The Democrats passed their healthcare bill today. They did it without any help from Republicans. That way, they get the entire blame for the increased taxes and the lower benefits. I cannot think of one thing that is good about the Democrat healthcare bill. It does not do one thing that was part of the original ideas that the Democrats started out with. They wanted everyone covered by health insurance. This bill will not cover about the same amount of people that are currently not covered. They wanted the costs to be lower. The costs will be significantly higher than we currently pay with dramatic increases in cost in the future. The only thing they got was a healthcare bill.

The corruption on display for the nation to see was dramatic. There were Senators taking bribes for their states as if this was an appropriations bill. Taking a bribe to vote for an appropriations bill is bad, but it is understandable. You are representing your state or district, so getting more pork to your area is to be expected. This bill is not an appropriations bill. This bill fundamentally changes America. Since the bill will have a dramatic impact on all Americans, more is expected out of our Senators and Congressmen than working to bring home more pork to your state or district. You are expected to have the interests of all Americans on your mind, not your political supporters back home. Also, since this bill fundamentally changes America, you should make sure that the bill is constitutional. An appropriations bill is most likely constitutional because of what it is doing. This bill has a great chance of being unconstitutional. So, every Senator and Congressman should have looked at their copy of the Constitution and made sure that all provisions of the bill met Constitutional muster.

Michael Barone wrote today that one provision that undoubtedly will not pass Constitutional muster is the provision where parts of the bill cannot be repealed. One Congress cannot tell all Congresses in the future that what they did was perfect. The purpose of the Congress is to make corrections to things as we go along. This bill prevents future Congresses from correcting mistakes that are undoubtedly in this bill. That has to be unconstitutional. I don’t think that this part being unconstitutional will make the entire bill unconstitutional. It will take some of the important provisions, like taking away our freedom to achieve this goal to make the entire bill unconstitutional.

A lot of fighting went on up to this point. The Democrats ignored the will of the people and passed the bill. The last time the Democrats pulled off something like this was the Missouri Compromise of 1852. After that Missouri Compromise, the Democrat majority went from 131-48 to a minority of 108-71 to the newly formed Republican Party. The Democrats have the potential to do just that in 2010.

The rallying cry for all candidates running against Democrats should be to repeal the Obamacare bill. We do not need the bill. There were better ways of solving the problem, without destroying the best healthcare system in the world. So, any Republican or other party that runs against a Democrat needs to remind the public that the Democrats do not care about your health, they want control. So, the Democrats voted in this sham of a healthcare bill to gain control over the public. When they get control over the public, then they will start rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies. The Democrats expect this bill to insure that Democrats control Washington forever. We have a very small, shrinking, window of opportunity to rid ourselves of this albatross. Let us hope that it can be accomplished before too much damage is done to our economy and our healthcare system. The sooner the correction comes, the less damage that will occur.

Now is the time for all Americans to stand up and be counted. The European Socialist Democrat party has shown itself for what it truly is. Now it is the time for true Americans to show these socialists what Americans to do socialists. Vote them out of office and never vote for another socialist again. That should solve the problem of the European Socialist Democrats. There will always be a few to show us what kooks are like. Eliminating all of them would allow them to fool future generations. Keeping a few around to show them for the fools they are will keep the future generations informed about socialists.

This morning, I was giving an older daughter a ride to an appointment. On the way, she asked me if I supported Obama. I told her that I didn’t support Obama. She asked me why I do not support Obama. I thought about that for a moment then summed it up with one word, socialism. I do not think that socialism is an American value. Since socialism is not an American value, it should be defeated wherever it is found.

My ancestor, Richard Warren, came over here on the Mayflower. When the Mayflower Pilgrims first started Plymouth colony, they owned everything in common. As a result of this common ownership, the colony almost died out. William Bradford quickly allowed private ownership and the colony thrived. They proved that common ownership may sound good on paper, in practice it does not work. Private ownership of property always does better than common ownership. Even the Soviet Union found this out. They had large collective farms that could hardly produce enough food to keep the farmers that worked the farms fed. After a while, they allowed the farm families to have private ownership of some small property. The privately owned property out produced the common ownership property by many times. The reason is that people will work harder for themselves than they will for someone else. The key is just that simple.

People may say that I do not support Barack Obama because he is black. I have a black son and a black daughter. How could I discriminate against Obama and then look my children in the eye? No, I do not support Barack Obama strictly on policy and philosophy. I have nothing against a black person holding the job of President. I wish it had happened sooner. I also wish that it had happened with a black person with a better outlook on life. I had said for years that we are nearly ready for a black President. I had also predicted that the black President would be Republican. My reasoning is that Democrats have some built in problems. The main one is that they are soft on defense. Barack Obama is a perfect example of a Democrat being soft on Defense. I also think that the first woman President and the first Hispanic President will be Republican for the same reason.

