Author: Rick Richbourg
Rule of Law
Cram Down?/! – whiskey tango foxtrox -over? So what is Cram Down? It’s real name is H.R. 1106: Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009. This bill as passed by the House of Representatives allows a Judge to modify the rights of claim holders with respect… Continue reading
Milton Friedman – on Free Enterprise
Enticements of Entitlement
Like the serpent tempting us with the promise of “the knowledge of good and evil”, our Washington leaders hold out universal health care as the ‘apple’ for our current economic woes. But, as the apple brought ruin to paradise so too shall this. . . This wicked seduction is… Continue reading
Social Justice?
Social Justice and the New American Dream… As I riffed yesterday, from every direction, new code words are entering our main stream lexicon of speech and thought. Some of these new words like – Social Justice are re-forged in the smithy of old Marxist ideas. They then appear… Continue reading
Shared Sacrifice
I’ve been wondering what’s really been ‘going on’ for the last several months. especially since the election? Really been wondering, how could we’ve gone from “Hope and Change” to Communism and Confiscation in so short a time? Well it’s not by accident. Please take about 3 ½ minutes to watch… Continue reading
more Common Sacrifice
The War on Wealth continues, with a proposal for a GLOBAL New Deal. Confiscating the baser nature of Roosevelt‘s depression era propaganda, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and our own Dear Leader collude on a ponzi scheme of global proportions to require public spending on a huge world-wide scale.… Continue reading
War on Wealth
And so it begins, under the seemingly benevolent rallying cry of “Common Sacrifice” worthy of Orwell’s “newspeak” we are all called to the laudable goal of “Saving our Republic” by the fallacious notion of “universal forfeiture”. What is less clear is how someone who may be forced to “sacrifice” and… Continue reading
Tea-Party Friday
This great country, which I hold so dear, is in trouble. The principles on which our nation was founded seem to be deteriorating daily. Our government, comprised of elected officials sworn to represent us, has abandoned its sovereign duty to the people. Our voices, already muffled by the roar of… Continue reading
Ash Wednesday
Memento homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reveteris. “Remember (O man) that you are dust, and to dust you shall return” Continue reading