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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Education Today is lacking American Traditions



Education, Unions, State, Federal and Judicial Roles

Today I wanted to talk briefly about parent's roles in education and how we have gotten so far off the path to the greatest education in the world.

When I was growing up we still said the Pledge of Allegiance in school every morning, practiced memorizing the American's Creed, and sang the National Anthem almost everyday. It was during the age of the Soviet Missile threat, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Post Korean War America. We walked to local schools every morning and walked to church as well. We didn't have to lock our homes or cars, worry about crime everyday and night and the news was more uplifting. News anchor's and journalist's could spend more time doing a good job and telling you what was really important rather than just repeating themselves 60 time a day. Lots of things have changed. We used to go to school in two or three grade levels only, Kindergarten, then 1st and 2nd grades, then 3rd and 4th grades, then 5th and 6th grades all the way through 12th grade, each in their own building to keep us separated and closer to our own age groups to better connect each grade group to each other. This allowed more focused teaching and clearer minds in the learning process. It worked. It worked well enough to make my generation the ones who created the technology we us today, very well.

This was done before a Federal Education Department existed. It existed before the really big teacher's unions formed. It existed before the welfare state now known as the Great American Society. It existed when the parent teacher association was controlled by parents in local school systems not by the states or federal government. It worked because people new that a good basic education was essential to the success of the nation and it's people. It worked to create the greatest upper and middle class system in the world and helped every nation every in the world look up to us as the greatest nation in the world.

With all this talk today about making a college education free to all American's and most everyone else who isn't legally a naturalized American Citizen I have to ask myself where all of this has gone wrong.

Many colleges are brainwashing our children into believing America is a bad country, divided and faulted in every way, and doing it on our dime. These Teacher's, are wrong and have access to our kids on a daily basis, other hateful organizations also are taking advantage of your children to conduct social experiments with your college children and believe they have every right to do so. Even after they get caught doing it they are still teaching at these very same colleges.

Teacher's Unions have crippled most if not every school system into paying outrageous sums of money just to comply with new state and federal laws passed in the 35 years or so. They cannot be fired in some states even if they commit a felony offense, and most people don't know it. Teachers unions have allowed some of the worst teachers to continue to neglect, abuse directly or indirectly or otherwise cause a detrimental loss of knowledge to be passed onto our children. Principals and Administrator's can't be fired as well because they are also part of the union. The unions which are failing in the auto industry are not being observed by the teacher's union, they are next. We need to eliminate the teacher's unions and return education to the parents. We need to remove the state's and Federal government's restrictions from our children's education.


In Short, Get government out of our schools and give mine and your children the local education they deserve and for far less dollars than they currently have to spend on them. We've done this before and must do it again. Community schools controlled by parents not teachers, not state's and not the federal government. We have learned all to well that government's can't fix problems they can only subsidize them. Talk to your local elected official's and try having a discussion about education with them and you will see how large the problem is, and what their attitude about the conversation is. Watch out and don't get blind sided by nice words. Ask tough questions and expect complete answers and sentences. Don't be put off without telling them you intend to ask more questions of other elected representatives and expect action when it comes to your children's education or you'll act soundly to vote against them if they don't act as you see fit.

Church and State are separated by law but our children are not owned by the government as they would have you believe. We can teach them prayer and expect teacher's to honor our values instead of condemning our children and us with their anti religious actions. Neither should be allow judges to pass down edicts preventing us from our right to religious families being allowed to practice our religion at home and in public. They have acted with out our vote on so many matter's believing us to be to weak to rebuke them. Their time is coming when we will set the laws so that our voice's count once again, and greatly. Too many organizations are acting to violate the elections at so many levels we must ensure that we vote at every opportunity, and with loud voices tell the government what we expect them to do, not the other way around.


THE AMERICAN'S CREED
I BELIEVE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE; WHOSE JUST POWERS ARE DERIVED FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED; A DEMOCRACY IN A REPUBLIC, A SOVEREIGN NATION OF MANY SOVEREIGN STATES; A PERFECT UNION, ONE AND INSEPARABLE; ESTABLISHED UPON THOSE PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM, EQUALITY, JUSTICE, AND HUMANITY FOR WHICH AMERICAN PATRIOTS SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES AND FORTUNES.
I THEREFORE BELIEVE IT IS MY DUTY TO MY COUNTRY TO LOVE IT, TO SUPPORT ITS CONSTITUTION; TO OBEY ITS LAWS; TO RESPECT ITS FLAG; AND TO DEFEND IT AGAINST ALL ENEMIES.



The Pledge of Allegiance
I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, Ah men.


Feel free to comment about this topic and let other's know how you feel as well.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Demonstrated Bad Behavior Everywhere!




Many Islamic nation's this day have demonstrated bad behavior internationally. So also have Asian nation's, such as North Korea, and yes China. They have been carrying out cyberspace attacks against American assets, they have refused to obey international treaties so on and so forth, with not any real reaction other than words from the U.S. President. Yes we have been weakened by this new president in the international communities even with his popularity. That should tell American's something clear.


The rest of the world doesn't care if we love him or hate him, they have chosen to ignore him!


President Barrack H. Obama has forgotten that extremism in the defense of liberty, is not vice.


From a mere 172 years ago, a statement by a Democratic president—Martin Van Buren—on the constitutional limitations on American government. Somehow it struck a chord:


All communities are apt to look to government for too much. Even in our own country, where its powers and duties are so strictly limited, we are prone to do so, especially at periods of sudden embarrassment and distress. But this ought not to be. The framers of our excellent Constitution and the people who approved it with calm and sagacious deliberation acted at the time on a sounder principle. They wisely judged that the less government interferes with private pursuits the better for the general prosperity. It is not its legitimate object to make men rich or to repair by direct grants of money or legislation in favor of particular pursuits losses not incurred in the public service. This would be substantially to use the property of some for the benefit of others. But its real duty—that duty the performance of which makes a good government the most precious of human blessings—is to enact and enforce a system of general laws commensurate with, but not exceeding, the objects of its establishment, and to leave every citizen and every interest to reap under its benign protection the rewards of virtue, industry, and prudence.


