The Enemy of Prosperity

The Democrats and Mr. Obama are on a health care tirade. It is obvious that the objective in their take-no-prisoner plunge into socialized medicine isn't driven by potential improvements in the cost, quality or increased access to medical services.

Even the pretense that these considerations are the driving factors was abandoned right after America's citizens rejected the proposed legislation en masse. Obama's tune is changing. His latest speeches implore the electorate to accept the government's takeover of medical care to punish the evil insurance companies for the growing cost of premiums.

That's like blaming the unemployed for deliberately increasing the cost of the business contributions (taxes) which fund the benefit. If Obama's logic is applied, the unemployed should be punished for losing their jobs. After all, the rising cost is directly related to their greedy attempt to survive.

Here is a disclaimer. No one pretends, nor even alludes, that the thirteen hundred health insurance companies have never gouged a client. To believe this would be as naive as trusting that 100% of the Unemployment Compensation beneficiaries exclude illegal aliens and US citizens scamming the system.

The majority of the Democratic members in the House and Senate are screaming that without Obama Care the nation will not be competitive in the world market, and its rejection will ultimately cause the economic collapse of the United States. Granted, it's a lie, but for the moment take them at their word.

If Obama Care is the most critical lynch-pin to the survival of the nation it would be insane not to implement it. One problem: The cost of Obama Care will bankrupt the nation. It seems Americans are down to choosing which cliff to jump off. But there is a third alternative.

If the nation is doomed without Obama Care and will be doomed by its cost if it is implemented, it's time to examine the nation's priorities. It can survive without the EITC, all welfare entitlements, Pell Grants, the Departments of Education, Agriculture, Commerce and the EPA.

Then scrap Medicaid and SCHIP. And certainly the budgets of other government agencies can be reduced 30% if it means the nation's survival. Even the budgets of the Pentagon and Homeland Security can be reduced 10%. Illegal aliens cost the nation about $300 billion annually. Say good-bye to press #1 for English.

These cuts would provide ample funding for Obama Care, balance the budget and save the nation. It's remarkable that not one single Democrat has demanded budget cuts to save the nation from imminent collapse. Their solution is higher taxes.

Millions upon millions of US families have stripped their budgets down to the bone to survive, but not the federal, state and local governments. And we all know why. They only have one priority, namely, the preservation of their fiefdoms. That's why America is in a world of hurt.

It's time to admit that government is the real enemy of prosperity. Its growth erodes opportunity.

The Snakes in the Grass

Mr. Obama's reputation is about on par with nuclear fallout. He is determined to make socialized medicine the masterpiece of his administration's legacy. This objective has erased any doubts about his ideology. He has his fist in the air and is screaming all the Marxist slogans.

The election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts opened the White House doors, which barely concealed the deception and corruption required to dismantle the practice of private medicine.

The loss of the super majority in the Senate didn't create Democratic listeners; it just eliminated any pretense that Obama, Pelosi and Reid cared if their policies created the political equivalent of a nuclear winter.

Democrats won't escape the wrath of those who Obama disdains as Bible thumping, gun toting, pickup driving morons. Others refer to this body of voters as the Middle Class. Obama treats their objections as petty and uninformed obstacles to the wonders and rewards of life under the government's thumb.

The earthquakes in Chile and Haiti will pale in comparison to the global repercussions felt when the fault lines beneath Washington, DC open and swallow his followers on November 2, 2010.

But it's his willingness to sacrifice them to secure his legacy that is frightening. It begs the question. If he is willing to cut the throats of his political proponents, what has he planned to destroy his political enemies?

Obama is not an honest man. He is a devout, pragmatic opportunist with a messiah complex. His actions and words are those of a man who believes he is the sole arbitrator of the truth. His disciples in the media created and groomed this image, which carried him into office.

Despite its heroic attempts, the media can't rewrite the facts fast enough to bolster his reputation and justify his agenda. In fact, they couldn't even justify his existence without mentioning God's mercy, which they will never do as this would undermine their core anti-religious principles.

Although the voters were sucker punched, legions of them have regained their balance and are walking away from the myth. Obama is down to saving the core constituency of the Democratic Party. They are the parasites who depend on the taxpayers for their existence. The words of those in the media, which created the Obama myth, now have the same appeal as dog food.

Of course, the goal of socialism is to convince the citizens that it is better to be government pets and accept a universal diet of dog food, than allow the inequalities and inequities generated by personal incentive. In truth, income redistribution is political dog food masquerading as equal opportunity.

