Hi. My name is Matt and I am from Illinois. I heard about freekeene from Free Talk Live. Wayne from Free Talk Live suggested I post here to the forum. I plan on coming up for Porcfest next week and I plan on arriving there on the 18th, two days before Porcfest begins. I already paid for my campsite, but it was suggested that I might want to spend some time in Keene before Porcfest starts. I would forego camping in order to visit. I would love to move to New Hampshire for the Free State Project, but I do need a job before I move there. Any help or suggestions or networking would be appreciated. Thanks.
where in IL?
Are you the Matt who calls into FTL now and then?
I'm from Addison, on the western border of Chicago. Yes, I am that Matt that calls FTL quite often.
Cool. I like your calls.
Thanks.
Nice to meet you man.
Hey there Matt. I am originally from Moline, IL. I've been back from time to time but Illinois is a very statist place, I don't know if I could live there again. I was working in Chicago once and the sales tax they said was the highest in the country. A woman from around the Palatine area where I was working said her town/city was going to vote on seceding from Cook county because the taxes are so high.
It makes sense to me now why the framers support big government, I didn't use to get it, but obviously their whole industry is propped up by subsidies, tarrifs, etc. Isn't there a tarrif on sugar imports that bolsters HFCS and therefore corn prices? And I believe there are laws requiring ethanol in gasoline that makes it more profitable to grow corn as well.
Once when I was in Chicago the media was talking about how the city was thinking about having the governor (blaggo!) send national guard troops to walk the streets because of all the gun violence. This in the city that banned guns. Maybe if they allowed people to posses guns to defend themselves with they wouldn't have had that problem!
If New Hampshire is the Live Free or Die state, Illinois must be the Submit and Grovel state!
@Mackler; Just curious, what do you like about my calls? I've been interviewed on other radio shows and I had my own, but it only lasted one show. I've wondered why I haven't been able to keep a radio gig.
@Tantoddl; nice to meet you too
@voluntary Gary; You were quite far west, almost in Iowa. I imagine you didn't get nearly the brunt of statism that we get this close to Chicago. At least guns should be accepted out there as a tool of self defense and a necessity on the farm. I had a room mate when I went to the University of Illinois from Moline, back in 1980. I don't know about the framers being big government. I assume you mean the framers of the Constitution. They did what they could for the times they lived in. I don't think even Alexander Hamilton, who I consider one of the most outspoken advocates of big government, would approve of what's happened to this nation. Yes, the gun bans in Chicago are terrible. I think that the flash mob phenomenon going on in the city can be attributed to the lack of guns being carried by ordinary people. There is a tariff on sugar and it does in effect subsidize corn producers. It has also be shown that corn syrup is much worse for people than sugar ever was. Imagine that. It has also been shown that increasing the demand for ethanol actually harms the environment more than helps it. Another example of unintended consequences and more reason the markets should be left alone to freely choose which products and services will succeed and which will fail. I don't know what any of this has to do with my original post, but it is an interesting conversation. I hope to be moving out of Illinois soon and joining everyone in the freer state of New Hampshire. My children and grandchildren are here and moving to New Hampshire will mean seeing them much less than I do now, but I've been to Porcfest last year and the Liberty Forum in 2009 and I've never felt more at home than I have when around the liberty community out there. I can only pray that after I move out there my kids will come to visit and feel that way also.
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@Mackler; Just curious, what do you like about my calls? I've been interviewed on other radio shows and I had my own, but it only lasted one show. I've wondered why I haven't been able to keep a radio gig.
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Hard to say in particular. I guess you just make sense and are entertaining, and you don't mumble or say "um" and you make a valid point without going off on tangents. If I'm not mistaken you used to call in to FTL a lot years ago, and then you stopped for a while, and more recently you started calling in again (or maybe I stopped listening to FTL for a while). In any event, I just know when I hear Ian say, "next let's go to Matt in Illinois" I start paying a little more attention to the show.
Maybe after you move you can get a spot as a guest host.
@Mackler, That was very interesting and helpful information. Thank you. Maybe Ian will let me on the third mike at Porcfest for an hour or so.
Welcome. I hear that finding jobs is easier when you are in NH. You should have savings to live on before you make the move. Don't forget to drop into the jobs subforum for some useful job links.
Once again, had a blast at Porcfest. Can hardly wait for the videos to go up.
I think I found out where to buy online crack.