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…

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.

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Think of parasites as an organizational pyramid or multilevel marketing enterprise. Maybe a better descriptor is Ponzi scheme. At the top of the pyramid are the liberal elite, the union bosses, trial lawyers, environmental gurus and political hacks that exhort Americans to sacrifice more, tighten their belts and stop complaining about higher taxes, loss of personal freedoms and economic opportunity.

At the bottom are the stupid schmucks that support and believe in the parasite elite, expecting to get something out of this whole pyramid scheme. They usually get the short end of the stick - a few handouts and some useless programs. The middle class gets stuck paying for handouts to the parasites, including the very top of the pyramid.

Let’s use trial lawyers as an example. When one of these parasites is advertising for slip and fall injuries or asbestos-related disease on television, they’re aiming at the bottom of the pyramid. They promise to get their clients big money awards with no fees and no risk. Obviously, they neglect to tell these poor folks, who indeed may have a legitimate claim, that they’ll receive just a small fraction of any award. The trial lawyers aren’t advertising to the upper middle class (aka the taxpayers). No self-respecting small business owner, corporate exec, doctor or professional would even consider representation by an ambulance-chaser. The trial lawyers aim their advertising at the poor, unemployed, hopeless and desperate. They are typically in financial trouble, uneducated and unfamiliar with how these legal parasites work their game. So, they end up signing away their rights in a class action suit or bundled case, and receive far less than they deserve. The trail lawyers, on the other hand, make millions, usually by overwhelming the court or the accused with hundreds of simultaneous claims. Just to the clear the docket, many judges will urge the accused to settle, even if they’re completely blameless.

Obviously, trial lawyers resist any legal reforms that would stop this gravy train. They invest heavily in the Democratic Party, donating millions. In fact, in most states, trial lawyers are the largest political donors. They have enormous influence.

Politicians work the system in a similar manner. They promise the poor, uneducated, hopeless or shiftless just about anything to get elected, knowing full well they can’t possibly deliver on those promises. Once in office, they create programs and laws that take money from working Americans and redistribute it to those who can’t or won’t provide for themselves. But, the government is incredibly inefficient in the redistribution of wealth. For every dollar collected in taxes, only 20 cents actually makes it to the person who needs it. The other 80 cents is used up by the government to ‘administer’ the redistribution. Wouldn’t we be better off with private charities doing this work? After all, even the least efficient private charity still delivers 70 cents of every donated dollar to the proper recipient.

Socialist politicians masquerading as Democrats don’t really want private charities to exist because they are competition. Instead, they want government to assume the roles of benefactor, parent, guidance counselor, personal financier, doctor and therapist in the name of ‘fairness’ and ‘compassion’. What’s really going on is that socialist politicians have been able to manipulate the poor and working class to their own advantage, creating a powerful voting bloc. That voting bloc is kept motivated by promises of even more government handouts at the expense of the ‘rich’, who truly don’t deserve their wealth no matter how hard they worked for it. By inciting class warfare, they keep themselves in office.

Much like the trial lawyers who promise big cash awards and instead grab most of it for themselves, politicians promise the poor and working class handouts and special privileges, knowing they can’t deliver. Instead, that money is absorbed by the politicians’ real constituency - huge government bureaucracies, the labor unions representing them and politically connected government contractors who are themselves unionized or generously underwrite liberal causes. There is one other, very important beneficiary of the redistribution game - activist organizations that directly engage with the poor, the disenfranchised and working poor or pretend to represent them in some way. Many, like the ACLU and A.C.O.R.N., receive direct government funding so that they can continue to foment class hatred and despair among millions of Americans, instilling in them a sense of entitlement instead of a sense of empowerment.

But it’s not just the poor and working class Americans who look to government handouts. Wall Street has snagged billions in taxpayer money to prop up billionaires and a culture of entitlement. Unlike the millions of poor and working poor that have only one vote to cast, the relatively small number of Wall Street honchos and financiers write big campaign donation checks. They buy their political clout, just like trial lawyers. Ask Democrats Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. When the Wall Street people overstep their bounds, when they truly screw up, these cobras lean on the American taxpayer. And the American taxpayer is completely unaware that the government, steered by politicians, dispenses money based on political considerations above all else. So, if billions are handed out to the poor, millions of poor each get a couple bucks. If billions are handed out on Wall Street, millions of bucks go to just a few people. The top of the parasite pyramid generally gets the same amount of money as the bottom of the pyramid - it’s just spread out among fewer people. And they have no problem taking it. After all, it’s free!

