As Long As"THE BLOOD OF ALTRUISM" Flows thru their Veins, GOP & Voters will NEVER REPEAL Ocare & DISMANTLE "The WELFARE STATE" 3/8/17 Wayne!

If you want to end the violence once and for all, there is only one way to do it. Dr. John Lewis uses historical examples to explain what a proper foreign policy looks like. Israel would do well to adopt it. Please share this video as widely as you can: youtube.com/watch?v=o0RxUJwz…

What doesn't make sense is your confusion. It makes perfect sense the moment you open your eyes and examine the character, and the total absence of any coherent ideology, in the man you whitewash in every other post. Tomorrow you'll be praising him again while scratching your head at the next reversal. You ask how Israel went from indispensable ally to inconvenience in two months. It makes sense because there was never a principle holding the first position in place. Trump did not back Israel out of a conviction about good and evil, the aggressor and the attacked. He backed it on a whim, the way he does everything, and a whim can reverse by morning. There is no philosophy to violate, so nothing restrains the turn. You're describing a man with no fixed view of who our enemies are, who our friends are, or why. To him Netanyahu was useful, then became an obstacle to the deal he craves, and the deal is the only star he steers by. Not justice. Not American interest. The closing. So you can keep cataloguing the contradictions, the ally treated as a nuisance, the only nation avenging our dead told to ask permission, and they will never add up, because you insist on assuming a coherent man underneath. There isn't one. Stop looking for the logic and name the cause: a President ruled by mood and vanity, not by any idea of right. That is the thing you refuse to say. Until you do, the confusion is yours to keep.

The Berlin Wall was built to trap East German citizens inside their supposed workers' paradise, not to keep enemies out. East German authorities erected it in 1961 because their system had already failed: when you need barbed wire and machine guns to prevent people from leaving, you've admitted as much. By 1961, over 2.7 million East Germans had fled to the West through Berlin. The exodus included doctors, engineers, skilled workers, and intellectuals. Brain drain doesn't begin to capture the hemorrhaging. The East German economy was collapsing as productive people voted with their feet against socialism. Walter Ulbricht's government faced a choice: reform the system or build a prison. They chose the prison. You can see the same pattern everywhere socialism takes hold. Cuba builds rafts. North Koreans risk execution to cross the DMZ. Venezuelans walk thousands of miles to escape Maduro's paradise. The pattern never changes because the economics never change. When the state controls production, innovation dies. When bureaucrats set prices, shortages multiply. When politicians promise equality, they deliver poverty equally. The Wall stood for 28 years as the perfect symbol of socialism in practice. Guards shot 140 people trying to escape between 1961 and 1989. Each death proved the same point: people will risk everything to escape centralized planning. They will climb walls, dig tunnels, and hide in car trunks to reach free markets. Ludwig von Mises warned in 1922 that socialist calculation was impossible without market prices. Every socialist experiment since has required walls, gulags, or killing fields to function. The Berlin Wall was just socialism being honest about what it really takes to make paradise work.

The political class has trained you to fear falling prices like vampires fear sunlight. They call it "deflation" and paint apocalyptic scenarios where everyone stops buying because prices might drop tomorrow. Complete nonsense, you don't postpone buying groceries because they might cost less next month. Falling prices signal abundance, not catastrophe. When farmers grow more food per acre, when factories automate production, when entrepreneurs find cheaper ways to deliver value, prices fall, and your purchasing power rises. The computer in your pocket costs a fraction of what far inferior machines cost decades ago. Yet, you still bought it knowing its price would fall. That's deflation working exactly as it should. Central bankers panic at falling prices because their entire model depends on currency debasement. They need inflation to transfer wealth from savers to debtors (guess which camp governments fall into). You benefit when the same paycheck buys more goods and services each year instead of fewer. Revolutionary concept, apparently.

All of these “tax the wealthy” class warfare grifters are pure evil. Fundamentally, they want to destroy the human capacity to create the goods and services that create the wealth in the first place. Because they hate human success, human flourishing, human life.

