Masters of Puppets
Post Published: 11 January 2010I have been wondering about the real motivations of the Democrats for a while now. They have a party with tons of viable, well-known, long-time party loyalists perfectly capable of running for President. But – they chose an unknown, not even one term Senator. Obviously, their choice was successful, but I also suspect, given the media-driven hatred of George Bush, and the eight-year “burn-out” factor, that any major candidate from the opposition party would have won.
So why Barack Obama ?
The obvious answer: Obama is an extremely smooth, well-spoken, popular and attractive candidate. They realized that the voting public was highly uninformed with a millisecond attention span and would easily become enamored with sound bites of “change”. It is the same tactic that has won junior high school elections for a hundred years.
The real answer: The extremists running the party wanted an inexperienced lap-dog that would generate strong public support for his personal attributes to deflect the inevitable public criticism that would follow once the public learned the truth about the goals and ambitions of the real Democrat Party.
What I have always been curious about is the fact that 90% of African-Americans vote Democrat. This is strange on many levels, because the Democrats have never solved any of the problems that many African-Americans face, including poverty, drugs, and bad schools. Instead of voting for actual change, it seems that they vote for the “same” over and over again.
It is also strange that the rich white men who run the Democrat Party are often the individuals who display the most racist behavior.
Senator Robert Byrd (D-Virginia): Voted “Exalted Cyclops” of the Klu Klux Klan. He also wrote the following:
“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side… Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Robert_Byrd
Vice-President Joe Biden: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
Hairy Reed: “Described in private then Sen. Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100109/ap_on_el_se/us_obama_reid
Bill Clinton to Ted Kennedy about Obama: “A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”
Source: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0110/Teddys_anger.html
Obviously not all Democrats are racist…there are racists everywhere. There have already been 1,000’s of blogs on the topic of racism in both parties; this blog is not about racism. The reason for these examples is to make the point that the extremely rich white men who are actually running the Democrat Party, while they may enjoy having Obama as an icon, they do not truly respect him as a person. He is being used as a popular populist puppet to further their extremely radical goals – and he will be made the scapegoat when their ideas fail…both in actuality and in public opinion. They will push him in one direction behind the scenes, and then run away from him in a b-line to the nearest camera to claim their “moderateness” and “bi-partisan” approach just needs some more time and some additional funding to yield results.
The only reason to select such an inexperienced candidate with no private sector background was so they could more easily drive the agenda. When you take a person with very little historical substance, no records or documentable history of achievement, and no core values – except those gleaned from Chicago Chicanery – you have the classic example of a Manchurian Candidate who is programmed to assassinate traditional American values, while projecting a smooth calming-of-the- masses confidence that enables his “handlers” to re-make the country.
The scary part: Whether there is an R or a D behind the President’s name, I suspect these “puppeteers” and “handlers” are the very same people.
On a similar note: I can also predict, with near certainty, that had a Republican said anything like what Hairy Reed said, he would have immediately packed his bags, turned in his keys, and moved back to his parent’s basement to live the rest of his miserable life in shameful solitude. The networks would have even dared interrupt Oprah in order to air a “breaking news special report”, plastered the remarks 24/7 on all their affiliated channels, and Congress would already be convening special meetings to draw up censure papers by 8:00am Monday morning. I shall enjoy watching the Democrat spin machine kick into full gear for the next few days to defend dear Hairy…that is, if they even bother to air the story at all…
Stimuless
Post Published: 08 January 2010New unemployment numbers out today show the economy is still shedding jobs…another 85k lost in December. Every month another story comes out that shocks, surprises, and stuns “experts” who keep predicting job gains are right around the corner.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100108/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_economy
What I find interesting is that the AP news writer totally missed the point of her own story. She writes:
“The economy is in a rough situation,” Labor Secretary Hilda Solis acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press. She said she thinks companies are reluctant to ramp up hiring because they’re waiting to see what new stimulative steps the government might take to provide relief.”
And in a later paragraph:
“But the economy will need to grow faster than that to bring down the unemployment rate. And economists worry that much of the recovery stems from temporary factors, such as government stimulus efforts and businesses rebuilding inventories.”
The ridiculous Labor Secretary – a true believer – thinks businesses are anxiously awaiting for Lord Obama to send them money from the sky before they will hire new workers. She truly believes the private sector is waiting around for Team Obama’s stimulus money to magically appear in their bank account before they take any action to restore the health of their businesses…or in her cryptic words, “provide relief”…what the heck does that even mean?? Team Obama is high on rhetoric and low on substance; every one of them, across-the-board.
