Posted by
heresyarch's Contra Mundum on Monday, February 25, 2008 11:46:10 AM
For all the Big government advocates out there (Both Republicans and Democrates who share devout worship of U.S. monetary policies), and for all the Republicans who love the military industrial complex....Here are some quotes that pierce the heart of the matter.
"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other." ~ James Madison
"The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first [steal] from somebody else" adopted from Henry Hazlitt
"Thou shalt not steal." Exodus 20:15
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's." Exodus 20:17
1Samuel8:4ff: " So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. They said to him, "You are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have." But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do."
Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do:
a) He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.
b) Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
c) He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
d) He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.
e) He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.
f) Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use.
g) He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves
h) When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day."
We have in this election cycle a choice between evil and evil. No...not a lesser of evils....only pure evil.
We have a warmonger-candidate-commander-in-chief who will "take our sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses"....."assigning some to be commanders, and to make weapons of war". He boasts of fiscal restraint but will continue a war adding to debt, costing future taxpayers trillions....for 100 years if necessary against enemies that have no countries, navies, or armies, and poorly armed and supplied armies. He will do this and fund it by having our government print the necessary funds.
We have an anti-biblical income redistribution scheme supported by candidates who boast to be Christian, and who advocate stealing (government coercion) from Peter to pay Paul, who show absolutely no regard for Exodus chapter 20, and contempt for 1Samuel Chapter 8.... who want to increase this government theft to create another Babel, to create government health care even after every such governmental endeavor has failed, and when pressed will not end a foreign policy trend that leads to more war.
As a true conservative, one who really supports limited government as opposed to the faux conservatives who are really statists by another name, these are the changes in federal government I would like to see implemented, saving tax payers billions, and creating an environment of prosperity:
1) Eliminate the Federal Reserve System, and create a small committee who's only job is to create a stable money supply that tracks the price of Gold....which in turn does not fluctuate much.
2) Flat income tax at a rate never to exceed 10%....a tithe to government if you will. In fact, government should never exalt itself above God; make the Federal Income tax rate 9%.
3) Put an end to FDIC, and create a banking system that encourages banking practices based on sound money. Lending based only on ones ability to pay principal and interest an actual loan, rather than one that encourages maximizing profits on interest on those who cannot repay principal (i.e. end all federal bail-outs).
4) End all Foreign Aid, and if one lends, they must have the ability to repay.....(i.e. end all federal bail-outs).
5) End all Wars of aggression. Yes, this means Iraq. Re-deploy those troops to guarding our Northern and Southern borders.
6) Close all foreign military bases outside of the United States.
7) End all military defense treaties (NATO, etc)
8) End the US membership in the UN.
9) End Social Security, and Medicaid.
10) Abolish the NEA and make all schools, and universities private....of course this leads to the corallary, abolish property taxes, since they are unconstitutional anyway (denying true ownership of property).