Here’s where our money is being spent and I’m not happy about it, are you?

Find a tea party near you and attend to show your support.

Want to know about the Fair Tax?  You should.  It’s your way to a better life.

Well I’m a bit late on this one, but then again I’m glad to have a good job even if it does take me out of town too often.

The last iteration of the Greenville, SC Tea Party drew about 2,000 people so they decided to move it to a better location.  It’s being put on by the Upstate Young Republicans who put on the first one.

Here’s something else that’s really cool I think.  They will be serving pork barbeque and their slogan is “Pork belongs on a bun, not in a bill!”  Gottaluvit.

GREENVILLE, S.C. — About 10,000 people rallied at the Bi-Lo Center in downtown Greenville to call for less government spending.

The “Tea Party” was organized by young Upstate Republicans and marked the final protest of the week.The “tea” in “Tea Party” stands for “taxed enough already.”

I’d say that would count as a success.  When you have 10,000 people show up for a protest in a city the size of Greenville, you know that you’ve gotten people excited about something.  Governor Mark Sanford spoke as well as Sen. Jim Demint and Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer.  Senator Demint has made himself known in his first term and a senator from South Carolina.  He’s been pushing for less spending and lower taxes since he arrived in Washington.  He is definitely one of the best we have up there.

I was hoping for  larger crowd than we had in February, but I never thought that it would swell to this size.  I hadn’t even heard about it until my friend Kelle Corvin put a post up on her Facebook about it tonight and by then it was almost 7:30, the scheduled end of the party.  Oh well, maybe next time.

The United States cannot save the world. It will be fortunate to save itself. President Bush’s proposed bailout is not simply a socialist measure. It is an attempt to avoid a return to correct valuations. It is an ignorant attempt, in effect, to extend the damage that has already been done.

Further:

“There is no use in interfering by means of a new credit expansion,” wrote Mises. “This would at best only interrupt, disturb, and prolong the curative process of the depression, if not bring about a new boom with all its inevitable consequences.” When Bill O’Reilly says that the disaster is too great, that despite his support for the free market he sees no alternative to the government bailout plan, he is denying the healing power of a depression. He is denying the fundamental lesson of economics. The damage to the economic system has already occurred during the period of false prosperity.

Our government officials are lying to themselves and to us. The false economy and false “boom” that is created by taking money from taxpayers and giving it away to businesses that should be allowed to fail because they are not viable only causes an extension of the pain. Worse yet it could cause our children to bear our pain in the name of saving our own hides. What kind of parent does that to their children?

I believe that President Bush means well. I believe that Senator Obama means well. They both don’t want our nation to be in the financial pain that it’s in, but they are wrong to take away the pain without allowing the wound to heal. The economy is damaged already by too much government interference in markets and private enterprise. Keeping values falsely inflated doesn’t allow the corrections needed to bring about a truly stable economy.

Read the rest of this article and think it over.

A major research institution (MRI) has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest chemical element yet known to science. The new element has been tentatively named Governmentium. Governmentium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of governmentium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second. Governmentium has a normal half-life of three years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause some morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to speculate that governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as Critical Morass.

Mr. President… If you’re worried about a confidence gap don’t make symbolic guestures to try to improve your image.  CUT THE DAMN SPENDING!

So what’s next?  Are you now going to bail out the companies who you just cut out of those government contracts the the ones that creat logos?

I’m not buying what Chrysler is saying.  If you have an opportunity to borrow as a lower rate, especially if you are nearing bankruptcy, you are irresponsible if you don’t take it.  To say that you don’t need the money right now, but that you are going to borrow from other sources with higher interest rates points straight to the fact that pay limitations are in your future if you borrow from the government.

So what do you do in this situation?  Either you effectively hand over control of your company to the government, or you risk bankruptcy.  It appears that Chrysler has chosen the lesser of two evils.

I think that it’s a disgrace that a company would agree to pay any employee a “performance bonus” even when the company is in the tank.  The current financial status of the company should be considered in the contract as a common sense measure.  Sure, the car companies might have been ok if not for the economic downturn, but what kind of plan doesn’t have some kind of contengency just in case the economy doesn’t keep on its track of unsustainable growth?

On the other hand, the government should not be in the business of business in the first place.  To hand out my money to a company that’s failing simply does not happen in a true free market economy.  Have you realized yet that we don’t have a true free market economy?  The government controls so much of business both directly and indirectly in the name of the “common good” that we aren’t even close anymore, albeit closer than most other nations around the world.

Corporate subsidies exist because someone was convinced by a lobbyist that industries could not be allowed to fail, yet they weren’t self-sufficient enough to survive in a free market economy.  Amtrak and the airline industry are perfect examples.

Give tax breaks to business.  That’s the way to get industry moving, but don’t allow the government to buy into the company and begin dictating business strategy.  Look at the mess they’ve made with everything else they’ve tried to run and you will see why.