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Posted by JDW on Friday, August 21, 2009 2:15:17 PM
 
I saw this at Defend America 1st ..hope fully we can get everyone to sign it
 
 
 
 Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their
attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim
them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the
public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges,
and Governors, shall all become wolves."

-- Thomas Jefferson
 
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ
of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

-- Thomas Jefferson
 
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Today quotes

Posted by JDW on Friday, August 21, 2009 1:52:00 PM

"Measures which serve to abridge ... free competition ... have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices." --Alexander Hamilton

 

Rose Friedman, who passed away this week, writing with her husband Milton in their 1980 book "Free to Choose":

 

Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised. In addition, by dispersing power, the free market provides an offset to whatever concentration of political power may arise. The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The combination of economic and political freedom produced a golden age in both Great Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century. The United States prospered even more than Britain. It started with a clean slate: fewer vestiges of class and status; fewer government restraints; a more fertile field for energy, drive, and innovation; and an empty continent to conquer. . . .

Ironically, the very success of economic and political freedom reduced its appeal to later thinkers. The narrowly limited government of the late nineteenth century possessed little concentrated power that endangered the ordinary man. The other side of that coin was that it possessed little power that would enable good people to do good.

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hi Thereeere

Posted by JDW on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:14:51 PM
 Been gone awhile ..dropped a 3500 lbs hilo battery on my foot back on May 11 and 3 surgerys later I seem to be on the road to recovery
 

"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit."

--Federalist No. 51, February 8, 1788

 
Here is my thoughts about government health care :
 
"The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most necessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it." --economist Adam Smith (1723-1790)
 

"[S]ome members of Congress ... intend, as the New York Times puts it, 'to reinvent the nation's health care system.' Let that sink in. A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system." --columnist John Stossel

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TODAY'S QUOTES

Posted by JDW on Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:30:59 PM

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson

"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits." --Roman historian Plutarch (c.45-125 A.D.)

"There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." --Austrian-American writer Peter Drucker (1909-2005)

"The height of statesmanship is to come home with a dam, even if you have nowhere to put it." --humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

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More quotes

Posted by JDW on Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:27:58 PM
 
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." --French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." --Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt." --American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

 

"I got a little muddled over two adjoining newspaper clippings -- one on the stimulus, the other on those octuplets in California -- and for a brief moment the two stories converged. Everyone's hammering that mom -- she's divorced, unemployed, living in a small house with parents who have a million bucks' worth of debt, and she's already got six kids. So she has in vitro fertilization to have eight more. But isn't that exactly what the Feds have done? Last fall, they gave birth to $850 billion of bailout they couldn't afford and didn't have enough time to keep an eye on, and now, four months later, they're going to do it all over again, but this time they want trillionuplets. Barney and Nancy represent the in vitro fertilization of the federal budget. And it's the taxpayers who'll get stuck with the diapers." --columnist Mark Steyn

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Today's Quotes by Adam Smith

Posted by JDW on Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:18:30 PM
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule." ---economist and philosopher Fredrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." --Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith (1723-1790)

"You know how Congress is. They'll vote for anything if the thing they vote for will turn around and vote for them. Politics ain't nothing but reciprocity." --American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)
 

"It is easy for the other side to advocate for higher taxes because, you know what? They don't pay them." --House GOP Whip Eric Cantor

"For all the promises of a revolution in ethics, President Obama has created a new syndrome: The well-off can be made to stop evading their taxes by nominating them for cabinet posts." --Victor Davis Hanson

"'Stimulus' comes from the verb stimulare, which is Latin for 'transfer massive sums of money from what remains of the dynamic sector of the economy to the special interests of the Democratic Party.' No, hang on, my mistake. Stimulare means 'to goad.' And, on that front, the Democrats are doing an excellent job. They've managed to goad 58 percent of the American people into opposing the 'stimulus' package." --columnist Mark Steyn

"Didn't you ever wonder if the witch doctors themselves thought dropping a virgin in the volcano would really bring good crops? I'm thinking they didn't. But it kept them in their witch-doctor jobs and gave them a few final moments in private with the virgins. And that, boys and girls, is how government works." --columnist Randall Hoven

