Slouching towards Bethlehem

 Now Obama wants to raise the taxes on investment income in order to subsidies the middle class.  They’ve already brought 47 per cent of Americans to their knees feeding at the trough, but they’re not satisfied until they have us all of us bowing to Washington. 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.

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 another 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 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 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.

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 either the wisdom necessary to be a king.  Even King Solomon, the wisest man in the world, screwed things up. By now every reading of history should remind us that governments of men will turn into tyrannies. 

            So what’s wrong with taxing investment income?  In the first place it amounts to double taxation.  Investors pay taxes on profit at the corporation level and then are taxed again on what’s left over.  It also strangles the economy.  The corporate profit that would have been used to invest again in business and 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 pen.

Political donors who pick our pockets

        When we stick to the issues, we find that Liberals and Conservatives agree most of the time, we want the same things from our government:  less poverty, less crime, safer streets, 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.   

Kiss your assets goodbye

I am probably too mad.  One should hold her tongue when her brain is exploding with disbelief.  

I turn on the radio after dropping my granddaughter off at school and hear our president scolding again, this time the country’s brokers.  “Because of lack of protection, you could end up with a situation where you’d lose some of your hard earned money simply because your advisor isn’t required to put your interest first.”

So President Obama rides in: “To the rescue!”  He has directed the department of labor to draw up new rules for brokers that would protect middle class families. 

He has to know, he is not a stupid man, that what is destroying the wealth of the middle class is his printing press. 

In May of 2009 they promised us, “We Will Not Monetize The Debt!”  Remember?  “We will not monetize the debt!”   The truth is they have been printing 85 billion dollars a month for 7 years, and every dollar they print makes that dollar in your pocket worth less.  My late husband described how his mother wept after the collapse of the German dollar, bags full of money that couldn’t buy a loaf of bread to feed her hungry family. 

They call it quantitative easing now.  Apparently that’s more palatable.  Well that quantitative easing has benefited the average person on the street not at all, and it has reduced the value of retirement accounts by multiples of a thousand. True, it has sent stocks soaring to record highs, but as soon as the printing press stops, and it has to, that market is going to collapse like a grass hut in a typhoon. 

The reason we are not earning what we should on savings and investments is because the Fed has kept interest rates to unnatural lows.  The reason we lost millions on our housing investments is that the Federal government screwed up the market. 

He is not a stupid man.  He must know this.

Watch out, folks. The federal government is riding in to the rescue. Grab your knees and kiss your assets goodbye,

What???

     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.