"They" being the Enfeebled Minds

Enfeebled because, just because...
"I believe in magic."

Cartoon by John Cox.

Democrat Death Watch

Many have predicted that the Democratic Party is committing suicide. That is dependent on whether people see their actions (which I do) as the murder of the American ideal and the idea that YOU own your life. If so, then they will be voted out and the party will either go off into the dustbin of history along with the socialist ideal, an ideal that died when we saw that the Soviet Union was a sham that depended on repressing all information and knowledge, killing some 30 millions by preventing them from being able to farm and do the things they needed to do to survive, locking people into a giant prison behind armored walls, and creating a condition of universal poverty so the people could never produce and trade themselves into some state of prosperity.

The essential problem with socialism is that it either forces people or lures them to be dependent on the government. It says, "Here Kitty, kitty, kitty" and the "cats" walk into the government trap and are never able to escape thereafter. They are prevented in every possible way from using their brains for their survival. For that they must wait on the government. Instead of you owning your life and using it however you choose, you become a resource of the government to use however it wants.

If America does take action, then the Democrats' current ideas are going to have to go. How this will happen, we will see. Here are the ones that have so far voted YES to murder America. One is a Republican and two are Independents.

President
Barack Obama


Senators

Alabama

Alaska
Begich, Mark

Arizona

Arkansas
Lincoln, Blanche
Pryor, Mark

California
Feinstein, Dianne
Boxer, Barbara

Colorado
Udall, Mark
Bennet, Michael

Connecticut
Dodd, Chris
Lieberman, Joe (Independent)

Delaware
Carper, Tom
Kaufman, Ted

Florida
Nelson, Bill

Georgia

Hawaii
Inouye, Daniel
Akaka, Daniel

Idaho

Illinois
Durbin, Dick
Burris, Roland

Indiana
Bayh, Evan

Iowa
Harkin, Tom

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana
Landrieu, Mary

Maine

Maryland
Mikulski, Barbara
Cardin, Ben

Massachusetts
Kerry, John

Michigan
Levin, Carl
Stabenow, Debbie

Minnesota
Klobuchar, Amy
Franken, Al

Mississippi

Missouri
McCaskill, Claire

Montana
Baucus, Max
Tester, Jon

Nebraska
Nelson, Ben

Nevada
Reid, Harry

New Hampshire
Shaheen, Jeanne

New Jersey
Lautenberg, Frank
Menendez, Bob

New Mexico
Bingaman, Jeff
Udall, Tom

New York
Schumer, Chuck
Gillibrand, Kirsten

North Carolina
Hagan, Kay

North Dakota
Conrad, Kent
Dorgan, Byron

Ohio
Brown, Sherrod

Oklahoma

Oregon
Wyden, Ron
Merkley, Jeff

Pennyslvania
Specter, Arlen
Casey, Bob, Jr.

Rhode Island
Reed, Jack
Whitehouse, Sheldon

South Carolina

South Dakota
Johnson, Tim

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont
Leahy, Patrick
Sanders, Bernie (Independent)

Virginia
Webb, Jim
Warner, Mark

Washington
Murray, Patty
Cantwell, Maria

West Virginia
Robert Byrd
Rockefeller, Jay

Wisconsin
Kohl, Herb
Feingold, Russ

Wyoming




US House of Representations

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona
1. Kirkpatrick, Ann
4. Pastor, Ed
5. Mitchell, Harry
7. Grijalva, Raul M.
8. Giffords, Gabrielle

Arkansas
1. Berry, Marion
2. Snyder, Vic

California
1. Thompson, Mike
5. Matsui, Doris
6. Woolsey, Lynn
7. Miller, George
8. Pelosi, Nancy
9. Lee, Barbara
10.Garamendi, John
11.McNerney, Jerry
12.Speier, Jackie
13.Stark, Pete
14.Eshoo, Anna
15.Honda, Mike
16.Lofgren, Zoe
17.Farr, Sam
18.Cardoza, Dennis
20.Costa, Jim
23.Capps, Lois
27.Sherman, Brad
28.Berman, Howard
29.Schiff, Adam
30.Waxman, Henry
31.Becerra, Xavier
32.Chu, Judy
33.Watson, Diane
34.Roybal-Allard, Lucille
35.Waters, Maxine
36.Harman, Jane
37.Richardson, Laura
38.Napolitano, Grace
39.Sanchez, Linda
43.Baca, Joe
47.Sanchez, Loretta
51.Filner, Bob
53.Davis, Susan

Colorado
1. DeGette, Diana
2. Polis, Jared
3. Salazar, John
7. Perlmutter, Ed

Connecticut
1. Larson, John
2. Courtney, Joe
3. DeLauro, Rosa
4. Himes, Jim
5. Murphy, Chris

