COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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Clyde Cleveland Speaks at Continental Congress 2009
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Clyde Cleveland Speaks at the Freedom's Phoenix Workshop
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Clyde Cleveland END THE FED Speeches
July 23, 2010 at 03:25 pm by Eliyah FinkelsteinPost under:Chicago 2008:
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Some News Flashes
September 20, 2009 at 04:11 am by Darrin MoirPost under:Sure enough, the bailouts created "too Gigantuous to fail" institutions in the financial world, giving them an unfair and monopolistic leg over their competitors. At the same time another 30% of banks failed recently without any intervention. Consumer choice is depleting and we are truly getting a rigid oligopoly financial system. Do you think Federal reserve members didn't see this coming? Do you think that maybe they would want to see their buddies wielding the upper hand.It is striking proof that free market economics do not cause monopolies. Favoritism and government intervention make these things happen. The government's only job is making sure that what it has now effectively created, doesn't happen. That said and done, the media is finally using buzzwords that Fiscal conservatives used to argue against the bailouts. It creates moral hazard... now they tell us.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR2009082704193_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009082800437
Scientists want the government to tax all sweet products in a coercive approach to making us eat healthier. Congress wants to pass a health bill that requires by law to purchase a service from a private company. (Ps. car insurance is not the same as health insurance. Driving on the road with a vehicle is specific activity that is a possible danger to other individuals. Health insrance requires you to cover yourself from any risks for simply existing.) The only way that this becomes okay in a society is the power paradigm shifts from bottom up to top down and the citizens become assets of the state rather than the power holders.http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Financial-Industry/Fructose-in-the-firing-line
On Saturday, September 12th, over 450,000 people marched on Washington, and no major news media covered it, except conservative talk radio and conservative bloggers. Otherwise it was media blocked.
States are already feeling the strings attached to those stimulus dollars. In Education, there are a few states that won't allow their teachers to be evaluated or fired based on test scores, especially federally mandated test scores. Yet, the Obama has effectively attached a clause to billions of dollars in stimulus money for the "race to the top" program of his that requires them to step down their defensive stance of protecting their teachers from federal mandates requiring evaluations of this type. Without bowing down federal laws that require teachers to be evaluated based on standardized test results, these states become ineligible for funds. Naturally, they are scrambling to back down on their word, give up their state sovereignty, and hand more power over to the federal government in the name of a few dollars. Oh, but it's for the children, right? Yeah the same children who are going to be paying this stimulus spending for years to come.
http://www.teachermagazine.org/tm/articles/2009/09/09/298498usschoolsjudgingteachers_ap.html?tkn=MXVF2zT%252FS%252F2IUWWaHYv8zzxKLgbyrhFxYgfg -
True American History
September 17, 2009 at 09:37 pm by Dwayne FritzPost under:I either want to find or help start a group of citizens or a non-profit organization to promote True Foundational American History in our public school system. Since our federal government won't leave our schools to our states, lets take them back ourselves by teaching our children about the truth of America's founders. To require the reading and teaching of Historic documents from the Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution, The Federalist Papers, The Anti-Federalist Papers, etc. even to the point of studying Marcus Tullius Cicero's writings on Natural Law that inspired our Founders. This won't be to teach Politics but to teach the principles of our History. If there are groups out there like that, could you refer me to them or lets start something. I live in PA we could start here or anywhere.
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Spread the Word
September 17, 2009 at 03:32 am by Stephanie StakerPost under:I try to talk about what is going on with government every chance I get: like at the grocery store, drug store, anywhere where there are people. I talk about liberty and freedom with my friends and try to educate them about what is really going on. If my friends and family rely on the mainstream media, there is no way they will get the truth. It is up to each of us to speak the truth.
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Another Way to Look at the Nation's Economy
September 16, 2009 at 05:09 pm by Kent LalleyPost under:Here's an article I wrote that my local newspaper printed. It's about half way down under "Another Way...":
http://online.dailyamerican.com/pdf/09/07/16/07-16-09/a040716091.pdf
I try to do "something" for Liberty everyday even if it's just reading a page or two of a website like this one. If more people would just take a moment to get a better understanding of what liberty really means more would be able to "see through" the fallacies thrown at us daily. That's just my take on what would bring our country back to the foundations of liberty it was started on. I hope you might be inspired to try something on your own too. The ideas of liberty and free market economics are worthy of the effort in my opinion.May I suggest sending a FaceBook friend invite to Lawrence W. Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education (www.fee.org.) He's under the name "Lawrence Reed." I'll predict you'll not regret it!Kent Lalley -
TyrannyBusters
September 15, 2009 at 04:20 pm by Mike BenoitPost under:When champions of liberty vacate the seat of power they leave a vacuum for tyrants to fill.
