Losing Liberties

How do you boil a frog? One degree at a time. Old saying. I've never boiled a frog so I'm not sure if it would work or not but I do see something that is alarming in our new President.

As I'm writing this the President is about to address the nation. He and congress have just passed the largest spending bill in the nation's history. It will take generations to pay off this debt but that is just one degree. The nationalizing of the banking system is the second degree. Obviously that has to be done to stop the stock market and housing market from tanking as it has done....or does it?

Perhaps this is just my own paranoiac thoughts here but what if that is the goal to get another stimulus bill passed? Perhaps the gloom and doom talk from the administration is actually an organized plan or further scare the capitalist investors from the market which will offer "proof" that his plans need to be further implemented?

Destroying the stock market and future retirement programs is a sure way to get you to look to the government to help you. The past week the market has been a barometer of how the administration has handled the crisis. We are now at pre 1997 levels. On purpose? Is the administration not smart enough to see how their words effect the market? I believe it just might be.

More spending, more urban and social programs implemented, more jobs lost....more liberties lost. What is the next degree? Nationalizing housing? Perhaps the government will buy all mortgages? There will soon be a massive omnibus spending bill up for congress to vote on, it sits at around 400 billion right now...it will get bigger. It is nothing but pork earmarks. Payoffs for supporters as if the stimulus bill wasn't enough. Hang onto your wallets America, the taxman is coming for it...and along with him hyper inflation. They might just bring back the Carter era Misery Index....


I'm certain that our government has gotten out of control of the citizens in which it was designed to protect. Our government no longer lives in fear of its citizens, it is instead attempting to consolidate power in a centralized location, unprecedented amounts of power.

They don't control the masses yet as nearly half of the country opposes his policies. However as I said, one degree at a time and one program at a time. Just wait until he implements some variety of green agenda in which people are sent to your street to survey you and your utility usage, how many rooms in your house are lived in, offers suggestions on how to cut that back, seemingly innocuous at first.

One more harmless degree.

If the stimulus is going to work why not make it ten times bigger? Wouldn't their logic dictate that we would get ten times the benefit ten times faster? Why just 800 BILLION?

This administration is taking the FDR playbook and taking it to places it was never intended to go and a faster rate than ever believed. One month. It took Mussolini ten years to implement his socialist agenda and consolidate power. Obama...one month.

We live in dangerous times. We find ourselves on a slippery slope in which our very democracy finds itself in the very situation our Constitution was written to prevent. Government overstepping its bounds and creeping like ivy into every single nook and cranny of our lives. One more degree.

Obama firmly believes that the government is the savior to any problem. I believe it is the people who are the savior to any problem and that the problem is the government.

Right now the President is proclaiming that helping the people is his concern and not helping banks. Banks which were forced into giving bad loans by the very party in power. Reforms are coming and what the result will be is that more bad loans will be made, housing prices will plummet further, the Dow will be around 2500, retirement will be nonexistent, and the future will be bleak....IF this is allowed to continue. A few more degrees.

The light at the end of the tunnel is that we have elections and in two years the mid term elections will be here and perhaps this damage can be undone. Perhaps the country will see the damage being done, the liberties being lost.

He is now talking about his three initiatives, Healthcare, Energy, and Education. I have a friend who's father is very sick. She is a liberal and I know supports this President. With socialized healthcare her father wouldn't be able to get the care he needs, he would be placed on a list. As it is he is going to have surgery early next month. Treatments as needed there after. He won't be part of the horror story that is socialized healthcare. I do believe more people need access to insurance and I believe there is a way to do that without ruining medical care as Obama wants to do.

Energy? Yeah, just wait until the green shirted thugs come around. Education? We will likely produce some of the least engaged children ever who will have a bleak future indeed. I hope...no I pray that the young will educate themselves about history and about our very country. About what our founding fathers intended and how far off the track we have been lead.

Obama is a dangerous man. His damage in office can be put into check however. You, the citizens need to make your voices heard. For the next two years he has a blank check congress that will rubber stamp anything he wants. Two years of anything will not destroy this country. We can turn down the flame but we have to get involved and understand how politics works. We have to engage in the process. Politics is the one thing we have in common that effects every single part of our lives.

How will it effect your life? Obama didn't mention one time HOW he was going to accomplish his lofty goals he laid out. There is only one way to pay for that kind of spending and that is devastating taxes.