Where Are We Headed?

This is a question I have been pondering for the past several weeks. Something tells me that things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better. However, if the American people continue down the path of "What's in it for me?" we are headed down a very slippery slope toward a totalitarian Socialist government. Once that is in place, it may be decades before we are able to undo its damage. Look how long it has taken Western Europe to finally wake up to the failure of the nanny state. There is no such thing as free. Someone has to pay for it.

I'm afraid that it now could be America's turn. The elites that have been working behind the scenes for over 70 years to put this dicatorship in place could very well reap what they have sown depending on the outcome of the 2008 election. Currently, there are several issues that are driving this. I'm going to comment on a couple of them: The "war" in Iraq, health care, our education system, environmental issues, and welfare and other entitlement programs.

First let's talk about the war. The Bush Administration, and as the late Colonel David Hackworth said, "The perfumed princes" that make up the current military leadership in the Pentagon, have not handled this war effectively. Yes, there have been successes. We removed the Taliban from power in Afghanistan and removed Saddam from power, which were the goals, and the current surge is working thanks to the competence of General David Petreus. Even many of the Democrats have had to admit this. Also, bringing freedom to the dictatorships in the Middle East is a noble cause, especially since that region of the world is so important to the world's economy because of their oil....Yes, it's all about oil, but not for the anti-big business reasons of the Marxist Left. First of all, you don't go to war with one hand tied behind your back. Up until now, our troops have been fettered with rules of engagement that has lead to many of them getting killed for no reason. This is because there is a cadre of spineless, PC lawyers in the Pentagon who crafted those rules of engagement. We have the best and most powerful military in the world. We should have let them take the gloves off from the very beginning. The entire Middle Eastern region would be a lot more stable today than it is now if we had gone in there with no holds barred. Think about how those types of rules of engagement would have effected the outcome of World War II, if those spineless bastard military lawyers had been running the show. The other screw up is this: we jumped the gun in letting the Iraqis take control of their own government. Here's a nation that has been under the iron fist of totalitarian dictatorial control for over 30 years. They weren't ready to assume control. We needed to set up a provisional government with a military governor just like we did in Japan after World War II. Saddam and his henchmen should have been tried and executed by the US, Britain, and Australian authorities just like the allies did who conducted the war crimes tribunals in Nurnberg following the second world war. We also didn't plan for the terrorist violence that has followed after we ceased major combat operations. While the results of the surge are promising, it's still an ugly and cautious promise. However, we should have started this surge as soon as the violence escallated after we ceased major combat operations. Imagine how fast we would have gotten control of the hot spots over in Iraq if General Patton had been in charge.
The Left needs to wake up, face reality, and stop denying what both the Left and the Right has been saying for the past 30 years. That includes Bill and Hillary Clinton too, folks. Saddam was a real threat to world security, especially to the security of the Middle East. A Saddam with a nuclear weapon would have been able to hold the world hostage to the Middle Eastern oil supply that fuels the world's economy. That was Saddam's not so secret goal. Since 90% of Middle Easter oil goes to Europe, it's understandable that the appeasement monkeys in Western Europe didn't, or wouldn't get involved in removing Saddam. Not only that, they were supplying Saddam with much more in the way of weapons than we were, and were his accomplices in the UN Oil For Food scandal. What you have here between Western Europe and the American Left are a bunch of sanctimonious assholes that are too busy covering their corrupt behinds while they are working to use Islamofascism as a tool to take down the United States Government. It's the Left's ultimate rise to power, and it's Europe's leveling of the financial playing field for their benefit. At the same time, you have a shift in Europe away from the Nanny State that has plagued them for 60 years.

Bush needs to stop talking about religion of peace and all that other bullshit. He needs to announce to the world that if the US is attacked again, we will immediately retaliate by eliminating with nuclear weapons the 100 largest Islamic cities in the world. We will also wipe off the face of the earth the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Along the same line, we will also take down North Korea, which has threatened us with a nuclear attack as well as Cuba and Venezuela, all of whom have alligned themselves with the Islamic terrorist governments that are our sworn enemies. Most important of all, Bush needs to start communicating with the American people, and to start standing up to his enemies in this country. He needs to start exposing the Marxists that make up the leadership of the Democratic party for what they are, and let the public know what they will be facing if Comrade Hillary Rodham "Soros" Clinton becomes president. I do not agree with the Liberals' position that Bush is stupid. That's just part of their belief that they are the enlightened ones that know what's better for us than us. However, Bush is a wimp. Bush's failure to stand up to his critics is the reason why we will probably end up with a Marxist named Hillary as the president in 2008. Thank you George W. Bush.

