Friday, September 16, 2011

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Re: 10 Most Expensive States in America

no surprises ... yankee states and the hispanic ridden west coast

enjoy!

On Sep 16, 10:16 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> A CNBC study <http://www.cnbc.com/id/43484111> ranks America's 50 states on
> the ACCRA Cost of Living Index <http://www.coli.org/> to find which are the
> most expensive states to live in. The states are ranked using a 50-point
> scale—the lower the score, the higher the cost of living, and vice versa.
> ACCRA's data are compiled from the average prices from Q1 2010 through Q1
> 2011.
>
> Only one of the ten most expensive states ranks among the top ten overall in
> CNBC's Top States for Business study.
>
> What CNBC doesn't point out is another interesting fact:
>
> 9 of the top 10 most expensive states were "blue" states that voted for
> Obama in 2008.
>
> I also quibble with why CNBC did not include state and local taxes in
> compiling its list.
>
> And now, here are the top 10 cities in America with the highest
> cost-of-living:
>
> 10. Massachusetts
>
> Most expensive: Framingham-Natick
> House: $529,300
> Movie ticket: $10.51
> Lipitor: $162.56
> Doctor visit: $112.24
> Gallon of gas: $2.807
>
> 9. Vermont
>
> Most expensive: Burlington-Chittenden
> House: $405,825
> Movie ticket: $8.80
> Lipitor: $150.55
> Doctor visit: $105
> Gallon of gas: $2.892
>
> 8. Rhode Island
>
> Most expensive: Providence
> House: $361,195
> Movie ticket: $10.75
> Lipitor: $142
> Doctor visit: $149
> Gallon of gas: $2.903
>
> 7. Maryland
>
> Most expensive: Bethesda-Gaithersburg
> House: $535,409
> Movie ticket: $10.69
> Lipitor: $158.10
> Doctor visit: $87.29
> Gallon of gas: $2.950
>
> 6. New York
>
> Most expensive: New York (Manhattan)
> House: $1,140,461
> Movie ticket: $12.28
> Lipitor: $160.05
> Doctor visit: $125.89
> Gallon of gas: $3.148
>
> 5. New Jersey
>
> Most expensive: Bergen-Passaic
> House: $511,212
> Movie ticket: $10.58
> Lipitor: $159.67
> Doctor visit: $83.52
> Gallon of gas: $2.758
>
> 4. Connecticut
>
> Most expensive: Stamford
> House: $606,742
> Movie ticket: $10.33
> Lipitor: $154.61
> Doctor visit: $102.26
> Gallon of gas: $3.075
>
> 3. California
>
> Most expensive: San Francisco
> House: $808,481
> Movie ticket: $10.58
> Lipitor: $145.98
> Doctor visit: $120.83
> Gallon of gas: $3.116
>
> 2. Alaska
>
> Most expensive: Fairbanks
> House: $438,225
> Movie ticket: $10.69
> Lipitor: $156.99
> Doctor visit: $150.05
> Gallon of gas: $3.478
>
> 1. Hawaii
>
> Most expensive: Honolulu
> House: $689,781
> Movie ticket: $10.08
> Lipitor: $160.96
> Doctor visit: $130.15
> Gallon of gas: $3.437
>
> H/t Spirit Daily <http://spiritdaily.com/>
>
> *~Eowyn*
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Podcast interview re American politics w/ Bill Schneider

Posted this morning at Electric Politics, a podcast interview with
Bill Schneider, formerly for twenty years CNN's chief political
analyst. The conversation covers, among other topics, why the
fundamental structure of American politics is dysfunctional, why Bill
thinks that the structure can't be changed, and how religion and
politics have become such a toxic brew.

If you like the show please forward the link.

And thanks for listening!

http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2011/09/the_professional.html

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The U.S. pursuit of offshore tax evaders is widening to include Israel

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/16/israel-tax-evasion-banks_n_965900.html

Datan Dorot, a tax lawyer in Miami who represents U.S. clients of
Israeli banks, said that bankers from an Israeli branch of Bank Leumi
called his clients about six weeks ago to tell them they needed to
close their accounts at the bank's Swiss branches because of scrutiny
by the Justice Department.

Many of his clients, Dorot said, hold dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship
and had opened their Israeli accounts with Israeli passports and not
disclosed their U.S. citizenship -- a factor that makes them U.S.
taxpayers.

Dorot said Bank Leumi's advice that clients close the accounts -- and
presumably open new accounts elsewhere -- could cause problems for the
clients because the U.S. Internal Revenue Service does not consider
merely closing the account to be enough; the U.S. taxpayer must also
report the account to the IRS and pay taxes on it. "The Israeli banks
are suggesting a very bad idea," Dorot said.

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Re: Barry Manilow endorses Ron Paul; at LPAC lunch today Paul may get another major Hollywood endorsement

the unelectable gets a vote from xian and jewish entertainers
that might just be the death blow

On Sep 16, 9:23 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actor Jerry Doyle, of Babylon5 fame, spoke at Ron Paul's Liberty Political
> Action Conference in Reno last night.  And at lunch today at the Liberty
> Political Action Conference, a fairly major Hollywood actress or actor
> endorses Ron Paul, following  Barry Manilow endorsement.  I can tell you who
> in 5 hours.  Check my FaceBook page; maybe I will beat the Caller.
>
> Read more:http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/15/barry-manilow-on-ron-paul-%e2%80%98...
>
> reporting live from LPAC in Reno

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Re: Neoconservatism Taken Down

But what has all this to do with Leo Strauss? To make good his case
that Strauss's thought lies behind neoconservatism, Thompson must
first establish that the neocons knew and studied Strauss. He does so
by showing that the acknowledged godfather of neoconservatism, Irving
Kristol, took Strauss as his philosophical master.
---
you say neocon, I say jewish influenced
know the enemy

