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99% of dems are lawyers. Check it out and you’ll see this is the case. Is it any wonder it is they who limit freedoms and suppress the American spark for innovation.
Just remember, Stossel is a hyper-libertarian. As with progressives, libertarians can have some great ideas but *never* let them have power.
license=just another hidden tax (that will get bigger and bigger)
The liberal progressive Democrats want to re write history so that your kids don’t know how Hitler came to power in the 1930’s
This is a little long but worth the time…
Truly America is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away!
By: Kitty Werthmann
What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or will ever read in history books.
I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns, because that statement would distort history. WE elected him by a landslide – 98% of the vote. I’ve never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force. But in 1938, Austria was in a deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates. Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people – about 30 daily.
The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted. We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime and that they had a high standard of living. Nothing was said about persecution of any group– Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria .
We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler. We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed. After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.
Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.
Hitler Targets Education – Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:
Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang “Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,” and had physical education. Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail.
The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had. My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun – no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.
Equal Rights Hits Home:
In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn’t work, you didn’t get a ration card, and if you didn’t have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men. Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.
Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:
When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children.. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.
Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:
Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna. After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.
As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing. We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control. We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.
“Mercy Killing” Redefined:
In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness. As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.
The Final Steps – Gun Laws:
Next came gun registration.. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.
No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up. Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria . Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.
After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria . Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn’t destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn’t, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account.
“It’s true..those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.
America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away
“After America , There is No Place to Go”
Please forward this message to other voters who may not have it.
Hold Congress Accountable to our Country’s Constitution to the letter..! Save this nation.
Spoken like a true Neo-con, Kit. Progressives and Neo-cons are cut from the same cloth.
No we don’t need a license for everything, thank you John!
Libertarianism sounds great right now. We need all kinds of ideas. Obama is a totalitarian and should have a birth certificate or license to be president. I have to show my original when I want to do something.
Not really a birther, but Quayle Harris worked for a security firm and was shot and killed April 14 2008 a few weeks after he looked into Obama’s background. Quayle Harris was working in a private security firm at the time owned by John Brennan, who is now Obama’s national security advisor.
Curiouser and curiouser……………
Kit,
“hyper-libertarian”? what view of his don’t you like?
Kit, this country was founded on LAWS. Elected officials write, legislate and judicate LAWS.
35 out of the 55 writers of the Constitution were lawyers. There are many different occupations of the framers of the Constitution like soldiers, planters, educators, ministers, physicians, financiers, and merchants. But of all of these occupations being a lawyer was the most popular.
Many of the framers of the constitution actually did more than one of these jobs. All of the framers were educated in their own ways. Some went to law school, some went to medical school, and some didn’t even go to college! They learned all they needed to know from their up bringing. Some had fathers that were very interested in politics and taught them everything they needed to know.
I am not a lawyer, nor play one on t.v. However, Matlock has more knowledge of the Constitution than Glenn Beck.
The atrocities keep coming…. We need a license for dogs, soon we’ll need a license for any farm animals – including a few chickens. We now need a permit for a yard sale – any way to ‘tax’ the people again, and again, and again. When did we become communist????? Throw out ALL members of Congress (except for Ron Paul and any other libertarian), term limits of 8 years for ALL Congress, institute the fair tax nationwide, return all power to the states, stop lifetime tenure for the Supreme Court, get rid of 30% of all federal employees, all federal/state pay must equal private pay, no ’special’ healthcare with reduced premiums for federal/state employees, absolutely NO pensions for Congress, and so on, and so on…..
The one license we need and should enforce stringently is the license to reproduce. This would solve a bevy of the problems we have in the U.S.A.
We should also stop immigration immediatley {thats a sidebar } sorry.
He’s right.
The government needs to get out of our lives.
A perfect example is in USA Today, March 11.Astory about florists in Louisiana challenging a law that requires florists and flower arrangers to be licensed. I remember reading a story a few years ago about some interior designers suing someone for moving furniture around in an office because they were’nt ” Licensed Interior Decorators”. Here in WA someone is pushing a law that would punish people who are not “Licensed Contracters” if they build something or do other work that qualifies as construction. How far can the “State” take that one. Iv’e been a carpenter for 10+ years, but I’m not a “Licensed Contracter”. Do I forget about helping my nieghbor build that deck he’s wanting? By the way, You need a hunting license to buy a mousetrap in the city of Cinncinati.
I see the neo-conservatives have launched a massive attack against libertarians. What is wrong with liberty? Isn’t that what all you ‘conservatives’ have been screaming about since Obama took office? The neo-cons really are not much different for the progressive dems, they both want to control the people through big government.
lg what the heck are you talking about?
The reason that they throw you in jail for giving legal advice is because our “legal” system is a corrupt criminal syndicate. If they did not throw people in jail the system would collapse as the true rules of law would be known to everyone and they would never be able to convict anyone of anything. The flat truth is that our criminal courts are corporate courts and flesh and blood people are not corporations and thus not under the jurisdiction of the court. That is until you go to court and get tricked into granting jurisdiction to the court. There are 2 dictionaries in this country, Webster and Blacks Law Dictionaries. Just go to the book store and start looking up terms like person, human being, etc. You will shit yourself. That is why the Supreme Court recently ruled that corporations are people. John is 100% right, all levels of government are corrupt and licenses are a way to steal from you and protect their cronies.