Now we are talking about truth commission's and all sorts of ineffective committee meetings surrounding what we already know the truth about. The Speaker is inept, incompetent and continually hanging herself at every turn of the tongue. First we have Speaker Pelosi saying, absolutely no, no one told me they were going to water board anyone. Doing so in front of the national media. Calls to have the briefing minute's declassified and make public get quashed, not a very open government reaction. I have been in some of the type of briefings given to the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, so I know exactly what has to be presented to legislator's when government intelligence officer's brief Congress and Senate personnel. She obviously lied to the media to create a storm crisis with which to push for hearings and prosecutions for any she would choose from the Bush era Lawyer's who got grilled by her an other's. But this was going to backlash on Speaker Pelosi fast. As we have seen, it has once again been put in the hands of President Obama. Waiting for Obama to decide what to declassify if anything at all.


Then we have the Ex-Vice President, Dick Chaney, still taking up the charge of defending his honor in light of the double speak the White house and Congress is using to continue to blame Bush for all the current White house troubles, ie. Budget, war and economy. They just can't seem to understand we already know the truth and so does 75% of the rest of the country, they own this mess now and will have to answer for it in just one short year. The current Administration has made so many changes to the government and the free market system already that they owned the mess in under 90 days from our new president taking the oath of office.


Main stream media is still shell shocked after more than 700 days after Obama jumped into the fray, and is unable to form a real hard question for our new president yet. Neither have they been able to portray that they are really acting the part of journalist and not Obama's personal media slaves. Jumping at the chance to work for the anointed one. This president has been so far the most left moving in American history. Far exceeding anyone's dreamed of power grabs. Reaching all the way to the root's of our founding principals. Obama has certainly proven that he views the U.S. Constitution an impediment to his plans and has acted already to break down the carefully crafted lines dividing Government from Private Sector responsibilities by waving contractual law, bullying companies, lawyer's. Pressuring the private sector with the power of the White house in order to effect the changes Obama wants. Destroying jobs at a massive rate while replacing them with lower paying jobs or government jobs or worse yet no jobs. Millions of new American's joining the ranks of the newly unemployed, and all of this is due to the Helter Skelter, Clock Work Orange mentality of the current administration acting with out openly discussing the plans with the private sector in order to create more confusion adding to the continuing loss of jobs for hard working American's.


The press core is still goo-goo eyed when the President speaks but the networks are loosing at least 30 million dollars each time he holds a Presidential Press Conference in prime time slots. They are loosing some of their interest in covering the anointed one finally. Now let's watch and see if they develop a back bone, asking the hard questions about foreign policy and the economy and please remember to check the pending legislation the the congress is developing. Remember now that the budget has been passed, it's got to start hitting the books, that will show less IRS revenue's being taken in than estimated will cause shortfalls in many area's. Also the federal reserve pumping out over 3.55 trillion dollars into the world market is also starting to cause inflation of all goods and services while also causing the expected deflation of the dollar so that working and retired American's hard earned dollars will by even less. And don't think the democrats are done with you even after you die, they will take even larger chunk of change in the death tax from you or your spouse.


Think this is all they are planning to do, oh no. They have even bigger plans, the cap and trade programs will be passed sooner than the pundit's think and the companies will instantly pass it on to the consumer. That's you and me. Let's see now, if you make less than $250K per year your taxes will not go up, you should see more money this year in your paycheck, if your unemployed they will add $25 to your unemployment check each week for 26 weeks, then you can apply for more government aid, and the repealing of the Bush tax cuts will happen at the end of the year as well, so that will mean less money in your check then and no more stimulus money left for you to get so tough luck if the economy doesn't fix it's self by then. This is looking like next Christmas will be a bust for even more retail companies than last year.


Super duper Government Motors is now going to positively enter bankruptcy this year so their goes all our tax payer bailout of the private sector companies, Chrysler was stolen and given to Fiat. The only Automobile company still viable is FORD. So watch for about 1000 Car dealerships to close their doors before the end of the year. This will also flood the unemployment market as there are hundred's of jobs for each dealership that closes. Ours woe's are not even close to over yet, What about all those low income people who bought cars they couldn't afford. They will be foisted into the bankruptcy for those companies who financed the purchases and we'll pay for that as well even under the government backed financing programs in place for the Government controlled Companies and Banks.


This is not even close to a joke. The business as usual statement is not ever going to be used again to describe current event's in the private sector. This Administration has flip flopped the entire rule book leaving all of us who aided our bills and did the right thing the hard things that are not always popular are really going to pay for all of this Presidents far reaching plans to redistribute our hard earned wealth to those who did not work hard to earn our kind of money. The people the president wants to give our money to are primarily the underclass Black American who has been on or in the welfare system since birth or longer and we all know that the government doesn't fix problems like this it makes them worse.


So now we have a president that wants to destroy the class system in America and make all of us poor to even the playing field for his life long desire to fit in with the Black American's because he emotes that he is only Kenyan Black and American White so he is really mulatto. A half and half. And Really that is the truth for most Black American's in the US. today anyway, so why the big hurry to take all the hard working peoples money away from them and give it to the half black and half white community of Black American's. Is it his form of reparation's to be paid to the black communities with out a real vote from the rest of America? I think so. You may also, but with the left wing media machine watching everything you say or print you may suffer attacks at any given instant for doing nothing more than telling the truth that no one what to hear out loud or in print even thou it needs to be said.


So in the current news we find that black American's are now boycotting white owned business's. Fox News report's that this movement is starting to take hold, I've inserted the link below for you to read.



African-American family vows to shop only at black-owned businesses, calls it 'Empowerment Experiment'


This President is bringing to the forefront what we already knew, blacks overall in America do not want to end racism, they want to promote it, continue it so that they will always have a crutch to lean on. It is not a good thing for American that the black communities want to continue to promote this kind of racism and instill it in the next generation of youth as well. We all need to find another way to help balance the systems being used today that have caused such a different lifestyle for them in the first place. This is American, and we have serious problems and need serious people to solve them and this president isn't interested in any way in solving any of these issues, so we the people will have to force the government to change to get the real issues addressed and solved. The Government will have to get out of the way in order for this to happen. If anyone disagrees with me say so. But I believe we can find the right way to end the welfare state and return pride and liberty to the black and Hispanic communities in the country without giving away the bank.


