Last night, president Obama gave his annual State of The Union Address to the government and to the people.

As always, he was a great snake oil salesman and showed his ability to sell anything, even a rehashed speech from one year ago given to the exact same people.

As always, even an intelligent right wing supporter like myself can learn something from his sales pitches.

The 5 Things I learned from President Obama’s 2013 State of the Union Address

1. If you reuse last year’s speech, you won’t get dinged for duplicate content
2. If you spend more money than you make, you will save more money than you spend
3. If you kill enough jobs, more people will be employed
4. If you tax people more, more people will have money to spend
5. If you tell the same lie enough times, even you start to believe it

Maybe I should have added a 6th;  That public education sucks.  What I learned last night flies completely in the face of what I learned from a public education.  I should have been like Obama and had an Arab sheik pay for me to attend a private school where apparently the real math and  economics are taught.

Yes, when somebody is near their life expectancy and they have a debilitating disease, the government/ ObamaCare will have a panel to determine the proper healthcare needs.  Not the patient, the government will decide.

Look it up.  This is all in ObamaCare.  “As the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall determine”.  There is a board (panel) of government people who will make decisions on how to best spend health care money.  Your tax money.  All of the money is going to come from government once ObamaCare is a fully implemented.

So the ObamaCare plan is twenty seven hundred pages long with a panel that will determine who gets treated and who doesn’t.  To help enforce that plan, there are sixteen thousand new IRS agents designated to determine whether or not you’re complying with the law by either having an insurance policy or by paying a fine if you don’t.

Think about it:  Virtually every aspect of your health care  is going to be administered by and monitored by the federal government with you having nothing to say about it.

Remember when ABC did a prime-time special about three years ago with the president in the east room of the white house?  The president was seeking to explain his health care plan.  A woman stood up and actually ask the president of the United States “what about my one hundred year old mother?  She has a huge will to live she’s got a great spirit but she needs a pacemaker.  Will you factor things like spirit and will to live in determining whether people like my mother would get a pacemaker?”

Why is this is lady asking the president of the United States if her mother can have a medical procedure?

An American citizen having to ask the president, not her doctor, but the president, about her mother’s health care.  Whats wrong with that picture? The president stood up to answer it.  He put a smile on his face said “we can’t take things into account like ‘will to live’ or ‘spirit’. We just can’t do that. There just going to be times that where the best thing we can do is just give your mother a pill and let her try to enjoy her remaining days”

This shouldn’t happen in the United States of America!  You should not have to go to the president to ask about your medical treatment and be told to just take and pill, go home and die peacefully.

Now we’ve been told by the IRS that the cheapest mandatory health care plan for a family of four will be between sixteen and twenty thousand dollars a year.  If you don’t have it you will have to pay a penalty. Sixteen and twenty thousand dollars a year for a basic health care plan!

Enter Benjamin Carson

He is the Johns Hopkins Hospital pediatric neurosurgery director.

Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast last week, he derails ObamaCare and offers an alternative solution that would work.  It would work cheaper, be proactive and puts the person in charge of their medical plans. It also works for everyone.

“When a person is born, give them a birth certificate and an electronic medical record and health savings account to which money can be contributed pre-tax from the time you’re born to the time you die.  When you die, you can pass that along to  your family members so that when you are eighty five years and you got six diseases you not trying to stand up everything you’re happy to pass it on and there’s nobody talking about the panels”

He continues…

“and also for the people who are indigent, without having any money.  We can make contributions to their HSA each month because we already have this huge pot of money instead of sending it to some bureaucracy, let’s put it in their HSA.  Now they have some control over their own health care!”

That’s it.  He Gets It!  A Black Conservative, is also a Doctor, Gets It!!  Put the people back in control of their own health care.  The cost becomes competitve because its not all bieng controlled by one bureaucracy.  People live longer, healthier lives.

And that is the problem with the plan.  According to the left.  The Democrats and Obama don’t want you to be in control of anything.  They are banking on you wanting to be lazy and letting them control your life for you.

Dr. Carson tactfully spoke of his disdain for political correctness, calling it a “dangerous” and “horrible thing.”   He shamed the government for the deficit and offered a simple, very logical solution. He also addressed our healthcare issues and ever so tactfully slammed the President’s “death squads” in Obamacare.

Watch as Obama squirms as the audience gives support to Dr Carson’s theory of supporting a person’s freedoms, letting people be successful and that educating a person will make them free.  Things that Obama disdains.

Who is Dr Carson?
Benjamin Solomon “Ben” Carson, Sr. is a neurosurgeon and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, by President George W. Bush in 2008.

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The attacks opened the door for the American people to accept and agree to allow the president and his supporters to quickly enact new laws and regulations that limit our freedoms to associate, to communicate and to travel. We openly agreed to exchange the loss of certain liberties for the sake of our safety based on the fears raised by these terrorist attacks.

Using that logic and a look at the main stream media and social media response to the Sandy Hook Elementary Massacre, that this is an Obama inspired event resulting in the same, if not larger, power grab.

The emotional fallout, fueled by an Obama loving media, creates an opportunity for President Obama to quickly and easily adopt more regulations, more control and more government oversight of our everyday lives (less freedoms) than if he had to do it the usual way.

Look at the Signs

We are already seeing this as people are now screaming for Obama (notice its Obama, not the government, they are calling on) to do something to stop this pattern of “senseless” violence. Even if gun violence is going down and murder by other means is going up. The “people” are demanding more laws, tougher regulations…less freedoms.

Liberal legislators are already proposing a slew of new laws and regulations that will be addressed before any other pressing matter; like the deficit, taxes and unemployment. In their minds and that of the media, this senseless tragedy must be prevented in the future, so why wait?? The lack of a budget, record deficit and record high unemployment have been there for four years, they can wait another four years to be worked on. THIS is more important.

President Obama’s motto has always been “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste”. This is not a serious crisis. This is a GREAT crisis!

Connect the Dots

Obama has always been about one thing: Bigger government is better. A powerful government is best without any distractions, like voters…

Obama was born to, raised by and mentored by Socialists. It’s all he knows.

