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The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
Marcus Tullius Cicero - 55 BC

Read the story of Cicero.   mmm….2000 years and nothing has changed.  We’re doomed. 

According to Obama-Black peoples conditions are the fault of White People.  Tax whitey….he can pay for everything. 

The problem I have with black political leaders is:

• Nothing is ever their fault
• Nothing is ever their responsibility
• They never champion hard work
• They always blame the white man
• When given the opportunity they do not push teaching math / science but rather "community organizing"

I am athiest.  I am not my brothers keeper.  I have no moral duties other than the logical ones that keep me out of jail.  I do not care about you.  I care about my friends.   Be truthful and admit that is how you function also.  Its not humanly possible to love 6 billion people.   I am not responsible for the condition of blacks.   They are individually each and every one of them.  The condition of any given black is that blacks responsibility.  Do not even think about sending me the bill.  Don’t expect me to be concerned.  If you do then forward your address so I can send a list of things I care about to you and expect you to be concerned.  That’s reciprocity and unless you are some power mad pyscho you understand that which expect of others, others may reasonably expect of you.

And if you think I owe anyone reparations you are also wrong.  I am owed reparation for my great great great grandfather who died in the Ohio regiments during the civil war.  He gave his life eliminating slavery.  So let’s call it even and forget all the stupid ideas.

In this second video he talks about redistribution of wealth among the formerly dispossessed(read slavery).  If you understand the political speak it clearly expresses that he is in favor of reparations.

Why do you think that there will be any better use of bailout money than the money squandered during the boom.  Arguably it will be spread around less efficiency since the government is doing it and it is "easy money" even more ripe for abuse than the original cash.

"Money Quote" from Bernanke -  There will be no need for the federal reserve to monetize any of this borrowing I do not expect any additional inflation from this.  Dumb!

Ron Paul exchange with Ben Bernanke.    There will without a doubt be inflation because of this.  They are risking collapsing the system because everyone in a position of power is scared white of losing power.  This is a totally unhealthy way to live.

And Wall Street is only interested in getting their chestnuts pulled out of the fire.   As Ron Paul said "They are going to have to add a bunch of stuff into the bill to get it to pass"

You can not regulate yourself out of easy money.

Oprah has had all the other candidates on but now she is balking at having on Sarah Palin.  This racist dictator of daytime television does not want to have her on because Palin is white and Obama, the black candidate, is her candidate.  She has already blocked an appearance by Clarence Thomas.  Would it be too sarcastic to call Winfrey a "lightweight".   I mean intellectually of course.  Not only is she dictatorial but she denys the best route to the improvement of the black condition by denying Clarence Thomas.   Clarence Thomas worked his way up.  He has the philosophy that accompanies that.  She probably thinks if Obama is elected that whites can be shamed into some sort of demented slavery reparations.  That will not happen.  It will merely bring back a republican congress that can say "NO" to crazy spending ideas.   After all how would you do it?  Would I receive money for the great great grandfather who lost his life in the civil war fighting in the Ohio regiments?   And show me one living slave from the civil war south?  In the end even if there were reparation one could expect the money to be spent foolishly until blacks as a group take up the philosophy of Clarence Thomas and reject that of Obama, Jackson and Sharpton.

Maybe we should take note.  Maybe we should observe that when the blacks finally took over in Zimbabwe they did some pretty bad things there.  You might respond by thinking that they will not kill white farmers here.  Possibly not.  Maybe only increase the demonstrable racism of affirmative action.  Limit freedom using coercive techiques like censoring the voice through convenient decisions that allowed Obama to appear but woops all of a sudden Palin can not. 

Democracy is a meritocracy or it is nothing at all.  You have to accept failure as a possibility to be free.  Oprah is now currently rejecting the idea of failure of Obama because of her strong desire to control.  And do not be fooled.  People do not have as much money as her without being control freaks.   Where do you think she summons the will to take care of business?

You have to ask yourself what sort of United States of Zimbabwe she has is mind for us?  Has Oprah turned in Stedman in trade to marry Robert Mugabe ?     And finally she has more money that god. If she insists on being so anti democratic could she not just buy a small African country where they are so accustomed to dictators and leave the one true capitalist democracy in the world alone?  The poor people under all those dictatorial governments of the world need a place to run to.  They do not need Oprah Winfrey standing there waiting with a machete waiting to cut off hands.

They can’t seem to come up with enough now while they only control the house and the senate.  Only after they have the executive branch too will they bring these charges.   Sounds suspicious.

Once he starts this it will never stop.  But naturally due to the liberal nature of the mainstream media only conservatives or republicans will be prosecuted.   Let it happen if you want to live in a Stalinist state.   

One wonders is America corroding?  In past years this sort of talk would have put the unDemocrats out of the running.

More threats of a race war if Obama does not win.  : If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and hopelessness!   ( Fatimah Ali but her name should be Helena Handbasket )

This looks like it was written by the same person who writes all the global warming press releases.  Basically if we do not do X the Earth win spin off its orbit and straight into the sun.

