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.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Government Of The Elites, By The Elites, For The Elites
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.
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.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
OK Hippies, So You Want To Be Like Europe
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.
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.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Welcome To Europe
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.
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.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Healthcare...they did it
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.
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.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Remaking Of America
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.
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.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
College For Everyone Is Just Plain Wrong
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.
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.
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