Congress Wants Say on Wall Street Pay

Yet more proof that our employees in Washington think they know better how to do everything than we do. And now, they want to have a say over how much people earn in certain jobs.

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Can any one show me in the Constitution where it says congress has the right to do this?

Corporations have owners. These owners decide who gets paid how much. Large, publicly traded financial corporations are no different... the owners are called stockholders, and many Americans are part owners of these corporations.

If the government can set limits on pay for financial traders... what is next? I'd sure love to hear the screams from Hollywood if the liberal elite out there started getting salaries comennsurate with what they are worth, and dictated by Washington. And how about our athletes, who get horrendously large salaries for playing childrens' games?

But I digress.

Just as we Americans largely don't want Washington deciding who lives and dies, and what care we can get in a "health care system", we should also raise up in a loud and vigorous voice and tell them to stay out of business decisions that belong to the owners of business, not to government.

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Thomas Payne Rants about our Current Predicament

Has the 2nd American Revolution begun? Are we ready to turn off our Gameboys, Xbox 360's and iPods, and actually do something about the mess we've been hypnotized to accept?

I sure agree, that if we don't take back our country soon, we will all need a gun to defend ourselves.

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Freedom Contracts

"As government expands, freedom contracts."

-- President Ronald Reagan in his farewell address.

Declaration of Independence

On this 4th of July weekend, I provide for your reading pleasure, the document that started it all.

One would hope that all Americans have read this document, and indeed have referred to it often. After all, it is a document that not only laid the foundation for our nation, and its constitution --- but also is the genesis for an experiment that has inspired people around the world for for over two centuries, and continues to do so today.

For those that are too lazy to read the document at the link, they are also probably too lazy to really understand the gift that the document and the signers gave us. Or to bother with defending the nation it gave birth to. But, I have also provided a link to an excellent recording of a reading of this document by Scott Ott here.

Happy Birthday, America and American Independence. Long may you remain the shining example of freedom and liberty for all the world.

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It's About Honor, Stupid

“Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong” - Thomas Jefferson