Reinke Faces Life

People without history have no context. They are unstuck in time having to relearn lessons which our ancestors built monuments to remind us of what we’re capable of for better or worse.

While the French government took years to raise €12 million to renovate Notre Dame despite having the highest tax rate in the world, private donations to rebuild it topped $1 billion in the first 48 hours after the fire was put out.

This is gratifying in a way that is almost beyond words. And it makes a mockery of the statist arguments for government to replace private charity and private property.

Source: Notre Dame: Symbol of a Failing Culture – LewRockwell

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Yeah, “private charity” could NEVER ever replace Gooferment “services”.

Argh!

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Source: A look at what was saved, what was lost in Notre Dame fire

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If “we, humans” were smart everyone would be looking at their “national treasures” and see what need to be save.

I’d start with the soon to be aborted babies — much more important than “mere” “art” — but that’s just my view from the cheap seats.

I’d pray for any religion that wishes ill or celebrates the misfortune of others.  I’m sure it won’t happen but if I was an Islamic Leader, then I’d say shame on those who “celebrated” the fire.  If nothing else, it’s in poor taste and sure to bring about strife.

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” — Buddha

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Silver prices are too low based on five decades of history and via comparisons to national debt, the S&P 500 Index and gold. Expect silver prices to rise far higher in coming years as the over-leveraged financial system resets and rebalances.

Source: Silver versus Debt, Delusions and Devaluation | The Deviant Investor

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Seems unavoidable.

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Abolish The 16th

Defenders of the IRS often espouse the fallacy that taxes are how we pay for a civilized society. If it weren’t for the government, who would pave the roads? Who would educate the children? Who would confiscate your earnings? But here’s a better question, one that suits the state much better: If it weren’t for the government breaking your legs, who would give you a crutch? That’s the real nature of government; it’s not the benevolent force out to do good that some statists believe is the case.

Source: My Money, My Choice: Remember Taxation Is Theft On April 15th | Zero Hedge

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Real simple — Abolish The 16th — recognize the mistake and fix it!

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Of course, those receiving and benefiting from these programs will defend them.  But the fact remains that tax monies provide largely government jobs, which are almost entirely consumption jobs (jobs that consume the production of society but produce little consumable).  Such jobs cannot produce for public consumption a potato, a carton of milk, or even a can of hair spray.  They bring another person to the table to eat, but not another to produce something to eat.

Source: Prior to 1913 No One Paid Income Tax. Why Now? | | Tenth Amendment Center

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Seems like we need to get back to “lean” Constitutional activities and cut the warfare / welfare state down to a much more manageable size.

Regardless of who’s in charge — the Democans or the Republicrats — Gooferment just gets bigger and bigger.

No new programs, no new taxes, and an ongoing program of 1% annual real bottom line cuts.

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Both Google and Mozilla have banned Gab’s Dissenter.com extension from their browsers’ extension stores. Dissenter’s mission is to bring a free speech comment system to every site on the Internet.

Source: Google, Mozilla Blacklist Gab’s ‘Dissenter’ Free Speech Browser Extension | Breitbart

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I like and use this extension regularly.

I wish I could find out when some one comments on my blog in dissenter.

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Every illegal alien, over the course of their lifetime, costs American taxpayers about $70,000, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steve Camarota says.

Source: Expert: Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans $70K Over their Lifetime

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This is a direct consequence of the welfare state.

“We, The Sheeple” need to end welfare for everyone — including Crony Capitalists.

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In other words, you are free to choose any doctor the federal government allows you to choose. On at least one point, Mr. Sanders is being honest. He’s not even trying to sell the Obama whopper that patients will get to keep the plans and the doctors they like.

Source: Would Patients Be Able to Escape BernieCare? – WSJ

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I like “Bernie-care” even less than I do “Obama-care”, “Medicare”, “Medicaid”, VA care, “Indian Healthcare System”, or any such nonsense.  Hopefully we can get to “health insurance” that’s regulated as loosely as Life Insurance.

Cheap, easy to get, and very simple to collect on.

Argh!

