Economic Miracle

A MINORITY VIEW

BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS

RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2009 AND THEREAFTER

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit. Why? It is impossible for anyone to possess the knowledge that would be necessary for such an undertaking. At the risk of boring you, let's go through a small example that proves such knowledge is impossible.

Imagine you are trying to understand a system consisting of six elements. That means there would be 30, or n(n-1), possible relationships between these elements. Now suppose each element can be characterized by being either on or off. That means the number of possible relationships among those elements grows to the number 2 raised to the 30th power; that's well over a billion possible relationships among those six elements...

Dr. Williams does an excellent job explaining the ecomomics of our economy! If you are one who thinks that Congress and The President did the right thing with the "stimulus," then you REALLY need to read this article!

'Historic' Stimulus Is Egregious Waste

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Economic Recovery: Congress is confident it will send President Obama a stimulus bill to sign by Monday's holiday. Unless something unforeseen happens, what lawmakers will put on his desk is a $789 billion waste...

...Harvard economist Robert Barro calls the legislation "probably the worst bill that has been put forward since the 1930s."

"I mean it's wasting a tremendous amount of money," he said in an interview with the Atlantic. "I don't think it will expand the economy. . . . I think it's garbage..."

As I've said before, there isn't a single "stimulating" thing about this monstrosity! Porkulus, as Rush calls it, is pure lard. I thought lard was bad for us? I guess in this case the nannies that are our Congressmen are willing to over look such trivialities. While McDonald's fries haven't tasted the same since they stopped using lard this thing smells like a rotting pile of fat left out in 100+ degree weather. The vultures have started circling too, just waiting for their opportunity to start the feeding frenzy!

Cessna Launches Campaign to Counter Business Aircraft Misinformation

CESSNA: A Textron Company

WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 11, 2009 - Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today announced a new initiative to address misinformation on the business use of general aviation aircraft and to provide a more accurate picture of the value of business aircraft as a resource that makes companies more competitive.

“We think it’s time the other side of the story be told, and that support be given to those businesses with the good judgment and courage to use business aviation to not only help their businesses survive the current financial crisis, but more quickly forge a path toward an economic upturn,” said Cessna Chairman, President and CEO Jack J. Pelton.

“Today, we are demanding business leaders and managers work at their absolute peak to turn their companies, and our economy, around,” Pelton said...

It is amazing to me that these CEO's get up there in front of these "Representatives"(I only call them that in the technical sense of the term as they really don't "represent" hardly anyone) and don't have the male anatomy to stand up to these losers! It's time that they grew a pair and stopped being pushed around.

The "Representatives" questioning these men couldn't manage their way out of a wet paper bag. They are some of the most incompetent and inept people going. It is the likes of these people that have gotten us into the trouble we are currently experiencing. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters, and several others(all Democrats by the way) are the ones responsible for not allowing proper oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac! The push, started by Jimmy Carter and expanded by Bill Clinton, to force banks to make loans to people that couldn't afford to pay them back and the backing of them by Fannie and Freddy is what got us into this situation. It is these people, NOT the CEO's that need to be facing inquiries right now! Yes, there are some bad CEO's(most all of them from the Baby-Boom generation), but in general and over all they are good at what they do.

It's also galling that these "Representatives" CLAIM to be fighting for the "little guy." Who builds these jets? Who services them? Who pilots them? That would be "THE LITTLE GUY!" The very person the Dems are supposed to be "fighting for." If that's the case then how come they continually impose new restrictions on or bad mouth industries such as this one, the RV industry and the domestic auto industry? Who gets hurt when these things happen? That would be "THE LITTLE GUY!" I think it's time "the little guy" woke up and stopped voting for these turds!

Another very good article on this can be found in the Wall Street Journal:

Cessna Fights Back On Private-Jet Trend

The Hell with Our Constitution

A MINORITY VIEW
BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2009 AND THEREAFTER

Dr. Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Oakland-based Independent Institute, penned an article in The Christian Science Monitor (2/9/2009) that suggests the most intelligent recommendation that I've read to fix our current economic mess. The title of his article gives his recommendation away: "Instead of stimulus, do nothing -- seriously."

Stimulus package debate is over how much money should be spent, whether some should given to the National Endowment for the Arts, research sexually transmitted diseases or bail out Amtrak, our failing railroad system. Dr. Higgs says, "Hardly anyone, however, is asking the most important question: Should the federal government be doing any of this?" He adds, "Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget..."

As usual, Dr. Williams hit's the nail squarely on the head!

Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics

The current president wants higher taxes, more regulation, more spending and loose money.

The Wall Street Journal

By PETER FERRARA

In his inaugural address, President Barack Obama said, "The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works -- whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified." Or as administration spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said in January, the touchstone is, "What will have the biggest and most immediate impact on creating private sector jobs and strengthening the middle class? We're guided by what works, not by any ideology or special interests."

Unfortunately, this rhetoric is not true. Mr. Obama's economic policy is following not what has been proven to work but liberal ideology.

The best way to understand this is to compare what's being proposed now with what Ronald Reagan accomplished. In 1980, amid a seriously dysfunctional economy, Reagan campaigned for president on an economic recovery program with four specific components...

Ronald Reagan saw this for what it was decades ago!

