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Vol 08 No 05 Liberty ViewsLetter 01-28-2012

2012-01-28T21:55:00.000-08:00

Vol 08 No 05 Liberty ViewsLetter 01-28-2012

Eighth Year, Issue 311

The announcement of Liberty ViewsLetter goes to 628 up 14 subscribers last week

We invite your comments and feedback. We invite your submissions; articles you have read. Send us a link. Or you can send us something you have written yourself.

Managing Editor Chuck McGlawn Chuckest@aol.com

Contributing Editors

Walter Clark/Paula Clark

Chuck McGlawn

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Congratulations, if you are reading this you have successfully responded to and navigated your way to the Fifth issue of our new Liberty Views Website. The format will be much the same as before. Our major sections will be LibertyViews Where we present an abbreviation or Quotes From Commentaries from reliable sources with links to the FULL ARTICLE. Starting with the lead article, that we call Your Must Read for the Week. The NewsViews where we will present an abbreviation or Quotes From Liberty significant news articles from very diverse sources with links to the FULL ARTICLE. We will also continue to include ChallengeViews, WordViews, ReaderViews, AnnounceViews and Audio/VideoViews. There is another element, least important but most demanding, that being called PersonalViews. Each element is separated by a joke, a quote or some interesting trivia. Please Read on…

LibertyViews

Your Must Read For The Week Reducing Real Output by Increasing Federal Spending by Dwight R. Lee
The belief that by spending more, the federal government can revive the economy by increasing aggregate demand is an example of the triumph of hope over experience. Many people excuse the recent failures of such stimulus spending with the claim that the spending simply wasn't large enough. This demand-side view is oblivious to the supply-side reality that demanding more does no good unless more has been, or will be, produced. The logic of this reality explains why trying to increase aggregate demand through increased federal spending is not the key to stimulating the economy. The problem is not that aggregate demand is unimportant—it is very important. The problem is that increased real aggregate demand is the result, not the cause, of an increasingly productive and prosperous economy
I invite, encourage, entice, influence, pressure, persuade, cajole, coax, plead, request can I demand? Or would a threat of bodily harm move you to read FULL ARTICLE at http://tinyurl.com/LibertyViews-MustRead311 This is NECESSARY INFORNATION, making it a MUST READ. This article is “Chuckfull” very basic information and analysis. GET THE FACTS CONTAINED IMPRINTED ON YOUR MIND. THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND AND BE READY TO PRESENT COGENT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SUBJECT. READ THE FULL ARTICLE and then FORWARD IT TO EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAILLIST.

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One day my housework-challenged husband decided to wash his Sweatshirt. Seconds after he stepped into the laundry room, he shouted to me, "What setting do I use on the washing machine?"
"It depends," I replied. "What does it say on your shirt?"
He yelled back, "University of Oklahoma."
And they say blondes are dumb...

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PersonalViews. Next Week

Ron Paul for President 2012.

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If a tree fell on a mime, would he make a sound?

A couple is lying in bed. The man says, "I am going to make you the happiest
woman in the world." The woman replies, "I'll miss you..".

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ChallengeViews Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet,
that begin with the letter "s." John Foster was first with: sox, shoes, sandals, slippers, sneakers, swim fins, skates, skis, snowboard, snow shoes

This Week’s Challenge. There is only one vegetable that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it? Send your answer to Chuckest@aol.com . Answer posted next week.

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ReaderViews Place your ReaderViews in Comments on the blog.

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs Helping Drive Job Growth In The U.S.

by Resources for Entrepreneurs Staff 1/27/2012

Report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Immigration Policy Center reveals that immigrant businesses create jobs and strengthen the U.S. economy.

A joint report released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) points to the importance of immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.S. economy and initiates calls for policymakers to shape legislation making it easier for global entrepreneurs to launch businesses in the U.S.

"There is very little disagreement among researchers and experts that immigrant entrepreneurship is a powerful and valuable asset to America's economic future," said Benjamin Johnson, executive director of the American Immigration Council. When new immigrant workers and consumers are present in a local community, businesses expand and additional jobs are created. The IPC points out that immigrants and native-born workers typically don't compete in the same job markets due to differences in education, occupations and other factors. Instead, the two labor forces complement each other, raising the productivity and wages of native-born workers. Read the FULL ARTICLE at, http://tinyurl.com/LibertyViews311a

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To do is to be. -Descartes

To be is to do. -Voltaire

Do be do be do. -Frank Sinatra

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Quotes from (All emphasis added)

Repeal Alabama's immigration law By Raul Reyes

All the unintended consequences that forced lawmakers to backtrack on the law.

Agriculture industry. Farmers face a crisis because migrant workers have fled the state, and U.S. workers haven't filled the gaps.--- Officials are considering using work-release prisoners to fill the jobs.

Business reputation. A Mercedes-Benz executive was arrested for driving without proper identification required under the new law.--- Two weeks later, a Honda official was ticketed for driving without a proper license.

Legal residents. Renewing a state license requires proof of citizenship. Causing long lines at courthouses and city halls, which equals lost hours of productivity.

Local businesses, schools and clinics. As many undocumented workers and their families have fled Alabama, businesses that catered to them have closed, depriving the state of tax revenue. --- Alabama's undocumented population collectively paid $130 million in state and local taxes in 2010. --- The Alabama Department of Education reports that hundreds of Hispanic students have stopped going to school since the law took effect. Read the FULL ARTICLE at http://tinyurl.com/Immigration-LibertyViews311B

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Q: Why do little boys whine?
A: They are practicing to be men.

Q: What does it mean when a man is in your bed gasping for breath and calling
your name?
A: You did not hold the pillow down long enough.

Q: How do you keep your husband from reading your e-mail?
A: Rename the mail folder "Instruction Manuals"

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Audio/VedioViews Next Week

Ron Paul Highlights at the Republican NBC News Debate in Florida

http://tinyurl.com/LibertyViewsRon-Paul311A

Ron Paul Highlights of 1/19/2012 CNN Debate

http://tinyurl.com/LibertyViews-Ron-Paul311C

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A man and his wife, now in their 60's, were celebrating their 40th wedding
anniversary. On their special day a good fairy came to them and said that
because they had been so good that each one of them could have one wish. The
wife wished for a trip around the world with her husband.
Whoosh! Immediately she had airline/cruise tickets in her hands.
The man wished for a female companion 30 years younger... Whoosh...immediately
he turned ninety!!!

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More LibertyViews: Just a headline, a grabber and a link.

Ethnic Entrepreneurs Written by Nidhi Ann Raj for Gaebler Ventures

When millions of immigrant entrepreneurs set up business, they face challenges. Despite that, they boost the economy of their host countries. http://www.gaebler.com/Ethnic-Entrepreneurs.htm

Spend a $2 bill at Starbucks on Feb. 14 by Robert Farago Truth About Guns (01/25/12)

Reward Starbucks for its letter-of-the-law firearms policy. Buy something with a two dollar bill on Feb. 14th http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng

Thou shalt not covet by Jacob G. Hornberger Future of Freedom Foundation

President Obama says that people are poor because others are rich. What a crock that is. (01/26/12) http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-01-26.asp

NewsViews

Georgia bill would delay E-Verify for small businesses Associated Press
January 26, 2012 Reps. Glenn Baker (D-Jonesboro) and Mack Jackson (D-Sandersville) filed legislation that would extend the deadline before companies are required to use the federal E-Verify database to screen new hires. [The] plan would push back the database deadline for small companies with more than 10 but fewer than 50 employees from 2013 to 2015 . . . read more

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What do "Occasional Tables" do for the rest of the time?

Why isn't 11 and 12 pronounced "onety-one and onety two"?

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Georgia Democrats seek to repeal tough immigration law
Atlanta Journal-Constitution January 23, 2012
Democratic state lawmakers say they will seek to repeal parts of Georgia’s tough new immigration enforcement law . . . but the chances of such a repeal passing this year are slim. Georgia’s Republican-controlled Legislature overwhelmingly approved House Bill 87 in April before Republican Gov. Nathan Deal signed it into law in May . . . read more

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If a case of the clap spreads, is it then considered a case of the applause?

If soap makes things clean, why does it leave a scum?

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Iran is ready to return to nuclear talks Source: Southern California Press-Enterprise

"Iran is ready to revive talks with the U.S. and other world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, but suggested that Tehran's foes will have to make compromises to prevent negotiations from again collapsing in stalemate. Iran's insistence that it will never give up uranium enrichment -- the process that makes material for reactors as well as weapons -- scuttled negotiations a year ago and still looms as a potential deal breaker even as tougher Western sanctions target Iran's critical oil exports." (01/26/12) http://tinyurl.com/878ascb

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"It's just too hot to wear clothes today," Jack says as he ?stepped out of the shower, "honey, what do you think the neighbors would think if I mowed the lawn like this?"

"Probably that I married you for your money," she replied.

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More NewsViews Just a headline, a grabber and a link..

NY: Embarrassing "SHCOOL" sign replaced Source: Yahoo! News 01/25/11

"An embarrassing misspelling of 'school' is gone from the street outside the Manhattan building that houses three schools had been there since July 2010." http://yhoo.it/z2escq

Poland signs on to Internet censorship treaty Atlanta Journal-Constitution 01/26/12

"Poland signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, Hundreds of people took to the streets to express their anger over the treaty." http://tinyurl.com/6vpjubq

US seeks greater military presence in Philippines Source: MSNBC (01/25/12)

Expanding the U.S. military presence to counter China in the Pacific. RON PAUL NEEDED HERE. http://tinyurl.com/7vttw7d

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What do they call male meter maids? Meter butlers?

Why do they advertise the "World Famous, Secret Caverns"? Which is it, Famous or Secret?
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WordViews by Walt Clark

fiduciary fih-DOO-shee-AIR-ee (adjective) : Relating to the holding of something
in trust for another.

SYNONYMS:

property is the most general of words that means ownership; a word that for libertarians
almost defines what humans are

belongings are the temporary and portable version of owned things

holdings is close to fiduciary in that in a context of money means of value, closely
guarded

WORD WISE: Fiduciary comes from Latin fiduciarius, from

fiducia, "trust," and is related to faith and fidelity.

QUOTE: "Corporate boards, whose members are elected by share-

holders, bear the ultimate legal and fiduciary responsibility

for the company's performance."

--John Maggs, "Out of the Loop," National Journal, March 9,

2002

If your Goals require the initiation of force, then reevaluate your Goals.

Vol 08 No 04 Liberty ViewsLetter 01-21-2012

2012-01-21T05:42:00.000-08:00

Vol 08 No 04 Liberty ViewsLetter 01-21-2012

Eighth Year, Issue 310

The announcement of a new Liberty ViewsLetter goes to 616 up 2 subscribers

We invite your comments and feedback. We invite your submissions; articles you have read. Send us a link. Or you can send us something you have written yourself.

Managing Editor Chuck McGlawn Chuckest@aol.com

Contributing Editors

Walter Clark/Paula Clark

Don Patterson (Political Dividers)

Chuck McGlawn

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PreViews

Congratulations, if you are reading this you have successfully responded to and navigated your way to the forth issue of our new Liberty Views Website. The format will be much the same as before. Our major sections will be LibertyViews Where we present an abbreviation or Quotes From Commentaries from reliable sources with links to the FULL ARTICLE. Starting with the lead article, that we call Your Must Read for the Week. The NewsViews where we will present an abbreviation or Quotes From Liberty significant news articles from very diverse sources with links to the FULL ARTICLE. We will also continue to include ChallengeViews, WordViews, ReaderViews, AnnounceViews and Audio/VideoViews. There is another element, least important but most demanding, that being called PersonalViews. Each element is separated by a joke, a quote or some interesting trivia. Please Read on…

LibertyViews

Your Must Read For The Week The Golden Age of Libertarianism That Never Was By Nick Gillespie | January 18, 2012

To Frank, fears that government intervention into the economy and debt-fueled spending helped to cause and perpetuate the financial crisis are plainly “imaginary.” He believes that the economic “theories” America is currently embracing are hardcore austerity measures ripped from the playbook of Herbert Hoover, circa 1929.

Where to begin separating facts from opinions? For starters, it’s simply wrong to claim, as Frank does, that “the main political response to [the financial crisis of 2008] is a campaign to roll back regulation, to strip government employees of the right to collectively bargain, and to clamp down on federal spending.” Lest we forget, the major response to the financial crisis in 2008 was the bailing out of Wall Street and the auto companies under a conservative Republican president and the implementation of an $800 billion stimulus plan promoted by a Democratic president.
That’s not to mention a health-care reform package that was routinely described as “historic” and “transformational” at its passage. Ironically, such immediate, massive and — in the case of the stimulus — ineffective actions are in keeping with those of Herbert Hoover. After all, the stimulus failed to achieve any of the targets set by its proponents.
I invite, encourage, entice, influence, pressure, persuade, cajole, coax, plead, request can I demand? Or would a threat of bodily harm move you to read FULL ARTICLE at http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/18/the-golden-age-of-libertarianism-that-ne This is NECESSARY INFORNATION, making it a MUST READ. This article is “Chuckfull” of significant history and analysis. GET THE FACTS CONTAINED IMPRINTED ON YOUR MIND. THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND AND BE READY TO PRESENT COGENT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SUBJECT. READ THE FULL ARTICLE and then FORWARD IT TO EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAILLIST.

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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson

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PersonalViews Get your donations ready. The South Carolina Primary election is today Saturday. Since South Carolina is not a “cut the military” State, if Ron Paul comes in third it will be seen as a win. If it happens, then send him a message that you think he should continue by sending him a $100.00 check. If he is third place but within 999 votes from second place, that would be a big win. You then would want to send him a $200.00 check to pay for more ads in the Florida race. If he wins second place, that would be a huge win. Which means you will want to send $300.00 to pay for Florida ads exposing the front runners. If he wins the South Carolina Primary then send him $500.00 he will need extra money to defend himself from attack ads from the second and third place candidates. The only obstacle to a Ron Paul Nomination is Money and Newt Gingrich. If we take care of the money, Ron Paul can take care of Gingrich. Ron Paul for President 2012.

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A man goes into a drug store and asks the pharmacist if he can give him

something for the hiccups. The pharmacist promptly reaches out and slaps

the man's face. (Whack) "What did you do that for?" the man asks.

"Well, you don't have the hiccups now do you?"

The man says, "No, but my wife out in the car still does!"

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ChallengeViews What Letter Comes Next In This Series? W L C N I T?

What Letter Comes Next In This Series? John Foster was first with S for the word series.

This Week’s Challenge. Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet,
that begin with the letter "s." Send your answer to Chuckest@aol.com . Answer posted next week.

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A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan

Don't vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown Vote for Ron Paul he is not a them.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers

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ReaderViews Place your ReaderViews in Comments on the blog.

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The disingenuous “liberty isn’t the only value” attack by liberals and conservatives on libertarianism by Stephan Kinsella The Libertarian Standard
“In recent years and months, both Austrian economics and libertarianism have received increased attention and criticism. The more recent attention is probably in part due to Ron Paul’s visibility and his publicizing both types of ideas. I suppose it’s a good sign that they are no longer ignoring us. Now they feel compelled to respond. But it would be nice if they didn’t misrepresent and distort our views.” (01/18/12) tinyurl.com/6ty5wrg

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer

* The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. ~P.J. O'Rourke

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Restriction or Legalization? Measuring the Economic Benefits of Immigration Reform by Maureen T. Rimmer and Peter B. Dixon

A policy that reduces the number of low-skilled immigrant workers by 28.6percent compared to projected levels would reduce U.S. household incomes by about 0.5percent, or $80 billion.

legalization of low-skilled immigrant workers would yield significant income gains for American workers and households.

Legalization would allow immigrants to have higher productivity and create more openings for Americans in higher-skilled occupations.

T he positive impact for U.S. households of legalization under an optimal visa tax would be 1.27 percent of GDP or $180 billion.

The difference between the long-run welfare effects for U.S. households of the worst and best policies that we considered—that is, the income gap between the tighter-border-enforcement policy and the liberalized policy with an optimal visa charge is about $260 billion a year

See and read the FULL STUDY at http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/21069168

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In order to buy arsenic you need a legal prescription. A picture of your mother-in-law just isn't enough.

Entropy isn't what it used to be.

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Audio/VedioViews Next Week

Six Years Ago This Week:

Libertarian Candidates for Public Office in Orange County

US Congressional Districts

CD 40 - Philip Inman E-Mail inmanfield@adelphia.net
CD 42 – This guy is running almost unopposed. And there are a lot of good Libertarians in this district. We need a candidate!!!!!!!

CD 46 - Dennis Chang E-Mail dennis@tagstyle.com
CD 47 – Wouldn’t someone just love to run against “Loretta”???

CD 48 - Bruce Cohen E-Mail BruceDCohen2002@Yahoo.com

California Senate Districts

SD 34 - George Reis
SD 35 (special election) - James Fron E-Mail jamesfron@earthlink.net

California Assembly Districts
AD 56 - Richard Newhouse E-Mail GetNewhouse@aol.com
AD 60 - Anthony Watson E-Mail awatson@dollarsandsense.com
AD 67 - Hyman Crippen E-Mail hfactorc@verizon.net
AD 68 - Larry Allison

AD 69 - Autumn Browne E-Mail autumnbrowne@adelphia.net
AD 70 - Bob Booth bbooth100@cox.net
AD 71 - Vacant
AD 72 - Brian Cross E-Mail blcross@pacbell.net
AD 73 - Andy Favor E-Mail 4favors@cox.net

If you are a registered Libertarian and live in these Districts and haven’t signed their
candidate papers contact them and make arrangements to help them get on the ballot
with your signature.

Candidates in RED were recruited by Chuck McGlawn

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Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton

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More LibertyViews: Just a headline, a grabber and a link.

Opposing Imperialism Is Not Isolationism What Ron Paul's critics refuse to admit by Sheldon Richman | January 16, 2012 When pundits and rival politicians call Ron Paul an “isolationist,” they mislead the American people—and they know it.

http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/16/opposing-imperialism-is-not-isolationism

Rick Santorum v. Ron Paul on Constitutional Interpretation: Santorum Fail Ronald Bailey | January 20, 2012 However, you will not find the words "responsibility" or "responsibilities" in the text. You will find "right" and "rights" mentioned 10 times. http://reason.com/blog/2012/01/20/rick-santorum-v-ron-paul-on-constitution

Report: IMF seeking $500 billion funding boost BBC News [UK] (01/18/12)

The extra money could be used to help countries in the eurozone struggling to pay their debts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16616829

Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone interview by Michael Hastings

The protracted legal battle has left him isolated, broke and vulnerable. (01/18/12)

tinyurl.com/78tyeqv

NewsViews

After immigration crackdown, farmers mull planting By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press

Since the laws were approved last year, farmers in Alabama and Georgia have reported labor shortages because migrant workers aren't showing up and they say they can't find other workers to fill the jobs. Farmers and state officials have said that some produce was left to rot in the field last year because there weren't enough workers to help with the harvest. Some farmers said they might reduce the number of acres they plant or shift to less labor-intensive crops, while others are bracing for higher labor prices, growers aren't ordering seeds or new equipment because they anticipate a labor shortage. "Before this law, migrant workers would just show up. They knew when they were needed," Hall said. "That's not happening anymore."

