Though Obama may be known in the second term for giving gay Americans equal rights, his ‘legacy’, if proper legislatures are passed, and healthcare, when Americans start agreeing to its benefits, his dealings on fiscal policy may be faulty and lackluster again.

Firstly, the trillion dollar coin is not going to solve the fundamental fiscal crisis of the American government, it only reduces credibility and makes borrowing harder and more costly for the Americans in the future.

Secondly, he had not learned the lesson from California, a blanket statement implying that all immigrants are successful at top schools like Harvard, etc, is simply not the case. More likely than not, less than 0.01% of the immigrant population are that. By examplifying these as the quality of all immigrants is letting the other 99.99% drain a system where they do not pay taxes or contribute to it. Legal immigrants cry foul for all the procedures, tapes, and fees they have to pay to legally going through the process, only to find out if they were illegal in the first place, they could’ve gotten their citizenship much sooner and less costly. The incentives here is skewed, and dangerous for a nation where the finance is already in crisis.

I am not opposed to immigration, per se, but the methodology of which is the question. It would be infinitely more valuable for the President if he had said that he was willing to evaluate the illegal’s contributions, look at current government’s financial states, and consider policies to allow those with contributions to continue their lives in the States, rather than crying out to ones who obviously disregarded the law to be under his wings, promising them the world for breaking the law, not liking their own countries, and had already embodied the records of draining a system that is not theirs, reaping its benefits so that legal Americans are deprived of their spots in these opportunities.

Moreover, money is not created by printing money (that would result in hyperinflation, serious error already happened in the past), and good Americans are not created by a diploma. In the process of getting to these issues, Obama turns into trampling on the rules that make the system work. This was, again, perhaps due to his inexperience in both government and especially in business fundamentals.

Would we be better off in 4 years? Let’s say it was the lesser evil perhaps, but don’t expect any revivals. Minting Coins and Americans – get ready to bail out the government in four years.

At the Beginning of the movie “Goodfellas” the main character played by Ray Liotta is narrating his childhood involvement with the mafia. He points out the mafia was simply a place where criminals could go to settle their differences, the way non-criminals would use the police or courts to settle differences. And that the police never understood what the mafia really was. The mafia no more organizes crime than capitalists organize the free market. This fundamental misunderstanding along with a code of silence, dishonest (bribed) officials, and fearful witnesses allowed the mafia to remain a powerful influence for decades despite targeting by police enforcement at all levels of government.

For four years Barack Obama has been labeled a “Redistributionist” and/or “Socialist” by Americans that generally disagree with this philosophy. I would submit they are wrong.

Barack Obama is a “Reperationist” not a “Redistributionist”.

His desire is to take from white people and give it to black people primarily and other races in large enough amounts to buy or keep their support. From day one he has been purposely bringing down the standard of living for whites rather than bringing up the same for blacks. 50% increases in food assistance, disability payments, and generally pushing formerly productive workers into government support in some form has not been an inadvertent result but rather a planned attack on the US of KKK.

To understand Barack Obama one must understand what black American culture is all about– the scam. The philosophical differences between black America and white America are staggering. The “Puritan” work ethic is not a part of black culture. Blacks brought to this country as slaves had no incentive to work hard because they were forbidden from advancing or prospering. As a result the ability to do less was looked upon as success rather than doing more.  Trying hard, or appearing to try hard, is a no-no in the black community. Watch some music videos and pay attention to the lack of effort in the facial expressions during difficult dance moves. This is a culture that applauds being “cool”, or “chillin’”.  On top of economic repression was the social repression. The real possibility of being beaten or killed for just looking at a white woman– much less consorting with one– made white women the forbidden fruit.

These two basics of black culture created the “pimp generation” beginning in the mid 1960′s. The word “pimp” comes from the men who used women in the sex trade to make money. They controlled women through the threat of force, drugs, a sense of belonging and other psychological means and controlling their clients to some extent through controlling the women.  Pimps keep the lion’s share of money “earned” by their prostitutes.  They also show their wealth as publicly as possible with expensive clothes, jewelry, and cars.  The pimp was the peacock preening for the world and showing the power/money gained by exploiting his prostitutes.  The skills learned through pimping were useful as drugs– particularly crack and heroine– became available. The same methods used to control prostitutes worked well on drug addicts– both male and female—and pimping brought great profits. The increase in the drug culture also increased the “pimp culture”. As all bad habits seem to, these cultures worked their way into the schools and the prisons. And MTV has done more to popularize the “pimp” concept than any other media. In short the young adults in this country have been sold on the idea that pimping is not only legitimate but something to aspire to.

