A LETTER FROM AN OPPOSING VIEW

This must be a week for letters.  Today I received an email from a fellow who read one of my posts (2009) that was republished at Freedom Outpost recently.   The subject was Obamacare and health insurance, but I think he landed on it because he refers to my quotes from Ayn Rand as well.  For the sake of revealing how someone of Socialist ideology thinks, I thought it might be educational to post his email and my response to it for you.  If you wish to see the original post, you can go here: My Tea Party Chronicle

His email:

Ms. Pass:

Having read your blog about Ayn Rand and the execrable parasites known as health insurance companies, I would appreciate it if you would kindly explain why we should mourn their demise.

The good capitalist steals the best ideas of competitors, and the rest of the world has proven beyond cavil that socialized health care is more efficient than our bloated system, producing equivalent outcomes for a third of the cost.  Why is this such a bad thing? What value do these bureaucratic behemoths add?

The short definition of a modern Republican is a man who is more faithful to his dogma than his wife.  I would counter with a line from one of my other favorite atheist authors, Isaac Asimov: "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right."

Regards, Dissenter

My reply:

Dissenter,
The piece re: Ayn Rand that you have just seen was republished recently by Freedom Outpost.  I am assuming that is where you saw it.

From the tenor of your comments I am sure your question is not an honest one. From what you say in your email, your mind is made up and you have demonized not only insurance companies, but capitalism and Republicans as a monolithic group. Nevertheless, I will give you my best answers if you will take the time to read and study this issue.

Your statement here for instance: "The short definition of a modern Republican is a man who is more faithful to his dogma than his wife."
To which I would ask you if the same applies to FDR, Kennedy, and Clinton...each Democrats with mistresses and peccadilloes.

You ask me to defend the insurance industry and then you proceed to defend socialism, which is responsible for the direct and indirect murders of millions of people throughout its history.  Efficiency in killing people would be attributable to the purveyors of totalitarian control, not capitalism.  Do you really need proof of this?  If so, I will give you documentation to read.

The concept of the insurance industry is the creation of a "risk pool."  Replacing the private insurance industry with socialized insurance by government is, nonetheless, a "risk pool." Whether or not you agree with a third-party payer system, you must decide if you wish the force of the government to control your healthcare providers or whether you would rather choose your own insurance and healthcare providers.  Private insurance by choice? Or government insurance by force?  I can only conclude from your email, your response is that you think force is better than choice.

You ask this: "What value do these bureaucratic behemoths add?"
If bureaucracy is your objection, replacing one bureaucracy with an even larger, less personal, government bureaucracy cannot be your solution.  In what universe does that make any logical sense?

As to this statement: "the rest of the world has proven beyond cavil that socialized health care is more efficient than our bloated system, producing equivalent outcomes for a third of the cost."
I'm assuming from that you must have been locked in a room watching Michael Moore's movie "Sicko" in a repeating loop ad infinitum for you to say such a thing. A different question to ask yourself would be: Why do socialist government officials not have to live under the same health care laws that they have put in place for everyone else? If Obamacare is so great, why have our politicians exempted themselves from it?   

To answer this presumption of yours, I refer you to several links which I hope you will take the time to read. The first one is regarding Ezekiel Emanuel, White House health care policy advisor to Barack Obama and author of much of Obamacare.
 

Wall Street Journal post on Ezekiel Emanuel

The Guardian - UK - on rationing healthcare

Below is an example of Canada's Socialized Health Care which you say is "more efficient?"

Canada Free Press

The typical wait for hip surgery in Canada is 14 months.
In Canada’s Province of Quebec, patients in need of a 30 minute procedure to cure urinary tract infections are on a three year waiting list!
Children with significant hearing problems are denied access to cochlear implants.
Arthritis treatment in the United Kingdom has a waiting period of up to nine months.  Also in the UK, a 22 year old man just passed away because the government refused to allow him to receive a liver transplant.
Patients across the spectrum are denied access to thousands of necessary medications, which are deemed “too costly” or “unnecessary” by non-doctor bureaucrats.

Article by Ileana Johnson on Communist Health Care in Bucharest, Hungary

In closing:  Prior to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the medical industry was providing adequate and accessible health care to all and at reasonable costs.  Insurance was a catastrophic safety net, while normal health care was an out of pocket expense, affordable to most all Americans.  Pro-bono work by hospitals and doctors took up the rest for the needy.  Churches and community charities took care of those who could not pay.  After Lyndon Johnson involved the government as a third party to the elderly and the poor, the entire situation devolved into a more corrupt money grab.....which tells you exactly what government intervention does to pulverize reason and sanity, care and due diligence, compassion and charity. 

Americans have been blessed with the best health care in the world which is now going to be degraded into the lowest common denominators due to socialism by those who think government is the answer, not the problem.  I take the opposite view because I have lived through the success of a substantial amount of freedom.  Moving toward totalitarian control over our every personal decision is not going to bring prosperity and happiness ....or good health care...to anyone but the political elitists who eliminate the inferior outcomes of socialism from their own lives.  In case you haven't noticed, they vote the best for themselves and the least for the society they govern.  Not much different from the monarchical rulers of the past, eh?

So, Dissenter, march along to your masters' drum beat.  You contacted me with questions and statements.  I hope you understand why I took the time to answer you.