The economists (unnamed, of course…fancy friends of the mystical unicorn perhaps?) know that the temporary effects of the stimulus program are only “temporary.” Whatever results are being generated by the stimulus program are NOT WORKING. Taking money from one sector of the economy and moving it to another is not stimulative. Borrowing to pay for this folly is not stimulative. Paying interest on trillions of dollars is not stimulative.
Worse yet, another story documents how billions of dollars are being tagged to zip codes that don’t even exist.
Source: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=121142
In an excerpt for that article:
“An additional $375 million in grants, loans and government contracts was credited with job creation and sent to zip codes that don’t exist, according to Kansas Watchdog. The site also reports the funds created more than 400 jobs at a cost of about $800,000 each.”
The stimulus money created jobs at $800k each…not a very good return on investment. That totals (800,000 x 400 = 320,000,000) 320 Million dollars spent for 400 jobs. That money could have provided 4,000 jobs at $80k per year.
Another example: http://blogs.investors.com/capitalhill/index.php/home/35-politics/1136-obamas-green-jobs-program-135294-per-job
What is my point? GOVERNMENT WASTE.
These jokers can’t run ANYTHING. Cash for Clunkers, stimulus, bailouts, TARP…all huge wastes of money. But…we all know Team Obama will do such a GREAT job with health care. (Wink, wink) What could go wrong? They were “just practicing” with the first couple of Trillion dollars. Now they are stretched out and warmed up and ready to spend the next 13 or 14 Trillion. Seriously…what could go wrong?
Here is an interesting video that you should watch.
PS – These are actual economists from the CATO Institute (not magical unicorn people).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mKE16Exh9k&feature=player_embedded
The 7 Liberal Sins
Post Published: 30 December 2009The downfall of an individual usually coincides with one or a combination of the Seven Deadly Sins: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride. It is my contention that these same sins, when perpetrated by its leaders, can bring down a nation. The current administration along with the Democrat controlled Congress and Senate, and a crash of wooly RINO’s compromises Team Obama. Team Obama has exhibited not one or two of these sins: They have demonstrated all seven.
Lust: A strong inclination, intense longing, or craving.
Team Obama’s intense desire to accumulate government control has surpassed the level of lust. They lust for the voting power they receive by promising nirvana to those who subsist only by taking from others. They intensely long for and crave this power so much that even when poll after poll suggests that the American public is solidly against their stimulus, bail-out, and health care programs, Team Obama does not care…even to the point that they know that they will lose their majority in the 2010 elections, but proceed anyway. Their lust for power is so great, that even with the imminent threat of losing their power; they still succumb to their desire for more power. It is as if this power lust has become a drug to which they cannot overcome their addiction.
Gluttony: Over-indulgence and over-consumption to the point of waste.
This sin defines Team Obama more than any other. They have spent so much money, that in order to continue to fund their addiction, they have to borrow and borrow, and therefore, raise the debt ceiling ad infinitum. The entire country recognizes their stimulus program to be a fraud and a failure; save for a few far left labor unions in Chicago. This fiscal gluttony is the most dangerous and contemptible undertaking by any democratic government in the history of the world.
Greed: An inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs or deserves.
While the left attempts to define the financial meltdown as a result of greed on the part of millions of undefined boogeymen, the very definition of greed is displayed by Team Obama’s takeover of private institutions in an attempt to institute socialism. They desire to acquire control of banks, car companies, and the entire health care system. This punitive greed for increased taxation on medicine, the carbon hoax, and even death will destroy the very economic engine that fuels their excessive desires.
Sloth: A disinclination to action or labor.
Much of Team Obama’s platform is to take from one group (producers) and give to other groups (non-producers). By encouraging such action, they are encouraging sloth. During the election, a video emerged that showed Obama supporters fully expected Team Obama to provide for their supporters’ rent, vehicles, fuel, and educations. When the entirety of politician’s platform consists of, “I will give out more free stuff than the other guy,” their entire message is composed of and corrupted by sloth.
Wrath: Strong vengeful anger or indignation; retributory punishment for an offense.
