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     We had a discussion of the 72^nd Psalm in Sunday school this morning. Sometimes those who writre the commentaries in our Sunday School lessons so completely miss the mark that I wonder if the writers understand what Christianity is all about.  

     This morning in our discussion of Psalm 72,  Beth Ludlum said that if heads of state want us to revere them, to “bow down before” them they should put an end to poverty, take care of the poor, have pity on the weak and needy.

     First of all, that’s our job.  We’re not to expect the government to do our job.  We are to take care of our neighbors.  From the story of the Tower of Babel right through the New Testament we should be aware that God’s message is that heads of state who have the power to do good always end up doing evil.  We cannot expect them to do our job.

      And is she suggesting that if they took care of the poor, she would bow down to them.  "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me."  

Government IS the problem, ALWAYS

Now Obama wants to raise taxes on investment income in order to subsidies the middle class.  They’ve already destroyed the noble poor. It makes no sense for them to get a job. They lose all their government benefits. But the elite are not satisfied.  They would have us all of us bowing to Washington. They spread the slop on the ground and hope our gluttony will belie our free will.

Several millennia of history repeats the mantra:  Government IS the problem. When the Israelites wanted a king, Jehovah said no.  He destroyed the Tower of Babel and scattered the people. We are all built of faulty timber.  Not one of us has the wisdom necessary to be a king.  Even King Solomon, the wisest man in the world, screwed things up. Every reading of history should remind us that governments of men will always turn into tyrannies. 

Government intervention invariably has huge negative consequences.  Look at the recent housing crisis.  Government forces lending institutions to make questionable loans which causes a huge housing bubble.  The loans go belly up, the bubble bursts and we have an economic crisis.  Ironically enough, the two politicians who are most responsible for the fiasco, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, push through legislation to prevent that from happening again, and now the feds are back to making loans, this time with only 3 per cent down.  When do you predict the next crash will be?

We’ve always suffered recessions, but left to regain its balance, the economy will heal itself. There was a severe recession in 1921. Unemployment soared to 12 per cent.  All the government did was cut federal spending. In one year the rate dropped to 6 per cent.  By 1923 it dropped to 4 per cent.

We are all brainwashed to believe that government intervention dragged us out of the depression.  A big lie.  The market crash of 1929 caused unemployment to rise to 9 per cent, but by January of the following year things had begun to stabilize. Unemployment dropped to 6.3 per cent. Unfortunately, after the 1921 recession Hoover had convened a conference between business and government officials which ended with a call for more government planning to avoid future depressions, so later that month the federal government stepped in to save the day. Within 6 months Unemployment surged to double digits and stayed there for nearly a decade, peaking at 24 per cent.

            So what’s wrong with taxing investment income?  In the first place it amounts to double taxation.  Investors pay taxes on profit at the corporate level and then are taxed again on what’s left over.  More important, it also strangles the economy.  The corporate profit that would have been used to invest again in businesses that would hire more of the unemployed is confiscated by the government and flushed down the toilet. 

 It’s not that they are insane, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It’s not that they don’t know the truth.  They are all of them students of history.  It has to be that they are deliberately leading us into slavery.  They give us bread and circuses and we follow them, dead eyed and drooling, into the pit

Marching for freedom or toward the Fourth Reich

The Staten Island and the Ferguson tragedies continue to plague our country, to what end?

          A guest on a CNN talk show yesterday harshly faulted the police for shooting “two innocent men.”  The moderator did not challenge the statement.  These were not innocent men.  They were criminals resisting arrest. We may consider the New York law silly, but it is the law, and police are sworn to uphold it.   It’s our duty to change it.

Not even Brown’s father supports the violence, so what generates the fury?  One irritated liberal, asked the conservative on the panel why Republicans wanted a “police state,” and it occurred to me:  That’s the goal.

There are powerful and influential people who see our Republic as a threat to their power.  If they can manipulate the masses to riot, the federal government will have an excuse to step in, and then we will have a police state, the third Weimar Republic. 

