Teeing it up: A Round at the LINKs (Garage Sale Edition)

I love garage sales.  I love going to garage sales and I love having them.  The reason for my fondness of garage sales is because it gives me a glimpse of what a pure, unregulated free market looks like at least on a micro scale.  You have buyers and sellers, competitive pricing, the movement of goods and haggling.  It’s the free unregulated interaction between individuals selling goods and individual buying goods.  It’s a fluid environment where anything can happen.  Yesterday my wife and I spent the day as the seller and we experienced all the above dynamics.  This is how it once was in America; buyers and sellers interacting with each other with little or no regulation.  Bartering, haggling and moving goods from one set of hands to another.  These were the interactions that lifted people out of poverty and created the most successful economy the world had ever seen.  These are the interactions our government has been charged to ensure remain intact.  Instead the government has injected itself into the process, picking winners and losers by showing favor to certain industries while tearing down others with regulations. These actions have directly disrupted the interactions between buyers and sellers. We now have a market that is controlled and manipulated by central planners.

This is why we are struggling on the Macro level and why we will continue to struggle.  This is why the jobless claims will continue to remain high.  This is why America’s economic engine is sputtering along and why our growth is at a snail’s pace.  The central planners do not respect or appreciate this crucial interaction between buyers and sellers.  Nothing in their academic books teaches them about the human component in an economic system.  And this is why they fail.  Perhaps in the end the model of the garage sale environment should be the template we use to get us back to the free market.  It’s simple enough for everyone to understand and it’s real.  That’s my opinion for what it’s worth.  Now on to the links.

Below are some great articles from conservative bloggers.  These are the folks working at the grass root level to bring you the truth.  Please take a few moments out of your day to visit their sites and hit their tip jars if they have them.  They work hard for you so show them some love back.

A Conservative Teacher: Should President Obama be Blamed for Current Mess?

Ace of Spades: Matt Yglesias Confirms: The Economy Is Awful Under Obama

Adrienne’s Corner: Obama: Re-do health care?…

America’s Chronicle: Facebook Is a Reflection of The Economic Horizon

American Glob: Leftist Wisconsin Group Engages In Voter Intimidation

American Perspective: Slow Hot Wind – Tuesday Tunes

America’s Watchtower: GOP to drop Fast and Furious investigation for fear of Holder playing the race card?

ARRA News Service: Priest Upholds Religious Freedom; Opposes Socialism

Atlas Shrugs: Lawless Presidency: Obama’s secret kill list

Be Sure You’re RIGHT, Then Go Ahead: Sinking Into The Red

Blog de KingShamus: The May Jobs Numbers? They’re Fantastic!

Bread upon the Waters: Poland During WWII: Not What Obama Thinks

Breitbart: Nominee! Dems Circle Wagons For Embattled Warren

BUNKERVILLE: No one mentions Communist Dolores Huerta gets Medal of Freedom Award

Capitol Commentary: The Kalifornia 9/11 Plate: “We Remember” But Forgot to Tell You Your…

Catholibertarian: Alan Keyes – We need to be honest about the problems confronting America

Conservative Hideout 2.0: Daily Kos Denies Dependency, Is Crushed by Reality

Conservatives on Fire: Cost Cutting Republicans? Where Are They?

COMMON CENTS: Obama Economic Plan “Go buy a Thingamajig”

Doug Ross@Journal: All the President’s Leaks [Updated]

EYE OF POLYPHEMUS: Stargate SG-1–”Resurrection”

Fuzzy Logic: Top 5 Lies Leftists Believe About Conservatives: Number 2: Conservatives Hate the Poor

Freedom’s Lighthouse:.Rush Limbaugh Talks about Liberal Media’s Shock at the Unemployment Report

Hot Air: Oh my: Obama now below 50% against Romney — in California

Innominatus: Why I’m not on Twitter

J O S H U A P U N D I T: Clinton Smacks Obama: ‘Romney Had Sterling Business Career’

Laughing Conservative: Barack Obama’s Diary

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:  Dems need to learn: Ignoring it doesn’t make it go away

Libertarian Republican:  Just one view of the Jobs Report released Friday

Liberty At Stake: Family Business

Maggie’s Notebook: Don’t Vote For The Jew!

Manhattan Infidel: My Exclusive Interview with Levi Johnston

Mind Numbed Robot: How NOT to Write a Headline…

Moonbattery: Good for Them, Bad for Us

Motorcitytimes: Another Obama “Command and Control Economy” Failure

NoOneOfAnyImport: Midnight, Linda

NUKE’S: My Confederate Ancestors Were True ‘Freedom Fighters’

Pirate’s Cove: NY Times: Obama’s Pretty Much Blameless For Horrible Economic News

Political Clown Parade: Public Equity

Politics et al: Is Freedom Possible Without Virtue?

Political Realities: Economy Stll Bad, Obama Blames Bush

Proof Positive: The King Wants Your Big Gulp

Randy’s Roundtable: CNN Ratings Collapse

Right Klik: Liberal Twitter Thug Neal Rauhauser Plays Victim Card

Right Truth: RINOS Rule

Rjjrdq’s America II: DOJ Defends Voter Fraud In Florida

Say Anything Blog:  Shocker: AFL-CIO Names New Super PAC After Communist Newspaper

teresamerica: WI Police Officers & Pro-Union Thugs are Freaking Fascist Liberals

That Mr. G Guy’s Blog: Gun Control Freak Bloomberg Of NYC Not Satisfied…Wants Control Nationwide

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: REVENUES CAN INCREASE WITHOUT TAXES INCREASING…

The Bitter Americans: Gun Virgin: Christian Gun Toter

The Camp Of The Saints: The Righteous Rant Of The Day…

The Classic Liberal: Church, State, and Anarchism

The Country Thinker: Common Sense Libertarian Solutions for America

The Daley Gator: Hypocrisy overload in 3, 2, 1…..

The Libertarian Patriot: Target Practice Over Arizona – State Vies To Be Drone Test Site

The Lonely Conservative:  Alert Eric Holder! MA Dems Requiring Photo ID to Enter Convention

THE OTHER McCAIN: When Neal Rauhauser Complained About ‘Menacing’ and ‘Cyberstalking’

The Reaganite Republican:  Reaganite’s Sunday Funnies

THE rightscoop: Mark Levin caller insulted that Eric Holder would suggest black folks are too stupid…

The TexasFred Blog: It’s Political Season here in Texas

Theo Spark: Soda Jerk Michael Bloomberg Strikes Again (Nanny of the Month, May 2012)

Thomas Jefferson Club Blog: The Jewish Lobby Puppet

TOTUS: The Real War on Women: Unborn Female Babies

Virgina Right: THE PIRATES Are COMING to FRANCE! LA BELLE FRANCAISE NEEDS a LIBERTY PARTY!

WARD WORLD: Feds to Florida: halt non-citizen voter purge

What Would The Founders Think: Why is the Economy so Bad?

WESTERN HERO: The Ultimate War on Women

WyBlog: War on women: Democrats defeat ban on Chinese-style sex selective abortions

Zilla of the Resistance:  Violent Convicted Terrorist Bomber Given Million$ by Progressives Now Terrorizes Bloggers – Updated

Thanks for all the great articles.  Once again you guys are the heat.  Have a great week.

Liberty forever, FREE MARKETS for all!