Now let's look at the health care "crisis." Here's the problem. It's not that there are supposedly 40 million people without health insurance, it's the fact that there are 250 million people that DO have health insurance. Let's compare health insurance to car insurance. Your car insurance covers you in the event of some sort of catastrophic accident that could cost you big money. You can also purchase extended warranty coverage to pay for major mechanical problems that could cause severe financial consequences. Neither plan will cover routine maintainance like oil changes, brakes or tuneups. What do you do when you decide to get your car serviced? You shop around and find a quality mechanic that you can afford and trust. It should be the same with doctors. I remember back when I was a kid, my father had to go into the hospital for some surgery. His health care plan from his employer covered his hospitalization and the surgery. However, the health care plan that he had, and most people had at the time, didn't cover basic medical services like doctors visits or prescription drugs. When we went to the doctor, or believe it or not, the doctor came out to the house, my parents wrote a check to pay for the services. Once medical insurance that covered everything became the norm, the cost of health care in this country started to skyrocket. Then you had the slimy bastards commony referred to as lawyers getting involved suing doctors, drug companies, and insurance companies for everything they had whether or not the claim was baseless or not. Rather than go through the expense of defending themselves in court, most cases settle whether there is a real case or not. It's easier and less costly to just pay up and shut up. There is nothing like the highest level of extortion, and those extortionists are the lowest scum of the earth...trial lawyers. Thank greedy insurance companies and greedy lawyers for the cost of your health care. Hillarycare will make it even more expensive even though it will be free. Under her plan, everyone will be required to purchase health insurance. The insurance companies are jumping with joy. They will immediately see a 20% to 30% increase in profits just from people being forced to purchase insurance. After that, they will be able to raise their rates to astronomical levels, because they will have a government sanctioned monopoly. At that point, only the rich will be able to afford private health insurance and have access to private hospitals. Everyone else ranging from the poor to the upper middle class, will be forced onto government subsidized insurance plans and use some form of public health system. Health care will become scarce resulting in government rationing, unless you are rich enough to afford private medical services. The ultimate end result could be mandatory Euthanasia for the elderly, mental patients, and those with terminal illnesses. Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it