Sincerely,
Cheryl Pass

P.S. I notice you quoted Isaac Asimov.  I'm sorry to say your favorite "atheist,"  also a Fabian Socialist, would only view you as a "useful idiot."  If you are trying to equate Ayn Rand with him and with Socialism due to atheism, that would be a canard.  Rand lived in and saw the horrors of Socialism and hence decided to warn Americans of the possible harm that ideology would bring upon us.

OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST? GEE, WHO KNEW?

Note:  I started to write this a few days ago, and then I sort of got stuck.  I felt I was stating the obvious to those who read here.  My blogger friends are up on all of this Obama / Communist connection anyway.  And then the Colorado madman shooting happened.  And in between other things, I have been drawn into another local issue of more proposed spending for another "public private partnership."  So please excuse the delay. And excuse my stating the obvious, but I don't think we can state it often enough, that Obama is a Communist of heart and mind and we are now at the mercy of powers with diabolical goals, means, and methods that have taken over our governments at most levels. 

I want to start with this quote found at Republican Mother 

"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent."

Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets

 Before Andrew Breitbart died, he announced his mission, leading up to the Nov. election, was to vet Barack Obama.  I don't think I will ever believe that Breibart's death was a convenient event of "natural causes" or just a fluke of timing with a "heart attack."  But no one will ever prove what happened.  Now some truth seekers are left doing the work that Andrew started. 

Lately we are hearing a lot about Obama's background with Communist parents and a Communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis.  As the public has been left misinformed and misled about Obama's past, leaving his history to circumspection and inuendo, some very good authors and researchers have been uncovering very interesting pieces of Obama's upbringing.   I say "interesting," but "tragic" would be a better word.  Tragic for the American people, not for Obama.

A good bit of this information was revealed (to those who paid any attention) before the 2008 election.  Mass media outlets scorned any mention of Bill Ayers and the Rev. Wright, calling such connections "racist" or ridiclous.  People who said those connections meant anything regarding Obama's character were ridiculed and blown off by arrogant paid operatives and mass media sycophants in love with the Obamas and their act.  So O.K...we know all of that now.

From Joe McCarthy to Joe Wurzelbacher, the alarm bells have been going off in this nation for a long time.  But Communists have used the tool of ridicule to put off their critics.  It's their modus operendi.  When Obama said, "I just want to spread the wealth around," the media made excuses and pretended Obama didn't really mean what he said.  Instead, they said he just wanted to "level the playing field" ...and oh, it's just a little bit of Socialism.  Nothing to see here, just move right along.

What is different now?  Nothing for the Obamas.  Nothing for mass media.  But now, after this past 3 + years of shoving Socialist / Communist / Fascist programs and policies down our throats, more people are noticing they can't ignore the truth so easily.

It took more than a lying media to bring us here. It took some fancy footwork and a lot of money to infiltrate our government and its agencies with Communists.  And it didn't happen overnight.  It took decades to bring us a Manchurian (or should I say Muslim) Communist for President of the United States.

Obama's personal story is both vague and clear at the same time.  It is clear in its deliberate vagueness.  His mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a card carrying Communist.  He taught Obama well.  Both of Obama's supposed parents were Communists.  His grandparents were Communists.  Bill Ayers wrote Obama's biography.  Bill Ayers' family had something to do with Obama's Chicago connections and funding of his education.  There is nothing in Obama's background that qualifies him for his political access to elected offices, neither as Senator or as President.  The administration he has created is more likely created by Valerie Jarrett and other Communists calling the shots.  Obama is a well oiled machine, a manufactured tool.  He was set on us with cooperation from anti-American forces of great wealth and power.  Under the radar.  Behind the scenes.  Some of those anti-American forces have been operating within the United States for decades, even generations of them.  We landed here in this day and time, not by accidental actions of stupidity, but by deliberate control by masters of the universe. 

Col. Allen West is blowing the whistle on Congress.  He reports the truth that 79 to 81 people in Congress are connected to the Socialist or Communist Parties.  I blogged about this a couple of years ago.  But has our news media ever made a case on this?  Nah...nothing to see here.  Just move right along.  Now the Soros attack machine is going after Col. West.  You see, you don't tell the public any of the truth without a great measure of risk to your life and your position.  

Dateline: July 2012

Our nation is under siege from within by domestic enemies.  There are now many of them.  The attacks have been gradual but relentless for many decades.  Our rights have been whittled away and are under great threat. We are about to be overwhelmed.

What are we going to do about it?

Does this sound familiar? (From the Declaration of Independence, for those who don't know.)

  “He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.”

 

    “He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers, to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”

 One king did that.  Now we have a swarm of would be Kings, building fiefdoms within fiefdoms within our nation.  Earls, and Lords, and not so real Ladies.  We have a fraudulent King in our White House.  We are reliving the medieval days of history, where perpetual wars consume our military and where power is taken from the individual and handed back to the arrogance of self-proclaimed royalty.  It is systemic and widespread. 

If  I were to leave but one post on my blog to reflect my observations of the moment we find ourselves living, this one is it.  One issue at a time is a tough slog, though must be undertaken with our best efforts.  However, simultaneously, we must realize the bigger picture.  The solution to our situation is not small. The solution requires major action from freedom fighters across the nation.   And the first major action is to call out the truth.  The truth is long over-due.   

The first truth that must be called out loud and clear is that this President is a Communist and a fraud.  This truth needs to be exposed daily by every single citizen and thrown in the faces of media and elected officials.  The next truth is to expose every complicit official, elected or appointed, and demand they be thrown out.  The third truth is that every un-Constitutional regulation and law must be wiped clean and erased from this nation at all levels. 


