Chip's Common Sense

Riots, Riots, Everywhere

2011-02-20T12:40:00.000-08:00

The Middle East is exploding. Whether or not the uprisings over there will lead to more democratic forms of government, or whether or not the countries will fall to Islamic dictatorships has yet to be seen. It's hard to get a grasp on the situation, because there are too many conflicting viewpoints. We'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, here in the US I can sense that the "little people" are getting quite fed up with the status quo. The public sector unions are taking to the streets protesting a modest loss of some of their entitlements, while the private sector lags behind up to 50% of what these spoiled cretins make in salary and benefits. Yes, people are entitled to a fair wage, reasonable job security, and a reasonably comfortable retirement after dedicating a large portion of their lives to a job. I think that things have gotten too far out of hand, and from what I've been reading and hearing, the "Average Joe and Jane" have had enough. If the public sector unions don't back off, there is going to be hell to pay.

The problem is, public sector employees should never have been allowed to unionize in the first place. Even the icon of the Left, Franklin Roosevelt, was against public sector unions. Public servants were never supposed to make 40% to 50% more than the private sector. You took a government job, because even though it paid about 20% less than the same job in the private sector, you had virtually layoff free job security, great benefits, and a decent retirement pension plan. Government service was for those that really didn't want to deal with the dog eat dog climb up the corporate ladder of Corporate America or assume the risks of self-employment. This is the main reason that people make the military a career. For enlisted personnel in the military, the pay is considerably less than a similar job in the private sector. You don't start to make any kind of decent money until you reach the rank of E7 or E8. Then again, once you lose your housing allowances and subsistence allowances, E7 retirement after 20 years of service is just at the poverty line. I retired as an E8 after 26 years of service. My pension is barely enough to live on in the DC area, and I have to supplement it by playing musical jobs 4-5 nights per week and teaching 7 days per week, in order to have a standard of living that is about 30% less than I had when I was active duty, receiving full pay, housing, and subsistence. Believe me, I'm not complaining. I'm just stating facts.

What I'm saying to the civil servants and teachers that are out there throwing their temper tantrums is this: Grow up. You are making a hell of a lot more money than either the military or the private sector. We have an official unemployment rate of 9.6% and a REAL unemployment rate of about 18%, with most of that being confined to the non-degreed working class. If we want to make this country work for all, we have to work together, and that means that YOU have to be willing to make sacrifices, not just those that you look down upon and your lessers. If you don't, you look at a very good possibility that your unions are going to get busted, and then when there is a Republican president and Republican control of both houses of Congress, public sector unions will become illegal. You are being used as political tools by your union leadership, who's salaries by the way, equal the salaries of the CEOs that you love to demonize. Again, grow up and stop being "useful idiots."

Glenn Beck Rally, Washington, DC, 8/28/10

2010-08-29T17:14:00.000-07:00

Yesterday 8/28/2010, I attended the Glenn Beck Restoring America Rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. It was very well attended. I am not an expert at determining crowd size, but my best guesstimate was that the attendance was about 250,000 to 300,000. Some reports claim that there were up to 700,000 attendees, and one news source claimed 87,000. I’ll stick with my original estimate.

This was not a political rally. It was about celebrating the greatness of this country, and a cry to return us to the principles that made this country great. Another purpose of the rally was to raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. The event raised over $5 million dollars for this noble cause. The mission statement of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation states: "The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides full scholarship grants and educational and family counseling to the surviving children of special operations personnel who die in operational or training missions and immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations personnel and their families."

It was a very emotional event for a lot of people. Many of those in attendance had lost family members who were serving their country in the US Military. I’d say that about 3/4 of the people that I talked to either had served in the military, or had a family member that either served or currently serves their country. As I was walking around, I came upon a group of ladies sitting together in the shade under a tree. Some appeared to be in their late 30s or early 40s, and some appeared to be in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. They all had one thing in common. They all wore a rectangular pin that had a red border, cream background, and right in the middle, a gold star. They were members of the Gold Star Mothers, an organization of women who have lost sons or daughters in action.

There was many a tear shed as the various speakers gave accounts of how members of their families had been killed in action, and how the SOWF had helped them by making sure that their children or grandchildren had enough money to earn a college degree. Recipients receive scholarship grants, not student loans. Radio and television personality, Glenn Beck, hosted the event. Other notable speakers included former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, who was there speaking as a mother of a son serving overseas in a combat position, not as a politician. Dr. Alveda King, the niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., also was a featured speaker. It was hot, crowded, and rewarding.

The only drawback that I saw was the lack of attendance of minorities. Others noticed that too, and expressed their regret. Every single person I talked to, and there were many, showed absolutely no racist tendencies at all. All of us would have loved having a large contingency of Black Americans and Hispanic Americans joining us. There were some, but not a whole lot. I have no idea why. Maybe they were told not to attend. Maybe they thought that they wouldn’t be welcome. If that was the case, they were 100% wrong.

I did not attend the counter rally sponsored by the Reverend Al Sharpton, who bitterly complained that Beck’s rally, on the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s "I Have A Dream" event on the same Lincoln Memorial steps, was a denigration of Dr. King’s legacy. I have news for Reverend Sharpton. There was no denigration at all. In fact, Dr. King’s legacy and greatness was addressed by speakers and approvingly recognized by the mostly white participants. From what I saw, those so insultingly called by the Liberal Elites and their minions, the "little people," the ones that out of "desperation cling to their guns and religion" at this gathering, showed not signs, covert or overt, of racism, if there was any at all in the first place. Have Reverend Sharpton and his followers? How much money did the grievance industry make this year? What was your cut of the action Reverend Sharpton?

I felt good about what I saw. I came away with a sense of hope and rejuvenation. Does this mean that I’m going to become a religious fanatic or something of the sort? No. I’m going to still go through life as a relatively spiritual person who, even though I was raised Roman Catholic and still loves the rituals of the traditional church, does not really practice a religion at this time in my life.

I will say this. If people attending this rally were but a microcosm of a much larger group of similar minded folks, we have a great future ahead of us…provided that people like this can become the dynamic majority force leading this country again. I think that the "Silent Majority" has been asleep at the switch for too long. This and the Tea Party movement may be the waking of the sleeping giant. I hope so.

Comeuppance

2010-08-15T13:40:00.001-07:00

One thing that I’ve noticed over the years that I’ve been a musician. When you play in a club in the city, your audience is primarily made up of college educated professionals. They may have a wide range of income brackets. They share, however, one common trait: They despise those that they consider inferior, and for the most part those that they consider inferior, happen to be working class and lower middle class whites, and anyone who happens to be a Conservative. These Leftist spoiled brats, many of whom have a gold plated Ivy League college education and then some thanks to Daddy’s money, feel it is their birthright to be America’s ruling class. They also know deep inside that the only way that they will become America’s nobility, with a chance of rising up from there to America’s monarchy, is if they can orchestrate the destruction of the American Capitalist system, and replace it with a Socialist dictatorship. Despite what these cretins claim, it’s not about "fairness." It’s about Totalitarian control over the masses for the "common good."

I grew up in a different time than these cosmopolitans. My parents were from the so called, "Greatest Generation." My late father was born in 1917, and served in the Army Air Corps during WWII. My mother, still alive today, was born in 1920. Both of them grew up during the Great Depression, and the sacrifices they had to endure, put an indelible stamp on their personas. I was not given a "Progressive" upbringing like most of these current spoiled urban professional types. I was not brought up believing that I was special. Self-esteem was something that had to be earned. I think my generation was the last generation that was taught that there are winners and losers, and sometimes you are going to be the loser. Suck it up, and get on with your life. However, starting in the early 1960s there was a change in focus in our public education system. The education system’s policies slowly morphed from strict discipline (teachers could still spank you in front of the whole class), and tough academic standards, to a more value based education system that emphasized self-esteem over difficult subject matter. It was a process that was put into place to make sure that a small group of individuals would receive a quality education with lots of ego boosts, and that the rest of society would be "dumbed down" into a servant class.

These twenty-something, thirty-something, and forty-something egotists think they are special, because their entire life they have been told that they are special. Here they are with their advanced college degrees seething at the fact that they are not yet the plantation owners—and like lemmings falling off of a cliff, they all spout the same broken record rhetoric: It’s all George Bush’s and the Republicans fault. While they won’t admit it, they are jealous of anyone else’s success. They can’t stand the fact that some vulgar low class businessman, who makes several million dollars per year owning three or four McDonald’s franchises, makes more money than they do working for some non-profit, foundation, or in the education indoctrination industry. They want a Socialist command and control economy where no one with less education than they do will become more successful than they are. They are, after all, entitled to that success, simply do to the fact that they breathe air. Capitalism allows those that work hard and are innovative the chance to become wealthy. This aggravates the Elite Left to no end. It’s contrary to their egocentric worldview.

Karl Marx called for a rising up of the Proletariat to overthrow the Capitalist class Bourgeoisie. However, the Proletariat accepted, and joined the Capitalist class in order to get their own piece of the pie. After that, the game plan was to advance Communism through a long march through the culture institutions and a subsequent collateral brainwashing through the education system. What has transpired is a new Bourgeoisie of information age professionals, educators, public policy wonks, unionized public sector employees, etc. They have a problem however, the Proletariat, the working class and lower middle class who are sick and tired of being pandered to and insulted, have finally said enough is enough. There is going to be a huge backlash against the Progressives/Communists/Socialists (PCS)…whatever you want to call them in November. If the PCS manage to commit enough election fraud to squelch the will of the majority of the American Proletariat, I’m afraid that things could get real ugly. Marx may get his wish. There very well could be a rising up of the Proletariat to overthrow the Bourgeoisie. I’m not condoning this, but it is a distinct possibility if the "little people" have had enough. We’ll see what happens…

This November

2010-08-11T05:30:00.001-07:00

Let’s face it. It doesn’t matter how much anger the American people can muster between now and the November election. It’s going to be impossible to completely reverse the damage to this country that the Obama administration has fostered on us. OK hippies, I’ll give you one. George W. Bush and his "compassionate conservatism" bullshit didn’t help either. I’ll give you another one. Bill Clinton, for the most part except for his management of the military, actually did a decent job as president. But let’s get back to the subject at hand. Even if the Republicans achieve veto proof control of the House, it’s going to be meaningless unless they get veto proof control of the Senate as well. That is impossible. Only one third of the Senate is up for election in November. There is no way that the Republicans can get a two thirds majority in the Senate, even if they win every single seat that is up for election. The numbers are not there. So what can be done? Here are a few things that the American people can do in order to bring this country back slowly from the Socialist abyss that it is spiraling into at record speed:

Number one, Never, never, never, never again, vote another George W. Bush into office as President of the United States. If you want a RINO or a Liberal Republican, look for a classic New England Republican or a Rockefeller Republican. There is a big difference in mindset between a New England or Rockefeller Republican and a George W. Bush Liberal Republican. First of all, the NE or RR Republican takes a strong conservative approach to fiscal matters, and basically considers most social issues, like abortion and gay marriage, as being between a person and their conscience. George W. Bush was more interested in social issues than he was about fiscal responsibility, because he felt that he was beholden to the Religious Right. However as a side note, I will give him credit for this: The US economy didn’t collapse after the attack on 9-11, and it could have very easily. Putting it in perspective, it’s the difference between Episcopalians and Southern Baptists. I am not criticizing either religion. I’m just pointing out a difference in ideology. If you are going to bring the younger voters over to the Republican camp, you are going to have to downplay the social issues. People under forty-five today, are not living in the prude era of the 1950s. They weren’t raised that way. You can debate all you want about the benefits and problems caused by the cultural revolution of the 1960s, but the results are here to stay.

The WW II generation spoiled the hell out of the baby boomers, who then neglected Generation X, which then doted, hovered and overprotected the Millennials. This pampered generation is now of voting age, and they consider Socialism to be a good thing. They have been well indoctrinated by our Marxist controlled education system, as were their parents. The Communists started working on their grandparents in the 1960s and early 1970s, and have sowed seeds that need to be uprooted and destroyed once and for all.

Next, the Right needs to grow some balls and start kicking ass and taking names. No more Mr. Nice Guy. The Democrats, who are now nothing but anti-Capitalist Socialists and Marxists, walked all over the Republicans during the 2006 and 2008 elections. The reason for this is the American people perceived the Republicans as a bunch of wimps. We need hard ass candidates like Chris Christie of New Jersey and not wimps that won’t defend themselves like George Bush. That being said, we need to take the Left’s weapons and turn them back on them with no mercy. No more being ladies and gentlemen when we are confronting the Left. We have to expose them for what they are–anti-American Marxists that are hell bent on destroying this great nation for their benefit. Their benefit? Yes. Under Socialism there is always a highly educated ruling class, a nobility have you, that lives quite well off of the "largesse" of the less educated working class and poor while pretending to have compassion for those less fortunate. It’s all a smoke screen. Highly educated Elites, Bobos as New York Times columnist David Brooks calls them, have nothing but scorn and contempt for those that they consider lesser human beings. Have any of the social programs that the Left has advanced worked? Of course not. They were designed to create dependency and to make the Liberals feel good about them selves, while they made money in the process. Liberals need to be shown over and over again as the whores that they truly are.

Finally, it’s time for Conservatives and Republicans to sit down and read the bible of the Left: Saul Alinsky’s "Rules For Radicals". They need to use Alinsky’s tactics, which were designed to foster a Left Wing take down of the United States of America. The most important tactic according to Alinsky is ridicule, because it is almost impossible to defend against without looking weak. In another words, throw it back in their face. Remember the smug arrogant Liberal Elites constant attack on George Bush as being stupid? The implication was also that anyone who voted for Bush, or any Republican for that matter, was stupid. So what should the Right do? The Right needs to constantly show the Liberals for the hypocritical, weak, phonies that they are, and constantly rub their noses in their own shit. The more they throw their child-like temper tantrums, the more you rub. No, the Right won’t look like bullies. People are fed up with the Left right now. Exposing them for what they are, and driving them to their therapists en masse will be fun to watch.

It’s going to take time to reverse the course that the Left has taken this country over the past one hundred years, culminating with the election of the first Marxist president, Barack Obama. It’s not going to be easy, and it’s going to involve a lot of confrontation. There are going to be some show downs, and the Right has to make sure that it is in a position to win those show downs by a huge margin of victory.

McChrystal "Resignation"

2010-06-23T15:12:00.001-07:00

President Obama has accepted the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal, who in my opinion had a major league lapse of judgement when he and his staff criticized the civilian leadership of the United States Military, and their policies concerning the war in Afghanistan. I was in the military for 26 years, and it is a violation of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (88 USC) to do so. Its called insubordination, which is a court martial offense. Now there has only been one military member ever court marshaled for under 88 USC, and that was in the 1950s. It's very unlikely that General McChrystal will meet the same fate. However, the president was 100% right to relieve him of his command and show him to the door.

I have mixed feelings about McChrystal. He is a great general and an expert at counter-insurgency. However, it's his rules of engagement that put the lives of Afghani civilians over the lives of American and Coalition forces that I don't agree with. If you are going to fight a goddamn war, fight the goddamn thing. Do what we did during World War II. We put the moral blame on the enemy for the death of their civilians, and we kicked serious ass, until we completely broke the enemy both in means and in spirit. This is what needs to be done to our enemies in the Middle East.

There is an upside to this unfortunate chain of events. General McChrystal can now apply for retirement. That can take about 60 days. After that time, he would be able to run his mouth every chance he got. Maybe we will see him every day on Fox News tearing the administration a new asshole. Let's see...starting in September and the election being in November...that's just about the right amount of time to turn the majority of Americans against Congress and the current administration and its policies. This could get quite interesting...More to follow...

The Cat Is Out Of The Bag

2010-06-22T09:49:00.001-07:00

I was at a gathering over the Memorial Day weekend that was populated mostly by college educated professionals. During this event, I overheard an interesting political conversation. During the course of the conversation, a man told a lady about how both his parents had been dyed in the wool Communists. The lady practically knelt in front of him in awe, and said something to the effect about how that must have been wonderful, and how he must be pleased to no end about the current transformation of this country, and how the uneducated masses were finally going to be put in their place once and for all. I was shocked. I realize that college educated professionals, for the most part, tend to be liberal. Socialist policies benefit their pocket books at the expense of the working classes that they despise. Control the masses. For them, it's not about economic issues of "fairness." It's about arrogance and a drive for power while creating a "slave" class subservient to them. However, it starting to become very clear that this was not an isolated incident.

Keep your ears open when you are in Liberal enclaves. This is the mindset of a large percentage of the people that live in Montgomery County, Maryland, or as some of us refer to it as, The People's Republic Of Montgomery County, where these people live. It's not just limited to the Marxist radicals that populate what I call the Democratic People's Republic Of Takoma Park either. What is scary, is the fact that I know both of these people, and didn't realize that they were either part of, or "Fellow Travellers" in the Marxist remake of the United States of America. I just thought that they were typical fairly highly educated professional class Liberals. Let's face it folks, it's these Mandarins that are driving the bus that is moving the United States of America into a Socialist or Fascist (Fascism is Left Wing not a Right Wing. Do your homework idiots) ideology that benefits them and them only.

There is really a strong Communist movement in the United States that was the power behind the scenes that got Obama elected, and they are now in the drivers seat turning this great country into a Marxist dictatorship that will benefit them at the rest of our expense. Obama was installed into the presidency in order to be the closer, bringing to fruition the Socialist/Communist/Progressive coup that has been in the works since the time of the French Revolution. The leftists have been working on destroying this country for two centuries, and in earnest since the early 1900s with the biggest push happening in the 1960s.

In order to put it into perspective, let's look at the famous quote famous quote from George Orwell's book Animal Farm: "All animals are created equal, but some animals are created more equal than others." This is the mindset of the Left in a nutshell. The middle class and the poor must become equally poor so that they can be controlled. Then those that are "more equal than others," the educated ruling class, will keep the little people under their thumb for the common good. It is SOP in any Socialist country from the Democratic Socialism governments of places like Sweden, Germany, and Denmark, to the totalitarian Communist dictatorships of the former Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela and China. You have a very wealthy ruling class, followed by a highly educated and protected upper middle class, and then you have everyone else who is poor. Here in the United States it is a byproduct of the advancement of the move toward a Meritocracy.

There was a time when the ruling class in this country was made up of legacy old money families and industrial tycoons. Beginning in the late 1950s, the shift started toward merit rather than legacy. However, it went way too far. The division in this country is now between those that work with their hands and those that work with their brains. Blue collar versus white collar. Here in the Washington, DC area you can call it Montgomery County versus Prince George's County. By Prince George's County I mean the Prince George's County WHITE working class, not the PG County black middle class and black lower classes. The Mandarins of Montgomery County need the PG County blacks; rich, middle class, and poor, as their allies in order to attack and take down the white, marginally educated by today's standards, lower middle class and working class...in another words, the so called, "Rednecks," who just don't seem to want to get with the program. They have to be forced into obedience, and the best way to do it is through their pocket book.