Every rule, regulation or law he has proposed, made happen or supported has been about expanding government, controlling lives and shrinking people’s ability to disagree.

Obama has always viewed the Constitution as a “Guideline for Dummies”. Since he is no dummy, he feels he doesn’t need it as a guideline. (see budget)

Now that the election is really over and main stream media has now been forced to focus on results rather than promises, they have discovered his flaws. Like his desire for more power.

With the media no longer fixed on the future of Hope and Change, people are starting to learn about Obama’s love for the UN’s ban on handguns and its desire to control all the militaries of the world. People are starting to openly talk and wonder about what really is planned for the next four years.

As the fiscal cliff gets near, people are starting to read the fine print and seeing all the little items that pertain to new powers granted to Obama and anyone who follows after…if he gets his way. They are starting to question his agenda, or lack of a publicly stated agenda.

Obama has realized that getting complete control of the spending, getting Congress to join him with the UN on handgun bans and giving final control of the US Military to the UN would be a hard fought public battle. So what’s needed is an incident that would pull America together and open the doors to do it all in one quick swoop but what would be big enough and so emotionally terrifying that the American people would openly allow all that to happen quickly and efficiently without question?? HMM….

• Wag The Dog – A great movie about the Clinton’s controlled the media and manipulated the voter’s

• 2016 Obama’s America - A great documentary that did what the news media forgot to do. To tell you who Barack Obama really is.

Ron Paul wraps 230 years of American History and political realities into one 48 minute farewell speech to Congress.  Making you feel like he was the only one there wh0 knew why The People elected him to serve there…  If only the rest of them would catch a clue to why we sent them there…  Especially the ones in the Senate!

The transcript of Ron Paul’s farewell address to Congress:

Farewell to Congress

This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I’ll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period. My goals in 1976 were the same as they are today: promote peace and prosperity by a strict adherence to the principles of individual liberty.

It was my opinion, that the course the U.S. embarked on in the latter part of the 20th Century would bring us a major financial crisis and engulf us in a foreign policy that would overextend us and undermine our national security.

To achieve the goals I sought, government would have had to shrink in size and scope, reduce spending, change the monetary system, and reject the unsustainable costs of policing the world and expanding the American Empire.

The problems seemed to be overwhelming and impossible to solve, yet from my view point, just following the constraints placed on the federal government by the Constitution would have been a good place to start.

How Much Did I Accomplish?

In many ways, according to conventional wisdom, my off-and-on career in Congress, from 1976 to 2012, accomplished very little. No named legislation, no named federal buildings or highways—thank goodness. In spite of my efforts, the government has grown exponentially, taxes remain excessive, and the prolific increase of incomprehensible regulations continues. Wars are constant and pursued without Congressional declaration, deficits rise to the sky, poverty is rampant and dependency on the federal government is now worse than any time in our history.

All this with minimal concerns for the deficits and unfunded liabilities that common sense tells us cannot go on much longer. A grand, but never mentioned, bipartisan agreement allows for the well-kept secret that keeps the spending going. One side doesn’t give up one penny on military spending, the other side doesn’t give up one penny on welfare spending, while both sides support the bailouts and subsidies for the banking and corporate elite. And the spending continues as the economy weakens and the downward spiral continues. As the government continues fiddling around, our liberties and our wealth burn in the flames of a foreign policy that makes us less safe.

The major stumbling block to real change in Washington is the total resistance to admitting that the country is broke. This has made compromising, just to agree to increase spending, inevitable since neither side has any intention of cutting spending.

The country and the Congress will remain divisive since there’s no “loot left to divvy up.”

Without this recognition the spenders in Washington will continue the march toward a fiscal cliff much bigger than the one anticipated this coming January.

I have thought a lot about why those of us who believe in liberty, as a solution, have done so poorly in convincing others of its benefits. If liberty is what we claim it is- the principle that protects all personal, social and economic decisions necessary for maximum prosperity and the best chance for peace- it should be an easy sell. Yet, history has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.

Authoritarianism vs. Liberty

If authoritarianism leads to poverty and war and less freedom for all individuals and is controlled by rich special interests, the people should be begging for liberty. There certainly was a strong enough sentiment for more freedom at the time of our founding that motivated those who were willing to fight in the revolution against the powerful British government.

During my time in Congress the appetite for liberty has been quite weak; the understanding of its significance negligible. Yet the good news is that compared to 1976 when I first came to Congress, the desire for more freedom and less government in 2012 is much greater and growing, especially in grassroots America. Tens of thousands of teenagers and college age students are, with great enthusiasm, welcoming the message of liberty.

I have a few thoughts as to why the people of a country like ours, once the freest and most prosperous, allowed the conditions to deteriorate to the degree that they have.

Freedom, private property, and enforceable voluntary contracts, generate wealth. In our early history we were very much aware of this. But in the early part of the 20th century our politicians promoted the notion that the tax and monetary systems had to change if we were to involve ourselves in excessive domestic and military spending. That is why Congress gave us the Federal Reserve and the income tax. The majority of Americans and many government officials agreed that sacrificing some liberty was necessary to carry out what some claimed to be “progressive” ideas. Pure democracy became acceptable.

They failed to recognized that what they were doing was exactly opposite of what the colonists were seeking when they broke away from the British.

Some complain that my arguments makes no sense, since great wealth and the standard of living improved for many Americans over the last 100 years, even with these new policies.

But the damage to the market economy, and the currency, has been insidious and steady. It took a long time to consume our wealth, destroy the currency and undermine productivity and get our financial obligations to a point of no return. Confidence sometimes lasts longer than deserved. Most of our wealth today depends on debt.

The wealth that we enjoyed and seemed to be endless, allowed concern for the principle of a free society to be neglected. As long as most people believed the material abundance would last forever, worrying about protecting a competitive productive economy and individual liberty seemed unnecessary.

The Age of Redistribution

This neglect ushered in an age of redistribution of wealth by government kowtowing to any and all special interests, except for those who just wanted to left alone. That is why today money in politics far surpasses money currently going into research and development and productive entrepreneurial efforts.

