You Are Smart Enough To Make It...But Not Smart Enough To Use It For Good.

There is a perverse ideology afoot in the Republic which is espoused by the self-appointed intellectual elite.  This repulsive ideology is that in order to have a "moral and just" society, we must be collectively crammed into the same section of the bell curve.  The elite see finances as the way to enforce equality, and thus the idea that government sponsored and enforced redistribution of wealth is the only means to the utopian society that is at the heart of "hope and change and yes we can."  Or in other words, I "hope" I win the liberal lottery and receive greater entitlements like healthcare, free education all the way through college, and possibly $5,000 for every baby I bear...and a house would be nice with a Government Motors car.  The "change" must mean a change in the rules of the game...that what you earn...what you receive as payment for your productivity really isn't yours, and that past a certain amount you really don't deserve it...in fact you are a greedy mother chucker for having made it, you evil heartless beast!  And finally, the "yes we can" is the attitude espoused by the current administration and Congress as they state over and over, "we won, so we can do whatever we want."

If you doubt President Obama's true desires on this subject take a listen to the following audio from a radio interview he gave in 2001.  His words are pretty clear to me...if you doubt his true ambition you are either totally ignorant as to the truth or in denial, or deceptive and laying in wait for the right time to enflame class warfare and socialist redistributions policies.  

Following the Obama interview are several Milton Friedman interviews to give a little comparison of thoughts.

What is so perverse about the elitist stance is that on one hand the individual or family is competent enough to earn a substantial living, but the elitist not only doubts the morality of those earnings, but the ability of that person or family to use their family finances to good ends.  In essence they are saying, "you were smart enough, and prepared yourself sufficiently to make a good living, but you will not use the money you earn for good" (which good only comes from using the money to bring praise to the elite and his/her party of panderers).  So, the only thing left for the elitist liberal is to take what is not his/hers under the auspices of moral superiority stating that the ends justify the means.  The only way this thought process could become any more ridiculous is if those who believed in it dressed in a distinct fashion...similar to how goths dress in all black, gang members self-identify with different colors and dickies pants, and child abductors drive white vans with no windows in the back, the liberal elite who espouse the idea of redistributing wealth in a bizaro world Robin Hoodesque manner should dress the part.  That way their dress would match the absurdity of their ideology.  Time to bring out the green tights and elf shoes.  

If you think that I am mistaken and that Bush had eliminated taxes among the "rich" and that Rob'n for the Hood AKA Obama, Lil John-Joe Biden, and his band of merry men (thugs from ChiTown) are just helping increase patriotism through taxation among those robbed of that special opportunity by Bush, then you are foolishly mistaken and quite possibly are reading this blog while wearing green tights and elf shoes curled up at the toes.  Take a look at the Tax Foundation's figures of how the One's tax increases and overall spending shift has increased the redistribution of wealth.  

So, if you are for the government controlling how you spend your income, or in other words, how much of your income is rightfully yours, then you must have a pretty poor view of your own self worth and a severe inferiority complex to think that the gov can use your money better than you could.  If on the other hand, you feel that you and your family know how to use the money you make to create wealth for yourself and for those you might hire or pay for goods and  services, then you must wake up to the fact that there is a sizable portion of our society that is lurking in the forest, wearing green tights, waiting to pounce on you and take "their share" from your coin purse.  

Comparison of Leadership

Here's an interesting video taken from Hannity's America. It's a show on Fox News, the network I can only ever watch while getting a haircut because I can't afford cable. Luckily, because of this amazing invention called "The Internet", we have access to small exerpts from shows on cable - for free...actually, not for free, but cheaper than cable. Let's all take a moment of silence and thank Al Gore for "The Internet", which he invented.

Now, the video linked above shows the comparison between President Obama's response to the chaos in Iran, and President Reagan's response to the Soviet backed Polish Government's crackdown on a Trade Union Federation that was pro-Democracy back in 1981.

For what it's worth, Reagan was better.

Everything is on the Table

I recently viewed a quality video about Obama's health care plan, and how he's planning on paying for it. The man toward the end of the video is Ed Schultz. He's not a conservative. Just wanted to clear that up. Here's a link, and the video is embedded below.

The biggest concern I have is not about taxation, it's about how this Government health care plan will change America. That's right, I said change. If you like going to the MVD/DMV...if you can't wait to go wait in that awfully long line for the chance to be sneered at by some middle-aged lady with a smoker's cough and some very suspicious hair-loss...you really are probably looking forward to having the Government take your health care over.

