A Third Party?

If nothing else was resolved as a result of the weekend vote in Congress, one thing did become very apparent with the passage of Obamacare. The American public which had been remaining quiet about the issues came alive with a loud roar. Much to the surprise of the Democrats it appears, who thought that they may come out as heroes for making such a bold move in spite of all of the polling. The unheard Americans came out in droves, outraged at this latest show of non-concern for the people of this nation. A bill that was so unpopular from its birth to its passage with the majority of us screaming all the way. NO!

It was the same way when the first stimulus was passed. Everyone thought that it was a bad idea but they voted for it anyways. What do you do? If these votes are any indication of what is going to happen next in the way of unpopular legislation; America brace yourself! It is only going to get worse.

Now the finger-pointing and the I told you so’s are flying faster than you can blink your eyes. The Democrats are in full damage control mode and the Republicans are out to make a point with the reconciliation bill now in the Senate. The Republicans vowing to stop it. Some of the individual States threatening to sue over it and most of America is mad as hell. All the while, Obama and his staff are sitting around slapping themselves on the back for a job well done. Totally unconcerned about the aftermath.

So, back to the point at hand. Who is to blame for this? Most of America is upset with the Democrats for so arrogantly passing this hideous piece of legislation without the support of the majority. After all this is a Democracy. Right? They are supposed to be our voice in Government. That is why they were voted in, in the first place or at least, that is what we thought. So then, should we blame the Democrats? They are in complete control of both the Senate and the House. This was the perfect storm. If you know anything about liberals then it should not have come as a shock to you to see this bill pass. It was Obama’s stated mission from day one. Health care reform. He did it, he said he was going to do it, plain and simple! He out-foxed all of us right in front of our own noses. The Democrats followed their leader right over the edge of the precipice. This was all predictable. So we can’t really blame the Democrats for doing what they have been trying to do for a very long time now.

If there is blame to be thrown around, throw a lot of it at the Republicans in Congress. Through the past two sessions prior to this, there was a serious lack of fiscal responsibility on their part and an arrogance all of their own toward the public. America was fed up with them and the legislative branch not to mention, the Presidency of George W. Bush. Bogged down in a war that nobody wanted us to stay in. WMD’s in Iraq that apparently never materialized and increased spending. All of this and a poor choice of a candidate to represent the party for the next election all spelled disaster for the Republicans. They abandoned their conservative base and many became what they now call RINO’s. Republicans in name only. People were tired of the same old politics and wanted change. Well, they got it. Although many now have buyers remorse.

Okay, so where do we go from here as conservatives? I am a little bit worried about some of the movements going on as a result of this fiasco. The Tea Party movement wants to start a third party and I can understand the sentiment. They are fed up with the current status quo. The left is too radical and the right has lost its might. So, let’s start a new party. I don’t know about you, but this concerns me. I wish it was really that easy. It’s not.

The Democrats emboldened by their victory over the masses must now feel like they are invincible. Arguably the next legislation on the slate is immigration reform. Seven and a half million illegal aliens in this country screaming for amnesty. They are potential Democrat supporters. Just waiting on a bill to pass, that may guarantee the Democrats a win, if they are granted the same rights as other citizens. Add to that, the possibility of a third party and we may be shooting our selves in our own foot. A third party could very well split the vote in a critical election and cause a Democrat to win. Remember what happened when Ross Perot got into the race and then got out only to get back in at the last moment? George Bush Sr. should have won that race hands down, but Perot became the spoiler and Clinton won by a narrow margin. It could happen again. Harry Reid said that he would invite a third party in with open arms. Can you blame him? Politically, he is doomed as a result of his actions in the Senate.

There will be lawsuits filed challenging this thing for sure. The Republicans are vowing to repeal it. In order for that to happen, the House and the Senate will have to be taken back. The public doesn’t have a lot of faith in either party right now and are pondering what to do. We have to think this one out. A third party sounds like the answer, but in all likelihood will sabotage any effort to retake congress. The Republican Party has some soul-searching to do. If they indeed want to remain a viable party for conservatives then they will have to implement change within their own ranks. Change that we can believe in or a third party will evolve and that could leave the liberals in power for a very long time. We cannot afford that alternative.

What have we learned as a result of all of this? Don’t trust the liberals comes to the top of the stack right away. I expect a tsunami in November’s elections, but it may not materialize if common sense and good judgment do not prevail.

Checkmate. Obamacare passes the House.

