"malaise" speech

July 15th was the 32nd anniversary of President Jimmy Carters much maligned "malaise" speech. Funny how History repeats itself.

J Preston Eby!

I Have Been Away

Obviously.

Welcome back to me :)

Liberal Lemmings Mislead by Their Leaders (Again)

Global Warming.

I was once a proponent of it. Then I became increasingly skeptical, especially after watching the leaders of the global warming movement behave in the face of legitimate criticism. Then the left wing leadership focus grouped and came up with a new term: Climate change. Then Al Gore unwittingly exposed the left's strategy of indoctrinating children against their parents. Then I find out some small island nations are trying to force larger nations with industry to send them money based on the fact that someday they will be under the ocean thanks to the evil actions of these carbon polluters.

It had become increasingly clear to me that climate change policy turns out to be less of a scientific debate, as it has become a way to redistribute wealth from those who earn it to those who do not. Any honest debate has become shut down by the leaders on the left. This will always raise a red flag for me.

Well, it turns out that the "leading global warming" scientists have been caught red handed lying! I mean the emails have been leaked. The ones that document the conspiracy by scientists to mislead us about climate change. And it also turns out that the scientists have admitted that these hacked emails are real, it is not a hoax. Well it turns out climate change is a hoax, but the leaked emails are not.

What does all of this mean to you and me? It means that once again, the leadership on the left has been caught red handed creating a web of lies to manipulate their following into supporting it's agenda of re distributive wealth aka Marxism.

Why must they lie all of the time? Why can't the leadership on the left ever be open and honest about their intentions? Why can't they just admit that they are Marxists. That's what re distributive change is. It's Marxism. The same ideology that has killed more people in the 20th century than any idea in history.

What strikes me as ironic about the policies of the new Marxist left , in practice, if they play out as the leaders of the left hope they will, the US will become a full blown fascist nation. A new version of Communism's longtime sworn enemy. It has already become a fascist leaning nation in the past 15 months or so. They are so hell bent on keeping up the appearance of private ownership that they are forgetting what Italy did under Mussolini. The government seized control of private property, but left it's ownership in the hands of private owners. The owners put in the largest amount of capital, but government made the decisions through regulation and arbitrary policies.

How Much is a Trillion:Video

I have been discussing the vast amount of money that a trillion is, and it's such an incredibly huge sum that no one seems to really be able to get their minds around it. When we say this program will cost us (fill in the blank) trillion dollars, people don't seem to be able to distinguish how monstrously expensive such a program is. What helps me is visualizing a trillion one dollar bills stacked on top of each other. The height of that stack would measure 67,866 miles. This would reach more than one fourth the way from the earth to the moon! If you had decided to make a carpet out of one dollar bills, the area covered by one trillion one dollar bills measures 3,992 square miles. This would cover an area equal to twice the size of the state of Delaware!
What if we were to line up one dollar bills end to end? Did you know, that if you line up one trillion one dollar bills this way, it exceeds the distance from the Earth to the Sun! It would take a beam of light more than 16 minutes to travel from the Earth to the end of that line of one dollar bills and back again!

The video below explains it a little better. Instead of using the one dollar bill, like I did, it explains it using 1,000 dollar bills.



I think what really truly makes it strike home for me is the fact they brought out about spending a million dollars a day. If Jesus started spending a million dollars a day since he was walking the Earth in the flesh, He still would not have spent a trillion dollars. Yet our government recently showed it's willingness and it's ability to burn through trillions as if they were millions.

Can we afford this healthcare bill?? Especially in light of the fact that the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) observes, “The 2009 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports show the combined unfunded liability of these two programs alone has reached nearly $107 trillion in today’s dollars"! And with all of that spending, it STILL isn't even going to cover the uninsured.
Why do it then?
So that we can ration care. Redistribute the health. That's what it's all about.

For the trillion dollar comparisons, visit:http://www.ehd.org/science_technology_largenumbers.php

Why Do Writers and Intellectuals and Artists Always Seem to Fall in Love With Tyrants and Tyrannical Governments?

Have you ever noticed the imagery the left produces to describe their opponents? They throw about the word fascist and Hitler and Nazi to describe anyone that they disagree with.

They seem to fear someone like Sarah Palin as a tyrant that would march into Washington and oppress the masses, or create a Christian theocracy. You know, the kind of things she never achieved in Alaska.

Strangely enough, these leftist intellectuals look at actual tyrants with a strange fondness and are happy to pronounce them champions of the people.

