PI2024 #1277-1280 12022024
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PI2024 #1280 – Is So Much Noise
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(Liberty Over License)
“The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are.”
~ Henry Hazlitt
Monday,
December 2nd, 2024
Liberty Lovers,
U.S.A. Debt Clock Tallies (U.S. National Debt at $$ 29,164,884,180,753.Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/. Interest Payments Per Year $ 227,417,880,760 /// Interest Payments Per Second $7,211 /// National Debt Per Citizen $88,517 /// Debt as % of GDP 139.30% /// GDP Of United States $ 20,937,000,000,000 /// United States Population 329,484,123Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/.
(www.usdebtclock.org has National Debt @ $$ 36,120,819,191,357. – Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” The (federal) State” $271,324; every citizen $106,753.
“To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another’s way of life – so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!”
~ Henry Miller
“We, the American People” need not be concerned about President-to-be Donald J. Trump’s pending trade taxes (tariffs). Reason being, an expert in such matters has, report media, declared President-to-be Trump tariffs inconsequential, because we in America, have an abundance of everything we need to go on in life. So, if media-reported expert’s view is valid, to-do over tariffs is so much noise.
“Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.”
~ Henry Steele Commager
However President-To-Be Trump tariffs will alter “Our, the American People’s” trips to market, Vice-President Kamala Harris campaign is getting backlash for blaming presidential Election 2024 presidential loss on lousy media coverage. Well, it’s about time we who expected Kamala to win hands down are told how come Kamala will not be our next President-to be. Could be, not enough votes.
“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore our belief in our own guidance.”
~ Henry Miller
Hard To Say If Tik Tok will stay or go once Election Day 2025 is behind “Us, the American People.” Media tell us President-to-be Donald J. Trump’s cabinet picks are not in agreement on Tik Tok fate. Tik Tok, shortly put, is a social media platform. Tik Tok parent company is Chinese-owned. Some say boot Tik Tok out because of Chinese connection. America’s 1st might keep government out of it.
“Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.”
~ Henry St. John
Tik Tok, Being A Social Media platform, would offer ordinary people an opportunity to speak their minds. Worry over Chinese carrying on some sort of espionage using Tik Tok as a conduit of sorts ought to be a routine problem for our spooks to deal with summarily. Moreover, banning Tik Tok is not likely to deter Chinese intelligence collectors from collecting by other means. Consumer choice.
“Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.”
~ Henry Steele Commager
People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to interfere with how responsible citizens use their private property. They fiercely protect their most vital right – individual property ownership. Protecting property is protecting life.
“America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.”
~ Henry Steele Commager
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
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PI2024 #1279 – To Be Made Law
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(Liberty Over License)
“It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.”
~ Henry George
Monday,
December 2nd, 2024
Liberty Lovers,
U.S.A. Debt Clock Tallies (U.S. National Debt at $$ 29,164,884,180,753.Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/. Interest Payments Per Year $ 227,417,880,760 /// Interest Payments Per Second $7,211 /// National Debt Per Citizen $88,517 /// Debt as % of GDP 139.30% /// GDP Of United States $ 20,937,000,000,000 /// United States Population 329,484,123Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/.
(www.usdebtclock.org has National Debt @ $$ 36,120,819,191,357. – Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” The (federal) State” $271,324; every citizen $106,753.
“We punish with a tax the man who covers barren fields with ripening grain; we fine him who puts up machinery and him who drains a swamp.”
~ Henry George
“We, the American People” stand to benefit from pending President-to-be Donald J. Trump’s trade taxes (tariffs). At least according to President-to-be Donald J. in an October 2024 interview. First and foremost would be protecting America’s manufacturing. Increasing government revenue would be another benefit. Increased revenue from tariffs, a measure designed to offset tax cut revenue losses.
“Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind.”
~ Henry Grady Weaver
Tariffs, According To Donald J., will be a barrier to drug trafficking; tariffs would stay in effect till countries channeling drugs tightened control. Tariffs would expand America’s economy by offering incentives for foreign companies to open businesses on U.S. soil. Expanded business would bring about job opportunity growth. All tariff (trade tax) benefits, in theory, would have to pass market test.
“Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own.”
~ Henry Grady Weaver
Economic Theory Is Economic Theory until consumers lay down capital to acquire new products or services. President-to-be Donald J. Trump will have a chore convincing “Our, the American People’s” legislators who, without a doubt, look at virtually every socio-economic initiative in terms of gaining votes to stay in office. Sticking around to press for their socio-economic ideas to be made law. Law.
“The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others – with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.”
~ Henry Grady Weaver
Similarly, In Theory, President-to-be Donald J. Trump will have to get “Us, the American People” on board with his glowing expectations of how tariffs would benefit Americans at large. Anything government does is paid for, ultimately, by taxpayers, meaning, by consumers. No consumer consumption, no sales revenue, no business doors open. It’s up to us to temper legislator enthusiasm.
“Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.”
~ Henry Hazlit
People Committed To Living In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to enact legislation or regulations requiring any private business to accept collective bargaining organizations or subsidize private enterprise with public money. They keep government from meddling in employer-employee affairs.
“When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.”
~ Henry Hazlitt
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 #1278 – With Whom We Disagree
ASK A HORSE
(Liberty Over License)
(Images courtesy an AAH reader – D)
“If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
Monday,
December 2nd, 2024
Liberty Lovers,
U.S.A. Debt Clock Tallies (U.S. National Debt at $$ 29,164,884,180,753.Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/. Interest Payments Per Year $ 227,417,880,760 /// Interest Payments Per Second $7,211 /// National Debt Per Citizen $88,517 /// Debt as % of GDP 139.30% /// GDP Of United States $ 20,937,000,000,000 /// United States Population 329,484,123Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/.
(www.usdebtclock.org has National Debt @ $$ 36,120,819,191,357. – Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” The (federal) State” $271,324; every citizen $106,753.
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it….Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
There’s A Constitutional Crisis Coming to pester “Us, the American People.” If a media warning is true on who will be America’s next Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director. Media warning over FBI Director choice notes FBI directors past have been apolitical. Meaning, FBI directors were not at presidential beck-and-call. Or, at any politician-legislator beck-and-call. Might no longer be.
“The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls,—the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of a man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
“We, the American People,” article speculation bearing out, could be in for troublesome FBI times, should President-to-be Donald J. Trump pick a politically sensitive individual for FBI Director. Wouldn’t hurt for us to keep in mind Presidential appointees are not picked for their opposition to presidential agendas. Presidial picks are picked to complement presidential initiatives. Complement.
“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
“Our, the American People’s” government is, like it or not, not one of political neutrality. We have, over time, become increasingly partisan in our expectations for public officials. We, reasonably arguable, vote for those legislative office candidates we expect will pass and enact laws favoring our ideals, and will reject legislation urged by those voters with whom we disagree. Laws backing our aims.
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
Laws Dealing With Socio-Economic matters are a virtually fair impossibility. Laws derived from Constitutional precepts and protections, no less so. Be it FBI Director, Interior Secretary, Attorney General, Department Of Government Efficiency Chief, political neutrality is not in America’s cards. Because we are a nation of misfits when it comes to our getting along with each other. We squabble.
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
~ Henry Ford
People Striving To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to remain in office if they break their word to their constituents. They dismiss and replace them
“If a thousand [citizens] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
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 #1277 – Play A Key Role
ASK A HORSE
(Liberty Over License)
“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
Monday,
December 2nd, 2024
Liberty Lovers,
U.S.A. Debt Clock Tallies (U.S. National Debt at $$ 29,164,884,180,753. Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/. Interest Payments Per Year $ 227,417,880,760 /// Interest Payments Per Second $7,211 /// National Debt Per Citizen $88,517 /// Debt as % of GDP 139.30% /// GDP Of United States $ 20,937,000,000,000 /// United States Population 329,484,123Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/.
(www.usdebtclock.org has National Debt @ $$ 36,120,819,191,357. – Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” The (federal) State” $271,324; every citizen $106,753.
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
Faith Is An Inordinately Powerful motivation. In terms of influencing people’s behavior, Faith may be comparable to force of law. Popes and presidents (legislators and clerics) work tirelessly and emphatically to have people to conform to by cleric and president personal attitudes, values, and beliefs (PAVB). So PAVB-driven are cleric and legislator, they devise creeds and laws to control behavior.
“Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
“We, the American People” would be well advised to take a skeptic’s view when legislator or cleric prevail on people to defer to creed and law, lest they (ordinary people) suffer retribution for not abiding by creed or law. Media has an article in circulation featuring a pastor who is of a mind President-to-be Donald J. Trump’s Election 2024 victory was divinely aroused. Presumably so, Kamala Harriss loss.
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
“Our, the American People’s” legislators and clerics are, absent evidence otherwise, inspired to proffer creed and law to influence people’s behavior to serve their (people’s) better interests. Better interests as decided by cleric or legislator. Such better interests, however seen to be, are not uncommonly thought to be rooted in Judeo-Christian ethics, and play a key role in law and creed.
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”
~ Henry David Thoreau
It Would Be Remiss For “Us, the American People” to dismiss other than Judeo-Christian divinity in bringing about Donald J. Trump’s Election 2024 victory. There are thousands of organized religions (Faiths). Doubtless, members of all consider their peculiar Faith valid. Divinely inspired or not, we’d be foolish to allow legislator or cleric to orchestrate our lives based on their PAVB-driven Faithfulness.
“Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
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.
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
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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