The Price of Everything, The Value of Nothing

In Obamaland, nothing is out of reach for anyone. At least according to him. Everything is available to everyone. Houses. Cars. Health Care. You want it...we can afford it, according to our messiah. So how do things get priced in an era where everyone gets everything? Arbitrarily, apparently. This year alone, the price has gone to 1.4 trillion in additional debt on our backs.

There is a slight problem with this. The value of the dollar is now tanking due to the Obama money policies. Simply stated, it's going to take more dollars to buy anything while the value of everything goes down.

So let's say you get an $8,000.00 credit (first time buyers only) to buy a house. What the house was worth just last year is now anywhere from 11 to 25% less than it was, thanks to the mortgage debacle set up by Congress, Carter and Clinton, called the Community Reinvestment Act. You just lost somewhere between $16,000.00 to $35,000.00 in value on the house. The $8,000.00 the Feds are giving away doesn't come close to what they took away from you. Furthermore, the $8,000.00 is coming out of taxpayers pockets, so not only did you lose the value of your house, but you lose the taxes going to pay for someone other person's house. And even one thing more, the $8,000.00 isn't worth what it was a year ago, due to the maniacal printing of gobs of money to supply the Federal debt.

Hmmmm...Let's take another one. You are now owners of car companies that you, as taxpayers, had no intention of buying. Your taxes are being used to build cars you will never be able to afford, thanks to the likes of Al Gore and his Finnish car company that you are subsidizing. You see, your Federal Government just granted a half billion dollar loan to Mr. Gore's Finnish car company to build a $90,000.00 sports car that will go 50 miles on a battery charge. What is the value of that to the American taxpayer? Somehow I think the value of that one landed in Gore's lap and you paid the price for it. How many $90,000.00 sports cars are you going to buy in this lifetime? The price is high to you and the value is nothing to you. Research and development? You couldn't do that in the U.S. without involving Al Gore? Political payback is expensive. This is on top of the union jobs in the U.S. car industry for which you are now paying.

Now you are about to get hit for health care. Supposedly the price of health care is going to go down, so is the stated goal. When did you last pay less money and get more for it? Walmart? Cheap goods from China? Just on the merits, I cannot imagine that anyone in this country thinks that the quality of health care is going to either be as good as it is, or go up while prices go down. This is about your personal body, folks. How much is it worth? And do you really think that taking on all of the extra people this health care is supposed to cover is going to cost less out of your pocket? Factually, this is not possible unless you diminish the quality for all of us. And, just like the mortgage credit, the money is going to come from you. Are you willing to give up quality health care to pay for poor health care for everyone? Or do you actually think you are not going to pay that price? Demand will go up and supply will go down or stay the same. How is that beneficial? That in itself usually pushes prices up, but the Federal Government wants to push prices down by artificial means, just like they pushed the demand up and the mortgage prices down in the housing industry, artificially. Look where that got us. They are in the process of creating another bubble, this time in the business of your private personal health care.

The only fair arbiter of prices is supply and demand. American success was built on this premise and has been undermined by the Federal Government incrementally for years. Obama and the Federal Government are in the business of meddling, redistribution, and paying back political constituencies for votes. These are high stakes games they are playing with your life. The value of your life and your property are being determined by insidious means that increase the price of everything and devalue all that you are and have worked to gain. Bubbles are being blown to enrich some political buddies and you are being had in the process. Just like the Cash for Clunkers bubble burst in short order, just like the mortgage crisis bubble burst after being blown up for years and years, the health care bubble will burst in the same way. And who will pay the price? You, your children, and your children's children. Quality American health care will be ancient history. This will further bankrupt our country which is already bankrupted thanks to the previous bubbles of social programs and centralized government.

Seems to me Obama knows the price of everything, but he knows the value of nothing. That's why his sales pitches sound so hollow. He is selling a pig in a poke with a very high price attached.

