The Humble Libertarian original

Someone over at the Silver Circle Underground penned a humorous little piece recently as an open letter to the Federal Reserve's bureaucrats: "If you’re reading this you were probably recently hired as part of the Federal Reserve’s new social media monitoring program. Chances are you’re a recent high school drop out, or part of some make-work federal job placement program. You probably don’t completely understand who it is that you’re working for, and what it is that you’re doing. So, I can’t really hold it against you. I’d like to welcome you to our little corner of the Internet, and offer you some sincere advice." Throughout the letter , the author beautifully exposes just how dumb our government's bureaucracies are (correction: The Federal Reserve isn't part of the government... they're just friends with benefits). As I read it, I felt a glimmer of hope for our future on the basis of just how technologically illiterate our government is. It'...

Gary North convincingly and entertainingly argues that the government is already bankrupt now, and forestalling the inevitable, with a default already behind us. Read his entire report at LewRockwell.com . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what's wrong with our country. How do we tolerate this day in and day out from our government? Read all the details here in my most recent CAIVN column. Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

Elderly patient in a wheelchair on a hospital ward. Photograph: Bruce Ayres/Getty Images  I’ve commented before about the sub-par government-run healthcare system in the United Kingdom, including patients dying of malnutrition, patients suffering needless pain and discomfort, and patients dying from poor care (additional examples at this link ). I’ve even commented on the NHS wasting money on politically correct nonsense while letting patient care deteriorate. Now we have another distasteful example showing why it is a big mistake to put bureaucrats in charge of health care. This BBC story is a sobering look at America’s future with a government-run healthcare system. Read the rest of Dan Mitchell's post at International Liberty Dan Mitchell is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute Filed by Grant Davies , Regular Columnist, T H L Articles | Author's Page | Website

What else would someone call a march organized by federal employees to celebrate federal employees? What will we do next week? “Rally To Raise Lawyers’ Self-Esteem?” A young bureaucrat named Steve Ressler recently had his feelings hurt after a Washington Post poll discovered that there are “widespread negative perceptions of federal workers.” This perturbed Ressler to the point that he felt the need to have his own “Government Doesn’t Suck” march. Truer than parody. According to the Post , Ressler says “it’s time to turn the tables and remind the world that government employees just happen to be people – people that don’t suck” and that “government workers ‘are a lot of cool cats’ who work hard, listen to good music and watch [Jon] Stewart’s ‘The Daily Show,’ but that’s after they’ve spent a whole day keeping the country running .” (emphasis mine) To Ressler, government employees are just a bunch of misunderstood, persecuted philanthropists who are the bees knees and the cat’s pajam...

"Amid the fallout after Californians discovered that Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo earned nearly $800,000 a year, and would receive an extravagant $600,000 a year pension upon retirement, golden state residents everywhere are alarmed. With the state and most local governments facing a desperate financial crisis, Californians are outraged at anything they perceive as a wasteful use of the state's resources by privileged government bureaucrats. That's what made the bizarre pornographic images unearthed by SF Weekly Tuesday all the more shocking." Read the entire article at CAIVN . W. E. Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

T H L Contributor, Heidi Moseley recently forwarded me a hilarious and pointed e-mail entitled "How Guvmint Works." Here it is: Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies. Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports. Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So They created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer, Then hired two people. Then Congress said, "Who w...

Friday, I recommended an alternative stimulus package to Congress in case the push for a second round of stimulus gains momentum. Recommendation #4 was "Auction Government Assets- Like the USPS." I explained: A good place to start would be selling the U.S. Postal Service. In order to provide us an increasingly low-quality, poorly-managed, inefficient, and unneeded service, Americans pay billions every year to fuel and maintain the USPS fleet of over 250,000 vehicles, its huge staff (it's the third largest employer in the US), infrastructure, and operations costs. Well a libertarian friend and former schoolmate of mine sent in this photo to illustrate my point: Captions anyone? Thanks for the photo, George !