When she comes home from work today, I’m going to talk to her about the difference between Capitalism and Progressivism. I'm going to explain to her why it is that progressive Democrats and progressive Republicans, like Lindsey Grahm and John McCain, think the way they do. I'm going to tell her how real conservative Republicans are different that progressive Republicans and why she should not listen to her lawyer who is a Progressive Democrat and feels that he isn’t part of the “ignorant masses.” He obviously believes he's one of the elite who presume themselves smarter and more intelligent than the rest of us. It is they who will determine what is best for the masses and that the new progressive rules will not affect their way of life. I want to educate her to the fact that the difference between a Progressive and a Communist is nada.

Lawyers love it when Democrats are in power because that’s when people seem to be more litigious and it’s when they get the most work. Lawyers are one of the largest associations (ABA) to donate money to the Democrat party. The other large donators are the teacher’s NEA (National Educators Association), and the SEIU (Service Employees International Union).  Indoctrinated in government subsidized universities, lawyers and other scholarly eggheads are certain that Progressivism is the intelligent answer to all the problems of the world.

As I mentioned before, and I want to emphasize, the only difference between Progressivism and Communism is nothing and it is precisely that about which the American public must be informed.

Progressives believe in government control in every aspect of our lives. It’s the intellectuals, professors, and lawyers who are the most ardent believers in Progressivism. They believe that the government should consist of elites like themselves because they know more about what is good for society than the “unwashed masses.” These elite are convinced that the majority of the people are too stupid or too lazy to understand how the world really works, therefore a ruling party of Progressives must take charge and sort out all the problems of mankind.

They (the elite) will determine what we eat, where we eat, and what kind of car, if any, we will drive. They will provide public housing and transportation. In addition, they will provide food and the medical care that they deem necessary, commensurate with your worth to society.  All this at little or no cost to the public! What a relief not having to worry about those things. What a wonderful, idealistic world it will be when the government controls all the sources of wealth and the means of production too. Coercion by evil capitalists to work for competitive wages will no longer exist. It is much better if the government controls the wages and the production of goods and services. A  job will be mandatory. From the wages of your government job will come the money necessary to fund Utopia.. There will be zero unemployment among those who are able to work. This is Social Justice.

Economic injustice, according to Progressives, is when some people have more money than others. The way to economic justice is for the government to control the money from top to bottom. They print the necessary money to pay you and then take what they need to fund the goverment. Sort of like monopoly play money. The pay scale will depend strictly on seniority, not on the productivity of the worker. What an exciting and challenging future Utopia has in store for us.

The government will provide your jobs and pay your wages. The government will decide the proper rate of pay. Your pay will reflect economic equality and justice. If you produce 30 widgets and hour and the guy next to you produces only 5, you will get the same pay.  Thus, we have the Progressive cure for economic injustice.

No longer will a man of skill be able to take advantage of his talents and earn a decent wage. No longer will education and training have any bearing on the work place. The assignment of jobs will be according to the traits you display in middle and high school. The government will select and train all doctors and nurses. Their pay will be no more than the widget maker. Again, we cannot have economic injustice in the ideal Progressive Utopian world.

Housing will be assigned either on a first come, first serve basis, or by lottery.  The only way to ensure equal opportunities is to register each person with the federal government. No ID, no housing. At least on the surface. It's well known that in other Communist countries, money and connections will get you ahead of the other schlubs. You may have to wait in a one room hovel for years before someone dies and leaves a three room apartment opening.  You, your spouse and your 1 legal child will now be eligible to apply and will be competing among thousands for that much coveted apartment.

For the good of the environment, the rationing of heating, electricity, and water will be necessary. The ruling elite understand that if you are cold, you put on coats, if you are hot, you open the windows. If you need light to read by, you light a candle. You will no longer have the luxury of choosing when to cool or heat your home. But you can bet that the ruling elite will not have to live by these rules.

McDonalds and Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Church’s Chicken will no longer have menus that reflect your taste in foods. Their menus will reflect that which the government deems healthy and nutritious. Their mentality being that the more healthy the masses, the less costs for medical care which they are providing. In fact, when you go for your mandatory check-ups, they will be able to tell if you have been eating fatty, good tasting food like forbidden butter, bacon or fatback. Blood tests will show if you have been eating foods deemed bad for your health. Citations are issued to violators.  If you insist on cheating, they will have two options. The first will be to ban you from the Federal Health Care Program. The second will be to charge you with several violations of Federal law and you will be a guest of the government for a few years to think about your greedy, evil ways. How dare you put any additional strain on the National Health System? One way or another, you will comply with a Progressive lifestyle.

