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A lot of things are happening in my world these days, so here's a point of clarification about me: - I'm a self-determinist, which means that I believe that a person has the unalienable right to choose their own path in life.
- I believe in people, not government. Government has no clue how to create marketable products in a free market system. Not their expertise. This is a global economy. We're competing against other countries. Let people and companies figure that out - because they do all the time. Government has no practice doing it. (Have you seen the lines at the DMV? Did you see the tax code book? That is so not how to do business...)
- It is okay to try. It is okay to fail. It is okay to succeed. This is America, the most free place on the planet. Let's keep it that way.
And finally, here's a picture of my stepson, Tyler Dain, that I took today. |
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And so it starts... I'm off to LA on Sunday. What a crazy adventure I'm about to begin. |
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Follow this thought... If a Statist is a person who seeks to use the government as a solution... Republicans are stereotyped for their desire to legislate morality... Democrats are stereotyped for their desire to legislate taxation to achieve flattened economic outcomes... Both are Statist approaches. What if the true middle in America stands between the two, and wants neither Statist solution? What if the middle in American wants government to keep its hand out of our pockets and its nose out of our bedroom? That's not the American center that has been defined for us, but I suspect that the middle of America resides there. Which is neither party... |
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I don't know what your current net worth is, but please subtract $180,000 from it. Want to know where I got that number? Our current national debt is over $11 trillion. If you add our current obligations and proposed obligations of health care, social security, Medicaid, and so on...  $55 trillion. That's a figure from the government. Got that? Now divide that by 300 million Americans. That's a personal debt of $183,333.00 per person. Man, woman, and child. Do you think baby boomers will pay that? Nope. Children will pay that when they grow up and become working adults. The debt will be passed on to them. Do you love children? |
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One of the loans we made through Prosper has been paid in full and the others remain current:  The government came in last fall and blocked Prosper from doing more loans. Government intervention... yuck. I dig a lot at Obama, but I jabbed Bush as well for his government-interventionist ways. They both deserve it. Compassionate conservativism was a load of crap. Socialism more so. People should be free to do as they choose. Free enterprise. Capitalism. Innovation. We ought to celebrate these things. |
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Individual liberty and limited government gained ground today in Vermont with the legislature overturning a governor's veto, and in so doing, the legislature legalized gay marriage. The government has no business in a person's private life to bar them from victimless activities, just as the government has no business dictating a person's salary or energy usage. Awesome :) ETC: The Des Moines Register has been running a poll since the Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage in Iowa.  That's mighty close. The Republicans are trying to put it up to a popular vote. If they lose, will they then drop it? As I wrote the other day, the Republicans are being hypocritical if they see fit to use government to legislate individual behavior in some areas, but oppose it in others. Where's the principle at work? There isn't one, which is why they should lose on this issue. |
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Any notion that President Obama would be a unifying figure seems to stand on its head when you look at this MSNBC online poll result:  That's likewise reflected in this Pew Research poll: For all of his hopes about bipartisanship, Barack Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades. The 61-point partisan gap in opinions about Obama's job performance is the result of a combination of high Democratic ratings for the president -- 88% job approval among Democrats -- and relatively low approval ratings among Republicans (27%). Americans gather quickly around the idea of either loving him or hating him. John Adams said, "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." And that seems to be a central theme among those who don't like him: liberty, which is the right to be left alone to your own property and decisions, is threatened by Obama, who makes no compromise on his intention to go wherever he believes fit, whether through greater taxation or invasive annexation of the private sphere. John Edwards' proclamation of two Americas was a bit early, it seems. |
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Doug and Craig and I worked on the centerpiece to the Des Moines Tea Party today:  Phase I: complete. We'll work on Phase II on Friday. |
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