Flying Pigressives And the Red River of Debtnial

The Two Rising Red Storms

Image on the left look familiar?  Maybe not it is missing it's red lipstick.

Pigressives are making every effort to suck every dollar from Taxpayer wallets.  They feed at the trough of taxpaying Americans and their appetites appear insatiable.

Despite all indications of certain doom that uncontrolled spending and borrowing an from our children's future to fund a bloated too big government Pigressives still want more.

Just like the Pigtotalitarians in George Orwell's Animal Farm the Pigressive American Party (formerly recognized by a Jackass logo) still wants you to buy what they are selling so they can continue to eat your freedoms one bite at a time as they roll in the muddy morass of moral relativism.  Nothing is moral to Pigressives unless their feelings make it so .

So when you inadvertently happen to see Debbie Wasserman Schulz, David Axelrod, Harry Reid or Chuck Schumer, Keynesian Economic wizard Paul Krugman, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Ghoulsbee or the myriad of paid Pigressive Pundits discussing poll numbers, voting Americans preferences, future outcomes of races, or this nations fiscal house look closely really closely and you will detect little flying animals with wings, and lipstick.  The list below is the coming flooding of the River of Debtnial that Pigressives refuse to accept.  Everything is perfect on The Manor Farm .

Pigressives never want to discuss these real and true facts.  I have given the link, and for impact I copied the document.

If the following list from the RNC indebtedness is not enough to send you to the polls and to vote every one of those Pigressive Democrats burning though your children's economic well-being I am not sure what will.

