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Our Korean Problem is "Made In China" Too!
North Korea would have to do more than fire a missile for a retaliatory response from us. I doubt any action besides sanctions of some type would be taken unless there was actual destruction done due to a NK missile landing somewhere. One could probably land smack in the middle of San Francisco in front of the Mayors Office and as long as it didn't explode the Weirdo Liberal Anti-Americans living there would most likely oppose us retaliating. "Well gee whiz, it didn't explode, so what's the big deal? Lets have a protest march instead, it's our Countries fault for not giving North Korea more of what they wanted in the first place..." (Does anybody really think that if we helped NK they would actually not turn around and stab us in the back like France and many other Countries have done that we helped?)
Our Country feeds it's enemies, helps
countries like China economically and moves industries to India and
other second and third world countries until they end up getting so competitive
that now they're competing for the worlds oil supplies... and we
wonder how we got into the spot we're in with high gas prices! Keep buying
Chinese and other foreign made products from countries that really hate
us people, and someday if you’re unlucky enough our country won't be
manufacturing a damn thing anymore. From pots and pans, plastic products,
food, clothes, chemicals, pet food, toothpaste, auto parts, shop equipment and whatever
else you can think of,
it gets "Made in China" shipped here and bought by total
Morons
that wouldn't notice they're the real problem if it bit them right in their ass! What the hell is wrong with our Leaders in the last 40 to 50 years anyway for allowing this to happen? Is it that some people have to be kicked in the ass over and over again before they finally learn a lesson? Why bother building your Military when you can take advantage of the USA, sell them your stuff and still have them protect you even while the US economy changes from a manufacturing climate to a service oriented climate. Either enter the service industry or be a slave to their manufacturing industry base they have built on our soil. Wake up Americans! It's past the time we realized that there is no such thing as Patriotism when it comes to what once were known as "American Corporations" but are now calling themselves "International Corporations". These companies would sell our country down the river to make an buck by helping to export our manufacturing jobs to cheap foreign labor. The moral and final lesson of this story has yet to come, and we can still do something about it Friends, but the sun is setting on American manufacturing now. You can still buy the American made products that are still being produced here even if they cost a little more. Keep in mind that every dollar saved buying a foreign made product sells our future, your future, your kids future, your neighbors future... your Country's future down the road of no return that much quicker. Remember you read that, so you can think about the choices you made later if things get so bad you begin to wonder how it all came about. Manufacturing has steadily moved out of the USA for years now, try finding a USA made TV set, radio, fax machine, computer, the list goes on and on. Hell, even Levi Jeans has had problems because of the cheap foreign cloths that are flooding the market. Did you ever think that the company that invented "Jeans" would actually be beat down by cheap foreign "Jean" copies? If we don’t watch out, someday China may stop selling us the Military Uniforms it makes for us and we may have to actually start a textile industry here again to get more… That is unless we buy them from India, Mexico or somewhere else where our textile industry moved to. Wal-Mart became the biggest store in America by helping to undermine our manufacturing industries by predominately selling cheap foreign junk to stupid narrow-minded Americans. Then paying some of the lowest wages in the USA to it's workers while raking in billions of dollars in profit so they could buy more cheap Chinese crap to have low-paid American workers load on Wal-mart shelves so other even dumber Americans could put it in their shopping carts... Then they go home and wonder just where the good paying American manufacturing jobs are going to. It's a circle jerk of stupidity and greed. More people own American Flags "Made in China" than made in the USA these days!
The whole thing makes me sick… Help our enemies get strong enough to really take us on? That’s the American way? How Damned Stupid!
By Rick Smith APFTE
And then there were none: A
free market assessment on the race for the presidency...
The withdrawal of Fred Thompson from the presidential primary
will have far more of an impact to the Republican primary than to dampen
the spirits of Thompson supporters. To say it plainly, the exit of
Thompson marks the end of the potential of a conservative entering the
White House in 2008. A person might believe that I will be starting a
long-winded defense of Thompson but that is not the case. My goal today
is to bring readers to a sense of the cold realities of the political
state of affairs from the perspective of a cold handed dealer; that is,
the free market. If we look at the presidential primary we can see that
Thompson, as well as the other true conservative in the race, Duncan
Hunter sowed the seeds of their own defeat. I say this in truth as well
as in sadness as I was a strong Thompson supporter and I believe that he
would have made a very able president. However, if we fail to face the
truth we’re doomed to a
repetition of this kind in the future.
