Obama is the Antithesis of Martin Luther King Jr.

Character or Color?

One of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s more famous quotes on Freedom from his “I have a dream” speech, was delivered on August 28th, 1963, almost 50 years ago and included these closing words:

“And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”(1)

What Dr. King understood was that no man or woman could be free in a society unless everyone in that society were free.  That the power of the individuals that are bound together in the quest, then the acceptance of Freedom, exceeds all other human conditions and creates a power subservient to only our God.  He understood that government could not give Freedom, without taking away Freedom.  That every man must walk along side of every other man in the Equality of Freedom, and not in the false promise of Freedom through mandated Equality.  The other quote from this same speech that drove home the core of Dr. King was “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”  God placed Dr. King on this earth at a time He knew we needed the guidance of this man to begin the quest for the end of the stigma of slavery and the beginning of the quest for Freedom for all, regardless of race, religion, or gender.  Unfortunately, we have the same need today but there is no one filling the void left by Dr. King.

The first Black president, Barak Obama, unfortunately was not brought up in the heritage of Dr. King but under the tutelage of Black Liberation Theology (BLT) under Reverend Jeremiah Wright, that is based on Marxist ideology through the creation and promotion Black Victimhood.  Wright’s ongoing message is that life for blacks in America has been in the past and will be in the future a life of being victimized by the oppression of whites.  The goal of BLT is the creation of economic equality, not equal Freedom for all.  Marxism and BLT share the common goal of equality through wealth redistribution.  They both ignore the Freedom of Equal Opportunity but instead seek to create “an enemy” that they can use to blame all of their ills and seek to destroy by cries of racism, elitism, etc.  This is at the core of Barak Obama and can be seen and heard in almost every breath he takes and every word he utters. 

Dr. King sought to unite through Freedom, Obama seeks to divide by race, religion and gender in order to redistribute his perception of equality.  Dr. King sought to sow the seeds of peaceful protest to build up the whole of this nation while Obama seeks to pit individuals and institutions against each other to weaken the underpinnings of this nation.  What Dr. King envisioned was the day when we could look at one another and not see the color of the other’s skin, their religious convictions, or their gender but see an equal child of God enjoying the great Freedoms that only this nation, under God, could provide to all.  What Obama envisions is that wealth, opportunity, and freedoms would be taken from his perceived “haves” and redistributed to his perceived “have-nots”.  In short, Dr. King believed that this country had the potential of ensuring Freedom for All regardless of the past;  Obama believes that this country is flawed from its Constitution foundation to today’s unfair society that was built on the backs of the oppressed; Obama’s beliefs are in sync with those of Karl Marx except that Obama blames all whites for these ills versus the Marxists view of the “rich” being the culprit, who could have been black or white.

It is sad that over the past 50 years, we have turned a deaf ear to Dr. King but rather have re-adopted a culture of differences and blaming others for our own condition or circumstances.  This culture of differences in many cases is being promoted and nurtured by the self-appointed ”civil rights leaders” of today.  These “leaders” promote practices that only insure that their “people” remain in poverty, undereducated, and are forced to live in the highest crime rate neighborhoods in this nation.  These “leaders” promote whatever the flavor of the day Obama trots out regardless of the consequences to their “constituents”.  They turn their back on their own people and salute the power brokers who use the poorest among us to further their own Marxist goals of wealth and power redistribution. 

Will we ever have another Dr. King in our midst leading us toward a Free human and humane society?  One can only hope. 

RD Pierini

(1) Martin Luther King Jr. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hat Tip:  http://cnsnews.com/blog/dr-alveda-king/remembering-my-uncle-rev-martin-luther-king-jr-dreamer

Obama’s Dog and Pony Show on Guns–None of His 23 Exec Orders Would have Prevented Either the Aurora or Newtown Killings

    The Community Organizer In Chief pulled out all of the stops yesterday in his charade of proposing meaningful solutions to solving gun violence in America.  He was surrounded by Children, he invoked emotions regarding Gun Violence, and he then proceeded to say absolutely nothing that would have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings!  This is typical of a Left Wing ideologue and he was fully support by his employees in the press.  He said absolutely nothing about the media voilence of games, movies, TV series, nor did he propose that schools would be provided with armed officers at each school to help prevent another tragedy.  There are 28,000 schools in the US that have armed officers and none of these have been attacked.  All three of this years tragedies have two things in common, they were all in gun free zones and in states with strict gun laws.  The President also lied when he said that 1.4 million applicants were denied gun purchases due to STATE LEVEL background checks.  The truth really is that the background checks identified 1.4 million applicants to be reviewed and 94% of these were cleared within three days!  He also missed the opportunity to allow all states to adopt background checks AT THE STATE LEVEL but instead did his usual power grab and is proposing a Federal Background Check system.  

     What the President did do was empower Kathleen Sibelius to control guns within Obamacare and made doctors responsible for interviewing their patients on guns in the home and made this reporting mandatory via Obamacare.  Further, he empowered the Department of Education to create an anti-gun campaign in the schools rather than teach responsible gun ownership.  The goals are to turn doctors against their patients and kids against their parents if they own guns.  This is a typical Progressive/Communist tactic that has been employed by Obama.

Here are the 23 points that Obama outlined and our response to those points.

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background-check system.
Response:  This will provide data into the national database that totally consolidates every piece of information the government has on you and your family.  This includes any information that may have been gathered using the Patriot Act all the way through Obamacare and the Gun Check.  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background-check system.
Response:  Empowers Katherine Sibelius to write whatever regulations she needs to take all of the State’s info on you.  The Federal Background check system has not been defined so there is NO limit on what data is included…   This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
Response:  Read this to mean that make sure we can punish any State or State agency who refuses to participate with the Federal Background Check program.  The guns used in gun violence this year were obtained outside of the scope of a background check.  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
4. Direct the attorney general to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
Response:  The current categories were set by Congress and duly signed into law by a prior administration.  This would give Eric Holder sole authority, albeit unconstitutional, in creating new categories to be excluded from gun ownership.  For example, Holder could add NRA members as a category.  This may sound farfetched but then again so is a law that forces a Free citizen to have to buy government mandated health insurance. This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
5. Propose rule making to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
Response:  First of all, what is a full background check and why was the gun seized?  Law enforcement can run criminal checks now on any suspect for any reason.  What is the scope that will be expanded?  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
6. Publish a letter from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.
Response:  These checks are currently under State control and regulated under State Control with excellent training of gun vendors on what is required to be submitted to State Agencies in order to conduct a proper background check.  THIS IS ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO ELIMINATE STATE’S RIGHTS AND CENTRALIZE A FUNCTION WITHIN FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY.  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.  The gun dealer in Aurora reported this killer to the authorities after REFUSING to sell him a gun.
7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
Response:  First of all, there is no need for an EO to do this.  All the President would have to do is tell the ATF to do this.  Second, anyone who has gone through the gun purchase/registration process and gun safety programs already have sufficient skills.  Plus, the shooters at Newtown and Aurora obviously did not need any more training on how to use a gun!  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
Response:  Pure fluff.  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

Response:  Maybe the President should get up to speed on criminal law and procedures.  This is already done except guns collected if there were used in the commission of a crime are destroyed!  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.

