What other occupations in our entire United States enjoy the concept of “TENURE”? Under this outrageous concept, the jobs of incompetent and under-performing teachers are protected to the detriment of both students and taxpayers. Unions claim that tenure is required to protect good teachers from unfair termination. What kind of administrator would arbitrarily fire a good teacher? On the occasion that such an event might take place, teachers have the option of obtaining legal representation, just as you and I would be required to do.
One teacher, during protests in Wisconsin, stated that she was willing to take a pay cut and to pay more for her pension and health benefits. But, she stated further that she was extremely worried about the loss of “protection” afforded to her by her union. What protection! Why does she worry so about a need for union protection?
If teachers, like the rest of us, are doing what is expected of them, why do they need a union at all? Don’t they claim to be “professionals”? Short answer: Union threats, intimidation, strikes and propaganda result in contracts for salaries, benefits and pensions that are unavailable to those of us who foot the bill for their unrealistic demands and expectations. Teacher unions “win” those things by holding our children hostage. So-called public school professionals need unions for only one purpose… to take more money from taxpayers.
Teacher unions represent teachers. They DO NOT represent parents or students. Teacher unions represent ONLY the interests of teachers and their union organizations. Note the infamous philosophy of former American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union mogul, Al Shanker, when he stated emphatically; "When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children."
As a further selfish and arrogant benefit, many states do not require retired teachers, and many other public employees or legislators, to pay state income taxes on retirement benefits. Shortfalls of tax revenues are made up by the private sector taxpayer.
Teachers, and many other public employees, are making substantially more money [on average] than the taxpayers who foot the bill. Teachers, who pay very little or nothing toward their pension and healthcare insurance costs, receive far better retirement pensions and benefits than those of us in the private sector who pay far more for lesser programs. In addition, teachers in Michigan for instance, are allowed to “buy” additional years... allowing them to retire earlier and at a higher level of compensation. Where, in the private sector, are you and I allowed such an excessive opportunity to collect retirement benefits for years that were never worked?
Yet, teachers continue to whine and moan about how poorly they’re treated and how valuable their work is to the futures of our children and our country. Keep in mind that teachers have been asked to ante up only a fraction of what you and I must pay for our retirement and benefits.
98% of Michigan schools conducted classes fewer than 180 days in 2009 while the rest of us worked 253 days, less our individual vacations. Couple this fact with the fact that American students no longer place in the top 20 of countries participating in international student assessments of math, science and reading skills. Teachers are required to participate in “professional development” programs and they may also pursue higher education. Many of us taxpayers do the same. However, we are not provided 70 working days off with pay to do it.
Making matters worse, the Michigan Education Association has been lobbying the state legislature to transfer responsibility for 10s of millions of dollars of unfunded healthcare liabilities to Michigan taxpayers. Michigan school districts pay extremely excessive rates for MEA-provided health insurance and state pensions. Why then, does the MEA find itself unable to meet its obligations to retired teachers? Where is the money [your money] going? The MEA had $174.5 million in retirement liabilities and just $66.3 million in dues in 2008-09, according to the Education Intelligence Agency. In addition to union dues collected from Michigan teachers, Michigan taxpayers are required to pay 20% of every teacher’s salary to the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System (MPSERS). Again, teachers are allowed to “buy” additional years to increase their retirement income.
HOW MUCH BETTER COULD WE POSSIBLY TREAT TEACHERS… IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE GETTING A SECOND-RATE EDUCATION UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF THESE SELF-SERVING WHINERS?
Yes, I know. There are some very excellent teachers in our public school system. They should be compensated as very excellent teachers. All of our teachers should be compensated based only on performance. Our schools are not producing capable students, in spite of all of the claims made by educators, administrators and state officials.
If you want an example of the sense of entitlement, greed and lack of professionalism among teachers who will do anything to protect their power over taxpayers and government, look no further than Madison, Wisconsin. Shutting down public schools to protest the governor's plans and causing 100s of thousands of dollars damage to the state capital building, Wisconsin teachers represent a sorry lack of professionalism while ignoring the interests of students and taxpayers. Are they representative of the kinds of folks we want "teaching" our children? I think not.
