9/11, much like December 7th, is a day that will live in infamy. It is not only a day that brought foreign-born terror to our shores, but it also led to the direct erosion of our very freedoms so near and dear to our hearts. The Patriot Act is what I speak of. It was one of those things done by our elected officials in response to what happened that awful day. It was swift, it was sure, it was seemingly that one correct thing to do. Nothing could be further from the truth.
That single enactment of law took our freedom from us. It made us suspect. It made us slaves. It allowed the terrorists to win a battle they had not anticipated winning at all. To compound the problem, another cabinet-level department was created, along with several new agencies and administrations. Not only did we lose freedom, but we inflated our government at a time when it was expedient to reduce government spending and waste. Knee-jerk reactions rarely provide equitable solutions.
Now we find ourselves in a time of deep financial crisis. A crisis long in the making it has been. From a government telling mortgage companies they must provide loans to people who have no visible means of ever paying to Freddie-Mac and Fannie-Mae that would underwrite a corpse and probably did on several occasions. The ever-present availability of easy-credit terms and credit cards. Americans these days have forgotten the lessons learned by the previous two generations. The lessons of the Great Depression can teach a lot of things; one of them was how to save and be less wasteful. But what is history? Apparently, it is something in a book on a shelf for almost all Americans that must be dusted occasionally.
We are a nation that is some $15 trillion in debt. We have elected a most curious President (about whom we know very little) who is running up more and more debt each day. We have a Democrat- controlled Senate and Republican-controlled Congress that cannot present a debt-reduction plan with a balanced budget. It seems that senility runs rampant in the halls of the US Congress and Senate; yet we keep electing these lethargic and pathetic fools. So what does that make us, the electorate? I do not think I need to answer that.
Tax increases are looming. I, like anyone else in their right mind, hate taxes and the thought of paying them. But they are needed. They are absolutely necessary. The question is how we go about the whole process, as well as how much enough is. The last time I checked, I am paying out about 1/3 of my income in taxes, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. I think I am being robbed blind. What entitles the government to 1/3 of my income? The new healthcare law we all have come to love and know so well is a joke. The so-called preexisting condition clause whereby you cannot be denied? Guess what? It doesn’t apply to private insurance companies. So what was Princess Pelosi so proud of? Proud of screwing Americans once again with her fantasy world. (I wonder if her plastic surgery counts as a preexisting condition.)
The ship is sinking; I do not have the bilge pump to help keep it afloat, just my simple leaky bucket. Please go out and vote. Vote them all out.
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There is no way to vote them all out. I’m sorry, but the whole thing is rigged by those who are in power and who have an interest in changing the fundamental nature of the American Dream. These people own the media, therefore, they can put very subtle messages into the political arena which play upon the fears of the dumbed down American populace. By doing so, they can slowly and subtilty remove our freedoms, one by one.
Old people? Scare the hell out of them by making them think that their rights to Medicaid and Medicare are going to be taken away. Scare them into voting Democratic by convincing them that the Republicans want them dead. They will wake up one morning facing a Democrat led death panel that will say “Sorry, but you have lived a long and full life and we need these resources for other patients you are younger.” And they will wonder how this happened.
Liberals? Scare the hell out of them by making them think that their rights to free condoms, free contraception, free sex, free treatment for the venereal diseases they will surely get, and the freedom to screw horses if they want to, will somehow be curtailed. Teach them by the media that having sex with anyone and anything is a piece of heaven on earth and the mean old Republicans, backed by the evil Catholic Church, just wants to lock a chastity belt around you and throw away the key.
Young people. Scare the hell out of them by teaching them that Republicans want to take away your freedoms: freedom to have marijuana. Freedom to loaf and draw welfare if you want. Freedom to be a parasite if you desire.
Blacks and non-white: Play the race card. Bring up pictures of the KKK burning crosses and show how Republicans are really like that. Bring up every racial conflict that is white upon black and play it up, while ignoring or downplaying black upon white rapes and crimes. Make heroes out of povery pimps like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Play by your own rules. Be sure to sick the government on anyone who dares mention poltics in a Christian church, but allow your poverty pimps to speak at black storefront assemblies and urge their constituents to vote Democratic.
