Bad Times A Comin'

When it will happen is unknown, if it will happen is certain. What? Unrest, the likes of which most would never have imagined. How certain is it that turmoil is in our future? One only need to consider the facts that spell the certain cataclysm of our economy and life as we have come to know it.

 

Consider the following and I mean think about the effects these basic facts will have on our countries ability to overcome the calamity created by our monarchical government. First let’s consider that 47 million people are on some sort of government assistance. This equates to 15% of the population and that does not include unemployment which is closer to 14% rather than the advertised 7%. Then contemplate the effects of nearly $140 Trillion in unfunded liabilities to repay Social Security the monies borrowed to fund government spending and the promises made to various government employees. The government owes nearly $400,000 for every man woman and child in the US. Ask yourself, where is that money going to come from?  The answer is: it’s not going to be available, period.

 

The economic devastation in our future would have already been prevalent if not for the Federal Reserve (Fed) creating money out of thin air by printing what it needed to shore up the government bond market. You see the government borrows 40 cents of every dollar it spends. For a period of time, other governments like Japan, China and others have purchased government bonds that provided the funding necessary to support all of the government spending. Those counties now have their own economic problems and their financial ability to purchase US debt has all but disappeared. That is when the Federal Reserve began what has been called "Quantitative Easing". That simply means, that they will print money in order to purchase US debt. That process is like saying that from now on, all of your monopoly money is now valid currency and holds the same value as the real US currency. Now with all of that monopoly money put into circulation which has no underlying value, then the value of your US currency is diminished.

 

This too will come to an end. The Fed cannot print money forever without a significant devaluation of the dollar. That means that at some point in the future, what you purchase for a dollar now will take many more dollars to purchase.  Once all of this starts to take effect, the government will be unable to meet is obligations. What happens then? Austerity. Yes, like Greece and other nations austerity will be necessary.  How will that effect you? Well, promises made for retirement benefits will go unpaid at worst and underpaid at best. Medical benefits will be cut to the bone or eliminated. Financial markets will crumble and the government in its ever increasing effort toward self-preservation will begin to look at the assets of its citizens for relief.

 

Executive Order 13603 provides that the government has the power and authority to confiscate whatever it deems necessary to protect itself. Remember Cypress? The government there went broke because of government spending and they ultimately lost the ability to borrow. Once that happened, they turned to the private assets of its citizens and confiscated 35% of the savings of the people. You think that can’t  happen here? Then you have far more confidence in our politicians than do I.

 

The bottom line is this. Our government has become a monarchy and the only thing they care about is preserving their power. They see us as their subjects with the responsibility to provide them with the resources necessary for them to maintain control. If that means they need to take what is yours, they will. Our only chance is to stop electing the same people and start with new people who understand the fundamentals on which this country was founded.  Vote new is our only chance.

Monarchy or Myth

 

If you have ever doubted my previous assertions that our country is becoming a monarchy reigned over by the ruling class who will stop at nothing to maintain power and control over the governed, then consider that which is taking place at the IRS, DOJ and other agencies. My proclamations regarding the ruling class concept are not limited to only the executive branch and those appointees placed in leadership roles in support of the president, but recent examples of the perception of unaccountability point squarely at the President and his sycophants.

 

Hearings this week and last that were held in the peoples house provide insight into the length some will go to prove they are not accountable to the people, congress or anyone else. The answers provided by IRS leaders were clearly evasive and intended to deceive, cover up and hide the facts necessary for representatives of the people to get to the truth. One IRS leader who while employed by taxpayers felt that although her job requires her to represent the people fairly and within the constraints of the constitution, that she simply did not have to answer any questions about whether she provided representation as required. How a government employ can refuse to answer to the folks charged with oversight and still maintain a job is a perfect example of public officials who believe that they are not accountable to the people.

 

When you have top executives refusing to answer simple questions about the facts, there must be something to hide and/or someone to protect. The water coolers in all government offices should be checked for the existence of a pathogen or other microorganism that causes memory loss particularly that which appear to be very selective. How top official cannot remember facts as so many have claimed suggests that something is very wrong and the CDC should investigate what could possibly create what appears to be a pandemic with memory loss being the predominate symptom.

 

There are really only two possible explanations for what we are seeing taking place within our government today. One is that the President is a socialist and is intent on destroying the American way of life as we have become to expect it, or the President is so under qualified for his position that the administration is riddled with mistakes compounded by more errors in judgment designed to hide their ineptitude.  I think both are in play. The President was not qualified when first elected and has not risen to the occasion as some had hoped he would. He has surrounded himself with likeminded people who also are not qualified for leadership positions. The result is chaos, cover-up and deception.

