Why Government Cannot "Make Us Safe" thru Mandating Security - by Ron Paul

The terrible violence in Arizona prompted much national discussion on many issues. All Americans are united in their sympathies for the victims and their families. All wonder what could motivate such a horrible act. However, some have attempted to use this tragedy to discredit philosophical adversaries or score political points. This sort of opportunism is simply despicable. We are fortunate to live in a society where violence is universally denounced. Not one public official or commentator has attempted to justify this reprehensible act, yet the newspapers, Internet and airwaves are full of people trying to claim it was somehow motivated by someone else's political rhetoric.

Most disturbing are the calls to use government power to censor certain forms of speech and even outlaw certain types of criticism of public officials. This was the completely apolitical act of a violent and disturbed man. How sad that the attempted murder of the Congresswoman who had just read the First Amendment on the House Floor would be used in efforts to chill free speech. Perhaps some would feel safer if the Alien and Sedition Acts were reinstated. Also troubling are the renewed calls for stricter gun control laws and for government to do something to somehow prevent similar incidents in the future. This always seems to be the knee-jerk reaction to any crime committed with a gun. Nonsensical proposals to outlaw guns around federal officials and install bulletproof barriers in the Congressional galleries only reinforce the growing perception that politicians view their own lives as far more important than the lives of ordinary citizens.

Politicians and a complicit media have conditioned many citizens to view government as our protector, leading to more demands for government action whenever tragedies occur. But this impulse is at odds with the best American traditions of self-reliance and individualism, and it also leads to bad laws and the loss of liberty. Remember, liberty only has meaning if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and more government security is demanded. Government cannot make us safe by mandating security any more than than it can make us prosperous by decreeing an end to poverty.

We need to reaffirm the core American value of individual responsibility. Consider the young man who had the courage to tackle the shooter and prevent further carnage because he himself had a concealed weapon. Without that gun he could have been yet another sitting duck. When peaceful citizens are armed they at least have a chance against armed criminals. Advocates of gun control would urge us to leave our safety to law enforcement, but eyewitness reports indicate it took police as much as 20 minutes to arrive on the scene that day.

Since police cannot be everywhere all the time, a large part of our personal safety depends on our ability to defend ourselves. Our constitutional right to bear arms does not create a society without risk or violent crime, and neither would the strictest gun control laws. Guns and violence are a fact of life. The question is whether it is preferable to be defenseless while waiting for the police, or to have the option to arm yourself. We certainly know criminals prefer the former.

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The Three Stages of Republican Denial

Whats the deal with republican talking heads? Every time they hear the truth their first response is denial and a vow of death to the socialist commies.. Even if your not talking about anything communist at all, republicans like Glenn Beck like to find this magical link to communism even though the topic of conversation is about democracy.

I'd even go so far as to say that they are addicted to this type of reaction. They get high off it. And like most addictions there are several steps to recognizing that you have a problem.

If your a republican and you experience the following symptoms, as a direct result of hearing the truth, maybe you need a little intervention in your life.

First Stage of Republican Denial: Preoccupation/Anticipation

Constant cravings for FOX News are the very first sign that republican propaganda has taken hold because of your overwhelming urge to watch FOX News.

Irritability, agitation, fatigue, depression and difficulty concentrating are the warning signs that something is out of balance.

Second Stage of Republican Denial: Binge/Intoxication

The more a republican watches FOX News, the more they need, to sustain their current levels of tolerance. And, larger amounts of Zionist laced propaganda are necessary to continue experiencing the same high. To increase that feeling, excessive indulgence of binging pushes the effects of addiction to dangerous levels.

Prolonged exposure results in desensitization through disillusion, which can result in an outburst as the user attempts to regain the initial euphoria experienced when watching FOX News for the first time.

The warning signs of the second stage include missing days of work or school, or showing up late because you are recovering from a FOX News binge.

Third Stage of Republican Denial: Withdrawal

Withdrawal symptoms occur anytime FOX News is not being watched and can cause tremendous physical suffering. Withdrawal symptoms differ according to each specific republican, but can include:

* Agitation, anxiety, panic attacks
* Insomnia, depression, paranoid thinking
* Fatigue, muscle pain, feeling shaky
* Psychotic reactions

At this stage, the only motivation in life is to avoid the agonizing symptoms of withdrawal. All other conventional media is ignored and all efforts are replaced by the continuing need for Zionist laced propaganda.

Risky behavior like stealing, sharing needles, unsafe sex, changes in eating habits, unexplained weight change, difficulty paying attention, violent or bizarre outbursts, even paranoia are all indications of the destructive propaganda cycle being playing out.

These symptoms are a normal response that your having to your addiction and with proper intervention you can take your life back. These symptoms are potential indicators of addiction, however, not every person who displays these behaviors is considered to have an addiction to Zionist propaganda.

An accurate diagnosis can only be made by a licensed professional.

