Which are you?  A lover of freedom or a lover of control?

THE FREEDOM PEOPLE
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately and have sadly come to this conclusion:  that the United States of America is divided into specifically two groups:  people who love freedom and people who love control.

The freedom people yearn for liberty, freedom to do, have, say, think whatever they please as long as they harm no one.  The freedom people are independent, capable, caring, brave, and intelligent, usually family oriented.  Since they don’t have a strong need to control others, and since their freedom entails harming no one, they can get along just fine without oversight by a government or a police state.  These people are reasonable and logical, and can see some need for certain areas of activity to have overseers, but they draw the line at those overseers’ attempts to control people as opposed to activities.  Some of these people think of themselves as sovereign individuals, defined in the dictionary as:

A person who believes in rights and power for the individual. A sovereign individual is often someone who doesn’t trust the government, wants more power in the hands of the individual, and who is willing to do things for his/her self. The term was popularized by the book “The Sovereign Individual” written by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson in 1997.    http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/sovereign-individual.html

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THE CONTROL PEOPLE
The control people are actually 2 groups, one small, the other quite large.  The small group are the controllers who dictate to the larger group what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and how much money to spend while doing it.  The larger group do all the things the smaller group dictates because all the strength lies within the smaller group, and force is the natural default manner of dealing with the underlings.  The underlings (the larger group) never has a chance to become wealthy or to rise in status, whereas the smaller group has every chance to become wealthy and already has status.  In order to have control, this smaller group must have support of members of the larger group, or they must create that control with the use of force.  One way to convince people of the larger group to accept the smaller group’s dictates is to utilize the carrot trick.  The smaller group makes the larger group dependent on the smaller group for everything it gets. That’s the beauty of the welfare state for the control believers.  By making people totally reliant on the rulers for their very livlihood, the rulers have produced what a free man would call a  “slave”.

The dictionary defines “dictator” as a ruler who has complete power

The dictionary defines “power”  as the authority or legalright to do things or to make people do things


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PERSONAL COMMENTS

Isn’t it tragic that so many Americans long for and work hard to obtain the control state?   I cannot understand a mind that longs for control by another.  It is easier to understand a mind that longs FOR the control.    It makes me wonder which group these Americans think they would be part of:  the small controlling group or the large controlled group?  Do they not know or not believe what a control state is, how it operates, that it produces misery and turns every citizen into an enemy of the next citizen?

Also tragic is that a greedy mind-set within our government and among the control believers has produced – ALREADY – the almost perfect control state?  We call it America, but it isn’t the America most of us grew up in – it is getting too, too close to that official control state called collectivism – socialism, communism, fascism, oligarchy, monarchy, dictatorial (lumped together because the end result is always the same: dictatorship and total control.)

I’d like to have an honest discussion on a topic that struck me today in a different manner than it ever has.  The Death Penalty vs the Right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I should state that I have always been in favor of the death penalty.  Yes, I know there may be bad trials, biased juries, biased judges, crooked lawyers.  I know these things, and that gives me pause, yet when I see that all appeals have been exhausted, the death penalty is an acceptable way to remove the threat from society.  I am opposed to abortion on demand, yet feel there are cases in which it is the thing to do.  For me this is a moral quandry.  

But recently I have undergone a change in my thinking.  I’ve joined the Libertarian Party, and for the first time in my life I am trying to think through the “right to life” philosophy.  It sounds so simple, and maybe it is, but it isn’t for me.

Of course I don’t believe in murdering people.  Of course I don’t believe in reckless behavior that may cost someone his life.  But I’ve not had trouble accepting death sentences as proper punishment for heinous crimes committed.

To quote the Declaration of Independence:  “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

These are God-given rights, human rights given to all peoples.  No government has the right to grant or deny these rights.  This leads me to this quandry:  does the government have an actual right to execute people?  By doing so, is the government denying the right to life?  Does a criminal who has taken a life, retain the right to his own life?  Is this a case of 2 wrongs don’t make a right?  Or is it a case of 1 wrong can result in a right?  