Now we celebrate Memorial Day, this 25th day of May, 2009, with a President who has not served other than in his own communities and believes he has what it takes to run this country. He has run it! Aground, industrially, fiscally, and personally. He has thus far only produced jobs for government and caused business's all over the U.S. and abroad to fail due to his bullying weak men in high places to do the wrong things. This president has only done the wrong thing from the very beginning and will continue this path until we install another who has proven his metal prior to being elected. No more community organizer's, no more activist's, no more liberals, no more listless politician's should be offered up to the people for such a high office who believe the Constitution should be an impediment to their plans.


We watch government grow and private jobs disappear just because of the the new brown shirts being raised by a new government left wing which want to brainwash your son's and daughter's to server a greater good, which is not the America we grew up knowing and honoring. Today they can't say the Pledge of Allegiance in our schools because it called a prayer, Nor can we allow the youth to learn the American's Creed. We have been forced to not teach Americanism to our children by left wing activist's who have long labored for a chance to rise to power as they have today.

I would like to take this opportunity to also start the education debate. The current government believe's that education of the people belongs in the hands of the government. I do not! Schools started long before everyone wanted to go to college or had to go to make it in America. So get your thinking hats on as we start this new debate next.

I'll leave you with this famous quote: “It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” - Ronald Reagan

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Manufactured Crisis

By James Simpson

America waits with bated breath while Washington struggles to bring the U.S. economy back from the brink of disaster. But many of those same politicians caused the crisis, and if left to their own devices will do so again.

Despite the mass media news blackout, a series of books, talk radio and the blogosphere have managed to expose Barack Obama's connections to his radical mentors -- Weather Underground bombers William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis and others. David Horowitz and his Discover the Networks.org have also contributed a wealth of information and have noted Obama's radical connections since the beginning.

Yet, no one to my knowledge has yet connected all the dots between Barack Obama and the Radical Left. When seen together, the influences on Obama's life comprise a who's who of the radical leftist movement, and it becomes painfully apparent that not only is Obama a willing participant in that movement, he has spent most of his adult life deeply immersed in it.
But even this doesn't fully describe the extreme nature of this candidate. He can be tied directly to a malevolent overarching strategy that has motivated many, if not all, of the most destructive radical leftist organizations in the United States since the 1960s.

The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis

In an earlier post, I noted the liberal record of unmitigated legislative disasters, the latest of which is now being played out in the financial markets before our eyes. Before the 1994 Republican takeover, Democrats had sixty years of virtually unbroken power in Congress - with substantial majorities most of the time. Can a group of smart people, studying issue after issue for years on end, with virtually unlimited resources at their command, not come up with a single policy that works? Why are they chronically incapable? Why?

One of two things must be true. Either the Democrats are unfathomable idiots, who ignorantly pursue ever more destructive policies despite decades of contrary evidence, or they understand the consequences of their actions and relentlessly carry on anyway because they somehow benefit.

I submit to you they understand the consequences. For many it is simply a practical matter of eliciting votes from a targeted constituency at taxpayer expense; we lose a little, they gain a lot, and the politician keeps his job. But for others, the goal is more malevolent - the failure is deliberate. Don't laugh. This method not only has its proponents, it has a name: the Cloward-Piven Strategy. It describes their agenda, tactics, and long-term strategy.

The Strategy was first elucidated in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as:

The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Cloward and Piven were inspired by radical organizer [and Hillary Clinton mentor] Saul Alinsky:
"Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one. (Courtesy Discover the Networks.org)

Newsmax rounds out the picture:

Their strategy to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about a change in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth.

In their Nation article, Cloward and Piven were specific about the kind of "crisis" they were trying to create:

By crisis, we mean a publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere. Crisis can occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstration and protest which either generate institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to public attention.
No matter where the strategy is implemented, it shares the following features:

The offensive organizes previously unorganized groups eligible for government benefits but not currently receiving all they can.

The offensive seeks to identify new beneficiaries and/or create new benefits.
The overarching aim is always to impose new stresses on target systems, with the ultimate goal of forcing their collapse.

Capitalizing on the racial unrest of the 1960s, Cloward and Piven saw the welfare system as their first target. They enlisted radical black activist George Wiley, who created the National Welfare Reform Organization (NWRO) to implement the strategy. Wiley hired militant foot soldiers to storm welfare offices around the country, violently demanding their "rights." According to a City Journal article by Sol Stern, welfare rolls increased from 4.3 million to 10.8 million by the mid-1970s as a result, and in New York City, where the strategy had been particularly successful, "one person was on the welfare rolls... for every two working in the city's private economy."
According to another City Journal article titled "Compassion Gone Mad":

The movement's impact on New York City was jolting: welfare caseloads, already climbing 12 percent a year in the early sixties, rose by 50 percent during Lindsay's first two years; spending doubled... The city had 150,000 welfare cases in 1960; a decade later it had 1.5 million.

The vast expansion of welfare in New York City that came of the NWRO's Cloward-Piven tactics sent the city into bankruptcy in 1975. Rudy Giuliani cited Cloward and Piven by name as being responsible for "an effort at economic sabotage." He also credited Cloward-Piven with changing the cultural attitude toward welfare from that of a temporary expedient to a lifetime entitlement, an attitude which in-and-of-itself has caused perhaps the greatest damage of all.
Cloward and Piven looked at this strategy as a gold mine of opportunity. Within the newly organized groups, each offensive would find an ample pool of foot soldier recruits willing to advance its radical agenda at little or no pay, and expand its base of reliable voters, legal or otherwise. The radicals' threatening tactics also would accrue an intimidating reputation, providing a wealth of opportunities for extorting monetary and other concessions from the target organizations. In the meantime, successful offensives would create an ever increasing drag on society. As they gleefully observed:

Moreover, this kind of mass influence is cumulative because benefits are continuous. Once eligibility for basic food and rent grants is established, the drain on local resources persists indefinitely.

The next time you drive through one of the many blighted neighborhoods in our cities, or read of the astronomical crime, drug addiction, and out-of-wedlock birth rates, or consider the failed schools, strapped police and fire resources of every major city, remember Cloward and Piven's thrill that "...the drain on local resources persists indefinitely."