Recently they have been going to Cuba to smoke cigars with Fidel Castro and have been returning with glowing reports of what a great leader he is. These intellectuals are blind to the fact that his government controls every aspect of the peoples lives. They control what they read, what they see.

They fawn over Chavez. They make excuses for his takeover of the public media as a necessary step in order to progress forward. Every oppressive thing he does is seen as a great justice on behalf of the people.

They used to treat Stalin the same way. They still hold the greatest murderer the world has even known in the highest esteem. Chairman Mao as they affectionately call him.

Writers and artists fall for these charismatic personalities as if they are blind lemmings happily sheepily dutifully worshipfully praising the tyrants of the world, and anyone that talks about freedom and liberty is a tyrant in their eyes.

Somehow, they are convinced that people that want less government, less governmental control of all of our lives are the oppressors. Oppression by liberty. Who would have guessed? Of course we do have so much in common with those liberty loving Nazis. We like weak government just like Hitler did. We believe all humans are equal, just like Hitler thought. We love free speech and the right to bear arms, just like Hitler did. We dislike government run media just like Hitler did.

In the meant time, they don't see taking property off of one person against their will as stealing. They don't see the redistribution of that private property as a form of tyranny. Taking private property from one person by another person is stealing. If you advocate this, you are in favor of a tyrannical government. You are much closer to a Nazi than I will ever be. Hitler also like to redistribute the wealth. He took from those evil wealthy Jews and spread that around. The Nazi's banned gun ownership.

"National Socialism" is the Nazi party ideology. It basically consists of loose and general criticisms of free markets, enforced by the anti-semantic dogma that Jews are the source of all domestic evils. It's very wavy but is generally against private property, and in favor of absolute state control of the economy. The Nazis aimed towards a system which allowed them to conscribe all labor and distribute all produce - equally - as popular demand insisted it. Well, equally amongst the Aryans and citizens, that is. The anti-semiticism of Nazi nationalism often associated big business and free trade with Jewish movements, which, of course, Nazis viewed as "subversive" to the "rule of the master race".

But us liberty loving people are the Nazis.

Taking Over Everything (2)

Taking Over Everything (2)

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Time For the States to MAN UP

The United States that was founded in the last decades of the 18th century is no more.
The evidence of this is clear in the actions of the last three administrations and the house and senate that have ruled in the past few years.
They no longer represent us, the people that elected them. They have become detached and beholden to the powers that granted them the vast amounts of money they need to get elected. They are beholden to the parties that refuse to fund in their reelection campaigns if they vote with their constituents and against the current party line.

The idea of having representatives meet in Washington was intended by our founders to bring the voice of the common man to the halls of a government. They knew that when they returned home, their neighbors would hold them accountable. This way the common man had a voice in every level of government.
The idea of having two senators from every state was to give the states a say in the federal government. This is no longer so. The states have lost their voice in Washington. The 17th amendment was passed by the progressives in the early 20th century in order to strip the states of any say and to build a stronger central government. The states have been stripped of their sovereignty.

Our government has become a bloated blundering drunken doomed dinosaur. It is headed for extinction. It is not sustainable. And it will take the American people down with it unless the people and the individual states intercede. It is time for an intervention. It's time to stop enabling the alcoholic.

First thing the states need to do is stop taking federal money. It won't be easy, because it is a lot of candy. But they must wean themselves off of it. It is the states that should be granting funding to the Federal government, not the reverse.

Secondly, the States need to call for an amendment to the US Constitution that repeals the 17th amendment. If congress refuses to submit this amendment, the States have a power that has never been used. Two thirds of the States can call for a constitutional convention to proposes this amendment. This way the State legislatures can once again send their own senators to the senate and it will once again represent the states that sent them.

Term limits for all members of congress must be administered. It is clear that the spirit of the founders idea that we could send common people to Washington to be the voice of their neighbors has become a farce. Instead, professional politicians find a seat and won't move out of it, enjoying the perks and benefits too much.

Capitol Hill should be under lock and key for 11 months of the year. In the case of a true national emergency, congress may be recalled for a brief gathering, but otherwise, all voting should be done from the Congressman's office in his own district. With electronic technology and the internet and satellites, there is little reason to be so far away from the home districts anymore. Four weeks out of the year, congress may meet on Capital Hill. This will help ensure that lobbyists have a harder time bribing our representatives, and it might break up the "good 'ol boy" network.

