"We Are All Socialists Now" Except For The Dissidents

February 16th, the magazine Newsweek made national headlines with the cover story "We Are All Socialists Now" by Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas. They were talking primarily about the banking bailout, health care and the economic stimulus bill. They laid the blame on George Bush,"The U.S. government has already—under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries." What they failed to point out was that Bush wanted to help the ailing banking and mortgage industries, but it was the Democrats that insisted on the government receiving stock in those companies that received help, it was not Bush that forced companies that did not want or need help, such as Wells Fargo, to accept help anyway. It was not Bush that decided any company that received help would be subject to salary caps that are completely contrary to a "free-market" system. They went on to say, "under a conservative GOP administration that we enacted the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years: prescription drugs for the elderly," clearly forgetting that it was the Democrats that forced the bill that Bush signed. They do point out inconsistencies in the way Americans are thinking, "Polls show that Americans don't trust government and still don't want big government. They do, however, want what government delivers, like health care and national defense and, now, protections from banking and housing failure." A recent Fox News poll showed that 82% of Americans believe government is responsible to help rebuild communities hit by disasters, 68% believe government should make sure all Americans have food, 66% think government is responsible for ensuring all Americans have health care, 52% believe government should provide housing to those who cannot afford it, 51% believe government should provide jobs for Americans.
But Meacham and Thomas do write that Americans, "don't trust government and don't want big government." While this poll and the previous statement in the Newsweek article seem to be contradictory, they are actually symptomatic of the real problem in America; people are increasingly ignorant of what socialism really is. February 10th, Senator Tom Coburn (R-Ok) said in a speech on the stimulus bill, "Let me conclude by saying we are at a seminal moment in our country. We will either start living within the confines of realism and responsibility or we will blow it and we will create the downfall of the greatest nation that ever lived.
This bill is the start of that downfall. To abandon a market-oriented society and transfer it to a Soviet-style, government-centered, bureaucratic-run and mandated program, that is the thing that will put the stake in the heart of freedom in this country." Alan Keyes wrote on his blog, http://loyaltoliberty.blogspot.com "Coburn says that the policies being pursued by Obama will lead to a "Soviet-Style, government centered, bureaucratic-run and mandated" result. As I recall, the Soviet-style of government was a communist state." One must wonder how many people remember what Soviet Russia was really like, if anyone remembers watching news reports in the 70's of the breadlines, of people waiting for days to buy just one roll of toilet paper.
Meacham and Thomas conclude the Newsweek article in this way, "The Obama administration is caught in a paradox. It must borrow and spend to fix a crisis created by too much borrowing and spending. Having pumped the economy up with a stimulus, the president will have to cut the growth of entitlement spending by holding down health care and retirement costs and still invest in ways that will produce long-term growth. Obama talks of the need for smart government. To get the balance between America and France right, the new president will need all the smarts he can summon." Unfortunately, Meacham and Thomas haven't taken the time to consider all of the bills that are appearing in Congress since Comrade President has taken office. If they had, they would know that he has no intention of getting a balance between "America and France."
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fl) has sponsored a bill, HR 645 that has moved into committee. HR 645 is written to mandate the building of "Emergency Relief Centers" on military installations, not LESS than six. On its surface it seems like a good idea until you read the one line that leaves it open for a more nefarious use, "To meet any other appropriate need, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security." This one line leaves the bill open to concentration camps to hold political dissidents opposing Comrade Presidents social agenda. Who will decide what is "appropriate"? The socialists will make that decision for us.
Next we have HR 45, the Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009. HR 45 was sponsored by Rep. Bobby Rush(D-Il). This bill is in the Judiciary committee now. It requires licensing to own and possess firearms, the license is temporary and must be renewed every five years. It also mandates letting the government know where you live and where the weapons in question are stored at all times. There is an exemption to these requirements,"SEC. 801. INAPPLICABILITY TO GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITIES.
This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall not apply to any department or agency of the United States, of a State, or of a political subdivision of a State, or to any official conduct of any officer or employee of such a department or agency." A political subdivision? Like maybe Comrade President's "Civilian Security Force"?
There are currently eight states that have signed non-binding legislation to reassert their sovereignty with twelve more expected to pass similar legislation before the end of this year. The governors of several of these states have complained about the restrictions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill just signed into law by Comrade President. But the Socialists have ensured that the state's will receive the money whether the governor approves or not. They inserted a line that gives the feds the right to bypass the governor of any state that refuses the money, and allow the state assembly to spend it without the governor's input. This will set up a precedent that would allow Comrade President to bypass Posse Comitatus, and use the state militias against any dissidents that oppose him in the future. That precedent will be needed when the American people wake up to what is happening to their country.
There is talk of bringing back the "Fairness Doctrine." Comrade President says he is against it. He isn't for the idea publicly, but he has done his part to shut down opposition when he told Republicans, "You can't listen to Rush Limbaugh..." The Democrats in Congress are increasingly talking about bringing back the "Fairness Doctrine" and Comrade President will sign it when they do. He has no choice, he needs it. The simple fact is that liberal talk radio loses money and for that reason doesn't last on radio. With the Fairness Doctrine, the Liberals can force liberal talk radio down the throats of Americans until those Americans that listen to talk radio quit doing so. That will cause radio stations to lose money on talk radio, the stations will then go to something people will listen to, like music. Then the conservative voice has been effectively shut down, giving the socialists free reign to do whatever they want without public knowledge; so much for transparency.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Rahm Emanuel said, speaking specifically on the economy, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you didn't think you could do before." Unfortunately, he may not have been talking only about the economy. Vice President Biden said, "Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy." The question is if it will truly be an international "crisis." I tend to believe that he will be "tested" domestically. People are mad, at least, according to polls, half of us. Some are even going so far as to talk about civil war or revolution, myself included but only if the American people make an honest effort to reign in their elected leaders first. When people start to rise up against Comrade President and his socialist pod people, he will have the crisis he needs and one that fits into Rahm Emanuel's scenario. He will be able to fulfil the plans that Government has been putting in place since Comrade President's inauguration. We will see the Government pull the various National Guard units from around the country into action against the American people, dissidents will be rounded up and placed into internment camps, weapons will be collected and the American people will be disarmed to prevent them from fighting for their freedom, constitutional rights will be suspended. And America will not be a "European" socialist nation, it will be more along the lines of an old Soviet model.

