Repeal and....

Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the 2,700 page monstrosity of a law commonly called “ObamaCare”, reminding us all that the third branch of government is still government.         

To those of us unimpaired by a law degree, it did not seem like a difficult question: where, precisely, does the Constitution empower the federal government to mandate purchases and dictate coverage?  Answer: nowhere.  It is the sort of 9-0 no-brainer where a 7th grader could write the opinion: “we all looked – it isn’t there.” 

But the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that they don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution, and so the Patient Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains the law of the land.  Which is not to say that nothing changed yesterday; the law is still the same law but the land is no longer the same land. 

We are now officially some mutated form of post-constitutional national democracy, or perhaps we should call it a demography – a nation herded into little piles to be pandered to every four years.  And with yesterday’s court ruling adding to his recent string of executive orders, President Obama has now amassed an insurmountable lead among gay under-26 promiscuous unemployed illegal aliens on food stamps without insurance and living with their parents.   

Forget the semantics of tax/mandate and remember that the President’s socialized medicine scheme was rammed down our throats for 18 months on the vague promise that central control and mandates would “bend the cost curve”.  We had to be just like Europe, for reasons that can’t be readily recalled now that Greece alternates between burning and begging and France is back in the hands of the communists. 

That infamous cost curve has indeed been bent, but in the wrong direction.  Premium cost increases of 15-25% have been commonplace since Congress passed the law with “affordability” cynically included in its name, and millions have lost coverage as employers can no longer afford to provide mandated benefits.  Unlike the laws of Congress, the law of unintended consequences doesn’t wait to be phased in until after the next election.      

Most Americans have no clue how close we all are to losing our system of employer-based health insurance. A McKinley Quarterly study published last year found that 30% of employers planned to drop health insurance once ACA was fully implemented; that number rose to 60% among firms who were “very familiar” with the law’s provisions.  We will shortly discover that that number is more like 90.       

The nation’s 100 largest employers will pay $111 billion in fines if they drop health insurance when the ACA’s provisions are fully implemented in 2014; it will cost them over $450 billion to provide ACA-compliant coverage.  You don’t get to be a top 100 employer by not knowing how to make that call.  The Supreme Court did not overturn arithmetic, so enjoy your employer plan this year and next. 

Ironically, there is a reform where the cost curve has been bent downward – here in Wisconsin, home of Obama’s nemesis, Governor Scott Walker.  Walker’s budget reforms contained provisions which enabled school districts to break the virtual monopoly on health insurance sold by the teachers’ union.    

Choice and competition (where have you heard that before) reduced the cost of health care for those districts that shopped around by as much as 20%.  Not only were other plans (for-profit plans, I might add) less expensive, but the introduction of competition suddenly caused the non-profit WEA Trust to lower its own prices. 

So let’s recap.  Obama imposes central control and mandates and costs go up 20%.  Walker abolishes central control and mandates and costs go down 20%.

One more time for those with an Ivy League education or who listen to NPR on a regular basis:  central control and mandates bad, choice and competition good. 

While Walker has not gone nearly far enough to please this libertarian free trader, he has demonstrated the ease and speed at which markets solve problems that government finds intractable.  The lesson to be learned in Wisconsin is one of trajectory, not distance - Walker went local, while Obama/Pelosi/Reed/Roberts went national.  The Roberts Court decision will simply add health care to the list of things that government has ruined in the past century of progressive dogoodery.    

The problem with liberalism has always been that its devotees argue intent while ignoring effect.  The Great Society is intent; Detroit is effect.  If it were possible to change human nature and end all suffering by simply writing a law, then by all means let’s write two so we can become angels.  But we are not angels, and no one knows how messed up national health care will become; it is safe to say that it will suck worse than any of us can possibly imagine. 

The Court’s unwillingness to overturn ACA puts the onus back on Congress to save us from the mess they made.  The American people must now do the work that the Court would not – uphold and defend the Constitution.  We do that by putting liberty as our first principle and electing representatives who share our values. 

That work was started in 2010 and must be continued in 2012, when we again have the opportunity to toss out the scoundrels and elect liberty candidates to offices up and down the ballot.  We must take our country back, because it is quite clear the statists – in both parties and in all three branches of government - are not going to give it back to us.   

