Ask A Horse – It’s Impossible to Know

PI2013 #337 – It’s Impossible To Know

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Bad politicians are sent to Washington by people who don’t vote.” ~  William E. Simon

Tuesday,

May 7th, 2013

Liberty Lovers,

http://www.usdebtclock.org: Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” “The (federal) State” $148,318, every citizen $53,323.

“If voting changed anything, they’d abolish it.” ~  Ken Livingstone

Election 2014 Will Be Here before we know it.  Campaigning already abounds.  “We, the American People” can’t possibly know how Election 2014 winners will set their sights on bettering America.  We can’t unless we stophoping election winners will stand by their promises and, instead, force them to live by their word.

“Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and in the voting booth their vote has as much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.” ~   Barbara Boxer

 ‘Representative’ Government Means Nothing when elected ‘representatives’ ignore their constituents’ will and do (vote) as they please.  Elected ‘representatives’ work for voters, not vice versa.

“It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.’ ~  Virgil Goode

Americans Can Stop Deceptive Candidates from voting against constituent will.  See www.GOOOH.com methodology.  Make elected ‘representatives’ live by their word.

“Voters quickly forget what a man says.” ~  Richard M. Nixon

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.” ~  Thomas Sole

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to remain in office if they break their word to their constituents.  They remove violators from office summarily.

 

Let Freedom Ring

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It’s your property, not “State” property.

Best Wishes,

Len Ritchey

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Background Investigation… Permission Denied

PI2013 #198 – Background Investigation… Permission Denied

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“Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal” ~ Janet Reno

Saturday,

March 16th, 2013

Liberty Lovers,

 

http://www.usdebtclock.org: Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” “The (federal) State” $147,455, every citizen $52,918.

 

“I don’t believe people should be able to own guns.” ~ Barack Obama

Background Investigations Would Be a more than convenient tool for denying ‘suspicious people’ personal firearm ownership.  ‘Government’ (“State”) officials need only lace investigation criteria with caveats deemed sufficiently threatening to stop people from buying guns.

“If someone is so fearful that, that they’re going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have weapons at all!”  ~ Representative Henry A. Waxman (courtesy an AAH reader)

Background Investigation Criteria Can’t be expected to favor gun buyer applicants.  Background investigations, by their very nature, would be designed to prohibit, not promote gun ownership.  People on record opposing “State” policies could be deemed ‘dangerous.’

 

“Arms are the only true badge of liberty.” ~  Andrew Fletcher

Background Investigation Information, Regardless how public officials would promise otherwise, could never be guaranteed private.  Once a matter of record, always a matter of record, no matter how public officials would promise post-purchase purging.

“If we make enough laws, we can all be criminals.” ~  Jeff Snyder

Background Investigations Would Be tantamount to registration.  Registration makes confiscation easier.  Gun control zealots are intent on control, vis-à-vis confiscation… namely, ownership obliteration.

“If you don’t have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.” ~  Yoshimi Ishikawa

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to prohibit or restrict private ownership of firearms and ammunition from any citizen of good repute and responsible standing. They preserve their heritage to protect themselves from crime and tyranny.

Let Freedom Ring

See http://citizencontrolledtaxation.com

– It’s your property, not “State” property.

Best Wishes,

Len Ritchey

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No Bullets, No Guns ~ Ask A Horse PI2013 #023

PI2013 #023 – No Bullets, No Guns

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“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.”

~  William Burroughs 

Wednesday,

January 9th, 2013

Liberty Lovers,

http://www.usdebtclock.org: Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” “The (federal) State” $142,935, every citizen $52,184.

“25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it’s crazy. However, 4 out of 5 US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?” ~  Andrew Ford 

Gun Control Advocates Lost no time using Newtown-Sandy Hook tragedy to call for more restrictive ownership measures.  Some contend ammunition/magazine limits, not restricting possession, is how to stop such incidents.

“Gun bans don’t disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.” ~  Walter Mondale

No Or Precious Few bullets is tantamount to no guns.  Tiananmen Square’s “Tank Man” would not likely have been a martyr had he, too, been driving a tank.