From The RNC:  THE BIG FAIL

Obama By The Numbers

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$45.4 Trillion:	Total Federal Spending Proposed By Obama's FY2013 Budget Through 2022. (CBO, 3/16/12)
$25.9 Trillion:	Projected Federal Debt In 2022 Due To Obama's Binge Spending. (OMB, 2/13/12)
$15.7 Trillion:	Current National Debt ($ 15,724,907,364,995.04 ). (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 6/2/12)
$10.3 Trillion:	Amount Obama's FY2012 Budget Would Add To The Debt Through FY2022. (OMB, 2/13/12)
$6.4 Trillion:	Cumulative Deficits Over FY2013-2022. (CBO, 3/16/12)
$5.10 Trillion:	Added To The National Debt Since Obama Took Office. (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 6/2/12)
$4.8 Trillion:	Total Interest Payments On The National Debt Due To Obama's Proposed Budget, FY2013-2022. (CBO, 3/16/12)
$2.6 Trillion:	True Cost Of ObamaCare Once Fully Implemented.(Office Of The Speaker Of The U.S. House Of Representatives, Report, 1/6/11)
$1.9 Trillion:	Higher Taxes In Obama's Budget. (OMB, 2/13/12)
$1.75 Trillion:	Annual Cost Of Federal Regulations. (Small Business Administration, September 2010)
$1.416 Trillion:	Federal Budget Deficit For FY2009 - Highest In U.S. History. (CBO, 10/7/10)
$1.298 Trillion:	Federal Budget Deficit For FY2011 - Second Highest In U.S. History. (CBO, 10/7/11)
$1.294 Trillion:	Federal Budget Deficit For FY2010 - Third Highest In U.S. History. (CBO, 10/7/10)
$1.253 Trillion:	Projected Federal Budget Deficit For FY2012. (CBO, 3/16/12)
$1.18 Trillion:	Total Cost Of Obama's First Stimulus With Interest.(CBO, 1/31/12, CBO, 1/27/09)
$1.17 Trillion:	American Debt Held By China. (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 6/4/12)
$831 Billion:	Price Tag Of Obama's First Failed Stimulus. (CBO, 1/31/12)
$575 Billion:	Amount Of Medicare Cuts In ObamaCare. (CMS Chief Actuary Richard S. Foster, Memo, 4/22/10)
$491.7 Billion:	Amount Of Taxes In ObamaCare. (Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 3/18/10; Joint Committee On Taxation, 3/2/10)
$447 Billion:	Price Tag Of Obama's Second Stimulus. (The White House, 9/8/11)
$347.1 Billion:	Debt Service Costs For Borrowing To Pay For Obama's First Stimulus. (CBO, 1/27/09)
$231 Billion:	Burden Of New Regulations Imposed In 2011.(American Action Network, 1/2/12)
$175 Billion:	Increased Spending In Obama's Second Stimulus.(CBO, 10/5/11)
$150 Billion:	Taxpayer Funds For Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac.(Reuters, 3/25/12)
$116 Billion:	Amount Of Regulatory Burden For 2012, At The Current Pace. (American Action Forum, 5/29/12)
109.6 Million:	Amount Of Paperwork Burden Hours Imposed By Federal Government Regulations Since January 1, 2012. (American Action Forum, 5/29/12)
$24 Billion:	Stimulus Funds Sent To Tax Cheats. (Government Accountability Office, April 2011)
$21.7 Billion:	Amount Government Expects To Lose On Bailouts Of Auto Industry. ( Treasury Department , 5/10/12)
$1.3 Billion:	Amount Taxpayers Will Not Recover From Bailout Of Chrysler. (FactCheck.org, 6/6/11)
$535 Million:	Stimulus Loan To The Failed Solar Company Solyndra. (The Oakland Tribune, 11/4/10)
133 Million:	Annual Paperwork Burden Hours Imposed By Regulators In 2011. (American Action Network, 1/2/12)
49.1 Million:	Number Of Americans Living In Poverty (Supplemental Poverty Measure). (US Census Bureau, 11/7/11)
46.4 Million:	Record Number Of Americans Receiving Food Stamps. (Department Of Agriculture, Accessed 6/4/12)
46.2 Million:	Record Number Of Americans Living In Poverty (Official Measure). (U.S. Census Bureau, 9/13/11)
$18 Million:	Cost Of The Stimulus Website Recovery.org. (ABC News' "The Note," 7/8/09)
12.7 Million:	Unemployed Americans. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 6/4/12)
8.1 Million:	Americans Working Part-Time For Economic Reasons. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 6/4/12)
6.3 Million:	Number Of Americans That Fell Into Poverty Since Obama Took Office. (U.S. Census Bureau, 9/13/11)
5.6 Million:	As Of March 2012, Number Of Mortgages Either 30 Days Delinquent Or In Foreclosure. (Lender Processing Services, 5/22/12)
5.4 Million:	Americans Unemployed 27 Weeks Or Longer. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 6/4/12)
4 Million:	Workers Granted Waivers So That ObamaCare Would Not Outlaw Their Health Care Plan. (HHS.gov, Accessed 4/10/12)
2.3 Million:	Foreclosure Starts During 2011. ( Lender Processing Services , 1/20/12)
1.59 Million:	Personal Bankruptcies In 2010. ( United States Courts , 2/15/11)
$1.5 Million:	Stimulus Funds Sent To Indonesia To Discourage Air Pollution In Jakarta. (The Daily Caller, 7/7/11)
1.35 Million:	Personal Bankruptcies In 2011. (Los Angeles Times ,1/5/12)
1,042,000:	Construction Jobs Lost Since Obama Took Office.(Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 6/4/12)
830,000:	Americans That Have Given Up Looking For Work.(Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 6/4/12)
599,000:	Manufacturing Jobs Lost Since Obama Took Office.(Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 6/4/12)
552,000:	Jobs Lost Since Obama Took Office. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 6/4/12)
