Last summer, George W. Bush and Hank Paulson rammed nearly a trillion dollars into the financial system, hoping to stabilize wobbly banks and brokers. Ben Bernancke printed another trillion dollars and injected them into a wobbly economy, hoping to stimulate lending and commerce. Six months later, Barack Obama presides over a so-called stimulus package, committing the government to another trillion dollars in questionable spending, only to follow it up a few days later with a seven hundred billion dollar mortgage package - the third of its kind in less than a year. On the floor of the House is another $700 billion ‘omnibus’ spending bill for the balance of 2009. And now, Obama proudly reveals a stupendous, back-breaking $8 trillion dollar federal budget for 2010 so laden with pork and special-interest handouts that it staggers the imagination.

And, true to form, neither Obama nor the Democrat-controlled Congress is inclined to illuminate the taxpayer on what exactly is in that budget. By the way, there are also ‘off the book’ spending that’s not even included in that budget, such as a planned cash infusion for GM and Chrysler, the recently turned up war in Afghanistan, and a vastly expanded internal security force inside our borders.

That’s $16 trillion dollars in less than a year and one-half, or our entire GDP for one year, consumed by profitless, pointless government spending. Add that sum to our incredible national debt of $44 trillion, and it spells impending cataclysm. This isn’t just reckless, it’s as if Obama and Democrats want to purposely run the country into the ground for some other purpose, perhaps to take total control. One shudders at the thought. But, nothing else seems to make sense. Why would a US president and a duly elected Congress attempt to evade all of the safeguards put in place by our founding fathers, except to create a socialist oligarchy? Democrats, in their short-sighted and stupid bid to make themselves voter-proof, have destroyed the checks and balance system of the Constitution. And, in so doing, they have destroyed the American republic, humankind’s oldest and most successful functioning free-market representative democracy. And, they’re celebrating its destruction with beef, champagne and applause.

George Soros isn’t well known to most Americans. He should be. He’s very well known in Southeast Asia, where he’s been accused of currency manipulation and destroying the economies of Myanmar, Malaysia and Indonesia in the late 1990s. If that doesn’t jog your memory, or perhaps you’re too young, Mr. Soros was also responsible for breaking the Bank of England in 1992, creating a $30 billion hole in the British economy back when $30 billion was still a bunch of money. And, he and his cronies pocketed $2 billion for their two months’ work. Mr. Soros has dabbled in the currencies of many countries, large and small, across the globe. Eventually, as that country’s currency faltered, Mr. Soros would short the currency, which would create a collapse, followed by runaway inflation and economic devastation. Sort of like a fairy prince who brings good things to all people.

In the runup to that currency collapse, Mr. Soros would set up shop in his targeted country, usually through surrogates. He would get involved in the banking, economic, public policy and social issues of that targeted country, generously funding progressive causes. Mr. Soros preferred socialist countries because their economies and fiscal policies grew out of central planning - slow, predictable and easily outmaneuvered -like England. Dynamic, rapidly changing, free-market economies didn’t suit his particular form of predation. It was too difficult to predict when or if a currency should be shorted, or when to force a government into economic collapse with a manufactured crisis of confidence.

He’s made billions for himself, his cronies and a plethora of shadowy organizations strung around the world. Unfortunately, he’s been operating within the relative safety of the United States for the last 30 or so years, protected from retribution by other countries whose economies he’s been accused of destroying. About 10 years ago, he likely decided that America would be his next big pet project. Yep, it’s a real fixer-upper. But what are his intentions? Is this the Big One, the biggest short of all time? Is he going to destroy the biggest economy in the world to put another notch in his belt? Exactly why is he here in the first place, and why does he care so much about America, a place he detests and whose people he despises?

Mr. Soros thinks America needs to be overhauled top to bottom, that its people need to be re-educated, its traditions are primeval, its institutions are hopelessly unsophisticated and that we’re all too damned fat. If it’s so bad here, why doesn’t he leave? He can easily afford to buy Lichtenstein.  Maybe he can crown himself king and live out his socialist-autocratic fantasies there and just leave us alone. But, he won’t. Instead, he funds manure-sprayers like moveon.org and a whole host of anti-American front organizations that do their best to destabilize the country and instill doubt in the whole American reason for being. There are plenty of places that could use the help of George Soros to pull the population out of the hellhole they call their daily existence. Zambia comes to mind. So do a dozen other countries that could do with a meddling do-gooder. Ah, but Mr. Soros (not his real name) may not be the do-gooder he would like us to think he is.