On Sep 16, 9:52 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> Neoconservatism Taken DownFriday, September 16, 2011
> byDavid Gordon
> [Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea •By C. Bradley Thompson with Yaron Brook • Paradigm Publishers, 2010 • Xii + 305 pages]
>  
> C. Bradley Thompson argues that neoconservatism stands in fundamental opposition to individual rights and a free economy.
> To most of us, neoconservatism is inevitably associated with the Iraq War. A group of neoconservatives, including Robert Kagan and David Frum, played with consummate folly a major role in urging the Bush administration toward initiating that conflict. The movement, on that ground alone, has little to recommend it; but can one nevertheless make a case on its behalf?
> After all, neoconservatism was not always associated with reckless foreign-policy initiatives. To the contrary, in its early days in the 1960s, Irving Kristol, Nathan Glazer, and Daniel Moynihan offered in the neoconservative journalThe Public Interestcogent criticisms of many aspects of the welfare state. If Kristol could only musterTwo Cheers for Capitalism, is this not better than most fashionable intellectuals can do? Perhaps the good elements in neoconservatism can be detached from the recent foreign-policy madness. C. Bradley Thompson emphatically disagrees. He argues that neoconservatism stands in fundamental opposition to individual rights and a free economy.
> Although neoconservatives have indeed challenged certain aspects of the welfare state, they have no quarrel with it in principle.In what may be Irving Kristol's most shocking statement in defense of collectivist redistribution and statism, he has suggested that "the idea of a welfare state is in itself perfectly consistent with a conservative political philosophy as Bismarck knew, a hundred years ago." (p. 29)If this accurately describes their position, why do the neoconservatives criticize the welfare state at all? Aside from the technical deficiencies of particular programs, what concerns them is the way that some welfare programs encourage unvirtuous behavior. Welfare that rewards giving birth out of wedlock, e.g., arouses their protests.
> This sort of criticism reveals a key fact about the neoconservatives. They have a very definite sense of the proper conduct that the state, or as they are likely to term it, the regime, ought to promote. Not for them is the libertarian view that each person, so long as he does not initiate force against others, is free to lead his life as he wishes. To the contrary, the leaders of the state have as one of their prime duties the development of the citizens' characters. Accordingly, freedom of speech most decidedly does not extend to pornography. Further, the government must inculcate patriotic sentiment among the people.
> More generally, neoconservatives do not believe in individual rights at all, in the robust sense with which readers of the Mises Daily will be familiar.On a deeper level, the problem with the [American] Founders' liberalism, according to Kristol, is that it begins with the individual, and a philosophy that begins with the "self" must necessarily promote selfishness, choice, and the pursuit of personal happiness.… A free society grounded on the protection of individual rights leads inexorably to an amiable philistinism, an easygoing nihilism, and, ultimately, to "infinite emptiness." (pp. 28–9)Thompson mordantly remarks, "Thus the great political lesson that the neocons have successfully taught other conservatives … is to stop worrying and love the State" (p. 29).Thompson is not content with this devastating verdict. He maintains that existing studies of neoconservatismdo not penetrate to the essence: they have not discovered the philosophical roots of the movement. He locates this essence in the thought of Leo Strauss, and much of the book is devoted to a careful exposition and criticism of his views. [1] (Even if one dissents from Thompson's intellectual genealogy of neoconservatism, the discussion of Strauss is of great value for its own sake.)
> Thompson appears to have set himself a difficult task. Neoconservatism according to many of its proponents is a tendency rather than a developed body of doctrine.Those who are willing to call themselves neoconservatives (and not all are) typically describe neoconservatism as an "impulse," a "style of thought," or a "mode of thinking." Its proponents have described neoconservatism as a way of seeing the world, as a state of mind and not as a systematic political philosophy. (p. 4)If this is right, how can Thompson proceed with his plan to unearth the philosophical foundations of neoconservatism? Will not a view that repudiates system prove impervious to analysis?
> Thompson neatly turns this difficulty to his advantage. The rejection of system manifests in this instance a related view that provides the key to understanding neoconservatism. A system is composed of principles that inhere in an ordered structure; but neoconservatives oppose fixed principles of politics.For all their supposed concern for ideas and philosophy, there is something profoundly antiphilosophical about the neoconservatives. They eschew moral first principles in favor of a technique or a mode of thinking, and they scorn absolute, certain moral principles for what "works." (p. 32)But in this very rejection of systematic morality lies concealed a philosophical doctrine.
> But what has all this to do with Leo Strauss? To make good his case that Strauss's thought lies behind neoconservatism, Thompson must first establish that the neocons knew and studied Strauss. He does so by showing that the acknowledged godfather of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, took Strauss as his philosophical master. Thompson places particular emphasis on a review by Kristol in Commentary (October 1952) of Strauss's Persecution and the Art of Writing.Remarkably, this document has never been brought to the attention of the general public until now. Kristol's confrontation with Strauss came as an epiphany. It was, as Kristol has intimated on several occasions, the most important intellectual event of his life. (p. 59)[2]From Persecution and the Art of Writing, Kristol absorbed the message that philosophers needed to conceal their dangerous doctrines from the masses. Philosophy undermines religious belief and shows also that morality lacks a rational foundation. But without religion and an accepted morality, the social order would be overthrown. Further, if the masses were to become aware of what the philosophers really taught, would they not suppress these dangerous thinkers? Philosophers form an intellectual elite, and they rank far superior to those lacking their wisdom.
> The ancient philosophers, mindful of the fate of Socrates, kept always in mind the need to maintain their distance from the masses. The Enlightenment abandoned this antique wisdom.Whereas Socrates-Plato recognized a wide and unbridgeable chasm between philosophers and nonphilosophers, the engineers of the modern world men such as Bacon, Newton, Locke, and Jefferson thought it possible to make all men reasonable, to bring light to a dark world through reason and science.… The Enlightenment therefore represented for Strauss the democratization and thus the degradation of the Western mind. (pp. 66–7)Strauss rejected capitalism and individualism, which as he saw them rested on a low view of man. Instead of philosophical wisdom, confined to an elite, as the highest end of the regime, happiness and wealth for the masses became the order of the day.[3]Strauss argued that the modern liberalism of Locke and Jefferson had distorted the fundamental structure of human existence, that without a summum bonum to guide his life, modern man lacked "completely a star and compass for his life" and was therefore wrenched away from the natural ordering of society. (p. 115)The Enlightenment taught a further false doctrine: universal human rights. Instead, Strauss believed, there are no unalterably fixed moral standards. The statesman, taught by philosophers, must be guided by prudential judgment about the particular situation he faces. Here precisely is a key point at which Straussian teaching serves to explain neoconservatism. As earlier mentioned, the neoconsresolutely reject fixed moral rules and rights.[4]
> If Strauss rejected the Enlightenment, he by no means demanded the abolition of individualism and capitalism. To the contrary, the ancient arrangements of the polis could not in our day be restored; and the regime of the American Founding Fathers offered the best available bulwark against relativism and nihilism -- if this regime was suitably controlled behind the scenes by philosophers instructed in Straussian wisdom.
> What form would this philosophical guidance take? It is essential that the inferior masses develop virtuous habits, lest their unbridled appetites lead to undue disorder. To inculcate virtue and to weaken the base tendency of people to put their individual well-being ahead of the common good, what better means than a properly conducted war? War teaches self-sacrifice.The moral component of this is straightforward. As we have seen, the neoconservatives' ethical prescription for ordinary citizens consists in a life of selfless sacrifice to others, in which the individual puts the needs and well-being of others above his own. (p. 180)Thompson finds in this argument a principal motive for the neocons' support for the Iraq War. The neocons aimed not only to spread democracy as they conceived it to the benighted Iraqis: even more important, they saw the war as a means to discipline and educate the American people.
> Thompson and Yaron Brook, the coauthor of the chapter on foreign policy, resolutely reject this approach to foreign policy. To them, wars are justifiable only as a means to avert a genuine threat, and "a real post–September 11 risk assessment of the threat posed by Iraq would not have resulted in finding that Iraq was at the top of the list of potential targets." (p. 179).
> Thompson's interpretation of neoconservatism must confront two fundamental challenges. First, does he show that Strauss's view really stand at the base of neoconservatism? A critic might object that what holds true of Irving Kristol might not apply to others in the neoconservative movement. Further, has Thompson correctly interpreted Strauss? Was Strauss an advocate of a particular philosophy in his own right rather than a historian of political thought; and if he did wish to convey a philosophical message, is it the one Thompson attributes to him? I strongly suspect that Thompson can successfully meet these tests. Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea is essential reading for anyone interested in either the neoconservatives or Leo Strauss.
> David Gordon covers new books in economics, politics, philosophy, and law forThe Mises Review, the quarterly review of literature in the social sciences, published since 1995 by the Mises Institute. He is author ofThe Essential Rothbard, available in the Mises Store.Notes[1] Thompson is an Objectivist, and accordingly believes as a general thesis that ideas determine history. Readers will not fail to recall Leonard Peikoff'sendeavor in Ominous Parallels to trace the roots of Nazism to Kant's philosophy. I do not think this effort was entirely successful.[2] Thompson mentions that Kristol's wife, Gertrude Himmelfarb, also wrote about Strauss. One might also note that his brother-in-law, Milton Himmelfarb, had studied Strauss's works carefully and wrote about Strauss on several occasions. See, e.g., "On Leo Strauss", Commentary (August 1974).[3] Strauss was influenced in his opposition to capitalism by his friend and academic patron R.H. Tawney, the eminent English socialist. Like Strauss, Tawney deplored what he called the "acquisitive society." See Simon Green, "The Tawney-Strauss Connection: On Historicism and Values in the History of Political Ideas", Journal of Modern History, June 1995.[4] Ironically, in view of the Objectivist portrayal of Kant as the fons et origo of modern philosophical evil, Straussians such as Harry Jaffadenounce fixed moral rules as Kantian.http://mises.org/daily/5635/Neoconservatism-Taken-Down