Written By Michael G. Pickett, Jr

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Republican leaders left Social Security untouched in their House budget this year, but a group of GOP lawmakers are looking to fill the gap themselves with legislation that would create a voluntary privatized version of the program.

Introduced by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), who also chairs the House's campaign efforts at the NRCC, the "Savings Account For Every American Act" would allow people to immediately opt out of Social Security in favor of a private "S.A.F.E." account. Eventually the program would expand to let employers send their matching contribution to workers' Social Security to a "S.A.F.E." account as well.

"Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve," Sessions said of the plan, according to The Hill. "To simply maintain the status quo would weaken American competitiveness by adding more unsustainable debt and insolvent entitlements to our economy when we can least afford it."

Republicans have been wary of wading back into Social Security privatization after a major push on the issue during President Bush's second term failed to reach a vote in either the House or Senate despite there being a Republican Congress. One Freshman Representative who suggested the federal government could be rolled back to just four departments even listed protecting Social Security from privatization as one of his top causes on the 2010 trail. Among the GOP presidential candidates, Rick Santorum had tried to adopt the cause as part of his platform.

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The Frozen Throne of Class Warfare

When I purchased "The Frozen Throne" I knew it was a game that would eventually grow on me. I started out playing it once or twice every few days. And then, the addiction for the MMORTS grew so fast that I could not control it and eventually I was playing it everyday, sometimes (24) hours strait. Currently, I do not play the game. But, when I was playing the game I was in debt up to my ears and now that I am sober I actually have money in a bank account earned from services I offer online, and no, I'm not rich. But at-least my personal money situation is in positive status.

I grew up in 'what I thought' was at-least a middle class family, but it turns out that we were actually part of a lower income bracket. We never collected welfare because my father grossed to much money annually. $65,000+ is what he made yearly, that's before income taxes, his 401k, health insurance, and what he pays into Social-Security. When he retires though he will be making somewhere around $8,000 per month because of all the investing he did into his retirement and corporate stock that he purchases.

The gap between the rich and the poor is getting worse. My Father is a Technician for Palo-Verde Nuclear Generation Station. Which is partly owned by APS (Arizona Public Services) and a Capital Corporation called Pinnacle West. You know the type of corporation that pays their CEO over $30,000 per day for doing nothing but sitting back and being a puppet to blame if the company goes belly-up from lack of finances. Which will never happen cause everyone needs electricity.

Does anyone besides me see whats wrong with that picture? Why does a CEO get to make so much more money then a lowly Technician, who is raising a family of five kids and who helps keep the Nuclear Power Plant from actually melting down? That is Capitalism? I don't think so. It's seems to me more like a con-game. It's greed. Republican corporations like Pinnacle West are taking huge advantage of their slaves from lack of available jobs. And in some cases, making tons of profit and still laying-off workers they don't need from lack of growth they thought was right down the road. Capitalism is greed?

I thought Capitalism was about free markets and the option for the consumer to pick a product and use it's service because you trust it or better yet prefer it. Capitalism gives you the ability to compete with other business without fear of repercussions. Corporations are not allowed to monopolize industries, like you see happening with Google Search Engine and Microsoft Windows Operating Systems, even though we have the option to use the Linux-OS, the amount of software available for Windows completely blows Linux out of the water in shear comparison by numbers even though Linux is faster. And even though Yahoo and Bing are taking back huge portions of markets, Google will eventually be used by most of the people that grow accustomed to searching for stuff online because you can find just about anything using Google compared to Yahoo or Bing, who are manually limiting and manually censoring what you find when you search using their engines.

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Where's Robin Hood When You Him?

Your Jewish masters want to take everything you have, including your homes and land. And this has been going down since before you were born. The founding fathers warned us about them but they called them "bankers" and they warned us about the lengths they go to terrorize and steal from the Republic, which is self evident in nowadays events, ergo the Wall Street bailout where they demanded we give them our tax dollars, increasing what we owe them already, or they were gonna crash our economy strait in to the ground, like Michael Moore says here. We were warned and history is repeating itself. The 'Jewish bankers' political demonic ghouls, Democrats and Republicans, are making sure that you and your spawn are their slaves for eternity. They are your rightful Jewish Kings and Queens, you and your family are their slaves and they are coming for the crumbs left on your plate, ergo Social Security and your labor benefits. They own you. They own your land. You are their slaves. Your Jewish masters are everywhere, especially in the most powerful of all places, ergo Hollywood and the main stream media. The real terrorist infiltrated our system a long time ago. They control what intelligence is seen or heard through meticulously placed mossad agents. They own your local Representatives through corporate lobbyist and campaign donations. And they are taking every chance they can to get your rights taken away, no matter how unconstitutional, ergo TSA security scans/searches that don't work because the Republic is not the current threat. They are testing us to see what they can get away with because mass media refuses to wake up and except the truth from fear of loosing their jobs. 911-Was an inside job!

