Vice-president Joe Biden recently claimed that “everyone guessed wrong” about the effects of the Democrat’s “stimulus package” on employment numbers.
The Democrats added a trillion dollars to our national debt and they expected this to improve the economy?
No Joe, “everyone” didn’t guess wrong. No one with any common sense guessed wrong. No one who was thinking guessed wrong. No one who isn’t immersed in leftist propaganda guessed wrong.
New unemployment figures are out now. They show that unemployment has worsened, again, in 48 states and the District of Columbia. Eight of these states are showing record levels of unemployment.
No one can spend themselves to success. This doesn’t work for individuals, families, businesses, or nations. Spending yourself to success is like an alcoholic trying to drink themselves to sobriety.
The Democrats spent approximately one trillion taxpayer dollars to pay back the special interest groups that got them elected. Period. The term “stimulus package” is nothing but trashy propaganda. Anyone who believed that bribing special interest groups would improve the nations economy certainly did “guess wrong.”
The FBI arrested four activists who are part of the New Hampshire Liberty Dollar and Liberty Dollar organizations.
The Liberty Dollar folks have a pretty simple idea: People should be free to accept whatever form of “money” they want. I could shorten that to “people should be free” without losing a lot of meaning.
The federal government, on the other hand, believes that people should shut up and do what they are told — or go to federal prison.
Which view represents your view of what America should be?
The Liberty Dollar folks believe in a currency backed by hard assets such as gold and silver. I am not a huge fan of metal-based currencies, but they do look awfully sensible as Obama prepares to plunge the nation into spirally hyperinflation.
The “defendants” are facing 20-45 years in federal prison — a high price to pay for their defense of freedom.
Quoting from a DOJ press release, “The indictment alleges that the purpose of NORFED is to mix Liberty Dollars into the current money of the United States, and further alleges that NORFED intends for the Liberty Dollar to be used as current money in order to limit reliance on, and to compete with,
United States currency.”
Limiting reliance on the U.S. dollar and opening up the domestic currency market to some healthy free-market competition are laudable civic goals and these four “defendants” should be applauded as upstanding citizen activists.
Read the whole story at FBI Arrests Bernard, Kevin, Sarah & Rachelle.
Amity Shlaes wrote a very interesting column for Bloomberg.com this week, Rand’s Atlas Is Shrugging With a Growing Load.
The article is almost as interesting for where it is published as for what it says. Bloomberg is the media outlet of Michael Bloomberg, a power mad statist without morals or ethics. Bloomberg lacks the even the profound sadness the Randian character he most resembles, Gail Wynand. Wynand was terribly self-aware; Bloomberg is happily unaware of his own avariciousness.
The article tells the story of a resurgence of interest in Ayn Rand’s masterpiece, Atlas Shrugged. The article contains more than mere speculation. Here are some hard facts:
This year the book (Atlas Shrugged) is selling at a faster rate than last year. Last year, sales were about 200,000, higher than any year before that, including 1957, when the book was published.
If that isn’t positive news for Western civilization, I don’t know what is.
This year saw collectivist electoral victories all over the civilized world, including the United States. Freedom and personal liberty are in full retreat all across the globe. The Iranian and North Korean regimes are soon to have nuclear weapons and deployment systems which can reach the West. The government of the U.S. is busily destroying both personal choice and economic freedom at an alarming pace.
And yet at the same time there is a resurgence of interest in one of the greatest pro-freedom pieces of literature in modern times.
Hopefully this is the beginning of an resurgence of the American spirit from eighty years of cow-towing to collectivist ideology.
Most of us are familiar with our own personal credit ratings. These credit ratings control how much we can borrow and the interest rate we pay when borrowing money.
The U.S. government enjoys an AAA credit rating — the highest rating possible. It has held this Triple-A rating since 1917.
Unfortunately, due to recent massive increases in federal debt, the U.S. government may be about to lose that AAA rating.
President Obama inherited a massive $1.3T federal debt, and quickly raised it to $1.8T. That represents more than $100B in new deficit spending every month.
Prices on credit default insurance for U.S. government bonds have already risen, a sign that investors believe the U.S. government may default on its debt obligations.
The credit rating agency Moody’s has warned that the U.S. may lose its AAA credit rating due to increased government spending on health care and social security.
If we allow this to happen, the cost of every dollar of federal debt will rise, making our enormous debt burden even more difficult to repay.
If we do not act now to protect the future of the United States, this country will quickly deteriorate into the same kind of economic morass that has consumed so many other socialist nations.
This is not probably breaking news for most of the readers of Fort Liberty, but I think it bears repeating as often and in every possible forum available. The US government wants to take your gun rights away. Of course, anyone who thinks seriously about the duties and the aspirations of a governing body knows that all of these organizations look for opportunities which make it easier for them to impose their will upon the masses.
So why is this act different? Well, a lot of activists have been warning that the tactics used to neuter the second amendment may change since the primary plan to ban guns hasn’t gone so well over the last few administrations. I remember hearing even during the period when the Brady ban was in effect that the direction might move toward making ammunition scarce or unavailable. Now it looks like this is a reality, and it didn’t take a congressional vote to do it.
