Government seldom elevates. Rather it lowers everyone - except for the elite class - to the lowest common denominator...
Jim Mullen
Beware of Obama on gun rights!
Previous anti-gun record is more
than troublesome
Jim Mullen
Since the first flicker of life appeared on this planet, there has been the inherent right to self-protection in order to survive. It has always been a part of natural law. It is a right of little consequence without the means to enforce it against those who would do us harm. Titanic struggles have occurred between those who maintain the right to possess weapons to implement their own self - defense and those who believe no such right to weapons exists.
Our nation’s Founding Fathers so fervently believed in the citizen’s need to bear arms, it installed that right as the 2nd of the first ten amendments to the United States of America’s Constitution; the Bill of Rights. I believe that ranking to be significant. It is the only right pertaining to self-defense, and it guarantees that we have the means to defend ourselves. Without the right to bear arms, they understood that none of the other rights could be defended from threats by foreign countries or their own tyrannical government and was crucial in maintaining freedom. They also recognized that no person could be truly free without the right to defend oneself - not only in his or her home – but also anywhere in our country.
Although the Supreme Court ultimately affirmed the seemingly obvious right, that Americans do have a Constitutional right to bear arms, that decision did little to dampen the spirits of anti-gun zealots in our country. They know there will be no blanket exclusion of guns on a national, state or local level for some time, so they will continue with their tried-and-true methods of success by attrition.
- One attack that has been particularly effective is the cooperative and complicit help of the liberal media. Mainstream television networks offer documentaries demonstrating the devastating firepower of automatic weapons and then morph them into hard news stories telling viewers that these weapons are being sold by the thousands. In fact, automatic weapons’ sales to private individuals have been banned since the 30’s. The print media join the parade citing bogus statistics, printing endless stories about gun violence (by criminals) and penning editorial after editorial denouncing guns and extolling the virtues of “reasonable” gun control. The vast majority of all media coverage is anti-gun.
- Far more threatening is the tactic of selectively and systematically restricting, regulating and taxing guns, ammunition, gun owners and manufacturers. They target densely populated areas with liberal, progressive politicians and judges, and then lobby for their radical anti-gun agenda – which they describe as “sensible gun control legislation.” It is anything but sensible. By initializing endless lawsuits against gun and ammunition manufacturers and sellers, they are hoping to have a chilling effect on them by having to spend exorbitant amounts in legal fees. The result is higher prices and shortages for gun owners and lower profits for the gun business. When they find a sympathetic judge to rule in their favor it results in one more attack on our 2nd amendment. As it goes through the court system and sets more legal precedent, it diminishes our rights.
- Even with the historic victory in the Supreme Court, Americans in dozens of states and cities across this country essentially have no 2nd Amendment rights because of roadblocks and restrictions placed in the process when law-abiding citizens try to exercise their Constitutional right to gun ownership and use. In states with concealed carry laws, liberals are hyperventilating. Their game plan is adding to an ever-expanding list of locations to be exempted from the law, essentially neutering the legislation and gun-owners’ rights. They are beginning with all federal land.
- Several of the international treaties that liberals are pushing call for the United States to cede sovereignty to foreign entities by signing on to gun restrictions for our citizens. Some of these treaties will be recognized and honored by liberal administrations even if not approved by the Senate – again setting a legal precedent. Every little assault to our Constitution will slowly destroy our way of life.
In liberals' dreamy little world, the 2nd Amendment makes us all unsafe. They would never consider that there is not a possibility to rid the world of guns and; therefore, peaceful citizens need to own them. I would issue a challenge to the anti-gun zealots. Put your beliefs to the test. Place a sign on your front lawn that reads, “The owners of this property do not believe in the right of private citizens to own firearms.” They will, most assuredly, learn some of these cold, hard facts of life. · The threat posed to criminals of everyone owning a firearm is as crucial in the prevention of crime as the thin blue line of the under-appreciated police force. · Unilateral disarmament is suicidal. · Liberal policies of the “revolving door justice system” will quickly fall from favor. · There is always a reduction in crime when criminals do not know which homes have guns. · When seconds count, the police will take minutes to arrive. · Unless you can afford an armed bodyguard, there had better be a friend or a kindly neighbor who has your back; so be careful whom you call a gun-toting redneck. · If you have learned your lessons well, you will soon know the smell of cold steel and hot lead at the shooting range. · You will be able to say NRA without a scowl on your face or a snarl of your lip.
Things we can all do to protect our gun rights:
- Now that he is President, he will not admit to anything he has said or voted for. He will go about his anti-gun agenda overtly, not covertly.
- Educate yourself about the misinformation and propaganda dispersed by all the liberal groups in this country.
- Get involved by educating people about the 2nd Amendment.
- Get involved with you local schools and press for the teaching of children about our constitutional right to bear arms. They should be taught that the 2nd amendment is as much a part of the Bill of Rights as the freedom of speech or religion – and just as crucial.
- Learn about and teach your children the proper respect and safe handling of firearms.
- Get involved. Do not allow politicians to legislate, regulate or tax away the 2nd amendment.
· Learn “liberal speak” and know what they mean when they talk of “reasonable regulations”. Know that registration of firearms tells government where to find the guns of lawful Americans and that criminals do not register firearms. There is no Constitutional authority for the registration of your guns. Fight registration on every front!
- Work in your state for “right to carry” concealed weapons’ legislation. If your state already has these laws, seriously consider getting your permit. You will be required to complete a safety course and shoot live rounds. By allowing lawful citizens to carry concealed weapons it will deter crime because criminals will not know who is carrying a weapon. Armed Americans repel thousands of criminals yearly. Most do not have to fire a shot.
Finally, remember that the people who want to take your guns are the same ones who let criminals roam your streets. They are more interested in a criminal’s right than they are about you or your families’ safety. As long as there are criminals and government, all lawful citizens need to be afforded the absolute right to arm themselves. Our Founding Fathers knew this exceptionally well. Do not allow anyone to disarm this great nation.
Jim Mullen
Watch Charlton Heston’s Speech
“…from my cold dead hands”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ju4Gla2odw
Girl-Child of Autumn
Girl-Child of autumn, with mirthful delight,
Chases old summer and spurns him to flight.
Panting and breathless, he’s tired of the chase.
She frolics and laughs and quickens the pace.
Sipping the nectar from summer’s drab green,
She tans the tall grass; violets careen.
Seizing a rainbow she colors the trees.
Quiets the thunder; puts chill in the breeze.
Then crowns the maple, with scarlet and gold.
While summer withers, defenseless and cold.
Dew turns to crystal, the sky darker blue.
Flowers of summer lament their lost hue.
Dawn speaks much softer, the crows’ sound more crass.
Wild geese grow restless and gather en masse.
A daisy lies down in brown leafy bed.
The cricket silent, so much left unsaid.
The old man battles, he rattles and tries.
But now defeated, just lies there and sighs.
Now, not a robin, remembers the cheer
Of love songs whispered, in young summer’s ear.
Jim Mullen
Electoral College still under attack
States' rights have long been a problem for liberal progressives’ ambitions of creating an omnipresent, all-powerful federal government controlling every aspect of American life. Our Founders were adamant in their belief that individual states be self-sustaining and self-governing with limited power given to a central authority. The powers granted to the federal government were enumerated perfectly in the Constitution and countless other documents. By the same token, they left all other powers to the states.
