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Napolitano Wants Fence On the Border...Of Canada!
http://nation.foxnews.com/janet-napolitano/2011/09/29/napolitano-wants-fence-borderof-canada
Well, it really does only make sense because then if we have a fence on the border with Canada, the Mexicans won't be offended or cry out racial profiling when we eventually build a fence on the Mexican border. We cannot be seen as an unfair or discriminating country.
Kind of like how we need to shakedown gray haired old women at airports so we don't offend muslims. Am I right?
Well, it really does only make sense because then if we have a fence on the border with Canada, the Mexicans won't be offended or cry out racial profiling when we eventually build a fence on the Mexican border. We cannot be seen as an unfair or discriminating country.
Kind of like how we need to shakedown gray haired old women at airports so we don't offend muslims. Am I right?
Coddling Misinformation About Taxation
Coddling Misinformation About Taxation
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Being a self employed entrepreneurial business owner I have long held that all taxpayers should have to deal with the IRS the say way we do -- by writing them a check every quarter. If everyone did this, and actually got to "touch" the money before Uncle Sam gets it, we would have a tax revolt of stunning proportions overnight.
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Being a self employed entrepreneurial business owner I have long held that all taxpayers should have to deal with the IRS the say way we do -- by writing them a check every quarter. If everyone did this, and actually got to "touch" the money before Uncle Sam gets it, we would have a tax revolt of stunning proportions overnight.
Valerie Jarrett: The Point of Government Is to Give People a Livelihood So They Can Provide for Their Families
http://nation.foxnews.com/valerie-jarrett/2011/09/29/valerie-jarrett-point-government-give-people-livelihood-so-they-can-provide-their-families
And there it is folks... The twisted mentality of the liberal, of obama, and this entire destructive administration.
No. The point of government is not to GIVE...
If you believe that then you believe the point of government is to TAKE because the government has nothing to give and must take it away from someone first to give it to whom they determine to be worthy.
This mentality is anti-American and worst of all anti-Constitution.
These people must be routed from our government permanently and politically destroyed...
And there it is folks... The twisted mentality of the liberal, of obama, and this entire destructive administration.
No. The point of government is not to GIVE...
If you believe that then you believe the point of government is to TAKE because the government has nothing to give and must take it away from someone first to give it to whom they determine to be worthy.
This mentality is anti-American and worst of all anti-Constitution.
These people must be routed from our government permanently and politically destroyed...
Defending Obamacare with 'a Soviet-Style Power-Grab’ | The Weekly Standard
Defending Obamacare with 'a Soviet-Style Power-Grab’ | The Weekly Standard
The Department of Health and Human Services’ just-released media policy makes it official that staff members and reporters are forbidden to speak to each other without reporting to public information officers and supervisors.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ just-released media policy makes it official that staff members and reporters are forbidden to speak to each other without reporting to public information officers and supervisors.
Pearls of Wisdom
"You want to know why Herman Cain won the straw poll in Florida? 'Cause you can't find one example of Herman Cain, at any point in this campaign, not being a conservative."
RushLimbaugh
Obama’s Racial Crisis
Obama’s Racial Crisis - Victor Davis Hanson - National Review Online
His policies hurt blacks most of all.
His policies hurt blacks most of all.
Superman vs. Warm Body - Thomas Sowell
Superman vs. Warm Body - Thomas Sowell - National Review Online
There is no such thing as an error-free leader.
There is no such thing as an error-free leader.
Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias
Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias
Yea, but who is going to report it? LOL
Yea, but who is going to report it? LOL
The Self-Deception of the Left
The Self-Deception of the Left
The historic election in 2010 happened because the left was deceived by people like Michael Moore, so they underestimated the popularity and strength of the Tea Party movement. So instead of getting mad when you see the lies spread by the left about the Tea Party, do what I do and smile knowingly as I get ready for another historic victory.
Obama Can't Trade Places
The costs of being willfully clueless about the private sector.
