11 posts tagged “communism”

I have noticed lately that a lot of people do not know or understand the differences in governmental systems.  Many do not understand the governmental system set up by our founding fathers to give us freedom.  Frequently it is called a "Democracy", which is incorrect, and thank God!

Here's a simple video that pretty much explains governmental systems.  It doesn't ask you to pick or choose between them, it just explains them.

I ask everyone to pay special attention to the last couple minutes of the video and see if you can draw some modern day parallels.

If you are an American, I don't care which party you are a member of (well, except maybe the Communist party).  For just this week only, and I don't care if you like him or not, you need to watch Glenn Beck on Fox News.  I  only ask this week (the end of August).  For both fans and non-fans, your duty is to have a notepad and take notes.  This is to verify or disprove what he asks and says this week.

This is important.  He has uncovered quite an interesting and disturbing thing happening to our nation.  He is having Democrats on his show who are just as concerned about what is happening as are the conservatives on his show.  This isn't some sort of Republican rant.  In fact, he is just as angry with them as he is those that are selling out our country with a nefarious goal in mind.  He holds everyone (that is) responsible in this case.

Frankly, he's rattling his sword and the government is trying everything to discredit and silence him.  Which is a very good sign he's on to something that is true.

Glenn asks you to prove him right or prove him wrong.  It's so important you know the truth he challenges you to do it out of duty as a citizen of the USA.  He doesn't claim perfection, nor does he ask you take his word for it on everything.  He tells you he came to know this and backs up his claims with the truth.  No belittling, no slander, no so-called "hate speech", no racism, just the facts and some very hard hitting questions.

So far, he has exposed the fact that our President has appointed self-admitted Marxists to be his "Czars" and such, and that the "Apollo Group" wrote the "Stimulus" package.  Yeah, a group of people with Marxist values wrote our economic stimulus for our capitalist economy.  What doesn't add up here?  Since when have Communists known anything about capitalist economies?  Glenn's research shows that they want high unemployment, and large debt, so it overwhelms the government with welfare and debt to cause it to collapse.  All the "stimulus" has done so far is to increase unemployment and fund organizations like Apollo.  So, the "stimulus" was written to stimulate Apollo with taxpayer funds.

Set you DVRs for this show at least for this week.  Inside Passage, I know this will be hard for you, but hear him out.  Pay less attention to his personality and more attention to what he is asking and saying.

To give you a hint at how important this is.  Yesterday I heard something I would not have believed would happen ever, no matter even if Jimmy Carter were President.  Rush Limbaugh, ultra-conservative, finally came out with what we all knew, and he was not happy saying it.  Rush Limbaugh called our government, as Obama has finalized it, not a socialist government, but a fascist government.

This is not about race, so get over it.  It's about what is being done to our Republic.

[Added after this article was originally posted]

Those that missed it:  go to Blenn Beck's web site and watch the videos you missed this week to catch up.  Prove him wrong, I challenge you.

Go here for the questions to ask and find out if he's full of crap. 

Here is a rule everyone with common sense would recognize as being sensible.  When someone uses all of their powers of hatred, propaganda, vitriol, smears, and lies against someone or a claim is false, you can count on the fact that what they are saying is true.  The difference between righteous indignation and full on hateful anger is as simple as right and wrong.

When a group of people or government do not want the truth to shine, they will use every means within their power to belittle, slander, libel, threaten, and lie about those spreading the truth about their lies.  Those simply angry with those telling lies will simply point their lies out and tell the truth.  The liars, will be wailing and gnashing their teeth with great fervor.  It always happens, and has been happening for centuries.

For example, this out right lie called ObamaCare, has its supporters and its opposers.  The opposers are attending so-called "town halls" and merely asking why certain things that are in the bill are being forced upon us.  The reaction is typical of someone attempting to hide a lie.  They either:

• Deflect the question by simply saying "that's a lie" even though they know it's true.
• Deflect the question by making an unfounded accusation against the one asking the question (you work for an insurance company).
• Avoid the question by staging fake "town halls" and only have prepared questions asked by those usually designed to bring sympathy rather than truth (children).
• Deflect the questioner by directly threatening them with physical force (SEIU or Acorn thugs).
• Broadcast on TV propaganda known to be quite full of lies, and easily provable as such.
• Intimidate those in opposition by collecting names of those in opposition and instilling fear with threats of home, family, and property (more thugs).
• Lie and say everyone is in support (the so-called scientific "consensus" of "Global Warming" is a convenient excuse from debate for example).
  
• Get your media friends to bully those in opposition echoing your claims (MSNBC, CNN, etc.)
• Make the opposition's life a living hell by threats, false accusations, numerous frivolous lawsuits to bankrupt them etc.  Kind of like what they are doing the Sarah Palin.

These tactics usually work ... until people stop backing down and have had enough of their crap.  The so-called "new" views of "progressives" and "liberalism" are not new at all.  In fact, they are the oldest ideas passed down throughout the centuries, except just packaged in a new name and a new pretty wrapping.  What they preach has brought down great nations.  Has halted innovation and science, even thought they claim allegiance to science.  Their message of only smart people (intellectuals) know better how to govern than the people.  Their message of so-called "free" programs such as welfare, health care, etc. have always been the means of enslaving a populace.  They think the people are too stupid to govern themselves, so they devise ways to sneak in methods of control under the guise of "fairness" or "equality" or the "environment" or a "crisis" or even "charity" to accomplish their designs.

History has overwhelmingly proven that an oligarchy of snobs brings misery to every populace,  Such practices never bring the best out of people, nor does it breed harmony.  Liberty, is the biggest enemy to those who desire full control.  Never has an oligarchy achieved control by telling the truth.  Yet, what happens is they summon support by those they have convinced are "victims" of society, or those sympathetic to that message to achieve their designs.  It is done quickly, so as to prevent the individual from analyzing it; as it would fair a common sense and logic test quite easily when scrutinized.

Socialism doesn't improve lives.  It never has.  In fact, throughout its history it has brought only equal poverty and equal misery.  Those that support socialism and Marxism don't understand it.  Those that do understand Marxism, are those that fervently oppose it, because they understand it doesn't work and only brings out the worst in people and governments.

Things like the television, personal computers, personal cell phones, video games, choice in the grocery store, the automobile, organ transplants, miracle medicines, and so on didn't come from Marxist or socialist societies and nations.  They came from individuals with the liberty and incentive to develop such wonders.  The world was dirt roads, horses, and wagons for THOUSANDS of years.  What changed the world in a little over 200 years?  It was LIBERTY.  Liberty means you choose how you live and there's only enough law to prevent someone else from eliminating your liberty, the rule of law, a Republic.  The new idea (notice "new") that if people were allowed to be free to live their lives and conduct commerce as they pleased with those in power on there to protect them from others and enforce common sense laws, then greatness would come.  In that short period of time, the world changed.