Government Intervention: It's Good for Everyone

No Accident

I am beginning to think our nation is being run by nutty Marxist college professors and their nutty Marxist college pupils. How can so many of the people picked by the President be so far left? If I hear another person say that he just isn't "Vetting" these people good enough, I am gonna pass out. Our President WANTS these people to work for him. The traits that we American people find unacceptable in these people is Exactly what the White House liked about them.
How else can we explain it?
Anita Dunn told a gathering of college kids that Mao Tse-Tung was one of her favorite philosophers. In fact, he is one of two that she TURNS TO MOST! Only thing wrong with that is that he killed more people than Hitler did.
Van Jones resigned without shame or consequence when it was learned he was a committed communist and thought the US Government orchestrated 9/11.
Science Czar John Holdren once considered putting sterilents into our drinking water. He also advocated Forced abortions.
Cass Sunstein, the regulatory Czar is on record saying the U.S. should move in the direction of socialism (except we are too racist for it). He also thinks animals have legal rights to sue humans.
What kind of safe schools Czar thinks anyone involved in NAMBLA is worthy of praise as he has said, and ignores statutory rape?

TO BE CONTINUED

GE Selling Obama's Network to Comcast?

From LA Times:

Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator with almost 25 million subscribers, has been looking to increase its content holdings for several years. In NBC Universal it would get its hands on not only a big broadcast network and movie studio, but also several powerful cable channels, including USA, Syfy, CNBC, MSNBC and Bravo.

That would be incredible. My guess is that the FCC would never allow it. Could you imagine a conservative leaning Comcast CEO John Malone allowing MSNBC and CNBC to continue down their path of fringe left wing rhetoric and President Obama worshipfulness? My guess is that moonbat commentators like Kieth Oberman and Rachel Maddow would be fired based on their plummeting ratings while other News networks commentators such as O'Reilly and Beck have only themselves to battle it out with ratings wise. I think an owner with an eye for making money would probably clean house at NBC news and restore at least the appearance of journalism to the newsroom.

Moonbats Indoctrinating Children

Now I don't blame President Obama directly for the work of these moonbats, but I do think this is a symptom of how far his followers are willing to go to indoctrinate our children . I don't expect to see this kind of behavior discouraged by the elitists in charge either

Racism Rears it's Ugly head

The debate is over.

Once the leftist wingnuts run out of meaningful debate, when their arguments are shot down by logic and the debate is going against a good loyal progressive partisan, they turn their little book of debate to the page that directs the loser to attribute the opponents logical argument to be rooted in racism.

The healthcare debate is over.

The race card has been played. The left has officially lost the debate. There can no longer be any meaningful discussion.

Sadly, it is the left that has managed to put each person into a little platoon based on that person's race, gender, social class, and sexual identity. That person is not permitted to step outside of their platoon lest they be chastised by the left and called an Uncle Tom, or a Race traitor.

But they are not racists. Oh nooo. They are champions of "equality". Instead, it is the people like me and you who do not see any distinctions and wish to treat everyone equally. Somehow, they expect us to cower to the label racist.

I am not a racist.

Calling me a racist for not supporting these attacks on our freedom and liberty are proof that your logic has been exhausted and your argument has been shredded.

Ronald Reagan speaks from the Grave about Nationalized Healthcare

Please note his parting comment:

And if you don’t do this and if I don’t do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.

Here is an actual Congressman speaking with common sense:


I want you to know that if you are for a government healthcare bill your position is insulting to freedom and liberty. I would ask you why you want to live on Uncle Sam's plantation instead of as a free individual?
You don't want to pay to visit a doctor? What? Why not? So you want it handed to you free. Grow up. That's what is making health "insurance" so expensive. What people are calling insurance is really a healthcare plan. The point of insurance is to protect you against unlikely but damaging events. You are generally happy to pay premiums in all the years that nothing goes wrong (your house doesn’t burn down), because in exchange your insurer promises to be there in the one year that things do go wrong (your house burns down). That's insurance. You don't want insurance. You want free stuff. Try that with your auto insurance. Imagine having your homeowner's insurance paying for new electrical lines to prevent future hazards. Insurance does not do that, YOU do. You pay for your own oil changes, you pay for your doctors visits for routine medical care. That's insurance. Try to find some REAL health insurance, something that covers you in a real emergency, but not every aspirin you are to take. Then go ahead and choose a decent deductable and there you go, you more than likely have insurance for less than $200.00 a month in Ohio for a midle aged couple, and in Massachusetts it would be under $700.00 a month. Yes, Massachusetts has regulated their insurance companies to the point where insurance is far more expensive there than in other state. They now have the most expensive health insurance premiums in the country.... Thanks to their recent adoption of Statewide Healthcare reform that includes a "public option" for those that can't afford "insurance".