The material benefits became more important than the understanding and promoting the principles of liberty and a free market. It is good that material abundance is a result of liberty but if materialism is all that we care about, problems are guaranteed.

The crisis arrived because the illusion that wealth and prosperity would last forever has ended. Since it was based on debt and a pretense that debt can be papered over by an out-of-control fiat monetary system, it was doomed to fail. We have ended up with a system that doesn’t produce enough even to finance the debt and no fundamental understanding of why a free society is crucial to reversing these trends.

If this is not recognized, the recovery will linger for a long time. Bigger government, more spending, more debt, more poverty for the middle class, and a more intense scramble by the elite special interests will continue.

We Need an Intellectual Awakening

Without an intellectual awakening, the turning point will be driven by economic law. A dollar crisis will bring the current out-of-control system to its knees.

If it’s not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis we can expect a continuous and dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our liberties. Prosperity for a large middle class though will become an abstract dream.

This continuous move is no different than what we have seen in how our financial crisis of 2008 was handled. Congress first directed, with bipartisan support, bailouts for the wealthy. Then it was the Federal Reserve with its endless quantitative easing. If at first it doesn’t succeed try again; QE1, QE2, and QE3 and with no results we try QE indefinitely—that is until it too fails. There’s a cost to all of this and let me assure you delaying the payment is no longer an option. The rules of the market will extract its pound of flesh and it won’t be pretty.

The current crisis elicits a lot of pessimism. And the pessimism adds to less confidence in the future. The two feed on themselves, making our situation worse.

If the underlying cause of the crisis is not understood we cannot solve our problems. The issues of warfare, welfare, deficits, inflationism, corporatism, bailouts and authoritarianism cannot be ignored. By only expanding these policies we cannot expect good results.

Everyone claims support for freedom. But too often it’s for one’s own freedom and not for others. Too many believe that there must be limits on freedom. They argue that freedom must be directed and managed to achieve fairness and equality thus making it acceptable to curtail, through force, certain liberties.

Some decide what and whose freedoms are to be limited. These are the politicians whose goal in life is power. Their success depends on gaining support from special interests.

No More ‘isms’

The great news is the answer is not to be found in more “isms.” The answers are to be found in more liberty which cost so much less. Under these circumstances spending goes down, wealth production goes up, and the quality of life improves.

Just this recognition—especially if we move in this direction—increases optimism which in itself is beneficial. The follow through with sound policies are required which must be understood and supported by the people.

But there is good evidence that the generation coming of age at the present time is supportive of moving in the direction of more liberty and self-reliance. The more this change in direction and the solutions become known, the quicker will be the return of optimism.

Our job, for those of us who believe that a different system than the one that we have had for the last 100 years, has driven us to this unsustainable crisis, is to be more convincing that there is a wonderful, uncomplicated, and moral system that provides the answers. We had a taste of it in our early history. We need not give up on the notion of advancing this cause.

It worked, but we allowed our leaders to concentrate on the material abundance that freedom generates, while ignoring freedom itself. Now we have neither, but the door is open, out of necessity, for an answer. The answer available is based on the Constitution, individual liberty and prohibiting the use of government force to provide privileges and benefits to all special interests.

After over 100 years we face a society quite different from the one that was intended by the Founders. In many ways their efforts to protect future generations with the Constitution from this danger has failed. Skeptics, at the time the Constitution was written in 1787, warned us of today’s possible outcome. The insidious nature of the erosion of our liberties and the reassurance our great abundance gave us, allowed the process to evolve into the dangerous period in which we now live.

Dependency on Government Largesse

Today we face a dependency on government largesse for almost every need. Our liberties are restricted and government operates outside the rule of law, protecting and rewarding those who buy or coerce government into satisfying their demands. Here are a few examples:

• Undeclared wars are commonplace.

•  Welfare for the rich and poor is considered an entitlement.

•  The economy is overregulated, overtaxed and grossly distorted by a deeply flawed monetary system.

•  Debt is growing exponentially.

•  The Patriot Act and FISA legislation passed without much debate have resulted in a steady erosion of our 4th Amendment rights.

•  Tragically our government engages in preemptive war, otherwise known as aggression, with no complaints from the American people.

•  The drone warfare we are pursuing worldwide is destined to end badly for us as the hatred builds for innocent lives lost and the international laws flaunted. Once we are financially weakened and militarily challenged, there will be a lot resentment thrown our way.

•  It’s now the law of the land that the military can arrest American citizens, hold them indefinitely, without charges or a trial.

•  Rampant hostility toward free trade is supported by a large number in Washington.

•  Supporters of sanctions, currency manipulation and WTO trade retaliation, call the true free traders “isolationists.”

•  Sanctions are used to punish countries that don’t follow our orders.

•  Bailouts and guarantees for all kinds of misbehavior are routine.

•  Central economic planning through monetary policy, regulations and legislative mandates has been an acceptable policy.

Questions

•  Excessive government has created such a mess it prompts many questions:

•  Why are sick people who use medical marijuana put in prison?

•  Why does the federal government restrict the drinking of raw milk?

•  Why can’t Americans manufacture rope and other products from hemp?

•  Why are Americans not allowed to use gold and silver as legal tender as mandated by the Constitution?

•  Why is Germany concerned enough to consider repatriating their gold held by the FED for her in New York? Is it that the trust in the U.S. and dollar supremacy beginning to wane?

•  Why do our political leaders believe it’s unnecessary to thoroughly audit our own gold?

•  Why can’t Americans decide which type of light bulbs they can buy?

•  Why is the TSA permitted to abuse the rights of any American traveling by air?

•  Why should there be mandatory sentences—even up to life for crimes without victims—as our drug laws require?

•  Why have we allowed the federal government to regulate commodes in our homes?

•  Why is it political suicide for anyone to criticize AIPAC ?

•  Why haven’t we given up on the drug war since it’s an obvious failure and violates the people’s rights? Has nobody noticed that the authorities can’t even keep drugs out of the prisons? How can making our entire society a prison solve the problem?