I truly would appreciate some thoughtful commentary re this issue.  No hyperbole, please.  No insulting comments, please.  Let’s explore this issue, for MY benefit if for no one else’s.

Human right

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From the Washington Times we see this bit of news:

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President Obama is extending full constitutional due-process rights to a Somali terrorist. This sets a troubling precedent.

The world first heard of Mr. Warsame when he appeared on U.S. soil facing a nine-count federal indictment in the Southern District of New York. After his first series of shipboard interrogations, he was handed over to FBI agents who read him a Miranda warning and commenced a fresh round of questioning, seeking to build a federal criminal case. There is no evident compelling reason for Mr. Warsame to be given a civil trial.

The Obama administration seems to have taken this step only to establish a precedent for more such trials.

Because Mr. Warsame was never held at Guantanamo, the law as written does not apply to him. The administration secretly transferred the suspect to the United States without informing Congress, presenting the legislative branch with a fait accompli. This blindsiding tactic demonstrates a lack of good faith in abiding by the spirit of the law. It’s also a signal to Congress of the need for more expansive language to keep foreign terrorists out of American courts. The pending Detainee Security Act of 2011 would close the loophole by specifying that “no individual who is eligible for detention pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force may be transferred or released to or within the United States, its territories, or possessions.” Mr. Warsame’s may be the first such trial. It ought to be the last.
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We have a runaway government.  I say we have an illegitimate government.  Our government was designed a certain way for extremely important reasons – and the politicians in all three branches of our government act amorally and illegally at will, thumbing their noses at the citizens who put them in office, and as all three branches are complicit, they get away with doing so without having to answer for their bad deeds.  Why is nothing done by SOMEONE with the knowledge and opportunities to stop this tragedy?  Is it that no one knows what to do, or is it that they don’t have the guts, or is it that they, too, are complicit?

Somali Islamists Drive Out Pirates

US flag, old glory

I hear the comment constantly on TV, “We want to make sure this neeeveeeer happens again”, and I always sneer because of course it is going to happen again no matter what steps are taken because human nature will win out.
Since I believe human nature does always win out, I’ve thought about how to avoid ever again having an illegal President in the White House, and how we avoid ever again having a corrupt Congress when we cannot replace all members at the same time except violently and none of us wants violence.  Goodness, most Americans don’t even want to have to see someone slapped, let alone injured.
So, in thinking of this, I’d like to throw out a few thoughts to all interested parties to see how this would fly.
I am not sure in what order the following would need to be done, but the steps would be:

Eliminate the federal government as we know it – NO elected officials in a centralized place denoting federal government.

Return all issues to the states, restoring their rights and sovereignties.

Have ONLY state elections

Have the governor of each state or his appointee represent that state on a Board that would set standards for management of the nation’s business

There would be no federal laws

There would be a military, and the governors would appoint a commander in chief to oversee the military.

There would be a hired management company to manage the nation’s business, and the governors would hire them and could fire them.  This company would make none of the rules, and would write NO laws and would have NO legal force except with their own employees,  but would follow the governor’s directives.

There would be transparency, openness.   There would be no paid agency or bureau within the national  scene.

States would be supreme, and NO ONE would overrule them.  This would involve setting some rules – any state official caught taking bribes or having the appearance of same could be fired on the spot by the state legislature, and if they would not do their job, THEY could be fired immediately and replaced by the district they represented.  States could divvy up on what would be needed in the way of programs, agencies, etc, and those would be paid by the state.

No taxes could be levied at the federal level.  All taxing would come from the state, and if the state is smart, it will only tax for those things citizens are willing to be taxed for.

In essence the US Constitution would have to be altered to take these changes into account and make them legal.  The only Amendments allowed to stand would be the Bill of Rights.

There is still much to add, but I honestly believe this type of change would make what has happened to our country a lot more difficult to replicate, would provide more freedoms to individuals and to companies, would return sovereignty to the states and to the individuals within each state.  Politicians would HATE this idea because it would pull them back where they belong – working for the US citizens.