I hope you are getting the picture here. To Progressives, individual freedoms cause chaos and tyranny. In the Progressive world, the Bill of Rights must and will be replaced by a set of rules of conduct for the collective. Once this is accomplished it is just a mere formality to declare the entire Constitution of no relevance to modern day Progressive society.

It always amazes me that the so-called educated elites can matter-of-factly quote data of how the Communist, er…Progressive systems are so much better than Capitalism. Aren’t they intelligent enough to understand that these closed societies don’t report anything that is negative about their programs or their society? They only publish that which makes them look like geniuses, much like our present Progressive regime is doing today.

I don’t know about you, but I’d be very leery of anyone who claims that they are educated yet can’t tell when they are being flim-flamed. And they want to rule the country? I don’t think so.

Now I may get the usual blank look from my wife after such a long rant, but I just can’t let her continue believing that Bush is soley responsible for the methodical dismantling of our country. If blame were to be properly placed it would start with Wilson, then FDR, LBJ, Carter, and Bush II.

Due to other committments on my time, I haven't been active in my blog. However, today I feel I have to vent on the subject the Manhattan mosque. I've had to question my own beliefs about freedom of religion while I contemplated the building of a Muslim Mosque so close to ground zero. I've always thought it best to stand on principle, even if I have to stand alone, but I'll be darned if this mosque business isn't messing with my head. I've been trying to explore my feelings on this problem and I think I've finally decided that I'm OK with building the mosque just around the corner from GZ. Oh I know that the reasons the Muslims are giving are totally bogus. And I know that the mosque in this particular location is a poke in the eye of the American people, but it's the principle of the thing. Let them build their mosque, I say.

Then, after they've spent their millions, we petition the city of New York to build a synagogue right across the street. And right next to the Mosque we put in a BBQ ribs joint and see which place of worship squeals and hollars. My money's on the Mosque. And while we're at it let's put in an adult book store and a liquor store and a strip  joint within a block of the Mosque. Then when they scream that we can't do that, we'll just tell the Muslims tough toenails. Like you told us, it's a free country right? If you don't like it, move your mosque.

So you see...always stand on principle. You can't go wrong.

The liberal herd was being rounded up for the big stampede when all of a sudden, the scab was pulled off the global warming hoax last week. Now, watch the liberal media and the rest of the socialist world scramble to cover this up. The "science" has been cooked you idiots. WAKE UP! You are living in Stupid Land! You and your kind are going to lead the world down the socialist/communist toilet if you keep insisting on listening to every scam artist that tells you how evil and dangerous to the world you are. You insist on listening to the con artists who tell you you are not capable of coping with life. Take yourselves and your feelings of inadequacy and guilt to Cuba or China and let them deal with you -- let them lead you gutless wonders around by the nose.  Leave the rest of us in America free to pursue own happiness (not misery) and be free to live good, wholesome, productive lives without the government telling us how to live according to their formula de jure. We accept the challenges in life and we are willing to take the risks and suffer the consequences if we fail. We also have the guts to get right back up and try again and again until we succeed.

When and where are we going to be able earn the money it takes to sustain economic growth? That is the burning question. Meanwhile, the Feds are printing billions of dollars. But printed money can only serve to temporarily prop up a failing economy while it devalues the money earned through honest labor.  Inevitably, the result will be inflation, which is far more devastating than a recession or a depression. As an example I will use Southern Rhodesia's recent  fall from 300+ years of prosperity. The disaster was caused by socialist who decided that white farmers were too rich. They killed some and chased the others out of  their country. It's now known as Zimbabwe, a poor starving country where,  in a few short years, a thousand of their dollars can't buy what one dollar could buy before they ousted the rich white farmers.

We are headed down the same sorry road. The con-job the government is handing us is criminal in its negligence of the public trust. They are printing money to keep up the appearance that we are still a prosperous society. It’s all a sham. The rich are being demonized and their businesses are being taken over by a pettty tyrant for the good of society. More and more goods are being produced in third-world countries while our government encourages us to spend more and more money on foriegn commodities. In fact, they send us checks in the mail so we’ll have money to spend.