Delaware

Florida
3. Brown, Corrine
8. Grayson, Alan
11.Castor, Kathy
17.Meek, Kendrick
19.Wexler, Robert
20.Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
22.Klein, Ron
23.Hastings, Alcee

Georgia
2. Bishop, Sanford
4. Johnson, Hank
5. Lewis, John
13.Scott, David

Hawaii
1. Abercrombie, Neil
2. Hirono, Mazie

Idaho

Illinois
1. Rush, Bobby
2. Jackson, Jesse Jr.
3. Lipinski, Dan
4. Gutierrez, Luis
5. Quigley, Michael
7. Davis, Danny K.
8. Bean, Melissa
9. Schakowsky, Janice D.
11.Halvorson, Debbie
12.Costello, Jerry
14.Foster, Bill
17.Hare, Philip

Indiana
1. Visclosky, Pete
2. Donnelly, Joe
7. Carson, Andre
8. Ellsworth,Brad
9. Hill, Baron

Iowa
1. Braley, Bruce
2. Loebsack, David
3. Boswell, Leonard

Kansas
3. Moore, Dennis

Kentucky
3. Yarmuth, John

Louisiana
2. Cao, Joseph (Republican)

Maine
1. Pingree, Chellie
2. Michaud, Mike

Maryland
2. Ruppersberger, Dutch
3. Sarbanes, John
4. Edwards, Donna
5. Hoyer, Steny
7. Cummings, Elijah
8. van Hollen, Chris

Massachusetts
1. Olver, John
2. Neal, Richard
3. McGovern, Jim
4. Frank, Barney
5. Tsongas, Niki
6. Tierney, John
7. Markey, Ed
8. Capuano, Mike
9. Lynch, Stephen
10.Delahunt, Bill

Michigan
1. Stupak, Bart -- RETIRED, a coward - April 8, 2010
5. Kildee, Dale E.
7. Schauer, Mark
9. Peters, Gary
12.Levin, Sander
13.Kilpatrick, Carolyn Cheeks
14.Conyers, John Jr.
15.Dingell, John

Minnesota
1. Walz, Tim
4. McCollum, Betty
5. Ellison, Keith
8. Oberstar, Jim

Mississippi
2. Thompson, Bennie

Missouri
1. Clay, William Lacy Jr.
3. Carnahan, Russ
5. Cleaver, Emanuel

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada
1. Berkley, Shelley
3. Titus, Dina

New Hampshire
1. Shea-Porter, Carol
2. Hodes, Paul

New Jersey
1. Andrews, Rob
6. Pallone, Frank
8. Pascrell, Bill Jr.
9. Rothman, Steve
10.Payne, Donald M.
12.Holt, Rush D. Jr.
13.Sires, Albio

New Mexico
1. Heinrich, Martin
3. Lujan, Ben R.

New York
1. Bishop, Tim
2. Israel, Steve
4. McCarthy, Carolyn
5. Ackerman, Gary
6. Meeks, Gregory W.
7. Crowley, Joseph
8. Nadler, Jerrold
9. Weiner, Anthony D.
10.Towns, Ed
11.Clarke, Yvette D.
12.Velazquez, Nydia
14.Maloney, Carolyn B.
15.Rangel, Charles B.
16.Serrano, Jose
17.Engel, Eliot L.
18.Lowey, Nita
19.Hall, John
21.Tonko, Paul
22.Hinchey, Maurice
23.Owens, Bill
24.Arcuri, Michael
25.Maffei, Dan
27.Higgins, Brian
28.Slaughter, Louise McIntosh

North Carolina
1. Butterfield, G.K.
2. Etheridge, Bob
4. Price, David
12.Watt, Mel
13.Miller, Brad

North Dakota
Pomeroy, Earl

Ohio
1. Driehaus, Steve
6. Wilson, Charlie
9. Kaptur, Marcy
11.Fudge, Marcia
13.Sutton, Betty
15.Kilroy, Mary Jo
17.Ryan, Tim
18.Space, Zack

Oklahoma

Oregon
1. Wu, David
3. Blumenauer, Earl
4. DeFazio, Peter
5. Schrader, Kurt

Pennyslvania
1. Brady, Bob
2. Fattah, Chaka
3. Dahlkepmer, Kathy
7. Sestak, Joe
8. Murphy, Patrick
10.Carney, Chris
11.Kanjorski, Paul E.
12.Murtha, John
13.Schwartz, Allyson
14.Doyle, Michael F.

