"Re-distribute the wealth!!" .... "oh, but not MY wealth, thank you!"

It's always tough to talk about Social programs in a negative light. Tough because of the genuine need that exists in our country and our world to help people with real needs; while a large amount of Americans, especially Progressives and Liberals, are using Social programs to get elected by demonizing conservative Americans who still believe in the American Dream. They paint anyone who stands against laziness and ignorance as having no heart and being nothing more than a greedy capitalist. They say that those on Social Programs are victims of a Nation that is oppressing people into poverty for the benefit of only the elite.

I would like to say that THEY are dillusional. They are not though. What they are is corrupt and looking out for ONLY themselves. Their agenda is a fabricated tool to ensure they maintain control of a corrupt government.

There are drawbacks to ANY political structure/economic structure/government. Capitalism allows ANYONE to succeed. Which means that ANYONE can fail as well. You can work as much or as little as you'd like - and you will be rewarded accordingly. This means that there will be "winners" and "losers". Socialism on the other hand promotes mediocrity for all. It requires those that work hard and succeed to share their "winnings" with those that choose not to work hard. It TAKES their success from them and RE-DISTRIBUTES it at the descretion of the government. It FORCES people to participate in programs with THEIR money that they have no desire to participate in. We have Socialist programs everywhere in our country today: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, etc. And the current government is introducing even more Socialist programs, such as the new Health Care reform bill. It FORCES people to participate in a program whether they want to or not; and punishes them if they don't spend their money the way the government tells them to. That is the foundation of "social economics". That is UN-AMERICAN.

In Socialism, the goal is to have the vast majority of the population be in the "middle-class". So those that would work harder to achieve more are not able to. Those that would choose to be lazy and not contribute to the success of our economy/country are allowed to do so with no fear of going without housing, clothing, or food.

But what about the politicians? What happens to THEIR wealth? Well, they are the Socialists that are changing our country, so surely they are leading by example and giving all of their wealth away .... right? Not a chance. They are some of the biggest income earners in our country!! They make well over $100,000 a year and have no problems voting to give themselves salary increases. They make WAY more than the average American ..... and they get paid using OUR income taxes people!!! We work hard so THEY can get paid!!! How are they "serving" Americans when they are over-paying themselves using AMERICAN'S HARD-EARNED MONEY? I know - the total income that politicians earn is not that big relative to the massive spending the government does and we should be more concerned about all the spending than the salaries of Congress. WHAT?!??!?! WRONG!!!

The principal here is that the people WE vote to "serve" our best interests continue to ask Americans to give more and more and receive less and less while they give themselves MORE and MORE and MORE!! And the "more" they are getting comes from US!! This should infuriate Americans!!! How can we trust them to do ANYTHING in our best interest if we can't trust them to pay themselves a FAIR salary for the HONOR of being able to represent us??

Second issue is that we allow them to be "career politicians". Again, how can we possibly trust people that must say whatever it takes to get re-elected, regardless of how they really feel and regardless of what is really best for Americans???

Again, focus on the principal here. We elect people to respresent us. They take our hard-earned money to pay themselves outrageous salaries. Under the disguise of helping the lower and middle-classes, they play games with the rules that impact our economy and our job security. They lie to us in order to get re-elected so they can continue to be shielded from the new American way of life that they are forcing on the rest of us.

BUT WE CONTINUE TO ELECT THESE CORRUPT PEOPLE!! Most often, we vote "for" someone STRICTLY because they are not the party in control at the time. THAT is ignorance. We need to get the RIGHT people elected. Easier said than done, I know.

But do you really think things are going to get better without us doing something different? We cannot just sit around and allow the same thing to happen and expect a different result. Electing Obama wasn't "change" from Bush. It was only an accelaration of the Socialist crap that Bush continued after Clinton really jump-started the nanny-state in the 90's (yes it existed before Clinton, but not anywhere near the level it rose to under Clinton).

It will be PAINFUL to get our Country back on track. It will be PAINFUL to turn away the government handouts and start creating a backbone in this country again.

It will be PAINFUL to do the right thing. Isn't it always though? Isn't it easier to eat a donut than it is to walk 5 miles? Isn't it easier to allow your kid to get away with things than it is to take to the time to teach him that there are consequences for his choices? Isn't it easier to just look the other way, or blame someone else, or just plead ignorance? Of course those things are easier. But are they RIGHT?

We need to get Americans off the sugar-tit and back in front of a mirror and taking responsibility for THEMSELVES.

It won't be easy. And the only part you can control is your part. But do your part. Don't look for someone else to do it for you. Set the example. Do what you know is right.

the Patriot

Don't take that first "hit"

Drug dealers are famous for getting people to give in and "try" drugs ..... with every intention of getting them hooked and then sucking off of them for the rest of their lives. People who use drugs are another top reason people start using drugs ..... "peer pressure" to be a part of a group.

BIG Government is one of the worst drug dealers in the world and "progressives" are one of the worst "peers" that are pushing for what Big Government is selling. We have created welfare programs, social security, medicaid, medicare, long-lasting unemployment benefits, and the list of the nanny state "drugs" goes on and on and on........

