Only in America

This is Canada's Top Ten List of American Stupidity.
Of course we look like idiots ... because we are.

Number 10) Only in America...could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000. a plate campaign-fund-raising event.

Number 9) Only in America ...could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black, 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans - 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!

Number 8) Only in America...could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (former head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

Number 7) Only in America...can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

Number 6) Only in America...would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens.

Number 5) Only in America....could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be considered "extremists."

Number 4) Only in America...could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

Number 3) Only in America...could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).

Number 2) Only in America....could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it collects per year - for
total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.

And the Number 1) Only in America...could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share!"

ONLY IN AMERICA!!!!

Ben Steins new article

A reprint from Ben Stein's new article

A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
-- George Washington

Ben Stein’s New Article

WE'VE FIGURED HIM OUT!
By Ben Stein

Why was President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed? Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. (Pig in a poke means: an offering or deal that is foolishly accepted without being examined first. A poke means sack.)

They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white writings in his books.

They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student.

They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable, super leftist, and not a fan of this country.

The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way helped ALL Americans.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never can be --"a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society."Either the costs go up or the free society goes away... an historical truth.

Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud, if believed to be caused by man. Hillary has also signed on to a Small Firearms Treaty at the U.N.  This is a back door gun control move. If this is approved by the Senate and a 2nd Amendment majority doesn't exist in the Senate now. It will supersede all U.S. Law and the 2nd Amendment. All citizen possession will be eliminated through confiscation. Just Like Great Britain and Australia .

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms. There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .

Ben Stein is a writer, economist, and lawyer. He writes "Ben Stein's Diary," for every issue of The American Spectator.

You must, as an American, FORWARD this, or you will wake up one morning and your freedoms will be GONE...No longer there!

It is "We the people"......

Veterans unite to save this Union.

Fellow Veterans join me in working to bring the anti liberal groups together, moderates, conservative’s tea party, republicans and libertarians.  I pick fellow veterans for this task because we know the necessity of defeating those who would destroy our way of life.  We have sat back and watched as our one chance, the Republican Party has done its best to blow up before our eyes.  The in fighting has to stop, this goes for all republicans and libertarians who want to get our country back on course.  We all have hot points that we want to see happen but until we defeat the progressives in their own game we won’t have a chance.  They have done a masterful job of dividing and conquering the right and we have let them do it with little opposition with lies and innuendo’s.  It’s time to bury the hatchet and get our MOJO back.  We will have plenty of time to resolve our differences once we regain control of the legislative bodies.  If we continue to disintegrate the progressive liberals will gain such a foothold that we will never be able to overturn their insane ideas.  We don’t need anymore progressive judges appointed by liberals.  I’m not saying to forget your principles, there will be plenty of time to get our point across once our side is re-established in control.  We have lived together many years in this party. Moderates and conservatives and we have brought the country back from the brink many times with solid Reagan style leadership.  The divisions that have divided our party have left us floundering in the wind while Obama and his cohorts have pushed their agenda of big government, socialized medicine and massive debt easily onto our shoulders. 

The real worry I see in all his movements is the purge of generals in high places from our military.  This can lead to not only a weaker force but to a force with allegiance to the President and not the Constitution.  As Veterans we all pledged to protect and defend our Constitution above all, I’m calling in that pledge.  Our bickering and the holding back of votes must stop if we are to win back the Senate let alone keep the House of Representatives.  Blaming the Tea Party as being too radical is playing into their hands.  The Tea Party is a grassroots movement of the people by the people who want to bring honor and patriotism back to our country.  We have lost so many things that give us the ability to bring honor to our forefathers and respect to our patriots, now they would even like to take away our National Anthem.  We gave up God and the basic rules that he gave us to live by and look what’s happened; kids with no respect for life killing other kids, a president that thinks it’s okay to lie to get what he wants and most of all an uneducated mass of voters who regardless of his character have elected him twice.  This has happened because so many have decide to sit out the election because their guy lost the primary.  Wake up before it’s too late; Veterans unite and let’s paint this country red in the next election in honor of the blood so many of our fraternity brothers have shed to keep us free.  Be a voice of healing not a shout of division, there will be plenty of time after we bring a united front to the victory party to decide our final direction.  