WE'RE NOT JUST WHISTLING DIXIE

"Pooh Pooh." says the left. "Those of you who oppose have to be 'racists," says the left. "Astroturf," says the left. "We won, you lost," says the left. "Bitter clingers," says the left. There seems no end to the name calling and divisiveness being thrown at the American public by the left. It is now at the point of laughable ridiculousness. I guess they think if they scream out "racist" at the opponents of their socialist / fascist agenda, then people will be afraid to speak up for fear of being called a "racist." So here's the deal.....

I oppose Obama on ideology. I oppose Obama on Constitutional grounds. (I will be backing that up even more in future posts.) I oppose Obama because I love the founding principles of America and he represents none of them. So call me a "racist." Go ahead, Jimmah Cahter....call me names and act like you are somehow in any position to know my heart. Carter, the useful idiot, just keeps supporting the anti-constitutional infiltrators of our country. Jimmy Carter is about as American as Leon Trotsky.

So call me a "racist" and I will call you a "communist." (speaking to Carter and Obama) Tit for tat. But my call is about governmental ideology and by implication says you are aligned with a diabolical usurpation of my liberty. The "racist" call is about making someone out to be some morally destitute, despicable individual. Carter has no place in this country. He does not represent anybody or anything that is American. The "racist" business is like saying, "$$#@@@^&$ Yo Momma." It is so stupid and out of place here that I can't even believe that this many years after Martin Luther King that anyone still uses the word as a weapon. It's childish, inappropriate to the discussion, and shows us so much more about the person brandishing that word than the person who is the target of the word.

Carter is completely ineffectual as far as I'm concerned. He carries zero weight in this world these days....yet he thinks he does. Maybe he ate too many of those peanuts. Frankly I only wish he had stayed in the peanut business. He is truly laughable. And if it weren't for the fact that he is the idiot who set up the Community Reinvestment Act which has been the downfall of our banking industry, I'd be laughing. Unfortunately, Carter is like a very bad joke and laughing isn't so easy when the stakes are so high.

My opposition is not just "whistling dixie," Mr. Carter. My opposition is true and moral and is grounded in liberty for all of us.

Payback is Hell

For the better part of a year I have been researching the George Soros connections to the Democrat party and his financial support for undermining the U.S. Constitution. It isn't a pretty story. I don't pretend to know Soros' motivations except to say that apparently he hates America. To that end George Soros has put his money behind any and every organization and politician who is in the business of tearing American down. If you want to know how Obama got elected, all you need to do is follow the Soros trail of operatives involved. To name just a few, he funds; MoveOn.org., ACORN, Center for American Progress, Media Fund, Amnesty International, and many many more. If you wish to look up where George Soros' money goes toward undermining our government, take a look here: Discover the Networks Now it's time for payback....and believe me, the devil wants his due.

The past couple of weeks I have learned of yet another suspicious activity by our government regarding Mr. Soros. The U.S. Government has signed a letter of intent to loan 10 billion dollars to Petrobras, the Brazilian state oil company. Guess who is a major stake holder in Petrobras? Dateline London: August 15, 2008: "Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund’s largest holding. As of June 30, the stake in Petrobras, as the Rio de Janeiro-based oil producer is known, made up 22 per cent of the $3.68 billion of stocks and American depositary receipts held by Soros Fund Management, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission."

You might wonder a few things upon finding this out. One: I believe our Constitution does not allow the Federal Government to be in the banking business or to give out loans to businesses. (Someone dropped that ball in the early 1900's by setting up the Federal Reserve, which is unconstitutional.) Two: America is insolvent, so how is it that we have money to loan to a Brazilian oil company? Three: If, in fact, we do have money to invest in oil companies, why wouldn't we invest in American companies who pay American taxes and employ Americans? Four: Why can we put our tax money into Brazilian oil exploration and yet disallow any oil exploration off our shores? NIMBY?? Five: Most importantly, it is obvious that Obama and his administration are not in the business of protecting American interests, but they are definitely in the business of colluding with foreign, big money players who don't want America to succeed. By intending to loan U.S. government money to enhance Soros' investments, Obama is using Americans' taxes to hand over our money to his biggest financier. If that's not payback, I don't know what is.

