Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766
Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766
Monday, November 9, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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Monday, September 28, 2009
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
How to Get Out of a Hole
It would appear to anyone with common sense that you don't spend more to fix your finances. Our Government seams to think differently?
They know better they just know that in our system of Government its illegal to buy votes so you take away from the few give entitlements to many and walla you just bought a bunch of votes for the next election.
Isn't that immoral?
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/21/when-youre-in-a-holestop-digging-deficit-cartoon/
They know better they just know that in our system of Government its illegal to buy votes so you take away from the few give entitlements to many and walla you just bought a bunch of votes for the next election.
Isn't that immoral?
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/21/when-youre-in-a-holestop-digging-deficit-cartoon/
Monday, June 15, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Memorial Day
On a day like today lets remember the men and woman who died serving our Country, who paid the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom we enjoy.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
"The most expensive 100 Days for the American people"
God how I remember not too long ago all the critics saying President Bush was going to bankrupt us with the war spending in Iraq.
Just the last 100 days of President Obama's administration make President Bush look like a cheap skate.
Where all those critics now? could it be that they just hated Bush so much that when confronted with the fact that the last 100 days have been the most expensive in American history they are blind to the truth, that it is insulting.
How can we spend all that money and expect that the future will be better than the present, how does the math of getting more in debt work?... so the future with more debt is suppose to be better than the present with less debt.
Hopefully a lot of people soon will start to get was going on here before is too late.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx12YI6gxnI
Just the last 100 days of President Obama's administration make President Bush look like a cheap skate.
Where all those critics now? could it be that they just hated Bush so much that when confronted with the fact that the last 100 days have been the most expensive in American history they are blind to the truth, that it is insulting.
How can we spend all that money and expect that the future will be better than the present, how does the math of getting more in debt work?... so the future with more debt is suppose to be better than the present with less debt.
Hopefully a lot of people soon will start to get was going on here before is too late.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx12YI6gxnI
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offenses;
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies;
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
[Signed by] JOHN HANCOCK [President] New Hampshire JOSIAH BARTLETT, WM. WHIPPLE, MATTHEW THORNTON.Massachusetts BaySAML. ADAMS,JOHN ADAMS,ROBT. TREAT PAINE,ELBRIDGE GERRYRhode IslandSTEP. HOPKINS,WILLIAM ELLERY.ConnecticutROGER SHERMAN, SAM'EL HUNTINGTON, WM. WILLIAMS, OLIVER WOLCOTT.New YorkWM. FLOYD, PHIL. LIVINGSTON, FRANS. LEWIS, LEWIS MORRIS.New JerseyRICHD. STOCKTON, JNO. WITHERSPOON, FRAS. HOPKINSON, JOHN HART, ABRA. CLARK.PennsylvaniaROBT. MORRISBENJAMIN RUSH,BENJA. FRANKLIN,JOHN MORTON,GEO. CLYMER,JAS. SMITH,GEO. TAYLOR,JAMES WILSON,GEO. ROSS.Delaware CAESAR RODNEY, GEO. READ, THO. M'KEAN.MarylandSAMUEL CHASE,WM. PACA,THOS. STONE,CHARLES CARROLL of Carrollton.VirginiaGEORGE WYTHE,RICHARD HENRY LEE,TH. JEFFERSON,BENJA. HARRISON,THS. NELSON, JR.,FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE,CARTER BRAXTON.North CarolinaWM. HOOPER,JOSEPH HEWES,JOHN PENN.South CarolinaEDWARD RUTLEDGE,THOS. HAYWARD, JUNR.,THOMAS LYNCH, JUNR.,ARTHUR MIDDLETON.GeorgiaBUTTON GWINNETT,LYMAN HALL,GEO. WALTON.
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offenses;
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies;
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
[Signed by] JOHN HANCOCK [President] New Hampshire JOSIAH BARTLETT, WM. WHIPPLE, MATTHEW THORNTON.Massachusetts BaySAML. ADAMS,JOHN ADAMS,ROBT. TREAT PAINE,ELBRIDGE GERRYRhode IslandSTEP. HOPKINS,WILLIAM ELLERY.ConnecticutROGER SHERMAN, SAM'EL HUNTINGTON, WM. WILLIAMS, OLIVER WOLCOTT.New YorkWM. FLOYD, PHIL. LIVINGSTON, FRANS. LEWIS, LEWIS MORRIS.New JerseyRICHD. STOCKTON, JNO. WITHERSPOON, FRAS. HOPKINSON, JOHN HART, ABRA. CLARK.PennsylvaniaROBT. MORRISBENJAMIN RUSH,BENJA. FRANKLIN,JOHN MORTON,GEO. CLYMER,JAS. SMITH,GEO. TAYLOR,JAMES WILSON,GEO. ROSS.Delaware CAESAR RODNEY, GEO. READ, THO. M'KEAN.MarylandSAMUEL CHASE,WM. PACA,THOS. STONE,CHARLES CARROLL of Carrollton.VirginiaGEORGE WYTHE,RICHARD HENRY LEE,TH. JEFFERSON,BENJA. HARRISON,THS. NELSON, JR.,FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE,CARTER BRAXTON.North CarolinaWM. HOOPER,JOSEPH HEWES,JOHN PENN.South CarolinaEDWARD RUTLEDGE,THOS. HAYWARD, JUNR.,THOMAS LYNCH, JUNR.,ARTHUR MIDDLETON.GeorgiaBUTTON GWINNETT,LYMAN HALL,GEO. WALTON.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Fact Check
I was surprised that the AP put out this article fact checking what Obama said today. I praise them for it and I you take a look for yourself you can see the facts versus what he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_fact_check_obama;_ylt=AqDnrNscruEPAkfHd7aj63YDW7oF
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_fact_check_obama;_ylt=AqDnrNscruEPAkfHd7aj63YDW7oF
Monday, April 13, 2009
Article I read by Thomas Sowell
I read this article from Thomas Sowell and I wanted to share it. It is a few short observations about recent political events. I heard about him but I never read anything by him. I liked his short observations and I must admit he is sharp.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell040709.php3
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell040709.php3
Sunday, April 12, 2009
US ship captain is freed
I think congratulations are in order for everyone involved in the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips of the cost of Somalia.
The situation had me worried because I felt that we were going to make a rescue effort and his life would be in danger.
Thank God it was a successful rescue and he is alive and well. According to news reports I just read there were four Pirates holding him hostage and three were killed and one was captured.
Now let's see how long it takes the so called Human Rights associations worldwide to start demanding and investigation to see if we did not violate the Pirates human rights.
Reports say the White House authorize the use for force to rescue the Captain if his life was in eminent danger. I praise the Obama administration for it is very important that people who wish us harm understand that we will react with swift and strong action when we are attack or if there is evidence of eminent attacks being planned or about to happen.
The situation had me worried because I felt that we were going to make a rescue effort and his life would be in danger.
Thank God it was a successful rescue and he is alive and well. According to news reports I just read there were four Pirates holding him hostage and three were killed and one was captured.
Now let's see how long it takes the so called Human Rights associations worldwide to start demanding and investigation to see if we did not violate the Pirates human rights.
Reports say the White House authorize the use for force to rescue the Captain if his life was in eminent danger. I praise the Obama administration for it is very important that people who wish us harm understand that we will react with swift and strong action when we are attack or if there is evidence of eminent attacks being planned or about to happen.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
The Begining
Today 4/05/09 is my first day as a blogger. I have a lot to learn about this form of expression but I'm a quick learner so in the next few days when I have some semblance of what I'm doing (meaning I have to read and learn from you guys with experience then I will start sharing my thoughts and opinions).
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