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Pelosi-style transparency

By on March 11, 2010
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It’s like we should not question our rulers… just shut up thank them for taking care of us.

…You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting.

But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy… ~frugal-cafe.com

Efficient government?

By on March 5, 2010
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It’s either an oxymoron or a euphemism for something else entirely. I think I like Harry Truman’s take on it: “Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.”

Via Slashdot:

“Federal CIO Vivek Kundra described some dismaying government inefficiencies in a speech on Thursday at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Affairs in Seattle. It takes 160 days to process benefits for veterans, he said, ‘because the Veteran’s Administration is processing paperwork by passing manila folders from one desk to another.’ Another example bound to make you grind your teeth is why it takes the Patent and Trademark Office 3 years to process a patent. ‘One reason,’ says Kundra, ‘is because the USPTO receives these applications online, prints them out, and then someone manually rekeys the information into an antiquated system.’”  ~slashdot

American Democracy

By on February 26, 2010
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The failure of Obama’s initial steps in fundamentally transforming America has brought on accusations that our government is broken and ungovernable… but this is silly. The only thing that has failed is Democrat overreach.

Democrats failure is actually evidence of the system working exactly as it is supposed to. The founding fathers attempted to construct a system that would thwart tyranny with checks and balances. If they had wanted to create a socialist paradise I suppose they would have done so.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ~Alexis de Tocqueville

Civil Society

Civil Society is a term used to describe the interactions of free citizens. The collective action of free citizens acting outside of government for the betterment and enrichment of fellow citizens and society. De Tocqueville had it right when he said that, “The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.” This is democracy: power in the hands of people.

Unfortunately, progressives and liberals have an agenda that seeks to effectively crowd out  all interactions that are outside of government. For the life of me I don’t understand why. Government is no different from any other large ‘corporate’ entity. The only thing I can think of is that it is the religion of Marxism which permeates progressive ideology. For the left, voluntary grassroots uprisings are illegitimate unless their ultimate purpose is to unite in collective action through government or to empower government. All else is heresy.

So when the issue of which nations of the world are more charitable the left can only reference how much governments spend. Ignoring the private donations of individual citizens. The definition of charity, of how much one cares about the poor and the sick, can only be accounted for by how much you want government to spend on the problem. This is why conservatives are called heartless and evil by liberals. Why they are accused of wanting to starve children and old people. Of wanting the sick to die… because they oppose government taking over healthcare.

Representative Republic

Democracy is rule by the people. As opposed to rule by a privileged few. Our founding fathers realized that direct democracy was not a stable form of government, but they also viewed a privileged ruling class akin to royalty as an abomination to human liberty. So they tempered pure democracy and created the United States as a representative republic able to retain the rights of the people to rule themselves and still have characteristics of conservative stability.

The problem Democrats and liberals are having is not new. Friedrich A. Hayek describes how progressive economic planning always devolves into the need to force people to comply with the plan.

Planning and Power

IN ORDER to achieve their ends, the planners must create power—power over men wielded by other men—of a magnitude never before known. Their success will depend on the extent to which they achieve such power. Democracy is an obstacle to this suppression of freedom which the centralized direction of economic activity requires. Hence arises the clash between planning- and democracy.

Many socialists have the tragic illusion that by depriving private individuals of the power they possess in an individualist system, and transferring this power to society, they thereby extinguish power.  ~jim.com/hayek.htm

When Lincoln spoke of, “government of the people, by the people, for the people,” he was not endorsing a dictatorship of the proletariat. He was expressing the political idea that the government is the people. That the power of government resides in every citizen. That it should be citizens exercising power over the state not the other way around.

In contrast, the government of Obama sees Americans as subjects to be taken care of and this requires the state to take upon itself more and more power and responsibility that should rightly be left in the hands of individual citizens.

“It’s not that I want to punish your success,” Obama told him. “I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success, too.

Then, Obama explained his trickle-up theory of economics.

“My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”  ~nypost.com

A government that cannot yet enact this kind of sweeping control over entire sectors of the economy and override the decision making rights of millions is not broken. The fact that we are still debating whether or not to socialize healthcare is a sign that something is broken: the commmon sense of way too many politicians.

Obama won the war that Bush lost

By on February 20, 2010
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Everything you need to know about the Obama Administration in one quote:

“On Larry King Live last night, Vice President Joe Biden said Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of this administration.” ~blogs.abcnews.com

Wow. With this one quote we learn everything we need to know about the Obama Administration.

They. Lie. About. Everything.