 

Congress as a whole on the other hand, while only slightly more qualified to lead than the Administration, makes far too many decisions based on popularity and to attract votes. All the while the single most important thing on their individual minds is to protect themselves at all cost.  To hold themselves above the people with laws to which they themselves are not required to adhere.

 

Yes, we are becoming a monarchy. It is the entire government, not just elected officials that think they can do as they please and we the people are forced to adhere and fund their every desire.

Unaffordable Healthcare Act

Today I have to write about health care cost. The reason is simple. I received the renewal package for my families healthcare plan and although no member of the family had any significant claims and none are on any medicine, we still are required to absorb a nearly 10% increase in premiums. 

 

We hear all of the rhetoric coming out of Washington on both sides of the debate as to whether the “Affordable Healthcare Act” (AHA) will cause insurance rates to rise or fall. I now know the answer. Rates have risen significantly each year since the passage of AHA and adding forty-four million more people to the program will continue to add more cost for which there is no guarantee for offsetting income into the program. Unfortunately, subsidies imbedded in the system are designed to force tax payers to pick up any slack.

 

If you think your insurance premiums are the only cost you will incur for nationalized healthcare, think again.  What they are unable to collect from the system, they will either include in your tax bill or reduce the services you would otherwise be able to acquire.

 

Let’s think about this whole concept for a minute. We were told that forty-four million people are without insurance and that is who the AHA was designed to capture. Now that equates to approximately 14% of the US population.  So a system that was working for the other 86% who followed the rules and placed themselves in a position to provide healthcare coverage to their families must now be punished so as to accommodate those who for various reasons, including choice, have no insurance.  We all want Americans to have access to healthcare. The trouble is, we seem to have lost sight of the fact that healthcare is like any other service, if you want it, you need to be willing pay for it and not feel entitled to it.

 

While I do not think the cataclysmic results of AHA will be fully realized until full implementation of the Act, it is clear that insurance rates are on the rise and much of the reason is AHA. A concept that was devised in the back rooms of our government and signed into law without anyone reading it. I ask, how on earth could anyone think this procedure would yield positive results? The answer will become abundantly clear in the not too distant future, but all preliminary results indicate that this will be a catastrophic failure of the first order.

 

So what do we do? The only think I can think of that might change the course we are on is to un-elect anyone who supported this legislation and hope that those who replace them have the courage to substitute it with something that is not orchestrated in the back rooms, is fully vetted and is based on the merits of the concept and not politics.

 

Americans will have the opportunity to vote for change next year. Let’s hope that is not too late.

Wake Up Call

Just watching the news will not provide most Americans the information they need to fully understand just how dysfunctional our government has become. It really is not about partisanship anymore. While there are patrician differences, most have nothing to do with what is best for the country or the American people. Politics of today has more to do with protecting the ruling class. You see the ruling class, which consists of the leaders of all three branches of government, are far more concerned about protecting what they have created for themselves, than that which would serve the nation and its people.

 

For example: The ruling class is exempt from the requirement to participate in the health care system they have designed for the American people. If this is such a good program, why do they hold themselves above the rest of us and maintain a healthcare system that only them qualify for and for which  we are expected to pay.

 

How is it that the ruling class has a retirement system that guarantees a lucrative financial benefit package for life while they debate and argue for years about how to curtail or limit the benefits promised to the American people who paid into a system that has been abused by them for decades.  They keep talking about the necessity to make changes to Social Security, but not once have I heard about them making changes to the retirement programs for Congress.

 

With just two examples of which there are many more, it is clear that the elected politicians have come to believe that they are what the United States was created for. The people are the governed whose place in their culture is to have but one  responsibility, provide the resources necessary so they can maintain power and support the standards of living for which they have become accustomed.

 

While they may debate publicly and for the benefit of the media, in the end, the policies adopted over decades has resulted in nearly every segment of the Federal government being inefficient, often incompetent and far more intrusive into our daily lives than ever should have been allowed. Yet, we the people as a whole, for the most part keep electing to same people.  Leadership in this country must change. Those in power have demonstrated that they simply are unable to correct the course they have guided us on.

 

When will the American people realize that we need a “restart button”. We need it now. Encourage new leaders to step forward. Vote new. Now.

