Where does the Ron Paul revolution (i.e., peace, nonintervention, economic freedom, personal liberty, sound money, and a drastically limited government) go?
The shell game of Republican and Democrat bigger gooferment prevents any other “choice”.
Argh!
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reinkefj has left a new comment on the post “Not as stimulating as we’d hopede“:
No? Tax cuts, when accompanied by spending cuts, don’t accomplish anything? Please explain how Kennedy’s “rising tide raises all boats” tax cut and Regan’s “government is the problem” tax cut ignited decades of prosperity. Guess it was just luck.
Personally, I’d like to see the congress critters ELIMINATE the corporate tax (corps don’t pay taxes they just pass them along to real people hidden in the prices), the death tax (grave robbers! destroy a person’s life’s work like the real family farm), and the regressive payroll tax (humorously referred to as the employee’s and employer’s share; like it all doesn’t come out of the employee’s pocket).
Of course, to pay for it, I’d close the Department of Agriculture (for rich psuedo farms), Commerce (for big business), HHS (meddling the State’s business and spend lots of money), … … did I pay for it yet? … … I’d end the psuedo-Drug War, pardon all non-violent drug offenders, shut down Selective Service, close Job Corps, Head Start, … … did I pay for it yet? … AMTRACK, Post Office, … … I must be close … … Repeal legal tender laws.
If we did that I’m SURE that there would be an economic boom that would rival any previous one.
I’d shut down the TSA, shut down welfare, and take the plastic bag off the Statue of Liberty. No illegal immigration problem if there are ZERO freebies. Everyone has to work. No free loaders in the life boat.
I’d task the FBI to review every fraudulent loan document and prosecute the fraudsters.
I think that would be a good first step! It’s easy once you get the country moving back towards Liberty!
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The so called stimulus bill is a national disgrace. We may, in fact, need a stimulus for the economy. But, that issue, imho, is very much in doubt. If so, the way to do that is to ELIMINATE the corporate income tax. Corporations don’t pay taxes; people do. Corporations just pass taxes along and hide them in the price of goods sold. TO everyone; even poor people. (Eliminate the corporate tax and watch the foreign government REALLY complain about unfair competition.) That will jump start the economy! DOn’t come back to New Jersey and try to “sell” this stimulus as a good thing. If you want me to EVER vote for a D agin. THe D’s ‘own” this mess.
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http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F24%2F078245&from=rss
Senator Prods Microsoft On H-1B Visas After Layoff Plans Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 24, @08:18AM
from the checking-their-priorities dept.
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CWmike writes “US Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) told Microsoft this week that US citizens should get priority over H-1B visa holders as the software vendor moves forward on its plan to cut 5,000 jobs. ‘These work visa programs were never intended to allow a company to retain foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American workers, when that company cuts jobs during an economic downturn,’ Grassley wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The letter asked Microsoft to detail the types of jobs that will be eliminated and how those cuts will affect the company’s H-1B workers.”
Reader theodp adds, “On Friday, Microsoft coincidentally announced it would postpone construction of a planned $500 million data center in Grassley’s home state of Iowa, although work on data centers in Chicago and Dublin will continue.”
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Sounds like the “barbara streisand” is going to hit the proverbial fan.
I’m no fan of gooferment action. But corporations are creations of the gooferment.
Sounds like INS should yank 5k of H1Bs serving Microsoft. Today!?!
imho
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/131173.html
And Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds suggests inculcating respect for disparate ideological points of view and comes up with a specific idea that’s not only right, but do-able:
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I will make one policy proposal. Some of my fellow libertarians hope that the Obama administration will put an end to the drug war. I hope so too, but I’m not too optimistic. Instead, I propose a smaller step toward freedom—eliminating the federally mandated drinking age of 21. This mandate was a creature of Elizabeth Dole (who is no longer in the Senate to complain at its abolition), and it has unnecessarily limited the freedom of legal adults, old enough to fight for their country, to drink adult beverages.
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I find the logic of prohibition incredulous. Even if we skip over the lack of a Constitutional basis for any Prohibition and the argument about who owns your body, it is unbelievable that a man can go to fight and die for a country that won’t let them drink.
At the very least, a military id card should trump ANY age restriction.
Argh!
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/obama_to_keep_renditions.html
February 01, 2009
Obama to keep Renditions
Rick Moran
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Rhetoric notwithstanding, Barack Obama does not want a terrorist attack on his watch. Since he and the Democrats decided to politicize the entire war on terror by making it a virtual crime for the president to do much of anything to protect us, he has suddenly woken up to the fact that much of what Bush initiated might not be such a bad idea if you’re a president who doesn’t want to be blamed for a mass casualty assault on America.
