He Is Heavy, He’s My Government
July 21, 2012 Leave a comment
H/T to a blog down under, another land of the free and the brave:
http://catallaxyfiles.com/category/libertarians-dont-live-by-argument-alone/
Depends On You
July 14, 2012 Leave a comment
The 2012 Presidential and congressional elections will be reflections of who you are. You will be deciding whether you want to be represented as a slave under a bigger more intrusive government with its plantation inducing mentality or whether self-government and self-determination will best speak for you. The former is easy – show up and do nothing except what the master tells you to do. The latter requires blood, sweat and tears.
Let me ask you straight up: what would provide you with more self-esteem? A government welfare check for subsistence or a check handed to you by your accountant after your company succeeded and made a profit? Or equally, a check handed to you by your employer because the company you work for succeeded to make payroll for another week because of your input? The former just pays the bills (and likely buys several lottery tickets). The latter provides for yourself, your family, your grandchildren and much more.
Another question: With those same checks in hand would the person with the government welfare check be more willing to give to charity or would the person who was handed the profit-sharing dividend or a paycheck be more willing to give to charity? (A Christian would have to be the second kind of person. King David once said, “I will not offer to the Lord something that costs me nothing?”)
You don’t have to think hard about this. The answer is obvious to most right thinking people, the vision is clear, but it is hidden from those who vote for Obama and the Democrats.
Progressives and their “Lean Forward” campaign (funded with monies from foreigner George Soros) want the U.S. government to dole out cradle-to-grave entitlements thereby making Americans utterly reliant on the political ruling class and their condescending “we-the-government-know-what’s-good-for-you” pseudo-altruism. In reality, these two-armed bandits want more gambling revenue to throw at money laundering schemes like Solyndra.
Thomas Sowell in his book of articles and essays The Thomas Sowell Reader describes the Big Government vision promoted by the ruling class “anointed” …
The anointed want to eliminate stress, challenge, striving, and competition. They want the necessities of life to be supplied as “rights” – which is to say, at the taxpayer’s expense, without anyone’s being forced to work for those necessities, except of course the taxpayers.
Nothing is to be earned. “Self-esteem” is to be dispensed to school children as largess from the teacher. Adults are to have their medical care and other necessities dispensed as largess from the government. People are to be mixed by race and sex and whatever else the anointed want to take into account, in order to present whatever kind of picture the anointed think should be presented.
This is the vision of human beings as livestock to be fed by the government and herded and tended by the anointed. All the things that make us human beings are to be removed from our lives and we are to live as denatured creatures and directed by our betters. (emphasis mine)
Those things that help human beings be independent and self-reliant – whether automobiles, guns, the free market, or vouchers – provoke instant hostility from the anointed.
Below are two contrasting videos: one video depicts a life on government programs ala The Life of Julia. The other describes you as a self-governing self-determining free person. I ask you, who is more empowered? You already know the answer. Vote the answer and not what the plantation’s political ruling class is promoting via the main stream media (MSNBC‘s Lean Forward Campaign, Media Matters, etc.).
Is the future of America you holding your DMV issued health-care card and food stamps? Or is the future of America (you and me) dependent on our own self-government and our own self-determination while holding on to our self-esteem and liberty? For a while fascism’s authoritarianism feels safe and secure but that quickly changes. You soon become a slave or an automaton in the system. Liberty on the other hand is scary good. As I have said liberty requires responsibility on your part but liberty is supremely worth it.
Yet, if the Obama plantation feels safe, if you see yourself as dependent on the master for your life then go with that but please don’t vote to take others with you.
Others have made freedom and choice their life:
http://demetriuspeaks.com/2012/07/06/what-it-means-to-be-a-black-conservative/
Thomas Sowell notes in another article, “Entitlement is just a fancy word for dependence.”
The full article here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/267898/dependency-and-votes-thomas-sowell
Who represents you in Washington is a reflection of you. Do you like what you see?
Democrats and the plantation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig2KmRI-S4A
Independence Day:
All Bets Are Off
July 7, 2012 Leave a comment
Barack Obama is “Betting On America.” That’s right. Like most Democrats (Illinois Democrats are a prime example) BHO has made America his favorite slot machine. The gambling analogy is very apropos. He wants to gamble away our earnings, our future.
People, just keep giving BHO your money (or other people’s money) and he will keep pulling the lever for you until something good comes out. Expectations are big. Hope and Change are full tilt. This is Progress for Democrats: spend more, tax more, build more casinos.
But what comes out when the lever is pulled? Excuses. Joblessness. Cronyism.
Have you heard of the person who keeps doing the same thing while hoping for a different result? Insanity accounts for the actions of BHO the politician. Insanity also accounts for the votes of those people who continue to elect Democrats: “We keep hoping something good will come out of this – that we will win big in this Grand Casino of life.” “If only we could win without putting any of our money in. That would be all the better.”