No, Mr. Soros may be dabbling in American politics and supporting the Marxist demagoguery of Barack Obama for only one reason. Once the US economy has been placed under the firm control of financial geniuses like Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Charlie Rangel, aided and abetted by hundreds of well-meaning but hopelessly outclassed dunderheads at the Department of Treasury and the Department of Commerce, our economy will resemble that of 1950s Red China — easily manipulated and easily shorted. The biggest currency short of all time. But, what exactly does that mean to the average working American?

It means waking up early one morning in the next few months (that’s right, George is a busy little guy) and driving past a gas station that displays unleaded regular at $8.80 per gallon. John Q. Public will rub his eyes, thinking it was just a dream - until he drives past the next gas station with the same $8.80 per gallon price. Oh, by the way, that’s the cash price. The credit card price will be $9.70 per gallon. When John Q. Public stops at Dunkin’ Donuts, the small coffee will be $5.50 per cup. The car radio will be blaring the news of a massive currency devaluation that occurred when talks collapsed at midnight between the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world. What talks? None of the news media mentioned any talks. For days, the news media had instead been filled with glowing coverage of Barack Obama eating $100 per pound steak and sipping Dom Perignon with his Democratic stooges, skewering the Republicans for questioning the insanity of his pork barrel stimulus package. And George Soros was there, enjoying the moment.

George Soros hates America with a passion that would scare the snot out of your average New York City socialite. It’s a deep, virulent hatred that’s directed at everything average Americans think is even remotely important, and a few things that truly are, like religion, the flag and the right to drive that 10 year-old pickup truck anywhere you please. George wants the common man to be common - no distinction between one and the other, all eking out a meager existence in a modest little apartment, taking a bus or train to work. This while George and the rest of the liberal elite fly in private jets from palatial home to palatial home.

George has probably already set up his short play. Complex computer programs, twitchy currency traders and pre-arranged execution deals are in place, ready for the triggering events that will collapse the dollar. And when it happens, George will be on a yacht somewhere, or possibly a White House dinner, feigning innocence like a Mafia don attending a baptism during a mob hit he ordered. When the smoke clears and the wreckage becomes evident, George will smile. Mission accomplished.

Olympia Snow, Susan Collins and Arlen Specter are traitors to America. They joined the other traitors, that being the Democratic members of the Senate, to push through legislation that they know destroyed this great country. They did it for political expediency, for personal gain, for the benefit of friends, relatives and political allies, and they did it to intentionally insult and harm the greater number of Americans who still believe in the Constitution and the American promise. They did it to repudiate free-market capitalism, social mobility and self actualization. They did it to solidify the power of the liberal elite, to reward unions and government bureaucrats, to provide incredible wealth to political insiders.

President Obama promised open government, open transactions and elimination of earmarks. This trillion dollar spending bill (there is no real economic stimulus) was crafted behind closed doors without the participation of the minority party. There was no public review or public comment, and a 90-minute floor debate before the vote was pushed through. Over 1,000 pages was voted on in both the House and Senate without even a single reading by any member of Congress. This isn’t democracy. This is Stalinism. Obama promised 48 hours of review. It never happened. This man lied to all of us. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid lied to all of us. The Democrats threw out 100 years of procedure and safeguards to rush this monstrosity through both houses. The few Republicans who could have stalled this, Snow, Collins and Specter, decided to betray the core principles of the Republican Party and throw in their lot with the Marxists running this country. History will not be kind to them. 

The bill is corrupt, misguided and destructive on so many levels that an entire book can be written about it. And yet, those Americans who will end up paying for this are silent. The producers aren’t protesting. They’re not flooding the offices of Democratic politicians with petitions, angry letters and emails. There’s nothing. Emboldened, the Democrats will advance their agenda until they hit opposition. The parasites are rejoicing. They actually believe they won’t have to pay for energy costs or their mortgages, or even work for a living anymore. Some are even asking our President for a new kitchen. This is what America has descended into - a populace so stupid, so self-absorbed that they have no idea what they’ve given away for a welfare check or a paltry $13 a week in handouts.

