Politics and Insights from History

February 5, 2010

Dear Mr. President,

I may be a little late in commenting on your State of the Union address, but it is filled to the brim with sewage that it would take days for any sane person to shovel their way through it. This speech differed little from the many you have given the past year. I often wonder when you will shut your mouth and actually start defending this country.

Instead of reporting on the State of the Union, people are more aware of it than you, and the 18 pages you spent selling your socialist agenda. It was the typical push for universal health care, cap and trade and a government takeover of energy production, another stimulus (the Jobs Bill), blame Bush, and more of your ego inflation. But there are a few points I want to address specifically.

You talk about the suffering of the people. You even throw in a few sob stories and supposed letter written to you just to prove that you understand our pain. You understand nothing. You insist that the economy downfall and our suffering is the result of the change you promised not coming quickly enough. And you blame Republicans for that. 1) The Republicans do not have a majority. Democrats do. Republicans couldn’t stop a bill from passing even if they all voted against it. It is people in your own party that has slowed down your ghoulish legisltaion. Blame them not the GOP. 2) You are either delusional or lying. I believe it is both. You truly believe that destroying America and turning it into a socialist country will make the country and the world a better place. You are also lying because you want the public to believe that our refusal to accept your regulations has furthered this economic slump. The reality is that the change you brought to Washington, your economic policies have prolonged the recession turning it into a depression. Your big government solutions took a problem and expanded it.

A second point I wish to make is that you are now attempting to rewrite history. You throw out a bunch of numbers and figures to prove that your stimulus bill actually saved the economy from total collapse. The numbers do not add up. There is no evidence that your spending spree saved the economy. There is evidence that it made the economy worse. Unemployment skyrocketed, businesses loss money, employers stopped hiring and began laying more people off, consumer spending dropped, banks stopped lending, and the stock market has yet to show any sign of recovery.

You mentioned tax cuts that you passed. Where are they? Tax rates are still the same and are due to increase when the Bush tax cuts expire later this year. That is considered a tax increase for those who do not understand basic economics. You have passed tax credits, but those are not tax cuts. A tax cut means that tax rates have decreased and will remain that way. A tax credit is a temporary refund that a person is forced to pay back when he is taxed on it at later date.

In 2009 you passed a tax credit on people’s paychecks that amounted to an additional $10 a paycheck. When filing taxes in 2010, those who received that credit will be charged income tax on that extra money along with the rest of their income. Explain how this is a tax cut. Simple, it’s not.

You have blatantly shown contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law. The Senate blacked a bill of yours that would have established another bureaucracy known as the Fiscal Commission. Instead of respecting the political process you are going to issue an executive order to create this Fiscal Commission and get what you want. How childish! You cannot override the House and Senate every time you do not get your way. This is an abuse of your executive power. This very act is something a dictator does. But then, you said once that you would rule this country.

Lastly, you have already demonstrated you desire to take over health care, businesses, and banks, but now you want education. The education in America is already largely controlled by the federal government, but you want more. You want a bill that will allow the government more control of education all in the name of protecting the children. The Department of Education already regulates schools including universities. Yet, many college graduates still cannot read anything longer than a magazine or even discuss current world events. And you have the gall to insist that more government legislation will fix this? You have the audacity to tell students that if they take out a student loan to pay for college they will not have to pay it back after ten years if they get a government job, or twenty years if they get a regular job. Instead the government will absorb the loan. Not only is this financial suicide for the United States since we are trillions of dollars in debt and have no money, but this is insulting to those who took responsibility for their debts and paid off their loans. I am one of those people. I paid for my education. I paid my student loans. Not the government.

How dare you insist that people need the government’s help to pay for anything. How dare you encourage young people to not take responsibility for themselves and their education but instead to let the government handle it. Your big government policies will breed yet another generation of people who refuse to work for anything, refuse to be self reliant, but instead believe that they are entitled to everything. They will believe that government should provide for them. This is not only a violation of the U.S. Constitution but an insult to the American character.

Like any tyrant this does not concern you. You want people to believe that you are doing all of this out of compassion because you care. You are an arrogant fool who cares only for yourself. You refer to yourself so much it is difficult to believe that you care for anything else. You wish for us to look upon you as our Savior and the savior of America. Mr. President, you are one of many that has helped destroy this country. There is one savior and he died on a cross. Would you do the same? You talk about Americans making sacrifices. You talk about how it is time for Washington to tighten its belt. Where are those sacrifices on the part of Washington? Where are your sacrifices? What are you willing to sacrifice?

When it comes down to it, Mr. President, your mouth is a black hole that spouts empty words.

Sincerely,

Lady Liberty

January 26, 2010

Dear Mr. President,

Now that we have come to your first State of the Union address the pressure is on for passage of your precious health care bill. You just want some “accomplishment” to boast about. I guess you must be getting tired of constantly talking about your stimulus bill, blaming Bush for the economy, yourself, blaming Bush again, yourself, your stimulus bill, oh, and blaming Bush.

As this monstrosity of a bill nears a vote, it becomes more evident who the beneficiaries are. With the new taxes proposed the government will receive a large sum of money from individual people, businesses, and insurance companies. The state of Louisiana is set to get $300 million. You have agreed to exempt Union workers from the Senate’s proposed Cadillac Tax. The AMA and pharmaceutical companies are set to prosper from this bill as well. And who knows what other pay offs and back room deals were made in Congress just to get the bill through?

And why are you meeting personally with Union leaders? You promised the American people that your administration would be free of special interests. Unions are special interest groups. Why do they get an exemption from this tax? Less than 10% of the private sector is unionized. Your so called health reform will force the majority of Americans to pay an additional tax on their health insurance premiums, which will raise the cost of their insurance. To avoid bankruptcy, many will have to join a union. This will make Union memberships soar and these Unions, such as SEIU, will prosper from the additional membership dues.

Why have you given the Unions your personal guarantee that they will be exempted from this new tax? Your personal guarantee! Shakespeare wrote that there was something rotten in the state of Denmark. Well there is definitely something rotten in Washington D.C. The stench from you, the cronies in your administration, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, and all of the sweetheart deals that have been going on in Congress would make even the dead recoil.

But you are not satisfied with taking over health care. You want to impose a 15% tax on the banks that took federal bailout money. First you forced the banks to take the money, then refused to take it back when they first tried to repay it. By now, most of the banks that took bailout funds have repaid it. But apparently this isn’t enough.

You feign anger over the banks using bailout money on bonuses. So what if they did? Why are you against CEOs getting paid bonuses? These companies have already repaid the TARP funds. You have no right to be angry. This is a punitive tax meant to force the banks fall into line.

While you are in the business of getting bailout money back from companies, why don’t you force GM and Chrysler to pay back what was given them? The car companies took more money from the federal government than the banks did, yet you have not demanded that they pay it back. The United Auto Workers Union received a hefty amount of bailout money when you took over General Motors, yet you have not demanded it back. A lot of businesses, that had contracts with these car companies, disappeared when Chrysler and General Motors fell under the government’s control. What has Gm or Chrysler produced since January 2009? Nothing. But this doesn’t bother you. It’s those banks that are the problem. You’re just so angry over those AIG bonuses.

What irritates you, Mr. President, is not the fact that the banks may have spent their bailout money of executive bonuses. What you’re angry about is the fact that you haven’t managed to gain control of the banks. That is the real reason for the tax. You’re not concerned that this tax will get passed on to consumers. You, like all socialists, want more money. You are going to squeeze the private sector until there is nothing left to gain, and even then it won’t be enough.

