All That Is Necessary

No Common Ground

I have come to the conclusion that I have absolutely no common ground with about 50% of the US population.  If you are a liberal, democrat, socialist, marxist, communist, collectivist (all the same thing, really), then our world views are so contradictory that there is no possible way we can "co-exist".  I believe in freedom and personal responsibility.  You do not.

It is as simple as that.  Your way is winning, I understand that.  If the worst should happen in November, I will "Go Galt" as much as possible until I can find another place to live.  And I will encourage my children to leave the USA in order to build a better life.  I don't know if such a place exists, but I will be looking pretty darn hard.

"Justice" Ruth Ginsburg - Pathetic

Just listen to these comments from Ginsburg in an interview in Egypt(!).  From Fox News:

"I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012," Ginsburg said in an interview on Al Hayat television last Wednesday. "I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, have an independent judiciary. It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done."

"Why not take advantage of what is else there in the world? I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others," Ginsburg added.

Indeed, Ginsburg's comments are not foreign to her overall philosophy. The justice has previously stated that she weighs foreign law as well as U.S. law when forming a legal opinion.

Look at that highlighted portions.  Unbelievable!  She is a U.S. Supreme Court justice who is supposed to rule on whether something is constitutional based on OUR Constitution, not South Africa's!!

With justices like Ginsburg we are completely screwed.

What a disgrace to the Supreme Court.

 

Whittle - The Vote Pump - Excellent!

This video is from Bill Whittle and speaks about what money is spent to buy votes.  It is also an excellent lesson on government revenue vs. government spending.

They Never, Ever Learn

Saw this headline mentioned at AceOfSpades:

Fed says expand Fannie, Freddie role to aid housing

"The Fed, in a paper sent to lawmakers on Wednesday, outlined an array of steps that could be taken to help the housing sector, including allowing Fannie and Freddie to provide cheaper mortgages to a broader pool of homeowners."

Fannie and Freddie, along with the liberals in Congress with the Community Reinvestment Act, CAUSED the housing problem in the first place!  Now they want to do it again.  Amazing.

Just add it to the list of stupid moves that killed the USA.  It truly has been a death by a thousand cuts.

Freedom Is Not Winning

I have been reading the blogs, the WSJ, etc., and I believe freedom, the ability to live your own life without unnecessary interference, is losing ground in a big way.

Freedom/liberty has already been severely beaten over the past 100 years, with most of the damage happening since the 60's.  If freedom were a person she would be lying in the ICU with all sorts of tubes and stuff attached to her.

(Yeah, I know, two days from Christmas, but what the Hell.)

Where are we losing our freedom?

1.  The Department of Justice - Eric Holder should be behind bars.  Instead he is overseeing a DOJ that is beyond corrupt and criminal.  The rule of law is now irrelevant.  We have the rule of men - NOT a good thing.  No freedom there.

2.  Obama - Obama's hatred for the US Constitution, as well as anything remotely considered "American", is evident by every one of his actions.  Nope, no freedom there.

3.  Congress - Democrats are mostly to blame with their never-ending assault on individual freedom.  They simply despise the thought of people living their own lives without government involvement.  The Republicans are almost as bad, as shown by their actions when they had control of both houses of Congress.  Taxes and spending go only one way - UP!  No freedom coming from this place.

4.  Voters - About 53% of voters were stupid enough to elect Obama in the first place.  'nuff said.

5.  Moochers/Looters/Government Employees - These people feed of the government, which, in turn, feeds of the productive part of society.  They will never vote to cut their benefits or income.  This is the greatest danger to domestic freedom, in my opinion.

6.  Islam - This is a worldwide problem, and we are not winning.  As Winston Churchill said, "How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."

Absolutely no freedom in Islam.  I am continuously amazed how the leftists make excuses for the degenerate cult of Islam.  Freedom and Islam are totally and eternally incompatible.

That's enough for now.  I could go on and on, but I am getting bored.  You get the point, I hope.

Always keep fighting for freedom, but recognize that we are NOT winning at the moment.

