PI2024 #1341-1344 12182024
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PI2024 #1344 – More Difficult Or Bureaucratic
ASK A HORSE
(Liberty Over License)
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.”
~ Peyton Conway March
December 18th, 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.
“A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We’re sorry. We blew it. We now have to ask permission to take a leak on an airline flight. We never deserved you.”
~ Phil Murphy
Robert Reisch Is An Accomplished individual who, amongst other achievements is a former presidential cabinet secretary. Mr. Reich, media report claims President-to-be Donald J. Trump and his Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) entitlement hunters are out to do away with MEDICARE and MEICAID. DOGE might purge fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in those entitlements.
“Whatever power you give to the good cops, goes to the bad ones, too. Never forget that.”
~ Phillip Birmingham
Mr. Reich Points Out How MEDICARE/MEDICAID entitlements are profusely civically popular and help support large numbers of Americans in need. Cutting FWA from MEDICARE/MEDICAID would, then, further help people who need MEDICARE/MEDICAID by making them more effective. MEDICARE/MEDICAID entitlements, as are all government subsidies, are funded by taxpayers.
“Pity the poor opponents of the right to keep and bear arms! They must distrust just everybody except criminals and except the tyrant to whom they concede the armed monopoly of their protection.”
~ Pierre Lemieux
A Somewhat Related Media Report claims GOP lawmakers want to make it hard for people to file their taxes. Good bet there would be few taxpayers who would argue filing taxes is not a complicated, aggravating thing to do. Since entitlements depend on funding from taxes, it makes little sense “Our, the American People’s” law-makers would set out to make tax filing more difficult or bureaucratic.
“Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.”
~ Plato
Nothing Needs To Make Sense when legislators decide they’re going to do something. Media coverage has it some 27 law-makers are urging President-to-be Doanld J. Trump to end existing tax return programs specifically designed to streamline filing. Precisely why law-makers in question want to end simplified tax filing programs is unclear. Speculation has something to do with resisting change.
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
~ Plato
People Expecting 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. They preclude government from eroding their assets through property confiscation.
“Justice will only exist where those not effected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.”
~ Plato
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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PI2024 #1343 – At Least As High
ASK A HORSE
(Liberty Over License)
Wednesday,
December 18th, 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 people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness…This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs, when he first appears he is a protector.”
~ Plato
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
~ Plato
It’s No Easy Chore Getting to verifiable information on California’s latest legislatively-mandated minimum wage hike, and how such wage hike impacted California cost food customers. Fast food price hikes, reportedly, went up on order of 3.7 %. One well-known business school study claims there was minimal to no detrimental impact on California’s economy, countering fast food price increases.
“No one is free who is not master of himself.”
~ Pythagoras
There Are Media Reports California fast food restaurants have increased prices as much as 7% to 8%. “We, the American People” would not be in error to conclude if wage hikes been largely positive impact on worker lives with slight negative economic impact, it would make sense to raise fast food minimum wages to where they’d be at least as high as Golden State workers make on statewide average.
“The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide.”
~ R.J. Rummel
Golden State Government Has not taken steps to further increase fast food minimum wage. Thus, by inaction, California government must be satisfied fast food wages are adequate. Given Golden State legislators figure fast food wages are high enough, then reports wage increases had minimal economic impact must be erroneous. Whether wage increases are returned to markets or salted away is pertinent.
“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Fast Food Wage Increases Salted Away or invested have a direct impact on businesses wins or losses due wage increases. Wage increases returned to circulation might have an overall low effect, where wage increases invested tie money up even though businesses receiving investment increases could grow. While invested money might compound daily, dividends are, typically, paid mush less often.
“Today, in contrast, if we dare to startle the more panicky among us by buying a good rabbit gun, the government’s there at the cash register to check our papers and seize $46 on every $100.”
~ Ralph Reiland
People Prepared 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 dismiss elected leaders who put them at risk.
“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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PI2024 #1342 – BA) Direct Your Frustration More To The LEFT, Not At Wealthy Insurance CEOs
ASK A HORSE
(Liberty Over License)
“As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved – it’s the citizen who changes things.”
