I promised in a backhanded way I'd release this a few days ago.

There are many political events that surround us in our daily lives, and many political organizations and groups that vie for our attention and effort, whether it be in-person effort, money or both.

I put quite a bit of effort into the Libertarian party over the last few years, up until a couple of months before the election, when I severed ties with the local and state parties.  I kept on as Treasurer of the House campaign that I had taken earlier in the year; the candidate in question (Calen Fretts) was someone who is a man of integrity that was trying to do the right thing.

I've also spent a lot of time post-election contemplating whether, and on what terms, I'm willing to lend effort to political causes both now and in the future.

Let's start with what's going on right now, and I'll lead with the Libertarians.

The Gary Johnson campaign was a disaster.  But the disaster is not over.  No, Gary ended the year a staggering $1.135 million in debt, against a mere $43,933 in cash. 

There has been a stunning silence from the Florida State Party apparatus, which has a chair who vehemently boosted this clown of a candidate, as to this latest report and its implications.  Nor has National stopped trying to solicit me to renew my membership, which I explicitly resigned (right here, publicly, cutting up my card.)

The internals are frightening.  Enormous amounts of money were spent on staffing, and damned little on actual advertising and media.  The campaign was ineffective beyond words, garnering a mere 1% of the vote -- but one has to wonder if the point of the campaign was to actually garner votes at all, or whether it was just a means to "employ" some people, with nearly all of the money funneled through "Political Advisors" out of Salt Lake City.

Remember, this is a politician who said he would eliminate in his first budget as President the ~40% operating deficit that the Federal Government holds. 

Yet he took in $2.2 million during the entire election cycle but after spending essentially all of both it and his "matching funds", with the candidate himself donating only $8,000 of his own money, he then went on to rack up $1.135 million in debt on top of it.

I note with alarm that this debt is 51.6% of the total amount donated and I have seen exactly zero in terms of how he intends to pay it off.  Soliciting people to donate to a failed campaign that violated the very fiscal integrity the candidate promised were he to be elected is going to be a hell of a lot of fun.

Indeed, you could look at paying political advocates and staffers as a form of welfare, if you want to be less-than-charitable about it.  After all, what do they do that produces GDP?  What good or service do they provide into the economy?

Nothing, unless you count the hot air spewed by these clowns as a positive contributor to global temperature trends -- something we could use right now in Florida, as it's too damned chilly for my taste. 

Of course the Libertarians are not, by any stretch of the imagination, the only ones with wild-eyed idiocy in the political sphere of late.  They're just one of the more-blatant (yet tiny and thus utterly insignificant in the scheme of things, mostly due to their own duplicity) when it comes to selling "We'll do X while we can't conduct ourselves in the same manner we claim we'll govern -- or are governing" to you, the gullible.

Speaking of which, the latest nonsense relates of course to the sequester.  Obama looks like a petulant child pouting about how the sequester is "irresponsible."  Perhaps, Mr. President, you might want to explain to the American people why you proposed it originally!

It's not like a President would ever propose something he knows is ruinously bad, right?  Oh wait, according to his own standards, he did!

Obama, of course, is not alone.  Senate and House Republicans, including but not limited to McConnell, Boehner, McMorris-Rodgers, Ryan and others have for the last two+ years bleated about how we "must get our fiscal deficit under control."  They then vote for continuing resolutions and ever-expanding debt ceilings, unwilling to draw a single breath before turning their own previous statements into lies with their own acts.  I made my opinion known to several of them in 2011, and it stands: You're liars and frauds, now go perform an anatomically-impossible act.  My opinion in that regard will stand until your actions change -- period.

Those who argue that there is "no alternative" are lying too.  There most-certainly is an alternative.  The House can refuse to authorize any further continuing resolutions that add one nickel of additional debt to the Federal ledger.

So why not do it?

The reason is simple: They're all handing out welfare to both people and corporations and in addition they're well-aware that the deficit spending, some 8% of GDP, would instantly come back out of the economy were it to stop -- because that's "demand" that doesn't really exist.

