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POLITICAL: Fixing Arizona using power point?
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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MONEY: WW2 Wage and Price control were disasterous and carry through today
Tuesday, May 4, 2010On Apr 24, 2010, at 5:58 PM, LUDDITE wrote:
At a time when some firms have cut back on benefits, these employers offer notably generous plans. Fortune picks some of the best.
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Good for you. But bad for us as a society. Pensions and benefits are a result of the WW2 wage and price controls. Big companies bent the salary cap rules by giving these inducements to get good workers. This was a gooferment distortion of the employment marketplace which as usual has had disastrous side effects. I’m not a economist; nor a social scientist, but let see if I can enumerate the ones I know about.
(1) Medical insurance tied to employment had several bad effects. It locked up workers who couldn’t or wouldn’t change jobs due to losing their benefits or the “pre-existing conditions of going to a different insurer. Lose your job due to poor performance, bad economy (i.e., recession), or structural changes in the economy (i.e., rust belt) lose your benefits. It disconnected the link between the expense and the pain of paying thus inducing folks not shop around, negotiate, or even look at the bills.
(2) Pensions are in effect deferred compensation. It locks up capital in the company pension plan — with its risk in bankruptcy — from the individual. So, for example, an employee, if they had that money, could have used it as they saw fit to provide for their own retirement. In my own case, I could have had an extra X$/month to pay down my mortgage sooner and had that capital asset for my retirement. It’s about Freedom and liberty. I was FORCED to trade X$ per month at that time for a future cash flow at age 65 assuming I lived so long. If I didn’t, it was lost. Like “Social Security”!
(3) Pensions were such an expense that the Aircraft companies were firing “old” injineers just before their pensions vested to hire new graduates cheaper. (The fact that much of their work was for the military and the gooferment made it hurt even more.) Hence, having created the problem, the Gooferment gave us the solution — more gooferment — the ERISA laws. (Argh!)
(4) Pensions and benefits, due to it hidden sunken costs, makes the workforce less flexible and nimble. You had to have a much bigger opportunity in a new job in order to justify leaving the security, pension, and benefits in an old employer.
(5) Increased regulation of the workplace, such as OSHA, FALSA, and NLRB, all sprung out of that New Deal thinking. And, was as taxation and regulation, a drag on our economy.
So that’s why this is bad for us as a nation.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Liberty needs a leader
Sunday, April 25, 2010Despite forecasts, freedom takes more than technology
Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
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It is always inspiring to encounter individuals who jeopardize their safety and freedom to speak truth to power, and the dissidents gathered on the campus of Southern Methodist University were no exception. Ahed al-Hendi, a young antigovernment activist seized by the Syrian mukhabarat — the secret police — as he was blogging in a Damascus Internet café, spent 34 days in a 2-by-3-foot jail cell. The Russian dissident Oleg Kozlovsky (who was grounded in Europe and joined the conference via Skype) has been repeatedly arrested and was even drafted by the Russian army in 2007 in order to thwart his prodemocracy activities. As former President Bush put it in opening the conference, these “are people who refuse to take the lack of freedom for granted.’’
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Sorry, but I don’t see the MLK who will change this country.
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LIBERTY: EFF protecting our liberties
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INTERESTING: Goldman sachs AKA the “New York Generals”
Sunday, April 18, 2010http://reason.com/blog/2010/04/18/first-they-came-for-the-crimin
First They Came for the Criminal Investment Bankers…
Tim Cavanaugh | April 18, 2010
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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil action against Goldman Sachs is a certified crowd-pleaser, and based on two iron principles — that you never argue with the audience’s taste and that everybody who has ever worked for Goldman Sachs needs to be executed without trial — it’s probably not something we should be disputing too heavily.
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Why do I feel this is kabuki?
Is Goldman Sachs now playing the role of the New York Generals? Or the Boston Shamrocks, New Jersey Reds, Baltimore Rockets, or Atlantic City Seagulls. Or any one of another patsies? Playing to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Harlem Globetrotters!
We KNOW that Goldman Sachs is wired to the administration through little tax-cheat Timmy G.
We KNOW that Goldman Sachs has been “fronting” for the FED to allow them to appear to sell Treasury securities while buying them back the next day. Thus they are monetizing the debt. This is exactly what the Chinese fear. It’s hiding inflation.
