Italics are mine – Frank Trejo – Yesterday’s News Today
This article was written by Walter Williams which appeared in the Washington Times of 6-22-2009. He is a professor of economics at George Mason University
Preparing the ground for a future tyranny.
“Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” So which is it – stupidity, ignorance or insanity – that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives? According to the latest Rasmussen Reports, 30 percent of Americans believe congressmen are corrupt, among the more polite terms you’ll hear are thieves and crooks, liars and manipulators, hustlers and quacks. But what do the same people say when our nation faces a major problem? “Government ought to do something!” When people call for government to do something, it is as if they’ve been befallen by amnesia and forgotten just who is running government. It’s the very people whom they have labeled as thieves and crooks, liars and manipulators, hustlers and quacks.
Ever since the communists began taking over our institutions, especially public education, those born after the late’ 60s have had nothing but BIG government dictating their lives. When inflation began rearing its ugly head in the late ‘60s the one-earner in the house could no longer support the family. The housewife was forced into the job-market to help make ends meet. That left the young at home unattended. By the ‘70s television was cluttered with what some referred to as “a wasteland.” This “wasteland” was dominated by social-engineers that were slowly brainwashing America. Full blown socialism had begun. What this did to people was to destroy their individualism, pride, incentive, respect, and the family began to deteriorate. “Do your own thing” “Shit happens” The entertainment world became a socialistic cesspool. . . article continues
Aside from the general level of disgust that Americans have for congressmen, there’s the question of whether there is anything that Congress does well. What about Social Security and Medicare? Congress has allowed Social Security and Medicare to accumulate an unfunded liability of $101 trillion. That means in order to pay promised elderly entitlement benefits, Congress would have to put trillions in the bank today earning interest.
It is impossible to get out of debt by paying it off. We have been economic slaves ever since the international bankers were given the right to administer our monetary system – illegally, I may add. All the money ever borrowed from the bankers has been nothing but an ink entry. Yet, we have to work to the bone to pay taxes on the interest. We should declare bankruptcy – wipe out the debt – kick the bankers out without pay – enforce the money laws mandated by our Constitution – repeal the 17th Amendment – Get rid of the IRS – Post Office – Amtrak- and a host of other departments that were created only so this rotten government would spend a lot of money so the bankers could reap billions in interest from the money borrowed . . .article continues
Congressional efforts to create “affordable housing” have created today’s financial calamity. Congress props up failed enterprises such as Amtrak and the U.S. Postal Service with huge cash subsidies, and subsidies in the form of special tax treatment and monopoly rights. I can’t think of anything that Congress does well, yet we Americans call for them to take greater control over important areas of our lives.
We didn’t give Congress nor the White House permission to take over the auto-industry, financial markets, and others in the private sector. The majority of Americans were against the health bill. The majority of Americans don’t want amnesty outright. Quite probable in the near future the energy bill will also be shoved down our throats. What we have then is a CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT! . . .article continues
I don’t think that stupidity, ignorance or insanity explains the love that many Americans hold for government; it’s far more sinister and perhaps hopeless. I’ll give a few examples to make my case. Many Americans want money they don’t personally own to be used for what they see as good causes such as handouts to farmers, poor people, college students, senior citizens and businesses. (It’s called socialism) If they privately took someone’s earnings to give to a farmer, college student or senior citizen, they would be hunted down as thieves and carted off to jail.
However, they get Congress to do the identical thing, through its taxing power, and they are seen as compassionate and caring. In other words, people love government because government, while having neither moral nor constitutional authority, has the legal and physical might to take the property of one American and give it to another.
This tamale vendor begs to differ with Mr. Williams. The government has no legal right to take your property and give it to another. Physical might yes but no legal right. The Congress has no taxing power over us accept that which is specified in your Constitution. Only if it’s equally apportioned throughout the State and In case of war – period!
The unanticipated problem with this agenda is that as Congress uses its might to take what belongs to one American to give to another – what President Obama calls “spreading the wealth around” – more and more Americans will want to participate in the looting. It will ultimately produce something none of us wants: absolute control over our lives. The path we’re embarked upon, in the name of good, is a familiar one.
The unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism did not begin in the ‘30s and ‘40s with the men usually associated with those names. Those horrors were simply the end result of a long evolution of ideas leading to consolidation of power in central government in the name of “social justice.”
The “long evolution of ideas” is simply the invention of the international bankers who invented communism to control people and to make money. Why do you think Russia was given almost all of Europe after the war? Why do you think the United Nations was created? (one-world govt.) Why do you think The United Nations is dominated by communist nations? Why do you think the U.S. government has propped up communism for so many years – with our tax money? Why do you think we have so many wars after World War Two that ended in failure with other than “democracies?” “Social Justice” is communist bullshit – it doesn’t exist in your Constitution. . . article continues
In Germany, it led to the Enabling Act of 1933: Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Nation. (Patriot Act – Anyone?) After all, who could be against a remedy to relieve distress? Decent but misguided Germans, who would have cringed at the thought of what Nazi Germany would become, succumbed to Hitler’s charisma.
Today’s America, enticed, perhaps enchanted, by charismatic speeches, (“Hope and Change”) are ceding so much power to Washington, and like yesteryear’s Germans, are building the Trojan horse for a future tyrant. . .end of article
I think the Trojan horse is already in the corral – the White House. The international bankers have always wanted someone in the White House as radical as President Pinocchio. What you are witnessing in Congress lowering the boom on the Federal Reserve is just a show, folks. Remember the old saying “He who owns the gold makes the rules.” There is only one way to stop the banker’s agenda and that is to stop President Pinocchio by winning at least the House in November.(stop the spending) It would be nice to win the Senate also because Obama may get another chance to appoint another justice to the Supreme Court after Kagan (looks like a shoo in) if that happens the communists will control the important swing vote – 5-4 decisions. Bye-Bye 1st and 2nd Amendments. Don’t let it happen! Those with relatives outside Arizona call and warn them. Have them call their U.S. Senators to protest the radical appointments.
Sadly, polls show that if the presidential election were held today Pinocchio would be reelected. Half of the population doesn’t understand the imminent danger America is in. All the anti-American “isms” in the last 50 years have done a lot of damage to the minds of the American people. People have forgotten that Uncle Sam is an uncle and not their daddy. How do you wean them away from so many “entitlements?” 50 million on food stamps? Look at the problems Greece is having. Many other countries will be facing the same. Wait until some of our States start bellying-up. And to think that the international bankers have the whole world in debt – you have to give them credit. We are a nation of fools. . . a generation of stupidity. I love you, America.
Supreme Court Trivia:
Samuel Chase was the only Supreme Court justice to be impeached. The politically motivated charges failed in the Senate, however, in 1805.
George Washington appointed the most Supreme Court justices (11). Only FDR came close, with 9 appointments.
Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase was the only justice to appear on U.S. currency. He was on the $10,000 bill, which is no longer printed.
When I lived in Las Vegas, the Horseshoe Casino downtown had a $1,000,000 on display on a frame shaped like a horseshoe – all $10,000 bills. You could have your picture taken standing alongside.
I AM SORRY I HAVE ONLY ONE BAT TO SWING FOR MY COUNTRY
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