Rhode Island
1. Kennedy, Patrick J.
2. Langevin, James

South Carolina
5. Spratt, John
6. Clyburn, Jim

South Dakota

Tennessee
5. Cooper, Jim
9. Cohen, Steve

Texas
9. Green, Al
15.Hinojosa, Ruben
16.Reyes, Silvestre
18.Jackson-Lee, Sheila
20.Gonzalez, Charlie
23.Rodriguez, Ciro
25.Doggett, Lloyd
27.Ortiz, Solomon P.
28.Cuellar, Henry
29.Green, Gene
30.Johnson, Eddie Bernice

Utah

Vermont
Welch, Peter

Virginia
3. Scott, Robert C.
5. Perriello, Tom
8. Moran, Jim
11.Connolly, Gerry

Washington
1. Inslee, Jay
2. Larsen, Rick
6. Dicks, Norm
7. McDermott, Jim
9. Smith, Adam

West Virginia
1. Mollohan, Alan
3. Rahall, Nick

Wisconsin
2. Baldwin, Tammy
3. Kind, Ron
4. Moore, Gwen
7. Obey, Dave
8. Kagen, Steve

Wyoming

Hello Suckers!

Mr. Ponzi

So you think you are going to get something for nothing?

One thing that is clear from the bill is that it is racist. Therefore anyone who wants a doctor who succeeds on merit should not select a black or Hispanic doctor. They are instructed in the bill to be given preference over all other applicants. Go here for an elucidation on this point.

Welcome to Slavehood!

If Health Care is a right, then slavery is a right.

"Step right up! All able-bodied workers are here-by conscripted into perpetuity.

"Thanks men, especially the doctors. Of course we don't want to forget all you worker bees out there too. You will shoulder the brunt of the costs. America thanks you. Slaves are good and I, BO, am kind."

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Wait! There may be some problems. Not everyone wants to fall into line.

Andrew Bernstein writes on Facebook today: "If the government takes over health care, I will refuse to buy their package, refuse to pay the fine imposed, and make them arrest me. I will broadcast my refusal to cave to socialism on my website, on Facebook, to my students, in my lectures, and on the radio. I will fight this in the courts--or will the DC Fascists suspend the right to trial by jury? I suspect--and hope--that millions of Americans will do the same."

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News Flash: Washington says they did not want to have to get into the tough stuff, but it looks like the first wave of prisoners will be sent to the first prison in the American Gulag. No name on which one of the 22 designated sites will be selected.

News Flash: 40% of America's doctors walked off the job. "Screw this. No future, no work. Bye."

News Flash: Patients can't get served as the long lines were more than they could bear with a toothache. They went home and pulled their own teeth and had two shots of whiskey.

New Flash: Liberals crumpling. They thought passing Government Health Care would assuage their consciences since the program would forever ensure the good, and by implication their goodness. Now they are seeing their own parents and children hauled off to prison. "What happened? You can't blame me. I am good. I AM, I tell you."

America

America: The only country that ever gave a man a chance to be his own somebody.

What happened? People took her up on the offer, made something of themselves and created the greatest, most prosperous, most generous society ever known to man.

Then along came Barack Obama. He said, "This society sucks. How do I know? Look at this person who is suffering. A man or a society is worthy not by its achievements but by what it has not achieved, not what they made of themselves but by what they failed to make of themselves. Therefore, turn America upside down. Enslave the prosperous to the poor, the clean to the unclean, the achievers to the slackers, the proud to the poor in spirit. I will be The One to offer hope to the downtrodden, the moochers and the looters, and forcibly transform all agreements among men into my orders."

What did America do? Being achievers, she turned herself into a zero overnight. She never learned the next lesson: How to grow and prosper through and beyond a flood of abundance.

What did Obama do? He died an old man, rocking on a front porch, still smoking cigarettes and drinking too much. He had carried out his life purpose, a small-minded purpose which was all he was capable of: Deliver the hotshots to hell, ruin the possibility that America ever was, and end Hope forever. He couldn't help being proud and, oh yes, righteous.


(Image from Drudge Report, 3-16-10)

Oh yah, forgot. His daughters disowned him even though he had been famous. They got tired of being judged by what they weren't rather than what they were.

Who's Going to Save America?

The Government Health Care Issue comes to a head this week. What is the essence of the push to make sure that Government Health Care is established in America - this in the face of America having the best health care in the world? Most people do not want it and anyone who votes for it will likely end a martyr for the cause - losing his seat in Congress.

Government Health Care is a necessity for one reason: It ends individualism! It ends people being responsible for themselves, thinking for themselves and creating the life they want to live. It ends the value of people who invent, create, and do what it takes to be an entrepreneur in any field and area of human life.

