Dependence and equality is not compatible with freedom and balance is all too perishable. And so the question is... Where is America in the above list?
That you might choose responsibility (freedom) over dependency is the politician's, Academia, the legal system's and the main stream media's greatest threat. The essence of government spirit is to keep us united under a common bond, whatever [fear] that may be. And let's face it, we are so easy to unite [scare].
Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's Chief of Staff, said on November 19th, 2008,
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before".
He was echoing the quote of a political totalitarian, Niccolo Machiavelli, who said in the 15th Century,
"Never waste the opportunities offered by a good crisis".
Then in 1847, the London Communist League, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, developed their theory of communism by using Hegel's theory of the dialectic.
The theory in its simplest form is a system of manipulating the masses into compliant acceptance of a prearranged solution.
It has three parts:
- 1) Manufacture a problem of enormous magnitude.
- 2) Whip up hysteria by every possible means.
- 3) When people demand a solution, give them one... one which will cost considerable money, threatening their lifestyle and through the solution give more power to the controlling elite.
Sound familiar?
Whether you believe it or not you are being duped as governing by crisis is the mainstay of every totalitarian regime.
This is the basis for the socialist Saul Alinsky and the Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the "Cloward-Piven Strategy".
This strategy, which I will elaborate on in "How America Ends 11/11/09", details how forcing American society into crisis by over-expanding the government bureaucracy with a flood of social welfare and fiscally irresponsible social programs causes its economic collapse.
In the beginning of the end, the populous tends to believe that they can hire mercenaries for their duties. That is what is happening to America right now. We actually believe that Congress is looking out for us. Every great civilization from time immemorial has eventually violated this truth and in return their government was lost to the ages. Who can deny that the Republican politicians are no better than the Democrat politicians and that you are being duped for the sake of their hold on power?
Americans face a host of serious issues and Barack Obama has offered that "Dream". The recentstock market debacle, Lehman Brothers, the Fannie and Freddie crash, AIG and the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailout, a $787 billion dollar stimulus package [unread], a half trillion dollar omnibus bill, a 3.5 Trillion dollar budget and several $100 billion dollar afterthoughts has rightfully enraged Middle America. All of these are wealth redistribution and contributors to the deficit, which we will have to pay.
The U.S. financial system and the world financial markets are so stressed right now that it threatens the very social fabric of our nation, one that our fathers and their forefathers have already fought and died for. Will we keep our American entrepreneurial spirit, which we have bragged about and paraded before the world for over 220 years, or will we give way to a new form of socialism because we have hit a rough spot?
This is no reason to go off the deep end, throwing away our ideological sense of America in order to remove ourselves. Barack Obama and his Chicago ["I won"] gang as well as the liberal media have already gone out to celebrate... just a minute... not so fast... history abounds with examples of people wanting out of a bad situation and then being taken to worse. Read the history of the Bolshevik Revolution or the story of the rise and fall of Hitler if you want a good history lesson.
Most people will reject these words, but I can't help myself from writing them. This is the 'herd instinct' in human nature. It is in our psychic that under threats we cannot perceive [or manage] we want to join the socialist masses. Socialism is the very essence of government, of security, of the 'covenant of the fence', of protectionism, however we need to know where we are running... before we run over a cliff.
Most people stranded on an island-of-hell don't ask many questions when someone throws them a lifeline of hope. Maybe they should ask, but most people don't.
Who Have We Hired To Do Our Business?
"Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too"
Lichty and Wagner
On an indignant note, doesn't it make your stomach turn when our representatives are unwilling to vote for the bailout unless bribed by pork for their constituents? How could we have the biggest bailout in the history of our nation, almost a trillion dollars, an event billed by the politicians as the most important vote of their careers and they attach by some estimates 600 billion dollars of pork to it. What [the hell] is wrong with this picture? More important! What does this say if we let them get away with it?
These are some examples, $192 million for rum producers, tax breaks for railroad track maintenance, $10 million for film production expensing rules, etc., etc., etc. I'm thunderstruck by the ethics of this and any further words I put to it will not calm me down. Most important to keep in mind that it is my job to manage them... not berate them.
On October 1st, 2008, Senator Tom Coburn, Oklahoma, spoke about the bailout on the floor of the Senate.
"We have a patient with cancer and they have secondary pneumonia because of the cancer and we're going to treat the pneumonia. But we're not going to fix the cancer. We're gonna ignore the cancer. Let me tell you what the cancer is. The cancer is Congresses, for years upon years, have totally ignored the Constitution of the United States and taken us to areas where we have no business being. There is no way you can justify, in the U.S. Constitution, that the country ought to be the source of mortgages for homeowners in this country, and yet Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac control 70% of the mortgages in this country."
"If anybody in America is mad about this situation, there's only one place they need to direct their anger, and it's right in the Congress of the United States. What we're going to do is we're going to continue to treat the symptoms rather than directly go after the cause that has created the greatest financial risk and peril this country has ever seen. We're not going after the cause. The cause is; get back within the bounds of the Constitution... that very specifically says where we have business working and where we don't. We decided that we would ignore the wisdom of our founders and create systems that are outside the enumerated powers that were given to us because we know better... we know better. We don't know better, it is obvious."
"This body continues to spend more, authorize more, and create bigger and more intrusive government, limiting the power of the great American experiment to... in fact... supply an increased standard of living. We're in tough times, but they're going to get tougher until the American people hold this body accountable to live within the rules set out in a very wise, a very providential way that served this country well. We ignore this book, this Constitution at our peril... we are reaping exactly what we have sown."
10/1/08 Senator Tom Coburn, Oklahoma
Respectfully, Senator Coburn you have hit the nail on the head however I disagree with you on one very important point. The Congress of the United States [its members] are not the root cause.They have been allowed, through our apathy as Americans, to disrespect our Constitution and take us where we ought not to go. In the process they have stole us blind, but we have no one to blame for it but ourselves. Those who cannot see this deserve what they get.
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