Has our good money been thrown into the government slot machine? It wasn’t your money to lose? Oh well, there’s more where that came from right? Heard at the buffet table: “The 1% need to do their fair share so we can keep playing the slots.”
Your vote matters. 2012: Vote insanity and excuses out and reality in, if not for yourself then at least for your children and grandchildren. Don’t gamble with our future.
On higher plane:
A Return to Failure is Not a Step Forward
May 31, 2012 Leave a comment
Three and a half years into Obama’s presidency it would be naïveté and simplemindedness to blame George Bush for the economy’s problems. During his term as president Obama, the Amateur, has taken all the wrong actions or no actions at all when action was called for. His reign of malignant incompetency has passed the onerous Dodd-Frank act and Obamacare legislation further crippling our nation. And, Obama has surrounded himself with incompetent and partisan people who promote racial strife, class warfare and division – a second civil war has been forced onto our nation.
Obama is a president who is proud of the fact that more people of this nation are on welfare and receiving food stamps than at any time in our nation’s history. He encourages dependence on government Yet, one would think that an American president would work to produce the opposite effect – more people able to care for themselves. Instead, Obama’s incompetence and his top down government policies are forcing our nation into indentured servitude fit for his plantation. Obama and the government will become your taskmasters. As once free people of a great nation you become slaves beholden to the whims of the masters. A political civil war must be fought to oust the slave market creators – Obama and the Dems.
If you voted for Obama in 2008 here are only some of the overall economic effects of his Hope and Change administration. These are economic facts and they do not convey the pain, the suffering and the lost hope that millions of the unemployed feel:
From the post “The Great Obama Welfare State:”
Much has changed in America since Barack Obama was sworn into office as the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009. In less than 1,000 days as chief executive of the U.S., President Obama’s failed policies and initiatives have resulted in a dizzying array of dismal economic statistics. As it stands now, Obama appears headed toward an economic legacy that may very well surpass Jimmy Carter in its level of failure.
Government dependence, which is defined as the percentage of persons receiving one or more federal benefit payments, is at a staggering 47%, its highest level in American history, while 21 million households are reliant on food stamps.
…
According to the August employment report from the Department of Labor, the nation’s unemployment rate remained at 9.1% with a total of zero jobs added to the economy during the month. Among demographic groups, Latinos had an unemployment rate of 11.3%, while African-Americans posted a rate of 16.7%. For blacks, that represents the highest unemployment rate for this group since 1984 and a rate more than double that of whites (8%).
When Obama took office in January 2009, the nation’s unemployment rate stood at 7.8%, a rate higher than the historic norm, yet far below the current rate, and above any rate during the Bush administration. Since June 2009, six months into Obama’s term, the nation’s unemployment rate has been at or above 9% during 25 of 27 consecutive months.
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The economic numbers are especially poor for the demographic groups that most supported Barack Obama at the polling booth in November 2008.
Take Wayne County, Michigan, for example, where President Obama made a Labor Day economic speech. This county, which includes the city of Detroit, voted for Obama at a rate of 74% in 2008. It has been estimated that Detroit’s “Real Unemployment Rate” might be upwards of 45%, and Michigan remains the state with the dubious honor of having the highest unemployment rate.
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These woeful economic figures have come during a time in which we have experienced the most government involvement in the economy since the days of FDR and government spending without parallel in our nation’s history.
The list of taxpayer-paid government bailouts and government spending under the Obama administration is seemingly endless and has resulted in our national debt now above $14.7 trillion.
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President Obama has thrown billions upon billions of dollars at the U.S. economy with nothing to show for it. His so-called stimulus policies have been, in fact, contractionary and his presidency stands to be remembered as nothing short of an economic failure. (emphasis mine)
Can anyone in their right mind believe that any of the above is good? Can anyone in their right mind vote for Obama and Democrats again?
In November vote for anyone but Obama and you will go Forward. End the growth of failure now.
When You Wish Upon Obama…
May 13, 2012 Leave a comment
you enter the Disneyland-like fantasy world of smoke and mirrors, the amusement park of progressives. It is there that …
…you live under Chicago style politics instead of the U.S. Constitution.
…you receive Eric Holder – Black Panther style justice which is no justice.
…your liberty is traded for political hype: “Hope and Change’: “Yes, We Can”.
…the extreme Left receives all manner of special interest goodies. The resulting financial shortfall will be devastating (see Greece, Spain, Portugal, California). Our children and grandchildren will receive the enormous debt burden.
…the government becomes a monopoly, a monopoly that cannot and will not be broken down. Because of this the competition of the free market system, a system that works to lower consumer cost and to ensure better quality products and customer service will vanish from the scene. You will have to take what the government gives you or go to a black market.
