Posts Tagged ‘Government’

Article: Fighting to Restore a Free Society…

Posted: 3 Apr 2014 in Constitution, Freedom, Politics, Truth
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…good read here.

Freedom is at stake. Thankfully, we have folks that know it and are doing something about it.

Charles Koch: I’m Fighting to Restore a Free Society

I have devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It is those principles—the principles of a free society—that have shaped my life, my family, our company and America itself.

Unfortunately, the fundamental concepts of dignity, respect, equality before the law and personal freedom are under attack by the nation’s own government. That’s why, if we want to restore a free society and create greater well-being and opportunity for all Americans, we have no choice but to fight for those principles. I have been doing so for more than 50 years, primarily through educational efforts. It was only in the past decade that I realized the need to also engage in the political process.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value. In a truly free society, any business that disrespects its customers will fail, and deserves to do so. The same should be true of any government that disrespects its citizens. The central belief and fatal conceit of the current administration is that you are incapable of running your own life, but those in power are capable of running it for you. This is the essence of big government and collectivism.

More than 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson warned that this could happen. “The natural progress of things,” Jefferson wrote, “is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” He knew that no government could possibly run citizens’ lives for the better. The more government tries to control, the greater the disaster, as shown by the current health-care debacle. Collectivists (those who stand for government control of the means of production and how people live their lives) promise heaven but deliver hell. For them, the promised end justifies the means.

via Charles Koch: I’m Fighting to Restore a Free Society – WSJ.com.

Bill Whittle: Your Government…

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 in Constitution, History
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If you haven’t seen this, you’re missing out.

H/T justturnright

Freedom in Internet Blog Reporting Excellence…

Posted: 1 Oct 2013 in Comarade Obama, Constitution, First Amendment, Freedom, Government, Liberty, Politics, Truth
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…is a worthy cause that could use your support.

Freedom in Internet Blog Reporting Excellence

A site to identify, promote and reward those internet bloggers that put themselves on the front lines to keep the rest of us informed about questionable and illegal actions of our would be “rulers”.

Freedom in Internet Blog Reporting Excellence.

 

FIBRE AWARD

 

Freedom in Internet Blog Reporting Excellence

It’s been 34 plus years since my first attempt to use a computer. A “trash 80″ that had no internal memory to speak of. It used a 7 1/4” “floppy” disk with limited abilities. In the early ’90’s I first found the internet, but didn’t use it to any extent until later in the decade and early in the new millennium. Today my life and most everyone else in the first world would be lost without our computers, in whatever form they may take, and the internet.

Something that most of us have come to expect, rely upon, enjoy, love and hate is the internet blogger.

What the heck is a blogger? Well, the term blogger comes from Weblog. A weblog is the combination of web and log. The internet being referred to as the web, web of internet connections, and the log is the continuing input of information into a website location. A blogger is a person who uses a website location to discuss whatever is his interest.

A bloggers interests may be personal or pertaining to intersexual relations or politics. Essentially, whatever one can think of is covered or discussed or referenced on the internet at some bloggers blog site.

Freedom in Internet Blog Reporting Excellence.

Articles: NASA Adrift in Interplanetary Space

Posted: 29 May 2013 in Failure, Government, NASA, Politics, Science
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An interesting look at NASA and the costs involved with some of the hair brained schemes that seem to come out of the Agency and Washington.

NASA Adrift in Interplanetary Space

By S. Fred Singer

Since the first Apollo landing in 1969, NASA has been looking, unsuccessfully, for an overarching goal to match this spectacular achievement: landing men on the Moon. The International Space Station (ISS) has not turned out to be what it was advertised. It has made no breakthrough scientific contributions; it has not explored the solar system further; and it has not excited a great amount of public interest since it was set up. In retrospect, many would refer to it as a white elephant. Its annual maintenance costs are a drain on the NASA budget. Even worse, its supply has to be contracted out — to Russia. The trouble is: ISS had no well-defined goal.