Spending unearned money is like spending monopoly money because we aren’t earning it by working at jobs. It goes out of one government pocket into another. Because, it creates no wealth nor growth in business, it will eventually be useful only as toilet paper. To make matters worse, the earned money we spend on goods made in China and elsewhere doesn’t stay in this country. That money can’t be re-circulated through our banks to be available as loans, to build homes, start up new businesses, and to purchase inventory.

In trying to make lemonade out of lemons, the present administration tells us that a weak U.S. dollar is good for exports. “Our goods will be cheaper overseas,” they tell us. There’s only one problem with that theory: businesses can’t afford to produce the goods necessary to take advantage of this windfall. Meanwhile, the money that was supposed to stimulate businesses has disappeared down a rat hole.

We can’t produce the goods in America because it costs too much to manufacture them. Between unions, taxes, minimum wage, and mandated health care, employers can’t realize the profits necessary to reinvest in capital, nor can they entice wary shareholders to invest in them. It's all basic economics 101 stuff, but this administration thinks it’s illogical and they are convinced that capitalism exploits the worker. They don’t understand that in American capitalism, the employer/employee relationship is a mutually beneficial activity. Liberals are stuck in the 1900’s when Marx and Lenin correctly described the exploitive labor situation in Europe at the start of the Industrial Revolution. Those horrible conditions do not exist in America and if they did, we wouldn’t need the government to correct the situation. Labor can take care of itself without government backed unions. When unions (such as those that exist in America today) have the full force of the government behind them, it’s the same as being forced at gun-point to do their wishes. This mutually beneficial arrangement between socialist thugs and union thugs has crippled businesses. It’s the origin of the phrase “Socialist Union” as in USSR.

If we continue to destroy the environment that produces risk takers, entrepreneurs, and innovators, and if we continue to allow the ongoing corruption resulting in vanishing billions, we will be no better off than any banana republic. Individualism and liberties will be stripped from us because those are concepts that tyranny cannot abide.

Meanwhile, we impotently watch China replicate the capitalist system that we once enjoyed. We marvel at the exploding economic power they have produced in a few short years. We shake our heads as we learn that China has chastised our president and given him lectures on how to cut spending, reduce taxes, and to allow businesses to flourish and expand. We truly are a sorry country let by a sorry president elected by a sorry society. We no longer have the capability to earn enough money to live as free people without interference from a heavy-handed government. We are about to experience what “equality” is all about. Welcome to the world of communism where the misery is spread equally among all except those in the inner circle of the politburo in Washington, D.C.

President Obama, you are purposely tying the hands of your generals in the fight against terrorism. If that’s your policy, then go public with it and stop dithering and stalling like a simpering wimp. You have made your feelings about war public with your statement that, “…the idea of victory makes me uneasy.” You go on to relate how the pictures of the Japanese surrendering on the USS Missouri made you feel sorry for the Japanese. This sends a clear mandate to the terrorists that you do not intend to fight them to any conclusive victory. I must conclude by your inaction that you do not intend to fulfill your earlier promises to us and to your generals. You also do not intend to honor your oath to protect our troops if you can so casually stand by and let your generals twist in the wind. This is no time to be whistling past the graveyard, Ms. Obama. Your speeches are empty promises. You keep telling us that you’re working hard on the problem, that your “people” are all over it, yet days turn into weeks that turn into months, etc. and no decisions are forthcoming.

As Rush Limbaugh often says, “Hope is for losers.” It’s action that gets things done. Appeasing our enemies and hoping they will become reasonable and lay down their arms is wishful thinking, Ms. Obama. We’ve been there before with these animals in Iran. Remember Ms. Carter? He/she also acted like a closet queen and tried to appease Muslim terrorists. They responded by taking the entire American Embassy as hostages. For over a year, Ms. Carter was unable to persuade the man, who is now president of Iran, to release them. It took the election of Mr. Ronald Reagan to immediately change his mind, because he knew Reagan would actually do something to get the hostages back, and it wouldn’t be to play patty-cake for months on end.

