Welcome to Politics and Economics with a twist. My hope is that you will find this blog informative,
insightful, and get you thinking in a different mind set. I have created this out of a sort of
necessity, for you see I can be very opinioned just like anyone who writes
about political issues, but at the same time, I try to use some truth in making
my opinions. Numbers are one of the best
ways to show facts and make a point.
Granted I know that you can make statistics say anything you want them
to and there might even be instances where the stats that I find might play
more to my line of thinking, but I try to find information from the true source
of the topic at hand.
Now I know you’re probably wondering who I am and why have I
decided to start yet another blog about politics. Well I’m an 11-year Navy veteran, a small
business owner, a full time college student, a libertarian, and I’m gay. There is a reason that I put those items in
that order, because that’s what makes me, me.
There are way too many people out there that believe that if you fit
into a subset of a community then you need to subscribe to that communities
views. I’m hoping to dispel that
myth.
I spent 11 years in the Navy working in IT with a specialty
in Information Assurance and Security. I
come from a military upbringing as well, mom and dad are both retired from the
USAF and my brother is currently a pilot in the Air Force, so you could say I’m
the black sheep of the family by choosing to go Navy, but I wouldn’t have
changed that decision for anyone. After
leaving the Navy I worked for a government contractor for 2 years, then decided
to break off and start my own IT Consulting firm. While running my own company I’m also a full
time student getting a dual major in Management Information Systems &
Finance with a minor in quantitative economics.
This brings us to the next two topics, libertarian and
gay. The majority of gay people are
democrats because they’re allegedly the ones that support gay rights. You then have the gays that are republicans
that are called “Log Cabin Republicans”.
I have always been more on the republican side of politics, but once I
learned about the libertarian party they’re the ones that just seemed to make
sense to me. I’m not going to break down
all the views of the libertarian party, but I will place a link to their main
site if you’re interested in learning more.
The overall Libertarian belief system is live and let live. Your freedom stops at the very point another
person’s freedom begins. Don’t harm, or
defraud anyone, defend yourself, but don’t initiate force. Under the libertarian philosophy you can be
gay, you can have a committed relationship with whomever you choose. We also believe that governments that govern best
govern least. Essentially it boils down
to do your actions and/or beliefs affect someone else? If not then it’s not a
big deal. There are some issues that
differ between the libertarians and the gay rights movement. One of those being hate crimes. A libertarian believes there is no
differentiation of crime. Libertarians
don’t care the motivation, harm someone and you’re going to pay the price. Criminal activity is criminal activity.
I won’t just be covering politics on here; we’ll also take a
look at various things that are affecting the economy as well, such as raising
the minimum wage. Politics and Economics
truly do go hand in hand. That must be
why you the economics and political science majors have a lot of the same
general courses.
I hope you enjoy this exciting journey that I'm going to take you all on. My goal is to release at least one blog a week on differing issues. Some of them may not be as current as others but all of them will be things that I do feel very strongly about and think that everyone should take a closer look at and examine in maybe a different way than they thought of before.
~J~
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