Very Difficult to See the Forest for the Trees: Keep the scandals coming so we can not see the fundamental change to our way of life.

The Trees: This is massive misdirection:

The IRS scandal:

Lost emails:

Lois Lerner did it all on her own: However all the emails to the White House have been lost.

Benghazi: The President of the United States Lied to the American People as a means to be reelected to the presidency. 4 dead Americans.

Fast and Furious: Does anybody even remember this. The Dept of Justice lied to congress and the American People in order to avoid be in prosecuted. 1 dead American.

VA. What can I say about this. It is just simply wrong and needs to get fixed even if the Administration and Democrats have to undo the largest Public single payer program run by the government. 40+ plus dead veterans due to neglect.

AP: The Justice Department spied on the Associated Press reporters’ phone records.
Obama Care: We should have read it before we passed it. The President has changed the law with out congressional approval on at least 30 times. He is a law unto himself.
The Fed. Nobody really knows what they do but they spend Trillions of dollars that we will someday have to pay back. It is kind of like taxation with out representation.

Terrorists for POW. The issue is not what Sgt Bergdauls status is. It is that we have a President that will do anything to get his way. He may have the authority to do what he did. 

Boarders: A crises on our southern boarder. OH apparently we have no boarders, at least no boarder enforcement. Hundreds of thousands with access to all the benefits the us can offer and we can not even treat our Veterans well.

Nationalized Private US companies. GM. Bailed out the Unions and not the Bond Holders.

12 rebukes to the President from the Supreme Ct. More to come.

The Forest:

Economic:

Nationalized 1/6 th of the total US Economy with out reading the bill. Passed by a democratic congress, a democratic senate with not one Republican vote. Can not keep your Doc. Etc.

4 trillion in Stimulus and the last qtr the overall economy shrank at the rate of 3% per year.

  Unemployment at 12% after 6 years and 4 trillion dollars. The labor participation rate at a 50 year low. Most new jobs are part time.

Weak dollar internationally. Canadian dollar is now worth more than the US dollar. 8 years ago the US dollar was worth 2 times the Canadian dollar.

National debt up to 17,000.000,000. That is trillion

Gas has doubled. Food is expensive. Local Taxes have risen, State taxes have risen, Federal Taxes has risen.

Social:

50 Million on food stamps

Abortion is still the law of the land, no civil rights for the unborn. 70,000,000 plus babies aborted. 40% African American. That is a whole generation of Americans.

A massive cultural change

Have gone from the best in education to competing with 3^rd world countries.

Shipped millions of jobs overseas.

Have gone from a producing society to a consuming society.

50% divorce rates. The norm is single parenting.

Massive increases in Mental Health issues with youth.

Cities grow bigger and have no sustainable plans. All the largest cities are broke. The legacy cost cannot be paid. Witness Detroit. Others are next

A permanent Political class aligned with the press, and educators with a progressive philosophy have transformed American society to a focus on the collective (government dependence) from individuals and individual freedom. Increasing central planning and consolidating power in the White House. The notion that the government can spend its way out of the hole with increasing taxes, and borrowed money is antithetical to a moral society.

The military industrial complex was the societal wart of the 50's . The progressive cabal of the press, education, labor and democrats is the scourge of the 60 70 80 90 and current social, and political life. In 2014 the progressives stole 1/6^th of the entire US economy that they had nothing to do with creating but had gained the power to control it. I should have known, they tried with ATT, IBM, Microsoft and the past with big oil, big transportation, telecom and others. Remember that the cabinet is nothing more than institutionalized lobbyist with access to the highest levels of government.

Remember this. We know have a Government that is using Saul Alinsky style political actions to govern. Alinsky style political action is designed to bring down government. And that is what is happening right now.

