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an move on and anytime some anti rights pro crime anti self defense apoplectic promoter of all things statist throws out well regulated militia in one of your spirited facebook or other debates you can just repost this article because that is what i m going to do posted by sean shepard at 1 52 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday august 11 2012 paul ryan compare perception vs the voting record truth mitt romney announced today that he has selected congressman paul ryan wi 1st as his running mate in the 2012 presidential election most conservatives have a positive opinion of rep ryan a lot of that is based on all of the media attention that the ryan plan which when contrasted with the obama white house budget plan and goals was no doubt a significant improvement however even that plan did not eliminate deficit spending even 10 years out and i don t recall that it ever actually called for eliminating whole federal departments something that is badly needed remember governor perry wanted to eliminate three of them but couldn t name all three video see 23 second mark congressman ron paul had five on his list to eliminate personally i have seven i d like to see phased out but when we can it is important to look at someone s actual voting record in order to determine where they really stand do they draw a line in the sand and demand that legislation be constitutional before they vote for it do they demand that government limit itself to protecting each person s rights to life liberty and property or do they buy into the idea that a little bit of big government expanding government and socialism is good now and again let s look and you can decide for yourself if representative ryan is as awesome as his reputation seems to be in conservative circles pro liberty conservative defender of the constitution or myth you decide paul ryan voted yes on all of the following no child left behind 2001 yes on authorizing invasion of iraq 2002 expansion of medicare prescription drug benefit 2003 70 million section 8 housing vouchers 2006 head start act 2007 extending unemployment benefits from 39 to 59 weeks 2008 tarp 2008 economic stimulus hr 5140 2009 15 billion bailout for gm and chrysler 2008 192 billion in additional stimulus spending 2009 rep ryan supports federal bailouts increased federal involvement in education undeclared wars to invade countries that pose no threat to the united states stimulus spending foreign aid and medicare part d ryan voted for ndaa indefinite detention of u s citizens without a lawyer or trial cispa national id cards and civilian surveillance without warrants from my perspective i don t understand the big veepgasm that the conservative and tea party folks just had over his selection sure neither mitt nor paul are obama but neither one of them can hold a candle to outgoing rep ron paul tx or former new mexico governor gary johnson posted by sean shepard at 3 51 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday july 18 2012 obama would tell edison he didn t make that light bulb posted by sean shepard at 12 27 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday february 22 2012 is economic freedom in america on the wane great and short video discussing some chilling facts about the decline of economic freedom in the united states and the connection between economic freedom economic growth and our standard of living posted by sean shepard at 3 13 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday january 28 2012 the end of liberty movie this slightly more than an hour long video is excellent and well worth watching it makes some excellent points and fascinatingly to me my home state of indiana gets mentioned twice as being a place where laws are getting out of control one mention regarded the requirement to show id to buy alcohol no matter one s apparent age the other mention was slightly more ominous beauchamp a self centered person usually male who compensates for an inferiority complex by promoting an air of superiority in the belittlement and condemnation of others while employing an arrogant showy peacock like behavior that attempts to impress those around them with false bravado pretentiousness and material possessions uncomfortable with his less than impressive penis the owner of the cab company became a real beauchamp treating his male and female love interests with arrogant condescension and laughable attempts at sophistication scott had money however it was not enough to keep his partners from seeking affection and sexual gratification in the arms of their other lovers posted by sean shepard at 2 28 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday november 19 2011 tired of being told you blame america in a foreign policy discussion with some supposed tea party members where i engaged with lots of historical facts information and philosophy i got one of those hannity told them to say this responses like you just hate and want to blame america and your only purpose is to tear down america i ve written before on america s interventionist foreign policy missteps and ensuing blowback with a message for pro interventionist conservatives and liberals and at the beginning of ron paul cpac and loathing by the ideologically unprincipled and intellectually dishonest but that blame america retort is just smarmy and usually thrown out by someone working their hardest to either be willfully ignorant of the facts or to ignore them in favor of endorsing the idea of being the world s bully of course the people who argue these points will always be the first to tell you that government ruins nearly everything it touches it does can t do anything right can t do anything cost effectively etc but they somehow always exclude foreign policy or military activity from their laundry list it is somehow magically immune so the next time this comes up with a so called conservative ask some simple questions maybe like this you suggest i blame the america n government for a lot of our trouble with overseas nations and people so let me ask you do you blame america for for high taxes for high regulation for ignoring its own constitution for our sour economy for our jobs going overseas for stealing form taxpayers to bail out corporations like banks and auto companies for its 15 trillion debt january 2013 update now 16 5 trillion for threatening your right to self defense for crony capitalism for screwing up the healthcare system for dishonesty in government for electing idiots socialists or worse for insecure borders for not drilling for oil for the welfare state for fannie and freddie for ignoring state s rights do you blame america for any or lots of other things so let me get this right you are upset with me and call me anti american because i blame america and really just its politicians and misguided policy makers for just one more thing than you do posted by sean shepard at 2 05 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blame america conservative foreign policy ron paul tea party monday november 14 2011 the conservative intellectual dilemma over who has rights in an all too frequent political discussion on facebook this time with brian gaddie one of my unashamed far left liberal friends he kindly pointed out that he appreciated