WHY?

Why did/do Communist countries seal their border to keep their own people in? If Communism is as great as the Liberals in the West claim, why are communists ready to kill their own people, to prevent them from leaving? Mexico and other non-Communist poor countries assist their unemployed or criminal citizens in leaving, to remove the economic burden of those people from the govt. operating budgets, and I can understand that, it makes sense, but how do you explain the tendency of Liberals/Leftists/Socialists/Communist/Democrats to force others to accept their beliefs and/or policies, even if they themselves don't actually practice what they preach? If their ways are so good, and so effective, shouldn't they simply embrace them, knowing that others will come to see how right they were, and in turn embrace them willingly? Taxes, public schools, union shops, public medicine, "clean/green energy", redistribution of wealth, you name it, they want the govt. to impose them all on the population, but they themselves don't just lead by example. Joe Blow's auto body shop can be shut down, or regulated out of profitability, in the name of "clean air", but Hollywood, whose product requires countless amounts of energy/pollution to deliver is overlooked. Why? Is it because Hollywood largely embraces the Left? I can't modify the exhaust on my Harley, but Gore, Bono and Oprah can dump tons of carbon and decibels into the atmosphere, and that's all cool with Sacramento and DC? WTF?

Death & Taxes

Tonight, I paid a guy to come to the house and prepare my returns, and everything went as expected. I knew I was going to owe some money to both the fed and the state, so it wasn't a big deal, and I'm not particularly annoyed about having to write the check. Hey, I earned some money, and it takes money to run the government, so I'm OK with pitching in. What does bother me, however, is the amount of time and money that Americans are forced to waste in order to comply with our tax system, and the fact that our tax system is used not only as a means of collecting the money needed to pay for services and benefits, but as a tool with which politicians and bureaucrats try to engineer our society and economy. If taxes are part of our lives as citizens, then every citizen should pay, and no person should pay more than another, relatively speaking, simply because some politician or bureaucrat thinks they should. That's why I believe in a national sales tax, as a replacement to the present system, not in addition to the present system. The point of our existence as humans or citizens is NOT to pay taxes. Paying taxes is not a moral act, it is a contract between people and a government for services. That's it, and if you look at it otherwise, or accept that the government has as right to your money, you have resigned your society to tyranny in the end. If taxes are collected on EVERYTHING that is sold, with the exception of food, medicine, health insurance, and a few other life necessities, and we exempt no one, it will tie the income of the govt to the prosperity and confidence of the people, and it will take one more method of abuse of power from that govt., both being desirable results. If a person saves their money, they will accumulate wealth. If they spend it, they won't. Think of how much simpler life would be. If there were no income or corporate taxes, there would be no loopholes to benefit certain groups. The poor, who actually get more from govt. than they contribute, would pay their fair share, based on the prices of things they can afford, and the rich would contribute an equal percentage, although a greater amount, based on the expensive things they purchase. Accountants would only be needed by businesses to keep management honest to owners/shareholders, etc., and to pay the taxes they collected from sales. If everything a company bought was taxed, and there were no deductions, for the purpose of the tax system, life would be better for everybody. As things stand now, entrepreneurs, inventors, business owners, and all the people who create the wealth of nations spend far too much energy and thought about taxes. Imagine how much more vibrant our economy would be, if those people focused 100% of that economic energy on doing and making things. Consider, too, the unifying effect that such a system would have, by taking away class warfare from the politicians. The poor envy the rich, and the rich resent the poor, and why is that? Who does it serve? 'Not the rich, and not the poor. As I send-off the check to Washington, DC, I don't resent the poor person who doesn't pay any taxes, because he has no money, and I don't resent the rich person who doesn't pay any taxes, because he has a good accountant. Me, I resent the people in Washington, DC, who have divided, conquered and enslaved us all to their will, and to the tax system that it created, for it's own benefit, not ours.

HOPE AND CHANGE

I'm curious, whether anyone out there thinks the country, or the world, has gotten "better" or more "hopeful" during the two or so years that Obama has been in power. Yes, I said "in power", because until January he was, in fact, all powerful, and was allowed to do pretty much everything he wanted to do, regardless of whose rights, property or money he stole. So, how's that "Hope & Change" going for everybody? The Teleprompter Wizard" promised prosperity, unity, and to bring rogue nations into the fold of civilized nations with his golden tongue and unparalleled wisdom. Is is me, or has he fallen just a little short of those promises? We have massive unemployment, people and businesses are uncertain about their futures, our nation is being crushed by spending and debt, serious discussions about state secession abound, and rogue governments around the world are doing pretty much whatever they like, and telling us to "Piss off!"
If I didn't [know] better, having seen some of his earlier political speeches and writings, I'd be inclined to think that the current state of affairs in this country, and around the world, were not, in fact, "failures" of his presidency, but rather supreme successes of his life-long political philosophy and struggle. Obviously, he's not a brilliant mind, but with the support of a mainstream media that shares those same beliefs, and a major political party with similar beliefs, and no small amount of assistance from foreign agents, and organizations with openly anti-American agendas, he has succeeded in inflicting damage to this country that the old Soviet Union's leaders could only have dreamed of.
It may just be me, but damn it, the critter looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck!

