Are We Headed Toward the Constitution or the Communist Manifesto? This Breakdown Tells You
- Posted on April 22, 2012 at 12:56pm by
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During his Thursday morning radio broadcast, Glenn Beck asked if America, on its current trajectory, is headed toward the values and principles of the Constitution, or rather, those of the Communist Manifesto.
To glean greater insight, The Blaze expanded on each of the Manifesto’s 10 planks and juxtaposed them with modern day American society. The picture revealed, while perhaps not shocking, is unsettling to say the least.
The Communist Manifesto
Considered the playbook, the framework, the founding document of Communism, it is argued that no other political volume has altered the course of history more than Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel’s tiny yet effective blueprint for the proletariat.
Commissioned by the Communist League, Marx and Engels laid out their analysis of capitalism and class struggle while supposedly offering economic and socio-political “solutions” rooted in what they called science. While every instance of Communism attempted around the globe has since failed abysmally and without exception, proponents still cry that Marx’s inviolable political and economic theories were simply “improperly executed” and thus, if true to the Manifesto, Marxism is, in itself, “perfect.” A little known fact, however, is that these champions’ premise is based on a flawed narrative, as Karl Marx in fact falsified much of the data he used to support his untenable political and economic system. Of Marx’s flagrant disregard for the facts, British philosopher Anthony Flew wrote:
…the first and only volume of Das Kapital to be published in the lifetime of Marx was, in his own words, to demonstrate that “In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the labourer must grow worse. Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation at the opposite pole.” But by 1867, when that volume was first published, Marx had known for 15 or more years that this thesis was false.
Flew continued that Marx’s response was “merely to suppress the falsifying data.” This was manifested in the first edition of Das Kapital where “various available British statistics—about the reliability of which there was no question—were given up to 1865 or 1866, whereas those for the movement of wages stop at 1850.” In Kapital’s second edition, however, according to Flew, all subsequent runs were “brought up to date, while that of wage movements still stops at 1850.”
While clearly not a “man of science,” nor one who held facts in high regard, generations of leftists take the words of Karl Marx as absolute truth, and indeed, the gospel. Below are the tenets they seek to live by, as mapped out in his “magnum opus.”
1. Abolition of private property
The first plank of Communism is the abolishment of private property. America is certainly here in terms of eminent domain, where the state has the ability to expropriate private property “for the public good.” Per the Fifth Amendment, the government must fairly compensate a citizen in return, but lines tend to blur when the government is given the authority to assess what is “fair and just” in the first place. Regardless of whether the final sum is one agreeable to the private citizen, the property will still be confiscated with or without the owner’s consent.
Typically, land or property acquired through eminent domain is used to house public works that are
intended to benefit the community such as public utilities, freeways, libraries and schools. It is a slippery slope, however. After the Supreme Court’s ruling in Kelo v. City of New London, the scope of eminent domain was expanded outside its traditional boundaries to include revitalizing “depressed areas.” In other words, in the spirit of gentrification or regeneration, a citizen’s private property can be seized by the government to build a sports complex, or even a shopping mall if the state deems it a public good.
Another example of government encroachment on citizens’ private property is evident in the far-reach of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE) that buy mortgages on the secondary market. If a citizen’s mortgage is held by one of these government-backed giants, Uncle Sam is entirely “too close to home.”
Interconnected is property tax. Simply, if one is subject to property tax, then the land or property being taxed doesn’t actually belong to the “owner.” Fall behind on these payments and the government will seize a citizen’s home, business or land, regardless of whether his or her mortgage is paid in full.
Homes are not the only area subject to government encroachment, however. In fact, Uncle Sam owns roughly 650 million acres of land across the 50 states — with its highest ownership stake (85%) in Nevada. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) also has the authority to seize private property during “emergency” situations.
2. Heavy progressive income tax
This particular tenet needs no introduction, nor example. America now holds the world record for highest corporate tax rate, surpassing even Japan. This is a crucial plank of the Manifesto, as it ensures that nary a high income earner will remain standing and everyone may subsist in equal mediocrity or (worse).
Ironically, Communists bang on incessantly about “equality” when in fact a flat-tax is arguably the fairest system of all and one that could still, by design, ensure Marx’s ultimate goal of “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” If a 10% flat tax were implemented, then 10% of a $5,000 income would amount to far less than 10% of a $500,000 income. Thus, those who make more money, still pay more. Alas, that is certainly not the way Marx would have portrayed it. Nor is it the way the current administration seems to see it given the president’s renewed push to instate ”The Buffett Rule,” which seeks to raise the income tax rate on high income earners — including small business owners — even higher than it is now.
Regardless, whether one is subject to a flat or a progressive tax system, a foreboding and omnipotent force looms dangerously over the American ether: The IRS. Fail to pay your “fair share,” and you will soon learn of the government’s ultimate power — to freeze your bank accounts, seize your property, penalize and, in some instances even imprison you. There is perhaps no greater example of a Marxist economic policy in action than this.
3. Abolition to all rights of inheritance
One of the many stark contradictions found in the Manifesto is outlined in this particular pillar. What was most ironic about Marx’s desire to abolish inheritance was that, if he had his way, citizens would not own anything of value to bequeath upon death in the first place. Nonetheless, his odd and arguably redundant tenet has worked its way into the American landscape via the estate tax. And its very alias, the “death tax,” should alone raise eyebrows, if not outright suspicion of government’s dubious motives.
First, many argue the estate tax is unconstitutional because it creates a direct tax that is not disbursed to the states for collection. But the more obvious discrepancy is that it allows the government to tax individuals twice, as the items that find their way into one’s estate — be they a car, house, land, jewelry or other valuable possessions — have already been subject to either sales or property tax once before. The Federal government’s carte blanche to double-dip is spurred further by Democrats’ renewed push to resurrect and expand what the Wall Street Journal dubs President Obama’s “night of living death tax.”
With the staggering rate applied to estates worth over $5 million, citizens may soon wonder why it is worth the bother to spend a lifetime building a personal or business empire to pass down to their children and grandchildren at all. By the second generation, there would be nothing left.
4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants & rebels
This Manifesto pillar is perhaps best laid out in the recent string of government crackdowns on “homegrown militias.” Those who have paid careful attention to Janet Napolitano know that one of Homeland Security’s preoccupations of late has been the “rise” of “homegrown militias.” With this in mind, the department is likely honing in on anyone considered an “opposition group,” be they merely survivalists or those with a more militant bent.
Some may recall the Michigan militia, or ”Hutaree,” as they are known — a group of anti-government “rebels” who were allegedly engaged in preparations for a potential future clash with federal agencies. The defendants were accused of conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government, a planned assassination of a police officer, and an ambush of that officer’s funeral with explosives in order to incite an uprising against the Federal government. While the anticipated attack never actually occurred, this did not stop the Feds, under the blessing of Attorney General Eric Holder, from raiding the Hutaree’s various outposts, confiscating its members’ arms and waging an all-out legal battle against the group.
At the end of March, 2012, presiding U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts dismissed the most serious of the charges against the Hutaree, leveling a staggering blow to the Fed. She said the members’ hatred of government did not amount to a conspiracy to overthrow it.
It remains unclear whether the Hutaree were indeed poised to be the aggressors of a violent assault or if they were simply anti-big-government, “good ol’ boy“ survivalists preparing to ”defend themselves” against a perceived government threat. But the Federal agencies’ indictment of the group perhaps reveals how government will deal with homegrown “threats” — be they real or perceived — moving forward.
Another key element, and one that warrants mention due to its relevance in modern day America, is
the confiscation of citizens’ weapons. Those who have felt their Second Amendment rights slowly whittle away understand that disarming the public is a crucial step vital to ensuring the state’s grip over its citizenry. In fact, one of the first tasks performed by the then-fledgling Soviet state was the confiscation of citizens’ private arms — even hunting rifles. By stripping people of the ability to defend themselves, the authoritarian state could reign over the vulnerable Russian populace. Many Americans consider this a highly plausible reality given increasingly stringent gun laws and regulations spread across all 50-states.
It should also be noted that IRS liens, levies and seizures are all means by which the Federal government can confiscate a “rebel” entity’s assets — one instance being the recent IRS “shakedown” of Tea Party members. And, in terms of “emigrants,” taxing the off-shore income and assets of American citizens, or causing Americans to give up their U.S. citizenship and flee to foreign lands to avoid abusive U.S. taxes, is yet another means by which the Fed’s confiscatory, overreaching tentacles are changing the American landscape. Statistics point out a rising trend…
5. Centralization and monopolization of credit by means of a national bank
Created by Congress in 1913, the Federal Reserve is, for all intents and purposes, America‘s national bank charged with setting the monetary policy that controls the nation’s economic stability. The Federal Reserve holds the power to guide interest rates, thus controlling inflation. The effects of this agency’s actions are felt in measurable ways by everyday Americans, every day. From the interest rate accrued to mortgages and other lines of credit to determining the value of one’s home, it is both the seen and unforeseen reach of this institution that sets the tone for Americans’ financial security.
On the grander scale, the Federal Reserve has the more sinister power of devaluing U.S. currency, and thus the value of goods, services and property, via “quantitative easing,” or, as it is affectionately dubbed, printing money.
“One of the fundamental problems with the U.S. economy right now is the Federal Reserve thinks the answer to all our economic problems is printing money,” said the Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore. “We haven’t created new jobs from all of this printing of money, but what we have produced is inflation in prices.”