ACORN, the new tip of the Cloward-Piven spear

In 1970, one of George Wiley's protégés, Wade Rathke -- like Bill Ayers, a member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) -- was sent to found the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now. While NWRO had made a good start, it alone couldn't accomplish the Cloward-Piven goals. Rathke's group broadened the offensive to include a wide array of low income "rights." Shortly thereafter they changed "Arkansas" to "Association of" and ACORN went nationwide.

Today ACORN is involved in a wide array of activities, including housing, voting rights, illegal immigration and other issues. According to ACORN's website: "ACORN is the nation's largest grassroots community organization of low-and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the country," It is perhaps the largest radical group in the U.S. and has been cited for widespread criminal activity on many fronts.

Voting

On voting rights, ACORN and its voter mobilization subsidiary, Project Vote, have been involved nationwide in efforts to grant felons the vote and lobbied heavily for the Motor Voter Act of 1993, a law allowing people to register at motor vehicle departments, schools, libraries and other public places. That law had been sought by Cloward and Piven since the early1980s and they were present, standing behind President Clinton at the signing ceremony.
ACORN's voter rights tactics follow the Cloward-Piven Strategy:

1. Register as many Democrat voters as possible, legal or otherwise and help them vote, multiple times if possible.
2. Overwhelm the system with fraudulent registrations using multiple entries of the same name, names of deceased, random names from the phone book, even contrived names.
3. Make the system difficult to police by lobbying for minimal identification standards.
In this effort, ACORN sets up registration sites all over the country and has been frequently cited for turning in fraudulent registrations, as well as destroying republican applications. In the 2004-2006 election cycles alone, ACORN was accused of widespread voter fraud in 12 states. It may have swung the election for one state governor.

ACORN's website brags: "Since 2004, ACORN has helped more than 1.7 million low- and moderate-income and minority citizens apply to register to vote." Project vote boasts 4 million. I wonder how many of them are dead? For the 2008 cycle, ACORN and Project Vote have pulled out all the stops. Given their furious nationwide effort, it is not inconceivable that this presidential race could be decided by fraudulent votes alone.

Barack Obama ran ACORN's Project Vote in Chicago and his highly successful voter registration drive was credited with getting the disgraced former Senator Carol Moseley-Braun elected. Newsmax reiterates Cloward and Piven's aspirations for ACORN's voter registration efforts:
By advocating massive, no-holds-barred voter registration campaigns, they [Cloward & Piven] sought a Democratic administration in Washington, D.C. that would re-distribute the nation's wealth and lead to a totalitarian socialist state.

Illegal Immigration

As I have written elsewhere, the Radical Left's offensive to promote illegal immigration is "Cloward-Piven on steroids." ACORN is at the forefront of this movement as well, and was a leading organization among a broad coalition of radical groups, including Soros' Open Society Institute, the Service Employees International Union (ACORN founder Wade Rathke also runs a SEIU chapter), and others, that became the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. CCIR fortunately failed to gain passage for the 2007 illegal immigrant amnesty bill, but its goals have not changed.

The burden of illegal immigration on our already overstressed welfare system has been widely documented. Some towns in California have even been taken over by illegal immigrant drug cartels. The disease, crime and overcrowding brought by illegal immigrants places a heavy burden on every segment of society and every level of government, threatening to split this country apart at the seams. In the meantime, radical leftist efforts to grant illegal immigrants citizenship guarantee a huge pool of new democrat voters. With little border control, terrorists can also filter in.

Obama aided ACORN as their lead attorney in a successful suit he brought against the Illinois state government to implement the Motor Voter law there. The law had been resisted by Republican Governor Jim Edgars, who feared the law was an opening to widespread vote fraud.
His fears were warranted as the Motor Voter law has since been cited as a major opportunity for vote fraud, especially for illegal immigrants, even terrorists. According to the Wall Street Journal: "After 9/11, the Justice Department found that eight of the 19 hijackers were registered to vote..."

ACORN's dual offensives on voting and illegal immigration are handy complements. Both swell the voter rolls with reliable democrats while assaulting the country ACORN seeks to destroy with overwhelming new problems.

Mortgage Crisis

And now we have the mortgage crisis, which has sent a shock wave through Wall Street and panicked world financial markets like no other since the stock market crash of 1929. But this is a problem created in Washington long ago. It originated with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), signed into law in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. The CRA was Carter's answer to a grassroots activist movement started in Chicago, and forced banks to make loans to low income, high risk customers. PhD economist and former Texas Senator Phil Gramm has called it: "a vast extortion scheme against the nation's banks."

ACORN aggressively sought to expand loans to low income groups using the CRA as a whip. Economist Stan Leibowitz wrote in the New York Post:

In the 1980s, groups such as the activists at ACORN began pushing charges of "redlining"-claims that banks discriminated against minorities in mortgage lending. In 1989, sympathetic members of Congress got the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act amended to force banks to collect racial data on mortgage applicants; this allowed various studies to be ginned up that seemed to validate the original accusation.

In fact, minority mortgage applications were rejected more frequently than other applications-but the overwhelming reason wasn't racial discrimination, but simply that minorities tend to have weaker finances.

ACORN showed its colors again in 1991, by taking over the House Banking Committee room for two days to protest efforts to scale back the CRA. Obama represented ACORN in the Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank, 1994 suit against redlining. Most significant of all, ACORN was the driving force behind a 1995 regulatory revision pushed through by the Clinton Administration that greatly expanded the CRA and laid the groundwork for the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac borne financial crisis we now confront. Barack Obama was the attorney representing ACORN in this effort. With this new authority, ACORN used its subsidiary, ACORN Housing, to promote subprime loans more aggressively.

As a New York Post article describes it:

A 1995 strengthening of the Community Reinvestment Act required banks to find ways to provide mortgages to their poorer communities. It also let community activists intervene at yearly bank reviews, shaking the banks down for large pots of money.Banks that got poor reviews were punished; some saw their merger plans frustrated; others faced direct legal challenges by the Justice Department.

Flexible lending programs expanded even though they had higher default rates than loans with traditional standards. On the Web, you can still find CRA loans available via ACORN with "100 percent financing . . . no credit scores . . . undocumented income . . . even if you don't report it on your tax returns." Credit counseling is required, of course.

