Someone who still remembers what freedom was like.

While blogging at Fox (national) another blogger said:
Jim says: “…This whole charade that only the goverment can do something is insane. This is the most arrogant admin this country has ever seen.”
flyovermark says: Yes, and no, Jim. There have been other administrations with just as much arrogance, but none with the operational tempo of this one. That, I think, is their biggest strategic mistake. Ram-rodding all the blatantly socialist programs through a compliant Congress (who voted without even bothering to read the bill) has served to shock the electorate. Most people, Republicans, Libertarians, and Democrats alike, just aren’t ready to make the big leap to surrender our remaining liberty for the tyranny of socialism. It is that hesitation makes not only Obama’s marxism a target, but all the socialism that has crept into the Republic beginning with the NEW DEAL. Whether it will be the GOP, a revolt within the Democrats, or some other third party that rises to the challenge, whoever it is that successfully argues for dismantling Roosevelt’s unconstitutional social programs, will cut the heart out of the so-called “progressive” movement and restore the Republic to a constitutional government. That, in my opinion, would put an end to this nonsense once and for all.
 

Hello, everyone! I've been in exile on the national Fox news website since the MyFoxKC blogs disappeared. There I have been busy as heck twisting the tails of liberals, and generally making a nuisance of myself under the pseudomyn flyovermark (without the "_" ) Just a quick post to see if this thing still works.     Thank you Mr. Obama, it's good to know that the government we serve has our long-term interests at heart. Your bill underlines the basic truth that Americans have so little understanding of; that the ends justify the means. Whatever suffering results from immediately discouraging the use of fossil fuels has on the American public, it is far outweighed by the benefits of widespread use of alternative energy. Someday, after the stories of elderly deaths caused by inability to pay the higher costs of heating or cooling their homes with existing sources of energy have abated, such alternative sources of energy may be available, and you will undoubtably be heralded as a visionary statesman. Perhaps then, May 4th will be also be known as Barrack Obama Day along with the birthdate of Karl Marx. I'll celebrate it by burning an old tire in your honor.

Venezuela Solicits Bids From Big Oil Companies

In the faulty reasoning of marxists, the "workers" should own all industry, because without their labor, industry cannot produce a product. A benevolent socialist government should usurp ownership of the company and rightfully award it to the workers. All workers are then paid the same wages, run the company as a "democracy",  and the state takes the lion's share of the industry profits in taxes to support benefits to workers and non-workers alike. All under the flawed premise that its for the good of the people, of course.

While disregarding or "re-interpreting" capitalist laws that protect property rights may allow for a marxist state to seize an industry, it overlooks that workers are, more often than not, innept at actually creating and running a business. "Workers" lack the experience, financial resources, and expertize that are only available in a capitalist system where the profit incentive inspires indiviuals to become successful entrepreneurs. Because socialism cannot create new industry, it must steal it, (nationalize, expropriate, seize, free from capitalist oppressors, or whatever phrase best describes usurpation) from an existing capitalist enterprise. Strangely enough, entrepreneurs the state can steal from are scarce in a marxist society. Go figure. Why would the individual assume all the risks of establishing a business, only to have the state take it over once the business succeeds? After the stolen pie has been cut, and redistributed according to the socialist's priorities, there isn't another pie in the pipeline to steal.  The good times will last only as long as the ill-gotten gains do, because there is no incentive to create another "pie". Victims of socialism's avarice learn quickly the old adage: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

So what happens if the stolen pie... shrinks?

Venezuela's oil industry has been declining for decades under the incompetent ownership by the "workers". The current slump in oil prices has further shrunk the Venezuelan oil-production pie, prompting Hugo Chavez to look for more tax revenues from expanded oil exploration. Seems the stability of his government, and thus his political power, hinge on the continuation of social spending. Without more oil profits to tax, there just isn't enough money to support the welfare state. He believes that exploiting more oil resources would bring in more profits to tax, even at reduced prices. We won't argue his lack of business sense concerning the laws of supply and demand, and the effect on oil prices of increasing the supply. I'm sure that OPEC could explain it to him, but his problem is bigger than that. Chavez is realizing that there is  an inexplicable shortage of same-wage native oil engineers to expand the industry. In fact, if it weren't for the management of Chevron, their existing oil capacity might have collapsed altogether. 

