USA - Not a Banana Republic

Yes, we are now in the throes of a fundamental transformation of the United States, all in the name of “social justice”. Did you ask for this? Do you want this? Do you think that we have an unjust social system? It seems to me that for decades we have been the most charitable nation in history. When we defeat our enemies, we help to build them back up. We are first on the scene in any natural disaster no matter where it happens, and we are generally a moral and just people, admired and emulated all over the world.

There may be things in our history that we are not proud of, like our Civil War and our treatment of black people, etc., but we are no different from most countries with similar faults, and we have taken actions to correct those wrongs. We also have poor people, just like other countries, but we help people in poverty with government programs and private charitable organizations, faith-based and private, and we have spent billions to help people in this condition. Has this eliminated poverty? No, and it never will, because when you just give money to people you become an enabler, and people expect it will keep coming and they protest when you take it away.

That’s why governments that expropriate money from the wealthy class via excessive taxes and other means and redistribute it to poor people, generally have stagnate or shrinking economies. Make a list: Cuba, Venezuela, France, UK, Russia, Greece, Italy, etc. Also, there are countries where the money stops at the government level and goes in their pockets, like many nations in Africa and parts of Central and South America. The key is to provide an environment where people want to invest, create jobs, and grow their businesses. Uncertainty is the biggest deterrent to this, and that’s where we are today in the U.S.

Getting back to fundamental change, poverty is relative. In the U.S. most of our poor people have two televisions, a car, an apartment, free schools, health care even if they can’t afford it, and the opportunity to improve themselves. Giving them more entitlements won’t change their condition nor incentivize them to improve. Yet every time I turn on the TV there is our President yelling at me about how we need to give more money to the disenfranchised and how our poor people are dying because of those bad health insurance companies or because they are uninsured. It’s almost like a Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez speech marathon with the same old BS. He makes us sound like a banana republic or a third world country; all in the name of “social justice”.

Well, Mr. President, we are not an unjust and oppressed society and we don’t need fundamental transformation. We need a President for all the people and one who builds us up and doesn’t tear us down. We need a government that gets out of our way and makes things easier, less regulations and laws, not more. We have inalienable rights given to us by God not government, and we don’t want to be lectured to. And, by the way Mr. President, we are smarter than you think and we know what you’re up to.

Tyranny Trumps in Healthcare

You haven’t heard much from this corner in quite some time as I have watched things unfold in the health care debate. I predicted that Obamacare was dead after the Scott Brown election to the Senate from Massachusetts and I was dead wrong. I guess I had underestimated Obama’s tenacity to get his way regardless of what the people want. That’s what ideologues do.

Also, I never thought that the complete annihilation of this country right before my eyes on Sunday night would be gross entertainment, as I actually laughed myself silly listening to Nancy Pelosi’s remarks about this fiscal Frankenstein of a bill. She actually said this bill was about the American character, yes Nancy, back-room deals, bribes, arm-twisting, threats, patronage, political payoffs, and the like. Just like our founding fathers designed. She quoted the Declaration of Independence, after a few flubs, something about inalienable rights and life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Yes, Nancy, the right to have the Federal government determine your healthcare and force you to buy health insurance or be fined if you delay, with increasing interest penalties. The right to have 17,000 new IRS agents enforce this and harass you if you don’t comply with this new law. Yes Nancy, the right to have some Washington bureaucrat overrule your doctor by using some actuarial table to decide whether you “qualify” for life-saving treatment, based on your age and some productivity factor. And if your doctor decides to give you that treatment he gets fined because he “spent” too much government insurance on you.

We now have the House of Representatives being controlled by a pot-smoking, flower child from San Francisco, who sounds like she’s still on an acid trip when you listen to the distorted logic in her outlandish utterances. The crazies have been in charge of Congress for the last 4 years and they can’t keep blaming George Bush.

Obama’s remarks were equally outlandish, when he said this illustrated government of the people, by the people, and for the people, with a straight face, when 2 out of every 3 people absolutely reject this legislation. Yes, they both said this was an “historic moment”, just like Medicare (broke!), and Social Security (going broke!). I likened it to Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and the Great Depression, historic all right!

There are good things in this bill that both parties like, and that’s what the Democrats will be selling you in the coming months, but they won’t tell you about the government takeover buried in the 2,700 pages of this piece of progressive garbage. We will test the constitutionally of this bill in the coming months and thank God it won’t be operative for another 4 years, but you’re going to start paying for it now. And as the wheels come off this economy, this President stands by and continues to spend another 2.5 trillion of money we don’t have.

He continues his objective to transform this country into a European style socialist state that we don’t want and can’t recognize. Just another community organizer, but this time the community is the United States of America!