Technology, medicine, hygiene, life expectancy, travel, science, everything that would be considered magical or wondrous just 200 years ago we have now because of Liberty, not socialism, not an oligarchy of know-it-all snobs, but of individuals living their lives as they see fit to live it without government interference.

Rome had wondrous technology and innovations when they were a Republic and the people were free.  When the public demanded more handouts and freebies, a crisis ensued and a usurper gained power and called himself Emperor.  It took a while for Rome to fall, but they did.  They tossed away their liberty for so-called "safety" and handouts.  It happened with the Greeks, the Anglo-Saxons, Mexico, and many more great civilizations of the past.

Those that lie and usurp power always do it with a great orator that claims they will take care of them, they will make "change", they will punish the "rich" etc.  Unfortunately, the rich are the ones that give the jobs.

Notice how Obama's "change" is creating more and more unemployment and misery?  Notice how Obama and his supporters have put this nation into so much debt that it will be almost impossible to pay it, almost as if they are trying to topple the economy to replace it with something else?  If you don't see this, then you must be either stupid or blind.

Does the left think that once a powerful government has its claws set, that things like protesting and environmental issues will make a difference with it?  No, they were just a means to an end, that end being control.  Does the homosexual lobby think that social medicine is going to treat people that have a lifestyle that is known to be susceptible to HIV and disease, and does not reproduce?  They are blind if they think so.  When you eliminate the individual in favor of the collective, you eliminate any causes you may support if it doesn't support the "collective good".

When you support the government going into people's houses and telling them how to live, you also support that happening to you too, and believe me, it will happen.  When a government encourages its populace to report "suspicious activity" you become suspicious too, and it can used as a weapon against you should you become someone's enemy.

You see, when you help the government tear down others in opposition to bad policy, you invite them to do it to you some day.  Oligarchies have no friends, ask the friends of Lenin (oops, he killed them), or Castro, or Chavez, or Caesar, none were friends, all feared them, even those who used to support and helped them to where they were or are now are either dead, exiled, or in prison.  When you know an oligarchy's weaknesses, you become expendable.

Those that support socialism have no understanding of people or of how economies work.  Hence, it is why they always always always fail.  They have the arrogance to think they know better than people.  Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, are all just synonyms for slavery.  In fact, Abraham Lincoln once said, "Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."  Change his word "slavery" to social medicine or socialism, and the meaning is the same.  Notice how the President and Congress have conveniently left themselves out of the social health care?  They know it's bad and they think themselves above the (stupid or ignorant) people.

Abraham Lincoln also said, "Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."  If only those in support of socialism and ObamaCare understood these common sense principles, our world wouldn't be in the state it is in now.

Those with valid arguments and truth use facts to back them up as proof.  Those with lies use threats, hatred, vitriol, slander, distraction, libel, physical threats, and verbal threats to hide their lies.  If Obama and his congress weren't lying to us, they'd simply use the bill itself to prove those, speaking against it, wrong.  They aren't, as they know the opposition is exposing their lie.

So I say this, knowing I am right.  President Obama, his advisors, his friends, and the Congress are LYING TO YOU about government health care and everything else (in the past year) so far.  The reasons for stimulus?  A lie!  The reasons for taking over banks and other private businesses?  A lie!  All are lies, and the people are raising their voice against it, the easier it is to see the government's lies.  Their attempts at shutting people up, just prove it more.  Their cries of racism?  All lies, both white, black, Asian, Arab, Indian, Native American, Latino, Polynesian, all see their lies.  People aren't angry at Obama's race.  They are angry with his lies, and what he has already done to this nation to destroy it and turn it into something nobody intended.  You can't hide the truth forever.

So my friends, when the wicked wail and gnash their teeth at you, throw hatred, lies, and vitriol at you; when the very powers of hell conspire against you, know then you are telling the truth and the truth will always prevail.

To those that try to stop the truth from being told, a wise old President once said, "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.  Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise
their Constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.", yes, Abraham Lincoln

Be revolutionary, vote these liars out of office.  Make Obama impotent.  Vote people in that will hold him to the Constitution.  Which, by the way, is his duty, and the only thing that gives the President his authority.  Anything else is illegal.

And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the people of the land called America , having lost their morals, their work initiative, and their will to defend their liberties, chose as their Supreme Leader that person known as “The One”. He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but He hypnotized the people telling them, “I am sent to save you. My lack of experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego, and my association with evil doers are of no consequence. For I shall save you with Hope and Change. Go, therefore, and proclaim throughout the land that he who preceded me is evil, that he has defiled the nation, and that all he has built must be destroyed.”

And the people rejoiced, for even though they knew not what “The One” would do, he had promised that he would bring change, and they proclaimed “Yes We Can”.

And “The One” said “We live in the greatest country in the world. Help me change everything about it!”

And the people said, “Hallelujah!! Change is good!”

Then He said, “We are going to tax the rich fat-cats,”—- And the people said “Sock it to them!” “—- and “Redistribute their wealth.”

And then He said, “Redistribution of wealth is good for everybody”

And the people said, “Show us the money!”

And Joe the plumber asked, “Are you kidding me? You’re going to steal my money and give it to the deadbeats??”

And “The One” ridiculed and taunted him, and Joe’s personal records were hacked, publicized, and ridiculed; though no crime could be found.

One lone reporter asked, “That shouldn’t be, isn’t that Marxist policy?”

And she was banished from the kingdom!

Then a citizen asked, “With no foreign relations experience and having zero military experience or knowledge, how will you deal with radical terrorists?”

And “The One” said, “Simple. I shall sit with them and talk kindly to them and show them how nice we really are; and they will forget that they ever wanted to kill us all!”

And the people said, “Hallelujah!! We are safe at last, and we can beat our weapons into free cars for the people!”

Then “The One” said, “I shall give 95% of you lower taxes.”

And one, lone voice said, “But 40% of us don’t pay ANY taxes.”

So “The One” said, “Then I shall give you some of the taxes the fat-cats pay!”

And the people said, “Hallelujah!! Show us the money!”

Then “The One” said, “I shall tax your Capital Gains when you sell your homes!”

And the people yawned and the already slumping housing market fully collapsed.

And He said, “I shall mandate employer-funded health care for EVERY worker and raise the minimum wage, and lower the white collar wage. And I shall also give every person unlimited health-care and medicine and even transportation to the free clinics.”

And the people said, “Give me some of that!”

Then he said, “I shall penalize employers who ship jobs overseas.”

And the people said, “Where’s my rebate check?”

