Taking Stock

Over the last several months, this blogger has ranted about a range of different subjects.  Different, yet connected as they all have to do our basic freedom — and our prospects for passing that freedom on to those who follow us.  It seems a good time to pause and review the main points I have tried to illuminate…

1. We now have a new administration in power.  One that seems determined to move this nation toward European style socialism — or worse.  Pork barrel spending has reached an all-time high, now calculated in numbers most of us find hard to comprehend.  This new administration is already setting a new threshold for corruption.  Most administrations experience some level of corruption while in office.  This one is taking a shortcut by appointing people who were known to be corrupt before even taking office.
2. Our national economy has been severely wounded.  Wounded by the triple whammy of: out-of-control spending by the Bush administration; insane lending and derivatives practices in the financial community, aided and abetted by government’s willingness to backup the insanity with guarantees, such that financial profits remained private while losses are socialized; a main-stream-media inspired recession, intended to help elect a democrat but, unfortunately for us all, resulting in the collapse, driven mostly by the aforementioned financial insanity.
3. Rather than allowing the free market system to repair the damage inflicted on the economy (by government and its fellow travelers), the new administration is leveraging the situation, inflaming our natural fears, as justification for a return to the tax and spend policies that nearly brought the nation to collapse in the pre-Reagan years.
4. The federal government, aided by teacher’s unions, have taken almost complete control of our education system, turning it into a disgraceful machine designed to turn out semi-literate graduates who know nothing of history, economics, or constitutional government, who, instead, have been brainwashed with the nonsense of political correctness, diversity, and the value of the collective over the individual.
5. Our new administration seems determined to nationalize the finest health care system in the world, justifying this with the myth that thousands of Americans go without medical care.  For sure, health care costs too much in the US but this can be traced directly to Medicare, Medicaid and an out-of-control tort system.  Nationalization will serve to reinforce these ills.
6. We continue our disastrous slide away from being a constitutional republic toward the insanity of democracy, a slide that the new administration is dedicated to accelerating.  Thanks to the sewer we call an education system, an ever-increasing majority of our citizens actually applaud this.
7. We are now at the threshold where the “takers” in our society will be the majority, thus able to elect and maintain a socialist government.  After the coming movement of additional thousands out of the ranks of income tax payers, and the inevitable amnesty for illegal aliens, the “taker majority” will be assured.
8. Foreign governments are starting to refuse to buy the instruments of our national debt.  As this becomes the rule, government will have no choice but to print trillions of unsupported dollars.  This is likely to cause runaway inflation as the unsupported dollars dilute the value of preexisting dollars.  This, in turn, will, in effect, steal what little savings Americans have left by then.
9. Look for a renewed effort to neuter the Second Amendment.  This will be done under the guise of public safety but it will actually be the first step toward disarming the citizenry, to prevent any serious resistance, once the people start to wake up to reality.
10. I will leave 10 through infinity for the rest of you to fill in.

My purpose here is not to frighten anyone into giving up.  Instead, it is to help wake people up to what is going on around them — too often with their consent if not their outright support.

What I truly desire is to get people thinking about ways to reverse this mess.  For sure, some of the damage being done today will take years to repair, even if good government were to descend on us tomorrow.  But, please remember that old saw “when you find yourself in a hole, what is the first thing to do?”  The answer, of course, is “stop digging”.  Even if we do not yet know how to reverse this march toward socialism with the attendant loss of personal freedom, we can at least “stop digging” by ceasing to cooperate in our own destruction.

Although I have hinted at some possible actions in past blogs, I would like to use future blogs to explore practical ways that we can take action.

I know there are people out there reading this and I really need your help.  First, send a link to others who might share these interests.  Second, speak up by making comments.  I am convinced that all of us are far smarter than any one of us.  Please contribute.  Clearly I provide typos, misspellings, poorly structured thoughts.  Yet, I am still here, still ranting.  Please consider this if your only reason to not contribute is fear of making a mistake.  A wise old sergeant in the Air Force once told me that the only people who don’t make mistakes are the people who don’t do anything.  This is certainly NOT the time to not do anything.

Remember, the freedom you save might be your own.  Thank you.

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