10. Release a Department of Justice report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.
Response:  Pure Fluff.  How are you going to analyze lost or stolen guns as you have no idea where they are?  Second, if they are used in a crime, you have already tracked them!  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
11. Nominate an ATF director.
Response:  Mr. President this is already your job to nominate cabinet and sub cabinet appointees!  Just do it!  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
Response:  This is already in place.  Do you really think a bunch of Washington bureaucrats can teach local law enforcement how to handle local crisis situations!  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.
Response:  Good idea but Obama has a lower enforcement record on prosecuting gun violence than any other president in modern history.  How about cleaning up your home town of Chicago that is subject to horrendous levels of Black on Black violence of teenagers and young black youth.  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.
Response:  This has been prohibited by law and flies in the face of current, adopted legislation.  Further, there are countless studies that have been done but the left does not like the answers, like the assault rifle ban did nothing to curb gun violence…  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
15. Direct the attorney general to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun-safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.
Response:  Maybe Eric Holder could employee tracking tactics that allowed him to lose thousands of guns he unlawfully let go into the hands of drug cartels in Mexico via Fast and Furious. This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
Response:  Actually Obamacare does prohibit requiring Doctors to collect info on Guns in homes.  Further, physicians are not gun specialists nor is this any of their business!  Just tell you doctor that it is none of his or her business!  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
17. Release a letter to healthcare providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
Response:  Actually Obamacare does prohibit requiring providers to collect info on Guns in homes.  Further, healthcare providers are not gun specialists nor is this any of their business!  Just tell you provider that it is none of his or her business!  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
Response:  What is the definition of a school resource officer?  If these are not specified as armed, trained law enforcement personnel this is just another gift to Teachers Unions…  Unless these are armed guards, this would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
19. Develop model emergency-response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
Response:  Same as #12.  Response:  This is already in place.  Do you really think a bunch of Washington bureaucrats can teach local law enforcement how to handle local crisis situations!   This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
Response:  This is an expansion of Obamacare and needs to go through Congress and not be merely a dictate.  What will be the financial impact on health insurance premiums?  Is there a better way to provide this assistance?  Will the ACLU continue to block holding a patient over 72 hours?  By itself this is just another power grab under Obamacare.  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within Affordable Care Act exchanges.
Response:  Same as #20 This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.

22. Commit to finalizing mental-health parity regulations.
Response:  Same as #20 This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.
23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sibelius and Duncan on mental health.
Response:  How about stop masking antisocial behavior by our young children using drugs like Ritalin which only masks the behavioral issues until the federal education system can graduate them out of being their problem!!!  This is Nuts.  No pun intended.  I think we understand mental health problems and the consequences for letting mentally ill roam free and unchecked.  This is an attempt to provide Sibelius and Duncan with a way to indoctrinate citizens and children with the administration’s leftist propaganda on mental illness…  This would not have prevented either the Aurora or Newtown killings.

     The heavy lifting to eliminate private gun ownership will come in the next few months.  Harry Reid may or may not shoot down Obama’s call for an outright ban on high-capacity clips and “assault rifles” and put the problem to the House Republicans.  If this passes the Senate and not the House, then look to Obama to take unilateral action to eliminate the clips and rifles.  If something happens to either Supreme Court Justice Scalia, Alito, Thomas and maybe even Kennedy the new leftist court would  not declare Obama’s overriding of the 2nd Amendment unconstitutional.  He has 4 years to wait this out along with his encroachment on the 1st Amendment Freedom of Religion usurpation thought Obamacare. 

RD Pierini

Hat Tip:  
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Obama-guns-executive-orders/2013/01/16/id/471689#ixzz2IBULpCfw

Is Your Doctor a Doctor or Gun Control Specialist-So Much for Doctor Patient Confidentiality

The New Obamacare

 

The $500,000,000 Gun Grab Plan

      Herr Obama took the first steps today that all dictators around the globe and over the ages take and that is to disarm the citizens.  The Left has coined a new replacement phrase for “Gun Control” which is now “Gun Violence”.  Who could be against Gun Violence?  The Left did the same when they renamed unborn children “Embryos” to lessen the guilt felt by those who aborted their unborn babies.  How about changing Global Warming to Climate Change!  Now they have reassigned the medical community to also be firearms experts and break the doctor-patient relationship by requiring your doctor to report your personal firearm ownership and use within your own home.  Worse yet, they can question you children, without you being present, to grill them on the “gun culture” in your home then report their findings to Herr Obama.  Maybe we should go to a gun shop to get our physical! 

     The 23 “Executive Orders” that Obama is putting in place are filled with nice sounding words but basically give other Federal agencies unilateral control over the creation of new unlawful gun regulations and the unlawful power to enforce their own unlawful regulations!  “Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.”  In short, Katherine Sibelius will make sure that she can direct doctors to rat on the patients regarding their lawful ownership and use of guns within their homes.  There is no law that grants this power to the president or the Secretary of HHS but Herr Obama did it anyway.  What Obama is setting up is a regulatory web that will be used to squeeze guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens while doing nothing to prevent actual atrocities like the Newtown massacre. 

When you peel off the smoke screen around the 23 EOs, it is easy to see where this is all heading.

• The Federal Government is setting up National Background Checks and a national database to track all LAWFULLY purchased firearms.  They will use the threat of withholding federal funds from State and Local entities who may refuse to implement the National Background Checks even if those agencies believe that this EO is unlawful.  Obama also will empower ALL Federal Agencies to provide “relevant” data for the national gun control database.  So, your right to privacy provided by the Constitution is totally out the window.  REMEMBER, ALL FEDERAL DATA IS SUBJECT TO A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT LAWSUIT TO MAKE THAT DATA PUBLIC…
• Expanding Who Cannot Own Firearms:  Eric Holder, Fast and Furious Fame, is empowered to circumvent current law that identifies categories of individuals prohibited from purchasing guns and come up with his own categories without being lawfully passed by Congress.  There are no limits in the EO on Holder so he can create whatever categories he thinks necessary!  You could deny Catholics, Tea Party Members, or whoever this bunch of outlaws deem dangerous. 
• Place Gun Control Under Healthcare:  Several of the EOs empower Kathryn Sibelius of HHS to come up with “guidelines” that require doctors to gather gun information on families who lawfully own firearms by documenting interviews they conduct with their patients and their patients children then pass this information onto the Federal Government! 
  • Doctors will be given marching orders on how to counsel patients on safe gun use and storage!  Who made doctors experts on firearms?
  • Doctors will be required to report any patient that they feel may be a “risk” to society.  This will foster over reporting in order for the doctor not to be sued if one of their patients goes out and stabs someone!  This will do wonders for malpractice insurance rates!
  • Katherine Sibelius has the power to rewrite Obamacare and beef up mental health coverage requirements and direct the State exchanges on what they have to cover.  That will do wonders for health care premiums.
• Payoff to Teacher’s Unions:  Obama included “incentives” for schools to hire school “resource officers”.  These are not armed guards but additional staff to talk the shooters out of shooting students and probably counseling the shooter in order to raise his self-esteem.

