Why This Year’s GOP Convention Will Be Historic
The Obama administration has not been able to bring about a congressionally approved budget for our country in over 1,180 days. Even a mom-and-pop grocery store has to have a budget to keep itself in business. According to President Obama’s official schedule, on July 21, 2012, he held the first cabinet meeting since January 31, 2012. By that time, however, he had attended over 130 “bread and circuses” meetings.
Nevertheless, a Gallup poll published on August 13, 2012, shows that 50% of the American population approves of the job President Obama is doing. This brings me back to the disinformation propounded by our leftist media. Its current attacks on Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, have the goal of keeping people hooked on the administration’s “bread and circuses” show, in order to prevent their focusing on what these uniquely important elections really mean: Are we going to maintain the United States as the leader of the free world, or are we going to allow our country to drift off into a welfare-state irrelevance? Are we heading toward President Obama’s new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared, or are we going back to the traditional American policy in which prosperity is earned?
Now we learn that top representatives from the liberal media—and only from there—are scheduled to moderate the upcoming presidential debates. That would entrap our election process in a new tangle of network disinformation. PJ Media CEO Roger L. Simon is convincingly advocating a change. I strongly applaud his suggestion, but I see little chance of its success. The liberal media will still be in charge, and our only chance is to start a parallel offensive aimed at exposing its disinformation.
Today it is considered bad manners even to mention the word Marxism. That is another success achieved by the leftist media’s disinformation offensive. But I cannot stop repeating, over and over again, that if you know Karl Marx’s Manifesto, you will inevitably think that Marx himself must have written the goals of the Democratic Party’s 2012 electoral campaign. All ten of Marx’s planks of communism are in them.
In a recent open letter I sent to America’s Survival conference on “Vetting Obama” held at the National Press Club, I note that Marx’s Manifesto has just turned 164 years old, and all it has bequeathed us is a bunch of former Marxist countries that ended up looking like trailer camps hit by a hurricane, with their former leaders roasting in Dante’s Inferno.
All Marxists who have ever risen to lead a country have ended up in hell—all, from Trotsky to Stalin, Tito to Zhivkov, Enver Hoxha to Mátyás Rakosi, Sékou Touré to Nyeree. All had their “bread and circuses” days of temporary glory, but all ended in eternal disgrace. Some, like Khrushchev and Ceausescu, were even found unworthy of having their final resting place marked by any gravestone. A few remnants, like the Castro brothers and Hugo Chavez, are still hanging onto their “bread and circuses,” but they have a place in hell reserved and waiting for them.
I appeal to all my colleagues at PJ Media to talk and write about this truism every single day. I know there are a lot of subjects we need to hash out in our PJ Media, but there should be none more vital to us just now than the subject of the November elections.
For the first time in our history, we voters will be called upon to choose between keeping our country the leader of the world or letting it fall off the map as another “bread and circuses” failure. Redistribution of wealth is stealing, and in the long run, stealing never pays, even when it is committed by the government of a superpower. Remember the spontaneous combustion of the big, bad Soviet Empire.
Let’s hope that our campaign may even help President Obama to abandon his craving for “bread and circuses” and for Marx’s utopian “to each according to his need.” The first black American president should have a place of honor in our country’s history.
“We the People” will elect the Romney-Ryan team, who will run our country as a business”
And this strategy will we go from frying pan into fire.
Replace the constitution with a corporate articles, replace the budget with Profit / Loss Statement, replace the supreme court with a Legal dept, remove congress and install a board of directors. And we can market the Brand of United States instead of producing material goods or adding value, just like Donald Trump. See Donald Run.
Joking aside, if you want to see a government run like a business there are examples; Angola, Mozambique, really any corrupt regime where money over rules rights and freedoms.
America deserves better than the lowest common denominator. We have serious problems that require people of good will, strength of character and resolve to stand tall against fear mongering and war bunnies inhabiting Washington DC today.
Also socialism and Marxism have nothing to do with each other, so we should not mix them up.
In any case, Running a Country as a business is recipe for complete collapse.
Alex would you care for some more bread with your circus? I’m buying, so please enjoy.
Look, I am watching the American dream evaporate before my horrified ! eyes, all the way from Israel! And, it is NOT as if the Middle East isn’t going to hell in a hand basket – much credit due to The Islamist-in-Chief.
Due to the western crisis at hand, my blog is a Zionist & Conservative site. I fully understand,whither the US goes, so too does Israel, and the opposite is also true.
