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		<title>Missouri Governor Veto of Gun Bill Supports Liberty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 16:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is a fairly significant marketplace of ideas. A liberty movement Facebook page that started almost as a Ron Paul fan page gets active responses to issues posted by the host, Rachel. You can see the page on Facebook here. LibertyGirlRachel posted a meme created by the Tenth Amendment Center on the Missouri Governor&#8217;s veto <a href='http://libertyinfusion.com/2013/07/missouri-governor-veto-of-gun-bill-supports-liberty/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Facebook is a fairly significant marketplace of ideas.  A liberty movement Facebook page that started almost as a Ron Paul fan page gets active responses to issues posted by the host, Rachel.  You can see the page on Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/libertygirlrachel" title="LibertyGirl Fan Page">here</a>.  LibertyGirlRachel posted a meme created by the Tenth Amendment Center on the Missouri Governor&#8217;s veto of a bill veiled as a 2nd Amendment support bill.  The general responses favored a, &#8220;hatred&#8221; of the Governor and the veto.  Below was my response to the posts  (you can see the thread on Facebook here):</p>
<p>Think this through, reasonably and not with knee-jerk reactions.</p>
<p>!) Did anybody read the bill? Really? We say re-call and shit-bag and post meme-pictures without having any idea what it&#8217;s really about. I have read the bill and I have read the Governor&#8217;s letter regarding his veto. You can see it here and decide if he is really a &#8220;shit-bag&#8221;: <a title="Governor Jay Nixon Veto Letter" href="http://governor.mo.gov/newsroom/pdf/2013/hb436veto.pdf">(See the letter here)</a></p>
<p>2) I am a long-time Classic Liberal who adheres, strictly, to the Constitution. But, there is no way that this type of legislation (there is a difference between law and legislation) would ever, EVER, pass constitutional muster. It&#8217;s, actually, BLATANTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL. You can&#8217;t claim to be a Libertarian, libertarian, Classic Liberal, or Anarchist (etc.) and then support blatantly unconstitutional legislation. Well&#8230;maybe the Anarchist can, but even that is tough to support.</p>
<p>3) There is no way that any state legislation can make enforcing federal law a crime. It&#8217;s absolutely ridiculous and a political ploy. Imagine the Assistant U.S. Attorney in Missouri being arrested by a local police officer because the AUSA enforced federal legislation/law. While some might welcome this unrealistic conflict between the states and the feds, it would not be something most citizens would welcome. A war between St. Louis Missouri and the federal government is probably not something St. Louis residents want to participate in.</p>
<p>4) Those of us in the liberty movement attack and criticize the needless legislation coming out of every capital and every legislature. But, when legislation suits us, we jump on the recall bandwagon. The idea of being in the liberty movement is to be free from legislation, to convince them to leave us alone. When we support legislation, it INHERENTLY infringes on someone else. Back when Conservatives were not the idiots they are today in the GOP, there was an incredible intellectual named William Buckley who was a master writer with an uncanny ability to articulate a position. Buckley wrote, &#8220;A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling &#8216;Stop!'&#8221; We applaud Gary Johnson for vetoing bills in New Mexico and criticize Gov. Nixon for vetoing this legislation.</p>
<p>On this specific issue, the Governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon, was right in using his veto power on HB 436.</p>
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		<title>Do the right thing; others will too.</title>
		<link>http://libertyinfusion.com/2013/05/do-the-right-thing-others-will-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 13:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think for a moment about how common it is to believe that others will not act the same as you and will not do the right thing. Assume for argument that as of tomorrow all laws are abolished, repealed, and there is no police force. What would happen? Answer truthfully. Now, ask this question of <a href='http://libertyinfusion.com/2013/05/do-the-right-thing-others-will-too/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think for a moment about how common it is to believe that others will not act the same as you and will not do the right thing. Assume for argument that as of tomorrow all laws are abolished, repealed, and there is no police force. What would happen? Answer truthfully.  Now, ask this question of 10 friends. The answer will be, overwhelmingly, chaos! Women will be raped, murder will be rampant, children will be molested, cats will mate with dogs, and the Sun will rise in the West if it rises at all. When, however, you ask them how many women they will personally rape, how many murders the will personally commit, how many children they will molest you will get the standard, <span id="more-692"></span>&#8220;what do you mean? I won&#8217;t do any of that, it&#8217;s the other people who will.&#8221;</p>
