When the founders of our nation wrote the Declaration of Independence and the ensuing constitution, they made sure to have a government full of check and balances, that would prevent the creation of a strong central government with total power over the citizenry, they wanted to avoid a government that was able to treat people as subjects of the throne, from whom it could take what it wanted, and to whom they would doled whatever goods or perks the monarchs of the moment deem necessary.

Our founders respect for the rights of the individuals, whom they believed were given to them by their creator and not by any government, is the fundamental concept that leads them to create a republic where laws and not the whims of a monarch dictate the norms to follow. They understood that as each of us individually worked to produce for ourselves and for our families, society benefited collectively, not the other way around.

The efforts of individuals working for their own self improvement, is what ultimately  generates more production, inventions, abundance, satisfaction and wealth for society as a whole; it is not a coincidence that we enjoy the largest and wealthiest middle class in the world, and that even our poorest segments of society are better off than average citizens around the world. Individualism is what has helped Americans build the greatest nation on earth and it is what has always given us the insurmountable advantage that may generate resentment among others, but that in no way reflects anything for which we should ever apologize.

This is why I find it almost incomprehensible to see so many Americans passively following someone whose stated goal is to “fundamentally change America”. To say that we have made mistakes in the past and will continue to make them in the future, is one thing that we can all agree on, we are humans and as such we will always make mistakes, but due to the free nature of our society, our mistakes are openly discussed, solutions are openly proposed and errors are ultimately corrected.

Again I cannot understand how we can not be outraged with the ravishing of our free capitalist society and institutions that is taking place. In the past nine months, we have seen the federal government quadruple our debt, causing our already weak dollar to suffer an additional 15% devaluation in the international markets, the government has taken control of both the mortgage and the banking industries, it has become the largest shareholder of two out of the three US automakers; it has arbitrarily stolen shares from automotive industry investors, and doled them to the unions as payback for their support, plus it is currently seeking powers to seize key companies whose failures they claim would affect the “greater good”.

During this time we have also seen the appointment of more than forty Czars without congressional approval, circumventing the normal vetting process. At the same time that our representatives vote themselves a generous pay raise, a pay Czar is created to regulate the pay of private citizens working for private companies, we are told that this will only apply to those companies that have accepted government help. However, the Federal Reserve has already stated that it will do the same for the entire banking industry as well. In what appears to be some sort of hoax, the administration has also created a manufacturing Czar, perhaps in hopes of replicating the same failed processes of the USSR.

And where is the fourth branch of government on all this? Well they are having cocktails at the White House, our main stream media has become an unreliable source of information, whom as in some sort of 1984’s Orwellian sequel, shamelessly lends itself to act as mouthpieces of the government.

No one within our main stream media questions the implications of these policies, nor the impact that they may have on our economy as a whole, and nobody ever raises question about their constitutionality, for to do so would anger their lords; instead they are content with talking about the latest polls and the monarchs popularity with one demographic group or another, no longer are we referred to as Americans, we are all hyphenated-Americans now, this way we are more easily pitted against each other and more readily maneuvered.

As average citizens we find it impossible to understand why these soothsayers of the press are so blind as to not see that if the monarchs get their way, they will be the first to go if they ever dare to step out of line. We observe how actions are being taken that will “fundamentally change” the country that we love, yet feel powerless as we contemplate the destruction or our institutions and the all out assault on our values and constitution.

It is said that it is always darkest before dawn and indeed a new dawn has just begun, an American awakening is taking place, we know that we are a nation under God, we know that America is not evil, we know that we are a beacon of hope for humanity, and so a silent scream has began to emanate within our hearts, it is spreading among all like wild fire, refusing to be silenced by insults and by mobs. It is an awakening devoid of guilt and fear, it is inspiring us to shed the hyphenated names that separate us, and allowing us to stand shoulder to shoulder as just Americans, who in unison will clamor… No, you can’t!!!

Many do so because of false or lack of information, but I believe it goes beyond that, I believe the answer must lie in the psyche of the liberal mind; I often find myself in disbelief when I engage in conversation with some of my liberal friends,   liberals do not seem to analyze problems and solutions the same way that we do. I know this may be insulting to some, but that is not my intent, I have honestly arrived at this conclusion not as a result of anger or disdain, but in a genuine attempt to reach across the aisle, in an attempt to comprehend my fellow men or women; I do so in a compassionate sort of way.

A liberal will react emotionally towards a problem and will be lead to do almost anything (however irrational), if you are able to appeal to their sentiments rather than their rational. You may reach a liberal by fainting compassion, or by exacerbating their hate, either will work, this is why the demagogues from the left must always have a victim and a villain to blame for all of the “victim’s” real or manufactured wrongs.