I continue to believe that the majority of this nation embodies
mainstream conservative values. We see this time and time again when
social and fiscal issues are allowed to be voted upon by the citizenry.
So, if this is true, why are the candidates that remain in competition
for the Republican Party that have any chance of winning moderates at
best and moreover liberals in reality? Why did true conservatives like
Thompson and Hunter fall by the wayside? The answer is that both
candidates in different ways failed to address free market requirements
for success and they suffered the consequences. It breaks down pretty
simply. People are consumers and when it’s time to select a
Presidential candidate they buy with their voting dollar. They invest in
a Presidential candidate that markets his or her wares to the public the
most effectively within the laws of supply and demand. Yes, we listen to
the debates, read the flyers, we think, we ponder, and pretty much kick
the tires on each candidate until we come to the critical decision on
who we want to invest in.
If you can place your mind in the free market mentality of supply
and demand it is easy to see that it
is absolutely necessary that any product, no matter its superiority,
must be marketed properly. Thompson, while I believe he had the superior
product for the current market failed to advertise himself in a way to
maximize his strengths. First, he got in late in the race and missed the
window of opportunity to maximize his marketability. By the time he came
into the race many potential Thompson supporters, anxious to invest
promotional labor behind a candidate, opted for lesser candidates that
actively wanted the position. Compounding Thompson’s woes was his
perceived sluggishness and lack of tenacious vigor after announcing his
candidacy. Later in the race Thompson would begin
to assert his oratory skills and lay out his superior conservative
record but by that time, people for the most part had invested in their
candidates. Again, we see this in the free market. Even the best
products that are marketed poorly collect cobwebs on the shelf until the
business eventually closes its doors. Duncan Hunter’s inability to
promote his conservative strengths, namely his ability to get progress
made on the border fence, helped to bring about his political demise. All this may sound harsh but it is both the cold truth and the beauty of the free market. I am a champion of the capitalistic free market system and I defend it at length from liberal socialists who would like to dismantle the market’s cold hand of supply and demand and replace it with warm uniformly of government distributed misery. I find myself constantly reiterating that the free market never promises success for anyone, simply a fighting chance for everyone. Hard work, innovation, marketing, and a viable product will always be the components of success. Within these requirements, Thompson and Hunter failed to sell their product to the American people properly. I think that is a shame as I believe the country will need what they had to offer down the road. What now? Republicans find themselves now attempting to compete with liberal Democrats in the market place of ideas without a product that differentiates itself. Plainly put, voters no longer have a liberal and conservative product to choose from. The free market no longer will be based on supply and demand but on the precarious tenets of the selection of lesser evils. This is a losing proposition for Republicans who would have the audacity to believe that consumers would have an interest to invest in social liberalism within the Republican Party when they have tried and true products in the Democrat Party already time tested and on the shelf. The market cannot be blamed, the blame falls on candidates who have marketed themselves poorly and the candidates who remain that fail to contrast themselves with the competition. The final question will be answered down the road and that is whether consumers of the conservative ideology will change their buying habits or just stay home? By
Paul A. Ibbetson (Paul A. Ibbetson is a published author and lecturer on the Patriot Act. He is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the book “Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society” that is available for purchase at www.patriotactresearch.com and www.ibbetsonusa.com as well as other major book outlets. Paul is a regular writer for the Conservative Crusader as well as 35 other online websites.)
Ok... Bush Does Suck... When George W. Bush was first elected US President, this website held high expectations of the new President and gave him the benefit of the doubt... clearly, our expectations have been shattered.
"The Bush Presidency SUCKS!" His absolute mishandling of the illegal immigrant invasion as well as the general protection of our borders, resulting in the deterioration of the level of safety for American Citizens and his general apathy to the wants and demands of concerned Americans would lead any fair-minded American to cast a no confidence vote on his performance up to now.