Should we be worried about another political diversion?

When Obama pulled our troops out of Iraq saying our job there was finished, he forgot to tell Al-Qaida.  The loss of life there is bordering on 1000 per week and the al-Maliki government is helpless to stop it.  The young men and women who fought and died to bring freedom to the Iraqi people must be looking down on this in horror at what has happened.  No one I know is for war in any way or form, but once we are put in a combative situation it should be our goal to win.  Too many wars have been fought where politicians decided the outcome.  If and when the decision is made to go to war it must be left to the military to bring it to a close with the utmost speed and with the least loss of American lives.  War is a grave and final approach to rectifying a bad situation where no other means are available to solve the problem.  We have fought several wars in my lifetime and only were allowed to win twice.  The outcome of these conflicts were not lost by the men and women who so valiantly fought for our country but by the rules of engagement put upon them by politicians.  Viet Nam is a perfect example of political tampering, we had the firepower to bring it to an end swiftly and with the least amount of casualties but we were held back by the rules of engagement and ended up fighting the enemies war in the rice paddies and jungles.  Note to future and present politicians, don’t send us to war unless you want to come home victorious.   No more political diversions at our military’s expense.

Now the government of Iraq who couldn’t wait for us to get out is begging for help.  As westerners we will never understand the situation or the mindset of the Middle East, we have stained the desert with the blood of our finest and accomplished little.  We have the same outcome ahead of us in Afghanistan, we fight and die and the politicians cry uncle.  In World War II we had to level whole cities in spite the collateral damage to the population, the feeling at the time was if the people feel the pain of war they will force their leaders to capitulate.  It is what our enemies are doing to us now without fear of retaliation knowing our leaders are more worried about getting elected again than winning the war.  We have the technology to wipe out the Taliban and most of Al-Qaida in Iraq and Afghanistan yet we put the burden on the foot soldier knowing full well that he is at a tremendous disadvantage in the mountains and deserts of the Middle East in areas hostile to their presence. 

The NSA has proven we can get into their communications so why put our troops in harm’s way when we can isolate and destroy them with our superior technology.   We have the ability to put unmanned aircraft over wide areas 24/7 armed with all types of weapons to pinpoint their whereabouts and reign down upon them with relentless fire.  Yes there will be civilian casualties it is unavoidable in this war as they hide behind the skirts of women and children but the sooner it’s over the less casualties there will be.  We watched The Soviets in Afghanistan try to win a land war using the same techniques as our guys with the same results.  Why can’t we learn from the mistakes, why do we have to constantly allow organizations like the U.N. to dictate our methods.  If I remember right it was the United States they attacked killing thousands of civilians yet we are held to a different standard.  The Middle East has been fighting this war for hundreds of years and the war hasn’t changed an iota, it’s Muslims vs Christians and Jews.  Sunni’s against Shiites when there are no Christians or Jews to go after.  We have to bring them to a halt out of pure fear or wipe out their ability to wage war completely before we can rest easy by pounding them back to the Stone Age they emerged from.  Iran and all the Middle East is watching how we play this hand, our example will either do little to stop their aggressive attitude or if we show our ability to weed out these militants it just may send their people into the streets to bring down the Radical Mullah’s regime out of fear.   We’ve been nice too long at the expense of thousands of lives, lives of some of the finest among us who just may have gone on to do great things for mankind.    

What would a real President do?

