OK, it is late night, and I am thinking, and this MAY be a stretch, but bear with me!
Guys know about Penthouse Forum letters. An average guy, doin nothing – no effort – no work, suddenly has his wildest fantasies come true with 2, 3, 4 maybe even 10 of the most gorgeous, well built women in the world. They just have too – they cant HELP but be attracted, and desire to fulfill his every wish. They are ONLY human after all! How can they NOT want to please HIM/YOU!?!?!
Watching porn is the same way!
Guy sittin there, doing nothing, and a perfect 10 comes and BEGS to be with him!.
Reminds me a lot of the left wing liberal/socialists.
Just sit there, do nothing – all your wildest most desirable dreams will come true because “WE” want to fulfill them for you!
Somehow, it never seems to happen in real life for me. How about you?
Ever have anything REALLY be free?
Ever have the government REALLY help you?
Ever have a movie star knock on your door and BEG you to show her your manhood?
I am bettin the answer to all of that is, no. In fact, I bet it is HELL no!
So why do we keep listening to these idjits in Washington?
Just wanted to ask……………….
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Showing posts with label Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Government. Show all posts
Friday, October 9, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
MORE help from the Gov'mt
Ah lawd - I am gettin weary, but, I will press on.
Railroads: took over they went bust.
Airlines: they took over they went bust.
Post Office: they took over they went bust.
Medicare/Medicaid: they initiated it they are bust.
Social Security/retirement: they took over they are bust.
Now one you might not know about. Small family farms: we all know they disappeared. But why?
Farmers Home Loan Administration; that is why. Let me explain what happened.
The Gov’mt decided the small family farmer needed help. And they stepped in.
They did a massive, multi-billion dollar study on farms, and developed flow charts, and business plans for a successful farm. They even regionalized it. But, the majority of old “Family farms” did not fit in the scenario they developed. For one thing, there are drastic differences between localities, sections, areas, and regions.
A great example is the family farm I grew up on. It was 150 acres. So they figured 150 acres, less 5 for housing, leaves 145 for farming. Said 145 acres should produce X bushel of crops. If that was not happening, then we were inefficient.
Problem one – of the 150 acres, 50 were not even able to have a tractor driven on it. Another 50 were in timber that would cost more to clear than it would produce over 10 years. That left 50 acres, minus homestead of 5, so therefore 45 acres farmable, not 145.
Those 45 acres would not produce crops the same way that their charts showed. So 100 acres short of their estimate, and a lower yield per acre to boot, they determined WE were either not trying, or were not efficient.
We needed a bigger tractor, bigger planters, harvesters, storage, and on and on.
Not only did they say we needed it they demanded it. We already had our primary land loan with them, and if we wanted that loan renewed, we would follow their advise; period.
So we bought a big tractor, that hardly had room to turn around, but still needed the SMALLER equipment to finish the job.
Production did not meet their charts, and it was obviously our fault. After all, we had 145 acres at X bushels, and only produced 45 acres at Y bushels.
They were the government, the experts, the ‘know-all’, and we were ‘stupid farmers’.
In the end, a farm that produced $40,000 before expenses, had $300,000 in debt, and the payments to go with it.
And these are the same ‘geniuses’ we want to solve our economy, and health expense problems.
GUGHABOHICA (Grease Up Grab Hold And Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!)
Railroads: took over they went bust.
Airlines: they took over they went bust.
Post Office: they took over they went bust.
Medicare/Medicaid: they initiated it they are bust.
Social Security/retirement: they took over they are bust.
Now one you might not know about. Small family farms: we all know they disappeared. But why?
Farmers Home Loan Administration; that is why. Let me explain what happened.
The Gov’mt decided the small family farmer needed help. And they stepped in.
They did a massive, multi-billion dollar study on farms, and developed flow charts, and business plans for a successful farm. They even regionalized it. But, the majority of old “Family farms” did not fit in the scenario they developed. For one thing, there are drastic differences between localities, sections, areas, and regions.
A great example is the family farm I grew up on. It was 150 acres. So they figured 150 acres, less 5 for housing, leaves 145 for farming. Said 145 acres should produce X bushel of crops. If that was not happening, then we were inefficient.
