We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

When we take a close look at that paragraph we can see the first few words clearly, “We the people of the United States…”   Without getting into the fine details of grammar, this is the subject of the sentence, it is ‘we the people’ who do all that is mentioned afterward, and that is what is important.  We do the following: establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for common defense, promote general welfare, and most importantly SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY ordain and establish the Constitution.

I have bolded this part because, while listing all of the items is important, “We the people secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our children, etc.” is the most important idea.  We do not secure the blessings of liberty for the Germans, nor for the Sudanese, nor anyone else.  The Constitution is meant to serve us, We the People, not to serve or protect foreigners who attack us and wish to see us and our Constitution destroyed.  Anything We the People decide to willfully extend to foreigners is just that: an extension based on good will, NOT a promise to the same protections We the People have secured for ourselves.  Courts and judges have tried to force us, the people, to grant the same protections and rights to foreign terrorists as if they were a citizen who might be accused of stealing a pair of shoes from a neighborhood store.

In what sane mind can one actually think that granting Constitutional protections to those dedicated to destroying the Constitution and our culture is a good idea?  If we win, they get to be imprisoned and write motivational letters to help in the war against us.  IF we lose…  there will be no Constitution, though there may be sharia.

We the People need to stand up and guard jealously our liberty and re-secure it against those who wish to take it from us, or extend it to those who want to destroy us.

For indifference ruins a good natural endowment, but instruction amends a poor one; easy things escape the careless, but difficult pthings are conquered by careful application. One may understand how effective and how productive a thing is application and hard work, if he only direct his attention to many effects that are daily observed. For drops of water make hollows in rocks, steel and bronze are worn away by the touch of hands, and rims of chariot-wheels once bent by dint of labour, cannot, no matter what be done, recover their original lines. The bent staves which actors use it is impossible to straighten; indeed the unnatural shape has, through labour, come to predominate over the natural. And are these the only things which clearly show the potency of diligence? No, but myriads upon myriads. A piece of land is good by nature, but without care it grows waste, and the better it is by nature, so much the more is it spoiled by neglect if it be not worked. Another piece is forbidding and rougher than land should be, but, if it be tilled, straightway it produces noble crops. What trees if they are neglected do not grow crooked and prove unfruitful? Yet if they receive right culture, they become fruitful, and bring their fruit to maturity. What bodily strength is not impaired and finally ruined by neglect and luxury and ill condition? On the other hand, what weak physique does not show a very great improvement in strength if men exercise and train themselves? fWhat horses if they are well broken when young do not become obedient to their riders, whereas if they are left unbroken they turn out stubborn and restive? Why wonder at other instances, seeing as we do that many of the wildest animals are made tame and used to their labours? Well did the Thessalian say, when asked who were the most pacific of the Thessalians, “Those who are just returning from war.” But why discuss the matter at length? For character is habit long continued, and if one were to call the virtues of character the virtues of habit, he would not seem to go far astray. I will cite but one more example on this point and then I shall desist from discussing it further. Lycurgus, the lawgiver of the Spartans, took two puppies of the same litter, and reared them in quite different ways, so that from the one he produced a mischievous and greedy cur, and from the other a dog able to follow a scent and to hunt. And then at a time when the Spartans were gathered together, he said: “Men of Sparta, of a truth habit and training and teaching and guidance in living are a great influence toward engendering excellence, and I will make this evident to you at once.” Thereupon producing the two dogs, he let them loose, putting down directly in front of them a dish of food and a hare. The one dog rushed after the hare, and the other made for the dish. While the Spartans were as yet unable to make out what import he gave to this, and with what intent he was exhibiting the dogs, he said, “These dogs are both of the same litter, but they have received a different bringing-up, with the result that the one has turned out a glutton and the other a hunter.” In regard to habits and manner of life let this suffice.

This is so valuable for all to read, especially children, parents, and those who receive money earned by others.  IT is even more important for all of those people to understand the meaning.   To make it short, the obvious lesson is that lack of natural aptitude can be overcome as easily as those with natural aptitude neglect to use it; that with good training you can excel at just about anything, and with adequate knowledge the sky is the limit.

An excellent small quote is, “Character is habit long continued.”  Are you of the habit of waiting for a handout?  Your character is that of a selfish entitlement, personal neglect, and civic destruction.   Are you in the habit of working hard, not complaining, and doing what has to be done?  Then your character is of a strong work ethic, personal pride and responsibility.   Which of the two is needed more to make a town, city, county, state, or even nation function?    Which of the two should be the focus of our efforts?

