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Progressive Goal of Poverty for All

Posted by Christian Prophet | 11/09/2009

"This is not a slippery slope. This is falling off a cliff!" --David Boaz

It's hard to see the 1,994-page bill that the House passed last night as anything (other than a government takeover). After all, the bill uses the command "shall" -- as in "you shall do this," "businesses shall do that" and "government shall do some other thing" -- 3,345 times.

Not a great deal of choice or options there.

To make sure that we obey these "shalls," the bill would create 111 government agencies, boards, commissions and other bureaucracies -- all overseen by a new health-care czar bearing the Orwellian title "commissioner of health choices."

All this would come at a true cost of more than $1.3 trillion over 10 years. And virtually every aspect of health care would be subject to federal regulation. -- Michael Tanner

If federal debt continues rising on its present path, hastened by a $1 trillion health-care bill, it is the poor and vulnerable who will be most harmed. -- Fred Hiatt

It's time for Americans of left, right, and center to say that this is not the economic system we want. If you still have warm feelings toward Obama and his good intentions, ask yourself this: Will you feel comfortable one day when the appointees of President Romney or President Palin are exercising unconstitutional, unauthorized, unreviewable authority to restructure the economy the way they see fit? -- David Boaz

Read entire Boaz article: When government slippery slope goes vertical

Is America now a fascist state?

fas-cism
noun
a socialist governmental system led by a dominant party which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.

free-dom
noun
one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with some rules, but with no restrictions forced on people.

If you are just waking up to your innate libertarian side and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of Obama's religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, Atlas Shrugged

For the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: Course in Political Miracles

For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: Christianity vs. State Socialism

“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." (Prayer from A Course in Miracles)

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This is John Galt Speaking!

Posted by Christian Prophet | 11/06/2009

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"Stop supporting your own destroyers!"

The Democratic Party in America is seeped in the morality of evil: majority rule trumps individual rights. It's okay to rob from the truly productive members of society, as long as you have the votes. As John Galt puts it in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged: "You may do whatever you please to your neighbor, provided your gang is bigger than his."

In the latest example, most Americans do not want government-mandated health care reform. Obama's answer: "Shove it down their throats! We won the election, didn't we?" We have the power, don't we?"

The question is: will Americans meekly "go along" after Obama's thugs pass their agenda into "law?" Or will Americans say, "Enough is enough! We will not cooperate with this! Nor will we pay for it!"

But wait a minute! Such resistance would be illegal. There are heavy financial penalties for "not going along." Ultimately you could end up in jail.

True enough, but notice ... you are safe if you don't produce anything. There is no penalty if you don't work. You will not be hounded by the IRS if you drop out and live below their artificially designated "poverty level." It is only the hard workers who are penalized, only society's producers.

Is there any wonder why America's economy is in shambles?

Do you want to really understand the morality of Obama's Democrats? Read Atlas Shrugged.

Is America now a fascist state?

fas-cism
noun
a socialist governmental system led by a dominant party which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.

free-dom
noun
one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with some rules, but with no restrictions forced on people.

If you are just waking up to your innate libertarian side and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of Obama's religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand Revival?

Posted by Christian Prophet | 10/11/2009

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Book Review: Will Ayn Rand FINALLY influence the American political right?

With Obama's fascism taking over America, the question arises: can the American political right find ways to stop America's headlong race down the road to serfdom?

To even have hope of stopping the leftist and union thugs who have come into power, right wing lovers of freedom must gain a thorough understanding of the left, and more importantly must come to understand how people on the right cause their own defeat by means of what Ayn Rand calls "the sanction of the victim."

In her new book, Goddess of the Market, University of Virginia historian Jennifer Burns goes along with the subtitle: Ayn Rand and the American Right, seeming to indicate that Ayn Rand might somehow have something to do with the modern political right wing.

Ayn Rand avoided contact with and spent a lot of time fighting the American right. She saw most right-wingers as hopelessly politically naive. If she were alive today she would most certainly pin responsibility for the Obama fascist takeover on the foolishness of the right.

Can America turn away from the road to serfdom? Unquestionably! But the American political right desperately needs the political insight which Ayn Rand provides. Because of this, the subtitle of Jennifer Burns' book might just serve the cause of freedom. With such a subtitle, maybe some right-wingers will be attracted to Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.

