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PI2024 #1260 – Is Far From Universal
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(Liberty Over License)
“As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.”
~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds
November 27th, 2024
Liberty Lovers,
U.S.A. Debt Clock Tallies (U.S. National Debt at $$ 29,157,156,681,806. Interest Payments Per Year $ 227,417,880,760 /// Interest Payments Per Second $7,211 /// National Debt Per Citizen $88,493 /// Debt as % of GDP 139.26% /// GDP Of United States $ 20,937,000,000,000 /// United States Population 329,484,123Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/.
(www.usdebtclock.org has National Debt @ $$ 36,006,082,188,324. – Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” The (federal) State” $272,821; every citizen $106,613.
“Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one’s friends.”
~ George Will
“Our, the American People’s” media continue carrying reports Election 2024 legislative office candidates and their cohorts are gasping and grasping at anything to help them regain power in coming elections. One swing state democrat governor is reported sidling away from standing party views to get projects pushed through. A GOP House legislator is prodding a Cabinet Secretary to press on.
“Taxation with representation ain’t so hot either.”
~ Gerald Barzan
“We, the American People” would be savvy to never forget ambitious legislators, or legislator seeking to get or regain power, will test political winds to see how they ought present themselves to be sure we do not get wind of their intent, only so we are swayed by their rhetoric. Their objective: replace legislators in power so they (candidates) can do precisely as seated legislators, but vowed to be better.
“We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear — unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called ‘the insolence of elected persons’ — in a word, free men.”
~ Gerald W. Johnson
Legislators Can Not Be Expected to reveal their true intent. Not unless polling offers an all but certainty voters will go along with their intent, as opposed to their platform. It would be smart for “Us, the American People” to put clamps on legislator positional power so whether they end up legislating by rhetoric or intent, our lives are not altered one iota. Completely within a sovereign citizenry reach.
“The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?”
~ Gerry Spence
Legislators Do Not Legislate based on Constitutionality. Legislators legislate based on their Constitutionality interpretation. America’s magistrates adjudicate in similar manner. Neither legislator nor magistrate can point to unequivocal standards prescribing how they legislate or adjudicate. Split court decision attest to how Constitutionality interpretation is far from universal. No objectivity surety.
“The thing that differentiates people from animals is money.”
~ Gertrude Stein
People Dedicated To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to give quarter to, offer sanctuary to, or negotiate with terrorists. They refuse to live in fear or at risk brought on by “State” policy.
“Consider also the willy-nilly growth of the Social Security number. These days it’s almost impossible to open a bank account or hook up your telephone without one.”
~ Glenn Garvin
Think it Through, See It Through
- It’s your property, not “State” property.
Let Freedom Ring – Abolish Direct Taxation
Require Citizen-Controlled Taxation
Best Wishes,
Len Ritchey
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
~ President Taft
ASK A HORSE commentaries are considered public domain information. Visitors are welcome to ‘fact-check’ AAH commentary content and use commentaries as they like. Visitors are welcome to take AAH commentaries to task.
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PI2024 #1259 – Power To Believe Otherwise
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(Liberty Over License)
“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.”
~ Gore Vidal
Wednesday,
November 27th, 2024
Liberty Lovers,
U.S.A. Debt Clock Tallies (U.S. National Debt at $$ 29,157,156,681,806. Interest Payments Per Year $ 227,417,880,760 /// Interest Payments Per Second $7,211 /// National Debt Per Citizen $88,493 /// Debt as % of GDP 139.26% /// GDP Of United States $ 20,937,000,000,000 /// United States Population 329,484,123Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/.
(www.usdebtclock.org has National Debt @ $$ 36,006,082,188,324. – Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” The (federal) State” $272,821; every citizen $106,613.
“If [drugs] didn’t exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens ‘sinless and obedient’.”
~ Gore Vidal
“Our, the American People’s” President-to-be Donald J. Trump hasn’t signed one significant governing paper. Yet, media-reported speculation over how American and global life will be forever altered by his coming presidency are not slowing. It could be because our ‘education’ system does not prepare Americans to deal with their citizen sovereignty over how American government may operate.
Graham Greene
“Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.”
~ Graham Greene
President-To-Be Donald J. Trump and his merry Congressional legislative majorities can’t enforce one PAVB legislative punctuation mark if “We, the American People” get together and said, “No.” America is not run by dictators. Not to say legislators don’t work tirelessly to make their personal attitudes, values, and beliefs (PAVB) lawfully compulsory. They, earnestly, do. And will stop when we stop them.
Granville Hicks
“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”
~ Granville Hicks
Speculation On President-To-Be Donald H. Trump’s pending tariffs (trade taxes) is rampant. Pending tariff impact speculation runs gamut from essentially no effect, to sundry American industries will cease to exist. We’ll not know till we know. Moreover, we can bet our bottom dollars American life will go on, Trump tariffs (trade taxes) or no tariffs. We misjudge consumer power to believe otherwise.
“The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.”
~ Gustave de Molinari
Consumers Pay Every Penny of every tax levied for any reason. Consumers, however, pay not one tax penny, tariff/trade or otherwise, unless consumers make their way to places of sales. No tariff/trade tax can be collected on unsold foreign goods. Not one penny. Hondas will not ship one Pilot to American soil if no American car buyers raid their Piggy Banks to buy Honda Pilots. Action, re-action.
“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”
~ Guy de Maupassant
People Unwavering To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to enter into defined-benefit contracts with collective bargaining units to confiscate American’s property. They exercise citizen sovereignty to protect their property.
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
~ H.G. Wells
Think it Through, See It Through
- It’s your property, not “State” property.