08 January 2015
23 May 2011
UNIONS....THE DESTROYERS
In the private sector of our economy, nearly everything union has been, or is being destroyed. A large part of our auto industry and its suppliers has collapsed, with the help of the UAW, in the face of foreign imports, leaving that industry near rock-bottom. Today, Boeing and the state of South Carolina are threatened by Boeing's machinists union and the National Labor Relations Board.
Nearly everything union is destroying all of us who are non-union....that means the greatest majority of us. In the name of taking all that they can for themselves, at the expense of mostly non-union citizens, jobs have left many of our states, excessive pensions are under-funded, legislators remain addicted to spending money they don't have and public employee unions continue to demand more of it.
Unions have become nothing less than just another big business. Worse yet, unions produce nothing! Unions are consumers who exist today for the primary purpose of demanding more money and benefits from all of us. Their achievements are paid not by the companies who are extorted, but by the end-users of the products manufactured by those companies. Considering present circumstances, is it really in our individual best interests to buy union-made goods? I suspect it may be….if you're a union member.
Remember, every time unions have achieved major increases in pay and benefits, non-union citizens found themselves with less purchasing power. By the time the rest of us caught up with prices, the unions were demanding more pay and better benefits, starting the cycle all over again. A perfect excuse for the rest of us to join unions, right? We could have thereby expedited the exodus of jobs from our states and bankrupted our economy twenty years earlier.
It most certainly is not in our best interests to allow public sector employee unions to dictate to the citizens who must pay for the excesses allowed to them by our pandering and weak-willed politicians. Is YOUR PENSION, guaranteed by a state constitution....by the citizens of your state? Unless you’re a teacher or public employee, I don't think so. It's way past time to amend our state constitutions to eliminate this ridiculous burden on taxpayers who will be stuck with the bill for the under-funded pensions of teachers and other public employees.
It's time teachers and public employees were using 401k and similar programs, like the rest of us who pay the freight....paying all the while our kids receive VERRRRY low quality educations in our public schools. There is no valid excuse for constitutionally guaranteed pensions for teachers, or anyone else for that matter. Just shows us all how corrupt our governments have become....suckling at the breast of the NEA.
It should be noted that a large percentage of school teachers retire when they are 52 or so because they can buy years of service. Many are retired longer than they actually worked. Many teachers 'got drunk' on the good times of the last 50 years and it’s time for them to 'sober up'. The effects of their overindulgence have devastated our once-great public education systems....K-12 and universities, alike.
Further, it's about time that we give all of the other unions a reason to sober up. There are way too many options available to us to have to settle for high prices resulting from continuing union demands for more and more at the expense of anyone on the other end of the transaction.
Nearly everything union is destroying all of us who are non-union....that means the greatest majority of us. In the name of taking all that they can for themselves, at the expense of mostly non-union citizens, jobs have left many of our states, excessive pensions are under-funded, legislators remain addicted to spending money they don't have and public employee unions continue to demand more of it.
Unions have become nothing less than just another big business. Worse yet, unions produce nothing! Unions are consumers who exist today for the primary purpose of demanding more money and benefits from all of us. Their achievements are paid not by the companies who are extorted, but by the end-users of the products manufactured by those companies. Considering present circumstances, is it really in our individual best interests to buy union-made goods? I suspect it may be….if you're a union member.
Remember, every time unions have achieved major increases in pay and benefits, non-union citizens found themselves with less purchasing power. By the time the rest of us caught up with prices, the unions were demanding more pay and better benefits, starting the cycle all over again. A perfect excuse for the rest of us to join unions, right? We could have thereby expedited the exodus of jobs from our states and bankrupted our economy twenty years earlier.
It most certainly is not in our best interests to allow public sector employee unions to dictate to the citizens who must pay for the excesses allowed to them by our pandering and weak-willed politicians. Is YOUR PENSION, guaranteed by a state constitution....by the citizens of your state? Unless you’re a teacher or public employee, I don't think so. It's way past time to amend our state constitutions to eliminate this ridiculous burden on taxpayers who will be stuck with the bill for the under-funded pensions of teachers and other public employees.