     Most of the 23 EOs do not even require and EO.  Why does Obama need an EO to nominate an ATF direct for the senate to ratify.  THAT IS HIS JOB TO NOMINATE CABINET POSITIONS.   Obama is going to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.  DUH!  This is already the law.  They are kept in evidence until after the prosecution then destroyed.  I am sure Eric Holder will be able to trace the guns like he did with Fast and Furious! 

     Well, we are witnessing the First Amendment being trashed by Obama’s assault on the Freedom of Religion.  Now he is trashing the 2nd Amendment.  He is doing both by merely Trashing the US Constitution and its limits on Presidential Authority.  You are seeing the “Transformation of America” that Obama promised you!

RD Pierini

Hat Tips:

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Obama-guns-executive-orders/2013/01/16/id/471689

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Obama-Gun-Control-cost/2013/01/16/id/471786

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/obama-guns-healthcare-doctors/2013/01/16/id/471708

Obama and Gun Control–What is Lawful and What is Not–Probably Won’t Matter to Obama!

“…From my Cold Dead Hands…”

Before we begin, keep in mind that there are two realities; 

• One, that exists under our rule of law following the United States Constitution;
• Two, our current government’s Post-Constitution governance disregarding the rule of law and our Constitution. 

While we may be experiencing a Post Constitutional period in our country, it is important to understand the difference between what should be and what may be when it comes to this government’s usurpation of power and disregard for the rule of law.

     Following the tragedy at Newtown, Connecticut where 20 babies and 7 adults were senselessly slaughtered by a troubled young man, the administration and its media have tried to whip up a feeding frenzy to support their anti-gun agenda.  This is yet another example of this administration not wanting to waste a tragedy to further their left-wing agenda.  The left’s goal is ultimately to eliminate private gun ownership.  Their ultimately take over of this country depends on it.  They are patient and will accomplish this one clip, one bullet or one gun type at a time.  With this tragedy, the administration will try to make major headway in meeting their ultimate goal of zero private ownership.  You will see proposals for eliminating high-capacity clips for semi-automatic weapons, their age-old favorite, eliminating “assault” rifles, and possibly some handguns or restrictions on their use or resale, but their big push will be to establish a national registry of gun owners and their individual gun registrations.  Once you know where the guns are, it is easy to go pick them up!

Rule of Law:

     American citizens need to understand what their rights are under the Constitution and Supreme Court cases that frame out those rights in modern-day.  Remember, for these rights to be protected, your government would have to have respect for the Constitution and the rule of law.  Today, this is not the case.

Second Amendment:

     Everyone should now know that the second amendment to the US Constitution firmly established the right citizens to own and bear arms.  The actual text of the 2nd Amendment reads:  “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”  The key to understanding the second amendment is the position of commas in the sentence and the separation of two basic rights.  The two distinct statements that describe the rights that are protected; One, A well-regulated Militia; Two, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms.  The two rights were intentionally segregated by the authors and this separation has been recognized by the Supreme Court in subsequent rulings.  Many on the left try to make the case that the right to bear arms is only if citizens are banded together in a regulated militia.  Clearly the 2nd amendment states the Right of the People to keep and bear Arms.  The militia is a group organized by and for the individual STATES and the People are individuals, not a formal or loose group of individual Citizens.  The reader also needs to put the 2nd amendment in the context of the times and the intent of the authors.  It was ratified in 1791 not too long after the American Revolution.  The authors where painfully aware that they would still be British citizens if they had not been able to purchase and keep their own arms that they subsequently used to gain their freedom from the British rule.  The authors also distrusted governments and wanted to insure that the People could always protect themselves against a government who disregarded the rule of law and the Constitution.  To underscore this distrust of government, just consider a quote from Thomas Jefferson when he wrote to William Smith in 1797 regarding our successful revolt against the British, “God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion.”

Subsequent Supreme Court Cases Upholding the 2nd Amendment:

     The most definitive Supreme Court decision was in 2010, District of Columbia v. Heller.  In this decision , the court absolutely segregated the well-regulated militia right from the right of the people to keep and bear arms.  Justice Scalia succinctly wrote for the majority, “Nowhere else in the Constitution does a “right” attributed to “the people” refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention “the people,” the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset. This contrasts markedly with the phrase “the militia” in the prefatory clause”.

     In 2010, two years after the landmark Heller decision, the court heard McDonald v. Chicago.  The key to this case was whether the 2nd Amendment rights of individuals to keep and bear arms superseded State’s laws regarding gun ownership and regulation.  The court held that the Second Amendment was incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment thus protecting those rights from infringement by local governments.  The City of Chicago had banned the sale of handguns and this ban was overturned in this ruling.  The key to this decision was to assert that no jurisdiction, Federal, State or local governments could infringe on the rights of individuals to bear arms and that “classes” of guns could not be banned, handguns in this case. 

Executive Orders Restricting the 2nd Amendment:

     Executive Orders were first used by President George Washington in 1789.  Executive Orders are seen to be within the Constitution limits on the President’s powers within Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 that states in part “…take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”.  EOs are to be used solely to “EXECUTE” duly authorized legislation passed by Congress.  The President cannot create new law, modify existing law, or certainly not modify any part of the US Constitution with an EO.  To do so would be a violation of the separation of powers within the Constitution and could be considered an impeachable offense.  Under the Constitution, the President could not place restrictions on the size of magazine clips, order national registration of firearms, or ban classes of weapons such as “assault rifles” using EOs.  (Ironically, Obama’s own Obamacare has an amendment put in by Harry Reid that would prohibit physicians or other healthcare providers from having to register guns for the federal government as part of the physicians duties ot Herr Obama.)   Congress could gingerly, within the scope of DC v Heller and McDonald v Chicago, pass some gun regulation if passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the President. 

Will He or Will He Not Breach the US Constitution, Again?

     Good money is on that Obama will act illegally and place unlawful bans on aspects of private gun ownership in the name of saving the children.  He will crowd a bunch of kids around him at the WH and act like he really cares about those same kids whose parents he is ready to shackle figuratively or literally.  This is the ultimate dream of the left and the only think that could have been better if a Christian, Tea Party, Republican in good health and with a sane mind had killed all of the children at Newtown. 

There is a lot of chatter in the blogs and on the radio about impeaching Obama should he take these steps to stomp on the 2nd Amendment.  Hold your horses. Remember, it takes both houses of Congress to impeach the President.  The House has to approve Articles of Impeachment while the Senate has to “convict” the President on those articles.  Assuming you are foolish enough to think that John Boehner and the RINO’s would have the guts to vote on Articles of Impeachment, but you would really have to be naive to believe that Harry Reid would even read the Articles much less schedule the trial in the Senate.  This, like Obama ignoring a Federal Court order to stop his moratorium on drilling in the gulf, his recess appointments, his failure to pass budgets for 4 years, and so on, will go unpunished and heralded by his lap-dogs in the media as heroic.  The sad truth is that there really is not an opposition party to oppose Obama.  The Republican party is not all that sure he should not ban weapons!  Without a solid conservative party alternative, welcome to the new Post Constitutional America! 

