As Kris and I get ready for a weekend trip, we are rushing to pack the last few items we will need into the car for our quiet weekend getaway. Let’s see if you can guess where we are headed. It is one of the hottest and most inhospitable Deserts in the country, there are almost zero natural resources, the county Sheriff allows people to freely carry guns and there are about half as many laws on the books. Still can’t guess? Business regulation and taxes are almost non-existent, especially compared to home… more clues? Prostitution and Gambling are legal.
As Dr Walter Williams would say, “If you answered Las Vegas, move to the head of the class”! Have any of our busy body politicians in this station at the Federal level ever looked at how on earth the most dangerous and inhospitable desert in the country continues to be a haven for business, job seekers, freedom lovers, and visitors from around the world year in and year out?
The answer is brilliant in its simplicity, Freedom. Freedom is what has allowed the State of Nevada for years and years to freedom seekers from around the world, for either business and economic freedom, or just some social freedom. Want to make money, and are tired of the 11% State income tax on your earnings, AFTER you pay your corporate tax? Those problems go away 300 miles to the east! Are you an adult looking for some slot machines, or blackjack? 300 Miles West! Worried about your safety and that of your family? 300 Miles west, your right to protect yourself is recognized and protected!
So when you hear Statists speak about “helping” business, or “protecting” “us”, grab on to your wallet and hold on, because they have already taken you freedom.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Freedom died a little bit today
A famous line used by drill instructors goes as follows…
Give your souls to Jesus, because your ass belongs to me! While this makes for good TV drama, sadly it can now be declared by our government with its takeover of healthcare. Putting aside the theft of labor, additional socialism and rape of our liberties, we have now had all of our freedom taken from us. This government takeover of healthcare can now be used to justify any control they wish on our lives. Under the guise of “cost” the mommy state near do wells, the people for a perfect world have all of the ammunition they need to dictate every facet of our lives and our freedom to us. Yes, the drill instructors will have to be careful with what they do, because your ass now belongs to the State
For those who doubt me, and claim that I am going off the deep end, I ask you to explain the following to me. In California we have mandatory helmet laws based on the “cost” of health care to treat those who have accidents without them. We have mandatory Seatbelt laws, imposed on us in order to protect us in case of an accident, and they justify it for our own good, and to offset the cost of care. Grown adults cannot smoke in a bar or restaurant even if the owner consents, because of the terrible threat of second hand smoke and the health care costs associated with it. Cigarette companies are forced to pay huge legal cases and are not only stopped from advertising a legal product, but they are forced to pay into a fund, for the government to advertise against their product.
But Mark, those are dangerous! …really are the food companies that are forced to subject them selves to additional regulation because some unelected whores decided their product has too much sugar, or too much fat content, and are making our children fat. This is regulated due to the “cost” of obesity, and the care that goes with it…
What is next?
There is not part of your life that will not be able to be controlled with government run healthcare.
No more McDonalds….. it is bad for you, and will raise medical costs
No more Lung transplants for you if you have ever smoked….
A new freeway speed limit of 55 MPH? Safety…healthcare costs…
Federally mandated exercise plans….
Limits on children? Why not? Lets cut back on Maternity cost, and children’s healthcare costs!
You owe back taxes? Sorry no healthcare for you!
Doctors office visits, asking if you own a gun? It will now be their job, to cut back on health costs…..
And So on and So on…..
You will be hard pressed to find an aspect of life that cannot fall under the government control, if you consider healthcare cost as a reasonable qualifier….
