Life long friendships are something that everyone should cherish! A lot of people my age can't honestly say that they've had the same circle of close friends for 30+ years. You would think that I might outgrow that group, or they would out grow me? It's not like I see or talk to them on a daily basis, but when we do communicate? It's the equivalent of being back in small town Kansas again, or playing basketball at the playground, or drinking beer and telling lies. I'm not exactly sure how to explain the feeling of having a friend forever. I'll just tell you that it feels good.
"When you say that your a registered Libertarian and you support Libertarian concepts. What do you exactly mean by that?" Last night I talked with a dear old friend from Kansas. He's a fan of the blog, and he wanted a better explanation on why I'm a Libertarian..I'm always happy to answer questions.."The Libertarian stance is focused on people's civil liberties and economic freedoms. Less government involvement in people's life's." If I understood my friend correctly? He leans more to the democratic side..Anyways, he then told me this.."OK, you've got to be a lot more detailed! Are you saying the government should get out of every one's way? That doesn't make sense. Your always going to have government." I'm old enough to realize that government is never going away, but I'm young enough to realize that government is way out of control.
"I'm not saying that government should dissipate completely. It's the scope of government that needs to shrink. It's to large! The United States of America is a capitalist society. I know capitalism is a dirty word nowadays, but that's a lot better route than everyone leaning on the government..The government is broke! The country needs private investment, entrepreneurship, job creators! We don't need more people on the government tit!" My friend has never been one to back down from an argument, so he told me this. "I get it, but your talking about a world that doesn't exist anymore. You want to turn back the clock to the Reagan years, the trickle down effect. I got news for you. It don't trickle down! Not to guys like you and me!"
I like to end every post of mine with a thought I'm having..Call it the village idiot thought of the day.."Here's a Libertarian point of view on gambling! The future of gambling in the country in online! Estimates have put projected revenue, if it were legal, at 100 billion dollars in revenue by 2020. At this point, most of the revenue generated by this industry is going to foreign operators. My suggestion? Run out the foreign operators in the U.S. market and hand the business over to domestic companies. The government can then tax the new revenue at 39%! That makes a lot more sense then getting zippo!"
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