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Today's Quote

Posted by JDW on Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:13:53 PM

"In the final analysis, we, the people, are responsible for the corruption of our leaders by failing to demand a higher standard of conduct from our politicians. Increasingly, Americans have grown accustomed to a culture characterized by moral relativism and individualism. We have mocked Judeo-Christian values -- humility, virtue, honor -- and in the process, eroded restraints on social conduct. The results have become painfully obvious in the business arena and are becoming increasingly obvious in the political arena. When we do not demand honor, virtue, and accountability from ourselves, can we really expect more from our leaders? Have we merely gotten the leaders we deserve? The path to reform in the political arena runs straight through the people. We, the people, must first find a renewed appreciation for virtue, honesty, and humility in ourselves and our fellow man. If private virtue is reestablished in society, it will eventually become public and inevitably find its way back to the halls of government. Quite simply, it is up to us." --author Ken Connor

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Here is change .. new Air Force One

Posted by JDW on Friday, November 21, 2008 9:37:55 PM
 
It seems Sen Obama wants to update AF1    quite   a change ... I hope it don't last
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TODAY'S QUOTES

Posted by JDW on Friday, October 31, 2008 11:57:44 AM

Thomas Jefferson :   “Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.”

 
 
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” —Thomas Jefferson

 

“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” —Milton Friedman

“Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.” —Ayn Rand

“Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.” —Ludwig von Mises



“The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.” —Frederic Bastiat
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Obama: Good for Michigan ???

Posted by JDW on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:06:11 PM
    A couple weeks ago when Sen Obama was in Grand Rapids he was lamenting the loss of many automobile and other manufacturing jobs. He and most people seem to blame greedy corporations; but, maybe we need to look at what kind of business enviroment our politicians like Barack and others have created in the U.S. (and Michigan). 
   According to a Wall Street Journal article the top 10 states that are losing people and jobs have high taxes and a closed workshop. The top 10 states gaining people and jobs have low taxes and a right to work law. Guess what Michigan has? maybe tax policy matters!!
 The same article also stated that if you were to start a business here in the U.S. one would pay $1 billion dollars more in costs here than if you started the same business in Ireland or any other country that has a low corporate tax law. Since the U.S. has a tax rate of 38% most countries in the world have a lower corporate tax rate than us. So corporations are not always stupid and will move to the state or country that is the easiest to do business in.
  In 2010, the tax cuts President Bush gave to everybody in 2001 and 2003, will expire. No matter what he says on the campaign trail this year Senator Obama will be raising your taxes, he doesn't want to extend the cuts or make them permanent. When Pres. Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush cut taxes the economy grew, revenues increased, and the stock market went up to record levels in each period.  Since the stock market is generally forward looking are we already getting the "President" Obama crash ??
 
Thomas Jefferson:
 
Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.
 
Excessive taxation...will carry reason and reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
 
 
   
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Let 's start a Pool

Posted by JDW on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:52:49 PM
 The last time we had a Democratic nominee talking about a tax cut for the  middle class  " anyone making under $250,000 he started backtracking about  15 minutes after he took office because things were worse then he had though. We later got a massive tax increase . 
So my question is if Obama-s is elected how long will it be before he declares that things are worse then he knew  about and there will be no tax cut for the middle class ??
 
   
Alexander Hamilton
 
This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.
 
 
Samuel Adams
 
The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Reform in Michigan ??

