Minimum wage in a nutshell

The basic idea of "liberalism" can be summed up in many ways. Central planning is a biggie. Another is the concept of a fiat economy. Well, "liberalism" means fiat everything, in other words dictatorship according to political correctness.

Fiat is the third-person imperative of "to be" in Latin, i.e. some kind of order, command or strong wish. "Fiat lux" -- let there be light. In modern politics, it's a more diplomatic way of saying dictate or mandate as nouns. WE the pundits, planners and professional prostiticians will order you the little nothing citizens and taxpayers in how it's going to be. WE know better than you according to socio-economic THEORIES taught us by bowtied professors in the most respected (if least respectable) universities in this country and elsewhere.

Minimum wage is where these people say you in business are too selfish to pay people enough for their labor. We the great friends of the working man since Marx and Lenin have news for you -- you're going to raise their pay however we tell you.  

They're ignoring the market, but of course they've been ignoring every natural process except gravity since politicians first undertook to tax Peter to "benefit" Paul.

The rest of the story, the crux: 

http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/income-inequality-a-growing-problem-for-housing-market/
Income Inequality a Growing Problem For Housing Market

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Iran victimized by America for one-eighth of our lifetime as a nation

Three decades and counting on our strange, horrible obsession with that Islamic Republic, which never asked for us to monitor its inner life or judge its policies -- much less ruin its life.

Of course those countries over there are merely artificial constructs forced on those people by the Western powers in the wake of our own aggressions. Something just occurred to me -- the Greek myth of King Procrustes, it has to be an allegory for what big societies do to small ones!

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-30-year-usiran-nuke-standoff-we-started-it-in-the-reagan-days/
The 30-Year US/Iran Nuke Standoff: We Started It In The Reagan Days

What can you say about a marriage that's been viciously abusive since before it began, and entirely one-sided? Believe that's a type of slavery common in the far East.

..... Oh, this is good!

Washington DC – “We’ve got to stop ISIS… al-Qaida… Syria’s Assad… Hamas… Hezbollah… Taliban…

Shebab…the wicked Ruskis in Ukraine…those Yemeni Houthis…Iran…Sudan…Islamists in Libya and Mali…Boko Haram in Nigeria… the Red Chinese in Asia. Oh yes, and defend Latvia and fight the Lord’s Army in Uganda.

That’s the view in Washington where international police fever and growing hysteria over ISIS, the latest Mideast bogeyman, have gripped the nation, as elections near and politicians talk more nonsense than usual.

Listen to Republican windbags and you’d believe the hordes of ISIS are about to put Cleveland to the sword.

My question is: which “we” is going to stop all these malefactors?

To quote Frederick the Great, “he who defends everything, defends nothing.” To which we may add, he who spends on wars everywhere, ends up broke. And he who ignores domestic needs for the sake of imperial glory abroad is cruising for a bruising.

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=169483

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Why is life so brutal today? Look at the example set by thuggerment

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175866/tomgram%3A_rebecca_gordon%2C_a_nation_of_cowards/#more
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, A Nation of Cowards?

Pay your fair share, cont.: they really, really need your money. Proof!

The Barnes Review, May/June 2011, page 36: 

Whatever happened to that $2.3 trillion that the Pentagon could not account for back in 2001? It seems they still can't account for it. Donald Rumsfeld told us on Sept. 10, 2001, the day before 9/11, that "according to some estimates we cannot account for $2.3 trillion." The events that took place the next day caused most folks to forget that astounding statement. Pentagon auditors say they routinely "cannot account for 25% of what the Pentagon spends"! That means that close to $400 billion dollars disappears every year. What a joke it is that Congress is working overtime to trim the budget deficit by paltry millions or billions of dollars while hundreds of billions and even trillions routinely disappear into the Pentagon budget's black hole, without any protest.

I have always pointed out the Insider's custom of admitting everything at times calculated to be quickly forgotten by the sheeple. This reporting of missing DOJ trillions is approaching 10 years old, but has never gotten one percent of the coverage it deserves on page one of the daily papers.

More cases -- in a standup comedy routine, possibly under the influences:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/cia/lying-liars-inc-.html

Bushy Baby gets to admit he lied about the WMDs to a great mirthful response from his audience, with total impunity.