The past few months offer a unique opportunity to illustrate the above mentioned point of view, these days we have a “demon de jour” every month, first the speculators, then the oil companies, the AIG executives, Wall Street, the predatory lenders, the doctors, the pharmaceuticals, the car companies, the insurance companies; all villains, all corrupt, all greedy, until they succumb to the all mighty benevolent Obama and then by the grace of thee, they suddenly become acceptable decent citizens once again.

What else but pure emotional and irrational acts can possibly explain some of the misfortunes of so many of our societies? Demagogues and progressives are the same everywhere, but the villains change according to the circumstance, Castro had the “Yankees”, Hitler had the “Jews”, the Democrats had “Bush”, and Obama has a new one every month, depending upon what sector of the economy he is set on destroying and taking over at any given time.

To liberals it doesn’t matter that their leader lies and throws fictitious numbers to the wind, somehow they rationalize it as something that needs supporting for the all encompassing “greater good”, it doesn’t matter that the policies and initiatives are destructive and fail miserably, as long as the profess intentions satisfy their emotional state of mind.

Therefore nothing that their leader says or does, regardless of its inaccuracies or failures, will dissuade the liberal from supporting their chosen one, liberals will continue to follow like zombies, because their beliefs are emotionally burnt into their minds, their beliefs are like their religion, theirs is a “faith-based-believe”, as oppose to a “reasoned-based-believe”, which explains why when challenged with facts, however irrefutable they may be, they will not register, those among you who have experience this, know exactly what I am talking about.

Regardless of the evidence before you, you will be accused of having fallen prey to some right wing conspiracy, or to Republican propaganda, or whatever else; and then when all else fails, there is the all times favorite… It’s Bush’s fault.

President Reagan said it best, as he often did; "It's not that liberals are ignorant or stupid, it's just that they believe so many things that aren't so."

I concur.

My kids often laugh at me when they see me watching some old non-HD western movie, but I must admit that I enjoy them. One of the ones I enjoy is an old Burt Lancaster movie called “Valdes is Coming”, in it he plays a simple peasant who is owed some measly amount of money, which he is determine to collect, more on principle than on its worth. Those of you, who are also fans of the old westerns, can imagine what the rest of the story must be like.

I don’t know why Sarah Palin’s resignation lead me to remember the above mentioned story line, perhaps it was the quick dismissal from the experts, plus the wide range of theories and assertions from all spectrums of the political arena; which when contrasted with what she herself had to say and the way in which she said it, caused the associative thinking in my mind.

Only time will tell, but the end result of Sarah Palin’s decision to pass the baton to her Lieutenant Governor in Alaska, will not be determine by the pundits who make a living giving opinions, however objective or prejudicial they may be, like the political weathermen that they are, more often than not they are not very accurate with their projected forecast.

Are we somehow forgetting the “inevitability” of Hillary’s presidency?

Since everyone is doing it, I too would like to try my luck at weatherman. I see Palin’s success or failure, plus the ultimate shrewdness of her decision, being judged not by those writing her off today, but by “we the people”; it will ultimately be “we the people” who are going to elevate Palin above all the would-be experts, if indeed this is what she wants.

I don’t know what her ultimate goal is, but I do know that she is the clearest and loudest voice articulating the sentiments of millions of Americans who long for the Republic that is being stolen from them. Today she is being labeled as a quitter, since she has decided to walk away before the end of her term, but her stated reason makes sense to me, she is well aware of Lenin’s assertion that “A lie told often enough becomes truth”, and her enemies are his disciples.

I suspect that if she stayed on until the end of her term, the conversation will never be about her numerous accomplishments (however great they may have been), nor about her innocence of all the ethics accusations levied against her, that will not get any play. The “objective pundits” of the media will instead express with dismay, that she had been investigated fifteen, thirty or fifty times for ethics violations; but what about her innocence? You may ask, it too will be impugned with a timely raised eyebrow and a simple “well… after all, we are talking about Alaska”, no one will ever offer an explanation of what they mean by that, and no one will ever ask.

This is not new, this is what the left has always done and does to destroy their opposition, the tactics being used against her are straight out of Saul Alinsky’s book, "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." (Attack, attack, attack), “Overburden government agencies, to rendered them ineffective”, this is exactly what was done by ACORN during the election, when thousands and thousands of false voter’s registrations were sent to the precincts at all the battle states making their verification an impossible task. Essentially the same tactic in the form of numerous frivolous suits was being employed against the Governor here, thus occupying 80% of her time and that of her staff to ward off the attacks, attacks, attacks.

