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GIVING BACK

Wrong headed liberal or collectivist ideology is frighteningly pervasive, often in forms in which it is unlikely the people involved are even aware of their infection.  Well I've had it.  I'm pointing at it, every time, and making a fuss. As I was watching the latest professional golf tournament, I counted at least a dozen instances in which the announcers used a phrase with subtle, skewed implications. In reference to several PGA professionals' impressive charity work, the announcers referred to the activity as "giving back." As a paraphrase, they would say, "It really is impressive, Jim, how David Toms has taken the time and made the effort to give back." Or, "you can really see that these guys think that 'giving back' is really important."  Or, "My goodness it's good to see these guys giving so much back to these communities, Bob."   It is not sufficiently tempting to simply write this off as benign happenstanc
Great article on property taxes below.  Create a value.  Trade that value converting your thought time and effort into currency. Trade the currency for a durable good - land.  Watch as your local municipality steals a chunk of your thought time and effort over and over every year at ever higher rates --- you are RENTING and thought you had made a trade purchase. They will nibble away until all that you originally created is theirs'. http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/m-property_taxes_pave_the_road_to_serfdom.html

Death in the name of Life

Money = marker for someone's TIME, thought, effort = someone's Life spent When this is taken by force (tax, bonds, $ printing, franchising by govt, etc) -- life is stolen. Remember our founding words: ....with the right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.   For the past 100 years, and ever more rapidly in the past forty, our governments have been actively ignoring that primary function ---   They *should* be protecting EVERY individual's right to life, which they do by honoring and protecting every INDIVIDUAL's right to the product of their time, thought, and effort -- the value they produce that others are willing to trade for -- represented by the trade marker - money.      Instead they have been forcibly and with great inventiveness been stealing the lives of every individual that produces a value to trade.   IT IS OBSCENE.   It is horrifically sad, as this was the first country that started with the idea that each individual's life was to be gua