Interview by Year of Youth

I was interviewed on the radio program for the “Year of Youth” website. Check it out here:

http://www.yearofyouth.org/radio

Check out the website at http://www.yearofyouth.org/. The group is lookin good as a solid liberty-minded youth-oriented project. Good luck to them!

Bob is awesome

Hypothesis: oBBama will use H1N1 to force socialize health care

oBBama’s chief of staff has been quoted as recommending to always take advantage of a crisis. Why? Because only when there’s a crisis can government force people to take their shit. Only when people are worried about their security can government gain more ground in regulation and taxes. This was true in the Great Depression which begat the socialized New Deal programs. It is always true in war during which people turn a blind eye to internment camps, it was true after 9/11 when everyone in the country was worried about terrorists, and it was true during the economic crisis of 2008-09. In each case, there was a crisis in confidence and the government took advantage of it but increasing their control over society “for our own good.”

I have an eerie feeling about some things that I’ve been seeing recently that have to do with this crisis=government growth philosophy.

First, oBBama has received considerable flack for his shitty health care reform plan. Half the country is vehemently opposed to it and a few people like it (the others are getting paid to like it).

Second, we’ve been hearing rumors about H1N1 getting worse and that “they” are expecting a really bad pandemic.

Third, military personnel have been forced to take the flu vaccine, which indicates drastic measure in preparation for the predicted outbreak.

So, what does that mean? Nothing yet, but if there is a major outbreak of H1N1, I will look for oBBama to angle it in such a way (either by restricting vaccinations or monopolizing them through the government) that will make socialize medicine look like a good idea. I can imagine his goons monopolizing the vaccine and using it as leverage to force people into a recommended national health program.

What happens if the liberal fascists get control of the health care system is beyond the scope of this post, but I will guarantee it won’t be pretty.

I hope nothing disastrous happens, but I wouldn’t put it past the oBBama administration to use such a crisis to increase their socialized ways.

Just some common sense on the health scare bill

Want a reason to vomit?

Who gets paid when America borrows? The Federal Reserve.

Who is not regulated by Congress? The Federal Reserve.

Who was put in charge of the economy in 1913 so as to prevent economic depressions? The Federal Reserve.

Who failed over 7 times in the last century to do what they were chartered to do? The Federal Reserve.

Who does Obama want to give MORE power to? The Federal Reserve.

This needs to end>> End the Fed

Campaign for Liberty

Minimum wage deceit

This video blog from Peter Schiff reminds me of a post I made a while back:

It goes against every ounce of logic in my being to think that a minimum wage is good for people or an economy, yet people in Congress and even everyday folks on the street seem to think it’s a good idea. Well, let me explain in very clear terms MINIMUM WAGE IS BAD FOR THE ECONOMY.

The first thing that will happen when this new minimum wage bill goes through, if it does, is the people who aren’t worth $7.25 an hour will BE FIRED. Then, the real damage happens.

If you are a minimum wage proponent, I would like to ask what a fair wage should be. Is it $7.25 an hour? I don’t know anyone who makes that and everyone I know is complaining about how little they make- maybe it should be $10 an hour like it is at most Wal-Marts. Not good enough? Maybe it should be $20 an hour- that would make a lot of people happy- it’d be a pay raise for a lot of people reading this post (I like to dream that millions of people are reading).

I have an idea- let’s make the minimum wage $100 an hour- that would make 98% of the people in the US happy. What would happen with such a high minimum wage? Everyone would be fired- everyone except for the very necessary employees. Then, companies who couldn’t afford that would raise their prices, so the consumer gets to bite the big one. Inflation would skyrocket and there would eventually be 70% unemployment and nothing being produced in this country.

Well, if this progression is reasonable to see happening if the wage was upped to $100/hr., is it so far-fetched to see how raising it by a small percentage would move slightly closer to the doomsday scenario described above?

Artificial regulations on a free market ALWAYS hurt the market in the long run. I feel like most people need to go back to Economics 101 and get over this blind pseudo-altruism that helps them cope with the fact that they’re driving their Beemers over the raggedy blanket of some smelly-ass bum sticking out his hands for some spare change as long as it’s more than a five dollar bill or some food as long as it’s not Italian.