6. Centralized control of communication & transportation
a) Transportation
The ways in which the Federal government controls America’s communication and transportation systems are almost too vast to count, but a few shining examples stand out. In terms of transportation, the Interstate Highway System, the Federal Aviation Authority and the Department of Transportation are of course the most obvious government bureaucracies controlling the country’s means of transport. Less-obvious, perhaps, is Amtrak, a government owned corporation and essentially the only passenger rail carrier in the country. Indeed the railroad industry’s metamorphosis from a private enterprise to a nationalized entity perhaps tells the greatest tale of the insidious ways in which the Federal government appropriates what it wants, when it wants.
In the first half of the 20th century, the U.S. rail industry enjoyed what many called it’s “Golden Age.” But the once flourishing U.S. rail industry’s day in the sun was eclipsed when the Fed introduced a “rate-
setting” scheme by which rail carriers were forced to adopt. The result was a decrease in profits, decrease in rail system growth, decrease in investments and an increase in labor costs. Not surprisingly, this had the reverse effect than that intended by the Fed when it first set rail carrier rates. After World War II the industry was in steady decline and by the 1960s service had degenerated to such a degree that the U.S. government formed Amtrak. The obvious lesson here is that if government can destroy an industry to such a degree that that industry’s only means of survival moving forward is through nationalization, there is no reason to think it couldn’t just as easily happen to a commercial air carrier, for example, or any other privately held mode of transportation.
As mentioned above, air traffic, ground traffic and maritime traffic via the nation’s port authorities are all overseen and subject to take-over by the government should FEMA deem a state of emergency.
b) Communication
Presently, when it comes to communication, conservatives argue that nothing screams of Marxism louder than the Federal Communications Commission and Obama’s appointment of its “Chief Diversity Officer,” Frank Lloyd.
One of the administration’s many “czars,” Lloyd was a senior fellow at the progressive think tank, Center for American Progress, where he authored a June 2007 report titled, ”The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio.” The content may point to Lloyd’s intentions when it comes to silencing voices of opposition, and many conservatives believe that Obama’s “Diversity Czar” intends to revive the Fairness Doctrine.
For those unfamiliar, the Fairness Doctrine, adopted in 1949, obligated broadcasters to provide opposing points of view on issues of national importance regardless of actual market demand for the content. Media Research Center’s Setton Motley said, if reinstated, caps would be placed on local and national ownership of commercial radio stations; local accountability over licensing would be ensured; and those not in compliance would be subject to paying a fee to support public broadcasting. As it stands, the FCC already levies heavy regulations on broadcasters and monitors all communication aired across radio and television waves.
Looking forward, another impending threat can be found in the current struggle for control over the Internet. Currently, the World Wide Web is controlled by the U.S. government via the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and its subsidiary, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Both are under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
There has been a growing push, however, for America to relinquish its control in the name of a world “without borders,“ or ”one world government.” Countries like China and Russia, in particular, have vied for control, doggedly pursuing the United Nations for assistance in breaking the U.S. stronghold.
If the U.N.’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU), along with its nearly 200 member state allies were to take control of the levers, cyber security and data privacy would be subject to international control.
While even in the land of the free no information received or transmitted over the Internet escapes the prying eyes of Big Brother, it goes without saying America’s First Amendment rights still ensure a far more liberated information superhighway than the one that would exist under the reins of a dubious global body formed by the U.N. and led by China and Russia. Meanwhile, the entire global economy hangs in the balance.
7. Government ownership of factories
In terms of government owned factories, few could ever forget “Government Motors.” After nearly $53 billion in bailout funds over the course of two administrations, the U.S. government now owns a controlling stake in GM, raising the obvious question of how government can fairly regulate its own business. While GM asked the government to intervene, and while Amtrak was instead a victim of a federally-engineered scheme, both are examples of how government assumes control of private enterprise. Typically, it is the American taxpayer who fails to reap the dividends and becomes the victim of these machinations.
8. Equal liability of all to labor
The first thought which springs to mind when reading the Manifesto’s tenet on equal labor is the overriding presence of labor unions within the U.S. workforce. While labor unions in and of themselves are not nationalized organizing bodies, they have enjoyed a long and harmonious relationship with government, particularly through the progressive policies and lawmakers that prop up their various agendas. In fact, there may be no brighter an illustration of socialism manifested than the collective organizing body of America’s labor unions. Although subject to regulation and oversight by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), unions still overwhelmingly support Democratic candidates, thus a cycle of quid pro quo is perpetuated.
Another example of government control in the workplace emerges via the Labor Department’s Affirmative Action policies. By mandating that employers meet a staff-quota comprising women, minorities and people with disabilities, private business is being forced to relinquish its ability to hire on the basis of merit, thus failing to deliver excellence and best practices. While many women, minorities and those with disabilities do indeed possess the skill sets needed to succeed in a specific job, it should, critics argue, be left to private enterprise to determine which candidate is best suited for the task at hand.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a government owned corporation, has been hailed a prime
example of true socialism in America. It is the country’s largest public power company, with a generating capacity of 31,658 megawatts. Its 17,000 miles of transmission lines deliver power through 158 locally owned distributors to 8.5 million residents of the Tennessee Valley. While even Republicans, for the most part, consider TVA to be a success, its case is considered unique in that the government model has never been able to be successfully duplicated along any other State waterway.
Agricultural subsidies are another prime example of this Manifesto plank in motion. An extensive analysis conducted by the CATO Institute determined that, when it comes to corporate welfare no one has reaped a greater windfall, or hurt taxpayers more than the “supermarket to the world,” Archer Daniels. An excerpt from the report reads:
ADM and its chairman Dwayne Andreas have lavishly fertilized both political parties with millions of dollars in handouts and in return have reaped billion-dollar windfalls from taxpayers and consumers. Thanks to federal protection of the domestic sugar industry, ethanol subsidies, subsidized grain exports, and various other programs, ADM has cost the American economy billions of dollars since 1980 and has indirectly cost Americans tens of billions of dollars in higher prices and higher taxes over that same period. At least 43 percent of ADM’s annual profits are from products heavily subsidized or protected by the American government. Moreover, every $1 of profits earned by ADM’s corn sweetener operation costs consumers $10, and every $1 of profits earned by its ethanol operation costs taxpayers $30
Aside from being incongruent with the free market, the nation’s agricultural subsidies cost tax payers tens of billions of dollars each year and typically only benefit larger farming outfits.
On the flip side, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is placing greater and greater restrictions on business in the form of cap and trade and in mandating the purchase of carbon credits.
10. Free education for all children in government controlled schools
What can be said of America’s beleaguered public education system could fill volumes, yet one needn’t look far to pluck one or two prime examples as proof that there are indeed no “free lunches.”
The Blaze recently uncovered a series of reports revealing what happens when a bureaucrat decides that the school district, along with its unionized faculty members, know better about a child’s needs than his or her parents do. Whether the control comes via mandating a child’s school lunch box contents, or altering the Pledge of Allegiance to omit the phrase “one nation under God,” or subjecting students to inadequate instruction from a teacher solely on the basis of that teacher’s tenure – a teacher who cannot be fired or replaced — the public school system is, arguably, setting up generations for failure.
Free medicine…the 11th tenet?
While not addressed specifically in the 10 tenets of the Communist Manifesto, national health care is perhaps — at least in modern day America — “the key to the empire.” It is why the fate of Obamacare is of utmost importance to the left. If passed, it sets precedent by establishing the “new normal” in government authority over private citizens. Legal experts and pundits alike have consistently argued the unconstitutionality of the health care bill, underscoring its significance as a “gateway” to other forms of government intrusion.
The bill’s unconstitutionality is irrelevant to those who, while claiming to champion the founding document, appear to be working to dismantle it.
Some balk at the use of the word “Communism,” dismissing its invocation as hyperbole. Yet when dissecting actual policies, laws, regulations and bureaucratic government approaches which Americans are increasingly subjected to, and weighing them against the 10 progressive “rules to live by,” the facts scream loudly and clearly in the face of those who deny the ever-creeping onset of Socialism. Marx’s Communist “utopia” is only one evolutionary stage away from reality.
[Editors Note: These are but a few examples of how Manifesto tenets are reflected in modern American life and is of course, not a complete list.]
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Comments (358)
vox_populi
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:49pm“Communists bang on incessantly about “equality” when in fact a flat-tax is arguably the fairest system of all and one that would, by design, ensure “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” If a 10% flat tax were implemented, then 10% of a $5,000 income would amount to far less than 10% of a $500,000 income.”
Sorry, wrong. Flat tax implementation is widely agreed-upon as being disproportionately burdensome on the poor. $500 out of $5,000 would hurt someone far more than $50,000 our of $500,000. Marginal utility to spend, etc., etc.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:25pmI would love to see Obama’s pushers tax return. He is a 1%er.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:49pmThe much-lauded social safety net should alleviate your fear of perceived inequality. The person paying $500.00 will get his money back… along with a ‘fair’ share of the other person’s $50,000.00. Hooray. The system works.
Report Post »Saywhatonemoretime
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:53pmconsumption tax.
income tax is dam illegal.
no one has read the dam constitution , bill of rights, federalist papers…
Report Post »no dam wonder we are going down the shltter.
jzs
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:23pm2. Heavy progressive income tax
This particular tenet needs no introduction, nor example. America now holds the world record for highest corporate tax rate, surpassing even Japan.
