Jim Quinn

The Voice of the Irate, Tireless Minority
by Jim Quinn (libertarian)

THE NANNY STATE
Published: November 1, 2009
Those who have run up $12 trillion in debt, led us into multiple trillion dollar foreign wars, left our children and grandchildren with a $100 trillion bill for unfunded promises, and have sold their souls to evil banks and corporations, have exercised their powers in a destructive manner.

AMERICAN PIE
Published: October 21, 2009
Rise up and take the power back, it's time that The fat cats had a heart attack, you know that Their time is coming to an end We have to unify and watch our flag ascend

RATS IN A CAGE
Published: October 11, 2009
The $160 billion spent on gambling each year is indicative of the get rich quick without hard work attitude of Americans. Even worse, households with income under $13,000 spend, on average, $645 a year on lottery tickets, about 9 percent of all their income. Our government feeds this addiction by siphoning off billions in taxes from these gambling revenues to redistribute as they see fit. Government sponsored gambling is a regressive tax on the poor and is immoral.

BET ON STUFF
Published: October 5, 2009
The recent bout of low commodity prices and the continuing weakness of the financial system are setting the stage for another, even bigger commodity boom. For a short while, high commodity prices had been drawing capital into commodity production, but that stopped when prices fell. Now, while government bureaucrats are funneling hundreds of billions to weak banks, sick insurance companies, clueless automakers, and the politically well connected, the capital needed for new mines, pipelines, drilling projects, refineries, and crops has dried up.

FOUNDING FATHERS OF OUR NEW COUNTRY
Published: September 28, 2009
The ruling elite, backed by the powerful banking cartel, who control the political reins, the mainstream media, the military industrial complex, and the foreign policy of the United States, have trampled on the U.S. Constitution. They take every opportunity to denigrate its principles, call it an antiquated document meant for a simpler time, and scorn and ridicule those who risked their lives to write this noble governing document.

WISH YOU WERE HERE
Published: September 14, 2009
Is there anyone in Washington DC, besides Ron Paul, who is sincere in action, character, and utterance? Truth is no longer practiced in Washington DC. Political agendas are forced upon American citizens through the exercise of lies, deception, half-truths, and fear tactics.

LIVING IN BEVERLY HILLS
Published: September 8, 2009
Americans, led by the Baby Boom Generation, have been living like spoiled children for thirty years. They have thought like children, with instant self-gratification as their sole aspiration. It is time to put away childish things. Hard times have arrived. There is no easy way out. We have kicked the can down the road for a generation. Tomorrow has arrived.

PEAK WATER
Published: August 27, 2009
Americans seem to have a problem facing up to imminent threats until they hit them like a sledgehammer. This penchant for delay is going to cause much heartache and pain for most Americans. Hoping for a good outcome will not work. Thirty years of delay has set the stage for eventual conflict over resources. Peak oil is the more likely trigger for armed conflict.

THE FEDERAL RESERVE MUST DIE
Published: August 24, 2009
The Federal Reserve in collaboration with the giant banks has created the greatest financial crisis the world has ever seen. The foolish notion that unlimited amounts of money and credit created out of thin air can provide sustainable economic growth has delivered this crisis to us. Instead of economic growth and stable prices, (The Fed) has given us a system of government and finance that now threatens the world financial and political institutions. Pursuing the same policy of excessive spending, debt expansion and monetary inflation can only compound the problems that prevent the required corrections. Doubling the money supply didn’t work, quadrupling it won’t work either. Buying up the bad debt of privileged institutions and dumping worthless assets on the American people is morally wrong and economically futile.

FAST TIMES AT AMERICAN HIGH
Published: August 12, 2009
The American people’s ignorance, stupidity, and disinterest in the governance of this nation have allowed an oligopoly of politicians, bankers, and powerful corporations to seize control of the country and loot its riches for their personal gain. By failing to educate themselves, millions of ignorant Americans have lost all of their power and are now dictated to by the few with knowledge. The elite who dictate the path of our country do not want the masses to become educated. Their power would be in jeopardy. The American public school system insures the retention of their power and wealth.

DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
Published: July 30, 2009
After ruling much of the known world for centuries, Rome fell due to a number of factors that, historians believe, would not have been fatal in isolation, but that proved terminal in combination. Military overspending and overreach, an untenable economic system, and currency debasement all played a role.

ANIMAL FARM - 2009
Published: July 25, 2009
The American people are like sheep being led to slaughter. Our Founding Fathers declared that the common people were in control. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. The time has come to abolish the corrupt system and institute a new Government.

BOOMERS - WINTER IS COMING
Published: July 13, 2009
Thus might the next Fourth Turning end in apocalypse – or glory. The nation could be ruined, its democracy destroyed, and millions of people scattered or killed. Or America could enter a new golden age, triumphantly applying shared values to improve the human condition. The rhythms of history do not reveal the outcome of the coming Crisis; all they suggest is the timing and dimension.