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47 Different Taxes We Pay: Can You Think of More?



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Subject: 47 Different Taxes We Pay: Can You Think of More?
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Written on September 14, 2011 by The Godfather

47 Different Taxes We Pay: Can You Think of More?



Read more: 47 Different Taxes We Pay: Can You Think of More? | Godfather Politics http://godfatherpolitics.com/942/47-different-taxes-we-pay/#ixzz1XyTAd0Zx

When we think of taxes, we most likely look at what we pay to the Federal government and the states where we live, but there are dozens more, incorporated into everything we purchase. Every time we might the government to tax the corporations, we are asking them to tax us. Corporations view taxes as an expense like paying the electric bill. When they price an item for sale, they include all their expenses, including taxes. Here&# 8217;s a list of nearly 4 dozen taxes. Can you think of some others? Think of George Harrison's "Tax Man" (1966):

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

1. Ad Valorem Tax
2. Building Permit Tax
3. Commercial Driver's License Tax
4. Cigarette Tax
5. Corporate Income Tax
6. Dog License Tax
7. Excise Taxes
8. Federal Income Tax
9. Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
10. Fishing License Tax
11. Food License Tax
12. Fuel Permit Tax
13. Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)
14. Gross Receipts Tax
15. Hotel/Motel Ta x

16. Hunting License Tax
17. Inheritance Tax
18. Inventory Tax
19. Liquor Tax
20. Luxury Taxes
21. Marriage License Tax
22. Medicare Tax
23. Personal Property Tax
24. Property Tax
25. Real Estate Tax

26. Rental Car Tax
27. Service Charge Tax
28. Social Security Tax
29. Road Usage Tax
30. Sales Tax
31. Recreational Vehicle Tax
32. School Tax
33. State Income Tax
34. State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
35. Telephone Federal Excise Tax
36. Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
37. Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
38. Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
39. Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
40. Telephone State and Lo cal Tax
41. Telephone Usage Charge Tax
42. Utility Taxes
43. Vehicle License Registration Tax
44. Vehicle Sales Tax
45. Watercraft Registration Tax
46. Well Permit Tax
47. Workers Compensation Tax



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10 Most Expensive States in America




10 Most Expensive States in America

Dr. Eowyn | September 16, 2011 at 5:52 am | Categories: Economy, Health Care, Liberals, Media, Taxes, United States | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-9pC

A CNBC study ranks America's 50 states on the ACCRA Cost of Living Index to find which are the most expensive states to live in. The states are ranked using a 50-point scale—the lower the score, the higher the cost of living, and vice versa. ACCRA's data are compiled from the average prices from Q1 2010 through Q1 2011.

Only one of the ten most expensive states ranks among the top ten overall in CNBC's Top States for Business study.

What CNBC doesn't point out is another interesting fact:

9 of the top 10 most expensive states were "blue" states that voted for Obama in 2008.

I also quibble with why CNBC did not include state and local taxes in compiling its list.

