Libertarianontheloose

New Blog

2012-10-29T16:20:00.001-07:00

It has been a very long time since I have written on this blog. This will be the last time I do write. Tomorrow I will start a new blog. I am doing this for a few reasons. I have decided to do this for a few reasons. the first is I have been all over the place with this blog. The second is I did not explain who I was very well when I started this blog. Third is though I don't agree with Republicans on everything I find I am in line with them more then Libertarians. The last is though the two party system has problems third parties more often then not hurt the better of the two major candidates rather then help there cause. I hope any one who follows this will follow me to my new blog Poorrepublicans

The pen is mightier then whips and chains

2011-10-27T16:33:00.000-07:00

       I will start this by letting you all know my family income is under $50,000 a year. I am a driver and my wife takes care of the kids. I am by no means wealthy. I write this because I now know how this country treats the wealthy. So here we will start with a history lesson. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president though highly opposed by the Democrats who were proponents of slavery. The Democrats would show there strong belief in slavery by seceding from the union. As everyone knows they lost and slavery was abolished for a time. Though the party who wanted it still existed. Down the road they would make sure slavery came back to never again be abolished.
      It took them a long time to pull it off and a new level of education but they did it. Here is how. First they looked at slavery in a different way. By excepting that you don't need whips and chains to enslave as long as people don't know they are slaves they don't care so much. So to do this you can't take everything from your slaves. To do this you need a higher caliber slave. Instead of uneducated field workers who could yield you maybe $20000 each annually by taking everything they make. They chose to go after the best of the best and take 20% to 40% of what they make.
     This new system is working great and has a new name redistribution. It has all the helpful aspects of slavery without the backlash. Lets look a little closer. Slavery you had to make sure your slaves work and if they work well you treat them better. Redistribution your slaves work hard to give there family a good life and the harder they work the worse you treat them by taking more of what they earn.  Slavery had an apathetic view by the public who many pushed for abolition. Redistribution slaves are hated by the public and constantly ask to give more.
    Who are these new slaves. They are likely you neighbors and friends. Anyone household that is making over $80,000 a year. They are paying $20,000 a year in taxes.  This means they are paying the equivalent of what slaves earned for there masters to the government and they still have to take care of themselves. So if slavery was wrong for any reason other then not having more valuable slaves so you didn't have to take everything cause they have more to give then redistribution is wrong for all those same reasons. So next time you hear class war fair feel sorry for the rich cause they are the governments slaves.

Back with 14 and a song about losers

2011-10-21T18:56:00.000-07:00

Number 14 is Tennessee helped greatly by a 26.1% smoking rate making it the third highest. With that they and spending 16.3 billion on entitlements makes it able to save 2.12 billion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RqgapyLKmk

A gateway

2011-10-10T07:07:00.000-07:00

As many people know Hank Williams Jr compared in an off way Obama to Hitler. Now some found that offensive but those people need to look a little close. Hitler is best know for his killing the Jews which was horrible. Though with every figure you must look how they bring a nation to believe that is OK. The Nazis were the National Socialist Party similar to the Democrats in the United States today. The problem with socialism is you are making promises you cant keep. The other problem is it is built on class warfare. In the time of Hitler it was believed that the Jews were the rich. Other groups such as the Masons and the Mormons were also targets for Hitler cause of there believed wealth. In America we don't have a single group to single out for wealth the closest we have is the Republican Party which Obama has taken a few stabs at. Now the other thing that must be looked at is how long it took Hitler in office. He didn't do all the harsh things in four years. As Obama is still looking to be reelected he has toned down much of his extreme views. If he is reelected without the chance of a third term he may go over the line. Not likely to mass genocide but that takes at least a decade and a preexisting hatred. In closing I would like to say the gateway to Dictatorship will always be paved with social programs.

Lucky number 13

2011-10-05T08:32:00.000-07:00

Georgia gets the privilage of number 13. Though it has the lowest % of smokers in the south at 19.9% with 22 billion in entitlement spending it got high savings of 2.18 billion. I will take a few days to write other important post so keep checking in for the countdown return. Thank you for reading.