<p>How perfectly superior of them to state that others will act uncivil, while they personally will be perfectly civil. Let me give an example.  During a recent discussion, a friend&#8217;s wife left her phone in the restroom at a restaurant. About 10 minutes later, a lady, (the next line is the line that everyone will remember from this article&#8230;wait for it&#8230;.waaiit fooorr iiiit, here it is), who happened to be black, (there, that wasn&#8217;t so bad, was it?), was walking around the restaurant asking people if they had lost their phone. When the wife noticed the lady she checked and found that her phone was missing. She went up to the lady and asked if it was a white iPhone. It was. As a gesture for returning the phone, my friend and his wife paid for the lady and her husband&#8217;s meal.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s analyze this for a moment. A) Wife loses phone; B) stranger finds phone; C) stranger returns phone; and D) wife pays for stranger&#8217;s meal. What caused this? Was it law? Regulation? Force or threat? Or was it a societal norm, a compact, a mutual sympathy that drives the overwhelming majority of us to do what&#8217;s right? Penn Jillette, of the comedy/magic duo Penn &amp; Teller, has a very interesting way of describing this phenomena. Penn states,</p>
<blockquote><p>I believe firmly that if you pull a Ferrari up in front of a Starbucks and say to a random person, “My wife’s pregnant, I gotta run in the car with her, I gotta drive her there, my car is out there, just please take it and park it and text me at this number,” and run away, they’re not gonna steal that car. Your vast majority of people are gonna go, “Oh Jesus, I don’t know if I can drive a stick.” And they’re gonna get in there and they’re gonna do that. I think if liberals would just trust people to be better, there’s no problem with them either.</p></blockquote>
<p>In the case of the lost phone just look at the societal goodness dripping between 2 strangers, and every bit of it without government force or a king to rule on the outcome.  Returned phones, purchased meals, and people acting in a civil manner to each other is something we all appreciate.  When presented with an opportunity, the overwhelming majority of people will do the right thing.  But, for those who prefer government and need to control the unwashed masses, this is how that story would have played out in their minds if there were no government authority:</p>
<p>Wife, well there wouldn&#8217;t be a wife because people wouldn&#8217;t get married without being told to do so by some authority, but just humor me on this.  Wife goes into the bathroom with a phone that she was able to loot during during a riot led by an angry mob running in the streets.  While in the bathroom, Wife loses the phone, while trying to destroy the bathroom with a sledgehammer, and a dead baby that she was swinging around her head by a leg.  The stranger, after killing some puppies in the alleyway behind the restaurant, goes into the bathroom and finds the phone on the floor next to the baby corpse left there by the Wife. The stranger then proceeds to make $10,000 of calls to 1-900 porn numbers, and uses the phone to threaten the President (think caller ID).  The stranger then leaves the restroom and yells, at the top of her lungs, &#8220;I&#8217;m the baddest bitch in this place, I found a phone and it&#8217;s MINE and ain&#8217;t nobody here bad enough to take it from me!&#8221;  Wife, seeing that it was her phone, grabs the bread knife and lunges at the stranger trying to stab her in the pancreas.  All of this leads to another riot in the restaurant, where a mob amasses, spills into the streets, begins to loot&#8230;and for a happy ending to this story, the Wife is able to loot another phone during the riot.</p>
<p>You see, so, either way, in the end, the Wife has a phone.  The only difference is that the civilized way, that is, the way we behave to each other without being forced to do so, is really kind of boring.  We, as a species are really kind of boring; and, we are just like the people we think we are better than.  Store your moral, ethical, and philosophical superiority securely under the seat in front of you and recognize the reality that the majority of other people will do exactly what you would do and return the phone (or pay for the meal).</p>
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		<title>If you ever got any government help, you&#8217;re a hypocrite</title>
