LIBERTY: NJ Sales Tax increase was unneeded!

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

How about recognizing that government is the only entity that can “provide a service” that an individual doesn’t want and then force everyone to pay for it? The logical extension is that if you have to FORCE people to pay for something then that probably is NOT a good idea. The next realization is that people should be allowed to CHOOSE peacefully and without coercion those services that they want and those that they don’t. They can then pay for those used.

If MickyD’s said “everyone has to buy soda”, then my wife who doesn’t like their soda, wouldn’t shop there and they’d suffer. But, if it was the government, she had to pay for that soda even when she wouldn’t drink it.

It’s all about FORCE. The government will kill you if you don’t go along with it. Try not paying your taxes or not showing up for a speeding ticket.

We DO NOT have to pay taxes. We can pay for the services we use and NOT pay for the one’s we don’t want.

We DON’T have to give up local control. I can choose Burger King, McDonalds, or Theo’s to get a hamburger. Is there duplication? Yes. But, I am not FORCED to subsidize the joint that I don’t like.

If this was a private enterprise supplying a valuable service, the employees could take the service “private”. It happens on Wall Street, Information Technology, Drugs, and the Internet all the time. They may lose a job and find a career!

Pensions. Guess the judges and politicans will not be able to rip off the future taxpayers by working “multiple full time jobs”, “many part time jobs”, or packing the pensions with sick time and OT. We’ve been getting ripped off for a long time. It’s time that it stopped!

Campaign finance reform! Please, let’s stop kidding ourselves. It’s about free speech. If there wasn’t Big Government, then there’d be NO NEED for campaign finance reform.

IMHO, you’re shifting all so slowly to the realization that the taxes are not needed. The market place can be used to peacefully supply all our needs. The voluntary free exchange is the way to freedom.

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TURKEY: Find all my linkedin tips … …

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

… … on my blog here. You can Google them, (and just them, thus avoiding all the ranting and raving on various topics), by feeding google “linkedin site:reinkefj.wordpress.com”.

The wordpress gurus told me this one. Didn’t want anyone to think I was smart enough to figure it out myself. Sigh!

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LIBERTY: Ignore the gubamint cheer about the deficit is only 300b$ not 450b$

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

{Stolen from an email I wrote}

This is all fluff. They can count the beans anyway they want. It’s all a sham. In my mind, the key is “monetary inflation” and the Total Federal Spend. They can josh us all they want about this measure of that.

Did the Federal Total Spend go up? Don’t forget to include the unfunded mandates levied on the states. Don’t forget the “benefits” that have been promised. Don’t forget the off budget monsters like the misnamed Social Security Insurance ponzi scheme that you and I are going to try to collect on. Don’t forget the various wars that the politicians are waging and we have to pay for (i.e., poverty, drugs, terror, Iraq, Afghanawhere). Don’t forget the off budget commitments that are made to the UN, the various treaty organizations, and the myriad of NGOs that have their hands in our pocket.

It is just amazing to me that the economy can continue to produce even under the staggering load of tax, regulation, inflation, “laws”, and “mandates”. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be in an environment without all of this force. Imagine keeping all you earn? There’d be immediate pay increases for the 10% employer SSI match. There’d be price decreases as the costs that businesses pass along disappear. And, we wouldn’t have people trying to force their views via laws on us.

Sigh. Time to move to New Hampshire.

Fjohn

—–Original Message—–
From:
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:43 AM
Subject: Taxes Cut, Deficit–not Sky–Falls

Liberals wrung their hands when President Bush first proposed tax cuts
back in 2001. It would ruin the economy and balloon the deficit, they
wailed. Now, we are seeing the deficit falling rapidly. This year’s
deficit of $296 billion is 30 percent lower than projected just last
February. That’s a $127 billion decline from that February forecast.
Revenues have increased, accounting for 90 percent of the deficit
reduction. This is an historic moment and President Bush is right to
call attention to the success of his pro-growth economic policies.

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TECH: Voting Machines are not as good as an ATM!

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard30.html

The Fraudulent Meaning of Elections
by James Bovard

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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Cal.) complained that many states used “more sophisticated technology” for lottery tickets than for elections:

<Quoting Waters>    Incredibly even in those few jurisdictions that have moved to electronic voting … we do not require a verifiable paper trail to protect against vote tampering. If an ATM machine can give each user a receipt that that user can rely upon, then a voting machine should also be able to give a receipt.
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Now I’m no fan of any politician, but it seems obvious to me.

(1) The voting machine (a computer, whose pedigree and programming is unknown, thus deemed insecure) needs to produce a paper record that the voter can verify.

(2) We don’t want people to be able to “prove” to the ward heeler outside the poll that they voted for the “right” candidate and paid for their vote. So that peice of paper needs to be “cast” into a ballot box as the official record of the voter’s intention.