Full article:
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/09/21/obama-cant-trade-places
Full article:
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/09/21/obama-cant-trade-places
Movies like Trading Places only reveal that, at the directorial and script-writing level at least, Hollywood knows absolutely nothing about the business world. It reminds me of Ludwig von Mises' description of Lenin in the opening pages of Socialism. Von Mises points to a passage in Lenin's writing where the great Revolutionary leader proclaims that all there is to running a business is tallying up the profits as they roll in. Anyone with a little math can do it. Therefore, in order to establish justice in the world, all that was necessary was for the Bolshevik vanguard to wrestle the means of production out of the hands of the capitalists and run them for the good of the people. Lenin had the "grocery boy's view of business," writes von Mises, and it is not surprising, based on this short passage alone, that every socialist and communist economy that ever existed has quickly sunk into squalor almost as soon as the new leadership took over.
Good morning, suckers: President Obama is playing you.
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/09/21/his-biggest-big-lies
If you work hard, play by the rules, save your money, create jobs, and make a success out of yourself, President Obama and the Democrat party will plunder everything you have worked so hard for, because in their view that is only fair.
Poverty Is Not a ‘Death Sentence’ - Sen. Rand Paul - National Review Online
Poverty Is Not a ‘Death Sentence’ - Sen. Rand Paul - National Review Online
The average poor household has a car, air conditioning, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and an Xbox. Its home is in good repair and bigger than the average (non-poor) European home. They report that in the past year they were not hungry, were able to obtain medical care as necessary, and could afford all essential needs.
Geithner's "succinct" message irks Europeans
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/16/eurozone-geithner-scene-idUSLDE78F09G20110916
"I found it peculiar that even though the Americans have significantly worse fundamental data than the euro zone that they tell us what we should do and when we make a suggestion ... that they say no straight away,"Even the Europeans loathe a hypocrite.
You Can’t Tax the Rich
You Can’t Tax the Rich - Thomas Sowell - National Review Online
The problem is, people are too stupid to get this simple fact. Economics are dynamic, not static.
If someone steps up and swings a bat at your head, you move. Especially if you got hit the first time. You don't just stand there and take it over and over. To do so would mean you are oblivious to any and all outside influences. Yet this is what Dems think business people and the rich will do if they increase taxes on them. They think people will just stand there, static.
On another note, using this mentality is how the CBO scores bills, which makes the CBO estimates of the cost of bills meaningless to those of us that understand dynamic economics.
The problem is, people are too stupid to get this simple fact. Economics are dynamic, not static.
If someone steps up and swings a bat at your head, you move. Especially if you got hit the first time. You don't just stand there and take it over and over. To do so would mean you are oblivious to any and all outside influences. Yet this is what Dems think business people and the rich will do if they increase taxes on them. They think people will just stand there, static.
On another note, using this mentality is how the CBO scores bills, which makes the CBO estimates of the cost of bills meaningless to those of us that understand dynamic economics.
Mayor Bloomberg predicts riots in the streets
I predicted riots would happen if Obama lost in 2008. I predict riots when he loses in 2012.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/09/16/2011-09-16_mayor_bloomberg_predicts_riots_in_the_streets_if_economy_doesnt_create_more_jobs.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/09/16/2011-09-16_mayor_bloomberg_predicts_riots_in_the_streets_if_economy_doesnt_create_more_jobs.html
In Indiana: Pass Go and Collect Your (School) Voucher
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/in-indiana-pass-go-and-collect-your-voucher/
This is a good start but it should not be limited only to families of four making under $61,000 a year. Freedom should not have caveats.
Barack Whobama?
Barack Whobama?
ARTICLE QUOTES:
Since grandiose narcissism is the standard neurosis of the Left, we are now seeing the downside, when their ego trips run into reality. Narcissists don't act nice when reality turns on them. Humility is not in their vocabulary. If you've ever known any major narcissists you know what to expect. What on earth will he do when it finally becomes apparent to him that he will lose the election?
Today, Jimmy Carter still thinks he was right in 1979. These people are dangerous.
