All That Is Necessary

D.C = Bribe City

Wow!  The bribes and vote changes on the health-care monster are coming fast and furious now.  I expect there to be quite a few more in the next day or so, too. 

Isn't it wonderful to see the calm deliberations of our learned statesmen in D.C. as they take over 20% more of our economy?

My prior post said November 2010 was the pivot point.  The ways things are going we may not make it to November!

Random Snippets Of Insanity

Just some random thoughts on what is going on in the USA today.

1.  We know for certain where there are billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas IN the USA, yet we refuse to drill.

2.  We are tens of trillions of dollars in debt yet we are adding trillions to it every year with no end in sight.

3.  Every government program ever started has cost far more than planned and resulted in worse performance than private industry, yet we are about to put 20% of the economy, and our health, under government control.

4.  We know who causes 99% of all terror in the world, yet we refuse to profile.

I think that is enough for right now.  I can only take so much stupidity in a day.

Is Health-Care A Right?

OK.  The excellent blog Q&O has a great post entitled "The “right” to health care".  It discusses a column by Walter Williams on why health-care is NOT a right, and what a "right" actually is.

"No “right” as defined by the Constitution (a statement of law) or Declaration of Independence (a statement of philosophy undergirding our country’s law) impose obligations on others for their exercise. What they do impose is a responsibility of non-interference which allows others to exercise their rights. But, as Williams points out, the “right” to health care does impose an obligation on others for that person to exercise their “right”:"

Go read the whole thing by clicking the link above.  It is too good to try and give you piecemeal.

The simple truth, no matter how the left tries to fudge the meaning of "rights", is that health-care is NOT a right.  This government health-care mandate is not constitutional.  Then again, as most of you know, neither is about 70% of what the government does.

At What Point Is The "Social Contract" Null & Void?

The headlines at this point in time are centered on the government takeover of the health-care system.  However, in the shadows government also continues to press hard for Cap & Trade, Amnesty for illegals, and other power grabs.  This is a massive transformation of our nation into a socialist state.  That is not hyperbole!  It IS happening and has been happening since the early 1900's.  Little by little over the past 100 years the collectivists have been chipping away at our Constitution and our freedom.  Today we are just seeing the culmination of the dreams of the collectivists.

I would venture a guess this is not the desire of most Americans.  Since the founding of the USA there has been a sort of "social contract".  We, the people, give up some of our freedom as individuals so the government can provide a basic, minimal framework for defense, commerce between states and a court system.  Some citizens do not abide by the contract, but most still do.

At what point has the government breached this contract?

Remember these words?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security"

As it says in the Declaration Of Independence, "governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes", and that people will put up with a lot rather than abolish the things to which they are accustomed. 

BUT, at some point the contract has been so destroyed by one party that it cannot be held to exist any longer.

I would say we have passed the point where this government has the consent of the governed.  They have become destructive towards our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (property).

We have a chance in November 2010 to attempt to institute a new government.  This may be our last chance to do so.  Make sure you a part of the fight.  Fight for constitutionalists in the primaries, then vote for them in November. 

We can restore our social contract as it was meant to be if we want to, but only if we really desire it.

What Else Could Be In That Reconciliation Bill?

I saw this WSJ Opinion Piece referenced over at AceOfSpadesHQ.

It is entitled - That Other Government Takeover

Look what the collectivists are planning for student loans:

"Everyone knows Democrats are planning to use the budget reconciliation process to get ObamaCare through the Senate. Less well known is that Democrats are plotting add-ons to that bill to get other liberal priorities enacted—programs that could never attract 60 votes.

One of these controversial measures rewrites the Higher Education Act to ban private companies from offering federally guaranteed student loans as of this July."

The government doesn't like competition in its quest for unlimited power.

Democrats aim to bring their education revolution to the floor without a committee vote or even a hearing in the Senate.

The health care scam is bad enough.  Add in the takeover of student loans, plus whatever else the liberals may sneak into the overall bill, and you have an unbelievable increase in government control and an equal decrease in your freedom.

Debt - It Is OK If You Are The Government Run By Liberals

You probably have seen this headline:

CBO: National Deficit to Hit Nearly $10 Trillion Over Upcoming Decade

"The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts that Obama's budget plans would generate deficits over the upcoming decade that would total $9.8 trillion. That's $1.2 trillion more than predicted by the administration."

Hey, what's to worry about?!?!

I keep having this word in my brain.  That word is "unsustainable", as in not being able to be sustained, as in our goose is cooked if we don't stop spending and start paying down debt.

We all know the "stop spending" part will never happen while the liberals are in charge.  So, pray for a massive upheaval this coming November, or stock up on gold/silver/food/ammo.  (Yes, I am one of those "preppers".)

