A good friend of ours, Bonnie, or “Mountain Gal,” sent me a video last week.

I thought it was great, and felt I’d let you guys in on it today.

If you haven’t seen this video before, please watch it. If you have, then watch it again…if ya feel like it…

“A government that continues to rob Peter to pay Paul obviously can continue to count on Paul’s support.”

How easy is that?

Yet, all these “Paul’s,” have sold their souls, black, white, green, or brown…

To our politicians.

For a little bit of nothing.

The very politicians these “dumbed down” constituents continue to vote into office, time after time, after time, really couldn’t care less about them…their “constituency.”

I won’t even get into this part, simply because it should be very obvious to see.

“We The People,” have complacently say by and watched our freedoms, our values, our integrity, our Constitution, our Flag, and our National Anthem be walked on, and literally tossed under the bus.

Why?

My thoughts on this is that our politicians used our own Christian morals, our belief in “our system of government,” with its checkpoints and limitations it provided through our Constitution of power allowed…our politicians.

I also know, that these same politicians understood very well our belief in law and order, our system of law, and because of what America WAS, and what it stood for, we’d sit back…and trust in our government, and our voters, to in fact, right the boat.

I gotta say…this has worked out very well, hasn’t it?

Well, actually it HAS worked out very well…FOR…the political elite!

Power and greed…More and more, power and greed!

Yep, this agenda has in fact worked out very well.

Through our belief that our Constitution provided these limitations of power, and our mind set of, “Let’s not rock the boat, let’s not do anything against the law, let’s just sit back, be patient and then…things will be alright.”

Wrong!

Power and greed…this is our Country today.

Political correctness…what’s that all about, anyway?

Only an agenda to silence dissent.

Funny thing though…how in the world did believing in your Constitution, believing in your right to worship freely, believing that if you’d only work and apply yourself, that in turn, our Country provides you the opportunity…to live the American Dream,” EVER become classified…AS DISSENT???

Our politicians, power, and greed.

Gun control??

Take off the gun, and you have exactly what this “gun control” agenda is REALLY ALL ABOUT…

CONTROL!

Look what our politicians have done to us…without gun control. Look at how they literally chunk our Constitution under the bus….and we STILL have the ability to protect ourselves???

What happens when we roll over, and once more give in to our governments wishes of…they know best. “Just listen to us…We’ll make it right.”

Yet they want our guns, but this very same administration advocated, then set in motion… “operation…Fast and Furious.”

Boy, that sure worked out for the Mexican citizens, didn’t it?

Thousands dead, shot by automatic weapons supplied by this administration, who originally, with our media’s help…tried to put the blame on us.

They were claiming it was OUR right to bear arms that allowed these weapons to be bought openly, and because of this…we needed to take a long hard look at…gun control.

It was quite simple to understand, for anybody with a semblance of a brain to know quite well, that automatic weapons are not sold freely in the US…without very, very stringent background checks.

So, ass I said, it WAS quite clear as to where these weapons hittin the streets in Mexico were REALLY comin from!

And…

Ends up…our political powers that be were indeed…letting this take place!

THEN…

They deny it. Then they refuse to dig deep, and prosecute anyone for this atrocity??? Shoot, it’s much easier to simply blame it on you and I… “We The People.”

IF it had been this way…you think anybody would have been held accountable?

Of course they would have!

Hitler once said, “How fortunate for governments that the people they govern…don’t think!”

Ring a bell to anyone is morning?

The law-abiding citizen in this Country abuses their right to bear arms, very, very infrequently. The stats prove this time after time.

The school shootings?

Terrible, terrible acts! There is NO condoning this in any way shape or form.

Yet, look at our politicians, AND their agenda once more…

They are destroying the family unit as a whole. They TELL us, what our children will eat at school.

They tell us whether we can discipline (NOT ABUSE, although this is the left’s counter to discipline) our own children. Through this, how do you teach your child accountability for THEIR actions?

Time out, you say?

Baloney, says I!

How do you teach them morals and respect?

You don’t!

How bout teaching YOUR children the value of a work ethic, and the ability for them to do literally anything they want, or be anybody they want by running their own business, through hard work and sacrifice?

You don’t!

Shoot, the government today considers a hard work ethic…greedy, selfish, and actually, stealing a piece of the “poor and oppressed” …slice of pie!

Ponder this for only a second or two…

OUR political leaders, most of which HAVE absolutely no idea what so ever of fiscal responsibility, have never run a business, or made a payroll, at least with THEIR OWN MONEY, are telling THEIR CONSTITUENCY” that…we, the working people, the tax payers, the lawful, the believers in our religious and personal freedoms our Country allows us…

Are…the greedy ones here in this picture???

These same people, now have us, our children, our grandchildren, and who knows how many future generations will be affected by this fiscal irresponsibility, are portraying the “engine that runs this Country,” the taxpayers who literally are funding all these “give-away” programs, which by the way, the recipients of this generosity of our, hate us!

Yes, they do!

Why?

Because they’ve been indoctrinated to hate us.

By…once more…our politicians!

Kinda funny though, that our politicians, the very ones who STEAL daily, not only from us, but their own constituents as well…

Paint us…as the greedy ones.

Even funnier is the fact that we’ve set on our backsides for so long, and allowed our government to “dumb us down,” that these poor oppressed…believe now, that what we have…IS THEIRS TOO!

What a crazy, mixed up society we live in today!

We’ve helped poor people out in this Country since its inception…over two hundred years.

Not through the barrel of a gun as Dinesh states, but through OUR OWN generosity, values, and integrity.

Out church, and I’m sure most others have a food pantry.

You come, state you lost your job, can’t feed your family…you walk away with food. Many times even having your power bill, or rent paid too.

Our church doesn’t pay these bills, I don’t think, they might, but I know there are MANY that do…I’m just sayin.

BUT, my point is this is done out of our own generosity and need to have some moral transactions that…make us feel good, about helping a friend, or neighbor out.

That’s all.

This worked.

UNTIL, our politician figured out…we don’t WANT people controlling their own lives, starting up businesses, being successful…cause…we can’t control these people! Shoot, they have…MINDS OF THEIR OWN…God forbid!

What do we do??

We USE this very Democracy…against them!

We USE our citizens giving hearts against them!

We then advocate laws AL:LOWING us to take what we want from the producers, and THEN, GIVE a part of it to…the NON-PRODUCERS!

We PUT people ON WELFARE, and DON’T give them the opportunity to GET OFF WELFARE!

Through this, we create a voting bloc that will continue to grow, and grow, and GROW, until one day…we’ll have power forever!

This “DEMOCRACY THING,” IS GREAT!

Once we have “the numbers” we then have…power…FOR LIFE!

I love America!!

The sad part, and the truth is…NO they don’t love America, not by any means, they HATE America, but sadly, just as they figured out…they CAN, destroy America…from within.

Folks, they are, too!

Welcome to…

Today’s society!

Don’t ya just love it?

Sadly, we must, cause we sure ain’t doin anything about it!

Listen…once more, okay?

WE, the people…are FUNDING our own demise!

WHY, do we not put a stop to this?

Why, do WE not advocate boycotting anything and anybody who continues shoving this political correctness upon us?

Look at the blacks, the Hispanics, homosexuals, and even look at the Muslims.

Believe me, I’m not anti ANY of these people, but simply making a point here.

I advocate people of ANY and ALL color, white included…IF…they believe in MY COUNTRY!

OUR COUNTRY!

IF they advocate, we’re not African -Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Muslim-Americans, again, even White-Americans!

I consider us ALL, simply…AMERICANS!

These people turn out in the streets…by the thousands!

WHY, don’t we?

They don’t like the direction of something, or even the wording of an ad???

They boycott it!

Tax revolts, maybe??

I dunno, but…we need a hero folks!

A John Wayne kinda guy, who literally tells it like it is, and leads not only through his words, but also…HIS ACTIONS!

We’re fast comin to a time of either “steppin up,” OR, “shuttin up!”

The choice is ours.

The type of society we leave for our children, and their children, and their children, rests squarely upon…our shoulders!

How’s that for some pressure on ya this morning, huh?

So there’s a little something for ya to kick around some today…think on it as little, okay?

You guys have a great day, and God Bless you, and yours!

“Keep a smile on your face, and one in your hearts!”

Dub

Today’s post is from my good, good friend AP. A lot of you have read his posts before and today starts it up again on our site.

AP is in his nineties and sharp as a tack, although he’s a dern carpetbagger…uh…I mean Yankee! He just underwent a procedure on his heart and he feels great! We’re elated that he’s “back in the saddle” once again!

God Bless you buddy!

“The president shall have the power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during a recess of the Senate” The Constitution Article 11, Section 2

When on January 20, 2009, Barack Obama swore to defend the Constitution; he did not mean all of it. He evidently believes that the provisions quoted above merely expresses the Founders ‘now anachronistic anxieties about abuses of executive powers. So on Jan. 4, 2012, Obama simply ignored the Recess Clause to fill 3 seats on the National Labor Board, even though the Senate said it “was not in recess. Obama” cheeky response was” when I decide what “recess” means.

The Recess Clause states that only the president’s power extends only to vacancies that ‘happen” while the Senate is in recess… The Framers wrote the Recess Clause to give the president very limited time, as little as 10 days to fill vacancies. Congress has adopted the practice of conducting pro forma sessions, so the Senate is not in recess while many of the Senators are not present. The Senate was holding such sessions every 3 days when Obama banded the settled for presidents respecting this practice. He treated the Senate’s unwillingness to act on his NLRB nominations as an inability to act, and said this inability constituted a de facto recess.

Consider this episode when deciding whether on January 20, 2013 he should again have a chance swear to only selectively defend the Constitution

Former U.S Senator Arlen Spector, died at the age of 84, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30 year career Announcing the diagnoses with his trade mark doggedness, Spector said “ I have beaten a brain tumor, bypass heart surgery , and many tough political opponents and I’m going to beat this, too”….When we were building the Scranton Mall, he would show up in time to have his photo and a few words for the press…..he was sort of an odd ball, but I believe he was an honest one.

THE ESSENTIAL OBAMA……..BY EMMETT TYRRELL JR.

WASHINGTON – Well, apparently I am not crazy after all. The polls have caught up with me, and they — après le debate — are coming around to my point of view. Governor Mitt Romney is ahead in the race for the White House, and he will probably be residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2013. President Barack Obama looked great at most official functions. Beginning with Ron Susskind’s fine book, “Confidence Men,” and continuing on to Bob Woodward’s recent “The Price of Politics,” it has been increasingly apparent that this president does not sit through meetings — even national security briefings — does not know how to make or implement policy and much prefers to gabble on and on, preferably with the assistance of a teleprompter. And to think the official party line on Obama has been that he is eloquent. I think the wind came out of that legend when in debate the other night Romney said, “Look, I’ve been in business for 25 years. I have no idea what you’re talking about.” All true blue Obama fans — and even I — expected the president to come back with any one of a half-dozen witty zingers. How about a rude reference to Bain Capital? Yet, Obama looked glassy-eyed and the ref, Jim Lehrer, stepped in. Moreover, Obama continued to be wobbly and evasive in response to Romney’s challenges. Some Obama fans blamed the ref, though if not for him Obama could have suffered bodily injury.

After four years in the White House, our ceremonial president is presiding over the weakest recovery of modern times. He presides over low growth, high unemployment and trillion dollar deficits every year of his presidency. All he is offering the electorate in the next four years is more of the same. Jimmy Carter could not get reelected with such a shaky strategy and neither will Obama. Furthermore last month his foreign policy went poof right in front of him. His nonsense about leading from behind, deferring to international organizations, and paying obeisance to Arab militants has been seen for what it is, a warrant for invading our diplomatic installations in foreign lands. In Libya the animals slaughtered our ambassador, and the evidence is clear, to wit, the ambassador was seeking more security at the time of his death and being rebuffed. Remember Benghazi!

