915 - Breathtaking Union Idiocy - Thuggery Everywhere - Obama Must Go In 2012

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On Today's Show:

• I have never seen such idiocy - they don't believe that using your fists to beat someone up is violence. These are the people that Obama is allied with. He rewards the thugs and crushes the innovators. The law breakers and the violent are rewarded - he will do whatever it takes to win.


• Violence undercuts everything that they do - violence is behind every action that the state undertakes.


• Spending is the only thing that the Democracks can think of. All they can do is spend, all they can do is steal and spend. They won't even sign a budget which cuts spending, the Democracks RUN TO OTHER STATES in order to get out of voting for budget cuts. It's frankly pretty disgusting. These people should be fired, jailed, something, just in order to get some spending cuts done


• When was the last time the government did ANYTHING positive?


• Union thugs protest everywhere in solidarity


• Listen Now:

Open Letter From The American People To The Oppressed Worldwide

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Dear Freedom Fighter:

Don’t listen to President Obama. WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, ARE WITH YOU. When you fight to rid your country of a tyrannical dictator, WE ARE WITH YOU. When you stand in the streets, WE ARE WITH YOU. When you call for freedom and democracy, WE ARE WITH YOU. When you want to throw off the chains of your oppressive government, WE ARE WITH YOU.

As soon as we heard about the oppression of your people, of the jailing, torture, rape and slaughter of innocents, who only wanted the same kind of freedom all mankind SHOULD be granted, and that is the freedom to live your life in peace, allowing you to follow your dreams, whether they be to raise a family, run a business, or pursue whatever makes you happy, we were dismayed.

The moment we heard of your oppression, we wanted to take the global stage, pound the podium SHARPLY, and demand LOUDLY, on your behalf, FREEDOM from oppression, and the installation of a democratic and capitalist state in your country. We wanted to bring sanctions, negotiate, do whatever needs to be done to help you throw off your chains, despite what Obama says and does.

We deplore the bloodshed. We condemn those who perpetrate it, and want to help you bring them to whatever justice you feel they deserve, be it trial or death.

Don’t listen to President Obama. We, the American People, WE STAND WITH YOU. If we could help you, we would, right now, before more die or are injured, and without hesitation. That is the kind of people we are, and if we had a leader and a government who was more like us, then you would see it from him right now. In fact, Obama, embarrasses us. He is not following our wishes. He is not doing what we want, which is to strongly fight tyranny everywhere. We apologize for his inaction, and promise to elect new leaders in future who will support the death of tyranny and the struggle of humanity to be free everywhere.

Our leader may be weak right now, but WE ARE STRONG. And we will fight tyranny with you, in any way we can. We despise tyranny. We wish it to be eradicated from the planet. But as long as non-democratic, non-capitalist states stand, there will be tyranny. We fight to end tyranny, worldwide. And WE STAND WITH YOU, as long as you do the same.

It may be difficult now, but in the end, together, WE WILL WIN. And then the entire human race can live in peace and enjoy the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Yours in Freedom…The American People

914 - DOMA - Obama: Say What You Believe - Who Will Stand Against Him

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On Today's Show:

• The Defense Of Marriage Act or DOMA is struck down. Now its up to Obama to enforce it through the DOJ, and we has decided not to. This is very rare that the President of the United States does not enforce a law on the books


• Obama says that he is against gay marriage, but then all of his actions label him as being FOR gay marriage. Why wont he just come out and say that he is for it? I mean do people really believe him when he says he doesn't believe in it? Does anyone still fall for that?


• Why is the GOP field still so open at this point? Is it because everyone is afraid to go up against Obama? Are we going to see a sacrifice play, like John Kerry was for Hillary Clinton back in '04?


• Listen Now:

The Sunset Of The State

Powerful video from Stefan Molyneux, the host of Freedomain Radio.

The Original Instruction Manual Of American Government

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With all the talk of reform and change, we really need to think deeply about what American government is and what we need from it. We need innovation and new thinking. Actually, scratch that. We DON’T need innovation and new thinking. We just need to go back to the original instruction manual for government, and only let government do what is in there and nothing more.

Think of the government as something we built from this original manual. We then took this manual and put in in a drawer and forgot about it. We then started building all sorts of new things onto government, ignoring the fact that some of these things we bolted on just didn’t work. We lost site of the original manual and what it states.

This original manual, is, of course, the Constitution. Go back to that manual, read it thoroughly, and ONLY LET GOVERNMENT DO WHAT IT SAYS, no more. Only then can we be saved.

