Reinke Faces Life

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger82.html

The Separation of Charity and State
by Jacob G. Hornberger

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The primary function of the federal government these days is to help out others with federal welfare assistance. The assistance is dispensed in a variety of ways – directly, in the form of a money payment (Social Security); indirectly, by helping people with payments to third parties (Medicare and Medicaid); subsidies to government entities and private organizations (grants to public schools or corporate welfare); and in-kind benefits, such as housing or food. After the recent Hurricane Katrina disaster, federal officials even went so far as to disburse bank debit cards to hurricane victims.

Federal welfare assistance to Americans has become such an ingrained part of our lives that most Americans hardly give it a second thought. While “waste, fraud, and abuse” have become a standard part of the welfare-state lexicon, the answer for many is simply, “The system needs reform.”

Yet when recommended reforms are instituted, “waste, fraud, and abuse” inevitably rear their ugly heads again, which then generates the call for new reforms, perpetuating an endless cycle of problems and reforms.

All this fiddling avoids the central issue: Why not separate charity and the state, in the same manner our ancestors separated church and state? Why not get government totally out of the charity business? I’m suggesting that we do much more than simply repeal all welfare-state programs. I’m suggesting that we go further and elevate our vision to the same level as that of our American ancestors when they separated church and state. I’m suggesting the following amendment to the Constitution: “The federal government shall not provide any subsidy, grant, welfare, aid, loan, or other special privilege to anyone.”

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A GREAT idea. We have seen the deleterious effects of federal "welfare". I'd assert that goes for corporations as well. One of the reasons that we are in the fix we are in is that we have removed market discipline from both individuals and corporation.

The market place rewards individuals and corporation who satisfy humna needs. It also severly punishes those that do not by withholding those rewards. When the federal government steals from Peter to pay Paul, Paul is taught that failure is rewarded. Nanny 911! And, Peter is demotivated from doing his best.

Personal experience. In my own consulting business, had an extra contract for work to be done. I had no time to do it. It couldn't be time shifted. I COULD have hired someone to do it, taken all the risks, and taken a cut. I did NOT do it because the rewards would have been mostly to the employee and the government. I figured my profit from all this work was 7%. I decided to read a book instead.

When the federal government bails out companies like Chrysler, we teach corporate executives that they can be "to big to fail".

The 82 year old chairman of Ikea flies coach. He's sending a message.

We need to send DC a message. With tar and feathers! Pitchforks and axes.

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http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_2_new_jersey.html

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Jersey taxpayers are discovering that, since the last big taxpayer revolt of the early 1990s, their opponents, especially the public-sector unions, have grown stronger and smarter, making ad hoc citizen anti-tax campaigns more difficult. Aided by the courts and the vast expansion of budgets during the flush 1990s, New Jersey’s tax eaters have little by little created a full-fledged example of the kind of regional government that the Left touts these days—a government that forces businesses and residents who have fled the dysfunction of the cities to pay the tab for those urban problems, whether they like it or not.

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It would seem that the taxpayers need another revolt, but this one has to be more successful. If I was founding a new "hands across new jersey", then I would use the Libertarian party. We have demonstrated that at a Federal and State level neither the Democrats not the Republicans can be trusted to deliver "smaller government". When I worked on Wall Street, each year we started out budgeting from zero. Everything was up for grabs. What do you have to do and why? That was the first question. Wall Street also loves to drive costs to the unit that benefits from them. It would seem that the "government" needs to learn that lesson.

Now, the state pensions are really bugging me. Probably more than "state cars"! And that is going some. I remember when they kept whining that they need pensions and benefits to recruit. Now state workers have better pensions and benefits than the taxpayers. So I propose that pensions become 401Ks and benefits are 100% employee funded. Then they will be on a level playing field.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-14-bear-attack_x.htm

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The 350- to 400-pound bear attacked the family at a waterfall near a campground after several adult visitors tried to drive it off the trail, Hicks said.

The bear bit the boy's head, then went after the child's mother after she tried to fend off the attack with rocks and sticks, Hicks said. The animal picked up the woman with its mouth and dragged her off the trail.

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Stinnett, a county fire and rescue chief, said he approached and was about 25 feet away when the bear charged him on all fours. He said he fired at the bear twice with his .380-caliber pistol, scaring it off.

"I know I hit it," Stinnett said. "It reared up on its hind legs. It was as big as you and me."

Authorities said they didn't know whether it was wounded.