The debate last week was a classic. Romney put together the finest showing of any presidential candidate in the history of televised debates. He did it by speaking of his record and in speaking of Obama’s record. Yet, he did something more. James Rosen of Fox News took notice with a lapidary remark: Romney “delivered one of the great defenses of the free market ever given to an audience of this size. Obama seemed intimidated and adrift with the material. His constructions were lengthy and complex, whereas Romney’s were clear and commanding and fluid. Even if Romney loses on November 6, this still goes down as an epic electronic-age primer on various models of economics that Ronald Reagan couldn’t even deliver; and Milton Friedman never addressed an audience of this size. At all points, Romney returned to the theme of competition as a driver of reduced costs and improved quality.” Rosen concluded: “Romney also delivered the sharpest elbow of the night, with the reference to Obama’s campaign contributors: the closest thing to the pressing of a charge of corruption.”

Now let me make a prediction. Romney will not lose on November 6. Obama will continue to perform wretchedly in debate. He is not going to do better. What you saw last week was the essential Barack Obama, community organizer and part-time senator.

JOE WAS THE ONLY ONE LAUGHING…..”If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs. And there is no quiet”

Conventional wisdom says that vice presidential debates don’t move the needle in elections, and last night’s debate was probably no exception. That said, Thursday night’s debate couldn’t have contrasted two more different candidates. Paul Ryan, the respectful, serious and earnest policy wonk, against Joe Biden, who behaved like a drunken clown and a jerk and paid due homage to the mascot of the Democrat Party — the Jackass.

On substance, Ryan held his own against Vice President Chuckles, despite having to face a second debate opponent in “moderator” Martha Raddatz of ABC News. Yet on style, whether the subject was the terrorist attack on our Libyan embassy, the ailing economy or abortion, Biden smiled, laughed, sneered, rolled his eyes and strategically interrupted Ryan every time the congressman hit his stride on an answer. And if it wasn’t Biden interrupting, it was Raddatz.

Biden is obviously a disciple of Saul Alinksy, who in his “Rules for Radicals,” Rule No. 5, said, “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.” Clearly, the Obama team decided that the president’s failure last week was that he was “too polite,” and that Biden had to use ridicule to shore up their anxious base. The result was appalling, but then again, Biden has been rehearsing his socialist obfuscation and diversion in Washington for 40 years.

With that, here are a few high and low lights.

Libya: Biden blamed the intelligence community for the ever-changing story coming from the White House, and flat out lied when he claimed ignorance as a defense. “[W]e weren’t told they wanted more security” at the embassy, he said.. But the bottom line is that the whole episode is, as Ryan responded, “indicative of a broader problem,” and we’re witnessing “the unraveling of the Obama foreign policy.”

Iran: Biden made the ridiculous assertion that even though Iran has spent the last four years further developing fissile material for a nuclear weapon, “they have to be able to have something to put it in. There is no weapon that the Iranians have at this point.” Well, building a bomb to “put it in” is the easy part. When the argument shifted to how the ayatollah sees it, Biden argued that the administration’s “most crippling sanctions in the history of sanctions, period,” have the Iranians looking at an “economy being crippled … the currency going into the tank … [and] the economy going into free fall.” We wondered if he meant the Iran economy or the U.S. economy. Maybe the administration should ease up on sanctions here at home.

Economy: We have to give Raddatz props for asking Biden why White House projections of unemployment under 6 percent were so wrong, but Biden immediately defaulted to blaming Bush. He then berated Mitt Romney for wanting to “let Detroit go bankrupt,” in contrast to the administration, which “rescued General Motors.” What he neglected to mention was that Detroit did go bankrupt — the White House just made sure the unions came out okay.

Biden then proceeded to the usual leftist class warfare, accusing Republicans of holding the middle class “hostage” to tax cuts “for the super wealthy.” Yet tax policy should be about growth, not “fair shares” and “economic patriotism,” as Barack Obama put it last week. As Ryan noted, “The economy is barely limping along. It’s growing at 1.3 percent. That’s slower than it grew last year and last year was slower than the year before.” The Romney/Ryan tax cut plan — a 20 percent cut across the board with reforms to deductions and credits — is first and foremost a pro-growth plan. The so-called “cost” of cutting those taxes will be more than offset by economic growth. Ryan tried to note despite rude interruption that John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan did the same thing with great success, contrary to the leftist assertion that we “can’t afford” it and that the Bush-era tax cuts caused the current deficits.

As for unemployment, the real (U-6) rate, which includes those who are underemployed and those who have become discouraged and simply given up looking for work, is reported as 14.7 percent but, as with U-3, is probably much higher. In addition, the real unemployed and underemployed ranks of Americans have swollen to more than 20 million, households considered impoverished have grown to one in six, and there are 47 million food stamp recipients — up 50 percent since Obama’s election. Obama has also amassed $5 trillion in new debt, and our national debt now totals $16 trillion, which for the first time in history now exceeds U.S. annual economic output. Finally, median household income has declined by $4,520 (8.2 percent) since Obama took office (that’s the real “Obama tax”), energy prices have doubled because of Obama restrictions, and economic growth has slowed to an anemic 1.3 percent.

Biden made hay of Romney’s statement about 47 percent not paying federal income taxes, but that created an opening for Ryan’s best zinger of the night: “I think the vice president very well knows that sometimes the words don’t come out of your mouth the right way.”

Medicare and Social Security: Ryan hit the most critical point, saying, “Medicare and Social Security are going bankrupt. These are indisputable facts.” He noted that Democrats “got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, turning Medicare into a piggybank for ObamaCare,” taking $716 billion from future Medicare outlays to make ObamaCare look less expensive, but in essence trying to spend the same dollar twice. Biden countered with the same lie about Ryan’s “voucher” plan supposedly costing seniors $6,400 a year when it does nothing of the sort. Biden’s real assertion is the same old canard that markets and competition don’t work, only government does.

Taxes: This was largely covered under the economy section, but it was at this point that Ryan really nailed it: “[W]e think that government taking 28 percent of a family and business’s income is enough. President Obama thinks that the government ought to be able to take as much as 44.8 percent of a small business’s income.” And, given that “[e]ight out of 10 businesses file their taxes as individuals, not as corporations,” this is key.

Afghanistan: Ryan took issue with Obama’s withdrawal deadline because “we don’t want to lose the gains we’ve gotten. We want to make sure that the Taliban does not come back in and give al-Qa’ida a safe haven.” That’s exactly what’s beginning to happen under the current commander in chief. Biden’s reply was essentially that deadlines are good for cooperation. And, he noted, “I’ve been throughout that whole country, mostly in a helicopter, and sometimes in a vehicle.” Well then, that settles it!

Religion and abortion: This is not the top issue for most voters, but the candidates answers certainly were a window into their philosophies. While both men are Catholic, only one of them expressed genuine faith. Ryan noted that “reason and science” go hand in hand with his faith, saying that, when they saw the “seven-week ultrasound for our firstborn child, and we saw the heartbeat,” it confirmed to him that “life begins at conception.” Biden agreed, “Life begins at conception in the church’s judgment. I accept it in my personal life.” And yet somehow, in public policy, he’s determined to protect not that innocent life but a woman’s right to “control [her] body.” His faith teaches that abortion is murder, yet he thinks it should be legal and funded by the federal government. The contradiction was stunning.

Biden also played fast and loose with verb tenses in claiming that Catholic institutions don’t have to pay for contraception, per the ObamaCare mandate. They will next year. And Ryan responded with a simple question: If the administration is so great on religious liberty, “Why would they keep suing you?”

In closing: Biden struck the pose of the used-car salesman trying to make a deal with a sucker: “Who you gonna trust, me or your lyin’ eyes?” Ryan contrasted the two approaches, listing all of Obama’s unkept promises, and saying, “The choice is clear: a stagnant economy that promotes more government dependency or a dynamic, growing economy that promotes opportunity and jobs. … [W]e will not try to replace our founding principles. We will reapply our founding principles.” That would indeed be an excellent place to start.

Quote of the Week
“On nearly every specific issue on which Mr. Biden attacked, he was demonstrably wrong. The Administration’s Medicare actuary really does say that 15% of hospitals will take on operating deficits as a result of ObamaCare’s cuts in payments to Medicare providers. The American Enterprise Institute study doesn’t say that Mr. Romney’s plan will raise taxes on the middle class, and Mr. Ryan’s Medicare plan doesn’t raise costs for seniors by $6,400. Mr. Biden never even tried to offer a second-term agenda. But this 90 minutes wasn’t about an exchange of ideas or a debate over policies. It was a Democratic show of contempt for the opposition, an attempt to claim by repetitive assertion that Messrs. Ryan and Romney are radicals who want to destroy ‘the middle class.’ Mr. Ryan’s cool under assault was a visual rebuttal of that claim, and we certainly know who looked more presidential.” –The Wall Street Journal

On Cross-Examination

“A team of 19 Heritage [Foundation] experts cut through the malarkey and focused on [the] substance” of last night’s debate. Read their outstanding analysis.

Open Query

“Vice President Biden is laughing. Are you?” –Republican National Committee ad

Government and Politics

Campaign Trail: Obama’s Money Machine

A scandal is brewing over potential campaign-finance violations by the Obama campaign, but it’s not getting much press coverage. A new report by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) notes that the Obama campaign has extraordinarily lax online security that leaves it open to receiving foreign and fraudulent donations. The 108-page study points out that the official Obama campaign website requires a credit card security code to purchase merchandise but not to make a contribution. It also doesn’t have a strong address verification system, which, like the security code, is a standard tool used in e-commerce.

The Federal Election Commission doesn’t require candidates to maintain basic credit card security procedures for online transactions, nor does it require recipients to record and track donations under $200. The problem here is that without proper security protocols in place, there is no way to determine if candidates are accepting foreign donations, which is illegal. But one might easily believe that the Obama campaign deliberately shirked these online security protocols in order to accept illegal foreign donations.

For 10 months during this election cycle, the campaign’s official website, BarackObama.com, received visitors redirected from a privately owned site, Obama.com. The latter URL was purchased in 2008 by businessman and Obama supporter Robert Roche, a China-based U.S. citizen with strong ties to several state-controlled financial institutions. The lax security procedures at BarackObama.com meant there was no way of knowing if any of the 68 percent of the foreign visitors to the Roche-owned site made illegal contributions to the president’s campaign. But we do know that Obama has raised over $270 million in contributions under $200. And we also know that in his 2008 campaign Obama raised $335 million in contributions under $200 with a similar open-door contribution policy and overall lack of transparency.

Hope ‘n’ Change: Obama Campaign Pulls Down Offensive Flags

As noted in Mark Alexander’s column, The ObamaNation Plantation, the Obama campaign store contained crudely painted American flags with the Obama seal taking the place of the stars. Called the “Our Stripes” collection, it now appears to have been pulled from the store. The links no longer work and we’ve been unable to locate the art on their site. Draw your own conclusions.

News From the Swamp: Senators Meet to Avoid Fiscal Cliff

A group of eight senators met this week to try to carve out a deal to prevent the country from going over a fiscal cliff that will hit taxpayers with a massively larger bill come January. The three-day meeting included four Republicans — Saxby Chambliss (GA), Mike Crapo (ID), Tom Coburn (OK), Mike Johanns (NE) — and four Democrats — Michael Bennet (CO), Kent Conrad (ND), Dick Durbin (IL), Mark Warner (VA). Also in attendance was Alan Simpson, co-chair of the 2010 Simpson-Bowles debt reduction commission.