And the people were singing. They clapped and hollered, danced in the streets and stood in line at the porta-potties filling the Mall. They were happy and hopeful, trusting and naive. And, they had no idea why they were there except what the media told them. This was a historic occasion, indeed. But then, what precisely is historic about Obama’s ascendancy? Was this blend of Kenya and Kansas, this product of affirmative action and racial politics, the best black president we could have elected? Were other black candidates with more experience, credentials and qualifications pushed aside simply because they were more conservative, or too overtly radical?  Was it because Obama happened to be a person of color and therefore, regardless of his actual qualifications, experience and political ideology, was propelled into office? Did Obama get elected because of his skin color or in spite of it? What role did the news and entertainment cabal play in amplifying and distorting race issues in America, in effect paving the road for the Obama candidacy? 

55% of voting Americans have no idea who they elected as president. That critical 5% margin will no doubt be characterized as the tipping point in our nation’s history, when we descended into the grim and ghastly grasp of socialism. The Orwellian aspects of an Obama presidency are just too obvious to ignore. Our new president likes to strike poses reminiscent of FDR and JFK, and the media obliges with lavish coverage. But it’s the carefully crafted language that Obama uses to describe his dreary utopia that should make the average Joe a little nervous. When President Obama announces that ’a private Wall Street can no longer threaten Main Street’, just what the heck does he mean? There are at least two potential meanings - either Wall Street will be nationalized, or Wall Street will be so heavily regulated that it won’t be able sell a single security without direct government control. Neither is very good for America. This phrase is but one in hundreds of similarly cryptic pronouncements that Obama made prior to and after the election. He means to change things. Let’s all hope that he doesn’t make things worse, like FDR did.

Unfortunately, Obama appears to be headed down the same road to ruin that FDR, LBJ and Jimmy Carter previously trod. It’s a foregone conclusion that a huge increase in government and government spending will breeze through Congress. This ’stimulus’ package contains every single earmark and pet project ever dreamed up by any left wing loon in the Democratic Party. Every single stupid idea and wasteful government project ever devised is now enshrined in this pork barrel bonanza masquerading as help for a stricken economy. Much like FDR deepened and prolonged the Depression with ridiculous and harmful government intervention, Obama, along with his co-conspirators Pelosi and Reid, intend to repeat history. We will be thrust into a deep abyss, cheered on by the mindless mobs who think that a few government handouts will solve all their problems.

The mainstream media will go along with the hype and cover up the true nature of the proceedings. Our Constitution will be quickly disassociated from government and legislation. The normal checks and balances that prevent our government from running away with both the treasury and the law will be eradicated. Under the pretense of an economic recession, we will be stripped of our basic rights and the opportunity to prosper through our own efforts. The parasites will be in firm control of the government and the engines of wealth creation. The rest of us will work for the government, either directly or indirectly. The wealthy will escape this dreary existence, just as they have in Europe and elsewhere. The barriers to new wealth creation will be fortified, and the barriers between classes made impenetrable. It won’t matter how hard you work, or how well-intentioned your efforts may be.

If you’re born working-class, you’ll die working-class. That is unless you sell your soul to the Party - the only way out. That’s how it worked in the Soviet Union and Communist China. Welcome, comrade, to the era of hope and change.

Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently appeared on a Discovery Channel program that attempted to explain economics and capitalism. Reich, a seemingly well-educated man, kept referring to capitalism as simply dressed-up greed. In his fevered mind, there appeared to be no place for capitalism in the world, because it was based on greed. He referred to the writings of Adam Smith as proof that greed was the underlying motivation for capitalism - not personal achievement or bettering one’s life, not even providing the best for one’s family. It was just simple greed. Reich is not an idiot, but he is a demagogue. He’s entitled to his opinions, but when they are amplified and broadcast across the country, his extremist views influence others. The program provided no opposing views or commentary. This insult to our open, free-market economic system went unanswered, as do many other such insults.

