Friendly Advice

Here's some friendly advice I received from a friend after the Nov 6th election when I asked him what we grassroots Conservatives did wrong...

You didn't go wrong, but perhaps there is a very important place that you didn't go.

Real life, a great deal of which is implemented via economic means, isn't just politics.

Yes, politics can have a horribly destructive effect on real life and the productive economic activities that make it possible.

Your actions, no matter how wise and vigorous, will have a very limited effect on politics.

That is also true in regards to the economy in general but not true with respect to your particular and personal economic activities.

Analyze the economic and social consequences of the Keynesian and collectivistic idiocies in Washington and in the State capital nearer you, and spend at least as much critical thought and effort as you spent on politics trying to figure out how you can be more safe and productive over the coming years as more and more sh*t inevitably hits the fan.

What happens to someone else doesn't necessarily have to happen to you.

Some places will be safer and more free than others.

Some places will offer better economic opportunities than others.

Some types of productive work will fare better than others.

Spend at least as much time and effort thinking about how you personally fit into the economy and society (especially local society). Where do you want to be five, ten, twenty years from now, and what do you want to be doing?

Your choices, decisions, and actions will have a far greater effect on you and your family than they will on national politics. Allocate your thinking and efforts accordingly. When the OPM (Other Peoples' Money) runs low, where do you want to be and what do you want to be doing to earn your living? May you have the wisdom to understand what you can change and what you can't.

I Was Wrong

The following anonymous lament pretty much says it all...

Well, it's official; I don't know anything.

I thought for sure that given such a clear choice, Americans would vote for love of country over revenge.

I was wrong.

I thought, that just as every presidential election in my lifetime, the bad economy would be hung around the incumbent's neck, sinking him.

I was wrong.

I thought that even those few Americans who were fortunate enough to still be fully employed (not counting those leeching off the public system) would be cognizant of how much pain their neighbors were in and elect someone who would at least try to make improvements.

I was wrong.

I thought that now that FINALLY some of the disturbing truths about our first black president had come to light, voters would reject a man so dangerously at odds with the American experience.

I was wrong.

I thought the 2010 elections and the Tea Party meant something.

I thought the enthusiasm on display at Romney/Ryan events, contrasted with the lack of same at Obama/Biden events meant something.

I thought Americans would never sell their liberty for the sake of trinkets like cell phones or even big shiny lies like 'free health care'.

I was wrong.

Never in a million years would I have supposed that America would support a president who left his (our) people to die at the hands of our enemies overseas without lifting a hand to help, then lie about what he watched in real time for over two weeks, then lie about the lie for another month.

I was wrong.

I thought Americans could tell a hawk from a handsaw.

I was wrong.

We were offered the clearest choice we've has since 1980, where we had malaise and a misery index on one hand and a shining city on a hill on the other. Back then, we chose the city on the hill. This time the choice was between a man who says 7.9% unemployment and $4.00 gas is the new normal and a guy whose entire career has been about fixing broken entities.

We chose to stay broken. And Broke.

Maybe I'm wrong about the ramifications of this choice. Maybe windmills will actually turn out to be a viable energy source. Maybe America diminished will be loved overseas. Maybe a nuclear Iran won't be a threat. Maybe Israel is over reacting. Maybe western civilization was always over rated. Maybe life under sharia is fun. Maybe when the rest of the world realizes that we have no intention of ever paying back that $16,000,000,000,000.00 (and counting) that we've borrowed from them, they won't devalue the dollar, causing hyper inflation here at home. Maybe China will just keep on giving us money and not demand our hearts, souls, national monuments and marriageable daughters as payment.

I've watched my candidate lose elections before but I've never felt the way I did when this one was called for Obama.

It wasn't bitterness or sadness or even disappointment. It took me a while to figure out what it was. Then it hit me; it was horror.

Pure, unadulterated horror.

Not because of Obama, but because of what it says about us, the American people, that we chose this.

It shouldn't have even been close. Faced with the choice between taking charge of our destiny and tackling our financial problems, we opted to get high and have sex. We re elected a guy who doesn't understand that a growing economy that creates more tax payers will bring in more revenue than higher taxes. A Commander in Chief who doesn't know our military still uses bayonets. A man who wants to control the economy without even knowing the difference between bankruptcy and liquidation. It was one thing to elect an unknown quantity, buying his line of 'Hope and Change'. It's something else to deliberately choose his failed policies over someone who has actually achieved success in life. I never dreamed America would do that.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, Hello Idiocracy!

