The Most Important 2 Paragraphs Written in the Past 30 Years

In 1995 Newt Gingrich wrote the book “To Renew America”. The first two paragraphs of the book state the most important political philosophy of the last 40 years. I recommend every voting American get a copy and read it at least twice until they understand how completely out of touch the Liberal Left is with who we are as Americans. These ideas, in my opinion, are more important now than they were in 1995.

FROM “TO RENEW AMERICA”

“These are the best of times and the worst of times, as Charles Dickens wrote. On the one hand, America is the leading country on the planet, with the largest economy and providing the opportunity to pursue happiness to more different kinds of people from more backgrounds than any society in history. On the other hand, our civilization is decaying, with an underclass of poverty and violence growing in our midst and an economy hard pressed to compete with those of Germany, Japan, and China.

We can look around us with both great satisfaction and great concern. We are the people who led the coalition that defeated Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and fascist Italy and then led a worldwide coalition that contained the Soviet Empire for half century before its collapse. While we as a people were winning our battles around the world, here at home our elites were deserting us. For the past thirty years, we have been influenced to abandon our culture and seem to have lost faith in the core values, traditions, and institutions our civilization. The intellectual nonsense propagated since 1965 – in the media, on university campuses, even among our religious and political leaders – now threatens to cripple our ability to teach the next generation to be Americans. We have placed men on the moon, led the world in molecular medicine, and entered the age of computers and telecommunications. Yet we have simultaneously allowed our schools to decay to the point that our children regularly score below all others of the industrialized world in math and science. We risk not being able to understand the very world we have invented…”

Michael Jackson died at age 50; What else happened in the world today?

If I hear one more piece of news coverage about Michael Jackson dying, I am going to get sick to my stomach. I think it was more newsworthy when George Carlin died than this recluse. At least George poked fun at the English language and how we use it and then would poke fun at us his fans in such a way we laughed at our own foibles. Yes it is worth reporting on the news that Michael died; but he is not worth us all fawning over his passing.

Here has been my experience since I got home from work: I came home from working a 12 hour day and sat down with my supper to listen to the news with Shepard Smith. The news article came on that Michael Jackson died at age 50. I agree that is a newsworthy story to tell. I got done eating and that news story is still going on, and on, and on, and on, and on. I have now finished supper and have washed my dishes and it is still going on and on… I watch Fox News because I am interested in National and International affairs. There are other stories that make the news of Michael Jackson dying worthy of an also ran story. I am to the point where I want to vomit. What is with our fawning over a music Pop Star as if he/she has some major influence of the important affairs of our nation or of the world?

I still don’t know what happened in Iran since I left home this morning. I hear that our President-In-Training had ZERO people who either opposed or were still trying to make up their minds on the infomercial fawning over Obama-Care (the scourge on life in America). I want to hear what others have to say about it. The passing of Michael Jackson doesn’t pass this standard of importance in the lives of the ordinary citizen of the United States of America. I want to hear more about the train wreck in Washington, DC. I want to hear more about Barney Frank trying get Freddie Mac to make questionable loans, again. I want to hear more about South Dakota Senator John Thune’s exit plan from government ownership of our businesses and applying the sales proceeds to the National Debt. I want to hear more about South Dakota Governor, Mike Round’s meeting with our President-In-Training that was suppose to occur today, June 25, 2009. These are all more important topics than spending all night watching people fawning over the memory of Michael Jackson.

Don’t get me wrong, I feel sorry for his family and his close friends (of which, I am neither). I am sorry he had such a tragic life; and I am sorry for his passing. But there are other stories that are far more news worthy.

Barney’s at it again

One bullet Barney Frank is at it again. I haven’t figured out what is with him and Freddie Mac. Are they attached at the hip and share a few arteries? At the behest of Barney Frank and his compatriot in the Senate Chris Dodd required Freddie Mac to approve loans to people whose income was insufficient to cover the payments – not to mention the regular up-keep and the required to the banks to buy these loans and service them. This is what created our financial mess in the first place.

Well, Barney Frank is acting more like Barney Fife or Barney the purple dinosaur. He wants Freddie Mac to lower their lending standards so people whose income is not sufficient to make the monthly payments – not to mention the regular up-keep – can purchase a home. Didn’t we just bail out Freddie Mac and require they raise their standards? Barney, you created one crisis with your inventive underwriting standards already – please do not start another! Congressman Frank, it is high time you retire from public service; because we cannot afford to pay your bill anymore.