We suffer from lies, fraud, and global Communists, or we emerge free again by speaking the truth to undeserved and unholy powers.  What is it going to be?

Fr. Andrew was invited to lead the opening prayer at the 2012 Colorado Republican State Assembly and Convention in the Magness Arena at the University of Denver. “The moral challenges facing our country are not caused by political affiliation, but rather by attacks on religious freedom”. He invites all people of conscience to uphold religious freedom. Hw gives a rousing talk on what has happened to the world under the name of Socialism.

Go to about the two-minute mark to reach his remarks and past his opening prayer.

Hat tip to my friend at Bunkervillefor this great video of inspiration.

 (One last note:  I use the word Communist, not lightly, but today's Communism (under the name Socialism) contains variations of Fascism,  using whatever method can be used to circumvent and shred the United States Constitution.  What we have is a combination of anything but upholding rights of liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness for individuals.)
 

ONE HALF OF THE LAST CENTURY OF "PROGRESSIVE" RULE

They say it is the entitlements that are killing us. And that may be half of the story. But you cannot tell me that discretionary spending on subsidies isn't the other half of the story. Neither entitlements or subsidies are constitutional, so we are on wrong footing with both of these issues. But if you will humor me for a small walk back through history, I'll see if we can figure out how we got where we are. Sometimes a historical perspective can help us get a grip.

Both entitlements and discretionary spending have become monstrous burdens on the people of this nation. Both entitlements and subsidies are the brain children of "Progressive" meddlers. Interestingly enough both government entitlements and subsidies a century ago were designed by Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, all self proclaimed "Progressives." Since then, add Johnson, Carter, Clinton, and now Obama so far. That is seven presidents, with somewhere around 47.1 years of governing between them. By the time Obama is finished it will be almost 50 of the last 100 years of "Progressive" rule that has bent and manipulated our way of life to benefit Socialists. You can add whichever "Progressive" policies into the mix by RINO Republicans, and you see how far "Progressive" Socialism has come. And by that, measure how far removed we have become from the U.S. Constitution. Is it any wonder that our country is split in half by two sets of ideology. We have half of the last century taking us in a completely different direction from the Founders' vision of America. Maybe it is more of a miracle that half of us still stand with them.

Here we are 100 years + from the origins of the "Progressive" movement in America and the government has its hands on manipulating everything. Our fight for freedom is not new. It has been going on a long long time and we are just visiting the latest incarnation of it. Perhaps, in our day and time, it is that we have only just barely tasted freedom really, when you look at the state of our government from 1900 forward. There are so few freedoms left.

From Academic American

"The Progressive Movement, which gained substantial strength after 1900, can be defined in part as a protective reaction against the growing threat of communism or socialism in American economic and political life. The Progressives were behind many reforms aimed at cleaning up capitalism and protecting workers’ rights. But because the Progressive Movement did not move fast enough for some, the Socialist Party in United States gained a bit of traction. In 1912 the Socialist party under Eugene Debs won almost a million votes. The Populist Party in 1892 had had similar success, and though the Populists were not explicitly communists or socialists, their interests certainly lay in the same direction."

"Although the Progressive Movement is considered to have ended with the outbreak of the First World War, the Progressive Party continued to thrive, and many liberal politicians were—and still are—comfortable being identified as Progressives. Wisconsin’s Robert La Follette garnered almost 5 million votes as the Progressive Party candidate for president in the election of 1924. When the Great Depression hit and American capitalism seemed to be crumbling, those who had embraced communism and socialism seemed vindicated. Intellectuals flocked to the Socialist camp, led by men such as Lincoln Steffens who, having visited Soviet Russia, said, “I have seen the future and it works.”

"With the Cold War tensions on the rise, and with the rise of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, the Socialist movement began to die out. Being labeled a communist or socialist ceased to be respectable except to the fringe on the very far left of America’s political spectrum. That fringe emerged once again in the 1960s as part of the protest movement against the Vietnam War and the excesses of American capitalism; a few old Socialists became darlings of the “New Left.” But with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990 and the end of the Cold War, the Socialist alternative in America was for a time considered dead and buried. More recently, however, government responses to the economic crisis and the debate over health care reform have awakened the notion that the nation may be drifting toward socialist solutions."

(Note: the article cited above has some built in biases. For instance in the paragraph just above it does not mention the Socialist fringe that, since the 1960's, has infiltrated the education system and the media to sell their ideology to the culture over these past 50 years. And that right after the Soviet Union fell, Americans elected Bill Clinton who is one of the global Socialist left.)

The entire focus of "Progressives" is to control everything. Their model is communism. And through entitlements and subsidies, they control those on the receiving end of these, PLUS they control those on the paying end of these. That pretty much covers all of us at this moment.

The Constitution has already been shredded by these "Progressives" in our country. They came here, they stayed here, they have ruined everything they've touched. If you are taking an entitlement or a subsidy, you are already in the clutches of communist control. If you are still one of the paying segment of the population, you are already forced into supporting communism.

You can't say it is just the entitlements. You can't say it is just the discretionary spending of subsidies. You can't say it is just regulations. It isn't just one thing here and there. It is all of it. You can't say it is only in certain sectors of our lives. Since Barack Obama was elected, it is now everywhere, in every pore and crease of life itself. He has just built a higher castle on the foundations laid by the previous "Progressive" presidents. Time has a way of giving one a perspective if you just step back and look at the events of history.

The fight for freedom goes on.