Freedom in America Died a little bit more today.... 218 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have now turned their backs on the oath they took to uphold the Constitution and used it for toilet paper, all the while buying the support of fools and lemmings with their own money
Give your souls to Jesus, because your ass belongs to me! While this makes for good TV drama, sadly it can now be declared by our government with its takeover of healthcare. Putting aside the theft of labor, additional socialism and rape of our liberties, we have now had all of our freedom taken from us. This government takeover of healthcare can now be used to justify any control they wish on our lives. Under the guise of “cost” the mommy state near do wells, the people for a perfect world have all of the ammunition they need to dictate every facet of our lives and our freedom to us. Yes, the drill instructors will have to be careful with what they do, because your ass now belongs to the State
For those who doubt me, and claim that I am going off the deep end, I ask you to explain the following to me. In California we have mandatory helmet laws based on the “cost” of health care to treat those who have accidents without them. We have mandatory Seatbelt laws, imposed on us in order to protect us in case of an accident, and they justify it for our own good, and to offset the cost of care. Grown adults cannot smoke in a bar or restaurant even if the owner consents, because of the terrible threat of second hand smoke and the health care costs associated with it. Cigarette companies are forced to pay huge legal cases and are not only stopped from advertising a legal product, but they are forced to pay into a fund, for the government to advertise against their product.
But Mark, those are dangerous! …really are the food companies that are forced to subject them selves to additional regulation because some unelected whores decided their product has too much sugar, or too much fat content, and are making our children fat. This is regulated due to the “cost” of obesity, and the care that goes with it…
What is next?
There is not part of your life that will not be able to be controlled with government run healthcare.
No more McDonalds….. it is bad for you, and will raise medical costs
No more Lung transplants for you if you have ever smoked….
A new freeway speed limit of 55 MPH? Safety…healthcare costs…
Federally mandated exercise plans….
Limits on children? Why not? Lets cut back on Maternity cost, and children’s healthcare costs!
You owe back taxes? Sorry no healthcare for you!
Doctors office visits, asking if you own a gun? It will now be their job, to cut back on health costs…..
And So on and So on…..
You will be hard pressed to find an aspect of life that cannot fall under the government control, if you consider healthcare cost as a reasonable qualifier….
Freedom in America Died a little bit more today.... 218 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have now turned their backs on the oath they took to uphold the Constitution and used it for toilet paper, all the while buying the support of fools and lemmings with their own money
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Some random thoughts
Why are corporations making billions called greedy, but those in government who take 30% and do nothing to create it are not?
The top 50% in this country pay just about all of the income tax, but those that pay nothing keep telling us the top “Rich” need to pay their fair share?
Why can people who make a good income never be called “working families”
On the same note, our politicians get paid more than most people do, but they tell us they are working for us?
How do budget cuts on items such as the Post office and the DMV always hit the poor the hardest?
If $10 per hour is good….why isn’t the minimum wage $300 per hour?
Will doctors be able to go on “Strike” under the public option?
If people die in accidents without helmets, or seat belts, why are we forced to wear them, to save money on care?
If guns are dangerous, why don’t we see killing sprees at shooting ranges?
Why aren’t our elected officials forced to fly “coach” when they travel?
The State and Federal government make more on a package of smokes, than the tobacco companies do. Shouldn’t people be suing the Government for damages?
The top 50% in this country pay just about all of the income tax, but those that pay nothing keep telling us the top “Rich” need to pay their fair share?
Why can people who make a good income never be called “working families”
On the same note, our politicians get paid more than most people do, but they tell us they are working for us?
How do budget cuts on items such as the Post office and the DMV always hit the poor the hardest?
If $10 per hour is good….why isn’t the minimum wage $300 per hour?
Will doctors be able to go on “Strike” under the public option?
If people die in accidents without helmets, or seat belts, why are we forced to wear them, to save money on care?
If guns are dangerous, why don’t we see killing sprees at shooting ranges?
Why aren’t our elected officials forced to fly “coach” when they travel?
The State and Federal government make more on a package of smokes, than the tobacco companies do. Shouldn’t people be suing the Government for damages?
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The time to stand, be heard and fight is now! There will be no tomorrow.
The time to stand, be heard and fight is now! There will be no tomorrow.