$278,000:	Cost Per A Stimulus Job. ( The Weekly Standard , 7/6/11)
97,000:	New Foreclosures Filed In May. ( Politifact , 5/28/12)
89,000:	The Number Of Stimulus Checks Sent To Dead Or Incarcerated People. ( The Wall Street Journal , 10/7/10)
81,405:	Record Number Of Pages Added To The Federal Register In 2010. ( Competitive Enterprise Institute , 2011)
76,300:	Number Of Heavy And Civil Engineering Construction Jobs Lost Since The Stimulus Was Passed. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 6/4/12)
$50,932:	Your Share Of The National Debt. (U.S. Treasury Department Accessed 6/4/12; U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 6/4/12)
45,696:	Pages Of New Rules Added To The Federal Register During Obama's First Two Years In Office. (Competitive Enterprise Institute , 2011)
23,000:	The Number Of Jobs Obama Knew His Drilling Moratorium Would Kill. ( The Wall Street Journal ,8/21/10)
$16,512:	Increase In Your Share Of The National Debt Since Obama Took Office. (U.S. Treasury DepartmentAccessed 6/4/12; U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 6/4/12)
$15,500:	Annual Cost Per Household From Federal Regulations. (Small Business Administration, September 2010)
$11,300:	Negative Effect Of Debt On Gross National Product Per Person In 2035. (CBO, 6/22/11)
$10,585:	Cost Per Employee That Federal Regulations Place On Small Businesses. (Small Business Administration, September 2010)
3,700:	Number Of Tax Delinquents Who Received Stimulus Funds. (Government Accountability Office, April 2011)
2060:	Year Federal Spending Will Reach 50 Percent Of GDP.(CBO, 6/22/11)
2037:	Year That Federal Debt Will Reach 200 Percent Of GDP. (CBO, 6/22/11)
2036:	Year That The Social Security Trust Fund Will Be Exhausted. (The Trustees Of Social Security & Medicare, 5/10/11)
2022:	Year That The CBO Predicts Medicare's Trust Fund Will Be Exhausted. (CBO, 4/10/12)
1,722:	Number Of Waivers Granted To Unions And Businesses So That ObamaCare Would Not Outlaw Their Health Care Plans. (HHS.gov, Accessed 6/4/12)
1,603:	Number Of Regulations That Would Impact Small Businesses Proposed By Obama Administration In First Two Years In Office. ( Competitive Enterprise Institute , 2011)
1,137:	Days Since Harry Reid's Senate Has Passed A Budget Resolution. (S. Con. Res. 13, Roll Call 173 ; 4/29/09)
408:	Number Of Regulations Proposed By Obama During First Two Years That Have An Economic Impact Of Over $100 Million. ( Competitive Enterprise Institute , 2011)
360:	Individuals In The Obama Administration Have Been Through The Revolving Door. (Center For Responsive Politics,Opensecrets.org, Accessed 6/4/12)
106.2%:	Federal Debt As A Share Of GDP At The End Of 2013.(CBO, 2/13/12)
92:	Number Of Bank Failures In 2011. (FDIC, Accessed 6/4/12)
83%:	Percent Of Americans Who Describe The Economy Negatively. (ABC News/Washington Post Poll, 1,004A, MoE 3.5%, 5/17-20/12)
80%:	Small Businesses That Could Be Forced To Change Health Care Plans As A Result Of ObamaCare. (NFIB, 7/11)
80%:	Percent Of Americans Who Say Obama Has Either Made The Deficit "Worse" Or "Not Made much Difference." ( NBC News/Wall Street Journal , 1000A, MoE 3.1%, 5/16-20/12)
79%:	Stimulus Funds For Wind, Solar And Geothermal Energy Projects That Went To Foreign Firms. (Investigating Reporting Workshop/ABC's World News Tonight/Watchdog Institute , 2/8/10)
72.5%:	Federal Debt Held By The Public As Share Of GDP By End Of The Year. (CBO, 1/31/12)
66%:	Percent Of Americans Say That Barack Obama Has Either Made The Economy "Worse" Or "Not Made Much Difference." ( NBC News/Wall Street Journal , 1000A, MoE 3.1%, 5/16-20/12)
52%:	Percent Of Americans Who Disapprove Of Obama's Handling Of The Economy. ( NBC News/Wall Street Journal , 1000A, MoE 3.1%, 5/16-20/12)
49.1%:	"Percent Of The Population That Lives In A Household Where At Least One Member Received Some Type Of Government Benefit In The First Quarter Of 2011." ( The Wall Street Journal , 5/26/12)
40:	Record Number Of Straight Months With Unemployment Rate Above 8 Percent. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 6/4/12)
39.7:	Number Of Weeks That It Takes To Find A Job.(Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 6/4/12)
31.0%:	Unemployed Workers Out Of Work For Over A Year.(Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 6/4/12)
18%:	Amount GNP Would Be Lowered Due To Debt's Effect On Economic Growth By 2035. (CBO, 6/22/11)
17%:	Cut To Medicare Benefits When Trust Fund Is Exhausted. (House Ways & Means Committee Hearing, 6/22/11)
15.1%:	Americans Living In Poverty. (U.S. Census Bureau, 9/13/11)
8.2%:	Unemployment Rate. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 6/4/12)
4.11%:	Percent Of Mortgage Loans In Foreclosure During December 2011. (Lender Processing Services, 1/27/12)
4:	Record +$1 Trillion Deficits On Obama's Watch. (OMB, 2/13/12)
3.8%:	Decline In Home Prices In The Past Year. (CNN Money, 3/27/12)
2.5%:	Decline In Median Home Sale Price In The Last Year.(National Association Of Realtors, 1/20/12)
2.3%:	Decline In Median Household Income In 2010. (U.S. Census Bureau, 9/13/11)
0:	Other People Obama Will Have Left To Blame For The Failures Of His Economic Policies In 2012. (The American People, 11/6/12)