Problem one – of the 150 acres, 50 were not even able to have a tractor driven on it. Another 50 were in timber that would cost more to clear than it would produce over 10 years. That left 50 acres, minus homestead of 5, so therefore 45 acres farmable, not 145.
Those 45 acres would not produce crops the same way that their charts showed. So 100 acres short of their estimate, and a lower yield per acre to boot, they determined WE were either not trying, or were not efficient.
We needed a bigger tractor, bigger planters, harvesters, storage, and on and on.
Not only did they say we needed it they demanded it. We already had our primary land loan with them, and if we wanted that loan renewed, we would follow their advise; period.
So we bought a big tractor, that hardly had room to turn around, but still needed the SMALLER equipment to finish the job.
Production did not meet their charts, and it was obviously our fault. After all, we had 145 acres at X bushels, and only produced 45 acres at Y bushels.
They were the government, the experts, the ‘know-all’, and we were ‘stupid farmers’.
In the end, a farm that produced $40,000 before expenses, had $300,000 in debt, and the payments to go with it.
And these are the same ‘geniuses’ we want to solve our economy, and health expense problems.
GUGHABOHICA (Grease Up Grab Hold And Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!)
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
A BIT MORE ON KEYNES AND SMITH
OK, so Keynes was an easy topic. You take from the rich (who are few) and give to the poor (which are many), and you are popular for a few years. Of course, as Ayn Rand alluded to in “Atlas Shrugged”, eventually the rich leave the taxing area, and then no one has money. But by then, the ones that started the problem are dead, and someone else has to try to fix it.
Smith is more complex (but it works).
If there is a need, then human greed will create it, so it can be sold for a profit.
If you are making a profit, someone will try to get ‘in on it’ by producing it and selling it cheaper; ergo prices are controlled.
If there is competition, quality will become an issue, so employers will offer slightly higher wages for talented people, Wages are controlled.
As prices and wages are controlled, efficiency increases to enhance profits. Innovation is encouraged.
As innovation increases, efficiency goes up, allowing competition to reduce prices slightly, and increase wages slightly, to increase profits. The “Market” is working.
Now enter Government. They see a need to regulate and tax, which increases costs, thereby increasing prices, resulting in lowering demand, that forces producers to lower prices by reducing costs to get sales. This means no more research for innovation, and reduced wages to produce the product in an affordable manner.
Reduced wages, is a part of a reduced work force. Since these people are now out of work, the government again steps in to ‘help’ them, by giving benefits, with money they don’t have. To get the money, they increase taxes, which increases costs to producers, etc, etc, etc.
Smith had a simple idea.
Economics is a natural evolution of human nature. Leave it alone, and it will work.
Intervene and it will fail.
Next I will mention some of the ‘Interventions’ the government has had in the past. The list is long and bloody.
Smith is more complex (but it works).
If there is a need, then human greed will create it, so it can be sold for a profit.
If you are making a profit, someone will try to get ‘in on it’ by producing it and selling it cheaper; ergo prices are controlled.
If there is competition, quality will become an issue, so employers will offer slightly higher wages for talented people, Wages are controlled.
As prices and wages are controlled, efficiency increases to enhance profits. Innovation is encouraged.
As innovation increases, efficiency goes up, allowing competition to reduce prices slightly, and increase wages slightly, to increase profits. The “Market” is working.
Now enter Government. They see a need to regulate and tax, which increases costs, thereby increasing prices, resulting in lowering demand, that forces producers to lower prices by reducing costs to get sales. This means no more research for innovation, and reduced wages to produce the product in an affordable manner.
Reduced wages, is a part of a reduced work force. Since these people are now out of work, the government again steps in to ‘help’ them, by giving benefits, with money they don’t have. To get the money, they increase taxes, which increases costs to producers, etc, etc, etc.
Smith had a simple idea.
Economics is a natural evolution of human nature. Leave it alone, and it will work.
Intervene and it will fail.
Next I will mention some of the ‘Interventions’ the government has had in the past. The list is long and bloody.
Monday, June 22, 2009
American Czars- Are you KIDDING ME?????
For over 50 years, we had a cold war ……………..Many you have no clue what that meant. But I remember, and I am only 55.