THE DEATH OF A NATION

America's Headstone

It’s as though I woke up one morning to find I was living in a foreign country, one that was questionable, one that was so different than the one I went to sleep in.  It was most unsettling.  How did this happen?

Of all the issues we face today, the “how did it happen?” is the easiest to answer.  The United States of America slowly but surely changed from the nation it had always been to a snarky, slippery, amoral nation.  This was accomplished by the political left who deceptively touted the “goodness” of certain things, like abortion on demand, like hate crime legislation, like taking Christ out of Christmas.  Unfortunately, this was a ploy totally unexpected by the political right which was not prepared to combat it.  The political left’s normal modus operandi is to play dirty.  The political right was not schooled in dirty tricks to the degree the left was.

Every mealy, snarky program put forward by the left was defended by use of the word “compassion” as compared to the right’s “cruelty and meanness”.  In other words, the left kept the right on the defense constantly, and in so doing, got multitudes of wasteful and unconstitutional programs in place merely to redistribute income from the haves to the have nots so that they will in turn vote for the leftist who steals for them.  Americans are generous people and never object to helping people, but that has become America’s Achilles Heel.  Once helped, too many people then begin to feel they are entitled to that help and more.  To get elected and stay in office, the leftist politicians offer them more and better – so is it any surprise those receiving that largesse vote for the person who is handing out goodies?  Especially when he has been told the opponent is a horrible, cruel, greedy person?  These people who make welfare their living, pay virtually no attention to politics and believe anything anyone who will continue their payments tells them to believe.

Once a populace learns it can vote itself benefits, its government has an expiration date stamped in cement.  Less than half our citizens pay income taxes – this means essentially that those who DO pay taxes are paying for the nation’s operations, the livlihood of the other half, all wars we are in, lavish lifestyles of our elected officials, foreign financial assistance – EVERYTHING  the government does.  There may be some place this would seem fair, like in liberals’ minds, but in reality it is abominable and despicable.  Those who are the recipients of the others’ largesse can – and DO – dictate to the taxpayer.

Now, on top of everything else we have to suffer because of a narcissistic President who does not follow the Constitution, nor any of the rules re Separation of Powers, etc.  He railroads his wishes, bypassing the powers who represent the citizens, he quibbles about necessary action, he sees to it that his friends (donors) are favored with his largesse of OUR money, he and his wife flit around the world constantly while many Americans can afford to buy only one gallon of gas at a time.  Their trips cost millions of dollars and a neighbor of mine buys one gallon of gas at a time.  Their trips cost millions of dollars yet they insist on redistribution of money with which to provide “universal health care”, a real belly laugh, because it will help virtually no one and will harm many and has already harmed many businesses.

To make sure he leaves no stone unturned, our President, on these trips, makes sure he insults as many of our foreign friends as possible while bowing to thugs in the Middle East.  He is an extreme embarrassment.  Perhaps understandable as he doesn’t really identify with Americans or the American way of life.  How he became President is highly questionable, but somehow it happened, with the entire news media covering for him, and with his election came the coup over our government.  It has been co-opted by the Progressives and is being run like a tyranny.  He and his crowd of thugs WILL have socialism in our country no matter what.

Our Constitution has provisions dealing with this, but is ineffectual in this instance.  It provides for impeachment, but the House does the trial and the Senate sets the punishment.  The Senate at present is ruled by the President’s Party and would give him nothing more than a slap on the wrist and the contempt for America would continue.  We have the courts, but in these cases, average citizens don’t have “standing” to sue, and Congress is too scared to do anything about him.  We have been cheated out of every legal and non-violent way to get this person out of office and settle the left down and bring it back into the fold of a representative government.  Until that happens, I don’t consider myself living in a representative government by any stretch of the imagination.