The Congressional switch board was literally jammed Saturday with an estimated one hundred thousand calls per hour coming in prior to and during the vote on Obamacare. The stage was set for a final showdown between the House of Representatives and the voting public and that is exactly what it amounted to; a showdown. All of the polls from start to finish indicated to even the least intelligent person on the Hill that the American people were not in favor of this massive takeover of our medical system. The phones rang continuously and all of their mailboxes were full and still this Congress that is supposed to be the voice of the people turned their back on us and voted in a predictable fashion.

It all seemed a bit too contrived and without remorse on any of their part. This health care reform bill which started off with a whimper and became the most hotly debated piece of legislation to pass through the Congress in many years has turned our prestigious halls of legislation into a house of shame. Our Representatives voted on a bill that will bring in more debt, more government bureaucracy, more government control and give the IRS more power than ever before and still they voted yes! Not once did any of them bother to hear the voices of their constituents. Not once did they listen to the people. Nancy Pelosi and her partners in crime had their arms interlocked and looks of shear arrogance, as they walked into the House cowering in the presence of the protest going on in plain sight. The entire episode was a travesty.

This bill is scheduled to be signed into law tomorrow by a President obviously relieved at the passage of a bill and with it the salvation of his Presidency. He has heralded it as historic and indeed it is historic. For the first time in our nations history one of the most comprehensive takeovers of American free enterprise has occurred. Not with due process of law, but rather by blatant bribery, arm twisting, shady backroom deals, lies, deception and trickery. The American people are not stupid and the game was up a long time ago. We as a people no longer believed or trusted the government and all of the talk of health care reform became a contest of wills. The speeches and rallies that they staged and televised with smiling people yelling out his name and sad tales of no health insurance were exactly that; staged. The meeting with all of the doctors in the white lab coats was total insult to our intelligence, a grand photo op with all of the coats handed out just prior to the video taping.

This administration has broken the trust of the American people. People are angrier than ever before and yet they look down on us with utter contempt. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the ring leaders of this great con on the public smile and carry on as if nothing at all occurred. Now they have another item on their agenda. Damage control. In this case however it has nothing to do with putting a spin on the entire thing with slick press coverage to cover their tracks. No. Next on the agenda will almost certainly be, immigration reform or amnesty as it has been called. 6.5 million illegal immigrates in this country will be given access to the bill just passed. Most do not pay taxes but they will be given a slice of the pie. Why? To help ensure a solid democrat support base. Divvy out free health care to a majority of low income and middle class people who are struggling to make ends meet in this dire economy and around election time you will have a guaranteed vote. Simple math.

In this board game that Obama has been playing with the public a winning move has just been made; checkmate! Or so it may seem. This game has awakened a people that have long been asleep and were content to sit back and watch things happen without so much as a twitch. They are more than awake now. They are angry! There will be direct challenges to this bill, lawsuits are already being drawn up. Individual states are assessing the possibility of nullifying it before it even has time to take effect. This is not the end of this loathsome bill. You will be hearing about it for some time to come. Have they overstepped the rules of the game? Yes, but November is right around the corner and along with it the mid term elections. We will see how the members of congress react to this when the time comes. Jobs will be lost in the House and the Senate. Possibly a complete loss of the House for the Democrats. A political tsunami will occur as a result of this bill, but it was a risk that they were willing to take.

The American people are resilient and this game is not over by a long shot. Checkmate? This game has just started!

Obamacare and FDR’s New Deal. A New Addiction?

The dangers of drug abuse come in many forms. Overdose is foremost the worst thing that can happen with the use of any narcotic and is an inherent risk if you choose to subject yourself to mind or mood altering substances. There are many other risks involved such as the tendency to resort to crime to support your habit. Many crimes are for one reason or another closely associated with drug abuse for it seems that once you embark down that dark path, job loss becomes one of the first victims of the drug that you are abusing. Then you slowly pull away from all social life so as to keep others out of your euphoric world that you now occupy.

A disturbing aspect of the drug culture is how friendly the dealer becomes with you in an attempt to gain a new customer. Many times he will give you a free ride in order to introduce you to your new addiction. Then when you feel as though you are still in control of everything, he will pull the rug out from under your feet and now you are at his mercy. The cost keeps rising and is soon unattainable with your current income, but you like it so much that you are willing to do what may have been unthinkable in previous days. Then you are trapped in this unrelenting cycle of abuse that ultimately brings you to the point of ruin.

Ironically, government entitlements work in much the same manner as do drug dealers. They all seem to be euphoric at first glance. They may take a burden off of you that was making life difficult and relieve some of the pressure generated by economic problems at first, but they have a tendency to keep you from advancing or achieving due to the very simple fact that the checks keep coming and you may reach an inescapable conclusion that working isn’t as easy as drawing an entitlement. Problem solved. Or is it?

