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TheBrutalTruth

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I probably should have rewritten it (it's disjointed) but I haven't the time.

Though I'll try summarizing it.

Republican/Democrat = Statist/Pro-Enslavement

Libertarian/Liberal (classic)/Conservative = Individualist/Pro-Liberty

Republicans and Democrats have disguised their Statist intentions by hiding under the ideals of Libertarianism/Liberalism and Conservatism, and then have corrupted the message being pushed by both (more freedom) to mean the opposite (more slavery.)




Democrat/Republican = Retarded By : TheBrutalTruth (2009-05-04 18:16:48)

So, apparently, because Conservatives believe in personal liberty, and in self-responsibility it means we must be for dictatorship. Apparently some where along the lines the Statists have managed to utterly confuse people as to what the different words mean.

We of course can only thank the media, and the general apathy of the populace for this.

First off, the entire polticial spectrum as imagined is horribly wrong. There is not a gap between Fascism and Socialism. Socialism is not Leftist, and Fascism is not Rightest.

The Political Spectrum does not go:
Socialism Democracy Republic Fascism Anarchy

It would not make any sense for it to place Fascism on the opposite side of Socialism. Both are Statist systems where everything is controlled by the government.

More importantly is the fact that Fascism would not fit with Anarchy. Anarchy is the absence of a State, whereas Fascism is an all powerful state.

The proper ordering is:
Socialism Fascism Democracy Republic GSO Anarchy

I had to add GSO, it stands for Government Service Organization or Governmetn Service Corporation. It represents a step above Anarchy where instead of having no government you have multiple governments in the form of subscription-based government.

Or you might have corporations that provide government services.

Such as Police Protection, Fire Protection, Contract Enforcement, Legal Representation, Waste Treatment, etc.

Such a system would occur between a Republic and Anarchy, because such a system would still need a frame work of laws that would govern the GSOs.

However, the above can be simplified even further:
Oligarchy, Majority, Law, Individual

Though even here it becomes obvious that Republic, as a form of government is distinct from the rest. A Republic (the United States for instance) represents a rule by law not a rule by an elect few (Oligarchy) or by the majority (Democracy) or by Individuals over themselves (Anarchy/GSOs.)

So:
Oligarchy, Majority, Individual

Republic

would probably be a better way to order it.

Though I am going to stop discussing exact forms of government and address the confusion created by the oligarchs.

As can be seen above Fascism and Socialism are forms of Oligarchy, or Rule by a few. In the case of both the Rulers are Bureaucrats or Sanctioned by the Bureaucrats.

So both are Statist.

Then there's Democracy which is Rule by People, but it is also typically Statist, relying upon the whims of an idiotic majority to govern the rest, and thus it is possible for 30,000,000 + 1 people to order about another 30,000,000 people.

Even worse, is that under a Democracy the 30,000,001 then can find ways to reduce it so that fewer people are able to vote making it so that there's 40,000,001 able to vote, and 25,000,001 are on the majority. Thus this rapidly becomes an Oligarchial System (United States.)

Not that it is necessarily a bad thing to state that certain individuals have lost the right to vote, because they have demonstrated a lack of responsibility by violating other peoples rights. These people would be criminals, or be insane and thus incapable of rational thought.

At the same time it also makes sense to place restrictions on who can vote, because such restrictions will also ensure that a tyrannical majority can not impose its will on a minority.

In the case of the United States this has come to pass.

A tyrannical majority (poor) have consistently voted to force a reluctant minority (middle class, working class, upper middle class) to support the existence of the poor and of the rich and affluent (government bureaucrats typically.)

What the Statists does not tell many people is that the majority of the affluent (top 90%) are in fact employees of the Federal Government or executives of Lower levels of Government. (The average Federal Government employee makes $100,000+/year including Benefits vs $58,000 for the average State Employee vs $52,000 for the average Private Sector Employee.)

In short there are more than the five classes listed by bureaucrat statisticians.

0. Entertainers (Actors, Actreeses, TV Stars, Sports Stars, etc.)
1. Executives of Major Corporations
2. Doctors/Lower Level Entertainers
3. Federal Employees/Lower Level Executive Bureaucrats
3. Entepreneurs / State Government Employees
4. Managers/Professionals
5. Low Level Managers/Line Workers
6. The Lazy Stupid Irresponsible Poor

...