It's time teachers and public employees were using 401k and similar programs, like the rest of us who pay the freight....paying all the while our kids receive VERRRRY low quality educations in our public schools. There is no valid excuse for constitutionally guaranteed pensions for teachers, or anyone else for that matter. Just shows us all how corrupt our governments have become....suckling at the breast of the NEA.
It should be noted that a large percentage of school teachers retire when they are 52 or so because they can buy years of service. Many are retired longer than they actually worked. Many teachers 'got drunk' on the good times of the last 50 years and it’s time for them to 'sober up'. The effects of their overindulgence have devastated our once-great public education systems....K-12 and universities, alike.
Further, it's about time that we give all of the other unions a reason to sober up. There are way too many options available to us to have to settle for high prices resulting from continuing union demands for more and more at the expense of anyone on the other end of the transaction.
IS THAT ALL THEY'VE GOT?
It seems today that ignorance abounds. The sad thing is that most of the folks in this video probably couldn't find the state of Texas on a map of the United States.
They likely know little, if anything, about the Declaration or the Constitution. I would bet that many of them would tell you that they really don't give a damn about those documents. If they truly believe the lines they're singing, they're socialists and don't know it...or don't want to admit it.
Note their lines as....
They claim the world belongs to them and that others with differing views should "go away".
The Koch Brothers are bad. Apparently Soros is good?
True democracy? They don't have a clue! Nor do they understand the meaning of the term "constitutionally limited republic". Or, perhaps they like the idea of a true democracy that they might eventually control by numbers?
"Working class kicks corporate ass from sea to shining sea"? They are like children who choose to break their toys and then will cry and scream for someone to fix or replace them. It's about time corporations, small and large, go on strike to show these dolts what the world will look like once they do manage to "kick corporate ass from sea to shining sea".
Koch Brothers' culture war? These people must live under the rock they speak of, or perhaps another planet....or maybe just smoke too much dope? Seems to me that the democrat party has gone to great lengths to create class warfare and to escalate it at every opportunity. I would say that this video itself is a class warfare instrument, wouldn't you?
F*&$ing tea? Seems to me that word works itself into just about everything they want to say. Like i said...."Is that all they've got?" Unfortunately, there are so many of them that their ignorance and increasingly socialist views are destroying all that their ancestors, and ours, sacrificed for future generations. Folks like these spit on the graves of those pioneers and warriors who died and suffered to bring us the prosperity that these dolts seem to credit to themselves and our out-of-control government.
We are at war within our country....at war with ignorance and the entitlement mentality of so many parasites. People like these who, intentionally or out of ignorance, promote the power of the state to run our lives and to redistribute our property and to take away our liberties.....people like these are my enemy.
I will no longer grant them any audience, consideration or respect. We can no longer afford to suffer such fools. They deserve absolutely no consideration by those of us who respect our Constitution and cherish our liberties. We can no longer chalk this kind of crap up to simple difference of opinion. They are the truly evil ones and they should be spurned by all who value liberty and property.
At issue is the survival, or not, of our way of life....our freedom to pursue our individual interests and to be victimized by no tyrannical government or special-interest.
Debut of a new Koch commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbykzqJ6ens&feature=youtu.be
They likely know little, if anything, about the Declaration or the Constitution. I would bet that many of them would tell you that they really don't give a damn about those documents. If they truly believe the lines they're singing, they're socialists and don't know it...or don't want to admit it.
Note their lines as....
They claim the world belongs to them and that others with differing views should "go away".
The Koch Brothers are bad. Apparently Soros is good?
True democracy? They don't have a clue! Nor do they understand the meaning of the term "constitutionally limited republic". Or, perhaps they like the idea of a true democracy that they might eventually control by numbers?
"Working class kicks corporate ass from sea to shining sea"? They are like children who choose to break their toys and then will cry and scream for someone to fix or replace them. It's about time corporations, small and large, go on strike to show these dolts what the world will look like once they do manage to "kick corporate ass from sea to shining sea".