The most lamentable thing of all here is that so many Americans who voted for Obama thought they were voting for someone who had their interest at heart. Instead, what we have now is a President who is anything but that.

Taking a Deep Breath

Benjamin Hummel Cartoon
You can see him at: Benjamin Hummel

Read Benjamin's revealing and thoughtful post on this at his website. It starts like this: "In a recent teleconference, Barack Obama said that he would greatly reduce the amount of charitable tax deductions individuals and businesses who make over $250K can make on their tax returns in order to help pay for his health care plan. What a horribly conceived idea. This move will cripple many nonprofits across the nation."

There is no end to the theft of the left....now that they have the force of the Federal Government behind them. Take from the rich, give to the poor. What you don't know is that we are all too rich for Obama's taste (including the middle and lower middle class) and he will not stop until he has taken the whole country down. He wants it all and he is greasing the skids to get it all.

This cartoon reminds me of a conversation I once had with one of those "useful idiots," a former friend of mine who LUVS Obama so much that she told me she could not speak to me anymore. This former friend explained to me that she didn't believe in charities because that's what her taxes were for. Her entire view on the subject was that she didn't want to have to think about other people in need, but let "Big Brother" take care of that for her. Evidently she has found her soul mate in the person claiming the Presidency. God forbid she would actually contribute something of her own volition to alleviate some need somewhere.

So there you are. The stress level from following the sad and frustrating news regarding the modus operandi in the Obama administration really got to me this week. Good thing you weren't within earshot for the grouchy words I have found myself uttering...not like me... yelling back at the tv, and grumbling under my breath, clenching my teeth and growling out loud. Are we having fun yet? How's that hope and change work'n out for ya all out there??

So today's latest is that the thugs arranged a force of some sort to yank advertisers from the Glenn Beck show. Chicago mob tactics, anyone?? How dare Glenn Beck speak the truth! Why, how dare anyone actually expose the 'community organizer,' and the gang leaders of arm-twisting creeps they really are! Indeed. The "Audacity" of it all. My My...we are playing hard ball now, aren't we Mr. Tingle up the Leg Chris Matthews? Kill the competition. Kill free speech...unless of course the speech flatters the socialist in chief. Then it's o.k.

The socialist in chief now has a new Czar....one implanted into the FCC. This guy is figuring out how to tax conservative talk radio into oblivion. The plan is to take the equivalent of operating capital out of companies such as Premier Radio and hand it over to the socialist mouthpieces.....it's only "fair" you know. The taxes of course are supposed to pay for NPR and other public sycophants. Can we call this economic rape? I think so.

No charities...no freedom of speech....OMG....Excuse me while I go get the bottle of ipecac again....

Celebrating Dependence Day

As the Fourth of July approaches I am finding myself perplexed at the idea of celebrating a non sequitur. The day which brought independence to a nation of self-reliant people because of the freedom it promised is now gone. The dregs are left along with a few patriots who still think independence is a good thing. The reasons for celebration are lying on the ash heap of history. The day seems more like a funeral this year than a celebration of anything.

Evidence of this non sequitur came this week in a pamphlet from the City of Gastonia. The pamphlet is entitled, "Good News" and is brought to us in our utility bill. The entire front page is devoted to Federal Stimulus Money being divvied up in Gastonia as if it is Manna from Heaven. The author of this front page announcement is none other than our city manager, Jim Palenick. The article touts the $6.5 million in funds that our fair city is being granted from the Federal Government. Aren't you deliriously happy?

