It’s all about the access to almost unfettered “influence” that will line your pocket in other ways.  For Harry Reid, it’s land deals;  For Al Gore it’s telling us the world will burn if you don’t buy carbon credits (oh, and the company he invests in ends up with $3B from the taxpayer’s pockets – interesting), while he becomes a billionaire;  for Bill Clinton, it’s $150K per speech;  For The WON:  Book deals of $500K before he’s even sworn in, and $1.5M for a Nobel Peace Prize;  John Murtha makes sure his relatives and good friends get plenty of money (while calling our Marines cold blooded murderers) from other taxpayers, not in PA, to live at the level to which they have become accustomed.

While Social Security is being “downsized” due to the economic crisis, now Congress decides they need a 2.8% COLA for FY 2010.  I guess with higher prices for energy (you know, none of the rest of us have to pay), and “incidentals” (payoffs must be higher these days, with some lobbyists going out of business, I suspect)…

And don’t forget about making sure your “supporters” employ your family members…

What does this say to me?  Someone gets it:  Politicians make it on the fringe, and outside of the box, in the shadows, and in venues that the MSM won’t expose.  And they believe if you can make it, they can take it.  Your work is now for the good of the many, and anything you do over and above…well…sorry, someone else needs it, and even if you believe that, you don’t get to choose who that someone is that will get your surplus money of time and energy.

Now, in case you want to say:  “Hey!  That’s a pretty broad brush you’re painting with there! Not all politicians are like that!”  Really, are you serious?  If you’re right and I’m wrong, then how come these people aren’t run out of office at the request of their fellow politicians, or at the very least, the people who voted for them?  Nope, they actually go to bat for one another and make sure they all stay on the gravy train.  It’s a “Good Old Politicians” club.  So, my commentary is based on actual observation of the facts, not because I have some axe I feel like grinding to make myself feel better.

Representatives for us?  No, self appointed royalty.  They are turning out to mostly liars on top of that:  “I’ll go to DC and stand on my principles!”  Yeah right, until Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, or Barack Obama, and even other leadership, over a subsidized lunch in the Congressional Dining Room threatens to take away all the perks you all of a sudden see, that you had no idea of the luxury of hauling your family and friends and campaign supporters to exotic foreign destinations on a whim, and the barber shop, and the $93K in “petty cash” per year…just because you won’t vote their way, which is all about them making sure they stay put to rape the Federal treasury for their personal interests.

And then, they don’t even work a full week, and while “in the office,” they play solitaire.  Know anyone fired from a real company, that has to balance the books, for doing this?

I can think of a vulgar term for these people, who live large on our backs:  B@$t@Rd$ comes to mind, quite honestly….

My opinion:  We can’t even afford to keep our own incumbents any longer, unless we like seeing the outcome of giving it all to them.  Flush the old ones out, and begin again.  Difficult, but, like a bone marrow transplant:  Unless you go that far in “cleaning house,” you’ll die a lot sooner.

Somehow, this smacks of 1) building an enemies list (and they thought Nixon was bad for doing it…) 2) a violation of The Bill of Rights and 3) The journey towards fascism/communism (take your pick…they both hate dissent – “the highest form of patriotism!” so says Hillary Clinton at the top of her lungs).

But then, maybe there is the key:  We are in the Presidentially defined post-American Era, by his personal dictate, so “patriotism” is an archaic concept.  Rather than let it fade away, it is something to be quickly destroyed, lest it infect the youth.  So, viewed through that filter, it makes sense to have The President of the United States have his staff  put together a plan to put this emotion to rest, and quickly, but in seemingly benign ways at first.  The fact that it allows him the ability to take control of the decisions of the country, without regard for the “will of the people,” just becomes a bonus.

Speaking of the “will of the people,”  Karl von Clausewitz discussed that phenomena at length in his well read work “On War.” His study of war up through his own time of the Napoleonic Wars, showed that leadership that did not have “the will of the people” to wage a war, ended up the losers on a regular basis, across the millennia.

So, what’s my point?  The nature of today’s politics  are “conflict” and has become more and more polarizing in this time rather than just looking discussions among people who agree to disagree around the water cooler or at the bar having a beer.  It has many of the attributes of warfare.  Logistics, funding, intelligence gathering, out maneuvering the enemy, giving yourself credit for your proven capability, and the enemy the credit for the maximum capability when formulating your battle plans, and I could go on, but I think most would agree I’m making a good correlation of these concepts.

Now that I’ve gone there, “the will of the people” is a factor in the conflict.  Taking a quick jog down memory lane, I’d submit this:  The wars I’m going to reference were long and brutal, and littered with death and destruction, but they have a lesson for us:  Without “the will of the people,” you fail.