Moral Relativism And Mesmerizing The Masses

100 Years Of Democrats Demagoging Altruism  

   ~ How Democrats Control The Narrative

“A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles—whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled –is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these “anti-conditions,” Your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years” ~ Ryszard Kapuscinski

Altruism is a deeply held ethical ideal held by many who consider moral acts are made with the intent to promote the happiness of others.  It was identified and named by a French philosopher, Auguste Comte who named the activity altruism.  It is applied not only to people (psychological altruism), but also to animals and even plants. In modern day linguistics this idealistic passion of seeking and identifying doing good deeds is often abused manipulatively to shape political activisim, based on the often emotionally rewarding feelings humans experience as a result of doing good deeds.

Democrats have become masters of manipulating emotions of voters.  Talk to a Democrat and most of their political ideology will begin with I feel.  Not I think.  Not I believe.  Not based on the Constitution, or law but on emotion.  Based on 'caring for the downtrodden' and the have nots, who may or may not be in a lesser or worse financial, workplace, or educational situation.  Every despot, tyrant, and totalitarian has mastered this manipulation which feeds and drives class warfare, relying on jealousy, malcontentment and is used as a means to inspire and activate social economic or environmental change.

Think about it, no one wants nuclear war, or to see polar bears die, and if you are a have not you have been led to believe the rich deserve to be taxed because they have taken advantage of those who are poor.  Goldwater's Presidential campaign was eviscerated by this ad that Lyndon Johnson ran in 1964:

Demagogue: A leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace.

Altruism: Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness. Instinctive cooperative behavior that is detrimental to the individual but contributes to the survival of the species.

Manipulate Synonyms: exploit, play (upon)

From The Use of Language in Political Rhetoric: Linguistic Manipulation:

"It is generally accepted that the strategy one group of people takes to make the other group of people do what it intends to be done is known as a linguistic strategy.  It involves manipulative application of the language.  Therefore, "linguistic manupilation conscious use of a language in a devious way to control others.  Pragmatically speaking, linguistic manipulation is based on use of indirect speech acts, which are focused on prelocutionary effects of what is said...  Linguistic manipulation can be considered also as an influencial instrument of political rhetoric because political discourse is primarily focused on persuading people to take specified political actions or  make crucial political decisions.

To convince the potential electorate in present time societies, politics basically dominates the mass media, which leads to creating new forms of linguistic manipulation, e.g. modified forms of press conferences and press statements, updated texts in slogans, application of catch phrases, the connotative meanins of words, a combination of language and visual imagery.  To put it differently, lanaguage plays a significant role because it is an instrument by means of which the manipulative intent of politicians become apparent."

I have taken excerpts from Woodrow Wilson, father of the Progressive Movement of the Left, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan, and underlined passages that have been used by Democrats again and again.  I also underlined the Conservative thoughts of Reagan and Coolidge.  Democrats are in blue and Republicans in red.  You will note that both Coolidge and Reagan were focused on the rights of the individual as opposed to the Progressive focus of the left to the collective and masses.

Excerpts From Woodrow Wilson's First Inagural Address:

With the great Government went many deep secret things which we too long delayed to look into and scrutinize with candid, fearless eyes. The great Government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people.

At last a vision has been vouchsafed us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good, the debased and decadent with the sound and vital. With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it. There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been “Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,” while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves. We had not forgotten our morals. We remembered well enough that we had set up a policy which was meant to serve the humblest as well as the most powerful, with an eye single to the standards of justice and fair play, and remembered it with pride. But we were very heedless and in a hurry to be great.

We have come now to the sober second thought. The scales of heedlessness have fallen from our eyes. We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts. Our work is a work of restoration. ..

...Nor have we studied and perfected the means by which government may be put at the service of humanity, in safeguarding the health of the Nation, the health of its men and its women and its children, as well as their rights in the struggle for existence. This is no sentimental duty. The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. These are matters of justice. There can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they can not alter, control, or singly cope with. Society must see to it that it does not itself crush or weaken or damage its own constituent parts. The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws, and laws determining conditions of labor which individuals are powerless to determine for themselves are intimate parts of the very business of justice and legal efficiency. ...

These are some of the things we ought to do, and not leave the others undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-be-neglected, fundamental safeguarding of property and of individual right. This is the high enterprise of the new day: To lift everything that concerns our life as a Nation to the light that shines from the hearthfire of every man’s conscience and vision of the right. It is inconceivable that we should do this as partisans; it is inconceivable we should do it in ignorance of the facts as they are or in blind haste. We shall restore, not destroy. We shall deal with our economic system as it is and as it may be modified, not as it might be if we had a clean sheet of paper to write upon; and step by step we shall make it what it should be, in the spirit of those who question their own wisdom and seek counsel and knowledge, not shallow self-satisfaction or the excitement of excursions whither they can not tell. Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

And yet it will be no cool process of mere science. The Nation has been deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn passion, stirred by the knowledge of wrong, of ideals lost, of government too often debauched and made an instrument of evil. The feelings with which we face this new age of right and opportunity sweep across our heartstrings like some air out of God’s own presence, where justice and mercy are reconciled and the judge and the brother are one. We know our task to be no mere task of politics but a task which shall search us through and through, whether we be able to understand our time and the need of our people, whether we be indeed their spokesmen and interpreters, whether we have the pure heart to comprehend and the rectified will to choose our high course of action.         

From Calvin Coolidge's First Inagural Address

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience to law. Under a despotism the law may be imposed upon the subject. He has no voice in its making, no influence in its administration, it does not represent him. Under a free government the citizen makes his own laws, chooses his own administrators, which do represent him. Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.

The essence of a republic is representative government.