Nice try tying that into the argument over tax rates for the rich, that have reached a 40 year low (and, dang, still no jobs). The United States of America already a greater income inequality than amost any other industrialized Democracy. The rich are getting richer, the middle class is shrinking and the poor are getting poorer and more numerous. Republican policies, if enacted, are designed to further elevate the richest (even more tax breaks), and further drive the middle class into poverty. Those policies reduce or eliminate every program that helps the poor bring themselves up (hardly Communist policies) in order to offset tax breaks for the richest.
No, sorry, there’s no Communism in the US. Quite the opposite. Already 400 families own half of the wealth in America. Soon, if things continue, they’ll own 75% of America. That’s not Communism, that’s the opposite. And you and I are getting relatively poorer, getting a smaller and smaller peice of the American pie as are almost all Americans. You may think that’s good…
colt1860
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:08pm16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1913
Social Security Act of 1936
Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933
State “income” taxes
We’re all “paying our fair share”.
@jzs The reason the middle class is dying is because the rich elite are the same ones that have their representatives in every darn Government agency and bureaucracy, which Government entities are based on the Marxist notion of centrally controlling all forms of industry. As the Government gets bigger, and gains more powers, the Middle Class dies. The FDA is run by former pharmaceutical and drug company employees. Most of our school boards are run by former Text Book publishing and furniture businesses employees. In fact, what we have now, is exactly what most Communist countries have, an uber rich elite and very poor class, NO MIDDLE CLASS.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:09pmHey JZS,
OK, here’s your chance.
Tell us what communism IS then.
You seem to like the idea of communism / markism / socialism, so tell us what is so great about any of them. Either singularly, or in some combination form.
I have challenged you before several times to describe for us what you envision as the ideal societal system for us, but you skate every time.
Come on JZS, you seem to know everything……..you know what’s best for us……..take your time………spread it out over 2, 3, 4 or more posts.
Enlighten us with the “JZS MANIFESTO”
The Gooch
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:09pmProtectionism exists on both sides of the ideological sprectrum and indicates one of the ugliest truths about our republic: Allowing career politicians has turned influence peddling into an industry in this country. As guilty as any “old” money people may be of taking advantage of this system (and they ain’t all on team R, baby), so to go the unions, the environmentalists, and any other advocacy group you wanna shake a stick at. It’s no secret: Money is power in U.S. politics.
Report Post »What’s the answer. SOME people get to influence policy and politicians, but not others? No. That doesn’t seem quite right. What about term limits? Now there’s a start.
Listen, I think there are some valid arguments to be made about the mega rich and the protections afforded to them. R and D alike have shown us who is too big to fail. But that game can’t be played forever. And this argument has more than one facet: At what point do we also get serious about taking spending under control? Who wants to trust the U.S. Congress to do that? Remember, this is an entity that can vote itself its own pay raises. That might let you know have far you can trust that collective.
There’s a dark voice in me that whispers, “Let it all fall apart. It’s not worth saving.” But I sure as hell don’t want my children to experience the French Revolution a la modern U.S.A. But if there must be blood, let it be the blood of those who were too greedy & stupid to know better. Hubris ~ blindness.
lrb14
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:17pm@jzs. Your comments demonstrate and ignorance of basic economics and bumper sticker mentality. What Im about to say doesnt fit nicely on a bumper: According to IRS statistics, between 1996-2005, 91% of income earners in the lowest quintile increased to the 4th and 5th highest quintiles of income. Additionally, there was an actual decrease in the number of people in the top 1% income category. The mistake people make when making the statement “the rich get richer….” is that their analysis is based on cross sectional income demographics, rather than actual individuals within the system. When you look at the IRS stats that follow individuals, the trend is clear. Lower income people increase their income and standard of living over time. Which brings me to my next point. Would you argue that the standard of living of the middle class is lower than it was 10, 20, 30, years ago? As just one example, consider that in the 1950s very few middle class families own more than one television. Now, the vast majority of people living below the poverty line own one or more television. Clearly, then, there has been an increase in standard of living. Especially compared to those in other countries. CNN ran a story a few months ago demonstrating that those living below the poverty line in the U.S. still have a standard of living greater than 2/3 of the world’s population, even the middle class in Europe.
Report Post »MS-GlenNBC
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:31pmThat looks like Mitt Romney’s copy….
Report Post »RedDawn2012
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:51pmI think that a consumption tax (called the FairTax) at the consumer level only, makes more sense (this is NOT a European-like VAT tax, which is levied at every level of a product’s value creation). The FairTax tax would capture money from many who have illegally avoided taxes in the past: the huge underground economy that does not pay any taxes, the millions of illegal aliens working who do not pay taxes, and the drug dealers, gangsters, hookers, etc., who do not contribute to our tax system. The rich do not pay their fair share of taxes due to their trusts.
The FairTax is a national sales tax that treats every person equally and allows American businesses to thrive, while generating the same tax revenue as the current 3.8 million word tax code. Under the FairTax, every person living in the United States pays a 23% national sales tax on purchases of new goods and services. This rate is equal to the lowest current income tax bracket (15%) combined with employee payroll taxes (7.65%), both of which will be eliminated.
The FairTax provides a progressive program called a prebate. This gives every legal resident household an “advance refund” at the beginning of each month so that purchases made up to the poverty level are tax-free. The prebate prevents an unfair burden on low-income families.
And with the FairTax, the IRS would be eliminated.
A comprehensive look at the FairTax can be found at http://www.fairtax.org
Report Post »MuskratProblem
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 12:16amThis is indeed sad where things are going. I used to live in the Czech Republic, walked the streets of China, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Viet Nam ( I travel a lot, and I am only 23). It does not work, it has never worked, and will ruin this country.
Report Post »CANNON FODDER
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:53amSo, would it be fair then if the poor are exempted from paying taxes? But then the lower middle class would be disproportionately burdened. So let’s exempt them too. But then the middle class would be disproportionately burdened. I get it now. Let’s tax only the rich! Doesn’t it feel good that no group would be disproportionately burdened anymore. And doesn’t it feel even better that with the vast majority of voters no longer burdened with paying taxes, the government can now spend all it wants on things that matter the most like saving the (insert plant or animal here), educating children on the contributions of those in the LGBT community and minorities other than Asians, and social welfare (so those who do not pay taxes are reminded who they should vote for and understand why it is necessary for hardworking politicians to take so many vacations paid for by the rich taxpayers).
Report Post »Laken
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:20amfrom Dr. John Drew, former classmate of Obama
John C. Drew, Ph.D.
2012/04/22 at 12:52 pm
I’m so proud to stand with Orly Taitz in this upcoming election cycle. She has shown remarkable courage, dedication and sacrifice in the face of Obama’s efforts to turn the U.S. in the direction of a socialist society. She is right to bring attention to the abnormalities in the Obama story. As one of the few people willing to speak out about the young Obama, I can confirm he was a Marxist when I met him in 1980.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:13ammy question is about the second amendment. will americans use their guns to prevent losing their guns??????
Report Post »NC1
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:19am@JZS An oligarchy is what you say is happening in this country? I could see that with the Bush’s, Clinton’s, Rockefellers, etc. But I disagree that republican policy alone is making the middle class smaller. Its the policies of both parties that are assisting the rich to get richer. MF Global comes to mind when I think of a democrat ripping off the American people and the gov’t allowing it.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:17pmSO? Ever hear about upgrading skills, going to night school, taking correspondence courses? I did so, and learned,worked my way up the ladder EVERYONE, including single parents, can do the same, if physically, and mentally able. Tired of hearing ,self serving excuses!
Report Post »junior1971
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:54pmComrade VOX, I will buy you a ticket to mother Russia! Please accept?
Report Post »MistyBlueAngel
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 5:58pmI suppose that in a since some would look at it as being disproportionately difficult on the poor, given that even 10% of someone’s income would be hard to pay if one were below the poverty level. Perhaps a more fair solution would be to exempt the first $35,000-50,000 of EVERYONE’S income, whether rich or poor. This way those from low to moderate means could get a little break, while at the same time, even the rich would get the same exemption of the first 35-50k of their income, so no one would be able to say they were treated unequally. Yes a flat tax is far more fair than the convoluted, pretzel twisted tax code we have now, and that benefits no one other than tax lawyers and government agents. I don’t think anyone should ever have to pay any more than 10% of their income in taxes. If they can’t run the government on that, then they need to cut spending until they can. That’s what private citizens must do, or they end up homeless and hungry.
Report Post »Nyle
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:19pmYou assume that the flat tax could not simply exclude any individual who made less than $20,000 more than the poverty line from paying any tax.(Still most likely brining in more revenue.) Also, the Fair Tax eliminates the taxes on earnings and instead taxes on consumption and it too covers all Americans cost of basic necessities before collecting any tax. The idea that we need to keep this overly complicated, oft exploited Progressive Income tax system is completely insane and paints one quickly as favoring Marxist ideals.
The Progressive Income tax is after all something Marx would propose and be proud of. This tax system is designed to be exploited to the benefit of Politicians be it for profit or attempting to destroy our government and crony capitalist companies like GE, ADM, etc..
It is time to end this monstrosity of a tax system that does nothing but hold back our economy and instead place a simple tax system in place like the Fair Tax, which would usher in a new Golden Age in America as it set loose all of our economy from these failed central planners.
