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IS AMERICA ABDICATING ITS DUTY TO HUMANITY

Americans are in a position to choose whether we want to continue to be an example of what a free people can accomplish or to be an example of what happens to quitters. The title to the book, The 5000 Year Leap, A Miracle That Changed the World, points out the huge contribution to the world in America’s very short history. We have, during our history, provided an example to the people of the world of what a free people entitled to enjoy the fruits of their risk and labor will accomplish. This has drawn ambitious people from all over the world because we offer opportunities not available in their homeland. We are now tracking the paths of other failing economies which have subsidized rather than incentivized. THE CHALLENGE: How do we employ more American workers which will generate more collected tax revenue to support the overhead of government while enabling the workers to support their families and themselves independent of government assistance? The regular people from the retired – union/non union – public/private employees – business owners – investors would do much better if businesses were encouraged to expand and employ people. Forget Keynes’ The Means to Prosperity verses Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and look at the results we have with sustained high unemployment and a huge increase in poverty and government dependence on food stamps, unemployment and mandates that private enterprise provide goods and services such as the Illinois private bank attacked by the DOJ for good lending practices or health benefits added to private providers mandates. The national debt now exceeds GDP which is not terminal if we continue to be able to service the debt by attacking our economic condition on many fronts, one of which is employment which increases collected tax revenue and decreases government expenses for unemployment related items. America was created by a group of people who looked back into history and studied what had not worked as well as the human deficiencies which erode a government. They created a structure which would protect a just and moral people from tyranny and allow the industrious and risk takers to create and reap the rewards of their efforts. Businesses are sitting on money and constantly evaluating risk/reward to look for ways to make more money. They typically need to employ people to increase their income because they generate returns on their outlays or go out of business because they did not meet the needs of their customers at a price which the customer was willing to pay. “The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources — labor, capital and human ingenuity — in a manor that can’t be mimicked by a central plan, however brilliant the central planner.” — -Friedrich von Hayek The following interview points out the thinking of a lot of small businesses which are being defensive rather than choosing to expand and employ more people. We need to nurture small business because the Small Business Administration points out: “1. What is a small business? The Offce of Advocacy defines a small business as an independent business having fewer than 500 employees. (The definition of “small business” used in government programs and contracting varies by industry; see www.sba.gov/size.) 2. How important are small businesses to the U.S. economy? Small firms: • Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms. • Employ half of all private sector employees. • Pay 44 percent of total U.S. private payroll. • Generated 65 percent of net new jobs over the past 17 years. • Create more than half of the nonfarm private GDP. • Hire 43 percent of high tech workers ( scientists, engineers, computer programmers, and others). • Are 52 percent home-based and 2 percent franchises. • Made up 97.5 percent of all identified exporters and produced 31 percent of export value in FY 2008. • Produce 13 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms.” This interview describes the view a lot of small business people have: There is a Story of Stuff answer type cartoon which points out the advantage of helping each other do better rather than to take from those who have more than others. Many small businesses have been driven under because the government gains too much power and the Collective chooses the winners and losers. There is a Collective made up of some big business and big union + some politicians + some very rich people. We see the results of any group having too much power throughout history and we were forewarned to guard against it as well as given the structure to prevent our loss of what makes America Exceptional and an example to the world of what a free people can accomplish. “Government is not reason, it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” – George Washington “Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins” — William Pitt the younger, British Prime Minister (1783-1801, 1804-06) during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. 1759-1806 who also said, “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
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IS GLENN BECK BEING PLAYED OR HAS HE FOUND A SMOKING GUN?

 

The tape linked below is a preview of an attack on the American economy starting with J P Morgan Chase in May of 2011. Has Beck been suckered or is what a lot of us have feared been better documented. One of the principles of propaganda is to deny others the ability to quote the propagandist in a lie and to mix in enough truth that people will lie to themselves. The words of this former SEIU executive fit that if this tape is real. The Pentagon report suggesting that there was a possibility of an economic terrorist attack on the American economy a few years ago might indicate that this is not the first attack on the American economy.

Beck has requested statements from the White House and FBI for his show this evening.

A tape of a meeting in which a May 2011 assault on America’s economy was acquired by Beck and copies were forwarded to Chase, a chosen target, and to the Department of Justice. 

Steve Lerner, a high level organizer and former SEIU leader, is one of the speakers on this tape in which a plan to create economic chaos is outlined. One of the participants refers to Cloward – Pivens             http://cloward-piven.com/

            Quote: Cloward-Piven is a strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis.  The strategy was first proposed in 1966 by Columbia University political scientists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven as a plan to bankrupt the welfare system and produce radical change. Sometimes known as the "crisis strategy" or the the "flood-the-rolls, bankrupt-the-cities strategy," the Cloward-Piven approach called for swamping the welfare rolls with new applicants - more than the system could bear. It was hoped that the resulting economic collapse would lead to political turmoil and ultimately socialism.

Some of these people are reaching internationally and there is enough awareness that they have come more out in the open in spite of Lerner’s admonition that the union must not be connected to organizing this assault.

Listen to this recording or watch Glenn Beck TV to see what he actually shows and states. Then listen to those who discuss what he shows and states and it will give a clear understanding of who stands where. Note that I did not state my pre-judgement because each of us is obligated to gather information, vette it and share it with each other. By our vetting the information and sharing the results with each other we can test our analysis and tune up how we make our decisions.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/revealed-the-lefts-economic-terrorism-playbook-the-chase-campaign-for-a-coalition-of-unions-community-groups-lawmakers-and-students-to-take-down-us-capitalism-and-redistribute-wealth-power/comment-page-5/#comment-836082

I have a good comparison of the two sides by them. One is shown to school children and the other is a description of the benefit of a free enterprise America by an entrepenuer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8

OR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8

Some Americans rejected capitalism and relocated to Russia during the Great Depression. The better life which they sought is described in, “the book, The Forsake: An American Tragedy In Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tzouliadis is a stark and tragic account of what happened in the 1930’s to thousands of Americans as a result of not knowing what communism was all about.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2498376/posts

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THOUGHTS FOR MEMORIAL DAY

THOUGHTS FOR MEMORIAL DAY






THE THREE QUOTES BY THOMAS PAINE DESCRIBE SOMETHING WHICH WE HAVE BECAUSE BRAVE MEN AND WOMAN HAVE PAID A PERSONAL PRICE TO DEFEND IT AND THE THREAT TO IT IF WE DO NOT MAINTAIN A REAL VIEW OF THE GIFT WHICH IS NOT INDESTRUCTIBLE.

I have included the FOUR PARAGRAPH Gettysburg Address later in this post because it was given to honor those who paid the price and in the fourth paragraph TO CHARGE those who enjoy that which was preserved. These words are very appropriate for US to review and ponder today.

When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon.—Thomas Paine

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” — Tom Paine

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.” -- Thomas Paine.






THANKS TO THE SACRIFICES OF THESE PEOPLE - OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN SAFE FROM THE OUTSIDE Posted by littleguyusa on Friday, September 11, 2009 9:00:00 PM


This is a "THANK YOU!!" to our service people for putting their lives on hold and on the line without regard to a discussion of the wars in which they are involved. These people are the reason that we are still Americans without another country's rule and I just wanted to acknowledge them for giving me the opportunity to enjoy my life in America.