     It is truly ironic that the left who is supposedly crying rivers over the slaughter of 20 of our children while at the same time they continue to murder over a million babies before they are born every single year in the name of a “Women’s Rights”.  I guess it is OK to kill babies before they are born.  Hypocrits!

RD Pierini

Hat Tips:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/wh-obama-committed-second-amendment

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/flashback-charlton-heston-my-cold-dead-hands

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-unveil-sweeping-gun-proposals-wednesday-including-assault-weapons-ban/2013/01/15/09452c34-5f31-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html?wpisrc=al_comboNP_p

 

The Killing of Our Children–Evil Follows Godlessness!

I do not usually refer readers to videos but this one should be watched by everyone.  It lays out a clear path as to how we have arrived at a point where our children are murdering our children. 

Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvxCKboD7Lk

At least take some time to watch this short video and think about how we got to where we are today!  Time for a Non Washington DC solution…!

RD Pierini

Attacking Senior’s COLA Increase to Solve the Social Security Problem—REALLY!

The Role of Government: 

Create a Crisis, then Rush in to Fix it: 

Corollary, Create a Group to Point to as the Problem and Attack them as the Fair Solution.

First, Attack the “Rich”

Next:  Attack Social Security Recipients

Next:  YOU, assuming you are working!

Social Security:  The Government has politicized the Social Security system that was created to help people during their retirement years and also those who may be disabled and not capable of working to support themselves.  They have used it to hide their own budget ineptitude and to fund their spending follies.  Now that their little slush fund is getting in trouble, they are talking about fixed their Trillions in Debt by taking and $2.50 from your GRANDPARENTS!  Wow, what a brave solution!

     The HERITAGE FOUNDATION, who at one time supported national healthcare, ala the single payer version,  joined in with the Left’s IDIOTIC proposal to “tweak” the Social Security COLA in order to help make Social Security Solvent and take care of a Trillions if dollars in Unfunded Liabilities.  The article was part of their Morning Bell and it was entitled “Morning Bell: 3 Simple Solutions for Fixing Social Security” and the link to the article is (http://blog.heritage.org/2012/12/20/morning-bell-3-simple-solutions-for-fixing-social-security/?roi=echo3-14059118445-10700581-011180d87c182fce3c72c896a53b4dc3&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell#idc-cover).  The problem with simple solutions is that they usually don’t work but give the inept crowd in our government, a lot of sound bites.

     The author, Rob Bluey, basically says that the government should focus on Medicare and Social Security rather than tax increases.  Bluey makes the point that in the next 75 YEARS, Social Security will owe $11.3 Trillion more than it takes in.  WHAT HE NEGLECTS TO SAY IS THAT TODAY THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM IS AND WILL GENERATE POSITIVE CASH FLOW THROUGH 2021, DUE IN PART TO CONTRIBUTIONS AND INTEREST EARNED BY LOANING THE SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS TO OUR GOVERNMENT TO FUND THEIR OVER SPENDING GLUT!  What he does not say is that this government’s 2% reduction in Payroll Taxes robbed $103 Billion in 2011 and $111 Billion in 2012 from the Social Security Fund, now he is worried about seniors getting a 1.7% COLA in 2013 rather than the 1.5% the seniors would get with his proposed CHAIN COLA plan!  His COLA adjustment could not make up for the lost funding caused by the 2% payroll tax boondoggle in 20 years!  It was this siphoning off of Social Security Funds that caused the SS system to have a shortfall in 2011.  But the reduction he advocates is a 12% reduction in the COLA, which is not much to Mr. Bluey, but for the average Social Security recipient who gets $1,236 per year a few bucks could make a little difference especially since this same Senior’s Medicare share is also going up! 

     Let’s talk COLAs for a second.  The average Social Security recipient spends the lion’s share of their available cash on groceries, gas/electricity, housing and medical care.  Their COLA should be based on these 4 items and NOT ADJUSTED because gas prices were seasonally too high, or some specific food prices spiked for a while or whatever reason the government comes up with.   The new “CHAIN COLA” the government is trying to stick on Seniors assumes a substitution capability on behalf of Seniors as consumers.  For example, if the price of a filet mignon goes up to $12.00/lb from $8.00/ lb (50% increase), but chicken only goes up to $.95/lb from $.86/lb (10%), the Senior would substitute chicken for filet mignon!  New flash, Seniors aren’t eating a whole lot of filet mignon on $1,236/month but the percent means more to them than let say, Warren Buffett!  So, for food costs, the government would take the filet increase out of the total CPI calculation and reduce the Senior COLA based on a lower index!  How about indexing who is buying filet versus chicken?  If you are poor, you don’t indulge on filet mignon, you are buying the lowest cost protein you can get, including pet food.    

Raising Social Security Age and Means Testing: Bluey also joined in with the leftist to raise the retirement age as well as join the PROGRESSIVES in reducing social security benefits if you made a certain income, also known as means testing!  Means testing is another way of saying you can pay in but you can’t have anything back because you were too successful!  There are so many other systemic, real solutions that are available to make Social Security solvent and these two are just asinine on the surface.  At some point we will need choice of the types of investments one chooses with a certain level of a safety net.  This is not privatizing social security, it is taking some of the decisions out of the hands of this government and politicians who could not manage even the simple task of delivering a letter.  Some solutions will be addressed in a subsequent article.

The Social Security System has been corrupted for its political cronies and insiders since its inception.  Do you know:

1. Public Employees are Exempt from FICA:  Most public employees are not in or have to pay Social Security taxes?  So, while we have a system that is supposed to tax everyone, those privileged in government can opt out to a more lucrative alternative.  They have their own systems!  Who can blame them.  This week a California Highway Patrolman took over $500,000 in cash for back vacation, sick leave, overtime, etc. and then retired on $178,000 per year!  That is $14,800/month, while Seniors average $1,236/month.
2. Social Security Investments and ROI:  It is illegal for the trustees of the Social Security Funds to invest the funds in anything but government securities.  But, the Federal Reserve can invest any amount it wants into any investment is accountable to no one.  The rate of return to a Social Security recipient is well below market earnings.  If someone who just retired and made close to the top of the social security wage cut off for a large portion of their life, they would be receiving over $10,000 per month, not $1,236, based on Standard and Poor fund index appreciation over 40 years.   So, the FED (our government) can prop up banks and stocks buy pumping non-existent money into these markets, but the Social Security recipient can’t expect a decent ROI based on these same market’s growth?  You don’t mind playing Russian Roulette with our Fed dollars but squeeze old people for theirs that they earned and contributed.
3. Social Security Benefits are Taxable:  You pay FICA on your gross income but still have to pay taxes on your benefits, most of which you paid for!  Once again, stick our Seniors with a system no one else have to live by! 
4. Social Security Funds have hidden the True Public Debt of the US:  the total US debt is over $16.3 trillion dollars but you will oftentimes here that the total PUBLIC DEBT of the US is about $11 Trillion and some change.  The other is Government debt, debt owned by the Social Security Fund and other government funds which is a little over $5 Trillion.  So, this government forces Social Security to live with lower than market returns while it borrows and uses its cash to fund their criminal levels of spending.  Even the Public Debt is a lie.  A large portion of the Public Debt is owned by our very own Federal Reserve!  So, we let the Federal Reserve print money to buy our debt.  Only the criminals in government could come up with this scheme and not be in jail, this includes DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS AND WHATEVER LABEL THIS BUNCH ATTACHES TO THEMSELVES.