Hence, his hedging on keeping the Terrorist Surveillance Program and other programs that, while being controversial, nevertheless were effective at keeping America safe.
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It also underscores the idea that Obama is a two faced hypocrite who pandered to his far left base during the campaign by savaging Bush and calling him a criminal but now that the responsibility is his, things take on a different light altogether and what Bush was doing is fine with him.
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Interesting how politicians can say one thing and do another?
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http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2008/12/vanderboegh-defiance-without-rifle-you.html
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Vanderboegh: ‘Defiance’ — “Without a rifle, you are nothing”
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Though the movie may insert inappropriate comic relief and its versions of the Bielski brothers are at times so incompetent that they would not have survived for a week, let alone for years, it does what Holocaust movies all too often avoid doing, it focuses on the survival. The Germans, when they arrive, are soldiers in gray moving in and out. The locals collaborate or don’t, for their own reasons. There is no moral to be learned, except that if you want to live and want others to live, you must be prepared to do what it takes.
That is the first and foremost lesson of the Holocaust to be learned. For all the unanswered moral, philosophical and theological questions– the bottom line is that millions of Jews were killed, because they could be. The only true defense against a Holocaust is the ability to resist and to survive one.
Before the State of Israel was officially declared, the Bielskis made their own Jewish state in a forest, to live as free men and women mere kilometers from their would be killers, and though like the real state and its real leaders, they may have been flawed, their triumph is not some uplifting moral, but a matter of accomplishment, the 1200 they hid in the forest against all odds, and through determination and hard work, they did not become victims or fatalities, they survived. And through their guidance and efforts so did 1200 others.
No higher praise is needed.
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Makes me want to see it even more.
Hopefully, this isn’t a portend of things to come in America.
Disarming the people is the first step on a short road to genocide!
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090131/D961PS281.html
Wis. man freed 23 years after wrongful conviction
Jan 30, 7:36 PM (ET)
By DINESH RAMDE and TODD RICHMOND
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MILWAUKEE (AP) – A man sentenced to life in prison for killing a woman in 1984 had his conviction overturned and was released Friday on a personal recognizance bond after spending 23 years behind bars.
Robert Lee Stinson, 44, of Milwaukee, walked out of the New Lisbon Correctional Institution in street clothes and hugged his sister and members of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. A judge vacated the sentence after the Project argued that bite-mark analysis and DNA evidence that didn’t match evidence from the crime scene, defense attorney Byron Lichstein said.
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Now, would anyone like to talk about the “death penalty”?
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090131/D9624PL00.html
Obama facing dilemma over protectionism in bill
Jan 31, 8:01 AM (ET)
By DESMOND BUTLER
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Less than two weeks into office, President Barack Obama faces a dilemma over protectionist provisions in a massive economic stimulus bill: Backing the measures could set off a trade war, while opposing them could trigger a backlash from his supporters.
The choice involves “buy American” provisions attached to White House-backed stimulus legislation moving through Congress. They would require major public works projects to favor U.S. steel, iron and manufacturing over imports.
Some Democratic lawmakers and interest groups allied to the president support the measures, but international allies and trading partners are warning that favoring U.S. companies would breach U.S. trade commitments and could set off tit-for-tat countermeasures around the world.
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What bunch of idiots we have in Congress.
Did anyone read about the Great Depression and Smoot Hawley?
The mere passage of that was the trigger that set off the Great Depression. That didn’t end until WW2.
How stupid are they?
Warm up the lines to the congress critters!
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18194_Page2.html
Are you with Obama or Rush?
By JONATHAN MARTIN
1/29/09 8:00 PM EST
Updated: 1/30/09 4:37 AM EST
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Politico has learned that tomorrow Americans United for Change, a liberal group, will begin airing radio ads in three states Obama won — Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada — with a tough question aimed at the GOP senators there: Will you side with Obama or Rush Limbaugh?
“Every Republican member of the House chose to take Rush Limbaugh’s advice,” says the narrator after playing the conservative talk radio giant’s declaration that he hopes Obama “fails.”
“Every Republican voted with Limbaugh — and against creating 4 million new American jobs. We can understand why a extreme partisan like Rush Limbaugh wants President Obama’s Jobs program to fail — but the members of Congress elected to represent the citizens in their districts? That’s another matter. Now the Obama plan goes to the Senate, and the question is: Will our Senator”—here the ad is tailored by state to name George Voinovich in Ohio, Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, and John Ensign in Nevada—”side with Rush Limbaugh too?”
