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A Day In The USA



Last night I was reading through a few different news sources of the daily happenings in our country. First, I was shocked, though in reality I shouldn’t have been, by the amount of news I’d consider to be depressing to a large number of the citizens of our country, but then I was taken by the fact that so many of these stories are actually a part of the same, or bigger story. The parallels of which continually point to the progressive attitude and agenda taking place in our country today and quite frankly, is becoming sickening in its content and purpose.

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Depressing may be too strong of a definition for this, so let’s use a word description that is quite a bit milder for the sake of our liberal friends, how about …APPALLING! Through the progressive attacks on religion, capitalism, conservatism, and the environment, among others, we here in the United States are experiencing a “watered down” version of the freedoms and liberties we have taken for granted in our country for so long. This trend will continue as long as “we the people” allow them to twist and bend our laws to their benefit, under the guise of political correctness. In reality people, there are only two main types of society world-wide, capitalism, or communism. So you tell me where we’re headed. “Oh no, we’re not socialists,” the progressives cry! Uh, huh… well let’s take a quick peek at what the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have to say about this progressive denial of being socialists. Read it for yourself, then make an honest judgment. Q Aren't you a party that's in competition with the Democratic Party for votes and support?
No, we are not a separate party. Like our friends and allies in the feminist, labor, civil rights, religious, and community organizing movements, many of us have been active in the Democratic Party. We work with those movements to strengthen the party’s left wing, represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The process and structure of American elections seriously hurts third party efforts. Winner-take-all elections instead of proportional representation, rigorous party qualification requirements that vary from state to state, a presidential instead of a parliamentary system, and the two-party monopoly on political power have doomed third party efforts. We hope that at some point in the future, in coalition with our allies, an alternative national party will be viable. For now, we will continue to support progressives who have a real chance at winning elections, which usually means left-wing Democrats.
There you are in their words…”Like our friends and allies in the feminist, labor (unions), civil rights (Rev. Wright, Rev. Otis Moss III, Rev. Lowery, Rev. Michael Pfleger, Rev. James Meeks, and Louis Farrakhan), religious (look again at the Reverends above), and community organizing movements (Acorn, Project Vote, among a multitude of others, but let’s not forget our Community Organizer in Chief, President Barack Obama and our First Lady Michelle). Let’s now look at one day in the USA.

Newark (New Jersey) Fires Cops

Newark Mayor Cory Booker fired 167 police officers. This represents 13% of their police force, and could have been prevented by…union leadership. There’s some of the “friends” the DSA describes in their question and answer link from above. Evidently over the past two weeks the city had worked with the union leadership in an effort to keep these police officers on the payroll, yet the union leaders decided the financial hit was just too great for the majority of its members. I don’t know, but isn’t it community organizing and the labor union’s belief that what you do is for the betterment of the “whole,” and not “parts of?” Doesn’t seem true in this case, does it, at least from the laid-off officers standpoint I’d imagine. By the way, murders, rapes and robberies are up 11% this year compared to last in Newark. To me, it is amazing in the fact our local governments cower down to the union’s demands with citizen safety almost an afterthought, especially when the citizens whose safety is being sacrificed are in fact the “geese laying the golden eggs,” or the taxpayer. Why don’t they instead just fire the union? Derrick Hatcher, president of the Newark Union, said that Mayor Booker hired the officers knowing that there were “tough economic times ahead and then tried to blame the union for not making what they felt were unreasonable concessions to pay for those officers. “We didn’t put us in this situation,” he said. “We shouldn’t be left holding the bag.” -Wall Street Journal No Mr. Hatcher, the unions shouldn’t be left “holding the bag,” why, because of the progressive movement and policies in our country that they approve of so wholeheartedly. Why should the unions be held accountable when in reality it falls back to one group eventually…the U.S. taxpayer! Think Chrysler, GM, Amtrak, the Postal Service, Fannie and Freddie, the Teachers Unions, shall I continue? The Stimulus package wasn’t about GM or Chrysler, it never was, it was about the union and government control! The very organization that helped bring about the downfall of the automotive industry, through excessive salaries, retirement pensions, and health care packages, are all eerily similar to our politicians “entitlement programs” as well. The taxpayer once again gets pounded, while the public service sector continues to expand.

Indian, Black Farmer Settlements

Yahoo News The House voted Tuesday 256-152, and passed legislation to pay out $4.6 billion, billions mind you, in settlements to American Indians and black farmers on the claim they were mistreated and discriminated against by our government. Is it just me, or do my fellow taxpayers here in America feel our government is misleading, and discriminating against us too, through their policies and the handouts given to non-productive, and even illegal members of our society? This also just happens to be our money they’re handing out in the first place. I wonder if we might be able to have landmark legislation passed on our behalf leading up to a multi-billion dollar reparation program? Couldn’t this legislation have been done on an individual basis, to be looked at critically in order to eliminate the fraud that is sure to be rampant? One only has to look at any type of government run program to see immediately what I’m speaking off. But now, from my understanding, they are expecting tens of thousands of new claims, and we know they will all be legitimate, don’t we now? On top of this charade, excuse me, redistribution of wealth, the government has already paid out more than $1 billion to about 16,000 farmers, with each pocketing around $50,000. This new bill is for the people who were denied earlier claims, why… BECAUSE THEY MISSED THE EARLIER DEADLINE! Can you imagine??? They missed their opportunity in 1999, I mean, all they had to do was fill out the paperwork on time, but they didn’t! So why now in 2010, Dec. of 2010 to be exact, almost 12 years later, our elected officials up and decide that, you know what, let’s give away 1.2 billion dollars to the same people who didn’t or refused to turn their paperwork in on time in 1999?? What have we become people, that we’re so complacent, so soft, that we allow such atrocities as this to take place? It is your money, for God’s sake! This gets me going as well, Democrats and at least one Republican state that the bill protects taxpayers. Guess what, there is no program the taxpayer doesn’t fund, but this is what they have to say in regards to the protection for the taxpayer statement. The cost of the bill would be offset by diverting dollars I rather like the term “stealing” instead, from a surplus in nutrition programs for women and children, extending customs user fees and new efforts for the Treasury to recoup excess unemployment insurance payments. Were we just talking about fraud in government run programs, yes, I do believe we were (excess unemployment insurance taxes), plus we can never have a surplus in which to divert dollars from, because our government can’t keep their hands out of it! When you think of our government “diverting surplus dollars,” you have to look no further than our Social Security Program, where for years they’ve been diverting the money you’ve paid into, until alas, there is none, or soon won’t be.