Let Freedom Ring – Abolish Direct Taxation
Require Citizen-Controlled Taxation
Best Wishes,
Len Ritchey
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
~ President Taft
ASK A HORSE commentaries are considered public domain information. Visitors are welcome to ‘fact-check’ AAH commentary content and use commentaries as they like. Visitors are welcome to take AAH commentaries to task.
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PI2024 #1258 – We Can Avoid Autocracy
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(Liberty Over License)
(Images courtesy an AAH reader – D)
“The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.”
~ George Sutherland
Wednesday,
November 27th, 2024
Liberty Lovers,
U.S.A. Debt Clock Tallies (U.S. National Debt at $$ 29,157,156,681,806. Interest Payments Per Year $ 227,417,880,760 /// Interest Payments Per Second $7,211 /// National Debt Per Citizen $88,493 /// Debt as % of GDP 139.26% /// GDP Of United States $ 20,937,000,000,000 /// United States Population 329,484,123Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/.
(www.usdebtclock.org has National Debt @ $$ 36,006,082,188,324. – Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” The (federal) State” $272,821; every citizen $106,613.
“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
~ George Orwell
Early Indications Are Planet Earth will survive President-to-be Donald J. Trump’s worrisome tariffs (trade taxes). Media reports advise “Us, the American People” America’s immediately southern neighbor, Mexico, will be cracking down on improper United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) use to channel Chinese products. Mexico plans to increase reliance on local-made products.
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
~ George Orwell
Someone, Somewhere Came Up With necessity being invention’s mother. Savvy investors, similarly, diversify to keep their portfolios from falling apart should not al investments yield reliable return-on-investment (ROI). Consumer demand for goods and services satisfaction will not change, no matter how President-to-be Donald J. Trump’s tariff (trade tax) policies pan out after Inauguration Day 2025.
“Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.”
~ George Stark
There Is No Reason For Us, to think international trade will not flourish because nations become more entrepreneurial, or USCMCA goes away. Variety being life’s spice, consumers won’t stray away from Middle East carpets because locally produced rugs are of comparable quality but not at all alike in artistry. Ditto fermented beverages or cheese from afar. People will go after their wants and ROI.
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
~ George Washington
“We, the American People,” whether we are in locked step with President-to-be Trump’s tariff (trade tax) ideas, or, are dead set against everything President-to-be Donald J. has in mind, would be better ready to ward off despotism by tightening America’s sovereign citizenry grip on minimizing legislators’ power to confiscate property (wealth) or restrict choice (Liberty). We can avoid autocracy.
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master.”
~ George Washington
People Committed To Living In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to permit federal authorities or courts to define or limit their 10th Amendment powers beyond specific Constitutional constraint. They protect their lives and property against “State” intrusion.
“My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. ”
~ George Washington
Think it Through, See It Through
- It’s your property, not “State” property.
Let Freedom Ring – Abolish Direct Taxation
Require Citizen-Controlled Taxation
Best Wishes,
Len Ritchey
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
~ President Taft
ASK A HORSE commentaries are considered public domain information. Visitors are welcome to ‘fact-check’ AAH commentary content and use commentaries as they like. Visitors are welcome to take AAH commentaries to task.
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PI2024 #1257 – In Inequitable Economic Systems
ASK A HORSE
(Liberty Over License)
“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
~ George Mason
Wednesday,
November 27th, 2024
Liberty Lovers,
U.S.A. Debt Clock Tallies (U.S. National Debt at $$ 29,157,156,681,806. Interest Payments Per Year $ 227,417,880,760 /// Interest Payments Per Second $7,211 /// National Debt Per Citizen $88,493 /// Debt as % of GDP 139.26% /// GDP Of United States $ 20,937,000,000,000 /// United States Population 329,484,123Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/.
(www.usdebtclock.org has National Debt @ $$ 36,006,082,188,324. – Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” The (federal) State” $272,821; every citizen $106,613.
“All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.”
~ George Mason
“We, the American People,” and people of all ‘rich’ nations, owe ‘poor’ nations a climate bill amounting to “trillions” of dollars. So, claims an activist featured in media reports. Said climate bill is owed, according to activist’s view, for how rich nations have exploited poor nations and destroyed environments. Activists maintain fundamental problem is rooted in inequitable economic systems.
“Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.”
~ George Mason
It Would Be More Than Prudent for “Us, the American People” to take a jaundiced view of assertions focused on extracting property (wealth) from us because someone decides we owe money to someone somewhere. Moreover, we would be especially smart to not fall prey to responsibilities activists decide to lay on us because people gone before us were n’ er-do-wells. We’re not guilty because we breathe.
“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.”
~ George Orwell
It Is Flat Wrong-Headed to lay blame on people because they happen to live where they live, or, suffer an ancestry some people blame for civilization’s ills. It is more than wrong-headed for government to cause their citizens to surrender property (wealth) to pay ‘reparation’ because government operatives are gripped by a sense of guilt. Not in error to note governments/de facto governments create strife.
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
~ George Orwell
“Our, the American People’s” government is caught up in hostilities caused by other nations. Who fired first shots or launched first missiles, or committed first terroristic acts matter not to those maimed or killed. And their friends and loved ones. Nor, do justification reasons put back lost limbs or eyesight taken from kids. If world government does anything, it ought be to hakt international conflict idiocy.
“Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
~ George Orwell
People Determined To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to subsidize private enterprise with public money. They uphold free markets.
“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
~ George Orwell
Think it Through, See It Through
- It’s your property, not “State” property.
Let Freedom Ring – Abolish Direct Taxation
Require Citizen-Controlled Taxation
Best Wishes,
Len Ritchey
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
~ President Taft
ASK A HORSE commentaries are considered public domain information. Visitors are welcome to ‘fact-check’ AAH commentary content and use commentaries as they like. Visitors are welcome to take AAH commentaries to task.
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