Koch Brothers' culture war? These people must live under the rock they speak of, or perhaps another planet....or maybe just smoke too much dope? Seems to me that the democrat party has gone to great lengths to create class warfare and to escalate it at every opportunity. I would say that this video itself is a class warfare instrument, wouldn't you?
F*&$ing tea? Seems to me that word works itself into just about everything they want to say. Like i said...."Is that all they've got?" Unfortunately, there are so many of them that their ignorance and increasingly socialist views are destroying all that their ancestors, and ours, sacrificed for future generations. Folks like these spit on the graves of those pioneers and warriors who died and suffered to bring us the prosperity that these dolts seem to credit to themselves and our out-of-control government.
We are at war within our country....at war with ignorance and the entitlement mentality of so many parasites. People like these who, intentionally or out of ignorance, promote the power of the state to run our lives and to redistribute our property and to take away our liberties.....people like these are my enemy.
I will no longer grant them any audience, consideration or respect. We can no longer afford to suffer such fools. They deserve absolutely no consideration by those of us who respect our Constitution and cherish our liberties. We can no longer chalk this kind of crap up to simple difference of opinion. They are the truly evil ones and they should be spurned by all who value liberty and property.
At issue is the survival, or not, of our way of life....our freedom to pursue our individual interests and to be victimized by no tyrannical government or special-interest.
Debut of a new Koch commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbykzqJ6ens&feature=youtu.be
13 April 2011
America’s 11th Hour…and the GOP is Not Up to the Task
We are faced, today, with a winner-take-all battle for the survival of our United States of America as we have known it. Already without the boundaries set forth in the Declaration and the Constitution, the future of our country now hangs by the thinnest financial thread. Ben Franklin and Alexis de Tocqueville warned about the prospect of a failure that we have managed to avoid for 230 years. Now, the citizens of America appear to be mere spectators awaiting their country and their futures to die by suicide.
Corruption in Washington, DC has become an accepted and flagrant practice. Those who would destroy the concepts of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness continue to undermine our Constitution and our way of life. Our local, state and federal governments, responsible to We the People, have successfully betrayed a willing population. Those destroyers have modeled a society made up, more and more, of victims, parasites, political opportunists and saboteurs of our constitutionally limited republic. Whether they have done it by design or through ignorance and error makes no difference to the facts at hand. Those charged with the defense of our Constitution and the rights of We the People have betrayed us none-the-less.
It’s time for a bare-knuckles, knock-down, drag-out battle with Socialist-Democrats in every quarter of our country. The Socialist-Democrats and their like-minded union supporters are rallying their members and parasites to the cause. Harry Reid and Barrack Obama have succeeded in cowing the cringling Speaker of the House and his band of RINOs to losing the first round of what should, and must, be the most important battle of the years since the end of World War II.
The most incompetent president in the history of our nation, supported by the likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Charles Schumer and so many others, drew his proverbial line in the sand on April 13th as he warned Speaker Boehner and all Republicans not to pursue the budget recommendations of Representative Paul Ryan and his committee. It would appear, after the recent “compromise” between Speaker Boehner and Harry Reid and the President, that Speaker Boehner and too many of his Republican flock simply do not have the stomach for the fight required today. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has, thus far, “chosen” to run from the threats, barbs, lies and shouts of the Socialist-Democrats, the liberal media and big-business unions.
When can we expect the GOP to commit to the job they were elected to do? When can we expect to see the GOP get their hands just a little bit dirty? Are we left to expect that Republicans will remain the gutless chumps we have come to expect during the past 20 years? Perhaps it’s time for another political party…a party that exhibits an aptitude for hard politic as the Socialist-Democrats who have led us down the path to socialism and self-destruction over the last 60 years.
Corruption in Washington, DC has become an accepted and flagrant practice. Those who would destroy the concepts of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness continue to undermine our Constitution and our way of life. Our local, state and federal governments, responsible to We the People, have successfully betrayed a willing population. Those destroyers have modeled a society made up, more and more, of victims, parasites, political opportunists and saboteurs of our constitutionally limited republic. Whether they have done it by design or through ignorance and error makes no difference to the facts at hand. Those charged with the defense of our Constitution and the rights of We the People have betrayed us none-the-less.