As we stumble through one disgraceful cover up, scandal and miscalculation after another one must wonder where the leadership is.  How can a president be so unaware of his surroundings?  When it’s something in his favor like the strike by the Seals killing Osama Bin Laden he was front and center to take the credit.  When Benghazi was still burning he was on his way to a fundraiser in Las Vegas.  When Fast and furious was front page news he was lost in the dark.  When the IRS scandal was jumping out in the headlines he said he heard about it in the news.  While the NSA was tapping our phones he was out once again campaigning for one thing or another and knew nothing.  I must admit he is a great campaigner, but when no one calls you on what you say and promise, it’s my guess that anyone would be a great campaigner.  All you would have to do is tell everyone what they want to hear.  Kind of sounds like the old chicken in every pot slogan from the depression years.   

Okay now what would a real President do?  Number one he would have called his Secretary of State on the carpet for the lack of security available to the Benghazi outpost, especially when the Ambassador had called for more several times and instead of increasing the security they decreased it.   A real president  would have made wholesale changes in the State Department from the top down.  This was outrageous and someone was responsible for denying their request.  A real leader would have come out immediately with the truth about the attack and not BS the public about a video being responsible.  He would have called in air support immediately upon hearing about it even if it was just to buzz the compound and commit to a few strafing runs on the yard. They were watching real time video of the event.  A contingent of Marines would have landed within hours followed by Sea Bees to reclaim our facility and show the enemy that you don’t mess with American might. 

Let’s go right back to the beginning for an example;  A real president would have realized that if you push an unpopular law through in the middle of the night it was bound to cause you problems.  He would have spent the better part of his first term selling the program to the people instead of having his lame duck congress push it through without bipartisan support.  A good president would have realized that his duty is to the people of America not his own ideology.  I know there is no smoking gun yet, but I am almost certain that eventually it will come out that his hand has been in every scandal.  His legacy will be that of the most corrupt administration in modern history.  It is a shame because it could have been so different, so many were thrilled with the fact that a man of color had been duly elected to the highest office in the land and now it may take a generation for it to happen again.    

Lesson to us all; when we hire someone to do a job check their references.  In the case of Obama the public was so enamored with his charisma and his charming smile that they forgot to look in his closet.  The media was totally complicit in the lack of vetting and should be considered as guilty as the democratic party for nominating him.  What has he accomplished?  Are we safer, are we better off financially,are we more confident in what was once our world class medical industry as we were in 2008?  Anyone who is grounded in fact and not an idiolog will have to admit we are not better off, and in fact we are in a very dangerous place in the history of our country. 

A great deal of the blame goes to those who chose to sit home and not vote in the last election just because their guy didn't win the primary.  I wasn't happy with the choice I was given either but I still voted knowing that the latter was still much better than the one we had.

The big zero

The legacy of a loser, as our President enters his 6th year in office the score for his administration has hit a new low.  On a scale of 1 to 10 his score is a flat zero.  How can I rate it you ask, first of all his first promise was to close Gitmo score 0.  His second promise was to be the most transparent administration in history another 0.  He appointed Van Jones a known Communist as one of his czar's, 0.  He promised he'd reduce the debt by 50% whoops another 0.  For weeks after the Benghazi attacks he was still touting the video as blame for the deaths of 4 Americans, Ho Hum, 0.  His appointee to the IRS took the 5th rather than testify leaving us to believe she was covering up for the President or his staff, did he fire her, nope she retired with full benefits, another 0.  When asked about fast and furious the gun running program by the ATF, his chief legal officer the Attorney General said he didn't know anything about it, was he chastised for it, of course not, holy smoke another 0.  Now for the biggie; The signature program of the administration, Obama Care, he promised that if you had a plan you liked you could keep it, if you had a doctor you liked you could keep your relationship with him or her.  Both flat out lies and they knew it months ago, I would definitely give that one a huge 0.  The website that we the people have spent hundreds of millions on couldn't keep up with 6 people on the opening day, oh my another 0.  I have only scratched the surface on his failures and out of respect for the office I will refrain from adding more to this score sheet.

