Charles Koch: I'm Fighting to Restore a Free Society

FredHayek wrote: To me at least, socially libertarians doesn't care if a person is trangendered and thinks they shouldn't be discriminated against. A social liberal thinks taxpayers should pay for the surgery.

Hmmmmmmm. I think you are transposing socially liberal with progressively brain dead like these wing nuts, but I take your point.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... nd-now.php

"POSTED ON FEBRUARY 26, 2014 BY PAUL MIRENGOFF IN DARTMOUTH
THREATS OF “PHYSICAL ACTION” AT DARTMOUTH, THEN AND NOW [UPDATED TWICE]
A collection of Dartmouth students who describe themselves as “Concerned Asian, Black, Latin@, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently-Abled students” have threatened “physical action” if the administrators do not respond to their list of demands. The list of demands is lengthy. Here are some of them:"...

FredHayek wrote: To me at least, socially libertarians doesn't care if a person is trangendered and thinks they shouldn't be discriminated against. A social liberal thinks taxpayers should pay for the surgery.

Damn Fred.

"In race to left, Dem candidates show support for taxpayer-funded sex changes

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/03/in-ra ... z2xsjIyPwn

FredHayek wrote: Bob makes a good point. With government spending so much, lobbying for contracts is a great way to make money. Some companies exist only to fulfill government orders and it is cheaper hiring a couple good lobbyists versus spending millions on nationwide public ad campaigns.

Thanks Fred. I do not generally use polls to support a point but I will make an exception here.

25% of Americans are brain dead and have no problem drinking swill. Some congregate here.

"Americans don’t paint a pretty picture of their public servants in the new national Reason-Rupe poll. Americans tell Reason-Rupe that 75 percent of all politicians are “corrupted” by campaign donations and lobbyists. And they say 70 percent of politicians use their political power to help their friends and hurt their enemies."...

http://reason.com/poll/2014/04/03/ameri ... oliticians

BlazerBob wrote:

Photo-fish wrote: We have the best Gov't that money can buy.

Yes we do and we always will as long as the gov has the power to dictate economic failure and success. The answer is to reduce the size and scope of gov.

An interesting way to look at this. Do the rich buy votes or do politicians sell them. This piece is about a dem but contrary to the stereotype some of you put me in, I know the problem is not limited to one party.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/ ... -landrieu/

..."Yet what often goes unnoticed or is, in fact, tolerated, is a different sort of corruption that is far more common than millionaires purchasing members of Congress. As Byron York wrote yesterday in the Washington Examiner, the ability of incumbent politicians to raid the public treasury for expenditures to buy the votes of certain constituencies is not only legal, it is the most decisive form of campaign finance available.

York went to Louisiana to report on the uphill reelection race of Senator Mary Landrieu, an ObamaCare supporting Democrat seeking reelection in an increasingly deep red state. Polls show her in a dead heat against likely Republican opponent Rep. Bill Cassidy. But, as York found out, a lot of people whom one would think would be working to defeat Landrieu—including at least one local GOP official—are backing her. Why?"...


oink, oink,oink

Photo-fish wrote: We have the best Gov't that money can buy.

A letter writer in the Denver Post attacked the Supreme Court decision to make it easier to donate to campaigns, parties, and PAC's, saying rich Republicans would have more power since they control the wealth.
Is this really true? Aren't the richest communities/zipcodes in Blue States? And aren't the richest Americans Democrats like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet? Aren't Red States usually in the bottom half of the richest states?

It's legalized bribery IMO.
I don't care what side of the aisle you vote for.

Photo-fish wrote: It's legalized bribery IMO.
I don't care what side of the aisle you vote for.

Or is it extortion?
Microsoft used to not donate to any political campaigns, but during the Clinton administration, they found themselves under attack by politicians who had recieved donations by their competitors.
Bill Gates and Microsoft saw the light and now donate to both parties.

www.newyorker.com/images/2014/07/21/cart..._058_a18266_p465.jpg

BlazerBob wrote: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1 ... 0515021286

"I have devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives."...

That's where the problem lies, you're assuming that the majority of the American people are willing to be responsible for their own success and to work harder to be more successful. Ask the Occupy bunch and the rest of the left and you'll discover that it's the Gubment's job to look after each and everyone of us, according to them we should each get an equal amount of gruel from the Gubment pot. Only the Glorious Leader and his hand picked members of the Proletariat are entitled to have more than the rest of us.

Remember if you're unhappy and/or poor it's not your fault, it's the evil corporations and the conservatives who are hogging all the wealth and keeping you down.