Go to – http://www.adinakutnicki.com and it will all become clear!!
Put a sock in it Adina. Conservative/right only pretends to like the Jews around election time. Then they go back to blaming them for killing baby jesus. Most Jews are smarter than you.
That was testy & hateful. A bit desperate. So … Cynical Wonder
in American are dumb as dishwater, even those who go to shul, except for the orthodox, who are generally smart enough to know who their enemies are, such enemies like Obama, and the Rabbis for Obama, for example.
The rest, the 4 out of every 5 Jewish voters who voted for Obama, and will vote for him again, whether they go to shul or not, are utter dunces, fools, no matter how caring, devoted to their family and children, kind in general, well-mannered, and law abiding, when it comes to politics, support, as brainless dupes, the most vicious killers, thieves, and haters of Jews you can imagine, in their ignorance.
Point it out to them, no matter how reasonably, patiently, and concerned you do it, and many of such otherwise gentle selves will, more often than not, well . . . let’s just say it isn’t pleasant to see the sudden flash of realization, and then the instant, determined lapse into utter denial.
It’s very sad, though.
You know what is ironic? I happen to live in a town that has a pretty sizable population of Jews. Most are of the reform variety. Some are my neighbors, and some are my closest friends. They are successful, educated, and very down to earth. They are all Democrats, bye the way.
They are people who by and large do not wear their beliefs on their sleeve. They keep a low profile. One thing that does ruffle their feathers, however, is conservatives questioning their authenticity about their beliefs and their political affiliations. One of my friends told me not too long ago that she gets upset when accused of not being a “real Jew” yet it is the likes of her reform judaism family and friends who give all the money, while the others stand by with their hands in their pocket telling them their not real Jews.
Bye the way, I never said I was Buddhist. I study it.
to tell Jews they’re not Jews
Cynical Wonder,
Regretfully, you cannot distinguish propaganda from reality. The Democratic Party is using the “divide et impera” technique to herdle people into ethnic categories and pretends to be their champion. Just as Stalin used the Jews as patsies to accoplish his agenda and then he executed them Zinoviev, Kamenev, Marcel Pauker. etc. Consequently, the Democrats are using the Jews destabilize and destroy Israel. FYI it is the Catholic Church that desseminated the false propaganda that the Jews killed Jesus to absove the Romans of that responsability. FIRST JESUS WAS JEWISH! Secondly the Romans had jurisdiction over the province…
BACK TO 600 AD WHEN MOHHAMED TOOK OVER MEDINA MECCA he eliminated the Jewish tribes that fled the Roman Persecution by decapitation. NOT THE CONSERVATIVES
AS FAR AS I KNOW THE REPUBLICAN PART WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1862 AS AN ANTIDOTE TO SLAVERY AND ECONOMIC REPRESSION.
THOSE WHO CONTROL THE PAST CONTROL THE FUTURE. THAT IS WHY THE COMMIES DO NOT TEACH HISTORY IN SCHOOLS.
Cynical Wonder, I DOUBLE dare you to go to my blog, and view precisely how off the walls your remarks are.
My feet are planted firmly on the ground – unlike yours – and my views are steeped in a lifetime of knowledge of geo-politics, wherever the crap hits the fan. And, my associates can chew you up and spit you out in two lifetimes.
There are too many commentaries to cite specifically, but seek and you shall find – IF you dare!!
The tone, tenor, and content of everything you spew out of your nether hole onto the internet confirms that you do not now, have not ever, and are constitutionally incapable of studying anything.
I know, I know, ad hominem is bad & nasty, but you are ignorant, stupid and nasty, a hominem just begging for ad
That was testy and hateful.
Adina is rather insightful and I’ve read her comments for years. I appreciate her American Jewish perspective and the fact she does not suffer fools lightly.
Joe, Alex has already had a six pack – or two.
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see what is before their eyes…
You my friend are the epitome of the caricature of progressive man. You will experience reality in all of its glory and even then you may yet overcome that reality and go crying into the night of the long sleep still professing your undying love and devotion to the Dear Leader. So very sad that you will send your progeny into the depths of hell thinking that you did the right thing.
It’s going to be a good one. Hopefully this storm lets up!
