Freedom, Health, and Prosperity

We’re on an important mission to live happier lives with greater freedom, health, and prosperity, no matter what Obama, the FDA, the Federal Reserve… and all their accomplices in Washington do.

Laissez Faire Club

Buy a stronger whip!

The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that: "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."

However, in government (and academia) more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:

1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.

5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living impaired.

7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.

10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.

11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

And, of course ...

13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

Someone from Texas via the Sovereign Digest, March 2, 2014

End of the American Dream

About 237 years ago the leaders of our country gathered to form a new government. This land would be governed by individuals who were freely elected by the majority of the people. This land would encourage freedom, democracy and fulfillment, by proclaiming that all people had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This would be the land of opportunity.

In this land of opportunity every individual would be encouraged to contribute to the economic system and would be rewarded according to that contribution. This land would have low rates of taxation and a limited role for government. That would ensure freedom and just rewards for all contributions. This would be the land of opportunity.

That land is rapidly being destroyed by our new lords, the politicians. We, the new serfs, will be required to work for the government, and in return we will be entitled to the so-called “protection and justice" of the government to maintain our own subsistence. We will often be required not only to work our “own” government jobs, but also other projects the government deems more important, such as infrastructure, disasters, and wars.

The government, rather than individuals, will form the basic unit of our society, and the government and we, the serfs, will be bound legally, economically, and socially. We will become the biggest, poorest, and lowest social class of society. The politicians will become the smallest, most wealthy, and vastly superior class of society.

What a tragedy for the dream of individuals (Americans) which will be extinguished by a complete totalitarian governmental world.

Make America a Safer Place

Make America a safer place...carry a gun.

Duty to Contribute to Security

A citizen who shirks his duty to contribute to the security of his community is little better than the criminal who threatens it.

Robert Boatman

More Guns, Less Crime

If you are a home or business invader (i.e. criminal), are you going to invade a home or business where there probably are firearms, or are you going to invade a home where there probably are no firearms?  Seems like a "no brainer".

Statistically, scientifically, and really, violent crime rates go down when states pass "shall issue" concealed carry laws.  This, according to John Lott, who published a statistical analysis of crime data for every county in the United States during 29 years from 1977 to 2005.

Me

Don't Live Just to Live!

Apparently, older people take less risks.  Why? 

If you have less to look forward to, i.e. less to lose, why wouldn't you take on more risk for greater experiences, e.g. walking the entire Pyrenees following the GR10 hiking route from coast to coast?

Why keep living just for the sake of living?

Me