Independence Day was all about self-reliance. It was a commemoration of all that is good about freedom from oppression and being able, without government oppression, to take care of yourself and your own. We are a far cry from that freedom and self-reliance when an oppressive government puts entire towns and an entire population on the dependent list. As I read about all of the money coming into Gastonia, I thought about every town in America being usurped by a Federal Government gone amok. First the Federal Government and the States created policies which have undermined the free enterprise of this country through heavy regulations, taxation, illegal immigration, disallowing energy independence, and generally wrecking any semblance of sanity and common sense when it comes to fiscal policies. Then, to make sure every citizen gets the point of it, congress keeps passing more inane laws in order to create more dependence on the government and whip Americans into line. And the local politicians, wanting to get on the bandwagon, do more of the same. They grab the power by legislating your dependence and your unwilling cooperation.

So now we have $2.1 million dollars of Federal money to "redevelop" a building downtown, create condominiums, and redevelop other neglected properties. We have over $2 million of Federal money to purchase new hybrid buses. Federal money to buy police cars. Federal money for landscaping along the insane "Thread Trail," which is some conjured up way to pretend we are celebrating a textile industry that the government has near annihilated. People in Wyoming are paying for Gastonia's wish list. People in Gastonia are paying for some other city in some other state's wish list. In short, no city, county, or state is apparently immune from becoming the beggar to the all, omnipresent Federal Government.

And this has nothing to do with real need. It has everything to do with need created by government officials. It has everything to do with political power over our lives. This is the very antithesis that the Fourth of July is supposed to celebrate as a marker of our freedoms. Freedoms which have been thrown out of the window because some greedy politician or city manager wants to tell you they took money from the Federal coffers to landscape your downtown. And that is supposed to make you happy? We have "Movies on Main." We have "Rock the Avenue." What we really have is circuses and games to keep Gastonians distracted while politicians are busy taking away your economic liberty. Note: in this Sunday's Gazette that 5 businesses within a block on Union Road are all going under. More unemployment results while we are "enjoying" that Federal money.

Dependence used to be either a sign of extreme disability or carried the shame of laziness. Self-reliance was a banner of pride and with it came the safety and confidence to know you are not depending on a totalitarian to run your life. Today, our city is waving an American flag proudly proclaiming its dependence, not its independence. This is a sad turn for Americans. It is no badge of courage to find yourself dependent on the Federal Government or the State for anything. The very same government oppression from King George has reared its ugly head in the form of American government wearing a costume and mask of a benevolent dictator. And believe me, there is no such thing as a "benevolent dictator." Blood spilled, lives given in the quest for liberty, independence won, but all given up for some Federal, State, and local programs you don't need, while your jobs and economic freedom have been forcefully taken from you.
So enjoy that new landscaping, downtown development, and the buses. The price you have paid is higher than you think. Happy Dependence Day, Gastonia!

Thumbs Up to Down Under

A friend of mine has shared an Associated Press article that will give you some insight to how other countries are dealing with the insanity of the Cap and Trade crowd. It's really worth the read. (Below) After you read it, please please please email or call or write your senators and tell them NO...not just NO, but HELL NO on Cap and Trade.

Associated Press:
Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation.
If you haven't heard of this politician, it's because he's a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country's carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming.

Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as "deniers." The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.
In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country's new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country's weeks-old cap-and-trade program.

The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. -- 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak "frankly" of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history." Norway's Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion." A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton's Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists' open letter.)
The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.

Credit for Australia's own era of renewed enlightenment goes to Dr. Ian Plimer, a well-known Australian geologist. Earlier this year he published "Heaven and Earth," a damning critique of the "evidence" underpinning man-made global warming. The book is already in its fifth printing. So compelling is it that Paul Sheehan, a noted Australian columnist -- and ardent global warming believer -- in April humbly pronounced it "an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence." Australian polls have shown a sharp uptick in public skepticism; the press is back to questioning scientific dogma; blogs are having a field day.

The rise in skepticism also came as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, elected like Mr. Obama on promises to combat global warming, was attempting his own emissions-reduction scheme. His administration was forced to delay the implementation of the program until at least 2011, just to get the legislation through Australia's House. The Senate was not so easily swayed.

Mr. Fielding, a crucial vote on the bill, was so alarmed by the renewed science debate that he made a fact-finding trip to the U.S., attending the Heartland Institute's annual conference for climate skeptics. He also visited with Joseph Aldy, Mr. Obama's special assistant on energy and the environment, where he challenged the Obama team to address his doubts. They apparently didn't.

