Obama's Town Halls

It's a slow weekend here, so I actually took the time to watch both of them...the one in Montana and the one in Colorado. I have a few random thoughts.

The first thought is that he keeps bringing up the UPS, Fed Ex, Post Office analogy. I think that is hilarious. I happen to love the U.S. Post Office, but it is running on a deficit. It's broke, folks. Just like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security...the Post Office can't run on a budget that works. So that must be just what we need, yet another massive government program that will drive us farther into debt. Yep...that's just the ticket.

Oh, yeah, he says he won't go for it unless it is "deficit neutral." I guess he means just like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security were supposed to pay for themselves, too...right? And I have a bridge in Arizona I want to sell you, too. How many times do we go down the same wrong way street 'til we realize it is the WRONG WAY???

The second thing that always gets to me as I hear him say, "Let me be perfectly clear," or , "The fact of the matter is" is that he is such a used car salesman. He keeps saying, "We don't want to pull the plug on Grandma, we just want to help everybody have health care." What he refuses to acknowledge is that the government has no way to pay for good health care for everyone, so there WILL be rationing. There are not enough doctors in our system to take on half of the 'so called' 47 million people he is talking about covering. And the government is planning, according to the bills, to mandate who can get what kind of care from whom and where. There is NO DOUBT about this if you read the bills.

Socializing any more health care in this country is suicidal....not just to Grandma...but to our country. The last several years, including George Bush, have run our country into such high debt that my grandchildren and their children are likely never to see the end of it. The banking infrastructure was ruined by Carter and Clinton. The energy sector has been ruined by environmental idiots in our government. The manufacturing sector has been ruined by bad trade deals, high taxes, and super regulations by our government. So now they want to drain the health care sector dry and take over your life and death decisions. This is the last straw, folks. It will ruin us.

So I watch him take soft ball questions and get gushing sycophants to tell him how "great" he is in these town halls and I sit there and ask myself, who are these people??? No one gets a follow-up question. He doesn't really address serious questions. He just keeps saying the same talking points and tries to make fun of the very vocal opponents....who, by the way, can't get near one of these town halls to ask him anything. Who, in our great country, is so dumb to swallow this stuff??? I don't get it, folks. I really don't. I cannot imagine that so many people in our country have gotten so gullible that they will follow a used car salesman straight into hell. The problem for those of us with brains is that we are stuck in the same pool with those of us taking us down.

The only encouraging thing I did take in this Saturday was on CSPAN. It was two hours of conservative speakers at a meeting for RightOnline.com. sponsored by Americans for Prosperity. Michelle Malkin gave me some hope. Jim Pinkerton gave a great speech. Grover Norquist was awesome. So was Phil Kerpen. At least there are some very smart folks who see what is coming at us and giving us some hope of stopping the train wreck. Or maybe slowing down the derailing somewhat. At this point it will take a hundred years to get past the damage this man has done in 7 months.

The Language of the Left

Co-opting words is what leftists are best at doing. It's their path to societal disintegration. It is the sharpest tool in their belts, only next to the biggest tool in the belt, i.e. the force of the government itself. Twisting words in the political vocabulary is the diabolical method with which they draw and quarter each respected institution, dividing humanity into disparate and confused lots of individuals trying to find sense out of chaos. The goal is to convince the masses that the only institution existing in which to cling is the government. Not family. Not church. Not the Boy Scouts. Not the Girl Scouts. Not the Lion's Club. Nothing other than government can do for you what you seek in life. Only government is your salvation. Transposing family, church, and social organizations into "the government" is the leftists ultimate goal.

One example of political vocabulary is how the word "fairness" is taught to our children in government schools as "collectivism." i.e."It isn't "fair" that Joe has more than Jack, even though Joe worked harder, studied more, and earned his way into a higher salary job." The leftist illogical reasoning is that Jack should get part of Joe's earnings because it would only be "fair." Children are told they must share in order to be "fair," whether they choose to or not. The left co-opted the word "fair" and made sure entire generations of children were taught a false definition in order to fulfill their cause, the collectivist society otherwise known as Communism. The real definition of "fair" in this context is that you get to keep what you earn. No one else has the right to take away what you earn. But we are in Leftist-World now where words don't mean what they really mean. They mean what Communists want them to mean.

Another word used in nearly every public announcement from our government officials today is the word "progress."
The free online dictionary defines progress this way:
prog·ress (prgrs, -rs, prgrs)

n.