Contrast Reich’s opinions with the observations of Alexis de Tocqueville, a French writer and political scientist who toured America in the early 1800s. He was struck by the incredible energy and vitality of everyday Americans - simple men and women who worked doggedly at improving their lot in life. He observed that this was possible only in America, because only in America did hard work pay off for the common man. Therefore, it wasn’t ‘greed’ that motivated Americans over the last 200 years, it was the possibility, the certainty, that if they worked really hard, no one could take their newly found prosperity away from them. It energized them, it gave them hope for a better tomorrow. And yes, a very few people became very rich doing so. But, the more important point is that hundreds upon thousands became very prosperous - much more so than if they’d remained in Europe. It was the growth and political stability of a solid middle class that distinguished America from any other nation at any other time.

This has always been the central argument against capitalism — the poor are exploited by the greedy rich. In Europe, the poor had been exploited by the rich and powerful for centuries, well before capitalism existed. And, there were proportionately more poor people in Europe during the 1800s than in America. They were held back by social barriers, denied education and opportunity, prohibited from relocating to areas with better economic conditions. This was the reality of life in England and Europe. Slavery was abolished in the United States by presidential decree in 1861. But only after pressure was applied by other European governments did Russia finally abolish serfdom for Ukrainian peasants in 1862, freeing hundreds of thousands from centuries of bondage. The lack of opportunity and incentive was a fact of life for millions of Europeans.

In America, those who escaped the rigid social and economic structure of Europe were becoming landowners, opened small businesses and sent their children to universities. This was impossible anywhere else in the world and in many places is still impossible today. What America’s largely classless society was able to accomplish was the marvel of the modern world - a relatively well functioning capitalist system with minimal interference by aristocrats, autocrats and bureaucrats. Was it perfect? No. Did excesses and failures occur? Yes. But, it’s still the best system ever devised by man. The irony is that the liberal elite who preach against a free-market economy and capitalism have benefited most from its bounty.

Take Robert Reich as an example -  he attended Dartmouth College and won a Rhodes scholarship to study in England. The Rhodes scholarship was endowed by Cecil Rhodes, a capitalist and diamond merchant. Reich then taught at Harvard University, the wealthiest educational institution in the world. Harvard endowments exceed $45 billion, most of them gifts from capitalist alumni. At Brandeis University he was the Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economy Policy at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management. He’s currently a professor at UC Berkley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. Maurice Hexter, Florence Heller, Richard and Rhoda Goldman are philanthropists who endowed the institutions that paid Reich’s salary. Where did their money come from? Capitalism. This ingrate, along with his former girlfriend Hillary Clinton and thousands of other liberals, have no problem taking money from capitalists only to turn around and bite the hand that feeds them.

But then, this is what liberals do. They resent the fact that someone else has worked harder, worked smarter or had the good fortune to accumulate wealth. Envy is a powerful emotion. It’s corrosive, destructive and insidious. Envy, dressed up as public policy, is what threatens free market capitalism. Demagogues like Reich and Obama have used envy to whip up class warfare, turning it to their own advantage. Socialism is their choice of socio-political structure, not because it’s inherently better than capitalism, but because it can be easily controlled by a small elite. That’s right: Socialist activists like Reich and Obama firmly believe in their own superior intellect and abilities, and they’re more than happy to impose their ideology on the rest of America. The average American can’t seem to grasp this. Why would someone dedicate their lives to telling other people what to do? There doesn’t seem to be any profit in it. And that’s the key - Americans are so conditioned to a direct linkage between effort and material reward that the desire to accumulate personal power is totally foreign.

They don’t understand it because they’ve never lived under despotic rulers or communist totalitarianism. Josef Stalin murdered millions and destroyed entire civilizations. He controlled the Soviet Unions economy with an iron fist. As the supreme ruler, he could have any material thing he wanted. And yet, he lived like a pauper. This is unfathomable to the average American. Unfortunately, Americans will need to get used to it. Obama’s monstrous plan to grow government means that all Americans will be working for the government, whether they understand it or not and whether they like it or not.

Reich, Obama and other well-educated liberal elites have no problem taking money from capitalists to feather their own nests. They have no problem taking money from taxpayers, either. Using our tax dollars, they will build a utopia in their own image and likeness. And, they’ll do it in the name of ‘fairness’. At some point, Americans will wake up and find themselves yoked to a huge and unyielding machine that sucks the life out of them. But it will be too late. Betrayed by liberal ideals, Americans will have allowed the most despotic form of government to take hold. They will have thrown away their freedoms and their future.