Asked to respond, Limbaugh had a message for his party.
“Senate Republicans need to understand this is not about me,” he wrote in an email. “It is about them, about intimidating them, especially after the show of unity in House. It is about the 2010 and 2012 elections. This is an opportunity for Republicans to redefine themselves after a few years of wandering aimlessly looking for a ‘brand’ and identity.”
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Senate Republicans acknowledge that they’ll lose some of their members on the first vote.
“We’re in a little different spot than the House in that we have a handful of Republicans who have all but committed to supporting the package,” said a Senate GOP aide.
The aide declined to say who, but speculation on both sides of the aisle is centered on a group of northeasterners — Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Sen. Judd Gregg (NH) and Specter.
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Everyone should be real clear. The “stimulus” bill is not about stimulus, jobs, or benefits for the “folks”.
It’s about socialism, pork spending, and making future voters for the democratic party.
Rahm told you that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
We’ve been hustled before — the Bush pre-rebate, the TARP, and now this!
And, the ad offers a false choice — O versus L?
I’m with neither.
The Republican Party NOW, when it’s out of power wants to “brand” itself as the party of smaller gooferment again. Where were they for eight years? We have the TSA, deficits, and out of control spending. All caused by a President who wouldn’t veto anything.
And, O wants to remake America on the basis of he “won” an election. Hey, guess what, more folks didn’t vote than voted. So you were elected by 28% to 24%. That should tell you that your plurality is very small.
More than half the Americans know they are getting screwed no matter which “side” won.
Not that there is much difference between EITHER “side”!
In this case, I am against the “gooferment enlargement” package.
You want to restart the economy. Shrink gooferment — Nuke the TSA, Kill whole gooferment department and agencies, stop the psuedo drug war, pardon all non-violent drug offenders, and return to normal. Cut the corporate tax to ZERO forever. It’s a sham; only real people pay taxes. Corporate taxes hide how much the gooferment is stealing from us.
Argh!
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Video: Police Taser Son Who Tries to Rescue His Father After Police and Fire Department Refuses to Go Into Water
Published 1, December 5, 2008 Criminal law , Society , Torts
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The video below reveals another troubling use of a taser. 54-year-old Maurizio Biasini went to a Mendocino Beach called Portuguese Beach with his two twin sons, Dario and Andriano Biasini, and fell into the water. The police and fire department refused to go into the choppy water as the father was swept further and further out to sea. When the sons screamed at the officers for not acting and one tried to go into the water, the police tasered one son twice. The father was lost.
The fire department insisted on waiting for the Coast Guard as the distraught sons demanded action and swore at the officers. According to one witness, it was the police that turned the confrontation into a physical matter by grabbing one son around the neck and lifting him off the ground. They then tasered one son who wanted to rescue his father not once but twice. To make matters, the police proceeded to criminally charge the son for . . . you guessed it . . . interfering with a rescue that they refused carry out.
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Not the “worst” case of police abuse I have ever seen on the internet.
Obviously, these people don’t understand that the bureaucrat’s job is to fill out paperwork. Save their father? Please, the uniform might get wet.
Now, they may have recognized there was no hope.
But, preventing the boy from trying himself? Who owns his body? May have been the boy’s last mistake, but it WAS his to make.
Handled badly. That cop looked like he had spent to much time at the donut shop.
Tasering the kid after he handled it badly, the cop should be charged with assault. At the very least, he should be seeking a new career.
I wonder if got a “paid vacation” (what they called administrative leave) and a promotion?
Argh!
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090116/D95OHIB80.html
Report: Over 8 in 10 corporations have tax havens
Jan 16, 6:28 PM (ET)
By KEN THOMAS
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Eighty-three of the nation’s 100 largest corporations, including Citigroup, Bank of America and News Corp. (NWSA), had subsidiaries in offshore tax havens in 2007, and some of the companies received federal bailout funding, a government watchdog said Friday.
The Government Accountability Office released a report that said Bank of America Inc., Citigroup Inc. (C) and Morgan Stanley (MS) all had more than 100 units in countries that maintain low or no taxes. The three financial institutions were included in the $700 billion financial bailout approved by Congress.
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Corporations are a product of the gooferment. Why are we surprised when they take bailout money and setup tax shelters? I’m sure the congresscritters will “fix” this! (Fix in the sense of amputating the broken leg!)