I have long thought the lack of military people that seems to align themselves with the left was a reason the Democrats didn’t seem to comprehend the issues of conflict.  As I began to type this, I fear I have missed the point.  They do understand conflict, but have chosen to not deal with it in the profession of arms, but in the minds of the people, backed up by the arms.  The left takes the path of Marx, Lenin and Mao, and more recently, Alinsky.  They do fight, just not on the battlefield environment I have so long studied.  So, it is no that they lack a method, as I convinced myself of until this day, but that they have the one around gathering the support of the people.  So did Lenin, and Mao, and Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh and Hitler, or at least they gave the allusion of that support, not to mention other such leaders in “modern times.”  I think the thing that speaks to the deficiency in the long run is those leaders convinced enough people to follow them, but in reality, were not interested in a democratic style of discourse along the way, maybe at first, to built the “marketing campaign,” but soon any one in opposition was…to be polite…disposed of.  Then, later, as a significant voice of the “run of the mill” citizen was raised, then the oppression came, in forms of watching and reporting neighbors, to disappearing from your home at night, never to be seen again, to entire areas having the population deported to Siberia, and new residents coming in, while the culture art, literature and other vestiges of the people who had lived that for centuries was destroyed.

Hitler had a fantastic military machine, that could manage tactically to trounce their opponents, but his overall strategy, which rested on economics, and logistics and “the will of the people,” was lacking.  The entire Communist world, that began manifesting itself in 1917 has largely been dismantled around the world (in less than a century), or, in the case of China and Vietnam, in order to keep from a massive uprising, has adopted the methods of the “capitalistic” societies that have made much more progress.

Analysis:  Right now, the Democrats and the very left end of the spectrum has great tactics.  They are able to organizes masses, show up and event, shut down a dialogue and claim it’s all their right.  Now, when people who disagree with a plan of the currant administration voice their opinion, the left claims it’s an organized mob, pushed by right wing extremists.  I think the ever necessary “will of the people” will quickly wear off, and President Obama and the Democratically controlled Congress will find out like the others who failed to truly comprehend the importance, and the actually concept of “the will of the people” and be left standing isolated, and rebuked.

In the meantime, it will not be a uniting time, as was promised.  We shall be more divided than we have been in just over a century and a very cursory study of history of that time will tell it was brutal.

Call to action:  Contact your representatives and let them know your will…you are “the people.”

The outcome of this, is “undecided” (read: waiting to see how vulnerable my seat is in the next election if I do the right thing and don’t turn America into a dictatorship) Democratic representatives with large voting bases comprised of union members will suddenly “decide” that their seats will be lost (for themselves), if their constituents don’t get a ride on the backs of those in other states/districts who are not largely unionized.

Consider what this says for a moment. The plan is so badly set up that the way to get votes for it is to make sure the voters are exempted from the pain it will cause. If that doesn’t say it’s a bad plan, what can?

The further implications: We have been hearing all the money this “plan” to tax the working families out of existence (part II of this comment), yet “they” will exempt large volumes of plans that would have been part of the base from which this money was raised. I doubt anyone will have the guts to raise this point in Congress, but the “it’s so simple a 5 year old could figure it out” result is the money promised by putting the advertised taxes in place will fall short. Now, as current affairs dictates, we’ll find that out in a year, not before the bills pass and are signed, dooming us to failure at the hands of a Federal Government that has already shown, across the ages, it is not up to the task of doing much of anything effectively when it comes to matters beyond the defense of the Nation.

So, there we shall be, once more, just like the $787 (lack of) Stimulus Bill, that has not worked, despite the promises of return to normalcy and the threats if it wasn’t voted for, with a shortfall of billions for the operations.

Then we will need the “Kill (the American Real Worker) Bill II,” to get the money into the hands of the Congress and President and bureaucrats to account for the shortfall, and, as will Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, we’ll already still be in a lagging analysis, so we’re always going to be playing catch up…

And now part II: Right up until there are no non-Union workers left. When the well runs dry, and all income produced is just direct deposited right to the Treasury (I’m not being sarcastic, just pragmatic here).

In addition to the working class doing the Nancy Reagan “Just Say NO!” (No because you should, but because there’s nothing left), now factor in the Galt Factor. How many small/medium and even large businesses close thier doors because they “can’t compete?” That will make sure the feds are running short of money faster than their “projections” (actually fairy tales) showed them. They will panic. “We the (enslaved to the feds and the Unions and the “FOO” (“Friends of Obama”)) People” will be told we must work harder, longer, and give more. (side noe of sarcasm: Time for some “FOO” Fighters to step up!)