“…this program, I promise you will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow. And behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until, one day, as Norman Thomas said, we will wake to find that we have Socialism. And if you don’t do this, and I don’t do this, one of these days, you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children’s children, what it once was like in America, when men were free.”
–Ronald Reagan, 1961

Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey

Bloomberg.com

Commentary by Betsy McCaughey

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.

Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.

Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version)...

...Elderly Hardest Hit

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.

Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464).

The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle’s book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis.

In 2006, a U.K. health board decreed that elderly patients with macular degeneration had to wait until they went blind in one eye before they could get a costly new drug to save the other eye. It took almost three years of public protests before the board reversed its decision...

I guess the elderly are expendable. I guess we're supposed to let the government decide what treatments we need when we need them and exactly what type we need!? I'm from the government and I'm here to help you! OK!?

"The greatest [calamity] which could befall [us would be] submission to a government of unlimited powers."
-- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration and Protest of Virginia, 1825. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors, ME 17:445

"The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion."
-- Thomas Jefferson to William Gordon, 1826. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors, ME 10:358

CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul

The Washington Times

Stephen Dinan (Contact)
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing...

There's NOTHING stimulating about this bill! It's pure lard, plain and simple! Oink, oink, oink, oink, oink!!!

Republicans Take Note!!!

Czech president attacks Al Gore's climate campaign
Jan 31 05:07 PM US/Eastern

Czech President Vaclav Klaus took aim at climate change campaigner Al Gore on Saturday in Davos in a frontal attack on the science of global warming.

"I don't think that there is any global warming," said the 67-year-old liberal, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union. "I don't see the statistical data for that..."

Every time I hear this man speak he makes me think of Ronald Reagan! This is the type of person that is needed to lead the conservative movement. Hey Republicans, are you paying attention!? This is how you should be talking and acting!!!

Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh

Phil Chapman | April 23, 2008
Article from: The Australian

THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.

What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot.

Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.

All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over...

This isn't the only such article either. Here are some links to other such articles:

The Coming of a new Ice Age
Scientist: Forget Global Warming, Prepare for New Ice Age
Forget Global Warming: Welcome to the New Ice Age
Oldest Ice Core from the Tropics Recovered, New Ice Age Evidence

There are many more articles out there. Just do an Ask.com search and you'll find them.

At any rate, I find it hillarious that Al Gore(who flew in on a PRIVATE jet and used a huge limo for transportation) was in DC on one of the coldest and snowiest days to preach his "global warming" sermon, again. He seems to enjoy preaching a fallacy, and telling everyone else how they should live, but doesn't want to follow his own rules. BTW, I believe in worshiping THE CREATOR not creation.

Rush On Fox & Friends

Rush discusses his bipartisan stimulus plan and the newest efforts to silence him.

A TRULY Bipartisan Plan

My Bipartisan Stimulus
Let's cut taxes, as I want, and spend more, as Obama would like.

By RUSH LIMBAUGH

There's a serious debate in this country as to how best to end the recession. The average recession will last five to 11 months; the average recovery will last six years. Recessions will end on their own if they're left alone. What can make the recession worse is the wrong kind of government intervention.

I believe the wrong kind is precisely what President Barack Obama has proposed. I don't believe his is a "stimulus plan" at all -- I don't think it stimulates anything but the Democratic Party. This "porkulus" bill is designed to repair the Democratic Party's power losses from the 1990s forward, and to cement the party's majority power for decades.

Keynesian economists believe government spending on "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects -- schools, roads, bridges -- is the best way to stimulate our staggering economy. Supply-side economists make an equally persuasive case that tax cuts are the surest and quickest way to create permanent jobs and cause an economy to rebound. That happened under JFK, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. We know that when tax rates are cut in a recession, it brings an economy back.

Recent polling indicates that the American people are in favor of both approaches...

I like the plan, and not just because of who it came from! If the Dems are truly interested in a "BIPARTISAN" plan, then this is it.

Obama's Victory--A British view

The Daily Mail (UK) wrote this editorial about Obama on 1/6/2009. (confirmation, Google "London Daily Mail Obama's Victory")

A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere.

A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.

A victory for Hollywood , the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros, Moore, and Sarandon.

Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.

Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative.

Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph can not tolerate any criticism and opposition.

A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers' unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.

A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.

Congratulations America!

This may or may not be originally from The Daily Mail. I found a previous and more extensive article from the Toronto Sun that says the same thing. Not that I'm arguing with it. I totally agree! To see the Toronto Sun version click HERE.

BTW, I particularly like the part about it being a victory for "urban snobs." These people in-particular, being that the urban population votes so heavily Democrat, especially this time, are the ones most responsible for this abandonment of our Founding Fathers beliefs!

The Left Shows Their True Colors, Again!

Bush Mocked As He Arrives on Inauguration Dais

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The crowd packed on the west side of the Capitol grounds serenaded President Bush in mocking fashion when he took to the inaugural stage alongside Vice President Dick Cheney.

"Nah nah nah nah, hey hey, good-bye," a section of the crowd chanted.

The crowd packed immediately below the podium received Bush in stony silence when he took his seat on the stage surrounding the podium where Barack Obama was scheduled to take the oath office to become the 44th president of the United States.

The jeers are among the final public feedback Bush will receive as president...

How pathetic!!! The hate of this man is totally irrational and beyond normal. These people are obsessed and delusional, not to mention deranged. Sean Hannity coined a perfect description of this, "Bush Derangement Syndrome!" I can promise that though I may adamantly oppose and/or disagree with President Obama's views and policies I will not stoop to the level that these people have!