Only the truth can save us -- but most people, even those unhappy with the state of things, have less than zero concern for it!

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Cheers for the independent contractor

Here's a pleasantly Clarksonian summary of the issue. Enjoy:

http://www.howtovanish.com/2011/04/how-independent-contractors-make-more-money-for-everyone/?awt_l=93ZpA&awt_m=LWSlb78d6ixNxm
How Independent Contractors Make More Money For Everyone
by BILL ROUNDS ESQ.

We've got to get with that writer, huh!

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Former Reagan appointee writes Hillary's résumé

......better that she ever will.

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/hillary-clintons-interventionist-fiascos-heres-chapter-and-verse/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Mailing+List+Sunday+10+AM

Hillary Clinton’s Interventionist Fiascos: Here’s Chapter And Verse

This article made the rounds under its second sentence -- "When has Hillary Clinton ever been right on foreign policy?" What a great summary of the case! 

So-called liberalism is, after all, simply a program for killing off as much of the life that exists on earth, principally but by no means exclusively humanity, whether thanks to Democrat liberals like Hellary or Republican liberals like the Bushes, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al. 

This is not an exaggeration in the slightest. Liberals are all about death, baby, death. When they're not dropping bombs on people's wedding parties and hospitals, they're crusading for ever more abortion (another misnomer, but it's what we have to work with). Saw an article on the environmental impact of Israel's 66-year holocaust against the Palestinians -- the ground poisoned, the species killed off. 

Most of Washington's constituents, voters and taxpayers want to save the earth but don't give that a thought when cheering on the mass-murder of distant foreigners based on some airy-fairy notions of stopping terrorism, bringing democracy, winning hearts and minds or whatever. 

Did you hear? Just the other day DC had to destroy a lot of its own war materiel -- it had helped to arm some native military forces, switched sides, and found the stuff was being turned on us, the noble world saviors, by our former friends and allies. Wonder if they sent in the EPA to clean up that mess!

The news is bad. The news is very very bad. This column has gravitated into a repository for the worst of it -- well, believe it or not, I'm not actually bringing you the worst. But to enjoy my good news accumulations, support the Patriot Network monthly meeting series in your area.

Oh, boy -- I LIKE the looks of this link on the same page with the above:

Memo To Washington: Iraq Is Not A Nation And You Can’t Build One There With Bombs

by David Stockman • September 2, 2014

Washington’s strategy in Iraq is in shambles, but not just because America’s spanker-in-chief is really a wimp at heart. The problem is far more generic. To wit, the geographic territory of Iraq is not a nation; it is an arbitrary series of lines on a map drawn 100 years ago by dandies in the foreign… 

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A great Christian in the gulag

This gentleman's name came up at the Patriot Network pool party the other day. It was my privilege to throw in that he had come to the Great One for advice, which he unfortunately didn't entirely follow, and that he had credited RBC as an inspiration in his published work. Then this link appeared at the great Phoenix site:

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/162159-2014-08-31-why-is-kent-hovind-in-jail.htm

Why Is Kent Hovind in Jail?

Interesting that a humanist/Libertarian site would stick up for the great creation-science guru. More remarkably, the writer of the piece (in 2007!) is Hovind's fellow income tax martyr/hero Pastor Greg Dixon. 

Hovind is a brilliant mind. He was a guest on Coast to Coast AM some years ago and answered every single objection evolutionist callers threw at him. It was the only time I've ordered a Coast show tape afterward in the well-intentioned intention of rotating it among my friends and acquaintances. 

Slicky Willy Clinton's Injustice Department launched a pogrom against Dixon and the magnificent Indianapolis Baptist Temple he pastored. The church didn't want to do volunteer work for the IRS by withholding a portion of its workers' pay each week on behalf of the "Service". As Slick's unbearable reign drew to a close there was hope among some (not me) that the shiny new REPUBLICAN savior, W. Bush, would save the congregation and end the persecution which by all law and logic should never have started.

But no, this was not to be. In a shocking move symbolic of how the reign of W was going to turn out, he moved in for the kill and actually seized the church's property, Soviet-style.

That's freedom for you under the Bush-Clinton-Obama crime syndicate.... regardless of which party is in ostensible power at a given moment.

Let's all get that straight once and for all.

Wish the news were better.

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