Father, must I go to work?
No, my lucky son.
We're living now on Easy Street
On dough from Washington.
We've left it up to Uncle Sam,
So don't get exercised.
Nobody has to give a damn -
We've all been subsidized.
But if Sam treats us all so well
And feeds us milk and honey,
Please, daddy, tell me what the hell
He's going to use for money.
Don't worry, bub, there's not a hitch
In this here noble plan-
He simply soaks the filthy rich
And helps the common man.
But, father, won't there come a time
When they run out of cash
And we have left them not a dime
When things will go to smash?
My faith in you is shrinking, son,
You nosy little brat;
You do too damn much thinking, son,
To be a Democrat."
Friday, December 21, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
Immigrants and the American Dream: Then and Now
The broken immigration policy of this country does not aim to allow for immigrants whose professional or financial qualifications make them the primary candidates for invitation to become U.S. residents. Instead, it is those who can slip in to this country, usually destitude, and ready to attach to the government's teet, who are welcome in today's America. In fact I know this first hand as my mother-in-law, who was legitimately entitled to residency was given hell of a time (and whose files were lost after a costly and lengthy period of "processing"), got so disgusted that she went back to her native country. But that is a story for a different occasion.
How did America become the success story that no other nation could emulate in the grand scale that she accomplished? The short and simple answer is its founding principles, which served as the principal magnet for millions of immigrants who left behind everything just for the opportunity to excel in a free society in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
They came to escape oppression - both political as well as economic. As they risked everything, they had nothing to lose other than the chains that were holding them back in their old homes. So, they worked hard and expected nothing but the full fruits of their labor. They invented, innovated, and produced like no one ever did. As a result, they became the key drivers of the wealthiest nation that ever existed.
Today, and for the last half century, we have the same economic refugees as well. However, these are primarily refugees with a twist: ones who are coming to the U.S. because of the welfare society that it is fast becoming. Just as Western Europe is attracting Middle Eastern and African refugees (thanks to the generous benefits they provide) who are draining their coffers, the United States is attracting leaches from primarily Latin and Carribean countries.
The main force behind encouraging these immigrants is none other than the U.S. government. From insisting that the Embassy and the government of Mexico inform its citizens of the goodies they are entitled to last year, to the U.S.C.I.S.'s web site, the progressive policies adopted by this government are assuring that they (Democrats primarily) can count on their votes come election time. It is a recipe for disaster.
American dream is no longer the opportunity this country offers to entrepreneurs and professionals, but rather what people conditioned to recieve government benefits can get from Uncle Sam. Just like the great Roman Empire self destructed, the great American experiment is also headed for a disastrous conclusion, and that disastrous end is finally in sight. God help our children!
How did America become the success story that no other nation could emulate in the grand scale that she accomplished? The short and simple answer is its founding principles, which served as the principal magnet for millions of immigrants who left behind everything just for the opportunity to excel in a free society in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
They came to escape oppression - both political as well as economic. As they risked everything, they had nothing to lose other than the chains that were holding them back in their old homes. So, they worked hard and expected nothing but the full fruits of their labor. They invented, innovated, and produced like no one ever did. As a result, they became the key drivers of the wealthiest nation that ever existed.
Today, and for the last half century, we have the same economic refugees as well. However, these are primarily refugees with a twist: ones who are coming to the U.S. because of the welfare society that it is fast becoming. Just as Western Europe is attracting Middle Eastern and African refugees (thanks to the generous benefits they provide) who are draining their coffers, the United States is attracting leaches from primarily Latin and Carribean countries.
The main force behind encouraging these immigrants is none other than the U.S. government. From insisting that the Embassy and the government of Mexico inform its citizens of the goodies they are entitled to last year, to the U.S.C.I.S.'s web site, the progressive policies adopted by this government are assuring that they (Democrats primarily) can count on their votes come election time. It is a recipe for disaster.
American dream is no longer the opportunity this country offers to entrepreneurs and professionals, but rather what people conditioned to recieve government benefits can get from Uncle Sam. Just like the great Roman Empire self destructed, the great American experiment is also headed for a disastrous conclusion, and that disastrous end is finally in sight. God help our children!
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Fool Me Once Shame on You; Fool Me Twice....
Americans voted for Barack Obama in 2008 because of many reasons; among them were Bush fatigue, a boring Republican candidate in McCain who could not make a persuasive argument for his vision and the root of our problems, an ailing economy, the excitement of electing the first minority president, and many more.
In the months leading to November 2008, many on the right (as well as some in the Hillary Clinton camp prior to her defeat in the primaries) rightly raised many troubling questions about this relatively unknown candidate - Barack Obama. The progressive media quickly circled its wagons around their candidate of choice and protected him from being exposed as the radical collectivist that he had always been. Obama was quickly painted as a moderate whose radical parents, mentors, associates, speeches, even school records were nothing out of the ordinary. Obama was never asked the difficult questions. He was never made to answer any of the well supported allegations. Heck, no reporter even bothered to ask him what he meant by "fundamental transformation" of America despite the obvious connotations. Why would anyone who loved his country and the principles it was founded on want to fundamentally transform it? No one cared to ask questions or demand answers. The American electorate fell for it and the dye was cast.
The next four years proved the loyal opposition correct on a weekly, daily basis. Again, the conventional media sources concealed the truth as well as all the myriad of scandals from Fast and Furious to Benghazi, any one of which should have been more than enough to bring down the presidency. But the American people had a choice - alternative media as well as digging further in to sources like the Reuters and the A.P.; they simply did not exercise their duty as responsible citizens who are charged with protecting the integrity of politics in a republican system of government.
As per polls, Americans still do not believe in a collectivist state. Self identified conservatives outnumber self identified progressives by almost 2:1. Majority believe that the government is trying to do too much. Almost all Americans who are intellectually honest know the economic dire straits we find our selves in from unemployment to crushing indebtedness. Yet, Americans, in character with human nature, do not vote with their heads, but rather with their hearts. At the end, Romney could not bridge the head and the heart together. At the end, although Romney presented a much more distinct and clearer choice compared to McCain, American electorate chose to give the biggest domestic and foreign policy failure in modern times another 4 years to continue on the same disastrous path he put the nation on.
America has been on the road to ruin for quite a while thanks to continuing advancement of progressivism - over a century to be exact. This advancement speeded up in the 1950s with the hijacking of the public education system, and later with progressive liberal domination of the media as well as the entertainment establishments. This type of cumulative effect and the damage it does to the fabric of a society is rarely reversible, if ever. Obama is just the latest in a long line of grim reapers who have promised what equates to eternal life in return for the soul of the society. It is sad to see that Americans were not immune from promises that are too good to be true as they lost sight of the timeless principles our nation - the greatest ever devised on earth - was founded on.
Let me be on the record as not blaming Obama for what is about to happen to our country. I am not even going to blame the media or the educators or entertainers of the nation. They all have the same agenda, but we all make our own beds and therefore must sleep in them. Americans made their bed by not being engaged. On election day 2012, 13 million fewer voters went to the polls compared to 2008 despite the grave problems the nation is faced with. Democrats had the ground game and overcame the late surge by candidate Romney. And the rest is history - one that will be marred by the apathy of irresponsible citizens who are directly responsible for what befell America.
With citizenship comes solemn responsibility. Americans rejected this responsibility. They were fooled once in 2008 and I blamed the media establishment. They were fooled for the second time 4 years later despite everything that happened in the meanwhile.
Freedom is not only protected by soldiers. It is first and foremost protected by a citizenry that takes its duty to be vigilant seriously. Shame on those who would not learn from history. Shame on them for letting our brave soldiers, preserving their freedoms, shed their blood on foreign soils in vain.
America could surely survive the rule of collectivists as their reign is but temporary; but America just as surely cannot survive the apathy of its people or the poverty of spirit dependancy brings with it. This surely was the biggest let down of 2012, nothing else!
In the months leading to November 2008, many on the right (as well as some in the Hillary Clinton camp prior to her defeat in the primaries) rightly raised many troubling questions about this relatively unknown candidate - Barack Obama. The progressive media quickly circled its wagons around their candidate of choice and protected him from being exposed as the radical collectivist that he had always been. Obama was quickly painted as a moderate whose radical parents, mentors, associates, speeches, even school records were nothing out of the ordinary. Obama was never asked the difficult questions. He was never made to answer any of the well supported allegations. Heck, no reporter even bothered to ask him what he meant by "fundamental transformation" of America despite the obvious connotations. Why would anyone who loved his country and the principles it was founded on want to fundamentally transform it? No one cared to ask questions or demand answers. The American electorate fell for it and the dye was cast.
The next four years proved the loyal opposition correct on a weekly, daily basis. Again, the conventional media sources concealed the truth as well as all the myriad of scandals from Fast and Furious to Benghazi, any one of which should have been more than enough to bring down the presidency. But the American people had a choice - alternative media as well as digging further in to sources like the Reuters and the A.P.; they simply did not exercise their duty as responsible citizens who are charged with protecting the integrity of politics in a republican system of government.
As per polls, Americans still do not believe in a collectivist state. Self identified conservatives outnumber self identified progressives by almost 2:1. Majority believe that the government is trying to do too much. Almost all Americans who are intellectually honest know the economic dire straits we find our selves in from unemployment to crushing indebtedness. Yet, Americans, in character with human nature, do not vote with their heads, but rather with their hearts. At the end, Romney could not bridge the head and the heart together. At the end, although Romney presented a much more distinct and clearer choice compared to McCain, American electorate chose to give the biggest domestic and foreign policy failure in modern times another 4 years to continue on the same disastrous path he put the nation on.
America has been on the road to ruin for quite a while thanks to continuing advancement of progressivism - over a century to be exact. This advancement speeded up in the 1950s with the hijacking of the public education system, and later with progressive liberal domination of the media as well as the entertainment establishments. This type of cumulative effect and the damage it does to the fabric of a society is rarely reversible, if ever. Obama is just the latest in a long line of grim reapers who have promised what equates to eternal life in return for the soul of the society. It is sad to see that Americans were not immune from promises that are too good to be true as they lost sight of the timeless principles our nation - the greatest ever devised on earth - was founded on.
Let me be on the record as not blaming Obama for what is about to happen to our country. I am not even going to blame the media or the educators or entertainers of the nation. They all have the same agenda, but we all make our own beds and therefore must sleep in them. Americans made their bed by not being engaged. On election day 2012, 13 million fewer voters went to the polls compared to 2008 despite the grave problems the nation is faced with. Democrats had the ground game and overcame the late surge by candidate Romney. And the rest is history - one that will be marred by the apathy of irresponsible citizens who are directly responsible for what befell America.
With citizenship comes solemn responsibility. Americans rejected this responsibility. They were fooled once in 2008 and I blamed the media establishment. They were fooled for the second time 4 years later despite everything that happened in the meanwhile.
Freedom is not only protected by soldiers. It is first and foremost protected by a citizenry that takes its duty to be vigilant seriously. Shame on those who would not learn from history. Shame on them for letting our brave soldiers, preserving their freedoms, shed their blood on foreign soils in vain.
America could surely survive the rule of collectivists as their reign is but temporary; but America just as surely cannot survive the apathy of its people or the poverty of spirit dependancy brings with it. This surely was the biggest let down of 2012, nothing else!
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Zero Hour
It is here folks.
Get out and do your civic duty.
Do it for your freedoms.
Do it for the souls of those like Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty that cry out for justice.
Do it for restored respect around the globe.
Do it for the sake of those allies who rely on a strong America against collectivist and radical Islamic tyranny.
Do it for the 20 million plus unemployed Americans who are told that this is the 'new reality'.
Do it to restore dignity to the record number of welfare recipients, without which human spirit is dead.
Do it for energy independence.
Do it for fiscal sanity.
Do it for regulatory sanity.
Do it for your children's future.
Whatever your reasons may be, just get to your polling station and do it.
It is time to restore power where power is meant to reside: The American public!
It is time to depose the shamelessly corrupt narcissistic megalomaniac!
Get out and do your civic duty.
Do it for your freedoms.
Do it for the souls of those like Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty that cry out for justice.
Do it for restored respect around the globe.
Do it for the sake of those allies who rely on a strong America against collectivist and radical Islamic tyranny.
Do it for the 20 million plus unemployed Americans who are told that this is the 'new reality'.
Do it to restore dignity to the record number of welfare recipients, without which human spirit is dead.
Do it for energy independence.
Do it for fiscal sanity.
Do it for regulatory sanity.
Do it for your children's future.
Whatever your reasons may be, just get to your polling station and do it.
It is time to restore power where power is meant to reside: The American public!
It is time to depose the shamelessly corrupt narcissistic megalomaniac!
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
"We Leave Nobody Behind" - OH REALLY MR. PRESIDENT?!?!
Spiking the football, trying to score political points as he is accustomed to, the egomaniacal narcissist who we call our President said to the American Red Cross yesterday that "We (America) leave nobody behind".
Normally, this statement would not be so outrageous if only six weeks ago he did not leave four Americans to die in Benghazi without as much as lifting a finger during the nearly 7-hour ordeal.
What kind of a man (and I use the term loosely in this case) sits in the Whitehouse situation room and literally watches and listens to those he is charged with protecting ask for help three times over a 7-hour period and not lift a finger despite having forces at the ready only an hour away? What kind of conscience must such a scoundrel have to be so callous?