Power-hungry liberal politicians never tire in their efforts to subvert the Constitution and make irrelevant the tenets to which our Founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
The latest in an avalanche of backdoor, progressive attacks is the rebirth of a sneak attack on American liberty and the Constitution calling for abandonment of the Electoral College system. In Massachusetts, bastion of liberalism, the legislature endorsed the concept of electing our President by a popular vote. This democratic-sounding attempt to thwart the Electoral process would diminish or completely destroy smaller states' roles in Presidential elections.
Currently, the popular vote backers have legislation enacted in Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, and Washington. Massachusetts’ 12 electoral votes added to those already approved would bring a total of 73 of 270 electoral votes needed to trigger an end run around the Constitution. It is highly likely if enough states enact this legislation to reach the 270 threshold; the outcome of most Presidential elections will be predetermined.
Consequently, the liberal Democrats rightly believe the overwhelming majority of Democrats in the large urban population centers would most assuredly overpower the smaller states and perpetuate a Democrat in the White House for decades to come. Logically, we could expect voter fraud to skyrocket and see elections tied up for months while all 50 states field the legal challenges guaranteed to ensue.
Over the years, efforts to amend the Constitution and change the electoral system have fallen by the wayside because smaller states realize they would become inconsequential because large population centers, especially East and West coast areas, would receive all the focus from Presidential candidates. Areas receiving the most generous of governmental assistance would vote for the candidate who brings the bacon to the largest group of voters.
Failure to get a Constitutional amendment is nothing more than a minor annoyance to liberal Democrats. They simply use another back door approach using fallacious arguments, misinformation, and progressive, politically correct jingoism.
The total elimination or dissolution of states’ rights is the final goal of socialists, Marxists, and centralized government advocates. The nation will be unable to survive destruction of our Republic form of government and supplanting it with direct democracy. Democracies never survive their own greed.
Jim Mullen
America tired of Obama's act
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
--From William Shakespeare's As You Like It
Shakespeare penned these lines about man’s seven ages of life, not
politics. However, it is applicable to the world stage of players
seeking power, money, and fame performing their roles in nefarious,
villainous plots. Schemes designed, not to entertain, but to hoodwink,
bamboozle and ultimately exert control over their audience.
Politicians, like actors, must portray what they are not, if they are recognized as preeminent in their field.
Politics is also about learning lines, projecting, and making people
believe they are what they portray. The set properly staged, props in
place, and everyone doing their job, a good politician can turn an
audience into adoring, fawning fans by flawlessly delivering lines and
striking the right pose.
The best, of course, are the veteran politicians who have learned to
perform their craft with perfection and bring their adoring fans to
their feet with thunderous applause and reverence, assuring them
cult-like status and massaging their ever-increasing egos. With each
performance, they build an air of confidence that quickly manifests
itself in arrogance. From time to time, however, a newcomer like Barack
Omama catches the fancy of a group looking for someone new to be the
object of their idol worshiping.
A great actor or politician is nothing without a superb script
comprising an intriguing plot featuring snappy, witty dialogue,
villains, and heroic characters with strong emotional appeal. The story
is then brought into sharp focus by a director who knows every nuance of
finding the right tenor in moving the audience in the desired emotional
direction and eliciting intense reaction.
One can imagine the horror of a writer or director when an actor becomes
caught up in his ego and extemporizes on his lines. When political
actors improvise, it is often the only chance we have to hear the truth
spewing from their mouths. When a politician tells the truth it is most
often accidental and is commonly referred to as a gaffe, also known as a
Kinsley gaffe. It is the opposite of a lie; more a Freudian slip.
President Barack Obama is one of the best political actors on the world
stage, but his enormous ego gets in the way and often compels him to go
off script in ad lib fashion, so that he can enlighten us with his
brilliance. His performances are, however, less than commanding when
speaking extraneously. He not only shows his true beliefs, but exposes
his ineptness when left to his own wits and skill. He is infamous not
only for his gaffes, but for the rambling, unintelligible attempts at
answering simple questions.
Without positive reviews from an adoring press, few would know the
greatness of an actor’s performance or, indeed, the greatness of the
performer. Barack Obama has no shortage of groveling admirers in the
press who get that leg-tingling feeling just watching and listening to
the master. However, to see through the façade and witness his backstage
performances without script or director, one should watch the
following, less than stellar, performances. All, of course, were
virtually ignored by main-stream media because they did not mesh with
their narrative of portraying Obama as the next savior of the world.
“…I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody." Obama-Spread the wealth around . If the audience did not figure out from this statement that Obama is a socialist, they were asleep in their seats.
“…at some point, You've Made Enough Money”. He was unable to contain his anti-capitalist urges.
"…under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Electricity Rates Skyrocket. More proof that Obama is an income redistributionist and high taxation socialist, intent on destroying coal at any cost.
“…I think that whether you are a white executive living out in the
suburbs, who don’t want to pay taxes to inner-city children for them to
go to school… White Executives Don't Want To Pay For Inner City ... Obama’s race baiting at its ugliest.
“I don’t know – not having been there and not seeing all the facts –
what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, any of us
would be pretty angry; number two that the Cambridge police acted
stupidly. Cambridge police acted 'stupidly' shows more race-baiting and anti-police bitterness.
“I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FEDEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.” Another Obama Freudian slip while talking about his healthcare plan.
You're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." (Watch video clip)
This video speaks for itself. Make your own call if this was a Freudian slip, gaffe, truth, or fiction.
As an example of how closely his handlers want to control Obama’s words,
they brought TelePrompTers along for his Jan. 19 visit to Graham Road
Elementary School in Falls Church, Va. They set them up in a classroom
where the president made a statement to reporters after chatting with
6th grade students.
Barack Obama touted and revered as the next Messiah by the progressive
Democrats and main-stream media, anointed himself as savior of the world
at a St. Paul, Minn. rally. “…this was the moment when we began to
provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the
moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to
heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation
and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.”
In truth, Barack Obama is but one more bad actor on the world political
stage whose ego and bravado have grown tiresome. Additionally,
regardless of the talent he has for delivering the lines; the
progressive script from which he reads is shallow, repetitive and
hackneyed. From the balcony to the front row, whistles and boos are
raining down upon the master. Likewise, the audience now dismisses the
daily exultations and ravings by the leftist media. He is type-cast as
one who can portray a leftwing ideologue, nothing more. America can
only hope that Obama’s performance will be a short, one-act play.
Jim Mullen
Obama's Sergeant Shultz imitation
Our inglorious President Obama, becoming ever more desperate, is
flailing around in a panic. He is lashing out at Republicans in general,
and the ones that he knows are the most dangerous to him and the
Democrats, in particular. He is behaving like a man who has lost all
control of the economy and himself. Obama’s rants and claims defy common
sense and sound like ravings of a man coming unhinged.
The heavy blows thrown by Republicans are landing square on Obama’s
policies and exposing massive holes in his defense. As the polls reflect
the country’s increasing wrath over his Marxist agenda; November looms.
His daily diatribes grow more frantic, his words more irrational, and
the excuses, blame games, and false bravado grow tiresome.
Rather than admit his radical leftwing policies are the problem not
the solution, Obama refuses to see any problems. He is using the "I hear
nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!" tactic used by Sergeant
Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes to avoid being blamed for anything. Schultz
was afraid what he would learn, if he opened his eyes or listened, could
send him on a one-way trip to the Russian Front. Obama is afraid voters
could send him on a one-way trip back to the left side of Chicago as a
community organizer.
Every piece of legislation enacted by this Congress and Obama has
been a part of their radical, socialist agenda and contrary to the
wishes of the American people. The results of their taxing, spending,
and regulation are apparent in every economic indicator and are felt in
millions of households nationwide. He is on the extreme leftwing of
every issue, every piece of legislation, and every idealistic debate
when compared to the values and interests of the American people.