Why does Barack Obama care? Why do the people who surround him care? Some hate America, individual rights and it's political/economic system, capitalism. They think they are the bane of the earth, unleashing free men to run amok and ruin it. People are getting too much. They must be made to exist on less. "Let's have them exist in a state of velvet poverty." Consequently, they think they are justified to bring all those with more, under the thumb of all those with less. This is Barack's cudgel. "I shall take America off its white horse of noble aspirations and pride, and place her in the gutter where she belongs. I am The One."

This hatred of the individual comes down to the hatred of the individual mind. It gets expressed in many ways. The Europeans and Up-easterners derisively call it being a cowboy. All it is is the independent mind and the entrepreneurial spirit.

They think that capitalism and the individual mind it depends on is ruining the earth. They do not get that resources never go out of existence. They only transform. And given our minds, we find the next way to transform them. We've already learned so many ways to transform yesterday's trash into today's treasure.

The earth never gave us our existence. If one sits around, it does not deliver sustenance to your doorstep or lay it on your tongue. We are designed to and must fulfill on that design to transform the elements of this earth for our use. It's that or die. So, let's not get confused here and indulge in illusions. The people who want to control everything including your health hate you and they hate man. Never have I see an American president and administration so committed to the hatred of America's people.

If you ask an African if Obama rings true as an "African" president, they say "no." If you ask an African-American if Obama rings true as an African-American, they say "no." (Michelle does, he doesn't.) If you ask an American who values the system of freedom that America is, they say he doesn't ring true as an American. So who is Barack Hussein Obama? What does he ring true to?

How about this? Muslim. His first years - prior to age 6 were spent largely in the care of Muslim people and culture. He lived in Indonesia most of that time.

If you notice, Western Europe is collapsing to the Muslims. In England, in the Muslim communities, sharia law is allowed to be practiced. Sharia law is tribal, religious/mystical and anti-individual. It is the antithesis of the Enlightenment and the values it fostered - primarily reason. Muslim culture is anti-mind, anti-reason, and collectivist. It is just another old-time religion -- just as righteous and just as viciously dangerous.

Western Europe never was able to fight the anti-reason political forces because the value of the mind never was clear to the individuals in those societies. They put up with the remnants of collectivism and ended up giving birth to the major atrocities of the 20th century which were anti-reason and anti-individual.

This was not the case in America. Here we had individual rights and we came to celebrate individualism. We like what different people have to offer. We trade. Many of us grasped the value of being able to think because we made it pay off. We were able to make livings and we knew that it was our own minds that was at the source of that.

How Barack Obama is able to stand before the American people and tell one lie after another in the interest of fooling them into buying his program and being able to do so with no remorse, no guilt and no faltering is something at the root of what he is about. And after all the effort he has expended to accomplish this, he flies off to Indonesia.

Indonesia - of all places! Indonesia is where he was raise those first six years. It is the Muslim culture in which he was developed. So, if he is going home after his supposed triumph or defeat, why? And, why there? Why not Hawaii? Why not Chicago!

Barack Obama who got a bill through the Senate on Christmas Eve intends to deliver the ultimate bill on Easter. Except he will not be here. He will have arisen in Air Force One and flew to Indonesia, the place where he was raise - in his rods, the place where "the 5 o'clock call to prayer rings no sweeter." And what he hopes to deliver is a captured, subjugated America - one that has been shorn of the power of its individual thinkers (people like you and me) - one ripe for the triumph of whatever group of people is capable of taking over a culture that is unable to use its mind.

If you do not realize how captured and how subjugated, listen to the provision of the Health Care Bill HERE.

Europe must capitulate to any culture that has the wherewithal to confound and outlast the confused, conflicted Western culture. With America shorn of its minds, it will now be as Europe - powerless to do anything to stem the tide of any would-be invader - most likely Islam. The remnants of its values - the value of every individual - without the guardian of individual minds calling their own and other individual minds to account in myriad ways, is incapable of holding Islam to the requirements of reality. And thus that huge mystic system will flood the earth with its ignorance. The beacon of the possibility of freedom and consequent intelligence will be dead.

And Barack who has never found a church in America will probably go to a mosque in Indonesia this weekend deliver his gift, America, to Islam. We've seen him bow. This weekend we will see him prostrate in a combination of exhaustion and profound submission.



Does this have to happen? NO.

Not if ONE COURAGEOUS US REPRESENTATIVE saves America. All he has to do is vote NO on the Government Health Care. All he has to do is value America more than a bad joke of a bill that has nothing to do with Health Care. All he has to do is value FREEDOM over SLAVERY, freedom as the context for his personal power not as a threat to it. All he has to do is separate himself from a small group of men soon to find themselves on a dust heap.