More Chicago Politics

Illinois Gov. Blagojevich, chief of staff, arrested

By Jeff Coen, David Kidwell and Monique Garcia | Tribune staff reporters
9:14 AM CST, December 9, 2008

Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested by FBI agents on federal corruption charges Tuesday morning.

Blagojevich and Harris were arrested simultaneously at their homes at about 6:15 a.m., according to Frank Bochte of the FBI. Both were transported to FBI headquarters in Chicago.

In one charge related to the appointment of a senator to replace Barack Obama, prosecutors allege that Blagojevich sought appointment for himseld as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the new Obama administration, or a lucrative job with a union, in exchange for appointing a union-preferred candidate.

Another charge alleges Blagojevich and Harris conspired to demand the firing of Chicago Tribune editorial board members responsible for editorials critical of him in exchange for state help with the sale of Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs baseball stadium owned by Tribune Co...

And this is the political machine that our President-Elect comes from!!!

A MINORITY VIEW

BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2008, AND THEREAFTER

Evil Concealed by Money

Evil acts can be given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution or caring for the less fortunate. Let's think about socialism.

Imagine there's an elderly widow down the street from you. She has neither the strength to mow her lawn nor enough money to hire someone to do it. Here's my question to you that I'm almost afraid for the answer: Would you support a government mandate that forces one of your neighbors to mow the lady's lawn each week? If he failed to follow the government orders, would you approve of some kind of punishment ranging from house arrest and fines to imprisonment? I'm hoping that the average American would condemn such a government mandate because it would be a form of slavery, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another...

Dr. Williams just makes too much sense. Why people are so willing to put up with such crap is beyond me. This is clearly an erosion of our rights, but people are seemingly blind to this.

Amazingly Sad!!!

Zogby Poll

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).

And yet.....

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter

And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we "gave" one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

And these are the people that just voted to put the most unqualified person to ever run for the Presidency in the oval office!!! This is why I say that I don't like voter turn out efforts, because I don't want the stupid and uninformed to be making such important decisions. Don't get me wrong, I want people to vote, but I want them to be properly informed before doing so!

You can find more info about this at howobamagotelected.com

UPDATE: You can see detailed info on the survey at Zogby.com

Of Course the Networks are Libs with an Agenda!

Got this from an e-mail I received.


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Subject: Fwd: FW: Texas Coach Speaks Out Against ABC (UNREAL!)]

Jim Neugent is a coach in Childress , Texas .

Jim writes:
My name is Jim Neugent. I wrote to ABC (on-line) concerning a program called 'THE PRACTICE.' In last night's episode, one of the lawyer's mothers decided she is gay and wanted her son to go to court and help her get a marriage license so she could marr y her ' partner. ' I sent the following letter to ABC yesterday and really did not expect a reply, but I did get one.


My original message was:

ABC is obsessed with the subject of homosexuality. I will no longer watch any of your attempts to convince the world that homosexuality is OK. ' THE PRACTICE ' can be a fairly good show , but last night's program was so typical of your agenda. You picked the 'dufus' of the office to be the one who w as against the idea of his mother being gay, and made him look like a whiner because he had convictions. This type of mentality calls people like me a 'gay basher.' Read the first chapter of Romans (that's in the Bible) and see what the apostle Paul had to say about it.... He, God and Jesus were all ' gay bashers ' . What if she'd fallen in love with her cocker spaniel? Is that an alternative life style? (By the way, the Bible speaks against that, too.)
--Jim Neugent


Here is ABC ' s reply from the ABC on-line webmaster:


How about getting your nose out of the Bible (which is ONLY a book of stories compiled by MANY different writers hundreds of years ago) and read the declaration of independence (what our nation is built on), where it says 'All Men are Created equal,' and try treating them that way for a change! Or better yet, try thinking for yourself and stop using an archaic book of stories as your lame crutch for your existence. You are in the minority in this country, and your boycott will not affect us at ABC or our freedom of statement.

Jim Neugent ' s second response ! to ABC: Thanks for your reply. From your harsh reply, evidently I hit a nerve. I will share it with all with whom I come in contact. Hopefully, the Arkansas Democrat Newspaper will include it in one of their columns and I will be praying for you.
- -Jim Neugent- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -


Note: Wouldn't Satan just love it if people stopped using the Bible for a crutch?



Please resend this to everyone in your mailbox.

-- Thanks, Jim Neugent

My Thoughts Being Verified!

November 14, 2008
GOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principles
Posted: 10:46 AM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (CNN) – South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral defeat, blaming the Arizona senator for betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House.

The conservative senator, speaking to a group of GOP officials gathered in Myrtle Beach at a conference on the future of the Republican Party, described how the party had strayed from its own "brand," which, according to DeMint, should represent freedom, religious-based values and limited government.

"We have to be honest, and there's a lot of blame to go around, but I have to mention George Bush, and I have to mention Ted Stevens, and I'm afraid I even have to mention John McCain," he said...

The truth is slowly being put forth by others besides myself. Others in power and who will get the attention of people. Some may not like this, but this is how it must be!

Click on the article title to view the entire thing.