Historically, this is typical. Beginning when the United States was starting to become colonized in 1608, the majority of slaves in this country were white....Yes I know, that's not the narrative that is taught in the indoctrination centers that are our schools. No, they weren't indentured servants polishing the master's silver and making the master's bed; they were slaves. Do some research and your homework. I'm not going to do it for you. Go "Google" white slavery in America.

Highly educated elitist Mandarins are now the new masters on the plantation. Their goal is to drive working class white America down into a servant class. This is just one step toward creating a world government with a ruling class and everyone else. Most of that class of "everyone else" will need to be eliminated, because it will become too expensive to keep them fed and clothed.

Why do you think that upper middle class and wealthy Liberals want food to be more expensive, utilities to skyrocket, and the price of gasoline to become so expensive that the masses can not afford these things? It's about control. When you can not afford to keep your small single family home in the suburbs due to the cost of utilities and taxes, you will be forced into "climate controlled" ghettos controlled by the Liberal Elites. What you eat will be determined by what you can afford, and since you won't be able to afford much, hunger and starvation can be used as a great motivation tool to get you to behave yourself. Why do you think that there is such a push for making more food organic? It's not about organic food being healthier. It's about organic food being more expensive, so that the "little people" will either have to eat less or have to use food stamps in order to survive. This is why I generally refuse to eat organic food.

When gasoline reaches $6 per gallon, most of the "little people" won't be able to afford to drive. They will be forced to take public transportation from their little apartment in the ghetto to their meager government job, while the Elites get to tool down the Beltway in their hybrids and SUVs (SUV for me but not for thee), uninhibited by traffic jams filled with drivers from the unwashed masses.

There is one little problem though. Marx predicted that there would be a rising up of the Proletariat against the Bourgeoisie. Back then the Bourgeoisie was the upper middle class and wealthy that made their money in hard industry. The fly in the ointment for Marx, was the Proletariat discovered Capitalism, joined the party, and became the Middle Class. Many of them became small business owners. Some of the small businesses became huge corporations, and the higher ups of those corporations became extremely wealthy. For the others, this Middle Class, through hard work, was able to earn themselves a little piece of the American Dream; A small home in the suburbs with a yard, good public schools, a college education for their children, a chance to prosper while owning their own mom and pop small business, ample food, and occasionally some luxuries. This infuriated and continues to infuriate the Left. Something had to be done. What followed was a slow march through the culture that was based on the writings of the Italian Communist Antonio Gramschi, and the Cultural Marxists of the German Frankfurt School.

Bypassing a ruling class of industrial Bourgeoisie, there emerged a cultural ruling class of academic and information age Bourgeoisie, who are now in charge and ready to take down the working classes for their benefit. The problem however, is the Proletariat are rising up, just as Marx predicted. A symptom of this are the Tea Parties.

The Tea Parties and their demonstrations are just the tip of the iceberg. Seething beneath the surface is a similar group reminiscent of the Silent Majority of the Nixon era. This group realizes the mistakes the Silent Majority made; one mistake that was made was not being proactive and always playing defense against the Left, rather than offence. Consequently, you now have at least two generations of "useful idiots" that were slowly indoctrinated into believing in Socialism by an education system that is controlled by anti-American, anti-Capitalist Marxists. You have a government ripe with Socialists that the educated classes want to keep in power for the benefit of the educated classes. Soon we are going to have class warfare in this country, but the war won't be the "little people" against the so called evil corporations. The war will be the "little people" against the sanctimonious, highly educated Marxist elitists that are emerging as America's new ruling class...a ruling class with no class, by the way. Yes, it's going to be the Proletariat rising up against the Bourgeoise. Hey Liberals, you are going to get what you deserve, and I can't wait. I'm just hoping that the Conservatives have enough balls this time to finally throw Marxism onto the ash heap of history where it belongs.

Immigration Outrage

2010-05-22T03:38:00.000-07:00

OK, so the president of Mexico comes to this country, stands before a joint session of Congress, and lectures us on our immigration policy? WTF? Even more outrageous was watching the Democrats applauding his every criticism. President Calderon, why don't you do some economic development in your country instead of sending your unemployed north of the border? I'm sure there are plenty of American companies that will be willing to help you out. Oh that's right. That would be all about evil capitalist big corporations taking advantage of the cheap labor supplied by "little brown people." It goes against the Socialist model.

Let's finally expose the real reasons that Liberals want as many illegals in this country as possible. The first one is what they accuse the Republicans and big business of wanting, and that is cheap labor. This is true. Every business out there looks at ways to reduce labor costs. However, the liberals want cheap labor, because they want to destroy the working class economy in this country. It's part of the move toward a one world government run by those "Citizen of the World" Liberal, Marxist, Elites. Upper middle class Socialist Elites can not stand the fact that someone with less education than they have can make more money than they do, and can afford to own property. They are the serfs who should be living in the projects. There is also a collateral reason for reducing the incomes of the working classes and lower middle class tradesmen. It means cheaper goods and services for them. If you depress wages with illegal foreign workers, you can hire nannies, gardeners and maids for pennies on the dollar by paying them under the table. That means that the middle class hippie Marxists that live in places like Takoma Park, Maryland can have a lifestyle more along the line of those that live in Potomac, Maryland. After all, they are the anointed ones. They just don't make the incomes that the upper reaches of the other members of the Mandarin caste make. In fact if you depress wages world-wide, you can have an unlimited supply of cheap labor to wipe your offsprings' asses while you play tennis at the community center. Do they make Birkenstock tennis shoes for Communists?

Also, they want cheap votes from an ever expanding underclass that is funded by the tax dollars of the hard working non-elites sectors of the middle class and working classes; unless you are a member of a minority group. Then you can be exempted from those taxes as long as you vote for the Marxist Liberals. The more the merrier.

So when are the Average Americans going to finally say enough is enough, and throw the bums out? I hope that it happens this November. Also, this time if the conservatives get control of the government again, they have to stop being so nice. You can't appease or negotiate with the those that wish to destroy this country. You have to deal with them once and for all. It's time for the gloves to come off.

Government Of The Elites, By The Elites, For The Elites

2010-05-01T11:34:00.000-07:00

As the great philosopher Confucius said, "May you live in interesting times," and yes we do (or is that "Yes We Can"?) Never in my lifetime did I ever expect to see what is happening in this country today; there is a De-facto civil war between a mandarin class who says, "Yes We Can," who wants to control you for your own and the common good, and the rest of us who say, "No You Won't." Actually, using the term "class" is a misnomer. What I should have said is "caste." We are witnessing the final stages of the establishment of a caste system in America that began with the Progressive Movement in this country in the late 1800s and early 1900s. If you study history you can follow this phenomenon back to ancient times. During the time of the Roman Empire the mandarins were the patricians. In ancient Greece they were the oligarchs. How about the French aristocracy? Remember Marie Antoinette's comment about the peasants cry for bread, "let them eat cake." What about the English gentry? Mix these all together into one big stinking pot of elitism, and you have the American mandarin ruling class of self-important "Progressive" elites who are now in the process of establishing a feudal socialist society here in America ruled by scornful, jealous, elitist, highly educated, self-serving, Fascist "Progressives." Sorry hippies, Fascism is a left wing ideology not a right wing one. Both Hitler and Mussolini were avid students and believers in the teachings and beliefs of Kark Marx and Fredrich Engles. Go do your homework for a change and stop listening to the useful idiots and fellow travellers riding the bus driven by good old Uncle Joe...as in Josef Stalin. That mass murderer, by the way who starved to death over 20 million of his own people, was able to pull off the greatest public relations stunt in history. Stalin was able to deliver the Big Lie that Fascism was right wing rather than left wing. However, if you useful idiots do a little research, you'll see that it's just the opposite. What's that you say? You don't have time for such trivial matters. OK, go back to your iTunes and trying to find a way to make as much money as possible, while you do as little work as possible. After all, you are entitled to what is mine, at least in your spoiled sanctimonius minds. Aren't you just so special...

How do you become part of the Mandarin ruling caste? It's easy. Just be a highly educated liberal who believes that rest of America, especially those that earn their livelihood through manual labor are scum. It's the fashionable thing to do. The higher up the mandarin caste you go, the more liberal you are expected to be. Highly educated conservatives need not apply.

It's not about economics. A high school drop out who owns, heaven forbid, five McDonald's franchises and makes twenty million dollars per year will never be a member of the mandarin caste. In fact, he will be despised by the mandarin class. It's about education level in "certain" fields coupled with the "correct" ideology and world view. You have to hate Capitalism and love Socialism. You want Socialism in order to perpetuate the status quo. Your status quo. You climbed the ladder, and then you pulled the ladder up after you, so that the unwashed scum can never reach you on your high and mighty perch. Granted, most of the members of the mandarin caste are well educated and therefore make fairly decent incomes. In our service oriented economy, those with more education will make more money than those that don't. Lawyers make more money than clerks at WalMart . In government employment, you have to have a college degree in order to draw GS-13 or above pay, no matter what the job. The left wants to establish this caste in the private sector too. That way we can be like Europe, and have a command and control economy where your income is controlled by the government no matter what industry you work in. The problem, however, is the entrepreneur . Unlike in Europe where most small business owners and tradesmen make less than a school teacher, in our capitalistic economy that high school graduate or dropout who owns, heaven forbid, a couple of fast food franchises or an auto parts store, is going to make a lot more money than that teacher with a Masters Degree. So will an established mechanic, plumber or electrician. That drives the mandarins crazy. It's not fair.

Teaching is a mandarin profession despite its lower pay on the average from other mandarin occupations like law and being a public relations director. So is being a social worker or working for a non-profit. None of those occupations are upper middle class, yet they are mandarin, because they fit into the Socialist master plan. The small business owner is not a mandarin, and let's face it, there is a jealousy factor in place here. The mandarins on the Left can not stand the fact that the working class and lower middle class here in the United States can afford property, air conditioning, cable TV, ample food, vacations, and/or a college education for their children. These things should only be available for the mandarin Marxist Elites that know what is better for us than us. When people actually have disposable income, they are less likely to be able to be controlled by the mandarin Elite class that thrives on power, and the Left is doing everything in its power to change that. Only the educated elites should own property, have enough to eat (hunger is a great motivator to make you shut up and do as you are told), have quality leisure time, and have access to higher education.

The mandarin caste is attempting to create a society here in America that is similar to what is reality in Western Europe. Go to France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Belgium and England. You see an awful lot of poor middle class people. You have your titled aristocracy and your super wealthy. You have your highly educated professional upper middle class who live quite well. You then have your lower middle class and working class tradesmen and factory workers who live about one notch above where a ghetto welfare recipient lives here in the United States.

The problem for the elites is this: This is America. We have a large independent middle class. Middle America despises elitism and condescension. Consequently, the "peasants" are revolting, and revolting doesn't mean the Left's definition of revolting (i.e. disgusting). It means the little people are getting really pissed off and are ready for their own version of "Hope and Change." Let's hope that things start going back to normal after the November elections...and let's hope that the Republicans finally get the message and start running candidates that can win. That also means that in 2012, you don't run another George W. Bush. The Republicans need to run a young, articulate, dynamic candidate for president who can connect with the young people who stupidly voted against their best interest for the "messiah" who promised them all sorts of free stuff paid for by someone else. That candidate needs to show them in very plain English just how dangerous Obama is to the future of the young people trying to enter the job market, raise a family, and achieve their part of the American Dream.

Once the young people and the non-government, non-SEIU, non-big labor middle class is back on board and conservatives are back in power, it's going to be time, finally, to take the Socialists, Communists, and "Progressives" down once and for all. The Right needs to grow some backbone and go toe to toe with the Left...and never back down again. No more wimps. No more Mr. Nice Guy. This time it's got to be serious. I will present my thoughts as to how to restore this country in subsequent posts.

OK Hippies, So You Want To Be Like Europe

2010-04-15T08:14:00.000-07:00

Happy tax day everyone. Enjoy your tax rates now, because things are going to change. That being said, let's continue. In a previous post entitled Welcome To Europe I explained the world view of the Obama Administration and many of its supporters. Lefties relish the idea of a weakened America, because their worldview is one in which there is no exceptionalism. Everyone is equal, except of them of course, "because all animals are created equal, but some are created more equal than others." I'm not sure that many on the left, especially the young people really know what is in store for them as we adopt Western European style Socialism. Socialism can not survive without it being a parasite attached to Capitalism, and eventually you are going to "run out of other peoples' money." Let me explain things to the spoiled rotten youth and other lefties, what's in store for them in plain English. I guarantee that this is not going to be the "Hope and Change" that you sanctimonious morons voted for.

First of all, you claim that health care is a right. It's not, but I'll agree that health care is very expensive and there is always the risk that some catastrophic health incident could wipe out your life savings if you don't have health insurance. I remember the days when most people had what was called catastrophic care and hospitalization insurance or as it was called, Major Medical. For some reason routine medical care was affordable when you had to pay for it out of your own pocket. When I was a kid, if you went to the doctor a routine office visit was $10 and a house call was $15. In today's dollars, that would amount to about $60 and $80 respectively. Not real cheap, but affordable for most people. For the poor, charities were more than willing to help out. Doctors also didn't run a gazillion tests in order to cover their butts against a lawsuit. Now that 88% of the population has health insurance, routine medical care is expensive. How come? Maybe because doctors have to practice defensive medicine? Maybe because of low life scum of the earth trial lawyers? Maybe because somebody else is paying for it?

OK you putzes on the left. You got pretty much what you wanted in regards to socialized (socialist) medicine. Now the fun starts. Things are going to get real interesting. All you young pie in the sky idiots are now going to have to purchase health insurance or pay a fine and risk going to jail, and it's going to cost you a lot more money than you are going to want. Hey Obama Zombies, your carefree, hipster, arrogant, Narcissistic lifestyle is going to change. Say good-bye to the new car, IPhone, and spending your nights in trendy clubs and restaurants. Say hello to canned ravioli and Hamburger Helper, just like when you were in college; I guess that means that many of you will have to have roommates too just like you did when you lived in the student ghettos. You never thought that your standard of living would be this low after you were "promised" how great your life would become with your college degree and your information age job. Of course, you can always continue to live in Mom's basement. I'm sure that's not what you expected when you voted for your Messiah. Your utopia is about to blow up in your face, and guess what? I can't wait until life rubs your nose in it big time. It's going to be wonderful watching you go bonkers when you know what finally hits the fan.

Here's how medical care really does exist in your glorious Socialist countries like the Socialist "paradises" of Western Europe with their 20% unemployment rates and prices that are on an average 30% higher than they are here in the States. I actually have first hand information from an expatriate American living in Austria about how the medical black market works over there. My financial planner attorney has a similar story. He has a daughter that lives in Europe. She's highly educated with a PhD, and makes a great salary, like most highly educated professionals who live in Europe, unlike the less educated lower middle class who exist barely above what would be considered the poverty line here in America. She's one of the fortunate ones. Here's how "Government Provided Health Care" works in Europe. You are sick and you call the doctor's office in the morning to get an appointment. You are told that there are no appointments for a month, and to go to the emergency room if need be. You know that the wait at the emergency room will be at least 10 to 12 hours or more, so you tell the receptionist, "How about if I pay cash?" She says, "Come right in." You go in, pay the doctor's fee in cash, no checks, no credit card, no receipt, and you are seen right away. There is always a huge black market and underground economy under Socialism. Health care falls under the same black market. If you have the means, you pay cash for it. If you don't, you stand in line with the rest of the "little people." Even if it's illegal to have private health care the government looks the other way, because those with influence are not going to stand in line. It's wink wink wink and pretend it doesn't exist. That hippies is socialized medicine. It's like during Prohibition, my grandfather, who made his own wine and liquor in the basement, didn't have to worry about being busted, because the Mayor and Chief of Police used to stop by periodically and have "coffee" out on the porch.

Next let's talk about education. You all want taxpayer funded college degrees. You figure that that way you won't have to be one of the "little people," that you despise and want to control for your own prurient interests. You are fully aware that in the Socialist countries of Western Europe, those with the highest levels of education reap the highest middle class financial rewards. That's built into the command and control economic regulations. Prices and salaries are all based on what the government dictates, and salaries, including small business owner salaries are all controlled by government regulation. However, so is access to higher education. Most of you wouldn't be allowed to go to college. You are not smart enough. Throughout most of Europe, higher education is rationed by the government, because it's heavily subsidized by the government. At the end of your second year in high school, you take very difficult comprehensive exams. If you don't test well, tough shit. Only a certain percentage of the students, nationwide are allowed to go on to the last two years of high school, to prepare them for college. The rest go into trade apprenticeships. They get to be the tradesmen that live in the small apartments above their shops. For the rest of them, at the end of those two years, they are tested again, and only a certain percentage of those students go on to college. The rest then go into white collar trade apprenticeships, so they can find positions working for those that actually do go on to college...and live in little apartments above some shop in a downtown area. If say 10% are accepted into the last two years of high school, and then 10% of that 10% actually go on to college, that leaves out quite a few of you spoiled brats. That means that about 1% of the high school graduates will go on to college. Most of you will be doing some kind of manual labor job, if you can find one, and you'll be living in a little apartment above some shop, unable to afford a car, and buying your clothes second hand. Oh gee, that's the lifestyle of the urban lower middle class and welfare recipients that you look down upon with scorn and pity...in that order.

This brings us to housing. What is the average square footage of the typical American working class and lower middle class home? 1200-1500 square feet, give or take a little. Upper middle class? 2500-3000 square feet. How about in Europe? Lower middle class 600 square feet. Upper middle class 1200-1500 square feet, about the size you will find in the old blue collar neighborhoods in the inner ring suburbs surrounding our cities. Then you've got the utilities on top of that, and they are very expensive in Europe. Central air conditioning is almost unheard of, except among the wealthy. Remember all those old people in Paris that died roasting in their apartments, while their family members were spending their August vacation time cooling off at the beach? In the winter I hope you enjoy wearing sweaters and long johns 24/7, because you are going to set your thermostats at 65 degrees...Not because you are environmentally savvy despite what you claim in order to show the world that you care and alleviate your guilt, but because you can't afford to set your thermostat at a comfortable 70 degrees. Energy is too expensive, except for the wealthy.

How about automobiles? Yes, I know, look at all those enlightened Europeans riding bicycles and taking public transportation to work. Did it ever penetrate your brainwashed thick skulls that maybe the reason a fair amount of Europeans don't drive is because they can't afford to? Every time I've been to Europe I've noticed that only those from a certain income bracket and above drive cars. Most people can not afford to, so they are stuck taking public transportation, riding a bike, or walking. Unless you make the equivalent of $100,000 or more per year, you are not going to be able to afford gasoline at $8 per gallon on a regular basis. You are going to take the bus, trolley or train. If it's only a couple of miles, you'll ride a bicycle, because pedal power is cheaper than bus power. Yes, the public transportation resources in Europe are a wonderful thing. I enjoy using them every time I'm there. Keep in mind a couple of things: First of all, when private transportation costs are too expensive for the masses, efficient and cheap, due to subsidies, public transportation has to be provided in order to prevent a revolt. Secondly, people need to get to work in order to keep the engine running. Third, European style public transportation would be hard to put into place here in America, because we are not as compact as they are. There is just too much space between urban areas, and we have a huge expansiveness of outer ring suburbs and/or exurbs. America's infrastructure developed around the automobile instead of the train, because the middle class wanted a single family home with a yard. While personally I would love to see better, cheaper, and more efficient public transportation here in the States, I can't stand sitting in traffic jams, I don't think that massive expansions of our public transportation systems are going to be realized in my lifetime. If you try to force the average middle class individuals out of there homes and cars, things are going to get ugly real fast.