It’s time for a bare-knuckles, knock-down, drag-out battle with Socialist-Democrats in every quarter of our country. The Socialist-Democrats and their like-minded union supporters are rallying their members and parasites to the cause. Harry Reid and Barrack Obama have succeeded in cowing the cringling Speaker of the House and his band of RINOs to losing the first round of what should, and must, be the most important battle of the years since the end of World War II.
The most incompetent president in the history of our nation, supported by the likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Charles Schumer and so many others, drew his proverbial line in the sand on April 13th as he warned Speaker Boehner and all Republicans not to pursue the budget recommendations of Representative Paul Ryan and his committee. It would appear, after the recent “compromise” between Speaker Boehner and Harry Reid and the President, that Speaker Boehner and too many of his Republican flock simply do not have the stomach for the fight required today. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has, thus far, “chosen” to run from the threats, barbs, lies and shouts of the Socialist-Democrats, the liberal media and big-business unions.
When can we expect the GOP to commit to the job they were elected to do? When can we expect to see the GOP get their hands just a little bit dirty? Are we left to expect that Republicans will remain the gutless chumps we have come to expect during the past 20 years? Perhaps it’s time for another political party…a party that exhibits an aptitude for hard politic as the Socialist-Democrats who have led us down the path to socialism and self-destruction over the last 60 years.
05 November 2010
FED DOUBLES DOWN IN A CRAP SHOOT….WITH YOUR FUTURE
The Fed announced $600 Billion of “quantitative easing”…double-speak for flooding the economy with one helluva lot of fake money. Coupled with failed “stimulus” packages that already generated $2 Trillion of bogus bucks, the dollar is fast becoming an international joke. We are going to have to come up with another term to describe the effects of this travesty. We were already looking at hyper-inflation sometime next year as a result of the "stimulus" packages. This pathetic attempt to stave off the inevitable will only make the penalties for past excesses far more harsh. Some indicated today that the Fed has made a few noises about even more "quantitative easing" of between $2 Trillion and $5 Trillion. Indications are that they intend to keep pouring it on until it works.
You will certainly see the stock market go higher in an attempt to make up the lost values caused by this extreme dilution of our currency. Gold will continue much higher....it closed near $1390 per ounce today - up $45 at one point. It is most certainly headed for $2000 an ounce and likely higher than that once inflationary pressures become apparent.
Many suppliers are already slipping it to us by casually introducing smaller packaging at same prices. There is no way we're going to see wages go up any time soon...except for unions that will strike for higher wages in an attempt to keep up with the falling purchasing power of the dollar. The rest of the workforce will, as always, lag way behind the extortionists.
This chart is the scariest thing I have seen in over 30 years of watching the markets!
To the extreme right is a 'giant' Head & Shoulder formation that began 10 years ago. Although charts don't always accurately predict future market movements, the Head & Shoulder formation is cause for serious concern by market watchers. If the right shoulder that is currently forming should top out between current value and around 12,000 +/- and make a major correction toward the 8,000 mark, it could signal as much as a 6,300 point drop, from the base of the head formation, in the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. That would take us from the current 11,430 range to as low as 1,300…last seen in 1985.
World economic conditions, U.S. debt, devaluation of the dollar, hyper-inflation and falling confidence [domestically & internationally], continued belt-tightening by consumers, combined with other yet-unknown events such as increased terrorism, higher unemployment, government over-regulation and so on, make the prospects indicated by this chart even more frightening.
Although this formation has taken over 10 years to develop, when considering the above possibilities, I expect the shoulder could peak sometime between now and June 2011. If it does, and continues to slide downward for the rest of the year or perhaps less.....we could experience a months-long, or even a rapid drop in market values. The formation may not complete itself at all.