One last thing…the GOP battle cry “Repeal and Replace” assumes Republicans are smarter than Democrats when it comes to crafting another more-government solution for a too-much-government problem.  Unfortunately for them, most of us have enough Republican friends to know better.     

Here is a better idea:  Repeal and…go lay by your dish.  Deregulate both health care and health care insurance and let markets do what government can not – lower cost and improve quality. 


“Moment Of Clarity” is a weekly commentary by Libertarian writer and speaker Tim Nerenz, Ph.D.  Visit Tim’s website www.timnerenz.com to find your moment.

Welcome To Later

Dumb is when you can’t ever know, and ignorant is when you don’t know yet.  Now that the critical underfunding of our public pension systems has finally come to light, we are about to discover if our nation’s socialists are dumb or just ignorant. 

A recent Pew Foundation study has confirmed what many of us have been saying for quite some time now.  Wisconsin has one of the best systems in the country, but its claim of 100% funding relies on the assumption of 7% returns on its investments month after month from now until the rapture. 

The obvious problem with that assumption is that the best investment return available from any guaranteed government security these days is only about 3%. 

You can thank Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his predecessor Allan Greenspan and the leaders of both establishment parties for that.  They have set interest rates to near zero and inflated the currency in order to finance the budget deficits of government.

Back when interest rates were market-driven, you could get 6-7% guaranteed returns on your savings and pensions could indeed be guaranteed. But in recent years, government policy has overruled the market, rewarding debt and punishing savings in the process.  We have spent the past two decades living beyond our means; encouraged to live on credit, to buy now and pay later. 

Welcome to later.  

You can blame it on wars, welfare, Democrats, Republicans, banksters, Congress, Bush, the other Bush, Obama, or the first Black President and you would be right.  You can also blame your parents and teachers for failing to explain the perils of debt, both public and personal.  And you can blame yourself; we all should have gotten involved sooner to stop this train wreck we have been warned about since 1964.            

But we are where we are.  In the short term, there are three ways to close the funding gap and avoid cutting pensions: a) force current employees to contribute more (fat chance), b) force the taxpayer to pay more (fatter chance), or c) invest in stocks and allow corporations to increase profits and generate higher returns.

You may think “allow” is an odd word choice, but obviously I don’t.  Ultimately, a corporate stock’s price and dividend are based upon its profitability, and profit is the amount of money left over after all expenses are paid.  When expenses are increased, profit is decreased, and vice versa. 

Taxes are an expense, energy cost is an expense, fees and permits are expenses, health care benefits are an expense, every mandate is an expense, compliance with regulations is an expense, reporting to the government is an expense, fighting frivolous lawsuits is an expense, union work rules add expense. 

All those things add cost and reduce profits in a business, and they have something important in common – they are imposed by government.  And not because the libertarian lobby demanded action in these areas, either.  

Our American socialists have fought long and hard to increase taxes on corporations and business owners, raise the minimum wage, ration energy and spike its cost, slather on mandates and permits without end, heap regulation on top of regulation, increase the amount of required reporting, and rig the rules for tort and union organizing against businesses big and small. 

Given the state of their own pension funds, they may want to rethink these positions.  

If government securities will return only 3%, then corporate investments must return 10, 12 or even 15% to bring the average returns up to the 7% needed to pay out their pension liabilities.  The YTD return on the S&P 500 is only 7.6%, so corporate profits must roughly double in order to rescue the public pension systems.       

Let this sink in for just a moment, govbots…your public pension is now dependent on corporate profits doubling and then increasing at 3-5 times the rate of inflation.  If you want to take that cruise or keep your Badger tickets or buy that new hybrid, you have to root for Team Greed. 

You are now the evil capitalist you have been shaking your fist at since the days before it had liver spots on it.  You are the third Koch Brother.  And now that it is your own income at risk, will you still advocate for policies that reduce corporate profit?  Or will you allow corporations and their shareholders – which would now include you - to keep more of what they earn? 

It is indeed a quandary, and I really do feel for those who are now dependent on something they have spent their lives opposing.  No one should be forced to accept tainted money – i.e. the shares of filthy corporate profits stolen from working families at the expense of the environment. 

So I propose a conscientious objector provision that allows any public pensioner to opt for a pension payout funded solely by the 3% interest paid on guaranteed government securities.  Naturally, that ideologically pure pension will be only 3/7 of the one you were expecting.  Suddenly, corporate profiteering doesn’t look so bad, eh comrade?  