As one news source properly puts it... "Are
the drivers properly licensed and sober or well-rested with the legal
amount of down time? Do they speak English or understand U.S. road
signs? Will the trucks be carrying illegal immigrants, drugs,
terrorists, nuclear or biological weapons or other contraband? Will they
belch tons of banned pollutants into America’s air? Will lower-paid
Mexican drivers put American truckers out of work? Will the trucks gut
the tax base which supports the U.S. highway infrastructure?" Newsmax Lets hope the next election doesn't bring us some apathetic person like Bush into office and while we're hoping we might as well hope the next President isn't a socialist/commie anti-American like Hillary or Obama or a isolationist with his head in the sand like Ostrich Ron Paul.
Keep your fingers crossed... Rick Smith APFTE QUITE AN ANALOGY...
10) If we can’t drill, can’t refine, can’t mine, can’t build nuclear power plants and can’t burn fossil fuels, how can we become “energy independent”? I mean besides returning America to the Stone Age. Posed by JB Williams©2007 USA Soldiers, who are now or have ever been on the battlefield, already know the difference between support and surrender, just as they know the difference between redeployment and retreat. Although leftist Democrats have been largely successful in fooling many Americans into believing that their surrender agenda is some form of support for the troops, the troops certainly know better…and so does the enemy. Meanwhile over in the People’s House, Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her House Democrats have passed another bill that would sabotage the war effort. Some say sabotage, others call it support… Those truly interested in supporting our troops are not demanding that our troops retreat in defeat. They are asking our troops what they need in order to succeed and then moving heaven and earth in order to provide the troops with everything they ask for, and then some. Have you ever seen a Democrat besides Joe Lieberman take this stance? (APFTE NOTE: Democrat Zell Miller is a staunch supporter of our military too.) Real supporters are relying upon battle tested military experts and real-time information in theater, to make day to day, sometimes minute to minute adjustments in strategy. They are not relying on armchair generals back in Washington DC who are too busy waging a different war for a different purpose to worry about such trivial things as winning the international war against terrorism, beginning with Iraq, or keeping America safe from the next strike at home. By JB Williams LINK
Guest opinion by John W. Lillpop Dear Dubya: America Don't Need No Stinkin' Reform! A comment concerning the State of the Union address delivered by President Bush on January 23, 2007: This
text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of WEATHER BULLETIN: Up here, we just recovered from a Historic event--- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to tens of thousands.
George
Bush did not come. Maybe SOME people will get the message that American Taxpayers Do Not owe you a living. APFTE NOTE: Over a week after the initial event the area was finally officially deemed a "Disaster Area". But you didn't hear one single cry of "Racism" or "Discrimination" did you? We know why... do you? It's a matter of background and upbringing.
"He is an anti-Semitic son of a bitch. He should (expletive) die!” Loudmouth Joan Rivers says Mel Gibson deserves death for the anti-Semitic remarks he made during his drunk driving arrest. Considering all the nasty things Joan has said about people during her entire career it's amazing none of her targets have demanded her death for it yet. If Mel would have said something bad about Catholics, or Lutherans she may have probably enjoyed it or used it in her vindictive act. She doesn't even have to be drunk to say evil things about others and managed to build her whole career on doing it. Joan is a hypocrite of the first degree and happens to be just too ignorant or crass to realize it. Mel was drunk, and made a huge mistake, but Joan has made a living out of saying hateful things about other people. Who is really the worse kind of person... Mel or Joan? We pick Joan. If Joan Rivers began apologizing this very day, it would take the rest of her miserable life to make up for all the nasty, vindictive comments she has aimed towards others in the past. R. Smith APFTE 10-15-06
I've wondered about Mel Gibson's grip on reality in the past... fanatics seem to turn up in all types and styles don't they? I think it's that some people still hate him because of the movie he made about Christ that brings everything he mentions into the headlines. Anything he says will be paid great attention to, and him being drunk enough to make an outright anti-Semitic remark will be brought right into the limelight in a "New York Minute", and that my Friends is pretty fast! Mel seems to be a very enthusiastic person and people like that are prone to occasionally make a mistake. It not only was a stupid thing to do on his part but inaccurate as well. Jewish People haven't caused all the wars in the world, but anybody with a brain will have to admit that religion in general, has caused many of the wars in the world.