HEALTH CARE REFORM

If Medicare and Social Security can't be paid for, and will soon go bankrupt, why would anyone in their right mind give the green light for our federal government to create a new entitlement program/agency/bureaucracy/economic black hole? If we can't afford the amount of government we already have, how would creating an even bigger government work? If they can't perform the tasks they already charge us to, "on our behalf", what would make any sane person believe that they will do "health care" right, or on a budget? I know that the American people have been dumbed-down in school systems that have been run by that same inept government, but are we really so stupid to believe these people AGAIN??? They can't educate our kids, or give us good transportation systems, or protect our borders, or take care of our old people, or deliver the mail, or manage our economy, or protect us from criminals, etc., etc., etc. Government is what's wrong with America, not what's going to fix it! If you want to make this a better place to live, with more promise, and a higher standard of living, vote out the people who are pushing for more of the cancer that's killing us! It's that simple! California has been taken down the toilet by Democrats, and faux Republican governors. Do all Americans want to join us in the Third World? Reject Obama and the liberals in Congress, and take back your freedom. No more Democrats, and no more RINOS. Vote conservative, Independent or Libertarian, but no more of the DNC/American Communist Party.

The Feds vs UBS

I guess Swiss banking giant, UBS, and US federal regulators have come to some kind of a settlement, wherein the bank will disclose the names of American clients holding accounts offshore, so they can be fined and/or prosecuted. Most news agencies report this as some kind of victory for the country, but we should never be so naive as to confuse the government of the United States' interests with those of the American people.
This, along with coming Obama tax hikes and regulations, will only serve to convince the wealthy to actually leave the country, and to take the economic power of their money elsewhere. Just like most things the Democrats do, IRS's policies will only end-up hurting the average American, by sending companies and jobs overseas, and driving what capital that does stay into passive situations. If the wealthy don't trust the government, or feel unwelcome in a country, the leave, and they take prosperity with them. I wonder who the Democrats actually work for.

OBAMA, the Post Office, and the Truth

My God, is there ANYTHING this guy won't say to get what he wants? Now his "public option" isn't going to be subsidized, and will compete with the private sector with price and quality? I think this guy is psychotic! He tries to make his point, about the effectiveness of a proposed government agency/program by pointing out that another government agency can't operate effectively or efficiently, and compete with two private sector service providers? OH, but I guess in his world, health care is so much simpler than delivering an envelope or box???? This guy is either the biggest idiot on earth, or else he thinks the American people are, and assumes his minions in the media will somehow BS us into believing him. I'm going to toss out an idea. How about a postage stamp, in his honor, using that Joker Poster image as the design?

TOILET PAPER IN HAVANA

The Cuban people have socialized medicine, and a brutal totalitarian government, and they can't afford toilet paper. HEY, that kinda sounds like where Obama is taking us, doesn't it? We'll be too broke to afford food, or toilet paper, and if we talk out against the government, Obama will send union thugs over to shut your mouth - or worse - but we'll have free government medical care. I wonder if the Castro family have the same kind of medical care that the average Jose gets from their "Public Option".

Where'd all these Americans come from?

Imagine the surprise, disappointment and irritation the Obama Administration and the Democrats in Congress are experiencing from those pesky Americans daring to say that they don't want socialized medicine.

Was this guy a prophet?

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BREAKING MAJOR BUSINESS NEWS!

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: In a not-so surprising statement, CNN and MSNBC have announced their intentions to merge, in a three-way, with the White House, to create a new national "Trust Me!" Ministry that will be called MSDNC, under a new "Truth Czar", Michael Moore.

OBAMA GIVES $2.4B in awards for electric vehicles

So, I'm assuming that, since these electric vehicles will reduce our need to consume fossil fuels, our beloved leader has discovered some miraculous, previously unknown source of electricity? No, wait, let me think! Ah, he's going to put the obese into forced pedaling camps, where they can generate electricity and lose weight at the same time, on little exercise machines? Right on, Comrade Obama! OK, so, if I get an electric vehicle, and I install solar panels to charge them, and I no longer pay fuel taxes to the government, what is he going to tax me for doing, to make up the loss of revenue?

