It might strike you odd that I’m libertarian - that is, I want government as small and harmless as possible - and that my political view is rooted deeply in my faith. You see, I believe God gave us a gift, a gift so very precious that we have created a government to protect it. The government has often mishandled this gift, and so have we. We don’t really deserve this gift, but we have it.

What is this gift? No, it’s not forgiveness - forgiveness is what God uses to protect this gift that he gave us much earlier than Jesus.

This gift is freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to right, wrong, love, hate, sin, do good. It is so precious but has been shattered so many times by people. God’s other gift of forgiveness is the tool that allows us to hold onto our freedom.

In the Declaration of Independence, three inalienable rights are given that government must protect to insure our freedom. It is the right to life, to be alive. It is the right of liberty, so long as it doesn’t interfere with others’ right to life. It is the right of the pursuit of happiness, so long as it doesn’t interfere with others’ right to liberty or life.

God Bless You, God Bless America

Until next time

Joe

We all know that cigarettes and alcohol can be expensive because states will tax the hell out of time. Currently California has virtually no money, and one politician has come up with a solution: tax recreational marijuana.

My initial response was: How the hell are they going to tax something that is illegal? Marijuana is a schedule 1 controlled substance by the Federal Government. Federal Government, of course, trumps state or local government.

I actually think it’s a great idea. Making drugs such as illegal has only caused problems. The opportunity costs in tax dollars is too great. Mexico is currently in the midst of civil war: the Mexican government versus the drug cartels. This Mexican Civil War is beginning to bulge into Texas and will eventually burst. If drugs weren’t illegal, these drug lords would have no power.

Check out my sources:
LA Times: Taxing pot could become a political toking point
Wikipedia: Legality of Cannabis in the United States
Mexican Drug War

Until next time

Joe

The sky is falling. Everyone’s losing their job. The dollar isn’t worth what it used to be. Everything’s doom and gloom. Yet economists and politicians seem to insist that this is all part of a cycle, which includes recessions, booms, depressions, bull markets, bear markets, and other mumbo jumbo.

So why does the economy collapse every now and then? What makes it rise and fall? Why can’t we just have a booming economy forever? It all has to do with the inherent flaw in capitalism. Consider the following picture:

Assume there are two groups of people: business people, depicted by the Monopoly guy on the left, and customers, depicted by the Monopoly guy on the right. These people play multiple roles, too: business people are also employers, and customers are also employees.

In order to make a profit, a business person has to make more money than his expenses. One of his expenses is employees, so that means he needs to make more money than he pays his employees.

In order for employees/customers to save money, they have spend less than they earn.

Thus a business person has to make more money than he pays employees, and employees have to earn more than they spend. Since employees are customers, the money they spend is the revenue for the business person. So for an economy to be stable, business people and employees must make more money than one another, and the economy collapses.

Almost done for today. Economies are much more complex than a single business person and employee, so the relationships are not as apparent. Other things factor in as well.

Until next time

Joe

Welcome to my blog! Bear with us here, were just now getting the site set up, getting the kinks and the bugs out of the system.

So what will I talk about here? I’m glad you asked! Anything, really. Stuff that goes on in life, weird thoughts I might have (which actually happens a lot), and how the company is doing.

What company? Hendrices Entertainment of course! What kind of entertainment? Whatever we feel like. There’s not much yet as we have just started. Essentially Hendrices Entertainment is just a portfolio site for my brother and I, thus it will contain quite a variety of stuff.

Until next time

Joe