RANT: The USA is broke!

Monday, August 17, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul566.html

Healthcare Plan Based on Economic Fantasy
by Ron Paul

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As the healthcare debate rages on, there is one reality that even the proponents of this hostile takeover of healthcare by government cannot ignore – and that is money. The government simply does not have the money for a new, expansive, public healthcare plan. The country is in a deep recession that will deepen even further with the coming collapse of the commercial real estate market. The last thing we need is for government to increase and expand taxes to pay for another damaging, wasteful program. Foreigners are becoming less enthusiastic about buying our debt, and creating another open-ended welfare program when we cannot pay for what is already in place, will not help. Champions of socialized medicine want to tax the rich, tax businesses that already cannot afford to provide health plans to employees, and tax people who don’t want to participate in the government’s scheme by buying an approved healthcare plan. Presumably, all these taxes are to induce compliance. This is not freedom, nor will it improve healthcare.

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“Where’s the beef?” Clara of Wendy’s fame asked that question every few minutes on the commercials of yesteryear.

One would hope youngsters of all ages would begin to ask the same question!

And, it’s the money, honey. Where is it going to come from?

Economics is called the “dismal science” because it recognizes that resources are limited.

A six pack of … doughnuts … can only go so far.

Can’t print more! The FED can fool us by printing more “money”, but it doesn’t increase the supply of doughnuts. Some one has to bake them.

Somewhere in the world someone has to forego a doughnut for it to magically appear here.

Cut to the bottom line, No one will buy the American IOU. Would you?

Sorry but there is no “beef”. The congress critters “ate” it all.

Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians. Both the D’s and the R’s. No difference.

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RANT: Gooferment charity

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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Please explain the notion of marriage which is not a civil agreement. The churches can do their things, I’m OK with it. But if someone wants to get married (not gay, just not via the church) he has an option of registering in the city hall. What’s the L alternative? A contract at a lawyer’s office? I’m OK with it – but it needs to carry the benefits “formal” marriage brings. I’m OK with destroying the entire system so these “benefits” will not be provided by the government – but until we do you have an unjust system. So to say we are not going to give gays the right to marry because we think the government should be out of this business is a bit unfair.

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Ahh, see, that’s where you get into trouble … Courtesy of the gooferment … “benefits”. There are NO benefits to “marriage” UNTIL the goofermetn gets involved. Marriage is a PRIVATE matter between consenting adults. Recognizing it in a commumnity of like minded individuals — call it chaurch or the local gay commnity — is again a private matter. No one’s business but those folks who voluntarily associate with each other. What benefits do you see in marraige that come from anywhere else but the gooferment? I personally don’t care who marrys. I do care that I am forced to pay for all the gooferment benefits.

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As to the protecting the weak – I’m not a big believer in Human good hearts. If it wasn’t for the government, retarded people as well as people with physical disabilities would be killed – as it was the case in old societies. And since economists and libertarian put financial value on everything they can claim with clean conscious that it made financial sense to keep them alive. Something I can’t subscribe to. Thoughts?

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Well, you need to update your perceptions. Americans are a SPECTACULARLY generous people. Despite paying heavy taxes, look at the response to the Tsunami. Third world people. Half a globe away. And the amount of money that was donated by real people was staggering. Then the various gooferments got involved ripping it off. Read your history. The first hospitals, orphanages, “rest homes” were all the result of Churches and the charity of their members. I think you’ll find that economists and little L libertarians are very “charitable” when it comes to keeping people alive. It is all about dollars and cents. We have limited resources so we must be very smart how we use them. People take care of other people. Once the gooferment gets involved then the problems begin. Morality is not an economic calculation. Besides businesses first provided benefits to get good workers and get around the WW2 wage and price controls. Workers work harder when there is a comfortable retirement at the end of the rainbow. It’s the social welfare programs of the Federal Gooferment in Social Security that litterally destroyed the extended family structure when it enabled grandparents to abscond to Florida with their social security check paid for by future generations. The gooferment also destroyed the Black Churches and the Black Family with welfare. So don’t think that the gooferment is innocent in this mess. Were there abuses? Sure, but I bet a lot less than today’s gooferment care paradigm.