(Does this sound a little kooky? A little extreme? When you think in principles, you don't waste your time staying confused and uncertain, frittering yourself away acting inconsistent with them. And yes they do seem black and white. They are. That's the beauty of them. Makes picking the right course so much easier than trying to waffle oneself to the right result.)

Healthcare Horror

Socialism is a Suckle Machine

Ever notice how socialism requires victims? It requires them from two sides. It always portrays some people as victims and the signifier of this mentality is a dependency of one form or another. Someone else or some circumstance is the reason that things just aren't working out. This side of socialism's requirement of victims become the justification for action. "Poor baby, we must fix things for you."

And then it requires real victims which are worthy of looting for their material wealth. Currently insurance companies are being turned into victims. It's been bankers, Wall Street types, anyone with wealth.

So Socialism encourages people to suckle from the government and be dependent on the government and it, in turn, must find people from which to suckle in order to have the resources to keep the sucklers happy. It is a suckle machine. All so "babified." Eeeeww!

There is no maturity in this system. There is no adulthood. There are only immature people who do not operate by means of reason and agreement and allow their "nurturing" aspect to take over everything. This is nurturing run wild - turned into a crime against humanity.

This is so ugly. Why don't people see this? Let me guess. They have an investment in the suckle mentality - one side or the other - providing the suckling or finding the milk of production that can be high-jacked and looted for their purposes.

What is the way out of this mess? Have a purpose of your own. Be intellectually independent and follow your own conclusions.

The Incredibly Evil Democrats

Today I saw a video clip where Harry Reid made a speech reminding people that this Health Care bill is not about all our concerns. Rather, it is about the greatest sob story that one can parade before the American public.

I consider this Administration and Congress the epitome of evil. Never have I seen such a callous use of people's infirmities and hardships as a means to induce people to set aside reason and vote for a government-forced, wretched Health Care system. Obama and the Democrats are willing to raise the needy's hopes to astromonical levels that will never be achieved in the form of any kind of care that the cold and callous government would ever provide. Socialism simply has never been able to produce such a thing. There is such a disconnect between the politicians appeal to heart and their own heartlessness that frankly I cannot stomach it. The government is known not for its successes nor caring but for its failures and its ice cold hand.

Capitalism is the only systems that has people care. Socialism - Obama's system - could give a shit.

And besides this, while Reid, Obama, Michelle, Pelosi or whoever is trotting out one of their staged "needies", they are icing over all those who will have to pay for and are adversely affected by this plan. There will be millions of stories on the other side of this bill, should it pass, of the hardships that it causes. That is for certain as all of the other countries who have such a system know full well. (Are you aware that in Norway, unless you have friends or relatives who bring food to you in the hospital, you go hungry? Yes, sir.)

And believe me, the money is not going to come from the rich. Only the envy-ridden would want to believe that and thus advance that reason. As this country piles hate upon the rich, they will simply take their riches elsewhere. They may not want to, but they will anyway. They know they cannot rely on the US Government to protect their rights - since it isn't committed to protecting anyone's rights. Those left will be footing the bill. Hello! (The other phenomenon which no one will address is that people will come to hate the "needies" even more. There is nothing more disgusting than the chip-on-the-shoulder "entitled.")

But of all the things that is so galling and has been so hard to accept is that we see that there are people who actually believe that if the government uses its force to compel people to participate in a government health care system and pay for other people, that is a moral act. They say that it is the right and good thing to do.

How wrong they. Rather than a humane society that gives everyone a chance to pursue his purposes and live his life to the fullest he can imagine and wants. it straps most people down to the lowest common denominator. Since it is held in place by government force, the opportunity to be moral is reduced to insignificant choices. Consequently, and as the record shows, societies shrink in their capacities. They become like organs kept alive by suspending them in saline. They may be alive at some minimal level, but they are not really alive. (If you care to check this out, google the inventions that have come from the socialist countries. They are mostly few and insignificant and that phenomenon occurs after socialism became a basis for their society.)

A humane society is one that protects one's right to make choices. Choosing engenders responsibility for one's choices. Being responsible is the essence of maturity and wisdom. And all of that depends on the reality of property and the right to own it, use it and exchange it. This system is called capitalism. It is the only humane and moral political system yet known. Although America is the home of that system, it really is the system of the future. We have been drifting backward into the dark ages for over a hundred years. But now we are beginning to see this and many of us have had enough. And, contrary to the Left's constant railings, it is not evil. It is in fact, the only system that allows and fosters the good.

LeStat's Toast

This from the Drudge Report, 2-22-10

Mr. Toxic at work.

Obama's Marxist Past? And Present?

This courtesy of Bungalow Bill's Conservative Wisdom.