You said that “We want our money back.” Well, here is an idea: why don’t you and your liberal thugs take the money that you stole from the American people for your precious public works programs and stimulus package and give it back to the taxpayer? Or am I asking too much from our “historical” president.

Sincerely,

Lady Liberty

Earlier I wrote about Obama and his connections with SEIU.  Let us now look at the Apollo Alliance.

The Apollo Alliance came into existence soon after 9/11.  Though not a Union they are an environmental activist group with strong ties and influence on the federal government.  According to their website, the Apollo Alliance’s mission statement is:

“The Apollo Alliance is a coalition of labor, business, environmental, and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs. Inspired by the Apollo space program, we promote investments in energy efficiency, clean power, mass transit, next-generation vehicles, and emerging technology, as well as in education and training. Working together, we will reduce carbon emissions and oil imports, spur domestic job growth, and position America to thrive in the 21st century economy.”

Basically, they want to do away with oil and coal energy and promote solar, wind, and anything that they deem environmentally safe. The problem is instead of finding a free market way to promote it, they chose to force taxpayers by influencing government regulation. They do so by organizing labor unions and activists for “social justice”. The Apollo Alliance, like SEIU and ACORN are using the federal government to accomplish their ends.

How is Obama connected to these people? Look at Van Jones, Obama’s former Green Jobs Czar. Jones is one of the founders and President of the group Green For All and a board member of Apollo Alliance.[i] Van Jones only resigned his post after it came out that he is an avowed communist. Van Jones is a radical Marxist whose statements brought a lot of heat on the Obama Administration. But the ties to Apollo do not end there.

There is John Podesta, co-chairman of the Obama-Biden Transition Project. Basically he is on Obama’s transition team and his helping to reshape the power structure in Washington. He is the President and CEO of the progressive group Center for American Progress. He is also on the board of directors for the Apollo Alliance.

On an interesting note, Gerald Hudson, who is the Executive Vice President of SEIU is also on Apollo’s board of directors. President Obama has close ties with SEIU and is in constant contact with Andy Stern. He has also given speeches at some of their conventions saying, “Your agenda has been my agenda.”

Then we have Wade Rathke who is also on the board of directors of the Apollo Alliance. He is the founder of ACORN, an organization that Obama worked for. Obama has kept close ties with ACORN. In fact, ACORN has received federal funding thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment ACT (AKA Stimulus Bill). ACORN also funds Apollo.[ii]

On another note, Jeff Jones, the director of the Apollo Alliance, was a domestic terrorist who managed to evade capture from the law for eleven years.  He also founded the Weather Underground with Bill Ayers, who happens to be in close relation with Barack Obama.

The Apollo Alliance is also helping to shape public policy. They brag about it on their website. They helped write the Stimulus Bill that Obama signed into law in January 2009. That bill promised federal money for renewable energy research, green jobs, and clean energy programs. The chairman of the Apollo Alliance said, “The recovery bill represents the focused work of labor, business, environmental and social justice organizations who developed a clear strategy about where the nation needed to go, and worked together to achieve it.”[iii] If they helped write the Stimulus Bill. What else are they trying to push through Congress?

Even Senator Harry Reid acknowledged the Apollo Alliance’s involvement with this bill. “We’ve talked about moving forward on these ideas for decades. The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them.”[iv]

Congress is currently debating Cap and Trade, even though you will not hear about in the major news organizations. Cap and trade imposes a punitive tax on corporations and businesses for CO2 emissions. It will also be another green jobs bill, meaning that it will promote clean energy by funding and establishing green jobs. What really happens is that environmental groups get federal money and never see any jobs produced.  Who do you think will benefit from this bill? The Apollo Alliance. They have probably even helped write it. Many of their own people are a part of Obama’s administration and they continue to lobby Congress for money.

The health care bill that Obama has been promoting and demanding has been strongly influenced by SEIU. SEIU has helped write portions of it. They also have close ties to Apollo and ACORN. It is safe to assume that Apollo will be granted money in this bill along with SEIU and ACORN.

The Apollo Alliance is an organization that seems to have endless amounts of money and an incredible amount of influence on the federal government. The point is, Obama has too many ties to radical groups like Apollo Alliance, ACORN, Center for American Progress, and SEIU. Apparently all of his campaign promises about no lobbyists, no special interest groups were all a bunch of lies.

November 23, 2009

Dear Mr. President,
Why do you hate the United States so vehemently? What is it about this country that causes you to despise it so? This nation allowed you to go from being a poor black kid in Chicago to becoming the President of the United States. You used our capitalist system to improve your lot in life. Now you have the gall to trash it and to deny such a future to all Americans: current and future generations. You, like all liberals, use the free market to advance yourselves and then you turn around and talk about its shortcomings and how it has failed and is outdated. If the system is a failure and outdated, then how is it you and those like you were able to use it to your success? The real reason for you denunciation of capitalism is that you and your ilk do not want others to be successful, thus challenging your power. Such greed has proven to be the downfall of all who pursue it.
I do find it interesting that you have recently decided to allow Fox News to interview you, especially considering that you and your administration has spent the past several months trashing Fox. Your duplicity came out clearly in the interview. In it you said, “I think it is important though to recognize that if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession.” Why then are you pushing for universal healthcare? The current estimated cost is $1.2 trillion. $1.2 trillion! Then, you want to go to a green economy meaning that all current means of producing energy will be eliminated and many more people will be forced into unemployment. You plan to accomplish this with cap and trade, another bill that will cost us trillions of dollars. Considering we had to beg China for money to pay for your disastrous stimulus bill, where are you going to get the money to pay for these other two bills? And this does not include whatever else you have planned.
You said yourself that we are in debt as a nation and that if spending does not cease the recession will be worse. Why then do you insist on spending money? Why don’t you urge Congress to quit spending? Why not cut all wasteful spending? It’s simple. You expect the average citizen to do as you tell them, but you have no intention of controlling your spending.
There are also a few lies in your above statement. 1) We are not in the midst of an economic recovery nor have ever been in one since your stimulus bill. 2) The world has already lost confidence in the U.S. economy. Why do you think the value of the dollar keeps falling? 3) Double-dip recession? We are well on our way to a depression, if we’re not already there. And we have you to thank for this.
Mr. President, you had the opportunity of being a great president. But, you abandoned honesty and integrity for your Marxist ideology and your lust for power. Glenn Beck was correct when he said that you and your associates are collapsing the system because that is exactly what you are doing.
You’ve weakened the economy to a near state of disrepair. The dollar has sunk and prices are up. More people are out of work and businesses are looking at even more ways to cut costs in preparation for your massive takeover of the economy. This will result in further unemployment and a decrease in the quality of our goods while prices continue to rise.
You and your union thugs are doing what Marxists have done throughout centuries. It happened in Rome, Germany after WWI, the French Revolution, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Those who wanted a socialist utopia created anarchy by collapsing the current economy. Afterward, the ones who caused the problem step in with the solution. The people, being desperate and frightened, accept these “saviors” only to regret it later as their quality of life sinks and their freedom disappears. This is what has happened recently in the United States. Our own government, with their big government regulations, caused the housing market crash, inflation, tumbling wages, loss of jobs, and the continued demise of the dollar. Through you, the same government steps in with a solution: increase in the size of the government and an increase in government spending, thus choking what little free enterprise and liberty are left.
Mr. President, on the outside you appear to be like everyone else. You are clean cut and well dressed, even pleasing to look at. But underneath all of that beats the black heart of a soulless man whose foul stench and deeds are consuming this great country. If you do not put a stop to this madness, we will all sink into the black hole of socialism’s disease.
Sincerely,

Lady Liberty

With all of the information coming out about ACORN, SEIU, and the Apollo Alliance and their connections to President Obama, one has to wonder, how deep do these connections go?  Who is really in charge of the United States?  Who is behind recent legislation being pushed through Congress?  We all know that ACORN received money from Obama’s stimulus bill, though it is not the first time they received federal funds.  SEIU has a large stake in the Health Care Bill being rammed through.  And then there is Cap and Trade which is speaking through with little to no attention from the press.  How much you want to bet that the Apollo Alliance is going to receive a tidy sum from Uncle Sam?  They promote “green” jobs.  Isn’t that what Cap and Trade is supposed to do?