Show me one industry that the US Government has run efficiently and without bankrupting that same enterprise over a course of a few years? Just ONE.
If you recall the House Bank Checking Scandal, Congressmen haven't even shown us the ability to balance their own checking accounts, let alone run any enterprise more efficiently than free individuals endowed with the liberty to make a profit for their labor.

How Shall I Fight the Looters?

It's pretty impressive.

The network of Saul Alinsky followers and the framework they have constructed is mighty impressive.

I will be honest. I had no idea.
I had no idea exactly how organized these "Community Organizers" actually are. Their network is vast. I knew that George Soros was dumping lots and lots of money into their coffers, but I had no idea they were spending it so deviously to create this massive massive network of thugs and radicals. I had no idea. It's like something out of a comic book, except there aren't any superheroes to fight them.

Worse, they have whole groups of people that believe their thuggery is for everyone's benefit. I mean, most of the folks that call themselves "Liberal" have no idea what the people they follow are really after. You can tell them and show them the documents and memos and it don't matter. They like their guy or gal too much to open their eyes.

This ain't about President Obama. He is not the architect, he is just another gear in a well oiled machine. A political machine. President Obama is not building it, it's already there. It's been built and it's just waiting to grow in power. The Stimulus Bill helped ensure that happens.

My question is this:

How do I fight it?

Shall I go Galt and make sure I am not one of the producers that their machine is built to feed off of?

Shall I organize a march to protest the looting and the risks to liberty and freedom?

Shall I give up my freedom so others can go to the doctors and have their little office visit paid for completely? (Why should INSURANCE even pay for a doctors visit???? Does INSURANCE pay for my oil changes????? Idiot crybabies, go buy some catostrophic health insurance and get off my list of burdens on society, ok????)

See, I'm pretty ticked off about all of this that the left is bringing down upon us. It's about as unamerican as one can get....

I guess I shall think about it some more........

The Broken Window Fallacy and "Cash for Klunkers"

FT.com has a short article that quotes economist's advising that the "cash 4 Klunkers" program is having a nice impact on auto sales, but a very negative impact on retailers and service providers across the country. The money that would otherwise be naturally stimulative is being redirected away from the rest of the economy. This is a perfect example of the broken window fallacy, an economic parable that proponents of big government expansion and stimulus packages continue to ignore. It was true when President Bush was doing it, and it is especially true of the Titanically proportioned stimulus II produced by Prime Minister Pelosi at President Obama's request.

The figures came in the day after the White House's overly optimistic media base reported that the recession was showing signs of leveling out. They expected an increase in spending, with cash for klunkers leading the way, but according to Reuters:

A Commerce Department report on Thursday showed total retail sales edged down 0.1 percent after increasing 0.8 percent in June. Excluding motor vehicles and parts, sales fell 0.6 percent in July after rising 0.5 percent the prior month.

Analysts had expected a boost to retail sales from the government's "cash for clunkers" program and predicted a 0.7 percent advance in overall July sales.

They said the program -- which gives consumers discounts to swap aging gas-guzzling cars for new, more fuel efficient models -- had pulled spending away from other sectors.

Please let your Congressmen in on this information. Someone has to let them know what is really going on out here. Judging from these town hall meetings, they have no idea.

This is My Congressman

I disagree with my congressman's position on TARP, Cap&Trade, Stimulus II, and healthcare to name a few. I believe in his rhetoric about needing more jobs in our district, but not in his ideas about how to accomplish this.


This is one of my Senators at a town hall meeting informing the public that Medicare is a well run program.


Senator Brown's facts are wrong. The main reason they are wrong is because Medicare tends to be used by the elderly as a majority of their "customers", and that group of Americans have a higher total healthcare cost. Their care is much more expensive than all groups combined. People that try to convince you that administrative cost as a proportion of total benefits paid is a good measure against private insurance are misleading you.

Find your representatives and Senators here

Who Should Be Talking??

Mr. President

I am curious who you think it is that started this mess? Was it these fine citizens that are attending protests? Are they the ones that started this mess?

Are you aware that many of us beleive it is the progressives elites who "started this mess"? Both sides of the aisle. Not just progressive Democrats, but progressive Republicans too.