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Leading the fight is U S Marine Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as 'Iron Mike' or just 'Gunny'. He is on his third tour in Iraq . He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour. Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US Marines. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. 'You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision,' he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term 'the longest walk', stepping gingerly into a 5 foot deep and 8 foot wide crater. The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7 inch knife to probe the ground. 'I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs,' he says. 'That's when I knew I was screwed.' Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet 'A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded,' he recalls. 'As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me...' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down.' His fellow Marines cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there 'My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down,' says Sgt Burghardt. 'I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a rea l sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. 'I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher.' He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. 'I flipped them one.. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week.' Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit. Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

Thank you for enduring the heat, the hard work and the sacrifices. I appreciate more than I will ever be able to show. Ross


THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS COPIED FROM:

http://americancivilwar.com/north/lincoln.html

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

MARCUS LUTTRELL WROTE LONE SURVIVOR
Listen to this interview and note Marcus Luttrel's description of his vote to let the goat herders go rather than to execute them and insure the team's safety. THE LIARS WHO HIDE THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR SERVICE PEOPLE AND PROMOTE ANYTHING WHICH THEY CAN FIND TO PROPAGANDIZE THE GULLIBLE work to the destruction of what we have because our military protects it. Perspective is incredibly important.
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.” -- Thamas Paine
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” -- Samuel Adams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irC4K7Q4JCo

Memorial Day Was Born Out Of The Civil War In 1868 and the historian interviewed suggests that we take a moment to read the Gettysburg Address on Memorial Day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-l9GvcAm-M&playnext_from=TL&videos=sss7eKhaVns&feature=sub

TWO VIDEOS SHOWING THE EMOTIONS OF THOSE WHO DEFEND AMERICA AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM
In the Arms of an Angel - American Soldiers Tribute by Mushafugga at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yklp5Ua_xj4
with Music: Sarah McLachlan - Angel Download This Song: iTunes AmazonMP3
AND
A tribute to all of our troops, and for my good friend SharpLugia!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lScwwGyJJc
with Music: Mark Schultz - Letters from War

LET US STAY CONSCIOUS AND DEDICATED TO OUR DUTY TO PRESERVE THAT WHICH WE HAVE RECEIVED!
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I CALL FOR A NATIONALLY TELEVISED DEBATE ON ARIZONA LAW

 

AMERICA IS MORE THAN A NATION

I WANT A NATIONALLY TELEVISED DEBATE – TOO MUCH DISPARITY – LET US HEAR THE TRUTH

There is no excuse for the Arizona situation to go in the direction that it is going. Government should protect US and ease our life, not make it crazy and stir up hate and discontent. If the administration cared about the actual issues they would clearly state the issues and deal with them. There is something else going on because this administration has a lot of bright people and this is a management 101 level problem.

I want to see a nationally televised debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Jan Brewer on the issues that are of concern to the administration. I would be happy with a person with authority to speak for either of them with the understanding that they are speaking absolutely for that person’s position.
The way this issue has been handled by the Whitehouse is astounding to me. I would expect a leader of a country to have contacted the Governor and discussed the issues of concern. From my perspective, I, instead, see a FOCUS ON FAILURE:

1. public statements disparaging the Arizona legislature passed and Governor Brewer signed and warning of what MIGHT HAPPEN = sounds like predictions of what did not happen at Tea Party Rallys

2. a threat by the Attorney General to look into challenging Arizona protecting itself with the statute

3. failing to acknowledge Arizona’s response to fears of racial profiling with HR2162 which deals with racial profiling and allows the use of a drivers license if there is a legal contact. This makes Arizona law superior to the federal law and California state statute.

4. inviting a leader of a foreign country to speak against Arizona and agreeing with him which indicates an alliance of this administration with an invading nation against a state in what was the UNITED States of America.

5. failing to recognize that the inciting rhetoric and actions adversely affects the wellfare of the Arizona population, 30% of which is of Hispanic heritage. That is discrimination against American Hispanics by their ?fellow? Americans.

The only reasons which I can imagine for keeping Governor Brewer from discussing her situation with President Obama or someone he delegates confirm my fears of this administration’s intentions for America.

Governor Brewer and her legislators heard the people voicing their fears of racial profiling (30% of Arizona population is of Hispanic descent) and dealt with it by passing House Bill 2162 prohibiting racial profiling and adding the drivers license as acceptable proof of citizenship. They want to protect their borders and citizens without abusing their citizens. Rather than focus on failure, they dealt with the issue by adding a clarification that is clear and easy to understand. I will post that section here and you may read the entire bill at

http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/hb2162c.htm

B. For any lawful contact stop, detention or arrest made by a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency of this state or a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency of a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state in the enforcement of any other law or ordinance of a county, city or town or this state where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who and is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person, except if the determination may hinder or obstruct an investigation. Any person who is arrested shall have the person’s immigration status determined before the person is released. The person’s immigration status shall be verified with the federal government pursuant to 8 United States code section 1373(c). A law enforcement official or agency of this state or a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state may not solely consider race, color or national origin in implementing the requirements of this subsection except to the extent permitted by the United States or Arizona Constitution. A person is presumed to not be an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States if the person provides to the law enforcement officer or agency any of the following:

1. A valid Arizona driver license.

2. A valid Arizona nonoperating identification license.

3. A valid tribal enrollment card or other form of tribal identification.

4. If the entity requires proof of legal presence in the United States before issuance, any valid United States federal, state or local government issued identification.

C. If an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States is convicted of a violation of state or local law, on discharge from imprisonment or on the assessment of any monetary obligation that is imposed, the United States immigration and customs enforcement or the United States customs and border protection shall be immediately notified.

D. Notwithstanding any other law, a law enforcement agency may securely transport an alien who the agency has received verification is unlawfully present in the united states and who is in the agency’s custody to a federal facility in this state or to any other point of transfer into federal custody that is outside the jurisdiction of the law enforcement agency. A law enforcement agency shall obtain judicial authorization before securely transporting an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States to a point of transfer that is outside of this state.

The entire bill is available at: http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf

There has been a lot of inciting rhetoric over the potential problems of this bill and there has been a video of the effect of racial profiling that this bill causes.
The misinformation counts on people looking at, but not reading the article because:
1. It is the federal government, ICE, demanding a birth certificate
2. The wife states that this has nothing to do with racial profiling and Arizona law
3. The bill does not go into effect until July 28, 2010
4. HB2162 prohibits racial profiling and allows a drivers license to be used as proof of citizenship

This article may be found at http://www.azfamily.com/news/91769419.html

and the last part points out the misrepresentation in using this for a demonstration of Arizona law possibilities with HB 2162. Jackie explains, “I have his social security card as well and mine. He’s legit. It’s the first time it’s ever happened.”

Both were born in the United States and say they are now both infuriated that keeping important documents safely at home is no longer an option.

Jackie says, “It doesn’t feel like it’s a good way of life, to live with fear, even though we are okay, we are legal…still have to carry documents around.”

A representative at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned 3TV’s calls after researching the incident and she said this was standard operating procedure.

The agents needed to verify Abdon was in the country legally and it is not uncommon to ask for someone’s birth certificate.
She also said this has nothing to do with the proposed bill or racial profiling.

Their problem is with ICE, not with Arizona which offers a solution to a problem that has existed in Federal Law with no remedy for awhile. Arizona implemented their solution in response to people’s concerns. That, to my way of thinking, is an example of how our employees in government should handle our issues.

Let us judge not on what might be, but rather on what is and what happens. There are activists who will try very hard to create problems and this is a hardship on Arizona law enforcement. I would like to see an additional part of the statute that makes staging an incident a felony with serious penalties. We need to take America forward and that is best done by keeping America safe and strong. We cannot do the good that we do if we do not sustain our ability to do it.

LET US SEE A DEBATE SO THAT WE MAY KNOW WHAT IS REAL!

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” — Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“The opinion of 10000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.” Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 121-180 AD

About rossabh

I am terrified at the prospect of losing a unique gift to humanity, the America created based upon Judeo-Christian principles with Rights from God, not a government. That has created a culture which has already given the world a lot of benefit. I want to look for how we can make things work rather than FOCUS ON FAILURE and live in a fantasy like those who I put in two categories: 1. Delusional Deniers who live a fantasy protected by denial in spite of the mounting evidence of the assault on America 2. Mooreons who are intellectually dificient and are programmable I view America as an incredible playground where the price of admission is to make what you will of yourself without hindering others doing what they will with themselves so long as no one breaks the agreed on rules = laws. The problem is that people who lust for power and wealth are creating laws without the power to create them in order to steal from the productive. My mission is to speak truth to that EVIL POWER that would deprive the human race of the benefit of the CULTURE CALLED AMERICA!

