Yesterday, March 9th, I heard Reps. Bachman and Ryan on the Sean Hannity warn us that Obamacare already has in place its funding source for the next ten years. WTF! The former Congress really stuck it too the American People. The front loaded a program they new the people did not want and made it all the more difficult to get rid of the damn thing.

Democratic Socialism. No. Democratic Facism. With their accomplices the media, radical Democrats have made successful Obama's campaign to "transform" America. In the words of Thomas Paine: "These are the times that try mens souls..." It is growing colder in Washington, what say we heat it up with a little talk of republicanism?

Socialism is Slavery

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We had a group of people in America in the past that were given free health care, free living quarters, free food, free clothing and their job was provided for them. They lived in the height of security with all there basic needs in life provide to them. This group of people had a name they were called by. That name was SLAVE.

The Republican Party was founded on doing away with the institution of slavery and living up to the principle in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal”. The Democrat Party divided our country and went to war to preserve the institution of slavery. After they lost the Civil War the Democrat party instituted the KKK as their terrorist wing to continue to fight the advance of freedom for the former slaves. That’s right every single member of the KKK was a Democrat.

For the next hundred years the Democrat Party and their terrorist wing the KKK fought tooth and nail to stop the advance of freedom. During the Civil Rights battles of the 50s and 60s every Governor, every Mayor, every Police Chief and every local Sherriff that turned the fire hoses on, turned the dogs lose on and orders the Billy clubs on the Civil Rights marchers was a Democrat. A higher percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than Democrats. Before 1960 every elected Black official in this Country was elected as a Republican.

After losing all the battles to make all Americans free and equal the Democrat Party started a slow incremental process of selling Socialism to America and particularly the Black community. It has taken them 50 years of gradually passing one government give away program after another, until now they have most of the Black community and a large group of Hispanics and Whites totally dependent on the Government the same way the former slaves where dependent on their slave masters. When the government provides your health care, your living quarters, your food, your clothes and provides you with a government job or a make work job funded by stimulus money; then they control you and you have become their SLAVE.

The only true freedom is economic freedom!

How long do we wait?

4:30 AM tomorrow sounds about right.

I do wonder if the the Congress and the Senate members who claim they are NOT in Obamas pocket, will ever wake up and get off of the pot and do whatever is needed, before it is too late. It staggers my imagionation that Federal Judge who agrees with with Judge Vinson is not backing him up. This cowardness is at the point of destroying this nation.

Well said, sir, but I fear for my beloved country. We have "the greatest generation" and the "baby boomers" but next up - the "gimme generation".

That is a masterpiece! Keep up the good work.

Can we STOP using the moniker "greatest generation" now???

The people who fought WWII (thank you for your service) also gave us the New Deal (thanks for nothing)! They have set us upon this ruinous course. And, they have also "raised" (a very charitable word) the baby-boomers, aka, "the worst generation". All-in-all, I think the "greatest generation" could have done A LOT better! They threw out the Constitution and reared those who passed the Great Society.

Thanks - guys - for hitting the beaches at Normandy, and Iwo. But, life didn't stop there. You needed to defend freedom at home, and raise a generation of citizens - rather than a mob of entitled whining hippies. If only you'd come home and done the same job for freedom as you did overseas... If only you'd ACTUALLY raised the next generation!

But, now we go on. It is what it is.

The American Hitler trikes a blow for the destroyers of our nation. The threat isn't from foreign shores but right here in the form of a spineless & corrupt Congress led by a dictatorial White House. Washington D.C. has forgotten the fact that they work for the American people and we aren't their subjects.

Your comments are very true. I would also like to see some solutions proposed. We can discuss our ills and problems all day; but we need to talk of solutions like getting control away from the federal reserve, like ending the trade imbalance between US and China and others, like finding out really why presidents and congress, both parties, are hell bent on eliminating manufacturing in America by signing on to nafta, cafta and every other kind of afta they can dream up.

My God richly bless you for the work you are doing on behalf of our country..........I appreciate it beyond words!!!!!!!!

Gneal:

Kudos for saying what you've said. I've thought for a long time that my father's generation (the generation who fought WWII) did a disservice to their progeny by not insisting on values which compelled them to fight for the liberty of others. I hope many readers understand your position, it has value.

MikeH,

DC may have forgotten whom they serve, but hopefully they will soon find out.

Exceptionally Well Stated!!!

Editor:

I hope your comment to Norman McCall was not taken from Crosby, Stills and Nash? ... because Wooden Ships and "purple berries" are not needed at this time.

Those who spoke out loud against incurring debt, who refused handouts and would not feed from the public trought in many of the last recent years were refered to as unamerican, they were ridiculed,called Scrooge and made to look as if they had lost their humanity. Now that shoe is on the other foot, we again have this oddball situation of people like Scott Walker R Gov. Wisc., being touted as a Somon Legree by government employee unions for doing the job he was elected to do, bring sanity back to the state government by cutting the huge spending spree and getting a grip on the debt. For doing so he is a ogre and that's mildly put but the irresponsible union emmployee who gobbled up all that union elected, tax paid politicians could garner for them seem to have forgotten that the public dime is composed of ten pennies, they in their quest for the fair share managed to take most of those pennies and left none to mind the business of government debt respinsibility for the benefit of the taxpayers and voting public from whence the money came and to who the government owes their existence. The union employees are really state employees, their allegiance is to the taxpaying public, in short their boss and they hired Walker to do a job not be fired by a employee union to big for their britches.

Editor;

As a High School History/Government teacher, I agree completely with your analysis. I have seen the similarities that you mentioned and fear for our country. The brand of socialism being embraced and instituted by the White House will lead this great nation to destruction. I hope the current House of Representatives has the backbone to stop these programs and that the electorate will remove the incumbant in 2012. I have become involved in local politics more now than ever before to do my part to see that this happens.

Just say when, Mark. If I am able, I will be there!

Brilliant in its simplicity................

A. Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry men.

B. Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women.

C. Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies.

