Lies and more lies – Economics
Has Income Inequality Really Risen?
(Manhattan Institute) A variety of approaches show that inequality between the bottom and middle has not grown since the 1980s…

Nathan: That we are getting more and more unequal in our income and our life styles is one of the MANY, MANY lies that Tranzis and apologists for the state make: It is not only untrue as shown by the various methods that the Manhattan Institutes (and others) have used, but by simple observation.  Whether we look back just 30 years to 1983 or 50 years to 1963, we see that virtually ALL Americans are immensely better off.  Yes, there are always those who are the billionaires who have gotten richer.  Just as there are ALWAYS those who homeless without even a shopping cart to put their possessions into, and who make NOTHING a day.  But we will always have those with us.  We will ALWAYS have greed and corruption, stinginess and lack of even basic necessities, for a very tiny percentage.  Those of us who believe that government is evil and dangerous see that the slips and slides are due MORE TO government, than being balanced or offset or corrected by government, because of the very nature of government.  And all too often, those who are most down and out are there because of government: laws like minimum wages and proof of residency and licensing, and events like wars (foreign and drug and poverty and terrorism) which leave damaged people on the streets and in our houses and buildings, to name just two.  But that is precisely WHY Tranzis and Statists in general demand wars of aggression against those who DO succeed and wars on poverty that create MORE poverty even while they create more government jobs and more contractors dependent on government:  Their power and wealth grows even faster.  The Robber Barons of the 1880s and 1890s did not exist because there was too LITTLE government, but because there was already too MUCH government: government they could buy and control, government which created conditions which let the Robber Barons isolate and minimize competition and destroy the power of anyone to resist them.  If we believe the Tranzis we will never see poverty go away, and the wealthy will be ever more wealthy.

Mama’s Note: Too many of the early industrialists and entrepreneurs are lumped in with these “Robber Barons.” To those who think all free markets are evil, there is no difference, but companies like the Great Northern Railway were built without government subsidies. My father worked for Great Northern in 1890, when they built the rails across the top of the country. He was a hunter, bringing in game to feed the crews, and always proud of his part in that epic endeavor.

Lies and more lies – Health care
A Look into Canadian Health Care
(The American) The average Canadian family of two parents with two children pays approximately $11,320 in taxes for hospital and physician care through the country’s tax system…

Nathan: We are told how wonderful Canada and Canadian health care is: ANOTHER Tranzi lie.   Just when we are sure that we are really bad off, someone points out something like this.  Of course, Canadians can claim that they don’t have to pay extravagant fees  and insurance premiums – NO, they just run their money (stolen as taxes) through yet ANOTHER middleman.  How stupid can you get?  Nearly a thousand a month whether you have a cold in a year or NOT.  Add this to VAT and all the other taxes, and Canada looks like Sweden once did.

Mama’s Note: As I tell people who complain about the cost of health care today… Just wait and see how much it costs once it is “free.”

Lies and more lies – Liberty
Free Market Falsehoods
(The Freeman) An “ideal” economic system is not one in which no one ever makes a mistake; it is one in which the mistakes that people inevitably make are corrected as effectively as possible…

Nathan: There are many ways of lying. Claiming that economic systems are supposed to be PERFECT, and that only a PERFECT economic system should be used are the kind of second-layer lies that underlie the more obvious lies that politicians, including Tranzis and Statists, love to use to build their power and wealth.  We KNOW from centuries of experience that ANY economic system which involves ANY important decisions made by government agencies at ANY level is as chockful of mistakes as my wife’s fudge is of pecans and other nuts…  believe me, that is a LOT of mistakes.  Whether it is “national socialism” or “international socialism” (Communism) or mercantilism or a (barf!) mixed economy, government is so unaccountable to reality that it makes more and more mistakes as time goes on AND IT DOES NOT LEARN from its mistakes: there are no consequences to the people who make the decisions.

Mama’s Note: And that would be true no matter how wonderful the intentions of the politicians and bureaucrats. Unfortunately, much they do is no mistake at all, but deliberate destruction of other people’s lives and property.

Lies and more lies (Stupid people) – Politics 2013: shutdown
Shutdown: Bush’s Fault?
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:Well yes, according to the folks (mostly black or mixed race) that were interviewed in DC, and who should know better?  Of course, these are the same folks that help Jay Leno and Glenn Beck be so entertaining, who think that World War Two was between us and the Brits, that the capital of Afghanistan is Blanketville, and that Obama was born in Hawaii. Is it any wonder the Founding Fathers distrusted “democracy” so much.

Stupid government – Politics 2013: shutdown
DOD Bars 50 Priests from Administering Sacraments, Locks Up Eucharist; Priest Sues
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is, of course, both a contract AND a moral issue.  It would seem that the DoD wants to try and get rid of ANY religious observance and was using the shutdown as an excuse.  Of course, that drives those pesky religious folks out of even joining up, much less staying in. And so the morals of the force takes another nosedive.

Lies and More Lies – Culture wars: Homosexual “marriage”
Gov. Christie: Same-Sex Marriage [sic] Should Not Be Imposed By New Jersey Court
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Courts should not impose ANY kind of marriage.  We are to blame: when we allow government to start defining (and redefining) words, we have (by definition – pun intended) given them too much power.  Christie is fine with letting government have a LOT of power, but now he has reached his (very high) limit and is squawking.  At least in public.  Who knows how he might go if he gets MORE power.

This is the problem with “democracy” unless that democracy is either L. Neil Smith’s “hyperdemocracy” (that is, unanimous agreement) OR very heavily constrained within a REPUBLICAN (NOT “GOP”) constitution which very specifically prevents (AND PUNISHES) government for about 99% of the things that they want to and do perform.  (And I may be low on my estimate at 99%.)

What about the lies?  Supposedly 10% of the population is “homosexual” BY NATURE:  Not nurture, not willful decision, but supposedly “Because God made them that way,” or (for you atheists and agnostics and “State IS God” people), “Because they EVOLVED that way.”  Right.  Neither mindset can come up with a way that evolution OR God would create this sort of “unchangeable” nature in humans (or any other species); genetic defects do not account for that.  More accurate (and honest) studies indicate that the REAL numbers (at least until recent years) are well under 1% – and due primarily to “nurture” not nature.  But the more that the culture changes the “nurture” portion of the equation, the more common the “defect” and the more the culture is changed.  But the changes are built on lies, just as in Communist or other societies.  Ultimately, it collapses.