PI2024 #1285-1288 12042024

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PI2024 #1288 – Faith Free From Fear

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(Liberty Over License)

“Throughout forty centuries of human experience, price controls at their best have always been a miserable failure. At their worst, they have led to famine and bloodshed – to defeat and to disaster.”

~     Irving Olds

Wednesday,

December 4^th, 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.

“Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying “No” to any authority — literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.”

~     Ignazio Silone

It Would Not Be Too Far-Fetched to say religious Faith is no stronger than its followers’ belief and confidence in its tenets.  When followers of a Faith believe strongly enough, no counter-belief will shake their confidence or commitment.  When believers stand strong, counter-beliefs and believers will be welcome to state their case and take their chance.  No ‘devil’ can breach a Faith free from fear.

“Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.”

~     Immanuel Kant

One Of “Our, the American People’s” schools, media report, has a Satanic Club put together to counter other religious activities.  Not unexpectedly, there are some folks who demand said Satanic Club be disallowed.  Satanic Club supporters are of a tit-for-tat mindset.  Odds are satanic club will go on. Might not be a worst of ideas for they who oppose to pay club member no serious mind.

“The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.”

~     Immanuel Kant

“We, the American People” are faced with Pope and President (cleric and legislator) who, if we so allow, will see to it we are subject to abiding by their personal attitudes, values, and beliefs (PAVB) for no reason other than their claim of positional authority.  Ironic at best.  Clerics and legislators are supposed to set examples whereby people are enabled to live in freedom. Including freedom of mind.

“If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend.”

~     Irwin Schiff

“Education” Has A Solitary Purpose – behavioral control. ‘T is true in all we do. Those of “Us, the American People” who are willing to let legislator and cleric define our Faith or regulate our political options will, in all likelihood, be asking, ‘May I?’ as a matter of course.  Those of us inclined to be free to make our own mistakes, in contrast, will prompt authoritarians of all stripes to warily ask, ’May I?’

“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.”

~     Isaac Newton

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to prohibit or restrict private ownership of firearms and ammunition from any citizen of good repute and responsible standing.  They hold fast their ability to ward off would-be tyranny.

“I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.”

~     J. Edgar Hoover

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 #1287 – Spending Leaves A Trail

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(Liberty Over License)

(Images courtesy an AAH reader – D)

“Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.”

~     James Madison

Wednesday,

December 4^th, 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.

“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.”

~     James Madison

 

“Our, the American People’s” Pentagon annual budget is enough money to build 67 U.S. Navy super carriers and start building a 58^th.  Granted, Pentagon budgets do more than build Navy aircraft carriers. Media report Congressional Senator Bernie Sanders and President-to-be Donald J. Trump’s pick to head federal Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) agree on slicing Pentagon heavy budget.

“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”

~     James Madison

 

“We, the American People,” in today’s world – in any day’s world – would be fools to think we can ward off armed threats with our good looks or pleasant manners.  America’s military makes armed aggressors think twice. If, having thought twice, an armed aggressor decides to press on, America’s military will make sure such aggressor will not be able to think thrice.  Military readiness imperative.

“The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching against every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings.”

~     James Madison

 

It Ought Be Troublesome to “Us, the American People” when America’s Pentagon managers fail audits seven years running.  Indicative of serious accounting inadequacy. As likely as not, too little attention to detail and reconciliation.  Wouldn’t hurt for DOGE to get Pentagon managers up to speed on audit preparation.  If need be, daily audit runs would get people’s attention.  Spending heaves a trail.

“Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.”

~     James Madison

 

Taking Chain Saws To Budgets in billions sounds easy.  Billions are easy to interpret as ripe to be cut drastically.  Doesn’t sound so good when tactical aircraft have too little money for pilot training skills. Or, worse, when a fuel sub-budget forces Arny artillery to resort to mock firing exercises. Not much chance our Marines will get ready for expeditionary missions by computer simulation.  Stay ready.

“The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much…to forget it.”

~     James Madison

 

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to enter into contracts with collective bargaining units.  They preclude government from eroding their assets through property confiscation.

 

“There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.”

