Mama Grizzlies?

Anyone notice the women's movement in the Tea Party wing of the Republican party? I am amazed that even this does not get reported in the broader media. It is fairly obvious and should be a big story. Let's check out the roll call of news makers in this election from the Republican side. (if I were in journalism, I could easily find more to add)

Sharron Angle, vying for Harry Reid's Senate seat in Nevada.
Christine O'Donnell, running against incumbent Chris Coons in NR.
Michelle Bachmann, someone who is increasingly driving news on the Right.
Kristi Noem, running for Congress in South Dakota.
Meg Whitman, running for Governor of California.
Carly Fiorina, trying to take down long time incumbent Barbara Boxer in California.
Nikki Haley, running for Governor in South Carolina.

We all know Sarah Palin but she's really old news. My inclination is to credit her for inspiring a lot of what she calls "Mama Grizzlies" to break out into the larger political arena.

I'm not even commenting on the individuals and their politics. I don't know most of them that well. But it is slap-you-in-the-face obvious that there is female movement in politics coming from the Right and no one in the news is talking much about it. Is that a sign that Women as a downtrodden minority have moved out of the category altogether? Or is it just a sign that feminism isn't a gender driven idealogy but a political one, rejecting the "progress" of their more conservative brethren? Is my use of "brethern" appropriate in referring to the female gender?

So many questions. So few answers.

The first world tax

I don't know if anyone saw this article. I found the link on Drudge...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2010/apr/20/imf-tax-global-banks
They (the G20) are seriously considering implementation of the first world tax. Tax those obscene profits of banks! Do people really not understand that these taxes really will come from those who use banks and banking services? (i.e. nearly everyone)
This is just more re-distribution of wealth and its not even hidden. The UK paper refers to it as a Robin Hood tax and mentions how anti-poverty groups are chomping at the bit.

If you want to get your country and its people out of poverty, stop fighting and start producing. There are a lot of charitable people who would voluntarily share their money with you if you show an ability to put it good use.

My big question is who exactly gets to decide what is done with this money? From what authority do they derive that ability? I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I do think there is a critical mass of people in the world who believe in oligarchy - rule by the elites who know best.

Liberty & Equality. I saw this title on the Big Government web site for an article. I briefly scanned the intro and liked the topic. As the intro there states, they are two values to which Americans naturally gravitate. They are in our value system and have been for some time, but they are not the same nor are they related closely.



Liberty relates to freedoms. In our value system as reflected in the Declaration of Independence, there are liberties that are "self-evident" and "endowed by our Creator". But we protect liberties generally in our Constitution and its Bill of Rights. That is why the Constitution is a document of negative rights as President Obama has been quoted as saying. He shouldn't be regretful of this. It is a thing of beauty and what separates our Constitution from say that of the EU with its 2000+ pages of what the EU government should do for its people.

Equality is entirely different. Equality is an outcome. It is also subjective in the social world. The fact of nature is that humans are not equal. We're not all the same height, weight, gender, skin color, ability, interests, and talents. To try to make us equal requires some all-knowing Judge to determine the equality. And that my friends is where it breaks down. Those who strive for equality in the world are often those who want to be the Judges. Marxism as it is practiced has always (show me an example where it hasn't) led to an oligarchy or autocracy. Think Russia with its Communist party leaders or similar in China. Think of current day Venezuela with Chavez playing the role of all-knowing Judge for his country.

I see this in the US today with the liberals complaining of excessive profits at companies and how unfair that is to "the people". We need to be careful. Government cannot and should not try to guarantee equality. It is contrary to our nature and ultimately the effort to achieve it comes at the expense of liberties of individuals. You have to take from some to be able to give to others.