     This COLA discussion is just another way for this government to lull you into another of their head fakes!  LOOK, we can cut the COLAs!  All the while their foot is on the throttle to make sure as many of the Bush Tax Cuts expire as possible; that you don’t focus on the Billions in Obamacare related taxes that will kick in 2013; that they continue to spend the trillion dollars a year of stimulus that continues every year that there is not a new budget; that they even add billions in new spending to “stimulate” the economy which is the farthest thing from the top of their lists; and to force us to accept a $20-$25 Trillion Debt Ceiling which is a real contradiction in terms.  Just like an Intelligent Congressman or Senator or President. 

     We are trapped in some sort of alternative universe at this point where up is down and down is up.  Where spending is investment and debt is our insurance for the future.  Republicans are no better than Democrats and all are complicit for this massive cultural, fiscal, and moral cliff we are going over.  All I can compare this to is the 1930′s when Hitler wooed the Germans into believing that their enslavement was in their best interest.  He did this by blaming Jews and others for the plight of his citizens and the citizens bought it.  The only way a conservative in office today could redeem themselves would be to stand up and help to create a new party.  We are going over the waterfall and the democrats and republicans are both manning the oars and paddling as fast as they can towards the precipice.  They created this cliff and now are shoving you over it…

RD Pierini

 

Hat Tips: 

http://nationalpriorities.org/en/blog/2012/03/05/answering-your-questions-is-social-security-part-of-the-federal-budget/

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/12/20/morning-bell-3-simple-solutions-for-fixing-social-security/?roi=echo3-14059118445-10700581-011180d87c182fce3c72c896a53b4dc3&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell#idc-cover

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3299

RNC’s Priebus is Delusional–”Republican National Committee (RNC) had an excellent performance in the election campaign”

Michael Steele to Reince Priebus: I won in 2010. You are blaming me for 2012?

   

      RNC Chairman Reince Priebus suffers from RINOitus!  This is a disease that attacks the memory center of the brain and the intestinal fortitude glands of Republican Insiders.  The symptoms are:

• Similar to Alzheimer in that short-term memory fades quickly and the only election they remember is that of Dwight D. Eisenhower.  In severe cases, some even only remember the election of Abraham Lincoln.  Even those cannot seem to remember that the Republican Party actually stood against the Democrat Party to defeat slavery.
• Blaming processors in the RNC for current campaign failures.  This is a similar failure of the intestinal fortitude glands that Democrats exhibit.  Priebus blamed Michael Steele for the loses in the 2012 election…  Really?  A year and a half was not enough time for Priebus to read enough Reagan books to learn what conservatism was really all about?
• Blaming Conservative Values for all election loses when the Party does not even run on conservative values.
• Blaming Conservatives in the Primaries for bringing up all of those “polarizing” issues such as abortion, gay marriage, the US Bill of Rights, the US Constitution, border security, national security, and fiscal conservatism that drove away just enough votes for the RINOs to lose again.
• An intense fear of Barry Goldwater that causes a paranoia leading to the denial of Reagan Conservatism.  (Really is Goldwater Conservatism)
• An intense drive to be accepted by the mainstream media.  Severe cases even try to woo those brilliant “news persons” who anchor shows on MSNBC or the “ladies” on The View. 
• Blaming the messengers and the message for loses incurred by the Party rather than themselves for adopting the wrong message and shoving the wrong messengers down our conservative throats. 
• Blaming ethnic differences for the loses incurred by the Party rather than the lack of family oriented social value positions that are supported by the majority of ethnic minorities.  Mr. Priebus, do you really think any Black or Hispanic person could relate to you?  I am Italian and I can’t relate to you.  You are not only white, you THINK WHITE!
• Blaming Ron Paul Voters for not supporting Romney when the RNC excluded Paul from the campaign.  I doubt that 1% of the Paul supporters even voted this past election.  This disease keeps RINOitus victims from seeing the hypocrisy of the RINO message that “we will reach across the aisle and work with Democrats” when the reality is that RINOs can’t even reach out to the Paul Voters or the Santorum Voters and include them in their OWN PARTY’S CAMPAIGN!

     The only treatment for this incurable disease is for each of those afflicted with RINOitus to stand in front of a full length mirror, preferably naked, certainly alone if they are naked, and state out loud: 

“I helped to cause the loses in 2006, 2008, and 2012.

I acknowledge that the Tea Party and Conservative Values are solely responsible for the Republican domination of the 2010 election. 

I love the principles of Goldwater and Reagan and vow to support them forever more.”

     Oh sure, this will happen!  NOT! 

• Priebus will meet in the smoke-filled back room with the guys with the big cigars and Ann Coulter and decide the losing strategies, messages and candidates for 2014 and 2016. 
• The RNC will join in the mainstream media chorus against the Tea Party movement and Tea Party candidates for 2014 and nominate another milk toast candidate like Jeb Bush in 2016. 
• Should the Democrats not figure out a way for Obama to run for a third term or if Obama doesn’t suspend the Constitution and just declare himself the winner of the 2016 election, and Jeb Bush gets in, we are in for a continuation of the status quo, just slower.   (You can substitute your favorite RINO for Jeb Bush)
  • JB will continue to bloat the Department of Education;
  • JB will grant immediate amnesty to all illegal aliens;

    JB will support Obamacare will continue but perhaps not morph into an absolute single payer system but close;

  • JB will not cut the budget by more than a half a trillion or so leaving a $600B plus or minus deficit each year;
  • WE THE PEOPLE will continue to slide down that slow but sure slope into a STATIST Socialist society. 

     Congratulations Republican Party, when the leader of the RNC basically stands up and says that the RNC had an excellent performance in the election campaign of 2012, considering HE, Reince Priebus, only had 1 ½ years to put the campaign together, then you have reached the end of the incubation period of RINOitus and gone into permanent RINO Denial!

RD Pierini

Hat Tips:

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/priebus-rnc-election-campaign/2012/12/13/id/467618

Why the “N” Word, N*gger, Is Only Spoken by Liberal Progressives and Racial Activist

Clint Tarver of Lansing, Michigan is the Latest Target of Liberal Progressive Racism (See Below)    

     Quinton Tarantino pulled Jamie Foxx’s strings and Foxx responded by using the “N” word 109 times in Tarantino’s new movie that I won’t promote here.  In Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown”, Tarantino inserted the word 38 times and Spike Lee was upset about that!  To make matters worse, Tarantino’s use of the word was deployed either as laugh lines or alliteration.  There is nothing funny about racial slurs no matter which group is the object of the slur.  The problem with this rank amateurish tactic is that it perpetuates the use of a word that is offensive to a segment of our population.  If these people stopped promoting the use of this word, this word, like many others, would fade and ultimately disappear from our vernacular.