~     James Madison

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 #1286 – Candidates Will Fix Diversity

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(Liberty Over License)

“When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.”

~     Jack Kemp

Wednesday,

December 4^th, 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.

Jacob Hornberger

“If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.”

~     Jacob Hornberger

Speculation On Election 2024 Loss causes continue to percolate.  One of “Our, the American People’s” Congressional legislators attributes democrat defeat to communication.  Media reports said Senator encouraged colleagues to, “embrace a more populist message.”  Election 2024 reported vote tallies were not a radical gap between Election 2024 winners and losers. Legislative content is key.

“Statists believe that their lives — their very being — are a privilege that the state has given to them. They believe that everything they do is — and should be — dependent on the consent of the government.”

~     Jacob Hornberger

“We, the American People” would be smart – very smart – to not get distracted by who among legislative office candidates gets more election votes. Every legislative office candidate has one goal first and foremost.  Legislative office candidates strive for their personal attitudes, values, and beliefs (PAVB) to either be lawfully compulsory, or, cause existing laws to be rescinded.  Lawful power first.

“The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned — the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach — is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!”

~     Jacob Hornberger

It Would Not Hurt Chances for “Us, the American People,” acting as a sovereign citizenry, to stop our legislators from interfering with our socio-economic system by adulterating our socio-economic system with selective, arbitrary, and discriminatory legislation, taxation, and regulation (SADLT&R). SADLT&R/PAVB-driven predisposition distorts socio-economic norms and stifles people’s choice.

“Every time we establish a new crime, we’re creating a new mechanism for the government to check up on you.”

~     James A. Bruton III

American Self-Government, Varied scholar/legislator/magistrate/citizen perspective disparity abundant, is inconsistent with government power to confiscate property (wealth) and restrict choice (Liberty) to further government ideology. Senator wanting colleagues to have a more populist message calls for a tall order:  Get elected by convincing voters legislative office candidates will fix diversity.

“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.”

~     James Baldwin

People Prepared To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to infringe upon Americans’ Bill-of-Rights protections; nor do they allow culpability for another person’s behavior to be ascribed to their freedom to exercise their rights.  They uphold Constitutional safeguards without equivocation.

“The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.”

~     James Bovard

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 #1285 – Core Goals Lawfully Compulsory

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(Liberty Over License)

“It doesn’t matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery.”

~     James Bovard

Wednesday,

December 4^th, 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.

“America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.”

~     James Bovard

“We, the American People” who are devastated over Election 2024 results, and are desperate to have legislators in office who will stop President-to-be Donald J. Trump from ruining America, might have stumbled across a guy with charisma to hoodwink enough voters to start a comeback with midterm Election 2026.  None other than former President Barack Obama – who we believe can trump Trump.

“The State is merely another human institution – less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.”

~     James Bovard

“Our, the American People’s” media report former President Barack Obama will be center stage for a number of initiatives aimed at promoting pluralism (all for one, one for all) and community cohesion (collaboration to strengthen government). Former President Obama is reported to be huddling with former German Chancellor Angella Merkel on ways to exploit opposition to Donald J. Trump’s goals.

“The politicians don’t just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.”

~     James Dale Davidson

It Matters Not Whether Barack Obama or Donald J. Trump – or, some ambitious, would-be legislator yet-to-become a moving force directed at confiscating property (wealth) from “Us, the American People,” and restricting our choice (Liberty) to advance their political intent, it will be up to us to be sure our freedom under Liberty is not held hostage by an Obama, a Trump, or a yet-to-be postulant.

“The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.”

~     James Donald

Those Of Us Who Fancy Election 2024 results as a harbinger of greatness to come in America would be canny to not lose sight of a critical government principle.  Government operates by force of law.  America’s legislative office elections have not overcome this axiom.  We can take long odds President-to-be Donald J. Trump and his Congressional allies will make their core goals lawfully compulsory.

“The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.”

~     James Fenimore Cooper

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to cause any citizen to be drawn into an obligation to assume responsibility for public debt for reasons other than to defend these United States.  They forbid government from putting them at financial risk.

“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

~     James Madison

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.  Please forward comments to askahorse@letsgofisrtclass.com.

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