Number 12 with boobs (cause they make everything better)

2011-10-04T07:22:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmuGw6nQxiA
The video is for a song called every things better with boobs. Thought it would be a nice addition to this post and on to number 12 it is Washington. In spite of a low smoking rate of 19.2% by spending 23.16 billion on entitlements it could save 2.21 billion. Check in tomorrow to see who is lucky number 13.

Number 11 and a you tube video

2011-10-03T08:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iwPdnThs2A I decided to add a video link about 2 of my other posts. Now to number 11 it was surprisingly Massachusetts though it only has 6.5 million people and only 18.4% of the state smokes it spends 25.5 billion dollars on entitlements bringing it to number 11. See if you can guess number 12.

The big one zero

2011-10-02T08:46:00.000-07:00

Ten is a big deal and the honer goes New Jersey. Though it is the 7th lowest percent of smoking of the 50 states of only 18.8% it spends 29.8 billion dollars on entitlement making it able to save 2.8 billion dollars. See if you can guess number 11?

Number 9 did you get it right?

2011-10-01T08:34:00.000-07:00

North Carolina is where a lot of tobbacco is made so it is a given it would break the top 10. It came in at number 9 though it doesnt even have 10 million people. Its smoking rate is 23.1% and they spend 25.9 billion giving a possible savings of almost 3 billion. Hope your having fun doing this game with your family see who get number 10.

Back for #8

2011-09-30T08:20:00.000-07:00

Hope you enjoyed my other posts while you waited for the countdown. Michigan is number 8 with a savings of 3.17 billion dollars. Though another state spends more then its 27.4 billion its smoking rate of 23.2% put it in the number 8 position. See if you can guess number 9. Good luck.

Kids not growing up fast enough

2011-09-29T07:52:00.000-07:00

Kids are growing up to fast in all the wrong places and none of the right ways. I have wonderful parents who gave me an opportunity to do a paper route with my dad at 14. I got my first real job at 17 and was working full time at 18 which because of our broken education system was appropriate. I pointed out in my post on education how some would finish school at 12 to 14. With the problem of no cheap work force children are the answer. China has many kids working as young as 8. With the prisoner working program we wont need them to work at 8 but lowering the age to 10 would be a good idea. With giving kids more responsibility we should also give more freedom. Allow smoking at 10, drinking and getting married at 12. Joining the military and drinking at 13. Buying a home and entering contracts at 16. By allowing them to grow up faster we get to take advantage of the new baby boom that started about 6 years ago. While they were young and still living at home they could save and work towards better jobs so when they moved out they would be starting better then those moving out now.

Paying your debt to society part 3

2011-09-28T04:54:00.000-07:00

To finish up on death matches it is a choice so it is not cruel or unusual punishment. Now with bringing up a right protected by the constitution punishment must be carefully considered. So is it cruel or unusual to ask criminals to do what the rest of us must? In the bad economy we have seen more and more homeless and hungry but the prisoners have a roof over there head and 3 meals a day. I feel they should earn that. If they dont work they dont get food and must have more in each room. The hardest and best workers get better treatment. There pay would be low bringing down the cost of making things in America. They would have an hourly wage set and a cost of living and the hours they work determins how well they live. Criminals are people and need a purpose rather then just learning to be better criminals. Soon to be back to states smoking.

Who got 7?

2011-09-27T02:54:00.000-07:00

Number 7 has a larger population then 4 or 5 it is Illinois with 22.2% smoking. They spend 38.4 billion on entitlements. There savings is about 4.26 billion. Now I am taking a couple days to write other things but keep checking in to see who is #8.

#6 is a give me

2011-09-26T14:40:00.000-07:00

Florida was farther down the list then I thought it would be but if you have been following the list you had to expect it with a population of nearly 19 million it is the 4th most populated state. Though they only spend 44.1 billion on entitlements and a smoking rate of 20.2% and your state is two down from where most would think at a savings of 4.45 billion. See if you can guess number 7 mabey make a family game out of it check tomorrow to see who wins.