There are several ideas about how one should raise their children, there are several ideas as to what one should do in any give set of circumstances, but some of those have, over the ages, proven to be better than others.   If one does not care enough to teach their children responsibility and self-reliance, to teach their children to work hard, be industrious, and never to sit on the sidelines when there is change to be an active member in life, then parents are setting up their children to become institutionalized beggars, uneducated criminals, and life-long burdens to society.

Lycurgus’s words have made their way to our own country and culture.  There are two types of people in this country, those who hunt for success and who are gluttons, feeding upon the success of the hunters.

Realize which one of these groups our Constitution supports and which group is not supposed to even get a penny from the government according to the Constitution and we can see that the liberals ignore both classical wisdom and the supreme law of the land in order to keep their lap dog votes paid for with the bribes of perpetuated poverty in the form of hand outs.  When will we the people agree this needs to stop?

Seems so…

Factcheck backs it up — lies.

Who said what and when again.  It does not matter.   Nancy seems to want to throw the CIA under the bus, VP Joe doesn’t care about the truth when he speaks at all, and President Obama just can’t stop blaming the previous administration for anything and everything he can even weakly link to it.

Hope and Change.

Hey, let’s bail out California!

We should start by firing the CEO.

Swedish health authorities have ruled that gender-based abortion is not illegal according to current law and can not therefore be stopped, according to a report by Sveriges Television.

No, there is no health risk, there is no contrived mental health risk, there is no economic strain on the family, the mother, or the aborted child.   To put it plainly, “Mom didn’t want another daughter.”The woman, who already had two daughters, requested an amniocentesis in order to allay concerns about possible chromosome abnormalities. At the same time, she also asked to know the foetus’s gender.

The board has now responded that such requests and thus abortions can not be refused and that it is not possible to deny a woman an abortion up to the 18th week of pregnancy, even if the foetus’s gender is the basis for the request.

The death of children at the whim of the mother is a pathetic state of affairs in our modern society.  A previous article of mine explains why scientifically abortion is obviously the termination of a human life, but here we can see how science plays no role in the issue because it is now a  Women’s Rights Issue.   Except of course for the female who just killed by her own mother for the simple fact that she was a female.  But that child does not pay taxes, does not protest, scream at the cameras, nor carry signs for a feminist agenda, so the government nor the special interests care about the death of the child.

I’m sure this happens frequently in the United States as well.   Children get to die in order to keep mommy happy.  Think about this, please.

Heritable means passed on genetically regardless of where one may be born.

African-Americans must then have some sort of unique or at least defining set characteristics that other black people do not if African-Americans are their own race.  And if that is thruthful, then what should someone who is from Nigeria call themselves when they come here since they do not have any ‘American’ element related to African American, only African.   If Lennox Lewis boxed in Atlantic City, New Jersey, what race would he select when filling out an IRS tax form?  He is not African American because he was born in England to Jamaican parents.  He also boxed for the Canadian teams in 1984 and 1988… While Canada is on the North American continent, the term African American does not apply to blacks from that country.

Earlier, African Americans were considered blacks, negros, and colored.  For example, there is the United Negro College Fund, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Congressional Black Caucus, and so on…  all of which were named by the the same group of people now calling themselves African Americans.  This is not a race, but a social club.

Rather than trying to keep on changing the name of the same racial group of people, shouldn’t time be spent on more important issues such as crime rates, levels of incarceration, single parent homes, substance abuse, and the many other factors facing blacks in America today?  Changing the name will not make the problems go away — real action may help.

The term “African American” does not define a race — only a social club where people like Lennox Lewis, nor an immigrant from Nigeria could belong – despite having many of the same various sets of heritable characteristics.

Could it be an attempt to push socialized medicine?  Perhaps.

“At top labs, scientists are optimistic they can make a vaccine that’s effective against the new virus. But in a country where one in seven people lack medical insurance, doctors worry that some individuals won’t get needed protection because of cost.”

Yes, the corporations are concerned that one in seven (if we accept that number as truth) people will miss out on a chance to give them money.  Remember, so far this virus hasn’t moved quickly, nor is it very lethal.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., have introduced legislation to pay for temporary medical treatment for uninsured people during a public health emergency. It could be a natural disaster such as an earthquake or hurricane, a bioterror attack, or a medical emergency such as a flu pandemic. “We can’t afford to have barriers that keep people from getting care when an epidemic is sweeping the community,” Capps said. Separately, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has proposed to offer all individuals a free flu shot each year.