The three-day gathering was the latest in a series of failed attempts to come up with a workable plan to tackle the mounting federal debt, and the attendees aimed to come up with a framework for broader debate once the Senate reconvenes after the election. No details of the framework have emerged, but Washington’s track record on the issue doesn’t offer high hopes. Obama helped craft the Simpson-Bowles commission himself only to later reject the commission’s findings. Since then Congress has repeatedly failed to devise a plan on which Republicans and Democrats can agree. If Congress does nothing, the ruinous tax increase will likely push the economy over a cliff and back into recession.

Another Voter ID Law Upheld, if Delayed

A three-judge panel of the Fourth District Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, upheld South Carolina’s voter ID law this week, the second defeat for proponents of voter fraud in as many weeks. Last week, Pennsylvania’s law was upheld. The headlines for both rulings, however, blared that judges had “blocked” the laws. In reality, the judges acknowledged that the rulings were too close to the election to be reasonably enforced by then, and so deferred enforcement until next year. In neither case did the judges find fault with the laws themselves. The only victory the Obama Justice Department can claim in challenging these laws is that they successfully delayed them until after Barack Obama’s re-election opportunity.
Voter fraud came into play again this week when Obama supporters were caught on camera offering aid to investigators pretending to be seeking to vote for Obama more than once. No wonder Democrats object to the supposedly “racist” hindrance of having to present a photo ID at the polls before voting.

Economy

Income Redistribution: Food Stamps Hit Another Peak

Lost in the hoopla about a deceptive employment report released last Friday was a cruel reminder that our economic recovery is far from complete — the number of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients hit a record 46.68 million in July. Yes, one out of every seven Americans receives government help to buy food, at a monthly cost exceeding $6 billion. But hey, Obama cares.

While the USDA summary blamed the jump on weather-related issues in some parts of the country, the depressing fact is that the number of recipients has exceeded 46 million every month since last September, meaning that ever more people grow ever more dependent upon governmental assistance every day because their long-term employment prospects are bleak.

Few know more about lengthy stays on the unemployment line than the typical construction worker. Since construction employment peaked at 7.7 million in April 2006, the industry has shed more than two million jobs, with over one million of them during Obama’s term alone. This despite the $833 billion “stimulus” that promised “shovel-ready” projects to recover 400,000 of those jobs.

Instead, we’ve seen more and more once-proud workers forced onto food stamp rolls by the sheer necessity of needing to somehow feed a family. All Democrats seem to have stimulated is the caseload of thousands of government employees needed to continue refilling those electronic benefit transfer cards, month after agonizing month.

Picking — and Creating — the Losers

The $90 billion in “stimulus” debt spent on green energy was intended to jumpstart an industry the Obama administration wagered would be the wave of the future. But they failed to take a key aspect of the energy industry into account, as natural gas prices plunged thanks to new technology for extraction. That drop in natural gas prices has eased demand for coal, but Barack Obama’s pledge to make electricity more expensive is assisted by regulations that might force the closing of coal-fired plants accounting for a quarter of coal’s power production share. A study by energy industry experts calculated that utilities would need between $126 and $144 billion to retrofit and replace all that coal capacity.

The government won’t help utilities invest in fossil fuels, but they’re only too happy to support those who waste government subsidies with impunity. After the well-publicized failures of Solyndra, Ener1, and other “green energy” companies, two more companies are on the ropes after receiving millions. Abound Solar, recipient of $68 million (of about $370 million promised), filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. That’s hardly news except that Abound has also skipped out on nearly $2 million in unpaid property taxes and sold a product described as “working well unless the sun hit it.” Abound’s panels have an annoying tendency to underperform or even catch fire if the sun hits them.

In another success story, the future battery maker for the Chevy Volt has placed its employees on rotating furloughs due to a lack of demand. Compact Power, whose plant was built with $150 million in federal funds, hasn’t yet made a single battery for the Volt or a planned electric Ford Focus. But the lack of Volt sales has created a ripple effect at the Michigan plant that’s supposed to begin producing the batteries for it next year. The Volt’s batteries are currently made by a plant in South Korea, hardly a hotbed of American jobs.

Security Department of Military Readiness: Romney’s Foreign Policy Foray Barack Obama’s foreign policy took a solid flogging this week at the hands of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, just in time for his senior accomplice, vice president Joe Biden, to defend it against vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan in round two of the debates. Romney pointed out the long trail of foreign policy missteps and humiliations inflicted by Team Hope ‘n’ Change. Among them: the blatant snubbing of our otherwise-close ally, Israel; the grave threat of allowing Iran’s nuclear ambitions to continue to develop; the stiff finger we gave to the millions who filled the streets of Iran in 2009 demanding freedom from an oppressive government; the dramatic cuts in our defense, leaving the U.S. in a weaker position to defend its vital interests abroad; and, most recently, the passive stance on the terrorist attacks on our embassies in the Middle East, culminating in deaths of four Americans, including one U.S. ambassador in Libya. While Obamaphiles drag the same tattered suit out of the closet, repeating, “The tide of war is receding,” the rest of the planet realizes the tide is not receding — it’s regrouping.

Romney apparently “gets” the threat from that tide, noting the substantial difference between administrations of the past and this one. Highlighting the critical role leadership plays in foreign affairs, Romney stated, “It is the responsibility of our president to use America’s great power to shape history — not to lead from behind, leaving our destiny at the mercy of events.” Driving the point home, Romney said, “I know the president hopes for a safer, freer and a more prosperous Middle East allied with the United States. I share this hope. But hope is not a strategy.” Likewise, while killing Osama bin Laden was a credit-worthy achievement, it, too, doesn’t amount to a coherent foreign policy. The threat from al-Qa’ida remains. Nor does a “run-for-the-exits” political move amount to a strategy.

How does Governor Romney propose to undo this mess? Simple: Leadership. Specifically, Romney outlined key pieces of his foreign policy that differed from the status quo. These include beefing up defense so that our words can be “backed up by deeds”; putting rogue nations like Iran on notice that the days of attempting to acquire “the bomb” are over through more stringent sanctions and, if necessary, actions; reaffirming ties with Israel and other Gulf “partners” by employing the old Arabian adage, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”; reforming foreign assistance to bolster freedom, free enterprise and rule-of-law governance among nations we help; and championing free trade as a strategic tool of freedom, generally. Regarding this last point, Romney noted that Obama hasn’t signed a single new free-trade agreement during his tenure.

At least the military appreciates Romney’s straight-shooting approach. In a recent poll by the Military Times, former and current U.S. military personnel favor Romney over Obama by more than two-to-one, with character and economy handily besting other considerations, including national security, as factors. While we are not so naïve to presume that foreign policy is the pivotal issue in this election — either for former or current military members or for the rest of America — it’s certainly at least one among many important reasons why the Dear Leader must be ousted in November. No less than the fate of the nation hangs in the balance.

Warfront With Jihadistan: Changing the Tune Yet Again

Since the attacks on U.S. embassies in Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Tunisia on and around the anniversary of 9/11, we have chronicled the ever-changing story of the Obama administration. This week, the State Department claimed that it was “not our conclusion” that the protest and ensuing murders in Benghazi were caused by the anti-Islam movie trailer on YouTube. Yet White House officials, including Barack Obama himself in his shameful UN speech and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, repeatedly blamed the violence on the video. Now State wants us to believe that they never believed what they continued to say.

Not only didn’t they believe their own spin, but the State Department also now says there wasn’t a protest at all. The murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens, two former Navy SEALs and another security officer was simply the deliberate work of al-Qa’ida terrorists. This is finally a credible story, but why did it take a month for them to admit it?

In related news, Obama bragged while on the campaign trail of his foreign-policy promises kept. “Now, four years ago, I made a few commitments to you,” said Obama. “I told you I’d end the war in Iraq, and I did. I said I’d end the war in Afghanistan, and we are. I said we’d refocus on the people who actually attacked us on 9/11 — and today, al-Qa’ida is on its heels and Osama bin Laden is no more.”

His claims are full of holes. If al-Qa’ida successfully executed an attack on our embassies on the anniversary of their most successful terrorist attack, how exactly are they “on their heels”? They also killed a security official at the embassy in Yemen Thursday.

Furthermore, reports the Associated Press, “Al-Qaida is rebuilding in Iraq and has set up training camps for insurgents in the nation’s western deserts as the extremist group seizes on regional instability and government security failures to regain strength, officials say. Iraq has seen a jump in al-Qaida attacks over the last 10 weeks, and officials believe most of the fighters are former prisoners who have either escaped from jail or were released by Iraqi authorities for lack of evidence after the U.S. military withdrawal last December.”

It’s almost as if the commander in chief doesn’t want to lead the world’s only super power.

Immigration Front: Border Patrol Agent Update

Last week, we noted that U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie was killed in the line of duty, and we pondered if there was a connection with Fast and Furious. Tragically, however, it turns out that Ivie was killed by friendly fire.

According to the Associated Press, “The head of the U.S. Border Patrol agents’ union says the agent killed last week in a shooting in southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two colleagues thinking they were armed smugglers and was killed when they returned fire.” He died at the scene. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Ivie’s wife and two children.

United States Navy Birthday

On Oct. 13, 1775, the U.S. Navy was born when the Continental Congress authorized the arming of two sailing vessels with 80 men and 10 carriage guns in order to intercept British supply and munitions transports. The Declaration of Independence came nine months later, followed by the creation of the Department of the Navy in 1798. Today, our Navy is the most powerful in the world. We at The Patriot Post offer our thanks to all our sailors for a job well done and wish you a Happy 237th Birthday! God bless you and your families.

Please visit The Patriot Post Shop for a great selection of items bearing the Navy’s insignia.

Culture

Second Amendment: The Chicago Way

Crime is up in Chicago this year (and not just due to the Obama campaign), with murders increasing a staggering 25 percent from last year’s already incredibly high body count. The city and surrounding Cook County have over 9,00 inmates, almost the local jail’s capacity of 10,155. Throw in street gangs, drug use, high-school dropouts, and it’s obvious what needs to be done in Chicago: Tax guns and ammunition. Because all gangsters will pay taxes when they buy their legal guns and ammo.

Once again blaming inanimate objects instead of criminals, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle wants to impose a “violence tax” on guns and ammunition sold in the city and suburbs. “If we were to pursue a tax on something like guns and ammo … it is consistent with our commitment to pursuing violence reduction in the city and in the county,” Kurt Summers, Preckwinkle’s chief of staff, said, adding that the idea is to reduce the number of guns in circulation. Left unexplained, of course, was how removing objects that don’t commit violence will reduce violence, but leftist logic has always been sketchy. We propose a violence tax on the perps illegally using firearms to commit violent crime. Say, 20 to 30?

Gun rights proponents rightfully vow to fight Preckwinkle’s tax idea. “This is just another example of the blame game. … [T]hey want to make legal gun owners — guys like me — the scapegoat,” said Todd Vandermyde, an NRA lobbyist who works in Springfield. He said this is an unfair tax on a constitutional right that will mostly hurt the poor.

Two bills in the Illinois legislature would create an explicit tax on ammunition, but both bills are currently parked in the House Rules Committee. These types of tax attacks on constitutional rights have been tried before and been successfully defeated. Let’s hope these two bills share the same fate.

Leftists Use Science to Justify Trampling Religious Liberty

Four hundred years after the Pilgrims journeyed to the New World in search of religious liberty, the president of this New World has been waging war against that religious liberty. Last week on the campaign trail, Barack Obama boasted of ObamaCare’s mandate that employers purchase insurance to cover contraception, including abortifacients: “I don’t think a college student … should have to choose between textbooks or the preventive care that she needs. That’s why we passed this law. And I am proud of it.”

He claims to allow exemptions for religious organizations, but even this flies in the face of liberty by relegating religious practice to the realm of “tolerated” rather than “free.” And in order to receive an exemption, an organization must meet Obama’s criteria of “religious,” which apparently a Bible publisher does not. Tyndale House Publishers, the Christian publisher named after William Tyndale, who was strangled and burned at the stake in 1536 for translating the Bible into English, sued the government over the mandate. If a Bible publisher isn’t religious, we’re not sure what is. Of course, if Tyndale set up shop in a government park or building, we imagine the administration would sing a different tune.