It is better to retreat a foot than to advance only an inch – Sun Tzu

George Orwell in an essay called “Politics and the English language”, wrote about his famous “1984” novel, in it he described something that very closely resembled what in our own non-fictitious world has come to be known as “Political Correctness”, in his book the word used was “Newspeak” (pronounced new-speak), a fictional language with a reduced and simplified vocabulary, created to satisfy the totalitarian regime and the Party faithful.

Newspeak was the government’s official language, and it was created to accommodate and promote the needs of IngSoc (English Socialism). According to Orwell, in 1984 no one spoke Newspeak yet; but when the administration’s rank and file, plus the media, were instructed to start using it always so that the new language could gain ground steadily, obediently the media and all party members began to use Newspeak words and grammatical constructions more and more in their everyday speech. 

In the real world, those in charge of manipulating public opinion have long believed that through the use of language, they can influence thought and culture, they know that through this mean they can create perceptions that later become “reality” in the minds of the public, if repeated often enough.

“A lie told often enough becomes truth.” -Vladimir Lenin

The advocates of these language changes often claim that the changes are designed mainly to treat others with respect, by not using terminology that offends them. In many instances an argument can be made in favor of the above mentioned, however more often than not what we are being sold, is nothing more than a masquerade of the true ulterior motives.

Such was the case in Orwell’s Oceania; the Newspeak language had nothing to do with sensitivity, its only goal was the manipulation of the truth, as illustrated below:

“Goodthink” defined the party’s orthodoxy or position, "Joycamp" was used to describe a forced labor camp, “Crimethink” was to even consider any thought not in line with the principles of Ingsoc, “Thinkpol” or “Tthoughtpolice” was a force in charge of eliminating crimethink, “Malreported” was any report unfavorable to the government, which the government later deemed untrue, and “youthleague” was a mandatory children’s group under control of the Thought Police.

Even the word free in “1984” was considered Oldspeak (heretic), the word free only existed in a certain context, as in “The dog is free of lice”. The concept of political freedom had been replaced by the word crimethink.

It has often been said that reality mirrors fiction, and so it seems that when we examine many of our current trends, we find that many of the fictional ideas that governed Oceania in “1984”, resemble an awful lot the world in which we live in today.

This past week, congress passed a new law that is making its way to the senate, proposing the “GIVE-ACT”, HR1388 (who can oppose the act of giving?) yet there are provisions in this law that uses the Newspeak term of “Mandatory Volunteerism”, could this possibly be our own “youthleague”? Was that not what Lincoln fought a war for?

Ask anyone who ever lived in a socialist, fascist or communist country, what “Mandatory Volunteerism” can be like, and they’ll be happy to tell you.

During the Russian revolution, the communist who were a miniscule minority of the population, called themselves the Bolshevik party, which meant the majority party, (if they were the majority, they couldn’t be wrong, could they?), Lenin believed in Newspeak.

Closer to home we find more and more Newspeak each day, liberals call themselves “progressives” (who can be against progress?); abortions are referred to as “reproductive freedom”, or “pro choice” (only a troglodyte can be against choice and freedom); the national organization of radically leftist women, conspicuously leaves the “radically leftist” syllables out of their acronym, and simply called themselves NOW (National Organization of Women), anyone who witnessed their behavior during the last election, knows that advancing the cause of women is not foremost on their agenda.

IngSoc (English Socialism) in its sleepless nights has in the last few weeks given us additional Newspeak words to enrich America’s vernacular. We are now told that we will no longer refer to enemy combatants as enemy combatants, they will now be known as “foreign detainees”, just as Orwell suggested, the media and the administration’s rank and file have been instructed to start using this term from now on. They have also been asked to no longer refer to the Global War on Terror as such, the new name to be used hence forth, is the “Overseas Contingency Operation”, who knows? Perhaps we will soon be told that the word “terror” much like the word “free” in Oceania, can only be used in a certain context from now on.

But it doesn’t stop there, it appears that the word Terror itself is part of Oldspeak, acts of terror will no longer be referred to as Terrorist Acts; the Newspeak term for these sort of actions is “Man Made Disasters”, with a straight face we are told, that they are not taking money from those who work to give to those who don’t; the Newspeak word for wealth redistribution is “tax cuts to people who don't pay taxes”, the handout is called an “investment on people” who don’t pay taxes, “investing” is Newspeak for welfare these days.

“Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” -Thomas Jefferson

With our economy in shambles, our esteemed treasury secretary agrees with our Russian and Chinese “FRIENDS” (Newspeak for those who want to kill us), that tossing the dollar aside and going with a new global currency is not such a bad idea. This unelected official has also requested the unconstitutional right to fire CEOs of private industries, and to limit the salary of its employees, much as I am sure was done in Oceania.