Inaction in war is a sure recipe for disaster. Don’t assume that the enemy is sitting around their hookahs waiting for us to make a move. They are planning their attacks this very minute; laying out new strategies based on our inaction, and anyone with a brain larger than a peanut knows that a major Tet-like attack is imminent.

Would anyone care to wager a bet that Obama is playing this waiting game secretly hoping that a large body count will upset the American public and give him just cause to pull the troops out of the Middle East, thereby handing his Muslim friends the victory they’ve been looking for, and making his liberal fringe friends happy?

STOP PRETENDING

It’s time to stop pretending that Obama’s Marxist socialism will bring prosperity, peace, and good will to society. For more than 70 years, everywhere Marxist socialism is tried, we've witnessed the devastating results. There are still plenty of us alive today who remember the stark differences between East (socialist) and West (capitalist) Germany. Many of us recall the problems that Soviet Russia had just to feed its people after 40 years of communism (the other name for Marxist socialism). Because so many people have risked their lives to leave, it's evident that Cuba must be a horrible place to live. The same can be said about the Vietnamese boat people after the Communists took over the South. We can see the dramatic difference between North (communist) and South (capitalist) Korea. We can see France, England, and Spain, once mighty political and economic powers as they have deteriorated under milder forms of socialism. We’ve witnessed China go from abject poverty to prosperity just a few short years after embracing capitalism. The evidence is clear, it is loud, and it is empirical. The devastating effects of Marxist socialism are the inevitable outcome of Obama’s plan to “fundamentally change” America.

It’s time we Americans found the courage to stand up to the Marxists in Washington -- to those who believe that their "time has come" -- and let them know in no uncertain terms that we will not allow them to drag us down into the hell-hole of communism. Let them know we see the bloody skeletons their kind has left behind wherever they’ve been. It is patently clear that this form of government is not really about the welfare of men, women, and children but about power and control of society by those who are unscrupulous, unprincipled, and un-feeling about life in general. When one man deems it necessary to take control of our country by assuming control of corporations, banks, payrolls, and our health care in the manner of Hitler’s blitzkrieg war machine, it is time to wave the red flags, send up the flares, and sound the sirens.

We know the inevitable results of Marxism, and we understand that its real purpose is not to wish peace and goodwill on anyone. The world is witness to the death, destruction, and despair it has caused; therefore, the evidence demands our attention. So why are we standing around like a bunch of sheep waiting to be taken to the slaughterhouse?

Well, you say, they voted for him. It was the will of the people, what can I do? They voted for Hitler and he also lied to and misled the people to get his way. Fortunately, this isn’t pre-war Germany and there is plenty you can do. For starters you can write your congressmen and women, and your senators. We have to let them know how disgusted we are with the direction they are taking our country. Also, we have to get active in the voting process by doing volunteer work and getting out the vote. Write to the op-ed section of your local newspapers and your favorite news magazines. Write encouragement to television and radio conservative talk shows. Show up at the rallies and tea parties with your signs. Make yourself heard.

Yes, we voted for Obama, but so did Germany vote for Hitler. He too ran on a platform of hope and change. He too lied and promised wonderful things, and the people fell in love with him just like they fell for Obama. But, in time (for them it was too late), they realized he was a monster. I know I’m not the only one beginning to feel the same way about Obama.

The main goal of socialism is to strip away individual property rights and turn them over to society as a whole. The means of production and distribution of goods and wealth comes under state control. Remember that the money you earn is property and it’s considered theirs; all of it!

For how many years have we heard socialists like FDR and LBJ and Clinton go on about the abolition of poverty, prosperity for all, and the promise of world peace? Even George W. Bush was suckered into that hogwash,  and he promised a kinder, gentler (moderate) Republican party. So far, instead of economic prosperity and jobs that Obama promised 9 months ago, we have economic paralysis; millions of people without jobs, and millions of people who have just given up looking for jobs (these are not counted as unemployed for some strange reason). The  unemployment rate is topping 10%; the same as it was during the Great Depression. I have to admit, the future looks pretty terrifying considering the glaring differences between what was promised nine months ago and what he have today: the dollar is being replaced on the world market by the Euro, China owns us lock stock and barrel, and our whole world has been turned upside down by a president who promised us the moon but gave us moon pie and appears to be flipping the bird at us.