By Semperpapa
Interesting article about the Obama non-scandal scandal called Solyndra.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/10/energy-department-rewrote-law-aid-solyndra
So, if I understand this correctly, the Dept. of Energy not only made sure that the California company received the money laundering loan they did not deserved according to any investment parameter, but it also made sure to attach clauses to the loan papers that would guarantee that the private investors would receive re-payment in advance of taxpayers, action that is not only unprecedented in the history of government loans, guess that is part of the hope and change crap, but it may actually be illegal, not that anyone is paying attention.
So what should we gather from this situation? Well, in the first place that the gangster-like approach to governing that Obama brought from Chicago to Washington pays off as long as one is a campaign donor to the Obama gang and the media is not interested.
Second, that there are really no known boundaries to the progressive hypocrisy.
There is a silver lining though. The more garbage surfaces about the Thug-in-Chief and his minions, the more Islamist radicals buy the farm. Wonder what sort of terrorist plot will hit the news so to distract the American people. Or maybe Obama will take the troops out of Iraq and send them into Iran.
And to think that there still are some people out there who actually have the balls to openly state that they love the man, as I heard some moron state to a TV reporter last week. The scary part is that people like this guy, and so many others, procreate...
Just my thoughts!
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Oh What A Wonderful World
By Semperpapa
Yes indeed, the wonderful world of Socialist totalitarian regimes, North Korea style:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nkorean-prison-camp-survivor-starving-women-cooked-ate-their-own-children/
Of course this would never happen in our country, regardless of the brainwashing that the regime, the media and academia could ever do.
At least not until the tentacles of the progressive propaganda would reach down to the grade level classes of children...oh wait a minute...
I wonder what the unwashed scum of Occupy Wall Street would think of the "government intervention" North Korea style. Probably would justify it if the "intervention" was applied to conservatives.
Just my thoughts!
Yes indeed, the wonderful world of Socialist totalitarian regimes, North Korea style:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nkorean-prison-camp-survivor-starving-women-cooked-ate-their-own-children/
Of course this would never happen in our country, regardless of the brainwashing that the regime, the media and academia could ever do.
At least not until the tentacles of the progressive propaganda would reach down to the grade level classes of children...oh wait a minute...
I wonder what the unwashed scum of Occupy Wall Street would think of the "government intervention" North Korea style. Probably would justify it if the "intervention" was applied to conservatives.
Just my thoughts!
Enough With The Debates
By Semperpapa
I have not watched any of the last two GOP debates and will most likely maintain that stance until the California primaries.
Why? Simple. The most important and crucial thing that must be accomplished is the defeat of the Obamadroids that have taken over the government. Not just the actual current occupiers of the White House, but all the appointed radical progressives that the Obama has infiltrated in every position of Washington.
The sparring between Perry and Romney, the cry baby shit from the mental patient Ron Paul, the gaffes from Cain and Backmann are grown really tiring for me. I want to hear the plan to cleanse the political scene in Washington of the cancer that has pervaded that place. I want to hear about instituting term limits for all politicians and to shut down ALL the governmental entities that are unnecessary for national security, at least until the budget is balanced.
I want to hear about how they plan on stopping the invasion of our country on the part of illegal aliens and uncounted radical Muslims; and how they are going to eliminate the strangling regulations that are killing small businesses in America.
And yes, I want to hear a pledge to investigate Obama and his minions about Fast and Furious, about Solyndra, about the farce of global warming and the billions of taxpayers money that has lined the pockets of criminals like Al Gore and similar; and looking deeply into the legality of what Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank and all the other liberal progressives have been doing while screwing the American people and telling us how much we like it.
Sorry but Nancy and Barney may like being fucked, I don't.
So I don't watch the debates and don't intend to in the future. I have the one candidate I will vote for in the primaries, even if that candidate will not, most likely, get the nomination. Such candidate is not saying what I want to hear but gets as close as possible. The result is that I will vote my principles in the primaries, but when it comes to beating Obama and his regime, I will vote for whoever will run against him.
The stooge must be defeated together with all the liberal progressives and the RINOs in Congress. It is the last chance our country has to reel back from the abyss of dictatorship in a peaceful way.
Just my thoughts!
I have not watched any of the last two GOP debates and will most likely maintain that stance until the California primaries.
Why? Simple. The most important and crucial thing that must be accomplished is the defeat of the Obamadroids that have taken over the government. Not just the actual current occupiers of the White House, but all the appointed radical progressives that the Obama has infiltrated in every position of Washington.
The sparring between Perry and Romney, the cry baby shit from the mental patient Ron Paul, the gaffes from Cain and Backmann are grown really tiring for me. I want to hear the plan to cleanse the political scene in Washington of the cancer that has pervaded that place. I want to hear about instituting term limits for all politicians and to shut down ALL the governmental entities that are unnecessary for national security, at least until the budget is balanced.
I want to hear about how they plan on stopping the invasion of our country on the part of illegal aliens and uncounted radical Muslims; and how they are going to eliminate the strangling regulations that are killing small businesses in America.
And yes, I want to hear a pledge to investigate Obama and his minions about Fast and Furious, about Solyndra, about the farce of global warming and the billions of taxpayers money that has lined the pockets of criminals like Al Gore and similar; and looking deeply into the legality of what Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank and all the other liberal progressives have been doing while screwing the American people and telling us how much we like it.
Sorry but Nancy and Barney may like being fucked, I don't.
So I don't watch the debates and don't intend to in the future. I have the one candidate I will vote for in the primaries, even if that candidate will not, most likely, get the nomination. Such candidate is not saying what I want to hear but gets as close as possible. The result is that I will vote my principles in the primaries, but when it comes to beating Obama and his regime, I will vote for whoever will run against him.
The stooge must be defeated together with all the liberal progressives and the RINOs in Congress. It is the last chance our country has to reel back from the abyss of dictatorship in a peaceful way.
Just my thoughts!
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Gets Wonderful Endorsement
By Semperpapa
This is the endorsement I was waiting for. Now we have moral clarity of purpose...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/american-nazi-party-endorses-occupy-wall-streets-courage-tells-members-to-support-protests-and-fight-judeo-capitalist-banksters/
Just to once again illustrate the blurred differences, if any at all, between the forces of progressivism and nazism.
Then...
...and now!
Isn't this wonderful?
Just my thoughts!
This is the endorsement I was waiting for. Now we have moral clarity of purpose...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/american-nazi-party-endorses-occupy-wall-streets-courage-tells-members-to-support-protests-and-fight-judeo-capitalist-banksters/
Just to once again illustrate the blurred differences, if any at all, between the forces of progressivism and nazism.
Then...
...and now!
Just my thoughts!
Obamacare Slow Dismantling
By Semperpapa
I appears that with the Obama regime, the best time to pay any attention to the crap it puts out is the otherwise slow news weekends. They, the regime, have an affinity to spring the best garbage at the American people on a Friday night (sending Special Forces ground pounders in Central Africa) or Saturday, in the hope that the American people are too busy with their weekend to pay any attention.