The creation of the “Great Society” during the Johnson Presidency created a host of well-meaning social programs.  These were programs designed by whites to help blacks.  Rather than using these programs as a “hand up” they were treated as “free money”.  Every well intentioned program was perverted by the recipients to allow them to do less, rather than achieve more.  Welfare for single mothers caused the father/man living with the mother to live elsewhere one week a month to ensure the checks kept coming.  The concept that it was wrong to take the money never occurred to either person—just how to keep it coming.  The food stamps were sold for cash for 70 cents on the dollar to a guy who would turn around and sell them to store owners for 85 cents on the dollar.  The store owner would then turn them into the government and get full face value.  Today a competent public recipient gets free or heavily subsidized housing, transportation, education or job training, professional services, cell phone, food, holiday gifts, holiday meals, etc…

The scam is now the basis for existence for a huge portion of the population.  The idea of pulling oneself up from the bootstraps is no longer admired.  Getting something for nothing is “good”.  Spending OTP is the fruits of victory.  Obama is a product of the pimping that has transpired to allow underperforming privileged “black” children to receive higher education from universities they didn’t “earn” their way into.  Obama has pimped the media to not hold him accountable by claiming racism is the root cause of all opposition.  He beat Hillary by reminding the black base of his melamine level and that Hillary is white—as in white devil.  He pimped Bill Clinton into supporting him because Obama unquestionably controls the black vote and since the Democrat Party success is hinged on black support, the tail is wagging the dog.  Hillary has no future without Obamas full support, nor does any other Democrat.

So how is our “pimp Presidency” manifesting itself?

His first new tax was on tanning salons. How much more targeted a tax can you think of? It is a tax specifically on white people and white business owners. Imagine if George Bush had proposed a tax on hair straightening products because the chemicals could have health consequences.

He demonizes businessmen who create wealth and jobs while praising and supporting athletes and performers who make obscene incomes while creating no new jobs and furthering pimp culture at the expense of the American taxpayer. Lavish state dinners and entertainment for the Obama family are the norm.  After being criticized for serving $400 bottles of wine to George Clooney and other rich friends/guests at White House functions, the problem was corrected by no longer announcing the wines served with dinner at the White House.  The idea that less expensive wine should be used or that wealthy associates of the Obamas should not be fed extravagant meals at the expense of a shrinking taxpayer base wasn’t even considered.

He’s hiring 19,000 IRS agents to “enforce” healthcare compliance.  The additional funding is needed to subsidize the millions of Obama supporters with no verifiable income—like drug dealers, prostitutes, illicit gamblers and… Pimps.

He’s using Obamacare to control health care providers and their employees, and force all of us to be complicit either as a patient or through “fines” for not participating willingly. And he using women to keep it intact through the promise of “free” birth control (with abortion soon to follow) for single women, and keeping children on the family plan until age 26 for married women. And of course women cannot be charged more than men for health insurance. But women paying less for life insurance and car insurance is still perfectly legitimate. He will pay the doctors less, the hospitals less, the pharmaceutical companies less, and tax the medical device manufacturers and distributors more. All this so the “poor” will be covered, and women will get “free” goods and services.  Once again effort is punished and the reward goes others.

Don’t even get me started about Obamaphones… To get an Obamaphone you must be on some form of government assistance.  When the minutes run out, which will happen because the owner spends little if any time at work and the operator does not have to pay or budget for the minutes or texts, the recipient simply gets another free phone.  That way when the minutes run out on their first free phone they can continue their conversation on their second free phone, or third.  You pay a fee on your cell phone to subsidize the “free” phones given to the recipients of the “free” housing you subsidize and “free” food you subsidize and all the other “free” stuff we taxpayers pay for.

Obama has convinced single white women that he is their protector. He will protect their “rights” and force men to pay for them. Even though the quality of life for women has dropped even more precipitously than men during Obama’s Presidency, single women feel that Obama is looking out for them. The way a prostitute defends her relationship with a pimp as being mutually beneficial and he being her protector and provider rather than the parasitic relationship it truly is.

The cost of the Obama family travel last year was 1.4 billion dollars.  To give some perspective, the cost for the entire British royal family last year was 58 million.  Pelosi ran up a $100,000 bar tab on the plane we taxpayers bought and paid for and she never batted a stretched back eye.  Joe Biden actually charges the secret service rent to stay in his guest house to protect him and his family. Of course we the working American citizen pay for our elected pimps lavish lifestyles and habits.  We pay for their rich and famous friends to live even better at our expense.  Jay-Z, the former drug dealer, dines in style in the White House and gets prime seating at the inauguration, and we pay for it.

And then there is the debt. Obama has spent your labor away and your child’s to enjoy the lifestyle he and his friends never earned.  All American workers have been saddled with astronomical debt. But worse and more permanent is that we’ve been saddled with a society of pimps.

Obama first pimped the media, then the Democrat Party, then the electorate as a whole. 

Peter and his bandits peered ever so carefully over the grassy bluff at their target: a beautiful, new culture center filled with people of all ages and creeds, participating in anything from a yoga class, to a basketball game, to a painting contest, to just sitting and reading the latest book. No one could have suspected anything less than peace and tranquility, particularly because nothing else ever occurs.

However, this gang was prepared to rock these people’s’ world forever. They acted on their own and had plans to wreak havoc for no other reason except for one: Peter and his followers were guns. Everyone knows that guns make their own decisions and everything that they do is based on their own initiative. When a trigger is pulled, they do it alone. When a bullet exits the shaft, again they are responsible. When a target is located and shot, a gun is who must be blamed. Peter was in no mood to disprove this stereotype. He had been tossing and turning in bed for weeks in anticipation of this day. His lackeys shared his excitement. And now the day was finally here.