Economic earthquakes are now starting in the Middle East and Europe, and we will feel the shocks very soon, at a time when the US economy is teetering on the brink of another recession. The Democrats' response will be to try to cut down our military.This administration cannot admit failure, it cannot take responsibility, and it will not fade gracefully. Today its union surrogates are freely using the word "war" for the coming election. Narcissistic rage is their standard reaction to rational resistance; we've seen it in the vicious way they keep trashing good and decent people who threaten their power. If the liberals have their way the election of 2012 will be obscene.
The Democrats are starting to run away from this administration, hoping we will forget who put Obama into power. We have enough voters who are ignorant, blind or brainwashed to make that possible.
Jew versus Jew
Jew versus Jew
Of course, progressives turn a blind's eye to the fact that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. Hence, Israeli women are not enshrouded in a burqa, and gays are not stoned to death. But none of this is relevant to the leftists. If you're still scratching your heads to figure them out, don't bother.
Progressivism is an inconsistent and illogical ideology.
Obama Wants Fairness More than Jobs
Obama Wants Fairness More than Jobs
In a debate with Hillary, Obama explained that even if raising taxes on the rich brought in lower revenues -- as it usually does -- he would prefer it to more revenue because it is "fair."
Dems resent that conservatives know how to make $ and they do not. They work diligently to steal it from them in every way possible. Every dem policy evolves from and leads to this point. Envy of others and the desire to destroy those more successful than themselves is a very petty and shall I say SELFISH way to live a life.
In a debate with Hillary, Obama explained that even if raising taxes on the rich brought in lower revenues -- as it usually does -- he would prefer it to more revenue because it is "fair."
Dems resent that conservatives know how to make $ and they do not. They work diligently to steal it from them in every way possible. Every dem policy evolves from and leads to this point. Envy of others and the desire to destroy those more successful than themselves is a very petty and shall I say SELFISH way to live a life.
GALLUP: Obama Approval Sinks Back Into 30s
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/09/15/gallup-obama-approval-sinks-back-30s
I guess that is about right. 20% hard core leftists and 19% who couldn't understand economics if their life depended on it, or just willfully blind.
I guess that is about right. 20% hard core leftists and 19% who couldn't understand economics if their life depended on it, or just willfully blind.
Achieving $2 Gas
Achieving $2 Gas - Robert Zubrin - National Review Online
Either we break the cartel, or the cartel breaks us. The Open Fuel Standard bill needs to be passed.
The Obama Legacy
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/the_obama_legacy.html
The masses may not be able to comprehend the theoretical logic of the unworkability of Socialism (e.g. Ludwig von Mises' masterpiece "Socialism"). But even dullards are capable of feeling pain. Experiential learning is more suited to mass education than theory. The ideals of Social Justice, Green Energy and other holy causes are put in proper perspective when one is unable to afford food, find a job or support one's family.
Dem Congresswoman: "You Don't Deserve To Keep All" Of Your Money
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/14/dem_congresswoman_you_dont_deserve_to_keep_all_of_your_money.html
THE TRUE BELIEFS OF DEMOCRATS AND LIBERALS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN SPOKEN MORE CLEARLY THAN THIS. THIS IS WHY THEY ARE THE ENEMY OF CONSERVATISM.
THE TRUE BELIEFS OF DEMOCRATS AND LIBERALS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN SPOKEN MORE CLEARLY THAN THIS. THIS IS WHY THEY ARE THE ENEMY OF CONSERVATISM.
How Obama Could Win
Thomas Sowell
September 14, 2011 12:00 A.M.
How Obama Could Win
He could follow FDR’s example.
Some people are hoping that President Obama’s plan will get the economy out of the doldrums and start providing jobs for the unemployed. Others are hoping that the Republicans’ plan will do the trick.
Those who are truly optimistic hope that Democrats and Republicans will put aside their differences and do what is best for the country.
Almost nobody seems to be hoping that the government will leave the economy alone to recover on its own. Indeed, almost nobody seems at all interested in looking at the hard facts about what happens when the government leaves the economy alone, compared with what happens when politicians intervene.
The grand myth that has been taught to whole generations is that the government is “forced” to intervene in the economy when there is a downturn that leaves millions of people suffering. The classic example is the Great Depression of the 1930s.