No, Mr. President, America normally never leaves any of its citizens behind. That, however, requires leadership. You never left the campaigning mode after the 2008 election. You never went in to the governing mode because that actually requires making tough decisions - something you have proven to be incapable of! For you to make such a statement while your hands are still dripping the blood of Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty - our heroic CIA security personnel who assisted the consulate against orders and gave their lives defending their compound - is no doubt the lowest point of your shameful, scandal ridden presidency. You are America's shame; one that will leave a stench for a long time no matter what happens in six days.
Normally, this statement would not be so outrageous if only six weeks ago he did not leave four Americans to die in Benghazi without as much as lifting a finger during the nearly 7-hour ordeal.
What kind of a man (and I use the term loosely in this case) sits in the Whitehouse situation room and literally watches and listens to those he is charged with protecting ask for help three times over a 7-hour period and not lift a finger despite having forces at the ready only an hour away? What kind of conscience must such a scoundrel have to be so callous?
No, Mr. President, America normally never leaves any of its citizens behind. That, however, requires leadership. You never left the campaigning mode after the 2008 election. You never went in to the governing mode because that actually requires making tough decisions - something you have proven to be incapable of! For you to make such a statement while your hands are still dripping the blood of Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty - our heroic CIA security personnel who assisted the consulate against orders and gave their lives defending their compound - is no doubt the lowest point of your shameful, scandal ridden presidency. You are America's shame; one that will leave a stench for a long time no matter what happens in six days.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Benghazigate: Enraging Story of an Unraveling Presidency and Media Corruption
Ill winds of a major scandal are once again blowing in Washington, D.C. Along with it, a shameful chapter in American presidential history is about to be closed even if it is no consolation for the loved ones of heroic souls Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, along with Ambassador Chris Stevens and Sean Smith of the Diplomatic Corps, who were sacrificed in the name of political expediency by a narcissistic megalomaniac and his inept and corrupt Administration; all aided by a shamelessly corrupt media. The pivotal role that each - the Administration and the media - play in this whole affair makes this two scandals in one.
The news developments in the Benghazi affair are coming fast and furious. Folks, this is dead-serious, infuriating stuff. In fact it is nothing short of a scandal of epic proportions that should end the political careers of all sorts of politicians, bureaucrats, and journalists involved in this cover-up. I say 'should', sadly because only FNC is widely reporting the revelations while the other Obama adoring lapdog media is brushing over this, having gotten cover by the Administration's assurances that they are "investigating" the matter. The idea is to delay reporting on more scandalous and potentially criminal details of just what happened during and after the Benghazi attack.
Here is a brief timeline (for more details follow this link), the troubling details, as well as the inconsistent statements and damning lies the Administration has been repeating:
► On the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, at 9:40 p.m. local time, the United States consulate/mission in Benghazi, Libya came under organized attack by an Al Queda affiliated terrorist group - Ansar Al-Sharia - using rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades, assault rifles, 14.5 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, diesel canisters, gun trucks, and mortars.
► Inside the consulate, which was not a secure building by any diplomatic standards, were Ambassador Chris Stevens and Sean Smith protected only by five contracted security agents, and four Libyans who fled the scene at the first sign of trouble.
► Ambassador Stevens was apparently involved in more than just diplomacy in its traditional sense. He played a pivotal part in arming the anti-government forces in Syria as well as Libya before Kaddafi's fall. He regularly was meeting with governmental sources from Turkey and Qatar who were sending armaments to the rebels. In fact, the good Ambassador was likely involved in clandestine activities that would make Iran-Contra or Fast and Furious look like child's play. The night he was killed, he had just met with an unnamed Turkish official in Benghazi. We will learn more about this later, but if true, this might further explain the reluctance by the Administration in divulging information, especially since this being an election year.
► There were multiple requests made for beefed up security in the months leading to the tragic events due to the increasing turmoil in the region, but were all turned down by the State Department which cited no specific reasons for the denials. A month after the tragedy, the Administration (led by the V.P.) would falsely claim that Republican led House of Representatives had cut the security budget severely as the reason security was not beefed up despite the fact that there were $2 billion dollars set aside for specifically this purpose that the State Department could have used.
► Within a mile of the consulate, a CIA compound/annex had several agents who were observing the events as they unraveled while being in constant communication with their supervisor. They were denied permission to leave the compound and assist the Ambassador and his entourage on two different occasions as we have found out (later CIA chief said that they were not the ones who denied the military support request, making White House the likely source of the denial). Two of these men - Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty - would later be casualties of this reckless, gutless Administration.
► Also, in the air above were two Predator drones sending real-time images/information to situation rooms in the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon, and all sorts of intelligence agencies including the CIA. This is one of the critical facts that came out as a part of the Congressional hearings over the past two weeks.
► The total duration of the two separate attacks on the consulate and the CIA annex was roughly 7 hours during which we lost four Americans who were bravely serving their country in different capacities. Once again, despite multiple requests for assistance and ample opportunity for a rapid response force to arrive from their base in Italy, these men were callously left to fend for themselves.
► At any time during the assault, no U.S. military intervention of any type occurred despite three different requests. The only assistance rendered (in violation of the orders from politicos in D.C.) were by Woods, Doherty, and two other CIA operatives at the annex. Later Woods and Doherty would give their lives while manning a machine gun on the top of the CIA compound.
► Following the tragic events in Benghazi, President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, Defense Secretary Panetta, and a host of other Administration officials made the tour of political talk shows and gave numerous press conferences where they gave conflicting statements ranging from this being the result of a protest against the infamous "Innocence of Muslims" movie trailer, to the assault being possibly a terror act against the U.S.A. To this date, the Administration is still not clear about what exactly went wrong and are refusing to release to the Congress the video of the fateful events.
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The Plot Thickens:
But wait, the twists in this sickening story still do not end there. We also know that two high rank military commanders have also been taken off duty since Benghazi. First, and the more damning, is the firing of General Carter Ham, head of AFRICOM. General Ham, as the commanding officer, received in real-time the same e-mails and communications as did the Situation Rooms in the White House and elsewhere. The unconfirmed story is that he was outraged by the order to Stand Down on requests for assistance that he over-ruled Washington's order. This explains why and how Woods and Doherty were able to go to the Consulate and assist in evacuating the survivors despite the outrageous orders to Stand Down. General Ham was reportedly fired one minute after he gave his orders to disregard the Stand Down order by his second in command. Since his firing, General Rodiguez has been given his post.
The second commanding officer to be dismissed right after the terror attack was Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette, the commander of an aircraft carrier strike group in the Middle East. At the time of the assault in Benghazi, Admiral Gaouette's strike group was deployed off the coast of Libya. It is my speculation that Adm. Gaouette ordered the two Predator drones to be deployed against orders from Scty. Panetta.
These two firings are also anectodal evidence that the orders coming from Washington on that fateful night were too outrageous for these honorable military commanders to obey.
The Media Angle:
Despite the obvious scandal surrounding the administration's action before, during and after the Benghazi atrocity, an equally outrageous scandal is the one surrounding the corrupt mainstream media's handling of it. When the final chapter of this dreadful story is written, the media will also have a lot to answer for over its indefensible conduct.
Consider the fact that Steve Kroft of CBS "60 Minutes" interviewed President Obama on Sept. 12, just hours after the attack. In acknowledging the pre-meditated terrorist nature of the attack, Obama told Kroft:
"You're right that this is not a situation that was exactly the same as what happened in Egypt, and my suspicion is, is that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start."
But CBS did not release this video clip until more than one month after it was recorded. Why? Meanwhile, CBS dutifully reported the White House-crafted cover story about the attack being due to a spontaneous protest over a 14-minute video that somehow spun out of control, a falsehood that the administration clung to for more than two weeks. CBS could have easily blown the cover off of that falsehood before it even got off the ground. But it remained silent and did not post the Kroft video clip online until Oct. 19, which was 37 days after it had been recorded.
Fox News reported on Friday that besieged consulate operatives on the evening of Sept. 11 had requested assistance through CIA channels and had twice been refused, with orders telling them to "stand down" rather than to help the ambassador. Yet this earth-shattering news was not reported on adjacent outlets. The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS all maintained complete silence.
NYT had room for 3 endorsements of Obama's re-election but no room to report this story. By contrast, a day earlier all of these outlets were able to give a full-throated airing to Defense Secretary Panetta's defense of the administration claiming that DoD did not have "real time information" despite the fact that the State Department's Charlene Lamb had continuous phone contact throughout the attack with the Benghazi consulate and there had been an aerial drone sending live-link video feed back to the White House situation room almost from the start of the attack.
Later in the day on Friday, CIA Director David Petraeus announced through agency spokesperson Jennifer Youngblood that:
"no one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate."
That meant one and only one thing. Orders to "stand down" had been issued from the Oval Office and nowhere else. Again, mainstream media sites maintained total news blackout. That blackout was maintained until AP reported the story almost 24 hours later, sourcing its report back to the original Fox News account as described in the linked story below. And notice AP's headline which touts the White House disputing the blockbuster revelations rather than the revelations themselves.
Whether it was media hostility to Fox News or outright cheerleading complicity with the Obama administration is not known. It is for those outlets to clear up the uncertainty. Don't hold your breath waiting for an honest answer. What is not even the slightest bit in doubt is that the mainstream media has sacrificed any entitlement to a presumption of integrity.
We expect politicians to lie, especially if a very unhelpful development occurs just as they are waging a desperate uphill battle to be re-elected. But we don't expect to endure media corruption at the same time, especially when they appear to be complicit with an increasingly endangered administration. Failure of mainstream media to pursue this entire story forthrightly has broadened it from an administration scandal into a major media scandal.
Conclusion:
Here is what it all boils down to, folks. Any foreign diplomatic post is in essence United States territory. Obama knew that a disastrous attack on its soil so close to the general election would have been a fatal blow to his re-election chances - especially since what allowed this to happen was their own criminal negligence in not taking threats that were communicated to them weeks before by the Egyptian and Libyan sources seriously, and the willful ignoring of requests by the Ambassador himself for extra security, the requests by CIA personnel for permission to assist those in the consulate, pleas for intervention by AC130 gunships and drones overhead as well as the quick reaction force deployed only an hour away in Italy.
It all (this inaction) makes perfect sense if you look at the Obama doctrine of leading from behind. In their demented view, the U.S. must never be seen as aggressors on foreign soils where we are trying to win the hearts and minds of the populace.
What was and is being protected here by the Administration as well as the main stream media, at a cost of innocent lives, is the myth of the unassailability of the Obama record as commander in chief. Obama himself has lied about it - no surprise here as he has proven over and over again that he is a pathological liar. He has covered up the trail of events before and after. He has shown no remorse. Just as vitally, he has not executed his job as commander-in-chief of the armed forces of our country, therefore he should be impeached for abdication of responsibilities under Article 2 of the constitution.
The progressive left has historically never had any problem sacrificing the truth, or even human lives, when it comes to achieving the outcomes they desire. Anyone with a sense of justice and regard for humanity can only hope that they drown in the spilled blood of those they are responsible for sacrificing. So come November 6th, as you are about to make your choice for president, listen well - the distant voices you hear are those of Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty crying for at least a small measure of justice.
The news developments in the Benghazi affair are coming fast and furious. Folks, this is dead-serious, infuriating stuff. In fact it is nothing short of a scandal of epic proportions that should end the political careers of all sorts of politicians, bureaucrats, and journalists involved in this cover-up. I say 'should', sadly because only FNC is widely reporting the revelations while the other Obama adoring lapdog media is brushing over this, having gotten cover by the Administration's assurances that they are "investigating" the matter. The idea is to delay reporting on more scandalous and potentially criminal details of just what happened during and after the Benghazi attack.
Here is a brief timeline (for more details follow this link), the troubling details, as well as the inconsistent statements and damning lies the Administration has been repeating:
► On the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, at 9:40 p.m. local time, the United States consulate/mission in Benghazi, Libya came under organized attack by an Al Queda affiliated terrorist group - Ansar Al-Sharia - using rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades, assault rifles, 14.5 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, diesel canisters, gun trucks, and mortars.
► Inside the consulate, which was not a secure building by any diplomatic standards, were Ambassador Chris Stevens and Sean Smith protected only by five contracted security agents, and four Libyans who fled the scene at the first sign of trouble.
► Ambassador Stevens was apparently involved in more than just diplomacy in its traditional sense. He played a pivotal part in arming the anti-government forces in Syria as well as Libya before Kaddafi's fall. He regularly was meeting with governmental sources from Turkey and Qatar who were sending armaments to the rebels. In fact, the good Ambassador was likely involved in clandestine activities that would make Iran-Contra or Fast and Furious look like child's play. The night he was killed, he had just met with an unnamed Turkish official in Benghazi. We will learn more about this later, but if true, this might further explain the reluctance by the Administration in divulging information, especially since this being an election year.
► There were multiple requests made for beefed up security in the months leading to the tragic events due to the increasing turmoil in the region, but were all turned down by the State Department which cited no specific reasons for the denials. A month after the tragedy, the Administration (led by the V.P.) would falsely claim that Republican led House of Representatives had cut the security budget severely as the reason security was not beefed up despite the fact that there were $2 billion dollars set aside for specifically this purpose that the State Department could have used.
► Within a mile of the consulate, a CIA compound/annex had several agents who were observing the events as they unraveled while being in constant communication with their supervisor. They were denied permission to leave the compound and assist the Ambassador and his entourage on two different occasions as we have found out (later CIA chief said that they were not the ones who denied the military support request, making White House the likely source of the denial). Two of these men - Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty - would later be casualties of this reckless, gutless Administration.