Let's look at environmental issues. What are they? Basically, the way that they are being dealt with, they are wedge issues that the Leftists are using as a means to destroy the American free enterprise system. Don't get me wrong. I like the idea of clean air and clean water as much as the next person. However, I don't like the idea of having energy in this country become prohibitively expensive in order for it to be "Green" energy, while the Marxist elites that are driving this "Green" agenda continue to fly around the world in their fuel guzzling private jets and live in their mansions that suck down more energy in a day than I use in a month. Do you hear that Nobel Prize winner Al Gore and Hollywood phony Laurie David? If you really look at what is driving the majority of the environmental issues, it's nothing but Communism. Do some research on the leadership of the environmental movement. Most of them are what are commonly referred to as "Watermelons." That means green on the outside and red on the inside, with red meaning Communist. They have learned their lessons well taking them right out of the playbook of the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci. They have a whole army of guilt ridden, liberal, upper middle class perpetual "children" who have been brainwashed into believing that Socialism is the preferred form of government, knowing that because of their connections and wealth it won't affect them They know that Socialism is their ultimate rise to power over the rest of us mortals. Look at your average hybrid driver. Most grew up in upper middle class households and never had to struggle one iota to put one piece of food into their ungrateful mouths. They have an inflated sense of self worth, believing that they should be the ones in charge anyway. They are smarter and more enlightened than the rest of us. That's why they are "Liberals", or as they like to be called, Progressives. Everything should be organic, natural, energy efficient, and you should wear your "concern" so everyone can know that you "care." Well I've got news for you. You are phony pieces of shit. You preach about energy efficiency and drive your Prius around so that you can "make a statement." Let's look at the hidden "statement" that you really make. How many square feet is your home? What, it's about 3,000 to 4,000 and you have how many bed rooms? Did you say five? Let's see there is you and your husband, and your ONE kid? Hmmmm.....Ok, how much electricity do you use by keeping that huge home comfortable in the summer. It seems that you've got the thermostat set on 70 when it's 93 degrees outside. My poor AC unit has a hard time keeping the house under 80. You must be using some serious electricity in order to keep that McMansion that cool in the summer. I'm sure that your oil or gas bill in the winter is astronomical too. What, you offset your energy use by investing in the "green" industry, and by purchasing carbon credits? Well, if putting money into planting trees in Senegal makes you feel better about your gas guzzling lifestyle, while you critisize gas guzzling SUVs more power to you. However, here's some advice from an average non-guilt ridden, non-educated, non-elite...Screw You! I am going to continue to drive my gas guzzling Dodge Ram 1500 van that gets 14 mpg on an average, and I am going to continue to throw plastic bags in the trash, because I've done research and found out that the cost of recycling plastic bags costs more in the long run environmentally than just putting them in a landfill. I know that that's irrelevant, since the holy sacrament of recycling is so sacrosanct to helping eliminate your feelings of guilt for the lifestyle that you have chosen. You are not planning on really doing any sacrificing in regards to your lifestyle. Sacrifice is for everyone else. You can afford to NOT sacrifice. We little people that you have so much goddam compassion and concern for will be the ones that will have to go without AC in the summer, and barely be able to heat our homes in the winter, or afford gasoline to run our work related vans and pickup trucks, due to your "compassion and concern" for Mother Earth. Put your money where you mouth is. Since you are avid Socialists anyway, how about selling your big homes and moving into the cities where you work and commute to every day? Think of the wonderful cultural experience you will have when you are living next to a crack house and have winos pissing in their pants while they are passed out on your front porch. Think how enlightened and highly literate your children will become when they are in the trenches of Hell that our urban public education systems have become due to your failed Liberal social policies.

Finally, let's talk about welfare and other entitlement programs. What we are doing is not working. What we are doing hasn't worked since we started welfare and entitlement progams in earnest since the 1960s. All it has done is make things worse. There is nothing wrong with helping out the poor. However, you can't just throw money at a failed system and have it work. Then all you have is a more expensive failed system. There was one thing missing from all the social services programs that came out of the War On Poverty that began in the early 1960s, and that one thing was personal responsibility. If you want social services programs to work, you've got to instill in the recipients an ethic of responsibility and they have to accept that if they are going to take the government's money, there are going to be conditions attached to it. Welfare money should be used for food, clothing, shelter, and whatever products are needed to run a clean and safe household. That money should not be used for tobacco, alcohol, or illegal drugs. The way that you enforce this is by requiring anyone collecting social services money be subject to random urine tests for nicotine, alcohol residue, or illegal drugs. If someone tests positive, you monitor them with weekly tests and enter them into mandatory treatment programs. If they continue to test positive, you throw them in jail for misuse of government funds. Now I know what you are saying. "Cigarettes and beer are legal." Yes, they are, but when the tax payers are paying your freight, you are not to spend that money on anything but necessities. Many people in the underclasses have a substance abuse problem anyway. That's why they are stuck in the underclass. You have to take away the incentive to be lazy. You have to instill a work ethic too.

People collecting welfare also need to be enrolled in either some sort of tech training, other formal schooling (GED or High School Diploma), or working a part time job. What? Did you say work? Yes I did. That's also one of the drawbacks of the currently run social services "industry." You are not allowed to work when you are collecting welfare. That's because when people work they get ahead. The people working in the "victim industries" only have jobs, because of victims. More victims means more jobs and/or more money for the "compassion and concern for all mankind" people that work in those industries. Let's face it. Their incentive is to keep poor people poor for their own financial security.It also makes those sanctimonious save the world types feel good about themselves. Karl Zinsmeister, a former fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote an article about living among the underclass a few years back. He explained how he and his family were living on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Capitol Hill, once one of the finer neighborhoods in DC had slid into urban decay after President Johnson's fiasco called the Great Society, just like most cities slid into urban decay with the increase in welfare and other social programs that were designed to help the poor. They didn't work. All they did was make things worse. Zinsmeister explained how there were three types of people living in Capitol Hill. Those that were working downtown and needed affordable housing, those that had been there forevever and were not going to move out because of the winos and thugs, and the winos and thugs.

