WE ARE ROBBING OUR CHILDREN

From my previous post (various quotes):
“Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors..."
As the video below explains (only in part and very understated), our children will be required to pay for the mass of benefits being dolled out by our government--which must borrow billions each year to maintain those payments, and for the most part, those payments go to pesons other than themselves. Yet, young people today believe that government ought to do more! They have no idea that the cost for all the benefits being distributed by government today will ultimately fall upon them, and the more government spends the more they will be required to repay. It is we parents who are to blame for not educating our children. Government has no resources whatsoever other than those that they take from us citizens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogrl9yC0S50&feature=player_embedded

Have a nice day.

DWD

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“[The national debt] is not just unsustainable, foolish, and a sign of irresponsibility and poor national impulse control. It is theft from our children, and it is immoral. ... Big government is an easier choice than free enterprise. In the short run, it allows us to avoid sacrifice. ... [but] it will saddle our children and grandchildren with crushing debt.”    
-- Arthur C. Brooks, The Road to Freedom

“Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world-straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state. ... The crisis of unfunded obligations is approaching. It won’t be pretty. ... While citizen is set against citizen and citizen against immigrant in a vast system of mutual plunder (and defense against plunder), bureaucracies extend their control and both create and nurture the political constituencies that sustain them.”    
-- Tom G. Palmer, After the Welfare State

“Paradoxically, politicians become more important, have more money to spend, and derive more ego rewards if the economy is believed to work poorly. Bureaucrats may be expected to demand larger budgets when contending with economic insecurity.”

-- Randy T. Simmons, Beyond Politics: the Roots of Government Failure

“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth!"  
“Government will always find a need for whatever money it gets.”
“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.”
– Ronald Reagan

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” 

-- Thomas Sowell

WE HAVE ARRIVED!

We were warned, but did not heed...

Have a nice day.

DWD

SINISTER EXPANSION OF GOVERNMENT

As explained by Kevin Williamson of the National Review:

...Obama has advanced [overreaching government] without legislative assistance — and, more troubling still, in plain violation of the law. President Obama and his admirers choose to call this “pragmatism,” but what it is is a mild expression of totalitarianism, under which the interests of the country are conflated with those of the president’s administration and his party.

The problems is not simply with President Obama, but it is much larger than that:

...the United States is not going to fall for a strongman government. Instead of delegating power to a would-be president-for-life, we delegate it to a bureaucracy-without-death. You do not need to install a dictator when you’ve already had a politically supercharged permanent bureaucracy in place for 40 years or more. As is made clear by everything from campaign donations to the IRS jihad, the bureaucracy is the Left, and the Left is the bureaucracy. Elections will be held, politicians will come and go, but if you expand the power of the bureaucracy, you expand the power of the Left, of the managers and minions who share Barack Obama’s view of the world. Barack Obama isn’t the leader of the free world; he’s the front man for the permanent bureaucracy, the smiley-face mask hiding the pitiless yawning maw of total politics.

The result is a huge bureauocracy that makes its own, unilaterial decisions about what exactly the law will be, how it is to be enforced, and against whom--all outside of Congressional control and so beyond the reach of voters.

{Quotes extracted from the International Liberty blog.}

Have a nice day.
DWD

FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM: VOTER DISCONNECT

When asked their preferred method for cutting the deficit 77% of citizens polled chose "cut spending" over the alternative methods of raising taxes or the "balanced approach" of both cutting spending and raising taxes.