We KNOW that Goldman Sachs has been manipulating the commodities markets. Specifically, the gold and silver markets. This could only happen with the CFTC and European participation.
So now you want me to believe that the SEC is going to take Goldman Sachs to the woodshed on trading losers to others knowing that the residential market was going to fall out of bed.
Please don’t make me laff!
Argh!
Corruption abounds.
Sorry, but I think this is “regulatory theater”! “Made-off” gave the SEC a black eye. And, Dodd’s “reregulation bill” is being laughed at. So some kabuki is in order to fool the Sheeple into believing in big gooferment again. So let’s trot out our captive resident Freddie Kruger and have the valiant SEC bureaucrats do battle to slay this dragon.
Goldman Sachs will probably plead out and be fined. And, the SEC will probably allow them to pay the fine with Confederate States of America Banknotes.
Argh!
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POLITICAL: Politics in two dimensions
Monday, April 5, 2010http://www.caivn.org/article/2010/03/27/recreational-marijuana-use-likely-become-legal-california
Saw an interesting “vote” on a Web site. Unfortunately, it reinforces the right – left duopoly.
As we learn from the Nolan chart it’s not a one dimensional problem.
http://www.nolanchart.com/article7443.html
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ibertarian: supports the smallest possible government, supports individual liberty in all ways, prefers to only defend our borders and not interfere in other countries’ affairs.
conservative: tends to give a nod and a wink to liberty while placing emphasis on government control of “family” issues (gay marriage, abortion, borders, etc.) while pushing for major military involvement worldwide by America, in the hopes of creating a faith-based, “conservative” world.
liberal: tends to give a nod and a wink to liberty while placing emphasis on government control of “social issues” (social safety net, minority rights, etc.) while pushing for major diplomatic involvement worldwide by America backed by somewhat lesser military involvement, in the hopes of creating an inclusive, “liberal” world.
statist: the marriage of liberal and conservative aspects of big government. Supports both the conservative “family” agenda and the liberal “social” agenda. Supports both major diplomatic and military involvement abroad.
centrist: somewhere in the middle of all of the above.
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So to be meaningful, the dimensions are socially and fiscally with individual liberty and government control.
The website SHOULD have “control” between to polar opposites “The Individual” and “The State”!
Liberal and Conservative are meaningless.
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POLITICAL: Wasn’t the Census used in the round up of the Japanese Americans for “internment” in WW2?
Thursday, March 11, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett18.1.html
The Census and History: It Is Not a Pretty Picture!
by Gary D. Barnett
… is president of Barnett Financial Services, Inc., in Lewistown, Montana.
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I have been discussing the unconstitutional nature and danger of modern census taking for several years. By attempting to expose through my writing the very invasive practice of the “census,” and by educating others about the false reasoning for these government intrusions, my hope is that more and more people will contradict the accepted system by not complying with the census process. One can do this and still remain within constitutional bounds simply by refusing to give any information other than the number of people living in a particular home. This seems simple enough, but due to threats of fine or worse, and threats by the federal government to withhold tax redistributions from state, county and local communities, the populace at large continues to acquiesce to “State” pressure.
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The point I want to make is that data-collection by government about the citizenry is always dangerous. Future uses of this private information can never be known. Besides the fact that it is anti-liberty, it allows the state to monitor its citizens, and also sets the stage for an easier path for government to control the people. While the U.S. Census may seem harmless enough to the masses, it could eventually lead to disastrous results. Today we are not only being counted by government, but are having our private information gathered and data-based as well. Our phones are tapped, our emails are captured, our movements are watched, our financial records are monitored and warrantless search and seizure is common.
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Don’t forget the role of the US Census in the Japanese Internment!
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From: reinke, ferdinand
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:50 AM
To: gbarnett
Subject: with respect to the Census
Wasn’t the Census used in the round up of the Japanese Americans for “internment” in WW2?
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From: “Gary Barnett”
Date: March 10, 2010 12:02:19 PM EST
To: “‘reinke, ferdinand
Subject: RE: with respect to the Census
Yes it was, and I should have mentioned it in my article.
All best … Gary
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NOT bad for a fat old white guy injineer.
When it comes to ANY gooferment program, remember: ineffective, inefficient, and can be pervert to an evil purpose.
How do you tell when a politician, a bureaucrat, or “The Gooferment” is lying? Yup, when their lips move.
