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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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https://formerspook.blogspot.com/2010/10/chicago-way.html

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ADDENDUM: And oddly enough, a similar scandal is unfolding in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, where Democratic incumbent Patrick Murphy is in the fight of his political life. Hundreds of voters in the district were warned that their votes might not count unless they returned an enclosed absentee ballot to a post office box in Bristol, Pennsylvania. The box was controlled by Murphy’s campaign manager, who then “re-mailed” the ballots to the local election board.

As National Review has learned, there was a sudden surge in Democratic absentee ballots in the district last week, and many were mailed in identical, pre-labeled envelopes. Local GOP officials say some of the suspicious ballots were post-marked as far back as August, suggesting they had been held by a third party–perhaps the same individual who controlled the P.O. box where they were mailed? You know, the same guy running Murphy’s re-election bid?

At this point, there’s no proof that Congressman Murphy was involved. Officials with his campaign insist that no ballots sent to the post office box were discarded or tampered with.

Riiiighhhtttttt…..

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There ought to be a law!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams53.1.html

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What about the politician who tells us that he’s not going to raise taxes on the middle class; instead, he’s going to raise corporate income taxes as means to get rich corporations to pay their rightful share of government? If a tax is levied on a corporation, and if it is to survive, it will have one of three responses, or some combination thereof. One response is to raise the price of its product, so who bears the burden? Another response is to lower dividends; again, who bears the burden? Yet another response is to lay off workers. In each case, it is people, not some legal fiction called a corporation, who bear the burden of the tax.

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So the corporate tax rate should ALWAYS be zero. Anything higher and it’s the politicians trying to sheer the sheeple!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/quinn/quinn41.1.html

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The delusions continue. Unless American union workers are willing to work for $7 per hour with no benefits, the manufacturing jobs are not coming back from China. The corporate oligarchs and their bought off cronies in Congress sold the country down the river over the last 40 years. Mega-Corporation profits are at record levels as goods are produced by slave labor in the Far East at 80% lower costs than they could be produced in the U.S. With 86% of the U.S. workforce in the service industry, introducing tariffs on imported goods and devaluing the dollar will further put the squeeze on the American middle class who already have been systematically screwed by the ruling elite over the last 40 years. Our society took 40 years to dig this hole. It is now so deep, there is no way out. But, look at the bright side. At least we don’t have to watch bread lines stretching down the block when we are watching our 52-inch HDTV, holed up in our 5,000 sq ft McMansions, ignoring the monthly mortgage payment bill, and waiting for our unemployment funds to be direct deposited into our bank accounts. I get all teary thinking about it. This is the iDepression 2.0.

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The delusions are going to lead to a very hard landing!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer1.html

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Is there a case to be made for voting? Indeed there is, if one believes that social order is a quality that can be instilled, by violence and other coercive means, by political authorities. I do not accept this proposition. To the contrary, I believe that social order is the product of unseen, spontaneous influences of which most of us are not consciously aware. The study of economics helped me to understand how we respond, marginally, to fluctuations that are continuously generated by one another’s self-seeking pursuits. I also came to understand that politics – like a rock thrown through a spider’s web – disrupts these informal processes as well as the existing patterns of interconnectedness upon which any social order depends.

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Don’t vote; is just encourages them?

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PROVISION #691 (10/17/10): Touch Matters

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The Manifesto, titled “How to fix our schools,”

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Sorry, but it asks the wrong question. And, compounds the issue with a bad sentence construction.

“Our schools”. They are NOT, by any stretch of the imagination, “mine”. I get to pay for Gooferment Skrules, but have no input. (I’d shut them down. In an organized fashion. Over 40 years. And return the responsibility to the parents.) And, please don’t tell me to vote and lobby. That’s a rigged game that benefits the politicians, bureaucrats, and their fellow porkers at the trough.

The question SHOULD BE: Why are we using the 1800’s Prussian model for “schooling”? (Hasn’t the world changed a little? Education hasn’t.) That model had different objectives — cannon fodder, factory workers, and Sheeple to be led by the elite. (Notice where politicians send their children. Those are the elite. It ain’t us folks.) Phoenix University, home schooling, and Bill Gates are all clues that education is not found in Gooferment Skrules. Those seem to be nothing but training for prisons.

So we fix the Gooferment Skrules by growing out of them. First, we get Gooferment out of the operation over 20 years; 5% per year. Second, we get Gooferment out of the funding of education over 20 years. A lot of details to work out, but let’s set the direction to free posterity from the tyranny of out-of-control Gooferment.

http://www.spinninglobe.net/amishmudsill.html

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There was nothing popular, local or personal about this artificial conceit of forced schooling; its purpose was to weaken people’s capacity to educate themselves, to break their loyalty to family, church and land in order to release customers and workforce for élite schemes of economics and social ordering.

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Well written, basic little L libertarian doctrine.

http://ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle592-20101017-02.html

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We must choose a different course. No one who claims to be a libertarian can deny that taxation—having begun as nothing more than simple banditry—represents an institution nearly as ancient as Humankind itself. Nor that taxation is still theft. Nor that taxation is slavery. Nor that taxation is the fuel of war. I will reiterate: taxation is theft. Taxation is slavery. And taxation is the fuel of war.

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Interesting. If the polling is right, she’s 8 points behind. Are the D’s afraid she can win? If so, then I’m for her. Who cares if she’s a wack-a-loon. In two years, it’ll be time to vote her out. My new bumper sticker is “Reelect Nobody”. Now if some one named “nobody” runs, then I’ll have to revisit that diktat. :-) fjohn

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