Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.

Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

I was a closet stutterer.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.