Report Post »patriot121569
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:09amIf a person takes a portion of your income without your consent, it’s theft. If the govt. does it, it’s not theft? Wake the hell up. Income tax is theft. We need to demand it to stop. And stop trying to justify it to pay for social services. There are other ways.
Report Post »Mother of JZS
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:40pmTest
Report Post »MessengerofTruth
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:45pmOCCUPY ORDERED TO PROVOKE CONFRONTATION
Report Post »http://thenewbostonteaparty.com/2012/04/16/socialist-underground-occupy-ordered-to-provoke-confrontation.aspx?ref=rss
Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:04pmThat’s sort of okay with me. I plan to infiltrate and commandeer the microphone when the right time comes. Meantime I suggest that many from the Tea Party Gathering should do the same, cross over and carry signs that say “I’m with Stupid”, “Too lazy to work”, “gimme” and similar signs. Make sure to take video and post on youtube!
Report Post »This is a very simple “beat ‘em join ’em / fire with fire” strategy. Have fun with it.
PubliusPencilman
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:44pmWe’re moving towards communism, eh? What is great about this list is so many of these examples of communists acts can be traced back to the Constitutional period and the nineteenth century!
1) Eminent Domain
The article says it directly–it’s in the Constitution already! In terms of the government ownership of land, I’d like to see how Beck feels about that great government land-grab, The Louisiana Purchase! Not to mention the purchase of Alaska!
2) Progressive Tax
“Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is
to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the
higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they
rise.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1785
4) Confiscation of rebel/emigrant property
This has been a legal issue since the Revolutionary War, when the national and state governments made a grab for the property of loyalists who fled to England. Wow. I guess those guys were all communists!
But really, the Michigan Militia? Feel free to look at how the government handled Shays’ Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion.
5) National Bank
This is an easy one. A National Bank was established by Hamilton during Washington’s presidency. I guess that would make one of the foremost founders of American capitalism a communist!
To be continued….
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:46pmGee..a Ron Paul Presidency and our kicking members of the Congress and the Senate”s butts to the curb if they don’t comply with adhering strictly to the Constitution?..Instead of ridiculing Ron Paul for not passing one law and instead standing for our liberties.. instead of aligning ourselves with those members of Congress and Senate who pass laws against us..what was it 40 thousand ridiculous laws.and catering to special interests groups and lining their own pockets..that we could let a decent man who has actually tried to help us. lead this nation..a real Christian man who has served his life saving the lives of others.. and trying to save ours..How about we start appreciating him?…
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:13pmThis article needs:
The Communist Takeover Of America – 45 Declared Goals,
http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:22pm@ASHES…
Report Post »An Army needs many Generals… why fight over their Ranks?
colt1860
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:25pm“All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in the Constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, as much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.” – John Quincy Adams
“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” – James Madison
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power of money should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.” – Henry Ford
“The bold effort the Second National Bank of the U.S. had made to control government and the distress it has wantonly produced are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.” – Andrew Jackson
“The surest way to overthrow an existing social order is to debauch the currency.” – Lenin
colt1860
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:29pm“The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. I am an enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but coin. If the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system; a system which if it could do good in any form is yet so certain of leading to abuse as to be utterly incompatible with the public safety and prosperity. The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson
“You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out. If the American people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.” – Andrew Jackson
ashestoashes
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:36pm@PUBLIC PENCILMAN.. I think downsizing the government like Ron Paul wants to do would take care of that problem..It is a huge government who is taking control of the assets..It’s kind of like getting an auto immune disease where the body destroys itself..only these are elected officials in some cases..in others..it’s a Ahmadinejad kind of thing…you know..like a dictatorship.where they try to pull the wool over the public’s eyes by making them think that they have a choice by offering them the same platform with different names..The only game changer here is Ron Paul..and most of us know that he is the only one winning all of the delegates and getting “no” media attention.. Hello?? There are those of us who refuse to be the Rothchild Federal Reserve Criminal organization’s puppets.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:41pm@COLT…
Report Post »Find us… one… Experienced, Smart, True, Honest, Faithful, God fearing… man… and we can build a Bank around him!
Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 4:27pm@Publius
We have been moving towards it for a long time.
Little by little, bit by bit, little by little, bit by bit, bit by bit.
Nice and slow, just as intended.
And you may have already won.
November will be the tell.
“Everyone’s going to be free
Report Post »But you’ll have to agree to be free
You’ll have to agree to be less free than me
Cuz I rule the world, you see”
Laken
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 4:40pmhttp://www.wnd.com/wnd_petition/petition-urging-congress-to-investigate-obamas-eligibility/
Report Post »Laken
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 4:48pmhttp://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/
Report Post »Saywhatonemoretime
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 6:47pmlove it colt…keep it up.
New Jersey Hearing: Obama Lawyer Says Obama Does Not Have to Prove Eligibility – 4/10/2012
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_grIjyq5y-w&list=FLCgDi147zPJQ7tis4mn25Ww&feature=mh_lolz
mercenary4freedom
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 6:58pm10 things we need to now about oblowme if he somehow cheats his way into a second term. Its clear that PUBLICPENCILD I K is a communist collaborator.
http://news.investors.com/article/608264/201204181800/what-obama-will-do-in-second-term.htm?p=2
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 8:06pmFor there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live. Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards. Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards….
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them…
I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury. Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
ProbIemSoIver
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 8:23pmEx-KGB operative, Yuri Bezmenov warned us of this Communist Manifesto in the 1980′s.
Report Post »Unfortunately, people had “better” things to do with their lives than listen to “conspiracy theorists”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlpODYhnPEo
Saywhatonemoretime
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:27pm26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over…
nothing to see here …bend over plz . spread ‘em.
Report Post »tsa thanks you for your continued support in these harsh times of govt created chaos.
teamarcheson
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:36pmEver TEA member should be carrying a video camera. The police and judges will not be able to ignore acts of violence against TEA from Union Thugs. Many of these Union Thugs could be off duty police and government workers. Posting photos in the internet may uncover conspiracy. At TEA rallies and meetings photo or video anyone who becomes disruptive or violent. If anyone becomes violent TEA should treat them as if they were being violent on an airplane. Sit on them until police arrive. Cover each other’s back. This is not a game.
Report Post »mercenary4freedom
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:47pmContinued from Natural News.com story:
8. Restrict the press. Already done. The U.S. government, in fact, essentially runs the mainstream media today. White House announcements are simply printed as “fact” with zero journalism and zero fact checking taking place.
9. Redefine dissent as treason. This is already happening with figures like Ted Nugent who was recently “visited” by the Secret Service after his anti-Obama rant. All throughout government speeches today, the criminals at the very top proclaim that anyone who questions government is “anti-American” and might be involved in domestic terrorism. The FBI even warns that people who “stockpile food” might be terrorists! (Even though the government itself stockpiles massive quantities of food, guns, ammunition, communications gear, medical supplies and more…)
10. Subvert the rule of law. Already done. Law has been complete abandoned by the ATF, DEA, FDA, USDA and every other federal agency you can think of. The Attorney General Eric Holder actively plots ways to destroy the Bill of Rights, and the government stages false flag terror attacks to undermine constitutional protections.
See this important speech from Wolf at:
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc
KeystoneState
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:58pmAre we heading toward communism? Sheesh folks, were already there. The real question is, “can we reverse it”? God help us!
Report Post »thinknotrepeat
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:43amlrb you are the epitomy of the fx news viewer,a moron that had a half tryth fed to him and now parrots it, just as you were meant to by the talking heads, listen moron the reason income increases for the “ bottom class” over time has to do with “ time value of money” look it up, making a point that income rises over time has no bearing on your original point, a caddilac was 4000 dollars 30 years ago,do you understand WHY it’s now 35,000.? and pointing out that more families have television sets now than in 1950 to validate your assertion that our standard of living always has increased is moronic, ask someone to explain why. this is why there should be an iq test to be eligible to vote,it’s to important to allow easily manipulated people to be used to serve interests of those that are craftily feeding them talking points in order to direct their behavior to further their own interests.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:42pmJust saw a great video – “If I Wanted America to Fail” at Breitbart — make it go viral !!!
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/04/22/Earth-Day
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:55pmExcellent .. I emailed, tweeted and shared … thanks!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:12pmTheir plan has been in motion for decades. They just did it in drips and drabs until now. Success is in their sights and I don’t think they will let anything like a silly little Presidential election stop them.
Great video………..
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:14pmCool video. Makes me wonder why Americans continue the same policies and continue to vote for the people that are hell bent on doing exactly what this video said.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:22pmWow!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:29pmThe Culture of GUILT; Less is MORE; Work will set you FREE; Government loves YOU!
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:38pm@Mom Thank you for that great video.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:13pmVery nice video
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:20pmPut it up on my facebook…Pointing out the youth should set aside their new age progressive commie ideology they have been schooled in ..Watch it and give some thought to it…..Very well done…Beck should get busy making things like that…
Report Post »Saywhatonemoretime
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:32pmis also on youtube.
Report Post »Run Silent
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:45pmGod, Guns, and Guts. Although not necessarily in that order made America.
