DO WE HAVE A SPONTANEOUS CREATION OF MONEY SOURCE

I took a metal shop class in the 8th grade which was the beginning of my love affair with the electrical/electronics world. Being young and not yet knowledgeable of the losses in a system, I came home one day and told my father of a brilliant idea which I had, knowing that I had. I would put a generator on a boat with a paddle wheel driving the generator to power the electrical motor propelling the boat. My bubble burst when my father, who was far from technically bright, pointed out that there would be losses which would keep the system from working. The government has some losses built into it at best. It is far more effective to control and distribute the money locally than to send it to Washington DC and have the federal government send what they feel like sending back out of what is left for expenses and payoffs. Apathy and denial work like Margaret Thatcher's description of socialism as a good system until you run out of other people's money. They only work until you run out of the ability to avoid reality.

I look at the government which we have chosen in California and New York, two great economies verses Louisiana under their new governor. The system in California (Tom McClintock warned us for years about pending doom - not enough people cared and paid attention) and New York strikes me as analogous to my perpetual motion transportation idea. A bright, good friend of mine told me, in response to my pointing out the California economy as a demonstration of an incredible opportunity put in the toilet by its government, that California is in trouble because property values have gone down and there is not enough income to support the programs. My several attempts to point out that Intel is moving its plants out of state as have several other businesses including a lot of the movie production were diverted to other topics.

I have finally realized why I have so many intelligent liberal relationships who look at the world differently than I do and I do realize that one of us is right and the other is wrong. I do not hold myself out as the expert - only the inquisitive one who wants to test my ideas of what is happening It seems to me that America's future is threatened by the WIIers

WILLFULLY IGNORANT INTELLECTUALS

Those who will keep to a narrow information channel which feeds them information, accurate and complete or not, to substantiate their desired point of view. A lot of us are going to online versions of foreign newspapers to find out what is happening in our country as well as other online sources.

MY VERY SINCERE QUESTIONS WHICH I WOULD LIKE A LOGICAL NONEMOTIONAL, PREFERRABLY WITH A REFERENCE TO WHERE THIS IDEOLOGY HAS WORKED ANSWER TO IS:

1. Do you sincerely believe that you can do things which make you feel good at other people’s expense without destroying the system?

2. What is the optimum government control and spending for the good of the people of our country and then the world after we have taken care of us so that we may continue to exist to do good? Why would we trail the European Union trend of government spending decreasing from 48% to 47% of GDP over the last 10 years? Ours has increased from 34% to 40% over the same period. I understand the benefits to the people, but wonder if it is sustainable. The entire world is currently testing the individual country systems as well as the economic alliances as well as the world system. I am a hippy capitalist and I have hurt my ability to do good by being unrealistic in my past endeavors. My question comes after learning that lesson, not from what I hope is true, but from what is true.

The “Stimulus Bill?” which had to be put through on a Friday night without time to read it and transferred from electronic to hardcopy for distribution making it inefficient to search for key phrases took away:
1. Tax write offs for charitable contributions which have been a big source of private citizens taking care of each other. There is a study which shows that liberals give less money charitably than conservatives and that is possibly because they want to have the government do it by taking from the higher income earners, charge for administering the programs by a government bureaucracy and distribute to the needy rather than the competing charities with the corrupt ones being discarded by the people who donate.
2. Small business incentives which will hinder the major producer of private sector jobs
3. the school program in Washington DC which allowed some poor kids to go to better schools. This was a savings as well as competition for the public school teachers. Supporting the teacher’s union instead of giving a choice between competing private schools and the public schools allows a “lack of excellence culture” to indoctrinate our children in mediocrity. The low income people are the most adversely affected by the denial of a voucher program for them to choose who can best educate their children. The campaign contributors gain at the children’s expense just as the automotive unions gain at the worker’s expense when it is economically impractical to build the cars which the government mandates through their requirements.

Do we really want a Civilian Defense Corps? I listened to Obama’s speech to the troops and felt good until I heard his sentence about creating a civilian defense corps which will relieve the burden off of the military. I saw a YouTube clip of his speech regarding the equally well armed and trained civilian defense corps. There was another YouTube production which flashed back and forth between Obama’s speech and another very persuasive salesman’s speech as his corp marched by.

I am glad that the new government is so ambitious and confident because we have seen the campaigner go from criticizing Bush on his $500,000,000,000 budget deficit to taking us into another era. Bush made the Democrats look conservative, but Obama has proved that they are still better than Republicans. They have remained the representative of the downtrodden while beginning the let no expense be spared party era. They have brought in the Beverly Hills decorator which they chastised the CEO of a wall street firm from using to do the Whitehouse. Their vetting process has once again proved that they are superior to the Republicans who ineptly without proper vetting chose Sarah Palin in their choice of Geightener for Secretary of the Treasury and head of the IRS in spite of the fact that he failed to pay his income tax, Daschle for Secretary of Health and Human Services in spite of the fact that his wife is lobby level and he failed to pay his income tax, Bill Richardson for Secretary of Commerce in spite of the fact that he is under indictment and a few others. Joe the Plumber got more press for a $1,000.00 tax not paid problem than the smart enough to run our government people who probably evaded taxes. Obama states, “Not because I believe in government. I don’t” as he takes our nation further into debt with a program which increases the size and cost of government. He tells us that these are timely, targeted and temporary programs as he increases the budgets of government bureacracies. We all laugh at the absurdity of a
temporary government program, but does it hit us in the head with a 2x4 that this is a dangerous direction without a stimulus effect?

The above reminds me of the difference between rape and making love. Salesmanship. While I told one of my daughters that I would cease to use this explanation of how people get sold on things, I cannot resist how loudly it screams at me for an explanation of what I see. People who were so committed and told me that, “You must listen to him.” will resist seeing what is happening, but like the frogs in a pot brought too quickly to a boil, I hope that they realize what is being done to our country in time to change the course and defeat our new Crusade Of Liberal Demogogary war enemy of our American system which penalizes the productive and rewards failure.

Charitable giving
Ayan Rand
Rules for Radicals
Civilian defense corp