"BUT IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THESE PROGRAMS TO HELP AMERICANS, WE WOULD BE EVEN WORSE OFF." Really? Think about the debt this country has built up and the expenses we blow through every year to support these programs. That in itself is not math we can do on any calculator made by man.

That's just the debt though. That's just money. Now think about the culture we have created by creating these programs. "Entitlement" used to be a dirty word. Now it is the GOAL of millions of Americans. It is quickly becoming the new "American Dream".

So how do you counter this culture? Well, how do you break a drug addict of his addiction? You have to REFORM their lifestyle. Some people say "rehab". Rehab is a part of complete reformation. I liken it to losing weight. You can "rehab" and lose a bunch of weight. It's simple to lose weight: burn more calories than you eat. That's it. It's not a secret. Millions of people do it every day. Then why do so many people gain the weight back? They didn't truly REFORM their lives.

Drug addicts must also completely reform their lives. They have to rehab the physical ADDICTION. They have to remove the TEMPTATION. They have to remove the INFLUENCE or ENABLER. They have to make SACRIFICES. They have to go through a fundemental transformation (reformation). Anything short of this and they will be back on the crack in just a matter of time.

We have to go through a fundamental transformation in this country. Unfortunately, we are doing that right now. In the WRONG DIRECTION!! We are encouraging the entitlement programs, the nanny state, and ultimately full dependence on the government .... all so the government can say "see, you NEED me" - "let me take care of you" - "you're not strong enough to do this on your own" - "I can help".

Sound like a drug dealer much??!!

In other words, it will be PAINFUL to break this culture down and start over. Our country has got to get beyond the "I WANT IT NOW" culture and get back to SACRIFICING FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY CULTURE. It's about our kids and our grandkids - NOT US. We have this backwards in America right now.

"BUT HOW DO WE DO IT?" The answer is as a former boss of mine used to say: "if it is to be, it is up to me". YOU. YOU are the answer. The INDIVIDUAL has to look in the mirror and CHANGE. You have to get involved with your communities and SET THE EXAMPLE. INSPIRE people without FORCING them to change. INSPIRE them to look in the mirror and tell themselves "if it is to be, it is up to me". Join forces with your family and with God and make a concious decision to stop accepting the handouts. Stop looking the other way. Stop being selfish and start looking out for your kids and their kids and their kids. LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF ABOUT HOW YOU CAN BETTER CONTRIBUTE TO TOMORROW.

JUST SAY NO.

the Patriot

# 2!! Whoo- hooo!!! ????

HOORAY FOR COMMUNISM - IT'S SUCCEEDING!!! ???

Times are tough here in 2010. Relatively speaking anyway. I don't think any sensible person would argue this.

One argument from the "right" is that the current Progressive Movement (Obama, Palosi, Reid, Clinton, etc.) is a step toward all out Socialism and eventually total communal living - or Communism. There is a better agruement for this every day that goes by that these progressives run our country.

Communal living is one of the greatest theories in life. Think about it. Communal living means that the entire community comes together as one large family and does whatever it takes for the entire family to survive and procreate. What a wonderful theory. Seriously - doesn't that sound eutopic? "No one left behind". ...... And, of course, NO individualism. Individualism cannot survive in true communal living. You literally have to give up who you are for the sake of the "family" (of millions and millions and even billions, as in Communist China). If you would prefer to be an artist, but the only job the "family" has for you is working at the mill so there will be enough lumber to build homes for your "family", guess which one you will be stuck doing? NO individualism.

So the single biggest sacrifice of communism, giving up YOURSELF, is reason enough to kill the theory of communism - period. What's contradicting here is that the liberal left is known for "self-expression". The artists, the teachers, and the social workers that are screaming for recognition as individuals are the ones SUPPORTING the current Progressive Movement!!!!

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The opposite of Communism would be America. Our free market Republic is about as anti-communist as it gets. America has always lead the world - in technology, economy, competition, and yes, individualism.

Today it was announced that CHINA surpassed JAPAN as the # 2 economy in the world. This is alarming. It is alarming because it is sending the message to the Progressives of incoming generations that Socialism, and ultimately Communism, CAN work. It shows that everyone putting aside who they really are for the sake of "family" can benefit all and that INDIVIUALISM is actually the long-term demise of humanity.

You think that's silly for me to think? Here's a silly fact for you: more people think that ELVIS is alive than think that Obama's stimulus created jobs. Why is that important? Because it is that same minority of our population that is currently running our country!! (No, not the minority that thinks that Elvis is alive - the other one ...)

What is REALLY happening here is that Socialism is deeper in our culture than we are realizing/acknowledging. The goal of communism is to make EVERYONE the same. Not just "equal", but the SAME. China isn't getting "better". America and Japan are getting WORSE! We are dumming ourselves down at the same time that Communist China is maintaining mediocrity and removing individualism from their culture. We are globally creating an environment where no one is "better" than any one else and we cannot LEAD our world if we are all the SAME. We are removing the competitiveness that made America great and the individualism that spurs that competitiveness.

So, we are sinking down to their level. Doing this is not only hurting us directly through absence of jobs and reductions in incomes, it is globally hurting America's status as the leader of the "free world".