It’s all about creating fear. Democrats are masters at doing this. I’m not saying that Republicans are lily white in some of the things they have done, but compared to the evil, demented, sick, vile policies of the Left, Conservatives are absolute SAINTS!!!
the demos started today. vote republican, lose medicare. checking back on one of the bammy stories, referred back to a vote taken in 1996 to stop medicare, yes republicans were invovled . vote did not go anywhere, another bammy lie and some of the people eat it up , without checking. another story, they voted to slash medicare, demo and repub invoved. they used this to say medicare will be gone. that is a bald faced lie, whatever that is. a demo senatior has an amendment in their that says all guaranteed benefits to seniors will not be touched. and this bill has not gone all the way yet. the savings , at a later day will be plowed back into medicare under this bill. another bammy lie. another bammy tale, ryan has a bill to convert medicaid to a block grant progam which would sharply curtail health care to the poor. more to bill but it is and will be dead before it gets to the steps of the Senate. another Bammy lie. they are getting desperate. and i am amazed at some of the people i know that believe in the crook, the gunrunner, the liar we have for president. some are not uneducated, ignorant, but they still believe in bamy. the y are bmmy washed.
LOOK, DON”T LISTEN. Know these politicians by their deeds (voting record). Most of us have oars and are rowing like crazy. A few have augers and are drilling like crazy. Throw the augers overboard before we sink into total tyranny. For you and me the coup started with 9/11, but hind sight shows the plan is much older, i.e. look at all the well positioned officials/politicians, in both parties, who do the most damage. Looking at fallen bldgs at the Trade Center, Bldg 7 has no cause for falling except for professional demolition, it shows me the “War On Terror” is bogus. Now I question the Murrah bldg in Oklahoma, the Aurora shooting in Colorado, etc.
Americans are coming to the game late, betrayal usually works that way. Instead of looking we listened and trusted…bad mistake. On the bright side, I know the elite are cowards and fear us, i.e. look at the way police dress, they fear us. They won’t push us to a flash point because 100 million guns still produces a lot of fear. They use techniques from psych warfare, use media and misinformation to convince us there’s no hope and to instill fear. It’s the old tale about the frog sitting in a pot of cold water. Gradually turn up the heat, then eat. Sorry for the long rant, I feel better now, thanks for LOOKING:) VOTE
True, there’s no way to vote them all out, at least not in a single election. But we have to start with as many as we can, as often as we can, while we still can. Eliminate the career politicians who protect their masters pulling the strings, then go after the masters. And the Media has a LOT to answer for.
Since when is the Bush Cartel ‘foreign-born’? The Bush Cartel/Mafia that takes orders from the Queen and the Vatican, that take orders from Israel/Jesuits/Fallen Angels???????????? It’s all on youtube. 911 the inside Job!
Never was any ‘FOREIGN-BORN’ ANYTHING! EXCEPT FOR THE FOREIGN OWNED INCORPORATED US! Still owned by The Queen!
RJ
Gees!
It is not senility that runs rampant in the halls of Congress and the Senate, it is treason. Our congressional Representatives and Senators are not lethargic and pathetic fools. As the continually re-elected career politicians answer to an authority other than the American electorate, their seemingly pathetic lethargy applies only to the expectations of voters who continue to expect different results. Corruption is pervasive.
The overriding concern of most Americans seems to be the massive debt that is being used to ensure the destruction of the sovereign Authority of the People (citizens) of the United States. It is hard to see past this critically destructive debt that is exacerbated daily by an unconstitutional President, aided and abetted by a lawless U.S. Legislature and an immoral and unethical Judiciary. The debt is the most visible and effective tool being used by those who intend to rule this nation and subjugate American citizens. However, it is a symptom of an encompassing problem of much greater significance.
The big picture is the constitutional crisis that encompasses not only the increasing massive debt, but also a loss of our guaranteed freedoms and of our self-governing sovereign Authority. With this administration, we have clear and compelling evidence that all three branches of government are conspiring to disenfranchise American citizens by ignoring the constitutional Rule of Law, establishing a dictatorial tyranny in place of a self-governing federal republic. It is pointless to continue expecting Congress to act for the People and futile to ask why they don’t—or won’t. Congress could have stopped the constitutional abuses. They refused.
If the Romney/Ryan ticket is victorious in November, Americans will expect progress on debt reduction, economic improvement and lower unemployment. Both Romney and Ryan have stressed the importance of ‘fixing’ the symptom. Neither has mentioned restoring the Constitution and the Rule of Law. Insanity is doing the same thing again and again (re-electing corrupt career politicians) and expecting different results (restoring the Constitution.) Until the constitutional crisis is addressed, the symptoms can’t be fixed.