I could write for years without saying all that needs to be said, but won’t.  Let me end with these thoughts:

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.  (Jonathan Swift)

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.  (P. J. O’Rourke)

Government “help” to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.  (Ayn Rand)

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.  (George Washington )

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.  (Fred Woodworth)

America is a changing country. It’s far from the same as it was when I grew up, the last ten years have seen dramatic changes in what this country is all about. The people have become so politically divided, thanks to a well planned media propaganda blitz, there is no stopping the beginning of the biggest crisis America has ever experienced. As I follow gold, silver and oil prices, I see extreme danger in the future. We are being warned, not by the Main Stream Media, but by alternate media and the one logical thing that we all deal with, gas prices. In 2008, oil hit $100 a barrel, gas cost $3.05. In 2011, oil hit $100 a barrel, gas cost 3.79. Only a blind man could miss this economic change. Many will say it’s the oil companies just profiting, sorry, I don’t buy that, not this soon. This is a change that is in progress, it began with the never ending printing of money, it has continued unchallenged and will continue until the fateful day that I dread so much.

Folks, our economy is in big trouble, and it’s no accident. The vast majority of people are unconcerned or have no clue as to whats going on in our country. In recent weeks, the evidence is a telling testament to what is expected to be the final outcome. State police in Michigan are using new technology to download personal information from cellphones of drivers they pull over, in total violation of the 4th Amendment. The TSA is now patting down six year old girls in airports, because they might be terrorists, WTF! Then we have the continued efforts of Homeland Security and their “See Something, Say Something” Nazi like propaganda growing. This is one of the most glaring signs of things to come, if we let it. Lastly, the worst of things that I’m infuriated about, President Obama orders our military to attack a foreign nation, completely ignoring the Constitution. Only the Congress can send our troops in harms way, the President does not have that authority, unless we are under direct attack. Real Americans should be screaming bloody murder about this, Obama isn’t the fucking King, and he is not above the law.

It can’t happen here, that’s what I hear. It is happening, right under our noses, denial is one’s worst enemy, it stops them from preparing in a timely manner. I’d like to ask college students this question: Is Vermont a real State or a place on the Monopoly board game? I bet the majority would say the latter, sadly. The complacency and entitlement mentality is discusting. Thankfully, not everyone is lost in space. There are a small minority who get it, they are the one’s who will stand up and say no, these are your 21st Century patriots.

The few are the Americans who understand the severity of non action. They are stocking up on food, water and other necessities to live through the toughest of times. They are also quietly preparing to defend their families and possibly, our way of life. Veterans and non veterans, who would have never thought of such a thing, realize that freedom has a price, in some cases that price is one’s life. We are heading to a point in America when the only way for our corrupt government and banking system to maintain control will be by intimidation, force and violence. That’s all they have left, their integrity is shot.

As the dollar devalues, as gas and food prices go up, there will come a point when the bottom drops out. That’s what the preparation is for. A good basic food stock to feed you and your family is a must. I plan to have extra family and friends come for safety, so my food stocks are extreme in some ways. The place not to be is in the cities with a high population of poor. They will be the first to begin the civil unrest. They will do what ever they can to get what they want. They are the first enemy. Once they have burnt half the cities down and looted all the food, what will they do then? Food will still be unaffordable for them. It will continue to rise in price due to the unrest. What will authorities do and how far will they go to calm the masses? You don’t want to know, just be ready to split before your caught up in the government crackdown.

The few, who are outside the initial danger zones, will be ignored. Most supply lines will have stopped running. Gas will be very expensive. With a worthless currency, who will drive the trucks that bring us our goods to the stores? With no delivery, gas stations will run dry, grocery stores will do the same. Then it’s up to you and how well you planned. This could last for months, maybe a year. While things are peaceful, with some exceptions that will catch many who are not organized by surprise (hint, get your neighbors organized now). There will be deaths that come from bands of city folk who are hungry, pissed off and armed.

The finality will come from those who prepared and organized for the right to live their lives free. They already understand that the government is the problem, not because they are the government, but because they are a power hungry clan of corrupt bastards who have no regard for anyones life. The simple proof is in how you have had to survive. They will come, to gain control of everyone. Once they control the food, they win! The food isn’t in the cities, once their control is firmly in place there, it is only a matter of time before they spread out. They will be tired. They will have lost a lot of men. They will NOT be our military, that you need to understand.