Our attorney general is a proponent of amnesty for “undocumented immigrants” (Newspeak for illegal aliens), and is best known for brokering pardons for criminals and “man-made-disaterers” (Newspeak for terrorist) during the Clinton administration.

Our vice president, who was chosen for his vast knowledge in foreign policy, goes to Spain and thanks Zapatero for his help in Iraq, this is roughly the equivalent of thanking Obama for the Iraq invasion.

Our Secretary of State tells the Chinese that their repeated violations of human rights should not be an obstacle to our normal business relations.

Our house of representative voting 100% along party lines passed the largest spending bill in our entire history, an estimated yearly deficit of a trillion dollars a year for the next 10 years, and not a single conscientious objector placed his country ahead of his party’s line.

And our president goes abroad to the G20 meeting, and calls America an arrogant country that does not appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world, (what leading role?), he calls us dismissive and derisive of the old continent, that same old continent that has made such great contributions to humanity as, Fascism, Nazism, Communism and now Socialism.

But he didn’t stop there, our “Blame America First in Chief” (Newspeak for president), meets with the Russians and apologizes for America’s part in allowing our relations to “drift”. Little things like Russia’s cutting off natural gas supplies to our European allies, invading Georgia, threatening Poland with missiles on its border, coercing Kyrgzstan into removing us from the Bagram Air base, and poisoning Ukraine’s  president, had in our president’s view nothing to do with the “drift” in our relations.

Frankly I wish that creative colloquialism was the only thing that we had to worry about with the current one party rule in America, I pray that the omnipotent all seeing all powerful tyrannical regime of Oceania, will never occur in our lifetime, and that the current administration is successful at keeping us out of harm’s way from the despots that will surely come our way, to attempt to take advantage of America’s real or perceived weakness on the world’s stage at the G20.

A wise man said that “a method which fails repeatedly may possibly be wrong”, still far too many people do not allow facts to get in the way of their opinions, and treat facts as though they were… an inconvenient truth. In the 20^th century, virtually every perverse doctrine that suffocated freedom, slaved the governed and threatened world peace, began as Socialism; this was true of Fascism, Nazism and Communism.  Although the argument can be made that Socialism does not always progress into one of the previously mentioned doctrines, the fact is that Socialism will always (without exception) limit freedom and individuality by forcefully taking away from the population the fruits of their labor, and by imposing itself upon the private sector, this destruction of incentive ultimately produces slough and laziness, thus reducing personal and collective productivity to the detriment of society.

Due to the nature of human behavior, is not difficult to conclude that governments, although a necessary evil, are by nature conducive to corruption, never was the adage of “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” truer, than when applied to the complexities of governing, consequently it stands to reason that the larger the government the more fertile ground there is for corruption.

Of further distress, is the inherent arrogance of the socialist, who believe themselves better equipped to tell the individuals how to manage their lives and how to choose what is in their best interest. On the economic front, their interference with the private sector, and their stated goal to control the nation’s industries, is precisely the type of actions that puts the socialist in a collision course with the essence of the American experiment, as well as with the liberties that our forefathers fought so valiantly to preserve.

The common sense approach to economics that most sensible individuals understand and adhere to in their own lives when it comes to spending their own money, do not apply when a group of politicians are allowed to spend the people’s hard earned money, with little to no accountability. These days, is doesn’t matter whether the politician calls himself a Republican or a Democrat, fiscal responsibility is no longer part of our elected officials DNA.

The constant pounding of the left wing media, the unabashed demagoguery of politicians, and the general public’s apathy and unwillingness to educate themselves beyond the headlines being fed to them daily, has tilted the balance towards the left in our country. This is why there is a large group of politicians in Washington today, who in typical liberal elitist arrogance believe that they are able to control the largest economy in the world from the their high and mighty pedestals of Capitol Hill, ignoring that only the freedom of the marketplace can help the economy rid itself of poor business practices, while promoting productive investments that lead to long-term prosperity and well paying meaningful employment.

As if the rampant spending of the Bush years has not been enough, the situation looks even bleaker when we consider the makeup of the current political landscape; all indications are that the spending will increase, which probably means that our economic situation will continue to get worse before it gets better. Even if the large amounts of bailout monies were to generate the false sense of abundance that the government is seeking in the short term, the repercussions of keeping sunken companies artificially afloat will have devastating consequences in the long run.