Mike Benoit
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Where do we go from here?
July 24, 2009 at 09:41 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedPost under:“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.”
Laurence J. Peter
US educator & writer (1919 – 1988)Where are we going? What is the destiny of America? Who is responsible to save our nation?
It seems apparent that at this time in our history we are struggling to know where we should be going. Given the constant cries for a “bailout” for every form of financial crisis it seems that Americans have resigned themselves to government solutions to our problems. Many are now admitting that our financial crises have been contributed to (if not caused outright) by the government’s unnatural involvement in this economy. Despite this we do not seem to have the courage, or foresight, to address our problems in any other way but through greater government debt, guarantees, etc. Certainly, the endless piling on of debt onto the backs of the American people cannot continue indefinitely.
Is this the direction we really want to go in, or is there any alternative?
To answer this question, I am reminded of Benjamin Franklin. Mr. Franklin has been called “the quintessential American” of his time. He was self-educated and after studying printing in his brother’s newspaper shop he went off on his own to Philadelphia, where he started his own printing company. As reported at The Franklin Institute website:
His most famous publications were a newspaper called The Pennsylvania Gazette and his annual Poor Richard’s Almanack. He had many new ideas for publishing and he is known for printing cartoons, illustrated news stories, and letters to the editor. He believed in the power of the press, using his printing press as a way to bring the news to all people. He used cartoons and pictures so that everyone could understand the news, even people who had not learned to read.
Mr. Franklin was instrumental in bringing street lighting to Philadelphia. Ben also helped to set up the first postal system in Philadelphia. In order to make Philadelphia a safer city, he started the Union Fire Company in 1736. A few years later, in 1752, he set up America’s first fire insurance company. He even organized a Night Watch and Militia to help keep peace and safety in Philadelphia. While in Paris, Ben proposed the idea of Daylight Savings Time.
In 1731, Ben founded America’s first circulating library so that people could borrow books to read even though they might not have been able to afford to buy books to read. He discovered the conductivity of heat by color and established the first volunteer fire-fighting union (in the world!) and fire insurance company in Philadelphia.
In an incredible history of his life, The Real Benjamin Franklin, the essence of Mr. Franklin is revealed. I found it very interesting how creative he and his associates were. For example, he (and his “master-mind” team) had the idea of laying bricks on one city block of Philadelphia. At that time, no city blocks were paved in the entire city. Despite naysayers, they went at it and successfully paved one of the city blocks. As a result, the citizens of Philadelphia became inspired and paved the entire downtown area. Mr. Franklin also devised the first lottery system in order to raise funds for the building of a church in Philadelphia.
He was instrumental in the implementation of a new money system for the colonies, including the printing of a new form of money, so the colonies would not be dependent on British notes.
Addressing other needs of his time he invented the lightning rod, through which he discovered electricity. He also invented the Franklin stove, which was a more efficient way to produce heat from wood (for which he refused a patent, as he stated it should be for the good of the people).
His other inventions include: bifocals, the glass harmonica, the library chair, swim fins, the long reach device, the catheter, and Daylight Savings Time.
So what can “Good old Ben” teach us today? To whom did Mr. Franklin look for the solutions of the problems of his day? He obviously took direct, personal responsibility for his environment and was not afraid to engage in the process of : “ask and ye shall receive.”Given what he created and cognized, he clearly had opened himself up to receive alternative answers to the dilemmas he and his countrymen faced.It’s amazing how we take so many of today’s institutions for granted, such as the library, volunteer fire departments, insurance, etc. We often fail to understand that it was committed individuals, such as Benjamin Franklin, who looked problems in their face and asked “how can I help to solve this problem?” instead of: “government, solve this for us, please!”
As we see more and more of the failure of governments surface in the future, let us remember the greatness, the faithfulness and the true righteousness of men like Benjamin Franklin. Let us imbue into our soul their spirit of self-empowerment, and self-reliance. Let us have the courage to take back our sovereignty and our divine right of self government.
I have no doubt that we can save our nation, and end up where we want to go, if only we can remember who we really are.