		<link>http://libertyinfusion.com/2013/03/if-you-ever-got-any-government-help-youre-a-hypocrite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Florida Speaker of the House, Will Weatherford, told an emotional story about a younger brother who died of cancer. He discussed his parents having to receive help with the bills and he was glad there was a safety net. It was later disclosed that the government help was Medicaid. The Speaker, who is against <a href='http://libertyinfusion.com/2013/03/if-you-ever-got-any-government-help-youre-a-hypocrite/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Florida Speaker of the House, Will Weatherford, told an emotional story about a younger brother who died of cancer.  He discussed his parents having to receive help with the bills and he was glad there was a safety net.  It was later disclosed that the government help was Medicaid.  The Speaker, who is against receiving the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, immediately came under fire.  The news media took aim at Weatherford for being a hypocrite.  But is he really?  <span id="more-589"></span></p>
<p>One of the immediate reactions of those who support state funded systems is to respond with, &#8220;you benefited from (insert government program here), and now you&#8217;re against it.  That makes you a hypocrite.&#8221; These arguments are somehow based on the idea that if you oppose a program or government system that you or a family member may have used, you lack credibility to challenge the program.  At first glance it seems to be a viable argument.  However, what is being discussed is the seen without regard for what might have been.</p>
<p>A brief introduction to Federic Basiat might be in order.  Bastiat wrote a famous essay, &#8220;That Which is Seen and That Which is Unseen.&#8221;  Briefly, Bastiat details that it is easy to focus on what we can see because it&#8217;s simple and obvious.  What is far more difficult is to determine what is not seen because we are focusing on the seen.  Perhaps an example using Speaker Weatherford may help.</p>
<p>Weatherford&#8217;s family received Medicaid because his brother was dying of cancer and the family had high medical bills.  That is fact, obvious, and what is seen.  However, what would have happened if Medicaid had not been available?  The unseen?  The easy answer seems to be that without Medicaid, the brother would have died a horrible death, leaving the family destitute and living on the street penniless.  The conclusion would easily be that in the absence of Medicaid, there would be . . . nothing.  It&#8217;s Medicaid or nothing; there is no other alternative.  It&#8217;s as though the &#8220;unseen&#8221; does not exist and could never have existed.  No regard for charity, private assistance, or other non-government help.</p>
<p>The same conclusion is often used with the &#8220;roads&#8221; argument.  Those who are quick to dismiss Classic Liberal and libertarian ideas argue, &#8220;you need the government because you use the roads.&#8221;  The automatic assumption is that the only mode of transportation is concrete pavement set there by the government.  It may never occur to these people that perhaps it is because we have roads that we don&#8217;t have flying cars.  Of course the idea of flying cars is silly because it&#8217;s unseen and the unseen is often brushed of as, &#8220;unrealistic.&#8221;  But, the critics somehow miss the fact that private groups have interest in roads and transportation as well, and could very easily fill that need.  Perhaps it&#8217;s the government building roads that is forcing us to use the roads and hampering flying cars?  What is seen is a libertarian driving on the government road, what is unseen is what would exist if there were no government built roads.</p>
<p>It is easy and superficial to criticize Weatherford for being a hypocrite based on the fallacy that without Medicaid his family would never had made it.  Medicaid is the seen, it&#8217;s easy, it requires little thought.  As government continues to grow and expand into all areas, the argument in favor of the seen, it will become more pervasive.  The seen is what is going to haunt Weatherford because even he will never know the unseen.</p>
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		<title>Stomping the Flag is OK&#8230;if it&#8217;s yours.</title>
		<link>http://libertyinfusion.com/2013/01/stomping-the-flag-is-ok-if-its-yours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A high school English teacher in Chapin, S.C. was teaching his English class a lesson on the 1st Amendment.  Scott Compton, took an American flag off the wall and stomped on it repeatedly as part of the lesson.  As you can imagine, his actions have prompted outrage leading school district spokesman Mark Bounds to say, <a href='http://libertyinfusion.com/2013/01/stomping-the-flag-is-ok-if-its-yours/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A high school English teacher in Chapin, S.C. was teaching his English class a lesson on the 1st Amendment.  Scott Compton, took an American flag off the wall and stomped on it repeatedly as part of the lesson.  As you can imagine, his actions have prompted outrage leading school district spokesman Mark Bounds to say, “I was in the military 20 years. I will defend your right to burn an American flag in the public square to my death. But as a teacher, you cannot bring your personal biases into the classroom.&#8221;  People are right to be mad, but they are mad for the wrong reason.  <span id="more-581"></span></p>