In Georgia, some growers of the state's famed Vidalia onions are planting fewer acres of the labor-intensive crop, which could lead to a roughly 10 percent drop in production. The smaller crop will mean consumers will pay more for the prized sweet onions. said Bob Stafford, director of the Vidalia Onion Business Council. Read the FULL STORY. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jSUVeB0Qx8sXw6mkNj5NDf5l7D5A?docId=4ea798d1fa9a47fb996f5471e3f4b5e5

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You Know You Are Fat When

~ Your blood type is Ragu.

~ When you go to a restaurant, you don't get a menu, you get an estimate.

~ If you got your shoes shined, you'd have to take his word for it!

~ You have to put your belt on with a boomerang.

~ When I yell "Kool-Aid," you come crashing through the wall.

~ You could sell shade.

~ When you cross the street, cars look out for you.

~ When you turn around, people throw you a welcome back party.

~ You can't even jump to a conclusion.

~ You went to the movies and sat next to everyone.

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Missouri bill has first hearing Truman University IndexJanuary 19, 2012
At the bill's first hearing Tuesday before the General Laws Committee, Gary Wiegert, lobbyist for the St. Louis Tea Party, was the sole person to testify in support of the bill . . . Opponents like Vanessa Crawford, Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates executive director, argued at the hearing that making SB 590 law puts a greater burden on communities . . . read more

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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow

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Virginia lawmakers consider immigration measures Virginian-Pilot
January 18, 2012
A bill by Sen. Dick Black, R-Loudoun, would require police to check the immigration status of anyone they pull over for a traffic stop if the person cannot produce a driver's license or other proof of legal residency . . . Another bill, killed in subcommittee Tuesday, would have required public elementary and secondary schools to verify students' immigration status during registration . . . read more

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There's too much youth, how about a fountain of smart.

When you cross an elephant and a skin doctor you get a pachydermatologist

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More NewsViews Just a headline, a grabber and a link..

Farmers Brace for Changes Under Immigration Laws Fox News Latino 01/20/12

Farmers are changing plans for planting because of immigration laws in Georgia and Alabama will create work shortages. Read more: http://tinyurl.com/6smr2he

School officials question Missouri bill Joplin Globe January 16, 2012
School leaders to become "immigration police" http://tinyurl.com/876or66

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers

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WordViews by Walt Clark

enmity   EN-mih-tee  (noun): Hatred; ill will; hostile or unfriendly disposition

SYNONYMS:

animosity is an ongoing, or action oriented version of enmity

hostility is even more active than animosity in the hatred

rancor is more wishful than active, like enmity, but a more deep-seated, almost historical hatred

Use enmity when your first choice is hatred but it’s not as serious as animosity or hostility.

WORD WISE: Enmity derives from Old French enemistie,   ultimately from Latin inimicus, "an enemy," from in-, "not"   + amicus, "friend," from amare, "to love."

QUOTE: "In the course of our conversation he reverted to yesterday's aphorism about it being our joint task to guide our two peoples out of their old enmity into new amity."

--Charles Kessler (editor and translator), Berlin in Lights

This is not the end it is The Beginning

Begin to share some of this information with others.

Vol 08 No 03 Liberty ViewsLetter 01-014-2012

2012-01-14T07:53:00.000-08:00

Vol 08 No 03 Liberty ViewsLetter 01-014-2012

Eighth Year, Issue 309

The announcement of a new Liberty ViewsLetter goes to 614 up 12 subscribers

We invite your comments and feedback. We invite your submissions; articles you have read. Send us a link. Or you can send us something you have written yourself.

Managing Editor Chuck McGlawn Chuckest@aol.com

Contributing Editors

Walter Clark/Paula Clark

Chuck McGlawn

To subscribe, unsubscribe, comment or to submit, go to > Liberty ViewsLetter

PreViews

Congratulations, if you are reading this you have successfully responded to and navigated your way to the third issue of our new Liberty Views Website. The format will be much the same as before. Our major sections will be LibertyViews Where we present an abbreviation or Quotes From Commentaries from reliable sources with links to the FULL ARTICLE. Starting with the lead article, that we call Your Must Read for the Week. The NewsViews where we will present an abbreviation or Quotes From Liberty significant news articles from very diverse sources with links to the FULL ARTICLE. We will also continue to include ChallengeViews, WordViews, ReaderViews, AnnounceViews and Audio/VideoViews. There is another element, least important but most demanding, that being called PersonalViews. Each element is separated by a joke, a quote or some interesting trivia. Please Read on…

LibertyViews

Your Must Read For The Week Investment or Malinvestment?

Mises Daily: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Igor Karbinovskiy

Everyone makes decisions based on an ever-shifting scale of personal preferences — a kind of mental shopping list on which we list all options available to us that we're aware of, in order from most desirable to least desirable. Economists call this the "law of marginal utility." We choose that option we find most desirable — why would we ever pick an option that is less desirable than another (whatever "desirable" means to us)? I am not suggesting that every choice we make is made with our personal, selfish benefit in mind, at least not material benefit. I am simply pointing out that anything we do in the absence of coercion — even giving gifts — we do because we want to do it. So if we go into a store and choose one product over another, it is because we valued that product more than the other.

If we accept that some products are desirable and others aren't, then it follows logically that the real estate, equipment, labor, raw materials, and money involved in their creation are also either desirably employed or not. Anything invested in creation of goods that no one wants ("bads," really) is wasted — as was my time in writing the unwanted article — and should be reallocated toward creation of goods people actually want. On the other hand, assets invested in the creation of goods that everyone wants most urgently are clearly put to best possible use, and any effort to reallocate them toward any other use would result in a reduction in everyone's standard of living.
I invite, encourage, entice, influence, pressure, persuade, cajole, coax, plead, request can I demand? Or would a threat of bodily harm move you to read FULL ARTICLE at http://mises.org/daily/5864/Investment-or-Malinvestment This is NECESSARY INFORNATION, making it a MUST READ. GET THE FACTS CONTAINED IMPRINTED ON YOUR MIND. THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND AND BE READY TO PRESENT COGENT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SUBJECT. READ THE FULL ARTICLE and then FORWARD IT TO EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAILLIST.

PersonalViews “Ron Paul Can’t Win… by Chuck McGlawn 01/13/2012

“Ron Paul Cannot win the Republican nomination” DO NOT BELIEVE IT. The opposition doesn’t believe it. Because if they did believe it they would ignore him like they did in 1986, in 2008, and for as long as they could in the 2012 election cycle. The “ignore him, and perhaps he will go away” tactic is not working this time. You saw it, even John Stewart of The Daily Show saw it. When the news reports the results of the #1 candidate, the #2 candidate then the #4 candidate, and Ron Paul was the #3 candidate it is so obvious that it becomes joke material.

With every Republican President from Nixon, Ford, skip Reagan, Bush one and Bush two being a huge disappoint to the Conservatives you would expect them to embrace the one candidate with the most consistent message. With the flaw of every former Republican President being his ignoring the Constitution, you would expect Conservatives to embrace the one candidate that has twenty year a pro-Constitution voting record.

Look at the Anti-Paul line-up. That is supposed to be on “our side” Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Larry Elder, Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt. The Champions of Conservativism become the champions of hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy should be the “Kiss of Death” for Romney Gingrich and Santorum, but there they are growing in popularity, taking pot shots at the only truly Americanist in the race.

The “Anybody but Obama” mantra has been oversold. We now have millions of Conservative voters that can be maneuvered into a vote for Romney for fear that Ron Paul will not beat Obama. Give me a “he can’t get anything passed a Republican Congress” Obama over a “he is not the perfect Republican but we must support” McCain every time. I stand by that. The liberties of the American people were more protected by the ineffectual Obama than a trusted McCain.

Let me end with this; Michael Medved routinely tries to dissuade Ron Paul supporters any time one Calls his show. Hugh Hewitt did three hours of Anti-Ron Paul on Friday 13. He was taking only calls from listeners in South Carolina and Florida. If a caller supported Romney, Gingrich or Santorum he would take the call and perhaps correct some misconception the caller ay harbor. But as for their choice of candidates was never called into question, that is unless they were leaning toward Ron Paul or they were outright supporters. If he got a leaner he would undermine their reasons for their choice. If he got a Paul supporter and he couldn’t shake their support he would say they are throwing their vote away.

Do not be taken in by the “Ron Paul can’t win” crowd. Ron Paul for President 2012.

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A sandwich walks in to bar.
The barman says, "Sorry, we don't serve food in here."

A jumper cable walks into a bar.

The barman says "I'll serve you, but better not try to start anything."

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ChallengeViews There is a eight letter word that means a collection of tunes. = Melodies. Make that word singular and you get a girls name. = Melody, Remove the last two letters of the girls name and you get (phonetically) a word that means calm. = Melo, Remove the last letter and you get a man’s name. = Mel, Remove the last letter and you get a personal pronoun. = me Remove the last letter, and triple what is left and you get the sound you make when soup is good. = mmm. And jscoby11 was the first with the correct answer.

This Week’s Challenge. What Letter Comes Next In This Series? W L C N I T ? Send your answer to Chuckest@aol.com . Answer posted next week.

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What's Irish and sits outside in the summertime?
Patty O'Furniture!

An Impotent Loser is a guy who can't even get his hopes up.

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ReaderViews This feature my go defunct with the built in “Comment” section.

Dear Editor, "A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth." Albert Einstein

To Congressman Ron Paul, the only federal elected official who will stand up for America on the Congressional floor. Book Dedication.

I found these interesting openings to books by Jesse Ventura. I don't always agree with him, but at least he makes me think. I believe that if two people agree on everything, then one of them is unnecessary.

Margie G.

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Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says "I've lost my electron."
The other says. "Are you sure?" The first replies, Yes, I'm positive."

Adam to Eve: I'll wear the plants in this family!

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Ron Paul, Foreign Policy, and the Republican Mainstream by Jacob G. Hornberger One of the most fascinating aspects of the Ron Paul campaign is the standard reaction of his opponents to Paul’s foreign-policy positions. They say that Paul's libertarian foreign-policy views are outside the Republican mainstream. What is the Republican mainstream view on foreign policy? Here are its essential components:

1. Undeclared wars.
2. Wars of aggression — that is, wars in which the United States is the attacking nation.
3. Invasions and occupations.
4. Kidnapping.
5. Torture.
6. Rendition.
7. Indefinite military detention without trial.
8. Military tribunals.
9. Foreign aid, including to dictatorships.
10. An empire of 1,000 military bases in 130 nations around the world.
11. A national security state, consisting of a military-industrial complex, a standing army, and the CIA.
12. A conflation of government and country.
13. A “My government, never wrong” sense of patriotism.

Those are the things that characterize U.S. foreign policy within the mainstream of the Republican Party. Ironically, they also represent the views of President Obama and the mainstream of the Democratic Party. That’s what the mainstream in both political parties says America is all about and should be all about. Ron Paul and the libertarians stand against all those things. Read all at, http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-01-12.asp

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Take a closer look at Ron Paul

You’ll see he’s the best of them all

With big cuts in spending

Toward the deficit’s ending

He’ll prevent our economy’s fall

By Chuck McGlawn

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Immigration and American Jobs By Madeline Zavodny Dec. 12, 2012

Professor of economics at Agnes Scott College. mzavodny@agnesscott.edu

To better understand the potential for immigration policy to help rejuvenate the US economy, policymakers need answers to basic questions such as whether the foreign born take jobs from the native born or instead create more jobs, on balance, and what types of immigrants generate the most jobs for native-born workers.

Immigrants with advanced degrees boost employment for US natives. This effect is most dramatic for immigrants with advanced degrees from US universities working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

For every 100 H-1B workers added results in an additional 183 jobs among US natives. For every 100 H-2B workers added results in an additional 464 jobs among US natives. For every 100 H-2A lowest skilled workers added, the study found results were positive.

The analysis yields no evidence that foreign born workers hurt US employment. Even under the current immigration pattern do not indicate that immigration leads to fewer jobs for US natives.

Highly educated immigrants pay far more in taxes than they receive in benefits. In 2009, the average foreign-born adult with an advanced degree paid over $22,500 in federal, state, and Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA, or Social Security and Medicare) taxes, while their families received benefits one-tenth that size through government transfer programs like cash welfare, unemployment benefits, and Medicaid.

The findings here suggest that expanding the H-1B program for skilled temporary foreign workers would increase employment for US natives. Similarly, this study suggests that the H-2B program for seasonal, less-skilled workers leads to significant employment gains for US natives. But both these programs are severely limited under current law. Only 85,000 H-1B visas and 66,000 H-2B visas are available each fiscal year.

The debate on ways to increase employment has focused on government spending, tax cuts, and new training and education initiatives. One area that has received little attention for its job-generating possibilities is immigration policy. Too little has been done to identify incremental changes to existing immigration policy that could be made immediately and would boost employment and accelerate the country’s economic recovery.

Unskilled immigration has a small but positive effect on output, or gross domestic product (GDP). Immigration reduces the cost of labor-intensive goods and services. The foreign born boost invention and innovation, and they are more likely than US natives to start businesses.

Immigration appears to encourage US natives to upgrade their skills through additional education or training.

Studies indicate that immigration may have a small positive effect on Americans’ wages.

Read the FULL STUDY http://www.renewoureconomy.org/sites/all/themes/pnae/img/NAE_Im-AmerJobs.pdf

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Never be afraid to try something new. Remember,
Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.

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Audio/VideoViews Ron Paul on Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano

Ron Paul: Sen. Jim DeMint Is Helping Me Shift the Debate to the Issues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ojvPxZIpCc&feature=player_embedded

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I don't do drugs anymore 'cause I find I get the same effect just standing up fast.

Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

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More LibertyViews: Just a headline, a grabber and a link.

The income inequality myth by Michael D. Tanner Cato Institute

Americans fail to account for non-cash social-welfare benefits such as food stamps, housing subsidies, and Medicaid www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14003

Be careful what you wish for by Russ Roberts Cafe Hayek (01/10/12)

But this document will give you an idea of why Wall Street’s money flowed to this sector rather than elsewhere.” cafehayek.com/2012/01/be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html

Opposing imperialism is not isolationism by Sheldon Richman ." (01/12/12)

Future of Freedom Foundation "When pundits and rival politicians call Ron Paul an 'isolationist,' they mislead the American people, and they know it. Ron Paul is for unilateral, unconditional free trade. http://www.fff.org/comment/com1201h.asp

Give me a dozen examples by Bryan Caplan EconLog

"People often estimate probabilities based on how easy it is to think of examples. (01/12/12) http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/01/give_me_a_dozen.html

NewsViews

Report: Drug OD deaths rise fast Los Angeles Times

"The number of drug deaths in the U.S. continued to climb in 2010 .... The preliminary 2010 data do not show what types of drugs were involved in the deaths. But a Los Angeles Times examination last year of recent government data found that prescription drugs, especially painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs, accounted for more fatal overdoses than heroin and cocaine combined." [editor's note: How to bury the lead! it's well into the story when you first notice how Big Pharma- concocted poisons lead the list here - SAT] (01/11/12) http://tinyurl.com/8869zyz

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If life deals you lemons, make lemonade; if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.

You gotta break some eggs to make a real mess on the neighbor's car!

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SOPA: Reddit Confirms Jan. 18 Blackout; Wikipedia, Others May Follow

By Graeme McMillan | @graemem | January 12, 2012

It’s on — at least partially: Reddit has announced that it will go dark for 12 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said that he hopes to coordinate with the site so that Wikipedia does the same. Will other sites join in? Should we prepare for the Great Internet Strike of 2012?

Writing that it’s “not taking this action lightly,” Reddit announced on Tuesday that it will black out its site on Jan. 18 for 12 hours, starting at 8 a.m. E.T. During that period, the site’s content will be replaced with “a simple message about how the PIPA/SOPA legislation would shut down sites like reddit, link to resources to learn more, and suggest ways to take action.” The company will also run a live video stream of that day’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Internet security, intellectual property and economic growth.Read more: http://techland.time.com/2012/01/12/sopa-reddit-confirms-january-18-blackout-wikipedia-and-others-may-follow/#ixzz1jMBXI8H0

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If all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.

A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in
front of the other.

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Court limits E-Verify in Louisiana to new hires Houma Today 01/07/2012
A law passed in the last legislative session would have required that all contractors bidding on public jobs verify the immigration status of all their employees . . . but a lawsuit filed in October by the Louisiana Associated General Contractors contends that the new requirement violates federal laws, which say the electronic system is to be used for new hires, not existing employees . . . read more

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Women fake orgasm, because men fake foreplay.

Every ethnic joke starts with a look over your shoulder.

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More NewsViews Just a headline, a grabber and a link..

Study says every star has planets BBC News [UK] (01/11/12)

"Every star twinkling in the night sky may host at least one planet, 10 billion Earth-sized planets in our galaxy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16515944

SCOTUS says no to new rule on eyewitness testimony Christian Science Monitor
Court declined to create a new constitutional rule that would have required judges to test the reliability of eyewitness testimony. (01/11/12) http://tinyurl.com/73pyqrb

Study: Pot doesn't harm lung function Arizona Republic
"Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn't harm the lungs, suggests a 20-year study. (01/11/12) http://tinyurl.com/75lnquk

Warren Buffett, to match GOP donations to pay down deficit The Raw Story 1/11/12
Tycoon has challenged Republicans in Congress to make personal contributions to cut the US deficit, vowing to match their donations dollar-for-dollar http://tinyurl.com/6mp276x

FBI agent admits deleting emails amid terror probe Houston Chronicle (01/12/12)

FBI agent deleted emails covering several months of investigation, that reveal agents skirted interrogation rules regarding Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed. tinyurl.com/6nv5n39

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42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore I am perfect.

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WordViews by Walt Clark

vitiate  VISH-ee-ayt  (transitive verb) : To make faulty or imperfect; to render defective; to   impair; as, "exaggeration vitiates a style of writing."  To corrupt morally; to debase.

: To render ineffective; as, "fraud vitiates a contract."

SYNONYMS:

demoralize reduces rather than cancels and has to do with an attitude (confidence, morale) rather than

 a state

impair reduces like demoralize, but affects things of value other than confidence and morale.

void is a complete reduction like vitiate, but has to do with things that can be made to vanish rather be

 made just ineffective.

WORD WISE: Vitiate comes from Latin vitiare, from vitium, "fault." It is related to vice (a moral

 failing or fault),  which comes from vitium via French.

