OK,
Let us drop all the Obama and Bush bashing for the moment. The question of Obama or Bush is a symptom not the root of an issue.
This is the root of the issues....this is the root of a great many issues.
Are you ready????? Here it is!!!! What is the role and responsibility of the individual adult and what is the same for government??
Can we agree on the following: Your money is compensation from an entity for time from your life and labor traded to that entity. Generally, everything you own is purchased from that money that you have earned. Therefore your property represents parts of your life.
Resultingly, any tax is the involuntary taking of part of your life by the various levels of government.
It is proper and right that we pay taxes for the maintenance of the government itself, common defense, policing and enforcing of constitutional law, etc.
Now the sticky point. What is the role of government in taking care of the individual? Is the answer None? Is it Retirement and Old age medical care?? (Social Security and Medicare) Is it full medical care from birth to death? Should government provide all the necessities of life that are the primary pursuits of primitive man??
First: If None, then those who are proven unable to meet the challenges of existence will be at the mercy of the charity of others. Those most able will live in luxury.
Second: If government is to provide for all basic needs, then we will have to be willing to pay 70% of all of our income right off the top. We will almost all have the same house, the same everything regardless of individuality. We will also have to be willing to let the government assume a parental role in our lives. The idea of private property will have to go in this case.
Those are the two most polarized choices.
Just know that human nature will not allow the second choice to succeed for any period of time.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
A letter to Nancy Pelosi
Ms Pelosi,
Although I am sure you are a well intentioned person, I find it very hard to have respect for your ideas. The major faults in your outlook are
1) that our government should be in the business of providing charity to it's citizens,
2)That global warming is a real issue and not part of the Earth's natural cycle. Carbon Dioxide is exhaled or absorbed by all living things. If you want to reduce carbon dioxide, plant vegetation that heavily utilizes it.
3)Big business is the enemy of the US citizen - Ms Pelosi, Big Business is comprised of US Citizens. Handicaping American business with onerous regulation will only benefit other countries at the expense of our own.
4)Waterboarding is NOT torture. it isn't when compared to people getting their heads hacked off with a dull blade. If it comes to the safety of my family or myself, I will do vile things. Here is the catch, I WOULD NEVER DO THESE THINGS UNLESS THE RECIPIENT OF THE 'TORTURE' PLACED ME IN A POSITION WHERE HIS OR HER ACTIONS PUT IN DOUBT THE SURVIVAL AND SAFETY OF THOSE I LOVE.
5)GAy Marraige - actually, I am going to surprise you on this one. The problem is not whether or not gays can marry. The problem is marraige is a religious institution. Why is government in it? The answer - TAX Purposes!! Go to a civil union system for all citizens. You will have to allow polyamory etc. under the civil rights statutes. For tax purposes go to a base 2 system. IE if two get a civil union, they get the same tax breaks as the current married couples. If 3 get a civil union, 2 get the tax break, one files single. If 4 get a civil union, then they all get the tax break....and so on. Then if Barney wishes to 'marry' Chris, then they go to a church for the marraige, and the church has the right under seperation of church/state to either marry them or not.
6)Card Check - Right Now, the secret ballot protects the employee from pressure from the employee and the union. Removing the secret ballot opens the individual to pressure from BOTH sides. - This is why UNIONS wanted the secret ballot and got it so many decades ago. Now because the votes are often not as they want them to be, they wish to remove the secret ballot. Why? The only answer I can see is to intimidate workers. Well, the union ought to remember that the employer can pull the same tricks through proxies.
7)ALL money that operates the federal and state governments comes from the citizen. Money represents life. If I make $1.00 an hour, and you take a $1.00 from me, you have taken an hour of my life. Please keep this in mind when you take part of my life to give to others that will not do on their own.
8)The common defense and major infrastructure are the obligations that you have to me. Social security is also an obligation to me as you have taken part of my life to fund it. These other things are serious overstepping of bounds by generations of those in government.