congressman ron paul s opposition to torture this prompted a quick thought i ve had about rights and really a lot of this discussion must ultimately rest on the nature of our rights as sentient self aware beings who value life with each of us being the legitimate owners of our own selves who take positive action to support or enhance that life there is an excellent write up at the objective standard regarding the nature of rights that i highly recommend reading especially since it offers up a theory that does not depend on the existence of god this is important because if god cannot be proven than your rights cannot be proven if you solely rest the existence of them on its existence but back to the point certainly nobody in the united states would support kidnapping someone off the street failing to give them due process failing to find them guilty in any kind of trial but instead just sticking them in a secret room and torturing them just in case they might know something useful this would be such a vast violation of rights and the character of who are supposed to be as a nation but it did prompt me to post my comment from brian s thread on a broader topic of the nature of our rights and why i think the typical conservative has an intellectual dilemma that they either must resolve by becoming more authoritarian and deciding that we only have the rights our respective governments grant to us or that all human beings have rights that come about by way of our existence as sentient self aware beings brian regarding torture conservatives have an intellectual dilemma that they must resolve most conservatives would argue that our rights come from our creator god the creative force of the universe or whatever mechanism by which we are sentient self aware beings this is clearly stated in the declaration of independence as a founding principle of our country that we have rights life liberty property and the pursuit of happiness that nobody not even government except as compensation for a harm done to another can take away but then in the same breath they would suggest that immigrants accused terrorists or other people not born here don t have the same rights this is intellectually inconsistent either our rights come from the creator or they come from government by nature of which borders we are unlucky enough to be born between they must decide and i appreciate ron paul consistently showing intellectual honesty in all matters including torture as i very much appreciate you pointing out posted by sean shepard at 7 44 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels conservative government intellectual honesty libertarian rights ron paul torture friday august 12 2011 national debt after each administration 1976 to present note this article is periodically updated just to keep the data current the national debt per capita after each presidential administration election year from ford 1976 to obama present edited to continue into the trump administration figures are approximate 1976 after gerald ford 2 844 1980 after jimmy carter 4 352 1988 after ronald reagan 12 000 1992 after george hw bush 15 875 2000 after bill clinton 20 121 2008 after george w bush 31 600 2012 after obama 1st term 52 300 2016 after obama 2nd term 62 077 total of 19 97 trillion or 160 160 per family 2018 current 64 383 21 03 trillion inflation adjusted equivalent to 14 494 per person in 1976 the debt debate is nothing new it is not a bush or obama problem it is not a democrat or republican problem the two major political cults parties have held hands in the spirit of compromise for decades to send us over this cliff and compromise is a code word that a lot of people like but it really means that both sides will compromise the principles of those that elect them in order to say they accomplished something dave ramsey was recently 2012 quoted in a snippet that went viral on facebook if the us government was a family they would be making 58 000 a year they spend 75 000 a year have 327 000 in credit card debt they are currently proposing big spending cuts to reduce their spending to 72 000 a year these are the actual proportions of the federal budget debt reduced to a level that we can understand i think it is important to point out that dave left out the 2 000 000 mortgage that this family has we get this by looking at the additional 90 trillion in future obligations that our government already calculates it has committed to posted by sean shepard at 11 55 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels united states national debt interest on the debt consumes almost half of personal income taxes i attended congressman dan burton s r in 5th town hall in carmel this past evening and was pleased to hear him reference some cooperative efforts he has with congressman ron paul r tx but he said something very early on in his talk about u s fiscal matters that caught my attention he made a statement basically saying that interest on the debt consumed 46 cents out of every tax dollar and that they then had only around 54 cents to spend on everything else like the military social security etc immediately this struck me as untrue but i knew he likely didn t pull that number out of thin air but it did get me to thinking and i worked out the math on the back of one of his political flyers we are quickly approaching the point where annual debt service is around 500 billion one half trillion dollars the federal government budget is around 3 6 to 3 7 trillion federal tax receipts are in the 2 15 trillion area of that 2 2 trillion a little less than 1 trillion is personal income taxes so interest payment on the debt will likely run well over 450 billion for the current fiscal year 450 billion is about 12 of the total federal budget about 21 of all expected 2011 federal tax receipts about 46 of all expected 2011 federal personal income taxes so there you have it out of every dollar in personal income taxes almost half of it now goes solely to pay interest on the national debt so the only error the congressman made was in not being specific enough in his language he was basically correct in his statement anybody with two brain cells to rub together still need a wake up call the federal government is too big and it costs too much repeat until it sinks in posted by sean shepard at 12 01 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels congressman burton dan burton income taxes interest national debt ron paul older posts home subscribe to posts atom too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought john f kennedy about the blogger sean shepard former fiscal conservatives of hamilton county indiana board member candidate for u s house of representatives and asst state director with americans for fair taxation popular all time posts if our rights are natural then everybody has them not just citizens i had a good back and forth discussion with one of our indiana tea party patriots today our good patriot friend said i mean the bill of r the phrase a well regulated militia has no impact on your rights those opposed to individual rights and who believe that a woman being raped is morally superior to her being able to defend herself agains tales from the political crypt episode 1 they re upstairs smoking weed this is the first installment of a few stories an...