QUOTE: "Their religious convictions and conduct were held to be vitiated by hideous error."   --David Vital, A People Apart

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Vol 08 No 02 Liberty ViewsLetter 01-07-2012

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Congratulations, if you are reading this you have successfully responded to and navigated your way to the second issue of our new Liberty Views Website. The format will be much the same as before. Our major sections will be LibertyViews Where we present an abbreviation or Quotes From Commentaries from reliable sources with links to the FULL ARTICLE. Starting with the lead article, that we call Your Must Read for the Week. The NewsViews where we will present an abbreviation or Quotes From Liberty significant news articles from very diverse sources with links to the FULL ARTICLE. We will also continue to include ChallengeViews, WordViews, ReaderViews, AnnounceViews and Audio/VideoViews. There is another element, least important but most demanding, that being called PersonalViews. Each element is separated by a joke, a quote or some interesting trivia. Please Read on…

LibertyViews

Your Must Read For The Week The Bright Side of Ron Paul's Third-Place Finish in Iowa By Matt Welch

Reason magazine Editor in Chief Matt Welch says Rep. Ron Paul has seven reasons to be happy with his third-place finish in Iowa:

1) Paul more than doubled his vote over 2008, while Mitt Romney's stayed exactly the same. Seriously, Romney got 30,000 votes (25 percent of the total) in 2008, then 30,000 votes (25 percent of the total) in 2012. Paul vaulted from 10 percent to 21, from 12,000 votes to 26,000. His message of freedom, limited government, attacking the Federal Reserve, and ending wars foreign and domestic is undeniably on the grow.

2) Paul's delegate- and caucus-focused strategy means that he will likely punch above his electoral weight. The campaign focused not just on doing well at the caucus, but making sure Paul-friendly humans get nominated as county delegates, so that when the 25-delegate pie is eventually divvied up Dr. No will get more than projected. Paul has a nationwide focus on caucus states, which are more susceptible to concerted applications of supporter enthusiasm.

I invite, encourage, entice, influence, pressure, persuade, cajole, coax, plead, request can I demand? Or would a threat of bodily harm move you to read FULL ARTICLE at http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/04/the-bright-side-of-ron-pauls-third-place. This is NECESSARY INFORNATION, making it a MUST READ. GET THE FACTS CONTAINED IMPRINTED ON YOUR MIND. THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND AND BE READY TO PRESENT COGENT INFORMATION ABOUT WHY RON PAUL MUST BE YOUR FIRST CHOICE. READ THE FULL ARTICLE and then FORWARD IT TO EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAILLIST.

PersonalViews I like Ron Paul, but… by Chuck McGlawn 01/04/2012

This is a propaganda tactic dating back to at least to the loss by Robert Taft in 1952. You have already heard it. It was everywhere last week. You are going to hear it a lot more as the campaign gets more contentious.

Open your eyes to what is happening. The POWER of the Anti-Liberty movement is lashing out with all deliberate FORCE. [I put force in uppercase to remind you that the Liberty Movement spurns the use of force in all but defensive actions.] The opposition will be forced to expose their anti-liberty agenda with their actions. You are witnessing the exposure of the “Advocates of Freedom”. I am not talking about The Advocates of Liberty. (Read about the difference at http://libertyviews.blogspot.com/2011/12/liberty-vs-freedom-by-chuck-mcglawn.html)

You would expect liberal Democrats to oppose the message of Liberty delivered by Ron Paul. You are probably immune to their protestations, and ignore them as you toss them aside. It is the Conservative Republicans that are weaving this message into our sub-consciousness. We touched on the concept a bit last week when we said, “

It is as if the dinner bell rang and everyone came to the “Anybody but Ron Paul” table. Republicans, Conservatives, Democrats (some of them were already at the table, but many moved from the “Anyone but a Republican table”. They are all banging the knives and forks on the table to the “Get Ron Paul” rant.

Some of the surprise attendees at the table is the entire on air talent at KRLA “Intelligent Conservative Radio” 870 on your LA/OC radio dial. They include, (I have not listened to them all) Glenn Beck, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Huge Hewitt, and Dennis Miller. [Add to that group Hanity, Limbaugh, O’Riley etc.] (All because of his stand on Foreign Policy) [Read that as his Anti-Military Industrial Complex stand.]

With Ron Paul’s Strategic Victory in Iowa, it is likely the vitriol against Ron Paul will intensify. Expect the message to morph from, “Ron Paul cannot win.” Into, Ron Paul cannot beat Obama. Do not buy it. It is a political attempt to get you to choose anyone other than Ron Paul. You know, the lesser of two evils ploy.

Look at what happened, and then project it forward. Ron Paul spent his time in Iowa delivering his message, as he always does, and spent his money in Iowa on anti-Gingrich TV ads. (In my view, Gingrich is Ron Paul’s only real competition.) Gingrich dropped nine points from 23% down to 14%., largely from the Paul and Romney TV ads, and Gingrich wound up in 4^th place with 13% of the vote.

Mitt Romney is an empty suit, and he did what all empty suits do smile, shake hands, be positive and act presidential for the large crowds put together by his sizeable, highly paid campaign staff, and he also paid for anti-Gingrich TV ads.

Newt Gingrich, spent all of his time and money defending himself by saying, “Poor me, I am the victim of negative TV ad campaigning.” He was unable to present his formidable message. However, do not dismiss Gingrich. He is a campaigner, with an intelligent sellable message, and is the second choice after Romney by the establishment Republicans.

Rick Santorum went forth and delivered his social conservative message to a population that has more evangelical Christian, social conservatives than any State in the Union. The press has not filleted Santorum [and Romney]. He was winning votes at every stop, and in the last week I think he covered all 99 counties twice. If the caucus had been just one day later, Santorum would have beat Romney.

The other three also ran’s were just that, “Also Ran’s”.

If anyone other than Hunt, or Gingrich had pulled out of the race the on Monday the 2nd, Romney’s eight votes would not have been there to put him in the Winner’s Circle. For instance, if Bachmann, with 5% of the vote, had pulled out on Monday, several things would have happened: there would have been a small drop in the overall turn-out, Ron Paul’s vote count would gone up some. (Probably changing nothing) A larger number of her votes would have gone to Perry, (changing nothing) The largest number of her votes would have gone to Santorum, and he would have won in Iowa. Romney would have come in 2^nd. This would have put Romney #2 somewhere between 300 to 800 votes ahead of Ron Paul.

However, (stay with me here) If Perry, with 10% of the vote, had dropped out on Monday, the same dynamic would have worked its way through the results. But, Ron Paul would have gotten more of the Perry votes, and it is not outside the realm of possibility that it could have pushed Romney into 3^rd place behind Paul.

What a difference a day makes, Think about it, if both Bachmann and Perry had dropped out on Monday Ron Paul would have finished in first place, Santorum #2 and Romney a very disappointing 3^rd place, hurting his chances in New Hampshire.

Santorum will get a lion’s share of the Bachmann and Perry votes. But it would not help Santorum in New Hampshire. Bach and Santorum poll poorly in New Hampshire. Additionally, as of today Santorum does not have the money or organization to maintain his momentum through South Carolina, even though South Carolina is another one of the more evangelical Christian, social conservatives States. Even if he gets the money and organization he will be playing catch up in South Carolina and beyond. And, he is not even going to be on the ballot in Virginia. Therefore, if Ron Paul and Gingrich do more anti-Romney TV ads in New Hampshire Romney could be dead or severely wounded even before South Carolina. Toss into this mix that Romney’s negatives because of his Mormonism hurt him in South Carolina.

This is where you come in, hopefully with your checkbook in hand. I have waited forty-four years to say… (From the first time I voted in 1968 (age 29) for George Wallace until 2008 when I voted for Bob Barr) MY CANDIDATE RON PAUL HAS A CHANCE, A REAL CHANCE TO WIN. I have always worked hard for my candidate, but I rarely donated money, and I rarely tried to raise campaign funds. But that has all changed, because for the first time MY CANDIDATE HAS A CHANCE TO WIN.

For the first time the advocates if Liberty are in the driver’s seat. If Ron Paul can, with your financial help, knock Romney of off the #1 position in New Hampshire. The big government conservatives will have to play catch-up. And will have to spend two to three dollars maybe even four dollars to every one that Ron Paul spends. This means every dollar you send Ron Paul, the opposition may have to spend as much as four dollars, just to keep up. For every five dollars, you send to Ron Paul the opposition must spend as much as twenty dollars to keep up.

Gentle reader, now is the time to dig deep and dig often. Send Ron Paul a stream of One Hundred Dollar checks. Occasionally send Ron Paul a big one for $500.00. That will cause the opposition to have to spend $2,000.00 to keep-up. And, before this is all over, send one of those $1,000.00 checks. (I know it is mind boggling. But we stand at the crossroads. It could well be now or never.) Just think how good it will make you feel to know the opposition must spend $4,000.000 to keep up with you.

This brings me back to where we started in this PersonalView. Here is my suggestion, Join the Four To One Club. Every time you hear some political pundit (read that as propagandist) say, “Ron Paul cannot win” get out that check book and send a $5.00 check to Ron Paul for President 2012. Every time you hear, “Ron Paul cannot beat Obama” (This well be your signal that Liberty is even closer.), get out that checkbook and send a $10.00 Check to Ron Paul for President 2012.

If you do this, the opposition will not know what hit them. Every time they up the “Ron Paul Can’t Win and Ron Paul Can’t Beat Obama” campaign Ron Paul gets more money.

Last warning please do not let the opposition dissuade you with the Propaganda tool that, “Ron Paul Cannot win”, and “Ron Paul cannot beat Obama.” And lastly, do not talk yourself into the belief that Ron Paul cannot win or cannot beat Obama. To cure that negative thinking, every time YOU THINK, “Ron Paul Cannot win”, send a $10.00 check to Ron Paul. Every time YOU THINK, “Ron Paul cannot beat Obama”, send a $20.00 check to Ron Paul. Ron Paul for president 2012.

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More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska .

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.

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ChallengeViews A military collector was shopping with a friend when they found the following Medal:

To Captain Hendry
for Bravery, Leadership and Daring.
During WWI
from the Troops of the 8^th Battalion.

The friend said. “Do not buy it, it is a fake.” How did the friend know it was a fake? Justify your answer. Chuck Coker was first with: Before 1939, they would not have known that a second world war was coming in the future and would not have referred to the previous one with the number 1 at the end. Before 1939, WWI was called the Great War.

This Week’s Challenge. There is a eight letter word that means a collection of tunes. Make that word singular and you get a girls name. Remove the last two letters of the girls name and you get (phonetically) a word that means calm. Remove the last letter and you get a man’s name. Remove the last letter and you get a personal pronoun. Remove the last letter, and triple what is left and you get the sound you make when soup is good. Send your answer to Chuckest@aol.com . Answer posted next week.

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The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States .

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ReaderViews This feature my go defunct with the built in “Comment” section.

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Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.

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Ron Paul and the future of American foreign policy by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com "Rabinowitz and McQuaid and the rest of the hate-mongers, who come up with a fresh Enemy every time we knock off the old one, or tire of the task, know who their real enemy is -- and it isn't the President of Iran, or the Communist Party of China. It's those patriotic Americans who believe we ought to be putting the interests of Americans first -- and that the empire is an albatross hung around our necks." (12/30/11)

[You will want to read this to better understand why Ron Paul is in the cross hairs of virtually EVERONE.] Read it at http://bit.ly/vx4lSw

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Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica . This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.

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GOP Candidates Betray the Spirit of Reagan on Immigration by Daniel Griswold This article appeared on National Review (Online) on January 3, 2012.

Driven by a minority of activists in their party, the candidates have been drawn into an unhealthy competition to see who can sound the harshest in cracking down on low-skilled illegal immigrants from Latin America.

The party is losing out because the rhetoric brings us no closer to actually solving the problem, while driving away voters crucial to the party's long-term success.

Conservatives should be friendly to immigration, and the first to seek expanded opportunities for legal immigration. Immigration has been integral to America's free and open economy. Immigrants embody the American spirit. They are self-starters seeking opportunity to support themselves and their families in the private sector.

Current immigration is driven largely by demand and supply. Immigrants come when there are jobs available that not enough Americans are able and willing to fill.

Immigrants stimulate job creation for natives by promoting investment, creating new products and services, and increasing demand for housing and other goods. Immigration keeps America demographically healthy.

Study after study confirms that immigrants help to boost the productivity and incomes of native-born Americans.

A 2009 Cato Institute study by Peter Dixon and Maureen Rimmer calculated that legalizing low-skilled immigration would boost the collective income of U.S. households by $180 billion per year.

A new American Enterprise Institute study by Madeline Zavodny finds that an increase in visas for both high-skilled and less-skilled foreign-born workers actually creates a net increase in jobs for native-born workers.

If legal immigration were expanded, the kind of workers now sneaking across the border illegally would instead enter legally through established ports of entry. With far fewer workers entering illegally, the Border Patrol and local law-enforcement officers could concentrate their resources on apprehending real criminals.

Immigrants come to America to work, not to live off the welfare state. Their labor-force participation rates exceed those of native-born Americans.

Critics of immigration routinely exaggerate the cost of emergency-room care and public education for immigrants and their families. The cost of government services used by illegal immigrants is a small fraction of what government spends on middle-class entitlement programs, corporate welfare, and farm subsidies.

If conservatives are worried about social spending on immigrants, their aim should be to wall off the welfare state, not our country.

The demeaning rhetoric about unauthorized immigrant workers that emanates from conservatives is interpreted by many Hispanic citizens as a putdown of their culture. Republicans thus risk alienating potential Hispanic supporters, as well as more moderate non-Hispanic voters.

Spending billions more each year to enforce a fundamentally unenforceable law is not the conservative answer to illegal immigration. Immigration law needs to be changed in a way that better serves our economic needs, protects our security, and affirms our best values as a nation.

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Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village.

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.

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Audio/VedioViews Ron Paul: Mitt Romney is a Serial Flip-Flopper & Part of the Status Quo This interview was conducted just before the Iowa Caucus.

http://sgtreport.com/2011/12/ron-pauls-full-interview-with-bloomberg/

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Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.

Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.

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More LibertyViews: Just a headline, a grabber and a link.

From democracy to dictatorship by Becky Akers . 01/05/12

"With this legislation, America joins some of the modern world's most brutal dictatorships where people disappear. http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers174.html

Santorum's big-government conservatism Cato Institute by Michael D. Tanner

Santorum is deeply conservative on social issues. On size-of-government, Santorum's record is much weaker. 01/04/12 http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13978

The Ron Paul precedent by Justin Raimondo

"At every debate, and every campaign appearance, Paul is transforming the discourse.." (01/06/12) http://bit.ly/wsRVB8

The justice of economic efficiency by Hans-Hermann Hoppe Ludwig von Mises Institute "The central problem of political economy is how to organize society so as to promote the production of wealth, and to make it a just social order. (01/05/12) http://mises.org/daily/5726/The-Justice-of-Economic-Efficiency

The Brutality of Immigration Enforcement by Anthony Gregory

Independent Institute A fifteen-year-old Dallas girl was deported to Colombia. She spoke no Spanish and they didn’t check her fingerprints. (01/04/12) http://bit.ly/ygF2XX

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There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , everyone is manmade.

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia , at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.

NewsViews

Obama regime sets up new hotline for immigration abductees CNN

"In the latest volley between the federal government and states pushing
anti-illegal-immigration laws, the Obama administration announced Thursday
it was establishing a new hotline for immigration detainees who feel they
'may be U.S. citizens or victims of a crime.' The 24-hour-a-day, 7-days-a-week
hotline is part of a 'broader effort to improve our immigration enforcement process and prioritize resources to focus on threats to public safety...'" (12/29/11) Read the FULL ARTICLE at, http://tinyurl.com/6np2esm

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The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome , Italy in 133 B.C. There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.

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IA: Thorsen faces discipline after Paul rally speech Fox News

"Ron Paul boasts that he gets more fundraising dollars from military members than any other Republican presidential candidate, but the enthusiastic support of one enlisted man could get the supporter in trouble. Cpl. Jesse Thorsen spoke at Paul's post-Iowa caucuses rally ... But Thorsen, 28, a reservist who preceded his appearance at the rally with an interview on CNN, was wearing his fatigues, and that is a violation of military code." (01/05/12) http://tinyurl.com/6wdjxxz

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In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt , Algeria , which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.

Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island. There has been no rainfall there for two million years.[How do they know that?]

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LA: Inmate pleads guilty to threatening president Las Vegas Sun

"A 25-year-old inmate at a federal prison in Louisiana has entered a guilty plea to making threats against President Barack Obama and his family. U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley said Thursday that Carlton Norah entered the plea before U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi to one count of making a threat against the president. A sentencing date has not been set. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine." (01/05/12)

http://tinyurl.com/6tp2xag

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The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia . It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries, one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen - so massive that the mud coming from the hole was “boiling” with it.

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More NewsViews Just a headline, a grabber and a link..

US: Private hiring soars; seasonal issues cloud gain Reuters [UK]

December job tally of 325,000 surprised economists who had expected a gain of roughly half that size. (01/05/12) http://tinyurl.com/6lmjlxv

FL: GOP proposes felony charges for abortion doctors The Raw Story (01/05/12)

Rep.Charles Van Zant, R-Palatka, House Bill 1151 would shutter all abortion clinics and criminalize almost all induced abortions." http://tinyurl.com/6rbjr2s

NV: "Bunny Ranch" sex workers endorse Ron Paul The Raw Story

Workers at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel told KRNV that they are endorsing Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. (01/05/12) http://tinyurl.com/74t6g5l

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The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls .

Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A : 1%, in Canada : 75%

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WordViews by Walt Clark

milieu \meel-YUH\ noun: the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment, as in, “the quiet suburban neighborhood was the perfect milieu for raising a family.”
Synonyms:

· culture is the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought whereas milieu is the physical environment that affects that behavior pattern.

· society is usually interchangeable with the word culture but is less all encompassing stressing the social relationships among human beings.

· morés is less philosophical than culture and the sound of the word suggests that the important thing is there is a list of moral rules.

· gestalt is like milieu, in that there is a physical, biological, psychological, or symbolic configuration of elements but with a rather esoteric emphasis on the unification of the all the elements which is more than a sum of its parts.

· zeitgeist is the general intellectual and moral state or temper, characteristic of society. What distinguishes zeitgeist from the others is that it is a description of society of a specific period of time.

Wordwise:
This week’s words are aspects of human beings that make us different from animals. We make the environment, and we live in that environment. This environment is both physical, as in milieu, and interpersonal as in society. For me and perhaps most libertarians the ultimate question about human action is whether government is the skeleton upon which society is built upon, or whether it is a parasite that shows up to fill a paternalistic need we humans have. Can you have a little bit of government, or does it have to be completely eliminated? For Democrats, I believe the ultimate question is about human conflict in class struggle. Where do we draw the line so that the rich and well-born can have a certain degree of freedom to make the economic engine work. But for them, that engine’s purpose is to provide for everyone else. For Republicans, it may be for society to return to a zeitgeist they remember in their youth. One interesting feature of Republican zeitgeist is that the only requirement is that the moré be old. Socialized education for young students has been around (for them anyway) since forever and socialized retirement plans for old people that are poor is a sacred right for them.