Supporting Obama’s war on religion, a new study found that free birth control results in significantly lower abortion and teen-birth rates. The study tracked 9,000 St. Louis women from 2008 to 2010 and concluded that, when unhindered by costs, women select more effective contraceptives — namely, implanted devices — over birth-control pills, thereby reducing the rate of pregnancy. Predictably, the authors claim that this proves ObamaCare’s contraception mandate works. What these results fail to address, however, are the myriad consequences of promiscuous sexual activity: STDs, emotional distress, family breakdown — the list goes on. The truth is that there is something that neutralizes all of these plus unintended pregnancies and works 100 percent of the time. It’s called abstinence. But to say so is akin to splashing leftists with holy water.

Faith and Family: Protestants Now a Minority

The U.S. made history this year. For the first time ever, Protestants represented less than half the population. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reports that just 48 percent of Americans can be classified as Protestant. For the first time, no Protestants hold seats on the Supreme Court, and the GOP presidential ticket has no Protestants. Much of the change is due to the growth of nondenominational churches, which aren’t classified as Protestant, as well as a sharp increase in those who claim no religion at all.

The study seems to be another indicator that we are becoming ever more like Western Europe — a post-Christian nation saddled with a massive debt-financed welfare state because the church is largely absent. The non-religious tend to vote Democrat at least as heavily as Evangelical Christians vote Republican, and the latter seems to be a shrinking population. We would note that the GOP has largely failed to make the case that smaller government benefits people of all stripes and religious backgrounds, and that one need not embrace religion to support and defend our Constitution. But if the trend continues — not to mention the trend of minorities voting Democrat — the GOP could be in serious electoral jeopardy.

And Last…

Are you planning to carve a pumpkin for Halloween but unsure what design to carve? Well, you’re in luck, because Obama’s Energy Department has some helpful suggestions. “Green energy is going orange for Halloween,” reports CNS News, “as the U.S. Energy Department offers downloadable pumpkin-carving patterns on its website. The ‘Energy-ween’ designs include a windmill, solar panel, and compact fluorescent light bulb.” Those may not be the brightest ideas, but on the other hand, the sheer quantity of taxpayer money wasted on these projects is pretty scary. Perhaps we should just cut right to the chase and carve the scariest Jack-o-lantern of all: One that says, “$16,000,000,000,000.”

Tonight (Sorry, I posted AP’s article late)the President and Romney go at each other again, with another LEFTY as moderator. The format will be “town hall sryle” where the questions will come from the audience, you can be sure that each side will have “stooges” asking some of the questions, with Obama will come out swinging, with the 47% as a prime topic. If Romney can keep his cool and concentrate on Obama’s record. Then I believe we will be HOME……..see ya’all in the funny papers……..AP

You know, in regards to expressing my personal views involving politics today, I’ve gotten to the point where it really saddens me in my attempt to understand the path we’re being led down anymore as a Country.

I try and rationalize steps I see being implemented by our government, and keep an open mind in their regard. Maybe it’s because of this, maybe the reasoning for this decision was because of that, yet once I get down to the nitty-gritty I see only one outcome…basically, total governmental control and the advocating of a socialist agenda.

To me personally I see the end of our Republic looming on the horizon. To stop this steady march towards an end I surely don’t want to see, not so much for me, but for my children and grandchildren.

I’ve lived and experienced being a part of, and living in, the greatest Country on earth…the United States of America. If we’re not very, very careful, this legacy will come to an end.

Deb and I want to write about gardening, canning our vegetables, the benefits derived from juicing and eating good, fresh vegetables. We want to laugh and cut-up with you guys. We want to enjoy our lives, as we always have, and now that we too are getting older, we’d like a sustainable lifestyle, and a certain financial future.

We’ve sacrificed and worked hard for this, but sadly today, with our economy teetering on the brink of financial collapse, we aren’t so sure, so certain of our future. This is not because of decisions we’ve made, but atrocious and outrageous decisions made by our elected officials.

Then, their backing by the mainstream media of a political agenda being reported to the people, and not the truth. This is very worrying to me!

You know, I posted yesterday about, “Political Correctness Be Damned.” I talked about our elected leaders and our media declaring that “we the people,” need to be compassionate towards the poor and oppressed. We should want to help.

My first response to such an accusation is anger. Honestly, it angers me to no end. First off, this accusation is an out and out lie. But, so is the same accusation that I didn’t vote for Barack Hussein Obama because he was black, or basically that I’m a racist. This too is an out and out lie!

But…my point today is about wasting my hard earned money on…deadbeats! Yeah, I know, that’s a pretty harsh accusation in its own right, but it is the truth in many, many instances! I’m only calling it as I see it!

On top of this, the people passing out my hard earned money are incompetents! Incompetents…with no accountability in taking care of…my money and YOUR money!

Literally, there IS NO accountability! I don’t know about you guys, but I’m sick of this!

A few examples I Googled up this morning after seeing on our local news about more governmental program fraud through giveaways! Again, this is sickening, and outrageous in the simple fact…NO ONE is accountable!

First of all, taking, and that’s exactly what it is, but stealing is the more appropriate term, from one individual to GIVE, no less, to another individual!

It is…the buying of votes! Compassion plays no role in this conversation, yet, that’s exactly what we’re accused of…having no compassion for, quote, unquote, “the less fortunate!”

You want to talk about having NO compassion? How about the total destruction of a man or woman’s desire to better themselves, to grow and prosper, and to live the American Dream through a good, honest work ethic?

Are the teachings, or indoctrination of people that you’re ENTITLED to free food, free housing, free cell phones, free everything, a show of compassion? Of course it isn’t! Yet this is what our politicians have promised them!

This is THEIR idea of compassion, or what they have panned off on their constituents, AS compassion! They started in the inner cities, and now for decades have had these poor people under their thumb with the promise of even MORE “entitlements!”

Have these people’s lives been made more enjoyable on account of the giveaways? Just stop and look at the crime in these areas. Hell, the police won’t go into many of these areas, because of the crime. Violent crime! Yet our politicians consider themselves compassionate.

They, our powers that be, have destroyed these people’s souls through such blatant misuse of their power. They have not helped these people through compassion, they’ve ruined them. They’ve convinced them that you and I the taxpayer have cheated them out of their fair share.

Now today, these people don’t have the work ethic, the motivation, the desire, or the need to look for employment. They don’t have the gumption to go out, start a new business, and become productive themselves in our society.

In turn, by doing so, they’d be helping our Country to grow, stay strong, and maintain the freedoms we’ve always enjoyed!

Is this not sad? It is to me. To destroy a man’s soul is just got to be one of the greatest sins against God, against mankind, and against your own soul. Yet, it doesn’t seem to bother our officials in the least. Power, pure greed and influence is what this is about.

It’s so sad that their constituents either don’t have the intelligence to see this is only a scam, and that their elected officials have NO compassion for them in the least, or they’re so narrow minded they just frankly, don’t care!

You guys know also that to the media and many in power today we’re considered, as conservatives and many Independents, as racist. It baffles me that this is an accusation thrown our way, yet many, many people of color in power ,know the true agenda behind these give-aways yet endorse them fully.

I’m the racist here, according to the left, yet I could not condone for one second my KNOWINGLY hurting another individual’s right to work, raise their family, or better themselves!

Yet the ones calling for us to “have compassion, and to share in our good fortune,” are causing people to live deeper and deeper into poverty day by day.

Plus, by doing so, they too, through taxation, regulation, unionization, and theft, are burdening “we the people” with a financial obligation we cannot continue to sustain at the very same time. Killing two birds with one stone is a good analogy. This IS orchestrated, this is the plan, and this is our future, mark my word!

A couple examples…well, several examples of no accountability through give-away programs.

Understand this does not include governmental agencies such as the Postal Service, Am-trak, our politicians “golden” retirement plans, pensions, or health care. All which anymore are unwarranted, undeserved, and in reality are theft as well.

This is mainly JUST give-aways…

From the “Long Island Business News.”

• Two Westbury women allegedly conspired with a child care provider to steal $4,988 from the welfare system when they signed attendance sheets indicating their children were attending taxpayer-funded day care during a period when their children were out of town or out of the country for more than a month.

• A 52-year-old Plainview woman and her husband allegedly failed to report their true income resulting in $33,618 in illegally obtained Medicaid benefits.

• A 56-year-old East Meadow man allegedly failed to disclose his true income and falsely stated that he was working part-time at a pizzeria in order to illegally qualify for $15,844 in Medicaid and Food Stamps benefits. A DSS investigation revealed that the pizzeria that the man reportedly worked for does not exist and that he is employed as an “executive chef” at an upscale restaurant.

From the “Bradenton Patch.”

From “Tampa Bay Online.”

TAMPA —

Over about 20 months, Juma and two other men at his store scammed the food stamp program out of more than $857,000.

Is this incredible? Have you ever heard, or seen before such examples of incompetence? This is OUR money my friends?

Honestly this has to stop. This is not right to take from one and give to another. It is wrong! The examples above are just mere drops in the buckets of what goes on daily across our Country.

I WILL help my neighbor, my friend, my family. Hell, I’ve stopped before and helped people I had NO clue who, or what they, were. This is, through my own upbringing, the Christian thing to do. I don’t mind.

I DO mind the government first, falsely accusing me of being non-compassionate, even racist, if I disagree with them period. This too is a form of indoctrination of the very same people, once again, they are supposedly helping out…through these programs.

They are teaching them literally that what’s mine is also theirs, even to the extent of violence against the taxpayer, who in turn is funding their entitlement anyway. It’s not Obama, Pelosi, Reid, or even Romney or any other politico…it IS the taxpayer who funds this!

Yet, we the haves (what little Deb and I do have), are evil, corrupt, and greedy, according to the have-nots. All through their indoctrination by their own leaders that yes, this is true! Talking about putting “a spin” on things??

This has become so obviously a political ploy, or agenda, for continued political power, that in all honesty it is treason, pure and simple! It is!

Is not the undermining or destruction of a Democratic society, built upon and around a Constitution, a Bill of Rights, and the guaranteed freedoms of that Country’s citizens an act of treason? Of course it is. Yet this is exactly what is going on in our Country today! Open, arrogant, blatant political misuse of power! The destruction of our Country as we know it!

Our good friend Gary sent this video to us…please watch…

Interesting comments on governmental employee benefits, plus the giveaway programs. The comparison to Greece is interesting as well.

He also claims we can’t stop the giveaways (entitlements and pensions) on account of anarchy and violence in our streets. Where did this problem start? Politicians in their quest for buying the votes, their political power, and total control over “we the people.” All at our loss, and their gain!

We cannot sustain this. Personally, I would like to see these “entitlements” reigned in. I advocate help for our elderly, our handicapped, and our veterans. This I have no problem with.

Financial help for deadbeats (see above examples of fraud with our, the taxpayer monies), ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT entitlements (what is that all about in the first place), and “golden” government pensions…tossed in the trash! This once more is theft of our money, and in the bigger picture, the theft of our Country!!

As bad as I’d hate to see it, violence in the streets at this point, may be the ONLY solution we have to get these outrageous and unsustainable programs stopped. Terrible as this is to say, and honestly, I do not condone violence, BUT, I do not condone the destruction of our Country either.

This has to stop somewhere.

A couple quotes from Thomas Jefferson in closing…

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

Thank you guys for putting up with me one more time. I get so disgusted with such blatantly wasteful misuse of taxpayer monies.

Our next post will be back to the subject of gardening, and cutting up some. Please take note though of the happenings taking place in our Country. Try and educate others in this very important Presidential election coming up this year!

Thanks once more and God Bless you and yours, and God Bless America!

Deb says as always, “Keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!”

