The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.
Brian Tracy
Unless you’re headed in the wrong direction…
If you haven’t seen An Inconvenient Truth and you have high speed internet access, there’s a link below. Spend some time this week and watch Al Gore (may meet definition of torture) and then watch The Great Global Warming Swindle (possible also torture).
If you want real facts, watch the swindle, and then ask, why is there legislation (regressive tax) for CO2 cap and trade being promoted in Congress. What is really going on.? Is the Government really that clueless?
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand
Milton Friedman
I think it’s time that we had a serious discussion with our elected officials.
Some websites for further information
http://americanenergysecurity.com/
Maybe it’s time for a new blog, Swindlefish. Oops, too late http://www.myspace.com/swindlefish
If you still think that Al Gore is right, check out http://www.wecansolveit.org/
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Speaking of regressive taxes…
Some insight from Milton Friedman
In a recent IBD opinion piece by J. T. Young, Beware Taxes vs. Spending Compromise, a statement jumped out:
In his biography of Milton Friedman, Lanny Ebenstein quotes the Nobel laureate economist: "If taxes are raised in order to keep down the deficit, the result is likely to be a higher norm for government spending. Deficits will again mount and the process will be repeated."
The only thing we should add to this insight is "will be" in place of Friedman's "is likely to" when it comes to higher spending levels. But of course we've had the benefit of 42 years more of government spending experience since Friedman wrote this.
Some other wisdom from Mr. Friedman
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy
For more on Milton Friedman Click Here
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