Day: November 4, 2010

POLITICAL: The Libertarian Pledge to America

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance213.html

The Libertarian Pledge to America
by Laurence M. Vance

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Here is the Libertarian Pledge to America:

   * I promise to end the war on drugs.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Energy.

   * I promise to abolish all anti-trust laws.

   * I promise to abolish the Federal Housing Administration.

   * I promise to abolish the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae).

   * I promise to abolish the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddy Mac).

   * I promise to abolish the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae).

   * I promise to repeal the Fair Housing Act.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

   * I promise to abolish the Federal Trade Commission.

   * I promise to abolish the EPA.

   * I promise to abolish the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Education.

   * I promise to end federal funding and control of education.

   * I promise to cease funding Head Start.

   * I promise to cease funding the National School Lunch Program.

   * I promise to repeal the federal minimum wage.

   * I promise to repeal the National Labor Relations Act.

   * I promise to repeal the PATRIOT ACT.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Homeland Security.

   * I promise to abolish the TSA and return airport security to airports and airlines.

   * I promise to repeal all federal gun regulations.

   * I promise to abolish NASA.

   * I promise to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts.

   * I promise to abolish the National Endowment for the Humanities.

   * I promise to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

   * I promise to cease all drone attacks and covert activities.

   * I promise to bring all U.S. troops home from foreign soil.

   * I promise to close all foreign military bases.

   * I promise to stop meddling in the affairs of other countries.

   * I promise to limit the Department of Defense to actual defense.

   * I promise to end all federal bailouts.

   * I promise to stop funding the UN, World Bank, and IMF.

   * I promise to end all foreign aid.

   * I promise to end all farm subsidies.

   * I promise to repeal all trade restrictions, import quotas, anti-dumping laws, and trade agreements.

   * I promise to abolish the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission.

   * I promise to repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act.

   * I promise to repeal all Affirmative Action, minority set-asides, and public accommodations laws.

   * I promise to repeal the Family and Medical Leave Act.

   * I promise to cease funding Planned Parenthood.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Health and Human Services.

   * I promise to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

   * I promise to end Medicare and Medicaid.

   * I promise to end all federal funding and control of medicine and medical research.

   * I promise to abolish the FDA.

   * I promise to abolish NPR.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Labor.

   * I promise to cease funding any scientific research on climate change.

   * I promise to end the FED.  

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Might it not be easier to itemize what should be kept?

I’d add:

* Repeal the 16th Amendment — the income tax.

* Repeal the 17th Amendment — the direct election of Senators that destroyed the feedback loop to State Gooferment and permitted the unfunded mandate.

* Repeal the legal tender laws

And, I’d add one positive “right”: Federal Courts must always find ANY evidence of innocence admissible, timely, and required. To deny any convict the chance of exoneration by DNA evidence for “technical legal reasons” (i.e., not raised on a timely basis; waived by counsel; expense; other administrivia) is unconscionable.

That’s why secession will be easier. Smaller is better!

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JOBSEARCH: Why are email riot broke out on a jobsearch yahoo group

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Re: Stop Welfare….. and all Government taxing that is out of contr

Posted by: “Dawn”
Wed Nov 3, 2010 9:03 am (PDT)

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i thought this was an IT roundtable discussion group. if we want to talk about job opportunities then ok. I don’t understand the political tone this has taken.

This should be apolitical, focusing on jobs, not politics.

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Dear Ms. Dawn:

Taken off the mailing list to calm the off-topic traffic down.

Unfortunately the political meddling has taken it’s toll on the economy. Many, including myself, are casualties of the bad economy. It doesn’t take long to realize that there are ‘structural reasons’ why businesses are not hiring:

* Uncertainty — with Obamacare — no one knows how much an employee is going to cost in 2011 and beyond;

* Higher taxes — with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, the Gooferment is going to take a bigger cut of any profits. That increases the ‘hurdle rate’ as well as the implied rate of return required for any new project. That gets factored into the risk calculation. So business is “frozen”

* Higher political risk — Gooferment Motors demonstrated that the politicians and bureaucrats will seize the assets of bondholders, like it was a two bit South American dictatorship, for the benefit of the powerful labor unions, the brokerage houses, and the banks. Why would you ever loan money to anyone when it can lost in the blink of a politician’s eye.

I have a bunch more examples of the chilling effect that the Gooferment has had on the economic climate. But three’s enough.

The reason that the firestorm started is some deluded fool suggested that more unemployment benefits was a good thing that Washington should do. And, implied that the Democratic Party was the more charitable organization. A lot of folks who’s nerves are frazzled, like mine, just descended upon that. Neither Party is “charitable”; nor should they be “charitable” with stolen wealth. Fiscal austerity in the Gooferment is what is needed. Less welfare, and less warfare, and less Gooferment is the bitter pill.

That’s why the political tone. Jobs, the economy, and prosperity are now in the political arena. To think that you can now separate them is naive. It’s like looking for a deck chair on the Titanic … as it’s sinking.

imho, trying to change opinions, one person at a time,
fjohn
the big fat old turkey hisself

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GUNS: I trust that women can tell how their attacker got that fatal bullet wound

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Hmmm, we need to issue all women a handgun when they turn … 14? OK, maybe 15. When did pioneer children learn to shoot?

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/4967-hoplophobia-is-curable

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Gun control is the theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.

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