"Anytime the majority starts to demonize a minority, no matter what it is, it's wrong. And dangerous And no good ever comes from it."--Tom Perkins
Is the promotion of jealousy, fear and hate an effective strategy for leftist politicians and their followers to manipulate and micromanage the most productive capitalists and business entities? Is this what America's progressive liberals have in common with Stalin, Hitler, Mao and the likes? Were the historical figures just mentioned not tyrants? Is part of the progressive agenda to create loathing and resentment towards those who are successful entrepreneurs, CEO's and the wealthy in general? These questions are important in as much as we need to understand what drives the progressive-socialist train. Even more important is the final destination of the train.
The strategy of tyrants has always been to demonize those persons or entities whose power they desire to appropriate. That's the typical way tyrants gain power. They give the masses someone or something to hate. In the last century communists gained power by promoting public hatred of capitalists. Hitler gained power by fostering hatred of Jews and Bolsheviks.
We must ask ourselves if Obama and the progressive left are bemoaning income inequality. What thoughts have you on Obama and his progressive war on the American one percent? After the one percent who is next? I believe it is absurd to demonize those who are successful and for doing what the rich do, which is get rich by creating opportunity for others. You get my point? Let us hope Obama and his followers train derails prior to reaching the his destination-destination ruin.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Monday, March 3, 2014
Ukraine and America's Struggle
If you've been watching the news recently you may have heard about the unrest in the Ukraine. A struggle between the socialist dictatorship propped up by Putin's Russia and those pushing for freedom.
As it is with Ukrainians, so it is with Americans. Both nation's desire freedom from tyranny. The alternative to peace is war. With war comes blood, sweat and many tears. In Ukraine we have a fledgling Republic that is threatened from without. In America we have a Republic that is threatened from within. Both countries face a tide of tyranny.
The Ukrainian's, if they are to have liberty, may be forced to fight a far superior foe. If history is a reminder to the people of the Ukraine some solace may be taken by looking back America's Revolutionary War. The odds of the American Colonies defeating Great Britain were overwhelmingly long. Through prayer, extraordinary leadership, fervor and commitment, America was able to defeat the World's greatest Empire of the time. The Ukrainian's can do the same. And I pray they will.
War is hell, and though Americans seem to know that on some level, they tend to forget that the battle for the Republic will be unpleasant, distressing, volatile, enervating, offensive, challenging, derisive and that we could lose. You ask how can we possibly lose? Think about the left-wing obsession with non-evil. It exemplifies the left's moral universe. That universe is preoccupied with lesser evils while always ignoring the great evils until those evil's materialize. You ask, what evil is materializing which poses a threat to America? Obama and his administration is slowly -piece by piece- erecting a socialist type dictatorship. We are not there - yet. But he is putting America on that dangerous path. He is undermining our constitutional system of checks and balances; subverting democratic procedures and the rule of law. He is assaulting the very pillars of capitalism. Mr Obama is bent on imposing a revolution from above - one that is polarizing America along racial, political, economic and ideological lines. Like our Ukrainian brothers, we must fight tyranny. We choose to do this politically. They were given little choice but to fight tyranny with the sword. God bless them.
As it is with Ukrainians, so it is with Americans. Both nation's desire freedom from tyranny. The alternative to peace is war. With war comes blood, sweat and many tears. In Ukraine we have a fledgling Republic that is threatened from without. In America we have a Republic that is threatened from within. Both countries face a tide of tyranny.
The Ukrainian's, if they are to have liberty, may be forced to fight a far superior foe. If history is a reminder to the people of the Ukraine some solace may be taken by looking back America's Revolutionary War. The odds of the American Colonies defeating Great Britain were overwhelmingly long. Through prayer, extraordinary leadership, fervor and commitment, America was able to defeat the World's greatest Empire of the time. The Ukrainian's can do the same. And I pray they will.
War is hell, and though Americans seem to know that on some level, they tend to forget that the battle for the Republic will be unpleasant, distressing, volatile, enervating, offensive, challenging, derisive and that we could lose. You ask how can we possibly lose? Think about the left-wing obsession with non-evil. It exemplifies the left's moral universe. That universe is preoccupied with lesser evils while always ignoring the great evils until those evil's materialize. You ask, what evil is materializing which poses a threat to America? Obama and his administration is slowly -piece by piece- erecting a socialist type dictatorship. We are not there - yet. But he is putting America on that dangerous path. He is undermining our constitutional system of checks and balances; subverting democratic procedures and the rule of law. He is assaulting the very pillars of capitalism. Mr Obama is bent on imposing a revolution from above - one that is polarizing America along racial, political, economic and ideological lines. Like our Ukrainian brothers, we must fight tyranny. We choose to do this politically. They were given little choice but to fight tyranny with the sword. God bless them.
