Our Last Christmas with the Constitution

The health care bill moving through the Senate is unconstitutional and reveals the Marxist beliefs of the ultra-leftists in control of our country. Limiting CEO pay and shareholder profits for insurance companies is totally unconstitutional. They didn't take any government money. If this sort of thing continues the American republic with be no more. I'm not only blaming this on the Democrats, both sides have contributed to the dramatic shift of power from the states to the federal government.

This health care bill will touch every American life, for their entire life. It will end certain people's lives earlier than they otherwise would have because of rationing. It will involve bureaucrats (looking out for the "collective good") in our individual health care decisions. It will destroy the health insurance companies, laying the groundwork for a federal takeover of the industry.

They are marxists and their aim is to have the state control the production and distribution of goods and services in this country. Their rationale is that the workers are being taken advantage of by "big business" and the "fat cats" on wall street. The state will provide what services we need because the state is objective, the state has the good of the people in mind, not their shareholders or their executives. The state knows what is good for the largest number, so instead of having a few rich, then everyone will have what they need. Those who are able will give what they can to those who are unable to provide for themselves. The capitalists who are soaking up all the wealth by being in positions of power will be put in their place, and replaced by government officials who have the people's best interest at heart, not their bank account, and the bank accounts of their rich friends. All wealth is ultimately derived from the people's labor and therefore they should be able to decide what happens to it, instead of the wealthy CEOs.

This is Marxism. The idea that the wealthy took advantage of you, and their wealth is the result of your labor, therefore you are more entitled to it than they are because they got it illegitimately. You are powerless to get any of it, you are only one person, but in a group you can run things. If you enlist the power of government to make things fair then you will be provided for, because you deserve it.

This is in all the talk we hear from Obama. He gives lip service to capitalism to placate concerned citizens, but all of his actions show that he believes in Marxism. It's not just him it's the whole left wing of his party. They see nothing wrong with Marxism and everything wrong with capitalism.

The only time I have seen Obama show any emotion is when he told the country how outraged he was about AIG. They spent 1 tenth of 1 percent of the federal budget on bonuses and he got outraged. They did what was outlined in the bill that HE SIGNED!!! and he was still outraged. He is a Marxist and he wants to remake us into a Marxist country. Their first step is a socialist health care system. They are going to get it. They have already run up our deficit to unprecedented levels to build public works and fix our infrastructure. This is another Marxist practice.

Russia and China have good public transportation; owned and operated by the government of course. It is for the masses. They don't trust money in the hands of private businesses, they won't do what is right for the people. Only the government knows what is right for the people, they have the people's best interest at heart, naturally. The capitalists only have their own greed as their interest. They only want to take advantage of the people. Having said that, China and Russia are changing. They are giving their businesses more autonomy and greater financial freedoms. Exactly the opposite of what we are doing.

How much more power can the federal government accumulate? At what point will it be enough? When will they have fixed every problem in the country with their programs and all knowing boards of bureaucrats?

It will never stop. They will only add more regulation, another new program, request more power, and in the process further fracture the constitution to achieve their benevolent goals. We are fast approaching the time when our country will no longer be a federated republic, it will be an empire. An empire with powerless state governments and a corrupt legislature that is only a rubber stamp for the president. They will no longer care what their constituents want because they are too busy getting rich off the corruption in Washington.

I think we are at a tipping point. If we assert our power in elections and remove the power in Washington, it will simultaneously remove the corruption and power will devolve back to the states. If we don't, and we let this gathering of power in Washington continue, then our republic will end. It won't disappear, but it will no longer be a true representative republic. It will be a charade. The leaders will go through the motions of appealing to the people and stay within their terms of office. We will still have our freedoms generally, but certain things will be locked in, that we will not ever be able to change.

The enormous federal debt will hamper our ability to defend our allies, it will weaken our economy and currency. Much of our lives will be run by or be dependent upon the federal government, with the state governments acting as administrative districts of the federal government. The economy will be largely regulated and molded by the federal government. Entire industries will be run from Washington. We will be given aid for school, housing, car loans, transportation, child care, retirement, health care, and food. The vast majority will welcome the help because taxes and expenses will be so high that we will need the help to make ends meet. We will have free speech, we won't have illegal searches and seizures. We'll still have our guns and religion, but they will both be regulated to some extent. It won't be that bad. We'll have food, modest houses, decent cars, enough food, decent medical care. There will still be poor people, but they will be that way if they want to, or if they are mentally ill. We will all be a little poorer, except for the wealthy ruling class. We will be like France or Sweden, but without a powerful wealthy ally to protect us and support our lavish and unrealistic welfare state. We won't have the luxury of acting like a selfish teenager living in our parents house, eating, playing, and having fun, while the grownups take care of things in the real world. While all the while telling our guardians how old fashioned and uptight they are about everything and that they should cool off and just hang out like us.