This week Mr. Fielding issued a statement: He would not be voting for the bill. He would not risk job losses on "unconvincing green science." The bill is set to founder as the Australian parliament breaks for the winter.

Republicans in the U.S. have, in recent years, turned ever more to the cost arguments against climate legislation. That's made sense in light of the economic crisis. If Speaker Nancy Pelosi fails to push through her bill, it will be because rural and Blue Dog Democrats fret about the economic ramifications. Yet if the rest of the world is any indication, now might be the time for U.S. politicians to re-engage on the science. One thing for sure: They won't be alone.

Obama's Pay More Get Less Health Care Plan

My husband is a salesman. And I used to own a business that had 50 sales reps across the country. I cannot remember any circumstance in which either my husband or my business was successful at selling a "Pay More, Get Less" sales pitch. People don't generally like to pay more to get less....it's a rule. It isn't even an 'unwritten' rule. It is a rule. "More value for your money" is generally what people are desiring with their purchasing power. It usually is the successful sales pitch to tell people they will get more for their money. "Pay Less, Get More."


Enter Obama, the Magician's Puppet. He's one helluva salesman, I have to say. He's telling us right off the bat that you are going to pay more in taxes to get health care. He's telling us flat out that we are going to pay more for energy and get less energy. He's telling us he is borrowing on our behalf so we (and our grandchildren's children) can pay more taxes and interest on the debt. And all we see happening see is a bloated expanding government. He told us we had to spend trillions to, uh, well, maybe save some car companies from bankruptcy. How'd that work out, folks? Trillions more to save jobs? Hmmmmmm...haven't seen a lot of improvement in unemployment figures lately.


Socialists have the most uncanny skill of looking at a problem and coming up with the exact opposite of a viable solution and at the same time telling the public they are doing it "for your own good." Reminds me of the mother giving Castor Oil to her child and saying, "There, there, dear, it's for your own good." Obama gets my award for being the all time champion at this. But socialists always do this...it is nothing new. What is new is that many in the public have become so dumb that he gets away with it. And the media is so complicit that the public is getting nothing more than lies. If you don't believe me on that one, check out the media sales blitz on Government run health care going on this week with ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS.


The Government Health Care pushed by Socialists is all about a false premise, i.e. that there are tens of thousands of people being refused health care in America. That is blatantly false. No one in America is denied health care. Get that? No one. Not only that, but we have the best health care available to our people than any country in the world. Our health care system was not broken, but is being broken by socialists who set up Medicare, Medicaid, and the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan. This reminds me of the admonition, "You break it, you own it." They broke it and now they want to own it. In fact, they broke it on purpose so they could own it. Just like they broke the housing mortgage industry with their socialist programs, just like they broke the car industry with socialist unions and regulations, just like they are breaking the energy industry with socialist / totalitarian policies...they are now in the process of breaking the health care industry which is 1/5th of the United States economy.


In short...socialists are totalitarians who want government to own it all while you pay for it. In implementing this strategy, they, in effect, own you. Your person, your ability to live, your doctor, your ability to travel, your ability to work, etc. They are trying to convince you it will be "cheaper" in the long run. Cheaper? For whom? Like Medicare? Cheaper like the little roller skate car you will be driving while you pay higher and higher taxes? Cheaper like the energy bills that, if Obama has his way, will be over $3,000.00 a year more for the average family? Cheaper like the cost of your health insurance, which will be called taxes instead of health insurance premiums and will be a bigger chunk out of your paycheck? Swiss cheese has fewer holes than this ridiculous argument.


In fact, Obama tries to have it all ways. He tells you his health care plan is "cheaper" for the country while it will cost you more in taxes. And, with a straight face, he tries to tell you your health care quality will not go down. If this weren't such a serious lie, I'd be on the floor laughing uncontrollably. And did you know that in his plan the UAW is exempt from being taxed on their health care plans? So while you pay more, the unions don't. Socialists love unions. Unions elect socialists. Pay back is hell, no? Who is this guy kidding? You?


