Let's Be Like Europe!

[Dagobert II]

"Where there is no free market, there is a black market." Milton Freidman
Europol chief of staff Brian Donald recently said that there were two “large seizures” of firearms, mostly “assault weapons”, in the past two weeks alone. None of these were stolen from the gun stores or the homes of law abiding citizens. Yet in spite of the laws against them, it has been relatively easy to easy to get your hands on pretty much anything you want – even easier than in the United States for many select fire, fully automatic weapons. Source: http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/09/european-police-admit-banning-has-not-worked/

[sojourner truth]

Read another article today about Russia breaking down on the "black market" labor pool.

Evidently, due to excessive socialist taxation, the Russian people are starting to take their talent underground, and performing services and providing goods out of their garages and barns. That means all cash transactions, and no tax dollars to Putin and his pals.

Local mechanic shops are going out of business because the mechanics can take home a lot more pay when they do work for cash under the table... And Putin wants that money... Badly.

I love the free market... People will always find a way to screw the government when given a chance. And I don't think it would be that way if government wasn't so damn greedy and taking more than their "fair share". Shoot... Even Obama is trying the same thing by outlawing business that do the paperwork taking their companies off shore despite not moving a damn thing but their location identifier.

[Mestral]

We probably should be starting to do a lot more "local economy, off the books" trading.
Even if just for practice.

[sojourner truth]

Well... Trump has a lot of faults, but he does know a bit about money, and I believe his ideas on trade are sound, for the most part.

We might suffer initially, but the plan would bring an awful lot of jobs home.

The US has currently made it a very wise move to get off the American soil to do business. Mostly because of the confiscatory taxation they face. When they leave, so do the jobs they produce. I know it's a lot more complicated than that, and a lot of trial and error will have to be exercised, but Trump is right about how badly the Chinese are screwing us fiscally. They also manipulate their currency like crazy in order to make a buck... That is something we refuse to do because we have ethics...

One thing he knows is that those who play by the rules as they are right now are getting the royal shaft. And those rules are skewed in favor of the other guy.

[Mestral]

Trouble is, Trump is still a long shot.
Odds makers show him gaining on Klinton, but still hasn't caught her.


For state by state analysis:
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

[sojourner truth]

Yep... Saw a couple of shows today about it.

The dems are really filling up the nightly MSM news with some psychological warfare for Klintoon that is probably brainwashing the idiots who use oinly them for their news.

They did a thing about 3 counties somewhere where there was absolutely zero republican voters registered. Of course the entire population was Afro American, so no surprise there.

And another neat little thing they do is try and show the republicans as being in an unorganized tizzy from within, and that all republicans are split and uncoordinated. All this while their party and candidate is sedate, cool, calm, and organized as hell with the majority of America marching lock step behind her.

I honestly hope they truly believe that going into the campaign... But then we all know better now. Going to be fun watching how Hillary is going to justify all that nodding and agreeing she was doing when Bernie was laying out what she believed in the other day. It made her look like a hand puppet and he was the ventriloquist.

Even that was an improvement over having to listen to her real voice. No wonder Bill went astray... I couldn't take all that yelling and screaming from old Bossy Pants all the time either.

And if she does win... bury your money in the back yard and put an armed guard on it. If you have any left. And I mean money and yard.

[Mestral]

The main thing I want to get out there is that we cannot be complacent, as we were in 2012.
We need to insure that people know this is a fight for our liberty.
If Hillary wins, truth, liberty, and Christianity will be under ever increasing attack.

We need to try to ensure that she and her ilk do not win,
and in case she does, we need to have countermeasures, already in place.

[sojourner truth]

Well... If she wants Bernies voters, she is going to have to peg her meter as far left as it will go. Many of them are pretty mad about her beating him out, and more than a few are willing to switch sides just to piss her off and make a statement.

The sad thing I have seen among some of my friends is their saying they are going to write in vote on election day. And they full well know that is throwing a vote away, and giving Hillary the win.

Some of the reasoning I do hear is that they are tired of this stuff dragging out and just want to get the collapse over with and done.

They may be closer to the truth than they think.

[fchafey]

I am waiting for the "If you don't want this country to go to hell, then you must get out and vote....for Hillary, she will ensure we stay on the path to righteousness and harmony" diatribe to start on the TV. I am willing to bet the busses will be shuttling people back and forth to vote in order to ensure that Trump doesn't get in. I think it was a mistake to pick Pence and not somebody more in line with the younger people as well as minority or women voters. Republicans just don't seem to get it.

[CenTexDave]

Yep, they'll be shuttling people back and forth - first to one precinct, then another. Start comparing votes. Check voting registers for dead people.

[sojourner truth]

Well, I would like her to show us this mythical road to happiness and harmony that we are already on and need to stay on.

Certainly she could not be referring to the one that the current president is on.

[gnatsum]

I think it was a mistake to pick Pence and not somebody more in line with the younger people as well as minority or women voters. Republicans just don't seem to get it.

Wondering if Pence was "forced" onto Trump in the same way that Sarah Palin was "forced" onto McCain's ticket. Pence seems to be a better pick that Palin (both of them Conservative Republican state Governors) in that he's seems more of a leader than Palin...plus Indiana probably carries more political "weight" than Alaska...
My thinking on the "forced" notion is that the national GOP wanted a "true Conservative" on the ticket to placate the Conservative GOP base that sat on their hands in the 2012 election, because they couldn't vote for Mitt Romney, a Mormon.

I would've preferred someone like Allen West if we "needed" a minority on the GOP ticket.

[Mestral]

...
My thinking on the "forced" notion is that the national GOP wanted a "true Conservative" on the ticket to placate the Conservative GOP base that sat on their hands in the 2012 election, because they couldn't vote for Mitt Romney, ...
I doubt the "National GOP" are sentient enough to realize we need a true conservative on the ticket.
They are too busy trying to move to the Left, themselves.
That said, I aslo doubt Trump gave them much of a say in the matter.

[CenTexDave]

I don't like Pence as a VP pick either. Would have rather seen West, Cain, etc.

[mac]

[SIZE=2]I doubt the "National GOP" are sentient enough to realize we need a true conservative on the ticket.
They are too busy trying to move to the Left, themselves.


well....that crowd last night damned sure wasn't "too busy trying to move to the left themselves"......there may have been a handful of 'em last night who wanted to change the rules to allow them not to represent the folks who sent them there but they were soundly routed....mac

[sojourner truth]

They had an agenda that was driven by the right wing political bosses who see their easy ride threatened. As much as I liked some of the old line republicans, I am now seeing a power structure behind the party that I am not too comfortable with. It resembles the same sort of thing we see in the Democrat power base. Organized and entrenched insiders who have been in power far too long and who have become way too comfortable serving self interests instead of a constituency.

And Trump is a thumb in their eye. Pence, IMO, was a peace offering to them. Not one with any real promise, but an olive branch at least.

Yesterdays power grab attempt was a staged event performed by the syncophants of the old conservative order. I can understand fully their concerns with Trump, as I have a few myself. But they had better quickly understand that he is whom the majority has chosen, and their only other choice is you know who.

ANd maybe that is exactly what we need right now. The stupidity will not end until even the hard core leftists can be harmed enough to holler uncle.