A MINORITY VIEW

BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS

RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2008, AND THEREAFTER

Capitalism and the Financial Crisis

There has always been contempt for economic liberty. Historically, our nation was an important, not complete, exception. It took the calamity of the Great Depression to bring about today's level of restrictions on economic liberty. Now we have another government-created calamity that has the prospect of moving us even further away from economic liberty with the news media and pundits creating the perception that the current crisis can be blamed on capitalism. We see comments such as those in the New York Times: "The United States has a culture that celebrates laissez-faire capitalism as the economic ideal. Or, "For 30 years, the nation's political system has been tilted in favor of business deregulation and against new rules." Another says, "Since 1997, Mr. Brown (the British Prime Minister) has been a powerful voice behind the Labor Party's embrace of an American-style economic philosophy that was light on regulation."

First, let's establish what laissez-faire capitalism is. Broadly defined, it is an economic system based on private ownership and control over of the means of production. Under laissez-faire capitalism, government activity is restricted to the protection of the individual's rights against fraud, theft and the initiation of physical force.

Professor George Reisman has written a very insightful article on his blog titled "The Myth that Laissez Faire Is Responsible for Our Financial Crisis." (http://georgereisman.com/blog/2008/10/myth-that-laissez-faire-is-responsible.html) You can decide whether we have in an unregulated laissez-faire economy. There are 15 cabinet departments, nine of which control various aspects of the U.S. economy. They are the Departments of: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Education, Energy, Labor, Agriculture, Commerce, and Interior. In addition, there is the alphabet soup cluster of federal agencies such as: the IRS, the FRB and FDIC, the EPA, FDA, SEC, CFTC, NLRB, FTC, FCC, FERC, FEMA, FAA, CAA, INS, OHSA, CPSC, NHTSA, EEOC, BATF, DEA, NIH, and NASA.

Here's my question to you: Can one be sane and at the same time hold that ours is an unregulated laissez-faire economy? Better yet, tell me what a businessman, or for that matter you, can do that does not involve some kind of government regulation. A businessman must seek government approval for the minutest detail of his operation or face the wrath of some government agency, whether it's at the federal, state or local level. Just about everything we buy or use has some kind of government dictate involved whether it's package labeling, how many gallons of water to flush toilets or what pharmaceuticals can be prescribed. You say, "Williams, there's a reason for this government control." Yes, there's a reason for everything but that does not change the fact that there is massive government control over our economy.

It is incorrect to say that laissez-faire or free markets are unregulated. There is ruthless regulation, but it's not by government. Take the mortgage industry. In the absence of government interference, it is unlikely that a lender would extend a mortgage to a person with a poor credit history, making no down payment, and providing no verifiable employment history. But under the pressure of the government's Community Reinvestment Act and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buying up or guaranteeing such mortgages, a lender will.

When businesses make unwise decisions that lead to bankruptcy, their assets are sold off to someone else who might be able to put them to wiser use. Government bailouts give businesses a reprieve that the market wouldn't give them. Bailouts have at least two effects. They permit continued unwise use of resources and it creates what economists call moral hazard, the expectation of future bailouts and others hopping on the bailout wagon.

The blame for our current financial mess rests with government, with the major player being the Federal Reserve Board keeping interest rates artificially low and the congressional and White House market interference in the name of more home ownership. In the clamor for more regulation over our financial institutions, has anybody bothered to ask whether people in government know what they're doing?

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

COPYRIGHT 2008 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

I normally don't post entire articles from someone else, but I felt an exception to that rule needed to be made in this case. Too many people are blaming capitalism for the financial crisis. This is a totally erroneous accretion! Professor Williams makes that point quite clear. The problem can be laid squarely at the feet of the government. This goes especially for Freddy and Fannie, which are the responsibility of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd because of their not allowing proper oversight of these GSA's!

Milton Friedman on Limited Government

The man was brilliant! His ideas, ideology and well thought out positions still are applicable today. Another thing, it's too bad that today, higher education coming out of Chicago is represented by William Ayers and, yes, Barack Obama rather than a man of TRUE intellect like Milton Friedman.

One Last Look at McCain/Palin

It is somewhat stunning, though not unexpected, but still disappointing what has happened since the election regarding the McCain/Palin campaign. In case you've been living in a box and not seen what has happened, people within the campaign have taken to dumping on Mrs. Palin and trying to put the blame for the loss on her. Most notably, an "anonymous" source has come out and made the claim that Mrs. Palin thought "Africa was a country, not a continent and that S. Africa was a "state/province" of it." This same "anonymous" source also claimed that she didn't know the countries involved in NAFTA. These go with the claims about her shopping habits during the campaign.

Let me first say succinctly say that this is the biggest crock of horse crap that I have seen in quite some time! For a person to come out "anonymously" and make these claims and not have the testicular fortitude or personal integrity to publicly make these claims is both obnoxious and abhorrent! The credibility of this person is SERIOUSLY in question! If you have paid any attention to Mrs. Palin, aside from the hack jobs done by The Perky One and Gibson and the one sided reporting of the liberal mainstream media, you get a clear indication that this is an intelligent, well thought out, and informed lady. She couldn't be anything other to be able to deal with the oil companies regarding Alaskan infrastructure or dealing with the corruption she had to deal with in cleaning up the state government there the way she has. Having heard directly from her and it being verified by the interviewer, I have to take her word over that of a coward who had to use anonymity to make their claims.