Ironically, an enthusiastic Fannie Mae Foundation report singled out one paragon of nondiscriminatory lending, which worked with community activists and followed "the most flexible underwriting criteria permitted." That lender's $1 billion commitment to low-income loans in 1992 had grown to $80 billion by 1999 and $600 billion by early 2003.
The lender they were speaking of was Countrywide, which specialized in subprime lending and had a working relationship with ACORN.

Investor's Business Daily added:

The revisions also allowed for the first time the securitization of CRA-regulated loans containing subprime mortgages. The changes came as radical "housing rights" groups led by ACORN lobbied for such loans. ACORN at the time was represented by a young public-interest lawyer in Chicago by the name of Barack Obama. (Emphasis, mine.)

Since these loans were to be underwritten by the government sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the implicit government guarantee of those loans absolved lenders, mortgage bundlers and investors of any concern over the obvious risk. As Bloomberg reported: "It is a classic case of socializing the risk while privatizing the profit."

And if you think Washington policy makers cared about ACORN's negative influence, think again. Before this whole mess came down, a Democrat-sponsored bill on the table would have created an "Affordable Housing Trust Fund," granting ACORN access to approximately $500 million in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac revenues with little or no oversight.

Even now, unbelievably -- on the brink of national disaster -- Democrats have insisted ACORN benefit from bailout negotiations! Senator Lindsay Graham reported last night (9/25/08) in an interview with Greta Van Susteren of On the Record that Democrats want 20 percent of the bailout money to go to ACORN!

This entire fiasco represents perhaps the pinnacle of ACORN's efforts to advance the Cloward-Piven Strategy and is a stark demonstration of the power they wield in Washington.

Enter Barack Obama

In attempting to capture the significance of Barack Obama's Radical Left connections and his relation to the Cloward Piven strategy, I constructed following flow chart. It is by no means complete. There are simply too many radical individuals and organizations to include them all here. But these are perhaps the most significant.

































The chart puts Barack Obama at the epicenter of an incestuous stew of American radical leftism. Not only are his connections significant, they practically define who he is. Taken together, they constitute a who's who of the American radical left, and guiding all is the Cloward-Piven strategy.
Conspicuous in their absence are any connections at all with any other group, moderate, or even mildly leftist. They are all radicals, firmly bedded in the anti-American, communist, socialist, radical leftist mesh.

Saul Alinsky

Most people are unaware that Barack Obama received his training in "community organizing" from Saul Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation. But he did. In and of itself that marks his heritage and training as that of a radical activist. One really needs go no further. But we have.

Bill Ayers

Obama objects to being associated with SDS bomber Bill Ayers, claiming he is being smeared with "guilt by association." But they worked together at the Woods Fund. The Wall Street Journal added substantially to our knowledge by describing in great detail Obama's work over five years with SDS bomber Bill Ayers on the board of a non-profit, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, to push a radical agenda on public school children. As Stanley Kurtz states:
"...the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr.

Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago."

Also included in the mix is Theresa Heinz Kerry's favorite charity, the Tides Foundation. A partial list of Tides grants tells you all you need to know: ACLU, ACORN, Center for American Progress, Center for Constitutional Rights (a communist front,) CAIR, Earth Justice, Institute for Policy Studies (KGB spy nest), National Lawyers Guild (oldest communist front in U.S.), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and practically every other radical group there is. ACORN's Wade Rathke runs a Tides subsidiary, the Tides Center.

Carl Davidson and the New Party

We have heard about Bomber Bill, but we hear little about fellow SDS member Carl Davidson. According to Discover the Networks, Davidson was an early supporter of Barack Obama and a prominent member of Chicago's New Party, a synthesis of CPUSA members, Socialists, ACORN veterans and other radicals. Obama sought and received the New Party's endorsement, and they assisted with his campaign. The New Party also developed a strong relationship with ACORN. As an excellent article on the New Party observes: "Barack Obama knew what he was getting into and remains an ideal New Party candidate."

George Soros

The chart also suggests the reason for George Soros' fervent support of Obama. The President of his Open Society Institute is Aryeh Neier, founder of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). As mentioned above, three other former SDS members had extensive contact with Obama: Bill Ayers, Carl Davidson and Wade Rathke. Surely Aryeh Neier would have heard from his former colleagues of the promising new politician. More to the point, Neier is firmly committed to supporting the hugely successful radical organization, ACORN, and would be certain back their favored candidate, Barack Obama.

ACORN

Obama has spent a large portion of his professional life working for ACORN or its subsidiaries, representing ACORN as a lawyer on some of its most critical issues, and training ACORN leaders. Stanley Kurtz's excellent National Review article, "Inside Obama's Acorn." also describes Obama's ACORN connection in detail. But I can't improve on Obama's own words:
I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career (emphasis added). Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work. - Barack Obama, Speech to ACORN, November 2007 (Courtesy Newsmax.)

In another excellent article on Obama's ACORN connections, Newsmax asks a nagging question:
It would be telling to know if Obama, during his years at Columbia, had occasion to meet Cloward and study the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

I ask you, is it possible ACORN would train Obama to take leadership positions within ACORN without telling him what he was training for? Is it possible ACORN would put Obama in leadership positions without clueing him into what his purpose was?? Is it possible that this most radical of organizations would put someone in charge of training its trainers, without him knowing what it was he was training them for?

As a community activist for ACORN; as a leadership trainer for ACORN; as a lead organizer for ACORN's Project Vote; as an attorney representing ACORN's successful efforts to impose Motor Voter regulations in Illinois; as ACORN's representative in lobbying for the expansion of high risk housing loans through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that led to the current crisis; as a recipient of their assistance in his political campaigns -- both with money and campaign workers; it is doubtful that he was unaware of ACORN's true goals. It is doubtful he was unaware of the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

Fast-forward to 2005 when an obsequious, servile and scraping Daniel Mudd, CEO of Fannie Mae spoke at the Congressional Black Caucus swearing in ceremony for newly-elected Illinois Senator, Barack Obama. Mudd called, the Congressional Black Caucus "our family" and "the conscience of Fannie Mae."

