"Give me Liberty, or give me Death"

Sticking with a theme here….

Mark Levin just released a book Titled “Liberty and Tyranny”. I heard him in an interview this week. And I love his perspective on Liberty. (This is a transcript from a radio interview, so not nearly as eloquent as his writing, I’m sure)

“Well, first of all, people need to understand that the greed comes from government. The government wants to take 60%, 70% of what you earn at all levels of government, and it hasn't earned a thing. So here's the way we need to understand it. Labor. Labor is the time you spend working, whether it's an intellectual pursuit or a hands-on type pursuit. You have a finite amount of time on earth. So this is precious time. This is your liberty, your time that you're spending to earn this income. So when somebody says that you've earned too much after working as you have using all your abilities to do what you do, to create a comfortable living for yourself, and somebody in the government tells you, "Well, that's not good enough" -- and they want to take your money not for the legitimate purposes of government, as stated in the Constitution, but to redistribute wealth or some other outrageous Marxist-type theory, socialist-type theory -- they are stealing literally time out of your life, your liberty that you spent earning this money, earning this private property legitimately. We need to explain that the free market is the most transformative of economic systems, and it fosters creativity and inventiveness. It produces all these industries and products and services that the statist wants to control and tax. The statist creates nothing.

You know, people need to look around, because liberty permeates. It's so broad; it's so wide that when you're born into it, a lot of times you don't recognize it and you think it's going to be here forever. Aspects of it will, but it's going to be severely curtailed if those who do not respect liberty and do not respect private property rights and do not respect the labor that somebody applies to a skill or whatever and earns his own money, that liberty is going to be severely diminished. Liberty is precious, and that is what we want to defend.”

FREEDOM!!

I'm close to this point:
When your federal government is going to pass a bill to specifically tax a few private citizens 90% of what they lawfully earned, you have to ask yourself how it came to this and what is going to prevent them from doing it to others?

Back to Business

President Barack Obama and millions of his fellow citizens are fuming over the $165 million (that’s million) in bonuses handed out to AIG executives after the insurance giant received billions (billions) in federal bailout money. There is a growing move on Capitol Hill to somehow force AIG to repay the money. But the bonuses were part of employees’ contracts, and thus legally binding.

"One way or another, we're going to try to figure out how to get these resources back," said Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., the panel's chairman.

"This is ridiculous," exclaimed Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. He said AIG executives "need to understand that the only reason they even have a job is because of the taxpayers."

"I mean, how do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?" Obama demanded.

This is almost laughable if it wasn’t so depressing… This coming from an administration that passed a $700 Billion bill (taxpayers $) without even reading it. Let’s turn this around.

Chris Dodd, I ask you “How do we get $700 billion of our money back? How do we get the value of our hard earned dollar back?”

Jon Tester, I remind you “The only reason you have a job is because of taxpayers.”

And Finally, My favorite, President Obama “How do you justify this outrage of passing bill after bill of absolute waste then lecturing us and accusing private citizens of acting irresponsible”

Back off Washington.

Chicks Man

My blog world is crashing

I apologize ahead of time for the melodrama, but my blog world is literally crashing around me.

First, Conan has been off the air for almost 2 weeks now, and my DVR is confused about what to do with Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. With more than 2 months before his Tonight Show debut, this portion of the blog is going to struggle.

Second, Capitalism is dying and we are only in to the first 45 days of His presidency. With just shy of 4 years before this nightmare ends, I can't decide if I am going to busier or just too discouraged to write.

I need some encouragement. please help.