Americanly Yours

Sorry for the lack of updates. I have been sick most of the week and am just now starting to feel better…

The big news is the “stimulus” package that is about to be passed whether or not the American people want it to.

My friend Art sent me this article from the Wall Street Journal which talks about what all is included in the “stimulus.”  It is pretty ridiculous.

But on top of this, there are are some truly outrageous things in the bill.  Under the terms of the bill, illegal immigrants who have been working in this country illegally will be able to get a tax rebate check of $500 per person.  Seriously.

This bill also gives money to dairy farmers to take their dairy cows out of production in order to raise the price of milk and create a greater profit for the dairy industry.  This type of government intervention is not only wrong, it is very dangerous.  Remember that less that a year ago, there was a global “food crisis” going on in which hundreds of millions (if not billions) of people were on the verge of starving.  By paying farmers to not produce food and drink, our government is playing a very dangerous game.  But this is not a game.  This is real life.  If government intervention causes the price of food to go up, people could actually die.

Here is an interesting article from CNN that was sent to me by two of my friends, Squeak and Hawk (yes, I have a friend named Squeak and a friend named Hawk).  This talks about solutions that Libertarians have come up with to address the current [government manufactured] crisis.  I dont support all of them and there are at least two that I completely disagree with, but they are all better than what we are going to end up spending the money on.

I want to write more, but this is getting to be too long.  Ill have an article for yall tomorrow.

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Phred Barnet

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“Mother should I trust the government?”

NO!

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Phred Barnet

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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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