On the Job Training for U.S. President – Bad Idea – Bad Choice

We are well into month number six in the On-The-Job-Training as President of the United States of America. President-in-Training Obama is a very smart and a well educated man. Even with that background he is ill equipped to run the Executive Branch of the government without a lot of help. The problem is that the help he is seeking and following is leading him down the path to become the weakest and most miss-guided President in the history of the United States. Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reed are the worst examples to follow because they are Hell-Bent on a path that is destroying the Democrat Party for a long, long, long time. My great-grandfather’s first-cousin was a Democrat and a U.S. Vice President, Pelosi and Reed are driving his and his family’s descendants from that party in droves.

For all of his education, the President in Training has learned very little from history. The first history lesson anyone who lives in the United States has learned is that our economy is SOLIDLY based on the Free Marketplace. The second lesson learned is that is the very reason we had the Revolutionary War and declared our independence from any monarchy and repressive governments. The U.S. Revolutionary War was not a proletarian revolt. The third history lesson that was taught is that the Civil War was a war about economics. Yes, slavery in the U.S. was abolished, rightfully so; but that was not the main reason for the division of the country. It has been proven that slavery would have died a natural death within ten years of the Civil War anyway and that was part of the economic situation of the South that caused the division. This was really a war on the Industrial Revolution versus an agrarian society (doomed by progress). The fourth major lesson learned was after World War II; isolationism is not a good political model to follow.

The President in Training displayed this lack of knowledge when he addressed the celebration at Normandy for D-Day. Previously, Ronald Reagan made the very point crystal clear: “We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here ready to protect the peace than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We have learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response…” That statement is unequivocal and gives a solid moral stance on the world stage.

On the same stage many years later our President in training gives a speech that leaves more questions than it answered: “We live in a world of competing beliefs and claims about what is true. It is a world of varied religions and cultures and forms of government. In such a world , it is rare for a struggle to emerge that speaks to something universal…” Excuse me, chasing Osama Bin Laden is something universal. Supporting the protesters in Tehran IS universal. What our President in training is saying and doing is forgettable.

Our President in training was chosen because of his words about CHANGE. History has taught us that liberal partisan politics of the Democrat Party says “do not cross any picket lines formed by trade unions.” He also was chosen to perform economic reform. Failing to cross the highest paid fire-fighters union picket line in Rhode Island and failing to address the mayors of our cities who are hurting economically shows categorically that our President in training has learned nothing from history. If he had he would have addressed our mayors and listened to their concerns. He would have recognized those fire-fighters are a part of the problem and not a part of the solution. Trade Unions are selfish at best. They are concerned about guaranteeing their piece of the pie even after they have eaten the entire pie and all the ingredients to make pies in the future. Where’s the change, it appears to be Democrat politics as usual in Washington, DC.

Where, oh where is our voice of FREEDOM

A grassroots uprising regarding a stolen election in the country of Iran is afoot. The future of that country is being killed, maimed and being doused with chemical weapons from their own government. Government is supposed to protect her people. Even in the dark ages of mankind, feudal lords were there to protect their citizens.  We need to do everything we can to support those who rise up against the totalitarian regime of Ahmadinejad and the oppressive cleric theocracy.

Where has our President (the appeaser) been the last week and half since this started. He has been hiding in his bunker, refusing to even give vocal support to those who seek freedom; at least until about two days ago. As one who gives lip service to the ideals of freedom, of equality, he sure waited a long time to come forth in support. He said he didn’t want to offend anybody in that struggle and did not want to appear to be meddling. The day he said that, Ahadinejad accused the U.S. of meddling. Right then and there, Pres. Obama should have come out strongly in support of those who seek freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, and a right to have fair elections.

Yet, still Pres. Obama’s words are couched in weak semantics. All our allies have (except for Russia) have come out strongly supporting the students in Iran. Opposition leader Musavi has told the protesters that he is willing to martyr himself for the cause. Pres. Obama should do none the less martyr his position for the cause of freedom!

I for one strongly support the students and those who oppose Ahmadinejad. Mine is a wealth of words. I will try to stay on this story to its conclusion; because this is a fight for freedom, justice and the future of mankind. Below are some links from today from different sights. This will put sight and sound to those who struggle.

Faccebook:

Foxnews

The BBC via the Drudge Report:

I invite anyone who has other links to post them in the comment section. I welcome any breaking news and information that I you can send me. We need to keep the vigil.

UPDATE: 08:30 Central Time Zone US

I found more video on YouTube – MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR SOUND TURNED ON! There are links to other video on this site

Iranian Protests June 20, 2009

It’s Healthy to Keep Both PETA Groups Speaking Out

What most of the informed Americans don’t know there are two P.E.T.A. groups. The first one which we will call (for our discussion) PETA-1 gets all the press and is known for its whack-o fringe beliefs about killing flies on public TV. The other more main stream group, which for our discussion we will call PETA-2 is little known because we don’t get any press coverage. Anyone can join and there are no dues. That’s right there are no dues; but there is a cost involved. All you have to do is patronize your local butcher. The group I belong to is “People Eating Tasty Animals”. I encourage everyone to join PETA-2.