LOST GENERATION OF ENTITLED BRATS - OBAMA LEADS THE PACK

"As ye sow, so shall ye reap." My mother, who was an excellent seamstress, had a saying satirizing that Biblical phrase: "As ye sew, so shall ye rip." It was her way of saying when mistakes are made, you will have to rip them out. (Genius, no?) It was also her way of accepting that mistakes are made sometimes and you have to deal with them...with your effort and time, to correct the error. (She had lots of flaws, but she did love to impart simple adages of wisdom which follow me around today, and for which I'm grateful.)

Such a simple creed. Ripping out mistakes. But when you set up huge bureaucracies of entitlement mistakes, it takes a lot of ripping to fix them. And the push back from those who now believe they are entitled is loud, crass, and not surprising in some ways. Entitlements ruin people. It makes them think they can steal from others for their own gain. It makes them think they don't have to work for their own livelihoods. It makes them think some far away government fairy will send them checks just for breathing. So then, when the ripping begins and those entitled find out they aren't entitled after all, the screaming begins.

Areas of the world are on fire with riots and violence. Lots of areas. Lots of violence. Lots of destruction. And what is the rebel yell of this mob violence spreading across the world? "Gimme!" "Gimme!" "Gimme!" The flash mobs yell they want, want, want. What do they want? Government nannies.

Somehow it seems perfectly fitting that a spoiled brat sits in the White House today. His sense of entitlement reflects so much of what his generation and his Socialist mentors have done to the world. His credentials were nearly nil. He was raised on the doctrine of entitlement and demands. He entered office thinking he was entitled to redistribute people's wealth. It is his only stock and trade. He spent the wad and then spent some more. He spent until the red ink flowed into the future as farther than anyone can see. And he is still at it. It is all he knows how to do; spend other people's money and then announce that everyone is entitled to someone else's money by demand. His demand. He's really great at it. What a legacy of virtue, eh?

In saying this, I feel obliged to blame my generation of hippie brats who begat this "Gimme" infantile, temper tantrum, flash mob violence ridden, population of nothings. And I will not blame myself or my children. I am neither blaming those in my generation who did raise their children to be responsible adults. But, from what we are witnessing, I have to conclude there are millions of young brats being unleashed onto civil society. My family is still in the Middle Kingdom of working for a living and expecting to support ourselves. My family thrives on hard work and drive. Work defines us. It is the other parents of my age group, those druggies and hippies, those wannabee revolutionaries, those who swallowed the university Kool-ade, those do-gooder egotists from the '60's, those who never taught their children to make anything or to work at something. There must have been a lot of them. All over the world. Bunches and bunches of entitled children looking to governments to fulfill their lives. A world full of parental artful dodgers raising children who have just been waiting to explode and tear the place apart.

I can't begin to wrap my mind around this amazing eruption of multitudes of idiots. These youthful idiots are screaming for global Socialism. "Gimme!" "Gimme!" "Gimme!" ...while setting London, Philadelphia, and Israel on fire. I'm wondering who told them they are entitled? But then I look at the adult child in the White House, and I look at the population in this country who elected him, and I know who told them they are entitled. Socialists (Marxists - Communists) told them. Kool-ade drinkers told them. Universities told them. Public school curricula told them. Environmentalists told them. Now even Churches are telling them.

Socialists have been handing out this entitlement dogma all over Europe since the French Revolution. Never a word is uttered indicating the tyranny of Socialism. As Marx and Engels poisoned minds all over Western Civilization, the Fabian Socialists in England took up the Communitarian-Communist mantra to hide their contempt for man. Empty promises of Utopian systems were handed out like candy disguising the poison inside. For decades this poison has been forced down the throats of public school students from kindergarten through universities in America and Europe. This poison spread far and wide after the fall of the Soviet Union. And even after the Soviet experiment failed, the Socialist brats continued to insist their entitlement solutions would work. As usual with spoiled brats, they don't take failure as a lesson, they don't take "no" for an answer. They just keep screaming, "Gimme!" "Gimme!" "Gimme!"

Liberal Dogma Spawned Generation of Rioting Youths
"They are products of a culture which gives them so much unconditionally that they are let off learning how to become human beings. My dogs are better behaved and subscribe to a higher code of values than the young rioters of Tottenham, Hackney, Clapham and Birmingham."

As Barack Obama made his campaign tour in Europe, he announced, "We are the ones the world has been waiting for." Exactly what do you think he meant by that? To whom was he speaking? What promises did the European youth hear? What kind of an egotistical battle cry is, "We are the ones the world has been waiting for?" A bit over the top, don't you think? Entitlement speaks very loud and Obama speaks of it so eloquently. The entitlements flow from his mouth and his pen like melting butter on a hot bun. Here it is said he is not a leader. I think he is leading, but the path he is leading is toward global socialist / Marxist entitlement, brat rebellion.

Well, I guess the world's entitled brats are getting tired of waiting for whatever it was they thought they were going to get, because now they are simultaneously erupting in violent convulsions, destroying anything and everything in their bloody way, stealing and smashing and throwing their tantrums. If you consider the London riots, those are the already entitled receivers of government largesse on a massive scale, yet they are still destroying all in their way. The psychology of that is rich with mental illness, retarded maturity, and immorality beyond the comprehension of reasonable and civilized people. You see a spoiled brat will never get enough to satisfy that desire to have it all.