► Also, in the air above were two Predator drones sending real-time images/information to situation rooms in the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon, and all sorts of intelligence agencies including the CIA. This is one of the critical facts that came out as a part of the Congressional hearings over the past two weeks.
► The total duration of the two separate attacks on the consulate and the CIA annex was roughly 7 hours during which we lost four Americans who were bravely serving their country in different capacities. Once again, despite multiple requests for assistance and ample opportunity for a rapid response force to arrive from their base in Italy, these men were callously left to fend for themselves.
► At any time during the assault, no U.S. military intervention of any type occurred despite three different requests. The only assistance rendered (in violation of the orders from politicos in D.C.) were by Woods, Doherty, and two other CIA operatives at the annex. Later Woods and Doherty would give their lives while manning a machine gun on the top of the CIA compound.
► Following the tragic events in Benghazi, President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, Defense Secretary Panetta, and a host of other Administration officials made the tour of political talk shows and gave numerous press conferences where they gave conflicting statements ranging from this being the result of a protest against the infamous "Innocence of Muslims" movie trailer, to the assault being possibly a terror act against the U.S.A. To this date, the Administration is still not clear about what exactly went wrong and are refusing to release to the Congress the video of the fateful events.
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The Plot Thickens:
But wait, the twists in this sickening story still do not end there. We also know that two high rank military commanders have also been taken off duty since Benghazi. First, and the more damning, is the firing of General Carter Ham, head of AFRICOM. General Ham, as the commanding officer, received in real-time the same e-mails and communications as did the Situation Rooms in the White House and elsewhere. The unconfirmed story is that he was outraged by the order to Stand Down on requests for assistance that he over-ruled Washington's order. This explains why and how Woods and Doherty were able to go to the Consulate and assist in evacuating the survivors despite the outrageous orders to Stand Down. General Ham was reportedly fired one minute after he gave his orders to disregard the Stand Down order by his second in command. Since his firing, General Rodiguez has been given his post.
The second commanding officer to be dismissed right after the terror attack was Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette, the commander of an aircraft carrier strike group in the Middle East. At the time of the assault in Benghazi, Admiral Gaouette's strike group was deployed off the coast of Libya. It is my speculation that Adm. Gaouette ordered the two Predator drones to be deployed against orders from Scty. Panetta.
These two firings are also anectodal evidence that the orders coming from Washington on that fateful night were too outrageous for these honorable military commanders to obey.
The Media Angle:
Despite the obvious scandal surrounding the administration's action before, during and after the Benghazi atrocity, an equally outrageous scandal is the one surrounding the corrupt mainstream media's handling of it. When the final chapter of this dreadful story is written, the media will also have a lot to answer for over its indefensible conduct.
Consider the fact that Steve Kroft of CBS "60 Minutes" interviewed President Obama on Sept. 12, just hours after the attack. In acknowledging the pre-meditated terrorist nature of the attack, Obama told Kroft:
"You're right that this is not a situation that was exactly the same as what happened in Egypt, and my suspicion is, is that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start."
But CBS did not release this video clip until more than one month after it was recorded. Why? Meanwhile, CBS dutifully reported the White House-crafted cover story about the attack being due to a spontaneous protest over a 14-minute video that somehow spun out of control, a falsehood that the administration clung to for more than two weeks. CBS could have easily blown the cover off of that falsehood before it even got off the ground. But it remained silent and did not post the Kroft video clip online until Oct. 19, which was 37 days after it had been recorded.
Fox News reported on Friday that besieged consulate operatives on the evening of Sept. 11 had requested assistance through CIA channels and had twice been refused, with orders telling them to "stand down" rather than to help the ambassador. Yet this earth-shattering news was not reported on adjacent outlets. The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS all maintained complete silence.
NYT had room for 3 endorsements of Obama's re-election but no room to report this story. By contrast, a day earlier all of these outlets were able to give a full-throated airing to Defense Secretary Panetta's defense of the administration claiming that DoD did not have "real time information" despite the fact that the State Department's Charlene Lamb had continuous phone contact throughout the attack with the Benghazi consulate and there had been an aerial drone sending live-link video feed back to the White House situation room almost from the start of the attack.
Later in the day on Friday, CIA Director David Petraeus announced through agency spokesperson Jennifer Youngblood that:
"no one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate."
That meant one and only one thing. Orders to "stand down" had been issued from the Oval Office and nowhere else. Again, mainstream media sites maintained total news blackout. That blackout was maintained until AP reported the story almost 24 hours later, sourcing its report back to the original Fox News account as described in the linked story below. And notice AP's headline which touts the White House disputing the blockbuster revelations rather than the revelations themselves.
Whether it was media hostility to Fox News or outright cheerleading complicity with the Obama administration is not known. It is for those outlets to clear up the uncertainty. Don't hold your breath waiting for an honest answer. What is not even the slightest bit in doubt is that the mainstream media has sacrificed any entitlement to a presumption of integrity.
We expect politicians to lie, especially if a very unhelpful development occurs just as they are waging a desperate uphill battle to be re-elected. But we don't expect to endure media corruption at the same time, especially when they appear to be complicit with an increasingly endangered administration. Failure of mainstream media to pursue this entire story forthrightly has broadened it from an administration scandal into a major media scandal.
Conclusion:
Here is what it all boils down to, folks. Any foreign diplomatic post is in essence United States territory. Obama knew that a disastrous attack on its soil so close to the general election would have been a fatal blow to his re-election chances - especially since what allowed this to happen was their own criminal negligence in not taking threats that were communicated to them weeks before by the Egyptian and Libyan sources seriously, and the willful ignoring of requests by the Ambassador himself for extra security, the requests by CIA personnel for permission to assist those in the consulate, pleas for intervention by AC130 gunships and drones overhead as well as the quick reaction force deployed only an hour away in Italy.
It all (this inaction) makes perfect sense if you look at the Obama doctrine of leading from behind. In their demented view, the U.S. must never be seen as aggressors on foreign soils where we are trying to win the hearts and minds of the populace.
What was and is being protected here by the Administration as well as the main stream media, at a cost of innocent lives, is the myth of the unassailability of the Obama record as commander in chief. Obama himself has lied about it - no surprise here as he has proven over and over again that he is a pathological liar. He has covered up the trail of events before and after. He has shown no remorse. Just as vitally, he has not executed his job as commander-in-chief of the armed forces of our country, therefore he should be impeached for abdication of responsibilities under Article 2 of the constitution.
The progressive left has historically never had any problem sacrificing the truth, or even human lives, when it comes to achieving the outcomes they desire. Anyone with a sense of justice and regard for humanity can only hope that they drown in the spilled blood of those they are responsible for sacrificing. So come November 6th, as you are about to make your choice for president, listen well - the distant voices you hear are those of Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty crying for at least a small measure of justice.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Listen to Trevor Loudon
Trevor Loudon, a great New Zealender who does more to expose Marxists and other collectivists around the globe than anyone else, has recorded this message. Heed his warnings; he has been crusading against enemies of freedom for decades:
Monday, October 22, 2012
Questions Romney Should Bring Up in Tonight's Debate
In a perfect world, an impartial moderator would ask candidates about points of contention as well as other questions begging for answers. Well, that would be in a perfect world! Since we do not live in such a place where the media displays no bias, here is my suggestion for how Romney should approach this sham of a debate and the questions he should ask himself.
Romney needs to actively do three things tonight: Attack, Attack, Attack!
Obama foreign policy is the most incompetent and disastrous ever - much, much worse than even Carter's.
Point it out, Mr. Romney. Ask questions like:
'Mr. President, you would not support the Iranian protestors who begged for support and let them be massacred, yet you actively supported the pro-sharia Arab Spring protestors; can you tell the public why?'
and
'Mr. President, can you tell the American public why you flew to Las Vegas and Colorado on fund raisers within 24 hours of our Ambassador's assasination - the first in 30+ years - instead of meeting with your National Security Council? And while you are at it, can you please tell us why you have missed fully 60% of your National Security Briefings during your presidency?'
and
'Mr. President, isn't it abdicating your responsibility to our diplomatic staff overseas to deny them added security on the anniversay of 9/11 when they asked for it over and over again?'
and
'Mr. President, why did your Administration spokespeople keep on repeating a lie that you knew nothing about the cause of the Benghazi attack when later the CIA and other NSA officials made it clear to Congress in hearings that you knew this was a terrorist attack within 24 hours? While you are at it, why did the V.P. lie about the reason for added security to be denied when he said the Congress cut funding for security when it came out that there is over $2 billion available for such contingencies waiting to be disbursed?'
and
'Mr. President, what did you exactly mean when you whispered in to Mr. Medvedev's ear to tell Putin to give you time until after the election when you will have more "flexibility"? Is this the natural progression of us letting our allies down in the Czech Republic and Poland three years ago when we refused to honor our promise to install a missile defense shield? What exactly is our commitment to our eastern European allies in an age Putin's Russia is starting to behave as a bully once again?'
and
'Mr. President, your White House asked Palestinians to sit tight on statehood until your re-election. Coupled with your earlier comments regarding Israel's need to withdraw to its 1965 borders, are you letting our only ally in the Middle East know that they cannot count on the U.S.A. under your presidency?'
and
'The island nation of Fiji recently fell under Marxist rule and has become a base of sorts for the Chinese, what is your view on this situation and why have you or your State Department not made any comments about this worrisome development?'
and
Mr. President, you refused to back allies in Taiwan when you refused to sell them F-18 combat aircraft, in Colombia when you cozied up to their enemies in Venezuela and Ecuador who support the Marxist FARC guerillas, ......(list the long list of allies let down by this POS); can you explain to the American public if this is what 'leading from behind' is all about?'
and
'Do you think that a U.S. that abandons allies and cozies up to traditional enemies fosters trust on the part of our allies? Do you see the U.S. as a super power which needs to defend America's interests around the globe while protecting our steadfast allies?'
and
'What do you think is the likely outcome of a foreign policy that leads to our allies not trusting us and our enemies not fearing us in an age when radical Islamists the world over are openly declaring their goal of annihilating Israel as well as infidels who reject Islam?'
It doesn't end with those vital questions. There are so many more questions this POS has to answer unfortunately, but we all know that the lapdog who will be moderating will ask none of it. So it is up to Mr. Romney to ask. Go get him, Mitt!
Romney needs to actively do three things tonight: Attack, Attack, Attack!
Obama foreign policy is the most incompetent and disastrous ever - much, much worse than even Carter's.
Point it out, Mr. Romney. Ask questions like:
'Mr. President, you would not support the Iranian protestors who begged for support and let them be massacred, yet you actively supported the pro-sharia Arab Spring protestors; can you tell the public why?'
and
'Mr. President, can you tell the American public why you flew to Las Vegas and Colorado on fund raisers within 24 hours of our Ambassador's assasination - the first in 30+ years - instead of meeting with your National Security Council? And while you are at it, can you please tell us why you have missed fully 60% of your National Security Briefings during your presidency?'
and
'Mr. President, isn't it abdicating your responsibility to our diplomatic staff overseas to deny them added security on the anniversay of 9/11 when they asked for it over and over again?'
and
'Mr. President, why did your Administration spokespeople keep on repeating a lie that you knew nothing about the cause of the Benghazi attack when later the CIA and other NSA officials made it clear to Congress in hearings that you knew this was a terrorist attack within 24 hours? While you are at it, why did the V.P. lie about the reason for added security to be denied when he said the Congress cut funding for security when it came out that there is over $2 billion available for such contingencies waiting to be disbursed?'
and
'Mr. President, what did you exactly mean when you whispered in to Mr. Medvedev's ear to tell Putin to give you time until after the election when you will have more "flexibility"? Is this the natural progression of us letting our allies down in the Czech Republic and Poland three years ago when we refused to honor our promise to install a missile defense shield? What exactly is our commitment to our eastern European allies in an age Putin's Russia is starting to behave as a bully once again?'
and
'Mr. President, your White House asked Palestinians to sit tight on statehood until your re-election. Coupled with your earlier comments regarding Israel's need to withdraw to its 1965 borders, are you letting our only ally in the Middle East know that they cannot count on the U.S.A. under your presidency?'
and
'The island nation of Fiji recently fell under Marxist rule and has become a base of sorts for the Chinese, what is your view on this situation and why have you or your State Department not made any comments about this worrisome development?'
and
Mr. President, you refused to back allies in Taiwan when you refused to sell them F-18 combat aircraft, in Colombia when you cozied up to their enemies in Venezuela and Ecuador who support the Marxist FARC guerillas, ......(list the long list of allies let down by this POS); can you explain to the American public if this is what 'leading from behind' is all about?'
and
'Do you think that a U.S. that abandons allies and cozies up to traditional enemies fosters trust on the part of our allies? Do you see the U.S. as a super power which needs to defend America's interests around the globe while protecting our steadfast allies?'
and
'What do you think is the likely outcome of a foreign policy that leads to our allies not trusting us and our enemies not fearing us in an age when radical Islamists the world over are openly declaring their goal of annihilating Israel as well as infidels who reject Islam?'
It doesn't end with those vital questions. There are so many more questions this POS has to answer unfortunately, but we all know that the lapdog who will be moderating will ask none of it. So it is up to Mr. Romney to ask. Go get him, Mitt!
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Welfare State Rages On
Good news fellow Americans! For the first time, we have broken the $1 trillion mark in welfare spending.