If we want to be EXCEPTIONAL. If we want to be INDIVIDUALS. If we want to remain FREE. We have to stop this progressive movement. We have to vote all dirty politicians out of office this year and in 2012. ALL progressives, including the large amount of progressives that hide behind the title of Republican, MUST BE REMOVED FROM OUR CONGRESS.

We must return countries like Japan to the top of the free world. Otherwise, we risk EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING people. Think about it. Please. REALLY think about it.

the Patriot

Slavery is SOOO "in"!!

Slavery was outlawed 150 years ago, right?

It was outlawed, yes; but it is far from being a thing of the past. It is alive and well in modern day America. Here are just a few examples:

-- WELFARE - in theory, welfare is a fantastic program to help people TRANSITION themselves from hard times back into a situation of financial "independence". The reality here, however, is that the long-term cultural shift that welfare has encouraged has enslaved countless Americans to a life of "dependence".

-- UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS - again, in THEORY, this is a great idea. The reality is that more and more Americans are DEPENDENT on these benefits and are in no hurry to get off "unemployment". I am a hiring manager for a very large company. In this terrible job market, we are CONSTANTLY hiring. The reason we are constantly hiring is because there are so many people who do not want to work. Due to the constant hiring, we often hold "open houses" to help us make several hires at one time. In these open houses, dozens of people show up ..... typically, as many as HALF of them are just there so we can sign their sheet saying they interviewed for a job so they can take the form back to the unemployment office and justify continuing their unemployment benefits.

-- CREDIT - ignorant consumers and predatory lending are the single biggest contributing factors to America's current financial crisis (yes the government encouraged all sorts of shady lending practices, but who FORCED the consumer to take out the loan they knew they coudn't afford?). ANYONE who has debt is ENSLAVED to the person they borrowed it from - unless they have the readily accessible capital to pay off that debt at any given moment.

What may jump off the page at you here is that all 3 of these examples (there are plenty more by the way) are VOLUNTARY actions. How can something VOLUNTARY be a form of ENSLAVEMENT you ask? Simple. First of all, we have an image in our minds of slavery being a white man whipping and beating a colored man while they are picking cotton for their "master". So nothing else can possibly be called slavery, right? FALSE. Our CULTURE (or MORALS that is) is deteriorating constantly and expeditiously generation after generation. The reason for this backwards shift in morality is because the "I DESERVE IT" mentality of the average American has replaced the "I CAN EARN IT" mentality (to say nothing of the removal of God from our culture).

Look at what our modern society considers "poor" to be here in the year 2010. You have a well-fed (often overweight) person with a roof over their head, cable TV, a cell phone, honest work at minimum wage, at least 1 car, electricity, water, furniture, video games, iPods, and on and on ...... That is a POOR person?? It is by American cultural standards. It is sad that we don't recognize that this lifestyle is still better than 95% of the rest of the world!!!!

Now think about what "poor" looked like 100 years ago ... skinny and hungry, no job, no home, no car (or no horse/cart), no plumbing, no electricity, no food stamps, no "umeployment", no social security, no food, no medicaid/medicare, no NOTHING. Now THAT is poor.

Now compare the second example to the first. First of all, the person in the second would have looked at the person in the first and recognized them as WEALTHY - even ELITE! Secondly, the person in the second example would NEVER have blamed the wealthy people, or the government, or their "creditors" for their situation. They would have taken responsibility for their situation and they would have WORKED their way out of it.

So the new standard of "poor" is called "progress" by some. I call it the collapse of FREEDOM.

We have to "have it NOW". We have to have it BIGGER and BETTER and NEWER and "BLINGIER"! So what do we do? We "charge it". We take advantage of "the system". We convince oursleves that we are justified in not taking honest work for less today than the job we lost yesterday. We "give in" to our children and lower the standards of what it means to be TRULY FREE. We blame others. We play the "victim". We look for excuses to wallow in our misery. We "settle". THESE THINGS ARE ALL UN-AMERICAN.

We change our CULTURE. We change God (his role in our lives). We change our Country. Eventually, we lose our Country. We lose God. We lose America. We lose our Freedom. We enslave ourselves. And we do it with the finger pointed at anyone BUT ourselves.

Look in the mirror and make a change (a little Michael Jackson for you there). Make a commitment to do YOUR part. It's the only part that YOU can control. If more of us are doing that than not, then we can save ourselves from the destructive path we are on.

The Patriot

Ah, Greece. So much history. So much beauty. So much failure.

I don't know about you, but when my family puts together a budget, we have to make absolute sure of ONE thing: more money cannot go out than comes in. It's that simple. This rule is not up for debate. If we don't follow this rule, we will not be able to keep our home, our car, our kids, etc. We have to either make more money, spend less money, or some combination of the two.

Every responsible family is held to these same standards. Every profitable business is held to these standards. Churches are even held to this simple math. So why then isn't our Government? If a family cannot sustain itself outside of a balanced budget, a business collapses without it, and even a church is forced to disband if they cannot balance income and expenses, how is it that our government can do it?

The answer is scary, but is not without a simple solution. A very simple solution. After all, it's basic math. We're taught it all the way back in primary school. The answer is that the government CANNOT sustain itself either.

Example: GREECE.