Strangely, with a budget busting at the seams, a down economy, and an unstable world, Congress seems to find new ways to spend money we do not have on projects the Constitution does not permit.   A ‘free’ (as if no one pays for it) flu shot every year?   Outstanding for the corporations.   No need to advertise, no need to do anything but lobby government.   Remember President (then candidate) Obama talking about how tired he was of lobbies and PACs?   Good to see Congress feels this way.

The reason this is all being able to be done is because the world is fearing a rather plain virus as if it were a sweeping plague.   Remember: “Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste,” Mr. Emanuel said in an interview on Sunday. “They are opportunities to do big things.”

Obama’s ‘Spread the Wealth’ comment, and Emanuel’s comment show their plan…. they lay it before us to see, and we the people fall for it.  They tell us we’re entitled to it, and so many Americans have no sense of self-worth, or understanding of cause and effect, so many Americans swallow it hook, line, and sinker and actually think they are indeed entitled to so many things.  Wake up America, do something for yourselves… and keep doing it.

There is an important essay written by Eric Blair (George Orwell), called Politics and the English Language (May 1945) where he states, “In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.”"

So, since the idea of Global Warming has been effectively riddled with holes, we already got to see it morph into “Climate Change” so that when any unusual weather event happened (including a cold snap, blizzard, etc.) could be blamed on humanity, and now we are seeing it changing into other terms as well.   This is also proof that this effort is not a grass-roots one, but a centrally controlled effort run by a group of people who are telling others how to phrase their messages in order to square with the aims of the political movement called ‘environmental activism’.

If something is a truth, one does not need to re-package that something.  It stands on its own for all to see and observe and to take from it what one may.   Truths and half-truths along  with lies need to be re-packaged, re-markets, and changed in order to seem like a novel or new idea so that the deception can be kept in view of everyone’s mind’s eye.  The obvious deception involved with the modern environmental activist can be seen with the talking points conveyed:  “Moving away from the dirty fuels of the past” is an obvious lie.   Oil is still the most used fuel, dirty or not.  It is not something int he past but very much used in the present and for the foreseeable future – to say otherwise is either mis, or uninformed, or…  deceptive.

By keeping the definitions and words as fluid as possible they are able to change what needs to be changed in order to keep their agenda moving.  They are not burdened with consistency, they need not be true or even accurate, they will just invent new terms and act like a brand new day is here.   Deception.

Are we the people really so stupid that we would fall for this deception?   Time will tell.  While waiting for time to tell us, I’d suggest reading Orwell’s essay — it is delightful.

We, the People of the United States of American are some of the most giving and generous people in the entire world; we know we have a good life and do not mind sharing it with others who, through sudden tragedy, or circumstance of location at birth have lost or simply do not have a chance to attain what we have here in our great country.  Western culture as a broad and general group all feel this way and it shows, and not a shocking surprise it is also Western culture which is the driving force of the entire world.

When one gives his or her wealth, or time, or efforts, freely and without coercion this is a very worth-while endeavour and something that shows the moral fiber of the individual and is a positive reflection of their society as well.  There is another form of giving more akin to Robin Hood, though in the story of Robin Hood is made clear that the money is not so much being taken from the rich a it is being taken from corrupt and abusive merchants and government officials (tax collectors, nobility, etc.) to give back to the down trodden and abused.  This is a story far worse than Robin Hood, this is a story of theft against the populace without regard to how they came about their wealth.

When the government, and federal government particularly, takes money from one person and simply hands that money to another person because the federal government had deemed the receiver more worthy to have that money, this is immoral at its core and unconstitutional to boot.  The Constitution outlines the reasons the federal government may raise taxes, and nowhere is it listed that government financed re-allocation of wealth is permitted.  Whether this is for giving money to a homeless person, or a failing large corporation, there is no enumerated provision listing any such actions as permissible.  Some misguided souls find this government redistribution to the akin to charity, or supplementing charity when we the people have not given enough (an appraisal they made based on what?). Charity stops being charity when the government can come and take your property and your freedom by force if you fail to comply with the edicts issued by our own ‘public servants’.   When the government decides some people are less worthy of their own money than others who have not earned their way the government is in the business of redistribution, of ‘spreading the wealth’ and this is not a function of the federal government.