Goodbye, recovery.

Goodbye, energy independence.

Goodbye, religious liberty.

Goodbye, liberty and justice for all.

Goodbye, America dream.

It profits a man nothing to lose his soul for the whole world but we threw ours away for cell phones and birth control pills.

In the twentieth century (the American Century), we stepped up to the plate three times and saved the rest of the world from fascism, nazism and communism. We were the cavalry, always riding to the rescue.

Now, we've gotten rid of our horses, spent all our money on windmills, alienated our allies, bowed to our enemies, cut ourselves off from our own natural resources thrown away our children's birthright and spent their inheritance.

And we did it on purpose.

When the wolf is at the door (and he's coming, yelling 'Allahu Akbar') we're going to find out that there is no one out there to come to our rescue.

On the bright side, maybe it'll all turn out great. After all, I don't know anything.

The Moral Imperative: Sandwiches & Wagons

Dinesh DeSouza demolishes the so-called moral superiority of liberalism...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rEM4NKXK-iA?feature=player_detailpage

We Have Lost

This superb piece was written by an anonymous individual who speaks for all of us who feel betrayed...

The most productive people, the small business owners, the entrepreneurs and the honest wage earners of America are so demoralized right now I am not sure we will recover as a country.  We have lost the most important election of our lifetime and did so after giving our best effort, spent the most money ever and worked the hardest we have ever worked.   

The very people that America needs the most to generate a real recovery now have the least motivation to do so and worse, lack the confidence necessary to even justify the effort.

We opposed a foe that was so obviously incompetent, corrupt and inept in leadership we really expected a landslide victory and a redeeming mandate to return the nation to conservative values. Instead what we got was a harsh slap in the face by an American public telling us it is not like us and it does not any longer believe in what we believe in. As a country we are hopelessly divided by a malignant polarization approaching that similar to the time around the civil war.  
 
Our side will not march in the streets; nevertheless the rebellion, protests and resistance will be just as determined but more subtle.  The American can-do spirit, our optimism, our traditional dependence on our own ingenuity is now mere kindling on the advancing flame of an insidious yet steadily advancing socialism.
Those of us who create real jobs, invest our capital, our fortunes and take the risks to build America, feel betrayed.
   
The fundamentals of honest effort and hard work rendering the rewards associated with capitalism seem now like a cruel joke. We are now a targeted enemy not to be governed but coerced into submission by a lazy, corrupt, vindictive, arrogant government that is out for revenge, redistribution and to add a final insult, one we find too morally bankrupt to lead.  
 
The usual safeguards for a democracy found in a vibrant independent press have lost any semblance of objectivity and instead have joined a side. What used to be principled independent reporters have morphed into dishonest pundits, spewing a disgusting relentless partisan bile that neither informs nor educates. They are shallowly manipulated by the political marketers to the point their words lack meaning. The "fourth branch" of government has become nothing more than an empty cathode ray irradiating a mind-numbed audience like a repetitive Beavus & Butthead rerun.

We have elected a President who not only feels we did not work for what we have but feels we do not deserve it either. Had it gone the other way, Obama supporters would have torched America. Instead they will now legitimately consume it by gnawing at the soft underbelly of what was once her prosperity.   

Our Judeo-Christian culture now having as much meaning as a three-minute YouTube video.  It is, however, as the Bible had forewarned, ours is a world turning over where good is bad, and bad is good.   
                   
God help us all...

-- Anonymous

The Death of Democracy in America

After the election results on Nov 6th, my thoughts turned to Alexis de Tocqueville, who visited America over 200 years ago and wrote the book entitled Democracy in America...

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America, as an idea, died on November 6th, 2012. We are now on the fast track toward tyranny.

You Own It

The election is over, and this is my message to those who voted for Obama… 

Congratulations to the Democrats and all young people, you now own it.  

The next terrorist attack, you own it.  

Can't get a job after graduation, you own it.  

A bleak employment picture for all unemployed and underemployed the next four years, you own it. 

Several part time jobs instead of one good job, you own it.  

A sputtering economy for the next four years, you own it. 

Stock market crash, you own it. 