Loomer asks you to make it make sense. You cannot, not by any rational standard. A regime shoots down an American aircraft, the President declares we "must of necessity respond," and in the same breath we are negotiating with the men who fired. No coherent philosophy yields that. It is a contradiction, and contradictions do not exist in a thinking mind. It makes sense only as the output of Trump's own jumble: no principles, only impulses. One moment the tough talk that thrills a crowd, the next the deal that flatters his vanity as a closer. He does not weigh aggressor against victim, because he has no standard by which to weigh anything. He reacts. He performs. He bargains. So stop searching for the logic. There is none to find. The behavior is not strategy concealing reason. It is the absence of reason, a man ruled by the mood and the applause of the hour, calling it leadership.

🔥 "The battle against socialism.. against statism, is so much more than an economic battle.. it is a battle for reclaiming what it means to live as an human being...Freedom - our right to make decisions for our lives.. is an existential need." @Nikos_17 youtube.com/watch?v=BBtWbinC…

Religion is irrational and psychologically damaging. Life is an end in itself. The purpose of a living being is to serve its own existence.

It all STARTS with the Federal govt that coerces billions from California residents. It is horrendously immoral & unconstitutional for the Federal govt to initiate force for a Marxist agenda of medicaid. Irrational moral code of altruism makes this destruction possible.

Authoritarianism is not the existence of authority. It's the absence of limits on authority. A police officer stopping a murderer is authority. A politician deciding what peaceful people may own, say, trade, believe, or keep is authoritarianism. The distinction is simple: A rights protecting government uses force only against those who initiate it. An authoritarian government uses force against peaceful people to make them obey. One protects freedom. The other replaces it.

He asked about *creating* wealth. Your proposal is just *redistributing* it (i.e. stealing it from its rightful owners and doling it to people who didn't earn it, to consume it).

The 1920-21 depression was the sharpest economic contraction in American history, yet you've probably never heard of it. Industrial production collapsed 32%. Unemployment spiked from 4% to 12% in twelve months. By every measure, this downturn dwarfed the initial shock of 1929. President Warren Harding faced enormous pressure to "do something." Labor leaders demanded public works programs. Businessmen begged for bailouts and trade protection. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon advised Harding to slash government spending and let wages fall. Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover (yes, that Hoover) pushed for massive federal intervention. Harding chose Mellon. The federal budget dropped from $6.4 billion to $3.2 billion in two years. No stimulus packages. No bailouts. No alphabet soup of new agencies. Government employment fell 40%. When you let markets clear, they clear fast. The recovery started in July 1921. By 1923, unemployment had dropped to 2.4% and industrial production reached new highs. The entire episode lasted eighteen months from peak to full recovery. Compare that to Japan's lost decade of intervention, or the European debt crisis that dragged on for years, or our own jobless recovery after 2008. Most economics textbooks omit this episode because liquidating malinvestments and allowing price adjustments works exactly as free market theory predicts: a fact that destroys the Keynesian narrative that government must spend its way out of recessions. Politicians today claim they learned the lessons of the 1930s, but they studiously ignore the more important lesson of 1921.

"To love or have loved that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life." — VICTOR HUGO

If this is "help," then it's helping by making the least skilled workers unemployable and small businesses less competitive. A higher minimum wage doesn't create productivity. It makes it illegal to hire someone below an arbitrary threshold. Large corporations adapt through automation, price increases, and economies of scale. Small businesses have fewer options, and vulnerable workers lose opportunities. That's not helping. It's sacrificing workers and small businesses for a slogan.

"THE PRIVATIZATION OF PROPERTY is the most fundamental aspect of a PROCAPITALIST POLITICAL PROGRAM. In addition, its discussion is well suited to illustrate strategy and tactics applicable to the pursuit of all aspects of a procapitalist political program. Privatization would ultimately require the sale of all government-owned lands and natural resources (with such limited exceptions as the sites of military bases, police stations, and courthouses), which presently include the greater part of the territory of many of the Western states and almost all of the territory of Alaska. It would entail the sale of TVA and all other public-power facilities, the sale of Amtrak and Conrail, the post office, the public schools, universities, and hospitals, the national parks, and the public highway system. It would also entail the establishment of the airwaves as private property and of private property rights under the sea and in outer space. Those of us who work to establish capitalism must always be aware that the privatization of all of these things is part of our ultimate goal and we must be sure that all new adherents we gain fully understand and support the whole program of privatization, as well as all the other essential aspects of our program. No secret must ever be made of the full, long-range program and its goal of complete LAISSEZ-FAIRE CAPITALISM." — @GGReisman #capitalism