The main purpose of this post is to applaud the voice of PETA-1. It shows that our First Admendment Rights are alive and well. Whenever we let a radical fringe group with some really wierd and whack-o ideas speak out and no one does anything to stop them; that means Freedom of Speach is alive and well. Support PETA-1’s right to speak out. I do recommend that you speak out aginst their really off the wall ideas; but let them speak. The reason I say that is that evey time they open their mouths they display how far out on that proverbial limb they are and how really stupid they sound.

Lending Verbal Moral Support is NOT Meddling

President Obama seems to want to have Iran keep the status quo. He came out meekly and with a weak voice that he is concerned about the elections and demonstrations in Iran. “We don’t want to appear to be meddling;” is what he said. Well Ahmadinejad came out and accused the U.S. of meddling anyway; and we all knew he was going to do that. We should at least give verbal support for those who stand in front of the Republican Guard and say we support your efforts in reforming Iran – Look what happened when Reagan gave verbal support to Poland. The Empire eventually folded.

Socialists Make Another Attempt at Taking Over U.S. Financial Institutions

Obama the Socialist is trying again (and he hasn’t even been in office for a full 6 months yet) to nationalize private business in the United States. Socialists know that the first step in government take-over of businesses is to nationalize the nation’s banks and financial institutions. Since President Obama cannot do it in the form of a direct frontal assault; he is trying to go through the back door

Couched on page A8 of our local newspaper, the Argus Leader which by the standards of the NY Times, Washington Post or Chicago Tribune is a small paper is an Associated Press article that outlines how President Obama is planning to take over our banking and financial institutions. For those larger papers, you can imagine how deeply this article is buried. Obama the Socialist is planning on forming a new agency that is going to further regulate our financial institutions, way beyond the regulations currently in place.

To quote the Associated Press article written by Dave Carpenter:

“Q: What’s being created and why?

A: The Consumer Financial Protection Agency, if approved by Congress, will have broad authority to protect consumers of credit, savings, payment and other consumer financial products and services. It would be independent of agencies that now share those oversight duties and take away power from some, most notably the Federal Reserve.

It’s being proposed in response to criticism that banks, lenders and credit card companies have used deceptive practices to dupe consumers and saddle them with debt.

Q: What exactly would the new agency be able to do?

A: It could write rules, reform mortgage laws, examine financial institutions’ practices, enforce compliance through penalties, ban unfair practices and require that companies be clear and conspicuous in informing consumers of costs, penalties and risks…One signal that administration officials are determined not to let this be just another layer of bureaucracy and complexity…”

This is an insidious way to usurp the power of the Senate and the House of Representatives to legislate. It in essence gives an agency of the Executive Branch of the government to act as the Legislative Branch of the government. On top of all of this would be the government dictating (as they already have and what caused the financial crisis in the first place) lending practices and going so far as dictating who gets a loan and who does not. Why doesn’t Obama the Socialist come out and just tell everyone that he wants to bring all banks and financial institutions under direct government control and form ONE bank – The Government Bank of the United States of America?

Guess what the ultimate outcome of such an agency would be? It would restrict severely who gets loans. What this means is that only those who have exemplary credit will get loans. This will dry up consumer spending. It will dry up who can buy a home and at what rates; thus drying up AGAIN the housing market. It seems that his intent is to have our free market economy collapse to such a degree that the only solution would be government ownership and then to finance all of that everyone would have to pay taxes at a rate of 80+% of their gross income.

What got us into this mess in the first place? It started with Jimmy Carter who had the Community Reinvestment Act passed. Then that law was further enhanced by the Clinton Administration. What it came down to was that anyone who was receiving ANY assistance from the federal government (to help to put food on their table because they could not afford to buy it themselves or supplement their funding because they cannot afford rent or utilities – the basics of life) cannot be declined for a loan or credit because of insufficient income. I am not condemning the government programs that help our citizens out in their time of need. I am not condemning those individuals who find themselves in those dire circumstances. I am condemning the Federal Government for forcing financial institutions to give loans and credit to people who had/have no way to repay the debt. Now Obama the Socialist wants to carry that philosophy to its absurd end.

Contact your Senators and Congressmen and Congresswomen to firmly defeat this measure that not only will be injurious to the citizens of the United State but would usurp their power to legislate.

State Run TV Comes to the United States of America

The Era of Socialist Dictatorship in the United States Rears Its Ugly Head.

