My new saying is “Green is the New Red”, as in, “Better dead than Red” (Better mean than green, anyone? Sorry, I’ll go on). It seems to me that all this environmental alarmism is doing horrible things to our freedom even as the alarmists claim they are saving the environment. (more…)
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.
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.”
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…)
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.
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…)
Senator Ted Kennedy was diagnosed this week with an inoperable brain tumor, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. I know, nobody wants to say it, in this age of political correctness. How dare we make this kind of judgment call on the man when the Grim Reaper is knocking on his door. To these folks, I cite Hunter S. Thompson’s obituary for former president Richard Nixon as published in his book, Better than Sex; Confessions of a Political Junkie as precedent, and must ask you to kindly shut the fuck up.
Edward Kennedy has been a dagger in the back of the American body politic since even before he ever took office. While in his sophomore year in Harvard1, he was failing Spanish2 and was expelled for paying a friend to take his final exam. After being kicked out of school, Kennedy joined the army, but neglected to read his enlistment papers. His parents were horrified at the notion that their son had signed up for four years instead of two, prompting his father, Joe, to pull strings to get his enlistment reduced and have him stationed in Europe3. Kennedy was allowed to return to Harvard after his enlistment ended, and graduated in 1953. He became a Senator 9 years later when he turned 30, filling Jack Kennedy’s old seat4
No matter what anyone tries to say to the contrary, Kennedy got away with the murder of Mary Jo Kopechne in 1969. He was, at the time, driving drunk, had an expired license, and a history of reckless driving; in short, he had no business getting behind the wheel of a car, and as a sitting Senator, he damn well knew it. He was acquitted thanks to a team of lawyers paid for through the family fortune, and spent the rest of his life riding on the political legacy of his two smarter, better-looking brothers.
That’s to say nothing of the man’s actual politics. Besides doing everything possible to undermine this country in his tenure as a United States Senator, and actually admitted in 1995 that he was a socialist.
Economist Milton Friedman was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of a national constitutional amendment for a balanced budget. Kennedy argued that a requirement for a balanced budget would restrict the federal government’s power and its ability to spend – thus, he said, Washington’s role in more fairly and equitably distributing wealth, goods and services.
“Senator, socialism hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history,” explained Friedman. “Why won’t you give up on it?”
Kennedy rose to his feet, according to Nuttle, who attended the hearing, and replied: “It hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history because it didn’t have me to run it.”5
As a Senator, Kennedy has supported Affirmative Action, Amnesty for illegal aliens, partial birth abortion, date-rape6, and the former Soviet Union (while it was still the Soviet Union). Kennedy is an America-hater of the worst kind, and blames his country for all the world’s ills, despite having had an active part in the running of said country for over half a century. He is also a collaborator , a sexual deviant and a coward, a man whose life is generally not even worth the cost of a bullet similar to the two that killed his brothers Jack and Bobby.
I, for one, sincerely hope the man never gets better, that the cancer takes it’s time eating his empty brain, that it eats it’s way down to his testicles and that he rots in Hell for all eternity.
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
This one goes out to all those who think that it’s the government’s job to provide them with healthcare, free money when they can’t pay their bills, college education, food, a roof over their heads, personal happiness, etc…
“You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled:) for the labors of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers”
Captain John Smith of Jamestown Colony uttered that famous phrase back in the early 1600’s, and for hundreds of years, this was the prevalent attitude in America- the term American Spirit came to embody a can-do attitude combining initiative, ingenuity, integrity and ambition. Men made their fortunes from the sweat of their brow and the power of their minds, and, combined with a tradition of inventiveness sparked by founding fathers Benjamin Franklin1 and Thomas Jefferson, this spirit caused America to flourish in the face of constant adversity. America, as a young nation, was beset on all sides with forces that would do anything to see it fail2, and yet it refused to die even through one of the bloodiest Civil Wars the planet had ever seen. Even up to the 1960’s, this was the case, as evidenced in President John F. Kennedy’s famous quote:”Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”.
Where is the American Spirit now?
I wish I knew.
What I do know, is how it started to dwindle
In 1929, a combination of rampant debt, a sudden crash in the stock market, a decline in exports, and a shortage of money caused what was known as the Great Depression. Keep in mind that the Great Depression was a worldwide occurrence, not isolated to the U.S.; People worldwide were out of work and starving as a direct result of mistrust on the international trade market, which caused prices to rise uncontrollably while wages and jobs dwindled. The unemployment rate had soared to over 25% by 1932, a rate that has never been exceeded since, nor has been even halfway matched since 1940. To combat the depression Roosevelt instituted what was known as “The New Deal”, which was, in short, an attempt to give everyone everything they wanted 3.
Though the New Deal can be credited with such notable improvements as the repeal of Prohibition, and the stabilization of the banking system, it was criticized soundly by both the right and left wing of American politics and eventually resulted in a national debt that has never been paid off to this day, and in fact never stopped growing in size. 4
More on this Wednesday, I get the feeling this one’s gonna have to be a series…
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