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.”~  Mahatma Gandhi

Never Accept 2^nd Amendment Dilution or banishment.  “State” permission is not required for self-defense.  “The State” may not deny people self-defense, either by means or degree; to do so is calculated tyranny.
“The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.” ~  James A. Donald 

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to prohibit or restrict private ownership of firearms and ammunition from any citizen of good repute and responsible standing. They preserve their heritage to protect themselves from crime and tyranny.

Let Freedom Ring

See http://citizen-controlledtaxation.com

– It’s your property, not “State” property.

Best Wishes,

Len Ritchey

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“We believe that to err is human. To blame it on some else is politics.” ~ Hubert H. Humphrey

PI2012 #688 – Bogged In Partisan Bickering

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“He who excuses himself accuses himself.” ~  Gabriel Meurier

Saturday,

December 1st, 2012

Liberty Lovers,

http://www.usdebtclock.org: Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” “The (federal) State” $142,018, every citizen $51,783.

“A bad workman always blames his tools” ~  Proverb

President Re-Elect Obama, Campaigning at a Pennsylvania toy factory, told workers Americans would see their taxes go up by an average of $2,200 if Congress doesn’t act.  Mr. Obama could avoid tax hikes by demanding no Americans have their taxes raised.

“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame someone else.”  ~  John Burroughs

Instead, Mr. Obama Demands America’s wealthiest have their taxes raised and accuses Congress of working against him.  Mr. Obama, by his action, is holding America’s middle class hostage while he blames others.  His obsession with raising taxes on America’s wealthiest is juvenile.

“We believe that to err is human.  To blame it on some else is politics.” ~  Hubert H. Humphrey

Mr. Obama Scolds Congress for getting engaged in partisan bickering and calls on Americans to scold Congress likewise.  Americans would have to look far and wide to find someone more disposed toward partisanship than Mr. Obama.

“You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?  A terrible thing: no one to blame.” ~  Erica Jong

Americans Would Do Well to send their e-mails and make their phone calls to 1600 Pennsylvania telling President Obama to stop engaging in partisan bickering.  Their voices would, no doubt, fall on deaf ears.  Mr. Obama is already blaming them through their elected officials.

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.” ~  Albert Ellis

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to subsidize private enterprise with public money.  They uphold free markets.

Let Freedom Ring

See your property, not “State,” property.

Best Wishes,

Len Ritchey

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Don’t Give Up Anything

PI2012 #689 – Don’t Give Up Anything

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“Either you be or you don’t be.” ~  Golda Meir

Sunday,

December 2nd, 2012

Liberty Lovers,

http://www.usdebtclock.org: Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” “The (federal) State” $142,038, every citizen $51,792.

“You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.”  ~  Colin Powell

People Are Free To write “The State” checks for as much money as they please.  Americans who wish can donate as much of their property as they choose to “The State.”  Let President Obama call for wealthy Americans to voluntarily donate.  See what happens.

“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.” ~  Tryon Edwards

Pontification Over Fiscal (Deficit) cliff posturing includes varied ideas about what republicans must give up to get a ‘compromise.’  Congressional republicans, if they are to remain true to their constituents, should give up nothing.

“Compromise:  An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.” ~  Lord Edward Cecil

Presuming Some Americans Have to surrender more of their property to avoid America’s fiscal (deficit) cliff is misguided thinking.  More likely, it is rhetoric from tax hike advocates.  Americans are loath to saunter up to ultimatums.

“Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval.” ~  Thomas S. Monson

Ultimatums, If Ultimatums Are to be, should come from sovereign self-governing Americans who have reached their boiling points over selective, arbitrary, and discriminatory legislation, taxation, and regulation.  Fiscal (deficit) cliffs would be no more.

“From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise.  It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.” ~  Charles Sumner

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to subsidize private enterprise with public money.  They uphold free markets.

Let Freedom Ring

See your property, not “State,” property.