 One does not need to be an economist to understand the simple concept of supply and demand, which establishes that the greater the abundance of any item, the less valuable it becomes. The unfettered printing of dollars being dumped into our economy with little accountability will make the dollar even less valuable, causing inflationary pressures that will hurt the elderly and the poor on fixed incomes the most. We are already hearing rumblings about the devaluation of the dollar, something that will be an even greater blow to millions of Americans who have already seen their retirement accounts depleted due to the rapid decline of their investments, and the instability of the financial markets.

Still we continue to make “economic” decisions that have more to do with politics than with the economy. We are told that we are bailing out the automobile companies, when in reality it is the unions that we are bailing out. If we were interested on the long term survival of the industry, we would insist on their reorganizations, so that they can rid themselves of bad debt and obligations, allowing them to emerge stronger and able to compete. But politics as well as the lack of faith on the free market, leads our politicians to throw billions of tax payer’s dollars to a business plan that no private investor would spend a single penny on. 

It has indeed been a year of ironies; we have placed in charge of resolving the financial crisis, the same politicians that caused the crisis, by forcing financial institutions to play Russian roulette with our monies, and we are rewarding with billions of dollars our most poorly run and dishonest industries, regardless of their incompetent or reprehensible behavior.

Since the early 1960s during the Viet Nam years and continuing in crescendo with each decade thereafter, the left has cultivated a sentiment of open hatred towards all of America’s institutions, the office of the presidency, our armed forces, our flag, the sanctity of life, the institution of marriage, religious men and women, and the rest of our traditional American values as put forth long ago by our forefathers. These venomous seeds planted at all levels of American society, seem to have finally been harvested on November 4^th 2008.

How else could we have possibly elected a candidate that found it difficult to wear an American flag on his lapel and who removed it from the surface of his plane? Someone who openly accused our military of air rating villages and killing civilians, someone whose list of friends and allies are the equivalent of the who-is-who of the “Hate-America-Society”, someone who rips our constitution and refers to it as a “charter of negative liberties”, who then talks about how to get around the limits that the constitution places on government, in hopes to achieve his desired plans for wealth and property redistribution, someone who openly discusses how to change the constitution, not in the democratic way foreseen by our forefathers, but through the use of “carefully selected” activist judges, the least democratic of all the branches.

To those of us who have lived within the bowels of socialism, is painful to see how like a phoenix that rises from the ashes of the toxic burnt trash heaps of society, the left works its way into the throngs of power by fanning the darkest passions of humanity, greed, envy, resentment and hate. Their discourse may sound appealing, filled with populist claims for justice, fairness and equality, but the reality as evident everywhere they have succeeded, is that the only true objective of the left is to subjugate the population, to seek unequivocal control and to perpetuate themselves in power.

Although the Soviet Union no longer exists, its ideology has thrived in our schools and universities for the last 60 years, this is why we now have several generations of people in government, civil service, business, education and mass media, that have been educated in universities where teaching patriotism is viewed as some sort of act of fascism, and where capitalism is said to be a system for exploiters and the greedy. Therefore when Obama says that he wants to “spread the wealth”, there is no indignation by an unsettling large segment of our fellow citizens, who simply lack the understanding of how such measures would totally transform our free society and destroy our entire economic system.

Back in the mid 1980s an ex-KGB defector by the name of Yuri Bezmenov was interviewed by a Ed Griffin. On this interview (that can be found on YouTube), Mr. Bezmenov gives a chilling account of what needs to be done to take down a country like ours, and later marvels at how far along the process had progressed in American society.

Below are the four steps as expressed by Bezmenov:

1-      Demoralization - "It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism."

2-     Destabilization - "Promise people all kinds of goodies, and the paradise on Earth.  To destabilize your economy to eliminate the principal of free market competition; and  to put a big brother government in Washington D.C.;"

3-   Crisis – "It may take only up to 6 weeks to bring a country to the verge of crisis.  You can see it in Central America now; and after crisis, with the violent change of power structure and economy, you have the period of so called "normalization" [which] it may last indefinitely."

4-     Normalization – "A cynical expression, borrowed from Soviet Propaganda.   When the Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia in 1968, comrade Brezhnev said "Now the situation in brotherly Czechoslovakia is normalized".  This is what will happen in [the] United States if you allow all the shmucks to bring the country to crisis." 

When asked about what America could do to defend itself, Mr Bezmenov said:

“Well, the immediate thing that comes to mind is, of course, there must be a very strong national effort to educate people in the spirit of REAL patriotism, number one. Number two, to explain [to] them the real danger of socialist, communist, welfare state, Big Brother government. If people fail to grasp the impending danger; nothing ever will help the United States.  You may kiss goodbye your freedoms.   All this freedom will vanish in 5 seconds - including your precious lives.”

