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Milton J. Madison - An American Refugee Now Living in China, Where Liberty is Ascending

Federalism, Free Markets and the Liberty To Let One's Mind Wander. I Am Very Worried About the Fate of Liberty in the USA, Where Government is Taking people's Lives ____________________________________________________________________________________________ "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue." -Barry Goldwater-

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

RealClearPolitics - A Country in Denial About Its Fiscal Future

The budget impasse raises comparable questions. Can we resolve it before some ill-defined crisis imposes its own terms? For years, there has been a "something for nothing" aspect to our politics. More people became dependent on government. From 1960 to 2010, the share of federal spending going for "payments to individuals" (Social Security, food stamps, Medicare and the like) climbed from 26 percent to 66 percent. Meanwhile, the tax burden barely budged. In 1960, federal taxes were 17.8 percent of national income (gross domestic product). In 2007, they were 18.5 percent of GDP.
The nation is definitely in denial. The United States has allowed the leviathan to do things that no government does well since this was thought as easy solutions to problems and in some cases to no problem at all. At the time, there was lots of prosperity due to there being lots of healthy and productive young people and a time when the drag on an economy from central planning stupidity was minor. Now, as the demographics have changed, the drag from central planning stupidity and the Marxist wealth redistribution emanating from the core of the Democratic party have hit hard not just the United States but is also manifesting itself currently in Europe.

Governments cannot be tasked with providing healthcare or retirement savings since as we have found out, all of the taxes, every little bit of it, that was collected to provide these benefits in old age to those that paid it have been spent and sometimes on things completely unrelated to retiree health and transfer payments. The money that is supposedly saved on our behalf does not exist. Its a lie. Government has shown that it just cannot be trusted with our money, so why do some fight to either give government more of our money (actually fight to have someone else give more of their money) \ or fight to continue benefits that clearly cannot be sustained indefinitely? Its a mystery to me, people have chosen to suspend reality but I think that at its core the philosophy flows from the 'something for nothing' crowd. We have built and sustained a group of people that somehow feel that since they have the good fortune to have been born within a specific set of national borders that the others that also live within this specific set of national borders owe them a life.

But, since we now have so many people are now dependent upon government for sustenance, we can expect that they will support that government as long as they can. Anyone that tries to take this away will be fought ferociously and no one can argue that it is not normal and its to be expected. However, just because we expect this kind of behavior, it does not make it legitimate that these people have a call on other's earnings. And considering as Marxist Democrats are arguing, that raising taxes on these people that are still productive and earning money is justified and moral, we have to consider that this is just the next step in an oppressive leviathan that will seek to seize what it needs and wants through its supposed legitimate taxing authority. Not only will this fail to raise even a sliver of what is needed, the process is vilifying those that are successful in an attempt to justify seizing their assets to distribute to the population. So, a society that is vilifying successful people where those that work and save are bad and is completely convinced through philosophy or just survival needs that since they were born or now live on a specific piece of property that they deserve the product of other's labors. This will only one day face a day of reckoning and this day is much much closer than we have imagined. That day of reckoning is upon Europe now and is giving us a view of what will happen in the US in the near future.

RealClearPolitics - A Country in Denial About Its Fiscal Future

Friday, December 23, 2011

Christie blasts the Obamessiah....

Its shocking that he is calling the empty suit an empty suit...

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Some highlights from our wonderful government from the past few years....



So, because Guam is only a small island, the prospect of adding 8,000 marines and their families may cause the island to tip over. Yes, this clown is a Democrat.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

A night out....

My wife and I walked past a swanky new restaurant on Patrick's Street last night.

"Did you smell that food?" she asked. "Incredible!

Being the nice guy I am, I thought, "Why not, I'll treat her". So we walked past it again.

Guest Post: The Corruption Of America | ZeroHedge

Think about this.....
We have lost our sense of honor, humility, and the dedication to personal responsibility that, for more than 200 years, made our country the greatest hope for mankind. I want to detail some of the factors that gave rise to the current entitlement society. We have become a country of people who believe their well-being is someone else's responsibility.
Through the opiate of faith in the leviathn central government, we are trading in what made the nation great and successful for European style mediocrity.

