Thomas Jefferson

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." --Thomas Jefferson

Economy

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." --economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

The Gipper

"The ... inescapable truth is government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." --Ronald Reagan

Privacy and Rights

From a post here:

Small, Successful Battles Can Prevent Large, Losing Battles.

When it comes to rights, you don’t know in advance what battle will be important. But you do know, based on history and human nature, that a right undefended will shrivel and die. If you don’t fight for the small right, you won’t be in a position to assert the large right.

Moreover, the existence of the right of privacy is usually based on whether people have a current expectation of privacy in a certain situation. To the extent that people decline to assert their right of privacy, it slips away. Lack of vigilance by citizens begets more government power.

So, why point this out? Because all KINDS of people are flippant about their little everyday struggles with speaking out or remaining silent on all sorts of injustices or inconveniences by any number of people. These "trifles" are not just that. They're small instances where people should stand up for themselves and exercise their rights, or expect that eventually they will have to just deal with the loss entirely.

The original post is about privacy, but I'd ask that you expand on that and include much more than just your privacy rights in thinking about how you deal with your everyday life.

Quote of the Day

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." -- Samuel Adams

Debt is not the answer

"The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before. ... Inflation is the cause of recession and unemployment. And we're not going to have real prosperity or recovery until we stop fighting the symptoms and start fighting the disease. There's only one cause for inflation -- government spending more than government takes in. The cure is a balanced budget. Ah, but they tell us, 80 percent of the budget is uncontrollable. It's fixed by laws passed by Congress. Well, laws passed by Congress can be repealed by Congress. And, if Congress is unwilling to do this, then isn't it time we elect a Congress that will?" --Ronald Reagan

Liberty?

"Obama is turning us into a poster nation for financial irresponsibility. While other nations at the [G-20 conference in Toronto] were focusing on deficit reduction, Obama was haplessly urging them to join us in Keynesian spending oblivion. He told the conference that global economic recovery remains 'fragile' and implored the nations' leaders to continue deficit spending to sustain the 'recovery.' The Washington Post reports that Obama's remarks 'tempered the Group of 20's headline achievement at the summit, a deficit-reduction target that had been pushed by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the host of the meeting and a fiscal conservative.' Obama is wholly impervious to the historical record documenting the failure of FDR's pump priming during the Depression, which exacerbated rather than ameliorated the economic problems. He is similarly detached from reality concerning the failure of his own policies to stimulate growth of any kind to save his beloved public sector and thus recommends more of the same. In speech after speech, he takes credit for having launched an economic recovery in the United States and for achieving job growth. Notwithstanding his economic models that stubbornly predict such results, he can point to no empirical evidence to verify his delusional boasts. It would be bad enough if his economic policies were simply retarding our economic recovery, but they are also accelerating our trip to national bankruptcy. Yet Obama continues to press forward with his foot smashed down on the gas pedal." --columnist David Limbaugh

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