Obama’s healthcare plan is socialist in nature. Whether it is socialist, communist, fascist or whatnot, the point is that it tends to be socialist. Since it tends to be socialist, I oppose the plan on principle. Everything else Obama has proposed is socialist.

Barack Obama surrounds himself with communists and other radicals. His advisors do not read like what you would expect to see in America. Even if you subscribe to the theory that all America is liberal, not all liberals are communists and fascists. Most liberals are regular ordinary people that you can talk to. Obama has picked the worst from the worst to be his advisors. That to me shows at least extremely poor judgment. Most likely it shows that his views are extremely close to those of his advisors. He keeps telling us that they are not the same as his advisors, but I see no evidence except his word. His word does not mean much as he is constantly in a state of telling a lie. With Bill Clinton his lips had to be moving to be sure it was a lie. With Obama, just seeing him we know that he is telling us another lie.

No, I oppose Obama strictly on policy. I have nothing against his race. Since I am so strongly against his policies, some may take it that I have a hidden agenda against his race. I do not. I have many friends that are black. I work with blacks all the time. I have had many black supervisors that I thought did excellent jobs. To me, black is just a help in identifying the person like hair color or height.

Yesterday, GM filed for bankruptcy. That, in and of itself, is not the important thing. The important thing is the deal that has been worked out. The deal is anti-constitutional because of what it does to the 5^th amendment.

The deal, as I can recall, is this; after the bankruptcy is over, the federal government will own 72% of GM, UAW will own 17% and secured creditors will own 11%. The federal government has no authority to own a private business. That makes this deal illegal, according to the Constitution. The fact that no member of Congress, either Republican or Democrat, has objected is instructive. They either feel that the federal government has the authority or that Barack Obama is so strong they dare not say anything. I believe that it is the latter that is taking place. Barack Obama is so strong right now; anyone objecting will be cut off at the knees in a heartbeat.

The UAW, the union, is an unsecured debtor. That means that in a bankruptcy, they get whatever is left over after the secured debtors get paid in full. In this deal, they are paid much more for their unsecured share of GM than the secured debtors are paid for their secured share of GM. That is against the takings clause of the constitution. It has been long established law that secured debtors are paid in full before unsecured debtors are paid anything. In this deal, things are backwards. The reason things are backwards is that the UAW helped get Barack Obama elected President. The secured debtors did not help get Barack Obama elected President in any direct way. That is why the UAW came out on top in this deal. That seems to be the way things are in Barack Obama’s world. It worked the same way with Chrysler dealerships that were closed. If a Chrysler dealer gave only to Republicans, they were closed. If they gave to Democrats, they were kept open. Only one dealer that gave to Democrats was closed and they gave only $200. All the rest gave only to Republicans. The Dealers that were kept open gave heavily to Democrats.

This deal makes us officially a socialist country. All the other things that have been going on have pointed in this direction, but could be argued that they were not socialist. This is obviously socialist by definition. That puts us on a road that I thought was impossible for America to ever be on. I fear, now, for America. My children and grandchildren will never know the freedom to succeed that I enjoyed. That is a shame. It is my generation that is to blame for this disaster. Even though Barack Obama is not from my generation, he is a product of it. My generation should have been more responsible. Then this would not have happened. We now need to work to fix it before it goes too far.

That GM is a socialist company is now undeniable. It means that I will stay away from any GM vehicles until GM is sold to private investors.

GM now has a competitive advantage over its rivals. It can be subsidized by their taxes and can receive tax breaks that the other companies cannot receive. If their prices are far enough below the others, the other companies may feel they have to go the same route to be competitive. That would mean the entire industry would be destroyed. Right now, the other companies should still be able to make vehicles that people want. GM will make vehicles that the government wants people to buy. The two are not the same thing. The government, because of Barack Obama’s belief in the hoax of global warming, will want you to buy very small cars. Americans want cars they can fit the entire family in and are safe. Americans also like their trucks. Trucks will probably not be part of the GM lineup. At least a variety of trucks will not be on their lineup.

We are now in uncharted territory for America. We know what will happen if we look at Venezuela or any other country that has embraced socialism. If that happens, I expect a knock on the door and a visit to the friendly police station. I will not keep silent about the destruction of the America that I love.

We are on a fast moving train that is taking us to socialism. Socialism is an idea that is easy to sell to the public. You can paint pretty pictures of the utopia that will exist if you give up all your freedom for the security of the socialist ideal. Many people buy into this utopian idea. They believe that the entire world will be fine if we just give up this freedom or that freedom or all of our freedoms. Our enemies will love us and everyone will live in peace and harmony.