 

Victor David Hanson Chronicles Our Decline

Saw this linked at Ace of Spades:

A Vandalized Valley by Victor David Hanson

Mr. Hanson writes of watching a society decline through his experiences on and near his family farm in California.  Worth every second od the time it takes to read it.  A "taste":

"Last week an ancestral rural school near the Kings River had its large bronze bell stolen. I think it dated from 1911. I have driven by it about 100 times in the 42 years since I got my first license. The bell had endured all those years. Where it is now I don’t know. Does someone just cut up a beautifully crafted bell in some chop yard in rural Fresno County, without a worry about who forged it or why — or why others for a century until now enjoyed its presence?"

This is the world liberals created with their failed policies. 

Bill Whittle On Republican History - Not What Is Taught

Bill Whittle of PJ Media nails it on how the republican Party is labeled by the liberals and their media as greedy, fascist and racist.

Awesome lesson:

hat tip: Ace Of Spades HQ

Harry Reid Is Dangerously Stupid

Saw this over at Real Clear Politics:

Reid: "Millionaire Job Creators Are Like Unicorns" Because They "Don't Exist"

Many of our job creators are like unicorns, they're impossible to find and don't exist. That’s because only a tiny fraction of people making more than a million dollars, probably less than one percent, are actually small business owners and only a tiny fraction of that tiny fraction is a traditional job creator."

Is Reid really this ignorant?  Apparently so.  Does he have any concept of the business world?  Apparently not.  Between Reid and that nitwit Pelosi I imagine there aren't even two active brain cells between them.

Yet they keep getting re-elected.  Doesn't say much about the people who vote for them, does it?

 

The Lines Are Set - Moochers/Looters Vs. Producers

Well, Obama's speech has laid out the choice in his latest speech.  It will be the looters, moochers, and criminal government against the producers and individualists.  There is no middle ground.

Obama said capitalism does not work, individualism does not work.  These are the two cornerstones of our successful history.  And Obama hates them.  He likes "spreading the wealth", "fair share".  What he means is "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need", which is the famous saying by Karl Marx.

His speech is incredibly disgusting.  While pretending to praise certain aspects of the USA the message he preaches is one of massive government and deep socialism.

Well, at least it is out in the open for anyone to see, if they open their eyes.

This election will be the pivot point.  Obama and the liberals' direction is to collectivism.  The other direction is to freedom/individualism.  No middle ground in this election, and no excuses for voting for Obama this time.

Choose wisely. 

 

More Screw U.S. Citzens Abroad

Saw this article over at American Thinker entitled "FATCA: A Ticking Time Bomb for the Economy".

It is a disgusting attempt by the US Government to grab and tax every conceivable source of money that Americans may have, anywhere in the world, regardless of the reasons or consequences.

Read this:

FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) is the brood of FBAR (Foreign Bank Account Report).  FBAR requires that U.S. persons divulge foreign accounts to the Treasury Department, but few knew about or ever complied with it.  To stanch the bleeding of U.S. capital into secret bank jurisdictions like the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, Congress introduced FATCA into law as part of the HIRE Act.  FATCA requires that foreign financial institutions (FFIs) reveal the accounts of U.S. persons to the IRS.  The FFIs will then have to collect tax withholdings for the IRS from these clients.  If by January 1, 2014 the FFI is unwilling to reveal its U.S. clients' accounts, the IRS will impose a punitive 30% withholding on all payments to the FFIs, on dividends, interest, and gross sales of stocks, bonds, and financial derivatives.

Let's suppose that a foreign investor trades stocks on a U.S. exchange, but his broker is FATCA non-compliant.  One day he buys 10,000 shares of XYZ at $25 per share, and the next day, he takes advantage of a nice uptick of $1.00 in XYZ and sells at $26 per share.  He makes a tidy profit of $10,000.  But because his broker is non-compliant, the IRS now withholds 30% -- not of the profit, but of the gross proceeds of the sale!  So the client now receives the sum of $260,000 minus 30%.  The foreign investor is unhappy because his $250,000 investment has become $182,000.  If he wants his money back, he must file a U.S. tax return.

No investor would accept such conditions.  Hence, an FFI must either comply with the invasive regulations of FATCA or simply abandon the U.S. markets.

US expatriates are the hardest hit by this monstrosity.  It is already hard for a US citizen abroad to do banking and comply with US tax laws.  With this law it will be impossible.  Many US citizens will renounce their citizenship, which is already happening in record numbers. 

The utter stupidity of our government is really beyond belief.  It is nothing more than a criminal enterprise at this point.