Report Post »PaxInVeritate
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 5:06pmFor all who watched the video… Yes a very true message in the vid. Now, after seeing this vid, we must ask who really is “I”? Who is it that truly benefits from bringing down the “… shining light on the hill”? The nation that gives so freely to any other nation in world when in need? Willing to stand in the breech against any advancement (in the past and would do so in the future if we were to remain strong) of evil in the world (regardless of our “warts” the opposition points to that we already acknowledge)? Let us give a nod to Saul Alinski’s idol. “Hope you guess [his] name”. This has been underway for a long time and for a purpose. In order for the final chapter in self-governance to conclude, and for us to understand perfectly our need to be reliant on, and humble before the Lord by accepting His perfect authority, the weakening of the U.S. must come about.
Report Post »(cont)
PaxInVeritate
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 5:16pm(cont)
Report Post »Many still think this can be delayed. If “our side” wins an election and we re-establish the founding principles of this Nation, the world and human endeavors as it stands now will continue. This is not so. Many more outright refuse to acknowledge the epoch that we live in. What was written in the Book of Truth must come about. That time is now. That which was written in Daniel and Revelations is coming to pass presently. All one needs to do is repent, read, fast and pray, then earnestly listen and one will understand. Why do we fear this? Why do we wish to reject it? Why do we cling to imperfect human governance? When the Lord Jesus Christ comes to receive His Throne on Earth everything will be perfected and Heaven and Earth will be united as one. Fast and pray for discernment, and go to the site http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com/ . This site is meant for all to read for all are God’s children.
recoveringneocon
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 5:58pmIf I wanted America to fail……. I would Police the World.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 6:07pmGreat video….. already emailed it. Too bad that the left doesn’t see it, if they see it, don’t understand it, if they see it and understand don’t care as long as the left wins.
GOP2012 (SUPPORT SCOTT WALKER IN WISCONSIN)
Michigan is showing signs of improvement because of a Republican governor, however, the left is trying to spin any improvement and give credit to obama because of the bailouts….. let’s make sure we stay on message and make sure that credit goes to the people that are making a positive difference.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 7:39pmGood video Mom. All of is true and hits the damn nail on the head!!!
Report Post »nighttrainno9
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 8:54pmGreat video, and the real truth, ” I wouldn’t change a thing”.
Report Post »We are headed headlong into communism and most of
the citizens of this country don’t have a clue. They are only
interested in maintaining the status-quo. The war is coming,
I really don’t believe we have one chance in hell of keeping
this country free, but I WILL fight to the death.
ProbIemSoIver
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:06pmHere is another Video that should go Viral:
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewUP-Fdhqk
ProbIemSoIver
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:30pm@MOMPRAYN
The very brief intervals in the youtube responses to “If I wanted America to fail” video, would make it safe to say, that it is going viral as we speak.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:50pmThe best anti-Obama ad out there! We need this ad televised.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:33pmThis Video applies to all politicians, Democrat or Republican. Quit thinking they are fundamentally different.
Are people ever going to wake up to the Left/Right Paradigm ??????
The Global Elite have an Agenda.
They care not who makes America’s laws, as long as they issue and control our FIAT monopoly money, printed out of thin air, to loan to us with interest !!!!!!!
Report Post »psychokittis
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:04am@lukerw-The one pont you mentioned-work will set you free. Scary. Why is it scary one may ask? Because that is what was writtenon the sign at the main entrance to Auschwitz. Kinda makes you wonder. Glad you pointed the statement out.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:41pmI do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Report Post »db321
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:15pmMil-Dot – your post shows so much about you – your naive, you don’t read, you watch the New History Channel, and you drink the Socialist, Marxist, Communist Tea. Remember to be a good Marxist and one that wants to survive in the years to come – you need to get off Welfare and watch out for the other Marxist/Communist that will turn on you in a heart beat!
Your assignment – is to research the Columbia Professor that is producing the content your drinking on the New History Channel.
This Professor is a Pulitzer Prize winner – who wrote about Lincoln sleeping with men, Jefferson owning 130 slave by the time he was 13, and Ben Franklin was a Serial Killer. You Mil-Dot are an idiot – if you believe this flaming Marxist! I guess Mil-Dot your also going to tell us Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prices.
The people on the Blaze are not buying you propaganda – we are too busy tying to protect idiots like you from turning this Country into something that everyone will regret – even you Mil-Bot!
Oh – the Professor that you idolize, is the same man that headed up the campaign that promoted American is a forgiving Country after Clinton broke his covenant with his Wife and America – with that Blue dress stunt in the Oval Office. And Good People sold their Soles and support Clinton!
I just hope the cleaning crew gave the WH a good scrubbing after the Clinton’s left.
Hey everyone on the Blaze – look here Mil-Bot drank the tea! Please kid don’t turn into a Mil-Dot!
Report Post »Saywhatonemoretime
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 6:50pmme and mine made the oath…
Report Post »live or die.
lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 7:36pmYeh, Right… so why… with 2 Million Colonalist did the American Revolution take so long to fight against 40 Thousand British Troops? Did only a few Americans leave home to take the field… because all the others stayed home; becuase Mom or Wife would not let them go? Why did Washington need the French?
I am saying: Think of the opposition as the British of long ago…
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:54amUnfortunately it’s too late. America is under occupation. Our gov’t has been subverted by radical Marxist _____ ! We are going the very same route as the former Soviet Union. Before long they will be slaughtering your families in the streets and hauling your loved ones off to Gulags on American soil.
That’s what you expect when you turn your country over to the most vile filthy Marxist Aliens on the planet.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:10am@Techidiot
Report Post »What, too cowardly to fill in he blank now? Nobody’s buying into your racist ideology. Anyone who argues for collective punishment and salvation on a racial basis IS as totalitarian as a Marxist. You throw your support behind fascism to oppose communism not realizing that they are two sides of the same coin. Ron Paul would be ashamed to have you as a supporter.
The Gooch
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:34pmIt’s a well-known fact the only successful, working example of collectivism to date is the smurfs.
Report Post »On a more serious note, this scenario has played out time and again thru history, empire after empire. As govt. expands & meddles in more and more affairs, it tends to evolve into an entity insistent on protecting itself & expanding its own powers. That means the thralls gotta know their place. The outcome of the U.S. Civil War firmly established the federal govt. as the be all, end all power to which all citizens & states would be subject to. You can cheerlead for Lincoln all you want, but the man was a straight up authoritarian who dismissed rights without so much as a “by your leave.” The lie that Lincoln was a friend & champion to the enslaved is soothing revisionist history. Slavery was political tool to be used by Lincoln. And what did Lincoln get for his victory asserting the all-powerful federal govt.? Martyrdom & a really good revisionist makeover. You can rant & rave about how great a man Lincoln was, but he birthed big govt. in this country.
It’s at this point in history that influence peddling & govt. interventionism exploded. Yeah, the govt. effectively forever crippled rail. Because established rail owners wanted protectionism & politicians who wanted money happily obliged. Careful what you wish for.
This story is about power, not any particular ideology. Govt. wants more of it, regardless of who is at the reins. Go figure.
Mil-Dot
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:48pmI am in complete agreement. Lincoln was not a great man. He was a psychopath and a tyrant. A big federal govt goon. The only people that think he was a hero are the “protected classes” of folks who look to the govt to solve all of their problems. You know, like welfare, affirmative action, food stamps-You know, those leaches. We could clean up this country in no time and clear out all the commies and deadbeats in a hurry, but the govt goons will swoop in and side with them against the real patriots. They fail to realize that if you keep letting their numbers increase by protecting them they eventually take over everything, like termites, including the govt. And we all know what they do to “former” govt officials when they get ahold of them. Good luck with that.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:01pmI received this from Hillsdale College…
Please take the course
Dear banjarmon,
Thank you for enrolling in Hillsdale College’s “Constitution 101” online course. I hope you’re enjoying it and that you find it beneficial.
As you probably know, next week is the final week of “Constitution 101,” and I’ll be lecturing on the topic, “The Recovery of the Constitution.”
I’m proud to report that we have over 200,000 citizens signed up for “Constitution 101” – but wouldn’t it be great if even more Americans were studying the Constitution during this important year for our country?
That’s why I’m writing to ask if you might take a few minutes to share Hillsdale’s free “Constitution 101” online course with five friends?
If you, along with each of your 200,000 “classmates,” share this free online course with five friends, we could have over 1 million people studying the Constitution. And remember, the lectures are archived, so newly registered students can take the course from the beginning.
Please take a few minutes to help us with this important work. Your help will make all the difference.
Thank you so much.
Dr. Larry Arnn
President
Hillsdale College
PS: So much is at stake this year, and I think Hillsdale’s education on the Constitution comes not a moment too soon. Can we count on your help?
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:06pmSounds like Libertarian BS to me whether you are or not. Same crap Ron Paul and his minnions try to pass off regarding Lincoln.
Fortunately, Lincoln has left us hundreds of pages of his writings and speeches. He personally saw slavery as a form of tyranny and condemned it over and over again. He believed it was an unequivocal moral evil.
The turning point in Lincoln’s life was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed slavery to spread into the territories. Upon its passage Lincoln said, “This covert zeal for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate. I hate it for the monstrous injustice of slavery itself.”
Lincoln repeatedly made references to the Declaration of Independence and its principle, that “All men are created equal”. This equality clause was a central focus of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, which were reprinted as a best seller in 1859.
That same year Lincoln said “The Republican principle — the unalterable principle, never to be lost sight of… is that slavery is wrong.” Near the end of his life, Lincoln was in favor of giving blacks full voting rights.