Guest Post: The Corruption Of America | ZeroHedge

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Quote of the day....

“Who gives a crap about some imbecile?” Marcus said. “Are you kidding me?”
This comes from successful people, that get hit by protests against their success irrespective if it is from hard work, intelligence, creating something that people want and need or just are fortunate due to dumb luck, are being attacked by leftists that think that they deserve more of what these people earn and save. This is the core of the new Democratic party that has become nothing more than a tool for these people to 'legally' take the earnings of people and then give it to themselves through the mechanism of big government. This is the legacy of the Democrats and the head of the leviathan, the Obamessiah.

Bankers Seek to Debunk ‘Imbecile’ Attack on Top 1% - Bloomberg

Monday, December 19, 2011

Not really that funny Obama joke.....

Obama goes to an elementary school to talk to the kids to get a little PR. After his talk he offers question time. One little boy puts up his hand and Obama asks him his name.

"Walter," responds the little boy.

"And what is your question, Walter?"

"I have 4 questions: First, why did the USA Bomb Libya without the support of
the Congress? Second, why do you keep saying you fixed the economy when it's actually worse? Third, why did you say that Jeremiah Wright was your mentor, then say that you knew nothing about his preachings and beliefs? Fourth, why are we supporting Brazil drilling for oil, but we aren't allowed to drill?"

Just then, the bell rings for recess. Obama informs the kiddies that they will continue after recess.

When they resume Obama says, "OK, where were we? Oh, that's right: Question time. Who has a question?"

Another little boy puts up his hand. Obama points him out and asks him his name.

"Steve," he responds.

"And what is your question, Steve?"

Actually, I have 6 questions. First, why did the USA Bomb Libya without the support of the Congress? Second, why do you keep saying you fixed the economy when it's actually worse? Third, why did you say that Jeremiah Wright was your mentor, then said that you knew nothing about his preachings and beliefs? Fourth, why are we supporting Brazil drilling for oil, but we aren't allowed to? Fifth, why did the recess bell go off 20 minutes early? And sixth, what happened to Walter ?

Go green - recycle the Presidency and most of Congress in 2012

Testing the waters of economic liberty - The Washington Post

A wonderful column by George Will on economic liberties, the creation of monopolies and restriction of competing businesses by government edict. Why does government have the right to force its citizens to 'prove' that their intended economic services meet the criteria that the government has so nobly concocted? Where is the constitutionality in this? Teh constitutionality in it has been codified by 2 very bad Supreme Court decisions that have enabled governments to dream up interventions or non-interventions that benefit the few over the many.

Testing the waters of economic liberty - The Washington Post

Friday, December 16, 2011

The brightest observation I had heard in a while.....

Ron Paul..."Liberty was split into personal liberty and economic liberty." Paul is implying that that this is not a legitimate nor useful government endeavor. Government has tried on its face to maintain personal liberty but has conducted a full assault on economic liberty over the past 80 years.

Yes, both are equally important and they are ultimately not divisible. These liberties cannot be split and then treated differently. Ultimately, one CANNOT have personal liberty without having economic liberty. With the elimination of economic liberty, personal liberties will eventually dissipate due to an almost complete intervention by an overreaching central government.

Government has been increasingly intervening in markets due to these two reasons:
1. Once you allow government any latitude in intervening in economic affairs, the first intervention becomes the reasoning justifying the next intervention.
2. Intervention by government eliminates competing free market solutions and crowds out other solutions, products and services. Markets naturally become dependent upon greater and greater market central government interventions till government initiatives almost completely controls the mechanisms of markets. A very fine example of this is the American housing market that collapsed due to extreme government meddling for decades.
However, I warn here, as government takes and takes more and more power and responsibility in the market place, they will also chip away at personal liberties. One day, we will wake up and wonder what happened to the United States.

We will wonder what happened to the great experiment in liberty. We will wonder how we allowed the leviathan central government to make decisions on our behalf and require us to its bidding.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

CARPE DIEM: China: One of Our Best Export Customers

The height of stupidity. This characterizes both the idiotic Democrats and the boorish Donald Trump where continuous blame is thrown out against the Chinese for supposedly unfair business practices. However, as we can see from this chart that exports to China have grown tremendously over the recent history....


What the heck is going through people's minds when they attack China? This kind of behavior is completely beyond my comprehension and I think that it is generally caused by a lack of ability to actually offer intelligent solution to problems. So these political figures resort to attacking outsiders. Here we see that exports to China exceed $10 billion a month. A trade war or hostility towards China would most likely lead to retaliation against US products. This will hurt employment in the industries that currently benefit from exports to China and this will probably not be offset in any gain in employment for the fantasy of shifting production back to the US.

Of course, who is so naive to think that politicians actually have the best interest of their constituents ion mind anyway? So, just contemplate this thought....
In the business world, picking a needless trade fight with one of your best customers would be the height of folly. For many members of Congress, it has become an urgent item on their legislative agenda."

CARPE DIEM: China: One of Our Best Export Customers

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Working for your rights of pursuit of happiness over the tyranny of big government....



tyranny

A genuine person.....

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Poll: Little love for big gov - MJ Lee - POLITICO.com

As government has become an overwhelming factor in Americans lives and has injected itself into nearly every transaction associated with being a human, people are naturally getting more-and-more concerned with this overreach of authority....
An overwhelming 64 percent of people surveyed said big government was the biggest threat to the country, compared to just 26 percent who said big business is their gravest concern and 8 percent who picked big labor.

The all-time high for percentage of people who said big government was the biggest threat to the country was in 1999 and 2000, when 65 percent named it the country’s biggest menace.
Big government is a menace as the Obamessiah has proven with his historic grabs of the peoples rights and duties matching those of Roosevelt's New Deal and Johnson's Great Society.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70318.html#ixzz1gOA3vA3z
Poll: Little love for big gov - MJ Lee - POLITICO.com

Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery' - Yahoo! News

Saudi Arabia is just a sad sad place.....



Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery' - Yahoo! News

Monday, December 12, 2011

The coming problem in China's economy....

Scribd

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Quote of the Day.....

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." –Frédéric Bastiat-

Friday, December 09, 2011

Intercollegiate Studies Institute - Educating for Liberty

I got 31 out of 33. Its kind of a hard test.

Intercollegiate Studies Institute - Educating for Liberty

Five Big Lies in Obama's Economic Fairness Speech - Investors.com

Of course big government lefties don't really care about whether this is true or not, they are just ideologues that believe in big government.

Unfortunately, we have to endure the most flawed president in my lifetime for another year or possibly another 5. The prospect of this is frightening for people that believe in the ability of individuals to make good decisions for themselves, their families and their communities. The leviathan will eat the American dream and may have already fatally consumed hope for people for generations.

Five Big Lies in Obama's Economic Fairness Speech - Investors.com

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

World's Greatest City: 50 reasons why Hong Kong is No. 1 | CNNGo.com

World's Greatest City: 50 reasons why Hong Kong is No. 1 | CNNGo.com

Friday, December 02, 2011

Laborforce participation rate falls.....


Why work? If you win and succeed, then you are vilified by Democrats, if you fail then you are a failure.

Quote of the Day......

"This administration -- I try not to pat myself too much on the back -- but this administration has done more in terms of the security of the state of Israel than any previous administration."

-Barak Obama, President of the United State, December 2011
Probably one of the most idiotic comments said by any sitting president in my lifetime. I am completely at a loss of words to read this since the Obamessiah has been simply awful to the Israelis and nonchalant at best when it has come to troubles in the middle east.

Thursday, December 01, 2011

A second Iranian nuclear facility has exploded, as diplomatic tensions rise between the West and Tehran | The Australian

Interesting commentary.....
Major-General Giora Eiland, Israel's former director of national security, told Israel's army radio that the Isfahan blast was no accident. "There aren't many coincidences, and when there are so many events there is probably some sort of guiding hand, though perhaps it's the hand of God," he said.
(Emphasis mine) God has protected the Israelis for thousands of years. So there is no surprise here.

A second Iranian nuclear facility has exploded, as diplomatic tensions rise between the West and Tehran | The Australian