Look At It This Way (#LAITW)

Be reasonable. It’s OK to recognize your mistakes and fix them. That’s a good thing. Both for individuals and all the way up to a nation in general. But this country seems to have gone way overboard. Everything is wrong with the U.S. There are those who would have you believe that everything wrong in the world is America’s fault, too. Don’t sucker for that. It simply isn’t true. In the big picture, we have a very great deal to be proud of, both for how we’ve done internally and for how much we help the world. People flock here for a reason. Actually, for lots of reasons.

If too many of us let ourselves get sucked into the America Sucks rhetoric, we’re toast.

I often find myself wondering if any of it matters. To me. In the long run. Is there a prize at the end, given out by some one or some thing that knows all, for having pushed the right messages all my life? How about for being right more than half the time?

Is there an all-knowing, all-seeing being to whom I must ultimately answer that knows what all the right moves should have been? Does liberty and freedom and small government lead to a better world in 2515 than would big government and socialism?

What I really wonder is whether my wildly liberal/socialist friends and family members will get smacked down at the pearly gates.

What’s the point of playing politics if you never find out, definitively, who won? And by win, I mean moved the world in directions that led to the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people.

Will I ever enter the promised land? Wait, I know how that turned out for Moses…

An argument for a sales tax on internet purchases is “the government needs/deserves its fair share.” Horse pucky. Outside of very limited, actually helpful, things government has done to support commerce (generally under the hard infrastructure category), there’s no argument that government deserves anything from commerce. Commerce is just another source of money for the government to spend wherever it wants.

It’s hard to predict what you’re going to really care about as you approach death’s door. Here are the five most common regrets folks within weeks of dying revealed to one nurse. Perhaps knowing about these will help you minimize your regrets at the end.

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

From “Nurse reveals the top 5 regrets people make on their deathbed“.

If you’re misled, are you stupid? No. If you let yourself be misled by the same people again and again, are you being stupid? Yes.

Well… I’m not a fan of the word stupid, but it does approach the right idea. Maybe irrational would be a better word. Or, some say the definition of insanity is to repeat the same action expecting a different result. That’s closer.

At some point, you’ve got to wake up and smell the coffee.

What is it, 2700 pages? 27,000 pages? Does it matter which if it’s thousands? “This is urgent, we can’t take time to read it first.”

According to one of the architects of Obamacare, it counted on the stupidity of the American voter. Read The Blaze article below. You may or may not like The Blaze, but quotes are quotes. The architect frames himself.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/10/obamacare-architect-stupidity-of-the-american-voter-was-critical-to-passing-the-law/

To whom/what do we owe however much recovery there’s been?

Here’s one of my votes: the $248 billion consumers have saved due to domestic oil production by fracking.

http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/obama-recovery-fueled-by-consumers-saving-248-billion-due-to-fracking/

The biggest (and the worst) big business is Big Government. How people can despise big business and love big government astounds me. Give me big business any day. I can choose not to do business with any big business I want. Try choosing not to pay taxes or follow outrageous regulations or get a building permit. Try not paying a parking ticket.

Bottomline, I trust individuals. The larger the group gets from there, the less I trust it. Somehow large group dynamics causes otherwise normal people to lose their senses. And in the case of Big Government, far too much power is concentrated in far too few people.

And just in time!

Oh wait, maybe a little late.

Oh wait, this new czar knows nothing of Ebola or infectious diseases, or even medicine.

Oh.

It’s cool to be against Big Oil. Cool to be against Big Food. Cool to be against Mansanto. Even cool to be against Capitalism.

If you’re against all those “bigs”, how in the world can government be the answer? Talk about big. Government is not only the biggest business on the face of the earth, but it also brandishes far more power than any corporation could ever imagine. You don’t have to do business with AT&T if you don’t want to, but you’ll go to jail if you don’t do business with the government when and where it wants.

Liberty. Freedom. Individual Responsibility. They’re the opposite of big government. And they’re what made this country great.