What most people are unaware of is that there was no Great Depression until after politicians started intervening in the economy.
There was a stock market crash in October 1929 and unemployment shot up to 9 percent — for one month. Then unemployment started drifting back down until it was 6.3 percent in June 1930, when the first major federal intervention took place.
That was the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, which more than 1,000 economists across the country pleaded with Congress and President Hoover not to enact. But then, as now, politicians decided that they had to “do something.”
Within six months, unemployment hit double digits. Then, as now, when “doing something” made things worse, many felt that the answer was to do something more.
Both President Hoover and President Roosevelt did more — and more and more. Unemployment remained in double digits for the remainder of the decade. Indeed, unemployment topped 20 percent and remained there for 35 months, stretching from the Hoover administration into the Roosevelt administration.
That is how the government was “forced” to intervene during the Great Depression. Intervention in the economy is like eating potato chips: You can’t stop with just one.
What about the track record of doing nothing? For the first century and a half of this nation, that was essentially what the federal government did: nothing. None of the downturns in all that time ever lasted as long as the Great Depression.
An economic downturn in 1920–21 sent unemployment up to 12 percent. Pres. Warren Harding did nothing, except for cutting government spending. The economy quickly rebounded on its own.
In 1987, when the stock market declined more in one day than it had in any day in 1929, Ronald Reagan did nothing. There were outcries and outrage in the media. But Reagan still did nothing.
That downturn not only rebounded, it was followed by 20 years of economic growth, marked by low inflation and low unemployment.
The Obama administration’s policies are very much like the policies of the Roosevelt administration during the 1930s. FDR not only smothered business with an unending stream of new regulations, he spent unprecedented sums of money, running up record deficits — despite having raised taxes on high-income earners to levels that confiscated well over half their earnings.
Like Obama today, FDR blamed the country’s economic problems on his predecessor, making Hoover a pariah. Yet six years after Hoover was gone, and nearly a decade after the stock-market crash, unemployment hit 20 percent again in the spring of 1939.
Doing nothing may have a better track record in the economy, but government intervention has a better political record in getting presidents reelected.
People who say that Barack Obama cannot be reelected with unemployment at its current level should take note that Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected a record four times, despite two consecutive terms in which unemployment was never as low as it is today.
Economic reality is one thing. But political impressions are something very different — and all too often it is the political impressions which determine the fate of an administration and the fate of a nation.
— Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. © 2011 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
September 14, 2011 12:00 A.M.
How Obama Could Win
He could follow FDR’s example.
Some people are hoping that President Obama’s plan will get the economy out of the doldrums and start providing jobs for the unemployed. Others are hoping that the Republicans’ plan will do the trick.
Those who are truly optimistic hope that Democrats and Republicans will put aside their differences and do what is best for the country.
Almost nobody seems to be hoping that the government will leave the economy alone to recover on its own. Indeed, almost nobody seems at all interested in looking at the hard facts about what happens when the government leaves the economy alone, compared with what happens when politicians intervene.
The grand myth that has been taught to whole generations is that the government is “forced” to intervene in the economy when there is a downturn that leaves millions of people suffering. The classic example is the Great Depression of the 1930s.
What most people are unaware of is that there was no Great Depression until after politicians started intervening in the economy.
There was a stock market crash in October 1929 and unemployment shot up to 9 percent — for one month. Then unemployment started drifting back down until it was 6.3 percent in June 1930, when the first major federal intervention took place.
That was the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, which more than 1,000 economists across the country pleaded with Congress and President Hoover not to enact. But then, as now, politicians decided that they had to “do something.”
Within six months, unemployment hit double digits. Then, as now, when “doing something” made things worse, many felt that the answer was to do something more.
Both President Hoover and President Roosevelt did more — and more and more. Unemployment remained in double digits for the remainder of the decade. Indeed, unemployment topped 20 percent and remained there for 35 months, stretching from the Hoover administration into the Roosevelt administration.