Then “The One” said, “I shall bankrupt the coal industry, and perhaps even the oil industry (Cap & Trade/Carbon Tax) and though electricity rates will skyrocket, we shall soon build wind farms and solar power stations and drive green cars that I shall mandate in Detroit!”

And the people said, “Coal is dirty, coal is evil, no more coal! But we don’t care for that part about higher electric rates.”

So “The One” said, “Not to worry. If your rebate ($10/week) isn’t enough to cover your extra expenses ($3,000/year), we shall bail you out. Just sign up with ACORN and your troubles are over!” “Only the fat cats will have to pay.”

Then He said, “Illegal immigrants feel scorned and slighted. Let’s grant them amnesty, Social Security, free education, free lunches, free medical care, bi-lingual signs and guaranteed housing…”

And the people said, “Hallelujah!!” And they made him King!

And so it came to pass that employers, facing spiraling costs and ever-higher taxes, raised their prices and laid off workers; though they sold much less of their products. Others simply gave up and went out of business, and the economy sank like unto a rock dropped from a cliff. The banking industry was destroyed. Manufacturing slowed to a crawl. And more of the people were without a means of support.

So “The One” again blamed the prior administration, extended unemployment benefits to a year, bailed out his favorite banks, and then took over the banks and auto industries. “The One” said, “I am the “The One” - The Messiah - and I’m here to save you! We shall just print more money so the government will have enough!” “Surely one trillion dollars will make everyone happy.” And immediately the Fed complied and the money presses roared.

And China reconsidered their one trillion dollars of loans to the US ,, and threatened to call in their debts. Other foreign trading partners said unto “The One”, “Wait a minute. Your dollar is not worth a pile of camel dung! You will have to pay more.. for everything.. as your dollar becomes worth less.”

And the people said, “Wait a minute.. That is unfair!!”

And the world said, “Neither are these other idiotic programs you have embraced. Lo, you have become a Socialist state and a second-rate power. What factories are not owned by your government are owned by us. Now you shall play by our rules!”

And “The One” said “Americans are arrogant, divisive, and derisive!” “We will listen.”

And the people cried out, “Alas, alas!! What have we done?”

But yea verily, it was too late. The people eventually set upon “The One” and spat upon him and stoned him, and his name was dung. But the once mighty nation was no more; and the once proud people were without sustenance or shelter or hope. And the Change that “The One” had given them was as like unto a poison that had destroyed them from within, and like a whirlwind that consumed all that they had built.

And the people beat their chests in despair and cried out in anguish, “Give us back our nation and our pride and our hope!!”

But it was too late, and the once-glorious “Home of the Brave and Land of the Free” was no more..

-- An anonymous Pastor's Wife.

You may think this is a fairy tale, but it’s not. It’s happening RIGHT NOW, Already—- everything down to the last couple of lines….

Thus Spoke our Founding Fathers

There are some things I want you to know
These things I write are not just for show
This land we live on, full of beauty and space
Is a God given land of liberty for every race.

That all may earn, by hard work, personal responsibility and sweat
A place to call their own, where only God holds their debt.
A land where free commerce, family, worship, and charity
go unhindered nor dictated by those we place under authority.

A place where people gave their very lives with the determination to be free
A place where government was told "Don't Tread On Me!"
A place where the Governor, law maker, and average citizen
had to obey the laws given regardless of status or position.

A land where the people, the government must fear,
A land I truly still hold very dear.
A glorious republic, for all to live free.
Oh beautiful country!  What has happened to thee?

Where tyranny was once hated and feared for its guile,
Is now embraced for free handouts and a handsome smile.
Now a place where the "elite" tell you how to live,
And where the hard working and responsible to the slothful must give.

Our founding fathers were wise men who knew the histories of great nations, yea them all!
Who knew the successes and failures that caused their greatness and fall.

Monarchies, while a potential to be strong,
Had a great weakness if a tyrant came along.

Communism and Socialism, while seemingly good in their intent,
Misery, laziness, stagnation, and a government the people were left to resent.

Democracy!  Surely the people knew better!
Surely no, the individual is lost to the desire of the crowd.
No, democracy on its own, unrestrained, must not be allowed.

The individual with law and the government to fear
the very people who put them there.

Yes!  A Republic, the law, was the solution!
Checks and balances were placed to avoid pollution!

Yet here we stand, our government corrupt and bloated
Full of a clueless aristocracy and a budget overloaded.
Where a teleprompter rules and a press helps to cover up
The loss of liberty while you cheer it on and eat it up.

Keep you distracted is all they have to do,
Before you notice you have lost everything important to you.
Awake ye citizens!  Awake from your deep sleep!
How much of your future will you allow them to keep?

The deed is being done, there's no other to blame.
Our founding fathers would bow their heads in sorrowful shame.
Look at what you've done!  You've let it go!
The greatest and most successful nation the world would ever know.

Look at the world before this nation was here.
The poverty, the stagnation, the filthiness and bad health.
This nation pulled the whole world out of darkness and fear.
It brought innovation, technology, medicine and personal wealth.

Why would you ruin it, why tear it apart?
To history, this nation has been its very best part!
Peace we bring where there once was tyranny and oppression,
From 1812 and other wars, with tyrants, in like succession.

This nation saved the world as a whole,
And yet it is being flushed down the toilet bowl.
The Constitution is there a document from the divine,
Don't let it wither like rotten fruit on a vine.

That document is the key to success,
Be it business, commerce, liberty and happiness.
When man is left to himself without hindrance, regulation and government theft,
He can accomplish so much more than the collective liberal left.

Solve the problems of the world can he,
If only you give him his personal liberty.

-- SuperSparky
   http://supersparky.vox.com

Fascists: Hitler & Moussolini

Those saying that Obama and his buddies are Socialists have vastly miscalculated this assumption.  What's really happening is Obama is fascist and not socialist.  Obama understands and knows the power that can come from a fascist state without the people really knowing what is going on.  After all, the fascists of the past knew what he knows, and frankly, what his mentors knew (Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, etc.).  For example, Adolf Hitler once said, "The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one" and "what luck for rulers that men do not think".  Now I'm not saying Obama is a genocidal maniac, I am saying his political methods are similar.  Another fascist, Vladimire Lenin, once said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."  Now, politicians have never been known for their honesty, nevertheless, I have never seen such a large group of them openly and without effort to disguise, lie over and over and simply say what people want to hear at the time to make them feel good.  These lies have resulted in them becoming loved, almost adored, by those too ignorant or star struck to even bother to see the lies for what they are.

These star struck idiots would rather allow these fascists to take away their freedoms and rights just because their speeches make them feel good.

