Government Verses the People

Speaker Pelosi and her band of anti-capitalist freeloaders literally passed Cap & Trade in the dark of the night. The legislation was being written during the vote. Not one single member of the House of Representatives had read the thirteen hundred (plus) completed pages.

A few months ago this same group of miscreants voted for over one trillion dollars of spending to keep unemployment below 8%, without reading the bill. A handful of Republican Senators pushed this legislation into the win column.

The majority of Americans now realize that there was no correlation between the levels of employment and the government takeover of the financial institutions and the auto industry. In retrospect, it was a government power grab. Need evidence? The Treasury just announced that any knowledge of the administration and dissemination of this money is off limits to the public.

This didn’t stop seven Republican dwarfs from voting with the majority of Democrats for Cap & Trade. You can bet your last dollar that it benefited their standing with the bureaucrats, unions, environmental liars, welfare parasites, campaign contributors, and a few select corporations (i.e., GE, Johnson & Johnson, John Deere, etc.) that have been promised a direct pipeline to the US Treasury.

Eighty-five percent of the carbon taxes will go directly to corporations. And you will appreciate this. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are overseers of the fund’s dispersion.

The world’s leading experts have repeatedly stated that controlling carbon emissions will have zero impact on the health of the environment. They have presented a preponderance of evidence that disproves the relationship between carbon emissions and global warming.

It’s public knowledge that the EPA hid documentation that mirrored this conclusion. And for the record, all vegetation on this planet requires carbon to survive. No carbon means no trees, no crops, and no life on land or in the sea.

A few years ago Germany introduced similar restrictions on carbon emissions. It is now gutting the legislation which only served to cripple its economy. The tax burden suffocated its ability to compete in the world market and reduced the standard of living of its citizens. And it didn’t reduce carbon emissions.

Be afraid. If the Senate passes this legislation, the door is opened for government to determine the amount of energy a family can use. If a household exceeds its allotted ration, the overage will be billed at exponential rates.

Mr. Obama and Pelosi’s bill also gives the federal government the right to enter private homes and audit their energy efficiency. Unless a home is in compliance with the government’s definition of energy efficiency it can’t be sold. How many millions of older homes will be abandoned; how many neighborhoods destroyed?

No energy supplier will be required to reduce its carbon generation. But that is not the point of the legislation. It is intended to place every aspect of energy under federal control.

Pelosi’s estimate that the average family will only see a $15/month increase in its energy bills is pure fiction. Non-partisan experts predict Cap & Trade will raise electric bills between 80% and 90%.

And the cost of everyday goods, like food and clothing purchased by families, will rise between 20% and 30%. To survive, America’s manufacturers will move offshore, which will send unemployment in the private sector beyond comprehension.

In truth, Obama and Pelosi have all but bankrupted the United States in their quest to control the financial institutions. Now they want absolute control of energy and healthcare, and they are willing to destroy our standard of living to accomplish this objective.

This aggression is not about Republicans verses Democrats. It’s about Government verses the People. Congress and Obama must be stopped!

State Emigration

California is a mess. The liberals running this welfare palace came face to face with the taxpayers who couldn’t afford to escape. Mr. Obama, who read the national polls, won’t lend them a dime and the remaining California taxpayers shot down any increase in taxes.

The real problem that the California politicians have is that the citizens still have options. Businesses and the industrious are voting with their feet. They are clearing out in droves. And it is no surprise that the throngs of bureaucrats, illegal aliens and welfare recipients can’t find others to pay for their luxuries.

Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts have the same problem. They are running out of people willing to fund the blood suckers. Like California, the Democratic majorities running these welfare colonies thought the revenue stream was infinite.

They are beginning to see the flaw in their methodology. Raising taxes increases the burden on those who remain behind, which in turn accelerates the stampede. Once state revenues overreach their maximum elasticity the economies implode, infrastructures deteriorate, and unemployment hits the stratosphere.

The intelligent are bailing out of these welfare conclaves before there are no buyers for their homes and businesses. In the vernacular, they are getting out while the getting is good.

Now, the only hope for the liberals running these states is that Obama, Reid and Pelosi will bleed the other states dry. National healthcare, trillion dollar deficits, blanket amnesty, open borders, and Cap & Trade will pretty much crush private enterprise, which will curtail the appeal of the Red states.

Once the escape valve is closed the liberals believe they won’t have to compete in a free market. These clowns are in for a rude awakening. Capital and business will flee the US shores along with America’s best and brightest.

Innovation and capital investment drive the commerce which funds government. Pull this plug and diversity, multi-culturalism and affirmative action become moot.