After all, all those food stamp parties that the Administration has thrown, pleas to the Mexican government to let their citizens who are illegally here know they too can use such benefits in states like California that refuse to implement I.D. requirements for welfare recipients (but don’t dare farm your land, god forbid the smelt may be harmed somehow), and a myriad of other enticements the Obama Administration has worked so hard to provide for our ever so proud, ever growing dependency class.
Greece, eat your heart out!
After all, all those food stamp parties that the Administration has thrown, pleas to the Mexican government to let their citizens who are illegally here know they too can use such benefits in states like California that refuse to implement I.D. requirements for welfare recipients (but don’t dare farm your land, god forbid the smelt may be harmed somehow), and a myriad of other enticements the Obama Administration has worked so hard to provide for our ever so proud, ever growing dependency class.
Greece, eat your heart out!
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Real World John Galt
Those of you who may have read Ayn Rand's famous novel Atlas Shrugged are surely familiar with the character of John Galt. Galt is a creator, philosopher, and inventor who symbolizes the power and glory of the human mind. He serves as a principled counterpoint to the collectivist social and economic structure depicted in the novel. The depiction portrays a society based on oppressive bureaucratic functionaries and a culture that embraces stifling mediocrity and egalitarianism, which the novel associates with socialistic idealism or utopianism as I prefer. Sounds familiar? Well, it should because that is just what we are experiencing in the U.S. right now.
As in Atlas Shrugged, business owners/investors in the U.S. have decided to boycott the government policies. This boycott takes form of a investment and hiring freeze many businesses have instituted over the past two years. Survey after survey, members of business groups like the Chamber of Commerce, NFIB, NAM, and others have overwhelmingly indicated that their biggest concerns are the fiscal and regulatory uncertainties they face.
Any reasonable person would agree that no prudent investor would risk his capital and sweat equity in new or expanded ventures when progressive forces in Washington have launched an outright assault on them. Despite the Administration's (and its henchmen in media and academia) best efforts to convince the unsuspecting, apathetic public that the problem is lack of demand and insufficient stimulus spending, the truth has been conveyed loud and clear by those who create the jobs - or as I like to call them, those in the know.
Last week, David Seagal, owner of Westgate Resorts, showed the courage of informing his employees what might happen if they vote for more of the class warfare President Obama has unleashed on our society. Mr. Seagal recieved a lot of misplaced criticism from the usual suspects for his blunt assessment. I, for one, believe that he is if anything compassionate for telling it as it is. Afterall, his duty as an employer who cares for his employees, is to let them know what is in their best interests. Here is his memorandum to his employees:
Subject: Message from David Siegel
Date:Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:58:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: [David Siegel]
To: [All employees]
To All My Valued Employees,
As most of you know our company, Westgate Resorts, has continued to succeed in spite of a very dismal economy. There is no question that the economy has changed for the worse and we have not seen any improvement over the past four years. In spite of all of the challenges we have faced, the good news is this: The economy doesn't currently pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is another 4 years of the same Presidential administration. Of course, as your employer, I can't tell you whom to vote for, and I certainly wouldn't interfere with your right to vote for whomever you choose. In fact, I encourage you to vote for whomever you think will serve your interests the best.
However, let me share a few facts that might help you decide what is in your best interest.The current administration and members of the press have perpetuated an environment that casts employers against employees. They want you to believe that we live in a class system where the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. They label us the "1%" and imply that we are somehow immune to the challenges that face our country. This could not be further from the truth. Sure, you may have heard about the big home that I'm building. I'm sure many people think that I live a privileged life. However, what you don't see or hear is the true story behind any success that I have achieved.
I started this company over 42 years ago. At that time, I lived in a very modest home. I converted my garage into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building a company, which by the way, would eventually employ you. We didn't eat in fancy restaurants or take expensive vacations because every dollar I made went back into this company. I drove an old used car, and often times, I stayed home on weekends, while my friends went out drinking and partying. In fact, I was married to my business - hard work, discipline, and sacrifice. Meanwhile, many of my friends got regular jobs. They worked 40 hours a week and made a nice income, and they spent every dime they earned. They drove flashy cars and lived in expensive homes and wore fancy designer clothes. My friends refinanced their mortgages and lived a life of luxury. I, however, did not. I put my time, my money, and my life into this business --with a vision that eventually, some day, I too, will be able to afford to buy whatever I wanted. Even to this day, every dime I earn goes back into this company. Over the past four years I have had to stop building my dream house, cut back on all of my expenses, and take my kids out of private schools simply to keep this company strong and to keep you employed.
Just think about this - most of you arrive at work in the morning and leave that afternoon and the rest of your time is yours to do as you please. But not me- there is no "off" button for me. When you leave the office, you are done and you have a weekend all to yourself. I unfortunately do not have that freedom. I eat, live, and breathe this company every minute of the day, every day of the week. There is no rest. There is no weekend. There is no happy hour. I know many of you work hard and do a great job, but I'm the one who has to sign every check, pay every expense, and make sure that this company continues to succeed. Unfortunately, what most people see is the nice house and the lavish lifestyle. What the press certainly does not want you to see, is the true story of the hard work and sacrifices I've made.
Now, the economy is falling apart and people like me who made all the right decisions and invested in themselves are being forced to bail out all the people who didn't. The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed 42 years of my life for. Yes, business ownership has its benefits, but the price I've paid is steep and not without wounds. Unfortunately, the costs of running a business have gotten out of control, and let me tell you why: We are being taxed to death and the government thinks we don't pay enough. We pay state taxes, federal taxes, property taxes, sales and use taxes, payroll taxes, workers compensation taxes and unemployment taxes. I even have to hire an entire department to manage all these taxes. The question I have is this: Who is really stimulating the economy? Is it the Government that wants to take money from those who have earned it and give it to those who have not, or is it people like me who built a company out of his garage and directly employs over 7000 people and hosts over 3 million people per year with a great vacation?
Obviously, our present government believes that taking my money is the right economic stimulus for this country. The fact is, if I deducted 50 percent of your paycheck you'd quit and you wouldn't work here. I mean, why should you? Who wants to get rewarded only 50 percent of their hard work? Well, that's what happens to me.
Here is what most people don't understand and the press and our Government has chosen to ignore - to stimulate the economy you need to stimulate what runs the economy. Instead of raising my taxes and depositing that money into the Washington black-hole, let me spend it on growing the company, hire more employees, and generate substantial economic growth. My employees will enjoy the wealth of that tax cut in the form of promotions and better salaries. But that is not what our current Government wants you to believe. They want you to believe that it somehow makes sense to take more from those who create wealth and give it to those who do not, and somehow our economy will improve. They don't want you to know that the "1%", as they like to label us, pay more than 31% of all the taxes in this country. Thomas Jefferson, the author of our great Constitution, once said, "democracy" will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Business is at the heart of America and always has been. To restart it, you must stimulate business, not kill it. However, the power brokers in Washington believe redistributing wealth is the essential driver of the American economic engine. Nothing could be further from the truth and this is the type of change they want.
So where am I going with all this? It's quite simple. If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, as our current President plans, I will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company. Rather than grow this company I will be forced to cut back. This means fewer jobs, less benefits and certainly less opportunity for everyone.
So, when you make your decision to vote, ask yourself, which candidate understands the economics of business ownership and who doesn't? Whose policies will endanger your job? Answer those questions and you should know who might be the one capable of protecting and saving your job. While the media wants to tell you to believe the "1 percenters" are bad, I'm telling you they are not. They create most of the jobs. If you lose your job, it won't be at the hands of the "1%"; it will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this country.
You see, I can no longer support a system that penalizes the productive and gives to the unproductive. My motivation to work and to provide jobs will be destroyed, and with it, so will your opportunities. If that happens, you can find me in the Caribbean sitting on the beach, under a palm tree, retired, and with no employees to worry about.
Signed, your boss,
David Siegel
As in Atlas Shrugged, business owners/investors in the U.S. have decided to boycott the government policies. This boycott takes form of a investment and hiring freeze many businesses have instituted over the past two years. Survey after survey, members of business groups like the Chamber of Commerce, NFIB, NAM, and others have overwhelmingly indicated that their biggest concerns are the fiscal and regulatory uncertainties they face.
Any reasonable person would agree that no prudent investor would risk his capital and sweat equity in new or expanded ventures when progressive forces in Washington have launched an outright assault on them. Despite the Administration's (and its henchmen in media and academia) best efforts to convince the unsuspecting, apathetic public that the problem is lack of demand and insufficient stimulus spending, the truth has been conveyed loud and clear by those who create the jobs - or as I like to call them, those in the know.
Last week, David Seagal, owner of Westgate Resorts, showed the courage of informing his employees what might happen if they vote for more of the class warfare President Obama has unleashed on our society. Mr. Seagal recieved a lot of misplaced criticism from the usual suspects for his blunt assessment. I, for one, believe that he is if anything compassionate for telling it as it is. Afterall, his duty as an employer who cares for his employees, is to let them know what is in their best interests. Here is his memorandum to his employees:
Subject: Message from David Siegel
Date:Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:58:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: [David Siegel]
To: [All employees]
To All My Valued Employees,
As most of you know our company, Westgate Resorts, has continued to succeed in spite of a very dismal economy. There is no question that the economy has changed for the worse and we have not seen any improvement over the past four years. In spite of all of the challenges we have faced, the good news is this: The economy doesn't currently pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is another 4 years of the same Presidential administration. Of course, as your employer, I can't tell you whom to vote for, and I certainly wouldn't interfere with your right to vote for whomever you choose. In fact, I encourage you to vote for whomever you think will serve your interests the best.
However, let me share a few facts that might help you decide what is in your best interest.The current administration and members of the press have perpetuated an environment that casts employers against employees. They want you to believe that we live in a class system where the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. They label us the "1%" and imply that we are somehow immune to the challenges that face our country. This could not be further from the truth. Sure, you may have heard about the big home that I'm building. I'm sure many people think that I live a privileged life. However, what you don't see or hear is the true story behind any success that I have achieved.
I started this company over 42 years ago. At that time, I lived in a very modest home. I converted my garage into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building a company, which by the way, would eventually employ you. We didn't eat in fancy restaurants or take expensive vacations because every dollar I made went back into this company. I drove an old used car, and often times, I stayed home on weekends, while my friends went out drinking and partying. In fact, I was married to my business - hard work, discipline, and sacrifice. Meanwhile, many of my friends got regular jobs. They worked 40 hours a week and made a nice income, and they spent every dime they earned. They drove flashy cars and lived in expensive homes and wore fancy designer clothes. My friends refinanced their mortgages and lived a life of luxury. I, however, did not. I put my time, my money, and my life into this business --with a vision that eventually, some day, I too, will be able to afford to buy whatever I wanted. Even to this day, every dime I earn goes back into this company. Over the past four years I have had to stop building my dream house, cut back on all of my expenses, and take my kids out of private schools simply to keep this company strong and to keep you employed.
Just think about this - most of you arrive at work in the morning and leave that afternoon and the rest of your time is yours to do as you please. But not me- there is no "off" button for me. When you leave the office, you are done and you have a weekend all to yourself. I unfortunately do not have that freedom. I eat, live, and breathe this company every minute of the day, every day of the week. There is no rest. There is no weekend. There is no happy hour. I know many of you work hard and do a great job, but I'm the one who has to sign every check, pay every expense, and make sure that this company continues to succeed. Unfortunately, what most people see is the nice house and the lavish lifestyle. What the press certainly does not want you to see, is the true story of the hard work and sacrifices I've made.
Now, the economy is falling apart and people like me who made all the right decisions and invested in themselves are being forced to bail out all the people who didn't. The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed 42 years of my life for. Yes, business ownership has its benefits, but the price I've paid is steep and not without wounds. Unfortunately, the costs of running a business have gotten out of control, and let me tell you why: We are being taxed to death and the government thinks we don't pay enough. We pay state taxes, federal taxes, property taxes, sales and use taxes, payroll taxes, workers compensation taxes and unemployment taxes. I even have to hire an entire department to manage all these taxes. The question I have is this: Who is really stimulating the economy? Is it the Government that wants to take money from those who have earned it and give it to those who have not, or is it people like me who built a company out of his garage and directly employs over 7000 people and hosts over 3 million people per year with a great vacation?
Obviously, our present government believes that taking my money is the right economic stimulus for this country. The fact is, if I deducted 50 percent of your paycheck you'd quit and you wouldn't work here. I mean, why should you? Who wants to get rewarded only 50 percent of their hard work? Well, that's what happens to me.
Here is what most people don't understand and the press and our Government has chosen to ignore - to stimulate the economy you need to stimulate what runs the economy. Instead of raising my taxes and depositing that money into the Washington black-hole, let me spend it on growing the company, hire more employees, and generate substantial economic growth. My employees will enjoy the wealth of that tax cut in the form of promotions and better salaries. But that is not what our current Government wants you to believe. They want you to believe that it somehow makes sense to take more from those who create wealth and give it to those who do not, and somehow our economy will improve. They don't want you to know that the "1%", as they like to label us, pay more than 31% of all the taxes in this country. Thomas Jefferson, the author of our great Constitution, once said, "democracy" will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Business is at the heart of America and always has been. To restart it, you must stimulate business, not kill it. However, the power brokers in Washington believe redistributing wealth is the essential driver of the American economic engine. Nothing could be further from the truth and this is the type of change they want.
So where am I going with all this? It's quite simple. If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, as our current President plans, I will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company. Rather than grow this company I will be forced to cut back. This means fewer jobs, less benefits and certainly less opportunity for everyone.