Eight million jobs are gone; lost during a recession in which a
Democratic Congress has held the only instrument of power for spending
and legislation. Adding a Marxist President to the equation has
intensified the pain for the American people.
283,000 jobs have disappeared in Obama’s Summer of Recovery, but he
spends his time trying to talk the economy into action. Additionally,
331,000 workers moved from full-time to part-time last month. The
Democrats hold sway over an economy that is at a 26 year high for
unemployment.
His class warfare strategy of letting the Bush tax cuts expire for
those making over $250,000 yearly will sock small business and capital
investors with huge taxes and will result in a further decline in jobs.
Entrepreneurs and investors will keep their remaining money in their
pockets, dissuaded from investment in the economy. Obama’s original plan
was to let the entire package of tax cuts expire. Before, that is, the
Democrats began reading the polls as election time rolled around.
The U.S. budget deficit will hit $1.3 trillion this year to record
the second-highest of all time. Add to this last year’s record deficit
of $1.4 trillion and what we see on the horizon is more gloom as taxes
will skyrocket.
Just a flicker of the enormous costs for his Obama healthcare plan
is surfacing, and the consequences are staggering. Insurance premiums
are rising in the anticipation that costs will increase, and the
government just announced by 2019, $2,000 less in yearly care will be
available for each senior. This will be in addition to the cuts in
Medicare. The plan that Americans rejected is exploding, and the
concussion will be felt by every segment of society. Tens of thousands
of American lives will be lost if this national debacle is not repealed.
With all the evidence, he and Biden repeat the same mantra, “We are
definitely heading in the right direction.” This kind of lunacy is an
affront to the American people.
All of his current programs are an effort to pour billions of
dollars into local and states coffers to arouse his base and buy the
election. Everything Obama does is an effort to control and manipulate
people, business, and the economy. Right now he is looking for a
temporary uptick in the economy by November.
Is it any wonder that Obama said that information can be
distracting, and then told people not to watch Fox News or listen to
talk-radio? He is trying his best to distract the American people by
withholding, obfuscating, and lying about the information we receive.
Jim Mullen
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The Distorted world of liberals (part 1)
Liberals would quickly become extinct without conservatives to feed them, protect them from criminals, and keep them from the evil forces of the world. They live in a theoretical world of pipe dreams and naiveté. Wide-eyed, childlike, and idealist, they fail to see the real perils in the world. Nonetheless, they see dangers and problems needing their immediate attention in the most legitimate activities of the human race.
Most are anti-gun, anti-self defense, anti-military, and believe in unilateral disarmament of the United States as a country and of the law-abiding American citizens, in particular. They have weakened and perverted the criminal justice system to such a degree of inefficiency; it has placed our entire society at risk. Inner cities are drug-infested, combat zones where even police are fearful of their lives. Sexual predators and child molesters permeate every corner of America. To liberals, the rights of crime victims and innocent people are unimportant; the rights of criminals, however, are paramount.
Open borders and legalization of illegal aliens are two of the top priorities of the liberal establishment. They will never answer the simple questions of how many are enough, and at what cost. Estimates of illegal aliens in our country range from 12 to 20 million people, and liberals see no possibility of these illegals being terrorists or criminals, or that they contribute to the massive unemployment and underemployment numbers in the country. However, they go through life tilting at windmills, and find excuses to regulate, control, and tax the most innocuous behavior of American citizens.
If these people ever realize their deviant goals for our country and the world, they would not only perish in their sea of insanity, but unfortunately, would pull the rest of civilization down with them.
For the purpose of these three articles, all references to liberals will include those known as progressives, socialists, Marxists, and communists. They have, at times, tried to distinguish themselves from one another. However, the differences are subtle at best, and one would find it easier to recognize more differences in groups of waddling penguins. Most of these elite ricochet from one of these names to another, depending upon the un-favorability quotient their group happens to have at any particular time in history.
As a rule, the bulk of liberals fall into four groups.
Foremost, are the limousine liberals who insulate themselves from all negative consequences of the programs they purport would benefit the poor, Mother earth, or whatever their crusade or shtick is at the time. They charge forward unconcerned about the costs and consequences of the working and lower middle classes of people who are not so indigent as to receive benefits themselves, and will ultimately be crushed by the loss of jobs and benefits.
This group includes the Al Gore types and the George Soros’ of the world. They go about their normal lives jet-setting about the globe between mansions and the latest meeting of the world’s progressives, telling everyone else to live the Spartan life to save the planet and humanity. They make millions in our Capitalist system, then rant and rave about the evils of Capitalism. They learn early on how to manipulate the system to protect and enrich themselves. Among these people are the career politicians and/or accomplished attorneys. Hence, they write laws to protect themselves or pay politicians for the protection.
These people appear to have a gene missing in their makeup that disallows satisfaction or pleasure in their financial blessings. However, it is more likely due to the wealth thrust upon them at birth that requires no effort or ability of their own to amass or maintain. Consequently, they spend a lifetime in a vain attempt to shed themselves of the inner guilt and feelings of inadequacy for their own economic success and standing in society. They know they are where they are because of someone else's success. They seek power, influence, and international approval to get some vindication for their existence. As with all liberals, their lack of inner peace and self-esteem manifests itself in false bravado, and causes them to lash out and attack critics with cries of racism and dozens of other invectives.
They traverse the road of life in the family luxury cars and limousines; insulated from any real-world problems or hazards along the way endured by their benefactors. They never paid the high cost of their success; and like all things unearned in life, they go unappreciated and held in contempt.
Most wealthy people, who have attained their fortunes with an entrepreneurial spirit, hard work, and dogged determination, are conservatives. Magnanimous in spirit and deed, conservatives endow their fellow-man with their experience and voluntarily share their fortunes with others. Those who turn to liberalism in spite of their self-made success and still feel inadequate, are usually opportunists who find they can buy more love by spending millions in the political activism arena, promoting their ideas of socialism, Marxism, communism, and World Governance. It is easier and less expensive to advocate for the poor using other people’s money.
These people, like all liberals, profess they are champions of the underdog. When, in reality, they are advocating and abetting the actual enslavement of Americans to big government in this country, and the world’s people to a global government.
In the next installment we will look at the other three groups of liberals.
Jim Mullen
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Obama’s “desperation” tour continues. Air Force One’s contrails fill the blue October sky and the President of the United States wags his scolding finger at American voters across this mighty land. Pleadings to unions, women, Hispanics and blacks for help at the polls are becoming frantic by Obama. His charm has turned to bitterness; chiding Democrats for their disinterest, and deriding Republicans for their passion. He says Americans are bitter, scared, and not thinking clearly.
The makers of the worst economy since the Great Depression, the Democrats and Obama, are touting their great accomplishments and at the same time running from their record. Owning a record of food stamps, unemployment benefits, and welfare replacing job creation, is a legacy of which a committed leftist ideologue could feel proud. However, it is not a proud time for Americans who espouse love of freedom, self-reliance, and dedication to Constitutional principles.
It is difficult for most Democrats to defend Nancy Pelosi’s belief that food stamps and unemployment benefits are great job producers for American workers. Nonetheless, in addition to innumerable similar wacky statements by the queen of wacky politicians, this is her philosophy.
A United States Department of Agriculture poster trumpets the strange and distressing message that, “Food Stamps make Americans Stronger”. This is typical claptrap for the ruling regime in Washington, but is infuriating to Middle America.