KNOW YOUR ENEMY
Published: April 21, 2009
Based on historical patterns, America will hit a once-in-a-century national crisis within the decade...'like winter,' the crisis or 'fourth turning' cannot be averted. It will last 20 years or so and bring hardship and upheavals similar to previous fourth turnings, such as the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II.

$200 OIL
Published: April 7, 2009
When oil prices collapsed from $147 a barrel in the summer of 2008 to $35 a barrel in January, American drivers, Congress, government bureaucrats, and the mainstream media refocused on other more pressing issues like executive bonuses, Michele Obama’s wardrobe, and the tax law knowledge of Obama’s cabinet.

WAR PIGS - COST OF A GLOBAL EMPIRE
Published: March 31, 2009
Any doubt that the Military Industrial Complex is as strong as ever should be removed after examining Obama’s 2010 budget just put forth. It calls for 26% more in spending on Defense than President Bush spent in 2006. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, leaving the United States as the only remaining superpower on earth. Since 1990, the United States has depleted the U.S. Treasury of $7 trillion for spending on Defense.

WHEN AMERICA RULED THE WORLD
Published: March 24, 2009
America has squandered the human sacrifice, blood, sweat and tears of two generations in less than seventy years. We have been an independent country for 226 years. From 1783 until 1946 was an unrelenting upward trajectory for the beacon of the free world. With the end of World War II, America was the last country standing.

THE POTHOLE - HOLY COW!!!
Published: March 19, 2009
The American people are at a crossroads. It’s our lives, not the governments. The country is headed on a path toward government running everything in our lives. Now is the time to stand tall. Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, and Nancy Pelosi can not make us spend money we don’t have. We can force the painful restructuring of our economy on our politician leaders. They can stimulate, print, and urge you to spend, but we don’t have to listen. We can throw them out of office in 2012.

GRAND ILLUSION - THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Published: March 10, 2009
The whole world is in a state of complete confusion. Americans are coming to the realization that their lives have been a grand illusion. You thought your neighbors had it made. They were driving a Mercedes, spent $40,000 on a new kitchen with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, sent their kids to private school, had a second home at the shore, and took exotic vacations all over the world. Now their house is in foreclosure and you are paying to bail them out.

THE BURNING PLATFORM
Published: February 19, 2009
The US government is on a burning platform of unsustainable policies andpractices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration andoverseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon.

BOOMERS - YOUR CRISIS HAS ARRIVED
Published: February 11, 2009
Their rendezvous with destiny is underway. Will it be a rendezvous with history that results in World War III, the collapse of the Great American Republic, dictatorship, or a return to the original Constitutional principles upon which this country was founded?

TURNING JAPANESE - THE AUDACITY OF REALITY
Published: January 30, 2009
Deflation is fatal to a debt ridden society. There will be many more stimulus packages after this one fails. Eventually, we will reach a tipping point where too much debt will result in a hyperinflationary crash. It may be in two years or ten years. I don’t know. Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Barack Obama also don’t know. It will catch us all off-guard, just like the current crisis caught them off-guard. Turning Japanese would be a best case scenario for the U.S.

GHOST MALLS - COMING TO YOUR TOWN
Published: January 20, 2009
As you drive around today, you notice more and more For Lease signs on vacant retail buildings. Strip malls, inhabited by mom and pop stores, karate studios, pizza joints, and video stores have felt the initial onslaught of consumer deleveraging. As the pace of retailer collapse accelerates in 2009, larger malls will begin to go dark. Once bustling centers of conspicuous consumption and material decadence, built upon a foundation of consumer debt, will become ghost malls.

ORWELL'S 2009 - BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
Published: January 17, 2009
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Unintended Consequences - 2009 & Beyond
Published: January 5, 2009
The law of unintended consequences is what happens when a simple system tries to regulate a complex system. The political system is simple. It operates with limited information (rational ignorance), short time horizons, low feedback, and poor and misaligned incentives.

WWRPD - What Would Ron Paul Do? Abolish The Federal Reserve.
Published: December 25, 2008
Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy. Though the Federal Reserve policy harms the average American, it benefits those in a position to take advantage of the cycles in monetary policy. The main beneficiaries are those who receive access to artificially inflated money and/or credit before the inflationary effects of the policy impact the entire economy. Federal Reserve policies also benefit big spending politicians who use the inflated currency created by the Fed to hide the true costs of the welfare-warfare state.

An American Tragedy
Published: December 16, 2008
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

HAS AMERICA JUMPED THE SHARK?
Published: December 9, 2008
America has given indications that it has reached its peak and is on a downward slope. The U.S. government has taken measures in the last 11 months that appear to be a desperate attempt to keep our dysfunctional corrupt financial system propped up.