In 2005, Republicans sought to rein in Fannie and Freddie. Senator John McCain was at the forefront of that effort. But it failed due to an intense lobbying effort put forward by Fannie and Freddie.

In his few years as a U.S. senator, Obama has received campaign contributions of $126,349, from Fannie and Freddie, second only to the $165,400 received by Senator Chris Dodd, who has been getting donations from them since 1988. What makes Obama so special?

His closest advisers are a dirty laundry list of individuals at the heart of the financial crisis: former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson; Former Fannie Mae CEO and former Clinton Budget Director Frank Raines; and billionaire failed Superior Bank of Chicago Board Chair Penny Pritzker.

Johnson had to step down as adviser on Obama's V.P. search after this gem came out:
An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) report[1] from September 2004 found that, during Johnson's tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae had improperly deferred $200 million in expenses. This enabled top executives, including Johnson and his successor, Franklin Raines, to receive substantial bonuses in 1998.[2] A 2006 OFHEO report[3] found that Fannie Mae had substantially under-reported Johnson's compensation. Originally reported as $6-7 million, Johnson actually received approximately $21 million.

Obama denies ties to Raines but the Washington Post calls him a member of "Obama's political circle." Raines and Johnson were fined $3 million by the Office of Federal Housing Oversight for their manipulation of Fannie books. The fine is small change however, compared to the $50 million Raines was able to obtain in improper bonuses as a result of juggling the books.
Most significantly, Penny Pritzker, the current Finance Chairperson of Obama's presidential campaign helped develop the complicated investment bundling of subprime securities at the heart of the meltdown. She did so in her position as shareholder and board chair of Superior Bank. The Bank failed in 2001, one of the largest in recent history, wiping out $50 million in uninsured life savings of approximately 1,400 customers. She was named in a RICO class action law suit but doesn't seem to have come out of it too badly.

As a young attorney in the 1990s, Barack Obama represented ACORN in Washington in their successful efforts to expand Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) authority. In addition to making it easier for ACORN groups to force banks into making risky loans, this also paved the way for banks like Superior to package mortgages as investments, and for the Government Sponsored Enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to underwrite them. These changes created the conditions that ultimately lead to the current financial crisis.

Did they not know this would occur? Were these smart people, led by a Harvard graduate, unaware of the Econ 101 concept of moral hazard that would result from the government making implicit guarantees to underwrite private sector financial risk? They should have known that freeing the high-risk mortgage market of risk, calamity was sure to ensue. I think they did.
Barack Obama, the Cloward-Piven candidate, no matter how he describes himself, has been a radical activist for most of his political career. That activism has been in support of organizations and initiatives that at their heart seek to tear the pillars of this nation asunder in order to replace them with their demented socialist vision. Their influence has spread so far and so wide that despite their blatant culpability in the current financial crisis, they are able to manipulate Capital Hill politicians to cut them into $140 billion of the bailout pie!

God grant those few responsible yet remaining in Washington, DC the strength to prevent this massive fraud from occurring. God grant them the courage to stand up in the face of this Marxist tidal wave.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Survival Optional


By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, 28 April 2009

It used to be said that self-preservation is the first law of nature. But much of what has been happening in recent times in the United States, and in Western civilization in general, suggests that survival is taking a back seat to the shibboleths of political correctness. We have already turned loose dozens of captured terrorists, who have resumed their terrorism. Why? Because they have been given "rights" that exist neither in our laws nor under international law.

These are not criminals in our society, entitled to the protection of the Constitution of the United States. They are not prisoners of war entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention.
There was a time when people who violated the rules of war were not entitled to turn around and claim the protection of those rules. German soldiers who put on U.S. military uniforms, in order to infiltrate American lines during the Battle of the Bulge, were simply lined up against a wall and shot.

Nobody even thought that this was a violation of the Geneva Convention. American
authorities filmed the mass executions. Nobody dreamed up fictitious "rights" for these
enemy combatants who had violated the rules of war. Nobody thought we had to prove
that we were nicer than the Nazis by bending over backward.

Bending over backward is a very bad position from which to try to defend yourself. Nobody
in those days confused bending over backward with "the rule of law," as Barack Obama did recently. Bending over backward is the antithesis of the rule of law. It is depriving the people of the protection of their laws, in order to pander to mushy notions among the elite.
Even under the Geneva Convention, enemy soldiers have no right to be turned loose before
the war is over. Terrorists-- "militants" or "insurgents" for those of you who are squeamish
--have declared open-ended war against America. It is open-ended in time and open-ended in methods, including beheadings of innocent civilians.

President Obama can ban the phrase "war on terror" but he cannot ban the terrorists' war on
us. That war continues, so there is no reason to turn terrorists loose before it ends. They chose to make it that kind of war. We don't need to risk American lives to prove that we are nicer than they are.

The great Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that law is not some "brooding
omnipresence in the sky." It is a set of explicit rules by which human beings structure their
lives and their relationships with one another.

Those who choose to live outside those laws, whether terrorists or pirates, can be -- and have been-- shot on sight. Squeamishness is neither law nor morality. And moral exhibitionism is beneath contempt, when it sacrifices the safety of those who live within the law for the sake of self-satisfied preening, whether in editorial offices or in the White House.
As if it is not enough to turn cutthroats loose to cut throats again, we are now contemplating legal action against Americans who wrung information about international terrorist operations out of captured terrorists.

