President Obama, when campaigning for president said:  "The way to make government responsible is to hold it accountable, and the way to make government accountable is to make it transparent so that the American people can know exactly what decisions are being made, how they are being made."

 

The Securities and Exhange Commission own mission statement describes itself as the investors advocate.  The self-described mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. The SEC has the power to close you down, and this new financial regulation law that recently passed has given them much, much more power.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Fox Business Network and the founding partner of law firm Mintz and Gold, LLC, the SEC has refused to comply.  The SEC claims that the new financial regulation law exempts the SEC from the Freedom of Information Act.   Thanks to overwhelming Democrat vote, we now have a gigantic, new, all powerful arm of the federal government that no longer has to answer to the people.  It no longer has to answer to Congress.  It no longer has to answer questions from the media (as if the compliant boobs in the lame-stream media have any intent of asking questions of this administration.)   If the SEC chooses to shut somebody down because there are irregularities, it no longer has to provide any information to anyone on who, what, why, where or when.  If there is any irregularity going on within the SEC, we can no longer question it.  Did our "representatives" in congress think that was a damned good idea when they cast their vote of "Aye" or did they just not read the damned 2,700 page bill?  Knowing the mindset of our rulers, I'd say it's a little of both.

 

What happened to the transparency our Dear Leader seemed to advocate so strongly in his quest for our vote?

 

I guess that's been put in the trash heap along with "taxes for people making under $200,000 will not increase one bit."

There is something I truly don't understand and maybe you can explain it.  There are 15 million Americans who are chronically without health insurance.  Oh, I know the administration says there are 45 million, but any thinking individual knows that's a flat out lie.  So, if we take the more accurate number of 15 million and divide it by the current population of the US (which is 307,856,993 as of today) that means .048 % of Americans are without health insurance.  Not health CARE, but health INSURANCE.

Also, let me mention that according to the Congressional Budget Office, if Obamacare passes, 25 million people will still be without health insurance.  Now, how do we go from 15 million uninsured to 25 million uninsured if we pass a government healthcare system that is supposed to insure everyone?  Only the federal government can make that happen.  And we actually want them to control healthcare?

There is no doubt, except in the land of mental midgets (and large bellies) peopled by the likes of Michael Moore, that the US has the best healthcare in the world.  If you don't believe that, ask yourself why 90% of all medical innovation comes from America.  Why does the majority of new drug treatments come from here and why do so many foreigners (who have "free" healthcare), come here for treatment?  So, I'd like to know why we want to remake the best healthcare system in the world for less than 5% of the population at a cost, which, if the history of government programs is any guide, will end up costing 10 times the projected cost and in this case, several TRILLION dollars that we cannot afford.  Especially when our national debt is $11,982,245,269,249 and is increasing by almost 4 billion a day.

It would seem to me to make infinitely more sense to find a way to insure the 15 million uninsured and leave everyone else alone.  After all, 85% of Americans are happy with their medical insurance plan.  For $30 billion annually we could insure the uninsured.  I'm very sure that insurance companies would be stepping all over themselves to bid on a contract that would bump up their bottom line by $30 billion each and every year.

Now, you and I both know, this is not about insuring the uninsured.  It's not about making healthcare cheaper or better.  It's simply about power.  The federal government wants more control of our economy and our personal lives.

I urge you to go back and read the papers of Jefferson, Adams, Washington and Franklin.  None of our Founding Fathers ever espoused any principles that would grant a national government such power.  And that's the problem.  The people in the White House and the leaders in Congress don't turn to the heroes of The American Revolution.  They turn to Mao, Fidel and Karl Marx.

Thankfully, in spite of the government-run schools, that have dumbed-down our children and taught them that America and capitalism are evil, the spirit of liberty is alive and well.  We realize our freedoms are not bestowed upon us by some benevolent politicians in a far-away capital, and cannot be taken away by the same.  Not without a fight.

The American people understand that their freedom comes from God.  The REAL God, not the one who reads a teleprompter.

Americans, traditionally, are the last to come to the dance.  We didn't get into World War II until we were ruthlessly attacked by Japan.  It took a devastating attack on our greatest city before we realized that there were forces of evil bent on our destruction.  And we never wanted to believe our government wasn't a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.  Until now.