In other words GDP would instantly contract by that same 8% plus whatever the knock-on effects are of the people not producing (up and down the line) that which is no longer bought.

And despite the bleating about fraud, waste and abuse the fact of the matter is that this very same fraud, waste and abuse is part of GDP and for every dollar of it you eliminate and thus don't spend that's a dollar that comes out of the economy!

Next, there's the health care fiasco.  If being screwed out of 10x the market cost of a procedure isn't enough to cause you to want to burn to ash the entire medical industry in this nation you're not very bright.  Medical "costs" are one of the largest causes of individual bankruptcy.  Worse, the escalation of medical spending from $53 billion in 1980 to over $800 billion in 2011 by the Federal Government alone lays bare on the table where we're headed -- national bankruptcy -- if this crap is not stopped, and stopped now.

Finally, I'm tired of watching the commission of felonies by the tens or hundreds of thousands by privileged groups, such as the banksters, while the guy who steals $50 worth of gas or smokes a joint goes to prison.

So here's the deal.

I'm always willing to work toward positive change.

I'm not going to tilt at windmills.

If you, as a politician or political subdivision, whether that be a party, a candidate, or an officeholder, want me to effort on your behalf, no matter how small or large, or provide you with any sort of service at all (like, for instance, provide advice on your web hosting, fix your computer or other similar things that I happen to be pretty good at), then you will:

• Refuse all deficit spending measures.  Period, end of sentence, full stop.  No ifs, ands, buts or maybes.
  
  
• Expose and excoriate all those within your own ranks that cannot live within their means.  No exceptions, period, and this particularly goes to political candidates and campaigns.
  
  
• Put a stop to the health care cost scams right here and now.  This means that the centerpiece of your activity will be the breaking of these monopoly practices and the removal of every single legal protection these firms have that shield these practices from prosecution, and then prosecuting all those that refuse to stop.  There is absolutely no reason why in a free market system health care should not cost one fifth or less of what it does now, and at that price most people could pay cash.  They might not enjoy it and some exotic treatments might be beyond their ability to afford and thus not be available, but for nearly everyone they would be dramatically better off.
  
  
• Stop the looting and start prosecuting.  I'm done with being lied to on this account.
  
  
• Respect unalienable rights.  All of them.  Do so in public, do so in your bills you file and in the positions you take and advocate.  We'll start with three bad and blatantly-unconstitutional laws: Repeal the NFA, GCA of 1968 and the Brady Law.  If you can't read The Constitution and its clear language get the hell out of your office and make room for someone who can.  And no, that's not an exhaustive list -- it just demonstrates that you can read.  We'll get to the other blatantly unconstitutional "laws" after those three are gone.

If you can't do that, then stop calling me, stop asking for help and stop expecting me to provide anything but a slammed door on your fingers and a boat horn in your ear when you ring my phone.

In addition you should expect that in the not-so-distant future I will cease looking for signs that you're going to do -- or advocate for -- the right thing.   When that day arrives, and it shall not so long from today, I will do my level best to withdraw all of my material effort that can be taxed and therefore used to support that which I know (1) cannot possibly work and (2) will simply go to fatten the wallets of those who are and have been both lying to me and intend to screw myself and my progeny.

And finally, may God have mercy on you if your computer is hacked and you need help, or if you would like someone to come and perform some sort of forensic inspection on your machines or networks,  because I sure as hell won't have any mercy -- or provide any assistance -- to you at all.

I, and the other productive members of society, do not need you.

You need me.

But right now I'm out in the garage stenciling up some signs to picket with, because I'm very, very close to going on strike and I know full well there isn't a damn thing you can do about it if I do.

May millions of others decide to do so as well.

Ps: Should you decide to ignore me in this regard, I will caution you that a man known as "Math" is going to resolve these problems all on his own, that I (and anyone else who's paying attention) have a pretty good idea when he will, despite your best attempts, breach your walls, and when he does unless you can manage to convince God to change the laws of physics and thus how the universe works you're buggered and done.