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Alex evidently you are a victim of the liberation theology and Marxist left media propaganda which translatss as following “America’s greed has left a word in need…”
As one amazing former president Calvin Coolidge stated: “America’s business is business” With this being said I strongly suggest you hit the history books starting with the American Revolution specifically read Washington’s biography who was one the wealthiest founding father. There is nothing wrong in being wealthy or aspiring to be wealthy. Poverty is a problem that nees to be eradicated so Marxist can stop using it as a weapon of political destruction that creates a perpetual havoc to humanity. SO YES WE MEAN BUSINESS!!!!!!!!
Alex:
“Also socialism and Marxism have nothing to do with each other, so we should not mix them up. ”
I really can not stand this unbearable ignorance from some people.
For the record, Marxism is nmae given to the theory that leads to the outcomes defined as either Socialism or Communism.
All Communists refer to themselves as Socialists, but not all Socialists refer to themselves as Communists. It is a matter of degree only…
Nazis and Klansmen have nothing to do with each other, right?
I agree with Whittaker Chambers that Stalin was a fascist, relying on modern slave camps established without due process just like Hitler. Between the two of them they planned and worked together on initiating WWII so they could split Poland and Stalin could go after the Baltic republics and Finland while Hitler rolled west. When the British Navy and Air Force,and their Army in North Africa, and Churchill’s growl deprived Hitler of access to oil by sea or in the Middle East, he had to try for the Caucuses which shocked Stalin. Why would one fascist (or nationalist socialist) turn against another fascist-socialist? The need for capitalism in any country to avoid collapse is obviously the answer. Stalin stole the wheat from Ukraine to build factories in the cities and Mao told his peasant farmers to build iron foundries in their yards. Neither top down order worked. But capitalist orders from the top assisted by terror and torture and slave camps did not work for the Confederate states, and did not work for Hitler or Stalin or Castro or Kim Jun Il or Mao, because it is fascist in its basic elements. I condemn all such fascists and seek the US model of free market creation of capitalist growth from the bottom without interference from the government or the private “federal” reserve banking system. The chance of this happening? “Fat.”
The difference between Nazism and Communism is that “c” comes before “n”
It’s cute to see alex lecture someone who actually lived in a Communist regime and recognizes totalitarianism when he sees it on the difference between communism and socialism. Ah, yes, alex, you know sooooo much better! ‘Cause you read Zinn and Chomsky.
Socialism (ranging from the “soft” socialism of Western Europe to the hard socialism of the USSR and North Korea) has been tried on every continent on the globe – and it has failed, spectacularly. It. Does. Not. Work. No matter what your lefty professors told you.
“Joking aside, if you want to see a government run like a business there are examples; Angola, Mozambique, really any corrupt regime where money over rules rights and freedoms.”
Uh, huh, Mozambique and Angola are really shining examples of capitalism. No, alex, what they are are examples of anarchy, which is very, very far from capitalism or conservativism. Conservatives respect the rule of law and property rights. Leftists and anarchists do not. In fact, Mozambique and Angola are what the entire world would look like if the Occupy movement took over the planet.
Leftists enjoy telling conservatives that the latter are “anti-intellectual,” but the leftists display their flaming ignorance of history and disregard for the actual meaning of words every day. Educate yourself, alex. Might I recommend “The Black Book of Communism,” “The Road to Serfdom” and “Reflections on the Revolution in France” as starters? I’m pretty sure they were not part of your undergrad cirriculum.
I spent enough time in Ceausescu’s Romania to where “cute” isn’t the word that comes to mind. “Abominable” comes a little closer.
ears up good, Donna!
It is not just creeping Marxism, it is creeping anarchism too. Anticapitalism took many forms in the 19th century. The rock group Rage Against the Machine signals a widespread disaffection that should be better recognized. I tried to spell out the competing radical traditions upon which the Democrat Party draws upon here: http://clarespark.com/2012/08/16/marx-rivals-and-our-enigmatic-president/.
Remember that anarchy, though logically opposite in nature to Marxism, is nearly always used by Marxists to break down old orders so that their own revolutions look better by comparison. It’s the oldest trick in the book. Once Marxists take control, anarchy suddenly become enemy number 1. A fate that would have befallen the anarchists who allied with the communists is the Spanish Civil war had that sided prevailed.
“Anarchists” are communists in a hurry.
Remember that Marx — who is a prophet more than a scholar to these people — predicted that the state would “wither away” after the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. THAT is what the “anarchists” seek — the “no state” condition that comes AFTER the totalitarian rule Marx demanded/predicted.
Don’t believe me? Ask why “anarchists” rage against capitalism, and demand more socialism.