So, when you make your decision to vote, ask yourself, which candidate understands the economics of business ownership and who doesn't? Whose policies will endanger your job? Answer those questions and you should know who might be the one capable of protecting and saving your job. While the media wants to tell you to believe the "1 percenters" are bad, I'm telling you they are not. They create most of the jobs. If you lose your job, it won't be at the hands of the "1%"; it will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this country.
You see, I can no longer support a system that penalizes the productive and gives to the unproductive. My motivation to work and to provide jobs will be destroyed, and with it, so will your opportunities. If that happens, you can find me in the Caribbean sitting on the beach, under a palm tree, retired, and with no employees to worry about.
Signed, your boss,
David Siegel
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Hillary: Clear and Present Danger
The U.S. presidents have made some terrible foreign policy/national security appointee choices in the past. Top two disastrous names that come to mind are Zbigniew Brzezinski who was appointed by Carter as his National Security Advisor - a man who believed much like our current President that U.S. needs to step back from its position as the leading power in the world -, and Madeleine Albright - Secretary of State for President Clinton who played a pivotal role in turning a blind eye to the growing Islamic radical threat overseas.
Whomever the bad choice, they always were limited in the damage they caused due to their limited political ambitions and scope of their involvement in affairs other than foreign policy. The most recent disastrous foreign policy choice, Hillary Clinton, however is not so unambitious or shy about her views on other matters.
Hillary's damage to the U.S. interests here and abroad are not limited to the disastrous Administration policy of ignoring and/or backstabbing allies like Israel, Taiwan, Poland, Czech Republic, Iranian dissidents/protestors, Honduras, Colombia,..........(the list goes on seemingly endlessly) while cozying up to and conceding to our mortal enemies in Russia, Iran, China, various radical Muslim leaders, Chavez, Castro, and many other dictators all around the world. Oh, and let's not forget turning against our own states either! Scariest prospect of all, however, is that Hillary still has presidential aspirations, and that is a serious problem because, if successful in getting elected in 2016, she will undoubtedly finish off the job of fundamentally transforming the U.S. Obama started but hopefully will not have a chance to finish off.
Hillary's commitment to establishing progressive utopia here in the U.S. is no less than that of her boss, Barack Obama. Her radical past speaks for itself, and her present mind set as displayed just a couple of weeks ago when she pushed for a global tax on the wealthy proves that we have every bit of a revolutionary leftist in Hillary as we do in our President.
Former Secretaries of State like George Schultz, Alexander Haig, and Condoleeza Rice never stepped outside the professional boundaries of their duties. Mrs. Clinton and other radicals of the left seem not to be able to help themselves because, to them, the goal isn't to conduct their duties to the best of their abilities while ensuring America's self interests, but its to tear down this country in their zeal to fundamentally transform our constitutional republic.
A word to the wise: Watch out for Hillary in 2016!
Whomever the bad choice, they always were limited in the damage they caused due to their limited political ambitions and scope of their involvement in affairs other than foreign policy. The most recent disastrous foreign policy choice, Hillary Clinton, however is not so unambitious or shy about her views on other matters.
Hillary's damage to the U.S. interests here and abroad are not limited to the disastrous Administration policy of ignoring and/or backstabbing allies like Israel, Taiwan, Poland, Czech Republic, Iranian dissidents/protestors, Honduras, Colombia,..........(the list goes on seemingly endlessly) while cozying up to and conceding to our mortal enemies in Russia, Iran, China, various radical Muslim leaders, Chavez, Castro, and many other dictators all around the world. Oh, and let's not forget turning against our own states either! Scariest prospect of all, however, is that Hillary still has presidential aspirations, and that is a serious problem because, if successful in getting elected in 2016, she will undoubtedly finish off the job of fundamentally transforming the U.S. Obama started but hopefully will not have a chance to finish off.
Hillary's commitment to establishing progressive utopia here in the U.S. is no less than that of her boss, Barack Obama. Her radical past speaks for itself, and her present mind set as displayed just a couple of weeks ago when she pushed for a global tax on the wealthy proves that we have every bit of a revolutionary leftist in Hillary as we do in our President.
Former Secretaries of State like George Schultz, Alexander Haig, and Condoleeza Rice never stepped outside the professional boundaries of their duties. Mrs. Clinton and other radicals of the left seem not to be able to help themselves because, to them, the goal isn't to conduct their duties to the best of their abilities while ensuring America's self interests, but its to tear down this country in their zeal to fundamentally transform our constitutional republic.
A word to the wise: Watch out for Hillary in 2016!
Thursday, October 11, 2012
A Fair Warning From One Who Knows
Thomas Peterffy grew up in socialist Hungary. Despite the fact that he could not speak English when he immigrated to the United States in 1956, Thomas fulfilled the American dream. With hard work and dedication, he started a business that today employs thousands of people. In the 1970s, Thomas bought a seat on the American Stock Exchange. He played a key role in developing the electronic trading of securities and is the founder of Interactive Brokers, an online discount brokerage firm with offices all over the world.
Here is his fair warning to unsuspecting sheeple that call themselves Democrats and Independents on the most part:
Here is his fair warning to unsuspecting sheeple that call themselves Democrats and Independents on the most part:
Friday, October 5, 2012
An Amateurishly Conceived October Surprise?
Forget bomb shell revelations about candidates. Forget hidden video or audio recordings of candidates making nebulous and innocuous statements that can be used by the opposition to feather and tar them through misrepresentation. Sometimes October surprises can come in the form of statistics, as it seems to have this morning.
At 8:30 a.m., the government released its latest unemployment data and boy, was it a doozy!
Let me get this straight, without breaking out in uncontrollable laughter. Here are the dubious facts as reported by the government:
1) The economy added 114,000 new jobs
2) Unemployment rate (U-3) went down from 8.1% to 7.8%
3) The real unemployment rate (U-6) remained unchanged at 14.7%
4) The drop in the rate was NOT due to a reduction in the labor force participation rate.
Now, I don't know about what others think but the math is as suspect as a three dollar bill. We know for a fact that the economy needs to create a little over 150,000 jobs per month to break even with the net increase in the labor force. So what gives? We get about 25% fewer jobs created than necessary to break even. According to the government, there is no reduction in the participation rate - meaning no additional discouraged workers or those who exhaust their unemployment benefits. On top of it all, the U-6 figure remains unchanged.
The first reason it does not make any sense is because you cannot possibly have the outcome portrayed by the BLS with the facts given - it is a mathematical impossibility. The second reason is that you cannot possibly have the U-3 go down by three tenths of a percent but have no change in the U-6 figure without reduction in the labor force. And finally, the contradictions in the slew of data released by the BLS is beyond what might be expected from an outfit that has been doing a reasonably decent job.
So, what we have here is as apparent as day, folks. Under the fearless leadership of Secretary Hilda Solis (a committed leftist hack), the Labor Department is doing what it must to salvage the Presidents prospects after his embarassingly poor debate performance in front of the largest TV debate audience in history. Had we a national media with integrity, this wouldn't fly, but with the exception of some economists and reporters, the media seems to be swallowing the Administration's latest propaganda despite its oviously questionable nature. That is what lapdogs do.
In the true sense of what passes as serious economic reporting today, many sources applauded the brave new report of this wonderfully rosy employment picture without questioning the impossible math behind it. And why wouldn't day? After all, the investment of the media in this Administration is as total as any previous in history. As one might say in modern day slang...ROFL!
At 8:30 a.m., the government released its latest unemployment data and boy, was it a doozy!
Let me get this straight, without breaking out in uncontrollable laughter. Here are the dubious facts as reported by the government:
1) The economy added 114,000 new jobs
2) Unemployment rate (U-3) went down from 8.1% to 7.8%
3) The real unemployment rate (U-6) remained unchanged at 14.7%
4) The drop in the rate was NOT due to a reduction in the labor force participation rate.
Now, I don't know about what others think but the math is as suspect as a three dollar bill. We know for a fact that the economy needs to create a little over 150,000 jobs per month to break even with the net increase in the labor force. So what gives? We get about 25% fewer jobs created than necessary to break even. According to the government, there is no reduction in the participation rate - meaning no additional discouraged workers or those who exhaust their unemployment benefits. On top of it all, the U-6 figure remains unchanged.
The first reason it does not make any sense is because you cannot possibly have the outcome portrayed by the BLS with the facts given - it is a mathematical impossibility. The second reason is that you cannot possibly have the U-3 go down by three tenths of a percent but have no change in the U-6 figure without reduction in the labor force. And finally, the contradictions in the slew of data released by the BLS is beyond what might be expected from an outfit that has been doing a reasonably decent job.
So, what we have here is as apparent as day, folks. Under the fearless leadership of Secretary Hilda Solis (a committed leftist hack), the Labor Department is doing what it must to salvage the Presidents prospects after his embarassingly poor debate performance in front of the largest TV debate audience in history. Had we a national media with integrity, this wouldn't fly, but with the exception of some economists and reporters, the media seems to be swallowing the Administration's latest propaganda despite its oviously questionable nature. That is what lapdogs do.
In the true sense of what passes as serious economic reporting today, many sources applauded the brave new report of this wonderfully rosy employment picture without questioning the impossible math behind it. And why wouldn't day? After all, the investment of the media in this Administration is as total as any previous in history. As one might say in modern day slang...ROFL!
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Mitt the RINO Accidentally Comes Out of the Closet
The telling part of the audio recording of Mitt that surfaced wasn't what the Democrats are making it out to be. What Mitt said was nothing but stating the obvious in an exagerrated way - I say exaggerated because among the 47% not paying federal taxes are some conservatives who happen to be retired and those who simply do not make enough money.
Neither was it the bias of the media, as we all know it and they do not even attempt to hide it anymore. The same media - L.A. Times to be exact - that would not release the 2008 recording of Obama at a fund raiser with a bunch of muslims where allegedly damaging things were said, is always all too eager to release innocuous material on Republicans and try to make scandals out of them. But of course, there are no vital stories in recordings that surface where the President is plainly stating that he is all for redistribution of wealth or that he will have more flexibility after the election when it comes to making concessions to the Russians on missile defense.
No, the truly telling aspect of this recording was that Mitt is no conservative. He is a RINO as I have alleged for a long time now. Forget Romney Care as a tell tale sign. Mitt clearly thinks in pure political terms. His faulty analysis of the supposed alleigence of the 47% being with Democrats aside, Mitt clearly showed us that he has no constitutional conservative convictions. He does not believe in the human spirit yearning for freedom. If Reagan was in his shoes, he undoubtedly would have not written off anyone. He would, as he always did, appeal to the liberty loving nature of Americans and inspire them to reach for their personal best while pointing out the insidious nature of collectivism. After all, Reagan knew all too well that government centric approach of progressives are designed with the sole purpose of killing individual initiative, therefore the spirit.
The difference is glaringly obvious. Reagan was an inspirational leader who believed in the greatness of the individual; Mitt clearly lacks the depth of philosophical conviction that every individual has the potential to be truly great and yearns to achieve it given the chance.
We will always miss your greatness, Mr. Reagan.
Neither was it the bias of the media, as we all know it and they do not even attempt to hide it anymore. The same media - L.A. Times to be exact - that would not release the 2008 recording of Obama at a fund raiser with a bunch of muslims where allegedly damaging things were said, is always all too eager to release innocuous material on Republicans and try to make scandals out of them. But of course, there are no vital stories in recordings that surface where the President is plainly stating that he is all for redistribution of wealth or that he will have more flexibility after the election when it comes to making concessions to the Russians on missile defense.
No, the truly telling aspect of this recording was that Mitt is no conservative. He is a RINO as I have alleged for a long time now. Forget Romney Care as a tell tale sign. Mitt clearly thinks in pure political terms. His faulty analysis of the supposed alleigence of the 47% being with Democrats aside, Mitt clearly showed us that he has no constitutional conservative convictions. He does not believe in the human spirit yearning for freedom. If Reagan was in his shoes, he undoubtedly would have not written off anyone. He would, as he always did, appeal to the liberty loving nature of Americans and inspire them to reach for their personal best while pointing out the insidious nature of collectivism. After all, Reagan knew all too well that government centric approach of progressives are designed with the sole purpose of killing individual initiative, therefore the spirit.
The difference is glaringly obvious. Reagan was an inspirational leader who believed in the greatness of the individual; Mitt clearly lacks the depth of philosophical conviction that every individual has the potential to be truly great and yearns to achieve it given the chance.
We will always miss your greatness, Mr. Reagan.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Death of American Foreign Policy
American foreign policy since 1776 has been nuances ranging from periodic pre-world war II isolationisms to the more hawkish stance that started with the Truman doctrine in 1947. Whatever the prevailing policy of any given era was, however, the goal of American foreign policy had always been the promotion of America and the American way across the globe as it should unquestionably be. After all that is what our national interests as well as our belief in American exceptionalism dictates.
Role of American Exceptionalism on foreign policy:
Believing in American Exceptionalism does not simply mean everyone else is second class citizens of the world. American Exceptionalism is the idea that the “United States and the American people hold a special place in the world, by offering opportunity and hope for humanity, derived from its unique balance of public and private interests governed by constitutional ideals that are focused on personal and economic freedom”. I like to call it a quality that directly and indirectly enhances the human condition all around the world – not inhibit it.
Although the current President would take an issue, we have proven our exceptionalism continuously for over two centuries by defending liberty with our own blood and treasure all around the globe; opening up our shores to the downtrodden and the oppressed; and as a byproduct by our innovative and productive leadership and our charity in general.
