Posted by Mark Reiss on 08/23/09

Hartford Courant:

http://www.courant.com/

Article at:

http://www.courant.com/news/nation-world/hc-peter-schiff-senate-0823.artaug23,0,2285857.story

 
Posted by wgreen on 02/26/10

wgreen is crazy, I guess.  He questions whether coercive government is necessary.  He questions whether the civil war was necessary.  He thinks other countries abolished slavery without killing 600,000 of their own people.  He wonders why the government is allowed to do things he should not do, like take money from one person and give it to another.  He wonders why government agents can get away with killing innocent people.  He can't understand how a majority vote can give such power to one group of people against another.  He can't understand why majority rule is different from mob rule.  He can't understand how it can be OK to violate his neighbors liberty through legislation when it is not OK for him to do it directly.  I guess maybe he's crazy.  But maybe he just won't settle for the status quo.  Maybe he requires a real answer to these questions.  And maybe such answers do not exist.  maybe the way things are is not the way they should be.

 
Posted by Mark Reiss on 07/27/09
Last updated 07/27/09

The Federal Reserve - the quasi-autonomous body that controls the US's money supply - is a "Ponzi scheme" that created "bubble after bubble" in the US economy and needs to be held accountable for its actions, says Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney-general of New York.

Read the rest at:

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/25/spitzer-federal-reserve-is-a-ponzi-scheme-an-inside-job/

Here is the video from the end of the article:

 
Posted by wgreen on 08/02/09
Last updated 01/02/10

Thanks to the Hartford Courant for printing another of my letters:

There is no right to health care, just as there is no right to education, a decent wage or sufficient food.

Rights imply obligations. Your right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness implies that I am obliged not to infringe on your life, liberty, pursuit of happiness and property. (Property is the product of my labor and, therefore, an extension of my life.)

The protection of these rights is the only legitimate function of government.

When the government grants you other so-called rights, it creates an obligation for others to provide those things for you. Why should I be forced to pay for your health care and education? If I am required to provide for you (through taxation), my rights to liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness are being violated.

We have become a nation of thieves, each of us trying to take as much as he can from his neighbors. The assertion of a right to health care is nothing more than the demand of the robber: "Give me all your money!"

William Green, Brooklyn, Conn.

 
Posted by wgreen on 07/07/09

Rush wrote this great musical parable about the socialistic mindset.  It is called The Trees.  You can listen to it here.

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade

There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream 'Oppression!'
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
'The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light'
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe and saw