The Republicans are gloating due to their misconception that Obama has given them a free ride in the mid-term elections. Their lack of support for Senator Bunning's recent demand that the cost of the extension of Unemployment Benefits not be added to the national deficit did not go unnoticed.

Pretend Republican politicians are more revolting and insidious than the scourge of Democratic socialists. At least the Democrats have stopped pretending that they are defenders of the Constitution and support a robust private economy.

Beware of Democrats in Republican clothing. They are the snakes in the grass.

A Good Day for America

Mr. Obama is convinced the government can spend its way out of a recession. His mindset hasn't been deterred by public opinion, history, nearly insurmountable deficits and gruesome job statistics. His Health Care Summit was symptomatic of his state of mind.

It's clear that he believes: 1) Americans trust him, 2) that his intellect is superior to all other mortals, 3) that being President entitles him to ignore contradictory evidence, 4) that he has the absolute right to determine what is best for America, and 5) that disagreement with his vision is tantamount to civil disobedience.

He was finally transparent. His performance clearly denoted a smug, entitled, dismissive person blinded by his title and handicapped by his limited experience. He is a socialist troglodyte, unfamiliar with the aspirations, ethics and principles of the people who live beyond the horizons of his cave.

Obama is so tangled in self-love and Marxism that he will never be worthy of the title, President of the United States. He will never grasp the ideology of the nation's founders, nor admit that the fundamental rights listed in the Constitution aren't open to conjecture. He sees the Bill of Rights as an exclusionary impediment to his vision of government.

He is so steeped and comfortable with political corruption that he doesn't see the disgrace in these sordid practices. He has never drawn a line between success and success at any cost. The health care legislation epitomizes his contempt for integrity and his willingness to abandon fairness to achieve an objective.

His loyalty didn't blossom when he took the oath of office. He has never come to grips with the duty of a President to represent and protect all Americans. He is still mired in the tawdry relationships he made in Chicago. His representation remains confined to protecting and nurturing the corrupt and hungry bedfellows that followed him from Illinois.

Obama arrived at the White House without any experience in the private sector. Thus, his economic solutions are confined to addressing hypothetical circumstances. He doesn't share American's belief in the free market, because it's foreign to him.

In his eyes, personal responsibility and the risk/reward incentive are not substitutes for guaranteed government handouts. This partially explains his apology tour around the world. He believes Americans were duped by capitalism.

He was apologizing for a government, built on the aggressive pursuit of individual wealth, that he believes harmed the world by unfairly using more resources-per-capita than the other nations. This observation dovetails perfectly with his pursuit of Cap & Trade legislation. He wants to cripple, if not destroy, America's reliance on energy to harness capitalism and establish a new social order.

Those who claim that Americans learned nothing, and that no minds were changed by the Health Care Summit are wrong. They watched and heard Obama defend his administration's determination to substitute government control for private enterprise and freedom of choice. And they saw that he is not trustworthy. It was a good day for America.

Fiscal Insanity on Steroids

It's clear. The mounting US debt is on the verge of crushing economic growth for decades. The country is already being held hostage by foreign lenders. And the prospects for America's future generations look bleak.

There are no reserves. Yet, the Obama administration and Congress continue to ignore this reality. They are still promoting a healthcare program that will add about $300 billion a year to the deficit. Each year rampant legal and illegal immigration adds tens of billions of dollars to the deficit. There is no way to pay for any of it.

Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are not sustainable without massive tax increases, benefit reductions and eligibility restrictions. Since the EPA was created in 1970, US dependence on foreign energy imports increased by 230%.

Until 1971 the US always enjoyed a positive trade balance. Today, manufacturing is nearly extinct. As the trade balance went permanently negative in the mid-1970's the political class soothed a suspicious electorate, claiming the future jobs in America would be generated along the Information Technology Highway.

Point of Fact: Rotten trade agreements, taxation and government regulation sucked the profitability from goods manufactured onshore. Corporations even received tax incentives to move jobs offshore. And here is the irony. The countries that the US deeded its manufacturing to are the ones that own its debt. These policies ripped a giant hole in the Middle Class.

Middle America has watched its earning potential dissipate, while the federal, state and local governments demand an ever higher percentage of its income. A large chunk of these taxes continue to be needed to cover the cost of welfare subsidies; the need for which is driven by government policies that have spurned economic growth since the 1960's.

