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Hayek Quote

“The more the state ‘plans’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”

Friedrich August Hayek

Shrugged Quote

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

Francisco d’Anconia to Dagny Taggart

Shared Sacrifice

Shared sacrifice is all well and good as long as you can figure out how to get the other guy to sacrifice for your share.

Tytler Cycle Misquotation

Author Unknown:

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

  • From bondage to spiritual faith;
  • From spiritual faith to great courage;
  • From courage to liberty;
  • From liberty to abundance;
  • From abundance to selfishness;
  • From selfishness to complacency;
  • From complacency to apathy;
  • From apathy to dependence;
  • From dependence back into bondage.

Einstein Quotes

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” Albert Einstein

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” Albert Einstein

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein

“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it” Albert Einstein

Journalism Quote

“Journalism is the first rewrite of history.”

Rush Limbaugh, 1/19/2011 A paraphrasing of the quote, “Journalism is the first rough draft of history”, usually attributed to Philip Leslie Graham.

Bastiat Quote

“The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.” Frédéric Bastiat

Servicing wealth

Wealth must be constantly renewed or it will consume itself.

Von Mises’ view on credit expansion

“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.”

—Ludwig Von Mises

45 Goals of Communism (Read in US House of Reps, 1963)

Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 .

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:

[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

CA is preparing for gay marria…

CA is preparing for gay marriage after a majority of citizens voted it down. Judicial hubris from our new ruling class.

Hillary thinks the rich aren’t…

Hillary thinks the rich aren’t paying enough. What happens when the producers stop producing? Who is John Galt?

Acorn lawsuit

Let me get this straight. Acorn is suing the federal government because they think cutting off their funding is unconstitutional. What part of the constitution are they reading? Acorn is the not for profit organization that helps pimps get tax breaks for under age Honduran hookers. They also help dead people vote in places like Chicago and New Jersey. If withholding funds from this group of crooks is unconstitutional, how constitutional is it to fine or jail people that don’t buy government approved healthcare?

Withholding funds from Acorn i…

Withholding funds from Acorn is unconstitutional, but fines and jail time is ok for people who don’t buy govt approved healthcare?

Govt is “doing more w. less” t…

Govt is “doing more w. less” today. How about less w. less. Time to end the American addiction to govt services.

Who will make sure you have ac…

Who will make sure you have acceptible healthcare and fine you if you don’t? Under Obamacare… the IRS. http://tinyurl.com/nd8qnu

Obama and Benito

When reading the following quotes, think about Citibank, GM, and Chrysler under the Obama administration. He now has his sights on privately run healthcare. Obama is successfully melding the progressive movement with socialism through fascist techniques.

The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.

-Benito Mussolini, 1935, “Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions”

“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”

One of the Facist slogans used by Benito Mussolini

Best explanation of why cap an…

Best explanation of why cap and trade will fail… http://bit.ly/17dUo6

Saw this on sayanythingblog.co…

Saw this on sayanythingblog.com

Bush took 96 months to give us the largest debt in decades.

Obama took 4 months to QUADRUPLE it.

Shrugged

Banks and manufacturing sectors are failing. Government is taking a hard left toward socialism. The plan is to punish achievers. It won’t be long until Atlas shrugs. Hey Obama, “Who is John Galt?”