We need to put his comments in perspective, as they were spoken back in 1984, but who among us has not seen the demoralization that we have been subjected to in recent years, we are told how the entire world hates America, a premise that I would qualify by saying that the rest of the far left loons and the enemies of freedom throughout the world hate America, the good will free loving people of the world look at us as there last hope.

During the last eight years the left and their spokesman’s in the main stream media, have been telling us that we live under a constant state of crisis, the war, oil prices, the middle east, the environment, etc. and last but not least the financial crisis, brought about by the same socialist who through the enactment of social engineering projects, together with the coercing of our financial institutions,  promised “paradise on Earth” to their constituents, thus causing the destabilization of our entire economic system, something which they falsely blame on the un-viability of free markets.

During this “greatest economic crisis since the great depression” the voices from the left cannot even wait for a normal government transition to take place on January 20^th, they are instead asking that it be move up to December 1^st.  According to the newly appointed Chief Of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, the number one rule is to, “Never allow a crisis to go to waste; they are opportunities to do big things.” Much like the Czechoslovakians waited back in 1968, it appears that all that remains for America to do at this time, is to anxiously await its own period of “Normalization”.

I am sure that I am not alone in my distress over the long string of bailouts on the way, in a free capitalist society companies need to be allowed to go bankrupt and or reorganize. This will ultimately make them leaner and more competitive for the future, thus allowing the jobs and the industry to survive. These necessary corrections will cause some union contracts and debtors to sacrifice along with the investors of those companies; still this cleansing or reality check is necessary and must be allowed to take place.

As the saying goes, no pain no gain, this idea of a nanny state that provides a safety net for even the most reckless segments of society is one that we must resist. If we want long lasting progress and employment we need to be willing to let the forces of the free market, hold accountable those businesses and individuals that have either overextended themselves, or have been engaging in bad business practices.

To continue to bailout companies, without addressing the fundamental issues that has put them in the predicament that they are in, is like “spitting” in the wind, is a way of prolonging the arrival of an ultimate day of reckoning, which when it comes will be much more harder to contend with, since our entire economic system will be under greater distress due to all the “spitting in the wind” that it would have done by then.

To me it is not about personalities or political affiliation, be it Obama, Bush or McCain, it is about the philosophical direction that they would want to take the country instead. The biggest disappointment of the last eight years has been the unfettered spending that the Bush administration has allowed under its watch, it would be totally inconsistent with my thinking to support someone who wants to do even more of that. President Bush receives my ardent criticism for the irresponsible way in which he has allowed spending to run amuck, but I am not getting any comfort on this matter, as far as his would be replacement is concern.

A lot of lip service is being given about the need to help the middle class, yet no other economic model in the history of mankind has done more for the middle class than capitalism, nor is the standard of living of the so called middle class as high anywhere in the world, than what it is in true capitalist societies. It is a fallacy to suggest that centralized planning and government control is a more viable solution to help the middle class or any other class for that matter, since the Bolshevik revolution of 1919 and during the entire 20th century, history has been littered with destroyed economies that sought to help the middle class with their protectionist ideas. I underscore middle class, because when it is the government who determines where the middle should be, there is no telling where that “middle” ends up at. Our own economy of the 1930s is a testament to that.

The new president elect openly proclaims the failure of trickledown economics, a premise that I must challenge as well, if trickledown benefits are not being experience with the same rigor as before, is not because this proven theory has somehow gone array, it is because of the imposition of ineffective and intrusive government regulations, together with one of the highest corporate tax rates in the entire free world, that has choked the trickledown effect by driving investor away from our economy and on to more business friendly environments springing all around the world, after their own failed experiments with extreme government intervention and central planning.

This year’s campaign saw both candidates talk about punishing the greedy, however if either one of them really meant it, why are Franklin Raines, Tim Howard, Jim Johnson and Jaime Gorelick not under indictment? Not only are they not indicted, Franklin Raines was being considered for HUD secretary by the Obama team, until it became way too scandalous during the campaign, Jim Johnson was chosen to head the VP exploratory committee for Obama, and Jaime Gorelick is still being considered for a post on the upcoming administration.

If there was truly any desire to punish the greedy, why are representatives Barney Franks and Christopher Dodd not under investigation for having benefitted with hundreds of thousands of dollars from the very entities that they were suppose to have overseen? Why is congress not calling for hearings to find out why Franks and Dodd ran constant interference against any attempt to investigate the fraudulent acts of Fannie and Freddie Mac?

All Americans regardless of our political persuasion should be cautious of any political figure that bursts into the scene by seeking to segment us by gender, race, religion, national origin or economic status.