Saturday, March 1, 2014
The Undermining of the Food Stamp Program
Who was America founded by and what has that got to do with Food Stamps? America was founded by determined pioneers who surmounted wilderness obstacles and faced bitterest of environments, all to insure the survival of themselves and their families. Those early settlers have been replaced by generation after generation of individuals armed with nothing more than personal responsibility, resourcefulness, and resolve, which created the greatest country on earth. And what do we have to show for it now? We have the majority of fifty million EBT/SNAP recipients waiting to hear the dinner bell ring.
A few of my readers may think I am speaking ill of those unfortunate recipients who need government assistance to subsist. This is not my intent. Some sort of safety net should exist to briefly help those citizens, who through no fault of their own come upon hard times. A safety net is needed for our fellow citizens who are physically or mentally unable to subsist on their own. The current EBT/SNAP program is nothing more than a life-net that encourages indifference and is ripe with fraud.
Categorical entitlement effectively wiped out the program's old asset test, meaning you can have tens of thousands of dollars in assets and still qualify. Obama's stimulus removed the work requirement. With the requisite removed, many able bodied people signed up for food stamps. EBT cards removed the stigma. Eligibility for the program has been loosened, individuals have been encourage to apply through public service announcements and waivers are routinely granted in most states to enable individuals to remain wards of the state indeterminately. The program's true purpose is to feed those who cannot earnestly feed themselves. What ever happened to personal responsibility, resourcefulness and resolve?
In a statement released by someone representing The Food Stamp Program, administered by the Department of Agriculture, stated that it is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever, to forty-seven and a half million people (April 2013). Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the United States Department of Interior, asks us "Please do not feed the animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves." Do you not see the irony?
A few of my readers may think I am speaking ill of those unfortunate recipients who need government assistance to subsist. This is not my intent. Some sort of safety net should exist to briefly help those citizens, who through no fault of their own come upon hard times. A safety net is needed for our fellow citizens who are physically or mentally unable to subsist on their own. The current EBT/SNAP program is nothing more than a life-net that encourages indifference and is ripe with fraud.
Categorical entitlement effectively wiped out the program's old asset test, meaning you can have tens of thousands of dollars in assets and still qualify. Obama's stimulus removed the work requirement. With the requisite removed, many able bodied people signed up for food stamps. EBT cards removed the stigma. Eligibility for the program has been loosened, individuals have been encourage to apply through public service announcements and waivers are routinely granted in most states to enable individuals to remain wards of the state indeterminately. The program's true purpose is to feed those who cannot earnestly feed themselves. What ever happened to personal responsibility, resourcefulness and resolve?
In a statement released by someone representing The Food Stamp Program, administered by the Department of Agriculture, stated that it is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever, to forty-seven and a half million people (April 2013). Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the United States Department of Interior, asks us "Please do not feed the animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves." Do you not see the irony?
Saturday, February 22, 2014
America's Welfare Maze
"Its easier to fool people than it is to convince people they have been fooled."--Mark Twain
While the two major political parties shout, scream, and showboat, arguing about who is going to spend the tax payers money on which pork barreling project, the ship of state is letting on water. The politician will do and say what garners them the most votes. This is how politicians, for the most part remain in a position of political power. The more money for welfare recipients and welfare projects the more those who stand to gain will vote to keep their benefactor in office. The problem is welfare spending is but one example of tax payers money being wasted by politicians who just don't get it and for the most part don't care. Here's a thought, why do we need welfare? The real answer about why we need such is simple enough. We need welfare because of "generations of failed government social policies that have devastated the working class family, destroyed religious prohibitions on self-destructive behavior, exported jobs to other nations, and confined welfare recipients in section 8 housing or public housing ghetto's." Here is a question to ask ourselves. How in the world, is a welfare mother who sees nothing but other welfare mothers expected to plan her exit from public reliance or enslavement if you will?
Here is another question to ponder. How did we get to this point in the first place? Do you suppose it had something to do with union-run public proselytizing system masquerading as publicly funded education? I believe so. I believe it was indoctrination, not education that destroyed the path to self- betterment that real education had heretofore provided.
Have you ever wondered who benefits most from welfare. How about Section 8 housing landlords or contractors who build public housing? Do you think local government bureaucrats who manage public housing benefit from welfare? There are a few beneficiaries of welfare programs that we tend to forget. Detention facilities builders and public unions get the overflow from public housing. And let us not forget the dope peddlers, legal and otherwise, who sell temporary exits from the prison walls that we have erected around Lyndon Johnson's "50 year war" and its inmates, all of whom are cared for by leftist reformists who live, not in the same community but well outside the penal colony walls.
While the two major political parties shout, scream, and showboat, arguing about who is going to spend the tax payers money on which pork barreling project, the ship of state is letting on water. The politician will do and say what garners them the most votes. This is how politicians, for the most part remain in a position of political power. The more money for welfare recipients and welfare projects the more those who stand to gain will vote to keep their benefactor in office. The problem is welfare spending is but one example of tax payers money being wasted by politicians who just don't get it and for the most part don't care. Here's a thought, why do we need welfare? The real answer about why we need such is simple enough. We need welfare because of "generations of failed government social policies that have devastated the working class family, destroyed religious prohibitions on self-destructive behavior, exported jobs to other nations, and confined welfare recipients in section 8 housing or public housing ghetto's." Here is a question to ask ourselves. How in the world, is a welfare mother who sees nothing but other welfare mothers expected to plan her exit from public reliance or enslavement if you will?
