“This began the transformation of the country that the President promised when he was elected,” Geraldo interrupts, “To socialism?” Sharpton: “First of all, then we’d have to say the American Public overwhelmingly voted Socialism when they elected President Obama.” ~YouTube.com

The fact is that Obama didn’t tell us the truth when he ran for president. He didn’t run as the socialist he is so what Sharpton suggests is wrong. America couldn’t have voted for socialism in electing him. Obama pretended to be a centrist interested in bipartisanship and promising tax cuts! Obama would have never won running on his true policy mission: something akin to a Hugo Chavez style transformation of America.

The heavy burden of taxation and control that this congress and President seek to put on American businesses and citizens will not result in prosperity. Democrats make the argument that higher taxes and higher spending will reduce the deficit and create jobs. The opposite is true. It will enlarge the government economy at the expense of the American economy. Unless you want to count the 16,500 new IRS enforcement agents to be hired to hunt down all the new criminals who may have failed to buy a government approved health insurance policy at the price the government sets.

Democrats Fundamental Transformation of America will, if fully enacted, result in the collapse of our economy. (79% fear US economy could collapse.) A good example is California. The same runaway spending, ever higher taxes, and Democrat special interest control will eventually bankrupt this state and the Federal government is being run in just the same manner.

Just the beginning

This healthcare bill has nothing to do with better healthcare. Pure and simple it is about controlling the people. It is a first step to universal healthcare. With its mandates, higher taxes, price controls, and far reaching arbitrary regulations this bill will result in destroying what’s left of healthcare. Once the heavy hand of government is through ‘fixing’ healthcare by destroying it, the next step will be proposed: outright nationalization.

Thank God that the left is finally brazen enough to come out and admit the truth. Democrat Rep. Dingle says that the purpose of their policies is in fact, “to control the people.”

Let me remind you this [Americans allegedly dying because of lack of universal health care] has been going on for years. We are bringing it to a halt. The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.  ~americanthinker.com

Against the people

Democrats claim that everyone loves this legislation. That a majority of Americans approve of and want this bill. But that is obviously the standard socialist propaganda. The left believes, as a tenet of their faith in government, that everything they do is for the people and that the capitalist-oppressed-masses are all for their socialist liberation. However, this isn’t true. Americans oppose this mess.

A CNN poll puts opposition to this Democrat takeover at a whopping 59%:

Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans have a dim view of the sweeping health care bill passed by the House, saying it gives Washington too much clout and won’t do much to reduce their own health care costs or federal deficits, according to a new poll released Monday.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll found that 59 percent of those surveyed opposed the bill, and 39 percent favored it. All of the interviews were conducted before the House voted Sunday night, but the contents of the bill were widely known.

In addition, 56 percent said the bill gives the government too much involvement in health care; 28 percent said it gives the government the proper role and 16 percent said it leaves Washington with an inadequate role.  ~politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Democrats counter by saying that other polling is higher for individual items of reform so really the people are just confused about the messy ‘process’. Those poor ignorant masses will see what’s in the bill once it’s passed. Sadly, this is an unfortunate side effect of socialist

More destructive change coming…

If Democrats continue on this path and pass more of their socialist agenda to control America, like cap and trade, we will no longer be free, there will only be those who rule and those who are ruled. Government will be an ever present ‘parent’ guiding your every decision and controlling every choice. Between healthcare and the environmental power they seek there will be no limit on what will be controlled by the Federal Government. The constitution will cease to exist.

Once the government owns your healthcare they will decide how much you should exercise and what you eat. They will decide what treatments you receive. They will decide what medical research is necessary. They will eventually mandate all kinds of things like doctor visits.

Cap and trade covers everything we use energy for. Everything with emissions will potentially be under the control of the Federal government. How often you drive your car, and how far. How much energy and water you use in your home.

The left recognizes no limit on what is potentially under their direct control. They have no principles that would ultimately ensure your liberty in any area of life.

The cost

Spending trillions to save billions is logic that only congress could come up with. This new entitlement will require massive new taxes. There has never been an entitlement that cost what it was said to cost when the entitlement was enacted. We are headed toward national bankruptcy. They’ve spent all the money collected from social security, all that’s left are IOU’s. Democrats have a budget deficit this year in the trillions with no end in sight and their policy agenda is more and more spending and new entitlements.

The cost, my friends, will be our freedom.

“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.

