Bureaucrat Tipping - a push for change

Bureaucrats are like cow dogs for opportunistic rustlers and feed lot operators. Leave those bureaucrats to their handlers and their cowered cattle.

Too long have you been a target of theft from those that use political means to pick your pockets and limit your actions. If it is not right for someone to steal your property or restrict your life, how does it become right when they use lawfare and government bureaucrats to do it for them?

"Taxpayers pay subsidies to each other, government overhead taking a large cut. Influence, not need or potential, is the deciding factor of largess."
Allan R. Wallace

It is your life, live your life in a manner that is most pleasing to you. Find a home where you can live as you wish, so long as you do not disrupt others doing as they wish.

Freedom and mobility are intertwined.

Of all 36 ways to get out of trouble, the best way is -- leave. - Chinese Proverb

I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell! - Ray Bradbury

Quality of Life Index: 194 Countries Ranked and Rated to Reveal the World's Best Places to Live in 2010. Visit a few, make up your own mind. Do consider the direction a country is headed -- better a once disrupted state headed toward freedom than a once free country headed toward despotism.

Consider becoming a PT - a permanent tourist, to enjoy living as you wish. Leave moochers, thieves, and busybodies behind with their pet bureaucrats and let them feed on each other.

Go someplace where you have more options and opportunities than "Choose A or B."

Of first importance, have a plan to get your kids and yourself out of harms way. Remove the restrictions of being ordinary . . . there is an important anthology by Peter Travellian that reveals how to escape average, make money, and thrive in strange situations, anywhere - definitely a must read.

Lyrics from Paul Simon's song, "50 ways to leave your lover:"

just slip out the back, Jack
make a new plan, Stan
don't need to be coy, Roy
just listen to me
hop on the bus, Gus
don't need to discuss much
just drop off the key, Lee
and get yourself free.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

Wherever you live, your rights as a human are violated daily. You are restricted, restrained, and stolen from to meet other's desires. You are repeatedly told your basic human rights are privileges you must seek permission to enjoy. To permit is to control.

Regulation bears seeds of failure. When protection is assumed: due-diligence suffers - fraud and corruption expand. Wise swimmers don't blindly depend on drunk lifeguards. The responsibility for safety is always your own.

Your inalienable human rights are more important than any man made law. You don't need permission to read different books, learn new skills, rediscover childish laughter, or protect your property, liberty, and life.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead

Don't be more dedicated to any institution than it is dedicated to you. If they do not consider you important, why should you consider their requests and demands important?

Whenever possible just do the right thing, causing no harm to others. Quietly exercise your individual right to determine how to spend your own life. Don't do it loudly in protest unless YOU feel that is important.

"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner."
James Fenimore Cooper

The Bureaucratic age is ending. Just as leather bound encyclopedias and mega book stores have been supplanted by Wikipedia and Amazon; so will all too large bureaucracies fall. The trick is to stay out of their path while they are falling.

For a bureaucrat there are four types of people, with themselves forever at the top. The rest are criminals that don't fill out forms properly, anti-criminals like police and military that cause extra work, and the rest of us that need to be squeezed into a square hole and filed away. Criminals, anti-criminals, and real people are treated the same by bureaucrats; just slightly below mud weasels. To bureaucrats, "Citizen" is a dirty word.

Politicians, corporatatzies, and unionistas fight to define the jobs of bureaucrats; and then use them to steal, stampede, or corral all other groups. This will not change. No one who wants to be elected can afford to challenge this entrenched system. The answer is to be yourself, not just part of someone else's group.

To slow the constant brushfires trying to get you to stampede, quit spending so much time tending the annoying flames. To explore the road less traveled you must leave the managed herds. Just step to the side and let the cattle stampede past.

"There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them."
Tim Robbins

It Won't Last.

With your own internet based business you can be much more efficient. Instant global access allows you to focus on your skills and knowledge while easily and inexpensively outsourcing other tasks to specialists.

As the first halting step enabling the information age, the Internet befuddles bureaucrats that remain a fixture of the fading industrial age.


For now it is easy and inexpensive to start an internet based business, and there are a minimum of regulatory hoops through which you will have to jump.

But the industrial age bureaucracies will not die quietly - they will attempt to entangle the individually empowering liberty of the web with every Luddite inspired chain and rope they can manufacture.

