So, I like to go the YMCA and work out sit in the hot tub, steam room and sauna on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
On my way home, I drive right by the Leesville Taproom, if by “on my home” you mean taking a leeft when you should take a right.
And because I simply MUST make sure that they don’t need the help of an old decrepit bartender, I stop in to check on ’em. I like to have a couple beers and make my way home.
Posted in Economy, Fun, Liberty, Middle Class, Technology
The rich; they are reedy pigs!
And the corporations they run; just mechanisms to take money from the poor and give to the rich!
They take from those who have little and give to those that have much!
Right?
Nope.
Wanna know what it is? The shortest word in the English language?
‘ere!
The word spoken after a toke on a joint and passing to the next in line.
And it would seem that America is a LOT closer to becoming familiar with that than we ever believed:
When the conversation among evangelicals turns from the “evils” of weed to the statistics of crime and incarceration, the war is over. It’s only a matter of time.
And about time too!
I know candy and sugar and stuff is bad horrible for me. I KNOW it.
And I know that when I eat garbage like that it only does more harm than it does good.
Except, for, you know, two things:
But when the government gets involved, BOOM goes the dynamite!
Posted in Education, Liberty, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Health, Leftist, Minnesota, Nanny State, Socialism
Wanna know why Unions are dangerous?
Because they are parasites. They take and they take without providing value.
Posted in Lobby/PAC, States Behaving Badly
Tagged Leftist, New Jersey, North Carolina, Politics, Raleigh Fire Department
Compensation. What one offers another in trade for goods or services. Most often today, it’s money. That is, I pay the service station money in exchange for gasoline. Or, I pay the tavern in cash in exchange for beer.
Occasionally, the compensation may be something besides money. Then it becomes a sort of barter. One party trades a good or service in exchange for another; wheat for milk. Dental work for electrical work. Whatever.
Another example is health care. Rather than our employer compensating us in cash, they instead compensate us in insurance.*
Imagine, if you will, if our employer compensated us in groceries rather than cash–just like health insurance. What would our world look like?
It would appear that Economics is not limited to matters of the wallet.
To begin, let’s review the definition of Economics:
The study of the use of scare resources which have alternative uses.
This definition is as true for money as it is for matter of the heart.
Wanna know the only way to establish a monopoly?
Government regulations.
And I find it funny that the very same people who clamor when companies like Microsoft or Intel have a “strangle hold” on the market are the very same one who demand, DEMAND I tell you, that the government regulate a monopoly for something that they think needs regulating.
There are some that would have you believe that in order to ensure freedom, we must first restrict that same freedom.
That we must take a system that exists in the exact way and manner we desire, change it, all to make sure that it never changes into that condition it has never demonstrated.
And these are the same people that lobby for ever ore and more government. All in the noble name of “Freedom” and “Liberty”
My advice to you:
Beware the freedom fighter who approaches you with the chains of bondage.
Posted in Liberty, Lobby/PAC, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Internet, Leftists, Net Neutrality
Remember when global warming was all the rage? When people were telling us that based on human activity we were going to experience runaway temperature increases?
Good times. Damn good times.
But let’s hit the Way Back Machine…..