Off To A Fine Start

Well, here we are, almost a month since the inauguration and the new administration is off to a really fine start.  It seems a good time to review some of the Obama campaign promises and activities then translate them from “campaignspeak” to everyday English so that we can analyze them.  You no doubt have caught a few that I missed — if so, please offer them up.

What I have so far are:

• Change you can believe in. MEANING Business as usual except more so.  In all fairness, there has been change – a huge lurch toward socialism.

• Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. MEANING Tax cuts for the people who actually pay tax.  Tax cuts that more than paid for themselves through increases economic activity.

• Will allow 5 days for public review and comment before signing bills into law. MEANING So far, the only meaning is that this was demonstrated to be, and will continue to be an egregious lie.

• Will veto any bill containing earmarks or pork barrel spending. MEANING Just signed into law the biggest barrel of pork ever conceived.  Even FDR would be embarrassed.  But, how better to “stimulate” an economy than to punish the producers and reward the slackers.

• “Office of the President Elect”. MEANING The US Constitution mentions no such office.  They just made this up to appear in charge during the transition – a period where we still had a duly elected President in office.

• (Income) tax cuts for 95% of Americans. MEANING Since around half of Americans do not pay any income tax, this promise, as stated, is mathematically impossible.  What they really mean is more unearned tax credits for those who have no tax liability.  In other words, welfare, administered by the IRS.

• An ethical administration. MEANING This administration is having more trouble getting its cabinet position filled than any other in modern history.  The reason?  “Mistakes” that would send a common citizen to jail.  The most prevalent being a failure to pay income taxes, duly owed.

• No lobbyists in the administration. MEANING This must indicate a simple misunderstanding of the difference between “in” and “out”.

Add to this your own list and what do we get?  The profile of a pathological liar.  A person who will say whatever he thinks will get him more power, even though he has no intention whatever of following through.  This guy must make Bill Clinton blush!  But, what else could we really expect from a product of the Chicago “thugocracy”?

To get by with such lying, and still be revered by many as the second coming, requires a support base of supporters who are functionally incapable of rational thought.  The real tragedy here is that there are sufficient people in this support base to determine the outcome of elections for decades to come – with little or no hope that the thugs they vote into office will do anything to reverse the trend.  Indeed, there is every reason to expect that the opposite will be the case.

Some of you may find my observations a bit extreme, particularly my use of the term “thug” to describe duly elected and appointed officials.  Think of it this way… what would you call a band of people who went about robbing others at the point of a gun?  Surely “thug” is among the acceptable terms in that case.  Is it really any different when the band of thugs in question hide behind the seal of government power?  I say it is not.

Better yet, what would you call a band of people who capture fellow humans and sell them into slavery?  Would “thug” be too severe?  I think not.  Is it any different when the band of thugs in question use the tax and welfare systems to take what you have earned and award it to others who did nothing to deserve it?  Is this not, by definition, a form of slavery?  Being forced to labor for the benefit of another?

My friends, if we can see all this after less than a month, imagine what these thugs can accomplish in 4 years.

Your continued freedom is your own responsibility.  Take action while it is still possible to do so.  Remember the best avenues open to us, in order of preference:

1. A Constitutional Convention, called by the states.  If you have not done so, petition your state legislators and governors to pass a bill demanding a Constitutional Convention.  Then to use said Constitutional Convention to severely curtail the out-of-control powers illegally assumed by the Federal Government, returning them to the States and to the People as specified in the Constitution
2. Secession from the Union. If the states combined cannot (or will not) demand a Convention, the next best thing is for the viable states, those that still treasure freedom and free enterprise, to secede from the Union, then either form its own republic or join with other states who share the same values.  Remember that our previous experiment with secession had the appearance of being for the purpose of denying freedom to some.  This time, it would be for freedom for all.
3. Armed rebellion.  Certainly a disagreeable option and one of last resort.  But, if that is all we have open to us, it would be nothing more than repeating the method used to secure our freedom to begin with.

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