August 1, 2010
Perhaps it's time for a rehearsal of the facts. In 1952, we had a surplus of worker-
heroes who had come back from the war. Women married those men and left their jobs
to raise babies. The American family saved a little and spent a lot. American industry
was strong with sales here and abroad. Then, cancer set in.
Unions, which had languished during the war effort, except in the rust belt cities, began
their tyrannical push for unreasonable pay, hours, and retirement benefits. In the
South, societies dedicated to the equality of African-Americans ran away from their
earlier communist roots because of the Soviets' desire to murder America. Had it not
been for agreeable Caucasians, Brown would never have gotten through the SCOTUS.
As it was, in South Carolina, segregation DID NOT END in 1954. In fact, the SC
law was so flawless, it took until 1967 to end segregation, and that was because
whites and blacks admitted that segregation was stupid, and passed the civil rights act.
In the same spirit of that act, people felt guilty and passed the most destructive act in US
history.
The War on Poverty from 1965 through 2001 cost our country Six Trillion Dollars.
Scholars today add that welfare has destroyed the African-American culture and family,
turned predominately Black Churches into political septic tanks, where before they were
islands of freedom and equality, and reintroduced the concept of Marxism ("economic
justice") in place of grim determination - fonts of independence and self-reliance.
At the same time, The Vietnam War, created by Progressives and ended by A Republican,
came and went, leaving a cynical, completely broke, and bleeding America. Inflation
was rampant and price controls were ineffective and ruinous. Nixon lied and
Republicans died at the poles.
Jimmy Carter, who now has competition for the worst president in history, simply did
not know what he was doing. From simple errors of foreign policy to misjudgments on
finance to his revenge against his superiors in the military, Progressives followed him into
the pit. People actually thought America was finished.
Then came Ronald Reagan, a B actor with libertarian leanings. For the first time,
since John Kennedy, the country had hope and freedom from government. He beat the
Russkis. He freed America from Washington. And, except for the Progressive favorites,
FNMA, FHMLC, Big Banks, and Unions, and the favorites of the Republicans, Farm and
Oil companies, deregulated businesses. In fairness, Reagan's ideas scared a nation
which had been given everything. In 1982, a Progressive Congress returned and spent
every extra tax cent that Reagan's economics had raised. Reagan
might have deregulated everything, except for that congress. Now, all we can say is
that the job was incomplete.
George H. W. Bush was a good president. He knew how to fight a war. He was totally
color-blind. His only fault was that he believed in the concept of a central bank. If
the cyclical recession had not kicked in, the Reagan-Bush economy would not be the
Post-Reagan economy, and there would have been no Bill Clinton, who rode it into the
sunset, leaving W with a recession which became a crush on September 11, 2001.
Millions of jobs and trillions of dollars were made under W. That is a fact. But, as
with his father, and Reagan, Congress turned into a special interest spending fountain. In
particular, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were changed to carry the burden of enormous
risk. In 2007, Progressives made sure that nobody knew just how bad
things had gotten, putting two of the most corrupt congressmen in charge of both them
and AIG insurance of these loans. Of course, when you're insuring trillions of dollars, half of them bad
loans, things are going to get thin. And let's be clear about this - when W wanted an
accounting, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank stonewalled, saying everything was solid.
Like his father, W believed in a central bank, and the rest, as they say, is history. A
small recession became a cavernous pit as banks and businesses ran away, where they
stay, today. And then came the bailouts. Obama is a dependable, consistent,
economic fascist. No wonder that the economy is in the tank. But his poison is fixable, come
November.
What the replacements need to remember is that only DEPENDABLE debt
is good. A large amount of the debt we have must be taken care of by RESCINDING
the works of the previous loonies. We really haven't been able to afford tax increases
since 2001. The good news is, that just doing away with the stupidities of the lefties
will put our debt back into the controllable area. THEN, we can start to work on
jobs first - by keeping tax cuts and incentivizing small business, then, reforming health
care, the legal circus, the Dollar, immigration, making unions more transparent and
Progressiveic, grandfathering Social Security, and ensuring the government workers we
fire will have jobs in the private sector - of course, they'll have to actually WORK,
a definitively Progressive-type problem.
One other thing. Never, in 80 years, have the Republicans had what Obama has today -
one party COMPLETE CONTROL. In fact, the Republicans haven't had 60% of the votes
in the Senate since Coolidge. It may not happen this time, if people just sit home, or
vote for a vote-splitter. We need 60 senate votes to rescind or at least block the
funding of these horrible, horrible Progressive wet dreams.
Obama can put wikileaks.com out of business any time he wills it. Simply put,
he doesn't want to, because it serves his anti-war purposes.
For what it's worth: Dad would be 95 today. Barbara Innis would be 66 this
coming Friday, if she had made it past today in 1995.
Nobody here is throwing stones at Charlie Rangel or Maxine Waters. They have
bashed their own heads in with their own stones, thank you very much. Rangel was an
honorable vet, turned angry race-baiter, and Waters is a plain old Marxist. That's
why they should be turned out.