Skyrocketing energy prices due to Obama's EPA shutting down the energy producing states, you own it.  

A nuclear Iran, you own it.  

Bowing to Putin in Russia, you own it.  

Another severe recession, you own it.  

A volatile border with Mexico, you own it.  

Out of control illegal immigration, you own it.

Amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants, you own it.

Trouble getting good health care, you own it.

Higher health insurance costs and health care costs, you own it.

No budget, you own it.

Out of control spending, you own it.

Another trillion of debt, you own it.

More “Quantitative Easing”, you own it.

Out of control inflation, you own it.

Our allies mistrust us, you own it.

More Benghazi situations, you own it.

No one willing to join the military, you own it.

Trouble getting a loan to buy a home, you own it.

More dependency on food stamps, you own it.

A World Government, you own it.

The UN governing the United States, you own it.

A House of Representatives that won’t bring any legislation to the table because it’s dead on arrival, you own it.

China controlling our world trade and trampling all over us, you own it.

Loss of our freedoms as we have known them in the past, you own it.

A dictatorship instead of a democracy that follows the Constitution, you own it.

Capitalism shackled by regulations and increased taxes, you own it.

Crony capitalism the new norm, you own it.

Less take home pay and higher living costs, you own it.

Driving a car that looks like a toy, you own it.

More government corruption and lies, you own it.

More toleration of extreme and fanatical Islamists, you own it.

Terrorist attacks called work place incidents, you own it.

Voting for revenge instead of love of country, you own it.

Voting for the guy who promised you free stuff, you own it.

Traditional American values replaced with socialist/Marxist values, you own it. 

Romney has been defeated, George Bush is out of the picture now, and you have nobody left to blame.

Congratulations, you own it. 

Good luck.

There…I feel better, and now I’m done.

Obama's America: The Next Four Years

Coal Industry
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
 
Energy Costs
"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."

Taxes
"In the long term Obama is going to need to raise taxes on more than just the rich." 
- Len Burman, author of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know

Gas Prices
“Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” ($9-$10/Gal) - Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy

Financial Crisis
"I think what's going to happen is going to be a currency crisis, a sovereign debt crisis. It's going to be the same thing that is happening in Europe, including Greece, but it's going to be a lot worse."  - Peter Schiff, CEO Euro Pacific Capital

Under Obama,  Schiff expects to see a huge buildup of government debt — to $20 trillion in two  years from $16 trillion currently. This crisis will be accompanied by higher unemployment, higher inflation, higher food and energy prices and higher interest rates, Schiff maintains.

The Economy
"We are becoming a nation of economic deadbeats and social parasites. Mr. Obama has forged a new redistributionist order: Tax consumers are devouring the wealth of taxpaying producers. In the process, he is breeding an army — a vast electoral pool — of government dependents. Soon, America will hit the tipping point at which the productive classes are outnumbered — and outvoted — by the nonproductive ones. Our decline will be inexorable and inevitable. The result is a country on the verge of fiscal bankruptcy." - Jeff Kuhner, Washington Times
 
Healthcare
"This new law will reduce some employers' health care costs by as much as 3,000%" - Barack Obama

If Obama gets his way, there will not be alternative private sector health insurance businesses. They'll be out of business.  The only place you'll be able to go is one of these state exchanges where you will put into a giant pool with everybody else that essentially will be run from Washington.  That's what's ahead of us.  And with a $2 trillion cost instead of $940 billion, you can imagine what tax rates will do, given the way Democrats operate. - Rush Limbaugh

Jim Kouri writes that nearly two dozen new tax increases will be levied under Obamacare, many of them hidden from the American people.

And there are 16,000 new IRS agents just waiting to put a hold on your income tax refund until you can prove that you have health insurance. If you don't, they will keep your refund and if it doesn't meet the federal government's minimum requirements they will garnish your wages to cover the difference. Welcome to ObamaCare!

Foreign Policy
"This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.”

The potential cuts would be from a current treaty limit of 1,550 deployed strategic warheads. A level of 300 deployed strategic nuclear weapons would take the U.S. back to levels not seen since 1950 when the nation was ramping up production in an arms race with the Soviet Union. - Newsmax 2/14/12

Yes, He Can and Yes, He Is Going To...
“We are days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America”

Buckle up America, we're about to go over a cliff...

And this may be our last hope: You Have Two Years To Live