The problem…is the hole is tapped out. I predict, the Feds will then look to nationalize all retirement accounts, not already in the control of the Treasury. That’s Stage 2 of money recovery to pay the “obligations.” Stage 3? Yes, then they come for your bank accounts, because, after all, you don’t know how to manage your money, otherwise the Nation wouldn’t have gotten like this, thanks to you greedy and selfish “citizens.” Think of it like the oil well owners, after the current method got as much as it could out of the ground, then they come up with new technology to extract more, like piping hot water down and then causing more oil to be recovered…and so on.

I’ll also predict this, and it’s not a stretch at all. My example? TARP Funds. Only for “banks.” What did American Express do? They didn’t used to be a bank, but…in short order, after being told “You’re not a bank! NO TARP FOR YOU!” They headed back to the lawyers cubicles and figured out how to become an organization that was a bank in the eyes of Federal regulations! The, it was “and where would like the several billions wired?”

I’m a biology major who never stuck with that professional filed, but I think I’m capable enough to see what comes next in the Take Over All Health Care mess: Remember how badly the Union wants into Wal-Mart? Notice how they haven’t been successful? consider what happens on the day before the massive “we’re gonna tax your health care plan” goes into effect: EVERYONE will join the Union….and it will be, I’m on a limb here, Wal-Mart themselves, otherwise, they’ll be losing a lot of workers who would just rather walk away (most likely out of sheer depression over all of this). At least they might be able to stay in business, even if they have to raise prices (great, the non-union workers will get screwed at this level as a result), and pay just about all their profits to President Obama’s “Compensation Czar.”

Now, the giant elephant pit in the room comes into play, as we reach this juncture: Now, everyone is in the union, with a gold plated (read exempted from Federal confiscatory taxation) health care plan. Just like AmEX, Americans are quick to see a loophole and dive through it, before it closes, knowing in most cases, by the time the law catches up, you get “grandpersoned” into keeping your not ill-gotten in the past gains.

Let me integrate this entire discussion with a previous post: When the system has but a small amount of capacity left, it shall be rationed, and the rationing, most likely, in what ever form it takes, will be justified by what ever “Bio Ethics” council President Obama puts into place. So, if you’re elderly, regardless of your age, if your treatment exceeds some limits, you’ll just be sent on your way, maybe if you’re lucky, with a cyanide capsule, left over from some CIA Cold War stocks, so you can decide to not be a burden on society, which no longer can afford to hear you complaining about you cancer, or heart condition, or your crippling effects of age or even a car or industrial accident. Don’t forget, President Obama did indicate he’s willing to limit care for the elderly (Note: Thank you, AARP. You’ll never get my money (unless it’s in taxes stolen from me for you), because you’re so investing it taking, you didn’t have the foresight to see what you’ll have to give for your mis-placed loyalty the people you represent). Top that off with knowing how this “thinning” of the population fits into the arguments of the “greenies” who think humanity itself is a danger to the planet. Any measures to reduce those of us who produce Carbon Dioxide are “good” ideas.

At first, the Union Bosses will be ecstatic! All those places they couldn’t break into will be a walk in the park to unionize. Revenues from Union Dues will reach new levels! They’ll promote keeping those blow with the wind Congressional reps who did it all for them, with a few arm twisted votes….

But there will only be one, really, really big problem, all of a sudden: There will be no health care palns that aren’t exempted, all of a sudden. But not right away. It will be far enough down the road, that the gears of the great new medical machine will hvae been grinding any private medical options to dust. Now, this new and improved by the institutions the public gives the lowest of confidence rating to will have no tax dollars to make it go.

The next to last phase: A complete collapse of the medical system in the nation. Welcome to becoming a 4th World Nation, all at the hands of meglomanic who has to win and be adored, or he does not know what to do.

The last phase? You figure it out. Maybe we’ll get there before Dec 2010. If we don’t this scenario, I’d predict, is very, very likely. It’s just about the money and the needs and the regualtion and how we, as Americans have reacted to the imposition of a Federal Government growing.

This path is a win for President Obama, but only for a few years, until the process of actions by the businesses and workers makes it’s way to their full responses.

In a horrific way, President Obama will not be able to blame this on President Bush, but, if the sitting President’s plan “succeeds,”
we will have failed and failed miserably.

Final observation: This isn’t even looking like socialism anymore…it’s beginning to look like some sort of Madoff ponzi scheme, where only the “special people” get to have the wealth, and those out of power/not toeing the line keep having their own property and wealth taken to benefit the privileged. In that regard, I read this last night, written by a Nigerian LEGAL immigrant to the United States, and I think he has some standing to say what he has about the mind set of on Barack Hussein Obama. Also note, I’ve read 80% of children adopt the politics of their parents (that came up during the 2007 Immigration Reform debates – why the Democrats needed it, because they had been aborting their future voters out of existence). It’s a high probability, this has been the case with our President. You’ll see what I mean after you read the American Spectator post.