To start your own business on the internet I can think of no better guide than Jennifer, the Pot Pie Girl. Her One Week Marketing is a solid entry into your own web based, portable business. She will teach you step by step how to start a micro internet business a week, any successful ventures adding to prior cash flows. It will take work and time -- but she will show you how to use free internet services such as Squidoo to get started.


Start your own internet business today. This is the sort of business you will be able to take with you if you leave your comfortable current location. If you have to leave you waited too long. If you failed to prepare you are less wise than a rabbit that has several exits from it's nest. Don't wait for the snake to arrive before you start clearing a path.

Get on the internet while the getting is good. All we know for sure is that those who wait will spend more money and have to fight more senseless rules. Fail early and often while learning how to prosper. Persist!

What is it worth to increase your personal liberty?

Add external pressure to the implosion of archaic one size fits most organizations. Create your own internet based business by replacing parts of high cost and poor service bureaucracies. Develop your own business and help create the self-crafted society.

Start your new life as a visionary and entrepreneur.

"Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." - P.J. O'Rourke

Because parasites do not leave a host until they kill it; any welfare state will eventually be broken and broke. To buy votes, politicians keep redefining the rich they are stealing from down toward the poverty level. Instead of decreasing the world's wealth through distribution, we can increase the wealth of all free men by allowing abundance.

"When a self-governing people confer upon their government the power to take from some and give to others, the process will not stop until the last bone of the last taxpayer is picked bare." - Howard Kershner

Taxation is a fertile acorn that grows into the tall oak where the twin attributes of initiative and prosperity will be hung by the neck until dead.

Using envy as a pry bar politicians have taken away the American Dream of growing affluence and replaced it with a promise to pull down those above you to your level. Mobocracy -- those that want taking from anyone with more. Just remember the many below you are being promised that soon you will be pulled down also, your wealth extorted to buy them a day of bread and circuses. Those reading this are probably wealthier than 90% of the world - think how far you can be cut down. It's only fair that you live in a tin hut on a mud street too.

Did I mention allowing abundance instead?

The bureaucrats are willing to make you starve so long as they can eat well. They will of course express pity, and grandly return a morsel of the meal they stole from you.

The American dream of self improvement is being replaced by a bureaucrat's dream of a dependent populace. Once there was hope to excel and create a better life for those you love. Now the dream is to become a victim, influence peddler, or bureaucrat feeding at the public trough.

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill

Louis Blanc's "From each according to his abilities -- to each according to his needs" has created a vicious victim competition. Today a person needs to be emotionally declared the greatest victim to have priority access to other's earnings.

"When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating." - C. F. Bastiat (1801-1850)

If something evil is going to fall - it should be pushed. Consider the benefits of making the greatest bureaucratic thieves go broke.

"The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly." - Thomas Sowell

New York City's, San Francisco's, and the entire state of Massachusetts' leadership are dedicated to providing for non-producers by stealing from workers. Send those that want to sponge off the system to these locations with your blessing - the extra burden will help finish bureaucratic Ponzi schemes that much sooner.

Do what makes you happy, provide for those that are important to you. Your cooperative self interest will make life better for all. Improving your own life is also a worthy social goal.

"The risks and rewards of creative and natural enterprise are greater, and of far more value to society, than any illusions of security that enslave human cogs in a social machine." - Allan Wallace

Every small thing you do, every idea you ponder, should be made free of concern about petty rules that limit without protection. How much more should major goals be developed with an early eye to understanding. Give minimal and late consideration to packages of limitations pushed at you by bureaucrats.

It does not matter what others might say or think about you. Some will complain no matter what you do or don't do. Risk failure, embrace and manage risk, and then recover from its inevitable presence. Each effort draws you closer to understanding what is required for your personal success.

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." - Mark Twain

I am developing an unbound college of learning, Bastiat Free University, for visionaries, entrepreneurs, and independent eccentrics. Also being developed is a center for peer to peer education, the Netcohort Institute. These higher education tools will become successes when they maximize opportunities for students. I'm sure you can also do something liberating that focuses your passions and offers meaning to your life.

Don't let social pressures steal your dreams. Don't let moralizing busy bodies and intolerant educators limit your ambitions. Join in the adventure - bring your most outrageous dreams.

Your life is not about supporting a bloated village of seven billion people. Pursue your career as a unique and valuable individual; for yourself and for those you cherish. Seek your own destiny, meaning, or life purpose and make it happen.