Is The Progressive Super State Hastening It’s Own Downfall?
27. April 2009 by William R Collier Jr

The trouble with the idea that “if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em” them” as applied to the massive power grab by the present Progressive regime in Washington is that if you join them by going along with their rules and policies, and doing what they say you are supposed to do, you lose your own identity and your own sense that society is a product of the People in their sentiments rather than a product of a few people who control culture bearing institutions.
When the sentiment of the People, the course of history, and the technological possibilities all point towards a stronger desire for more individual and local control and more direct participation in culture creation, without artificial limitations based on an anti-religious bias or a bias against one type of philosophy, then those who stand athwart this are standing in the path of a tsunami!
Progressive Super State had its nightmarish heyday in the 20th century regimes of “left” and “rightist” Progressive super states built on the Progressive ideal that the best way to create a “good” society or solve “social ills” is through gigantism, a massive state apparatus managed by a few leaders or one leader. Progressivism has taken many forms, from the New Deal to the New Order and the Soviet Man.
All forms of Progressivism, both “right” and “left” were organized around the Progressive ideal of maximum efficiency, curing of all social ills, and producing a more advanced human being in the evolutionary process through a large scale organization of society by its leaders, be they heroic leaders (Germans, Argentina, Chile, etc.), the Party (Russia, China), the Divine Leaders or Messianic Leaders (Japan, North Korea), or even “elected” career politicians (the welfare states of Western Europe, America under the New Deal and today). This is the old paradigm, a paradigm of the universal state which is the final form of organization before a civilization falls and new civilizations of a vastly different nature emerge.
The future belongs to the sustainable LOCAL society: a sustainable society is a society that depends on the sentiments, the resources, and the abilities of the People on the smallest possible of scales to produce a culture and a way of life that meets their needs- both spiritual and physical.

Sustainable communities are communities that connect on a global scale but that depend primarily on local sentiments, local values, local people, and local resources as a nearly autonomous fractal of the whole society- the common culture and way of life becomes a reflection of these community cultures which are themselves the bedrock of personal and public life.

Unfortunately, the Progressive mind is conditioned and hard wired to bitterly cling to its “zeitgeist”, even if it has to reinvent it, repackage it, and stand up every day and insist, in the media and culture bearing institutions it controls, that it is “forward looking” and that the opposition, who are the true torch-bearers of an inevitably victorious new paradigm, are the ones who are “backwards” or, as the “sophisticated” and Progressive Romans called them, “Barbarians.”

Progressive Super States are, like all versions of the Universal State of decaying civilizations, a roadblock to human progress which often impede the necessary launching of a new civilization by hundreds of years- the British Empire, the USSR, and other versions of the universal state have been hindering the creation of new civilizations for nearly 300 years!
There is not now nor has there ever been any justifiable excuse for preventing community level cultures from becoming self-sustaining in every possible way. The end of gigantism is a necessary and inevitable product of the technological possibilities of our day, and the natural human drive towards independence and self-reliance which have been quickened by over 100 years of various forms and shades of Progressive gigantism rooted in utopian notions as diverse as racial purity, equality, and, now, “saving the planet”, but all trending towards the need for the few to direct the affairs of the many, often in the most minute of details.
The modern Progressives of the 21st century are bitterly clinging to the failed gigantism of their predecessors on the right and the left who all shared the basic idea that a large scale organization of society by a more enlightened or just “the elected”, leadership class is the best or the only path to achieving some social good or correcting some social ill as they defined “good” or as they defined “a social ill.” The methodology of Progressivism is always the same- tell the people that the problem is one that “demands united action on a large scale” and use this faux “patriotism” to cause the unlearned to not raise any serious questions whole marginalizing dissenters with
some form of social stigma.
While some seem to think that the trend today is towards a revived super state, they would be mistaken. Western Civilization has produced “universal super states” of various types for the past 300 years and the new emergent civilizations that have been conceived during that time, civilizations with an ideological and theological framework that are opposite of the universal Progressivism of Western Civilization, are simply itching to be born.
Far from revising and extending the Progressive super state, what we are about to witness over the next few years is the first stages of total cultural, political, and economic collapse of the major Civilizations which will lead to a time of chaos all around the world, a time in which new civilizations will emerge These new civilization will be built around community cultures within sustainable communities, as well as sentiment-groups or Peoples that embrace a similar worldview, one that is oppositional to the Progressivism of the West, of Russia, of the Islamic World, of China, and of Japan. It is likely that South America, Eastern Europe, West Africa, South Africa, and part of the present US will ultimately be the new “homelands” and safe havens of these new Peoples and Civilizations.
The Progressive Super State is now trying to show its vitality in a last-days power grab, as if merely passing laws and trying to over-rule a growing opposition will “prove” that it has a future. In reality the Progressive Super State has no future and it is an archaic throwback to the Roman Empire in its last days, a hope for revival of the “golden age” of the “welfare state” and of the British Empire!
The modern Progressive are confused because in their schema, nothing exists outside of the media, academia, the two parties, Washington, and Wall Street, but the REAL opposition does not come from “traditional” sources and does not exist within or even RESPECT the present power structure. In a sense the REAL opposition are the Barbarians, long USED by both sides (by liberal and conservative Progressives), long divided from one another into artificial “tribes” by “race” or socio-economic class and long silenced by the same old tactic of “fear the big monster” myths, such as “the Jew”, “the Bourgeoisie”, and, now “global warming.” Progressives of every stripe always have a “monster myth” with which to distract the people which allows them to BLAME their own failings (because Progressive Super States ALWAYS fail) on the “monster” or those who are not “against” the “monster.”
When Rahm Immanuel, chief of staff to what will probably be America’s LAST “Progressive” President, Barak Obama, said “never let a good crisis go to waste” he was echoing 300 or so years of universal statist ideology and 100 or so years of Progressive ideology EXACTLY.
What this man forgets, as Progressives often do, is that “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” and by swinging too far towards a revived super state in an age when gigantism is neither beneficial nor welcome by MOST people he is actually “setting the table” as it were for the rise of the barbarians- those nonconformists who will use technology in bold new ways to OPT OUT of the super state and who will see in the total suborning of the power structure an opportunity to abandon the old power structure and take unilateral action to ignore it, get around it, hide from it, and chase it out of those places where Progressivism is alien and unwelcome.
If Progressives wanted to keep their cushy jobs in government, they should have opted for some sort of accommodation and as society evolves into something new and wonderful with community cultures and sustainable communities as the building block of new Peoples and Civilizations, they could have gracefully retired in peace as the caretakers over the final dismantling of the Progressive Super State, which would also have preserved the existence of the “nation” as a whole.
As it now stands, this massive power grab by the Progressives, mistaking a shallow “approval” for Obama as a sign that the People have somehow suddenly decided to go against the flow of history, and the possibilities of our modern technology, to abandon individual and local control and revert to the Progressive Super State, are actually speeding up the process by which they will lose relevancy and then power, and they are compelling their less organized and cohesive but larger and more powerful opposition to operate OUTSIDE OF the existing power structure.
To put this another way, by blocking access by the opposition to the existing power structure the Progressives are creating a situation where the opposition, which is large and powerful, if not organized and cohesive YET, to operate outside of the existing power structure and even to seek the REPLACEMENT EN TOTO of that power structure!
Let me repeat this to make it clear: by removing the opposition’s voice and influence from the culture bearing, culture marking, economic development, lawmaking, and law judging institutions of the EXISTING power structure the Progressives are forcing their opposition to seek alternatives OUTSIDE of the existing power structure!
The NATURAL craving to create culture that reflects your innermost beliefs, to make laws, and all these others things coupled with the realization that we have the technology to do these things on a very small scale to a much greater degree of efficiency than any gigantic establishment ever could is enough to conclude that blocking off the opposition from the existing power structure is a far greater threat to the existence of that power structure than to the opposition- the opposition is not going away and if it has to choose between its own survival and that of the existing power structure, it is painfully obvious that the power structure will lose that fight.
The Progressive Super State DOES NOT have the means, the money, the technology, or the manpower to impose its will like the British did in India for a good long time or the National Socialists did in Germany, or the Russians did in their “Soviet Empire.” The people, the manpower, they would have to use, the military and the police, are more ideologically AGAINST them then for them and their present efforts to create a “civilian defense force” made up of recruits from ideologically reliable organizations like ACORN will spark more and more OPEN confrontation- in short, THEY ARE TOO LATE, the “genie is out of the bottle” and they cannot put it back in now.
Progressives need to seriously take stock of the historiological facts- we are trending towards “localism” in terms of self-governance, economics, and culture, and away from “Gigantism”, the age of Western Civilization’s “universal states” is over and it cannot be revived. The only thing the present, and probably FINAL, “Progressive Regime” in America is accomplishing by trying to make the most out of every “crisis” is undermining the very power structure upon which it stands!