Included observation: Some how the “Brilliant people” in charge seem to be missing that there is not an unlimited amount of capital to feed their ever growing “just a little bit more” appetite. But then again, it seems you have to be a tax cheat (see comments above on jumping through loopholes) to be able to determine such policy.

Update 6/27/2007: And don’t forget how the “system” will make sure the illegal immigrants are protected, too, at the expense of us who are here, and the elderly, who have been a factor in building this nation;s wealth, so people like the President can rape the resources for their political gain.

Without the IG function, or if you know the IG shop will just sit around drinking coffee/bottled water and hold their desks in place, then you can most likely begin to shift money and resources to other than their intended use, as laid out by Federal or local law and regulation. Corruption breeds corruption. Sort of a human condition. Corruption can also bloom when there ia a know lack of oversite.

It’s time for “IG-Gate” to ramp up. We’re up to three high profile IG positions being emptied at the behest of President Obama.

Here’s my analysis:

This is the tip of the iceberg. These moves effectively gouge out our eyes – those of the taxpayers, because we will see the IGs either quaking in their boots and slow rolling any complaint investigation requests to keep their job, or they will be fired if they are closing in on the corruption at hand. This is direct intimidation by the chief law enforcement officer in the United States of America.

What could go wrong? Well, consider this scenario: Taxes are increased, the IRS gathers money, then, the Treasury issues checks as directed by Federal law, written by a Democrat controlled Congress, specifically in the form of Stimulus Funds. As we have already seen, these funds don’t seem to be going to real shovel ready jobs, but to specific pork projects, and, in the case of Gerald Walpin investigation Kevin Johnson. Kevin Johnson is a Obama supporter with a high profile (and I suspect a “rich” life style). The allegation is the funding from the Treasury, in the form of Stimulus Finds were being used for personal privilege.

Take this a step further. Big money comes your way, because you are a loyal supporter. I’m sure there’s an unstated requirement to then put $2500 back into the campaign fund of Barack Obama, in preparation for the election cycle of 2012, and some amount to be sent to the DNC, as well. What just happened? Taxpayer money was just laundered via the taxation system to be used by the President.

It would not be unreasonable, given the President has no problem appointing his sister to a commission, that the follow on not so spoken direction would be to make sure that money from the Treasury, thanks to the forced largess of the citizens, is used to cut paychecks for the “right” people, who will also be being rewarded for their soldiering for the President, and saddled (happily so, I suspect, at first) with also being kind enough to send a little “thank you” in the form of a political contirbution to the one who made it all possible, in this down economy, to get the “right” people a regular, paying gig.

Here’s the net result: Those who do not support the President and his pet projects will have their money confiscated and spread about for personal and political gain. By levying higher tax rates, it will be difficult for the loyal, dissenting opposition to ask for funds, while the party in power makes sure the power base is solidified.

This is but a part of the larger meaning of “spreading the wealth.”

Nothing good will come of this. I doubt the MSM will make this out to be a bigger story than that of President Bush replacing Federal Attorneys (fewer than what President Clinton fired). Actually, keeping on top of “waste, fraud and abuse” ia far further under the radar of the average citizen, and the opportunity for Federal funds to be funneled to inappropriate spending is greatly increased. Consider how we all hate “waste, fraud and abuse” and the politicians rarely seem to take any effort to solve the problem, so we just forget it and go on with life.

Your Federal tax dollars at work, for President Obama, whether you agree or not, coming to a bank account with your name on it soon!

Call to action: Let your representatives know we need oversight, and not a President who breaks the very law he co-sponsored.

My humble opinion: The President has a real job to do, mandated by The Constitution of the United States. Nowhere in there is a requirement to make sure his supporters go unquestioned in the spending of tax dollars. Actually, it is his job to ensure they are spent other than illegally. Maybe his staff/focus group neglected to let him know it’s part of his “PD.”

First he took over the major banks with the leverage of TARP funds. Now, the ones who want to give it back could be without FDIC backing.

He directed his people to provide bonuses to those who are trying, in the publicly held financial firms, to get things back to normalcy, then decided it looked bad to his supporters and called upon the mob rule to harass those who were the benefactors of the law passed. They received death threats and had to hire security, and some committed suicide, others gave the money back, money rightfully owed to them by their employment contracts, and by Federal LAw, until it became “an inconvenient truth” in the open press.

