by Carla Howell
They did it again!
With overwhelming majorities, Democrats and Republicans passed one more government debt and spending hike: The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014.
Republicans who control the U.S. House, and who therefore control the purse strings of the federal government, sold Americans down the river — their job prospects, their kids’ future, the security of seniors, and everyone’s vital health.
Republicans caved on the government slowdown, falsely pegged as a shutdown, bowing to political gamesmanship and media propaganda.
They supported the pretense that furloughing overpaid and unnecessary government workers — most of whom should be freed from their meaningless, wasteful, bureaucratic government jobs and encouraged to find productive, satisfying jobs in the private sector — was some kind of tragedy.
They should have let the slowdown go on indefinitely to force much-needed spending cuts.
Republicans caved again by voting to add more to the government’s burgeoning debt by raising the debt ceiling — which will lead to more printing of dollars out of thin air, more inflation, and weaker purchasing power for all Americans. It will also create a pretext for higher taxes.
Republicans should have allowed the deadline to pass, forcing the government to either take the radical and unwarranted step of refusing to make payments on government debt — a measure that the Treasury, Congress and President Obama were highly unlikely to take — or to make much-needed spending cuts in the other 92 percent of federal government spending.
And what if lawmakers actually refused to make payments on the debt, putting their special interest pals first?
Would it have damaged the U.S. government’s credit rating, making it more difficult for politicians to overspend and borrow in the future?
Would that have been a bad thing — or a much-needed check on reckless government overspending?
Most importantly, Republicans caved on defunding Obamacare, setting the stage for one of the largest expansions of government power and spending in the nation’s history.
Unless it is stopped soon, Obamacare will deal another blow to the economy and imperil Americans’ health. That will be a true tragedy. It will prohibit innocent Americans from pursuing the treatments they need to prevent and cure disease. For many, they will lose their very lives because of centrally-planned, government controlled medicine.
Republicans made concession after concession. They even refused to block the new medical device tax, one of many new taxes built into President Obama’s health care law.
Democrats, of course, were cheerleading for higher spending all the while.
Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner said: We fought the good fight. We just didn't win.
Translation: We pretended to put up a fight, caved when our approval ratings went down too far, and made sure that the money flowing to our special interest pals remained intact.
Elected Democrats and Republicans are incurable. They cannot be lobbied or begged to do the right thing. Only by voting for their opposition candidates — who are firmly committed to dramatically and immediately cutting federal government spending — will anything change.
There’s only one way to change the dangerous trajectory on which the fragile U.S. economy lies.
There’s only one way to create real private sector jobs.
There’s only one way to ensure access to affordable, high-quality health care.
Vote small government. Vote Libertarian.
Government is the #1 enemy of the people and the source of all major problems of humanity. Anarchy is the best political system. Basil Venitis, venitis@gmail.com, http://themostsearched.blogspot.com
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themostsearched is a new libertarian paradigm which integrates politics, economics, ethics, and spirituality:
Black Hole: Taxation is armed robbery that feeds the black hole of political corruption; it's the perfect index of corruption and tyranny. Only evil governments tax citizens and companies.
Constitution: The only purpose of a constitution is to protect citizens from government abuse. Reform treaties of a confederation, such as the Lisbon Treaty of EU, not voted by the citizens are null and void.
Corruption: Political corruption is proportional to the square of the size of the government.
Democracy: Every democracy is eventually hijacked by rabblerousers, pullpeddlers, clans of kleptocrats, bumptious bugaboos, busybodies, butterbabies, nabobs of nepotism, cranks of cronyism, pusillanimous pussyfooters, riffraffs of rascals, socialist sophists, and Machiavellian mafiosi. Democracy tends to kleptocracy. Anarchy should replace democracy.
Depression: Only governments can cause economic depressions and funny money. Lower tax rates, a reduction in the burden of government, and elimination of kleptocracy and VAT are the only way to boost growth.
Education: There is no direct relationship between education and schooling. You might be schooled but uneducated, and you might be educated but unschooled. Schools are concentration camps for the drones of society. Unschooling is much better than schooling. Internet is the best source of knowledge and information, replacing schools, libraries, media, parliaments, and postoffice.
Environment: The best way to save the environment is vasectomy. Deadly viruses are Gaia's antibiotics against the cancer of overpopulation.
Equality: Death is the only equalizer. Egalitarianism brings death to society, transforming citizens to zombies.
Evolution: The ultimate phase of human evolution is the complete domination of soul.
Faith: Faith is retarded thinking that keeps you away from God. You have to become faithless, in order to start your journey to God! You have to discover God your own way without intermediaries. God's truth should replace faith. You might discover that God is the universe!
Government: The only purpose of government is to protect citizens from criminals. Public services, central banks, and fiat money should be abolished.
Heroism: Entrepreneurs, innovators, anarchists, and heretics are the real heroes.
Insurance: Citizens with proper individual retirement accounts and health savings accounts should be allowed to opt out of State Insurance.
Intervention: Any government intervention deteriorates an existing trend. Laissez-faire is the only progressive policy.
Laws: All laws that citizens are required to know should not exceed 300 pages of type size 12. When a new law is born, another law must die.
Legislature: Parliaments should be abolished, because they continuously create laws that enslave citizens, constrain economic activity, loot producers, reward drones, and encourage political corruption.
Misery: Throwing money to misery brings more misery.
Money: A deluge of fiat money brings financial plague and haemorrhage of economy. Real money is tied up to precious metals and strategic metals.
Patriotism: Patriotism is addiction to local hysteria.
Privacy: Nobody, including your government, has the right to break into your home, your land, your accounts, your computer, your files, and your secrets. You have the natural right to protect your privacy from intruders. Molon Labe!
Property: Governments should not own or regulate any property, including electromagnetic waves. The first individual who improves or cultivates any unclaimed property is entitled to that property. Governments cannot own, allocate, regulate, or manipulate frequency fields and media. Eminent domain is null and void.
Religion: Religion is spiritual slavery. Church is the business of religion. Religious monopoly turns bishops to ayatollahs, and churches to Sodom and Gomorrah. Spirituality and metaphysics should replace religion. Most scientists are pantheists!
Selfownership: You own your body and your soul, and nobody should dictate what you take in and what you take out. Speech, education, heresy, habeas corpus, military service, mating, healthcare, food, abortion, cloning, drugs, guns, and euthanasia should be personal choices.
Style: Your soul needs to resonate with mighty words and unique acts that express your style and destiny. Your government cannot dictate your language, your words, and your culture. Resonate now and sing your song!
System: The most efficient political system is anarchy, where everything is private, there are no taxes at all, there is no government, and there is no parliament.
Taxes: Taxes destroy the economy. Raising tax rates is masochism. Smart stimulus is to cut tax rates. Stupidus stimulus is to increase spending, which stimulates the cancer of statism!
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