George Soros said years ago that the biggest obstacle to his lifelong goal, the formation of the world government, was the United States. He invests billions of dollars into a variety of foundations, all of which strive to undermine the public‘s confidence in our country:  Open Society, Democracy Alliance, Move On, Center for American Progress, The Tides Foundation, Media Matters, La Raza and the American Arab Anti-discrimination Activity Research Institute, to name a few.   I think we’ll find out eventually that these foundations are financing the demonstrations. People cannot afford to rush from demonstration to demonstration.  They’re getting support from someone. 

George Soros has been practicing ways by which to destabilize governments. In 1992, he brought the Bank of England to its knees. In 1997 he destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia, and when interviewed on “60 Minutes,” he said, “It was fun!”  Think how much fun he‘s having now.  He calls it “Accelerating history.”

If I were a news reporter I’d investigate the degree to which he finances Al Sharpton (“We beat this, we will be the biggest N****** in New York") and  Louis Farrakhan: (“We’ve gotta teach our kids to kill”).

Those crowds of protestors think they are marching for freedom.  What they’re really doing is helping the tyrants create the Fourth Reich. . 

What battle are we really fighting?

         I am disillusioned.  Perhaps I have been on a crusade that’s going nowhere.  We worked diligently this past election to help turn the map of our country red, but recent news is taking the wind out of my sails.

         First Professor Jonathan Gruber admits that he relied on “the stupidity of the American voter” to get the ACA passed.  The news only served to substantiate what I already knew, that progressives throw the corn into the pit hoping to turn us into servile lapdogs.   

         But then I heard McConnell and Boehner already capitulating the morning after the election.  The conservative sweep should have shown them that Americans want to reassert their independence. They no longer want to feed at the public trough. They want to honor the 10^th amendment, turn most of those monstrous buildings in DC into homeless shelters. 

          The lackluster response of the Republican leadership leads me to think that Alex Jones’ rants might not be so farfetched after all.  They’ve all sold out to the Bilderberg Group.  I’m reading The Creature from Jekyll Island again, this time with eyes wide open.

           Perhaps the “illuminati” story is real. Perhaps we are all managed by a small group of elite families who control the world leaders through blackmail, bribery and ruthless tyranny. That would explain John Roberts’ sudden reversal.

          That would explain why they waited until night to announce the findings of the grand jury in Ferguson.  They want race riots. That would explain why, with the war virtually won, they abandon Iraq to the radicals. They need terrorism.  It provides them with all kinds of excuses to limit our civil rights.  We know we were sold out to the big banks after the crash, sold out to big insurance companies with ACA.  Was Bush responsible for 9/11?  Oh my, I’m going insane.    

           I do agree, however, with Phyllis Schlafly.  A third party alternative entrenches the progressive agenda. Republicans at least pretend to believe in the limits of the constitution.  Our only hope is to concentrate all of our energies on bringing the Republican Party back to its conservative roots. 

            I may be disillusioned, but I’m not capitulating.

Bleeding the Middle Class to help the Rich

        When we stick to the issues, we find that we agree most of the time, but our emotional attachment to labels confuse the issue.  The movers and the shakers use their millions to make government bend to their wills.  Democrats are very good at demonizing Koch brothers hoping we will not notice the one- per centers who grease their palms.  

         Elon Testler spends millions of dollars on Democrat candidates.  He has already been given over half a billion in subsidies and those who can afford to buy one of his cars get $7,500 in tax rebates.  Those of us who could never dream of owning a Tesla help the rich buy them.  George Soros spends millions of dollars on Democrat candidates to insure that the Keystone pipeline project is squelched.  After all he makes millions of dollars every day shipping the oil on his railroad.   

         They saved the big banks and passed new regulations that put the small independent banks out of business. Tom Steyer, Mike Bloomberg, Amber Mostyn, Eric Schmidt, and Haim  Saban are just a few of the other excessively rich who donate millions to Democrat candidates in order to insure that their corner of the world gets a nod, gets permission to pick our pockets and line theirs.

        We have to recognize that it’s a problem on both sides of the aisle and direct our attention to solving the problem at its genesis:  There is too much money, too much power in Washington.  .  

Let the market work its magic. Take a lickin' and keep on tickin'.