Excerpt from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inagural Address:

If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we can not merely take but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective. We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and property to such discipline, because it makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger good. This I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife.

From Ronald Reagan's First Inagural Address:

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.

We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick -- professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truckdrivers. They are, in short, ``We the people,'' this breed called Americans.

...So, as we begin, let us take inventory. We are a nation that has a government -- not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed...

From the Ayn Rand Lexicon, Even though altruism declares that “...it is more blessed to give than to receive,” it does not work that way in practice. The givers are never blessed; the more they give, the more is demanded of them; complaints, reproaches and insults are the only response they get for practicing altruism’s virtues (or for their actual virtues). Altruism cannot permit a recognition of virtue; it cannot permit self-esteem or moral innocence. Guilt is altruism’s stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuation. If the giver is not kept under a torrent of degrading, demeaning accusations, he might take a look around and put an end to the self-sacrificing. Altruists are concerned only with those who suffer—not with those who provide relief from suffering, not even enough to care whether they are able to survive. When no actual suffering can be found, the altruists are compelled to invent or manufacture it."

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” ~ Edward L. Bernays

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. ~ Philip K. Dick

Situational Ethics

Democracy--the domination of unreflective and timorous men,

moved in vast herds by mob conditions. ~ H L Mencken

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness.
 A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. ~ Marshall McLuhan

As Conservatives we must make certain that when we are engaged in political dialogue that we first speak the truth as best we understand it.  Our facts must be valid and verifiable and from reliable known sources. The best weapon to defeat the practice of Democrats and the left of manipulating voters with straw man arguments and manipulative rhetoric which preys on an unsuspecting audience is the truth. Shakespeare said "To thine ownself be true" and I seem to recall in my youth the freqently quoted addage "The truth shall set you free". The truth unlike agenda driven rhetoric has no motive, no secret message, however if you are trying to discuss the truth with a Democrat you will know immediately it is so, as they will break out in a harangue filled with obscenities, call you names and blame G.W. Bush.

The Big Engine And the Bad Conductor

Obama And the Democrats

Our nation has never faced this much difficulty.

Worse the difficulty is of our own making.

I am very sad tonight.  I have been watching the National Debt clock since November the 9th, 2011.

When I started my National Debt Clock watch our National Debt stood at $14,972,448,000,000 + ( the clock moves so fast you cannot possibly capture all of the numbers). And the Gross National Debt Ratio to GDP was 99.7331351% on 9/9/2011 at 2:44 p.m.

As I sit here heartbroken by the failure of our nation's leadership for their abominable track record of spend spend spend and failure to perform their sworn fiduciary duties I am beyond outraged.  I am heartbroken.

I feel every bit as powerless to stop this financial cancer that is consuming our nation and threatening it's every existence as I felt when I watched my mom, my best friend who forever championed me when she wasted away from a rare form of liver cancer but it was congestive heart failure that caused her demise.

I feel every bit as powerless as when I watched my brothers life leave him, but it was his wild life style and heavy drinking combined with diabetes and lung cancer that took his breath.

I feel every bit as powerless as when I watched my first and forever hero my father slip into a ninety day coma, before his frail and shrunken body finally surrendered from the ravages of old age.

And thus I am in mourning, filled with great sorrow as I watch the great economic engine of the United States waiting for the ambulance to arrive.  Waiting for nation saving coal to be placed in the engine, waiting for the engineer to slow down the train, waiting for the train to shed empty cars and waiting to for the whole crew to agree that our engine needs help. And I wondering who is going to stop the insanity before the big engine completely derails.

Sometime tonight when I am fast asleep, or tomorrow our National Debt like a tsunami will wash a red tide over the fiscal house of the United States.  Our National Debt is now 15 trillion 30 billion dollars and change.

Our National GDP is 15 trillion 31 billion dollars and change.  Huge numbers. Galactic numbers. Numbers so large you could not count that high in a lifetime.  Our Gross National Debt to GDP Ratio as I type is 99.9942721%.

Our National Debt is five times our annual revenues. We are the biggest debtors on the planet, we are the biggest debtors in the universe. The debt per individual, each and every citizen of the United States is $174,269.00.  The debt for each family is a staggering $660,578.00.

While the bureau of labor statistics says our unemployment is at 9.1% our National Debt Clock claims the 'official' number of unemployed is 13,895,654. And right below that statistic our National Debt Clock says the real number of unemployed Americans is 25,011,796.

Our entitlement debt load is equally frightening.  Medicare and Medicaid cost at the present is $825,056,380,185*.  The Social Security cost is $723,261,387,850*.  Income security (which consist of Supplemental Income Security, Earned Income Credits, Unemployment Compensation, Nutrition Assistance, Family Support, Child Nutrition, Foster Care and Making Work Pay) is $407,614,871,500*.
Federal Pensions are $212,918,734,685*.  Our interest on the Federal Debt is $218,261,493,650*
 (* These numbers are approximate as they are hard to capture as they rise faster than I can read and type.)

