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Lessons Learned from Singapore

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February 20, 2012

What We Can Learn from Singapore

The Singapore Skyline v3Along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, Singapore is one of the original Four Asian Tigers. The Singaporean economy is known as one of the freest, most innovative, most competitive, and most business-friendly. The 2011 Index of Economic Freedom ranks Singapore as the second freest economy in the world, behind Hong Kong. According to the Corruption Perceptions Index, Singapore is consistently ranked as one of the least corrupt countries in the world, along with New Zealand and the Scandinavian countries. . . .

The percentage of unemployed economically active people above age 15 is about 2%. Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaire households, with 15.5 percent of all households owning at least one million US dollars. Despite its relative economic success, Singapore does not have a minimum wage, believing that it would lower its competitiveness.

Here’s what I found most interesting about Singapore’s economic philosophy. “The government has rejected the idea of a generous welfare system, stating that each generation must earn and save enough for its entire life cycle.” Even so, there are a number of “means-tested ‘assistance schemes’ provided by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports in Singapore for the needy.”

If there’s one thing we in the United States can learn from Singapore is its emphasis on self-government, planning for the future for ourselves and families and not to depend on money confiscated from other people.

Now I ask all thinking American’s to answer this one question. Should the United States copy the failed policies of Greece and Spain and Portugal, or would we be better to adapt the Singapore model for economic freedom and prosperity? Now if you selected Singapore I must remind you that Singapore got their economic model from the United States of old. While our liberal leaders keep running fast toward European socialism, more economically advanced cultures are moving toward the ‘free market’ system that American once held dear.

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The Extra- Constitutional Mandates of the Obama Administration

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February 16, 2012
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  2. The debate is raging all over cyber-space as the Obama administration attempts to force his will upon religiously affiliated institutions, like Catholic
    hospitals, to include contraception in its health care plans for employees.

    The Catholic Bishops are crying foul that this administration would trample on the Constitutions first amendment rights of freedom of religion. However they do fail to mention that a large percentage of Catholics supported Obamacare at the time it was being proposed. In addition many Catholics voted for Obama in 2008.

  3. The controversy is heated and there is as much support for the measure as there is opposition to it from mainline religious organizations.
  4. Most of the arguments against the mandate are based on a religious exemption. Congress has introduced legislation allowing employers to opt-out of health coverage mandates that they find immoral.
  5. This issue, like so many others, gets bogged down in the weeds with the news media spin and agenda driven discussions. The real issue behind this whole OBAMACARE fiasco is there is no CONSTITUTIONAL power given to the President or any of the many bureaucratic agencies currently writing mandates and regulations governing the American people. All laws are supposed to ORIGINATE in congress, the ONLY authorized LAW MAKING body recognized and empowered under the Constitution. Progressives and liberal politicians on both sides of the aisle have been circumventing the Constitution for decades. They have installed agencies and departments that perpetuate the progressive agenda of centralized power at the  federal level. This ever-expanding leviathan has choked off individual liberties and has made criminals out of everyday ordinary citizens.

    Where does it state in the Constitution that an American citizen needs to ask permission from the central planners in Washington before they can live their lives? The government has gotten so large and intrusive there is hardly anything in our lives that is not regulated or controlled in some way by some agency or department in Washington D.C.

    Yes I agree that forcing religious organizations to violate their conscience is unconstitutional but I argue that most of what the federal government does is unauthorized and thus invalid as far as the Constitution is concerned.

    I know what the opposition is going to say that the Supreme court as ruled the federal government has such powers but I still argue the intent of our founders was to LIMIT the federal government’s powers precisely for this reason. An out of control, all-powerful central government will make slaves of us all. We are no longer a representative republic since we are ruled by the mandates and dictates of a few. This in any other country would be called a dictatorship, whether it is the dictates of one man or the dictates of a few, our nation is supposed to be a government of, for and by the people.

    We have gone far afield from the intents of our founding. We are adrift on the sea of tyranny and are fast approaching the end of a great nation. We the people need to understand the seriousness of our state of affairs and make a major course adjustment quickly and with conviction. The upcoming election is probably the most important election in our live times. We must, if we love America, fight once again to maintain our republic.

    Benjamin Franklin was asked at
    the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he
    left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation…

    “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

      “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

    My friends the future is up to us. Are we going to fight to maintain the Republic which was established upon these shores or are we going to allow an out of control government steal our liberties and destroy our nation?

    This is just a View from the Nest. What say you?

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Big Foot Sightings; Footprints are everywhere

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February 9, 2012

Bet you thought I was talking about Jesus. Alas I can only wish. It is now official BIG FOOT does exist because he is leaving footprints everywhere.

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Modern Day Slavery

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January 31, 2012

The Old Ball and change

Democrats the party of Slavery. They fought for it in Lincoln’s day and they have fought for it ever since. A vote for a democrat is a vote to enslave our society and especially our youth.

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The Problem with GOP Infighting

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January 27, 2012

After all the blood has been shed will there be anyone left standing to take on Obama? Let’s get back on track guys our objective is to DEFEAT OBAMA not beat-up each other. Santorum had it right at last nights CNN debate when he said we need to get back to the real issues and stop this petty infighting. Obama loves it when we take out our own players leaving the playing field littered with dead bodies. This is the only way he can win any election, he has to eliminate any opposition.

I would much prefer to see all the remaining candidates join forces and BLAST Obama day after day with his dismal performance as President. Take aim at Obama and not at each other.

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