Argh!
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http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/01/27/what_are_they_buying?page=2
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Thomas Sowell :: Townhall.com Columnist
What Are They Buying?
by Thomas Sowell
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What are the Beltway politicians buying with all the hundreds of billions of dollars they are spending? They are buying what politicians are most interested in– power.
In the name of protecting the taxpayers’ investment, they are buying the power to tell General Motors how to make cars, banks how to bank and, before it is all over with, all sorts of other people how to do the work they specialize in, and for which members of Congress have no competence, much less expertise.
This administration and Congress are now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s– use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations.
To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s. We have the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) taking reckless chances in the housing market that have blown up in our faces today, because FDR decided to create a new federal housing agency in 1938.
Who knows what bright ideas this administration will turn into permanent institutions for our children and grandchildren to try to cope with?
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It’s no doubt that politicians use crisis to consolidate and enlarge their power over us.
What will the serfs be saddled with now?
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http://www.ablueview.com/2009/01/the-nationalization-debate-comes-out-of-the-closet.html
The Nationalization Debate Comes Out Of The Closet
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We’re finally beginning to remove the ideological blinders (socialism, socialism!) from our eyes and look at all possible ways to fix the liquidity crisis. This otherwise good NY Times article explores the pros & cons of nationalization but leaves out an important pro they’ve reported on in the past: it’s the most transparent, honest approach
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Yeah, the gooferment is sooo honest. So good at everything they touch.
Sorry, it’s all about control.
Think Japanese Internment, the Civil War, and the Carter Inflation.
We’re all sheep. Being herded. Lucky if we just get sheared.
Government is dangerous.
Where’s my pitchfork and torch?
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/22/feel-like-a-chump/
RAHN: Feel like a chump?
Richard Rahn
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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You work hard, take care of your family, and pay all the taxes the government says you owe as is typical of honest, upright citizens.
But what happens to your tax money? It is now going to “bail out” firms that pay their senior executives millions of dollars a year. Congress also intends to spend your tax dollars on an $825 billion “stimulus program” filled with many dubious projects and plain old-fashioned “pork.” Many good economists who have looked at the details of the stimulus package believe it has much more “de-stimulus” than stimulus in it and will make the American economy worse off rather than better off.
While you may have thought you are required by law to pay taxes on all your income, you learn the “important” folks in Washington seem to think paying taxes is optional. Chairman Charles Rangel of the House Ways and Means Committee responsible for writing tax legislation has admitted he did not pay the required income taxes on some of his private income (Caribbean rental properties, etc.); and the proposed Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, did not pay the required income tax on part of his income from the International Monetary Fund, where he worked for several years.
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Yup, I’m a chump!
And, it’s not going to change any time soon.
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NEWS ALERT
from The Wall Street Journal
Jan. 26, 2009
The Senate has confirmed Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary. The 60-34 vote puts Geithner at the helm of President Barack Obama’s plan to rescue the economy from the worst financial crisis in three generations. It also dislodges one of Obama’s most troubled nominations.
Some senators were concerned that Geithner, who would oversee the Internal Revenue Service, did not pay some taxes until he had been tapped to the president’s Cabinet. Geithner called it an unintentional oversight and settled his $34,000 overdue tax bill. Obama and others supporting Geithner’s nomination said the nation couldn’t afford to wait for Obama to search for another nominee to run the Treasury Department.
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The Senate is criminally neglecting its responsibility imho. Not that it matters to the Washington DC gang. At least, the Mafia followed its own rules.
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FROM THE DRUDGE REPORT
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpbc.htm
PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY
Sun Jan 25 2009 22:13:43 ET
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic “stimulus” package, claiming “contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.”
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PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those – one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.
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SOOOOOooooooo….
The “stimulus package” covers any social engineering that they want to do!
Get ready for more nonsense under that “cover”.
Here’s an insight into their “liberal” philosophy: “Humans are an expense”. Wonder when abortion, eugenics, and killing off the elderly come in? After all one way to control Medicare “costs” is to get rid of those expensive old “senior citizens”. But, oh year, they can vote. We need to pick on those that can’t!
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123258284337504295.html
JANUARY 22, 2009, 2:45 P.M. ET
Political Interference Seen in Bank Bailout Decisions
Barney Frank Goes to Bat for Lender, and It Gets an Infusion
By DAMIAN PALETTA and DAVID ENRICH
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Troubled OneUnited Bank in Boston didn’t look much like a candidate for aid from the Treasury Department’s bank bailout fund last fall.