Greece is a beautiful country to visit, I'm sure. But Greece is a Socialist nation and as we all know, they are in the middle of a full economic collapse, violant riots, and financial bail outs right now (much of which AMERICA is directly paying for). So their government has an endless list of entitlement programs (expenses) and no incentive for individuals or businesses to make more money (so they are not increasing income through taxation). More going out than coming in is bad. Some think that a tax INCREASE will fix this math ....... uh, Greece already has an average personal tax rate that is over 33% HIGHER than here in the United States!!!

Now take a look back at that description of Greece.

The description of the United States is not so different. High personal taxes, even higher corporate taxes, huge amounts of expenses tied up in entitlement programs, and less and less incentives for American businesses to create jobs. This all leads to higher unemployment, a higher burden on the entitlement programs to support the unemployed, higher taxes to support the entitlement programs, MORE job losses so employers can afford the higher taxes that support the entitlement programs for the unemployed ..... UH-OH. Anyone catch what just happened there. We just created a self-destructing circle. When that happens, something in the circle has to change. If nothing changes, self-destruction occurs.

Cause and effect is inevitable. I know our current President and his administration (and other POTUS's before him by the way) seem to think that their decisions are immune from the cause and effect principle that guides the rest of us, but they are not. You cannot effect one thing without it effecting another - and so on and so on .... Think back to school and the "ecosystem". Better yet, think back to "The Lion King" and "The circle of Life". In other words, like it or not, we are all in this thing together. You impact me. I impact you.

So higher personal taxes (more income for the government), is NOT the answer. Just look at Greece.

Some would argue that corporate taxes are the problem and that America is not collecting enough in taxes from it's businesses ....... WRONG. Corporate taxes in the US are tied with Japan for the highest in the world!!!!!

More entitlement programs is NOT the answer. Do I really need to explain that any further?

Printing money is NOT the answer. Eeventually the countries that lend us money will want to be re-paid. Not to mention, printing too much money can cause severe inflation and devalue the dollar to the point of bankruptcy.

Quick recap: taxing the people doesn't save you, so stop leaning on the wealthy to support everyone (eventually, the rich run out of money and then what?). Corporate taxes can't save you, so stop demonizing the very companies that are there to provide us with income!!! Entitlement programs, no matter how much you tax the country, cannot sustain themselves. One fact about entitlement programs that is undeniable: if there is a "free ride" being offered, the ride will be full and it will have a long line of people waiting to get on it!! And obviously we cannot just continue to borrow money from other countries so we can print more of it.

We are doomed ......

Ah, but I haven't talked about the other half of the equation: the spending. We are spending too much. No question about that. We have got to cut back on spending. Surely THAT will save us, right? Not by itself it won't. We could cut down spending by Billions and 10's and 100's of Billions and it will NOT save us. The reason it won't save us is because businesses are being sent a message by our government that they are not welcome here. That's why so many jobs are being shipped overseas. If businesses continue to leave and we continue to lose jobs, we are just spinning around in that self-destructing circle we talked about.

In short, THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT SAVE US. So who can?

The short answer is this: WE MUST SAVE OURSELVES. Yes, DRASTICALLY cut down on spending. Also, encourage our people and businesses to make money by penalizing us LESS (lower taxes on all fronts) and creating an enviroment where businesses will want to create jobs HERE IN AMERICA. Hand in hand with this, our borders MUST be protected from illegal immigrants who are STEALING the few jobs that we have!! Lastly, this world made it centuries and centuries without a single entitlement program. We can survive without them again if we put our minds to it. Family, Church, and community will take on these responsibilities WILLINGLY if the Government just gets out of the way. The government has to shrink itself and hide in the corner if WE THE PEOPLE are to take this country back again. The private sector needs the confidence to create jobs. Jobs will give consumers the confidence to spend. Spending money that we actually have will balance things out again. DEBT, whether it's the government or the individual, MUST BE STOPPED.

So, the answer is simple - spend less than you make. The commitment needed to make a difference, "Live within your means", is not so simple. "I want it all and I want it now" is the cultural hurdle that keeps us from making the sacrifices needed to financially balance our lives and country. WE have to make sacrifices if WE are going to save this country.

Stop mooching off the government, stop voting corrupt people into government, stop living beyond your financial means, stop "playing the victim", and start holding YOURSELF accountable for your decisions. Become active in local and regional politics. Be knowledgable of what impact "cause and effect" has on every level of our financial world. In other words, play a productive role in the circle of life. BE AN EXAMPLE.

the Patriot

To Limit or Not To Limit

Term Limits for Representatives and Senators. With all the low-hanging corrupt political fruit to grab and chew to pieces, some will wonder why I am choosing to bring up "term limits". The answer is simple. We all agree that American politics are corrupt. Both in terms of process and personnel. The process is a result of the personnel though. As some like to say, we need to deal with the disease, not the symptons.

First, I do not want to imply that every elected official becomes corrupt. A very minute amount do not. This post is not about that immeasurably small minority though. It is about the majority of our elected officials, who do become corrupt; which is our biggest opportunity to bring real change and reform to our government. Think about it for a second. Since 1968, the House has a re-election rate of NINETY-FIVE PERCENT!! The Senate has almost 85%!! The government, those very elected officials, are the ones responsible for transforming the country into what it is today. We the people are ultimately responsible for their actions. We allowed this corruption by allowing the SAME elected officials to run the country year after year.