President Obama is racing around the world calling Americans lazy, saying we have gone soft.  And when he is not slamming the citizens of the United States on foreign soil, he is endorsing jobs in Indonesia by Boeing, while his National Labor Relations Board blocks Boeing jobs in South Carolina.  While he tours the country pushing for union jobs and shovel ready nonsense he kills an earth moving real shovel ready job the Keystone Pipeline that would boost our economy by at least 20,000 jobs and help serve our energy needs.

Unbelievably President Obama wants another stimulus package.  This Friday the Congress and Senate passed yet another Continuing Resolution, good only through December the 6th, 2011.  Our nation has not had an official budget in 935 days.

In August our nation suffered the first ever credit downgrade in our history. 

Instead of our leadership responding with a Code Red and placing this nation in intensive care they are bickering like small children.

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And today is 11/21/2011 Our National Debt is 100% of our GDP.

The Supercommittee is not so super after all.  The Supercommittee has done exactly what they were designed to do.  They have failed.  This should come as so surprise.  This Committee is really outside of the Constitution.

Like a thief in the night, the proud legacy handed down for generations is placed in peril by cowards who we have elected. Our fiscal crisis is a result of years of reckless spending by both parties, has brought this Republic and every family to this point of financial hardship.

The Price Of Moral Relativism ~ The Loss Of Our Moral Compass

Political Altruism And

The 'Lemmingnization' of America

Moral relativism usually includes three claims: First, the concept that morality is changeable; second that morality is subjective; and third, individual.

Moral Relativists claim that it is relative first to changing times; and that you cannot turn back the clock. Secondly, Moral relativist equivocate that what we subjectively think or feel is neither good or bad, but thinking makes it so. And in a celebration of Nihilism for individuals; different strokes for different folks.  Anything goes. No harm no foul. 

Moral absolutism claims that there are moral principles that are unchangeable, objective, and universal.

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~ John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. 1854), Vol. IX, p. 229, October 11, 1798.)

This nation was not founded on the premises of Moral Relativism. It was founded by just men who sincerely believed in unchangeable moral principles and that those principles were universal and absolute.

Our nation has lost its Moral Compass. The left is doing their very best to convince you and I that morals are not important. The Progressives and socialist and envirofacist on the left are busy nudging you and I out of our freedoms.  They decry rugged individualism and a society glued together by the moral absolutes in our founding documents.  Democrats and the left insist on the psychologically mind numbing one size fits all answers for everything.  The left is busy insisting that there are no winners or losers, when life teaches us the opposite. These social distortionists are engaged in disseminating lies and half truths and the result is taking a very heavy toll on our national consciousness. 
 
Moral relativism can be found in utilitarianism, evolutionism, existentialism, emotivism and in situationism. Everyone of these forms of moral relativity share the common unifying ideal, that absolute morals do not exist, and that what is right or wrong is a product of happenstance and cultural human preference.

The left celebrates a life based on justification alibis and excuses for toxic behavior.  Morals and ethics can be altered from one situation, person, or circumstance to the next. Essentially, moral relativist say that anything goes, because life is ultimately without meaning or what ever you perceive the meaning to be. Words like "ought" and "should" are rendered meaningless. In this way, moral relativism makes the claim that it is morally neutral.

 

The main argument relativists appeal to is that of tolerance. They claim that telling someone they are morality is wrong is intolerant, and relativism tolerates all views. But this is misleading. Evil should never be tolerated.

 

Worst of all moral relativism makes society unstable. It blurs the concepts of right and wrong. Moral relativity allows temporary swings in popular opinion.  Practitioners of moral relativity use all the tools of the left in arguments, and frequently will choose to both see and shape history through a lens that frames facts to suit their agenda.  Each step away from moral absolutism devalues diminishes and damages the building blocks of what makes a society strong.

 

A result of this valueless thinking and of accepting this vague blurry line between right and wrong is what has allowed in many instances evil persons to rise to power.  And it is this type social dysfunction that allows narcissist and nihilist seeking radical change by abusing temporary swings in popular altruistic opinion to seize power.

 

A vast number of Americans have embraced Moral Relativism as a defense of socially toxic behaviors and attitudes.  Moral relativity is practiced by an amalgamation of leftist groups from various politically active numerically challenged political and social ideologies.  Those group ideologies are not large enough on their own to electorally win an election but aligned together and elected President Obama.

 

The left manipulated moral relativism and political altruism to elect Obama, who shares their moral relativity.  He is the first Post Modern American President who sees no authority superior to his own, and believes his views are superior and that our Constitution is fundamentally flawed.  Obama believes it is his moral duty to fit the Constitution to his morally relative view point. And it is this thinking that drives Obama to rule by fiat when his agenda is met with principled moral absolutism.