Then he fired the CEO of a public corporation, on the grounds that they had been given taxpayer money. Then he took another corporation and handed over the a sizable portion of the control to the UAW.

The threat of severely restricting the right of the 2nd Amendment hangs in the air, as a country, unable to provide for its own domestic peace, would say it is the fault of the American gun owners who have caused the conflict across our borders, and he did not tell them they must accept the responsibility for their current struggle, for years of failed policies of the past, as he tells us that is where our current problems come from.

He’s now poised to force the entire medical care system of the nation into his vision of health care.

All the while, he is empowered with the money he is taking in from the tax base, which he is looking to make even more of a burden to those who produce the very things the entire economy, not just the Federal Government rely upon to stay in existence. The consummate politician: He cannot generate his own capital, he must take it to enable him to buy the allegiance of others, and to control their behavior.

Our money is being exploited for the gain of power by the Federal system. Power over things that are not enumerated in The Constitution of the United States.

Along the way, he is now directing the Governor of the largest state as to who will benefit from any decisions being made locally, even while the economy of that state is about to fail. His leverage? Do it or no bailout money for you and your citizens.

Wonderful. The President of the United States takes money from all over the country, launders it through thousands upon thousands of civil servants, then dictates to a state governor how the sate will conduct it’s business.

At what point will the governors of this land bring a case to the Supreme Court to tell the President his acts are Unconstitutional?

At what point will the American populace say “NO! Not with my tax dollars!”

Didn’t we have a war about this in the 1860s?

We won’t dictate to the rest of the world, who are murdering their own people and saying they will murder the people in Israel, but we will listen to them and heed their demands. He will tell Americans how they will pay tribute to him, because he won, and he will muzzle their speech, be it directly, or by threat of the power of the FCC, IRS, EPA, OSHA, CDC, etc….

This is beyond a not so funny thing. It’s becoming a nightmare. Barely over 100 days in office, and he is openly defying The Constitution and all we get is how Bush and Cheney and Palin should be waterboarded from comedians, while he sits there and laughs.

Where are the men and women in the highest offices who will step into the well of the houses of Congress and state, without reservation, what is happening and that they will oppose it?

The Republicans wonder why some people, when contacted say, no thanks to giving. Why should they be paid for doing nothing in the face of a socialist takeover of the nation?

There is a trend here: He told Joe the Plumber and few believed him. Those who did, and pointed it out in public, were shouted down. All above I have mentioned speaks clearly to exactly what he said he would do.

It may be the one promise everyone can count on him to keep…to all of our detriment,and to the rest of the world, as well.

Further, he denigrates the Nation on the stages of the World. He calls on his staf anf the press to call out private citizens for their criticism of him. It is sport to him. Honestly, it is a polite way of doing what many others, who sought total power have done – sidelining the “competition,” within and outside of the circle of the most powerful.

Better call those in Congress, who “represent” you (and I use the term loosely), before your pay is determined by the local union or the local ACORN Chapter, and it’s still not enough to keep a roof over your head and your family fed.

When the capability of this nation is handed over to the ineffectual Federal Government, against the specific language our forefathers crafted for just such a time as this, our consumer market will die off, and those other nations, on the opposite end of the “Balance of Trade” numbers shall have few to buy their goods, and they shall also whither. We are using many resources, and we are paying others around the world for them, which keeps the world in business.

How much will they love us when we can buy no more from them? Maybe we should ask ourselves how angry will they be, when their lives were beginning to get better, are now dropped back into poverty, the likes of which we do not see in our country, as the scourge of Communism and socialism were pushed back, in a great measure by the power of capitalism?

One day, if this trend continues, all we own shall become property of “The State,” and all we are given will be according to the needs as determined by the faceless bureaucrats, who will ration all in our lives, even our ability to make decisions.

The President of the United States, will hand over dozens photographs of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan to the ACLU, based on a long legal battle. According to the link, these aren’t even as bad as the Abu Gharib photos, but show there was more abuse than disclosed to the public.

You’d think, for the sake of the Muslims, who rioted and even killed some of their own overseas, when they heard, falsely as it turned out, that a Koran was flushed down a toilet. Forgetting Americans will be endangered, foreigners may die in the resulting riots. I this not out of the realm of reason, based on the last time such things were brought to light by the MSM, to postulate that this is a likely outcome, is it?

The irony off this long process, that was politicized before, is that the US Army, with a brave soldier ratting out the morons at Abu Gharib, were the ones to disclose it was going on at all. The MSM then ran with it, and used it as a blunt instrument against President Bush. Regardless of the fact that the military was busy taking care of their bad actors, it was presented to the nation and the World as though this was a common methodology of our service members, a charge that was completely false.