So there you have it hippies. This is the remaking of America into your vision of Utopia. Unfortunately for you, most of you won't get to realize the American Dream now that the Socialists are in charge. As for me, I'm one of the lucky ones. I have my little piece of the American Dream that I earned through working hard to develop competent musical skills, "selling out" for the security of a military band position that I held for 26 years, and my continuation of working hard as a freelance musician, coupled with the earned benefit of a military pension as a base to work off of. I know you feel that it's not fair that I have those benefits and you don't. Let me ask you a question: How many of you spoiled adult children with your "problems with authority" would be willing to go down the same path? The problem is, you are not willing. You want everything handed to you on a silver platter. Also, I know that the majority of you wouldn't survive one day in boot camp. You'd be crying for your mommies. By the way, your mommies and daddies aren't allowed to be helicopter parents when you are in the military. It's not like college. If you want to live like a European, go to Europe and leave America to those that are willing to work hard to achieve the American Dream. You can take your Socialism and shove it.

Welcome To Europe

2010-03-30T23:23:00.000-07:00

President Obama and the Democrats in Congress are running full steam ahead with their goal of turning the United States of America into a European socialist state. Some claim that this is all part of a conspiracy to take America down a peg in order to properly pigeonhole us into our place in the world government edicts of the New World Order. I've read all the conspiracy theory stuff online, as well as several books on the subject. I'm not going to completely discount those theories, because I am not totally convinced that they are hogwash. I'm also not totally convinced that Barack Obama and many of his minions, as well as many of the upper middle class liberals that supported him, are not closet Marxists. I am convinced, however, that with the signing of the Health Care Bill into law, that this country is about to change dramatically, and I'm not sure that the people in this country are going to go down the road to a European nanny socialist state without, at the minimum, a lot of complaining.

We now have a health care law that even ultra-liberal sites like Daily Kos are criticising. One writer there stated that now insurance companies will be able to charge whatever they want, because they will have a captive audience. Everyone must now purchase health insurance, or face fines or jail time. Despite the anti-capitalist slant to the writer's post, he's right on the mark. This is not going to make health care more affordable. It's going to become more costly, and there will be less of it. That's exactly what it's supposed to do. Make the cost of living for the working class and lower middle class expand, so that they will have to reduce their standard of living. At the same time, rationing of health care will lead to the deaths of more senior citizens. Why would the government want them to die? Because they have what is known as "corporate memory." They remember how this country used to be. Eventually, you can kill off everyone with corporate memory, and the only ones left will be the properly indoctrinated that the Left started brainwashing in full force starting in the 1960s. Once you have an entire country believing that Socialism is the only way, you now have a permanent ruling class of educated elites and the serfs that rely on them for mere survival.

The next big ticket item that the president and our congressional leaders are working on is immigration reform. Do we need another15 or 20 million unskilled "illegal citizens" using up more social services and taking jobs away from the unskilled labor pool that is made up of our least educated legal citizens? Most of the people that make up the working poor are not smart enough to go to college. That's a cold hard fact, no matter how cruel it sounds. These are the folks that if they go to college, they go there to clean the bathrooms. However, they still provide a very valuable function in our society. They are our working poor, but they are working, and after time, they may make enough money to have a little tiny place of their own. That American Dream will be denied them. In Europe, only the upper middle class and the wealthy are able to afford to own property. Force people into poverty and make them reliant on government social programs. That way they can be controlled, and if they make too much noise, there is always Euthanasia if they become too sick or "mentally defective."

All these social programs are going to cost a lot of money, and that money has to come from somewhere. There is talk about a Value Added Tax or VAT as it is commonly called. All the socialist European countries have a VAT, and I'm starting to believe that we are next. If we are going to have European levels of safety net, we are going to have to have European levels of taxation to pay for it. This is not going to sit well with the American people. The American lower middle class does not want its standard of living reduced to the standard of living level of the European lower middle class. A small business owner in this country wants to work hard and be able to live in a nice middle class neighborhood, not in a cramped appartment above his shop. In Europe, the working classes and lower middle classes have a standard of living that is slightly above the average welfare recipient here in the States. A VAT serves two purposes. It generates the necessary monies to fuel the nanny state. It also serves as a big DMZ to keep those that aspire to rise out of their social class from doing so. It keeps the working classes and lower middle classes in their place, which is just a notch above the poor. That way they can never achieve parity with the educated upper middle classes and the wealthy. It's a rationing of lifestyle that is put in place in order to satisfy the upper middle class' thirst for power and control. Socialism protects them from the masses that they despise. American liberals are no different. They have nothing but scorn and contempt for those that don't wear a tie to work in the morning.

Health care rationing, energy rationing, food rationing, "coercing" people out of their single family homes and cars...it's all coming, and the upper middle and upper class liberals are now drunk with power. The 100 year march to Socialism will take place unless the little people finally wise up and stop it in its tracks. The midterm elections in November are crucial. The upper class liberals need to be sent the message that those that work with their hands are not their servants.

Healthcare...they did it

2010-03-22T03:20:00.000-07:00

Ok, it's done for now, but I have a feeling that it's not over. From what I hear the court challenges are going to begin before the ink is dry on the President's signature. Our Mandarin ruling class of Democrats has decided to ram health care reform up the butts of the American people. I have written to my congressman seeking clarification on some aspects of the health care plan, and I'm waiting for his response. He also happens to be the House Majority Leader. I will comment more on this once I get some concrete answers. However, there are questions I have right now about this: How can you possibly head in the direction of European style universal health care; its rationing, its long wait times, its supposed reduced cost, and have it provide coverage to more people and save money, without reining in the trial lawyers? What illnesses will be deemed politically correct enough to move you to the front of the line? What illnesses will be deemed politically incorrect enough to move you to the bottom of the line? Will you need to belong to the right political party and/or social class in order to have access to medical care unless you are one of the chosen victim class members?

Of course I hear people tell me that I shouldn't talk, because I have health care for life by being retired military. Yes I do. That's why I stayed in the military for 26 years. That's why I was as these Social Justice for all phonies say, "trapped" in a job that offered health care and couldn't leave. Well, yes I could have, but the idea of having an earned benefit down the road was too great of a temptation. Notice that I said earned benefit and not entitlement. I guarantee that a lot of people wanting universal health care believe that everything in life is an entitlement. They should be able to do whatever job suits their fancy and not have to make any sacrifices and/or compromises. Well guess what hippies, sometimes you have to do something that you don't like, in an industry that you don't like, in order to get a benefit that you do like. Even though I got to do what I wanted to do by doing it in the military, which was play music full-time, it was still the military. There was boot camp, short hair, uniforms, recall exercises at 4 AM and last minute TDYs followed by more last minute TDYs that could keep you away from home, with minimal preparation, for up to three months or so at a time. There were random drug tests, fitness tests, weight standards; being overweight was the quickest way to end one's career, and a top down totalitarian dictatorship social structure, that very few of the spoiled rotten upper middle class youth of today would tolerate. It's the Socialism that they so love, without them being the ones in charge. They would get to start as the lower classes, which is beyond pale in their minds. However, I think that the real reason they wouldn't tolerate it goes beyond their obvious contempt for the working and lower middle classes. They wouldn't survive one hour in boot camp and they know it. Forcing the American people into Socialism on their terms is is the goal.

This is what Obamacare is really all about. It's not about universal health care. It's about Socialism and transforming America into a Socialist society where the educated upper middle class and above become the ruling class. The black underclass will continue to be the pawns on the chessboard that the liberal upper middle class will use as a tool to enact their agenda. Very few of them will advance beyond the ghetto. Upper middle class whites ensconced in their protected suburban enclaves will make sure of that. Lower middle class, working class, and lower class whites will become the new slave class, just like they were when this country was first colonized. This is the master plan that is behind the entire "hope and change" that we are witnessing. The question is, will the lower classes go along with the program or will they revolt? You can only push people so far. Right now I think a lot of people are waiting to see what the results will be in the November elections. However if immigration reform gets fast tracked and signed into law as the next step, it will create millions more underclass voters voting for more socialism. If then you drive the cost of living through the roof with Cap and Trade environmental regulations forcing many small businesses to close their doors there may be hell to pay. If you start forcing people out of their homes, because they can no longer afford the taxes and utilities, and they are not members of a designated victim class so they can get government relief, I think all bets are off. We'll see.

The Remaking Of America

2010-03-17T08:45:00.001-07:00

There are a lot of forces at play that are trying to turn this country into something other than the great "experiment" that our founders envisioned, and has worked so well for over 230 years. It has worked so well that many people throughout the world give up everything they have in order to move to this country and build new lives. Many of them become prosperous, and for those that don't, a lot of times prosperity ends up in the hands of their children and grandchildren. There is a dark side to the equation too. It is the side of envy, and this is what is driving the political agenda of the Leftists who are now in charge of running this country. For some, it is the envy of material things. For a lot of others, however, is the far more dangerous envy of power and control.

The Tools Of Power

The linchpin of the march to power and control over the masses is Health Care Reform. If you control access to health care, you control all other aspects of peoples' lives. Why do you think Stalin and Hitler gave socialized medicine to their citizens? That way they could control who received health care and who didn't, both in access and in quality. Do you think that the Democrats and President Obama don't know this? Do you want to see a doctor? You better belong to the appropriate political party and have the right beliefs, or you are going to have a very long wait for health care. Since you are a dissenter, hopefully you will die while you are waiting. That way there will be one less voice complaining about the new American Communist government. Of course, dissent will no longer be the highest form of patriotism, but will be considered a form of mental illness. Does anyone hear the term Euthanasia?

There will be a two tiered health care system. Cuba has a system for the ruling class and tourists, and a system for everyone else. Guess who gets quality health care? Canada has a similar thing, except that it's supposedly illegal. There is national health care, and then there is very discrete, very expensive private cash only health care. Guess who gets what? It's the same thing in Britain. You have national health care for the masses, and then you have very discrete, private, cash only quality health care for the ruling class—and that's not just the queen who has her own private doctors.

Back when the British Government passed National Health Care in the 1960s, a member of the House Of Commons, Barbara Castle, also knows as Britain's "Red Queen," because of her Marxist beliefs, thundered, "No one should be allowed to pay for health care with a checkbook." However when her son needed surgery, she checked him into one of the discrete under the table, cash only, exclusive, private hospitals under an assumed name. Was she ever held accountable for that? Hell no. All the other politicians and the other "important people" were doing the same thing. It wasn't even reported in the press.

Oleg Atbashian, a graphic artist who lives in New York, and is originally from the Ukraine when it was still part of the Communist Soviet Union sums up the reason in a nutshell of why the two tiered system exists when it is supposed to be illegal:

[because of] "...the unconditional love of the parents for their children and the desire to do the best for them. The truth is, even the most hard-nosed Soviet ideologues still cheated the system when it came to their offspring. Having risked life and limb fighting for universal equality, they all ended up inventing creative workarounds to make their own children “more equal” than others. Who can blame them? They were human, even if they denied humanity to everyone else."

Do you think that our Leftist politicians, their friends and their supporters among the meritocratic, educated elite, upper classes are going to stand in line for sub-standard health care? No, the unwashed masses will stand in line. The Bobos and the politicians that the Bobos support will have their own system separate and unequal from the rest of us. The Left is fully aware of this. Rationing will mean rationing for us, but not for them.

Next on the list is the tool of Environmentalism. The purpose of this tool is multi fold. It has a tremendous trickle down effect. The environmental movement and its supporters want to see energy prices skyrocket. For the hardcore activists, man is the enemy. The goal is to eliminate as many people from the planet as possible. Of course, that doesn't mean them. Lack of access to modern technology, which requires energy, is the key to the development of the Third World. They do not want this to happen. If people don't have electricity, clean water, sewage treatment, and quality shelter, they will die from disease and starvation. That's the goal. Disease and starvation are the most efficient ways of killing people. Plus, that way the Leftist Environmental Extremists don't have to get their hands dirty in the process. They don't have to shoot anybody. Paul Erlich, who wrote the book, The Population Bomb, called for the elimination of 75% of the world's population, or that there would be massive food shortages in the Western World in the 1980s. That didn't happen. Rachel Carson, who wrote the book, Silent Spring, was influential enough to get the pesticide DDT banned. Consequently, you've had over 30 million children die of malaria in the Third World. When this was mentioned to a Far Left environmental activist, his comment was, "Well, that's a good start." The extremists don't want to eliminate all the little people. They still need a certain amount of "lesser beings" to mow their lawns, scrub their floors, serve their food, wipe their kids asses, and fix their hybrids. Anything over that certain amount are excesses, and it's the excesses that will need to be eliminated.

The goal of the non-extremist Environmentalist are not eliminating people, but keeping the poor and lower classes under collective control. How dare those people without college degrees think that they are entitled to own property, drive a car, or have air conditioning. They need to be herded into high rise, climate controlled, human habitat areas with no parking, so that they can all be herded onto a crowded bus in order to get to work. Most of the non-extremist Environmentalists adhere to the typical belief system of most of those in the Liberal upper middle classes: "We know what's better for you than you, so shut up and do as you are told. You are too stupid to think for yourself." For them, it's about Marx's "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." The "little people" have less need, because they are not as important. It's not right that someone with a high school education who goes into business for himself, and due to hard work (ability) is able to make more money than they do with their PhDs. The playing field needs to be "levelled." When you drive the price of energy sky high, many small businesses will fold. Many people won't be able to afford fuel for their cars. Many people won't be able to afford the electricity needed to cool their homes. As long as it doesn't affect too many of the Bobo class of "entitled" Americans, it's fine. The goal is to reduce the standard of living of everyone but them. That way the lower classes will know their place.

Another tool of power that the Left uses is food. Stalin and Mao came right out and starved to death millions of their own citizens. Who knows how many have starved to death in North Korea, but it's a known fact that people there eat tree bark and grass in order to stay alive. The "little people" in Cuba have food rationing. You are limited to three ounces of meat per person per week. The rest of your diet consists of beans and rice. This, of course, does not apply to the ruling class. When Liberals claim that more food should be organically grown, because it's healthier, they are blowing smoke out of their patoot. It's nothing but support for a $20 billion dollar a year agricultural "big business" (while they rail on about evil big businesses), that allows them to put themselves in a class above the rest of us. It's about snob appeal. A research project by Great Britain's London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, that put together the results of 50 years of research conducted by many scientist throughout the world, concluded that there is absolutely no difference in the nutritional quality of organic food vs conventional food. Organic may taste different due to it's growing methods, but it is no better for you.

Organic farming produces less food than conventional farming, and there is more loss to disease and blights, hence the price difference. If more food was grown organically, there would be less food at a much higher price. That's another way of controlling the masses. Just think, we could get more Americans to eat less hamburger and more beans and rice like they do in Cuba. Now please pass me a second helping of that $30 per pound grass fed, organically grown beef.

Having to spend more on food, means less money to spend on other things too. The Bobos love that idea. Why should the stupid people in flyover country be able to afford anything anyway. After all, all they want is a pickup truck and a 72 inch wide screen TV, so they can watch ESPN. Why can't they watch PBS and listen to the elitist Marxists on NPR? Instead those stupid average Americans are listening to Rush Limbaugh and watching Glenn Beck.

For the extremists, less food means more starvation, which means more people will die. Starvation is also a great motivational tool to "encourage" you to shut up and do as you are told. Remember this the next time some hippie rails on about supporting some Social Justice cause about starvation in the Third World. What they really want is more starvation here in the United States.

These are the tools that the Left plans on using to remake this country into a Socialist and eventual Communist dictatorship. Who benefits from this? If you look at any Socialist and/or Communist country, there is a ruling class of highly educated bureaucrats and those in the information professions, like law and education that live quite well. That is as long as they adhere to the party line. We have the potential to go down that same road ourselves if we don't derail the Socialist Express that President Obama and his Marxist cronies, are running full speed ahead down the tracks, that is designed to take down the American system of government that our founders developed over 230 years ago and establish a permanent Socialist dictatorship. Let's hope that the average American wakes up in time.

College For Everyone Is Just Plain Wrong

2010-03-14T09:50:00.000-07:00

President Obama has stated that more people need to attend and finish college. I don't agree. Having more people attending college will lead to the further "dumbing down" of college curricula, so that more people can finish a four year degree within six years. This is the rationing of quality when it comes to higher education. Then, a college degree becomes nothing of value. It's just a worthless piece of paper. This approach makes absolutely no sense. Education in the United States has been too "dumbed down" over the past fifty years, and the further lowering of the standards from what they are now for a college degree so more people can graduate is stupid. However, I guess it will make all those poor people at the bottom of the labor pool with college degrees feel good about themselves. Everyone will have a college degree, but only the best and brightest who graduate from the top colleges will get the higher paying jobs anyway. There will be a lot of college degreed janitors. It's nothing but a vote getting smoke screen.

Because of our "dumbed down" education system, the Associates Degree from a community college is the new high school diploma. Soon, the Bachelors Degree will be the new high school diploma, and the Masters Degree will be the new Bachelors Degree. Education should never have been allowed to become that "dumbed down," but then again, education is a business like anything else, and when you look at public education, it's not just big business, but a huge unionized big business that rewards and protects incompetence. It's a huge government run monopoly that fails in its mission. It needs to be fixed and fixed fast. There are several things that need to be done.

First of all, we need to make school harder. Our schools are way too easy compared to education in the rest of the Western World. No more social promotions. No more "feel good" curricula that promotes self-esteem over real world knowledge. It's time to enact tough standards and stick to them. We need to get back to basics in the elementary level, and then in the middle school and high school levels start revamping the curricula to bring them in line with the requirements of our current and projected future employment markets.

We need to restore discipline back in the classroom. The main obstacle against learning in the inner city schools today, is not effectively dealing with the bad behavior that is inherent to the ghetto culture. There are similar problems in the suburban schools too. School districts are scared to death of lawsuits brought by parents when a teacher or administrator deems it necessary to use harsh discipline to bring a recalcitrant student back in line. Teachers and principals need to grow some spine, but that is not going to happen until the current crop of "feel good" educators gets replaced with some good old fashioned hard asses. Bring back the paddle and the strap. We didn't have that many discipline problems in the old days, because adults had some backbone, and teachers and principals were assumed to have in loco parentis authority. If you got hit in school, because you got into trouble, you got it again when you got home.

