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What's Wrong With This Picture?
July 2009
I got into financial difficulty one time, but I worked it out.  What I did was this:  I started spending all the money I had just as fast as I could.  Of course, I was already deeply in debt, so that didn't take long, but when the money ran out, I borrowed.  I borrowed every dollar, every dime, every penny I could get my hands on.  When I couldn't borrow any more, I wrote bad checks.  It didn't matter.  Whatever I had to do to keep spending, I did it. 
No, wait a minute.  That wasn't when I got out of debt.  That was the time I went bankrupt.

The America we know is committing suicide.  We have handed our government over to people who have no scruples about using the power of that government to keep themselves in control of it.  They care nothing about the restraints that the U.S. Constitution places on the government they now control.  They care nothing about the future of this nation ... except that they should be in control of it when that future gets here.

Barack Obama took power as America struggled to emerge from a recession that the Democrats created (Republicans helped) with their social engineering and loose banking policies.  His plan to lead the nation out of that recession?  Spend every dime we have and borrow like there is no tomorrow.  Obama has seized control of struggling banks, financial institutions and major U.S. corporations, declaring that he has no interest in controlling them even as he fires a CEO or two and establishes a "compensation czar" to oversee corporate salaries.  Along with the Democrat controlled Congress, he is poised to seize control of the entire healthcare industry in America and impose draconian taxes on all working Americans to help pay for it. 

Oh, and that's not all!  The House of Representatives just passed a "landmark" bill to address Climate Crisis by shifting domestic energy production to the most expensive and least efficient methods we know and imposing energy taxes on virtually every producer of goods and services in the country.  Oh, and we're still not going to drill and pump our own oil here.  So while our economy is struggling for its life, our President and Congress want to hamstring our productive capacity and drive even more jobs overseas.  That's sure to boost America's GDP, huh?

I try to stay away from conspiracy theories.  I don't have a hard time believing that there is a close-knit cabal of rich, powerful men who seek world domination ... it's just that I can't believe they could keep it secret for more than fifteen minutes.  But it's hard, really hard not to believe that Barack Obama is some kind of  Manchurian Candidate (1962 not 2004) imbedded here and empowered by outside forces to bring America to its knees.  Everything he has done since elected seems designed to destroy this nation's economy and our freedom.

Is it too late now? 
With the Democrats in power with a filibuster-proof majority (and who thinks the Republicans have enough guts to actually fight this?) it seems that nothing can stop him.  Can we rely on SCOTUS to halt his unconstitutional power-grabbing schemes?  (Ha.  Don't make me laugh.)  Every year a new crop of mindless myrmidons emerge from our government schools with no understanding of history or this nation's heritage, ready to vote for whoever will promise them the most.  If that isn't enough, the Democrats and many Republicans keep the borders open so that hordes of new illegal aliens can flock in to take a role in keeping the left in control.  (Yes, Obama's "comprehensive immigration reform" is just around the corner.)  Obama and the Democrats are solidly in control of the treasury, and they will not hesitate to offer another slice of it to the American people or anyone else who can keep them in power.

Remember the method I used to get out of financial trouble?  The big difference is this:  if I spend myself into penury, when I die my children cannot be made to pay my debts.  Our nation will be paying for our greed, laziness and foolishness for centuries to come. 

We are selling our children into slavery, and getting paid with our own money.

© Copyright 2004 Raymond K. Paden
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