Let’s separate “health”, “health care”, “health care insurance”, or something else from the Gooferment.

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Published on Apr 11, 2019
Sargon of Akkad

President Trump should pardon him.

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I agree!

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While the Fed is meant to be independent from the executive branch on a day-to-day basis, it is certainly not independent of Congress or the law. Yet the Fed in recent years has shown a troubling tendency to deviate from its legal mandate and make up new authorities to fit the changing economic situation. Case in point: the dubious notion that we should seek a 2 percent rate of inflation.

Source: Trump is Right to Blow Up the Fed | The American Conservative

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It’s simple.  Like Doctor Ron Paul said: “End the Fed”!

Return to the “barbaric” old gold standard of “honest” money.

Let the invisible hand of the free market set the interest rate.

If interest rate is the “time preference for money”, then how could it EVER be naturally zero.

The FED —

The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians.

— has destroyed the USA with debt and trained “We, The Sheeple” not to save for a rainy day.

Argh!

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“For perspective, this is equivalent to eliminating nearly 50 percent of projected job growth between 2016 and 2026,” Ben Gitis, director of labor market policy at American Action Forum, wrote. “Maryland is not in a strong position to absorb this shock, as it continued to experience below-average job growth while the state implemented its previous minimum wage hike from 2014 to 2018.”

Source: Minimum wage hikes trigger ‘payroll tsunami,’ as small businesses cut back | Fox News

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Like a self-inflicted economic wound!

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For the course of two years, I challenged myself to answer a very complicated set of questions. Namely, why are libertarians’ stereotypes so negative, and why have they been allowed to fester and spread through popular culture, the media, and academia like a plague?

Source: Combating the Myths of Heartless Libertarianism

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Libertarianism is not a religion, first and foremost; it is a guiding set of secular principles that speak to the better side of human nature defending the inalienable rights of self-ownership, property rights, and liberty.

Unlike statism, which is found within modern progressivism and neoconservative circles, libertarianism doesn’t seek to answer all of life’s questions. Statism seeks to explain that without a monopoly of force and violence, the comfort of civilization could not exist, despite historical evidence that the state monopoly of force has been the leading cause of unnatural death in human history, with the philosophy of communism being the number one murderer of individuals in the twentieth century alone.

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Libertarians, in general, just want you to have all the freedoms they want for themselves.

Statists have no such principle.

I like the formulation: “Don’t hurt people and don’t take their stuff.”

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The behaviour started in kindergarten, and occurred at home, at school, and on weekends. I dutifully drove her to appointments with a therapist and a psychiatrist, who characterised the behaviour as a symptom of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) combined with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), a behavioural issue some experts contend could stem from permissive parenting or a past riddled with either abuse or neglect. But I wasn’t permissive. Anna had never been abused or neglected. Like many seeking answers, I hit the books and kept a notebook about her extreme rages. When I asked Anna’s first psychiatrist about her extreme tantrums and outbursts, his warm brown eyes couldn’t mask his dismissive body language and cautious remarks that her behaviour was likely just an extreme case of ODD. He offered an antipsychotic mediation, Zyprexa, to her drug cocktail. But the medication didn’t work; the symptoms continued, and Anna’s diagnosis remained ADHD and ODD for years.

Source: When a child’s mental health diagnosis comes too late to help | Aeon Essays

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A touching article.  I can’t imagine what some parents go through.  Wonder why we can’t “solve” these problems?

So sad.

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Eating raw garlic could help prevent age-related memory loss suffered by Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients, scientists suggest.

Source: Eating raw garlic could help keep your memory sharp in old age | Daily Mail Online

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Anything to avoid going to “the home”!

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If you are still in the casino, run, don’t walk, toward the nearest emergency exit. The Trumpite/GOP is about to learn that deficits do matter and that what really ails the economy of Flyover America is the destructive Keynesian posse domiciled in the Eccles Building.

Source: Stockman Exposes The Two Elephants In The Room That The GOP Has Completely Forgotten | Zero Hedge

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This has to end badly.  It ALWAYS does.