All too often in the process of living our lives, we don’t pay attention to what is going on around us, we are busy with our family, friends, our careers, taking the kids to school, planning our weekends, and so on. And that is OK. We slowly slip away from politics and government until the next election rolls around, where we “wake up” and get involved to some extent. Some contribute money, time, or participate, by supporting local or national representatives. Others simply vote for their candidate, some don’t vote at all. In most cases if “our” guy wins or loses we don’t see any impact on our day to day lives. While many complain about taxes or spending, abortion or guns we are seldom greatly affected by the changes. So we slouch into apathy and go on with our lives.
With our current political landscape, all of that has changed. Our system has now gone off the deep end; it has been allowed to continue on, unchallenged growing farther and farther from what the founding fathers had set out to create. There is no one group that can be called the “Villain,” nor is there a single group that can be the “Hero” but we are facing a very serious situation.
Our elected officials are completely out of control, at all levels of government, From the MV City Council Majority that is in a race with itself to spend down their long and hard saved reserves on special interest projects; to an appointed Orange County Sheriff, that upon replacing a convicted criminal, decided that legally issued licenses can be revoked without cause from law abiding citizens. Being informed, her deputies were in violation of state law, by riding their motorcycles on the sidewalk, in order to “radar” speeding cars. She “shared our concerns,” but the practice still continues today.
Our state leaders have carved out their own little kingdoms, where they may hand out gifts of public money to their supporters with no fear of recourse. Now in their “no fear” system they have run out of items to tax, to sell, to borrow and to steal from to fund their orgy of spending. No longer able to raise taxes, they threaten to cut most services, they portray the citizens who pay their bills as the villains, they portray the layoffs and the budget cuts on their empire are somehow our fault. They are now about to do nothing less than declare war on the residents of CA possibly releasing 27,000 prisoners out on the streets from PRISON! They are declaring war on the people of this state, so they can keep giving out money to their political special interest groups! These are not people who are in jail for unpaid parking tickets, of for smoking some weed, they are convicted Felons, who WILL RAPE, STEAL FROM, and KILL our Families! The blood of our citizens will be on the hands our own representatives!
Our Federal Government has completely discarded the Constitution. With one party control of Congress and the White House, both now and over the past 8 years, we have seen new “Entitlements” come out of thin air, hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars have been squandered on companies that have made poor business decisions, wildly loaning money to people who had no chance of ever paying it back. When the house of cards inevitably fell apart, rather than let them fail, their greed was rewarded with taxpayer funds. We now have a Government that has stolen two of the big three automakers, throwing the traditional bankruptcy rules, and protections out the window and that same Government now owns them with the Unions. The bondholders were thrown to the wolves by their own government. They now socially engineer our lives, just like mommy and daddy did when you were young…”I’ll help you pay for that car, but you have to buy what I tell you to” and like lemmings millions of them were bought with their own tax money. Three times more than planned, unpaid dealers, and the destruction of the other markets involved with older cars. Such as repair, parts, junkyards, free market be dammed! We will now break the Camels back with the Public Healthcare Option. Regardless of what we are told, this option has clearly been written to put as many people, legal or not, on the healthcare dependence list. Make no mistake about it; if this passes we are done.
All too often the basic lessons of economics and freedom, are lost not only on our representatives, but on the people as well. They have all forgotten that anything the government can give you, they must first take away from somebody else. This country was founded on rugged individualism, not on groveling to the State to provide for you. We do not have the right to provide everything to everybody, our current politicians would dismiss as “Extremist, Racist and Right wing nut jobs” Great men Like Jefferson, and Madison. They would in turn ask where is our country.
If we do not stop this progressive and ongoing seizure of our liberty NOW, we will never get it back. The majority of Americans are comfortable not doing anything, because in the past it has not cost us anything, this is no longer the case.