Government Shutdown Is Not A Threat, We Welcome It

 

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It’s pretty funny: whenever a government official stands up and makes an announcement that unless “taxes are increased” then we will have to “shutdown the government”. Usually, these announcements are made in serious tones, with all sorts of horror stories being told. To hear them speak, it sounds like the end of the world, that the country will simply ground to a halt. To them it sounds like the apocalypse. Like the end of the world.

Well I say: Bring It On! Not only are we not afraid of a government shutdown, we WELCOME IT! In fact, I think Sarah Palin made the point that we’d save a ton of money just by shutting the government down for a bit – maybe even enough to not have to raise the debt ceiling.

During the Clinton administration, a similar budget impasse shut the government down for a spell. Guess what happened? We are still here, and we saved a bunch of money. I say, do it again, now, and for as long as we can take it. We WELCOME it!

Education: 3 out of 5 Lose

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Education in this country is broken: everyone completely gets this. There is not one person who feels that the public education system is working. But nothing will ever change or get better, because even though there are 5 constituents which make up the educational system:

1. Students


2. Parents


3. Teachers


4. Unions


5. Government

The last two will always attempt to maintain the status quo, and therefore the system will never change. It’s funny how the least important players in the this game are the ones who hold the most power, and are also the ones least affected by the system.

The students are the direct benefactors of a quality education. A quality education, fair and balanced, provides students with all of the tools required in order to survive and yes, compete, in this world. You think students in other countries stop scoring soccer games because the students feel bad? No.

The parents pay for this education. In return they get a shoddy product, and are forced to take it. In some states, it is actually illegal to homeschool your children, and in most others, parents cannot afford to pay their taxes AND send their children to private schools that work.

The teachers, if you are me, are basically good, they do what they can with the resources that they are given.

These three players are desperate to change the game. They have seen the quality of education in this country plummet as the costs have skyrocketed. They know that there is no correlation between money spent and quality of education. They see reformers like Michelle Rhee, and others who push for vouchers as focused bright lights who could conceivable do something about the state of affairs.

Unfortunately, the last two players in this game like the rules exactly the way they are: unions have a sweet deal – in concert with the tax stealing government, these two thieves and low lifes have stolen billions of dollars and many educations from the first three players. This is why when Obama came into office, he halted the voucher program in one of the poorest districts in the country. He extinguished any hope there could have been for these students. But you never hear about that do you?

Vouchers have universal appeal for the first 3 players: they allow the best schools to stay open, the best teachers to gravitate to them, and the poor schools to close and the poor teachers to leave the field. Vouchers initiate competition, the thing which drives people to be better than they were. But since vouchers only have negative effects for the other 2 players, they are then forbidden.

There is no way out of this: unless we see a massive, immediate change in the system, billions more dollars will be spent, on ever worsening education, and the only ones who will benefit will be those last two players.

So I only see one solution: cut them out. How can we cut out the unions and the government? Start as many new private schools as we can. Drive the kids out of the public schools into private schools. Create a second private school system, a shadow school system if you will. A Real America school system, as opposed to a Government America school system. Then starve it out.

Or drive vouchers everywhere. Use it as leverage to drive out both last players corruption of the system. In the end the only real solution is to take the whole system private, with the money given back to the parents, so that they can put it back into the right teachers and the right schools. But we can’t wait long.

What The Government Should Do

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Nothing. Well actually, two things. There are only two things that the government should do, and had the original mandate to do:

1. Protect us against invasion from other countries


2. Keep a justice system in place in order for disputes between people to be dealt with

That is all. Those two points above are the only things that government should be doing, not the other million plus things that it is doing right now, deeply interfering in our lives and digging deep into our pockets to steal our hard earned cash.

When you look at it from that perspective, you realize how far from the roots of our government it has strayed, and continues to stray.

But some may say: what about this or that thing that the government does? Well I say, if the government stops doing it, and then a private company steps in to provide that “service”, and can make money and survive by doing it, well then I guess it was worth doing. If no one enters the fray to do the work, I can bet you that we never needed that service after all.

Why Would We Want To Be “Run”?

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Why would anyone want to live in a country with strong central government controlling your life? Because that’s not only where we are going, some could even argue that’s where we are.

Sure, sometimes its difficult to make decisions about your life – sometimes you think, wouldn’t it be great if I could hand off all of the big and small decisions to someone else? That someone else wiser than me could basically run my life for me? Kind of like when you were a kid?

Well, we are all adults now. And as grownups, we may not like it, but we are all fully responsible for ourselves, and for those of us with families, we are responsible for those as well. Though it may feel a burden at times, running ourselves keeps us fully human, fully adult.

No Fight Against Tyranny

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So here we are: after the somewhat successful ouster of Mubarak in Egypt, the rest of the middle east, who have suffered under the yoke of tyrannical regimes for a long time, start looking to affect the same kind of change in their countries. This can only be a good thing, as these regimes have suppressed and stolen from their people (as well as the rest of us through foreign aid) for far too long.