First let’s explore SEIU (Service Employee’s International Union).  Andy Stern is the president of SEIU.  He is a Marxist.  SEIU’s policies fall within Marxism. (Click on the link below to watch Bill Moyers’ interview with Andy Stern.)

Bill Moyers\’ Interview with Andy Stern June 15, 2007

Notice the similarities between what Andy Stern says and what Obama says.  He talks about making government work for the unions.  Oh he speaks about individuals, but if Stern had his way everyone would be part of the union.  Stern mentioned redistributing wealth and how it mustn’t be in the hands of a few people.  Obama mentions the sam when trying to answer Joe the Plumber\’s question. Which he failed to answer.  Andy Stern wants to use political power to change the behavior of corporations like Bank of America.  Obama is using political power to force people to buy into an insurance program they do not want; to force insurance companies to provide coverage that they do not wish to provide and may be unable to provide.  Of course, this will take care of the universal health care coverage that SEIU wants.

Andy Stern has had at least 22 visits to the White House where he has talked personally with Obama in the first 6 months since the inauguration.  He has had the most visits with the president than anyone else.  That is a lot of meetings between the president of a union and the President of the United States.  Didn’t Obama pledge to end special interests?  Apparently he only wishes to end the special interests of evil corporations and their profit making.  But Obama has no qualms about SEIU, a labor union, making a profit through taxpayer money.

Watch these three videos below.  (Click on the link to access the video.)  The first two are from an SEIU conference in October 2007.  The third from the SEIU convention of 2008.  In both video Obama is addressing SEIU.  Now listen to what he says.  Listen to what he promises SEIU member.

Obama\’s SEIU Agenda is my Agenda

Does Obama Represent the Country of SEIU?

Barak Obama Adresses SEIU\’s 2008 Convention

Here Obama admits to working with SEIU members during his days as a community organizer.  Did you notice the phrase, “get everybody organized”?  Does that mean we will all be forced into a union?  Is this the setup for his civilian task force which he mentioned in another speech?  Notice he said “Your agenda is my agenda.”  That is a very clear sign that SEIU is a special interest in the Obama Administration.  His agenda is their agenda!  In the third video Obama claims, “You and I together-together you and I, we are going to change this country and we are going to change the world.”  Sounds like SEIU and its president, Andy Stern, have authority over what happens in this country and influence over Obama.  Obama is admitting right here that they will work together to change America.

It is no secret that SEIU spent at least $60 million on Obama’s campaign for the presidency.  (Do you still believe that Barak Obama has no connections to this organization?)  Obama’s political director is Patrick Gaspard.

Gaspard is a former lobbyist for SEIU. [i] He first joined SEIU in 1999 to help organize the local 1199 “March For Justice”.[ii] He remained with SEIU promoting their agenda in Congress until 2008. He only quit that job to join Obama’s campaign. That is a good seven years with the union. The fact that he went straight from SEIU to Obama, who is also well connected with the union, shows that it is unlikely that Gaspard became disillusioned with the union and quit because of such sentiments. Especially since President Obama is promoting SEIU’s agenda. Gaspard also has known ties with ACORN. It is interesting how ACORN keeps popping up in Obama’s circle of friends.

It is well documented that Obama and SEIU are connected.  Very much so.  Obama himself said that SEIU’s agenda is his agenda.  He has a former SEIU lobbyist in his administration.  Lobbyists do not change.  Even though this evidence is circumstantial, the circumstances are suspicious.

What form of government does America have? Anyone reading this will say, “A democracy.” But if that is your answer, then you are wrong. I know what the schools teach about our form of government. Many politicians insist that we are a democracy. But we are not. The United States is a Republic, more specifically a Representative Republic. Nowhere in our founding documents are we called a democracy.

Benjamin Franklin said: “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”[i]

Democracies are majority rule and can easily lead to mob rule, which in turn either leads to a dictatorship or anarchy. In a true Democracy every citizen gets 1 vote on every issue. That’s all well and good, but what if you are the one person who decides to stand against everyone else? The needs of the minority go unnoticed in a Democracy. Votes are easily bought either by blackmail, or just naming the right price. This means that Democracies easily give way to corruption and mob rule, which later leads to anarchy proving Franklin’s above quote all too true. In a Democracy, the policy makers are not beholden to anyone. They do not answer to the populace for their stance on issues or their votes. Since, every citizen votes on every issue, they work for themselves and no one else.

In Ancient Greece, Athens is the best example of a Democracy. In Athens every male citizen was expected to serve in the government. Athens’ democracy worked for a time. The city-state became very prosperous and controlled the seas. It was the envy of Ancient Greece. But Athens became corrupt. The people cared more about their personal gain and used the majority vote to get it. Athens later found themselves conquered by the Spartans.

“Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.”  James Madison

John Adams describes the nature of democracies clearly and concisely in his A Defense of the Constitution. Here he is referring to Montesquieu’s statements about democracy. In it he writes:

1. No democracy ever did or can exist

2. If however, it were admitted, for argument sake, that a democracy ever did or can exist, no such passion as a love of democracy, stronger than self-love, or superior to the love of private interest, ever did, or ever can prevail in the minds of the citizens in general, or of a majority of them, or in any party or individual of them.

3. That if the citizens, or a majority of them, or any party or individual of them, in action and practice, preferred the public to their private interest, as many undoubtedly would, it would not be from any such passion as love of democracy, but from reason, conscience, a regard to justice, and a sense of duty and moral obligation,; or else from a desire of fame, and the applause, gratitude, and rewards of the public.

4. That no love of equality, at least since Adam’s fall, ever existed in human nature, any otherwise than the desire of bringing others down to our own level, which implies a desire of raising ourselves above them, or depressing them below us. That the real friends of equality are such from reflection, judgment, and a sense of duty, not from any passion natural, or artificial.

5. That no love of frugality ever existed as a passion, but always as a virtue, approved by deep and long reflection, as useful to individuals as well as the democracy.

6.That, therefore, the democracy of Montesquieu, and its principal of virtue, equality, frugality, &c, according to his definitions of them, are all mere figments of the brain, and delusive imaginations.

7. That his love of the democracy would be, in the members of the majority, only a love of the majority; in those of the minority, only a love of the minority.

8. That his love of equality would not even be pretended towards the members of the minority; but the semblance of it would only be kept up among the members of the majority.