John Lennon may have had optimistic thoughts there, however, all he did was ask people to imagine what it would be like without religion and heaven and he was dragged across the coals for it. One thing is guaranteed, if you disagree with some people about religion, you're asking for admonishment for sure. Religion is the single most sensitive issue with the least possible proof that it even has any factual foundation in reality, that can cause one person to want to actually kill another one... Some of them in the name of their God too! Just what kind of religions "Supreme Entity" would impose death upon people that just didn't submit to it? It's easy to believe the Devil would exact or condone such a toll, but a purportedly benevolent God? Kind of makes you reconsider just what some people are actually worshiping doesn't it? Without religion, that hellhole in the middle east would just be another piece of real estate. But the fact that several religions are based on assorted translations of what supposedly happened in the area thousands of years ago, fanatics from all sides are willing to kill and die for it. How downright wacky can it get! Then again religion brings out the madness in some people... and many of them don't even have to be drunk! What a shame and how ironic that "Religion," something that is suppose to bring you closer to the "All Mighty" has been the catalyst for so much suffering for mankind in that area and around the rest of the globe. And what's more, this is only the tip of the iceberg, because the most fanatically intolerant religion of them all, Islam, is going to give the worlds population that doesn't want to follow it a problem for the next 50 years or so yet before either they are quelled or calmed down in some dramatic way. I'll leave the dramatic way to your imagination... History has shown that since the "birth" of modern day religions, every 400 to 600 years a Crusades has been launched to stem the spread of one fanatical religion that causes so much death and pain to anyone that doesn't submit to it's follower's wishes. There is a History of problems stemming from that single religion that seems to be an adversary to free thinking people. The last time, King Richard the Lion Heart and other Christian Kings managed to deal with the problem using only Swords, Shields, Bows and Siege Equipment and it took many, many years. Now Fanatical Islam has grown stronger once more while the rest of humanity has ignored the inevitable, and now that same enemy of peace has raised it's ugly intolerant head once again. Quite possibly proving that until one side totally eliminates the other, the world will be subjected to this sickening reenactment of fanatical events for the next 1000 years and beyond. When it comes to Islamic Fanatics endangering innocent people, history has chosen to repeat itself again and again. The most ominous thing about it now is, we've become technologically developed to the point we can obliterate almost every Man, Woman, Child and animal on our planet, but not emotionally developed enough to overcome or control our idealistic emotional religious beliefs... This imminent Crusade may just let the "Nuclear Genie" out of the bottle... because these nuts believe it's good to die in the name of their cause and if that is indeed the case, then ironically, the next Crusades about 600 or so years from now, will most likely be fought with Swords, Shields, Bows and Siege Equipment again... Allowing Atomic bombs to get into the hands of Islamic Fanatics is just like handing a Chimpanzee a loaded machinegun! Mel Gibson has apologized publicly for the remark and seems sincere about it, lets see if the Leaders of the A. D. L. are big enough to accept his apology, because we have bigger problems right around the corner.
THE
DEM’S ARE CAUGHT IN A QUAGMIRE By Bruce Woodhull 8/7/06
Recently I was asked why many pro-illegal supporters marched under the banner of indigenous peoples rights. The tactic of claiming indigenous rights based on race and geographic distribution of indigenous peoples prior to European populations occupying North America is meant to subvert the US Constitution with an existing order of native law and claims to specific territory. Historically, a universally accepted form of law and tribal restraint did not exist on the level today's 'indigenous' peoples claim existed. Nor did specific boundaries and nation states exist as used for exploitation purposes of so-called 'indigenous' peoples.