Calculated Strategery or Just Chance Opportunities.


With so much from the media distracting us away from what's really going on in Washington on an hourly basis, it's information overload. So we have to take a step back from the media bashing the Ex-President Bush and his administrations actions. The actions of the current President Obama and his administration to absorb all of it slowly.

What I'll try to do here is summarize some of my thought's which I can back up with factual information available everywhere on the web, the library of congress, current legislative actions passed or currently on the Legislative agenda. So let's enter the new diatribe now.

First let's look at the past administration, Bush did in fact keep American's safe for the last 8 years. Yes Bush's administration may have spent too much money in the process and may have asked us to take many steps to insure we could remain safe that many did not like, and voiced their dissent openly. There are many other issues with President Bush that are not majority issues, but still caused discord with in America. But over all he performed well in general.

Now comes the 2008 election campaign. First it start one year early to weed out all other candidate's who might have actually made it to the DNC after the primary if their funding held out meaning that the power brokers behind the scenes would have to argue them down before the Democratic national convention and not allowing them to run the RNC's primary candidate's into the ground as well knowing that the RNC was counting on candidate's not going to private PAC organization's to raise their campaign funds. Thus the real campaign was going to be between, the DNC selected one (B.H.O.), Barrack Husseinn Obama and the RNC candidate John McCain who has beaten himself into a corner by the time the election takes place by moving farther to the left in an attempt to gain ground with women,and Hispanic's and the black vote, which by the way never really surfaced due to the politically correct silencing most conservatives's in American's core group of voter's.

This was a very carefully constructed campaign rooted in depleting funds on the other side, twisting all the issues for the opposing party (RNC), making sure to stay with the script and answer no question that didn't fit the script. Promise the world to all those who wanted to be entitled with some government benefit's and welfare, move the blacks and Hispanic's to vote democratic, use several organization's like MoveOn.org and ACORN who have foreign money flowing into them, whom have also been criminally prosecuted for voter fraud, registering dead people, fake names, double voting under the same name, Motor vehicle vote registration drives, even going to pick up voter's who have never in their life voted in a presidential election and ferrying them to the poles, running adds in the local paper's of those over the age of 18 who had not voted in the last two election's who were in the black and Hispanic communities to tilt the vote in favor of the Democrats.

What some of us have recently become aware of is that during the Presidential Election Campaigns, we noticed that there was really no difference between the choice in the two candidate's. Both wanted to be big government, both wanted to spend billion's of our money on what they choose not what we wanted. The only two things different between the two parties was Abortion and Stem Cell research.

Not much to choose from Huh!

Well now that we realized this we understand that both parties are far to the left of the scale on government. The Democrats have the public fearing them, which is tyranny, not good for the people. The Republicans now fear the people, which is good for freedom and liberty, but in their reduced representation in the Congress and Senate their ability to drive legislative processes is greatly reduced. This is not good for the people either because they are unable to act to effectively due to the great imbalance in government today. So the question is what is going on and how to we change this government to what we really want.

Currently we have seen Tea Parties in the news. These are the American's who wouldn't have ever spoke out or have considered themselves as activist's, but now find themselves protesting and being insulted on national TV by the media, the President and the Left Wing Smear Machines on a daily basis. The problem is that with instant communications using today's technology these Protester's formed grassroots campaign's all over the country and were from every walk of life in America. So the media doesn't know what to really say other then allow the left wing smear machine to continue to run amok and it's hurting them badly because they don't get the message these protester's are sending.

This Tea Party Movement is a horizontal movement because of it's makeup and concerns. It's methods are seen only in the technology they are using to confer with each other all over the country. The change Obama talked about is real, just not the change these Tea Party participant's wanted. You can be sure that real change is coming and from those whom he has insulted and denigrated on national TV as well, it is the people whom are speaking in these Tea Party activities, there number's are growing daily, and will soon overwhelm any other majority seen by the pollsters in the U.S.A.

If you want to know what they think about the past an current government activities, just search Google for “Tea Party”, and you'll find out that the number of responses is overwhelming. Read and participate or just educate yourself. It's up to you, the average American, to participate in your government to communicate with your elected representatives to tell them what you want done.

NEXT


I will try to explain what the current history is with respect to what has historically happened to lead us to this point, which occurred ever so slowly over the last 25 plus years. Some of it goes farther back than most of you who will read it. That is for the next rant I'll be delivering to you.

Happy reading and surfing till then.