By whom? And who among us is milquetoast enough to be cowed by a charge of “bad manners” from rhetorical thugs who think nothing of hurling the most vicious imaginable accusations at any conservative who dares to speak his mind?
Do not be silenced by the shamans of political correctness.
The worlds largest database is available to anyone with a keyboard and still confusion over Marxism and Socialism…frankly i cannot stand willful ignorance or worse, repeating tired mantra’s over and over again.
Invest some time and research before posting Marxism and Socialism are the same, they are not.
Joe Sixpack; not only are you buying, but you are collateral. The US taxpayer is guarantor of all loans made by businessmen running the Federal Reserve and U.S. banking system from 2007-2010; 16 Trillion is outstanding. Good luck with that.
There should also be some light reading of the Constitution, declaration of Independence and federalist papers before assuming a nation can be managed like a company.
If this is truly where the GOP is heading, God help us all
The US taxpayer is guarantor of all loans made by businessmen running the Federal Reserve and U.S. banking system from 2007-2010; 16 Trillion is outstanding. Good luck with that.
I do so hate to burst your bubble but surely with your vaunted keyboard expertise you could learn that the Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007. Since Congress controls the purse you’re condemning the Democrats for the rapacious spending. You’re right to do so, but you’re wrong to blame the other Party for deeds of your Party. And, BTW, the national debt in 2010 was $13.5 trillion so you’re not just wrong about the Party but also about the amount and conveniently left off the last two years. You might check the Sunday circulars for ads on new keyboards, yours appears to be malfunctioning. If you want to blame the GOP for the spending from 2001-2006 then I’ll gladly join in but you need to accept responsibility for the irresponsibility of your Party.
And to reiterate the second comment… Communism/Socialism is the desired outcome, Marxism is the means to that desired outcome. They are inexorably intertwined.
I spy by your little i that you are just one of the little people. No ego. No false consciousness? Not fantasizing about being a miner though are you wee Alex? No, probably see your little i in the vanguard of those reaping the benefits of being part of the intellectual el-i-te. You’re not fooling anyone bud.
@alex – that’s so touching, your altruistic pointing to a keyboard and data base to help us poor impaired beings to understand the semantics of Socialism and Marxism.
It is you, however, who seem to be impaired – you are lacking the years upon years of official propaganda and indoctrination which some of us have received while growing up and living in those slices of Workers’ Paradise which now litter the graveyard of history: the communist countries of Eastern Europe, and Soviet Union.
If you had lived through that, you would know it in your bones that the road to Marxism goes through Socialism, the latter being defined in that putrid ideology as the inroad to Communism, the end-game under Marxist theory. For years we studied in schools various levels of a subject called “Scientific Socialism,” more and more sophisticated levels as we moved up in age. This is how it is supposed to work: in a society, an entity assumes the leading role, and works towards achieving a “Socialist society” where there are no sticking nails, everyone is the same with the next person, no differences, and equality of outcome is mandated. (“We are the 99%” sounds awfully like socialist propaganda.) For this entity to be successful, it requires control over all “means of production” – in our days, this translates into regulating banks foremost, then industry, energy, and not in the least, healthcare. Look around you, anything like that happening? Their theory also states that the socialist transformation is a constant struggle, and participants must be vigilant in monitoring and controlling the “other side.” (“We are the 99%,” “Millionaires and Billionaires,” sounds familiar?)
So, what I mean to say, is that everything the Democrat party says today, especially through the voice of their Chairman and Dear Leader Obama, sounds exactly like my text book of Scientific Socialism. Once you learn it, you can recognize it for what it is no matter how it wants to camouflage and cheat, and no matter who says it.
So, nice to see you paid attention to your Red teachers, or perhaps you are one of them.
Marxism isn’t defined by symantic parsings of particular utterances. It’s defined by a belief system that seeks to equate materialistic outcomes for people, regardless of merit. In it’s purist form, the apparachniks would never exist. But of course, since nothing can ever be perfect, the apparachniks DO appear, and the striations between haves and have nots become even more pronounced than under the system Marxism condemns for that sin.
If you believe “from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs” and you think government coercion rather than individual charity is the mechanism for this transfer to the needy, you are a Marxist.
That one accepts the appearance of a new class of priviledged apparachniks, while you ignore (or are completely ignorant of) the breakdown in the private economy of incentives to work hard, to invent, to innovate, and to risk one’s own capital for the promise of a return on that risk, you are a Marxist, and even a Communist in the discredited Soviet style..