Then the official regime news outlets, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, AP, Reuters, NPR etc., will have some time to bury the stories and hopefully no one will be the wiser. Only few Americans will be aware of anything and they will be dismissed as racists.
This is from HotAir.com
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/14/devastating-hhs-abandons-part-of-obamacare-as-fiscally-unworkable/
Yes, a major component of Obamacare has been deemed unworkable by the Sebelius cheek.
Now, I know it's Sunday, that we are just two hours away from the NFL getting going for today, but it will only take few minutes of your time to read the article. I promise it will be worth it.
I too expect a major push back on the part of the Marxists forces at work in this country. After all the realization of some sort of socialized medicine is at the foundation of the transformative changes that Obama and his clowns have been promising the American people.
So while many of us conservatives have been screaming against the whole Obamacare disaster, the actuality of the impossibility of that monstrous legislation is even hitting the authors of it.
Remember when the ugly witch of the West Pelosi told us, the ignorant masses, that we had to pass the bill to know what was in it? Well, there it is, a so called Ponzi scheme that if perpetrated by anyone other than a politician, it would land you in damn prison.
The difference is that politicians do not go to jail for screwing the American people, they get re-elected!
So, as I have said profusely in the past, get informed and make a conscientious stand for beliefs you have reached. Only then your stand will be noticed and could make a difference.
Just my thoughts!
I appears that with the Obama regime, the best time to pay any attention to the crap it puts out is the otherwise slow news weekends. They, the regime, have an affinity to spring the best garbage at the American people on a Friday night (sending Special Forces ground pounders in Central Africa) or Saturday, in the hope that the American people are too busy with their weekend to pay any attention.
Then the official regime news outlets, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, AP, Reuters, NPR etc., will have some time to bury the stories and hopefully no one will be the wiser. Only few Americans will be aware of anything and they will be dismissed as racists.
This is from HotAir.com
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/14/devastating-hhs-abandons-part-of-obamacare-as-fiscally-unworkable/
Yes, a major component of Obamacare has been deemed unworkable by the Sebelius cheek.
Now, I know it's Sunday, that we are just two hours away from the NFL getting going for today, but it will only take few minutes of your time to read the article. I promise it will be worth it.
I too expect a major push back on the part of the Marxists forces at work in this country. After all the realization of some sort of socialized medicine is at the foundation of the transformative changes that Obama and his clowns have been promising the American people.
So while many of us conservatives have been screaming against the whole Obamacare disaster, the actuality of the impossibility of that monstrous legislation is even hitting the authors of it.
Remember when the ugly witch of the West Pelosi told us, the ignorant masses, that we had to pass the bill to know what was in it? Well, there it is, a so called Ponzi scheme that if perpetrated by anyone other than a politician, it would land you in damn prison.
The difference is that politicians do not go to jail for screwing the American people, they get re-elected!
So, as I have said profusely in the past, get informed and make a conscientious stand for beliefs you have reached. Only then your stand will be noticed and could make a difference.
Just my thoughts!
Friday, October 14, 2011
Power Of The Finger
The tyranny of the finger...
To the triplets: stick that finger up your asses!!!
Just my thoughts!
The Seal Beach Massacre
By Semperpapa
It was and is a tragedy, and it will remain a tragedy for ever more: a deranged man walks into a hair salon in the coastal small town of Seal Beach, California, and shoots up the place. The final count is eight dead and one critically wounded.
The POS is apprehended by the cops few minutes after the shooting not too far from the crime scene.
He promptly surrendered to the Seal Beach Police officers without any incident, after all the cops can shoot back, as opposed as people going about their lives at a hair salon.
I am very familiar with Seal Beach, California, in fact I work not too far from it.
It is a small community, with a fairly high income per capita, as every beach community in California.
But what is disturbing is the attitude of the people that are being sought by the local media for their dramatic coverage.
The local media, in its never ending uselessness, is placing person after person in front of their camera telling how unusual such a crime is in their community, how their sacurity has been shaken, how their sense of community has been so painfully shattered.
Really, folks, a senseless massacre like the one in Seal Beach would be just as senseless and disgusting if it had taken place in Compton or San Bernardino or South Central LA.
The fact that it took place in the "close knit" social environment of the beach town makes absolutely no difference in the gravity and shock value of the action.
But that was my initial reaction: shock! Terrible shock and anger that someone could do such a thing to other human beings. Then some details became known and the shock started to dissipate and the anger got even more pronounced.
It appears that one of the victims of the massacre was the ex wife of the bastard that did the shooting. In what appears to be a motive for the evil actions of the man, it looks like a bitter dispute over the custody of the couple's young son, finally pushed the scum bag to do what he did. The worst part, though, is that the woman had expressed her fear about the mental stability of her ex husband and his repeated threats of violence.
To make things even more disturbing, the man had already once stepped into the hair salon, where his ex wife worked, and threatened to kill her and her co-workers.
So my anger now is fueled by the knowledge that the danger for the POS to go off and hurt innocent people and nobody did anything about it.
Starting with the ex wife. He had threatened her and threatened to do exactly what he did and she was obviously aware he was capable to as she had lamented to others. And yet, she took no precaution. What compels a woman who has been threatened with death not to be armed?
Next is the owner of the salon, who was also killed in the shooting. Considering the man had already once showed up foretelling his intentions, should it not be a normal reaction that the owner would be ready to defend his business and his employees and his customers?
Again, this is not a matter of the criminal element in the surrounding neighborhood, or a matter of feeling "safe" in a specific setting, but a matter of self-preservation and the willingness to protect innocent people.
So no precautions were ever taken by these people even as the threat was there and was real. The gunman, according to the preliminary investigation, just walked in the salon and killed his wife, then proceeded to execute anyone that was within sight, even stopping to reload.
If any person working there or any customer would have been armed, maybe some of the people who died would still be alive today.
And I know some of you will make the statement that we cannot have shootings going on everywhere. To you I say this: if you can find morally superior to take away the possibility for a law abiding citizen to protect itself and other innocent people than to have a dead mass murderer by the hands of a civilian, than I have no use for you.
What if one of the customers had been a police officer and he or she would have used his or her off duty weapon to kill the bastard before he had the chance to kill so many, than it would have been a "good" thing. What would be the difference if it had been me with my legal firearm to take the garbage out?
I am sure that the families of those who were killed would agreed that it would have made absolutely no difference if their loved one was still alive.
Just my thoughts!
It was and is a tragedy, and it will remain a tragedy for ever more: a deranged man walks into a hair salon in the coastal small town of Seal Beach, California, and shoots up the place. The final count is eight dead and one critically wounded.
The POS is apprehended by the cops few minutes after the shooting not too far from the crime scene.
He promptly surrendered to the Seal Beach Police officers without any incident, after all the cops can shoot back, as opposed as people going about their lives at a hair salon.
I am very familiar with Seal Beach, California, in fact I work not too far from it.
It is a small community, with a fairly high income per capita, as every beach community in California.
But what is disturbing is the attitude of the people that are being sought by the local media for their dramatic coverage.
The local media, in its never ending uselessness, is placing person after person in front of their camera telling how unusual such a crime is in their community, how their sacurity has been shaken, how their sense of community has been so painfully shattered.