He had a small appartment attached to his house that he rented out to help make the mortgage payment. Many of his tenants over the years were those Liberal save the world types. Many were lawyers working for groups like the ACLU or other firms in the victims rights "industry." Zinsmeister stated in the article that just about every one of those bleeding heart tenants had a hard time coping with the underclass that made the neighborhood seedier than it needed to be. Yet these are the same people that are perpetuating that underclass by doing everything in their legal power to hamstring the police when it comes to enforcing quality of life laws. These highly educated parasites have quite an army of fellow travellers who are so blinded by their guilt and pleasure driving desire for what they call "social justice" that they are in denial to the fact that it is their beliefs and actions that are perpetuating the problem. They are hypocrites and phonies. I just laugh when I hear some Liberal go off about how it's too dangerous for a little white women to live in a dangerous neighborhood, or to have to skirt one in order to ride public transportation. Therefore, that person will continue to drive even though public transportation is available. It makes sense. The rules that Liberals want to enforce are for everyone but Liberals. Also, when they are forced to confront the results of their social justice bullshit, they immeditately start playing the victim card themselves. Let's see. Not only do you have the poor as victims of our opressive Capitalistic society and the evil George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, but you now have the do gooders as victims of the victims of the opressive Capitalistic society and the evil George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, even if they are financially well off. Some how, that argument doesn't hold water with me. It does show, however, that the inmates are running the nut house.

It's these warped value systems that are destroying this country. We are a nation of perpetual spoiled children and the more liberal the individual, the more child-like they are. It's time for America to grow up and face the music. It's time to ferret out and take down the Fifth Column that has been working since the early 1900s to destroy this country. Wake up America.

It's Time To Start Posting

It's amazing how liberals either refuse to look at the facts, or somehow choose to ignore them as insignificant when they are lauding their self-righteous opinions. For example, I got into a discussion with a gentleman the other night about the situation in Iraq. His claim was that President Bush only went into Iraq so that his cronies could make money. I guess that's the usual Liberal/Socialist argument anyway...It's always about money. I asked him if he had read the Congressional Resolution authorizing the Iraq War, and of course he hadn't. He hadn't read Hanlon and Pollock's article in the New York Times about how the surge is succeeding either. That's the problem with the Left. They have their opinions, but don't do any research into the facts. Facts are not important. The only "facts" that are important are that Bush is a liar, we are an evil imperialistic nation, Capitalism is bad/Socialism is good, etc. etc.. If this country is so freekin' bad, why the Hell don't all these liberals leave? Why don't they head to a nice Socialist "paradise" like Cuba or Venezuela? Let's take it down one notch. How about Canada or one of the fabulous economic powerhouses of Western Europe with their double digit unemployment rates and their not so peaceful Islamic populations? I'm just sick and tired of hearing people bitch and moan when they haven't done any homework into what is happening in the world. Let's look at the real reason why Liberals, and I use that term loosely, are so hateful of George Bush. Liberals today are not really Liberals. They are neo-Communists. George Bush stands in the way of their agenda for a Socialist/Marxist "utopia" with them, the educated intellectual classes ruling over the rest of us. That's what it is in a nutshell. They can't stand the fact that there are people that won't bow and scrape to their almighty self-righteousness. However, at the same time, the Republicans haven't delivered the goods either. The Left; Progressives, Liberals, or Communists as they are, may very well get their way in the 2008 election. We many end up with Comrade Hillary as our president. I hope the American people will be ready for a Socialist nanny state quasi-dictatorship. If the Republicans can't come up with a viable candidate to unite the 40% swing voters in the middle, that's exactly what we are going to get.

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