False Hope; Democratic Party Style…

There is a very unhealthy movement happening in America, it’s called the Obama campaign.

His “sermons” promote and promise the “religion” of government:

• He promises hope is found in the government not the individual.
  
• He promises a bright future by renewing faith in the government.
  
• He promises to end poverty, ignorance, and divisiveness which requires empowering the government and giving up individual rights.
  
• He promises to crush greedy corporations by increasing government regulation and control.
  
• He promises if we are willing to sacrifice our individual freedom we can realize a collective utopia.
  
• He promises things that sound like paradise but will result in hell.
  
• He promises a better future to those willing to believe.
  

For all of us that don’t believe, will we be free to opt out of utopia? Of course not, because to deliver on these promises all must be forced to believe for the collective good.

It does not surprise me that youngsters are being drawn to the “movement” but adults should know better. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. History tells us that what Obama is promising has been tried and has failed; miserably.

We are seeing a blind trust in someone that is making promises worthy of all of the dictators, kings, and totalitarian leaders of the past. He talks about the future, but his message is one from the past; a very ugly past I might add. Start listening closely and you too will see, we don’t need promises of more from government, we need the government to move aside and let individuals drive hope toward a brighter future for each and every individual American. Just a thought…

It’s Not the Color of His Skin; It Is the Content of His Campaign…

America is ready for a Black candidate for president. America is ready for a Woman candidate for president. What America is not ready for is a candidate that believes socialism is a new idea, and good for America.

There isn’t a hill of beans between Hillary and Obama when it comes to their vision for America. They both believe that the government is best suited to manage the markets, healthcare, and the family. Actually they believe that the government is the dominant force for good in our society. Better than you or me at deciding what is right for our family, career, retirement, healthcare, food choices, drink choices, car choices, and any other choice we believe we should be in charge of… Basically eliminating the need for freedom.

Markets: They both want to punish productivity by limiting profits and pay scales for executives. They want to pick the winners, protect the losers, and eliminate the risk that is inherent in the market. They are both ignorant in economics, and both of their visions will destroy the engine of capitalism that is the foundation of our ability to lead, feed, and free the world around us.

Healthcare: They want to mandate how much you pay for healthcare and prescriptions, who you can see, how much doctors and insurance companies can make, what doctors can do and say with their patients, and control every aspect of healthcare through a “one payer” system. Market rules apply in healthcare, just like they do in any marketplace. Both of their plans to socialize healthcare will result in destroying the greatest medical system in the world.

The Family: They both believe in “planned” families. They both believe that the baby in a woman’s body is hers to do with what they want including aborting it through term, but that control ends once a baby is born. They want government to control daycare, early child learning, school curriculums, and both support the rights of kids to sue their parents. They both believe children and their future is the “responsibility” of the states. They both talk about the importance of the family, but not the autonomy of the family unit. They want to decide what parents choose for their kids from schools, to television, to their choice of college.

So when you here that people are “uncomfortable” with a Black man or woman for president, especially those pesky conservatives, it’s a bunch of bull. It is the content of the campaign that is the problem for most people on the right. Martin Luther King had a dream, as do most Americans for a prosperous and color blind society. I believe we have come close to achieving that dream, but Obama’s candidacy is not going to be rejected for the color of his skin; but the content of his campaign. I think Martin Luther King would consider that a true achievement toward his vision and dream. Just a thought…

Our freedom and experiment in self rule has already failed…

If by some miracle, the founding fathers of our great nation were to rise from the dead, how would they rate our stewardship of the freedom from government oppression, and individual liberty they bestowed upon us some 230 years ago? I’m afraid we would get an F. A big fat F!

I believe they would be heartbroken that many of the protections they thought they outlined in the constitution have been ignored.

They would look at how big the Federal budget is and wonder how the states allowed the 10th amendment to be completely breached. They would wonder how the states went from fighting so hard against a central control, to a complete submission of federal mandates without a revolution.

They would affirm the 2nd amendment did include an individual right to bear arms, and wonder why we didn’t utilize it to stop the federal takeover of power.

They would wonder; where did God go?

They would affirm that Christian principles were intended as the foundation of the first amendment, and that the separation of church and state was only intended to stop the implementation of a National religion. Not to be used to exorcise our religious foundation out of the public square.

They would wonder why the Federal government would have any business in the tobacco we smoke, the healthcare we choose, the retirement we seek, the food we eat, the cars we drive, the schools we seek, and the happiness we pursue.

They would wonder; why don’t the congressmen leave government? You pay them for what and how much? Then they would understand it!

They would wonder why the federal and state governments were mandating curriculum at our schools - but mostly they would be scratching their heads about a mandated curriculum of Global Warming, but no reference to mandating the teaching of our constitution.

They would be puzzled, dismayed, and defeated by what they would continue to uncover. They would wonder where the next revolution would spawn from. They would have to believe there must be a movement afoot to change this oppressive use of government control. For what they would find would be disturbingly similar to what they revolted against.

How could the foundation they laid just 230 years ago be so different from what they died for? How could a nation bestow on a government what is best left up to individuals? How could a nation founded on the spirit of limited government accept unlimited government meddling?

We would receive an F for stewardship of personal freedom and liberty. They would see that compared to other nations in the world, we still speak about the value of freedom. But what we say and what we do are two completely different things.

In their eyes we would have failed simply because we lost the vision of what is truly valuable; our ability to live our lives with limited government interference.

