01 commonsense political thinking booklet

Commonsense
Political Thinking
of a
Common Man, I
Essays 2009 - 10
By
Gerald J. Furnkranz

Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man, Book One
Table of Contents
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1. The Constitution 1
2. Conservative 2
3. Corruption Reigns In Government 7
4. Government Is Organized Crime 8
5. C is for City, Incubator of Corruption 9
6. Common Political Tools 10
7. Trashing Our Founding Fathers 11
8. Acquiescing to European Socialism 12
9. As A People We Are Selling Our Freedoms 13
10. Chain Linked Union 14
11. Democracy, A Search For Truth 15
12. Truth and Liars 16
13. Government Elites; The Wolves and the Sheep 17
14. The Big Con 18
15. The Hustlers and Conmen 20
16. Inducing The Financial Meltdown 20
17. Institutional Preservation 22
18. Law Enforcement More Important Than Enacting 23
19. Liberalism; Dedicated To Failure 25
20. The Emphasis On Self-esteem 27
21. Self-esteem Once More 28
22. Transparency of an Iron Curtain 29
23. Unlimited Power 31
24. What Is A Potato 32
25. Racism 33
26. Socialism; Pushing A Political Agenda 34
27. Politicians of Poor Character Insured 35
28. Subtle Oppression 36
29. Founding Fathers vs Political Professionals 39
30. Facing the Four Horsemen 42
31. Disdain for Those In Red States 42
32. More Money To Government Equals More Corruption 43
33. Belt Tightening 44
34. Government Gluttony 44
35. What Freedom Offers 45
36. Fed Recession Proof 46
37. Movement Not Accomplishment 46
38. Realigning Classes 47
39. Americans Don’t Trust Congress 47
40. Government Healthcare 48
41. Massa Manure 49
42. Don’t Let Them Eat Cake 49
43. Education: The Purveyor of Corruption 50
44. We Do Need Another Hero: Michelle Rhee 51
45. Education Hypocrisy Pattern 53

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46. Education Obesity Hypocrisy 53
47. False Self-esteem and Education 55
48. Promoting the “Piss Christ” School of Art 55
49. Simple Solutions 56
50. Furnkranzisms 58

By
Gerald J. Furnkranz
Essay: All Hail Constitution (2010)
An American Hero
At the very start I would like to say a few words about the Constitution. Not the miracle of
the United States Constitution, penned in 1787, the law of the land of a new nation. The
Constitution constructed by our founding fathers, to bring the ideals of freedom and human
rights to the world. I am talking about the USS Constitution, born ten years later. The
United States Ship which bore the proud name of the law of the land where freedom first
rang.
The proud ship USS Constitution built in 1797, one of six frigates to lay the keel of the
United States Navy. This ship so much embodied the spirit of America that went into the
framing of its namesake US Constitution, the foundation of our rule of law.
One of six frigates ordered by Congress, she was built along with two other large, 44 gun
frigates the United States and the President. Three smaller 36 gun frigates the Constellation,
Congress and Chesapeake, would comprise the fledgling United States Navy.
Built in Boston with Yankee know how and craftsmanship, the USS Constitution forged a
place in our history that typifies the American Story. She saw her first action in War against
the Barbary States to defend our sovereignty, “Millions for defense but not one cent for
tribute.” On the shores of Tripoli transpired the baptism of the United States Navy and
Marines.
During the War of 1812, the survival of our infant nation hung in the balance. There were
few victories in the land war to carry the spirit of America. Still, we persisted, our nation’s
fortunes turning again to the sea.
The Naval War of 1812 began with the Constitution outrunning a devastatingly superior
British squadron that would have canceled her illustrious career before it began. At sea, the
USS Constitution carried the load. Defeating the British Frigate Guerrière, the Constitution
was hailed as “Old Ironsides” a name she carries till this very day.
She followed up against the Frigate Java in a fierce and bloody action. Taking on two at
once, the small Frigate Cyane and Sloop Levant in another battle, once more she was
victorious over the ruler of the seas. England, whose captains had not struck their colors in
surrender in almost ten years! What “Old Ironsides” could not out run she could out gun.
She is a monument to Yankee ingenuity like the US Constitution. (Next - “Old Ironsides”
Wood and Canvas, Sweat and Blood)

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Part 2. “Old Ironsides” Wood and Canvas, Sweat and Blood
The USS Constitution faced dismantling upon the scrap heap in 1830. Oliver Wendell
Holmes wrote “Old Ironsides” a poem pleading for her survival. “Ay, tear her tattered ensign
down,” he lamented. He saved the USS Constitution, “Old Ironsides”, from a dishonorable
fate amongst the trash heap of lost history. He resurrected a symbol of the American Spirit
and those who gave their lives for the freedoms the people of America enjoy.
USS Constitution was manned by men of the sea, as was our country in the early days.
Every man, woman and child coming to this country was tempered by the hardships of the
sea. From Jamestown to the Pilgrims at Plymouth and the slaves brought against their will in
those “hell on earth” slave ships. The sea tempered the spirit and strength of the American,
therefore America. The sea spawned the new nation where freedom and opportunity would
someday reign.
Those men of the sea were like the Constitution’s fittings, a natural part of the ship. Like her
strong and sleek hull, her canvas cloud of driving sails and her wooden bulkheads that wore
like iron. “Old Ironsides” was an entity of solid timber, cloth, rope, copper and iron put
together in beautiful fashion. She too was an entity of sweat, flesh and blood that beat in her
heart and the hearts of those brave souls that sailed her to victory, one after another.
Her birth was over two hundred years ago. Most of her gallant actions are just over a year
short of that mark. Yet her life goes on just like the Constitution, our law. Both were
constructed with great care and great purpose. The ship incorporated ideas far advanced for
its time, as did the document. They endure, proud and glorious for their accomplishments.
Together they live on and can be seen today, solid structures of our nation’s greatness.
Memorials they are to those who gave life and limb for the freedoms and abundant existence
we enjoy today.
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Essay: Conservative, Liberal, Progressive (2010)
Words are manipulated terribly in our world today. Words are bent to fool people.
Marketing to manipulate, words are twisted to bamboozle. Meanings are changed to fit
political agendas. Words are warped to confuse people.
So, let’s look at some political words. How about three for a start? Conservative, liberal and
progressive should make a good beginning.
First let’s look at what some dictionaries say.
Webster’s Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Copyright; 1936, by The
World Syndicate Publishing Company

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Conservative – adjective. 1. Preservative; having the power to preserve in a safe or entire
state, or from waste, loss or injury. 2. Respecting old institutions, methods, customs and the
like; adhering to what is old or established; not given to change merely for the sake of
change; said of a person and their positions. 3. In the political sense, having a tendency to
uphold and preserve entire existing institutions, both civil and ecclesiastical; opposed to
radical changes or innovations in church or state.
Conservative – noun. 1. A person or thing tending to preserve from ruin or injury; a
conserver. 2. One who wishes to preserve from ruin or radical change; one who wishes to
maintain an institution, or government in its present state.
Liberal - adjective. 1. Of free heart; free to give or bestow; munificent; bountiful; generous;
giving largely; as a, liberal donor. 2. Generous, ample, large, as a liberal donation. 3. Not
selfish, narrow, bigoted, or contracted; catholic; enlarged; embracing other interests than
ones own; as liberal sentiments. 4. General: extensive; embracing literature and the sciences
generally; as a liberal education. 5. Free; not literal or strict; as, a liberal construction of the
law. 6. Not mean; not low in birth or mind.
Liberal - noun. 1. one who advocates greater freedom of thought or action; one who has
liberal principles.
Progressive, - adjective. 1. moving forward, advancing. 2. Improving; aiding or inclined to
aid progress; working or endeavoring to secure advancement.
Webster’s New World Dictionary of American English Language, Copyright; 1991, by
Simon and Schuster, Inc.
Conservative – adjective. 1. Conserving or tending to conserve; preservative 2. tending to
preserve established traditions or institutions and to resist or oppose any changes in these.
Liberal - adjective. 1. suitable for a freeman; not restricted; now only in liberal arts. 2.
Giving freely, generous 3. large or plentiful; ample; abundant 4. Not restricted to the literal
meaning; not strict 5. tolerant of views differing from one’s own; broad minded, not
orthodox 6. of democratic or republican forms of government, as distinguished from
monarchies and aristocracies.
Progressive - adjective. 1. Moving forward or onward. 2. Continuing by successive steps.
3. of, or concerned with progression. 5. Favoring, working for, or characterized by progress
or improvement, as through political or social reform. 6. of an education system stressing
individuality, self-expression, etc. 7. Gram. indicating continuing action or state, or action
in progress, as certain verb forms 8 Medical. Becoming more severe or spreading to other
parts; said of a disease.
The discussion of conservatives, liberals and progressives in politics is often clouded by the
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and fool the people, so are these words used by politicians to camouflage the truth. Perhaps
it would be more honest to say perpetrate lies upon us.
This has evolved to today’s use of political correctness perpetrated by the political, education
and journalism industries to give words rigid definition that are made offensive to some, so
they cannot be used. In the 2008 presidential election “socialism” was equated with
“racism”, discouraging its use to characterize a candidate’s political orientation.
Certain words are reduced to a letter, making them taboo for certain members of society to
use, but okay for others. Likewise the word hypocrite was ban from congress, where
hypocrites swarm like flies at a garbage can on a 90 degree summer day in a city alley.