As they crept down the shallow hill undetected, they wanted to make sure they were within close enough proximity to shoot as many people in as short a time frame as possible, and then escape into obscurity. When they were within a few feet of a cafeteria, they noticed that it was lunch time and that there must have been at least 80 people all sitting close together. Peter’s salivary glands started to tingle. This was the perfect opportunity he and his buddies could have only dreamed about. As they started to float in the air (something else guns do without any outside assistance), they excitedly, yet quietly, counted their bullets. After the tally was quickly completed, they realized that they had enough among them to place at least two for each upcoming victim. And that is exactly what they did. An onslaught of airborne metal flew through the air, entering different areas of the recently smiling, conversing, dining victims.

As each of these people fell to the floor, some already dead as their body touched the carpet, and others gasping and bleeding and trying to cry out, but unsuccessfully, Peter and his gang couldn’t hide their devious smiles. However, they knew that time was of the essence, so they turned to make their  “well planned” getaway, only to be met by several police officers, who  quickly grabbed them, placed them in a bag, threw them into the trunk of the car, and drove downtown for questioning.

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A few months later, at their trial, Peter and the others sat nervously in their seats next to their attorney as the head juror stood up to read the verdict. “We find the defendants Peter and his 17 accomplices GUILTY of first degree murder based on the fact that they are entirely responsible for loading themselves full of bullets, planning the attack weeks in advance, traveling to the location, and carrying out the crime in a cold-blooded manner.” The judge slammed his gavel and the courtroom became frenzied as people rushed out.

After all the people had left, only Peter and his 17 accomplices and their lawyer remained. Peter, with tears in his eyes looked at the attorney he had trusted for an acquittal with an expression of disbelief and asked “Harry, how did this happen? We are merely inanimate objects without a conscience or a motive.”

“Well Peter”, responded Harry, matter of factly, “because of the exploitation of other crimes committed before yours by humans, it has been decided that a person who uses a gun should no longer be considered the one to be punished. Instead, they are using your case as a precedent to teach people the lesson that it is the guns that must be put away for such crimes, not the people who use them. And since you and the others actually committed these heinous crimes on your own without any person pulling the trigger, there was nothing I could do for you. But be assured that I gave it my all.”

With this said, the lawyer snapped shut his briefcase and the court cops grabbed Peter and the others and, along with the Second Amendment, threw them in a deep, dark cell, endangering any of their chances to ever see the light of day again.

Other Erik the Red articles: http://eriktheredopinioncentral.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/where-are-all-the-war-protestors-now-3/

I read a comment earlier today in which the author proposed a progressive income tax as follows – “…if you make under 100K, 25%. If you make 100K to 1M, 40%. if you make over 1M, 65%.” (as it was pasted from the site)

I made the following response to the moron that came up with this harebrained and liberal dependency theology answer. Please forgive me in advance for being long-winded, but I simply couldn’t find a stopping place in order to step down off my soap-box.

BTW – I refuse to call any member of the House of Representatives a Representative and will call them out for what they are – Politicians and Whores for Special Interest Groups – because when was the last time that any one of them actually “represented” what is truly in not only their constituent’s best interest, but that of America as a whole? Their only concern is, as I also state later, that they vote in whatever way best serves them and their masters…and their masters, my fellow Americans, are not the American people, rather the special interest groups that contribute heavily to their re-election coffers. Their sole purpose, it sometimes seems, is to reward only the lobbyists and special interest groups, who so unashamedly are willing to sacrifice the greater good for benefits that will reward only a few. _____________________________________________________

65%??? Are you insane??? I don’t make anywhere near 1m…or even 100K…or even 50K…but a 65% income tax rate?

So, 65% federal + 10-15% state = 75%-80% of income gone to taxes? How is that anywhere near fair? You mean to tell me that you would be OK with an individual keeping only 20%-25% of what he has worked hard to earn?

How about this breakdown for your progressive taxation scenario?
Under 20K = 10%
20K-100K = 16%
100K-250K = 20%
250K-1M = 24%
Over 1M = 28%
All from payroll deduction and the employer matches (just like they do now). No rebates, no income tax returns, no loopholes, no deductions, no exemptions.

I believe that there are some very simple and easy steps that could be taken to eliminate the crisis in which we currently find ourselves steeped…a crisis that the politicians intentionally created, with each party’s only intent as being to see if the other side would blink. A very dangerous game of “Chicken” played  by only 536 people (Senators=100;  Congressmen=435;  President=1) with the lives, livelihoods, and an economy supporting in excess of 300,000,000 citizens in the balance.

First, and foremost – in order to eliminate the deficit and get the national debt down to a reasonable level, it would be absolutely mandatory to roll spending levels back to 2008 (at least, if not further) and freeze them for 2-5 yrs, except for Defense, SS COLA’s, and VA benefits. Along with that, eliminate both the Inheritance Tax and Capital Gains Tax. It is those capital gains that drives much of the job creation vehicle in this great country. Without those absolute mandatory unrepealable protections, D.C. would revert immediately back to the “…OMG, look at how much money we’ve got to spend!!!” mentality. Then, after the specified time frame, we could begin to increase spending, but only to limits and on items strictly governed by constitutional mandate. Also, it would require an amendment to allow a Line Item Veto.