Those who left the cities are now in a new delema. The country folk and those that planned ahead and left the cities have likely gotten things well organized. Now we get to the real stuff! Foreign troops now control the cities under a NORTHCOM agreement. They have to control the food, those who control the food aren’t about to give up their freedom to these control freak bastards. Where will you be? A slave to the government or a freedom loving American! Too many lives have been lost by those that believed in the American way of life. Since the middle 1700′s, Americans have fought for the very freedoms that make our country great. Now, we will face a new enemy, control freak politicians and bankers who have destroyed our economy and our way of life, ALLMOST.

It took 3% of the population of America to begin the Revolutionary War for independence, and only 5% to beat the strongest military in the world at the time. The American people are facing a new fight for freedom, against the thieving international bankers and Globalists who think we don’t matter, we are expendable to them. The very existence of the United States of America, as it is today, will come down to a small minority of freedom loving Americans who are willing to lay their lives on the line for their convictions. Many will accept evil and cower to the government thugs , a few will fight for the divine. It’s the few who stand up for freedom and liberty, in the fight against tyranny, they will be the last in line.

Live Free!

G!

IMF Governance


This article is a compilation of information from the IMF website. I would appreciate all input anyone has relating to the use of American taxpayers’ dollars that ago to the IMF, particularly when the US is essentially bankrupt. Many such articles could be written on each and everything mentioned.

I am personally opposed to remaining a member of the IMF. Its idea may have been compassionate in the beginning, but at this point I do not see how we can continue taxing people to pay for other nations’ inabilities to care for themselves. However, I will be happy to see counter-arguments as well.

Source: http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/glance.htm

The IMF, also known as the “Fund,” was conceived at a United Nations conference convened in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, in July 1944. The 44 governments represented at that conference sought to build a framework for economic cooperation that would avoid a repetition of the vicious circle of competitive devaluations that had contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The IMF’s primary purpose is to ensure the stability of the international monetary system—the system of exchange rates and international payments that enables countries (and their citizens) to transact with one other. This system is essential for promoting sustainable economic growth, increasing living standards, and reducing poverty.

Fast Facts on the IMF

Membership: 187 countries

Headquarters: Washington, D.C.

Executive Board: 24 Directors representing countries or groups of countries

Staff: Approximately 2,500 from 160 countries

Total quotas: US$340 billion (as of 1/31/11)

Additional pledged or committed resources: US$600 billion

Loans committed (as of 1/31/11): US$254 billion, of which US$190 billion have not been drawn (see table)

Biggest borrowers (credit outstanding as of 1/31/11): Romania, Ukraine, Greece

Surveillance consultations: Consultations concluded for 120 countries in FY2010 and for 88 countries in FY2011 as of 02/11/11

Technical assistance: Field delivery in FY2010—192.5 person years

Transparency: In 2009, over 90 percent of Article IV and program-related staff reports and policy papers were published

Original aims: Article I of the Articles of Agreement sets out the IMF’s main goals:

promoting international monetary cooperation;

facilitating the expansion and balanced growth of international trade;

promoting exchange stability;

assisting in the establishment of a multilateral system of payments; and

making resources available (with adequate safeguards) to members experiencing balance of payments difficulties

 

Resources: The IMF’s resources are provided by its member countries, primarily through payment of quotas, which broadly reflect each country’s economic size. At the April 2009 G-20 Summit, world leaders pledged to support a tripling of the IMF’s lending resources from about US$250 billion to US$750 billion. To deliver on this pledge, the current and new participants in the New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB) agreed to expand the NAB to about US$550 billion, which was approved by the Executive Board of the IMF on April 12, 2010. When concluding the 14th General Review of Quotas in December 2010, Governors agreed to double the IMF’s quota resources to approximately US$745 billion and a major realignment of quota shares among members. When the quota increase becomes effective, there will be a corresponding rollback in NAB resources.