Lincoln was a product of the 19th century and he made statements which did not reflect perfect treatment in all social situations. However, to claim those statements negate his work for racial justice is a terrible misrepresentation of Lincoln’s struggle.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:08pmlink to Hillsdale College
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Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:24pmYou nailed it time.. Libertarianism is pro-Constitution..The President Of World Ministries was affiliated with the FBI and the CIA..he was contracted by them..He said that it has gone so far.that he didn’t know if it could be turned around..but that a Constitutionalist is the only shot we have..look at the Mormans who support Dr Ron Paul. http://www.mormonforpresident.us/ron-paul-for-president-2012/mormon-perspective-support-ron-paul.html
Report Post »You really don’t want to keep going the way of Communism do you Time? The Constitution is the complete opposite…Don’t be afraid of being free Time..
THXll38
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:32pmLike most social neo cons, Time needs someone to hell him what is right or wrong and how to live based on rules, regulation, and faith put forth by the statists of our and our ancestor time.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:41pmTHC. Weak, but expected from you. Most Paul supporters from what I‘ve seen can’t stand the fact that I ride their savior Ron Paul like the cheap rumpled suit that he is… so making it about me is all you have left. But it’s okay for you to ride Conservatives/Republicans all day long right? Piss off THC.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:54pmWhat was the Civil War really about? It was about an Economy. The North was industrialize and running under Capitalism, and paid Wages. The South was of Plantations trading with England under the Merchantile System, and used Slaves. The North wanted the Southern Trade.
Once the War begins… there is No North/South Line… rather people all over on one side of the other… which forces Lincoln to use troops in Northern Cities and suspend some Rights. A Draft is imposed, unless you are Rich and buy out, and it causes Riots that must be Crushed. So, step by step, Lincoln becomes a Dictator.
In the South, they write all New Laws… and Davis becomes their Dictator.
War is Hell… and you do whatever to Win!
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:03pmCommunist progress agenda 21 has already taken deep root in the peoples republic, there work on the destruction of urban America is fully underway.
Report Post »Density Versus Sprawl
California is trying to reshape housing patterns to thwart the environmental dangers of urban sprawl. But will people really give up their cars?
RepubliCorp
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:04pmTIME_2 Funny how their little 4-5% turn out …. equals the mentally ill percentage of the population. Paul has a great talent for gathering nuts…..
Report Post »Just check out that glazed-over Moonie look on their faces at a Paul (their messiah) rally….. Kooks
The Gooch
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:20pmIdolize as you will. Either the U.S. Constitution matters all of the time… or just as a matter of convenience. I’ll not bother with a quote by quote p!ssing contest. Lincoln ended slavery. Good on him. His reasons will remain forever moot.
Report Post »My assertion is the birth of big govt. began with Lincoln. It’s foolish to assert he solely owns this. It seems many so-called conservatives are also shameless authoritarians. The ends justify the means… as long as you can preserve the status quo or better yourself in the process. Manifest Destiny and such.
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:25pmREPUBLICORP.
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Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 4:06pmLMAO!!!! What a load of crap! TIME_2_GROW_UP is doing NOTHING to ensure Romney wins against Obama. He’s spouting BS, dividing us Republicans, and creating an unneeded animosity among us patriotic Americans. This is why I know Romney will lose. Sure, I’ll vote for the self described progressive, but he will never gather enough votes to beat Obama thanks to the likes of TIME_2_GROW_A_SET_AND_SHUT_UP. Of course, TIME_AND_TIME_AGAIN will never stop spouting distortions as he amuses himself with every chance he gets to bad mouth fellow conservatives here on the Blaze.
I’ll cast my vote for Romney if he becomes the GOP nominee, knowing full well that he will lose against Obama, and knowing that the Establishment gave us another McCain ensuring Obama wins. TIME_2_GET_OVER_HIMSELF is no one special. His arrogance is pathetic.
What many people still don‘t know about the DelusionalSelfRightouesGOPwaterCarriers is that they don’t know what it means to support a political establishment. To them, it means a lifetime of complete allegiance and devotion, no matter what, and NEVER, EVER question anything it says or does. Indeed exactly like Communists!
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 4:41pmTIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:06pm
Sounds like Libertarian BS to me whether you are or not. Same crap Ron Paul and his minnions try to pass off regarding Lincoln.
Fortunately, Lincoln has left us hundreds of pages of his writings and speeches. He personally saw slavery as a form of tyranny and condemned it over and over again. He believed it was an unequivocal moral evil.
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That’s the best laugh that I have had all day (LMAO)!:
“I think the constitution invests its Commander-in-chief, with the law of war, in time of war. The most that can be said, if so much, is, that slaves are property. Is there–has there ever been–any question that by the law of war, property, both of enemies and friends, may be taken when needed? And is it not needed whenever taking it, helps us, or hurts the enemy? Armies, the world over, destroy enemie’s property when they can not use it; and even destroy their own to keep it from the enemy.”
Report Post »-Abraham Lincoln, August 26, 1863
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 5:53pmCOLT. Glad I finally shamed you into voting for the eventual Republican nominee. NEXT Paul supporter for continued re-education!!
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 5:59pmKID. And I repeat…
Lincoln was a product of the 19th century and he made statements which did not reflect perfect treatment in all social situations. However, to claim those statements negate his work for racial justice is a terrible misrepresentation of Lincoln’s struggle.
AND… It must also be noted that Lincoln’s views changed, and his commitment to racial equality grew stronger with the passing years.
Report Post »Scottsman
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 7:17pmI wish all the Romney-bots would just get off of their Romney bandwagon and vote for Ron Paul. I heard all that crap 4 years ago, “If you vote for Ron Paul, you are voting for Obama”. Well look what that got us… John McCain.
I voted Ron Paul in the Primaries, and will write him in if I have to in the General Elections.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 7:51pmTIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 5:59pm
KID. And I repeat…
However, to claim those statements negate his work for racial justice is a terrible misrepresentation of Lincoln’s struggle.
AND… It must also be noted that Lincoln’s views changed, and his commitment to racial equality grew stronger with the passing years.
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HOGWASH!:
“However, even only days prior to his assassination, he asked General Benjamin F. Butler to study the possibility of shipping the blacks to another location. Even after the failure of earlier attempts, Lincoln still desired the separation of the white and black races. During a speech at Cincinnati in September of 1859, Lincoln stated that “there is room enough for us all to be free,” but he wished the blacks to live freely on another land mass.
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http://www.lib.niu.edu/1997/ihy970228.html
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 8:00pmSCOTTS. No Romney-Bot here. But I can say I am a team player for my Party of choice and will vote for the eventual nominee. And that certainly looks like Mitt Romney. Good luck with your fringe, er, Obama vote. Ron Paul came crawling back to the Republican Party just like the carpet bag’gng Libertarian that he is… he should have at the very least the decency to put his support behind his obvious better based on the vote…
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 8:21pmTIME_2_QUIT_HIS_YAPPIN ain’t shame me into doing nothin. His arrogance is purely pathetic. I’ve made up my own mind, and I respect the right of other voters. I don‘t go around pretending that I’m holier than others just because I’ll vote for that moderate and progressive Romney in the general. Only a delusional, uninformed, liar can be glad he’s voting for Romney; the Establishment and MSM choice numero uno.
TIME_2_GET_OFF_HIS_HIGH_UGLY_HORSE IS DOING NOTHING PRODUCTIVE. He has convinced NO ONE to vote for Romney, if he so becomes the nominee. I’m pretty sure TIME_2_GET_REAL has most likely turned potential Republican voters off, and made them despise even more what their Party has become. TIME_2_END_HIS_ASININE_OPINIONS has NOT convinced ONE independent, democrat, libertarian, or former Obama voter to vote for the GOP nominee. In a general election, the one with the most votes win. And TIME_2_SEE_THE_LIGHT can’t possibly understand that we need to steal votes from Obama, and get all the support we can get! Oh, that’s right, he’s in his own secluded club that thinks just him and his other buddies will be able to win in a general election. LMAO!!!
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:00amCOLT. Lol. You’re too easy bro….
Report Post »UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:30amThis article leads one to believe the Manifesto was first published in “Das Kapital”. It was in fact published in 1848 and made its way to America, from Marx’s own hand, by a man named Joseph Wedemeyer. Wedemeyer carried a letter of recommendation from Marx on his behalf to Charles A. Dana, who helped Wedemeyer get established. Dana was also instrumental in getting his fellow homegrown socialist/abolitionist, Stepen Pearl Andrews, to print the “Manifesto” for distrubtion USA.
Why the name dropping? Wedemeyer winds up as a commissioned officer in Lincoln’s army. Dana becomes Lincoln’s assistant Secretary of War. Andrews is typical of the abolishonist movement; most were homegrown utopian socialists with a copy of the Manifesto in their vest pocket.
Lincoln’s government was so rife with Socialist and Communist revolutionaries, in both the military and administration, that Obama’s percentage of the same pales in comparison. Not only did he surround himself with the very, foreign born, socialist revolutionaries of 1848 Europe – its hard to find a top level cabinet member that isn’t associated with homegrown communist movements akin to Brook Farm, Owenites, Fourier diciples, Chartists – etc ad nauseum.
Lincoln himself was an unrepentant mercantilist Whig. What he saw in these people was a common goal – centralization of the government for the sole purpose of the government alone.