Personally, I’m in favor of a true flat tax – all persons in all income brackets taxed at exactly the same rate (20% is a nice round number). If you want a fair tax system, you can’t get much fairer than one in which someone making $20k pays $4k in taxes and someone making $20M pays $4M in taxes. Even with a 15% flat tax rate, and total wage income in the US (est 2012) of approx $13 trillion (source: http://bber.unm.edu/econ/us-tpi.htm), revenue would be approx $2 trillion. Bump that number to 20% and revenues automatically increase to $2.6 trillion – fully 69.7% of the over-loaded and bloated 2012 budget of $3.729 trillion. In conjunction with that is the matching tax paid by employers. Fix the system so that employers match only 50% of what is withheld from the employees pay, and for income tax alone the revenues would amount to $3.9 trillion and this years budget is met – with a nearly $200 billion surplus. The only thing left to do is trim the fat, spend where it’s necessary, and eliminate everything else.

Now, imagine the possibilities that would exist were it established as the progressive plan I showed earlier. With the higher income earners paying at a higher rate, while giving relief to the lower-income individuals, there would be a greater perception of equity, and hence, a much fairer tax system in play.

Then, there is the corporate tax income to consider. I haven’t seen facts and figures on that, but it is substantial. Lowering the corporate rate from 35% to 21%, in conjunction with the elimination of tax credits and loopholes, would cause revenues  not only to increase, but corporations would have a stable platform on which to plan for expansion and hiring. As it is now, even with record profits, many corporations are simply hoarding their cash because they have no idea what the future is going to hold.

In conjunction with the flat tax, institute a national sales tax of…say…12%. With approx 112,000,000 households in the U.S., and each of them spending approx $48,000/yr, a 12% national sales tax would generate another nearly $650 billion in revenue. Even if you: a) work under the table in order to escape paying income tax; b) draw some type of entitlement check (and I do NOT include VA and SS benefits) such as SSI, SSDI, TANF, or some other cash benefit; or c) are unemployed for whatever reason, you still – simply out of necessity – buy groceries (at the very least) and contribute to the economy.

Another form of revenue would be to eliminate the income tax refund system. In doing away with the income tax forms and taxing only wages paid as income, the loopholes that many use to minimize (legally) the amount of taxes they pay in any given year. In 2012, the IRS paid refunds to approx 100,000,000 (100 million) taxpayers, with an average refund of about $2,716 (source: http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/average-tax-refund.html). That represents a total of approx $271,000,000,000 ($271 billion) paid out of the federal coffers for…….what, exactly? For a short-term stimulus that has become as much a rite of passage every spring as opening day for Major League Baseball? A time where, rather than pay down on debt (the sensible thing to do), the recipients go on a splurge and buy the big-ticket items that they’ve been salivating over for the past year? Imagine for a moment, if you will, that the U.S. Treasury was able to retain that $271 billion dollars. That is approx 7.5% of the 2012 federal budget. This is a significant figure.

In order to protect and take Medicare/Social Security off life support, it would be neccesary to introduce a Constitutional Amendment that would protect those trust funds from being robbed in order to provide for the general budget.  Borrowing also would NOT be allowed.  Keep SS/FICA taxes at their current rates, but make these funds absolutely hands-off except for their very specific and limited uses.

Bottom line? For this entire budget mess, BOTH sides must agree to some steep spending cuts – whether or not an agreement is reached on revenue. As I read in a paper written by a prominent economist (can’t remember just who), “This is more of a spending crisis than a budget crisis.” For the amount of money the federal gov’t brings in, there is no reason that we should be at the point we are today – except the politicians in D.C. have viewed the American people as nothing more than a blank check for waaaaay too long. Personally, I’m sick and tired of it and I simply do not and cannot trust anything that a politician says…because I know that as soon as they’re done with my group and moved on to another crowd, they’re going to be stabbing me in the back and telling the new group exactly what they want to hear, regardless how it affects me. What it all boils down to is this – Politicians are going to vote in whatever way best benefits them and the masters they serve…and their masters, my fellow Americans, are not the American people, rather the special interest groups that contribute heavily to their re-election coffers.

In response to my rant, a friend of mine said, “That’d be killing a lot of Sacred Cows Ben. Congress wouldn’t be happy.”

My response to that?

I am sick of that mentality, Gerald. Who honestly cares about what Congress thinks? That’s the whole problem in a nutshell. For too long, it’s been about what makes Washington and the lobbyists happy, rather than what’s best for the American people and the economy. If the Senators and Representatives (as well as Mr. President) would all forget about their re-election campaigns and give a lot more consideration about what’s best for their constituents, they wouldn’t have to work nearly as hard during election season to keep their seat! Politicians should be made to pay with their jobs for their irresponsible votes. But the sheeple of this country, by and large, have that dadgum welfare mentality and seem to think (just as the politicians who represent them) that if they can only tax the rich a little more, they can spend, spend, spend on the poor…then, the poor can finally be on equal footing with the rich. That.Will.Never.Happen!

Jesus said it best in Matt 26:11, “For you have the poor with you always…” Taxing the rich out of existence in order to pay for the poor does nothing but eliminate the rich. This is always a bad idea. It is the rich among us who have the resources and who provides jobs for the poor. Taking money out of the pockets of the rich man does only two things: 1) makes the rich resentful towards the poor and much less willing to help, and 2) exacerbates and perpetuates the problems of the poor.