If we don't confront the Marxist ideology that has infected this country we are headed for a languid, insecure, and bankrupt mediocrity.

Iraq is Taking Control Depsite Democratic Calls for Surrender

Iraq is finally taking control of its own country.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533798,00.html

They are enforcing the status of forces agreement that was agreed to during the Bush administration. Iraq is finally stable enough, and the Iraqi forces are strong enough to patrol the country on their own. This is a direct result of Bush's surge. This result is also in direct contradiction to what Obama predicted would happen when the surge started. Obama wanted U.S. troops to leave in order to force the Iraqis to fix their political differences. As if fixing political differences would stop suicide bombers. Force was what fixed this war, not political maneuvering, twitter, freedom of the press, or Obama's beloved diplomacy. Brute force, boots on the ground made Iraq secure enough for Iraq to fix its problems. Obama had it in reverse order. Just like he does now. Negotiating alone will not get Iran, or any of our enemies, to change. A credible threat of, or actual show of force is the only thing that will make negotiations effectual.

Just as we can't give Obama credit for a peaceful Iraq, we also can't reasonably blame him for the bad economy. We can blame him for what he is doing to it right now to prolong and deepen it, but being in this situation is not his fault.

America's Road

Capitalism is one of the pillars of America, and as it is replaced by government control, our country is weakened.

Choice is just one of the reasons why capitalism is better than socialism. We need to have choice not simply for the sake of having choice, and not simply because it is "evil" to have the government run things, but because it works better when multiple private entities compete. When the government takes over an industry or a service, they are the only ones that do it, because they compete all the private business out of business. They are their own government sponsored monopoly.

Liberals love to tell us that when companies are allowed to run services or industries, that they are scraping money off the top for themselves and their "evil" profits. They act as though handing the job over to the government will keep quality high, and prices will drop because we are cutting out the middle man. This is classic marxism, let the factory workers take over the factory and get rid of the capitalist who is profiting from everyone else's poverty. That might have been an attractive system in 19th century Russia, and America for that matter. Today, however it is a recipe for disaster.

When government takes over a sector of the economy it runs all the other companies out of business and then we are left with one choice, the government sponsored service. Yes, when you let companies run things, there are CEOs that make hundreds of millions of dollars, but you also have millions of employees making good money, and you have millions of satisfied customers. If a company fails to satisfy its customers, then it goes out of business, those CEOs lose their jobs and the customers go somewhere else to get what they want.

Not so when the government runs things. You can't go anywhere else. You get what the govenrnment provides when and how they want to provide it, and that's it. It doesn't matter how badly the entity is run because it can't go out of business. Of course the super rich can get things, just like they can in capitalism, but now that all the competition is gone, regular people are stuck with substandard government enterprises. With employees that take no pride in their work, because there is no compeitition for customers. They can treat you however they want, you have to come to them, you are their servant. They are always right, not you.

Socialism is a utopian dream. Liberals constantly point to Japan and Europe as examples of how it works. Well those countries aren't living in the real world. They are propped up by our military. They can use all the money they would otherwise have to spend on defense on inefficient social programs instead. They don't have to worry about their security like any real country would have to, because we are there to protect them. They are American protectorates and have been since WWII. The Soviet Union had to look out for itself and once it tried to compete with our economy, culture, and military buildup, it didn't stand a chance.

I ask you, look around the world and through history, where has a socialist country not protected by the United States prospered? Nowhere. It doesn't work. It makes the country poor. They have no innovation because the bureaucratic behomoth of the government smothers change. Why is the internet exploding with commerce and innovation? Because it isn't regulated, it isn't taxed. Why is the American car industry breathing its last breath? because it is regulated and unionized to death. It can't change to meet our needs on a dime like Microsoft and Apple, Ebay, and Google can. The government has bound them down with excessive regulation and the market is signalling that those companies should die, but the government won't let them. This will be every company when the government controls our economy. An economy of zombie corporations, that aren't really working right, but that the government props up to keep the economy running.

