Visitors to Zimbabwe are snapping up 100 trillion bank notes

Visitors to Zimbabwe are snapping up 100 trillion bank notes, Read It Here, I have to say I really hope and pray to God this doesn't give anyone in government any ideas.


Solomon

The Death Tax

After listening to Geraldo Rivera with some other progressive type on how lowering the Death Tax, I have had it with these Death Tax nuts.

I have the ultimate fool proof argument to use against these socialists, Most (if not all) Small Businesses worth anything, have all of their capital tied up in land, merchandise, equipment, and/or investments, they don't have millions sitting in a bank account or in a mattress. So if a Small Business or Farm owner dies and their worth is $3 million if you tax at just 40% that means they have to come up with $1.2 million to pay the Imperial Federal government, and how do those grieving heirs pay the only way they can sell the business or farm. Now who can afford to buy a business or farm worth $3 million? One answer, the big corporations and very rich with the cash to do such a transaction, the very groups that these progressives claim to hate, they are the ones who push the small businesses or farms of America in to the hands of a few, usually their few. 

And then we have The Weiner with this wonderful statement from earlier in the week, see video below,


Where to start, where to start, well first Mr. Weiner THEY ARE NOT INHERITING CASH MONEY! Sorry for the caps but I really wanted to emphasize the point, Small Businesses and Farms that pass to the next generation don't have heaps of cash laying around, if they did Mr. Weiner might, might have an argument for people under fifty million of worth. I have also heard some compare inheritances to casino and lottery winnings, first that is just offensive as hell, as some who has lost a relative if you said that to my face you would be on the floor holding your nose, second that argument is another fallacious one it must assume that the inheritance is predestined for the person by the Fates, which then means in order to equal things out it is predestined again by the Fates that half of that wealth be taken as if some ancient Greek writer had wrote it. 

Lastly I think Mr. Weiner has been watching and reading to many episodes of Richie Rich, but I find one of the last scenes from the Richie Rich film (1994) from a few years ago much more representative of the rich and wealthy here in America, when the villain finally gets into the Rich family vault he finds family trinkets and memory related items, when he demands an explanation, he finds the Rich family keeps their money in banks, the stock market, and real estate because they simply did not value money. That is the way most wealthy who do not let the love of money run them, men like George Soros though I believe would not, and does not under stand this, as do many on the left and progressives.

If Weiner represents the thought processes of the progressives and those on the left, if they keep speaking like this and we keep them out of the republican party the country will be in a better state in a few years.   

Solomon.

P.S. Since many Progressives will say they do not have a love of money I will simply preempt them with this, then why is it that you always go after the income wealth and not the interest wealth, such as the kind earned by Soros, Gore, and many more on the left? Perhaps it is because you know that people who actually earn their wealth with businesses that provide a good or service will prominently lean towards freedom, capitalism, and individualism then what Progressiveism leans towards.

The Post Office, A Fine Example of Government Run Business.

The Post Office, A Fine Example of Government Run Business.

So Tuesday July 6th the Federal Postal Service has announced it's asking for 2-cent rate increase to fight is financial crisis, as of 2009 the Federal Postal Service was three+ billion dollars in the red for that year and is still losing money. So their idea is to increase prices in a down economy, that is just about as brilliant as when customers were complaining about the long lines and wait times the Federal Postal Service removed all their clocks from the pick up areas, if the continue to complain will the next take their customers time pieces and any thing that could tell time? That would be really brilliant.

The Unemployed Told They Need Not Apply.

As with my usual routine I like to check the news before I start doing things, and this is what I find, The Unemployed told they Need Not Apply. Many businesses are apparently doing this, posting boldly things like "unemployed candidates will not be considered" or "must be currently employed," now while I don’t want the government in privet businesses affairs I want to say something to them.

Bill O'Reilly and his Problem with the Free Market.

Bill O'Reilly has his problems with the Free Market this is brought by his talking points from 6/7/2010, watch it below,
Bill O'Reilly talking points 6/7/2010,


Well I have another response to O'Reilly.