By disallowing any Republican involvement or ideas in crafting the health care takeover, Team Obama was displaying a retributory punishment. Obama himself has made statements similar to, “Why would we allow those who created the problems to help solve the problems,” as if his own party, in control of congress since 2006, had nothing to do with the financial meltdown. From 1954 to 1994, the Democrats ran the country continuously for 40 years, and never solved poverty, crime, or health care. When foolishly blaming the Republicans for singularly creating all of the country’s problems, Obama displayed childish wrath. While a true leader would recognize that both parties share blame for the country’s woes, and would offer, even occasionally, non-partisan solutions, Team Obama seems completely devoid of any ideas that do not involve massive government intervention.
Envy: A painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another.
Team Obama has displayed envy on two fronts. During the campaign, when asked by Joe the Plumber about wealth redistribution, Obama stated the following: “…and I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” This is a pure example of Obama’s deeply ingrained ideology that his mission in life is to spread money around more equitably – equitably as defined by Obama. He clearly resents the fact that some people have more than others. Other folks who resented that fact include Mao, Lenin, and Marx.
On the second front, the Democrats truly envy Old Europe’s socialized health care system. They typically overlook the rationing, low quality, and long wait times, and overtly focus only on the universal availability. They clearly envy the mediocrity, staleness, rationed health care, and low productivity of old European economies. At their core, what they most mouth-wateringly envy is the excessive governmental involvement and governmental control of these systems.
Pride: The excessive love of one’s own excellence; having an overly high opinion of one’s self.
The entire leftist/progressive movement shares responsibility for this sin. By placing an almost god-like status onto then candidate Obama (which earned him the nickname “The Messiah”), the left set an impossibly high standard of performance for President Obama. Team Obama was complicit in setting the bar so high by portraying anything they offered – in terms of policy – as the salvation; as the one and only true answer. These hard-core partisans are so overly sure of themselves that they fail to consider any other logic. Cases in point: When Team Obama stated unequivocally that their stimulus program would ensure that the unemployment rate would never exceed 8%. When Team Obama declared the surge in Iraq to be a failure. When Team Obama declared they could cut $500 billion out of Medicare. When Obama himself declared he could bring about world peace by simply sitting down and talking with our enemies. What could possibly display more excessive pride than claiming that the mere presence of one’s self during a negotiation could end centuries old religious disputes?
Usually, the seven deadly sins are used in the context of personal destruction. But by invoking each and every one of the seven deadly sins, the current leaders of our great nation may bring about its demise. The country is in deep trouble with this massive debt, and the only answers Team Obama puts forth involve increasing the debt. Gluttony fed by gluttony. Envy driven by sloth. Greed fueled by partisan lust. Solutions blinded by wrath and pride. This ideological fervor of the extreme far-left is leading us on a path of short-term “fixes” that only create bigger problems in the future.
Our financial system recently had a heart arrhythmia. Much like a belly full of cookie dough ice cream makes us feel good for a while, eating it over and over in excess leads to future health problems. When what is needed most is self discipline, exercise, and a diet… Team Obama’s only solutions consist of government subsidized ice cream. It is time for a fiscal diet – before a truly fatal, if not already imminent, financial infarction occurs.
Taking
Post Published: 25 December 2009As we close out 2009, I look back at the year that cost Americans more money and freedom than any I can remember. The current government has spent more money than any government in the history of the world. Sure, there are those that will argue that it was necessary to avert ‘catastrophe’…to which I call B.S. – we have catastrophe anyway. The stimulus is a failure. Unemployment is at record levels. The banks won’t lend money. And now health care is on the precipice of government control.
2009 was a disaster.
The Democrat Party has shown their true colors. They are not out to help the little guy, the disadvantaged, or the down-trodden. They exist only to increase their own power. What you must understand is one simple truth: The government produces nothing; the government only takes. In order for the government to GIVE something, it first must take something. In order for the government to give stimulus money to a company that builds greener golf carts, it must first take tax dollars from you and from me. In order for Obama to give money to ACORN, he must first take money from you and from me. This is the part Liberals have the most trouble explaining, and why they always try to demonize those who actually pay taxes as “the rich”.
The government does not have the ability to “create” money out of thin air. (Well, they do print money, and borrow from the Chinese…but that is a whole different blog). When the masses clamor for roads, and bridges, and parks, and schools they are ‘agreeing’ in a sense, to spend their money. In this respect, government is the ‘trustee’ of the public bank account. The citizenry elects these trustees every couple of years to safeguard this account.
Think about the following scenario: Phil is in the military and headed to Iraq for a year. Since Phil is to be out of the country, he deposited $15,000.00 into a trust fund and asked his Uncle – Sam – to distribute this money and take care of Phil’s affairs in his absence. Phil gave Sam the power to write checks to pay his monthly expenses, such as his mortgage and car payments. The $15,000.00 should be more than enough to cover Phil’s expenses for the year. When Phil returned, he found the account $30,000.00 over-drawn, and that he actually owed that $30k to local Chinese gangs who loaned Sam the money via direct deposit into his account.