Yes.

If you are a homosexual living in one of these Muslim countries.

By the time you finish reading this article, the staggering hypocrisy of the Left will be crystal clear. Of course, for some of us, it is clear already. But many who dwell in the midst of the double standard on which I’m focusing attention today will also have a much less murky view, though, undoubtedly, most will never acknowledge or admit it.

Rewind a few months to the anti-Chick-fil-A crusade by the gay community and their supporters (read about the controversy here, if you wish). As has become so typical, and predictably suffocated by mainstream media, some Chick-fil-A restaurants have received bomb threats (read here), and some among the Left are even celebrating the death of the company’s spokesman, Don Perry.

Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy‘s right to voice his opinion about the institution of marriage shouldn’t be allowed, right? This stance must be considered to be hatred, merely due to the fact that it is different from a certain sect. As a matter of fact, it must  be bona fide homophobia, despite the fact that Chick-fil-A is known to serve gay patrons and hire gay employees without reservation. Apparently, based solely on this uprising in the summer of 2012, anyone who opposes homosexuality in any way, shape, or form, must be an arch-enemy of the LGBT global community and should fear for their personal or business reputations, at best, and perhaps even their lives.

Fast forward to present day Washington DC and, using your Google Earth software, we can hone in on the White House and even the Oval Office and watch our president, hard at work, daily chopping a path to greater harmony between the US and the Nation of Islam. (read here) It even goes a step further. This administration is keen to the idea of bringing Sharia Law to our sovereign nation. This is a throw your head back and laugh issue when you consider that many among the Left, with Maxine Waters at the front of the “fairness for all” parade, normally clamor for equal rights, especially for women, yet conveniently turn their heads when asked about how Sharia Law is set up to stifle women in several areas, including marriage and inheritance. In addition, upon return to the top of this article, the Left shout loudly for gay rights, yet willfully and cheerfully cling to the cloak of the Barack Obama presidency while many principles and ideals of Islam are being embraced. In other words, many among the Left are turning a blind eye and deaf ear to the fact that several Muslim nations, embraced by our president, openly execute homosexuals, yet these same people will condemn – to the point of death threats, in some cases – a person who has the “audacity” to simply say that he believes a heterosexual marriage to be conventional.

Yet, as with the violent attacks on Chick-fil-A establishments, this is the media’s response on the matter:

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But to expect anything different from liberals would be out and out lunacy.

By now you’ve heard about the secession petitions posted on the White House’s, We the People: Your Voice in Our Government. The petitions have been started by citizens from all 50 states. At least ten of the petitions have exceeded the minimum requirement to elicit a response from the Obama administration.

Is this a true grassroots movement for the states to secede…or is it something else?

Let me be perfectly blunt, this is NOT a secession movement. This movement is We the People venting. There is a lot of frustration in this country, and I believe this petition movement is a movement to reset our government. The People may not really understand the root cause of the problems this country faces, but they know there is a problem. And barring any concrete solutions, our first instinct is to just start over, declare a kind of political bankruptcy, tabula rasa.

I don’t think secession is the right answer, but I empathize with the sentiment. There is something wrong with our political system. How will this play out? I don’t know, but the next couple of years will determine whether the United States of America returns to its roots of Liberty and Justice for All, or if it devolves into a neofeudal welfare state.

‘I think Hell’s a fable.’
“Ay, says Mephistopheles, ‘think so still, till experience change thy mind.”

One comfort for Independent voters who choose a candidate based on individual reasoning is if you chose the loser, all is not lost. Conversely, party or ‘ism’ loyal partisans feel their losses to be the end of the World. Neither side looks ideal from the middle to begin with. It is given that both contenders are liars who must conceal large parts of their agendas from the electorate. This is how the whole process turns into a popularity contest. Americans are more in love with the packaging than with the packaged in almost everything we buy.

Cooler heads are to be found in the middle. On rare occasions when truth comes out of a politician’s mouth it is almost always amply laced with deception. To learn what’s under the tinted cellophane and ribbons one simply examines what each has done; not said. A choice is then made; usually in disgust and the ballot is cast.

My disappointment with this election outcome is only slightly less than in 1980 when Ronald Reagan won. As a young liberal Democrat and active member of NOW, the partisan despair was overwhelming. It seemed the entire Nation had jumped into the proverbial hand basket to Hell! Acknowledgement of any positives was impossible.

Partisans can’t help being only able to think in group terms. Surrender of individual thinking is the price of membership in a herd; any herd.

From a more studied, mature perspective 32 years later; Obama’s victory really isn’t a total loss; at least not yet. Fears by many about right-wing moves to violate some civil rights and thwart others are alleviated for awhile. Bodily sovereignty and freedom to organize family life as people choose will not be jeopardized any time soon. Right-wing theological fanaticism, ‘Hell bent’ on imposing ways of living on others has been held back, to await another season. See how it works if your wump doesn’t sport a party brand? Your feet have ten wiggly little toes instead of two hooves.

Praise the Lord & Pass the Blame

Had not GOP leadership and Gov. Romney sold their souls to, ‘pro-life’ anti-Gay fanatics and remained secular, they could have won. Now the Democrats’ who soul-traded for pyrrhic victory with their own devils will continue to navigate a ship of state listing so far left that we are about to capsize.

