From Democracy to Serfdom

Today's post begins with kudos to Kathy Shaidle whose blog Five Feet of Fury is worthy of note for all free speech and liberty loving beings.  She offers this riposte to the Loony Left: "You are not smart enough to tell me how to live."

The Greeks invented democracy.  We followed their example with our republic.  How long before we adopt their practices and start selling off the Florida Keys to pay for the theft welfare state?

Following the forced unionization debacle in Michigan, it gets worse as the US Department of Labor begins to unionize illegal aliens.  The scope of left wing theft is staggering.  They plan a mass amnesty scheme to purchase some 10 million votes from illegals with the resources and money of law abiding American citizens.

How long will it be until the party-of-amorality becomes so publicly vilified that they censor the Internet watch dogs who expose and criticize their smoke and mirrors chicanery?  Will they shut down the Web altogether?  When the people are denied the right to assemble peaceably and criticize the actions of agents of the state, we are no longer a free nation.

Which one of the czars established by the self-appointed and self-anointed ruling class elites will pull the plug on this bastion of free political speech?   

The O-bumites claim that there will be no WelfareHealthCare for illegals; this is but a ruse.  First, they will give them amnesty, or entitlement citizenship, then they will be able to hop onto the welfare wagon.  The costs to taxpayers will be enormous.  Perhaps this is part of the reason that the Theftocrats have shirked their legal responsibility to pass a budget bill.  They are desperate to hide the extent to which they are ripping off the public.

The mommy staters invented the CRI to provide welfare housing for their permanent entitlement constituencies.  After a while, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Federal Reserve, and other government hooligans managed to crash our economy and threaten the security of our major financial institutions.  Then the O-bumites invented TARP.  Remember the Tony Soprano Rule.  O-buma forced bankers to accept money that they did not want to borrow.  Now, it is this.

Despite the fact that a number of banks have completely or partially repaid the unwanted loans, the Corruptocrats plan to continue bleeding them with new taxes that they will pass along to consumers.  The Soprano Rule?  The reason for the loan is to take over the operation.  This is how progressive-socialist-thieves work.  Steal the business through oppressive taxation and micromanaging regulation and leave the work of operating the business successfully to the real people outside of government.  Theft-welfare advocates are parasites.

May your gods be with you.

I'm from the Government, and I'm here to Help

O-buma and the Congressional Theftocrats have sold Americans a bill of goods, and far too few of us recognize the shafting that we are getting from their WelfareHealthCare.  This is living proof of their intentions to keep low income single mothers permanently relegated to the federal welfare plantation.


Notice that these nefarious social engineers have created another marriage tax that acts as an economic disincentive for marriage.  The mommy staters argue in favor of punishing married people by claiming that two can live together on less that it takes for them to live separately.  Understand the reasoning here.  First, government should supply each of us according to need.  From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs...didn't someone named Marx say this?


Second and most important, they have acted to ensure that those of us who have behaved responsibly and prudently have our earnings confiscated to subsidize those who behave irresponsibly and imprudently.  There is something seriously amiss with this system of federally subsidized fecklessness.  We offer economic incentives for breeding TANF recipients, and we punish those who plan intelligently and live within their means.

Slackers pay nothing and get a lot; worker bees pay a lot and get the green weenie.  The bees have it right.  When their food supply dwindles to such low levels that the colony is threatened, they stop feeding the drones.  One can gain sobering insights from observing the natural world.


That we are a socialist nation hardly bears repeating, but that we are also totalitarian is most often revealed anecdotally so that the nationwide pattern is obscured.  Political liberty is unavailable in nations wherein citizens are prosecuted and persecuted for thoughtcrime.

The Head Hypocrite and his minions Feckless Barney Frank, Red Harry Reid, and Pelosi the Pinko are heaping criticism on the Wall Street crowd.  It is that same crowd that has been lining the pockets of Theftocrats for years.  People who bite the hand that feeds them are genuinely shameless.  Just take a look at what the government unions have done to New Jersey.

The same dim bulbs who invented Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act that collapsed our economy have profited handsomely from those agencies.  The heavy hand of government is expensive when it regulates and taxes  free trade.

At first glance, giving government the privilege of stripping Americans of their citizenship for committing acts of terrorism may sound good; however, who defines an act as terroristic?  How long will it be before the likes of someone such as Eric Holder, the head of the department of injustice, defines it such that it means those who support the Second Amendment?

Do you like to use the Web?  Enjoy it while you are still able to do it.  Does anyone remember hearing the old lie that "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help," just before it hit the fan?  If you believe that the government's motivation is "ensuring fair competition and preserving a free and open Internet," let me sell you some hurricane proof real estate in Key West.  The way that they ensure competition is exemplified by SEIU and the Postal Service.

May your gods be with you.