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If you live in Georgia like I do, dont forget to stock up on beer.  Our government says that we cant buy alcohol of any sort, including beer on Sundays at stores and then take the drinks home to consume them.  Of course, we are allowed to pay several times more and purchase our drinks at a restaurant or bar, allowing for a situation where someone could get behind the wheel of  their car and hurt someone.

I dont understand why the government will not allow people to purchase a product that is legal on select days of the week.  It makes no sense.  A great man once told me that “any business outta be able to sell any product that is legal to anyone of legal age at any time that they want.”

Our governor says that Georgians should “plan ahead” and buy beer on Saturdays.  This is absurd.  If we followed his logic, then someone could argue that alcohol should only be sold one day of the week (or even one day of the year). I do not understand why the government still has the blue laws on the books. Apparently Georgia’s state legislature is about to vote on a measure that would allow voters in individual counties to decide whether or not it should be legal to sell alcohol on Sundays.  Lets hope they give** us the freedom to purchase legal products any day that we choose.

**Governments do not “give” freedoms.  They can only take away freedoms.  They do this often in the name of the “public good” or in the name of “protecting the citizens.”

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Phred Barnet

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Phred Barnet

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People were asking me questions about where I heard that the bailout could end up costing $4 trillion.  Here is an article from CNN.com which was a source of mine.

We have thrown unprecidented amounts of money at this problem which would have eventually worked itself out without government meddling.  If that wasnt bad enough, now even our government is admitting that they “may never know whether the government’s $700 billion bailout of the financial industry worked.”  Ironically, the report was issued by the General Accountability Office… wow

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Phred Barnet

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I dont even think I need to comment on this.

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Phred Barnet

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There has been a lot going on lately and Ive been too busy to write, but Im gonna try to catch up today.

I want to begin by talking about the “stimulus” that Obama is pushing and has passed both the House and the Senate in different versions.

Less than a week after President Obama declared an end to partisan bickering, he failed to get even a single Republican vote on his “stimulus” bill.  Even 11 Democrats voted against the hyper-expensive $819 BILLION bill.  To put that in perspective, $819 billion is more than the total amount of US currency in circulation!  The $819 billion also exceeds the cost of the Iraq War by over $200 billion dollars.

Apparently, Democrats and Republicans are negotiating a compromise that will cost around $900 billion dollars (thats a cost of $3000 for every single American man, woman, and child).

On top of this, Obama has requested $350 billion from the second half of the TARP program.

And Obama’s administration is considering requesting an additional $1-2 Trillion for a similar bank and mortgage bailout program.  Meanwhile, New York Senator Charles Schumer who is vice chairman of the Joint Economic Committee says that the government may need $3-4 Trillion for this program.

Lets add up the “worst case scenarios.”  $900 billion for this new “stimulus,” $350 billion in additional TARP funding, and $4 trillion for this new program being proposed and we have a total of $5.25 trillion!  This would increase the size of the national debt by 50% and cost $17,500 per person.

And of course none of this has any guarantee of working.

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Phred Barnet

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