That is a complete and total lie. No socialist country in the world has ever or will ever be in that state. The real world always impacts the socialist ideal. People are selfish and want to feed their families. People want the best for their children and grandchildren. The socialist model makes everyone the same. People do not want to be the same. They want to be treated equal. There is a huge difference between the two.

Socialism stifles everything that makes people human. People strive to make themselves the best they can be. People strive to build great things. People want to invent things. People want to enjoy the good things in life. People do not want everything to be the same. People want to be treated equally and get confused between the same and equal.

America has always believed that we are born equal. When we are born, we all have an equal chance to be anything we choose to be. As we make choices through childhood and adulthood, some windows open and some windows close. When we look back at life, we see what happened. As we go through life, we are not always aware of the choices being offered. But, we are not all given the same opportunity to succeed. Some of us are smarter than others. Some can run faster than others. Some are more musical than others. We all have gifts that allow us to succeed in some area and not others. That is equality because we can choose what we want to be. The same means that you would have to have the same chance to play professional baseball and win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. That is not the case at all for any of us.

If you can get someone to understand what socialism will do to him or her, you can get them to reject socialist ideas. The trick is to get people to understand exactly what socialism will do to them individually. Most people think that socialized medicine will just take paying for a doctor from the insurance company to the government with no other changes. They do not realize that when the government takes over, rationing will take place and people will die before getting treatment that is readily available now. The same principles hold for any socialist idea. Get the government involved with it and you will have rationing. The government will only distribute a finite amount of anything. Capitalism will deliver an almost infinite amount of things if it can be profitable. Also, the quality of a government delivered product or service will be lower than a capitalist delivered product or service. The reason is that the government knows that it will be there to provide that product or service regardless of what you think. The private business that provides that product or service knows that it will only be there if it provides the best experience possible for the lowest price.

To tie this all up in a knot, socialism is the goal of the Obama administration. They want socialism of every part of the American way of life. If that takes place, it will strangle the life out of America. We will become a third world country or a follower of another. Things would be very bleak for my children and grandchildren. Progress for individuals that used to be available so that they could move from poverty to wealth in one generation will be gone. Older Americans will die off at a very high rate compared to now. Our health care would deteriorate so that people would start using home remedies instead of going to the doctor. That is the way it is in England and Canada right now.

The American people voted for change, but not a wholesale change from the best system in the world to the worst. The problem is that once you establish the worst system into your country it is almost impossible to eradicate. That is the problem the Canadians and English are having right now. If we can, we need to derail as much as possible until after the 2010 elections.

The House and Senate have approved the Obama Youth Corps. Of course, it is not called the Obama Youth Corps. That would be too close to the Hitler Youth or the Stalin Youth or the Castro Youth, which it is patterned after. It is supposed to be a mandatory voluntary youth program that expands what is already on the books. What its goals are remain a mystery and what the paid volunteers are supposed to do remain a mystery. We do know that when a Republican Congresswoman proposed an amendment that would have stopped these mandatory volunteer youths from participating in partisan politics, there were cries of pain from the left. I believe that her amendment was defeated.

The architect of the Obama Youth Corps is Rahm Emanuel. He supposedly modeled his Obama Youth Corps after the Israeli pattern of mandatory military training. In Israel, it is essential that everyone know how to respond to an emergency as a militarily trained person. The training in Israel is essential for their survival as a nation. Here, the Obama Youth Corps will not receive any military training, but will be a paramilitary organization that has the same funding as the military.

The little we know about this Obama Youth Corps the more it sounds like the SA in Germany before Hitler was elected to office. The SA was a paramilitary force of disaffected youths that enforced the socialist agenda of the Nazi party. Yes, the Nazi’s were socialists. They nationalized the banks and other private businesses just like any other socialist government. We have not been taught that they were socialists because that would conflict with the idea that socialism is good. We all know that Nazi’s were bad. But, leftists believe that socialism is good. That is why the socialist ideals of the Nazi party are always put in the background. The SA’s made sure that the socialist agenda of the Nazi party was followed. After the Nazi party was elected to power, the SA leaders were no longer needed so they were killed.

The Hitler Youth was so successful in making “good” Germans that Stalin copied the idea and made a Stalin Youth. The Stalin Youth was to make good communists out of the Youth of Russia. After Castro came to power in Cuba, he copied the Stalin Youth program. His Castro Youth turns out good little communists that do not give the government any trouble.

The Hitler/Stalin/Castro Youth would take children as young as elementary age and start them doing projects that help them understand how good the government is. The Obama Youth will take children as young as elementary age and put them to work doing projects that teach them how good it is to have a government that cares about the people. The goals of the two seem to me to be the same. There are differences of time and place of course. There are also some differences in the goals of the organizations. The Hitler Youth taught them to hate the Jews. None of the other Youth organizations had that as a goal. The Stalin and Castro Youth were teaching communism. The Hitler Youth taught socialism. I am not sure what the Obama Youth will teach as the goals are not set, but based on the actions of Barack Obama, I am sure that they will be taught the wonders of socialism.