9. That the distinction between nature and philosophy is not enough attended to; that nations are actuated by their passions and prejudices; that very few in any nation, are enlightened by philosophy or religion enough to be at all times convinced that it is a duty to prefer the public to a private interest, and fewer still are moral, honorable, or religious enough to practice such self- denial.

10. Is not every one of these propositions proved beyond dispute, by all the histories in this and the preceding volumes, by all the other histories of the world, and by universal experience?

11. That, in reality, the word democracy signifies nothing more nor less than a nation of people without any government at all, and before any constitution is instituted.

12. That every attentive reader may perceive, that the notions of Montesquieu, concerning a democracy, are imaginations of his own, derived from the contemplation of the reveries of Xenophon and Plato, concerning equality of goods, and community of wives and children, in their delirious ideas of a perfect commonwealth.

13. That such reveries may well be called delirious, since, besides all the other arguments against them, they would not distinguish the family spirit, or produce the equality proposed, because, in such a state of things, one man would have twenty wives, while another would have none, and one woman twenty lovers, while others would languish in obscurity, solitude, and celibacy.[ii]

The point is, people, we are a Republic. This country was established as a republic. All of our founding documents call the United States a republic, not a democracy. In the last 100 years, though, the foundations of our republic have been stripped away and the government has increased far beyond the bounds and limitations of the Constitution.

When asked at the end of the Constitutional Convention what form of government they came up with, Franklin replied, “A republic, for as long as you can keep it.”

Our republic is similar, though not exactly like, to that of Ancient Rome, before the reign of the Caesar’s. While Rome was a republic they had assemblies, most notably the Senate whose members were chosen to represent the Patrician class.

Here is a layout of Rome’s Republican government[iii]:

Offices

Assemblies

The idea of representative government came from Rome’s republic. However, instead of having five assemblies, the drafters of the Constitution chose to have one, known as Congress. Congress has then been subdivided into two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The senate consists of two senators from each state chosen by the state legislatures, until the 17^th amendment allowed for a popular vote to choose senators. In the Senate each state receives two votes allowing equal representation. This gives the smaller states a chance to voice their concerns and stop the more populous states from overriding their rights. The House of Representative (the only essence of democracy if you will) allows for the majority vote. There representation is based on the population of each state. This was done to please both the big and small states, but also to cut down on the corruption that democracy brings.

In a way the House of Representatives represent the people’s interests while the Senate represents the State’s interests. And before any bill moves to the President’s desk (who is similar to the Roman Consul), both houses of Congress must reach an agreement. This arrangement was on purpose. It is meant to fully represent the people and States and to prevent bills from being rushed through Congress without any deliberation. Of course, judging from the last ten months you wouldn’t know it.

Our state governments are set up in much the same way: republican. Each individual state has a head (the Governor), and a legislature divided into two houses (the Senate and House of representatives). There are only a few exceptions to this. But is you examine American Republicanism, it is divided, subdivided, and divided some more so that no one individual or group of people are ever in control and elections take place every number of years so that there is a change in leadership from time to time.

“The way to have safe government is not to trust it all to the one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent….To let the National Government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations…..  The State Governments with the Civil Rights, Laws, Police and administration of what concerns the State generally. The Counties with the local concerns, and each ward direct the interests within itself. It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman’s farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.”  Thomas Jefferson

America’s republic does work. We have proven it time and again. However, in the last 100 years, since the rise of the progressives, we as a nation have moved away from republican government to a more Marxist state or dictatorship. The federal government has seized power it was never meant to have where they now dictate much of what we can and cannot do. It even dictates what individual states can do. For instance, in 2003 a display of the Ten Commandments was taken down from an Alabama courthouse. (It is very interesting how it is only Christianity that is not allowed to be displayed but anyone can display the Koran or wave and Islamic flag and be praised for their courage.) This past year when individual sates tried to give back stimulus money that the federal government forced them to take, they were told that they had to keep it. The States that chose to use Stimulus funds to pay down their debts had the Feds knocking on their door telling them that they were supposed to spend that money on government programs. The federal government mandates the minimal amount of coverage that States have to require health insurance companies to offer. There is a federal tax on everything, from a gasoline, phone service, mortgages, health insurance, utility bills, to your bank accounts. All consumer goods and services have a tax imposed on them by the federal government.

There is no true change in leadership either. We have career politicians and the development of a political class. Our current politicians believe that the people are here to work for them. (In a republican government the politicians work for the people.) Many of the same faces are always in Congress and they keep getting elected because they wrote laws to kill any opposition. What do you think McCain Feingold was all about? It prevents anyone from challenging the incumbent during election year.

Our modern government represents the Roman Empire, not the Roman Republic. The last days of the Roman Empire were full of corruption starting at the top with the Emperor all way down to the local regents. The Roman Empire suffered from massive bureaucracies and laws that were establish to solve every little problem, every crisis. The Roman Senate became well known for writing new laws to solve some problem ranging from business to health care, to retirement. They never repealed any of their old laws either. Rome eventually reached a point where they had so many laws no one knew what was legal and what wasn’t. They had so many bureaucracies that nothing ever gone done. All of Rome’s wealth was swallowed by their bureaucracies, when the Emperor or Senate didn’t waste it on some other “pressing” matter. As Rome became more bureaucratic its wealth disappeared until all it was left with was massive deficits and debts. Eventually Rome fell from its own corruption and stupidity. The Barbaric invasions put the empire out of its misery.

Rome was once a powerful empire that controlled the known world. Roman currency was the world currency. They brought law and order to distant lands. People lived well under the Roman Empire and had a quality of life that they never would have had otherwise. (Not counting slavery.) But Rome became decadent society. They had no standard of morality. Most Romans made their own morality believing that it was relative. Roman politicians cared more about their personal wealth and no longer concerned themselves with the well being of Rome or the people. The Roman Emperors worried more about their personal glory than the Roman people. The government became vast. The Roman Legions reached a point where they no longer felt any loyalty to Rome or the Emperor. They became loyal to themselves. This is why Rome fell.

Does any of this sound familiar?

The United States controls much of the world economy, for now. We have politicians who make a lot of money from their seats in government and always get re-elected. We have books of laws that establish one bureaucracy after another and no one knows what is legal or not anymore. Laws established over a hundred years ago are still in effect today even though they are not needed and have proven to be disastrous. We have a president that keeps pushing legislation through Congress on the basis of necessity and a mounting crisis. (First it was the economy, which still hasn’t recovered. Then it was health care. Soon it will be global warming and we will have a cap and trade bill. Next will be the lack of education among our youth and we will be forced to send our kids to school at age three and keep them there year round. And Obama’s latest, using the fear of a cyber attack to push for legislation that would give him control of the internet.)

But what has he, or our Congress, accomplished other than establishing another bureaucracy? They have yet to solve the problems that they created. We have an increasing deficit and our government continues to add to it while promising us that they will reduce it. For instance, Obama insists that we have a crisis in this country: people are uninsured. Therefore it is necessary for the government to step in and ensure that every American has health insurance.[iv] The end result is the passage of the House Health Care bill which will force everyone into a program they do not want and it will cost $1.055 trillion. And we are supposed to believe that this will not add to the deficit, or that it’s good for us?

Remember these words:

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.”  William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783

If we, the United States, are not careful, and refuse to return to our republican principles, we will suffer the same fate as Rome.

