Americans Are Being Prepared For Full Spectrum Tyranny

Great post.  What is scary is the number of people I speak with who are already conditioned.  They accept a premise that 30 years ago would have been considered outrageous.  We've been in the pot of water for about 100 years, the Democrats get in power and start cranking on the heat, when we squawk, the Republicans come in and turn the heat down a bit.  Make no mistake, the only President in my life time who tried to take us out of the pot was Reagan (which is why he was so hated by the DC Republicans).  Most of the Republicans since then have only tried to convince us that the pot doesn't exist...and the Democrats....they try to convince us that the heat is global warming and it's our fault.....

Americans Are Being Prepared For Full Spectrum Tyranny

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: You Don’t Need to be a Lefty to Support Krugman (You Just Need to be Economically Illiterate)

Great piece by Mike Shedlock.  Paul Krugman is like a doctor who misdiagnoses a patient and then doubles down on the treatment when the initial attempt fails.  We have never run up so much government spending so fast, the "one-time" stimulus package has been in effect every year since the Democrats controlling the Senate refuse to pass a budget and instead just maintain stimulus-level spending through their on-going resolutions.

What makes that so maddening is that tax revenue is now back up to pre-crisis levels (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/state-tax-revenues_n_1437986.html?ref=business), meaning that the deficit problem is all on the spending side with repsect to where we were before the housing bubble burst.


Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: You Don’t Need to be a Lefty to Support Krugman (You Just Need to be Economically Illiterate)

Iceland Is Hot - Bill O'Reilly - Townhall Conservative Columnists

I'm not a big O'Reilly fan, but this article is pretty good.  Iceland is probably close to the socialist utopia of the Left and it works because of the incredibly small population that is extremely homogeneous, unlike our vast melting pot of 300 million.  Here you can't even expect our citizens to speak proper english without being called a racist and those that do try to learn are labeled as sellouts.  America was always proud to be the land of opportunity, if you want to trade your liberty for "social security", there are plenty of other places willing to take you and your money....

Iceland Is Hot - Bill O'Reilly - Townhall Conservative Columnists

THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT YOUR FRIEND « The Burning Platform

This is a controversial post as the author sites a violent revolt that occurred in Russia during the 1920's then draws parallels with what has happened in our country over the last 4 years.  Anybody who has read my past posts knows that I am not a fan of Republicans nor Democrats and do not think that Obama is much worse than the Bush family.  Both sides have been building a mote around DC and concentrating more power within the centralized ruling class in Washington and it must be stopped.  However, unlike the author, I tend to focus on the solutions written into the Constitution that have been largely forgotten or ignored by the populace.

The key in every election is to take control of the State governments.  In doing so, we can move to nullify DC in moves similar to what we are seeing in Texas, Indiana and now Wisconsin.  Ohio has already voted to ignore ObamaCare as should the rest of the States involved in the Supreme Court decision.  Right now, DC simply threatens to withhold money from the States if they don't obey, however the States can also withhold money from DC in much the same way.  A strong and cohesive band of Governors can move very effectively to start limiting DC's influence on the citizens of this country.  Something that would be much more preferable than taking up arms against our neighbors....

 THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT YOUR FRIEND « The Burning Platform

Compassion – Killer of Society? - Casey Research

There is not much to add to this opinion piece.  The author nails the compassionate totalitarians and their never ending trail of failure and misery...
Compassion – Killer of Society? - Casey Research

The Recall Heard Around the World - Ann Coulter - Townhall Conservative Columnists

Not much more needs to be said.  I have long questioned the legality of a public service employee being able to organize against his neighbor.  There are no checks and balances to make sure that any contracts are negotiated in good faith with anyone representing the best interests of the tax payer. 

During boom times, people are busy and the process is pretty much ignored, but during down turns, all the rocks along the bottom of the stream get exposed.  When the average citizen is forced to give up money that he/she could save toward retirement in order to pay for people to retire at 55 with income and benefits that exceed what that citizen is even earning today......people are going to react. 

Greed goes both ways and the people of Wisconsin were pushed too far....

The Recall Heard Around the World - Ann Coulter - Townhall Conservative Columnists