That’s like not being able to call cattle, cattle amongst a herd of cattle.
What would the word conservative, derived from word definitions indicate about ones
political leaning? Where would those definitions be inaccurate about those leaning?
First, our Founding Fathers were liberals in many ways. They were of free heart; free to give
or bestow; munificent; bountiful; generous; giving largely; as a, liberal donor. This was not
in terms of money or things, but certainly was in terms of freedoms and opportunities. That
is the abundance the founders of this country gave, freedom and opportunity.
Many point today saying, “But they had slaves, that was not being generous with freedom.”
One must remember the times. It was still a very barbaric and uncivilized time. They were
forming a new and innovative government, in which the people had the power. This was
unprecedented. In the Constitution and the Bill of Rights the founders set the course for
freedom.
Many involved in this process needed the slaves to insure economic success of their
plantations. I do not justify slavery in any way, but powers were present to make the
abolition of slavery dangerous for this new government forming. Those men put in place the
ideas and mechanisms that would be a catalyst to bring slavery to an end, in the not so distant
future.
Let us remember, slavery existed long before America ever came into existence. It was
imported to America. America began the process of freedom that brought it to an end. Yes,
that process began in Britain, but I would say was inspired by the U.S. Constitution.
The definition, “of democratic or republican forms of government, as distinguished from
monarchies and aristocracies, certainly identifies our founding fathers as liberals. So, in
many ways our founding fathers were liberals.
However, they put together a constitution that certainly showed a belief in conservatism.
Their liberal constitution intended to give freedom to all men, and protect men from intrusive
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They set up the new government with a structure to control changes. New ideas introduced
had to be well thought out, moved along slowly and deliberately. They established a rule of
law that had to be respected. They set checks and balances so no one individual or group
could run away with the process and steal the power for themselves.
They believed conservatively in having the power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from
waste, loss or injury. They wanted respect for the old institutions, (the constitution they
established) methods, customs and the like; adhering to what is old or established; the
constitution that they constructed with much thought and care. They were not given to
change merely for the sake of change. They wanted the change to be necessary and an
improvement. The system forced the thought due such matters.
In this way they were progressives, setting up a system that could slowly change for the
better with consideration and care, for constant improvement. The constitution was a living
document that could be amended and improved throughout its existence. But, could not be
changed whimsically or to usurp the power of the people.
As civilization grew in stature, the U.S. Constitution could grow, making us a more perfect
union and ultimate example to the world. The growth of the Constitution was to be change
within the framework of the Constitution, not the change of words or warped interpretations,
not semantics, the bastardization of words and political correctness. Not at the whimsy of
those that would destroy the Constitution.
Constant improvement, striving everyday to be better, this is the spirit America had from its
inception. This was the exceptional quest human freedom spawned. Birthed the desire and
opportunity for anyone and everyone to build, advance, progress and grow! This desire to
live better and better the plight of others, your neighbors, was built into America.
Our forefathers exhibited flexibility. They were liberal when it came to freedom and
opportunity. They were conservative when it came to the preservation of that freedom,
protecting that miracle document, the Constitution. They were progressive, building the
document so it could change and grow with the times. It maintained its discipline but
allowed flexibility for maintenance and advancement of those freedoms.
Those assaulting out constitution and our freedoms today use the words conservative, liberal
and progressive as part of that assault. They would present conservative as backward,
reactionary wanting to flee to the past.
However, wanting to preserve our constitution, that miracle document that changed the
world, is not a bad thing. The constitution was and still is an innovative document that
outlines the freedoms we are due as human beings. Anything less than that is tyranny! Our
democracy is the only thing that stands in the way of old style monarchies and aristocracies.
It also is the only deterrent to today’s dictatorships, formed under the names of
progressivism, socialism, Marxism and communism.

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Some of the definitions of conservative would suggest a complete aversion to change. Such
is not the case. Conservatives want to see that constant improvement, government getting
more effective and efficient, they just do not want government’s progress to be constant
growth, becoming more and more intrusive, absconding with the freedoms and individual
rights.
Today’s liberals are far different than our liberal founders. Of free heart is an image they
project effectively by the mechanisms of being free to give or bestow. That generosity is
almost always the bounty of others collected by government from oppressive taxes and fees.
Living largely they liberally donate the fruits of others toils to advance their political position
to get re-elected.
While not selfish with the fruits of other’s labor, they are often cheap with what they have
and use those fruits of others labor to enhance their own fruit cellar. While not narrow or
bigoted generally referred to the outlook of our founders, embracing other interests than ones
own does not apply to today’s liberal. They dismiss the ideas of their conservative opponents
summarily.
They do embrace the literature and the sciences that support their political causes. They
push a liberal education industry that supports their political leanings, teaching what to think,
liberal dogma, rather than how to think, including objectivity and critical thinking. In
interpretation of the laws, the Constitution, they are free; not literal or strict; as, a liberal
construction of the law. It is almost as Saul Alinski described the truth of his “community
organizer”.
Alinsky defines “community organizer” writing, “He does not have a fixed truth – truth to
him is relative and changing.” This is how liberals approach the “Constitution of the United
States of America”. They read it as it fits into their political, personal and professional
agendas, not how it serves the freedoms of the people. In fact it is being used today to strip
the people of their freedoms.
Progressive is the name liberals are wearing because they have polluted the term liberal with
a bad reputation. Defined as favoring, working for, or characterized by progress or
improvement, as through political or social reform it sounds very altruistic, good, right and
just. When you see it in practice, most often it is the individual politician or bureaucrat
working for their own progress and advancement and not that of the people they are serving.
It includes heavy taxation to support government bureaucracy and programs that usurp the
freedoms of the people.
Progressive education is often a plank of the progressive platform. This is an education
system stressing individuality and self-expression, etc. It has dropped the idea of subjects
being disciplines, and substituted discipline with everything being fun. Educational results
have been substituted for educational experience whether anything is learned from the
experience or not. That’s why education today is failing. It is indoctrination, hollow and
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It is odd how the medical term for progressive meshes so well with the way progressivism is
playing out politically. As it is becoming more severe or spreading, progressing to other
parts; like a disease.
Words manipulated, to sway opinion, support and votes in their direction is not only the
purview of the politician, but has become the domain of the educator, journalist and scientist!
Marketing has become as much a tool in academia and so many of the offshoots formed by
seeds planted in the academic environment. Words are weapons used with the same intents
of deception and acrimony, perhaps not to kill the body, but to kill the reputation, rendering
an opponent impotent.
Liberals and progressives use words in this way. They are the pusher of political correctness
which changes and bends the meaning of words in order to control or stop debate. The
absence of debate is the death sentence for our democratic republic!
*****
Essay: Corruption Reigns In Government
January 18, 2010
Corruption reigns in our halls of government! Respect for law is crumbling! Young
children are raped, beaten, burned and killed on our school yards and streets while spectators
take cell phone pictures, not calling 911. Government and media elite outrage is
hypocritical! There should be no surprise lawlessness is spreading! (ie Roman Polanski)
Respect for the law is essential to our democratic republic. People lose respect for the
law when:
1. The laws are not enforced, benefiting those in power. (ie. Failed Immigration Law
for about fifty years, without enforcement wanting to make illegal immigrants legal to
hustle votes for the democrat party.)
2. The laws are passed to oppress people and reverse constitutional freedoms. (ie.
Fairness doctrine – controlling and silencing conservative talk radio, Gun Control –
violating the second amendment of the Constitution.)
3. The laws exclude elites from oppressive laws on the people. (ie. Government
officials Wrangle, Gietner, Dashle, Dodd etc. have been caught in illegal behavior
and excuses are made so they can get away with it.)
4. The laws are passed in secret; made cumbersome and confusing as a smoke screen.
(Healthcare, over 2000 pages, even many of those voting on it in the democrat party
said they didn’t read it and wouldn’t understand it if they had. The TARP, bailout
and numerous other bills were passed under the same circumstances.)
5. The law maker’s objectives are quantity, not quality. (Healthcare etc.)
6. The laws are allowed to be broken by government officials without consequences.
7. The laws of oppressive taxation are used to conceal politician’s greed, gluttony, graft,
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because government cannot manage properly. They have become so used to this,
spending and taxing are the only skills they have.)
8. The laws of arrogance, ignorance and stupidity are prevalent. (Carbon cap and tax –
destroying our economy, our nation because they are lousy leaders.))
When law makers and guardians scoff at the law, laws will lose credibility. People
will not live by the laws lawmakers, enforcers and interpreters unethically and illegally
ignore. Society will become lawless and conscienceless like our politicians, judges, lawyers
and bureaucrats. Leadership’s lack of respect for the law nurtures the people’s lack of
respect for leadership and law.
People want to trust the government but leaders cultivating a decaying rule of law are
debasing and destroying the foundation of America.
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Essay: Government Has Become Organized Crime (2010)
Listening to politicians discussing methods to deal with government expenditures during this
world wide economic break down is laughable. They’re going to increase revenues. Cutting
spending is not an option for these public servant parasites.
This is particularly ludicrous when you consider waste, incompetence, corruption and fraud
is the cause of misuse of hundreds of billions, perhaps a trillion dollars each year. Payoffs to
politicians, and money paid for nothing done, by private and public employees. Fraudulent
claims by those using and running the public dole programs. Redundant programs to address
problems that are not solved or even addressed by a single one of them. Government
thinkers seem to find a trillion and one ways to burn money.