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”

Patrick Henry

October 23, 2009

Dear Mr. President,

Pardon me while I refuse to worship the very ground you walk on and refuse to sing praises to you. You already have a bunch of children indoctrinated by useful idiots to sing praises to a man who cares only for himself and his selfish gains. You must be proud that children are being taught to worship you. I’m sure you watch the video daily on You Tube with that smug smile on your face while fulfilling your constant need for praise and to be admired. These songs used to be sung to praise Jesus or America’s heritage. Now the lyrics have been changed to honor you, you who has done nothing to earn your lot in life. You are a tyrant who has betrayed this country so that you can bring about your socialist reforms all in the name of social justice. The ninth level of hell awaits you, sir, as it does all traitors.

But this praise does fall in line with the current school system in this country that rewards failure instead of success and you are failing to win the war in Afghanistan. General McChrystal has asked for more troops. Why have you not sent them? Why do you continue to piddle around with indecision? You meet with a war council to determine the proper strategy for Afghanistan when your general on the field has a strategy and undoubtedly informed you of it, assuming that you even bother to listen to him. You are not a military man, Mr. President, and neither are any of the members of your council. General McChrystal has a strategy and needs more troops to see it through. Send him the troops. We have a chance to win this war. Your indecision will cause us to lose. But, this is what you want, isn’t it? You talked about winning in Afghanistan during your presidential campaign and have yet to follow through. I do not think you ever had any intention of winning the war. Those speeches were a ploy to get you elected.

When was the last time you had a conversation with General McChrystal? February? Do you even care what he has to say about the situation in Afghanistan? He is the General leading our men and women against the terrorists in Afghanistan and unless you have someone better able to do the job, I suggest you listen to him and give him what he needs to win. Considering your lack of leadership, it is unlikely that you could appoint anyone to do a better job than General McChrystal.

Let me get to the real reasons why you refuse to send General McChrystal more troops:

1. It would make General McChrystal the center of attention, thus taking the spotlight away from you.

2. It would mean a stronger stance on the War On Terror; something you are afraid of doing. You do not even call this the War on Terror anymore. You pander to the Islamic world; frightened of angering the poor little Muslims. (Unless you have secretly retained your Muslim identity and therefore are helping them take over Western Civilization by weakening the United States.)

3. Following General McChrystal’s advice would prove that George Bush was correct in invading Iraq and Afghanistan. This would go against your desire to ruin your predecessor by constantly blaming him for your troubles and for a needless war. You knew what you were inheriting when you first campaigned for the presidency. What the nation is currently suffering now is a direct result of YOUR policies. You are incapable of accepting responsibility for your actions. Instead, you continue to blame Bush and ram legislation down America’s throat that will result in bloating the size of the Federal government, a bigger deficit, higher taxes, higher unemployment, less jobs in the private sector, and a collapsed economy as America’s prosperity weakens and the vulturous nations of the world pick us apart.

4. You do not want to win in Afghanistan. A victory would mean a stronger and more powerful America. You do not want America to be strong. Your refusal to do what needs to be done in Afghanistan is proof enough. But you have also vowed to disarm the United States of her nuclear weapons at a time when our enemies have grown bolder and show no fear of retaliation from us should we be attacked. The closing of Gitmo without any plan of what to do with its prisoners and the pulling out of Iraq before we even finished freeing them from the terrorists that moved there are other examples of your wish to weaken the U.S.

It appears that the only war you are waging is that on freedom of speech, the press, and the right of the people to openly oppose you. For now your focus has been discrediting Fox News. Your problem with Fox News is the fact that they are reporting the facts about ACORN’s corruption, its influence on you, and that it will receive federal money thanks to your “stimulus” bill. Fox News continues to report the number of czars you continue to appoint without senate approval, save for maybe 9 of the 35. Fox reports who these czars are, their radical ideas and rantings, and how they are the ones advising you. They report on the special interests that will benefit from you Health Care Bill: SEIU, ACORN, the Drug Companies that gave $100 million to support your socializing of medicine.[i] Fox News even reports the promises that you have broken thus far. They are the only news organization that is critical of you. And you cannot stand criticism. Your disdain for Fox News, and any opposition, comes through in your speeches. Your press secretary, Robert Gibbs, treats the Fox News correspondent with disgust and continually demonstrates his loathing for Fox. His haughty reference to Glen Beck’s and Sean Hannity’s shows on Fox portrays his hatred of the dissenting opinion offered by the network.

You hate Beck and Hannity because they report what the media will not, but they freely tell people what they think of you and any politician who is endangering this country. You and your ilk have yet to refute any of their claims. If what they say if false, present the evidence. Instead you engage in character assassination. You attempt to make people feel guilty for listening to them. None of you can prove that Fox News has made false claims.

Let us face the facts, Mr. President. You hate Fox News because they, unlike the other networks, refused to bow before you and worship at your feet. You hate Fox because they report the news whether it makes you look good or bad. You hate them because they offer shows with more conservative viewpoints than what ABC or NBC has to offer. But most importantly, you hate Fox News because people are listening to them and waking up. People are no longer remaining ignorant of what you and your minions are doing in Washington. These same people are wondering if they made the right choice in voting for you. These people are getting together in open opposition to the direction you wish to take America. Fox News is a messenger that refused to fall in line with your demands. They are a messenger that people are listening to. People like you thrive on the ignorance of others. Therefore you have waged war against Fox in the hopes of killing the messenger and forcing people to once again be subjected to the beat of the Marxist drum.

So you have had people from your administration accusing Fox News of being an arm of the GOP, a form of talk radio, or more commentary and therefore not a real news organization like CNN. By painting Fox as an opinion piece, you are hoping people will dismiss them as rhetoric. Your tactics have had the opposite effect. Fox’s ratings have skyrocketed and continue to climb. Continue on your course if you will. The more you attack Fox News, the more people listen to them. For a man who was trumped up as being intelligent your common sense is lacking.

Talk radio is also under attack by you and your people. Your efforts to reinstate the so called Fairness Doctrine under a different name is an effort to silence those like Rush Limbaugh by limiting the number of conservative voices allowed on the airwaves if not eradicating them completely. You state that there aren’t enough liberal voices on talk radio and that it’s just unfair. Well, Mr. President, that is how the free market works. People tune into talk radio for the conservative viewpoint and the bits of news they cannot find anywhere else. Why would people wish to listen to whiny liberals on talk radio when they can listen to them all day on every street corner and when they are forced to listen to the likes of you, Pelosi, and Reid every night on ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC?

There are other targets in your sights. Those individuals who oppose you and have begun questioning you and your policies. You and your ilk dismissed the Tea Party goers as ignorant, racist, homophobic rednecks acting in accordance with Fox News, talk radio, and the GOP. Naturally you have no evidence to back up your claims. The Tea Party participants are average folk who are tired of being lied to, tired of being used by people like you, and tired of the government doing whatever it pleases with no regard for the health of the country and the liberties it is charged to protect. The U.S. Constitution was written to shield people from the government and radical politicians such as you, Mr. President. Quit circumventing it.

Lastly, there are your attempts to control the internet. All of those individual bloggers who question you and report news stories that NBC &c. will not. The internet breathed new life into conservatives allowing them to voice their views and find others who felt and thought as they do. It provided an outlet to escape the hum drum of progressives. They are able to refute the progressive movement which has sickened American since the late 1800s. Mr. President, you have been pushing for legislation that will allow you control over the internet in an attempt to silence the opposition there. (Siezing power over those businesses that conduct commerce over the internet would be an added bonus.) If you silence the bloggers you can isolate them and make conservatives feel alone and fearful of standing against you.