I’m well armed and personally think its time to say NO to threats such as these even if they are only from a demented member of the mainstream media.

Likely you have heard this old adage about security and liberty.  The security they talk about is economic.  Things are likely to get tougher in the near future.   We are shipping too much money out of the country for oil.   We are too dainty to allow it to be drilled on our coasts and in ANWR.   Thus things will deteriorate more until the pain threshold is found. 

Many people will want to vote for the politician that says it will be ok if we only regulate this or tax that.  These are the unDemocrats who will say anything to get elected.  Say anything to get the power.  I would like to think you as an electorate will have the sense not to listen.  But I’m doubtful about this.  You listened in the past and you likely will in the future.   The problem is this sort of thing never helps economically and in fact damages something much more precious than your temporary economic circumstances and that would be your liberty.  I know this is true.  My favorite home away from home country is Brazil.   As currently constituted Brazil has a fully implemented form of government that the unDemocrats want to have here.  The people know their government and changing it is hopeless.  Nothing will ever change in that area and the Brazilians know it.   With liberty you can improve your economic circumstances.   With economic wellbeing you can not necessarily do diddly squat about your liberty.  I know its tough to be a good soldier.  You have to be brave.  And clearly about 50% of the population lacks any impulse toward liberty. Quite the opposite.  They lick their chops at the thought of another round of incremental carving up of liberty for the sake of financial gain. 

Remember losing a job is temporary.  Living in a land of curtailed liberty is pretty much for your entire lifetime.    So don’t be dour Gus Halls who secretly long for a beer, a recliner and a black and white television.   For an inspired life you have to dream of liberty.

I wish I was going to vote for the black guy. That is because if I was voting for the black guy it would be Clarence Thomas. Not this lame-o terrorist lover Barrack Obama.

The house republicans need your help.  The house unDemocrats have turned off the C-span cameras while the Republicans talk about the need for off shore drilling during the congressional break.

Following arty excerpt is from here

Update: The Capitol Police are now trying to kick reporters out of the press gallery above the floor, meaning we can’t watch the Republicans anymore. But Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) is now in the gallery talking to reporters, so the cops have held off for a minute. Clearly, Democrats don’t want Republicans getting any press for this episode. GOP leaders are trying to find other Republicans to rotate in for Blunt so reporters aren’t kicked out.

So the unDemocrats are using police to censor republican expression!  We always knew they were the ones who practice this sort of technique. Now we have the proof !

I was dissappointed to hear the Republicans quit at 5 P.M.  I think this is a great technique. 

•  You need to plan it out better.  
• Have everything set and a network of people with cameras ready to cover the speeches.  
• Have a way of keeping C-Span on. 
• Allow some outsiders to speak - I would love the chance to riff on the nutjob unDemocrats

The U.S. House of representatives has just issued an apology for slavery.  You can assume this is directed at blacks.  There is a phrase that applies: 

    "If sorry worked we would not need the police"

And of course there would be alot less blacks in jail on felony convictions.  This phrase is especially funny in the case where you apologize to people who are all 100% dead.  So why do it?  Present day blacks have not seen a single day of slavery.  Maybe the whites whom they tax like slaves are who they are apologizing to.   That would be more applicable.  Blacks actually vote 90% for democrats so I have to assume they actually want to be slaves.

Now I do not know whether congress has ever heard that cogent phrase but they should study it.   It is a tell that congress has done this apology now when a black candidate is probabilistically near winning the presidency.

Do you think the blacks will come out of the wood work if Obama is elected and ask for reparations?  I think this is a certainty.  They will with 100% probability ask for reparations.  I do not feel comfortable Obama will say no to their request. 

Some one needs to ask Obama his view on this subject.  He has already said he supports affirmative action.  Never mind if some white guy stood up and said we need programs that place white guys at the front of the employment line he would be stoned to death by the media.

When asked about reparations Obama in a 2004 questionnaire, he told the NAACP, "I fear that reparations would be an excuse for some to say, ‘We’ve paid our debt,’ and to avoid the much harder work."   To which I respond:

• Have we not coddled these people enough?  What else shall we do?  Serve them as slaves ourselves in spite of the fact they have had every opportunity to improve their lot ?
• Many of us white northerners have ancestors killed liberating the black slaves….will they be included in reparations?  They gave MORE…they gave their lives
• In spite of the fact that every other race of the world has come to the USA and made it on their own we are to believe that blacks deserve a special hand up?  But rather does this not shine an unfavorable light up blacks?  What is it about them that they are the only ones who need help?

Obama mentioned "the much harder work" in his response.  Give me a break.  We have already paid reparations 4 times over in the form of welfare and affirmative action.  It is about time we end all talk of these sorts of racist approaches.  It will only take one liberal black president to cure all non-black people of their "white man’s burden" guilt.  Slavery was 150 years ago!!  Read that again 150 years! 

Forget about it…you are not getting one red cent.  Its about time you realize that and start making it on your own like the rest of us poor schlubs.