April 2010 Archives

I recently received an email from a friend (at least I think he's my friend) in which he called me an idiot.  Well, he didn't directly call ME an idiot, but he referred to Tea Partiers as idiots.  I'll assume he did not know I was a Tea Partier since he subsequently emailed me and removed me from his list of idiots.  For which I'm eternally grateful--I think.

But it did give me pause to wonder why Tea Partiers are thought of by many as idiots.  So in my best Jeff Foxworthy impression:

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you believe the US Constitution is written in stone and not "living and breathing", subject to the whims of vainglorious legislators or misguided judges.

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you think that "Thou Shalt Not Steal" applies to everyone; including the government.

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you think that corporate cronyism will lead to fascism.

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you think that "Press 2 for Spanish" or bilingual education does little to assimilate immigrants into the American culture leading to the "Balkanization" of America.

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you see the federal government as out-of-control and encroaching more and more on our civil liberties.

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you think that every single government program is on the verge of bankruptcy.

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you resent the enslavement of minorities by a federal government that gives them handouts instead of opportunities.

You may be a Tea Partier...
    If you are angry that your children's and grandchildren's futures are being mortgaged to China.

And you may be a Tea Partier...

    If you tire at being called a racist and a bigot because you believe in the America of our Founding Fathers.

If these make me a Tea Partier AND an idiot, well, you can just call me "Lord of The Idiots."  

That's a moniker I'd be proud to wear.

"Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself."  An oft overlooked phrase, that if the lame-stream media had done its job and done its research, would have shown the American people who Barack Hussein Obama really is and what he actually had in mind when he said that he would "fundamentally change the United States of America."

So for those of you who keep sneering at we the people's vocal opposition to this man's disastrous economic policies; for those of you who say we are racist for pointing out the obvious anti-capitalist sentiments of a man of Marx; for those of you who think spreading the wealth is fair (unless of course, it's YOUR wealth) let me show you just who Barack Hussein Obama really is by taking him at his word.  Let's see who surrounds him.

HIStory:  His father, Barack Obama Sr. was a Kenyan who came to the US to study economics at Harvard.  Upon his return to Kenya, he wrote an article in the East Africa Journal offering a scathing critique of capitalist enterprise that then existed in Kenya.  The article, called "Problems Facing Our Socialism," makes the economic case that high taxes are morally and practically good, if the government then uses them to provide for the people. How high should the tax rates be?  "Theoretically," he wrote, "there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.  It is a fallacy to say there is a limit (to tax rates), and it is a fallacy to rely mainly on individual free enterprise to get the savings."

Gee, I wonder where BHO got the idea to "spread the wealth?"

His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a communist sympathizer who was a practioner of "critical theory;"  another watered-down term for Marxism.  She was a member of a church in Washington that was nicknamed "The little red church" because of its communist sympathies.  His mother left the young BHO with her mother and father who were good friends with William Marshall Davis, who became mentor to the young Obama.

His mentor:  William Marshall Davis was a radical activist and journalist who was an avowed communist and member of the American Communist Party.  In Obama's memoirs he recounts how he visited Davis on several occasions to seek his counsel.

In his book "Dreams from My Father"  Obama admittedly sought out Marxist professors and professed to attending socialist conferences at Cooper Union.  He spent twenty years sitting in a pew listening to the "hate America" sermons of black liberation theologist Jeremiah Wright.

Obama started off his political career in the home of sixties radicals/terrorists William Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn, who escaped prosecution for the murder of a San Francisco policeman on a technicality.  Were they ever sorry for their crime?  Ayres, after being released from custody remarked, "Guilty as hell, free as a bird."  and said in 2008 that he didn't think he did enough.

Obama's wife, Michelle, who was proud of the United States only once in her lifetime said: "The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of the pie so that someone else can have more."  If you think that sounds familiar, compare it to this:  "To each according to his need; from each according to his ability."--Karl Marx.
 
HIS friends: 

    Jim Wallis-Obama's spiritual advisor and advocate of forced redistribution of wealth.

    Andy Stern-SEIU President and advocate of forced redistribution of wealth.  He gave a speech regarding global economic governance and said "Government has a role in redistributing wealth."

    Jeremiah Wright-Obama's pastor and friend for twenty years.  He was the pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ, a liberal, black-theology oriented church in Chicago.  He was the inspiration for Obama's book entitled "The Audacity of Hope."  One of his more famous quotes:  "God bless America, no no no, God damn America."

HIS administration:

    Van Jones-disgraced Green Jobs czar and avowed communist.

    Ron Bloom-Manufacturing Czar and admitted foe of free market capitalism.