The Porkulus bill will be examined by historians in great detail — much more detail than the leftist Democrats who shoved it through Congress back in 2009. That was the year democracy died.

According to Newsweek magazine, we’re all socialists now, and it’s a good thing. The mainstream media are celebrating the destruction of the world’s greatest country, its system of beliefs, it ideals and personal guarantees. They proudly trumpet the sad fact that we now join the ranks of ’sophisticated’ socialist states such as those in Western Europe. This, as the rest of the world struggles to throw off the chains of socialism where it exists. As president Obama waxes eloquently about impending doom, clueless citizens rejoice at the news that Congress has passed a monumental spending bill masquerading as relief for the economy. The morons who support Obama are shedding tears of joy, convinced that they no longer have to pay for their gasoline or make their mortgage payments. Obama will make that all go away. Hallelujah. Let’s dance in the streets.

The ‘economic stimulus’ package contains very litte in the way of economic stimuli, and lots in the way of future payoffs for organized labor and other government-centric constituencies. It goes a long way toward making Democrats voter-proof at every level of government, with generous handouts focused on those groups that can deliver Congressional votes two years from now and for Obama’s re-election bid four years out. But handouts, pork, growing government to 30% of GDP and the usual Democratic shenanigans aren’t the most troubling part of this legislation. It’s the darker, scarier stuff buried in the fine print.

Tom Daschle may not be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services, but his dreary vision of nationalized healthcare will be implemented to the letter. He advocates the establishment of a national policy review board that literally holds life and death power over every American, regardless of their insurance coverage. This is important - regardless of their insurance coverage. This review board will distributed ’scarce’ healthcare resources on a ‘fair and equitable’ basis whether you have insurance coverage or not. In other words, a small, unaccountable, unelected group of federal bureaucrats will now decide whether or not you get a badly needed heart bypass operation, even if you can afford to pay for it out of your own pocket. Oh, but there’s more: If you don’t fit their demographic of a ‘deserving’ recipient for that bypass, your insurance premium dollars are confiscated and used to pay for that other person’s more politically correct bypass. You, the working stiff who paid for all this, can just go and die.

This is not exaggeration nor hyperbole. Al Gore is not writing this article. The above-mentioned mechanism to ration and direct healthcare resources is in the economic stimulus package Congress just approved. The federal government now has direct control of your life, your health and therefore, your economic output. Why it’s there is anyone guess. But, that kind of monstrous legislation is why Obama and the Congressional Democrats are in such a big hurry to get it passed. By invoking the potential for calamity, by spreading fear and rattling the economy, Obama and his puppeteers will turn us away from a free-market democracy and put us firmly into the clutches of socialism. And, according to Newsweek, it’s a good thing…

During his candidacy and his first few days in office, Barack Obama has made both public and private comments regarding the use and cost of various forms of energy. He famously whispered that as president he would attempt to bankrupt the coal companies and the utilities dependent on coal for power generation. Quite recently, he said that $5 per gallon gasoline would be good for the country. Because he’s never held a real job,  commuted an hour to work, wrestled with the problems of a small business or assumed personal reponsibility for a profit/loss statement, Mr. Obama knows nothing about the realities of life here in these United States of America. He wasn’t concerned about helping Mother Earth when these comments were made. He was talking about controlling the lives of Americans through the availability, cost and appropriate use of energy. With the dollar nearly valueless, energy is now the new currency. By constricting supply, redirecting its flow or outlawing certain uses, Obama and his puppeteers can now control the entire US economy.

The carbon credit cap-and-trade scheme provides no direct benefit to the environment, the economy or the citizenry. It does, however, give the government dictatorial powers to control industrial output, personal mobility, even the flow of information. All of it requires energy. Starve a certain economic activity of energy, and it disappears. Provide cheap, abundant energy to another sector, and it will flourish. That’s called a planned economy. See Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez. Even if the carbon credit tax scheme (yes, of course it raises taxes) doesn’t come to be, Mr. Obama and the Democrats in Congress have a dozen other means to achieve nearly identical results. Energy, like money, can be used to reward political allies and punish opponents. Energy, like money, evokes strong emotions of envy, entitlement and greed.

