My hopes for January 8, 2009 were simple. A happy day at work complete with a site visit. Buy a new hose and regulator for my grill so I can cook some nice Omaha Steaks and then watch Florida and Oklahoma play in the NCAA BCS National Championship Game. I wish life were so simple.
To begin the day, I woke up and prepared for my day. I walked out to my truck to begin my commute to work. The truck would not start. I tried to push start it, but to no avail. Finally, a neighbor of mine helped jump my vehicle. While commuting I noticed every system that has electricity running to it flicker and try to die on me, including the engine. OK, so my alternator is obviously in need of replacing. After my site visit and a data collecting appointment at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, I ordered a replacement alternator for purchase. I will pick it up later this afternoon and my friend Patrick Ellis and I will replace the old one this evening after the work day is over.
By this time, my wife will already cook something and we will not have those Omaha Steaks tonight. I’ll end up watching some portion of the BCS National Championship game. Will I see it all? I don’t know but I am going to remain hopeful. This is my optimistic side shining through.
While listening to the radio today, I was entreated with a soundbite of President-Elect Obama’s speech of the day. Before laying out the plan to spend over $1,000,000,000,000.00 (1 TRILLION), Mr. Obama had to make the case for his plan. An exact statement was, “Only government can save us.” At this point, I almost had a stroke. In fact, I still have a bit of a headache. Let me repeat, “Only government can save us.”
How does that make you feel? It scares me. It should scare you. Let’s examine why this statement should scare you:
1. Government Bureaucracies in collusion with Congressional Democrats created this specific Recession. Workers employed by the US Government donated money to Democrats who were all too happy to give those bureaucracies the power to grow their ranks while working towards the goal of attaining housing for all (i.e. The Fannie and Freddy Fiasco). Republican lawmakers were so hellbent on managing the debacle of the two GSEs and deregulation crazy, that they were blinded to the problems of basing the entire fiscal policy on mortgage backed securities. I’ve outlined that domino effect already. However, it is important for every American to remember that both Republicans and Democrats were to blame for this, and Democrats a little more so.
2. The Federal Government was formed after the ratification of a document that established its structure. The document was limiting, some would say vague. It was intended to support a small but efficient protectorate in times of war and give avenues to solving disputes between the States. This document gives the directives for Government, it is not open to interpretation. It is black and white on the paper, I am sorry to all Liberals (Socialists/Communists). Our Government as defined by the US Constitution is not supposed to function the way that you want, the way that it has as of late, and the way that President-Elect Obama is proposing.
3. $1,000,000,000,000.00.
4. $1,000,000,000,000.00. Do you realize that that means that the Government is just going to print massive amounts of worthless paper? Our currency isn’t based on anything tangible anyway. It is based on securities and the plan is to flood the market with currency when our largest security base has sent us into this mess? All that pumping more money into this situation would do is kick the problem down the road to be expanded and cost us more in the future. How do we pay for $1 Trillion? Taxes from my grandchildren?
5. The American People just floated a bill of $350,000,000,000.00 with another $350 Billion to be spent by the Treasury Department under the new Democratic Administration. It has been stalled by Barney Frank in a pure political move that make President Bush look even worse and more inept. That still doesn’t negate the fact that there is still $350 BILLION to spend, yet we really need to pump in $1 Trillion. Idiocy.
This entire Democratic strategy as of late is a move (probably deliberately, maybe through pure stupidity) towards a Communist State. The Democrats Economic Policy will bankrupt us, make those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder dependent on Government Welfare, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Housing… Add to it the Government owning the majority stake of major financial institutions and loaning tax money to inefficient American owned auto makers. The expansion of a Federal Education Program and Health Care Program will make the transformation complete. By starting at the bottom, it makes it easier for people one rung up the ladder from the new Proletariat to move down and let someone else worry for them. Eventually, it just slides us into Communism. I’m not being alarmist. It’s been the master plan. They tried it with the New Deal and Great Society and it didn’t completely take. The Communists are trying to finish the Free People of America off. Keep your eyes open and be aware!
Let’s do what we can to prevent this from becoming the flag of this Nation. I would really like to avoid developing a stomach ulcer while this nation slides into Communism. Who knows when the government run Medical System would admit me for a condition caused by my belief in freedom and the Constitution.
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I see one way this entire situation could have been avoided. A very simple solution that would only involve one person standing up and basically acting like a mother between two fighting children. It would go something like this…
[Holding the lower class of America by the ear]
“You! Quit trying to buy crap that you know you can’t afford!”
[Holding the American government with the oteher hand by the ear]
“And you! Quit making it easier for them to do it!”
And that would simply be it. Even Fergie can say it and get the point across, “If you don’t got no money take your broke ass home.” The way this new administration wants to take everyone by the hand and give them a boost sickens me. It compares to giving a drifter a 20 when you know he’ll spend it on booze. Or helping out a homeless man who got that way because he is addicted to meth. I don’t want to sound like an ass here, but ya know sometimes you got to say, “It’s your own damn fault.” Let America work itself out. Will it be easy? No. Will it definitely be painful? Yes, and you know what, some long-standing institutions that have been in this country for a very long time might disappear with it. But’s that capatilism and that’s the way the world works. “Sometimes you got to take the old cat(old, ineffecient industries) out back and bash him with a shovel, but that’s life. America’s in the state of renewal.” We have to be able to take the hit, deal with our pass transgressions, and move ahead. If that is impossible, maybe it’s time for the American people to start again and find the new best way to run this country. But, ya know, like you said. it’s not socialism. That approach has been tried, it hasn’t worked. Communism was also attempted, and we all see how that played out. The way this nation SHOULD move is with it’s head not hung low, but down nonetheless and push through these difficult times with a sense of rugged individuality and come out on the other side of these dark times with a better understanding of what this nation stands for and what the American people represent.
In light of the governments push to control our lives, I leave you with Tyler Durden…
“The things you own end up owning you.”
Not to tout my religion, or anything, but Mormon prophets have been saying for years this is what our country would come to. They’ve said that the Constitution will hang by a thread. I think we’re beginning to see it happening. Some in government have said that the Constitution is outdated. It scares me speechless to know this is what we have come to. That Obama is our elected leader. But I know that even if we cannot pull through this mess as a nation, I, as an individual, can. And I can do my best to see that my family does. And for me, in the end, that’s all that matters. And I carry with me faith and hope (because they are strongest together and build on each other) that God will someday make all the wrongs right again.