<p>As you probably conclude, there is no doubt that desecrating the flag is protected by the 1st Amendment.  Offensive free speech is protected just like any other type of speech.  What may shock you is that Mr. Compton should be punished for his <em>Lord of the Dance</em> exhibition on the American Flag.</p>
<p>WHAT? you might ask.  Has LibertyInfusion gone off the deep end wanting to sanction the stomping of the American flag.  Have the Republicans hijacked the site and taken away all of the liberty loving goodness in all previous posts?  Nope.  The teacher should be sanctioned and punished for a completely different reason:  it wasn&#8217;t his flag on which to <em>RiverDance</em>.</p>
<p>You are free to destroy YOUR property, to burn YOUR flag, to desecrate the flag, or any other property for that matter, as long as it&#8217;s yours.  If you own it and it does not hurt anybody else or harm their property you are free to do with it what you want.  However, once you use property owned by someone else you are no longer exercising free speech, but are involved in criminal activity.  Quite simply, you cannot use the property of another to exercise your 1st Amendment right to free speech.</p>
<p>Mr. Compton took the flag off the wall.  It appears from every news account that the flag belonged to the school district and not to Mr. Compton.  As soon as he took the flag to stomp on it, he was destroying the property of another.  This is not allowed by the 1st Amendment, or any other amendment.  It is not allowed by any law, or any moral or ethical rule.  Quite simply, Mr. Compton is a criminal; not for stomping on the flag, but for stomping on an American flag that wasn&#8217;t his.  He should be punished accordingly for his lack of respect for harming the property of another.</p>
<p>Mr. Compton, stomping the flag you bought with your money or made with your property is your right under the 1st Amendment; stomping a flag owned by someone else, without their permission, is not.  You, sir, are a criminal.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Gun Control&#8221; Is More about Control, Than Guns</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newtown, CT is, as you all know, the scene of the gruesome murders of children and teachers. As would be expected, the immediate and understandably emotional response has been geared toward the inanimate object, the gun, and away from the murderer. It&#8217;s more and more common for modern society to shift the blame and discussion <a href='http://libertyinfusion.com/2012/12/gun-control-is-more-about-control-than-guns/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Newtown, CT is, as you all know, the scene of the gruesome murders of children and teachers. As would be expected, the immediate and understandably emotional response has been geared toward the inanimate object, the gun, and away from the murderer. It&#8217;s more and more common for modern society to shift the blame and discussion away from the individual and more to &#8220;the group&#8221; or to some other object. Almost immediately, the media, the pundits, and the typical statist centered groups started the, &#8220;gun control&#8221; mantra.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s begin with this basic fact: the siren song of no guns is a sweet tune that can lure the the most jaded and skeptical person. But, even the most naive among us recognizes that this is not realistic. Not even close to realistic. Guns are durable and can last lifetimes, guns are numerous and already well established, and let&#8217;s not forget that pesky Second Amendment. We all know guns exist and will exist for a very long time.</p>
<p>The reality of this is that it&#8217;s not about the &#8220;gun&#8221; as much as it is the &#8220;control.&#8221;  Quite simply, any discussion about taking something from, &#8220;The People&#8221; is about control. Whether it&#8217;s &#8220;taking&#8221; someone&#8217;s ability to make a living <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/06/21/154826233/why-its-illegal-to-braid-hair-without-a-license">braiding hair</a> , or &#8220;taking&#8221; their <a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-01-02/politics/35438035_1_sacketts-supreme-court-epa">property</a>, or to &#8220;control&#8221; if they can order a <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2008-02-07/eat-drink/the-hot-dog-so-good-it-sillegal/">hot dog with bacon</a>.  It&#8217;s about what &#8220;they&#8221; will allow &#8220;us&#8221; to have.</p>