All of these measures are a direct violation of the first amendment. I do not expect a tyrant like you to care about such violations. You have disregarded the U.S. Constitution your entire political career by voting for legislation that expanded government, when you did bother to vote while in the Senate. Marxists, such as yourself, cannot stand dissenting opinion.

Mr. President, you have an insatiable need to be loved, admired, and worshipped the way those school children are being taught to do. So you do what you do best. You attempt to take away people’s rights, rights that are not of man. You take away individual choice by eliminating the free market through imposed regulations.

But be warned, Mr. President. You may win, but it will only be a Pyrrhic victory. History has shown that traitors and tyrants meet bitter ends.

Sincerely,

Lady Liberty

September 18, 2009

Dear Mr. President,

Your speech to Congress on the 9^th was nothing more than a rehash of the weekly primetime speeches you have given promoting you health care bill. You love to say that we are in the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” But there you are wrong. The 1970s under Carter’s failed administration were far worse than what we are facing now. Then there was double digit unemployment, rising inflation, cost of gas and oil rose exponentially.

You continue to talk about the success of your stimulus bill. Well, if an unemployment rate of 9.7%, money going to ACORN, pig farms, and the building of nonexistent infrastructure is success then I congratulate you. You succeeded in failing to revive the economy. But then, economic revival was not your goal was it? Your bill was designed to waste money and fund government programs meant to keep people dependent on the government. It was meant to make people desperate so that when you proposed universal healthcare we would accept it. But it didn’t work. Yes, unemployment is up and we are far from economic recovery, but we do not want government healthcare. Many have learned what it entails and the sacrifices we would have to make, but you politicians get to avoid it. The people have learned that the proposed health care bill has nothing to do with ensuring people have access to health care, which they already do, but has everything to do with controlling the economy. You know as well as I that if the government controls 1/6 of the economy and controls the health of the people, it controls the nation and its people. The people will be slaves for your government regime. That is something Americans do not want.

You are shocked by the protests and are speechless. You first claimed you knew nothing about it. When that didn’t work you played the race card painting the protesters as dumb, ignorant, hillbilly, right wing, Nazi loving, racist extremists. (Or at least your supporters did and you never condemned them for saying such things.) When that didn’t work, you and your people insisted that we are the minority and that the “silent majority” support you. The thing is, Mr. President, we are the silent majority, but we are silent no more.

You accuse the opposition of using scare tactics in order to stop reform. All we have done is tell the truth about what has happened in other countries that have done what you propose. It is you who is using scare tactics. You portray our current health system as a crisis. You are telling the American people that we need your health reform in order to avert catastrophe. You did the same thing when it came to passing you stimulus bill. You portrayed our current economic situation as a crisis. You droned into our heads the belief that if the government didn’t do something, we would go bankrupt, unemployment would go up, more jobs would be lost, more homes foreclosed on. Well, the people listened and allowed you to pass you Recovery Act, as you are now calling it, and the country is bankrupt, the deficit is higher than ever, more jobs have been lost, unemployment nearly doubled, and more homes have been foreclosed on. You took a crisis that did not exist and turned it into one giant mess. Now you want to do the same with our health care system.

Whenever the government gets involved in the free market, it chokes it, until the government is the only one left to provide what the private sector used to. You know this, and that is your goal. So you and your cronies dismiss us as liars and as a violent angry mob. The truth of the matter is, Mr. President, you fear us. You are afraid of the people. You fear an armed uprising. The truth is you have an insatiable need for everyone to love you. You have an enormous ego and need people to worship you.

You say that you do not want Canada’s system of health care. Then why are you pushing for a bill that creates exactly that? You are attempting to play the moderate who isn’t for a complete takeover of the health care system, but is for tighter regulations on insurance companies. In the end, no one knows what you are for or against. But again we know the truth, don’t we? You are, and always have been, for complete government takeover of the health care system because once you get control of that it will be easy to take control of everything else.

You brought up Theodore Roosevelt in an attempt to garner support for your supposed reform. However, Theodore Roosevelt never specifically called for health reform. In 1912, he did run on the Progressive Platform for president and one of their platforms was universal healthcare. However, the people voted against it then and have ever since.

You constantly talk about the increasing cost of health care and how people are being forced to pay for “somebody else’s emergency room and charitable care.” Well, isn’t that what your universal health care would do? Government run health care forces people to pay for someone else’s health care. Government welfare is forced charity.

The bill you propose will dictate how much coverage insurance companies will have to provide, whom they can cover, whom they cannot, and put price controls on prescription medication. These measures will force insurance and drug companies out of business. These are businesses. They have to make a profit to stay in business. They have the right to cover whom they choose and to put caps on how much they will cover. But by forcing these companies to provide more than they can afford you force them to close.

Next you propose a bill that requires everyone to carry insurance whether they want to or not. This is not freedom of choice. This ensures that everyone will be on the government plan because those who lose their insurance when their current provider disappears will be forced onto what the government offers.

The thing is, not carrying insurance, companies denying coverage, drug companies wanting to make a profit, these are not the causes of the increase cost of health care. Part of the cause is newer technology and innovation. But the real culprit is the government. Government regulation of insurance companies forces their premiums to rise. Medicare and Medicaid are government run insurance programs. The bureaucracy they created and the amount of paper work that has to be filed takes money. This is where the waste is. The majority of the waste is on the part of the government, not individual people or companies.

You want us to believe that a health bill costing nearly $900 billion dollars will not add to the deficit. Tell me, how can spending $900 billion when we have no money not add to the deficit. Mr. President, you are spending money we do not have. It will add to the deficit. Do not insult our intellect. You say spending cuts will pay for this. What cuts? What government spending will be cut to pay for it? Once again you cannot give us specifics. Only generalities.

It is ironic that you would mention that the “unique and wonderful things about America has always been our self-reliance, our rugged individualism, our fierce defense of freedom and our healthy skepticism of government.” You are correct. These qualities are what make America great. Yet at the same time you are a hypocrite. You are proposing a bill that will kill these characteristics. You are proposing a bill that will make Americans dependent on the government, stripping away our individualism and liberty and stretching the government far beyond the boundaries that our Founders intended.

You talk about a collective responsibility earlier in your speech that Americans have to provide affordable health care for all. You said that we all share the costs, the responsibility, the successes and failures. You say that social justice is the character of our country. Social justice is code for socialism and redistribution of wealth. Social justice is the antithesis of freedom, rugged individualism, and the American character. Social Justice led to Social Security and Medicare, two programs that you claim are great achievements. Mr. President, they are utter failures. After nearly 70 years Social Security went bankrupt; after 40 Medicare has suffered the same fate. And they are but the tip of the iceberg.

Your speech, like so many others you have given in the past, was nothing more than pious rhetoric. You intend to fool the public with deceptive altruism. Mr. President, when are you going to stop campaigning and start leading? Anyone can deliver a speech especially when they have a teleprompter in front of them. In the past three years you have taken the campaigning to a fine art. But not everyone can lead. To be a leader you must be honest, honorable, possess integrity, and sacrifice (privately). You are none of these. Mr. President, you are nothing but a soulless man in a fancy suit.

Sincerely,

Lady Liberty

The past several months have been filled with disturbing coincidences. These coincidences coincide with the principles of Marxism. Looking back on history and comparing it to recent events there is a pattern. For the past 76 years or more the United States has slowly moved toward socialism. The people never noticed because the move has been slow and behind the scenes until now. Since Obama took the oath of office he has set about to complete the task and is doing it at an exponential rate.