Who among us would ever have entertained the idea of a President of the United States holding the beliefs of redistribution of wealth and income, and the concept of federal takeover of private business? Could we have imagined a President in all of his arrogance, state emphatically, “At some point you’ve made enough money.” Then, conversely, believe he is in the mainstream of American politics.
The openly dismissive and contemptuous attitude by Congress and Obama toward the Constitution and the American people is unparalleled in the history of our republic.
Additionally, we have a Democratic controlled congress that gave the most radical President in the history of our Republic, everything he asked for in his effort to “fundamentally transform this country”.
Would we have believed it possible for our United States government to declare war on the American People by suing Arizona for protecting themselves from foreign invaders and from their own federal government that abetted the invaders? Then, who could have foreseen a declaration of war on every single citizen when they forced a scheme of income redistribution on the nation called “healthcare reform” that will place life and death decisions in the hands of bureaucrats? Essentially, our medical decisions will come from the same paragons of compassion and efficiency that we witness daily from every other failed governmental program. Death panels are truly on their way unless voters in November toll the bell of liberty and drown out the tyrannical war drums coming from our elected leaders.
Class warfare and race hustling are the preferred weapons of distraction used by Obama and liberals to bludgeon the American People into submission and silence. The number of unemployed in the U.S. has exploded since Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007.
Incredibly, more than 8.3 million people have lost their jobs and the National Debt has increased an inconceivable $5.2 trillion since Nancy Pelosi declared in her inaugural address as the speaker of the House in 2007, there would be “no new deficit spending.” It is little wonder they feel the need to keep citizens in the dark and implore us to read the Marxist, Huffington Post and not watch Fox News or listen to talk radio.
Will November 2nd be a day of clearing sunshine, sanity and common sense, or will the pall of liberal-progressivism continue to darken American skies? Let us go to the polls and vote to uphold the Founding Fathers’ Constitutional principles of limited government and personal liberty. In so doing, we can show the world that Mr. Obama is the bitter, scared, unthinking one.
Jim Mullen
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America strikes back...the sleeping giant awakens
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
- -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Dec. 7, 1941
These words attributed to the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack proved prophetic. Americans, indeed, were filled with a terrible resolve that involved years of bloody combat and an attitude that no quarter would be given to a country that would launch a sneak attack on our military while their diplomats feigned negotiations.
When Americans awakened to the stark arrogance and treacherous actions of Japan in 1941, they determined a policy of no negotiations with tyrants and set upon a mission to bring the warring Imperial Japanese to a permanent and unmerciful justice.
Barrack Obama and the Democrats in Congress would have done well to remember Yamamoto’s warning. They have awakened the sleeping American People once again, and filled them with a terrible resolve.
A committed leftist ideologue and a Congress held captive by the fringe elements of political extremists in the Democratic Party, joined forces in their quest to enslave the American People at the point of a tyrannical government’s coercive, intimidating force. The leftists in our country have long wanted this subjugation and with the power shift in 2007, they reasoned it was time to exercise their Marxist muscle.
All the Democrats needed was a President with the same radical agenda to “fundamentally change” the United States of America. When Barack Obama, a Marxist Professor/Community Organizer became President, the stars came into alignment for the radicals.
The next step was the power coalition that declared all-out war on the U.S. Constitution, the free enterprise system, and the American People. In lightning succession, Congress and the President seized control of private businesses and banking. Additionally, they wrenched health care decisions from people and their doctors and installed monstrous bureaucracies to control the health and well-being of Americans.
Unbelievably, the country saw billions of dollars stolen from business investors and given to unions as payback for their support of Democrats. Similarly, we saw trillions of dollars borrowed from foreign countries, disguised as a stimulus program, given to Democratic supporters. The promise of job creation was a ruse and taxpayers for generations on end received the bill for a Marxist “income redistribution” plan. Creation of jobs and the suffering of millions of unemployed became secondary.
Back-room deals, bribes, and coercion became standard operating procedures and these massive sneak attacks by the servants of the people, sent the country reeling.
The Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, made his own rule-of-law with the blessings of Obama and the Congress. He declared war on the people of Arizona for protecting themselves against a foreign invasion when the federal government would not execute their Constitutional duty. Conversely, he dismissed charges against racists who intimidated voters at a polling place.
Barack Obama divided the country along racial, class, and gender lines to create disharmony and division, and to divert attention from the radical agenda of the far-left. He unleashed governmental bureaucracies against the American People, including the Environmental Protection Agency. When he couldn’t get bills passed in the Senate he ruled by fiat and executive order.
Contempt for the Constitution and the American People became obvious as Pelosi, Reid, and Obama rallied their forces to overrun the country and replace our Republic with a centralized, authoritative system of government.
Symbols of their arrogance of power splashed over print media and televisions across this vast land from our “public servants” who felt entitled to become our masters. The President called anyone and everyone who disagreed with him “the enemy” and used war-like terminology in defining his fight to impose his will on an unwilling citizenry.
Then, a rumble arose from the yawning giant of Middle America as they began to stir and awaken to the prodding and attacks by their government. The people came together and rallied at town halls and in the public squares to express their displeasure at the institutions of their government and Houses of the People. Tea Parties and 9-12 Projects sprang from every village and metropolis. Politicians became defensive, dismissive, and set at constituents with angry rhetoric and vile denunciations. They were in denial and misunderstood the signs; but, the giant had awakened.
Believing they were above recriminations or reprisals, Congress and Barack Obama became more belligerent and increased the attacks on what they called the dangerous “Tea Baggers”, Talk Radio and Fox News. Screams of “racists” and other invectives blasted through the airwaves at voters, and attacks on the productive elements in society escalated into daily diatribes. The President of the United States declared the people scared and thus, not thinking clearly. He and Congressional Democrats blamed business groups, George Bush, and anyone else but themselves for Americans’ anger.
The American People did not seek this all-out war waged by their representatives against them, but they resolved that no quarter would be given to those who would strip them of their liberty and their hard-earned treasure. They advanced a policy of no negotiations with tyrants and embarked upon a mission to bring the warring offenders to a permanent and unmerciful justice.
The first battle was monumental and successfully waged by the people on Election Day. It is, however, only the first test of wills against an enemy hell-bent on destroying the principles given us by the Founding Fathers. The Constitution is an insurmountable obstacle for politicians who want to destroy liberty; therefore, its destruction becomes paramount. It rests in the hands of the people to stop the onslaught.
The war has just begun and the fight must intensify not weaken. We must attack, attack, and attack. It is clear that playing defense will not win this war. The next two years are crucial, and until the radical elements in Congress and the White House are expunged, America is at risk of permanent destruction. The freedoms and values seen only in this, the greatest country in the history of civilization, the United States of America, will not exist for future generations if we fail in our mission.
Jim Mullen
Alan Mollohan's underestimation of voter discontent
Just when the people of West Virginia believed they had removed a skunk from the peoples’ house, the odor remains.
Incredibly, the 28 year stench we thought voters scrubbed from the beautiful hills, valleys and streams of West Virginia is still wafting through the airways and staining print media in the Mountain State.
Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV), the fourteen-term member of Congress representing West Virginia’s 1st district, is back in the news. He was included in the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 as one of the most corrupt politicians in Washington. He stood accused of steering earmarks to family, friends, and former employees in exchange for campaign contributions and for misreporting assets on his financial disclosure forms.
The Department of Justice ended its investigation of Rep. Mollohan in 2010, coincidently, after Mr. Mollohan decided to vote for Obama’s healthcare program despite screams and protests against the legislation by the American People and most voters in West Virginia.