Anthony Weiner vs Glenn Beck, and the Progressive Agenda.

Starting last week Anthony Weiner launched an attack on Glenn Beck as part of the larger attack on Glenn. Weiner's attack focused on what Glenn discuses on his radio show and the company Goldline, Inc which is a sponsor of his radio show.

Capitalism is Matter and Socialism is Antimatter

Most have heard the phrase "Men are from Mars, and Women are from Venus." well I think I have a new one, "Capitalism is Matter and Socialism is Antimatter, and the two can be not mixed." This was inspired by a recent news item on why we exist, I will have something on that else where, but this is about how Capitalism is Matter and Socialism is Antimatter, and why the two can be not mixed.

Defending Capitalism: Flea Markets

Defending Capitalism: Flea Markets

We all know them, Flea Markets, whether its clean, dusty, outdoors, indoors, or a combination of those. Well yesterday while doing some work someone I know, who is a retired union worker this will be important a little latter, said that only Flea Brains go to Flea Markets, of course this wasn't just some jest he was serious. My response "Why? Flea Markets are the perfect example of why capitalism works, you take your goods there if someone wants them they well buy them or negotiate over the price until both sides are happy." he really didn't have much to say after that. But I wanted to continue the defense of Flea Markets here.

Flea Markets our bazaars are the perfect example of why capitalism, you take your goods there if someone wants them they well buy them or negotiate over the price until both sides are happy. Now there is more to most flea markets then that and there is the more dubious side such as the bootleg & knockoff items but most reputable establishments prohibit that as well as checks out the vendors from time to time just to check that no one is selling those items. As some one who has sold at Flea Markets before, I also had my own permanent space for several years here, I can tell you personally that there is more then people selling inexpensive or secondhand goods you can find new and used items of all prices and all kinds, from fruits and vegetables to movies, video games, collectibles, and antiques, a perfect example of what happens when government isn't involved in capitalism, no price controls and no mandates to the sellers.
You are free both buyer & seller to negotiate over the price of things, now there are likely to be someone who will point out that when you buy certain items at a flea market you are taking a risk that it might not work, electronics for example, let me give you some simple advice, Caveat Emptor, let the buyer beware! Its very simple first if the person is unwilling, or unable, to show you that the good works right there then you don't buy it! We have all made that mistake once, most vendors at a flea market, especially those in a more permanent stall, are quite willing to show you that something works or guaranties that if it does not they will exchange it for another item in their store, because it means a possible sale. Even those in the what are typically known as Daily Rental spots are there consistently.

Flea Markets are just another unappreciated area of American Capitalism.

By Solomon.

P.S. I was going to cover the union point in the main body of this post but decided against it, so I am putting it here, the retired union worker, who I will call Union from now on, is ardently Union nothing the Unions do is bad, the only reason Americans don't like unions is due to propaganda by businesses, those are his words by the way. Despite the fact that most businesses in America are small businesses with fewer then a hundred employees, its propaganda by those businesses and people like Joe the Plumber that has people disliking the unions, Yeah Right! People are tired of the same Union tactics and arguments they see every day.

Now as to another point on unions I want to make quickly, I personally have never liked unions and its not what you might be thinking, not because I am a conservative, southerner, or otherwise, Its because of who the original founders of the Unions were, Anarchists, as in no government at all, and Marxists, not a foundation I would like to build something on.

The Case against the Feds regulating the the Problems they created.

This is a continuation of my post, Bill O'Reilly Believes the Feds can Fix the Problems it Created.

In a conversation I had the other day on on small claims court and when someone sues a contractor when they mess up a job or don't do it right, it hit me that its the perfect argument against the Feds regulating the the Problems they created.