That is how the government was “forced” to intervene during the Great Depression. Intervention in the economy is like eating potato chips: You can’t stop with just one.
What about the track record of doing nothing? For the first century and a half of this nation, that was essentially what the federal government did: nothing. None of the downturns in all that time ever lasted as long as the Great Depression.
An economic downturn in 1920–21 sent unemployment up to 12 percent. Pres. Warren Harding did nothing, except for cutting government spending. The economy quickly rebounded on its own.
In 1987, when the stock market declined more in one day than it had in any day in 1929, Ronald Reagan did nothing. There were outcries and outrage in the media. But Reagan still did nothing.
That downturn not only rebounded, it was followed by 20 years of economic growth, marked by low inflation and low unemployment.
The Obama administration’s policies are very much like the policies of the Roosevelt administration during the 1930s. FDR not only smothered business with an unending stream of new regulations, he spent unprecedented sums of money, running up record deficits — despite having raised taxes on high-income earners to levels that confiscated well over half their earnings.
Like Obama today, FDR blamed the country’s economic problems on his predecessor, making Hoover a pariah. Yet six years after Hoover was gone, and nearly a decade after the stock-market crash, unemployment hit 20 percent again in the spring of 1939.
Doing nothing may have a better track record in the economy, but government intervention has a better political record in getting presidents reelected.
People who say that Barack Obama cannot be reelected with unemployment at its current level should take note that Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected a record four times, despite two consecutive terms in which unemployment was never as low as it is today.
Economic reality is one thing. But political impressions are something very different — and all too often it is the political impressions which determine the fate of an administration and the fate of a nation.
— Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. © 2011 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
When Community Organizers Attack
When Community Organizers Attack
Dictatorial and Totalitarian tactics asking fellow citizens to inform on their fellow citizens.
This is CLASSIC tyranny in action. Virtually ALL despots of the past had a group whose job was to report "suspicious" citizens to the state. Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini would endorse this.
Dictatorial and Totalitarian tactics asking fellow citizens to inform on their fellow citizens.
This is CLASSIC tyranny in action. Virtually ALL despots of the past had a group whose job was to report "suspicious" citizens to the state. Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini would endorse this.
Articles: Inequality: It's a Good Thing
Articles: Inequality: It's a Good Thing
Inequality, for lack of a better word, is good. Inequality makes the world go around. So screw equality. Equality is the hobgoblin of little minds. Equality is for wusses. What real men care about is Freedom.
That Presidential Look: The Bad, the Beautiful, and Voting-Booth Realities
That Presidential Look: The Bad, the Beautiful, and Voting-Booth Realities
"Don't like it? Talk to the people who think that rallying the idiot vote somehow makes our republic stronger."
"Don't like it? Talk to the people who think that rallying the idiot vote somehow makes our republic stronger."
KRUGMAN: Bush, Giuliani 'fake heroes' who cashed in 'on the horror'...
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/the-years-of-shame/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto
Paul Krugman is just a sickening and now nasty individual. To continue to give this 'economist' credibility is to show how separated from reality liberals really are.
He will not allow comments on his article, but I will.
Paul Krugman is just a sickening and now nasty individual. To continue to give this 'economist' credibility is to show how separated from reality liberals really are.
He will not allow comments on his article, but I will.
Republicans Should Make Intellect the Issue
Republicans Should Make Intellect the Issue
Questioning [Moderator] Today 03:39 AM
I think that America would be well served pitting the entire GOP field against the current Administration. Who on the Right would be uncomfortable with Newt as Secretary of State or Bachmann as head of DHS (although I think that Paul would make a better Secretary of the Treasury than SECDEF)? I think the entire group on stage the other night should be included in the coming Administration. How powerful would it be if they started running like that right now?
Questioning [Moderator] Today 03:39 AM
I think that America would be well served pitting the entire GOP field against the current Administration. Who on the Right would be uncomfortable with Newt as Secretary of State or Bachmann as head of DHS (although I think that Paul would make a better Secretary of the Treasury than SECDEF)? I think the entire group on stage the other night should be included in the coming Administration. How powerful would it be if they started running like that right now?