Years of these corruption reports and an unresponsive, arrogant, elitist attitude toward the West Virginia voters led to his defeat in the Democratic primary and eventual election of the Tea Party-backed Republican, David McKinley.
Now, with arrogance shining like a shyster’s gold tooth, Mr. Mollohan announced he is testing the waters for a 2012 campaign to take back his seat even though he won’t leave office until January. He commented in state interviews this week that he is keeping his options open. The Associated Press reported he didn’t respond to repeated messages. How strange; the very same behavior he exhibited toward his constituency.
Mollohan told the Charleston Daily mail, he “underestimated voter discontent” and spent too little time back home.
These ridiculous assertions strike to the heart of everything that is wrong with our politicians. Mr. Mollohan understood perfectly the level of voter discontent; he simple chose to ignore voters because of his feelings of entitlement to the office and a belief of invincibility at the polls.
He said whether he runs again depends on the political environment. One can only hope Alan Mollohan finds a new venue for his socialistic, elitist and unscrupulous ideals. Several countries in Europe or better yet, several third-world nations might be more appropriate for his brand of shadowy, politically corrupt, ideology.
Likewise, one can hope the political environment needed for Rep. Mollohan’s reelection to any public office will never again darken the skies of West Virginia or anywhere else in our country.
Jim Mullen Obama through the liberal media prism
Barack Obama preceded the lame-duck Congress with his usual vitriolic rants against any policy that would provide private sector jobs; a repeat of the rhetoric of his first two years in office. His animus toward any Republican proposals that would throw a lifeline to the sinking economy was right in line with his strategy of appeasing his political base and paying off contributors, and his core belief of redistribution of wealth.
Obama’s default setting is always campaign mode, and he quickly hit his stride and the reset button as if the November election results failed to reach his lofty desk or enter his pompous mind.
His hatred of the Capitalist, free enterprise system and his tax-and-spend, socialist ideology resounded with closely choreographed, Democratic Party fundraisers designed to ramp up class warfare.
‘Bush tax cuts for the rich’ became the mantra of Obama and the Democrats when a tainted, rejected, group of arrogant
politicians convened to do their lame-duck mischief. Tax cuts were never the issue, however; it was a choice of allowing people to keep their own money or enabling Democrats to raise taxes.
However uncomfortable liberals are in the world of reality, they thrive in the theoretical and are brilliant in framing their arguments. Mischaracterization of the issue became the political policy, and misdirection the tactic, in their talking points.
Soon after, Obama proclaimed it was distasteful, but Republicans, who were ‘holding the American people hostage to give tax breaks to the rich’, were forcing him into the diabolical plan.
Then, Obama had his “come-to-Clinton moment” in which he switched tactics and changed directions as seamlessly as a bumblebee in flight. Compliant media played their usual game of acquiescence to anything Obama, and the dynamic as well as the rhetoric did a one-eighty overnight; incredibly, the formerly evil Bush tax cut plan grew into the warm and fuzzy, ‘Obama tax cut plan’.
A President, who oversaw a 30 percent increase in the federal debt and a loss of 4 million jobs in two years, miraculously became a champion of private sector jobs, free enterprise, and fiscal discipline. The success of this faux switch in political ideology by Barrack Obama was only possible because the news is viewed through the distorted, liberal-progressive prism of mainstream media.
Giving voice to Obama while leaving Republicans competing with the noise of liberalism, gave the Democrats another victory in the war of political one-upmanship. Republicans fractured, caved, and allowed liberals to make their last breath in the 111th Congress, an empowerment to Obama and a much-needed reprieve.
The poison injected by Obama, and the Democrat-controlled Congress will sicken our country for decades and will destroy our Republic if the proper antidote is not delivered by the newly elected, and succeeding lawmakers. Our Constitution is on life support and requires immediate protection at any costs.
Conservatives must learn from progressives how to fight and win; Marquis of Queensberry rules are ineffective in a back-alley fight.
Jim MullenRising food prices and insanity
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results - Albert Einstein
Dismal news of rising food prices is roaring across the nation, and consumers are reaping the decayed harvest from the seeds sown by a corrupt and incompetent group of lawmakers. All the while, government bureaucrats insist that cost-of-living has remained unchanged for two years in a row. “Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure”, is never a truer axiom than when politicians try to explain their incompetence and dishonesty.
The inflation we are witnessing could be but a prelude to what is in store for us if Congress does not reverse the course of a runaway government. The increases in the prices are caused by the actions of our lawmakers and their agents, the bureaucrats.
Firstly, these constitutionally and economically challenged geniuses decided that drilling for oil and gas to ease the country’s reliance on foreign oil would be folly. Rather, it would make more sense to burn our food as fuel in the nation’s automobiles. This painful scenario is what happens when politicians, environmental extremists, and “chosen” big businesses embrace. The results are disastrous for mainstream America.
Simple economics tells us when we use corn to make ethanol for fuel; the increased demand will create shortages and drive up prices. This will, in turn, create shortfalls of other grains, which lead to higher prices for meats, and most other foodstuff. The inconceivable decision by Congress since that debacle to add even more of our food to our gas tanks and further restrict drilling is; see definition of insanity above.
Secondly, the Federal Reserve’s decision to buy up our own debt by simply printing more money (monetizing the debt) leads to inflation. It devalues the dollar and amounts to a hidden tax levied by the government. Politicians like this approach as a way of paying for their incompetent deficit spending because it hopes inflation will lessen the debt; much as a house may appear to increase in value over the years until one realizes the cost of replacement eats the profit. Moving money from one pocket to another is good entertainment for magicians. Unfortunately, with government it is also an illusion. See definition of insanity.
Lastly, the unprecedented powers granted to the EPA by Congress as a means to control and regulate every aspect of American life, drives up the costs of all utilities (Obama’s stated goal) and prices of everything produced by industry in our nation. Add the minimum wage laws and all the known and yet unknown costs associated with Obama Care and we have the new age of “changes we can all believe in”.
See definition again.
Jim Mullen
Heroes and villains
Frank Buckles, the last surviving American veteran of more than 4.7 million men who served in the military during WWI between 1917 and 1918, has died at the age of 110. He also spent 42 months in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in WWII after being captured while working for an American shipping line in the Philippines.
He lived out the last many years of his remarkable life on his farm near Charles Town, W.Va. advocating for a memorial honoring the men who served the nation and the world, in the “War to End All Wars.”
This American and West Virginia hero was a patriot and honored for a day by flying the flags at half-staff on the day of his burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
Meanwhile, back in West Virginia, the Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a House of Delegates resolution to honor a man named for years as one of the most corrupt politicians in America; the dishonorable, and thankfully defeated, former Rep. Alan Mollohan. Apparently, heroes are in such short supply in the eyes of some state politicians in West Virginia, that a highway be named for a disgraced politician and not for a hero.
As shortsighted and convoluted as many politicians are in their thinking, this ill-advised decision coupled with their obliviousness to any sort of decorum, should leave those responsible for this outrage hanging their heads in shame.
On the other hand, Mr. Buckles’ quest for the WW I memorial is a worthy cause for resolutions in all 50 state legislatures as well as the U.S. Congress. Most memorials to politicians are grounded in vanity and serve only to bolster political comradely. It is the nature of politicians to reward favors for a few and rarely reward genuine service to the country.
If lawmakers cannot distinguish between heroes and villains, they lack the judgment to represent the people of West Virginia. They should rescind their action and apologize, or resign.
Jim Mullen
It's time to get public sector unions off the gravy train
Public-sector unions have come to the point where all
sweet-tasting, free-riding suckling at the public teat ends; the milk is gone.