Now if you find fault with these scores please feel free to comment.  The only thing I ask is if you want to say anything please use your real name when you comment and not hide behind some alias.  I will not bother to read any comments made without knowing who you are. If you want to comment you can do so by emailing me at (donspoliticalblog.gmail.com).  I will post clean and cognizant responses in a future blog.

A letter to Progressive Liberals

I’m writing this letter to those who still think that the Affordable Care Plan (Obama Care) is good for America.  I guess it depends on what America you want, the free America we have had for generations or the more socialist America that the progressives are trying to shove down our throats.  Please tell me how you can continue to defend the lies that have been coming from the President and his devotees.  I would like to understand what hold this charlatan has on so many people.  I can somewhat understand the poorer blacks as they have so much invested in the politician.  If he fails, sadly it may take generations before another person of color would be considered.  What I don’t understand is the basic democrat black or white, the hard worker that has never asked for a hand out or even a hand up.  How can you feel good about your vote in the last election?  I was raised a democrat by longtime blue collar democrats but as the far left took hold I became disenchanted with the direction of the party and bolted.  Though my family were all democrats they were Americans first and many fought for the very freedoms that these far left loons are using to desecrate our system. 

Obama Care is just a ruse to get to a one payer system, they would like everyone to be on Medi-Care, the easiest way to control the population is with socialized medicine.  They control what Doctor you can have, what services you will be offered and how much the doctor will be paid.  We have already seen the result of the cronyism that has cost the tax payers billions.  Now we learn that Michelle went to school with the owner of one of the major companies that built the OBC website.  Another bunch of billions down the tube and it doesn’t work.  I think the cost of the fix that they are trying to make should be paid exclusively by the companies who built it wrong in the first place, surely not the taxpayers.   It will surely be in the billions before it’s up and running.

Those who are losing their health plans need to understand that only in a few cases is it the fault of the insurance companies, in most cases if you read the regulations that have been dictated from above it is because so many new things have been put into the mandatory care section.  Most of these are things you opted out of when you chose your plan in the first place.  For example not everyone needs Pre-Natal or Pediatric coverage.  By adding these things into the mandatory program they effectively eliminated 20 to 30 million plans and are blaming the insurance companies for the problem.  You may be able to live with the Benghazi tragedy, the IRS fiasco or even the Fast and Furious cover up, but can you stand up and tell me that you are happy with their lying about and the manipulation of our healthcare system?  Our kids and their kids will never know the comfort of having a family doctor that they can call a friend.  They will be waiting months rather than days for a visit to a specialist and heaven help them if they need a new knee or hip. 

If you are so indoctrinated to the progressive ideology and wish to respond you can do so by going to the email associated with this blog, remember though I will only read those who have the courage to sign with their real name and I will print the responses in a following blog.    

What on earth were they thinking

What in the World were they thinking?  It was estimated that 30 million people were without medical coverage when all this started.  That’s just 10% of the population of the country.  That includes the 10% healthy young who really won’t purchase medical insurance normally because they feel it’s just throwing money away.  It includes 8% who have pre existing problems and have not been able to get coverage.  Now it is estimated in the end that there will be approximately 15 million who will be left without coverage when this is all over and will just pay the fine.  They could have designed a program just to assist the medically challenged that couldn’t buy coverage and left the rest of us alone.  Now we have millions who are not able to keep their doctors or their coverage and they are being cancelled.  The reason is the government has mandated certain coverage’s including things like pre natal care and pediatric dental to name just a few.  Insurance companies are not going to cover this for the same price nor in many cases is it needed.  Some companies were able to make the changes but were forced to increase the rates substantially to do so, others were not able to underwrite the additional coverage and were forced to cancel. 