The US rode the dotcom bubble for about twenty years before it crashed in the mid-1990's. That's about the time the government opened the gates of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy worthless mortgages. (Note: On December 24, 2009 Congress guaranteed these entities unlimited funding.)

The father of this fiasco was the Community Reinvestment Act, passed in 1977. That's when the government guaranteed the high risk mortgages the financial institutions were encouraged to write, under the slogan Equal Opportunity Lender.

Construction jobs in the housing industry were created in mass when the government guaranteed credit to the non-creditworthy. This turned out to be the largest public works scam in US history. Of course, when the bubble broke the financial institutions were reimbursed with the TARP funds. The costs will be picked up by the Middle Class for generations to come.

This is what makes it easy to understand why the $800 billion Stimulus never targeted job creation in the private sector. Having destroyed US manufacturing, all Congress could do was prolong government employment and create a few temporary public works jobs.

Again, future generations of the shrinking Middle Class will pick up the tab for this extension of the bloated government payroll.

The current recession reduced the trade deficit in 2009 to -$380 billion, from a high of -$760 billion in 2006. Those aren't just statistics. The trade deficit represent trillions of dollars that were never re-invested into the US economy, or increased tax receipts or created more jobs for forty years.

While the Middle Class is hanging on by its fingernails, the Democrats spent another $15 billion for job creation. It's fiscal insanity on steroids!

CPAC 2010

The Conservative Political Action Conference held no surprises. It was a rain dance. The attendees were fed plenty of red meat and those flirting with a 2012 presidential run were buoyed by the crowd's exuberance.

There was plenty of chatter about deficits and out-of-control spending. But the potential candidates and Republican Party stalwarts skirted specifics. A few alluded to the fact that Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP (Children's Health Insurance) are on the brink of collapse. That's not news.

The Key Note Speaker, Glenn Beck, momentarily disturbed the party faithful by accusing the Republicans of being as big of spenders as the Democrats. History and evidence is on his side. The remark wasn't a shot across their bow; it hit an open wound.

Although he didn't mention names, it was obvious that he wasn't there to put all Republicans on an economic pedestal. His finger was pointed at the likes of Senator McCain. It took the crowd about five minutes to realize the import of his message: It's the record and the political philosophy of the candidate, and not the party affiliation, that will count in 2010.

Beck was speaking for more voters than just the 15 million people classified as Tea Baggers. The electorate isn't hostile and it isn't radical, but it is aware, angry and vocal. And it is determined to wrest control of the government away from those politicians determined to guarantee equal outcome rather than equal opportunity.

Beck elaborated on this observation, stating that the fundamental difference between Progressives and Marxists is patience. The former are satisfied with evolutionary change and the latter demand revolution. Beck made it clear that they share the same objective, government control of the citizenry. Their craft is the art of trading personal freedom for handouts.

And there sits Mr. Obama, Mr. Progressive incarnate. He isn't the enemy of the Republican Party, he is its savior. In thirteen months he has managed to take control of the banking and financial community, car manufacturing and he even tried to control the outcome of the US Census.

He only made one mistake. He adopted the Marxist timeframe for revolution. Healthcare and energy were the first targets he attacked. He wanted them out of the hands of private enterprise before the mid-term elections. This frontal attack on the US Constitution created the Tea Bagger movement.

The Tea Baggers are not in the Republican corner. More precisely, the Republican Party is the enemy of their enemy. The coming healthcare summit hosted by Obama is a test of the Republicans' learning curve. If they adopt the new Obama plan after tinkering with its margins their political careers are over. A third party will form.

Americans want America back. They want the future of their children and grandchildren to be better than their own. This will only occur if the size of government is slashed and taxes are reduced. That's what the 2010 elections will demonstrate. No special margin will be bequeathed to the Republican candidates. They have been warned.

That's What It's About

Anyone not frightened by the agenda of the Obama administration must rely solely on MSNBC's news content. The nation's fiscal affairs are on life support. The surge of concerned voters, lumped under the Tea Bag label, was spawned by the wanton disregard of their economic survival by Congress and the White House.

There is no bridge between the citizens and the federal government. It's gone. The communication links have been severed. Mr. Obama's crew knows the unrest is growing; and they know the cause. But they have no intention of listening or changing course, just their tactics.

Rather than taking directions from the citizens, they have introduced a media blitz to ridicule and demean any person or group who challenges their agenda. They have declared war on the citizens of the United States. And they have the blessing and cooperation of the mainstream media.