Posted by JDW on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:13:07 PM
    I read with amusement the article in the Grand Rapids Press showing how well the people of Michigan seem to admire the new proposal to:  "Reform Michigan Government Now". It seems the voters of Michigan are getting lazy. This proposal is billed as being neutral; but, if you look at the backing it seems to leave little doubt as to what these backers are trying to accomplish.
    One of the organizations promoting this bill is the UAW. Their regional web site had a 35 page Power point presentation titled "Changing the rules of politics in Michigan to help Democrats." That page is gone now but I found it is featured on the web site of the Mackinac Center if you want to still check this out. In a nutshell the presentaion laments that "....the Democrats have not controlled all branches of the MI government in 25 years."
     I don't have a problem with changing our government; but, one of the great founding ideas of our country is -- we can change government through the ballot box.  This proposal wants to go around the ballot box because Democrats can't convince voters to go their way. One can argue we have to many judges. Doesn't it seem coincidental most of the judges that would be eliminated through this proposal would be the ones who: were appointed by a Republican Governor? those who would retire if their pay was cut? Who would appoint the next judges? Oh, a DEMOCRATIC governor!!
     If the Democrats get control of the different branches of government this year; then, in 2010 when a new census occurs they can redraw voting districts so that they will always be in power and have courts to back it up if challenged. 
     I wrote "we are getting lazy"  because we are the ones electing these people. Are we being the "useful idiots" to accomplish a certain someone's agenda? The Wall Street Journal had an article stating "The top 10 states losing jobs have high taxes with closed shop rules and the top 10 states gainig jobs have low taxes with right to work laws". The voters of MI have elected people that have/are raising taxes during a recession. If we want to reform our government let's do it at the ballot box this year. Never re-elect anyone.
     Is John Stryker trying to do to Michigan what he helped do to Colorado??
John Witherspoon 1776 
Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.
 
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Today's Quotes

Posted by JDW on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:18:14 PM
If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”—Thomas Jefferson

“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 consciences.” —C.S. Lewis

“The big difference between Republicans and liberal Democrats is the way each party views people. Republicans see us as individuals and respect our God-given human dignity. To liberal Democrats, we’re not individuals; we’re members of a herd with all the dignity of a cow or pig dependent on its owner for daily rations of hay or slop. Democrats see us as being white or as blacks or as straights or as gays, or as lesbians or as heterosexuals, or as rich or poor, or as Christians or as Jews or as Muslims, or as young or as old, as working or as retired, or as housewives or as career women. They submerge us into pools that define us as members of groups instead of as what we are as God sees us—as any father sees his children—each being different from one another, and each child being a separate and distinct individual with his or her own specific talents and abilities, and all deserving of his love... This Marxist view of human nature embraces group-think, despises individuality, and seeks to eliminate all vestiges of the dignity to which every human being created in the image and likeness of God is entitled. Only the hopes and aspirations of the groups matter, and they matter solely because they create dependency on the state—which seeks to supplant God as the source of all that is good and necessary for survival.” —Michael Reagan

 

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A New Bill in The Mi. House

Posted by JDW on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:08:24 PM
 I got this update From Jack Hoogendyk who runnning against Carl (Marx) Lenin er Levin for US Senate this fall about a new bill in the Mi. House  

HB5024
  would require that construction sites have one porta-john per 10 employees on the job. Current law requires a 1:20 ratio. Let's do the math; if we need one porta-john for every ten employees on the job, and they each work an 8 hour shift, that comes out to two 24-minute bathroom breaks per shift, per employee! Bad enough this is bad public policy; who ever said the employer couldn't figure out if he was providing enough facilities for his employees? Is this really about meeting the vital needs of working citizens or is it pandering to the powerful labor union lobby?
 
Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
 
Thomas Paine
 
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
 
Thomas Jefferson
 
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride legitimately, by the grace of God.
 
How long are we going to take this crap ?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Life ? Liberty ? Pursuit of Happiness ??

Posted by JDW on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:03:52 PM
 On previous post I discussed the way America was founded:  http://jdwdrivebyblog.blogtownhall.com/2007/07/27/americas_founders.thtml
 
 Paul Jacobs is always pointing out government abuses at  Sam Adams Alliance   commonsense@samadamsalliance.org]
  This is about Dale Bell who started San Tan Flats with his son. But then the county government got involved
 
How long are we going to put up with this  ???
 
 
"His Example is now complete, and it will teach wisdom and virtue
to magistrates, citizens, and men, not only in the present age,
but in future generations, as long as our history shall be read."

-- John Adams 
 
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only
as are injurious to others.  But it does me no injury for my
neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god.  It neither
picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

-- Thomas Jefferson 
Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof - Lev. XXV, v. X
 
Patrick Henry
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
 
Thomas Jefferson
 
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Reference: Jefferson: Writings, Peterson ed., Library of America (122)

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