Expectation of Privacy on a public street, who are you kidding, Unless it's peeking through the curtains its no different than a cop on everycorner. Or if we were in another country a citizen informant...

Back in early July the leaders of India, China, Brazil and Russia, ones whose governments are some of the world's largest dollar holders -- jointly declared the need for a "more diversified international monetary system," sparking a drop in the greenback on world markets. One of the outcomes of this meeting has been for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to position itself to "print" $300 billion worth of Special Drawing Rights ("SDR's"), 10 times more than currently exist today, for distribution to various nations around the globe. These SDR's be held as reserve deposits by each nation's central bank effectively in place of US dollars.
Many have argued the SDRs' role should be widened to serve as the world's de facto reserve currency. This would allow nations such as China to "trade in" their US dollars for SDRs, effectively allowing for a transition away from the greenback, alledgedly without causing a sharp fluctuation in the dollar's value. That last bit is hard to believe for some of us.
Today we are at the mercy of an administration that is using the power of the Federal Reserve to print money in a misguided effort to stimulate credit / lending. This is going to result in stagflation, the combination of a stagnating economy / high unemployment and high inflation. Because of the massive flooding of the money supply it may well be far worse than the kind of mess we experienced as a result of Carter's misguided policies in the late 70's where unemployment peaked at just over 9.5%, inflation topped out at 13.5% and interest rates hit 21% by the early 80's.

The Obamessiah and his financial team have landed on the answer that classical Keynesian economics will somehow work today. Just flood the economy with liquidity (ie. print massive amounts of new money) and somehow new found credit will spark the contracting economy into action and offset those nasty old rising high unemployment stats. Given the Fed's printing press is running at full speed its hard to imagine that the use of SDR's will somehow not cause a serious drop in the value of the dollar and resultant high interest rates here in the US.

After ~ 25 years of "Reaganomics" as the interim solution that worked well until misguided / compassionate and corrupt government regulation (think Carter's "compassionate" CRA, and Barney Frank / Chris Dodd effectively controlling Fannie and Freddie Mae here) "gummed up the works".

Now Keynesian economics is coming back again, and this initiatives coming from around the world turning against the dollar as the defacto global reserve currency. Stagflation and skyrocketing interest rates will be the result for our profligate federal spending which is now ~ 170+% of tax receipts. Like this is sustainable in anything other than the “Bizarro World” of Obama and his delusional economic team?

"Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
...P.J. O'Rourke - writer / satirist

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Just more proof that Boortz is not the libertarian mind that he claims to be. This is a clear violation of privacy, but I guess he wouldn't mind living in a panopticon. As long as it catches more criminals, right?

There is a community here in Orlando that has a set of cameras installed, just that there is nothing in the camera cases.

My problem is that a camera is always vigilant. It records everything in its view. A person (cop) will not be able to go back in time and see how many time I drove into McDonald's, how long I stayed, or even who else goes there the same time I do. Unless I am under survailinace for doing something already. We all do things wrong in public, yes we do. Instead of having a person on the corner, one person can be on 20 corners. An old saying - if are looking for trouble, will will find it.
Nevermind, as long as they can give tickets to those smokers that throw there butts everywhere, I'll give up all my aninimity. "FOR THE GREATER GOOD"

Boortz doesn't have a problem with Big Brother watching. He didn't have a problem with government performing warrantless wiretaps (even though it was illegal) or with NSA spying on US citizens in the US (even though THAT was illegal too).

Boortz thinks we all belong to the government & shouldn't mind them monitoring our every move.

Camera surveilance already exists in a big way in America and it is only being expanded. This new product from Microsoft called Project Natal that is coming out soon is a window right into your living room. The funny thing is that people WANT to have this. Sure it is very cool, but I must remind you that this device not only video records you, but it can also RECOGNIZE the faces of up to four people in the room at once. Did you hear what I said? Microsoft is putting out technology that goes in your living room and it WATCHES you and your family. All I can say is you better read the Privacy Agreement before you turn that badboy on. You may be giving big brother a window into your home and the ability to recognize your face. NOW THAT is scary.

i would get my expert sharpshooter badge if they were brought to my city

I base my judgement of cameras like this on whether they are merely taking the place of an able bodied individual. A red light cam takes the place of a cop standing on the corner. A traffic cam takes the place of a manned cruiser. I draw the line at cameras that could see inside things (heat or IR sensing). And I'd mush rather have qualified laymen watching than a government entity.

Looks like the republicans in this town are a little TOO into the Patriot Act

Maybe citizens who are against this policy should buy cameras and have them placed on private property pointing to the members' of Lancaster Safety Coalition homes.

Who is watching the watchers?

I wonder what their response would be.

You number 86 work harder touch your toes.

Not to be feared Boortz is absolutely correct what would be the difference between these cameras and putting a cop on every corner...