“The Census will never be misused.” Tell that to the approximately 110,000 Nisei Japanese Americans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment who were forcibly “interned”.
(Much fewer in Hawaii. Why? No Germans on the East Coast. Why?)
(My Grandmothers, on both my Father’s and Mother’s sides, living on opposite coasts, spoke fluent German at home as their primary language. As did their brothers and sisters. They stopped after Pearl Harbor for fear of internment. How’s that for chilling? I could have been born in an internment camp. If this silliness got out of hand.)
Argh!
The Gooferment is evil.
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INTERESTING: GLenn Beck does the Nolan chart
Friday, February 26, 2010http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/36981/
Glen Beck is “doing” the Nolan Chart.
Wonder if he’s going to mention the Zero Aggression Principle?
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http://www.ncc-1776.org/whoislib.html
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Who is a libertarian?
Zero Aggression Principle (“Zap”)
“Zero Aggression Principle”:
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor will a libertarian advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else.
Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.
— L. Neil Smith
Formerly called the “Non-Aggression Principle”, or “NAP”
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Or Amendment Zero?
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
— L. Neil Smith
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QUOTE: Communist
Wednesday, February 24, 2010“How do you tell a communist? It’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. How do you tell an anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
—-Ronald Reagan
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Very applicable to the District of Corruption and all the various inhabitants.
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POLITICAL: Answer the Census; question 1 only!
Monday, February 22, 2010http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125279
My 1-question census form
Posted: February 17, 2010
Walter E. Williams
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Americans need to stand up to Washington’s intrusion into our private lives. What business of government is the number of times a citizen has been married or what he paid for electricity last month? For those who find such intrusion acceptable, I’d ask them whether they’d also find questions about their sex lives or their marriage fidelity equally acceptable.
What to do? Unless a census taker can show me a constitutional requirement, the only information I plan to give are the number and names of the people in my household. The census taker might say, “It’s the law.” Thomas Jefferson said, “Whensoever the General Government (Washington) assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.”
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Prof Williams challenges us to fight for our rights.
You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.
Buzz off!
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RANT: Schools and the Fourth
Thursday, February 11, 2010http://www.thestatenj.com/engine/2010/02/do-constitutional-rights-end-at-the-schoolhouse-door/
Do Constitutional Rights End at the Schoolhouse Door?
John Witherspoon February 4th, 2010
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This week, the NJ State Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion upholding the ability of a school administrator to search a student’s car parked on school property using a reasonableness standard of proof, rather than the more stringent, probable cause standard that would apply to a police officer’s search.
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Another nugget of fact appears from a close reading of the opinion. The Egg Harbor Township High School, where the events leading up to this case occurred, utilizes a school resource officer, employed by the Egg Harbor Township Police Department. After the school administrator searched the student’s vehicle, the officer took possession of the evidence and transported the student to the police station. So the officer was available to take the student into custody, but couldn’t be available to perform the search. Is that because the officer would be held to a higher standard of proof before he could perform the search?
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Unfortunately, if we were being true to the Constitution, then the school, which is the gooferment disguise, MUST observe the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment!
Why do we have gooferment skrools again?
To allow the gooferment to propagandize the yutes so they always vote the “right” way!
Silly sheeple, just do what your betters tell you to do. Or, else!
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POLITICS: Name a gooferment program that works
Monday, January 11, 2010http://libertyunbound.com/article.php?id=449
Bridging the Two Libertarianisms
Carl S. Milsted, Jr.
What does the nonaggression principle really mean for libertarianism?
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People routinely send mail by government post, drive on government roads, rely on government food inspections, walk on government sidewalks, and enforce contracts in government courts.
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I once heard on Free Talk Live http://freetalklive.com/ one of the host expressed the paradigm: “Name one program that works? And, if we can agree it does work, how much does it cost? How much should it cost?”.
So let’s look at your examples:
- Mail: Even with funny accounting — they don’t count the cost of capital assets like real estate and equipment depreciation — the cost is absurd. And, they have to enforce the first class mail franchise with a law enforcing their monopoly. (The famous one dollar minimum for express delivery services.) It’s laughable when the USPS compares themselves to FedEx for package delivery since in some areas they subcontract to FedEx. And, let’s talk about lost mail. We have very little statistical information but that doesn’t mean they are flawless.
