Politics and Insights from History

Are we truly America anymore? Can we truly call ourselves Americans? When this country began as a bunch of colonies, the people were rugged individuals many of whom just wanted a better life. And this far away land offered the opportunity. Most who came endured hardship and failed. But they endured. Some did succeed whether moderately or extremely becoming wealthy land owners. They had no government assistance, no free education, no unemployment, and certainly no free medical care. But they had their individual freedom and their dignity. These Colonists were more American than we are today.

Today many of us depend on government to tell us what to do. Every day on the radio you can hear a public service announcement telling you something that should be common sense. We have books of rules and regulations that must be followed. And if you don’t follow them you face legal consequences. Want to start a business? You need a permit and a license and must fill out paperwork for both the state and federal level. Fall on hard times? Just go to the local unemployment office or sign up for welfare. And don’t worry about medical care because Obama took care of that back in 2010.

We used to be a nation that provided for ourselves instead of expecting someone else to provide for us. We were once a self-reliant people that didn’t need to be told how to care for our children or for ourselves. There was a time when we got to keep what we earned, but now if the government thinks you are too wealthy, they just raise your taxes and take it. Obama himself said that he thinks a person reaches a point where they’ve earned enough money. That’s not American. We were once allowed the opportunity to achieve a better life, but now we are denied that because certain politicians and bureaucrats think everyone ought to be guaranteed the same results.

We now are encouraged to celebrate the nationalities of others instead of our own. Illegal immigrants are allowed to go to our schools and work at our jobs without even becoming citizens. We are told to be sensitive to feelings of those from other cultures and made to feel guilty about being Americans.

We were once the land of the free and home of the brave. But with our country sinking deeper and deeper into debt, with a people who expect the state to take care of them, with mountains of taxes and regulations, and with a government that no longer knows its place we are quickly losing that. The United States represents the Byzantine Empire more than the original thirteen colonies that just wanted to be left alone to govern themselves and decide their own destiny. We are quickly losing our identity as Americans as we move toward being the land of the slaves and home of the cowards.

We need to decide for ourselves if we are still Americans: strong, independent, free, and peaceful.  Will we retain our identity as a free people to govern ourselves and live our own lives?  Or will we choose to become Europe and lose what liberty we have left?

Food prices are increasing. Gas prices are on the rise. The price of basic goods and services are also going up. Officially there is still a 9% unemployment rate in the country. (Though the number is probably closer to 20% if you were to add up all of the recently unemployed with those who have been out of work for over a year and have given up seeking employment.) And where is President Obama? Recently he was in Brazil on vacation with his family.

Why did he go to Brazil? What purpose did it serve? Once again, the White House assures us that the trip was necessary to promote American business abroad. Wasn’t this the same reason we were given for Obama’s trip to Asia? Did his dancing around with children in India and meeting with foreign dignitaries really promote American business in Asia? No, it did not. No Asian company wants to build a manufacturing plant within the U.S. and many American businesses are closing their factories and moving to Asia. The American dollar continues to decline, while China is quickly gaining prominence in the world and may soon outrank the U.S. as a world superpower. This hardly helps the United States and Americans who are witnessing their pocketbooks getting smaller while the cost of living skyrockets.

The outcome will be the same for this trip to Brazil. While there, Obama pledged U.S. assistance by lending technology and support to help Brazil expand their oil reserves and their offshore drilling. The president’s reasoning is that if we help Brazil increase their oil production, then the U.S. can purchase oil from them instead of Saudi Arabia. As he was quoted, “And when you’re’ ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.”

Someone in the White House should explain how this promotes American interests, or helps the economy. In 2008, one of Obama’s many campaign promises was to lessen American dependence on foreign oil. There are no “green jobs” or “green energy” sources in the U.S. It is guaranteed that if you buy a solar panel, it was made in China. Buying oil in Brazil is still being dependant on foreign oil. Gas prices, shipping costs, and grocery prices will continue to be high.

America would be better served if Obama took the technology and support he promised Brazil and used it to build oil reserves, oil refineries, and offshore oil rigs in the U.S. If we drilled for our own oil in places like ANWR and offshore, we would eliminate our need for foreign oil. We should be expanding our own oil reserves and refineries, not Brazil’s. We should also begin building nuclear power plants that provide more efficient energy to households and businesses than coal or oil. These actions alone would be more than enough to provide for our needs and make the United States self-sufficient energy wise. Gas and oil prices would drop. Food prices would decrease. Productive jobs would be created at a time when we desperately need them. The economy would grow and we could end the recession. (Less taxes on business, corporation, and individuals would help too.