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Vol 08 No 01 Liberty ViewsLetter 01-01-2012

2011-12-31T05:12:00.000-08:00

Vol 08 No 01 Liberty ViewsLetter 01-01-2012

Eighth Year, Issue 308

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Congratulations, if you are reading this you have successfully responded to and navigated your way to our new Website. The format will be much the same as before. Our major sections will be LibertyViews Where we will abbreviate Commentaries from very reliable sources with links to the FULL ARTICLE. Starting with the lead article, that we call Your Must Read for the Week. The NewsViews where we will abbreviate news articles from very diverse sources with links to the FULL ARTICLE. We will also continue to include ChallengeViews, WordViews, ReaderViews, AnnounceViews and Audio/VideoViews. There is another element, least important but most demanding, that being called PersonalViews. Each element is separated by a joke, a quote or some interesting trivia.

LibertyViews

Your Must Reads For The Week Why the establishment really fears Ron Paul By Jack Hunter Blogger for "Paulitical Ticker. As Ron Paul has risen in the polls, so has the frequency of attacks against him. “Any stick will do to beat a dog” goes the old saying, and the whacks against Paul range from reasonable to ridiculous. Expect the attacks to continue. Expect them to get more ridiculous. And expect the worst attacks to come from Republicans.Read more at, http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/27/why-the-establishment-really-fears-ron-paul/#ixzz1i6WXP68s

Why Do GOP Bosses Fear Ron Paul? John Nichols on December 21, 2011 -

Ron Paul represents the ideology that Republican insiders most fear: conservatism. Not the corrupt, inside-the-beltway construct that goes by that name, but actual conservatism.

And if he wins the Iowa Republican Caucus vote on January 3—a real, though far from certain, prospect—the party bosses will have to do everything in their power to prevent Paul from reasserting the values of the “old-right” Republicans who once stood, steadily and without apology, in opposition to wars of whim and assaults on individual liberty.
Make no mistake, the party bosses are horrified at the notion that a genuine conservative might grab the Iowa headlines from the false prophets. Already, they are claiming a Paul win won’t mean anything. Please read the FULL ARTICLE at http://www.thenation.com/blog/165290/why-do-gop-bosses-fear-ron-paul
I would like to invite, encourage, entice, influence, pressure, persuade, cajole, coax, plead, request can I demand? Or would a threat of bodily harm move you to read both FULL ARTICLES links above. This is NECESSARY INFORNATION, making it a MUST READ. GET THE FACTS CONTAINED IMPRINTED ON YOUR MIND. THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND AND BE READY TO PRESENT COGENT INFORMATION ABOUT WHY THEY MUST UNDERMINE RON PAUL. READ THE FULL ARTICLE and then FORWARD IT TO EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAILLIST.
From FreedomFrank, of the Campaign for Liberty, The time is now. Your knowledge bank is filled with reason for Republicans (and Democrats alike) to support Ron Paul for President in 2012. You are prepared to help Ron Paul on many fronts. You can make phone calls. Your friends and relatives are just waiting for studied reasons to support Ron Paul. Equip yourself with answers to, “I like Ron Paul, but he can’t win.” Ask your friends and relatives, why has the mantra, “Anybody but Obama” morphed overnight into “Anybody but Paul?” Why are they afraid of Paul if he can’t win?
Large groups of sign waves convey an important message to a much, much large group of passers by. You be a part of those groups make them so large that they require the Police to help contain them. A police presents just draws more attention.
Nothing is more effective than ~~precinct~~ Neighborhood Walking. Grab a hand full of literature and go “walking and knocking” with a brief message like, “I thought you may want to know what concerned candidates like Ron Paul think about… (whatever the pamphlet covers. It is good to be topical here.) Paulistas do not be afraid of this activity, even the worst case, where they say, “I am not interested in that political crap.” You have made progress. You have shown that concerned neighbors support Ron Paul. Those very people might say to their friends, “You know that Ron Paul guy has some good ideas.”
And after a sign waving event, or some “walking and knocking” come home get yourself a cup of your favorite beverage and turn on your computer get your keyboard in your lap prop up your feet and blog away. The attacks on Ron Paul the last two weeks are deafening and we can flood their “Comment” section with the truth about Ron Paul. Make your message short mention Ron Paul as often as you well can.
In effect you will have tapped into their reader base with a short reasoned support for Ron Paul. We understand Liberty, and must not hold back. I recommend you counter all Ron Paul attacks at: http://octeapartyblog.com/.

PersonalViews By Chuck McGlawn

We have observed the “I hate President Obama” go from a trickle to Niagara Falls. Then grow into almost a Cottage Industry. Frankly, we wondered why. Republicans out of power were able to prevent him from really accomplishing anything. He got the Health bill passed, But I do not think it will ever be implemented. It will be stopped by the Court of repealed by a R and D coalition.

Bush on the other hand, started two wars, passed Patriot Act one and two. Homeland Security, TSA, Military Commissions Act, No Child Left Behind, doubled the budget of the Dept. of Education, Corporate Bailouts etc, etc, etc.
But Obama’s inability to actually do anything didn’t stop the haters. As a publisher of a Libertarian/Conservative Views Letter I would get the e-mails from everyone. We would receive as many as 40 per day, with 5 to 10 copies of the very same message. Like ripples in a lake the repeats were many at first then dwindle down to fewer and fewer then none. But they never die. Four months later here it would come again, sometimes coupled with another newer message.
Even the passage of the NDAA, the most Liberty destroying legislation did not increase the “I hate President Obama” e-mails. That could be because it was almost a Rep. program.
That was way too much of an introduction to my point. That being the same tactic is being used on Ron Paul. It is as if the dinner bell rang and everyone came to the “Anybody but Ron Paul” table. Republicans, Conservatives, Democrats (some of them were already at the table, but many moved from the “Anyone but a Republican” table. And they are all banging the knives and forks in a “Get Ron Paul rant.”
Some of the surprise attendees at the table is the entire crew ay KRLA “Intelligent Conservative Radio” 870 on your LA/OC radio dial. They include, (I have not listened to them all) Glenn Beck, 6 to 9am, Dennis Prager 9 to noon, Michael Medved, Noon to 3 pm Huge Hewitt, 3 to 6 pm and Dennis Miller 9 to midnight.
Now it is not a choirs, with everybody singing the same song. Each of them have their own parts to play. Beck Loves Paul on everything but his foreign policy. But he is not quite sure Paul would be an improvement over Obama. Prager takes a religious stance, you know No drug legalization and no legalized prostitution. Medved covers almost everything: He can’t win, he shouldn’t win, Paul is anti Israel, and an isolationist, and the last guy that should be trusted with Head of State status. I do not catch Hewitt much, but today he said he would vote for Obama over Paul. Hewitt must not on the Hate Obama mailing list. The COOL Dennis Miller lauds Paul on many things, but is just not sure about his foreign policy.
My recommendation to Republicans is to find out more about Ron Paul. If you do you will vote for him in the Primary. For Paulistas, reread C4L Frank’s program and go to it. Conservatives should contact any anti-Paulist and tell them they are wrong, and withhold your support until they change their tune. And Libertarians, do what I am doing: register Republican, join Freedom Frank of C4L support Ron Paul with ever fiber of your being, and vote for him in the primary in June. And if he should get the Republican nomination continue to campaign for him. Join the “I hate Obama” transmission belt and forward all them “Anybody But Obama” e-mails.

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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

In order to buy arsenic you need a legal prescription. A picture of your mother-in-law just isn't enough.

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ChallengeViews (last week answer here.)

This Week’s Challenge. A military collector was shopping with a friend when they found the following Medal:

To Captain Hendry
for Bravery, Leadership and Daring.
During WWI
from the Troops of the 8^th Battalion.

The friend said. “Do not buy it, it is a fake.” How did the friend know it was a fake? Justify your answer Send your answer to Chuckest@aol.com . Answer posted next week.

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There are only two rules for ultimate success in life:

1.Never divulge everything you know.

Entropy isn't what it used to be.

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ReaderViews This feature my go defunct with the built in “Comment” section.

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He'a A Blond

I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up my car, I was told that the keys had been accidentally locked in it. In the service department I found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver's side door. As I watched from the passenger's side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered it was open. "Hey," I announced to the technician, "It's open!"

"I know," answered the young man. "I already got that side."

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[You will want to read this to better understand why Ron Paul is in the cross hairs of virtually EVERONE.] Read it at http://bit.ly/vx4lSw

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~ You Know You Are Fat When

~ You could sell shade.

~ When you cross the street, cars look out for you.

~ When you turn around, people throw you a welcome back party.

~ You can't even jump to a conclusion.

~ You went to the movies and sat next to everyone.

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Ron Paul is a disaster for Republicans and Democrats, but not for America's freedoms by Dave Duffy Backwoods Home (12/29/11)
Old guard Democrats [as we all expect] are scared stiff of Ron Paul. Strangely Paul is terrifying to the old guard of the Republican Party. With Paul we get an end the War On Drugs, thereby ending the drug cartels, emptying our prisons of marijuana users, and undercutting the corruption of our police, judiciary, and political system that attends the drug war.
Repealing the Patriot Act will help restore our personal liberties. The Patriot Act would have put all our Founding Fathers in prison, just as it can put any one of us in prison for all sorts of vague conspiratorial crimes.
Slashing our military spending and pulling out of Afghanistan will go a long way toward eliminating America’s debt. We are in 120 foreign countries right now, not just Afghanistan. Getting out of Afghanistan is just the tip of the iceberg. Ending our role as the policeman of the world [or bully in the school yard] would bring all that money back home. Read it all at http://bit.ly/rzkwoU

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Signs Your New Car is a Lemon

~ Disqualified from Soapbox Derby for lack of structural integrity.

~ Car has spent more time on "60 Minutes" than on the road.

~ Oil spills on your driveway prompt a visit from Greenpeace.

~ Changing the pre-set radio stations voids the warranty.

~ Two Words: Pontiac Sunkist

~ Manufactured in Zchkynk, Crzyktjkystan.

~ Motor Trend never mentioned a "Chevrolet Caca."

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Audio/VideoViews RON PAUL: TO THE LEFT OF OBAMA! DICK MORRIS TV: LUNCH ALERT!

Warning Warning. Distortions Ahead

http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/ron-paul-to-the-left-of-obama-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/

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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

I've never had money problems. Just lack of money problems

Save your money. it may become valuable again someday.

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More LibertyViews: Just a headline, a grabber and a link.

The anti-Ron Paul Axis of "Decency" by Will Grigg Pro Libertate
"Newt Gingrich, lapsed adulterer, unrepentant warmonger, and self- appointed 'teacher of civilization,' has excommunicated Ron Paul and his supporters from the ranks of human decency for rejecting the fundamental tenet of statism (12/29/11) http://bit.ly/u0fRSc

America's businesses get it: Immigration is good by David Bier 12/28/11 OpenMarket.org The primary victims of harsh immigration laws are business owners who must verify immigration status. This burdensome heavy-handed government regulations that conservatives rail against in every other area. http://tinyurl.com/cwd3tzd

The case for austerity by Andrew P. Napolitano LewRockwell.com 12/29/11
Government can notbe made to operate as a business,. Business is subject to the forces of free choice, supply and demand, and competition. Can you imagine government permitting us to ignore it? http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano34.1.html

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When you cross an elephant and a skin doctor you get a pachydermatologist

There is too much youth, how about a fountain of smart.

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NewsViews

Obama regime sets up new hotline for immigration abductees CNN

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One nice thing about egotists: They don't talk about other people.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Some say monogamy is the same.

Life teaches: that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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US to Iran: Don't you dare act like us Guardian [UK] (12/28/11)

"Tensions between the United States and Iran have dangerously ratcheted up as naval officials with America's Fifth Fleet warned any attempt by Iran to close a strategically vital oil route through the Strait of Hormuz would 'not be tolerated.' The news heightens a sense of growing crisis in the Persian Gulf after two days of threats by senior Iranian figures that they might shut down the important trade route in response to any future international sanctions against the country's oil exports." http://bit.ly/taP2kr

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Only a lack of imagination saves me from immobilizing myself with imaginary fears.

Why waste your time reliving the past, when, you can spend it much more productively by worrying about the future?

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Abortion, immigration changes among new 2012 laws South Oregon Mail Tribune "Girls seeking abortions in New Hampshire must first tell their parents or a judge, some employers in Alabama must verify new workers' U.S. residency, and California students will be the first in the country to receive mandatory lessons about the contributions of gays and lesbians under state laws set to take effect at the start of 2012. Many laws reflect the nation's concerns over immigration, the cost of government and the best way to protect and benefit young people, including regulations on sports concussions." (12/28/11) http://tinyurl.com/d3hpyuf

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Budgets are a systematic way of living beyond your means.
Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza each day.
You should almost hardly ever equivocate.
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More NewsViews Just a headline, a grabber and a link..

NY: Tennessee tourist abducted after attempting to check gun at 9/11 memorial New York Post "A tourist politely asked if she could check her weapon.
Instead, she was dragged out in cuffs. [proving that it's a totalitarian police state]." (12/29/11) Read the FULL ARTICLE at,http://nyp.st/uBwSvM

Russia slams US for its human rights record Richmond Times-Dispatch

Foreign Ministry has attacked America's human rights record. (See just above) Far cry
from the ideals that Washington proclaims. (12/28/11) Read http://tinyurl.com/cxyhl4h

Scientists: solar storm "could knock out radio signals" Daily Mail [UK]

"Solar storm will slam into Earth and produce amazing Northern Lights, or auroras. On the downside, experts expect radio blackouts for a few days" (12/28/11) Read more at,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2079352/Massive-solar-...

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Would the Standing Committee please sit down?

We do precision guesswork.

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

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WordViews by Walt Clark

hazmat \HAZ-mat\ noun: a material (flammable or poisonous) that would be a danger to life or to the environment if released without precautions, as in “the hazmat database gave directions for cleanup.”

Synonyms:
There aren’t any which is why this word entered our language so quickly.

Word Wise:
Hazardous Materials wasn’t even a concept until the environmentalists created a whole industry around protecting us from ourselves. Society as a whole has gotten richer. That means two things: there’s more waste and less land. When land was cheap you merely abandoned it after pollution made it unusable. Those libertarians that come from a Republican heritage don’t like the environmentalist’s use of government to control society the way they see fit. Those libertarians with a liberal heritage point out that environmentalists have greatly influenced the private sector too. It’s not just because it’s against the law; we feel good about taking used oil back to the auto parts store for recycling. There’s a challenge here for all libertarians of both types with respect to hazmat. It is “failure of the commons” in reverse. All libertarians have at one time or another explained why socialism is like a pasture that farmers share. It is in there self-interest to exploit it rather than husband it. But what about hazmat and capitalism? If all the means of production and indeed all land was in private hands, it is in everyone’s self interest to dump their pollution into the air or into the ground water. To propose market processes for moving waste around assumes that everyone has bought into the idea that waste materials are not to be part of the commons. How do we libertarians propose stopping cheaters from being the most profitable? (Send your responses to the editor of this newsletter.)
Hazmat is an attributive noun. That means it is more often used as an adjective, as in the phrase hazmat team. Attributive nouns such as “leather” in the phrase leather jacket are so common we don’t even notice the ambiguity. Words that are modifiers need to be short since the main point is the noun. If “hazardous materials” would only be used as a noun we could spell it out that way forever. But as a modifier, there’s a natural urge to shorten it, or at least hyphenate the phrase to make sure it is recognized as a modifier. New words are often born as attributive nouns.

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Selected Quotes from The Economic Logic of Illegal Immigration by Professor Gordon H. Hanson.

2011-12-28T08:42:00.000-08:00

Quotes Selected by Chuck McGlawn.

It is a 52-page report commissioned by the Council on Foreign Relations. I am not going to try to abbreviate the contents of the Dr. Hanson Report. I am just going to share with you some of the quotations that should have some effect on your thinking about so called Illegal Immigration. We will quote some of Dr. Hanson remarks found in the Foreword, Introduction, Current U.S. Immigration Policy, Illegal Immigration and the U.S. Economy, Benefits and Costs of Immigration, Reforming Immigration Policy and Final Considerations

In the FORWARD, Professor Gordon H. Hanson approaches immigration through the lens of economics.

By focusing on the economic costs and benefits of legal and illegal immigration, Professor Hanson concludes that stemming illegal immigration would likely lead to a net drain on the U.S. economy.

Hanson argues that guest worker programs now being considered by Congress fail to account for the economic incentives that drive illegal immigration, which benefits both the undocumented workers who desire to work and live in the United States and employers who want flexible, low-cost labor.

In the INTRODUCTION Professor Hanson says, “From a purely economic perspective, the optimal immigration policy would admit individuals whose skills are in shortest supply and whose tax contributions, net of the cost of public services they receive, are as large as possible. Admitting immigrants in scarce occupations would yield the greatest increase in U.S. incomes, regardless of the skill level of those immigrants. In the United States, scarce workers would include not only highly educated individuals, such as the software programmers and engineers employed by rapidly expanding technology industries, but also low-skilled workers in construction, food preparation, and cleaning services, for which the supply of U.S. native labor has been falling.”

[T]here is little evidence that legal immigration is economically preferable to illegal immigration. In fact, illegal immigration responds to market forces in ways that legal immigration does not.

Illegal migrants tend to arrive in larger numbers when the U.S. economy is booming [When they are needed.] and move to regions where job growth is strong. Legal immigration, in contrast, is subject to arbitrary selection criteria and bureaucratic delays, which tend to disassociate legal inflows from U.S. labor-market conditions.

Two-thirds of legal permanent immigrants are admitted on the basis of having relatives in the United States. Only by chance will the skills of these individuals match those most in demand by U.S. industries.

[T]emporary legal immigrants come to the country at the invitation of a U.S. employer, the process of obtaining a visa is often arduous and slow. Once here, temporary legal workers cannot easily move between jobs, limiting their benefit to the U.S. economy.

Quotes from ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND THE U.S. ECONOMY: “Between 1960 and 2000, the share of working-age native-born U.S. residents with less than twelve years of schooling fell from 50 percent to 12 percent.”

Native-born U.S. workers with low schooling levels are increasingly hard to find. Yet these workers are an important part of the U.S. economy—they build homes, prepare food, clean offices, harvest crops, and take unfilled factory jobs.

Illegal immigration also brings low-skilled workers to the United States when the productivity gains of doing so appear to be highest. During the past twenty years, Mexico has experienced several severe economic contractions, with emigration from the country spiking in the aftermath of each downturn. In terms of the economic benefits, this is exactly when one would want workers to move—when their labor productivity in the United States is highest relative to their labor productivity at home. Long queues for U.S. green cards mean there is little way for legal permanent immigration to respond to such changes in international economic conditions.

Quoting from BENEFITS AND COSTS OF IMMIGRATION: “Overall, immigration increases the incomes of U.S. residents by allowing the economy to utilize domestic resources more efficiently”

Immigration generates extra income for the U.S. economy, even as it pushes down wages for some workers.

More workers allow U.S. capital, land, and natural resources to be exploited more efficiently. Increasing the supply of labor to perishable fruits and vegetables, for instance, means that each acre of land under cultivation generates more output. Similarly, an expansion in the number of manufacturing workers allows the existing industrial base to produce more goods.

The annual immigration surplus in the United States appears to be small, equal to about 0.2 percent of GDP in 2004.