What makes us unique as a nation? Are we geographically blessed more than anyone else? Have we had thousands of years of shared history or common religion as people to build our nation on? Are we a homogenous people who might be somehow superior to others? The answers are obviously NO!
More fundamentally, what makes us unique is our exceptionalism emanating from having broken away from European feudalism and forming a nation, based on a collection of founding documents that were inspired by natural law (as historically ascribed by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and others) that placed utmost importance on the concept of civil society.
As the English writer G. K. Chesterton observed, "America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed." That creed is set forth most clearly in the Declaration of Independence, by which the American colonies announced their separation from Great Britain. The Declaration is a timeless statement of inherent god given rights, the proper purposes of government, and the limits on political authority.
Just think for a moment. This collection of men, who based on the norms of their era could have created any type of government and given themselves any amount of power, chose to create a republic that would be effectively governed by people, with limited, enumerated powers reserved for the government. An amazingly enlightened course of action as likes of Chesterton would extensively write about. Perhaps the best summation, still, is as Alexis deTocqueville observed: “America is exceptional because of our uniquely American ideology based on liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism and laissez-faire – all working in harmony.”
In sum, America is an exceptional nation, but not because of what it has achieved or accomplished. America is exceptional because, unlike any other nation, it is dedicated to the principles of human liberty, grounded on the truths that all men are created equal and endowed with equal rights.
So, what is more morally imperative than spreading the creed that has made us the beacon for freedom in the world?
The Death of American foreign policy:
I call the two decade period starting with 1989 the decline of American foreign policy. This is when the United States lost its focus on spreading the 'American way' across the globe and embarked on a foolish policy of nation building. Reagan was our last leader who believed in the true meaning of American exceptionalism and the importance of spreading that message to the world - not as a means of boasting of our superiority, but rather for other nations to emulate us in adopting respect for individual rights.
The act of nation building - a la Iraq or Afghanistan - is a foolish substitute for simply spreading the gospel of American exceptionalism. Democracy is not a hardy flower that can take root regardless of the soil it is planted on. The necessary ingredient for democracy is a healthy respect for individual rights. Such respect does not exist in certain cultures, thus regardless of blood and treasure spent, these societies will never adopt a republican form of government nor will they have a civil society in the foreseeable future.
2009 marked the beginning of yet a new era in American foreign policy. I call it the postmortem era since there is no discernible American foreign policy anymore under the progressive regime of president Obama. We apparently should be rejoicing in the fact that we now live in a utopian world where all the hard facts and complexities of millenia of ethnic and religious coexistence have disappeared thanks to the election of the great one.
The Obama doctrine is simple enough. It dictates our equality with all nations on this earth - no matter how despotic the regime might be. This egalitarian utopianism is typical of Marxism and other collectivist ideologies. So, it is no wonder that this administration wholeheartedly supported the Arab spring which has replaced all friendly dictators with Islamic radicals of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, who are sworn to erase the Western civilization from the face of this earth? At the same token, this Administration has double crossed almost all our former friends - including Israel, Taiwan, Poland, Czech Republic, Honduras, Colombia, and many more - in favor of tyrants like Iran's Ahmedi Nejad, Russias's Putin, or Venezuela's Chavez. After all, America is an unjust society and must be cut down to size in the sick minds of progressives - and the best way to accomplish that is by working against American as well as western interests.
As Obama famously said in 2008, he believes in American exceptionalism as much as Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. Disecting this statement gives us a window to the psyche of our president. Obama clearly believes that we have no moral authority to spread our creed to the rest of the world. In other words, American exceptionalism means nothing to Obama and his progressive ilk, and why should it? Believing in it would be wholesale rejection of the collectivist policies progressives subscribe to.
Role of American Exceptionalism on foreign policy:
Believing in American Exceptionalism does not simply mean everyone else is second class citizens of the world. American Exceptionalism is the idea that the “United States and the American people hold a special place in the world, by offering opportunity and hope for humanity, derived from its unique balance of public and private interests governed by constitutional ideals that are focused on personal and economic freedom”. I like to call it a quality that directly and indirectly enhances the human condition all around the world – not inhibit it.
Although the current President would take an issue, we have proven our exceptionalism continuously for over two centuries by defending liberty with our own blood and treasure all around the globe; opening up our shores to the downtrodden and the oppressed; and as a byproduct by our innovative and productive leadership and our charity in general.
What makes us unique as a nation? Are we geographically blessed more than anyone else? Have we had thousands of years of shared history or common religion as people to build our nation on? Are we a homogenous people who might be somehow superior to others? The answers are obviously NO!
More fundamentally, what makes us unique is our exceptionalism emanating from having broken away from European feudalism and forming a nation, based on a collection of founding documents that were inspired by natural law (as historically ascribed by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and others) that placed utmost importance on the concept of civil society.
As the English writer G. K. Chesterton observed, "America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed." That creed is set forth most clearly in the Declaration of Independence, by which the American colonies announced their separation from Great Britain. The Declaration is a timeless statement of inherent god given rights, the proper purposes of government, and the limits on political authority.
Just think for a moment. This collection of men, who based on the norms of their era could have created any type of government and given themselves any amount of power, chose to create a republic that would be effectively governed by people, with limited, enumerated powers reserved for the government. An amazingly enlightened course of action as likes of Chesterton would extensively write about. Perhaps the best summation, still, is as Alexis deTocqueville observed: “America is exceptional because of our uniquely American ideology based on liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism and laissez-faire – all working in harmony.”
In sum, America is an exceptional nation, but not because of what it has achieved or accomplished. America is exceptional because, unlike any other nation, it is dedicated to the principles of human liberty, grounded on the truths that all men are created equal and endowed with equal rights.
So, what is more morally imperative than spreading the creed that has made us the beacon for freedom in the world?
The Death of American foreign policy:
I call the two decade period starting with 1989 the decline of American foreign policy. This is when the United States lost its focus on spreading the 'American way' across the globe and embarked on a foolish policy of nation building. Reagan was our last leader who believed in the true meaning of American exceptionalism and the importance of spreading that message to the world - not as a means of boasting of our superiority, but rather for other nations to emulate us in adopting respect for individual rights.
The act of nation building - a la Iraq or Afghanistan - is a foolish substitute for simply spreading the gospel of American exceptionalism. Democracy is not a hardy flower that can take root regardless of the soil it is planted on. The necessary ingredient for democracy is a healthy respect for individual rights. Such respect does not exist in certain cultures, thus regardless of blood and treasure spent, these societies will never adopt a republican form of government nor will they have a civil society in the foreseeable future.
2009 marked the beginning of yet a new era in American foreign policy. I call it the postmortem era since there is no discernible American foreign policy anymore under the progressive regime of president Obama. We apparently should be rejoicing in the fact that we now live in a utopian world where all the hard facts and complexities of millenia of ethnic and religious coexistence have disappeared thanks to the election of the great one.
The Obama doctrine is simple enough. It dictates our equality with all nations on this earth - no matter how despotic the regime might be. This egalitarian utopianism is typical of Marxism and other collectivist ideologies. So, it is no wonder that this administration wholeheartedly supported the Arab spring which has replaced all friendly dictators with Islamic radicals of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, who are sworn to erase the Western civilization from the face of this earth? At the same token, this Administration has double crossed almost all our former friends - including Israel, Taiwan, Poland, Czech Republic, Honduras, Colombia, and many more - in favor of tyrants like Iran's Ahmedi Nejad, Russias's Putin, or Venezuela's Chavez. After all, America is an unjust society and must be cut down to size in the sick minds of progressives - and the best way to accomplish that is by working against American as well as western interests.
As Obama famously said in 2008, he believes in American exceptionalism as much as Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. Disecting this statement gives us a window to the psyche of our president. Obama clearly believes that we have no moral authority to spread our creed to the rest of the world. In other words, American exceptionalism means nothing to Obama and his progressive ilk, and why should it? Believing in it would be wholesale rejection of the collectivist policies progressives subscribe to.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Obama's Vision of America's Business Enterprises
Solyndra, Fisker, Light Squared........the list of failed Obama supported American businesses are seemingly endless. Obama can be excused that almost all of the multitudenous companies he and his progressive fellow travellers supported to the tune of billions of wasted tax payer dollars are in presently non-viable areas concerning utilization or generation of alternative/renewable energy. Leaving aside the legitimate questions of impropreity concerning cronyism (that would be giving tax payer dollars to generous campaign bundlers like Mr. Kaiser), one could make the case that green energy projects were a well intentioned gamble gone awfully wrong.
But then there is G.M. and their disastrous vehicle that the Administration touts: the Chevy Volt. Ever since G.M. launching it, the Volt has managed to sell on the average just under a thousand vehicles per month nationwide. Leaving alone problems that plague the battery of the car like spontaneous fires, the math behind the vehicle is downright scary. It costs the G.M. north of $90,000 to manufacture the car. The average loss per vehicle to G.M. is nearly $50,000 per vehicle sold. Maybe it is a good thing that the vehicle isn't selling; afterall the losses could be even more disastrous!.
With even the usual friendly voices in the media turning against Obama's brain child, his dream of a million electric cars on the streets of America within ten years is as much of a pipe dream as anything else that comes from this inept administration.
In Obama's world, government and businesses operate hand in hand - with each doing other's bidding. In this world, it is not the free markets that decide what is feasible and what is not. It is the wisdom of crony capitalist bureaucrats that carry the day at a great cost to the rest of the society. Mr. Obama may think that successful entrepreneurs who had a vision, sacrificed their time and efforts, and took the risks may not have built their businesses all by themselves. To him, I have one thing to say: Yes Mr. Obama. You did build that!
But then there is G.M. and their disastrous vehicle that the Administration touts: the Chevy Volt. Ever since G.M. launching it, the Volt has managed to sell on the average just under a thousand vehicles per month nationwide. Leaving alone problems that plague the battery of the car like spontaneous fires, the math behind the vehicle is downright scary. It costs the G.M. north of $90,000 to manufacture the car. The average loss per vehicle to G.M. is nearly $50,000 per vehicle sold. Maybe it is a good thing that the vehicle isn't selling; afterall the losses could be even more disastrous!.
With even the usual friendly voices in the media turning against Obama's brain child, his dream of a million electric cars on the streets of America within ten years is as much of a pipe dream as anything else that comes from this inept administration.
In Obama's world, government and businesses operate hand in hand - with each doing other's bidding. In this world, it is not the free markets that decide what is feasible and what is not. It is the wisdom of crony capitalist bureaucrats that carry the day at a great cost to the rest of the society. Mr. Obama may think that successful entrepreneurs who had a vision, sacrificed their time and efforts, and took the risks may not have built their businesses all by themselves. To him, I have one thing to say: Yes Mr. Obama. You did build that!
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Quote of the Week - Part II
“It is free men and women that drive our economy. Freedom is what makes America work. And President Obama, bless his heart, has tried to substitute government for free people–and it has not worked, and it will never work,” Mitt Romney
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Well, at least we know that Mitt's heart is in the right place. Obama's heart, on the other hand, must be questioned as to its mere existence. How can a supposedly "compassionate" individual substitute the cold, indiscriminate hand of the collective over the individual with all its glorious potential? Does this person really have a "heart" if the policies he subscribes to enslave the human spirit? Inquiring minds know the answers. Let's hope it is the majority of the electorate!
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Well, at least we know that Mitt's heart is in the right place. Obama's heart, on the other hand, must be questioned as to its mere existence. How can a supposedly "compassionate" individual substitute the cold, indiscriminate hand of the collective over the individual with all its glorious potential? Does this person really have a "heart" if the policies he subscribes to enslave the human spirit? Inquiring minds know the answers. Let's hope it is the majority of the electorate!
Monday, August 20, 2012
Quote of the Week
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Progressive Ideology: The Home of Modern Day Plantation Mentality
Freedom loving
individualists like classical liberals or Burkean conservatives sorely
need more lightening rods like V.P. Biden, Alan Grayson or Rep. Debbie
Wasserman Schultz that collectivist left prominently features.
Congressman Alan West (R - FLA.) is just one such patriot who will not be
intimidated by the left as he has shown in the short period that he has served
in the House of Representatives, but the G.O.P. needs a lot more Wests. The
Romney/Ryan team is thankfully starting to show that they may just have the fight in them
also by not shying away from responding to vile attacks that have no place in a
civilized society.
Months earlier, the controversy that Rep. West had been entangled in started when he roundly criticized the African American establishment's collusion with the Democrat party in keeping blacks on "the plantation" in return for what equates to bread crumbs and empty promises. Almost immediately, he was attacked by Rep. Maxine Waters (D – CA.) who said West’s remarks were “a little bit outrageous, a little bit ridiculous and that’s hard to respond to because [it] absolutely does not make good sense.”
Months earlier, the controversy that Rep. West had been entangled in started when he roundly criticized the African American establishment's collusion with the Democrat party in keeping blacks on "the plantation" in return for what equates to bread crumbs and empty promises. Almost immediately, he was attacked by Rep. Maxine Waters (D – CA.) who said West’s remarks were “a little bit outrageous, a little bit ridiculous and that’s hard to respond to because [it] absolutely does not make good sense.”
Since then many Democrats have
embarked on what can only be described as the vilest form of race warfare,
accusing Republicans of racism for resisting the collectivist policies of the
Administration. These attacks culminated
most recently in the comments made by the Vice President in front of a largely
African American crowd in Virginia, accusing the Romney team of wanting to put
African Americans back in chains. As
usual, there was no denunciation of these types of words by anyone on the left,
including the media.