So what are the pro's and con's of term limits?

Some pro's:
- favors "meritocracy" by downgrading "seniority"
- reduces the power and influence of the lobbies and bureaucracy
- it will help in the fight against wasteful spending by removing powerful politicians that get in bed with pet projects that turn into out of control "keep me getting re-elected" projects
- it will encourage fresh ideas and current representation
- encourages more voter participation because it won't be the same old names on the ballot every year
- encourages voters to vote on principle instead of popularity
- gets real Americans running this country, instead of "politicians"
- will reduce corruption by making it difficult for alliances to bully junior politicians

Some con's:
- gets rid of the few good elected officials that we have
- encourages corruption to be passed on by having corrupt outgoing politicians endorse their replacement
- loss of knowledge and experience in our representatives
- exposure to electing the "latest trend"

There are more of each, but I really am struggling to come up with con's. Please give me your input on both.

I am in favor of term limits because the good outweighs the bad here. In regards to the concern of "we lose good elected officals", let me say this. If they truly are good at what they do, they will have a proven track record to show us, right? If they truly care about us, they will back a candidate that will continue on their principles. Ideally, that candidate would have some track record of their own that supports that they are closely aligned to the outgoing official. Make sense? Of course there is room for corruption in this - as there is with ANYTHING in a free country. This gives us a real opportunity to scrutinize them though - instead of just voting on their name recognition.

One of the biggest problems with no term limits is the "seniority" problem in our system. If you don't know how it works, here it is in a nutshell. The longer you have been in position, the more "senior" you are. The senior officals get "first call" when committees are formed. Every major law that is passed is brought to Congress by the committee that is appointed to draft the "Bill". So, mediocre officials, that are senior based only on tenure not ability, are the ones that head up every major Bill that goes in front of Congress for a vote. Talk about exposing ourselves to deep, deep corruption.

I could spend several BLOG entries on "Seniority vs. Merit". Man I get fired up over that process. But again, term limits would not allow the same people to be in charge of these committees for years and even DECADES on end!! This alone should be enough to sway any nay-sayers.

Secondly, I would argue that having new names on the ballots more often would encourage, if not force, voters to better research the candidates before voting for them just because they recognize their name. This in itself would expose corruption and encourage more Americans to vote and even run for office.

Voting ballots are part of the problem as well though. Let's face it, most Americans check the box of the party they most closely associate themselves with. That tends to get the same people elected again and again since the people voting each year are usually the same people that voted the last time. Remove the candidate's party affiliation from the ballot.

Campaign reform is a must whether we inact term limits or not. Too much to go into here, but the laws around campaigning are no less corrupt than the politicians taking advantage of voters. The guy with the most money (legal or otherwise) and most recognizable name wins.

Another factor that ties directly into this is immigration reform. President Bush used "amnesty for illegals" as a political tool to buy votes. It worked. President Obama is trying to use that exact same trick himself right now. Any law that is so obviously used to buy votes should be considered unconstitutional at worst and treasonous at best - I say treasonous because making ILLEGALS (that is CRIMINALS) equal citizens to you and I is unforgiveable. This is corruption in plain view, yet we do nothing about it.

Combine these things and you have reform that the people will actually benefit from. This is a deep conversation and I have only scratched the surface. I will close with one of the things I opened with: we have got to focus on the disease, NOT the symptons!!

the Patriot

We MUST Stop OUR Government!!

So everyone should know by now that the House voted late last night and, after many bribes and backroom deals, passed the Senate's Obamacare Bill - with NO alterations whatsoever. So who really knows what's in the Bill? It is painful to research, but I want to share with everyone the main points of the Bill.

Take a minute to read these and then let's talk about how important it is that we REPEAL this Bill IMMEDIATELY!!! Post comments here on my BLOG or on my Facebook fan page by the same name.

- Effective IMMEDIATELY, Health Insurance companies will no longer be able to deny people with pre-existing conditions. This is actually listed as a "pro" on liberal and statist BLOGs. How is this going to help? If you have a "risk pool", which is what insurance companies have, and you intentionally add SICK people to it, you have no choice but to INCREASE your premiums so you can offset the cost of the liability you were just forced to accept. Premiums will go up for everyone, even the low income families Obama has manipulated into supporting him. And we will lose jobs due to insurance companies having to lay off to find profit to make up for the hit they will take from this requirement. Sound positive to you? Now, there is a way to reform this portion of the Bill to help those with pre-existing conditions. This isn't it though.

- 33 MILLION Americans (Americans? ya' right, not all of them) will begin receiving Health Insurance through a massive expansion of Medicaid and the creation of State-run insurance exchanges (co-ops or "pools"). Again, this is cited as a major "pro" of the Bill. In reality, this throws money at an already broken program and increases everyone's Premiums even more (on top of what the first bullet point will do). You can't add freeloaders to a risk pool without the risk level increasing. Whenever this happens, costs go up for all. Problem 2 with this "pro" is that it increases the number of patients our already short-staffed medical personnel will be seeing by FIFTEEN PERCENT!! So we are already short on Doctor's and we are going to increase their client base by 15%...... supply and demand tells me that either they will raise their prices or lower their quality of service - or most likely a combination of the two. And the doctor's will have to deal with all of this while at the same time receiving a decrease in their reimbursements for MediCare patients. The rest of us will be charged to make up differences. I ask again, how is this a "pro"?