You see, where socialism requires exclusive government control of all means of commerce and business, including wages and the control of private ownership, fascism achieves the same results without the overhead.  Instead of the government controlling everything like socialism requires, all fascism requires is to have government control of banks and the largest corporations.  This gives them indirect control over everything else through extortionary means.  If you own a company and need a loan, but don't want to run the business according to the government's ideas and sell the products they want you to sell, then you don't get the loan.  Don't need a loan?  Well, if you don't sell what they want you to, then they just raise your taxes so high that your only choice is to do what they say.

A fascist uses the art of distraction to gain power quickly.  What they do is create a crisis, either a real crisis, or just one they think up.  After this crisis becomes bad enough, they come forward offering to "fix" it and proceed to blame it on the rich and successful.  They use class envy as a weapon, and as such conveniently shift the focus of how the crisis really happened and thus a lie told often enough becomes the truth.  This works especially well with charismatic speaker that has the talen to charm the very stupid to the seemingly intelligent.

Once again, Adolf Hitler used this technique quite well.  His Nazi brown shirts would cause trouble and maheim, the legislature would give him more powers to "fix" the problem, he used this power to take over large companies and banks, he'd then give "inspiring and emotion grabbing" speeches thousands would attend.  He was called "the saviour of Germany", yet, most of the problems that were happening were a direct result of his actions and the actions of his brown shirts.  People loved him because he preached that he would take care of them.  He would punish those that were wealthy.  He would "fix" education.  What he did was indoctrinate children, not educate them.  People would cry, get goose bumps, act as if they were listening to their favorite movie star.  He would openly tell lies just to say what the people wanted to hear.  It didn't matter if it was a lie, the people, being star struck believed him.  It became "the truth" to them.

Pelosi & Reid

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Hitler intended for Germany to be torn apart.  This allowed him to build in his image, which was actually quite successful for him.  This SAME techique is what Obama is doing, and like Germany of old, the legislature is willing to do his bidding, no matter what it is.  The "crisis" is the excuse.  The very congressmen that angirly shake their fists and fling spit all over the place are the very weasels that caused the crisis in the first place!  That doesn't matter to the Obama fan, because Obama is going to fix everything.  This is very dangerous.

There is a reason why thousands gave their lives willingly and freely in the Revolutionary war.  It was simply for the liberty and freedom to live their lives as THEY chose to live them, and not what a bunch of bloated bureaucrats in government dictates.  These idiots in Washington, including Obama, have never ever lived a life outside of the protective bubble of politics or a university.  Barney Frank has never ran a business, tried to keep a payroll and pay ridiculous taxes and still have something left for himself.  He doesn't know what it's like to earn a living, not have it given to you because some lobbyist made you a sweet deal for special consideration.  With a small few exceptions, none of these idiots in government have any clue how the economy works, how everything is connected.  They don't understand that liberty and entrepreneurism  is what made this nation great.  It's what raised the standard of living in the entire world and even this country.  Our "poor" have cell phones and TV's because of this as well.  This can be directly linked with the American system.

Obama is bound and determined to destroy the current economic system.  That is plain to see through all of his lies.  He intends to have a fascist oligarchy that answers to a world body and not to the people.  It's all about power to a small elite group, because you're too stupid to take care of yourself.

It's all a game, a grand illusion.  The march to fascism started with Woodrow Wilson, got a boost with FDR slowly but surely over the years it gained momentum, from Johnson to Carter and finally Obama.  When more an more people realize what is happening to their liberties and freedoms, they, hopefully, will finally wake up.

This isn't a Democrat or Republican issue.  This is an American issue.  The idea that Europe has a better way is a vastly flawed idea.  History has shown that the way Europe operates always ends with the loss of liberty and development.  Stagnation and frustration are the result.  Since when has a government lasted longer than 50 years in that region for the past 300 years?  Since when has that government shown progress and development for the human standard of living even remotely like the USA has done in 200+ years?

The "Republican" (not Republican party) form of government has the only historical evidence to show that it is the most successful, the best for the human spirit and lifestyle, and the best for the world around than any other form of government ever.  When Rome was a true Republic is was the most magnificent of societies.  When it started to deteriorate and they created "intitlements" for people (sound familiar?) people got lazy and started expecting more from the government.  It deteriorated into a mob democracy, which eventually needed a "saviour" to turn it into a oligarchy or dictatorship with the reign of the emperors.  That was the beginning of the end for Rome.  The people gave up their prosperity and freedom for handouts and "security".  They lost it all.

Communism for every country that has tried it has shown to destroy inventiveness and the incentive to make things better.  The promise of "equality" in class is a lie.  It only succeeded in eliminating the rich and making everyone poor except party members.  Cuba is an exccellent example of this everyone is poor and there's no incentive to make things better.

Socialism, much like the Europe of today, has shown much like Communism, it doesn't inspire entrpreneurship and the improvement of the nation as a whole.  Things stagnate because those with ideas get punished for them and anything they gain for their ideas is distributed to those too lazy to work for themselves.  After all, why work hard if the government is going to take care of you.  Because everyone starts to be content and lazy, the government remains as it is and their economy doesn't grow because of it.

• A benevolent monarchy that gave the rules of law and allowed the people to live in liberty and without interference.  This is very rare, because absolute power corrupts absolutely.
• A republic, which gives a set of laws and allows the people to live in liberty and without government interference.  There are just enough laws to hold back anharchy and to preserve the rights and property of the individual.  Yes, the INDIVIDUAL, not the group.  This is the form of government people died for.

The idea that government solves all problems is a dumb and misinformed idea.  A big government only brings misery and a loss of personal liberties.  Governement is only there to provide for a common defense, to only PROMOTE (not provide) the general welfare, in other words ENCOURAGE commerce, not stifle or regulate it.  Government is there to PRESERVE LIBERTY not only for us, but our children.  This is not what Obama and the Congress is doing.  They are violating our highest law, the Constitution, and with hypocrasy demand we obey theirs and trust them.

This march to fascism will be tested when enough people have come to the realization that they have lost their liberties to a bunch of tyrants that say what people want to hear.

The only problem our founding fathers did not address, was a provision in the Constitution for the government to fear the people, other than the second amendment.

Anyone that has been following my various articles will soon realize that I'm a religious man and a strong conservative.  Some of my articles have concentrated on religious matters and some have been strictly political.  Well, this one is going to heavily combine both.  First, a little about why there is good and evil and how evil accomplishes its purpose with good people.  Second, I'll use that foundation to illustrate my points.  I'm not here to convert people, nor to exercize political correctness, nor will I express anything here as theory or "my opinion".  This may sound unacceptable to some and perhaps arrogant by others, as the world is too used to debating religion and truth.  What I'll be addressing here is what I know to be true.  If you have a genuine interest in knowing why I say "I know", then feel free to private message me.  I could not express these topics, of things I know to be true, and water them down to "my opinion".  I feel I would offend God if I did.

