How many of you have heard someone say that the economic system that we know as capitalism does not work? This is interesting in that we haven't seen capitalism at work since July 2, 1890. That was the day that Republican President Benjamin Harrison signed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The act was written by Senator John Sherman, a Republican. It passed the Senate on April 8, 1890 with a 51-1 vote. It then passed the House by a 242-0 vote on June 20, 1890 and then went to the President.
The Sherman Anti-Trust act is referred to as "competition law" by attorneys. It acquired this name because Sherman was designed to stop companies or entities from ganging up on new business that might compete with the old companies. That sounds real good at first glance until you look at what really happened. This Act. for all intents and purposes, emasculated companies while turning them into banks for politicians.
Now what do I mean. If you were a businessman and the government was out to regulate you what might you do? Would you obey the regulations? Would you attempt to "persuade" or "lobby" the politicians to look upon your industry favorably and in so doing become a politician's cash cow. Would you befriend the politician to the point where you might get him to put you or your representative on the board that writes the regulations for your industry? Wouldn't that put you in the cat's seat? You could eliminate your competition with the stroke of a pen.
This is exactly what happened. Call them what you will "Captains of Industries" or "Robber Barons" these businessmen, these capitalists, were not going to lose their positions or their companies so they looked for ways to insure their positions and they found that money, dinners, fine cases of wine, and other junkets, purchased the loyalty of elected officials over those who elected them
The Sherman Act, that we could refer to as the assassin that slayed capitalism, was belligerently used by none other then that so called conservative president, Theodore Roosevelt. Teddy, pretending to do good for the common good, used the act to batter organizations like Standard Oil and then turned around and asked those nasty old businessmen for donations for his presidential campaigns. How do you spell hypocrisy? TR, however, was a piker when it came to Woodrow Wilson.
Wilson was a full fledged Progressive. He was an egotistic narcissist. He was a believer in eugenics and adhered to a belief in Social Darwinism. He supported the sterilization of the"feeble-minded." He believed that history evolved based on epochs and that the Constitution was, therefore, a "living document". He talked about the collective will and the need for a good administrator who understood the collective will and would lead the nation based on that. The Constitution and Declaration of Independence were simply old, moldy documents that were no longer viable documents capable of inspiring the people and the Nation.
More importantly, however, was that Wilson found out the importance of a crisis. Initially swearing that he would keep us out of World War I, Wilson walked us straight in to the last months of that war. Why? It caused the folks to rally round the central government. Wilson put into place the War Industries Board or WIB and he put the heads of companies or their representatives on that board. Wilson was then free to come up with two wonderful laws, the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918. With these two pieces of legislation, both of them in contradiction to the First Amendment, Wilson was able to toss 150,000 Americans into prisons across the country simply because they spoke out against the war. You thought the Patriot Act was nasty.
Slowly but surely this nation took more and more steps toward socialism. The New Deal of FDR that among other things gave us the Social Security Trust Act. What a laugh that is particularly the word trust. Our elected officials found their way to power, to spend more and more money to do good things for us with our money. Like little children we got in line and said "do daddy do". Two of my favorite quotes come from two women, one a D and one an R, in the current Senate. Senator Barbara Mikulski who stated that she woke up every "morning trying to figure out what to do for her constituents". Don't you mean "do to your constituents" Senator. The other is Olympia Snowe from Maine who during the debate on health care in the Senate committees stated that only the government could solve the health care problem. This is what we have come too.
I could go on with the Great Society that gave us Medicare and Medicaid both going broke. Or the Plan D drug program given to us by George W. Bush. I thing you get my drift. The next time someone tells you capitalism does not work, ask them to define capitalism to you. Then ask them how they know that capitalism does not work tell them how do they know that since we haven't lived under capitalism since the day the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was signed by that black heart, Benjamin Harrison in 1890. Maye its time for a CHANGE.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Our Naive President
I believe it is safe to say that we are dealing with a self-loathing, egotistical, narcissistic and naive man who is now the leader of our nation. There are those of you who will disagree with me but I encourage you to do your research and you will find out that I am correct
Barack Obama is a the man the Progressives have been praying for ever since the administration of Woodrow Wilson. Obama is so much like Wilson that one might rightly say they are two peas out of the same pod. Wilson, the son of a Presbyterian minister, was accused and has been identified by many older historians as a man with a Messiah complex. He suffered from the same character traits as Obama, egotism and narcissism. Ultimately, these traits that caused him to be uncompromising, made him an embarrassing failure, winner of the war but loser of the peace. His Senate, controlled by the opposition party, the Republicans, killed his plan to join that failed body known as the League of Nations. A Wilsonian man is not someone we want in the White House.