Government is no different than the corporations or individuals they chide for not controlling
their spending and saving more. In fact, government is a poor example as they bleed the
people to satisfy their own gluttony. Driven by their greed for power and money they must
always do less with more. They practice inefficiency, ineffectiveness and failure because
like with education, it is an excuse for more revenue.
It is an excuse to fleece the people in the name of the people, just like the education industry
steals the future of the children in the name of the children. The scam being run on the
American People by its politicians is criminal, designed to sap the strength of the people.
The people must take America back from organized crime, the government.
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C is for City, Incubator of Corruption
Part 1
Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison, December 20, 1787, “When we get piled upon
one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
What was Jefferson seeing? How would the heaping of humanity in an metropolitan pile
create increased corruption?
The pooling of money anywhere, but especially in government tends to attract corruption.
Larger cities will therefore attract greater riches and will consequently draw greater
corruption like a magnet.
The liberal’s quest for socialism, larger government taking on more of the personal
responsibilities of the people builds bigger reservoirs for that pooling of money. Government
bureaucrats handle it, creating numerous opportunities for extensive dishonesty,
incompetence, ineptitude and waste; inviting corruption. It allows those lacking talent,
except in the deceptive arts the opportunity to arrest power and the people’s freedoms.
Then the picture of stacking poor minorities in the low cost housing projects mega building
communities of the ‘70’s and ‘80’s comes to mind. Mausoleums where crime and poverty
were nurtured like a fungus! Prisons seem stacked with those same dark and dismal
hallways, insuring futility.
Big city blue states tend to be liberal (progressive) leaning toward socialism, seeking large
governments taking more of the people’s responsibility, therefore freedom from the people.
They are the states with the huge cities, stacked high with arrogant blue blood bureaucrat-
wardens, fostering dependence among the people.
Look at the attack on rural America. Disarming folk, limiting hunting, open fires, water
usage for farming, actually legislating chains on the self-sustaining American Pioneer Spirit!
Bureaucrats are attempting to forge the chains of dependence in the rural areas. The red
states, strongholds of independence where freedom is treasured and simple commonsense
common folk still exist.
Jefferson had a point! We follow the European metropolitan corruption model!
Part 2
While Jefferson’s line, “When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in
Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe,” explained a phenomenon, his line to Edward
Carrington revealed the motive. “Jefferson’s 1787 letter stated, “Among [European
Governments], under pretense of governing, they have divided their nations into two classes,
wolves and sheep.”
Metropolitan megalithic monuments are the perfect place to stack, file and captivate
the people. Like rooms of file cabinets, side by side, piled with people controlling data.
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City dwellers cannot be self sustaining. They are dependent upon bureaucratic
services. Bureaucrats (wolves) have the people (sheep) on a leash, able to control them by
their needs, for their survival. Government not teaching to fish, the people wait like trained
seals to be thrown a fish.
People are crammed into those buildings, like cattle in the stockyard. They are
available, at the whim of the bureaucrats, easy to obtain. So available they can easily be led
to slaughter, figuratively, perhaps literally!
A better comparison might be from H.G. Wells “Time Machine”, in which the hero
visits a future where humanity splits. The cannibalistic Morlocks (wolves) cultivate the
docile Elois (sheep) like cattle for their own subsistence.
This is the promise of socialism, a nation of people selling themselves into
dependency. Giving up their freedoms for things, promises that have been and will again be
defaulted upon, the people selling “themselves” into slavery!
*****
Essay: Common Political Tools (2010)
Our government and its institutions are not merely falling into corruption. They are seeking
it out and wallowing in corruption. They are choosing the tools of corruption to get their
objectives completed, therefore their work accomplished is corrupt.
Let’s look at the tools of corruption, hypocrisy, arrogance, marketing, lying, cheating and
stealing.
Hypocrisy, saying one thing yet doing another, is a tool of the politician. Political books
followed by many politicians espouse just this behavior. Saul Alinski’s Rules for Radical not
only condones such behavior but suggests it as a viable tool to get what you want. He says it
is okay to make promises and break them because you are wiser, doing it for the good of the
people. Therefore your broken promises are for the good of the people.
So many politicians exemplify this attitude with their behavior. Accepting money for
providing their influence has become so prominent, it is difficult to prove it illegal. Influence
peddling has become the norm amongst politicians.
Arrogance is typified by that Alinski attitude and many other suggestions in his book.
Arrogance comes out in so many other ways. Politicians that think they know what is best
for the people. They take money from the people, more and more thinking they know how to
spend it better. The more they collect, the more they divert to their own pockets and to their
cronies. In the end they tell themselves their thievery is for the good of the people.
Marketing, the promoting or and selling of something with words. Marketing in itself is
inherently dishonest. It buffs an image by selling the good points and glossing over the bad.
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Politicians market nonexistent character designed to get people; voters to believe them
instead of gaining credibility through honesty. Marketing is a major political tool that side
steps honesty and embraces corruption. Marketing worships the image over substance.
Lying is often the aim of marketing. Casting false images to the public to make them think
they are seeing something when they are not. Making them think they are seeing an honest
man when what they are really looking at is a low down skunk.
Politicians have embraced lying, making lying synonymous with the term politicians.
Unfortunately the people have come to accept the fact politicians lie constantly. They have
come to accept the joke, “How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving!”
Lying for politicians seems to have become that prevalent.
Cheating the people and their families professional politicians have become regarded as one
of the lowest forms of life. They vote money to something so there is a pool for them to
drink from, quenching their greed and a trough to eat from to satiate their gluttony.
Stealing is the culmination of all the other tools of corruption politicians use! They scheme
and skulk in dark rooms to benefit themselves, stealing money and freedom from the people.
A liar and cheater will certainly become a thief.
Is it any wonder our government is in turmoil? That our democracy is on the verge of
collapse?
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Essay: Trashing Our Founding Fathers (2010)
I often wondered what purpose there is for liberals (progressives) to trash our founding
fathers that gave us such opportunities to use our freedoms. As that thought bounced around
in my head, I began to see.
Simple thinking and common sense are the bane of big government bureaucrats. The
development of the independent body and mind is antithetical to dictators, kings and
bureaucrats.
Bureaucrats must paralyze the people with procrastination, using a giant maze of rules, laws
and obstacles to clear and independent thinking. They do this with confusing 2000 page
laws, camouflaging legal language and the seduction of governments doling of booty.
Dishonesty and hypocrisy are accepted tools of this type of rule. Lying, cheating and
stealing are all in this government’s tool box.
The words of our exceptional founding fathers are detrimental to a socialist progressive
movement. So those words must be discredited using the lies of revisionist history. Hiding
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What could be the purpose of such destructive actions? They are selfish objectives. Not
striving for a government of, by and for the people, but a quest for power. It is a desire for a
government to control the people.
This government is motivated by personal greed, gluttony and grandeur! These leaders see
the people as no more than animals to enhance their own situation in life. Warping, even
destroying truth does not deter them. It is necessary to cultivate their destructive vision for
our future devoid of integrity.
*****
Essay: Acquiescing to European Socialism (2010)
Acquiescing to Obama’s European progressive socialism is like anchoring ourselves to deck
chairs on the Titanic when we already know the result of the voyage. We are seeing
European economies failing and others approaching failure. Government giveaways they can
no longer afford are such a burden they are driving them under financially.
France and Germany are trying to return to capitalism to right their ship. German and
Spanish think tanks have refuted Obama’s green economy, stating it is driving their
economies down, not up. The European Union is moving to fiscal conservatism instead of
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s method of spending out of a recession into a depression.
European socialist governments have driven their ships of state onto the fiscal rocks, sailing
them to hopelessness. Our captains are following the exact same course that has been so
destructive to Greece, Spain and many other European countries. So much so the stability of
the European Union is being threatened. To do the same, is scuttling our own economy, our
country’s future.
We have become an unhappy society thinking sitting in the deck chairs on a great ocean
liner, voyaging to wherever it wishes to take us will bring us happiness. It is like the self-
esteem the education industry sells, telling us we’re wonderful and all is fine, hoping
eventually we’ll believe it. In our malaise we’ll sail meekly to our destruction.
Such is not the case with most Americans! I believe the desire to be productive is human
nature. Happiness and self-contentment only comes with being honest with ones self. Deep
inside we know the truth. Facing the truth is the road to happiness and self fulfillment.
Happiness comes from purpose. Step by step setting goals and working toward them. An
ocean cruise resting on a deck chair might be a goal for two weeks vacation, but not an end.
People live longer and happier with a reason to live beyond stagnating seated on an endless
voyage, or a voyage to nowhere.
Governments that would herd people like animals into their picture of how the people should
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should live. Who are they to take over our brain and body and decide the course our life
should take.
Perhaps we do not want a docile voyage. We want a voyage of discovery, finding out
realities and truths, not their preferred, indoctrinated dogma. Happiness is not docile, it is
doing something, accomplishment so you can feel satisfaction. Growth is what makes life
worthwhile.
Our democratic republic gives us those opportunities for happiness through the freedom it
affords. It gives us the opportunity to live a productive life and try to reach our potential. It
does not guarantee we will. However, it does not guarantee we won’t as does the progressive
socialism of Europe.