 

From the Ayn Rand Lexicon, "There are two moral questions which altruism lumps together into one “package-deal”: (1) What are values? (2) Who should be the beneficiary of values? Altruism substitutes the second for the first; it evades the task of defining a code of moral values, thus leaving man, in fact, without moral guidance.
Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one’s own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value—and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes."

Our Nation is in grave peril. 

We are Fiscally Bankrupt. 

Since taking control of the house and Senate in 2006 Democrats have been on a spending spree. Foolish modifications were altruistically made to loosen credit requirements to buy homes, cars, and lines of credit.  President Bush kept the expenditures for the Wars in both Afghanistan and Iran off of the general budget.

In 2007, "Too Big to Fail" was coined and used as a vehicle for massive government intervention in US Banking and Investments, and billions of US Taxpayer dollars were used to interfere in the private sector.  Shortly after Obama was inaugurated a second stimulus was passed.  However it was not immediately pumped into the economy but passed out to various Agencies who sought out agenda driven projects wasting vast sums of tax payer dollars on ill advised green energy projects. 

The last Budget for the  Federal Government was passed on April 29, 2009. It has been 930 days as of today, November 15, 2011 since President Obama and the Democrats have performed their fiduciary duty.  The Republican house passed  a budget on April 15, 2011  as I write this blog our National Debt is only 3 billion dollars away from the benchmark of 15 trillion dollars and will soon surpass our GDP.

We are at the brink of Moral Bankruptcy.

In recent years we have had a President, Clinton be charged with Articles of Impeachment due his Lothario like behavior with an intern, Senators and Congressmen, Governors, and Candidates seeking the highest offices in our government forced to resign for inappropriate sexual conduct.

Just this last week a long secret scandal at Penn State exposed a former Defensive Coach, Jerry Sandusky as an alleged pedophile and charged him with multiple charges of sexual assault.  Not only is Sandusky's behavior monstrous, but most of of his associates were aware of his pedophilia and did not alert the Police allowing his disgusting behavior to continue for years.  Not only were those in the infamous Nittany Lions coaching staff and Athletic Department aware of his behavior but also the Chancellor of the College.

Our national leadership and Corporate leadership are Ethically challenged. 

Apparent pay for play with Solyndra, GunRunner where guns were illegally sold and taken to Mexico, resulting in the death of a border agent. Former Senator and Governor Corzine and his now bankrupt hedge fund, the list is endless.  We undermine our allies.  Members of Congress basically commit insider trading, but it is not against the law for them.  Government officials who have been tax cheats. Authorities on every level refuse to enforce our immigration laws, and sue states who model state law on Federally coded immigration law. Bernie Madoff, Enron.  I could link all of these issues, but they are common knowledge.

We support abortion and deny that fragile being in a mother's womb is a child.  The left would have us believe that this infanticide is just a mass of cells. Once ObamaCare is in force we will have death panels who will choose who gets life saving care and who does not based on some faceless nameless hidden bureaucrat's cost analysis determining the value of a life.

The basic family unit is under attack, divorce once a social disgrace is now widespread.  The child abuse rate is high.  We are caught up in celebrity.  Our government is interfering in free enterprise with miles of regulation that hamper the pursuit of happiness.  This nation has a drug addiction problem, an alcoholism problem.  We have a gang problem.

The 4th Estate, the press, Mainstream Media and Broadcast Organizations distort the truth in the name of Political Altruism to move a political agenda.

We are cognitively challenged.  We engage in affirmative action which awards and moves poor performers over those who have better scores and skills.  The result of this National acceptance of lowest common denominators has resulted in large segments of our society unable to identify facts from fiction.  This segment has traded self fulfilling individual achievement and chosen the slide from the quest for excellence to the social engineering of aspiring to failure.  A nation breaking culture that awards the least marginally able, by promoting the lowest common denominator with favoritism and punishing excellence.

Each of these declines can be directly attributed to the practice and pursuit of moral relativism.

“The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their "betters" were derelict.”  ~ Charles Dickinson

DEMOCRACY DENIED ~ A Must Read, Must Have, Must Share Book By Phil Kerpen

DEMOCRACY DENIED by Phil Kerpen is a book that every freedom loving American should read and have on their bookshelf.

It is more than a must read.  It is a must have.  DEMOCRACY DENIED is packed with must know facts.

If you are concerned about what is happening in this nation you must read this book. 

If you feel that your freedoms are slowly being eaten away by unelected bureaucrats you must read this book. 

If your business is buried in never ending red tape, a result of over regulation you must read this book. 

If you are concerned about why this nation is in dire fiscal trouble and debt you must read this book. 