It strikes me as a double jeopardy like issue, where the military has taken these photos in as evidence, and most likely has handled the disciplinary actions in each case. Now, the stories will be published and the “trial” on the media pages and screens, and all across the ‘net will begin in earnest, but, these not being valid legal venues, there will be no stopping them.

The outcome? If you can read this, then you are well aware of the dark strain Abu Gharib left and how then the implication became a reason to not trust the Bush Administration in any matter of detainment, regardless of the evidence that pointed towards containment of the enemy.

So, where do I see this getting us? To a bad place. Some days I just feel like packing it in, but what country is left, that is not overrun by the urge to bend over to the lawyers or the terrorists and let them have their way. As far as I know, there is none left. I can’t afford an island of my own, or the private army/navy to defend it, so, I guess I’m screwed.

I can only figure the President is blinded by his ambition. I may be way off the mark, but the lower his popularity numbers sink, the more this kind of reporting floats up, with the only seeming rationale is to satiate his left left wing crowd….so they will settle down.

Short sited at best, dangerous at the worst. On top of that, will this make “them” make hate us more or less? I say more, but The One will stand will hold them high, and declare “This was not on my watch! Don’t blame me, I’m the one showing you how horrible the American military and intelligence systems are, and what they do behind closed doors.” It will put all of us at risk, at one level or another. It will make military members second guess every act, if they must come in contact with detainees. It will cause good men and women to leave their jobs, so they are not abused at the whim of a capricious administration, bent on saying “It’s not I!” who caused this, when, in fact, he is sowing the seeds of the next action against American citizens and our military.

What good can come of this? None. What has happened? The guilty parties have been taken care of, now, the world will be shown a whole new set of pictures they can use as an excuse for their hatred.

And the irony of it all, is even our own citizens and “Western” media can’t seem to do more than yawn when the people’s head were rolling in the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan, and Thailand and the Philippines, and even recently here, in the United States proper. Our soldiers can have a dog bark at someone and make them stand naked, and be reviled, yet a terrorist can actually chant “God is Great” while decapitating another human being, and somehow, it is wished away as a justifiable act.

We have lost a critical thinking skill: Logic, which would establish a real proportionality. I fear we shall not be able to retrieve this before it is too late.

I am not in favor of any mistreatment, but I am not in favor of the President taking all matters into his own hands, disregarding the very military and US legal systems that have served this Nation well over 200 plus years. His action do just that.

All I can say: He is not looking out for justice, he is looking forward to punishing anyone connected to his political opposition.

Consider this quote from the article linked above:

“My sense is the president was trying to please a lot of audiences at one time and that over the last (week) he has totally failed to put the mind of the intelligence community at ease,” said Mark Lowenthal, a former senior adviser to CIA Director George J. Tenet. “He is going to end up with a national clandestine service that will not be willing to do anything because they feel he will not be there for them when they need him.”

Call to Action: Bombard your representatives, once again, for they need to be the check in the system, or we are truly lost for a lack of leadership where we must have it under these circumstances.

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]]> http://www.therosistance.org/2009/04/11/not-funny-funny-nff-1/feed/ 0 http://www.therosistance.org/2009/03/26/aig-is-it-failing-or-being-pushed-overboard-for-political-gain/ http://www.therosistance.org/2009/03/26/aig-is-it-failing-or-being-pushed-overboard-for-political-gain/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:04:24 +0000 admin http://www.therosistance.org/?p=337 AIG, too big too fail. Maybe not. A set up?

Many of the management that have been working there, desperately trying to get things back on track, have had enough of the abuse by the President (it is his blame to have and to hold. He set the ball in motion, and has done nothing to stop it).

Just a (conspiratorial) thought:

• Hand out the cash to “fix it,” knowing it’s a long shot.

• As people are still working at fixing AIG, with some prayer the money might be recouped, demonize the people who are the professionals at work, trying to get the system back on an even keel.

• Professionals depart.

• Replace with “Government Experts” (Oxymoron, I know), and add more layers of regulation. Pay them just about poverty line wages, and expect better results than when run by those who (were) are the professionals.

• System grinds to a halt. Chance of taxpayer ever seeing the return on the “INVESTMENT IN AMERICA?” Approaching Zero. Maybe the real estate and physical assets have a few dollars of value left at the auction block.

• Tell America that “civilian control” of the economy always fails. Point at this AIG scenario.

• Pass laws taking over all financial institutions, put all money into Federal Treasury, promising taxpayers will get a good return on investment (same argument as why AIG got the money, too).

• See taxpayers see their retirement and investment funds go to ACORN to indoctrinate more OBots for future take overs of other “failing” industries, like the auto and energy sectors.