     Since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, our society has made a concerted effort to remove this word from our vernacular to the point that the use of this word is pretty much limited to movie makers like Tarantino, Rappers, Race political activists, Union Organizers and various community organizers who seem to want to perpetuate the use of this word in public discourse.  All of these purveyors of the “N” word are Liberal Progressives who seek to stifle frank, constructive discussions involving minority individuals or public policy on racial issues, or to keep racial tensions alive in order to perpetuate their perverted, self-serving prostitution of race relations. 

     The irony of this whole movement is that the Democrat Party was the party of Jim Crow Laws, radical racial discrimination, and the perpetuation of slavery, before they saw the light and realized they could use Race to promote themselves.  Ironically the Democrat Party in 1854, pushed by their hero, Stephen A. Douglas (famous for the Lincoln-Douglas debates), sought to insure that slavery be perpetuated by allowing slavery in new territories through the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.  THE DEMOCRATS ACTUALLY HELPED TO CREATE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND ELECT ABRAHAM LINCOLN, A REPUBLICAN, WHO FINALLY ELIMINATED SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES THROUGH THE PASSAGE OF THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT!

Liberal Progressive Use of the “N” Word and Their Violence:

Union Protest in Michigan

Michigan Union Thugs trash Hot Dog Cart!

     Clint Tarver, a self-employed African-American, operates a Hot Dog Cart in Lansing, Michigan.  He was hired to provide catering for the Americans For Prosperity tent at the Michigan Capital where the Union Protests were underway protesting the new Right to Work law in Michigan.  When the union thugs saw that Clint was providing catering to the conservative group called him a N*gger and and Uncle Tom, then DESTROYED HIS CART!  Clint was not part of a counter union protest or overtly participating in any sort of counter protest.  He was just there to run his business and provide for his family.  (if you want to send Clint a cash donation to help him rebuild his business, go to http://www.gofundme.com/1o8toc#description) 

Where is Obama’s Outrage?

     At some point the American people need to stand up and say enough to the Liberal Progressives and stop supporting those who use the “N” Word to promote their own agenda to the detriment of creating a real race tolerant environment.  This starts at the top with Obama as he has done more in four years to tear down almost 50 years of progress of creating the color blind society envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Those that use the “N” word to promote their own race based self aggrandising platforms and who use the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. should be ostracized by everyone. 

RD Pierini

Hat Tips:

http://cnsnews.com/blog/michelle-malkin/there-will-be-blood-union-violence-age-obama

http://www.ironicsurrealism.com/2012/12/12/union-thugs-demolish-clint-tarvers-iconic-lansingmichigan-hot-dog-cart-photo-donation-link/

http://www.daveyd.com/spikepolitics.html

The Fiscal Cliff, Brought to You by Your Incompetent Leaders, the President, the House Members, and the Senate

    

This is Not Leadership

     Ever wonder why nothing ever changes in our Government?  We, the People, continue to vote for people who the two political parties have ordained to be worthy to carry the moniker of democrat of republican on our ballots.  In truth, our vote is to a large degree predetermined by the party leaders and we faithfully march in on the first Tuesday of November every two years and elect either Presidents, Senators, or House members or all three depending on the cycle year.  Karl Marx once said that “Religion is the Opiate of the Masses”.  Using a dictionary, one definition will be “Opiates are anything that causes dullness or inaction or that soothes the feelings.”  You could apply our voting efforts to this phrase and state that “Voting is the Opiate of the Masses” meaning that the mere act of voting gives us some sense of control or satisfaction that we are making a difference.  But are we?

     Time and time again we go into Presidential Primaries supporting our favorite man or woman only to be told that our choice is not electable or is too far right or too far left by the inane media or our own party “leadership”!  Or, our choice will alienate this group or that group and we end up feeling that there must be something wrong with us for not being able to EVER pick the winner!  How many of you feel that way after the 2012 election?  I certainly do.

     Last night I was watching Rick Santorum on Greta on Fox and he is the only person since the election that has articulated Obama’s goals for the “fiscal cliff” in terms that actually made sense in light of Obama’s positions.   Greta was and is flabbergasted at Obama’s idiotic stance that a dollar in revenue has to come from a rate increase versus a removal of a deduction even if that same dollar came from the same poor slob being tax bashed!  Santorum calmly stated that Obama wants to go over the cliff so:

• The sequestration cuts will automatically kick in and cut the military by a half a trillion dollars (Obama’s pet project) and other spending by a like amount, without Obama having to get his hands dirty and he can blame the Congress, ie Republicans.
• The Bush Tax Cuts would expire for everyone and raise everyone’s taxes.  Obama knows that his proposed taxes on the rick is chump change and he needs to nail the middle class where the money is.  Obama can rake in big new tax dollars without Obama having to get his hands dirty and he can blame the Congress, ie Republicans.
• The FICA 2% rate reduction that Obama took credit for last year will expire in January as well causing anyone working to get hit with higher FICA taxes on the paycheck.  He can eliminate this windfall for workers without Obama having to get his hands dirty and he can blame the Congress, ie Republicans.
• Federally Subsidized Unemployment Insurance extensions will shrink back to the standard 40 weeks if nothing is done.  If the CBO is right, unemployment will go up to over 9% if the Fiscal Cliff is not fixed so this loss in benefits will occur at a time when some people may need it the most without Obama having to get his hands dirty and he can blame the Congress, ie Republicans.

      Santorum pointed out other consequences of Obama’s not doing anything but concluded by saying that this fit with Obama’s ideology.  It fits with the Socialist march to kill off Capitalism by squeezing every dime possible out of taxpayers, regardless of their economic standing, while weakening the nation defenses against the outside world.  The problems the socialist creates can only be fixed by the socialists so they take over more in more until they have total control over the economy and the people. 

     Yet during the primaries, Santorum was widely bashed by THE REPUBLICAN INSIDERS as being unelectable, too right-wing, out of touch with the mainstream, and could not possibly beat Obama.  Well the first step in defeating someone is to understand your opponent and what you are up against.  Clearly the Romney team was not about to pinning the term Socialist on Obama in any way, shape or form.  But, Santorum, would have and does do so to this day. 

     In the House, Boehner is purging conservative Tea Party members from committees and other leadership roles and rewarding the centrists RINOs with these posts.  This is on top of his and McConnell’s withholding of needed cash and party support during the last election of the candidate was conservative or Tea Party supported.  In short, the ideology between the RINOs and the Democrats moves ever closer together. 

     In the next election, if there is not an alternative party to the Republicans, I will not vote.  I will not send one dime to the Republican Party ever again.  My nose is sore from having to hold it in the voting booth.  By 2014, Obama and the RINOs will take us to the brink of a Fiscal Cliff who knows how many times.  By 2016 this economy will be stagnant if we are lucky. 