<p>Rahm Emanuel has famously stated, &#8220;never let a good crisis go to waste.&#8221; There is no doubt that murdering 20 children qualifies as a crisis. But, as we are always warned to not act in anger or emotion, neither should we resort to giving more &#8220;control&#8221; without allowing the emotion to dissipate so we can think more clearly.</p>
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		<title>Why &#8220;Price Gouging&#8221; works</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Sandy, also called Frankenstorm, is getting ready to wreak havoc on the East Coast. There is nothing anyone can do to stop a storm like this. All anybody can do is prepare. It will cause, without doubt, tremendous damage and create multiple hardships. There will be thrill seekers who will face danger to get <a href='http://libertyinfusion.com/2012/10/why-price-gouging-works/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://media.trb.com/media/photo/2011-08/64240633.jpg"><img class="alignleft" title="hurricane damage picture" src="http://media.trb.com/media/photo/2011-08/64240633.jpg" alt="Blue tarps after a hurricane" width="262" height="354" /></a>Hurricane Sandy, also called Frankenstorm, is getting ready to wreak havoc on the East Coast. There is nothing anyone can do to stop a storm like this. All anybody can do is prepare. It will cause, without doubt, tremendous damage and create multiple hardships. There will be thrill seekers who will face danger to get a picture or shoot some video. One of the most difficult aspects of the post-storm activity will be the loss of basic goods and services (i.e. water, sanitation, delivery and logistical) and necessary conveniences (i.e. electricity). There is one way to be absolutely sure that the goods and services get to where they are needed most: allow price gouging. <span id="more-552"></span></p>
<p>How utterly repulsive you might say. How dare someone not help their fellow man by getting the necessities in a time of hardship? It, somehow, seems wrong to charge someone a premium for something that they desperately need. The moral compass goes haywire when we think of gouging the thirsty man stranded in the desert for a drink of water. But, to the thirsty man that water is priceless. A 12 ounce bottle of water may cost $.50 next to a fresh water spring, but $50.00 to the man in the desert. But, why deny the man in the desert the water?</p>
<p>The same is true after a natural disaster. There is no better way to get the goods and services to where they are needed than to allow those with the goods and services to allocate those resources for a premium. Not only is there an incentive to get the goods and services, there are those willing to pay the premium. All of these market incentives are destroyed when the government prohibits the free market forces from working.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at the market for blue tarps; a product that is at a premium after a hurricane. These tarps are used by homeowners to cover damages roofs and is some cases as shelter itself. Now let&#8217;s look at a system allowing the blue-tarp market forces to dictate supply and demand. Cleveland Hardware in Cleveland, Ohio has 1000 blue-tarps in stock priced at $15.00 each. Any Clevelander (if that&#8217;s what they are called) can go buy a blue-tarp and take it home. Long Island however, will need 35000 blue tarps after Hurricane Sandy and the local supply will be woefully insufficient. How then do you get the tarps from Cleveland to Long Island?</p>
<p>Under the current laws, which prohibit charging a premium, there is no economic incentive to get the blue-tarps from Cleveland to Long Island. Why would the store owner ship 1000 blue-tarps to Long Island if the price will be $15.00? Why would he incur the costs of shipping, labor, logistics, distribution when the owner can avoid all of those costs locally. Now, allow the store owner to charge whatever he wants to the Long Islanders, $30.00, $50.00, $100.00, then it becomes economically feasible to take the risk of getting those blue-tarps from where they are sitting in inventory to where they are needed. How inhumane it is to get what people want to the place they need it!</p>
<p>Remember as well, that the Cleveland store owner may be competing with Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, Oklahoma City who are also trying to price capture by charging the blue-tarp premium price. When more goods come into the market with more competitors, price falls and the concept of, &#8220;price gouging&#8221; goes away, quickly. The market takes care of the profiteering. The goods get from where they are sitting dormant to where they are needed. But, with the government prohibition on profiteering, everyone loses. The store owner does not sell his tarps and the homeowner does not get his tarp. The market is skewed and destroyed by the do-gooders in elected office who cater to emotion and what they perceive as morals. When in fact it is immoral to deny the products to where they are so desperately needed.</p>