(Really stretching into hyperbole, but it’s not so much fun to dream of the possibilities of “Barry and Rahm’s Excellent Crisis.”)

• See America become like North Korea, but without an Army and without nuclear weaponry (too costly, too “dangerous”).

• See America taxpayers starve. See elected officials set up self sustaining, guarded enclaves, using federal funds from taxpayers retirement accounts.

• See elected officials giving taxpayers big smiles and the Hawaiian good luck hand symbol from behind concertina lined fences, while standing on well trimmed, golf course quality lawns, to angry taxpayers.

Just a stream of consciousness.

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Notice no one said how big the steps were. I can’t find the whole quote, but many years ago, I read it, not in the title of the book by V.I. Lenin, but the entire text that had “the rest of the story” about step size. Meaning: Take a large step, if resistance is encountered, promise to back up two. It looks, to the resister, like you are actually moving backwards by your words, further back that your start point, but you merely make two small steps in reverse, leaving you with “conquered” ground. It’s all about manipulating the perceptions.

Note the choice of words: “Punitive Legislation.” Somebody gets it.

Consider: The full power of the Federal Legislative and Executive branches “punishing” people for running a private firm. Yes, they have been given taxpayer dollars, so the overall system wouldn’t suffer, then the Government punishes them for taking the bonuses that the Treasury Department and Senator Dodd made sure they were in the bailout legislation.

What kind of America have we become?

Financial-industry officials launched a campaign Friday to fight back but are finding their hands tied: Anti-Wall Street sentiment following the American International Group Inc. bonus payouts is making it difficult to reach once-friendly lawmakers to make their case. Key senators and their staffers, nervous about appearing to support the industry, are refusing all meetings, and, in some cases, turning away phone calls. “Unless you have a pitchfork and a noose nobody’s listening to you” on Capitol Hill, said one financial lobbyist.

Who has the best paid lawyers on their side? You know, why would a top notch law school graduate go to work for the Govt, when they can make lots and lots more money as a private one? Sorta like why so few military academy sports players end up in the big leagues….not a snipe, just a fact. It’s about you life priorities.

Oh, call it the “Full Employment Act for Trial Lawyers Bill (FEA4TL)” just for fun.

The White House has yet to publicly criticize the bonus tax proposals. But administration officials say privately they are concerned the House and Senate bills could lead to an exodus of employees or whole companies from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, known as TARP, as well as other government-sponsored financial rescue efforts.

Hallmark of this administration: It’s merely a act/poll/react mentality. They don’t can’t think about the consequences of any action. They are to focused on “The Agenda!,” to have actually developed the political equivalent of a business plan.

Consider all of this derision from the government, calling bankers the equivalent of “suicide bombers.” It’s a cultural thing. When the President tells the world one profession is good (lawyers) and another is bad (bankers, investment bankers, Wall Street companies, etc….), it leaches into the psyche of those considering their upcoming, either first or subsequent, career choices.

Speaking of that, the President is showing himself to be the “Offender-in-Chief.” Besides calling his fellow citizens suicide bombers, the also disses those in the Special Olympics. He’s “sensitive” about his big ears, he’s sensitive about it being pointed out his close associates in recent years want to see the Government and officials destroyed, and that America is one big bigoted nation, and then he has the gall to use those words?

Back on topic: He has the power to influence where the talent goes. He may not know it, but he’s going to chase away the very people who may just be able find a way out of the current darkness in the economic arena.

If these are the “smart” people, I don’t want no more smart ones telling me they know the answers. They ain’t got ‘em! They don’t or they just are pushing to see what they can achieve, and pull back if they find resistance.

It is also a vestige of “real world” business experience. If they had it, they’d certainly understand marketing a whole lot better. However, it seems they are a bunch of lawyers, who think written text is always right, unless they find a loophole that compliments their desires to avoid the specifics, and certainly the intent, if they disagree.

Just a closing thought: What industry is next to be publicly called out? Which corporation will next have to hire private security and tell their employees to not go out alone, for their fellow citizens may want to cause them physical harm?

The President using his bully pulpit to send the citizens after one another is immoral, and unjust. He is the one who calls for justice for the “enemy combatants,” who are no longer are enemies, despite their own statements, yet cannot see it worthy of our own neighbors.

Paranoia? Yes, another hallmark of communism. Ask any who have lived under it.

It used to be conservative talk show hosts, and MSM financial reporters. Now it’s just your average finance industry worker…yoou know, the “greedy capitalists.” Who’s next?

Call to Action: I’d recommend you contact your representatives and let them know how you feel about the President vilifying citizens.