Really, folks, a senseless massacre like the one in Seal Beach would be just as senseless and disgusting if it had taken place in Compton or San Bernardino or South Central LA.
The fact that it took place in the "close knit" social environment of the beach town makes absolutely no difference in the gravity and shock value of the action.
But that was my initial reaction: shock! Terrible shock and anger that someone could do such a thing to other human beings. Then some details became known and the shock started to dissipate and the anger got even more pronounced.
It appears that one of the victims of the massacre was the ex wife of the bastard that did the shooting. In what appears to be a motive for the evil actions of the man, it looks like a bitter dispute over the custody of the couple's young son, finally pushed the scum bag to do what he did. The worst part, though, is that the woman had expressed her fear about the mental stability of her ex husband and his repeated threats of violence.
To make things even more disturbing, the man had already once stepped into the hair salon, where his ex wife worked, and threatened to kill her and her co-workers.
So my anger now is fueled by the knowledge that the danger for the POS to go off and hurt innocent people and nobody did anything about it.
Starting with the ex wife. He had threatened her and threatened to do exactly what he did and she was obviously aware he was capable to as she had lamented to others. And yet, she took no precaution. What compels a woman who has been threatened with death not to be armed?
Next is the owner of the salon, who was also killed in the shooting. Considering the man had already once showed up foretelling his intentions, should it not be a normal reaction that the owner would be ready to defend his business and his employees and his customers?
Again, this is not a matter of the criminal element in the surrounding neighborhood, or a matter of feeling "safe" in a specific setting, but a matter of self-preservation and the willingness to protect innocent people.
So no precautions were ever taken by these people even as the threat was there and was real. The gunman, according to the preliminary investigation, just walked in the salon and killed his wife, then proceeded to execute anyone that was within sight, even stopping to reload.
If any person working there or any customer would have been armed, maybe some of the people who died would still be alive today.
And I know some of you will make the statement that we cannot have shootings going on everywhere. To you I say this: if you can find morally superior to take away the possibility for a law abiding citizen to protect itself and other innocent people than to have a dead mass murderer by the hands of a civilian, than I have no use for you.
What if one of the customers had been a police officer and he or she would have used his or her off duty weapon to kill the bastard before he had the chance to kill so many, than it would have been a "good" thing. What would be the difference if it had been me with my legal firearm to take the garbage out?
I am sure that the families of those who were killed would agreed that it would have made absolutely no difference if their loved one was still alive.
Just my thoughts!
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Thought For Today (11 Oct 2011)
By Semperpapa
Between the crap that the progressive thongs are creating in New York and other cities and the shameless support that the political establishment is giving them, especially from the Left, I believe the time is fast approaching for a last ditch effort being made by the American people in order to save our republic.
We are at a crossroad where one venue takes the Nation to an open armed internal conflict. The other venue takes the Nation to where the progressive liberals will be establishing the tyranny they so expertly foment.
There will come a time when every single American adult will have to make a choice between living under oppression or fight for freedom. And that time is being ushered by the forces of the political Left in America at an accelerated tempo, thanks to the radical living in the White House.
Just my thoughts!
Between the crap that the progressive thongs are creating in New York and other cities and the shameless support that the political establishment is giving them, especially from the Left, I believe the time is fast approaching for a last ditch effort being made by the American people in order to save our republic.
We are at a crossroad where one venue takes the Nation to an open armed internal conflict. The other venue takes the Nation to where the progressive liberals will be establishing the tyranny they so expertly foment.
There will come a time when every single American adult will have to make a choice between living under oppression or fight for freedom. And that time is being ushered by the forces of the political Left in America at an accelerated tempo, thanks to the radical living in the White House.
Just my thoughts!
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Seen This Movie Before
By Semperpapa
As I am forced to watch the losers who are "occupying Wall Street" and all the other copycats around the country, cannot avoid it as the media is basking in their moronic actions, I am forced to go back in time, about 30+ years ago.
It actually has been some time that these thoughts have been rearing their ugly heads in my mind, screaming messages of alarm that even my optimistic disposition has had to notice.
I was born and raised in Italy, definitely a beautiful place to visit on a historically charged vacation, but an even better place to be from.
To be sure, I want to insure you that I am not bashing Italy, but having had to live in that country until the age of 20, going through high school there and having to deal with the bureaucracy there and the social mentality, it was a breath of fresh air and a great sense of hope that I felt when I was allowed to migrate to the United States.
As an immigrant, I have a personal unique prospective on America for two specific reasons.
The first one is the age I was when I migrated. I was not a small child who only has a child memory of that past life. I had to deal with the public schools there and, once graduated from high school, with the mind-blowing unemployment that affected my age group.
Basically, there was no jobs available for young people just out of school. At the time, all males would be called up for the Military draft (on a humorous note, however bad the postal service was in the country at the time, it was amazing how the notification of draft would show up in your mail box two days after your 18th birthday!).
One way to delay the draft was to attend the University, which I did as I was waiting for my migration papers to come through.
The second reason is that it is very understandable for someone who comes from an impoverish third world country to be amazed by the unlimited opportunities of a country like the United States, but even I, who came from an industrialized country, saw immediately the difference in the two systems.
Here is the connection with what we are witnessing today.
30+ years ago in Italy, there was a pronounced class distinction that drove people's behavior. One one side there was the majority of young people like me, who was going to attend the University and after maybe 5-6 years graduate with a degree that was not even worth the paper it was printed on in view of landing a job, especially in Sicily where I was.
This created a situation where young people in their late 20s and early 30s would still live at home with their parents, unable to even considering starting a family and a life n their own.
All pivoted on the chance that at some point some connection could be made with some "important" person who would get you that coveted position, hopefully on a government payroll, which meant a job for life. And there was always the option of migrating somewhere else.
On the other side was the minority of those who were considered of a "lower class" who would not attend the University and instead join the manual labor force: construction workers, plumbers, electricians, mechanics, truck drivers.
For the common "upper class" person, it was a sign of social status to be able to call one of those in the "lower class" to get something fixed in the home or the car. The mentality was that a well-to-do person would not have to know how to use a tool. But everyone was a college graduate, even if broke and functionally useless without mom and dad.
Coming to America and finding a totally different mind set was, like I said already, a major breath of fresh air. I have always enjoyed working with my hands, so the ability of taking care of things around the house or on the car on my own was attractive to me, and still is.
And here comes my concern. What I have been witnessing in the last few years is a societal march toward the same mind set I escaped from 30+ years ago.
Every one is pushing for college education as if that is the only way to succeed in life. I have seen some reports that estimate that by year 2020, our country will have a shortfall of labor of about 10 million jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors. All the various disciplines will be affected: machinists, electricians, framers, etc.
It used to be that the average American could change the oil in his/her car, do minor repairs and build things that made life easier. Today we don't even change our own flat tires.
We have college graduates with the stupidest degrees, all feel-good majors that have absolutely no real life application. So the solution to land a job is most likely to end up working for the government or know someone who knows someone who gets you into some job.