Yes, there have been plenty of proposals. During the first Bush administration, NASA thought it had a clear go-ahead and proposed a manned Mars mission, in addition to putting a manned base on the Moon (to do what?). But once the price tag was revealed, around 400 billion dollars (which was then real money), the NASA plan was DOA (dead on arrival).

Since then there have been proposals to establish a permanent colony on the Moon — again without any clear justification. Many have compared it to the ISS and labeled it another white elephant. In fact, it would add little to our knowledge of the Moon, and probably would not even create much public excitement: “Been there, done that” — to much of the public, just a repeat of the Apollo mission.

via Articles: NASA Adrift in Interplanetary Space.

Oppose Sen Joe Manchin…

Posted: 6 Feb 2013 in Axis of Idiots, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Control, Elections have Consequences, Government, Gun Rights, Guns, Lies, Military, Neo-Marxists, Politics, RINO, Second Amendment, Senate, Socialism, Veterans, WTF Files
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…and his Veterans Gun Ban legislation. This turncoat traitorous piece of shit just got reelected on a platform supporting gun rights. Now that he suckered the West Virginians into voting for his sorry ass, he’s turning into a Democrat’s dream date. Fucking piece  of shit. Let him know how you feel and let your senators know how you feel on this issue. I have two of the WORST FUCKING SENATORS in America that represents (not) me, but I still tell those two idiots how I feel.

Let them hear you!

This is from Gun Owners of America.

Oppose Joe Manchin’s Veterans Gun Ban

and National Gun Registry

 

Reports out of Capitol Hill reveal that just-reelected turncoat West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is about to stick a big knife in the back of American gun owners.  And to make matters worse, he’s lying about what he’s doing.

Both Manchin and House anti-gun crazy Carolyn McCarthy are claiming to be “working with NRA” to enact gun bans and national gun registries.  NRA says flatly that Manchin is lying, and we believe he is. (The Hill, 1/24/13)

Ironically, Manchin was the “gun owner’s best friend” on November 5 — the day before his reelection to a six-year term let him to pull a great big “gotcha” on those West Virginians who were tricked into believing his representations.

But make no mistake about it:  Joe Manchin’s draft would impose a gun ban on veterans and would set up the framework for a national gun registry.

150,000 honest law-abiding veterans are currently in the NICS system.  They didn’t do anything wrong; they honorably served their country.  But when they sought VA counseling for a traumatic combat experience, the VA appointed a fiduciary to oversee their fiscal affairs and then took away their guns.  And, again, there are 150,000 honest veterans in the system.

New York Senator Charles Schumer viciously fought a Coburn amendment on the DoD bill which would require that veterans get their day in court before their rights were taken away from them, and he won.

What the Manchin bill is about is insuring that “bad guys” like veterans can’t get guns.  And, under Barack Obama’s “Executive Action #1,” the NICS list could soon include tens of millions of additional soldiers, police, firemen, and other law-abiding Americans.

But veteran disarmament is not the only problem with Joe Manchin’s gun ban.

Manchin’s bill would set the framework for a national gun registry and impose a chokehold on gun sales.  There are at least four big reasons for this:

FIRST:  Every gun owner in the country would have a “Form 4473.”  Increasingly, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives are going into gun dealerships and illegally copying all of those 4473’s.

SECOND:  The FBI refuses to tell us how or whether it’s complying with federal law by destroying the Brady Check names, rather than keeping them for a national gun registry.

THIRD:  As it is, the Brady Check system is breaking down on days such as last year’s Black Friday — outlawing all gun purchases.  If you have to drive 200 miles from your farm to sell your gun to your neighbor, this effectively outlaws any efforts to sell or buy a gun.

FOURTH:  Increasingly, the FBI is blocking transfers because someone’s name is “similar” to someone else.  When the legal purchaser complains, the FBI’s response is “Sue us!”