…under Obamacare you have health coverage (you are fined for not having it) but not health care. You will have bought the lie.
…whatever health care you do receive will be meted out by bureaucrats (czars) who will tell how much, when and what kind of health care you will receive. They will also decide who lives and who dies, who benefits and who goes without.
…you are free when Obama says you are free.
…you will have your “fair share” when you understand that running from and resisting the Tax Man is impossible and you surrender. You then become enslaved and live on Obama’s Progressive plantation.
…the only good energy policy is the energy policy that financially powers the Obama candidacy and his progressive agenda.
…America will become a subset of the European Union. (BHO wants to eventually become the potentate of the world.)
…democracy will become meaningless because you will have ceded your liberty to a small group of people who you will be told have your best interest at heart. Your vote will mean nothing. Czars and bureaucrats will replace your representatives.
…a top down government will break the back of the states and in the process also destroy individual liberty. All of this for the sake of controlling costs, controlling your money and controlling you the citizen.
….Christians will be persecuted. The main stream media (powered by Obama’s political and secular colonialism) will openly attack Christianity as not being inclusive enough, as being too extreme. All this and more while homosexuals will be allowed to teach your children their moral values in the public schools.
…absolute moral truth will be replaced with the increasingly vogue secular religions of fairness, egalitarianism, environmentalism and political correctness. These ersatz religions are based on relativism and humanism. These ersatz religions will become the state religions and be reinforced by those who are in power using the main stream media.
…your voice will be silenced (i.e., the fairness doctrine) by the Obama regime if you disagree with his message. And, if you believe that the fairness doctrine will only neutralize conservatives, you are in complete denial. Totalitarians always direct the conversation. Controlling the message, the ideology and indoctrination are central to controlling the citizen on the plantation. See North Korea. See China. See Stalin’s Russia. See…
…your voice will be silenced in deference to a few well-connected intellectual elites who will be exalted within their “ivory tower” college professorships. Your “worker bee voice” will be not be heard. Instead, your life will become ‘handled’ by these self-promoting social-scientists who receive their power from above.
…America will be divided into those worship the Obamic Vision and those who do not. The race card will be used extensively to promote a divided nation. And, more and more people will claim minority status so as to indemnify themselves against “hate speech”. Class warfare rhetoric will be used to conflate fairness with an unjust confiscation of property
…your whole purpose in life under Obama will be to become a complacent useful idiot, no more, no less. Through taxation you will be required to buy into the BHO lottery: “Hand me your money and your liberty and we will take care of the rest. Yes, we can.”
…the subsequent rioting in the streets that will occur because of all of the above will be quashed by use of the totalitarian forces put into power by you the voter.
When you wish upon Obama you get the president and the government you deserve.
*****
Imagine 2012
May 10, 2012 Leave a comment
Imagine no Obama
It’s easy if you vote
No hell to live in
No debt to dash your hope
Imagine all the voters
Living with certainty…
Imagine no nanny state
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing but free markets
With fairness though and through
Imagine all the people
Working for their means…
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope today you’ll join us
And help us vote out the One.
Imagine no recession
I wonder if you can
No slump, no desperation
A real “Yes, we can.”
Imagine all the people
Giving charitably…
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope today you’ll join us
And help us vote out the One.
***
It’s important to know Obama’s vision of the world:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6QOscKvUjU
The Grim Repeater
April 29, 2012 Leave a comment
Wall Street Journal, Thursday, April 19th, 2012:
Wonderland by Daniel Henniger, Deputy editor, editorial page,
It’s 1936 All Over Again
The Obama 2012 campaign is channeling the ghost of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Depression.
With a small group of credulous millionaires joining him at a White House séance the other day to support the Buffett Rule, the Conjurer-in-Chief called forth the spirit of Ronald Reagan, who the president averred would have supported his magic tax on “millionaires.” There have been 43 other presidents of the United States. The last one you would associate with Barack Obama is Ronald Reagan.…
FDR’s 1936 speech, however tough and accusatory, had Roosevelt’s natural personal buoyancy. Barack Obama has no such gift for popular uplift. Reagan and Bill Clinton had it, and it was an underestimated piece of George W. Bush’s two successful presidential runs.
Barack Obama is, frankly, a pretty grim guy. He does try to mitigate the downer mood—”This is also about growth”—but ultimately his audiences always hear about the ditch someone else put them in and the superhuman effort “we” have to make to pull out of this deep hole.
Barack Obama is grim because he believes, and has always believed, that dark forces are actively at work in America to shaft the middle class. So do his closest supporters. So you run on anger and antipathy.
Can you re-run Roosevelt’s Depression strategy without Roosevelt? In tough times, some voters will buy it. But I don’t think enough will to produce a majority of the beleaguered.