Sounds familiar? Sure does, I have seen this movie before and do not like the end today any more than I liked it then.
Do not mistake my words for a rebuke of college education. I am a college graduate and all for it and I am all for the personal improvement in the field of knowledge, but it has to be useful knowledge and not indoctrination.
Fields like Engineering will lead to good paying jobs. Vocational training, like machinist and other manufacturing fields, will also lead to good jobs, especially if the current trend of cheap imports from abroad is reversed. I think it will, as the country may like the low prices for certain items, but it is also growing tired of subsidizing the enemies of our country.
What I see, and I have written amply in the past, is a conspiracy on the part of academia to undermine the social structure of America. The institution of higher learning are filled with progressive elements that have access to the minds of young people and are destroying a whole generation.
I watch the protester and feel afraid for America. They have been indoctrinated into hating the country, into hypocritical behavior. They protest corporations and banks, while dispersing their unhinged messages via tools from large corporations, wearing brand clothing.
They demand free college education, living wages regardless of employment, $20/hour minimum wage and open borders. And of course they demand the forgiveness of all debt, especially their student loans, the thousands of dollars in debt they accumulated as they were majoring in "Conflict Management Among Amoebas" or something like it at Yale or Harvard.
They demand to land a six figure salary job as soon as they graduate from college, because they are the elite, they are the chosen ones.
These protesters are instigated by the same people who have indoctrinated them, the same college professors who have never had to actually make a living or have had to deal with hiring someone. One element I find suspiciously missing among the protester is the message against the colleges: they protest the banks, but they do not protest tuition increases. They want their student loans forgiven, but they do not protest the exorbitant salaries of colleges' administrators which fuels the tuition increases. I find it a telling detail.
Regardless of this, though, I remain optimistic. The majority of the American people understand the reality of the economy. We pay our bills and we take responsibility for our actions. The difference can be found in the fact that the progressive minority yells the loudest and have the open support of the political leadership, to the point of justifying violence.
We, the silent majority, will return the country to a rational, sane place in due time. What it will take is that we stop being so silent and we get informed about the issues that afflict our society.
We really do not have a choice in the matter, because there is no other country we can escape to if America fails.
And there is one major component to my optimism: our Military. A large part of the new generation is composed of men and women who have served in the Military, with combat tours, and who know personally what sacrifice really is. They have lived it and they will bring that experience to the work force, to our social landscape.
So, get informed and speak your mind. Put pressure on the most elitists members of our society, the politicians and make them understand that we want America to remain the the beacon of freedom and opportunities for all those who are willing to play according to the rules.
Personally, I do not want to see that movie again!
Just my thoughts!
As I am forced to watch the losers who are "occupying Wall Street" and all the other copycats around the country, cannot avoid it as the media is basking in their moronic actions, I am forced to go back in time, about 30+ years ago.
It actually has been some time that these thoughts have been rearing their ugly heads in my mind, screaming messages of alarm that even my optimistic disposition has had to notice.
I was born and raised in Italy, definitely a beautiful place to visit on a historically charged vacation, but an even better place to be from.
To be sure, I want to insure you that I am not bashing Italy, but having had to live in that country until the age of 20, going through high school there and having to deal with the bureaucracy there and the social mentality, it was a breath of fresh air and a great sense of hope that I felt when I was allowed to migrate to the United States.
As an immigrant, I have a personal unique prospective on America for two specific reasons.
The first one is the age I was when I migrated. I was not a small child who only has a child memory of that past life. I had to deal with the public schools there and, once graduated from high school, with the mind-blowing unemployment that affected my age group.
Basically, there was no jobs available for young people just out of school. At the time, all males would be called up for the Military draft (on a humorous note, however bad the postal service was in the country at the time, it was amazing how the notification of draft would show up in your mail box two days after your 18th birthday!).
One way to delay the draft was to attend the University, which I did as I was waiting for my migration papers to come through.
The second reason is that it is very understandable for someone who comes from an impoverish third world country to be amazed by the unlimited opportunities of a country like the United States, but even I, who came from an industrialized country, saw immediately the difference in the two systems.
Here is the connection with what we are witnessing today.
30+ years ago in Italy, there was a pronounced class distinction that drove people's behavior. One one side there was the majority of young people like me, who was going to attend the University and after maybe 5-6 years graduate with a degree that was not even worth the paper it was printed on in view of landing a job, especially in Sicily where I was.
This created a situation where young people in their late 20s and early 30s would still live at home with their parents, unable to even considering starting a family and a life n their own.
All pivoted on the chance that at some point some connection could be made with some "important" person who would get you that coveted position, hopefully on a government payroll, which meant a job for life. And there was always the option of migrating somewhere else.
On the other side was the minority of those who were considered of a "lower class" who would not attend the University and instead join the manual labor force: construction workers, plumbers, electricians, mechanics, truck drivers.
For the common "upper class" person, it was a sign of social status to be able to call one of those in the "lower class" to get something fixed in the home or the car. The mentality was that a well-to-do person would not have to know how to use a tool. But everyone was a college graduate, even if broke and functionally useless without mom and dad.
Coming to America and finding a totally different mind set was, like I said already, a major breath of fresh air. I have always enjoyed working with my hands, so the ability of taking care of things around the house or on the car on my own was attractive to me, and still is.
And here comes my concern. What I have been witnessing in the last few years is a societal march toward the same mind set I escaped from 30+ years ago.
Every one is pushing for college education as if that is the only way to succeed in life. I have seen some reports that estimate that by year 2020, our country will have a shortfall of labor of about 10 million jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors. All the various disciplines will be affected: machinists, electricians, framers, etc.
It used to be that the average American could change the oil in his/her car, do minor repairs and build things that made life easier. Today we don't even change our own flat tires.
We have college graduates with the stupidest degrees, all feel-good majors that have absolutely no real life application. So the solution to land a job is most likely to end up working for the government or know someone who knows someone who gets you into some job.
Sounds familiar? Sure does, I have seen this movie before and do not like the end today any more than I liked it then.
Do not mistake my words for a rebuke of college education. I am a college graduate and all for it and I am all for the personal improvement in the field of knowledge, but it has to be useful knowledge and not indoctrination.
Fields like Engineering will lead to good paying jobs. Vocational training, like machinist and other manufacturing fields, will also lead to good jobs, especially if the current trend of cheap imports from abroad is reversed. I think it will, as the country may like the low prices for certain items, but it is also growing tired of subsidizing the enemies of our country.
What I see, and I have written amply in the past, is a conspiracy on the part of academia to undermine the social structure of America. The institution of higher learning are filled with progressive elements that have access to the minds of young people and are destroying a whole generation.
I watch the protester and feel afraid for America. They have been indoctrinated into hating the country, into hypocritical behavior. They protest corporations and banks, while dispersing their unhinged messages via tools from large corporations, wearing brand clothing.
They demand free college education, living wages regardless of employment, $20/hour minimum wage and open borders. And of course they demand the forgiveness of all debt, especially their student loans, the thousands of dollars in debt they accumulated as they were majoring in "Conflict Management Among Amoebas" or something like it at Yale or Harvard.