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Trying to drive off a crazed animal with sticks. Or even a 380? A nice 1911 on every Mom's hip would put a quick end to rogue bear, child molesters, and all sorts of other ne'er-do-wells. Lest the reader think Gun Fight At The OK Coral, I would refer to Florida's relaxed concealed carry law. Their experience shows that people are very reasonable.

Now envision this poor woman trying to defend her "cubs", she draws her 1911, operates the slide, thumbs the safety, and proceeds to put 9 rounds into said threatening bear. She then, as is taught in most self-defense classes, drops the clip, inserts a new one, and readies the weapon. She stands in her Weaver stance until she is certain that the threat as passed.

I don't care how crazed that bear was. Nine in the center of mass and it's not going anywhere. It's dead.

Now the woman may have a sore wrist, shoulder, or feel badly about the bear. But she and her "cubs" would be safe.

I don't understand people. Yup, guns are a dangerous TOOL. One should treat them with the care accorded any powerful tool like a car, a chainsaw, or a chipper. BUT, they are just that a "tool". Tromping about in the woods, you need the proper tools.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/04/12/families_pay_price_of_faulty_policies/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Op-ed+columns

It's clear that our politiicans have made a mess out of another relatively simple thing. (1) Statue of Liberty sets the policy. (2) No social benefits for immigrants. It was that way before and it ensured that only the properly motivated came here. Clearly, there's a reasonable exception for emergency care, but that should be minimal. And, possibly billable. [How do other countries deal with traveling Americans?] (3) Then we need to dismantle the underground economy of "day laborers" with respect to taxes. Seems fair to me?

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Apr-09-Sun-2006/opinion/6593868.html

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Libertarians generally support free movement of peoples, merely demanding that we get rid of mandated "welfare" benefits that attract deadbeats by taxing more productive citizens to fund "free" schooling and emergency-room health care for leeches and freeloaders. I greatly prefer that solution.

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I agree. Eliminate ALL the "free stuff" that I am forced to pay for, comply with, and kow tow to. Then we'd be free again.

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/education/s_440643.html

Girl, 10, protests dress code

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Zoe Hinkle thinks her miniskirt is fashionable. Her school's principal says otherwise. The fourth-grader plans to hold a rally after school Friday along with some classmates at Streams Elementary School in Upper St. Clair. The girls want to let school administrators know they don't appreciate being told their dresses are too short.

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Ahh, the inmates at a particular reeducation camp object to the uniforms! Perhaps one should question what goes on at these propaganda facilities. In fact, they are nothing more than prisions. Designed to reeducate the inmates to be good little consumers, the objective is to turn out compliant zombie-like sheeple who will worship Mother Earth and depend on Father State for all their needs. Obviously, this "trouble maker" is under the illusion that it's her body. She'll learn that it belongs to the gummamint, who will tell her what she can and can't do with it.

Shaking my head, time to refresh that tree of liberty!

http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=44

DownsizeDC would like you to send a message to your elected representatives. I'd like you to vote everyone of the them out. Picking anyone at random from a street corner could not give us any worse of a result.

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Money is a complex subject. We can't explain it all here. The same is true of the Federal Reserve System. Its origin, and the question of whether it's privately or publicly owned, is controversial. (Some have said that the Federal Reserve is as "federal" as Federal Express.) But we do know that the size of government has exploded, and the value of the dollar has imploded, since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913.

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I don't agree with that.

Money is pretty simple.

It's an intermediary in economic transactions that allows us not to have to barter. How would I give a farmer an hour of consulting for a steak? Simple, I give my employer and hour of consulting and he gives me some "dollars". The farmer and the butcher conspire to give me a steak for some of my "dollars".

Real simple.

Where the problem comes in is who decided that the government should have a monopoly on money?

Yup some king of old who figured out that you could shave every gold coin coming through the Royal Bank and at the end of the day the shavings would equal several new coins.

FOR EXAMPLE, the original French Franc of Louis I was a gold coin that looked more like a small hockey puck than a coin. The last French Franc of the monarchy Louis XVI was a tissue paper thin button. That is what governments do. The debase the currency. They redefine money to give themselves more and the people less. Paper money is even easier to inflate. No coins to shave!

Look up the root of the word "dollar", and you'll find there was a silversmith who made nice coins.

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Monetary inflation is a tricky way for politicians to get you to pay for increased government without you knowing about it. 

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That's why they don't want anyone to know what M3 is. You might figure out that they put a third shift on over at Printing and Engraving.

We need to make govenment into a "crystal box". Even if it is ugly, we need to see the sausage being made.

