Town Hall Gunman gets a D in fashion

All over the internet I’m hearing “Gun-toting Man Draws Scrutiny Outside Obama Town Hall.”

Many are pointing to the shirt, which read "It Is Time To Water The Tree Of Liberty" as an obvious threat to take the head of the President, but what I’ve gotten from it is that he just doesn’t know how to pick quotes.

If the shirt had used the Jefferson quote, “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” If he had said that then he would have been displaying a great message.

Maybe this was not the message he meant to send, but it is what America should get from his actions. Of course the Democrats will make sure that the message they send it, “Those crazy conservatives are willing to kill for Rush Limbaugh.”

Health Care Reform: Passing the burden from businesses to government

Health Care is the biggest issue being talked about right now, and it seems like the citizens aren't for the reform that is being planned. That may change as time goes on, but right now the people of the nation seem to be wary of more spending because of how large the deficit has grown to.

What really bugs me about the issue is the fact that it shows exactly where my views with Obama differ. Both of us see that the insurance companies are the problem, but our methods to fix it are completely different.

I see insurance companies as a hindrence to the free market. With insurance companies paying the cost doctors and patiants are in the dark about the actual cost of what they are recieving. The insurance companies make the decisions instead of the patient.

Right now Obama is trying to fix it by taking away the insurance companies and adding the government. What bothers me about this is that it takes the patients choice to choose away even further, and now the government is who you go to for Health Care.

If it continuos to be an option that is fine, but if it is an option that is underwritten by the government every year than it won't be good because it would drive private insurers out of the sector. The more people to be under the government model the more it would have to be subsidized, which would just keep costing the government more and more money.

Obama is saying that that fixing health care is how we fix our economy. Right now it is hurting businesses because they have to pay for employees insurance. So, instead of strangling businesses we are going to strangle the government? That just seems bad.

Why not make it the individuals who have to save money for procedures and doctors visits? I'm sure hospitals would compete for yearly plans and stuff for normal services. It would save money because people could shop around for the best price, people could rate doctors online, and everything could be dealt with in the free market.

Right now the free market doesn't exist in health care, because the patients and the doctors don't know the prices of anything anymore it would seem. The government is trying to compound the problem, not fix it.

Volunteering for the Libertarian party

I am just posting here to say that I have officially sent in an application to volunteer for the California Libertarian party.

I am very interested to see how the political process looks close up, and I feel like this will make or break whether I will run for office or stay only in the private sector after my collegiate career.

Here is the website if you are interested in helping the Libertarian party.

High-Speed to LA

As a Libertarian, it’s really hard to be optimistic about the direction our country is going. Both the left and the right are so far to the center that neither are close to my philosophies.

Gambling, Drugs, Prostitution, and Nuclear Power are all basically illegal in a country that could use every one of them. We are worried about funding as well as clean energy, and those issues can be solved if we just learn that living in a Republic is better than living in a Democracy. If we just taxed the sins then everyone could pay less in taxes, and the people who drag society down will at least be paying taxes instead of wasting tax dollars in jails.

California, where I live, is a perfect example of why a Democracy doesn’t really work. Here we can vote on ballot measures for spending in the state, which reminds me very much of the Ben Franklin quote, “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”

During the election we voted on a high-speed train going from LA to San Francisco. It would cost the state billions of dollars, and the tickets for it would be $50. On Southwest I can fly the same distance in about the same amount of time (airport time included) for only $10 or $20 more. So, in my opinion the train wasn’t worth it to me, because I wouldn’t be for it if it was an option in the free market.

When I told my sister this she told me that she voted for it because it wasn’t me paying for it, it was the collective pull of many people. But the way I see it, if I wouldn’t pay for it myself, why would I want to tax it on the rest of the state?

This has gotten off topic, but I’m going to begin posting a lot of articles on here about my Libertarian beliefs, because this is the internet, and the internet breeds Libertarians. The free exchange of information really does seem to create a more Libertarian way of thinking. I believe that is because it allows people to see past the common misconceptions of the world that we have.