Ad Terras Per Aspera

To quote an article by him (and it has also been printed in Newsweek magazine):

A source of mild entertainment amid the financial carnage has been watching libertarians scurrying to explain how the global financial crisis is the result of too much government intervention rather than too little.

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But to summarize, the libertarian apologetics fall wildly short of providing any convincing explanation for what went wrong.

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To which the rest of us can only respond, Haven’t you people done enough harm already?

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The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading Ayn Rand novels in high school.

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They are bankrupt, and this time, there will be no bailout.

Dear Jacob, please find me any libertarians in power. Ron Paul may be a fine example of what it means to be a Congressman, and the kind of person all Americans should look up to… but the rest of the House completely shits on him. I don’t know of any other Congressmen (either from the Senate or the House) or any Governors or anyone else with power that hold libertarian ideals.

The Senate, the House, the Presidency, the Treasury, and the Fed are all led by people who are, in large, extremely right and authoritarian. These people believe the people should have no rights and that all money should be very tightly controlled.

The bailouts? Ideas that only the authoritarian right could love. Propping up banks that practice unsafe banking practices because they’re afraid of change? More authoritarian right beliefs. Removing the rights of the people via the Patriot Act against the wishes of our founding fathers and the Constitution? Again, the authoritarian right.

The libertarian left believes in letting companies crumble if they cannot remain profitable and efficient. The libertarian left believes in letting people have choice in the matter… if the people actually wished to be bailed out, millions of my fellow citizens would not have written to Congress asking them to vote against the $700 billion bailout bill…. the same $700 billion bailout bill that is only serving to make the recession and Wall Street’s downturn much worse.

For all those out there who wonder where the money went in their 401k and IRAs? The lack of libertarian ideals in Congress stole your money.

You know what else the libertarian left believes in? Holding your government accountable… another thing Congress and the President want to have nothing to do with, and they will do anything in their power to make sure they stay in power. This goes beyond just being the authoritarian right… this makes them corrupt.

In two weeks, we are going to vote for the next President…. vote for someone who isn’t a total douchebag. vote for Ron Paul or Bob Barr or Chuck Baldwin. Just whatever you do, do not vote for John McCain (aka Bush 3.0) or Barack Obama: voting for either of these two will just mean more of the same… more bailouts, more corruption, more taking away the rights of the American people.

You know the US is pretty screwed up when even Congress won’t try to fix the dollar and lets the Federal Reserve (which is ultimately a private bank, not a government institution) control our currency.

PledgeBank is currently running a pledge drive to
raise money for Ron Paul’s campaign.

“I will donate $1000 to Ron Paul campaign in the next 3 month but only if 10,000 other US citizens or legal permanent residents will do the same.”

As of this writing, 178 people have pledged to donate at least $1,000 for Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, and they’re gaining about a dozen or so a day.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

– Preamble of the United States Constitution, September 17, 1787

Two hundred and twenty years ago, our founding fathers designed a document that outlined a federal republic that would protect the freedoms and lives of all those who lived under it, from then to now. Our founding fathers, of course, weren’t stupid: they designed it in such a way that would prevent anyone from corrupting or undermining it’s purpose, and forever protect the American people.

The Constitution is, in essence, the closest thing next to perfection you’re going to get. Our founding fathers foresaw almost everything that could go wrong; they didn’t see the Federal Reserve coming, they didn’t see coming the vote fraud and disenfranchising of the American people in 2000 and 2004 coming, and they didn’t see a President who put his own schemes first ahead of the American people.

Never before has the United States come this close to throwing the Constitution away as we have now. We, the People of the United States, are soon going to be without Justice, Tranquility, and Welfare. Thanks to the acts of our President and his private business cohorts, Liberty is dying or even dead.

Who the American people vote for next is going to decide if this nation continues being ran under the Constitution, or if we’re going to become the next Communist Russia where the government watches your every move and controls your every action and takes away everything dear to you.

I believe Ron Paul is the man to vote for: his consistent fight against big government, against big companies, and against any action that puts our nation in danger proves he is the man for the job. Not once has he ever waivered from what he believes in. Not once has he ever put his goals ahead of the goals of the nation.

I am not normally a political person, mainly because I know politicians lie, cheat, steal, and destroy. Politicians get into politics to line their own pockets instead of further our nation. By that description, Ron Paul is no politician: he is a statesman who would have felt right at home with our founding fathers.

Needlessly to say, I’m voting for him.