I did not bring children or grandchildren into this world to become Obama Youth robots. I brought them into the world to become individuals to become what they can individually be. I cannot find a list of who voted for the bill, but it passed the Senate 78-20. I would assume that all the no votes were Republican. But there were still a lot of Republicans that voted to set this boondoggle up. The Democrats must be extremely happy with how they pulled a fast one over on the Republicans. Now for the next 40 years they will have a government paid group that will work to elect Democrats and Democrat programs. Any Republican who voted for this bill should be defeated in the next election as too stupid to be a Republican.

The current administration believes in the greatest hoax known to modern man, global warming or its new name global climate change. Because they believe in this hoax, they have to stop it right now. Since the only way to stop global warming is to institute socialism and higher taxes, it is the duty of the administration of Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat majorities in both houses to do just that. Since they really know that it is a hoax, they hope that you do not realize the tremendous tax increase they will put on you in the form of cap and trade restrictions on energy use. The funds raised from these taxes are to be used to help balance the budget. They do not realize that the tax will be counter productive. The higher the tax, the lower amount of taxes will come into the federal treasury as a result.

My 10 year old grand daughter has never experienced a year in which the temperature has been higher than the year before. The temperature has been the same or decreased every year since before she was born. More and more Americans are beginning to realize that global warming is just a scam designed to take away their freedoms. That is why the Democrats have to institute these fixes as soon as possible. The Democrats say because that will help the planet. The real reason is because public opinion is turning against them and if they wait another year, they will not be able to get these rules passed at all. As it is, there will be a lot of fighting to get them through. They were hoping to ram the rules through before anyone was aware it was happening. They also do not want you to see that different parts of the country will pay different rates and different income groups will pay different rates. In case you were born yesterday, the Democrat supporting areas and income groups will pay less, the Republican areas and income groups will pay more. That is only “fair”, for Democrats.

Hugo Chavez, the socialist leader of Venezuela, said that he thought Barack Obama should follow the socialist road. This may come as news to Hugo Chavez, but Barack Obama is well along the road to socialism. If Hugo Chavez is not careful, the United States will be more socialist than his Venezuela or even Cuba. Hugo Chavez is having some resistance to his implementation of socialism in Venezuela. Let us hope that somewhere there is some resistance to socialism in America.

Barack Obama promised that when he took office as President, he would bring countries together. He seems bent on pushing our friends away and bringing our enemies closer. He snubbed the British when Prime Minister Brown came to visit. He is giving billions to Hamas and calling it aid to Gaza. Everyone in the world knows that it is aid for Hamas, except for Barack Hussein Obama. This is not the way of diplomacy. You are supposed to hold your closest friends in highest positions. When they come, you roll out the red carpet and treat them as royalty. You have policies that support your friends, not anger them. We are going to be in real trouble real quick if this does not change. Our friends will only take this so long before they write Obama off as a socialist kook that cannot be trusted. It will take a long time to regain the trust after it is lost. Obama is trying to lose it in the first 6 months. Trust is easy to lose and hard to gain.

The country is in for more of the same over the next four years. We will be despised by our friends. We will be one of the poorest countries in the world. We may even have bombings in our own cities. We might be living like they do in Israel, worried where the next bombing our attack will take place. But, we will have shown those evil rich people that they cannot enjoy the perks of being rich by taking their perks away. How stupid can we be and still take it. We need to rise up and take the country back before it is gone. If we lose our freedom, freedom will not poke its head above water for a thousand years. We do not need that.

The Democrats have decided to target the biggest target in the Republican arsenal. They held a focus group of people (probably Democrats) last fall and found that Rush is not that popular. So, they decided that they could create a new boogey man to scare the Democrats.

Rush Limbaugh is in his element when he is being attacked by Democrats. He just loves the controversy. The controversy brings him new listeners as people start to wonder about this so-called boogey man. When they listen, they hear a funny confident person that can explain things in a way that everyone can understand. That gives Rush a new group of listeners. Rush Limbaugh always comes out of these scraps far better off than he went into these scraps.

Just like when the Democrats were having trouble pinning George W. Bush down in the early years of his administration, they will have a difficult time pinning down Rush Limbaugh. Sure he says things that are controversial. He is, after all, a talk show host. The purpose of a talk show host is to gain and hold listeners. One way to gain and hold listeners is to say things that are controversial. Another way is to do things that are unconventional. Rush Limbaugh does both extremely well. His timing is always impeccable. Frequently, I have said to myself, “Rush, don’t go there”. Every time Rush has been right and I have been wrong. That shows that his sense of what works with the public is much better than my sense or those of any liberal.