The ABC Network and Charlie Gibson have capitulated to the demands of the Obama White House. ABC agreed to air the ABC Nightly News from the Blue Room of the White House on June 24, 2009. The sole purpose of and the only subject is to give a one-sided propaganda campaign for Obama-Care. There will be no voice allowed for the honorable opposition to this extremely expensive program proposed by the leadership triumvirate of Obama, Pelosi and Reed.

Since this is a going to be propagandandized, one-sided infomercial for the health-care reform program of the Democrat Party, they should be on the hook financially for the entire cost of the program. Therefore, ABC should not accept, invite or condone any free-enterprise commercial advertisement. They should further disclose that the comments and statements made during this half-hour does not include ALL valid ideas that have been forwarded to cause cost-effective health-care reform. The Chief of Staff for the RNC (Republican National Committee) sent a letter to the Head of ABC News:

Dear Mr. Westin:

As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC's astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.

Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party's views to those of the President's to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party's opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.

In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.

Respectfully,
Ken McKay
Republican National Committee
Chief of Staff

ABC will continue over the next 9 days, broadcast from the East Room of the Obama White House, more infomercials called “Prescription for America”; again it will exclude any and all honorable opposition. Unless the DNC ponies up and pays for the entire 10 day propaganda campaign, this becomes nothing more than STATE RUN TV.

Let’s take a moment to see how this makes us look to the rest of the world. The countries with STATE RUN TV include countries such as: The People’s Republic of China, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Cuba, Venezuela, Indonesia and the People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). We all know the agenda for these governments has absolutely nothing to do with freedom, freedom of choice or the open and uncensored debate of the issues that is the hallmark of the United States of America. These are the standards the United States has been known for the past 233 years and why the USA is the model other countries are trying to pattern their governments after.

President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and President of the Senate Reed: we do not want and we do not need STATE RUN TV. That stifles debate and the open, fair exchange of ideas that has successfully run this country for the past 233 years!

Senator John Thune of South Dakota Introduces Government Ownership Exit Plan

Senator John Thune of  South Dakota introduced S.1242 an exit plan to government ownership of private enterprise. This is the first example of sanity regarding the TARP funds to come out of Washington, DC for a long time. I have copied his press release so you can get how important this legislation is. Please call, write, email to all your Senators and Members of the House of Representatives that this bill must be passed as quickly as possible.

June 11th, 2009 – U.S. Senator John Thune today introduced the Government Ownership Exit Plan Act (S.1242), a bill that would require the federal government to end its ownership of private entities acquired under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) by July 1, 2010. The bill also prohibits the future acquisition of new or additional ownership interests in private firms through the use of TARP funds and prevents the federal government from making management decisions in private companies in which it has an ownership interest.

Senator Thune said during the introcuction: “Thanks to the federal government’s unprecedented intervention in the private sector, the president has become a de facto CEO managing large segments of our economy and Congress is acting as a 535 member board of directors,” said Thune. “Having the federal government call the shots for private industry is bad for business, bad for the economy, and bad for taxpayers. Government needs to get out of the business of owning American companies, and this legislation establishes a reasonable end date for government ownership and provides a clear exit strategy for taxpayers.”

The Government Ownership Exit Plan would require the sale of any ownership interest such as warrants, preferred stock, or common stock and apply any revenue from the sale of those assets to the reduction of the national debt. The plan would also prohibit the federal government from making or unduly influencing management decisions of private companies such as appointing senior executives and board members.

Over the past year, the federal government has acquired direct ownership in hundreds of private companies, including two car manufacturers, multiple financial institutions, and over 500 banks.

Thune further stated: “Government ownership and control of private business crowds out investment, innovation, job creation, and diminishes the entrepreneurial spirit that made America an economic superpower by instead adding hundreds of billions of dollars to our national debt. Elected officials and government bureaucrats are not qualified to run American businesses.”

Senator Thune’s legislation gives the Treasury Secretary the authority to delay divestiture for up to one year if there is a reasonable chance the assets will appreciate to the original purchase value in the near future. The Treasury is also required to report to Congress and provide detailed information on existing government ownership interests in private entities and on any loans or loan guarantees made by the Federal Reserve. The bill is currently co-sponsored by Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Tom Coburn (R-OK), John Cornyn (R-TX), John Ensign (R-NV), James Inhofe (R-OK), Mike Johanns (R-NE), John Kyl (R-AZ), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and David Vitter (R-LA).

Senator Thune also recently introduced the Freedom from Government Competition Act (S.1167), a bill that would require federal agencies to rely on private businesses when providing goods and services that are readily available in the private sector. The federal government has identified that roughly 850,000 federal employees perform jobs that can be classified as “commercial in nature,” which means in many instances the federal government is competing directly against main street businesses.