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts!

My late father raised me to listen to all sides, and then to compare that people said to facts, history, and to what I [knew] to be true, from my own experience. What he failed to tell me was, that it's not always the smart thing to express, especially when you are attending an American institution of higher learning, an oversight that made my stint at university something less than a blazing success. In any event, his "Question Authority" doctrine of living one's life did leave me with a pretty clear understanding of the universe, even if it didn't get me a degree.
My father spent some time in military counter intelligence during the Korean War, and some time in law enforcement, and he had a degree in police science, so he was pretty clear on how things work, and about who was doing what in our system.
"Spanky", as I affectionately called him, told me that the Democratic Party had been dominated by the communists for decades, and that that fact actually led him to give-up a career in Army Intel, because he had seen "Democrats" take direct steps to protect certain communist party members that he had investigated, and had encountered situations that indicated to him that people within his agency had disclosed his work, and his reports, to Democratic political figures, who then put pressure on him to stop investigating the people who were engaged in activities of the Communist Party, here in the United States.
So, as I grew up and studied history, and political science, and the world around me, the actions and policies of Democratic politicians and bureaucrats has never surprised or dumbfounded me, because I've known all along what their underlying ideology was, and had I held their views, and had their goals, I would have acted in a similar way. "Liberals" are merely communists who don't want people to know they are communists, but they always promote laws and regulations, and agencies, that help them promote an eventual conversion of our system to a communist system, AND, whenever you mention "communist", or "socialist", their method is to scoff, and to ridicule, and to call you a conspiracy monger, and to deny that communism exists in this country, and that, even if it did, it was simply an enlightened world-view, and not a criminal political conspiracy and organization. In other words, "The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist."
— Charles Baudelaire
If people like can shine a light on this political fungus, and open the eyes of the American people to the Truth, and we can prevent Obama from institutionalizing his economic, social and political agenda for one, and then two more years, it's possible that a great victory can be won by a newly "conservative" GOP, or perhaps a third party, and by the American people, if that new party takes the necessary steps to strip-away the institutions of socialism, and to restore the freedom that the Left has stolen from them over the decades, once and for all.
We cannot simply "compromise" American liberty any longer, allowing the Left to take 10% each year, and then brag about how we've defended the American people. In fact, if you compromise 10% each year, in ten years you have successfully "defended" away ALL of your freedom. It is time for the American people to start TAKING back their Bill of Rights, and their Constitution, and start persecuting and prosecuting the usurpers and traitors who have transgressed against us. If we do not, and soon, any real Americans left in N. America better start thinking about secession, or emigration, to secure for our future a safe haven for American liberty, against the onslaught of one-world government, and a return to the norm of history, tyranny.
When Barack Obama and the Left tell you they are going to give you something for nothing, they are lying. When they tell you that they are going to create jobs with higher taxes and more regulations, they are lying. When they tell your children are going to get a better education in their system, that has failed generations of Americans in the past, if you will only give them more money, they are lying. If they tell you they want a strong America, they are lying. If they tell you that the government can deliver [better] health care than the private sector, they are lying. This is NOT about YOU. This is NOT about AMERICA. This is about them, their beliefs, and their very anti-American political goals.
Maybe the Democrats should change their party symbol, from a Donkey, to a Trojan Horse.

OBAMA'S MESSAGE TO AMERICA

Read My Lips! I'm not trying to impose Socialism on America! I'm not a liar! I'm not a communist! I'm a lawyer. I'm from Chicago. I'm a "Community Organizer", like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. All my friends and associates are communists and radicals, but I'm as American as apple pie, and I love capitalism, and American freedom, and private property, and the Bill of Rights. We can borrow and spend our way out of bankruptcy. I'm not trying to nationalize the health system of the United States. I don't want to own the auto industry, or the banks, or the energy industry, or the manufacturing industry, or all other industries, I just want to have complete control over all aspects of them, and to be able to regulate and/or tax them into complete compliance with my will. But I don't want to "OWN" them! Now, turn to MSNBC, or CNN, so my news bitches can lie to you some more, I'm on a conference call with Fidel!

"LET THEM EAT CAKE!"

After watching and listening to our glorious leader, Barack Obama, for eight months, I am starting to understand his vision for the future. Imagine this. We will have millions of young people serving their National Service stints, working in National Soup Kitchens, feeding the hungry, unemployed - but grateful - masses a hearty broth made from the bodies of old people, who have been pragmatically allowed to die by the National Health Service, seasoned with the stems and seeds from the National Pot Farms. Think of the problems that will have been solved by this system alone! We keep the young people busy, we keep the masses fed, and numbed to their new lives, and we keep the numbers of them pesky old geezers down to an acceptable level, leaving lots and lots of money and assets available for the enjoyment of government employees and "elected officials". Oh, and for the court of our glorious leader, King Barack I!

