In Human Relations Only Wisdom Connects Cause with Effect

I was reading The Finacial Times of London and found an article about major multinational firms that are leaving England because of the huge corporate taxes that are loaded up on them. They are moving to other, more business friendly locations.
What does "business friendly" mean? It means places that don't make it impossible for the company to make a profit. When they make a profit, everyone who owns their stock is helped. Teachers, preachers, construction workers, and plant maintenance people all get a raise. The companies that supply the company that profits, they get a raise, too. Churches and non-profit charities get a raise because the region is prospering.
There is always someone who, no matter how good things are, seem unable to participate in the goodtimes.
But if someone can get you to focus on the ones unable to participate, and convince you to change the whole system, then you too can do what the British and the French and the Europeans are doing. You too can kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. You can kill the prosperity of the entire region by ignoring how things work and trying to make them work a different way.
You see, the laws a government passes that increase the taxes corporations have to pay, increases their expenses. That, in turn, lessens the profit margin.
If the profit margin shrinks, the owners of the company start looking for ways fix this problem. They can move the company to places outside the authority of the tax raisers or they can vote out the tax raisers and vote in people who understand the effects of their actions have on business. But you can bet your bottom dollar on this one thing. Free people aren't gonna just take that loss and do nothing. I didn't say greedy people. I said free people.
The Democrats keep saying things at their convention that are not compatible.
They are going to raise taxes on the rich oil corporations and other big corporations to more fair levels - and - we need someone in office who will keep good paying jobs in America. What?
When they doraise taxes, the companies move, raise their prices, or both.
What's next?
Are you going to outlaw moving or raising prices?
Where does it stop?
Are you only going to outlaw companies moving or are you going to make it illegal for me to move?
The majority of Americans are enjoying lifestyles that, while they are not perfect, they are both better than their parents enjoyed and far better than the rest of the world.
Can it get better?
Maybe it can, but it won't be by going down the socialist route - where government takes your money and wastes it on social experiments dreamed up by communist professors at The University of Illinois at Chicago.
If it gets better, it will come from free people who observe and learn and apply what they learn without the chains of governmental control sinking them.
It will come from happy people.
It will come from thankful people.
It will come from young men and women with vision of what they can contribute to others by their ideas.
America's promise is not in what government can do for me.
It is what I can do for myself when I am left alone by government.

HRC's Speech: "A Marine Begs Take Care of Me?"

During Hillary Clinton's speech at the Democrat National Convention last night, she mentioned a wounded Marine who begged her, "Please, take care of me!" I can't hardly imagine it. Is it possible that a Marine, a real US Marine, begged Hillary to take care of him?
There were people like that in the times of the American Revolutionary War. They were called Tories. They were loyal to the English Crown and they humbled themselves to the King and called themselves his children and begged him to send his troops to them and to take care of them.
We have a growing, leftist, population in America, who pleads and begs the Fed's to pass laws that provide for them. They don't care that the only way to make that work is for the government to take away the hard earned money of the working people. the big money in the US is in the middle class pockets. If you are going to "take care " of everyone, and you promised to only tax the rich, you have to start calling anyone who make more than 40 or 50 thousand dollars a year rich.
That, though, is not what bothers me most. When someone pays your bills, they call the shots. All you have to give up is your freedom. Give up your liberty to think, to go and to say what you want, when and where you want, and we will provide for you. Thanks, but no thanks.
Liberty. Freedom. Justice. NOT FOR SALE! Not even for free health care.

Samuel Adams: Then and Now!

Read what Sam Adams said at the infancy of our country and see if it stirs the courage and resolve to stand up to the world around us! His first paragraph asks a question. The second gives his answer.
“Bid us and our posterity to bow the knee? Supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war, in order to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth?
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams
My interpretation of Sam Adams statement would go like this:
You want what? You want me and my children to bow down to the terrorists and tyrants of the world by electing those who want to negotiate with our enemies rather than defeat them? You want my country to beg for their friendship in hopes that they won’t do to us what they’re already doing to other innocent people?
You want me to work, and make a living, and then pay them protection money?
You want to negotiate with those who torture their own people to satisfy their lust for power - people who bomb and kill people for wanting the kind of liberty you take for granted? And who then warn us and our allies that if we won’t apologize for existing, they will let loose on us the dogs of war? They publicly promise to riot in our blood, to hunt us from the face of the earth?
Let me tell you something.
If you love wealth more than freedom, and the peacefulness of slavery more than the exhilarating fight for freedom, I want you to feel free to leave us. We don’t want anything you have to offer – neither your counsel nor your help in the armed conflict. Crawl over to the politicians who promise to take care of you… and lick the hands that feed you.
I hope the chains they put on you do not chafe you and can be made to blend in with your designer outfit.
And as you go, would you do us one more favor? Don’t tell anyone you used to be an American!

That is what Sam Adams said. He said it in the 1770’s and I still agree!

Check This Out!

Go to "Telegraph.co.uk "
Read "After Russia's invasion of Georgia, what now for the West?" by John Bolton

Please God, Give us leaders like this.
Men of courage and wisdom and backbone!
Where are they?
We are going to be crushed by Iran and Russia if we don't show our willingness to stand up to their acts of agression.
Churchill told the world this and Chaimberlain and his party took the path of our current liberals.
The sad thing about what our schools, colleges and univesrities have been pushing for forty years, is that so many of our fellow Americans don't recognize wisdom and manhood and courage when they see it.
I hope there is enough to avoid disaster in November.

John McCain Speaks to Russia in Real Terms

Wow! Now that is a Reagan-like response.

Check out: http://cameron.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/08/11/mccain-ups-the-ante-on-the-republic-of-georgia/


I remember when R. Reagan was running against Pres. Carter, he refused to say "what" he would do about the hostage situation in Teharan, Iran, but he promised them that they weren't gonna like it if he became the president of the US. Man, the Democrats squalled that he was dangerous and was gonna get us killed. (But words from a proven man of action, who has the capacity, courage and authority to back up those words, have always struck fear into the heart of tyrants and bullys.) The day he took office, the hostages were released. The Iranians decided they couldn't take the chance that he was for real and that he wasn't afraid to use the talents and assets God had put in America's hands.That is what I hear in John McCain's words above.
One of the problems Democrats have with the average American is that when they are in charge of the military and the power of the executive brach of government, they point it in the wrong direction, giving us the "Blackhawk Down" situation in Somalia, where our commanders in the field were begging for heavy armor and Les Aspin and the Clinton administration told them "No, we don't think you need it."
I have had a hard time getting behind John McCain because of his betrayal of the GOP while he was in the Senate, crossing the aisle and straddling the fence on key issues. But this statement is a breath of fresh air.
I may end up actually supporting this guy.