There is another problem with these government hand outs to those making less money:  If  half the nation pays almost no taxes as it is, where is the money coming from?   The money is coming from a small minority of people who do not have anyone looking out for their own interests.  Both parties do this, but the Democrats have made it into a campaign pillar:  they promise the world of money to the poor and to the ‘forgotten middle class’ the whole time inciting class warfare by railing on about the rich not paying ‘their fair share’.  If the rich, the top 10% pay the majority of the bill, then they are already paying more than the average person and thus their fair share is already done.  But if the top 10% are forced to pay for the vest majority of the social hand-outs, then all the Democrats need to do is bribe (YES, BRIBE) the other 90% to vote for them.   We’ve heard this from the current administration in the form of, 95% of the country will see a tax break (thus 5% will have to make up the difference), to pushing for government hand-outs for health care, to President Obama’s own words about spreading the wealth.

Unfortunately bribing the poor used to be harder because at one time they had pride and dignity and would not take such charity.   Now, they have been conditioned to live off the efforts of the more productive and they have become greedy in their ways wanting more and more, and now we have a substantial portion of the population ready to taken ill-gotten money in order to perpetuate their own lifestyles.  These people rarely ask what is best for their country, they only care for what seems best for their own immediate future.  They willfully drive the nation into debt for their own personal benefit.   not only is this unpatriotic, but completely immoral since it adversely effects us all.

It is immoral for politicians to make the poor become dependent upon those same politicians in order to survive.  This dependency is similar to a drug deal stringing out their customers on addictive substances – the customers become dependent upon these substances and will do whatever it takes to have them continue – including losing their dignity, self-reliance, and any form of pride.

The immorality is obvious, appreciation for the work and efforts of others has diminished, and the idea that getting free money from the efforts of others as a ‘right’ has taken hold.   Pathetic we have become.

We need to, as a country, stop and reverse this trend.

Let us understand one thing without any lack in clarity:  If someone or some group wants to kill you you must take them at their word and kill them first.    If you are entrusted with the care and responsibility to protect someone or some group of people and they are targets to die, then you once again must take the aggressors at their words and kill them first.   If you can not accept this responsibility or feel that taking lesser steps is a worthy endeavor then you are not fit to have the responsibility.

The current administration wants the world to think that it is so nuanced and sensitive to the ways of the world — unlike that last administration — that if we all sit down and talk about it we can find some common ground.  ‘It’ can be anything from nuclear weaponry to soothing the troubled minds of those who wish to destroy our society, culture, and country.  This administration is as foolish as it is bold.

What the administration fails to understand, or decides to ignore, is that there is a cultural element to their actions.  Those who want us eliminated are not doing it because we looked at them sideways, it is because they do not like us at the very core of our being.   This can not be changed by talking, hand shakes, and smiles.   Our culture and by commercialism, our products, end up heading into their culture and this is something many of them will not tolerate.  Let us look at this from the perspective of a moderate, yet relatively conservative member of their society.   We’ll use Afghanistan as the backdrop, though several other nations / cultures could apply, but since that is where al-Qaida found friends in the Taliban, it works well for this example.

So we have a moderate, yet relatively conservative member of any of the various groups in Afghanistan who sees Western culture and particularity American culture seeping into his society.   He sees the blue jeans, T-Shirts, baseball caps, and other non-traditional clothing and accessories coming in and being worn by children, teens, and young adults.  He looks around and also hears American music – loud and noisy to him – and American mannerisms making their their way into the streets and worse yet, homes of all these people.   He sees Hollywood in American movies with all the sex and drugs, the way women are portrayed, the way men are portrayed, and it is disturbing to him. He sees that this own values and beliefs are being marginalized by his own society and his own people.  The same lack of respects for elders and strangers, and even family members he sees in American culture is now beginning to stick in Afghanistan and it is far too much to take.

For the sake of understanding, let us reverse the situation for Western societies and Western culture.  In the midst of our lives a different culture’s elements seeping into our lives without warning or understanding.   Movies, horrible musicals, are on the big screen with women and men all wearing clothing foreign to us, and behaving far too politely for common conversation where asking how one is doing and how one’s family is doing actually is a question where the response matters — unlike here where answering, “How are you?” is practically asking for a place on the shrinks couch, because most people do not care.  In this other culture, if you do not respond honestly, and ask the same in return you are now looked upon as some sort of rude, uncivilized, non-caring cur who is unfit for further conversation.

