VARIOUS THOUGHTS ON AMERICANA

I’ll change subjects often so hang on and try to keep up. Here we go.

Had Bill Gates depended upon the government for funds for research and development of the personal computer he’d still be working out of his garage and the government would have confiscated his ideas for "the good of society."  Everyone today would have a personal computer and a cell phone at no cost, but strictly on the terms of the government as to content and freedom of expression. Absolutely no blogs allowed that do not glorify the Soviet Union of America.

To my communist cousin: If our economy is in such dire straits that Obama is forced to step in and confiscate the potential wealth of generations to come to bail it out, then how can it afford to simply give cell phones with 300 free minutes to the homeless? It used to be that feeding them was a priority. Now that there is plenty of food available, instead of a 5 pound bar of Velveeta cheese, they get cell phones. If that makes any socio-economic sense to anyone, I’d like to know how.

I’d like to know who gave Obama permission to “change” America. Oh, I know it was the “voters.” However, I’m trying to imagine the voter who would think voting for a man of such questionable background — a man who has long had, and still has, avowed Marxists and Communist terrorists for friends and confidants, whose long-time personal pastor is a race-baiting demagogue, and whose origin of birth no one knows for sure — was a really good idea. I’d like to know how many of those voters were paid by activist organization like Acorn to appear at the voting booths, and how many of them were actually qualified and properly registered to vote.   And I don’t think I would be too off the mark if I said that most of the officials working as counters and voting machine technicians are paid activists from Acorn and other communist organizations.  What chance does America have for a nice clean election anymore? Don’t answer, the question was merely rhetorical. There is, of course, no chance.

Although I’m normally a pretty positive person, I sense the decline of America as a superpower and as a beacon of opportunity and prosperity for all who seek it (and a paradise for those who have lost their focus and have decided to just zone out of society).   I also sense, correction, I know — that this is not a good or desirable thing. As long as America remained morally and militarily strong, the world had a chance of some semblance of stability and absence of all-out global chaos. We, along with our allies were able to staunch the hemorrhaging and unraveling of the Middle East and the Balkans — at least for the time being. Now, the 50 year period of tenuous peace between the Koreas is beginning to come undone unless the requisite blackmail monies are paid to North Korea. By the way, that bribe can only be paid if we print more funny money. And, if paid, guarantees absolutely nothing. I see daily where American business is in decline and will soon be non-existent as we continue to obey and follow Obama’s economic plans. I recently had a chance to drive through Detroit after an absence of 50 years. I cried. It is a pitiful ghost of its former self. Detroit and New Orleans are harbingers of the future of America. Higher and higher taxes are lurking in the background waiting only for the 2010 elections to confirm a majority in Congress. Then the economic mudslide will become painfully evident even to those who heralded in Obama’s “change.” The trillions of dollars designated for bail-outs will disappear down a rat hole, just like all government monies do. After all, it isn’t their money, they didn’t produce one penny of it. It’s all money that we Americans have had confiscated from us at gun-point, as if the government were legal pirates. It’s now their booty and they will do with it as they damn well please.  Complain and they'll just take a bigger slice of your income.

Why don't the Pro Death (choice) people get their petitions up to amend the Constitution and go for it? Let's amend the Constitution to give women the Constitutional right to slay their unborn children. That way, there can be no question of the legality or morality of this unspeakable act. I think I know the reason they don't seek an amendment, and it’s because they know the majority of Americans would never agree to it. The illegal and amoral action taken by our own Supreme Court to legalize abortions won't be the last absurd action that will rip the fabric of our society to shreds.  Today, the concept of economic equality (justice) has been officially affirmed by Obama.  When the only criterion for moral values is the concept of “the greater good", and as long as people believe that whatever action you take — if it is for “the good of society,” then anything goes. The idea that something is “good” or “evil” no longer matters. Once you buy into the notion of “the greater good” you don't have to worry if what you do is evil (on demand abortion, confiscatory taxes, forced inferior health care, etc.), because you are now freed from that guilt. You merely have to convince yourself that it's for “the good of society." I shudder to think that my children and grandchildren have this amoral, atheistic Utopian society to look forward to.