Today, it's not just the students that have no respect for the teachers and administrators, it's the parents too. Parents today are products of the Dr. Spock movement of the 1960s. They will sue a school district in a heartbeat, if their little angel who can do no wrong gets some well deserved discipline. If a parent decides to sue because their child got a well deserved ass whoopin' in school, fight fire with fire. Have the school system's attorney, who should be on retainer at a minimum, or preferably an employee of the school district, bring every bad aspect of the parent's life out in the open during the suit's discovery process. If a child is a rotten child because of rotten parenting, get it out in the open for everyone in the community to see. I guarantee there will be a lot less lawsuits if those parents are subject to a high level of microscopic scrutiny if they decide to sue. The trickle down effect will be a lot more traditional parenting and a lot less Dr. Spock. The parents will realize that the schools will not put up with their kid's bullshit, and will hold them accountable as well.

As a last resort, school districts need to establish public boarding boot camp schools for the worst offenders. Have special senior administrators that are empowered with a limited amount of judicial authority. These administrators should be able to order these habitual worst behaved students into these "motivational" institutions. If the parents don't like it, too bad. Next time do your job as a parent so the schools don't have to take that kind of drastic action. Boot camp works. I was in the military for 26 years, and I can definitely say that boot camp was a real eye opener as far as life was concerned. It's amazing how people change when they are subject that that level of discipline. They grow up real fast.

Also, we need to change the way of thinking of most industries when it comes to education. It's not going to be easy, but industry needs to stop using a college degree as a screening tool for jobs that don't require a college degree. Yes, you need college degrees and advanced degrees for many jobs. Doctors need years of training. So do lawyers and CPAs. Economists and business administrators need years of schooling. However, you don't need a college degree in order to be a web designer. You need specialized technical training in web design. You don't need a college degree to be a computer systems administrator. You need specialized technical training in network administration. You do need a college degree in order to be a software engineer. Stop blurring the lines. Once this takes place, we can revamp our education system to prepare students for real world jobs in a real world workplace. Sorry President Obama, not everyone in this country should, or needs to go to college.

College Protests

2010-03-12T08:02:00.000-08:00

Recently there were stories on the news about students demonstrating, and in some places, rioting over the increase in the cost of a college education throughout the country. The largest ones and the most violent ones were in California. Ok, I will concede that the cost of a college education has become very expensive. Not everyone has rich parents. Student loans take years to pay back, and there are just so many grants and scholarships to go around. That being said, I'm not sure that the students have looked at the big picture when it comes to higher education and access to it. For them at the moment, it's only about them and their access to higher education. It's another example of the entitlement mentality of spoiled rotten Socialisticly indoctrinated liberals. Everyone one of the students interviewed had their own version of the same thesis: "me, me, me, me..."

The looming threat of not being able to get a college degree is scary for these young people. I can understand why. We have become a society where credentials outweigh real world knowledge through hands on experience and practical training of how to do something. The real world knowledge comes later if at all. Today businesses are reluctant to administer pre-employment tests to potential hirees on the skills that they actually need to do a job. There have been too many lawsuits brought by various "victim industry" groups. So what else is new? The few exceptions to the rule are medical boards for doctors, bar exams for lawyers, exams for real estate agents and brokers, and CPA exams for public accountants. The trades have their own exams for tradesmen working their way up from apprentice to journeyman to master, but that's a different story. It's ok, because those trades are heavily unionized. Because of the lawsuits against practical knowledge of subject exams for people applying for a lot of white collar jobs, businesses use a Bachelors Degree as a screening tool to weed out applicants for positions that really don't require a college degree in the first place. It's a way of maintaining and perpetuating a caste system in a country where there isn't supposed to be a caste system. It's the caste system of the Bobos, and the hierarchy based on what degree you have; Bachelors, Masters or Doctorate. If you are going to wear a tie to work, you have to have a college degree even if the degree is in the proverbial subject, "Underwater Basket Weaving." If you don't, you are going to have to get your hands dirty and be part of the unwashed masses that the Elite Bobo Liberals despise. Ironically, many of those "get your hands dirty" trades jobs pay a lot more than some low level flunky white collar job. The Bobos despise that too. It goes against their sense of self-importance. In this new age of a society based on meritocratic hierarchy those with less education should never be the "haves."

The young people protesting are right about fairness. It's not fair. Life isn't fair. What they mean is that it isn't fair to them, and the hell with everyone else...free college for me, but I don't give a rat's ass about thee. These are the same young people that on a whole embrace the top down dictatorship of Socialism, because it's about "fairness." Did anyone say meritocratic hierarchy? "Why can't the evil United States be more like enlightened Europe?" I've got a great idea. Let's look at how this so called European style "fairness" will pan out. Let's look at access to higher education in other countries where the governments either provide for, or heavily subsidise the cost of a college education and see whether or not this is what these young people really want for this country. They could be in for a rude awakening. A large percentage of them wouldn't be able to attend college at all. They would move down a notch or two or three, in the meritocratic hierarchy food chain.

What the young people in this country don't quite comprehend is the fact that any time the government provides anything, there is rationing. You can't provide a quality product to everyone. That includes education. There is either rationing of the product or service itself, or rationing of the quality of the product or service, or both. The same thing will happen if the government decides to provide free college education to the masses.

Most countries that provide higher education to their citizens, have very strict requirements as far as who gets to benefit from the education entitlement. A college education is an earned benefit regulated by the state. There are very stringent exams that are taken in high school, and only the best and brightest (i.e. those that score highest on the exams) are allowed to attend college by law. If you don't "test well," tough shit. You lose. I guess they don't have to worry about Affirmative Action lawsuits.

Let's say the United States decided to go this route. Let's create a hypothetical situation: The government sets aside a certain number of dollars for funding of higher education each year. It's part of the federal budget that Congress drafts and approves, and the President signs into law. A real world scenario is that there is enough funding so that 10% of our high school graduates would be allowed to attend college at any given time. That's rationing. It's based on cost benefit analysis; those that score the highest on the exams are the most likely to finish college, so you limit the benefit to those most likely to succeed. If you are not part of that top 10% based on very difficult comprehensive examinations, you are not going to college. You are going to trade school at best, if it is determined by other exams that you are bright enough and mechanically adept enough, to learn a trade. If not, you are going into the workforce in some low paying menial job for the rest of your life. Most people in this country will become part of this mass cheap labor pool at the bottom of the social hierarchy—the serfs. Hey liberals, do you believe that in enlightened Europe there is no such thing as the working poor? If you do, you need to get your heads out of your asses. Social Engineering is built into their laws. If your parents have enough money, they can send you to college overseas, but if they don't, you are screwed. Is this what you want in this country? I know what the next question is: Won't private colleges be an option for those that can afford them? Partially. Most private colleges receive federal grant money for various research projects. In order for the government to enforce its social engineering plan, they could force the private colleges to only accept those that the government has determined are entitled to a college education under threat of witholding federal grant money whether or not private grant money and/or endowments are being used for financial aid.

Fortunately, we are still a free society and higher education is not rationed by the government. If you can get accepted into college and can find the way to fund it, you can attend. Graduation is a different matter. Today in the United States, aproximately 40% of our high school graduates go on to college. However, about 40% of college attendees never graduate for a variety of reasons. A small percentage of that 40% run out of money. It's not fair, but that's the way things are sometimes. Many of those in that predicament never explore various financial aid programs offered through the college or university financial aid office. Some get offered a once in a lifetime career opportunity that "they can't refuse." Some decide that college is not for them, and they chose a different career path. Some just can't handle the course work when you get into the higher level courses. For those for whom cost becomes a barrier, however, there are ways to get money.

Currently, there are ways to reduce the cost of a college education, but most of the spoiled youth wouldn't be caught dead exploring some of the options. Yes there are scholarships, but you are going to have to study your ass off in high school, get involved in community or church projects, and be the ultimate model citizen. 99% won't even be considered for a full scholarship. There are partial scholarships too, but you are going to still have to be exceptional for consideration. Another thing you can do is get the first two years out of the way at a community college and live home with your parents. That will save a lot of money. Oops, that means that you won't be able to spend every night getting drunk and getting laid in the dorms. There are even more vile options—vile for the lefties and hippies that is. There are heaven forbid, ROTC scholarships. The trade off is you have to look GI and wear a uniform to classes on certain days of the week. You also have to spend some time after graduation as a commissioned officer in one of the military reserves being a weekend warrior one weekend a month and serving two weeks active duty during the summer. You are required to do this for a given number of years until you accumulate enough points to meet your obligation. Yes kiddies, that means you have to give something for something. You want something for nothing.

You can even go one step further and actually join the active duty military. Have you ever heard of the Tuition Assistance Program? I used it when I was in the Air Force to pay for college classes. Depending on the education budget for the year, the services will pay anywhere from 75% to 100% of your college tuition costs as long as you receive at least a C in the course. Here's another option. Currently, the Army has a program where they will pay off your student loans if you join up. The other branches are considering similar proposals at this time too. Think about it. You come out of college with a nice big fat student loan debt, and the Army will make it go away. Plus, you have a degree, so you can sign up as a commissioned officer rather than an enlisted person. You get to be junior executive management right out of the shoot. For this, you owe them something like five years commissioned service followed by several years in the inactive reserves. Inactive reserve means you can be recalled back to active duty in the event of a national emergency or during time of war. If you go the enlisted route, you do four years active duty and then eight years in the inactive reserves. I'm sure that another thing you brainwashed brats probably don't know is that only 10% of the jobs in the military are combat related. The rest are support positions ranging from mechanics, to photographers, to graphic artists, to musicians, to lawyers, to doctors, to computer programmers and software engineers, and even to physical trainers in the base gyms. What's the down side? You have to wear a uniform, cut your hair, and...and...and...drumroll please...you are subject to random drug testing and you have to submit to authority! Yes I know, you all have a "problem with authority." That, and the military is a top down dictatorship. Wait a minute. Isn't Socialism? You would get along just fine once you realized that you were not going to be the ones in charge for several years. You would have to start as a peon just like everyone else...it breaks my cold conservative heart just thinking about it.

There is also the option of working your way through college. I know several people that took years to finish a degree that way. They would work for a couple of years and save their money. Then they would take courses part-time while they continued to work. Then they would work for a couple of years saving their money, and repeat the cycle. One of my old family doctors worked his way through medical school that way. He financed his college and medical school educations by working in the coal mines of western Pennsylvania. If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to do it.

John Ellis, who is the President of the the California Association of Scholars and is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz has an article in the online publication mindingthecampus.com where he explores the reasons for the huge cost increase in higher education. You can not have affordable public higher education unless you have a strong business community that is paying for it through tax revenues. If you make the climate for businesses oppressive, like California has done, businesses "vote with their feet." They leave. Once they leave, they don't pay taxes to the state.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

"Unemployment in California is still rising. It just went up from 12.3 to 12.5%, nearly three points above an already bad national average. This horrendous figure is the source of California's budget problem. The huge loss of tax revenue is compounded by greatly increased unemployment outlays. If we look at the few other states that have unemployment figures well above the national average, there are obvious explanations. Michigan is at 14.6 because employment in its major industry (automobiles) has collapsed. Nevada, at 13.0, is dependent on discretionary cash at a time when there isn't any. But California is too big to be dominated by one industry, and its plight can only be explained by the state's having grossly mismanaged its affairs.

In 2007 Raymond Keating formulated a Small Business Survival Index, which is a composite of various aspects of the climate for business in a particular state: business and personal taxes, regulations, mandates, and so on. In that index California ranked 49 among the 50 states. Rhode Island ranked just above California, and its unemployment rate is 12.7. At the bottom of the Index is D.C., and its unemployment rate is 12.1.

In the component parts of the SBSI index, California ranks worst of 51 (including D.C.) on top personal tax rates, worst on top capital gains tax rates, 42 on corporate taxes, 43 on health insurance mandates, 46 on electric utility costs, 47 on workman's compensation costs, rock bottom again on state gas taxes, 45 on state and local government five year spending trends, and 47 on state and local per capita government spending. It also ranks 49 among the states on the US Economic freedom index, and it has the highest state sales tax rate too: where some states have an income tax but no sales tax, and others have a sales tax but no income tax, California has both, AND it has the highest rates in both.

In short, California is a disaster for business. The state has piled up so many taxes, regulations and mandates that businesses are leaving the state. Just this week I learned that a spare part order for my Lennox fireplace is delayed because Lennox is moving this division of its business to Tennessee. Wealthy individuals are also fleeing the state to avoid the country's highest tax bracket. When both wealth and wealth creation leave the state, tax revenues leave with them.

How has this happened? As everyone knows by now, California has a dysfunctional legislature. Already in 2003---well before the current national crisis, and when the national unemployment rate was only 5.9%---California was bankrupt, and spending was so out of control that a Governor was recalled. The legislature enacts every politically correct whim that comes into its head, loading on one mandate and regulation after another. Cap and Trade could not pass nationally, but the California legislature proudly passed its job-killing global warming bill.

That is why the state now has a budget crisis of staggering proportions, and why university students are seeing those large fee hikes. But why is the California legislature so irresponsible, not to say goofy? Well, California is extremely rich in state university campuses: the UC and CSUC systems alone amount to 33 campuses, about a third of them mega-campuses of 30-35 thousand students, with another 10 around 20,000. The mega-campuses completely dominate the Assembly districts they are in, and their large concentrations of students and faculty skew the district electorate not just to the left, but to the devoutly politically correct but hopelessly unrealistic left. Virtually all of them routinely send Democrats to Sacramento. College towns with more modest sized campuses play their part too, but mega-campuses make their districts so one-sided that in the last election UC Berkeley's Assembly seat had no election even though it was vacant: the Democratic nominee still ran unopposed. Where there is real competition between the parties the two sides keep each other honest and realistic, but when Assembly seats are so inevitably left that there is no contest, there is nothing to stop the side that has automatic electability from sliding into fantasy. Those districts provide the margin that allows an immature leftism that has lost contact with reality to control the state legislature and ruin the business climate of the state."

Hey Hippies, it's your beloved Liberals, Progressives, Marxists and Communists that are advancing the Socialism that is killing your chance of getting a college education. You are the perfect "Useful Idiots." Grow up, get a life and get your heads out of your asses. Stop supporting the people and the policies that are going to make your lives harder while advancing more power to the controlling elite class of Liberals that have taken over American society. You are suffering the effects, like the rest of us, of the slow march through the culture that was implemented by the International Communist movement over the past 100 years. The problem is, you are too brainwashed to see it. Wake up idiots. Yes I know, it's all George Bush's fault. Go back to your classes that have the word "studies" attached to their title.

Al The Whiner

2010-03-01T07:41:00.000-08:00

There have been several articles on the Internet talking about former Vice President Al Gore's whiny editorial in the New York Times about the crisis of global warming, and how the skeptics are out to get him. Awwwwwww......Poor little Al. What's the matter? Do you see your cash cow based on fabrications and lies going down the toilet? Does Generational Investment Management, the London based carbon trading scam operation you founded stand to lose money? Does this mean that you won't become the world's first carbon offset billionaire while you destroy the American middle class as part of the plan? GIM doesn't mean anything to me anyway. I don't have the million dollar minimum investment required to get in on the plan, or is it scam? You know Al, my heart goes out to you. Why don't you just move your butt down to Cuba or Venezuela where you can wallow in your sloth and greed with like minded Communists.

It's nice to see the American people finally waking up and realizing that the Progressive Left, which has been working slowly behind the scenes since the early part of the 20th century to mold the United States into a Socialist dictatorship. We are not going to be ruled by Progressive Elites. We will make this country great again, and this time you sanctimonious Progressives are going to get what is coming to you. The average American, most of whom are just a touch right of center, have had enough. We don't mind when politics is fought between the 45 yard lines. We can accept a slight move to the left on occasion. However, when you try to move the fight to the 20 yard line, there is going to be an opposite reaction when the right moves the play to THEIR 20 yard line. Things will be brought back to the center. And Al, I hope that you end up broke.

Americans Are Not Europeans

2010-02-27T07:45:00.000-08:00

Our current administration and its minions want to make the United States Of America into a European style Socialist welfare state run by a cabal of Left Wing highly educated elitists, who think they know what's better for us than us. Here in the Washington, DC area you find a large percentage of these Narcissists in the upper northwest sections and gentrified areas of Washington, DC, Montgomery and Howard Counties in Maryland, and the Northern Virginia suburbs. These highly educated, high salaried professional types want to safeguard their lofty perches in American society from competition from the masses through stringent government regulations that protect their upper middle class lifestyles, while throwing a bone to appease the working class and lower middle class chattel that they hold in contemptuous pitty. These elitists want to remake America into their version of Socialist Western Europe. There is only one problem. The average American is not going to go along with the program, because American think differently than Europeans. This is the main reason that Europeans tolerate high taxes and cradle to grave Socialism. The reason has to do with our comparative histories. Look at European history and especially the modern European history of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries, which is where most of the the current European memory exists, even though the events that define Europe go back a thousand years or so. You will see, bloody revolutions, dictatorships and total wars that killed millions and millions of people. These events have made Europeans content, or for many, reluctantly complacent to rely on a strong central government for physical, financial and emotional security—the Nanny State...Not so with the average American.

Everything has a price. Europeans are willing to trade the higher standard of living that can be achieved through hard work and initiative, for a lower standard of living involving less effort propped up with a plethora of social benefits, for the non-elite, non-advanced degreed citizens that make up the bulk of their middle class. The average middle class European, not professional class or those that are in management positions in government, has a comparative standard of living that is just a notch above a welfare recipient here in the United States. That's not a very good standard of living. However, for many it is "good enough," because it means you can be relatively lazy. Europeans are bought off by their governments with social benefits that allow them to pursue a more leisurely lifestyle. Europeans get government run health care, mandated vacation time, state mandated salaries based on one's education level and job, mandatory retirement ages with generous pensions and benefits, endless unemployment benefits and a host of other expensive social programs. These programs are paid for with high taxes. One deep dark secret, however, is the fact that the salaries for advanced degreed professionals and high-end government workers are over inflated, so those professionals and the upper reaches of government employment enjoy a standard of living comparable to America's upper middle class despite those taxes. Despite the cradle to grave nanny state, however, Europeans still have their poor. They just keep them hidden from view so no one pays much attention to them. The media seldom report on the European poor, because it would show the failure of the Socialist system that the media are helping the Elites bring into fruition here in America.

Average Americans don't think that way. We are not victims. We are not helpless. Unlike many Europeans, most working class and lower middle class Americans believe that there is a direct connection between effort and reward. Unless you are extremely lucky, you can not be a slacker in America and succeed. Consequently, Americans have a strong independence streak. We don't need government social protection run by a bunch of Socialist elites that will define what is best for us. We don't need an "educated class" telling us how to live our lives, what to eat, what to drive and where to live. I like my greasy hamburgers, milk shakes, donuts and sugared soft drinks. I don't like tofu and wheat grass tea. You are not going to force me to consume the latter.