What Americans must do is rip out the mistaken dogma of Socialist entitlements and soviet-style corruption practices that are destroying our republic. We need to begin ripping it out of every nook and cranny of American life. Americans must reject the Obama path to global Socialism. We must rip this mistake out with as much fervor and haste as possible. Only then, will the fabric of our nation be woven back together again.

Published also at PUNDIT HOUSE

THE GREAT DIVIDE OF CURRENT EVENTS

Everywhere I look, on every issue, I am seeing America split into two camps. You are either a "Progressive" big government, gay promoting, pro-amnesty, green zealot, or you are a "Constitutionalist" small government, freedom lover. Our country divided is unfriendly, uncivil, unhappy, and suffering from a lack of cohesive citizenship, pitting false ideas of victimhood against the formula for individual success. There is no joy in Mudville lately.

Our country is broken in a way I believe is comparable to the days leading up to the Civil War. And like the Civil War era, this has come upon us gradually and insidiously. Families and friends were lined up on two different sides of the issues of the day; slavery, states rights , tariffs, and a wide divide in economic prosperity between the states. You could say that slavery was the underlying most critical issue of all and that is what drove the divide to the ultimate culmination of war. And I believe you would be mostly correct on that point. But I would also add that states rights - federalism was the Constitutional structure most challenged over the issue of slavery. In that way, slavery became a Constitutional crisis.

Since the days of the Civil War and the construction of the Communist Manifesto, the divide has only grown. Each current issue (as slavery was) is now an attack on the Constitution. Every issue arising in the public square becomes a divisive sticky wicket that people don't seem to know how to address and/or dismiss as either part of our way of life or not. This is what happens when chaos begins.

Does the Federal government have the right to force you to buy healthcare? Does the Federal government have the right to dictate what lightbulbs are sold? Does the Federal government have the right to use our taxes, i.e. grant money, to implement United Nations' projects? Does the Federal government have the right to force states to educate illegal aliens? Legally, under the Constitution, the answer is no to all of the above. Yet we are surrounded by people who have no idea that the government does not have those rights.

What was a racial slavery issue in the early days of our Republic is now an all encompassing class issue, teetering on the brink of enslavement of the entire mass population of America....all because the Constitution is being ignored and because government bureaucrats are, quite simply stated, completely out of control. Power over others is an aphrodisiac. Give a man or woman a job as a bureaucrat, where he or she can wield power over fellow citizens, and the man or woman will go home every night feeling drunk with power. Convince young students that their role in life is to go forth and tell everyone else how to live and what to do...and you have a generation of people who don't know how to do anything else. Conversely, do not teach young students to create anything or learn a skill of real worth...and you have a generation of people who will flounder and depend on government to pay their way. (by real worth I mean..farming, manufacturing, engineering, communicating, managing wealth, fishing, retail management, etc. etc.) The culmination of this is a huge segment of the population who knows nothing but regurgitating the government rules they have been taught to force onto others.

The goal of Progressives is collective Federal force against the individual. The goal of Constitutionalists is celebrating individual gifts and successes, forcing no one into paying for someone else, i.e. allowing individual liberty. The dichotomy is that the slavery issue from the Civil War has been translated into whether or not you can buy an incandescent light bulb or purchase your own healthcare insurance. In this way, the Constitutional crisis of slavery has become a Constitutional crisis of personal choices, a catalyst for enslavement of the entire population of America. Federalism has been turned on its head.

I am struck by the vehement adherence to these un-Constitutional dictates that I see in some people around me. It is as if our cultural conversations are on two completely different planets. It's nice to think we have common ground, but it is obvious we don't. "Never the twain shall meet" is the motto of the day. Opposites, in this case, do not attract, but repel each other. I am repelled by the Progressive, Marxist, big government people I hear and see in our society. Seriously repelled. I don't see common ground with them. There is none.

I read recently (sorry I didn't grab the link) that the Progressives' admonition of "old white dead men" being responsible for the Constitution somehow never becomes "old white dead men" are responsible for the Progressive movement, i.e. Marx, Engels, Popper, Wilson, Lenin, Mao, George Bernard Shaw, and more. I'm not ashamed to say, I like our "old dead white men" better than theirs.

The Constitution can and should prevail in its brilliant assurances of individual freedom from slavery, from slavery by the Federal government, from slavery by tyranny at all levels of government. Those who wish to enslave others to their own power agenda have no place in America...just as those who wished to continue the practice of African slavery had no place in America. The slavery of Progressivism is the same, only this time it is slavery of all people. Our current events are just that...current incarnations of the same old divide. We need to let them know this, in no uncertain terms. The beginning of the end of the Progressive Era has come. We've fought this fight before and we won. They don't win....we do.

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"STAKEHOLDERS" - THE NEW SYSTEM

Today's buzzword is "STAKEHOLDER." You are hearing this word in comprehensive planning from your local leadership all the way up to the federal government. So who are these "STAKEHOLDERS?"

Accordiing to the online dictionary

stakeholder
- 3 dictionary results
–noun
1.
the holder of the stakes of a wager.
2.
a person or group that has an investment, share, or interest in something, as a business or industry.
3.
Law . a person holding money or property to which two or more persons make rival claims.

Hmmmm... I think we can eliminate the #1 definition here because the subject I address is not Poker. But how about #2 and #3? #3 is not quite it because it refers to legal ownership. So, #2 it is. #2 defines who fits into schemes being presented by government officials who are "transforming" the nature of our Republic.