As our enemies have always learned the hard way:  it's not a good idea to start a fight with an American.  The British learned that in 1775; the Nazis in 1941 and Al Qaeda in 2001.  It's a lesson our current government should take to heart.

Looks like the band is playing and we finally arrived at the dance.  So everybody mambo!

I don't like to throw around the "T" word indiscriminately.  It's an ugly word.  It doesn't really roll of the tongue easily.  I suppose that's why we don't hear it very often unless of course liberals can't argue facts (which often get in their way.)  Then they just call you a Nazi, fascist or traitor.  It eases their consciences and makes them feel at one with the universe. 

In case you're wondering what the "T" word is; it's Treason.  With a capital T. 

It's not a word that should be used lightly.  You shouldn't accuse someone of being a traitor just because he, she or it is from the opposite end of the political spectrum, likes cats or is a cross-dresser.  I, like most Americans, associate treason with the infamous Revolutionary War general, Benedict Arnold.  If you didn't sleep through American History class, or are currently attending public school, you'll remember America's most famous traitor.  And I guess that's where we get our standard definition of treason. 

But lately, something hasn't seemed right to me.  When I look at the political landscape in Washington, I see people in government that are doing their very best to bring our country to its knees.  And it's working very well.  Our economy is being bludgeoned and if sanity doesn't prevail, we are about to make deep cuts in our defense spending. That, of course, will go over very big in North Korea and Iran.

Is this part of some sinister master plan or is there something in the water in the DC water system that causes intense stupidity?  Yearning for an answer (I do yearn sometimes), I went to the dictionary to see if there was more to treason than I knew. 

According to the on-line dictionary, the word treason has three meanings:

1. The action of trying to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign. (Doesn't apply here.  Thankfully no one is trying to kill our sovereign.  We don't need a martyr.)
2. A violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.  (Hmm, may apply here.)
3. A betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery. (By golly, I think this is the Holy Grail.)

It goes on to expand on number 3:

"Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or (now this is where it gets to the real point):  IMPAIR THE WELL-BEING OF A STATE TO WHICH ONE OWES ALLEGIANCE."

Can anyone tell me that Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the asylum inmates that are responsible for our massive debt, punitive taxes that are coming, government takeover of industry, banks and the financial markets, and a general ignorance of and disdain for our Constitution, are not impairing the well-being of the state to which they took an oath of allegiance? 

Because I'm trying real hard not to believe that they are traitors. 

But so far, I haven't convinced myself.

Obviously, the Iranian election is a sham.  It didn't make any difference how the people voted, the mullahs not only handpicked the contestants; they determined (pre-election) who the winner would be.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the mosque, the people didn't appreciate their votes being made meaningless.  They let the government know it and now more than 100 Iranians are dead.  Their only crime was wanting a fair election process.

We Americans should take note of what's happening half way around the world from us.  And we need to ask ourselves, "How would we react?"  It's a question that we need to answer truthfully, because, although many feel "it can't happen here", it most certainly can.   We are going to have to make a choice:  either make a stand against tyranny or let it conquer us.

We have reached crisis mode in America.  Our Dear Leader is expanding government at a mind-boggling  rate and his personal power is growing right along with it.  He already controls General Motors, Chrysler, AIG, the banks, the investment companies and if he gets control of the healthcare system, he will have dominion over 70% of our nation's economy.  Is that the change you voted for?  No matter your political persuasion, do you really want ONE man with that much power?

This July 4th, we celebrate the 233rd year of our Declaration of Independence.  Literally, hundreds of thousands of brave Americans sacrificed their lives so we could enjoy the rights given to us by God.  Our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to build a nation dedicated to and founded on the ideas of life, liberty and property.  Would you do the same?

It seems as if we have forgotten how and why our nation began.  But it seems the American spirit is more alive in Iran than it is here.  Iranians understand our sacred documents more than we do.

Shouldn't we be the ones protesting the stealing of our children's futures?  Shouldn't we be the ones protesting the destruction of our culture, our economy, our security and our liberty?  