Or perhaps a easier way. There's two types of people

Public Class and Private Class

The Private Classes are of course represented by the traditional Pyramid of Wealth

The Public Classes however can not be represented by the typical pyramid. While they typically make more than the Private Class on Average, their are as of right now drastically more of them, and their existence is maintained not by producing anything of value for the most part, but by stealing the fruits of the labor of the Private Classes.

The Statists (Republicans and Democrats) have managed to trick the public into thinking that there is some great divided between them when in fact both of them belong on the same side of the political spectrum, the far left (Socialism/Fascism.)

Then there are Libertarians/Conservatives who are distinct from the Statists in that they want more Freedom for individuals. and thus can not be grouped with Republicans who are really Statists using the cloak of Conservatism to hide their Statist intent (much like the Democrats are Statists who use the cloak of Liberalism to hide their Statist intent.)

There are also Liberals (true Liberals, not "liberals" as in Democrats) that also want more Human Freedom with out government interference. However it is no longer correct to address Liberals as Liberals, because the term Liberal has been hijacked by Statists to mean "desiring of having humanity turned into cogs in an industrial machine for the satisfaction of the State which pretends to desire their happiness."

No, the best term remaining to describe the classic Liberals would be Libertarians.

However as with Conservatism or Libertarianism the Statists have hijacked Liberal to mean supporting and desiring of more State Control.

In essence the Republicans and Democrats have stolen the terms used by internal factions with in them to describe themselves to hide their true intent, the continued creation of a Socialist or Fascist United States of America.

In truth there are two branches in Politics those that desire Freedom and Independence and those that want Safety and Slavery.

Those desiring Safety and Slavery have managed to divide those desiring Freedom and Independence into two camps. One that believes that Corporations are Evil --- nevermind that their existence is approved and maintained by the State as can be seen by the recent actions of both American Hitler II and American Hitler I (Obama and Bush) and the Old American Hitler (Clinton.) --- and another Branch that believes that Goverment is Evil --- understanding rightly that the rescuing of the corporations by the government was a play to expand the sphere of government control by the Socialist Statists (where as the Fascist Statists would have saved the corporations with more lenient terms, but tightened regulations down the road.)

In the end it can be assumed that there really should be two parties in the United States, but not the two that we currently have. One would be the Republican/Democrats (Statists) and the other would be Classic Liberals/Libertarians/Conservatives (Individualists.)

However the second has been divided by the first which has created a clever shell game where its factions pretend to be something that they are not, and thus continue to implement their policy of enslavement.
 

jfgordon1

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I probably should have rewritten it (it's disjointed) but I haven't the time.

Though I'll try summarizing it.

Republican/Democrat = Statist/Pro-Enslavement


Libertarian/Liberal (classic)/Conservative = Individualist/Pro-Liberty

Republicans and Democrats have disguised their Statist intentions by hiding under the ideals of Libertarianism/Liberalism and Conservatism, and then have corrupted the message being pushed by both (more freedom) to mean the opposite (more slavery.)
couldn't agree more on that. i give it to the liberals that their ideas are very ideal. however, history says it doesn't work. that's why my belief is furthest right possible :). it has a few problems.. but i won't be "enslaved" that way :hump:
 

ilkhan

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Well the poor and the middle class don't know it but they are being played ageinst one another. Its really .01 percent or less that controls the thinking in this country. When we move away from the ideals of individual liberty we end up sliding inexorably towards statism and eventually totalitarianism.

You know liberals only want to help, that is why they push universal health care. Its not that they are bad its that they have lost touch with the ideals of individual liberty. Yes Liberty has its draw backs. But it is much to be prefered over any other system yet proposed. Until the Government is run by Christ himself I will not trust it, and even then I may not trust it. (Are you sure your Christ? your positive?)

A libritarian may allow you to sell yourself into slavery. But you will never be forced into it. Furthermore, If you sold yourself into slavery then the slave holder has taken on responsability for your health and well being. You would be made to sign a contract detailing what would be expected of you as a new slave and what would be expected of the slave holder. What punishments could be meted out and so forth. You would always have legal recourse even as a slave. In a libritarian nation, Contracts are very important. Just make damn sure, and I can't enphasize this enouph, you get a lawyer before you sign anything!!! Really it would be about like signing up for the military. Not that I condone slavery. I just think there are some people out there who may prefer the security of slavery over the uncertainty of freedom. I respect that by all means who am I to denigh them the right to be the best slave they can be.

