A Polish research institute has developed a board game to teach young people about life under Communism. In the game, which is inspired by Monopoly, players must wait in endless lines at stores for scarce goods. For added realism, they have to put up with people cutting in line and products running out—unless they have a “colleague in the government” card.
The goal of the game, which will officially be launched on Feb. 5, is to show how hard and frustrating it was for an average person to simply do their shopping under the Communist regime in Poland.
We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending,” she said in her inaugural address from the speaker’s podium. “Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.
Nancy Pelosi
During Nancy Pelosi’s reign as speaker of the house, debt to the American People increased by $5.343 trillion dollars, that’s $3.66 billion dollars per day.
The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.
The desire to “spreading the wealth” and for government to plan and regulate people’s lives is as old as the utopian fantasy in Plato’s Republic. The Pilgrim Fathers tried and soon realized its bankruptcy and failure as a way for men to live together in society.
They, instead, accepted man as he is: hardworking, productive, and innovative when allowed the liberty to follow his own interests in improving his own circumstances and that of his family. And even more, out of his industry result the quantities of useful goods that enable men to trade to their mutual benefit.
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism. At a time of economic uncertainty, it is worthwhile recalling this beginning of the American experiment and experience with freedom.
Dear Mr. Buffett, If you are so interested in paying ‘a Lot’ more please go ahead and write a big check to the Unites States Treasury. I’m sure some bureaucrats will find a way to spend all you can give.
Here’s an idea for you, have all American’s pay the same percentage of their income. Thus eliminating the “social engineering” imposed on us by the tax code.
1) Marco Rubio, US Senate, Florida - IN
2) Rick Scott, Governor, Florida - IN
3) Daniel Webster, US House, Florida - IN
4) Alan Grayson, US House, Florida - OUT
5) Allen West, US House, Florida - IN
6) Sandra Adams, US House, Florida - IN
7) Suzanne Kosmas, US House, Florida - OUT
8) Russ Feingold, US Senate, Wisconsin - OUT
9) Rand Paul, US Senate, Kentucky - IN
Disappointment
1) Barney Frank, US House, Massachusetts - IN
2) Barbara (call me Senator) Boxer, US Senate, California - IN
3) Charles Rangle, US House, New York - IN
4) Harry Reid, US Senate, Nevada - IN
5) Christine O’Donnell, US Senate, Delaware - LOSS
6)Jerry (Moonbeam) Brown, Governor, California - IN
This is what it sounds like when a President of The United Sates has REAL integrity. Something that is lacking in most of our politicians today.
Yes, I’m including Republicans in that statement too…
Total spending for the United States Government in 1924 was 7.5 Billion Dollars. Coolidge refered to it as a “stupendous sum” that was “difficult to comprehend.” I wonder what he would have to say about 1.3 Trillion dollars?
Speaking of President Coolidge and his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon Amity said,
But their grandest feat involved tax rates. Coolidge and Mellon tightened and pulled multiple times, eventually getting the top rate down to 25%, a level that hasn’t been seen since. Mellon argued that lower rates could actually bring in greater revenues because they removed disincentives to work. Government, he said, should operate like a railroad, charging a price for freight that “the traffic will bear.”
Coolidge’s commitment to low taxes came from his concept of property rights. He viewed heavy taxation as the legalization of expropriation. “I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more,” he once said. In fact, Coolidge disapproved of any government intervention that eroded the bond of the contract.
Mellon argued that lower rates could actually bring in greater revenues because they removed disincentives to work.
overall he and his partner at Treasury traveled smoothly. The U.S. averaged real growth closer to 4% than 3%, even during years of deflation. The Administration’s budgets were in surplus. In 1927 Time magazine reported that Coolidge paid a call at the Mellon mansion in Pittsburgh and walked “near the smoky fork of the Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers.” Together the men looked at the spot on the Allegheny where George Washington fell off a raft into freezing waters. The pair understood that their policies had helped them steer past a few potential disasters.
Today our government has moved so far from Coolidge’s tenets that it’s difficult to imagine such policies being emulated. But it is precisely this remove that is creating a new and national fascination with the Great Windsurfer.
The Democrat and Republicans In Name Only, (RINO)s, have lost touch with the American People. They have become the political elite and We the People have become "fly-over country." I am not a Nazi, a terrorist, a member of the KKK, a racist, or a member of an angry mob. I'm not a birther, teabagger, truther or astroturfer. I do, however believe in the original intent of the Founding Fathers, the United States Constituton and the rule of law. I believe that Government should serve the People, not the other way around. I’m an American and conservative to my very core.