The shame is on us for watching someone else do it. The shame is on us for not paying attention to the truth.  The shame is on us for being cowards.  

The shame is on us for forgetting that we are Americans.

Socialism is: The Great Lie - by which everyone can all live at the expense of someone else.

 

The new national health care plan is part of "The Great Lie" for if neither you nor I pay - "Who Pays?"

 

So who pays and how?

 

For if you have "no skin in the game" financially then you will bear costs in some other way: perhaps by reduce choice, or truncated offerings or even the tarnishing of your soul.

 

The "Great Lie" is seductive and politicians use it in the oldest of vote buy schemes yet like some ancient evil, once bitten, victims acquiesce to 'it's spell' and become moral cannibals - moral cannibals feasting on the fruits of others.

 

The guv'ment has no money unless it first takes confiscates it from it's citizens. So when the guv'ment proposes massive new spending we should all ask; "who pays" - if not you and if not me, then who? How?

If you need any further proof that the media is in the tank for Obamessiah, you may be in need of a frontal lobotomy.  Or at the very least a good, swift kick in the ass.  Maybe it would stimulate some brain activity.  

Newsweek editor, Evan Thomas, yesterday said on the MSNBC Chris Matthews show:  

"Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn't felt that way in recent years. So Obama's had, really, a different task.  We're seen too often as the bad guys. And he, he has a very different job from ... Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is - we are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something, I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above, above the world, he's sort of God."

He's sort of God?  How can you be sort of God?  Is it like being sort of pregnant, or sort of dead?  Maybe it's sort of like being the Vice-President; just waiting around for the Big Guy to go on vacation so you can get your chance to stand in and "change" everything in YOUR image.

By the way, isn't that what Lucifer was looking to do?  How did that work out for him?

Is this really how far this man has brought us in just a short five months?  He is now elevated to the position of being God?  I know he thinks he is the Messiah, but wasn't it just a few  short months ago when asked about when a fetus becomes a human being, he said  "It's above my pay grade?"  

NEWS FLASH:  If you're God, there is nothing above your pay grade!  

Our country, our constitution and our way of life are being eradicated.  Our government has slowly been eroding our rights, given to us by GOD (not our government) and we've stood by and let it happen. It didn't happen overnight. The process has taken many decades and goes back as far as Teddy Roosevelt.  But now we are on the fast-track to total control by an out-of-control government led by a narcissistic demigod.  We've been dumbed down by inferior public education, video games, reality tv shows and sporting events that keep us mesmerized and our focus off the despots that are stealing our children's future.

For those of you who choose not to believe in a divine being, you may not have a choice.  You better be ready to bow down to our Dear Leader, because there will be re-education camps opening soon to make you into dutiful little Obamanites willing to adore and obey the new Lord of The World.

Guess you better buy some kneedpads too.

Since 2001, I have been blogging about the deleterious effects of a dumbed-down electorate here, Sea Change ,and just last year here Captives in O'Babylon

and earlier this year here You Lost

 

Now the chickens are coming home to roost and as the saying goes "you can't see the forest for the trees" - 'cause sometimes you are just to close. Core tenets of our founding are being disregarded without oversight from the press, the American people or even Congress.

 

Yet in the old adage "it takes one to know one" American is being called out as going communist by none other than - Pravda !

 

 

America - as we know it, is being dismantled right before our eyes by "thugocrats", who don't know and who don't care how America works. And in its place will be "Change" - a new America where the "thugracy" stifles dissent, aggrandizes itself and friends  and chases a long ago failed concept of "social justice" where believes that they can live at the expense of someone else. And

 

Sadly it seems,  the only ones recognizing this collapse is the former propaganda wing of the old Union Soviet Socialist Republics - Pravda.

 

Americans should be marching on Washington - pitchforks and torches in hand to take back our country from those who have obviously forsaken their oath to the Constitution! Instead we will have a ring side seat for as the saying goes; "As goes General Motors so goes the Nation!" Our future holds Bankruptcy, and what meager assets are left will be picked over by our creditors.   謝謝

The new GM General Motors Guv'ment Motors, stolen from the bondholders of the old GM!