•  Why do we sacrifice so much getting needlessly involved in border disputes and civil strife around the world and ignore the root cause of the most deadly border in the world-the one between Mexico and the US?

•  Why does Congress willingly give up its prerogatives to the Executive Branch?

•  Why does changing the party in power never change policy? Could it be that the views of both parties are essentially the same?

•  Why did the big banks, the large corporations, and foreign banks and foreign central banks get bailed out in 2008 and the middle class lost their jobs and their homes?

•  Why do so many in the government and the federal officials believe that creating money out of thin air creates wealth?

•  Why do so many accept the deeply flawed principle that government bureaucrats and politicians can protect us from ourselves without totally destroying the principle of liberty?

•  Why can’t people understand that war always destroys wealth and liberty?

•  Why is there so little concern for the Executive Order that gives the President authority to establish a “kill list,” including American citizens, of those targeted for assassination?

•  Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.

•  Why is it is claimed that if people won’t or can’t take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

•  Why did we ever give the government a safe haven for initiating violence against the people?

•  Why do some members defend free markets, but not civil liberties?

•  Why do some members defend civil liberties but not free markets? Aren’t they the same?

•  Why don’t more defend both economic liberty and personal liberty?

•  Why are there not more individuals who seek to intellectually influence others to bring about positive changes than those who seek power to force others to obey their commands?

•  Why does the use of religion to support a social gospel and preemptive wars, both of which requires authoritarians to use violence, or the threat of violence, go unchallenged? Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world great religions.

•  Why do we allow the government and the Federal Reserve to disseminate false information dealing with both economic and foreign policy?

•  Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority?

•  Why should anyone be surprised that Congress has no credibility, since there’s such a disconnect between what politicians say and what they do?

•  Is there any explanation for all the deception, the unhappiness, the fear of the future, the loss of confidence in our leaders, the distrust, the anger and frustration? Yes there is, and there’s a way to reverse these attitudes. The negative perceptions are logical and a consequence of bad policies bringing about our problems. Identification of the problems and recognizing the cause allow the proper changes to come easy.

Trust Yourself, Not the Government

Too many people have for too long placed too much confidence and trust in government and not enough in themselves. Fortunately, many are now becoming aware of the seriousness of the gross mistakes of the past several decades. The blame is shared by both political parties. Many Americans now are demanding to hear the plain truth of things and want the demagoguing to stop. Without this first step, solutions are impossible.

Seeking the truth and finding the answers in liberty and self-reliance promotes the optimism necessary for restoring prosperity. The task is not that difficult if politics doesn’t get in the way.

We have allowed ourselves to get into such a mess for various reasons.

Politicians deceive themselves as to how wealth is produced. Excessive confidence is placed in the judgment of politicians and bureaucrats. This replaces the confidence in a free society. Too many in high places of authority became convinced that only they, armed with arbitrary government power, can bring about fairness, while facilitating wealth production. This always proves to be a utopian dream and destroys wealth and liberty. It impoverishes the people and rewards the special interests who end up controlling both political parties.

It’s no surprise then that much of what goes on in Washington is driven by aggressive partisanship and power seeking, with philosophic differences being minor.

Economic Ignorance

Economic ignorance is commonplace. Keynesianism continues to thrive, although today it is facing healthy and enthusiastic rebuttals. Believers in military Keynesianism and domestic Keynesianism continue to desperately promote their failed policies, as the economy languishes in a deep slumber.

Supporters of all government edicts use humanitarian arguments to justify them.

Humanitarian arguments are always used to justify government mandates related to the economy, monetary policy, foreign policy, and personal liberty. This is on purpose to make it more difficult to challenge. But, initiating violence for humanitarian reasons is still violence. Good intentions are no excuse and are just as harmful as when people use force with bad intentions. The results are always negative.

The immoral use of force is the source of man’s political problems. Sadly, many religious groups, secular organizations, and psychopathic authoritarians endorse government initiated force to change the world. Even when the desired goals are well-intentioned—or especially when well-intentioned—the results are dismal. The good results sought never materialize. The new problems created require even more government force as a solution. The net result is institutionalizing government initiated violence and morally justifying it on humanitarian grounds.

This is the same fundamental reason our government uses force for invading other countries at will, central economic planning at home, and the regulation of personal liberty and habits of our citizens.

It is rather strange, that unless one has a criminal mind and no respect for other people and their property, no one claims it’s permissible to go into one’s neighbor’s house and tell them how to behave, what they can eat, smoke and drink or how to spend their money.

Yet, rarely is it asked why it is morally acceptable that a stranger with a badge and a gun can do the same thing in the name of law and order. Any resistance is met with brute force, fines, taxes, arrests, and even imprisonment. This is done more frequently every day without a proper search warrant.

No Government Monopoly over Initiating Violence

Restraining aggressive behavior is one thing, but legalizing a government monopoly for initiating aggression can only lead to exhausting liberty associated with chaos, anger and the breakdown of civil society. Permitting such authority and expecting saintly behavior from the bureaucrats and the politicians is a pipe dream. We now have a standing army of armed bureaucrats in the TSA, CIA, FBI, Fish and Wildlife, FEMA, IRS, Corp of Engineers, etc. numbering over 100,000. Citizens are guilty until proven innocent in the unconstitutional administrative courts.

Government in a free society should have no authority to meddle in social activities or the economic transactions of individuals. Nor should government meddle in the affairs of other nations. All things peaceful, even when controversial, should be permitted.

We must reject the notion of prior restraint in economic activity just we do in the area of free speech and religious liberty. But even in these areas government is starting to use a backdoor approach of political correctness to regulate speech-a dangerous trend. Since 9/11 monitoring speech on the internet is now a problem since warrants are no longer required.

The Proliferation of Federal Crimes

The Constitution established four federal crimes. Today the experts can’t even agree on how many federal crimes are now on the books—they number into the thousands. No one person can comprehend the enormity of the legal system—especially the tax code. Due to the ill-advised drug war and the endless federal expansion of the criminal code we have over 6 million people under correctional suspension, more than the Soviets ever had, and more than any other nation today, including China. I don’t understand the complacency of the Congress and the willingness to continue their obsession with passing more Federal laws. Mandatory sentencing laws associated with drug laws have compounded our prison problems.

