Oh boy! Highway jobs!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34312987/ns/business-economy_at_a_crossroads/page/2/

Read this article for a taste of the future.

President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" until more Americans are back at work.

Yes, spend and spend and spend as the government directs you to spend -- move capital here -- No, here! -- No! Over There!

The country needs jobs? No problem -- we'll create highway jobs. Oh, you don't do that type of work? You're a computer scientist? Well, we don't have any of those jobs, but we do have jobs opening up in the weatherization field. You'll love it.

Go out this Christmas and spend, spend, spend -- we need to get out of this recession -- then, to avoid going back into a recession, continue to spend -- borrow money if you have to -- the government does, and it's working splendidly for them.

Don't worry about production, any kind of job will do. Don't worry about spending -- it's the patriotic thing to do -- spend, spend, spend.

Oh, the incredible lightness of being -- I'm floating.........away........

The final battle begins

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/07/republicans-slam-epa-decision-declare-public-health-danger/

"These long-overdue findings cement 2009's place in history as the year when the United States Government began addressing the challenge of greenhouse-gas pollution and seizing the opportunity of clean-energy reform," she said. 

The final battle begins. Healthcare is not yet a reality, but it's practically a done deal. The EPA hit another front against capitalism, today. The EPA has the regulatory power to reach far into our lives, to pick winners and losers in industry, and to control nearly every aspect of business.

When you couple this with the coming healthcare reform, capitalism is under attack to end all attacks. The State will have seized the power necessary to economically blackmail representatives and destroy all political resistance - industries will be under the Giant Thumb. If this war is lost to the State, the nation is lost.

Revolution 21 -- Part VI

The New Deal revealed how fickle the American people can be in times of emergencies. The ease with which socialistic schemes were implemented shows how susceptible the nation is to statism, although, after all these years, a recent awakening has now caused people to begin questioning what we stand for as a nation and whether we really want to go further down this road.

Putting aside all the growing pains of a new nation, people have not been properly educated regarding the freedom, peace and prosperity that marked our first hundred years.   After that 100 years, relatively overnight, the Federal Reserve was created, we violated our non-interventionist policy and went to War in the early 20th century, passed the 16th amendment, and within a matter of a couple of decades totally changed American government from limited and basically powerless to a powerful, interventionist State machine which practically controlled the economy and forced young men to go overseas to fight and die for the almighty State.

The State has simply become too powerful. Just watch a congressional hearing when members of the private sector are testifying, and listen to how the congress people talk to them -- it's like the private citizens are peons before their masters. The Lords of congress make veiled threats, or sometimes blunt threats, to let the subjects know that the State will get what it wants -- and the private citizens are submissive, because they know these goons can make their lives miserable -- they can destroy their lives. The Lords of congress leave no doubt who has the power.

On the tv cop shows you'll see a cop asking a store owner for information, and when the information doesn't come quickly, the store owner is threatened with bureaucratic harrassment that could be trouble for the owner. This is supposed to be admired -- the power of the State.

We've adjusted to the transformation of private power to State power and now it's normalized, but that can change -- hopefully, it is changing. The new man and woman will have to act against their instincts, which have been trained to seek government favor and advantage. We're at a tipping point where the illusion of State omnipotence has to be revealed. We can no longer go headlong into financial collapse. The only way to save America from ruin is to limit government power -- the State has created an interventionist government, under the management of a two-party system, which is bent on empowering the State over the private sector by institutionalizing statism to the point of no return. The "State" is a conglomeration of bureaucrats, politicians, special interests and favored big corporations.

America is turned upside down, and only a revolution of individual thinking can turn it right side up. It will no longer do any good for one party to gain power over another party -- both parties are complicit in statist growth and institutionalization. It will do no good to form a third party which strives to gain political power, because the system is corrupted and it will only lead to another arm of statist power. Individuals across the country will have to realize that the private sector has to recover liberty so that free markets and free minds can begin building a future.

This will entail a spontaneous transformation and demand for a different government, because this government has betrayed the American people -- our representatives are elected to protect our rights, but they have shirked this duty. Political power must be resisted and private power must be unleashed -- private power grounded in liberty and protection of individual rights, not power over others.

You might say the potential revolution could only be an evolution because it would entail slow change over time, but the internet reality speeds up the prospect of change. There is no such thing as an internet "mind", but the millions of connected individual minds are a new phenomenon creating a private source of power and change like we've never known. MIT is performing experiments now with networking to show the power of communication over the internet, hopefully helping in emergencies and so forth. But these connected minds also can create social change in short order. When it becomes evident the State has gone too far, an internet revolution could undermine State propaganda and attempts to control the national will. A peaceful resistance to State power could happen spontaneously, without large groups in the streets throwing rocks and getting clubbed by the police. Never before has spontaneous order been such a real possibility-- and all it requires is millions of individuals, in unison, saying "No!"

We don't understand, yet, what the new world will be, but it's my bet it will be anti-statist.

Healthcare reform and pressure politics

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/health/policy/07healthweb.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

We'll see how many Democrats can resist the pressure to go along with the gang and pass the healthcare reform bill. We'll see if they go delusional and accept the lie that this is not a government takeover.

I want to see apologies from all the moderate Republicans, who cautioned against hyperbolic opposition, when this bill creates extremes of government intervention and control.

The Afghanistan shuffle

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/06/video-gates-says-no-deadline-on-war-in-afghanistan/

I hope it's obvious to people by now that we can't trust our government. Obama led the country to believe that we would be pulling out of Afghanistan in 18 months, but now the administration is backtracking. If they pass the 5% tax on the rich to pay for the war, expect to be Afghanistan for years to come, and don't expect all that tax money to be spent on the war, and don't expect it to end as troops are drawn down. As long as the government has the power to tax income, the State will continue these schemes to extract as much money as possible from the American people -- this is just the beginning -- we owe trillions, and trillions more are going to be spent.

This is insanity.