One of the many things that the people in elected office do, is to make the error that free speech triumphs the liberty of others.  Persons who abuse the US Constitution to behave badly while spouting bigotry always scream "free speech".

There is no such Constitutional grantee, simply put, the US constitution does not guarantee that one can spout whatever one wants.

As a holder of public office ask yourself this question, under what circumstances would you allow the right of others to be trampled on by the many, or the few?

Ending Democracy One State At A Time

In August of 2007 the city council, of Portland Oregon, created a law that demanded the retailers of gasoline cut their product with ethanol and diesel be cut with vegetable oil. Saving the environment was their stated goal.

While this looks good on paper, and it plays well in the press, there are consequences that a lot of us saw coming. Now that the State of Oregon has, as of January of 2008, demanded the same thing here is what we know.

More of the environmental friendly is needed to more the same amount of people and goods the same distance. It costs a dollar a ton to move freight a mile, if using a truck burning regular diesel. It costs a dollar and fifty cents to move the same tom a mile if using bio-diesel. The cost of moving people the same distance, say ten miles one way to work, has the same curve. Increased costs of moving people and freight mean less money spent on other things, and then fed into the fuel tank. People have downsized their movements, saving fuel, which also means less money for road repair.

Democracy, in Oregon, is dead. In order for a republic, using representative democracy, to function correctly clear choices need to be available. Forcing fuel retailers to carry only one type of fuel is the opposite of democracy, it is dictatorship. If Oregon were governed under representative democracy rules then the buying public would be able to choose straight fuel or eco-fuel, like thy can in Michigan or Brazil.

So come to Oregon where the current governor is proud of his eco-dictatorship. A eco-dictatorship that has the highest unemployment rate of the fifty states, much higher than the national average. I bet you can’t wait until the eco-dictatorship comes to the state you live in, raising taxes and destroying your freedom to make informed choices.

What Are We Doing?

As the topic of this blog indicates, this blog is about how the decisions that elected officials make effect us all. While they may mean well, and most have genuine motives, mostly they hurt us all. Sometimes it is the non actions they they have and at other times it is the actions that they take.

So we will explain how the "pending doom" of the actions of elected officials will hinder, or further, Independence and freedom.

Later.

Egor