People complain that they can’t live on $5 an hour. Well, I have an idea- get another frickin job that pays more. Or, I got it, maybe pick up a skill, like smiling, and request more from your fat minimum-wage-paying boss. But I don’t buy that people can’t live on $5 an hour. People can live on much less than that- 3 BILLION humans live on less than $5 a DAY- they just eat less and have flies all over their faces. My point is that yes, people can live on $5 an hour- but they won’t be able to eat at Benihana’s every night or support their smoking habit while putting up three kids.

And, come to think of it, who are these people making minimum wage? They’re typically kids in high school (with no one to support), immigrants (I won’t get into the legality of these peeps), or lousy bums. In the case of the kids- they’re working for school or extra spending cash. In the case of the immigrants- they may need to work to support a family, but if they’re hard-working enough and can keep a job, they’re going to get a raise every year no matter what job you’re doing- eventually making a great deal more than minimum wage. Bums who can’t keep a job don’t deserve money for doing nothing.

I worked at plenty of jobs making minimum wage and I never complained about getting too little- I just acquired the skills and got a better job. It was a great learning experience. Entry level jobs aren’t meant for permanent employment- that’s why they’re called “Entry” level.

To sum up-the people making minimum wage can get by or make some sacrifices to move up in the world. Minimum wage hurts the economy by squeezing small business owners and pushing inflation, which just makes the new minimum wage outdated sooner. And a lot of people need to go back to economics class.

Great recent videos about economy and government

Which party is unemployed most?

With the unemployment numbers getting nastier, I thought I’d check out who is losing their jobs and who’s still employed. If you look at the state-by-state comparison, it appears that those who voted for Obama are losing their jobs faster than those who voted for McCain even despite the bullshit bailouts for businesses centered in Michigan (cars) and California (banks). Of course, this is a loose comparison–a better one would be one that showed the percentage of presidental victory along with percentage of unemployment.

Read ‘em and weep:

I don’t have health insurance

I don’t have health insurance. Why? Because it is a broken-ass system. It takes money from healthy people and gives it to unhealthy people, most of whom choose to be unhealthy. Let’s be honest, all those type-II diabetics, eggs and bacon eating heart patients, smoking emphysema patients CHOOSE to be unhealthy and through their own will and government regulation, pay the medical bills for those patients. They pay for triple bypass surgery for a chronic over eater; they pay for cancer treatment of life-time smokers; and yes, they pay for gerbil-in-the-ass removal from kinky sex addicts. Those medical procedures take their toll and disproportionately benefit unhealthy people. True, there is some discount in insurance premiums for healthy people, but someone who is never sick still has to pay up tp $200 a month (without employer assistance) for basic coverage.

The main purpose for insurance is to insure people against unforeseen medical problems–complete accidents or aberrations. But insurance has become the catchall payment plan for the common cold, paper cuts, and chosen ailments like the ones mentioned above. So, I don’t want to contribute to that pool.

The problem is that some people don’t want to leave well enough alone. Obama and his ilk are touting socialized health scare that will provide (as they call it) free health care to the masses through government-run institutions. That’s still all well and good, except for the fact that it isn’t free–someone’s going to pay for it–and one of those people is me, who consciously rejects the idea of healthy people paying for unhealthy people. Obama wants to FORCE me to pay into a corrupt-as-Cain health system. Fuck that.

I’m not insured and Obama and his minions use that as a ploy to encourage socialized medicine: “look! 47 million are uninsured! Let’s do something about it!” But I don’t want to be insured, so fuck off! Stop trying to take my money and give it to fat smokers!

And to the people who support socialized health care because of the goodness of your own heart- please understand, that it’s not cause I’m mean and I want people to go without health care. My position stands because everything government does is a bloated beurocratic mess and that won’t change for an industry that some estimate will take up a third of the GDP by 2050. Government is coercion. Let’s not turn our hospitals into one big DMV!

Wake up people!

Two things:

(1) She is awesome:

and (2) he is not: