their union leaders clearly understood this. So much was this the case that, to this day, I swear that I learned far, far more from the men and women I encountered working in the steel mills during my summer breaks from college than I ever learned inside a classroom.

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Cap And Trade: A Carbon Scam

In short: you can’t solve a problem by using the same tools, actors and thinking that created it.