Comrade President Brings Us Still Closer to Civil War

"We the People", this phrase, these three little words are the most important wordsin our Constitution. They set the tone for the Constitution that is our guiding principles and laws. These three simple words, combined with the idea behind the phrase that President Lincoln used in the Gettysburg Address,"government of the people, by the people, and for the people," give us the political system that we have enjoyed until recent years, a system of self-rule, a system that has been perverted over the years. A system that is now threatened with extinction.

"We the People" and "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" tell us the most important aspect of our form of government is "We the People." We are the government, we elect people as our representatives to go to Washington DC in our behalf. These people are mere representatives, they are not the Government even though we call them government, "We the People" are the government, we hold the authority. Or rather, we held the authority, until we gave it up, through laziness and complacency, to our elected representatives.

It didn't happen overnight, we gave up our authority over years, decades. We allowed ourselves to become reliant on the false government presented by our representatives; a false government that offered social security, first as an optional program, then as a mandated program; a false government that offered welfare payments for the poor, then made it almost impossible for the poor to get off of that welfare program; a false government that wanted income taxes temporarily to pay for the first World War, then brought in the IRS and made those taxes permanent and used it to control the people they answered to; a false government that now threatens to gain control over every aspect of our lives. We wanted a carefree life, with no worries about how to provide for ourselves, our families; we wanted ther best healthcare but didn't want to worry about how to pay for it; we wanted the best homes, without worrying about how to pay for them; we wanted low fuel prices without having to sacrifice by cutting back on our consumption; we wanted the best jobs without having to earn them, without having to start at the bottom and work our way up; we wanted our elected representatives to make our lives easier, safer, better; we wanted someone else to be government for us.
Now we have it, we elected Comrade President and his pod people from the Democratic Party. Why? Because they made promises to do just that for us.
Comrade President promised that we would have health care paid for by the government, he promised that we would have "renewable" energy, he promised that we would end the war that we are all getting tired of(Nevermind that we need to win before we can end it). On his first day in office, Comrade President set to the work of ending the war; he declared the war on terror was over, he signed an executive order to close GITMO and bring the terrorists to American courts; by the end of his second week in office, Comrade President had signed orders suspended trials of the terrorists that had been captured on the battlefield, and dropped charges against the terrorist that is charged with planning the attack on the USS Cole and causing the deaths of seventeen American sailors. Comrade President, with the help of the pod people, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid, passed and signed into law an expansion of SCHIP, the state children's health insurance; almost the same plan that was vetoed in October of 2007, after the American people buried Congress in phone calls demanding that the bill be struck down; now the new SCHIP bill has been expanded even more, it now includes "children" up to thirty years of age that make up to $65,000 a year; this program to indoctrinate our youth into universal health care will be paid for on the backs of smokers with an oppresive increase in tobacco tax.
Currently, we have a recession to deal with; Comrade President and the pod people have convinced us that it is as bad as the Great Depression, that we needed urgent action to prevent a total economic meltdown; to do this they have come up with a plan, just before the election in November they came up with a bailout plan that President Bush wanted, but the pod people insisted on a provision that would give the government controlling interest in the financial institutions that got the bailout money, for the institutions such as Wells Fargo that didn't need or want the money, the pod people had a plan, they forced these companies to partake against their will and still recieved controlling interest. When that bailout failed, as predicted by loyal conservatives, the pod people came up with a new plan; the new plan was the same plan but for the auto industry. Again, the plan failed to "correct" the problem, but by now Comrade President was in office; armed with his "authority" and a claim of the "will of the people," and with the help of Pelosi and Reid, Comrade President has a new plan, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; a plan which he promises will create four million new jobs at a time that Speaker Pelosi assures us that each month we don't pass this "stimulus" bill another five hundred Americans lose their jobs(never mind the fact that the entire population of the US is only three hundred million according to the most recent census report).