If you listen to the administration the spin is against everyone and anything but what is real.  They are blaming the insurance companies, the republicans and anyone else who is against the program.  Thank God the website was so poorly put together to afford us the opportunity to delay this colossal disaster for a while.  Mrs. Pelosi said we had to pass it to read, okay we read it and we’re not happy with it.  The whole thing has to be scrapped and redesigned to work within our system of capitalism with free markets deciding the outcome.  Not one of the politicians involved in this fiasco can hold a candle to our founding fathers yet they think in their narcissistic self appointed righteousness that they are smarter than those who designed our system of government. 

America was founded on the concept of a free market place.  The idea that we are entitled to healthcare, welfare, section 8 housing, free phones, food stamps and free school lunches are progressive idea’s brought to us in the 20^th and 21^st century.  I didn’t even mention the idea of years of unemployment we are paying for.  Don’t get me wrong we need a safety net that will protect those who have a short term problem, what we don’t need is people using the system as a way of life. If you are a lifer on welfare no matter what I say will change your mind, you are a user and part of the problem.  The people of the United States will eventually wake up to our failing power and prestige and when they do it will be Hell to pay for those who would try to destroy our system of government and way of life.  I predict that just like the last far left President, Jimmy Carter who exited in embarrassment so will this one.  It may take years to repair the damage his reign has caused but we will bring our nation back and his legacy will be wiped from our history like a bad dream. 

Try listening to the people

Just an idea regarding the constant deadlock in the House and Senate. Please listen up both Conservatives and Liberals.  We as your constituents are really sick and tired of you playing Russian Roulette with our economy and our country.  You are grown men and women yet you go about your business like a bunch of 12 year olds.  Conservatives, which I consider myself one, you have to have a plan to replace the things you don’t like and liberals open your minds to the will of the people.  Take Obama care, it’s the law but that doesn’t mean that it can’t change for the better.  Find the parts that you want to change and put together a panel of doctors, hospital administrators and insurance company representatives and find common ground keeping politics out of the program.  Look for ways to modify not just break the law.  Things like doing away with the mandate of registration where all the info is in a government data base, I think we all know the danger for the people in that.  Do away and replace the concept with something both sides can agree to.  Aiming at defunding is just another road to deadlock.  Leave the things like pre existing in but with a Federal program to aid insurance providers in cases like this so that the cost is not factored into those who are not sick.  Allow people to have their own policies that are based on personal ability to pay and designed to give the individual maximum coverage.  Competition among employers will guaranty coverage for employees.  Make it a law that everyone who works for the company gets offered the same deal no special programs that exclude the lower echelon of workers.  If someone wants to buy a supplement with their own money let them. 

People who decide they don’t want medical insurance should be required to set up personal coverage programs through tax free medical savings plans.  Should they exceed their coverage they will either be forced to pay or if the government has to pay the provider the persons IRS account would be attached until paid.  Those who are welfare recipients would be put into a category where all special programs would be put through the same account.  Aid to children, welfare, food stamps, phones, section 8 housing etc. would all be paid to one social security number and not by individual agencies, this would reduce the chance of fraud and duplication.  It would also provide a look at the total dollar amount being spent compared to the national average wages in the area.  A special account in this program would be set up for paying for medical insurance negotiated through a local HMO system.  Doing away with the fraud in all these duplicate programs will pay for the offset.  After 12 months receiving benefits a depreciating allowance will be enforced and only offset by submission of job applications routinely checked by field agents.  The idea is to keep the federal regulators out of the program allowing it to develop as simple as possible. Once again fraud in this area would be punished by mandatory sentencing for the perpetrators.

By monitoring the insurance companies and allowing them to set up a policy cost based on preventive services and patient history we could hold down the cost to the public.  Medicare and social security programs need to be considered and by combining the programs to eliminate duplicated efforts and fraud the cost could be reduced greatly.  Adding 2 years to retirement and eliminating the early retirement program for those under 45 would save billions in future payouts. 