They demand to land a six figure salary job as soon as they graduate from college, because they are the elite, they are the chosen ones.
These protesters are instigated by the same people who have indoctrinated them, the same college professors who have never had to actually make a living or have had to deal with hiring someone. One element I find suspiciously missing among the protester is the message against the colleges: they protest the banks, but they do not protest tuition increases. They want their student loans forgiven, but they do not protest the exorbitant salaries of colleges' administrators which fuels the tuition increases. I find it a telling detail.
Regardless of this, though, I remain optimistic. The majority of the American people understand the reality of the economy. We pay our bills and we take responsibility for our actions. The difference can be found in the fact that the progressive minority yells the loudest and have the open support of the political leadership, to the point of justifying violence.
We, the silent majority, will return the country to a rational, sane place in due time. What it will take is that we stop being so silent and we get informed about the issues that afflict our society.
We really do not have a choice in the matter, because there is no other country we can escape to if America fails.
And there is one major component to my optimism: our Military. A large part of the new generation is composed of men and women who have served in the Military, with combat tours, and who know personally what sacrifice really is. They have lived it and they will bring that experience to the work force, to our social landscape.
So, get informed and speak your mind. Put pressure on the most elitists members of our society, the politicians and make them understand that we want America to remain the the beacon of freedom and opportunities for all those who are willing to play according to the rules.
Personally, I do not want to see that movie again!
Just my thoughts!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The Regime Strong Success At Intimidation
By Semperpapa
It has been already established that the Obama regime is an everlasting failure. Even former President Jimmy Carter is appreciative to Obama for removing the attribute of "worst presidency" in the history of our country from the useless peanut farmer.
But there is one arena where the Obamadroids have been and continue to be successful: open intimidation.
We all know the latest developments in regard to operation Fast and Furious, the Obama administration strategy for the destruction of the 2nd amendment of the Constitution. Eric Holder, the disgraceful Attorney General, has been caught perjuring himself to the Judiciary Committee, mostly thanks to a CBS, yes I said CBS, reporter Sharyl Attkisson who has been digging into this story from the beginning.
It appears that the regime is not too happy with Ms. Attkinsson as explained in the following article:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/cbs-news-reporter-says-white-house-screamed-swore-her-over-fast-and-furious_595011.html
It must be a struggle for the Obamadroids to see a member of the MSM, their fierce ally, turning up so much dirt from the emperor's palace, so I can almost understand the frustration that these alien droids must be feeling when one of their own has left the plantation.
There is a very telling portion of the article I want to focus on:
"[The White House and Justice Department] will tell you that I'm the only reporter--as they told me--that is not reasonable. They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I'm the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I'm unfair and biased by pursuing it".
If this is not a clear demonstration of what our country is up against in regard to the media, I do not know what could be. For the liberals unable to comprehend outside the confines of their own talking points, the excerpt demonstrates that the word "reasonable" stands to describe the fact that regardless of the gravity of the administration corruption, the main stream media will for ever be an apologetic arm of the Obama regime. So much for un-bias reporting!
Being "reasonable" only means that the White House refuses to accept the responsibility for another failed policy, one that was instituted to advance the agenda of the progressive President aimed at the disarmament of the American people.
Obama and his minions want to take away the right we are afforded by the Constitution to own firearms, a main obstacle for these characters toward the subjugation of all of us.
I do not know the political leanings of the reporter, Ms. Attkinsson, nor I care about them as long as she continues to inform us of the corruption and down right criminality of those involved in this disgraceful operation. They must be held accountable for the death of many and especially for that of Border Agent Brian Terry.
Lastly, I wonder how long will Ms. Attkinsson remain on the CBS payroll...
Just my thoughts!
It has been already established that the Obama regime is an everlasting failure. Even former President Jimmy Carter is appreciative to Obama for removing the attribute of "worst presidency" in the history of our country from the useless peanut farmer.
But there is one arena where the Obamadroids have been and continue to be successful: open intimidation.
We all know the latest developments in regard to operation Fast and Furious, the Obama administration strategy for the destruction of the 2nd amendment of the Constitution. Eric Holder, the disgraceful Attorney General, has been caught perjuring himself to the Judiciary Committee, mostly thanks to a CBS, yes I said CBS, reporter Sharyl Attkisson who has been digging into this story from the beginning.
It appears that the regime is not too happy with Ms. Attkinsson as explained in the following article:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/cbs-news-reporter-says-white-house-screamed-swore-her-over-fast-and-furious_595011.html
It must be a struggle for the Obamadroids to see a member of the MSM, their fierce ally, turning up so much dirt from the emperor's palace, so I can almost understand the frustration that these alien droids must be feeling when one of their own has left the plantation.
There is a very telling portion of the article I want to focus on:
"[The White House and Justice Department] will tell you that I'm the only reporter--as they told me--that is not reasonable. They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I'm the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I'm unfair and biased by pursuing it".
If this is not a clear demonstration of what our country is up against in regard to the media, I do not know what could be. For the liberals unable to comprehend outside the confines of their own talking points, the excerpt demonstrates that the word "reasonable" stands to describe the fact that regardless of the gravity of the administration corruption, the main stream media will for ever be an apologetic arm of the Obama regime. So much for un-bias reporting!
Being "reasonable" only means that the White House refuses to accept the responsibility for another failed policy, one that was instituted to advance the agenda of the progressive President aimed at the disarmament of the American people.
Obama and his minions want to take away the right we are afforded by the Constitution to own firearms, a main obstacle for these characters toward the subjugation of all of us.
I do not know the political leanings of the reporter, Ms. Attkinsson, nor I care about them as long as she continues to inform us of the corruption and down right criminality of those involved in this disgraceful operation. They must be held accountable for the death of many and especially for that of Border Agent Brian Terry.
Agent Brian Terry
Lastly, I wonder how long will Ms. Attkinsson remain on the CBS payroll...
Just my thoughts!
The Bill To Nowhere
By Semperpapa
I am not sure if it is the blatant lack of urgency or the blatant middle finger to the face of the millions of unemployed Americans that pisses me off the most, but the shenanigans taking place in Washington these days are truly disgusting.
One one side we have a progressive President and just as progressive liberal establishment exemplified by the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who are showing no intention whatsoever to address the unemployment issue in our country. There is an alleged Jobs Bill that Obama is championing with a price tag attached to it of $447B supposedly being paid for by tax increases levied from the famous "rich" of America (basically anybody still with a job).
On the other side we have the Senate Minority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, also playing politics and urging Reid to sand the alleged bill to the Senate floor for an immediate vote. Yes, McConnell's is trying to embarrass the President by having his bill being defeated in the Democrat controlled Senate, knowing well that it would never pass in the Republican controlled House.
Ultimately, both sides are basically using the millions of unemployed as political pawns, something the scum in Washington has become really proficient at doing.
Nothing has obviously been learned by these people from the 2010 elections, when the people demonstrated that they were willing to give the pink slip to status quo politicians.
The truth of the matter is that the so called Jobs Bill is just as useless as the famous bridge to nowhere, because it is nothing more than another intrusion of an overbearing government in the people's business.