This tactic has been devised by the American left (probably white academics with some knowledge of domestic sovereignty treaty) as an attempt to give anyone who claims indigenous ancestry legitimate claim and right to live within the established boundaries of the United States. Not only do those marches with the Che Guevara t-shirts and 'We were here first' banners think they will continue to receive taxpayer funded federal and state welfare entitlements, but they also have an opportunity to be instant millionaires once their tribal casino is built! Ironic isn't it, that communist influenced academics in the US use the carrot on a stick dream of instant wealth to fuel their revolution by attracting un-educated and irresponsible anti-Americans to their socialist cause. I can hear them plying their lies in secret meetings in the barrio: " El Casino is only a Congressional hearing away!" It's happening out there! I'm sure Teddy Kennedy will be made an honorary tribal member. His Indian name will be Buffalo Wallow Ted. By Bruce Woodhull 7/14/06 Note from
Rick: A better name for Teddy would be "Buffalo Chip Ted"...
article Part 2 La Raza, Azteca and La MeCha are all satellite groups of extremist racist HATE TEMPERED BY REVENGE CAN SAVE A NATION Most Americans were outraged at the news of the cowardly slaughter by butchering and beheading of two American soldiers in Iraq. American citizens have called for the military commanders in Iraq to ‘take the gloves off’ in Iraq rather than continue to fight a ‘sanitary’ war intended to reduce collateral damage in terms of civilian casualties. The
opponents of the war are quick to call for immediate withdrawal of
American troops from Iraq. This
‘cut and run’ political rant is nothing more than exploitation of
American deaths in Iraq for the purpose of liberal political expediency.
The calls for revenge and prompt action from angered and
frustrated Americans is justified and to be expected.
Our military is fighting a smaller force that have no regard for
their own lives or the lives of civilians or Coalition troops.
War science has shown that an insurgency cannot exist without the
support and aid of indigenous populations.
Someone in Iraq is offering cover and support to the terrorists
who butchered two American soldiers. The question is: who do we spare in the search to eradicate the cold-blooded killers comprising the insurgency. My answer is: spare no one. My belief is once the coalition troops hand over authority and prosecuting of the war to the Iraqi Army; a blood bath will ensue in Iraq. The Iraq Army will purge the terrorists and segments of the Iraqi population who support the insurgency. Europeans dealt harshly and openly with Nazi sympathizers during WWII. In the United States just the opposite is true. Anti-American organizations receive honored status on the pecking order of liberal pundits and academic hacks. The
left portrays the anti-American/pro-terrorist political rant as always
right and to be expected. What
the left cannot accept but is more than willing to exploit is the demand
of the American public for the harsh and swift revenge killings of the
sows that butchered two of our soldiers.
Indeed the anti-war American left and some media whores have been
‘praying’ for this to happen in Iraq.
To the left, this justifies their demands to pull out and
illustrates the desperate extremes the Iraqi ‘freedom fighters’ are
forced to indulge in to remove the American occupation forces from Iraq. We
have experienced this sort of hate and demand for revenge before.
In the 18th and 19th centuries America
forged westward into the expanses of territory occupied by Indian
tribes. The indigenous
peoples fought the advances of civilization with stone-age warfare.
Americans were outrage when they learned pioneers and American
soldiers were tortured and killed in the most horrific ways by the
Indians. Tales of
mutilation of the dead bodies of white Americans only increased the
American publics demand for harsh and swift eradication of the tribe’s
occupying the American West. Indian warfare has been chronicled in American literature and movies. In the movie version of James Fennimore Cooper’s ‘Last of the Mohicans’, Indian warfare was accurately portrayed. Indians attacking the British savagely hacked and bludgeoned the Red Coats to pieces. Scalps were taken in the blink of an eye. A British Colonel has his heart cut out by Mugwa while he is pinned under his horse. The movie ‘The Black Robe’ includes a scene where a Jesuit Priest has chucks of his flesh sawed off by an Indian medicine man using a flint knife. These portrayals of savage torture and killing are true. In response to Indian warfare the Americans employed technology and shear numbers to defeat the tribes. While the country called for the total elimination of all Indian tribes in the West, Christian’s morality called for mercy and an attempt of civilizing the tribes. The
creation of Indian reservations and missionary establishments in Indians
Country was a unpopular cause, but the humanitarians prevailed.