Obama’s surrogates and spokespersons are out on the news talk circuit, re-setting expectations for the Anointed One’s first year in office. The massive socialist spending spree promised during the campaign is now being repackaged as an economic stimulus and ‘infrastructure investment’ to quell fears on Wall Street and the world banking system. As before, they blame the ‘failed Bush policies’ for the current economic problems, but there’s a new twist - they’re now openly condemning our entire economic system. That’s right, Obama’s people are attacking free-market capitalism and the concept of private business. They’ve called free-market capitalism a ‘failure’ and they mean to change it. The $800 billion Obama intends to blow in 2009 is a down payment on a brand spanking new socialist economic system, complete with quasi-governmental corporations (remember Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?), oversight boards loaded with government union representatives, and thousands of politically connected ‘consultants’ and ‘experts’.

Where are the media folks on this one? In fact, where are the Republicans? There is no doubt that Obama will be setting the agenda - he wants his marxist vision implemented quickly, before the masses understand what’s happened to them. This isn’t a matter of hyperbole or reactionary zeal. This man and his backers fully intend to take America down an irreversible path to socialism with a uniquely American twist. Wealthy liberals like the Kennedy’s, Kerry’s and much of the East Coast’s social elite will be protected from confiscatory income and capital gains taxes with rifle-shot exemptions and loosened regulation of private foundations, which are overwhelmingly pro-liberal. Read Phil Kent’s Foundations of Betrayal to get an eye-popping overview of how private foundations influence political discourse and shape national policy.

Working under the premise that repeating a lie often will find it accepted as truth, Obama’s people will relentlessly pound the ‘free-market failure’, drumming this nonsense into the heads of unwary and unsophisticated Americans simply looking for a handout in troubled times. Our fellow citizens will give away their economic freedoms and hope for the future in exchange for a government handout that will be gone in a week. Obama’s counting on it.

Republicans will sit back, shake their heads and pronounce that nobody’s stupid enough to give away economic opportunity in exchange for some cash, and this couldn’t possibly happen. They’re wrong. American voters have proven gullible to a breathtaking degree and demagogues like Obama have taken full advantage of it.  Never underestimate the shortsightedness of parasites or their champions.

The Democratic Party and its left-wing supporters aren’t happy with America, the Constitution, the tax code and the role of government. If only they could remake America in the image of other failed socialist endeavors, like England, Canada, France, Sweden or even the old Soviet Union. Then, they would love that America more than the one our founding fathers envisioned. If only they could scrap the Constitution and rewrite it for a more ‘contemporary’ society to eliminate any reference to God, duty, personal responsibility and public virtue. Then, they could begin to ‘believe’ in the Constitution.

And, if only they could change the tax code so that it was more like Sweden, where the upper income ranges were taxed as high as 85%, then maybe there would be more to like about America. Never mind that it kills personal incentive and/or moves wealth out of the country. It would be more ‘fair’ to those who don’t achieve, don’t outperform and lead lives with low expectations. And finally, if only government could intrude and control every aspect of every one’s lives except the ruling elite then finally there would be an America even a Democrat could love with all his/her/its heart.

America isn’t perfect. The Constitution isn’t perfect. But both are a whole world better than anything dreamed up by anyone else on this planet at any point in time. When the poop hits the fan, who does the world turn to for help, France? Russia? No, when there’s a tsunami, a famine, an earthquake, ethnic cleansing, economic distress or despotic excess, everyone in the world expects America to jump into the fray and lead the way. Then, they can sit back and armchair-quarterback our actions, especially that cesspool of corruption - the United Nations.

When nations are finally able to throw off the yoke of communism, socialism or totalitarianism, what is their first impulse? They look at America’s system of government, our free market economy and a largely classless society as a worthy ideal, and attempt to organize a constitutional republic. Which begs the question, if the American ideals are so desirable, and most free people hope to emulate it, why are the Democrats so fiercely invested in changing them? Why do Democrats and their leftist masters hate what America and Americans have accomplished over the last 200 years?

The answer is simple. They weren’t responsible for this country’s greatest achievements. Everyday working Americans, entrepreneurs and yes, capitalists, were the ones who built this country into a world power. And now, the socialists want to remake it into some kind of hopeless and dreary utopia. Perhaps they can find someplace else to work their experiments. Canada is nice this time of year. Much like Siberia.