ACTION:  Please click here to contact your U.S. Senators.  Ask them to oppose Joe Manchin’s veterans gun ban and national gun registry.

Obama Must Be Stopped…

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 in Axis of Idiots, Buyers' Remorse, Comarade Obama, Communism, Constitution, Control, Democrats, Failure, Government, Lies, Neo-Marxists, Obama, Politics, SCOAMF, Socialism
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… his liberal agenda is on the table. Republicans in the House better grow a pair of balls and stop this asshole in his tracks. The fundamental transformation to a more Eurocentric vision is not what America was founded on.

He twists the Constitution to fit his agenda and ignores the laws that have been enumerated since America’s founding.

Impeach this man now!

Morning Bell: Obama’s Second Inaugural Address, Translated

Members of Congress—who are about to debate raising the debt ceiling tomorrow—should have paid attention yesterday. The President was very clear that he sees no urgency about reducing the debt and cutting the deficit. In fact, in his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama was honest about his intentions to grow government in order to remake our country along his progressive vision.

To sell his agenda, the President borrowed imagery and terminology from America’s first principles. But he twisted the American founding idea of “We the people” into the liberal “It takes a village.”His rhetoric on the issues only thinly disguised his true meaning. Let’s translate some of his key points.

via Obama Second Inaugural Address, Translated.

Another Obama Lie…

Posted: 5 Dec 2012 in Axis of Idiots, Buyers' Remorse, Comarade Obama, Communism, Congress, Democrats, Economics, Failure, Government, Lies, Media, Media Bias, Neo-Marxists, Obama, Politics, SCOAMF, Socialism, Stupid People, Tax
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…that the media and the Republicans are letting slide.
I’m personally sick of this lying douche bag. I can’t stand listening to him anymore, I know that the majority of what he says is bullshit and the media are kissing his ass and letting him get away with blatant lies.
Let’s look at this most obvious lie.

The President: “President Bush’s “tax cuts for the rich” cost the government so much tax revenue that this added to the budget deficit — so that the government cannot afford to allow the cost of letting the Bush tax rates continue for “the rich.”
First off, whenever the tax rates have been lowered, revenue has gone up. Every time some idiot Democrat raises the taxes on the “rich” revenues go down. The CBO screws this up every time they try to predict the revenue that it expects to get. They think that by raising taxes, revenue also rises. That’s demonstrably false. The Democrats are too stupid to look at the history of this country and how this works. Keynesian economics is a grand failure, each and every time it has been tried, yet the morons in the liberal party continue to try it, with the same resounding failure as the last time it was tried.

Cut taxes, cut spending. That’s the secret to getting America back on track. It’s so simple, yet the 535 idiots in Congress and the head idiot in charge can’t figure it out.

Cries of “racist” in 3, 2, 1…

I’ll let Thomas Sowell tell it.

Obama Plays Chicken
His priority is to increase government, and he’ll sacrifice the economy for it.
By Thomas Sowell

One of the big advantages that President Obama has, as he plays “chicken” with congressional Republicans along the “fiscal cliff,” is that he is a master of the plausible lie, which will never be exposed by the mainstream media — nor, apparently, by the Republicans.

A key lie that has been repeated over and over, largely unanswered, is that President Bush’s “tax cuts for the rich” cost the government so much tax revenue that this added to the budget deficit — so that the government cannot afford to allow the cost of letting the Bush tax rates continue for “the rich.”

It sounds very plausible, and constant repetition without a challenge may well be enough to convince the voting public that, if the Republican-controlled House of Representatives does not go along with Barack Obama’s demands for more spending and higher tax rates on the top 2 percent, it just shows that they care more for “the rich” than for the other 98 percent.

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Government Unions Suck Too…

Posted: 21 Nov 2012 in Axis of Idiots, Buyers' Remorse, Comarade Obama, Communism, Congress, Democrats, Elections have Consequences, Failure, Government, Lies, Neo-Marxists, Obama, Politics, SCOAMF, Socialism, Unions, Unions Suck, WTF Files
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... and should be outlawed in my opinion.