Yet when citizens are asked about their preferences for government spending here are their responses:
                                                                                    NO CHANGE            DON’T
                                                            CUT                OR INCREASE         KNOW

EDUCATION                                      11%                            62%                 27%

VETERAN’S BENEFITS                    6%                             91%                   3%
COLLEGE FINANCIAL AID           16%                             81%                   3%
MEDICARE                                       12%                             83%                   5%
HEALTH CARE                                24%                             71%                   5%
WELFARE                                         20%                             76%                   4%
SOCIAL SECURITY                         12%                             84%                   4%
CRIME PREVENTION                     18%                             79%                   3%
INFRA-STRUCTURE                       26%                             72%                   2%
RESEARCH                                       23%                             73%                   4%
ENERGY                                            23%                             73%                   4%
AGRICULTURE                                23%                             71%                   6%
MILITARY                                        30%                              67%                   3%
FOREIGN AID                                  45%                              50%                   5%


In other words, voters want to cut government spending to decrease the deficit, but they also want the same or more spending on EVERY major government program. And we wonder why our government has a spending problem? Maybe it is us who are the problem.

Have a nice day,

DWD

QUOTE OF THE DAY

If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe that you are a victim.

You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievement is entitlement.

So now you think you are owed something and you don’t have to work for it and now you are on a really bad road to nowhere because there are people who will play to that sense of victimhood. Aggrievement and entitlement and you still won’t have a job.

-- Condaleeza Rice

HOW GOVERNMENT SPENDS YOUR TAX DOLLARS

Here is a short video that all tax payers should view. It may shock you, but in reality it reveals but a very, very small slice of our nation's spending problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gp0JuBp8xA&feature=player_embedded

DWD

FREE ENTERPRISE AND CHARITY

Those interested can view my recent editorial by clicking on "Free Enterprise and Charity" on the lower right margin of this page.

Have a nice day.

DWD

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: ENVIRONMENTAL VILLIAN OR HERO?

This video is well worth viewing for anyone who is concerned about the environment.

http://watchdogwire.com/florida/video/how-fossil-fuels-are-greening-the-planet/

Have a green day.

DWD

GOVERNMENT: ECONOMIC HERO OR VILLIAN?

In this short video, a French lady (of all people) speaking to a congressional committee sums it up pretty well (in my opinion).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mZ8dWvrQQBM

If you liked that, you might want to hear the same lady speak about some important differences between France and the U.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z74Akf1WUbU

Have a nice day,

DWD

CAPITALISM: VILLAIN OR HERO?

For those interested, you can view my latest editorial published in the Orange County Register by clicking on "Capitalism: Villain or Hero" on the lower right margin of this page.

Have a nice day,

DWD

TAXES TRIPLE WHAMMY

For those interested, you can view my latest editorial by clicking on "TAXES TRIPLE WHAMMY" on the bottom right column of this page.

Have a nice day -- DWD

ABOUT THE SEQUESTER

The paranoia over the sequester is simply political rhetoric designed to justifiy yet higher taxes to fund yet larger government. Even with the sequester government spending will continue to grow, grow, grow. The problem with the sequester is that it is too small.



As explained by columist George Will:

Obama, who believes government spends money more constructively than do those who earn it, warns that the sequester’s budgetary nicks, amounting to one-half of 1 percent of gross domestic product, will derail the economy. A similar jeremiad was heard in 1943 when economist Paul Samuelson, whose Keynesian assumptions have trickled down to Obama, said postwar cuts in government would mean “the greatest period of unemployment and industrial dislocation which any economy has ever faced.” Federal spending did indeed shrink an enormous 40 percent in one year. And the economy boomed.

Have a nice day, the end is not near -- DWD

 

QUOTE OF THE DAY

From a great President, Calvin Coolidge:

"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones."

We are far better off when lawmakers do nothing at all.

DWD

BEST SOLUTION FOR OUR SCHOOLS

This amazing chart comes from Dan Mitchell at International Liberty.
Government's answer to better education is always the same--more spending, more taxes.
But this chart shows what an utter failure this approach has been and how we are wasting billions of dollars on our schools.
The only answer to the problems in education is to create competition among schools by promoting private schools. The best way to do that is via programs of tax credits (vouchers are not as good for several reasons).





If you don't already, I urge you to subscribe to the International Liberty blog.

DWD