When calves find their mother’s milk drying up, they show
their displeasure by bawling and butting the mother to give more. Mama finally
grows weary of the antics and runs the calf off to the green fields of clover
to compete with others of their ilk.
It is long past time that public unions be weaned from their
special treatment by maternal government and take their place in the meadows of
free enterprise. Just because the government gave birth to a public-sector job
does not mean that taxpayers owe a lifetime of nursing to the holder of that
job.
Over the last several weeks we saw despicable displays of
nothing short of anarchy as a result of the entitlement attitude of big unions
and some of its members. We saw liberal media characterize those who realize
the free ride is over as mean-spirited and hateful. They demonized responsible
legislators while glorifying childish, cowardly lawmakers who chose to run away
and hide, shirking their civic and elected responsibilities.
Media are more interested in advancing their far-left agenda
than reporting the dire straits of the debt being thrust upon the state, local
and federal governments by unreasonable union demands. It leaves the interests
of the progressives unserved to report or admit to the facts of the vast disparity
between private and public employees’ wages and benefits.
Because the private sector must show a profit, unreasonable
demands by unions drive jobs to other states or overseas. Unfortunately, many
unionized, public employees have no incentive for efficiency, or to provide
good service and couldn’t care less about the taxpayers who pay their salaries.
Therefore, most government agencies are overstaffed, inefficient and bloated;
not to mention surly and uncivil toward those for whom they should be
ultimately responsible. Behavior that private business finds intolerable the
government views as standard operating procedure.
Government employees now constitute the largest percentage
of union members, and the reasons are simple economics and sleazy politics. Unionized
companies do poorly in the marketplace and lose jobs relative to their non-union
competitors. On the other hand, government employees face no competition as the
government never goes out of business. Furthermore, politicians can always be
relied upon to appropriate (steal) more taxpayers’ money to keep the scam
operating. Big union bosses generously line lawmakers’ pockets in a process
that is self-perpetuating and mortally wounding the Republic.
Radical leftists, Marxists and communists, who subscribe to
Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, run many of these big unions, and function
through thuggery and intimidation. They know how to organize gangs capable of
busing tens-of-thousands of protesters to anywhere in the country and do
whatever is necessary to support their nirvana at taxpayers’ expense.
Since many public unions require all workers to
pay union dues, political bosses make choices for them. Union dues support
political candidates who have the unions' enrichment at heart and not the
interests of taxpayers’ or the rank-and-file members. The dues paid by those who
have different political views from the union bosses, nevertheless, support a
radical leftist agenda.
It is a rigged, corrupt and entrenched system that begs for
strong leaders to step up, take charge, and risk their political careers to
clean up a mess that for decades has hung over the heads of Americans. The
country cries out for more Scott Walker’s, John Kasich’s and Chris Christie’s.
From where will the other leaders come? They will be elected
by informed, angry, fed-up voters like the ones in Miami-Dade, Florida, who
showed two arrogant politicians the exit door and put public employee unions on
notice that the fun and games are over; as is the taxpayer funded gravy train.
Mayor Carlos Alvarez and 18 year veteran County Commissioner Natacha Seijas
were recalled by 88 percent of the furious voters because of an increase in property
taxes to fund a boost in salary and benefits to public employees.
Jim Mullen
Stop government spending to decrease taxes
The constraints placed upon government by the framers of our
Constitution exist only on the faded parchment that lies in the National
Archives in Washington, D.C.; a document that launched the greatest, most
successful experiment in the history of government. Politicians have succeeded – with cooperation
of the American electorate - in unleashing an omnipresent government from the confines
of that Constitution to rule every aspect of American life.
We find ourselves enslaved in our own country due in large
part to a culture of dependency by elements of society and an equal culture of corruption by our
political leaders and their minions, the bureaucrats.
The power of a government to tax its people is at the heart
of their power to control and regulate behavior, transfer wealth, and
redistribute income; in essence, to punish and subjugate its citizenry.
Without the power
to tax, politicians lose their power over the people. Higher taxes directly result in more control. Lower
taxes result in less control. They know this all too well and use it to make more promises; Prescribing to the old
adage of “always leave them wanting more”. It all begins with; give us all your
income and wealth, and we will provide for your every need. Therefore, the
simple secret of lower taxes is to reduce spending by demanding government stay
out of our lives.
The temptation to abuse that power to tax has long placed
government at odds with those who have the legitimate right to constrain and control
government at all levels; the American people.
The dividing of citizens into certain classes to cull the
successful from the herd has long been a winning strategy for government to
quench their unending thirst for the funding necessary to fulfill politicians’
promises of something for nothing. The federal government carefully selects, and
then excludes enough voters from paying income tax, for example, as a means to
buy support and votes to continue
their redistributive socialistic change.
Taxes should always be set to the
lowest rate required to maintain constitutionally mandated and allowable
services by the government. Politicians have corrupted the original intent of
taxation and use tax law to penalize success, reward mediocrity, pick winners
and losers, and grow the size of government. They become more and more
imaginative, cunning, and deceitful in their hunger for the fuel to run their
ego machine.
In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the
Constitution made the federal income tax a permanent fixture in the U.S. tax
system. The amendment gave Congress legal authority to tax income and resulted
in a revenue law that taxed incomes of both individuals and corporations. The
withholding tax on wages became law in 1943. That year the federal government
got its greedy hands around the throats and bureaucrats into the pockets, of
every American.
It is today a behemoth with tax laws
so large and convoluted that no one (not ever IRS employees) understands them,
and just to hire enough experts to try for compliance, costs billions of dollars
per year. The entire structure of the IRS with its unlimited power to destroy individuals,
families, and businesses gives power to the IRS that the framers of the
Constitution could never have envisioned.
The hidden costs of taxes are higher
than the overt ones are. Underhanded, hidden taxes, fees, regulations, and
costs of compliance multiply the prices of goods and services. Additionally,
deficit spending and policies by the ultra-secret Federal Reserve to flush the
economy with nonexistent funds devalues the dollar and causes inflation, which
is nothing but another insidious tax.
Taxpayers must demand an end to the
Federal Reserve System’s secrecy and an end to the buying of government debt
(monetizing) by the Fed., which is purposeful
inflation of our currency. Essentially, we are consuming our own flesh in a
desperate attempt at surviving without enough outside food source (or in
government’s case, income)
Beware of, and research carefully,
all ideas of tax reform. Many proposed changes to the tax code by politicians
are nothing more than attempts to increase revenue by raising more revenue; not reducing the money
extracted from the sparse pockets of Americans. No matter the tax system, government spending and corruption are the
problems. It begins and ends in those sweet honeycomb chambers of government
with too many queens living off the hive.
Politicians and the recipients of
taxpayers’ money avoid most tax cuts by screaming their talking points and the code words of liberalism; “tax cuts for
the rich…”, “they want people to starve…”, “We need to invest in…”, we’re
working for the American Dream…” , “ they are against the working man…”.
However,
it does not end with the federal government. State and local governments have
likewise built greedy, mega-government bureaucracies that forever scream, “Feed me”! The very last thing they
consider is reducing the size of their dynasty. Their big hammers they use to
keep the funds flowing are threats to cut off critical services, mass
demonstrations, and intimidation. Government’s natural default
response is to raise taxes or borrow money and not cut spending.
By law, most local and state
governments must balance their budgets. They get around this by floating bond
levies for roads, bridges, schools, bus services or anything else they cannot
afford because of bloated bureaucratic inefficiency and progressive ideologies.