I remember people building ’bomb shelters’. Barely underground, stocked with maybe a months worth of fruits and vegetables, and a single cot. I remember being told how to protect myself, and practicing the technique of “Duck and Cover”.
Think hard and long about that.
Age 5 to 18, ……………….kids …………. Told that in the event of a nuclear bomb, all we had to do was duck under our wooden desks, put our hands over our heads, and we would be safe………………………….. OUR Government told us that – our parents, teachers and ministers, re-enforced the truth in it, as they were led to believe.
We all believed.
And the word ‘Czar', was the title used for a Russian Leader – the enemy – the ones that would send this bomb.
Yet now today, we have Czars in America, No one seems to know the true count – 14, 16, maybe 20?
OK OK OK - I know that isnt their 'official' title. But as they say, if it walks like a duck etc.
The very idea is insulting, and fearsome. But look at what they are, and how they got there. Like the rulers of Russia, they have power; but from here, and what authority?
They can ‘make rules’, ‘establish ‘edits’, and ‘make policy’. But the President does not HAVE that authority to give them!
Those 'create' laws – which can only be established by Congress!
That places them ABOVE the Cabinet. A Cabinet, that is ‘recommended’ by the President, but is ALSO Investigated (vetted), and APPROVED by Congress!!!!!
Ah – but see – Czars are not covered in the law, or tort, or the constitution …….. so no one, OTHER than the Pres – decides.
In all my years, I have never been so afraid of ANY government ……………. And it is ours that terrifies me!
I remember people building ’bomb shelters’. Barely underground, stocked with maybe a months worth of fruits and vegetables, and a single cot. I remember being told how to protect myself, and practicing the technique of “Duck and Cover”.
Think hard and long about that.
Age 5 to 18, ……………….kids …………. Told that in the event of a nuclear bomb, all we had to do was duck under our wooden desks, put our hands over our heads, and we would be safe………………………….. OUR Government told us that – our parents, teachers and ministers, re-enforced the truth in it, as they were led to believe.
We all believed.
And the word ‘Czar', was the title used for a Russian Leader – the enemy – the ones that would send this bomb.
Yet now today, we have Czars in America, No one seems to know the true count – 14, 16, maybe 20?
OK OK OK - I know that isnt their 'official' title. But as they say, if it walks like a duck etc.
The very idea is insulting, and fearsome. But look at what they are, and how they got there. Like the rulers of Russia, they have power; but from here, and what authority?
They can ‘make rules’, ‘establish ‘edits’, and ‘make policy’. But the President does not HAVE that authority to give them!
Those 'create' laws – which can only be established by Congress!
That places them ABOVE the Cabinet. A Cabinet, that is ‘recommended’ by the President, but is ALSO Investigated (vetted), and APPROVED by Congress!!!!!
Ah – but see – Czars are not covered in the law, or tort, or the constitution …….. so no one, OTHER than the Pres – decides.
In all my years, I have never been so afraid of ANY government ……………. And it is ours that terrifies me!
Sunday, June 7, 2009
"Oh no - we don't discuss that in OUR house!"
I can’t pinpoint when the change was, but it certainly happened.
Based on my family, as near as I can tell, it was somewhere between the 1920’s and 1940’s. Open to comments on that.
But ………. somewhere along the line, it became ‘taboo’ to discuss politics, and religion. Many said ”It only causes arguments, and I won’t stand for that in MY house!”.
In hindsight, this appears to me a HUGE mistake.
The result is, between 1 and 3 generations of people in this country, that have NO clue about their own religion, OR about the historic events that caused the shaping of this country.
On religion, we have so many misconceptions, that it is crazy. That will be another days discussion.
What is wrong with the Government helping a company with money? What is wrong with passing federal laws that the majority wants? What is wrong with recognizing that there is a class of people that minimize, and take advantage of the ‘little people’? What is wrong with taxing the greedy fat-cat corporate owners, so the employees have a bigger share of the profits? What is wrong with passing mandates that protect people from themselves?
First, we are NOT a democracy – never have been. We are a Democratic-Republic. If you do not know the difference, then read about it, find out about ‘states rights’ and individual freedom’.