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

If ObamaCare passes, someone should form an internet registry through which American doctors can find jobs in other countries, where they will be able to earn more money. Big oil producing countries, and manufacturing countries, or those with large financial sectors, where the population has private insurance, or simply lots of money, will be able to get turn-key, top notch doctors, would be more than willing to pay for them to relocate, while Americans will get substandard doctors from foreign countries, who are willing to work for our government health system, like the doctors and health care workers that Medicare patients routinely get now. We've allowed the liberals to drive-off millions of manufacturing jobs, and now we're going to let them drive away our doctors. Wouldn't it make more sense to just do things that encourage more business, and more manufacturing, so more people will become good doctors, and more people can afford to have first-rate medical care?

WHAT PART OF "WE CAN'T AFFORD ALL THESE PLANS" DON'T DEMOCRATS UNDERSTAND?

Let me ask everyone something. If I told you, you don't have enough money to buy a new car, and that you can't even pay for the car you already drive, or afford to make your house payment, or pay your utility bills, what would make you think it's a good idea to go out and buy a new Rolls Royce? Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, to name just some govt. programs, don't balance. We aren't paying for them. You know, they put Bernie Madoff in prison for running a Ponzi scheme? Now, before we fix any of those MONUMENTAL problems, the Democrats are trying to create a new one! Do you think that's smart? If we can't afford the ones we already have? How will that work? Money and numbers don't behave differently, just because the numbers of zeros we're talking about start multiplying, and if we'll go broke under our existing entitlement programs within a few years, adding another entitlement program will only hasten our demise. THAT is the truth. No matter what Obama or Pelosi say, politicians lie, numbers can't. The ONLY thing that they will accomplish, by creating a government run health insurance scheme is, to put millions of Americans into ANOTHER substandard health program, destroy a large portion of our economy, cost us millions of jobs, AND put a lot of money into the hands of their political supporters, just like they did with the Financial Bailout, and the Auto Bailout, and all these "Czars", and the resulting bureaucracies. Write your "representative", and ask them why they aren't volunteering to join such a system, in a short term test program, to see how it works, before they try and put the taxpayers into such a program, and bury the entire nation in more debt. Don't you test medicine, or products, before you commit to their manufacture and sale? Obama and the Democrats think you are stupid. Don't prove them correct. Let all of them know, that if they support these huge programs, you'll vote them out of THEIR job, starting next year. Spreading poverty to all Americans is NOT equality.

WORST NETWORK IN THE WORLD!

When is MSNBC going to get rid of that silly peacock, and replace it with a portrait of Barack Obama? I think having him sitting at his desk, in the Oval Office, with Keith, Chris and Rachel kneeling under the desk would be perfect, and so appropriate.

OBAMA AND THE LEFT

When you see and hear liberals scoff at being called socialists, communists or Marxists, stop to consider the policies they pursue, think about the old adage, about something that quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck, and looks like a duck, being a duck, and remember these words.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) wrote, “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.”

BHO at the G8

Oh, the irony! We had an [American?] President in Europe, trying to talk the European leaders into being more socialist, while they are trying to prevent adding to the historical problems that socialism has given Europe, by not going overboard on govt. spending and regulations - high unemployment, stifled investment and industrial activity. Apparently, for all his "education", Barry didn't quite catch-on to that historical lesson. But then, economic performance in the US isn't as important to his political belief system as central authority and control, is it? Josef Stalin didn't care that his collectivism policies and central planning killed millions of Soviet citizens, because he had social and political goals were more important than the happiness or lives of individuals, and Obama is cut from the same cloth.

GREENHOUSE GASES MY BUTT!

I am getting so fed-up hearing about Greenhouse Gases, and Global Climate Change, and listening to politicians, bureaucrats and "scientists" coming-up with a never ending list of ways to separate me from my freedom and my money, I am just about ready to scream! How about, if liberals want to try and control the world's climate, let THEM do it, and they just leave everyone else out of their little fantasy? If they want to rely solely on solar or wind energy, let them. If they want to pay higher taxes, let them. If they want to ride mass transit, let them. If they want to drive crappy little death boxes, I'm all good with that too. These people are political and financial criminals, and religious fanatics, and they should be removed from positions where they can impose their beliefs on others, and where they can steal public funds.