[142857] 142857 The Magic Number /" Freedom and Private Property Concepts" by Manuel Cereijo / Cortesía de Miguel Uría

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FREEDOM AND PRIVATE PROPERTY CONCEPTS

 

MANUEL CEREIJO

 

 

Private property and freedom are inseparable. The individual’s right to live freely and pursue happiness includes the right to acquire and possess property. Property represents the fruits of each individual own intellectual and physical labor. Freedom and private property are the antidote to tyranny, to socialism, to big government, where a few dictate to the many. Freedom is good in itself and also makes us rich. Collectivism compounds bondage with poverty. While democracy seeks equality in freedom, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

 

Capitalism, free market, is the most transformative of economic systems. It encourages creativity and inventiveness. It produces wealth, in the form of industries, products, services, as well as improving upon existing ones. The most important event in the late 20th century was the demise of the socialist dream. The most important event of the recent era is the failure of capitalism to win a corresponding total triumph. The belief that the good fortune of others is also finally one’s own does not come easily to the human breast. Hypocrisy is the tribute paid by vice to virtue

 

The key to understanding the free market is private property. The free market is the only economic system that produces an abundance of food, housing, energy, and medicine. It is in man’s desire to take risks, to innovate, to achieve, to compete, and to acquire. The individual knows better how to make and spend, and provide for his family than any government can do. The government does not add value to the economy. On the contrary, it removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on the people.

 

The crucial source of creativity and initiative is the individual investor. Supply creates demand. Wealth consists in assets that promise a future stream of income. Real wealth is hard work, requiring prolonged and profitable production of goods. On every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some society’s greatest brutalities. Recent history has seen in Germany, Russia, China, Cuba.

 

In a civil, free society, the individual has a duty to respect the unalienable rights of others and the values, customs, and traditions, tried over time and passed from one generation to the next. This establishes a nation’s cultural identity. He is responsible for attending to his own well-being and that of his family. 

 

We are living in a world without moral clarity, in which dictators speak about human rights even as they kill many of their own people. Only those who have no understanding of tyranny can take such nonsense seriously. A society is free if people have the right to express their views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm. The public statements of those who live in fear are never a reliable indication of people’s true opinions. For those living in a free society, the idea that a state would try to thoroughly brainwash its subjects is particularly difficult to grasp. Freedom from tyranny is not only universally desired, it should also be universally desirable.

 

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We do not pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on them to do the same, or we might see our coming years telling our children, and grandchildren what it was once like in the United States when men were free. Hard to believe? Keep in mind Cuba, January, 1959.




 
 

Loyalty above all else

 

 

PENSAMIENTOS POR SELECCION DE MIGUEL URIA QUE ESTIMAMOS APLICABLE A LA CAUSA QUE NOS UNE

 

 

* "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." Barak Obama Hussein / Colorado Springs on July 2, 2008.



"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it." 

–Ronald Reagan



Si los Socialistas tomaren el poder en el Desierto de Sahara nada pasaria por cuatro años y despues 

habria una escasez de arena.

Parafraseando a William Buckley Jr



With guns, we are 'citizens.' 

Without them, we are 'subjects'. 

            As Saul Alinsky said in Obama's Bible, "Rules for Radicals",  

"accentuate the negative, push it to positive, don't mess with truth in between".



"No llores como mujer, lo que no has sabido defender como hombre"

Palabras de la Sultana Aïsha al-Hurra a su hijo Boabdil al rendirse en Granada a los Reyes Católicos





 

“Si alguna vez llegara a obscurecerse la intensidad o fuerza de la base    

  espiritual de nuestro país, desaparecería nuestra fe en el destino de   

  los Estados Unidos, ante una confianza vana en el materialismo y la  

  crasa maniobra política”…Dwight D. Eisenhower

   

*  “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and t hat is a loyalty to the American people.”

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

 



  * "Here's my strategy…., We win, they lose" / Ronald Reagan

 

* "Creo que perdonarlos es la función de Dios. Nuestro trabajo es sólo organizar la reunión." /   Ret. General Schwartzkopf 

 

* "A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many 
want in... And how many want out" / Prime Minister Tony Blair

   

* “There are only two types of warriors in this world. Those that serve

tyrants and those that serve free men” Stefan Mazak

 

* "Creo que perdonarlos es la función de Dios. Nuestro trabajo es sólo organizar la reunión." /   Ret. General Schwartzkopf 

   

* "The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender".

Napoleon Bonaparte

  

“El Amor a la Patria no es el Amor ridículo a la tierra, ni a la yerba que pisan nuestras plantas; es el odio invencible a quien la oprime, es el rencor eterno a quien la ataca” / ABDALA / José Martí


 

Y Martí TAMBIEN decia:

 



  * "Sobre serpientes,  ¿Quien levanta pueblos?"

 



* "Hay hombres varones y hay hombres hembras." 


 

* "Otras veces, los hombres se alquilan."

 

* "Prefiero ser yo extranjero en otras patrias, a serlo en la mía."

 

* "Solo con la vidas cesará, entre los cubanos, la batalla por la

libertad."

 

* "La guerra se ha de hacer para evitar las guerras."

 

* "Hay que arrojar a los "mercaderes del templo."

 

* "Cambiar de amo no significa ser libre"



* "Porque si está la bandera, no sé, yo no puedo entrar"

 

* "Picardias contra mi, bueno: no contra mi Patria

 

* “No, no hay perdón para los actos de odio”

 
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