How countries are represented is key to the IMF’s legitimacy as an international organization representing the interests of its 187 member countries. Upon joining the IMF, each country is allocated a quota based approximately on the relative size of its economy. The quota determines the country’s financial contribution to the IMF, its voting power, and ability to access IMF financing.

 

The IMF’s Role in Helping Protect the Most Vulnerable in the Global Crisis

March 31, 2011

In this difficult environment, the IMF is helping governments to protect and even increase social spending, including social assistance. In particular, the IMF is promoting measures to increase spending on, and improve the targeting of, social safety net programs that can mitigate the impact of the crisis on the most vulnerable in society. Below are some examples of how recent IMF-supported programs seek to protect social spending in a way that is both fiscally sustainable and cost-effective.

GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS

To Help Countries Face Crisis, IMF Revamps its Lending

March 24, 2009

IMF announces major overhaul of its lending and conditionality framework

Includes new credit lines for strong-performing economies that need insurance

Revamp complements IMF moves to sharply boost lending capacity

 

Working to reduce poverty

The IMF is working to prevent millions of people in low-income countries from slipping into poverty as the third wave of the global economic crisis washes up on their shores.

Low-income countries, which are still feeling the effects of the recent food and fuel crisis, have sought the IMF’s help in coping with the effects of the global financial crisis. Although advanced and emerging economies were hit first, low-income countries are now experiencing sharply lower exports, shrinking foreign direct investment, and declining remittances as a result of the global downturn.

Besides providing new concessional financing, policy advice, and technical assistance, the IMF is taking measures to help low-income countries protect spending on health, education, and other critical services.

Armageddon

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The news media in this country are in a stupor. Either out of ignorance, or complete leftist bias to protect their socialist hero President Barack Obama, they have turned a blind eye toward the enormous disaster facing our economy.

 

The greatest Ponzi scheme in world history is coming to an end, leaving America on the precipice of economic Armageddon.

 

Legendary Wall Street investor Stanley Druckenmiller is calling the Fed’s bond purchases a fraud and a Ponzi scheme. Druckenmiller says, “There is a phony buyer of $19 billion per week of Treasury Bonds.” The phony buyer he refers to is the U.S. government. Druckenmiller knows that when a country resorts to buying its own debt, we are seeing the last days of the Roman Empire.

 

On the federal level, the trustees of both Social Security and Medicare admitted just this past week that their massive Ponzi schemes are running on empty. Both funds are running out of money far sooner than projected. Social Security will now run a permanent deficit. It is also important to remember there is no money in the “lock box.”

 

All that is in the lock box is worthless paper IOUs. It has all been spent.

Misery smiley face

Based on pre-1990 calculations, today’s CPI inflation is now over 10 percent and unemployment is 15 percent. This 25 percent misery index is, by far, the highest in modern history.

 

Even more foreboding, 10 percent inflation is a leading indicator of hyperinflation on the way. Any rise in inflation would force dramatic raises in interest rates, which would eat up the entire budget. Game over for America.

 

History always repeats. This vicious cycle of misery will force massive layoffs of government employees, and massive cuts in entitlements and social services. This will result in Greece-like levels of protests, government employee union strikes, unrest, and riots.

 

The ancient Chinese proverb says, “May you live in interesting times.” We are all watching history.

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My thoughts:

What is required in Congress is nerves of steel and common sense. What we have in Congress is useless, but dangerous, human debris. Our country needs a “do over”, plain and simple. We need a citizen Congress, and we need to rid ourselves of these professional career politicians. We need to classify the words “politician” and “politics” as obscene.

Government

If there is anyone out there who is willing to defend “big government”, and all that it entails, I’m inviting him to do so on this thread.  In my view “big government” cannot be logically defended.

 

What we are witnessing today should be adequate proof of the fallacy of stealing from workers to give to non-workers, of stealing from American workers that enables foreign recipients to rent $3000.00/night motel rooms, of waging PR wars against those who provide jobs, services, and goods, of accepting government backed unions who wind up making financial decisions within businesses while having no business acumen whatsoever, of allowing professional politicians make our decisions for us in matters of food,medicine, medical professionals, the auto industry, the farming community, hospitals, nursing homes ………….. name a facet of life, ANY facet, and you will find Big Brother hiding in the dark corner. What are we thinking?? Or ARE we thinking?