The truth is, Obama’s trip to Brazil was nothing more but an excuse for him to go on vacation at a time when we need our President here doing his job. Why else would he take his family? Obama could have invited the President of Brazil to come to the U.S., or conversed with him on the phone if it was really important to talk with him. If this trip to Brazil was all business, why take the family and why go to certain tourist sites? As the President of the United States ,Obama should practice more restraint when he take trips around the world considering that American taxpayers are paying the tab. It would be nice if he would heed his own advice and tighten his belt. It would be better if his actions actually helped America and not him.

In a time when people claim to want unity, we seem to increasing divide ourselves in America I am not speaking of politics or religion. Most people can have differing viewpoints and still get along. The division I speak of is our modern tendency to hyphenate ourselves. Very few people regard themselves as just plain American.

Ask anyone to refer to a black man and they will say that he is an African-American. What makes him an African-American? Did he recently emigrate from Africa? What if that same man emigrated from England? Wouldn’t that make him a European-American? Must we assume that a man is African in origin just because he is black? How can any man, or woman, be African when he never set foot in Africa? The bigger question is: why is he not just an American? No one can be both African and American at the same time.

How many times have you applied for a job and the application asks for your race? When applying for college you are asked for your ethnicity. The 2010 census even wanted to know your racial origin. Race is more of an issue today in America than at any other time because we insist on dividing ourselves according to skin color. There was a time when individuals immigrated to America and adopted the American way of life. That is not to say that they did not keep some of the traditions from their home country. But, they did not force others to accept those traditions. Immigrants who came here adopted America and gladly took the title American, severing all ties with their home land. They made certain that their children were educated in American schools, teaching them to be Americans and to love their adoptive country. But all of that has changed.

Today many native born Americans shun their own country. They prefer to align themselves with other cultural identities. This trend has been fueled by progressives and the politically correct crowd. Our media, representatives, and popular culture encourages people to think of themselves as anything other than uniquely American. Instead we use terms such as, African-American, European-American, Chinese-American, Mexican-American, Native American (referring to American Indians), or Turkish-American, and the list goes on.

I am a Native American. Anyone born and raised in America, assuming their parents are American citizens, is a Native American. A native of any land or area is a person who is born and raised there. America is my home. I have spent my entire life in America. Why must my skin be of a certain color in order for me to be considered as such?

Our politically correct society has made us proud to be anything other than American. We celebrate black pride or Hispanic pride, but never American pride. Even our president finds it difficult to celebrate American holidays. (Have you noticed how on days that are important to Americans, President Obama is out of the country or on vacation?) Is being an American so shameful that we must shun it?

There are illegal immigrants all over the country who are proud to be illegal. They get all of the benefits of being an American, yet refuse to become Americans. In public schools, especially in California, bilingual classes are offered. Why? Because they have huge Hispanic population, most of whom are illegal. Instead of forcing the students to learn English and adopt the American way of life, we cater to them and enforce the idea that they do not need to integrate. Call any 800 number and you will have to press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish, 3 for French, etc. Such measures breed division.

This tendency to segregate ourselves with hyphenated terms keeps us alienated. The saying, “Divided we fall” is very true. We must unite as Americans under the stars and stripes, proud of our country despite its flaws. Forsake the hyphenated terms and the notion that we must segregate ourselves according to race. Regardless or of our differences, we must stand together as Americans united in the belief that every individual has certain inalienable rights that come not from any mortal being or government, but from God.

When someone mentions that we live in a socialistic society, people demand to know where it is. Others say, “Are we not free? My freedoms have not been lost.” They do not realize that their freedoms are an illusion. Because we do not live in a totalitarian state where men in uniforms patrol the streets arresting any they deem a dissenter we believe that we are free. But who needs armed guards when the minds of the people are imprisoned? Train a monkey to not go beyond a certain point on the floor and you will not need bars because the animal will accept that it cannot go past that limit. The animal’s mind accepts its corner and forgets about what lies beyond. The monkey will not view itself as a prisoner as long it is free to do what it wills within its corner of the room. So long as the animal’s belly is full and it is warm, it will not bother going beyond the line drawn on the floor. This is the state we as Americans are in.

We leave our homes when we choose. We have plenty of food and shelter. We buy the products we want to buy. And most of us are satisfied. But when we are unemployed we run to the unemployment line to collect a check from the government. When the housing market collapsed in 2008, we ran to the government to bail it out. The government provides for our retirement through the mandated Social Security program. Through Medicare, the federal government established itself as the caretaker of the medical needs of the old.