Upon further investigation, Phil also learned that Sam never paid his mortgage or his car payment, and that both were repossessed. Phil found that Sam spent his $15k plus the $30k he borrowed in Phil’s name to fund a children’s orphanage in Sudan, pay for mosquito nets for children in Mozambique, and help pay the mortgages for illegal aliens who lost their jobs in Las Vegas. Sam also donated money to ACORN, SEIU labor union, and a research project to study the smoot fish in Central California.
What should be done with Sam?
Sam’s heart is in the right place; he just wants to solve the world’s problems. Sam cares about people soooooo much. Sam loves to help the less fortunate. Sam is a giver. Sam gives and gives and gives of himself – his time, his ideas, his leadership, his money. Well, except that last one. It wasn’t really Sam’s money to give away. Just because Sam felt he was doing the right thing, and improving the condition of mankind, does not mean it was okay for him to not only spend all of Phil’s money, but to also take out a fraudulent loan in Phil’s name.
If you take money from one person, and hand it to another person, that does not equal nobility…it means you are a thief. When stealing from the rich, to give to the poor – a la Robin Hood – since we were all taught that Robin Hood was the good guy…the message was that it is somehow okay to steal from others, depending upon their level of wealth, as if all wealthy people somehow acquired their wealth in some evil or illegal manner. The Democrat Party is the chief purveyor of this myth, and quite ironically, is largely staffed by multi-millionaire Senators, Congressmen, and Hollywood icons.
Inside Sam’s mind, he was justly improving the world. Inside Phil’s mind, Sam is a thief who had no logical, moral, or ethical foundation to steal from Phil. Politicians have always considered themselves to be smarter and more important than those they represent. Right now, we have too many Sam’s stealing too much money. I pray 2010 is the year the Phil’s return to power.
Cousin Duh
Post Published: 19 December 2009It looks like Hairy Reed has finally purchased (with YOUR money, not his) enough Senators to support his Health Care Reform package. Since nobody actually knows what is in this bill – even and especially those who support it – I can only wait and see what it looks like; AFTER it is voted into law. So much for Obama’s campaign promise about open government. The Obama administration has been more secretive about their operations than Tiger Wood’s caddy.
The Democrat majority rammed through the stimulus spending before anybody could read it, and now Hairy is proposing votes on Christmas Eve – all in an effort to ramrod health care through the legislative process before anybody knows what is happening. To the left, hairy looks like a savior crusading tirelessly for his cause. To me, he just looks like a petty dictator forcing his unpopular agenda on a populace that is solidly against his politics – even in Nevada. Poll after poll shows the country is AGAINST the Democrat plan. Maybe, just maybe, if he would show his plan, and explain his plan in detail, some folks might support him. The problem with ANY politician saying, “Trust me, brothers, and I will do what is best” is that the definition of “best” varies. Hairy, oh Hairy, step from the darkness and into the light !!
http://www.gallup.com/poll/124715/Majority-Americans-Not-Backing-Healthcare-Bill.aspx
Speaking of the stimulus spending, it looks like even that has been politicized. A couple of stories are out showing that the money that has been spent was disproportionally allocated to Democrat controlled districts. In other words, Team Obama is using YOUR money to buy votes and influence for their agenda. It also shows that most of the money is going into the public sector, rather than the private sector where jobs are created. No wonder the stimulus is not working…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119441
http://mercatus.org/publication/stimulusfacts
And finally, the Chinese are starting to get nervous about how much money we owe them. In a comment by Zhu Min, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China: “…it was inevitable that the dollar would continue to fall in value because Washington continued to issue more Treasuries to finance its deficit spending.” His cousin, DUH, declined comment.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/print.asp?id=423054
Follow The Money
Post Published: 14 December 2009In one of my recent blogs, I conclusively tied the Global-Warming hoax to the New World Order movement. These carbon trading schemes, i.e. “Cap-n-Trade” are simply a way of taxing every country in the world in order to line the pockets of the already ultra-rich. Remember: They invented the hoax, funded the hoax, advertized and marketed the hoax, and are getting ready to sell and profit from the hoax. Substitute the word “product” in place of the word “hoax” and you have the perfect example of a Marketing Mix. Imagine, being able to sell the air we can’t see, but depend upon for life to exist.
