On the Rhetoric

First, let me just say that I am sick and tired of all the empty rhetoric! When I listen to political speeches and hear absolutely NO substance, I am hearing empty rhetoric. How a politician can build an entire campaign and maybe a political career on empty rhetoric, (whether or not it is original empty rhetoric), speaks to just how dumbed down the people of this country have become. If one does look for substance in what the Democrats say these days, the only thing that is obvious is that what they have to say appeals only to a very selfish public. If there is anything I hate more than empty rhetoric from politicians, it is selfishness from the most blessed people on earth!

It has been said by others that Americans want government dependency instead of individual freedom, so that is why the Democrat liberal message is convincing the “dumb masses” with such efficiency. The term, “dumb masses” comes from conservative, (Libertarian) author and radio host, Neal Boortz, who also made the first point in this paragraph. Thanks, Neal – I hope that will keep the charges of plagiarism to a minimum.

People do not want the responsibility of taking care of themselves, their families, their communities, or their country any more. Let me amend that – far too many people – not everybody - just the most vocal ones evidently.

The country is literally going to hell in a hand basket because too many Americans are lazy, immoral oafs who think that government’s main function is to play Robin Hood! No matter how you slice it, if you want government to take care of everybody, it’s going to cost a lot of money and it is going to cost ALL of our freedom. Period. Now, I don’t have a lot of money, and the majority of the freedom I was born with has already been taken, so I’ve had it with the whole lot of dumb masses!

Origin Of Employment

When you hear politicians promise “jobs” to take care of an unemployment “crises”, you can bet that their plan for “creating” those jobs involves increasing the government payroll. There are far too many of the dumb masses already on the government payroll! The ones that are not are either hoping to be or content to accept government charity in one form or another. That, folks, is a sick society right there!

So let’s look at what it takes to “create” jobs – because I’ve done it, have you? Creating jobs in the private sector involves much personal investment. It involves having an idea for a product or service that you are willing to provide your own personal wealth, time, energy, and knowledge to promote. This is called entrepreneurialism and it involves risk. Creating jobs in the government sector involves pulling funding from private citizens, imagining a bureaucratic labyrinth to spend those funds on, and anointing certain citizens with the privilege of passing judgment on their fellow citizens in the private sector through regulation, licensing, and forced compliance to avoid prosecution. Don’t like that assessment? Come up with a more truthful one then.

Fast Track To Fascism

Sometimes the private sector combines forces with government through contractual agreement – where private companies provide a product or service to government entities via contract, in which case these companies are more answerable to government than they would be if they were not in such contracts. This is a way whereby “government” jobs are created in private enterprise, but not controlled by free market forces. Call this the fast track to fascism.

The point is that ALL government jobs are supported not by the efforts of politicians, but by the efforts of a hard working, free American society. The economy is dependent upon efforts of those who get the least credit – hard working, free Americans. You can take this to the bank – if Americans cannot be free, they will cease to be hard working. Those who are not hard working and do not want freedom are totally dependent on the shrinking pool of those of us who are and do. Politicians will not tell you this. They will promise, instead, to use the power they are asking for to “take the evil profits of the rich” and give them to the poor through government programs and more regulation.

Profiteering

Profits are evil only to those who have never had to make them honestly.

For some reason the dumb masses seem to believe that business should not be profitable – at all. I don’t know why they think that anyone would ever go into an unprofitable business except that they are really, really dumb! Many of those standing in such harsh judgment of “big business profits” are those who are on the receiving end of unimaginable wealth precisely BECAUSE they are being paid with big business profits. The entertainment industry comes immediately to mind, but that is just one example. That adored bastion of liberal philosophy that is oh-so-willing to comment on the sad state of the little people living in the shadows of corporate profits. Where the heck do they think all their wealth comes from? Same with the overwhelming majority of academics spreading untruths throughout every liberal institution of higher learning – these people are truly out of touch. They and the politicians who spout these absurdities are the real profiteers.

No one likes paying the high price of gasoline at the pump or energy bills in their homes and businesses, but they do not bother to do their homework and try to understand where those high prices are determined. It is easier for them to believe that providers of the fuel for our economy are taking grossly unfair profits for their products, and that government needs to step in and take more of those profits AND regulate even more than it already does. The truth is that government and politicians are the real profiteers feeding on the ignorance of the dumb masses as they do more harm than good to very people they claim to care about – America’s working class. Where do those oil company profits go, who is benefiting, and what would the liberal philosophy “change” to make things better? This site may answer some of these questions for you. Also listen to the energy plans, the budget proposals, and the proposed sources of funding for all their promises.

History Lesson

I know this is not being taught any more, but this country came into being mainly for one reason and one reason only. People who escaped Europe’s religious persecution and risked their lives to colonize the New World came here perfectly content to colonize in the name of the crown. They were willing to produce and send back profits from their efforts to the country of their origin – until the king started to demand too much in taxation and refuse any representation for those taxes. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back – especially when the king’s troops began to disarm the colonists as well. Hence, America was born, due to the efforts of a minority of freedom loving people that would not bow down to tyranny.