What are you thinking? You Republicans cannot afford to continue stimulating yourselves in a mass pornographic fantasy that you’re champions of human aspirations to live free. You are counterfeit Constitutionalists beholden to green eyed perverts trying to subvert a secular state. Trying to impose punitive laws governing the privacy, sex lives, family lives and sexuality of others will get your party nowhere.

An anemic margin resulted in 2012 because two grievous internal and external errors in judgment were made by Republican leadership. Internally dismissive treatment of the more secular, sagacious Ron Paul faction caused deep resentment and apathy within the herd. Externally, as in 2008, the party again sealed its doom by continuing to alienate non-partisans who believe in strong secular, Constitutional government. Political midstream folks are as repulsed by a GOP guided by theological fanaticism as they are by Socialist Revolutionary militants running the Democrat Party. Some, particularly women, held noses and voted Democrat while others stayed home. Resulting anemic turnouts allowed a margin so pitifully narrow as to allow voter fraud and system tampering to actually matter for once. Blame yourselves.

As a result, First, Second and Fourth Amendment attacks will continue and more Constitutional erosion will ensue over the next four years. One set of determined tyrants was chosen over another. Blatantly unconstitutional, legislated power in the hands of the President in the form of NDAA, coupled with gradual usurpation of war powers over the last 60 years has functionally wiped out checks and balances. The Executive Branch no longer serves. It reigns and the Nation is ripe for a tyrant more now than at any other time in our history. Steady movement toward central government portends a budding bureaucratic totalitarian state comprised of two of the most tyrannical forms of government ever known.

Centralized, bureaucratic Socialism and pure Democracy are lethal to individual liberty. Combine them and whatever survives strangulation by one in the cradle is later tabooed and punished with confiscation. This supreme National folly is making us a laughing stock in the old ‘Soviet Bloc’ part of the world.

American movement toward central government that over-rules a Constitution and rules over formerly sovereign states has provided the god’s with lots of company in their laughter. After desperate struggles to escape the 70 year nightmare of Communism, Eastern Europeans now marvel over the stupidity of Americans embracing the same parasitic task master that was opposed for so many generations! Our march down this bitter road is very alarming to Americans from former Soviet dominated countries. They sought sanctuary from Communism on our shores and now the former nightmare is recurring before their very eyes! Have you doubts? Find any immigrant from those regimes and simply ask them.

Many Independents like me saw threats presented by immediate Socialist meddling as more acute than those posed by the deluded Republican Party. So we supported of the Republican candidate. Only time can reveal which enemy of liberty is closer to the prize.

The Devil’s Dance Card

Take a lesson GOP! You and your Democrat adversaries are both afflicted with the same hypocritical blindness. Advancement of great vision and noble ideas can never be accomplished by making deals with devils because devils are never loyal. Winning or losing is ultimately irrelevant when the price is your soul; your integrity; your solemn duty to a higher source to use the gift of superior human intellect instead of abdicating it to Judas Goats.

If two consecutive losses have taught nothing and you still think victory alone to be the end game, sit back and observe what Democrats and Socialist Fundamentalists have in store. What is about to unfold is just ahead; bought for their price paid in souls. Savor what freedom remains and contemplate the possibility that we and our progeny will never again breathe free as we once did.

Win or lose, it is Mephistopheles who ultimately prevails.

Take a look at the stock market’s reactions to Obama’s re-election – … negative.

With all the political rhetoric, yet most no one, not excluding Obama, could fake a speech about the economy without making novice mistakes. With all the talks of ‘hope’, it seemed a word that excluded the talks on the economy, in Obama’s dictionary.

Before stockbrokers have another bad day, let’s just say that there could be hope at the end of the tunnel. How? Does one draw something out of nothing, with an economic policy of nada, or a complete blank? Well, seemingly so, but in case you have not misread any economic modeling or data, it’s a better outcome than if Romney, seemingly more savvy in that field, is elected.

Please explain that. Sure. It has to do with the recognition that the current economy is in recovery phase, not a standstill, that would be unacceptable, or an expansion. Being in recovery, Obama’s re-election provides predictability in the institutional structure, by which businesses can choose to ignore or embrace, but either way, they would know how to proceed with expanding the business.

When the economy is in recovery phase, what is worse than a bad regime is unpredictability, or, a new regime. With unpredictability comes uncertainly. In an uncertain political environment, more likely than not businesses refrain from making investment decisions, but take the stand to ‘wait and see’. While they are waiting, no jobs are created and opportunities are lost. Some costs to businesses and the public also would certainly go into ‘adjusting’ or ‘realignment’ with the new processes, in which case nothing productive really is accomplished or done, it’s only busy-work.

With a predicable political environment, businesses can better make plans, based on what they have set up to adapt to, with minor changes, less costs would be ‘wasted’ on realigning again, and plans can be made.

Obama may not have to do anything more than simply keep the political agenda he had propelled or promised 4 years ago, and provide a stable political environment. That itself would be preferred than uncertainty, including overturn of social values, that Romney had wanted. The market is not going to be exuberant, we know that, but what’s the harm of focusing on the fundamentals, rather than the value from day to day of a piece of paper.