*****
Essay: As A People We Are Selling Our Freedoms (2010)
Part 1
Americans are selling our freedoms! Why would we sell ourselves into slavery when for
over two hundred and twenty years Americans have given their lives to secure and ensure the
wonderful freedoms we have?
Alexis de Tocqueville in the mid 1800s warned the abundance the American system of
freedom offered would evolve to people willingly giving up their freedom to receive more of
that abundance from government. The people would eventually reject the opportunity to
forge their own life of abundance through their own actions…hard work. They would give
up that freedom for the lazy life of being given things by the government…selling
themselves into slavery for things.
Why would we do such a thing? Fear is being cast upon us constantly. Fear of dying is
instilled, even the inevitable conclusion of old age. So we hand healthcare to the government
giving bureaucrats the power over life and death. We have become a legalized drug addicted
culture for the promise of health and postponing dying.
Social Security evolved because of the fear we would not be able to take care of ourselves in
old age. A government prolonged depression in the 30’s cultivated that fear.
The failing government promise only made us less able to take care of ourselves, creating
dependence on a system that can neither insure a decent life in old age as is, or perhaps not
even be there to be of any help. It only handed a pool of money to politicians to squander in
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Part 2
The freedoms Americans were and some still are willing to die for are now being sold by
many for things.
Instead of a productive job earning a living and building a life, many are willing to collect a
check from the government for existence. Fear of no security has people selling their
potential and dreams for the security of slavery.
Insecurity has people frightened, giving up on their own resourcefulness to survive and thrive
in a free society. So people sell their vote for what they think they can get from the
government, creating a corrupt government that runs itself to buy votes. The more that sell
their freedom and forgo enterprise, the fewer people there are to finance the government in
the style it has become accustomed.
As time goes on, there is less and less to give to the growing population of those self selected
slaves. As the workers and earners diminish, parasites increase. The money spread between
the parasites is decreasing while the population of the parasites is encouraged to increase to
secure the power for the government. The livelihood for those selling themselves into
slavery diminishes till government care is not so caring. It evolves to real slavery.
The freebies designed to help the poor and supposedly disband the class of poor, only serves
to push those in the middle down into the poor class, expanding in droves those in poverty.
A far deeper poverty than exists now.
Government expansion into socialism is trickle up poverty.
*****
Essay: Chain Link Unions (2010)
One cannot deny labor unions were essential to the development of American democracy,
capitalism and freedom. However, the present role of labor unions is doing much to destroy
democracy, capitalism and freedom.
The union movement in general, which includes unions of nations, is promoting sameness,
equality of results, quashing the dynamism afforded by democracy, capitalism and freedom.
Labor unions have evolved into a power broker more concerned with expansion and
domination than the plight of the worker. They are far more engaged in defending the
problem worker than those good workers who are the vast majority of the union. They put
chains on the good workers to bring them to the level of the problem and poor worker,
destroying moral in the process. People begin to question, “Why have a good work ethic?”
Unions of countries are doing the same thing. They are promoting mediocrity giving shorter
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national economies. They do not care if prosperity is greatly diminished as long as misery is
shared equally by the masses, but not by them, those in government, the politicians, the
power elite.
Unions have become purveyors of trickle down poverty, punishing those wanting and willing
to work. They are weakening the American people and our great country of freedoms. Now
politicians want to unit with the rest of the world, forming unions of countries which seek the
same kind of lazy mediocrity, nullifying the freedoms and advances America brought to the
world.
Part 2
Make no mistake corporate greed, gluttony and power are the examples union leadership has
modeled, but taken still further to arrest power from corporations. It seems neither one is
really worried about the company. Corporate people are worried about their bonuses and
union management worries about the money to their pockets motivating union expansion.
Shareholders and workers are last on their lists of concerns.
The same is true of government leadership, where unions have their most powerful grip these
days. Unions make sure the government pays their people top dollar while they are bleeding
those high salaries and overly generous benefits from the hides of the population of workers
they are destroying.
Who will pay for more government workers and government spongers, when hard work is
being punished by government through continually burdensome taxes and penalties on the
producers?
Government is not a producer, but a parasite of those who produce. Like professional
politicians are not producers, but merely parasites of those who produce! All under the tent
of government, including education, strives for mediocrity, naturally aiming and hitting
lower, in order to expand.
*****
Essay: Democracy; A Search For Truth (2010)
The education industry is the perfect place to begin a political movement. Infiltration into
education is the perfect course for an ideology to take to worm its way into society and
become acceptable. Zealots taking over education; transforming it into indoctrination instead
of nurturing the free thinking mind is a perfect plan.
One might say our founding fathers did such a thing with the institutionalizing of democracy
and capitalism in America. To make such a charge would be wrong, but open the door for
healthy debate, something our Founding Fathers were not afraid. They knew open debate
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There in lies the answer to this debate. Ideological propagandists want to hijack the
education system in order to insert their way of thinking into society. They want to
indoctrinate, play the drum beat of marketing slogans to brainwash people to their way of
thinking. This is totally contrary to the vision and actions of our forefathers.
Our forefathers wanted to purvey the truth. Debate gets us closer to that truth. The dream of
democracy is to get closer and closer to that truth. In his letter to George Wythe, August
1786 Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The most important bill in our whole code is that for the
diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised, for the
preservation of freedom and happiness.” Jefferson saw the decisive role of public education,
a thinking population, as essential to the existence of democracy.
Totalitarians, communists, Marists and socialists see indoctrination through the education
system as essential to purveying their ideas. Their teaching of prescribed thoughts and ideas,
one side of the story, with the debate, the search for the truth destroyed. That is the
difference! Here is where these ideologies reveal themselves.
The opponents of democracy want the education systems to indoctrinate to their way of
thinking. Democracy seeks education to cultivate a thinking reasoning population, stirring
the debate in the quest for the truth.
*****
Essay: Truth And Liars (2010)
It is amazing to me how truth is attacked as incivility and venomous and habitual lying is
overlooked, even rewarded by the media. Such handling of the truth is most often the
behavior of liars.
I have often been told, “There is merit to what you say. It is just the way you say it.” I used
to choose my words very carefully so as not to offend. As I was criticized, I tempered my
words further, extremely conscious of people’s feelings.
After a time, I caught on to the game. Those people clouding the truth manipulate people to
soften their rhetoric to the point where their words are so diluted, they are easily ignored.
Why should truth need to be tempered? It should only need to be tempered for those afraid
of the truth. Marketing often replaces communicating the truth. Drum beating a dishonest
message can successfully mask a lie, impersonating truth! Watering down truth with
political correctness allows such marketing to be very powerful and insure success of the big
lies.
Marketing to manipulate rather than communicating to inform of the truth has become a
primary tool of politics, education, journalism and even science (Global Warming). The
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When lies are purveyed as truth and truth…incivility it is certainly the sign of a society
walking a very corrupt path. Values and morals mean nothing. Integrity erased from that
societies dictionary!
*****
Essay: Government Elite; The Wolves and the Sheep
The socialist or secular movement to deify the state is designed to divide America into two
classes, government elites and the poor. Once government workers were compensated with
slightly better benefits because their salaries were somewhat lower! The push to enlist voters
for larger government has changed all that.
In order to encourage voting for larger government, government workers have been bribed
with better salaries and benefits than the equivalent private sector. Government salaries are
calculated to be about 30% higher and benefits about 70% higher than the private sector.
In addition, they are free of layoffs, as federal and state workers will tell you, they are
recession proof. They are also practically free of firing, indicating performance standards are
nonexistent. As Nobel Economist the late Milton Friedman revealed half a century ago,
government could accomplish half the results at twice the cost, or 1/4th
the effectiveness. So
productivity is not a concern of the public sector.
With the excellent benefits today, Friedman’s formula has probably changed to a quarter of
the results at four times the cost, resulting in 1/16th
of the effectiveness. Productivity is even
less of a concern today. Public employees are fat and happy, selfishly oblivious as to what is
going on in the real world.
Working for the government is a pretty cushy job, and is lucrative for government
employees. Yet, they produce no money, no profit. In fact all they do is spend! Yes, they
provide over sight and regulation, both of which usually inhibit our economy where the
money is made that supports government functions.
I’m not saying some oversight isn’t necessary. However, the lazy, lethargic approach
government takes usually has them failing in that oversight. They tend to nitpick on the
small things and let laziness allow the big things to slip through their fingers. Fatal Chinese
imports and the Gulf oil spill of the Deep Water Horizon Drilling Platform are just a few
perfect examples. Washington let BP and China get away with behaviors American
companies could not.
During this serious recession computed unemployment is about 9.5% and real unemployment
17.5%, yet government has grown extensively. The portion of our economy, the public
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So, the private sector workers are taxed more and receiving less, if they are employed at all.
Private sector workers are being bled to give the public employees the very highest of
salaries and best of benefits. Something seems wrong here.
With governments, state and federal, running out of money, the private sector workers are
going to be drained dry to pay public sector workers guaranteed pensions and healthcare.
What is wrong with this picture?
Public employees (union employees) are thriving on the backs of the dying private sector
employees. Those generating the money in our country are having it lifted from their pockets
to support public sector employees in a high style the private sector cannot afford.
This is again analogous to Jefferson’s 1787 letter stating, “Among [European Governments],
under pretense of governing, they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and
sheep.” Government elite are the wolves and private sector workers the sheep. Even more
analogous is again from H.G. Wells “Time Machine”, the cannibalistic Morlocks
(government elites) cultivating the docile Elois (private sector working stiffs) like cattle for
their own subsistence.