Democrats always say that they are against targeting individuals and the politics of personal destruction. The Republicans always get accused of using those tactics. Yet, it is always the Democrats that are actually practicing the art of personal destruction. It is their bread and butter tactic. It works for them so well because they cry about how often the Republicans use it. So, the main stream press accuses the Republicans of using the politics of personal destruction and may even find one example. The main stream press ignores the hundreds or more of examples of Democrats successfully using the politics of personal destruction. It is always the Democrats that go after the individual first. Republicans usually try to stay on the issues. Democrats know that the issues are a losing proposition, so they go after the individual knowing that everyone is not perfect. If they phrase things just right, they could make anyone look like Lucifer, even if they are much closer to perfect.

The Democrats see that the economy is going into the tank. They see that the stock market is down to levels not seen since 1997. They know that their “stimulus” package will not stimulate anything except for socialism. They also know that socialism will prolong the recession and maybe even make it into a depression. So, they have to find an individual to funnel all their hate toward. The most likely candidate they found was Rush Limbaugh. The reason they targeted Rush is because he is the best at what he does. He is the most successful talk show host, by far. They also know that if they can topple Rush Limbaugh, they can destroy the conservative movement in this country. For all those reasons and more, they had to target Rush Limbaugh for destruction. They will put the full brunt of the Democrat attack machine to work on Rush. The Democrat propaganda machine, commonly known as the main stream press, will write articles that are negative and broadcast negative news. Democrat politicians will say bad things about Rush and take what he says out of context. The Democrat bloggers will spew their hate towards Rush on their blog sites. When they are all done, Rush will come out on top. He will win because he has truth on his side. They only have hate on their side. Truth always trumps hate.

I support Rush Limbaugh and all that he stands for. He is not perfect and I understand that. But, that is not the issue. He is not running for saint, he is a talk show host. The agenda he talks about is the agenda I support. I support freedom wherever I find it. I support enforcing our borders to stop people from coming in illegally. I support reducing the size of the government bureaucracy. I would prefer that we get back to the Constitution and start living by its ideals. If the Constitution says the federal government can do it, then I support the government. If the Constitution does not say the federal government can do it, then that part of the federal government should be eliminated or transferred to the states. If we start following what we say we believe, then all of us will be happier.

Barack Hussein Obama has selected Kathleen Sibelius to be his new Health and Human Services Secretary. She is the current Governor of Kansas and probably the most ardently pro-abortion Governor in the country. That is in keeping with the Obama administration policy of killing as many of the unborn as possible. Obama seems to fail to realize that the majority of those unborn that are killed are black. But that does not seem to concern him. He is more concerned with killing as many unborn as possible and letting the chips fall where they may.

Kathleen Sibelius can also be counted on to push for socialized medicine. Those that are pro-abortion are almost always pro-socialized medicine. They usually want cradle to grave medical care for those that manage to avoid the abortionist. They are also for killing off those that are elderly as soon as is possible. To the pro-abortion, pro-socialized medicine person, the ideal society would only have peopled up until about age 75 or 80. Then they would be allowed to die or undergo euthanasia.

Since almost all of those that are pro-abortion are corrupt. And, since almost all of those that are pro-socialized medicine are corrupt. We can assume with a high degree of accuracy that Kathleen Sibelius is corrupt. The other guiding light in this matter is the selection of the Cabinet by Obama himself, almost all of those he has selected have either been outright crooks or corrupt.

Bill Clinton is the most corrupt person ever to hold the office of President. Barack Hussein Obama is determined that he will have the most corrupt administration in American History. So far that honor would probably have to be held by the Harding administration or the Grant administration. Obama is going to win that honor within the first couple of months. Both of those Presidents took almost their entire administration to earn the honor of most corrupt.

Of course, with today’s Democrats it is almost impossible not to select a corrupt politician. Almost all of the Democrats that serve in the House and Senate are far more corrupt than the corrupt “Silver Knight” in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”. The Silver Knight at least had a streak of honesty still left in him. That resulted in the final scene where he acknowledges that he is corrupt and Jefferson Smith has been telling the truth all along. Today, none of the House or Senate Democrats would ever do such a thing. They would continue to insist that the righteous Jefferson Smith was the one who was corrupt. That is how we get House and Senate Democrats constantly complaining that Republicans are corrupt while they are far more corrupt. I am not giving the House and Senate Republicans a clean slate. There are a lot of them that are corrupt also. It is just that there are some House and Senate Republicans that are honest and above board. That is the difference. You can’t find one in the Democrat caucus and you find them all over the place in the Republican caucus. You find corrupt politicians in both parties.