There are no sure things in the market, except that it will go up and it will go down. I bring up this ugly possibility only to suggest that you keep a close watch on it during 2011. The Congress must do the right things to reduce government's reckless spending and regulation if we are to avoid an economic tragedy. The piper will be paid some day...there is no avoiding that reality. It's just a matter of how painful it is going to be. The longer we wait to address it, the more devastating will be the consequences.
The Fed and the Treasury Department know full well that they have dug a hole too deep to climb out of without violence in our streets. They are simply trying to stall the inevitable. They don't have a clue about what to do, but they want us to believe that THEY are the only ones that can fix it. WRONG!
THEY SCREWED IT UP....THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING THEN AND THEY MOST SURELY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE DOING NOW….except perhaps attempting to insulate themselves and their ‘friends’ from the inevitable fallout.
They're already making apologies, referring to what they call 'uncharted waters'….just another way of saying that THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY'RE DOING!
Once again, refer to government expertise and the Post Office, Amtrak, Department of Energy, Social Security, Medicare, Welfare of all descriptions, the Gulf oil spill, so-called Obamacare, Cap & Trade and Algore's global warming lies, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. Need I go on?
No need to consider jumping off the roof yet. Just stay vigilant. Don't take your eyes off the ball for a minute. Hold the feet of those clowns in Disneyland on the Potomac, to the fire. I am hoping for the best, but the best will only come to us if we recognize the dangers we face and take the steps necessary to protect ourselves. We made a good start on Tuesday. We can’t afford to let up one bit.
One more thing….If Republicans choose to fight the Tea Party folks, where do you think we’ll be headed?
15 September 2010
POLITICIANS HAVE 'EARNED' OUR DISTRUST
I find it revealing that after the people of Florida, Alaska and Delaware decided against a number of establishment Republicans, they and a few other old-time GOP politicians have taken to sharp criticism of the recent winners of those respective primary elections. They have actually decided not to support the winners of their party primaries. Sore losers?
While those ‘losers’ have been unwilling to fight the kinds of fights Democrats have levied against them in times past, they pulled out all of the dirty, low-down and sometimes vulgar tactics used so often by shameless leftists against Republican adversaries in their desperate attempts to hold onto their respective offices. Subsequent to their losses, they have chosen the low road of open bitterness and divisive rhetoric. Imagine that!
Not only have the likes of Charlie Crist, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Castle and Carl Rove failed to take a respectable and professional approach to those losses, they have ‘chosen’ to expose their bitter and emotional selves to the people. That exposure is quite telling…proving to We the People just how important those politicians believe themselves to be. The will of the people be damned!
Unity within the parties exists only so long as politicians play the game according to the rules…rules determined by our elite class of self-dealing politicians. It’s all about the power and the money and the special interests…about letting us believe they are looking out for us, while they plunder our wealth and chip away at our liberties. The Constitution be damned!
The above mentioned Republicans, along with others who have become vocal about their contempt for the people in the Tea Party movement…Trent Lott, a number of staff of Senator Jim DeMint, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and other notables…are now beginning to show their true colors. Although Republicans and Democrats believe in differing means to their ends, it is becoming increasingly clear that the actual ends are the consolidation of power unto themselves…at the expense of the wealth and liberty of people.
I have said it before. The folks in Washington, and at the state level, no longer wish to represent the people. Their interests and aspirations have taken them away from their oaths of office, away from the Constitutional limits to their authority and power. In office too long, they do not see themselves filling the role of ‘public servant’. They are in the game for the power, money and control.
As Thomas Jefferson once said; “Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct” and “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
Today’s politicians, from all parties, are proving Mr. Jefferson to have been a prophet.
A far too substantial number of politicians and government employees demonstrate to us by their actions, and by their inaction, that their values are contrary to those expressed in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. They have believed, up to now, that we are too lazy, too ignorant and even too stupid to see what they are doing to us.
Now, the likes of Crist, Murkowski, Castle and Rowe are willing to risk the loss of some congressional seats in their effort to show the Tea Party…the people of the United States…who’s in charge. What message does this kind of behavior send to us? I suggest that the message is simply that the political machine is more important to politicians than the people and the welfare of the United States of America…that certain sacrifices must be made. Those sacrifices are expected to be made by us. Sacrifices are rarely, if ever, made by them.