The Treasury had said it would give money only to healthy banks, to jump-start lending. But OneUnited had seen most of its capital evaporate. Moreover, it was under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses, including owning a Porsche for its executives’ use.
Nonetheless, in December OneUnited got a $12 million injection from the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. One apparent factor: the intercession of Rep. Barney Frank, the powerful head of the House Financial Services Committee.
Mr. Frank, by his own account, wrote into the TARP bill a provision specifically aimed at helping this particular home-state bank. And later, he acknowledges, he spoke to regulators urging that OneUnited be considered for a cash injection.
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Maybe they will give you are ride in the “taxpayer’s” Porsche!
How do we have Barney Frank still in politics?
Gay prostitute. Community Reinvestment Act. Banking system abuse. Now this.
I don’t understand?
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FROM A COMMENT ABOUT CAROLYN’S WITHDRAWAL
How about picking some poor taxpayer with an AGI of under 100k, with only a public school education (College is OK if it was a CCNY night school or a community college), with a family of at least two kids?
For one six year term, at which time, the clock will strike 12, the carriage turns back into a pumpkin, and that person — man or woman — returns to private life. I think NY, the country, and the world would be well represented.
Never happen, but an interesting thought experiment!
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How about Lottery losers? Everyone writes their name on a losing lottery ticket and puts it in a big drum. Patterson wouldn’t need a blindfold. Great fun.
How about non-violent felons? They’d be able to tell the other politicians what happens for corruption.
How about a lucky winner form the unemployment office? We know they’d be free and they are looking for work.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer187.html
An Outbreak of Order in NYC
by Butler Shaffer
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Upon landing in the river, and with the fate of 160 people in the balance, rescue efforts immediately began. Officials of the FAA, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, New York Mayor Bloomberg, and Senator Hillary Clinton, all descended on the scene to begin helping passengers to safety. No? It didn’t work out that way? But it must have been so. Is it not an integral part of our thinking that social order can be fostered and sustained only by a political system that can plan for responses to troublesome events? Wasn’t this the logic upon which federal, state and city governments acted in New Orleans, following hurricane Katrina? Do we not elect politicians who, in turn, create bureaucracies to make our lives secure?
Initially, the only seen presence of government at the site of the U.S. Airways emergency landing involved police helicopters interfering with rescue efforts by keeping the water around the plane churned up. These helicopters were of value to the state, of course, as a visual symbol of its superintending presence above a scene in which its practical role was nonexistent. Like a president or state governor flying over an area hit by a tornado or flooding, such an aerial presence reinforces the vertically-structured mindset upon which political authority depends. After rescue efforts were substantially completed – with no loss of life – New York and New Jersey police officials arrived (those whom the New Jersey governor incorrectly described as the “first responders”).
The real work of rescuing passengers and crew members was left to the sources from which the only genuine social order arises: the spontaneous responses of individuals who began their day with no expectation of participating in the events that will henceforth be high-water marks in their lives. After the airliner came to a stop, one private ferry-boat operator, sensing the danger of the plane’s tail submerging, began pushing up on the tail in an effort to keep it elevated. Other private ferry-boat operators – whose ordinary work involved transporting people between New York and New Jersey – came to the scene in what became a spontaneously organized rescue under the direction of no one in particular. Photos of the area show the plane surrounded by ferryboats on all sides.
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My point exactly. The Ferry Boat guys (captain and crew) and THEIR PASSENGERS who lent a hand were the real unsung heros in this “miracle”.
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http://uncabob.blogspot.com/2009/01/way-it-should-have-been.html
Saturday, January 3, 2009
The Way It Should Have Been
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Hijacker: This is a hijacking! I have a boxcutter!
Grandma: I have a .45! Now reach for the sky, or I’ll put a hole in that diaper-hat on top of your pointy little head!
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If it wasn’t so serious, it would be funny.
Arming the pilots versus the large stupid unionized democratic voting intrusive TSA that can’t find squat!
What stupidity!
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/338/story/59958.html
Pitts: Lincoln might not have welcomed Obama’s election
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Actually, Lincoln likely would have been appalled. How could he not? He was a 19th century white man who famously said in 1858 that “there is a physical difference between the white and black races, which . . . will forever forbid the two races living together upon terms of social and political equality.”
How do you reconcile that with all those cartoons of Lincoln congratulating Obama? You don’t. You simply recognize it for what it is: yet another illustration of how shallow our comprehension of history is, yet another instance where myth supersedes reality.