Over the last several months, I have noticed that the availability of my most prized XM193 ammunition (5.56×45mm), the ammunition that I use to train and target shoot has, become less and less available. In fact, even now, many stores are limiting how much of this ammunition they sell to individuals (an actual rationing) to keep some available in the store at a ridiculous price of $0.65/round or more. Yeah, yeah, people state that “you can’t use it to hunt, so whats the big deal”. Well, the big deal is, this isn’t limited to just rounds for training and target shooting, its the very popular .308Win round as well (7.62×51mm), and whats next?
So, I have been telling you about the problem, but I haven’t provided a reference so you can read it for yourself. Check out the article from “The Shootist” http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod-ends-sale-of-expended-military.html.
Think there is no cause and effect? Check out availability of all 5.56×45mm ammunition for yourself. I think you will find that most of it is imported Russian ammo with steel cases that likes to chew up rifle extractors and mar up your barrel throat. This is especially problematic with the chrome lined barrels that are most prevalent for rifles of this caliber. Yeah, the ammunition is available (for now, wait until import rules change, again without congressional vote), and that ammo is gone too. Its also pricey for what it is, but you have to pay, right?
So what do you do? Well, you write your congressmen of course. You explain how you feel about the issue. You tell your friends. You put the details up on your blog. You write an article like this one so people get to at least have a chance to understand whats going on, and find out how they feel about it.
Next, well, you buy an semi based AK-47 if its legal in your state, and you stock up on the 7.62×39mm ammunition that isn’t affected by this kind of action (yet). Sure the rifle isn’t as reasonably priced as it was a year ago (prices have tripled in the last few years), but the rifles were designed to be used in the least favorable conditions, with ammo that isn’t really up to par.
Beyond that, be wary, watchful, and wize.
Last Tuesday, the Obama administration quietly filed a request with the federal courts to throw out a lawsuit against the Iranian government.
The lawsuit was filed by some of the Americans whom the Iranian government imprisoned and tortured during the waning days of the Carter administration.
The U.S. embassy in Tehran was attacked and taken over by terrorists who were sponsored and controlled by the Iranian government. 52 Americans were held hostage for over a year and were not released until Ronald Reagan’s election terrified the Iranian government into releasing them.
Legislation passed during the last year of Bush administration gives the hostages the right to bring private lawsuits against the Iranian regime.
The hostages are suing the Iranian government because their captivity was overseen by Iranian government officials and they were confined in Iranian government prisons.
The Americans were beaten until they lost consciousness, subjected to mock executions, and denied adequate food and medical care. Current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been identified as one of the individuals responsible for interrogating the hostages.
Regardless of the laws currently on the books allowing this lawsuit, the Obama administration is seeking to avoid confrontation with the Iranian regime.
The Obama administration has no willingness to engage in proactive foreign policy and does not have the experience or the expertise to do so even if it wanted to. It is effectively defenseless against an enemy as experienced, skilled, and determined as the Iranian government.
Until a new American president is sworn in, the Obama administration will continue this policy of appeasing terrorist regimes, coddling dictators, and compromising timeless American principles for the sake of political expediency.
Two socialist wanna-be dictators finally hook up.
Unless you have been living under a rock and getting your news only from the leftist-dominated mainstream media, you’ve heard about the tea parties going on all across America this April 15th.
You may not know how to get involved with a tea party in your area. Tea party rallies are planned in 2,015 cities across the United States.
Visit the National Tea Party Day web site to find the party in your neighborhood.
Let the kleptocrats in Washington know what you think of their brazen and unconstitutional thievery!
President Obama’s National Intelligence Director, Dennis Blair, has announced plans to release terrorists from the Guantanamo Bay holding facility into the United States.
These detainees are so violent and uncivilized that no foreign countries will accept them, so they are being prepared for release in America.
In addition, because the Obama administration feels that these terrorists have been treated unfairly it is planning to give each of them a cash reward from your tax dollars. Remember that vacation you couldn’t take last year because of your tax bill? Remember the school your children can’t go to because of your tax bill? Well, Obama has found a more “morally correct” way to spend your tax dollars — funding terrorism. More on that at Welfare for Freed Gitmo Detainees?
A few years ago, this was all a joke that no one took seriously. Now, it’s the new reality under our America-hating and terrorist-loving “President”.
Here’s the joke email you make remember from a few years back, LARK: Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers.
Unfortunately, it’s just not funny any more.
A new MSNBC poll asks “If you were grading Barack Obama on his performance as president, what would he get?”
With 1,898,583 responses responses recorded so far, Obama is clearly receiving an `F` grade from the largest percentage of respondents.
These results are surprising only when you consider how far MSNBC’s politically slanted reporting has alienated their conservative viewers. MSNBC has almost no conservative viewers left!
And yet, with almost two million votes counted, Obama still gets an `F` grade from MSNBC customers!
Want to contribute to the hammering? Take the poll yourself!