Reverse discrimination and class warfare won’t immediately become antiquities. They will last until there is no income to redistribute and only second-rate candidates are available to fill the diminishing vacancies.

Be confident a few enterprising countries will see the opportunity that Obama, Reid and Pelosi are offering. They will put out the welcome mat for the Fortune 500, Wall Street and our engineers, scientists and medical practitioners.

And be equally assured that their welcome signs won’t include the US’ tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The agenda of Obama, Pelosi and Reid is to America what drought is to fertile land. They are a curse on the United States of America.

A Lousy Deal

It appears that Mr. Obama’s popularity has reached a crescendo. About sixty percent of the people still like this hip, cool cat, but they are backing away from his agenda. If the economy suddenly brightens he will again be on solid ground, but that’s a frayed lifeline.

Right now his administration is in mud right up to the top of its boots. It’s the staggering deficit that he built, with the help of Pelosi and Reid, which has folks twitching. As it turns out, moderate Democrats and Independents aren’t willing to sell the financial independence of their children and grandchildren for thirty pieces of silver.

Of course, his drooling supporters don’t have a problem with destroying private enterprise and our national security for that price. In truth, they don’t understand the relationship between business, productivity, capital investment, employment, prosperity and the generation of taxes which funds their lifestyle.

His hardcore constituency is comprised of bureaucrats, illegal aliens, ignorant environmentalists, union members and welfare recipients. These are not the people that fuel the engine of commerce that keeps America’s beacon shining. They are the sludge in the tank.

Compared to the goals of these freeloaders, Iran’s President Ahmadinejad is a wonderful man who is merely a victim of bad publicity.

Obama’s nationalization of the banks and the auto industry, his bailout of the Wall Street elite, his effort to double or triple the cost of energy, while printing money, pushing blanket amnesty for illegal aliens and promoting an unfunded, government takeover of healthcare have people questioning his agenda.

Of course, the fiscally literate, including the Congressional Budget Office, are questioning his sanity and the intelligence of his followers.

The Middle Class is beginning to realize that its income is on the short list for income redistribution. And Pelosi, Reid, Barney and Obama are offering a lousy deal. They are buying the freedom and independence of America’s industrious with the money they plan on confiscating from them.

That’s like being forced to dig your own grave before being shot and dumped in the hole. And that is a perfect description of Obama economics. His agenda is digging capitalism’s grave; which this golden-tongued wonder is selling as tilled garden plots.

The 2010 congressional elections may not come soon enough. Pelosi, Reid and Obama still have eighteen months to undermine America’s greatness. The country is in grave danger, and there is no sign that the mainstream media is interested in challenging the implications of their socialist agenda.

These sycophants have raised pandering to an art form high enough to cast a shadow on the flags flying over our national cemeteries. They shame the nation, its Constitution and every person who believes in liberty. Compared to them, Obama is just a national disgrace.

Freedom Fighters

When the politicians are in control of investigating and prosecuting the theft of government property and other felonies, the infractions are frequently ignored to protect friends, colleagues and campaign contributors.

The practice of protecting political insiders exists on every level of government, and is not peculiar to Democrats or Republicans. The bevy of tax evaders uncovered when Mr. Obama was filling executive posts is indicative of the attitude of the politically connected.

They are an insulated, protected species. Before the era of government partnered infomercials the mainstream media would tie bells on these cats. Now the media arrives on the White House grounds with sound dampeners and tunnel vision, ready to parrot the approved questions.

Fox News is the only outlet that still practices journalism. And make no mistake about it; its reporters are personae non grata at the White House. ACORN, Reverend Wright, and Barney Frank’s involvement in the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac never would have surfaced without its tenacity.

Fox is the outlet that reported the firing of Inspector General Gerald Walpin. Ostensibly, the White House dismissed him because he was “confused and disoriented” and “unduly disruptive” at a meeting.

In fact, this man had the temerity to report that Kevin Johnson, now the mayor of Sacramento, was playing fast and loose with stimulus funds. Walpin was fired for collecting and providing evidence of the skullduggery of Obama’s good friend and campaign contributor.

In layman terms, the excuse created for firing Walpin, a man in his mid 70’s, is that he was too old and senile to do the job. The White House just put a shot across the bow of every citizen over the age of 65. Obama signaled every US employer that age is an acceptable reason for terminating employees.

There is another thread that weaves through this. Obama, despite denials, wants to nationalize healthcare. Services are rationed in every country with government run healthcare. Our socialist leader just defined where the elderly will stand in the pecking order once government bureaucrats determine eligibility for medical procedures.