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WHAT WILL HEALTH CARE REFORM ACCOMPLISH?

WHAT WILL THE DEMOCRAT HEALTHCARE REFORM ACCOMPLISH?




I have included a link to write your representative and automatically copy 58 Blue Dogs plus my letter to my Representative, Dana Rohrabacher, later in this post. I cannot understand how the legislators can so obviously connive to pass something which the majority of Americans do not want. It seems to me that the awareness and networking of the awakened, previously tolerant and apathetic conservative leaning majority have given notice that if the Progressives do not succeed this time it will not happen for a long time to come. We are reaping the benefit of living the good life and ignoring our responsiblity to hold our government accountable. We are now awake and fighting to preserve the America which we inherited and which the government is trying to delete from the education of the indoctrinee school children. Showing An Inconvenient Truth as if it were gosipel and not showing opposing information and having debates creates lemmings waiting to be served their thoughts at the KoolAide Stand of the Left.

I believe that the supporters of the Progressive movement would rather feel good than be solvent as we go over the financial cliff into an economic abyss. The value of their ideas is measured by the quantity of input and not by the results = intentions not what happens. This is LaLaLand wishful thinking not planning and working hard to do something and it is not a sustainable way to run a country.
I believe that the Cap-and-Trade based on fraudulent data and the Health Care Reform are ways to justify hiring a lot of government employees to deceive the non-thinkers and create the illusion that we are experiencing an economic recovery as well as to gain power over America. It will buy votes by those who get employed after being held under water financially by this conniving administration and the Willfully Ignorant who support it. A certain amount of government employees are necessary overhead and require private employment collected taxes to support them or the overhead will bankrupt the country. Who will bail us out?

The government's track record on running programs is predictably poor. Doing such a monumental program is doing more of what doesn't work at a dangerous to America's fiscal well being level. We should be doing several smaller, less risky corrections to improve our healthcare rather than creating another set of regulations to rival the IRS and requiring a large increase in public employment which is based on unreal projections. This is the same way that we almost had a world committee headed toward governing all countries climate related programs. It was based upon the largest fraud ever perpetrated on humanity.

This administration's total focus on other than employment has prolonged the high unemployment rate and intentionally (or they would have addressed it) kept over 10% of the working population of the US unemployed. It is larger than stated when one considers the quit looking, became self employed, retired early, ran out and other groups like the under employed that are not included. The priorities are obvious and it is to obtain power and wealth rather than do well by the people. There are a lot of co-conspirators such as some upper union and business people who are positioned to gain power and wealth from this legislation which creates the new version of the plantation with the slaves being the producers who are allowed to keep some of what they make by the benevolent elite.

The link which I used to write my Representative and copy 58 Blue Dogs is

http://capitolconnect.com/freeourhealthcarenow/



One of the glaring inconsistancies is that those who promote a bill based on emotional anecdotes and the need to IMMEDIATELY address this crisis have a bill which implements taxation early and then gives care later. How can a thinking person reconcile that? Obama Care = Tax Now Care Later This creates the illusion that the bill is fiscally better than it is because it is based upon more years of income than of the expense. Why would they have to create illusions if this were a good bill? If we truly wanted to address the needs of the people, wouldn't we categorize the areas needing improvement like:
1. uninsured groups by category so that each groups' needs could be addressed providing a real solution for that issue
2. create competition between private sector insurance companies nationwide so that the public can shop for the best value. Companies fighting for market share in an open, competative market seem to me to be obviously more inclined to provide a better solution for their customers than a government beauracracy that does not answer to the customer. We have many examples of this with other government programs.
3. Massachusetts and Tennessee have problems with their government healthcare programs and would provide a good experiment in running this type of program if healthcare were the real purpose rather than the last ditch effort to grab power by the Progressive administration.

Like Cap-and-Trade, Health Care Reform which delays benefits to the people it claims to help is for a different purpose as illustrated in a speech by Ronald Reagan many years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs

and the letter which I wrote is as follows:

Dana Rohrabacher

Times and people have changed. We will remember the actions of the people who govern our country and remind each other when the election is at hand. The tolerant, apathetic voting population has awakened and is rallying against the assault on American values. It appears to me that we have an army of Alinsky Warriors in DC implementing the conditions called for by the Cloward – Piven Strategy* and that seems to be contrary to the oath of office in the swearing to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.

I am proud to have you as my representative who fights to preserve American exceptionalism. I have previously written several legislators and asked for an explanation of their purpose in creating the conditions called for in the Cloward – Piven Strategy. Why would our government IGNORE the needs of the people by focusing on other than the jobs needed by over 10% of our working population? They have focused on their agenda, not jobs, for over a year now.

Increasing employment through historically proven methods would put people to work and increase the number of people with health care insurance. The government would not have to commit money to extending unemployment which is money gone forever rather than providing a return on the funds. The failure to stimulate jobs is intentionally maintaining a high unemployment percentage which is destructive to our country. This is an ANTI AMERICAN CHOICE OF POLICY!

The threat of Health Care Reform or Cap-and-Trade which penalize the private enterprise productive job creators is a major part of the high unemployment. How can a private enterprise make plans to expand and hire when they are under the threat of an administration which wants to suck the blood (capital) out of those who do?

The government’s track record of managing programs is abysmal and to do something of this size would be insane (that word is used with the definition intended, not for effect) as well as put America on the course to financial insolvency. I have heard rhetoric which does not reconcile with the actions regarding the deficit. The deceitful illusion used to promote this bill as decreasing the national debt is a sufficient argument against it. If it were good, it would not require deceit to promote it. This is insulting to the American voter.

Please continue the fight against this atrocity and push real healthcare reform which does not enslave the American people. There are several non destructive things which can be done without creating another IRS level of government.

The Health Care Reform would create a need for increasing public employment which is already at too high a ratio to private enterprise employment needed to generate the collected tax revenue to support the overhead of government. I don’t hear about this and that seems like that is as serious an indicator of our direction of fiscal travel as the ratio of the National Debt to GDP. It is like we have a bunch of college kids in a sociology lab who have no clue how economics works and they are tinkering with our world. I would rather believe this than what I truly believe.

* Cloward – Pivens http://cloward-piven.com/
Quote: Cloward-Piven is a strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis.
The strategy was first proposed in 1966 by Columbia University political scientists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven as a plan to bankrupt the welfare system and produce radical change. Sometimes known as the "crisis strategy" or the the "flood-the-rolls, bankrupt-the-cities strategy," the Cloward-Piven approach called for swamping the welfare rolls with new applicants - more than the system could bear. It was hoped that the resulting economic collapse would lead to political turmoil and ultimately socialism. “

Very Truly and Gratefully yours,
A B Howell
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HISTORY IS OUR TEACHER AND THE PRESENT IS OUR TEST

How will the generations to come look back and judge us?

There are two parts to this post:

1. References to history which may be in the process of repeating

2. References to analysis of how what is happening is being brought about

I received the following from a special, hard working FaceBook friend who keeps many of us up on the political humor.

Steven Laboe November 15 at 2:56pm Reply
A German's View on Islam

A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'

We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China 's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japanmurdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.

Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun..

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts -- the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and send it on - before it's too late.

My reply to Steve:
Thank you very much Steve. You are an army of one who feeds many. The above adds to the example I often give with the quote, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” -- Winston Churchill

About the time that our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."
"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage"

In addition to my above reply, I want to also remind us of a WORLD WAR II POEM
There is a new importance for a poem describing the perils of apathy and calls to us to be vigilante for an analagous progression in the world in 2010 with Political Correctness and Apathy allowing history to repeat itself once more.