    John Holdren-Science Czar who has recommended, among other things, forced abortions, controlling population by putting infertility drugs into the nation's food and water supply, forcibly seizing babies from single mothers and given away to couples to be raised, and a transnational "Planetary Regime" to assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of American's lives by using an armed international police force. 

    Anita Dunn-White House Communications Director who said one of her favorite philosophers and someone she turns to is Chairman Mao.  I wonder if this dunderhead knows the little moon-faced dictator was responsible for the deaths of 70 million Chinese.  But why should that matter?  To a communist, the end justifies the means.  Even if it includes mass murder.

    Carol Browner-Climate Czarina Browner was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.

    Robert Creamer-advisor to President Obama, Robert Creamer is the author of a book called "Stand Up Straight: Listen to Your Mother", subtitled "How Progressives Can Win".  This book, dedicated to Saul Alinsky, (author of "Rules for Radicals" and a hero of Obama) was written while Creamer was serving an 18 month sentence for 16 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion.  He is a former lobbyist from Illinois and is married to Congressional Representative from Illinois Jan Sohakowsky. Prior to his imprisonment he trained volunteers for Barack Obama. His supporters include the Tides Foundation (George Soros), SEIU (Andy Stern), the Center for American Progress (John Podesta), and other radical Progressives.

There are more, many more, but I've already taken up too much of your time.  So now, you can either take BHO at his word and judge him by his associations, or you can turn your back to the truth.

Galileo Galilei once remarked "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. 

The question is:  Do you have the courage to discover the truth?

When President Barack Hussein Obama was campaigning for the presidency he made it a point, on several occasions, to say that if he were elected president that "95% of Americans making less than $200,000 a year would not see their taxes increase by a single dime."

So lets take a look at a few of the more straightforward tax increases that have already been passed or are being given serious consideration by BHO:

*Raise the cigarette tax by 62 cents per pack.  (Here's a question:  Do you think more rich people or poor people smoke cigarettes?)

*Raise beer taxes by 48 cents a six-pack.  (Here's another question:  Do you know any rich people who are described as "Joe Six-pack?)

*Raise wine taxes by 49 cents per bottle.  (You got me here, the guy who bought that bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite for $157,000 probably makes more than $200 grand a year.  On the other hand, what about the the guy who drinks Ripple or MD2020?  He's going to have to spend more time begging on the street corner to come up with the extra 49 cents.  Where's that famous liberal compassion?  Oh, the humanity!)

*A new tax on soda at 3 cents per 12-ounce serving.  (I don't know how well that will go over with the 300 pound soccer mom sucking down the platoon size Coke at 7-11?)

And here's the piece de resistance:  the Bush tax cuts, you remember those; they only helped create 3  million new jobs and enabled the US Treasury to collect record revenues, will be allowed to expire.  How cool, taxes will be raised and Congress and the administration can truthfully say they didn't vote to raise them.  Of course only a fool or a liberal would believe that.  Oh, you evil conservatives, I know what you're thinking:  "They're pretty much one in the same anyway!"

Now I know this is hard for liberals to do, but I want you to think; just for a second because I don't want your head to explode.  What do those evil rich people do with all the money they earn (yes, they do EARN their money?)  Here's a clue, they either spend it or they invest it.  Contrary to depictions by Hollywood and academia elitists, people like Bill Gates don't light cigars with hundred dollar bills.

So tell me, if rich folks spend their money, doesn't that create jobs?  The people that produce, transport, and sell products owe their jobs to those that purchase the products.  How about the ancillary businesses, like utility companies, construction companies, etc.  Are those jobs not being created by rich people spending? 

And if they invest their money, doesn't that also create jobs?  When they buy stock, does that not give a company the necessary capital that will allow it to grow thus hiring more workers?  If  a rich person opens a McDonalds or a Hooters or hair-styling salon, will they not employ dozens of workers?  Those jobs do not magically appear out of thin air.  Someone with lots of money makes it happen. 

So then how is taking more money away from the rich folks going to create the jobs that are necessary to get our country out of the economic trouble we are in? 

The answer is simple:  It's not.  And that's the plan.  The goal is not to restore our economy and, in spite of what the president has said, it's not about redistribution of wealth or fairness.  It's about power.  Who is going to have it, the people or the government?

As a student of history, I seem to remember reading the very same ideas of spreading the wealth and being fair.  They were said during a revolution.  Only it wasn't the American Revolution.  That wasn't a revolution about fairness, it was a revolution about personal liberty; an idea foreign to the many liberals who occupy high positions in our government today.

The revolution I speak of took place in Russia in 1917. 

So how did that work out?  Well, maybe you could ask the forty million Russians that Josef Stalin murdered. 

Oh, sorry you can't.  They're all dead.