THE INDIVIDUAL IS THE FINAL MINORITY

Asked if Congress might abandon a health care initiative beset with political and policy problems, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., responded: “I don’t see that as a possibility. We will have something.” — Newsmax

The Democrat party is like the proverbial idiot. Keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome.
They persist on pushing for more nanny state measures and the people push back again and again.

The voters for Obama were suckered by his slick message the same as they have been through the ages by any good huckster that knows what they want to hear.
The difference this time is that now the table has turned on him in record time and he and his posse refuse to see the real world.

I look at these altruist/collectivists and am not surprised at their hubris.
They automatically assume that they know how to spend my money better than I do and prove it with every tax increase or federal/state program designed to protect me from myself.

Read this statement from “the one”
”What is absolutely true is that people don’t feel like they’re being listened to, So they pray and they count on each other and they count on their families. You know this in your own lives and what we need is a federal government that is actually paying attention. A government that is fighting for working people day in and day out making sure that we are trying to allow them to live out the American dream and that’s what this campaign is about.”
See a pattern here?

Think he has changed his attitude since then? if you do then I have 1,000 acres of swamp land for you

January 21st, 2010 the Supreme Court said in words specifically that free speech is back again for shareholders.

CITIZENS UNITED v . FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
The majority opinion given by Justice Kennedy stated the following:
“The First Amendment does not permit laws that force speakers to retain a campaign finance attorney, conduct demographic marketing research, or seek declaratory rulings before discussing the most salient political issues of our day. Prolix laws chill speech for the same reason that vague laws chill speech: People “of common intelligence must necessarily guess at [the law’s] meaning and differ as to its application.” Connally v. General Constr. Co. , 269 U. S. 385, 391 (1926) . The Government may not render a ban on political speech constitutional by carving out a limited exemption through an amorphous regulatory interpretation.”

In this they make it clear that corporations are allowed to buy political advertising as the restriction of such speech with all the cavaets is explicitly not stated in the constitution and therefore is not allowed.

All that being said then where will the left come at the lovers of freedom and the constitution next?
I suspect it will be by using the FCC and a variant of the “fairness doctrine” to control the media (non print) such that for every ad there must be an opposite ad.
This is practice is an extreme cooling on free speech and therefore is against the First Amendment.

MONEY through the use of it to purchase time for political speech IS speech in and of itself.
I must recommend to all that you read a speech made by one of the main characters in Atlas Shrugged entitled “So you think money is evil” and then think about what your idea of money and speech and the constitution entail.

Sun Tzu in Art of War stated the following precept: When your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.
The GOP this last election cycle completed the dulling of their weapon & their ardor on the altar of moderation and the high road in a competition where the opposition took whatever steps were necessary to win. Read More »

I found this on the ANTI-POSITIVIST blog but its worth repeating for the simple fact that it sums up the WHOLE issue of rich vs. poor & taxes. Read More »

“I think it (the comprehensive plan) will take away some property rights but it will be on a very limited basis,” Woodcox said in a phone interview Tuesday morning. “It’s like taking somebody’s property for a road, but that’s still progress. You’ve got to do it.”

This is the statement made by a county commissioner in Burleigh County North Dakota.

WONDERFUL VIDEO PARALLEL OF THE CURRENT DEMOCRAT MENTAL PROCESS

Consider this,

One presidential candidate has openly stated the basic premis of socialism/communism, “Spread the wealth around”.
in Specific application the “spread the wealth around” phrase is indicative of the idea of the collective right myth superceding the fact of individual wealth. The full quote of which his statement is based goes as follows:
“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life’s prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”

Now consider the implications of that statement put into practice and its practical results.
A man or woman looks to open their own business. They look at the cost involved at getting started vs. what they expect to make. 1st thing they look at is what will they make as a result of this new company.
IF they make over $250,000 then they have to consider that “The One” will tax them more than if they were less successful.
IF they have over a certain number of employees then the government at the point of a gun called federal mandate require they provide healthcare to the employees or face a fine such that they and all the other taxpayers support the employees healthcare coverage.
 Do you think that a person or group of persons will consider really working harder to create a new business when they know that they will be saddled with MORE taxes and regulations than if they stay at the income level they are now.
Do you think that a person who owns a business now will consider hring MORE employees in order that he will be saddled with these new compulsory expenses?

The Socialist/Communist mentality of Obama if implimented by the vote of the masses will mean that we will make the slide toward a more welfare state system rather than capitalist state system.
Till now we call this country the United States of America. with his ideas implemented it would be better served to be renamed the United Socialist States of America.

At that point the declaration independence and its statement of the following becomes hollow rhetoric.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” — Jefferson et al, The Declaration of Independence

Notice the words “pursuit of happiness” NOT gaurantee of happiness. This is held constant as long as basic property rights are the form which all other rights spring.

Remember that without property rights no other can exist as it is a basic tenant of the individual ethos to own property and without that one cannot implement the 2nd amendment or any other of the constitution.  Money is the absolute basic property of commerce and industry among men and when the government removes the absolute right of ownership of the product of ones industry then the right of property is abrogated.

Be very wary when you hear the term “Share” when spoke in context with government distribution of private confiscated goods. This is the calling card of an altruist putting you on the altar to sacrific for his intentions.

Consider also that these same altruists that want to sacrifice you are the ones that call money evil. To that end you are encouraged to read a treatis on the taking that statement to its logical conclusion “So you think money is evil?”

Today, Sen. P. Lahey stated in a conference that he was proposing the justice department go after OPEC for violations of the anti-trust act.

Has he gone completely around the bend?
Who is going to enforce it?
How are you GOING to enforce it?

Just something to think about.

Pitching his message to Oregon’s environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to “lead by example” on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.

“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.

When will the left leaners (led for the moment by Barak) figure out that we don’t need to permission of other countries.
ALL of these countries that would be upset must be reminded that if it were not for OUR economy they would be even POORER than they are now.

Yesterday (5/13/08) The city council of B’ham approved diverting $7.9M from the fund for schools to add to the fund for the fairpark project.
As some of the council members said (before they voted no) I think it is deplorable that needed money is diverted to a recreational project from a necessary project.

How LONG is the city coucil going to placate the current Mayor and his utopian dreams that so far have been nothing but boondoggles and a further expense the city does not need.

The continued support for these ideas that are not a mandated city responsibility are why no one trusts city government or has the faith that what their representatives on the council say will happen in their disstricts will occur since the mayor decides to be vindictive against them when he doesn’t get his way.

If we didn’t know better we would think that the city government is being run by a spoiled child.