As for the campaign itself, I must say that it was the most poorly run campaign that I've seen in my life time! The campaign itself, and much has to be laid squarely at the feet of Sen. McCain, left so much material unused, either due to unwillingness or ineptness that winning was improbable if not impossible. One such example, Bill O'Reilly offered Sen. McCain the entire 2nd half hour of his show to answer, rebut, and make his own pitch following the Obama infomercial. Either McCain or his personnel didn't even answer the offer! McCain and his people let Obama and his people set the rules and when they got punched would not counter punch or when an opening came to land a blow(ie., Pastor Wright or Tony Rezko) wouldn't take the shot. His was a passive campaign with little other than Mrs. Palin to offer, until the end when he was handed the "spread the wealth" opening thanks to "Joe The Plumber." This turned out to be too little, too late and not really believable due to Sen. McCain's support for the $700b bailout and his desire to "buy up" bad mortgages. Senator McCain and his staff were out maneuvered at every turn.

The only reason that Senator McCain had any chance at all was because of his selection of Mrs. Palin as his VP choice. She was an energizing force for the campaign. As I have said before, she energized conservatives like no one has since Ronald Reagan. She was/is dynamic! She's energetic and as I said, she knows what she's talking about. She's sure of herself and her convictions. Her faith is strong, as is she.

John McCain, on the other hand, was not supported by the core of the Republican party. He was not an energizing candidate. If not for the "open" primaries in several states he would not have been the Republican candidate. He was probably the worst candidate that the Republican party put forth since Gerald Ford. Bob Dole could probably be tossed in there as well. His propensity to turn his back on his party, especially conservatives was a huge turn off. His willingness to attack his own party while letting the Democrats off the hook was just plain aggravating to many people. In all honesty, the majority of people who voted for him were voting more for Mrs. Palin than they were for him. If not for Mrs. Palin he may have come close to being beat on a Reagan v. Mondale scale. I can assure you that I would not have voted for him had it not been for Mrs. Palin. The Libertarian, Bob Barr would have received my vote.

All that said, it's now time to move on! To the Blue-blood Rockefeller country club Republicans I say, we will not be going back to the days when you controlled the party and were just happy to be there and occupy a seat and not ruffle feathers so that you could ensure your invite to all the "IN" parties and functions in DC and other NE lib areas. I remind you of a quote from Ronald Reagan again, "Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?" and "A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers..." He also said none of this is "...contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way." This goes for today as well. If there are people within the Republican Party that cannot subscribe to these principles, then, to borrow another less polite way to say it, "don't let the door nob hit ya where The Good Lord split ya on the way out!!!"

Classic Dennis Miller

This is easily the best appearance by Miller on The Factor that I've seen. You've got to pay attention, but it is hilarious!

Sara on Fox Pt.2

Sara On Fox

Sarah Palin Defends Herself Against Criticism in FOX News Interview
FOX News' Greta Van Susteren went to Alaska to get Gov. Sarah Palin's reflections on the presidential election.

After a whirlwind campaign alongside Sen. John McCain, Sarah Palin is defending herself against criticism stemming from the tens of thousands of dollars spent on her wardrobe as well as several reported foreign affairs missteps.

"When I arrived at the convention, there were clothes waiting for me, and clothes being ordered for me and the family, for eight of us," the Alaska governor told FOX News' Greta Van Susteren, in an interview that aired Monday night. "And ever since then, those clothes, knowing that they didn't belong to me ... we boxed them all up, sent them back to the rightful owners, the Republican National Committee, and that's the story on the clothes..."

"...It just seems like such an irrelevant issue when you consider what is going on in the world today and how a new administration is being ushered in and people being concerned about the direction of the nation and policies that will be adopted," Palin said. "Clothes just seem irrelevant..."










This is an excellent interview. Sara is clearly more comfortable and at ease. She's clearly an intelligent and classy woman who knows what she's doing.

Wow!!!

All you have to do is update the names of people and countries and the numbers he gives and this speech is equally applicable today as it was the day it was given!

Who Do We Look To Now?

It is now time to look to a new set of leaders. Those who are currently in the position of leadership within the party clearly have no desire to show true conservative values. The current Congressional leadership is weak and has demonstrated no desire to stand up for the principles on which they were elected to begin with. Clearly George W. Bush, John Boehner, Roy Blount, and the rest in leadership positions in Congress were not interested in pursuing the policies of smaller more efficient government. They were not interested in restraining spending. They were not interested in limited government as established by our Founding Fathers. As a matter of fact, some even appeared hostile to it. Whether they want to admit it or not, this is the main reason for Republican losses during the last elections.

So, who do we look to? Who are the voices of conservatism that can lead us back to where we want to be and where we should be? The most prominent one is, of course, Sara Palin. She has come on the scene and given voice to the conservative ideology like only Reagan and Newt have in recent history. There are those like Bobby Jindal(LA - Gov.), Rob Portman(former Rep. from OH), Ken Blackwell(former OH Sec of St.), JC Watt(former Rep from OK), Paul Ryan(Rep - WI) and many others that come from the principled conservative mold that so many of us desire. These are the people that can and should be the leaders of the conservative movement.

Clearly, the focus should be on the state level. That is where the vast majority of top leaders are located. Many of the best and brightest and most liked are currently residing in the state houses and governors mansion of this great country. As tired as people may be, having just come out of a long grueling election cycle, next year there are going to be many state legislature seats and governorships up for election. Our focus must be on bringing out and promoting those who are going to be the best and strongest supporters of conservative ideology. Yes, we need to get good people back in to Congress, but our main focus should be at the state and local level again. That is where we can make the most immediate impact. History also tells us that this is where our best leaders come from.

