The Affordable Transmission Care Act

While my fried was driving through Illinois and very far from home, his car broke down. It turned out that his transmission broke and his car was towed to the Aamco. As it turned out, the local Aamco was the only place he could get his transmission fixed. The cost to fix his car was far more than he could afford, and he had to call friends and relatives and credit card companies in order to get enough money together to fix his car.

This was a clear example that transmissions do not fall under free-market principles. It was completely unfair that his transmission broke during a time in his life when he couldn't afford it. There were no competitors to take his car. The Aamco was able to charge him a couple of thousand dollars for something that was a need, not a want.

It seems obvious to me that everyone, whether they own a car or not, should be forced to purchase Transmission Insurance. In fact, perhaps we should simply go to a single payer system that the Federal Government controls. The IRS should be able to fine/tax/confiscate private property, imprison and be empowered to kill anyone that tried to avoid paying into such a system.

You may think this is a joke, but the argument is exactly the same for health care. If health care is a right based upon some kind of radical egalitarian false premise, then the same false premise must be applied to transmission care. Of course the Political Left will balk at such an argument, but inconsistency is the sign of a failed argument. But then again, perhaps they would agree and desire government control that too!

Berry For Police State/Sheriff

It's that election time again. Every where I drive throughout Scott City, KS, I see signs Berry For Sheriff. Now I want to be clear. I do not know Bill Berry personally. I am concerned with the monopolistic police state growing and thinking that the citizens of Scott City are in some kind of constant danger and in desperate need of protection.

Recently, Bill Berry, the man running for sheriff was able to show off his K-9 at the local library. Apparently, these dogs are going to save us from drugs. Although we know factually, the war on drugs has only increased the number of drug related deaths, indoctrinating our children that they will save us from evil drug lords is all part of the world of Hollywood and the State.

As facts demonstrate, the police state is far more dangerous. Simply watch the recent PBS special on Prohibition to see the truly dangerous people. Remember that the first men who fired shots at those who wished to actually carry beer were the police/Federal agents. Perhaps re-watching the Untouchables might give some food for thought, but it is completely backwards. It was the Federal government that began the WAR on alcohol and now drugs.

The Police State has successfully managed to put itself in the position in the minds of many citizens as being our savior as can be seen in how Berry's childhood was affected by the State's self-perpetuating propaganda. As Bill Berry website states,

I recently found a grade school project that indicated an interest in being your sheriff even as a boy. Now it’s my time to come home to watch over a new generation until another young boy decides to follow his dream.

So it is his dream to watch over us. With the broad movement to militarize our police departments, my concern is about men who think we need to be "watched over". Perhaps he doesn't think watching us with Drones is a good thing (I'm willing to bet he does), but as one who works with the Department of Defense, I suspect he has no problem with Federal laws stealing out liberty (think Patriot Act). I also suspect he agrees with all of the Federal Laws which allow local/state police to steal private property, put people into boxes and/or kill people for "non-violent crimes".

It is men like Berry who seem to have no foundation for what liberty is based upon. They seem to be completely unaware that sheriffs are to secure private property rights as per the American Tradition, not trample all over them. But hey new ideologies is apparently where it is at!

Scott County has a unique opportunity that has not happened in modern history. We finally have the ability to benefit from a beginning of new and refreshing ideologies of law enforcement.

Most of the great work done by Scott City's finest is to make certain we all behave properly such as making certain we follow all of the driving laws. Of course it is interesting to watch the zealous drive around town at high rates of speed and running red lights making certain we behave properly.

Another great concern is the lack of patrolling.

An area of concern is the lack of protection provided to the stakeholders of our community by the lack of patrolling by the current sheriff’s office.

When elected, it is my goal to increase the amount of patrolling in our county. The citizens of Scott County should have police presence 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

No, Scott City doesn't need to militarize our police. We don't need K-9s saving us from drugs.

What we need is a sheriff, who simply recognizes that Americans do not need a police state to "watch over" us, that the police are not a separate class of people who may carry guns while the rest of us peons are subject to them. Americans are a self-governing people. Liberty requires private property rights, and the right to bear arms in self-protection even from police. Liberty requires that we do not empower the State to have power over people who do things with which we may not necessarily agree.

Berry wishes to centralize government, especially by increasing the monopoly of the police state. Let's continue the American Tradition by not following the "new ideologies".

Why are we in a depression? Is this just a natural phenomenon of a free market economy? Do free markets inevitably go into depression therefore the politicians or the Federal Reserve [The Fed] should manage the economy?

Do you understand the importance to the answer to these questions and how they effect you personally? Your liberty? Your ability to provide for yourself and your family? No other external factor has as much impact on your life as this.

The Fed has been holding interest rates at or near zero for almost a decade now. Interest rates are a price just like the price of a home or a car. It is the price of borrowing money. Just like any price, it relays information. Just like the price of a home signals how many and who will buy homes, the interest rate signals investors as to what and how much investment the economy can put into capital.

When people save money they are exchanging purchases today in exchange for purchases in the future. (They are saying- I won't buy something today, I will buy at some date later). And this increases the money supply which in turn lowers the interest rate.

That lower rate now signals to investors that people are saving and now is the time to invest in capital (new businesses, homes to build, etc.)

And because this signal happened naturally, once the investors complete their project (new business, building homes, etc...), there is purchasing power to support those projects because people saved their money (so when the future comes and people retrieve their savings to buy, they will support these new businesses, buy homes, etc...)

But when the Fed drives interest rates down to zero by printing tons of money, it sets a mis-allocation of resources into play. The low interest rate signals the investors to start new projects (new businesses, build homes, etc...) but there was no actual savings to support these new projects in the future. People did not actually save money and exchange purchases today for purchases in the future.

So once the projects are near complete, they fail.

This is known as the boom/bust cycle. It is the inevitable result of the Fed holding down interest rates through monetary expansion.

The answer to the above question is NO, the economy does not naturally go into depression. The Interest rate insures a natural balance of capital resources and consumers support of them.

The Fed is the root cause for the housing bubble. It is the root cause for this depression.

So what's their answer to this crisis? Print more money and hold down interest rates to spark investment.

They have done this now for so long that they are having difficulty even getting another bubble!

The real solution? Stop printing money, allow interest rates to return to their natural level. If we do this, we will go through a deeper depression that will cause deflation and allow market corrections to occur. After about 18 months of the government and the Fed of leaving the economy alone, the economy will recover.

If you want to know if this will end. Just look at the interest rate. As long as they hold it down this low, we're in bigger trouble than ever!