...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.
--David Ricardo
NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the NAACP on Saturday urged readers to boycott the New York Post, calling a cartoon that the newspaper published an invitation to assassinate President Obama.
Barack Obama is the President. To not be able to Satirize or make-fun or criticize him is in and of itself Racist. It implies that because he is Black, that somehow he is less capable and thus "inferior" to other Presidents and therefore should be treated with kid gloves. For better or worse, President Obama is just a man like any other with positives and negatives. I knew this would happen. But you can't call every article or every cartoon that criticizes him "racist." What is so funny about this article is the cartoon everyone is up and arms about, is actually about Congress, not Obama. Obama did not, nor did his staff write any part of the stimulus bill, it was Nancy and Harry who wrote it. If anyone should be outraged and upset, it's them! Look at this cartoon, where in the world does it even imply that this is Barack Obama. Ludicrous!
The philosophy of liberty is based upon Self-Ownership and self-responsibility. You own your own life and you own the right to run it in anyway you see fit. You do not own the lives of others and have no stake in how they run their lives. Top-down approaches to social change do not work. They never have. If we all lived by a simple rule life would be so much better. Imagine that you have a problem. In order to solve that problem, follow this flow of logic: First solve it yourself, if that is not possible then ask your family to help you solve it, if that is not possible then ask your neighbor, then ask your community, then ask your church/club/civic organization, then ask your town, then ask your county, then ask your state, FINALLY, if you can't solve it on any of those levels, THEN ask your Federal Government. Obama says do the opposite. Ask the Feds first and whatever you do, DON'T rely upon yourself. If you cannot rely upon yourself, have no family, or live in a neighborhood where no one cares about you, then ask yourself why that is? Is it societies fault? Are you really a helpless twig floating down a stream? Or are you at the helm of your own ship and can steer another direction? The choice is truly yours. Ironically, President Barack Obama, like that of no other individuals life, truly exemplifies how an individual can turn a series of bad circumstances into personal prosperity. Who would have thought that a mixed race minority child from a broken home, with a working class mother, with an absent father who abandoned him, would have the ability and determination to become President of the most powerful nation on the planet. He did it, why can't you? Sphere: Related Content
The best place to go for thoughtful analysis and the "Cliff-notes" version of these bills is the Heritage Foundation (http://www.heritage.org/news/economic-stimulus.cfm) which is a think-tank that provides great policy analysis and good executive summaries of this stuff. For the best alternatives to the Democrat and the Political Left's ideas on re-engineering our economy, go to "American Solutions" (http://www.americansolutions.com/) run by the most successful Speaker of the House in American History, Newt Gingrich. They have a great way of condensing the issues. The best book on understanding economic Principles is Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose." There is also a great PBS series by the same name that is available online for free (http://www.ideachannel.tv/). I think you will agree that the Stimulus bill is confusing. But most all legislation that comes out of the US Congress is confusing. I think there should be a law that all bills must be able to be read and understood by a High School graduate! If the Democrats will not allow for School vouchers to give parents choice, then shouldn't they have write bills for graduates of the public school system? Why else would you write laws that no one can understand if your intent is not to steal, mislead, and misdirect the American People, whom you are supposed to serve?
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The War of Northern Aggression (i.e. the Civil War) was never about slavery or freeing slaves. This refreshing video begins to expose the truth about the only American Dictator, Abraham Lincoln. In fact Abraham Lincoln wanted to repatriate African-Americans back to Africa! Amid all the Lincoln worship going on today, this is a fascinating fact. In addition, Lincoln is credited with ending the doctrine of "States Rights" and gave us the first example of centralized planning. In the words of Shelby Foote, we went from "These United States" to "The United States." For better or worse, we are certainly more unified, but are we really more free? Do we have more liberty?
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