I am a conservative on most issues, and therefore have my own opinion as to what spectrum of the political landscape is the one most likely to promote class warfare; but I would equally repudiate any candidate that would actively engage on such an exercise, regardless of his or her political affiliation.

We are all Americans either by birth or by choice, therefore we should support candidates that see us all as un-hyphenated Americans, unethical politicians promote the various groups idea in order to better pander to them, the average uninformed voter takes the bate and that is how we end up with the level of government incompetence that we often get.

I find it offensive when politicians suggest that minorities need to have the scale tipped in their favor in order to succeed in our society, politicians that promote these type of policies may do so for a variety of reasons, some may truly want to help, but others I suspect do so in order to skew reelections their way, thus having nothing to do with true minority concerns.

However, regardless of the nature of their intentions, these acts are rooted in elitism and bigotry, they are bigots in denial on many cases, these are people who believe that minorities are lesser than they are and therefore incapable of succeeding on their own, they are engaging in the bigotry of lower expectations, while they genuinely believe themselves to be superior than their “inferior benefactors”.

The whole concept of “minorities” is a divisive concept in it and by itself; it creates this sense of us versus them, which should have no place in a free mobile society like ours. I am not an anarchist, government does indeed have its place, which is to foment the proper environment under which free men and women can flourish and compete on an even playing field, but that is where its involvement should end.

The reality is that McCain was a terrible candidate and although a lot more honorable than the shyster from Chicago, at the end of the day, neither he nor Obama had a clue as to what to do about the economy. Oh! Romney, Oh! Romney, where have you gone?

I believe that it was during the second debate, while watching it at a friend's home, that McCain surprised the country with a "great idea", he proposed to buy all bad mortgages with yet another tiny 300 billion dollar dip into the treasury chest, I remember putting my hands over my head and saying to all present, "with that statement he just lost the election" most did not agree, but how could conservatives who have long had trepidations about McCain go along with a socialist program like that one, especially after he later admitted to have copied it from Hillary (no less), I knew that such a program did not set well with me, and that it would not set well with fiscally responsible conservatives. Therefore on Election Day, I followed McCain’s mother advise of pinching my nose as I voted for him and casted my vote for Sarah. In spite of what the liberal pundits would have us believe, the only silver lining of the entire campaign was Sarah Palin, yet they never let her loose, it was obvious that Sara was in it for the win, while McCain just wanted us to get along.

Which brings us to where we are today, we have lost a battle, but I don't believe that it was lost last night, we have been working on this defeat since the moment that Republicans became more concern about reaching across the aisle and being liked by the Main Extreme Left Media, than to adhering to the conservative values of their constituency. Let's not forget that McCain was the leader of that pack, his own campaign finance legislature that Obama laughed at, helped to put the final nail on his coffin. But once again there is a silver lining, we can all now breathe a sigh of relief by knowing that we should have seen the last presidential bids from McCain and from Hillary, thus allowing all of us to thank them for our ulcers and move on with our lives.

Let us not forget that we are not the gloom and doom crowd and although we may have lost this battle, the war is far from over. If history has taught us anything again and again, is that the disease of Socialism and Liberalism does not work, I don't care if the ones administering are crooks, or brilliant men and women more pure than Mother Teresa, Socialism destroys individual freedoms, work ethic, productivity, initiatives, self reliance, standard of living, wealth, and it does this to rich and poor alike, so it is the destiny of hard working men and women with strong conservative values, to ultimately come along behind them to clean up the mess, as it is also their destiny to be vilified while they make the hard decisions that will ultimately need to be made to exterminate the disease and its roots into society.

After the Nixon years when Jimmy Carter enjoyed the benefit of both houses as well, the conservative movement reconstituted itself and it reigned until it began to look like and behave like the same party it dethroned. Santayana said "Those who refuse to learn the lessons of history are doomed to relive them." Republicans should remember these words, if we learned anything from this election cycle, isthat when Republicans allow themselves to be duped into "getting along" with far left radicals that are not interested in getting along, but who are only interested in buying time while in a position of weakness instead, they will always pay the price for doing so, the Main Extreme Left Media will gladly use them as useful idiots at their pleasure and spit them like rubbish on due time as they did with McCain, on this cycle the "Republicans" that lost were almost in their entirety the RINO (Republicans In Name Only), the conservatives retained their seats, (hopefully) lesson learned. 

To those of you who are now walking around feeling in the doldrums, know that we will live to fight another day, it is our philosophy that made America the greatest nation in the world, it is their philosophy that has bankrupt nations throughout the world, they may be able to “Fool some of the people some of the time…” but when the most pragmatic individuals who may have been convince to vote for the blank check “Change” this time around, become better informed as to what that change entails, and as the failures of the left become more evident, as they surely will, America will once again be able to right the ship, and steer itself away from the pestilence of Socialism, thus leaving it in the garbage pail of history, where it should have been left all along.