It’s a sad, but true fact, that the Democratic Party has drifted so far to the left, that it accepts Marxism openly, and praises its philosophy, but without admitting its name. The saddest thing is that so many of it’s adherants don’t even know what they’re pimping, and have no appreciation for the suffering foisted on the masses by Stalin and Mao, under the profession of a desire for equality.
Vote Republican.
Ion, While I do agree with your assessment these are unique times with unexpected surprises coming to all sides.
There is a fly in the ointment that will spoil the plans of both the Democrat and Republican parties here in the the land of a big,big mess.
Yesterday the Republicans in keeping with their agenda to look more and more like the Democrats reaffirmed their commitment to reward the greedy and bloodthirsty Islamist in the Middle East by stealing what little land that Israel has to create another totally unnecessary 23 Arab state.
This Tuesday the lap dog of failed US interests, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu plans to drive fellow Jews from their peaceful,purchased homes in Migron to please Republican and Democrat Washington.
As of Sunday ,it looks like this Tuesday Hurricane Issac might hit New Orleans seven years after President Bush forced then PM Ariel Sharon to drive fellow Jews from their homes for his Road Map to Hell agenda.
What I know for sure is that God is angry with the democrats and Republican for meddling with His agenda and what I think is that hell will come to arrogant America and many of us will be driven out of our homes again because we didn’t learn the lesson of Katrina.
“If this is truly where the GOP is heading, God help us all…”
Do you know how much of that $16 Trillion is due to Obama? 25% and counting…
As for taxpayers footing the bill for infinite Wall Street bailouts, that’s a feature NOT a bug of Dodd Frank as are the death panels of Obamacare once Pelosi gets around to reading it.
Alex if you believe Obama is part of the solution you have not been paying attention.
All I know is we will desperately NEED God’s help if Obama gets 4 more years.
Economic Collapse, mass wealth confiscation and the establishment of a fascist police state, change your getting…
Not saying you are a breath of fresh air because my hair is on fire! Your conviction and passion can only mean that you have come from the edge of that volcano and walked on the black, burn your shoes, older lava flows on Hawaii! Obamas second term wont be so bad,unions will still get pay increases,older Americans will still get social security checks,journalists need not take notes,new dollar bills will be in abundance,the military budget will be adjusted and taxes will be raised on anything that still can stand up straight.[and hopefully vowel placement will no longer matter].
And dont forget to ask everyone to read RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT / Morgenson&Rosner
I still trust Romney and the Republicans on matters such as Israel over the Democrats anyday…
“Democrat appears in the dictionary after demented and before demonic,”
semantics regarding collectivism doesnt diminish its record of failure and suffering
nevertheless, “running the country like a business” is certainly a recipe for disaster as it invariably returns to the very aspects of collectivism to see it through
what we need is government to get out of the way of business by adhering to its constitutional limits and separation of powers
Its government that i fear not business.Its govt that shakes me down or locks me up.[small govt small problem].Its govt that grows police and prisons,raids trust funds in a fixed shell game with your future. When businesses tangle many may become unemployed and in a desperate way,When Governments {Dance}people get killed! Words cannot explain my fears but my spider senses are tingling like never before!
There is not a single entrepeneur, capitalist or conservative that Barack Obama has praised, given credit for serving or leading America…ever. He is an avowed communist, period.
To exercise restraint in acknowledging the truth about what and who Obama is…we conservatives perpetuate the success of political correctness at our own expense.
Barack Obama is the first communist president of the United States. We have had two socialists in the White House before him…Woodrow Wilson (League of Nations) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (The Great Society). But we have crossed the threshold…that final hurdle beyond which the Constitution either stands or falls…We have arrived at that point in history where the choice is as drastic and consequential as any before it.
A second term of Barack Obama would result in a total neutralization of the separation of powers..with executive control…America’s first experience with totalitarianism.
This is what is at stake.
Very Minor Correction Department:
“….Franklin D. Roosevelt (The Great Society)….”
Franklin Roosevelt’s jawing slogan was the “New Deal”. That “Great Society” slogan was pushed out by the squinting Lyndon Johnson.
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But, both are similar to Chairman Mao’s (anyone here still remember him?) “Great Leap Forward”, which had such appallingly tragic results. Slogans kill.
We have here a major problem in our country that such catchy slogans actually have an appeal among unthinking flippant voters, until too late. Simply put, we’ve too many of these flippant, unthinking voters here in our America who only want to “flip the bird” to th’ Man. It’s the unthinking equivalent of “bread and circuses”.
