Redneck Review!
No. 132 - 10/30/17
There comes a time now and then when some "cleaning up" is overdue! That is certainly true relating to issues raised and discussed in the last couple of reviews found here!  In reviews 130 and 131 for example, a sharp-eyed reader noted that my phone number at the bottom had a "963" instead of the correct "962" in the correct number 208-962-3576.
Also, a senior memory moment of mine cited Daniel Boone as the man involved in the article called "Not yours to give" which can be found in economics off and on for about two centuries!  Well, Daniel was a well known famous early American, but it was not he, but Davy Crockett who "killed himself a bear when he was only three," and was the man who learned a hard lesson from a constituent  Horatio Bunce after he "went off to Washington to serve a spell." So readers of RNR #130 might make a mental note that it was Davy and not Daniel involved in that lesson!
And what lesson was that?  Recall that in our last few reviews, some references were made about attempts down through the ages by people to foresee the future, and predict disasters on the near or even far horizon.  The well-known Nostradamus for one is said to have predicted 400 years ahead of time that the year 1999 would bring "terror from the sky."  And many followers of the Fatima miracle of the sun, which occurred exactly 100  years ago on Oct 13  this year, (also incidentally a Friday the 13th this year!), thought that an event from heaven might occur fulfilling prophecies made at the time!  Numerous other attempts have been made about economic disasters which loom on the horizon relating to our huge national debt and the growing power of government!
The point being made here is that attempts to foretell the future might be more successful if more attention is paid to the past and the lessons that history can teach a person who will use old-fashioned common sense! That was the reason for citing the article "Not yours to give" in review 130, erroneously attributed to Daniel Boone at the time.  The facts relating to the matter are briefly this:  Davy Crockett, a famous frontiersman had been elected to the national legislature in Washington, and on one occasion was called to vote on a grant by the federal government to burned out citizens who were victimized by a big fire in the city.
The victimized people were obviously in need, and a hasty vote was taken, and a sum of money  was offered  to help in the recovery. Congressman Crockett along with a majority of the other legislators voted for the fund without much of a second thought.  However, back in his home area later, a voter by the name of Horatio Bunce took him to task, arguing very convincingly that the money given was "Not theirs to give" and definitely was not charity, as it had been taken by force from other tax payers.  Furthermore, Bunce argued, that no such aid had ever been given to burned out families far from Washington, and that the casual giving of aid of that kind on the spur of the moment, was a violation of trust on the part of the people serving in government, and would simply open the door to more and more gifts of the same kind which would eventually get out of hand and even bankrupt the government. The point made by Bunce became even more convincing when Crockett's attempt to get his fellow associates to donate out of their own pocket for such relief later was turned down! So from that time on, Crockett became a solid "no" voter on government so-called "charity." 
And does  that "charity" not sound like the Legal Plunder of Bastiat's book THE LAW?
PS. Any response yet to the "Handsome gentleman" seeking a wife to live in Keuterville? More details provided by a call or email using  the information below!!! (At his request!)
Jake Wren
PO Box 355
Cottonwood ID 83522
208-962-3576 
jakewren@isp.com

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