Dub and Deb

Today I’m gonna talk some about the state of our Country. To be honest with you all, I’m disappointed in our media, our educational system, our elected officials, and the road we’re being led down through a political agenda.

It is not the path intended by our Founding Fathers, our Constitution, or our rights as American citizens! It instead is an agenda being forced upon the good, law-abiding, hardworking, America loving, God fearing peoples of our Republic.

To be quite frank with you this morning, it is in fact a Revolution taking place within our Country. It is a Revolution pitting the haves versus the have-nots, the pitting of socialist agendas versus the capitalist identity of our Country, and the productive versus the non-productive.

It is a Revolution demanding that the very people that love our Country, and everything it stands for versus far too many that in reality have NO RIGHT of being in our Country to begin with…the ones who come here…illegally!

Through such policy being advocated by our elected officials, which by the way costs us hundreds of billions of dollars yearly, this too takes money, hard earned money I might add, from the mouths of our own children to support people who never should have been here in the first place!

Before I go further into this, let me state loud and clear that I do support immigration BUT, with a catch…Legal immigration! Is that too much to ask? Hell no, not by a long shot! But our “elected elite” find this appalling.

Where is my compassion for these poor oppressed people they like to ask? Well, in all honesty, it left about 14 trillion dollars worth of National debt run up by these very same “elected elite!” The compassionate!

These very same “elected elite,” who question my own morals and judgment on this issue, through MY LACK of compassion!

They’ve spent us into a mountain of debt that I find totally without ANY morals or judgment, or regard for me, my family, my friends, my neighbors, or our Country as a whole. YET, I’m considered immoral? Please, give me a break here guys.

We’re locked in, at this very moment, a Revolution of class warfare, racial divide, redistribution of our wealth, and our love of…God and Country! Our “elected elite” understand this word “revolution,” quite clearly. It is…their agenda!

Their goal is quite simple. It is literally the destruction of our freedoms and liberties. They, being the powers that be, have sold us out. Yet, they speak freely of…compassion!

The only type of compassion they recognize, or understand, is compassion for…themselves! They could care less about you and yours. It is only about them. This word, compassion, is only thrown around by them in their quest of continued power. Not yours or mine, but their own.

This is entirely nothing but the “elected elite,” buying votes! Through this buying of votes, they are attempting to, and doing a very good job of it I hate to admit, are increasing their stranglehold of power over “We the People!”

Things don’t go their way, no worries, they just enact more laws…laws that benefit THEM and their cohorts, once more not you or I, NOR their own constituents. This is what really gets under my skin.
Through our incomplete teachings of our educational system, they are, and have been dumbing us down. Do we teach the prosperity of a free enterprise system? Nope!

What we do teach, through our liberally minded “educators,” is the moral standards of…social justice. In this regard, I consider our children attending the public school system today receiving a half and education. The half the believers in socialist ideology want them taught.

Capitalism is wrong! Free enterprise is wrong! The choice between working your tail off to better the futures for you and your children is wrong! This is nothing but greed to hear our “elected elite” tell it. A Southern interpretation of this is simply, “the pot calling the kettle black!” Uh-oh, did I just utter a racist taunt??

What is social justice? Well, it is in fact a term coined by our elite, and dedicated to the bringing about of the belief that we should all share together in whatever we feel we should share in. Our First Lady describes it as the oppressed wanting their fair share of the pie too!

Their fair share?

When you contribute absolutely nothing…what is, or possibly could be, your fair share? To me, the answer to this question, as asinine as it is to begin with, is quite simple, NOTHING! Your contributing nothing warrants without question, that you receive in nothing in return!

BUT, our “elected elite,” cry out, “WHAT?? You don’t care about these poor oppressed people? My goodness…where’s your compassion?”

There’s that word again, once more spoken by the very same people that are destroying our way of life, our way of having the opportunity to create jobs, to start a small business, and basically live “The American Dream!”

All being shattered by a political agenda that we, for some reason or other, feel no need to intervene in. “We the People,” are literally funding our own demise!

Now, I don’t know about you guys, but how could we be considered as the “in-compassionate?” It seems to me we have jumped overboard with our degree of compassion, and in all honesty, we’ve become too compassionate for our own good, and far too complacent to boot!

The “elected elite,” realize this and keep shoving more and more governmental regulation and CONTROL down our throats! Are we ever going to get to the point where “We the People” have had enough?

Do we continue to “cower down,” and let our “elected elite” just run roughshod over us? Do we continue to let them take from us and our children to sustain people who have no concept of going to work? Not only no concept, but no desire. Why would they, shoot, we OWE it to them, just look at the teachings of social justice!

We’re headed down an awful tough road to hoe my friends. Our belief in our Country, our belief in God, our belief in individuality, our belief in the American Dream, and our belief that we have unalienable rights are all being trampled upon by a government, a media, and an educational system in our Country gone wrong!

Take a look around, read the papers, watch the tube. Does any of this resemble what our Nation was REALLY intended to be like? Of course not.

Look at socialism around the globe…does it work? Take Europe as just a quick example. They KNOW (the ones with any semblance of brains anyway), that they must cut spending, cut pensions, cut the giveaways, and actually…get back into the REAL WORLD!

BUT, look at the riots, the protests, the looting, etc., all because they’d been indoctrinated that they are…entitled! WHAT, no money?? Well, then take it from the rich!

We are living in an upside down world. Today people have become indoctrinated that wrong is right! Is taking from a productive member of society, then giving it to a non-productive member of society right?

It is if you’re an elected official.

By doling out mere pennies to their bought and paid for constituents, in regards to what a person COULD do in this great Country of ours IF they’d only put their nose to the grindstone, set and achieve goals, and be willing to work from daylight to dark while you build your small business, they too could live the American Dream!

But nope, they have been taught to sell themselves and their own children and grandchildren for just enough government handouts…to exist! That’s all!

So, we see quite clearly that our elected elite have got this all figured out. They want you to exist, that’s all! Through your just existing, barely making ends meet off their pittance of individual handouts, you end up seeing firsthand what social justice in the end will be…social equality for you, along with everyone else, while the elected elites live the lifestyle of kings!

Why would this happen? Two reasons mainly.

The ignorance of their bought and paid for constituents, for even remotely believing the powers that be really give a hoot in hell for them in the first place, and once again, their ignorance in fiscal responsibility for even considering the taxpayer could continue bearing the brunt of such “entitlement programs” and sustain them indefinitely! The well WILL run dry!

Actually the well IS dry, but once more, our elected leaders throw us under the bus by printing more money, spending money by the truckload, and borrow, borrow, borrow! Who can even imagine what our daily interest must be??

But the second reason for such social justice or social equality, becoming rule of law in our Country is “We the People!”

We see what our leaders are doing to us. We see the direction they’re taking our Country. We see the freedoms and liberties we enjoy as Americans growing less and less. We see firsthand the MASSIVE debt they’ve burdened our children and grandchildren with.

We see the destruction of our workplace, our opportunity for good jobs, and our children getting the type of good solid education they deserve, not ideologies pressed upon them through political agendas!

We see the good, law-abiding citizen, the believers in our Constitution, and the very people who love God, family, and Country now labeled, and quite openly as well, as racist, hatemongering, extremist, ignorant, Nazi, redneck troublemakers.

Yet…we sit on our rumps. Take a page from the left playbook…organize, mobilize, and demand YOUR OWN rights. Stop with the political correctness, and just start living correctly. Maybe the time has come to stop with all the compassion, and start showing some contempt while taking our Country back!

Wrong is NOT right, but as long as we let them continue to do wrong, but tell us it’s right, nothing will ever change…it’ll only continue to get worse. Make these people accountable for their actions. They’re the power, BUT true power comes from…”WE the PEOPLE!” Start acting like it!

We hope you guys have a great day! God Bless America, and God Bless you and yours!

Deb says to keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!

Dub and Deb

I personally appreciate the work AP puts into his weekly column, and wish there were more just like him! Myself included! Here’s AP…

“Armed defense of our democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in four continents. If that defense fails all the population and all the resources of Europe and Asia, and Africa, and Australia-Asia, will be dominated by conquerors. And let us remember that the total of those populations in those four continents, the total of those populations and their resources greatly exceed the sum total and the resources greatly exceed the sum total of the population and resources of the whole of the Western Hemisphere. In times like these it is immature, and, incidentally, untrue for anybody to brag that an unprepared America, and with one hand tied its back can hold off the whole world”……..”As a nation we may take pride that we are soft hearted, but we cannot be soft-headed. We must be always be wary of those who with soundings brass and a tinkling cymbal preach “ism” of appeasement. We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.”…..
“I have recently pointed out how quickly the tempo of modern warfare could bring into our very midst the physical attack which we must eventually expect if a dictator nations win this war.”………..”Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part, by our Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our great natural resources. It can be helped by preventing by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our homes and our farms. It can be helped by the insistence that the Federal, the State, and the local governments act forth with on the demand that their costs be drastically reduced. And finally, there are many ways in which we can help ourselves, but can never be helped by merely talking about it.”

The above are parts of a great American’s speech, given many years ago, the contents are proof that history repeats itself Anyone have an idea who this is?

HOLDER PUSHES DISCRIMINATION NOW, DISCRIMINATION FOREVER…………. At the National Review, columnist John Fund, blasted Attorney General Eric Holder for advocating permanent racial disclosure in favor of black Americans. Last month in an appearance at Columbia University, his alma mater, Holder said,” I Can’t imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices, “he declared. “The question is not when it ends, but when it begins. When do the people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled. But we have an Attorney General of the United States say that force of government must be used, forever, to enshrine into law that was once used to be “called reverse discrimination,” is for him to say that American law will always put skin color above other considerations—and pick winners accordingly.

OBAMA DOCTRINE FAILURE…………Three years ago, President Obama set forth to recast American foreign policy in an image of his own design. It was one in which the White House engaged with enemies and undercut allies, apologized for American exceptionalism, and favored the “soft power” of treaties and international organizations. The “Obama Doctrine” was tailor made to burnish America’s supposedly flagging reputation on the world stage. Today we are seeing the disastrous results of a doctrine gone wrong………..Beginning in IRAN, Obama sought to engage a regime led by a man who has openly called for the destruction of Israel. Ahmadinejad was not mollified by the President’s charm offensive, and now, even in the face of escalating sanctions, Iran is ratcheting up its rhetoric, threatening to cut off a quarter of the world’s energy supply and marching towards a nuclear war.

……SYRIA, is another example of Obama Doctrine failure. The President entering office hoping the hostile regime of Bushar al-Assad, and soft-pedaled it’s criticism of Assad’s violent crackdown on anti-government protesters. The Result? Syria ordered the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, threatened the U.S. ambassador, and to date has killed more than 10,000 Syrians who are standing against the autocratic government…………..In EGYPT the President hesitated when the people called for Hoshi Burbank’s ouster, but wound up supporting the overthrow at the end. Now, though, the Muslim Brotherhood is within inches of grasping power, the country’s peace treaty with Israel is being questioned, and anti-pro-democracy American workers are facing criminal trials………….In Afghanistan, the President has insisted in on a speedy withdrawal of American forces, while”persuing negotiations with the TALIBAN….a veritable enemy that launched attacks against American troops.

In the midst of this tinder box, anti-American protests are flaming after an apparent burning of Korans at a U.S. military base. The President, once again issued an apology, yet the Taliban is calling for retaliation against the United States this is the same Taliban that Vice President Biden said “is not our enemy.”…………IRAQ ,too ,has devolved into violence following the President’s decision to withdraw all troops. In that short period of time, the country has witnessed ongoing insurgent attacks, a mushrooming political crisis, and the threat of civil war, which would aid neighboring IRAN.

Rather than pursuing the ill-advised Obama Doctrine, with a underfunded military, it is time for the President to put defending America first and appeasing and our enemies last. THAT IS A DOCTRINE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN RELY ON……..