As Herbert Hoover said: "Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." When over fifty percent of what you earn is taken in taxes, fees, and regulatory compliance -- when one spouse is in effect working for big government for free -- when your children and grandchildren are already bondslaves to paying off government debts -- it is worth considering alternatives.

After you succeed you will be told to relinquish your earned gains. They think you should give up your dreams for needs they define. Of course they feel obligated to manage and distribute your coerced "gifts," and skim themselves an easy and gracious living off the top.

"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone." - Bastiat

Enough about "them." What really matters is you. Dwell on your passions, dive into learning about ideas that excite you.

Think - Don't Follow.

Our interconnected future will benefit the prepared (your responsibility) and adaptable (your opportunity) mind.

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P.J. O'Rourke

Don't break laws. Don't join protest movements. Don't write your leaders. Just remove your support from their dangerous actions. If appropriate move your family from their jurisdiction before it is too late. If you have to leave, you waited too long. Structure your life to minimize support for growing internal injustice and international entanglements.

You are so far ahead of the average person already, they don't even recognize the absurdities they have been taught to believe. You not only recognize them, you can choose which one's to follow, which to ignore.

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire

You can become an activist, but a bureaucratic nation is inherently unjust. The public humiliation, incarceration, or elimination of scapegoats keeps sheep obedient. "Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice." - Bastiat

As an example, at the start of every year the IRS will arrest or convict a high profile celebrity for tax evasion or tax fraud. This is not justice working; it is a planned news event for tax season demonstrating the power of government tax enforcement.

Leona Helmsley, Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Martha Stewart were well thought out lessons used to showcase intimidating government power. Less visible or more politically connected figures have been ignored for far greater crimes. Terrorists call it propaganda of the deed, using newsworthy attacks to expand and prolong the society damaging effects of fear.

America was founded on the idea that citizens could control government so that it could be forced to control itself. Instead, the constitutional safeguards have fallen one by one or been ignored. The government servant is now the master. "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington

Often we barely know enough to know we don't know.

"The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it - once you can say 'I don't know,' then it becomes possible to get at the truth." - Robert A. Heinlein

The good news is that if we wish to learn, we can. Together we can even do what many consider impossible, we can turn our countries toward freedom. If, in your opinion, your current country is unalterably headed in the wrong direction, move to countries increasing in opportunity and liberty.

None of us are now as free as we could be, most of us are slaves bred of indoctrination and social pressure. Most countries have wandered far from good government; to the extent you support them you also support their unjust acts.

"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?" - Cicero

Bureaucrats frequently have enough unchecked authority to arbitrarily ruin lives. Keep yourself out of their sights, doing the least you can to support them; do what you can to ensure your own liberty. "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire

"A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." - Thomas Jefferson

Since the Federal Reserve (a secretive private company owned by undisclosed banks, no more part of the US government than Federal Express) was formed in 1913 to "ensure the stability of money," capitalism has slowly been suffocated. The pale ghost of free markets that remain are blamed for government failures - but with communism and socialism's historically destructive remnants tattered, there is nothing to replace free enterprise. We are left with a self-serving band of opportunists selling the government while pillaging your family's life style to buy votes and reward cronies.

Something may eventually grow from the ashes, but it is likely to be decades before we know if the ghost will be resurrected as a phoenix or as a zombie. I anticipate a zombie first, and after its destruction, perhaps a chance of renewal. By then China may have completed a transformation to greater liberty and show America the way back home. We can start back up the path toward freedom, but that requires individual decisiveness - are you willing?

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon

You still have options. At the very least you should establish escape routes should increasingly totalitarian trends continue.

"Liberty consists in doing what one desires." - John Stuart Mill

Warning: The bureaucracy is expanding to better serve the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

"If every person has the right to defend even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly.

Thus the principle of collective right - its reason for existing, its lawfulness - is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute.

Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force - for the same reason - cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups."

All we really need are a few rules like: keeping your word and keeping your hands to yourself. Us kids can then manage to play together just fine.


Learning is an extreme sport.
The essence of education is personal growth. If it was only acceptable to hit straight down the fairway, there would never be slices or hooks to correct. It would also take hours to play each hole, putting for short distances, with no long game. Formal education is a game of staying on someone else's spaghetti narrow fairway -- learning is the art of pushing limits and rapidly improving with each new failure. Fail often, fail forward, fail better.
Allan R. Wallace


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