Like Wilson, Obama is an evolutionist. He believes that man evolves and so does his history. This is why Obama is not a lover of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. These are pesky and moldy old documents that simply get in his way. Obama believes that those items in our Founding documents, such as our unalienable rights, do not transcend history. Thus things like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are outdated.
Obama believes in the collective organic will of the people. If the people, for example, come to the conclusion that there is no longer such a thing as the ownership of property by the individual you and I can lose our property. Let me remind you that the United States Supreme Court in the Kelo case determined that towns could use the process of eminent domain to take property away from citizens and allow the towns to sell it to developers for profit. That is what happened to Susan Kelo in 2005 when she lost her home in New London, Connecticut.
A better and more understandable term to describe Wilson and Obama is that they are Utopians. They believe in the ability to build a perfect world and really it isn't all that difficult when you come to understand what they believe. Man will evolve into a better person. By studying the historical epoch of the folks one will be able to determine their historical development. While there is talk of the organic will Wilson disclosed in his writings that the best group to determine that were those within the civil service. Those in the civil service were neutral when it came to the matter of discerning the will of the people thus those bureaucrats would determine the collective organic will.
Once the bureaucrats, or ACORN members if you will, determined the will of the group at this point in history all one needed was a good manager or administrator. Wilson and Obama see themselves as supreme administrators. They are going to get out there, more so Obama then Wilson, and tell us what the will of the people is and how they are going to implement that will in order to make sure we are all on the same page. Obama believes that all he has to do is get up in front of his teleprompter and tell us how it is and that we and the rest of the world will fall in line behind him. Tell me that is not the epitome of egotism and narcissism? Tell me this man is not naive with this attitude of all I have to do is speak and it will be so.
Barack Obama is a very dangerous man. He has no understanding of national and international policies. He does not understand human nature. I believe he is truly incapable of formulating a foreign policy for this nation, something that we desperately need. On top of this our allies are looking at us in amazement. Sarkozy of France has stated in so many words that he believes the United States will no longer lead and thus there will be problems. Problems!!! Let's hope we are so lucky as to only have problems. Me, I'm thinking disaster on a large scale for what was the greatest nation in the world.
Now fortunately, Obama has outraged the upstanding citizens of this nation. They are taking a stand that will cause a return to the principles of this nation as espoused by our Founders and Framers. Fortunately for all of us there are those who remember that we are a nation governed by laws not men. They remembered that they are in charge in this nation not some guy who views himself as an administrator from on high who can dictate policy to us. This should cause the honest men in government to recognize that either they change or they go. Looking forward to November 2010.
Barack Obama is a the man the Progressives have been praying for ever since the administration of Woodrow Wilson. Obama is so much like Wilson that one might rightly say they are two peas out of the same pod. Wilson, the son of a Presbyterian minister, was accused and has been identified by many older historians as a man with a Messiah complex. He suffered from the same character traits as Obama, egotism and narcissism. Ultimately, these traits that caused him to be uncompromising, made him an embarrassing failure, winner of the war but loser of the peace. His Senate, controlled by the opposition party, the Republicans, killed his plan to join that failed body known as the League of Nations. A Wilsonian man is not someone we want in the White House.
Like Wilson, Obama is an evolutionist. He believes that man evolves and so does his history. This is why Obama is not a lover of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. These are pesky and moldy old documents that simply get in his way. Obama believes that those items in our Founding documents, such as our unalienable rights, do not transcend history. Thus things like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are outdated.
Obama believes in the collective organic will of the people. If the people, for example, come to the conclusion that there is no longer such a thing as the ownership of property by the individual you and I can lose our property. Let me remind you that the United States Supreme Court in the Kelo case determined that towns could use the process of eminent domain to take property away from citizens and allow the towns to sell it to developers for profit. That is what happened to Susan Kelo in 2005 when she lost her home in New London, Connecticut.
A better and more understandable term to describe Wilson and Obama is that they are Utopians. They believe in the ability to build a perfect world and really it isn't all that difficult when you come to understand what they believe. Man will evolve into a better person. By studying the historical epoch of the folks one will be able to determine their historical development. While there is talk of the organic will Wilson disclosed in his writings that the best group to determine that were those within the civil service. Those in the civil service were neutral when it came to the matter of discerning the will of the people thus those bureaucrats would determine the collective organic will.