In Germany:
They first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me — and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Is this what the healthcare reform is truly about? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs

Should we be doing job creation in another manner following the suggestion of someone who actually does provide jobs and healthcare? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdrxfFFeMbc

Ask yourself if you see the possibility of this happening described in an article at http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/clowardpiven_crisis_care.html

" Cloward-Piven instructed activists that if a crisis did not exist, promote or manufacture one by exaggerating a benign or unthreatening predicament. In doing so, contrived commotion would serve as a tool to convince the masses of their urgent need for rescue. In order to achieve the ultimate goal, students were encouraged to stress the social system to the breaking point, which would quash capitalism and institute socialism through a massive infusion of government intervention
Cloward-Piven repeatedly cited Alinsky's, Rules for Radicals, in all their work. Marxism advocates were taught by Cloward-Piven to, "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." Never failing to remind their apprentices that, "...when pressed...human agencies inevitably fall short...the system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then is used to discredit it altogether." The definitive goal: "... replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one." "

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WHY WOULD WE EVEN THINK ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THIS WITH A TRACK RECORD LIKE THIS?









The Many Failures of Congress

CONGRESS BEWARE; WE THE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING, WE'LL SEE YOU AT THE NEXT ELECTION!
For those who need a picture,To the Congress:

The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 - you have had 234 years to get it right; it is broke.


Social Security was established in 1935 - you have had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.


Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - you have had 71 years to get it right; it is broke.
 
 
The "War on Poverty" started in 1964 - you have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked and our entire country is broke.


 
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - you've had 44 years to get it right; they are broke.


Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - you have had 39 years to get it right; it is broke.


Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the "Stimulus", the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009... none show any signs of working, although ACORN appears to have found a new source: the American taxpayer.And finally, to set a new record:


"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of the profits went out of the country And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress' generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed experiments.

 
So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that "services" you shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?20% of our entire economy?With all due respect,Are you crazy?



Check 0ut Cloward - Pivens overwhelm the system strategy and ask yourself if a Health Reform Bill which requires the repeal of [tort reform if it is already implemented in a state] before the state qualifies for federal funds is for the benefit of the common person. Tort reform is a much less risky improvement which could enhance healthcare. The Pelosi Bill does away with it. Looks like she cares more about the Plaintiff Bar than us.
 
Two quotes from a wise man from the 1800s who saw this type of claiming to do good for the little people while looting the system.
 
“When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.” -- Frederick Bastiat
 
"Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism.” -- Frederick Bastiat 1801 - 1850















Old people have

no reason to live.

Give them some pain medicine until we get

rid of them.

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AMERICA STANDS IN NEED OF A STATESMAN

 

OBAMA DITHERED - HEROES DIED!

There is an additional problem with dithering. Obama has presented an undependable US willingness to support freedom causes and the al Queda/Taliban push to destroy the Afghan election is encouraged by an American president who conveys the image of a coward to the extremists. The left encouraged extremist recruitment with constant Abu Ghraib pictures and discussions. The recruitment power of that pales in comparison to their portrayal of Obama wanting to run like we did in Mogadishu. Bin Laden said that they were dug in for the long haul and American left. Dithering reinforces the image of the gutless America which the Democrats promote.

The Democrats are RESPONSIBLE and they should admit their cowardice and leave or suck it up, close their eyes and let the military succeed. Paying the price in military lives IS A CRIME WHICH SHOULD BE PROSECUTED! 2010 will be partly a verdict in one of the trials. There was once a great stateman who said, "PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH" because he understood that evil does not care about good; only about winning and controlling. History has proved that to think otherwise is delusional and ends loss.

“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.” -- Samuel Adams

“Whoever you are, you who are hearing me now, I am speaking to whatever living remnant is left uncorrupted within you, to the remnant of the human, to your mind, and I say: There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.” -- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation." -- Douglas MacArthur

Please think, in your relatively comfortable situation, about our military and contact your legislators
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LEMMING TEST - WHO AMONG US ARE THE LEMMINGS?

Lemming -- Wikipedia definition of useage in this post, "Due to their association with this odd behavior, lemming suicide is a frequently-used metaphor in reference to people who go along unquestioningly with popular opinion, with potentially dangerous or fatal consequences" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming

This post has a clear test for who are being programmed. If we agree that America, the country in which we choose to live, must be preserved above all or not much else will matter and we are willing to take responsibility for that, we must ask ourselves whether our analysis and opinions are real or fantasy.

“Plurima ignoro, sed ignorantiam meam non ignoro--I am ignorant of many things, but not of my own ignorance.” -- Proverbs of Solomen I welcome the challenge that I am the lemming if it is presented rationally. Non of us can be positive that we are right and I would suspect that we are partially right and partially wrong in many of the matters of our analysis. If our goal was to do better by our country rather than hear ourselves speak as experts to the ignorant masses, we could gather the real world facts, analyze them and modify our views so that while we might not agree, we could align and promote the best that we could determine for our country. Being humans, we are stirred up by politicians of both parties and interest groups so that they can do what they want while we distract ourselves by bickering with eachother.

Our country is at a turning point and we can fulfill the prediction of history which was summarized in - "Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." -- John Adams letter to John Taylor dated April 15, 1814 Unless we are willing to put America first and question our views and the views of others, we will fulfill this prophecy. Our country's population has history as its teacher and the present as its test. We will be judged by the future when our children inherit a better or worse country than we inherited.

THIS TEST IS IRRELEVANT IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE COUNTRY YOU LEAVE TO THE NEXT GENERATIONS AND IN WHICH YOU WILL PROBABLY SPEND YOUR LAST YEARS.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
“Man has subjected himself to thousands of self-inflicted bondages. Wisdom comes to a man who lives according to the eternal laws of nature.” -- The Holy Vedas

My fear that emotion trumps logic is put forth in my post - ARE SOME AMERICAN VOTERS SO SELFISH THAT THEY ARE EASILY SOLD BAD IDEAS at http://littleguyusa.blogtownhall.com/2009/09/24/are_some_american_voters_so_selfish_that_they_are_easily_sold_bad_ideas.thtml

We have the power and responsibility as citizens of America to do what is necessary to preserve and improve the country which created, in its short life, more progress than the world had seen in a much longer period. Many of us became complacent and believed that legislators would take care of our country while we enjoyed the good life where many of our poor are obiese with cellphones and TV over cable or satellite.

THE LEMMING TEST:
1. Why do you believe that you know what is right and that you are not a lemming programmed by your choice of input?
2. How much corruption and criminal behavior perpetrated on America do you tolerate if it is from the people you support?
3. Do you feel that you are not a lemming if you do not know about the misdeeds and evil choices made by the people you support?

A case in point and not the purpose of this post is illustrated by someone who wrote the following - "Did intellectual honesty have a moonlight clause? We don't have a shortage of capital or liquidity in this country; we have a shortage of honesty and trust. Where are the Americans who will stop talking about the president or the parties and instead start talking about right and wrong?" and "In March 2008, President George W. Bush told us that Bear Stearns was too big to fail. If we didn't act to save it before the end of the week, very bad things would happen. We acted. Since then, the list of banks that are "too big to fail" has grown in excess of five hundred and taxpayer exposure from government bailouts now exceeds $12,000,000,000,000."

If I were to tell you his name, you would have an immediate reaction and that reaction would make the answer to the lemming test above very clear. The next test, whether you treasure your beliefs and the feeling that you are right more than you value the continued existance of America is whether you look into why you reacted that way and explore the possibility that they who must lie to you and keep you in the dark about reality have your best interest as their primary agenda item.

Remembering that this is an example of "leading the lemmings" and not the purpose of this post, think about ACORN, AmeriCorps and the auto bailouts.

There has been a long history of issues with ACORN varying from $1,000,000 embezzlement, Katrina fraud, the New York Times pulling an investigative piece on possibly illegal campaigning activity, misuse of tax payer funds, being an early contributer to the FannieMae/FreddieMac issues disaster which is a portion of what created our financial disaster.