D. In three generations, there will be no Democrats.

Just Damn - I love it when a plan comes together

Strychnine, cyanide, arsenic, thallium, gu (a.k.a. jincan), racin, hemlock, and many more are all poisons. In general, if someone gives you any one of these, or a cocktail containing all of them, it doesn't much matter what you call it if you're dead. It only matters specifically if there is a chance of saving you with the proper antidote.

Communism, socialism, Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, etc., in general, are all poisons to a free market and the American way of life. It only matters which specific "ism" you're talking about when you are seeking remedies for reversing what the "progressives" (a.k.a. liberals) are trying to do to America. We need antidotes to all the Left's "isms."

In the meantime, no matter which term one uses for the economic poison Democrats are feeding us, just take it to mean that any and all "isms" favored by the Left must be opposed.

Bravo Zulu, Mark. I always feel blessed to still have the Liberty to receive and read your essay each week. May I in return bring you a word of caution?

Your thoughts this week, though expressed well, fall short of addressing the dire condition of our nation. We are now in the last stage Churchill spoke of: duty bound to fight but with only the tiniest probability of victory. It is my sincere hope that you, your family, staff and indeed all the readers of the Patriot Post are preparing for the disaster which is now almost inevitable. One of my most often used quotes from your "Essential Liberty" booklet is, "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom." Can we still claim that exalted status as a people? If not, better set Condition Zebra. Very rough seas ahead. Semper Fi-

Rifleman: Wealth and income are not synonymous as you seem to think. Even if we accept Michael Moore's numbers that you're quoting (which I don't), you seem to be assuming that great wealth or great income are inherently immoral. After all, you don't have either so how could anyone else unless they did something illegal, immoral, or both. They couldn't possibly work harder, be smarter, or picked better parents than you.

Flash: All men are CREATED equal; they are not guaranteed equal results except in a socialist tyranny.

In addition to the linked Heritage Foundation report, there needs to be a concerted effort to reduce the bloat, overlap, redundancy, and inefficiency of the existing federal bureaucracy as outlined in the recent GAO report.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703749504576172942399165436.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories#

Immediate estimated savings of $100 - $200 Billion make the Democrats proposed $4.7 Billion proposal look like the rounding error, chump change that it is, and this is the low-hanging fruit. Eliminating subsidies to the Leftist front organizations such as Planned Parenthood (founded by a racist), Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NEA/NEH, and abolishing the unconstitutional Depts. of Education to devolve authority back to the States. And repeal the 17th Amendment to give the Senators a focus on their respective states instead of the national cocktail party circuit viewpoint. Give the states legislatures the authority to recall their Senators and help keep their hearts and minds on the States, from which the Union sprang, instead of continually dumping unfunded mandates on them.

Failing this, be prepared to recall the advice of the Founders in the magnificent Declaration of Independence. "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." Remember the Virginia state motto, "Sic Semper Tyrannis"

Norman McCall

How long do we wait?

Posted March 10, 2011 at 12:00:35 PM

When the first is gone it will only be a short time before they come for the second. I suggest limiting the time of deliberation. When the voices of freedom are silenced, darkness follows swiftly.

Was it not Lenin who said:

"to destroy a capitalist society,debauch the currency".

Phenomenal essay, Mark! But you need to stop holding back and tell us exactly how you feel! Well done. Semper Fi

Obama said “Judge me by the people who surround me”

OK, the American people did, and they don’t like it: John Holdren, Cass Sustein, Ezekiel Emmanel, Van Jones, and Mark Loyd, et al. socialist minded ideologues.

Any questions about his political directions for America and substance as a politician?

I have known none.

03/10/11

MIKE:Has informed us,The ISLAMIC MUSLIM SNAKE who

now occupies the OVAL office,with his DEMOCRATIC

PARTY of TREASON has almost completed his GOAL of

TRASHING OUR FOUNDERS GIFT TO THE WORLD!!!!!!111

WAKE-UP WAKE-UP Before it's too late!!!!!

The next two years is a critical time for our country. Barrak Obama is going to continue to push spending that benefits his base and not others. If you recall the 50 billion stolen from the people and given to the teachers unions or the theft of property from the auto stockholders and the ownership transfer to the auto unions.

In the next two years as Obama sees the end of his agenda on the horizon he will continue to use the one tool he has available to him. The power to bribe people and drag down its citizens with tax dollars. His end game is simple to destroy the ability of the government to meet its obligations and force the government to tax more.

Taxation is servitude to the government when its used for redistribution. There are very limited situations that any American should be forced to give money so that another can benefit from his labors. It is not healthcare, nor social security nor even welfare or unemployment. That is for charity. When you allow the government to tax you and give your hard earned money to others you are allowing them to chose for you what is best. You as an American know how to best use your money and its not some highly paid union worker sitting behind a government desk.

The time is coming as the socialists have shown their hand. They will be desperate in the next few years as the fight between liberty and slavery begins with the hearts and minds of the citizens. Do your part... speak of liberty and the tyranny of government debt.

I agree with your argument, however I find it petty/childish to insist on including 'Hussein' in Barack's name.

So what? Is that really so important - the cheap emotional shot?

Or do you judge your audience to be so juvenile?

I often hear people say they don't understand what Obama is trying to do. It has been clear from the beginning of his presidential campaign that he knows very well what he is doing. Unempolyment, inflation, higher taxes all on top of an unbelievable debt is designed to bring down the country. He is counting on people being convinced they can't change things until they become desparate and have to give in to govenment handouts. In the meantime quiet efforts will continue to completely disarm the public. In 1836 the last demand from the Mexican government was to reliquish all arms. Sam Houston knew it would be surrender to do that. The Muslims have a list of objectives needed to bring down the infidels. You should publish that list for all to see.

I keep reading--what is the solution? Jesse Jackson just said it in Wisconsin----RIOT AND REVOLT!!!!!!!Wake up people, the time is now and if not when?? If this keeps going on in the Govt. you will surely be sitting on the sidelines asking what happened. There is still a glimmer of hope, but it's like the brass ring, if you don't grab it now you lose.

