lilly-mouse:

This is my rescued nine week old Boston Terrier Opie. He was 2 weeks old when a child opened his eyes too early which caused him to get ulcers and lead him to become blind. For any of you who have met him, you know he is the cuddliest, swetest love bug in the world. 

Opie is my 2 year old French bulldogs best friend. He follows Rocco by the jingle of his ID tags to get around our house.  Before we brough Opie into our home Rocco was showing slight signs of agrresion. Every time our cat would come around his food bowl, he would run from accross the room to get him away form it. Since Opie has been here Rocco hasn’t had a care in the world, he is intently focused on Opie. I’ve never seen this side of Rocco, being so sweet. 

Opie will need a complete eye removal surgery (Enucleation). When we rescued him we were told the eyes would be fine and were not painful but he would remain blind. Luckily we have learned more about his condition and found out he is in a ton of pain. We never would have known because this puppy is so so so happy. 

Enucleation will cost $500+ vet care after. Right now my family does not have a way to pay for this surgery. We are doing everything possible to raise this money. I have made a paypal donate account just for Opies care through all of this. I don’t expect anything but if you could share Opies story maybe we can make him more comfortable. 

I will be updating on Opie on my page daily. He really is a little miracle and I’m so excited for him to feel better, thank you. 

If you can’t help out financially, I would love it if you could reblog this so more people can see it and try to help Opie out! Much love! Thank you <3 

Please donate if you can, It will be greatly appreciated. 

evilteabagger:

neusdadt:

evilteabagger:

If you guys haven’t liked ‘Exposing Progressive Corporatism’ on facebook yet you definitely should. They’ve got some pretty great content. 

1.) Not all individual actors in the market act rationally (which is supposed to be the assumption of the free market logic).

2.) No, we don’t distrust ALL people. We distrust SOME people, like the capitalists who exploits everyone else.

3.) Free markets have failed over and over again.

1. That is absolutely NOT what free market logic assumes. Before you make assumptions that are literally opposite of reality maybe you should read a book regarding the actual philosophy. Ludwig von Mises’ book Human Action explains exactly how humans make irrational decisions all the time and that markets do not assume perfect decision making. Mises argued that people act, whether that is to sit down in a chair, buy a loaf of bread, drive to the movies, or anything, based on individual desires and wants that could not possibly be predicted by central planning. Humans act to better themselves. They go about achieving these ends by making any number of subsequent actions. In no way do proponents of free markets feel that humans are perfect decision makers. Humans err and it is necessary to err in order to learn from mistakes. Life is a series of risk and reward scenarios. People take risks to benefit from the rewards. French economist Frederic Bastiat states it as follows: ‘Society is composed of men, and every man is a free agent.  Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer.  I go further:  He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error.”
2. Going from the 1st point, Capitalists understand that humans err. Humans are not perfect and we never claimed that they were. That is why we are hostile to the notion of putting some humans in charge of others. If human nature is so awful why are you comfortable giving humans so much power of the rest? I’ll quote Bastiat again: “If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?” 
3. Free markets have never existed. All the failures of markets have been the direct result of government intervention.

I encourage you to open a book and actually read the philosophy of classical liberal thinkers. Frederic Bastiat, Ludwig von Mises, John Stuart Mill, Murray Rothbard and F.A. Hayek are all great starting points. Note, not one of them ever said that humans are perfectly rational or free from folly. They understand that humans natural tendencies are to pursue their own self interest and that is where the market place and trade emerge organically to benefit our fellow man.

hipsterlibertarian:

This is politics.