And now, here are the top 10 cities in America with the highest cost-of-living:

10. Massachusetts

Most expensive: Framingham-Natick
House: $529,300
Movie ticket: $10.51
Lipitor: $162.56
Doctor visit: $112.24
Gallon of gas: $2.807

9. Vermont

Most expensive: Burlington-Chittenden
House: $405,825
Movie ticket: $8.80
Lipitor: $150.55
Doctor visit: $105
Gallon of gas: $2.892

8. Rhode Island

Most expensive: Providence
House: $361,195
Movie ticket: $10.75
Lipitor: $142
Doctor visit: $149
Gallon of gas: $2.903

7. Maryland

Most expensive: Bethesda-Gaithersburg
House: $535,409
Movie ticket: $10.69
Lipitor: $158.10
Doctor visit: $87.29
Gallon of gas: $2.950

6. New York

Most expensive: New York (Manhattan)
House: $1,140,461
Movie ticket: $12.28
Lipitor: $160.05
Doctor visit: $125.89
Gallon of gas: $3.148

5. New Jersey

Most expensive: Bergen-Passaic
House: $511,212
Movie ticket: $10.58
Lipitor: $159.67
Doctor visit: $83.52
Gallon of gas: $2.758

4. Connecticut

Most expensive: Stamford
House: $606,742
Movie ticket: $10.33
Lipitor: $154.61
Doctor visit: $102.26
Gallon of gas: $3.075

3. California

Most expensive: San Francisco
House: $808,481
Movie ticket: $10.58
Lipitor: $145.98
Doctor visit: $120.83
Gallon of gas: $3.116

2. Alaska

Most expensive: Fairbanks
House: $438,225
Movie ticket: $10.69
Lipitor: $156.99
Doctor visit: $150.05
Gallon of gas: $3.478

1. Hawaii

Most expensive: Honolulu
House: $689,781
Movie ticket: $10.08
Lipitor: $160.96
Doctor visit: $130.15
Gallon of gas: $3.437

H/t Spirit Daily

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Re: The Fasco-Communist Police State of America

from "affirmative action" to welfare systems
---
promoted by socialists, not Americans

" The Federal Government can do most anything in this country." From
---
necessary to catch to bad guys

forcing children to chant the "pledge of allegiance"
---
never happened

Most of the world looks at the US "democractic" system
---
we're a republic

never told what money is nor how the money system or central bank in
the US work
---
you can't force people to pay attention in class

Speaking of Lenin, if you were to say the US is turning communist,
you'd also be right.
----
we know who promotes communism/socialism in our nation

Ask any child who has tried to open a lemonade stand
----
my kids did, didn't yours? didn't you?

America was a great idea. That idea died decades ago. What has
slithered in
---
we know who slithered in and promotes socialism/communism
know the enemy


On Sep 16, 7:28 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> The Fasco-Communist Police State of Americaby Jeff BerwickWoe to the average American. The US Government has taken all the worst parts of every heinous government system and combined them all into one viral new strain.
> If you were to say the US is fascist, you'd be right.FASCISM
> Fascism, according to Wikipedia, is defined as "aradical, authoritarian nationalistpolitical ideology. It advocates the creation of a totalitariansingle-party statethat seeks the mass mobilization of a nation throughindoctrination, physical education, and family policy (such as eugenics)."
> Let's break that down word by word.Radical: Political Radicalism is defined as being "political principles focused on altering social structures."
> Check. The US Government has a never ending list of social structure changing laws, regulations and programs from "affirmative action" to welfare systems which encourage single parent families as well as having started the "women's liberation movement" in order to get women out of the house and get their children into the government indoctrination camps (more on that below) for longer periods of time.Authoritarian: Authoritarianism is defined as "a form of social organization characterized by submission to authority."
> Check. As Congressman Pete Stark stated, "The Federal Government can do most anything in this country." From no-knock raids to torture to concentration camps (Guantanamo Bay) to undeclared, illegal wars to secret CIA prisons throughout the world, the US Government has shown and even has said it can do whatever it wants.Nationalist: Nationalism is defined as "a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms."
> Check. After decades of forcing children to chant the "pledge of allegiance" and constantly repeating nationalist rhetoric brainwashing via the government controlled mainstream media, grown men stand up and sing the national anthem at sporting events on their own volition.Single-Party State.Check. Most of the world looks at the US "democractic" system as being laughable for only having two real political parties. But the truth of the matter, as most have been discovering, is that it is even worse than that. There really is only one political party. The Republicrats. The Democrats and Republicanssaydifferent things butdothe same thing. Proof of this can be seen in Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama, having not only ended the Bush wars, but having added to them now with his attack on Libya on top of Afghanistan and Iraq.IndoctrinationCheck. Vladimir Lenin once said, "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." He never could have dreamed of a state where children are forced into child indoctrination camps for eight hours per day for 12 years. During those twelve years they are never told what money is nor how the money system or central bank in the US work. Instead they are forced to memorize propaganda and lies about American history.
> Speaking of Lenin, if you were to say the US is turning communist, you'd also be right.COMMUNISMMarx detailed the 10 essential tenets of communism as:Central banking systemGovernment controlled educationGovernment controlled laborGovernment ownership of transportation and communication vehiclesGovernment ownership of agricultural means and factoriesTotal abolition of private propertyProperty rights confiscationHeavy income tax on everyoneElimination of rights of inheritanceRegional planning
> The US Government adheres to more than a few.1. Central Banking SystemCheck. Federal Reserve, installed since 1913.2. Government Controlled EducationCheck. In 1821, Boston started the first public high school in the United States. By the close of the 19th century, public secondary schools began to outnumber private ones and now, in the 21st century the education system is almost completely controlled by the government. And they've been doing a great job of dumbing down the population. A viewing of Jay Leno's old, "Jaywalking" is more than proof of that.3. Government Controlled LaborLuckily, this one isn't ubiquitous, but VP Joe Biden's talk to union labor and Jimmy Hoffa's recent "this is war" rally cry shows the movement is alive and well.4. Government Control of Transportation and CommunicationAgain, not ubiquitous, but the US Government owns Amtrak, owns almost all roads, owned GMC and for all intents and purposes is one and the same with mainstream media.5. Heavy Income Tax on EveryoneCheck!6. Elimination of Rights of InheritanceCheck. Inheritance tax.
> Six out of ten? That's close enough. And a case could be made for 8 or 9 of them.
> So, is the US Government fascist or communist? You'd be right if you answered both.
> And, to top it off, it is also a police state. Ask any child who has tried to open a lemonade stand in the land of the free. To see the latest egregious example of the police state,check out this story. These guys have been given 200 tickets and been arrested numerous times for trying to give pedestrians low speed rides in electric vehicles on a tip basis!
> America was a great idea. That idea died decades ago. What has slithered in, in its place, is the worst parts of all the worst forms of government.
> Some believe it can be fixed. We don't. It will get much worse before it gets better.http://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2011/9/13/the-fasco-communist-police-state-of-america.html

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Neoconservatism Taken Down



Neoconservatism Taken Down
Friday, September 16, 2011
by David Gordon

[ Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea • By C. Bradley Thompson with Yaron Brook • Paradigm Publishers, 2010 • Xii + 305 pages]
 
C. Bradley Thompson argues that neoconservatism stands in fundamental opposition to individual rights and a free economy.