Nevertheless, I do respect your religious beliefs.  You have a right to believe (or not believe) in a manner you see fit.  Nevertheless, if I have piqued your curiosity and want to know more, then read on.

Misconceptions of The Devil

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Many people do not understand evil and the source of evil.  I have found many preachers of religion with misconceptions of evil.  Evil, is the art of distracting people from what is good for them.  Evil, has only one grand purpose, and that is to spread misery.  The author of evil is an individual named Lucifer.  Without getting into details, Lucifer used to garner power and influence in God's kingdom; until he decided to usurp God's glory and power for himself, and as a result of his choice and actions, he was forever cast out from God's presence and before he and his minions get their final judgement, they remain here on earth to try and make us miserable.  He bacame "the adversary" or "Satan".  He's pissed and has vowed to take everyone down with him.  He and his buddies have been here since then and have become very very good at what they do.

The tools of evil are:

• Subtle deception.  Which is the art of mixing a lot of truth with just enough lies to get you to believe the lies, because the truth gives it pliable credibility.  The more and more Satan can get you to believe the lies, the more lies he replaces the truths he hides them in.  Pretty soon, he can feed you a lot of lies without the truthful foundation because now he has you as a fanatical believer.
• Counterfeiting.  We see this every day, but can read about a great example of this in the Old Testament where Moses used his staff to perform miracles and the Egyptian magicians mimicked them with counterfeits.  This is a very clever means to deceive.
• Reversal.  He only acheives this goal after the previous methods have proved successful.  It's the art of actually getting people to believe that good is evil and evil is good.  Counterfeiting is key in this goal.  He uses the counterfeits of happiness, which is pleasure, and the counterfeit of liberty, which is anarchy.
• Envy and Jealousy.  The art of convincing people they are entitled to things they didn't earn or work for.
• Pride and Vanity.  The counterfeits of honor and charity are selfishness and narcissism (demanding respect instead of earning it).
  

Now I'll cover each tool in detail using real examples:

Subtle Deception

The entertainment industry today is an excellent example of subtle deception.  They numb your repulsive response by slowly and constantly "pushing the envelope".  What once was labeled by society as pornographic or repulsive, is now shown as "normal" in prime time.  Sexuality, being a very powerful instinct and tool (God needed us to multiply quickly) is the catalyst to how this is accomplished.  

The public education system is also another means of subtle deception.  Indoctrination and convenient absence of key truths being taught to children make for a fast track of misery.  The entertainment idustry and education are subtle partners here.

Ask yourself why things such as teen pregnancy, divorce, and higher crime rates climb higher and higher with each generation, if you need proof.

Counterfeiting

Communism and its intermediary Socialism is the counterfeit to God's idea of having all things in common.  To have a society where everyone has everything in common only works when all people choose to live that way and have the freedom to leave any time they desire.  It requires a great deal of love and charity to accomplish such a society in a successful way, where the concern and love for each individual takes precedence.  Such a society is doomed to fail with the presence of evil, pride, envy, jealousy, those hungry for power, etc.  The counterfeit to this United Order is Communism, which forces people to give up everything, and their lives are governed by those with their own interests and power in mind.  The only way even a short period of success is possible is, to actually prevent people from leaving, and punishing those with a desire for the freedom to exit the system.  The subtle deceptions are "for the good of the people" or "spreading the wealth", and the care for the individual is lost to mob rule.  Charity cannot be forced on anyone, nor can you steal from the talented and hard working and give to the lazy and slothful.  What always happens in a socialist to communist society, is those that work hard finally give up, because their extra hard work is not rewarded; in fact, the extra hard work is usually punished because it makes others (the people) look bad, and you're accused of being selfish.  The back side of the coin is that hard work is no longer required, and the government provides everything they used to have to work hard for.  So all they do is the bare minimum asked of them.  Did you ever see a quality product come from a Communist nation?  The cars were poorly manufactured, the buildings were of poor quality, even the USSR's space vehicles of the space program were of considerably lower quality than that of the USA.  Socialism and Communism do not succeed in their claims of eliminating poverty, but instead they do eliminate the rich in favor of making everyone, except high government officials, poor.  Everyone is "equal" that is true, but they are equally miserable in their poverty.

Karl Marx

Those that try to say socialism or communism are good, tend to be those that live isolated lives in universities having their livelihood already guaranteed.  So they sit and think about these things all day long, and they claim their superior intellect knows better.  The problem with this, is they have removed themselves from the responsibilities and experiences of society, thus they couldn't possibly understand it.  There are also great flaws in the arguments for socialism and communism.  They usually make comparisons in a fixed class society, which only existed in ancient Europe during the monarch period.  After the USA appeared and offered a better form of government and the concept of liberty for all, it eliminated the barriers of poverty and wealth.  This means those that are rich can become poor, and those that are poor can become rich.  This is all based upon personal responsibility and ingenuity governing their lives.  This is how our nation changed the world.  The USA has brought a higher standard of living to the world, and has the highest standard of living of any country.  This was all accomplished in less than 200 years with just ingenuity and liberty, the freedom to develop and the freedom to fail.  Socialism doesn't reward ingenuity and it protects you from failure.  Thus, the government controls your life, and it's usually a miserable one.  Why?  The "people" take precedence over the person.

Modest Wedding Dress

Pleasure is the counterfeit to happiness.  Pleasure is being taught as a means of gaining happiness and it always brings misery.  Rampant and uncontrolled sexual behavior brings the greatest misery filled with brief occurrences of pleasure.  You have young women losing their educational futures due to pregnancy because they chose pleasure over common sense, and becoming mothers whilst barely finishing their lives as a child.  Self respect and the respect of each other has been completely lost.  You have boys running around like chimpanzees in heat humping every willing partner mistaking partying and pleasure as happiness.  No longer do men and women have respect for each other's purity, but there's nothing to look forward to and appreciate in marriage for them.  A woman offering herself to her new husband is one of the greatest gifts and acts of love and trust in the world.  This is why the wedding dress is white, symbolizing purity.  Now days, that has been minimized and downplayed to a mere pleasurable animal act.

Once upon a time a man's word (or oath) was as strong as a written contract.  In fact, honor was the most important element a human could possess, and dishonoring one's self meant losing their ability to function in their society.  They couldn't do any business because everyone would know their word didn't mean anything.  Those that were successful, were those you could trust in their words and oaths.  Satan has succeeded in ruining this aspect of humanity, and replacing it with the substitute of anarchy claiming it as "freedom", which it is not.

