Quote of the Week

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.

-John Adams

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Budget "Cuts" ?

This video from the Cato Institute puts the current talk of budgets cuts into perspective and shows the magnitude of the problem

Saturday, January 1, 2011

The Road to Jericho by Hal Watkins

Another excellent article from 1978. This one addresses "private charity" as opposed to "government charity", so called.

Friday, December 31, 2010

Inflation in One Page by Henry Hazlitt

This short article is one of the clearest explanations of what inflation really is, its cause and the hard truth about what its cure is. Unfortunately, our beloved politicians, who control the printing presses, are unwilling to give up the power that this out of control monetary policy gives them. Although published in 1978, this article is especially relevant to our present situation. Please read, understand, and pass it on.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Sockdolager or "It's Not Yours to Give"

This is a story of Davy Crockett and the proper role of government.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Our Awful Situation

This pdf brings to light the secret combination's, long foretold, that would exist in our day to enslave Gods children. Some have said that the Mafia or similar groups are the "secret combination" referred to. Certainly such organizations are part of the whole, but they are "petty thieves" compared to those who really run things here on earth. The ultimate head is Satan himself.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Found this video on YouTube. Helps put the rhetoric about "cutting" the budget in perspective.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard Read

This famous essay by Leonard Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), was first published in 1958. It is one of the best explanations of what Adam Smith referred to as the "invisible hand". This story, told from the pencils point of view, tells how thousands of people acting, in their own "self interest", bring to market a common, ordinary pencil. A classic.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010

Romneycare Looks a Lot Like Obamacare by Jack Hunter

This article peels back some of the so called "conservative" facade of Mitt Romney. I have a number of friends who feel that Mitt Romney is a real conservative. I think the question to be asked of him is, "are you a defender of the Constitution?" Government run health care, whether provided at the state or federal level is really the same thing.

Quotes

I want to impress upon the minds of the Latter-day Saints not to covet that which belongs to any public institution, or that which belongs to any city, or county, or the government of the United States. Unless I have been misinformed, many people have said, speaking of the distribution by the government of supplies to the people: “Well, others are getting some, why should not I get some of it.”

- President Heber J. Grant

We here in the United States, in converting our government into a social welfare state, have ourselves adopted much of socialism. Specifically, we have to an alarming degree adopted the use of the power of the state in the control and distribution of the fruits of industry. We are on notice according to the words of the President (Lyndon Johnson), that we are going much further, for he is quoted as saying:

“We’re going to take all the money we think is unnecessarily being spent and take it from the ‘haves’ and give it to the ‘have nots.’” (1964 Congressional Record, p. 6142, Remarks of the President to a Group of Leaders of Organizations of Senior Citizens in the Fish Room, March 24, 1964.)

- President Marion G. Romney

We are placed on this earth to work and the earth will give us a living... It is not the government’s duty to support you. I shall raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against the communistic idea that the government will take care of us all, and that everything belongs to the government. . . It is wrong! No wonder, in trying to perpetuate that idea, that men become anti-Christ, because those teachings strike directly at the doctrines of the Savior. No government owes you a living. You get it yourself by your own acts—never by trespassing upon the rights of your neighbor, never by cheating him.

- President David O. McKay

The Paul Reveres in our lives may have voices too shrill, use bad grammar, ride a poor horse, and may pick the oddest hours to warn us. But the test of warnings is their accuracy, not their diplomacy. The disciple's commitment to truth must be to truth, without an inordinate concern for the method of delivery.

- Neal A. Maxwell

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

-Thomas Jefferson

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men.

- Samuel Adams