Mark, your piece on the impending socialist revolution is right on. May I suggest you include more quotes from Hayek and "The Road to Serfdom" in future Patriot Posts. Hayek's most prescient advice was that the road to serfdom--the complete dependency on government--usually starts out by government control of the economy. Once we are no longer able to provide for ourselves-due to regulations and taxes--we become completely dependent on government.

PS: You might catch some flak about framing Obama's image with that of Hitler and Stalin. Allow me to say, as a Jewish American (not hyphenated, just used as way of identifying my point of view), stay the course. The three men just had different methods of achieving the same end -- statist dominance over their respective economies and, thus, societies.

To Skyagunsta---AMEN on the slavery angle. I have been saying that we are becoming slaves for a long time, because we NO LONGER have a government by the people, or one run according to our Constitution. When those in power start dictating and running every aspect of your life :;:;:; YOU ARE A SLAVE. They no longer listen, they just dictate.

April 19th, 1775, the colonies had no elections to determine their leaders or form of government. The world was run by tyrannical royalty, dictators and emperors. There was only one alternative to existing under the yoke of tyranny.

Today we are now fooling ourselves by thinking we can change things with the next election, It is not who casts the votes who decides an election, it is those who count the votes that decide.

How can you trust a government when those that represent us have stated, “We make up the rules as we go along”? Those in current office ignore the rule of law, ignore their limits and enforce their dictates with the brute force of government.

There is no question that there are plenty of people that do not recognize tyranny and will enforce the dictates of tyrants with force, unaware that they have become the useful idiots of a power hungry elite that feel they alone are entitled to rule and to dictate how we will conduct our daily lives or how much of our sweat we will be allowed to keep.

The alternative is no different now as it was April 19th, 1775; our country is under the imposed control of tyrannical individuals that knows how you should live your life better than you.

All of our sweat is being confiscated through taxation and government deficit spending. Who do you think owes the 14 trillion dollars in US Debit? If government programs had to be run without debt and only with collected tax dollars, there wouldn‘t enough money without collecting all of what everyone makes, then what do you think would happen?

We have allowed our elected government to break the trust between us by not holding them accountable. We are also told that we can regain our freedom if we just stay non-violent and work within the system, but what if the system is broken?

My countrymen April 19th is fast approaching and the tyranny we live under is not getting less in spite of the last election.

BUT!

Just be patient? Don’t over react! The chains that have been built for you are light and easy to carry. Remember, our government has our best interest at heart, just submit, it will be OK. Play ball as the alternative may be worse.

To generate jobs and to reduce energy shortages, drill for oil and gas in our own country. There is oil and gas here, and some green people may have to experience some of what they have forced the rest of Americans to put up with. Provide jobs, reduce the money sent out of the country, and make more people happy. We have relied on others for too long, and at too great a cost. Keep the jobs home...!!

Why not begin impeachment proceedings?

I believe that photo of Obama with Hitler and Stalin is insensitive. Obama does not want to "spread the wealth"...ok, bad example. But he's not interested in nationalizing major industrial or service sectors like banks and hospitals, and control the rest through state regulations...oh, I guess he is. Well, he doesn't believe in expanding government power...darn it, he does. Fine, but he does not have a state controlled media as a propaganda apparatus...wait a minute...he has that too. Never mind, great photo!

While I have disagreed with the vast majority of the decisions President Obama has made during his time in office, I have to say that I find the portrayal of his image next to Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler to be objectionable. Both Stalin and Hitler were directly, intentionally responsible for tens of millions of deaths. To compare our President (and like it or not, that's what he is) to these men is exactly the kind of hysterics I found so reprehensible when President Bush was in office. I found the opposition's treatment of President Bush abhorrent, and even given my deep-seated disagreements with President Obama, and the damage I beleive he is doing to my beloved country, I am still saddened to see peole with whom I am generally in firm agreement stoop to these sorts of levels. If someone who was politically on the fence saw this image, the chances are good that all the text around it would be instantly discredited in their mind.

The increase in the national debt this fiscal year will be over $2 trillion, not the $1.65 trillion "deficit" recently revised. The "deficit" figures cited do not count the money "borrowed" from numerous trust funds. "Deficit" is a deceit.

The total borrowing in the last two fiscal years plus this one will be $5.5 trillion. We are flying into the side of a mountain of debt.

The previous record increase in national debt was $1.88 trillion in FY 2009. Last year, FY 2010, it was $1.65 trillion.

Hey James- Yeah, real bummer about that Hussein thing. Lets check his birth certificate to see what his real full name is. Hmmm... no luck there.

Used to be a question in the Church: If you were to be put on trial for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you? The answer of course for those who follow the Lord should be an emphatic, "Yes".

If Barry Sotero were to be put on trial for being a muslim, no doubt about there being enough evidence. Slam dunk, guilty as charged, Barak HUSSEIN Obama.

Mark - thanks for running the Samuel Adams quote, which fully expressed his contempt for the fainthearted among his contemporaries:

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"

“I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.” - William F. Buckley Jr.

Gotta go reload more 7.62 FMJ and .357 magnum rounds. Don't wanna run short if ...

Jim H probably would have told Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, et.al. to just calm down, after all, His Highness King George was good enough to send us tea. If you have not the stomach for the coming fight, do us a favor and stay out of the way. A storm is brewing, and I for one shall not go quietly.

Love your closing statement by Sam Addams......what a very wise man and true patriot. Too bad we don't have REAL men, REAL patriots like our founding fathers running our country. Instead, we have a bunch of milque-toast sissies afraid they won't have a political "career" if they do what is mandated by our Constitution. God help us~

Just read Jim H.'s comment to which I respond.... SERIOUSLY? or was this more tongue-in-cheek.... I do hope you were trying to be funny. In any case...........HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (guess I'm just showing my "deranged" sense of humor.)

Now we're getting down to the root of things, BO's motivations, his true secular religion: why he acts so evasive and dumb at times, how he sacrifices all public dignity, all self, to expand the Green Frontiers of Socialism. He's not making errors; he's planting bombs.

How do I get a poster of Stalin, Hitler and Obama as illustrated?