Glenn Beck said, “these people will work together…” Correct.
Report Post »UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 12:17pmIs the publication date of “Das Kapital” significant? Yes, it certainly is.
Just as the publication of the “Manifesto” in 1848 was significant to the “Spring of Nations” and its exiled revolutionaries’ struggle to accomplish in America what they did not in Europe. So, “Das Kapital” arrived on the scene to stir up Europe anew in the light of the American cosolidation of power at the top. Marxism cannot exist without an unquestionable central authority, and is what the 1848 revolutions first sought to establish.
Most historians convieniently forget that immediately after Lincoln’s triumph – Germany erupted in a Civil War of unification in 1866. Immediately following our own “unpleasantness”, wars of unification broke out all over europe anew. The Socialists had learned a valuable lesson in the US – defer your main goal and establish its vital framework first – Central Authority.
German “Union” in 1866, Marx’s opus “Das Kapital” in 1867. Not coincidental.
Lincoln’s real legacy is he opened the door to two hells. One, communism – that really doesn’t need any explanation except he opened it for the entire globe. Two, he established his own mercantilist cause as a function of government, which is/was the crony capitalism that ironicly fuels socialist revolution. Obamaite communists love Lincoln for hell #1. RINOS love Lincoln for hell #2. Such explains why our Government LOVES Lincoln as it does – and destroys whomever questions his diety.
Report Post »Tankertony
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:29pmNo God. No America.
Thus,
Go to Church,
Buy a Gun,
Study the Constitution.
We will be safe in our Liberty.
Report Post »db321
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:33pmOr we will die protecting it!
Better to die, and go to Heaven than live in an America with No God, No Gun’s and No Constitution. Be careful Obama bots what you sell your sole for – Obama can’t get you into Heaven – he can only take God’s Promise of Eternity away when you vote for him!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:09pmEvery one wants to go to Heaven… but no one wants to Die!
Report Post »mercenary4freedom
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 7:34pmAnd buy lots of ammunition NOW!
LUKE….right on!
Report Post »marthasusan40
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:27pmVote for Romney………….I know that all the Ron Paul supporters believe in their hearts that the right thing to do is vote for him, but this will be the deciding factor, the left is counting on it. Voting for Paul is like giving a vote to Obama. If Ron Paul was truly a patriot, he would recognize that he can not win and endorse Romney…this is the only way to save the Republic. I pray for this. Ron Paul will still be effective in our government. Please, Ron Paul supporters, give your support to the one who can win, or you will be responsible for the loss of our Country. Four more years of Obama and it will be too late., no doubt.
Report Post »Saywhatonemoretime
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:39pmit is already too late…
run or walk to oblivion …no difference.
Report Post »Financial collaspe is coming..is no way in he77 to stop it.
tzion
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:55pmFor all you “Ron Paul or no one” people out there, I’d like to remind you that the President is only one man. Say what you will about Romney but when given a choice of someone who might respect Congress‘s authority and someone who clearly won’t….that’s no choice at all. Paul can continue to be a voice as will all the conservative Congressmen we WILL elect in November. Once that’s done Romney will fall into line. Romney might not be the most conservative candidate but he’s no Obama either. Obama would continue what he’s doing even if both the House and Senate were opposed. Romney has yet to do anything that would make me suspect him to do the same.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:05pm@Tzion, Nice try.
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
See, it doesn’t say anything about respecting congress, just defending the Constitution. Romney clearly won‘t do that as he’s stated his support for crapping on the Bill of Rights.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:32pm@SAYWHAT…
Report Post »Do not Give Up; Do not Surrender; Do not be Captured; Make yourself Count!
Saywhatonemoretime
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:47pmi do not give up…i get even.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 4:09pm@SAYWHAT…
Report Post »Godspeed!
RepubliCorp
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 4:34pmBots are NeoLibs from the Demorat party, they want Obama as president to punish America for not voting for Paul….. spewing freedom & the Constitution is just a ploy.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 5:30pmHey Republicorp… BOTS are programmed to think in binary… 0/1.. yes/no… dem/rep… It’s people like you who are incapable of thinking outside the box… or rather think like a ROBOT.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 6:03pmRepublicorp…..That’s kooky talk.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 6:22pmI’m going to be thinking of all the nice things said about Dr. Paul here on “ezalB ehT” when I walk into the voting both come Nov.
Report Post »UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 12:50pmWhat we have here is a failure in the making. Romney won’t beat Obama, and if Romney actually pulls off a win, he’s only slightly better than Obama. This is a McCain redux, pure and simple.
Any any way you slice it, the Progressives have won the White House.
Now that Romney feels he has the R primary in the bag – you’ll see hiim turn. Hint #1 was throwing Nugent under the PC bus.
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:26pmI have been around for a lot of years and I can tell you Communism has always been fought against, They have sweetness drool from their lips as they speak but would not hesitate in destroying people and poverty. God Bless America we deserve better then their (Communistic) plans for us.
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:21pmcorr property not poverty (that will be where one would go)
Report Post »Susan09
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:21pmI Have said it before and say it again. WHEN THE GOVERNMENT HAS ALL THE MONEY and ALL THE CONTROLL the4n YOU Have LOST ANY FREEDOMS That THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED UPON BACK to the MONARCY OF THE ENGLISH KING THEY CAME TO THIS LAND, TO GET AWAY FROM!!!!! MONARCHIES and DICTATORSHIPS ARE NO MORE than COMMUNISM AND NAZISM IN DISGUISE. LOVE OF MONEY INSTEAD OF LOVE OF GOD CHRIST THE SON AND HIS ACCEPTANCE OF HIS WAY. I Have READ THE END OF HIS!!!!!!!!! BOOKS…… HE AND THE SON AND ALL JUDEO/CHRISTIANS WIN!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »The Party Of Know
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:25pmGreat breakdown..one thing could have mentioned under “communication” is Pelosi’s endorsement of the Jim McGovern Amendment to the First Amendment known as “People Rights” under the cover to stop corporation from contributing to PAC’s but will really allow government to control freedom of speech of media owned by corporations…for more info check this out http://thepartyofknow.com/2012/04/21/wsj-james-taranto-the-jim-mcgoverns-people-rights-amendment-to-destroy-the-constitution/
Report Post »JEANNIEMAC
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:25pmAGENDA 21 has been in effect for years. It is the plan of the elites to establish a world government during the 21st century., Squashing people into high rise apartment buildings and confiscating their homes and farms is part of the agenda. The public school education system is designed to turn out illiterate, immoral citizens, easily controlled.
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HKS
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:45pmI must say they are doing one fine job with that school thing, turning out controllable idiots, stellar job.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 6:45pmThe goal is dull obedience, drones living in a perpetual state of slavery under the belief all are equally miserable.
Report Post »rfycom
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:24pmThere is/are money in these here conspiracies. So I am starting a one now. Dr ZooMadman who is out to control the world. He will release massive amounts of Imodium A-D Anti-Diarrheal into the US water supply. The result of this madness will create millions of people with severe Constipation. This is a very trouble situation, said Clavin Flintstone a staunch Liberal. Eva Goldsnot, said she was not worried. As a Conservative her party’s been constipated for years.
Film at 11. I sinking my fortune in stock in Imodium.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:13pmThere is a radical church community here in Mt. that actually mandates & controls the follower’s bowl movements. The community is like a Jim Jones commune and I read years ago that many of the followers have placed their lives & what other wealth they have completely into this commune. I was around a few of them years ago and very soft-spoken, did not look you in the eye, especially the women and gave me a real erie feeling. Their leader, who died years ago, was a real wacko but had alot of the people’s money & built up quite a community. Some people just like that “clan-living”.
Report Post »georgepatton
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:23pmAnyone surprised??????????????????????
Report Post »Oh yeah……..all the mindless idiots that would rather watch dancing for the stars than pay attention to the Communist take over of America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Better wake up; the wolf’s at the door …..or should i say in the white house AND congress!
The Gooch
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:39pmBread and circuses. This has all happened before. It appears we aren‘t so special and are quite subject to repeating history’s mistakes.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:19pmStupid Romans… should have used Larger Print!
Report Post »FloridaFarmGirl
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:22pmNo Democrats in 2012. Romney and Republicans will hopefully turn the country around.
Report Post »georgepatton
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:25pmRINO’s are just as dangerous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »CatB
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Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:18pmRINO’s are not MARXISTS .. and the country wasn’t taken over in a day … they have been working on this for 100 years .. we will be fighting this for YEARS to come. We can’t rid ourselves of all of them .. but we can work towards it .. and hold them accountable!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:42pm@CatB – We begin this Nov to hold the line and push them back; the nation is OURS, not THEIRS of the Progressives; they indeed have had a century to get this togeather – we the people will either take it back and restore the Republic or pass it into the night by our own actions in the end.
For me, I will go into the night first and foremost to save the Republic if that is needed by God.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:22pmProgressives made sure that the other end of the pole would decay, and become slothful and brutal by giving them handouts while telling them they are kings causing them to expect more outside themselves because they then believed it was owed to them. It’s too bad the country has to melt down for people to start worrying about it. Oh well, I‘m sure it won’t matter after an asteroid hits earth.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:21pmThe ones of us that can clearly see are now the enemy of the state.
I often wonder if we can fix this, our country, our government. Is it too late?