To most of us, neoconservatism is inevitably associated with the Iraq War. A group of neoconservatives, including Robert Kagan and David Frum, played with consummate folly a major role in urging the Bush administration toward initiating that conflict. The movement, on that ground alone, has little to recommend it; but can one nevertheless make a case on its behalf?

After all, neoconservatism was not always associated with reckless foreign-policy initiatives. To the contrary, in its early days in the 1960s, Irving Kristol, Nathan Glazer, and Daniel Moynihan offered in the neoconservative journal The Public Interest cogent criticisms of many aspects of the welfare state. If Kristol could only muster Two Cheers for Capitalism, is this not better than most fashionable intellectuals can do? Perhaps the good elements in neoconservatism can be detached from the recent foreign-policy madness. C. Bradley Thompson emphatically disagrees. He argues that neoconservatism stands in fundamental opposition to individual rights and a free economy.

Although neoconservatives have indeed challenged certain aspects of the welfare state, they have no quarrel with it in principle.

In what may be Irving Kristol's most shocking statement in defense of collectivist redistribution and statism, he has suggested that "the idea of a welfare state is in itself perfectly consistent with a conservative political philosophy ­ as Bismarck knew, a hundred years ago." (p. 29)

If this accurately describes their position, why do the neoconservatives criticize the welfare state at all? Aside from the technical deficiencies of particular programs, what concerns them is the way that some welfare programs encourage unvirtuous behavior. Welfare that rewards giving birth out of wedlock, e.g., arouses their protests.

This sort of criticism reveals a key fact about the neoconservatives. They have a very definite sense of the proper conduct that the state, or as they are likely to term it, the regime, ought to promote. Not for them is the libertarian view that each person, so long as he does not initiate force against others, is free to lead his life as he wishes. To the contrary, the leaders of the state have as one of their prime duties the development of the citizens' characters. Accordingly, freedom of speech most decidedly does not extend to pornography. Further, the government must inculcate patriotic sentiment among the people.

More generally, neoconservatives do not believe in individual rights at all, in the robust sense with which readers of the Mises Daily will be familiar.

On a deeper level, the problem with the [American] Founders' liberalism, according to Kristol, is that it begins with the individual, and a philosophy that begins with the "self" must necessarily promote selfishness, choice, and the pursuit of personal happiness.… A free society grounded on the protection of individual rights leads inexorably to an amiable philistinism, an easygoing nihilism, and, ultimately, to "infinite emptiness." (pp. 28–9)

Thompson mordantly remarks, "Thus the great political lesson that the neocons have successfully taught other conservatives … is to stop worrying and love the State" (p. 29).

Thompson is not content with this devastating verdict. He maintains that existing studies of neoconservatism do not penetrate to the essence: they have not discovered the philosophical roots of the movement. He locates this essence in the thought of Leo Strauss, and much of the book is devoted to a careful exposition and criticism of his views. [1] (Even if one dissents from Thompson's intellectual genealogy of neoconservatism, the discussion of Strauss is of great value for its own sake.)

Thompson appears to have set himself a difficult task. Neoconservatism according to many of its proponents is a tendency rather than a developed body of doctrine.

Those who are willing to call themselves neoconservatives (and not all are) typically describe neoconservatism as an "impulse," a "style of thought," or a "mode of thinking." Its proponents have described neoconservatism as a way of seeing the world, as a state of mind and not as a systematic political philosophy. (p. 4)

If this is right, how can Thompson proceed with his plan to unearth the philosophical foundations of neoconservatism? Will not a view that repudiates system prove impervious to analysis?

Thompson neatly turns this difficulty to his advantage. The rejection of system manifests in this instance a related view that provides the key to understanding neoconservatism. A system is composed of principles that inhere in an ordered structure; but neoconservatives oppose fixed principles of politics.

For all their supposed concern for ideas and philosophy, there is something profoundly antiphilosophical about the neoconservatives. They eschew moral first principles in favor of a technique or a mode of thinking, and they scorn absolute, certain moral principles for what "works." (p. 32)

But in this very rejection of systematic morality lies concealed a philosophical doctrine.

But what has all this to do with Leo Strauss? To make good his case that Strauss's thought lies behind neoconservatism, Thompson must first establish that the neocons knew and studied Strauss. He does so by showing that the acknowledged godfather of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, took Strauss as his philosophical master. Thompson places particular emphasis on a review by Kristol in Commentary (October 1952) of Strauss's Persecution and the Art of Writing.

Remarkably, this document has never been brought to the attention of the general public until now. Kristol's confrontation with Strauss came as an epiphany. It was, as Kristol has intimated on several occasions, the most important intellectual event of his life. (p. 59)[2]

From Persecution and the Art of Writing, Kristol absorbed the message that philosophers needed to conceal their dangerous doctrines from the masses. Philosophy undermines religious belief and shows also that morality lacks a rational foundation. But without religion and an accepted morality, the social order would be overthrown. Further, if the masses were to become aware of what the philosophers really taught, would they not suppress these dangerous thinkers? Philosophers form an intellectual elite, and they rank far superior to those lacking their wisdom.

The ancient philosophers, mindful of the fate of Socrates, kept always in mind the need to maintain their distance from the masses. The Enlightenment abandoned this antique wisdom.

