Holly, this post is in answer to your question – who is Neal Boortz?
I’ll start by posting a portion of Boortz’s bio from his web site:
“For those of you who don’t know, Neal Boortz (that’s me) has been a Talk Show Host (What Bill Clinton would refer to as a “Preacher of Hate”) in Atlanta, Georgia since 1969. Since 1993 I have been holding forth on News Talk 750 WSB, a radio station with a 50,000 watt afterburner. Since early 1999 my show has been syndicated on radio stations from Maine to California and from Alaska to Florida. My program airs live from 8:30 to 1:00 pm each weekday. Right now I am closing in on four million listeners nationwide. Hey, that’s not up to Limbaugh standards, but then I’m growing faster than he is.”
And here is why Neal Boortz is important in my life –
“. . .Politics? I’m a confirmed Libertarian. I believe that the principal difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats just want to grow our Imperial Federal Government a bit faster than the Republicans do.”
Libertarian and minarchist – those are two labels that help define who I am. Boortz introduced me to libertarian thought and that led me to the concept of minarchism. Minarchists believe in the minimum possible amount of government.
I don’t want government to provide me with anything other than a strong national defense on the federal level and some minimal domestic police forces at the state and local levels. In my mind, everything else that other tolerate from government is bunk. I consider the current tax system we live under nothing more than organized theft.
Boortz has been a strong influence helping me reach the conclusions that shape the type of human being I am, and the type of human being I strive to be. Government teaches us that we cannot do anything well without government. Boortz helps me to confirm over and over again that the opposite is usually true – most things go better without government.
Neal Boortz showed me that government oversight of any project is an almost sure fire recipe for cost overruns and massive delays in completion. I work in the construction industry, where either of those two ingredients is a sure recipe for bankruptcy. Our government doesn’t have any need to be fiscally responsible though and Boortz has spent the last few decades trying to change that.
Boortz just finished writing a book about the Fair Tax plan, which is a good start in changing the level of fiscal responsibility we citizens demand from our federal government.
We all need heros and role models. Neal Boortz is one of my heros. He’s one of my role models and he’s also a very funny man. His radio show is great, and I read his Nealz Nuze religiously. A lot of my blog entries are based on something he posts to his site. This is not to say we don’t disagree on some points, because we do. But I don’t have a daily audience of 4 million. Boortz does, so he’s obviously got things to say that resonate with people.