Our Leftist President and Congress, at odds with the American people, fully intend to ram ‘Healthcare Reform’ down our throats no matter what– for our own good! “They’ll learn to love it,” they say. Hope and Change indeed. But Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are more likely to feel feedback of another sort from voters if they continue down this road of arrogance and ruin.

Carville poll: Only a third of voters support Barack Obama’s national health-care plan

According to Democracy Corps, likely voters have a sharply negative view of the president’s health-care and economic plans, and a far more favorable view of Republicans than they did a few months ago. Because Democracy Corps was founded by Democrats James Carville and Stanley Greenberg, the firm’s findings have significant influence in national Democratic circles.  ~dailycaller.com

Just another example of how Obama is bringing America together.

In light of this what is the best course of action? When your ideologically driven political agenda is distasteful to most Americans is it wise to disregard the will of the people and double-down? To attempt to ram the legislation through no matter what? Democrats have already hinted that they will try to delay seating Brown if he wins in Massachusetts Tuesday because his election will lose them their 60 seat filibuster safety margin.

Some are hinting that they must cheat in order to win this seat– to save healthcare and to, ‘keep those bastards out [of office].’

A defeat in Massachusetts will not translate into anything resembling thoughtful consideration of the people’s will. Not for Obama and not for Congress.

President Barack Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Democrats lose Tuesday’s special Senate election in Massachusetts, close advisers say.

“This is not a moment that causes the president or anybody who works for him to express any doubt,” a senior administration official said. “It more reinforces the conviction to fight hard.” ~dyn.politico.com

And the queen of the House has issued a proclamation as well:

“Let’s remove all doubt, we will have health care — one way or another,” Pelosi said. “Back to the drawing board means a great big zero for the American people.”  ~sfgate.com

The American people don’t want it, but that sure that doesn’t seem to matter to the left.

“…we will have health care — one way or another,” Pelosi said.

Obama and Chavez warm handshake

It certainly looks like Obama is handing over Central America to commie dictators. But then what do I know? On the other hand, Tom Hayden seems convinced. He seems to believe that Obama is in league with the commies in our southern hemisphere. At the very least he believes Obama is highly sympathetic to the cause of global communism. But maybe he just sees what he urgently hopes for.

Apparently, Obama and Chavez have had lengthy (friendly) talks.

According to eyewitness sources, under the apparently blind eye of the global media, the two leaders had lengthy conversations. The media covered the friendly photo of the initial handshake between the two leaders, then made much ado about an apparently-impertinent Chavez handing Obama a book in Spanish by Eduardo Galleano.

What has not been reported is that Obama, leaving his advisers behind, held lengthy private conversations with Chavez where only an interpreter was present.  ~tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com

Couple this with the fact that Obama has erroneously backed a leftist ally of Chavez who attempted to overthrow the constitution of Honduras and what you have is an apparent preference for 21st century socialism.

The idea that the left here in this country defends Obama and the would-be dictator Zelaya should be a caution. Is this something the left would approve of here in the US? The left views our own consitution as a, ‘flexible,’ ‘living document,’ that can be reinterpreted as they see fit for every ‘new era.’

Meanwhile Obama (and his news media) is silent about Chavez’s threats to invade Honduras to install Zelaya as a puppet of the new socialism. In fact, Chavez even printed the illegal ballots for Zelaya’s overthrow of the Honduras constitution.

What I think this reveals is that Obama is a stealth candidate whose purpose must remain mainly concealed from the general public because his true leftist policies would be completely rejected by a majority of Americans.

Thus Obama has to rely on doublespeak and alternating liberal and conservative messages about his policies. He says one thing while doing another. He claims to be for fiscal responsibility but then increases the deficit by a trillion dollars. He claims a, “fierce moral urgency,” in ending indefinite detention but then continues the policy. He claims not to be hostile to capitalism but then begins nationalizing the auto industry and begins the nationalization of the heath care industry.

Chavez, Zelaya, Castro, and Obama, captains of a new era.

Obama and democrats: imagine that as Bush approached the end of his second term he ordered an ‘opinion poll’ authorizing a convention to write a new constitution so he could serve a third term and then a fourth. Would removing him from office at that point properly be called a ‘coup’?

Constitutional assemblies are convened to write new constitutions. When Zelaya published that decree to initiate an “opinion poll” about the possibility of convening a national assembly, he contravened the unchangeable articles of the Constitution that deal with the prohibition of reelecting a president and of extending his term. His actions showed intent.