V.P. Biden and the rest of modern day plantation bosses known generally as progressives could not be further from the truth. In fact, their words speak to their intellectual bankruptcy.
V.P. Biden and the rest of modern day plantation bosses known generally as progressives could not be further from the truth. In fact, their words speak to their intellectual bankruptcy.
Their remarks are really anecdotal to the greater underlying philosophical differences between individualism that highlights classical liberalism and progressivism, which is a euphemism for collectivism. The “plantation” that Rep. West refers to is symbolic of the insidious form of enslavement, acquiescence, and eventual destruction of the human spirit collectivism leads to.
The Ideological Chasm:
In contrast, individualism regards man as an independent,
sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life in every
sense, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.
The concept of individual liberty – defined as freedom from arbitrary or despotic control - is
the cornerstone of individualism; after all dependency on the collective
instead of one’s own sweat equity is the surest way to enslave him, thus the
appropriateness of Rep. West’s remarks.
Progressives, like the members of CBC, view modern
conservatism as selfish and even racist in the case of blacks since self
reliance must be seen through the prism of race if it is to be discredited.
The collectivists, regardless of
their race, must therefore appeal to the side of human nature that seeks
security in order to peddle their otherwise objectionable political
philosophy. They must mischaracterize
individualism as being selfish and unfair to the ‘less fortunate’ despite an
abundance of empirical evidence indicating that more individualist a society
is, not only more charitable it is, but also offers more opportunities for
everyone to excel. This is the
indication of their intellectual deficiency that prevents them from
comprehending the concept of civil society that serves as the backbone of
individualist philosophy.
Quite to the contrary of what collectivists assert,
individualism isn’t inherently selfish – not even anarcho-individualism. As social animals, we must regularly interact
with each other. The concept of civil
society is at the heart of traditional individualist philosophy, as such there
is true compassion fostered by traditional values and respect for individuality
in such societies as ours as opposed to the true misery of collectivist
societies. An examination of private
charity among nations quickly establishes this fact.
RINOs aside, Rep. West's party believes that individual is the ultimate source of his empowerment. This reliance on one's self not only develops the kind of character that has excelled us as a nation but is the sole source of ones rights and liberties as outlined in our principal founding document - the Declaration of Independence!
I invite progressives to read, and take to heart, the first sentence of the second paragraph:
RINOs aside, Rep. West's party believes that individual is the ultimate source of his empowerment. This reliance on one's self not only develops the kind of character that has excelled us as a nation but is the sole source of ones rights and liberties as outlined in our principal founding document - the Declaration of Independence!
I invite progressives to read, and take to heart, the first sentence of the second paragraph:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Progressive ideology claims rights where none exists. Whether it is the
asserted right to food, shelter, employment, healthcare, or anything else by
progressives, no such rights exist anywhere in our founding documents.
The simple reason is that no such rights exist in nature. A right is what
an individual is entitled to, that does not impose on someone else's
rights. Your rights to life, freedoms provided for in the Constitution
(such as the right to bear firearms, free speech, etc.) or ability to
accumulate wealth do not impose on my rights or impede my ability to pursue the
same.
On the other hand, any of the asserted (non)rights by the progressive liberals and other collectivists do impose on every other productive member of the society. This is inevitable. The moment people’s supposed right to shelter (or any others I listed above) is legitimized by the government, the resources necessary to provide them with housing (or food, healthcare, etc.) must come from the labor of others. Maybe progressives have missed it but one of the fundamental rights an individual has in nature is the right to the fruits of his labor. So, how can anyone claim artificial rights that impose on others’ private property and not violate the spirit of our founding documents? I am yet to see an intellectually honest, well reasoned response to my question.
More one relies on a central government for their daily needs, proportionally less freedom he has as we have witnessed in collectivist regimes throughout history. That is an inevitable fact – basically a law of nature - and intellectual integrity demands acceptance of it for what it is. Reliance on anyone other than one's self decays every one's unalienable rights - liberty (which includes physical freedom) being one. Therefore, symbolically speaking, Rep. West's plantation remark is spot on.
On the other hand, any of the asserted (non)rights by the progressive liberals and other collectivists do impose on every other productive member of the society. This is inevitable. The moment people’s supposed right to shelter (or any others I listed above) is legitimized by the government, the resources necessary to provide them with housing (or food, healthcare, etc.) must come from the labor of others. Maybe progressives have missed it but one of the fundamental rights an individual has in nature is the right to the fruits of his labor. So, how can anyone claim artificial rights that impose on others’ private property and not violate the spirit of our founding documents? I am yet to see an intellectually honest, well reasoned response to my question.
More one relies on a central government for their daily needs, proportionally less freedom he has as we have witnessed in collectivist regimes throughout history. That is an inevitable fact – basically a law of nature - and intellectual integrity demands acceptance of it for what it is. Reliance on anyone other than one's self decays every one's unalienable rights - liberty (which includes physical freedom) being one. Therefore, symbolically speaking, Rep. West's plantation remark is spot on.
The Impact on African Americans:
Black leaders and entertainers portray a grotesquely distorted image of self reliance through the prism of race in order to discredit it. What the black establishment, as represented by the Congressional Black Caucus and community leaders such as Rev. Sharpton, has done to their community over the past half century is unconscionable. By signing on to the policies of the increasingly progressive Democrat party which religiously adheres to counterculture and collectivism, they have chosen (and assured) high abortion rates, non-traditional families, high levels of school dropout rates, poverty, and inescapably high incarceration rates for a whole generation of blacks instead of embracing traditional values and self reliance.
Rep. Waters and black community leaders in general must ask themselves what is more demeaning and racist: Telling your people that they are just as capable as others of working hard and excelling by relying on their own labor as Rep. West's ideology suggests, or telling them they need the government nanny state to scrape by whether it is affirmative action, welfare, or whatever. Isn't giving someone a fish rather than teaching them to fish the ultimate insult to their integrity as human beings, as well as being the height of irresponsibility? Without the dignity of self reliance, people can never be truly free because spiritual freedom is as important as physical freedom.
And how about socially? Are black leaders and progressive liberals in general proud that genocide has been taking place in poor communities by encouraging through government policy abortion of millions of fetuses - black, white, or any other color? Do they think that rejecting traditional education and traditional values, including traditional marriage and teaching our kids the importance of responsibility strengthens the fiber of a society? Are they proud of well over half the black babies (72% to be exact) being born to unwed mothers? Are they proud of almost half the black youths in urban settings who end up dropping out of school and about the same amount getting incarcerated?
These are the fruits of the betrayal of the black community by their own leaders. The same policies they have pushed because they benefit them as far as their own power goes while impoverishing, and essentially destroying, the black community. So, aren't they essentially the modern day plantation bosses who are double crossing their own people for sake of their own benefit?
The argument that black Americans have been historically discriminated against, therefore (even) currently require a 'helping hand' is a tired and demonstrably faulty one. Are new black Americans from the West Indies or
Why do they think black immigrants
from the West Indies and Africa earn more than their African American
counterparts? Children of black immigrants are also more likely to
go to and finish college than kids who have parents of American lineage.
Despite being born in to higher poverty and overcoming obstacles to immigrate
here, the achievement
gap between these immigrant groups and African Americans is well documented.
What is the difference?
It is quite obvious; black
immigrants come from cultures that emphasize responsibility and have never had
the luxury of having a nanny state that has told them to fall back on the
bureaucrats because they are somehow inferior to the rest of the society.
They have never been told that attaining educational
success or relying on their own is somehow "acting white" as the
leaders (and entertainers) of the black community in the U.S.
The blind allegiance to the Democrat party and progressive ideals by black leaders is only explainable by their hunger for power. Self reliant blacks do not empower them as leaders. Fostering an environment that creates a large dependency class does. Like a pusher who gives free samples to hook the feeble minded, they are fostering a generation of addicts who are taught to only rely on government for their most basic needs. It is an insidious and morally corrupt brand of leadership.
The same political party that enslaved blacks, fought tooth and nail to preserve the perverse institution, founded the KKK, resisted desegregation, voted in vain to defeat the civil rights legislation, and otherwise undermined black independence at every turn in the past is now exercising a more insidious form of racism - one that enslaves the spirit of African Americans.
The blind allegiance to the Democrat party and progressive ideals by black leaders is only explainable by their hunger for power. Self reliant blacks do not empower them as leaders. Fostering an environment that creates a large dependency class does. Like a pusher who gives free samples to hook the feeble minded, they are fostering a generation of addicts who are taught to only rely on government for their most basic needs. It is an insidious and morally corrupt brand of leadership.
The same political party that enslaved blacks, fought tooth and nail to preserve the perverse institution, founded the KKK, resisted desegregation, voted in vain to defeat the civil rights legislation, and otherwise undermined black independence at every turn in the past is now exercising a more insidious form of racism - one that enslaves the spirit of African Americans.
No, Rep. West isn't Uncle Tom and team Romney are not racists; they simply are the latest messengers of an
undeniable truth black leaders and progressives in general are shooting down. We can only hope that the black community
will wake up and question the despicable actions of their leaders as well as all progressives before
anymore damage is done.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
The Genius of the Ryan Pick
I must admit Paul Ryan was not my prediction as far as Ronmey's V.P. pick was concerned. I was under the impression that Ryan was not interested, as he knew he had important and valuable work to do in the House of Representatives. I am delirious that I was way off in my impressions.
I was pulling for Governor McDonnell of Virginia as a solid conservative with the credentials and successful experiences he would bring to the table. My second pick was Senator Rubio as a young, dynamic constitutional conservative with a compelling story.
I believe that Ryan was the best possible pick Romney could have made for a simple reason. Rep. Ryan is not only a solid Tea Party (constitutional) conservative, but is singularly focused on the pending fiscal doom we face as a nation. Yes, that makes him a prime target for demagoguing as he was in 2011 with what Politifact called the 'lie of the year', but we, as a nation, are at a point where stark contrasts must be made in the presidential choice the electorate will be making in November.
On one hand, we have in Romney and Ryan two conservatives who know instinctively what makes America the exceptional country that she is. They stand for self responsibility, hard work, individual initiative, and less government intrusion.
In contrast, on the other hand, we have Obama and Biden who are the standard-bearers for a party that no longer makes any pretense of pushing the collectivist agenda. Obama, as I have pointed out previously, has no concept of how a free economy works. I mean, here is an ideology - as represented by the President - that cannot make the connection between profits and job creation; or that somehow the state/collective is the main reason behind the successes of entrepreneurs.
Obama/Biden team cannot escape the reality that their policies have been miserable failures while they ironically call the successes of Reaganomics over the the past quarter of a century failures. They will certainly repeat that mantra, supported by the dispicable main stream media.
America now has a clear choice: rugged individualism of Romney/Ryan, or the collectivism of Obama/Biden?
I was pulling for Governor McDonnell of Virginia as a solid conservative with the credentials and successful experiences he would bring to the table. My second pick was Senator Rubio as a young, dynamic constitutional conservative with a compelling story.
I believe that Ryan was the best possible pick Romney could have made for a simple reason. Rep. Ryan is not only a solid Tea Party (constitutional) conservative, but is singularly focused on the pending fiscal doom we face as a nation. Yes, that makes him a prime target for demagoguing as he was in 2011 with what Politifact called the 'lie of the year', but we, as a nation, are at a point where stark contrasts must be made in the presidential choice the electorate will be making in November.
On one hand, we have in Romney and Ryan two conservatives who know instinctively what makes America the exceptional country that she is. They stand for self responsibility, hard work, individual initiative, and less government intrusion.
In contrast, on the other hand, we have Obama and Biden who are the standard-bearers for a party that no longer makes any pretense of pushing the collectivist agenda. Obama, as I have pointed out previously, has no concept of how a free economy works. I mean, here is an ideology - as represented by the President - that cannot make the connection between profits and job creation; or that somehow the state/collective is the main reason behind the successes of entrepreneurs.
Obama/Biden team cannot escape the reality that their policies have been miserable failures while they ironically call the successes of Reaganomics over the the past quarter of a century failures. They will certainly repeat that mantra, supported by the dispicable main stream media.
America now has a clear choice: rugged individualism of Romney/Ryan, or the collectivism of Obama/Biden?
Monday, July 30, 2012
Invasion of the ‘Dreamers’
What happens if a powerful, well respected U.S. Senator
gives a press conference, and no press turns out? I do not pose this question in a literary
sense but rather figuratively since the media was present at last Thursday’s
press conference, but neglected to report a piece of critical news item that
affects the very sovereignty of this nation, just because it would undoubtedly
have further seriously damaged the Administration’s already sullied image.
The substance of the press conference given by Senator Jeff
Sessions was the scandalous behavior of the Administration – in this case the
White House and the DHS – ever since President Obama signed the executive order
to let a certain (large) segment of the illegal immigrant community escapedeportation.
This back door attempt to pass the failed DREAM Act is
unconstitutional. It is usurpation of
power by the Executive Branch in violation of the Separation of Powers Act, and
just the latest example of dying federalism.
It is also treason.
Among definitions of treason, one finds ‘a violation of
allegiance to one’s sovereignty or one’s state’. This usurpation of power and direct attack on
the sovereignty of our nation is, therefore, treason. Yet, this is not news according to the despicable
U.S.
The Obama Administration has been investigating and/or
outright suing a plethora of states for enforcing existing federal immigration and
election laws. Now, the political game
has been elevated to outright letting illegal immigrant criminals go scot-free
in response to a simple statement by the offenders: I am a ‘dreamer’!
