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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/George%20Washington

George Washington

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Washington warns against foreign influence in domestic affairs and American meddling in European affairs. He warns against bitter partisanship in domestic politics and called for men to move beyond partisanship and serve the common good. He called for an America wholly free of foreign attachments, as the United States must concentrate only on American interests. He counseled friendship and commerce with all nations, but warned against involvement in European wars and entering into long-term alliances. The address quickly set American values regarding religion and foreign affairs, and his advice was often repeated in political discourse well into the twentieth century; not until the 1949 formation of NATO would the United States again sign a treaty of alliance with a foreign nation. Washington strictures against political parties were ignored at the time and ever since.

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Truly the greatest President.

Like the movie Lord of the Rings, he declined to take the “one ring that controls them all” and voluntarily relinquished power in the American Experiment when all wanted him to take it.

I think we have done him a vast disservice when we merged the tyrant Lincoln into shallow President’s Day.

I’d suggest that we restore February 22nd as Washington’s Birthday, delist Lincoln, and make it not a federal holiday, but a day when his writings are READ to every federal “employee”.

Arghhh!

1015 news this morning reported that the Guv was pitching a 7½% increase in the state budget with “no tax increase”.

Now I may be an “injineer”, but I know a tax increase when I hear one. Where to people think that money is going to come from?

There was also the whine about state workers having to pay 1½% towards their benefits.

And, the news mentions the 2B$ budget short fall next year.

Here’s a clue! Stop spending NOW.

It’s simple, Stop.

I bet when the Guv was on wall street, he had zero based budgeting exercises. A famous wall street strategy is “just say no”. Not no to drugs. No to any spending at all. Those drills were famous and epidemic. If Merrill did it today, you were assured that Goldman would do it tomorrow.

So, here’s a little list of some “modest steps” for the guv to take:

(1) No increase in spending by anyone. No cuts in taxpayer services allowed. you want to be a honcho with the state figure it out.

(2) No pensions for anyone. 401ks for all. Recognition bonds for obligation we have incurred. But zero going forward.

(3) Half pay for all state executives and legislators when the budget and the budget forecast isn’t in balance. (Betcha that gets fixed faster than a Jersey pothole!)

(4) End the dole. No one collects from the state. Wean everyone off the “welfare”. That includes corporate and charitable and “insurance”.

(5) End the propagandizing of the youth. No more gooferment skools. Privatize now. Put a transition plan in place for the state to get out of the education and education financing business.

How’s that for a start, guv?

Ahh, wouldn’t governor mcgoofey be proud. Seriously, I think this is wrong. Not the fact that we now have “civil unions”, but why is the gooferment involved in marriage at all!

Rooted in the deep south, in a desire to keep black men from marrying white women, it has morphed into yet another gooferment intrusion.

Marriage is whatever a group of people believe it is and define it for their own purposes. Be it a life long vow blessed by God never to be broken, a financial contract with force backing it up, or musical beds by Hollywood “stars”. Why is it the government’s business? I have no right to stick my nose in your business. Nor you into mine. Unless I want your approval, support, and solidarity, then you and I can come to an agreement about what are the terms of our mutual understanding. If the Church wants to set standards for their membership that’s their prerogative. If the VFW does it, that’s theirs. Why have we allowed the gooferment into this facet of our life?

The thing I object to is being forced to pay for stuff I don’t agree with. And, the list of things that I am forced to pay for by armed thugs in Washington DC, Trenton, New Brunswick, South Brunswick Township, Ocean County, Seaside Heights, and just about most places I pass thru is astoundingly long.

I remember going to the Mafia controlled areas of Little Italy in downtown sync in my younger days. It was safe and clean. The “police” were very polite. But there was no doubt that you were on their “turf”.

At least they didn’t shake me down like the gooferment today does.

So, bottom line, if the gooferment has to use force, then it is probably not a good idea. Because if it was, no force would be required.