How does Comrade President and his pod people intend to create four million new jobs? He intends to do it with the economic stimulus bill; with stimulating provisions like the $4,000,000,000 to smoking cessation programs, refer back to the SCHIP funding to see just how great this plan is(never mind the fact that encouraging people to quit smoking does nothing to "create" jobs, only serving to end jobs in the tobacco industry);$1,000,000,000 for livestock insurance; a GAO study on the revocation of security clearances since1996; $22,129,000,000 for loans for the purchase of rural homes; $2,825,000,000 for high-speed internet for rural areas; $1,000,000,000 for census taking; $100,000,000 to revamp the management of WIC(Women Infants and Children); $150,000,000 for emergency food assistance; $650,000,000 for digital-to-analogue converter boxes; $600,000,000 for the aquisition of satellites to study "global warming;" $400,000,000 for "science" with $250,000,000 dedicated to Earth science climate research; $2,500,000,000 for research; $350,000,000 for green energy developement for military installations, vehicles and equipment; $2,000,000,000 for renewable energy research; $7,700,000,000 to convert government buildings to green energy; $426,000,000 for small business loans, in order to qualify for these loans a small business owner must pass a criminal background check; $325,000,000 for road, bridge and trail repair; $300,000,000 for National Wildlife Refuges and National Fish Hatcheries; $1,700,000,000 for the National Park Service; $500,000,000 for unemployment insurance; $600,000,000, of which $300,000,000 shall not be available until October 1, 2009, shall be for the training of nurses and primary care physicians and dentists as authorized under titles VII and VIII of the PHS Act, for the provision of health care personnel under the National Health Service Corps program authorized under title III of the PHS Act, and for the patient navigator program authorized under title III of the PHS Act; $700,000,000 for comparative effectiveness research, In addition, $400,000,000 shall be available for comparative effectiveness research to be allocated at the discretion of the Secretary of Health and Human Services; $3,200,000,000 for Children and Family Services; $3,000,000,000 for the Prevention and Wellness Fund; $800,000,000 for AMTRAK; $79,000,000,000 for the Department of Education. There is more, much more; that vast majority of which would do absolutely nothing to create jobs, they are mostly just pushing the Democrats' social engineering agenda to bring us all under the thumb of communism. As of February 6 the total amount of this "stimulus package was $937,000,000,000. When the Republicans called it a "spending" package, which it was, Comrade President responded by saying spending is stimulus. To be fair to Comrade President, spending is economic stimulus, but only if the spending is done by consumers, not by the false government. Late on February 6, the Democrats in the Senate reported that they had reached a compromise agreement with the Republicans that shaved the spending bill to a mere $780,000,000,000, but by the next morning the cost of the bill was back to $837,000,000,000, with the cost of interest on the loan required to pay for this bill still not figured in. By the time the Senate votes on this bill, February 9 at the earliest, the bill will be back over $900,000,000,000.
Anyone with any complaints against the "government" for this outrageous spending and social engineering bill can look forward to HR645. For those who don't know HR645 mandates the building of "not less than six 'Emergency Detention Centers' on military installations." The only problem with the bill as it stands is this provision: Section 2 (4) to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security. This one line opens the use of these installations as detention for any persons or group of persons that may feel a need to revolt against Comrade President's and his pod peoples' new communistic government.
While I have never felt that a civil war was needed, it is starting to look like the "government" will allow no other option. Before a nation can go to war with itself, there must first be an effort by the people to take back control of their destiny by legal means, every possible effort must be made. When a false government refuses to listen to the people that employ them after those efforts have been exhausted, there can be no other option left. I don't like it, but we are almost to that point now. If Comrade President and his lackeys don't reverse course and remember their place, civil war will become necessary.