Now we have heard that many of the poorest nations on Earth have recently walked out of the Copenhagen Summit. The MSM will tell you the talks broke down due to the fact that “These poorer nations are simply refusing to cooperate.” More spoon fed garbage from the copy-n-paste news media.
If the news media actually did some reporting, rather than only writing stories that advance their globalist agenda (remember who owns most of the news organizations – extremely rich Liberals) you might actually find out the reason the poor countries are “refusing to cooperate.”
Follow the money trail with me:
What is the “goal” of Kyoto and Copenhagen? To lower emissions of C02 you might say? WRONG. It is to get all the countries of the world to put money into a huge bank account controlled by…you guessed it – The United Nations, The World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. The “rich” countries are supposed to pledge billions of dollars to “help the world implement green technology”…or, in other words, create huge new taxing schemes to siphon-off money. Raise your hands…who thinks the U.N., World Bank, and IMF are reliable, honest administrators of international funds? Anyone…anyone…?
These International Treaties decide who pays what, how much, and when. For example, Sweden will say, “We would like to pledge $5 Million dollars.” Then all the Swedish politicians pat each other on the back, and head out to play golf and eat fancy cheeses, and praise each other for helping save the planet. Did they actually do or accomplish anything? Nope.
They also decide how much other countries MUST pledge…even poor countries who don’t add much C02. When these countries are unable to “pay their part of the accord”…the IMF then lends them money, at high interest rates, in order for them to pay. The term is “Climate Financing” and once the 3rd World countries found out the large percentages they would be responsible for, they all walked out.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/08/copenhagen-climate-summit-disarray-danish-text
If these politicians truly believed that C02 was destroying the planet, would they be chartering private jets to fly around the world, driving limos, and catering these huge meetings? Would Algore’s house guzzle 20 times more energy than the average house? Would hysterical Price Charles tell his countrymen to abandon their cars while he drives around a gas-guzzling Aston Martin?
The fact is, 99.99% of these climate profiteers do not practice what they preach. It is simply a way to scare the uneducated into handing over money to those who would profit from these carbon trading schemes.
I am all for “green” energy and “green” technology…as long as it can compete in the marketplace without adding taxation to an already over-taxed system. If you want to put up solar panels and windmills on your home or business – go for it. If you want to drive a Prius and eat organic foods – great…I am pro-Freedom. However, if you want to impose your “belief system” – in the form of additional taxation based on incomplete, modified, and “tricked” science – now we have a problem.
Watch this AP video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erZObhMMEgw&feature=player_embedded
Notice how they use the term “help” instead of loan…
Notice how they don’t differentiate between “pollution” and “climate change”…
Notice how they portray George Soros as just a nice guy trying to help the poor…
Notice how they show some icicles melting as a subliminal message…
This is another example of the MSM pushing their agenda rather than reporting news. It is so sophomoric in presentation and so obvious that this was simple propaganda, but unfortunately, I suspect most people would have simply digested it as “news” and went about their day…and that is the saddest part of all.
Time for a Third Party ?
Post Published: 11 December 2009A while back, I wrote about potential third party platforms emerging from the divergence of the Republican Party that resulted in the losses of the 2008 elections.
I personally have been struggling with this issue since before the National Republicans nominated John McCain, but when that happened, I lost all hope. The Republican Party lost its way under George Bush, all but completely shunning the limited government platform of its most successful modern-era politician, and founder of the Conservative movement, Ronald Reagan. Instead of following Reagan’s principles, these RINO’s abandoned his platform in favor of a watered-down, pandering, democrat-lite, socialist, big government, big spending, bloated bureaucracy that was handing out and printing money faster than the Chinese could lend it.
The voters, unable to distinguish Obama’s message from McCain’s message, voted for “change”…a very common thing to do after one party holds the Executive Branch for 8 years. The media, having incorrectly labeled George Bush as a conservative, corralled McCain into either being Bush’s lackey, or an Obama wannabe. McCain spent years trashing Conservatism, cozying up to the left, and then tried to position himself as Reagan’s ideological step-child…and no one bought it.
True Conservatism does not disenfranchise anyone. It simply wants government to stick to its Constitutionally granted powers. Since so many Americans have come to depend on the Government for their subsistence, it is far too easy for the Left to convince the uneducated, uninformed, and unmotivated that the Conservatives who want to eliminate wasteful government activity are coming to take away their livelihood. Since there is no “Great Communicator”, the Conservative message is most often defined by the Left Wing or angry RINO’s who will lose their power if Conservatism succeeds.