THE TRUTH BEHIND OIL SUBSIDIES………….It’s easy to Take shots at oil companies, especially when oil prices are rising over $4 per gallon. Playing the role of DAVID against the enormous corporate GIANT is a way to score political points, so it is no wonder that president Obama and liberals in Congress, have issued a call for the end of oil subsidies as a way of wrecking revenge against these they say are responsible for the high cost of energy…

The lefts anti-subsidy rhetoric is right on. Ending all energy subsidies, including those for oil and gas, would be good for all American taxpayers and consumers. If those Senators were truly serious about cutting the deficit, they would also call for the elevation of the president’s pet projects, such as projects on renewable fuels, electric vehicles, wind and solar, throw in clean coal and natural gas, too. That would be the right move for the taxpayers, but that is not their goal—-vilifying an industry is their end game. There is much the President and Congress could do if they wanted to give Americans a break at the gas pumps. For starters, they could provide access to our country’s domestic energy reserves, roll back regulatory burdens on companies, and lift the de facto moratorium on off shore drilling permits. This move will not cure our energy problems, but would surely ease the immediate pain.

DEATH OF NATION BY 1,000 CUTS…………” CREEPING NORMALCY” describes a method of accomplishing major change by making negative changes slowly in small increments, not always seen as objectionable, until the entire concept of rule is irreversibly altered. Such was the method used by Marxists in converting Russia to a communist dictatorship, and Adolf Hitler’s conversion of Germany to a fascist dictatorship.

America’s democratic form of government is under attack. Presidents and others in authority have been practicing it for years, gaining momentum with Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression. The current government has brought the attack to a new, accelerating and frightening level. The Obama administration, assuming authority not given by our Constitution, is telling us, what we can eat, what insurance we should buy, it is by-passing Congress by making illegal appointments, telling Boeing where they can build, and the latest, telling religious organizations it must give up practices it has used for centuries—-an outright violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution. Congress seems to turning a blind eye to these acts, apparently unwilling to challenge them.

“DEATHS BY A THOUSAND CUTS “is a form of execution first practiced by the Chinese. The term describes an ancient form of torture, in which the condemned are given a series of small wounds over time until the accumulation finally causes death. Our democratic way of life may soon die in the same fashion unless Americans wake up and assert their rights of self-determination……Voter apathy is the perfect breeding ground for dictatorship. We are doing a great job of cultivating it !!!!!!!!!

THE “JEWISH” PRESIDENT……….don’t believe Obama when he says he as Israel’s back………………………..Should ISRAELIS and pro- Americans take Obama’s word when he said, “I have Israel’s back”? NO !………Here is a president who fought tooth and nail against the very sanctions on Iran for which he now seeks to reap political credit. He inherited from the Bush administration the security assistance to Israel he now advertises as proof his “unprecedented” commitment to the Jewish State. His Defense secretary has repeatedly cast doubt on the possibility of a U.S.Military action against Iran. His Secretary of State, answering a question from a Tunisian” student about “U.S. lobbyists courting the “Zionist lobbies” by saying “a lot of things are said during an election year that should not bear a lot to attention.”. In Obama’s growing period, a Chicago rabbi named Wolf, who in 1909 Waged in the synagogue, staged a rally protest in favor of Black Panther Bobby Seale, in the early 1990’s, Wolf denounced the construction of the Holocaust Museum in Washington. In1996, the rabbi was of Obama’s earliest and most prominent supporters when Obama ran for the Illinois state Senate. Wolf later described Obama’s views on Israel as “In line of “PEACE NOW” an organization with a long history of blaming Israel for the Arab-Israel conflict.

Obama had other Jewish mentors, one was Betty Saltzman, who still seethes with hostility toward the mainstream Jewish groups, and later became active in left-wing Jewish political groups like “J STREET. It was she who organized the rally against the IRAQ WAR where Obama proclaimed is opposition to an American invasion. Ms. Saltzman introduced Obama to David Axelrod, who became Obama’s advisor and political organizer. He was instrumental, in bringing longtime diplomat Denis Ross, which was Obama’s inoculation strategy to modify Jewish voters who might be apprehensive about Obama’s sincerity of his commitment to Israel. Not surprising Mr. Ross became a short term member of the Obama team.

The important question is about the Obama’s truthfulness about Israel, or is he holding his tongue and bidding his time? On the evidence it appears that Mr., Obama’s speech at Aipac was one long exercise in political cynicism.

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL………To bad this “JOBS” bill is all the political market will bear…………….We keep hearing that the partisan gulf in Washington is too wide to “get things done” but Democrats and Republicans agree on a lot. For example both parties claim to revere the Constitution. Proof is that they are coming together on a small bill to help small businesses that the House will pass this week. There is a lesson here about modern Washington. Even the White House is on board, and not because it thought “Our Business” referred to General Motors and Solyndra. The White House issued a statement endorsing the Jobs Act, writing that “ Helping start-ups and small businesses succeed and create jobs is fundamental to having an economy built to last.” One provision, which passed the House 413-11 in November, would ALLOW small companies to use advertising or solicitations to contact investors and raise capital.

A Securities and Exchange Commission relic from 1982 bars such contact, which makes it hard for ventures to raise capital “without deep political connections. Another reform raised the SEC registration to $50 million from $5 million which will make it easier for businesses to go public. Every member voted for this, except Michigan Democrat JOHN DINGEL. There are plenty of things Washington could do to jump start growth and investment, even short of major tax reform , and the House Republicans have passed literally dozens of bills that would help the economy. But they lie dormant in the Senate because Harry Reid and his gang of Democrats won’t endorse anything without a major tax increase.

OBAMA’S SWEET DEAL WITH NORTH KOREA……….Diplomacy has costs, Tehran’s mullahs will be watching, so says John Bolton………..In the transition from an old dictator to a new one, some observers were losing faith in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, believing it has lost its magic touch in the arts of dissembling. Others had deeper faith, and were rewarded last week when the State Department proudly announced the umpteenth break through toward the goal of denuclearizing North Korea.

The two sides agreed that Pyongyang would suspend nuclear activities at its Yongbyon facility, allow very limited international inspections, and implement a moratorium on long range missiles. In the State Department’s telling on February 29th, we gave nothing in return to the North’s unilateral concessions, “designed to improve the atmosphere for dialogue and demonstrate its commitment to denuclearization. How sweet. Unfortunately, the Leap Year deal is worse than just another failed effort to chit-chat North Korea out its nuclear weapons. It provides a political and economic lifeline to Kim Jong Eun’s uncertain new regime. Most objectionable morally, despite U.S. denials, we are providing 240,000 tons of food that almost certainly will be diverted to the DPRK and other favored recipients. Make no mistake, we are simply feeding young Kim’s dictatorship Iran, meanwhile must be relishing this latest display of U.S. weakness and memory loss. Tehran sees with laser-sharp clarity that when the going gets tough, Team Obama gets negotiating. The resumption of the long-failed negotiations will bid it time, and the expectation of reduced economic pressure. Iran can even count on Mr. Obama to try to restrain Israel, it’s strongest and most determined regional opponent.

AL CAPONE’S LEGACY LIVES ON……….On March 15th the former Governor of Illinois, Rod Blogojevich, started to serve a 14 year sentence for corruption in a Federal low-security prison. In this part of America, he is treading a well-worn path. Over four decades, four out of the seven governors had been convicted of corruption and had the distinction of being the federal district with the most convictions since 1976. Since the 1,828 elected officials, appointees, government employees and a few private individuals have been convicted of corruption in the judicial zone including Chicago. All the convicted governors and 24 of the alderman had tried to extract bribes from builders, developers, business owners and those seeking to do business with the state and city.

WICHITA SHOCKER………you can beat City Hall…..Local politicians like to get in bed with local businesses, and tax payers are usually the losers. So, three cheers for the voter revolt in Wichita, Kansas. In late 2011 the Wichita city council passed, 6 to 1, a bill excepting the new Ambassador Hotel, owned by real estate developers, from 75% of the city hotel tax, plus over $10 million in other subsidies, all the skids were greased. But the voters were so enraged that they launched a petition for a voter referendum. Despite hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by the hotel advocates, almost 10 times more than opponents spent, voters routed the subsidy 61% to 39%. WHAT AMERICANS WANT FROM GOVERNMENT, AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, IS EQUAL TREATMENT.

WELL FOLKS THAT IS ABOUT IT, GOING TO ADD A PS,FOR COMMENTS SENT,SEE YA’LL IN THE FUNNY PAPERS……STAY WELL AND AS ALWAYS……..AP

COMMENTS; March 6th issue, page 4…”that is what the Wall Street Journal said, but in the March 6th issue Senator Richard Burr of N.C. has a letter to the Editor a=saying the Journal overlooked the provision in the tax legislation which would provide temporary user fee on the natural gas to be paid by the industry which is benefiting from the tax benefits. And Boone Pickens points out in a separate letter that it’s similar to the government building highways and the cost being paid back via gasoline taxes on the fuel consumed by those who use the highways”
“what are these so called subsidies and giveaways to the oil industries anyway ? No one ever says. Obozo and the Democrat just keep repeating that these are loopholes. Maybe they are, but what are the specifics.?”

ADDENDUM: WSJ JUST REPORTED THE FOLLOWING…..”BIG OIL, BIGGER TAXES” The industry sends more money to Washington than to its shareholders Obama says he wants to end subsidies to what he calls “the fuel of the past,” but lucky for him oil and gas will be the fuels of the future too. His budget-deficit blowout would so much worse without Big Oil, because the truth is that this industry is subsidizing the government. As for the subsidies that Mr. Obama says the oil industry receives, these are not direct cash handouts like those that go the “green lobby” They are deductions from taxes that cover the cost of doing business and earning income to tax in the first place. Obama wants to put oil and gas companies at a competitive disadvantage against other industries, like making them more expensive than his favorites in the wind, solar and ethanol industries. The oil industry paid $37.7 billion in corporate taxes in 2009, the latest year for which data is available. Why he would still raise more taxes, which will result in his tax agenda, amid political panic over $4 per gallon gasoline is a mystery.

OBITUARY: ALEX WEBSTER.NEW YORK GIANTS, RUNNING BACK and COACH, DIES at the AGE of 80…….A burly presence for his era, at 6 foot 3 inches and about 230 pounds, Webster, known as BIG RED, gained key yardage in the Giants high powered offense. When he retired after the 1964 season, he held the Giants’ major career rushing records, having run the ball1, 1,196 times for 4,038 yards and 59 touchdowns, plus 17 touchdown passes, in his 10 seasons. Played half back and later fullback, twice All-NFL, twice all Pro- Ball and a Hall of Famer…..some of his team mates were Charlie Connerly, Y.A Tittle. Frank Gifford. Kyle Rote and Del Schofner, Sam Huff, “Rosey” Brown and the coaching staff was Jim Lee Howell, head coach, Vince Lombardi, defensive coach and Tom Landry, defense coach, all are HALL of FAME members.

I try to stay away from very many political statements by Deb or myself in our writings, at least on this site. The exception being our ole buddy AP, who brings us the “Revolution.” We try to mainly stay on a gardening, recipe, prepping nature, but sometimes I just have to, as Deb describes it…opening my BIG mouth! Well, today is one of those occasions!

Anyway, I know all of ya’ll are like Deb and myself watching these food prices increasing. I’m getting sticker shock any more at the way food pricing has increased. Isn’t it amazing what they’ve done the past couple years?

Unemployment is still high, yet the cost to only subsist anymore continues an upward spiral. For those who haven’t, you guys might just wanna wake-up to the goings on today of our politicians. Just out of curiosity, how many vacations HAS our President taken? They sure seem to be tightening their belts in DC, huh?