I would submit government employees should not receive the best in salaries or benefits.
They should get an average of what is out in the private sector where the money is generated.
They should not be getting guaranteed retirement, sucking the public mammary dry. They
should be moved to 401 Ks, like the private sector has.
Why should government workers deserve more than the people who keep this economy
moving, those who are subject to layoffs and firings for poor productivity or personality
conflicts. Why should public employees be subject to no risk and maximum profit? It
sounds like the Wall Street bailout to me.
*****
Essay: The Big Con (2010)
We are taught from a very young age to give respect to our elders. Those of more experience
and wisdom, we are told deserve to be given greater esteem. That made sense to me as a
child and still makes sense to me today, with reservations!
I believe in the wisdom of those with more years and experience. However, there are
conditions to be placed upon that elevation in society. For instance we are expected to
believe that more government spending and more debt and more taxation is going to pull our
economy out of the serious recession that by many indicators is worse than the depression of
1929. How is it possible spending will get us out of debt?
That would be illogical in our personal finances. When in debt and perhaps on the verge of
losing everything, we are taught to tighten our belts and cut back on our spending! Not
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government think confiscating money from the people, making it available for corrupt
government officials to skim, can bring back prosperity to the economy? How can restricting
profits and starving businesses rejuvenate an economy? How can abandoning all
commonsense save our country? It can’t!
This method was tried by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930’s, stretching a recession into a
depression lasting more than ten years. Recessions left alone to work themselves out through
natural market mechanisms usually last one to two years.
Roosevelt’s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. stated, “We are spending more money
than we have ever spent before and it does not work,” He told a Congressional hearing in
1939. “I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get jobs. We have never
made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration we have as much
unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt to boot.”
Commonsense abandoned and some defining wisdom as, commonsense to an uncommon
degree, would then say, those employing such methods had little or no wisdom. Morgenthau
saw the failed socialist like policies of Roosevelt were not working. It is recorded history.
Yet President Obama insists on his obstinate obsession, sailing this course like Ahab after the
white whale. Chasing his doom even though he knows it is.
When giving credibility to age, one must be certain there is wisdom present. If not,
consideration can be given to age and experience, but it must be tempered by the competence
generated from that age and experience. Otherwise it could be the ramblings of a warped and
corrupted mind.
In fact, a life without commonsense, therefore wisdom, could be a façade, a fake and phony
existence that could lead people in the wrong direction to disaster. I believe we have far too
many politicians that have assumed such false faces.
Looking at government today, many scam artists in government would lead you to think their
experience endows them with great wisdom and ability. They build fronts and market
images and so-called truths, many of which are often lies. They camouflage and cover,
laying smoke screens in the form of long, unintelligible bills and speeches. They use
misdirection, obfuscation and smoke and mirrors to draw attention from underhanded
behavior and ineptitude. They always keep the action moving so you cannot track their lack
of progress.
This is the politician, the con man, the medicine show huckster doctor, selling the miracle
elixirs to the people wanting miracle cures for all their ills. Instead they are sold a scam,
empty promises and false programs. The politicians, medicine show barkers walk away rich
and powerful.
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Essay: The Hustlers and Conmen
Fast talk and confusing language are the tools of the hustler and conman. Talking over your
head, making you think they know more than you is another of their disguises. Always
speaking with certainty, they fake expertise on every subject, as though they know it all.
These are the traits of the medicine show quack, the snake oil salesman.
They keep things moving fast so you can’t keep you eye on the pea. You cannot keep track
of which shell it is under as they replace movement for certainty of their knowledge or the
information they give you. It is a play they present to keep your eyes occupied while they
pick your pockets.
The huckster continually lays smoke screens, camouflaging their words, their movements,
and their veracity. They continually don false faces, building facades to hide who they
really are and what they are really doing. Walking in the shadows, they never give anyone a
clear look at them. You never know who they really are. Like chameleons they change with
the environment they are in.
Call them fake, phony and fraudulent. They are imposters, pretenders, hypocrites preying on
the people. It sounds like we are talking about snake oil or a dishonest used car salesman.
These are people who continually juggle the truth.
These descriptions could just as easily be our politicians. They are not statesmen, and
certainly are politicians, charlatans, con artists. These are traits most of them possess. That’s
why they allow laws that are lengthy and confusing. They tell you don’t worry about the
details, they will fill them in later, changing what they say when it goes on paper as law. We
are to trust these conmen to fill in the blanks honestly.
Watching the old TV series “In The Heat Of The Night” this very day, an elderly elitist naïve
southern belle drove to the core of truth when she asked, “Why do men resort to burglary
when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.” This statement characterized the
politician better than any single line I have ever heard. They make all the dishonest things
they envision legal, their dishonesty supported by their laws.
*****
Essay: Inducing The Financial Meltdown (2010)
Most agree many in government and financial leadership knew the housing bubble was going
to burst. The Carter, Clinton, Dodd and Frank sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sub-
prime mortgage programs of giving huge unsecured mortgages to those who couldn’t afford
them was going to implode.
The real question was when? With all the financial pressure already building up, some saw
the financial meltdown could be induced. What better time to do it than just before a
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It would only take news of a few financial scares to bring the economy into a nosedive.
In early summer 2007, several months before the election, New York’s senior Senator Chuck
Schumer lit the fuse. He wrote a letter on the frailties of the Indy Bank in California then
made them public, causing a run on the bank and signing the banks death warrant.
Senator’s including Chris Dodd, banking committee chair ignored warnings of the failing
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as far back as 1997. They ignored President Bushes warnings
in 2003 and John McCain’s warning in 2005.
In the House, Barney Frank attacked those coming before his house committee with similar
warnings. Frank, supported by Maxine Waters, Charlie Wrangle, Nancy Pelosi and other
democrats attacked the messengers warning us and praised Franklin Raines, who took about
ten million dollars in bonuses from government for driving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into
bankruptcy.
This turned the tide of the election. McCain was up until this economic crisis hit, which
democrats knew would be blamed on the party holding the presidency.
Part 2
Would the democrat party risk the nation’s economic health to gain power? This seemed an
incident that could be sloughed off as just another conspiracy theory. As we looked at
Obama’s performance since, it is not beyond the realm of possibility the mortgage meltdown
was induced.
We have been deluged with one crisis after another to pass laws unpopular with the people.
An expensive Trillion Dollar bailout fund rewarded mismanaged companies came first. We
were told the entire economy would tank if it were not done. Many experts argue against that
supposed result.
Then almost another trillion dollars was put toward a stimulus package, which seems to have
been given to Obama cronies for the support during the election. Government has grown
with the stimulus while private business is still shrinking.
The best example of the administration milking a good crisis is the oil spill in the Gulf.
Obama’s administration acted so slowly as to blow the issue into a three month disaster,
covered constantly on television. We saw the picture of oil shooting out of the pipe month
after month.
Resources were kept from the Gulf by the administration. Animals were sacrificed for
Obama’s war on carbon (fossil fuels) and his Carbon Cap and Tax agenda. The Gulf’s land
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In the aftermath, we find out not nearly as many animals were killed and the damage not
nearly as bad as the mainstream media reported in support of the Obama agenda. Had the
resources to restrain and skim the oil been released sooner, the damage to the animals and oil
ashore might have been kept to a harmless minimum.
It appears the administration obstructed the process to enhance their crisis. Not only do
Emanual, Gibbs, Axelrod and other Obama aids take advantage of a good crisis. They milk
it and enhance it, cranking the crisis up, not merely the marketing of it, to further their
socialist agenda.
Obama seems willing to not only risk the welfare of the people, but sacrifice it for his
agenda. It is difficult to dispute the evidence and write this off as a conspiracy theory.
*****
Essay: Institutional Self-Preservation (2010)
A coworker once proposed, “The primary goal of any institution is to perpetuate itself”
meaning to insure its own existence. Often those institutions give up any altruism they had
to make sure they continued. They give up their values; one might say their integrity, to
ensure they remain in existence. One could argue that need for self-preservation is true of
most individuals also.
Cornell Cooperative extension is a micro example. Founded to teach rural farmers and help
them in their existence, once that service was no longer needed, the powers in that program
searched frantically to find new areas to get into. They looked for new endeavors to bring
their philosophy, the main goal being to save their institution and their jobs.
When born, cooperative extension saw a problem and looked for a way to solve it. Once the
institution is formed and works its way out of the problem, or solves the problem, it looks for
problems they can engage in so it can exist. Instead of finding a creative way to fix this new
problem, they fit the new task into their established method of problem solving.
Among academics this is money, education and programs. Academia has perfected this
model uncovering problems, making them catastrophic, seeing aiming money at it the only
way to solve it.
They see education as the answer. Education means programs. Once the programs are
instituted, they see the task as finished, even if the problem is not resolved. Never solving
problems, creating a river of money always flowing into their coffers, is an excellent business
model for existence and expansion. Failure is rewarded with profit, power and a permanent
place in society.
However, along the way it was seen solving problems actually threatens the existence of an
institution. If problems are solved intelligently, an institution might actually put itself out of
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incentive to solve the existing problems. This falls right into the definition of today’s liberal,
wanting to grow government.