- So here is a "con" by anyone's standards, except for those 200+ Democrats that voted in favor of it anyway - Beginning in 2014, if you choose not to have Health Insurance for any reason whatsoever, you will be FINED $695 by our Government. That amount is based on premiums going down of course. They will not go down though and that fine will have to be drastically increased if it is to accomplish it's goal. So, for the first time in our country's history, you are being told by the government how to spend your hard-earned money. If you defy the Kings and Queens, you will be FINED. This is NOT Democracy. This is Tyranny. This is enslavement disquised as ..... oh, actually they aren't even trying to disguise it anymore are they? They are openly beating us into submission.

- Employers with 50 or more employees will be fined $2000 per employee if they do not provide them with health Insurance. Here is how that plays out in the real world: the employer that has 55 or 60 (or even 70 employees), instead of paying $100,000+ a year in fines, is most likely going to lay off people until he has 49 employees. More unemployment means more burden on the rest of us. And what is his motivation to create jobs? Not going to happen. He is going to stay at 49. But let's say he doesn't lay them off and he pays the fine instead (as if!!). He still has to make a profit, so he increases his costs to the consumer for whatever it is he is selling (product, service, etc.)! This translates to less sales for him and less revenue collected by the IRS, not to mention more layoffs. All of this means more burden on the taxpayer and will also mean higher Insurance Premiums for all.

Let's points out a few other by-products of this mess:
- Doctor's near retirement age will opt for early retirement and close their practices because of the unreasonable environment our government will be creating for them. This means layoffs. This also means even less Doctor's, which means even higher Premiums and lower quality service.
- Small businesses everywhere will be pushing their employee's to join State pools so they can lesson the burden on themselves - which will create further burden on the taxpayers.
- "Debt to Income" ratios across the country will increase, leaving less and less money to spend back into our economy. This means drastically less sales tax collected by the states, which leads to increased Payroll Taxes and Property Taxes.
- With so little money being spent by consumers, the Real Estate market will truly collapse. Not the 15-25% drops in value we have seen over the past 4 years - I am talking 40-50% drops from CURRENT lowered values. This will cause unheard of unemployment in the construction industry, banking industry, and on and on right down the line.
- This is a platform for our government to propose and pass more Socialist programs like Obamacare. The precedent has been established.
- Our elected officials no longer have to listen to the will of the people. Again, the precedent has been set based on the corrupt manor in which they passed this Bill.


Everything is tied to everything else here folks. The circle of life is being artificially tampered with and this will create uncertainty like we have never seen in our history. Our country will go further into debt and our debtors WILL call on us for repayment. And they will do it when we are at our lowest, when they fear that their chances of every being re-paid are all but lost. We won't have the means to repay them. This is where wars start people. Real wars. Real death. With the technology of today's world, another World War would cause death and destruction on a level even the most disgusting video game has not imagined.

Think I am taking this too far? After all, what harm can come from trying to help people recieve medical attention and save money? As I say above, our economy is linked to everything we touch. Even the smallest uncertainty can change our financial position for years. Health care is 16% of our entire economy. Imagine how devistating this could possibly be.

But we still have a voice. We still have a platform of our own. We still have the means to turn this around. We still have the intelligence, the desire, and the tools to take this country back. We still have a vote people! It seems to be all we have left that our corrupt government cannot ignore. One little vote in Massachussetts in January caused the entire ObamaCare agenda to change strategies. They had to skirt around so many procedures and policies to get the senate Bill passed that even they have lost track of their corruption and back room deals. All because of 1 election in 1 state. Imagine the scare we could give them if we repalced 20 of these corrupt politicians (on both sides of the isle!!!)!!!! Imagine if we replaced 30 of them?!?!? That is where it starts people. We need to replace every last one of them, but we need to start somewhere. The next time we have a shot at doing this is in November of THIS YEAR. We cannot lose focus or enthusiasm between now and then. We have to hold people accountable. If we do not, they will hold us enslaved.

I love this country. I am taking it back from the corrupt elites. Please join the fight.

the Patriot

Freedom From Corruption

This BLOG entry is going to seem "extreme" to some of you. Extreme because it goes against the machine. Extreme because it calls on politicians to put "We The People" ahead of their personal agendas. Extreme because it calls on the President to protect Americans FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Extreme because it requires ACTION!!!

It is really rather simple though. We are the "United States of America". "of America" referring to "the Americas", North and South. "States" referring to 50 SEPARATE states. And "United" referring to the common belief the residents of those 50 states share, known as The Charters of Freedom. Don't know what those are? Take a few minutes to explore the link and the 3 Charters. No, really - please read and understand them - all of them.

I explain the above before explaining my "extreme" proposal for a reason. Our Country is going through some hard times right now. No one would argue this. We have out of control spending, out of control borrowing, out of control debt, out of control corruption, out of control arrogance, and we have a country that desperately NEEDS a Leader that will help protect us from this corruption and these idealogues, not one that will enable them.