The plain truth of the matter is that unbridled capitalism is the only economic system capable of creating wealth at the rate that is necessary to lift the developing world out of poverty while at the same time funding the lengthy retirements of workers in the developed world, including our public pensioners. 

That is why we libertarians defend free enterprise without reservation.  Liberating the American economy from its tax, regulatory, and governance burdens will benefit billionaires, it’s true; but it will benefit pensioners more.    


“Moment Of Clarity” is a weekly commentary by Libertarian writer and speaker Tim Nerenz, Ph.D.  Visit Tim’s website www.timnerenz.com to find your moment.

Not Fine

Did he really say “fine”?  The President of the United States, the leader of the free world, the CEO of the largest economy in the world described our private sector as “fine”?  Oh, dear.   

Unless the dictionary now defines fine as “not quite Greece yet”, I’m worried that our President may have just had a stroke, or maybe an acid flashback.  Or perhaps he has a girlfriend named Private Sector; maybe she is fine – that might explain it.  But the economy is not fine; and neither is the judgment of anybody who thinks it is. 

More Americans are not working than at any time in our nation’s history.  The rate of job creation is so bad it does not even keep up with population growth.  Over the past four years, the net worth of Americans has dropped by an astonishing 40%.  46 million Americans are on food stamps, and 26 million adults live with their parents.

Dude, that is not fine. 

Our national debt now exceeds our annual GDP and it would take a growth rate of 6% just to keep our heads above water at the rate government spending is growing.  GDP grew by a paltry 1.9% last year, while interest on the debt increased to $454 billion.  Our President can’t even get a single member of his own party to vote for his budget; that is how messed up his fiscal policy is.   

No es bueno, mi amigo.

Even Obama cheerleader and liberal economist Dr. Paul Krugman knows our economy is not fine; he recently called this mess we are in by its real name - depression - in a rare Austrian slip of a Keynesian forked tongue.  

But don’t be surprised if the government suddenly reports healthy growth in GDP over the months running up to the election; it might start to look fine on paper just to make the President look prescient.  GDP is like BLS jobs statistics - a slippery and fluid statistical concept that is not at all what you think. 

Nobody is running a calculator in Washington adding up everything we produce.  No, GDP is a bunch of computers with very complicated programs that estimate theoretical economic activity and then adjust and benchmark and bend and twist and perform all manner of digital voodoo to torture data until it confesses a number they like. 

GDP is a mysterious estimate of spending and everyone with a deadbeat family member knows that spending is not the same as producing.  All those nauseating ads that were run in Wisconsin for the recall election – they count toward GDP.  Ditto for the gas to bus people up from Illinois to vote in it.  The salary of the President’s speech writer who told him to say “fine” – more GDP.  

When President Obama’s 2009 stimulus gave union teachers and fire-fighters raises, it increased GDP.  When the banks loan money to each other and charge each other fees, GDP grows.  When the Fed’s member banks buy or sell treasuries, those fees are included in GDP, too. 

If Ben Bernanke wanted to give his boss a little boost before the November elections, he could just buy and sell U.S. treasuries back and forth to himself a million times and crank up GDP by the fees on the higher transaction volume.  There would be a whole lot of liberal politicians, academics, and media types that would buy it hook, line, and sinker.  And since the Fed’s member banks are not officially government, it would make the private sector look…dare we say it…fine.  Maybe that’s the plan.     

I don’t know why we count government spending in the GDP total anyway - it is like counting your kid’s allowance towards your household income.  All the money government spends is siphoned out of the private sector.  Every dollar was taken from someone who would have spent it (or invested it) somewhere else instead.  Government drains the economy; it does not add to it.  

If you lose your job, does increasing your kid’s allowance get you back to work sooner?  If you answered “no”, then congratulations - you are smarter than all those Senators and Congressmen who voted for President Obama’s Stimulus Bill in 2009. 

They are all still baffled that the economy did not get stimulated.  You and I are baffled too – baffled that they ever made it to Capitol Hill without knowing jack bo-diddly squat about how the economy actually works.  Most of them think government, the economy, and the American people are all the same thing.     