One third party political group that has some interesting ideas is the Conservative Party. From their website www.conservativepartyusa.org
“Mission Statement:
‘The Conservative Party USA’s mission is to promote and protect individual rights and freedoms as set forth in the United States Constitution, and to limit the scope of government to the authority set forth therein. Our efforts will be focused on building and leading opposition to intrusive government agencies and policies at all levels (federal/state/local); promoting initiatives and ideas that address issues via the private sector; and supporting candidates that understand the primary purpose of government is to protect its citizens from foreign threats, not the individual from himself’.'”
If you look under the tab “Creed and Principals” it says nothing about anyone’s race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation. Conservatives DON’T CARE about those labels and never have. If you are an American, you are to be afforded the same rights as any other American…no more and no less. The new term being used is “I-Cons” for Independent Conservatives – a term I can definitely relate to.
The next wave of political discourse within the Republican Party will be to decide the Party Platform’s for the future. Before the next election, the Republicans need to define a solid message with concrete ideas that voters can use to differentiate between the two parties. The fate of the Republican Party will be decided by the messages chosen, and they are running out of time…
As I see it, the Republicans have two choices. 1.) Move to the left, closer to the Democrats, and pander to every “label” that people place upon themselves. 2.) Treat every person as an American, and put into place Constitution-based policies that treat everyone equally and move the country forward as a whole, with an emphasis on creating private-sector jobs.
This reorganization process will be very interesting to observe. The wrong decisions could send some members to third parties, and others to the left. Personally, I would be in favor of having more than two viable choices. I am an American and I like having many choices as both a consumer and a voter.
Many of my very conservative Republican friends favor re-taking the party rather than building a 3rd party. The recent Gallup Poll that showed 40% of Americans defining themselves as ‘Conservative’ vs. 36% ‘Independent’ vs. 20% ‘Liberal’ tells me that there may never be a better time than right now to challenge the Two-Party System that has systematically ruined this country. A Conservative party would only need about 1/3 of the Independent voters to vote with them, and they would have a majority. The recent election in New York, in which a totally unknown, very poor candidate almost won running on the Conservative Party platform may be an indicator of what is to come. Had the election committee properly removed the Republican candidate, who dropped out of the election, from the ballots, the Conservative candidate would have beaten both the Democrat and the Republican…in deep blue New York state.
I suppose I will continue to struggle with this issue. Until a true leader with vision, courage, and a true disdain for government emerges, there is nothing in the Republican Party for me. If a Democrat proposes a 15% tax on something, and the Republican says NO taxes, but then agrees to 7.5% behind closed doors, he is simply a half-Democrat. That is not a “compromise” – that is a win for the Democrat. If the Dem would have asked for a 30% tax, and only got 15%…they still got what they wanted, and the RINO got played. If the Dem proposes $100 Million to study squirrel habitats in Maine, and the Republican agrees, as long as he gets $5 Million to build a library with his name on it in Dirthole, Nevada, the Republican is just as guilty of defrauding the tax-payer as anyone else. Compromise sounds great, especially to the uninformed, low-information voter, but two thieves compromising on how two divide stolen goods is not a representation of virtue. Yes, they are compromising – isn’t that dandy – but they should instead be sitting in prison dividing up cigarettes and toilet paper.
Working together to steal liberty, raid the treasury, or spend other people’s money fails to recognize the fact that the “working together” is part of the problem. By working together, they have become so efficient at robbing the populace of money, freedom, and liberty that most people don’t even notice. The two-party system has become a “Sham-wow” commercial with some slick selling and fast talking…and the end result is the same: You send them money; they send back some over-priced rags.
P.S. I would rather have the Sham-Wow guy running the country than what we have right now…
Pass the Tin Foil Hat
Post Published: 04 December 2009The following is a “re-cycled” blog I wrote a few months back. Libs will love it because it is re-cycled, but they will hate it because their entire belief structure has recently been demolished with the exposure of the climate-fraud scandal. Those of us who have been following this HOAX for years already knew there was foul play involved. We have been paying attention.
Please understand: I want clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment just as much as my Birkenstock clad, low-impact brothers. I just don’t feel that the science has conclusively proven that C02 causes extra heat to be trapped, it may be that the extra heat causes extra C02 to be stored: Scientists do not know. In fact, they have been proven to be manipulating the numbers to favor their desired results. The 1-2 degrees of temperature fluxuation is more likely caused by ocean temps or output from the Sun. In any event, allowing a few scientists and huxters like Algore to personally profit off the backs of taxpayers is not an equitable result.