The thread doesn’t stop there. Consider the tactics used by the leadership in Iran to end the protest over the rigged presidential election. Only the news outlets loyal to the administration are allowed to publish. The internet and even electricity is being shutoff to thwart the communication of the protesters.

Obama and the Democrats own the mainstream media. These obedient lapdogs promote their agenda. Now consider the Democrats’ efforts to silence talk radio and the constant drumbeat belittling FOX News emanating from the White House.

This is not a coincidence. This is a war against the last bastions of the free press. Fox News and the Wall Street Journal are the only major news providers standing between the liberty of Americans, private enterprise, Judeo Christian ideals and Obama’s scorched earth, anti-capitalist agenda.

Medical Malpractice

The healthcare debate is just winding up. Senator Dodd, a practicing socialist, blamed the rising costs in the medical industry on those nasty capitalists seeking profits. The local hospitals and family physicians are part of this evil cabal.

His solution was predictable. Dodd wants congress to create a national insurance agency to compete with the 350 private medical insurers. He insists that the introduction of this option will cause the private insurance companies to sharpen their pencils.

The illustrious Senator from Connecticut and Obama believe much of the cost of such a program will be recouped by eliminating the endemic corruption in Medicare and Medicaid.

Dodd estimates the costs of these medical entitlement programs could be reduced by 30% if the corruption and mismanagement of the system were eliminated. He’s probably right.

And you will love this. He claimed that costs could be dramatically reduced (maybe 20%) if doctors and hospitals stopped ordering unnecessary tests. These words from the same weasel that refuses to cap the outrageous settlements from lawsuits that force doctors and hospitals to practice defensive medicine.

Does anyone believe that a government insurance company, run by the same bureaucrats controlling Medicare and Medicaid, would be more cost-effective? Those with a cursory knowledge of government efficiency would be inclined to double over in laughter at the suggestion.

Dodd, who directly shared and profited from the shenanigans that toppled the housing industry, understands fraud. As a participant, he has first hand knowledge of insider corruption, which makes him an expert in the field. Thus, his words should not be ignored.

Of course, using the same criteria, it would be a waste of talent if Bernard Madoff isn’t offered the chairmanship of the SEC. Madoff was the master of ponzi schemes. The difference: Madoff confined his greed to mostly milking fat cats, whereas, Dodd has his sights set on duping every American into signing up for second class healthcare.

Dodd reluctantly admitted that about 20% of the cost of private healthcare premiums is used to subsidize the uninsured and the government underpayment of services. Federal bureaucrats in Medicare and Medicaid set the rates they will pay medical practitioners for services rendered.

Their tables of payments are based on the government’s “budget,” and its power to bludgeon the medical profession into submission, rather than the realistic cost of services. The rates paid by the privately insured keep the hospitals and emergency centers open. It’s a hidden tax.

Dodd’s scheme is fairly simple. The premiums set by Dodd’s government insurance company will be substantially lower than those offered by private insurers. Consumers and businesses will sign up for the government plan to save money.

This will drive the private insurers out of business, as they won’t be able to compete with the US Treasury. Within a few years the government will control healthcare. Without the inflated premiums of America’s productive workers and companies underwriting the actual costs for medical services, the government bureaucrats will ration healthcare.

It’s Dodd’s refrain to this Ponzi scheme that brings doublespeak to a new level of hypocrisy. He keeps reassuring Americans that they will continue to be able to select the doctor and hospital of their choice.

He neglects to mention that the quality of healthcare will rapidly decline, many hospitals will be forced to close and the incentive to be a doctor will be eliminated.

Here’s a healthcare solution! Try Senator Dodd for medical malpractice.

The Ultimate Sacrifice

Vice President Joe Biden is positioned to be a heroic American patriot, as he sits in the catbird seat.

He is a decent fellow with a knack for creating facts. It would be difficult to construe his speaking gaffs as malicious. He just seems inclined to manufacture a little evidence when he is unfamiliar with the subject.

It’s reasonable to conclude that he doesn’t want to appear ignorant. If trying to “save face” was a criminal act about 99.99% of the planet’s human species would have felony records.

He is not a liar, but he is cursed by the compulsion to tell the truth. Granted, in national politics this isn’t a prized attribute. Speaker Pelosi personifies the typical politician’s relationship with the truth. When caught in a lie she defends the deceit, feigns victim status and then ignores the subject.

That Mr. Obama doesn’t appreciate his Vice President’s propensity for candor is not a revelation. Joe has spent a lot of time behind the woodshed being scolded for voicing his opinions and his observations. And it’s obvious that these rebukes are chaffing their relationship.