<p>The blue-tarp can be expanded to power generators, shovels, water purifiers, wood, carpet, fans, batteries, gasoline, and numerous other items that will be in shortage. But, they will remain in shortage because the market forces are not allowed to work and the products and services are not allocated because government force has made it illegal.</p>
<p><strong>Adam Smith</strong>, the Classic Liberal Economist and Philosopher wrote in <em>The Wealth of Nations</em>: &#8220;Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.&#8221; Smith continues, &#8220;It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.&#8221; It is self-interest that overcomes those shortcomings, both in man&#8217;s benevolence and in the need for blue-tarps after a hurricane.</p>
<p>The moral argument is that the well off will be able to afford while the poorer will not be able to get any products. This is the same exact difference in non-emergency situations. That is, that the wealthy can afford what the poor cannot. So, the government making profiteering illegal is to prohibit anyone from being comfortable because everyone can&#8217;t be comfortable. How utterly ridiculous to punish the rich because the poor don&#8217;t benefit. Wait, that describes what the government is doing every day.</p>
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		<title>Hypocrisy and Cowardice in Talk Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk radio is dominated by, &#8220;conservative&#8221; personalities.  We all know the names we love, hate, or love to hate.  Rush Limbaugh, the 800 pound gorilla of AM talk radio has been around for decades.  But others are popular as well:  Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Neil Boortz, Todd Schnitt and many others.  Listening to <a href='http://libertyinfusion.com/2012/10/hypocrisy-and-cowardice-in-talk-radio/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Talk radio is dominated by, &#8220;conservative&#8221; personalities.  We all know the names we love, hate, or love to hate.  Rush Limbaugh, the 800 pound gorilla of AM talk radio has been around for decades.  But others are popular as well:  Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Neil Boortz, Todd Schnitt and many others.  Listening to any of these hosts, on any day, will definitely have commentary on, &#8220;the Main Stream Media&#8221; (MSM).  The MSM is, &#8220;liberal&#8230;biased&#8230;hides the truth&#8230;are shills for the democrat party&#8230;always help the liberal and condemn the conservative&#8230;&#8221;  But how scared are conservative radio hosts?  Are they shills for the Republicans, regardless of the candidate?<span id="more-542"></span></p>
<p>These great thinkers and orators are sure that they are men of ideas and that their ideas are superior, in every way, to those of others.  They present the conservative view in such a way that it would be foolish to disagree, or actually, impossible to disagree with their presentation of the logic of their conservative position and ideals.  Well, not so fast.  Apparently, there must be some weakness in their argument or some fear of presenting guests who may present some viable options for the listening audience.</p>
<p>We are in election season: Obama vs. Romney.  There are other candidates, but the most viable third party candidate is the Libertarian, Gary Johnson.  Johnson is not some unknown Alpaca shearer; he&#8217;s the 2 term governor of New Mexico.  But every talk radio host is terrified to have Johnson on for an interview.  Why?  Why wouldn&#8217;t these beacons of infallible ideas and pillars of truth refuse to interview or even whisper the name, &#8220;Gary Johnson?&#8221;  Because, in their minds, it would pull from Romney.  There are basically two explanations for this thinking.</p>
<p>First, they really are not so sure of their conservative ideas being perfect and bulletproof.  Having Governor Johnson on their show would only benefit their views because when the subject of marijuana legalization would come up, the host would use their pure genius to prove to the listening audience how absolutely ludicrous Johnson&#8217;s ideas of legalization are.  If anything it would shore up, even stronger, their positions by showing how ludicrous the idea of legalization might be.  The same would be true for Johnson&#8217;s views on ending the wars, repealing PATRIOT, NDAA, abolishing the IRS.  The host would basically use Johnson as a showcase for proving their positions and views are better by shutting him down.</p>
<p>Second, their hatred of Obama is so palpable, that any possible mention of something that would hurt Romney (as if Romney himself is not good enough at that) is unspeakable.  If any talk radio host were to interview Johnson it would somehow, in their eyes, legitimize him which would pull from Romney and favor Obama.  The most libertarian of those hosts, it is generally acknowledged, is Neal Boortz.  Yet Boortz himself has basically ignored Johnson; the single presidential candidate who is virtually in lock step agreement with him.  Why?  Boortz&#8217;s hatred (yes the word &#8220;hatred&#8221; is appropriate) of Obama is unbridled.  In Boortz&#8217;s view, it&#8217;s better to avoid Johnson, than to run the risk of costing Romney a vote.</p>