~ Jose Saramago
Wednesday,
December 18th, 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.
AAH Reader (<bethanncsctalkradio@substack.com>) Circulates Periodic perspectives under “Beth Ann From Beyond the Microphone.” Recent (Direct Your Frustration More To The LEFT, Not At Wealthy Insurance CEOs) below.
AAH Considers Beth Ann’s Observations on point in “Our, the American People’s” clash with those who would undermine Liberty.
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Liberty Relies On Strength in numbers.
Perhaps we are late, but that doesn’t mean we should capitulate.
“People can only be pushed so far!”
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Direct Your Frustration More To The LEFT, Not At Wealthy Insurance CEOs “People can only be pushed so far!”
12-16-2024 The left seems to have an appetite for violence; they have encouraged the hate for President Trump and his supporters, and they are encouraging the hate of wealthy insurance CEOs. It’s sick and it’s dangerous that so many people on the left are attempting to make the (alleged) back-shooting murderer a hero. The coward Luigi Mangione is no hero. His actions saved no lives, and murder changed no bad medical policies. He was not brave enough to face the man (innocent of any wrongdoing to Luigi) … so he snuck up behind him and shot him; until he was dead! Yep… that fixes all the healthcare problems in America. Senator Elizabeth Warren (I call her Lizzy) said this: “The visceral response of people around the country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the healthcare system. Violence is never the answer, but people can only be pushed so far. This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change, and start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone…” She later tried to retract her dangerous language: “I should have said, ‘Violence is never the answer,’ – Period!” But you did say it Lizzy… The murderer, the excuses for murder by Lizzy Warren, Bernie Sanders, others and the media… “You can only push people so far…” The confused clanging cymbals of the LEFT don’t know the difference between a hero and a thug. Maybe because they themselves are thugs; policy making thugs: Policy makers who don’t have to live by their own laws or policies. Mangione is a mentally sick individual, yet the democrats and their buddies on the LEFT want to make a martyr of him; a martyr for what, or for whom… OBAMACARE? It’s interesting that her words seem to allude that perhaps insurance (aka Obamacare) has restrictive and bad policies; “people can only be pushed so far…” Lizzy Warren seems to “get it” when it comes to being upset over insurance denials, but she and others on the LEFT haven’t figured out – that’s why democrats lost so badly November 5, 2024…because “People can only be pushed so far…” None of those complaining about the poor insurance coverages and high costs have equated it to Obamacare. But Lizzy, it is Obamacare that has caused all the stir regarding healthcare! It actually started with Hillary FIXING things! (Whew, America dodged that insane presidential bullet twice!) BACK IN THE DAY When an insurance policy (contract) was between the buyer and the insurance company (usually an 80/20 agreement) denials and rejections of treatments were less surprising. (the contract dictated… you knew what was covered and what wasn’t…) The contract laid out exactly what was covered and what was not! You got what you paid for in your premium. Less coverage meant a smaller premium. Extended coverage caused a higher premium for you. The insurance agent arrived at your home with his handy-dandy notebook detailing each level of coverage. Do you want or need coverage for pregnancy? Do you want major medical? Do you want accident coverage? Before Obamacare there was Hillary-care. President Bill Clinton, needing to keep his wife busy and distracted, told Americans that Hillary was good at fixing things, and she was going to fix America’s healthcare system. I was actually working in the medical field during the launch of ‘Hillary-care,’ with five kiddos in my house under my care. Hillary-care introduced a new insurance language. We had to learn and understand words such as Gatekeeper, copays, primary care physician, and referrals. Doctors, pharmacies, hospitals, and laboratories signed up with certain insurance companies, and you had to use the ones that were on your list. Your primary care physician was the Gatekeeper. No matter what was wrong with you; cold, broken bone, UTI, injury, or pregnancy, you had ONE primary physician and he or she would then determine if you needed a specialist, and they would then send out a referral. No longer could you pick up the phone and call a heart doc, or an orthopedist, an OBGYN, a kidney specialist, or any specialist; no referral – no appointment! Then along came Obamacare!