Barack Obama is asking people to cast a less-than-hopeful vote in November. Resentment is not something most people in 21st-century America carry around in the front of their heads. Once Barack Obama stirs it up, as he’s doing now, he has to sustain it for six months. He is asking people to vote out of something resembling, well, depression. (emphasis mine)
Cindy Wity 
More of Less?
July 28, 2012 Leave a comment
You have a choice in November. You could choose more of the same deficit leadership or you can choose wisely.
You can choose Obama’s anti-capitalist Marxist socialism which seeks to “materialize” everything in its path including you. Obamacare is only the beginning of this dehumanizing process. You can choose to exalt redistributive materialism to the neglect and hurt of your own soul.
You can choose more bureaucracy and more IRS agents and less control of your own life and property. You can choose to increase government’s monopoly and its power grab of the private sector. You can choose to be just another cog in the collective. You can choose sameness for the sake of egalitarianism.
You can choose Obama’s class and race warfare, a malignant stratifying of people into special interest groups. One civil war in this nation wasn’t enough, right? One nation under Obama? It will never happen! Obama works to polarize the nation, to make some people more favored than others thereby tossing justice by the wayside. You can choose more rancor and strife and less community.
You can choose more voter fraud, more Black Panther intimidation. You can choose more Eric Holder and his Fast and Furious lying. And you can choose more injustice and less rule of law.
You can choose Obama’s devotion to special interest groups such as the environmentalists and his own circle of friends (Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s Solyndra’s buddies, etc.). You can choose favoritism over equal opportunity.
You can choose more homosexuality and with it bullying disguised as “Diversity.” You can choose less family values when you vote for Democrats.
You can choose his “You didn’t build that” rhetoric and decide that you really are too stupid to build anything on your own. You can choose Obama’s shaming you into submission and less his offer of incentives to even try to succeed.
You can choose more abortions and more food stamps and more bureaucracy and more people telling you what to do, what to eat, what to drive and how to spend your money. You can choose endless higher taxes, more casinos, ever-increasing debt. That’s the Obama way.
You can choose to pay for Obama to play more golf so that he can relax while he’s thinking about the millions of people who are out of work. (BTW: Obama has played more than 100 rounds of golf in three and one-half years compared to Bush’s 25 rounds in eight years! And, Obama has had only one cabinet meeting so far this year. It is now the end of July!) You can choose more of same insipid leadership and less vision. Or, you can choose wisely.
Per the unspoken rhetoric of Obama and Democrats like Elizabeth Warren, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi they are counting on the rich to succeed. They hope the 1% will provide enormous tax revenues to pay for all of their Great Society gambling debts. These Democrats promote class warfare against the very rich believing that the middle class will benefit. But nothing happens in isolation. The middle class will suffer if the very rich are no longer able to invest their money. This type of over-arching economic thinking is lost on the Democrats. They are only looking for the short-term power and money grabs.
These political fat cats want to control free enterprise thereby keeping individuals from creating wealth which aids human flourishing. In so doing they can keep their hands in till. They gain access to their “fair share” in the pea and shell game of government. This is called “Progress” but “political corruption” is its true name.
These snake-oil salesmen, the Democrats, will tell they have a cure for society’s ills: higher taxes. They believe that if they can just throw more money at a problem that the problem will magically go away. This “lets-be-reasonable” irrational thinking is exactly the same type of thinking behind the extensive guns laws passed by the City of Chicago, the strictest gun laws in the nation. Their shot-gun approach to passing guns laws has not resulted in a decrease in violent gun-related crime in this city. Rather, Chicago’s murder rate is the highest in the nation. But the Democrats of the state of Illinois aren’t saying much about that. No. Now they want to throw more gun laws at the bullets. More of less. That is the Democrat’s answer to our dying culture. Maintaining political power is more important than the people on the streets. They march in your parades while backtracking on your best interests.
The only tools in Obama’s “community organizer” bag are raising taxes and blaming others. That’s all you’ll ever get from Obama and the Democrats. That, and more casinos. You can vote for more of the same anemic leadership, more scapegoating and less vision. You can vote for more economic stagnation, more radicalism, more of less.
You can also choose European style top-down government and place yourself at the bottom of another list. You can choose a culture of dependence for yourself and your kids. Our national debt is the insurance policy of our nation’s ongoing slavery to debt. Obamacare is just the name on one of the policy brochures.
With your vote you can choose Democrats and the decline of America. You can choose more of the same devastation to individual liberty. You can choose the monopoly of government.
The Democrat party is the party of less liberty. You can vote for less liberty but in doing so our nation, without your individual dynamic of liberty put to good use, would soon implode and become the vacuum that totalitarianism rapidly fills without ever asking for your vote.
I’ll leave you with this interesting statement from Chairman Mao on April 30, 1971:
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/harris/1973/02/sincelin.htm
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