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The government was still subsidizing tobacco, just as our tax dollars subsidize the sugar and meat industries today. The AMA actually went on record refusing to endorse the Surgeon General’s report. Could that have been because they had just been handed ten million dollars from the tobacco industry?

Source: The Disconnect Between Science and Policy | NutritionFacts.org

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Why is the Gooferment subsidizing anything?

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Ikigai, loosely translated, means sense of purpose in life. And in Okinawa, a person’s ikigai often grows as they get older. It is their reason for living, that thing that propels them out of bed in the morning. In the United States, people often retire in their mid-60s, but there isn’t a similar word in Japanese because the concept of retirement doesn’t even exist.Moai is an informal social group of people who have common interests and look out for each other. Your moai is your “tribe” and another reason Okinawans believe they live so long.

Source: The Land of Immortals: How and what Japan’s oldest population eats – CNN

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Very interesting ideas — Ikigai and Moai — here.

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Following the old practice of economic protectionism, lobbyists from big rice signed a formal public letter complaining about the rise in popularity that these carbs substitutes have been earning among the health-conscious. If you’re a politician that wants to stay in the good graces of big rice, you’d be best to heed their call.

Source: Arkansas Declares War on Cauliflower Rice

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Ahhh, yes, politicians and bureaucrats follow the instructions of their masters, Crony Capitalists.

Argh!

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Hopefully, SCOTUS agrees to hear the Sievers case or summarily reverses the Nebraska Supreme Court. SCOTUS has already ceded too much leeway to police to stop motorists as pretext, but police officers should at least meet the minimum standard for a legal stop.

Source: A Pretextual Traffic Stop Should Require Sufficient Pretext | Cato @ Liberty

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Yeah, seek one part of the Gooferment to protect us from another part of the Gooferment.

Don’t be surprised at the outcome.

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On February 19, 1942, just a couple months after the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order to deport and incarcerate all Japanese-Americans. Thousands of people, many of whom were born in the US, were forced to abandon their houses, businesses, farms, and possessions. They were loaded into busses with only as many things as they can carry with no knowledge of where they’re going and how long they’re staying there.A photographer Dorothea Lange who is probably best known for her photo titled Migrant Mother was hired by the US government to document the evacuation. The photographer perfectly captured the devastating moments of Japanese-Americans leaving their old lives behind and entering into the unknown. However, the military wasn’t happy with Lange’s opposing opinion of the internment camps. The photographs were seized from her and only made public in 2006. Today we finally have the opportunity to look back at this particular moment in history and see for our selves how the lives of Japanese-Americans were changed forever.

Source: These 30 WWII Photos From Japanese Internment Camp Were Censored And Now Everyone Can See Them | Bored Panda

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It can’t possibly have happened here?

And, it can’t possibly happen again?

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Like all forms of socialism, the Green New Deal suffers from what Ludwig von Mises identified as the “calculation problem.” Knowledge of the most efficient use of resources is conveyed by prices set in a free market. Prices reflect individuals’ subjective preferences regarding the best use of resources. When government uses force to remove resources from the marketplace, it makes it impossible for the price system to function, leaving government officials and private citizens unable to determine the most efficient use of resources. That is why every attempt at government management of the economy inevitably reduces the people’s standard of living.

Source: The Green Bad Deal | | Tenth Amendment Center

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“Like all forms of socialism” leads to poverty, death, and destruction.

“That is why every attempt at government management of the economy” leads to Unintended Consequences!

That’s why to the socialist “Green Dealers” I say “you are out of your <synonym for the act of procreation> minds”!

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Border Patrol agents rescued a Guatemalan family of four before they drowned to death attempting to cross the U.S. southern border. A forceful current swept a woman and her three children, ages 2, 4 and 15, downriver when they attempted to cross the Rio Grande on March 28.

Source: Border Agents Rescue Migrant Mother And Her Three Kids Right Before They Drowned In The Rio Grande

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In case anyone hasn’t figured it out, this is a slow motion national and humanitarian disaster all cause by the welfare / warfare Gooferment!

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