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I rather see less government but I’m being realistic and the no-government future isn’t realistic right now so how do we minimize the role of government while being fair about it is a question I’m struggling with. To tell my friend whose a teacher whose husband died two years back and left her with three kids that she can’t have health insurance but if they’re about to die she can take them to the ER isn’t OK with me. I know it’s not MY causing and not MY problem but as a human being it bothers me. How can you live with this?

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Well, I think the no-gov future is getting more realistic as the current set of crooks spend us into bankruptcy. The spigot is going to go dry. That Russian might be right; the USA will devolve into smaller states. We have to do some “minimizing”! Some time or other. I vote R and get bigger gooferment. I vote D and get bigger gooferment. I listen to candidates who swear up and down that they are different; they turn out to be same old same old.

Now, let’s look at your specific case. You’re friend, the teacher. The husband dies without life insurance. (Not surprising. Cantor Fitgerald, the Wall Street firm, wiped out by 9/11, had 95% of their employees had NO life insurance. Financial industry professionals.) So someone made a choice to forgo life insurance. (My Mom made me buy mine when I got married. She said: “A husband, who dies without life insurace for his family, doesn’t die; he absconds.” She’d seen too many widows in desparate striaghts because of it.) I feel bad. But, some one made a bad choice. Now she has three children and doesn’t have medical insurance. She’s obviously not teaching now. They all have gold plated benefits. So what have you done to HELP her solve her problem. I’m assuming that YOU could buy her a catastrophic health insuance for 500$ per month. What about her family? Her social organizations? I spend a lot of money each month helping two differnet relatives out of my own (unemployed) pocket. You can’t look to the government to solve problems; they can only create them.

I live with the current environment because I know I didn’t create it and I can’t fix it. I can “clean up” my little part of the Universe.

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The reason I’m asking is not to argue or tease, it’s because I really don’t have a good answer

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I took the time to answer becuase I think that you’re not arguing or teasing. I know that you’ve got a good head and heart from our time together at XXXXXXXXX. Of course, you were a mucky muck and I was a peon. (I learned along time ago that I don’t want to be a mucky muck. Too painful!) I think if WE empower people and hold them accountable for their choices, we’ll all be better off.

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RANT: Restraining orders don’t

Sunday, August 16, 2009

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090814/NEWS/90814120&s=d&page=2#pluckcomments

Man at center of murder-suicide had years of money problems
By Matthew McGrath • TOMS RIVER BUREAU • August 14, 2009

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TOMS RIVER — The muscle-bound man accused of throttling his ex-fiancee before hanging himself Thursday had a several-year history of money problems.

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http://www.app.com/article/20090814/NEWS/90815005

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Her apparent killer, Frank Frisco Jr., 36, was found dead shortly after, hanging in a detached garage of her Lafayette Avenue home that was in foreclosure. She had been staying elsewhere with friends since obtaining a restraining order against Frisco, and was scared to death of him, friends said.

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Although someone posted bail for the theft, bad checks and restraining order charges, the court ordered him held on outstanding child support of $25,870.36, officials said. The court then released him Wednesday without the payment. On Wednesday at 5:10 p.m., Zindell learned he was being released, authorities said.

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I happen to know some one who knows this girl and the guy.

That just makes it more upsetting.

What judge let the fellow out without the 25K?

Restraining orders don’t restrain squat! GIve the girl a gun and warn the guy if he gets shot no charges will be filed.

Argh!

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RANT: ROADS; no longer the third rail

Saturday, August 15, 2009

FROM FACEBOOK

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I drove in upstate with a friend of mine whose a libertarian. We saw all the road constructions (quite annoying to be honest) and he stated it’s unfair he needs to pay for any construction to the roads in an area he never drives in. I had no good answer. Thoughts?

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MY RESPONSE

OK, he’s absolutely correct. THe gooferment one size fits all requires us to pay for stuff we will never ever use. It’s the only entity, with its monopoly on initiation of force, which can require us to pay for what we don’t need, don’t want, can’t use, and a absurdly high price. Roads are the third rail of Libertarian philosophy. Because the sheeple can’t conceive of roads being “done” by anything other than the government. Walt Disney, private home owner associations, and private roads all exist in the “real world”. There needs to be a revolution in our memes. How about selling the interstate to WalMart and UPS? Think they would have construction delaying their paying customers? ROFL! SO why ask me? You know I am a raving little Llibertarian!  

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You expected me to say something different?