Communal rules had already been tried and failed miserably, so these wonderful, freedom-loving folks had to invent a system of government that would work and preserve that hard won freedom. As they examined the origin of their rights, they were able to accurately define that origin as they eliminated all the false ones that they could come up with. They knew that their kingdom had not bestowed their rights to freedom on them, because the blood of those who paid the terrible price for it fighting that kingdom was still fresh in their memories. They also were smart enough to realize that no one or small group of them could bestow freedom on all of them and their posterity. So, where was this thing called “freedom” born? It was an old question that had never been answered and then defended with any viable government policy. “Endowed by their Creator . . .” was where they defined the origin of their rights to freedom. These rights, these “unalienable rights” that they proceeded to enumerate were worth defending with blood, so they were certainly worth protecting with whatever government they set up. It was sound logic and the strategic building block of the most morally conceived government in the history of humanity.

The Founders knew that the government they were inventing would only work in a moral society. Freedom can only live and prosper in morality. The “necessary evil” of government can only grow more evil if the people being governed grow lazier, and less responsible. If the individual heart is hardened to charity and good works, if the individual spirit is assaulted with injustice, and if selfishness replaces decency in a society, government becomes a tyrannical monster – and freedom is lost to all who should inherit its bounties.

They did not all agree on everything, but they were able to put their differences aside as they labored to hammer out the details that would define the law of the land of the free. Now the continuing beneficiaries of their efforts are eviscerating the body of their work, year-by-year, decade by decade, generation after generation. The grass seems greener where liberty has been buried in exchange for so-called world order. The law of the land is being offered up as a “living” sacrifice for a selfish people who do not understand or value their blessings. Sound harsh? Our enemies are reveling in our ignorance.

Negativism Over Truth

It should not be up for debate that the rest of the world views America with a mixed bag of emotional opinions. They fear, they hate, and they envy. They admire, they love, and they hope. Their opinions in some cases are based only on what their governments have allowed them to know, and in other cases on what they have seen with their own eyes. Their opinions may also be based on their heritage and their traditions, their religions and their economies, their histories and their stabilities. These are emotions – passions that drive their awareness of America’s relationship to the rest of the world.

Americans are always trying to perceive their standing in the world. Most seem to think that it is important others view America in a positive light as opposed to a negative one, but that is not nearly as important as how Americans view themselves and their own country. Since we Americans have the freedom to voice our opinions, we also carry the great responsibility to ascertain the truth in what we spout, here and abroad, about the soul of our country and her people. Far too many Americans with access to a world press speak foolishly and out of pure ignorance in defining our values and our hopes for all of humanity. Negativism over truth has become a national sickness, a badge of liberalism, and a dangerous disparity of hope.

The Face Of America

Finally, the best we could come up with as we prepare once again for the handing over of the reins of political power are some of the poorest examples we have ever considered to carry the face of America. We pulled from the minority of America – those groups who all have their beefs, and who all carry their loathing for the cost of freedom just under the surface. A fascist feminist woman, a racist, half black man with questionable religious motivations, and a values-challenged senior citizen in the declining years of productivity – these are our choices. These candidates have been selected by less than one-third of the “qualified” voters who bothered to vote in the last presidential election. So, our country of over three hundred million people is being self-governed by the choice so far of only thirty-six million of us. No wonder our face has egg on it! No wonder the face of America knows not how to express hope other than in empty rhetoric.

Make no mistake about it, Hillary Clinton is more wrapped up in her feminism and her socialist/fascist philosophy than she is in caring about protecting and leading a strong America into the future. Barack Obama has convinced 95% of black voters that they are far more important to him than the fifty-plus percent of white voters in his party even though the actual numbers represented by these percentages are white by a staggering majority. They are also young and wealthy. The only promises he has made outside of the empty rhetoric involve taking more of their wealth to secure more hardship and chains for their futures, while he subjugates hard won victories toward real security to the whim of our enemies. They are too dumb to question it. John McCain will stand out as the least dangerous choice, even though he is a bitter, self-serving person who places too little value on the individualism that has always sustained America in her times of greatest need. Taking a stand to him involves taking the pulse of those he needs to obtain and stay in power, and then walking in lockstep to their direction.

The Silent Majority

It should be obvious that there really is a silent majority in America. They belong to various affiliations including both major political parties, every organized religion, every community in America, all branches of the military service. They work in every profession, are of every race and both genders, they are young and full of hope, middle aged and cynical, old and infirm, strong, vigilant, compassionate, and they are Americans first. They have taken the time to learn her history and put forth the effort to reap and enjoy her bounties and blessings. They revel in the good life and scorn misery and perversion. They are loving and giving and they believe in building strong families. They would take care of their own problems and their neighbors with unselfish willingness if the government would move out of the way.

They are ready to defend their country at a moment’s notice because they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no better place on the face of the earth.

They define hope and they can change anything they want to change if freedom survives the assault of immoral selfishness. Their silence may be cashed in at any time for a golden opportunity to salvage the real America. That is what the rest of the world and the dumb masses will never understand.

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