Generally speaking, I really do desire to stay close to my burning desire to encourage anyone who might read this blog to get out of debt.  And, as such, focus on anything having to do with finances, including the economy.

However, I just have to swerve from that narrow mindset and address something much, much deeper than just the economy.

I have come across an article titled “An Assault On America From Within” that lays out the ‘why’ regarding continued deficit spending, an ever-increasing debt load, a continual adjusting of the debt ceiling (currently just under $16 trillion dollars), and a demonizing of the rich so-called by the present administration.  All of this is presented as the right way to correct the economic malaise they ‘inherited’ from the previous administration.

But, according to this in-depth article, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

Please, please, take the time to click on the link and give it a good, hard read.

Now is not the time to simply bury our collective heads in the sand and allow ourselves to be hoodwinked.  Especially in the name of race, or wealth distribution, or fairness.  And, especially not in the name of inclusion or diversity.

If you didn’t understand Barack Hussein Obama’s speech, given just five days before the 2008 election, where he stated that he will “fundamentally transform the United States of America” was meant to mean changing this country from what it has stood for for over 235 years and remake it in the image of Socialism, you must understand that giving him four more years will enable him to accomplish that and so much more.

Just not in the way we think.

Our very freedom as the greatest country on God’s green Earth is being threatened, and allowing this transformational process to continue without a fight will be our undoing for generations to come.

For many in society and most in government, there is no easy way to explain why the current way we deal view debt is as wrongheaded as it can be.

Until Now!

Check out this link, showing that even a fifth grader can see right through this.

The old saying “as California goes, so goes the rest of the nation” took on a more sinister meaning today when Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown proposed a spending increase in the midst of a larger than ever state deficit.  Here is the article for you to weep over.

Looks like he is a graduate of the Joe “we gotta spend more in order to get out of debt” Biden school of economics.

Better get your financial affairs in order quick.  If the saying is true, this is coming to your state in the near future.

I will let the video speak for itself.

Without exception, our life is full of choices.  Whether it is what to have for dinner, what kind of car we drive, who we befriend, whatever, the choice is clear: we have to choose!

This being the case, there is another choice that is made everyday that not only impacts how our life is lived, but in what way we choose to view what comes next.

My main thrust presently is to advocate debt free living.  As such, it is my contention that this affords real freedom for our lives.

However, I want to digress for a moment and suggest that you read the following article link titled “The Folly Of God-Denial“.

It is a well written article that lays out with great clarity what should be done with Jesus Christ and what He has offered as the ultimate choice.  This choice offered will not only impact the ‘here and now”; it will also involve how we will live in the ‘hereafter’ as well.

Read it carefully and be honest with yourself as to what it is saying to you.

For me, as a Christian, it only confirms why I believe the way I do.  Not only as it pertains to the ‘hereafter’ but as it impacts my ‘here and now’ as well.

As any right thinking American would do, one of the most important things to do in order to run a successful household is to have a budget.

Boiled down to its simplest form, this consists of sitting down with pen in hand, drawing a vertical line on a piece of paper down the middle, then drawing a horizontal line across the top portion of the paper.  After this, write on the top left side of the horizontal line the word ‘income’, and write on the top right side of the horizontal line the word ‘bills’.

Now, after posting all bills and subtracting that from your income, you can then clearly see if you will have any ‘month left at the end of the paycheck’.

This is called a budget.  Something the government apparently hasn’t been able to do for quite some time now.

Here is an article link titled Big Government Cannot Pay Its Bills, Again that just might get your head to spinning.

Since I am a strong advocate of living within your means, I have to take the position that, if the government is going about spending money without a budget, it is a safe bet that you need to be doing just the opposite!  Otherwise, it is also a safe bet that you are only looking in the mirror.

The following linked article relates in great detail the top ten under-reported or unreported stories of 2011.  It is an in-depth read but well worth noting as we head into this election year.  Here are the headlines for each:

1. The true rate of unemployment and inflation and the real state of the U.S. economy, which is far worse than reported.

2. The Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” operation, which facilitated the delivery of American firearms into Mexico to violent drug cartels, later used in the murder of hundreds, including a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

3. The organizations and money behind the supposedly “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement.

4. The role of leftwing groups and the Obama administration in the fall of Arab regimes and the rise of Islamic radicals.

5. Compelling evidence from multiple experts that the birth certificate released by Barack Obama on April 27, 2011, is a fraud.