Tell me again why we have “government marriage”, “civil unions”, or any such gooferment intrusion into our lives? Could it all be about control, tracking, and revenue collection?

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/23/
534422-bush-reintroduces-school-voucher-plan?
friends=true&last=1171640533&threadId=70499&cmt=539333

http://tinyurl.com/2jma8b

Bush Reintroduces School Voucher Plan
Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:31 PM EST
Nancy Zuckerbrod, AP Writer
A-P White House correspondent Mark Smith reports the president is looking to domestic issues in tonight’s speech as a possible path for cooperation with Congress.

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The Bush administration is calling on Congress to make changes to the No Child Left Behind law, including placing more emphasis on science and giving poor students private school vouchers.

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(1) The gooferment should have NO role in propagandizing future voters about the “government is your Friend and Protector” (right up until it kills you!)

(2) It’s immoral to steal from taxpayers to “eddeycate” other people’s children (It’s just more welfare!)

(3) One plank of the Commie Manifesto was public schools to make “cannon fodder ready” compliant sheep for shearing and killing as needed.

End socialism now! It will impoverish us, enslave us, and eventually kill us and whatever made America great — liberty.

This is one of my big three demands: End the dole! Give us honest money! Stop “public education”. It one of our three biggest challenges to freedom.

NEWSVINE: http://tinyurl.com/2jma8b

http://lifesharers.blogspot.com/2007/02/
should-age-determine-who-gets-kidney.html

http://tinyurl.com/ytc3ha

Friday, February 16, 2007
Should age determine who gets a kidney transplant?

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Should age determine who gets a kidney transplant? That’s the question asked by the Chicago Tribune in a story about the United Network for Organ Sharing’s proposed changes to the rules it uses to allocate kidneys recovered from deceased donors.

UNOS has proposed allocating kidneys in a way that would maximize the number of extra years lived by kidney transplant recipients.

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No, money should.

If money in our pocket is a proxy for how much we have served our fellow human beings, (and if it isn’t, what is?), then we should harnass the free market to “solve” the transplant issues.

We should have a free market in human organs.

Ghoulish! No more so than the current system that makes some winners and others losers. It makes for great TV when Mickey Mantle gets a liver in violations of the “rules”. In organs, currently, it truly is a zero sum game.

See I have a secret plan.

Let’s say that kidneys go for 100k$ per pop, how long until some bright young scientist invents the artificial kidney that sells for 50k$ but only costs 25k$ making them wealthy. I’d bet not long.

Get the gooferment out of the organ business and we will have a plethora of “solutions”.

Leave people alone to make their own judgments.

I don’t care if a poor man wants to sell a kidney so that he can send his kid to college. I don’t care if women sell their eggs, so childless women can have babies. I don’t care if rich old men can spend millions buying a new hunk of liver every couple of years to prolong their life.

I DO care that people die while waiting for a transplant while on a gooferment list.

Don’t you see that a free market always clears. Supply always matches demand at a clearing price. Demand always matches supply at a clearing price. If you see shortages, look for the gooferment’s hand in it. Only force can prevent a market from clearing. And, only the government gets away with using force.

Lest you say that the poor would be precluded. Let me ask you this. Do you put coins in those counter collectors for poor starving animals? When some child needs surgery for a birth defect, doesn’t the community figure out how to make it happen? Car washes, bake sales, raffle tickets all for worthy causes. I’ve seen the vets sell “poppies”, the KofC peddle tootsie rolls, and the Lions with little white canes. VFDs pass the boot on the road side.

Trust me. No one will get left behind. Unlike the current system, where the gooferment let’s people die on waiting lists, and stifle any innovation.

And, think about all those perfectly good organs that get buried or cremated every day. Beloved Uncle Joe’s dead. His organs could pay for the funeral. Or send his niece to beauty school. Or, his nephew to LV. I’m not being crass. But, if a family knew that poor sweet Uncle Joe’s liver would pay for Niece Jody’s beauty school tuition, then I bet old Uncle Joe would be sliced and diced quicker than … well you get the idea.

