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POLITICAL: Fixing Arizona using power point?
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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POLITICAL: What a novel idea: voluntary funding of services
Tuesday, May 4, 2010http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/the-audacity-of-deceit-92614219.html
May. 02, 2010
The audacity of deceit
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ
I don’t think Barack Obama tells the truth.
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The freedom ideal would be no compulsory taxation, at all — let all keep their own earnings to invest in growing the economy, while what minimal government is required would be supported by voluntary user fees.
The statists will pretend to object on pragmatic grounds. Let them first answer whether or not they agree this would be the ideal. If they do, then we can try to solve the pragmatic problems. I grew up in a small town, for example, where voluntary membership fees funded the ambulance and the volunteer firemen. The ambulance and the firemen would still respond to a home that had not subscribed — but that homeowner would then receive a bill for the full cost of their services. Few waited to get a second bill before signing up as paid members.
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My gripe with gooferment is:
- It uses force even when not needed;
- We pay for “services” that we don’t want.
- We pay for “services” that we don’t need.
- We pay for “services” that we can’t afford.
- We pay for “services” that are “over priced”.
- We pay for “services” that are “under functional”.
- We pay for “services” that are delayed or way overdue.
And pay, and pay, and pay, and pay.
Enuf is enuf!
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POLITICAL: Thinking about “fair”!
Monday, May 3, 2010I was watching an old episode of Family Fued and one of the questions spurred a RANT. Really political.
“What do you think is a fair salary for a new teacher?”
Arghhhhhh!
Regardless of the answer, this had so many “teachable moments” it was astonishing.
(1) Opinions are like …, everyone has one. Who cares what people think is “fair”? The ONLY “fair” price is one that is freely offered and accepted. A marketplace establish what is “fair” better than any vote or opinion.
(2) The teacher is an employee of the gooferment. With a capturing captive union that exerts tremendous political pressure. Starting salary is political. Very political.
(3) The salary of day care “teachers” is by definition “fair”. And, much lower than that of “real teachers”. Why do we have gooferment “education”? I’d call it “youth propaganda prisons”. And we sneered at the Communists and their “political reeducation camps”; what’s different?
(4) The whole education system isn’t “fair”. I don’t decide ANYTHING in a child’s life, but I’m forced to pay for their education. That ain’t “fair”.
Argh!
Did I miss anything?
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POLITICAL: No more Vietnams
Friday, April 30, 2010http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=146437
35 years after fall of Saigon
Posted: April 28, 2010
By Richard Botkin
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America’s investment in Vietnam was significant. Aside from the tens of billions of dollars spent to fight the war, 58,000 men paid the ultimate price. Several times that number were wounded, and every man who endured combat has been marked forever by that experience.
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Even those, who didn’t endure that combat, has been marked forever.
Good “boys”, really men, followed their consciences to Canada or underground. Some of them died as well. Driven from society, their friends, their family, their supporting social circles, their dreams into who knows what type of personal and civil hell. My best friend died in that hell. I didn’t know about it because he was on the wrong side of the law and I had a security clearance. His girl, who in normal times, might have become his wife, drifted on without him. He was a “casualty of war” as much as any man lost in combat.
There were a lot more casualties.
“No More Vietnams” to me means no more welfare / warfare state illusions. George Washington was perceptive about “entangling alliances” and MYOB!
Donna Nobis Pacem!
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POLITICAL: Beck is morphing into a libertarian
Friday, April 30, 2010http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=144405
Beck breaks from the pack
Posted: April 23, 2010
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But more importantly: good guy Glenn is finally espousing a foreign policy compatible with limited authority and republican virtues.
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Glenn Beck has been slowly moving toward being a libertarian in thought, word, and deed.
The shift to a “humble foreign policy” is essential to getting our troops home and our “collective nose” out of everyone else’s business.
The question is it real or is it like “Rosie O’Donnell”? Where after the fame is no longer needed, the star rips off the mask and we see the truth.
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POLITICAL: … leave you alone!
Thursday, April 29, 2010http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2010/04/libertarian-conspiracy-t-shirts-bumper.html
I LOVE this one!