The federal register is now 75,000 pages long and the tax code has 72,000 pages, and expands every year. When will the people start shouting, “enough is enough,” and demand Congress cease and desist.

Achieving Liberty

Liberty can only be achieved when government is denied the aggressive use of force. If one seeks liberty, a precise type of government is needed. To achieve it, more than lip service is required.

Two choices are available.

A government designed to protect liberty—a natural right—as its sole objective. The people are expected to care for themselves and reject the use of any force for interfering with another person’s liberty. Government is given a strictly limited authority to enforce contracts, property ownership, settle disputes, and defend against foreign aggression.

A government that pretends to protect liberty but is granted power to arbitrarily use force over the people and foreign nations. Though the grant of power many times is meant to be small and limited, it inevitably metastasizes into an omnipotent political cancer. This is the problem for which the world has suffered throughout the ages. Though meant to be limited it nevertheless is a 100% sacrifice of a principle that would-be-tyrants find irresistible. It is used vigorously—though incrementally and insidiously. Granting power to government officials always proves the adage that: “power corrupts.”

Once government gets a limited concession for the use of force to mold people habits and plan the economy, it causes a steady move toward tyrannical government. Only a revolutionary spirit can reverse the process and deny to the government this arbitrary use of aggression. There’s no in-between. Sacrificing a little liberty for imaginary safety always ends badly.

Today’s mess is a result of Americans accepting option #2, even though the Founders attempted to give us Option #1.

The results are not good. As our liberties have been eroded our wealth has been consumed. The wealth we see today is based on debt and a foolish willingness on the part of foreigners to take our dollars for goods and services. They then loan them back to us to perpetuate our debt system. It’s amazing that it has worked for this long but the impasse in Washington, in solving our problems indicate that many are starting to understand the seriousness of the world -wide debt crisis and the dangers we face. The longer this process continues the harsher the outcome will be.

The Financial Crisis Is a Moral Crisis

Many are now acknowledging that a financial crisis looms but few understand it’s, in reality, a moral crisis. It’s the moral crisis that has allowed our liberties to be undermined and permits the exponential growth of illegal government power. Without a clear understanding of the nature of the crisis it will be difficult to prevent a steady march toward tyranny and the poverty that will accompany it.

Ultimately, the people have to decide which form of government they want; option #1 or option #2. There is no other choice. Claiming there is a choice of a “little” tyranny is like describing pregnancy as a “touch of pregnancy.” It is a myth to believe that a mixture of free markets and government central economic planning is a worthy compromise. What we see today is a result of that type of thinking. And the results speak for themselves.

A Culture of Violence

American now suffers from a culture of violence. It’s easy to reject the initiation of violence against one’s neighbor but it’s ironic that the people arbitrarily and freely anoint government officials with monopoly power to initiate violence against the American people—practically at will.

Because it’s the government that initiates force, most people accept it as being legitimate. Those who exert the force have no sense of guilt. It is believed by too many that governments are morally justified in initiating force supposedly to “do good.” They incorrectly believe that this authority has come from the “consent of the people.” The minority, or victims of government violence never consented to suffer the abuse of government mandates, even when dictated by the majority. Victims of TSA excesses never consented to this abuse.

This attitude has given us a policy of initiating war to “do good,” as well. It is claimed that war, to prevent war for noble purposes, is justified. This is similar to what we were once told that: “destroying a village to save a village” was justified. It was said by a US Secretary of State that the loss of 500,000 Iraqis, mostly children, in the 1990s, as a result of American bombs and sanctions, was “worth it” to achieve the “good” we brought to the Iraqi people. And look at the mess that Iraq is in today.

Government use of force to mold social and economic behavior at home and abroad has justified individuals using force on their own terms. The fact that violence by government is seen as morally justified, is the reason why violence will increase when the big financial crisis hits and becomes a political crisis as well.

First, we recognize that individuals shouldn’t initiate violence, then we give the authority to government. Eventually, the immoral use of government violence, when things goes badly, will be used to justify an individual’s “right” to do the same thing. Neither the government nor individuals have the moral right to initiate violence against another yet we are moving toward the day when both will claim this authority. If this cycle is not reversed society will break down.

When needs are pressing, conditions deteriorate and rights become relative to the demands and the whims of the majority. It’s then not a great leap for individuals to take it upon themselves to use violence to get what they claim is theirs. As the economy deteriorates and the wealth discrepancies increase—as are already occurring— violence increases as those in need take it in their own hands to get what they believe is theirs. They will not wait for a government rescue program.

When government officials wield power over others to bail out the special interests, even with disastrous results to the average citizen, they feel no guilt for the harm they do. Those who take us into undeclared wars with many casualties resulting, never lose sleep over the death and destruction their bad decisions caused. They are convinced that what they do is morally justified, and the fact that many suffer just can’t be helped.

When the street criminals do the same thing, they too have no remorse, believing they are only taking what is rightfully theirs. All moral standards become relative. Whether it’s bailouts, privileges, government subsidies or benefits for some from inflating a currency, it’s all part of a process justified by a philosophy of forced redistribution of wealth. Violence, or a threat of such, is the instrument required and unfortunately is of little concern of most members of Congress.

Some argue it’s only a matter of “fairness” that those in need are cared for. There are two problems with this. First, the principle is used to provide a greater amount of benefits to the rich than the poor. Second, no one seems to be concerned about whether or not it’s fair to those who end up paying for the benefits. The costs are usually placed on the backs of the middle class and are hidden from the public eye. Too many people believe government handouts are free, like printing money out of thin air, and there is no cost. That deception is coming to an end. The bills are coming due and that’s what the economic slowdown is all about.

Sadly, we have become accustomed to living with the illegitimate use of force by government. It is the tool for telling the people how to live, what to eat and drink, what to read and how to spend their money.

To develop a truly free society, the issue of initiating force must be understood and rejected. Granting to government even a small amount of force is a dangerous concession.