I like my Dodge 1500 Ram van. I despise the idea of being forced by government bureacrats to drive some roller skate with a lawn mower engine, because it's better for the environment and/or the "common good." You are not going to force me to ride public transportion. If I'm going to take public transportation, I'm going to do it out of my own free will. Personally, I like taking public transportation when I go into the city, and I'm not transporting band equipment. That way I don't have to drive when I don't want to, or try to find a place to park. However, no sanctimonius, holier than thou, Marxist Progressive is going to force me to take the bus while they tool down the Beltway in their Prius.

While I don't care for having a yard—I'm not into yard work, I like the fact that I can live in a small single family house, where I can practice my drums without pissing off the neighbors. I like the fact that I have enough space to store my collection of drum sets and other percussion equipment. I can carry them out the door, load them in my truck and head to the gig. The thought of being forced to live in cramped high density housing, having to store my equipment in a storage facility along with my truck, and either walk there or take public transportation there before and after each gig to load and unload my gear doesn't appeal to me. That's restricting my freedom. I've worked very hard and made many personal sacrifices for my career and consequently I am able to reap some reward for my hard work. I am not a slacker. I can't stand slackers. If you want to thrive as a slacker, move to Europe.

What we are now seeing in this country is the culmination of what the late Christopher Lasch wrote about in his books "The Culture Of Narcissism" and "The Revolt Of The Elites." The tool that these elites are going to use to re-engineer society for their benefit is health care. The "educated class" elites want to force government run health care down our throats for one reason. It's the ultimate control tool. They get to decide who lives and who dies. They will do this through denial of care to those that the elites consider to be expendable and/or their enemies. Denial of care based on the science of comparative effectiveness will become the norm. They will start with the elderly. After that will come the terminally ill. Following that will be "special needs" children. After that will be the mentally feeble. Next there will be denial of care to those that the government considers to be subversives, with dissent re-defined as a mental disorder; didn't I just say the mentally feeble? Finally, there will be forced abortions and infanticide in order to Eugenically "engineer" society for the benefit of the Left's vision of a Socialist utopia. Once the threat of eliminating you if you don't do as you are told is in place, all the other parts of the social engineering process can be brought into effect: where to live, what job you do, what car you drive, what you eat, what you drink, what you think...

Guess, what? It's not going to happen. The left, with President Obama at the helm, have woken up the sleeping giant. The "little people" as getting really pissed. The Tea Party movement is only the beginning. Americans relish freedom and as history shows, are willing to fight and die for it anywhere in the world including on our own soil.

Average Americans see themselves as the "doers" of the world. We despise elites with advanced college degrees telling us that we are stupid, helpless morons that need to be cared for by those same elites. We are not helpless people needing a Nanny State government taking care of us in high-end poverty. Most of us don't need therapy in order to cope with life either. Benefits in America are earned. Programs like Social Security, Medicare and military pensions and benefits, are rewards for a life time of effort. You receive a benefit because you've earned it. There is a difference between a benefit and and an unearned entitlement.

Most Americans despise big-government programs the put no connection between hard work and reward. The last thing in the world that we want is our tax dollars funding some lazy bastard that refuses to work. Originally, our welfare programs were started in the 1930s to keep widows with children from starving. That was a good thing. However too much of a good thing, becomes a bad thing. Starting in the 1960s with President Johnson's Great Society social programs, welfare became a huge "industry" rewarding mothers who didn't work, and had multiple children with multiple partners with no man in sight. In fact, if there was a man in the house or if the mother worked part-time trying to get ahead, there would be no welfare benefits. This also excused men from having to take responsibility for the children that they helped produce. Consequently, supporting welfare for slackers has become very unpopular with those of us that are stuck funding it.

Much to his credit, President Clinton understood the mindset of working class Americans who pay their bills on time, and go without because they can't afford things, when he signed welfare reform into effect 1996. Yes I know, I've heard about how he was forced to do it, because of a Republican Congress. Bullshit! He could have vetoed it but he didn't. President Clinton understood the mindset of the average Middle American, because he personally came from the lower middle class. Clinton came up the hard way through hard work in Arkansas. Arkansas is a state with vastly unequal income distribution. You have an elite ruling class of extremely wealthy families like the Waltons and the Tysons, a small professional upper middle class, and you have a majority of the population that is basically lower middle class and/or working poor.

We now have a nation that is governed by anti-Middle America elitists. President Obama and his minions along with the fellow travellers and useful idiots of advanced degreed, information age, meritocratic upper middle class liberals, wealthy hedge fund liberals and their ilk, look down on working class and lower middle class Americans as stupid victims of their own prejudices who need to be controlled for their own good; the "little people" would be better off dependent on government benevolence than on their own initiative. Most Americans don't see themselves that way and resent this sanctimonious condescension. We are also sick and tired of using the "pawns on the chessboard," all the special interest groups of the "victim industry," to advance Marxism in this country. You can only push people so far. I'm wondering when the straw that breaks the camel's back is going to happen, and I'm hoping that things get fixed before that happens. Fortunately, the 2010 mid-term elections are only 9 months away. America needs to come back to being America, and stop this slide into becoming like Europe. If you want America to be like Europe I have a great idea. Move there. I understand that it's a great place to have a whine and cheese party.

Environmental Sanctimony

2010-02-20T07:34:00.000-08:00

I'm chuckling inside. The spoiled rotten elitist environmentalists are finally getting their comeuppance. Now that even Phil Jones has come out and basically admitted that the entire environmental movement is one giant scam, the chickens are coming home to roost. Does this mean that Al Gore will now no longer become the world's first carbon trading billionaire? Damn, it breaks my cold conservative heart just to think about it.

Undoing the damage of the Socialist environmental movement is going to take time. It's going to be a hard uphill battle. There is just too much money for the socialists to make trying to destroy big business with the multi-billion dollar per year environmental "big business." It almost worked. However, the "stupid little people" are finally on to their scam, and we see them for the phonies that they really are. It's not about the environment. It's about establishing a one world Socialist government.

Let's see where people fall into the hierarchy of the Marxists promoting this "Religion of Gaia". At the top of the heap are the big time players; Al Gore, George Soros, Goldman Sachs, etc. These are people and businesses that stand to make billions of dollars destroying the Capitalist system, especially the American Capitalist system, by advancing Socialism. They have to perpetuate the "big lie" in order to pull off their quest for a world-wide Marxist regime with them being the feudalistic ruling class. Many corporations are in on the bandwagon too for a variety of reasons. One, they are scared. It's protection money. They don't want to be completely destroyed and their leaders herded into re-education camps or executed once the Commies have finally taken over. Two, they believe that they can at least get partially rich as a consolation prize in the process themselves due to the concept of trickle down economics, if they go along with the program to destroy the Capitalist system. There will be at least some reward for them.

Next down the list you have the Fellow Travellers. Notice how the environmental movement seems to have the same hierarchy as Communism? Fellow travellers are not actual revolutionaries, but they firmly believe in the cause, and will do anything in their power to help the revolutionaries achieve their goal. They also know that supporting the cause will garner them a certain level of financial security and privileges that the "little people" will not receive. In the old Soviet Union they were called the Nomenclatura. Here you will have the typical upper middle class Whole Foods crowd; David Brooks refers to them as Bobos, or Bourgeois Bohemians. For the most part, they are highly educated sanctimonious meritocratic elites, who consider themselves better than the average person—that average person being, of course, the working class and lower middle class suburban family. They can not stand the fact that someone with less education than them can own property. They can't stand the fact that those same Neanderthals can afford to drive a car. They should be forced to take the bus and live in New Urbanism planned communities, but not the same luxury level planned communities that the Bobos live in. The scum need to live in slightly above bare bones high rise housing projects with centrally controlled thermostats and no parking. That way they will have to live in an environment that is 60 degrees in the winter and 90 degrees in the summer, and will have to take public transportation to work. That way they can be controlled for the "common good." That also means less traffic for the Bobos when they drive their Priuses down the interstate. Afterall, everything is about them, and having to sit in a traffic jam is a huge waste of their valuable time. These upper class "Phonies In Paradise" are people I absolutely despise.

The next notch down are the environmental Useful Idiots. These are the people that get sucked into the cause out of being gullible and guilt-ridden. Most of them have lived very sheltered lives, and haven't had to struggle in order to survive. There was always more than just food on the table and a roof over the head. There was always discretionary income, vacations, paid for college educations, trust funds, and what have you. They have been the recipients of the benevolence of the American Dream. Therefore, they have to be made to feel guilty. Through public school, private school, and media brainwashing, they are force fed a diet about how America sucks. America is this horrible Capitalist country that exploits everyone else in the world. We are the worst polluters on the planet (but only when a Republican is in the White House), and that we need to atone for our sins. (i.e. reduce our standard of living so our middle class can live like the middle class in Europe. Of course, that doesn't mean them. That means the lower middle class). These are people that are usually involved in other "feel good" social causes too. If you get to know some of these folks, you will also find another common thread. Most of them are in some sort of therapy. They can't handle adulthood. It's too difficult for them, so they need counselling. They have never outgrown their adolescence. Group therapy like anti-war (anti-America) protest marches and demonstrations for left-wing social victimhood causes count too. They've bought the entire victim/oppressor, evil Capitalist/good Socialist, America sucks "business model" of the Progressive Left's world government multi-billion dollar "industry." It's so shameful to live here. We have so much and the rest of the world has so little. Why can't we be like Europe? Their middle class doesn't need a big house. Their middle class is environmentally enlightened. They live in collective housing. If they live in single family houses, they are "less wasteful." They ride bicycles and public transportation to work, because the care. They are not greedy bastards like we Americans are. Damn, the guilt is just gushing forth. What doesn't dawn on these dumbasses is the real reason that Europeans ride bicycles and take the bus; they can't afford the cost of driving, unless they are members of the upper middle class professional elite or the aristocracy. That's why they live in much smaller houses too. It's not because they are environmentally savvy. It's because the average lower middle class European can not afford anything larger than about 500 to 700 square feet of living space for a typical family of four or five. Hey liberals, that means that three children get to share one bedroom. Maybe one of them can sleep in the kitchen or the living room. Is this what you want? Oh that's right. Not for me, only for thee. That's what the average European can afford. They can't afford a larger dwelling, and they can't afford the subsequent cost of the utilities for a larger home. The environmental left wants us to be like Europe? How about starting with THEM giving up their upper middle class lifestyle and moving into high rise ghetto projects. Put your money where you mouth is, hypocrites. Setting the example by living in luxury New Urbanism planned communities of million dollar brownstones and high six figure condos next door to a Whole Foods or Harris Teeter in the outer suburbs doesn't count...not that I have anything against Whole Foods or Harris Teeter. I enjoy shopping in both stores when I can afford the occasional luxury. If you, in your phony desire for fairness, choose out of your own free will to live in the ghetto housing projects with winos passed out in the stairwell that you are proposing for the swine, I just might start taking you seriously. Until then, you are nothing but hypocritical pieces of S&*t.

However, times are changing. The sleeping giant has awoken. What's happening as we speak is that the so called "little people" are no longer buying the snake oil. We can see who is behind the curtain, and we are no longer going to go along with the program. The Proletariat are not revolting against the Capitalists like Marx envisioned. They are revolting against the Progressive Elites who feel it's their birthright to be the massas on the plantation. There is a definite revolt going on against the Educated Elite, and the Educated Elite can't stand the fact that the "little people" are not going to allow them to be the rulers. I'm hoping things get resolved peacefully at the ballot box. I don't even want to think about the other possibility. I hope that the anger never drives us to that point as a nation.

"Volunteers"

2010-02-15T07:14:00.000-08:00

I was just watching the news this morning. It looks like a lot of the municipal governments are looking for volunteers to go to the various schools in the area in order to shovel out the driveways and parking lots. They want to make sure that the school busses can get the children to the schools, and that the staff have places to park their cars. There are a couple of ways they could do this: First of all, aren't all students today required to "volunteer" for some type of community service in order to graduate from high school? Shovelling snow should count as community service. I guess you could ask a Boy Scout troop to do it, but then NAMBLA and the ACLU, along with SEIU and the other public employee union thugs would be pitching a fit. Look at the fit they threw when they went after a retired man who volunteered his time to be a crossing guard in order to help keep school kids safe while they were waiting at a bus stop.

I have a better idea. How about going into the city and rounding up all the able bodied welfare recipients that are sitting home smoking crack or hanging out in the park drinking cheap wine and being the lazy bums that they are. Make them earn their entitlement for a change. While we are at it, how about sticking shovels in the hands of the left wing activists that use the homeless and the welfare bums as tools to advance their Marxist agenda. It would serve them right.

More Feel Good Boycotts

2010-02-14T08:32:00.000-08:00

The other night a friend of mine informed me, after spending the day hanging out with a left wing lawyer friend of hers, that she was no longer going to eat shrimp. The reason being that shrimp fishing is really bad for the environment. They throw parts of the shrimp back into the ocean, and that's polution. I guess no thought was given to the fact that those body parts are going to end up as food for other ocean creatures. Unenlightened lil' ol' me was unaware that most ocean dwelling creatures were vegans. I didn't know that sharks ate tofu. Gee, I must be one of the uneducated masses that needs to be controlled for the "common good."

This is just another example of the typical holier than thou attitute of the highly educated liberal elite that want to control our lives. Well guess what? I'm now going to go out of my way to eat MORE shrimp just out of principle. Why? Because I can. I'm really starting to become contemptuous of sanctimonious, holier-than-thou left wing types. Mainly, because the vast majority of them are hypocrites. Bobos In Paradise.

I'm one of the "little people" that is finally getting fed up with the new meritcratic upper middle class phonies that have self-anointed themselves to be our rulers. There are others like me out there too. We are going to resist their every move to control us. The other thing we need to do is expose them for what they really are, and this time there can be no benefit of the doubt. Marx claimed that the proletariat would rise up against the Capitalist ruling class. What he didn't count on was the proletariat would embrace Capitalism and use it, along with hard work, to get themselves their own little piece of the pie. The educated class gradually embraced Marxism over the years, and started to embrace it in earnest starting in the 1960s. They figured that they would become the ruling class, just like the government hacks in the old Soviet Union. What they didn't count on was the proletariat rising up against them. Scott Brown is the tip of the iceberg. Now, I think I'm going to start up my gas guzzler Dodge Ram 1500 and head on down to the super market and buy myself a nice big bag of shrimp.

Woodstock, The Shot Across The Bow of America

2009-08-19T08:57:00.000-07:00

This past weekend was the fortieth anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair that took place on Max Yasgur’s farm in upstate New York in 1969. I find it amusing that Yasgur was a conservative republican who agreed to allow hippies to destroy his farm, but I guess he was paid enough money for the use of his land to make it worthwhile. I hope he made his money up front, because the promoters lost their shirts when the everything is about them spoiled brats, who showed up without tickets and had not intention of paying for admission tickets, knocked down the fences and declared it a "free" concert. I have always had mixed feelings about Woodstock. I was lured by the whole celebration of the primalism that it was, because I had received my proper dosage of liberal brainwashing in the public schools. However, I did have a few conservative teachers. There were still a few of them left when I was in school. They hadn’t been purged from the system yet.

I always thought the music was great. This was the music of my generation, both liberal and conservative. The bands that played there were rock music’s royalty. However, as I look back at it, I can see that it was the celebration of the left fork in the road of the two divisions of the Baby Boomer generation; there were those who came from a life of spoiled privilege and there were those that didn’t. Those that didn’t made up the right fork in the road, and the divide has been getting further and further apart as the years have progressed. Being part of that interim generation of the Baby Boomers that some demographers refer to as Generation Jones, I was too young to attend. I was only fourteen at the time, and there is no way that my World War II generation parents were going to allow me to attend an event of that kind anyway. My dad was a public school history teacher. Unlike most of the teachers today, and quite a few teachers at that time, the only liberal leanings he had were in regards to the New Deal. He thought the world of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Until he died, he remained a true patriotic American, who had no use for anti-Americanism.

His dad had been a builder, and had quite a bit of money until the Great Depression hit and he lost all of his business. From that point on they struggled financially just to survive. My mother grew up relatively poor in an Italian immigrant family with thirteen children who all ended up in some sort of blue-collar job, as they grew older. Not one of them went to college. They all struggled growing up. My dad served in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific during World War II, and he consequently had absolutely no respect for the anti-war crowd. All he saw were spoiled brats who were in dire need of a good beating. My mother’s brothers also all served in the military during the Second World War. The value of self-sacrifice that my parents grew up with, was part of my upbringing. We did without if we didn’t really need it. Luxuries were few and far between. As a schoolteacher he didn’t make a huge salary anyway. We were what would be considered to be lower middle class. We were the next rung up the food chain ladder from the working class. However, the working class and the lower middle class shared a lot in common, despite education and some minor value differences. We lived in the same neighborhoods, and we went to school together. One thing that was definitely shared in common was that many of the sons received a certified letter that required a proof of delivery signature that when opened began as follows: "Greetings." And guess what? They went to Viet Nam. You don’t hear much about these folks. Those that came back, which were all but 58,000 of them, got on with their lives. For the most part, they embarked on careers that pretty much made up the bulk of the working and lower middle classes, which is where they came from in the first place. However, first of all they had to endure getting spit upon, have feces thrown at them, and be called "baby killers" when they returned by the other fork in the road, the Woodstock Generation.

Let’s look at the demographics of that left fork in the road, the hippies and their ilk. Most of them grew up in a life of privilege. Few of them grew up working class or lower middle class. Many came from inherited wealth, but most of them were children of upper middle class professionals and left wing educators. They were spoiled. If they were the children of liberals and leftists in the education establishment, they were either open or closet Marxists. Everything was back then, and now that they are the establishment, about them. They despised back then, and still despise the working class and lower middle class whites. The hippies are now in charge of our government, legal profession, education system, and lurking in many of the policy-making positions of Corporate America and the Pentagon. This almost wasn’t the case.

In 1968 various radical student groups and racial groups, now revealed by the Venona Project to have been financed by the KGB in Moscow with millions of dollars smuggled in from Canada, became violent. These were cogs in the ongoing cultural war to destroy the United States from within. To this day, this "cold civil war" continues.

Members of these groups seized control of Columbia University in New York City. There were other riots at other colleges and universities that followed, but they probably wouldn’t have happened if the Columbia riots had been handled differently. Originally, the faculty of Columbia wanted the authorities to take back control of the campus by "any means necessary," but they backed down in their request at the last minute. Back then there were still quite a few college faculty members that were conservatives, but they were ultimately afraid of the political and social consequences of regaining control of the campus with force. This emboldened the Left, the Marxist Leninist funded by Moscow left mind you, to begin the acceleration of their assault on the American way of life. Let’s hear it again for the Woodstock Generation. Nelson Rockefeller was the governor of New York at the time, and had the faculty requested "assistance," he would have sent in the National Guard to storm the campus, and restore order using "any means necessary." The university president's decision not to request National Guard assistance was a huge mistake.