Once the bureaucrats, or ACORN members if you will, determined the will of the group at this point in history all one needed was a good manager or administrator. Wilson and Obama see themselves as supreme administrators. They are going to get out there, more so Obama then Wilson, and tell us what the will of the people is and how they are going to implement that will in order to make sure we are all on the same page. Obama believes that all he has to do is get up in front of his teleprompter and tell us how it is and that we and the rest of the world will fall in line behind him. Tell me that is not the epitome of egotism and narcissism? Tell me this man is not naive with this attitude of all I have to do is speak and it will be so.
Barack Obama is a very dangerous man. He has no understanding of national and international policies. He does not understand human nature. I believe he is truly incapable of formulating a foreign policy for this nation, something that we desperately need. On top of this our allies are looking at us in amazement. Sarkozy of France has stated in so many words that he believes the United States will no longer lead and thus there will be problems. Problems!!! Let's hope we are so lucky as to only have problems. Me, I'm thinking disaster on a large scale for what was the greatest nation in the world.
Now fortunately, Obama has outraged the upstanding citizens of this nation. They are taking a stand that will cause a return to the principles of this nation as espoused by our Founders and Framers. Fortunately for all of us there are those who remember that we are a nation governed by laws not men. They remembered that they are in charge in this nation not some guy who views himself as an administrator from on high who can dictate policy to us. This should cause the honest men in government to recognize that either they change or they go. Looking forward to November 2010.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Parties, Factions, and Identity Politica
A number of years ago William F. Buckley wrote an editorial on the accumulation and ascendancy of minority groups within our society. The point of this essay was to illustrate that the Democrats/Progressives were creating groups within this nation that would become the very core of their power base for elections. Buckley pronounced that the only problem with this political strategy is that even if you put all the various groups together, feminist, abortionists, blacks, gays and Hispanics, you still did not come up to much more the 49%. Thus the Democrat/Progressive party had not put together a majority of voters needed to win an elections.
What they did put together was Identity Politics. With this policy, the Progressives divided us along racial, sexual, and religious lines. They talked about the need for "diversity" and how it was good for our country. Assimilation of new citizens disappeared from the policies of our nation while the new program of Identity Politics goes on and on becoming more successful everyday
Identity politics has allowed the Progressives to create victims. Blacks, gays, women, are all victims and legislation needs to be passed both to protect them and to give them an advantage over those of us who are not victims or should I say not yet victims. In creating these protected groups, the Progressives expand their voter base because in helping these poor folks they make them loyal to the Progressive agenda and they make the Progressives the Caring Party.
It is easy to be a member of the caring partybecause that is all you do, you care and legislate e use of other peoples' money to finance your charity.You believe in giving people a fish not in doing the necessary work to teach them how to fish. Putting it another way it is known as the re-distribution of wealth, the goal of the Progressives and the Obama administration
Taking their cue from Woodrow Wilson, the Progressives believe that people and therefore government evolve. There is, for example, no such thing as fixed law or rights as outlined in documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Thus citizens no longer have their unalienable rights such as "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". You no longer have the right to own the property where you live or anywhere else. It is easy to see how those involved in Obama's health care program can take you off life support when you have no unalienable right to life despite the fact that you have a right to health care in this brave, new world. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are simply moldy old documents that no longer matter since man has now evolved to the point where these documents are "living documents" and must be brought up to date where the modern man believes that the best thing to happen is to put the government and its bureaucracy in charge of all decisions.
There is only one problem with this theory, it is not true. First and foremost in order to swallow this you must believe, among other things, that the human nature changes. It doesn't do that. One of the concerns of our Framers was that human nature does not change. Because human nature does not change, ergo improve with the evolving of time, government must be structured to take that into account. In "Federalist 6. Publius criticizes those who fail to see the permanent dangers of human nature by saying that they are "far gone in Utopian speculations." Publius continues explaining that human nature does not change and this can be seen throughout the course of human history. Hamilton in Federalist 34 writes; "To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude that the fiery and destructive passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace; and to model our political systems upon the speculations of lasting tranquillity would be to calculate on the weaker springs of human character".
