I haven't found
anyone who is out of work, on government programs, losing their house, etc.,
that thinks they are in their financial circumstance because others in the
society have more than they do or earn more than they do. I am sure those folks
are out there and can be found if there was some reason they needed to be
identified. Our president has made great efforts to get this group, who have
less, to blame and covet the wealth this more successful group.
I don't have any
idea how successful Obama is being in this divide and conquer campaign.
Certainly many have
rallied around his cry of how unfair it is that some have more than others. The
liberal press is doing their best to sell his story. It seems that the Obama
believes he can continue to divide the American voters and win another four years
in our house. Our value system has become so warped. Who can know if his scheme
will work yet again? Current polls indicate it just might.
To a larger picture
and that is how do we change the way this government governs? The ways the
elected people have changed our government into a self-serving fraternity has
happened slowly and out of view of most citizens. Do we believe that IF Romney
becomes president and the majority of the good-ole-boys in office stay in
office will they govern any differently? We hope so…. BUT what have been our
past examples? What have we seen?
As long as there are
any of the old guys and gals left in office they will teach the newly elected
how to make the system work for them. The principled ones with a simple set of
moral values will not be swayed and the rest will.
It’s a little scary
to think we need to replace almost all of our elected representatives. Some of
them are names we have known since early adulthood, guys that have 'brung -
home' the financial bacon back to the state they represent. Not only would we have
to find others we think are worthy of our trust, we would also need to replace
the key GOP leaders in our respected states. BIG job.
Usually we don't act
till until the crisis get right on our dinning rooms tables, staring us in the
face, screaming wake up….. Until the crisis reaches that point we simply deny
how serious the problems really are. Are
we there yet? Look at the polls and see the numbers of citizens who think Obama
is doing a good job with the economy and has high approval ratings. I realize
how out of touch I am with these voters. I look at these numbers: 15% of the US population lives in poverty • 44% of
those 46.2 million poor Americans are in "deep poverty," which is
half the level of the poverty line, defined as $22,811 for a family of four.
Can
these unemployeement numbers come from this country? This is what is expected
in third world countries. Just consider that more than 45 million Americans are
in the food-stamps program, which is 15% of the population, compared with the
7.9% participation from 1970-2000. Food-stamps enrollment has been rising at a
rate of 400,000 per month over the past four years. In August -2012, nearly
twice as many people went on the food-stamps program (173,000) than managed to
find a new job (96,000).
So
many think Obama is doing just fine with the economy while there are more than
11.2% of the labor force is out of work, if we include the 7 million people no
longer seeking employment. This number (over 17 million workers) is unchanged
since 2009. Nothing has improved and full-time employment remains 1.4 million
BELOW its 2009 level.
No
matter where in these numbers I look I cannot find the American Dream anywhere. I don't want to
recant how we have come to this but know that government (as we know have come
to know it) through social programs, federal regulations, unions, and international agreements has destroyed all
the jobs most of these unemployed did in yesteryear. These jobs are gone and
this group of low skilled, poorly trained, and poorly educated are now
relegated to poverty, and the ones who are left with jobs are supporting them.
This won't work much longer because the working folks are having a hard time
supporting themselves and families. Nor has this group of workers been able to
support them throughout the last decade. So government, in it wisdom, has
borrowed the extra money needed for their support as well as other questionable
government activities.
Simply,
you can't know that you don't know something that you don't know. Most voters
get 'news' from sources who either don't know something and think they do or
they have an agenda that is designed to mislead. They pass this on through the
media outlets and the mislead now think they fully know and understand what is
at issue. They now know what 'IS' and
never question the issue again. So should the misleading be exposed to them at
some later point they simple dismiss it. Lying and misleading in politics is
the most used and overused political part of any campaign.
When a
society loses its ability to ferret out the lies in political campaigns,
society loses its freedom. It loses its way… It is then and only then that
government can step into this vacuum and begin to direct and control the
citizens. Is this a done deal or is this still hiding just over the horizon.
Where
are we today in this transition from a government for and by the people to
a dictatorial form of government? We
have a president who is more than willing to by-pass congress using executive
orders granting government greater power over citizens lives. We have a
congress who is more than willing to take more and more money from business and
working people to use any way they see fit.
The
American voters have participated in this political transition and have
condoned this behavior by our government through electing and reelecting the
same group of officials over and over. We have lost the ability to recognize
the political lies and deceits. There is a growing group of voters that are
trading their votes for government handouts. Either way it is a sad commentary.
2010
election was our step forward. A first step in the taking back of our
government. The battle in this campaign is not with Obama and all the problems he has caused but with the
ignorance in the population at
large and the liberal media. (watch the
video below)
Below is the wrap-up paragraph from a speech of Patrick
Caddell on September 21 at
Accuracy in Media's Conference --Obsmanation: A Day of Truth
The fundamental danger is this: I talked about the
defense of the First Amendment. The press’s job is to stand in the
ramparts and protect the liberty and freedom of all of us from a government and
from organized governmental power. When they desert those ramparts and
decide that they will now become active participants, that their job is not
simply to tell you who you may vote for, and who you may not, but, worse—and this is the danger of the
last two weeks—what truth that you may know, as an American, and what truth you
are not allowed to know, they have, then, made themselves a fundamental
threat to the democracy, and, in my opinion, made themselves the enemy of the
American people.
And it is a threat to the very future of this country if we allow
this stuff to go on. We have crossed a whole new and frightening slide on
the slippery slope this last two weeks, and it needs to be talked about. (He is
referring to the news releases in support of the President stories about
Libya.)
We have
seen the media wrap themselves with the flag and champion causes and cover-ups
for this administration while campaigning for the current president. We have
seen the press misrepresent Romney and his ideas and goals without any effort
to understand them. The media is the core element the elite political class
uses in its efforts to deceive and direct uninvolved voters as to who they
should vote for and what information they should have. They are the voice of
the political class. With the help of the media liberals have sold the idea of
government being the most able to decide what is best for the voters, who
should be taken care of, and where and how all resources should be
allocated. Without the media the liberals
would be relegated to a small third party with exhausted socialist ideals.
The Tea
Party cannot educate all the people who may or may not vote. Theres are simply
too many in numbers. But we know and we can encourage voters who have given up
on government. People who government has
disenfranchised. People who feel betrayed. In a way we understand this voter.
Their feelings resonate with our own. Often time these very voters make
the difference and few understand that
their choice in not voting becomes an indirect vote for the incumbent.
So much
to do and so little time. The first debate is Wednesday night. Obama should be
his brilliant self and Romney must find the skills to deliver a conservative
agenda that will be understood along with a clear message as to the financial
and international dangers this country is facing. Over the course of these debates Romney will win or lose the
election. I believe this, many people I know believe this and hopefully Romney
knows this. It was in such presidential debates that Reagan won the election by
beating Carter. By the time the third debate was over the polls had moved
twenty points from Carter's lead to Reagan leading. Annuit coeptis….
In our
hands the pot has been shaped. Romney must now fill the pot with conservative
ideals and invite the nation to grow the fruit.
Below is
a video of Pat Condell. I don't know how many readers know Pat. He lives in
England and writes and talks about the impact of the liberal government that
has been in control of England for over a decade. I attached the video to this
article because I feel this man's directness and passion is what is so sorely
needed during these next four weeks. When I watched this video I wondered what
would happen if Romney was as direct and as passionate as Pat for the rest of
this campaign. What do you think?
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
Pat Condell