If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, was the lie that was fed to We the People. It wasn’t true with Hillary-care, and it was not and still is not true with Obamacare. No longer is your insurance coverage between you and the insurer. Now it’s all regulated by government bureaucracy. If they all came to your home to sell their product you’d have a crowded kitchen table. New actors on board; your insurance company, big pharma, hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories, your doctor, and the specialist doctors; all now teamed up for your healthcare. This not only makes your care more expensive; your healthcare is also controlled! They should title it “Controlled Care.” This large team, regulated by government, controls all your healthcare treatments. Your health is no longer between you and your doctor; it is under the scrutiny of many people in high-rise offices wearing expensive suits. It became health control-management NOT healthcare! Senators Bernie Sanders, Lizzy and the media focused on the wealth of the CEO murdered. The rhetoric of “people can only be pushed so far,” was just that; rhetoric-clanging cymbals. They aren’t concerned about the frustration people have with their healthcare maze; they were upset that the CEO was very well paid for his work with United Healthcare. You see, the elites don’t want Americans to be profitable. What they truly want for all of America (except for them) is Socialized Medicine. We all want to blame the health insurance companies, BUT… that blame might be slightly (not entirely) misplaced: Am I correct Lizzy? It’s called Obamacare (government regulated healthcare) and Senator Lizzy loves it! She promoted Obamacare, and she voted for Obamacare. She will promote and vote for socialized medicine over and over again, because she is a socialist and not an American who believes in capitalism. So, why would people be upset, Lizzy? Why are Americans upset with your perfectly affordable Obamacare? She’ll never admit it, none of them will, but you see, what they are after is 100% socialized medicine. Yep, more bureaucracy; that is always the democrat fix, and that is always why things get worse! Like you said Lizzy, “people can only be pushed so far…” …before they begin pushing back by voting NO on all your stupid, unconstitutional, unaffordable government programs! Listen to today’s podcast: podcast Archives – CSC Talk Radio Support CSC Talk Radio by supporting my sponsors! Immuno 150 | The 70 Minerals are Key Discount Gold and Silver Trading Liberty Tabletop | The Only Flatware Made in the USA Beyond the Microphone – The Fifth Segment is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. You’re currently a free subscriber to Beyond the Microphone – The Fifth Segment. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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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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PI2024 #1341 – Regards Religious Freedom Activity
ASK A HORSE
(Liberty Over License)
“The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance.”
~ Paul Johnson
Wednesday,
December 18th, 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 fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell’s 1984 and the only difference between our society and those fictionalized by Huxley, Orwell and others, is that the advertising techniques used to package the propaganda are a little more sophisticated on the surface.”
~ Paul Williams
Media Report “Our, the American People’s” Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) Justices changed their stand on a religious freedom-based tax exemption case. Question SCOTUS Justices pondered centered on whether a commonwealth/state court can set criteria for Constitutionality as regards religious freedom activity. High Court case is an example of deciding jurisdictional authority.
“Don’t ever think you know what’s right for the other person. He might start thinking he knows what’s right for you.”
~ Paul Williams
“We, the American People,” if jurisdictional authority on religious freedom and practice matters is to be, are final arbiters of same. If jurisdictional authority domain is left up to America’s SCOTUS, then America’s 10th Amendment has no strength – in practice. More importantly, SCOTUS Justices, in changing their stand, demonstrate court susceptibility to personal attitude, values, and beliefs (PAVB).
“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”
~ Pearl S. Buck
It Would Be Irrevocably Naïve of “Us, the American People” to think, believe, or accept SCOTUS findings to be rooted in other than PAVB held by SCOTUS Justices. America’s courts – any courts, anywhere, convened by people – come to their conclusions based on court officers and/or jury members applying their PAVB to matters at hand. Legislators act similarly when passing and enacting laws.
“Conformity and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.”
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
It Is Oft Bandied America is a nation of laws, not of men (meaning, people). In America, and anywhere where society has a semblance of organization and order, laws and courts are creations of people in those societies. America is no different. And, in those societies, law-makers and courts are similarly found to be in endless debate as to laws having legitimacy. Lawful legitimacy is established by PAVB.
“Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?”
~ Persius
People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to offer amnesty to illegal aliens. They protect against intrusion on their homes and homeland.
“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.”
~ Peter Kropotkin
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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PI2024 #1344 – More Difficult Or Bureaucratic
ASK A HORSE
(Liberty Over License)
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.”
~ Peyton Conway March
December 18th, 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.
“A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We’re sorry. We blew it. We now have to ask permission to take a leak on an airline flight. We never deserved you.”
~ Phil Murphy
Robert Reisch Is An Accomplished individual who, amongst other achievements is a former presidential cabinet secretary. Mr. Reich, media report claims President-to-be Donald J. Trump and his Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) entitlement hunters are out to do away with MEDICARE and MEICAID. DOGE might purge fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in those entitlements.
“Whatever power you give to the good cops, goes to the bad ones, too. Never forget that.”
~ Phillip Birmingham
Mr. Reich Points Out How MEDICARE/MEDICAID entitlements are profusely civically popular and help support large numbers of Americans in need. Cutting FWA from MEDICARE/MEDICAID would, then, further help people who need MEDICARE/MEDICAID by making them more effective. MEDICARE/MEDICAID entitlements, as are all government subsidies, are funded by taxpayers.
“Pity the poor opponents of the right to keep and bear arms! They must distrust just everybody except criminals and except the tyrant to whom they concede the armed monopoly of their protection.”
~ Pierre Lemieux
A Somewhat Related Media Report claims GOP lawmakers want to make it hard for people to file their taxes. Good bet there would be few taxpayers who would argue filing taxes is not a complicated, aggravating thing to do. Since entitlements depend on funding from taxes, it makes little sense “Our, the American People’s” law-makers would set out to make tax filing more difficult or bureaucratic.
“Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.”
~ Plato
Nothing Needs To Make Sense when legislators decide they’re going to do something. Media coverage has it some 27 law-makers are urging President-to-be Doanld J. Trump to end existing tax return programs specifically designed to streamline filing. Precisely why law-makers in question want to end simplified tax filing programs is unclear. Speculation has something to do with resisting change.
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
~ Plato
People Expecting 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. They preclude government from eroding their assets through property confiscation.
“Justice will only exist where those not effected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.”
~ Plato
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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PI2024 #1343 – At Least As High
ASK A HORSE
(Liberty Over License)
Wednesday,
December 18th, 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 people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness…This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs, when he first appears he is a protector.”
~ Plato
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
~ Plato
It’s No Easy Chore Getting to verifiable information on California’s latest legislatively-mandated minimum wage hike, and how such wage hike impacted California cost food customers. Fast food price hikes, reportedly, went up on order of 3.7 %. One well-known business school study claims there was minimal to no detrimental impact on California’s economy, countering fast food price increases.
“No one is free who is not master of himself.”
~ Pythagoras
There Are Media Reports California fast food restaurants have increased prices as much as 7% to 8%. “We, the American People” would not be in error to conclude if wage hikes been largely positive impact on worker lives with slight negative economic impact, it would make sense to raise fast food minimum wages to where they’d be at least as high as Golden State workers make on statewide average.
“The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide.”
~ R.J. Rummel
Golden State Government Has not taken steps to further increase fast food minimum wage. Thus, by inaction, California government must be satisfied fast food wages are adequate. Given Golden State legislators figure fast food wages are high enough, then reports wage increases had minimal economic impact must be erroneous. Whether wage increases are returned to markets or salted away is pertinent.
“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Fast Food Wage Increases Salted Away or invested have a direct impact on businesses wins or losses due wage increases. Wage increases returned to circulation might have an overall low effect, where wage increases invested tie money up even though businesses receiving investment increases could grow. While invested money might compound daily, dividends are, typically, paid mush less often.
“Today, in contrast, if we dare to startle the more panicky among us by buying a good rabbit gun, the government’s there at the cash register to check our papers and seize $46 on every $100.”