Here is the good news - The United States of America already has an instrument in place to stop ALL of the above. The key here is returning to the roots of our Country's founding. The individual STATE within a UNION. All 50 states have the ability to protect themselves from the Federal Government by remembering this simple fact. All 50 states have the ability to boot the Federal Government out of THEIR business. That is why the founders of this Nation created individual States within the Union (do not confuse this with State Sovereignty" - that cannot exist within a Union). If they had intended all States to fall under ONE law, they would have created ONE Sovereign State and they would not have named our Country The UNITED States of America. They seceded from the tyranny of Britian so that ONE State could never again DICTATE to the masses.

That's it. It's that simple. ****THAT'S IT? This is EXTREME? Doesn't sound very extreme to me!!!****

Let's shed a little "perspective" on things. The Progressives have slowly (and brilliantly) implemented changes over the decades that have conditioned us to accept our States the way they are today - which is NOT how those that originally formed our States intended them to be. They have infiltrated and manipulated all levels of Government, as well as "We The People". We have been conditioned to accept things the way they are with little to no challenge given to those that have so diligently corrupted our great Nation. We play the part of the helpless victim and wait for "someone else" to fix things. WE THE PEOPLE have got to take back OUR Country.

It starts at the lowest level: Townships, Cities, Counties, and STATES. When browsing through the Charter link above, take a minute and read the 10th Ammendment of the Bill of Rights. Progressives have added the 16th and the 17th ammendments that restrict the 10th Ammendment somewhat. It is up to the STATES to reassert themselves on the basis of the 10th Ammendment. Read it carefully. EVERY state can INDIVIDUALLY create a common UNION within this Country if they step up to the plate and STOP THE TYRANNY of our Federal Government.

****"This is all about Obama-hating!!!"**** Really? Come on. That is just a pathetic arguement. This is NOT about Obama. Yes he is an idealogue and a Statist, but he is only a figure-head for the Progressive Movement (the current one anyway). His position as the POTUS is supposed to be not only as a leader and representative of our country, but also as a DEFENSE against government corruption. That line of defense has obviosly failed WE THE PEOPLE. So, the next "Line of Defense" needs to stop this attack on our Country.

That next Line of Defense is US. It is you and me. It is time for every citizen to step up and DO SOMETHING. Whether or not you support ObamaCare is irrelevant. The PRINCIPAL of having the Federal Government FORCE something on American Citizens is the problem. TYRANNY is the problem!!

Here is another link - the ACTION part of this BLOG. Yes, you have to DO something. You can't just say you support an anti-tyranny movement. You have to be ACTIVE in supporting it. Our "LINES" must stand. We cannot allow the Progressives to continue their assault against us; and their agenda of turning our Great Country into a corrupt platform for tyranny. Tell your State that you want them to PRO-ACTIVELY put laws in place that PROHIBIT the Federal Government from infringing any further on YOUR Rights. Tell them to block the Federal Government from YOUR business. If we do not stop the Federal Government takeover of our 50 individual States, we will soon lose the structure of individual States and become ONE State. ONE State is what we seceded from over 200 years ago to gain the Freedoms that we currently enjoy. Why would we allow, or worse - encourage, our States to regress into that Tyrannical Government?

TAKE ACTION!!! CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE!!!! click here

the Patriot

Calling out PRGRESSIVISM

Today, I attack Obama and the Progressive horse he road in on. As I was reminded this past weekend, PROGRESSIVISM is the real problem here, not Barack Obama. I get so mad at Obama that I sometimes forget this. Progressivism is a step toward Socialism and Socialism is a step toward Communism.

Liberals get upset when a patriotic American calls Obama a Socialist. So I am going to list some actual Obama quotes. You decide if he is a Socialist:

"Our individual salvation depends on our collective salvation." ----- OK, so Obama is going to save us all I guess? If every American would clean up their own dirty laundry and the government would stay out of our business, the collective salvation would be a bi-product of our individual salvation - which can only come from within, not forced by the hand of a tyrannical government through forced "conversions".

Next quote: "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few, and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity." ----- OK, that's not B.O. (Barack Obama), but it still stinks ..... it's B.O.'s hand-picked Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. You CAN judge people by the company they keep (not sure what that says about me!!).

Speaking of friends, here is B.O.'s thoughts on his personal choices: "I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students, the Chicanos, the Marxist Professors and structural feminists. " ---- Yes, this is an actual and accurate quote. This is the President of the UNITED States???? Does he sound like he really wants us to be UNITED? Absolutely not. He should be impeached for this mindset. We should be ashamed of him. "I chose my friends carefully" --- like Jeremiah Wright, Hillary Clinton, Van Jones, William Ayers, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, and the list goes on ..... and yes, I AM ashamed.

Who said this - Hillary or Obama???: "Our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest."

Kind of a trick question. Neither of them said it. Sounds just like them both though, doesn't it? That's because it is a page out of the Progreesive manual. A progressive manual that turned into all out tyranny, that turned into mass genecide. So, who said it? A man who would come to be known as the murderer of almost 10,000,000 Jews said it. Adolf Hitler. Hitler began his reign as a radical progressive. Don't forget that Hitler actually had millions and millions of people that supported and idolized him.