A problem with unlimited democracy is that it allows people to vote for benefits they didn't earn and then compel others to pay for them. Once enough voters realize they can use political power to transfer wealth instead of creating it, elections become less about protecting rights and more about competing claims on other people's earnings. The most politically engaged groups are often not those asking how to create more wealth, but how to redistribute what already exists.

The looter never rests. He produces nothing, then claims a share of everything. "Built on humanity's collective knowledge." There is no such thing. Knowledge is not poured into a common vat at birth. Every advance was made by a specific mind: Aristotle's logic, Newton's calculus, Edison's filament, Turing's machine. Each thought alone, and each gave the result to the world by choice. By your logic, the wheel belongs to humanity, so every car maker owes you a stake. The alphabet was "collective," so seize every author. This is the oldest fraud there is: declare a man's achievement the property of those who didn't make it. The men who built AI used their own reason and capital to create what no collective ever did. Your answer is to brand them oligarchs and demand ownership of their work at the point of a law. You did not build it. You did not fund it. You spent your life attacking the men who do. The producer owes you nothing.

Chicago Capitalism Champion Jonathan Hoenig Interview with American author, investor and @FoxBusiness contributor @JonathanHoenig by @ScottHolleran. *** American author, investor and Fox Business contributor Jonathan Hoenig created Capitalist Pig Asset Management. The former trader at the Chicago Board of Trade and Fox News commentator predicates his support for laissez-faire capitalism on his philosophy, Objectivism. Hoenig briefly attended Northwestern University. I first met Jonathan, with whom I’d been acquainted through mutual interest in Ayn Rand’s philosophy, in Chicago’s Greektown in 2015. We discussed media, Chicago and potential projects and he later contracted me for various editorial work. I attended his lecture on Chicago’s futures exchanges at an Objectivist Conference on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. We’ve since become friends. After my Classic Chicago Magazine interview last year with Atlas Shrugged admirer Terry Savage, I decided to ask Jonathan to discuss his ideas, career and passion for Chicago, the first city where Ayn Rand lived when she escaped to America. We conducted this recent interview by telephone. /1

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The 19th century was history's greatest experiment in minimal government and maximal human flourishing. You had a federal budget that consumed roughly 3% of GDP, zero income tax until 1913, and a monetary system anchored to gold. The results speak louder than any economic theory: America transformed from an agricultural backwater into the world's industrial powerhouse in less than a century. Consider the numbers. Real wages doubled between 1860 and 1890. Railroad mileage exploded from 30,000 miles in 1860 to 164,000 miles by 1890. Steel production jumped from 77,000 tons in 1870 to over 4 million tons by 1890. No central planning committee orchestrated this transformation. No industrial policy czar allocated resources. Entrepreneurs risked their own capital, succeeded or failed on their own merits, and consumers voted with their wallets. The government's role was enforcing contracts and protecting property rights. No antitrust lawsuits against successful companies. No bailouts for failed ventures. No regulatory agencies strangling innovation in its cradle. When Jay Gould built his railroad empire, he answered to bondholders and customers, not bureaucrats. When Andrew Carnegie revolutionized steel production, the market rewarded efficiency and punished waste. Critics love to mention the "robber barons" while ignoring that these men drove down prices and improved quality through relentless competition. Standard Oil reduced kerosene prices by 90% between 1870 and 1897. Carnegie slashed steel prices so dramatically that skyscrapers became economically viable. They got rich by making everyone else better off. Today's economists worship GDP growth rates of 3% as miraculous achievements. Nineteenth-century America routinely posted growth rates above 4% with no stimulus packages, quantitative easing, or industrial policy. They had economic freedom and sound money.