Making Change Happen, The Obama Way

President-elect Obama has promised change. Change is what he'll deliver. Conservatives have pointed to Obama's cabinet picks and pointed out that there was no sign of change there. To be honest, Most of Obama's picks are an indication of his desire to go back to the Clinton era way of doing things.

Leon Panetta has been tapped to be the next CIA director. Even fellow Democrats are unhappy about this choice. Leon Panetta worked in the Clinton administration, for a while as Chief of Staff, and helped push the Clinton way. With Panetta's help, Clinton damaged America's intelligence agencies almost to the point of no return. The CIA and the FBI could not talk to each other, they could not exchange necessary information, they were forced to stand by and watch helplessly while terrorists trained for a fatal mission at flight schools in Florida. With Panetta's help Clinton made it impossible for the CIA to gain information from "less than reputable" persons, as if the more reputable people had the information we needed to keep our nation safe. Who could have possibly known that shopkeepers and construction workers would not have been able to tell us about whether Saddam Hussein was attempting to aquire nuclear weapons, how could we have known that we needed to talk to terrorists and illegal weapon suppliers to find out what he was up to? But at least the world knew that we didn't get bad information from disreputable sources. Leon Panetta has come out against coersive interrogation tactics or, as he refers to them, torture. It will be alot easier to get the needed intelligence from the terrorists when we can just fix them a nice bowl of humus and simply ask them what they were planning and who is involved with them. Mr. Panetta knows better than any of us just how accommadating the terrorists are, if we are just nice and polite to them. With all of his experience in questioning terrorists, Mr. Panetta would be the first to tell us that the terrorists are really very nice people that want to help us in our war againts terrorism.

Mr. Obama also chose Eric Holder to be the Attorney General. Another fine choice, to be sure. Eric Holder was in the Justice Department during the Clinton Administration. Eric Holder was instrumental in securing pardons from Bill Clinton for 16 FALN terrorists that had been convicted bank robbery, explosives possession and participating in a seditious conspiracy. Mr. Holders experience in these matters make him a fantastic judge of character, he recognized that these were not bad people but rather innocent victims mistakenly caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time, obviously deserving of a pardon. Holder was also the architect of the Marc Rich pardon. Rich was the commodities trader that left the country in 1983 to avoid prosecution for tax evasion, racketeering and trading with the enemy. Eric Holder knew it was just a misunderstanding, an upstanding citizen such as Marc Rich would never have gotten himself involved in these atrocities; this was just another case of an innocent victim that was in the wrong place at the wrong time that got accidentally sucked into some slightly criminal activity through no fault of his own. Eric Holder was involved in the Elian Gonzalez case. Elian Gonzalez was the six year old Cuban child whose mother died attempting to reach the United States. According to American law, he should have been sent home to his father immediately upon his release from the hospital in Florida based on two American laws. The first law would be the "wet foot, dry foot" policy. Since he never made it to American soil before he was plucked from the ocean he was supposed to go back to Cuba. The second law that would govern his return was America's child custody laws, since his father had never been proven to be unfit as a father, when Elian's mother died, according to law custody went to his father. Bill Clinton and Eric Holder couldn't do the right thing until they knew what public sentiment was, this led to a process that ended when the FBI raided the home of Elian's mother's distant relatives to take the child at gun point. That entire nightmare could and should have been avoided by doing the right thing from the start, but Eric Holder knew better than anyone else.