Let's not kid ourselves about what makes inflation. Whether it was the French and English kings shaving gold off the coins, the post WW1 German government prinitng bigger denominations twice a day, or "our" Federal Government running the printing press, messing with the money is a bad idea.

There's a reason that gold is 600 $ per ounce.

And, it's not because we have too few dollars.

Let's have the Separation of Money and the State!

Cabinet in Sucession

• 01. Vice President of the United States
• 02. Speaker of the House
• 03. President pro Tempore of the Senate
• 04. Secretary of State
• 05. Secretary of the Treasury
• 06. Secretary of Defense
• 07. Attorney General
• 08. Secretary of the Interior
• 09. Secretary of Agriculture
• 10. Secretary of Commerce
• 11. Secretary of Labor
• 12. Secretary of Health & Human Services
• 13. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
• 14. Secretary of Transportation
• 15. Secretary of Energy
• 16. Secretary of Education
• 17. Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs
• 18. Secretary of Homeland Security

White House Toadies

• Council of Economic Advisers
• Council on Environmental Quality
• Council on Women's Initiatives and Outreach
• Domestic Policy Council
• National Economic Council
• National Partnership for Reinventing Government
• National Security Council (NSC)
• Office of Administration
• Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives
• Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• Office of National AIDS Policy
• Office of National Drug Control Policy
• Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Office of the Vice President of the United States
• President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• United States Trade Representative (USTR)

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Independent Agencies & Govt. Corporations of the Executive Branch

• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
• African Development Foundation
• Amtrak
• Broadcasting Board of Governors
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• Commission on Civil Rights
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
• Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
• Corporation for National and Community Service
• Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
• Export-Import Bank of the United States
• Farm Credit Administration
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
• Federal Election Commission (FEC)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Federal Housing Finance Board
• Federal Labor Relations Authority
• Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement
• Federal Maritime Commission
• Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
• Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
• Federal Reserve System
• Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• General Services Administration (GSA)
• Inter-American Foundation
• International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)
• Merit Systems Protection Board
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
• National Capital Planning Commission
• National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
• National Mediation Board
• National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• National Transportation Safety Board
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
• Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
• Office of Government Ethics
• Office of Personnel Management
• Office of Special Counsel (OSC)
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation
• Panama Canal Commission
• Peace Corps
• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
• Postal Rate Commission
• Railroad Retirement Board
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Selective Service System
• Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Social Security Administration (SSA)
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Trade and Development Agency
• United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
• United States Commission on Civil Rights
• United States Agency for International Development
• United States International Information Program
• United States International Trade Commission (USITC)
• United States Postal Service (USPS)

Commissions, Boards & Councils of the Executive Branch

• Accounting and Auditing Policy Committee (AAPC)
• Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
• Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• American Battle Monuments Commission
• Appalachian Regional Commission
• Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board)
• Arctic Research Commission
• Armed Forces Retirement Home
• Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee
• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
• Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
• Chief Financial Officers Council
• Chief Information Officers Council
• Commission of Fine Arts
• Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
• Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
• Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO)
• Delaware River Basin Commission
• Endangered Species Committee
• Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)
• Federal Credit Policy Working Group (FCPWG)
• Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
• Federal Financial Managers Council (FFMC)
• Federal Executive Board
• Federal Financing Bank
• Federal Interagency Committee on Education
• Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
• Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
• Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
• Federal Library and Information Center Committee
• Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
• Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission
• Indian Arts and Crafts Board
• Interagency Commission on Crime and Security in U.S. Seaports
• Interagency Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities
• Inter-Agency Electronic Grants Committee (IAEGC)
• Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group (IADRWG)
• J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
• James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
• Japan-United States Friendship Commission
• Marine Mammal Commission
• Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
• Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
• Mississippi River Parkway Commission
• Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation
• National Bioethics Advisory Commission
• National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
• National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
• National Communications System
• National Council on Disability
• National Gambling Impact Study Commission
• National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee
• National Park Foundation
• Northwest Power Planning Council
• Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation
• President's Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History
• President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities
• President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency
• President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• Presidio Trust
• Regulatory Information Service Center
• Small Agency Council (SAC)
• Social Security Advisory Board
• Susquehanna River Basin Commission
• Trade Policy Staff Committee
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• United States Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
• Veterans Day National Committee
• White House Commission on Presidential Scholarships

Quasi-Governmental Agencies

• Amtrak
• Legal Services Corporation
• Smithsonian Institution
• State Justice Institute
• United States Institute of Peace

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