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POLITICAL: Energy independence and the debt!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010http://dailyreckoning.com/8-very-public-false-starts-for-us-energy-independence
8 Very Public False Starts for US Energy Independence
By Rocky Vega
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* In 1974 with 36.1% of oil from foreign sources, President Richard Nixon said
* In 1975 with 36.1% of oil from foreign sources, President Gerald Ford said
* In 1979 with 40.5% of oil from foreign sources, President Jimmy Carter said
* In 1981 with 43.6% of oil from foreign sources, President Ronald Reagan said
* In 1992 with 47.2% of oil from foreign sources, President George Bush said
* In 1995 with 49.8% of oil from foreign sources, President Bill Clinton said
* In 2006 with 65.5% of oil from foreign sources, President George W. Bush said
* In 2009 with 66.2% of oil from foreign sources, President Barack Obama said
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Who cares what they said!
Look at results.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
Tariffs are constitutional.
How about a 5% import duty on all “foreign” energy?
That 5% is used to reduce the national debt.
And, at the same time. tie the congress critters salary to the deficit in the prior year. Salary zero if there is any!
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POLITICAL: Political Assassination a bad idea when applied to us?
Tuesday, April 27, 2010http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/the_effectivene_1.html
Schneier on Security
A blog covering security and security technology.
April 20, 2010
The Effectiveness of Political Assassinations
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This is an excellent read:
I wouldn’t have believed you if you’d told me 20 years ago that America would someday be routinely firing missiles into countries it’s not at war with. For that matter, I wouldn’t have believed you if you’d told me a few months ago that America would soon be plotting the assassination of an American citizen who lives abroad.
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Interesting is the “good for the goose; good for the gander” argument. If terrorists start targeting American political leaders, then I can imagine the moral indignation.
Also, interesting is that “letters of marque and reprisal” WAS acceptable to the dead old white guys and provided for in the Constitution. (Not that they’d do it; they’d just give whoever did do it a “get out of jail free” card.) We don’t follow the Constitution about declaring war, the Constitution’s implied isolationism, or the dead old white guys’ often expressed policy of MYOB.
How’s that supposed Chinese curse go? “May you live in interesting times.”
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As a little L libertarian who is pro-life anti-death penalty, fighting an undeclared war, killing civilians, and the indiscriminate assassination of supposed enemies is unacceptable and immoral.
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POLITICAL: Reconnect or repolarize
Monday, April 26, 2010April 26, 2010
Obama seeks to ‘reconnect…young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women’ for 2010
Ben Smith
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Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to “young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again.”
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Argh!
Was that the demographic groups that put him over the top?
Or was it anyone who believed the “barbara streisand” that he was peddling?
Argh!
Another corrupt Chicago politician that’s feeling the heat after disappointing the voters.
AND, BTW, why had he spent more than 2M$ fighting to keep his paperwork hidden?
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POLITICAL: We can’t afford gooferment skrools!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2010/04/dangers-of-governing-with-mandate-you.html
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The dangers of governing with a mandate you haven’t earned
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To be fair, the governor had a disastrous fiscal situation to deal with. The state has been spending more than it has been taking in for years, and it has been clear since the day Jon Corzine took office in 2006 that something had to be done. To his credit, Gov. Christie is attempting to put the state on sounder fiscal footing; his approach, however, ignores public priorities and has little to do with fairness.
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Unfortunately, “we” are at the time where the earth is shifting under our “collective feet”.
We, as a society, can no longer afford gooferment supplied “education”.
Sorry, but that is a “facts of life”. There’s just too many “facts”. Too much “overhead”. Too many chiefs. Too many “mandates”. Too many “union rules”. Too little innovation. Too much “entrenched fiefdoms”.
Christie is just one in a long line of politicians who are trying to adjust. Like a soon to be dead fish, flopping around on the dock. A lot of activity without much chance of success.
Dewey and Mann were socialists who brought the Prussian model of education to the USA. It was right for what they wanted to accomplish — socialism. It was, and is, wrong because it’s not what the American people want or need.
As an IT/BPR practitioner, we need to recognize the basics. Parents need to be in charge. Education is just one more aspect of the things a parent needs to provide. We need a plan to migrate from where we are to where we want to be. It took almost 100 years to get into this mess; it will take decades to get out.
Recognizing the problem is the first step!
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