Hillary did say this though: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." She actually said this at a Democratic rally back in 2004. And our beloved POTUS appointed HER to be the Secretary of State. We should not be surprised. They are both self-proclaimed progressives. If B.O. had not been pushed into the picture - thanks in no small part to Oprah and friends - Hillary would have been the Democratic nominee and most likely the POTUS right now. I wonder if she would have appointed B.O. to the SOS position had she been elected POTUS???

As the Progressives have been saying for the past 2 years (actually much longer, but most recently it has been pushed as a parralell agenda to the "blame everything on Bush" agenda): "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste". Not a new quote here, but who said this most recently? None other than Obama's # 1 guy and Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. Another Progressive.

Sometimes (often as of late), politicians use crises to further cement their political agendas by attacking victims when they are down by offering what seems to the victim to be a good thing at the time. A great example would be back when the government created Fannie Mae (1938). This was done during a crisis. Decades later, look at the absolute devastation the program is causing to our housing market (which is what triggered the avalanche of actions that created the current financial crisis - thanks Fannie Mae!!!). Ultimately, that is the consumer's fault; but we should know by now that the average American will never refuse a handout, even if they know it is not what's best for the country.

The quotes are truly endless for Obama. That is the one good thing that comes from his massive ego. That is, he has always craved the spotlight. So all of these radical progressive statements are on video and audio tape all over the place.

I remain confident that America will continue it's current awakening and oust this Wanna-Be-King in 2012!!

the Patriot

GOD-given rights, not GOVERNMENT-given

We can literally go back to the creation of our existence to verify that FREEDOM comes from GOD. Freedom to make our own choices is what separates us from all of God's other creations. Obviously then, from this, we can conclude that God must have thought it was of importantance that humans, and only humans, have this FREEDOM. This RIGHT.

You would think that would be enough to prove that humans were not intended to be ENSLAVED by other humans. Yet that is exactly what the US Government has been working towards for decades. Yes it has been greatly expadited under Obama, but he is hardly responsible for creating the idea or putting the players into place that are needed to push it over the top.

The government is in the later stages of it's plan to make all citizens dependant upon it for basic survival. Our elected officials are taking multiple approaches to accomplish this.

For one group of Americans, it is trying to scare them into submission by oppressing our free economy through fear-mongering (they have the backing of nearly all news outlets and un-bias reporting is a thing of the past), government purchases of puiblicly held companies (the car industry, the banking industry, etc.), unprecidented spending (bail-out, TARP, call it what you will - it is mindless spending that has produced no return), and of course the more traditional acts of blatant lies and taxation (i.e. promises of transperancy, Cap and Trade, and much much more here).

Through another large group of Americans, the government is inticing them into submission through the promises of large-scale, modified, communal living (Healthcare, entitlement programs for lazy Americans, and scaling down of our Military and border security .... amongst many other initiatives).

And there are many smaller groups that are being lured in and/or funneled in through other means. And there are, of course, some that will never give in no matter what is offered or threatened(present!). The underlying tactic here is that the US Government no longer wants to "Teach a man to fish". That would require a long term, large scale reduction in our government. Politicans on both sides of the fence have no interest in this of course. This is precisely why the Republicans are offering no alternatives to the outrageous policy the Democrats are currently shoving down our throats. They simply want to voice disagreement publicly so they increase the likelihood of being re-elected. They actually like the idea of the Democrats succeeding at their agenda right now. That way they can say, "See, I told you so". And no doubt they will. If they do win, which is seeming more likely every day, I will be saying the same thing. The difference is I am a regular citizen, not an elected offical who was voted into my position to represent the people, speak up for the people, and protect our country "from enemies both foreign AND domsetic".

So back to God and free will, freedom, and rights. People throw around the term "God's Will" quite often in life. God has two types of "will". The first is active will. Meaning he can intervine and change an outcome. The other is passive will. Meaning he chooses to not intervine and "allows" a certain outcome. Elected officials are given this same power by the citizens that elect them. They can make things happen or they can watch from the sidelines and do nothing. Exactly what our politicians are doing today. The liberal contengency is taking action, albeit self-destructive action, while the "conservatives" (I use the term very loosely) sit and do nothing more than HOPE for failure. I have a suggestion. GET ON THE FIELD AND PLAY DEFENSE YOU IDOITS!!!!

........ calming down (yeah, right). Simple recap: the Democrats are running out of control doing whatever their little hearts desire right now. The Republicans are whining but offering little or no alternatives. The majority of our population does not want what the Democrats are doing right now to happen. Nor do they approve of the lazy Republican party sitting on the sidelines, offering nothing but a verbal disagreement (I call it whining and "playing the victim").

Conservative Americans, however, are finally getting it - they realize that they have to become what they have always hated about the liberals, ACTIVISTS. And they are doing it. Their elected officals, however, are not. They remain visionless.

The collective government no longer cares about our GOD-given rights. Some would argue, and have a pretty strong case, that the government no longer cares about God period. And that this is actually the root issue with our country.

At the end of the day, the US Government was not created to feed us, to put gas in our cars, to give us housing, or to mend our boo-boos. "Life, Liberty, and the PURSUIT of Happiness" is not a declaration of a communal society. It is a RIGHT, not an ENTITLEMENT. Our culture does not seem to be able to grasp this. Instead, we seem to be content to just "Give a man a fish" ...... day after day after day after day after day ......