Socialism

U.S. Socialist Party Candidate Was Prophetic

Posted by Greg Garrett on July 28, 2009
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I received this in an email today (click on the image to enlarge it)…

In my continued effort to provide you factual information, I’ve checked with www.snopes.com to verify the authenticity of this quote and their current status is “UNDETERMINED”, however, they are researching it. Here’s a link to that post so you can check for future status updates…
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/socialism.asp

Regardless, whether it’s an actual prophetic quote or not, the content of the statement is absolutely true.

Obama: My Public Healthcare Plan is Good Enough For You, But Not For Me

Posted by Greg Garrett on July 23, 2009
America's Gotta Know, Barack Obama, Economy, Healthcare, Socialism / No Comments

Well, President Obama was at it again last night with another prime time news conference, this time promoting his health scare scheme. This is his fifth news conference already, and the fourth in prime time. The monologue and follow-up question and answer session was just more of the same rhetoric, nothing of substance or specifics.

Honestly, this just reinforced by belief that the President doesn’t really understand the problem nor cares about the solution. He and the Democrat majority Congress haven’t even considered the viable market-based proposals being put forth by Conservatives that would empower personal responsibility by Americans and maintain healthcare insurance and service in the private sector. In my mind, this tells me he’s just taking advantage of a troubled economy and his current popularity to push through the largest expansion of government ever and the most significant since FDR’s New Deal in an effort to secure power indefinitely for himself and his liberal cronies by pandering to America’s non-productive entitlement sector.

Here’s the full transcript provided courtesy of the NY Times…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/us/politics/22obama.transcript.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

I find it most telling that which this President does, since, unfortunately, as a professional politician, he rarely does what he says. I, also, believe it is telling of one’s true beliefs that to which one is willing to subscribe in one’s own life and their family’s lives. With that thought, in these transcript excerpts, I believe it’s self-evident that the healthcare policy the President is proposing for “all other” Americans is not good enough for him and his family…

Opening Monologue, page 2 of transcript…

So let me be clear. This isn’t about me.

I have great health insurance, and so does every member of Congress. This debate is about the letters I read when I sit in the Oval Office every day, and the stories I hear at town hall meetings.

Question and Answer Session, page 12 of the transcript…

Q: And what about yourself and Congress? Would you abide by the same benefit package?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: You know, I would be happy to abide by the same benefit package. I will just be honest with you. I’m the president of the United States, so I’ve got a doctor following me every minute — (laughter) — which is why I say, this is not about me.

I’ve got the best health care in the world. I’m trying to make sure that everybody has good health care, and they don’t right now.

Geithner Poised to Set YOUR Salary

Posted by Greg Garrett on March 31, 2009
America's Gotta Know, Barack Obama, Economy, Socialism, Timothy Geithner / No Comments

The House Financial Services Committee, headed by chairman Barney Frank, just passed a bill (all committee Democrats voted for it and all but 2 committee Republicans voted against it) permitting it to proceed to the House for a vote to make it law. The “Pay for Performance Act of 2009″ would enable the Treasury Department, headed by Secretary Timothy Geithner, to set the salary of EVERY employee working for ANY company that receives a capitalist investment from the U.S. government, INCLUDING the ability to supercede existing contracts and compensation/salary agreements as the Treasury department “sees fit”. Look’s like Barney Frank and his liberal buddies are well on their way to making every one of us a ward of the “state”.

See the entire Washington Examiner story here…
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Beyond-AIG-A-Bill-to-let-Big-Government-Set-Your-Salary-42158597.html

Tax Day Revolts Scheduled… What Then?

Tax Day Tea Parties including Harrisburg’s
Tax Day April 15th is fast approaching and the fiscally responsible Americans among us are preparing for a peaceful, yet forceful, demonstration of their dissatisfaction with Congress’ partisan and socialist private sector bailout (and socialist takeover), economic stimulus (entitlement spending the likes the U.S. has never seen) and budget legislation (which, in even the most conservative estimates, triples the national debt that existed during the Bush Administration) already passed or currently being proposed, which is encouraged and endorsed by the Obama Administration. The liberally biased mainstream media, who is invested too heavily in the Obama Administration’s success, predominantly refuses to report this rapidly growing capitalist revolution, dismissing its proponents as the lunatic fringe of the conservative movement, despite the significant numbers of concerned Americans that have been flooding the streets for capitalist tea party rallies in a growing number of American cities. President Obama, although he won’t acknowledge it publicly, realizes the challenge to his socialist agenda that this peaceful revolution represents because the premise for it is data-based and grounded in history, in fact, he has gone viral. He has perpetrated an aggressive email video campaign to his “followers” professing the benefits of his endorsed excessive spending and is asking these individuals to knock on doors and influence their neighbors to give his plan a chance.

