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Oppose the Generational Theft Act of 2009

Monday, January 12th, 2009

In recent months, Barack Obama has adopted the term “shovel-ready” to describe easily implementable programs he intends to use to stimulate the Economy. Some even sound pretty good! He’s talking about “Tax Cuts”, for example. Insofar as they really are “Tax Cuts” and not more “lipstick on a pig” mischaracterizations of dangerous Economic Policy I’ll be happy to see them enacted.

The question, of course, is how do we know what the truth is? How can we tell if Obama is cutting taxes or merely cutting deeper into American’s paychecks? Are bail-out plans emptying water from the lifeboat or just banging on the boat’s bottom, widening the hole and scuttling her faster? The MSM, of course, is keeping Americans informed with cracker-jack economic reporting, detailed accounts of what’s been tried and what worked, voting records and running down the final destinations in the always popular “Follow the Money” game.

In spite of this, some still believe MSM coverage is more “Cracker Jacks” than cracker-jack; sounds like Economics more than it actually is Economics, and; cares only for a final stop for money consisting of their wallet! So, for you diehard Economic skeptics, the #Don’t Go Movement is excited to announce the reactiviation of one site and the launch of another, both guaranteed to shine lights into corners Government and the MSM would rather remain dark!

Speaking of lipstick on pigs, The Oink Report is back and better than ever. The Obama administration is taking up the Bush Administration’s handing out of billions of tax dollars. Americans need a trusted source to knock out bail-outs, hand-outs and stand-out examples of financial irresponsibility. The Oink Report does just that! Now, Government can’t tell you this-or-that spending is necessary or good for America, knowing no one will check. TOR highlights the worst excesses of wasteful Government spending so you can put your time to more profitable pursuits, like asking elected representatives what the heck they’re doing! Neil Boortz regularly referenced TOR and we look forward to his enthusiastic use of TOR while pointing out dirty government financial dealings. Of course, we know bloggers, talk-show hosts and (when they can’t ignore it any longer) the Press will also use the information TOR puts out.

How does one turn over the dirt exposing Government fraud, waste and abuse? With a shovel, of course. We’ll need a big one as the Federal Government proposed spending over $3 trillion dollars in fiscal 2009. Not to worry, our 2nd site, Grab A Shovel, is plenty big for the job! Dedicated to the proposition that many holes Government digs for “Shovel-Ready” programs need to be backfilled ASAP, Grab a Shovel will start filling as soon as Government construction crews are notified “break time” is over. GAS will identify wasteful Government stimulus programs. When they break ground, we’ll let taxpayers know so they can “grab a shovel” and bury bad “shovel-ready” spending by writing, calling and doing what responsible citizens do - serve as informed watchdogs and gadflies to Government.
Alternatively, they can shovel out what The Oink Report piggies produce. But that’s a mental picture for another email.

Visit The Oink Report and Grab A Shovel to discover what Government is doing with your money. Bookmark them and visit often. Tell your family and friends - after all, it’s their money, too! Most important, use the information you find to remind politicians pouring money into Government troughs and digging financial holes so deep we’ll never get out that you demand better and more fiscally responsible representation. Tell them the “without representation” in “No taxation without representation!” means “bad” representation as well as “no” representation. Tell them you’re not opposed to a little revolution now and then.

Written by Blue Collar Muse

Ultimate Free Market Quotes List

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

In light of the seemingly constant barrage of attacks on our free-market system, I’ve decided to put together a list of quotes that revolve around the true ideas shared by our founding fathers.

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Ultimate Free Market Quotes List
# A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw

# Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O’Rourke

# There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. – Robert Heinlein

# When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. – P.J. O’Rourke

# A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. – Barry Goldwater (1964)

# There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as “caring” and “sensitive” because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money. Well, who isn’t? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he’ll do good with his own money – if a gun is held to his head. – P.J. O’Rourke

# If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves. – Thomas Sowell (1992)

# America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. – Ayn Rand

# When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both. – James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union

# Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. – Ludwig Mises,

# Tariffs, quotas and other import restrictions protect the business of the rich at the expense of high cost of living for the poor. Their intent is to deprive you of the right to choose, and to force you to buy the high-priced inferior products of politically favored companies. – Alan Burris, “A Liberty Primer”

# If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we would soon want for bread. – Thomas Jefferson

# The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it. – Harry Browne

# The “private sector” of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and…the “public sector” is, in fact, the coercive sector. – Henry Hazlitt

# The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly. – Thomas Sowell

# Economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics. – Ludwig von Mises

# Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man’s well-being is not their goal. – Ayn Rand, Theory and Practice

# It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible. – Ayn Rand

# Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities. – Robert Nozick, Harvard philosopher

# There are many farm handouts; but let’s call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, “Vote for me. I’ll use my office to take another American’s money and give it to you.” – Walter Williams, economist and syndicated columnist

# National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. … and the cost accounting of the Pentagon. – Louis Sullivan/Connie Horner quoted by Novak

# To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors. – John Stuart Mill

# Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone. – Frédéric Bastiat

# The American Dream was not about government’s taking huge sums of money (under the label of “taxation”) from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others. – Robert Ringer