Are you listening to ranking congressional representatives like Chairman of the Financial Services Committee Barney Frank, who said in 2003 ''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.'' , Even though he headed up the subcommittee that blocked the reforms, which were proposed by the Bush administration. He didn't even let it move to the House from his subcommittee. He denies any involvement today, and tries to tell us that he wanted a program that lowered the cost of RENT for the poor. In 2005, he can be seen in the following video denying there would be a bubble, and that he championed government programs that did not produce cheaper rent for the poor, but home ownership for the poor through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.



I would agree, housing is certainly more "affordable" now, isn't it?

Are you listening to Ben Bernanke?



Perhaps you should stop listening to him then.
Are you listening to Ron Paul? Listen to what he had to say during the GOP debates, BEFORE anyone but the true capitalists knew the crisis was coming.



Are you listening to Peter Schiff?



How about Jim Rogers?

While your economists are speaking about "green shoots", ask them about the real estate problems coming in the next two years.

Your team is actively raising all of our taxes, and have been since you took office. The act of printing money to pay for government programs is the same as a tax hike. It devalues the currency and our money is worth less than it was before the printing took place. It is a deceit. This has the same net effect as raising everyone's taxes, across the board. It affects the poor most of all. In the meantime, that printed money is spent by government the same way that money taken by taxation is spent. After it is spent, we cannot get it back.

I invite you to study the Parable of the Broken Window sometime. It's a nice short explanation of why current economic policy, as well as President Bush's economic policy is destined for failure. I am not a progressive, so I do not subscribe to the belief that we should fix every thing that government broke with more government. Many of us think that for the first time since the late 19th and early 20th century, we should move towards a real free market approach. The central planners have had their run, and after one depression, a few recessions, and now one deep recession, it is time for the central planners to step aside.

Sir, what we would like more than anything is for a government that represents freedom and liberty for it's citizens across the board. This is not what we are getting, so forgive us for speaking out. I do expect the people to be heard, and in fact, I am hoping you do to. I also hope you be true to your word and you will no longer take advice from the people that caused this mess. So far that is EXACTLY who you have been listening to.

But even though I disagree with the people that may have caused this mess, I do want to hear what they have to say. I want to have everyone's voice heard. Shouldn't you?

Someday

NAZIS!!!!!! Just look at all the Swastikas!!!!

Interviewer: Do you think there's legitimate grassroot opposition going on here?

Pelosi: "I think they're Astroturf... You be the judge. "They're carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare."

Oh wait. I haven't found any I've searched all of the leftist blogs and news sites, and I can't find a single bit of ducumentation to back it up, but clearly they must be out there. All I have been able to find is these astroturfers displaying their masterful abilities to appear like middle class people. I bet they have Swastika tattos in a secret place though. Clearly this is the work of the masterful strategists at the GOP headquarters*.

You know what I think?

I think the GOP lost the last two rounds of elections on purpose just so that they could appear to be disorganized and unable to whip up any support. They didn't really lose support from the masses. In fact, I think they might have paid people to vote for progressives. It's part of the neocon plan for the final takeover of the world. And now it is starting to come to fruition. Yeah. That's it. And all of these protesters are in on it. Just like the nations founders were really part of a super secret Freemason conspiracy to control everyone: first giving many the many liberty, only to tirelessly whittle away at them in order to take over the world.

I think that's why the GOP fought against the Jim Crow laws, and repeatedly supported civil rights legislation integrating public facilities (e.g., resturaunts) and passed the civil rights act of 1964, while Democrats stood in the school house doors and filibustered the Civil Rights Voting Act. They passed all of that so that they can sneak them back in and gain more control. The Right Wing conspiracy is turning us all into Nazis!!! Because yes, you may not realize it, but seeking to limit government control over industry and the people is exactly what Hitler did!!!

*The real problem is that the GOP is almost as bad as the DNC. Neither party has a real interest in liberty anymore. Both are wings of the same thing. They have both been hijacked by the Progressive movement. The only difference between the two are how FAST we should be expanding the federal government.

From the White House Blog

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov

That's pretty scary. That's a good example of Progressive elitism and it's tendency towards intimidation and Big Brother intervention.

I like the letter that Sen. John Cornyn of Texas is sending in response. Hopefully it will be read and this program to "flag" others speech and report it to the government will be quickly shelved. I mean they want a list of those who disagree, or at the very least, are forwarding possible information on to others. Can you imagine if President G W Bush had publicly proposed such a program? The left would have went crazy.