Now with the passage of Obamacare, it has extended that provision to all ages. No one can opt out. There is the illusion of free market solutions with the insurance exchanges, but since the government determines who can participate in those exchanges, it is hardly free. The health care bill establishes an insurance mandate. Individuals no longer have the choice of not carrying insurance. It also dictates that once a person reaches a certain age, he must go through end of life counseling, also deemed death panels by some. Death panel or not, the fact that people must participate in this sort of counseling is troubling. Not only is it mandated, but what else does this “end of life” counseling entail. All employers are mandated to provide health insurance for their employees. Again, there is no opt out option. Lack of choice equals lack of freedom.

The FDA tells us if certain medications are safe and has set itself up as the sole source of what is a drug and what isn’t. People rely on the USDA to inform them if food is safe to eat. Whatever happened to determining it for themselves? Then, there are the number of welfare programs for the poor: housing assistance, federal financial aid for college, food programs for public schools, Medicaid, food stamps, Head Start, Low-income energy assistance, Nutrition programs for the elderly, Indian Health Services, AFDC, Jobs Corps, Food Supplements for low- income women and children, Social Services, rural housing loans, low rent public housing, summer youth employment, Pell Grants, unemployment insurance, and any federal grant to name a few. These programs are paid for by tax dollars taken from those who actually work and attempt to provide for themselves. Lately the government has passed regulations to “fix” a problem even when the people tell it not to.

As a nation, we have forgotten how to provide for ourselves. Many run to the government for help at the first sign of trouble. Others turn to government assistance because it is easy and viewed as “free money”. Individuals no longer look to themselves for a solution to their problems.

Only a truly independent people can achieve liberty. Americans need to take back their independence. This does not involve hosting childish rebellions, or riots of any sort. To free ourselves from this bureaucratic socialism we live in, we must first liberate our minds from the prisons we have placed them in. We must shed much of what we accept as normal and necessary. Most importantly, we must shake ourselves of the notion that we deserve entitlements and that government is there to provide for us. As individuals we must learn to think critically and question those who insist that only government can save us from a crisis. We need to rid ourselves of the idea that a group of people we do not know are more capable of caring for us, than we are of caring for ourselves. When we the people start charting out own course; when we stand up to the government and declare “No more.” then we begin to break free of the psychological cell that we have rooted ourselves in.

Once again a madman grabbed a gun and started shooting at a crowd of people. Among them was a Congresswoman Giffords. And once again the major media and those on the left are using this tragedy to push for censorship via the FCC and the Fairness Doctrine and they are pushing for more Gun Control. Also, many on the left are blaming Conservatives and the Tea Party movement for the tragedy. These baseless accusations started immediately. None of them bothered to wait for an investigation into the shooting and learn the truth about the shooter Jared Lee Loughner.

Keith Olberman did a nine minute speech on how the gun metaphors on the right need to be put away. In his speech he names names of those who have used these gun metaphors and how it led to Loughner’s shooting. Among the names he mentions are: Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Sharon Angle, and Glenn Beck. All of them conservatives. Olberman neglects to mention any specifics concerning hateful left wing attacks on opponents.

Chris Matthews accused the gun rhetoric on the right for inciting this man to violence as well. James Clayburn has said that Loughner was practicing Angle’s “second amendment remedies.”  Many are accusing Sarah Palin of inciting Loughner to shoot people simply because she had a map with Democratic districts with cross-hairs.  There’s no mention of the fact that in the 2004 election Democrats used the same kind of map putting Republican districts in cross-hairs.

The truth is Jared Lee Loughner acted of his own accord. He had been showing up at Giffords’ events since 2007. He was not influenced by any political rhetoric on the the right. It has come out that among his list of favorite books was The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf. He had a history of psychiatric problems and was turned away by the Army because of it. The guy was crazy. He and he alone is responsible for the Tucson tragedy.

One thing missing from all of this is objectivity and truth. The media is ready to point fingers at Conservatives and their love of guns whenever tragedy happens. But the truth is most of the perpetrators in these incidents are liberal. They ascribe to the liberal ideology. Remember the Unabomber?  What about John Hinckley, Jr. who shot Reagan?  Or Lee harvey Oswald who murdered J.F.K.?  They were all basically Marxists. Also the media conveniently ignores hateful speech that comes from those on the left. Remember all of the anti-Bush rallies? What about the smear attacks on Sarah Palin and her family? And let’s not forget the attacks on the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh.