As for indirect deaths caused by tyrants, who will count the millions around the world who die because we have taken to turning food crops into fuel, thus causing food prices around the globe to skyrocket? Perhaps the Left is okay with those deaths, as was Scrooge when he suggested that the poor should die in order to decrease the surplus population. Come to think of it, there is that commonality among tyrants of the Left -- they all want to dispense with the surplus population. Perhaps that's one reason why they are so fond of abortion.

""The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.""

Amazing how many conservatives use this quote without knowing the context and the damning similarities to their own movement. According to Jefferson, the would-be refreshers who inspired this particular quote were misguided and wrong.

And then there's the fact that they rebelled because they were mostly poor farmers who didn't have the money to pay taxes levied for the expenses accrued during the war and were being thrown into debtors prisons by the government as a result. In contrast, the conservative elite in America who're using you as useful idiots to maintain and increase their wealth and power can pay their current taxes and more, they just don't want to.

"Likewise, I am aware of no deaths directly attributable to Barack Hussein Obama, however he has been very intentionally supportive of his regime's policy to allow the killing of approximately 53 MILLION children since 1973 -- though perhaps you would qualify counting the deaths of children ripped from their mothers wombs (also a practice of Hitler's regime), "hysterics."

This is wrong in so many ways and on so many levels it could be a contest winner. It's like a three-dimensional wrong sliming other universes and making them wrong. I'm amazed you can type it without your fingers seceding.

Gneal wrote: “...the "greatest generation" … threw out the Constitution and reared those who passed the Great Society.

It’s obvious to me that you must have been schooled on the “new” math in that you don’t seem able to add or subtract. I was born in January 1946 and as such am on the leading edge of the “baby boomers.” Or as you say, the “worst generation” of “entitled whining hippies” who voted for the “Great Society.” Perhaps you are unaware that the 26th Amendment granting suffrage to those 18 and over was not ratified until 1971. All of the laws passed during the Johnson administration that alluded to the “Great Society” were passed by the congress and signed by the president prior to the passage of the 26th Amendment. The Social Security Act of 1965 (establishing Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlements) was signed into law by Lyndon Johnson in July 1965. Now, if you do the math, you will see that the very first “boomers” were only 19 years old in 1965 and therefore unable to vote. But even if they had been able to vote in July 1965, it would have made no difference as the people did not vote for that law. The Social Security Act of 1965 was passed by a Democrat congress and signed by a Democrat president, all of whom were voted into office by those persons legally qualified (except in Chicago) to cast a vote in 1964. Now even someone as mentally deficient as you should be able to see that not a single person belonging to the “boomer” generation (those born between 1946 and 1964) voted for anything even remotely related to the “Great Society.” Perhaps you should endeavor to do a little more reading and research prior to posting ignorant statements. Sometimes, probably most of the time in your case, one should keep their mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

When reading your essay causes me to reflect on my future and my sons' future in this founded-great nation and to question whether I will step forward to help refresh the Tree of Liberty and to know I must, you have done your job, Mark.

You Republicans are a joke. Who raised the deficit more the Reagan and both Bush's. Trying to deny workers of their collective barganing rights, preventing college students the right to vote, making it harder for minority to vote, and investigating innocent Muslins really smacks of communism to me.

One of the best Essays The Post has posted in a long time. Many of you can claim the title of my name and i ask you to do just that, because we average joes and janes make up the silent majority. We comprise of the middle 70% of americans that see this nation slowly slipping into oblivition. We as the middle of america can no longer be silent and allow our elected leaders take us to the end of what has been described as the greatest experiment of the human society ever. We silent americans should no longer allow the 15% of american fringes take this country hostage. The closest i can say that average joe american came to the resuce of the american experiment was december 8,1941, when others "tried our patience". on that day the "greatest generation" showed their kids and grandkids what it meant to be true American Patriots, by standing together to stop the attack on the Dream that was called The United States Of America. Average Joe and Jane American, can you say today that you are awake and ready to take that stand that your grandfathers and grandmothers did over 70 years ago????? Is Average Joe American awake? Is the Dream still alive in our hearts? Hello??

Frankly, all rhetoric aside, I can't understand why those who blindly follow their favorite son, President Obama, don't see parallels to socialism in his and his followers’ policies.

While none here on the Patriot Post who stab so desperately at changing our minds through insults, oft fabrications and distorted histories have never denied or admitted they are socialist minded, they have also on no accounts ever provided their rationale for our current and past governments’ abandoning the United States Constitution and its move towards providing unrestrained powers to the federal government.

How else can they defend what so-called progressives are trying to do, visibly antagonistic to our constitution and historical prosperities, and to the injury of the most successful nation in history? How can they justify nationalized, government run health care, infringement of 2nd amendment rights, government take-overs, federal intrusions into states and people’s rights, the unbridled growth of unions and their powers, and a host of other unconstitutional infringements perpetrated over the decades?

We should really start asking them (“progressives”), do they really believe that scraping the constitution, or using it as a “living document,” will be for the better of this country and the people. Do they really believe that once this particular centralized government in this epoch, unlike others past, who with unlimited powers and control over the people would simply one day say, “oh here, we changed our minds and are returning power to the states and to the people” as it was written in the constitution with the most reasonable wisdoms?

History is fraught too many examples of nations of peoples who believed this about an “altruistic” centralized government; but those here either don’t seem to understand, or do understand, and yet are all for it. It would be much easier if, based on their beliefs about societies and human nature, that they admit they believe socialism is the better way for the country and for the prosperity of a people. I could at least respect them more for their candor in the way they see a people should live.

If not all for it in a socialistic form, do they really believe otherwise that this government would be different then all others past?

I can only surmise then that they are naïve, gullible people living in such a myopic world, that nothing anyone says or does can change their minds. Just for a moment, do you believe they could step back and really reflect, and at least consider the statistically historic possibilities that this ‘American experiment’ would be any different then past doings?

Whining, sniveling crybabies. Wow. Can you believe it? "That picture of our beloved Obama next to Stalin and Hitler is just Soooo offensive"!

Once again it has been proven that the truth hurts.