~ Ralph Reiland
People Prepared 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 dismiss elected leaders who put them at risk.
“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 #1342 – BA) Direct Your Frustration More To The LEFT, Not At Wealthy Insurance CEOs
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(Liberty Over License)
“As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved – it’s the citizen who changes things.”
~ Jose Saramago
Wednesday,
December 18th, 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.
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“People can only be pushed so far!”
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Direct Your Frustration More To The LEFT, Not At Wealthy Insurance CEOs “People can only be pushed so far!”
12-16-2024 The left seems to have an appetite for violence; they have encouraged the hate for President Trump and his supporters, and they are encouraging the hate of wealthy insurance CEOs. It’s sick and it’s dangerous that so many people on the left are attempting to make the (alleged) back-shooting murderer a hero. The coward Luigi Mangione is no hero. His actions saved no lives, and murder changed no bad medical policies. He was not brave enough to face the man (innocent of any wrongdoing to Luigi) … so he snuck up behind him and shot him; until he was dead! Yep… that fixes all the healthcare problems in America. Senator Elizabeth Warren (I call her Lizzy) said this: “The visceral response of people around the country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the healthcare system. Violence is never the answer, but people can only be pushed so far. This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change, and start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone…” She later tried to retract her dangerous language: “I should have said, ‘Violence is never the answer,’ – Period!” But you did say it Lizzy… The murderer, the excuses for murder by Lizzy Warren, Bernie Sanders, others and the media… “You can only push people so far…” The confused clanging cymbals of the LEFT don’t know the difference between a hero and a thug. Maybe because they themselves are thugs; policy making thugs: Policy makers who don’t have to live by their own laws or policies. Mangione is a mentally sick individual, yet the democrats and their buddies on the LEFT want to make a martyr of him; a martyr for what, or for whom… OBAMACARE? It’s interesting that her words seem to allude that perhaps insurance (aka Obamacare) has restrictive and bad policies; “people can only be pushed so far…” Lizzy Warren seems to “get it” when it comes to being upset over insurance denials, but she and others on the LEFT haven’t figured out – that’s why democrats lost so badly November 5, 2024…because “People can only be pushed so far…” None of those complaining about the poor insurance coverages and high costs have equated it to Obamacare. But Lizzy, it is Obamacare that has caused all the stir regarding healthcare! It actually started with Hillary FIXING things! (Whew, America dodged that insane presidential bullet twice!) BACK IN THE DAY When an insurance policy (contract) was between the buyer and the insurance company (usually an 80/20 agreement) denials and rejections of treatments were less surprising. (the contract dictated… you knew what was covered and what wasn’t…) The contract laid out exactly what was covered and what was not! You got what you paid for in your premium. Less coverage meant a smaller premium. Extended coverage caused a higher premium for you. The insurance agent arrived at your home with his handy-dandy notebook detailing each level of coverage. Do you want or need coverage for pregnancy? Do you want major medical? Do you want accident coverage? Before Obamacare there was Hillary-care. President Bill Clinton, needing to keep his wife busy and distracted, told Americans that Hillary was good at fixing things, and she was going to fix America’s healthcare system. I was actually working in the medical field during the launch of ‘Hillary-care,’ with five kiddos in my house under my care. Hillary-care introduced a new insurance language. We had to learn and understand words such as Gatekeeper, copays, primary care physician, and referrals. Doctors, pharmacies, hospitals, and laboratories signed up with certain insurance companies, and you had to use the ones that were on your list. Your primary care physician was the Gatekeeper. No matter what was wrong with you; cold, broken bone, UTI, injury, or pregnancy, you had ONE primary physician and he or she would then determine if you needed a specialist, and they would then send out a referral. No longer could you pick up the phone and call a heart doc, or an orthopedist, an OBGYN, a kidney specialist, or any specialist; no referral – no appointment! Then along came Obamacare!