9)I will only bend so far under a load and then I wil Quit. Have you ever read Atlas Shrugged. Some characters in that book follow the philosophies you embrace. Do you think they are the good guys or the bad??
Finally, I must point out that although I am not a California voter, I will do what I can to encourage the electing of those that oppose your philosophies as you have practiced them so far.
You have the ability, Ms Speaker, to turn this whole thing around. You have the ability to be great if you will honestly examine your beliefs and follow them to their ends as dictated by human psychology - and change your ideas to benefit and encourage rather than to defeat the spirit of man.
I bid you a good day Ms Speaker. I hope you find it within yourself to change the mistaken ideas that you hold dear.
Sincerely, David Falls
Although I am sure you are a well intentioned person, I find it very hard to have respect for your ideas. The major faults in your outlook are
1) that our government should be in the business of providing charity to it's citizens,
2)That global warming is a real issue and not part of the Earth's natural cycle. Carbon Dioxide is exhaled or absorbed by all living things. If you want to reduce carbon dioxide, plant vegetation that heavily utilizes it.
3)Big business is the enemy of the US citizen - Ms Pelosi, Big Business is comprised of US Citizens. Handicaping American business with onerous regulation will only benefit other countries at the expense of our own.
4)Waterboarding is NOT torture. it isn't when compared to people getting their heads hacked off with a dull blade. If it comes to the safety of my family or myself, I will do vile things. Here is the catch, I WOULD NEVER DO THESE THINGS UNLESS THE RECIPIENT OF THE 'TORTURE' PLACED ME IN A POSITION WHERE HIS OR HER ACTIONS PUT IN DOUBT THE SURVIVAL AND SAFETY OF THOSE I LOVE.
5)GAy Marraige - actually, I am going to surprise you on this one. The problem is not whether or not gays can marry. The problem is marraige is a religious institution. Why is government in it? The answer - TAX Purposes!! Go to a civil union system for all citizens. You will have to allow polyamory etc. under the civil rights statutes. For tax purposes go to a base 2 system. IE if two get a civil union, they get the same tax breaks as the current married couples. If 3 get a civil union, 2 get the tax break, one files single. If 4 get a civil union, then they all get the tax break....and so on. Then if Barney wishes to 'marry' Chris, then they go to a church for the marraige, and the church has the right under seperation of church/state to either marry them or not.
6)Card Check - Right Now, the secret ballot protects the employee from pressure from the employee and the union. Removing the secret ballot opens the individual to pressure from BOTH sides. - This is why UNIONS wanted the secret ballot and got it so many decades ago. Now because the votes are often not as they want them to be, they wish to remove the secret ballot. Why? The only answer I can see is to intimidate workers. Well, the union ought to remember that the employer can pull the same tricks through proxies.
7)ALL money that operates the federal and state governments comes from the citizen. Money represents life. If I make $1.00 an hour, and you take a $1.00 from me, you have taken an hour of my life. Please keep this in mind when you take part of my life to give to others that will not do on their own.
8)The common defense and major infrastructure are the obligations that you have to me. Social security is also an obligation to me as you have taken part of my life to fund it. These other things are serious overstepping of bounds by generations of those in government.
9)I will only bend so far under a load and then I wil Quit. Have you ever read Atlas Shrugged. Some characters in that book follow the philosophies you embrace. Do you think they are the good guys or the bad??
Finally, I must point out that although I am not a California voter, I will do what I can to encourage the electing of those that oppose your philosophies as you have practiced them so far.
You have the ability, Ms Speaker, to turn this whole thing around. You have the ability to be great if you will honestly examine your beliefs and follow them to their ends as dictated by human psychology - and change your ideas to benefit and encourage rather than to defeat the spirit of man.
I bid you a good day Ms Speaker. I hope you find it within yourself to change the mistaken ideas that you hold dear.
Sincerely, David Falls
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