Obama is up to his neck in Scandals and Counting; There will be a price to pay for this form of Governing

President Obama claims that Republicans are busy probing “phony scandals.” You should decide for yourself.
Here is a list some of the administration’s most public scandals. There may be more but lets not muddy the water with speculation lets stick to the facts. I know Progressives never let a fact get in the way of spin but some of us continue to try and shed light in the dark.
Domestic: The depths of Political Corruption: 

VA. What can I say about this. It is just simply wrong and needs to get fixed even if the Administration and Democrats have to undo the largest Public single payer program run by the government. A lot of people need to be fired.
IRS. Nixon had an enemies list and so did Clinton. Political enemies are a reality. The use of the IRS to influence elections is just wrong. Using the IRS to benefit a party (Rep or Dem) is just wrong and it has to stop. A lot of people need to be fired.
 Benghazi:
The failure of the administration to protect the Benghazi mission and the changes made to the talking points in order make a political gain right before an election was simply wrong. America as a whole paid the price for the coverup. 4 dead paid the price for the lack of action by those who should have acted. I know “what difference does it make”. A lot. If your goal was to reelect the president then it did make a difference. It help him to be elected. If your goal was to lie to the American people then it worked. We need to fire a lot of people who failed the 4 dead.
AP: The Justice Department spied on the Associated Press reporters’ phone records as part of a leak investigation. They also spied on Jame Rosen of Fox News. We do not know who else but this is a violation of the constitution and the government can not do this. It is wrong and people need to be fired.
ATF “Fast and Furious” W e allowed weapons from the U.S. to “walk” across the border into the hands of Mexican drug dealers. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed with one of these weapons.
Obama Care: We should have read it before we passed it. This is socialized medicine and everybody knows it. It will work as good as Indian Health Service and the Veterans Service. Government delivered medicine can not work. Ask England, Canada, Germany and others. Oh it does work in China, and Russia. If you can get to see a Dr. after the political elite jump ahead of you in line.
The Fed. Nobody really knows what they do but they spend Trillions of dollars that we will someday have to pay back. It is kind of like taxation with out representation. It needs to stop. We need to have a say in this spending.

Terrorists for POW. The issue is not what Sgt Bergdaul's status is. It is that we have a President that will do anything to get his way. He may have the authority to do what he did. Just as others have used the law to their short term advantage. Gaining a short term political advantage is what is wrong with what he did. He got a short term political gain at the expense of the US character. That was simply wrong of him to do.  He knew if he talked to congress they would have a fit.  So he lied to the
Congress, to the American People as a whole just to gain political support from his liberal base. 


The price for such wrong actions may have begun to be paid: I hope so:.
This is from Palin's Facebook Page: I could not have said it better:

Palin said;
“Congratulations to Dave Brat in Virginia on such an encouraging victory tonight! You shocked the political world and reminded D.C. that power lies with We the People and not any conventional party establishment. Dave Brat was massively outspent (more than 10 to 1) and laughed off by most, but he won the trust of voters the old fashioned way – one by one. Tonight’s victory showed the power of the local grassroots – the ones with boots on the ground who put up the campaign signs and go door to door to provide needed support for great candidates. Appreciation also goes to those with powerful microphones like Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Ann Coulter and others who recognized Dave’s strengths and had the guts to provide him a megaphone to reach concerned citizens.

Grassroots commonsense conservatives can use this momentum to push good candidates like Chris McDaniel, T.W. Shannon, and Rob Maness to victory for America. These candidates are also being massively outspent by establishment candidates and they need our help and energy.”

 Dave Brat GOP Congressional Nomination

Now if they would only do to Senator Reid as they did to Cantor.


This is the best form of term limits in the US and it is constitutional. I have some hope again.

GFF Government Funded Families

50 years of Social, Political, and Economic Change

and the

Unintended Consequence of

GFF, Government Funded Families

This summer I will be going to my 50^th high school reunion at, Lincoln High, Des Moines Ia. This trip has got me thinking about where I came from, the values, experiences, and just life in general that I have been a participant in and a witness to.

Values: Behavior: What comes to mind is the word change. We have seen, since the 60's, a major change in American society and I am not sure the changes, (the solutions) to our perceived social, personal, political, economic or religious problems have produced as advertised. From a macro view I see we have gone from Social forces governing our general behavior, relationships, and private and public actions to a law and regulations ruled society enforced and interpreted by government. For example; If my dad did not work we did not eat, have a home, car etc. Today we have government programs that will take care of those basics. We also have multi generation welfare families (GFF).