I have to believe the way these people, our elected leaders are acting, they’re probably LOOSENING their belts instead of tightening them. You eat, sleep, breathe, and live on an unlimited money pit to draw from, created by we the taxpayer, you’ll soon see your britches might be goin up a size or two.

The problem we as taxpayers have is our leaders don’t seem to come to grips that OUR incomes have taken a hit, and by so, the bottomless pit they draw from is fast becoming a very LIMITED bottomless pit. We cannot sustain their fiscal recklessness! Do the math, it’s pretty elementary, even to a “dumb ole redneck” like yours truly!

So, how do they adjust to this mess they’ve gotten us, and this great Country we live in into? MORE SPENDING! It’s insane to be honest, and insane on our part to tolerate such behavior! In the end IT IS OUR MONEY! Oh yeah, and the Chinese, the Indians, and whoever else they can borrow money from!

Over 40 cents of EVERY dollar these guys spend…is borrowed. What must JUST the interest be daily on this borrowed money? They are literally spending our Country into oblivion! Good Lord people, please start hollerin!

On top of taking more and more from us, what do they do?? Print more of course! “Tax the rich, tax the rich,” that’s their rallying cry. We’re surely not rich, and struggle daily makin ends meet, but to be quite frank with you guys…I AIN’T EVER worked for a poor guy!

Yet, the people that produce the jobs are asked to bear more and more of the brunt of others less fortunate. Hmmm…less fortunate they say? How’s that? You guys mind if we stop today and take a look?
There are people in our Country that need help, I totally, 100% agree with this. In my opinion though, I feel that they are the handicapped, the elderly living off their Social Security, the very sick, and our veterans. Yes sir, help these guys out some.

BUT, today we’ve become a “Nanny State,” in every sense of the word. We give to people, and the majority of those on the receiving end of this “giving,” no longer appreciate this act. They’ve been taught by our government that this has become a right, their right, and this is literally a sin.

Many of these have been on government aid for…generations! Yep, generations now! On top of this, many, many of them are…illegals! I also advocate immigration, BUT, through the proper channels, and LEGALLY!

An example…we know an English lady who owns a sub-shop near where my Mom and Dad live. It took her AND her family 5 years to be able to come to the US, through the proper channels. This took beaucoup money, and effort. BUT, they felt this appropriate, and in the end would allow their family the opportunity to grow.

Why, because they recognized the fact that by being able to come to the US, they in fact were providing themselves with a much better opportunity than they were presented with in England. BUT, THEY HAD TO HAVE A BUSINESS IN HAND HERE IN THE US PRIOR TO BEING ABLE TO COME!

Our government in their twisted way of thinking, but in reality, their quest to lower our own standards of living, and by placing such restrictions on this family, made the opportunity to come here almost nil. Our officials made their entry into this Country very stressful, and to a degree almost impossible.

Yet, they persevered, and bought a business and moved here, again 5 years from their initial quest of coming here. But they were forced to literally jump through hoops top get here…legally. This is SO wrong!

Here we have a family that recognized all our Country had to offer. They had the work ethic to honestly help out, hire employees, pay taxes, and, here’s the biggie…CONTRIBUTE! YET, we make it SO difficult for these types of people to get in here anymore. Please explain such a position by our elected officials to me!

Sadly I understand the reasoning for this. They really don’t want these types of people anymore. They don’t want us to live the American Dream, oh no! They want to control us, our way of life, our options and rights as citizens, our way of life, our religion, and even today, what our children eat in schools??

Good night a livin people, this is the farthest you can get from what our Country was founded on. This plan, or agenda, has been in place for many generations now, and slowly but surely the officials in our Country have been implementing this into our society.

Johnson’s vision of a “great society,” was in reality a vision of more governmental power, and less and less of a free market system through which our Country had prospered for so long. Power greed and corruption… “me, me, me, and…ME!” This should be our politician’s REAL topic for election. Shoot, at least they’ll finally be honest in their statements at that point. Today though in election mode, reality is to lie, lie, lie, and MORE lies.

Just look at the promises our current President made during his campaign? How many were just blatant, out and out lies? Transparency? Get outta here! Integrity? Give me a break! Tighten a belt? You betcha! Promote racial “let bygones be bygones?” I’d have to say anything but! Racial Division I find much more descriptive of his policies! But honestly, it’s not just him…far too many of today’s politicians are actually in bed together in this agenda…Democrat AND Republican.

Take a look at the candidates for this year’s election. I for one believe without a doubt that many of our elected leaders are Socialist in their ideals and beliefs. This to put it mildly.
Redistribution of wealth, government taking over companies, government healthcare, manipulation by our leaders in the collapse of our economy (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, etc.), even our children not being able to fly the US flag on their bikes at school, and the destruction of our Christian beliefs, as well as we can’t say…Merry Christmas…here in the US??

Yet, looking at our candidates, WHO, and I’m only asking you to name one, is shouting about the movement by our Country into a Communist oriented takeover, OR calling the ones who advocate such beliefs what they really are…Communists??

Wouldn’t you think that all these themes would be screamed about by our conservative Presidential candidates? I’d think so, but not one is beating this over anybody’s head. Why? I personally believe that whoever did so, the people would flock to them…in droves.

Yet, I don’t hear this. Well kinda, but it’s like they’re walking on eggs IF they do so. Call it what it is! Show we the people you have virtues, morals, and integrity. Let us hear you loud and clear, don’t sashay around these things. Speak from your heart your convictions, do something to stand above this political correctness mentality, and LEAD!

Illegal immigration is WRONG…stop it. Government intrusion into our private lives is WRONG! The destruction of our free market system is WRONG. TAKING from the rich, to give to the poor is WRONG!

Today’s government pension and retirement packages are WRONG! Giving the unions a part of GM is WRONG! They were the biggest players involved in the collapse of our automobile industry here in the US!
Continuing to fund public sector waste is WRONG! AmTrac, the post office, and all other public sector fiascos are ALL WRONG! Look at the post office…losing billions every quarter, YET, Fed-Ex, UPS, and others in the private sector make money every quarter! This too is ALL WRONG!

Fannie and Freddie were major players in the economic demise of our economy, yet, Franklin Raines pocketed over $20 million in compensation in 2003 alone??? I’ve heard, but didn’t spend the time this morning to substantiate this, but total compensation through the years was over 100 million dollars! This “compensation” from a company that went belly-up with debt. Much of it giving loans, forced on lenders by government regulations to put people into homes who they KNEW HAD NO POSSIBLE WAY OF PAYING THEIR MORTGAGES!

If you or I were to pull such an act…we’d be UNDER the jail! This is just but one of countless examples such as this by…our leaders.

We’ve sat back and let our leaders throw us as taxpayers, under the bus. These same “crusaders for the poor,” as they profess themselves to be, have long lost any fear of public retaliation. We’ve become… “sheeple.”

As I stated earlier, let’s look back at the poor and oppressed…or how our leaders like to describe such constituents.

Let’s begin with the inner cities. President Johnson started this crusade against…poverty. Their dwellings were deplorable, their standard of living was deplorable, and their education and work ethics were deplorable. So, almost 50 years later what’s changed? Nothing!

After ALL these government programs, government initiatives, AND government involvement in these programs…no change! No, I’m sorry, there is change…EVEN MORE people poor and oppressed now! Trillions of dollars later, trillions of dollars later, mind you, the problem is more rampant than ever.

One more, FINE example of our elitist leader’s transformation of our Country down the path of Communism. It’s not as many of us think in regards to our politicians…what in the world are they thinking about, or, are they THAT stupid?? But in reality it’s not that they’re stupid…it’s their goal, their agenda, their power-play on “we the people!” They’ve been actually very, very intelligent AND patient in their desire of transforming our Country…from within!

It’s, human nature…give an inch…take a mile. So in reality, it’s not our leaders who’ve been ignorant in their goal, but the ignorance of we the people sitting back on our haunches allowing our leaders to orchestrate and manipulate us into this fine mess we’re in today!

I’m only putting the blame where it goes, on us, and I wholeheartedly agree that I too have sat back and allowed this to happen. I’m as guilty as the next!

So I guess the most important thing for us to do today is to help try and educate others into the dangerous direction we’re being taken as a Country.

Become involved! Our next election is very crucial my friends. Stand up and be heard. Voice your opinion, and stand up for what’s right. Our days of being led around by our officials, has to stop. Make them accountable, and make them aware OF their accountability.

Quit allowing our government to give us a fish for our next meal. Demand the right to fish for ourselves, and by this becoming the bread winners in regards to our families once more. We don’t want a fish…we want to learn how to fish, and by so…feeding our own family ourselves! Let free markets reign!

Quit letting them buy your souls for a mere pittance of what could be. Start believing in yourselves, and by doing so you’ll see just what our great Country has to offer! Be the best at what you do. Become a self-starter, and don’t let anyone tell you what you can or can’t do when it comes to your work ethic.

Become proud of your accomplishments, and NEVER, EVER TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER! The only person who can stop you from living your own “American Dream,” is you! This is as true a statement as ever has come out of my mouth!

You live in the greatest Country in the world, let’s keep it!

Thank you all for allowing me to vent some frustration this morning. I needed it, plus hopefully it will inspire some. Deb and I have seen some awfully hard times in our own lives, but we never let them deter us from our own goals, or ambitions! As I said earlier…we persevered!

Was it easy? Of course not, but we never expected it to be, and our parents didn’t profess that it would be. You just gotta grab the bull by the horns, work hard at whatever it is you do, trust each other in your decisions, and BELIEVE in yourself!

THEN, do what you tell someone you’re gonna to do, be reasonable in your pricing, and be willing to invest whatever time and energy is needed in accomplishing your goals! Many times Deb and I worked from daylight to cain’t, and there are times we still do.

But, to become successful, no matter in a big way or small, there’s sacrifice involved, and this is where your own desire, motivation, and will TO succeed become critical components in your success.
Deb and I love all you guys, and appreciate you lending us your ear today. Please feel free to respond in your own way to our article this morning…we’re looking forward to your doing so!

In closing we’d both like to say…God Bless America, God Bless you and yours, and…Merry Christmas! I just had to chunk that in as well!

As always, please keep a smile on your face, AND one in your heart!

Dub and Deb

SEVENTY YEARS AGO, ON A SUNDAY MORNING, JAPAN UNLEASHED A SURPRISE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR CONDUCTED BY THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY……the attack was intended as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Fleet from interfering with the military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia, against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States. The base was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. All eight U.S. battleships were damaged, with four being sunk. All but two of the eight were raised, repaired and returned to service later in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed, 2,402 American were killed, and 1,282 wounded.

The attack came as a profound shock to the American people and led directly to the American entry into World War 11 in both the pacific and European theaters. The following day, the United States declared war on Japan. The lack of any formal warning, particular while negotiations were still ongoing, led to President Roosevelt to proclaim December 7th, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy”.

In this morning’s paper, there was an interesting article written by a guest writer named Daniel Burnett, who is associated with a non-profit group that supports U.S. colleges, who writes about the present youth of Americans, and whether they were living up to President Roosevelt’s prediction “always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us”. To which he makes the following observations “The historic significance of Pearl Harbor, it’s warnings against geopolitical complacency and its ongoing implications are not even concepts our college student would recognize. According to a study of college seniors from elite universities around the country, a third could not identify Germany, Italy and Japan as our wartime enemies… Almost two-thirds did not know the Battle of the Bulge occurred in World War II.

The sacrifices of our greatest generation are being lost on our youngest generation. This is not just of simply gathering facts and dates. It is about our obligation to teach our young people about the pilotable moments in the defense of the free world—–which still needs defending (maybe more than ever, with rogues like Iran, Pakistan, North Korea backing the mid-east turmoil) Let us not forget those who answered the call in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, World War 1.

The Roman orator, Cicero is believed to have died on Dec.7th, 43 BC observed “not to know what happened before you were born, is to remain forever a child.”