Government Spending Does NOT Stimulate Economic Growth

An article at The Heritage Foundation illustrates "Why Government Spending Does Not Stimulate Economic Growth." It answers the critics. Go Here!

If spending did stimulate one's economic growth then if one lost his job, the best thing to do would be to go out and borrow money to add to his house or buy a new car, right? When is government going to grasp the fact that it is not exempt from the laws of reality? The way it is operating, it appears it will not be anytime soon.

"Rebuilding the Middle Class"

THIS IS AN ALERT.

On January 25, 2010, I heard President Barack Obama use the phrase, "Rebuilding the Middle Class." Besides considering myself middle class and being deeply offended by his taking over my job of improving my life, I realized what this term means. This means that the middle class is now going to be treated as welfare and told what to do - in the so-called effort of rebuilding.

This is slavery in its modern incarnation straight up. Any programs to this effect will trap people into dependency and you will become the government's farm animal.

So now, more than ever before, stay far away from government programs and government largess in any way if you want to remain a human being in the full possibility of that term.

And the full possibility of being human is being the prime mover that you are designed to be. This means that you choose, you know that you choose and you enjoy, good or bad, the consequences. Never has the moral principle of independence been so clearly required as now.

Socialism sounds so enticing because it seeks to take care of everyone's basic needs. The only problem is that you give up being fully human. Invention and creativity become stunted from lack of necessity. If you want to understand this in technicolor, Google the inventions that have come out of socialist countries - the Scandanavians ones, e.g. You can see that ingenuity and creation basically died there once socialism got hold of those cultures - in the 1930s.

If socialism is the wave of the future, then spiritual death is the wave of the future. I'm not having it.

I just wrote my Senators about this:

Dear Senator: (Chambliss and Isakson)

Yesterday, Jan 25, 2010, President Obama used the phrase, "rebuilding the middle class." I was so offended and consider his attempts to set up programs to this effect as completely out of place in American society. This has a single purpose - causing dependency on the government.

It's my job to improve my life. I do not need rebuilding as if I'm some goddammed cog in Obama's machine.

I request that you NEVER use this phrase and you correct anyone who uses it. People have individual rights and their lives are theirs. They are not to be manipulated and stolen from in the name of some goddammed social program. The right to one's life is a right of the individual and the government has no part of that except to protect that right.

Respectfully yours,

Principlex

It's Freedom, Stupid.

With Scott Brown winning in Massachusetts on Tuesday, it's now time to lower the boom. "Obama. stop enslaving us to the State. We don't like it and it ain't happenin'. Furthermore, it's either our way or the highway."

Given that man's nature requires he produce the sustenance to maintain his life and given that most people definitely want to do that and given that there are millions of people with ideas and knowledge who can create businesses and jobs, to be able to keep that power in retreat takes a really ignorant or really diabolical person. It's almost impossible to do, but Barack Obama has done that.

How does one explain such a phenomenon? I think it takes a man with his life in reverse. Instead of focusing on life and the values that are consistent with and maintain life, he has to focus on destroying life and destroying values. He has to have some ax that he's grinding that keeps him wanting to hurt life. (Thinkers that affected President Obama were Marx, Alinsky, Cloward-Piven. All were destroyers. They built nothing. Their purpose was power for its own sake, not power for what it could be used for. Obama's entire life has been directed toward tearing things down. Producing positive results is not something he is capable of doing or has ever done. The only results he's produced are all inside the larger negative aims - namely of gaining political power and destroying political and economic freedom - better known as individual rights and capitalism.)

There are zillions of ways to do that. One that I can think of is to be taken with one's own power and not grasp that to be given the power to lead is a privilege that is continually granted and earned. And living life in reverse does cause blindness and ignorance - which is what we have seen.

It makes no difference what the world is saying about capitalism and political freedom. It works. The facts are in. There is absolutely no doubt about this. Further, the opposite, statism, doesn't work. Everyone is worse off in some way.

Human life dies under socialism. If you want to understand that look up the inventions that originated in Sweden, Norway, Denmark - three mixed socialist countries - and when they were. They weren't under socialism.

Life is not an end for anyone else's means. It cannot be and remain alive. This is a fact. Life is a process whose purpose is to work to live another day. It's purpose is to maintain its life. It's a circle of self-supporting, self-maintaining activity the end of which is its continued life.

We know this. Particularly we in America know this. So when the government starts taking over things, we know that this is not going to turn out well. We can already see that one major fact has been violated. The government has decided to use us for its means. For them, our lives are no longer ends in themselves. They are a means to their ends. This cuts to the very core of what life is and naturally it is going to meet with resistance.