- Roads: In New Jersey, the roads are a disgrace. And, we had a gas tax trust fund that was raided by the goofenors of both parties to fund their pet projects. We have no way to know if there is a better way since no one is allowed to try a different way. We can look at the road in Disney World and other amusement parks that are in relatively perfect condition. Hard to imagine that a consortium of WalMart, UPS, and others couldn’t do as well. As a proxy, look at the Air Traffic Control System, that is run totally be the Federal Gooferment. Vintage 1950 computing causes massive delays. The roads are comperable. Where’s the innovation like in computers that makes roads better.
- Food Inspections: We can point to the fact that most “inspections” are either not done or don’t protect the people. A recent press story said that the gooferment accepts 10 or 20 times the level of filth in meat than McD’s does. We have no idea how much this “gooferment inspection” costs, but are people relying on that or the fact that they trust WalMart to sell them good stuff.
- Sidewalks: Sorry, but those are foisted on the property owner. Even when the gooferment destroys them, the land owner gets stuck fixing them. (I know personal experience.)
- Courts: That’s why we have Judge Judy on TV. The gooferment’s courts are backed up and capricious. And, heaven help you, if the gooferment has an interest in the suit. Sue the gooferment in it’s own court and be surprised at the result.
And on, and on, and on.
I have yet to see a gooferment program that works. Or even not working, do it at a reasonable cost.
I notice that the author didn’t cite: schools, dmv, health insurance, health care, foreign policy, DoD, and on, and on, and on.
My solution is to be pragmatic.
Let’s have an exit plan. It may take decades to “unwind” these programs, but let’s start.
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POLITICAL: Start the journey towards liberty
Sunday, January 10, 2010http://www.michnews.org/2010/01/a-libertarian-vision-for-michigan/
A Libertarian vision for Michigan
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Troy – How should we as Libertarians craft our campaign theme for 2010? Here are my thoughts on the subject. I would certainly appreciate yours, too. As a political party we must articulate a positive, persuasive, simple and appealing campaign theme for our candidates in 2010.
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# Fair. No bail outs. No hand outs. No special deals for businesses, unions or individuals. Instead, cut spending now by eliminating all incentives, benefits, and programs that don´t benefit the average voter or business. Cut government costs by eliminating all agencies and regulations that impede the creation of jobs and businesses, competition and personal freedom. Eliminate tax abatements, exemptions and discounts for the few preferred businesses, unions and individuals, and cut the tax rates paid by all.
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“cut spending now by eliminating all incentives, benefits, and programs that don´t benefit the average voter or business”
That don’t benefit “ALL” voters.
The problem is that when gooferment tries to pick winners and losers, funny how they always pick the politicians’ friends.
A libertarian government should be extremely small. Prevent force or fraud. AND, that’s IT!
You don’t need a lot of taxes when you’re not doing a lot!
Slash the spending and taxes and step out of the way. Privatize any “service” or “product” that the government produces.
If it CAN NOT be done immediately, then let’s have a transition out of it. Five, Ten, … heck … even Forty Year plans.
Let’s start the journey to liberty!
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POLITICAL: No consequences for prosecutorial and investigative malpractice
Saturday, January 9, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/45956.html
The FBI, Bullying, and Sloppy Investigations
Posted by Bill Anderson on January 1, 2010 10:56 AM
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By empowering police and prosecutors and providing them with immunity from their wrongdoing, the government is encouraging investigators to be sloppy and incompetent. As we have seen in the two linked examples, bullying investigators have managed to botch these investigations, and it is no accident. The political classes tell us that we have to give the “authorities” near-absolute power to keep us “safe.” (Read any of the conservative websites and you will see what I mean. There is near-worship of the police, prosecutors, and federal investigators.) Guess what? When there are no consequences for being wrong, we can expect the police and FBI and others to be wrong, as it is much easier for them to make up their own narratives and then bully people into “agreeing” with them.
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If we can fault the Dead Old White Guys (and that’s hard to do given their level of understanding at that point in time), then it would be for not putting a penalty in for ALL the INDIVIDUALS who violates some Constitutional rights.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Just say “no” to any gooferment official
Saturday, January 2, 2010
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2009/12/31/tsa-withdraws-subpoenas-over-leaked-security-directive/
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From my own experience with having federal agents at my door, let me say this: Remember that if law enforcement shows up at your door, you are in no way obligated to speak to them, and in no way obligated to hand over anything immediately if they hand you a subpoena. You can and should challenge (move to quash) such a subpoena in court, if you receive one. You only have to surrender anything immediately if they have a search warrant, and only if the thing is named on the search warrant. Other than that, say absolutely nothing until you can consult a lawyer. Be polite, of course, when you ask them for their business card and send them on their way.