Our Founders and Framers were concerned with factionalism and with political parties that they believed would cause factionalism. They were correct and party differences existed from day one because governments are made by men who do not always share the same ideas. Disagreement and less then civil discourse has been around since men came together to debate and come to decisions. The question we must ask ourselves today is why are the Progressives so strident when it comes to the exchange of ideas. More importantly why are they insistent on their way and only their way? There is but one answer, caught up in their own narcissism, they believe they and their ideas are superior to all others. The Progressives live in but two time periods, that of Franklin Roosevelt and Woodstock. It was FDR who brought forth a Second Bill of Rights that could be instituted by government and taken away by government. Woodstock and the Sixties saw and idolization of teenagers by guilty adults who lost the courage to stand up to children. This in turn gave us the likes of Bill Clinton who honestly believed that his ideas were so great for the nation that he could do anything, including engaging in illegal actions, and could not be punished for it. This mindset is now the viewpoint of younger generations as witnessed by Obama and his cronies who believe that it is time for us to move forward with the redistribution of wealth, mandatory community service and a civil army directed by the White House to kick us off our property, take our guns, and kill us when we are to old to be of any use to the nation.
What they did put together was Identity Politics. With this policy, the Progressives divided us along racial, sexual, and religious lines. They talked about the need for "diversity" and how it was good for our country. Assimilation of new citizens disappeared from the policies of our nation while the new program of Identity Politics goes on and on becoming more successful everyday
Identity politics has allowed the Progressives to create victims. Blacks, gays, women, are all victims and legislation needs to be passed both to protect them and to give them an advantage over those of us who are not victims or should I say not yet victims. In creating these protected groups, the Progressives expand their voter base because in helping these poor folks they make them loyal to the Progressive agenda and they make the Progressives the Caring Party.
It is easy to be a member of the caring partybecause that is all you do, you care and legislate e use of other peoples' money to finance your charity.You believe in giving people a fish not in doing the necessary work to teach them how to fish. Putting it another way it is known as the re-distribution of wealth, the goal of the Progressives and the Obama administration
Taking their cue from Woodrow Wilson, the Progressives believe that people and therefore government evolve. There is, for example, no such thing as fixed law or rights as outlined in documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Thus citizens no longer have their unalienable rights such as "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". You no longer have the right to own the property where you live or anywhere else. It is easy to see how those involved in Obama's health care program can take you off life support when you have no unalienable right to life despite the fact that you have a right to health care in this brave, new world. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are simply moldy old documents that no longer matter since man has now evolved to the point where these documents are "living documents" and must be brought up to date where the modern man believes that the best thing to happen is to put the government and its bureaucracy in charge of all decisions.
There is only one problem with this theory, it is not true. First and foremost in order to swallow this you must believe, among other things, that the human nature changes. It doesn't do that. One of the concerns of our Framers was that human nature does not change. Because human nature does not change, ergo improve with the evolving of time, government must be structured to take that into account. In "Federalist 6. Publius criticizes those who fail to see the permanent dangers of human nature by saying that they are "far gone in Utopian speculations." Publius continues explaining that human nature does not change and this can be seen throughout the course of human history. Hamilton in Federalist 34 writes; "To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude that the fiery and destructive passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace; and to model our political systems upon the speculations of lasting tranquillity would be to calculate on the weaker springs of human character".
Our Founders and Framers were concerned with factionalism and with political parties that they believed would cause factionalism. They were correct and party differences existed from day one because governments are made by men who do not always share the same ideas. Disagreement and less then civil discourse has been around since men came together to debate and come to decisions. The question we must ask ourselves today is why are the Progressives so strident when it comes to the exchange of ideas. More importantly why are they insistent on their way and only their way? There is but one answer, caught up in their own narcissism, they believe they and their ideas are superior to all others. The Progressives live in but two time periods, that of Franklin Roosevelt and Woodstock. It was FDR who brought forth a Second Bill of Rights that could be instituted by government and taken away by government. Woodstock and the Sixties saw and idolization of teenagers by guilty adults who lost the courage to stand up to children. This in turn gave us the likes of Bill Clinton who honestly believed that his ideas were so great for the nation that he could do anything, including engaging in illegal actions, and could not be punished for it. This mindset is now the viewpoint of younger generations as witnessed by Obama and his cronies who believe that it is time for us to move forward with the redistribution of wealth, mandatory community service and a civil army directed by the White House to kick us off our property, take our guns, and kill us when we are to old to be of any use to the nation.
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