IG Walpin uncovered corruption with Kevin Johnson and was fired by the Obama administration as reported in the 6/14/9 Washington Examiner - "Top executives at the Corporation, Walpin explained in an hour-long interview Saturday, were unhappy with his investigation into the misuse of AmeriCorps funds by Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star who is now mayor of Sacramento, California and a prominent supporter of President Obama. Walpin's investigation also sparked conflict with the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento amid fears that the probe -- which could have resulted in Johnson being barred from ever winning another federal grant -- might stand in the way of the city receiving its part of billions of dollars in federal stimulus money. After weeks of standoff, Walpin, whose position as inspector general is supposed to be protected from influence by political appointees and the White House, was fired." at
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Gerald-Walpin-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-AmeriCorps-firing-48030697.html#

The Chrysler and General Motors were infused with taxpayer money under the pretense of keeping them from bankruptcy. They were then put into bankruptcy after President Obama and some of the intimidators under him convinced the pension plan (responsible people investing to provide for their retirement) lenders to take a larger discount instead of enforcing their secured positions under the law which were a portion of their decision to make the relatively safe prior to this event investment. The companies were then acquired by a coventure of the government and the UAW which backed the candidate who won the election. I point out here that there is a small group of union people who are involved, just like there is a small group of politicians who are involved. The union worker and the non union worker live under the same circumstances in a world created by the self interest groups in power who do not appear to care as much about America as they care about their empire.

Because there is a campaign to incite the Politicall Correct Gullible Crusaders with morphed meanings of words and out of context information or outright lies and because we were warned by one of America's founders, Samuel Adams, “How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”, I propose the following definitions to describe our nation's most dangerous enemy. Definitions which have no relationship to party, belief system - only describing an intellectual deficiency and an unwillingness to challenge what they want to believe respectively:
MOOREON refers to an intellectual (thought and reason ability - not intelligence) deficiency and has nothing to do with ideology and beliefs. It rather has to do with an inability to determine whether something is true or false. Mooreon, a definition proposed on factsforreality.net, refers to a person who can see information challenging their beliefs, but does not have the intellectual capacity to process it and challenge that which supports the position that they choose even if their position is based on an illusion rather than what is real.
WIIer is a WILLFULLY IGNORANT INTELLECTUALThose who will keep to a narrow information channel which feeds them information, accurate and complete or not, to substantiate their desired point of view. A WIIer has the intellectual (thought and reason - not intelligence) ability, but is consciously unwilling to look at information which may challenge their desired point of view. A lot of us are going to online versions of foreign newspapers to find out what is happening in our country as well as other online sources. This definition applies to all humans who fit the three sheeple category described below. The three sheeple:
Hear no other point of view
See no other point of view
Discuss no other point of view
I would suggest to anyone upset with the two definitions that you take some time for introspection because, in my opinion, you are dangerous to yourself , others and our country.

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ARE SOME AMERICAN VOTERS SO SELFISH THAT THEY ARE EASILY SOLD BAD IDEAS

IS MARKETING TO SELFISHNESS AS EFFECTIVE AS IT SEEMS?

Something is wrong with what is happening in America. There are two very opposite teams which have formed and each is passionate. I typically feel that there would be a little bit of right and a little bit of wrong on both sides. The stakes are very high and I believe that we complicate things more than we need to because we can then go with our feelings rather than a logical analysis.


The YouTube clips at the end of this post present a possible explanation of the purpose of the marketing program for healthcare.

Do we really want to make decisions which give us good feelings without looking at the long term consequences to our nation and let those who follow pay the price for our desires? The question, "Are we so selfish that we don't care enough to analyze where we are going and how we make our decisions?" has a very uncomfortable answer for one of the two teams. The obvious answer to that question is answered by, "Which team is unwilling to discuss it on a factual basis?" There is enough factual basis available for each of us to review our position and determine which team is the target of the marketers with motives different from what they claim.

Is the Constructionist leaning or the Progressive team going to take America where we want to go and give us a country which we are proud of and which has a good impact on the world?

I see a Maslow's Heirarchy for a nation which should be considered on a logical basis to develop a philosophy:

1. Our country's existance - where we put our resources and our nation's attitude toward dangers will determine whether we continue to have a country or not. Take a moment to think about the judgements which just came into your mind and question the basis of those judgements. Look carefully at why you feel that way and what impact your desires would have on our country's continued existance.

2. Our Nation's economy and whether we will continue to or should continue to lead the world in innovation and economic expansion. This is relative to economic growth and stability rather than the manner in how we do it. If we feel we shouldn't do it, the how is irrelevant. If we feel that we should, the how should be contemplated to decide what the best course taking into account what that decision's impact on the world will be.

3. Our educational system - are we teaching our children to question what is presented to them, analyze and verify it or are we indoctrinating them? An educated voter is the best input for a country to make good decisions. Do we question that which is presented to us in light of its validity and the presenter's objectives?

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” -- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"The opinion of 10000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 121-180 AD

The above quotes describe uninformed voters resulting in the relegation of power to a small group with the best marketing program. I had a sixth grade teacher who gave us examples and taught us to question whatever we heard, read and saw regardless of whether it came from us or them. It was one of the most valuable times in my schooling. Is that happening now? I hear about "An Inconvenient Truth" and a "Capitalism is bad" cartoon presentation being shown to children. Are the children given the opportunity to analyze and discuss the points made in the film or are the points given as gospel and the child is expected to be programmed? This would be an incredible opportunity to develop their abilities to become an informed and capable voter by presenting an opposing view point, analyzing and discussing the subject. If it is programming and not developing analytical skills, what is the agenda and why do we want people with underdeveloped analytical abilities? An even more important question is, "Why would a parent want to diminish rather than develop their child's mental abilities?"

4. Having taken care of the basic three levels puts the nation in a position to determine priorities and deal with its other programs. Not dealing with the three basic levels will decrease the probability of the nation's existance.




HEALTH CARE REFORM MARKETING:


The biggest question I have is, "If we were in the worst financial crisis since the depression and the unemployment rate is still higher than projected, why would we want to do something which could destabilize the American economy worse than it is before it recovered?" This does not make sense to me when there are so many things which could be done to make progress as we bring the American economy back on a stable footing." This question and why we ignore some basic questions such as where are all of the medical personnel required coming from to make this reform possible from a manpower standpoint is possibly answered in some videos from several years ago.


Some of the available, safe steps are:


1. Portable insurance plans which go with the employee rather than being provided by the employer


2. Competition between insurance companies across state lines.


3. Tort reform

4. Reviewing government regulations for ease of compliance by the affected entity


5. Use the Massachusetts state system which is currently having problems as a model, tune it up, test it and scale it up to a national level once it operates in a fiscally safe manner.

I have some Investor's Business Daily references which provide some insite into the healthcare issues including those of some physicians fed up with the status quo.

1. Should they upon whom we will depend for healthcare have some input? 33% in favor and 65% opposed according to, "The poll contradicts the claims of not only the White House, but also doctors' own lobby — the powerful American Medical Association — both of which suggest the medical profession is behind the proposed overhaul.
It also calls into question whether an overhaul is even doable; 72% of the doctors polled disagree with the administration's claim that the government can cover 47 million more people with better-quality care at lower cost."

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=506199

2. "09/23/2009 07:09 PM ET - Nearly half of doctors say tort reform is key to getting U.S. health care costs under control, according to the IBD/TIPP Poll on which this series is based. Of the 1,376 doctors who responded to our survey, 48% mentioned tort reform as the best way to slow the rise in medical costs."

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/SpecialReport.aspx?id=506106

3. We could look at this as, "Just talking points by the people who perform unnecessary procedures for higher income." Do you want to analyze an argument with an outcome you may not be able to LIVE WITH without more thought? If you were contemplating going into medicine and looking at the amount of time, energy and money which you would have to commit to accomplish it, would you be more or less likely to do it under a government program? This is the question which we must ask. There are doctors now who will not deal with government programs because it is not worth it to them. Put yourself in the medical professional's shoes and ask yourself whether we will have enough people to provide the manpower required for our resulting program. IBD - "Litigation: The Founding Fathers envisioned the states as laboratories for ideas and choices. If the administration needs a demonstration project for successful tort reform, it need look no further than Mississippi." The predominantly legal profession legislators appear more concerned with the legal profession's welfare than the medical profession's welfare by maintianing the liability of doctors for the benefit of some attorneys.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=506980

This is so obvious - if you increase workload, decrease or limit reward, why would anyone commit to the time, hard work and sacrifice to go into medicine? We need more psychiatric workers to deal with OBLIVION.