What this country really needs is a complete sweep of the House and Senate in the next election. I know that will mean some honest Republicans might be defeated. But it is far better to lose one or two honest Republicans than retain hundreds of corrupt Democrats or Republicans. My guess is that at least half of the House Republicans would fit the definition of an honest politician. The percentage goes down in the Senate because there are so many squeamish liberal Republicans that are basically dishonest at heart. I would be very surprised if there are 25% of the Senate Republicans that fit the definition of honest. I do not believe that even one Democrat would fit the definition of honest.

We need politicians of the highest moral fiber. We have politicians of the lowest moral fiber. That is because of the way we do politics in America. We analyze everything and magnify every minor mistake into a major mistake. That is why honest people avoid the process. Dishonest people do not care about getting dirty. Honest people do care about getting dirty. That is why the best people do not get appointed to positions like Supreme Court Justices. We have to clean up politics to get good people to devote a portion of their time to the service of their country. That is the way Adams and Jefferson saw the legislative function of government. Career politicians were unheard of in the early days of the country.

In my lifetime, there have been two Presidents that have changed the United States. The first was President Ronald Wilson Reagan and the second is Barack Hussein Obama.

President Reagan changed the country at a time when the economy was bad because of poor economic policies of the Democrat President Jimmy Carter. There was high inflation, high interest rates and high unemployment. President Reagan came into office and said, “In this present crisis, the government isn’t the solution to the problem. The government is the problem.” By removing the government from the equation as much as he could, he ushered in an economy of robust growth that lasted for three decades. President George W. Bush, with the help of the Democrats, thought that it would last forever and forgot the principles that Reagan put forth. As a result, the economy Reagan built started to falter.

The real reason the Reagan economy started to falter was because of Democrats trying to tell everyone how to run their business. Democrats like to place the blame on lack of regulation. The real problem was too much regulation. Banks were forced to loan money to people that would never have been able to get a loan. It is little surprise that those people defaulted on their home loans. When that started to happen in large numbers, the whole system collapsed.

Barack Obama is also a transformative President. He is trying to transform our economy and country from a capitalist free country into a socialist country ruled by fascists. He has been in office for one month and has a good start on doing just that. He operates outside of the guidelines of the Constitution. He is supposed to be a Constitutional scholar, so he should know what those restraints are. Yet, he has stepped outside those restraints almost constantly since taking office on January 20. If he completes his transformation, the America that existed from 1776 to 2009 will cease to exist. The Socialist States of America will exist in its place with Barack Hussein Obama as its dictator. He has already set the ball in motion to do just exactly that.

The difference between the transformation of President Reagan and Barack Obama is one of love. President Reagan loved this country with all his heart. He wanted to do everything he could to make this country strong and free. So, he took the steps that he felt were necessary and within the guidelines of the Constitution. What resulted was the strongest country in the world. We also enjoyed the highest levels of freedom of anywhere on the planet. That love that President Reagan had for the country was able to withstand 30 years of people hammering against its walls before it fell.

Barack Obama loves himself. He has shown that numerous times by not putting his hand over his heart for the national anthem or not wearing a lapel pin on the campaign trail. He also showed that love for himself by making Obama flags and emblems that covered his campaign plane. There was no American flag anywhere to be seen. His bogus “Office of the President Elect” was there for show. It was a “look at me, I am a big shot” moment.

If Barack Obama pulls off his transformation of the American economy and culture, there will never be another America in this world. Freedom will have been lost and there will be a thousand years of bondage and strife. It will be another dark ages for the world. Innovation will be lost to history. People 50 years from now will wonder about computers and how they worked. One hundred years from now, people will wonder about how people were able to fly.

We need to stand up to Obama and his minions, now, or forever be cursed by history. We may win or we may lose, but not trying is the curse I cannot bear. I have to stand up and be counted as one who is against everything that Obama is trying to do. I will use this space as long as possible. I will use my voice as long as I am allowed to speak. I will vote as long as they let me vote. There is not much more I can do. I will oppose Obama and his policies at every step of the way.

“We are all Socialists Now”, screams the headline of Newsweek last week. I was disappointed that Newsweek would be so presumptuous as to assume that all Americans support Socialism. Obviously at least 47% of us voted for the Republican in the last election. We would most likely not be considered in that socialist group. There are others that voted for the Libertarian party that would be surprised to find that they have been lumped together with the socialists. I have never been a socialist, nor will I ever be a socialist. I have never support a socialist idea and I cannot conceive of a time that I ever would support a socialist idea. That is why the headline is so offensive.