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RANT: Obama care is a nightmare

Thursday, August 13, 2009

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/08/12/town_halls/

Obama’s healthcare horror
Heads should roll — beginning with Nancy Pelosi’s!
By Camille Paglia

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I just don’t get it. Why the insane rush to pass a bill, any bill, in three weeks? And why such an abject failure by the Obama administration to present the issues to the public in a rational, detailed, informational way? The U.S. is gigantic; many of our states are bigger than whole European nations. The bureaucracy required to institute and manage a nationalized health system here would be Byzantine beyond belief and would vampirically absorb whatever savings Obama thinks could be made. And the transition period would be a nightmare of red tape and mammoth screw-ups, which we can ill afford with a faltering economy.

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Seems like Paglia gets it. I’m no fan of today’s liberals. But, being a classical liberal myself, I can understand the appeal of helping people. In the case of this nonsense in DC, we’ll be “helping” people into a mess. An inextricable mess.

For my own part, I’d suggest that we have one small change each year until we solve the problem. There is a problem here somewhere. Isn’t there?

I’m not so sure we have even defined the problem that Obama-care is supposed to solve?

How about if we make health insurance deductible to individuals? Then we would have EXACT numbers on % insured. (No one misses a tax DEDUCTION!)

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RANT: Congresscritters’ double standard

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124986067095218079.html

AUGUST 10, 2009

Opposition Emerges to House’s Jet Spree
By BRODY MULLINS and T.W. FARNAM

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WASHINGTON — Bipartisan opposition is emerging in the Senate to a plan by House lawmakers to spend $550 million for additional passenger jets for senior government officials.

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Weren’t these the sae congresscritters who were outraged by the car execs flying into get questioned?

Argh!

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RANT: Throw the gooferment out of “health”

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106149

Obama: Unwitting catalyst for free-market health care?
Posted: August 07, 2009
David Limbaugh

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a sampling of excessive state-mandated treatments that are covered, including: acupuncture, alcoholism treatment, athletic trainers, breast reduction, contraceptives, dieticians, drug abuse treatment, hair prosthesis, home health care, hormone replacement therapy, in vitro fertilization, marriage therapy, massage therapy, nature treatments, pastoral counseling, Port-stain elimination, professional counseling, smoking cessation, speech therapy and varicose vein removal.

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Time to push the gooferment out of all the things that it is into.

At the root, the only proper function of government is to protect us from force or fraud.

So, the federal gooferment has no role in “health care” other than to resolve conflicts between the states. The FDA is an agency that has failed. “Health and Human Services” needs to be nuked.

Slash the Federal budget. Repeal the income tax. And, make the bureaucrats literally barefoot beggars.

Congress critters and their minons have better pensions than almost any taxpayer. That’s just not right.

Argh!

Wake up sheeple!

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RANT: We need to “liberate” drugs

Monday, August 10, 2009

Don’t give in to the state
Dallas Libertarian Examiner
by Garry Reed

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“Libertarians who fight for marijuana rights should never compromise on rights. They should never meekly beg to be legalized and taxed and regulated. They should never give in to the state. It’s the state, after all, who’s in the wrong, so make the state give in to you. That means demanding your rights as free and sovereign individuals, long and loud and persistently. And when the state finally comes around, offering to compromise its position by legalizing and taxing and regulating medical marijuana, take it. But never take it as an end, only as a step. Then keep demanding your freedom, long and loud and persistently.” (08/02/09)

http://tinyurl.com/nvfp78

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The gooferment has no role in drugs. Other than to screw things up. Non-violent drug “offenders” should be pardoned.

Let’s shut down the FDA. All they do is slow stuff down on its way to market. Killing sick people in the process. And, making everything more expensive.

Argh!

And think of all the youngsters hurt or killed by impure “illegal” drugs. If they are going to take drugs, and I hope they don’t, let’s make sure they have pure “safe” ones. I think WalMart can put all the drug dealers out of business. Remember the gang wars of Prohibition? Coke and Pepsi. Bud and Miller. No shooting. Just competition.

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RANT: Traffic lights and global warming

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Driving to a doctor’s appointment today, I missed EVERY light. Argh! Leaving aside the cop making an illegal left, that exasperates me. Almost as much as state gooferment cars. In missing every light, I had ample opportunity to observe that I was sitting at intersections, with traffic queueing up behind me, with no cross traffic. Argh!

