LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE BRAVE?

Well, folks, in the wake of this disastrous election, the year 2012 cannot end too soon. But, as it winds down, it is incumbent upon us to ask just what kind of nation we have left, and from just what reservoir of fortitude and courage we, all of us, can draw the strength to continue. As the shock of Tuesday night lingered into Wednesday, the depression I experienced reached depths I have rarely known, as did the sheer existential angst and fear, so evident, as well, in various conservative chat rooms and blogs that I visited, including this one. We were told so often that this election was the big one, that the fate of the country, perhaps the whole world, was at stake, forever. Hyperbole? Perhaps. But is there truth in the assertion? Yes, certainly some.

This election was, indeed, a big one. And yet, it was a close one. I would like to think that we have all recovered sufficiently to realize that conservatism did not die. Not yet. Obama certainly has no mandate, though he pretends to. Whatever can be said of George W. Bush, at least it can be said, and often has been said, that the first thing he did, after his own slender election, was to recognize the country's division and to extend his hand across the aisle. Of course, they bit it off. How well I recall Ted Kennedy gutting his education bill, and the grand bipartisan effort to reform Social Security, assisted by Moynihan, which lesser men ridiculed and subverted. Bush tried twice, or was it three times, to reign in Fanny and Freddie, giving the lie to Obama’s false claims that "Bush caused the economic crisis," a falsehood which rests primarily upon a rejection of the Democrats' role in causing the economic crisis. But, they had a big role. Similarly, the bailout of GM that Obama loves to take credit for was actually initiated by President Bush; the trouble with it (other than the fact of it) is that he took it in a different direction, helping unions and shafting non-union Delphi employees, while nationalizing the company to an unprecedented extent. And, if there were excessive encroachments upon freedom in the Patriot Act in the wake of 9/11, they seem to pale in comparison to the insidious designs of our current "executive order" White House occupant, who essentially finds Congress irrelevant (e.g. HHS mandates on abortion, the gutting of Welfare, and just about everything the EPA does these days, from land grabs out west, to water confiscation and innumerable regulations . . . well, just talk to any coal miner trying to put food on the table for his family). Our beloved emperor has issued 923 executive orders in three and a half years, up from Bush’s 62 in eight years. And this with a Congress he fully controlled for the first two of those years! So much for checks and balances. Montesquieu, anyone?

I have heard the liberal argument that the huge numbers of people on foodstamps, and on welfare, will drop as unemployment drops. But, unemployment has been near 8% or above for four long years. Obama doesn't even meet with the job council he created! It's all for show. And, as for unemployment, the real rate is 15%. The long-tern rate is 22% (long-term unemployment rate rose to 40.6 percent in October, the percentage of the unemployed lasting for 27 consecutive weeks or longer). Millions work part-time without benefits who used to work full-time with benefits. Meanwhile, the first two days after the election, the market dropped 400 points. Thousands off people have been laid off just since Tuesday. Companies are considering thousands more, either because of tax policy or because of Obamacare (or both, considering the draconian penalties of Obamacare on business). A coal company in West Virginia yesterday laid off 150 people. Another in Utah laid off 100. Stryker, a medical device company being taxed under Obamacare, (and a stock in my retirement fund) is eliminating 1,170 positions. Dana Holding, an auto parts company, is laying of 25,000 people worldwide. Boston Scientific 1,400. Medtronic 1,000. AMD 400. Cigna 1,300. Countless others. Lockheed Martin may lay off 123,000 people! And Obamacare could result in tens of thousands of employees being limited to working 28 hours per week as companies avoid penalties. The new norm, I guess.

I have heard liberals ridicule the conservative argument that this election was, as Rush Limbaugh says, about Santa Claus. Free stuff. Well, I ridicule their ridicule. Did you all get your free Obamaphones?! Better hurry! The supply is limited . . . or is it? Obama is the most socialist-minded person we have ever had in the White House. And what is the basis of his socialist mentality? No, it's not the common welfare; it is the concept of Entitlement and government dependence. Food stamps, Obamacare, class warfare . . . When Obama said today so defiantly (far from working together with people, as he ought), is that "a majority of Americans agree with my approach," I wanted to scream at the radio, "Not a majority of working Americans!" I mean, the man can suck eggs! He's a joke. Here we have a guy who won by a mere 300,000 (legal?) votes across 4 states, and a slim 2.5% nationally. But we now live in a society where those who don't work can vote themselves the wealth of those who do . . . and all so that we can pay for Sandra Fluke's contraceptives. But that is the vote they are encouraged to make. What else do you think Obama meant by "revenge"?! He hates this country, and by that, I mean that he hates the work ethic of this country. Of course, those responsible for the reelection of his excellency don’t care at all because it does not affect most of them. Obama has gutted Welfare to Work requirements (yes, he has), which along with efforts by the National Labor Relations Board to force unionization on the American workforce and the disincentives to work in Obamacare (I'd be covered if I quit my job) merely serve to make people more and more dependent upon government, which is what Democrats want. It's about power. Theirs. And, ultimately, that kind of statism has, yes, the tendency to become totalitarian. So, Obama ran his campaign based on giving stuff for free, from birth control to mortgage relief and student loan bailouts to food and free medical care and who knows what all else, all while painting Romney as the Grinch who wouldn't give you the free stuff.