I know why they put the banner on their magazine. The “stimulus” bill passed Congress last week. Contained in the stimulus bill are numerous socialist agenda items. Since the bill passed and is to be signed by Barack Hussein Obama today in Denver, they will become law. They were not supported by any real Republican in the House or Senate. To call Collins, Snowe or Specter Republicans is to sully the term Republican. They are turncoats of the lowest order. They knew or were supposed to know what was in the bill. So, supporting a bill that contains socialist agenda items is wrong for America. We do not need a western European socialist state here in America. What we need is freedom. Freedom is what made this country great, not government. God gave us freedoms and the government ensured that those freedoms would be respected. As long as that relationship was maintained, this country led the world in everything. As soon as the government started granting “rights” we started on a downward spiral. To get us out of this spiral, we need to get back to the foundation of what made us great and that is the fact that God gave us the rights and the government merely respects those God given rights. The government does not grant anyone any rights to anything. God grants those rights and the government just respects those rights. The proper order should be maintained at all times. When it gets out of place, we start declining.

Our country has been in decline for a long time. It started out small in the 1930’s with Franklin Roosevelt. It has now snowballed into an almost unstoppable avalanche. We must stop the avalanche of government at the expense of freedom. The way to do that is to take our government back with people that truly believe that government is there to serve the people not the people are there to serve government like we have in Washington today. We have a few in Washington that do understand the proper relationship, like Jeff Flake or even Jon Kyl. Every Democrat believes that the people are here to serve government and it is the government that made us great. Both are false arguments.

The first false argument is that it is the government that made us great. That is not true on its face. It is true that our government got out of the way and allowed us the freedom to be innovative Americans. If that is your tack that government made us great from that angle, then you are mostly correct. The second false argument comes from the first. If the government made us great, then it is the purpose of all Americans to serve the government that made us great to make us even greater. This is a false argument. Americans are great in spite of government, not because of it. Americans are taught to think for themselves and this is what has separated us from other countries during war. In a war, if you kill our officers, our enlisted men will take over until all are gone. In other countries, if you kill the officers, the unit is almost completely unable to function. That is how we defeated Germany and Japan; our enlisted men were able to make command decisions that their enlisted men were incapable of doing.

We are moving toward the kind of country that we have always despised. We despised those other countries because they could not function without their officer class. We are turning into that type of a society. I do not want to live long enough to see it happen in my America. I want my Americans to think for themselves and do for them to make themselves better. That is how we became the best and how we can become the best again. The German best were better than our best. But, our second thru one thousand+ best was better than their second thru one thousand+ best. That is why we won. German guns were better than ours. German tanks were better than ours. German airplanes were better and faster than ours. Yet, we won the war because we could make our inferior weapons do the job that they could not do with their superior weapons.

American spirit and can-do attitude is what has made us the best. Socialism will destroy the American spirit and can-do attitude. Socialism saps the strength to survive out of a country and eventually it just dies thru disinterest. Democrats want us to emulate Western Europe and go down the socialist road. We need to resist that siren song and head down the individualistic road of independence. That is where true greatness lies. We want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We do not want life, liberty and equality. Equality is what killed the French Revolution. Equality is what is destroying Western Europe. It destroyed Russia. We do not want it to destroy America as well.

Yesterday I read an article that reminded me of something I had forgotten. Years ago someone came up with the Peter Principle. The Peter Principle is simply that someone will rise to their level of incompetence. All of us do this in one form or another throughout our lives. Most of us, when we reach this level, are just above the level and nobody notices. Others spectacularly fly by their level and everyone notices. Barack Hussein Obama is one of the latter such individuals.

How could someone reach their Peter Principle level at the Presidency? The Presidency is probably the most complex job in the world. It requires high intelligence, compassion, ruthlessness and a host of other skills that are often competing in nature. There are few that have the complex combination of skills that make a truly successful President. Most Presidents have strong suits and weak suits, and some are just weak all over. But only Martin van Buren and Jimmy Carter come to mind that had none of those skills. Even the most corrupt President, Bill Clinton, had some of the skills and was not as bad as I sometimes depict.

Barack Hussein Obama came into office appearing to have many of the skills necessary to handle the office of President. He also has a group of advisors who had worked with Bill Clinton and appeared to have the skills necessary to get him over the top where he was weak. However, in this first month of office Barack Hussein Obama has shown none of the skills necessary to master the office. He might have passed his Peter Principle level and we did not notice as a public.

How could he have passed his Peter Principle level and not be noticed? That is an interesting development in American life today. Blacks are not looked at as closely as other races and they frequently pass their Peter Principle level before being found out. Affirmative Action is one of the reasons for this. Blacks get hired and promoted not for the quality of their work, but through the color of their skin. This happened to Obama to get into college and into Harvard Law School. It allowed him to be elected into office in Illinois on the basis of the color of his skin. He was elected US Senator on the basis of his skin color. He was elected President primarily because of his skin color. He may have passed his Peter Principle level way back in college, but nobody ever checked. That would put him significantly over that level today.

