Rational Nation USA

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny Capitalism is under attack. Cronyism and corporate welfare will of course be defended in many nefarious ways by the Obama administration. We are indeed witnessing the slow transformational changes this President promised the nation. It ain't going to turn out so picturesque as the nanny state gig government statists would have Americans believe. This excerpt from the David Brooks article in yesterday's New York Times says it well. ... The president is now running an ad showing Mitt Romney tunelessly singing “America the Beautiful,” while the text on screen blasts him for shipping jobs to China, India and Mexico. The accuracy of the ad has been questioned by the various fact-checking outfits. That need not detain us. It’s safest to assume that all the ads you see this year will be at least somewhat inaccurate because the ad-makers now take dishonesty as a mark of their professional toughness. What matter...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny "When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed." Ayn Rand Is it possible we have arrived at such a place, and that through our conditioning we fail to recognize it? I'm sure the purveyors of cronyism (aka crony capitalism) and the "banksters" are smiling in approval of the job well done by puppets whose strings they ultimately control. Food for thought. Reality? You be the judge.

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny What you're about to see, and hear is indeed the truth about the dangers of statism and it's natural outcome, government dependency. Leviathan, aka the government bureaucracy, has a vested economic interest in creating dependency on government. Simply stated it insures the continuation and growth of the federal, state, and local government bureaucracy. Ultimately the design of the statists is for the federal Leviathan to control every aspect of the lives of its citizens. It is called collectivism. It will create untold anxiety and misery amongst the people. And it will ultimately fail. After it has SUCCEEDED in destroying the country. And now, from International Liberty : You’ve Met Julia the Moocher, Now Meet Emily - The Obama campaign’s “Life of Julia” ad is a disturbing sign. It suggests that political strategists, pollsters, and campaign advisers must think that the people living off government are getti...