What’s Obama’s response to the unrest? Is he flying the banner of freedom and democracy? Is he actively helping the people throw off their tyrants? No. I wonder why Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t do anything when people revolt against these tyrannical regimes? Is it that he doesn’t believe in America? Or is it that he sees more in common between himself and the tyrant?

Budget Proves Obama Unfit

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This budget is a joke. There is really nothing in it which addresses the big issues, nothing that hits at what needs to be hit at: such as cuts to entitlement spending, as well as the defense budget cuts. Where is the Republican response to the budget? We need it yesterday, but it’s coming in March. If this is truly a negotiation tactic, and not a real budget (many pundits have said that this budget is not truly serious, but a starting point for negotiations) then the reality is that Obama is simply playing games with us, our country and our future. He released this budget knowing full well that it would make matters worse, so he could claim a victory by compromise. The issue is though, it tells us volumes about him, that he will never take serious steps on his own to improve our fiscal crisis. He is unfit to be president.

The Simple Solution To Our Budget Woes

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Here is a very, very simple solution to our budget woes. All we really have to do is to just look at what we, as people, have to do in order to balance our own budgets, and then simply apply those to Federal and State spending. What do we do?

1. We spend less. We cut back. We do without.


2. We make more. Get a better job, or get an additional job, sell stuff

Why do Democrats make everything SO complicated? They act like its all so difficult, but in reality its simple. How does the government do it? Cut back. Spend less. How does it make more? Sell bonds, increase taxes. The only issue: raising taxes will kill the economy even more. So in reality, there is only ONE solution:

Cut back. Spend less. Do without.

I guess it just too clear and simple for the Democrats to understand.

A Sample Chapter From The BunkerBook: Government IS Control

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Here is a sample chapter from The BunkerBook: Nuggets Of Liberty From The Freedom Bunker, available now for Kindle readers and software.

It’s called Garbage = Power, my little treatise on why people go into government:

I am firmly convinced that the only reason people go into government is to control others. Let me tell you a little story.

I used to live in an area where our trash pickup was on Wednesdays. When I moved into that area, we got a letter from the trash company saying to put out the trash the night before, since the trash pickup could come anytime between 6am and 3pm, depending on how busy the “sanitation engineers” were that day. So I did so.

Eventually, I noted that every Wednesday, without fail, for more than a year, the truck would come by after 10am, in fact sometimes as late as 5pm, but always, always after 10am. Every Wednesday, like clockwork, after 10am.

So eventually, I, and everyone else on the street, got used to taking out the trash on Wednesday morning, trusting that by the evidence piled up over the last year, that the truck would not be by until after most of us had left for work.

So that’s what we all did. Every Wednesday morning, we’d greet each other on our way to take out the trash bins and get in our cars and go. This went on for over a year.

Then one day, I’m lying in bed. It’s 6am Wednesday morning. I just woke up. And what do I hear?

Yes, folks. It’s the garbage truck, banging, slamming and grinding and grunting.

So I jump up – hurriedly put on some clothes and tear out the door, half asleep, pulling my bins to the curb in the ungodly early early very cold morning. As were almost all of my neighbors, in various stages of dress. Some of us just didn’t make it in time. We grumbled and went back to bed.

So maybe after I thought, OK, maybe they changed their shift. So we all started dutifully putting our bins out the night before. Guess what?

They started coming after 10am again. And as far as I know, they are still coming after 10am.

This is what I think happened: Some government functionary in the always interesting waste removal division was incredibly bored one day, or had a fight with his wife, or was constipated, or was pissed off because he didn’t get a promotion, whatever. This guy decided, simply because he can, to screw with our heads. He probably called the waste removal company and changed the schedule on purpose just to screw us all over. I’m sure that he got a great laugh about it.

So this is my theory. Why does anyone get into government? Why would anyone aspire to be a “public servant” (chuckle), unless it was to run other people’s lives? Cause if you ask me, anyone who doesn’t want to run other people’s lives should just get into the business world. That’s where you can’t survive simply telling people what to do.

What Do You Think Of Americans?

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It’s funny, but whenever I travel anywhere, or even hear reports from the media in other countries, we always seem to hear the same refrain, when someone asks “What do you think of Americans?”:

We love the American people, we just don’t love the American government.

No matter who is in power, whether its Obama, Bush, Reagan, Clinton, Carter. Everytime, they recognize (well at least most people do) that it’s the US government and its policies that they have a problem with, its not the American people.

Also, funnily enough, we also have similar issues with our government. Usually, they feel that we have more control of our government than they do over theirs, being “free” and “democratic”. But we don’t, and things are just getting worse. We have more in common with the rest of the people’s of the world than they think.