[L]ower wages for low-skilled labor mean lower prices for labor intensive goods and services, especially those whose prices are set in local markets rather than through competition in global markets. Patricia Cortes finds that in the 1980s and 1990s U.S. cities with larger inflows of low-skilled immigrants experienced larger reductions in prices for housekeeping, gardening, child care, dry cleaning, and other labor-intensive, locally traded services.

Lower prices for goods and services raise the real incomes of U.S. households, with most of these gains going to those in regions with large immigrant populations.

The total impact of immigration on U.S. residents—the sum of the immigration surplus (the pretax income gain) and the net fiscal transfer from immigrants—would be unambiguously positive.

If immigrants are a net fiscal drain, the total impact of immigration on the United States would be positive only if the immigration surplus exceeded the fiscal transfer made to immigrants. For low-skilled immigration, whether legal or illegal, this does not appear to be the case.

In REFORMING IMMIGRATION POLICY: [Remember this report was published in April 2007] Liberty Views suggest that you read this segment yourself. We make this recommendation because, “There are no easy answers to U.S. immigration problems.”

“One issue on which most members of Congress agree is that border and interior enforcement should be expanded. At current enforcement levels, as many as 400,000 new illegal immigrants are probably still entering the country on net each year, and halting that flow will require a further increase in the already substantial resources devoted to the task.

“The expenditures on border enforcement (more than 0.1 percent of GDP) are already greater than the fiscal benefits of reducing illegal immigration (less than 0.1 percent of GDP).

Currently [2007], U.S. employers, by virtue of asking workers for identification at the time of their hiring, can plausibly deny having knowingly hired illegal immigrants. A system of electronic verification would potentially eliminate plausible deniability, placing a greater burden on employers to screen out workers who are unauthorized for employment. But by any measure, halting illegal immigration is likely to be a net drain on the U.S. economy.

Professor Gordon H. Hanson is the director of the Center on Pacific Economies and professor of economics at University of California, San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the department of economics. Professor Hanson is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and coeditor of the Journal of Development Economics. He obtained his BA in economics from Occidental College in 1986 and his PhD in economics from MIT in 1992.

Prior to joining UCSD in 2001, he was on the economics faculty at the University of Michigan (1998–2001) and at the University of Texas (1992–1998).

Professor Hanson has published extensively in the top academic venues of the economics discipline. His current research examines the international migration of high-skilled labor, the causes of Mexican migration to the United States, the consequences of immigration on labor-market outcomes for African-Americans, the relationship between business cycles and foreign outsourcing, and international trade in motion pictures.

In recent work, he has studied the impact of globalization on wages, the origins of political opposition to immigration, and the implications of China’s growth for the export performance of Mexico and other developing countries. His most recent book is Why Does Immigration Divide America? Public Finance and Political Opposition to Open Borders (Institute for International Economics,

For more current recommendations, read A Better Immigration Policy for America
Each year, the United States turns away thousands and thousands of highly skilled immigrants who want to join the U.S. labor force. It does this by setting aside more work visas for people chosen randomly by a lottery than for those who possess demonstrably greater abilities, by sending home many of the foreign graduates it has helped to educate, and by admitting an absurdly low number of immigrants for the size of the U.S. economy. As a result, the United States squanders a fantastic opportunity to foster innovation and accelerate economic progress, according to Independent Institute Research Director Alex Tabarrok. READ MORE

The No-Brainer Issue of the Year: Let High-Skill Immigrants Stay, by Alex Tabarrok (The Atlantic, 12/20/11)

Launching the Innovation Renaissance: A New Path to Bring Smart Ideas to Market Fast, by Alex Tabarrok; a TED Kindle book

Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science, edited by Alex Tabarrok

Liberty vs. Freedom by Chuck McGlawn

2011-12-24T15:00:00.000-08:00

You may be asking yourself where is he going with this. Well, let me tell you. I see Liberty and Freedom as very different. Let me list some of the subtle distinctions

Freedom is created. It is likened to an invention like the telephone. Liberty is discovered. I liken it to a discovery like the discovery of the law of gravity. Freedom must be constructed, as with the written Constitution, or years of tradition. Liberty is described, like with the Declaration of Independence.

Freedom is subjective. That is why the freedom movement is always splintered by disagreement and constant infighting over the boundaries, and what . Liberty is objective. Everyone knows what it is, and if not, a one-sentence description and on goes the light.

In my view, freedom is a positive thing. It must be constructed and once it is constructed it has boundaries. Liberty is a negative thing. It is just there, and it has always been there waiting to be discovered. It does not require construction and has no boundaries. The boundaries of Freedoms have been constructed by very smart people to be sure. And its goal and boundaries are worthy. Freedom is deemed worthy and valuable by additional smart people. The distinction that sets freedom apart from liberty is that, freedom has subjective rules, and liberty has unchangeable objective law.

Freedom has goals it wants progress and improvement. Its advocates think and want more for next year and even more for the year after. And it wants to broaden its base, by instilling the quest for Freedom into more people, then more people. Liberty is passive, but it allows limitless growth and improvement, for a limitless number of people, and it does this by just being there.

When I got to this point in my writing, I had more to say, however, I thought I should Google the subject. Of the many hits I got, three articles at least touched on the concepts that I was expanding.

Paul V. Hartman in "Freedom" and "Liberty" Are Not the Same Thing” confirms what I am saying when he wrote, “Freedoms end when they encounter a contrary freedom of another person. You are free to smoke, until you encounter my freedom not to inhale your smoke. Liberty lacks that distinction: my liberty never contradicts or limits yours. In other words, freedoms have boundaries, because they are active or positive. Liberty does not because they are passive and negative.

Geoffrey Nunberg put a historical spin on the subject, and in the process he suggests that Liberty is of a higher order than Freedom. In the Nation article Freedom vs. Liberty; More Than Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose Published: March 23, 2003 wrote, “For the founders of the nation, liberty was the fundamental American value.” Nunberg added, Echoing John Locke, the Declaration of Independence speaks of ''life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'' The text doesn't mention freedom at all. It was liberty that Patrick Henry declared himself willing to die for, and liberty that the ringing bell in Philadelphia proclaimed on July 8, 1776.

Liberty remained the dominant patriotic theme for the following 150 years, even if freedom played an important role, particularly in the debates over slavery. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address began by invoking a nation ''conceived in liberty,'' but went on to resolve that it should have a ''new birth of freedom.''

Never the less, in the early 1870, just five years or so after the (so called) Civil War France began the construction of the Statue of Liberty.
That makes me ask did Lincoln have some insights into the differences before any one began writing about it. Additionally, Nunberg observed, “But ''freedom'' didn't really come into its own until the New Deal period, when the defining American values were augmented to include the economic and social justice that permitted people free development as human beings. Of Roosevelt's Four Freedoms -- of speech, of religion, from want and from fear -- only the first two might have been expressed using ''liberty.'
The civil rights movement made ''freedom now'' its rallying cry. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used ''freedom'' 19 times in his ''I Have a Dream'' speech, and liberty only twice. Feminists extended freedom to cover reproductive rights, while Timothy Leary spoke of the ''fifth freedom . . . the freedom to expand your own consciousness.''

More recently in The Calling of Cultural Liberty · Thursday November 06, 2008 by Crosbie Fitch

We may express a desire to have the freedom to park our car on our neighbour’s drive, but the mere citing of an aspiration of ‘freedom’ cannot invoke a right, as if that invocation could then trump our neighbour’s natural right to privacy.

Then in three profound statements he rendered almost useless the need for me to continue. What he said was,

Freedom is a lack of constraint. It is neither intrinsically noble nor inherently ethical.

Ethical freedom is a lack of unethical constraint, and is more succinctly termed ‘liberty’.

We do not have a right to freedom. We have a right to liberty – freedom constrained only by the equal rights of others.

Paraphrasing Fitch We have a right to liberty, and liberty is freedom constrained only by the equal rights of others” reminds me of the oft times admonition that we can have liberty only if we are willing to share is with everyone. And correct me if I am wrong, but is that not just another way of saying, no one has the right to initiate force on another.

Cause & Effect Lessons for Alabama

2011-12-19T21:53:00.000-08:00

by Chuck McGlawn 12/19/2011

The Cause & Effect lessons and REAL LIFE experience has shifted Alabama’s stance on its extremist immigration law from defiance to damage control.[Did he say DAMAGE CONTROL? That would mean the law is doing DAMAGE.] Gov. Robert Bentley admitted this month that the law needed fixing…

We now learn that, “When Mr. Bentley signed the law in June, he ignored warnings from legal experts and civil-rights advocates that it would curtail rights for all Alabamians, criminalize routine business transactions and acts of charity, encourage racial profiling, and cast an unconstitutional chill on school enrollment.”

Warnings came from other sources as well. It turn out that, “The governor and legislators were also warned that the law would attract multiple lawsuits and pummel the economy, particularly farming when immigrant workers fled.” It raises a question what percentage of Alabama’s population would have to be among the 74% of …Americans [who] Think (Wrongly) That Illegal Immigrants Hurt the Economy, for the Governor to ignore all the informed warnings.

Any Governor, worth his salt knows what to do when, “The warnings have all come true” according to a New York Times Editorial, Alabama’s Second Thoughts Published: December 17, 2011

The law, as written and passed enables utility providers, “In just one example, some utilities are threatening to shut off customers without the right papers.”

From the NY Times editorial, “Mr. Strange [has] spent six months trying to defend the law in court and in public. At one point he even challenged the federal government’s authority to investigate civil-rights abuses committed under the law. A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked parts of the law; most recently, a judge issued a restraining order preventing Alabama from denying trailer-home licenses to people it decides are here illegally.”

Attorney general, Luther Strange has seen the light, as he, “is urging lawmakers to drop some major provisions, including:

“The requirement that schools collect immigration data on children and parents, which he said would cost too much for the benefit it would provide.

“The part making it a crime for immigrants not to carry their papers, which is illegal under federal law.

“The part barring people from college if they do not have documents, because some people, like certain refugees, can be here legally without documents.

“The sections that allow Alabama residents to sue officials they believe are not adequately enforcing the law, because of conflicts with the state Constitution.

Even if lawmakers accept Mr. Strange’s proposals, it still will not undo the harm — to the undocumented, to all Alabamians, to the state’s image and economy. This law is indefensible. The only solution is repeal.
Unfortunately, too many of Alabama’s politicians still don’t get it. Mike Hubbard, the House speaker, vowed on Facebook, “we’re not going to repeal or weaken the law, acquiescing to liberal elites’ and the news media’s efforts to intimidate and shame Alabama.” And 12 senators have written to the governor, urging him not to retreat. news media’s efforts to intimidate and shame Alabama.” And 12 senators have written to the governor, urging him not to retreat.

Workfare, Not Welfare, Immigration Solution

2011-12-18T12:19:00.000-08:00

by Chuck McGlawn 12/18/2011

Let me make it clear I believe Arizona and Alabama can pass and enforce almost any anti-immigration law that their citizens want. And I said so in Nine States & The Liberty ViewsLetter Backs Arizona on Immigration I think Arizona’s SB 1070 law could have provided Arizona and most other States an important lesson in Cause and Effect, leading to more workable Immigration Laws as I stated in Immigration Cause & Effect May be Rearing its Head. That lesson was short-circuited by the State Supreme Court that nullified its most egregious sections. However, no State law should empower authorities to abuse violators of that law. And it should not create a culture of corruption, that turns its head when citizens of a certain color or language are swept up in zeal to rid the State of illegals.

States Have a Right to be Wrong But, Not Criminal

In a recent article entitled, U.S. Finds Pervasive Bias against Latinos by Arizona Sheriff, lovingly called Sheriff Joe, the poster boy of anti-immigration get a deserving slap on the wrist. In a strongly worded critique of the country’s best-known sheriff, the Justice Department on Thursday accused Sheriff Joe Arpaio of engaging in “unconstitutional policing” by unfairly targeting Latinos for detention and arrest and retaliating against those who complain. That is how bigotry works. You use your power and authority to arrest and detain the TARGET, then you harass anyone who complains.

After an investigation that lasted more than three years, the civil rights division of the Justice Department said in a 22-page report that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, which Mr. Arpaio leads, had “a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos” that “reaches the highest levels of the agency.” The department interfered with the inquiry, the government said, prompting a lawsuit that eventually led Sheriff Arpaio and his deputies to cooperate.

[M]ore than 400 inmates, deputies and others had been interviewed as part of the review, including Sheriff Arpaio and his command staff. Mr. Perez said the inquiry, which included jail visits and reviews of thousands of pages of internal documents, raised the question of whether Latinos were receiving “second-class policing services” in Maricopa County. A separate federal grand jury investigation of Sheriff Arpaio’s office is continuing, focusing on accusations of abuse of power by the department’s public corruption squad.

Sheriff Arpaio was singled out for criticism in the report, which said that he had used racially charged letters he had received to justify raids and that he helped nurture the department’s “culture of bias.”Asked at a news conference about Sheriff Arpaio’s role in the department’s problems, Mr. Perez said, “We have to do cultural change and culture change starts with people at the top.”

Predictions of abuse of Arizona’s SB-1079 materialized as, “The inquiry’s findings paint a picture of a department staffed by poorly trained deputies who target Latino drivers on the roadways and detain innocent Latinos in the community in their searches for illegal immigrants. The mistreatment, the government said, extends to the jails the department oversees, where Latino inmates who do not speak English are mistreated.”

I personally favor a States right to limit immigration in any manor the people of the State choose. However, “The absence of clear policies and procedures to ensure effective and constitutional policing, along with the deviations from widely accepted policing and correctional practices, and the failure to implement meaningful oversight and accountability structures, have contributed to a chronic culture of disregard for basic legal and constitutional obligations.” Civil libertarians that warned of violations of Civil Rights were right, as “…Latino drivers were four to nine times more likely to be stopped… than non-Latino drivers, …called the most egregious racial profiling seen in this country,

The report also suggested that Sheriff Arpaio’s well-publicized raids aimed at arresting illegal immigrants were sometimes prompted by complaints that described no criminal activity but referred to people with “dark skin” or to Spanish speakers congregating in an area. “The use of these types of bias-infected indicators as a basis for conducting enforcement activity contributes to the high number of stops and detentions lacking in legal justification,” the report said.

It is no secret that I favor immigration, and, I favor liberty. And I look forward to the day when the second of those two statements is a redundancy. I believe immigration will always produce a gain to the area that the immigrants decide to settle. That is, unless WE THE PEOPLE through coercive laws offer up a smorgasbord of services to immigrants that they find it unnecessary to apply their full efforts to providing for their family and providing for their future.

Workfare Not Welfare

It is the Welfare State that attracts the undesirable immigrants. When you place huge billboards on the border that say, “FREE EDUCATION”, “FREE MEDICAL CARE” “FREE HOUSING”, and “FREE FOOD” What would you expect from immigrants who are willing to pay a coyote three or four thousand dollars for passage into the land of plenty? Our current Immigration and Welfare Laws are a formula for the anti-immigration sentiment that empowers the Sheriff Joes of the US. Incidently, those signs are painted on both sides. And they have played a major roll in turning hard working Americans into the handout seekers that leave gapping holes in our unskilled labor force that invites in the illegals

The Workfare State (if we only had one) would attract only immigrants who want a chance to offer their marketable services in a competitive environment. I made this clear in A philosophical Libertarian on Immigration where we posed the question, “What harm does Juan do when he comes to the US and takes a job?” Additionally we asked, “What is it that makes a rat-trap anything other than just a piece of wood and some wire?” The answer is the cheese. If we take away the cheese, we stop attracting RATS. As for Mexicans who have marketable skills, like the ability to repair refrigerators, or transmissions, or can build fences, lay brick, or even mow and make our yards look better, and can save us money in the process, money that we go out and spend on other things that create other jobs, then I say welcome neighbor.

In a Workfare State, everyone benefits. Americans that leave jobs that they want done, undone because they value the money it would cost if the jobs were done by domestic labor. However, immigrants want the money the Americans are willing to pay to get those jobs done, more than they want the time it takes to do the jobs.

The seeds of a workable immigration policy are found in these observations. We just need more lookers. Invite others to look

Cause and Effect From Someone Who KNOWS By Chuck McGlawn

2011-12-04T21:20:00.000-08:00

We have read and abbreviated (below) The New Alabama Immigration Law: A Preliminary Macroeconomic Assessment written October 2011 by Samuel Addy, Ph.D. Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration

The University of Alabama

Dr. Sam Addy joined the Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) in 1998 and assumed the position of Director in 2007. He holds an M.S. in Mineral Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in Mineral Economics from The Pennsylvania State University.

In this role as Director, he regularly speaks to groups and organizations on topics including the Alabama economy, economic policy, economic development, and workforce development. Dr. Addy works with CBER’s economic research program and has directed and conducted economic impact studies for numerous public and private clients across the state. Other areas of emphasis include assessment and analysis of Alabama’s workforce; fiscal policy; socioeconomic analysis for transportation and other development projects; and environmental and climate change issues. Sam has published in academic journals and is often quoted in local, regional, national, and international media.

In his recent article he points out that, “Economies are demand-driven so any policy, regulation, law, or action that reduces demand is misguided and will not contribute to economic development…” He goes on to say, “Instead of boosting state economic growth, the law HB56 is certain to be a drag on economic development…”

Dr. Abby doesn’t blame the well intentioned lawmakers, or the citizen supporters of HB56, however misguided, “those that tend to favor the law focus on its intent but often not on its actual effects.” Dr. Abby says, “[T]he law is likely to drive a portion of … illegal immigrants out of state or underground. [D]emand in the Alabama economy is reduced since the income generated by these people and their spending will decline. That results in a shrinking of the state economy and will be seen in lower economic output, personal income, and fewer jobs (Emphasis added) than would otherwise have been.

Dealing with some of the misconceptions, he says. “What about the argument that illegal immigrants are a drain on resources because they don’t pay taxes? Yes, illegal immigrants use some public services but they do pay taxes and the economy enjoys some benefits as a result of the demand created by their presence.” He goes on to say, “[T]he level of income they receive many illegal workers will not have to pay federal income tax because of the standard deduction and personal exemption allowed. Indeed, they could receive earned income tax credit, which many do not file for because they wish to remain below the radar and because their status makes it practically impossible. In addition, they make payroll taxes with little chance of ever benefiting from those social safety net programs unless somehow they become legal.” [Where have we heard that before?] However, [illegals do] “pay sales and property taxes directly and indirectly through their income spending and consumption activities.”

Near the end of his paper, Dr. Abby joined the throng by adding, "Although there’s an ongoing debate about the costs and benefits of illegal immigrants, it is generally accepted that immigration, as a whole, has a net positive effect on the national economy."

Dr. Abby concludes with, “Bottom-line, the law will be costly to the state economy even without consideration of [increased] enforcement costs. Is it possible to amend the new immigration law so that it keeps the admirable intent but also increases demand in the economy, brings more of the informal economy into the light, boosts economic development, and facilitates continuation of the economic strides that the state has been making? In short, what we need are laws and policies that will keep Alabama on a ROLL.

My own conclusion is that any one that favors keeping HB 56 and enforcing it, has some other agenda than economic benefits to the National economy, benefits to the Alabama economy and a better life for not only those immigrants that will be affected but the people of Alabama.