Like some bizarre time warp from the Weimar Republic or a Venezuelan junta, we have the government forcing companies into bankruptcy and subordinating senior creditors (bond holders) to junior creditors (the union - a branch of Gettelfinger's UAW thugocracy ).

And like a reverse boomerang, the stock market is raising on a tide that will soon be large enough to drown future generations in tsunami debt - forever indentured to guv'ment plantation.

This is a historical theft of personal liberty. Unbelievable that this is happening in the United States of America!

A sad day indeed.  

"It's not easy being green."  So went the lament of that great American actor Kermit the Frog.  He may have been right.  Just ask the Chinese workers who make those little squiggly, weird-looking fluorescent light bulbs that are the favorites of the Save the Planet crowd.

In case you didn't know, those eco-friendly (?) light bulbs used to be called mercury vapor bulbs.  I guess that term got to be a little scary since mercury is a deadly toxic substance.  So someone (probably from the government) came along and gave it the touch-feely name "fluorescent".  Who could be afraid of that?  It sounds so French and who's afraid of the French?

It seems we used to make mercury vapor lights in Kentucky.  But someone said, "Hey, this is not a good idea.  We need to export this poison out of our country and let somebody else die."

So now we've turned over the production of mercury vapor lights to China; where there is no OSHA and no occupational or safety standards.  It turns out that 90% of the Chinese workers, (that's 9 out of 10 for those of you in public school) have been poisoned by the mercury.  They've been poisoned so badly that they had to be hospitalized.  But who cares?  After all, they're just little yellow people who live on the other side of the world.  There are 3 billion of them, so if a few thousand die, what's the big deal?  They'll just make more anyway.  It's kind of like the DDT scare.  DDT killed a lot of mosquitoes and no people, but let's get rid of it.  Now there are 2 million fewer people in Africa and lots of mosquitoes.  Ah, the logic of liberalism.

Here is something else you didn't know:  You can't throw used mercury vapor bulbs in the trash.  That's right, you have to take them to an authorized dump station where they will be handled as hazardous material.  That means these used light bulbs will be stored with nuclear waste and other HAZMATS that will make your hair fall out and testicles shrivel up.  Better living through technology!

So in 2012, thanks to former President George Bush, you no longer can buy incandescent bulbs (those are the ones Thomas Edison invented and contain no poisonous materials.)  But in addition to those cute little mercury-filled light bulbs you will be forced to buy, you might want to invest in an environmental suit.  Because if you break a bulb in your house, you're going to need it.  

Oh, and put 911 on speed dial.  You're going to need that too.

The peek in the rear view mirror of life is usually "20/20" or at least much clearer after the fact than a priori!  

And, occasionally we can catch a side glance of a current event that will give a clear glimpse into the future - as does the European Union fine of Intel. Soon, all too soon if fact, someone in "Dear Readers" circle of thugs -  will be using a similar tactic in an extortion attempt on all American business owners.

This is an event that turns the clouding old crystal ball from a murky tea leaf laden snow globe into a high def vision of what the future will be: and it's all about greed!

Like some untethered Inspector Poirot miming a bumbling Clouseau, the clowns in Brussels have fined the US based computer chip maker Intel Corporation 1.06 Billion (yes, that's billion with a "B") euros. That's approximately 1.45 Billion in (what used to be real money ) US Dollars on the premise that European consumers have been harmed by paying too much for their computers.

Yet, since 2001 actually chip prices have fallen dramatically nearly a 100 fold   and the computing power has increased exponentially. Chips that used to sell for a thousand dollars now cost ten bucks and the net result is that the for all consumers is the price of computers has fallen and even Intel's rival - AMD has garnered more market share in the EU.

And even in the most cruelest of fates the EU will not return money to the 'harmed' consumer, instead they will put the ill gotten gain directly into the coffers of the EU. Furthermore Neelie Kroes EU Competition Commissioner is now quoted as saying that Intel is not "sponsor of the European Taxpayer"



It sure seems we have a global recession on truth and it should be obvious that the EU attack on Intel has never been about the harmed consumer. Instead it has been about getting access to the revenues of the company. To which the leaders at the EU are all too eager to convince everyone of the great lie - "that we can all live at the expense of someone else"