Yeah, My brother in-law showed me this line deal his teacher was pushing on him:
Left and right Commy-----------republic-----------Nazi. I was like WTF!! No no no I said its like this:

Oligarcy--------------------------Anachy
We're at....^ I want.......^ there. Minanarchy. Night watchmen government. Constitutional Republic. JBS websight explains it pretty good.
 

TheBrutalTruth

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Well the poor and the middle class don't know it but they are being played ageinst one another. Its really .01 percent or less that controls the thinking in this country. When we move away from the ideals of individual liberty we end up sliding inexorably towards statism and eventually totalitarianism.

You know liberals only want to help, that is why they push universal health care. Its not that they are bad its that they have lost touch with the ideals of individual liberty. Yes Liberty has its draw backs. But it is much to be prefered over any other system yet proposed. Until the Government is run by Christ himself I will not trust it, and even then I may not trust it. (Are you sure your Christ? your positive?)

A libritarian may allow you to sell yourself into slavery. But you will never be forced into it. Furthermore, If you sold yourself into slavery then the slave holder has taken on responsability for your health and well being. You would be made to sign a contract detailing what would be expected of you as a new slave and what would be expected of the slave holder. What punishments could be meted out and so forth. You would always have legal recourse even as a slave. In a libritarian nation, Contracts are very important. Just make damn sure, and I can't enphasize this enouph, you get a lawyer before you sign anything!!! Really it would be about like signing up for the military. Not that I condone slavery. I just think there are some people out there who may prefer the security of slavery over the uncertainty of freedom. I respect that by all means who am I to denigh them the right to be the best slave they can be.

Yeah, My brother in-law showed me this line deal his teacher was pushing on him:
Left and right Commy-----------republic-----------Nazi. I was like WTF!! No no no I said its like this:

Oligarcy--------------------------Anachy
We're at....^ I want.......^ there. Minanarchy. Night watchmen government. Constitutional Republic. JBS websight explains it pretty good.
Like I said, the Oligarchists have managed to confuse the shit out of people by making it look like they are diametrically opposed. The only true division between them is how little power they want to leave people afterwards.

Now, that's not stating that all politicians are bad, or are oligarchists, they just are too fucking stupid to step outside their position and actually look at the trends of what they are doing leads to.

The Road to Hell/Statism is Paved with Good Intentions.
 

medicineman

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(The average Federal Government employee makes $100,000+/year including Benefits vs $58,000 for the average State Employee vs $52,000 for the average Private Sector Employee.)
Uhhhh, here's an example of the bullshit you spread. The facts are listed below:


GS-1 $17,046-$21,324 GS-2 $19,165-$24,115 GS-3 $20,911-$27,184 GS-4 $23,475-$30,522 GS-5 $26,264-$34,139 GS-6 $29,276-$38,060 GS-7 $32,534-$42,290 GS-8 $36,030-$46,839 GS-9 $39,795-$51,738 GS-10 $43,824-$56,973 GS-11 $48,148-$62,593 GS-12 $57,709-$75,025 GS-13 $68,625-$89,217 GS-14 $81,093-$105,420 GS-15 $95,390-$124,010

As anyone can see, one must reach GS14 with some seniority before you even approach the 100K platform
 

TheBrutalTruth

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(The average Federal Government employee makes $100,000+/year including Benefits vs $58,000 for the average State Employee vs $52,000 for the average Private Sector Employee.)
Uhhhh, here's an example of the bullshit you spread. The facts are listed below:


GS-1 $17,046$21,324GS-2 $19,165$24,115GS-3$20,911$27,184GS-4$23,475$30,522GS-5$26,264$34,139GS-6 $29,276$38,060GS-7$32,534$42,290GS-8$36,030$46,839GS-9$39,795$51,738GS-10$43,824$56,973GS-11$48,148$62,593GS-12$57,709$75,025GS-13$68,625$89,217GS-14$81,093$105,420GS-15$95,390$124,010
+ Pension
+ Health Care
+ Holidays
 

TheBrutalTruth

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They add up to what, 10-20K at most. That would still put the 100K mark at around GS 13.
GS Pay Grades: GS-1
2008
Salary: $19,247 – $24,127
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $19,997 – $25,067
With a 2.4% Increase: $19,709 – $24,706
With a 3.5% Increase: $19,921 – $24,971
Percent of Federal Work Force .2%


GS Pay Grades: GS-2
2008
Salary: $21,640 – $27,293
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $22,483- $28,357
With a 2.4% Increase: $22,159 – $27,948
With a 3.5% Increase: $22,397 – $28,248
Percent of Federal Work Force .3%