 Limiting Government Excesses vs. a Virtuous Moral People

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed. The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

Most politicians and pundits are aware of the problems we face but spend all their time in trying to reform government. The sad part is that the suggested reforms almost always lead to less freedom and the importance of a virtuous and moral people is either ignored, or not understood. The new reforms serve only to further undermine liberty. The compounding effect has given us this steady erosion of liberty and the massive expansion of debt. The real question is: if it is liberty we seek, should most of the emphasis be placed on government reform or trying to understand what “a virtuous and moral people” means and how to promote it. The Constitution has not prevented the people from demanding handouts for both rich and poor in their efforts to reform the government, while ignoring the principles of a free society. All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.

If the people are unhappy with the government performance it must be recognized that government is merely a reflection of an immoral society that rejected a moral government of constitutional limitations of power and love of freedom.

If this is the problem all the tinkering with thousands of pages of new laws and regulations will do nothing to solve the problem.

It is self-evident that our freedoms have been severely limited and the apparent prosperity we still have, is nothing more than leftover wealth from a previous time. This fictitious wealth based on debt and benefits from a false trust in our currency and credit, will play havoc with our society when the bills come due. This means that the full consequence of our lost liberties is yet to be felt.

But that illusion is now ending. Reversing a downward spiral depends on accepting a new approach.

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections. We cannot expect a Federal government controlled school system to provide the intellectual ammunition to combat the dangerous growth of government that threatens our liberties.

The internet will provide the alternative to the government/media complex that controls the news and most political propaganda. This is why it’s essential that the internet remains free of government regulation.

Many of our religious institutions and secular organizations support greater dependency on the state by supporting war, welfare and corporatism and ignore the need for a virtuous people.

I never believed that the world or our country could be made more free by politicians, if the people had no desire for freedom.

Under the current circumstances the most we can hope to achieve in the political process is to use it as a podium to reach the people to alert them of the nature of the crisis and the importance of their need to assume responsibility for themselves, if it is liberty that they truly seek. Without this, a constitutionally protected free society is impossible.

If this is true, our individual goal in life ought to be for us to seek virtue and excellence and recognize that self-esteem and happiness only comes from using one’s natural ability, in the most productive manner possible, according to one’s own talents.

Productivity and creativity are the true source of personal satisfaction. Freedom, and not dependency, provides the environment needed to achieve these goals. Government cannot do this for us; it only gets in the way. When the government gets involved, the goal becomes a bailout or a subsidy and these cannot provide a sense of personal achievement.

Achieving legislative power and political influence should not be our goal. Most of the change, if it is to come, will not come from the politicians, but rather from individuals, family, friends, intellectual leaders and our religious institutions. The solution can only come from rejecting the use of coercion, compulsion, government commands, and aggressive force, to mold social and economic behavior. Without accepting these restraints, inevitably the consensus will be to allow the government to mandate economic equality and obedience to the politicians who gain power and promote an environment that smothers the freedoms of everyone. It is then that the responsible individuals who seek excellence and self-esteem by being self-reliance and productive, become the true victims.

Conclusion

What are the greatest dangers that the American people face today and impede the goal of a free society? There are five.

1. The continuous attack on our civil liberties which threatens the rule of law and our ability to resist the onrush of tyranny.

2. Violent anti-Americanism that has engulfed the world. Because the phenomenon of “blow-back” is not understood or denied, our foreign policy is destined to keep us involved in many wars that we have no business being in. National bankruptcy and a greater threat to our national security will result.

3. The ease in which we go to war, without a declaration by Congress, but accepting international authority from the UN or NATO even for preemptive wars, otherwise known as aggression.

4. A financial political crisis as a consequence of excessive debt, unfunded liabilities, spending, bailouts, and gross discrepancy in wealth distribution going from the middle class to the rich. The danger of central economic planning, by the Federal Reserve must be understood.

5. World government taking over local and US sovereignty by getting involved in the issues of war, welfare, trade, banking, a world currency, taxes, property ownership, and private ownership of guns.

Happily, there is an answer for these very dangerous trends.

What a wonderful world it would be if everyone accepted the simple moral premise of rejecting all acts of aggression. The retort to such a suggestion is always: it’s too simplistic, too idealistic, impractical, naïve, utopian, dangerous, and unrealistic to strive for such an ideal.

The answer to that is that for thousands of years the acceptance of government force, to rule over the people, at the sacrifice of liberty, was considered moral and the only available option for achieving peace and prosperity.

What could be more utopian than that myth—considering the results especially looking at the state sponsored killing, by nearly every government during the 20th Century, estimated to be in the hundreds of millions. It’s time to reconsider this grant of authority to the state.

No good has ever come from granting monopoly power to the state to use aggression against the people to arbitrarily mold human behavior. Such power, when left unchecked, becomes the seed of an ugly tyranny. This method of governance has been adequately tested, and the results are in: reality dictates we try liberty.

The idealism of non-aggression and rejecting all offensive use of force should be tried. The idealism of government sanctioned violence has been abused throughout history and is the primary source of poverty and war. The theory of a society being based on individual freedom has been around for a long time. It’s time to take a bold step and actually permit it by advancing this cause, rather than taking a step backwards as some would like us to do.

Today the principle of habeas corpus, established when King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215, is under attack. There’s every reason to believe that a renewed effort with the use of the internet that we can instead advance the cause of liberty by spreading an uncensored message that will serve to rein in government authority and challenge the obsession with war and welfare

What I’m talking about is a system of government guided by the moral principles of peace and tolerance.

The Founders were convinced that a free society could not exist without a moral people. Just writing rules won’t work if the people choose to ignore them. Today the rule of law written in the Constitution has little meaning for most Americans, especially those who work in Washington DC.

Benjamin Franklin claimed “only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.” John Adams concurred: “Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

A moral people must reject all violence in an effort to mold people’s beliefs or habits.

A society that boos or ridicules the Golden Rule is not a moral society. All great religions endorse the Golden Rule. The same moral standards that individuals are required to follow should apply to all government officials. They cannot be exempt.

The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government.

The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from family, friends and community.

The #1 responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow. This is of greater importance than working on changing the government; that is secondary to promoting a virtuous society. If we can achieve this, then the government will change.