If you’ve ever watched one of those post-apocalyptic movies that hit theaters every now and then, you can’t help but notice that almost every film, energy is highly prized. Everyone fights over the available energy source, be it ancient fuel depot or swine flatulence, to stay alive or to impose their will over others. The leftist wing of the Democratic Party senses this. The private foundations and academic loonies have been touting this as the ultimate means of control for decades. But, how to get Americans to relinquish their standard of living and personal mobility - both possible only with cheap and abundant energy?

Enter the bogeyman - Al Gore, with an alarming vision of an environmental Armaggedon, replete with celebrity endorsements, Bruce Springsteen playing background music and thousands of militant morons flooding into the streets.  And so, Big Al and the environuts have trotted out their shameless scam of global warming to scare gullible Americans into scaling back their energy use and accepting the exhorbitant tax schemes that are being layered into energy costs. The environmental bogeyman frightens Americans into giving up their personal mobility, scaling back their standard of living and limiting their economic freedoms.

The media play along. In recent days, Exxon was again lambasted for its ‘obscene’ 2008 profits of $45 billion - a one time event. No one in the mainstream media bothered to report that over half of this profit was confiscated by the US government in the form of corporate income tax. Nor did they mention that Exxon actually collected nearly $300 billion in federal gasoline taxes for the government and turned it over within a few hours of collecting it. It costs Exxon lots of money to collect those taxes, do the reporting and transfer funds collected from thousands of gasoline stations and credit card issuers. Exxon was not reimbursed. The government expended no effort in collecting those taxes, other than to call the bank to see if they were deposited. And then, moments later, our government spent it. Out the door. Up in smoke. Never to be seen again. At some point, if voters allow it to happen, the government will take control of the oil and coal industries to ‘protect’ us from price gouging, when in fact it’s the hidden taxes in energy prices that are making them unaffordable to working Americans.  Once the means of production are controlled (Hugo Chavez playbook, p. 1), the government can impose its will as it sees fit. Whomsoever controls the levers of power, now controls each and every one of us.

So, when the brownouts start happening on a regular basis, when local radio stations featuring conservative talk show hosts are put on a limited broadcasting schedule to conserve power, and when your monthly electric bill is roughly equal to your mortgage payment, remember who started it all - Obama and his cronies in Congress. Their dreary utopia of equally shared misery is the best that socialists can offer.

Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Duke that unified Germany in the mid-1800s once said that the average citizen who upholds the law and enjoys his sausage wouldn’t want to see how either is made. The same can be said of parasites who’ve harmed this country and its citizens. Using the institutions of democracy - the right to vote, the right of free speech and assembly, an open legislature, an impartial judiciary and the separation of powers, the parasites and their champions have short-circuited the safeguards put in place by the writers of the Constitution. And they were provided cover by a biased and agenda-driven media cabal.

Enemies of the American way of life have been at it for some time and have refined their craft to an art form. They comprise a large part of the Democratic Party and its patrons, themselves top-tier parasites. Everyone thinks parasites are those who simply don’t want to work or are looking for a free handout. Actually, top-tier parasites work very hard for their piece of the action. What makes them parasites is that their reward is so gigantically out of proportion for their efforts.

Think of the lawyers who ‘represented’ taxpayers in every state against Big Tobacco. Who made billions? Certainly not the states who brought suit against the tobacco companies, nor those sickened by or dying of smoking-related illnesses. Individual lawyers charged the states they were representing as much as $39,000 an hour for their services, based on the percentages they exacted from the awards paid by Big Tobacco.

Then there are the union bosses who live off the dues collected from industrial workers for whom they provide so little in the way of promises made. By the way, if you’re an influential liberal, you can serve on the boards or regional councils of a few non-profit liberal political action committees and collect a stipend from each. It’s possible to earn $200,000 a year for part-time work. Not bad by anyones’ standards.

Lobbyists. Consultants. Academics. The list goes on and on. Well-educated. Smart. Well-connected. It’s like a club. Except, you the taxpayer don’t belong. Only your paycheck does. You have little say about how the money is spent or who gets that money. Unlike a private charity, you can’t dictate where the government spends your money, even though our Constitution absolutely grants you the right and privilege to do so. Your concerns and misgivings about where this country is headed will be dismissed as stupid, regressive and possibly racist. You can’t possibly know as much as the liberal elite. Don’t question their motives or their results. They know what’s best for you.