Change In Egypt?

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As some people as saying regarding the ousting of Mubarak in Egypt : “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. The military has been in power for the last 30 years, and Mubarak has simply been the figurehead for that military. Will it really make any difference if there is a new face on the same old regime? Will there really be free and open, democratic elections in that country? Will the current regime really allow themselves to be voted out…assuming that a true government by the people for the people, like our system, can actually survive and thrive in the middle east?

Maybe any change is good. Maybe any change is an opportunity for democracy to flourish. Either way, one thing is true, if it weren’t for the Internet giving voice to the protesters, none of this change could have happened. The internet will probably be the biggest weapon against tyranny the world will ever know.

Ron Paul And The Paulians

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I used to be a devout Paulian. I was a huge Ron Paul supporter during the last election. I have never, ever had a bumper sticker on my car, but my rear bumper sports a Ron Paul 2008 bumper sticker. I even joined (gasp!) the Republican party prior to the primaries in order to vote for the good doctor. I even went on a real radio station in Santa Cruz (KSCO) and did a whole two hours on why Ron Paul should be president I went door-to-door with his supporters, interviewed them for my show, and basically, for a time in 2008, went all out for the guy.

While his message is great, and he’s probably done more to turn people to liberty and freedom and political action than most people, he has, as Trump not so eloquently put it, zero chance of winning the presidency. And as the practical libertarian that I am – I will have to agree. So I will not support Ron Paul this time around, and neither should any of us who want to truly see more of a shift to his vision.

Let’s all support someone who can take us closer now.

Rip Van Obama

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In todays Thomas Friedman article in the New York Times, he describes how Mubarak is a lot like Rip Van Winkle meeting Facebook, a leader completely out of touch with his people.

I’d argue that similarly, Obama is about as out of touch with what everyday American go through as much as Mubarak was with the trials and tribulations of the Egyptian people. Not a day goes by where Obama does not propose some ridiculous new government program which will cost us millions or even billions, and truly net us nothing in return: no jobs, no prosperity, just more and more cash for his crony friends. For someone so supposedly intelligent, he seems amazingly out of touch and ill informed.

It’s too bad we can’t depose Obama. At least not yet. We’re working on it though.

Trump Wows CPAC - Part 1

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Interesting. I was enthralled listening to Trump at CPAC. I never thought that The Donald was particularly conservative, in fact I think I recall that he supported Obama in the last presidential election. Or maybe that was just because he was, like most of us, unhappy with the alternatives.

Anyways, Trump takes the stage, gives a powerful, rousing speech – speaks about fiscal issues -  touches on a few social issues – talks about returning America to greatness. He sounded pretty good. He definitely has the celebrity and star power to go up against Barack Hussein Obama.

My only issue with Trump: I don’t know if I truly believe where he stands. As a businessman, he should understand how to grow the economy. But as one who probably dealt for favors from government, I’d put him in as more of a corporatist than a true capitalist.

Bottom line: Not sure I can trust him to stay the course.

Obama Weakens Us

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What a disaster for the Egyptian people. After reports that the American supported tyrant Mubarak was going to step down, millions took to the streets to hear him do just that. And he then does the exact opposite, and feeling safe in his power, throws the crowd a few bones and goes back to his life.

In all this, where is our President? In all this, where is he? Is he strongly supporting the Egyptian people against tyranny? Is he helping the cause of freedom and democracy in Egypt? Is he giving the world an example for the Egyptians, and countless other countries unhappy with their regimes hope?

No. In fact, the Whitehouse didn’t even know what was going to happen. Reports say that most of the intelligence gleaned and decision making Obama came from watching MSNBC – likely the Obama’s favorite network. Does anyone else find it appalling how little we knew about what was going to happen in Egypt? We look like idiots.

Mubarak Forced Out

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The latest news from Egypt say that Mubarak was forced to step down by the military, who really have been in power all along. Mubarak was simply a figurehead. I doubt if anything will really change.

I think I have some insight as to why Mubarak didn’t step down. As I mentioned in my earlier post on how to get a dictator to step down, its usual for these kinds of tyrants to only step down IF they are sure that their personal safety is in danger. Mubarak obviously believes that, despite the fact that millions of Egyptians want him out of office and yearn for freedom and democracy, like most tyrants, its all about THEM. If they don’t feel personally endangered, nothing else matters. After all, its all about the leaders want and needs and life, isn’t it.

This is why we say things change in Tunisia and thing not change in Egypt. Mubarak felt that he was still surrounded by enough of his supporters that he can stay in that bubble until some specified future time. By then, the protests would have petered out, and he can go back to being his old self.