The key to any of these changes is passing a law that sets automatic sentences for those convicted of fraud.  Make the punishment fit the crime. Making one agency responsible will give it a better opportunity to track payments and expenses per individual and by including addresses with social security numbers duplication and fraud will be easier to track.  Field officers will be used to check recipients information and follow up claims.  Child protective services would fall under this agency.

What will our future bring?

As the liberals take more and more control of California it has put the adjoining states in a precarious position.  California politicians have turned a blind eye to the national immigration problem and have set up more and more sanctuary cities.  This eventually will leave Nevada, Oregon and Arizona with a decision to make regarding open borders at the State level.  California is fast becoming the super highway for drug and people smugglers on the west coast.  The lack of emigration enforcement by local police is allowing these cartels to gain footholds in the big cities thereby recruiting from within our borders for expansion of their illegal activities to other states.  Gangs committing crimes in nearby States and then scurrying back across the State line and into their sequestered communities. 

The word Progressive at one time meant going forward or enlightening now it is an excuse to destroy what made America great.  Crimes of violence are at an all time high due mainly to the relaxation of controls on things like parental discipline and destruction of the family unit all together.  The loosening of things like the distribution of movies and violent games combined with unregulated satellite TV in the homes, have made them available to children of uncaring parents who use the TV for a babysitter.  There is one thing that the progressives have accomplished almost completely is the removal of God from the lives of our young.  Without the fear of God and missing the strong family unit in so many cases, this void is being filled with heroes of another kind.  Rappers and game promoters who promote violence and sex have stolen the minds of so much of our youth having them believe it’s an exciting way of life and a way out of restrictions of family life.  A case in mind is the bullying case of the 12 year old from Florida.  Her detractors felt no remorse in her tragic death.  The desperation this girl felt In spite of her family love and support shows clearly how impressionable these youngsters are.  When is the last time you heard the expression “Sunday School”?  Something from the past that almost every child attended.  At Sunday school we learned things like the 10 commandments the rules that most of us tried to live our lives by.  Now the kids spend their Sundays playing Grand Theft Auto and game that develops their ability to pull off a crime and not get caught.  

I would have never believed that people like George Soros and Michael Moore could spread their venom with such ease in America.  It just shows the lack of parental guidance, structured religion and the inability of schools to really discipline those who would disrupt the ability of others to learn.  With the lack of any type of morality, respect or patriotism being taught to our youth, this nation is headed for disaster.  If you think our leaders are weak and ineffective now just wait another 10 years,  they will make Obama look like George Washington.  

God Bless America, with the advent of political correctness and the progressive mentality we need all the help we can get.

We need a new direction

A note to the Tea Party;  What started as a real grass roots voice has become shrill shriek that is blunting the words that need to be heard.  Like every movement the Tea Party has been taken over by the loudest voices.  The concept was beautiful, a voice of the people all singing the same tune.  This was not a political party but a place where disenchanted republicans, democrats and independents could be part of to strive for commonsense in politics.  In the beginning we accomplished great things we elected people who went to Washington to get rid political correctness and fight against socialism.  They made their voices heard and began to bring change to a government controlled by the far left.  Then we put more and more pressure on them and issued threats to every moderate regardless of party.  Now we have a broken republican party and we’ve lost most of the independents and blue dog democrats.  When a group of diverse people come together for a common cause it seems the most radical and loudest of the group take control.  That has the effect of dividing the whole group losing the grass roots concept and those who although want change they don’t want to be associated with what they consider radical revolutionary concepts.

Some feel that only through threats and combative confrontation will we ever win our country back.  Others who feel we are going in the wrong direction yet are swayed away from taking an active role in the process because they are of the belief that America is not lost just has lost its way.  To those people the threats and combative language only drive a deeper wedge into the divide.  People my age remember the principles of decency when the two parties actually worked across the aisle for the benefit of the people.  The word compromise is a dirty word to many yet it is the very basis for a democracy if it is going to go forward. 

