So when folks with experience chime in and say ; “you should NOT do that” I typically try and at the very least – listen! Often, because of their familiarity with the subject, they can either reduce a steep learning curve or help avoid painful consequences from resultant actions. In… Continue reading
So early today, I get an email from a friend asking how to respond to a family member’s email requesting support for free universal health care. the email “Hi, I sent the following short note to my US Congressman and both US Senators from [state of confusion]. I urge you… Continue reading
Like the serpent tempting us with the promise of “the knowledge of good and evil”, our Washington leaders hold out universal health care as the ‘apple’ for our current economic woes. But, as the apple brought ruin to paradise so too shall this. . . This wicked seduction is… Continue reading
Social Justice and the New American Dream… As I riffed yesterday, from every direction, new code words are entering our main stream lexicon of speech and thought. Some of these new words like – Social Justice are re-forged in the smithy of old Marxist ideas. They then appear… Continue reading
I’ve been wondering what’s really been ‘going on’ for the last several months. especially since the election? Really been wondering, how could we’ve gone from “Hope and Change” to Communism and Confiscation in so short a time? Well it’s not by accident. Please take about 3 ½ minutes to watch… Continue reading
The War on Wealth continues, with a proposal for a GLOBAL New Deal. Confiscating the baser nature of Roosevelt‘s depression era propaganda, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and our own Dear Leader collude on a ponzi scheme of global proportions to require public spending on a huge world-wide scale.… Continue reading
And so it begins, under the seemingly benevolent rallying cry of “Common Sacrifice” worthy of Orwell’s “newspeak” we are all called to the laudable goal of “Saving our Republic” by the fallacious notion of “universal forfeiture”. What is less clear is how someone who may be forced to “sacrifice” and… Continue reading
Vae Victis – Woe to the Conquered! Porkulus, revocation of existing tax cuts, usurpation of individual liberties and now – drum roll please – the mortgage rescue plan. Attempts, each one, to use the US tax code to affect social change rather than good tax policy. So… Continue reading
continued from ‘Fear!’ The changing American psyche from the concepts of independence and self reliance to the ideas of dependence and government subsidy is due in large part to the New Deal and the manifesto it inspired: that the government can and should solve your problems. . . Those advancing… Continue reading