Have I emphasized “unthinking” enough? That word is the essence of too many of our automaton voters waiting for November. We should be very scared. “….not me, I’m all right, Jack….”
This leads to the terrible possibility that those 52% who put the chameleon Obama in office haven’t got the wit to see how shallow and unthinking they were. Their rank emotions trump common sense, these emotions fertilized by an elementary-level education system using “entitlement” as the vehicle for sustenance.
Pray for ample testicles in November, for them in our Congress and Republican Administration, and for pray for the voters to acquire these testicles so necessary to dislodge a populist Chameleon.
We really are in a socialist-populist spiral downwards.
what about the women voters?
have to use their brains, I guess
“You didn’t build that” should have removed all doubt. And “context” doesn’t change jack.
Ion, I know what your main concern is, but I also hope that the convention is also an unabashed rejection of false charges of racism. We will have at least one Black speaker, Artur Davis. I wonder if he or any of our speakers will note the falsity of that charge when all it really means is “disagreement with Obama.”
“One hundred million people are now on various kinds of welfare, 49% of the population is exempted from paying taxes, and 44.7 million people receive food stamps.”
This is NOT the America I grew up in. This is NOT the America that was promised to us. This is NOT the America I want for my children. And this is NOT the America that was handed down to us by generations of people who fought to keep America the way the Founding Fathers wanted it to be.
We now have a gigantic, bloated, and unsustainable Federal government that needs to be stopped. The Socialist in the White House right now not only sees nothing wrong with this, but he actually wants to make government bigger and even more costly. If this dangerous man is re-elected, we will be just as bankrupt as Greece is today. It may already be too late, but at least we have one final chance this year to set things right. But nothing will change unless Obama loses this election. And, deep down, I think every American knows that.
So we either merrily go down this path and destroy what’s left of this nation, or we take charge of our own destinies and vote this socialist out of office. The choice really is up to us. But I do know one thing. If Obama is (God forbid) re-elected this fall, he will inherit a country that is probably more divided, more bitter, and just as volitile as the nation was prior to the Civil War. And what makes matters worse, you can lay all of this anger and frustration and hatred right at Obama’s feet. I don’t know how this guy sleeps at night.
Well Said!
Aptly stated — again! The fruit from this president’s leadership has grown to full-term and it is the fruit of bitterness, division and animosity. I have never felt so “cut-off” from an American administration as I have from this one. Something is rank. Something is ripen to rotten. Surely, the majority of this country can discern the same?
“I don’t know how this guy sleeps at night”
He sleeps the sleep of a man who is successfully accomplishing his goals.
It’s interesting. What will the country choose? Bread and circuses or fiscal restraint? Tocqueville warned that we would come to this pass eventually. It could be that totalitarianism (“socialism”) is the natural endpoint of democracy, although not for the reasons envisioned by Marx. Meanwhile our Nobel laureates are telling us that the deficit is no big deal from the bully pulpit of the nation’s greatest newspaper. What does it all mean?
I believe that the Tocqueville quotation gave 200 years as the demarcation point: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville
Depsite all the fog and murkiness of this political war, along with the turmoil of the last four years, something positive, I think, is emerging. It seems that times of severe testing and trials bring deep bitterness and hopelessness, as well as arousing deep passion and clarification to what we hold dear and what we are willing to fight for as normal citizens.
Of all my travels and extensive time spent behind the Iron Curtain, one thing was certain: the citizenry were coereced into believing that they were utterly powerless to change the way their governments constructed their lives, and indeed, they were. Life was reduced to black and white issues, meaning basic human rights such as free speech or prison. Basically, it was power of the people vs the power of government, and the government won for too many years.
Inevitably, each time I returned home, I would kiss the ground where my feet first hit the American pavement and was extremely grateful that I didn’t need to make life decisions between basic human right issues, just navigate through the myriad of democratic gray issues.
Yet, here we are, watching the metamorphosis of this great nation due to the indifference, ignorance and cowardice of so many of us unwilling to stand up and label correctly the tripe that is seeping into every facet of our American way of life. I hope that the majority of Americans are shaking off their lethargy, and gaining the energy to seek the cure of the evil we instinctively feel and see taking place in this administration, hence, into our lives.
How grateful we are to all those who came from homelands that they loved, and learned to love another homeland that they are indeed willing to stand up and label correctly and adequately the sinister threats to it.