GS Pay Grades: GS-3
2008
Salary: $23,612 – $30,766
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $24,532 – $31,965
With a 2.4% Increase: $24,179 – $31,504
With a 3.5% Increase: $24,438 – $31,843
Percent of Federal Work Force 1.2%


GS Pay Grades: GS-4
2008
Salary: $26,506 – $34,535
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $27,539 – $35,881
With a 2.4% Increase: $27,142 – $35,364
With a 3.5% Increase: $27,433 – $35,744
Percent of Federal Work Force 3.0%


GS Pay Grades: GS-5
2008
Salary: $29,656 – $38,641
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $30,813 – $40,148
With a 2.4% Increase: $30,368 – $39,490
With a 3.5% Increase: $30,694 – $39,993
Percent of Federal Work Force 5.3%


GS Pay Grades: GS-6
2008
Salary: $31,740 – $41,262
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $34,346 – $44,754
With a 2.4% Increase: $33,850 – $44,108
With a 3.5% Increase: $34,214 – $44,581
Percent of Federal Work Force 4.1%


GS Pay Grades: GS-7
2008
Salary: $33,057 – $42,290
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $34,346 – $43,939
With a 2.4% Increase: $32,501 – $42,252
With a 3.5% Increase: $32,850 – $42,707
Percent of Federal Work Force 7.0%


GS Pay Grades: GS-8
2008
Salary: $40,683 – $53,014
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $42,270 – $55,082
With a 2.4% Increase: $41,659 – $54,286
With a 3.5% Increase: $42,107 – $54,869
Percent of Federal Work Force 3.0%


GS Pay Grades: GS-9
2008 Salary: $44,934 – $58,549
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $46,686 – $60,773
With a 2.4% Increase: $46,012 – $59,954
With a 3.5% Increase: $46,507 – $60,598
Percent of Federal Work Force 6.6%


GS Pay Grades: GS-10
2008
Salary: $49,483 – $64,477
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $51,413 – $66,992
With a 2.4% Increase: $50,671 – $66,024
With a 3.5% Increase: $51,215 – $66,734
Percent of Federal Work Force .8%


GS Pay Grades: GS-11
2008
Salary: $54,367 – $70,844
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $56,487 – $73,607
With a 2.4% Increase: $55,672 – $72,544
With a 3.5% Increase: $56,270 – $73,324
Percent of Federal Work Force 9.9%


GS Pay Grades: GS-12
2008
Salary: $65,161 – $84,911
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $67,702 – $88,223
With a 2.4% Increase: $66,725 – $86,949
With a 3.5% Increase: $67,442 – $87,883
Percent of Federal Work Force 11.2%


GS Pay Grades: GS-13
2008
Salary:$77,488 – $100,972
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $80,510 – $104,910
With a 2.4% Increase: $79,348 – $103,395
With a 3.5% Increase: $80,200 – $104,001
Percent of Federal Work Force 10.0%


GS Pay Grades: GS-14
2008
Salary: $91,566 – $119,312
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $95,137 – $123,956
With a 2.4% Increase: $93,764 – $122,175
With a 3.5% Increase: $94,771 – $123,488
Percent of Federal Work Force 4.9%


GS Pay Grades: GS-15
2008
Salary: $107,709 – $140,021
2009
With a 3.9% Increase: $110,252 – $145,482
With a 2.4% Increase: $110,294 – $143,522
With a 3.5% Increase: $114,154 – $144,922
Percent of Federal Work Force 3.2%



I'd personally think the actual cost estimate of the pensions should be doubled because they will have continued Cost of Living Adjustments, so call it $30K/annually for Pensions and Health Care, and another $2 - $5K for potential bonsues, so $32 - $35K on top of base pay, + holidays,

http://www.opm.gov/flsa/oca/09tables/pdf/saltbl.pdf
http://www.govcentral.com/benefits/articles/2374?page=2
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-20-pensions-cover_x.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31710-2004May16.html Bonuses
http://www.publicpurpose.com/gf-gemp.htm
http://sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com/2008/08/37000-contract-employees-in-ic-cost-66.html


Can't neglect contractors who should be considered as being government employees when discussing the average compensation of public sector employees.


http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/commentary-mainmenu-43/1057
 

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ViRedd

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Don't forget to add in what they can steal ... and that's not counting the bribes and money saved on not paying taxes. :lol:

Vi
 

max420thc

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it looks like most government employees make more than the people who slave to pay their wages.
you know what . anytime a group of people at the rate of 98% vote their hand into the public pocket i say they all can go fuck themselfs. even the 2% who didnt .
 

what... huh?