<p>So, in the end, the vicious cycle of keeping any third party candidate out of the conversation is fostered by both the MSM and by those vocal critics of the MSM, talk radio.  The great protectors of the public, who shine a light on the MSM for being the shills of the American left, are in the end, nothing more than shills for the Republicans.  How sad that Boortz himself is so blind by his hatred of Obama that he is unable to have a reasonable discourse on his show with Johnson.  How sad that Rush Limbaugh has such palpable fear of, &#8220;the other&#8221; that even discussing a viable third party option is unspeakable.</p>
<p>While it may be argued with great certainty that in our present system there is no third party who will break the political duopoly, the radio hosts consider themselves the groundbreakers, the frontiersmen who take the arrows, the thinkers who can articulate their great thoughts to educate the masses; yet can&#8217;t even mention the name Gary Johnson.  Maybe they are not as sure of their ideas as they would like you to believe. </p>
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		<title>Maybe Cuban healthcare needs some help</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the never ending healthcare debate, it&#8217;s not uncommon to have Cuba thrown into the conversation. The argument goes that the island has universal healthcare that is accessible to all. It&#8217;s not true, but let&#8217;s assume for a moment that the Michael Moore crockumentary Sicko doesn&#8217;t present a realistic view of Cuban healthcare and the <a href='http://libertyinfusion.com/2012/09/maybe-cuban-healthcare-needs-some-help/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the never ending healthcare debate, it&#8217;s not uncommon to have Cuba thrown into the conversation. The argument goes that the island has universal healthcare that is accessible to all. It&#8217;s not true, but let&#8217;s assume for a moment that the Michael Moore crockumentary <em>Sicko</em> doesn&#8217;t present a realistic view of Cuban healthcare and the awesomeness it supposedly entails. Let&#8217;s instead look at a recent Facebook post discussing a very real situation. The names and photos are redacted to protect the identity of the Facebook poster. <span id="more-516"></span></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s first look at the Facebook post:</p>
<div id="attachment_517" style="width: 531px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://libertyinfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/facebook-Retina-Post.png"><img class=" wp-image-517" title="facebook Retina Post" src="http://libertyinfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/facebook-Retina-Post-300x282.png" alt="" width="521" height="490" srcset="http://libertyinfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/facebook-Retina-Post-300x282.png 300w, http://libertyinfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/facebook-Retina-Post-24x24.png 24w, http://libertyinfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/facebook-Retina-Post.png 795w" sizes="(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Facebook post for surgery that wasn&#8217;t done in Cuba</p></div>
<p>The Facebook post was innocent and not made with any expectation that it would be analyzed for anything other than thanking the doctors for helping a family member. But, it&#8217;s very easy to see that basic cataract surgery was unavailable to the aunt in Cuba. The legendary healthcare in Cuba was unable to provide a surgery that is done on an outpatient basis in the U.S.</p>
<p>It would be easy to go into a lengthy analysis about voluntary surgeries, third party payers, insurance company mismanagement, Obamacare, etc. But allowing the simplicity of the Facebook post speak to the fact that the Cuban system is not all that Michael Moore presents it as and may not be where we want to go.</p>
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		<title>The Government School Shuffle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 03:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the school year quickly approaching, we are witnessing the social behavior of the human species I have termed the, &#8220;Illegal School Migration&#8230;or ISM.&#8221; ISM generally occurs in mid to late June of each year and continues until mid to late August. It&#8217;s the mad scramble of mostly law abiding citizens to find a way <a href='http://libertyinfusion.com/2012/08/the-government-school-shuffle/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the school year quickly approaching, we are witnessing the social behavior of the human species I have termed the, &#8220;Illegal School Migration&#8230;or ISM.