The BUCK Starts Here By Chuck McGlawn

2011-12-04T14:02:00.000-08:00

Let us you and I have a mind experiment. You got this buck and you want a candy bar. Your local Walgreens sells Super Snickers for a buck. You go there and buy one, and then proceed to eat and enjoy it. That buck that you spent has a huge job ahead of it. Some of that buck goes to pay the rent on Walgreens' location. Some of it goes to pay the insurance the store must carry. Some of it goes to the utility companies for power to light the store. Some must go to the maintenance crew for store clean up. Some of that buck must go trash removal. Of course, some must go to the clerk, his supervisor, his manager and the District Manager. In addition, do not forget some must go for sales tax.

That list could go on for pages and pages before you ever get to the Mars Candy company that made the Super Snickers that you bought. Mars then would have additional pages and pages of things they must pay for like rent, insurance, utilities, employees, excreta, excreta, excreta, excreta, excreta. Did I mention excreta? In addition, they must also buy chocolate, peanuts and caramel with whatever part of your buck that they got.

I am sure that if you could list everyone that benefited by getting some part of your buck it would take a thousand volumes of a thousand printed pages each just to list them. You are feeling important, right.

In this thought experiment let, us give Mars Candy two factories one in Illinois and one in Mississippi. And Mississippi has just passed an immigration friendly law, allowing an additional one thousand guest workers, and some go to work for Mars doing clean-up and janitorial work. Mars learns that these younger more energetic workers can get the jobs done with a 20% decrease in janitorial staff.

Instead of just cutting the janitorial staff, the plant takes the best of the 20% and places them around the plant in other jobs. This gives Mars the ability to do something they have wanted to try. They take the best from various divisions of the plant and they create an efficiency staff. This group gets a pay increase and they roam the plant looking for waste in production. This plan works very well, and efficiency improves.

The Company Management finds things going well and hire or train some bilingual supervisors. More guest workers are employed. Both production and profits are up.

You, unaware of all of this interaction, get an attack of the “sweet tooth”; you grab your buck and head to the Walgreens, where you find you are able to buy your Super Snickers for just fifty cents. On your way to your car, you find a vending machine and you buy a soft drink for that “Half Dollar”. And back in California Chuck McGlawn starts a new article entitled, “The Half Dollar Starts Here”

Cause and Effect Can Solve the Immigration Problem By Chuck McGlawn 12/02/2011

2011-12-02T13:27:00.000-08:00

The US and especially Alabama is about to get a real-life lesson on “Cause and Effect”. That is if the courts stay out of Alabama’s H.B. 56, passed on June 9, 2011. Alabama can now boast of having the nation’s harshest anti-immigrant law. The law makes it a crime to be without status. The Court intervened in Arizona, removing the real teeth from SB 1070 and averting the real economic disaster. Alabama might not be as lucky, the dominos are already falling.

It is real easy to say, as Center for American Progress has that, “$40 million—A conservative estimate of how much Alabama’s economy would contract if only 10,000 (8%) of the undocumented immigrants stopped working in the state.” It is a lot harder to say, how does Chad Smith of Smith Farms, replace the $300,000 lost because of labor shortages in the wake of H.B. 56. Harder still what happens to the supervisory staff (likely citizens) that lose their jobs? What happens the piano teacher that loses 25% of her students because of lost profits and lost jobs. Will she be able to make her mortgage payment? How wide and how deep does the loss of $300,000 profit go? Let me say. it touches everyone. Homeless Freddie doesn’t eat today because waitress Madge didn’t get her regular tips from the Jones’ family who couldn’t afford their Friday Family Feast at the local Pizzeria because increased cost of food for every night dinner drained the Friday Family Feast Funds. Tony’s profits, are cut because he must have new menus printed to reflect the new higher prices. (By the way, I am taking up a collection for a “hit-man” for the idiot that says, “The printer’s business is up”) There is just no way that the incremental pain and suffering can be measured and set forth in any research study.

If Alabama is successful and every undocumented immigrant self-deports, Alabama will lose over 18,000 jobs and 2.6 billion in economic activity according to a Perryman Group study
Alabama’s State Senator, Scott Beason continues to say HB56, is a “jobs bill” although this is contrary to all evidence. Based upon all available economic research and evidence, the Federal Reserve Bank declared “there is no evidence that immigrants crowd out U.S.-born workers in either the short or long run.” It further found that
Statistical analysis of state-level data shows that immigrants expand the economy’s productive capacity by stimulating investment and promoting specialization. (Emphasis added) This produces efficiency gains and boosts income per worker. At the same time, evidence is scant that immigrants diminish the employment opportunities of U.S.-born workers.
And concerning HB56, economists almost universally (Emphasis added) concur that: Anti-immigration laws like Alabama’s are jobs and economic growth killers. These laws play well politically, but are based on flawed economic logic. The reason for this is that, as Michigan economics professor Mark Perry says, “There is no fixed pie or fixed number of jobs, so there is no way for immigrants to take away jobs from Americans. Immigrants expand the economic pie.”
What will HB56 do to Alabama’s economic pie? A study by the Perryman Group, produced an “An Analysis of the Economic Impact of Undocumented Workers on Business Activity in the US with Estimated Effects by State and by Industry” as we have said above, The study concludes that if Alabama is sucessful and every undocumented immigrant self-deports, Alabama will lose over 18,000 jobs and 2.6 billion in economic activity, and these numbers are even understated:
Therefore, with HB56 standing alone (the “static scenario”) without any “contemporaneous adjustment” at the federal level, Alabama stands to lose over 51,000 jobs and 8 billion in economic activity. (BTW, this is the present situation.)
Because of these staggering numbers, the analysts conclude:
The most compelling conclusions from this assessment are (1) the undocumented workforce is vital to US business growth and prosperity (and, in some cases, sustainability) and, thus, (2) an enforcement-only and removal approach is simply not viable. . .
The Perryman Group’s analysis indicates that the undocumented workforce has a positive effect on the economy. It is becoming more and more apparent that Dr. Keivan Deravi, an economics professor at AUM and budget adviser to the Legislature, was right, HB56 “wasn’t supported by facts and wasn’t based on real economic theories and research.”
The Cause and Effect lesson will become very clear when, the second most asked question in Alabama, right behind “Where are your papers” is, “Where are our profits?”

Chuck Semiinformed vs. Carl Concerned By Chuck McGlawn 11/30/2011

2011-11-30T02:02:00.000-08:00

The Problem

A recent poll taken by New York Times/CBS News poll, revealed that an overwhelming 74 percent of the American people, one of whom is Carl Concerned believe that illegal immigrants weakened the US economy, while there was only 17 percent who said they strengthened it. One must ask; why is there this lopsided result? Especially when over 95% of the people that should and would know, the economist who literally study this subject say, report that illegal immigration strengthens the economy. And they could be an even greater benefit to our economy, if while they are looking for work, they didn’t have to constantly “look over their shoulders”.

The History

How did we get to these contradictory results? A brief history is in order.

My history will glimpse the past through to lens of the free market system. This teaches that whenever government involves itself in any enterprise, distortions will be the norm. It is as true today, just as it was in years between 1850 and 1880 when the US Government was subsidizing the construction of railroads in the west. Now if the demand for the railroad is spawned by a free market signal, the ability to pay the “going wage” would have been there. However, the US subsidization of railroad expansion and the huge profits to be made at the government trough created a bubble in the demand for labor, 55,000 migrant workers were hurriedlybrought into the former Mexican territories to fill that demand.

Immigration really picked up in 1910 with the Mexican Revolution; over 50,000 Mexican workers immigrated to the United States every year looking for jobs, and our leaders welcomed them as long as there was a need for them-they proved particularly useful during World War I.

It seemed whenever the United States found a reason to close the door on Mexican immigration, a historic event would force them to reopen that door. Such was the case when the United States entered World War II. Domestic labor was either in uniform or siphoned from all areas of US industry and poured into the support of the war efforts. The Bracero Treaty (1942 and 1964) reopened the borders for legal immigration of Mexican laborers to work temporarily on contract to US growers and ranchers. The Mexican work force was critical in developing the economy and prosperity of the United States. Impoverished Mexicans traveled north to work as braceros. It was mainly by the Mexican hands that America became the most lush agricultural center in the world.

The Reality

The overall effect may be positive, but its costs and benefits are distributed unevenly. David Card, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley notes that savings to meatpacking plants in Nebraska, agribusinesses in California’s Central Valley translate into lower prices at the store, but consumers never make that immigrant/lower prices connection?

Native low-skilled workers suffer most from the competition of foreign labor. According to a study by George Borjas, a Harvard economist, immigration has reduced the wages of American high-school dropouts by 9 percent between 1980 and 2000. Among high-skilled, better-educated employees, however, opposition was strongest in states with both high numbers of immigrants and relatively generous social services. That opposition appeared to soften when that fiscal burden decreased, as occurred with welfare reform in the 1990s, which curbed immigrants’ access to certain benefits.

The Agendas

Distorting the effect of immigration on the US Economy is no difficult task. All it requires is an uninformed populace, (no shortage there.) and a problem. The uninformed have a tendency to blame their current problems on the current “Devil” There are many “Devils” simply because there are many problems. If the problem is inflation the “Devil” is the Federal Reserve System. If problem is the outsourcing of jobs then the “Devil” is greed. However, if your problem is the current recession, low wages and high unemployment your “Devil” is probably Illegal Immigration. The results: up pops a Cottage Industry of forwarding e-mails, and You-Tube videos about some isolated stories about the horrors of immigration. Some of the stories you get are the truth, some are half-truths and some are outright fabrications. Many if not most are the effects observed in an isolated place by a single individual that may have an agenda and he may see things and report his observations in a way that supports that agenda.

This leads to such e-mails as Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal, which is a complete distortion, at a frightening level of competence.

The premise of Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal is incorrect. According to Mark Kirkorian, the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (See below)“Most illegal immigrants work ON THE BOOKS (Emphasis added) They have given a fake or a stolen Social Security number…” This means they are paying the same Income Taxes that Joe Legal pays, with no hope of getting a refund check if they overpay. This also means that they are paying the same Social Security Taxes as Joe Legal. [Other illegals also work ON THE BOOKS when they apply for and get ITIN (Individual Tax Identification Number) This group volunteers to pay Income and Social Security taxes.

[The Center for Immigration Studies is an organization that not only vigorously opposes illegal immigration they oppose the high level of legal immigration. On their web site they admit that, “The data collected by the Center during the past quarter-century has led many of our researchers to conclude that current, high levels of immigration are making it harder to achieve such important national objectives as better public schools, a cleaner environment, homeland security, and a living wage for every native-born and immigrant worker.”]

In my Blog Post, "Who You Gonna Believe The Undocumented E-Mail or Your Lying Eyes. I was borrowing from a story of a husband denying unfaithfulness after being caught by his wife in bed with another woman by saying the only thing he could say that might delivery him from obvious guilt, by saying, “Who are you going to believe, me, your long time husband or your lying eyes?” All the confirmation that illegal immigration is a NET GAIN to the US economy is everywhere to be seen, but 74% are going to believe the undocumented e-mails.

That Blog Post covering the NET GAIN of illegal immigration, attracted one of the 74% that believe that illegal immigration weakens the US economy. I have named him Carl Concerned. This Blog Post was inspired by by my exposure to the fourth or fifth in depth study, entitled, The Effect of Immigration on the total output and income of the US economy I did not understand half of what he said less than 10% of what his mathematical formulas proved. However, I did understand when he said, “Statistical analysis of state-level data shows that Statistical analysis of state-level data shows that immigrants expand the economy's productive capacity by stimulating investment and promoting specialization. This produces efficiency gains and boosts income per worker. At the same time, evidence is scant that immigrants diminish the employment opportunities of U.S.-born workers. At the same time, evidence is scant that immigrants diminish the employment opportunities of U.S.-born workers.

I also understood when he said his findings could be confirmed by a study of, see Borjas 2006; Card 2001, 2007, 2009; and Card and Lewis 2007. I scanned those studies, I understood even less of what they said. However, the one thing they all said, that being, most economist agree that illegal immigration is a NET GAIN to the US Economy.

Then I read, Why Americans (Wrongly) Think Illegal Immigrants Hurt The Economy ByArian Campo-Flores (Not an economist) I understood almost all of what he said, including, “…the consensus among most economists is that immigration, both legal and illegal, provides a small net boost to the economy.

Before I go on, let me say that I believe Carl is concerned. I further believe that Carl believes that illegal immigration is a drain on our economy. But alas Carl has had too much propaganda and not enough cause and effect. I believe Carl has had too many undocumented anti-illegal immigration e-mails and not enough objective studies.

Carl Concerned accused me of only giving the positive side of the illegal immigration story, and if I was to be objective I would have to give both sides. Please note, gentle reader who is giving both sides and who is being subjective? When most economist say immigration, both legal and illegal is a NET GAIN to the US economy, that takes in both sides. However when Carl says California alone spends $20 Billion educating the kids of illegals, he does not cover the other side. He is not told that many of the children of illegals were born in the US, making them Citizens. He does not say that embedded in the rent that illegals pay for their apartment or house is money the landlord collects and pays to the State for property taxes, and that half of the property tax goes to support government schools.

The only documented numbers he gave were: the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) wrote in its Feb. 2011 article said, "Illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and local level… The annual outlay that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers is an average amount per native-headed household of $1,117... Education for the children of illegal aliens constitutes the single largest cost to taxpayers, at an annual price tag of nearly $52 billion...

When I asked if I showed the flaw in those statistics would he favor a more open border policy? He declined, just like he declined when he challenged me to name even one modern nation that had an open border policy. When I challenged him to agree with more open borders if I could name more than three, he declined.

Let me say it again, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) wrote in its Feb. 2011 article said, "Illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and local level… The annual outlay that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers is an average amount per native-headed household of $1,117... Education for the children of illegal aliens constitutes the single largest cost to taxpayers, at an annual price tag of nearly $52 billion... Let me leave it open ended. Does any of the readers see even one of at least four flaw in that statement. And Carl, If I can show four flaws will you be in favor of more open borders????????

Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal (Part 2) by Chuck McGlawn

2011-11-23T10:24:00.000-08:00

An unsigned e-mail, “Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal”, has been floating around the internet for a few years. It is a metaphor for all the legal families and all he illegal families in the US. The Message, Illegal Immigration hurts YOU and YOUR FAMILY.

The e-mail starts with: You have two families: "Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families have two parents, two children, and live in California.

The premise: Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted. Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".

This premise is followed by comparisons in the results that lead the reader to the conclusion that indeed, Illegal Immigration hurts YOU and YOUR FAMILY.

However, Logic teaches that if your “premise” is correct, and your logic is correct your conclusions will be correct. However if your “premise” is correct, and your logic is incorrect your conclusions will be incorrect. Surprisingly if your “premise” is incorrect, and your logic is incorrect, you do not know if your conclusions are incorrect or not. Lastly, if your “premise” is INCORRECT, and your logic is correct your conclusions will be INCORRECT

In Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal the premise is INCORRECT, it states that Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table."

That is not true, says Mark Kirkorian, the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies [This is an organization that not only
vigorously opposes illegal immigration they oppose the high level of legal immigration. On their web site they admit that, “The data collected by the Center during the past quarter-century has led many of our researchers to conclude that current, high levels of immigration are making it harder to achieve such important national objectives as better public schools, a cleaner environment, homeland security, and a living wage for every native-born and immigrant worker.”]

During a debate at the Cato Institute Kikorian said, “Most illegal immigrants work ON THE BOOKS (Emphasis added) They’ve given a fake or a stolen Social Security number…” This means they are paying the same Income Taxes that Joe Legal pays, with no hope of getting a refund check if they overpay. This also means that they are paying the same Social Security Taxes as Joe Legal. (Please remember whatever is taken out of Jose Illegal’s pay is matched by their employer, and sent to the Federal Government.) Jose Illegal does this with no hope of ever collecting any social security money. It means that their Social Security payment goes to the government, and the government uses the money to cover current Social Security checks (maybe yours).

You can see the debate at http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=7334. I invite you to watch the entire debate, but you can hear the above quote soon after the 45 min. mark.

So when the E-Mail says, “Joe Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours = $1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00 per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax; Joe Legal now has $31,231.00.

Jose Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, or $31,200.0 0 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes. Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00.

That is not true Mark Kirkorian, the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies says, “Most illegal immigrants work ON THE BOOKS (Emphasis added)

Jose Illegal may earn less but working ON THE BOOKS he is subject to the same laws as Joe Legal.

Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $24,031.00.

Jose Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

That is not true Mark Kirkorian, the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies says, “Most illegal immigrants work ON THE BOOKS (Emphasis added)

There are laws covering mandatory group coverage for full time workers if the company employees a certain number of employees. The law covers everyone. However, since Jose Illegal has given an invalid or stolen Social Security number in order to work on the books, his vital medical history is being stored under someone else’s name. So, if the US ever adopts a realistic guest worker program Jose Illegal will not have the benefit of a medical history when receiving future medical services.

Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200.00 per month, or $14,400.00 per year. Joe Legal now has 9,631 .00.

Jose Illegal receives a $500.00 per month federal rent subsidy. Jose Illegal pays out that $500.00 per month, or $6,000.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $ 31,200.00.

That is not true Mark Kirkorian, the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies says, “Most illegal immigrants work ON THE BOOKS (Emphasis added)

If you do not see by now that the author of the e-mail has an agenda. STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. He may truly believe immigration is destructive, but he is wrong. Almost all economists agree that immigration, both legal and illegal provide a NET GAIN to the US.

Joe Legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, etc..

Jose Illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every month..

This statement reveals the authors agenda. Remember the premise Jose Illegal’s parents, wife and kids are here in the US "consuming all of our free goodies", who does he have in his homeland to whom is he sending money???

I am not saying that no one is hurt by illegal immigration. It is bound to happen. I will say this when government involves itself in immigration control you will have distortions that are the source of the destructiveness.

Editors Note: All are invited to comment on what I have said in this article which goes out under my name. I can verify what I say. I cannot verify what you think I said.

Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal (Part 1) by Chuck McGlawn

2011-11-19T12:14:00.000-08:00

An unsigned e-mail has been floating around the internet for a few years. Perhaps it has landed in your in-box a time or two, maybe a time or six. You are coaxed to open the e-mail by the Subject, “Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal” Even if you do not read the entire e-mail the message it conveys becomes very clear, very soon. That very clear message being, “Illegal Immigration hurts YOU and YOUR FAMILY”. The heading just above the comparisons reads, “DO YOU THINK THIS IS FAIR? THIS IS YOU, THE LEGAL”. That statement casts you as Joe Legal. If you read the entire e-mail you will see that “Joe Legal” and “Jose Illegal” are metaphors for all the legal families and all he illegal families in the US.

The e-mail starts with: You have two families: "Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families have two parents, two children, and live in California.

Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.

Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".

