Friday, March 27, 2009

Benjamin Franklin

"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy."
--Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations, circa 1774

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Monday, March 23, 2009

From The Patriot Post

GOVERNMENT

"All of Obama's economic policies thus far are designed to drive America into full embrace of socialism. His chief means for this transformation: inflation. He is attempting to inflate the currency through two primary means: intense deficit spending, and pushing up production costs through union subsidization. In order to make these measures politically palatable, he cites FDR as an example of good deficit spending; he cites the credit crunch as an excuse for inflationary monetary policy; and he recommends unionization in order to boost wages. It's a beautiful strategy for purposefully trashing capitalism, all the while blaming capitalism for its own downfall. John Maynard Keynes, the liberal economist who championed government intervention during recessions, recognized Obama's inflationary strategy for what it is: 'Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency,' said Keynes. 'Lenin was certainly right. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.' Obama pursues inflation -- government devaluation of the currency -- with the zeal of the newly converted. His deficit spending will be financed either through higher taxes or through inflation. Obama says he will push higher taxes -- after all, he wants to appease the Chinese, who don't want their U.S. securities paid off with inflated dollars. But covertly, Obama fully intends on inflating the currency to pay of the massive deficit he has shoved through Congress. ... It's the same tried and true policy that created the Great Depression."

--columnist Ben Shapiro

Friday, March 20, 2009

Abuse of Power

"A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.

--Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 23 February 1775


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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Patriot Post

"Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country."

--Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788

Monday, March 16, 2009

Words of Wisdom

"History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened."

--Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

The Patriot Post

"The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virture to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust."

--Alexander Hamilton or James Madison, Federalist No. 57, 19 February 1788

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

From Patriot Post

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected."--Thomas Jefferson, autobiography, 1821

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Friday, March 6, 2009

Remembered

On this day in 1924 Virginia Ann Hilsheimer was born. Virginia and I became high school sweethearts in the late 1930s and were married after I returned from WW II in 1946.
In honor of her life , I share one of her favorite poems:

How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Repeating History ?

I can remember the great depression of the 1930s. As a child six years of age in 1930, I had little understanding of the political and economic reasons for what was happening at the time. Since that period impacted my life in so many ways, in later years I've tried to learn about the causes of that great depression, and find that many economists who have made a study of that period of our history, say the government intervention by both Hoover and Roosevelt turned a 2 year recession into a 10+ years depression. Looks like we are now doing the same thing over again. I guess it is true that we either learn from history or repeated it.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Google's AdSense Program

Today I enrolled in Google's AdSense Program. Soon you will see links to useful information helpful in our goal of responsible Freedom in all aspects of our lives. Hope you find it useful.

Blessings,
Everett