What runs through your mind when you first see

THIS

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at a sooper Secret location for a very, very Special ceremony.

More later, if possible.

Except that, for most people, that turns out to not be true.

Sheep People are learning that the “Affordable Care Act” sacrifices the affordability of existing plans in order to subsidize insurance for those who didn’t have any because they didn’t or couldn’t pay for it to or subsidize someone with a pre-existing condition.

And most plans have become more expensive because they have to cover additional ailments in order to meet the new regulations of Obamacare.

So if you liked your existing plan, you likely are going to have to change to a more expensive one in order to help pay for someone else….

In other words, Barry lied.

THIS (follow the link) goes along with what I said HERE….

And it is exactly what I think.

Follow the first link to see what the basic difference in philosophy is between some of us, and the liberals.

I have no issue with the idea of helping others. However, when you attempt to help others (no matter if it works or not) at the “point of a gun” …by taking my property and the fruits of my hard work by force….and GIVE it to someone else because you think it is fair, or right or that your opinion is somehow better or more right than mine…..Well, then we have issues.

Follow the first link…It is worth it.

More blogging as I have time.

Which we may well be.

But that doesn’t mean that we are wrong, either. 

And this is a European agency. Seems like people are realizing that “Gun Control” doesn’t work against truly evil people.

Got a question for ya….

I am sure that, as you announced, “no one is more frustrated” than you are regarding the Healthcare.gov website being, at best, a dismal failure…

But I didn’t hear, anywhere in your speech, who got fired, who got demoted, and how much of that $634,000,000 you got back from the firm that created this mess.

Nor did I hear that you fired the people responsible for choosing the contractor (since there was no competitive bidding) or the firing of the people responsible for signing off on the testing of the website and the underlying structure BEFORE the bills were paid.

So, exactly who DID get fired….demoted….shot for incompetence?

Where are the criminal charges against those responsible for this fiasco?

Well?

I find it chilling….and against the principles upon which this nation is founded.

“The sharp deterioration of the public finances in many countries has revived interest in a “capital levy”— a one-off tax on private wealth—as an exceptional measure to restore debt sustainability. The appeal is that such a tax, if it is implemented before avoidance is possible and there is a belief that it will never be repeated, does not distort behavior (and may be seen by some as fair). … The conditions for success are strong, but also need to be weighed against the risks of the alternatives, which include repudiating public debt or inflating it away. … The tax rates needed to bring down public debt to precrisis levels, moreover, are sizable: reducing debt ratios to end-2007 levels would require (for a sample of 15 euro area countries) a tax rate of about 10 percent on households with positive net wealth. (page 49)”

(notice, no one ever suggests stopping spending increases)

This is why I want a balanced budget rather than the continued overspending. Eventually, when the debt is high enough, they will steal someone’s wealth to pay for it. The bill has to be paid at some point.

It hasn’t been spoken of here in the US (yet), but expect the liberals to begin thinking about it soon, if they haven’t already.

And if they choose to do so, what are you going to do about it?

At what point will you rise up and resist?

At what point will you stop paying to keep your own property?

(If the IMF is talking about it, then you know that there are plans to act upon such an idea).

(original link from HERE)

I have been extremely busy, and haven’t had much time to post.

But lately, I have been thinking:

So many liberal/communistic people are saying that we need to “make everything fair”…”Level the playing field”…”Give everyone the same opportunity”.

Yet I see things differently:

We already have a more or less level playing field. The federal and state governments give everyone a chance to gain a high school education. They give everyone a chance to go to college. Not it isn’t free, but it is possible if you are willing to work. Maybe not a prestigious institution like Harvard r whatever, but a college education is possible for even the poorest American if they are willing to do the work necessary to go. Grants and scholarships are available. In fact, the poorer you are, the more there are available. Everyone gets a chance to go, if they care to. And this can lead to a modicum of success if the degree is a marketable one. People DO have opportunities….they just choose to ignore them most of the time.

The thing is, many people CHOOSE to fail in our society. Yes, luck may play a part, but most people who are poor or who have failed to find what they expected life to be have made bad choices….often over and over again. Drugs, drinking, early motherhood, crime…just plain laziness, these are all factors in success (or not) in life.

Choosing to depend on the government for your livelihood is another reason to not get your expected lot in life.

And, quite often, laziness is the single largest factor. I know of no one who is successful who does not work hard. Most  people who are successful to one degree or another are hard workers. They generally work more than 40 hours per week. They generally make choices that lead to income….I know plumbers and electricians and other tradesmen  in the Midwest who make significantly more than I do….and often they work 70+ hour weeks. They also bring home really good money. And they made good choices that got them to where they are today with hard work and effort.

They also don’t waste their money. They choose to live at or below their income level, and save their money for leaner times. Few have big debt, unless it is debt that they incurred starting their business. And they are trying hard to pay it off.

I have come to the conclusion that poverty (however you choose to define it) is most often due to culture. People are taught by those who raised them to be either successful or not. To live well, and make good choices, or not. To work hard and think for the future, or not.

Some people can learn to be successful despite the culture in which they are raised, and some cannot. Some who are raised to succeed choose not to. .

While some people are  given advantages, we all are given the “level playing field” to succeed….or fail, as we choose. Yes, some are lucky, and some have advantages. But in most other parts of the world, you will seldom rise above the station to which you are born. And I include Europe in that description.

It isn’t others keeping you down, it is generally yourself.

Is the paying field perfectly level? Absolutely not. But it is the most level of anywhere in the world.

Remember, having the right to succeed also means you have the right to fail.