As for the "greatest generation", go easy on 'em, guys. They meant well. While they stood on the shores of Europe waiting for the ships to carry them home, they made a promise: "My children will not have to work and suffer as I did". Problem is, it was the "work" and "suffering" that made them into the people they were. When they "denied" their children (the baby boomers) of this we ended up with short-sighted self-obsessed me-monkeys as evidenced by some of the posts here. (Jim H., James Timmerman, etc.)

Oh, BTW, I have to ask, as so many others have: Since when was Collective bargaining EVER a "right"? The only "rights" I am aware of are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. And why do some of these people throw such a fit when you ask them to demonstrate the Constitutionality of their actions?

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition...."

You, along with most politicians, claim that seniors benefits have to be cut to lower the defecit. We did not cause the defecit, as we paid in for these benefits all our working lives! The huge increase in the defecit has been caused by the giant increase in discrecionary spending, mostly to new government employees. Cut that first!

I'm glad to see that some people can be optimistic, but that doesn't change the fact that the choices have already been made concerning Democratic Socialism. The Socialists are already unleashing their forces to try their power and they are meeting little resistance. Who will stand up? Where are the Patriots who will restore the law? What action will be necessary to lead a nation in the direction our founders set before us when things have been corrupted for so long? Can the Constitution survive the upheaval that will restore the Law?

I have looked around and found sheep and nervous sheep dogs shivering in the darkness, but I have not found the fearless warriors among the masses who can convince others to stand and fight to the last. Bluster and posturing will not get the job done.

I pray that God will bless the efforts of the faithful who will take up the battle.

I have to wonder at your decision to quote anything from Alan Greenspan. This is the same Alan whose blind belief in the "Self-Regulating" aspects of capitalism has brought us to the brink of another great depression, and given Obama the excuse he needs to create this socialism.

The day of reckoning is fast approaching. Every single American is being forced to make one of two permanent and irrevocable choices: slavery or freedom.

This is not an academic debate, a political discourse, or a hypothetical endeavor. This is not some potential future scenario. This is here and now reality. The stakes could not be higher on a personal level for every citizen.

Each person's decision will aggregate into THE watershed event in the history of our nation and of western civilization as we have known it.

BHO and his communists know and understand this. They are in this fight to win everything and they will stop at nothing until their mission is accomplished. They are counting on the American public to sleep until each of us are physically forced to submit or die.

The choice is yours. I've made mine.

I do not doubt the dire situation as stated, but I am in the dark as what I can do about it. It is easy to see we are headed for bankrupting the country, but not so easy to formulate a plan to prevent it.

You are the man. Thank you for a very clear message.

Reposting from another thread - it fits here:

Patriots,

Know your friends better and know your enemies BEST!

If you are convinced that only a Revolution will do, recognize that a tyrant is actually inciting you to revolt! Do you recognize why?

You revolt; he uses the precedent of his idol Lincoln to mobilize the federal military against you to slaughter his opponents! He uses a prior unconstitutional act by a President, that is now revered because of Revisionist History, in the name of "preserving the Union" (not public unions) to attack "we the people" - the REAL government.

Make sure your courage is as strong as your words. Know your enemy best for he will twist the truth to retain power – like Libya – he hasn’t listened to us yet. Know your friends -- has the federal military been educated by the same system that caused many of us to believe wrongly? Is their understanding of their oath an allegiance to the Constitution OR is it to the false principle that they should do whatever the CINC says? What about our national militias - the National Guard? Do they think rightly?

Is there another way? Who has even attempted a strategy other than "to win the next election"? We are impatient – though with the limited time predicted to take action it isn’t a surprise. It takes ~60 years to "nation build" and we are at the degraded point of requiring nation-building. This is not a challenge for the faint of heart! It is a 60+ year goal (then sustainment) that requires us (MARINE) to start now. Look around and at the mirror -- we are the adults! We must take personal responsibility as an example to our children and fellow citizens or they too will be lost!

I know my oath. And my motivation and commitment proceeds from a right understanding of my Creator to whom my FIRST allegiance is pledged!

A Friend

"Is their understanding of their oath an allegiance to the Constitution OR is it to the false principle that they should do whatever the CINC says?"

This explains why conservatives were so upset at Reagan for violating the Boland amendment and his illegal war on Nicaragua's elected government, and why they vilify him to this day for violating the Constitutionally-binding terms of the OAS Treaty.

Mr. Alexander,

Got out my latest statement received from the Social Security in January 2011. It say "my account" has received payments from me and my employer for approximately $250,000+ for SS and $100,000 for Medicare.

Are you saying that all of "us" who have paid these big sums should just say we don't need something for this?

I am pretty darn conservative, and don't like the idea of being robbed continuing to be robbed.

And, you think it is improper for me to expect a return of some of this money?

I am 63 years old, unemployed for nine months, used to make $180,000 a year, and can barely get anyone to talk let alone an interview.

Yes, I am still looking and my savings are slowly going away.

Yes, I've saved several hundred thousand dollars,so do I get to be means tested as well?

I am one of those burned in the market (no I wasn't a day trader or doing wacky stuff) several times over, and have figured out that big lie, too.

Presently, I get about 1% annualized for my CD's, thus I can't make enough to pay my property taxes let alone my COBRA payments for my medical that has a $3,500 deductible and $7,500 annual premium (it went up 25% in January).

I consider my "lucky", luck as in when hard work meets opportunity. My life expectancy is 18 yrs., but my family history indicates almost twice that amount.

Forgive me, but I do feel I've earned some reward albeit small for my "investment" in Social Security and Medicare.

It "flies" all over me that you put me into grouping of being some kind of welfare entitlement recipient when all I've done is pay, pay, pay.

What say you?

In Alexander's exposition on Democratic Socialism, there were a number of budget perspectives that I had never seen before. One of the most troubling was this one: "In 2010, central government spending in the U.S. was almost 41 percent of our nation's GDP -- by far the highest it has been since WWII. In the last decade of the Soviet Union's existence before its collapse, the USSR's central government spending peaked at 49 percent of GDP." U.S. government spending as a percent of GDP is on track to equal that of the USSR a the time of their collapse? Every American needs to read that stat. Please advise your source.