If Stamford U can make a car that drives itself, can’t we have a “smart” traffic light?

No traffic to use the cycle, free it. Allow the direction with traffic to go. Seems obvious that a lot of gas is being wasted. No wonder folks speed up to get through on the yellow. Or even, on the edge of red. The technology is archaic.

But what would you expect from the gooferment. Roadways are essentially the same as the Fifties. Sure there’s more standardization, but that is not necessarily good. For example, NJ’s jughandles are a specific solution to the high density of traffic. But, that makes no sense in sparsely settle areas. But, even the jughandle has been eliminated or overwhelmed by volume.

See there is a fundamental flaw in the meme. Laws don’t prevent anything. Give me the good old Law of Gravity. You can’t break it if you tried. We need to privatize the roads. Like Professor Block has written. Then we’d get some innovation in roads. Wouldn’t you like to ride on the FedEx expressway or the UPS highway? Bet you the speed limit would high and enforced.

And, just maybe I wouldn’t miss every light.

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RANT: Gooferment Flood Insurance

Saturday, August 8, 2009

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/08/07/flood-insurance-mend-it-or-end-it-but-dont-just-extend-it/

Flood Insurance: Mend It or End It, But Don’t Just Extend It
Posted by Mark A. Calabria

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Before leaving for the August recess, the House of Representatives passed a bill (HR3139) to extend the authority for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) until March 2010. The program was set to expire on Oct. 1, 2009. The bill now goes to the Senate. Instead of taking up HR3139, the Senate should insist on real reforms to the NFIP, rather then a blanket extension.

Since Hurricane Katrina, the NFIP has operated under a deficit of close to $17 billion, which had to be borrowed from the Treasury in order to pay claims. Under the NFIP’s current structure, it cannot even make the interest payments on its borrowing; these losses will ultimately hit the taxpayer.

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In one instance, a house in Houston this is valued at around $100,000 received over $800,000 in flood insurance claims over a 20-year period, before it was finally destroyed.

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At the very least, we, te taxpayer, should only be forced to insure something once.

And, what exactly is the gooferment doing in the “insurance business” any way?

Argh!

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RANT: Healthcare ideas; that don’t require a takeover

Monday, August 3, 2009

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RANT: Sheepke are suckers

Monday, August 3, 2009

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/07/forget-tea-parties-wherere-pitchforks.html

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We will continue to need significant public spending to get us out of this mess

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SORRY, buzzz, incorrect thinking.

The gooferment can’t get us out of this mess, that THEY put us into. (Sweetheart deals for their pals on Wall Street. See CRA, Freddie, Fannie, FED, FTC, etc, etc! Oiled by “contributions” to Dodd, Barney, and others.)

The gooferment has completely corrupted our concept of money. The stuff they are printing ain’t “money”. It’s toilet paper. And, just look at the value of the dollar over time or in international trade and you can see the result.

They will get us out of this mess by inflating the currency. It’s the only tool they have. Screw the savers, those on fixed income, and anyone holding “dollars”. Inflation rewards their friends and gives them more “money” to spend.

In actuality, the only way to get out of this mess is to do the hard work. Cut the gooferment down to a size we can afford (about 25% of what it is now). Free individuals and small biz from regulations desinged to protect the “players” (i.e., those supposedly regualted). Cut taxes.

But they won’t do that. The politicians, the congress crtiters, and the bureaucrats like things just the way they are.

Sheeple are suckers!

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RANT: Who pays the 800$ next year?

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Stimulus-Funds-Give-Texas-Teachers-a-Raise.html

Stimulus Funds Give Texas Teachers a Raise Texas teachers will get $800 raises thanks to stimulus funds
Updated 11:30 AM CDT, Sat, Jul 25, 2009

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Teachers across the state of Texas will soon get raises, thanks to $2 billion in stimulus funds approved by the Department of Education.

Texas teachers are expected to receive a minimum raise of $800.

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Stimulus my ass!

I wuz, we wuz, robbed!

Bet those teachers are all members of the teacher’s union!

This is a payoff to Democratic voters.

And in case the dumb shumck politicians, skipped economics, what will they do next year. All these raises will have to be paid for next year by who? Give yourself a gold star if you answered “the taxpayers of Texas”!

It’s an unfunded mandate.

Just like the minimum wage increase is an increase for government workers and union members.

Sheeple!