The Silent Majority, my father being one of them, would have stood up and cheered as the spoiled brats brandishing Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book were taken down. I remember seeing him smiling and hearing him say, "good, it’s about time," while he was watching the Chicago Police gave the anti-war protestors a good thrashing during the 1968 Democratic Convention riots. Even though he never said anything about it, I think that he silently cheered when the National Guard shot those four students during the Kent State riots too. As for me, now that I look back at that incident from the perspective of someone who is older, wiser, conservative, and a veteran, it shouldn't have happened. What should have happened was this: Since the protesters had burned down the ROTC building at Kent State, that should have been declared either an act of war by a domestic enemy within, or it should have been considered an act of sabotage against the government. The National Guard should have made it 400 or 4000 instead of 4, and the ring leaders should have been arrested, tried by military tribunal for sabotage and treason, and executed.

This error of cowardice on the part of the Columbia faculty was the turning point that set the stage for the Communist take over of our government that is attempting to come to fruition with the 2008 election. Woodstock in 1969 was the Left’s smug, arrogant, celebration of the beginning of the end of the despised values and prosperity of Middle Class America. With the final push happening today to force a socialist dictatorship on the American people, run of course, by the spoiled rotten leftists from the Woodstock Generation, I have a feeling that my dad is spinning in his grave.

Finally got this to work again

2009-07-18T14:11:00.000-07:00

Ok, it's been a while since I blogged here. Things weren't working for a while. I'm going to reposting some information here again in the very near future. Keep checking back.

We Are In For "Interesting Times."

2008-12-22T10:31:00.000-08:00

Why do highly educated urban professional types call for more regulation of our financial and manufacturing industries as well as every other aspect of our lives? Because they know that they will get to be the ones that write and enforce the regulations for their
benefit while the rest of us get to pay for it. They have a very arrogant and elitist view of the world...a world in which they are global citizens, and the world's ruling class. In their eyes, they are God.

There is a big picture here. The big picture is that it's a cultural thing that has been ongoing for several generations. The late Paul Weyrich summed it up when he wrote that conservatives won the political war, but liberals won the cultural war and that culture trumps politics. I would like to add that once culture trumps politics, culture will then
define and control politics. This last election is proof of that. I would also like to add that I believe that those that won the cultural war, allowed conservatives to win the political war, so that there would be a false sense of security while the real agenda was being pushed behind the scene. We are now in the final stages of the master plan of the Fabians,
the Wobblies, and the Cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School. They have managed over a one hundred year period to subvert and change American culture to a culture of envy, control, and entitlement managed by laissez faire meritocratic, super educated, Narcissistic elites; New York Times editorialist David Brooks wrote a book about them called Bobos In Paradise. Bobos are what are known as Bourgeois Bohemians. They have managed to fuse 1980s Yuppie Capitalism with the 1960s Counter Culture, and become at the least, very comfortable financially, while they alleviate their guilt by believing in and supporting the "right" causes. Consequently, they get to have it all at the rest of our expense. They are now about to change America for their benefit and the "little people" are going to pay for it. Welcome to a dictatorship of the intellectual
classes. As Marie Antionette supposedly said, "Let them eat cake."

Do you like your house? Do you like where you live? How are liberal elites changing that? Let's start with "Sustainable Development. How dare the average middle class person without a college degree think they are entitled to own a home, especially a single family home in the suburbs. Let's change things by passing zoning ordinances that require that all new homes be built on at least an acre or more of land in order to prevent urban sprawl. That's why you have McMansions. When was the last time you saw a developer building a nice 1200 square foot home on a half or quarter acre like they did during the 1950s? During that time middle class America migrated from the cities to the suburbs, so that they could own a home with a yard, and the housing industry accommodated them. It was the post World War II era of comfortable prosperity personified by the calm stewardship of the Eisenhower Administration. The idea here
is for the liberal elites to undo, or deconstruct if you will, the ingrained middle class culture of the 1950s. Only high dollar urbanist liberal professional types are to own property. The rest of us need to be forced into human habitat areas that will consist of middle class housing projects with very little places to park. The committee will decide how much living space you need, and you will be assigned housing accordingly. Of course the projects will be right next to public transportation. Driving is only for me not thee. Can't you see the Prius parked in the driveway of my McMansion (the SUV is "hidden" in the garage)? I'm important so I get to drive. You aren't so you don't. That way I won't have to worry about traffic jams either. You can shut up and take the bus

Speaking of cars, don't you know what we need are more high priced hybrids so that the average person can not afford a car? Not only that, you are a tradesman who needs a van? Fill out this application and explain why you need something besides a roller skate with a lawn mower engine. If the committee approves your request, you will be able
to get your truck. If not, get a job doing something else. The committee
will arrange for retraining in exchange for another chunk of your soul .

Speaking of jobs, you want to do what for a living? Have society’s managers approved? The committee knows what society needs for workers, and will "guide" you into a job that is what is best for society as a whole, and the hell with what you want. You will
shut up and do as you are told. The elites are now in charge. They are smarter, better educated, and your rulers. Get used to it. This can be done the easy way or the hard way. It's up to you. It's hard to believe that you still have an independent streak after 12 years of public school indoctrination and for some, advanced indoctrination into the collective
mindset facilitated by the higher education "industry."

Of course, this is going to affect your lifestyle. The elitist left thinks that wealth is a zero sum game. If you make a buck, someone else loses a buck. They cry their phony crocodile tears about how awful it is that the poor are poor and deprived, because of Capitalism. For some odd reason they have no problem with Capitalism when it advances
Socialism for their benefit. The gameplan is, they make a buck and we lose a buck. All animals are created equal, but some are created more equal than others. We are about to find out just how much more equal the elites who now control our politics, culture, education, legal profession, and media are. The average American is in for a very rude awakening begining on January 20, 2008

The Election Aftermath

2008-11-06T07:41:00.000-08:00

I’m sure there are some people that are licking their wounds after the defeat of John McCain and the victory of Barak Obama in the presidential election. In any contest there is a winner and there is a loser. That’s the way things are. So be it. I did think however, that the electoral vote count was going to be a lot closer. As of today, the electoral vote tally is 349 electors for Obama and 173 electors for McCain. That is a significant margin. What the American people have done here is sent a very strong message to the Republican Party: "No more George Bushes!" I can’t agree more. While I voted for Bush twice, because I felt that he was the lesser of the evils, I didn’t like George Bush. I don’t think that he was an effective president. Many people saw it the same way. It was George Bush that cost the Republicans this election, and Bush knows it. You can see it on his face when he’s been addressing the American people after the election. There is another message that is being sent, and I’m skeptical at best. I see it on some sites, and hear it from the young educated white-collar professionals and semi-professionals that make up a large portion of the upper income bracket of our service economy. They have a collectivist world citizen view rather than an individualist American citizen view and they are elated at having Obama as president. In their opinion, he will make us become citizens of the world who just happen to live in the United States. America is just another cog in the machine. We are the world as the song goes. This is a very strong move toward the one world government that the liberal elites have been plotting for years. This is a consolidation of power into their hands. It’s going to be an interesting ride.

In this election, I voted for McCain. His worldview is more inline with my worldview. I do want to take this time right now, however, to say that I offer my heartiest congratulations to President-elect Barak Obama. I hope for this country’s sake, he has a successful presidency. We need that. Barak Obama is a clean slate as a president right now, and I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt. Most conservatives that I know are saying the same thing. However, we will be watching and waiting in the wings for the time when it’s our turn again.

I consider myself to be a citizen of the greatest country in the world, The United States of America. I served this great country as a member of the Armed Forces for 26 years. I am not a citizen of the world educated elite. It offends me that I should have to share citizenship with Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong Il. I’m a member of the average white person class that the educated elite holds in contempt and want to control for the "common good." My ideology lies with the "hayseeds" in "fly over country," not with the latte sipping, NPR listening, arrogant elites that now have the mandate to remold society into their world view. With the White House going Democrat, and with Democratic control of both houses of Congress, it’s now the Democrats game to lose. If the economy goes down the toilet in a year, they won’t have anyone to blame but themselves, and the midterm elections in 2010 are only two years away.

Ok, so why does this average non-elite, need to be controlled for my own good, contemptuous white male vote Republican? I am retired military, and having spent 26 years serving this country in the Air Force, I’ve lived through two Democratic and three Republican administrations while I was on active duty. The military always fares better under a Republican administration than it does under a Democrat administration, and people vote for what is in their best interests.

I’m not sure what an Obama Administration will do to the military. No one knows, except for Barak Obama. Based on history, I have a feeling that the active duty force will find themselves getting insufficient pay raises each year, and retirees will find that their pensions will not increase in order to keep up with the cost of living. This is always the case with Democratic administrations. With a Democratic controlled Congress, it would appear to be a gimme. They prefer to spend the money on domestic programs for drug addicted welfare queens and their hordes of illegitimate children, rather than spending money on the good men and women who volunteer to put their lives on the line to keep us safe.

The job of President of the United States is also two jobs. It’s also Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. How Barak Obama will perform as Commander in Chief is also an unknown. One thing for sure is a large percentage of President-elect Obama’s constituencies are anti-war, anti-military types. This is where things are going to get very interesting, and this old sarge is smiling at this possibility. From a revenge point of view, there may be a silver lining in this dark cloud. I am now going to give you one example of my "Audacity of Hope."

Barak Obama has said that he wants s a civilian security force that will equal the US Military. What this really means is anyone’s guess, but I’m more than a little bit skeptical. Woodrow Wilson’s goon squads come to mind. He also wants mandatory service of some kind for everyone between the ages of 18 and 27. This is going to get real interesting.

Ok hippies listen up. You are about to get what you paid for when you bought the "Audacity of Hope" at the ballot box. First of all, whether you like it or not, the world is not a very safe place. There is no such thing as Utopia. Get your Granola fueled heads out of your asses. You are all going to be lining up to get into some sort of peacenik service program like the Peace Corps or some other sundry organization so that you can do pacifist service and meet your mandatory obligation without picking up a rifle. There are only going to be so many slots in those kind of groups. If you are not connected to the right people, you are not going to get in those programs. Therefore, you will either be joining the military, or Obama’s domestic security force. Either way, you are in for a rude awakening. On one hand, you just might find yourselves in Malaria infested parts of Africa as part of UN peace keeping and nation building activities. On the home front, you just might find yourselves being called in to maintain law and order any time there is a "disturbance" like a protest that the Obamamesiah determines is not in his or his administration’s best interest. Again, Woodrow Wilson’s goon squads come to mind. It will be real interesting to see hippies who couldn’t get a slot in a program building Tony Rezko style public housing projects being ordered to beat the shit out of protesting hippies, and if you refuse to beat the hippie, you will be the hippie facing the firing squad. After all, mutiny is mutiny, and mutiny is punishable by death. The "goon squad" will be forced to turn against their friends and brethren in ideology. Remember in the Civil War that it was brother against brother? Hmmm…

That’s the domestic end of it. How about the other side of the coin? What’s going to be real interesting too, is going to be seeing how the patchouli scented unwashed Phish followers, Vagina Monologuers and Deadheads now in the international peace keeping/ nation building forces are going to deal with boot camp. Let me tell you, it’s no fun. I’ve been there. Air Force Basic is considered to be a little less demanding than the other branches of the service, but when I went through back in 1977, it was still very rough. It was much rougher in the years before that. Of course when I went through it, everyone there was there because they were volunteers. Boot Camp is going to be a lot harder when they are training recalcitrant individuals who don’t want to be there in the first place. Let’s face it, you couldn’t get into the Peace Corps, so now you are in the Marine Corps and you are pissed.

What our training instructor told us in Basic was that when you have an all volunteer force, punishment pushups, digging holes with teaspoons, cleaning toilets with toothbrushes, and being set back in training, or even the threat of being set back in training, is usually enough to keep people in line. When you don’t have an all-volunteer force, you sometimes have to resort to physical coercion techniques in order to force compliance to orders and directives when individuals who are there against their will, are not cooperative. I would love to be a fly on the wall when some spoiled anti-military elite, who is stuck doing military service because he just didn’t have the right connections, finds himself being backhanded across the face or slammed against a wall, because he forgot that the first word out of his mouth is "Sir." Another famous boot camp disciplinary tactic is the punish the entire unit when one person screws up. Sometimes they will punish everyone except for the one that messed up. This usually leads to a late night blanket party. One way of doing group punishment is to herd everyone into the shower area and then turn the water on hot and dump a few gallons of ammonia and bleach in there mixed together, and then close the door. The fumes become unbearable after about a minute, and within another minute, everyone is vomiting all over the place. All that mess will now have to be cleaned up afterward too. They will be bringing back what is called, "Motivation," which is a unit where the worst of the uncooperative are sent. If you are sent down to Motivation, you will wish you were condemned to the lowest circle of Hell for all eternity instead of being there.

Ah, the revenge. Just think hippies, you are also going to find yourself living the elites dream of collectivism taken to its fullest extreme. You will find yourselves with shaven heads so you all look the same, in uniform so you all look the same, marching every where you go so you move as a unit rather than as an individual, and you will be subject to mandatory drug testing. You will also be forced to bend to the will of the military elites, not the academic or legal elites that you identify with, who in this situation are the NCOs and officers who are higher up the food chain that you are. You are actually going to get a taste of your own medicine. Gee, that’s going to suck. You are no longer important. You are a nothing. You are no longer special. You are nothing but a worthless piece of shit that hasn’t earned the right to even call yourself a human being. You are actually going to have to do what you are told to do and not question it. Don’t you just love authority especially when you have a problem with authority? I can’t wait to see it happen to the spoiled little adult children who have been brainwashed into the ideology of social justice. Mommy won’t be able to hire a lawyer for you either. You won’t be able to sue the big bad grumpy sergeant, because he kicked you in the ass or pushed you down a flight of stairs. They own you. You’ll just have to put up and shut up just like you want the rest of us to do. Oh and by the way, if you continue to be a real problem child or decide to just up and leave because you don’t like being there, there is always the Uniform Code of Military Justice, a court martial, and a place called Leavenworth.

The very people that venomously screeched about Dick Cheney being able to get a student deferment during Viet Nam, and George Bush supposedly using family connections to get into the Air National Guard are going to find themselves doing military service against their will. Will they be screaming about their fellow liberal brethren getting preferential treatment allowing them to serve in the non-military services? That’s what I call social justice. As the Obama supporters say, "It’s a new beginning."

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Election

2008-11-02T13:13:00.000-08:00

This coming Tuesday, Americans will go to the polls and vote for the next President of the United States. The choices we have are Barak Obama and John McCain. For the record, I’m not crazy about either one of them, but I’m planning on voting for McCain. I consider him to be the lesser of the evils. One of them is pure socialism and the other one is socialism lite. I would love to see less socialism in this country, but ever since the New Deal, we are kind of stuck with some degree of socialism. I just want it to have the smallest footprint possible.

I think that John McCain is going to have a hard time getting elected, but as of today, it’s still a possibility. People are ready for change, and the Republicans have not done a good job running this country for the past eight years. A lot of this has to do with the man in the White House.

I personally believe that George Bush is not an evil person, and the for the past 8 years, his heart has been in the right place. That being said, he has not been a very effective president. The only thing I can say positive about his presidency has been the fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country since 9/11. I am not going to discount this, because with the world as it is today, this is a very significant accomplishment. For this I will thank President Bush. There have been many attempts here in this country; most of which are not reported in the press, but so far none of them have succeeded. This is very significant since there have been over 27,000 terrorist attacks of one form or another since 9/11 throughout the world. In case you haven’t noticed, the media hasn’t been too forthcoming about reporting that news either.

Here’s my opinion on why the American people are willing to gamble on an unknown with terrorist, Marxists, and corrupt associates and cronies to be our next president. First of all, the Republican Party leadership along with President Bush have shown the American people that they have absolutely no backbone when it comes to dealing with the Democrats. This has made a large percentage of us Republicans very angry with our party leadership. While I’m not about to jump ship and vote for Obama in order to send a message like some Republicans are going to do, I’m completely disgusted with the leadership of George W. Bush and the Republican leaders in the House and Senate. Because of their collective cowardice and guilt when it comes to standing up to a political party that wants to establish a Socialist government ruled over by the intellectual classes, we will now be looking at the end of America as we know it. This is very sad.

Along with this, Bush and the Republicans have not listened to and have been obtuse as far as listening to the mainstream Americans when it comes to issues such as illegal immigration. Why did we not seal our borders after 9/11 and then start rounding up and deporting as many illegal aliens as we could find? Yes I know the typical Left wing oral diarrhea; "Businesses need cheap labor." Hey Lefties, how about "rich liberals need cheap nannies and gardeners." Oh, don’t forget the illegals voting for Democrats illegally along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and all those "residents" of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery who will be voting for Obama. Since nothing is being done about it, I guess the Republican leadership is either in the tank with the Democrats, or else they don’t have any balls. I think it’s a little bit of both.

The Republican leadership, including George Bush, have also chosen spending on entitlement programs like Medicare as a measure of success. We are spending way too much money on domestic social programs, and since the 1960s, they haven't succeeded. All they have done is cost a lot of money. These programs continue to be failures and are going to bankrupt us if we don’t start reining them in…the never ending without an "exit strategy" War On Poverty, the Social Security crisis, Medicare, and The No Child Left Behind Act come to mind. You don't keep throwing money at a broken system. You fix the system and then fund it to the point where it works. You don't let it become a financial bottomless pit with no tangible results. Social progams don't work when the only ones that benefit from the progams are the people managing the progams.

Here are other issues: When are we going to finally have an energy policy that will take us into the future? Ethanol is a government grant funded boondoggle for corn farmers and wind and solar will never supply us with all the electricity that we will need. Every time an energy bill came out of the House between 2002 and 2005, when Republicans controlled the House, Northeastern "moderate" Republican Senators saw to it that the energy bills were killed. Why? Along with that, President Bush complained, but never demanded that he be presented with a sound comprehensive energy bill that he could sign into law. I guess there is just too much money to be made in government subsidized "green" investments for rich liberals...and George Bush is nothing but a rich liberal who happens to side with the Religious Right on social issues in order to garner their vote. The rest of us say, "drill, drill, drill..." If we can provide more of our oil ourselves, build a dozen or so more refineries, and through tax incentives to the auto manufactures, "encourage" them to produce vehicles that are more fuel efficient, we can drive through lesser demand, oil prices through the floor. This will through the free market collapse the economies of our enemies like Russia and Venezuela. This will also provide less funding for terrorism coming out of the Muslim countries in the Middle East. Nothing would make my day better than that.

