Genesis of the "NO" Logo
In history there have been two basic forms of social organization: collectivism and individualism. In the 20th and 21st century, collective variations have included socialism, fascism, Nazism, and communism. Under collectivism, a ruling class of “intellectuals”, bureaucrats, politicians and/or social planners decides what people want or what is “good” for society and then uses the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax and redistribute wealth in an attempt to achieve their desired objectives. Individualism is a political and social philosophy that emphasizes individual liberty, belief in the primary importance of the individual and in the virtues of self-reliance and personal independence and responsibility. It embraces opposition to controls over the individual when exercised by the state. The Preamble to our Constitution makes it plain that all power rests originally with the people, as individuals.
The “O” within the circle represents collectivism in its various forms. The “N” represents an emphatic repudiation of collectivism. The red, white and blue circles encompassing the “NO” are emblematic of our Republic. It is the responsibility of the individuals in an engaged and enlightened republic to limit the influence of the government, especially one that attempts to wield power outside the boundaries delineated by the Constitution.
Politicians of the 1930s created more bodies designed to stabilize the economy and build investor confidence: the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the National Credit Union Administration. The Depression deepened, becoming by far the longest and deepest economic downturn in the history of the United States.
This is the national pattern in economic policy: in the face of failure, we keep looking to government. Since the Great Depression, we’ve added more units designed to curb inappropriate behavior and ward off recession, including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (1974), the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (1979), the Working Group on Financial Markets (1988), and the Office of Thrift Supervision (1989). Yet in 2008 we fell into another economic downturn.
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/headline/can-government-manage-the-economy/
Good intentions and consequences
An illustration is worth a 1000 words (or 10,000 pennies). We need to understand the depth of our US debt and deficit and hold our legislators responsible and accountable for addressing the issue in a meaningful way.
If it be asked what is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part of the Constitution, and exercise powers not warranted by its true meaning, I answer, the same as if they should misconstrue or enlarge any other power vested in them; as if the general power had been reduced to particulars, and any one of these were to be violated; the same, in short, as if the State legislatures should violate their respective constitutional authorities. In the first instance, the success of the usurpation will depend on the executive and judiciary departments, which are to expound and give effect to the legislative acts; and in the last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people who can, by the election of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.
-- James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Source: THE FEDERALIST No. 44
A Time for Choosing
Messages to Washington
Maxine poses an Obamacare question! Good Question!
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Let me get this straight . . . . We're going to be "gifted" with a health care
plan we are forced to purchase and
fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least
ten million more people,
without adding a single new doctor,
but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman
says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn’t read it but
exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who
didn't pay his taxes, for which we’ll be taxed for four years before any
benefits take effect, by a government which has
already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general
who is obese, and financed by a country that'sbroke!!!!! What the #!?%*could
possibly go wrong? | | |
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This is as relevant now as it was in 1980. Where is our next great conservative spokesman?
The 2011 Index of Economic Freedom