2. YOUTUBE VIDEOS REGARDING THE PLAN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs

Mind blowing speech by Robert Welch in 1958 predicting Insiders plans to destroy America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU0c8DAIU4

I echo Dennis Prager's query regarding healthcare, "What? Are you crazy? Do you think that I don't want good healthcare?" and ask the question, "If it is so good for America, why does it have to be marketed so deceptively.

Intimidation of a major healthcare company by a congressman and a gag order for a good program?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6rY3rxb60k&feature=player_embedded

AARP behind plan because they will profit from it and are not included in the gag order. Government does not want you to have a complete understanding of the Healthcare Plan. What does that say to you?

http://www.breitbart.tv/is-the-aarp-getting-kickbacks-from-obamacare/
 
The question which I have is -   Is SELFISHNESS the answer? The challenging question of how can smart people not see the corruption and the direction that the Obama administration is taking America? Entities like the fringe media are explainable as business prostitutes, but the American citizens? I believe that the WIIers (Willfully Ignorant Intellectuals) are so selfish that they want the good feeling they get supporting the fantasy so much that they will enslave future generations rather than come out of the fantasy and check out reality.  Pitiful excuse for an American citizen if I am correct in why people stay in emotion and refuse to look at facts.  Could be that we need analytical thinking presented early in school rather than indoctrination programs.
 


http://conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm
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ARE SOROS AND THE DEMOCRATS PROMOTING RACISM FOR POWER AND PROFIT?

IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE RACIST!  THE REAL QUESTION IS:

ARE SOROS AND THE DEMOCRATS PROMOTING RACISM FOR PROFIT?

Over the past year, I have read about George Soros, a brilliant investor who appears to profit from economic crises and who has a passion to change America. I have read several articles which raise a question. Is capitalism funding a group comprised of Soros, some big business people, some big union people and some politicians to either do a hostile takeover (business term) of America or to destroy its capitalist system? Soros is an investor who makes huge profits which none of the liberal anti huge salary people protest and funds organizations like CAP, moveon.org and liberal causes with campaigns which appeal to emotion rather than reason - moveon.org did the General Betrayus full page ad when the General came to the Senate hearing and listened to the all knowing Senators before he went back and successfully executed the surge which these organizations had said would fail. Their current "illusion di jour" is to disregard opposition to their programs as being racist and distract from the factual analysis by appealing to emotions. This apparently works with 12% of the people according to a recent poll about the racist issue. The fact that they oppose a lot of things which seem in keeping with the American culture would be, "That's just one of the great reasons to live in America." The problem is it looks like they are taking our country somewhere else and it does not appear, as evidenced by an awakened electorate, that we want to go there. They are currently promoting racism as the reason for opposition to the administration's agenda. Would they tell you that Walter E. Williams, Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas are racists? What are they distracting us from seeing?




SOROS JOINT VENTURE GROUP?
1. Soros is an integral part of the Democratic party - George Soros supports moveon.org and was one of the funders to create CAP, the Center for American Progress headed by John Podesta which is an analysis, strategy generator and implementer for the Democrats. It is described in the November 18, 2008 Bloomberg -- Three blocks from the White House, on the 10th floor of a sleek glass building, young workers pound at computers, with giant flat-screen TVs overhead. It has the look and feel of a high-tech startup.




http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aF7fB1PF0NPg&refer=us

2. Soros has made a lot of money from other people's problems - SorosWatch.com - George Soros' War on the Poor - April 21, 2009 - George Soros told The Australian that the world financial crisis was”stimulating” and “in a way, the culmination of my life’s work.” George Soros also told a Hungarian news agency he was “sincerely sorry” about his fund’s last-minute short sale of bank stock and added, “I no longer oversee the running of Soros Fund Management. I withdrew last year and now only direct deals on my own account.” Was that an, "Oops, I slipped?" reason for the problem it created?

http://www.soroswatch.com/tag/george-soros/

3. Soros profits from decline of American Dollar - The April 4 Bloomberg article linked below points out that Soros bets on the decline of the American dollar. "The market disruptions prompted Soros last year to resume a more active role in managing the $17 billion Quantum Endowment Fund, which provides income for his philanthropic projects. He has bet on declines in the dollar and U.S. and European stocks, and expects increases in foreign currencies as well as Chinese and Indian equities. "



http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=ayFW7vlhFivM&refer=india




4. Soros puts $35 million of his money with $140 million Stimulus money (targeted, immediate job creation?) to give to school children - taxpayers making the Soros-Obama administration team look charitable with taxpayer debt. Notice whose name is prominent. The New York Daily News August 12, 2009 - "Back to school spree: Billionaire, feds give out $175M to aid neediest students around the state. Read more:"

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/08/12/2009-08-12_billionaire_feds_give_out_175m_to_aid_neediest_students_around_the_state_its_fre.html#ixzz0RERRAHJV
5. Soros invests in a Brazilian oil company - August 15, 2009 Bloomberg -- "Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund's largest holding. "

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aFHPjfeUvtl8

6. Peak Oil News & Message Boards had a post (which was higher than the $2 billion loan which I saw elsewhere) on August 10, 2009 -- The U.S. government is prepared to provide up to $10 billion in loans to finance the development of massive hydrocarbon reserves off Brazil’s coast, a Brazilian official said Wednesday.




http://peakoil.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=50486



This raises two questions:




a. What is the source of the funds from the US?




b. Why would we back oil exploration which George Soros invested in rather than stimulate our economy by backing the proposal in August of 2008 to stimulate the economy and provide energy independence as reported in the September 2008 issue of Imprimus - "Alaska is already preparing for its next role—providing American consumers with a safe and secure domestic source of crude oil and natural gas. In fact, if energy imports were curtailed completely, Alaska could provide our nation with seven years of crude oil independence and an eight-year supply of natural gas. These are numbers that reflect known and recoverable oil and gas deposits." Do Alaskans not need jobs and America not need energy independence?




http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=09




ADMINISTRATIONS PATH AND ASSOCIATIONS

A. ACORN CONNECTION:
1. The Chicago CBS news for August 2009 - "The City of Chicago is basically closed for business on Aug. 17, a reduced-service day in which most city employees are off without pay. City Hall, public libraries, health clinics and most city offices will be closed. In addition to reduced service days, all non-union employees were asked to take a series of furlough days and unpaid holidays, and most non-sworn union employees agreed to similar unpaid time off. " Management has room for improvement just as California's management has negated the effects of the real estate and dot com booms.


http://digg.com/d310tmL

2. Pittsburg Tribune-Review in an August 22, 2008 article reported, "U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports. "

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_584284.html

3. An ACORN associate group? funded for presidential campaign work. New York Times October 10, 2008 - "Even before Friday’s conference call, Republicans had made much of an $832,598 payment made in February by the Obama campaign to Citizens Services Inc., a consulting firm affiliated with Acorn.
“This organization is not just related to but deeply ingrained in the Acorn organization, a front group for Acorn,” Mr. Davis said." This was misrepresented according to the next link.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11acorn.html


4. The September 16, 2009 edition of the Bulletin, Philidelphia's Family Newspaper ran an article on the campaign connection and the fact that the New York Times spiked the story of a whistleblower about the issue - "A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign because it would have been a “a game changer.” "

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/03/30/top_stories/doc49d0a73c7f98e547489394.txt

5. Michelle Malkin, in an August 22, 2008 post, stated, "There’s much more to the story of Obama’s amended campaign finance reports than what Obama and the Obamedia will tell you. I will fill you in on what’s missing in a moment. What we have here, essentially, is Obama using a non-profit group called Citizens Services Inc. as a front to funnel payments to ACORN for campaign advance work. "


http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/22/acorn-watch-pt-ii-obama-hid-800000-payment-to-acorn-through-citizen-services-inc/