Seriously though, President Obama keeps touting that if you like your coverage as it is, then you'll be able to keep it. How long does he intend for this to be possible?

I don't have the access to any specifics, but let's do a gut check. I don't know anyone who's not successfully self-employed who doesn't use the health care coverage provided to them by their employers. This is a very good deal for most workers that qualify for this coverage. Companies of all shapes and sizes spend a large portion of their resources to negotiating, and then facilitating the Health plan that is both cost beneficial to their bottom lines, as well as appealing to as many current and prospective employees as possible.

Enter Government Health coverage. It will seem like a great deal. Many companies will latch on to the fact that they'll save $$ by just allowing their employees to switch to Obamacare. Everything might seem rosy - and then the health insurance companies, divested of their main source of funding, will fold. We'll have no options, the Government's health coverage will be the only coverage available. That's when it will start to suck. We'll get taxed more and more, which will be followed by the inevitable fact that in order to remain solvent, the Health care peeps will have to cut costs, which will lead to Health Care Rationing - like I've mentioned in a previous post.

People might start to pay for their own care in what's left of the Private Sector - but what happened in Canada might happen here too - they passed a law banning such activities. We'll have no choice but to stagnate and slide deeper into European Socialism.

If you read more and more about it, it gets worse. Here's a link to an article about how Kennedy's bill works, and how it favors the Political Elite. That's exactly what we need...right?

I must mention that the current Health Care system in the USA is not perfect, but does what I've written above sound in any way better to anyone? I hope not.

Enjoy the video. If you'd like, here's a website where you can lend your voice to the cause of freeing up our health care.

OBAMA and the "Honest Debate" Deception

One thing that I always wonder when I hear the President speak is how more people don't catch the fact that he's double speaking. What he says and what he does never lines up completely.

Take, for instance, the following glimpse at what he's planning with his single-payer Health care plan. Please watch this.



The President has said all along that he wants to give the people choice with healthcare plans, but this video shows what the agenda is, and how the words that Obama uses don't quite explain things too clearly.

With a single-payer plan funded by the Federal Government, not only would you have your healthcare managed by the same team that brings you the fabulously efficient Motor Vehicle Divisions across the country, but you would quickly see funding becoming a major source of pain to the taxpayers of this country. Furthermore, what happens when funding is becoming scarce for the Medicare on steroids? What will happen is what has happened in Canada and Britain, just to name a couple of examples, which is healthcare rationing. Healthcare rationing means that not only will there be a pure shortage of services, which will lead to waiting lists and lines for something so simple as a checkup, but also a bureaucratic analysis of what "efficient" concerning costs of care.

So, for example, if you're a financially secure 55 year old white male, and you need some radical surgery to replace your left leg because of a crazy shark attack at Pebble Beach - just hypothetically - you'd be able to get the surgery on a private plan, but when you try and apply for the surgery on the Gov. Health plan, your case would go to a "committee" where they discuss if your surgery is cost effective. Verdict: live without the left leg.

Realistically, people die on Canadian Healthcare waiting lists on a semi-regular basis waiting for things like Chemo-Therapy or Heart Surgery. Here's a little database of some specifics.

Bottom line: The people advocating Government Healthcare in that video, and all over the country, believe that the single-payer Government Health plan will be compassionate, and equitable, but it will more than likely be neither.

Dick Cheney gives a great speech

Today was a nice day for speeches about National Security. We first had President Obama give a speech in the very home of the original Constitution of the United States, and the original Bill of Rights. His speech was aimed primarily at explaining his actions and pointing out the fact that there's a fine line between Transparency and National Security.

It was a nice speech. It was loaded up heavily with contradictions such as the "Surgical Approach" line that he used in his campaign. What I mean by that is that he promises that he'll be as transparent as possible, and that he'll overhaul the "State's Secrets" policy that has been used for decades by administrations from both parties, but that he'll use a "surgical approach". Translation: "I'm really not going to do what I just said, I'll just pretend...you know...like I'm a surgeon...". Hey Mr. President, surgeons actually work - they go through an inhumane amount of schooling and training to get to where they are - they don't just fall backward into a pile of money the size of Uncle Scrooge's Money Bin and spend all their days golfing - I don't know if you were aware of that - so don't take all of their money by way of over-taxation, and don't destroy their careers through socializing medicine!!