6. The true mission of Islamic groups such as CAIR and other U.S.-based Muslim Brotherhood-front organizations and their infiltration of the U.S.

7. The real impact on the U.S. economy of Obama’s $787 billion stimulus.

8. The harmful impact of unions on the American economy.

9. The looming potential for an EMP attack on the U.S. and its devastating impact.

10. The federal government’s raid of the Gibson Guitar factory.

Now that we have bid a not so fond farewell to 2011, we welcome 2012 much in the same way we would open the windows to let out the stale air and draw in some fresh air.  However, when it comes to the economy, I suspect that not much will change throughout this election year.

To begin with, we are still witnessing record unemployment, coupled with rising prices for the three necessities of life: food, energy, and shelter.  This isn’t likely to change for 2012.  In addition, saber rattling from the middle east is causing the world to shudder, evidenced by the rising cost of oil.  There is also the remaining specter of default throughout Europe on their collective debt.

Which brings me to the following two articles that spell out what we may expect this year.

First up is an article titled “Stimulus And Debt Are Manna From Heaven“.  Here is a couple of quotes to get you started:

“Keynesians treat debt as manna from heaven. There are no costs to debt. There are also no opportunity costs to debt either. The money appears, and then costs and opportunity costs are totaled up to figure out the best way to spend it.”

“Over the past two years, we have had slugfests over what to do with debt at the Federal level. The debt ceiling debate that carried on and on is one symptom of this. Unfortunately, the average person’s eyes glaze over at the size of the numbers we are looking at.”

Then, here is an article titled “President Obama: Champion Or Enemy Of The Middle Class?”  Here is a telling quote to whet your appetite:

“After turning himself into a veritable caricature of the 1 percent he derides at every opportunity, President Obama has suddenly discovered his true calling: champion of the middle class.  The president made it clear that he is auditioning for this coveted role during that odd, TR-impersonating speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, when he of the $4 million Christmas vacation proclaimed, not untruthfully, that this is “make-or-break moment for the middle class.” Not since Senator John Kerry windsurfed off the coast of Nantucket has the middle class had a more unlikely champion.

Okay, there you go!  Happy reading and a Happy New Year!

Taking the title of today’s post into consideration, the answer has to be a resounding YES!

Now, you may be asking yourself, in a purely Socialistic society, where presumably everyone shares and shares alike, how could greed possibly exist?  I mean, after all, isn’t that what Capitalism is all about?

Well, the following link by way of IOTW offers a 4 minute video that clearly explains why greed never goes away.  It simply changes hands.  Which brings up another question you will discover is answered at the end of the video:

Who would you prefer you have in control of your money: You or someone else?

Well, as mind boggling as it might seem, there is no rhyme nor reason as to why the 99% (more commonly referred to as the OWSers) can protest the evil 1% (those undeserving rich!) while having so many of the rich support them.  Here is a list of the Top 25 richest supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement:

ViaNewsBusters:

1. Yoko Ono – $500 million
2. Jay-Z – $450 million
3. David Letterman – $400 million
(tie) Stephen King – $400 million
5. Russell Simmons – $325 million
6. Sean Lennon – $200 million
7. Mike Myers – $175 million
8. George Clooney – $160 million
9. Brad Pitt – $150 million
(tie) Don King – $150 million
11. Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) – $145 million
12. Jane Fonda – $120 million
(tie) Miley Cyrus – 120 million
14. Al Gore – $100 million
15. Roseanne Barr – $80 million
(tie) Deepak Chopra – $80 million
17. Kanye West – $70 million
(tie) Dan Rather – $70 million
19. Alec Baldwin – $65 million
(tie) Matt Damon – $65 million
21. Tom Morello – $60 million
(tie) Mia Farrow – $60 million
23. Katy Perry – $55 million
24. Michael Moore – $50 million
(tie) Susan Sarandon – $50 million
Total: $4.1 billion

OWS has featured a Millionaires March targeting the homes of the demonized “1%,” some of whom don’t make nearly as much as those supporting the Marxist mob. The hypocrisy will cause any decent person to choke almost as quickly as the stench of an Occupy encampment.

It may take a psychopathologist or a priest to figure out what the zillionaire socialists listed above actually want, but it obviously isn’t egalitarianism, or they would give their own fortunes away, instead of demanding that the government seize the fortunes of others.