An organ market place would:
(1) save the lives of people dying on gooferment lists;
(2) spark innovation for cost-effective alternatives;
(3) generate grass roots support for charitable donations for the needy;
(4) unleash a wave of organ donations that would clear the marketplace of any shortages; and
(5) allow people to make decisions about their bodies without gooferment interference.

So what’s stopping it? The gooferment.

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/

The Presidential $1 Coin Program

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The United States is honoring our Nation’s presidents by issuing $1 circulating coins featuring their images in the order that they served, beginning with Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison in 2007. The United States Mint will mint and issue four Presidential $1 Coins per year, and each will have a reverse design featuring a striking rendition of the Statue of Liberty. These coins will feature larger, more dramatic artwork, as well as edge-incused inscriptions of the year of minting or issuance, “E Pluribus Unum,” “In God We Trust” and the mint mark. Although the size, weight and metal composition of the new Presidential $1 Coin will be identical to that of the Sacagawea Golden Dollar, there are several unique features that make this coin distinctive.

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What a joke!

Their “gold” coins are a fraud.

Give us real ones.

http://purelypolitical.newsvine.com/_news/2007/02/10/
562671-oortzcom-fairtax-news?email=html
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http://tinyurl.com/2n3f5o

FAIRTAX NEWS

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Congressman John Linder (R-Ga), co-author of The FairTax Book and the father of the FairTax in the U.S. Congress has shared some news with stalwart FairTax supporters. I received this email from him yesterday and thought I would share it with you:

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> See? The news from Washington isn’t all bad.

No it’s terrible. These fools think they are making the situation better.

Consider:

(1) Unless they repeal the 16th amendment, we’ll wind up with BOTH the “far tax”, a bad hidden sales tax, AND the income tax.

(2) It increase the dole. Everyone in the USA will be getting a check and conditioned to “get something for nothing” from DC.

(3) Create work for a whole new class of bureaucrats. Social Security will need new staff to send out these checks. The IRS will need more staff to catch “cheaters”.

(4) It rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic by doing nothing to reduce the size and cost of gooferment.

(5) It revalidates (i.e., reauthorizes) the idea that Americans approve of the slavery of taxation, the theft of property, the abuse of government, because the majority of voters voted for these fools in DC.

Arghhh,
Fjohn

http://realidrebellion.com/

Stopping the Real ID Train

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Is it possible? Yes, but it won’t be easy. For every state-level official who complains about the Real ID Act (and their objections usually center on the lack of funding for the law), others seem eager to pitch in and help — or even to make it “better”. Better for them, that is, not us.

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Just yet another erosion of American’s freedoms.

http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/aboutus/ArticleView.aspx?id=1390

http://tinyurl.com/3y2j7g

Center for Economic Prosperity
Minimum Wage Means Minimum Jobs
Raising the minimum wage hurts workers at the lower end of the pay scale.
Goldwater Institute Today’s News
February 01, 2007

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Yup, all we have to do is get the people laughing at the stupidity of government and it’ll topple of its own weight.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul364.html

Inflation and War Finance
by Ron Paul

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If every American taxpayer had to submit an extra five or ten thousand dollars to the IRS this April to pay for the war, I’m quite certain it would end very quickly. The problem is that government finances war by borrowing and printing money, rather than presenting a bill directly in the form of higher taxes. When the costs are obscured, the question of whether any war is worth it becomes distorted.

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Eventually the chickens will come home to roost.

It will be a sad day when the bill comes. It will come in several forms — rampant inflation, economic depression, disgruntled vets, the wounded, world outrage, and the hidden costs.

We can see and predict the “visible costs”, but what about Bassat’s hidden ones. What were the dead supposed to do? What about the generations they would have spawned? What about the heartache of all those left behind?

Man that is one ugly chicken coming home to poop!