I think I need a big swig of Ipecac about now.

How General Electric Outens the Lights

Time was when General Electric was known as the company who made lives easier and lit up the country. They sponsored Mr. Wizard on TV. They were a huge success story and America benefited greatly from their innovations. When I was growing up there was a GE plant in my home town in Ohio. Some of my friends' parents worked there. One was a Research Engineer who was sent to Columbia to head up a research division and wound up murdered with his wife and two girls fleeing for their lives back to America. They were told by the police in Columbia to get the heck out of there fast. They never got answers to the mysterious murder and suffered from trauma from that event ever after. I was young and his daughters were my friends. We were all in shock. The family never saw saw the body. It was all very like an international spy novel or one of those movies that sends chills up your spine. One of the daughters, who was my closest friend at the time, had lasting emotional pain for years and years. To this day, there is no resolution to the event.

Those were my first impressions of GE. Sinister describes the image I have of GE today, in more ways than one. An American success story gone bad.

In case you are not aware of it, GE owns NBC and MSNBC. And in case you were locked in a closet all this past election season, those two news organizations were pushing Obama like ice cream on a hot summer's day. Every newscast was fawning all over Obama's supposed unmatched virtues. You would have thought that Obama was the Second Coming of Christ if you watched and listened to those channels. This continues today. Did you ever ask yourself why?

Timothy P. Carney reported in the Washington Post in March a revealing connection between Obama and GE. He wrote the following:

"GE — a member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which advocates cap and trade — leads the push for greenhouse gas restrictions.

Reviewing their lobbying filings, you might think you were looking at Al Gore’s agenda. GE’s specific lobbying issues included the “Climate Stewardship Act,” “Electric Utility Cap and Trade Act,” “Global Warming Reduction Act,” “Federal Government Greenhouse Gas Registry Act,” “Low Carbon Economy Act,” and “Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act.”
This isn’t altruism or public relations. GE has started a joint venture called Greenhouse Gas Services, which invests in — and hopes to manage the trade in — greenhouse gas credits. But these investments and this trading floor are of basically no use and nearly no value without government restrictions on greenhouse gases.

Hence the lobbying, buttressed by generous campaign contributions: Employees and executives gave $1.35 million to politicians in the past election while GE’s political action committee shelled out $1.55 million. About 64 percent of this $2.9 million went to Democrats, with Obama easily the top recipient of GE money.

Obama’s budget includes the payoff, promising to start a multibillion-dollar greenhouse gas industry by 2012. In a letter this week, GE’S Immelt told shareholders that current events present an “opportunity of a lifetime,” because “capitalism will be ‘reset.’ ”

Immelt, GE CEO, wrote: “The interaction between government and business will change forever. In a reset economy, the government will be a regulator; and also an industry policy champion, a financier, and a key partner.”

In short, GE plans to get rich by being one of the government’s closest partners — which it has always been, thanks to its unmatched lobbying efforts.

When the lobbying fingerprints of GE and other well-connected firms are considered, it’s not hard to conclude that the policy that will finally emerge won’t be the one that is best for the planet and least bad for the economy, but the one that is best for General Electric."

It's interesting to me that the general public expressed a desire in this past election to "throw the bums out" and begin with a new slate of Presidential material which was supposed to be "Change" from the old special interest politics, but what got voted into office was the old special interest politics on steroids. In the case of GE, the company has positioned itself to rake in billions from soaking the public with not only tax dollars, carbon rebates, but also increases in energy prices bound to be through the roof. GE created a propaganda campaign on its own news media in order to convince you to vote for the guy promising to enrich GE. The planet is not going to notice the difference, but you and I will...to our detriment. GE has no sincere interest in caring for the environment. GE has caught the winds of a trend, bought and paid for government favors, and is already putting up windmills in China using our money while figuring out how to use our government to enslave you and enrich itself. American voters keep trading one corrupt political base for another. Like a circular argument, it just keeps going around and around. The only thing that changes is the crowd that reaps the whirlwind.