Some abbreviated findings of this study. “only one quarter knew the significance of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation…….23% could identify James Madison as the Father of the Constitution, and only 60 % knew the Constitution established the division of powers……..a nationwide study of more than 1,000 colleges and universities found that 80% of the colleges don’t require students to take a fundamental course in American history……..a mere 5% require economics, barely 15% expect students to study a foreign language. Without a strong foundation, how the leaders of tomorrow can set the course for our future.”

The shaken nation that was pushed into war in 1941 was not the same nation that emerged in 1945. But if we fail to educate our young people on the importance of freedom, and the sacrifices of their ancestors, our young people will remain —as Cicero said—-children forever.”

“In the End, not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”… Martin Luther King Jr.

DEBUNKING THE ANTI-TAX MYTH…….Democrats are unanimous in charging that the debt reduction super committee collapsed because of the power of Grover Nor quest, whom Senator Kerry called “the 13th member of the committee, without being there”…….Senator Harry Reid suggested “maybe we should impeach Grover Norquest”……whom the Democrats now claim has replaced the Koch Brothers as the manipulator that now unseen pulls the strings of the Republican party…..nice theory. Except for the following facts:

1…Sen. Tom Clayburn signed the Simpson- Bowles tax reform that would have increased tax revenues by $1 trillion dollars over a 10 year period.

2…During the debt-ceiling talks, Speaker Boehner agreed to an $800 billion revenue increase as part of the “Grand Bargain”.

3…Super committee member Pat Toomey, proposed increasing tax revenues by $300 billion as part of the $1.2 trillion in debt reduction.

Leading, very conservative Republicans proposing tax increases!!!!! The Republican proposals raise revenues, by opening a gusher of new income for the Treasury in the form of loophole elimination. The Democrats, who flatter themselves as the party of fairness, are instead obsessed with raising tax rates on the rich as a sign of virtue. Has the President ever publicly proposed a single significant structural change in any entitlement? After Simpson-Bowles reported, in his February budget, in his April 13th‘framework”, during or after the super committee deliberations????NO. NO. NO. NO…… Another inconvenient fact, it was the Republicans who passed—through the House, the branch of government they control—–a real budget that cut $5.8 trillion of spending over the next 10 years. Obama’s February budget, which would have increased spending, was laughed out of the Senate, voted down 97-0. As for the Democratic controlled Senate, it has submitted no budget at all for TWO AND A HALF YEARS…..COPIED IN PART FROM Charles Krauthammer article Nov 30, Washington Post

THE SOLYNDRA MESS…..The Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, appear to have hit the “pause button” on their investigation into the failure of Solyndra, a solar panel maker that went bankrupt, defaulting on $528 million federal loan, made by the Obama’s Energy Secretary, which the Republicans hoped to prove this loan was a political favor to wealthy Democrats, chiefly George Kaiser, who Mr. Chu denied knowing who Mr. Kaiser was when he signed off the loan and said the loan had “been made only on its merits”. The Republicans, as their partisanship turned a legitimate inquiry into a circus of broad accusations aimed more at tarnishing the administration than enter into a serious discussion of our energy policies………guess there were some Republicans hiding in the woodwork….The Administration has approved about 48 other clean energy agreements, we now know that 2 have failed, have the other 38 been successful?………..back to the usual, the White house asked Herbert Allison Jr. a former assistant Treasury secretary to undertake a 60 day review of the loan program that have received loans and the financial condition of the recipients of those loans. CONGRESS MUST NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THE BIGGER PICTURE, THE NEED TO REPLACE ALTERNATIVES TO THE USE OF FOSSIL FUELS, THAT ALSO PROVE THEIR FINANCIAL AND RELIABILITY TO THE REPLACEMENT.

DO WE WANT TO BE ANOTHER ITALY, GREECE etc.?………The Wall Street Journal calls the economic implosion taking place in Europe “crises…..The latest European country to hit the wall is Italy, whose national debt is 120% of their GDP, which translates that for every dollar their economy produces, they owe $1.20. When the Republican candidates for the presidency were asked if the United States should help the bankrupt Europeans, the answer was “NO”….should the IMF come to the aid of the EURO, the U.S. is responsible for 17%, by prior agreements, of the total advanced.
The way to deal with irresponsible behavior is not to find new ways but demand responsible behavior (are you listening Washington?). Over the past 5 years our national debt as a percentage of our GDP has doubled to70 %, where it stands today. Meanwhile our Congress is totally divided, some would have us believe that compromise is what always defined our political process. But what we are dealing with are fundamentally, irrevocably different views, resolution is what is needed, not compromise. This is the time for decisions and definition, or are we going to continue in the direction and materialism and bureaucracy and share the fate of Europe?

“When you think you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right”…..Henry Ford

STATE DEPARTMENT vs. FREE SPEECH………..This past July in Istanbul, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton co-chaired a “High Level Meeting on Combating Religious Intolerance “with the Saudi based “ Organization of Islamic Cooperation”(OIC) Mrs. Clinton invited the OIC to Washington for a conference to discuss “respect and empathy and tolerance” That conference is scheduled for December 12th through the 14th. For more than 20 years, the OIC has pressed Western governments to restrict speech about Islam. With the Islamic have developed an action plan that calls for “deterrent punishment “to all states to counter purported Isla phobia… The OIC does not define what speech should be outlawed.

Muslim reformers are widely and specially targeted for supposedly anti-Islamic speech. In Afghanistan a newspaper editor was imprisoned by the Karzai government for publishing “un-Islamic” articles criticizing stoning as a punishment for adultery. In Iran Ayatollah Boroujerdi was imprisoned for arguing that “political leadership “by clergy “was contrary to Islam. Egypt bans books and imprisons Muslims whose views’ contrary to start-funded Sunni center.

Encouraging a more civil discourse is commendable, and First Amendment freedoms mean the U.S. won’t veer down Europe’s path any time soon. But if the Obama administration is committed to defending Muslims and the OIC, it will soon undermine our way of life… President Obama should put a stop to this nonsense, and declare that in free societies all views and religions are subject to contradiction and critique—-and the OIC must learn to tolerate that.

IMPREGNATING AMERICA WITH ISLAM, SHARIA LAW…..”The one absolutely certain way to bringing to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its continuity as a nation at all, would to permit it to become a tangle or squabbling nationalities and languages.”……….President Teddy Roosevelt……..”Of all unwise and foolish things our Congress has imposed on the American people in the past 40 years, the late Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 Immigration Reform Act will prove to be the most dangerous piece, of legislation for the continuance of the United States……….While George Washington enjoys the moniker as “Father of our Country”, Kennedy may become known as the “Father of the destruction of our country.”……..Not only did his bill ram an added 100 million immigrants ( plus illegals , into the United States in the past 40 years, it can cram another 100milllion into this country by 2035, a scant 25 years from now, impregnating America with Islam, Sharia law and confrontation…….In 1990 less than 100,000 Muslims lived in the United States. In 2011 they boast over 7, 000, and 000; actually no one really knows the correct figure, which ranges from 2,500,000 million, upward. With 100,000 births a year, they can expect to add 5 million Muslims within the next 20 t0 30 years. As from this point in time, they have built 1,208 mosques across the USA. No women can enter from the front doors, they must use the side doors, no women can share worship with any men, and no woman can enter a mosque with their faces showing. If America expects to survive the 21st century with this nation intact, we must scrutinize all Muslims, we must impose a limit of Muslims immigrating to this country. Any need for proving this statement, one only has to see what Islam has done to France, UK, Norway, Holland, Belgium. Spain, Sweden and Austria. Or is this the route President Obama intends to create a more European way of life in the United States?

“Do, or do not, there is no try”………Yogi Berra

BLOGOJEVICH’S LENGTHY SENTENCE ….. The downfall of former Illinois governor ended last week with a striking long sentence that the judge and prosecutor said reflected the scope of his crimes and the damage he inflicted on public trust.

GUTTING IRAN’S SANCTIONS……The Obama Administration claims its economic sanctions will bring Iran’s nuclear program to a halt short of war. So why is it working behind the scenes to neuter the latest sanctions that Senate last week, 100-0? The rare bipartisan compromise imposes sanctions on anyone who does business with the Central Bank of Iran, TIME WILL TELL IF THIS IS ENOUGH TO CURB THE GOALS OF IRAN.

GOOD ENERGY POLICY…….Optimism is the one essential ingredient to maintain a culture. Today’s pessimism is rising in America, and our culture is at risk. As our country struggles with its recession, Americans are struggling to throw off a sense of depression which effects all generations. This need not be the case: there is a cure for this. There is a reason to be hopeful, because we have been blessed with new sources of energy. Alas if only the United States had a national energy policy, eliminating “not in my “backyard argument”. If our elected politicians could sit down and have a debate on energy, what is best for America, not a mindless drill-drill-drill policy without reasonable, not political, but a thought full debate that balances opportunity with risk, and demands that reusable mitigates to risk be employed. Since the last election, America and Canada have found sources of energy, especially natural gas that will develop to these countries, the lowest cost of energy in the world. Wind power, an in-constant source of power, has not been cost effective, and requires huge sums for standby conventional power. Professor Albert Einstein said it elegantly “All forms of energy consumption will affect the environment”, and natural gas is the least noxious choice, with reserves that are almost boundless.

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it “

THIRD PARTY in 2012? There is little doubt that Americans are fed up with politics with an intensity that extends to both parties. So the time should be right to launch a major third party assault on bipartism hegemony. Those who consider mounting such a challenge get scarce encouragement from the recent history of third-party efforts. Should the “Tea Party” offer a candidate for president independent of the Republicans, it would most certainly doom the chances of the GOP, and would join those who backed Perot in 1992, and by Democrats against Ralph Nader in in 2000. Neither assumption can be proven, nor do both parties believe that both Perot and Nader ran spoiling operations. No matter how you package it, a vote for a third party, is a vote discarded…..an exception, in 1912 former Republican president Teddy Roosevelt leading the Progressive Party, split the GOP vote with William Taft and allowed Democrat Woodrow Wilson to claim the presidency. At this point in time, there appears to be one Republican, who could disrupt the possibility of having the Republicans voters’ choice in challenging Obama, that person being Congressman Ron Paul, of Texas, who is not seeking re-election.

The two major parties, for all the dissatisfaction with them, a third party amounts to having a franchise, like McDonalds and Burger King, the GOP and the Democratic party are a somewhat known quantity , while the third party’s burger is a mystery. It’s tempting to say “a plaque on both your houses “and taste the flavor other than chocolate and vanilla., but you have to realize that getting on the ballot as a third party, can be intimidating. Should the “third party” nominee win, he would have to govern with a Congress composed of Democrats and Republicans………history will cast this third party as a “SPOILER.”

UNTIL EUROPE MEETS AGAIN………..Another agreement to agree on not very much….This past week, 17 European nations, led by German Chancellor Merkel , signed a treaty that is supposed to protect the EURO, and the signing nations are to be a little “more German “about spending , deficits and debt.

I apologize for the length of this issue, but the news is changing every time one of our world leaders, sneezes……..until the next time, I’ll see you in the funny papers……….AP

AP is a good friend of ours. AP is in his 90′s and what a great guy. A veteran of WWII, successful businessman, family man, he even dabbles in art, and is quite good at it. During World War II, AP worked after hours painting nose art on the aircraft. This to bring in extra money, and I’ve heard…was the source of many, many, “good times” on the weekends! One of the planes on which his nose art was painted is now in an Air Force Museum. It’s name…”Shoo Shoo Baby!”

AP is a firm believer in our Constitution, and an advocate of our Founding Father’s principles! His goal through “The Revolution,” is to help educate as many people as possible to the corruption, power, and loss of our personal freedoms as he possibly can! AP, is a true American, and a man we are happy to be able to call, “our friend!”

Dub and Deb