There is no bill that is going to fix the economy, no Washington policy that is going to spur the creation of new jobs. Exactly the opposite, because every time the government is "magnanimous" it also attaches controlling strings to it, increasingly interfering in the lives of the people.
It is the removal of strangling regulations upon the private sector that may accomplish a slow economic recovery. It is the removal of countless layers of bureaucratic non-sense, of overlapping agencies and commissions that is going to at first encourage the trust of small businesses to get back at producing and, consequentially, creating jobs.
Harry Reid knows very well, just as McConnell does, that the abortion called Jobs Bill would never pass, not even the liberal controlled Senate, so he is trying to buy time by "tweaking" it, by modifying it so that it would at least have a chance in the Senate, even as it is certain not to pass the House.
And while the Senator from Nevada promises to bring the bill up for a vote by the end of October, unemployed folks, at least those who are really desiring to find meaningful employment, are left out hanging on political infighting. Thanks you, Washington!
It is my prediction that the bill will not make it to be voted on.
May it be because campaigning will trample the needs of the people or because the throngs of unwashed protesters will cause the so needed "crisis" Obama is looking for, but the bill will never see the light of day. If it does, it will be due to the ability of liberals to cower the establishment Republicans into submission, again!
I saw a poster on Facebook that said: "The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now"
As much as I do not subscribe to the violent conflict resolution, I can actually understand the frustration that the majority of Americans have toward the garbage we are being fed from the political elite; toward the blatant attempt to circumvent the Constitution; toward the continuous attempt to replace the principles of our Nation with tyranny.
Yes, the Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.
Just my thoughts!
I am not sure if it is the blatant lack of urgency or the blatant middle finger to the face of the millions of unemployed Americans that pisses me off the most, but the shenanigans taking place in Washington these days are truly disgusting.
One one side we have a progressive President and just as progressive liberal establishment exemplified by the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who are showing no intention whatsoever to address the unemployment issue in our country. There is an alleged Jobs Bill that Obama is championing with a price tag attached to it of $447B supposedly being paid for by tax increases levied from the famous "rich" of America (basically anybody still with a job).
On the other side we have the Senate Minority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, also playing politics and urging Reid to sand the alleged bill to the Senate floor for an immediate vote. Yes, McConnell's is trying to embarrass the President by having his bill being defeated in the Democrat controlled Senate, knowing well that it would never pass in the Republican controlled House.
Ultimately, both sides are basically using the millions of unemployed as political pawns, something the scum in Washington has become really proficient at doing.
Nothing has obviously been learned by these people from the 2010 elections, when the people demonstrated that they were willing to give the pink slip to status quo politicians.
The truth of the matter is that the so called Jobs Bill is just as useless as the famous bridge to nowhere, because it is nothing more than another intrusion of an overbearing government in the people's business.
There is no bill that is going to fix the economy, no Washington policy that is going to spur the creation of new jobs. Exactly the opposite, because every time the government is "magnanimous" it also attaches controlling strings to it, increasingly interfering in the lives of the people.
It is the removal of strangling regulations upon the private sector that may accomplish a slow economic recovery. It is the removal of countless layers of bureaucratic non-sense, of overlapping agencies and commissions that is going to at first encourage the trust of small businesses to get back at producing and, consequentially, creating jobs.
Harry Reid knows very well, just as McConnell does, that the abortion called Jobs Bill would never pass, not even the liberal controlled Senate, so he is trying to buy time by "tweaking" it, by modifying it so that it would at least have a chance in the Senate, even as it is certain not to pass the House.
And while the Senator from Nevada promises to bring the bill up for a vote by the end of October, unemployed folks, at least those who are really desiring to find meaningful employment, are left out hanging on political infighting. Thanks you, Washington!
It is my prediction that the bill will not make it to be voted on.
May it be because campaigning will trample the needs of the people or because the throngs of unwashed protesters will cause the so needed "crisis" Obama is looking for, but the bill will never see the light of day. If it does, it will be due to the ability of liberals to cower the establishment Republicans into submission, again!
I saw a poster on Facebook that said: "The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now"
As much as I do not subscribe to the violent conflict resolution, I can actually understand the frustration that the majority of Americans have toward the garbage we are being fed from the political elite; toward the blatant attempt to circumvent the Constitution; toward the continuous attempt to replace the principles of our Nation with tyranny.
Yes, the Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.
Just my thoughts!
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Time For Holder To Go
By Semperpapa
Actually, it has been time for a long time, at least since he allowed the case against the New Black Panthers to go away after the group intimidation of voters in Philadelphia in 2008.
But now it is not even a matter of philosophical and ideological differences with the US Attorney General, it is instead a matter of criminal behavior, pure and simple.
The latest is that Holder actually testified falsely about his knowledge of operation Fast and Furious, which allowed thousands of firearms to be channeled into Mexico from the United States and found their way into the hands of the drug cartels south of the border.
Holder testified in May 2011 to the Judiciary Committee that his knowledge of the operation dated back about three weeks, but now official memos prove that Holder was receiving consistent reports about the operation at least 10 months earlier.
So now it is a clear cut case of perjury, pure and simple. And the Attorney General should do the only honorable thing left at his disposal and just quit, saving the country the necessary inconvenience to impeach the bastard and fire his ass.
I am not holding my breath, though. In the first place, there is nothing honorable in the man. He is a stooge of the Obama regime, viscerally dedicated to the ideology and agenda of his boss, including the subversion of the U.S. Constitution if necessary to achieve the goal of his masters.
Secondly, Holder appears to place himself above the law and the rights of the American people, and he's doing so successfully, thanks to an administration that protects him and a media that is not interested, although this appears to be changing as the reports done by none other than CBS News have been not short than accusatory.
Imagine, just for fun, if the mess of Fast and Furious would have been happening under a Republican president, with a Republican AG. Does anybody doubt that there would be a frantic crescendo of demands for the heads of the AG and of the President?
I did not think so.
In any case, Holder says now that he did not really comprehend the question of the Judiciary Committee last May and that is why he gave the answer he did.
So just to make things clear, ignorance of the law is only a justified excuse for politicians and their appointees, only for the elite upper crust of our leadership class.
For the rest of us common slobs, we actually have to follow the rules and the law even if we do not know the law.
Unless of course you are an illegal alien, a Marxist, a radical Muslim or a black criminal. In any of those cases, Attorney General Eric Holder will make sure that your rights are more than safeguarded, even if it means to trample the rights of all other American citizens.
Just my thoughts!
Actually, it has been time for a long time, at least since he allowed the case against the New Black Panthers to go away after the group intimidation of voters in Philadelphia in 2008.
But now it is not even a matter of philosophical and ideological differences with the US Attorney General, it is instead a matter of criminal behavior, pure and simple.
The latest is that Holder actually testified falsely about his knowledge of operation Fast and Furious, which allowed thousands of firearms to be channeled into Mexico from the United States and found their way into the hands of the drug cartels south of the border.
Holder testified in May 2011 to the Judiciary Committee that his knowledge of the operation dated back about three weeks, but now official memos prove that Holder was receiving consistent reports about the operation at least 10 months earlier.