Thank you, Mr. Pacepa.
4.7 trillion -BUSH 2
The President has very little to do with the economy compared to Congress if you control both.
D contolled both 2006-2009 Debt increased by $3.6 trillion
R controlled both 1995-1999 Debt increased by $776 million
As a % of GDP Bush increased it from 58% to 74%
Under Obama its now over 100%, up 26%
$4.46T in 3 years with Obama
$4.6 T in 8 years under Bush
VOTE THIS SOCIALIST OUT OF OFFICE
You want to talk Cronyism ? Ge paid 0 taxes and got a $2.6b refund as the second largest corporation in the world
I can’t begin to imagine how it would feel to live under a marxist regime, but I have to wonder, are we living under a one party system? Whether it is a democrat or republican, I feel they are all getting rich on our dime. Can somebody tell me who’s the most honest politician is today? You know, they walk the walk. I will not vote for Obama but when will the people stop being sheep and stand up for their rights to be govern by honest people and true leaders of our great nation?
stupid nowadays to see how or by whom they’re being hustled, even when it’s right under their noses
” Hope and change we can believe in”. That was the slogan. We need to co-opt it. Hope we can get the Obumbler out of office and hope we can salvage what he has already managed to change. Change it back to the right path. Ion has been on the path we now follow under Obumbler, he knows where it leads. We don’t want to go there.
Hope and chains, Perry, hope and chains.
but it barely registers on the feeble minds of my fellow Americans who are,
half of them anyway, so out of it, and I’m talking those
who are “educated,” college students who can’t read, professors
who can’t think, college graduates deep in debt with no way out hoping that
the sneak-thief-in-chief will free them of their stupid
loans that they took out to get a worthless “education” that will never,
ever help them even get started to think about how to get along in the
world, but to gripe gripe gripe at everybody but the cause of their troubles,
obama himself, a worthless weasel, liar, con man, who is laughing
his head off at his stupid victims’ resentment and their
misery directed everywhere else but at himself, who is now twisting
the knife into their wounds and blaming it on so-called vicious
right wingers or crap like that. Vote for him one more time,
the last time, and then look at the desolation of past
ruined places under similar screwed up leaders
full of contempt toward their slaves.
Maybe you’ll learn something at last, just maybe, but it’ll
be way too late, because it’s already too late now.
off, but you know what, I don’t blame you, you’re perfectly right.
Frozen in Hell you mean.
is frozen in hell?
love the imagery. Bread and circus, hot coals. Perfect descriptions of the handiwork of the greatest Con Man in history.
This is it people. Romney makes my skin crawl, but at least he found it within himself to select an honorable VP. And even crawling skin is infinitely better than the flesh eating virus that has imbedded itself in the white house.
Reality Check: Mitt Romney’s Mormon Faith Will Turn Away Latino Voters?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO3HhVOE5As&feature=plcp
U.S. Debt On Track to Hit $16 Trillion
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-debt-track-hit-16-trillion-within-week
Don’t look at me, it’s that frickin’ Bush who done dood it!
One election isnt gonna turn it around boys.
The institutions need marching through….at all levels of society.
‘These “bread and circuses” extravaganzas did not work for the Roman Empire, which eventually collapsed under the weight of its enormous civil bureaucracy and public debt.’
The Empire lasted for hundreds of years after the inauguration of bread and circuses, which mainly affected the city of Rome itself, not the more vigorous and productive outlying areas. What brought down the Empire were successive waves of barbarian incursions. The capture of North Africa by the Vandals deprived Rome of its breadbasket and principal source of tax revenue. The onslaught of the Huns, under Attila, stretched the Empire’s military power almost to the breaking point. Even so, the Empire might have survived if a last-ditch campaign to retake North Africa had been successful; but it failed, leaving the state without the financial resources necessary to maintain and rebuild its defenses. Though the Huns had been defeated, other barbarian tribes were eager to take advantage of Rome’s weakened condition, leading to its final downfall in 476.
Civil bureaucracy and public debt were marginal factors. The Empire died because it had lost too much valuable territory and could no longer defend the territory it still held.
You got it all mixed up: The assaults from outside were the consequence of the rot from inside, which happened first and was the real cause of the demise.
When I want to understand Marxism so that I can recognize it no matter what name it is going by I read Jean-Francois Revel or Kenneth Minogue or Robert Conquest. They capture the essences that our American profs self-servingly left out of their descriptions. Trying to get us to look for a nationalizing of the means of production. This fantasy that there can be no Marxism if titular private property remains misunderstands how you can take away the benefits of ownership and live just the shell of a title and a tax liability.