Here's a jobs plan:
Washington76 [Moderator] 1 hour ago
Here's my jobs plan:
1. DRILL BABY, DRILL! Enact a public policy for all federal agencies to follow: "It is the policy of the United States of America that the nation shall achieve complete energy independence and become one of the world's top ten exporters of oil." Set a barely realistic timeline to achieve that goal. Eliminate administrative obstacles to achieving that goal.
2. Immediately strike all EPA regulations that were proposed after January 1, 2006; indefinitely suspend all rulemaking authority by EPA; permanently remove all EPA authority over any gas that is a component of "air." Permanently remove all EPA authority over "fracking" operations; reduce the EPA budget in real terms to the level it had in 2000.
3. Reduce DOE budget by 50%.
4. Fast track construction of 20 nuclear plants in "red" states; require one in four such plants to be breeder reactors.
5. Strike all regulations concerning coal production or use that were proposed after January 1, 2006.
6. Permanently cut corporate income tax to just below that of Ireland; impose three year moratorium on collection of any corporate income taxes for businesses earning less than $1billion per year.
7. Construct 5 new petroleum refineries in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida (1 each), and statutorily require that for every refinery that is retired from service a new refinery with 110% capacity of the retiring one be built with no gap in service.
8. Eliminate the diesel tax.
9. Strike all CAFE regulations.
10. Strike the income tax code for all individuals and small businesses, replace with the Fair Tax. Mandate that no tax return under the Fair Tax may be longer than one side of one 8.5x11 inch page, with font at least 10pt.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Here's my jobs plan:
1. DRILL BABY, DRILL! Enact a public policy for all federal agencies to follow: "It is the policy of the United States of America that the nation shall achieve complete energy independence and become one of the world's top ten exporters of oil." Set a barely realistic timeline to achieve that goal. Eliminate administrative obstacles to achieving that goal.
2. Immediately strike all EPA regulations that were proposed after January 1, 2006; indefinitely suspend all rulemaking authority by EPA; permanently remove all EPA authority over any gas that is a component of "air." Permanently remove all EPA authority over "fracking" operations; reduce the EPA budget in real terms to the level it had in 2000.
3. Reduce DOE budget by 50%.
4. Fast track construction of 20 nuclear plants in "red" states; require one in four such plants to be breeder reactors.
5. Strike all regulations concerning coal production or use that were proposed after January 1, 2006.
6. Permanently cut corporate income tax to just below that of Ireland; impose three year moratorium on collection of any corporate income taxes for businesses earning less than $1billion per year.
7. Construct 5 new petroleum refineries in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida (1 each), and statutorily require that for every refinery that is retired from service a new refinery with 110% capacity of the retiring one be built with no gap in service.
8. Eliminate the diesel tax.
9. Strike all CAFE regulations.
10. Strike the income tax code for all individuals and small businesses, replace with the Fair Tax. Mandate that no tax return under the Fair Tax may be longer than one side of one 8.5x11 inch page, with font at least 10pt.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
An Economics Lesson Even a Liberal Can Grasp
An Economics Lesson Even a Liberal Can Grasp
"I'll be damned before I start hiring people now, just in time to send the unemployment rate plunging so it re-elects the president next year. In a second term, this guy'll kill my business."
"I'll be damned before I start hiring people now, just in time to send the unemployment rate plunging so it re-elects the president next year. In a second term, this guy'll kill my business."
On Being Governed By Scientific Frauds
On Being Governed By Scientific Frauds
"It's only in pseudo-science that you keep repeating a terrible idea over and over, in the face of the evidence."
"It's only in pseudo-science that you keep repeating a terrible idea over and over, in the face of the evidence."
Krugman: 'The Public Should Want What I Want, But It Doesn't'
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/09/04/krugman-public-should-want-what-i-want-it-doesnt
Well, that really is the crux of all this right? We just don't want the garbage they are selling. We dont want them telling us what is best for us. We don't want them telling us anything and to just be left alone. Leave us alone. Leave us alone. LEAVE US ALONE...