And although we hear them say that they are doing it for us, we know that is a lie. The man that would use another for his purposes is not going to make it better for that person. This doesn't compute. Think about this and see if you can come up with an example that proves me wrong.

There is no alternative to political freedom unless you want to be a slave or a slave master. In the Obamanian Universe, there is no free trade, no amicable interchange among human beings, no peace. It's just one battle after another because the only way to win in that Universe is to get the power - the political power. In that world, the answer is always war.

John Stossel on Atlas Shrugged

The Real EVIL of the Obama Presidency

All those that seek to have a better world and think Obama is the answer do not realize that what he is out to kill is possibility - their possibility, anyone who isn't already at the peak of political power or financial power. He think that money is evil or at least an enormous threat except in their hands. They damn it. They tax it.

As an end in itself money leaves a person empty. With no end for which to use it - be it his family's future, an invention, a shot for the moon, why bother trying to earn money. But this is just the point. Most people do have ends in mind.

Political power is also an empty game when it has as its end the maintenance of its own power. And this is the phenomenon we are now seeing with the Democrats in Washington. Whatever illustrious value the Democrat Party has had in the past, this is not it. Corrupt to the core, we are seeing them cut off all avenues for their competitors to effectively challenge them. Cutting off the money is key.

The other key areas where people must be dis-empowered if those in power are to maintain their grip is in information and the process of thinking itself, which involves education. There are many other fronts in this battle but Victor Davis Hanson puts his finger on one of them.

What's Behind War Targeting Wannabe Rich?

By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Posted 12/24/2009 06:17 PM ET

There is class warfare going on in this country — but it's not against the established rich. It's against those who are trying to become wealthy.

President Obama has declared that those who make over $200,000 will pay higher income taxes. Caps on payroll taxes are supposed to come off as well for the upper class. Envisioned estate taxes will take 45% of individual inheritances valued over $3.5 million. Many states have also hiked their income taxes on the upper brackets.

Again, most of those targeted are not the already rich — a Warren Buffett or Bill Gates — but millions of the wannabe rich. They may have achieved larger-than-average annual incomes, but they're not the multimillionaire speculators on Wall Street who nearly wrecked the American economy in search of huge bonuses and payoffs.

Most are instead professionals and small-business owners who take enormous risks in hopes of being well-off and passing their wealth on to their children.

Oddly, much of the populist rhetoric about the need to gouge the newly affluent is voiced by the entrenched wealthy, who don't have to care how high taxes go, given their own vast fortunes.

Take Bill Gates Sr., who is clamoring for higher estate taxes on inheritances. Such advocacy comes easy for him. After all, he is the father of the richest man in the world — someone who clearly needs no inheritance.

Billionaires also often set up charitable foundations to ensure that their estates are channeled to their own preferences rather than simply given over to a needy U.S. Treasury. In contrast, moderately affluent business owners or farmers often leave enough property for their heirs to pay death taxes, but not enough to set up tax-exempt charitable foundations.

Warren Buffett also wants higher income taxes on the wealthy. He once confessed that thanks to all sorts of write-offs, he had paid only about 17% of his gross income in federal taxes, a lower rate than many employees in his office.

But Buffett, like Bill Gates Jr., is worth many billions of dollars. In truth, he has so much money that no amount of taxes would affect him much. A combined tax bite of 60% of his annual income would still leave Buffett each year with millions. Yet the same rate could cripple a business owner making $300,000 in annual income.

Often those in government claim that their higher-taxes proposals are simply targeting the affluent like themselves — proof of their own selflessness. President Obama, for example, has complained that the well-off like him could afford to pay more.

But unlike politicians in Washington, most upscale Americans in private enterprise do not receive free government perks and lavish pensions. Nor are they guaranteed lucrative post-political lobbying and speaking careers.

Focusing tax hikes on those who in some years make between $200,000 and $500,000 makes no sense in a recession for a variety of reasons. They are neither the speculators who caused the panic of 2008 nor the Washington politicians who are bankrupting the country.

Instead, most are small-business owners who hire the majority of the nation's employees. But faced with the talk of higher taxes, more regulations and hostile rhetoric, they will remain confused, and so retrench rather than expand.

With the proposed new income, payroll and health care tax rates, along with increased state and local taxes, many business owners fear that 60% to 70% of their income will go to the government. That does not seem a good way to persuade small businesses to hire more workers in hopes of greater rewards.

Income is also not the only barometer of affluence. Two-hundred thousand dollars is quite a lot of annual money in Kansas, but does not always go so far in San Jose, where modest houses often cost well over half a million dollars. For those whose children do not qualify for need-based scholarships, a private liberal-arts education can easily set a parent back $200,000 per child over four years.