One seemingly insurmountable barrier to the political right's willingness to really take seriously Ayn Rand's ideas is her loudly professed atheism. In this respect, Rand seems like a leftist. Therefore many on the American right knee-jerk reflexively stay away from Rand.

The problem is most people on the political right are hesitant to admit that a person can be spiritual without being religious. Since Rand is anti-religion, she couldn't possibly be spiritual, right?

Meanwhile, as if in a cosmic joke, the American political left has elevated Marxist ideas to religious status. The left will not question Marx, but accepts his nonsense on faith, mindlessly worships government, and works day and night and weekends 24-7 with furious religious fervor to expand government control over people.

re-li-gious: -adjective; scrupulously faithful; conscientious.

spir-it-u-al: -adjective; of or pertaining to the spirit or soul, as distinguished from the physical nature.

fas-cism
noun
a socialist governmental system led by a dominant party which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.

free-dom
noun
one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with some rules, but with no restrictions forced on people.

If you are just waking up to your innate libertarian side and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of Obama's religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, Atlas Shrugged

Real Heroes of the Forgotten Man: Libertarians

Posted by Christian Prophet | 10/03/2009

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If "libertarianism" means anything, it means abandonment now and always of government attempts to better the lives of citizens economically.

In the news: 263,000 jobs lost in September; jobless rate 9.8%

The Obama Administration is following exactly the same steps as the Roosevelt Administration took in the 1930s: attempting to "cure" an economic recession by vast government expenditures to fund utopian "welfare" programs. Just as in the 1930s, insane government spending is deepening the recession into a depression. Increasingly Americans find themselves at the mercy of a government elite who know not what they do.

Government by so-called "Progressives" can only be regressive, can only create more poverty than ever, can only lead to citizen-slaves going through the motions and feeling their spirit only in forbidden black markets, can only lead to martial law and slavery to government. Just as human beings were not born to live under water like fish or to fly from treetop to treetop like birds, so it is not and can never be a proper function of governments to provide for the economic welfare of people.

Libertarians say "No!" to the welfare state if it means the state telling people how they must live and robbing people of the opportunity to learn how to survive and thrive through lessons they create for themselves.

Libertarians are grounded in natural law, not man-made law. They see that human beings find it necessary to form governments for one and only one reason: to hold up before them reminders of the laws given by God (or by "common sense" if you consider yourself an atheist). People cannot live together in peace if they are allowed to murder each other, steal from each other, bear false witness (lie about each other), defraud each other, etc. The highest good for everyone is served only when men and women live by a "rule of law," but not just any law; not man-made law stiffling spirit in the hopes of lessening material challenges.

Amity Shlaes illustrates how stary-eyed communist sympathizers ruled during the Roosevelt Administration and would have wrecked the American economy forever had it not been for a few heroic men and women who said "No!" to an American fascism masquerading under the label "Progressive." Her book, The Forgotton Man, is a must read.

Congressman Ron Paul's Solution to Medical Care

Posted by Christian Prophet | 9/07/2009

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To paraphrase Bill Clinton: "It's the free market, stupid!"

Surely Dr. Ron Paul would not call anyone "stupid," as has been Bill Clinton's habit. But maybe he would admit that "liberals" and "progressives" have fallen for brainwashing without considering every possible factor: past, present, and future; from the broadest viewpoint to the narrowest viewpoint, the forest to the trees, so to speak.

A free market is like what Christians call Holy Spirit, it knows everything (the interaction of every forest and every tree that ever existed) and serves everyone's best interests (even if one's best interests in a given situation are very tough lessons).

A free market is aware of facts which government planners could never know, which is why government planners always mess up society and a free market always makes everyone much better off in every way.

"Progressives," or as they used to be called "fascists," see problems with free market solutions, but as with the proverbial "beauty," "problems" are often in the eyes of the beholder, and at any rate government force can never be a moral solution to any "problem" other than some bad guy's immoral initiation of force or fraud.

Ron Paul knows that forcing people into a government system is wrong, and therefore cannot work. How can "liberals" and "progressives" be so blind as to not see this?

fas-cism
noun
a socialist governmental system led by a dominant party which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.

free-dom
noun
one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with some rules, but with no restrictions forced on people.

If you are just waking up to your innate libertarian side and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of Obama's religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, Atlas Shrugged

"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles

For the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: Course in Political Miracles

For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: Christianity vs. State Socialism