But lets' say you are just Joe Citizen and you see that "STAKEHOLDERS" are now on consulting boards who are making decisions on how your city is run. Excuse me? Joe Citizen used to be THE STAKEHOLDER in this process. It was Joe Citizen who elected persons to run his city. The persons elected were the decision makers. Now we find out that elected officials are conferring with "STAKEHOLDERS" to decide on all of the issues facing his city. Who are the STAKEHOLDERS?

Hint: If you don't like Facism and if you don't like crony capitalism, you are not going to like "STAKEHOLDER" government.

"Stakeholder councils are called by many names and are created for a variety of specific purposes. Whatever they are called, and whatever the stated purpose for which they are created, they all have several common characteristics, and all have a common objective: the implementation of some component of Agenda 21."Sovereignty.net

STAKEHOLDERS are the wealthy, influential leaders of corporate, business, and non-profit organizations in the community. So if Joe Citizen is not wealthy or influential by his association with one of those groups...well, Joe Citizen is no longer a STAKEHOLDER in his community. And because the STAKEHOLDERS are chosen by government officials to sit on the decision making boards, who do you think government officials are going to appoint? It isn't very likely that the government officials are going to appoint small government conservatives because government officials like big government and control. In fact, small government conservatives would not disenfranchise Joe Citizen by STAKEHOLDER COUNCILS anyway. (just google the words "stakeholder council in yourtown USA," and you will see what I mean.) So it is the Progressive Democrat / Republican politician who buys into this set up. As if Joe Citizen doesn't exist, he is out of the loop, out of the sphere of influence, and S___ out of luck.

The more public / private government deals with STAKEHOLDER COUNCILS arranged by politicians, the more Facist our government becomes and the less our citizens have to say about how our tax money is spent.

The Founders made every citizen a STAKEHOLDER in our government. The Socialists and Fascists on both the left and the right have removed the citizen from the process. So when you see the word STAKEHOLDER(s) in plans and articles about plans for your local government, remember you are not included. Our government is no longer supposed to be about you, Joe Citizen. Now it's supposed to be about who has the most money and influence in your community.

Oh, you say, that's the way it has always been anyway, so what's new under the sun? Well, not quite. Yes, wealth and position have always had influence. I don't deny it. But the voter was the trump card against that influence, preventing the steam-roller effect from running over the Joe Citizens of the country. Now we have a system in place that never makes it to the ballot box, but just implements policies based on STAKEHOLDER COUNCILS, the voter be damned.

What to do to stop this? Find candidates who understand the process has been corrupted and who will no longer rule by fiat on the basis of STAKEHOLDERS. Simple solution....not so simple to do. But if we don't stop this, the spiral of out of control government continues until our country is simply unrecognizable. It's almost there already....so get busy out there.

BUSINESS AS USUAL

Can you tell the election is over?  

Today, Eric Cantor pretty much said the President, the Obams, is happy to work with Republicans to find "compromises" on the tax question.  (to re-instate the Bush tax plan or to raise taxes.)  Compromises with Socialists.  

Today John Boehner said Obama and Republicans are looking for "common ground."  Excuse me, but I can't think of any "common ground" with Obama and/or Socialists.  But they will find some and Americans will lose some more liberties.

Today, the Senate voted for S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, which pretty much gives Monsanto a global lock on seeds and food production.  If Monsanto wants it, what does it matter what Americans want.  Right?  If Monsanto and the U.S. government want to control our food supplies, what do we matter? 

So, I ask myself, what is the point of contacting congresspersons to object to bills when they completely ignore us?  What is the point of a sweeping majority in the House if Boehner is helping Obama look for "common ground" where there is none?

In December the FCC take over of the internet is due for a vote.  Do you suppose our protests on the subject have any weight? 

So, all of the hoopla about tea parties and bringing the country back to conservative Constitutional principles is a joke.  There is no point.  It isn't going to happen.  Now or 2012.  You can't stop them.  I can't stop them.  We can write until our fingers are bleeding, it doesn't matter.  We can sing to the choir and get some small media coverage for our efforts, but we are not making any difference whatsoever. 

The power of the American people is gone.  2012 will be more of the same.  RINOs still survive.  Socialists still have their huge deficit spending programs.  The Constitution is dead.....or near dead.  The elected and the non-elected in our government don't give a rip about either the American people or the Constitution.  They are going to do what they want to do and we, we are just sitting ducks.  Sorry for the bad news...but reality has to sink in sooner or later.  Reality hit me today, smack in the forehead.  

I'm all for making huge efforts for the cause if it mattered.  I don't see how it matters.  Scream, holler, donate, work on campaigns, write the truth, and pray someone is listening.   You can put the truth right in front of everyone.  You can point out the lies.  You can prove whys and wherefores.  You can say the sky is blue and grass is green.  No one cares.  You can lead a horse to water.....as the saying goes.

So business as usual is back to the usual and we are again left out of the process, as usual.  Let's all sing Kumbayah and smile about all of the PROGRESS the SOCIALISTS are making.  Ain't it great?  Ain't it grand?  By all means, let's find "common ground" with Socialists.  And THAT is business as usual.   And that is how we got here from 100 years of Socialists engineering America. 

Can you tell I've had it up to my eyeballs?  Can you tell we have made so little impact with our votes that we are back to business as usual less than a month after the election??  Is it going to take another 100 years to gain back what we have lost? Or never? 

Can you tell the election is over? 