Update 3/21/2009: And then an ACORN derived group shows up at AIG Executive’s homes. You remember ACORN? The “community organizing” group President Obama worked for, and trained for? The one accused of voter fraud in at least TWELVE states, the group that is receiving $2B in Stimulus Fund dollars. The same group that entered bank lobbies and demanded CRA loans be issued to those who couldn’t actually afford them?

Yes. A group bent on destroying us financially, for their own political gain, one President Obama actually worked for.

Now they are at the doors of private citizens.

It’s a multi-pronged attack on citizens. With the Executive and Legislative branches, blatantly violating the basics of the 14th Amendment, supported and abetted by known socialist groups.

My God, what have we done?

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Does any thinking being have to wonder why, when Porkulus 1 money hasn’t even been barely distributed, they are already calling for Son of Porkulus?

Here’s the deal: Unaccountable bureaucrats will tell you how you will handle everything in your life, or the money will stop flowing.

All under the guise of making sure the taxpayers money isn’t being mis-appropriated…like for that fat laden Big Mac, the soda with sugar and caffeine, the “nasty” second hand smoke producing cigar, or…how much you drive your car (oh, and what kind it is) instead of taking light rail and the bus and where you send your children to school.

They want everyone to sign on the dotted line now, and then, the “fine print” reading will be way too late. As pointed out in an article on banks trying to return the money, it was noted that the Government can change the conditions in the future. So, consider what that portends for anyone taking Government assistance. The basics: Unintended consequences, based on unforeseen regulations, without the benefit of a legislative process to vet them.

Tea Parties are a start. More push back will be needed, or we shall all be drones of the state, working to give to the Federal Government, so they can hand some of it back, with massive restrictions, and new restrictions they can apply at the whim of anyone in the heap of civil servants between you and the President.  Interesting how it works:  They take our money, then pay off a bunch of civil servants, hand us back some of the leftover funds and tell us we have to respect the rights of all other taxpayers for taking it.  Yep, I hope that makes your head explode, because it stupid at the core, and the thinking person knows it.  Side note:  what does that say about those who we voted into office who can’t stand up and say “This is not only stupid, it’s immoral!”

And: Just think, the news this very day is Bernie Madoff may have to serve life in prison for his $65B ponzi scheme. Think about the bailout/stimulus/America Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and all such permutations as a huge money laundering scheme. The difference is when the power of the Congress and the Executive is behind it, it is somehow legal.

The Government takes our wealth in taxes, then drafts up a mountain of conditions, then places the money on the table in front of us, with the tomes of “conditions” and a pen.  The Government representative, or their proxy by the chain of money distribution, will say “Sign here” and then put a fork in you, you’re done. You know how desperation works: If you’re hanging on by a thread, you sign without “reading the contract.”

I spent a few decades where my part of my duties required me to be a steward of taxpayers funds as an end user, not as a bean counter. Near the end of my time, I directly handled $11M and oversaw a total of $34M of federal expenditures. A portion of my time, as a department head in a large software maintenance organization was spent ensuring the funds allocated by a DC office was spent in accordance of the guidelines, which extended all the way from the Congressional Budget. There was single year money, multi-year money, all with specifics of under which projects the funds could be expended. The “rules” were that the person who last touched it was accountable for where it was spent, even if an error in the funding lines may have been altered by accident up the chain somewhere in the “accounting data.” The strings attached to this money were lengthy and very specific, including the legal outcomes if you did the wrong thing. Moral of that paragraph: No seat of the pants spending allowed.

Puppets. We shall all become puppets if we are not mindful of the serious danger of President Obama’s ingrained punishment mentality, bred into him by the radicals who were his mentors and role models.

The bottom line:  He wants to be able to tell each and every citizen how they will live their life, and he will keep telling you it’s to make sure the taxpayer’s money is spent right.

The almost final thought:  no wonder the President hasn’t had time to deal with the pressing issues of foreign affairs.  First he needs to gain a massive degree of control of the populace, using this sort of end around of The Constitution first.  With such control he’ll be much more able to control the conversations that should go on in a republic.

The final thought:  Didn’t we get here by Government mandating who got money and who didn’t and how and where it would be doled out?  How’d that work out for us so far?

Mark my words.  This theme will play out in the Consumer Safety Protection Act, gun control (think localities taking money being told that a condition is “reasonable regulation of ownership”), and a variety of other social, legal and even moral issues (can you say no protesting abortions?).  Take a moment and envision the “unintended consequences” that shall follow the money from the halls of Congress and trhe Desk in the Oval Office.  I trust you are reasonably horrified.  I trust you will let your elected officals know how you feel about this.  It is time for “feelings” to come to the forefront.

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