It's ironic, of course, that I will actually lose my own healthcare. You see, I have inexpensive catastrophic, which will be outlawed. And I cannot afford the expensive plans Obamacare will offer. Just remember me when they come after my house, my bank account, my possessions, because I will never, ever pay the penalty ascribed by the mandate. Never! I will die a free man! [Oh, that's right, the IRS said last month that they would not come after people. How reassuring!]. And, when liberals challenge us when we criticize their sense of entitlement to “free stuff, remember that it is Obama, after all, who has played the class warfare card so relentlessly. It’s our turn. Working people vs. Freeloaders. If I am to be called a "freeloader" for not buying insurance that I am forced to buy and yet can't afford, I feel perfectly comfortable using the term "freeloader" for anyone who lives off of the taxes I pay.

Hell, if the dead can vote (I am avoiding the subject of voter fraud), they can eat, too. I happen to be someone who had his identity stolen at the IRS (identity thefts of social security numbers are up 10-fold under Obama), and I shook my head in disbelief upon learning that 1,500 fraudulent refunds went to one address in Michigan, alone, 900 to another address in Chicago, 700 to each of two other addresses in Florida. And that's just last year. Our government at work (By the way, $120 million in FEMA money for Sandy victims just disappeared. Maybe they'll find it with the $900 million they lost on Solyndra).

I have heard liberals argue that the conservative media is maintaining the divisiveness in our country. But no, the source of divisiveness lies elsewhere. Oh sure, there are the nuts, reactionaries, troglodytes, but they are not the mainstream of the Conservative "48%." It is not Mitt Romney who ran such a disgustingly divisive campaign of personal destruction and class warfare. His campaign argued for jobs, for tax reform, for various economic policies, and was in many respects All-American, and uplifting. Even the ads run by Karl Rove and his people were relatively tame . . . I watched them all; the toughest were on Libya. But accusations of felon, murderer, tax cheat, attacks upon Ann Romney's horse (her therapy for multiple sclerosis), continued lies in the face of fact checkers, and ads comparing voting for Obama to having sex for the first time? (Gee, no wonder he won the single women's vote). Please. it was all very sleazy. And divisive, and all done with the help of the maintream Media, our very own Pravda, which were all so obviously in the tank for Obama, who remains the least vetted occupant of the White House (I won't call him president) that we have ever had . . . . all to the extent that I was frightened by it, frightened for my country. Moreover, the sheer cynicism of his campaign was self-evident, and cynicim can claim no mandate, for anything. If we hate him, it is not for supposed accidents of birth or undisclosed mysteries about his early life. No, it is because of his actions! He is driving this country, insidiously, in a direction we do not want! And whatever you think of the Romney campaign, Mitt Romney is a fine man. And I spit on Obama's treatment of him. As for Pravda, now that the election is over, they suddenly seem to have discovered Benghazi! Lo and behold! Maybe they will suddenly discover our unfunded $55 Trillion debt liability. No, I guess not; that won't drive ratings.

I have also heard people, conservatives, talking about Impeachment. Oh, why bother, with a Senate led by a man who does a good imitation of pond scum? But, Benghazi alone would be sufficient. What matters more, is what we do to save ourselves from him. Civil disobedience is one thing. I will be engaging in it quite consciously when I refuse to pay the Obamacare mandate. But A nation divided cannot stand, and I worry about real violence. Civil wars start in little ways. And I, like so many conservatives, am sick and tired of attacks upon Republicans, and I do mean physical attacks. Unions caught ripping up yard signs, or pissing on them, bricks thrown and gunshots fired into local Republican offices ( I can supply a list that runs several pages in length and goes back 30 years. everything from violence by the OWS crowd, to Tea party activists beaten up by SEIU thugs). Let alone that there was an explosion of death threats against Mitt Romney in the last two weeks of the campaign, but there he was, our friendly New Black Panther thug standing in front of the same polling place in Philadelphia (thank you Attorney General). In Virginia, a Romney supporter watched in horror as someone literally torched her Romney yard sign. In Florida a WWII veteran had his Romney sign AND his American Flag torched. In Wisconsin, an openly gay Republican campaign volunteer was sent to the hospital by some Leftist nut who labeled him a "traitor," and the son of a Republican State Senator was badly beaten when he attempted to stop people from stealing his Romney yard sign. The Solipsim of the Left is a bottomless pit. Hell! Yesterday a dead pig wrapped in a Mitt Romney t-shirt was found dumped at the South Bay Republican Party campaign office in Florida. As far as I can tell, most Democrats are animals. But, then, Marxists always end up in violence. And its the Alinsky way. Meanwhile, on the Right, gun sales are up . . . way up. I am not surprised.