The mere fact the Indians were not totally removed by warfare
from the face of the earth gives tribute to the Christian influence of
principled convictions of the Founding Fathers and disputes the use of
the word ‘genocide’ by Indian historical apologists. Today hatred of terrorists in Iraq is an expected reaction. This call for revenge is a healthy hatred that insures the survival of the United States. Without the human response to the dehumanizing and butchering of Americans we are lost as a nation and a people. If we do not hate the actions of terrorists and those who support them we essentially condone their actions and can expect the terrorists to expand their terror to the United States. I encourage Americans to demand the eradication at any cost to the nation of Iraq until the terrorist cause is ground into the bloody dirt of the Middle East. I also encourage the history of this war never to be forgotten in our schools and national archive. This hate we feel today needs to be tempered by revenge and not appeasement or retreat. By Bruce Woodhull 6/24/06
MY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE CAN BEAT UP YOUR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
The new catch phase for pan-patriots on the left is ‘Indigenous People’. |
CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR OBAMA QUESTIONS LEGALITY OF SLAVERY BAN This week, Barack Obama's challenge is to select a running mate who's young, hip, and whose accomplishments in life don't overshadow Obama's. Allow me to suggest Kevin Federline. COPYRIGHT 2008 ANN COULTER Death
by Democracy Unwanted
Freedom Clearly,
based upon the voting habits of the average American ever since FDR
introduced Big Brother’s “New ( Freedom
is worth less than free-stuff. Who knew, besides Marx and Lenin? It
turns out that the father of Socialism Karl Marx was right, “Democracy
is the road to socialism,” - at least in any nation where
the people are ill-informed of history and apathetic towards their
future. I
have often pondered the logic of our Founders who saw fit to lay the
future of the greatest free nation ever known to mankind in the hands of
folks unable to read history, much less write it. In the end, it seems
that entrusting freedom and individual liberty to folks who can’t even
manage their own household might have been a silly notion. Unable
to Manage Personal Health We
must have government controlled socialized medicine. But since Americans
don’t like the word socialism, we’ll have to call it something else.
Maybe we’ll call it Universal
Health Care. That sounds much better than socialized
medicine, don’t you think? Unable
to Manage Personal Wealth We
have a “graduated tax” system by which we can legally confiscate privately
earned assets “from
each according to his ability” and redistribute them “to
each according to his need.” Since this idea was also
hatched by Karl Marx, we call it a “graduated income tax” so that
nobody will notice what it really is.
We’ll trade our unalienable
individual right to define and pursue (earn) happiness for
some government enforced greater
good. Unable
to Manage Our Sexual Appetite We
are trading the unalienable
individual right to life for more progressive
conveniences. Since free-sex often results in unplanned parenthood,
we’ll have to legalize a special kind of murder that only mothers are
allowed to commit. We’ll call it “abortion” so that people won’t
know it’s an innocent child being murdered. And since free-sex also
tends to result in unplanned life threatening sexually transmitted
disease, we’ll need a federal budget to take care of those who can’t
take care of themselves once they contract those diseases. And last,
since free-sex includes anyone or anything, we will need to re-define
the term “marriage” so that everyone has equal access to all the
government handouts designed to promote only the traditional family
unit. Unable
to Manage Our Work Habits and Productivity We
need some ex-organized crime bosses to head up a few labor unions so
that they can make sure that the least productive employees get their
fair share of payroll and vacation time at the expense of those willing
to do the work of three men. We’ll give up our right to succeed to
avoid our right to fail. Unable
to Keep Up with Politics We
won’t waste time trying to read up on history or current events.
It’s all just too frustrating and confusing anyway. We’ll just let
union bosses use a portion of our individual earnings to buy the
politicians they think we need. If that doesn’t work, they can always
buy another one. Politicians are always for sale, some of them, pretty
cheap. If we don’t belong to a labor union, we’ll just send a few
bucks to the national committee of choice and hope for the best. Unable to Manage a Family With
our divorce rate now over 50 percent, and every household needing two
incomes just to have life after taxes, children are raising themselves.