Elizabeth Warren reminds me of that “Hang in there” poster of a cat clawing desperately at a ledge. Power is slipping from the claws of he left and she thinks she can fool us again with her save Dodd-Frank ploy.

  There is much to abhor in the $1.1 trillion Crimenobus bill, but we should celebrate any attempt to repeal that pernicious 2,000 page monster, the Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Act. Don’t be fooled by the titles of bills.  They are purposely designed to mislead us.  Remember Gruber?  Consumer protection really means protecting my big pocket friends from consumers.

Dodd-Frank was supposedly passed to prevent another financial crisis. Because of Dodd-Frank regulations, this economic recovery has been the most anemic on record. It’s a typical government response.  Government causes a problem and then passes legislation that exacerbates the problem.

It wasn’t deregulation of the banks that caused the financial crisis.  Check your history.  There was no deregulation of banks during the Bush and Reagan years.  Even the Federal Reserve investigation showed that it was overregulation that strangled the economy. Dodd-Frank just made it worse.  Small banks were squeezed out of business because they couldn’t deal with it.  Large banks just hired more compliance officers.  J.P. Morgan Chase alone hired 10,000 of them to deal with the mess.

Over regulation put pressure on the economy and the Community Reinvestment Act blew it all apart. Banks were forced under CRA to make loans to “underserved communities” which inevitably included borrowers whose credit standing did not qualify them for a conventional loans.  By 2008 roughly 58% of all U.S. mortgages—32 million loans—were subprime low quality.  The action over inflated market and humpty dumpty had a great fall and all the kings horses….  

There was no evidence that banks trading securities had anything to do with the financial crisis but legislators had to blame someone for their crimes so they pounced on Wall Street.  Class envy makes the rich an easy target.

The solution is not regulation.  The solution is get rid of the notion of “too big to fail, and at least the Cromnobus opened the door on that issue by not allowing the government to bail out insurance companies.  The solution is let the market work its magic, take a hit and keep on truckin’.

Global Warming a Global Lie

                Mr. Francisco Villa must know that no one is disputing the fact of climate change.  Elementary knowledge of geology shows us that the earth has been subject to extreme variations in climate since its birth so many eons ago. The issue that Mr. Esch was addressing was the extent to which human activity influenced the phenomenon. You belittled the substance of his letter by suggesting that the ratio between those support anthropomorphic causes and the deniers is 97 to 3.  Some research suggests that there are 20 times as many scientists who question the science of man-made global warming as those who signed off on it.

                There were 52 scientist who authored the media hyped United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I have identified more than a thousand scientists from all over the globe who take issue with that report including many current and former UN IPCC scientists.

                Princeton Physicist Dr. Robert Austin: “I view Climategate as science fraud, pure and simple,”

                Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook, Western Washington University: “The corruption within the IPCC… the doctoring of data and the refusal to admit mistakes have so severely tainted the IPCC that it is no longer a credible agency.”

                NASA Scientist Dr. Leonard Weinstein “Any reasonable scientific analysis must conclude the basic theory wrong!!” —

                Nobel Prize-Winning Stanford University Physicist Dr. Robert B. Laughlin: “Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself — Climate is beyond our power to control…Earth doesn’t care about governments or their legislation. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone’s permission or explaining itself.”

                Brazilian Geologist Geraldo Luís Lino:  “Hundreds of billion dollars have been wasted with the attempt of imposing a Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory that is not supported by physical world evidences…AGW has been forcefully imposed by means of a barrage of scare stories and indoctrination that begins in the elementary school textbooks.”

                Atmospheric Physicist Dr. John Reid “My skepticism about AGW arises from the fact that as a physicist who has worked in closely related areas, I know how poor the underlying science is. In effect the scientific method has been abandoned in this field.”

                Dr. David Deming, University of Oklahoma: “I write to expose the ignorance exhibited by WWU geology faculty, the most egregious example of pedantic buffoonery since the Pigeon League conspired against Galileo in the seventeenth century. Skepticism is essential to science.”

                I have a list of more than a thousand scientists who question the anthropomorphic theory.    Israeli astrophysicist Nir Shaviv mapped the path that our solar system travels through the spiral arms of the galaxy, and Canadian geologist Jan Veizer plotted 500 years of climate change. The pair of scientists discovered an exact correlation.  Apparently the inflow of cosmic rays affects variations in earth’s temperatures. 