Our government, executive, legislative and judicial branches seem to have taken the path of
institutional arrogance, bolstered in their dishonesty by individual arrogance and self-
preservation. Laws passed but ignored and not enforced spurs the passing of new laws
passed and never enforced. This makes law makers seem busy and essential and appear to be
solving problems. However, they are creating the problem, teaching the citizens “laws are
made to be broken”.
It seems laws are made more complex by legislators, many of whom are lawyers, to insure
the need for an extensive judicial system. Judges with great power and a trough of money for
high paid lawyers is what our legal system is now set up to provide. Justice appears to be a
minor concern along the legal trail, just as truth has become of negligible concern in the
practice of education, journalism and science.
Government, journalism, science and education seem to have followed the route of inherent
dishonesty. The quality of service delivered has given way to providing the service no matter
how warped and corrupt it has become.
Institutions or the people of them become so arrogant they are more important than their
purpose. They see themselves as the purpose and forget the practical values for which they
were born. Such institutions become parasites of society. Diseased and decayed they create
more problems than originally existed that spurred their founding, in order to keep
themselves relevant.
Commonsense is abandoned! Integrity is extinct!
*****
Essay: Law Enforcement More Important Than Enacting (2010)
Thomas Jefferson wrote with simplicity to Abbe Arnoux in 1789, “The execution of the laws
is more important than the making of them.” In the new millennium this has become so
evident with a political class that passes enormous, intentionally confusing laws with the
purpose of selectively enforcing them or those laws merely being a façade of action and they
do not get enforced at all.
Four to five decades of immigration laws passed have not been enforced, the author of each
the same, the late Edward M. Kennedy. Now Arizona has passed a law, of the same template
as the Federal Laws and the executive branch is filing suite against them. A law of the same
structure and intent as the federal law is being challenged by the federal government. That
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The promise to secure the border first has been stalled, showing the feds goal is to keep us
weak and vulnerable. They have made every excuse, put up every road block to securing our
southern border. Passing laws only seems to be broken promises.
The 2008 eight push for the Comprehensive Illegal Immigration Amnesty Law reveals
politicians intentions not to enforce laws on the books. The purpose of the new law which
was a regurgitation of the old law was to legalize 21 million illegal aliens, so those new
wards of the state will bolster the democrat voting block. This process has been employed
periodically, because immigration laws have not been enforced.
Non-enforcement or planned inaction has often been the political strategy regarding the
passage of laws by today’s version of the politician. Passing cumbersome, confusing and
freedom confiscating laws has become standard operating procedures. When a state passes
the same law, but unlike the federal government, takes action, the feds jump into action to
bring the judiciary against the state. This is corruption to the ultimate degree. Confiscating
our freedom by obfuscating the laws!
Look at the trail of laws where similar methods of confusion and obfuscation were used.
Take for instance the issue of gun control. Numerous laws are on the books, but those laws
are not properly or consistently enforced. The purpose is to pass more laws to take guns out
of the hands of law abiding citizens, perhaps because politicians know their corrupt behavior
and grasp for power is pushing the American Citizen to the limit.
2007 financial crisis, the laws were on the books to avert the crisis, but they were ignored.We
passed laws declaring war on poverty and drugs, merely a façade to feign addressing a
problem, not really addressing it. We keep passing gun control laws when those on the
books are not enforced. The purpose of gun control is not to stop the criminal, but to disarm
the population. To prevent the population from confronting corruption in government gone
wild!
While laws like the “Fairness Doctrine”, silencing conservative talk radio and “Card Check”,
allowing union thugs to recruit, disposing of the secret ballot shows the bastardization of the
law that now exists. Laws are passed in a blasé manner, capriciously by partisan politicians,
enacting and executing laws by whim not wisdom.
Specificity of laws creates discrimination in the laws. Passing laws to close every little
loophole, creates complexity of law that soon obscures the law and opens it more to
corruption, as does the selective enforcement of laws. Insincerity in the legal process makes
the legal system a sham.
It almost seems the passage of laws today is merely designed to make government larger and
more intrusive. They say ignorance of the law is no excuse, but laws past so large even the
politicians admit they don’t read the bills and don’t know what is in them, how could the
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Today’s laws are smoke screens, dark and shadowy areas where politicians can introduce
corruption to advance their own lot in life.
Our laws are designed with complexity to be imbalanced, and tip the scales of justice to the
rich and powerful. Simplified language of law and laws themselves would naturally put the
scales of justice in greater balance. Such sane actions would take power from the legislators
and lawyers, and would have to come from their hands. Statesmen would act so! Politicians
will not!
*****
Essay: Liberalism; Dedicated to Failure
Liberals have evolved from the visionary status of our forefathers like Jefferson, Franklin and
John Adams to status quo slackers (ner-do-wells) like Ted Kennedy, John Murtha and Chuck
Schumer. People that lack the ability to accomplish, so they set the standards at throwing
money at a problem, the only thing they are equipped to do.
Never reaching results is the game plan of the liberal (progressive). Failure to achieve results
means greater investment in larger government. The perpetual cycle of failure facilitates
expansion of government and politician’s power while the plight of the people is in constant
decay. It solidifies a place in the world for the incompetent, inept and corrupt at all levels.
More and more programs are instituted to address problems, but they are never designed to
solve problems. They nurture social problems, fostering dependence, so those dependent
people will forego freedom for handouts. They give the fish, so people are dependent upon
that handout, waiting each day for that fish, instead of teaching to fish, allowing individual
independence.
A Whale, the huge oil skimming ship in the gulf that was not being allowed to do anything
because of oil it might put back in the water, exemplifies my point. If it only takes 50% of
the oil out, that is half the oil we will not have to worry about in the future. If it takes 60, 70,
80 or 90 percent out, that is a lot of oil that will be dealt with today and will not be washing
onto the beaches or killing wild life tomorrow.
Failure to use the ship is prolonging the crisis and intensifying the damage. Why would you
not employ this ship immediately that is said to have the oil removal capacity of all the ships
and boats presently working in the Gulf? It seems extending this crisis aids the carbon cap
and trade (Tax) agenda. Many liberals are willing to sacrifice the vast gulf ecosystem to
advance their long term agenda.
Illegal Immigration
Delaying action until everything is considered perfect is short sighted and perhaps ignorant.
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It could be another corollary, “Demanding a comprehensive action so nothing effective ever
gets done”. This ineffectiveness aids the expansion of government, a liberal goal.
Controlling the border between our nation and Mexico could have so many positive affects.
It would slow illegal immigration. It would be an impediment to drug trafficking. It would
aid home land security by restricting terrorist entry. It would assist in addressing the state and
national financial crisis by reducing the number of illegal immigrants burdening our
education, healthcare and legal systems. So why does our action have to be so-called
comprehensive, when liberalism cannot even attain successful results on the small issues.
For example Medicare is failing, facing bankruptcy, so they enlarge the national healthcare
system. Health Care is just another titanic bureaucracy, a 2000 page bill to inhibit success
and create another governmental money pit that expands the power and pool of money to
government.
Any project manager knows you break large projects down into doable pieces. As you
address each piece you make sure it works as other pieces are added. You build a strong
foundation and add each piece with the intention the final result is strong and enduring. The
pieces might need some adjustment as the rest of the strategy comes into place. Those
adjustments, small and easy can be accomplished in a controlled manner. That the whole
system works properly is the goal. It is a well oiled machine that contributes as long as it is
needed.
Government prefers what they call the comprehensive approach. Something so large,
complex and bureaucratic it stands little chance of success. It has so many dark corners and
gray areas it is uncontrollable and no one really knows what is going in. It is the perfect
environment to skim money, side step the law and allow corruption to reign. It ends up a
money pit.
If government were building houses under their comprehensive system, they would try to
build each house all at once. The roofers would be working on site with those laying the
foundation. The stress of the building on a foundation with concrete wet and unstable would
insure that building would require great attention the rest of its life, providing more jobs to
maintain instead of jobs to build more and better houses.
Liberalism (Progressivism) aims for mediocrity, its attempts falling well short. It creates an
environment where putting money to the problem is the goal. How effective that money is
used is of no concern. Failure of the money will mean more money and oversight has to be
employed. Effectiveness and efficiency are the opponents. When it fails again, it will
require more money and bureaucracy, meeting the expansion goal of liberalism.
It seems to me today’s liberalism is the enemy of commonsense and the ally of corruption!
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Essay: The Emphasis On Self-Esteem (2010)
The emphasis on self-esteem has become warped and distorted. It’s not that self-esteem;
confidence, a good self-image isn’t important, but the definition has become distorted.
Self-esteem nurtured by being told how wonderful you are builds a false self-esteem. If that
special classification gained from empty self-esteem allows you special privileges and a
special place in life, it is dangerous. When told how wonderful you are causes you to think
you deserve special treatment, you are walking the razor’s edge of disappointment.
Real self-esteem, or confidence requires substance. It cannot be built by flowery words that
pat you on the back falsely. Confidence requires you recognize those who speak with forked
tong, flattering to manipulate.
Real self-esteem requires accomplishment. Not one huge accomplishment that brings you
the attention of the world, but many smaller accomplishments which build you up as an
individual. Brick by brick, block by block, piece by piece, making you who you are; who you
will be.
Learning to read, math, language all produce confidence, the confidence to express yourself,
to defend yourself, to explain to yourself, who you are and what you believe. School
subjects, known as disciplines, giving the discipline to accomplish beyond those subjects,
taking things learned to levels only we can take them.