How stupid can you be?

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RANT: Obama-care for the old = suicide or murder

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/07/25/government-health-care-trade-offs-death-or-treatment/

Government Health Care Trade-Offs: Death or Treatment?
Posted by Doug Bandow

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Uwe Reinhardt has made the argument that health care rationing is health care rationing. It’s inevitable, so there’s no big deal about the government exerting more control. I argued earlier that this ignores the question 0f who is doing the rationing, us or the government? Since resources are finite but desires are infinite, we all engage in “rationing” in most every aspect of our lives. But we do so based on our needs, wants, wishes, and dreams, not those of politicians or bureaucrats.

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… all for the common good!

Why do I think that the politicians will get a different “health care plan”?

And, could this be a way to quicken the collection of death taxes?

Argh!

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RANT: Mayo Clinic doesn’t like Obama-care aka Clinton-care

Friday, July 24, 2009

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/21/mayo-clinic-calls-house-plan-bad-medicine/?feat=home_cube_position1

Mayo Clinic calls House plan bad medicine

Obama loses support on reform

By Christina Bellantoni (Contact) and Jennifer Haberkorn (Contact)

Originally published 04:45 a.m., July 21, 2009, updated 01:39 p.m., July 21, 2009

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A world-renowned clinic that President Obama held up as an example of good medicine said Monday that the American people would be “losers” under the House’s health care proposal, joining the growing chorus of critics the Obama administration is trying to fend off as the debate intensifies from Capitol Hill to Main Street.

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How many people need to tell the American People that this is a disaster for them to wake up and call their congress critters on the carpet. And it’s not a “red” one they should be on.

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RANT: Biden, Economics, and just shaking my head

Thursday, July 16, 2009

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51162

Home » News » Politics
CNSNews.com
Joe Biden: ‘We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt’
Thursday, July 16, 2009
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer

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Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money.

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With economics like this, I pity Posterity who will have to endure and clean up this mess.

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RANT: Found a working power plug.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

MCBa sucks without free wifi or free power.

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RANT: Too early

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Argh!

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RANT: National Socialism runs amuck!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

FROM A DRUDGE HEADLINE

“RAHM IT THROUGH: NATIONALIZED HEALTH CARE IN WEEKS!”

Well, we better all make the congress critters understand.

NOT ONLY WILL WE NOT VOTE FOR YOU: WE’LL ACTIVELY CAMPAIGN AGAINST YOU!

One can only hope that the R’s make Teddy and Byrd get out of their sick beds and SHOW UP!

This will be the end of the American Experiment.

Socialism! National Socialism to be precise.

A sad day for America!

Broke (We can’t afford it), Busted (We’ve given the Secular Progressive Socialists control without opposition), and DIsgusted (How many promises and expectations will be left unfulfilled)!

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LETTER TO RUSH HOLT (My congress critter? Can I sell him? No; so he’s not “mine”.)

You had best STOP this health care nonsense. Tell me you’ve read the 1,000 pages? If it passes, we will have socialized medicine. Let’s not kid around. My wife needs her healthcare. And, when you politicians finsih with it, she won’t. So stop it. We can’t afford it. We don’t want to be like Canada and England.

Normally, I’d just say don’t expect my vote. On this issue, I am promising that if you vote for this nonsense, not only will I not vote for you. I will support, campaingn, and contribute to who ever runs against you. An Axe Murder would be kinder. He can only kill you. You are destroying the country.

Shaking my head, what can you in COngress be thining of.

f. reinke

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AUTOMATED RESPONSE

Thank you for your email message. I appreciate your taking the time to let me know your views and concerns about issues facing America. You will be receiving an answer from me soon.

Please do not reply to this e-mail. If you would like to e-mail me again, go to my web site at http://holt.house.gov/contact.shtml .

RUSH HOLT
Member of Congress

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RANT: Customer (dis) Service?

Monday, July 13, 2009

Booked a trip. (Yeah, I know. I too would rather go to the dentist than fly. Unavoidable. Have to check on a old family friend!)

Travel Agent got us seats outbound but couldn’t on the inbound return.

So I filled out the airline contact form. (Agonizing detail. Required fields alone took 10 minutes — estimated)

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My travel agent says that he’s unable to reserve seats on the return trip. That seems strange and very ‘un Swiss’. We’d like to have seats assigned.