Now let’s look at the other part of the equation…The American people are so softened down at this point thanks to our failed public education system and our guilt ridden embrase of diversity and multi-culturalism, that they are ready and willing to accept the big wet "Depends" of Socialism as the new American way of life. On one side of the coin we have become a nation of lazy underachieving spoiled brats who want everything handed to us on a silver platter. This dumbing down of our nation has been deliberate, and it was slowly put into place over the past 100 years in order to bring to fruition the goals of the Fabian Socialists, the ultimate in self-righteous intellectual Narcissists. They set in motion the plan for a one world socialist government with a class of highly educated elites ruling over the rest of us while the rest of us were brainwashed over the years to be subservient to them. Now let's look at the other side of the coin. Have you ever wondered why there are so many members of the upper middle class who embrace Socialism? It’s because they know that under Socialism they will be the ones that will control the rest of us "for the common good." For them it’s beyond having things handed to them on a silver platter. It’s about power being handed to them on a silver platter. It's about arrogant elitism. They claim that they are "concerned" about the poor and all the other victim groups. Bullshit! Nothing could be further from the truth. Upper middle class liberal elites have nothing but contempt for the less educated who actually get their hands dirty when they work. They feel that these "lesser people" are too stupid to manage their own affairs. How do I know? I work with many of those liberal elites, and they have said so in their own words. They really believe that the "little people" need the "big people" to make their decisions for them for the "common good." We are just too stupid to manage our own affairs. We need to be controlled. The liberal elites are willing to pay a small amount more in their taxes for that privilege.

The international socialists now have all the pieces of the puzzle in place. They have been putting this into place since the 1890s. They are about the close the deal with the election of Barak Obama, the liberal elites facilitator to establish the dictatorship of the ruling intellectual classes.

President Bush and the Republican Leadership, you have no one to blame but yourselves for the possibility of the end of the American way of life. This Tuesday will be an American milestone. Alexander Tyler, the famous Scottish historian stated in the 1700s: All societies go though the following progression, and have since the establishment of formal governments. First there is bondage, then there is enlightenment. This is followed by courage, which is followed by liberty. Following that there is prosperity followed by complacency. After that you have apathy which leads back into bondage. Think about that this Tuesday when you go to the polls. Are we so cynical and apathetic that we are ready to vote ourselves into the possibility of Marxist bondage? The stained glass door to the Fabian Society in London, England shows the earth on an anvil being struck by hammers. Above that in a smaller panel is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Think about it.

It's time to take the gloves off

2008-07-17T09:25:00.000-07:00

On Flag Day, June 14th, an American Legion post in Maryland was doing a fundraiser to raise money for "care packages" for our troops stationed overseas—a very worthwhile cause. I have personal experience with the military. I served in the Air Force for 26 years, retiring at the rank of Senior Master Sergeant (E-8). Even though all my permanent assignments were here in the States, I did a fair amount of overseas travel on temporary duty assignments (TDYs). From having interacted with many fine American men and women stationed overseas, letters from school children, caring families and from letter writing drives for service personnel overseas from civic organizations are always welcome. Even more so, "care packages" from their home or from any organization here in the States are welcome with open arms and tears in their eyes. This is especially true with our troops stationed in areas of conflict like the Middle East. At this event, one of the bands that I play with was performing as part of the fundraiser. We offered our services to this Legion post free of charge.

A very fine singer joined us for this gig. Beforehand she send out a mass email to promote the gig and the fundraiser cause. One email she received back, and I don’t know or care who it was from, stated that they couldn’t attend an activity supporting the troops, because they had to make a statement against George Bush, the war, and against John McCain as a presidential candidate. This person then mentioned, of course the quote out of context of McCain’s statement about being in Iraq for 100 years. It’s amazing how the useful idiots on the Left only take part of his statement out of context. They never mention the rest of what he said, when he said that he would be in favor of it as long as no Americans were getting in harms way. What McCain was eluding to was the fact that we’ve had troops stationed all over the world maintaining world peace as best we can. It’s not always successful, but if we weren’t, things would be a hell of a lot worse. We have had troops stationed in Europe for over 60 years. We’ve had troops stationed in Japan for over 60 years. We’ve had troops stationed in Korea since the 1950s. We had troops in the Philippines for over 90 years, until Mt. Pinutubo erupted and destroyed our bases. Those bases had been there since the Spanish American war, and were vital to our success in World War II.

Ok fair enough. This person decided to make a statement rather than just saying nothing. Then again, infantilism is infantilism, and that disease seems to perpetrate the thought process of the left. By making a statement this individual has opened the door to me making a statement about him or her. Fasten your seatbelts. The "Old Sarge" is about to "make a statement."

I’d like to say this to that individual who decided to show their ignorance by making that statement. I don’t know who you are, nor do I care. Therefore, I will refer to you as YOU. First of all, I would like to contrast that singer friend of mine with YOU. My friend is against the war, but she gave of her time and gave a nice financial contribution to the cause, and I’m sure that she makes a lot less money than YOU do. Unlike YOU, she doesn’t hate this country, not that YOU would care. Hating America is fashionable among the Marxist useful idiots and fellow travelers that YOU and your ilk associate with. Oh wait a minute, I think YOU call YOUrselves "Progressives." YOU are not Progressives, YOU are assholes. It doesn’t matter to YOU anyway. In YOUr adult child mind the whole world revolves around YOUr asshole, which of course, doesn’t stink. Everyone else’s asshole stinks. YOURs is too pure and self-righteous to stink. I guess only an asshole can pretend that their asshole doesn’t stink. Gee, that sounds like logic.

I am speculating here, but I’m going to assume for a minute that YOU are either in the legal or academic profession, or else YOU have close ties to either. That would explain a lot. Communism is a dictatorship of the intellectual classes. Are YOU a Coercive Utopian driven by the desire for a Communist America where YOU will be a member of the ruling class? Am I supposed to be one of the slaves on YOUr plantation?

YOU exist in a fantasy world driven by power hungry elites like YOUrself who think that it is YOUr calling in life to remold society into world-wide Socialism with YOU miscreants being in charge of the rest of us worthless scum. YOU and YOUr miserable type see unlimited power for YOURselves at the rest of our expense. YOU, thanks to this great Capitalist country that has provided the financial means for YOU to achieve a high level of education and material lifestyle, are selfish. YOU are spoiled rotten. Of course, you believe that in order to advance YOUr cause, the United States of America has to be destroyed. The end justifies the means, and YOU will use any means necessary to achieve that goal, provided that whatever misery YOU determine needs to be dumped upon us mere mortals, will have minimum effect on YOU and your comrades. I believe it goes like this: YOU use the academic system to indoctrinate, and then YOU use the legal system to use the power of coercive legal terrorism to force the agenda. YOU and your ilk are not anti-war, YOU are anti free market Capitalism, and ultimately anti-America Marxists. In your close circle of libtards, you all take great pleasure in condemning a country that has done more to alleviate human suffering throughout the world, compared to YOUr idealogical bretheren; the Communist Soviet Union, Communist China, Communist Cuba, and while we are at it, let’s throw in Communist Venezuela for good measure.

Of course, in YOUr exalted sense of self worth, YOU more than likely know no one in the military. You despise the military. You look down upon the military as being second class citizens. The plus side of that is that no one in the military has to know a piece of shit like YOU. These fine men and women are all volunteers and mostly from the middle class by the way, despite what John Kerry claims. These fine Americans that are serving this country both here and abroad don’t have to associate with YOU or your minions. I am glad for that, because I wouldn’t want them to have to hold their noses in your presence in order not to be overcome with YOUr sanctimonious societal stench. Of course, most of them didn’t have the advantage of trust funds and wealth, or an upper middle class lifestyle to spoil them. Most of them come from the unwashed masses of the average middle class and working class. They are not from the poor, but from Average America and not from the Elites that YOU either are, or hang around with as a wannabe. They actually had to struggle on more than one occasion, and not just when they were living in some student ghetto while they were in college. The difference is, this: Those that were in the student ghettos knew that Daddy and his checkbook or American Express card were just a phone call away when things got a little too hard, like when they had to hire a lawyer for a DUI or drug offense, or got some girl pregnant. The average person didn’t have that luxury. They had to be ultimately responsible for themselves.

After the gig we were standing outside talking to a very nice lady, who’s husband is serving in Iraq. Back here in the States, he is a DC cop, but he was called up to active duty and is now serving over in "The Sandbox" as it is called. From talking to this lady, it was clear that she was not the most educated person in the world. She was also from down south…Heaven forbid. I guess that would make her doubly worthless in YOUr mind, right? Here she is with a couple of kids and a husband overseas in a combat zone. She’s trying to get by financially by the skin of her teeth. Yet she is graciously volunteering much of her time every week to provide some comfort to the fine men and women serving in the military. She has a heart. I have a challenge for YOU. I would like for YOU to stand in front of that lady, and tell her to her face that you can not support her husband’s efforts overseas. I know YOU won’t. Why? YOU won’t, because YOU are a coward.

Go back to making YOUR statements. I’m sure they help alleviate your Liberal Guilt and make YOU feel so Goddam important at the same time. Well I’ve got news for YOU. YOU are not important. Those fine men and women serving in the military are important. They are much more important than YOU. YOU are a nothing. Who knows, maybe there will be another anti-war protest, I mean group therapy session, that you can go participate in. Don’t forget to bring YOUr camera. I’m sure we are all looking forward to seeing the Che posters and the pictures of the literature being hawked by all the different Communist and Socialist organizations that fund the movement. What’s the matter? YOU are surprised that someone would actually figure out the real agenda of YOU and YOUr ilk? Well, it’s about time, and this "Old Sarge" is going to run his mouth until YOU and YOUr Marxist comrades become the social pariahs that YOU all so deservedly become. Now go back to YOUr safe little world where YOU belong, and let the adults keep YOU and YOUr spoiled adult children friends safe for another day, while you spit in their face. Have a nice day.

I would like to add something here for that singer friend of mine: I know my words directed at your friend were harsh. They were meant to be. They were not at all directed toward you. Unlike that other person, you are an adult. It's obvious that the person that emailed you can only see their self-importance. You realize that there are times when you put politics aside and do what is right, despite personal beliefs. Don't ever change. The world is a better place, because of people like you.

Why I'm Voting Republican

2008-06-18T08:27:00.000-07:00

There is a video on Youtube called "Why I'm voting Republican." It is a satire hit piece that basically shows how elitist Liberals label Conservatives as being uneducated warmonging racist hayseeds who want to destroy the environment and allow evil big corporations to make profits. Why don't I act suprised? In the video "Arnold Jones" says he's voting Republican because "all other countries are inferior to us." His wife, "Trudy Jones" adds, "and we should start as many wars as we need to keep it that way." There is a soldier in Iraq who says that he's voting Republican so that he can stay in Iraq. A young boy points a gun at the camera and says, "So I can go to Iran." Gee, I can feel the drool running out of both sides of my mouth. I guess that means the the floor in my house is level. Where is my banjo?

Townhall.com columnist Ben Shapiro penned a response piece titled "Why I'm voting Democrat. Here are some excerpts from that piece along with some additional reasons from others that added comments. I've added a few of my own at the end. This about sums it up. Thanks Ben!

"I am voting Democrat because:

The best strategy in war is defeat

I believe that if I don't have enough money, the solution is for the government to take more of my money. Who needs money when gas is $5 per gallon?

our enemies on the battlefield deserve comfy hotel rooms, Pay-Per-View, prostitutes and all the benefits of American citizenship

I believe we need other countries' permission for me to turn down my thermostat

I care about the real victims of crime -- criminals

because the real cure for racism includes preferential policies based on race

because everyone deserves crappy healthcare

because I believe in minority rights (except in Muslim countries), free speech (with regard to pornography but not conservative talk radio), environmentalism (unless we're talking about Al Gore's house) and diplomacy (but never backed by the threat of military force)

because I believe that America's founders were rich, white [racist], greedy xenophobes, and that America's founding principles are hogwash requiring periodic editing from an unelected group of liberal judges."

Here are some additional ones that were posted in the comment section:

"I'm voting Democrat:

because despite 10 years of lower temperatures amid increasing CO2 levels, I've suddenly realized that humans are warming Gaia Mother Earth Goddess. Also, because I believe the only way to prevent the catastrophe predicted by highly reliable and unbiased computer models is to create a guaranteed economic and social catastrophe by cutting our CO2 emissions by 70%, thereby destroying our modern industrial economy and our civilization

because I believe the government should be able to take my property and give it to some one else that promises to pay more taxes than I do

because we should lock up all of our oil and never drill for any over here because it will ruin the environment and cause even more global warming. Besides we can always get more from our enemies

because we don't pay enough in taxes. Everyone should give everything they earn to the government so they can redistribute it equitably to everyone

because we need more illegal aliens in this country to help support Social Security (OK, the Republicans are just as guilty on this one. Credit where credit is due)

because I prefer to have everything handed to me, rather than actually working for it

because I want to see the United States tethered to the Oil Cartels of the Middle East

because no one should be allowed to make a profit

because I hate rich people, well, rich people that aren't democrats. Well, for that matter, I hate the poor that aren't democrats too

because I am a convicted felon, an illegal alien, or because I am dead... and I vote

because I want to see a mushroom cloud over an American city. We deserve it

because I want to pay $10 for a gallon of gas and $300 a month for electricity

because the only hate speech I approve of is against white people [espcially white males]

because I think any person should be able to walk or swim into America and be allowed to stay and get Welfare

because I want to see this country spend itself into oblivion (Bush is just as guilty on this one)

because I want to see China as the next superpower

because I want young Americans to be brainwashed instead of learning dumb stuff like math and English

because I am a proud and dedicated Communist in the Democrat party and I hate America

because of their emotional arguments that have no basis in truth (or a kernel of truth attached to a bunch of lies. I think it's called Communist propaganda)

because it surely must be nice to be able to give every deadbeat dad, every lazy bum and ho too lazy to work, and the dictators of 3rd world countries other people's money. I want to feel that glow associated with the redistribution of wealth Obama is promising us. Oh, and of course, I don't plan on turning down MY thermostat or stop driving - that is for the idiot taxpayers who make it all happen

because I want to be friends with everybody in the world, especially those fanatical Islamic nutters who follow Bin Laden

because I like the Democratic idea of withdrawing troops from Iraq immediately so that we can invade Pakistan (or station them in Okinawa as John Murtha wants)

because I wish I didn't have so much money to spend on drugs [I'm hoping] voting Democrat will severely diminish my income

because I can't stand McCain [because] he's a patriot. I prefer a leader who is condescending to the hoards of 'gun totin' hillbillies who avidly cling to their religion

because I like the idea of being led by a student of Rev. Wright. His knowledge of racial harmony knows no bounds

because I think he would look highly fashionable in a duck outfit, because he walks like one and he looks like one (how about quacks like one too)

because I believe that the institution of marriage should be expanded to include not just people of the same sex, but multiple partners and animals as well

because I believe that we should cut back on our CO2 emissions by going back to 19th Century living styles to save our planet (that is, YOU are going back to 19th Century living styles, not me)

mainly because I'm stupid (I like that one)"

Here are a few of my own.

I'm voting Democratic because:

I'm lazy and I want the government to take care of me. I want to spend my life playing and having a good time. I don't want to have to take any responsibility for myself. I am such a victim. I'm being opressed by "The Man." Life is so hard. Why can't we be like Europe? They can smoke pot in the coffee houses in Amsterdam

I have an advanced degree paid for by Daddy, andI live a very comfortable upper middle class lifestyle in a big home with every creature comfort known to mankind. Consequently, I feel guilty about it. I won't have to change anything, but since I believe in the right things, it alleviates my feelings of guilt. Of course, I can always drive a Prius and shop at Whole Foods too to show that I care...not that it will reduce my electric bill due to the energy used heating my indoor pool

I'm a good world citizen. I want an illegal alien to mow my lawn, another one to be my kid's nanny, another one to do my laundry and clean my McMansion, while I go shopping for argula at Whole Foods in my hybrid, and then fly to a global warming conference in my private jet

Because of my income level (which I feel guilty about....well, not really), I'll be able to invest in all the new "green" investment opportunites coming down the pike bankrolled by federal grants due to higher taxes.The fact that these funds will have minimum investments of $10,000, $20,000, $50,000 or up to $1million makes them even more attractive.The little people can't afford them. That way I can use the dividends from these investments to offset the tax increases I will have to deal with. This will put more of a tax burden on the average working person and small businesses. But come on, those people are just stupid idiots anyway. They don't deserve to have anything

Because I am an elitist snob who believes that I am entitled to control you for your own good. If I get wealthy in the process from the confiscation of your assests in order to fund my programs, so be it. I'm entitled to what you earn, because I'm better, smarter, more educated, and believe in the right things. If I get wealthy from my green investments funded with grants paid for with your, not my tax dollars, so be it too. I promise that I will throw a few crumbs to the poor, which you will be too once I'm done with you. Most of yours will now be mine. I own you. Welcome to my plantation.

Amtrak Funding

2008-06-16T10:22:00.000-07:00

I just read an article that says that the House just passed a veto proof Amtrak subsidy bill, and that the Senate version is also veto proof. The White House says it will veto it anyway, because it doesn't hold Amtrak accountable for costs. Ok, fair enough. Amtrak should do everything in its power to minimize costs and be as efficient as possible, but let's look at the big picture here. We need to expand passenger rail service in this country. Gasoline is over $4 per gallon, and air travel is going to get very expensive due to fuel costs. It's time to bring back the trains. The problem is, Amtrak is expensive, and that's because I personally don't think that the subsidies are sufficient. If they were, Amtrak would be an affordable alternative to air travel. It's not. I would like to see Amtrak increase service, and would also like to see the states encourage and develop their own inter city and inter urban rail systems to feed into the Amtrak network.

I'm not sure how many passengers can fit in a typical rail car, but if you have 10 or 12 car trains, you can move a lot of people. With electric engines, that means a lot of people being moved without the accompanying exaust from the same amount of people driving their own cars. One of the things Amtrak needs to do, however is to make long distance travel affordable. Right now you can ride a coach seat for the duration of a cross country trip, or you can get a roomette that converts into a first class priced bedroom. Bring back the old fashioned sleeper car where the berths pull down and the seats become beds with privacy curtains for a reasonable additional cost above the price of a coach seat. The shower can be down the hall.

In addition, it's also time for the cities and the suburbs to get away from expanding bus oriented public transportation unless there is no other reasonable alternative, and bring back the street cars and inter urbans of days yore. All urban and suburban public transportation services in our major metropolitan areas need to run 24/7 too.

I can hear some of my conservative friends saying now: "Chip, you can't be serious. As a conservative you are supporting the expansion of publicly funded public transportation systems?" Yes I am. It just makes too much sense. Gasoline is getting to the point where transportation costs are affecting the economy. When costs become too expensive, businesses suffer from loss of business, people lose jobs, and people end up on unemployment, which costs the rest of us money. Worse yet, the working poor, who make low wages because they lack skills and education, find that it is not worth it to work. Transportation costs are too much of an overhead. Therefore, they stay home and collect welfare. It's cheaper. What we don't need is a society where we have more people on welfare. There are too many collecting welfare now.

No public transportation system, short distance or long distance, can be affordable and convenient without massive public funding. It's a no brainer. Here in the DC area we have a halfway decent system called Metro. It's clean, it's relatively safe, and it's confortable most of the time. It has it's problems though. It's not all that cheap, and it's not all that convenient, unless you are living in the city. Expansion of service is slow due to not enough funding for expansion. This needs to be addressed. Build the lines and then encourage economic development along the lines, rather than doing it the other way around with busses.