Only by getting back to the grassroots foundations of conservative ideology can we once again be the true defenders of the Constitution and frame work for this nation that our Founding Fathers gave us that we were not that long ago. As Ronald Reagan said, "Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?" He also said, "A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers." When we have people who earnestly believe this as our leaders we will once again have the backing of the majority of the electorate. I earnestly believe this and I believe the results of the election and the actions of the conservative electorate bear this out!

The Palin Hope

The American Conservative Union Foundation

by Donald Devine
Issue 116 - September 24, 2008

The selection of Sarah Palin as vice-presidential nominee can only be compared to Ronald Reagan’s speech for Barry Goldwater in 1964, only she was already a governor when she first entered the nation’s consciousness. Both revived faltering presidential campaigns but much more importantly they offered hope for a very battered philosophy of limited government that seemed to have run its course in the days of reckless spending and regulation that preceded their dramatic arrival on the national scene.

Let us be very frank. National government non-defense spending has hemorrhaged to historic highs during the last seven years under George W. Bush and Republican Congresses. Spending increased by an all-time modern high of 25 percent over his first term and an additional 14 percent so far the second, vastly exceeding any period since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society – plus adding the largest new entitlement since Goldwater’s opponent, in the form of Medicare prescription drugs. As far as regulation is concerned, the last year of the Carter Administration produced 73,258 pages of regulation, which Reagan cut back to 50,616 pages. By the end of the Clinton years, the number of pages was back up to 64,438. But the Bush Administration ended 2007 with 72,090 pages – almost back to where Reagan began...

...Along came Governor Palin. There she was in Dayton being announced by Sen. John McCain, setting her philosophy and credentials simply and concisely. She introduced herself as “your average hockey mom” but in presenting her family proved she walked the walk of traditional values. She was “elected to the City Council and then elected mayor of my hometown, where my agenda was to stop wasteful spending and cut property taxes and put the people first.” Could Reagan been more simply eloquent? “As governor, I've stood up to the old politics as usual, to the special interests, to the lobbyists, the Big Oil companies and the good-old-boy network.” Conservatives did not need more, but she was just as eloquent and committed to principle in her speech to the Republican Convention.

Maybe there was some future for limited government conservatism after all...

From The Gipper

Let Them Go Their Way

Governor Ronald Reagan (R-CA)

Conservative Political Action Conference

Washington, DC

March 1, 1975

Since our last meeting we have been through a disastrous election. It is easy for us to be discouraged, as pundits hail that election as a repudiation of our philosophy and even as a mandate of some kind or other. But the significance of the election was not registered by those who voted, but by those who stayed home. If there was anything like a mandate it will be found among almost two-thirds of the citizens who refused to participate.

Bitter as it is to accept the results of the November election, we should have reason for some optimism. For many years now we have preached “the gospel,” in opposition to the philosophy of so-called liberalism which was, in truth, a call to collectivism...

...Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness.

I don ‘t know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, “We must broaden the base of our party”—when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.

It was a feeling that there was not a sufficient difference now between the parties that kept a majority of the voters away from the polls. When have we ever advocated a closed-door policy? Who has ever been barred from participating?

Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?

Let us show that we stand for fiscal integrity and sound money and above all for an end to deficit spending, with ultimate retirement of the national debt.

Let us also include a permanent limit on the percentage of the people’s earnings government can take without their consent.

Let our banner proclaim a genuine tax reform that will begin by simplifying the income tax so that workers can compute their obligation without having to employ legal help.

And let it provide indexing—adjusting the brackets to the cost of living—so that an increase in salary merely to keep pace with inflation does not move the taxpayer into a surtax bracket. Failure to provide this means an increase in government’s share and would make the worker worse off than he was before he got the raise.

Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people.

Let us also call for an end to the nit-picking, the harassment and over-regulation of business and industry which restricts expansion and our ability to compete in world markets.

Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing government’s coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine.

Our banner must recognize the responsibility of government to protect the law-abiding, holding those who commit misdeeds personally accountable.

And we must make it plain to international adventurers that our love of peace stops short of “peace at any price.”

We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.

This is what I mean when I say return to the ideas and principles of Ronald Reagan. As you can see this speech was given 33 years ago, yet it still resounds LOUDLY today!

An Interesting Tidbit

2004: George W. Bush - 62,028,285 John F. Kerry - 59,028,109 Total - 121,053,394

2008: Barack H. Obama - 63,042,806 John S. McCain - 55,821,650 Total - 118,864,456

That's a difference of 2,191,938. The turn out was greater in '04. This years turn out was terrific, but not on the scale that the media makes it out to be! Make of it what you want, but I think my supposition about conservatism is verified.

Conservatism DID NOT Lose!

Conservatism was not even on the ballot! Too many Republicans abandoned the ideas of Ronald Reagan. Though I supported President Bush in '00 and '04 I was clearly able to see that he was NOT a true conservative. There were many things that he did that I completely disagree with. The medicare prescription drug program, the expansion of the federal education department, the $700B bailout are just a few of the things. The Republicans in Congress also abandoned Reagan. They were put there to be fiscally responsible, limit spending and the size of government. They did just the opposite! The tax cuts passed early in the Bush administration did exactly what they were supposed to do. They greatly increased the amount of revenue coming into the federal coffers. Instead of showing restraint with spending and using the money to pay for the war on terror and pay down the national debt they increased spending across the board and instead of using his veto powers, President Bush signed off on all of it. That is why the Republicans lost, plain and simple!