Here is a list of some of the “peaceful” left’s actions against their opponents:

• During the town hall meetings of 2009 a bunch of SEIU members beat up a black man who was selling patriotic American memorabilia.
• Obama saying that people ought to bring a gun to a knife fight. He also called Republicans “hostage takers” back in December.
• Sandra Bernard saying that if Palin came to New York she’d be “ganged raped by her black brothers” back in 2008.
• Pictures on left wing blogs of George Bush with a gun pointed to his head.
• T-shirts that say “Kill Bush”.
• Anti-Bush rallies where people held signs promoting the shooting of him.
• Abort Sarah Palin pictures
• Playboy’s article about conservative women they would like to “hate f**k”.
• Wanda Sykes saying she hopes Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys fail.
• Montel Williams saying that Michelle Bachman should basically slit her throat.
• Liberal blogger Jane Hamsher saying “The bitch is dead meat” about conservative writer/author Kate O.Beirne.
• Reverend Wright stating, “In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”
• Joy Behar on The View speaking about Sharon Angle, “Come here, bitch. Come to New York.”
• The voter intimidation incident by the New Black Panthers.
• The hateful rants by the New Black Panthers: “You want freedom, you’re gonna have to kill some crackers. You’re gonna have to kill some of their babies.”

No one one the left is upset over any of these statements.  But When Sharon Angle used the term “second amendment remedies” they went nuts.  Call Obama a socialist and they cry foul.  Try wearing fur at a PETA rally or wave a photo of Charlton Heston with a gun and the left goes crazy.  Can we say hypocrisy?

Representative Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) is now pushing a bill through Congress that will regulate the type of ammunition that can be purchased, specifically the ones used by Loughner. The reasoning on the left seems to be that if there were laws restricting the kind of ammunition a person can buy, then Laughner never would have been able to commit his horrible act of violence. What many gun control advocates fail to realize Is that if a person wishes to commit murder, or any heinous act like the Arizona massacre, no amount of laws will stop them. Arizona’s lax gun laws are not to blame. Loughner could have just as easily started attacking people with a knife. He went to the Safeway with the intent to kill and that is what he did. Punishing honest citizens with more regulations will not solve the problem.

Because of this attack, many on the left are calling for tighter regulations concerning speech over the airwaves. Since they are blaming “gun metaphors”, or any kind of ranting, from the right for this tragedy, they want to use this to push the Fairness Doctrine again. They reason that hate speech from the right caused this so we need to censor that sort of speech.

The sad part of this whole incident is that the left is using this to push their agenda. This tactic is nothing new. Liberals have always looked for ways to push gun control and to shut up their opponents. They have always used tragedies to push their views on everyone. After Columbine they pushed gun control and blamed conservatives. They did the same thing after the school shooting in Arkansas back in the 90s. (It is interesting how the left still remains silent concerning the Ft. Hood massacre in which Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim and an Al Queda sympathizer, decided to open fire on a military base killing 12 and wounding 31.  We were even told not to jump to conclusions over the shooter’s motives.)  Until liberals start condemning the hatred that spills from them, they cannot condemn any hatred from some on the right.

It is despicable the blame game that the left is playing. Is the Arizona shooting tragic? Yes. No descent human being ever wants an incident like this to happen. Are conservatives to blame? No. The act was committed by a man who is certifiably insane. Only he should be punished. We do not need more regulation of any kind. And frankly, we should quit dwelling on it.

The election is less than a week away and the time has come for many of us to decide how we will vote on November 2.  There are only two choices.  I do not mean Democrat and Republican.  Our choices are:

1. Vote for the Constitution, limited government, lower taxes, a return to sanity, and liberty

2. Vote for bigger government, high taxes, mounting debt, and slavery

Those are the choices.  If you love being enslaved to the welfare state, then by all means keep the same idiots in Congress.  But do not complain when the cost of living increases due to inflation and our dollar loses value.  But if you value your individual freedom and the Constitution, then vote for the person that upholds it and promotes limited government.  And then hold them to that promise.  We the people have failed to hold politicians to their promises.  They promise us anything and everything (some border on the obscene) and each time we allow them to get away with it.

But, there you have it.  On Nov. 2, and on each election afterward, you have to vote between liberty and slavery.  So which will you choose?