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Good advice for any interaction with the gooferment at any level.
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UPDATE 2009.01.03 1600 ZULU
http://www.target.com/Come-Back-Warrant-Doormat/dp/B00020O572
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GUNS: Everyone NEEDS an AK47
Sunday, December 27, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/maloney/maloney19.1.html
Automatic for the People: The AK-47
by C.J. Maloney
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Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist No. 29 that should the federal government ever turn despotic it “can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms.” If every American family had an AK-47 hanging on the wall over the 46” wide-screen plasma, that’d force enough to give any army pause.
So next May Day, assuming you remember it at all, take a moment to honor the memory of the millions slaughtered over the lethally stupid idea of communism, but give a nod to God’s great mercy, to His mysterious way that willed that very same idea to birth the AK-47. It gave to the working masses the ability to defend themselves from the more virulent strain of politicians; it is the sword of the common man. Of all the firearms yet dreamed up by mankind, it is the automatic for the people.
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Why you might ask?
One: Do you think the politicians or the police fear the people?
Two: See the rising crime rate in unarmed Britan? And the number of home invasions?
Third, See the Tea Party rallies? Congressional Town Halls? They do any good?
Fourth. Dial 911 and die!
Nope, it’s time to defend yourself!
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QUOTE: Jefferson “If the American people ever allow the banks … …
Tuesday, December 22, 2009http://www.visandvals.org/Jefferson_s_Warnings.php
Jefferson warned, “If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied … I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.”
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LIBERTY: Citizens’ Pledge of Mutual Support for the Principles of the Declaration of Independence
Friday, November 20, 2009http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2009/11/16/pledge_of_allegiance
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. And for the support of these principles, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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INTERESTING: Gooferment goof for liberty
Sunday, October 25, 2009http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125597721400194603.html?mod=yhoofront
EUROPE NEWS
OCTOBER 21, 2009
Did Brinkmannship Fell Berlin’s Wall? Brinkmann Says It Did
Reporter Claims He, Not an Italian Competitor, Caused an Apparatchik to Err and Open Border
By MARCUS WALKER
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Pressed on the meaning of the new travel policy — When did it come into force? Did it apply to West Berlin? Did people need a passport? — the flustered apparatchik rustled his papers and gave confusing answers that led the news media to believe the border was open, with immediate effect.
The result, once East Berliners had seen that night’s news on West German television, was chaos at border crossings across the city.
At Bornholmer Strasse, one of the main checkpoints in central Berlin, confused border guards couldn’t get clear orders on how to deal with the crush, and debated whether to open fire. Instead, they opened the barrier, and the Berlin Wall was history.
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I love a good “gooferment” story. Especially when it means a victory for liberty! LOL!!
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POLITICAL: Messing with the DOWG’s design
Sunday, October 18, 2009http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/10/dispatches-filibuster-filibuster.html
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The issue here is the filibuster itself. It’s time to end this archaic procedure and take away the ability of a group of small-state Senators to hold the American people hostage.
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Herb, herb, herb, … don’t you realize that the Dead Old White Guys feared democracy as mob rule. Hence, they tried to throw road blocks into the “popular will”.
Lifetime appointment for judges and six year term Senators selected by the State Legislature were just two of the roadblocks they put in as ways to be a “republic”.
They were also concerned that large states would overwhelm the little one. Why would a small state support the arrangement where they are always outvoted.
You “liberals” are always willing to change the rules to get your way. Note the Massachusetts change and rechange how to fill Kennedy’s / Kerry’s seat.
The reason that many states are talking secession is that the don’t want to “play along”. In short order, you may find that Vermont, Texas, Montana, and who know who else may seek to “leave the party”.
Leave filibuster alone. Unless you’re prepared to eventually fracture the Union. Remember in 2010, your precious “virtuous” D’s may be in the minority and need the fillibuster to keep the “villainous” R’s from passing this or that. (As if there was any difference between the two.)
Remember the R’s got the two term limit to prevent another FDR and prevented Ike. That gave us Nixon. And, we see how well that worked out.