The town halls are the American equivalent of Tiananmen Square. We can all look back at the image, 20 years ago, of a single person standing up, in front of 4 tanks, and they were stopped in their tracks! But one person can only stand alone for so long, before they get crushed, we must rush to join those brave few who have stepped up, and confronted their “leaders”. A lone woman standing up to Sen. Specter at the town hall, standing alone, voice quivering, making herself heard! This is the American Equivalent of that picture! The opposition, recognizing the power of this one person, ridiculed those who rushed to her side, calling them Nazi’s and “Astroturf” and were dismissed as “Partisans”.
We can stop them, The fight has begun! People are standing and being heard! In CA a few months ago, we blocked massive across the board tax increases! We have the Congress so afraid to “Hear” from their constituents at their own town halls, they have taken to bussing in supporters, showing their disdain for debate, they are taking phone calls during the meetings, and with their willing accomplices in the Media, are portraying those who stand and are heard, as “extremists”. But we can win, we must fight this at all levels. In the city of Mission Viejo they have just started counting Ballots to Recall a Councilman with a penchant for assault, and spending! In Orange County there are many groups, and candidates gathering to remove the appointed Sheriff. At the State level, those who promised to not raise taxes, who lied and went back on their word, are in the process of being recalled! And on the Federal Scene the Senate Majority Leader is trailing anybody and everybody who polls against him!
Now is the time, this is the place to stand up and fight! It is not going to be good enough to simply vote for YOUR congressman, we must act upon those who can effect change NOW, We must contact and pledge to support those conservative “Blue Dogs” who can put a stop to this, contact them, support them in their opposition to this bill in the house! If you can contribute to them, and they stand with us, do it! Support the opposition against Reid in Nevada, Send money, make calls, send E-mails do all you can. Stand up for race for Kennedy’s seat in MA, support the opposition candidate in the state lets take that Senate Seat! We must stand together, wherever, whenever, and however we can to STOP THIS, because if we don’t mobilize Here, Now, for this…we never will. If we do not act now, those who stood up to be heard, will soon suffer the same fate, as those who did in China 20 Years ago.
All too often in the process of living our lives, we don’t pay attention to what is going on around us, we are busy with our family, friends, our careers, taking the kids to school, planning our weekends, and so on. And that is OK. We slowly slip away from politics and government until the next election rolls around, where we “wake up” and get involved to some extent. Some contribute money, time, or participate, by supporting local or national representatives. Others simply vote for their candidate, some don’t vote at all. In most cases if “our” guy wins or loses we don’t see any impact on our day to day lives. While many complain about taxes or spending, abortion or guns we are seldom greatly affected by the changes. So we slouch into apathy and go on with our lives.
With our current political landscape, all of that has changed. Our system has now gone off the deep end; it has been allowed to continue on, unchallenged growing farther and farther from what the founding fathers had set out to create. There is no one group that can be called the “Villain,” nor is there a single group that can be the “Hero” but we are facing a very serious situation.
Our elected officials are completely out of control, at all levels of government, From the MV City Council Majority that is in a race with itself to spend down their long and hard saved reserves on special interest projects; to an appointed Orange County Sheriff, that upon replacing a convicted criminal, decided that legally issued licenses can be revoked without cause from law abiding citizens. Being informed, her deputies were in violation of state law, by riding their motorcycles on the sidewalk, in order to “radar” speeding cars. She “shared our concerns,” but the practice still continues today.
Our state leaders have carved out their own little kingdoms, where they may hand out gifts of public money to their supporters with no fear of recourse. Now in their “no fear” system they have run out of items to tax, to sell, to borrow and to steal from to fund their orgy of spending. No longer able to raise taxes, they threaten to cut most services, they portray the citizens who pay their bills as the villains, they portray the layoffs and the budget cuts on their empire are somehow our fault. They are now about to do nothing less than declare war on the residents of CA possibly releasing 27,000 prisoners out on the streets from PRISON! They are declaring war on the people of this state, so they can keep giving out money to their political special interest groups! These are not people who are in jail for unpaid parking tickets, of for smoking some weed, they are convicted Felons, who WILL RAPE, STEAL FROM, and KILL our Families! The blood of our citizens will be on the hands our own representatives!