6. Big Government on 9/12/2009 posted an article titled, "Former leftist activist turned FBI informant pulls back the cover on ACORN" - "Though the majority of residents either hadn’t heard of ACORN or simply disagreed with their politics- ACORN insisted that they were THE Black leaders. This was upsetting to me. Sure, the local pastor we worked most closely with was Black; but that didn’t matter to ACORN. "

http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/12/former-leftist-activist-turned-fbi-informant-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-acorn/

7. The New York Post September 16, 2009 ran an article on P... and Hooker catch Brooklyn staff with references to the other catches - "As in prior videos released by the filmmaking team of James O'Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, employees of the group -- which specializes in housing and voter activism -- were eager to dispense advice on gaming the system and skirting the law."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/pimp_hooker_catch_staff_Js4YPEcsCcxLZhAEehLhmL

8. Michelle Malkin's September 16, 2009 blog post on "What is missing from the New York Time's coverage of ACORN?

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/16/whats-missing-from-the-new-york-times-coverage-of-acorn/

OTHER ITEMS:

1. Kevin Johnson investigation by IG Harold Walpin fired by Obama for uncovering his friend's corruption??? The June 19, 2009 Wallstreet Journal reported - "President Obama swept to office on the promise of a new kind of politics, but then how do you explain last week's dismissal of federal Inspector General Gerald Walpin for the crime of trying to protect taxpayer dollars? This is a case that smells of political favoritism and Chicago rules." and "Obama supporter Kevin Johnson. St. HOPE had received an $850,000 AmeriCorps grant, "

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124511811033017539.html

2. Michelle Malkin's blog post on June 26, 2009 discussed the suppression of an EPA report which was counter the administratins intentions - "On March 12, Carlin’s director, Al McGartland, forbade him from having “any direct communication” with anyone outside his office about his study. “There should be no meetings, emails, written statements, phone calls, etc.” On March 16, Carlin urged his superiors to forward his work to EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, which runs the agency’s climate change program. A day later, McGartland dismissed Carlin and showed his true, politicized "

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/26/epa-plays-hide-and-seek-suppressed-report-revealed/





An interesting point made on another person' blog is "The "Crisis Strategy" can be traced back to the first Communist state under the Russian Bolsheviks. Subsequent refinements developed by the Frankfurt School, Antonio Gramsci and Saul Alinsky and implemented by the American Left through the Democrat Party, have finally borne fruit with the election of Barack Obama, a radical thoroughly schooled in these methods. This strategy will destroy our country as we know it. Time is short. Time to see the truth. Time to get moving."

http://obamacrisis.blogspot.com/2009/09/america-spoke.html

Capitalism is funding the destruction of capitalism in America. The funding of Brazil holding back nucleur and natural resources on shore.
and it becomes obvious to me that this is the mindless chatter created by the Alinsky strategy used so effectively to gain power and create the problems with our country leading up to the financial debacle. There was a claim that the Republicans did not vote for the first TARP because they were throwing a tantrum about Pelosi's unbelieveable pre vote speech on TARP. The Democrats did not need Republican votes to pass it. They had Bush and the power to pass it, but did not want to own the disaster that they knew it could be and yet the lemmings chanted it is just a tantrum. RACISM too is just mindless chatter because the liberals think that the American people are so stupid that they will overlook the potential devastation this type of program could create for America as well as some links below showing what is going on in the background while we get all Wee Weed up about health care.

THE QUESTION IS, "DO THEY WHO CLAIM RACISM AGAINST THE OPPOSITION THINK THAT THERE ARE THAT MAY GULLIBLE AMERICANS OUT THERE?

“Life's tough......it's even tougher if you're stupid.” -- John Wayne

RESEARCH, VET AND STAY GLUED TO THE TRUTH

IT IS OUR WEAPON AGAINST DECEIPT AND ILLUSION

ttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aFHPjfeUvtl8

Testimony to the wisdom of the American voter. Take a politician out of a corrupt machine ruined area and give him more power and influence. This is the Peter Principle to the 10th power. We have seen the liberal philosophy in California and New York and the majority do not listen to those of us who yell out warnings. I was baffled for a long time at the intelligent people who are liberal and vote for more of what doesn't work. I present two definitions of the type of people who support this problem on my factsforreality.net website and point out that I am open to be shown how I am one of them instead of the liberals. We now see a government that thinks running out of money in a give away Cash for Clunkers is a success instead of seeing it as evidence of their inability to analyze and accurately predict how a program will operate. They then want to do a major overhaul instead of fixing existing problems. Insane to think that this is safe during these incredibly dangerous times.

Conservatives see the Obama administration as driving an armored car with the nations wealth in it at a high rate of speed. There are those on the left who are running interference and yelling, "Give him a chance." and "Just listen to him." and those on the right who are called racist by many on the left as they yell, "You might want to check out that cliff ahead." because they see him as making good time down the wrong road.

The Stimulus Bill was passed quickly without review so that we would turn the economy around and not exceed 8% unemployment - Now in the high 9s. Looking at what it has created for employment raises the question, "What if we had not indebted the nation for that amount of money?" I don't see that much in targeted, quickly created jobs and we are doing amazingly well in spite of the lack of them. Where would unemployment be if our priorities had been on small business stimulation? Is it true that the NEA which does Obama Art got more money than small business? I don't know, but it would give us a great insite into this administrations perception of private enterprise, the engine which made America great a long time ago.

Timeline of some of the events which failed to prevent the FannieMae/FreddieMac debacle. Where is our investigation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM

I did not come up with the AWFUL administration (AWFUL = Alinsky Warriors Fooling Unknowing Lemmings) to be derogatory. It is meant to convey a very accurate description, if I am correct in my analysis, of the Democracy loving American people having lost a battle and the Whitehouse has been taken over by a group with a totally different philosophy of government. They have assaulted the engine which gave America an incredible advantage over the rest of the world - described in The 5000 Year Leap. I also came up with definitions on my blog to describe the two types of mentallity, mooreon and WIIer which support the enemy in the battle to keep our country. This does not look like just a Democrat thing to me.

http://factsforreality.blogspot.com/2009/08/alinsky-verses-beck-we-have-opportunity.html

Check out the Gross Operating Budget

http://www.blogger.com/www.usdebtclock.org


I have a Letters to my grandchildren section on my website and this was one of the things during the campaigning which terrified me. What we see depends mainly upon what we look for and the people telling me, "Just listen to him." were intelligent and it baffled me how they could hear and not get the warning. I created the definitions of WIIer and mooreon to describe this baffling occurance at such a high rate. "PLEASE READ WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN AND LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF YOUR COUNTRY. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK AND JUDGE THOSE WHO CREATED WHAT YOU INHERITED. PLAY TO THE STRENGTHS AND CHANGE WHAT DIDN'T WORK SO THAT YOU GIVE YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AN EVEN BETTER COUNTRY THAN YOU INHERITED. PROTECT THEM FROM HARM. THAT IS YOUR OBLIGATION WHICH I HOPE YOU MEET. I FEAR THAT WE WILL NOT MEET THAT OBLIGATION TO YOU. I TRULY HOPE THAT YOU WILL SEE ME AS A PARANOID OLD FOOL AND ENJOY THE GREAT COUNTRY WHICH MY GENERATION INHERITED WHICH ALLOWED US TO LIVE IN WHAT I PERCEIVED AS LALALAND. JUNE 30, 2009" My letters ramble because they were in rough draft with notes form and not finallized because I work and have other responsibilities which keep me from dedicating the amount of time that I want.

Changing the 911 meaning and significance is beyond belief obvious in mental programming of Americans. I do not understand why we don't have a more public push for the Walpin AmeriCorps corruption investigation put aside, the call for an investigation for ACORN corruption which now appears to be in motion.