Don’t mess with the Dead Old White Guys’ design. Can we now repeal the direct election of Senators? That hasn’t worked out so well either!
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POLITICS: “Climate Change”?
Saturday, October 17, 2009http://www.dailyblogtips.com/blog-action-day-how-bloggers-can-combat-climate-change
Blog Action Day: How Bloggers Can Combat Climate Change
by Daniel Scocco
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Today is Blog Action Day, and I want to talk about how bloggers can act to combat climate change.
But first things first, what is climate change? It is the change in the average weather around the world. In our specific case the weather is getting hotter (hence why people talk about global warming). This charge is partially caused by natural factors (e.g., changes in Earth’s orbit), but the human factor also plays an important role, with the increasing concentration of greenhouses.
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“Climate change”? How have we gone from “Global Cooling” in the 1970’s to “Global Warming” in the 2000’s and end up at “Climate Change” in 2009? Unfortunately, I don’t know if the climate is changing. It has in the past (i.e., Greenland was green). It may in the future. In the cosmic scale, we are a fly on the elephant’s butt. I do know that the same folks who did the “chicken little” on “global cooling” had the same litany of “cures” — higher taxes, more regulations, limitation on freedom. I think that it’s “sensible” to use less of “stuff”; sensible is a synonym for “cost effective”. It’s irrational to think that “I am saving the planet”; it’s smart to cut the electric bill by eliminating wasteful “phantom loads”. I think that bloggers can bring “common sense” to the discussion. We certainly don’t see common sense in the “old media”, politicians, or bureaucrats. Hypocrites abound (e.g., Gore’s carbon footprint; Prince Charles’ jet set life; UN in everything it does). We need to be “smart”!
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LIBERTY: We should be ashamed
Sunday, September 27, 2009
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The original attempt at reaching the United States was done with a converted 1951 Chevy pickup truck on July 16, 2003. The truck’s drive shaft was attached directly to a propeller and the craft could reportedly reach a leisurely 7 knots (8 mph). 55-gallon oil drums were used for flotation. The dozen or so Cubans in the truck were caught just south of Key West after being sighted by a U.S. Customs aircraft.
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We should put a giant garbage bag over the Statue of Liberty.
It mocks us.
If we eliminated welfare, then we could throw open the “Golden Doors”.
We’d be a better place.
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POLITICAL: DO we need gooferment?
Friday, September 25, 2009http://tslrf.blogspot.com/2009/09/motivation-and-greed-rant-2.html
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Motivation and Greed, Classism and Perks- Rant #2
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The concept that you should be able to keep 100% of your income is a fine one. It would not work because at the end of the day we need some level of government (how much can be debated hotly) and that costs money.
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I was with you up to that point.
I’m not so sure that is self-evident.
True, with only a few exceptions, we’ve always had “government”. We’ve also had social diseases too. That doesn’t mean we NECESSARILY have to have them.
Government IMHO is the meme that kills. It gets out of control so EASILY and QUICKLY. Maybe we could do without it.
Maybe, just maybe, we could buy insurance. And, insurance companies would buy protection for us.
Government is the only entity that can force us to buy products and services that we don’t want, can’t use, and at a price we can’t afford.
SOOooo, maybe we can do without it.
It’s interesting that someone will spend millions to get a job that pays thousands. That’s the tip off that there is something very wrong with the whole proposition of government.
imho.
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LIBERTY: Honest money begets success
Friday, September 25, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/smith-g.f5.1.1.html
How Much Money Do We Need?
by George F. Smith
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There will always be people who wish to live at the expense of others. Government does this through taxes and inflation – which is here used as an increase in the money supply – and in modern times, inflation, because it is generally misunderstood by the public, is a politically safer method of confiscation than taxes.
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Fiat paper money regimes are not designed to promote a healthy economy. They are designed as a means of wealth distribution for the benefit of a few.
That probably doesn’t include you, and it definitely doesn’t include me.
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It sure isn’t me!
Here in two paragraphs the author explains the problem with gooferment paper money.
I’m not sure how this all unwinds. We can see in history that: in France, the aristocrats lost their heads; in Germany, Hitler came to power; and in Zimbabwe, the people starve despite the fact that when it was Rhodesia it was Africa’s breadbasket.