What more can be said to unravel this twisted ball of twine?  How about this updated in-depth article?

As anyone who stumbles across this blog should know, I am all about getting the best bang for your hard earned buck, while doing what you can to pay down debt.  This, in my opinion, is necessary in order to prepare for the coming economic tsunami sure to hit our economic shores in the not too distant future.

As we all know by now, there has been a grassroots movement (and, I use the term loosely) commonly referred to as OWS.  In many ways, everyone from the MSM to the White House have attempted to place these protesters as equal to the Tea Partiers.

However, it is increasingly coming to light that this couldn’t be further from the truth.

In fact, the OWSers being trumpeted as shining examples of the downtrodden, have swerved into the exact opposite result of what they purportedly have been protesting about: Economic injustice.  There’s nothing more telling than looking at the facts to back this up.

Maybe it is time that the true 99% unite with the ‘evil’ 1% and band together to insist that there be a better way for these patriots so-called to put across their complaints than to simply add to the already tight state budgets?!

The following link to a dynamite six minute speech by Bill Whittle should have any right thinking American that may have thought we had finally turned a corner in our nation’s struggle against once supporting slavery by electing to the highest office in the land the first African-American President, re-think that reason in light of what has been wrought in just three short years.

To have added such crushing debt in the name of getting us out of debt is no longer viable.  To have reigned for three years and placed upon every single American man, woman, and child debt owed to the tune of over $48,000 dollars each is unconscionable.

And, to then grade himself as the fourth best President among all Presidents is simply narcissistic.  But then, this should come as no surprise to anyone.

Add to that a deplorable group of wannabe Republicans that continually shoot each other in the foot while ignoring who it is they are attempting to unseat in 2012 makes my heart sink, believing it likely that, regardless of Hussein’s record, he will be re-elected for what will surely be a four year mandate to finish what he and his Socialist / Communist / America hating leftists are all about:

Fundamentally transforming the United States of America from that once shining city on a hill to just another European outpost.

I am only glad that there sits in Heaven One Who is in control, and in that I take great comfort.

Here is something to keep handy for the next eleven months as each candidate continues campaigning for the presidency next November.  And, in case you are having difficulty clicking on the link, or it has somehow ‘mysteriously’ disappeared, here it is as well:

Hat Tip: http://blackquillandink.com/

During his 2008 campaign, Hussein touted the slogan “Yes We Can”.  Once elected, he made clear what that meant.  Higher unemployment numbers, more people dependent on government (food stamp recipients, ever-expanding unemployment payments), as well as seeing energy costs necessarily skyrocket under his administration come to pass ($4 dollar a gallon gas anyone?).

He then attempted whipping up a new slogan: WTF.  It was supposed to stand for Winning The Future, but you can guess how it was interpreted.  

As a result, he has come up with a catchy new slogan, found in the heading of today’s posting.  To further help him with what it means, here is an article that proposes some possible translations:

As we learned last week at The Huffington Post, Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan for 2012, “Change Is.” Since Obama is one of the worst Presidents in American history, if not the worst President in American history, that sounds more like a phrase his opponent would use. Given that Obama is completely and utterly over-his-head trying to handle the duties of the presidency, he could probably use a little help coming up with some examples of change that have occurred during his presidency. So, here are a few suggestions of what “change is” during the Obama Presidency.

1) Change is a record number of Americans going on food stamps during Barack Obama’s presidency. Nearly 15% of Americans are now on food stamps thanks to Barack Obama’s economic policies.

2) Change is America losing its AAA credit rating for the first time since 1917 because of Barack Obama’s out-of-control spending.

3) Change is the U.S. government helping Mexican criminals get American guns that were used to kill 200 Mexicans and two Americans. The Obama Administration’s response to a scandal that’s arguably bigger than Watergate (How many people died because of Watergate?) has been to cover up the facts and stonewall. Change is Obama behaving like Nixon.

4) Change is a President embracing the Occupy movement and criticizing Wall Street while he funnels hundreds of billions of dollars to Wall Street firms via government bailouts. This is not a coincidence since Obama “received more money from Wall Street than any other politician over the past 20 years, including former President George W. Bush.“ Change is a politician who shovels taxpayer money to his Wall Street allies claiming that he’s fighting against Wall Street.

5) Change is the “unemployment rate has been over 8 percent for nearly three years. The unemployment rate has never been so high for so long since World War II” thanks to Barack Obama’s economic policies.