Why the war against the productive classes who want to be rich?

Maybe it is because they are not as numerous as the proverbial middle class. Perhaps they do not earn our empathy that is properly accorded to the poor. They surely lack the status and insider connections that accrue to the very rich.

Yet continue to punish and demonize them, and the country will grind to a halt — as we are seeing now.

Seasons' Greetings

There's something magical about Christmas - about creating a wild fantasy during the days of the most darkness and the cold nasty weather. How wonderful.

Enjoy your holiday.

Principlex

The Best is Yet to Be

For the man who owns himself as his purpose, "The best is yet to be,..." --Robert Browning

Have a happy holiday season.

Principlex

Dictatorship - The Anti-Industrial Coup

Here is all the evidence you need to know that we live under a dictatorship. The reality of that is getting clearer and clearer. This analysis is produced by Robert Tracinski of the TIA Daily, a daily analysis of current events from an objectivist perspective. SCB

The Anti-Industrial Coup

Intellectual climate change seems to be transforming Australia first. For example, a prominent new article in The Australian summarizes recent scientific findings that refute the basic assumptions behind the global warming hysteria.

"What this means is that the IPCC model for climate sensitivity is not supported by experimental observation on ancient ice ages and recent satellite data.

"So are we justified in concluding that the concentration of atmospheric CO2 is not the only or major driver of current climate change? And if so, how should we re-shape our ETS legislation?

"I don't know the answer to these questions, but as Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman observed: 'It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.'"

In America, the biggest sign so far of the political impact of Climategate is a new op-ed in the Washington Post by Sarah Palin using Climategate as a springboard to dismiss global warming and call for the US to stay home from the Copenhagen conference.

Palin is not significant because she carries any scientific authority. She is significant because her public statements on this are a bellwether for the political right.

Until a few months ago, the typical position on global warming within the right could be described as "moderately skeptical." There was doubt that we could know about global warming with certainty or that we could do anything about, but the view that global warming is flat-out wrong—much less that it is a fraud—was still considered somewhat extreme. And that's how someone like John McCain, a global-warming believer, could still get the Republican nomination.

Attitudes were already beginning to harden a bit, but Climategate was a major turning point. The left has ignored the scandal as best it can, and I am not sure how much independent voters have been permitted to hear about it in the press. But it is now the mainstream position within the right that global warming is a fraud, a hoax, a dishonest power grab.

This is important because it means that one major political party—which just might regain a majority in Congress next year—is willing to fight against cap and trade.

And we'll need such a congressional majority. Before he left for Copenhagen, President Obama pledged to enact reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. Congressional leaders immediately reminded him that he couldn't act without the approval of Congress. The Obama administration's response was to declare: yes, we can.

They have announced their intention to stage an anti-industrial coup, using the authority of the EPA to impose a "command-and-control" global warming dictatorship on the American economy. They are then using this as a threat against Congress: pass cap-and-trade legislation, or we'll impose something even worse by executive decree.

The only answer to this is strong action by Congress to reassert its power by explicitly denying the EPA any legal authority to regulate carbon dioxide. But to do that will require a Republican majority with the confidence to reject global warming as a fraud and a threat to liberty. And that is precisely what we may get in 2010.


"Administration Warns of 'Command-and-Control' Regulation Over Emissions," FoxNews.com, December 9

The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn't move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a "command-and-control" role over the process in a way that could hurt business.
The warning, from a top White House economic official who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity….

[W]hile administration officials have long said they prefer Congress take action on climate change, the economic official who spoke with reporters Tuesday night made clear that the EPA will not wait and is prepared to act on its own.

And it won't be pretty.

"If you don't pass this legislation, then...the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area," the official said. "And it is not going to be able to regulate on a market-based way, so it's going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more uncertainty."…

The economic official explained that congressional action could be better for the economy, since it would provide "compensation" for higher energy prices, especially for small businesses dealing with those higher energy costs. Otherwise, the official warned that the kind of "uncertainty" generated by unilateral EPA action would be a huge "deterrent to investment," in an economy already desperate for jobs….

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., ranking Republican on the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, said Tuesday he is going to attend the Copenhagen conference to inform world leaders that despite any promises made by President Obama, no new laws will be passed in the United States until the "scientific fascism" ends.

"I call it 'scientific fascism,'" Sensenbrenner said during a press conference with fellow climate change skeptics. Sensenbrenner said, "The UN should throw a red flag" on scientists who support global warming to the exclusion of dissent.

Government Power Grab of the Private Sector

Michelle Bachmann tells of a new bill initiated by the Obama Administration to completely and arbitrarily control the business sector of our society. This is done completely stealthily and we do not even know that this is going on. Listen to the interview here.