When government begs for your support of bond levies, ask
yourself, is this something I believe is a good expenditure; is it a necessity
or a luxury? Then, vote accordingly! Remember, every bond levy is a new credit
card opened in our name; we must repay the loan plus interest. Eventually,
taxes will increase or other services forfeited to pay the bill. When they tell
you everyone wins, and it will cost nothing; they are lying.
All politicians, government officials, and bureaucrats,
speak of tax cuts (or allowing money to remain with its rightful owners), as
government spending. Think of that, allowing you to keep your own money, is
government spending. This arrogance is universal in all progressive liberal
circles, and accepted by many in the conservative political arena, as well.
This incredible contempt could only leave us to conclude that they hold the
belief that all money, income and wealth belong to the government. They are nice
enough to allow you to keep the portion that they deem sufficient; now quit
whining!
By eliminating politicians’ spending, we regain our
financial independence, reduce taxes to a level required to operate essential
government in our Constitutional Republic, and empower Americans to reassert
and reclaim their independence from tyranny. The only mechanism available to us
to reduce the size of government, thus reduce taxes, is the power of the vote.
The 2012 election may be our last chance to reverse the deadly course in which
our country is heading. Elect only those people with whom you have kindred ideology in the
support of Constitutional principles and demand monumental spending
cuts.
Jim Mullen
http://www.examiner.com/x-54993-Parkersburg-Conservative-Examiner
The anti-jobs' President campaigns to save his own job
With much of the media in Alaska digging for nuggets in the Great-Sara-Palin-E-mail-Gold-Rush, and the rest wallowing in the gutter of Anthony Weiner’s tweets, the perpetually campaigning President is on another familiar thrust.
Desperately trying to put a positive spin on the administration’s anti-jobs’, pro Marxist economy, Obama stages photo-ops with “green” businesses, presses the flesh with union bosses, and inexplicably checks out the state of affairs in Puerto Rico for no other reason than to curry favor with Hispanic voters in Florida.
Curiously, Obama also chose a job-exporting “green” company in North Carolina, a state with the 10th highest unemployment rate in the nation, to highlight his inexpertise in job creation. Photo-ops and a few chuckles with leaders of progressive businesses that extract billions of dollars from taxpayers, is standard operating procedure for our economically challenged President.
Case in point; the Cree LED Light Company, an energy-efficient-lighting plant based in Durham, North Carolina is a typical recipient in the “Obama money line”. After receiving millions of taxpayers’ dollars, they promptly opened a plant in China where more than half of their employees now live and work.
Our economy is doing exactly what all central planning economies do; stagnate and leave people looking to government for answers. However, the real answers to a healthy economy and private sector job growth lies in the American people and with the free enterprise system. When unchained from the shackles of excessive regulations, taxes, and interference, the American economy creates jobs and liberates people to make their own choices in accordance to our Constitutional principles.
In order to accomplish their goal of complete government control, the administration must deflect the blame for their own failures and ascribe it to others. Thus, Obama jaunts the political circuits blaming the “rich”, George Bush, Republicans, and business, for the utter disastrous state of the economy and his own incompetence.
His trite excuses and blame game fall on ears deafened by his monotone whine of political rhetoric. Finding long-term, gainful employment trumps listening to jingoistic slogans, empty promises, and ludicrous postulates based on left-wing economic theories. He seems to be saying, give me another $4 trillion and I’ll turn this economy around.
Trillions of dollars in assets from the American people, businesses, and lending institutions crave a positive business climate free of government constraints and interference that allow investment in job creation. Obama, however, presses for seizure of these assets in another money grab designed to expand government. These schemes fuel a lack of confidence in government and add to his failed policies and to America’s woes.
Obama’s call for more crippling deficit spending (investment) and tax increases is an income redistribution policy in which failure finds warmth and refuge. Rather than stimulate, his past actions predictably created a drag on the economy and when the money ran out, the few government jobs created or saved began disappearing into the liberal vapor-sphere.
The President’s claim of a “bump in the road on the way to recovery” is actually a “missing bridge over a long, deep, chasm of Obama’s Marxist philosophy on the road to economic reality”. Since Democrats assumed control of the Congress, unemployment increased from 4.5 percent (less than 7 million, to nearly 15 million or 9.1%. The national debt skyrocketed from $8.67 trillion to $14.4 trillion, some bump!
Every action by Obama and the liberal wing of the Democratic Party roars through the nation screaming failure! The once envied fire of American exceptionalism will continue unlit in this tsunami of Marxist-liberalism. They offer more of the same; shouting down opponents, class warfare, race hustling, and preaching the evils of Capitalism.
If the leftist professor and community organizer from Chicago has any clue about how a free economy should work, it takes a back seat to politics and ideology. Justifying his anti-jobs’ policies is now his full-time passion.
Compliant media look the other way while the food stamp, welfare, and unemployment President endeavors to save one big job; his own.
Jim Mullen
http://www.examiner.com/x-54993-Parkersburg-Conservative-Examiner
San Francisco liberals dishonor American Military, honor criminals
In 2005, San Francisco announced their desire to make their little Utopia by the bay a military-free zone, and erase the military’s presence altogether. Their vile contempt for the military is legendary and at times dangerously close to treasonous. They moved from harassing military recruiters to violently shutting down job fairs and anything that included military recruiters on college campuses and elsewhere. Impeding recruitment into any branch of the United States Armed Forces, and railing against all things military became the focal point of the radical leftists’ groups. The city's Board of Supervisors even voted maliciously against docking the WWII/Korean War-era USS Iowa as a floating museum at the Port of San Francisco.
Unbelievably, this same bastion of left-wing lunatics is now considering a law proposed by the city’s Human Rights Commission, to prohibit private employers and landlords from disqualifying applicants because of crime convictions or arrests. The law would require landlords and businesses to accept murderers, rapists, drug addicts, and child molesters into their homes and places of business.
In the delusional, misguided state of progressivism, they see this as a practical solution to the United States Supreme Court’s ruling that ordered California to relieve its overcrowding by removing tens of thousands of inmates from its prison rolls.
One can’t imagine the eager-beavers that think it’s a great idea to take an ex-convict into one’s home or business to share living and working space with them and their family. If they really believe this, the simplest solution for taxpayers and prisoners alike, is for all the lefties in the City by the Bay to line up for adopt-a-con and hire-a-hood programs each week. Obviously, that would eliminate the overcrowding of prisons. However, since liberals never live by the rules they make for others, this solution is unlikely to resonate; not even with the resident cuckoos.
Another obvious, more workable solution is to build more prisons and spend less money on frivolous liberal programs and cradle-to-grave entitlements. Just taking a firm stand against public-sector union demands for wages and benefits that dwarf that of the private-sector would free up billions of dollars to spend on prisons.
Marxists have no limit to the imaginative programs on which to spend taxpayer money; but practical expenditures like building prisons lack the pizzazz to catch a liberal’s pie-in-the-sky fancy. As complicated as liberals try to make every situation; common-sense solutions always elude these deep-thinkers.
Overcrowding of prisons is a national problem and remains unaddressed by politicians. They prefer to spend money on projects that stand out as paragons to their visions of goodwill toward man. Any project upon which they can erect a sign or use as a monument to themselves will attract political attention and garner support from Statehouses and Congress. The Jerry Brown or Arnold Schwarzenegger State Prison isn’t conducive to politicians’ sensibilities.
The queen bee of liberal-progressivism surely resides in the San Francisco area. Millions of little communist worker bees and Marxist drones swarm to the area to join in the American version of misfits for Mao. This angry, buzzing nest hangs on California’s left coast serving as a menacing symbol against everything military and anything American.