6) Change is the American workforce being 2.5 million jobs smaller than it was when Obama took office because of his economic policies.

7) Change is spending the phenomenal sum of one trillion dollars, more than the Vietnam and Iraq wars combined, on a failed stimulus plan that was supposed to keep unemployment below 8%. That turned out to be the single most wasteful expenditure not just in American history, but in the history of planet earth.

To this I would like to add one more (feel free to add your own to this list):

Change is what you have left in your pocket once all of Hussein’s legislation packages have made their way into the public sector.

With my ears still ringing from his latest speech that had all the earmarks of a campaign speech under the guise of addressing the current economic climate from a Presidential position, Barack Hussein Obama has truly muddied up the waters when his stated goal if elected was to be a uniter.

Consider the following article that takes this and much more contained in his speech to task from renowned economist, Peter Schiff:

For most of his time as a national political figure, Barack Obama has been careful to cloak his core socialist leanings behind a veil of pro-capitalist rhetoric. This makes strategic sense, as Americans still largely identify as pro-capitalist. However, based on his recent speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, the President appears to have reassessed the political landscape in advance of the 2012 elections. Based on the growth of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the recent defeat of Republicans in special elections, he has perhaps sensed a surge of left-leaning sentiment; and, as a result, he finally dropped the pretense.

According to our President’s new view of history, capitalism is a theory that has “never worked.” He argues that its appeal can’t be justified by results, but its popularity is based on Americans’ preference for an economic ideology that “fits well on a bumper sticker.” He feels that capitalism speaks to the flaws in the American DNA, those deeply rooted creation myths that elevate the achievements of individuals and cast unwarranted skepticism on the benefits of government. He argues that this pre-disposition has been exploited by the rich to popularize policies that benefit themselves at the expense of the poor and middle class.

But Obama’s knowledge of history is limited to what is written on his teleprompter. And his selection of the same location that Teddy Roosevelt used to chart an abrupt departure into populist politics is deeply symbolic in the opposite way to that which he intended. It is not by some genetic fluke that Americans distrust government. It is an integral and essential part of our heritage. The United States was founded by people who distrusted government intensely and was subsequently settled, over successive generations, by people fleeing the ravages of government oppression. These Americans relied on capitalism to quickly build the greatest economic power the world had ever seen – from nothing.

But according to Obama’s revisionist version of American history, we tried capitalism only briefly during our history. First, during the Robber Barron period of the late 19th Century, the result of which was child labor and unprecedented lower-class poverty. These ravages were supposedly only corrected by the progressive policies of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. We tried capitalism again in the 1920s, according to Obama, and the result was the Great Depression. This time, it allegedly took FDR’s New Deal to finally slay that capitalist monster. Then, the account only gets more farcical. Apparently, we tried capitalism again under George W. Bush, and the result was the housing bubble, financial crisis, and ensuing Great Recession. Obama now argues that government is needed once again to save the day.

This view is complete fiction and proves that Obama is not qualified to teach elementary school civics, let alone serve as President of the United States. I wonder what other economic system he believes we followed prior to the 1890s and 1920s (and during the 1950s and 1960s) that that he now seeks to restore? Capitalism did not start with J.P. Morgan in 1890s or John D. Rockefeller in the 1920s as the President suggests. In fact, it was about that time that capitalism came under attack by the progressives. We were born and prospered under capitalism. The Great Depression did not result from unbridled capitalism, but from the monetary policy of the newly created Federal Reserve and the interventionist economic policies of both Hoover and Roosevelt – policies that were decidedly un-capitalist.

The prosperity enjoyed during mid-20th century actually resulted from the incredible progress produced by years of capitalism. Contrary to Obama’s belief, the New Deal and Great Society did not create the middle class; it was, in fact, a direct result of the capitalist industrial revolution. The socialist programs of which Obama is so fond are the reasons why the middle class has been shrinking. America’s economic descent began in the 1960s, when we abandoned capitalism in favor of a mixed economy. By mixing capitalism with socialism, we undermined economic growth, and reversed much of the progress years of laissez-faire had bestowed on average Americans. The back of the middle class is being broken by the weight of government and the enormous burden taxes and regulation place on the economy.

America’s first experiment with socialism, the Plymouth Bay Colony, ended in failure, and our most successful colonies – New York, Virginia, Massachusetts  – were begun primarily as commercial enterprises. When the founding fathers gathered to write the Constitution, they represented capitalist states and granted the federal government severely limited powers.

