The Myth of Free Trade

Free trade doesn't exist as its a one sided deal. Products come in from other countries tariff free, American exports are either taxed or the importing nation's currency is manipulated to reduce the affordability of our products.

What is being missed, is that you cannot manage this problem without the threat of imposing a tariff to correct errant behavior of trading partners. Critics say this will start a trade war, but looking at trade deficits, we seem to already be the casualty of a trade war.
  
This is how it works. Raw materials and equipment flow across to Mexico tax free to build or supply factories in Mexico. In return, finished products manufactured in Mexico flow back to the US tax free. Raw materials have less value than finished goods, and the reason our trade deficit continues to grow. Meanwhile, Mexico exports its criminal class and poverty to the United States. The Mexican Government actually provides assistance their nationals to penetrate our border, and has consular offices in the US to help them access the US welfare state. In return, Mexican nationals send billions of dollars in remittances back to Mexico (money orders). So Mexico are actually making a profit on the poverty of their own nationals. What a great deal.......for Mexico.

Taxing the Rich and the "Booming" Stock Market

There is a difference between the Wall Street investment class and mid to small businessmen. The stockmarket reflects growth of international companies, and earnings from foreign shores. The stockmarket can be high, while US unemployment and economic stagnation enduring. What many misunderstand, are the differences between the investment class managing earnings and losses inside portfoliosm,  and businessmen trying to survive under the assault of the EPA, Obamacare, new Federal Income Taxes, and dealing with noncompetive Union wages. In addition,  businessmen are paying rising State and Local taxes and headwinds of endless regulations imposed at that level. All this is a minefield of risk, and businessmen are finding negotiating it isn't worth it. So, no one is building businesses or expanding their workforce.       Even GM (Government Motors) is building vehicles in China for that market, so that means less growth in US plants and US exports.

Warren Buffet specializes in tax shelters, which is why he is all for taxing the so-called rich.    Obama's tax policy drives huge amounts of capital into Buffet's coffers. Other analysts said the stock market was also being lifted by investors moving funds out of bonds and into stocks, as a result of bond yields falling. The stock market also rose in 2007, and there was no reason for it. History repeating itself.  

Obamacare Revisited

This HHS action is exactly what Obamacare proponents were saying all along (while the Obama regime denied it), that the ACA removes religious liberty. Allowing employers to offer limitations based on their conscience and faith, does not hinder or stop employees from pursuing additional coverage on their own, paying the modest cost themselves, or finding an new employer that covers these things. That status quo hinders no ones liberty. The Obama regime is simply trying to divide the opposition to make it easier to steamroll the remaining few opponents (by giving exceptions to some, but not all). Later in the campaign, they'll continue to destroy individual liberty with this relentless "progressive" socialist grinding wheel.

After religious liberty and the right to self defense is shredded, they'll come after free speech against their political opponents. They're doing it right in the open, and the media is in the tank making the case...i.e.,  that all this is for our "own good".   It is not American, to trust Government.  Our founders didn't, and our system of Government was designed to make it difficult for Government to impose its will on the American people. Please remember, centralizing authority in Washington IS NOT an American idea, but one born of monarchies, dictatorships, and Europeon or Soviet style socialism. A true American is ALWAYs skeptical of Government, and would never increase its power over individual liberty, regardless of any good intention.

 Jefferson told us to not speak of good men, but to bind them with the chains of the Constitution. When I say wake up, don't hide in third party movements. To oppose these Marxists, we've got to unite regardless of the differences we have. I'm talking to RINOs in particular, as the establishment Republican's campaign to purge conservatives from party leadership must stop. You must incorporate conservative views as an important part of the platform moving forward. Otherwise, the GOP is nothing but cold poridge.

Obama is a Socialist

Thomas Peterffy grew up in Socialist Hungary, immigrated to the US and became a successful broker. He knows first hand that Socialism robs individuals of their economic liberty and initiative to work and achieve.

The Democrats- A not so new political strategy.

William Z. Foster. He was the national chairman of the American Communist Party from 1933 until 1957. He died in Moscow in 1961 and was buried with honors by the Soviet government.

Toward Soviet America - 1932 William Z Foster, page 326
“A Communist world will be a united organization world. The economic system will be one great organization.

Toward Soviet America - 1932 William Z Foster, page 326
“In such a society there will be no tariffs or the many other barriers erected by capitalism against a free world interchange of goods.” Here we have free trade, and not fair trade.

Toward Soviet America - 1932 William Z Foster, page 316
“Among the elementary measures the American Soviet government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges and universities will be coordinated and grouped under the National Department of Education and its state and local branches.” Again socialists have the majority of faculty within our institutions, colleges, university's, and public schools. See public school indoctrination comments found on this site. We of course now have a Federal Department of Education.

Toward Soviet America - 1932 William Z Foster, page 334
Quoting Stalin
“The principle of capitalist competition is defeat and death for some and victory for others. The principle of Socialist competition is, comradely assistance to those lagging behind the more advances, with the purpose to reach general advancement.” What more can I say about the take over of GM, Government Motors, the bailouts of banks, and the take over of the Healthcare industry, and the coming takeover of energy and manufacturing under Cap and Trade.

