PI2024 #1337-1340 12172024
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PI2024 #1340 – Government Satisfaction Or Disgust
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(Liberty Over License)
“Nobody should be compelled to respect an ideology that doesn’t respect them.”
~ Pat Condell
Tuesday,
December 17th, 2024
Liberty Lovers,
U.S.A. Debt Clock Tallies (U.S. National Debt at $$ 29,164,884,195,175. Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/. Interest Payments Per Year $ 227,417,880,760 /// Interest Payments Per Second $7,211 /// National Debt Per Citizen $88,517 /// Debt as % of GDP 139.30% /// GDP Of United States $ 20,937,000,000,000 /// United States Population 329,484,123Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/.
(www.usdebtclock.org has National Debt @ $$ 36,205,914,001,097. – Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” The (federal) State” $271,790; every citizen $106,989.
“Let Mr. Madison tell me when did liberty ever exist when the sword and the purse were given up from the people? Unless a miracle shall interpose, no nation ever did, nor ever can retain its liberty after the loss of the sword and the purse.”
~ Patrick Henry
Some Of “Us, the American People” might be cheering President Joe Biden on for selling a border wall and for granting clemency in record numbers. Other of us, no doubt, would draw and quarter President Joe in a public square if we could. It would be sobering, possibly, motivating for us to look in mirrors and see, looking back at us, who is responsible for our government satisfaction or disgust.
“According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American’s output—which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons.”
~ Paul Craig Roberts
President Joe Biden Is Doing as he does because “We, the American People” put him in office, and expected him to act like we wanted him to act as America’s Legislator-in-Chief. No different than why we elect any legislator. Legislators, though, pass and enact laws based on their (legislators) personal attitude, values, and beliefs (PAVB). Because America’s Constitutions empower legislators to so act.
“The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government.”
~ Paul Craig Roberts
If It Be “Our, the American People’s” intent to have America’s legislators act without prejudice or bias, then we will have to be more proactive as a sovereign citizenry. More proactive to cull lawful authority at every level, and subject proposed legislation to public approval before enactment. There is no possibility for us to live in self-government unless we prohibit legislators from enacting their PAVB.
“The era of resisting big government is never over.”
~ Paul Gigot
America’s Commonwealth, Federal (U.S./National), and state Constitutions, in a practical sense, are not laws. America’s Constitutions are expressions of ideals. It is by America’s legislatures and courts Constitutional precepts and protections are turned into socio-economic rules. Such rules reflect legislator and magistrate PAVB, there being no unequivocal standards for either. Practicality our task.
“It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.”
~ Paul Harvey
People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to public (government) schools to delve into their children’s attitudes, values, or beliefs. They school their children to become independent thinking sovereign citizens.
“Throughout history, the attachment of even the humblest people to their freedom…has come as an unpleasant shock to condescending ideologues.”
~ Paul Johnson
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 #1339 – Box Of Antique Coins
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(Liberty Over License)
(Images courtesy an AAH reader – D)
“You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.”
~ P.J. O’Rourke
Tuesday,
December 17th, 2024
Liberty Lovers,
U.S.A. Debt Clock Tallies (U.S. National Debt at $$ 29,164,884,195,175. Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/. Interest Payments Per Year $ 227,417,880,760 /// Interest Payments Per Second $7,211 /// National Debt Per Citizen $88,517 /// Debt as % of GDP 139.30% /// GDP Of United States $ 20,937,000,000,000 /// United States Population 329,484,123Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/.
(www.usdebtclock.org has National Debt @ $$ 36,205,914,001,097. – Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” The (federal) State” $271,790; every citizen $106,989.
“There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. ”
~ P.J. O’Rourke
“Our, the American People’s” President-to-be Donald J. Trump’s plan to create a national BITCOIN reserve is preposterous. So, says media, says a former national reserve manager under former President William Jefferson Clinton. Former reserve manager claims a BITCOIN reserve would serve no purpose. BITCOIN investors might have a different point of view. Price, we pay, value, we get.
“You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.”
~ P.J. O’Rourke
“We, the American People” would be more than a little foolish to be swayed by a former high-ranking government executive on how we ought choose investment securities, regardless form of said investments. It is entirely feasible marketplace traders may find BITCOIN a more attractive, inflation-buffering medium of exchange than America’s greenbacks. Value is defined by buyers, not bureaucrats.
“Government isn’t a good way to solve problems…. [[G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.”
~ P.J. O’Rourke
It Should Not Escape “Us, the American People” keen on building wealth, a piece of paper used to guy something is of no more value than a seller’s willingness to accept such paper. Because America’s currency sports a claim it can be used as tender does not mean a seller is obliged to accept such currency. A seller could take a property deed as payment in exchange for a box of antique coins.
“Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It’s not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they?”
~ P.J. O’Rourke
Currency Has No Real Value other than to serve as a medium of exchange. Some currency may have value well beyond its printed monetary amount. Because it might be rare. Rarity is some collectors reason d’etre. for collective worth. BITCOIN could become a preferred global medium of exchange. All it takes is for traders to demand it and traders to offer it. Bad idea only if it does not work. Not.