Here is a video (posted as five) that was made back in 2009.  It accurately explains what the U.N. is what its goals are.  Remember, Woodrow Wilson wanted the United States to be part of the League of Nations, the precursor for the U.N.  Wilson was a progressive, a socialist.  He, like many of our current politicians, believed the U.S. sovereignty should end and the the United States should cease to be a super power and prosperous.  The Devastation of WWII was used to bring back the idea of a world governing body, the United Nations, and the U.S. approved our membership.  Since its creation, the United Nations has achieved an incredible amount of power over the world.  It is also controlled by power hungry dictators who hate the United States.

The idea of a on world government is nothing new.  Alexander the Great conquered all of the known world and forced it under his control.  Rome set out to conquer the world and control it.  Now the United Nations wishes to control the world.

If you really wish to know the goals of the United Nation, watch this video.  America is dangerously close to losing her freedom.  As the Federal Government sets out to take more and more control, so do the people within set out to sell our sovereignty to the United Nations.  This may sound outrageous, but it is the truth.  Watch the video and think about what has been going on within the past twenty years.  Remember the G-20 summit in Copenhagen?  It was done in the name of saving the environment.  But what was really in that treaty that Obama was so eager to sign?  Remember the Kyoto Treaty that would heavily tax the United States, and then give that wealth to communist dictators in third world countries?  The goal of the socialists in the U.S., and the goal of the U.N. is to destroy rich nations like the United States and force everyone in the world into poverty, while they decide how, who, and what will live.

Here is a video that accurately explains the prosperity of the 1920s and how Harding helped lead to that prosperity.  Our modern politicians could learn a lot from Harding and Coolidge.   Enjoy the video.

“Global Climate Disruption”. Can anyone tell me what that means? Probably not. Basically, it is the White House’s new term for Global Warming. John Holdren, the science czar, stated that this new terminology accurately conveys the threat to the environment better than the term Global Warming. This coming from someone who works with the same set of people that brought us “Man Caused Disaster” and “Overseas Contingency Operation”.

This name change is nothing new among Socialists. It is what they do to keep their destructive agenda alive. President Obama wants a climate change/energy bill and thus far Congress has failed to deliver it. The fact that the bill has not passed yet, is good news for the American people.

Why has the bill not passed? It is because the American public has caught on to the scam of “Global Warming” and the fact that power hungry politicians have used it to push for more government control. Remember, come 2012 we will no longer be allowed to purchase the incandescent light bulb. This is only one example of the abuse of government power and how “Global Warming” was used to achieve it. But the average person no longer believes that “Global Warming” is really an apocalyptic threat. Nor is it man made. And even if it is worth our attention, we do not want the government to solve the problem.

When people no longer accept their lies, Socialists change their jargon. The switch to “Global Climate Disruption” is no accident. They are hoping to use this new expression to not only confuse the people, but to continue to convince them that the Earth is in danger and that the government needs to step in and save us all. After all, they did such a superb job of rescuing the economy by increasing the unemployment rate, closing businesses, shipping more jobs overseas, and increasing the national debt.

Do not let yourself be deceived by this new idiom. “Global Climate Disruption” is nothing more than useless rhetoric to further Obama’s agenda. He and his administration will use this to push for an energy bill that will give the Federal Government even more control over our lives. They already seized control of the health care sector with the health care bill. They snatched the financial sector away from us with the financial reform bill. But such measures are never enough for these people. With the new energy bill, the government will dictate how much energy we will be allowed to consume. It is not a stretch to assume that individuals will have to by credits for energy use just like businesses will be forced to.

When “terrorist”/”terrorism” was replaced with “Man Caused Disaster” we lost sight of who our enemy is. When “Overseas Contingency Operation” replaced “War on Terror” we forgot what we were fighting for. Do not let yourself be conned again by these people. There is no threat to the environment. There never was. If we allow ourselves to be fooled again, there will be no comfort in knowing that our current government prevented this “Global Climate Disruption” that was caused by an increase in “Man Caused Disasters” due to our “Overseas Contingency Operation”.

Read The Article:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/16/white-house-global-warming-global-climate-disruption/

Listen to this speech given by Ronald Reagan at the 1964 Republican National Convention.  Does anything in here sound familiar or remind you of today’s current events?  What Reagan said then has a lot of bearing of what is going on now.  He was right then, and is correct even now.

When are we going to quit allowing ourselves to be fooled by Liberals, or Progressive as they like to call themselves now, and their lies and so called compassion and start standing on our own feet?  When are we going to stop allowing government to take our liberties away for an imaginary safety net?  Are we so afraid of freedom that we would rather give up our God given America rights as specified within the Declaration of Independence?  Which will you choose: the safety and confines or government, or the risks and benefits of capitalism?  Slavery or freedom?