Here is another question to ponder. How did we get to this point in the first place? Do you suppose it had something to do with union-run public proselytizing system masquerading as publicly funded education? I believe so. I believe it was indoctrination, not education that destroyed the path to self- betterment that real education had heretofore provided.
Have you ever wondered who benefits most from welfare. How about Section 8 housing landlords or contractors who build public housing? Do you think local government bureaucrats who manage public housing benefit from welfare? There are a few beneficiaries of welfare programs that we tend to forget. Detention facilities builders and public unions get the overflow from public housing. And let us not forget the dope peddlers, legal and otherwise, who sell temporary exits from the prison walls that we have erected around Lyndon Johnson's "50 year war" and its inmates, all of whom are cared for by leftist reformists who live, not in the same community but well outside the penal colony walls.
Friday, February 21, 2014
A Season
"There is a time for everything, and a time for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to uproot, a time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance."--Ecclesiastes (3:1-4)
It's fine to mourn, and its fine to dance, and its fine to know that part of life itself is to understand that nothing lasts forever, and that even the sad times should be embraced. Take heart in these challenging of times, fore the sun will rise in the morning regardless of the darkness in one's present circumstance.
It's fine to mourn, and its fine to dance, and its fine to know that part of life itself is to understand that nothing lasts forever, and that even the sad times should be embraced. Take heart in these challenging of times, fore the sun will rise in the morning regardless of the darkness in one's present circumstance.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Tides of Tyranny: Poverty by Choice or Government Conditioned
Tides of Tyranny: Poverty by Choice or Government Conditioned: It is recognized by the writer of this blog and others that the problems afflicting many impoverished people are often of their own making, ...
Poverty by Choice or Government Conditioned
It is recognized by the writer of this blog and others that the problems afflicting many impoverished people are often of their own making, at least to a great extent. Have you ever stopped to consider how much of modern life is conditioned by the fact that millions of young woman are having children they cannot support? If one cannot afford to support their children, they cannot afford to feed them, they cannot afford to put a roof over their heads and they cannot afford medical care. This being the case, an environment conducive to learning is probably dramatically hindered. Clearly the tax paying Americans are subsidizing a way of life.
Currently the Federal Government spends in access of one trillion dollars a year on 79 federal means tested welfare programs. These programs provide cash, food, housing, medical care, social services, training and targeted education to poor and low income Americans. "If converted to cash, means tested welfare spending is more than sufficient to bring the income of every lower income American to 200 percent of the federal poverty level. That amounts to approximately $44,000.00 per family of four. "
Those persons who sell anti-poverty programs are under the presumption the beneficiaries of these anti-poverty programs always "behave rationally enough to advance their own self interests." To the detriment of themselves, their dependents and society this is rarely the case.
The state of the nation's welfare program causes poverty both fiscally and spiritually. There is little doubt that these programs are devastating the culture of the recipient communities. There is less doubt that these programs are costly. There is no doubt that trillions of dollars are tapped annually off the incomes of the most productive Americans to subsidize a large portion of those who collect welfare by choice not circumstance.
Politically, I may be cast as a racist for addressing this issue. I am far from it. I believe man has the power of choice; to choose his words, to choose his actions and to choose right from wrong. I believe all men were created equal by God. I am conscious of being white in a country that is increasingly minority. I see the social safety net as something that helps the racial minority (that in itself is not altogether bad) and binds the rising minority population to the Demo Party.Hence the cycle continues.
Currently the Federal Government spends in access of one trillion dollars a year on 79 federal means tested welfare programs. These programs provide cash, food, housing, medical care, social services, training and targeted education to poor and low income Americans. "If converted to cash, means tested welfare spending is more than sufficient to bring the income of every lower income American to 200 percent of the federal poverty level. That amounts to approximately $44,000.00 per family of four. "
Those persons who sell anti-poverty programs are under the presumption the beneficiaries of these anti-poverty programs always "behave rationally enough to advance their own self interests." To the detriment of themselves, their dependents and society this is rarely the case.
The state of the nation's welfare program causes poverty both fiscally and spiritually. There is little doubt that these programs are devastating the culture of the recipient communities. There is less doubt that these programs are costly. There is no doubt that trillions of dollars are tapped annually off the incomes of the most productive Americans to subsidize a large portion of those who collect welfare by choice not circumstance.
Politically, I may be cast as a racist for addressing this issue. I am far from it. I believe man has the power of choice; to choose his words, to choose his actions and to choose right from wrong. I believe all men were created equal by God. I am conscious of being white in a country that is increasingly minority. I see the social safety net as something that helps the racial minority (that in itself is not altogether bad) and binds the rising minority population to the Demo Party.Hence the cycle continues.
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