Apparently, Obama thinks our founders’ mistrust of government was delusional, and that we were fortunate that far wiser groups of leaders eventually corrected those mistakes. The danger, as Obama sees it, is that some Republicans actually want to reverse course and adopt the failed ideas espoused by great American fools like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin.

The President unknowingly illustrated his own contradictory thinking with the importance he now places on extending the temporary payroll tax cuts. If all that stands between middle-class families and abject poverty is a small tax cut, imagine how much damage the far more massive existing tax burden already inflicts on those very households! If Obama really wants to relieve middle-class taxpayers of this burden, he needs to reduce the cost of government by cutting spending. After all, there is no way to pay for all the government programs Obama wants by simply by taxing the rich.

History has proven time-and-again that capitalism works and socialism does not. Taking money from the rich and redistributing it to the poor does not grow the economy. On the contrary, it reduces the incentives of both parties. It lowers savings, destroys capital, limits economic growth, and lowers living standards. Maybe Obama should take his eyes off the teleprompter long enough to read some American history. In fact, he could start by reading the Constitution that he swore an oath to uphold.

As many around this country continue to struggle to make ends meet, often finding a little month left at the end of the paycheck, our government is positioning itself to take even more of our hard-earned dollars, all in the name of “redistribution of wealth” or “spreading the wealth around”.

Of course, in order to do that, they are busily passing legislation to give them the authority to do just that.

Enter the latest push back article, written by none other than Bill O’Reilly.  I don’t often listen to what he has to say.  Even though I agree with him in principle, in my opinion he is just another voice that has garnered a large following to the things he believes.  However, this article spoke to my economic heart.

Here is a teaser quote that should draw you into clicking the link and reading all of what he has to say:

There comes a time when the truth must be told. The federal government is not built to run massive entitlement programs or health care or even the U.S. Postal Service, which is now going bankrupt. Washington simply cannot administrate to 300 million people no matter how much money pours in.  I work hard and want to pay my fair share. But I don’t want my hard-earned dollars wasted by lazy, incompetent politicians pandering for votes.

It is clear as mud just what is coming down the pike.  Government used to be of the people, by the people, and for the people.  It was put in place as a safeguard for the citizens in the name of protecting us and providing for our general welfare.

It now seems increasingly clear that they have ‘come out of the closet’ and are no longer hiding their true intent:

To know better than us what to do with our money, even though everything they have ever tried has failed miserably.

May God help us!

Having lived through the 2008 recession, the election of America’s first ‘black’ President, and the subsequent bailouts of those deemed ‘too big to fail’, I am now witness to the latest phenomena known as OWS, or Occupy Wall Street.

In addition to this, the current OOTWH (Occupant Of The White House) is supporting both, by advocating continued bail outs for Wall Street bankers and businesses and voicing his support of the OWSers.

Which leads me to this latest video by Andrew Klavan, entitled “Wall Street On Trial“.

After viewing this, I have come to the conclusion that both the Wall Street crowd and the OWS crowd are quite possibly two sides of the same coin.  And, whichever way the President flips that coin, he wins!  And, we lose!!  He is going after the rich while trumpeting himself as the vanguard of the poor, while furthering his agenda of ushering in Socialism at its least and Communism at its worst, under the guise of class envy.

Reminds me of an old saying: “Heads I win; tails you lose”.

When concerned about the economic well being of us all, this truly gives me pause to more clearly understand just how stacked the deck is against us, and that we have been dealt a hand that will not win, no matter which way we play it.

May God help us!

Long before the election of Barack Hussein Obama in 2008, many had been warning about his past.  A past that included a position viewing America as an aggressor and oppressor of the downtrodden.  Well, as his ‘former’ pastor was once quoted as saying: “The chickens have come home to roost“.

Here is the latest evidence that points squarely to the fact that the current occupant of the White House is not who he made himself out to be during the campaign.  It is in the form of his speech given on Tuesday evening revealing who he really is: a Socialist at best and a Communist at worst.

Mychal Massie has just written an excellent expose blog addressing this very fact.  Here it is in its entirety:

Obama Is Greater Threat Than KKK Or Al Qaeda

I know this is going to sound harsh, sobeit. Obama is the most contemptible and loathsome person ever in the history of this nation to maintain a public position – and I am prepared to vigorously defend that statement. The Ku Klux Klan and Al Qaeda have done less to divide and harm America than Obama and here’s why.