 

Every one of us taxpayers is seen by professional politicians as the enemy whose only value is the money they can extract from us for their own little sordid projects and social engineering.

 

Could we get a movement started, the mission being to have a special election in which we can vote out, simultaneously, every elected official who holds federal office? If we can’t convince this bunch of losers in DC to take the necessary steps to correct their wrong moves, and if they cannot be shamed into doing the right things instead of the expedient things, then let’s have one big special election called ASAP.

Congratulations are in order to these fine men: Senator Jim DeMint was joined by seven other co-sponsors of SB 504, including Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.; Orrin Hatch, R-Utah; Mike Lee, R-Utah; Rand Paul, R-Ky.; James Risch, R-Idaho; Pat Toomey, R-Pa.; and David Vitter, R-La. Thank you, Senators, for doing what needs to be done!

Jim DeMint

Senator Jim DeMint

 

A group of conservative U.S. senators has introduced a bill to restrict unions from forcing workers to join and pay dues as a condition of employment.

Senator Coburn
Senator Tom Coburn

The move on Capitol Hill comes as several states consider what’s known as “right-to-work” legislation — proposals that have met stiff resistance. Indiana Republicans recently shelved their right-to-work bill after it sparked protests at the capital and after Democrats fled the state to block it, mimicking the tactic used by Wisconsin lawmakers holding up Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union proposal.

Senator Hatch

Senator Orrin Hatch

But GOP senators in Washington said national legislation is needed to stop the “strong-arm political tactics” they claim labor bosses are using to compel new employees into joining their ranks. They introduced the National Right to Work Act Tuesday.

Senator Lee

Senator Mike Lee

“No American should be forced to join a union and pay dues to get a job in this country,” Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said in a statement. “Many Americans are already struggling just to put food on the table, and they shouldn’t have to fear losing their jobs or face discrimination if they don’t want to join a union. Forced-unionism shields unions from member accountability and has a detrimental effect on the economy.”

Senator Paul

Senator Rand Paul

Currently 22 states have right-to-work laws, according to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Research by the National Conference of State Legislatures shows that several states in New England and in the northern Midwest are now considering right-to-work proposals.

Senator Risch

Senator James Risch

Right-to-work advocates say states with those laws on the books are more conducive to economic growth.

Senator Toomey

Senator Pat Toomey

Senator Vitter

Senator David Vitter

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It seems so logical to do this that I seriously doubt it will go over well in DC. The entrenched unions are accustomed to dictating terms and are not going to let this get by – and the Democrat Party has already demonstrated their total harmony with the strong arm tactics used by thug unions. Unions once served a purpose, but have become dinosaurs that are a drag on humanity and a definite detriment to a free society which we supposedly are (but getting less so every day).

Tasine will now be running this Morality101.net website, with more and better focus on current events and opinions.

I will be focusing my own efforts on our sister website: No-Ruler (the blogger)

Like this website, it also has a home section with html pages which are more about the basics.

This present government can no longer avoid plunging into collapse.  We are striving for a system which bans government force against it’s citizens, a way of restarting with true Liberty for all people.  It opens wide the doorway to free enterprise, free markets and capitalism.  Humanity desperately needs to move beyond the irrational tradition of Govern and being Governed, which denies the entire nature of mankind.

A NoRuler we are focused  on replacing Government with a Voluntary System.  No, it’s not “Anarchy” except in it’s pure definition of No Ruler.   We will be defining and discussing with commenting the various ways of accomplishing order without Force.   The leadoff article “When the Dust Settles, What Then?” is now posted there.  It spells out the principles of the essential moral foundation, from which respect for and honor of individual sanctity can be restored and prevail.

If that at least arouses your curiosity and YOU are a thinker, it’s easy to Register there and join the fun!  We have SO much to do and so little time!

Thank You, and Best Regards – Dean Striker