Mr Alexander,

I am a young Christian in a former socialist country, the Czech Republic. We as a Czech family subscribe to the Patriot Post and read it with great interest. My homeland once had Christian roots (before 1621, when Protestants were beaten and then expelled by Catholics.) Since then we have had Recatholicism, National Socialism and Marxist Socialism.

Could you please help me to understand what the difference between "patriotism" and "nationalism" is? Here in Europe, anyone who puts his country first is called a nationalist. This term is pejorative.

Thank you for the work you do. I would like to help my fellow Czechs to love God and our country as you do yours.

I would sugest we need to ignore posts like Odins' True Patriot's etc,trying to enlighten them is a waste of time. They aren't coming here to have reasoned discussions. They are coming here to insult and denigrate, because that is all they have. It must be boring to keep posting the same drivel on the liberal sites.

Mr. Alexander,

Thank you for the courtesy of your reply.

"Editor's Reply:

I have paid SSI tax obligations to the central government since packaging groceries at a local produce store when I was 14 years old. Those taxes were no more voluntary than any other tax we have paid. Unfortunately, the sum total of all you and I paid in, is gone. Does your statement mention IOU's because that is all that is in the SSI "lockbox." SSI was just another layer of taxation, and never authorized by our Constitution. Wish you luck in pulling down what is "owed" to you. I am not banking on a dime of SSI tax returns."

I, too, started paying taxes at age 13, and it you didn't respond to my question. Again, love your site and all the conservative thought and information. Charles Krauthammer's article last week did a superb summation of the issues and I agree that we've been "had".

I like to be accurate in what I put out there online because so many aren't or they are twisted in some way. The number that is put out there is that 10,000 people per day are "retiring". This would significantly increase the Social Security outgo, and eventually the Medicare and Prescription Drug outgo.

My point, there are many of us who do deserve something, and until the "gummint" quits paying, characterizing me/us as some kind of burden is not the whole story.

If you want to learn more about socialism/communism and what it was like to live under such a totalitarian society for 20 years, read my new book, "Echoes of Communism,"(Lessons from an American by Choice) by Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh at Amazon.com. Short essays describe what poverty, health care, education, and everyday life was like through the eyes of a child and of a young person.

I have posted comments before on this site and people seemed interested in what I had to say since I have experienced communist academia for 30 years in the U.S. as well as Ceausescu's Utopian regime.

My book is a one-year labor of love, I hope every freedom loving American reads it.

Another reply to Phil and Jim H:

I believe the editor is looking at the policies of our president with a clear understanding of where those policies will lead us, not where they have us today. Our president is currently quite popular in many circles and has not yet been the cause of death or destruction.

Many of the tyrants we know of were also popular at the beginning of their reigns. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain comes to mind with his "Peace in our time" quote. (Chamberlain was not the tyrant by the way.) This was very good news to many, but those that understood what was really happening were very frightened - and for good reason. They knew where these policies and agreements would lead - and they were right.

One of Mark Alexander's strengths is to point out to his readers what is REALLY happening. In other words, the articles the Post contain show us clearly that policies that appear sound or benign today to some will without fail lead to death and destruction later. They always have and they always will.

History applied to current events. You'd think it would be foolproof……………

The current regime pushes for GREEN jobs ... things that entrepreneurs ( and people with common sense ) won't invest in because there is no sustainable return on the investment of either money or time.

Bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. building products that meet the GREENEST position of buying something that will last thru American hands would be a much better approach.

....here, here!!

Revolutions and protests are exactly what socialists want.

"How many of you have a stack of gov’t savings bonds? The gov’t spent the money you paid for them, so you don’t get the money back. Besides, you’d get more than you paid for them. You’re stealing from your grandchildren. It’s a pyramid scheme. Sound like Social Security? No difference. Sounds like O’Obama’s “investment” in America though, doesn’t it?"

What a great one sided debate. I agree let's get rid of all socialist principles in this country.

I don't have kids so why should i pay for yours? lets get rid of all public funded schools, I've never needed the Police, so let's abolish this socialist watchdogs, a taxpayers waste, I never use the library i get my stuff online, so abolish all public libraries, the Republican part tells me that i will probably not be able to collect my "social" security so why should i pay for yours, i will stop all contributions. I never needed the fire department, so that's probably a socialist institution to,and last but not least free emergency care for elderly, or economic vulnarable people, give me a break let them die they are the scourge of society. KAPITALIST SOCIETY WILL PREVAIL

Lets cut all corporate taxes they are the benefactors, the knights in shining armor of our brave new world. Let's abolish all Unions, surely such a communist idea has no place in our world.

Collective bargaining will only hurt our poor corporations precious bottom line. Gun control is an infrigement of our civil liberties and kapitalist values, gun vending machines in every city. We would not want Smith and Wessons right to sell a fair product at a fair price's right infringed.I f we do away with that socialist commie system our goals will be reached. A new Dawn for the US, Utopia realized. God i can't wait. Can you?

reply to Bruve Watcher

Like the Socialist revolution on the 4th of July 1776?

Mike got it right!!!!! If noone tries to repeal ROE V WADE, eventually there will be NO DEMOCRATS and free loaders.

One wonders how our country survived just three years ago (2008) with Federal spending that was more than $1.6 trillion less than current spending. Were people dying in the street? No. Was our military so weak that Cuban military forces could swim over and conquer country? No.

So, what have we gotten for spending the extra $1.6 Trillion? As far as I can see, just more debt.

So, why aren't our Congressmen cutting at least $1 Trillion from Federal Spending, especially when they were elected to balance the budget? Apparently poor leadership.

I think we should all call our Congressmen and tell them we expect them to cut at least $1 Trillion from the budget, based on last year's spending ... or they can forget about being re-elected.

Lets start a new movement, "Cut $1 Trillion or Out!"

@ Chris: I didn't see anything in this article or in any comment posts about eliminating all taxes and infrastructure. Typical liberal strategy that insults our intelligence; jump to a false conclusion no one is advocating...nice try though.