Many of you have read, from a variety of sources, how the AGW (man-caused) global warming scam is the product of ‘One-World’ Government proponents as a way to scare mankind into relinquishing control of their personal lives in favor of a centralized, socialist model. Most of the time, such warnings are cast-off as mere fodder for ‘Tin Foil Hat’ conspiracy nuts, or right-wing global warming ‘deniers’…a term used to compare global warming skeptics to holocaust deniers.
With the impending ‘Cap-n-Trade’ legislation, having passed the House (barely), and now headed to the Senate, it is time to take a look at the connection between One-World government and the Global Warming movement.
Whenever you look into any type of fraud in government, always start with the money trail. Al Gore, the spokesman for global warming, has seen his personal wealth rise from an estimated 2 million dollars upon leaving office to an estimated 100 million dollars (1). The ‘crisis’ of all mankind has been pretty good to Al Gore, the individual. It has been reported that Al Gore is a member of the ‘Club of Rome’ group (2). The Club Of Rome is an international ‘Think Tank’ that states on their web-site: “Its essential mission is “to act as a global catalyst for change through the identification and analysis of the crucial problems facing humanity and the communication of such problems to the most important public and private decision makers as well as to the general public.(3)”
As you read the Club of Rome web-site information, it all sounds (purposefully) innocuous. However, when you look at their USA website (4) under the ‘Links’ section, something more insidious shows up…a link to The World Federalist Manifesto (5)…a very disturbing website. From the World Federalist Manifesto under the paragraph entitled The International Execuitve Branch: “A United Nations’ budget and management centralization would allow a better coordination of the activities and a reduction of costs of the 15 specialized agencies. The centralization of the UN system would create a de facto world government.”
I did some more researching and found something a bit eerie and even a little creepy: “In a report titled “The First Global Revolution” (1991) published by the Club of Rome, a globalist think tank, we find the following statement: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would more than fit the bill… All these dangers are caused by human intervention… The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”(6)
Can anyone guess who puts out the IPCC Climate Report that Al Gore and others rely so heavily on?? Yes…the United Nations (7). How can anyone doubt the goal of the United Nations is to usurp control of the Governments of every country, including the most coveted – The United States? When our leaders sign U.N Treaties, they are handing over control to this power hungry, extremely corrupt body of foreigners who want nothing more than to control the resources, the economy – and the people – of the United States. Both parties in this country, Republican and Democrat, have signed U.N. treaties…and, at least in my mind, commit an act of treason every time they do.
So – what is Cap and Trade? In a nutshell, this government sponsored program allows companies to trade C02…a tree farm could ‘sell’ C02 credits to a coal-fired electricity producer…while the government, of course, gets a percentage of every sale. The government would assign a special number to every business. If you have a high number, and don’t purchase offsetting C02 credits, the government comes in and heavily fines your company. Where do these numbers come from? Government, of course, and your business will have to purchase the C02 special number from some new government agency.
What does this mean for a consumer? Well, EVERY product that you purchase will be seeing a price increase. Why? Because corporations DO NOT PAY TAXES…their customers do. Every company uses electricity, so every company will see a price increase. The goods and services in every industry will have this new surcharge added – and pass it along to the consumer. Every person will see a price increase in their own energy bills, their food, clothing, and everything else will have a corresponding price increase.
Who profits? Well, mostly Government – this is Obama’s SNEAKY way of paying for his huge new government. He promised not to increase taxes on anyone earning under $250k per year. Obama’s team runs around saying they will pay for their brave new world using a tax increase on ‘rich’ Americans. The problem: Most economists agree that even if you took every single penny from the ‘rich’ Americans – as described by the Obama team – it still doesn’t even come close to paying for the TRILLIONS of dollars he is spending. So where does all this new money come from? YOU and ME – in the form of Cap-and-Trade income to the government.
Who else profits? Those who invest in alternative energy companies that have inside information on government subsidies. Under Cap-and-Trade, the government pays BIG money to certain companies that qualify…companies that corrupt Senators and Congressman invest in, and then profit from laws THEY passed to fund these businesses. Al Gore himself admits to owning large stakes in such companies (8): “Here’s where it gets more interesting. The laws that Gore is referring to, of course, are those that would provide subsidies to and mandates for the alternative energy industry. Gore spotlights a number of these companies, including Smart Car; Amyris Biotechnologies; Altra Biofuels; Mascoma (cellulosic ethanol); Great Point Energy (biomass-to-gas and carbon capture technology); Altarock Energy (geothermal energy); Bloomenergy (fuel cells); Missole (solar technology); and Ausra (solar technology). As the companies; corporate logos flash on the screen, Gore states: “Here are just a few of the investments that I personally think make sense. I have a stake in these.”