Were you guessing florida for #5

2011-09-25T08:27:00.000-07:00

Sorry you were wrong. With its high population I thought it would be 4th then it wasnt fifth either that went to Pennsylvania with just under 13 million residents it spends 44.9 billion on entitlements add that to a 22.7% smoking rate and the saving go crazy. 5.09 billion dollars. Lets see if you can get #6 tommorow. Good Luck

A surprising number 4

2011-09-24T09:20:00.000-07:00

I was surprised to find Ohio as # 4 for savings. It is because of a smoking rate of 25.8% and entitlements of 42.8 billion. The savings would be 5.52 billion. See if you can guess #6

Texas number 3

2011-09-23T08:57:00.000-07:00

With a smoking rate of 20.4% and 55 billion it would save 5.61 billion. You may be surprised by #4 see if you can guess. Find out tomorrow.

State number 2

2011-09-22T08:36:00.000-07:00

New York is the state that could save the second most. Only 19.9% of the state but because it spends 99.2 billion on entitlements it would save 9.78 billion each year. See if you can guess what number three is and check tomorrow if you are correct.

smoking by state

2011-09-21T08:35:00.000-07:00

A lot has been going on in my life so it has been a while since I last wrote so I decided to do for each state how much they could save by cutting there entitlements to smokers. I will do it by which state would save the most to the state that would save the least. I got the % of smokers from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the spending from http://www.usgovernmentspending.com . I counted pension, health care and welfare as entitlements. I also figured it as though half smokers quit. It may come as no surprise that though it has a low % of smokers of only 14.7% because it spends 136.9 billion dollars and would be able to save just over 10 billion. Check tomorrow if your state comes next.

Paying your debt to society part 2

2011-07-03T08:15:00.000-07:00

How to run death matches. In addition to the money saving it could bring economic strength to areas recently hurt by recent economic situations. The six cities I would choose are Las Vegas, Reno, Detroit, Dallas, Atlantic City, and Miami. I live in Las Vegas and drive on the strip each day I pass a half finished high rise that I would love to see finished with a proposed stadium next door. I would propose that as the location here and I am betting in high traffic areas of the other cities similar things. Getting these arenas up and running and the fighters to the areas may take 2 years in which would build those economies. Once they are up and running they would each day pick 8 people randomly from each stadium. Starting at 8am 2 of the 8 would fight. At the end of the day only one fighter is left. The day 4 winning fighters from monday to Thursday would fight Friday. Then Saturday would be the main event the six cities would take turns hosting it the six winners would be matched. Then every 8 weeks the weekly winners will fight. Then once a year the winners from the 8 week fights will fight and the last years winner will be part of this. This would take care of about 9200 a year using the 5% sign up rate they would all be gone in 11 years. If in that time 0.5% sign up each year that would keep it going forever. If the number drops we offer it in other countries and if the number rises we make more stadiums. Thank you for reading check in again soon.

Paying your debt to society part 1

2011-06-23T15:03:00.000-07:00

I could never understand how going to prison is called paying your debt to society. How does costing society more paying a debt? If I borrow money from a bank they wont give me a place to stay and three meals a day for five years then say it is clear so why do we do that for criminals? Many people work two jobs in undesirable conditions to have a place to stay and three meals a day. As of 2005, there are 2 million people locked up in federal, state, and county facilities. At a cost to tax payers of $32 billion each year. Much of this is state and local money but if this expense was eliminated the states wouldn't need federal funds. My solution is make criminals do like the rest of us work or die. I will talk about the death side first. Last year UFC made an estimated $200 million and it is an emerging sport. This gave me an idea why not have criminals do what they are good at killing. If each criminal was given the choice to fight in death matches and just 5% took it that is 100,000 fighters. That 5% would save $1.6 billion plus at least $200 million in income. That's not bad $1.8 billion by offering criminals a new option. In my next post I will talk of how to run it.