Tempers Flare As Unemployment Benefits Near Expiration

WLKY.com We’ve looked at articles from Newark, and DC, and now we’ll be looking at a story from Louisville, Kentucky. It seems unemployment benefits will soon expire for over 100,000 people in both Kentucky and Indiana. Our economy, in our administrations view we’re told, is getting better. This seems outlandish to me in the sense of how can we be getting better when our politicians don’t cotton to the idea of spending less, see the two above articles, and unemployment claims continue to be filed? With the unemployment benefits beginning to run out, there’s starting to be reports of people becoming angry and in turn having to be escorted from some of the offices. Honestly I can understand their sentiment, but there comes a point when it has to stop. Here’s a big part of our country’s dilemma from the standpoint of truly a simple man. First off our government created a “nanny state,” and this was done with a political agenda that has gotten us into the economic situation we’re now faced with. To a large part this was all orchestrated, and in the last 6-7 years has become truly unsustainable, even unimaginable in its magnitude, but just research the Cloward-Piven Strategy. Basically it was to enroll more people on welfare programs, instead of getting them off these programs, until eventually our entire economic system is overwhelmed by the sheer cost of this plan. Our housing crisis being another example by our politicians of forcing banks to loan money to people who had absolutely no business buying a house. One other quick point to this housing mess is the number of people in these homes since making a last mortgage payment…over 400 days! Community organizations pounded into the minds of the people, of their right to their share, as Michelle Obama has declared, “of the pie.” In other words, the have-nots are just as entitled to the same as the haves. You no longer have to work, we the government, are going to look after you, and in doing so, we’ll take from the productive through taxation and give it to the non-productive…social justice. Now it’s gotten to the point the non-productive have taken for so long, they believe it’s theirs, totally, and I believe if taken from them now, we’d see violence in our streets. Who do we give our thanks to for this dilemma, our elected government officials! It is called complete power, total corruption, buying votes, and me, me, me! But, it has to stop, one way or the other, or we’re all faced with total dependency on our government. Back in Louisville though, heck all over the country for that matter, we have people, good hard-working people who’ve lost their jobs and are looking for ways to feed their families, and my heart goes out to them. Why don’t we take off the welfare rolls the non-productive members of our society, the very same ones who have bilked our system and our taxpayers for years, many for generations?? It is not their right to be taken care of by the working members of our country, not one bit! They no longer have any desire to work, could care less that their children grow up as working productive members of our society, and don’t give a hoot in h… whether we lose our jobs, our homes, or even our families…just keep the checks a comin'. If we’d get tough on our policy, then we’d probably have enough to help the people who’d just lost their jobs a little longer, especially since many, many of them had been taxpaying productive citizens prior to their job loss. These are the people we should be helping, not the “professional welfare recipient,” nor the illegal aliens, wherever they’re from! But harder times are down the road. Kentucky’s unemployment rate is now at 10%, while Indiana’s is 9.9%. Our President promised “we the people” that if he was allowed to pass the Stimulus, unemployment would not get over 8%. What are our leaders debating now in the current “lame duck” session? The Bush tax cuts. Extend the tax cuts, period. Give small business something to hang their hat on, create some confidence out there how about it! One other piece of legislation they’re kicking around, the “Dream Act,” which is another intentional act by the progressives to further drag our country down through unsustainable debt programs, and the eventual collapse of our capitalist society. Redistribute the wealth. So we see from just these three stories we’ve got some pretty hefty challenges facing us as a country, and there was many more, I only used these three. But they also all point to the political agenda being directed at us from the left, redistribution of our wealth, unionization and its choke hold on business in our country, and entitlement programs that become a bigger and bigger burden on the taxpayer every day. Top this off with more and more government regulation imposed on us, see the new food safety act, I believe it is S 510, and indeed our economic and social structure as we’ve always known it looks bleak. Yes, our President is doing exactly as his pre-election speech proclaimed, “We are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming America,” and he’s doing it at breakneck speed. In closing I’d like to also point to the economic time bomb ticking away in Europe where they formed a 16 nation euro zone. In my opinion, is that not a type of globalization in itself? A good example of good run economically sound countries “partnering up” with countries not so well run and financially sound. In Germany unemployment is 6.7% while in the Netherlands it is below 5%. But then we look at a country that has “gone green,” like Spain, where their unemployment is at over 20%, not to mention, England, France, Greece and Ireland. Shouldn’t this be an economic lesson for our administration in economic policy? Yes, it should, if we were concerned with economic policy, but sadly that’s the last thing on our administrations mind and they push “greening” daily, why…once more, redistribution of wealth. You see the unrest in Europe? Then watch it closely, because if we don’t change our direction, it’s coming here. God Bless you!


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Doug Bronson is a small business owner in Florida and has written a book, “Simple Man…Simple Wisdom”


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