It doesn’t mean that political action or holding office has no value. At times it does nudge policy in the right direction. But what is true is that when seeking office is done for personal aggrandizement, money or power, it becomes useless if not harmful. When political action is taken for the right reasons it’s easy to understand why compromise should be avoided. It also becomes clear why progress is best achieved by working with coalitions, which bring people together, without anyone sacrificing his principles.

Political action, to be truly beneficial, must be directed toward changing the hearts and minds of the people, recognizing that it’s the virtue and morality of the people that allow liberty to flourish.

The Constitution or more laws per se, have no value if the people’s attitudes aren’t changed.

To achieve liberty and peace, two powerful human emotions have to be overcome. Number one is “envy” which leads to hate and class warfare. Number two is “intolerance” which leads to bigoted and judgmental policies. These emotions must be replaced with a much better understanding of love, compassion, tolerance and free market economics. Freedom, when understood, brings people together. When tried, freedom is popular.

The problem we have faced over the years has been that economic interventionists are swayed by envy, whereas social interventionists are swayed by intolerance of habits and lifestyles. The misunderstanding that tolerance is an endorsement of certain activities, motivates many to legislate moral standards which should only be set by individuals making their own choices. Both sides use force to deal with these misplaced emotions. Both are authoritarians. Neither endorses voluntarism. Both views ought to be rejected.

I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out “the plain truth of things.” The best chance for achieving peace and prosperity, for the maximum number of people world-wide, is to pursue the cause of LIBERTY.

If you find this to be a worthwhile message, spread it throughout the land.

A reflection to a time when America was a country of people and we had leaders with integrity and a vision for OUR future.

Before Reverend Wright helped Obama divide the nation.

Before The New Black Panthers ere given protection by the Obama Administration to intimidate and suppress white voters

Before Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid decided that the Constitution did not need to be followed any longer

Before Bill Maher decided that Women were just Cunts and got a laugh from saying so.

No matter how hard he tried, Obama could not get anywhere in the election without calling up the man who leads the Democratic War Against Women. The man convicted of lying to a federal Judge about his molestation of an intern in the Oval Office. Bill Clinton. The man who takes lying to a whole new level and defines his party.

Although Clinton could learn a few things about cooking the books and making up facts, from Obama… Its Obama who could learn a few things from the Master of deception about getting people to believe his lies.

Clinton had never seen a lie he could not tell.  He could and can still lie without a teleprompter and make it look like he believed the lie himself.  That’s an act that Obama has yet to Master even after 7 years of continuous campaigning.

But than of course, Clinton could keep track of the lies because he had been doing it for so long.  Obama in comparison, has only been in the professional lying  game a few years, so he has not been able to figure out how to keep them all straight.

After spending 10 very painful, agonizing minutes in the Las Vegas field office for the Mitt Romney for President  campaign, I have to say that it looks like they gave up the battle before the battle even began.  We Will Lose in November.

We will lose, not because of the candidate. We will lose, not because of the message or the money.  Barack Obama will win because the marketing people behind Mitt Romney are complete idiots who think this is 1995.  We will lose to Obama for the same reason Obama won in 2008: Because of marketing.

Nevada is a Battleground State?

We are being told that Nevada is one of three battleground, win it or else, states.  If so, the office in Las Vegas did not get that message.  Or have no clue to what that means.  I’m figuring the latter. The people in charge of marketing Nevada for Romney have also not gotten the message. Or ignored it.

If we learned anything (and I thought we did) from the Obama win in 2008, was that marketing was important.  It was what made the public buy his lies and accept his coverup of his Marxist past.  It was marketing that made people buy the propaganda his party was spewing out.

The people marketing Romney in 2012, have absolutely no experience in the world of modern marketing.  From all outward signs, the marketing team is stuck in 1995 with no desire to get with the modern world.

Failing Marketing 101 (and every other marketing point)
After finally finding where the office is, I went to the nondescript strip mall and found it.  Than I had to figure out which of the three offices they occupy, was the main one and was the entrance. (hint: Proper signage…. It really works)

I was greeted by a young man carrying a laptop.  But after a few seconds I wondered why….  He asked what they could do for me or what I could do for them.  I had a question and an answer.  But his answer to question number one stopped me cold.  Followed by a second question that had me wondering where I was.

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My first question was on bumper stickers, display decals, etc… His answer:  Nope.  They will hopefully be delivered on Friday.  Can I come back then?? (answer: Nope, I’m there now)

Earth to Romney Campaign: There is a big Democratic event happening right now in North Carolina. Maybe you noticed it.   It would be a great idea to be prepared to counter that with Marketing Material while the event is going on!!  Not next week.

Three people came in while I was there, wanting the same thing and got the same message:  “Come back next week.  Ok??”

Second notice to Romney Campaign:  This is Vegas.  With three mouse clicks I could order 50,000 bumper stickers today and have them waiting for me in the office by 9am tomorrow.  Where are you ordering them from? Syria??

Than I asked about social media. Figuring maybe the Republican Party learned something from the Obama Campaign of 2008.  Nope.  Nothing.  Nada…  Its 1995 to this group.  Social what??  Whatever that is, it’s not their department or even area of expertise.  According to the staff here in Las Vegas, in a battleground state, we do door knocking.  That’s how you spread the message in 2012!!

I could not take the stupidity or the disappointment anymore and left.

Lessons Not Learned

If this is such an important state to win, why is the staff not supported like this is such an important location?  Why is the office not well equipped?  Why is this office not working working in the 21st century??

Why is marketing not a priority?? Does any of the Romney strategists remember 2008?  Did they not notice how Team Obama marketed the teleprompter reader?? Apparently not.

People don’t come back when you run out of an item.  We want it now.  Not next week.  In 1995, we were used to waiting and gave a little leeway on ordering.  But not in 2012. We go elsewhere if you don’t have it now.

Door knocking and neighborhood canvassing is your priority?  Really?  In Las Vegas?? While you are door knocking, I am stuck in traffic reading Obama loving bumper stickers and decals with no defense, listening to the drivel coming out of the convention in North Carolina. .