These ‘Think Tank’ people invent a hoax, promote the hoax, whip up public sentiment through their media accomplices, claim a catastrophe is coming… then sell the “CURE”, and all retire handsomely in the Bahamas. This is Snake-Oil peddling on a global scale, and many people dearly believe in the snake-oil and even more so in those ‘saviors’ who produce the snake-oil.
Now that I have tied this entire HOAX together, and proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that the Global Warming movement is just a front for the New World Order, are there any gullible Liberals out there who still think I should be wearing a Tin Foil Hat? If so, then how about joining me in a new start-up, eco-friendly, green Tin-Foil Hat producing company…and we will all get rich and join the eco-fat cats down in the Bahamas.
Sources:
(1) http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31398
(2) http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/05/1942343.htm
(3) http://www.clubofrome.org/eng/about/3/
(4) http://www.usacor.org/links/index.html
(5) http://www.worldfederalistmanifesto.com
(6) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=118_1228824580
(7) http://www.ipcc.ch/organization/organization.htm
(8) http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31398
ECON 101
Post Published: 02 December 2009Pay attention Libs: Corporations DO NOT pay taxes…their customers pay.
Big Pharmaceutical, Big Oil, Big Electricity, Big Coal, Big Hamburger, Big Auto, Big Insurance, Big Farmer, Big Grocery…NONE of them pay taxes. Not a single dime. ZERO.
No. I have not lost my mind…just my patience.
When Liberals talk about punishing these companies by imposing fines, or increasing taxes, or adding layers of new regulations, or the newest, darkly insidious, price escalating term “Cap-and-Trade” …what happens?
ECON 101: The costs associated with these taxes are simply added into the retail cost to the consumer…YOU, the customer, pays.
Liberals have this idea that a huge company looks at the Balance Sheet and says, “We made $1M dollars in Net Profits, now let’s pay our taxes out of our net earnings.” It doesn’t work that way. Any government imposed tax, regulation, fine, or trading scheme is simply included in the COST section of the balance sheet. When the corporate number crunchers determine how much to charge for their product or service, they ADD all the costs together FIRST. The higher the cost of production, the higher the retail cost to the consumer.
It isn’t some huge, rich, nameless, faceless company that deserves to be taught a lesson: It is their customers who bear the burden of increased taxation. In the example of Big Pharmaceutical, for example, when Nancy Pelosi tries to take over their businesses with the Government Health care scheme, those companies have to decide how to stay afloat. They have two choices: Cut costs (lay-off workers) or increase revenue (raise prices). Neither choice is good for Americans; neither choice is good for America.
What happens when govt. imposes increased taxes on Big Oil? The price of a gallon of gas goes up.
What happens when govt. imposes higher loan rates on farmers? The price of food goes up.
What happens when govt. imposes Cap-n-Tax trading schemes onto Big Coal and Big Electricity? The cost of heating your home and running water and cooling your refrigerator goes up.
When the cost of goods produced by these companies goes up, and consumers cut back, the companies are forced to lay-off workers, or relocate to India or China. The problem is not Big Pharma, Big Oil, or Big Insurance…the problem is BIG GOVERNMENT.
Health Insurance Premium Calculator
Post Published: 29 November 2009I found an interesting tool at: http://healthreform.kff.org/SubsidyCalculator.aspx
This web-site allows you to calculate the possible effects of the House vs. the Senate Health Care Reform Bills on your pocketbook. I don’t know how accurate it is, but like most government programs, there is absolutely no benefit for me or my family…it is simply another drain on my resources.
In fact, I already have Health Insurance that works for me…and it costs less than 1/2 of what the cost figure is in this calculator. The calculator assumes $9,800.00 per year, while mine costs $4,800.00 per year; I choose a high deductible plan, since I never meet my deductible anyway.
The only possible outcome of any of this mess is that eventually, my premiums will increase. Granted, the premiums probably would increase no matter what, but if the government-option is actually MORE expensive, then the “competition” will not exist…and the private insurer will be able to raise their premiums, not lower them.