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SEVERAL days later, I get this:

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Dear Mr Reinke,

Thank you for writing to us.

We have reviewed your request and wish to share the following information with you:

A specific seat will be assigned to you during the check-in process.

SWISS offers the following check-in options:

– Web check-in

– Self check-in machines

– Phone check-in

– Local check-in

For further details, please contact the following link on our website:

http://www.swiss.com/web/EN/services/checkin/Pages/checkin_overview.aspx

We wish you a pleasant flight with SWISS and are available to assist you at any time.

Sincerely yours

{Name withheld}

SWISS E-Mail Service Center-Team Basel

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ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!
I LOVE getting form email. It’s like some one presses response buttons randomly.
And, business wonder why customer HATE them!
{Just shaking my head}
Maybe I should call the 1800 number and have a nice man from Bangladesh read to me from his script. Probably read me the same answer!
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RANT: Government is uncontrollable

Friday, July 10, 2009

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Jury sees videos of La. congressman accepting cash

By MATTHEW BARAKAT – 17 hours ago

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal jury has seen video of a former Louisiana congressman accepting a suitcase filled with $100,000 in cash outside a northern Virginia hotel.

The videos played Tuesday are a key piece of evidence in the bribery trial of William Jefferson, a Democrat who represented parts of New Orleans. He’s accused of accepting more than $400,000 in bribes to broker business deals in Africa.

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This bozo did not have the decency to conceal his corruption. ALL politicians and bureaucrats are the same. Some are just a little more circumspect than others. BUT they all are feathering their own nests at our expense.

Anarchy, not chaos, is the only solution. Government, as a meme, can NOT be controlled.

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RANT: Bush43 / Obama44 did the samething

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090704/D997DI2G1.html

Venezuela assumes control of Spanish-owned bank

Jul 4, 12:22 AM (ET)

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ

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(AP) Venezuela’s Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque, left, shakes hands with former president of…

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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez’s government assumed control of Venezuela’s third-largest bank on Friday – making the state the largest player in the nation’s banking system.

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And this is different than what Bush43 / Obama44 did?

Chavez = bad communist dictator!

Bush43 / Obama44 = “good guys”.

Why because they are “ours”?

Argh!

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RANT: BOYCOTT Simon Malls!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/06/july_4_atlanta_tea_party_cance.html

June 23, 2009
July 4 Atlanta Tea Party Cancelled
Jason Lee

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With as many as 20,000 people attendance, the Atlanta Tea Party on April 15 was one of the largest and most successful Tea Parties in the country. The Atlanta Tea Party on July 4, 2009 had been expected to be just as large. Unfortunately, plans have changed. Simon Property Group has forced the cancellation of the Atlanta Tea Party.

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Following the money, connecting the dots:

   1. Gwinnett Place Mall shut down the Atlanta Tea Party.

   2. Simon Property Group owns Gwennett Place Mall.

   3. Melvin Simon (a Forbes 400 billionaire) is Co-chairman of Simon Property Group, Inc.

   4. Melvin Simon has provided large political contributions to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Al Franken, John Edwards, the DNC and many other Democrats and Democrat organizations.

   5. Melvin Simon was a major contributor to Barack Obama inaugural committee and has given at least $1 million to the William J. Clinton foundation.

   6. Melvin’s wife, Bren, personally donated almost $100,000 to various political candidates, was a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, and contributed to President Obama’s inaugural committee.

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AND IN THE COMMENTS

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Two can play that game. Call for a boycott of all Simon Malls – there are plenty of alternatives looking for our dollar. Write to the merchants management and say why you will not shop at a Simon Mall – they suppress Freedom of Speech and the constitutional right to assemble. Boycotts worked in the South before, they will work again especially if wide spread throughout the country. Nobody tells Simon where to invest his money and it is his right to contribute to whichever candidate he thinks will benefit this country. But our choice of where to shop is beyond his reach. Not that one can’t smell the stink of perversion from Chicago via Washington. Hardball they want? Hardball they get.

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BOYCOTT Simon Malls!

http://www.simon.com/findamall/noflash/find_mall.aspx

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RANT: Response to a socialist

Thursday, June 11, 2009

>Hey, I’ll take your worthless Federal Reserve Banknote money off your hands.

I’m sure that you would. You liberals will “TAKE” anything! And, your typically big gooferment thugs will be more that happy to rob people of the wealth to satisfy the mob’s demands.