So there is still hope, though it definitely would’ve been better if Immigration Reform, Healthcare, BabyBoom Retirement and social security fund shortage, Fiscal cliff, Postal Service Fiscal crisis, and others, could be addressed as well.

Is it just me or is this country ‘going down the tubes’ in social and civil terms? Lately it feels more like being shoved down the tube. I’m neither Republican nor Democrat partisan; distaste for both parties being almost equal. I haven’t pledged allegiance to Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney. I’ve been able to remain independent.

American Individualism is Gasping in Death Throes

For any citizen to take a stand based on personal values, regardless of the candidate or issue, the choice must be made in agreement with choices of partisans. In our highly charged partisan socio-political environment, one can no longer express support without being trashed by extremists on the left or right and labeled a partisan for the other side.

Respect for viewpoints, though differing, was something with which I grew up. Sure the partisans and political hacks have always been with us. Party loyalty existed then as well. What was different was that civility in public at large existed. If you had a friend or relative wearing an Ike or Stevenson button it wasn’t a big deal; often good natured joking and barbs were the only conflict that would occur. A Kennedy bumper sticker or Carter button wasn’t expected to earn cold shoulders or vandalism.

We were all Americans who often disagreed with each others’ opinions but respect and civility prevailed in almost all circumstances.

It isn’t a Republican/Democrat Thing

The group think, group blind loyalty mood that has replaced erstwhile civility, is one of the most destructive conditions to our ‘body politic’ . It suppresses former ‘cool headed’ non-partisan folks in the middle who used to determine which candidate was best for the country; not the party. Scare tactics in political ads wherein words are put in opponents’ mouths without any burden of proof whatsoever, insult the intelligence of the average person. Both major parties are responsible for this outrageous miscarriage of the intent of free ‘political speech’.

For Democracy to Function, Lying is Prerequisite

I’m reminded of Claude Raines’ performance in a scene from Casablanca. The Nazi’s ordered Rick’s Cafe closed, and the now famous line was expressed: “I’m shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is happening here!”

Every other partisan hack these days, and they are far greater in number, expresses outrage at discovery that their guy/gal’s opponent uttered an untruth! Hence everybody must entirely reject everything that candidate says?

If that was a criterion for not supporting a politician there would be no functional Democratic process. It isn’t whether they lie, but why and how creatively they do it.

The only way to reveal truth and competence is by primarily isolating and examining what politicians do. Secondarily, compare what they have done to what they promise to do.

Mindlessness Prevails

Not enough space here to count them all. I was excited about the emergence of the youthful (comparably), dynamic young man from Chicago (my home town) and like many others was impressed at his almost Kennedyesque personna.

Soon, upon closer inspection, I looked at what he’d done compared to what he was promising and chose not to vote for him; not bitterly at all because nothing would please me more in any election than America choosing a competent candidate without prejudice over his or her heritage or religion. We got a great result in that election, however with the wrong person who appointed a lot of other wrong persons to positions of power.

As mentioned above, I’m not a party partisan and have voted for Democrats, Republicans and even a couple of third party candidates over the last 44 years.

Recent events that send a chill to my bones are many. In the North East, the folks are experiencing some of them. What kind of country is being ushered in?

How is it that at this writing people are in the dark; with food spoiled or spoiling; unable to purchase gasoline because electric pumps are out. Yet big generators can support lavish Left sympathetic Celebrity Parties in Manhattan? http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/new-yorkers-desperate-while-elite-party-after-hurricane-sandy/

Why is it that there is no apparent local public outrage over work crews arriving to help fellow Americans suffering without power getting turned away because they are non-union? Are y’all quiet about it up there or is the loyal press also freezing you out too? Your apparent meekness doesn’t resemble the the New York, New Jersey people I’ve become acquainted with over a lifetime…

Why is it that the Red Cross is crowned ‘honorary’ official coordinator of all emergency relief efforts by a press that is severely critical of both Romney campaign and others who headed North East with trucks laden with survival supplies, water and food? Is that supposed to be something evil?

The Loyal Press Continues to “Stand Down”

I have no apology for choosing (with nose held firmly) an alternative to this arrogant Administration with almost all the disgraceful major press running interference in these last days. My support is for all persons rights to marry and form families in any way they choose; strongly advocate legal respect for bodily sovereignty of all persons; not just women.
Theological extremists on the right are as blindly dedicated to infringing on our Constitutional protections as are the Socialist Revolutionaries on the left!

The three largest partisan groups in this Nation are the Republicans, Democrats and the Press!

It is nauseating!

Democrats and Republicans, Christians, Jews and Atheists, ethnic/racial minorities and majorities, union members and the unemployed and other Americans, Gay Straight and everything in between, had better awaken soon to the acute jeopardy to our traditional, albeit imperfect, freedom and security.

We have no choice left with these two clowns but to prioritize what issues are more urgent and likely to be better dealt with in choosing who’s best suited to the tasks.

Social issues are important only if we have a country within which they can matter. Threats to our way of life exist domestically and Internationally.

Trust common sense. A future Chinese government would respect no unions. Future Islamic extremist rule would consider a woman’s bodily sovereignty laughable. It is just that critical a consideration. If it seems far fetched to you, the current Administration isn’t the only repository for arrogance. We must survive as a sovereign nation in a hostile World.