Looks like I am not the only one in a bad mood thanks to the Republicans doing "back to the usual" politics yesterday.  KE Campbell posted this on American Thinker today

And this quote from Mark Levin: 
"...[the meeting] was a mistake and I'll tell you why...Is there compromise or negotiations over the EPA's efforts to impose "cap and trade" on this nation? [No.] Is there compromise or negotiation over the ObamaCare legislation going on today? No. How about over the progressive income tax, which is [straight] out of the Communist Manifesto? No, no discussion on that. How about the elimination of a single federal agency or department? No. [Instead] we're negotiating on tax increases...but what's to negotiate?...We have already allowed the statists to set the priorities. Why are we negotiating with a defeated president and a defeated party, defeated in a massive landslide, a historic election? Why are we negotiating on their terms on our issues...rather than on our terms?..."

SO, WHO IS SURPRISED???

 "Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now."  Paul Krugman

More sunshine revealing Fabian Socialists flat out telling you to your face that a government bureaucrat will be deciding your fate "some years down the pike."  Gee, and Obama said, "If you like your healthcare, you can keep it."  Who's kidding whom?  The exposure of the Socialist plans for America and her citizens is coming out in the open, the curtain has been once again peeled back, and voilá....what do we have here?  We have Paul Krugman, one of the promoters of the "death panels!!" Not only that, but an admission that "death panels" are all about government money.  You see, your life is just too damn expensive for the Socialists.  When they take control of your money, your money is no longer used to protect you or pay your doctor bills.  It is used to keep more Socialists in the pink with fat retirements and benefits.  But not you.  If you are old and your body is struggling to keep going in what ever ways old age has set upon you, these guys want you gone.  No more glaucoma meds.  No more arthritis drugs.  No more cataract surgery.  No more walkers or orthopedic shoes.  No more osteoporosis drugs. No more bladder control meds.  No more heart valve bypass surgeries.  Of course you will be paying into that system for how many years, but it isn't going to be used to help you.  It is going to pay for government union dues and Air Force One trips to Mumbai.  You can face death panels while the Socialists have a picnic on your money.

So, who is surprised???  Not me.  The only people possibly surprised at Paul Krugman's revelations on the ABC Sunday show, "This Week with Christiane Amanpour" would be those who either have their heads deeply buried into the sand or simply cannot comprehend reality when it smacks them right in the face.  The impact of his statement probably went right over the heads of the useful idiots anyway.  

I have a former friend (or should I say someone I mistakenly thought was a friend) who's favorite saying on this subject is:  "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"  Except when it comes to herself and her family.   For her it is Obama, government unions and programs all the way.  I guess she thinks the death panels won't apply to her, just those business owners and tax payers she despises.  In fact, I'm willing to bet she believes those death panels would never touch her life, but those other folks...you know, those Republicans or Tea Party types.  It's an ugly and selfish disregard for individual freedoms she carries around with her.  I can never understand how people like this wish to destroy their children with such a plan.  But I digress...

Keep the sun shining!!  Let them speak!  Let the curtains fall away and expose them for who they are.  And let those who love Socialism sooooo much move away from America to some other corrupt land where they can live out their nightmares using their own lives....not ours.  In fact, I'd vote to deport them to Socialist Europe or possibly Russia post haste.  (If we had a time machine, I'd suggest moving them to Stalin's USSR moment in time.) There is no room here for Socialists.  They truly don't belong here.  Since they really don't like America anyway, why are they here?  Why would someone live in a place one dislikes and disrespects? Since they want the nanny state government to take care of them, let them go where there is a nanny state and see how they like it.  And oh, by the way, the nanny is Nurse Ratchet combined with Freddie Krueger.  Won't it be fun?!! 

So thanks, Krugman.  Keep talking.  Run your mouth loud and often on all of the media outlets who will expose you.  I hope you and Obama (Pelosi and the rest of the Socialists in Congress) never shut up.....all the way to the moment when you realize that America rejects everything you say and for which you stand.

SUNSHINE AND SOCIALISTS

"Old time" Democrats live by the idea that Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved the nation by creating social programs to save the poor from the Great Depression. Those Democrats are having a difficult time understanding why Roosevelt's reputation isn't glorified by all Americans. They are also watching their Democrat Party evolve into a blatant anti-American, global revolutionary, welfare party. They are wondering why our country cannot get on its economic feet under the stewardship of their 'chosen one,' Obama. Those "old time" Democrats have relied on information which did not bring them the full truth behind Roosevelt's motives, his connections, and his commitment to Socialism.

One of the legs of the Roosevelt platform was Social Security, which now has an unfunded liability of nearly $15 trillion USD at this writing. What Roosevelt started is now part of what is bankrupting America. When that program and the country collapse, will you think of  FDR as a hero or a destructive Socialist?  What is the price of that to your children?  The title of his NEW DEAL was deliberately chosen so as not to alert the public to its Socialist ideology. He dared not call his programs "Socialist" because he knew the American public would rebel against them. "A spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down" comes to mind. "Cloaks and daggers" also comes to mind.