It is now time to get back on track espousing and teaching true Reagan ideas. Too many people in this country have come to believe that it's the governments responsibility to take care of them instead of their own responsibility to take care of themselves. This has been clearly displayed by the fact that a man who wants to "spread the wealth" has been elected President of this nation. The amazing part of this is that so many "educated" people and people who fall into his definition of wealthy voted for him. In actuality, though these may be "educated" people, but they clearly are not SMART. There is a difference between the two. I have a family member who falls into this category. My brother completely bought into the nonsense that the President Elect was preaching and he is an "educated" individual. There is a bit of a caveat to that though. He lives in Chicago and has the mind set that all things Chicago are better than anywhere else. That is for another time and place though. It's time to teach people, once again, that, as the saying goes, it's better to give a helping hand up than a hand out. It's also time to once again teach people that working hard, making something better of themselves and attaining wealth is NOT a bad thing. They also need to be taught that improving your lot in life and CREATING YOUR OWN WEALTH is NOT something to be ashamed of. That these people feel guilty about what they EARNED and WORKED HARD for is astounding and idiotic! Here's a little clue, IT'S YOUR MONEY! It's not for the government to determine who has made enough or too much. If you want to help others out then be charitable with it, but don't allow the government to dictate to you what you have to do with YOUR money. When this happens liberty has been lost and once it's been lost it's VERY difficult, if not impossible, to regain.

It's also time to remember what Ronald Reagan said about government being too large and too over reaching. Smaller, leaner, and more efficient government is what is needed and it is what was intended by the Founding Fathers. Don't believe me?! Then simply read the quotes from them that I placed on this site recently. Our government was meant to be LIMITED in scope and power. It's powers were specifically enumerated and, as stated in the 10th Amendment of The Bill of Rights, anything not so listed was to be left to the individual states to decide how to handle. Once we start espousing and teaching TRUE conservatism and get back to the ideas of Ronald Reagan then, and only then will we be successful again! If it takes abandoning the Republican party and going to the Libertarians, then so be it, but Liberty and Freedom MUST be taught and defended. I still believe in that Shining City on a Hill and I always will. It's time to remind others about that city and not the one that President Reagan described as a city surrounded by a sea of reality. I WILL fight for it and will do so until the day I die!!! Once again I say, conservatism DID NOT LOSE because it had few people in power espousing it. Now it's time for that to change!

Dear Lord Help Us!!!

It is my earnest prayer that the good Lord restrain Pelosi, Reed, and Obama and those following them and not allow them to destroy this great nation that He has so richly blessed! If, however, we must be brought low so that a revival can occur, then so be it. I just pray that he would put a hedge around his people and protect us from what is to come! Above all else, I pray that His will be done and that His NAME and His house would be honored and glorified! I pray this in the name of MY Lord, MY Savior and MY God, Jesus Christ

True Voter Intimidation

Tuesday, November 04, 2008
A Repeat of 2004 Philly Voter Chaos, Fraud
Posted by: Amanda Carpenter at 7:46 AM

GOP Election Board members have been tossed out of polling stations in at least half a dozen polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status.

A Pennsylvania judge previously ruled that court-appointed poll watchers could NOT be removed from their boards by an on-site election judge, but that is exactly what is happening, according to sources on the ground...

Update: Fox News just did a report about the controversy(see video above). The Democrats are saying that the polling station is crowded and election board members need to cycle through the areas intermittently.

Update 10:53am: Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes says this matter is already being heard in court and should be resolved soon. He says there was a dispute of the names of the poll watchers on record. This is a different story than the Democratic officials told Fox News earlier this morning.


Please, tell me again, who is it that is responsible for vote fraud!!!

Gov. Palin Cleared!

Report clears Palin in Alaska's Troopergate probe

Nov 4, 3:14 AM (ET)

By RACHEL D'ORO

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - This time, Gov. Sarah Palin can claim vindication against allegations that she abused her power in office by firing her public safety commissioner.

Palin - running mate of Republican presidential candidate John McCain - violated no ethics laws, according to a report released by the state personnel board on the eve of Election Day. An earlier, separate investigation by the Legislature found that Palin had abused her office.

"There is no probable cause to believe that the governor, or any other state official, violated the Alaska Executive Ethics Act in connection with these matters," the personnel board's report said...

Did you see this prominently presented on any of the News broadcasts in any of the "major" news papers or on any of the news services? That's right, the answer is NO!!!

This Is Just Scary!!!

The ignorance and lack of intelligence speak for themselves!

Taxes and Prosperity

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like
a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill

Spreading The Wealth

Evidently BHO only believes in "spreading" other peoples "wealth around!"

From The Times

October 30, 2008

Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango

James Bone in Boston, Rob Crilly in Kogelo and Ben Macintyre

Barack Obama has lived one version of the American Dream that has taken him to the steps of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest circumstances in Boston, have a contrasting American story.

Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.

A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court...

In Their Own Words

Here are links to both the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers. If you want to know what the founders were truly thinking when they wrote The Constitution and The Bill of Rights then just read these and make up your own mind. You DO NOT need a professor or teacher to tell you. You can figure it out on your own!