Turkeys Can't Fly
Published: November 24, 2008
Government is not the solution. It is the problem. Corporate Fascism is ruining our country and threatening to bring down our Great Republic. It is time to take a stand.

COULD GE COLLAPSE?
Published: November 18, 2008
GE is a bank disguised as an industrial company. Based on recent actions, they are a company in deep trouble. If they were to collapse, it would require the mother of all bailouts.

Solutions for President Obama
Published: November 10, 2008
President Elect Obama has a lot of problems to deal with. If he listens to the left wing nuts of the Democratic Party, we will collapse our system. I propose some solutions to his problems

WWRPD - What Would Ron Paul Do? Tell The Truth
Published: October 31, 2008
The Baby Boom Generation is responsible for the terrible fiscal crisis we find ourselves in. Their selfish debt financed lifestyle has bankrupted our country. They are truly the shallowest generation.

WWRPS: What Would Ron Paul Say? It Isn't Safe
Published: October 13, 2008
The market has fallen 40% in the last year. Ron Paul has been warning that government control of our financial system would result in disaster. He was right. The future looks bleak, as our civil liberties are eroded further.

WWRPD - What Would Ron Paul Do? Prepare for a Depression
Published: October 6, 2008
The current worldwide financial collapse has its roots in decisions made by Alan Greenspan, George Bush and Congress. The parallels to the period before the Great Depression are eerie.

WWRPD - What Would Ron Paul Do? Vote NO BAILOUT
Published: September 26, 2008
President Bush and Democratic Congressmen are trying to ram a $700 billion bank bailout bill through Congress. Ron Paul has taken a stand and says NO BAILOUT!!! Join the fight.

WWRPD - What Would Ron Paul Do? Save The Country
Published: September 22, 2008
The meltdown of the worldwide financial system was caused by greedy criminal billionaire bankers in collusion with our own Government. Ron Paul predicted the collapse in September 2003. No one listened.

1-800-BAILOUT
Published: September 15, 2008
Call Hank Paulson at 1-800-BAILOUT if you are having trouble making your mortgage payments, car payments, or credit card payments. He's there for you.

WWRPD - What Would Ron Paul Do? Vote 3rd Party
Published: September 14, 2008
Ron Paul continues The Campaign For Liberty with his eloquent request for all Americans to be heard by voting for a 3rd party candidate. It is time to send the entrenched ruling elite a strong message.

LIES, LIES, & MORE LIES
Published: September 9, 2008
September 7, 2008 is the day our country turned Socialist. We are capitalists when our fat cat CEO's are getting rich. We are socialists when their reckless bets go bad. Catastrophe is in our future.

WWRPD - What Would Ron Paul Do?
Published: August 22, 2008
A looming financial catastrophe is on the horizon. Our only hope is to turn to the wisdom of Ron Paul and David Walker and take back our country from the entrenched ruling elite in Washington and Corporate America.

The Great Consumer Crash of 2009
Published: August 14, 2008
The coming recession will change the landscape of America for years to come. If the change is allowed to progress as it should in a capitalistic society we will be in a better place. If the government intervenes and tries to reverse the natural process, disaster could ensue

IS THE U.S. BANKING SYSTEM SAFE?
Published: August 1, 2008
Henry Paulson & Ben Bernanke are telling you that the banking system is sound. They are lying. These are the same men who never saw the crisis coming. You can be sure they are not sleeping well at night.

DELUSIONS OF DEBT - THE RON PAUL SOLUTION
Published: July 25, 2008
Our country is in the midst of a financial crisis of epic proportions. The "Mother of all Bailout" bills will cost you at least $300 billion. Only Ron Paul seems to have the common sense solution to our debt problem.

Corporate Fraud + Government Intervention = Bailout Nation
Published: July 18, 2008
While our politicians fiddle, Rome burns. Our financial institutions and their CEO's have committed a massive fraud on the American public. Now our government is using our taxes to bailout these criminals. Ron Paul is the voice of reason.

Government Deception - Ron Paul, the only one telling the Truth
Published: June 26, 2008
Our Country is in the midst of the greatest fiscal crisis in history. Meanwhile, our government manipulates economic data to convince the public that everthing is fine. Ron Paul is the only voice of reason and truth regarding our dire situation.

Ron Paul & Dwight D. Eisenhower - True Patriots
Published: June 17, 2008
The Military Industrial Complex is more powerful, 48 years after Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us of the implications of giving them too much power.

Wake Up America!!!
Published: June 10, 2008
The policies of the U.S. government will bankrupt our great country. We need to follow Ron Paul & David Walker's advice and change course before it is too late.

The Appeasement Fallacy
Published: June 8, 2008
Why the United States went to war due to the manipulation of facts by the Neo-cons in the Bush administration. Only a few brave Americans like Ron Paul and John Hussman called them out before the invasion.

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