Reversal

This is accomplished through ridicule, mainly.  The concepts of being "cool" or "hip" or the "new thing" are excellent ways of achieving reversal, especially with our children.  All children want friends and to be liked.  Well, if Satan can have enough willing participants in the entertainment industry to make evil look cool or hip, then he has an easy job.  Concepts of fornication being "normal" or "natural" or even expected if you want to be "cool" he introduces through those vehicles of fame.  Fame is popularity on steroids, and children mistake fame for the ideal life.  So they try to pattern their lives with the image projected in that fame.  Everything from piercing, to tatoos, to music, to clothing, all have had their changes from normality to their reversal.  Clothing was once a means to be modest and protect ones self from the elements.  Now it's to look most like the whore on the TV or movie screen (look up whore in the dictionary, they are being paid a lot to do it).

Fighting reversal requires good and responsible parenting.  If you think public schools run by the government are going to teach your child what is right and what is wrong, and what brings misery and what is real deception etc, then you are in for a big surprise.  You need to take responsibility for your child's upbringing.  You need to make sure they have the character and moral strength to recognize evil and deception when they hear it and see it.  They need to understand the lies of pleasure being happiness.  The counterfeit is the order of these two.  Happiness brings pleasure, the counterfeit says pleasure brings happiness, which is a lie.  Examples can see pleasure always ends up bringing misery.

Adolf Hitler

Hitler recognized how powerful reversal works on crowds.  He went from community organizer to German Fuhrer (emperor) in a few short years by saying what people wanted to hear, blaming the rich (which were usually Jewish) for their problems, promising change, promising he'd eliminate their poverty, give them homes to live in, cars to drive.  The third Reich would be the socialist utopia.  NAZI, afterall, stood for "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party)".  Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, promised to "fix the economy".  He proceeded to have the government take over companies, he then took over the banks, finally in a claim to "finally fix it all" he requested special powers to accomplish this miracle.  He was given full authority and named Germany's first (and last) Fuhrer (he added "of the Third Reich").  He promptly used his new authority to dissolve the parliament and appointed "Governors" over regions to replace mayors and town councils.  He did all of this because he caused people to cry and get emotional at his speeches.  People thought of him as the Saviour of Germany.  He loved the media and the media loved him.  In fact Time Magazine featured Hitler in a positive manner.  He carefully controlled what the media would and could say and the media didn't care.  They just loved him.  He started government work programs to build roads.  In fact, the modern freeway is a Hitler Germany invention.  Big problem, the rich were now slaves (or dead), conveniently relieved of their riches, and the poor were still poor but taken care of.  Members of the Nazi party were the only privileged and you had to be invited into the party to be a Nazi (you also had to be of the "pure race" as well).

Notice anything similar in that historical account to the happenings of today?  Satan uses techniques that usually work.  He's had thousands of years of practice to get it down.  You're smart, you can do the math.  Yes, it's where George Lucas got his ideas for the rise of the Emperor and fall of the Republic, but that's not what I mean.

Summary

You cannot think that Satan's counterfeits can ever accomplish anything good, even with good intentions.  Good can only have its roots in liberty and freedom of choice.  Charity, can only work when love is behind it, as it's only theft if it is forced.  Poverty can only be overcome with charity and hard work.  A free handout only results in a hand expecting more.  A hand-up teaches that person how to fill their hands themselves.  Charity is a means to give a hand up and not the never ending handout of government welfare.

The commandments of God weren't given by a divine tyrant.  They actually protect us and give us a means to live our lives to the fullest with happiness.  If everyone lives according to the ten commandments, to the letter, then the natural form of society would be a United Order in the end, but because people are not perfect, they will always fall short of that ideal.

Declaration Of Independence Signing

It is my belief that the USA and the land it sits on was blessed and started with God's influence.  A place for the imperfect to live in liberty.  It finally pulled the world out of the dark ages, which started when evil destroyed and killed the Apostles.  Seriously, think about it.  A bunch of rag-tag farmers (many without shoes!) defeated the greatest army and navy in the world!  This happened because God caused miracles to happen (not coincidences).  Great men were brought together, a grand council to which we have never seen again; our founding fathers!  Do you know of any man today, in the world, that would turn down the opportunity to become a king or emperor of a growing nation in favor instead of "just" being it's first President?  These founding fathers actually believed what they preached!  George Washington was one of the greatest men to be born in hundreds of years.  He wasn't perfect, none of them were, but they had honor and integrity.

Talk Show Heroes

To throw this all away because of Satan's counterfeits is a sad sad statement for the last two hundred years of growth and accomplishment.  Today things aren't Democrat versus Republican anymore.  Those days disappeared years ago.  It is now good versus evil and all of its counterfeits.  You hear Glenn Beck speak of 9 values and 12 Principles.  You have Rush Limbaugh speaking of Conservatism.  You have Mark Levin speaking of the coming tyranny.  You have Sean Hannity warning about the mob that is government.  All are good and well.  All are valid podiums to preach from.  All are legitimate cases.  However, though I support them and participate in their concern and activism, I cannot help but think that the root of the problem is simply Satan's distractions from God.  The principles we need to live by are contained as both the Ten Commandments and Jesus' beatitudes.  If people simply applied those principles and values to their lives, these issues and problems would be non-existent.

I honestly feel, these patriotic movements are treatments for the symptoms of the disease, not treatments for the elimination of it.  If you want liberty and freedom, then live the type of life from where those gifts are given.  Set an example, you cannot force others to live as you choose to.  You can only offer to share what you know if they accept the offer.  Be who you should be.  Turn off that questionable TV show.  Don't watch that questionable movie, even if edited for TV.  Don't buy that video game if it's immoral or encourages immorality.  Stand up for what is right, and don't put up with Satan's "political correctness".  Point out lies when they are told, regardless of venue.  Vote for honest people in government.  Voting for the best speaker or best looking is irresponsible and part of Satan's plan of misery.  George Washington was not a good speaker, nor was he a good looking man, but he was a great President and General.  Vote for those with integrity and morality, not a good haircut.

Don't take your education and basis for knowledge from the news media.  Learn for yourself.  Read more good books.  Always gain in knowledge and experience.  Never be "too good" to teach others when they ask for help.  Be humble and kind.  Be loving, yet firm.  Be knowledgeable, yet not arrogant.

I realize this is a wordy post, but something that has been bothering my conscience for a while.

I have learned early on in my life, that those of the past, and many of those that have lived longer than me can teach important lessons in life.  Experience and history is the worlds best teacher of what works and what does not.  Unfortunately, most of society, in its self-centered arrogance, tends to ignore history thinking they know better.  The fact that history has shown this to be a mistake over and over has no effect, because the arrogance of the current society makes them think they are special.  Call it culture, call it technology, call it so-called "enlightenment" it almost always ends up backfiring with their society just another part of history that hopefully the next will finally learn from.

