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By David Hoyt at 1:23PM

Feb 1, 2010

Punch vs. Judy

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Gary North writes an excellent article on the contrivances of left vs. right (used with permission):

Obama Has Done to Far Left Democrats What Bush Did to Far Right Republicans: De-railed Their Agenda

Jan. 30, 2010

Obama was allowed to get the nomination in 2008 because the Council on Foreign Relations and related Insider groups saw him as a way to deflect any move by far Left Democrats to gain control over the government.

I have said this from the beginning. Here is what I wrote in November, 2008.

That Obama is in favor of Federal wealth distribution comes as no surprise. But notice how guarded his language is. He speaks like a lawyer. That's because he is one.

This man is not a revolutionary. He is a radical, but a radical of a special kind. He is a follower of Saul Alinsky. I first studied Alinsky's methods 25 years ago. He avoided violence. He analyzed the weakness of the opposition and then exploited this in a nonviolent way. He was a disciple of Gandhi's political methods.

Obama has mimicked Alinsky. He avoids direct confrontations. He avoided every vote in the U.S. Senate that might have created too much controversy.

Though we can't yet defeat the bad guys, it sure is fun to annoy them

I hope you all have your own ways of sticking it to the man, provided they will not harm the cause or aggress against private property. Gary North's "recommendation" is my personal favorite:

"You can't fight city hall, but you can pee on the steps and run."

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By Bonnie Kristian at 7:48AM

Jul 1, 2009

Government Safety Nets

Gary North writes on LewRockwell.com today about the modern perception of government as our safety net, our back-up plan, if you will, should anything really serious go wrong.

The problem with this situation is twofold (that's a huge understatement, of course, but bear with me): first, this concept of government as safety net is grossly abused by government itself, used as a tool for blatant and unwarranted expansion -- expansion which is unjust even if a majority of voters want it to occur. North explains:

This faith in safety nets has sustained men's faith in the expansion of central governments all over the world. Voters have called for guaranteed retirement and guaranteed medical care for the aged. Now this is about to be extended in America to the poor through a system of national health insurance. The voters are supportive.

The second major problem is the horrific misallocation of trust which takes place when government is viewed in this benevolent, paternal manner:

For two thousand years, Western man had faith in God, in private charities, in local churches, and above all the family to provide safety nets. But he has steadily surrendered his faith in all of these in favor of the state. The state is seen as a healer. It is seen as the provider of reliable safety nets.

Government may arguably be a necessary evil, but it is still an evil. Randolph Bourne observed that "War is the health of the state." This hardly seems like the sort of organization we would want caring for our elderly, healing our sick, and educating our children....right?