Real Americans – Common Sense for Freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
This YouTube video is both hilarious and accurate in presenting the opposing worldviews of the Austrian and Keynesian schools of economic thought. Given our continuing slide into depression and debt crisis, what could be more topical than economics? Watch and enjoy!
If this doesn’t make young people nervous…it should
This is YOUR debt kids. What have you got to show for it???
Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. Total public debt subject to limit Jan. 22 12,245,872 Statutory debt limit 12,394,000 Total public debt outstanding Jan. 22 12,302,465 Operating balance Jan. 22 142,454 Interest fiscal year 2009 383,365 Interest fiscal year 2008 451,154 Deficit fiscal year 2009 1,417,121 Deficit fiscal year 2008 454,798 Receipts fiscal year 2009 2,104,613 Receipts fiscal year 2008 2,523,642 Outlays fiscal year 2009 3,521,734 Outlays fiscal year 2008 2,978,440 Gold assets in September 11,041
Why do leftists and collectivists love government so much? Why do they trust that government can correct the ills of society? Governments are made up of people, fallible, failed humans. What has any government program done to better society? Governments should be constrained in order to ensure the liberty of the citizens.
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government……” James Madison
Leftists are motivated by their own arrogance, hubris, envy and greed. All things they ascribe to those who oppose overweening government. Its simple, they think that they and government bureaucrats are better suited to run your life than you are.
John Stossel writes a good article supporting this theme.
I don’t care about energy independence. We have so much carbon energy in the U.S. its just ridiculous. The only thing limiting its exploitation are collectivist weenies and Gaea worshipers.
I don’t mind though. I’d much prefer to buy up ALL of the Arab, South American, Euro, Mexican and Canuck oil before we exploit our own.
Economic Freedom and Capitalism are fueled by carbon based fuels. Burn it up! We can and will develop alternatives if and as the market and subordinate demand dictate. Letting Statist Politocrats dictate is just a recipe for economic ruination and for slavery for the American people.
Today the Obamessiah is reported to have tied “passage of Health Insurance Bill to American Decency“.
Those who value American Freedom and traditional values don’t see how collectivists taking over one sixth of the economy can be seen as a “victory for decency”.
Where is the decency in trying to build a dependency culture?
Where is the decency in taking away people’s freedom to choose?
Where is the decency in taking MORE money from the citizenry (who actually pay taxes that is)?
Where is the decency in spending future generations into catastrophic debt?
Where is the decency in defying the will of over one half of the electorate?
The monstrosity of legislation labeled “health care”, that no one has read and is developed in secrecy isn’t decent in any way. It is indecent. Indecent to liberty, the American People and to the Constitution.
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This is an edited version based on the “Free our health care now” site. Click the link and take action yourself!!
My version, sent to my Senators (both Donkeys) and my Rep (an Elefink).
“As your constituent, a voter and taxpayer, I want you to know that I strongly oppose ANY government controlled health care system. A government controlled health care system will measurably harm the interests of my family and me. You may say “it isn’t government run”, but it will be government controlled. Your constituents prefer freedom to government action on health care. The legislation drafted by the Senate will:
Decrease the quality of my health care. Under government controlled health care, I’ll see my doctor for less time, receive less preventative medicine and spend more time waiting for important medical procedures.
Marginalize the health care of seniors. Under government controlled health care, the Greatest Generation will be treated the worst in the health system.
Limit my access to health care. Under government controlled health care, lines will be longer, waiting will increase and doctor-time will decrease. Additionally, mandated insurance will force me to purchase coverage I don’t want and deprive me of coverage I need.
Increase cost. Under government controlled health care, costs will balloon beyond recognition. When the government picks up or subsidizes the tab for health care, neither doctors nor patients have any incentive to reduce cost or limit use. As a result, the United States will be forced to either increase taxes on middle-class Americans or increase debt to creditor nations.
Please know as you prepare to reconcile your bill with the House bill, the above is unacceptable to me and that I will be paying close attention. It will likely determine how I vote in November. When you disregard this or reply by form letter or email I will take note of that as well. When a majority of your constituents oppose legislation it is your duty to oppose it also.”
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Dear Mut covers the Taxachussets Senate seat and delineates the great work being done on the left coast by the Socal Tax Revolt coalition.
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Readers of my occasional writings (few though they be) know
that I do not condone torture, nor do I approve of detaining
’suspects’ indefinitely without charges or opportunity to clear their
names. Neither of the foregoing applies to foreigners entering our
country intending to do us harm. The Christmas day bombing attempt
on a Detroit-bound flight was the work of a foreigner not in uniform;
he therefore ought to be dealt with as spy or saboteur and executed
summarily. Having been caught in the act, there is no question of
guilt. Therefore, giving him three tax-funded lawyers (more than I’d
see if I was given a public defender for a lesser charge) is not only
excessive and unnecessary, but it is positively self-hating to shower
such favor on someone who premeditatedly sought to commit an act of
mass murder. Summary execution in such a case is not repugnant to
American jurisprudence, nor to common sense.
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