All That Is Necessary

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.

Pelosi - Collectivist Idiot

This "thing" called Pelosi is a clear and present danger to freedom in the USA.

Don't you just love millionaire elitists telling you what is good for you, so shut up and take 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.

The Tyranny Of The "Do-Gooders"

Time and again these days I am reminded of this quote by C.S. Lewis:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
        C. S. Lewis
        English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963)

The busybodies are hard at work these day with government health-care, Cap & Tax, etc.  All for our own good, of course. 

I sure could use a little less of their help.

Get Your Elective Healthcare Stuff Done Quickly!

Looks like the powers-that-be (i.e. democrat bastards) are going to go the reconciliation route on health-care.  I am not the least bit surprised.  This is the Holy Grail of the collectivists.  They will not stop until they get something, anything, in place to ensure government control of the health-care sector of the economy.

Anyone with a brain knows their collectivist scheme will result in higher costs, fewer doctors and nurses, rationing of the remaining doctors' services, and poorer quality care.  

My advice if any sort of government health-care passes:

GET ANY MEDICAL PROCEDURE YOU NEED NOW!  ONCE GOVERNMENT IS IN CONTROL YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT YEARS TO GET ANYTHING DONE, IF YOU CAN GET IT DONE AT ALL.

I mean it.  Don't put off any elective surgery for you or any member of your family.

BONUS:  Here is a great business opportunity for any team of doctor's and nurses that want to make a fortune if this garbage becomes law.  Buy a small cruise ship and sit just outside of U.S. territorial waters.  Offer high quality health-care for cash/gold/silver, no insurance accepted.  You will be millionaires.

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.

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.

Sometimes The Collective Stupidity Is Just Too Much

I read the news sites, other blogs, listen to the radio.  Sometimes you just want to bang your head against the wall at all the stupidity of our so-called "leaders".  So I think I will do that:

The Wonders Of Universal Health-Care - This Is Just Too Good Not To Pass Along

Saw this referenced at Right Wing News:

"Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is set to undergo heart surgery this week in the United States."

That would be in Canada for some of you out there.  You know?  Canada?  Where they have that wonderful government run health-care?  The hypocrisy is incredible here.  The leader of one of their provinces has a heart problem.  What to do, what to do?  Maybe put yourself in the hands of YOUR OWN health-care system which you undoubtedly expect the "little people" to do, or flee across the border where you can still get health-care quickly and pretty darn efficiently. 

Well, we know which one a member of their ruling class picked.

Where would he go if we started Government "Health-Care"?

Hint - The ruling class will always have a separate place to go for first class health-care.  Us "little people" will be the ones waiting in line and dying.