So now it is a clear cut case of perjury, pure and simple. And the Attorney General should do the only honorable thing left at his disposal and just quit, saving the country the necessary inconvenience to impeach the bastard and fire his ass.
I am not holding my breath, though. In the first place, there is nothing honorable in the man. He is a stooge of the Obama regime, viscerally dedicated to the ideology and agenda of his boss, including the subversion of the U.S. Constitution if necessary to achieve the goal of his masters.
Secondly, Holder appears to place himself above the law and the rights of the American people, and he's doing so successfully, thanks to an administration that protects him and a media that is not interested, although this appears to be changing as the reports done by none other than CBS News have been not short than accusatory.
Imagine, just for fun, if the mess of Fast and Furious would have been happening under a Republican president, with a Republican AG. Does anybody doubt that there would be a frantic crescendo of demands for the heads of the AG and of the President?
I did not think so.
In any case, Holder says now that he did not really comprehend the question of the Judiciary Committee last May and that is why he gave the answer he did.
So just to make things clear, ignorance of the law is only a justified excuse for politicians and their appointees, only for the elite upper crust of our leadership class.
For the rest of us common slobs, we actually have to follow the rules and the law even if we do not know the law.
Unless of course you are an illegal alien, a Marxist, a radical Muslim or a black criminal. In any of those cases, Attorney General Eric Holder will make sure that your rights are more than safeguarded, even if it means to trample the rights of all other American citizens.
Just my thoughts!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Protest Lacks Clarity Of Scope
By Semperpapa
The brightest stars of the college campus student population is demonstrating against Wall Street in New York, but unclear are the motivations behind the action.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ap-analyzes-days-of-rage-its-unclear-exactly-what-the-demonstrators-want/
(BTW, the above article is from the Associated Press, not a conservative entity)
This should probably be Part II of the previous post, as the forces of the progressive left are preparing the battle field.
It would be interesting to analyze the demographics of those who are camped outside Wall Street and who are trying to get this demonstrations some traction across the country, but I am positive that the involved media will steer clear of any of that as it may again demonstrate the failure of policies of entitlement.
It is my wager that the majority of those who are taking it to the street are college students who are attending some brainwashing institution of higher learning on someone else's dime.
The images from New York are a direct contrast with those we saw few weeks back from Atlanta, for example, where thousands of unemployed lined up for the chance to find work at a Job Fair.
Thousands line up for a Job Fair in Atlanta
And there is where I see the example of the decadence that our country has fallen into, all thanks to the policies of political correctness and economic justice.
Political correctness is the cancer that will kill our Nation if we do not fight it.
And I have a different take on economic justice: economic justice, in my book, is the ability of every single person in America to have a say in his/her economic development.
For so many decades, since Pres. Lyndon Johnson started the "war on poverty" champions of Marxism have pushed for giving those who rather be unproductive, a share of the fruits of someone else labor.
The target these days for the push on the Marxist version of economic justice as championed by people like Van Jones, and Obama, is the big corporations, or so the left would want to portray.
Now, I am not necessarily a big fan of large corporations, mostly because they can develop and abuse strong power upon politicians (example: General Electric), but large corporations have their place in a capitalistic society, as they provide employment and benefits for thousands of people. Moreover they provide financial independence for those who invest in their stocks.
But while the left is seemingly focusing on these large companies, aided by a complacent media, their real target is the private business in general.
Every small business owner, the type of American who decides to take a personal risk and is willing to work hard for it, has dreams of developing the business into a large operation. There may not be a desire for a multi-billion dollars conglomerate, but the aspiration to growth that would insure financial independence is a definite driving force.
Independence from whom, you may ask. Well, from a boss to begin with, but mostly from government.
And that, you see, is the problem that the left has against entrepreneurship.
So the battle of the left against business, while it is namely aimed at large corporations, is instead truly targeting the private business sector.
The way the government has to stifle private enterprises is by instituting oppressive regulations that are designed not to protect the consumer or the environment, but instead are designed to render impossible conducting businesses. When the government imposes stringent regulations on an industry, compliance almost always comes at a heavy cost for the business, cost that many small enterprises are not able to afford. The result may be devastating for the business and for those who are employed there.
Who really benefits from these regulations and their consequences? Large corporations, the evil large corporations who have pockets deep enough to be able to implement the changes. The result is the destruction of competition and higher costs to the consumer and larger profits for the larger company.
In retrospect, the beneficiaries of the attack from the left against large corporations are the very entities being attacked. And they write the biggest checks to political campaigns, especially those of liberal politicians.
Those Wall Street tycoons that the protesters seem to be targeting are also some of the largest contributors to the causes of crony socialism masked as progressive liberalism. These greedy people are the ones who benefit greatly from the bailouts the Obama regime has designed for them in the last three years.
Solyndra was a corporation who represents the very essence of crony socialism as it benefited from an out of control central government wasting enormous amounts of taxpayers' money, money that is not there but is being borrowed against the security of future generations, only to pursue a political agenda.
And just last week even more taxpayers' money was adjudicated to even more companies for the same reason, one of these companies with close ties with a corporation whose number two is Nancy Pelosi's brother-in-law. But of course, this is pure coincidence.
Just as it is coincidence that on the board of one of the banks, evil banks, that benefited from the government bailout, sat the husband of Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
And we wonder why the protest lacks of clarity in its purpose? But then there is the "other" possibility: that the forces of the left, the forces pushing for protest, the forces demanding "economic justice" may be pronged by those who are looking for a season of civil unrest, one of those crisis that cannot go to waste, which would call for "unprecedented measures" on the part of the government to protect the American people.
Only time will tell, but we need to be prepared.
Just my thoughts!
The brightest stars of the college campus student population is demonstrating against Wall Street in New York, but unclear are the motivations behind the action.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ap-analyzes-days-of-rage-its-unclear-exactly-what-the-demonstrators-want/
(BTW, the above article is from the Associated Press, not a conservative entity)
This should probably be Part II of the previous post, as the forces of the progressive left are preparing the battle field.
It would be interesting to analyze the demographics of those who are camped outside Wall Street and who are trying to get this demonstrations some traction across the country, but I am positive that the involved media will steer clear of any of that as it may again demonstrate the failure of policies of entitlement.
It is my wager that the majority of those who are taking it to the street are college students who are attending some brainwashing institution of higher learning on someone else's dime.
The images from New York are a direct contrast with those we saw few weeks back from Atlanta, for example, where thousands of unemployed lined up for the chance to find work at a Job Fair.
Some of the 700 protesters arrested in New York (AP)
Thousands line up for a Job Fair in Atlanta
Political correctness is the cancer that will kill our Nation if we do not fight it.
And I have a different take on economic justice: economic justice, in my book, is the ability of every single person in America to have a say in his/her economic development.
For so many decades, since Pres. Lyndon Johnson started the "war on poverty" champions of Marxism have pushed for giving those who rather be unproductive, a share of the fruits of someone else labor.
The target these days for the push on the Marxist version of economic justice as championed by people like Van Jones, and Obama, is the big corporations, or so the left would want to portray.