There was a time when you had inter urban rail systems and trolley cars in the cities and close lying suburbs. Many cities are bringing them back, and the economic growth in those cities is tremendous. Expansion of bus service does not bring the same level of economic development as expansion of rail based public transportation. San Diego and Portland, Oregon proved this. Why? Because, rail travel is fun, and bus travel, for the most part, isn't. While I have nothing against busses and believe that they serve a very useful purpose, the middle class people that live in the suburbs and commute into the cities for work, would love not having to drive if they go back into the city at night for entertainment. They like trains and trolleys. They are fun. Riding a bus with 75 people, many of whom are standing for an hour on your way to work is no fun. With a trolley or light rail, you can add additional cars as needed to alleviate crowding.

Now comes the $50,000 question. How do you fund this? The federal gasoline tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. The average state gasoline tax is 28.6 cents per gallon, and in some areas, there are also county and municipal taxes. With fuel hitting over $4 per gallon, it would be stupid to increase fuel taxes. Most of the interstate highway system in this country is free, with only a small portion being toll roads. increase the amount of the system that is toll operated. That will allow less tax money that is used for expansion and maintenance of the highway system to be used. That money that used to be used for highways should be put into a lock box and used only for funding public transportion systems. You give generous tax breaks to offset the cost of tolls to trucking companies, bus companies, and individuals who need vehicles as part of their line of work. In addition, the actual activity of paying a toll makes people aware of the cost of transportation, rather than just slapping a higher amount on the gas tax and then have them temporarily grumble as they drive out of the gas station and get onto the open road.

Finally, in the high density urban areas, having major league traffic jams at toll booths will encourage people to get out of their cars and take the trolley or train. If they are going to be that stubborn and insist on driving, let them stew in their juices while the rest of us go zipping by in a nice air conditioned light rail, trolley, or train at 70 MPH. We are not taking away their right to drive. If they want to, that's fine. They can deal with the traffic and pay the toll. It's called freedom of choice.

I applaud Congress and the Senate for finally doing something right this term. Up until now they have been batting 1000 in screw ups. Let's use our brains to develop a viable transportation infrastructure for the future to get us off of oil that is sold to our wonderful oil companies (yea I know, you liberals hate them, but I love them) at extortion prices that fund tin pot dictators and terrorists. It will also take the wind out of the financial sail of power hungry billionaire Socialist commodities speculators and hedge fund managers. These anti-American messianic Monopolistic Capitalist Marxists, as opposed to Free Market Capitalists, are hedging against the dollar and artificially driving the price of oil sky high for their benefit and our detriment. These high dollar folks are trying to collapse the US economy for their financial benefit and to panic the American people into electing a Socialist government this coming November.

Most importantly too, this will relieve some of the pressure on our oil companies who are running their refineries at full tilt capacity. It will give them some wiggle room as far as meeting our fuel needs, which will decrease their operating costs and increase their profits. Yea I know that's a bad word...oil company profits. If you do some research, you will find that billions of dollars of oil company profits are being poured back into finding new sources of oil and the development of alternative energy sources. Last year Chevron alone spent over $40 billion in research and development of alternative energy sources...much more than the federal government did.

Yes, bringing back the trains makes too much sense to this conserative.

It's Amazing

2008-05-24T10:44:00.000-07:00

I've decided to keep most of the blog posts short so that I can post more often. With that in mind, here goes.....

I find it hard to belive what is going on energywise in this country, unless it's being done deliberately. I think it is. It's a collusion between the Democrats and their masters...George Soros, hedge fund managers, billionaire socialists, communist environmental groups, and every other anti-American group on the planet. The idea is the get $10 a gallon gasoline before the November election, so that we will end up with a Marxist in the White House. The plan is to "transition" us to the UN's gameplan for a One World Government. America must be destroyed in order for this to take place. The Democrats are in on it, because they are now under the control of a cabal of Marxist elites. Their elite socialist minions have promised them a place at the table when they rule the world. It's right out of Karl Marx's playbook. It's called the "proletariatizing" of the middle class. This is why they have prevented us from becoming energy independent. They claim that we need to be, but then they do everything in their power to prevent it. Then they work to force us to subsidizing their "pet" industries on the greenie side of the coin. These groups then funnel lots of money back to them so that they will continue to keep us from becoming energy independent.

The problem is, the Republicans don't have the balls to stand up to them...starting with George Bush. I firmly believe that you wouldn't have all this Bush hatred from the Left if George Bush had the spine to stand up to his opponents and systematically take them down. The spoiled adult children of the left, the cowardly Marxists that they are, would go sulk in their respective corners for a little "time out."

Also, because the Republicans lost their balls and became too comfortable, we have very little choices for president this November. Here are our choices: We have an elitest Marxist named Obama, a power hungry Marxist named Clinton, and a liberal semi-socialist named McCain, who in my opinion is only marginally acceptable. With this in mind, however, I'm going to vote for McCain, because I think that he can cause the least amount of damage. He's not perfect, but at least he's not a Marxist.

Let's look at where things are heading. You have this bullshit about global warming coupled with an ethanol movement that has reduced the world's food supply and caused us to burn more fuel, because of it's inefficiency. This compounds the problem as it spirals out of control. The Democrats know this, and they are keeping it going, because all they care about is getting one of their beloved Communists in the White House this November and funneling more grants and favors to the "green" industries that then funnel money back to the Democrats. It's time for the American people to wake up. It's also time for the Republican party to stop caving in, grow some balls, and call them on it...big time! President Bush, I'm not hearing you......

Where Are The Good Candidates?

2008-01-19T06:43:00.000-08:00

I’ve been following the primary season very closely, and to be honest, I’m disgusted. What has happened in this country when neither political party can field a candidate that would make a good president? There is a lot at stake in this election, and the American people better wake up fast. If not, this representative republic that has been the greatest nation in the world is going to fall by the wayside.

There are arguments on both sides of the equation about whether or not any candidate is ideologically pure enough to secure the vote of the hard liners of either political party. That’s a fair argument. For me, I’m not so ideologically pure. I tend to look at all the candidates and then vote for what I consider to be the best compromise. So far, however, I can’t seem to find any candidate that would be an acceptable compromise for me.

Let’s start on the left: Hillary Clinton is the Junior Senator from New York. She has no executive experience. She is an arrogant Marxist Elite. That right there eliminates her from any consideration on my part. If the Democrats were so determined to run a woman for president, why not run one of the three eligible sitting Democrat female governors; Kathleen Sebelius, Christine Gregorie, or Janet Napolitano? While I’m not crazy about their politics, they do have executive experience, because they are the chief executives of their respective states. Now let’s look at Barack Obama. Again, no executive experience. He’s the Junior Senator from Illinois coming out of the Chicago political machine. He’s dynamic, charismatic, and a breath of fresh air. So what? He’s also more liberal than Hillary, and his ideas on foreign policy are a joke that will get us all killed. The fact that he’s black shows that yes we have made tremendous advances in Civil Rights. The only one of the Democrats that had the right experience was Governor Bill Richardson. He dropped out of the race after New Hampshire.

Now let’s go to the right: What do the Republicans have? Nobody! You’ve got Mike Huckabee, the former Governor of Arkansas. He’s a Baptist Minister and another Compassionate Conservative kook. Loser. Next you have Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, and a self-made businessman. Those are pluses. He’s a Mormon, and that is going to hurt him if he secures the party’s nomination. Evangelicals won’t vote for a Mormon. It’s sad that there is still religious prejudice here in this country. Romney, in my opinion is the best-qualified candidate, but there is still something about him that I don’t like. I can’t put my finger on it, but I’ve got reservations. Rudy Gulliani is the former Mayor of New York City. That is an executive position. His leadership after the attacks on 9/11 was stellar. However, he’s got a lot of personal baggage, and that’s going to hurt him. He’s also almost as liberal as Hillary on a lot of social issues. John McCain is a senior statesman, but again, no executive experience. He’s a Senator. Also, his stand on amnesty for illegal aliens and his objection to using harsh interrogation techniques against the enemy combatants that are trying to turn this country, and ultimately our world, into an Islamic Caliphate don’t sit well with me. Then there is Fred Thompson, the only candidate with any spine, and the only true conservative in the bunch. I don’t think he’s got a chance. He is my first choice, however. Then there is Ron Paul. Need I say more?

Ok, what do we have? We have weak candidates that are all victims of Political Correctness. We have an electorate that is complacent and apathetic. We complain about urban crime. We moan about illegal aliens. We refuse to hold accountable members of Congress who denigrate our fine men and women that are serving overseas. We do nothing. We have become a nation of lazy, overeducated spoiled brats. We have ignored the slow march toward Socialism that began in the 1920s, and is about to manifest itself with the 2008 election. All the pieces are in place for the deconstruction of the United States of America, leading us to a one world government under the UN. I am not pleased.

We might be at the point where we won’t be able to save us from our own self-destruction. Will we doom ourselves to the ash heap of history as another civilization that became too soft, too arrogant, and too comfortable to hold ourselves together as a nation? We’ll find out after the November election.

Our Health Care "Crisis" And How To Fix It

2008-01-01T11:34:00.000-08:00

There are many people in this country that think that our health care system is in a crisis. It’s not, but it could be in the not so distant future. It’s not because there are supposedly 40 million Americans who don’t have health insurance. I don’t believe that for a minute when you take into account the upwards of 20 million illegal aliens that use our emergency rooms for primary care, and then not pay their bills. Yes, at that point, we get stuck with the bills as the honest law abiding taxpayer. There are also studies that show that most of those supposedly 40 million are only uninsured for a brief period of time. That’s the reason why health insurance needs to be portable. Let the employer pay the employee the money that they spend on a person’s health care package and let the individual shop around for the best deal they can. Let the individual own the policy rather than the company. In this article I’m going to offer two proposals. The first one is how to fix the health care industry using market-based solutions. The second one is a sarcastic take on a national health care plan that would keep rich liberals who want to cut the line by paying cash, from creating and using a bureaucratic two tier health care system to their advantage. Why should they get access to quality care, when they want to force the masses into sub-standard Hillary Care socialized medicine?

Before we get there, however, let’s keep in mind that the health care problems in this country can not be fixed overnight. It’s going to take time, because it has taken a lot of time to get where it is now. If you take a good hard look at the system, it’s expensive, but it’s not broken. We have the best health care system in the world, bar none. I know liberals will argue that point claiming that Europe has better health care, just because it’s free. Liberals, after all, don’t want to have to be responsible for anything. They just want every thing provided to them, while they play and have a good time pursuing whatever pleasure strikes them at the time. For this reason, what they want is a system of socialized medicine. That way they won’t have to be responsible for their own health care. That’s only part of the equation. When you get past the usual liberal smoke and mirrors, the real reason that they want socialized medicine is so that it can be used as a tool to "cull the herd" so to speak. It’s one more means that they can use to force people into certain behaviors and thought processes, or be eliminated from this earth. They can use socialized medicine as a tool to get rid of undesirables who disagree with the Left Establishment’s group think mentality. Communism is Communism even when it’s called Progressivism. When you look at the end result of socialized medicine, you get rationed health care, which means that people are denied life saving procedures, and ultimately, government enforced Euthanasia for the elderly and those considered to be mentally ill. One of the definitions of mentally ill will be anyone who disagrees with the Left’s ideology or positions, and/or speaks out against them.

Now here’s the first solution. As I said, make health insurance portable. You own it, not your employer. It’s yours and you take it with you when you change jobs. You also deregulate the insurance industry so that individuals say in Kansas, can shop around and purchase health insurance in Wyoming if they can find a policy with the coverage they want cheaper there. Force the insurance companies to compete for your business, and the price of insurance will drop. Also, let people purchase the coverage that they need. There is no need for men to have to pay for coverage for mammograms and women to pay for coverage for prostate exams. They don’t need them.

At the same time, we need to rein in the trial lawyers that bring frivolous malpractice lawsuits causing many doctors to get out of the business, and ultimately costing the consumer much more than necessary. There need to be caps on the amount of damages awarded to individuals for so called, "pain and suffering," with most of the award ultimately going to the attorney after legal expenses anyway. Things used to be different. I remember when I was a kid, the doctor would come to the house, and my dad would write the doctor a check for his services. If we went to the office, it was the same thing, but less money. I believe a house call was $15 and an office visit was $10. All routine lab work was done at the doctor’s office, not sent out to a lab, unless it was some sort of specialized test. Plus, there was no need to perform gazillion tests in order to cover the doctor’s ass from a frivolous lawsuit brought by a lawyer like John Edwards. Times have really changed haven’t they? If you really look at it, the price of health care in this country didn’t get all that expensive until people started having health insurance. The problem is not the supposed 40 million people without health insurance, it’s the 260 million that HAVE health insurance. Hey, someone else is now paying for it, who cares about the cost…

Now let’s look at the other solution. If Hillary becomes president, we are in for a world of hurt as far as health care is concerned. What will happen will be a two tiered system like they have in Britain and Canada. You will have the typical Left Wing Marxists who will "insist" on a fair health care system for all, except for them of course. A perfect example is Barbara Castle, a Member Of Parliament in Great Britain, who said, "No one should be able to acquire better health care with a checkbook," yet when her son needed surgery, she admitted him to an expensive PRIVATE hospital under an assumed name. She wasn’t about to use the public health care system that she so vehemently supported for "everyone else." Like most liberals, she is just too freekin’ important.

Here’s my plan for Socialist medicine. We have to make sure that the system is fair and equitable for the "common good." We start by putting the entire health care system under the control of the federal government. No private sector health care will be allowed period. This is to make sure that rich liberals will have to stand in line for their rationed health care just like everyone else. If our politicians and rich liberals have to stand in line, you better believe that the lines will get shorter and shorter all the time.

In order to ensure that there is an adequate supply of health care professionals, you start by nationalizing the medical school system. If you are good enough to get into medical school, the government will provide the training. That way you can accept a reasonable salary upon graduation, that will increase with longevity. All health care workers will be part of the MPH force and will hold the ranks of officers in the Merchant Marines, just like MPH doctors and nurses currently do. A doctor holding the rank of O-3 has a base salary of about $40,000 per year, and that increases with longevity and with promotions. They would also receive variable housing allowances with the amount determined by the cost of housing in their area. In addition, they will also be exempt from any and all malpractice lawsuits. I know the insurance industry and the trial lawyers won’t be happy with this arrangement, but come on now folks, we all have to make sacrifices for the "common good," as Comrade Hillary says.

Now comes the fun part. Liberals are going to hate this, but like I said, it’s for the common good. Get with the program. You are no more important than the rest of us, despite what you think. Free health care is going to be expensive. It’s going to require tax increases in order to pay for it. Therefore, we need to make sure that people lead a healthy lifestyle in order to minimize their use of the system. Healthy people require less medical care than sick people. Many chronic conditions are simply a result of personal lifestyles. Those lifestyles will have to change. Let’s start with substance abuse problems. The health problems of those addicted to hard drugs are well documented, and even benign drugs like marijuana contribute to lung problems over time. Therefore, in order to make sure that people don’t use drugs, every person in this country will be subject to random drug testing. If you test positive the first time, you will be forced into rehab. If you fail a second time, you go to prison, no exceptions. It’s for the common good and it will save the taxpayers money.

The problems associated with alcohol ranging from domestic violence to drunk driving are also well documented. Therefore, every alcohol purchase will need to be accompanied by a Social Security number whether in a bar, restaurant, or liquor store, so that the government can track your alcohol purchases. Once you exceed a certain amount of booze in the course of a month, the government can step in and evaluate you for alcoholism. If you are determined to have a drinking problem, you will be involuntarily enrolled in an inpatient rehab program and be required to abstain from alcohol for a minimum of one year upon leaving the facility. If you relapse, determined by random testing for alcohol in your system, you will be thrown in prison. Yes I know this will force a lot of bars and restaurants out of business, but don’t you think that this will be for the common good? We will need to do the same with cigarette purchases. Every tobacco purchase will need to be accompanied by a Social Security number, so that the government can track tobacco purchases, and deny health coverage for tobacco related diseases in smokers. I'm sure the government will approve of this measure, since their goal is to eliminate smoking, by their own admission. Look at all the smoking bans that are in place in bars and restaurants. The question is, can the government live without the tax revenue that it gets from the sale of tobacco products? I think not.

How about heart problems associated with diet? Let’s do the same thing with red meat. You will only be allowed a certain amount of red meat each month, and your meat purchases will also have to be accompanied by a Social Security number. Once you reach your government-determined amount, you will not be able to make the purchase. The store’s computer, which will be tied into a huge government database like the store’s computers in liquor stores, bars, restaurants and 7-11s, will deny you the "privilege" of purchasing those burgers. If you are having an outdoor barbecue and plan on purchasing steaks or ribs for your guests, you will have to apply for a permit and submit everyone on the guest list’s Social Security number. A Social Security number, with extra attention devoted to fast food establishments will also accompany all purchases at all eating establishments. Isn’t this fun? We are going to make you healthy for your own, and the "common good." What’s the matter? You don’t like this invasion of privacy? Come on Liberals, how else do you think that we can make things fair for everyone and keep costs down? Aren’t you willing to do your fair share? Ah, that’s right. There is no provision for you phonies to bypass the system. Too freekin’ bad.

Next how do we get people to exercise? Let’s see, you make it mandatory. Let employers get a tax deduction for providing health clubs on their premises, or for small businesses, they get a tax break for providing health club memberships—same with the self-employed. Better yet, let’s nationalize the health club industry and make attendance at a gym or some other exercise program for certain number of hours per week, mandatory. Hey, if we are going to nationalize the health care industry, let’s go all the way and nationalize the health club industry too. If you fail to work out a certain number of hours per week without a doctor’s consent, you can do you exercise time in the yard at the "Big House."

There you have it. My proposals to fix the health care problems in this country. Which do you prefer? With the second proposal, I have created the worst case scenario for fixing our health care system with the ultimate in socialized medicine. If you think about it, it’s the only way that socialized medicine would really work. For me, I’m more interested in using the free market to bring down the cost of health care, rather than create the Orwellian nightmare that Hillary Care would be, as the first step in Totalitarian control over our lives. I have a father that is 90 years old with Alzheimer’s. I don’t think that he should be euthanized, which would be a distinct possibility under a national health care system managed by a Far Left Wing Totalitarian government. This is the type of government that the Left wants to force onto the American people for their, and their alone, benefit. I don’t want a system that allows rich liberals to adopt the old, "do as I say, not as I do" mantra, while they continue to deconstruct systematically this country of ours…the greatest republic in the history of the world. My dad is a World War II veteran who fought for the freedoms that we take for granted today. He deserves something much better than the Communism of Hillary Care.

Where Are We Headed?

2007-09-13T10:33:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-08T07:26:00.000-07:00

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.

First Post

2007-07-28T06:37:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone. This is my first post here at Blogspot. I hope that you will find my postings to be informative and entertaining.