Sunday, January 23, 2011

Real Growth- Real Freedom

Dear President Obama:

Real growth comes from allowing individual freedom, to dream, to think, to plan and to act on our dreams. It comes from sacrificing temporary pleasure for the long term benefits of taking one's talents and capital and turning it into a real business that people choose to accept voluntarily. The freedom to fail as well as to succeed.




Not through the coercion of taxation and regulation.

Not through welfare schemes or subsides.

Not robbing Peter to pay Paul.



Not politicians dictating what the meaning of words are but what they actually mean objectively in the real world.



Not a government directed beehive society, but a free society based on ethics and personal freedom driven by individuals living in freedom.



Respectfully,
 
Rhoetus, US Citizen

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Relationships Matter

Chase Bank would charge 1000% interest if they could. In the old days I personally knew the founder or officers of the bank where I did business. There was honor attached to the transaction and we had a personal relationship, they wanted to help me and I wanted to pay back the loans- it was a matter of honor. Now Chase, BofA etc see their customers not as human beings but just an account number and they will screw you because they can.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Mahatma Gandhi Quote

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Will Freedom Ever Return to Cuba?

My interest in politics started with learning about the Bill of Rights when I was in the 5th grade. My teacher Mr. Demetri was extraordinary, outside of the school he owned a swim-school with his wife; his older children were the instructors and life-guards there. During the class he gave us a lecture about what egalitarianism was what the consequences were to forcing material equality on everyone and used Cuba as the example.




My paternal grandfather emigrated with nothing from Slovakia in 1903 and built up his assets until he built and owned an apartment building and lived off the rents. My maternal grandfather was a business owner. So with the advance of Communism, my Eastern-European background and seeing that part of my family originated from a country that used egalitarianism as the philosophy it based its totalitarian ideology on this motivated me to think and act.



After the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia the first thing they did was replace the ideas of socialism with the ideas of free-market economists Friedrich August Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. I’m still waiting to see freedom return to Cuba.

Yours in Liberty,
Rhoetus

Friday, January 14, 2011

This Should About Cover It