                This little speck of cosmic dust called earth travels with its paltry star through an insignificant galaxy into a vast and glorious, endless universe of space and time.  What do we know, we who are the  “quintessence of dust" - William Shakespeare.

Mass Manipulation. The Aim: Totalitarianism

Some questions have plagued me ever since the Ferguson riots. 

Why are so many of the powerful stoking the fires of discontent?  Certainly tens of thousands of people cannot afford to leave their families and jobs and fly coast to coast to participate in demonstrations? Who is financing the chaos? 

          Last night I heard a chilling comment, a young man making a plea for the federal government to step in and overturn the jury verdict. Is that the object, to give the federal government an excuse to step in?  To create national police force?

 Who wants to destroy the jury system that has for centuries worked to protect the innocent from a tyrannical government, a system that provides stability to our republic that stands in the way of federal intrusions?

And then I remembered something George Soros said years ago.   “The main obstacle to a just world is the United States.“  George Soros knows that  in order to achieve his lifetime goal of world government he must first destroy the American republic, and he has been working diligently toward that goal for years. 

He’s also been practicing. In 1992, Georgie brought the Bank of England to its knees. In 1997 he destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia, and when interviewed on “60 Minutes,” he said, “It was fun!”  Think how much fun he‘s having now.  He calls it “Accelerating history.”

George Soros invests billions of dollars into left wing foundations, Open Society, Democracy Alliance, Move On, Center for American Progress, The Tides Foundation, Media Matters, La Raza and the American Arab Anti-discrimination Activity Research Institute, to name a few.   If I were a news reporter I’d investigate the degree to which he finances  “We beat this, we will be the biggest N****** in New York" Al Sharpton, “We’ve gotta teach our kids to kii” Louis Farrakhan and the demonstrators.

Follow the money.  Someone is manipulating the masses. 

The 'Affordable Care Act is Not Good News

       I was delighted to see James Sefcak use facts to support his assertions: (“American winners with Obamacare,” Yuma Sun, November 23, 2014). I would suggest, however, that he not rely on extremely left wing websites like politicus.com.  I recommend the less biased site of the actual CBO report at http://www.cbo.gov/publication/45010.

       Mr. Sefcak asserts that “12 million more non-elderly people will have health insurance than would have had it in the absence of Obama care.”  Perhaps he is right, but the CBO report says that according to their estimates and the estimates of JCT, when the ACA is fully functional “about 31 million non elderly residents of the United States are likely to be without health insurance.”  That’s exactly the same number as were without health care coverage pre ACA. (See Obama’s September 2009 speech before a joint session of congress.) So what have we accomplished, destroying the health care coverage that 90 per cent of us were happy with, raising our rates by as much as 300 per cent, (mine only went up 59 per cent), raising our deductibles by the same amount, forcing our favorite doctors to close their doors, and still we have 30 million un-insured. 

       Mr. Sefcak also includes data that suggests that the ACA will result in “lower costs to the government.”  I confess not to understand trillions at all, but when did government ever to something cheaper than the private sector? Insurance companies will be subsidized for any losses, so they’re grinning all the way to the bank, the IRS will spend “10 billion to implement the AFC,” and after 2017, “25 million more people are expected to leave the work force and sign up for the subsidized exchanges. “

       According to the CBO, “As a result of the ACA, between 6 million and 7 million fewer people will have employment-based insurance coverage each year from 2016 through 2024 than would be the case in the absence of the ACA.”  The CBO predicts “a decline in the number of full-time-equivalent workers of about 2.0 million in 2017, rising to about 2.5 million in 2024,” as a result of the ACA. 

       Fewer people working, more people entering the ACA exchanges, wouldn’t that mean higher costs?  That lack of productivity probably accounts for the huge deficits predicted for the future.  As a matter of fact that same CBO report predicts that the national debt will reach 79 per cent of GDP by 2024 due to “the aging of the population, the expansion of federal subsidies for health insurance, rising health care cost per beneficiary and mounting interest costs on the federal debt.”

Doesn’t sound like good news to me.