I have a cause to tie Congressional pay, retirement healthcare and other benefits to parameters which indicate the health of the country. Politicians get paid incredibly well in spite of the damage which they do to our country. This is a SCREAMING EXAMPLE OF WHY THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT EFFICIENTLY RUN PROGRAMS. There is no incentive to do their job because there is no accountability. Is that as crazy and naive as it appears to me?
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WHO ARE THE REAL RACISTS?

There are two very different schools of thought about how our country should be managed by our employees in Washington DC.

I have three sections in this post.

1. Conservatives with expertise ranging from law, economics, politics and entertainment who happen to be black - qualifications for a conservative do not include skin color - question boldly those who would say that opposition to a program based on facts is racist. I am open to question and input, but as of this moment, I feel that they have to be racist to make that claim and I explain why.

2. Quotes which point out that we are not in new times. Humans have recycled different methods of government throughout history and the book, The 5000 Year Leap, makes the point that America is unique and puts forth the authors consclusions as to what caused it. We started out communally in Jamestown and that did not work, even on a small community scale.


3. Definitions and an illustration in simple terms of what conservatives fear.


ONE:




How could you possibly classify these people as racist? They are conservatives with expertise ranging from law, economics, politics to entertainment and they happen to be black. Thomas, Sowell and Williams are brilliant and expert in their fields. They put forth the reason that liberals are bad for the black people of America. I offer links below to give an idea of what a thinking person with a conservative view and a wealth of knowledge who happens to be black thinks:

1. Justice Clarence Thomas speaking about perspective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zssxz-oND7k




2. Thomas Sowell, Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow of The Hoover Institution of Stanford University at Stanford, California 94305 who has written more than 40 books on a variety of subjects including economics and ethnicity




Economic Facts and Fallacies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYIgdFlnRnc




Home Page with links to different categories including economi




http://www.tsowell.com/


 


 


3. Walter E. Williams, Professor of Economics at George Mason University


Home Page


http://economics.gmu.edu/wew/index.html




with links to several subjects such as the unintended consequences of the War on Poverty




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1r-r6iLBEI&feature=PlayList&p=8F6669EBA4AD450E&index=0&playnext=1




4. Greg Morton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhhkF3dqXR0




5. Alan Keyes, an American conservative political activist, author, former diplomat and campaigned for public offices

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlTgrMCxPg




6. AlfonZo Rachel speaking on his views about our country and his conservative view







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acQluy7nymw&NR=1




It seems to me that a group which uses racism to market their program or oppose a proposed program must be racist because they believe racism is still a viable manipulative tool. They would not believe that if they were past racist views unless there was evidence of it among the population. I do not pick up racism in my interactions with people opposed to the massive government programs. I, rather, pick up a concern that this administration is either fiscally incompetent or they have an alterior motive. Maybe FDR was right, but that is not what his Secretary of the Treasury said after they tried stimulating the economy. The Republican Party proposed candidates like Janice Brown and Manuel Estrada who were attacked by Democrats. Was that because the Democratic Party is comprised of racists who divert attention from themselves by calling the opposition racist. I would look at them and say, "I think thou dost protest too much!"




TWO: These thoughts are about humans managing themselves by past thinkers


Frederic Bastiat - (1801 - 1850):

1. When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.
2. Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
3. People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.


Ayn Rand - (1905 - 1982) novelist and philosopher who left Russia and settled in America:


1. "It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."


2. "So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?"


3. "The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time."


4. "The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. "

5. "Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear."


Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the Univeristy of Edinburgh, about the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:


"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.""A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.""From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.""The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.""During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage"


C. S. Lewis - (1898 - 1963) born in Belfast, Ireland

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

THREE:

My goal in this blog is to look at how we deal with issues using the healthcare reform issue as an example of our interactions. This is a very important issue which will determine where our country will go and where it will end up. I have people who believe differently than me and I know that they are too intellectually capable to be defined by my first definition listed below. I would, therefore, believe that one of us fits the second definition. There are groups of some Big Business people/some lobbyists/some Big Union people/some politicians and George Soros who is integral in the Democrat Party who work for their good with a disregard for our welfare. They keep us away from looking at them by instigating battles between groups such as the union worker and non union worker who both live in the same world and prosper or suffer as a result of the management of our country. We aren't paid well like a legislator regardless of the damage which we inflict on the system. The following definitions which have no relationship to party or belief system - only describing an intellectual deficiency and an unwillingness to challenge what they want to believe respectively:


MOOREON refers to an intellectual (thought and reason ability - not intelligence) deficiency and has nothing to do with ideology and beliefs. It rather has to do with an inability to determine whether something is true or false. Mooreon, a definition proposed on factsforreality.net, refers to a person who can see information challenging their beliefs, but does not have the intellectual capacity to process it and challenge that which supports the position that they choose even if their position is based on an illusion rather than what is real.


WIIer is a WILLFULLY IGNORANT INTELLECTUALThose who will keep to a narrow information channel which feeds them information, accurate and complete or not, to substantiate their desired point of view. A WIIer has the intellectual (thought and reason - not intelligence) ability, but is consciously unwilling to look at information which may challenge their desired point of view. A lot of us are going to online versions of foreign newspapers to find out what is happening in our country as well as other online sources.


This saying applies to all humans who fit the three sheeple category - The three sheeple:


Hear no other point of view


See no other point of view


Discuss no other point of view


I would suggest to anyone upset with the two definitions that you take some time for introspection because, in my opinion, you are dangerous to yourself , others and our country.




Obama is like the driver of an armored car with the National Economy in it headed at a high rate of speed for a cliff with some mooreons and WIIers yelling, "Just give him a chance!" and some people who studied Aesop's fables saying you will destroy the country doing this large of a program when you can't run smaller programs and keep FannieMae/FreddieMac solvent.
A final thought about a recent development in American politics is the apathetic American standing up and defending what they feel is an assault on the structure of America by using the strategy which allowed the assault to happen. Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals has now been adopted to a certain extent by the REAL American Patriot Army which has substituted TRUTH for deceipt and illusion.
As an example:
1. Campaigner Obama instructed the people to judge him by those with whom he associates and he named well respected people in different fields
2. President Obama built a group in excess of 30 czars who are not accountable to anyone but him and who hold radical views. Van Jones was arrested and put in jail, came out an avowed Communist and made statements about giving the wealth to the American people. The videos of his speeches and quotes presented by Glenn Beck who instructs his audiance to be peaceful and rational staying solid to the truth because the left wants an incident. He warns the viewer to carry cameras and record instances such as have happened at some of the rallys. Alinsky Rule #12 does not appear to be working any longer when you look at the ratings of the people attacked by the left. I think that the thinking people understand that the more effort that is dedicated to destroying a person, the more truth that that person represents. If that is true, I would steal a quote from a radical, "Ain't America Great?"
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THANKS TO THE SACRIFICES OF THESE PEOPLE - OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN SAFE FROM THE OUTSIDE



This is a "THANK YOU!!" to our service people for putting their lives on hold and on the line without regard to a discussion of the wars in which they are involved. These people are the reason that we are still Americans without another country's rule and I just wanted to acknowledge them for giving me the opportunity to enjoy my life in America.

The One Finger Salute

Today at 7:05am
Read below pic before making judgment on 'The Finger' gesture and you'll understand....


Leading the fight is U S Marine Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as 'Iron Mike' or just 'Gunny'. He is on his third tour in Iraq . He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour. Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US Marines. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. 'You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision,' he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term 'the longest walk', stepping gingerly into a 5 foot deep and 8 foot wide crater. The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7 inch knife to probe the ground. 'I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs,' he says. 'That's when I knew I was screwed.' Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet 'A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded,' he recalls. 'As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me...' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down.' His fellow Marines cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there 'My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down,' says Sgt Burghardt. 'I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a rea l sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. 'I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher.' He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. 'I flipped them one.. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week.' Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit. Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

Thank you for enduring the heat, the hard work and the sacrifices. I appreciate more than I will ever be able to show. Ross



PlesiosaurDiamond March 13, 2009

Song: Letters from War Artist: Mark Schultz A tribute to all of our troops, and for my good friend SharpLugia! Enjoy my best work yet!

 

 

 

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