Best Wishes,

Len Ritchey

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Our Country, Our Fix

PI2012 #615 – Our Country, Our Fix

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“Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.” ~  Oliver Wendell Holmes

Saturday,

November 10th, 2012

Liberty Lovers,

http://www.usdebtclock.org: Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” “The (federal) State” $141,677, every citizen $51,621. 

“Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it.” ~  Frederick Leith-Ross 

Optimists Know Where There’s horse manure, ponies are close by.  Pessimists hold their noses and look for manure-free pastures… where there are no ponies.  One would think, listening to media pundits, “Republicans” are breathing their last.  More than are few are acting as though they are.

“Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.” ~  Woodrow Wilson 

Presidential Election 2012 Was decided by under three points.  Three.  Third Parties captured a few points.  Had “Republicans” been effective communicators, Obama supporters would be crying and predicting ruin for fairness and charitable living.  No fault in losing, only in quitting.

“A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.” ~  Wynton Marsalis 

Free Market, Fiscal Responsibility, and Limited Government advocates have two choices.  Prove these three are more viable than ‘government’/”State” paternalism and grow ranks, or, hope Elections 2014 and 2016 will usher forth “Republican” deliverers.

“There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.” ~  Margaret Thatcher 

Elections Don’t Deliver Liberty.  People determined to live in uncompromising Liberty fortify their lives around principles of Liberty and demonstrate Liberty’s advantages over those of despots and tyrants.  Nothing else need be done for people to be free.

“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.” ~  Stanley Milgram 

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to enter into contracts with collective bargaining units. They prohibit ‘government’ (“The State”) from negotiating away their property.

Let Freedom Ring

See your property, not “State,” property.

Best Wishes,

Len Ritchey 

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Ordered My Jaguar. You?

PI2012 #619 – Ordered My Jaguar.  You?

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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

~  Samuel Adams

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

Liberty Lovers,

http://www.usdebtclock.org: Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” “The (federal) State” $141,693, every citizen $51,628. 

John Stossell Asked Post Election 2012 voters how Election 2012 would affect freedom? One said “the people” would have “a seat at the table.”  Others uttered wordless jubilation.  Doesn’t everyone have “a seat at the table” since Election 2008?

I Didn’t Wait For Stossell’s post Election 2012 interviews.  I ordered my Jaguar after President Obama told a Florida woman he would have his staff look into her car problem.  No Jaguar yet; it’s only been a bit over three years.

“I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.” ~   Stanislaw Lee 

Stossell Said His Post Election 2012 interviews with voters who cast ballots for winners expected more free stuff following Election 2012.  I find I get less stuff since Election 2008, particularly stuff I buy.  Hope I like my Jaguar.

“Of all the means to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.  The hankering of the mind is irresistible.” ~  Adam Weishaupt 

My Jaguar Arrival Delay is, I expect, due a billing address error.  I instructed my Jaguar dealer to bill President, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  My dealer tells me bills are returned – no forwarding address.  I expect they should go to:  American Taxpayer, Main Street, USA.

“The trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second rate – shall I say third rate? – mind, Karl Marx ~  H. G. Wells 

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to interfere in health matters between private citizens and their physicians. They hold government at its Constitutional arm’s length.

Let Freedom Ring

See your property, not “State,” property.

Best Wishes,

Len Ritchey

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Ask A Horse – Presidents Propose, Congress Disposes

PI2012 #599 – Presidents Propose, Congress Disposes

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“I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of – of American capitalism.”

~  Warren Buffett

Wednesday,

November 7th, 2012

Liberty Lovers,

http://www.usdebtclock.org: Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” “The (federal) State” $141,629, every citizen $51,598.  

“Everything government has it gets from you.” ~Lew Rockwell

Presidential Election 2012 Leaves America more divided than did Election 2008.  Electoral votes gave President Obama clear wins both times.  Election 2008 popular vote was 66.8million to 58.3million; Election 2012 looks to be 58.7million to 56.1million

“Between two groups of people who want to make different kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.” ~  Oliver Wendell Holmes

President Obama, Popular And electoral votes notwithstanding, must get his initiatives through Congress.  Election 2012 left Congressional power as it was before votes were tallied.  While Mr. Obama won a second term, his ‘mandate’ lost some ground.

“Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.” ~  Stephen Bryer

Americans Will Know Fairly soon where and how Mr. Obama intends to move America.  He would be wise not to ignore American voters who elect Congress as well as Presidents.  Mr. Obama may no longer legitimately blame his predecessor.

“The power to tax involves the power to destroy.” ~  Justice John Marshall

Americans, Despite Election 2012 outcomes, continue to face selective, arbitrary, and discriminatory legislation, taxation, and regulation.  Most egregious amongst them is direct taxation (property confiscation).

“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.  Capital in some form will always be needed.” ~  Mohandas Gandhi

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to enact legislation or regulations requiring any private business to accept collective bargaining organizations. They stand by free markets and limited government.

Let Freedom Ring

See your property, not “State,” property.

Best Wishes,

Len Ritchey

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Ask A Horse ~ PI2012 #601 – Are Won By Perception

PI2012 #601 – Are Won By Perception

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“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.” ~  Niccolo Machiavelli

Wednesday,

November 7th, 2012

Liberty Lovers,

http://www.usdebtclock.org: Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” “The (federal) State” $141,629, every citizen $51,598.

“There is no such thing as a good tax.” ~  Winston Churchill

 

Romney Backers And Senate majority hopefuls, on cue when President Obama topped 270 Election 2012 electoral votes, began making myriad excuses and looking to assign blame for their losses.  Typical behavior of unprepared contenders.  Votes are won by perception.

“Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.”
~  Claudia Black

Romney Backers And Senate majority hopefuls could be, literally, messengers from Jehovah Himself and fall on their proverbial swords absent persuasive presentation.  Not enough voters bought their rhetoric, regardless how valid it may have been.

“People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth.” ~  Roberto Bolaño

Brit Hume, A Day or so before Election 2012, observed America’s electorate was despondent over financial-economic woes and simply wanted “stuff.”  Now re-elected President Obama, all said and done, offered American voters “stuff.”

““The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways.” “This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.”” ~  Terry Goodkind

Republicans, Conservatives, Free Market proponents – whoever – won’t compete successfully against paternalistic ‘government’ (“The State”) until they can convince voters they (voters) can have whatever “stuff” they wish when they act like sovereign self-governing Americans.

“The dice cannot read their own spots.” ~  Frank Herbert

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to enact legislation or regulations requiring any private business to accept collective bargaining organizations. They stand by free markets and limited government.

Let Freedom Ring

See your property, not “State,” property.

Best Wishes,

Len Ritchey

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Ask a Horse . . . PI 2012 #120 – Not A Health Issue

PI 2012 #120 – Not A Health Issue

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“When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.”

~  George Pataki

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Liberty Lovers,

Georgetown University Student Sandra Fluke played Congress, President Obama, and more than a few Americans about as well as they can be played.  She persuaded them risk and cost of her behavior choices are other people’s responsibility.  What else in her life will Sandra Fluke demand her fellow Americans pay for so she can enjoy fruits of other people’s labor?

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” ~  Joan Didion

Fluke’s Eloquent, Compassionate Appeal for mandatory contraceptive coverage in health insurance was based on Fluke and other female Georgetown students avoiding contraceptive costs amounting to some $3,000 over their time at Georgetown by lawfully forcing contraceptive insurance coverage.  Who is responsible for risks in Sandra Fluke’s personal behavior?  Sandra Fluke, not insurance companies, not other Americans, not “The State.”

“If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”~  Abigail Van Buren

Sandra Fluke Is An adult.  Sandra Fluke is a law student, not a mentally challenged person.  She is welcome to make voluntary social life choices as she likes.  She is not welcome to have anyone but Sandra Fluke bear risks and costs of her voluntary choices.

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” ~  Jim Rohn   

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to permit federal authorities or courts to define or limit their 10^th Amendment powers beyond specific Constitutional constraint.  They surrender neither their property nor their sovereignty.

Let Freedom Ring

See  http://citizencontrolledtaxation.com

– It’s  your property, not “State,” property.

Best Wishes,

Len Ritchey

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