On Why The Government Always Grows

In my reading about the Cloward-Pivens Strategy I came across this absolute gem of a passage.  It tells in the most concise way I have seen why government always grows bigger and bigger.

It was over on American Daughter:

"Why does virtually every liberal scheme result in ever-increasing public spending while conditions seem to get continually worse? There are a number of reasons:

   1. The programs usually create adverse incentives. This is especially true in so-called “anti-poverty” programs. The beneficiaries find government subsidies a replacement for, rather than a supplement to, gainful employment and eventually become incapable of supporting themselves. This in turn creates a dependent culture with its attendant toxic behaviors which demand still more government “remedies.”
   2. The programs create their own industry, complete with scads of “think tanks” and “experts” who survive on government research grants. These are the aptly named “Beltway Bandits.”
   3. They create their own bureaucracies, whose managers conspire with interested members of Congress to continually increase program funding, regardless of merit.
   4. Members of Congress secure votes and campaign donations by extorting them from beneficiaries of such programs, either through veiled threats — “vote for me or those mean Republicans will wipe out your benefits” — or promises of still more bennies.

In short, all develop a vested interest in the program’s survival. But if the result is always more and more government, of government, by government, and for government, with no solution in sight, then why do liberals always see government as the solution rather than the problem?"

Cloward-Pivens use this fact to implement their strategy to bring down the USA.  They are winning at the moment.

Learning About Cloward-Pivens Will Answer A Lot Of Your Questions About What Is Going On Today

Do you ever sit back and wonder what the Hell is going on in D.C. these days?  The collectivists, community organizers, unicorn liberals, etc, are out in full force.  They are expanding government program and getting as many people as possible dependent on the Federal government as possible.  We have no money to pay for ANY of the non-constitutional programs.  All these programs will collapse the system.  Well, maybe that is the plan.

Meet the Cloward-Pivens Strategy, in a nutshell:

"[The Cloward-Pivens Strategy] seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse."

Cloward and Pivens, students of radical leftist Saul Alinsky, hated capitalism.  They came up with strategy to completely overwhelm the system and bring it crashing down.  Then it could be replaced by the socialist utopia, along with all those nice unicorns and rainbows.

Here are a few links to learn about this strategy.  There is no conspiracy here.  They are quite open about their strategy which has been going on since 1970, give or take a few years, and you can read up on it at a LOT of places.

Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

Cloward-Piven Strategy -  DiscoverTheNetworks

Cloward-Piven Strategy - Wikipedia

Take a minute or two just to glimpse at these articles.  As you read these selections you will see how this process of collapsing the system is going on right now.  It really is pretty amazing to watch, though the consequences are horrible for anyone who loves freedom.

So, while we watch in horror at what Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and others are doing, at least we have an idea of why.

November 2010 - Our last chance to stop the insanity of collectivism.

What Is Your Gut Telling You? - And I Ain't Talking About Diet

I could list dozens of headlines from today, yesterday, the day before that, etc., that paint a pretty bleak picture of our reality today economically and socially.  And I mean BLEAK!  From the horrendous economy, to run-away growth in government power and control, the housing crash, islamic terrorism, nations dying economically like Greece........you get the picture.

My gut is telling me this will not end well.  How about yours?  This is not reveling in doom and gloom theories.  This is looking at all that is going on today and thinking about the possible paths the USA and world will take. 

My gut is telling me a lot of voters will demand the government "do something".  Of course, it is the government that caused all this in the first place.  The rise of liberalism to power in the 1960's began the decline of America.  

My gut is telling me that the world will not choose wisely.  Instead of more freedom and liberty, they will choose command and control.

My gut is telling me there are entities out there that are actively seeking our destruction, and have been for decades.  Again, not conspiracy theories, just human nature.

My gut is telling me that as an average Joe, I am not at the top of any pecking order if things go bad.

My gut is telling me I should get better prepared for anything that might come because nobody else will do it for me.

My gut is telling me this didn't have to happen.

My gut is telling me to never forget what the collectivists have done to the USA.

Scary Thought - Has Our Government EVER Gotten Smaller Or Less Intrusive?

Think about it.  Since our founding well over two hundred years ago, when we started off with some pretty basic rules on how to run our country, has the government EVER become smaller and/or less intrusive in our daily lives over that time?  (I am talking about our federal government, but it applies to states as well.)

For the first 80 years or so it remained pretty small.  But once we hit the Civil War it took off like a rocket and never looked back. 

Jefferson said:  "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

How right he was.  Things are bad enough now with the incredible intrusiveness of our government in every part of our lives, but using history as a guide, it will only continue to get worse.

The Tea Party movement is a step in the right direction, but it seems to be a like an ant facing an incoming tsunami and asking it to stop. 

Right now, I have no answers on how to reverse this "natural progress of things".  The only time government has gotten smaller that I know about was the result of a bloody war.

I would like to avoid that if at all possible.