I have assembled together a series of good and poignant quotations of those of the present and the past to best illustrate what everyone could use to better warn them, better live their life, better govern, and even enjoy a good laugh.

You may have noticed it has been a long time since I wrote an article here.  It's simply because I have been working long and hard on this one.  This one may not be Pulitzer material (thank God!), but it's something I feel good about writing, and I hope at least someone reading it can find help, advice, assistance, solace, comfort, or just simple knowledgeable enlightenment about the world around them.

All of those I quote here have some form of wisdom we can learn from.  Not all of them are benevolent, not all of them are someone I'd trust to be alone with my children (if I had any), and some may make my blood boil, however, they are experts in their field, some terrifyingly so.  Most, however, are people I would invite to dinner and would be quite comfortable to have around children.  These quotes fall into three categories, the wise, the ridiculous, and the ironic.  You'll soon see what I mean.

Also remember, wisdom can come from quotes of those far from being wise, and hence the quote becomes ironic or even ridiculous to give us wisdom.

I will go topic by topic, in what I think are important issues of current times, and what we can learn from these wise, and not so wise, people about them.

Let's get started.

Government Bailouts and New American Socialism

• "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." -- Thomas Jefferson (one of the founders of the Democrat Party and our Nation)
• "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." -- John Adams (One of the founders of our Nation and second President)
• "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." -- John Adams
• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (First Supreme Allied Commander Europe WWII and 34th President, Republican)
• "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- John F. Kennedy (35th President, Democrat)
• "That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise." -- Abraham Lincoln (16th President, Republican)
  
• "The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one." -- Adolf Hitler (Charismatic and articulate political orator, German Chancellor, called by those that heard him speak "the Saviour of Germany", and responsible for the murder of millions in WWII)
• "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." -- George Orwell (Author)
• "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." -- Ronald Reagan (Actor and 40th President)
• "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away." -- Ronald Reagan
• "The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan
  
• "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." -- Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemins, Author)
• "Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself." -- Thomas Jefferson
  
• "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis (Author)
• "Never spend your money before you have it." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "My Uncle was an American; but he was one of the lucky ones.  He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter Presidency." -- Hillary Flammond ("Top Secret" movie)
• "Already there are insidious influences working termite-like to destroy this basic principle of true democracy." -- David O. McKay
  

• "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
• "All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." -- Sir Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister during WWII)
• "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -- Martin Luther King Jr. (Civil Rights Leader)
• "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
  
• "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison (American Founding Father and 4th President, Democrat)
  
• "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." -- Vladimir Lenin (First Soviet Premiere, and communist revolutionary)
• "To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office." -- Quintas Fabius Maximus (Roman General)
• "What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler
• "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." -- John Adams
• "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy
• "I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves." -- Ronald Reagan
• "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." -- Mark Twain
  

Media and the So-called "Fairness Doctrine"

• "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -- Harry S. Truman (33rd President, Democrat)
• "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." -- Thomas Jefferson
  

Religion, Atheism, and Government

• "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." -- C.S. Lewis (Author)
• "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other." -- John Adams
• "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality." -- Carl Sagan
  
• "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
• "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born." -- Ronald Reagan
• "A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril." -- Sir Winston Churchill
• "Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
• "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." -- Carl Sagan
• "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.  He hath loosed the fatefull lightnight of his terrible, swift sword; His ruth is marching on.  He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgement seat.  Oh be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant my feet!  Our God is marching on.  In the beauty of the lillies, Christ was born across the sea, with a glory in his bosom that transfigured you and me.  As he died to make men holy, let us live to make men free, while God is marching on.  Glory, glory, hallelujah!  Glory, glory hallelujah!  Glory, glory, hallelujah!  His truth is marching on." -- Julia Ward Howe

Education and Intellectuals

• "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
• "Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." -- John Adams
• "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement." -- C.S. Lewis
• "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." -- John F. Kennedy
• "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
• "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." -- George Washington (Revolutionary War General, First President)
• "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." -- Sir Winston Churchill
• "The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane." -- Nikola Tesla
• "Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." -- John F. Kennedy
• "Congratulations, there is now a level zero." -- Master Shifu (Kung Fu Panda)
• On European Socialism... "I'm not European.  I don't plan on being European.  So who gives a crap if they're socialists?  They could be fascist anarchists, and it still doesn't change the fact that I don't own a car." -- Ferris Beuller
  

• "The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes." -- Harold B. Lee
• "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
• "I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -- Gilda Radner
• "The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children." -- King Edward VIII
• "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- Bill Cosby
• "If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'" -- Jeff Foxworthy
• "I asked for a car, I got a computer.  How's that for being born under a bad sign?" -- Ferris Beuller
  

• "Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway." -- John Wayne
• "I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
• "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death." -- Patrick Henry
• "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." -- Alexander Hamilton
• "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." -- Sir Winston Churchill
• "Americans never quit" -- Douglas MacArthur
• "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." -- George Orwell
  
• "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." -- Ronald Reagan
• "Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you." -- Harry S. Truman
• "In war there is no substitute for victory. " -- Douglas MacArthur
• "Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible." -- Ted Nugent
• "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell
• "Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!  America!  America!  God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.  Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern, impassioned stress a throughfare of freedom beat across the wilderness!  America!  America!  God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law.  Oh, beautiful for heros proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!  America!  America!  May God thy gold refine, till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine.  Oh, beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears!  America!  America!  God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotrherhood from sea to shining sea." -- Katherine Lee Bates
• "Everyone has this most precious of all life's endowments-the gift of free agency -- man's inherited and inalienable right." -- David O. McKay
• "We have peace in our time" -- Neville Chamberlain (shortly before World War II broke out).  Ask him how well appeasement foreign policy went.
  

Environmentalism and So-called "Global Warming"

• "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." -- Mark Twain
• "Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense." -- Carl Sagan
• "Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." -- Nikola Tesla
• "The evidence in support of these predictions [of global cooling] has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it." -- Newsweek 1975
• "The debate is over" -- Albert Gore Jr. (There never was a debate, just a consensus of 2500 scientists in need of government funding, when 37500 other scientists with contrary opinions and findings offered to debate, the 2500 refused.)
• "One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." -- Master Oogway (Kung Fu Panda)
• "The greatest loser in any argument is the one who's argument is so weak, that their only response is to attempt silence the opposition." -- SuperSparky

Believe it or not, I had to really shorten this list.  With wisdom, comes volumes of understanding and in just a few words.  Wisdom cuts to the bone.  It says it like it is and is not politically correct.  I found the wisdom of some, who'd you never expect, be the most profound.