If you are concerned about why there are no jobs, if you are concerned about where all the jobs have gone,  you must read this book. 

If you are concerned about how the attacks by the Obama Administration has taken your rights Phil Kerpen lays it out in easy to understand terms.

We must stand up in opposition and reverse the trend of greater regulatory power. Phil Kerpen details the loss of our Freedom and the endless assault on the Constitution by the Obama Administration.

Phil Kerpen has outlined how Obama and his Administration have undermined the founding principles of this Republic. This book documents every infringement and has solutions and a road map to recovery, and once again, you must read "DEMOCRACY DENIED".

And after you read it, keep it.  Encourage your family friends and neighbors to buy this book.

Phil Kerpen's book is the best accumulation of facts of why President Obama and his Administration do not deserve a second term.

If you love America, and the Constitution please read this excellent piece of research.

"DEMOCRACY DENIED", In his own words, Phil Kerpen will inform you with facts, "How Obama is ignoring you and bypassing Congress to radically transform America- and how to stop him." 

Phil Kerpen says, "The message from Obama and his administration was clear:  we will accomplish our policy objectives at any cost and by any means.  Indeed that's how they would push two major pieces of legislation they wanted, ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank in the health and financial realms, respectively."

DEMOCRACY DENIED is not only a well written expose of how Obama has turned this nation nearly inside out, but offers strong solutions, and has forty pages of notes and a lengthy index.  Mr. Kerpen has done his homework and has performed a great favor to each and everyone of us.

He is one of my heroes for this bold clearly stated book  and I am honored to have been requested to review his book.

Dogs Fleas Candidates And~~

The Sneaky Snarling Yippy Dog

                          Chewing Up The Constitution 

Every election cycle we are faced with which doggy in the window we will take home for the next four years.

Every election cycle is like a trip to your local breeder, or the pet store or do we want to 'rescue a dog' from our local Animal Shelter.
 
Our current crop of candidates like most dogs have some fleas, they get them from the yard, on walks and playing with other dogs. Some of our candidates have more fleas than others.  Our problem as voters is sorting out which dog has fleas that we can live with. Some questions for voters is which dog will wear a flea collar, subject himself to a flea bath and monthly treatment.

Do we want a big well trained dog, do we want a hunting dog, a good shepherding dog, or a well coiffed high maintenance dog?  Or is a mutt a better fit for the voting public.  Are we willing to buy a dog who has never been on a leash?

The last election we were sold a dog without papers. In the minds of some voters they believe the record keeper at the Hawaiian dog club lost our current Top Dogs papers. Although we know who was his mother there remains serious questions in the minds of many voters about his pedigree, and whether his pedigree was filled out properly.  Further we are not sure where he went to puppy school and his Big dog training is hidden behind the walls of the big dog training school he attended.

Due to our last dog purchase voters have become highly sensitive about who should be our Top Dog.  We have learned that even dogs that have been highly touted by everyone as the smartest dog in the hunt can have serious house training problems. 

It seems our current Top Dog who resides in our house, is chewing up the furniture, soiling the carpet.  And the current Top Dog has a barking problem.  Our current top dog seems to have trouble understanding who pays for his dog food, vet bills, and his kennel.

Our current Top Dog also has a problem knowing exactly who is a threat. He barks and snarls at all the wrong people, whether they are family or long time friends.  Our current Top Dog has this problem not only at home, but on trips our Top Dog does not seem to understand what his job is.

Our current Top Dog seems to like dog fights, and he has bitten the hand that feeds him.  Our current top dog has developed a habit of growling at his owners, threatening them and shows an unwillingness to get along in the dog park.  He seems to think as Top Dog he can have his bone and eat it too.  As a matter of fact our Top Dog has a habit of taking other bones and feeding them to the dog in his pack.

Americans are all dog lovers and we each have breeds that we champion, some of us are more than attached to our Heinz 57 varieties, and who does not love a good junkyard dog that will protect his bone and his junkyard?

Our problem as voters is sorting out which dog has fleas that we can live with.  Some questions for  voters is which dog will wear a flea collar, subject himself to a flea bath and monthly treatment.  Which dog has had the proper training and which dog will listen to our whistles and not trudge off on some skunk chasing adventure, leaving us to bathe them in tomato juice or a concoction from the pet store.

This year those of us on the right are blessed with nine fine pedigreed dogs all seeking to be the Top Dog.  Some are more stubborn than others.  Some have fleas left from previous excursions.  Some have fleas of their own making.  But each and everyone of them has been to Dog Rescue school and each is up to the job they are asking us to elect them to do.

I have no question in my mind whether any of our dogs are loyal enough.  I am certain that those of us on the right will not have another Top Dog Chewing up the Constitution, barking up the wrong tree and eating us out of house and home.