Memorial Day - Honoring our Warriors, Surrendering our Civilization

The very civilizations saved by the heroics of our warriors have surrendered -- to a statist tyranny of enormous size. Our citizens will soon know the true cost of our failed vigilance, as we pay for the gigantic theft by our sovereign leaders, with a debt-fueled collapse that will most likely be chaotic.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/memorial_day_we_honor_warrior.html

Great video giving praise and honor to our Armed Forces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJfeD-I39CQ

Bernanke's Economic Time Bomb

Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve has laid the charges, connected the leads, and now stands ready at the detonator. America waits. http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/bernankes_economic_time_bomb.html

Brief Analysis of the US Economy Conundrum

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=1937291737

Thought for the Day

"True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world." -- Felix E. Schelling (1858-1945) American educator

The Budget Pie illustrated

Biblical perspective on wealth redistribution

Anyone who wants to speculate on what Jesus might or might not cut from the federal budget needs to begin that conversation by reading the Tenth Commandment: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” Most commandments condemn actions; this one condemns thoughts. Coveting what our neighbor has is bad for us because envy leads to theft and strife rather than working in unity to achieve common goals and mutual success. In other words, class warfare is unbiblical.

In any case, most millionaires, as Dan Henninger of the Wall Street Journal reminds us, are very grateful and generous with their wealth. In 2007, according to the Center on Philanthropy and Wealth at Boston College, “households with $1 million or more in net worth gave 52% [of all money given away in the U. S.], or $126.15 billion.” This lavish giving helps support (according to the IRS) 110,000 grant-giving private foundations in America. And this benevolence extends to stray animals, wounded veterans, distressed college students, and many causes, major and minor. People want to help people–and that help often comes when someone gets rich through a new invention, or just hard work.

When some politicians, using Jesus’ name, campaign to take money forcibly from the rich to give to the poor they are saying that politicians know better how to spend money than the people from whom the money is taken. Just to take one example, in 1932 politicians took $300 million in tax dollars to set up the Emergency Relief Administration–the first direct welfare program in U. S. history. How did the politicians decide to distribute the tax dollars received? Illinois, a swing state, received more than $55 million. Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Nebraska, all of which tended back then to be Republican states, all received zero dollars. Thus, Massachusetts had to raise money to support its own unemployed people as well as giving tax dollars to support Illinois.

If we could cut most of the social programs from the federal budget, we would be returning money to Americans. And some of that money would go to strengthening our private charities and toward one-to-one giving–which benefits givers and receivers alike. That sounds much more like something Jesus would do rather than asking rich people to further support a bloated federal bureaucracy that sends regular checks to politically influential groups of middle-class and poor voters. Burt Folsom

Twelve Truths about Legislation

From Freedom Keys - cynical, but thought provoking

TWELVE TRUTHS ABOUT LEGISLATION

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1) Any law the electorate sees as being open to being perverted from its original intent will be perverted in a manner that exceeds the manner of perversion seen at the time.
2) Any law that is so difficult to pass it requires the citizens be assured it will not be a stepping stone to worse laws will in fact be a stepping stone to worse laws.
3) Any law that requires the citizens be assured the law does not mean what the citizens fear, means exactly what the citizens fear.
4) Any law passed in a good cause will be interpreted to apply to causes against the wishes of the people.
5) Any law enacted to help any one group will be applied to harm people not in that group.
6) Everything the government says will never happen will happen.
7) What the government says it could not foresee, the government has planned for.
8) When there is a budget shortfall to cover non-essential government services the citizens will be given the choice between higher taxes or the loss of essential government services.
9) Should the citizens mount a successful effort to stop a piece of legislation the same legislation will be passed under a different name.
10) All deprivations of freedom and choice will be increased rather than reversed.
11) Any government that has to build safeguards into a law so that it will not be abused is providing guidelines for abusing the law without violating it.
12) Any legislator up for re-election will vote against a bad law if and only if there are enough other votes to pass it.

http://freedomkeys.com/vigil.htm

Personal Responsibility is a winning issue for 2012

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/personal_responsibility_is_the.html

"Big Oil" and their "Fair Share"

Many emails circulate blaming the oil companies for high gas prices. This is a naive and uninformed position. On this blog, read the 4/28 posting and share it with you friends and family to educate them. The president demonished "Big Oil" once again today on his radio address. Their 6% profit margin ranks 120 when compared with other industries and their effective tax rate is 42%.

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/