The very wealthy Roosevelt family, with two Presidents to its name, was well connected to Fabian Socialism. FDR was close friends with H.G. Wells, one of the more famous Fabians.  His economic advisor, Stuart Chase, was a Fabian who wrote a book called "The New Deal, which originated the phrase.  He followed the economic philosophy of John Maynard Keynes, another Fabian Socialist.  The Fabian Socialist Society was formed in Great Britain the same year as Karl Marx's death, 1884. Not wishing to see Marxism fail, they decided to take a new approach to implement Marx's Global Communism. They continue to exist today under various organizations such as the Democratic Socialist Party, the Communist Party, George Soro's Open Society, and thousands more. They infiltrated American universities and government agencies and more. They now own the Democrat Party in the United States. They are known for such elitist control policies as eugenics, economic redistribution of wealth, evolution / Darwinism, central planning, control of the masses, and the like. They use governments and money to create power structures and manipulate populations. Fabian Socialists in Europe in the early stages preferred the name Progressives, but in the U.S. the socialists took the name Liberal...that is until Liberal became unpopular, so they have now also picked up the "Progressive" label. The word Progressive is supposed to make you think Progressives are forward thinking, however, their basic ideology is nothing more than Marxism from the 1800's re-branded. No matter if you use the word Democratic Liberal or Democratic Progressive, the true definition is Marxist Socialist. The Democrat Party has now become the Socialist Party for all intents and purposes. They are more brazenly proud of this as time goes on. And the sooner the public realizes that fact, the more realistic our national debate can become. And the sooner the public realizes that Socialism is Marx's stepping stone to Communism, the destroyer of American prosperity, the clearer our debate will be. Hopefully, before the nation is lost to the Fabian Socialists, we will have an opportunity to choose to be Americans again.

Barack Obama was elected with the backing of the Fabian Socialists. His main funding source is George Soros, who also backs Hilary Clinton, a "proud Progressive." Besides Obama and Clinton, our Congress now openly claims 80+ members of Socialist and Communist organizations. The Progressive Democrats of America claim 6 House members, the Congressional Progressive Caucus claims 74 House members, the Congressional Black Caucus claims 43 House members, the Democratic Socialists of America claim all of the above members. Source These people have the keys to our treasury, our White House, our State Department, and our Justice system.

The Fabians have cleverly co-opted blacks in the United States to further their central planning power. "Equal" rights is a total contradiction to Fabian Socialism. Instead they use the sugarcoated phrase, "Social Justice," using laws to funnel money to and promote special classes of people. By pitting economic and racial classes against each other, the Fabians gain more and more power as the public looks to central government to fix the class problems the government created in the first place. (This is one of Marx's tools to take power.) Using the civil rights movement and affirmative action, Socialists have ironically put blacks in the position of promoting inequality by government fiat. The purpose of this is merely to tear down the "equal rights guaranteed by God" of the U.S. Constitution. That is all it is. It isn't some altruistic reparations idea based on white guilt. It is a tool to make people dependent on government programs and central planning. It is a way to make blacks dependent on Fabian Socialist government programs and, at the same time, make other classes of people pay for this, just as Roosevelt made the elderly dependent on labor contributions of the younger workers. The ensuing resentment from this causes inner strife and destroys cohesion between citizens and, eventually, destroys the United States Constitution. The more resentment, the less cohesion, the sooner the country collapses, the more people look to the central planners, the sooner the Fabian Socialists take over. "Unlike Marx's open and violent revolutionary agenda, the Fabian's agenda was to quietly infiltrate and re-direct established governments." Here is a website with a short description

 As Margaret Thatcher once wisely said, "Socialism is just great, but eventually you run out of other people's money."  Probably the most effective tool of the Fabian Socialists is to bankrupt a country in order to step in and take power.   Unfunded liability for the Prescription Drug Bill is, at this writing, $19 Trillion USD and for Medicare it is $77 Trillion USD.  I'd say they have been very successful in bankrupting the United States. 

Why does this matter? It matters because your children have had their future stolen.  It matters because Socialism is completely antithetical to the U.S. Constitution. Socialism is un-American at its very core. The United States has always been a thorn in the side of the Fabians. Our Constitution in which God grants rights to the people is against the Socialist mindset. The Socialist believes only the State / central government has the right to control the lives of the people. It matters because the Democrat Party has been so successful at forming Socialist planks in our government that they no longer can cloak their Socialist ideology with euphemisms without the public catching on. It's right out there for the public to see, plain as day. It matters because you can't debate sugarcoated rhetorical pretenses, but now you can debate the reality of who and what the Democrat Party has become. And you can connect the Democrat Party with the global Socialists who are funding them, since their sources have been exposed.

I love clarity. I love sunlight. I love seeing reality instead of having to dig under layers and layers of subterfuge that confuses the public. This is good for the country. After years and years of under the radar infiltration, now we have real contrast and concrete examples in front of us to discuss while choosing the direction of our future, for ourselves and for our children.

My aim in writing this is to enlighten the "old time" Democrats and blacks so they may better understand why the Democrat Party no longer stands for what they thought it was and does not represent them.  Dividing us up into classes and victims does not make us a stronger country or society.   The Democrat Party is not a champion of the people, the poor, the elderly, or the disenfranchised, but a stooge for global Socialism by Fabian Socialists who wish to control all of the resources of the world, the United States fast becoming a ripened plum to be picked due to the economic failures of our leadership.  Being American means trusting in and reestablishing the U.S. Constitution and rejecting the Fabian Global Socialists who wish to destroy America.  It means rejecting the handouts of dependency from rampant, out of control, Socialists who use that dependency to control your life.  It also means towns, counties, and states need to return to their autonomy, rejecting the Federal handouts and programs with strings attached.   It means taking a hard look at the consequences of Socialist policies. 

The way forward is clear, the choices are clear, the disastrous policies of the Progressives are in plain sight for all to see.  Let the sun keep shining!

(One caveat to this article: There are Republican Progressives thrown into our political midst today as well. They are no better for America and must be exposed as well. It is vital to research each candidate and not vote for a Party label.)