(3) Recounts could then be done if the machine tally is suspect. (Since it’s basically an ATM receipt, it MUST be printed on non-thermal paper.) Recounts of the official box should match the machine totals.

Seems obvious to me, but what do I know!

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TECH: Wifi should be like “free local calls” … … just expected!

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2006/07/four_points_1_e.html

Four Points 1, Embassy Suites 0

***Begin Quote***

So, I’m in the room and turn on the laptop.  There is a fixed line net connection in the room for the low low price of 8 bucks plus tax. No wireless except downstairs in the lobby which you have to pay for as well.  Not one to just click bill the room and having left my EVDO card at home, I look for available WiFi.  Right across the street is a Sheraton Four Points Hotel and their free WiFi is bouncing her way over here to my room on the fourth floor. Sweet.
***End Quote***

The question is “where will you stay next time”. If it’s not Four Points, then Embassy Suites slid by.

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LIBERTY: “Eminent Domain” … … another gubamint crime!

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060711/NEWS/607110324

Halpers defy eviction order
After battle, family says it won’t leave Piscataway farm
By GENE RACZ
Gannett New Jersey

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PISCATAWAY — The Halpers remained on their farm Monday night, defying an eviction notice after indicating earlier in the day they had planned to leave.

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Do you really EVER own your property?

Now that the Supreme Court has effectively eviscerated the Fifth Amendment, you really have no protection from the gubamint gang at any level from stealing your land.

While there may be times that there is no alternative other than a land seizure, I haven’t heard of one that was justified.

It’s all about the raw naked abuse of power. You just have to hope that they never desire your land. Because if they do, you’re just out of luck.

AND, they don’t want to pay a fair price for it. AND, they legislate, regulate, and zone what you can do with what is allegedly YOUR property.

It’s a crime!

Time for the pitchforks and torches!

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TECH: BACKUP MONDAY, done!

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

As decided yesterday, I did a backup of my lovable LUGGABLE laptop. (It’s one heavy sucker!) My Western Digital Passport Drive that I snagged at Sam’s awhile ago for a little under a 100$ was the magic charm. I found out from the blogosphere that WD had it’s own sync software, which after a few high jumps, I was able to download. I tried yesterday during the day, but it takes a while to run and I have little patience. So last night, before retiring to sleep, I set it up and started it running. Seemed to go AOK. Tonight, I’ll run a restore to an old pos pc and let’s see what happens. After BACKUP MONDAY can’t be a success unless and until RESTORE TUESDAY works OK. Now what can we do on Thursday, siesta?

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TECH: You have to just love what the inet can do … … make you laugh!

Monday, July 10, 2006

http://www.gobelins.fr/galerie/animation/gen2006-1.htm

I’m not sure I understand it. But, I did think it was funny!

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TECH: BACKUP MONDAY, joins my “line up”!

Monday, July 10, 2006

Similarly to when I created “wireless wednesday”, I am “creating” Backup Monday.
Wireless wednesday was my short hand way of scheduling one day a week that I would take VWBIIE out and exercise it.

As an old IT guy, I know that assumptions are silently invalidated by the universe. Like the old ture-isms, “diversely routed networks aren’t”, “disaster recovery wont”, and “you never find the last bug in your application”, “backup doesn’t”, one has to aggressively prove that stuff works.

It’s an article of faith in the IT “religion”, that you can leave something working, or have something that works flawless every time you try it, but as soon as you turn around, depend upon it, or try to demo it — typically to a Customer or your boss’ boss — it will appear as if it never ever worked. Evil spirits will come from far and wide to sprinkle bad luck upon you and ever device you then touch.

So, on Mondays I will focus on “backups”. Take them and off-site them. Test them. See what works and what doesn’t.

One has to try to defeat those evil spirits any way you can.

When was the last time you used a backup? Care to be on it working? Just tell me if you need it to or not. ;-)

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LIBERTY: You’re asking the wrong question! Why does the gubamint have ANY role in marriage?

Monday, July 10, 2006

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/07/09/a_mockery_of_the_rules/

JEFF JACOBY
A mockery of the rules
By Jeff Jacoby  |  July 9, 2006
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WHEN THE Massachusetts Legislature meets in joint session as a constitutional convention this week, the most notable item on its agenda will be a proposed amendment to ban same-sex marriage. A record-breaking 170,000 registered voters have signed petitions to put such an amendment on the state ballot. But the Massachusetts Constitution mandates a detour: The measure must first win the support of at least 50 lawmakers in two consecutive legislative terms. Only then can it be submitted to the people. If the amendment gets past every hurdle, it will reach the ballot in November 2008.

***End Quote***

I usually like Jeff. BUT, in htis case, he is asking the wrong question!

Why does the gubamint have any role in marriage? Gay, straight, or anything else. Could it be to keep black men from marrying white women? Could it be so that they can “track” us? Could it be so that they can train us to accept intrusion into every facet of our life?

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