Our Constitution takes such intent seriously. According to Article 239: “No citizen who has already served as head of the Executive Branch can be President or Vice-President. Whoever violates this law or proposes its reform [emphasis added], as well as those that support such violation directly or indirectly, will immediately cease in their functions and will be unable to hold any public office for a period of 10 years.” ~csmonitor.com

The congress of Honduras along with the Supreme Court of Honduras ordered the military to remove Zelaya from office after his illegal actions attempting to prolong his term of office. This is the definition of the rule of law not a coup. So why can’t Obama get his facts straight?

“We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the president of Honduras, the democratically elected president there,” Obama told reporters after an Oval Office meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

Zelaya, in office since 2006, was overthrown in a dawn coup on Sunday after he angered [?] the judiciary, Congress and the army by seeking constitutional changes that would allow presidents to seek re-election beyond a four-year term. ~reuters.com

Does Obama ally himself with leftist dictators because he longs to be one? It would make things easier for him in transforming America.

Continuismo – the tendency of heads of state to extend their rule indefinitely – has been the lifeblood of Latin America’s authoritarian tradition. The Constitution’s provision of instant sanction might sound draconian, but every Latin American democrat knows how much of a threat to our fragile democracies continuismo presents. In Latin America, chiefs of state have often been above the law. The instant sanction of the supreme law has successfully prevented the possibility of a new Honduran continuismo.

The Supreme Court and the attorney general ordered Zelaya’s arrest for disobeying several court orders compelling him to obey the Constitution. He was detained and taken to Costa Rica. Why? Congress needed time to convene and remove him from office. With him inside the country that would have been impossible. This decision was taken by the 123 (of the 128) members of Congress present that day. ~csmonitor.com

So why is Obama intent on reinstalling Zelaya who basically threatened to overthrow the constitution of Honduras and who no doubt would like to transform Honduras into a copy of Venezuela? Are they all just brothers-in-arms? Comrades in the struggle? Co-workers of light?

Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline. ~telegraph.co.uk

Even I would not have dared suggest that Obama would already be moving forward with the physical destruction of America so soon.

Having outlined his strategy to Barack Obama during the election campaign, Mr Kildee has now been approached by the US government and a group of charities who want him to apply what he has learnt to the rest of the country.

Mr Kildee said he will concentrate on 50 cities, identified in a recent study by the Brookings Institution, an influential [liberal] Washington think-tank, as potentially needing to shrink substantially to cope with their declining fortunes. ~telegraph.co.uk

I think that this is just a taste of the future in a progressive America. A shrinking America. Bulldozed and socially engineered according to what the best and brightest minds have deemed proper. Cram everyone into urban centers where they are more easily controlled and regulated. When leftists complain and bemoan about ‘Urban sprawl’ what they really mean is that people have too much freedom of movement and choice. They fail to make the right choices, i.e. the ones the left wants, and when people make the wrong choices (according to them) then government has to step in and correct yet another ‘market failure’.

Limiting growth is not just a side effect of an economic downturn it is in fact the goal for the left. Much of the popular liberal ideology focuses on downsizing America as a public good. Limited growth is the ultimate end goal of the left.

He said: “The obsession with growth is sadly a very American thing. Across the US, there’s an assumption that all development is good, that if communities are growing they are successful. If they’re shrinking, they’re failing.” ~telegraph.co.uk

The left has plans for where and how you should live, what you will eat and how much you will have to exercise. Once the government is paying for your health care your exercise and eating habits will no longer be a matter of personal choice, it will be a matter of national economics. Once the government begins paying for your life it will own you and then the government will be deciding your life for you.

From Gateway Pundit

Tax cuts for 95% of Americans? How about massive tax increases across the board with the cost of everything going through the roof. VAT taxes. Energy taxes. Soda taxes. Fat taxes. Health Care taxes. The list goes on and on. There are literally thousands of taxes being cued up in the Democrat congress as we speak.

Fiscal responsibility? Bush left us a deficit of about $400 billion. (We can blame some of that on the cost of two wars.) But Obama steps into office and pushes through the most massive spending packages in the history of the earth. Multiplying the deficit to a record $1.8 trillion according to the Congressional Budget office in his ‘historic’ first 100 days. Likely, this will end up being even more since Pelosi and Reid have mentioned that they may need more stimulus money to spend. No doubt right about the time they need to get reelected. Most ethical congress ever. Right?