The nation is hemorrhaging from deficits. With Medicare and Medicaid on the brink of collapse, any attempt to add another 30 million people to the government's health care roles is economic suicide. It's just not feasible.

Yet, Obama and his fellow socialists are still promoting this cause, while deliberately ignoring basic market corrections like tort reform. It's starkly clear that improving the quality and affordability of health care were secondary considerations.

Obama and company want to control healthcare to configure a society based on the usefulness and productivity of its members. Don't kid yourself. There is no room in their worldview for the aged, or physically and mentally handicapped. In their utopian future, the consequence of being labeled a "f------ retard" will be a death sentence.

The members of congress and the political pundits have advised the nation that the Cap & Trade legislation is dead. It's apparent that the scientific data supporting the Global Warming scenario was distorted and much of the evidence was faked.

Yet, Obama has threatened to unleash these draconian measures by Executive Order. He has threatened to license the EPA to choke the growth of fossil fuels and grant the federal government absolute control over energy usage, without the consent of Congress or the voters.

Why? It's not just because he is virulently anti-capitalism. That's a given. He needs the $600 billion of new taxes to fractionally reduce the size of the projected deficit. And, equally important, he can confiscate these monies from the budgets of those making less than $250,000 without appearing to break his campaign pledge.

The song of praise for the Stimulus emanating from the White House is falling on deaf ears. Only 6% of US citizens believe this world class Pork Barrel created or saved 2 million jobs. Most realize it only forestalled the collapse of unaffordable welfare programs and bloated bureaucracies.

The nation can only hope that 41 Senators can fight a rearguard action until the November 2 election. That's the day Americans will reopen the channels of communication by electing listeners. And that's what it is all about.

You Don't Say, Joe

The Obama administration is squirming. It's thrashing about looking for a reason to justify its existence. The only feat it has accomplished is the creation of a deficit that has ransacked the national treasury.

How desperate is this administration for a victory? Vice President Biden proclaimed that the US' success in Iraq can be laid at the feet of the glorious leader, the wartime Commander-in-Chief Obama. That's like giving the Girl Scouts of American credit for the invention of cookies. Nice try Joe.

But it is going to get a lot sillier. Obama is already guaranteeing that employment will grow at the rate of 95,000 jobs per month. After the loss of 4 million jobs in the last twelve months, that would be a positive accomplishment, unless they are all government jobs.

Of course, if this estimate materializes, the number of new positions won't even keep pace with the employment demands of those entering the job market for the first time. And with the 2.3 million new immigrants arriving this year, some of whom are even legal, employment opportunity for Americans will trend downward for at least another year.

In fairness, the pressure for jobs in America is reduced by the willingness of one-half of the illegal alien families to subsist solely on welfare. Joe, can Americans expect you to put these numbers into the Jobs Saved for Americans column. This would bolster the number of make believe jobs created by the Stimulus.

Granted Joe, the people are not giving Obama enough credit for his determination. He's still advocating a version of Cap & Trade this year, despite Americans' overwhelming rejection of the federal government's takeover of all energy production, distribution and the regulation of its usage.

Facing a potential increase of about $3000 in a family's annual energy bills would certainly reduce consumption. This would thrill the environmentalists . . . until they notice that every tree in the country is being cut down for cooking and heating. Hey Joe, would that have a negative impact on the environment?

While you're praising Obama's accomplishments, Joe, tell us how his Iran policy is doing. Did his strategy of publicly maligning the United States and bowing to foreign heads-of-state have a positive influence on the Islamic butchers? It's not apparent from here. It appears their smirking. Is that a good sign, Joe?

And Gee-whiz, did we just hear that China threatened to toss all its US bonds on the open market if we don't play by its rules? Experts state that if China pulled this trigger that inflation would destroy the value of US currency. Tell us Joe that Obama has a contingency plan, which doesn't include printing money, to counter this catastrophe.

Joe, Americans are pleased with Obama's new spirit of bi-partisanship. And we appreciate his sudden involvement with the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. The vast majority of Americans would like this policy changed. After all, it seems unfair for the government and businesses not to question the resident status of people who need an interpreter to apply for a job or public assistance.

Oh, sorry for the confusion, Joe. You say Obama was talking about the military's homosexual policy. After political correctness got thirteen soldiers killed at Fort Hood, would it be impolite to suggest Obama's timing stinks as badly as his socialist agenda?