Reinke Faces Life

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese460.html

A True Memorial
by Charley Reese

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OK, here is my post-Memorial Day gripe. Memorial Day is not the Fourth of July, Flag Day, Armed Forces Day or Veterans Day. It is a day to remember the war dead. You don’t do that with picnics, brass bands, parades, pompous speeches and hype for the current war. “Memorial” and “celebration” are not synonyms. The day was intended for visiting cemeteries, not beaches or amusement parks.

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I agree. Let’s cut the charade. Turn Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and all the days back into regular days. We don’t need to honor anyone. We’re not serious about it. Why give the gangsters that put us in, and keep us in, these holes a day off.

In fact, I thing that every politician should be forced to show up at their desk every day until we have all our troops back inside the fifty states!

Make that a requirement and they’d all be home by Saturday. Even if you did it on a Friday.

What a joke!

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Savage, Christian (MC2007)

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Thanks, Everyone, for your feedback. I appreciate it greatly. Sorry for “spamming” you all again, but I received A LOT of feedback so I just thought it would be easier to explain my plan in this mass thread.

However, I don’t believe you understand the concept of what my plan would do.

Yes, it would “triple the Capital Gains Tax” but it will REPEAL (outright) the double-taxation of Shareholder DIVIDENDS.

Think about it: if the Gov’t passed such a law, it would be what economists call a “Negative Externality vs. Positive Externality.” The publicly-traded corporations in the Free Market would respond by deciding to distribute a fixed percentage of their corporate profits in order to avoid paying the higher Capital Gains Tax which they only have to pay when stocks are SOLD.

As a result, investor CONFIDENCE & DEMAND for stocks would sound more attractive to the general public who would see an opportunity to receive “dividend checks” tax-free even if the Company’s stock would fall. More stocks the company sells, the more investment capital is
available for business expansion. So, in essence, NOBODY will pay the “tripled Capital Gains Tax.” [ ; ) ]

best,
Christian

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Sigh, ahh to be young and idealistic again.

Sorry! I can NOT buy the ‘solution’. On so many levels, I’d suggest that I think you are SO wrong.

First, your ‘solution’ presumes that it is moral for the gang that calls itself ‘government’ to steal from people engaged in non-aggressive behavior.

Second, you overlook the fact that folks have made decisions based on the current set of rules. And, you’re going to jerk the rug out from their plans. because you think this is ‘better’!

Third, you ignore that no matter how perfect your plan is, someone else is going to write, interpret, implement and enforce it. Your ‘pig’ will go into one side and ‘sausage’ will come out the other end. Any resemblance after the politicians and their lobbyists get finished will be purely coincidental.

Bottom line, look to reduce government, and make us all free.

Eliminate the capital gains tax completely, it is just taxing us on the Fed’s inflation. Eliminate income taxes, not just the dividend taxation, it is immoral.

imho,
fjohn68

p.s., I’m old. You youngsters are in need of another American revolution. You’ve all been brainwashed by ‘education’.

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RANT: Savage, Christian (MC2007) has an economic plan

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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2008/05/distracted-by-electoral-spectacle.html

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In an interview with Chris Hedges in The Nation, he says that he is not preoccupied by the election, as so many on the left have been, quoting his brother, the late Father Philip Berrigan, “who said that ‘if voting made any difference it would be illegal.'”

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True, true, true!

OK, you go find an anti-war candidate for vote for? The only one Ron Paul was marginalized out of the race.

And, you think there’s a difference?

Sheeple!

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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/subway_bans_homeschooled_kids.html

May 27, 2008
Subway Bans Homeschooled Kids from Essay Contest
By Ned Barnett

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Subway — the multi-national fast-food sub-shop giant — has shot themselves in the foot. Again. The goal of their latest promotion was to win the loyalty of parents of grade school-aged kids — to increase market share, revenue and profits. It was supposed to be a simple exercise in business marketing and promotion.

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No Subway for me.

As a nation, the ONLY chance we have to get away from the ‘gooferment education’ paradigm is ‘home schooling’. Every time they embarrass and show up the teacher’s union driven gooferment system for the high-priced under-performing dud it is; that’s one more possible pin tin the balloon.

We can only hope to escape this institutionalize stupidity.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/021174.html

May 25, 2008
6th Ballot: Libertarian Party Nominates Bob Barr
Posted by Eric A. Garris at May 25, 2008 04:32 PM

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The final total:

Bob Barr: 324
Mary Ruwart: 276
NOTA: 26

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If Bob Barr is a ‘libertarian’, then I don’t know what a ‘libertarian’ is!

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http://www.bluejersey.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7829

*[new] Bad ‘public transit’ why? (0.00 / 0)

May I take a stab at it?