This is a very interesting and disturbing collection of figures.

Both parties and their elected and unelected so-called leadership over the past generation should be impeached, sued, and then indicted for their parts in this mess.

When I was at Vanderbilt Law School in the early sixties while LBJ was pushing Medicare, Medicaid, and his Great Society, Wilbur Cohen, the architect of Social Security, then serving as LBJ’s point man on these new bills, appeared on a program and told us, from the podium and in discussion afterward, that they had always envisioned Social Security as a “foot in the door” for a Socialized economy, and that he saw Medicare and Medicaid as natural, logical, and inevitable steps in that process. They really wanted “single payer,” in which all health care would be provided and rationed by the government, at that time, but expected that later. Of course, as you noted, the official projections of the cost of these programs were so understated as to be fraudulent.

In 1973 or 1974, I read accounts in the mainstream media of a study by Chase [Bank] Econometrics for the bank and its wealthy clients pointing out that, contrary to the prevailing, optimistic, projection at the time, based upon college graduation, family formation, etc., “there [would] actually be a very small middle class in this [upcoming young] generation.” I sent this information to several politicians and others, of parties, liberals and conservatives, etc., including some of each who represented me at that time, pointed out some of the societal, economic, and political implications, and asked them how they would respond. Most ignored t5hiw information and me, and those who even acknowledged my letters sent only the usual political form letters that say nothing.

There are certain limits to taxation, by whatever name, even if you want it to lead to a socialist system and make most of the population slaves. The federal budget, in fact, carries a lot of tax debt as an asset as though it could ever be paid or collected when even the IRS knows enough not to try. Any tax scheme that would dig the U. S. out of this debt and balance the federal budget would put the economy into free fall and a historic depression. So would sending enough money overseas to pay the outstanding government and private debt held offshore. So, for that matter, would continue just our current balance of payments deficit.

Over half the people in America are receiving government transfer payments of some kind and amount. More than half the medical and related care and services are paid for by Medicare, Medicaid, etc. already, and most of “Obamacare,” which will add millions more people to Medicaid, among other effects, hasn’t even taken effect yet. I’m a retired solo lawyer and couldn’t buy health insurance for my family and employees for love or money. Looking at the supporters’ original figures for the cost of the new mandatory health insurance, and the real numbers for pay around here, about 65 miles northeast of Dallas, and the real cost of living figures that include things like food and fuel, on which most people have to spend most of their incomes, that the official figures leave out, which are doubling and redoubling, there is no money in either individuals or the government’s budgets to cover this cost.

By the way, this came as a shock to me, but Medicaid is not insurance. It’s a loan, and federal law requires the states to try to collect it back, from the very poorest people. Texas spent $20 Billion, most of its budget, just on a program to save money on it in 2008-2009. They published three successive 70-page lists of providers and over fifty of them here, plus two dozen on their separate Vision Care list, told me they never would be in it and wouldn’t see us even for scheduled appointments. I dealt with insurance company and state beaurocrats up through an M.B.A. and nobody in or out of their Vision Care subcontractor knew what a Therapeutic Optometrist, etc., was. Since practically no doctors or other providers will see you if you’re on it, it escapes me how they could legitimately have paid any money except for lobbying and other overhead.

Obamacare cuts many things those of us who are older, don’t live in the big Democrat-controlled cities, or otherwise were not part of his election demographic, need and depend upon. That’s not about economics, it’s about political retaliation.

Just about everybody I know, from high school graduates to Ph.D. candidates and professors, lawyers, etc., has lost ground economically, both in nominal and constant-dollar terms, over the last several administrations, and particularly the last ten years or so. Many have fallen out of the middle class. The official figures don’t include as under-employed the large percentage of those we know who are working, if at all, way below their abilities and education, former earnings, etc. I live in a state university town and, for about the only time in American history, the number and percentage of boys going to college at all is dropping. About the only thing that is on the upswing is the suicide rate among young people, and experts tell me that is understated.

I wish I knew anybody in either party, or any other entity, who had any real answers to the unemployment and under-employment crisis. Everything both candidates said about this, and about how much they loved and cared about the working poor and the middle class, in recent Presidential, etc., elections, was a pack of lies. The recent skewing of the benefits of the economy toward those already very wealthy, many of whom produce nothing, is a big part of our economic crisis, just as it was leading up to the First Great Depression. Hey, all of both parties’ Presidential nominees told us that he, and only he, could and would capture Osama Bin Laden, too, thereby proving themselves liars and fools. We’re coming up on Presidential primaries and the general election, and the Republicans haven’t found or even begun to unite behind anybody who can unite the party, attract enough independent and swing votes to win the election, and lead us out of this mess.

I am a democratic socialist. The president is not. Not even close. George Orwell identified himself as a democratic socialist, and his writings are some of the most anti-facist warnings we have. Remember, James Madison wrote : Tyranny is by definition power over the mass by the very few. Non-Gov't entities can be tyrannical, which the case we speak. The GDP is worthless and doesn't account for the quality of our people's lives. Access to basic rights might not seem very important, it rarely does unless you are being denied one. I believe in compassion and that it would totally be horrible if someone I knew could live, but because of profit-margin died from lack of healthcare. But it happens here every day. What is your solution for that? How is that not fascism, by saying because you are of a certain class you have to die because we refuse to take revenue from families who will never ever be in a lack of money and resources. I just don't understand.

Obama is obviously a seriously flawed person, but not as flawed as the people who put him in office. Obama truly believes that the USA will support his socialism simply because enough people will be getting government checks and don't want the money to stop flowing. Obama will play game that to the max. Seniors (like me) would be rich if we'd been allowed to invest the money instead of throwing it into the government's black hole for 48 years.

This is from the CIA 2010 report. By ranking! 1. China 272,500,000,000 Balance 2. Japan 166,500,000,000 balance 3. Germany 162,300,000,000 4. Russia 68,850,000,000 Balance 191. United States 561,000,000,000 Defect.