Tom Daschle is Obama's choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Another fine selection. Daschle has a plan to make health care more affordable, less effective but more affordable(we can't have everything). His most recent plan would begin with the formation of a Federal Health Board. The FHB would be similar to the Federal Reserve but geared towards health care rather than the economy, this woulfd be a great idea considering how effective the Federal Reserve has been on the economy. The FHB would compare the effectiveness of various medical procedures and drugs. They would reduce health costs by prohibitibng procedures and drugs that are deemed to expensive for their effectiveness. Daschle's plan would be based on Britain's National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence(NICE). "NICE considers treatments to be cost-effective if their cost-effectiveness ratio is $34,000 per QALY(quality adjusted life year)." One QALY is one year of healthy life expectancy. In other words, if your treatment exceeds $34,000 and it is a very slim chance that you will make a year or more of life expectancy, you won't get treatment. There's "Big Brother" for you, they will get to decide how long you can live and if you can have treatment that you need.

Obama wants Janet Napolitano to head the Department of Homeland Security. Another great choice. In her position at Homeland Security, Ms. Napolitano will be in charge of border security among other things. While Ms. Napolitano supports a "virtual" fence, she is opposed to an actual fence that would help to stem the flow of illegals into the US. She also opposes the Real ID Act. But she is in favor of immigration reform, a temporary worker program and a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens who have already shown a disregard for American law by coming here illegally.

These are just some of the key positions that need to be filled and the people that Obama wants to fill these positions. With these people Obama will bring about the "change" he has promised. Amongst those changes will be the closing of Guantanamo's GITMO detention center where we hold our battlfield combatants. Rep. Diane Feinstein said,"the president-elect has clearly stated that he wishes to close Guantanamo and end the use of torture in interrogations. I look forward to working with the new president to achieve these goals." With the help of the Democratically controlled Congress Obama will achieve his goal at the detriment of the nation. Without GITMO and some more coersive interrogation techniques we will never gain the intelligence that Panetta lacks the experience to properly and effectively interpret. This failure will lead to attacks in this country that Bush's team has so far avoided since the first attack on 9/11/01. Add in Janet Napolitano's border plan and we will have a new way for the terrorists to get here so we won't even know they are here until we have another 3,000 dead Americans. On the plus side, there is Secretary Daschle with his health care plan. With this genius we can be assured that noone will be able to get health care when the terrorists do attack us, thereby killing any who might otherwise have survived the upcoming attacks.

Nobody can doubt that Obama means well. It would be impossible to believe that a man would suffer the indignaties of a presidential campaign with the goal of intentionally harming the nation from the vantage point of the Oval Office. What we, as a nation, must doubt is his ability to understand the risks we face as a nation in these trying times. Obama's cabinet choices only act to accentuate his failing to comprehend and effectively deal with the nation's most urgent security risks. His offer to speak to our most dangerous enemy, Iran, without preconditions and, most recently, with Hamas only reaffirms any belief that Obama lacks the judgement needed to be president in these times. Obama said in a speech to the US Senate in March 2007,"We are here to do the work that ensures no other family members will have to lose a loved one to a terrorist who turns a plane into a missile, a terrorist who straps a bomb around her waist and climbs aboard a bus, a terrorist who figures out how to set off a dirty bomb in one of our cities. This is why we are here: to make our country safer and make sure the nearly 3,000 who were taken from us did not die in vain; that their legacy will be a more safe and secure nation."

That sounds good for a speech. He also said in another speech, this time in front of the Chicago Foreign Affairs Council in April, 2007,"Our country's greatest military asset is the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States. When we do send our men and women into harm's way, we must also clearly define the mission, prescribe concrete political and military objectives, seek out the advice of our military commanders, evaluate the intelligence, plan accordingly, and ensure that our troops have the resources, support, and equipment they need to protect themselves and fulfill their mission."

Anyone can tell that president-elect Obama can read a teleprompted speech better than any person in politics today. The problem will come when he is sitting in the Oval Office, with no speech to make, but faced with a decision that could mean the death of hundreds, thousands or millions of Americans if he makes a mistake. Mr. Obama should show us some wisdom. He should look at what George W. Bush has managed to accomplish, while he admittedly has very low approval ratings, Bush has prevented additional terrorist attacks on American soil using the techniques that Obama wants to avoid in the future.