First, it’s not ‘public transit’. It is a gooferment boondoggle to reward friends, punish enemies, and feather various politicians’ nests. Once you realize that it will all make sense. Based on that standard, it makes perfect sense. It delivers graft, jobs for supporters, and a ton of campaign issues to run on.

Want good ‘public transit’?

It’s easy. Just throw the gooferment out of it. Spin it out to the employees. Auction it off. Of best, give every taxpayer a share of stock in it. No regulations, no laws, no mucking about in any way by the gooferment.

Want it faster?

Eliminate all taxes on earnings from providing transportation services.

We’ll have all sorts of solutions, sizes, and shapes. Heck, with that type of incentives, I’ll go into supplying the public with transit.

alibertarianin08824
at gmail dot com

by: alibertarianin08824 @ Sun May 18, 2008 at 10:18:27 PM EDT

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“In political life today, you are considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.” – John Stossel

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FROM A FORUM EXCHANGE

You probably want to believe in the FEMA myth too. It would be comforting. “I’m from the gooferment and I’m here to help” — help screw up your life worse than it already is.

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

I really do believe that, at the root of all human problems, our belief in government, the force that we give it and it wields against our fellow man, is our downfall as human beings. Like a mental disease. Like a parasite. Like a desert mirage.

When challenged, I always ask “Name one government program that is a success?” Bear in mind that buying a hammer for 5k$ is not a success. Effectiveness and efficiency. I have yet to hear of one.

Disclaimer: I stole this idea from the Free Talk Live podcast.

Arghhhhhh?

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Received your email seeking “intelligent life” at the other end of the keyboard. Pretty hard to find this in today’s society. I’ve become a cynic but I see remedial math and English courses for college freshmen, liberal thinking that says abortion and euthanasia is ok, 25% of high school female students having STDs, students in high school and college who believe they are entitled to a grade of A or B for just showing up, and other signs of entitlement and liberalism. You got me started!

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I’m only a 68BEEE, (paid extra for that Electronics E), and agree with your assessment. I believe that a Secular Progressive fascist / socialist movement captured our education system. Horace Mann led the adoption of the Prussian education system in Massachusetts in the 1850s. It spread like wildfire. Mann is often considered “the father of American public education”. Unfortunately for us, and know to many of the then elite, the Prussian education system, which is virtually unchanged from its roots, was designed to make cannon fodder and factory workers that could be easily led by the elite. What you are reporting is the result of that remarkable German Engineering. And it ain’t a BMW. IMHO the American Catholic Church, and others rolled over and played dead. They let their children be kdnapped by a runaway State. Look to the European history of the great tension between Church and King. When the King oppressed, the people used the Church to balance. Liberalism once meant moving from an autocrat to a laize faire human rights society. When the elite looked at post-revolutionary America free, energetic, and uncontrolable, they “knew better”. Since then it has been a parade down to perdition. Government is a parasite on humanity. I can’t find one redeeming aspect of it. Now we are supposed to worship the godless State who provides all things. I thought the Communists lost the Cold War? Unfortunately the chickens will come home to roost, with dire consequences, for all of us. Maybe we won’t see the ‘fun’. I hope I won’t. History teaches us that those periods are very bad experiences.

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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2008/04/willie-horton-is-alive-and-well-and-on.html

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Willie Horton is alive and well and on the interweb

Hank Kalet is managing editor of the South Brunswick Post

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I received what can only be described as a hideous and blatantly racist e-mail today from an organization called Right v. Left, which is launching something called exposeobama.org and plans to run something it is calling a “Horton” ad. You know, “Horton,” as in Willie Horton.

The rhetoric of the e-mail is rather ugly and I’ve gone back and forth over whether I should share any of it. But I think it is necessary so that everyone understands the kind of ugliness that still exists in the hearts of too many Americans.

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TO WHICH I REPLIED:

My only observation is that your beloved Democratic Party is no better. One only has to look at their tactics closely. Oh, but I forgot, since their motives are as pure as the driven snow, their failings are excusable. But the hated Republicans are not.

Sorry, to tell you that politics, as practiced by both sides of the same coin, is a sham. Designed to give the illusion of choice.

That’s why there is no true anti-war candidate left in the race other than the now marginalized Ron Paul. That’s why there is no one to address the many other wars we are supposedly fighting — war on drugs, poverty, etc. etc. That’s why there is no one addressing the core issues that are plaguing our society — national debt, unbalanced budget, run away spending, entitlements, taxes, education, employment, global competition, the debasement of our dollar, captive regulation, and the current incest between the gooferment and industry.

No instead, they have us, divided, bickering over trivialities and externalities.

You fell for it.

Do you really think that any of these three candidates is Presidential material?

No, the powers that be, like the choices, just fine. There will be no change to the country and that suits the entrenched interests just fine.

All the sheep should just keep watching the circus as we hurtle towards oblivion.

Posted by Libertarian at 08824 to CHANNEL SURFING at 7:40 AM

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