Okay...back to the subject.

The President tends to contradict himself in many of his speeches. Maybe it's not as much contradicting himself as it is just lying. I don't know if I'm allowed to use the "L" word though. It's amazing to me that he can get away with it so well. He is a great speaker - he really makes those speeches come alive. The text of his full speech is here, so read it if you will. However, when you listen to the speech, rather than just read it, I would venture to say you'd agree with me that he is a gifted man.

All gifts aside, I prefer a little substance. If all our leaders had an honest and sincere position to stand behind, we'd all be better off. That's why I liked Dick Cheney's speech, which almost immediately followed President Obama's speech, that he gave at the American Enterprise Institute.

Former Vice President Cheney is a good man with a very honest approach. This is the line I liked the best:

"Your kind invitation brings me here as a private citizen, a career in politics behind me, no elections to win or lose, and no favor to seek."

Wow, imagine if all political speeches had such promise!

Here's a link to the transcript of Dick Cheney's speech, and here are the links to the video of the speech - part 1, 2, 3, and 4.

I've embedded some little gems for y'all below:











I like the fact that Dick Cheney is out there trying his darnedest to set the record straight. I'm giving him my vote to keep on going.

Oh No...

Please enjoy this video clip taken before the White House Correspondent Dinner began.

ACORN - pretty scary.

Please watch This, but before you do, make sure you're sitting down, with a bowl of Ice Cream - preferably Mint 'n' Chip, the Breyer's variety.

Blame Game

This morning I read the following headline on the Drudge Report:
High U.S. Budget Deficits not Obama's Fault - Orzag.

I thought it was interesting that this is the official tone of the White House, and has been since the beginning of this administration. If there's a problem, or if there's any criticism concerning how President Obama reacts to any situations, the standard defense is "Let's not forget, I inherited this (insert problem)..."

The article above is in related to the Budget deficit, which is now estimated to be $1.8Trillion.

To be fair, Obama didn't blame Bush for the NYC Air force 1 press photo fiasco; for that he blamed his Military Office Director.

That was darn decent of him.

What will be a fun game the next three and a half years is to try and guess which official in the cabinet will next fall on their sword for Obama.

Long live the King.

The American Trinity: A Video Presentation

I stumbled upon this video today, it was linked from the blog on Townhall. I really enjoyed it, and if you follow the link to Youtube, you can find more related videos.

Here's the link.



God Bless America.

Thuggery

This past week, a major change crept over the American Auto industry. Chrysler declared bankruptcy. The deal was announced on Thursday by the President and spelled out in detail all over the news. Here's one the articles that I urge you to read.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for the Auto companies declaring bankruptcy, in order to free themselves from the bondage of the UAW, the United Auto Workers' Union; I say bondage because of the handicap that this union imposes on our American auto companies (here's a great Op ed piece by Mitt Romney that expounds on that). However, sometimes I wonder how these decisions are made.

Here's a fun quote from Jake Tapper's blog (Tapper's an ABC News correspondent for the White House Press Corp.): "A leading bankruptcy attorney representing hedge funds and money managers told ABC News Saturday that Steve Rattner, the leader of the Obama administration's Auto Industry Task Force, threatened one of the firms, an investment bank, that if it continued to oppose the administration's Chrysler bankruptcy plan, the White House would use the White House press corps to destroy its reputation."

What? When you read further, you'll see the response from the White House: "The charge is completely untrue," said White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton, "and there's obviously no evidence to suggest that this happened in any way."

Neat huh? Remember in Elementary School? "Teacher, Billy hit me!" Then little Billy pipes up..."Prove it!"

Ah, the White House at its best.

In the blog sited above you'll also read that there were four larger creditors to Chrysler, that were owed 70% of the total debt on Chrysler's books, that the investment firm in question joined in eventually pushing for bankruptcy. The four creditors were JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. The blog points out that all of these firms and companies are recipients of huge amounts of TARP money. Hmm. I wonder if that had anything to do with their enthusiasm to take 29 cents on the dollar for their loans.

This is where our country is going - God Bless America.

PS - For those of you not familiar with Chrysler here are some cars they make:



The Dodge Challenger - very sweet!



Dodge Caravan - very nice!



Jeep - excellent!



Chrysler Sebring - Crap Sandwitch! There had to be some reason for the bankruptcy, right?