You know, if Obama wants us to believe that he is not Hugo Chavez, maybe he should quit kissing up to him. He does all he can to fan our fears. Can we ever win an election, again? Yes, damn it! Believe it! We should diversify in the direction of Hispanics, but that is all I will concede on the "demographics" front. How ironic that all the hard-working, individual Hispanic success stories are all Republican (Rubio, Martinez, Fortuno, Sandoval . . .). But, hard work is not what the entitlement class wants. We did not lose by much, my friends. And we are a big tent, already, conservatives and moderates, big enough to win, with far fewer differences among ourselves than what we have with the other party. We should be wary of extremes, but not of principles, traditional values, time-tested truths we keep coming back and back to. Nor is the moral life and behavior of a people beyond the purview or legitimate interest of government. That is the position only of pure Libertarians. Roe v. Wade, for example, by putting the stamp of approval on abortion, unwittingly encouraged it to the extent that other restrictive measures had to come to bear. The argument is in the details, when and how to restrict, and where. Since 1973 there have been nearly 50 million legally induced abortions. Limiting that is only common sense! And there is something called religious freedom, which the Obama administration wants to destroy. It's contest with the Church over the next few years will be titanic.

No one can seriously argue that the concept of expansive socialism and far-reaching entitlement were ever a component of the founding doctrine of these United States (excuse my Southerner's use of "these"). The Founding Fathers are just dead white guys to some, I suppose. But not to me. Not to us. And yes, times change, but I prefer JFK's America to the new cry of "What will my country and government do for me? What am I entitled to?" And that is, indeed, the new cry. We must answer it with a cry of our own, the cry of liberty, asserting that this is, damn it, the land of the free, and proving once again that this is, yes, the home of the brave, the land our fathers fought for, and the land they died for. Let’s roll!

Google will do a better job, but here is what I remember: Sherman in 1890 authored the bill to protect competition in the United States. Since that time this law and other similar laws have been called the anti-monopoly laws.

The Federal Government used it to break up Standard Oil of New Jersey in 1912 +/-, and AT&T in the 1970’s +/-. The last major push by the Feds to break up a company was when they took on Microsoft, but did not follow through around 2000 +/-.

The use of this law by the Federal Government increased competition in the market, AND THE US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DID NOT RETAIN ANY SHARE OF THESE COMPANIES FOR ITSELF!

By Nationalizing, or otherwise retaining all or part of a Private Company, the US Federal Government becomes the DAMNED US Federal Government, no different than any other Dictatorship.

Now that the Damned US Federal Government has Nationalized the Medical and Insurance Professions, which together account for 1 out of 6 dollars generated in America, it can be argued that we have lost 1/6 th of our financial Liberty to a Dictator intent on Communal control of America.

That Dictator is Obamanation Communist Tyrant Barry Davis Obama.

The Communal Obama”care” Dictate violates previous Federal Laws that made it illegal for customers of Insurance Companies to purchase across State lines.

With illegal pricing practices, the Damned US Federal Government can outbid the private Insurance Companies, and thus illegally increase their share of the Insurance Market.

The Damned US Federal Government can operate the Communal Obama”care” Dictate at a loss every year, which is an unfair advantage that is not granted to Private Insurance Companies.

The Damned US Federal Government has Un-Constitutionally forced all citizens to pay a fine or buy an Insurance policy. This is a unfair confiscatory punishment to customers that is restricted to the Damned US Federal Government.

On the Medical side of the Communal Obama”care” Dictate, all of the above comments also apply. Additionally, Private Medical Offices are moving to the Bahamas, and are closing their offices in the USA.

Becoming unwell in America is thus going to require the finances to purchase a plane ticket to the Bahamas for an office visit.

Although the full cruel reality of the Communal Obama”care” Dictate has not yet been visited upon Americans, it is safe to say that Obama has succeeded in “FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGING AMERICA” by Dictating that Medical and Insurance Monopolies are legal, only IF the Damned US Federal Government has absolute control of them.

Suffice it to say that all of this is due to Traitor John Roberts of THE NINE SUPREMES declaring the Tyrant Obama’s mandated, and therefore Un-Constitutional, dictate of a “fine” could now be spelled t-a-x. Who knew that THE NINE SUPREMES were the ultimate taxing authority?

BTW, if you doubt any of the above, just try not buying Medical Insurance or paying the fine/”tax” and see how long it will be before you are marched to jail at the point of the fully loaded, Damned Federal Guns.

Seig Heil!

I am moving my family to one of the most capitalist countries in the world, and am now planning to pull all my funds from US markets and banks. I have no desire for any of my hard earned money to fund this traitorist uprising, nor can I afford to do so. I had hope until election night, but it is clear that the majority want nothing to do with my kind. My country left me, so I am going away for a awhile. Maybe if all the little communists have to fund their own way, they will realize the impossibility of it all. It’s time to stand up and refuse to be part of the problem by funding the programs we hate. If we all pull our money—if we refuse to fund Obamacare and all the other socialist handouts, they will fail. Until then, nothing will change. So until later...

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