The military a great asset

2011-06-22T18:48:00.000-07:00

I have the greatest respect for the men and women who serve in the armed services. Sadly the military is the second largest expence in this country. As things are being cut we need to find the least painful way to cut the military. The best way to start saving is to get rid of the recruiting costs of $7.7 billion as of 2008. The next thing to do will help get more to join without the money. The government gets with state and local governments near bases and rents out personel to work in the government jobs. Make the military a stepping stone to get a good job in the police, fire department or other city jobs. The benefit to the cities is they get to a work force of well diciplined people for half what they are now paying. We would offer them to work for the cities and state for $12 to $15 an hour. There are currently 1,445,000 men and women in the military. If one third of them or about 448,000 were loaned to city and state at about $20,000 it would bring in $8.96 billion a year. That $8.96 billion with the $7.7 billion is $16.66 billion in cuts and income. That makes the grand total of all posts about $574 billion more work is needed.

I am very fat

2011-06-21T20:40:00.000-07:00

When I got married I weighed nearly 300 lbs. and was on the fast track to need a crain to move me from my house. Married life more appropriately the financial decisons married life had me make helped me loose nearly 100 lbs in the first year. The reason I got so big was I have wonderful parents who worked hard so there kids didn't have to but also tryed to teach us good work ethic. This lead to me having a job at 15 with no responsibilities to use the money on. The other part of the equation is my love for fastfood. I would go and see what the biggest burgers different places could make. After I got married I has responsibilities like rent and insurance so fast food become a luxury. I also at this sametime got a job that that was very physical so I think the weight loss was half of each. Now I don't blame fast food places for making me fat that was my choice to eat there. With that said I still would like to tax fast food so people have the the financial reason to stay away. Last year the people of this great nation spent $100 billion on fast food if we taxed that at 10% and that dropped it to $90 billion spent it would bring in $9 billion.

I hate taxes too.

2011-06-12T08:35:00.000-07:00

Sadly my cuts only add up to about $318 billion with a deficit of $1.65 trillion so we need some taxes to make up the difference. This made me think what tax would hurt the least and get the most. I saw another big problem the import deficit. In April alone we imported $219.2 billion and only exported $175.6 billion leaving a gap of $43.6 billion. Now my idea in to tax imports at there final sale by 10% and raise it 1% each month there is a deficit and lower it 1% each month we have a surplus. If this lowers imports by 10% the first month to $197.3 billion it that would still bring in $19.73 billion. With nearly $20 billion a month that would be about $240 billion a year. In addition this could make us more competitive making more jobs here. We need to reawaken the industrial giant we are. Though it looks like I have more research to do cause even with the new tax and my cuts it only adds to $558 billion leaving $1.092 trillion.

Divorce sucks

2011-06-09T11:01:00.000-07:00

My brother is one of the nicest people in the world. As I see what he has to go through to see his son it got to thinking how much divorce sucks. Though his new girlfriend is way awesome and his ex wife to be nice wasn't a good person. She left when he got sick. It turned out he has brain cancer. To make things worse she served the papers on Fathers Day. She wasn't very nice during the marriage to my brother but him being the amazing person he is was willing to put up with it for there son. She wasn't willing to be married to an amazing guy because he was sick. This made me think how could we help good people avoid the pain of divorce. It is often said women care more about marriage but they file for divorce two thirds of the time. This is not the smartest thing for women to do because there are a lot of stats that show women do worse after divorce and man do better. Though this isn't enough to have women stick around. I feel we need more reasons to stay. Though I do feel bad for those who divorce for good reasons like abuse that is not a reason for people like my brother to be hurt. So I think that the one who files needs to loose more. First if you file you can not get more then 25% of the assets. Second they receive less consideration for custody. The third part is where the the money saving for everyone comes in the one who files looses access to all government entitlements. Now to how much we save, last year 0.34% of the population got divorces. Half if those filed or 0.17% and if this cut divorce in half again that in 0.085%. Now using the 58% spent on entitlements and the 2012 budget of $3.818 trillion the savings would be $1,882,274,000. Not as much as some of my plans but this doesn't count the other benefits of less divorce.