Yesterday speaking at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kansas, Obama said that “limited government” and “rugged individualism doesn’t work and has never worked.” He said that America must “look to a more activist government that taxes more, spends more and regulates more if they want to preserve the middle class.”

Folks, that is without question the most unambiguous admonition for Communism ever made by a sitting president of the United States. It is one more demonstrative statement that Obama is a Communist whose primary goal is to turn America into a Communist nation. And, permit me to interject that Republicans, (and quite frankly Democrats too), who are standing by, silently allowing this Erebusic megalomaniac to spew his detestable and divisive rhetoric to the impressionable and malleable minds of children, who are being inculcated daily with similar messages that are being taught by teachers who share Obama’s Communist philosophy – is equivalent to openly supporting a terrorist attack on American soil.

Words fail to express the contempt I have for Obama as a human being. He is condemning the very thing that made America great. And specific to that point, America was great before there was an Obama. It should be a punishable offense to allow him to undermine that greatness.

America is in denial to believe that he is not a Communist, doing everything in his power to forcibly and insidiously transform the nation into same. It is misinformation for the media, political pundits, and writers of opinion to report his actions in any other way. He is a manifestation of evil that threatens America in a way the KKK and AL Qaeda could but hope to.

He condemns and attacks the very thing that is allowing him to raise a billion dollars for his re-election campaign, i.e., free-market capitalism. He no longer hides his Marxian belief of “from each according to his ability to each according to his need.” He is the president, he represents an idea, a symbol of integrity and a presumption of knowing to those children. What child is going to stand up and say “excuse me, Mr. President, but you are full of crap?”

Stop using words like populist to describe him and his speeches. Descriptions such as that are attempts to put expensive perfume on a manure pile in an effort to make it smell and appear pleasant. But, even if you are blind, that perfume will only mask the smell until the pile is stirred – then it smells again.

Obama is dividing this nation based on race and economic status. He is preying on ignorance and the discontent that he is responsible for creating and fomenting. He condemns those who took the risks to achieve and create that which others also benefit from. He used the word fairness 14 times in his speech yesterday, in an attempt to demonize those who have achieved above others.

What is never pointed out, is that the overwhelming majority of people are not inclined to take the risks inherent with starting a business. He simply chants the mantra that its not fair for some to have more than others, and that it is his stated intention to change that. He is portraying himself as the champion of the working class and that he will take from the evil rich who took/take the risks and give it to the poor middle class. Communism demands there be income and wealth equality, that is not based on work or effort, but that is based on philosophy.

Government doesn’t create and our Founding Fathers did not draft a Constitution or form a government intended to do same. It is nothing short of Communist philosophy to believe and espouse that it is government’s job to do same.

And, lest I be remiss in adding two more voices to the concerns regarding Hussein’s latest attack against the very foundational principles that have made this country the envy of the world, here is none other than Rush Limbaugh:

http://dailyrushbo.com/rush-on-obama-kansas-speech-communist-leaders-around-the-world-give-this-speech-constantly/

http://dailyrushbo.com/limbaugh-to-obama-you-have-just-outed-yourself-you-have-nothing-but-contempt-for-this-country/

And, Glenn Beck:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/becks-very-epic-analysis-of-obamas-new-nationalism-speech-he-is-lying/

Anyone worried about 2012?

Not all that bothered by what others do with their fortune and fame, I have to take exception to the heading of today’s post.

As is its custom, the main Google page often displays their name in art form.  As it so happens, today is the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.  However, I discovered that Google chose to completely ignore this day often called the “day of infamy” by maintaining its standard moniker instead of modifying it to commemorate the event.

On the other hand, even before the midnight hour had descended ipon the west coast, they had modified their banner to depict a mural honoring someone by the name of Diego Rivera.  Upon closer examination, it was revealed that he was a well-known artist, famous for his many murals.  Going to Wikipedia for further insight into this individual and Google’s need to recognize him on what would have been his 125th birthday, I found this:

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist…..

An active communist!!

So, in light of this, don’t try telling me that Google isn’t about advocating a system that is all about “redistributing wealth” (sound familiar?), while enjoying the freedom that comes from Capitalism to become as rich and powerful as they choose to be!!

You can also read more on Moonbattery…..