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Found this, thought it was awesome, gave it a bump.


Well thought out TBT.


A very wise friend of mine once said that every successful society in history was underpinned by a slave society. In Western Europe, right now, it is the middle easterners... Pakistanis being the majority. In the US, he would argue it is the Mexicans. His philosophy was that of classism, but a special class of near slave labor. It gave me pause. I bring it up only to suggest it might not just be rep/demo... but inherently... inhumanly human.
 

Operation 420

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Awesome thread TBT. This is basically what I was trying to say in Med's "Right or Left" thread, but you nailed it.
 

NoDrama

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WOW 1/2 of govt employees make significantly more than I do. I own a house, 2 cars and a pickup truck, have 2 kids and a GF and own it all free and clear. Damn Gubbermint employees must all live in mansions and drive Porsche's and Mercedes'. Kinda pisses me off!!
 

TheBrutalTruth

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Found this, thought it was awesome, gave it a bump.


Well thought out TBT.


A very wise friend of mine once said that every successful society in history was underpinned by a slave society. In Western Europe, right now, it is the middle easterners... Pakistanis being the majority. In the US, he would argue it is the Mexicans. His philosophy was that of classism, but a special class of near slave labor. It gave me pause. I bring it up only to suggest it might not just be rep/demo... but inherently... inhumanly human.
That it is human nature to desire control over others?

:: shrugs :: You may be right, but at the same time the benefit of civilization was supposed to be humanity leaving its caveman roots and moving forward technologically and scientifically. If you are right then we are actually regressing again after over 500 years of progress.
 

what... huh?

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Could be said that for progress to happen, those roles must be taken. Personal motivation and circumstance seems to bring the same traits out, no matter who is in power, or who is not. Perhaps this is why history repeats itself.

Nature is omnivorous. We are made to consume. We are the best consumers on the planet. We use the resources available to us to better sustain ourselves. Ever known real wealth? I don't mean yours, I mean someone who was truly wealthy. The only ones I have known were workaholics... or married to one. They do not have slaves to do their work... they have them do what they don't have time to. We expect the rest of the natural universe to work outside of our scheme, because we have reason.

We are part of the natural order. We are probably not it's greatest achievement.

All that is human achievement was born of hierarchy.

I don't believe in that many coincidences.
 

TheBrutalTruth

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So your alternative is... anarchy?
The problem with your statement is that you just stated that it is human nature to adopt hierarchical systems, and thus anarchy would simply mean that the State is no longer granted a monopoly on the use of force, fraud and coercion to control people.

Your statement also ignores the fact that anarchy is not likely to occur simply due to the dissolution of the Federal Government, and restoration of the states to their dominance of their own destinies.

If one state wants to try Socialism then they would be allowed to try Socialism (and fail miserably) if another state wants to try Pure Capitalism then they would be allowed to try Pure Capitalism. Instead of the unAmerican system of a Federal Government that ignores the historical basis of the United States as a collection of autonomous sovereign territories the system that the founders established would be reinstated.

There is no need, and it is extremely wasteful, for the states to surrender money (outside of mutual defense) to the Federal Government for it to be sent back down to them through the chain of bureaucrats, politicians and other imbeciles who consistently pretend to be offering services when all the services they provide are things that the states would be in a better position to provide due to their proximity to the people they are actually governing.

The continual misuse of the General Welfare and Necessary and Proper clauses is the symptom of mass stupidity on the part of the politicians that are elected. The federal government was meant to be clearly defined and have very limited sets of powers.

The first eight amendments concern themselves with restrictions on the federal government (what it can not do) and the next two further restrict the powers of the Federal by stating specifically that outside of the limited enumerated powers granted the Federal Government the States are free to govern themselves as they see fit.

The misuse of the ability to regulate interstate commerce is another failure to limit the Federal Government, as the power was not intended to allow the Federal Government to tax items that were being traded amongst the states (and thus interfere with and restrict interstate commerce) but to ensure that the states were not arbitrarily waging internecine economic war against each other using tariffs, quotas and other limitations on each other's agricultural and industrial products.