Inescapably the dark truth eventually shows itself; cost. Large scale entitlement programs are doomed from the start due almost entirely to the cost involved. Europe is a prime example. Denmark and Sweden’s current income tax rate is around 48% to 49%. This is not sustainable.

Although the merits of an all encompassing health care system is desirable for the good of the population, it is not practical due to the economics involved. This country’s health care system is indeed due for an over haul as there are many aspects of it that are in need of reform, but it is in fact the best in the world, with cutting edge technology that has presented itself, by the competition based economy that we have. It is however expensive.

Now the Obama Administration is offering us a New Deal on the heals of this recession that we currently face. FDR had a similar plan. Experts in economics disagree whether or not his New Deal shortened or lengthened the Great Depression. History hasn’t told us yet, but many agree that the onset of World War II is the reason that our beleaguered nation rose from despair. It reignited manufacturing in this country on a large scale and put us back to work.

Is the Obama Administration’s acquisition of the banking and manufacturing companies of our country and the tease of health care reform part of a New Deal? Is it based on FDR’s New Deal? Job loss reached 25% in the thirties and the Great Depression was headed for a double dip. Had World War II not come along when it did, we would have surely stayed in a depression for some time to come.

A lot of FDR’s New Deal entitlements are very similar to the Obama administrations agenda, starting with excessive spending as a way to bring us out of debt and his penchant for demonizing the banks. FDR simply closed the banks until his plan was put into action. Then taking us off of the gold standard and making it illegal to use it as a currency and setting the value of the dollar. This was a calculated risk. Did it work? The current practice of printing money when none is available to pay for entitlements is a result of this change which also creates inflation and devalues the dollar and has managed to saddle us with over $12.5 trillion dollars in debt which is dangling over our heads like the Sword of Damocles. One day that bill will come due for payment. One truly wonders at the wisdom of our leaders.

This health care reform bill or Obamacare, that is currently in the House of Representatives for final vote is but one more entitlement for the people of this country. It is unconstitutional and unsustainable in its scope. The Obama administration is willing to gamble as FDR did with his New Deal, that this will cure the ails of this nation. Like the drug dealer supplying free drugs to attract a new customer, the outcome is predictable and many are indeed euphoric at the possibility of free health care. If it passes, the public will eventually embrace Obamacare and then find that they cannot live without it. Thus the addiction begins and he is fully aware of this effect. Ultimately the cost will go spiraling out of control, with ruin facing us just around the corner.

An Open Letter To Our President

Dear President Obama,

I am currently in possession of a great amount of money that I would like to donate to help reduce the size of our deficit. It took a huge undertaking on my part to raise this much money, approximately $3.5 billion. I worked very hard to earn it and had to whack a few people along the way (sorry…hope you understand). I rationalized this due to the current devalued dollar, that you have so graciously given the American people, for all of their hard work and sacrifices building this country into what it was, until you came along an reduced it to what it is now.

I will be sending this money to you, as soon as I can figure out how to transfer it from the Mafia Wars Bank, to the Federal Reserve Bank (maybe you could help a brother out and arrange for Mr. Bernanke to help with the transfer). I hope your Trusted Secretary of the Treasury; Mr. Geitner will take it easy on me with the taxes, oh and please don’t tell him where it all came from, so I don’t get audited.

Thank you for all you have done to my country,
(I will be talking to you and your friends again, around November of this year)

Sincerely,
The Last Patriot and a few hundred millon constituents, that are just a tad upset with your ass.

The Aftermath

The address last night was as expected, only with a few twists. The fallout today was enormous. Even the Times Magazine took a few swipes at the President and they are an ardent supporter.

What was all to apparent last night was the arrogance of this administration. He personally invited the members of the Supreme Court to attend, only to turn on them for over turning a key piece of legislation that is guaranteed by the second amendment. Freedom of speech. Now businesses can spend as much money as they want in campaign adds for their candidates. leveling the playing field to massive campaign contributions by private citizens.

Also, his remark of “never quitting.” Geared towards the opposition to his health care over haul. Who is opposing this monstrosity? The American people are. His remarks last night indicate a disdain for the people of this country and are unsettling at the very least. He just doesn’t get it. The public spoke loud and clear when they elected Scott Brown in Massachusetts. They do not want more of the same. Which is exactly what we received last night. More of the same.

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.“

Thomas Paine

Ronald Reagan on Socialized Medicine

Do you think that Socialized Medicine is a new discussion? This issue is one that will not go away. It has been around for many years. Listen to what Ronald Reagan had to say about it in 1961 as a private citizen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs