Warren Buffet's partner says people should be thankful the government robbed them of $700 billion to hand out to banks for TARP. Thanks for making me poorer and your cronies richer. This is another important reminder that big business doesn't support free markets and never has. Big business is created by big government and can only exist because big government loots the people on their behalf.
EDUCATION:
I completely agree that this man did the right thing by jumping on the bus and defending his handicapped daughter, though I would defend him if she wasn't handicapped either, from bullies. This illustrates what our government school system has turned into and the police state that has resulted.
WAR ON DRUGS:
Man uses drug dealer technique to deliver black market grilled cheese. He's unlicensed, unregulated and untaxed, providing a valuable service, we know that because people pay him voluntarily, without bowing to government. This illustrates how government interference in peaceful exchanges between people always leads to black markets.
POLICE STATE:
The police state reveals that government considers Americans potential targets of war:
"The diabolical nature of the State is sometimes revealed in small but crucial details. The criminal complaint against alleged would-be bomber Sami Samir Hassoun offers a very good example: The Lebanese expatriate, who is a legal resident of the United States, is accused of “attempting, without lawful authority, to use a weapon of mass destruction against people and property in a manner that would have affected interstate and foreign commerce….” (Emphasis added.)"Yikes. You won't read this critical information in the media:
"In fact, the criminal complaint specifies — albeit in footnotes — that Hassoun was not motivated by Islam or any other religion, and that he wasn’t interested in killing or harming anybody until long after he fell under the influence of a paid federal provocateur and two FBI agents posing as terrorist financiers. Rather than advancing the “Islamist agenda,” Hassoun — who wanted to bring down Mayor Daley’s administration — allegedly suggested that Muslims could make useful scapegoats."The facade of our government is transparent if people would lift the scales from their eyes and see through it.
FOREIGN POLICY:
Lew Rockwell asks a good question about the American hikers who either crossed into Iran on accident or who are spies: What would the US do if it captured three Iranian hikers illegally crossing the border into the US from Mexico? It depends on what officials discover about them.
POLITICS:
No matter who wins what seats in November, the winners will betray their voters, including tea party candidates.
"You might as well know right now, however, that the Tea Party, no matter how successful it is at the polls in November, will certainly betray the party of liberty. There are several reasons for this, but the fundamental one is intellectual. The Tea Party does not have a coherent view of liberty. Its activists tend to be good on specific economic issues like taxes, spending, stimulus, and health care. They worry about government intervention in these areas and can talk a good game.
But just as with old-time conservatives, there are many issues on which the Tea Party tends toward inconsistency. The military and the issue of war is a major one. Many have bought into the line that the greatest threat this country faces domestically is the influx of adherents of Islam; in international politics, they tend to favor belligerence toward any regime that is not a captive of U.S. political control.
On immigration, the Tea Party ethos favors national IDs and draconian impositions on businesses rather than market solutions like cutting welfare. On social and cultural issues, they can be as confused as the Christian right, believing that it is the job of government to right all wrongs and punish sin."As I've often said, conservatives have no principles. They want some nebulous thing - smaller government and lower taxes. They don't recognize that all taxes are theft. They don't recognize that all government spending is harmful. That's why even those who aren't corrupt when they run for officer are so easily corrupted when they get in power.
"The larger problem occurs once they take office. Here is where the serious problems begin. They are leaned on by their new colleagues, the party elites, related financial interests, the press, and the entire system of which they are now part. Are they going to make themselves enemies of that system, or are they going to work within the system in order to achieve reform, and not just for one term but more terms down the line? Doing a good job means being part of the structure; doing a bad job means being an enemy of the very system that they now serve.
Which choice do they make? The same choice that everyone else in office makes (Ron Paul being the lone exception in all of human history). It is for this reason that newly seated "revolutionary" politicians will betray those who put them in power. It happens like clockwork, same as day turns to night."Many Democrats have principles. They want to seize control of all property in the US and transform America into a communist state. They're already corrupt. The rest of Democrats are just power-hungry opportunists just like most Republicans, all already corrupt too.
"We can state with confidence, all else being equal, that even the best electoral outcome will not lead to actual cuts in the power of government over our lives.
That doesn't mean that all is for naught. What will change the prospects for freedom in this country is a growing and society-wide awareness of the issue of freedom and the role of the state in wrecking that freedom, and the civilization to which it gives rise."Agreed.
MEDIA:
Network news lost 739,000 viewers last year.
Chris Matthews, yeah that Chris Matthews, explains to President Obama that the money people earn belongs to them, not the government. Wow.
MISC:
Benjamin Franklin was against IP laws.
Mercury has a comet-like tail from the sun blasting gas off of it.
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