     The difference between the next depression and the 2008 depression is that in 2008, the depression was primarily caused by terrible governance by our Government over the private financial sector, mainly to do with mortgages.  The 2016 depression will be due to the lack of productivity and loss of production capacity compounded by increasing taxation and regulation.  Today are businesses are struggling but by 2016, if there are no systemic changes, they won’t be struggling they will be gone and the base from which to grow our way out of the depression will leave with these businesses.  You will still have parasitic unions trying to grab onto the last few dollars that may be left in some business but by and large the unions will complete their domination of the public sector as that sector will have nationalized many of the private sector key industries like energy and major manufacturing. 

     This is what Obama’s ideology is all about so don’t expect him to take any steps domestically or internationally to strengthen this nation.  Obama will not change his position as the status quo is exactly what he has spent the last 4 years setting up!  Do you thing the Sequestration Deal, kicking the Bush Tax cuts down the road to 1/1/2013, or delaying the implementation of 5 of the major Obamacare taxes off until 1/1/2013 were all an accident?  You would have to be as dumb as Boehner and McConnell to believe that.   

    I may not live long enough to see a new political party emerge that takes out the republican party and maybe even forces the democrat party to moderate.  But a new party will have to emerge in order for this country to peacefully transform itself back to its Constitutional Republic principles.  That party will have to be led by strong leaders such as Adams, Jefferson, Washington, and others of our Founding Fathers.  Its leadership and its candidates will have to have the strength of conviction to take on the left ideologues head on and not fight nice.  They will have to take on the media where it hurts and force wholesale boycotts against our perverted boycotts.  It will be a peaceful but not a nice war for independence.  Much of the battle will have to be fought by our younger generations.  I just hope we have instilled in them what we could be rather than settle for what we have become.

RD Pierini

Obama’s Socialism Vision for the US, Does Not Stop with your 401K!

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx

Karl Marx: a.k.a. Santa Claus for the Left

You cannot comprehend the ultimate goal of Socialism unless you understand what it is.  The definitions you will read will be similar to:

Socialism is an economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy,and a political philosophy advocating such a system. “Social ownership” may refer to cooperative enterprises, common ownership, state ownership, or citizen ownership of equity.

Simple Definition:  The simpler definition of Socialism is the ownership of all personal and private property, whether previously owned by individuals or corporations, by the National STATE.  Ostensibly, the National State is the “People” so the “People”, as a GROUP and not as individuals, own all personal and private property.  In short, home ownership, investments, personal property, retirement funds, etc. are all owned by the State as well as all lands and productive capacity in the nation.

State Confiscation of Private Retirement Funds:   Recently, there was a huge national sucking sound which was caused by the collective taking of a deep breath by those in our society who are suffering under the illusion that we still live in a Free, Constitutional Republic.  The sound was in response to media stories talking of the State takeover of private pension funds in 401(k), 403(b), or 457(b) plans.  (California already has a law requiring employers who do not have a 401(k) to pay into a State Retirement Fund that the California Government will collect and “manage” for your employees! )  The Obama Socialists believe that your private retirement savings were obtained “on the backs of the poor” and that it is only right AND FAIR that you should pool your retirement and share with the poor who may or may not have been working at all.  The unemployment status of the poor is also your fault as you have selfishly tried to provide for you and your family and not for the good of all!  IRONICALLY, SINCE UNIONS ARE PART OF THE SOCIALIST STATE, THEIR RETIREMENTS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO CONFISCATION AS THEIR RETIREMENT FUNDS WERE GOTTEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE OBJECTIVES AND NOT TAKEN FROM THE POOR.   

Economic Justification for Confiscating Your Retirement:  Many still do not realize that Fiscal Cliffs, Debt Ceilings, and all forms of Pending Doom and Gloom are the STATE’S way of manipulating you by scaring you to death and begging them for a solution.  They start by creating situations or programs that are sure to fail financially at some point, then ride in on their White Horses to save you from the PROBLEM THEY CREATED.  The STATE is so good at this that if a new program does not fail fast enough, they muck it up to make sure it fails quicker.  They have done this with Social Security, Medicare, Welfare, Food Stamps, the Post Office and on and on. 

     Today, you are being sold a bill of goods that the STATE has to act to avoid the Fiscal Cliff that YOU caused.  If the STATE does not fix the fiscal cliff, all will be lost forever!  (remember that they blamed you for your greed when the Depression of 2008 hit)  By the time they get finished, you will write them a check after you withdraw all of your retirement funds and close your account!  If you don’t, they will send Obama out to convince the 47% to rise up and demand that you start acting fair.  OF COURSE Congress will make sure you are FAIR as they nationalize your retirement accounts…

Socialism, the Nationalizing of all Private Property:  Socialism’s goal is the complete nationalizing of all private property, including personal property, real property, corporate holdings, natural resources, and all production facilities.  If you think this is something that is off in the far future let me assure you that the goal post is 2016!  So far, the STATE has nationalized:

• Healthcare (Obamacare, single payer by 2016)
•  Industry:  2/3 of the major US automakers
• Banks:  The banking industry for all practical purposes with the chains of Dodd-Frank, Fed Policy, and other regulations.
• Mortgage Industry:  The mortgage industry through the mortgage holdings of Fannie, Freddie, FHA etc.
• Education
  • Charter and private education will be eliminated or diminished to a large degree
  • Higher education is controlled by the granting of withholding of grants and other research funding until the institutions hire the “right” professors and teach the “right” curriculum.
  • The student loan program is now totally under the control of the STATE with $1 Trillion in debts.
  • Our kids are being educated today to rebel against us, their parents and grandparents, in favor of Obama and his STATE!
• Natural Resources:  EPA and Department of Interior literally control all natural resources on or through federal lands.  If they need more federal lands, they confiscate them.  They control all water, oil, natural gas, coal, and other sources of energy on federal and private lands.  Federal agencies are laying the groundwork for taking over all forms of energy production via regulation than confiscation.
• Retirement:  Social Security provides by far the largest retirement vehicle for seniors.
• Medicare:  Medicare provides health care for all seniors whether they want it or not!
• Welfare:  The expansion of welfare programs is slowly making private charities irrelevant.