Well, that really is the crux of all this right? We just don't want the garbage they are selling. We dont want them telling us what is best for us. We don't want them telling us anything and to just be left alone. Leave us alone. Leave us alone. LEAVE US ALONE...
November 6th, 2012
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/the_new_rules.html
A date that will live in Infamy,
or Triumph...
A date that will live in Infamy,
or Triumph...
Conservatives vs. the Keynesian Purists
Conservatives vs. the Keynesian Purists
ARTICLE QUOTE REGARDING KEYNESIANS:
"They have an inherent lack of faith in the private sector and by extension the American people."
Comment from American Thinker:
Pescator Today 08:17 AM
The basic problem with Keynesian economics is what a previous article in the AT described as the phenomenon of Ceteris Paribus. Roughly translated this means: all else being equal. Keynes and his followers developed a formula for the GNP which contains government spending. Thus, if the GNP falls (as in a recession in the business cycle), this can be negated by increased government spending. The problem is that everything else is NOT being equal. The act of increased government spending alters other facets of the economy. The first thing that is altered is the money supply (the increased government spending is done with borrowed money). This adds to inflation. The second thing that is altered is that spending of money (the Keynesian stimulus) is taken away from the Market. That is to say, it is no longer the Market but the government that determines how the money is spent. One can guarantee that the choice of beaurocrats is not what the Market needs. The misallocation of resources will slow the economy. We have seen this in the Great Depression and we are seeing it now with the Obama regime. Lots of Americans lack the knowledge of how the economy works. The citizen who remarked that Obama would provide her with money from "his stash" was greeted with indulgent smiles from the Media. 'How charming' was their reaction. In reality, alarm bells should have been ringing.
ARTICLE QUOTE REGARDING KEYNESIANS:
"They have an inherent lack of faith in the private sector and by extension the American people."
Comment from American Thinker:
Pescator Today 08:17 AM
The basic problem with Keynesian economics is what a previous article in the AT described as the phenomenon of Ceteris Paribus. Roughly translated this means: all else being equal. Keynes and his followers developed a formula for the GNP which contains government spending. Thus, if the GNP falls (as in a recession in the business cycle), this can be negated by increased government spending. The problem is that everything else is NOT being equal. The act of increased government spending alters other facets of the economy. The first thing that is altered is the money supply (the increased government spending is done with borrowed money). This adds to inflation. The second thing that is altered is that spending of money (the Keynesian stimulus) is taken away from the Market. That is to say, it is no longer the Market but the government that determines how the money is spent. One can guarantee that the choice of beaurocrats is not what the Market needs. The misallocation of resources will slow the economy. We have seen this in the Great Depression and we are seeing it now with the Obama regime. Lots of Americans lack the knowledge of how the economy works. The citizen who remarked that Obama would provide her with money from "his stash" was greeted with indulgent smiles from the Media. 'How charming' was their reaction. In reality, alarm bells should have been ringing.
Governor Perry's Islam Connection
Articles: Governor Perry's Islam Connection
Being a native Texas like Perry and unlike W, who came from the northeast, I don't see any real worrisome connection to islam and Perry. He is cordial but I believe his real interests are in saving the country and not with preferred treatment to any particular group. I just don't see Perry actually ever saying the words: "Islam is a religion of peace" because I think he knows it is nothing of the sort. If he does then I will admit my assessment of him having been my governor for 10 years is wrong.
Being a native Texas like Perry and unlike W, who came from the northeast, I don't see any real worrisome connection to islam and Perry. He is cordial but I believe his real interests are in saving the country and not with preferred treatment to any particular group. I just don't see Perry actually ever saying the words: "Islam is a religion of peace" because I think he knows it is nothing of the sort. If he does then I will admit my assessment of him having been my governor for 10 years is wrong.
Yes, It Is a Ponzi Scheme
Yes, It Is a Ponzi Scheme - Michael Tanner - National Review Online
Social Security is a pyramid scheme of epic proportions with devastating fallout consequences.
Social Security is a pyramid scheme of epic proportions with devastating fallout consequences.
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