Since when did Democrats become habitual liars who shamelessly take credit for things that they have nothing to do with? (Rhetorical question.) Conversely they are also never to blame for anything that happens. Every thing is image without substance. All hope and no change. All hat and no cattle. All credit and no accountability.

Knowing this, we can examine everything that these guys try to spin and realize the truth.

Both Obama and Biden opposed the surge in Iraq. In fact they said the surge would fail and make things worse! The reality is that it succeeded. What’s even more is that Obama’s present day Iraq policy still has, “Bush Administration,” stamped on the cover. There is not a dimes worth of difference between the two. Withdrawal of US troops was coordinated and signed by Bush. Obama has done absolutely nothing to change the Bush policies in Iraq. But he inherited a bad economy and now Iraq is his greatest success?

Just think back a few years. More than just questioning Bush’s Iraq policy Democrats made a conscious decision to oppose victory in Iraq in the hope that it would become a Vietnam for them. Meaning, a lost war which they could ride as a political issue. They declared that the war was lost and that the surge would fail. But now that Bush’s policy has succeeded, well, it was all their idea to begin with.

Less than three years after Sen. Harry Reid (D., Nev.) declared the war lost, less than three years after then-Sen. Barack Obama—with the usual fierce moral urgency—opposed the Bush administration’s military surge, and within three years of Mr. Biden’s own recommendation that Iraq be divided into three parts, these Democrats are laying claim to Iraq’s extraordinary victory.

The vice president wisely made his victory assertion in the television studio of a left-leaning network experienced in fudging Iraqi history. CNN, by its own admission, muted coverage of Saddam Hussein for over a decade.

In the past, American liberals have relied on a sympatico press and leftist academics to obscure or whitewash their grievous historical errors. President George W. Bush, pursuing the global war on terror, encountered the same personal slander Ronald Reagan faced as he fought and won the last major political battles of the Cold War. Both were branded “cowboys” and “warmongers.” Now, Reagan’s victorious Cold War legacy is claimed by all Americans.  ~online.wsj.com

Watch this clip: “the war is lost,” or this one, or this one, or this one, or this one, or this one, and ask yourself where (D) defeatist policies would have put us in Iraq today. Democrats opposed victory in Iraq. The policy they advocated was to surrender, to give up, because they felt we had already lost and more importantly that Bush had to be denied any sort of victory.

You would think that the success of the surge would be an embarrassment for Democrats but that’s just not the case. The truth, like the constitution, is a living thing; amendable and always in flux.  Thus the war that Bush lost yesterday becomes the war that Obama won today.

Stupid American Proletariat

By on February 12, 2010
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The American people are so ignorant… and ungovernable. They just don’t know what’s good for them. Why can’t they understand that what Obama and the left want to impose on them is in their best interest?

The concept is called false consciousness. That’s when people fail to realize how great liberalism and socialism is– because they have been forced or tricked into believing the evil propaganda of big business.

Just listen to how Obama explains the overwhelming opposition to his Healthcare takeover:

Still, this is a complex issue, and the longer it was debated, the more skeptical people became.  I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people. And I know that with all the lobbying and horse-trading, the process left most Americans wondering, “What’s in it for me?”  ~whitehouse.gov

Stupid American people, they  just don’t understand the issue clearly enough. They just don’t see how compassionate the left is in wanting to be in control of health care. It’s that false consciousness once again. Clearly, when folks think that they can make better decisions about their own lives than government officials and politicians in Washington DC something is wrong.

The irony is that throughout the entire effort to ‘Reform Healthcare’ Obama left it to Pelosi and Reid to do the sausage making and they collectively realized that the less said about what was in that sausage the better. The attempt to ram through their reform without any scrutiny was, in hindsight, a poor one. But I doubt that they will learn from their mistakes.

The answer is, of course, more government intervention in order to combat the lies of big business and root out all the false consciousness out there. What we need is a plan to correct this informational injustice. The Fairness Doctrine is an effort along these lines. Government bailouts/takeover of failing news organizations is another. Registering bloggers may be necessary. Tracking your cell phone and keeping a record of all the websites you visit may be necessary as well.

What Obama, Pelosi, and Reid represent is the worst in paternalistic governance.  Welcome to hope and change.

Still, I predict that the people will rise up. The American proletariat are not going to continue to labor under the yoke of their oppressors for long. Ordinary Americans, everyday people, are the government. The one principle upon which this democratic republic is founded is that ‘We the people’ are the source of political power– not professional politicians who see themselves as better equipped to make decisions for us than we are and who assume that we are not clearly informed if we disagree with what they have determined what’s best for us.