Whereas Socrates-Plato recognized a wide and unbridgeable chasm between philosophers and nonphilosophers, the engineers of the modern world ­ men such as Bacon, Newton, Locke, and Jefferson ­ thought it possible to make all men reasonable, to bring light to a dark world through reason and science.… The Enlightenment therefore represented for Strauss the democratization and thus the degradation of the Western mind. (pp. 66–7)

Strauss rejected capitalism and individualism, which as he saw them rested on a low view of man. Instead of philosophical wisdom, confined to an elite, as the highest end of the regime, happiness and wealth for the masses became the order of the day.[3]

Strauss argued that the modern liberalism of Locke and Jefferson had distorted the fundamental structure of human existence, that without a summum bonum to guide his life, modern man lacked "completely a star and compass for his life" and was therefore wrenched away from the natural ordering of society. (p. 115)

The Enlightenment taught a further false doctrine: universal human rights. Instead, Strauss believed, there are no unalterably fixed moral standards. The statesman, taught by philosophers, must be guided by prudential judgment about the particular situation he faces. Here precisely is a key point at which Straussian teaching serves to explain neoconservatism. As earlier mentioned, the neocons resolutely reject fixed moral rules and rights.[4]

If Strauss rejected the Enlightenment, he by no means demanded the abolition of individualism and capitalism. To the contrary, the ancient arrangements of the polis could not in our day be restored; and the regime of the American Founding Fathers offered the best available bulwark against relativism and nihilism -- if this regime was suitably controlled behind the scenes by philosophers instructed in Straussian wisdom.

What form would this philosophical guidance take? It is essential that the inferior masses develop virtuous habits, lest their unbridled appetites lead to undue disorder. To inculcate virtue and to weaken the base tendency of people to put their individual well-being ahead of the common good, what better means than a properly conducted war? War teaches self-sacrifice.

The moral component of this is straightforward. As we have seen, the neoconservatives' ethical prescription for ordinary citizens consists in a life of selfless sacrifice to others, in which the individual puts the needs and well-being of others above his own. (p. 180)

Thompson finds in this argument a principal motive for the neocons' support for the Iraq War. The neocons aimed not only to spread democracy as they conceived it to the benighted Iraqis: even more important, they saw the war as a means to discipline and educate the American people.

Thompson and Yaron Brook, the coauthor of the chapter on foreign policy, resolutely reject this approach to foreign policy. To them, wars are justifiable only as a means to avert a genuine threat, and "a real post–September 11 risk assessment of the threat posed by Iraq would not have resulted in finding that Iraq was at the top of the list of potential targets." (p. 179).

Thompson's interpretation of neoconservatism must confront two fundamental challenges. First, does he show that Strauss's view really stand at the base of neoconservatism? A critic might object that what holds true of Irving Kristol might not apply to others in the neoconservative movement. Further, has Thompson correctly interpreted Strauss? Was Strauss an advocate of a particular philosophy in his own right rather than a historian of political thought; and if he did wish to convey a philosophical message, is it the one Thompson attributes to him? I strongly suspect that Thompson can successfully meet these tests. Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea is essential reading for anyone interested in either the neoconservatives or Leo Strauss.




David Gordon covers new books in economics, politics, philosophy, and law for The Mises Review, the quarterly review of literature in the social sciences, published since 1995 by the Mises Institute. He is author of The Essential Rothbard, available in the Mises Store.


Notes

[1] Thompson is an Objectivist, and accordingly believes as a general thesis that ideas determine history. Readers will not fail to recall Leonard Peikoff's endeavor in Ominous Parallels to trace the roots of Nazism to Kant's philosophy. I do not think this effort was entirely successful.

[2] Thompson mentions that Kristol's wife, Gertrude Himmelfarb, also wrote about Strauss. One might also note that his brother-in-law, Milton Himmelfarb, had studied Strauss's works carefully and wrote about Strauss on several occasions. See, e.g., "On Leo Strauss", Commentary (August 1974).

[3] Strauss was influenced in his opposition to capitalism by his friend and academic patron R.H. Tawney, the eminent English socialist. Like Strauss, Tawney deplored what he called the "acquisitive society." See Simon Green, "The Tawney-Strauss Connection: On Historicism and Values in the History of Political Ideas", Journal of Modern History, June 1995.

[4] Ironically, in view of the Objectivist portrayal of Kant as the fons et origo of modern philosophical evil, Straussians such as Harry Jaffa denounce fixed moral rules as Kantian.

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Barry Manilow endorses Ron Paul; at LPAC lunch today Paul may get another major Hollywood endorsement

Actor Jerry Doyle, of Babylon5 fame, spoke at Ron Paul's Liberty Political Action Conference in Reno last night.  And at lunch today at the Liberty Political Action Conference, a fairly major Hollywood actress or actor endorses Ron Paul, following  Barry Manilow endorsement.  I can tell you who in 5 hours.  Check my FaceBook page; maybe I will beat the Caller.

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Re: Stop Socialism!

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just pointing out the problems they cause America and their neighbors.
that almost every country they've inhabited has booted or killed them
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> a true Arayan. She got tired of listening of you
> whine about ZOG!
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Re: Let's privatize Christainity!

go for it!
there are probably people who would purchase the products advertised.
just think ... you could get rich and detest yourself like you do
successful white people

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Government Is Force

"Most people would agree that the sign of an individual's maturity and rationality, not to mention social skills, is her understanding that the cooperation of others must be obtained exclusively through persuasion. If you want something from someone you make an offer or an argument. You don't demand, bully, or terrorize. And yet we tolerate an institution that demands, bullies, and terrorizes as a matter of course across a large and growing range of matters."

The Goal Is Freedom
Government Is Force
A license to aggress.
Sheldon Richman
Posted September 16, 2011

Some pundits really don't understand why libertarians dislike government and therefore want it to do little, if anything at all. Unable to grasp the reason, the pundits assign bad motives to those who disparage government: They don't like poor people, or workers, or the sick, or education.

But what's so hard to understand? Government is significantly different from anything else in society. It is the only institution that can legally threaten and initiate violence; that is, under color of law its officers may use physical force -- not in defense of innocent life but against individuals who have neither threatened nor aggressed against anyone else. "Government is not reason. It is not eloquence," George Washington reportedly said. "Government is force; like fire it is a dangerous servant -- and a fearful master."

That's not a controversial description of the State. Even people enthusiastic about government would agree.

Given this unique feature, why isn't everyone wary about the State? Whether or not one thinks it's necessary, it's dangerous by its very nature, and we ought to assume it will remain so no matter how many paper checks and balances and bills of rights are thought to contain it.

Yet if you talk about government this way, you will be eyed warily and even marginalized. (Observe the current presidential campaign.) This is not confined to one side of the political spectrum only. Progressives and conservatives each have their pet areas where they enthusiastically wish to see the force of government unleashed. Each then regards anyone else's wariness as a defect. So Progressives, who reputedly care about privacy, have no problem, for example, with intrusion into that most personal of matters: medical care. Here they trust power and dismiss rational fears of arbitrary bureaucratic control over health and life. On the other hand, conservatives, who preach freedom and free enterprise, are eager to trust power when the objective is policing the world, hounding unauthorized immigrants, and persecuting manufacturers, merchants, and consumers of unapproved drugs.