1. Movement, as toward a goal; advance.

2. Development or growth: students who show progress.

3. Steady improvement, as of a society or civilization: a believer in human progress.

4. A ceremonial journey made by a sovereign through his or her realm.

intr.v. pro·gress (pr-grs) pro·gressed, pro·gress·ing, pro·gress·es

1. To advance; proceed: Work on the new building progressed at a rapid rate.

2. To advance toward a higher or better stage; improve steadily: as medical technology progresses.

3. To increase in scope or severity, as a disease taking an unfavorable course.

Idiom:

in progress

Going on; under way: a work in progress.

In announcements from our government and the majority of our media "progress" has become a euphemism for government taking over every institution in our country. "Progress" is now all about government telling you what is good for you.... instead of your individual success at achieving your own goals without the interference of government. Instead of following our American creed of self-government, we are being forced into government enslavement by people who refer to themselves as "Progressives." They like you to think they are called Democrats, but that is just another ruse. "Progressives" have taken over the Democrat Party which has slowly been infiltrated by Communists since the early 1900's. Seventy-one congress members are members of the Progressive Caucus which is heavily connected to the Democratic Socialists of America. They like you to think this "progress" is new and exciting and is getting rid of all those old bad, fuddy-duddy, corrupt ways of old America. Not one of these people upholds their oath to the U. S. Constitution. In fact, Communists have called themselves "Progressives" since the early 1900's in order to avoid the bad connotation of the label Communist. And they did that on purpose. You see, they think you are stupid. They think if you call a cucumber an apple for about a 100 years, pretty soon everybody will think a cucumber is an apple. And the sorry news is that they have succeeded in twisting words to fool a large majority of the public into voting for Communists while thinking they are voting for Democrats.

The gist is that they want you to believe that it is "progress" to get rid of the individual and create a world where no one exists except for the good for the world. The ironic joke here is that without individual success, there is no "good for the world." If you foster nothing but working for the "collective," you have abolished human progress entirely. This has been tried and failed over and over again since the Communist revolution in Russia, again in China, in North Korea and in Cuba. Yet they persist. You wonder why? Because it creates an elite group of power brokers in government, people who don't really know how to do anything but tell other people how to live or manipulate political policies to gain their own fortunes. These misguided and malignant power brokers gain financially and stroke their own egos by telling themselves they are doing good and creating "progress." The truth is they are no better than tin pot dictators who don't believe in individual freedoms. They are control freaks making you work your life away for their power. We in America are under siege by a Democrat Party that is nothing more than Communists on the take. And you are the ones being taken. From Cap and Tax to Socialized Universal Health Care to Green Initiatives to Social Engineering, America is being wrecked by "Progress." A word that today is nothing more than Communism in disguise.

Obama: "I know that many in this room don't believe that "progress" has come fast enough, and I understand that. But I say this: We have made "progress." And we will make more. There are unjust laws to overturn and unfair practices to stop." (2009)

Two million jobs lost since the Stimulus Bill was passed. One trillion dollar debt in six months. The economic bleeding has just begun. That's "Progress" folks!

My Personal Tea Party

Welcome to my Tea Party!!! This is just the beginning. I'm ready if you are!

Each day I wake up, grab my tea and the newspapers, and before I've had half of the cup, I am so angry and filled with frustrations, that I find I can hardly turn myself away to get on with a normal existence. This has been an incremental slog into hell, if you ask me.....i.e. "the slippery slope," "death by a thousand cuts," one little assault after another.

In an effort to find my way through what looks to be a disastrous turn of political events, I am deciding to keep a running "chronicle" of my inner explosions regarding the state of our country. I am not young, not ancient, somewhere in between. But I have been here long enough to have some personal and historical perspective on middle class life in America and I am smart enough to see through a lot of garbage that is being thrown at Americans by politicians. I am going to vent my anger and back it up with as much truth as I can give you.

Maybe as we go along we can help each other survive what appears to me to be the worst attacks on liberty I personally have ever seen. If you have any ideas whatsoever to stop this onslaught, short of going to prison, let me know. Please do let me know. Short of millions of people marching on Washington or refusing to pay taxes, I have no idea what to do other than this blog. Hopefully I will give you some very good things to think about. I don't wish to dampen anyone's spirits, but I am going to write my heart out on issues that a lot of poor unsuspecting citizens are being duped into believing and for which they are having to pay and pay and pay.

So get yourself a cup of tea and come along with me as I vent, expose, and hopefully enlighten some Americans who just don't "get it." I'll be back soon...and remember, you are invited! :-)