Fit to be Fried

As if cable prices weren’t high enough, the cable companies have found a way to gouge you even further for using their services. Once again, the bastards are using the powers afforded to their virtual monopolies to squeeze every last dollar out of subscribers who have little or no choice in which services they’ll use. What are you gonna do? Switch to DSL? Not bloody likely, those providers are no doubt only two steps behind the cable companies, like always. Where the hell is Teddy Roosevelt when we need him? Oh right, dead. Sigh…

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The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion

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-the Constitution of the United States, Article 4, Section 4.

I submit to you that the current body of Congress has been remiss in their duties and should be removed from office, for allowing an invasion of over twenty million illegal aliens¹ from nations south of the U.S. to cross our borders, usurping jobs and social benefits from native-born and naturalized citizens as well as legal migrant workers on temporary visas. Many argue that these people are all here to work, to do the jobs Americans won’t do. This is a lie- Americans won’t work for the unfair wages paid under the table to illegal aliens; it’s not that they won’t do the jobs.

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HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I haven’t been able to stop giggling since I heard this.

Obama quits church, citing controversies - CNN.com

Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday that he has resigned from the church where controversial sermons by his former pastor and other ministers created political headaches for his campaign.

“We don’t want to have to answer for everything that’s stated in the church,” the Democratic front-runner said. “We also don’t want the church subjected to the scrutiny that a presidential campaign legitimately undergoes.”

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Neither the democrats or the republicans have your best interests at heart. The whole mess in Washington is in fact a complicated web of smoke and mirrors designed to mislead and misinform you. Neither side is on your side. The democrats want socialized medicine, socialized education, and an un-armed, compliant populace. The republicans want to track your every movement, a militarized police force, and a perpetual war against a shadow threat¹. Both sides have a great stake in globalism, a one world government. Read Orwell’s 1984, and you will see that all of these things were foretold for western civilization, that all are tenets of socialism. (more…)

Here we have a great con, as if the survivors of the Marines killed in Beirut in 1983 are EVER going to see a dime out of Iran. I don’t want to take the side of a terrorist supporting regime such as Tehran, but something just doesn’t seem right about this. It’s almost as if this was a battle waged by and for the lawyers. Can they truly expect Iran to capitulate to a demand for 2.7 BILLION? Here is the story, from Reuters, today:

U.S. terrorism claimants compete for Iranian assets | Reuters

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Families of those killed in the Beirut Marine barracks bombing 25 years ago staked their claim on Thursday to ancient Persian clay tablets, on loan to a U.S. museum, to satisfy a $2.7 billion judgment won against Iran.

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In my last post in this series, I laid a little knowledge on you about the Military-Industrial-Complex and the Nanny/Welfare-State, and in this post, I’ll explain how this ties in with my original point, which was to lay bare the diminishing “American Spirit”, and to explain where it went.

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Ten kids in cadillacs,
stand in line for welfare checks
hey, let’s all leech off the state,
Gee, the money’s really great…

The Circle Jerks, When the shit hits the fan

In the last post of this series, I said that America had become a socialist nation.

Apparently, this doesn’t bother people all that much, or maybe it’s just that people didn’t bother reading the post in full, instead skipping along to the archives in hope that there’s been some more Bakken Formation news¹. How disappointed those folks must be to get a history lesson instead?
Too bad, sez I.

You see, it’s important to know these things, and a lot of people just don’t know what’s been going on around them. Truth be told, it’s been going on for a long time, even at the height of McCarthy-era, “Red Scare” paranoia.

Throughout the time spanning the end of WWII, and on to the present day, our country has almost constantly engaged in rampant, constantly-increasing deficit spending². In fact, the National debt of the United States has not been reduced since the Eisenhower administration. Rampant government spending has plagued this country since the Great Depression, and despite every screaming ounce of common sense out there, it just keeps going.

The two biggest offenders in this monstrous crime against the American people are Defense and Health and Human Services spending, the former favored by Republicans, and the latter by Democrats. Spending on HHS is higher than spending on defense, but not by much when compared to the spending in all other areas. In fact, the only other department that receives even close to the federal funding these two agencies get, is the Treasury Department, and this is just to pay down the interest on the National Debt. In other words, no matter what you may have heard during the Clinton administration, there is no such thing as a budget surplus. (more…)

OK, so what was I talking about?

Oh yeah, the New Deal, and crippling national debt, and the loooong, slow, agonizing death of the American Spirit.

Proof that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Roosevelt adopted the Keynesian model of fiscal policy, which was to run deficits during hard times, for fear that the private sector would not invest enough to bring the country out of a recession. He also followed Great Britain’s lead in abandoning the gold standard in 1933, and forced citizens to sell all but the most trivial amounts of privately held gold to the government. After that number, he raised the price of gold from $20.67 to $35.00 and cut the value of the dollar nearly in half. In the midst of such devastatingly bad decisions, FDR instituted Social Security and what would later become our modern welfare system, and lowered taxes. Contrary to where you might think things are going, these were not in and of themselves bad ideas, and did much to help the economy, although not in the way the Keynesian economists had hoped. Instead of funneling the new income afforded to them through social programs (in combination with a sharp downturn in unemployment) back into the economy,¹ people started to pay back the debts they had been accruing over the years.

Things actually looked bright for a while, until a sudden backslide in 1937 caused unemployment to rise again, and production and profits to waste away. Roosevelt’s answer to this was to nearly abandon any attempt to balance the national budget and instead spend money we didn’t have like there was no tomorrow.²Government spending tripled between 1930 to 1940, as did the national debt, from 16 billion to 72 billion.

Though employment was slowly improving even after 1937’s nosedive, numbers would not significantly improve until the advent of World War II and the subsequent drive to provide supplies, men and services to support the war effort. At the height of the big deuce, unemployment dropped to about 3%, and have never risen above 8% to this day³ Even though the economy seemed to be getting better, the damage from FDR’s deficit spending practices had been done. Though most of the New Deal was rallied against and done away with by the advent of the war⁴, the powers of the federal government were greatly enhanced, and our long slide towards becoming a socialist state had begun.

Did he just say “socialist state”, referring to the United States?

What would you call it?

I began this series intent on filling you in on the decline of the American Spirit , and believe me, this history lesson is leading somewhere. In my next post, “The Land of the Free” keeps taking and giving it away…⁵