Our Federal Government has completely discarded the Constitution. With one party control of Congress and the White House, both now and over the past 8 years, we have seen new “Entitlements” come out of thin air, hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars have been squandered on companies that have made poor business decisions, wildly loaning money to people who had no chance of ever paying it back. When the house of cards inevitably fell apart, rather than let them fail, their greed was rewarded with taxpayer funds. We now have a Government that has stolen two of the big three automakers, throwing the traditional bankruptcy rules, and protections out the window and that same Government now owns them with the Unions. The bondholders were thrown to the wolves by their own government. They now socially engineer our lives, just like mommy and daddy did when you were young…”I’ll help you pay for that car, but you have to buy what I tell you to” and like lemmings millions of them were bought with their own tax money. Three times more than planned, unpaid dealers, and the destruction of the other markets involved with older cars. Such as repair, parts, junkyards, free market be dammed! We will now break the Camels back with the Public Healthcare Option. Regardless of what we are told, this option has clearly been written to put as many people, legal or not, on the healthcare dependence list. Make no mistake about it; if this passes we are done.
All too often the basic lessons of economics and freedom, are lost not only on our representatives, but on the people as well. They have all forgotten that anything the government can give you, they must first take away from somebody else. This country was founded on rugged individualism, not on groveling to the State to provide for you. We do not have the right to provide everything to everybody, our current politicians would dismiss as “Extremist, Racist and Right wing nut jobs” Great men Like Jefferson, and Madison. They would in turn ask where is our country.
If we do not stop this progressive and ongoing seizure of our liberty NOW, we will never get it back. The majority of Americans are comfortable not doing anything, because in the past it has not cost us anything, this is no longer the case.
The town halls are the American equivalent of Tiananmen Square. We can all look back at the image, 20 years ago, of a single person standing up, in front of 4 tanks, and they were stopped in their tracks! But one person can only stand alone for so long, before they get crushed, we must rush to join those brave few who have stepped up, and confronted their “leaders”. A lone woman standing up to Sen. Specter at the town hall, standing alone, voice quivering, making herself heard! This is the American Equivalent of that picture! The opposition, recognizing the power of this one person, ridiculed those who rushed to her side, calling them Nazi’s and “Astroturf” and were dismissed as “Partisans”.
We can stop them, The fight has begun! People are standing and being heard! In CA a few months ago, we blocked massive across the board tax increases! We have the Congress so afraid to “Hear” from their constituents at their own town halls, they have taken to bussing in supporters, showing their disdain for debate, they are taking phone calls during the meetings, and with their willing accomplices in the Media, are portraying those who stand and are heard, as “extremists”. But we can win, we must fight this at all levels. In the city of Mission Viejo they have just started counting Ballots to Recall a Councilman with a penchant for assault, and spending! In Orange County there are many groups, and candidates gathering to remove the appointed Sheriff. At the State level, those who promised to not raise taxes, who lied and went back on their word, are in the process of being recalled! And on the Federal Scene the Senate Majority Leader is trailing anybody and everybody who polls against him!
Now is the time, this is the place to stand up and fight! It is not going to be good enough to simply vote for YOUR congressman, we must act upon those who can effect change NOW, We must contact and pledge to support those conservative “Blue Dogs” who can put a stop to this, contact them, support them in their opposition to this bill in the house! If you can contribute to them, and they stand with us, do it! Support the opposition against Reid in Nevada, Send money, make calls, send E-mails do all you can. Stand up for race for Kennedy’s seat in MA, support the opposition candidate in the state lets take that Senate Seat! We must stand together, wherever, whenever, and however we can to STOP THIS, because if we don’t mobilize Here, Now, for this…we never will. If we do not act now, those who stood up to be heard, will soon suffer the same fate, as those who did in China 20 Years ago.
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