To be dreamer in the context of immigration used to refer to
those immigrants who came here to better their lives through making use of the
limitless opportunities America offers to anyone willing to work hard and make
their American dream come true. That is
unfortunately no more the case. Today’s
dreamers are predominantly here to latch on to the government’s teet with the
encouragement of our own government.
Make no mistake; here we are truly dealing with a GangsterGovernment! They will do whatever is
necessary to win; and that includes lying, dividing America along class and
race lines, violating the U.S. Constitution by negating federalism and
disregarding the other two co-equal branches of the government, and committing
election fraud.
Obama’s re-election strategy is simple: shore up the base
consisting of gays, pro-choice elements, environmentalists, Latinos, African
Americans, and otherwise anti-capitalist collectivists. Let’s hope that the calculus is not there, in
the light of lacking Democrat enthusiasm, to carry him to a disastrous victory
come November. There is no alternative
to preserving America
Friday, July 27, 2012
Obama's "Perfectible" Union
On the heels of comments differentiating profits from jobs, and claiming that the collective is why some succeed, you would think President Obama would have learned a lesson. Not. Here he was yesterday, letting the cat out of the bag again.
"And I confess the progress didn't come quickly, and it did not come easily," President Obama said about his time as a community organizer in Chicago. "Sometimes it didn't come at all. There were times where I thought about giving up and moving on. But what kept me going day in and day out was the same thing that has sustained the Urban League all these years. The same thing that sustains all of you. And that is the belief that in America, change is always possible. That our union may not be perfect, but it is perfectible."
"That we can strive over time, through effort and sweat and blood and tears until it is the place we imagine. It may come in fits and starts, at a pace that can be slow and frustrating, but if we are willing to push through all the doubt and the cynicism and the weariness, then yes, we can form that more perfect union,"
So, I got to wondering, how can our union be 'perfectible'? Doesn't believing that our union is not perfect mean you do not believe in its foundational principles?
Just what does he mean by our union being "perfectible" is clear to those of us who understood what context he was using the word "fundamental change" when he said in 2008 "we are eight days away from fundamentally changing this nation".
Perfection for Obama is a collectivist state where there are no perceived injustices and perfect equality in poverty and misery. Anybody who assails wealth, private sector, and individual effort as much as he does cannot possibly mean anything else.
But, shhhh..., don't tell your Democrat friends that he is not a collectivist!
"And I confess the progress didn't come quickly, and it did not come easily," President Obama said about his time as a community organizer in Chicago. "Sometimes it didn't come at all. There were times where I thought about giving up and moving on. But what kept me going day in and day out was the same thing that has sustained the Urban League all these years. The same thing that sustains all of you. And that is the belief that in America, change is always possible. That our union may not be perfect, but it is perfectible."
"That we can strive over time, through effort and sweat and blood and tears until it is the place we imagine. It may come in fits and starts, at a pace that can be slow and frustrating, but if we are willing to push through all the doubt and the cynicism and the weariness, then yes, we can form that more perfect union,"
So, I got to wondering, how can our union be 'perfectible'? Doesn't believing that our union is not perfect mean you do not believe in its foundational principles?
Just what does he mean by our union being "perfectible" is clear to those of us who understood what context he was using the word "fundamental change" when he said in 2008 "we are eight days away from fundamentally changing this nation".
Perfection for Obama is a collectivist state where there are no perceived injustices and perfect equality in poverty and misery. Anybody who assails wealth, private sector, and individual effort as much as he does cannot possibly mean anything else.
But, shhhh..., don't tell your Democrat friends that he is not a collectivist!
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
True Colors of Progressives
Boston mayor Thomas Menino said to Boston Herald yesterday: “Chick-fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston. You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population. We’re an open city, we’re a city that’s at the forefront of inclusion. That’s the Freedom Trail. That’s where it all started right here. And we’re not going to have a company, Chick-fil-A or whatever the hell the name is, on our Freedom Trail.”
This was no more a gaffe than president Obama's or Elizabeth Warren's words denigrating profits and the private sector. No, this is what progressive liberals are all about!
Do you ever see a conservative mayor or a governor preventing Ben and Jerry - two former hippies who are active in just about every progressive cause from gay marriage to totally unrestricted abortions which, among others, account for the genocide of 50% of black babies - from doing business in their city or state? Of course not!
Conservatives believe in the Constitution and its underlying philosophy of inalienable individual liberties, including believing in whatever you want to believe in no matter how disagreeable it may be. Progressives on the other hand have no tolerance for other points of view, as mayor Menino clearly displayed once again.
Imagine an America where an official can ban a business from operating because that business does not agree with him. Unimaginable? Think again. It is already here, America.
This was no more a gaffe than president Obama's or Elizabeth Warren's words denigrating profits and the private sector. No, this is what progressive liberals are all about!
Do you ever see a conservative mayor or a governor preventing Ben and Jerry - two former hippies who are active in just about every progressive cause from gay marriage to totally unrestricted abortions which, among others, account for the genocide of 50% of black babies - from doing business in their city or state? Of course not!
Conservatives believe in the Constitution and its underlying philosophy of inalienable individual liberties, including believing in whatever you want to believe in no matter how disagreeable it may be. Progressives on the other hand have no tolerance for other points of view, as mayor Menino clearly displayed once again.
Imagine an America where an official can ban a business from operating because that business does not agree with him. Unimaginable? Think again. It is already here, America.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Delusions of Grandeur
Yesterday, Obama said to a group of veterans that his Administration has spearheaded a “new era of American leadership” that has made the U.S. “safer and stronger and more respected in the world.” He later added: "America should never apologize." Excuse me? I must be living in a parallel universe because, like too many of his comments, this one displays chutzpah and a clear detachment from reality. One has to start getting really nervous about his psychosis which apparently goes beyond a simple narcissistic personality disorder; more like bordering on that of a sociopath.
There is the world view, and then there is the demented view of Obama on America's standing in the world today. A country, like an individual, is only respected insofar as its commitment to rock solid principles and its stallwart backing of its allies. Just like someone who is not a man of his word is not respected, neither is a country that has no clearly defined direction or predictability.
It is ironic that shortly before Obama uttered these ridiculous words, the Australian foreign minister told Mitt Romney that the world sees America in decline. Similar sentiments were expressed in the past by Prime Ministers of U.K., Israel, and several other allies. How and why wouldn't they? We have double crossed just about every close ally. Remember selling out the security of central Europe (Czech Republic and Poland) when we literally gave away the missile defense shield to placate the Russians, who in turn made no concessions? Then how about Taiwan, whom we refused to sell war planes to in order to placate the Chinese? And the Israelis, who have continually been given the cold shoulder by this Administration just to get on Iran and the Muslim world's favors? Remember the Hondurans, whose dictator Obama stood behind when he was deposed by his people? The Colombians who were sacrified to placate Hugo Chavez would certainly agree. The long list of those allies we have betrayed don't stop there, but you get the point.
Then, we have the non-apology (according to Barack) apologies. Here are just ten of the many, courtesy of the Heritage Foundation:
1. Apology to France and Europe ("America Has Shown Arrogance")
2. Apology to the Muslim World ("We Have Not Been Perfect")
3. Apology to the Summit of the Americas ("At Times We Sought to Dictate Our Terms")
4. Apology at the G-20 Summit of World Leaders ("Some Restoration of America's Standing in the World")
5. Apology for the War on Terror ("We Went off Course")
6. Apology for Guantanamo in France ("Sacrificing Your Values")
7. Apology before the Turkish Parliament ("Our Own Darker Periods in Our History")
8. Apology for U.S. Policy toward the Americas ("The United States Has Not Pursued and Sustained Engagement with Our Neighbors")
9. Apology for the Mistakes of the CIA ("Potentially We've Made Some Mistakes")
10. Apology for Guantanamo in Washington ("A Rallying Cry for Our Enemies")
Neither a man nor a country can withstand the damage caused by losing the trust of your friends and the respect of your foes. We have accomplished both under this president. Is it any surprise that the man who has such delusions of his role on the economy, is also delusional about his foreign policy?
Now we can add foreign policy disaster to the economic and cultural disasters Obama has unleashed on America. November just can't get here soon enough!
There is the world view, and then there is the demented view of Obama on America's standing in the world today. A country, like an individual, is only respected insofar as its commitment to rock solid principles and its stallwart backing of its allies. Just like someone who is not a man of his word is not respected, neither is a country that has no clearly defined direction or predictability.
It is ironic that shortly before Obama uttered these ridiculous words, the Australian foreign minister told Mitt Romney that the world sees America in decline. Similar sentiments were expressed in the past by Prime Ministers of U.K., Israel, and several other allies. How and why wouldn't they? We have double crossed just about every close ally. Remember selling out the security of central Europe (Czech Republic and Poland) when we literally gave away the missile defense shield to placate the Russians, who in turn made no concessions? Then how about Taiwan, whom we refused to sell war planes to in order to placate the Chinese? And the Israelis, who have continually been given the cold shoulder by this Administration just to get on Iran and the Muslim world's favors? Remember the Hondurans, whose dictator Obama stood behind when he was deposed by his people? The Colombians who were sacrified to placate Hugo Chavez would certainly agree. The long list of those allies we have betrayed don't stop there, but you get the point.
Then, we have the non-apology (according to Barack) apologies. Here are just ten of the many, courtesy of the Heritage Foundation:
1. Apology to France and Europe ("America Has Shown Arrogance")
2. Apology to the Muslim World ("We Have Not Been Perfect")
3. Apology to the Summit of the Americas ("At Times We Sought to Dictate Our Terms")
4. Apology at the G-20 Summit of World Leaders ("Some Restoration of America's Standing in the World")
5. Apology for the War on Terror ("We Went off Course")
6. Apology for Guantanamo in France ("Sacrificing Your Values")
7. Apology before the Turkish Parliament ("Our Own Darker Periods in Our History")
8. Apology for U.S. Policy toward the Americas ("The United States Has Not Pursued and Sustained Engagement with Our Neighbors")
9. Apology for the Mistakes of the CIA ("Potentially We've Made Some Mistakes")
10. Apology for Guantanamo in Washington ("A Rallying Cry for Our Enemies")
Neither a man nor a country can withstand the damage caused by losing the trust of your friends and the respect of your foes. We have accomplished both under this president. Is it any surprise that the man who has such delusions of his role on the economy, is also delusional about his foreign policy?
Now we can add foreign policy disaster to the economic and cultural disasters Obama has unleashed on America. November just can't get here soon enough!
Monday, July 23, 2012
Update: Myths About Hard Work - Americans Disagree
It is perhaps not too surprising to see that 72% of Americans', in the newest Rasmussen poll, do not agree with the President that entrepreneurs did not build their businesses themselves. In fact, it is downright encouraging to see that the American spirit is still alive in many.....that is if polls are to be believed at an age when the typical American is demonstrably confused about their ideology as witnessed by conflicting poll results that indicate Americans are conservative by a 2:1 margin, while nearly 70% agree have a positive opinion of progressivism. All thanks to our failing educational system and the dishonest media!
I have one more thing to add to my earlier rant for the economic illiterate in the White House:
Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb and his many other inventions because the power grid was built by the government waiting for the complimentary inventions to follow. Henry Ford did not mass produce cars because the national highway system (built in the 1950s) was already built. Wright brothers did not invent the plane because airports were waiting empty for the plane to be invented. On and on the examples go.
The government does not create jobs. The government only reacts to the private sector. If roads and bridges were the only required ingredient (as Obama tried to spin his words later) for success, than no business would be a failure since every business is fronted by a road.
I doubt that progressives like Obama and the rest of the Democrat party will ever understand that government is only an impediment to growth and prosperity these days. As the President's words clearly show, they believe deeply that government must be the center of all economic activity in order to ensure "equality and social justice" (two words I use loosely).
Like with his words earlier (that, as the president, his job is to think about people, not profits), attributing the success of entrepreneurs to everyone else is also symptomatic of one, and only one, ideology: communism. As no one can be viewed to be responsible for, or control, their outcomes in life, it is only the collective that matters. That is pure communism and not unexpected from the neo Marxists that pass themselves as Democrats.
Come November, I am more convinced than ever that Americans will be showing the President the door. We can only hope that he takes as many Democrat congressmen as possible with him and they do not let the door hit them on their way out.
I have one more thing to add to my earlier rant for the economic illiterate in the White House:
Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb and his many other inventions because the power grid was built by the government waiting for the complimentary inventions to follow. Henry Ford did not mass produce cars because the national highway system (built in the 1950s) was already built. Wright brothers did not invent the plane because airports were waiting empty for the plane to be invented. On and on the examples go.
The government does not create jobs. The government only reacts to the private sector. If roads and bridges were the only required ingredient (as Obama tried to spin his words later) for success, than no business would be a failure since every business is fronted by a road.
I doubt that progressives like Obama and the rest of the Democrat party will ever understand that government is only an impediment to growth and prosperity these days. As the President's words clearly show, they believe deeply that government must be the center of all economic activity in order to ensure "equality and social justice" (two words I use loosely).
Like with his words earlier (that, as the president, his job is to think about people, not profits), attributing the success of entrepreneurs to everyone else is also symptomatic of one, and only one, ideology: communism. As no one can be viewed to be responsible for, or control, their outcomes in life, it is only the collective that matters. That is pure communism and not unexpected from the neo Marxists that pass themselves as Democrats.
Come November, I am more convinced than ever that Americans will be showing the President the door. We can only hope that he takes as many Democrat congressmen as possible with him and they do not let the door hit them on their way out.
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