Venezuela has vast oil resources, but is incapable of building or maintaining the infrastructure to make use of them. Other socialist countries are in the same financial boat and have little interest in Hugo's problems. Since socialism has proved ill-equipped to sustain or enlarge the industry, the only answer is to find capitalists gullible enough to expand the industry for him. Now Chavez wants to solicit help from the very American oil companies he rose to power by demonizing.

Hugo must think oil companies have a short memory. The policy of nationalizing the Venezuelan oil industry has had a ruinous result: foreign oil companies are not eagerly lining up to drill new wells, or build new refineries in Venezuela. He already fooled them once; they won't let him fool them again. The problem he faces is best summed up by a line near the bottom of the story.

"But first, Chavez may have to find ways of reassuring them that he won't seize their investments again."

Venezuela is about to learn a harsh lesson. That lesson is that marxism halts the growth of industry at whatever stage it is converted from a capitalist enterprise to a socialist one, and government seizure of an industry makes for an unattractive investment environment to future capitalists. 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,480096,00.html

Just because they say it, it doesn't make it true.

There have been a lot of liberal fingers pointed at the Republican party accusing racism. Some of the loopier ones attrribute the recent presidential election as proof. They even have the gall to claim Democrats are the party of racial equality. Yet history tells us otherwise. Decide for yourself.

 

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110011033a>

What a difference 100 years can make.

We just said goodbye to 2008. Let's look back to 1908 and see what a 100 years can do...

* The average life expectancy was 47 years.
* Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
* Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
* There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.
* The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
* The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!
* The average wage in 1908 was 22 cents per hour
* The average worker made between $200 and $400 per year
* A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
* More than 95 percent of all births took place at HOME.
* Ninety percent of all doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION! Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press AND the government as 'substandard.'
* Sugar cost four cents a pound.
* Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
* Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
* Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
* Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.


Five leading causes of death were:

1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke

* The American flag had 45 stars.
* The population of Las Vegas , Nevada, was only 30!!!!
* Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea hadn't been invented yet.
* There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
* Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write.
* Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
* Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores. Back then pharmacists said, 'Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind,regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health.'
* Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or domestic help.
* There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE ! U.S.A. !

 

http://ronnisrants.blogspot.com/2009/01/big-differe
nce.html#links

Socialised health care at it's best... I can hardly wait.

 

Medics Caught on Tape Allegedly Decided Disabled Man Not Worth Saving

"Two EMT workers in Britain were arrested after they were heard allegedly discussing whether they should bother to resuscitate a disabled man who had collapsed at home and subsequently died."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,474454,00.html>

Socialites Face Ruin as Ex-Nasdaq Chairman Says Scheme Was 'One Big Lie'

Saturday, December 13, 2008

"The FBI’s criminal complaint states that when two federal agents arrived at Madoff’s apartment, he told them: “There is no innocent explanation.” The agents say that he told them “he paid investors with money that wasn’t there," that he was “broke” and that he expected to go to jail.

 

The FBI complaint states that Madoff told his sons that he believed the losses from his scheme could exceed $50 billion. If that is the case, his fraud would be far greater than past Ponzi schemes and easily the greatest swindle blamed on a single individual."

 

 

The real "greatest swindle" is ongoing. So, who's picture are we going to put on the front page when Social Security implodes? One Ponzi scheme is like any other.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,466564,00.html

"Iraq Official Says Country Still Needs U.S. Military Presence

Saturday, November 08, 2008

 AP

Nov. 6: An Iraqi child gestures as he talks with a U.S. soldier during a routine patrol in Dora , southern Baghdad, Iraq.

BAGHDAD —  Iraq's deputy prime minister said Saturday his country still needs the U.S. military to ensure security and warned that time is running out to approve a new security deal with Washington"

If we withdraw, there's going to be a lot of empty chairs around the table in Iraq. That's change you can believe in. Remember why we didn't run out on them after we won.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449112,00.html