We cannot forget the past if we hope to survive the future.  Remember, "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." -- John Wayne

Once upon a time, Bill Clinton, while being deposed for his own perjury case, argued about the definition of the word "is".  Something that is hard to do, especially since you need the word itself as part of your language to do it.  Doing what Clinton's are best at, he sat there with a straight face and actually made the attempt.

Now today we see Obama.  The former candidate that ran on a platform of the word "change" and essentially nothing else.  So now that he is soon to be President and is no longer running for the office, it seems the word "change" must have a different definition than every English speaker in the world is familiar with.

Cambell Brown at CNN has an excellent article about Obama and his so-called promises of change in regards to lobbyists.  It's a real eye openner.

As competent and eloquent the article is, I must confess that the phrase "Our rules are more strict" is better explained in the movie "Clear and Present Danger", where they called such politics the "Patomic Two-Step".

Let's go back to Clinton.  He ran his campaign on a platform of "I'm not going to raise taxes", and then almost immediately gave the "I tried real hard but..." excuse and then raised taxes before the inauguration ink was dry.  I believe George HW Bush said "read my lips" and later ate those words too.

Obama, who hasn't even been inaugurated yet, which is a first for this dance, is doing the Patomic Two Step.

The only change people are seeing is the Constitution being swept aside.  Here's a document that guarantees our liberties and defines what the government must do and what it must not do.  Nevertheless, the dancers in Washington ignore that document all in the name of "rescuing the economy".  Keep in mind, however, is was these same clowns that caused the problem in the first place.  How convenient this must be to the Marxists in the Democrat party to have succeeded, finally, in ruining the USA's economy and at the same time show up saying they are going to "rescue" it.

The problem is, government has never "fixed" a problem.  In fact, every time the government has interfered with the economy it has just made things worse.  FDR prolonged the depression by not allowing the market to stabelize itself, as well as entrusting our stability to a bank instead of the gold standard (a topic for another day).  Jimmy Carter created Fannie Mae and then later Freddie Mac.  A bloated monster without any accountability to market changes full of people patting each other on the back and giving each other bonuses for actions the economy could never sustain.  We finally have Bill Clinton, although throttled with a Republican Congress.  He increased the damage these two banks could do on the economy by using them to strong-arm banks into giving loans to people that could never pay them, all in the name of "everyone deserves a house".  You know, some people cannot afford a house no matter how much a socialist thinks they "deserve" one.  Apartments and rentals make good homes as well.

The entire world's economy has been affected by government sticking their socialist fingers into a capitalistic market and screwed it up for everyone else.

Now these clowns want YOU to pay for it, and like a bunch of mindless lemmings in awe of Obama, you're willing to let them do it,

Want to know how to strengthen the economy?  Want to know how to "fix" it?  It's very very simple.  Have the government get their grimey dirty hands off it.  Let the companies fail.  Let the banks that made bad decisions fail.  Get rid of Freddie and Fannie.  They will be replaced by companies run properly.  I'm not saying eliminate regulation.  Every game needs a referree.  Just keep the refs out of the way.

Frankly, who destroyed the big three auto makers were the unions.  There must be consequences for greedy actions.  Yes, I said GREEDY actions.  People aren't "entitled" to giant pensions, pay without work, and on and on.  Those are things you earn.  Companies are formed to profit the stockholders.  Yes, they should fairly pay the workers, but the workers are not the stockholders.  When the workers demand more money out of a system that cannot support it the system fails.

The rest of the world considers American cars laughable pieces of junk, and compared to many foreign cars, they are.  The big three has to use the lowest bidder for all the materials (plastics etc) and have people that only do the minimum amount of work and that's it, and still pay them more than most people in white collar jobs get.  No wonder the product is crap.

Let companies fail, no matter how large they are.  In fact if they are "too large to fail", then they are too large period, and should have been broken up into two or three competing companies years ago by the SEC.  There needs to be consequences for bad decisions for both the management of companies and bloated and greedy unions.

Want to know what the federal government can legally do?  Read the Constitution.  Bailing out banks and auto companies is not "provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty".

The "Patomic Two-Step" is heating up to feverish and orgasmic socialist pitch and turning into a veritable political mosh-pit.  Money is being passed out left and right like its candy at Holloween.  Everyone, naturally, sees the party and wants a piece of it.  Unfortunately, that money is coming out of the US tax payer's pocket, and what isn't, is being printed up out of thin air.

Yet, you see people that came out of Obama speaches in tears saying "now I won't have to worry about taking care of my children anymore, or buying gas for my car, etc." not realizing how stupid that sounds.  There is this drunk euphoria of a bunch of idiots partying with our money, trashing the house, vomiting filth in the capital building, throwing dung and fecese at the Constitution and Declaration of Independance claiming they are "outdated" or "don't work".  It's amazing.

I never thought George Lucas to be a great writer.  His Star Wars stories had ground breaking special effects to make them into blockbusters.  The stories themselves are pretty lackluster and "B" level.  Nevertheless, one of his characters, Queen Amadala, spoke a line so poignant, so deeply true, and yet oddly prophetic at real life.  Like in my "Star Wars Epiphane" article I explain it better.  Nevertheless it must be said again to illustrate my point here.  She said, "So this is how liberty dies.  To the sound of thunderous applause."

Our country is in a "perfect storm" right now.  Thanks to the greediness, and mostly cowardess of Republicans in Congress, or formerly in Congress, we have turned over power to the very people that caused our problems.  They had a more charismatic speaker that knew how to pull on people's emotions instead of their common sense.  They knew making promises of "we'll take care of you" and such would win out over "I was a prisoner of war".  They played the Soviet Union's Socialist Playbook to get the country where it is.  What?  You don't know about that works?  I will explain, and their plan to do this, is working to this very day.

OK, this is easy.  Back in the Eisenhower administration, many years ago, when we knew how dangerous communism and socialism was to our country, Eisenhower had a Secretary of Agriculture he told to meet with Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premiere and leader.  The Secretary of Agriculture was a man named "Ezra Taft Benson".  Mr. Benson didn't like the idea, but obeyed his President.  Listen to what Mr. Benson said about the encounter, but before you do, keep in mind this was during the 1960's and Mr. Benson's grandchildren would be about 40 or so right now:

Ezra Taft Benson

Ezra Taft Benson on Communism

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Are you going to join in the dance of the Patomic Two-Step or are you going to whistle and say "Alright!  Everyone out of the pool!"  YOU are responsible for your life, your liberty, and your future.  Don't let a bunch of idiots in Washington take that away from you.