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Of course, Lincoln freed no slaves. That’s the myth. His Emancipation Proclamation was a military measure to demoralize and destabilize the rebellious South; it covered states he did not govern but did not apply in slaveholding states that remained under his jurisdiction.
None of which is to deny or diminish the greatness of the 16th president. His greatness stands unquestioned, unquestionable. We would be a very different nation, a lesser nation, without his political genius, his dogged faith in the unsundered Union, his refusal to accept less than Union, even when haunted by reversals and setbacks that would have broken anyone else.
No, the argument is not about Lincoln’s greatness.
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But, it should be!
Lincoln is up there on my list of “Worst American Presidents”.
As a corrupt Illinois politician who was in bed with more than the railroads, one has to take not of the following:
(1) The War of Northern Aggression. What you call the Civil War. What some call the Second American Revolution. The is no Constitutional, legal, or moral justification for this war. That alone would rocket him too the top of the list.
(2) Income tax to pay for that war. Government debt too.
(3) Freedom of Press savaged when editors dared to criticism him.
(4) Atrocities against civilian populations like Sherman’s “March to the Sea”.
(5) Single handedly destroying the concept of a Union of Equals amd morphing into the USA as the tyrant state.
And, don’t forget, he want to send all the “Negros” back to Africa. A racist among his other “endearing” qualities.
Those are just my uneducated points. There are much smarted folks than I who can give you “Chapter and Verse” about Lincoln.
But, don’t disturb the sheeple.
One of these days I should codify my “worst list”!
But that’s hard on the old BP.
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Posted by reinkefj
“With the exception only of the period during which the gold standard was in effect, virtually all governments throughout history have used their exclusive power to issue money, as a method to defraud and plunder the people.” – Friedrich von Hayek
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http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2008/12/23/simple-indeed-or-the-audacity-cluelessness
Simple Indeed, or The Audacity of Cluelessness
Submitted by Brandon Berg on Tue, 2008-12-23 21:52
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The International Herald Tribune showcases the astonishing cluelessness of people who are presumably among the best and brightest of Obama’s supporters:
When a dozen consumers gathered over the weekend to discuss health care at the behest of President-elect Barack Obama, they quickly agreed on one point: they despise health insurance companies.
They also agreed that health care was a right; that insurance should cover “everything,” not just some services; and that coverage should be readily available from the government, as well as from employers.
“We have to keep the momentum going,” said Hijane, 34, who was a volunteer in the Obama campaign and is active in women’s health advocacy. “We are not lobbyists. We are simple citizens.”
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Get ready for national health care. Delays, Higher Costs, Rationing, and … … yes, sadly, deaths.
That’s what happens when the Socialists take over.
Sigh.
Need a new category … STUPIDITY!
Anyone want to start an insurance company? No. Me neither!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://lonegan.com/Where_Steve_Stands.aspx
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CORZINE’S BUDGET “CUTS” — A SCALPEL WHEN AN AX IS NEEDED
Governor Corzine yesterday issued a budget proposal that tinkers around the edges when real solid cuts are needed. While the Corzine proposal requiring unions give up a scheduled pay raise is a good one, the Governor refuses to eliminate any of the thousands of state government bureaucratic fiefdoms that helped (along with the Governor’s own mismanagement and ineptitude) created this budget crisis.
Unfortunately, Corzine refuses to end the mandates on local communities through the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) — the group currently pushing 100,000 Low Income Housing units on every New Jersey town. And Corzine continues to support the Abbott court decision that has led to exploding per pupil costs in (Democrat-run) urban areas as high as $25,000 per student.
Meanwhile, suburban towns have had their state aid nearly eliminated — even though the sales tax and the income tax was sold on Garden State residents as a way to reduce “high property taxes.”
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The State Gooferment politicians should be in jail.
Corzine, the financial genius from Goldman Sachs, earlier said “no problem”. Some genius. Anyone with an IQ higher than a rock knew that the state was out of control.
If a private business didn’t make it’s pension contribution for decades, then the corporate officers would be Bubba’s girlfriend.
But the State can just ignore it. And the State Workers’ Union is in the bag going along with it. Bubba should have them as well.
And, state pensions shouldn’t be for anyone who makes more than 75k. Or, any political appointee.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
“Once again, we believe all politicians, of all parties, are fundamentally unqualified to decide how other people should live. We do not believe in top-down social engineering by Republicans, Democrats, or anyone else. We believe in critical thinking, limited, decentralized power structures, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.” — D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h (DownSizeDC dot ORG)
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