Regardless of party, we have listened for far too long to what politicians have promised and paid far too little attention to what they have actually delivered. Rhetoric is meaningless pap. Actions and failure to act, on behalf of the people and the Constitution, are what we pay for. Both parties have, instead, chosen to take more of our wealth and to dominate American citizens through ever-growing and increasingly confusing and burdensome bureaucratic control.
Civil discourse is required to promote and discuss differing points of view. The discourse of politic in our country has degenerated into nothing more than childish put-downs, oneupsmanship, self-serving sound bites and incitement to class warfare. Such degeneration is not the result of intellectual prowess and persuasion. It is the result of a total disrespect for the American people, their intellectual abilities and at the same time a testament to the intellectual ineptitude of an undereducated [by choice] class of Americans.
We will never be able to hold our politicians to a ‘higher standard’. We will only be able to vote them in or out of office. To be effective, we must know who and what they really are. We must begin our view of our elected officials with distrust. Once left to their own devices, they will earn it.
While those ‘losers’ have been unwilling to fight the kinds of fights Democrats have levied against them in times past, they pulled out all of the dirty, low-down and sometimes vulgar tactics used so often by shameless leftists against Republican adversaries in their desperate attempts to hold onto their respective offices. Subsequent to their losses, they have chosen the low road of open bitterness and divisive rhetoric. Imagine that!
Not only have the likes of Charlie Crist, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Castle and Carl Rove failed to take a respectable and professional approach to those losses, they have ‘chosen’ to expose their bitter and emotional selves to the people. That exposure is quite telling…proving to We the People just how important those politicians believe themselves to be. The will of the people be damned!
Unity within the parties exists only so long as politicians play the game according to the rules…rules determined by our elite class of self-dealing politicians. It’s all about the power and the money and the special interests…about letting us believe they are looking out for us, while they plunder our wealth and chip away at our liberties. The Constitution be damned!
The above mentioned Republicans, along with others who have become vocal about their contempt for the people in the Tea Party movement…Trent Lott, a number of staff of Senator Jim DeMint, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and other notables…are now beginning to show their true colors. Although Republicans and Democrats believe in differing means to their ends, it is becoming increasingly clear that the actual ends are the consolidation of power unto themselves…at the expense of the wealth and liberty of people.
I have said it before. The folks in Washington, and at the state level, no longer wish to represent the people. Their interests and aspirations have taken them away from their oaths of office, away from the Constitutional limits to their authority and power. In office too long, they do not see themselves filling the role of ‘public servant’. They are in the game for the power, money and control.
As Thomas Jefferson once said; “Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct” and “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
Today’s politicians, from all parties, are proving Mr. Jefferson to have been a prophet.
A far too substantial number of politicians and government employees demonstrate to us by their actions, and by their inaction, that their values are contrary to those expressed in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. They have believed, up to now, that we are too lazy, too ignorant and even too stupid to see what they are doing to us.
Now, the likes of Crist, Murkowski, Castle and Rowe are willing to risk the loss of some congressional seats in their effort to show the Tea Party…the people of the United States…who’s in charge. What message does this kind of behavior send to us? I suggest that the message is simply that the political machine is more important to politicians than the people and the welfare of the United States of America…that certain sacrifices must be made. Those sacrifices are expected to be made by us. Sacrifices are rarely, if ever, made by them.
Regardless of party, we have listened for far too long to what politicians have promised and paid far too little attention to what they have actually delivered. Rhetoric is meaningless pap. Actions and failure to act, on behalf of the people and the Constitution, are what we pay for. Both parties have, instead, chosen to take more of our wealth and to dominate American citizens through ever-growing and increasingly confusing and burdensome bureaucratic control.
Civil discourse is required to promote and discuss differing points of view. The discourse of politic in our country has degenerated into nothing more than childish put-downs, oneupsmanship, self-serving sound bites and incitement to class warfare. Such degeneration is not the result of intellectual prowess and persuasion. It is the result of a total disrespect for the American people, their intellectual abilities and at the same time a testament to the intellectual ineptitude of an undereducated [by choice] class of Americans.