&#8221;  ISM generally occurs in mid to late June of each year and continues until mid to late August.  It&#8217;s the mad scramble of mostly law abiding citizens to find a way to get their children into the most desirable government schools.  (I use the term <strong>government schools</strong> for what most, incorrectly, call <strong>public schools</strong>.  There is nothing &#8220;public&#8221; about them.  They exclude the public; even excluding those school aged children they pretend to be helping.  <span id="more-518"></span>Don&#8217;t believe me, go to a government school, open the door and go in to use the restroom&#8230;see what happens&#8230;you&#8217;ll be in that other public institution knows as the, &#8220;county jail&#8221;).</p>
<p>Almost everybody knows that government schools are a type of local monopoly (or fiefdom based on the number and power of the administration) that rejects those who live outside of some boundary line drawn up by the administrators.  Almost all parents know which districts have the &#8220;good&#8221; schools and which districts have the &#8220;bad&#8221; schools.  The battle is when a parent wants their child to go to the &#8220;good&#8221; school, but the child lives in a &#8220;bad&#8221; school district.  As a side note, the &#8220;good&#8221; schools, not surprisingly, are generally in the wealthier neighborhoods.  This situation is what creates the ISM each Summer.  It&#8217;s modern segregation based on the economic status of the zip code.  Let&#8217;s take a look at what some parents have to do to get into the government school they choose, but are prohibited from attending due to their geographic location.  </p>
<p>1.  Set up &#8220;residence&#8221; in the government school district &#8211; This part of the migration generally involves an excluded parent trying to get either a water bill or electric bill in a home or apartment within the boundaries of the district.  In order to attend the desirable school, proof of residence must be provided to the administration that the child resides within the district.  This creates a situation where the migrators seek out ways to get that proof or residence.  Some migrators actually offer upwards of $500 to change electric or water bills into their names.</p>
<p>2.  Use a family member to qualify for &#8220;residence&#8221; &#8211; Some migrators may have a grandparent or a family member in the desirable district.  The child is then &#8220;placed&#8221; with the family member as the child&#8217;s primary residence.  This is the, &#8220;Little Billy lives with Aunt Lucy&#8221; method.  Little Billy does not live with Aunt Lucy, but has to say he does to get into the desirable school.  The migratory parents actually go as far as to teach their children to lie if asked where they live.  The child is programmed to lie about living at Aunt Lucy&#8217;s to avoid missing the ISM.</p>
<p>3.  Use connections in the administration &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s not what you know, it&#8217;s who you know.&#8221;  ISM absolutely involves using any connection the parent may have in the school administration to either get that special school district or to find out how to get into that school district.  It&#8217;s not uncommon for the ISM period to bring a phone call of, &#8220;Hey, aren&#8217;t you friends with Jim on the school board?  Can you see how we can get Billy into that really good school, RichGuy Elementary?&#8221;</p>
<p>There are other ISM methods, but these are overwhelmingly the most popular.  But, do you know what the least popular is?  Well, it&#8217;s asking for permission.  That&#8217;s right, requesting a, &#8220;special assignment&#8221; is the least popular method because it is seldom, if ever, granted.  The &#8220;legal&#8221; way is the least favored last to be used, the &#8220;illegal&#8221; ways are favored because they generally result in success.</p>
<p>You may wonder why I call it the, &#8220;Illegal&#8221; School Migration.  Ayn Rand, wrote in <em>Atlas Shrugged</em>:  &#8220;The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren&#8217;t enough criminals, one makes them&#8230;you create a nation of lawbreakers. . .&#8221;  That is actually what has happened here.  We have created, even in our government school system, a group of criminals.  You think it&#8217;s not criminal?; see  a post from my previous blog (which I shut down) <a title="Another bit of humor from a government school system that’s already a joke" href="http://puroyduro.com/2011/04/another-bit-of-humor-from-a-government-school-system-thats-already-a-joke/">here</a>, The government school system is set up to make people law breakers who are trying to get the best for their children.  Until we bring some sense, and competition, to the government school system the annual ritual of the ISM will continue, as will the criminal activity it promotes.</p>
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