If you don’t believe we would receive a failing grade for our stewardship, you do not understand the principle’s we were founded on. And for that you would get an F. Just a thought…

And we want more of this from the government?

“The cost of benefits to seniors soared to a record $27,289 per senior in 2007” according to a USA Today analysis.

“Economist Dean Baker calls it "granny bashing" to focus on the cost of senior benefits. The elderly paid a designated tax for Social Security and Medicare taxes during their decades of working to support these programs when they retired, says Baker, co-director of the liberal Center for Economic Policy and Research.”

I have news for Dean, and I guess he would know this, if you add up all of the benefits paid into Social Security and Medicare for the current senior recipients, their total contribution is less than the $27,000 they are getting paid per year now. That is not “granny bashing”, that is a fact we must come to terms with.

It shows the inherent problem with the system; no sustaining mechanism to keep it from going broke without saddling the upcoming generations with exorbitant taxes, which they will eventually refuse to pay. Continuing on the current path will turn generations against each other at some point. It is not about people getting something back from Social Security and Medicare, it is how much?

We need to create real accounts for Social Security and Medicare for starters. Get the slimy politicians hands out of our “cookie jar” and put it in our own “personal accounts”. Accounts we can’t touch until we are 62. Give people the choice to invest like we do with current 401K and IRA accounts. Heck, I would be happy at this point if they just got simple interest. Anything is better than the “IOU” ponsy scheme we currently have.

Anyone younger than 50 should know that in retirement, the benefit received from Social Security will not exceed $1000 dollars a month, so start saving. The $1000.00 will be there only to supplement people’s retirement (like it was intended) not to be the only source of retirement.

The current seniors have been sold a bill of goods by our politicians and we must not penalize them for this injustice. What we need to do going forward though is to communicate to everyone, this system is broken and we are going to fix it. It is the moral thing to do. No one should have to retire on what the government decides is an acceptable amount of income. It will never be enough. When people know what to expect they can plan for it. Then each generation will not be bitter about handing over their hard earned money to people that didn’t save for their own retirement. Just a thought…

No you can’t eat here…

Walter Williams, one of my favorite Professors, has written about the willingness of people to allow government tyranny to thrive. It started with the tobacco zealots, and as he predicted, they're coming after you. Legislation has been introduced in Mississippi to force restaurants there to determine if a person is obese, and if they are, it will be illegal to serve them. In the name of fighting obesity we have lost a freedom.

· In the name of fighting cancer, we have outlawed smoking for adults.
· In the name of fighting ADD, we have outlawed soda in the school machines.
· In the name of fighting hatred, we have outlawed free speech.
· In the name of cleaning up elections, we have outlawed free speech.
· In the name of what next, will we outlaw all of our freedoms?

When are you going to say enough? When they tell you you can’t watch American Idol? When you can no longer purchase an SUV? When you can no longer question your school about the curriculum their teaching your kids? What will be your tipping point?

They’re coming after you; God bless Walter Williams. I’m sorry, have they outlawed the mention of God yet?

The Government will now buy homes for the "poor"…

It was announced today that the government will pay for new homes for the poor. If you make less than $35,000 a year are a family of 4 or more, you will be able to choose a home with a value up to $650,000. The government will deduct an additional $600 a month from everyone’s paycheck making over $35,000 to pay for the program.

Hillary Clinton was asked about the program, and she said she liked it on the surface but was concerned that the $650,000 limit may not be high enough for some areas of the country. She proposed a $1,000,000 limit for California and some parts of the East Coast.

In the same announcement the government is requiring all employers to pay a minimum wage of $27.00 per hour to help increase the amount of taxes they can collect for the new programs being introduced. The increase in the minimum wage is expected to eliminate all Americans from poverty.

When the franchise owner of McDonalds was asked how this was going to impact the price of a Big Mac, he was quoted as saying; “it will go from $2.49 to $8.49 but will include an apple pie for desert.”

This is what liberal politicians would love to do, but why can’t they? Why can’t Hillary and Obama just pass a law that healthcare will be free to all Americans? Why can’t the government just raise wages and expect everything to get better? It’s called the market.

Anyone that has ever spent ten seconds in an Economics class knows the law of supply and demand. When the price goes down, demand goes up but what about supply? Supply is driven by demand but also the ability to make profit. If you limit profit with price controls, no one will produce the product. So even though you raised the wages of workers, increasing the supply of money, you will have to increase the cost of goods to pay the wages or their will be no profit for making Big Macs. The supply will go away and the job will follow if you limit the price a producer of Big Macs can charge.

There are many principles at work but if you were given a house with a value up to $1,000,000, if you made less than $35,000 and had 2 children, is your incentive to make more than 35K or less than 35K? Is your incentive to have no children or 2 children? Controlling the market has consequences.

So why is it different with healthcare? It isn’t. If you make healthcare available to everyone through tax payer subsidies, demand will increase. If you force providers to treat everyone, at a mandated price, providers will limit supply. If you force them to increase supply you will harm quality. In the end no one will become a doctor or nurse unless of course you are forced to do it. Is that freedom?

Hillary has never held a job in the private sector beyond a short unsuccessful stint as a lawyer. She believes she knows better because she believes she has good intentions. We all have good intentions but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Just ask the Russians, Chinese, and Cubans. Let’s ask the government to get out of our lives, not become further entrenched in our lives. I know Hillary is not very intelligent, but are you? Do you trust the market or Hillary?