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The U. S. Military Budget Makes the U. S. Welfare Budget Seem Like Small Potatoes

The budgets are the amount allocated in portion from our National Gross Domestic Product, most commonly know as the "NGDP", to certain areas and Departments of Government, the portions of the budget are applied towards expenditures accrued by the country and it's military as a whole.

But guess what? The U. S. Military are not defending America! The Department of Defense is like the Patriot Act, it only sounds good. They have nothing to do with the actual Defense of America as a whole or protection of the citizens who pay their bills and who they were designed to protect.

The Department of Defense, are off defending foreign countries around the globe to protect foreign and corporate American investments, in these same countries. So if you join the military you are nothing more then a highly trained corporate security guard, and when you get out of the military you know where you need to apply for your next job, as a rent-a-cop.

Every time I turn the radio on in Arizona, I hear the same old Republican Nazi propaganda for dismantling Welfare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Like it's the root of all the problems in America. Just go to KFYI.com and you get to hear all of the Fox News Fascist Nazi Dictators share their logic on this same topic, over and over, and the more people that hear it, the more believe it, cause Fox News talking heads fail to supply actual numbers. Fox News's main proof of evidence, to back up their lies, are the three words "Can you believe?" Just listen to one of them talk and then count how many times you hear them say it.

I'm referring to people like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and local Arizona talking heads like Barry Young and Jim Sharpe. So, when you boil it down, Republicans think that poor, old, and disabled citizens are the main problems that are facing America. And they want to strip any hope, they have, of taking care of themselves. Why? So they can play politics down the road and blame Obama! Then they can seem like the false prophets they are, and try to save them, by spending more money.

America does not need any politician to help them out or bring them hope and change. Because in the history of America or the world, it has never happened. Can you name 'one-single' Dictator that was great? Especially any Fascist corporate talking head Dictators? Fascist Corporate Dictator Politicians, do nothing but, get in the way of democratic progress.

Where is All the Waste Really At?

For the 2010 fiscal year, the president's base budget of the Department of Defense rose to $533.8 billion. Adding spending on "overseas contingency operations" brings the sum to $663.8 billion. When the budget was signed into law on October 28, 2009, the final size of the Department of Defense's budget was $680 billion, $16 billion more than President Obama had requested. An additional $37 billion supplemental bill to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was expected to pass in the spring of 2010, but has been delayed by the House of Representatives after passing the Senate. Defense-related expenditures outside of the Department of Defense constitute between $319 billion and $654 billion in additional spending, bringing the total for defense spending to between $1.01 and $1.35 trillion in fiscal year 2010. The President's budget request for 2010 totals $3.55 trillion. Percentages in parentheses indicate percentage change compared to 2009.

This budget request is broken down by the following expenditures:

- Mandatory spending: $2.009 trillion (-20.1%)
o $695 billion (+4.9%) – Social Security
o $571 billion (−15.2%) – Other mandatory programs
o $453 billion (+6.6%) – Medicare
o $290 billion (+12.0%) – Medicaid
o $164 billion (+18.0%) – Interest on National Debt
o $11 billion (+275%) – Potential disaster costs
o $0 billion (−100%) – Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
o $0 billion (−100%) – Financial stabilization efforts

US receipt and expenditure estimates for fiscal year 2010.

- Discretionary spending: $1.368 trillion (+13.1%)
o $663.7 billion (+12.7%) – Department of Defense (including Overseas Contingency Operations)
o $78.7 billion (−1.7%) – Department of Health and Human Services
o $72.5 billion (+2.8%) – Department of Transportation
o $52.5 billion (+10.3%) – Department of Veterans Affairs
o $51.7 billion (+40.9%) – Department of State and Other International Programs
o $47.5 billion (+18.5%) – Department of Housing and Urban Development
o $46.7 billion (+12.8%) – Department of Education
o $42.7 billion (+1.2%) – Department of Homeland Security
o $26.3 billion (−0.4%) – Department of Energy
o $26.0 billion (+8.8%) – Department of Agriculture
o $23.9 billion (−6.3%) – Department of Justice
o $18.7 billion (+5.1%) – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
o $13.8 billion (+48.4%) – Department of Commerce
o $13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of Labor
o $13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of the Treasury
o $12.0 billion (+6.2%) – Department of the Interior
o $10.5 billion (+34.6%) – Environmental Protection Agency
o $9.7 billion (+10.2%) – Social Security Administration
o $7.0 billion (+1.4%) – National Science Foundation
o $5.1 billion (−3.8%) – Corps of Engineers
o $5.0 billion (+100%) – National Infrastructure Bank
o $1.1 billion (+22.2%) – Corporation for National and Community Service
o $0.7 billion (0.0%) – Small Business Administration
o $0.6 billion (−14.3%) – General Services Administration
o $19.8 billion (+3.7%) – Other Agencies
o $105 billion – Other

The Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan are not included in the regular budget. Instead they are funded through special appropriations. If the military should not be cut, can you tell me what should be cut?

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