The Anointed One came to Washington during the Christmas season, bringing Her Majestic Bad Self and the two kiddies along, searching in vain for a place to stay. First, they stopped at Blair House, but were turned away, because tradition has it that no President-Elect can occupy that House before January 15, long after the Christmas season has ended. The President offered the Anointed One and his family a pleasant home amongst the soldiers, but Her Majestic Bad Self would have none of it. After all, the Anointed One had called the soldiers butchers and murderers, and it wouldn’t do to live amongst them in the holy season.

The Anointed One offered his family the humble apartment where he stayed whenever there was a need to visit the great capital of the land, which wasn’t very often. But Her Majestic Bad Self refused that, as well, saying it was too small and too humble for their new station in life. And the Anointed One let the scribes and the storytellers and the town criers know that Her Majestic Bad Self was unhappy that the President wouldn’t throw the occupants of Blair House into the street so that the Anointed One and his loved ones could repose in comfort, or had insulted them by offering a home amongst the soldiers. And so the scribes and the storytellers and the town liars ran through the streets, proclaiming that the Anointed One and his cherished family had been turned away by the heartless rulers of the city, who were mean and vindictive because their rule was over, and the Anointed One was soon to assume the mantle of power.

And though the inns of Mayflower and Hilton offered them suites, Her Majestic Bad Self would have none of it, for these suites were for the common people, the peons and certainly not majestic enough for the Anointed One, Her Majestic Bad Self and the kiddy-kins. And so they stayed, fuming, in the cold windy city from whence they came. And perhaps, the Christmas season will find them there, instead of the slightly warmer and party-cloudy climes of the great capital. And there will be hell to pay on a holy day.

The Wizard of Oz, aka The Messiah, The Anointed One, The One You’ve Been Waiting For, etc. known formally as President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama is as of today still clear of any entanglements in the Rod Blagojevich affair. Therefore, His Anointedness is proceeding with his Yellow Brick Road plan to create a socialist nirvana, naming ever more extreme leftists to important government positions. The pace hasn’t slowed, even though the Wicked Witch of the MidWest, Rahm Emmanuel, may be called to testify before a grand jury of hopefully not his peers, but average Americans, instead.

The YBR plan (remember, this is a new kind of President) will incorporate lots of pork, handouts and populist pronouncements without doing anything substantial to solve the underlying problems. In fact, it’s more than likely that a Marxist President and a socialist Congress will create many more problems than they will solve and it will take decades to unwind the mess. Think FDR and LBJ. The first is federal insolvency. With a debt load of $40 trillion already on the books and threatening the US economy, His Bad Self is proposing yet another massive Democratic spending spree dressed up as an economic stimulus/green technology package. There’s no point in discussing the benefits of such a trillion-dollar mistake because there are none, unless you happen to be one of the parasites in line to profit from it. The poor, the working poor and the lower middle class will see none of those benefits, because Obama’s ‘vision’ doesn’t include them. That money is intended for unions, specifically labor and government unions, that will see their membership swell exponentially. Government contractors are basically provided their cut for distributing the money to union employees. Government employees are hired to watch over the government contractors. Nothing actually has to be accomplished for all that money, as long as it’s all used up.

Therefore, the only measurable result will be to add more zeroes to the existing debt load. Based on projected government revenues ( our taxes) and how little the government actually puts toward easing its debt load, that $40-plus trillion will be paid off in 3 or 4 centuries, but only if our government stops spending money it doesn’t have. Not money it doesn’t have today, or next year, but money it arithmetically shouldn’t be able to have until 2400 AD. Unfortunately, the money supply continues to grow, printing presses are running on overtime, and entire forests are disappearing to fuel the government’s need to boost inflation. Oh yeah, in case the mainstream media missed this one:  The government wants inflation to go into hyperdrive. Why? The federal deficit can be paid off with zillions of worthless dollars. Problem solved. Back to the printing presses and make it snappy. Will raging inflation destroy middle class Americans? Absolutely. Not the Anointed One’s problem. Hyperinflation gives him and the loony toons in Congress more spending loot and the resulting misery that will keep Democrats firmly in power. The bonus is that they get to blame the Republicans for it.