If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, was the lie that was fed to We the People. It wasn’t true with Hillary-care, and it was not and still is not true with Obamacare. No longer is your insurance coverage between you and the insurer. Now it’s all regulated by government bureaucracy. If they all came to your home to sell their product you’d have a crowded kitchen table. New actors on board; your insurance company, big pharma, hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories, your doctor, and the specialist doctors; all now teamed up for your healthcare. This not only makes your care more expensive; your healthcare is also controlled! They should title it “Controlled Care.” This large team, regulated by government, controls all your healthcare treatments. Your health is no longer between you and your doctor; it is under the scrutiny of many people in high-rise offices wearing expensive suits. It became health control-management NOT healthcare! Senators Bernie Sanders, Lizzy and the media focused on the wealth of the CEO murdered. The rhetoric of “people can only be pushed so far,” was just that; rhetoric-clanging cymbals. They aren’t concerned about the frustration people have with their healthcare maze; they were upset that the CEO was very well paid for his work with United Healthcare. You see, the elites don’t want Americans to be profitable. What they truly want for all of America (except for them) is Socialized Medicine. We all want to blame the health insurance companies, BUT… that blame might be slightly (not entirely) misplaced: Am I correct Lizzy? It’s called Obamacare (government regulated healthcare) and Senator Lizzy loves it! She promoted Obamacare, and she voted for Obamacare. She will promote and vote for socialized medicine over and over again, because she is a socialist and not an American who believes in capitalism. So, why would people be upset, Lizzy? Why are Americans upset with your perfectly affordable Obamacare? She’ll never admit it, none of them will, but you see, what they are after is 100% socialized medicine. Yep, more bureaucracy; that is always the democrat fix, and that is always why things get worse! Like you said Lizzy, “people can only be pushed so far…” …before they begin pushing back by voting NO on all your stupid, unconstitutional, unaffordable government programs! Listen to today’s podcast: podcast Archives – CSC Talk Radio Support CSC Talk Radio by supporting my sponsors! Immuno 150 | The 70 Minerals are Key Discount Gold and Silver Trading Liberty Tabletop | The Only Flatware Made in the USA Beyond the Microphone – The Fifth Segment is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. You’re currently a free subscriber to Beyond the Microphone – The Fifth Segment. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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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 #1341 – Regards Religious Freedom Activity
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(Liberty Over License)
“The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance.”
~ Paul Johnson
Wednesday,
December 18th, 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 fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell’s 1984 and the only difference between our society and those fictionalized by Huxley, Orwell and others, is that the advertising techniques used to package the propaganda are a little more sophisticated on the surface.”
~ Paul Williams
Media Report “Our, the American People’s” Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) Justices changed their stand on a religious freedom-based tax exemption case. Question SCOTUS Justices pondered centered on whether a commonwealth/state court can set criteria for Constitutionality as regards religious freedom activity. High Court case is an example of deciding jurisdictional authority.
“Don’t ever think you know what’s right for the other person. He might start thinking he knows what’s right for you.”
~ Paul Williams
“We, the American People,” if jurisdictional authority on religious freedom and practice matters is to be, are final arbiters of same. If jurisdictional authority domain is left up to America’s SCOTUS, then America’s 10th Amendment has no strength – in practice. More importantly, SCOTUS Justices, in changing their stand, demonstrate court susceptibility to personal attitude, values, and beliefs (PAVB).
“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”
~ Pearl S. Buck
It Would Be Irrevocably Naïve of “Us, the American People” to think, believe, or accept SCOTUS findings to be rooted in other than PAVB held by SCOTUS Justices. America’s courts – any courts, anywhere, convened by people – come to their conclusions based on court officers and/or jury members applying their PAVB to matters at hand. Legislators act similarly when passing and enacting laws.
“Conformity and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.”
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
It Is Oft Bandied America is a nation of laws, not of men (meaning, people). In America, and anywhere where society has a semblance of organization and order, laws and courts are creations of people in those societies. America is no different. And, in those societies, law-makers and courts are similarly found to be in endless debate as to laws having legitimacy. Lawful legitimacy is established by PAVB.
“Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?”
~ Persius
People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to offer amnesty to illegal aliens. They protect against intrusion on their homes and homeland.
“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.”
~ Peter Kropotkin
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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