If you are just over the Peter Principle line it does not make much difference. You are still largely competent for most things and others can cover for the rest. It is only when you are way over the line does the Peter Principle line become a problem. Barack Hussein Obama appears to have jumped way over the line, at least from his conduct of his first few weeks in office. If he is way over his Peter Principle line, we are in for a very long 4 years. Jimmy Carter was in over his head and we had a disastrous four years. Barack Obama appears to be in over his head even worse than Jimmy Carter ever was. He cannot even get in the White House without trying to go through windows or Marine One without bumping his head. That is worse than Jerry Ford ever did as a bumbler. If comedians were being fair to both sides, they could have a field day with Barack Hussein Obama. But, since almost all comedians voted for him, they would never make fun of his antics. That is a shame as they could have had a lot of fun with all of Obama’s missteps.

The news media is not the news media any more. It is the propaganda arm of the Democrat party. That means that they will not report that Barack Hussein Obama is in over his head as President. Everyone will just have to figure it out for themselves as they watch him bumble his way around. Again, that is a shame. We used to have freedom of the press and that was a precious thing to have. The press threw that away when they decided to become the propaganda arm of the Democrat party. A free press would let the public know what is going on in Washington and everyone could make up their minds. Instead, they are fed Democrat propaganda and have to figure out what really happened. That is sad. That is the way it was in the old Soviet Union. Of course, that is what Obama, Pelosi, Reid and company want us to become so they can be the new proletariat.

Why are Democrats so enamored with socialism and communism? If you think they are not, then; why do Democrats love socialist and communist dictators? What is it about socialism and communism that attracts our “enlightened” Democrats? I, for one, cannot figure it out for one minute.

Let’s look at our closest communist country, Cuba. The people of Cuba live in poverty. The government turns the water on for one side of the street today and the other side of the street tomorrow. Power is turned off every night, because you do not need power at night. If you use too much power in one day, your power gets turned off for a couple of days. Bathtubs are not for taking baths in Cuba. When the water is turned on, the last thing you do is fill the tub full of water so you have some for the next day. You do not take long hot showers; you take sponge baths in the shower. The health care you get might be free, but it is of very poor quality. The health care you see in Michael Moore’s movie about the Cuban health care system is only available to foreigners who pay and the Cuban elite class.

Cuba should be a paradise. It has all the advantages that made it a destination for the world’s rich in the past. It has long clean beaches. It has great weather. The Cuban people should share in the riches that would come from opening up Cuba as a tourist destination. Cuba right now, is a hell hole. Nobody except for the demented Democrats would ever want to travel there. The Democrats would be shown the elite areas and the elite hospitals. The Democrats would come home and declare that Cuba is a paradise. Cuba is a paradise if you are one of the elite ruling classes. If you are anyone else, Cuba is a place to flee. That is why Cubans flee from Cuba every day. Hundreds die between Cuba and Florida every year trying to get out of Cuba. If it is so great there, why are they risking their lives to leave?

Let’s look at socialism; socialism is not as bad as communism. It is a very close second to being a terrible place to live, but at least there are some freedoms however few. Hugo Chavez is a saint to many of our “enlightened” Democrats like Danny Glover or Cindy Sheehan. They gush at how great things are in Venezuela. Venezuela used to be a country that was on the richer side of South America. It took in large sums from its vast oil reservoir. Now, under Hugo Chavez, Venezuela has become a South American backwater. It is one of the poorest countries in South America. It still brings in huge sums of money from its oil wealth, but that only goes to support the government and the elite class. The others have found out what poverty is like. They are now too poor to do anything about it. The worst part is they voted for Hugo Chavez in the beginning and he just took over. At least the Cubans can say that they did not elect Castro into power, he just took it.

In one city in Venezuela, they were building a shopping center. Hugo Chavez visited and saw the shopping center under construction. He told the mayor to stop construction because that land was too valuable to be used for a shopping center. Chavez made the city change the shopping center to a hospital because that was a “better” use for the land than a shopping center. Chavez was reported to have said that we cannot build a socialist paradise if we have commerce interfering.

The problem that I see is that we are sliding toward what these two countries have. It is not something that I wish for my children or grandchildren. I do not want them to have water every other day or power only during the day. I do not want my children living in poverty. I want them to be successful. They can only be successful if they live in a country that is free. A socialist or communist country is not free. When we opt for socialized medicine, we are becoming a socialist country. We are giving up our freedom for security. When we trade freedom for security, we are not free or secure. That is why I am fighting with all I can muster to stop the slide into socialism. I want my children and grandchildren to be free and secure. That can only come under the Constitution of the United States. There is no room in the Constitution for socialism.