Liking ourselves, liking to be with ourselves, not being needy for recognition or approval that
will take us to places where we don’t like ourselves by people attempting to use us. Liking
our own company, believing our own council to follow those paths of which we can be
proud.
Even our education system practices the false self-esteem, without substance. They teach we
must be part of a group, attacking home schooling for lack of socialization when our public
schools often provide a negative socialization.
We must build ourselves a piece at a time. We learn from experiences, good and bad. We
must face our fears and conquer them. But they must be real experiences, of substance.
Going on vacation to Europe is an experience, but for the most part a programmed
experience. Vacations are nice, but not necessarily the worldly experience many parents
think they are imparting. Or the band trip to Disney World.
Doing chores around the house builds character, especially if you don’t like doing them.
Being responsible and meeting those responsibilities. Pushing yourself when things are not
fun. These are experiences that will build character and build confidence.
Shoveling snow and raking lawns for the elderly. Helping! These are the experiences that
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are, our value and worth, weaknesses and strengths and building on them, this is what
produces confidence and self-esteem in an individual.
*****
Essay: Self-esteem Once More (2010)
This may seem like whining! I sound that way a bit even to me. But it also fills the need to
answer the attacks leveled against me. In the anonymous responses on line to my letters to
the editor, the criticism I get is usually in the form of a personal attack. I t seldom addresses
the substance of what I have written.
I am called boring, stupid, pompous, a crank and crackpot. I’ve been asked to dry up and
blow away. Attempts to marginalize and demean me are more often the goal. To bully me
from voicing my opinion is the strategy of those disagreeing.
It is by no means only me that is treated this way. Those that voice decent against a liberal
power structure in government and education are attacked personally to destroy their
reputation and therefore their credibility. The substance of what is said is not debated. Their
message is confronted by destroying credibility in any way possible. The marketing of lies is
most often the method.
While self-esteem is a major buzz word amongst liberals and supplying it to children a theme
that seems kind hearted and caring, the results is quite the opposite. The false self-esteem
bestowed on children is more damaging than supportive. I believe designed to be that way
to control people by giving them a false confidence that can be easily attacked.
Children are told how wonderful they are by the education industry. They are given a voice.
They are passed and congratulated when they fail. Their confidence and self-esteem is built
like a house of cards, fragile and weak. The slightest blow will topple it.
This gives education industry and political hacks power over these people as they move into
adulthood. The false self-esteem is like a self-destruct button. Because it is based on nothing
real, when the pressure is on the individual really does not have the skills to be confident in
the debate. The demeaning and ridicule of the opponent can crack them handily. It makes
for weak opponents to these power seekers political agendas.
Real self-esteem comes from real and concrete accomplishment. It creates a mind that can
access the facts and use critical thinking to come to commonsense conclusions. It created the
logical mind that uses intelligent debate instead of the attack and intimidation style to instill
fear to win the argument.
It is unfortunate the education industry has invested so much in the false system of self-
esteem, even within their group! They have adorned themselves with bogus credentials,
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of those weaknesses, so they lack the strength to confront their problems, and solve them. It
behooves them to educate their future opponents to be weak, timid and unprepared.
They attack, intimidate and bully to get individuals to back off and give up, certainly not the
behavior of confident educated group of people.
It is my belief education leaders instill the same false self-esteem in lower echelon educators
that programmed teachers impart to their students. They tell teachers they are molding the
future with their hands. They are most important to the future of the world. They could never
be paid enough for what they do. They are essential to society.
In this way education leaders have disarmed teachers of their commonsense and their ability
to stand up and confront them. There false self-esteem has them firing blanks in any
discussion except those of personal attacks. Education leadership rules the field of attack and
intimidation.
Over inflated educators conduct themselves as if all this is true. They believe they are the
discoverers even creators of the geniuses. They shape and mold the world. As long as they
use their profession for indoctrination, teaching what to think instead of how to think, they
are molding the world in a very negative way. Treating people like cattle, herding them
where government wants them to go.
They can do little else, because their self-esteem can be broken by their leaders. They march
in lock step because they live in fear of losing all they have been given, an esteemed place in
society, profit and collective power. Right and wrong are not considered in the equation.
*****
Essay: The Transparency of an Iron Curtain (2010)
President Obama’s promise of transparency during his campaign for president has certainly
become another promise broken. As a community organizer, Alinski’s definition is certainly
applicable to Obama, a teacher of Alinsky. He defined “community organizer” and Obama
writing, “He does not have a fixed truth – truth to him is relative and changing.”
Obama’s 2010 “Financial Regulation Bill” exempts the SEC (Securities and Exchange
Commission) from the Freedom of Information Act. This government institution negligent
in the financial melt down and oversight of the securities devised in the sub-prime mortgage
meltdown, the Burnie Madoff debacle, Enron and many others will not be held accountable
for any future actions.
The SEC can shut down any company for almost any reason. Now, they will not have to
reveal why a company is being shut down or taken over by the government. Without
accountability, the SEC becomes a Gestapo, with iron shutters on the windows and doors of
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The SEC can become the strong arm pushing us beyond socialism, but easily into
communism where government controls everything. The government can take over private
sector industry at will. They can pick the production winners and losers. The government of
the people, by the people and for the people will parish from this earth.
Obama has slipped the same type of transparency in every bill he has pushed through in the
dark of night against the will of the people. If two thousand page bills pushed through
without enough time to even read them is transparency, then the dictionary needs rewriting.
This has also been done, the rewriting of the dictionary under the name of political
correctness.
Every Obama bill is designed by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to disguise and camouflage
the theft of freedoms from the people. They are long, and written in difficult language.
Honest legislators are not given enough time to read them. Dishonest legislators don’t read
them admitting they are too difficult to understand. Truth is simple and does not take a two
thousand page bill. Stealing our freedom requires many more words.
Legislators use long bills and laws, filled with legalese, confusing language and studded with
loop holes, so only those with the money to hire huge legal firms can wrangle their way out
of punishment or bend the law to their convenience. This obfuscation of the law is what
makes it for the rich and not those of lesser means and brings lawyers more business. The
scales of justice are in imbalance because of these political shenanigans!
Loop holes are put into the laws to allow those that can afford it to get around the law.
The healthcare bill also has stealth language. It may not have had something called death
panels, but bureaucratic accountants deciding where the money will go in healthcare will
effectually make decisions death panels would. To balance budgets and finance a system
they are not capable of managing, they will decide the ever lowering cut off ages for
treatments based on cost and an individual’s value, projected and locked in at a certain age.
Mismanaged budgets, a government hallmark, will pronounce the death penalty on more and
more people.
Ronald Reagan knocked down the wall in Berlin, causing us to think the time of communist
aggression was over. Now an American President has brought communism to the American
shores, and many are greeting it with opened arms. They are cheering this president for
historical significance, as they watch the wall around Washington built amidst those cheers.
It seems each bill Obama champions has hidden in it stealth laws that erode the freedoms of
all Americans. In the erosion of those freedoms, he is slowly drawing closed the iron curtain
around America.
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Essay: Unlimited Power (2010)
Giving unlimited power to any entity is usually a ticket to tyranny and corruption. To
surrender questioning of power is to hand them unlimited power. Preventing this is the
purpose of a portion of the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States of
America. This is the portion which allows for our freedoms of speech, press and peaceful
assembly.
One can see a desire in many to curtail those freedoms. The so-called fairness doctrine
which would place limitations on talk radio, seeks the same. The desire for many to shut up
or shut down those who espouse contrary points of view is growing.
Debate depicted as incendiary, or hate speech, including political correctness all place
limitations on the freedom of speech, press and assembly. These traps limit debate and give
a certain few that are willing to yell fire in the crowed theater or racism the podium.
This hands the power to a certain small group. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in his August 13,
1786 letter to George Wythe, “There is no king, who with a sufficient force is not always
ready to make himself absolute.” When the people are silenced, gathering a sufficient force
is less difficult.
A well known maxim states, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
When we see government usurping the power of corporations, the financial power of banks,
the power of healthcare and the power of education we see a supreme collection of power.
Oppressive taxation of people is not only the transfer of wealth, but the transfer of power
from the people to the government. We allow them, almost ask them to do this because of
the corruption and incompetence in those areas we think they can and will fix. Not a chance!
In government hands it will be worse.
Even though there is dishonesty in those institutions, their independent power creates a
balances, dishonest people not trusting one another, keeps those institutions and government
in check and unwittingly more honest. It is a kind of check and balance of capitalism, the
dishonest, keeping an eye on each other, all the other crooks. In that way the corruption
bubbles up, and boils over, into the sight of the public.
If government is a monopoly, controlling every institution, there are no checks on the
government. They also have a monopoly on corruption, controlling the overseers and the
corruption. There is no relief valve to warn the public when the inevitable corruption of
supreme government boils over. Corruption no longer becomes the odd or undesirable case
to hide, but business as usual of which no politician is ashamed. Corruption becomes the
norm.
To hand the total power of corruption over to one entity, group or individual is to open the
proverbial Pandora’s Box and unleash all the possible evil on the world. Even the last evil
gets out that we have been spared from, hopelessness. We have little in this life without
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and totalitarianism can destroy people’s hopes. Those governments are born and bred in
corruption.
John Adams stated in an oration at Braintree Mass. In 1772, “There is danger from all men.