The following post is a copy and paste of an article written by David Limbaugh.  Read it carefully.  Even though it may sound hopelessly depressing, the final sentence is worth holding onto.

The Orwellian American Left

As I heard Barack Obama and his propaganda minister, Jay Carney, endorsing tax cuts as a vehicle for economic growth, I was reminded, again, of George Orwell’s “1984″ and the striking similarities between his Oceania and the American left’s vision for America.

Oceania’s Big Brother regime had “four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided,” the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love and the Ministry of Plenty. Each department was dedicated to the opposite principle suggested by its title.

“Truth” disseminated lies. “Peace” promoted war. “Love” enforced uniformity of thought. And “Plenty” manipulated the economy to impoverish the people while enriching the ruling class. God was expelled and absolute truth abolished, while “doublespeak” was promoted.

Oceania’s Thought Police was the Ministry of Love’s enforcement arm, while the Ministry of Truth undertook the task of rewriting history in service to the Party slogan, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Today the left has a Ministry of Truth, because it knows that twice as many Americans identify themselves as conservatives than as liberals and so has to disguise its policies to deceive the majority.

Its Ministry of Peace would be better-named the Ministry of Bipartisanship, which, in the name of reaching across the aisle with a friendly hand, slices it off with a partisan dagger.

Its Ministry of Love is more aptly named the Ministry of Tolerance, which dictates one way of thinking and demonizes dissenters. The Ministry of Plenty is alive and well in the Obama administration’s cadre of economic advisers.

The liberal establishment’s Ministry of Truth extends throughout our culture, having taken over our educational institutions, the arts and the sciences. How slavishly our academics hew to the Party slogan. They have planted themselves in positions of cultural influence to “control the present,” in order to rewrite the past (to conform to their dogma), for purposes of “controlling the future.”

Our professors of history, economics, political science, sociology, psychology, philosophy, journalism, law, the hard sciences and other fields deride Western civilization and characterize our founders as Christian-mocking deists devoted to enlightenment principles of the philosophers. They speciously tie our unique freedoms to our “secular” founding to argue that we must banish God from the public square, lest we lose our liberties. In the name of academic inquiry, these academic and cultural “Thought Police” indoctrinate and intimidate students who dare deviate from their thought mandates.

Their textbooks tell us that Franklin D. Roosevelt not only was not a domestic liberal but also saved capitalism through socialism. (Talk about “doublespeak.”) They say his New Deal spent us out of the Great Depression, while current historians not housed in the Ministry of Truth tell us it exacerbated our economic woes. Based on the ministry’s revisionism, Keynesian economists were empowered to reflect those myths in their textbooks for a half-century.

Armed with their revised lessons from history, Obama’s Ministry of Plenty advocated passage of the “stimulus” bill, which was doublespeak for “rampant redistribution to its allies, sucking the oxygen out of the private sector and suppressing the economy.”

The left’s Ministry of Truth, with the full-throated support of the “unbiased” mainstream media, has given us such Orwellian originals as “pro-choice” while suing an 80-year-old prayer-warrior for standing outside Planned Parenthood’s abortion factory to share important information with pregnant mothers to help them make a fully informed choice. The ministry seeks to shut down conservative talk radio, with the “Fairness Doctrine.”

It forbids private ballots for employees to vote anonymously on union membership for the purpose of intimidating them to join — in the name of the “Employee Free Choice Act.” It boasts of “budget cuts” when it slightly reduces the rate of increases in spending. It calls the budget-busting Obamacare legislation the “Affordable Care Act.” It calls a bill that would further expand unemployment a “jobs bill.” It fabricates and manipulates a consensus on “climate change” and ostracizes dissenters as science-averse. (In Oceania, science had “almost ceased to exist.”) It conspires with its Ministry of Tolerance to describe political dissent from its effort to legalize homosexual marriage as “hate” and to brand political conservatism as “racism.”

While the rapacious Obama administration recklessly squanders our national wealth in its lust for power, its ministries of Plenty and Bipartisanship vilify the wealthy — who are paying a disproportionate share of taxes — for not paying their fair share. The Ministry of Plenty, while presiding over the destruction of the private sector, castigates job creators for hoarding all the wealth.

2012 won’t be so much about two competing visions as it will be a contest of truth. Without the left’s Orwellian ministers and their deputies in the press and academia, it would be a historic blowout and rejection of their vision.

I’m betting it will be anyway.