No way Jose,
>Kit, this country was founded on LAWS. Elected officials write, legislate and judicate LAWS.
Actually, no, it was founded on the concept of freedom and liberty. Laws were put into place to keep things nicely stitched together and to ENSURE the rights and freedoms of others, not to put burdens on them! Jose, your view of history is nicely twisted. Did you learn that in public school?
>35 out of the 55 writers of the Constitution were lawyers.
That may be true, but that also means 20 weren’t lawyers. Under the law mentioned in this video, those 20 would be breaking the law! How stupid is that Jose?
>I am not a lawyer, nor play one on t.v. However, Matlock has more knowledge of the Constitution than Glenn Beck.
What any of that line has to do with this article is unknown. But it does reveal that you aren’t very bright. Congratulations!
If he wasn’t falsely representing himself as an attorney, it is none of the judges business.
If my girl friend told me I had to have a license, I would probably get one. Sweet lady. We never said an unkind word.Not government. License’s are a fee meaning a hidden tax. What we really need are amendments to constitution restricting their power to tax and spend.I think only states could each pass such amendments.
Did I miss it, or did they not say whether the man in jail CHARGED for his help? If he did it for pay, there’s something to the charge, though the penalty is outrageously over the top — to the point of being criminal and persecutory in itself. If he did it just as a favor to a friend, then perhaps whoever put him in jail should be replacing him there when he’s let out.
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Just got warned for not having my fishing license in my pocket when I told the game warden I left it in my truck. He said he could write me a ticket. Do we live in China or Russia? I bought their damn license to fish and they can track my number through a computer so why must I carry it in the water when I go trout fishing. I guess so it can get destroyed so I would need to buy another license.
get rid of liberals .. everything will get better.
Mr. Price is a patriot speaking truth to power. These same cast of characters are also responsible for hijacking healthcare reform a decade ago. Public Corruption at its finest hour, to learn more read on:
For the past quarter century I have built healthcare technology solutions to assist with the medical needs of our growing retirement and elderly population.
http://www.medicalsupplychain.com/pdf/SKL%20Bio.pdf
During this past decade I have litigated in our Federal and State courts desperately trying to enter the healthcare market with the technology and solutions that I built. http://archive.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=3419
Because our courts refuse to enforce our laws as the legislature intended, courts are no longer effective protecting our property rights or enforcing competition in our markets.
http://www.courts.mo.gov/pressrel.nsf/bb9fda2a04f10ca8862565ec0067d206/1015cf6550cb1a578625763b007250be
I have made numerous requests and inquiries to the Judiciary, the Missouri Board of Governors and the DOJ about my property and constitutional rights being illegally taken from me in these courts. http://www.medicalsupplychain.com/pdf/Dear%20Governors%20of%20Missouri%20BOG.pdf
Billions of dollars will continue to be illegally siphoned out of our Federal and State budgets.
http://www.medicalsupplychain.com/pdf/Injuries%20to%20healthcare%20consumers.pdf
The following is a small example how my property and rights were illegally taken at the hands of my public officials (Local DOJ & FBI) and US courts. This is how Americans suffer due to the theft of honest public services.
Antitrust:
http://www.medicalsupplychain.com/pdf/Lipari%20v%20Novation%20et%20al%20Petition%20.pdf
Racketeering:
http://www.medicalsupplychain.com/pdf/Lipari%20v%20GE%20et%20al%20Federal.pdf
Retaliation:
My state is a culture of corruption and the following links show how we desperately need constitutional law enforcement and immediate legislation to correct our courts.
http://www.medicalsupplychain.com/pdf/Amended%20Petition%20CV38273.pdf
http://www.medicalsupplychain.com/pdf/Lipari%20Affidavit%2008-09.pdf
http://www.medicalsupplychain.com/pdf/Lipari%20Affidavit%20Exhibits%2008-09.pdf
The facts and the records prove that Americans do not have accessible alternatives to the high cost of monopolized insurance or medical care and how public officials continue to cover up the misconduct in our markets and courts.
http://www.medicalsupplychain.com/news.htm
Healthcare costs have destroyed our markets, budgets and ability to compete worldwide.
Accountability is the only answer! When will you start?
Sincerely,
Samuel K. Lipari
Medical Supply Chain
803 S. Lake Drive
Independence, Missouri 64053
816.507.1328
Saml@MedicalSupplyChain.com
http://www.MedicalSupplyChain.com/news.htm
Touchy, touchy, aren’t we…?
He’s a libertarian, a hyper-libertarian, olympic-rules mega-libertarian….so what…it’s how he sees (and reports) the world. I like to hear that viewpoint….I like to hear the liberal viewpoint and the conservative viewpoint. I (generally) hate all those labels but at least it clears up what prescription of lens someone uses to view the world.
I don’t mind Stossel…I don’t mind neo-cons or progressives either. Libertarians just don’t make for good leaders. Great visionaries….awesome at helping with long-term ideals of where a society *could* go (given a less-selfish/*touchy* society with lots of resources and no addictions).
Hey Kit, we’re not “touchy” you’re just saying really stupid things without elaborating, specifying, or justifying. And you “don’t mind” progressives? Well, that shows where you’re coming from I guess, because you SHOULD mind. So again, what is it about his views you don’t like, and why?
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Yeah, and soon the license to fish will be worthless, cause NO ONE WILL BE ALLOWED TO FISH ANYWHERE in the U.S.