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with the power to
endanger the public liberty.”
Power is a precarious partner. It is a temptress with the ability to seduce man to
manipulations he normally would not consider. A hallucinogen making our head spin and
heart race, exciting us into endeavors our conscience would not sanction. It is a sorceress
casting a spell that all we do is right and others are wrong, making us lose perspective and
reality.
Those seeking such power must be watched closely by the people and confronted when their
ambitions run away with them. They are a dangerous people!
*****
Essay: What is a Potato (2010)
Recently on Rachel Ray a food expert stated most kids could not identify whole vegetables.
They couldn’t even identify a potato, thinking a McDonalds French fry was a potato. Only
the carrot was identifiable and he attributed that to Bugs Bunny.
How is it possible that people have become so ignorant? I will identify two of the culprits.
An education system that indoctrinates into their own agenda and a government system that
wants to take complete control by taking responsibility out of the hands of the individual.
Both entities want to quash independence, keeping the population stupid and ignorant.
Teaching only what they want people to know so they can control they way they think.
High school, even college graduates cannot identify the Pacific Ocean. They cannot locate
major countries of the world or even some continents. The more focused the education and
government industries become on spreading their own agendas, the less the people, recipients
of their formal education, know.
The public education curriculum is mind numbing and creativity stifling, perfect for
grooming the population into a herd of sheep. Ripping the commonsense of experiential
education from the heads of children and replacing it with the elitist intellectual stupidity of
arrogant book learners, many of whom dishonestly wrote the books.
The blame often goes to parents, most of who have been through the system, brainwashed
and mind numbed to collective stupidity. The downside of formal education has reached its
most dangerous outcome. A system so enthralled with itself it teaches it is the ultimate, be
all end all, common sense, clear, critical thinking all but banished from the scene. Ideas are
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Education seems to have become a brain sucking parasite when it comes to common sense.
The longer they go to school, the less common sense they have remaining. It is about
indoctrination, not critical thinking!
*****
Racism (2010)
In this I will discuss the issue of racism, the subject that can be suicidal to the reputation of a
white man. Eric Holder, the US Attorney General called us a nation of cowards when it
came to the subject of racism. He is mostly right in saying that.
There is no doubt racism against blacks has existed in this country. Though there have been
improvements in race relations, it still does exist. There are some whites that see blacks as
little more than animals. There will always be people that need to put others down to elevate
themselves.
Then the racism door swings both ways. There are blacks that see whites through the same
eyes of hate. They do not listen to Martin Luther King and, “judge people by the content of
their character and not the color of their skin.”
The words racist and racism have been used as a club, often to smite people who would
disagree politically with the black and liberal power structure. Words are singled out in
political arguments and classified as a substitute for the “N” word, to make people afraid of
the conversation on race.
Eric Holder is hypocritical in that sense that he calls us out as cowards fearing the race
debate, but screams racism on almost any issue in order to intimidate and win for his
ideology.
This constant crying wolf by such as Holder may very well aid the debate on race, and help
us to leave our cowardice behind. Sick of being beaten down by this club, reality may be
beginning to dawn.
When Barack Obama was being called a socialist, mainstream media accused the use of the
word socialist as a substitute for the “N” word. They were putting a racist banner on a purely
political word, to strike fear into people so they would not use that word “socialism” to
identify the political leanings of candidate and later the president.
While honest analysis of Obama’s writings and spoken words could certainly label him
socialist, Al Sharpton has recently revealed that is the Obama agenda and construed his
election victory as a desire for socialism in the country. It certainly reveals a lack of
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Personally I think Obama is only socialist because that is as far as he can push his agenda at
this point. He dare not push it to communism yet, because it would be too abrupt a change
for the people to take. I’m sure this will be construed as a racist statement when it is merely
my political observation.
This became the straw that broke the camels back. Many of us cowards began to see we
would not be able to have a decent debate on many issues without taking the risk of being
labeled racist. More and more people are willing to take that risk to address racism,
socialism, Marxism etc. and stop it from being a club to intimidate and silence people.
I believe I am a tolerant and understanding person. However, I would never think to declare
I do not have a racist or bias bone in my body. I would be arrogant to think so and dishonest
to declare it. Each of us understanding we are not pure and perfect is essential to confronting
racism and all the other isms that are being developed.
I don’t know the answers. I do know confronting our own racism, bias and bigotry in each of
us is essential to finding the answers. That is a personal quest for each of us that can be
begun by the debate. With that debate perhaps we can give each other the strength to face
our demons. Somewhere in this quest, we may find truth.
Racism, bias and bigotry cannot be legislated out of existence. They cannot be educated out
of existence. However, the stronger each of us becomes as individuals, and by stronger, I
mean the ability to face external and internal truths, the more likely we are to be able to
exercise those demons from ourselves and society.
*****
Essay: Socialism; Pushing a Political Agenda (2010)
Socialism (liberalism) is about pushing a political agenda, not getting things done, solving
problems. It is about personal power, greed and gluttony, a method for individuals to steal
freedoms from the majority to control that majority.
Socialism is about arresting power from the people, seducing them with government freebees
and handouts. It is about making people lazy and lethargic, not looking for the greatest
aspiration of mankind as they would have you believe.
Freedom provides the environment for mankind to achieve its greatest potential. Giving the
opportunity to think for oneself and reason out ones actions. It is about self-determination,
not a government deciding for us.
Yes, laws of basic behavior are helpful and necessary, to guide people and put stronger
controls on the aberrant. The sociopath devoid of moral values does not apply. Laws of
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*****
Essay: Politicians of Poor Character Insured (2010)
The major problem with today’s politicians is the ability to campaign to get the position is
more important than the ability to lead once in the position. This often leaves a person of
poor character in the position, the politician instead of the statesman.
Political Campaigning today utilizes marketing as a primary tool, a good portion of which
employs dishonesty. Deception, building facades and laying smoke screens, lies of omission
and even outright lies.
When the politician is caught lying, he apologizes saying he is sorry. Most often only sorry
he was caught and not for his indiscretion. He’ll say,” I have to get the people to trust me
again,” which implies marketing his character back to health. Not, “I have to become worthy
of trust, so the people can trust me.”
Lies and hypocrisy have become everyday accepted tools of politicians. They construct the
image of their character from false marketing. They rehabilitate their decaying character
with the same marketing techniques. In their mind all it takes is a good wade of marketing
money to build character.
Lying has become so second nature to politicians, most cannot tell the truth even when it is
the easier thing to do. To them it has become easier to make up something off the top of
their heads, than think about the truth. It is almost as if they have a fatal allergy to the truth,
and the truth will kill them and not set them free. Who knows why they fear the truth so.
Perhaps it is because what they have planned for the people, the hijacking of our freedoms
would never be accepted. The methodology of creating crisis so we would seek government
protection, selling ourselves into slavery would not be effective if truth were on the menu.
Truth is the antidote to corruption. Politicians must like corruption too much. Their goal is
to enslave the people with their lies and deception, using the crisis they manipulate and
enhance. Is this the role our elected representatives have taken on, marketing manipulators
with corrupt consciences?
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The people must stand up and demand truth. They must punish the habitual and pathological
lying of the politician profession. They must address it at its source also, the education
industry.
The people too often are sold on a politician with false promises. If intelligently analyzed, it
would be obvious the promises could never be filled. Promises of free stuff in exchange for
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A good speaker does not insure intelligence or honesty. Yet voters become enamored with a
slick tong, like that of the snake oil salesman. As the substance of the man is what he should
be judged on, so is it the substance of his words.
There is a difference between a charismatic leader and a good leader. A charismatic leader
can sweep people away in a wave of frenzy. Raising their blood for the causes he sees as
important. He can take the people where he wants to go, gaining power from the emotion he
stirs.
While charisma can be helpful to any leader, it can more often go astray and give power to
leaders like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Mao, those with potential for great evil. These
charismatic narcissists want to lead and dictate, they see themselves as the pinnacle. A
charismatic leader can often lead to tyranny, driven by an overly inflated ego.
A practical leader, low key, without a large ego, but confident is probably best at leading,
particularly a democratic republic. Some are even quiet, almost unassuming. They lead by
the example they set. In their humility, they are a different kind of charismatic. Such
examples are Mahatma Gandi, Nelson Mandela and even Dwight D. Eisenhower. All quiet,
simple and effective for the cause of the people.
I have always said, “The best man for the job (of president) is someone who doesn’t want the
job.” He may even be a little frightened by the job. Because the humble understands
responsibility, and is dedicated to meet it and do the right thing!
The charismatic believes anything they do is right. They are special. Their talent usually lies
in their ability to schmooze the people, like the con artist. When it comes to the ability to get
something done for the people, such leaders are usually wanting.
The people must not be sucked in by such narcissists! They must judge candidates by the
contents of their character.
*****
Essay: Subtle Oppression (2010)
Our forefathers knew the meaning of oppression in all its forms and subtleties. They saw how
these seemingly unobtrusive actions were the foundation for the losses of freedom that would
follow.
Though restrained by the Constitution our political class has gradually eroded our freedoms,
casting a thin veil of oppression over our nation. That thin veil has gradually evolved to a
blanket and is becoming a repressive iron net of intertwined metal wires and cables that
could imprison the strongest of citizens.
Oppression in democracy starts small and crescendos as time goes on. It is presented by the
political elite as a natural progression or progress; fairness for all, which is actually

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