By Ron Meyer / August 19, 2010
Milford, Va.
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America faces a mammoth debt crisis. Imagine if the Berlin Wall were reconstructed with stacks of $100 dollar bills. Using the US national debt, we could build two walls each 67 miles long, 12 feet tall, and eight inches thick.
This $13.4 trillion debt wall symbolizes the amassing barrier standing between my generation and the future of the American dream.
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Rod Blagovich’s trial, Snooki’s taxed tan, and Brett Favre’s unretiring are all apparently more newsworthy than Iran’s acquisition of nuclear power. Nice job, media.
This morning, all the news websites I checked — including Google News, The New York Times, Yahoo News, The Drudge Report, The Huffington Post, and, yes, even our beloved Daily Caller (until now) — had zero headlines concerning Iran.
Iran goes nuclear on Saturday. That’s less than 48 hours from when you’ll read this article. America, or at least our media excluding John Bolton, seems not to understand the severity of this situation.
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But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.” — Frederic Bastiat, The Law
Taxes are a necessary evil, but they’re still evil.
Let’s start with a basic premise: Theft is wrong.
If one person steals your car, they go to jail. If two people steal your car, they both go to jail. If a majority of people vote to steal your car, you go to jail if you don’t let them have it.
When taxes become involuntary, they become theft. When a majority votes for an involuntary taking of private property, the government becomes an instrument of gang-theft.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/12/taxes-are-evil-obama-the-great-plunderer/#ixzz0wT7ZHLEf
By Ron Meyer
Published by Human Events and The Daily Caller
As November approaches, the beltway wonders if the Republicans will produce a new “Contract with America.” How about this? Adopt the Constitution as the platform.
Aviation innovator Kelly Johnson reminded us all to KISS – “keep it simple, stupid.”
Every American loves freedom, liberty, and the Constitution. Why come up with new packaging for the same brilliant ideas embedded in our founding document? No proposal the RNC develops can ever be as popular as the Constitution.
Republicans, being supposed conservatives, have nothing left to conserve but the Constitution. We can’t endorse the big government policies of the last 10 years – both the Bush and Obama years. In this age of bailouts and trillion-dollar deficits, America craves limited government.
Coincidentally, the Constitution is the original mandate for limited government.
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Daily Caller: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/22/republicans-should-adopt-u-s-constitution-as-party-platform/#ixzz0uYjUEeMV
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By Ron Meyer
Published by The Daily Caller
How to mask any failed policy: claim we would be worse off without it.
Despite the terrible job numbers, the president began his summer recovery tour boasting about the rampant success – cough! – of the stimulus bill. Building on this delusion, he claimed that unemployment could have been much worse, 10,000% or some arbitrary number, without the Recovery Act.
Obama needs to fire his economists. Christina Romer, his leading economic advisor, predicted unemployment wouldn’t go over 8% once the stimulus bill passed. Fail.
Out of this same brilliance arose another ingenious idea. Private sector jobs – obviously not stimulated by massive government spending – continue precipitating from the economy. Solution: spend $2 billion to create green 5,100 jobs.
Even for Obama, spending $400,000 per created job ought to be embarrassing;
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/15/obama-spends-400k-per-created-job/#ixzz0tlcRHKjr
By Ron Meyer
Published by Human Events
“They cling to guns or religion… as a way to explain their frustrations.” — Barack Obama, 2008
20 blocks away from the Supreme Court, the lefty radicals inhabiting the offices at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. received a clear message: don’t even think about touching America’s guns.
Last week, the Supreme Court’s ruling overturned Mayor Richard Daley’s tyrannical handgun ban, but more subtly, these justices assembled a significant political barrier between the administration and any new gun restrictions.
Ever since the 2008 election, Americans clung tighter to their guns. Fear of Obama’s anti-gun stances sent gun and ammunition sales skyrocketing. McDonald v. Chicago finally assuages these concerns, and gun owners everywhere ought to breathe a small sigh of relief.
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By Ron Meyer
Published by The Daily Caller
The saying goes: “Those who can, do; those that can’t, teach.” Either that, or they become the President or a Supreme Court justice.
Our Professor-in-Chief nominated fellow ex-professor Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court—thus giving another academic a shot to swing our country to the left.
Ever since Obama arrived at the White House, he’s been appointing his old academic friends to high places. It’s not strange for presidential administrations to have a revolving door with Ivy League universities, but this administration’s door is spinning off its hinges.
Like Obama, Kagan never made it big in the economic world. They earned names for themselves by being blessed and selected by the self-aggrandizing academics who fill our “best” schools. Even within the Obama Administration, you can connect the dots in Kagan’s rise to power.
By Ron Meyer
Published by The Daily Caller
“Re·cid·i·vism [ri-ˈsi-də-ˌvi-zəm] noun: a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior; especially: relapse into criminal behavior.” — Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary
The infamous government-backed mortgage finance behemoths, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, want more money from taxpayer coffers to continue funding the exact same activities that helped bring the economy to its knees.
As if $145 billion wasn’t enough already, last month Fannie and Freddie requested an additional $20 billion bailout from the US Treasury. Better yet, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that they’re going to need $400 billion more — enough bailout cash to give $5 to every person who’s ever lived.
The American people are tired of this madness, and, as a young person, I don’t want to be stuck paying for these bailouts the rest of my life.
Check out Ron’s new article on AOL News about the Obama Department of Labor’s crackdown on unpaid interns:
“As summer gets into full swing, young people across the country are starting their summer jobs. Some of us are heading to summer camp, others are starting jobs at stores and apparently a few of us are even crazy enough to sign up for voluntary internment…”
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By Ron Meyer
Published by Human Events and The Daily Caller
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Image if the Berlin Wall was reconstructed with stacks of $100 dollar bills. If we used the US national debt, we could build this wall twice.
Pundits have been using odd metaphors to describe our country’s dire financial position ever since we started attempting to grasp the intangible numbers associated with the debt and deficits. Most people haven’t even seen $1000, much less $1 million.
The Berlin Wall metaphor offers more than a visual representation of a monstrosity of money 67 miles long, 12 feet tall, and eight inches thick; it symbolizes the amassing barrier standing between my generation and the future of the American dream.
The “road to serfdom” is starting to resemble a superhighway, and our financial freedoms will continue to crumble with every dollar we add to this $13 trillion wall.