This affects the way we do business, and in a room with several people, this can make meetings go on longer and longer without any business being done.   This is irksome, but most of us deal with the change in culture and try to make the best of it.  In that same business room, most all of the people (women and men) are wearing different clothing now, the kind of clothing found in Afghanistan and that region, and some women are even wearing full burqas.  Because you still wear a suit and tie, or business casual, you can hear side conversations about this and the looks on some of the peoples’ faces makes it seem like you’re out of touch and even that you are slowing down progress to a better tomorrow.  You’re not with the times anymore.

Churches are closed, and eventually those practicing religions other than Islam are discriminated against, and some even beaten by those more ‘excitable’ types who are tired of people following an obviously wrong religion.   All images of women portraying them as sex objects and otherwise degrading ways have been eliminated and those still holding on to those images are being punished severely.  The local high school stadium is used for a venue to view all the capital punishment cases – which now include adultry (especially if the female seduced the male) drug sellers, some drug users, practitioners of witchcraft (you didn’t even know these people existed), and those who have blasphemed Allah.

Pressure has turned to threats from neighbors, co-workers, and even some family members because your wife, nor daughter(s) are wearing the correct attire for this new society and your youngest daughter even seems to want to wear it all voluntarily and asks that you marry her off to a man who can provide for her, but to make sure he isn’t overly abusive if she makes a mistake.  She asks this very politely to you, almost cringing because of the nature of your request.

Eventually you can not take it anymore  — your world has changed and so have too many people you know and love.  This is not the best way for society, this is craziness.   You find a group of people with similar thoughts – those who wish to remove such influences from their lives and society as well.  Protesting results in prison or death in the stadiums, so when you act the actions must be severe and beyond question.   At first you only provide material support and let them meet once in a while in your garage, but this is not getting any results.

Now your children all wear this clothing, have gotten rid of all your CDs, tapes, and records of rock and roll, rap, and any other offensive material that you ‘forgot’ to turn in.  Your frustration builds as you see your daughters fumbling around in burqas, your son turning into a religious zealot who hears nothing in way of contrary ideas and even turns in those for professing them.  Your world is may be too far gone to get back, but you must try.   This can not continue.  And so you do what you feel you must do…

Now let us go back to Afghanistan’s situation and take a look again at how they see us treating our wives, sisters, and daughters — they are objectified, there are places where prostitution is legal, women are called ‘bitches and hos’, and women are forced to work their entire lives in order to provide for their family.  They see drug abuse, the effects on the family and society, they see our problems with the border of Mexico with drugs and cringe.   They see Hollywood pushing movies without substance — movies about dysfunctional families, movies making jokes about the ills of society, not to mention purely pornographic movies where others’ sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, expose themselves in disgusting way all for the camera to see.   How are these things good for the family?   Do Western cultures even care about their own families?  Billboards of practically naked women trying to sell alcohol?   Does anyone really aspire to have that as their future?   Western society has failed in their eyes because the family is of no importance.

Abortion, the killing of the newest members of the family, divorce for no real reason other than becoming bored with each other, and so many other ideas that are common in our society are disgusting to theirs.  Religious views where people do not agree and even question the words in the holy books?   This can not be a good sign.  Homosexuality on display for all to see?   Never.

This is the picture they have.    It is as disturbing to them as the previous picture is to us.   I do not have a daughter, but if I did there is no way she will ever be forced to wear a burqa.  There is no way she’ll ever have to attend an inferior school and then drop out to be married off to someone she doesn’t know and could be two, three or even four times her age.  I will fight those who try to make that happen, and I’ll do anything to make it so she does not have to live in that world.  Wouldn’t most fathers?  Wouldn’t most mothers? Wouldn’t most brothers?

With this understanding of yourself and how you feel about your own family and close friends, and what you would do for them, why is it so hard to see that another culture, quite different from ours but still its own, would also feel the same about change?   This is not a rant about cultural relativism – an idea I find idiotic, this is about understanding that while we appreciate our own culture and ways of living, other feel the same about their own to the point that they feel they have no choice but to take matters into their own hands.