Which brings us to that three letter word: jobs. The scare tactic used by Obama was that if they didn’t pass the stimulus package immediately (and without debate) then unemployment would skyrocket to 9%! That ONLY if their plan was enacted would unemployment peak at 8% briefly and then begin to fall precipitously as the era of Obama utopia begins.

Instead, the stimulus plan seems to have accelerated unemployment. What they meant to say was that with the stimulus unemployment would top 9% because it’s now 9.4% and rising.

Obama-Stimulus-FAIL chart

But don’t worry Obama has plenty of lies to help the liberal media cover up the truth.

Mr. Fratto sees a double standard at play. “We would never have used a formula like ‘save or create,’” he tells me. “To begin with, the number is pure fiction — the administration has no way to measure how many jobs are actually being ‘saved.’ And if we had tried to use something this flimsy, the press would never have let us get away with it.”

Of course, the inability to measure Mr. Obama’s jobs formula is part of its attraction. Never mind that no one — not the Labor Department, not the Treasury, not the Bureau of Labor Statistics — actually measures “jobs saved.” As the New York Times delicately reports, Mr. Obama’s jobs claims are “based on macroeconomic estimates, not an actual counting of jobs.” Nice work if you can get away with it. ~online.wsj.com

Obama is constructing a house built on pure lies. But he can get away with it because the liberal press has no interest in objectivity.

Not only has Obama and his accomplices spent more than any One-Party-Government in history but they are getting ready to nationalize another industry and are already telegraphing that price is no object:

Dear Leader: It’s OK to Borrow More For Obamacare

45% Say Cancel Rest of Stimulus Spending

The problem with this is that Obama is standing at the bow of this ship declaring that he’s king of the world even as he steers it toward the icebergs with a crazy gleem in his eyes. All the while saying that he’s saving or creating lives.

In the end, if Obama succeeds, America fails.

As he reveals what his actual policies are we find more and more government intervention and takeover. Total transformation of the United States of America is his stated goal and he intends to deliver.

Let’s look at the deficit. We were told that we must elect Democrats because Bush was such a profligate spender. Democrats ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism. All lies.

You can see the Bush/Congress budgets from 2000 to 2008. Notice the tall red lines to the right starting at 2008 there. These are not Bush budgets, they are the Obama/Democrat congress budgets. The difference is exponential.

What is happening since the election of Obama and a completely Democrat controlled congress is a government completely out of control. Bankruptcy cannot be far behind. These budgets are unsustainable.

Add to this the nationalization of the auto industry, the healthcare industry, and the financial industry and what you have is the beginning of total government control of every aspect of our lives. There will be no freedom of speech to criticize your employer when it is the government providing your job. There will be no free speech at all after the government ‘bailout’ of the press. The government will own the presses.

This is the left’s top down approach to democracy and it is Obama’s method of madness. The best and the brightest make decisions and plan the economy for the benefit of all the people. In essence, the government controls the people. Since we are the government, they say, it’s all ok. But this is how socialism works, (or rather doesn’t work). This is a giant left turn off the cliff and into total government control. Total as in totalitarian. Eventually nothing is exempt from that control.

Once the government is paying for your healthcare, guess what, they will be deciding what foods you will be allowed to eat,  and how much you exercise.

The left has no plans or principles that will prevent every minute detail of your life coming under the control of some government agency, basically allowing some beauracrat to step in and hassle you to death. As government takes over more areas there will be more reason to take over more. You will be fined, harrassed, monitored and eventually incarcerated if you do not do whatever some government busy body wants you to do. –And it will all be for your own good of course.

This is nothing less than slavery. But it is the change that Obama promised. This is the way he will ‘set us free’.

60% Say Government Has Too Much Power, Too Much Money

…Not surprisingly, the Political Class sees things a lot differently. While 85% of Mainstream Americans say the government has too much power and money, just two percent (2%) of the Political Class agree. Nearly one-our-of-four members (24%) of the Political Class, in fact, believe the government has too little money and power, but 68% say it has about the right amount of each.

While slightly more than half of those working for both the government and private industry say the government is too big, 79% of entrepreneurs feel that way.

The findings follow last week’s “tea party” protests against higher government spending and the threat of higher taxes. Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans have a favorable view of the tea parties, but the Political Class strongly disagrees.  ~rasmussenreports.com

This is fundamentally a conservative country despite the election of a socialist leaning administration. So will the Obama adminstration continue their drive toward socializing America. No doubt they will.