Report Post »Saywhatonemoretime
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:27pmwithout a revolution and hangings…It is way too late.
How many in congress voted for the ndaa, war powers and the rest of the bs?
Report Post »98% voted for all this.
MrButcher
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:35pmI think it’s too late.
We are looking at a similar collapse that befell the Soviet Union 20 years ago: the break-up of the country into smaller nation-states.
How this will all go down is anybody’s guess but I suspect certain regions will fare better than others. And the corollary to that point: other regions will fare much, much worse. “Flyover country” representing the former and the urban areas representing the latter.
The Founders did not lay out a constitution for a transcontinental, multicultural super-nation with 312 billion people also in-charge of policing other nations. This is key to understanding America in the 21st century.
Most of this collapse will not be the result of deliberate conspiratorial planning but is a result of natural attrition and the natural decay of governmental bodies and culture.
We should welcome this as a chance at a new start though the potential for conflict and mayhem is great.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:06pmCoexistance if futile… one side or the other must be Assimilated!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:17pmThe Constitution was meant to… Limit Government & Protect Freedom… which achieved the great American Republic that was!
The Manifesto… promotes Totalian Government… Redistribution of Wealth… a never achieved ClassLess Society… dreams of Security & Comradship… and happiness… but it always results in Want & Mass Murder under an Elite… which achieved Russia & China!
Take your pick!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:45pmDid I say… they are Opposites… and you cannot function with both… but that’s what we are trying to do under Obama & GOP Progressives!
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 4:27pmThe purpose of the original Constitution was to strengthen, not limit, the US government. It was the Bill of Rights that attempted to lay down some limits–though mostly on the Federal government, not on “government” as such.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 6:03pm@LLOYD…
Report Post »Reading the Federalist & AntiFederalist Papers… one sees that The Conferacy was too weak to support the States… so a stronger form of Government was required, in order to allow business between the States, but take away Money Printing, Import/Export Taxes, etc. Given this stronger Government… many feared it’s Power… so the Constitution Limited the Power of Government… and was further Limited by Rights!
Lloyd Drako
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 6:22pmThe “Federalist Papers” I’ve heard of, but never the “Anti-Federalist Papers.” It’s surprising how many people we think of as Founders, from Patrick Henry to George Mason to Sam Adams, either opposed the ratification of the Constitution or accepted it only with reservations. As you say, the Bill of Rights was added on to appease some of the Anti-Federalists, and as a necessary price to get 9 states to ratify.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 7:45pm@LLOYD…
Report Post »The Key to winning over many of the AntiFrederalists/Confederates was that Senators would be appointed by States, to represent each State equally… but that is now gone, because of Wilson and his Popular Vote change, which is Union Targeted. Comparing the Papers/Arguements side by side is very interesting!
UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:05amI’m glad somebody else discovered that Glenn Beck only pushed half the “original argument”, and thus one side. It has created the false perception that the “Bill of Rights” were included in the Federalist’s arguments, when in fact they were arguing against them. Had it not been for the Anti-Federalists, there would have been no Bill of Rights at all.
Each of the “Federalists” lived to contradict, in both word and deed, their own “arguments” to the Anti-Federalists and prove the worst critcisms to be fact. It has been a long road, but it is currently obvious the Anti-Federalists were correct and the Federalists were duplicitous politicians – the like of which we’ve had in abundance since the “original argument”.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:17pmNews headlines: “THRIVE” MOVIE: DON’T FALL FOR IT!
The big budget “activist” movie called “Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take?” was launched on November 11, 2011 (11/11/11). This is not just a movie.
http://www.helpfreetheearth.com/news461_thrive.html – Cached
The above movie, along with UN Agenda 21, and all the infiltration of communists in education and government makes for a very gloomy future. Americans are very uninformed and too busy to believe what is happening in America. God help us.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:19pm“What on Earth will it take?” … watched it and thought of Lucifer.
Marxists make their ideas seem so wondrous and magical, don’t they? They need a reality check – AMERICA CAN’T SAVE THE WORLD. We’ve been trying for years, but the rest of the world has demonstrated it doesn’t want to be saved.
In our attempts to rid the world of evil, America has become battered and weakened, and she’s now bleeding and on life support. The only way to save her is to restore our faith in God and uphold the Constitution. Without a moral society, America dies.
Report Post »harleyalien
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:12pmOh the tangled webb we weave, we have to put a stop to this and it coming from the Democrats and the Republicans. More BIG Goverment and more power for the few………….Wake up, vote this November or were done!!!!!!
Report Post »highcarry
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 7:37pmsorry, we’ve been a communist country since nov. 2008. everyone thinks that if we vote obama out, everything is going to be just peachy. do you really think that if we vote obama out ( impossible. they have already fixed the election) trumpka goes away, no more pelosi, no more seiu, no more black pansies, no more hillary, no more van jones, no more bill ayers, no more u.n. and on and on? not a chance. they have their foot in the door and they’re not giving up.and they are stronger than us. just go to a tea party meeting. what a bunch of wussies. not a bit of anger. and beware of putting your faith in the repubs. they don’t care which way the country goes as long as they get to keep their wealth and power. that’s all they care about. romney= white obama. paul. what a joke. none of them care one whit about the citizens of this country. i’ll not put my faith in any of them.
Report Post »AWTJ
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:11pmPresident John Adams wrote it best, and is so valid for today: He wrote to Massachusetts military officers, in October 1798, the following, “We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made ONLY for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” To President John Adams, I say, “Well said!”
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:29pmThank you VERY much for your post. I have heard this, from Glenn & others, and because of your post, I have written it down. So well said and today we see the crumbling foundation of our nation just because & other reasons too, what is happening in America at this time. Thank you again.
Report Post »God Bless America!
IndyGuy
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:09pmIs that Reveille I hear being blown???
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:17pmMore like “Charge!”
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:21pmNo…‘Officers Call’ & ‘Boots n Saddles’!
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:21pmFirst we need the wake up call…and then yeah…CHARGE…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:35pmMy dog is awake also…
http://www.cafepress.com/+nobama_dog_dog_tshirt,638747695
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:45pmSounds like “L’Internationale” to me…
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 7:17pmThe whole order is supposed to be: First Call (Assemble the Buglers), Reveille, Assembly, Sick Call… First Sergeants Call, Officers Call… To Arms Call; Boots and Saddles, Assembly, Forward; Trot; Gallop; Charge… Commence Firing; Cease Fire; Recall…
They are available on the Internet… or in John Wayne movies :)
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:08pmWe’re already there. Vote for Romney in November…maybe it’s not too late.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:15pmJust ordered a couple of bumper stickers dog lovers might like ….
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Only site I have found anti obama dog stickers … so far ;-)
Report Post »mrsuperpat
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:21pmRomney gets his money from the big banksters which seek to enslave you. The same banksters that fund Obama. It’s like Pepsi vs.Coke, Goldman Sachs vs. Goldman Sachs. Evil vs lesser evil. People just listen to the empty promises and rhetoric but don’t look at their records. The big money cares not what form of government you think you have, simply that they are on the top. Romney is a wolf in sheeps clothing.
Report Post »Ron Paul 2012!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsg7a-Ok8Q
Saywhatonemoretime
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:37pmmrsuperpat,
Report Post »love the truth.
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:40pmMRSUPERPAT. Ron Paul is a subversive seditionist with treasonous tendencies who wraps himself with the Constitution as if he alone owns it who relishes in undermining the Party he belongs to possibly allowing Obama to continue to wipe his arse with it just as he did in ‘08.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:12pmUh– The banksters seek too have you pay back with interest. That is all they seek to do. Any idea that they want to eliminate the source of the lifeblood of their industry is the result of an overindoctrinated simpleton.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:51pm@GHANDI WAS A REPULICAN So you think that Banks would not kill the source of their livelihood? and that is the thinking of indoctrinated fools? here’s a little education on the banks.Now you would have to ask yourself..if they own everything that you have..what use would they have for you? Me thinks you think too highly of yourself.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iILUYNI65w
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 8:04pmSAYWHAT? That is all… lol.
Report Post »janedough1
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:07pmGod will have the final say. I wouldn’t want to be one of his opponents.
Report Post »mrsuperpat
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:06pmCommunism has bi-partisan support. The MSM is it’s biggest cheerleader. We will prevail!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsg7a-Ok8Q
SAY_NO_TO_DOWNTOWN_LOFTS
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:05pmYou should have seen this coming when cities and towns started “redeveloping” and “revitalizing” their downtown areas and turning old abandoned buildings into “loft apartments” for the younger generations. Living in downtown areas in tall buildings is immoral and un-Christian. It’s also a slap in the face to the American Dream.
Report Post »sfrich
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:17pm“Verily, I sat unto thee: Live not above the ground floor, as to the Father this is an abomination. The Kingdom of Heaven is fulleth of single-story ranch homes, with some nice shrubbery.” Book of Realtors, 4:20.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:23pmYou two are so silly … but you made me laugh!
Report Post »staggerlee32
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:03pmI found this book in a flea market in Branson, Mo. about a month ago and when I got to about page 20 I was telling my wife that this is amazing how it resembles our govt today! A MUST READ!
Report Post »JEANNIEMAC
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:20pmWhich book?
Report Post »Saywhatonemoretime
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:59pmthink he is talking about the Com manifesto…
Report Post »also check out the ten planks.