I've been saying what you've just said Monty. And Thank you for not being afraid to mention Lord Jesus! It will come down to a civil war to stop this! Elite rich VS. the poorman. It'll probably be a bloody one. but it's coming. Unfortunatly, we do live in a ''Gimmey'' generation. That's what they've been waiting for a people like them because, Drug addicts will do whatever they say to get a pill or something like that. That's probably what the Mexican drug war is really about. The warning sign is that, the drug war has slowed down. I guess they have already got thier bosses over here to safe haven. So when it starts, we'll have them to fight with too. Think about it people...Plant you a garden; You're gonna need it!

One quibble. The Stalin portrait should say "International Socialism," rather than "Marxist Socialism."

Although it is too late with a little research people would have discover Obama's commumist ties before they voted.

@Skyagunsta: Brilliant!

@Mark: I don't remember the Wilson in RR but I do remember hearing "John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Richard Milhaus Nixon, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey (though not elected), William Jefferson Clinton and George W Bush (and, as you say, just "W").... I do not remember Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or the elder Bush being referred to by three names but the majority were. And if not "W" why not "Hussein?" Is he immune? Are we not "allowed" to speak of him? Why not? If he can't take the heat, let him get out of the kitchen.

@bill: Firstly, non-government entities cannot be tyrannies because they lack the coercive power of the State which has a monopoly on policing and justice measures including prisons.

Secondly, no one is dying healthcare due to being in a "certain class," nor is there a class system in the US except by choice. America is just as upwardly and downwardly mobile as ever before. You can lose your fortune up your arm or buy an IPO in, say, Microsoft, which made small investors - ten thousand in Seattle alone - millionaires. And check out HHS boss, Kathleen Sebelius's argument before the judge. It's "freeloaders" she's after. It's "freeloaders" who make emergency room visits and thereby force up the cost of medical care. I've been in hospitals. I have a long list of ailments including a kidney transplants. "Don't go anywhere if you don't have insurance" said one sign at South-West Florida Medical Center, where I got a transplant: "you will be treated."

I am still want to know just when it became acceptable for Marxist-Communist to hold office in the United States? I had brain surgery a few years back and when I woke up I found these people were in office and there was now even one running for president but not one word of complaint,was made about him being a communist. After all the wars against Socialistic ideology like the Nazis, the North Koreans-China and the Vietnamese-China. All those fine young people have given their lives for the protection of the Republic we go and allow them to come in to our government with open arms? what in the Hell happened here?

As a democratic socialist I find articles such as these very offensive and misleading. I do not support a centrally planned economy and most democratic socialists do not also. We generally believe in a democratic economy based more on the needs of the people more than profit. This doesn't mean that we want to take away God given rights or that we want to abolish the market in favor of total government control. Actually quite the opposite. We strongly support small business, entrepreneurship, and a market economy. We also believe in universal healthcare, progressive taxes, and a plethora of other ideas that make fake conservative-libertarians like yourself cringe with fear. Please look up socialism on the Internet and ask socialists, progressives, and liberals their true opinions before you start bashing us.

The over whelming majority of those who serve in this Nation's Armed Forces are conservative Christians. We will be ready to honor our oaths. As for my house and all the young warriors I personally have raised, we will support AND defend the Constitution with our lives. 3 attack pilots and one Green Beret (so far) REDCON 2.

I did not read all that Monty had to say, but what I did read of his I agree with.

This Nation, it seems, is in the later stages of a Democratic/Republic style of government. This is also the later stages of Racism. The rich people are trying to treat the middle class people and the poor people like fourth class citizens (slaves). To Break a People down, you take away their Religious Freedom, you take away their Language, you take away their Earning Ability, you take away their Governing Ability, You Govern their Education, You control who and what protects them. This process reduces Strong, Healthy, Thinking Men/Women into mindless Idiots.

We/I grew, up knowing that if we saw something wrong we could change it. I grew up in the 1940's,

1950's 1960's and 1970's (those were my formative years). My generation was very Rebellious. We rebelled against Being Drafted, we rebelled against the Vietnam War (a war we did not believe in), we rebelled against a Government who tried not to recognize a person of color, We rebelled against the treatment poor people received.

But it seems that now the Government is trying to punish us for governing ourselves or are we giving government to much power, are We as a people that afraid of the World...

The Liberals know Obama is socialist, they just don't want to own it yet. He got in on an agenda, and as he stated, he's only got about 80% of what he wanted, done. He wants the complete collapse of the US economy, and that coupled with the mess in Europe will collapse the world economy and force people to accept their New Word Order. I want to vomit when I hear BO talking about the struggling folks, as if he cared. He's a politicians politician, and lies more easily them I breathe. He should be impeached but he won't be; if Congress had any backbone, he couldn't have done all he has done. So the solution is resist him and his cronies until election 2012 and with God's help, vote him out! If we don't this country is toast.

Why the Demecrats do not understand that they are supporting a socialistic system.I wish just for once they would forget the the party and go for the good of the country.

What a fine essay. This is what I like about the Patriot Post: People and ideas are easy targets to bash;the far more difficult task is to offer a plan and the leadership to carry it out.

Where is the leadership?

I joined the Patriot POST because of my firm belief's that we should be doing for our country not our country doing for us as a socialist republic but it is as the rich do run it and get contral the pay rait's and yes theirs too they get richer and more than enough to live on pay their kids through college and medical bills while the real one;s that support it literally are the small business and working people who do not get union rates but work for much less and survive since the last BUSH left office they have lost all that was gained for them it the new President one and half years to get it coming back to the people by the people now you all start crying and blaming him for taking back what you stole and did not loose a drop of blood for but gained moneys on war .I was raised by my father who lost both legs in 1951 but went ahead raised us with out the government help that people get today .WEe are PATRIOTS one of my uncles even trained people forces and the others fought and fought well so stop calling names and put the country together including all we have enough problems without fighting with in our selves or put these home invaders and pillsbury doe boy boy cops out their

Johnny

Just a correction on my last comment I ment to say the last Bush was in office not since he left office we had problems 6 month after he entered office and I am also talking about 911 that issue covers all of us as it should have been taken care of sooner and faster and not strung out so the rich could get richer.

Johnny