Despite the mainstream media’s failure to do their job, please see for yourself how pervasive this movement truly is. Here is a link to a site which is keeping track of all the Tax Day Tea Party rallies scheduled to be held across the U.S. on April 15th…
http://www.officialtaxdayteaparty.com/index.html

Calling for an American Capitalist March on Washington
These demonstrations are just encouragement and a spring board, however, for the vigilance that each of us who are concerned about our country’s future must maintain on a daily basis including factually influencing our friends, family, neighbors and congressional leaders to the danger this administration’s fiscal policies pose to the American way of life. The same life that responsible, hard-working, productive Americans have contributed toward and benefitted from for over 230 years. Ours and our children’s livelihood, that for which extremely brave Americans have valiantly fought and many have distinguishably died, is under assault. We cannot permit it to be vanquished by politically-oriented, career-motivated, power-mongering politicians who are sequestered secretly in some smoke-filled room making decisions over a cup of coffee that will impact you, me and ours forever.  

Take charge of a like-minded initiative in your community. My aspiration is that, within the next 60 days, this conservative activism metamorphosizes into an American Capitalist March on Washington, a peaceful, yet persuasive, demonstration large enough to dwarf Obama’s recent 1.5 million person inauguration turnout, such as to bring so much nationwide and worldwide attention that it cannot be ignored or dismissed by anyone. This is the only way to redirect the partisanly liberal Congress’ rubber stamping of every Obama Administration fiscal initiative.

Please join me in this patently American fight worth fighting.

What Does a Trillion Dollars Look Like Anyway?

As you know, the Obama Administration has been throwing around alot of huge dollar amounts in their proposals for bailouts and budgets. In line with 50 being the new 40, I guess trillion is the new billion?

Anyway, here’s a link to a site that does a good job at putting this into visual perspective…
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

Revolution is Brewing: Harrisburg Tea Party

Were you impressed by Rick Santelli’s rant last week at CME Group in Chicago. Well, he’s stirred some things up with his mention of coordinating a Chicago Tea Party in July. This has generated similar enthusiam in many cities across the country, including Harrisburg.

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    1. Are You troubled with the recent actions of our elected officials? 
      1. Are you frustrated by austentatious & gratuitous government pork barrel and socialistic spending masquerading as economic stimulus and jobs legislation?
      2. Are you tired of the never ending litany of government bailouts of private companies who have placed themselves in position of imminent failure due to poor business practices (ie. wasting your hard earned tax dollars on companies who are destined to fail anyway)?
      3. Are you sick of your tax money being controlled and used at discretion by the very same political characters whose complicit behavior, poor decision making ability and/or lack of action led to the failure of the mortgage market which led to the ultimate collapse of the entire real estate structure and all lending markets?
      4. Do you think it is ridiculous that illegal immigrants are being granted opportunities, rights and government funding that is out of reach for U.S. citizens?
      5. Do you believe it is ludicrous that President Obama believes he can convince the job creators in this country to hire us out of the recession then come back in two years and increase their taxes to the 60%+ range including eliminating the interest reduction on their mortgage and increasing capital gains taxes to around 40%?
      6. Is your intelligence offended by the Obama Administration and liberal members of Congress looking down upon you saying that they know what you need better than you know what you need and that we’ll be able to spend our way out of a poor economy despite the fact that it’s never successfully been accomplished before in the history of the world?
      7. Are you exasperated when hearing Obama Administration officials saying that America voted for change therefore they have a mandate to do so in whatever manner they see fit, despite the pesky fact that the popular vote was extremely close at 54% to 46%, far from a referendum?

Then do something about it and here’s a place to start
Be at Harrisburg at noon on Saturday to find out how you can join the grass roots conservative and capitalist revolution to take our country back. Make the statement that you will not permit our great nation to be destroyed by socialist economic policies that have recently left many European countries in shambles, who are now grasping for capitalism to save themselves. OK, here’s the scoop…

Harrisburg Tea Party

Saturday, March 7th, 12:00-1:00PM
Harrisburg State Capital, West Steps (River Side)
Host: PA Commonwealth Foundation
http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org
More Info:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=66211464032