Seems very clear Jose Illegal is not paying his fair share of the Income Taxes. However, a closer look will reveal that Jose Illegal is responsible for MORE INCOME TAXES not less. The more taxes that Jose Illegal is responsible for are Federal Income Taxes

If Jose paid income tax he would pay the lowest rate of 15%. Fifteen percent of $15.00 is $2.25. That means Jose would pay $2.25X40 hours. That would net the Federal Government $90.00 per week or $4,680.00 per year.

However, by working off the books at $15.00 per hour, Jose he adds $10.00 for every hour he works to the profit of the job on which he is working. His boss pays the highest tax bracket of 35%. Thirty five percent of $10.00 that Jose adds to the profit from the job is $3.50. So, by being paid under the table Jose actually generates an extra $1.25 in Federal income tax revenue for every hour he works. That would be $1.25X40 hours=$50.00 per week, times 52 weeks =$2,600 per year. Multiply that by the 12,000,000 illegals $31.2 billion. Look closer at statistics about illegal immigration, a few are true, a few are false, most are only half true. And the half-truths are the ones that really mislead.

Who You Gonna Believe The Undocumented E-Mail or Your Lying Eyes. By Chuck McGlawn

2011-11-03T04:56:00.000-07:00

Distorting the effect of immigration on the US Economy is no difficult task. All it requires is an uninformed populace, (No shortage there.) a bump up in unemployment, (Even if the bump-up is localized.) and a shrinking press looking for a scandal to report, (Unemployed news writers are plentiful.) and up pops a Cottage Industry of forwarding e-mails, and You-Tube videos about some isolated stories about the horrors of immigration. You know this you have received them and you have become part of the transmission belt by forwarding them.

Some of the stories you get are the truth, some are half-truths and some are outright fabrications. Many if not most are the effects observed in an isolated place by a single individual that may have an agenda and he may see things and report his observations in a way that supports that agenda. Let me invite you to look at a more complete picture.

Giovanni Peri an associate professor at the University of California, Davis, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has conducted comprehensive research on “The Effect of Immigrants on U.S. Employment and Productivity” His research covered the effects of immigration on the total output and income of the U.S. economy.

This is accomplished by comparing output per worker and employment in states that have had large immigrant inflows with data from states that have few new foreign-born workers.

Statistical analysis of state-level data shows that:

Ø Immigrants expand the economy's productive capacity.

Ø Stimulate investment.

Ø Promote specialization.

This produces efficiency gains and boosts income per worker. At the same time, evidence is scant that immigrants diminish the employment opportunities of U.S.-born workers.

Immigration in recent decades has significantly increased the presence of foreign-born workers in the United States. The impact of these immigrants on the U.S. economy is a mixed bag hotly debated.

Ø Some stories in the popular press suggest that immigrants diminish the job opportunities of workers born in the United States.

Ø Others portray immigrants as filling essential jobs that are shunned by other workers.

Economists who have analyzed local labor markets have mostly failed to find large effects of immigrants on employment and wages of U.S.-born workers (see Borjas 2006; Card 2001, 2007, 2009; and Card and Lewis 2007).

The information that follows summarizes recent research by Peri (2009) and Peri and Sparber (2009) examining the impact of immigrants on the broader U.S. economy.

Ø These studies systematically analyze how immigrants affect total output.

Ø Income per worker.

Ø Employment in the short and long run.

Consistent with previous research, the analysis finds no significant effect of immigration on net job growth for U.S.-born workers in these time horizons. This suggests that the economy absorbs immigrants by expanding job opportunities rather than by displacing workers born in the United States.

At the state level, the presence of immigrants is associated with increased output per worker. This effect emerges in the medium to long run as businesses adjust their physical capital, that is, equipment and structures, to take advantage of the labor supplied by new immigrants. Finally, immigration is associated with an increase in average hours per worker and a reduction in skills per worker as measured by the share of college-educated workers in a state. These two effects have opposite and roughly equal effect on labor productivity.

Immigration effects on employment, income, and productivity vary by occupation, job, and industry. Nonetheless, it is possible to total these effects to get an aggregate economic impact. Here we attempt to quantify the aggregate gains and losses for the U.S. economy from immigration. If the average impact on employment and income per worker is positive, this implies an aggregate “surplus” from immigration. In other words, the total gains accruing to some U.S.-born workers are larger than the total losses suffered by others. (It is from “losses suffered by others” group that all the negative stories are generated.)

First, there is no evidence that immigrants crowd out U.S.-born workers in either the short or long run. Data on U.S.-born worker employment imply small effects, with estimates never statistically different from zero. The impact on hours per worker is similar. We observe insignificant effects in the short run and a small but significant positive effect in the long run. At the same time, immigration reduces somewhat the skill intensity of workers in the short and long run because immigrants have a slightly lower average education level than U.S.-born workers.

Second, the positive long-run effect on income per U.S.-born worker accrues over some time. In the short run, small insignificant effects are observed. Over the long run, however, a net inflow of immigrants equal to 1% of employment increases income per worker by 0.6% to 0.9%. This implies that total immigration to the United States from 1990 to 2007 was associated with a 6.6% to 9.9% increase in real income per worker. That equals an increase of about $5,100 in the yearly income of the average U.S. worker in constant 2005 dollars. Such a gain equals 20% to 25% of the total real increase in average yearly income per worker registered in the United States between 1990 and 2007.

So please, stop with the stories of your next door neighbor’s Uncle’s School teacher’s brother in law lost his dry walling job to an immigrant. Because it is just as true or just as false, that my cousin’s exercise instructor’s room mate’s brother replaced an immigrant at a Hardware Store job.

The third result is that the long-run increase in income per worker associated with immigrants is mainly due to increases in the efficiency and productivity of state economies. This effect becomes apparent in the medium to long run. Such a gradual response of productivity is accompanied by a gradual response of capital intensity. While in the short run, physical capital per unit of output is decreased by net immigration, in the medium to long run, businesses expand their equipment and physical plant proportionally to their increase in production.

How can these patterns be explained?

The effects identified above can be explained by adjustments businesses make over time that allow them to take full advantage of the new immigrant labor supply. These adjustments, including upgrading and expanding capital stock, provide businesses with opportunities to expand in response to hiring immigrants.

This process can be analyzed at the state level (see Peri and Sparber 2009). The analysis begins with the well-documented phenomenon that U.S.-born workers and immigrants tend to take different occupations. Among less-educated workers, those born in the United States tend to have jobs in manufacturing or mining, while immigrants tend to have jobs in personal services and agriculture. Second, within industries and specific businesses, immigrants and U.S.-born workers tend to specialize in different job tasks. Because those born in the United States have relatively better English language skills, they tend to specialize in communication tasks. Immigrants tend to specialize in other tasks, such as manual labor. Just as in the standard concept of comparative advantage, this results in specialization and improved production efficiency.

Figure 1
Communication/manual skills among less-educated U.S.-born workers

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Note: The data on average communication/manual skills by state are from Peri and Sparber (2009), obtained from the manual and communication intensity of occupations, weighted according to the distributional occupation of U.S.-born workers.

If these patterns are driving the differences across states, then in states where immigration has been heavy, U.S.-born workers with less education should have shifted toward more communication-intensive jobs. Figure 1 shows exactly this. The share of immigrants among the less educated is strongly correlated with the extent of U.S.-born worker specialization in communication tasks. Each point in the graph represents a U.S. state in 2005. In states with a heavy concentration of less-educated immigrants, U.S.-born workers have migrated toward more communication-intensive occupations. Those jobs pay higher wages than manual jobs, so such a mechanism has stimulated the productivity of workers born in the United States and generated new employment opportunities.

To better understand this mechanism, it is useful to consider the following hypothetical illustration. As young immigrants with low schooling levels take manually intensive construction jobs, the construction companies that employ them have opportunities to expand. This increases the demand for construction supervisors, coordinators, designers, and so on. Those are occupations with greater communication intensity and are typically staffed by U.S.-born workers who have moved away from manual construction jobs. This complementary task specialization typically pushes U.S.-born workers toward better-paying jobs, enhances the efficiency of production, and creates jobs. This task specialization, however, may involve adoption of different techniques or managerial procedures and the renovation or replacement of capital equipment. Hence, it takes some years to be fully realized.

Conclusions

The U.S. economy is dynamic, shedding and creating hundreds of thousands of jobs every month. Businesses are in a continuous state of flux. The most accurate way to gauge the net impact of immigration on such an economy is to analyze the effects dynamically over time. Data show that, on net, immigrants expand the U.S. economy’s productive capacity, stimulate investment, and promote specialization that in the long run boosts productivity. Consistent with previous research, there is no evidence that these effects take place at the expense of jobs for workers born in the United States.

References

Borjas, George J. 2006. “Native Internal Migration and the Labor Market Impact of Immigration.” Journal of Human Resources 41(2), pp. 221–258.

Card, David. 2001. “Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration.” Journal of Labor Economics 19(1), pp. 22–64.

Card, David. 2007. “How Immigration Affects U.S. Cities.” University College London, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration Discussion Paper 11/07.

Card, David. 2009. “Immigration and Inequality.” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 99(2), pp. 1–21.

Card, David, and Ethan Lewis. 2007. “The Diffusion of Mexican Immigrants during the 1990s: Explanations and Impacts.” In Mexican Immigration to the United States, ed. George J. Borjas. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Peri, Giovanni, and Chad Sparber. 2009. “Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1(3), pp. 135–169.

Peri, Giovanni. 2009. “The Effect of Immigration on Productivity: Evidence from U.S. States.” NBER Working Paper 15507.

The USofA Says Much if We Are Listening by Chuck McGlawn

2011-09-25T20:41:00.000-07:00

Please look at our abbreviation – UsofA. What it says and the message it conveys is a long lost treasure, that is gradually vanishing. Leaving the amalgamation of the diverse populations, little by little over the years, with no vision of what could be. And gentle reader, every time we say something like, "The government should…” or, “the government will…”, or “the government has…” we are ignoring that abbreviation and the invaluable lesson it contains, and thus driving it farther and farther into the “Memory Hole” and farther away from the thinking wing of the Liberty Movement.

You see, we are not a France, or a Poland, or a Germany. We are unique in history of the world. What makes US one of a kind is that we are the first and only Nation created from the bottom up. What I mean is that thirteen separate States united to establish a super state clearly defined powers and with severely limited purposes. And we did it on the continent named America. Thus, we have the USofA. Please note that in the Declaration of Independence the word, "united" is not capitalized, placing the emphasis on the States and not the united. The creation of this new and unique nation was of such advanced thinking that England, whom we had just defeated in the field of battle did not even have a way to concede our victory because we were not a nation that was recognizable by England as a nation. It was not until France recognized the US as a nation that England could capitulate.

That dynamic of separate States, each of them being the very best they could be is what has made the USofA great. It was the built-in “cause and effect” or the "lessons learned" that by working their way through out the other States. Ideas, and actions that produced destructive results would be ignored and discarded, while creative, progressive results were embraced and improved upon, and then relaunched again to work their way through out the other States, and on and on and on until we became the greatest Nation in the history of the world.

Woe is the US we are losing that greatness. We are losing that dynamic. It is being slowly inverted, not only by big government liberals, but by also big government conservatives. Both factions are formulating “one size fits all,” laws forced onto all fifty States by the National Government, to the detriment of many.

There are different levels of Government, and calling for different forms of government. For the National we have a blueprint from which to draw. It is the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence as a Mission Statement leads to a Republic as a form of government. A Republic is a government ruled by a set of natural laws. Where the government, as well as the people, must obey. These natural laws are delineated in the Declaration of Independence. The Thirteen States that created the National Government had a verity of governmental forms. However, over time they began to immolate the National Government. A process that is not complete. The countless cities, towns and hamlets had been functioning under many forms of government and doing so with complete success.

I encourage you to stop this gradual drift into “government” to mean, “The only level that we talk about in everyday conversation.” This is an encouragement, that when you are speaking or writing and referring to government, that you designate the level of government about which you are speaking, this will have the effect of slowing down the process that the national government is only government of conversation.

The Declaration of Independence: A Closer Look

2011-08-28T10:07:00.000-07:00

by Chuck McGlawn

While the foundations and underpinnings of “natural law” are taking root in the fertile soil of the "New World", they are, at the same time, being read and studied by the Founding Fathers who ushered in a completely new attitude towards RIGHTS, which took on the name “UNALIENABLE RIGHTS”, or “INALIENABLE RIGHTS”. The precise elements, the exact formulation and perfect timing all coalesced to give birth to this completely new concept in man’s attitude toward RIGHTS and a brand new governance based on that attitude. In short, we had arrived at that time in our philosophical evolution that man felt that he had the capacity for self-government.This time in our philosophical evolution made the concept of “might makes right” ready to be discarded into the trash heap of history. This is the period when we realized that “the divine right of Kings” no longer held any significance, and the people no longer needed a monarch supposedly put in power by God to guide us through life.This was a gigantic step forward in man's attitude towards RIGHTS.

This was not only a completely new attitude toward RIGHTS; it also spawned a completely new relationship between man and his government. This step in the evolution has literally redefined nationhood, even though historians have not realized, or have chosen to ignore this giant step forward in the evolution of humankind. For the first time in the history of nationhood, the nation would be the servant of man, and not the reverse. The thirteen original colonies were to remain sovereign, linked only by the Articles of Confederation and later the Constitution.

If you have any doubts as that last statement I invite you to read very carefully the last paragraph, copied from Wikipedia, you will find it at the bottom of this article.

This entire miracle is laid-out in just one paragraph of the Declaration of Independence; it is a paragraph that I have come to believe that even the author did not completely understand. The Declaration of Independence is the thread that stitched together thirteen independent States into one nation, and serves as the “Mission Statement” for that nation. It lays out the basic plan as to what our founding fathers wanted to accomplish with the government that would be created if we fought off the British Monarchy. The Declaration of Independence was the red flag waved in front of the bull to excite the bull to attack. It was the Declaration of Independence that energized enough of the colonist to think they could take on the British Empire.

Let us dissect and take a closer look at the components of that paragraph of the Declaration of Independence through eyes that are 232 years farther along the evolutionary process. Let us start with, We hold these truths to be self-evident… This statement indicates that the underpinnings of these concepts were well established, and were almost universally understood by 1776. The statement basically says, “If you look around you will come to the same conclusion. The Declaration of Independence continues with, …that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. WOW, what a powerfully insightful sentence. It lays out man’s rights, (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness) with the dictum that these rights are natural rights granted by nature or the Creator. That they cannot be taken way. Not even by the government being created. They are “unalienable” And that these truths are confirmed simply by observation of natural law.

Let us look just a little closer. I am questioning the use of the words “among these…” Because you have three and only three RIGHTS. Simply by being born you have the right to LIFE. Moreover, you have the RIGHT to do with that life anything you want to do that is called LIBERTY. Furthermore you have the RIGHT to plan and conduct that life in a way that you think will maximize your happiness. Can you think of any more RIGHTS that the three so eloquently listed could be among? (These RIGHTS are all yours, so long as what you do does not interfere with another's right to do what he or she wants to do with their life).

Next, the framers make a vitally important assertion. “That to secure these rights”, (notice here that these are rights that we had even before we had governments to "secure" them.) “Governments are instituted among Men”. Please note here exactly what is being said, that “We The People” are going to engaged in a contract with our (soon to be formed) government to “secure” (that is to protect) our rights. It is also important to note that men make government, and therefore men precede government. This means that our National Government is the agent to and servant of the States and the men that created the States. Putting the States and man in the positions of power, and not the reverse.

Now the framers are going to designate from where our national government gets its powers, and at the same time put an important limitation on that governmental power. The Declaration of Independence says, “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed.” There you have it. If government gets its power from the governed, it follows that man cannot create a government and give to that government powers that man himself does not have. Let me say that again. . If our national government gets its power from the governed, then the government cannot have powers that man himself does not have. Now we are talking here about a whole new concept in governance, where independent States, thirteen to be exact, create the framework of a nation.

Now, let us ask two questions to clarify the thinking about the power of government. Remember we are only talking about the National Government. The State, the County and the City governments do not enter into these limitations. Question #1, does man have the RIGHT to defend his own life and property? The answer to that question is YES. Therefore, man can institute a National Government and share with that Government the power to protect life and property. In fact, that is the justification for the military for national DEFENSE, a police force for property protection. and a court system to adjudicate crimes against man and property.

Question #2, [And I am serious here.] Does man (that is an individual man) have the RIGHT to take money from your pocket, and give it to someone else that he thinks needs it more? The answer to that question is NO. Please note, if an individual man does not have the RIGHT to take money from one and give it to another. Then how could a collection of individual men derive such a power?) Therefore, it would follow that if man does not have that right then he cannot create a National Government, and give to that National Government the power to take money from one and give it to another that the government thinks needs it more.

This means our National Government can tax us to perform the job of National Defense and create a Judicial system. The National Government has no power to extract taxes from you to educate children, no matter how badly you may think children need educating. It means that our national government can have no power to extract taxes from you to fund social welfare, no matter how needy you think some people are. This restriction on the National Government does not prevent the individual States and Counties and Cities from taxing to support those activities.

As long as we are talking about the National Government, it also can have no power to extract taxes for health care providing, business promoting. Our National Government should not be involved in, Park building, educational standards setting, régime changing, weather reporting, democracy spreading. The National Government’s job description does not include database keeping, farmer saving, speed limit setting, toilet designing, e-mail reading, phone tapping, or the dozens of other things that the National Government is either financing or regulating.

The future of our already grossly eroded RIGHTS is grim indeed. With the two major parties competing with each other to buy your votes with increased spending and increased regulation, individual RIGHTS will continue to wane. Things are going to get worse before they get better. Let me quickly add, things will get better. History, moving ever forward, does not ever make a U-Turn.

Here is the last paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. Read it carefully.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Did you catch it? Do you see something that you have never seen before? If no, please contact this author either for some well needed “eye-opening” exercises or to join me in spreading this revelation.

End All Minimum Wage Laws By Chuck McGlawn

2011-08-21T20:50:00.000-07:00

The statement of a “Greedy Capitalist”, or is it a step toward more freedom? In this, the “Age of Polarization”, if you are generally called a liberal or progressive you accept the first answer. If you are called a conservative or a Tea Partier you would favor the second. If you were an economist of either stripe, you may say neither, followed by, “However, minimum wages do increase unemployment.”

OK, if almost every economist agrees and it is a given that laws that increase the minimum wage always increases unemployment. Then, on what segment of the labor force does it have the most effect. The answer to that question is a surprising, “it affects the least skilled, and then every skill level above the least skilled.”

It is easy to conceptualize that when minimum wage laws raise the minimum wage some of the least skilled workers may lose their jobs, even if the job is the least demanding menial tasks. Employers may think some of their employees and the jobs they do are not worth the mandatory wage raise. However, it is also true that the job they had been doing may still occasionally need doing. This means a more skilled employee is pulled off his more productive activity to do the menial jobs occasionally.

As occupants of more skilled levels must move downward, it follows that employees of the next higher skill level will be moved downward to fill in for work not completed by the lower skilled.