Obama said during the election that he would “remake America.” And he is. The problem is, most people thought that the change Obama promised us was to remove the special interest, stop out of control government spending, implement fiscal responsibility on Washington’s part, and more economic freedom, all of which has been lacking for decades. Instead, Obama brought Chicago politics to D.C. and is turning the United States into the Socialist’s dream. We have more special interests than ever in Washington, Congress continues to spend what they do not have and Obama urges them to do it. Obama has surrounded himself by Marxists (his czars and advisors) people who would never be elected to anything.

Barack Obama is following the steps to socialism as laid out in The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. (The Communist Manifesto pp. 30)

The Stimulus Bill Obama signed into law destroyed private property. The government took over ownership of General Motors, and Chrysler a few months later. After taking ownership of the two companies, the Obama administration fired their CEOs and appointed new ones. The guy appointed to head GM has had no experience in managing a company or any business experience. On top of that, dealerships that had contracts with GM or Chrysler were shut down. Many of these dealerships had belonged to families for 10, 20, even 30 years or more. Also, the majority of these dealerships that were closed by the government were profitable. The ones that lost money annually were allowed to remain open. These dealerships were privately owned businesses that just happened to have a contract deal with GM or Chrysler. The government refused to allow them to sell their stock. Eventually some of these dealerships were allowed to reopen, but only as used car lots. Many are still closed because they lost too much money when the government took over the two car companies.

Now Obama is pushing for a bill that will allow him to take over the internet and shut down privately owned businesses that conduct commerce on the internet in case of a national emergency.[i] This bill would give him a “kill switch” which would “shut down online traffic by seizing private networks.” This is all being done to prevent a “cyber-emergency.” However, the government fails to define what a cyber-emergency is. If this bill passes, all Obama has to do is declare a state of emergency and he can shut down the internet and all privately owned networks. This also means that businesses that conduct transactions online will be shut down as well as people’s emails and private correspondence. Social Networks such as Facebook would be closed. This bill gives the president overwhelming power over the internet and people’s private lives. (And is similar to what China has.)

This bill would also require national licensing standards for “cybersecurity professional.” Most of those in cybersecurity work for privately owned companies. Our internet security is very effective in protecting against hackers and malicious internet viruses. We have never had an internet threat and the likelihood of there being one is slim. But one thing is certain, if the government takes over the internet, its quality will disappear, internet security will decrease, and the likelihood of an internet threat will increase. The government can use this newfound power to hack into people’s bank records, medical records, emails, and business records.

This government takeover is unconstitutional and violates the principles of American freedom. One of these principles is the right to property and to keep the fruits of one’s labor. When the Obama administration took over GM and Chrysler and people’s own private businesses, it violated this principle. But they do not care because they believe that America is an evil country that must be destroyed. They believe that the rich should be stripped of their wealth, except they themselves refuse to give up their own wealth.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax

We have had a progressive income tax since the nineteen teens, since the days of Woodrow Wilson. Every year, Americans pay more in taxes and are allowed to keep very little for themselves. We already pay about 35%-39% of out income to the Federal government. After that we still have to pay taxes to our local state, county, district, and city. By the time all these groups are done taking “their share”, you have probably paid roughly 60% of your income in taxes alone. Also, every service you use and product you buy is taxed. That leaves very little to live off of.

Obama wants to raise the Federal Income Tax to 60%. And he will if Congress lets him. Supposedly this tax increase will pay for universal health care. But we all know that the Federal Government never spends our tax dollars on what they say they will. It always goes to some bureaucracy or pads the pocket of some politician. Canadians pay about 80% of their income to the state in taxes and their government run medical system is bankrupt. So is the country.

Why should we have to pay so much of our hard earned money to the government? We shouldn’t. The less the government gets, the better. No one should have to pay a higher percentage in taxes just because they earn more. Being pushed into a higher tax bracket negates the purpose of getting a bonus, a pay raise, or extra income of any kind because the government just takes it.

The point of a graduated income tax is to leave as little money as possible in the hands of the people. The less an individual has, the more he is dependent on the government for help.

3. Abolition of all right of inheritance

The estate tax is an attempt on that. When you die, the government taxes whatever you try to pass on as an inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

Obama’s administration is trying to paint anyone who does not agree with him as right wing extremists, terrorists, or even rebels. Janet Napolitano basically called the Tax Day Tea Party attendees a bunch of gun-toting terrorists. If they succeed, there is nothing to stop them from taking the property of these people and arresting them. By confiscating the property of those who might rebel against the state, the government has stopped a rebellion before it ever began.

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

The FDIC passed by Franklin Roosevelt was one of the first steps in bringing the banks under government control. Now with the bailout money that the Obama administration has given to the banks, many of them are controlled by the government. That money came with strings attached. Some of the banks that received TARP money tried to pay it back, but the government refused to take it. Once a corporation, business, or an individual takes money from the Federal Government, they are indebted to it forever.

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.

If the state controls the means of communication and the transport, then they control what you say to your friends and family and where you are allowed to move to within the country. The state will also know what you are saying and thinking and they will know where you are at all times.

The proposed bill to give Obama the authority to shut down the internet is a means to controlling communication, considering that most people communicate by email of social networking.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

A possible example could be the Environmental policies that ban the drilling for oil in areas that are deemed to have an endangered species. For example, Anwar up in Alaska and the ban on offshore drilling.

Another example is that our farms are under government control through subsidies. These farm subsidies have been in place since the 1930s. The modern farmer is forced to take a subsidy because of the price controls imposed by the federal government. If farmers did not take the subsidy they would be forced to raise the price of their crops and would not be able to compete against the subsidized produce that is sold at a lower price. (This is why Organic produce costs more in the grocery store. Many organic farmers do not take government subsidies.) Farmers are forced to give a percentage of their crops to the government every year. Supposedly these crops are used in the production of biofuels such as ethanol, but most of it sits in a storehouse until it rots and becomes unfit to eat. Farmers are also told by the government how many acres they are allowed to plant per crop. Federal agents are sent out to make sure that they are complying with regulations. The Federal Government mandates which pesticides and fertilizers farmers are allowed to use on their land. They are also forced to keep a certain acreage unplanted. Anyone who fails to comply with these mandates lose their subsidy and their farm.

Currently in California’s Central Valley farmers are losing money and their business because of some environmental regulation. There is a little fish that gets caught in the irrigation system that is used to water these farms. It has now been classified an endangered species. The irrigation system has been shut off, causing the cultivators to lose about 90% of their water.[ii] The farms are dying. The crops are dead because of lack of water. This part of California has been in a drought for years. These farms also produce a majority of the produce people buy in the grocery store. Since the government forced the destruction of these farms and the food produced, the cost of groceries is going to rise.

Many of these farmers have been forced onto unemployment because their farms are losing money and they are well on their way to bankruptcy. Farming is a business and these farmers have lost their livelihood due to government environmental regulations.

8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

Obama has stated repeatedly that he intends to establish a civilian task force that would be military trained and could be activated when a threat arises. This task force would be under the command of Barack Obama. (Can we say Hitler Youth? S.S.? Roman Emperors’ Praetorian Guard?) We do not need a civilian task force at the beck and call of the President. We have a military to protect this country from foreign threats. We have the FBI, U.S. Marshals, and local police to protect us from domestic threats.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.

