Little hope for America

This is why there's no hope for America. As long as there exists an active element seeking to force others' burdens upon uninvolved parties, our freedoms will forever be infringed upon.

So much concern for a three month old infant, yet callous disregard for a 20 week fetus with every chance of surviving a premature birth only to be exterminated before fruition.

Mashable: America's 12-week maternity policy has nothing to do with families. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw1YvxryA

Self interest

The collective demonizes the self in order to seize individual rights. It calls you selfish for wanting to excel while hoping we believe it. Self interest drives the human to wake up, to get dressed, to walk, to avoid catastrophe, yet the people actually believe that self centered behavior is evil.

It is the greatest obfuscation of our time when we convince ourselves that we are somehow less important than the state in that we are somehow capable, and expected, to take care of others before ourselves. You don't even accomplish that by electing politicians. They do it--out of self interest. So wins the politician.

Christianity, Charity, and Government

It always befuddles me to listen to a Christian chastise me when I state that the government has no responsibility to assist the poor. It is as if the person thinks I'm no Christian at all or better yet that the person thinks himself a better one.

When did I ever state that there is no responsibility to assist the poor at all? I never said such a thing. In fact, I think individuals hold the entire responsibility for serving the indigent and that government usurped that responsibility when the populace grew lazy.

I think Christians who have a progovernment stance ought to consider the foundation of their own argument. Jesus Christ stated that we need to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to give to God what belongs to God. When did Jesus ever tell a beggar to go ask the king for food? Any of the thousands he fed with a few loaves?

If you consider yourself a Christian, don't be lazy. Don't stop helping the poor at the ballot box as that is far from your duty. You are called to serve, not to appoint others to do the dirty work for you--not to pay taxes and consider it done.

We need to wake up. It is not the job of government to serve the needs of the population. It is the job of Christians, so gird up and do it.

My Thoughts on Torture....

I don't know if the torture report from the Senate reports facts or opinion, but I'm going to give mine. People should not be tortured. Period. Anybody who thinks we should has seen too many movies and read too many books. If you grew up when I did, you saw plenty of movies with Chuck Norris in POW camps, and we villainized the North Vietnamese for torturing our prisoners. It isn't wrong for someone to do it to us but right for us to do it to others. Congratulations, if the report is true, we became the enemy.

I also do not approve of the way the report was handled, especially not if the CIA simply followed the orders of the President. It is a great example of what happens when you have weak leadership at the helm, willing to listen to whatever he is told will work. We went through eight years of Bush and now eight years of Obama. Do the math. Sixteen years without a decent leader, and many people actually blame Congress. Blame it for what? If you want to blame Congress, blame it for being too complicit with the plans of a President instead of acting independently as it is able to do within the framework of the Constitution.

The job of Congress is not to work for, or even with, the President, nor is it the President's job to tell Congress what to do. This is a fault of our two party system. When one party controls both branches, you get exactly what I just described: the President becomes the de facto head of Congress, and you get crap like Obamacare. Great job America, way to read your Civics textbooks. The only way you get true government oversight in this pathetic two party system is to have each branch controlled by a different party.

Dear geniuses, the government was designed to be gridlocked with each branch jealously guarding its own authority and privilege. That's what prevents overreach. What's so difficult to understand about that?

Why I'll never compromise.

Gun owners know that any give on our part always results in take by the other part. It is one reason why I, personally, will never consider any restriction, reasonable or not, upon my ownership rights.

All too often, in states such as New York, California, et al, what started as a small restriction under the auspices of public safety converted into a gun grab by those most ignorant of what legal gun ownership really entails.

Law abiding gun owners are not criminals, and criminals do not buy guns legally. Just like anything bought illegally, there will always be a source. Even the military has weapons stolen from it.

Laws meant to prevent criminals from buying guns actually have the opposite effect of preventing normal people from exercising their rights as free individuals.

Crime prevention is not law enforcement and is the reason why police cannot arrest anyone until a crime has been committed. Crime prevention starts with you. You cannot reply upon your legislator or your neighborhood cop to do it for you.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/14/buffalo-police-search-for-firearms-at-home-after-funerals/?intcmp=obnetwork

To my disadoring fans (disgruntled followers, LOL)

Regardless of how you interpret what I write, I can tell you who I am and what I mean.  I'm a civil libertarian if you need a title, and I believe in freedom.

I believe that both sides of what you consider the political spectrum: the left and the right, sold themselves to corporate interests.  The left goes a bit further in my view to restrict personal liberty which is contraindicative of how they sell themselves to the general public.  The left forces me to pay into a collective and gives my wages to people who have not earned it, able bodied people.  I have no problem with disabled and mentally incompetent people receiving public assistance.  The left wants to restrict my speech, my freedom of religion, my freedom of association, and my ability to protect myself.

Political speak and the spectrum as we know it is completely wrong.  I believe in limited government, and I cannot understand why other people do not.

Did anyone actually expect the USA to last forever?

Just a thought, but does anyone actually expect the USA to last forever? If so, it would be the first in the history of the world to do so. If not, what's next?

You don't have to be a prepper to be a realist, and the country is fundamentally different from what it was in 1776.  Back then, people despised and mistrusted government, but nowadays they want to know why their check is late.

Lastly, and quite frankly, I don't want to share a country with a bunch of neoSocialists. I'd rather throw down and get it over with.