The Federalist Papers

The Anti-Federalist Papers

From The Founders

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816

“A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
-Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.”
-Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond, 1821. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors, ME 15:332

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to E. Carrington, May 27, 1788

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.”
-John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787

James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this limitation in a letter to James Robertson:
“With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”

In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
-James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)

“…[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
-James Madison

“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.” James Madison, “Letter to Edmund Pendleton,”
-James Madison, January 21, 1792, in The Papers of James Madison, vol. 14, Robert A Rutland et. al., ed (Charlottesvile: University Press of Virginia,1984).

“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.”
-James Madison, Federalist No. 58, February 20, 1788

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
-James Madison, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 16, 1788

" I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
- Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1776

"We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute."
- Thomas Paine

"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
- Ben Franklin, Respectfully Quoted, p. 201, Suzy Platt, Barnes & Noble, 1993

These and many other quotes can be found at Dr. Walter E. Williams web site. The specific portion is titled, "Quotations From Framers of the Constitution ... and Others" These should be MANDATORY reading for all citizens of this country!

In His Own Words

He clearly doesn't like The Constitution! He also clearly states that he believes in wealth redistribution and that the courts failed by not imposing it on the people. That IS socialist/marxist!!!

Asking The Tough Questions

And Ol Joe can't handle it!



Me thinks thou dost protest too much, Joe...



Hey "ole buddy" if ya can't take the heat then get out of the kitchen! Oh, that's right, you just ban them if you get meals you don't like while feeding everyone else excrement sandwiches!

Hmmmmmm...

Share The Wealth
By Tim Kelly

I don't believe any further comment is needed!!!

Just a Thought

"...These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country: but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine

Barack Marx???

"Spread the wealth, huh?!" That's straight out of Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto!" What makes Barack Hussein Obama think that he's qualified to determine who makes "enough" and that above that amount a person needs to have him confiscate a large portion of that and then give it to someone who DID NOTHING to earn it?! What business is it of his what anybody makes??? Enough with the class warfare! So, if I bust my butt and get into a position where I want to start my own business and give people jobs(BTW, that word has FOUR letters Sen. Biden) then I am not worthy of having a tax cut!? Instead, I must pay MORE taxes, oh, that's real "FAIR" Barry!!! BTW, taxes are to pay for infrastructure and national security, not spread "fairness."

Also, paying taxes IS NOT patriotic!!! If you don't believe me then go read a bit about our history called "THE BOSTON TEA PARTY." This is part of our Revolutionary War history. The people who did this DID NOT see paying taxes as patriotic! Taxes were a big reason for the Revolutionary War. Here's a helpful link to an eyewitness account of the event, THE BOSTON TEA PARTY: BY George Hewes

FOLLOW UP: BHO and Biden are now attacking Joe, making fun of him and ridiculing him. So much for their being for the middle-class and the blue-collar worker. That's exactly what this man is, but because he dares question "the messiah" he must be destroyed.

Obama and ACORN in Action!!!

The theft of the election is well under way! Here's Chicago style politics being used in Cincinnati. This is just one of several such vehicles that I've seen cruising Cincinnati streets.

Obama Reading Material

Apparently he's ready for a "Post American World" with a Muslim slant! The man clearly doesn't view this country as the great nation it is or as the greatest force for good in the world. He clearly doesn't have the vision of the Shining City On A Hill! He also has no understanding, looking at his reading material, of the blessings that God has given this country.

Obama tried to sway Iraqis on Bush deal

In private conversations on troop presence, candidate pitched delay

Barbara Slavin
Friday, October 10, 2008

EXCLUSIVE:

At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn't be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval...

The man will say and do ANYTHING in order to get elected!!!

Who Helped Plant That ACORN, Hmmmm?!

Media Bias
By Eric Allie

"The 'ACORN' doesn't fall far tree!" - Remember who recently said this?

Where The Blame REALLY Lies!

Financial Crisis
By Eric Allie

Oh how true!!!

Dead On Acurate!!!

...and hard to believe this was done by Saturday night Live!



This video may not be viewable at some point in the near future. It has been posted and pulled multiple times by NBC. Just in case the Obama apologist, Democrat boot licking Nazi's at NBC/GE pull it again, it can be found at PatDollard.com. Here are 2 copies of it. The one on Hulu.com has been slightly edited, for some reason. Not sure why, but if you watch both you'll see the edit and it is curious.

EDIT: Looks like the youtube version got pulled again. If you want to see the original and unedited version go to Pat Dollard's site by just clicking on the link I gave above. Some of the edits are obvious, some are not.

Found at Little Green Footballs

Obama's Employer Desecrated Flag

Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:31:14 am PST

Here’s a photo of former Weather Underground terrorist (and friend of Barack Obama) William Ayers in 2001 (when Obama was much older than 8), proudly stepping on a United States flag. The full article on Ayers’ deeply held radical ideas is here: No Regrets.



The article "No Regrets" is disgusting! It's writer clearly admires this worthless piece of human debris. There is NOTHING admirable or, most especially patriotic about this loser. Any parent that would allow their son or daughter to sit in his class needs their head examined! This piece of crap needs to be in jail, not teaching at a university, but it sure isn't a surprise where he's working!

The Truth!!!

If you look at who his friends and mentors are you can't help but question him!!!

Fannie & Freddie