http://www.sheeplepeople.com Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:40:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand. — Milton Friedman When government fails, they are rewarded. When terrorists attacked America (representing a failure in law enforcement and intelligence) we gave more money and vastly more power to government. ... http://www.sheeplepeople.com/why-government-should-be-smaller/ "The most serious mistake that could be made here today is to blaim free market capitalism for this problem.  This has nothing to do with free market capitalism." "If you destroy the dollar you're going to destroy a worldwide economy." Go get 'um Ron Paul! Here is the complete Ron Paul Speech: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxP3HRnIiuk[/youtube] The ... http://www.sheeplepeople.com/ron-paul-speech-on-bailout/ Is your Rep fighting for you or against you?  See exactly who voted Yea or Nay for the Bailout. Yea House Representative Votes Ackerman Allen Andrews Arcuri Bachus Baird Baldwin Bean Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blunt Boehner Bonner Bono Mack Boozman Boren Boswell Boucher Boyd (FL) Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brown (SC) Brown, Corrine Calvert Camp (MI) Campbell (CA) Cannon Cantor Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Castle Clarke Clyburn Cohen Cole (OK) Cooper Costa Cramer Crenshaw Crowley Cubin Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis, Tom DeGette DeLauro Dicks Dingell Donnelly Doyle Dreier Edwards (TX) Ehlers Ellison Ellsworth Emanuel Emerson Engel Eshoo Etheridge Everett Farr Fattah Ferguson Fossella Foster Frank (MA) Gilchrest Gonzalez Gordon Granger Gutierrez Hall (NY) Hare Harman Hastings (FL) Herger Higgins Hinojosa Hobson Holt Honda Hooley Hoyer Inglis (SC) Israel Johnson, E. B. Kanjorski Kennedy Kildee Kind King (NY) Kirk Klein (FL) Kline (MN) LaHood Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Levin Lewis (CA) Lewis ... http://www.sheeplepeople.com/house-of-representatives-bailout-vote-who-voted-yea-nay/ Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi spoke before the House vote on HR 3997.  Republicans are claiming the partisan nature of this speech resulted in the bailout failure. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMLo7i38D58[/youtube] http://www.sheeplepeople.com/pelosi-speech-blaimed-for-bailout-failure/ The House of Representatives vote NAY on the Bailout Bill. Lawmakers can change their vote. The roll call can remain open for another 20 minutes so that some reps could be strong armed to change their vote. The margin of victory for the nay votes is at ... http://www.sheeplepeople.com/house-bailout-bill-fails/ We're Winning the Drug War No, we lost the second it started. It's unbelievable to me that we would blindly go down this road again. After all, it was just 40 years earlier when we had the slap in the face that Prohibition gave us. We are STILL paying for Prohibition. ... http://www.sheeplepeople.com/drug-wars-we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident/ No... Government intervention will make the problem worse. Didn't we already experience what happens when government interferes with the free market while Carter was president? Speculation makes markets react faster and increases liquidity.  Without liquidity the market could be much worse and subject to larger price fluctuations. Speculators are not the problem.  The ... http://www.sheeplepeople.com/reduce-oil-prices-by-regulating-speculators/ Those of you who are sick of big government Democrats and bigger government Republicans are really screwed this upcoming election. You can reluctantly vote McCain, who is likely to continue spending $150 Billion a year to fight a war halfway around the world. He's also likely to allow government to ... http://www.sheeplepeople.com/vote-libertarian-bob-barr-and-elect-obama/ David and Elizabeth Lawson of TheSockObama.com have created a campaign year collectable item that is raising a serious controversy and cutting to the heart of racial tensions in America. Jeanetta Williams, representing a local chapter of the NAACP called the cuddly sock monkey: "pure racism at it's extreme." Obama ... http://www.sheeplepeople.com/is-the-obama-sock-monkey-racist/ "Moral imperative" and "duty" are commonly heard call to actions for donating to the less fortunate.  Recently these appeals have been raised for the crisis in Myanmar.  And so we send supplies, food, clothing, and other necessities those in desperate times require. Even a cursory investigation shows those donations are misused.  ... http://www.sheeplepeople.com/save-lives-by-doing-nothing/