To the rest of the World; our allies and adversaries, we are looking very weak lately and so are our currency and economy.

It Has Never Been Perfect

Nobody gets it all! When choices are limited to two Olympic level liars as figureheads, all we can do is vote for who will buy us time and perhaps another chance to ‘get it right’ next election.

The best, most authoritative source for answers to what was known by the President, on 9-11-2012, when he knew it and what actions he took, approved or thwarted, is Barack Hussein Obama.

The FBI cannot tell the President what he knew and when. An investigation cannot explain to the Commander in Chief what he did or didn’t do and why. Answers to questions about what our officials knew and ordered before, during and after the massacre have been known by the people who made decisions and issued orders. Those answers are not to be found on the ground in Libya. Clamming up on the flimsy excuse that an investigation at the flash point must first take place makes no sense because actions ordered or thwarted by the White House, Department of State, Department of Defense and CIA didn’t happen in Libya but in strategic locations like Washington!

We now know the Administration knew the source of the attack on the day it occurred. After all, they spent preceding weeks laying out a red carpet and welcome sign by ignoring warnings and refusing requests for increased security. Is that the fault of terrorists?

If President Obama wants to keep his latest empty promise to find out “who is responsible and bring them to justice”, responsibility cuts two ways. He should order an investigation to learn which White House and Defense Department officials were in attendance in the ‘situation room’ watching real time images of the attack. He could also look into who decided to deny requests for more security over a period of months, to weeks, to hours from and during the attack. Our President ought to get to the bottom of why a general and an admiral, both of whom wanted to act to save Americans under fire no longer have their commands. Find out who issued any and all ‘stand down’ orders and when! These actions reasonably account for the success of the massacre. American assets were within reasonable proximity to aid those who were trapped, fending off an attack for seven hours. An investigation in Libya cannot possibly turn up answers for what was decided thousands of miles away!

A few in the press, very few, have posed legitimate, answerable questions to President Obama and his immediate subordinates about their own activities only to be met with a stone wall of delay. Follow-up investigations of details about perpetrators of the attack cannot provide answers to those questions. Terrorism credits are also due those whose actions or lack thereof enabled the attack to continue officially unchallenged by American military assets for seven hours. The American people already know what happened albeit not for as long as the responsible officials, because of a barrage of lies that lasted for weeks!

Terrorists are, without a doubt, responsible for the attack and ought to be brought to justice for their part if it is possible. Their achievement, however, appears not to have been unilateral. A pile of evidence grows daily, revealing a high probability that the Executive Branch of our government was responsible for guaranteeing the operation’s success. Whether intended or not, facilitating is complicity! To discover what degree volition might have played a role in this event, accountability must be demanded; answers will come forth with or without cooperation. We the People delegated limited executive authority to Barack Obama four years ago. For the Obama Administration to cavalierly delay furnishing answers that are not subject to change by an investigation (excepting a sudden case of mass amnesia), is insubordinate. The President of the United States is not a dictator; at least not yet. He or she is accountable to the citizenry, not the other way around; as in a dictatorship! How an act of war succeeded in the deaths of an ambassador, diplomat and two military men who defied orders in an attempted a rescue, with all that was known ahead of time, points to probable dereliction of duty on several levels. With continued arrogant dismissals and obfuscations, suspicion of ‘high crimes broadens. Feigned ‘offense’ by the President and others that evil could be suspected in light of the evidence is as phony as it gets. It has a stench about it that hails back as far as the Dreyfus Affair.

Mum is what The People get; what families of casualties get; with the assistance of a dominant press that is either severely brain-washed or brain dead. What else but implication could explain the barrage of lies and back-tracking on lies over the last two months? If suspicions are in error; if not supported by evidence; those who are in the best position to clear up confusion would be utterly silent decision makers themselves. The American public would be greatly relieved to know that these facts have rational explanations. At root, it isn’t a partisan issue. Imperious conduct by our public servants, however, is alarming to anyone who has studied history and lived through a good portion of it; whether they wish to admit it or not. Truth, as has been shown by other historic scandals, will come out over time.

Questions for the American electorate at this critical point, immediately preceding a Presidential Election should be:

How much time can be afforded waiting for answers from mute, haughty officials? How much time can the next administration afford to lose to the distraction of probable impeachment proceedings? At this very perilous time in our history a continued Obama Administration is certain to be weighed down by even more Congressional polarization and gridlock. Benghazi is not going away. Most citizens, not just Republicans, will insist, through representatives, on fulfillment of a Presidential promise to see that all parties responsible for this massacre are ‘brought to justice’.

Executive Branch officials and their lackeys in the press can be expected to, in usual fashion, try shifting blame for new gridlock on Republicans seeking justice instead of offering ‘bi-partisan cooperation’ with those attempting to escape it.

The infamy of certain historic events caused heartfelt slogans that have stayed with us for generations like: “Remember the Alamo!” “Remember Pearl Harbor!” “Remember 911!”

Those four people forsaken, for whatever reason, at Benghazi and of the many others in harms way on behalf of “We the People” show the ultimate in loyalty and courage. The simple resolve not to forget is the least we can do in return.

“Remember Benghazi!”