Richard Pipes wrote before the results of the Cold War were clear that the subordination of the mind, control of consciousness, was the real goal of Communism. That was also true of National Socialism and Fascism and is the true core of Obama’s Common Core education policies he has foisted on the states with regulatory blackmail and our tax dollars. Mostly unseen, defeating Obama in November will not be enough unless the true nature of his ed policies and how the American mind is the target as a means to gain that irreversible social and political and economic transformation.
That’s why it is called Second Order Change. It’s not reform.http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/are-educators-free-to-plot-mental-insurrections-in-students-with-impunity/ is my battle cry to understand in time what we are up against. Why Obama has been of such great use to Bill Ayers in gaining small “c” communism. How everything about the Common Core implementation and Obama’s ed policy and the ed policies pushed by the regional accreditors with the blessings of too many Republican state legislators DESTROYS the concept of the legitimacy of the individual. Apologies to educators who would not willingly go along. That’s the importance of the teacher evals that are suddenly the rage. They force compliance with the model, like it or not.
Government mandated community first may sound lovely to the naive. It makes each of us mere pawns to the whims of whoever holds power. That’s not America and that’s not any society that ever remained prosperous.
Just ask any Roman scholar why the barbarians seemed like a better alternative than continued rule by Rome. Or why serfdom first arose to make geographic fleeing from Roman taxation impossible.
I read the 1st two sentences and honestly, that was about all I could stomach. After seeing the Bush Admin and the GOP take the economy to it’s knees, only to continue after being ejected from the American voters to intentionally sabotage the economy with an admission it was to “insure Obama to be a 1 term President”, it’s not surprising to see the corporate lapdogs promote their Plutocracy and Social Darwinism with the usual Marxist accusation diatribes.
Anyone with a basic understanding of economics and today’s politics understands that the Romney/Ryan budget will wipe out Medicare, turn SSI over to Wall Street, and raise taxes on only the middle class, all while doing nothing to resolve our debt. This is why we hear the Marxist fear mongering and distracting birther jokes. It’s all you have.
It ain’t rocket science, folks. Aristotle wrote about Politics over 2000 years ago. He wrote of three types of government: Monarchy (one ruler), Aristocracy (rule by a few special people), and Democracy (self rule by all the people). He made the point that whoever ruled would rule for their own and their friends’ benefit: The monarch would favor his friends (and family) in his rule, the Aristocrats would rule for the benefit of their friends (and family), the People would rule for the benefit of the people. Aristotle preferred democracy (small D)and so do I. How about you? The aristocrats of the Democrat Party favor those who will vote to perpetuate THEIR rule and their fortunes. The Republicans largely (in my opinion) look to the entire electorate for support.
We see the large fortunes of Pelosi, Reid, et al among the Dems; their fortunes grow and are intended to grow, even though the nation suffers.
We read of Republican multi-millionaires in Wall Street and their large donations to the Republicans. Ignored are the many multi-millionaires in Wall street who support the Democrats. Ignored are the Democrat/Liberal people in Hollywood who are multi-millionaires who consistently support Democrats. The Dems cater to various “minority” groups with money and other benefits, to get their votes, suggesting aristocratic tactics.
So look at who the two parties are talking to and catering to, and vote for the people who you believe are actually looking out for you and the entire nation.
While the GOP is determined to undermine the economy during Obama’s tenure, look at what is developing for the social democratic governments that the GOP loathes so much. Of the 19 developed economies the survey looked at, only Canada, Sweden, Denmark and Norway and Switzerland are projected to have a stable AAA rating three years from now, the survey predicted. (“AAA” is the highest credit rating possible, and denotes the lowest possible risk to lenders. Even Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, is projected to be downgraded to an Aa1 rating. The U.S. famously lost its AAA credit rating last summer, amidst an impasse in Congress over raising the federal government’s debt ceiling. Ultimately, Congressional leaders reached a deal, but not before damaging confidence in the U.S.’s ability to address its debt problems.
The US has absolutely no warrant to claim it is the leader of the free world. It is becoming a country that leads in very little that is positive.
After reading these posts, I have to wonder if this is a real discussion or a group mental masturbation exercise? I see the parsing of words over various forms of people control, but the real question is what are we doing about it? When will someone organize the 10 million man march on Washington?
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