Let’s turn this thinking upside down, with a simple thought experiment. We are going to imagine just one company and one job center. There 100 people employed at four skill levels: 10% at the lowest skill level, 60% employed at the second level, 20% at the third level and top management constitutes the upper 10%. There is a minimum wage in effect. The company is able to compete in the marketplace. The product or service they provide or produce is selling at a level that provides enough profit to keep the investors satisfied. There is at every skill level one employee that is ready and eager for promotion but is held back because management is not sure the increased cost added to the increased production the result of four promotions are executed will have a market. In this thought experiment we are dealing with very high unemployment rate for certain segments of the population. It is as high as 50% for high school dropouts especially minorities. The reason for high unemployment are the minimum wages that must be paid. This prevents a willing buyer of labor and a willing seller of labor to connect because government prevents it.

Into this mental exercise let us eliminate the minimum wages. Now the willing buyer can contract with the willing seller and a single low skilled person is hired. This will free up the most skilled at every level to be promoted to the next level. Increased production with very little increase in production cost making the company more profitable. In this example four people are gaining skills and experience not available to them when minimum wage laws prevent the lowest skilled from ever getting a job to get these experiences.

How the Left and Right Got Their Names By Chuck McGlawn

2011-08-19T17:08:00.000-07:00

How the Right got its name is a no brainer, closely associated with Conservatives they simply called themselves the opposite to their opposition, the left. Now, how the Left got its name is a little more complicated and somewhat clouded. My assumption is that Karl Marx called his Communist movement a “movement of the left” because of the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly. The First Estate (the clergy and "Religion is the opiate of the proletariat".) and the Second Estate (the landed nobility, the exploiters of labor) was the power elite of the day sat on right side of Louie XVI. They were seen by Marx as the enemy, and he therefore called his movement a movement of the left. Lenin and Trotsky continued to refer to Communism as a movement of the left.

Even without my assumption, the usage over the years confirms many times over that Totalitarianism, Communism and Socialism (all 100% government) have always been referred to as "left" few people get this one wrong.

Now, stay with me here, if 100% government is the extreme left, and the starting point on the left end of a political spectrum, then 0% government, or Anarchy, would be the exact opposite and the ending point on the right end of that political spectrum. This is not conjecture or just my opinion. This single plane spectrum, with 100% government on the left and 0% government on the right, is the ONLY measuring device that takes in every person and every governmental system or lack of system on the planet.

There are “Big Tent” libertarians, there are the “Taxes are theft” libertarians. There are single issue Libertarians e.g. Anti-Gun Control, pro choice, libertarians, and many others. There are no “more government” Libertarians, this would mean there is no such thing as a “left libertarian”.

The Right

In The Transformation of the American Right, first published in Continuum, Summer 1964, pp. 220–231. Murray Rothbard correctly observed,

The modern American Right began, in the 1930’s and 1940’s, as a reaction against the New Deal and the Roosevelt Revolution, and specifically as an opposition to the critical increase of statism and state intervention… (Emphasis added)

According to Dr. Rothbard, the left/right political spectrum measures the increases in governmental power, especially the power to intervene into the daily lives of individuals and businesses.

A reinforcement of this concept is found in “Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal” published in 1969, Rothbard further observed: “…we adopted the standard view, (Emphasis added) let me repeat “…we adopted the standard view, (Emphasis added) of the political spectrum: “left,” meant socialism, or total power of the state; the further ‘right’ one went the less government one favored. Hence, we called ourselves “extreme rightists." Rothbard’s standard view of the left right political Spectrum would have looked like this, I have added some of the major occupants and their relative positions on the chart. (view full screen)

100% government ß-----------------------------------------------------------L---I --B---E--R--T--A--R--I --A-- Nà 0% government.

Left (Totalitarian Communist Socialism Fascist Nazi) Anarchy . Right

Note: Because different Libertarians believe in different amounts of government, we have spread Libertarianism over the right end of the chart.

Additional confirmation, farther along in the same article Rothbard said, “Originally, our historical heroes were such men as [Thomas] Jefferson, [Thomas] Paine, [John]Cobden and [Richard] Bright and [Herbert] Spencer. As our views became purer and more consistent, we eagerly embraced such near-anarchists as the voluntarist, Auberon Herbert, and the American individualist-anarchists, Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker.”

In other words as they became “purer” and more “consistent” in their Libertarians thinking, there heroes were chosen from men that were closer to anarchy and 0% government on the right end of the Political Spectrum, that Dr. Rothbard called the standard view.

What Was Old Is New Again.…by Chuck McGlawn

2011-08-06T11:20:00.000-07:00

There was a time when Right, Rightist, Right Wing and Conservative were almost synonymous. During almost the same period Left, Leftist and Left Wing and Liberal were also nearly synonymous. Verify this with a quick look at the Noland Quiz. In 1972 the terms left/liberal and right/conservative were almost used interchangeably. If you are trying to maintain the synonymousness (if that is a word) of Right/Conservative and Left/Liberal, let me say, it cannot be done. The distinction between Right and Conservative began in the early 50s, (With the launch of National Review.)and broadened greatly in the early 70s (With the bourgeoning of the conservative evangelical movement.). If you will look closely at these times in history, you will see the points of when the two concepts began to take on different meanings.

The distinction between Left/Liberal began in the mid 60s, and has continued more gradually ever since. If you will look closely at this time in history, you will see the point of distinction, when the two concepts began to take on different meanings.

The bottom line, is we have reached a point where we need to be specific when we mean “Right” and when we mean “Conservative”. Moreover, we need to be specific when we mean “Left” and when we mean “Liberal”.

Left-Wing took on its modern meaning in the US, that of being a movement that held that government was best suited to solve social and economic problems. The meaning evolved partially from Karl Marx, and then wholly from Lenin and Trotsky. Marx always referred to communism as being on the left. Let me remind you of Marx‘s call for the “Dictatorship of the Proletariat“. Let me also remind you that Lenin’s last major work… was entitled “Left-Wing” Communism…” Encyclopedia of Marxism. “Trotsky criticized the Soviet Union in some cases for being too far left” (Emphasis added) when they “initiated forced collectivization of all farms.” Encyclopedia of Marxism) Please note government nationalizing agriculture is an increase in governmental power.

The left’s connection to liberal occurred in the US around 1920. However, to make that clear we will go back to the late 1800s. when Communism, Marxism and big government were clearly Left. The left in America did not want to be connected in any way to Marx or communism as he had already made some very powerful enemies, so they did not call themselves “leftist”. The names they used to identify their leftist activities in America was “populist” and/or “progressive”.

The Populist party platform of 1896, calling itself the “party of the people”, campaigned for a graduated (progressive) income tax, postal [or national] savings banks be established by the Government, nationalization of the railroads and the telegraph in the interest of the people. These planks came straight out of the Communist Manifesto. See Populist Party Platform 1886 at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/seminar/unit8/popplat.htm

More specifically, the “populist” or “progressive”, clearly leftist, were very busy calling for the government intervention. More specifically, they wanted the government to solve the problems caused by the displacement of farm labor and its migration to the big cities. This displacement was brought on by the increased efficiency of agricultural production.

They failed so completely, that to the voters the Populist/Progressives programs were completely discredited. By the 1920s, the labels “Populist” and “Progressive” had become pejoratives in the political lexicon. Therefore, the “Populist” and “Progressive” needed a new name to identify themselves so they could continue their leftist work of collectivization of the American people. The name they took was “liberal for the first time the terms liberal and left-wing were connected and in time would become almost synonyms.

From that point until the mid 1960s, the terms left wing and liberal became more and more synonymous. These terms used almost interchangeably to describe people who were generally calling for more government, or more accurately that government was best suited to solve social and economic problems.

To quote Murray Rothbard, “The modern American Right got its meaning and its start in the 1930's and 1940's, as a reaction to the New Deal and the Roosevelt Revolution, and specifically as an opposition to the critical increase of statism and state intervention.”(Emphasis added) It was fairly clear that most everyone’s perception Right Wing meant opposition to big government. Among it’s most vocal adherents were John T. Flynn, H.L. Mencken, Albert Jay Nock, Rose Wilder Lane, and Garet Garret, Frank Chodorov and yes Murray Rothbard himself.

The Winds of Change

Please recall that prior to the mid 1960s, the Liberal/left had applauded and encouraged the growth and expansion of domestic social programs during the Roosevelt era. Additionally, the liberal/left tolerated the militarist expansion of the Truman and Eisenhower era. However, during the mid 1960s to late 1970s, a change was taking place. Even liberals, that had always favored expanding government, were beginning to be concerned with the exponential growth of governmental power. In other words, Liberals began feeling the pinch of expanded government.

At this point, the terms “Liberal” and “left wing” ceased to be synonymous. Liberals abandoned the Left-Wing call for government to solve all problems. On issues like marijuana use, prostitution, censorship and especially the military draft, liberals were decidedly anti-big government.

Conversely, the “conservative” and “right wing” movement was evolving as well, spurred on by two events: William F. Buckley in the early1950s stampeded many Conservative/Right Wingers into calling for more government to oppose communism. Secondly, the burgeoning Conservative fundamental Christian revival of the 1970s, with this growth in numbers and power, conservatives learned that they, could advance their agenda through government, a program that they eagerly adopted, and continue to embrace.

These are the points in time when the terms conservative and right-wing ceased to be synonymous. At that time conservatives were not always anti-big government. They now favored big military, increased FBI and CIA activity to oppose Communism. They favored things like “troops on the border” to stop immigration, laws that made “abortion illegal” and the Presidential use of the “Federal Registry” to stop “partial-birth abortions” and “stem cell research”. All of which are calls for more government.

None of those changes had any effect on the Left/Right Political Spectrum. That much maligned Left/Right spectrum is more important today than at anytime in beleagered history, because it measures the power of government, or the degree to which government makes the decisions for individuals and businesses, or the degree to which individuals and businesses are free to make their own decisions.

It looked like this: (view full screen)

100% government <-------------------------------------------------------------------------------> 0% government.

Left Communism Fascism Socialism -------------------------- England------------ USA----- Anarchy Right

The Soviet Union under Communism, (a totalitarian system) was 100% government. Fulfilling Marx’s call for “the dictatorship of the proletariat”. The State made 100% of the decisions for its citizens and industry. The Soviet Union was therefore, on the far left end of the spectrum, as described by Marx, Lenin and Trotsky.

Anarchy, which literally means “no rule”, would be on the opposite right end of that spectrum. England, with a Monarchy and a Parliament, and a semi-socialist economic system, made a high percentage of the decisions for its citizens, but still less than the 100% of the decisions as in the Soviet Union. England was then, to the right of the Soviet Union, but far from the right end of the spectrum.

This would place the constitutionally limited government of the United States clearly to the right of England and toward the right end of the spectrum but still to the left of anarchy.

In Conclusion

Conservatives are Right-Wing when they call for less government, for reducing taxes, reducing foreign aid, corporate and social welfare, for ending farm subsidies, protecting Second Amendment rights, reducing Federal regulations. Etc. However, Conservatives, as you have observed, are Left-Wing when they call for increases in governmental power, more troops on the border, laws making abortion illegal, regulations making partial birth abortion and stem cell research illegal.

Liberals are Left-Wing when they call for more government. However, Liberals are Right-Wing when they call for less government, for reduced penalties for minor drug use, for decriminalizing prostitution and gambling and for relaxed laws governing censorship.

Liberal and Conservative cannot be on a single plane political spectrum because liberals sometimes call for more government and sometimes call for less government. And with Conservatives it is the same, sometimes more sometimes less government. Literally, the bottom line Libertarians are on the Right because they always call for less government.

President Obama AND (insert almost anyones name here) Must Be Stopped. By Chuck McGlawn

2011-08-04T08:45:00.000-07:00

President Obama AND (insert almost anyones name here) Must Be Stopped. By Chuck McGlawn 08/04/2011

As I read President's socialist takeover must be stopped By Jeffrey T. Kuhner, I couldn’t help but be think of other names that should have qualified for Impeachment list.

Where he accused Obama of.” undermining our constitutional system of checks and balances; subverting democratic procedures and the rule of law;” the first President that came to mind was President John Adams. Yep gentle reader the second President of the United States is clearly guilty of that exact charge.

When Kuhner wrote that President Obama was,” presiding over a corrupt, gangster regime; and assaulting the very pillars of traditional capitalism. I thought, could there be a better description of the Roosevelt Regime.

When the author said of Obama, “He is slowly… erecting a socialist dictatorship…putting America on that dangerous path. I am sorry lads and lasses that description takes in every President back to Abraham Lincoln and especially Lincoln.

When Kuhner points out that “Obamacare’s most pernicious aspect is its federal funding of abortion. Pro-lifers are now compelled to have their tax dollars used to subsidize insurance plans that allow for the murder of unborn children. This is more than state-sanctioned infanticide.” I say, where was Kuhner when Daddy Bush, as one of the last commands at the end of Gulf War 1 ordered the destruction of Iraqi water desalinization capability and the sewage processing plants. This and the sanctions imposed by the UN that prevented reclamation of the equipment had a dramatic effect on child mortality. A BBC article reported two UN Studies showed that child mortality had gone from a low of 47 per 1,000 prior to the Gulf War to 108 per 1,000 between 1994 and 1999. Child mortality rate, which refers to children between the age of one and five years. Estimates like British Member of Parliament George Galloway: say, "a million Iraqis, most of them children.^"

Our list should include Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who on May 12, 1996, defended UN sanctions against Iraq on a 60 Minutes segment in which Lesley Stahl asked her "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" and Albright replied "we think the price is worth it."

When the author said Obama, “has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors”. When I read those lines who else but Bush II comes rushing to mind. Where was Kuhner when Bush II engaged the US in two wars, one of them completely preemptive without a “Declaration of War” by the 107^th Congress. Oh, and while we are at it let's include the 107th Congress for passing the: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism ("USA PATRIOT") Act, giving the color of law to a whole list of activities not authorized by the Constitution. It ended and or greatly reduced restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records; eased restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States. It expanded the Secretary of the Treasury’s authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities; and broadened the discretion of law enforcement and immigration authorities in detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts. The act also expanded the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism, thus enlarging the number of activities to which the USA PATRIOT Act’s expanded law enforcement powers can be applied.

There is only one thing wrong with ousting Obama; is there any, I mean any expectation that his replacement would have been better?

PS Did you know the “USA PATRIOT act” is an acronym for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. Someone must have got a big bonus check for coming up with that

The Immune by Doc Lucky Meisenheimer Reviewed by Chuck McGlawn

2011-07-24T13:13:00.000-07:00

Sat, 05/14/2011 - 4:49pm

This is going to be the strangest opening to the review of The Immune by Doc Lucky Meisenheimer as anyone is apt to read. Because this reviewer is cursed with a tendency, by experience and training, to find flaws, faults, failings, errors, weaknesses, shortcomings, etc in everything including books. However, even with the flaws, faults and failings this reviewer found The Immune by Doc Lucky Meisenheimer an incredibly readable contribution to the book world..

As a reader that is somewhat affected by Attention Deficit Disorder, fiction had not been a priority for me since the early 1970s, I just couldn’t stay focused on the fiction I was trying to read. Out of necessity, I switched to reading the more concrete non-fiction, centered around, political, historical, Libertarian and Conservative materials. If this sounds like you as well, then quickly go on-line to http://www.theimmune.com/ and place your order for this book Hardcover Fiction.342 pages. LJS&S Publishing. $23.95 . The Immune by Doc Lucky Meisenheimer is, if nothing else, a temporary cure for “A. D. D.”. And who knows, it may bring us back to reading some fiction from time to time just for fun. With the promise of a Libertarian theme, I was motivated, as I hope you will be as well.

The first few paragraphs establish John Long as a successful doctor in the not too distant future. He has taken his “ideal woman” (Cassandra) on a Cayman Island vacation highlighted by a very romantic proposal of marriage. The author moves ahead quickly, by the middle of page two we get our first hint that Dr. Long has some libertarian leanings, as he laments, “With all of medicine’s issues, he couldn’t think of one improved by paperwork. Yet, the government’s answer to every problem was invariably another form”.

By page six, the good doctor is already postulating conspiracy theories. For the next thirty pages (the first six Chapters), the author cleverly weaves Libertarian, Conservative and Tea Party agendas into the plot development. This is the author casting a wider net over more possible readership, than he would “catch” by simply writing a very good science fiction novel, which Doc Lucky has surely done.

These Libertarian, Conservative and Tea Party ticklers include the following: Revealing how crisis are used to justify increased government power and spending. However, in life as in Dr. Meisenheimer’s writings the lion’s share of the appropriation always goes not to end the crisis but to Special Interest groups as earmarks. As one-time Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s has famously said, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste”. Followed quickly by, “Every social-political cause…” is tied to the author’s crisis. There is an abrogation of the First Amendment free speech rights. The author includes the habit that power elites have of jailing members of the press for opposing their plans in print. This list would not be complete without the government declaring privately owned guns illegal and begin confiscation, along with threats to “manage” the Internet.

With the Libertarian, Conservative and Tea Party ticklers well established and in place, what follows are a few hundred pages, which will seem like half that many, filled with well-defined character development, good and evil, hated and sympathetic, human and alien. A compelling story line complete with conflict, compromise and compassion, peppered with plot twists, edge of your seat, page turning, spine tingling, narrative.

The story that unfolds as Dr. Long and Cassandra learn of a worldwide devastation that is taking place. That thousands of slow moving, lighter than air, bio-genetically created creatures named airwars have found and are filling a niche by stinging to death with long dangling multicolored tentacles and then lifting and digesting humans and other animals for food and the gasses that keep the airwars afloat. Millions suffer this fate including Dr. Long’s beloved Cassandra.

Normal defenses against these creatures are ineffective even counter productive. When killed the airwar creatures release hundreds perhaps thousands of juvenile airwars, which grow into more airwars.

A multinational organization called the Airwar Scientific Council (ASC) emerges to manage the defense efforts. It quickly expands to a shadow world government managing and controlling every aspect of life ostensibly to ameliorate damage by the airwars.

John Long and some others are immune to the airwar stings, thus the title, “The Immune.” John Long, managed by a PR guru Admiral Beckwourth, leads a cadre of these immunes named the World Immune Corps. With their immunity to the stings, they can kill airwar creatures without the release of juveniles.

Yet another plot twist reveals that an advanced, alien race (referred to as Krones) have actually created the airwars as a diversion in their plan to destroy the human race and take over the earth. The Krones elicited the support of the select group of scientist, politicians and military (the “Chosen”) in the formation of the ASC with wildly intoxicating promises of power and even immortality.

You will never know just who the good guys and who the bad guys are until the last few pages, which you will find yourself reading way sooner than you expected.

The only glaring fault I found in the book was the feeling that the Libertarian, Conservative and Tea Party agendas seem to have been an after thought added to the beginning of the book to increase sales. Nothing wrong with that, and it does not dissuade me in the slightest from recommending that you go out or go online and order the book for yourself and perhaps another as a gift.

The book is available in all major bookstores and Internet outlets as of May 13, 2011. You can even order an autographed copy through http://www.theimmune.com/. The few extra dollars that you pay for the autographed book go to the YMCA Aquatic Center in Orlando, just one of Doc Lucky’s extracurricular interests.