 The polls fluctuation, plus the following warning “"If your television declares John McCain the president elect on the evening of November 4th, your television will be lying. You should immediately pick up your pre-packed bags and head straight to the White House in Washington, DC, which we will surround and shut down until this attempt at a third illegitimate presidency is reversed. We may be there for days or weeks or months. But we must be there. We must be there by the millions. We must show each other, and the nation, and the world that we have had enough, that we will not stand for one more stolen election, that we will not give in to fear, lies, theft, and intimidation." --David Swanson, Washington director of Democrats.com and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America; makes Jerome Corsi’s story below worth noting, since it is quite possible that we may be seeing the Kenya option unfolding on our own backyard.

According to Jerome Corsi;“Obama's involvement amounted to coordination with Odinga on the campaign, according to the sources. The general tone of the strategy was to encourage the Odinga campaign to claim to be leading in the presidential race regardless of the actual numbers and be prepared to proclaim victory even if Odinga lost.”Sounds familiar?

DISPATCH FROM NAIROBI
Kenyan insiders say Obama was part of takeover strategy

During the time of the 2006 elections, consumer confidence stood at a 3 year high, the average cost of a gallon of gasoline was $2.19, the unemployment rate was at 4.5% the DOW JONES had hit a record high 14,000 + points and Americans were buying new cars, taking cruises, and traveling overseas, by all accounts the economy was doing just fine.                 

But Americans were told that they wanted 'CHANGE'! They were convinced by the Democrats and the mainstream media that the Iraq war was lost, that our efforts there were futile and that the only option left for us, was to cut and run, to surrender. We were promised that the election of Democrats would lead to the immediate ending of the war, as well as the culture of corruption that permeated Washington under the Republican's watch. Therefore after years of this constant barrage of negativity, Americans were persuade on 2006 to vote for a Democratic Congress. They voted for change!!!

And changes we got- on all aspects except the reason for which they were elected. The war was not ended and to the Democrats dismay the war was not lost, nor the culture of corruption that they spoke about, which instead of having ended, seems to have reached new heights.

Here is the change we got:

1) Consumer confidence has plummeted. For the last 8 years the Democrats have been talking down the economy and warning us about the impending recession just around the corner. Something they openly concluded will help them gain power, therefore they continue to sell gloom and doom, with total disregard of the repercussion to the average American family.

2) Gasoline rose to over $4 a gallon, yet the Democratic congress refuses to allow exploration of oil within our own territory, blocking every attempt to allow America to become energy independent. They have done this while ignoring the desires of an overwhelming majority of Americans who wish us to explore within our own territory.

3) Unemployment has risen above 6% and continues to rise. Yet the Democrats are proposing tax increases to the same businesses that have always been the largest source of job creation in our free society, and they do this at a time when these businesses are more strapped for cash than ever before.

4) Americans have seen their home equity drop by over $12 TRILLION DOLLARS and it is still dropping! This is the result of a credit crunch caused by a financial meltdown created by the Democrat’s social engineering law called (The Community Reinvestment Act) which as part of its overall package, forces financial institutions to carry bad loans, in the name of the all encompassing “greater good”.   

5) Over 1% of American homes are in foreclosure today, something that the Democrats blame on Wall Street. Yet anyone familiar with the free market understands that “incentive drives behavior”. When the government told those who sell mortgages that it would guarantee all the bad loans they made, as long as they were dubbed by the politically correct name of “Minority Loans”, the government in effect incented sales people to push bad loans on to those who could not afford them. Unethical as this may be, and condemned as it should be, it was this initiative from the Democrats with their Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac piñata that created the proper environment to make this debacle possible. In other words, Wall Street’s wrong doing was aided and abided by a politically created environment that allowed unfettered greed to be rewarded, an environment that was aggressively guarded and protected from any oversight; by the same Democrats in congress that we are now told will be correcting the problem. 

6) The “Change” voted on 2006 has largely contributed to bringing our economy to the brink of collapse, the DOW has plummeted, billions of dollars have evaporated from stocks, bonds, mutual funds and investment portfolios, consumer confidence is extremely low and the Democrats continue to talk about gloom and doom, a self-fulfilling prophecy no doubt, if the American people entrust them with additional power on the coming election.

Change is a double-edged sword. If America wants true change in 2008, they need to use the other edge of the sword to rid our government of all these merchants of doom responsible for the financial crisis.