Toward Soviet America - 1932 William Z Foster, page 308
“The Russian woman is also free in her sex life. When married life becomes unwelcome for a couple they are not barbarously compelled to live together. Divorce is to be had for the asking by one or both parties.” Isn't this a reflection of our current post modern society today?

Toward Soviet America - 1932 William Z Foster, page 290
“Naturally the American Socialist industry will be operated upon the basis of a planned economy.” The Government, under aforementioned stimulus plans, now seek to control not only US manufacturing (production), but the means of production and who gets access to capital. Taxes will redistribute money from those who earn it to those who the Government prefers based on political favor and orientation.

Toward Soviet America - 1932 William Z Foster, page 321
“Capitalism blames crime upon the individual, instead of upon the bad social conditions with produced it.” This certainly reflects the lack of personal responsibility for ones own economic condition in our current post modern society. Work is no longer a requirement of economic reward in our evolving economy. A retail worker inside an air conditioned perfume counter will have the equivalent pay as a steel worker operating 500 feet off the ground, a road worker toiling in 100 degree heat, or oil rig workers facing dangerous working conditions. Equivalent pay for less strenuous and dangerous work will eventually insure no one will want to do it.


Toward Soviet America - 1932 William Z Foster, page 317
“The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become . . . truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as will as from the schools.” Already done.

Toward Soviet America - 1932 William Z Foster, page 303
“Attempts to maintain the capitalist white chauvinism and ostracism of the Negroes will be punished as a serious crime.” Although this statement may be dated, its meaning is clear to me. Hate crime law will eventually chill, then outlaw speech under the guise of hate. See my article on hate crime and its deleterious effect on free speech of all kinds. White guilt has driven this, see my article below, or here

ObamaCARE

I recently had a discussion with Dr. C.L. Gray, the Doctor who runs the “Physicians for Healthcare Reform advocacy group. He mentioned a chilling story of a woman under the Oregon state health care system that was fighting cancer. Instead of the chemotherapy that she needed, she was given two options by the bureaucrats who run this system…..1. Hospice care… or….get this…are you sitting down? Option number “2”was Doctor assisted suicide. Yes, believe it or not, they not only invited her to off herself, but compassionately offered to pay for it. This sounds like a fantasy script from the popular series, the Twilight Zone, but unfortunately this sad story isn't make believe.

This is ObamaCare. You will not like it. The choice to live or die will no longer be yours or God’s, it will be the Messiah Hussein and his Government bureaucrats. Read more about our future….its already here. While you're there, also read more about proposed alternate solutions for reform.

Poor Wilber, Live with Joe the Plumber

Joe and Poor Wilber discuss common points of view. Without economic freedom, there is no freedom.

What will you do with your freedom?

The siren of a compassionate Government, to take care of every need sings once again of utopia. How long, dear Jesus, will men and women fall for this vision, an illusion that forges the iron fist of tyranny. “Change we can believe in”, “the audacity of hope”, “yes we can”…its all been said before, repainted, repackaged, and resold, to our peril.

America must decide if fear will let the tyrant rule, or will they take charge of their personal lives and say no to this tyrant. We can do for ourselves. That is the fundamental difference between the rationing and lack Government management provides, and surpluses and prosperity that free men acting in their own interest provides. There is no more powerful force than free markets, finding efficiencies through pursuit of profits.

Free markets must be regulated, not to hamper their forces, but to pluck out the corrupt that produce products that do not measure up to the value they advertise. Where money and power exist, corrupt men and women exist. So it is true with Government, until the money is gone.

Before we enter into the era of big Government, let us learn again the lesson of the Soviet Union. Here, we had a country, a worker's nation, that tried to provide housing, education, healthcare, without the power of free markets. Using the currency of their Christian heritage and work ethic, it worked for a time. Then the great experiment in socialism started to crumble as the forces of corruption made some in that society more valuable than others. The highest value assigned by the Government were to those who promoted the socialist state, not the workers, engineers, scientists, doctors, farmers, and others who made value out of raw materials. The average Soviet began to see how fruitless it was to work hard, because no benefit of that labor ever returned to them or members of their family. They used to have a joke about the Soviet socialist State, “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work”.

There is the failure of socialism, and its built-in and certain. A man will do more for himself than he will do for the greater good of any State. Those who claim to concern themselves with the greater good of the State are the political commissars who take the best for themselves, while they use the whip of State power to beat their worker classes to death. Eventually, the worker will quit or die, as the socialist state has killed any motivation to work. All that’s left to motivate in such a State is fear. The pretty words, ‘each according to his ability, each according to his need” never addressed the needs of the human spirit.

Although Obama is a charismatic figure, let us not fall for this again. As age creeps into my bones, I can do little but call out the alarm that the Socialists are coming. They are riding hard in our direction, and once again American patriots must ride out to meet and stop them.