They are not; they are three different things.  The President has added 88,000 government jobs since taking office.  Every job added by government takes 1.5 jobs out of the private sector, according to a study conducted by the University of Paris.  Yes – Paris, France.  Even the French university commies know more about free enterprise than our President – how sad is that?         

GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product.  The word “product” implies something is produced, something of value.  In the real economy, growth happens when more is produced; when we become more productive. 

If you want to know why this President has not been able to pull the country out of the recession he inherited, just try to name a policy choice he has made that provides you – you personally - with an incentive to produce more of anything. 

Can you name one?   I didn’t think so.  And if all the people reading this column right now can’t think of one either, chances are pretty good there isn’t one.  We have just squandered four years indulging a President who is as ignorant about economics as he is hostile to liberty. 

Mr. Obama came into his one term hoping to be the most transformative President in U.S. History; he will leave his one term having transformed a deep recession into a prolonged deep recession.  He will be remembered as the golfing guy who buried us in debt while blaming his predecessor for everything – not exactly a Mt. Rushmore resume. 

But the important thing is that he will be gone.  And at least we will have the opportunity for our economy to become fine once again. 


 “Moment Of Clarity” is a weekly commentary by Libertarian writer and speaker Tim Nerenz, Ph.D.  Visit Tim’s website www.timnerenz.com to find your moment. 

Option Three

We used to recognize them by their entrenched contradictions; Republicans were the party of free enterprise and regulated morality while Democrats were the party of civil liberties and economic confiscation. 

Libertarians were also easy to identify – we took the best from each to form the party of free enterprise AND civil liberties.  Think of us as Option Three. 

Everyone loves freedom for themselves; it is the freedom we deny to others that defines our governing philosophy.  Conservatives want to be free to live their own lives while having the power to make you live them, too.  Liberals want to live their own lives while having the power to make you pay for it. 

Libertarians don’t want the power to force you to live someone else’s life or to pay for their choices; we want everyone to live their own lives and own the consequences.  The fact that this is seen as a radical and impractical idea tells us how far we gone off the rails in the land of the free and the home of the brave. 

Somewhere along the line, classic liberalism turned to authoritarian collectivism, its grand idealism becoming small and mean.  Securing the right to vote morphed into threatening citizens for not voting; eliminating segregated drinking fountains led to banning big cups of pop; solidarity with anti-war priests gave way to persecuting Catholic charities; equal access to the seats on a bus grew into an entitlement to free high-speed rail.       

And over time, traditional conservatism has been over-run by neo-conservatism and crony corporatism.  Moralists and militarists and government-loving power mongers gave us monstrosities like No Child Left Behind, TSA, the Patriot Act, NDAA, ethanol subsidies, TARP, and the fantasy that we could fight wars without paying for them.

The most significant difference between the two establishment parties these days is that there is an internal effort to reform the Republicans.  The term RINO – Republican In Name Only – is used pejoratively by GOP reformers when they are calling out those who have abandoned traditional conservative/constitutional principles. 

Alas, there is no such thing as a DINO and there is no classical liberal movement to purge the Democrat Party of unprincipled leaders.  Who is the liberal Ron Paul?  What is the Tea Party of the left?  What state is their Wisconsin?  The answers, unfortunately, are a) nobody, b) OWS, and c) Greece.  

Libertarians have always had a different idea than conservatives and liberals about how we should live together in a free society.  Our philosophy is quite simple: you live your life and I’ll live mine and we will leave government out of it.  There is a little more to freedom than that, but not much more. 

As long as the exercise of your freedom does not limit mine, it is not my place to tell you how to live your life.  And equally important, it is not your obligation to pay for the choices that I make as I go about living my own life.  When we live free of government control, there is no need to choose between a conservative or liberal vision of happiness at the polls; we each get to live our own lives, to be happy.  

An individual is a single indivisible being; there is no “majority” to rule in a self-sovereign. There is no “public good” in a nation of self-sovereigns, only public safety; a free people need just enough government to keep us safe and protect our rights, not a pinch more. 

Freedom is a transactional state.  In every choice and every act, you are either free to choose or you are not.  America was founded on the idea that citizens, not government, should make choices and own consequences.  The role of government in our lives was strictly limited to those few enumerated powers that make it as irrelevant and impotent as possible.   