>Are all libertorians anti-union? What a silly question, of course they are.

Of course not. Honest unions that seek to represent their members in fair negotiations with employers are just exercising people’s rights of association. When they use the guns of gooferment to rob the bondholders of their proper settlement, then they are just as bad as the thugs they employ. (Before you say that the bondholders “agreed”, permit me to point out the 52% that did agree were big banks that were getting TARP money anyway. How could they not agree? And, they were being paid off anyway!)

>Basically, libertarians are pro rich, pro management and anti-working class.

If anything, little L libertarians are pro-working class. We want liberty and honest money. And, peace. Take a look at the casualties of war. It’s the poor and working class.

>shouldn’t workers have the right to form unions?

Sure they do. You don’t see L’s rooting for “card check”, minimum wages, or protectionisms.

>Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist, works for the people and does not take corporate money.

Please don’t make me laugh! He’s a socialist! Maybe even a Marxist.

>Dennis Kucinich, not a socialist, is a feisty fighter for ordinary working Americans.

Dittos.

> I have no idea if it was a good idea to bail out GM.

I do. It was a bad idea for either Bush or Obama to keep GM out of Chapter 11. And, all the money is wasted. It can’t be saved. CAFE standards and all the assorted gooferment actions have made it impossible to make stuff in the US. It’s like giving CPR to a mannequin.

>Millions (including those not directly involved in building cars) will lose their jobs, their health >care and their pensions.

Yes, there will be a lot of breakage. But the UAW voters, … ahh I mean, members will still have their gold plated pensions and health benefits. What happened to the Delta pilots shouldn’t happen to a UAW voter. Sigh! GM was always known as a “health insurance company that made cars”. Argh!

>To only blame government for all our ills and not the free marketeers is just delusional.

It’s the gooferment’s use of force that is the root of most of the evils we are suffering through now. By the way, could you point out the “free market” that you are refering to? I can’t see anything free since the 1860’s.

>Can’t blame unions or the government for the fall of all those financial companies

Sorry, but the seeds of the current collapse is rooted in the easy money of the FED and the Community Reinvestment Act. Barney and Chis, on the dole from AIG and other companies, made it easy for the sheeple to be defrauded.

>ENRON fell because of the corporate crooks not because of unions or the government.

ENRON resulted from the psuedo deregulation of the power industry. Their lobbyist used gooferment to do all sorts of “rule making”. In the end, it all collapsed. And the workers took it in the ear!

>I certainly bash government when necessary, when warranted which is quite often.

You fail to see the force of gooferment (i.e., the often not so silent gun in the room) is at the root of most problems. Our lives would be immeasurably improved it they’d just leave us alone.

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RANT: Here comes the sales tax?

Monday, June 8, 2009

http://lewrockwell.com/spl/another-reason-for-secession.html

Another Compelling Reason for Secession
The Feds Plan To Stick Us With a National Sales Tax (in a Depression!)
by Lori Montgomery

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With budget deficits soaring and President Obama pushing a trillion-dollar-plus expansion of health coverage, some Washington policymakers are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo: a national sales tax.

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Doesn’t anyone see this as the “fair tax”? It was exactly the argument that the opponents made when everyone assured us we couldn’t ossibly wind up with both a sales tax and an income tax.

Sorry to all the senior citizens who paid their taxes and saved, now when they spend those savings, guess what? They get to pay taxes again. Like the estate tax, it’s taxes on taxes.

Will this be the straw that breaks the taxpayer’s back?

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RANT: What do WE do!

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99055

We are out of money
Posted: May 25, 2009
Vox Day

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Steve Scully, C-Span: You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money?

Obama: Well, we are out of money now.

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… …  a number of contributing factors that are more important than others. Among them include:
    1. The abandonment of constitutional money
    2. The expansion of the voting franchise
    3. Global military aspirations
    4. Transformation of the labor force
    5. Mass immigration

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The expansion of the franchise to include many parties historically denied the vote has had the inevitable, and expected, effect of permitting society’s non-productive members voting themselves the right to obtain wealth transferred from society’s productive members.

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Rather than lamenting the national mistakes of the past, Americans who value freedom, liberty and prosperity would do well to look to the possibilities of the post-American future.

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You need the pitchfork and torch for all the congresscritters!

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