We vs. Them

It is not democrat vs. republican issues that divide this nation. It is all politicians on the Federal level that deserve part of the credit for where this country is economically and socially. We have created a monarchy where the ruling class is concerned more about maintaining power than what is best for “we the people”. We have become subjects to the monarchy and our role, as they see it, is to provide them with the resources necessary for them to maintain control of the system. One tool they employ is to keep some poor and dependent on them for assistance.  Unfortunately, under the current administration,  a considerable and growing portion of this nation would rather vote for a living rather than work for it and the ruling class has figured out that by creating more of this type of dependency and importing the rest, their ability to maintain control is enhanced. The lamestream media supports these efforts because journalists are trained by academics whose sole source of income for most of their lives are derived from taxpayers. Democrats want more taxes because a vast majority of their constituents rely on tax dollars. It really is that simple, but it is a recipe for the complete annihilation of our economics system. 

Consider this: if you were to remove from the democrat party all government employees and those receiving financial benefits from the government (taxpayers), what would be left? Politicians would be all that remained along with a few naïve but good Americans who still think that the democrats have the answers.  There are those among the democrats who believe that the party is still that which serves the people. They are so wrong as neither democrats nor republican serve the people anymore. 

So let’s agree to recognize that the true war being waged is not democrats vs. republicans, rich vs. poor or blacks vs. white. No,  the real warfare of today is being waged between “We the People” and “Them the Government”.  It is precisely the folks we have elected in the past that put us in the condition in which we find ourselves as a nation. Therefore, I think it is safe to say that if we keep electing the same people, the result will also be the same and our future is bleak at best.

It is time to forget about party politics and vote for the citizens among us who understand the role of government and respect the limits placed on government officials by the constitution.  We the people have the power to limit the size and growth of government. All we need to do is stop the madness of voting for the same people that brought us to where we are. Stop it now.  Vote new!

Political Dishonesty

Like most liberal leaning politicians, Senator Dianne Feinstein, (D, CA) can make some of the most ridiculous and fallacious comments without being challenged for their veracity. When the Senator claimed “We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it’s legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines’.  Senator, please, it is not legal to hunt humans under any circumstances,  (except for the US government with its Drone policy) with any weapon regardless of size or magazine capacity. If it were legal, there would be far fewer people in congress than there are now. Term limits no longer would be an issue. Some may find this half attempt at humor to be in bad taste. In response,  I would ask if the suggestion that hunting humans is legal is an attempt at humor or a intentional failure to distinguish between fact and fiction. Or even more sinister, was it an attempt to confuse the lesser informed into supporting any effort to control the masses by taking even more of the rights guaranteed to each of us by virtue of the constitution.

None of the many legislative efforts currently underway address the reasons people kill. People don’t kill because they have guns. They kill for other reasons and we really should try to understand why people take to such horrific tactics and it should be our first priority to begin to understand , why? What are the common elements among the killers that causes them to want to extinguish lives. Instead of focusing on the means by which people murder, should we not be more dedicated to understanding why and then developing methods in which to curtail or eliminate the risk factors that precipitate the behavioral characteristics that lead to casualties.

Perhaps we all should consider the changing state of the American culture. Once a God fearing nation where honesty, ethics and honor were the foundation on which our moral compass was guided and we held each other accountable for our behavior, now personal and immediate gratification is the order of the day.  Respect and honor for others has been replaced with a sense of entitlement. Human interaction has been replaced by violent electronic video games, movies and a culture that has less respect for human life. At least two generations have been desensitized by actual violence in the streets of inner cities to the virtual violence seen in movies and games our kids watch and play.

Government attempts to control guns is not the answer. Hell, it’s not even the question. People who recognize their own since of responsibility do not kill innocent people. It is only those who have immersed themselves into a world where they themselves become the center and constant external stimulus to feed the overwhelming since of entitlement is required to maintain and cope with reality. 

 
Curtailing the rights of law abiding Americans will have no effect on the criminal element that will continue to have weapons of every nature including those with high capacity magazines.  Curtailing or eliminating my right to meet any criminal threat with equal firepower is not only unconstitutional, it’s immoral.

Look It Up

The Efficiency of Militia Bill H.R. 11654, of June 28, 1902 invalidates all proposed gun-control laws. It also divides the militia into three distinct and separate entities. The three classes H.R. 11654 provides for are the organized militia, henceforth known as the National Guard of the State, Territory and District of Columbia, the unorganized militia and the regular army. The militia encompasses every able-bodied male between the ages of 18 and 45. All members of the unorganized militia have the absolute personal right and 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms of any type, and as many as they can afford to buy. The Dick Act of 1902 cannot be repealed; to do so would violate bills of attainder and ex post facto laws which would be yet another gross violation of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. 

Look it up. Quit wasting time and energy trying to regulate an inanimate object and focus on the real issue. People kill, address the reasons this happens and not the means.