As right of now the government does not appear to have gotten to this.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of child factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.

Though abolishing child labor is a good thing, Marx did not want it done because he cared about the children. He wanted children placed in a public school system controlled by the state so that all kids would be taught to worship the state, to look to the government for help, and to be good little Marxists. A great way to stamp out opposition is to teach children to not think independently, but to instead trust the government to think for them.

We have had a public school system since the beginning days of our country. However, for the longest time the schools were run by the local town or county. It wasn’t until the creation of the Department of Education that our schools fell under Federal control. Since then the quality of education has declined and continues to decline every year. We are graduating students from high school who cannot read, cannot do basic math, or even form a proper sentence. Many of our nation’s universities fare no batter. They are also under government control through government grants and loans. The majority of college graduates know less on graduation day than they did on their first day as a freshman.

Obama has given more money to unions, especially teachers’ union, and has shut down many charter schools. The teachers’ unions control the public schools. They are some of the biggest lobbyists in Congress. They spend more time demanding pay raises and that the schools comply with their demands, than they do educating students. As a result, we have teachers who are not teaching subjects like math or reading, in charge of educating our kids. Instead they teach global warming and that America is an evil, racist nation controlled by white supremacists.

The Charter Schools are privately run and the government has no control over them. They are producing students who can read, write, add, and think critically. Students from a charter school routinely outperform those in public school. The teachers at charter schools are required to meet academic standards or they are fired.

Compare this to a public school where the majority of the teachers belong to a union and cannot be fired despite what they do. As a result, we have public schools full of teachers who sit on their lazy butts teaching politically correct BS, and things like creative math and spelling. They have no incentive to educate their students because they are not punished for failing to do their job.

Why is Obama closing Charter schools that actually educate our children and expanding funding for a failed public school system? Simple, he wants America’s kids to be uneducated and ignorant because if they are, the government can tell them anything and they will believe it. Joseph Stalin once said that if a parent gave him their infant child, then in six years he would have a perfect Communist. Many in our Congress want to make preschool and kindergarten mandatory. This is so they can get their hands on your child at an earlier age. The earlier the government gets control over your child, the sooner they can train a future Marxist drone. This was the reasoning behind the Department of Education and Federal control over the school system.

Barak Obama is planning to give a speech to public schools on September 8, 2009. [iii] Supposedly he will be talking about working hard, setting goals, and the importance of education. However, students in grades pre-K-6 are being encouraged by the Department of Education to write letters to themselves on how they can help President Obama achieve his goals. These letters are to be collected and redistributed later in the year to see if the student kept his promise. In grades 7-12 students are going to be asked to ponder over excerpts from Obama’s speech and discuss how it affects them personally, how it aspires them, or challenges them. This is disturbing. It is one thing for the President to give a speech on the value of education, but to turn around and ask students to write letters on how they can help him, or to contemplate his “inspiring” word is fishy. It bears a resemblance to brainwashing children into accepting government policies and then using these kids to convince their parents to go along with the same laws.

Another aspect of Marxism is class warfare. Karl Marx describes history as nothing but a case of class warfare. This is a very clever move. Marx and Engels wrote their Manifesto for the poor working class. They wanted to enrage the poor to become angry with the rich and rise up against them. Marx and Engels believe the philosophy that what people have is not theirs to keep or do with as they choose. Your children are not yours to raise as you see fit. If you believe Marx and Engels then you will think that anything someone else has is rightfully yours. It gives you and those like you an excuse to take from those who are wealthy, whether they worked for it or not, and spread it to those who are too lazy to get off their rear ends and get a job and improve their own lives.

Class warfare is nothing new. It has been around since ancient times. Class warfare played a part in the French Revolution. King Louis XVI was an idiot. He did not know how to govern France. His people starved and lived in poverty while he threw one lavish party after another in his palace. The Aristocracy of France paid little attention to the needs of the peasants. As a result the peasantry rose up in revolt and overthrew the Aristocracy of France. However, things got out of hand really quick. People like Robespierre used the anger of the peasantry to gain control. He constantly fueled the wrath of the poor against the aristocracy. As a result France instituted a national blood bath where they beheaded anyone who was associated with the nobility in any way. A person could accuse their neighbor of helping the aristocracy without any proof. Those accused were killed and their property was divided up. Robespierre himself was eventually executed by one of his own guillotines. The French Revolution began as a revolt from the poor against the rich and gave way to an oligarchy where an elite group was in charge, until Napoleon Bonaparte took over and declared himself Emperor of France. The circumstances of the poor never improved. Many innocent people died.

Class warfare was seen again in the Bolshevik Revolution led by Vladimir Lenin. The peasants of Russia were already angry with Czar Nicholas. Lenin used that to his own advantage. He used the ire of the poor to overthrow the Czar and his family. The royal family was killed and Lenin proclaimed himself the new leader of Russia, changing the name to the United Soviet Socialist Republic. (Notice how every communist country claims to be a republic: People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, or North Korea calling itself the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, for example. None of these countries ever had a republic.)

Hitler and the Nazis also used class warfare. Germany after WWI was bankrupt. Many people lost their savings. The Jews in Germany were different. They have always been an industrious people. When they lost what little they had after WWI, they just found a way to earn a living by starting businesses, going to school to become better educated, and marketing what skills they had to make money so they and their families did not starve. Not all of the German people did this. Most wallowed in self pity. Hitler used their desperation and turned it to jealously against the wealthy Jews. He also used it to get elected Chancellor of Germany by promising hope and change. He said he would make Germany great again and that he would bring an end to their poverty.

F.D.R. used class warfare to a degree in order to bring about the New Deal and his precious Social Security. Unlike in Europe at this time, the progressives (who are socialists) in this country were not able to completely overthrow the American government and institute their Utopian dream. Instead, they used the Great Depression to implement government programs that are still in use today. They used people’s desperation to get elected to public office so they could slowly add to their government programs over the years. No we have a giant bureaucratic mess, career politicians who only care about themselves, a country that is bankrupt, and American freedom has been lost.

Today we have Barack Obama using the same class warfare technique to promote his health care plan. He used our desperation over the collapsing housing market to get elected promising us “Hope & Change,” or “Change We Can Believe In.” Instead we got “Despair and Pennies,” and “Poverty We Can Believe In.” He also used our frustration to ram through his stimulus bill which has only succeeded in making the economy worse. In every address Obama gives, his disdain for the rich, who are not liberal politicians, comes through. In many of his addresses concerning health care, Obama loves to tout the story of the poor single mom who can’t afford to take her children to the doctor, or how his grandmother died of cancer because she could not afford the chemotherapy drugs. (Of course, the fact that Obama never bothered to help his ailing grandmother is conveniently ignored.)

He talks about how the wealthiest Americans prosper off the backs of the poor, how the economy favors the wealthy, or how the wealthy never pay enough in taxes. The wealthy in America have always paid the majority of the taxes. A free market economy benefits everyone: wealthy, poor, and middle class. The only people making money off of the poor are politicians. People like Barak Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, even the late Ted Kennedy routinely use the downtrodden and their jealousy to ram through government programs that decreases the wealth of the rich and keeps the poor poverty stricken.

The thing is, Obama, like other statists, believes in equality for all, except for a select few. Those few are people like him, Pelosi, and anyone else who is in a position of power and ascribes to the “proper” political ideology. Obama is reshaping America into a country where we will have equal poverty and the political class of Washington D.C. will have control over us and our lives. This is something Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wanted.