# People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We’ll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us. – Joseph Sobran May 13, 1998 (commenting on US vs Microsoft)

# Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior. – Allan H. Meltzer

# Taxation with representation ain’t so hot either. – Gerald Barzan

# A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

# The power to tax is the power to destroy. – John Marshall

# [On ancient Athens]: In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. – Edward Gibbon

# Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. – C. S. Lewis

# A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. – Alexander Tytler

# A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. – G. Gordon Liddy

# It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. – Charles A. Beard

# No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words “no” and “not” employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights. – Edmund A. Opitz

# The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. – Mark Twain

# What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. – Edward Langley

# Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. – Herbert Hoover

# Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. – Henry David Thoreau

# Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more. – Allan H. Meltzer (1993)

# The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another. – Milton Friedman

# If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free. – P.J. O’Rourke (1993)

# The Government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. – Ronald Reagan

# The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill

# There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. – P.J. O’Rourke (1993)

# Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. – Ronald Reagan (1986)

# I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. – Sidney Hook

The Right Online

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

It’s 1:09 on Saturday morning and I’m drinking coffee… so I figured now is as good a time as ever to weigh in with my thoughts on the state of the Right Online.

A lot of the brains on the right are engaging in some deep conversations regarding our use of the internet to advance free-market ideology. While I agree there is a major gap in our message, and I concur with the idea that we haven’t, to date, used marketing in any coherent manner, I think a lot of us are missing the simplicity involved in succeeding with online activism.

But first, I want to opine on our use of technology. During the past three months I’ve had the opportunity to speak on quite a few panels at conferences and events across the country. In almost every one of the panels I’ve participated in, someone suggests that we’re “behind” when it comes to technology.

Personally, I feel this couldn’t be further from the truth. The idea that we’re behind in technology simply doesn’t fly with me. We have, in my opinion, some of the smartest people out there with regards to knowledge of the internet, the technology available today, and how social media creates the perfect vessel for ideas to spread and flourish.

We have guys like Patrick Ruffini, Micheal Turk, Erick Erickson (and everyone else at RedState), Katie Harbath, Aaron Marks, Ali Akbar, Jess Thomas, Allen Fuller and many more. This group has a full understanding of modern technology, social media, and how the two create the perfect marriage.

No, we’re NOT behind when it comes to technology. Where we ARE behind is community.

A major problem on the right is the apparent assumption of community. We have some brilliant developers and tech gurus who can crank out state of the art web properties that cost a fortune, but they build these sites without a community… AKA… foundation. In the end, tens of thousands of dollars are wasted on sites that sit dormant, with its few visitors being donors who are left feeling ripped off and cheated.

How many times have we heard about a new group looking to be the “MoveOn.org of the right?” Yet, when these big budget projects go live they fall flat on their faces because, well, because they do NOTHING to engage online communities. They launch their sites and say “come promote us”.

Well… Thanks, but no thanks.

The alleged leaders of the conservative movement have got to get off the couch and get their hands dirty. They need to be out in the states meeting face to face with bloggers. They need to be on Twitter, Facebook and other networks actively participating in online communities. They need to develop personal relationships with online activists, and they need to allow these relationships to drive projects… allowing the activists to take ownership of the project as it develops.

I’ve had enough of hearing about “new beta projects that will rival DailyKOS and MoveOn.org.” I don’t want to hear about another “new media organization” launching that is ran by people who wouldn’t know the new media landscape if it walked up and back handed them in the face.

I want organizations, political organizations, politicians, and parties to personally reach out to me as a blogger and get to know me. I want to be listened to and I want to play a part in whatever it is they’re working on. I want to have input, and I want ownership in the part I help build.

And I don’t think I’m alone on this.

We have some great minds like Jon Henke, Justin Hart, Joshua Trevino, Rob Bluey and many others who are currently having a solid debate on message, but the rest of the movement needs to drop everything they’re doing and start thinking about developing a crowd powered, community based movement.

Community is where the success in online activism is, and community is an area where the Right Online has completely missed the boat.

My two…

-Eric Odom

Electricity Rates to Rise in Tennessee

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

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The invaluable Michael Silence gets the hat tip this morning! He links to a Knoxville News Sentinel story reporting that, effective October 1st, TVA is increasing rates. Remember this post when you vote this November! (more…)

Gang of Ten Coalition Letter

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

UPDATE: RUSH TALKS ABOUT OUR ARTICLE!

Gang of Ten

Earlier today the #dontgo Movement joined Americans for Tax Reform and many other organizations in signing a letter to the Gang of Ten with regards to sound energy policy and proposed compromise. (more…)

ANWR & The Case for Drilling

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

ANWR

ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
UPDATE: RUSH TALKS ABOUT OUR ARTICLE!

Our good friends over at Porter County Politics have published a group of pictures that are sure to infuriate anyone who opposes common sense in the drilling for oil in ANWR debate. (more…)

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Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Technorati Profile

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Thursday, August 14th, 2008

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#dontgo Movement Crashes Washington

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

#dontgo

That’s right… on October 1st, 2008, the #dontgo Movement web presence will convene in an offline environment to rally in Washington DC. This rally is being planned in celebration of the American Energy Freedom Day currently supported by a plethora of free-market groups and organizations. (more…)