Libertarians are not geniuses; we didn’t come up with all this liberty stuff on our own in 1970 at a meeting.  We read it in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; we copped the best ideas from Rand, Friedman, Hayek, von Mises, Bastiat, and others.  We comprehend economic history and we observe the world as it is. 

We watched the Utopians fail, the Fascists fail, the Marxists fail, the Keynesian’s fail, the Progressives fail, the New Deal turn into the New World Order, and the Great Society turn into Detroit.  We watched the powerful erase the separation of powers, and we watched their appetite for government bankrupt the nation, both economically and morally.   We did not root for the failure of government, but we have learned from it.     

When our founders declared that the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is a self-evident truth, an endowment from our Creator, they summed up the libertarian’s core belief quite nicely.  There is no moral authority for one of us, or even most of us acting in concert, to bind an equal; we are not God. 

All of us can identify tyranny when we are the ones forced to act against our own beliefs; few of us recognize tyranny when we impose our beliefs on others.  Fewer still comprehend the tyranny of silence – apathy in the face of each minor affront that goes unchallenged because it is someone else whose liberty is diminished.   

Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson describes us as economically conservative and socially tolerant.  I prefer the term “socially neutral”, as I think it more accurately depicts the difference between conservatives, liberals, and libertarians on social issues.  Everyone claims to be tolerant, and most everyone is. 

It is neutrality in the law that defines justice for the libertarian.  Silence on matters of personal morality, uniformity in the rules of commerce, strict recognition of individual self-sovereignty, and indifference to the contrived and trivial political divisions of race, gender, religion, and association.  Laws merely indemnify government employees when they commit official acts of tyranny for which ordinary citizens would be imprisoned – less of them (laws and employees) is better than more of them.   

Humans are not farm animals; we were not created to be herded and kept and milked.  And we are not lab rats to be studied and manipulated in some global social engineering project.  Each individual person is a unique being that will never be duplicated and can never be subjugated except by force.  Government is that force; that is why it must be strictly limited for a free people to live free.  

That is the American idea, the grand idea that libertarians cling to with unwavering conviction; a land where government is limited and liberty is not.  This is a country worth saving because that is an idea worth preserving.


“Moment Of Clarity” is a weekly commentary by Libertarian writer and speaker Tim Nerenz, Ph.D.  Visit Tim’s website www.timnerenz.com to find your moment.

Epic Fail

To paraphrase: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times…it was a waste of time.  Well, perhaps not a total waste of time; we did get to learn what democracy looks like with your eyes closed. 

The effort to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker ended with a dull thud tonight, putting the exclamation point on 18 months of angry futility and needless public expense inflicted on the Badger state by a self-absorbed liberal old guard too steeped in their socialist ideology to notice it had petrified.   

Lies, intimidation, libel, fraud, vandalism, police harassment, rule-rigging, and punitive job actions have been the hallmark of this recall effort from its inception on the day after Scott Walker was elected in 2010.  Imperial Madison does not take insurrection in its colonies lightly, and no low is too low when it comes to putting uppity rural minions in their place.  Tonight, we are minions no more.         

Democrats’ state Chair Mike Tate and official Spokesman Graeme Zeilinski are two gentlemen I have never met – don’t have an axe to grind, a bone to pick, or a score to settle with either one.  I know virtually nothing about them except their ages – they belong to the generation who gave us the apt phrase “epic fail” – and their track record.     

Since taking the helm in formerly blue-state Wisconsin in 2009, they have lost the governorship, the lieutenant governorship, the state assembly, the state senate, the U.S. Congressional majority, a U.S. Senate seat, the Supreme Court special election and recount, three significant court challenges, a summer recall of state Senators, and now the recalls of Governor Scott Walker, Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald.    

If tonight’s tweets are any indication, they still don’t know who they are up against.  They were defeated – again - by an organic coalition of the willing made up of pure-play GOP, renegade GOP, tea partiers, constitutionalists, conservatives, libertarians, capitalists, reformers, patriots, homeschoolers, gunners, sportsmen, free-traders, taxpayers, pro-lifers, religious advocates, Paulians, and values-voters.     