Now you know why MSNBC was in the tank for Obama. Do you care? Do you feel snookered? You should.

Pride Goeth Before the Fall

America has made one huge mistake. And it's going to cost trillions of dollars, cause much worse poverty than you have seen in our lifetimes, and our children are going to be paying a terrible price. It's hard for most people to admit they have made a terrible mistake. First, they don't like to think they are wrong, so pride gets in the way. Second, they like to think they can figure things out, so it doesn't compute that they missed a big clue. If you look just at Bernie Madoff and several others like him, you can see that many supposedly erudite individuals got taken. Notice, they don't go around saying they got taken....that would be admitting that they were schmoozed, hornswoggled, and just as dumb as the next guy. Pride is a seriously difficult thing to overcome. So what is the mistake, you ask? One Big Addlebrained Mistake America. Frankly, I can't think of much difference between Obama and Madoff. One is just as adept as the other in making people lose their purses. One is just as adept as the other at convincing the victims of how confident and able they are at handling other people's money. The Ponzi scheme of today is being played out on a grand national stage with none other than someone posing as President of the United States doing the deeds. How many trillions were you voting to throw down the toilet, America? How many rights and freedoms were you voting to surrender, America? How much indoctrination are you paying for, America? How stupid are you, America?

The great skill Obama has is being able to calmly look at you through the teleprompter's plexiglass and flat out state obvious lies and ridiculous presumptions so cleverly that you don't even know he is doing it. He will tell you he really doesn't want to do X,Y, and Z, but, gee, the situation is so dire you must agree that he just has to take you to the cleaners and take over all of the hard decisions for you. Don't you worry your pretty little head, he's got it covered. Nevermind that he says one thing and does another. Nevermind that he has stripped America of any chance of economic recovery for the next twenty years. Nevermind that he has quadrupled the national debt within a short four months and spent more than all Presidents combined in the history of our nation. Nevermind that, when he takes over health care, you won't be able to call your Doctor of Choice and actually get an appointment within a reasonable time. Nevermind that your new car will be made of flimsy material and can't go more than 30 miles without plugging into a grid which will be rationed. Nevermind that you can't adjust your thermostat because he will do that for you. Nevermind that your local farmer can't sell to you because government regulations will not permit it without taxing cow flatulence. Nevermind that he said he would save jobs while 600,000 plus every month are losing them. Nevermind that your children are being turned into little robots with no real ability to think for themselves. Nevermind that he said he would defend the country while, at the same time, he cuts military spending and missle defense. Nevermind that he said he would defend Israel while he kisses up to the Arabs who want to destroy Israel. And, by all means, don't worry about North Korea getting those darn, pesky, little nuclear weapons. Obams can fix that, too, by just saying a few kind words to the Chinese. Oh, and that Supreme Court Justice? She's just full of empathy instead of judicial ethics. That's O.K. Don't you worry your sweet little heads, Obama's got it all figured out.

You're so happy. He's so appealing. He's so adroit. He's so capable. So smooth. What a great husband. He takes his wife to the theatre. What a great Dad. He buys his kids a dog. He must be so wonderful because he is such a great family man. And we all want a Daddy to do it all for us, now don't we?

Well, I have to admit that Obama is better looking than Madoff. I guess that's how he can dupe and entire country and not just a few wealthy investors. But I wonder how long it will be before the prideful and clueless Americans will begin to see what mistake they have made. "Pride Goeth Before the Fall." I wonder if that means by October America will be dining on crow. Oops, nope, that's the wrong "Fall." And we can't shoot the crows because of gun controls he will be sure to enact. So no dining on crows, either. I know some prideful Americans will never admit their mistake. It's just too hard to accept it when you have been swept up in a cult of personality. You can take your pride to bed with you now, knowing Obama's got you covered. For ever and ever, amen. He sure does.