In a Democratic-Republic, with a Capitalist economy, Government has NO place in ANY business. The economics of supply and demand solves it all. Supply and Demand ALSO takes care of the ‘fat-cat’ versus ‘little people/employees’ problem. It is not the job of the government to protect us from our own stupidity, period. If you are stupid enough to make toast in the shower, then it is better to get you out of the gene pool so you wont produce stupid kids. It is sad, yes, but nature has a way to cull the unfit. We have sidetracked it, and EVERY time you fight nature, the results are horrible.
Those people that take advantage, the fat-cats ……. THEY are the ones that sign our paychecks. Ruin them and you ruin your job, and the job of everyone that works there. Think they are making SO much selling for a high price, and paying too little? Then start a competing company, pay higher wages, sell for a slightly lower price. Then you will capture the market…… or not. You MAY find out, that there is a HUGE difference between millions in sales, and millions in profits. You may find out that the union demands are bankrupting the company (can you say ….. GM?).
By NOT talking about politics, most people today, can not see that we are taking the same paths as Marx, Mussolini, Lenin, Hitler, and in some ways Mao Tse Tung, Castro, Chavez, and many others. We are heading in a very bad direction.
All because someone decided it was not ‘polite’ to discuss it. So no one learned. We have ‘polited’ ourselves into destruction.
They say negotiate. Good idea, next time you are faced with a robber, a murderer, a rapist – just negotiate with them!
We MUST talk to challenge ourselves, and each other. To examine our own thoughts more closely, AND to teach future generations, or we condemn them to be enslaved by those that know how.
next: Sotomayor - applauding failure
Based on my family, as near as I can tell, it was somewhere between the 1920’s and 1940’s. Open to comments on that.
But ………. somewhere along the line, it became ‘taboo’ to discuss politics, and religion. Many said ”It only causes arguments, and I won’t stand for that in MY house!”.
In hindsight, this appears to me a HUGE mistake.
The result is, between 1 and 3 generations of people in this country, that have NO clue about their own religion, OR about the historic events that caused the shaping of this country.
On religion, we have so many misconceptions, that it is crazy. That will be another days discussion.
What is wrong with the Government helping a company with money? What is wrong with passing federal laws that the majority wants? What is wrong with recognizing that there is a class of people that minimize, and take advantage of the ‘little people’? What is wrong with taxing the greedy fat-cat corporate owners, so the employees have a bigger share of the profits? What is wrong with passing mandates that protect people from themselves?
First, we are NOT a democracy – never have been. We are a Democratic-Republic. If you do not know the difference, then read about it, find out about ‘states rights’ and individual freedom’.
In a Democratic-Republic, with a Capitalist economy, Government has NO place in ANY business. The economics of supply and demand solves it all. Supply and Demand ALSO takes care of the ‘fat-cat’ versus ‘little people/employees’ problem. It is not the job of the government to protect us from our own stupidity, period. If you are stupid enough to make toast in the shower, then it is better to get you out of the gene pool so you wont produce stupid kids. It is sad, yes, but nature has a way to cull the unfit. We have sidetracked it, and EVERY time you fight nature, the results are horrible.
Those people that take advantage, the fat-cats ……. THEY are the ones that sign our paychecks. Ruin them and you ruin your job, and the job of everyone that works there. Think they are making SO much selling for a high price, and paying too little? Then start a competing company, pay higher wages, sell for a slightly lower price. Then you will capture the market…… or not. You MAY find out, that there is a HUGE difference between millions in sales, and millions in profits. You may find out that the union demands are bankrupting the company (can you say ….. GM?).
By NOT talking about politics, most people today, can not see that we are taking the same paths as Marx, Mussolini, Lenin, Hitler, and in some ways Mao Tse Tung, Castro, Chavez, and many others. We are heading in a very bad direction.
All because someone decided it was not ‘polite’ to discuss it. So no one learned. We have ‘polited’ ourselves into destruction.
They say negotiate. Good idea, next time you are faced with a robber, a murderer, a rapist – just negotiate with them!
We MUST talk to challenge ourselves, and each other. To examine our own thoughts more closely, AND to teach future generations, or we condemn them to be enslaved by those that know how.
next: Sotomayor - applauding failure
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