The far left is in control of our government right now and if the far right were in control there would be the same outcry.  It’s time for commonsense to prevail.  In life we don’t always get our way and to get by it is necessary to give and take.  I believe that the concept of the tea party bringing together both sides in moderation has merit, no I’m not in the camp with the old guard GOP or the near middle Dems.  I am a conservative at heart but I see what this grand divide promoted by the far left and far right has accomplished.  It has given the left the power for the moment but it will be fleeting without the support of the everyday person.  Obama has used race and entitlements to buy votes but even the most uninformed voter must see that we cannot continue along this path.   Wealth redistribution is a Utopian dream of the far left but even they know that eventually as the wealthy become poorer there is less to divide.  Eastern Europe proved this for decades.  Our founding fathers knew that you can’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.  Their plan was always to create jobs to bring an even balance to the country.  Jobs are created by allowing the wealthy to reinvest in their money in new ventures thereby securing additional jobs.  When you redistribute the wealth of a nation it loses the incentive to invest.  Let’s work in tandem to make our nation strong again by bringing together our ideas and forming a nucleus to build from.   We should never give up the fight for our basic principles but as in life the sum of the whole is more important than the individual.        

Who is protecting America?

It is becoming more and more obvious that the general public is becoming more and more distrustful of our system of government.  Not being a huge believer in polls they have deeply obviously affected the results of the debt limit crisis.   I have to admit that the media has done a tremendous job of controlling the minds of America for the time being but it is the media who will in the long run that will pay the price for the debacle that's coming.  It may take a year or two for the masses to comprehend what is happening to them with Obama care and to our rights in general but as the price escalates and the deductibles soar the squealing will start.  Yes the chosen ones triumph will turn to chants of displeasure and his legacy will reflect an image of Pelosi saying "we have to pass it to see what's in it."  Americans are not normally politically oriented and they depend on the major networks to inform them not expecting them to program their minds.  We must remember though that it was Americans who eventually threw out Jimmy Carter and elected Ronald Reagan to repair the damage he created.  Will we once again see our interest rates in the teens like the Carter years before the reality hits or will 2014 be the beginning of the reality revolution. 

The first pictures of this will emerge as the people realize that the use of the Federal Reserve as a checkbook has a cost to it.  The Fed is not the governments bank as so many believe.  It is a an even deeper problem than the Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac fiasco that brought so many to their knees.  The Fed is a private bank owned by 12 major banks around the country.  The Fed is controlled by a board of 7 people who are appointed by the President. (It's lIke the fox guarding the hen house.)  The Fed was authorized by Congress to stabilize the economy by stabilizing the National banks and other major money operations. When the government feels the need to add money to the system they order the Fed to print cash.  It isn't earned cash it is just paper money that can be devalued by over production.  When the Fed prints money for things like paying outstanding bills it is like you writing a check without funds.  In your case you could go to jail in the Fed's program it is called debt, debt that you and I have to pay eventually.  (Nearing $20 Trillion.)

When the realization of what has been done to us happens it will be followed by the largest drop in our monetary value in history.  The value of our dollar is about 14 cents compared to when the Fed was formed, if you don't believe that stop and think about this; in 1940 a new car was $850 minimum wage was .25 per hour, a loaf of bread was .08.  There are so many more examples of how we have inflated our money over the years.  In 1940 a new house was $3,900 and the average wage was $1,750 per year.  We may be back to those days when the International monetary system finally devalues our currency to market value.  This isn't all Obama's fault it lies within our system.  There are no Republicans and Democrats in Washington today just millionaires who make laws for us that they don't have to follow. 

I don't pretend to know how to fix our blight I just know it's going to get worse before it gets any better.  Don't expect a strong leader to ride in on a white horse and make everything well, that's what happened in the last two elections and look where that has left us.  I just know that the sooner you face a problem the faster it gets fixed and I see very little going on that will fix our problem.  It will take all of us speaking with one voice to get the attention needed to begin the healing.  I just hope that it happens in my grand children's lifetime.