Thus, it does not matter if you call them terrorists, insurgents, freedom-fighters, or anything else.  They want to destroy me and my way of life, they have stated as much and they have even hit us on our soil, and if you look at it as a cultural assault, then you should include London 7/7 bombings, and the 3/11 Madrid bombings as hitting our soil.  They want to remove our direct and indirect ability to influence their society by any means possible.  These people will not stop to talk to us, unless it benefits them to do so.  Would you stop to talk to those who are changing your society so that they can still change it?   There is no way to stop people from importing American culture.  It is found everywhere in the world to a greater or lesser degree.  Since they can not stop the influence they can only stop the originators: US.   You and me.  We are targets.

President Obama does not understand this, or he chooses to ignore this.   Either way, this is the situation and there is only one group who will win.   This will not be won over night, but we can do what it takes to make certain we do not lose overnight.   The President needs to honor his duty and responsibility to keep Americans alive.  One good way is to eliminate those who have the desire, the will, the determination, and the resolve to kill us.  It is a sign of weakness to negotiate with someone who says they will kill you.   It shows that you are not willing to take action first.

There is a well-known saying that goes something like, “On defense you only need to be wrong once to feel the effects, on offense you can afford to be wrong with much less of an adverse  effect.”

In this battle it is us versus them, our ideas versus theirs, our culture versus theirs, our lives versus theirs.  Where do you stand when it comes to protecting your family, your close friends, your country?  Where does the enemy?   Where does the President?

From many troubling elements of the Patriot Act (most every congressman voted for this without reservation), the Campaign Finance Reform Act (sponsored by John McCain), to most everything President Obama’s administration has done show that were are heading down the road to federal totalitarianism quicker and quicker.    I am not completely against the Patriot Act, and I can even see the need to have passed it in its whole after 11 September and the realization that we were not well equiped to deal with the modern threats to our security, but that time as passed, for a while, it has been an appropriate time to look over all the parts of this legislation – line by line – and get rid of the more questionable and downright unconstitutional elements of the bill.   For instance, the fact that, if I see my neighbor’s house being searched by the feds, the feds can order me to NOT speak about it to anyone or else I myself may face federal charges.   Considering that I am a conservative / libertarian blogger, you can imagine how well that sits with me.

The McCain Feingold Act (Campaign Finance Reform), puts restrictions on both when I can speak and how I can speak regarding a candidate, as well as limiting the amount of money I can give to a candidate directly.   This last part may seem good on the surface, but what needs to be remembered is that the entrenched politicians who cater to the needs of their parties can get soft money from those parties as well as the fact that the parties can run ads and smears against the opponents just fine.   but if I were to run as either an ‘off the reservation’ Republican, or as an Independent, I would not get that money from the party organ, and with the limit people can give me how would I ever be able to compete against the parties in power?  I can not.  I can not get my word out enough, because I can not get money in the same amount as the parties of the status quo.  All this passed with a name as friendly as ‘finance reform’ since so many people thought it was a bad thing to see so much money in politics.   Did it work?  Not at all.  There is more money in politics today than yesterday, and tomorrow will have even more.   The powers-that-be know how to manipulate the system — they wrote the law, but you and I can get hammered if we fall out of line.

President Obama’s administration has taken control of the 19 largest banks, has pushed for the removal of a CEO of a large auto maker, and constantly is having his people push an agenda of growing control — all in the name of us, the people, or more disturbingly, the environment.   This is an incredibly large power grab mixing private business, publically traded corporations, and the government into the same pool where to object is to be moved off the scene.   The same Congress who rallies around these ideas is also the one who gives more money to supporters via pork barrel ear marks, yet complains and fakes outrage when AIG, who was forced to take money, pays some of the better executives it has bonuses that are of a smaller whole value as well as percentage than the pork barrel corruption in congress (versus the bailout money vis a vis budget).  AIG bonuses: Less than 1% of all bailout money given to them, Congress: Pork barrel spending between 1% and 2%.   Millions vs. hundreds of billions.

Complicit in this abuse of power is the media who seem more interested in smearing AIG and the Tea Parties than in asking tough questions and bringing concerns about Congress’ spending and politial theater.  There is a media mentality that truly thinks that it can not be the average citizen who is upset with the government, it must just be those people on DHS’ list of potential threats.    This thought is why they treated the Tea Parties the way they did.

We need less decisions being made in Washington and we need less of our money going to support their spending.   Congress’ addiction to spending our money for what benefits them as well as Congress habit of ignoring their Constitutional limitation shows that the danger is not from extremists on the right or even from the left — the danger lies in the hands and pens of the law makers at the federal level.   We need to remind these politicians who is in charge and who is the servant.