On May 27, 2009, when the wind toppled a teleprompter as Biden prepared to speak at the Air Force Academy graduation, his ad lib, “What am I going to tell the president when I tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?” was return fire.

Biden corroborated the obvious. Obama is incapable of delivering a message that isn’t scripted. The whole world knows that Obama can’t think on his feet. But be assured that the president didn’t appreciate his second in command confirming his lack of fluidity with details.

Obama is an arrogant, spiteful and shallow little man. He has no expertise. His path to the Oval Office was strewn with flowers by the mainstream media. They ignored his gaffs and lack of historical perspective.

It deliberately hide his leftwing agenda by ignoring his tenure at ACORN, his relationship with Rev. Wright, domestic terrorists and his ties to Chicago’s corrupt political underworld. They knew what wouldn’t sell, so they painted him as a moderate. It was all lies.

It’s doubtful that Joe Biden signed up to support trillion dollar deficits, the nationalization of the US financial institutions and its auto industry, the displacement of private enterprise, the rabid attacks on Christian beliefs, undermining national security and the disembowelment of the Constitution.

Try to imagine how difficult the task of defending the reckless and malicious attack on America’s institutions is for a person who loves his country. Joe was criticized for saying that paying taxes is patriotic. In truth, it is the duty of every American to support the country. Joe and Middle America only disagree on the amount and how it’s dispersed.

If Joe resigned his vice presidency, the shot would be heard around the world. He would change the course of history by shining a light on Obama’s infamy. The noble deed would inform the nation, its allies and its enemies that he is unwilling to share the treachery and disgrace of the Obama legacy. Granted, it’s difficult to believe a politician would lay down his life for his country.

The Most Frightening Statistic

Setting aside natural disasters, it seems the number of public appearances a president makes is in indirect proportion to the health of the economy and the vitality of his agenda. Rarely a day goes by when the mainstream media doesn’t feature fresh Obama sound bites.

Whether he is trying to convince himself, or the voters, that he is pleased with the progress is anyone’s guess. The economic indicators are wobbling, and few are persuaded that his recent international jaunt bolstered the US’ relationship with its allies, or improved national security.

The banks and insurance companies are scrambling to put distance between themselves and the TARP funds. In fact, there is a growing consensus that the entire program should be mothballed by year’s end. It makes one wonder what private data and forecasts the leaders of the US financial institutions and congress see that is causing this stampede.

Turning over the future of General Motors and Chrysler to the unions and Barney Frank isn’t playing well. It doesn’t take a marketing genius or an economic guru to understand the $50 billion spent on “saving” these companies will only benefit the coffin nail manufacturers and the UAW. He gave them the hammer.

Obama’s latest political gambit, guaranteeing that 600,000 jobs will be created or saved, is resonating like a bell in a sound-proofed closet. Whoever created this non-testable goal was caught in the glare of oncoming lights, manufacturing airbags for an expected head-on crash.

The federal government’s revenues are down 34%, which makes Obama’s deficit spending stand out like a grizzly bear in a petting zoo. While rapidly increasing energy prices sap the meager discretionary income from family budgets, Obama is begging America to wait twenty years for windmills and sunshine to correct this environment-worthy inconvenience.

He is also clamoring for bone crushing taxes and has claimed the right to determine the appropriate income for people employed in the private sector. And to add insult to injury he proclaimed in Cairo that the United States is as much Islamic as it is Judeo-Christian.

He must have received this statistic from the same folks who invented the 150,000 jobs he claims his stimulus plan has already saved; the same experts who provided the projection that unemployment would not exceed 8%. Be assured these are the same advisers that told him to throw Israel under the bus, bless Iran’s nuclear ambitions and grant terrorists captured on the battlefields Miranda Rights.

To his credit, Obama admitted that Medicaid spending is out of control. Of course, he forgot to add that the program guarantees medical care for anyone, and everyone, without insurance or proof of US citizenship, or any incentive to earn either.

His solution for this medical black hole is the nationalization of healthcare. So all he needs is another trillion dollars of debt to solve the problem. Is there a trend here?

Preparing to be the President of the World must eat a lot of time. Maybe it just slipped his mind to sign the executive order extending E-Verify. When the country’s economy is gushing red ink and unemployment is approaching ten percent, what other logical reason exists for providing the 100 million citizens of Mexico an incentive to become illegal aliens?

The polls keep showing Obama’s approval rating is hovering around 60%. This is the most frightening statistic of all.