As an “old guy”, I may not be here for the final act of this morality play. I think it’s going to make the Great Depression look like fun. All empires pass. And, the passing isn’t pretty for those in the empire.
Argh!
How do we fix it?
Civic virtue. Honest money. No more Ponzi schemes like Social Security. End welfare. End the Psuedo Drug War. Bring the troops home.
Will it happen?
I pray it will.
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RANT: Liberty; not gooferment
Thursday, September 24, 2009Anonymous said…
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The consumer is king? No, he’s not. What’s my choice for electricity and gas? PSE&G or PSE&G? Or I have to move to another state. In many cases, one or two companies have a monopoly of a certain type of business or there is often price fixing and collusion between corporations. That is certainly true of the private for profit health insurance industry.
What the hell is some poor working stiff in West Virginia supposed to do against giant coal mining corporations that are polluting the water, soil and air of their neighborhoods? Oh yeah, they have the option to move from their homes where they may have roots going back generations. We have no choice about how the energy is transmitted to our abodes. The only way to deal with these great polluters is through the power of the government or the legislature. We need a trust busting Theodore Roosevelt and an army of Upton Sinclairs to take on all these giant corporations which are raping the environment and our wallets. Corporate America has too much power, they are unelected but they control the media and have undue influence over Congress and our legislatures, (local, state and federal).
We need strong unions to give workers a voice and to level the playing field.
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Blogger reinkefj said…
>The consumer is king? No, he’s not. What’s my choice for electricity and gas? PSE&G or PSE&G?
OK, let’s take PSEG. Who gave them a monopoly? The Gooferment. So aim your ire at the “state”! That’s why you don’t have a choice.
Even when given a monopoly, that still doesn’t completely insulate the monopoly service provider. Comcast was the monopoly. Then, came DirectTv. Then, Dish. Then, Verizon FIOS.
>In many cases, one or two companies have a monopoly of a certain type of business or
> there is often price fixing and collusion between corporations.
There is NO monopoly without GOOFERMENT. Competition disolves “natural monopolies” in a few years. Everyone always cites the Rockyfeller oil monopoly which lasted (I think) THREE years before competitors came in and took percentages.
>That is certainly true of the private for profit health insurance industry.
There is NO such industry. The Federal and State Gooferments regulate EVERYTHING about healthcare. AND, those companies LOVE it. It prevents competition. “Regulatory capture”, restriction on suuply, mandated coverages just make it expensive.
>What the hell is some poor working stiff in West Virginia supposed to do against giant coal
>mining corporations that are polluting the water, soil and air of their neighborhoods?
Where’s the Federal and State EPA that are supposed to be preventing that?!? In fact, the gooferment is the biggest polluter. (Check some of the DOD and DOE sites.)
If you had a fair judicial system, then they’d have a recourse. Read Healing Our World by Dr. Mary Ruwart. http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap14.html
>Corporate America has too much power, they are unelected but they control the media
> and have undue influence over Congress and our legislatures, (local, state and federal).
It’s called Facism. Where the State and Business become “bedfellows”.
>We need strong unions to give workers a voice and to level the playing field.
Yeah, right. Like the UAW, Teachers Union, or SCIU are weak. Please, don’t make me laugh. They are AS corrupt as the politicians.
So who’s going to save you now?
The answer is we have to rescue ourselves. It’s our thinking that needs to change. We have to demand freedom and liberty. We can start by voting out EVERY incumbent. Call it voter imposed term limits. Demand TRUE deregulation. No licenses, no permits, no gooferment oversight. Liberty will protect us.
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LIBERTY: A real single payer
Tuesday, September 22, 2009http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109854
How ’bout a real single-payer system?
Posted: September 15, 2009
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What did we do, back during the years when most Americans had no medical insurance? I did what most people did. I depended on a “single payer” – myself. When I didn’t have the money, I paid off my medical bills in installments.
The birth of my first child was not covered by medical insurance. I paid off the bill, month by month, until the time finally came when I could tell my wife that the baby was now ours, free and clear.
In a country where everything imaginable is bought and paid for on credit, why is it suddenly a national crisis if some people cannot pay cash up front for medical treatment?
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We have 310M people with 15M “uninsured”.
So we are going to mess up 295 to possibly “insure” 15?
Sorry, but everyone should just pay their own. And insurance and charity care for the big bad wolf!
Start by making insurance tax deductible for everyone.
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