“Nobody should be compelled to respect an ideology that doesn’t respect them.”
~ Pat Condell
People Prepared To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to offer amnesty to illegal aliens until those illegal aliens agree to become and become United States citizens. They use their citizen sovereignty to protect their lives, their property, and their future.
“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
~ P.J. O’Rourke
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 #1338 – We Have Ample Evidence
ASK A HORSE
(Liberty Over License)
“Petty laws breed great crimes.”
~ Ouida
Tuesday,
December 17th, 2024
Liberty Lovers,
U.S.A. Debt Clock Tallies (U.S. National Debt at $$ 29,164,884,195,175. Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/. Interest Payments Per Year $ 227,417,880,760 /// Interest Payments Per Second $7,211 /// National Debt Per Citizen $88,517 /// Debt as % of GDP 139.30% /// GDP Of United States $ 20,937,000,000,000 /// United States Population 329,484,123Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/.
(www.usdebtclock.org has National Debt @ $$ 36,205,914,001,097. – Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” The (federal) State” $271,790; every citizen $106,989.
“The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.”
~ P.D. Ouspensky
It Would Be A Powerful Argument for “Us, the American People” to redact America’s federal (U.S./National) Constitution 22nd Amendment because it, effectively, says Americans do not have a choice for whom they shall vote in office as their presidential representative. Moreover, were enough of us to vote a president in for a third, or additional, term, attempts to annul such vote would be sedition.
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things bought and sold are legislators.”
~ P.J. O’Rourke
“We, the American People,” some of us, are willing to be swayed to think we are not allowed to vote a president in for more than two terms. It may come as a surprise to some to learn America’s Constitutionality authority rests entirely with us, a sovereign citizenry. There is nothing to stop us from writing in whoever we chose for America’s president as often as we choose. As often as we choose.
“Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.”
~ P.J. O’Rourke
For “Our, the American People’s” government to deny us our choice of presidential representative would be to deny our authority as a sovereign citizenry. Government decreeing we may not elect a president for more than any term of office would be to deny our option to write in anyone we decide we want as our presidential representative. Government may not decide who may be elected to office.
“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.”
~ P.J. O’Rourke
America’s Legislators And Magistrates interpret Constitutionality as fits their personal attitudes, values, and beliefs (PAVB). We have ample evidence in our Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) findings to demonstrate there are no incontrovertible standards, legislatively or judicially. Otherwise, specificity of law and judicial/SCOTUS precepts wouldn’t be open to PAVB interpretation.
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.”
~ P.J. O’Rourke
People Expecting To Live 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 government intrusion.
“There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.”
~ P.J. O’Rourke
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 #1337 – Economic Or Cultural Status
ASK A HORSE
(Liberty Over License)
“My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.”
~ Margaret Mead
Tuesday,
December 17th, 2024
Liberty Lovers,
U.S.A. Debt Clock Tallies (U.S. National Debt at $$ 29,164,884,195,175. Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/. Interest Payments Per Year $ 227,417,880,760 /// Interest Payments Per Second $7,211 /// National Debt Per Citizen $88,517 /// Debt as % of GDP 139.30% /// GDP Of United States $ 20,937,000,000,000 /// United States Population 329,484,123Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/usa/debt-clock/.
(www.usdebtclock.org has National Debt @ $$ 36,205,914,001,097. – Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” The (federal) State” $271,790; every citizen $106,989.
“The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.”
“Our, the American People’s” President-to-be Donald J. Trump’s Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is out to purge federal Education Department of fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA). Education Department Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program is in DOGE audit crosshairs. ‘Education’ has a solitary purpose – behavior control; DEI purpose, no less – behavior correctness.
“ Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
~ Oscar Wilde
“We, the American People’s” federal Education Department workforce, we can presume, has, as its official mission, to better prepare America’s youth for real life rigors. DEI’s purpose is a little less clear, other than generic notions of fairness to all seeking skills education develops in a student or adult in continuing education. Fairness objectivity, though, is not readily attainable by academic measure.
“Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”
~ John Dewey
FWA And DEI, Along With General aims of educational worth are not lost to “Us, the American People” if America’s federal Education Department goes away. We can avoid federal education expenditures by redistributing funds allocated for America’s federal Education Department to America’s schools at large. Redistribution is doable by tax reduction equal to Department budget.
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ”
~ Horace Mann
Media Reporting On DOGE Education Department review incudes a list of DEI initiatives Parents Defending Education (PDE) compiled. DEI Initiative descriptions accurate, there is reason to find listed DEI initiatives are applied selectively, rather than, say, offering mathematics instruction without regard to a student’s economic or cultural status. Federal oversight, in any case, would be unnecessary.
“The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.”
~ John Ruskin
People Department To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to impose direct taxes of any kind. They forbid government from confiscating their property.
“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”
~ Robert. M. Htchins
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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