This is the test of our country, will we let individuals succeed, or will we let the government coddle everyone and control everything in the name of fairness, equity, and security. Will we let a crisis shake our belief in freedom, competition, intitiative, small government, personal responsibility and hard work? It looks as though the Democratic congress and the President are headed that way. They want to take care of us. They are protecting us from the problems that their ideologyhas by and large created. They'll try to blame it on deregulation and Bush's "failed policies" and they will probably get away with it. But they are wrong. They are ruining our country in their very efforts to perfect it.

America will decline, and the people will call out for more control to fix the situation. The people have been taught to believe in the collective, not the individual. The Congress will give more control to the executive to fix one crisis after another because they want results not "grid lock."They want to "work together and stop yelling at one another." Our republic is failing because our leaders in Congress are corrupt. They only care about staying in office. They don't care about the long term welfare of the country. They want the President to take control, to shift the responsibility of actually governing away from themselves. They want the courts to decide what the Congress should decide. They won't use the power that the founders gave them, and control the federal government. That's too difficult. It is easier to let others take control and live in the lap of luxury they have created for themselves. Instead of governing they want to milk the country, get a pension and retire while the country implodes.

Unless we weed out our corrupt congressman and senators, our republic will take the same road as the only other successful republic in history, Rome. America will turn into an empire. After all, an empire is more efficient. Legislative bodies are messy, slow, and don't always get the job done. Emperors fix things. That is the strength of the executive, that is why he is there, to take action when it is needed. Well, if we are in perpetual crisis, and the people look to the government for their security and well being then the executive is the logical choice. Get out of the way Congress, you obviously can't get it done, let the leader take over, he'll figure it out.

America won't crumble immediately, it is too strong for that, but it will decay and it will be less free, and over time it will weaken because of its decadent, irrepsonsible, and self destructive government and people.

Economy to Obama: "I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!"

Nearly every time I hear President Obama speak he says that there is a huge emergency that we have to fix as soon as possible. We are in a crisis, yes, but we still have the Constitution. It demands that congress deliberate about sensible bills and come to conclusions that are reasonable instead of passing a 787 billion dollar stimulus bill without reading it first, nationalizing huge companies, and destroying our health system through a government takeover. We can't let the Democrats push through a series of unconsidered and haphazard legislation because they don't want to waste this crisis/opportunity.

Additionally, many of the things they are doing or proposing are unconstitutional. Buying car companies, running health care, mandating that people get health insurance. I never saw that in the Constitution. I don't even hear anyone asking if what they are doing is constitutional. We need to start asking that.

If Obama Wanted to Fix the Economy He Could

There are many reasons for the downturn that I don't pretend to understand. One thing I do understand is that unemployment is the main problem right now. What could fix unemployment? Capital investment. Employers employ people and create wealth. Not government programs, not "going green" and especially not higher taxes and nationalizing companies. If Obama cut taxes across the board, he would create jobs. It's that simple. Now he said in an interview that he understands this, but that his intent is equity, not increased government revenue through economic expansion. He is willing to have us suffer through this depression so that he can redistribute the wealth in a way which he thinks is equitable. I disagree with his philosophy and methods, and I think by 2012 a majority of Americans will too.

The Affirmative Action Comedian

This lady is a lame comedian. Why didn't she just bring out some "yo mama" jokes for good measure. What mean spirited comedy.

Americans Need to Wake Up 50 Trillion Dollars is a Lot

It irritates me that Americans (I don't mean anyone in particular) have no idea how much money is being spent. AIG gives 150 million in bonuses and everyone freaks out. The Congress gives 2 Trillion dollars to crappy companies, and no one cares. What the hell! I don't know math, but if you divide 150 million by Obama's federal budget monstrosity of 3.4 trillion, you get. 4.41176471 × 10-5. You figure out what percentage that is of the budget. 4.41176471 x 10-3? It is almost literally nothing. David Brooks said it was like .001 or something. Over the next 30-40 years we're looking at 50 trillion in entitlement liabilities, Soc Sec, Medicaid, Medicare. What is Obama doing about that? He's creating MORE entitlements. Not reforming the existing ones. During the debates, Obama said he's going to use a scalpel opposed to McCain's hatchet. Here is his tiny 17 billion dollar scalpel. And there's a lot of naive Americans that are going to eat it right up.