We are all raised to believe that using force (except in self-defense) is wrong. We're taught not to hit other people or take their things. This applies to our associations as well. Yet as we grow, we are expected to believe that one institution -- government -- gets to operate by different rules. No one ever explains why.


Tacit Consent

Sure, if you push hard enough, you will hear pseudo explanations. Someone will inevitably invoke tacit consent. You know: You choose to live here and those are the rules -- love it or leave it. But the assertion that we all somehow agreed to be coerced is ludicrous, and Charles Johnson asks if consent is even possible when the withholding of consent is deemed impossible.

Moreover this argument implies that the government owns the country, including your property, which begs a big question.

Push harder, and someone will invoke democracy, but again that really gets us nowhere. In my lifetime the only elections have been to determine who would run the government, not what its powers, if any, would be. (Yes, candidates sometimes promise to reduce  government power, but since one officeholder can't keep such a promise, it's not terribly meaningful.) The fiction of democratic representation is more intended to contain dissent than to describe reality. Let's get real: The average congressional district has more than 600,000 residents. Taxation with real representation has yet to be realized.

Most people would agree that the sign of an individual's maturity and rationality, not to mention social skills, is her understanding that the cooperation of others must be obtained exclusively through persuasion. If you want something from someone you make an offer or an argument. You don't demand, bully, or terrorize. And yet we tolerate an institution that demands, bullies, and terrorizes as a matter of course across a large and growing range of matters. It doesn't demand merely that we not harm others or take their belongings. It bullies us into turning over our money for all kinds of purposes. It demands that we comply with its (ever-changing) rules about what we consume, how we manage our medical care, and in what manner we trade with others. And it increasingly terrorizes us in its brutal crusade against self-medication.


Routinely Hassled

It matters not for my purpose today whether the government's officers think they are looking out for our welfare, indulging their taste for power, or doing the bidding of well-connected and well-heeled interests. The result is the same: We are routinely hassled in our efforts to live, to cooperate, and to mutually benefit one another. We are the economy they presume to manage.

Apologists for power will claim that without expansive government, the weak will be vulnerable to the strong, the masses to the rich. But that appeal falls apart when one reviews the history of government and realizes that, appearances aside, power ultimately sides with the strong and the rich against the rest. Indeed, power -- what Bastiat called "legal plunder" -- is the source of their strength and a good deal of wealth.

Economic and social theory furnish ample reason for wariness about the State. But we mustn't let moral theory take a back seat. Government, even when it appears to do good, diminishes our freedom and humanity. How revoltingly ironic that people who claim to champion goodwill and cooperation regard violence as a legitimate means to their ends.


http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/government-is-force/

Tenth Amendment 'Terrorism'


Tenth Amendment 'Terrorism'
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. is terrified. He is terrified that the American public has started to believe that they are the masters rather than the servants of their own government. He is terrified that they may have started to think that the old Jeffersonian dictum that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed is not such a bad idea. Most of all, he is terrified that the public will act on these beliefs, organize themselves into political communities at the state level, and oppose socialized healthcare, endless "stimulus" spending by the federal government, and the never-ending expansion of the welfare state.

"I have introduced an Economic Bill of Rights!", he whined, while bemoaning citizen opposition to this hoary socialistic scheme. That's why he is doing what all Democrats seem to do these days – insinuating that anyone who holds such beliefs is either a racist, as he did in a recent speech, or a member of a "hate group" (or both).

There are a lot of black people on welfare, you see, so that in the mind of Jesse Jackson, Jr., (and his friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center and other Democratic Party appendages), is the only conceivable reason why anyone would ever criticize the welfare state is racial hatred. The Obama regime promised a "post-racial America" while working diligently with all of its supporters to create a hyper-racial America instead.

In his recent bloviation Congressman Jackson bemoaned the fact that politicians like Governor Rick Perry of Texas have been talking a lot lately about states' rights and the Tenth Amendment as tools with which ordinary Americans can oppose the corrupt, imperious regime in Washington, D.C. This of course is the very reason why Thomas Jefferson believed that the Tenth Amendment ("The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people") was the cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution and the key to creating what he called "an empire of liberty." The clearest example of this Jeffersonian states' rights tradition is the first section of Jefferson's famous Kentucky Resolution of 1798 (written by Jefferson at the request of his friend, Senator John Breckenridge of Kentucky) which announced that the citizens of Kentucky would not abide by the unconstitutional Sedition Act that was being enforced by the Adams administration. The Sedition Act essentially outlawed free political speech in America by making it a crime punishable by prison for criticizing the Adams administration. Section 1 of the "Kentucky Resolve" reads as follows:

Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principles of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, delegated to that Government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self Government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force . . . . the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers . . . (emphasis added).

This, along with the Tenth Amendment, is the essence of the Jeffersonian states' rights philosophy. During Jefferson's term as president the New England states used the language of the Kentucky Resolve to nullify the trade embargo that Jefferson attempted to enforce after the British confiscated American ships and conscripted American sailors. (He believed that a trade embargo, as damaging as it was, was a better alternative than another war with Great Britain). All of New England, plus Delaware, nullified the embargo as an unconstitutional usurpation of federal power, and used Jefferson's own language to justify their actions.

New Englanders also refused to participate in the War of 1812 by refusing to send militia troops by citing once again Jefferson's Kentucky Resolve. Many states assisted President Andrew Jackson in is political battle with the Bank of the United States (which he eventually de-funded) by trying to tax branches of the BUS out of existence. Ohio took the lead, with its legislature announcing that "the States have an equal right to interpret the Constitution for themselves" and that Ohio would withdraw "the protection and aid of the laws of the State" from the BUS (see James J. Kilpatrick, The Sovereign States, p. 152). And of course South Carolina famously invoked the Jeffersonian states' rights tradition to nullify the hated 1828 "Tariff of Abominations."

Congressman Jackson sees it all very differently. He views states' rights not through the eyes of a student of American history who is familiar with such facts. Instead, he views states' rights from the viewpoint of what he is, namely, a Chicago political hack who never hesitates to use the "race card" to try to get his way in politics. Like father, like son. Accordingly, he recently proclaimed that Governor Perry – or anyone else who invokes the Tenth Amendment as a political strategy – must be inflicted by the basest of motives. "It was the Tenth Amendment and States' Rights that protected the institution of slavery," he shouted. In fact, the exact opposite is true.

Slavery existed in all states when the federal Constitution was ratified in 1789 and was protected by it until the states ratified the Thirteenth Amendment in 1866. That's seventy-seven years of slavery protection by the federal government. In addition, the federal Fugitive Slave Act (which was very strongly supported by Abraham Lincoln) socialized the cost of enforcing the slave system by forcing the citizens of states where slavery no longer existed to capture runaway slaves and return them to their owners. Congressman Jackson is apparently unaware that this was a federal government program.

More importantly, it was the Jeffersonian states' rights tradition that was invoked to oppose the Fugitive Slave Act in the form of various "personal liberty laws" at the state level. In response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania all passed state laws that prohibited the use of the state's jails for detaining fugitive slaves. They also provided legal counsel for persons accused of being fugitive slaves; gave fugitive slaves the right of Habeas Corpus and trial by jury; required the identity of the alleged fugitive to be documented by two witnesses; prohibited the states from offering any assistants to the claimants; and imposed heavy fines for attempting to claim that a free black person was in fact a slave.

Another false claim that Congressman Jackson made in his recent anti-Tenth Amendment outburst was that when the Southern states seceded they committed "an act of treason." Once again, he gets it exactly backwards. The U.S. Constitution has a very clear definition of treason in Article 3, Section 3: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them aid and comfort." As in all the founding documents, the words "United States" are always in the plural, signifying that the document is referring to what the Declaration of Independence called "the free and independent states." "Levying war against them" means levying war against the free and independent states, or giving aid and comfort to "their" enemies.

Abraham Lincoln never conceded that secession was legal. He therefore committed treason by levying war upon the Southern states, which never legally left the union as far as he was concerned. It was the Lincoln regime's invasion of the Southern states that was the very definition of treason under the U.S. Constitution. Congressman Jackson follows a long line of conniving statists, beginning with Daniel Webster himself, who have chosen to ignore the actual constitutional definition of treason while redefining the term to mean the opposite – opposition to the unconstitutional usurpations of the federal government.

Government will never be limited unless the citizens take matters into their own hands by resurrecting the states' rights mechanisms of nullification, interposition, and secession.

http://lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo214.html

The Fasco-Communist Police State of America


The Fasco-Communist Police State of America
by Jeff Berwick

Woe to the average American. The US Government has taken all the worst parts of every heinous government system and combined them all into one viral new strain.

If you were to say the US is fascist, you'd be right.

FASCISM

Fascism
, according to Wikipedia, is defined as "a radical, authoritarian nationalist political ideology. It advocates the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through indoctrination, physical education, and family policy (such as eugenics)."

Let's break that down word by word.

Radical: Political Radicalism is defined as being "political principles focused on altering social structures."

Check. The US Government has a never ending list of social structure changing laws, regulations and programs from "affirmative action" to welfare systems which encourage single parent families as well as having started the "women's liberation movement" in order to get women out of the house and get their children into the government indoctrination camps (more on that below) for longer periods of time.

Authoritarian: Authoritarianism is defined as "a form of social organization characterized by submission to authority."

Check. As Congressman Pete Stark stated, " The Federal Government can do most anything in this country." From no-knock raids to torture to concentration camps (Guantanamo Bay) to undeclared, illegal wars to secret CIA prisons throughout the world, the US Government has shown and even has said it can do whatever it wants.

Nationalist: Nationalism is defined as "a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms."

Check. After decades of forcing children to chant the "pledge of allegiance" and constantly repeating nationalist rhetoric brainwashing via the government controlled mainstream media, grown men stand up and sing the national anthem at sporting events on their own volition.

Single-Party State.

Check. Most of the world looks at the US "democractic" system as being laughable for only having two real political parties. But the truth of the matter, as most have been discovering, is that it is even worse than that. There really is only one political party. The Republicrats. The Democrats and Republicans say different things but do the same thing. Proof of this can be seen in Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama, having not only ended the Bush wars, but having added to them now with his attack on Libya on top of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Indoctrination

Check. Vladimir Lenin once said, "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." He never could have dreamed of a state where children are forced into child indoctrination camps for eight hours per day for 12 years. During those twelve years they are never told what money is nor how the money system or central bank in the US work. Instead they are forced to memorize propaganda and lies about American history.

Speaking of Lenin, if you were to say the US is turning communist, you'd also be right.

COMMUNISM

Marx detailed the 10 essential tenets of communism as:
  • Central banking system
  • Government controlled education
  • Government controlled labor
  • Government ownership of transportation and communication vehicles
  • Government ownership of agricultural means and factories
  • Total abolition of private property
  • Property rights confiscation
  • Heavy income tax on everyone
  • Elimination of rights of inheritance
  • Regional planning

The US Government adheres to more than a few.

1. Central Banking System

Check. Federal Reserve, installed since 1913.

2. Government Controlled Education

Check. In 1821, Boston started the first public high school in the United States. By the close of the 19th century, public secondary schools began to outnumber private ones and now, in the 21st century the education system is almost completely controlled by the government. And they've been doing a great job of dumbing down the population. A viewing of Jay Leno's old, " Jaywalking" is more than proof of that.

3. Government Controlled Labor

Luckily, this one isn't ubiquitous, but VP Joe Biden's talk to union labor and Jimmy Hoffa's recent "this is war" rally cry shows the movement is alive and well.

4. Government Control of Transportation and Communication

Again, not ubiquitous, but the US Government owns Amtrak, owns almost all roads, owned GMC and for all intents and purposes is one and the same with mainstream media.

5. Heavy Income Tax on Everyone

Check!

6. Elimination of Rights of Inheritance

Check. Inheritance tax.

Six out of ten? That's close enough. And a case could be made for 8 or 9 of them.

So, is the US Government fascist or communist? You'd be right if you answered both.

And, to top it off, it is also a police state. Ask any child who has tried to open a lemonade stand in the land of the free. To see the latest egregious example of the police state, check out this story. These guys have been given 200 tickets and been arrested numerous times for trying to give pedestrians low speed rides in electric vehicles on a tip basis!

America was a great idea. That idea died decades ago. What has slithered in, in its place, is the worst parts of all the worst forms of government.

Some believe it can be fixed. We don't. It will get much worse before it gets better.

http://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2011/9/13/the-fasco-communist-police-state-of-america.html

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