Now, I am not necessarily a big fan of large corporations, mostly because they can develop and abuse strong power upon politicians (example: General Electric), but large corporations have their place in a capitalistic society, as they provide employment and benefits for thousands of people. Moreover they provide financial independence for those who invest in their stocks.
But while the left is seemingly focusing on these large companies, aided by a complacent media, their real target is the private business in general.
Every small business owner, the type of American who decides to take a personal risk and is willing to work hard for it, has dreams of developing the business into a large operation. There may not be a desire for a multi-billion dollars conglomerate, but the aspiration to growth that would insure financial independence is a definite driving force.
Independence from whom, you may ask. Well, from a boss to begin with, but mostly from government.
And that, you see, is the problem that the left has against entrepreneurship.
So the battle of the left against business, while it is namely aimed at large corporations, is instead truly targeting the private business sector.
The way the government has to stifle private enterprises is by instituting oppressive regulations that are designed not to protect the consumer or the environment, but instead are designed to render impossible conducting businesses. When the government imposes stringent regulations on an industry, compliance almost always comes at a heavy cost for the business, cost that many small enterprises are not able to afford. The result may be devastating for the business and for those who are employed there.
Who really benefits from these regulations and their consequences? Large corporations, the evil large corporations who have pockets deep enough to be able to implement the changes. The result is the destruction of competition and higher costs to the consumer and larger profits for the larger company.
In retrospect, the beneficiaries of the attack from the left against large corporations are the very entities being attacked. And they write the biggest checks to political campaigns, especially those of liberal politicians.
Those Wall Street tycoons that the protesters seem to be targeting are also some of the largest contributors to the causes of crony socialism masked as progressive liberalism. These greedy people are the ones who benefit greatly from the bailouts the Obama regime has designed for them in the last three years.
Solyndra was a corporation who represents the very essence of crony socialism as it benefited from an out of control central government wasting enormous amounts of taxpayers' money, money that is not there but is being borrowed against the security of future generations, only to pursue a political agenda.
And just last week even more taxpayers' money was adjudicated to even more companies for the same reason, one of these companies with close ties with a corporation whose number two is Nancy Pelosi's brother-in-law. But of course, this is pure coincidence.
Just as it is coincidence that on the board of one of the banks, evil banks, that benefited from the government bailout, sat the husband of Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
And we wonder why the protest lacks of clarity in its purpose? But then there is the "other" possibility: that the forces of the left, the forces pushing for protest, the forces demanding "economic justice" may be pronged by those who are looking for a season of civil unrest, one of those crisis that cannot go to waste, which would call for "unprecedented measures" on the part of the government to protect the American people.
Only time will tell, but we need to be prepared.
Just my thoughts!
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Preparing For Revolution
By Semperpapa
Van Jones. A name and a guarantee.
Last week during a radio interview, the former Obama green job czar made a clear statement that the forces he is so desperately trying to master, the progressive forces, will be turning to violence in order to become relevant again.
"...I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back..."
"...we are going to build a progressive counterbalance to the tea party. 80% of Americans agree with everything you say on this show but we have no voice. We know that jobs are more important, phoney made up deficit stuff they talk about. We know that people who have done well in America should do well by America and start paying America back in the form of more fair taxes. people who benefitted from the bailouts and from the tax breaks should start paying America back. They’re doing great. everybody else is suffering. That’s 80% of the majority. We’re going to now have a voice. You’re going to see an American fall, an American autumn, just like we saw the Arab spring. You can see it right now with these young people on wall street. Hold onto your hats. We‘ll have an October offensive to take back the American dream and to rescue America’s middle class..."
So, let me see if I understand. Van Jones is calling for the American youth to pour into the streets and promote a revolution, just like we saw in the Middle East last Spring.
In the first place, that would mean that the treatment Osni Mubarak received in Egypt, for example, will be given to Jones puppet master Barak Obama. Is this what Jones is calling for? The removal of the President of the United States? The takeover on the part of the liberal progressive Marxist throngs of our republic?
That is what I gather from the words of this master agitator. He mentions the protesters that have been showing up in New York's Wall Street, and there was a small protest in Boston where few people demanded to be arrested.
Regardless of the attempt of the state controlled media to make these protests relevant, regardless of the cameo appearance of the great pig Michael Moore and the hypocritical Susan Sarandon, who so benevolently stopped by in her limo on her way to a trip to Italy, the American people really could not give more of a rat's ass about some brainwashed college students making noise.
But there is a danger. The danger is that the violent rhetoric of Van Jones is supported and fueled by entities at very high levels of the political landscape.
Remember who Obama was! He really has nothing to show in view of accomplishments prior to running for President. He was a community organizer in Chicago, the land of thuggery. Basically not more that a thug agitator.
Jones had the confidence of Obama as a green job czar, basically placed in a position to affect policy without Congressional overview.
That, my friends, is called tyranny.
And there is even more danger. The forces of progressivism are swelled by union thugs, Black Panthers sympathizers, the Congressional Black Caucus, La Raza and the forces that want illegal immigration to be mainstreamed, the Council for American-Islamic Relations and its terrorist friends and the multitude of college students that have been brainwashed to hate America and everything she stands for and on.
What progressives like Van Jones cannot stand is the fact that millions of American people have decided that the direction the country is going is not compatible to their desires.
It was all well when the anti-American forces of liberal progressivism were allowed to operate unchallenged, slowly eroding the very fibers of our freedoms.
Political correctness, racial guilt, class warfare worked very well in silencing the majority of the American people, who were also too busy making a living to pay attention. And let's face it, too comfortable to care.
But the moment that things got less comfortable, the moment that people started to see a definite and disturbing turn toward the left and socialism, the people decided that they were going to exercise their right to dissent.
Yes, it is our right to dissent, just as Hillary Clinton said referring to her attacks against George W. Bush.
The brutal attacks that the left has and still is perpetrating against popular movements like the TEA party has its origins in the fact that the American people are challenging the forces of Marxism in our country. And the left does not like it!
They are so used to achieve their objectives via intimidation and vitriol that having to actually debate in the arena of ideologies is a foreign proposition. Hence the alternative is to intimidate the population. And why not, it has worked for decades.
The only problem with the strategy, though, is that a lot more Americans are paying attention these days, as it was demonstrated in the 2010 mid term elections. And this is not a partisan issue, because many so called conservatives have been the targets of dissent for their compromising attitudes, aimed more at maintaining power than at doing the people's business.
The left is preparing for revolution, Van Jones tells us, but strangely there are no reports of disapproval on the main stream media against such rhetoric.
The folks at TEA party demonstrations are swastika wearing, nazi approving, bigoted racists for wanting the government to return to its constitutional role, according to the media.
Van Jones and his characters are freedom fighters for the cause of Marxism.
Well today is October 1st, so we will see if the threats of Van Jones will actually materialize.
I want to live you with a question: Do you believe that if, let's say, Sarah Palin had made a statement about a conservative American Fall like the Arab Spring, that the Media would have ignored it as they are ignoring Van Jones' statement?
Just my thoughts!
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