The strength of this growing liberty movement in Wisconsin was revealed at a 2009 tea party event at Milwaukee’s lakefront that drew 15,000 patriots, most of whom had never attended a political rally before.  The aforementioned Mr. Tate had this to say back then about all those nice folks who came out to take their country back:                  

"These are extremist elements pulling together, distinct vocal minorities that frankly don't believe in this country. They don't want to see more people have access to quality affordable health care; they don't want clean air and water. They fundamentally don't understand how the American government, economy and capitalism work."

Two things reflect badly on a person’s judgment and analytical skills – bad-mouthing the spouse you chose for yourself, and denigrating the opponent who delivered your worst beat-down.  The only thing Mr. Tate got right was the “pulling together” part.      

Membership in those “vocal minorities” so breezily dismissed by Madison’s elite liberal establishment has grown to more than twice the size of WEAC, the once-omnipotent teachers’ union.  And unlike teachers who are enrolled automatically as a condition of employment, Wisconsin’s independent patriot groups are made up entirely of volunteers.        

Libertarians and constitutionalists do not vote Republican because we like Republicans; we vote Republican when their candidate stands with us on more issues than the Democrat does - which is just about all of the time.  Would you expect a bunch of vegetarians to vote for a candidate from the Meat Party?              

The savvy investors at Democrat Party headquarters in Washington knew the score in Wisconsin early; with three weeks to go and less than 3% of likely voters still undecided, Walker was up 6 points over Barrett in a Marquette University poll.  67 of the 72 counties preferred Walker by double digits, and the 58 rural counties were polling 61-34% for Walker.  The spread was a bit overstated, since they only polled likely voters…from Wisconsin…living.  

With Democrats holding serve only in their three hardened bunkers – Milwaukee, Madison, and vanloads of grifters imported from Chicago - the DNC yanked their funding.  The lack of DNC money did not cause Barrett’s defeat; Barrett’s defeat caused the lack of DNC money.  When the guys who thought Solyndra and Volt were a sure bet don’t think you have a snowball’s chance in hell, you don’t have a snowball’s chance in two hells.  

A recall election is about what someone did, and what Walker, Kleefisch, and the legislature did in just one year was extraordinary.  Over a billion taxpayer dollars saved, a $3.6 billion budget deficit turned into a $425 million surplus without raising taxes, eliminating programs, or massive layoffs. Biggest single-year business climate improvement in history, 90% of employers now say we are headed in the right direction, employment up, unemployment down.  That’s in year one. 

There are 49 other governors in the United States; can you name one who did half as much in twice as long?  There’s your moment of clarity.  

Democrats - please don’t sulk.  You have no one to blame but yourselves; you were the ones who petitioned the state to grant you this premature butt-kicking.  You are on the wrong side of taxes, trains, trolleys, concealed carry, state sovereignty, voter ID, the mining bill, ObamaCare, high speed rail, collective bargaining, castle doctrine, economic development, and school choice.  You didn’t even try to win votes of the liberty coalition, so don’t bitch about not getting any. 

And Republicans - please don’t gloat.  You just won a shadow boxing match against a three-time loser who couldn’t even tell us why he was running.  Don’t assume that because voters rejected an ill-advised recall we will fall lock-step behind your entire agenda.  2014 is not that far off, so get to work expanding freedom, limiting government, and reforming our failing institutions if you expect another bite at the apple. 

And one more thing - don’t confuse broad support for fiscal responsibility with a mandate to impose a social agenda.  If you stick to fiscal matters and bind government by the Constitution you swore to uphold, you will be in the majority until the rapture.  Just leave us alone and we will take care of our families, our businesses, our schools, our churches, our charities, our communities, and our property.  You know the drill: fix a bridge, arrest a bad guy, and go lay by your dish.            

The recall is over, the people have spoken, and Walker won – again.  Recriminations are pointless; settling scores will not get this state back to work.  We are sick of the tantrums and tired of the drama; if “leave me alone to have a normal summer” was on the ballot, both Walker and Barrett would have been scraping for single digits.          

So let’s shall, Wisconsin – let’s have ourselves a normal summer.  The fraud, intimidation, lies, and insanity will descend upon us again soon enough this November when its time to trundle back to the polls and recall President Obama.  Let’s give it a rest until then.        
  

“Moment Of Clarity” is a weekly commentary by Libertarian writer and speaker Tim Nerenz, Ph.D.  Visit Tim’s website www.timnerenz.com to find your moment.