More importantly is the fact that the Constitution has been corrupted since the passing of the 16th Amendment which altered it in such a way that it no longer matches what the founders intended. This is provable when one considers that the founders specifically stated that all taxes had to be apportioned by capita when levied upon the states at a federal level.

No one wants "anarchy", in the true meaning of the term with no hierarchial rule, what we want is a minimalist federal government and for the states to be restored their autonomy and sovereignty over themselves. There is also the need to restore the rights of individuals to be self-governing, and free from undue coercion, theft and graft being placed upon them by the Federal Government, which increasingly resembles more the mafia and other criminal groups, then an actual government that is content to allow people to enjoy their natural rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, which naturally includes property rights.

The continued intervention by the government (at any level) does not actually encourage economic growth, but retards it. The intervention of the government in health care has caused prices to increase faster than inflation since such intervention took place.

The failure of the United States to remain true to the ideals presented in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal, and thus should be equal before the eyes of the law is evident in the system of taxation that we have, which punishes hardwork, discourages investment (due to taxing capital gains, dividends and interest payments.) Instead of treating everyone equally, and expecting everyone to contribute to society the system that we have forces those that produce to feed those that act like parasites.

The modus operandi of the government is that of the mafia, it uses extortion to collect protection money from every individual regardless of their personal wishes, and then gives that money to their friends and family. Like any organized criminal enterprise the best way to describe it is like a bacterial infection (gangrene perhaps), a viral infection, a fungal infection or a parasite infection (worms.) It slowly steals more and more nutrients from its host until the host dies. Like such parasitical entities it will die when its host does. Unfortunately, unlike such infections, it has the ability to pretend that it is doing the host a service by killing them slowly for its own benefit.

To throw quite a few Andrew Jackson quotes out there.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Limited taxation (the lower the taxes the more empowered the people)

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Corruption in the House, and it hasn't changed, because they still trade influence for votes, and thus peddle their influence like two bit hacks and frauds instead of attempting to serve the best interests of the entirety of the nation.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
Another event that has came to pass, and is a result of the federal government attempting to dictate to all the states what they must or must not do. It is absurd to believe that the federal government should be entrusted with the power to dictate to all 50 states and thus permit extremists to force the entire nation onto paths that they oppose.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
I guess that means its no longer worth defending, because it no longer is administered for the good of the people, but for the good of just some of the people. The ignorance of the government when it comes to the desires of all 300 million citizens is total. The ideology of socialism that dictates that government should try providing this, that and the other to all people is absurd, as it ignores the fact that providing all these services via theft, coercion and threat of force (taxation) it ignores what is truly good for the portion of the population that is stuck paying the taxes, and only benefits those that are not, and the bureaucrats that work for the government.

Instead of a government of the people, by the people, for the people we have seen our government morph into a government of itself, by itself, and for its own benefit, and the way it measures that benefit is by how much power it has to dictate to everyone.

I'm still waiting for the federal government to start regulating how long you can piss, what color it must be, and the urea content of it.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Arguments against paper money (it leads to corruption, and hands to much power over to the banksters.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
Self-governance, not the sheepled behavior being exhibited by those that seek to bowdown and scrape before the government and allow it to dictate every small aspect of their lives, because they lack the courage, perseverence and will-power to govern their own lives.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Equal rights, and equal laws would mean that there is no regressive taxation system that punishes hardwork and investment in learning new and better marketable skills. The idea that society can be served by punishing those individuals that will contribute the most by producing goods and services (wealth) for the consumption by the rest of society is a blatant perversion of logic. Society is best served by making sure that goods and services are readily available and thus the prices are sufficiently low enough that everyone can readily afford them. To argue that companies should be limited in how much they charge either upwards of downwards ignores that people can make up their own minds by comparing different goods and services and different price points. More importantly is that such taxation actually punishes those at the bottom the most, because they must be passed onto the consumer less the businesses that pay them lose their profitability, and thus the motivation for the owner to continue operating them, depriving everyone of the goods and services produced.

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
Perhaps Jackson was prescient, under Lincoln the states were forcably made to remain in the union, and were forced to surrender their sovereignty and their rights.

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
No deficits, and limited federal government.
 

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My question of anarchy was to the "fuck the government" guy. I assumed that applied to state and local as well.


And to whom do you appeal to when your state becomes rogue, unbound by the constitution in what appears to be a dissolve of federal government? We need a united body. The framers were absolutely correct in this... otherwise we will war with each other... and states will be accountable to none.

Do you disagree?
 
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