The only reason Harry Reid got reelected in 2010, was because the Unions bussed members to the polling places and promised to keep ICE away for one day.  Not because they canvassed the neighborhoods… Even with those tactics, he only won by a few votes….

Not that I would, but I am betting I could go into the Obama campaign office and they would hand me a list of Nevada for Obama bloggers and social media supporters.  Or at least point me in the direction to find them…  And they would have bumper stickers!!!

We want To Show Our Support

It is really difficult to show your support for a candidate when the official office for the candidate is running 20 years behind the time and feel its not that important of an issue.  The feeling I got from my trip to the office is this:  Why would anyone want to show individual signs of support?? What’s so big about Social Media??    Run some TV ads that people ignore and knock on doors of homes foreclosed upon by the Obama loving banks and mortgage institutes.  That’s how Romney win!  (Really??)

It’s Not Their Fault

Taking a line from Obama.  I know it’s not the fault of the office staff I encountered.  They are not properly supported by the marketing department or the campaign itself .  But they are the front line and should be better equipped to handle the issues and the situations. Even if its not the official line..

Yet, this is the Republican Party.  The party of the do’ers.  Mitt Romney is running on his experience in the business world.  Why didn’t any staff member fill in the blanks on their own? Why do they need the ok from the head office for basic campaign information or suggestions??  Why is the office not ran like a successful business? Or any business??

Unless someone farther up the food chain buys a clue real quick, the ground war you (the republican strategists) claim to be so important to the election,  will be lost to the Obama-noids…  To be out marketed (again) by these people is embarrassing…

President Obama said it himself:  That this coming election is one, if not THE most important elections in our lifetime.  That this election is not about voting for a person or a party.  but it is about voting for a path.  Two very different and opposing paths.

President Obama is Right

This is THE most important election in the last 100 years.  The results will forever change America. For better or for worse.

So wouldn’t be proper and right to know about the person who would be guiding us down that path? To know where he comes from on his views, his thoughts and his foundation?

The main stream media has made sure we know all about Mitt Romney.  Who he is, where he came from, who influenced him, what he studied where and for how long. We know how his Dad was a major influence and that meant we needed to know all about him and how he voted.   We even know about Mitt’s work life. Plus we know all about those around him.

But Obama.  We know nothing about him.  Where he came from on his thoughts, views and his foundation.  We know nothing about his real path to the White House.  Who was his influences, his early mentors.  What did he study, where he studied.  Everything we need to know why he thinks the way he does and what is his real agenda.  All of that information that the main stream media thought we needed to know about Mitt Romney,has been neglected about Barack Obama..  It’s all kept locked up and secured away from our view.  Without a peep or a protest from the media. Why?

It takes Dinesh D’Souuza just 90 minutes to tell us everything about the formative years of Barack Obama. Everything the media has been ignoring, is told in very candid and informed  ways.  ..

This is NOT an Anti-Obama smear campaign or a Republican propaganda movie (like several made for the DNC in 2008) But a well researched documentary that did in 90 minutes, what the mainstream media has refused to do in 5 years.  Connect the dots on why we elected a man nobody really knows,to be the most powerful man in the world (for now).  And what would happen if we allowed him 4 more years to have “more flexibility ‘ to unleash his true intentions on the American people/economy.

You can go into this movie with your guard up and your super-duper  BS radar detector on high alert, and it won’t go off.  This movie stays on path, does not get down and dirty.  Just looks at the facts, connects the dots and asks the questions we have been asking since day one:

Where does a man who lives in a country that has given him so much, get his hatred for that very same country??  Why does his words not match his actions or his abilities?  Who were his earliest influences and what role did they play in his election??  What is he hiding that is so bad, that he had all his important records sealed up?  Why race is so important to his power base.

Answering  the Biggest Question

The biggest question of the 2008 election and coronation of Barack Obama, is “How did the most educated country in the world, elect a man we knew almost nothing about?”

• The Movie stays on path:  The facts in where Barack Obama gets his thinking from.  His influences and mentors.
• The Movie is Documentary in style:  The facts and connecting the dots.
• The Movie does not get into the conspiracies or the myths and gossip.
• The Movie is from an immigrants point of view.  Coming to a country that has so much to offer, yet its leader wants to destroy it.  Why?? And is that true??

Why Everyone Needs to See this Movie

If an Obama supporter could put their bias down, open their ears and mind for ninety minutes and listen.. they would get a lot out of this movie.  For the conservatives and true Republicans, it answers lot of nagging questions about Obama and where he gets his ideas from.  What and who shaped him?  Where did he get his motivations?   Why did so many Americans get wrapped up into the packaging without ever looking in the package??   What would happen IF we gave him four more years?

What Would America Look Like in 2016 if Obama gets reelected??  

2016: Obama’s America – Love Him, Hate Him, You Don’t know him until you see the movie!

From The Website

2016 Obama’s America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man’s past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, “If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?”

Across the globe and in America, people in 2008 hungered for a leader who would unite and lift us from economic turmoil and war. True to America’s ideals, they invested their hope in a new kind of president, Barack Obama. What they didn’t know is that Obama is a man with a past, and in powerful ways that past defines him–who he is, how he thinks, and where he intends to take America and the world.

Immersed in exotic locales across four continents, best selling author Dinesh D’Souza races against time to find answers to Obama’s past and reveal where America will be in 2016. During this journey he discovers how Hope and Change became radically misunderstood, and identifies new flashpoints for hot wars in mankind’s greatest struggle. The journey moves quickly over the arc of the old colonial empires, into America’s empire of liberty, and we see the unfolding realignment of nations and the shape of the global future.

Emotionally engaging, 2016 Obama’s America will make you confounded and cheer as you discover the mysteries and answers to your greatest aspirations and worst fears.

When the news media elite talk about Newt Gingrich, they always bring up the fact that he is the “disgraced” former Speaker of the House. So if he was such awful and such a bad guy… An idiot by some media people, why then, does he always seem to one-up on the supposed enlightened media darlings who profess to be such worldly scholars and know it alls??