We will never be able to hold our politicians to a ‘higher standard’. We will only be able to vote them in or out of office. To be effective, we must know who and what they really are. We must begin our view of our elected officials with distrust. Once left to their own devices, they will earn it.
01 August 2010
No Such Thing as a Socialist Intellectual
The harmless looking and self-proclaimed 'expert', Erica Payne, would like you to see her as today's image of intellectual superiority.
Her smile is the signature of her belief that she has become one of the 'elite'...superior to those of us who don't know enough to accept her socialist view of the way things ought to be. Her intellectual response to those who may choose to question her views, and those of folks like Karl Marx, Mao Tse Tung, Vladimir Lenin, George Soros and Barrack Obama, is "F*ck You".
This is what she and today's socialist democrats have to offer We the People and the future of the United States of America.
Her views and vulgar response to legitimate argument are typical of Harry Reid's hand signals....and of organizations like Moveon.org, the Huffington Post, numerous empty-headed socialist blogs, Nancy Pelosi, and most of Obama's staff. The difference is that she has chosen to go very public with her harsh and offensive thoughts about you and me ....with mugs and t-shirts sporting the true depth of her intellect.
See her fine products for yourself at:
http://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2010/08/13/erica-paynes-fck-tea-campaign-reveals-more-about-her-character-than-the-tea-partys/
Just what our kids need to see and wear on our streets today, Payne's sentiments express exactly what she and her ilk think of the rest of us and the subject of rational discourse. Interesting how acceptable this kind of raw disrespect has become in recent years. Could our failing public education system have anything to do with it?
Just as occurs in states like Iran.... Payne, Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Soros, Huffington and others seek to rally their base of illiterate and so-called scholars alike, the 'elitist' wannabes and the growing number of social and fiscal parasites whose primary objective is to enslave the producers to their dictatorial designs on the United States of America. Their actions and rhetoric speak their views and intentions most clearly.
Those who accept such a plan for America can be described as socialists, statists, parasites, lazy, uneducated, evil and eventually...murderers. The system they desire cannot be maintained without such brutality. History attests to that.
Deny it. Deny reality. You'll pay a heavy price....unless you have become one of the 'elite' class who will make the rules and punish the heretics.
Her smile is the signature of her belief that she has become one of the 'elite'...superior to those of us who don't know enough to accept her socialist view of the way things ought to be. Her intellectual response to those who may choose to question her views, and those of folks like Karl Marx, Mao Tse Tung, Vladimir Lenin, George Soros and Barrack Obama, is "F*ck You".
This is what she and today's socialist democrats have to offer We the People and the future of the United States of America.
Her views and vulgar response to legitimate argument are typical of Harry Reid's hand signals....and of organizations like Moveon.org, the Huffington Post, numerous empty-headed socialist blogs, Nancy Pelosi, and most of Obama's staff. The difference is that she has chosen to go very public with her harsh and offensive thoughts about you and me ....with mugs and t-shirts sporting the true depth of her intellect.
See her fine products for yourself at:
http://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2010/08/13/erica-paynes-fck-tea-campaign-reveals-more-about-her-character-than-the-tea-partys/
Just what our kids need to see and wear on our streets today, Payne's sentiments express exactly what she and her ilk think of the rest of us and the subject of rational discourse. Interesting how acceptable this kind of raw disrespect has become in recent years. Could our failing public education system have anything to do with it?
Just as occurs in states like Iran.... Payne, Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Soros, Huffington and others seek to rally their base of illiterate and so-called scholars alike, the 'elitist' wannabes and the growing number of social and fiscal parasites whose primary objective is to enslave the producers to their dictatorial designs on the United States of America. Their actions and rhetoric speak their views and intentions most clearly.
Those who accept such a plan for America can be described as socialists, statists, parasites, lazy, uneducated, evil and eventually...murderers. The system they desire cannot be maintained without such brutality. History attests to that.
Deny it. Deny reality. You'll pay a heavy price....unless you have become one of the 'elite' class who will make the rules and punish the heretics.
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