What purpose do they serve? The government employee sector already makes more money and work fewer days (one month) than private sector employees. The union claims that they are underpaid by 35%, but they are omitting a part of the equation. Their benefits package is 2.7 times more generous than what is paid by large private sector firms. Let’s not forget about all the sick days and vacation they get on top of all that.

And now, they want Congress to exempt them from the fiscal cliff that is approaching. Since the unions are what gave the most cash to Obama’s campaign, they figure that they are owed something in return.

If military retirees have to take it in the shorts when this fiscal cliff hammers us, then the government employees should be hit even harder.

Should We Pay Government Employees More?

Federal employees—who work on average a month less than private-sector workers and get paid more—are lobbying for higher pay.

Government unions know that Congress is looking for ways to nip and tuck the federal budget, and they’re counting on being left out of the deal.

“The Federal-Postal Coalition—a group representing more than two dozen federal employee unions—pleaded with Congress on Monday to spare their members in any deal related to the ‘fiscal cliff,’” Government Executive reports.

Government unions went all out to re-elect the President—the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) spent more than any other outside group on Obama’s campaign. While only about seven out of 100 private-sector workers are unionized, in government, that number rises to 36 out of 100.

Now they’re complaining that they don’t get paid enough.

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No New Taxes…

Posted: 9 Nov 2012 in Congress, Economics, Politics, Republicans, Senate, Tax
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…says Mitch McConnel.
We need to hold them to their word.
If the Republicans cave on this, the ones that vote for it need to be shit canned.
Unfortunately, Americans have a shorty memory when it comes to politics. Just look at the recent elections.

Ace has an excellent breakdown of the vote. 12% of voters made up their mind in the last week.

Obama is a failure and Americans failed in their duty to keep America a free republic.

Senate Minority Leader: No Tax Hikes
by Ben Shapiro

With conservatives across the country concerned about a rumored Republican cave-in in Washington, D.C. over tax policy, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is speaking out. Read his lips: no tax hikes.

McConnell said in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News:

One issue I’ve never been conflicted about is taxes. I wasn’t sent to Washington to raise anybody’s taxes to pay for more wasteful spending and this election doesn’t change my principles. This election was a disappointment, without doubt, but let’s be clear about something: the House is still run by Republicans, and Republicans still maintain a robust minority in the Senate. I know some people out there think Tuesday’s results mean Republicans in Washington are now going to roll over and agree to Democrat demands that we hike tax rates before the end of the year. I’m here to tell them there is no truth to that notion whatsoever.

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CATO Releases Report Card…

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 in Economics
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…on America’s governors for 2012.

CATO Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors: 2012

The recovery from the recent recession has been very sluggish, and the nation’s governors have struggled with the resulting budget deficits, unemployment, and other economic problems in their states. Many reform-minded governors elected in 2010 have championed tax reforms and spending restraint to get their states back on track. Other governors have expanded government with old-fashioned tax-and-spend policies.

That is the backdrop to the Cato Institute’s 11th biennial fiscal report card on the governors, which examines state budget actions since 2010. It uses statistical data to grade the governors on their taxing and spending records—governors who have cut taxes and spending the most receive the highest grades, while those who have increased taxes and spending the most receive the lowest grades.

Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors: 2012
The recovery from the recent recession has been very sluggish, and the nation’s governors have struggled with the resulting budget deficits, unemployment, and other economic problems in their states. Many reform-minded governors elected in 2010 have championed tax reforms and spending restraint to get their states back on track. Other governors have expanded government with old-fashioned tax-and-spend policies.

That is the backdrop to the Cato Institute’s 11th biennial fiscal report card on the governors, which examines state budget actions since 2010. It uses statistical data to grade the governors on their taxing and spending records—governors who have cut taxes and spending the most receive the highest grades, while those who have increased taxes and spending the most receive the lowest grades.

Read the free PDF.

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