San Francisco elites reach deeply into their misguided, compassionate hearts to provide comfort to the bottom feeders of society and the enemies of America while loathing our country’s heroes, the U.S. Armed Forces; a new despicable low... even for a group that most people already believe are beneath contempt.
For centuries, American Armed Forces suffered and died by the millions in countries around the world. They dug and lived for weeks in foxholes at obscure locations that most people today couldn’t find on a map. Hundreds-of-thousands stormed now-serene beaches leaving their blood and their friends awash on the shores. They lived in tents fighting in deserts ablaze with an unforgiving sun, and froze in the Korean winters. Our soldiers enjoyed a nice January stint in the densely forested, frozen Ardennes Mountains region of Belgium, fighting the bloody Battle of the Bulge where they took some 89,000 casualties, including 19,000 killed in the largest and bloodiest battle that Americans fought in World War II.
Dead Americans litter the ocean bottoms of the world, and their bodies lie strewn around almost every country that lives in freedom today. They died falling from the skies, slogging through mud, on beaches, deserts, and in the snow. Americans did all this with food, ammunition, and equipment shortages, oftentimes with inferior weapons. Nevertheless, they were the tip of the spear that freed the world again and again out of a sense of duty.
Liberals whine and complain of the horrors of criminals serving their debt to society in less-than ideal conditions, an unthinkable tragedy to the mush-brained progressive movement. Punitive measures are abhorrent to the crowd that believes “only bad circumstances” not “bad people”, produce criminals. The compassionate hearts of liberals always bleed for the losers, the misfits, and the miscreants. However, the San Francisco crowd stands unmoved and dry-eyed by the living and dying conditions suffered by the men and women who have, and are, serving our great country in the American Armed Forces. Conditions the losers-in-lock-up would find unbearable.
San Francisco elites are privileged, spoiled, and childlike creatures ruled by their emotions and lost in a 1960’s rebellion mindset. They spend their empty lives acting up and lashing out at the establishment and middle-American values. Trying to assuage their guilt for undeserved blessings and unfulfilled lives, they gratify themselves by pulling others down to their level. They long ago turned their rebellion into farcical games in hopes of eliciting more attention. These losers feign intellectual superiority and bully mainstream conservative thought. They need to realize that in a real-world scenario without government paternalism and a military to protect them, they would perish in an idealistic puff of smoke. Perhaps, their feelings of inadequacy could be called the “Dinosaur Complex”.
They know that time is running out for their species, but until then, they will throw their weight around by exercising their ill temper and absurdity.
It seems unimaginable to ordinary Americans that the dishonorable among us are held in such high esteem yet the honorable get dismissed and disrespected with bitterness normally reserved for mortal enemies. We are who we are, what we are, and where we are because of the U.S. Military. Nonetheless, liberals spend their entire lives easing the burden of the burdensome instead of the heroes. Such is the state-of-mind of the modern liberal-progressive. Perhaps some of the elite schools of academia should add a Master’s program just to teach liberals the simple meaning of the word ‘shame’.
Jim Mullen
http://www.examiner.com/x-54993-Parkersburg-Conservative-Examiner
Obama's trolling and state bailouts
President Obama’s approval ratings continue to tank and the black clouds of recession remain over the economy. Curiously, however, he spends much of his time trolling for bottom feeders by dropping his progressive net into the murky, stagnate, backwaters of network television to shore up his base. He is in his element schmoozing with daytime and late-night talk show hosts, laughing it up with lightweight liberals. Running the Ship of State aground or demeaning the Office of the Presidency does not seem a big deal to the community organizer from the left-side of Chicago.
Additionally, he continues the union circuit, ingratiating himself with the hard-core Marxist unions of the country that are responsible for much of the financial woes from which our country suffers. His pandering and bailouts of big Labor at the expense of job creating business is nothing more than an endowment to his base using taxpayer’s money. The only overtures to business are the ones he can control or nationalize.
The last couple of decades have brought to the states another scourge; public service employee unions which are nothing but welfare programs on steroids. States found themselves in the same position as business; if they didn’t capitulate to unions, they could not produce a product or provide a service, if they did capitulate, they would go bankrupt. No politician since Ronald Reagan has had the guts to stand against them.
Obama owes his presidency to the unions; therefore, everything he does is payback for that support. Every piece of legislation passed during Obama’s presidency has been a socialistic, redistribution of income to please the unions. He has a Congress in complete agreement with his agenda of totally transforming our country into a Marxist, socialist, state.
The health care legislation, financial reform, bailouts, stimulus and every piece of regulation have all been designed to take from the producers and give to the takers. Liberal states and cities controlled by Democrats have gone down this path for years and have driven business and taxpayers away. Obama and Congress are making sure by federalizing welfare, income leveling, and nationalizing business, that there is no escape for taxpayers or business.
Congress and Obama will now reward the states for their irresponsibility by bailing them out with our money. One more example of transferring earned wealth to the undeserving.
Many of the seeds for tax and spend liberalism were sown in the inner areas of major cities. The design and establishment of the welfare system resulted in generations of minorities and poor whites enslaved by government. Likewise, higher taxes to support the structure and associated problems with deterioration of these city neighborhoods led businesses and wage-earners to flee into outlying areas. Subsequently, major metropolitan areas plunged deeper into despair, with rampant crime and lower standard of living which, of course, required an expanded tax base to support the ever-growing urban ghettos.
The circle of poverty and the number of taxpayers necessary to maintain the politicians’ plantations continued to swell. Soon, suburbs were taxed for their own infrastructure, schools, and hospitals and pressed to pay the additional costs in the war zones created by the all-caring, all-knowing, liberal establishment.
Logically, as the tax base dwindled, the next step required state governments to pay the tab. However, high taxes at the state level led people to take their businesses, families and wealth to another area or state with less taxation and regulation. Essentially, the power of municipalities or states to levy and collect taxes, regulate business and control people's behavior ceases at a state’s border. This has become an untenable situation for cash strapped states and cities; consequently, the federal government stepped forward to make a terrible problem insurmountable.
Liberal progressivism is and has always been a colossal, monumental failure. Government attempts at solving problems, never offer hand-ups; rather, handouts that keep people at the public trough and dependent upon politicians for their sustenance. In turn, politicians depend on the recipients of government hand-outs for votes. This symbiotic relationship is unfortunately a difficult, if not impossible cycle to end.
It has always followed that states and cities with the highest population are the most liberal. It is in these areas where one can witness the utter collapse and destruction of American society caused directly by politicians. The more people on public subsistence, the easier it is for politicians to remain in power.
American taxpayers are now called on to bail out these states that have been reckless in their spending, careless with their promises, and lacking in judgment and common sense. It is apparent, even to liberals, that fewer taxpayers supporting more people is a losing proposition, thus, the need to charge the entire country for their incompetence is the new Democrat’s game plan.
Obama knows his economic plan will not produce jobs in the private sector. Blaming Republicans and George Bush is his only defense of his policies. The only offense he has is creating more public sector jobs and bailing out states to protect the jobs of his base; the unions.
Every public policy and legislation enacted by this administration and Congress goes contrary to the opinions of Americans and defies any economic reasoning. Obama’s Marxist agenda is paramount to his presidency and he believes that he can reverse public opinion by lying, blaming others, and bringing more Democrats into the voting rolls using our money.
Jim Mullen
http://www.examiner.com/x-54993-Parkersburg-Conservative-Examiner
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