What is NEXT?:  Well, make a checklist of what private property there is left to confiscate.  Here is my shortlist:

• Retirement Funds:  This will be low hanging fruit for the STATE to confiscate.  You will be allowed to go back to pre 2008 Depression levels, to value you portfolio.  Then the STATE will put it in a Lockbox for you like Social Security and you will get a whopping 3% return like Social Security.  Of course ultimately this fund will be in trouble and the STATE will throw it all under Social Security so everyone is treated FAIRLY.
• Energy Production:  This is an easy industry to confiscate as the majority of the assets are controlled by few companies that the STATE has done an excellent job in demonizing over the years.  Do you think the 47%, the grubs in the “Occupy” crowd, or the Unions would bat an eye if the STATE moved to nationalize the energy industry.  Far fetched, it happened not that long ago in England!  How about a gas shortage with $9.00 gas?  Would that be enough for the STATE to waltz in and SAVE us from the evil oil companies.  YOU BET!  The energy industry, including those producing on private lands, will be administratively if not physically confiscated by 2016.  Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing) will be outlawed in the next couple of years by the EPA.  The same global warming crowd are already working on this project with the help of Ben Affleck and the other HollyWhackos. 
• Food Industry:  This is a piece of cake!  (no pun intended)  Michelle Obama has already starting beating this drum and indoctrinating our children and grandchildren on saving the earth by eating the crap she wants you to.  You probably can’t get your kids to touch Tofu but she will have them demanding it from you before it is over!  The food industry is ”schizophrenically” “regulated” today by the FDA and the USDA.  They will continue to squeeze our smaller manufacturers until the industry is controlled by a few multi-national conglomerates.  These companies are easy to manipulate by governments.  The FDA, USDA, EPA, and other agencies will squeeze these companies of any profits they may have left until they get out of the US market leaving behind only they production facilities that will be taken over by the STATE so they can provide food to the masses rather the big bad capitalists who abandoned them.  AFTER ALL, PROFITS IN FOOD ARE THE WORSE FORM OF UNFAIRNESS AS EVERYONE HAS TO EAT!
• Home Ownership:  Home ownership has taken a rapid nosedive since the Depression of 2008 and the assets are being held directly or indirectly by the STATE.  The STATE will use the same FAIRNESS tactics to strip private home ownership from the 53%.  After all, why should you live in a 2,500 square foot home when there are poor people crowed into STATE OWNED RAT INFESTED TENEMENT HOUSING!  This takeover will be a 2 step process.  The first is underway via foreclosures and restrictive mortgage lending.  The second will come under the “Wealth Confiscation” discussed later.
• Investments:  The STATE will start by raising capital gains taxes to confiscatory levels where it will be impossible to amass any real gains through investments.  by 2016, if not sooner, Obama will seek to double then triple capital gains.  His current fiscal cliff proposal doubles the rate now!  Ultimately, there will no longer be any companies or ventures that are not STATE run so there will be no investment vehicles to invest in!
• Small Business:  Ultimately small business will be squeezed to providing services to STATE controlled super-businesses at reimbursement rates set by the STATE.  Taxes will be confiscatory and competition against STATE competitors will force the small business out. 
• Banking:  Ultimately retail banking will become an arm of the Federal Reserve.  We are almost there now in terms of regulatory control but this will be perfected by the STATE by 2016.
• STATE Consolidation of Primary Functions:  As the means to seek private employment disappears, those who want to work will be employed by STATE agencies and companies.  Salaries will continue to diminish as the STATE’s inability to properly manage any type of production will increase its costs and labor is the only variable expense they will be able to reduce.  Those who don’t want to work, or those who have retired under Social Security, will get an EBT card that will provide for their subsistence.  Fuel will only be provided by STATE agencies.  Food will be available on through STATE sanctioned stores along with a STATE predetermined selection of products and quantities.  All healthcare facilities will be under the direct control of the STATE and services only provided as they deem necessary.  Education will only be provided by the STATE and the curriculum controlled by the STATE.  Housing will also be provided by the STATE according to your value to THEM!
• Wealth Confiscation:  Wonder why Warren Buffet and Bill Gates don’t care if you raise tax rates on the rich?  They don’t have any taxable income nor do they need to buy anything.  They already have everything or their trusts pay for whatever they need.  BUT, ultimately this ridiculous argument today about taxing the rich, which will find this STATE for 8 whole days, will have to give way to wealth confiscation.  Why, the STATE will be in another crisis as it has killed off all of the producers and taxpayers and its running of the economy is totally feckless generating no real cash to feed the beast (STATE).  Then, old Warren may start singing another tune.  They will force he and his ilk to liquidate and fork over all of their holding for the good of the masses.  From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.  Old Karl Marx will raise his ugly head and demand those abilities from the remaining rich!  The total elimination of the 1%, as well as all private property, is the goal of Obama and the STATE SOCIALISTS.
• Finally Loss of Freedom of Religion:  Obamacare and to some degree Gay marriage will provide the first real inroads to eroding our Freedom of Religion.  Obamacare is directly confronting religious beliefs on birth control, sterilization, and abortion.  Outright STATE funding of abortion is already a reality whether anyone cares to admit it or not.  Obamacare will be used to drive a wedge between the STATE and Churches.  Gay Marriage, ironically touted as an individual freedom issue, will be used to eliminate the freedom of Churches to refuse to marry those whom the churches believe are not living according to that Church’s teachings.  The STATE will force the Churches to marry gay couple or lose all tax privileges and not be allowed to apply for grants that provide funding for fighting slave trade, eliminating child and adult hunger and many other services that faith-based organizations do an excellent job administering versus their public agency counterparts.  If you think this is far-fetched, the Catholic Church is out of the adoption business as it was required to adopt to gay couples and is out of providing sex trade interdiction assistance as Obama has adopted an ABC policy which stands for Anybody But Catholics! 

     You say that this is far-fetched?  Well, this was the result in Russia, Germany, China and every other country or nation group that adopted socialism.  What you have witnessed over the past 50 years is the slow death of capitalism and the slow rise of socialism.  Progressives are patient but resolute.  They start by taking over education until they get our kids to think their way; they take over the media so they can use the media to reinforce their message; then they turn citizens against each other so they can control everyone while everyone is blaming each other and not the STATE; then they use both of these assets, education and the media to eliminate political opposition by literally creating, not a single party system, but a two-party system will very little differentiation.  Values of both parties become a mere shade of color difference with no real long-term difference.

     One sure way to see if Socialism is becoming the standard for a nation is to watch what is happening to Unions in that country.  Today, Unions have a choke hold over States, Counties, and Cities and are coddled and protected by democratic lawmakers and presidents.  You are seeing ridiculous strikes against the Port of Oakland and the Port of Los Angeles that is forcing ships to be off loaded in MEXICO.  Where is the outrage?  You are seeing SEIU trying to unionize Wal-Mart, McDonald’s and other companies who provide entry-level and higher jobs while providing solid value for its consumers.  All this will go away if SEIU get is way. 

     What happened in California when Jerry Brown got his Prop. 30 passed that increased taxes?  Brown wrote a big fat check to the State’s union pension fund and did nothing to reduce the State’s $35 billion debt! 

     What do you hear now out of the White House regarding the “fiscal cliff”?  Tax the rich.  That is a bait and switch so you are not looking at the tax burdens coming in Obamacare.  Their tax the rich propaganda will only raise enough money to fund the government for 8 DAYS!  Guess what middle class, they will be coming after you in 2013…   WH says we have to control the debt while it asks for unlimited power for Obama to raise the debt limit unilaterally!  If you are lowering the debt, why do you need to raise the debt limit?

     The only way to save this nation is to create a new party founded on our original Constitutional Republic values and fight this fight in the court of public opinion.  The current republican party is incapable of being “changed” from within as those in control like it the way it is.  It is those “Tea Party” types that are the problem!

Not too Late, Yet!

RD Pierini