Where we are headed

By on February 5, 2010
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No, no, and ‘Effing’ no:

The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes. ~news.zdnet.com

This is the typical mindset of a ruling class that no longer sees any value or necessity to follow the constitution. Does it make sense for the government to have all internet traffic saved and monitored for the supposed purpose of catching a narrow set of criminals visiting a specific narrow set of websites or chatrooms?

After 9/11 the government pushed for and authorized the wiretapping of phone conversation of US citizens –when they were talking to known or suspected terrorists or terrorist connected individuals overseas. Something the Federal government was not able to do previously without a warrant. This seemed to me limited intrusion for the sake of national security and in the face of an immediate threat. I wouldn’t be opposed to repealing this privilege either once the necessity has passed.

Totalitarian means total control

We are heading in the wrong direction and have been for the last forty years (if not more). We are incrementally losing all of our freedoms as Americans and each successive set of regulations ratchets up the control and surveilance. Where will it end?

Once the government is in charge of all of our health records, all of our financial information, –some are even floating the idea of putting GPS in our vehicles to tax us by how many miles we drive, why not ankle bracelets as well?– the IRS would have power to enforce the individual mandate that we all have insurance… there is no end to the mischief and entanglement that our government will have in our lives.

I don’t think we always fully understand the repurcussions even small regulations can have on our freedom and choice. I know that many times we don’t feel threatened by such laws because we think it won’t affect us but the other guy.

Living in California, as I do, there are so many petty nanny state laws and regulations that I gaurantee the average Californian has no idea that they are in violation of forty or so everyday without knowing it. Any one of which, if a diligent official might happen to find you in violation of, may only be an inconvenience involving a small fine all the way to having to appear in court or go to a regulatory agency to have cleared. But many are tied into other ‘privileges’ and can impact your life and livelihood.

Obamacare fails…

By on January 26, 2010
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…America wins! (Thank you Scott Brown.)

“61% Say It’s Time for Congress To Drop Health Care” And with that, it’s time to move on to other America destroying legislation.

After a year of trying to rush this bill through, of trying to hide what is in it and get it passed without any scrutiny at all, and promising, threatening to take over the greedy Healthcare industry, illustrious Senator Reid says, “What Bill? Healthcare reform… what’s that?”

“We’re not on health care now,” Mr. Reid said. “We’ve talked a lot about it in the past.” [Like yesterday?]

He added, “There is no rush,” and noted that Congress still had most of this year to work on the health bills passed in 2009 by the Senate and the House.  ~nytimes.com

The more the American people learned about every iteration of this atrocious legislation the more they realized that Democrats did not have them in mind. In fact, every policy of this Obama-Pelosi-Reid government has been disastrous. The stimulus, said to have saved or created millions of jobs, is actually driving up unemployment and pushing this country further over the precipice of national bankruptcy.

But now that Healthcare is dead, it’s time to pretend to be fiscally responsible!

According to the CBO our trainwreck of government debt is now flying down the tracks toward the Barack Hussein Memorial Precipice. Oddly enough, Obama’s ascension to office has been accompanied by an acceleration of spending beyond anything in the history of this nation and there’s no slowing down despite some talk (finally) about possibly, maybe, theoretically, at some future date of putting on the brakes.

The CBO baseline contains two important messages. First, Washington is accumulating debt at an unsustainable rate. After the debt slowly grew to $5.8 trillion through 2008, the more realistic baseline shows the federal government adding an astonishing $16.3 trillion in new debt between 2009 and 2020–$130,000 per household over those 12 years. ~heritage.org

Obama will prove that he can ruin the economy with more than just healthcare. I’m sure tax increases, cap and trade, new regulations on businesses, laws re-muzzling the free speech of corporations, and more higher taxes to pay for the Healthcare reform bill democrats will try to sneak through will bring us right out of the depression and into unprecedented prosperity! Hope and Change.

Irony or hypocrisy?

By on January 23, 2010
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This is too much: “President Obama Blocks ‘Tax Cheats’ From Government Work”

For this to be mere irony would mean that Obama and everyone around him are completely blind to the fact that he nominated a score of tax cheats to his cabinet. Of course, for it to be hypocrisy would mean that they know and don’t care. Paying taxes is for the ruled, not the rulers.

So which is it: irony or hypocrisy? I’ll be charitable and let you decide. But keep in mind that the person in charge of the agency enforcing this edict is Timothy ‘turbotax cheat’ Geithner. Maybe Charles Rangel can help enforce this as well?

Tax problems

If this is how Obama is going to pivot from the direct loss in Mass in his second year of office

Obama Seen as Anti-Business by 77% of U.S. Investors

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