Since we failed at managing the traditional family unit, it will indeed take
a village to keep our kids out of prison or worse. Unable
to Compete in the World Great
competitors thrive on competition; they don’t run or hide from it.
Though I
can keep going, subject after subject, and so can you. Clearly, the
average person, even in In
light of this news, it’s clear that freedom and liberty is one of
those dangerous things that one should not
try at home, even in Oh
sure, we talk about loving freedom and demanding individual liberty. But
when push comes to shove, we vote against these ideas and in favor of
government issued economic security which can only exist in an
environment whereby we take “from
each according to his ability” and redistribute “to
each according to his need.” Unwanted
Freedom Real
freedom is tough. Individual
freedom comes with a few unsavory friends, namely individual
responsibility and natural
consequences for both our actions and our inactions. The
right to succeed brings with it the inherent right to fail. The right to
make choices brings with it the possibility of making bad choices. The
right to make even bad choices carries with it the right to face the
natural consequences of those choices. It’s
all just too hard. That’s why many of our 300 million Americans have
opted to entrust their lives and their entire future to just 545 special
Americans. They place the entire nation and the personal well-being of
300 million Americans in the hands of just 545 special Americans whom
they trust to know best and act in their best interest. Since we have
made such a mess of our individual lives, we hope that these 545 special
Americans will do a better job of managing the commune than we have done
for ourselves. 545
Special Americans One
President, one hundred senators, 435 house members and nine Supreme
Court judges decide everything today. This is the 545 special Americans
entrusted with the total well-being of 300 million American citizens.
They are indeed special… they must be. Nearly
each of the 545 are millionaires, riding in limousines, flying in
private jets, living in one or more mansions, wearing only the finest
designer cloths and eating at all the best restaurants. Most of them
were all but broke before grabbing the brass ring of federal office, but
they will never be broke again. 300 million average Americans have seen
to that. They
write and re-write via interpretation, the laws they live above and they
now decide what is best for every American since the average American
has traded their freedom of choice for free-stuff from the public
trough. It’s
called an oligarchy and becoming one of the special 545 is easy. It’s
a matter of knowing how best to pander to the desires of the electorate
always in search of more free stuff. There are only 545 positions
available, but anyone who can pander to the people fluently, can have
one of these positions, even if they have a resume void of achievement
like Barack Obama, a life long career of crime and corruption like
Hillary Clinton or decades of working against fundamental American
principles like John McCain. These
545 are very special. They are not held to any standard at all, so long
as they can tell the people what they hope to hear, that more gifts from
the public trough await them, and we won’t even be saddled with those
difficult conditions inherent with personal freedom. This
is the New American Dream The
old American Dream of individual liberty and personal freedom at any
cost has been traded for a more progressive
American Dream of free-stuff at any cost, in search of a peaceful life
free from natural individual consequences for the choices we used to
make individually. Individual
freedom has been traded for a greater
communal good whereby every American will be given a
government issued economic floor in exchange for accepting the
government imposed ceiling that must come with it. Sure,
it’s socialism. But it’s Democratic Socialism because every American
voted for it, or failed to vote against it. The
majority of Americans no longer trust themselves with freedom,
individual liberty and the burden of natural consequences for their
choices. So they turn those decisions over to the 545 special Americans
they elected to take care of every detail. It’s
not American… But it is democratic! Welcome to the new improved
progressive Written
by JB Williams
©2008 USA The Value of Venezuela The value of Venezuela puzzles me. I sit here and listen to the self-proclaimed culturally diverse shrug off threats of death and implementations of communism for culture, music and food. I can’t help but be disturbed by their ignorance. Calling Hugo Chavez anything but the next Stalin is like saying Al Gore truly cares about polar ice. By Sean M. Sullivan One Nation, Under Men, With Liberty for few and Justice for None...
Am I the only American left who does not care at all what happens to Paris Hilton? With all that is going on (going wrong) in our world today, I am amazed at how much press coverage we can afford to give one little spoiled party girl. I intended to be the only writer in America who did not write about Paris Hilton this week, yet here I am, forced to write about Paris anyway. | |