First let me lay out a simple hypothetical, you hire Federal Roofers to fix your roof because it has leaks, they come out give you price to do the job, you like it so you hire them. They show up and replace you old roof, then a week later during a rainstorm you start having leaks again. Now at this point you can go back to them to have them do the job again with no charge, or you can go to some one else who you have more faith in to get the job done right, and sue Federal Roofers for what you paid to get the job done right by another party. Now depending on your area and state, some places may require you to give them a second chance to fix the problem, but from personal experience when a particular group you hire to do a job doesn't get it right the first time, and I mean not getting it right in a fairly big way, tend not to get it right with the second chance.

Now the federal government created this whole mess in the first place by requiring the banks to make loans to people who couldn't possibly pay them, also what people like Bill O'Rilly don't pay attention to is the government threatened to take from the banks who complained that this was bad their federal credentials in other words these banks wouldn't be able to operate in the US and its territories, and so the banks wouldn't make any noise they backed these loans with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, with our tax dollars. Also it was the former head of Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae who came up with the idea of selling these bundled mortgages as investments.

So I ask again to Bill O'Rilly tell me that this whole mess isn't the fault of the Federal Government? And why should we give more power to the same people who made this mess in the first place, and then blame the private businesses when their pyramid scheme collapsed.

Solomon.

Government Licensing Gone Wild!

This is a continuation of my previous post, Herman Cain on American Live W/Megyn Kelly, from yesterday. While this originally aired on 3/11/2010, it works with my previous post.

This whole issue of Licensing and Licenses, with some exceptions, is crazy. I can give you some good examples you might find ridiculous, as I posted back in my post, My Rage at the Minimum Wage, from 1998-2005 I ran my own small business, with myself as the only employee, I mainly sold collectible games, you might know some of them Magic the Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokemon, and several others as well as gift items for anyone. First for most of my time I was at a place called the Barnyard Flea Market in South Augusta, well I had to have a business license to be in one of the Mini Stores spots, as did everyone else, and this wasn't the market's policy this was law by Richmond County. I didn't think, still don't, that you should have a business license to sell cards, games or gift items, I still have friends over their that have to have a business license. Just a short list of items they sell toys, craft items ranging from things made from wood, cloth, beads, thread, and paper, movies, tapes, DVDs, and, music (all legitimate originals, no counterfeit goods,) Clothing new, used, and handmade, coins and other collectibles, used-not new glassware, plates, china, etc, books, comics, computers and other electronic items, other household items, and so much more, but if you wanted to do this in a Mini Store spots you needed a business license. Yet if you were to sell the same things in one of the open spaces you didn't need one, why? Probably because the county didn't think that any one would set in a space consecutively, but they do I know several people who use the same spaces, renting by the month, who sell the same stuff as people in the Mini Stores, including produce.

If you didn't read my previous post, Herman Cain on American Live W/Megyn Kelly, do so now because it is important for the next part. . . . . Ready, good.

As I said before when government sticks its nose in the business of businesses all it does is cause trouble for more then 75% of the time, such as with the railroads, only a few businesses one can really argue should be regulated, such as those that deal with food, and then only as far as it takes to keep the food supply clean and safe and no further. Because when it does it only increases the coasts of business, often to the risk of that business's health.

And before I finish this up I want to repeat something, Caveat Emptor, let the buyer beware!

Solomon

P.S. I want comments on this, especially any arguments on why people who sell cards, games, and some other things listed, almost all second hand, should have to get a business license to sell. Especially from any one on the left, but fellow conservatives are free to have fun with it too.

The Problem with the Gold Standard.

Originally I started on a post on my opinion on Ron Paul and the CPAC straw poll, and found my self discussing the issue of the Gold Standard. So I decided to turn that into a separate post.

Where is the Pay Czar NOW!

For feds, more get 6-figure salaries, where is the pay czar when we NEED him to regulate pay!?

See the full story here,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm

Sign at homeless camp: 'Welcome to Obamaville'

Quote from the story to peck your interest,
'I've had 100 calls today and not a single 1 of them was negative'

Check out this story, here,
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=118827