Primarily these social forces were passed from church and family to the individual and later by society. The formation of guilt and shame was a important part of what kept our society from chaos. I currently believe that the chaos we currently experience is a direct result of unintended consequences of political overreach by government. In fact, I believe the unintended consequences have been worse for our society than the percieved problems they were intended to deal with and we continue to try and solve the new problems, which are the unintended consequences of the original problems, with the same actions, programs, behavior etc. More tax money by the billions, new government programs by the thousands, more power too the government by new laws and regulation , and more government favor to we who take and less for we who pay. 

 

The First Domino:

I remember as a teenager in the 60's I was driven by two competing impulses. Life was simple. Sex, and the reality of pregnancy. The competing impulses were so strong that they could only be managed by the fear of what if she gets pregnant and the prospect of guilt and shame. My fear, and the eventuality of feeling shame, the impact on my family, friends, my own self respect and self esteem shaped my own values, and morals. I was shamed and guilted into being responsible for my actions and if there was a pregnancy then I had taken the risk and deserved the consequence. All that quilt and shame was removed from my adolescents with the pill quickly followed by ROE v Wade. The first lead to the second. The primary social problem, teen pregnancy gave rise to increased sexual activity, that gave rise for the need to avoid consequence and therefore use abortion(an unintended consequence) as a means to fix sex without guilt or consequence.. The rise in STD, HIV, Post Abortion Stress, and oral sex being described by our President as not having sex with that women. All of this is an unintended consequence and we continue to poor billions of dollars, ruined lives and ruined families into attempting to fix that which was not broke. Government can not ever fix this type of social problem. Is all they can do is make laws and spend money and create dependency. The GFF is here and makes up a very large portion of our general population.

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Social: Teen pregnancy. It was a problem and societies solutions were to shame, socially isolate, non medical abortions, and single motherhood with out welfare or social supports from the Government. With these social actions the notion of shame was the controlling mechanism and the reality of not being able to support, feed, house, cloth a child as a single mother, were the regulating forces that were controlling factors in sexual behavior and child bearing in the 60's.

As can be seen in the above chart, during the 1960's something happened to our society. The change has been consistent and dramatic dramatic. The very fabric of American society which had been based on the Family has dramatically changed. The family, as the central vehicle to moral development and the maintenance of values and mores that are essential to avoiding social chaos, has been dramatically undercut and has been replaced with a utilitarian ethic that is promoted by the left and is supported by Big Government. Today's 50% divorce rate, 50% of children being raised in single mother homes, 1.3 million elective abortions, 50 million on food stamps, 14.5% real unemployment, 2% real economic growth, the nationalization of 1/6^th of the US economy, 17 trillion in debt, 4.5 trillion in bailouts and stimulus and much more. All of the governments expansion since the 1960”s has caused an explosion in number of Government Funded Families(GFF), to include funding for food, clothing, healthcare, childcare, work training, education and many other federal subsidies.

In one generation we have successfully defeated the nature of family, its responsibilities(to have and raise children), its power,(to provide and protect), and its rights(to be free of government intrusion). We have done what the communist, socialists,and fascist could not get done because of the US. And now here we are with no good solutions on the horizon. The notions of personal freedom, freedom from government interference in our life, taxation without representation, the bill of rights, liberty, freedom of political speech, a government that does not have to follow the law, lawmakers that become wealthy at taxpayers expense, a smaller population of we the people who pay and a growing population of we the people who take.

The growth of government has a direct correlation on the growth of the we who take. They put and keep the government in power to pass laws and regulations for those who take. And take taxes and fees at an ever increasing rate from those who pay. Who is the largest employer in the US. GM, Verizon, ATT.,US steel, Ford, DuPont, . Not even close. It is the Federal, State and Local government. Not counting the military. 11 million: 1.8 million civil servants, 870,000 postal workers, 1.4 million military personnel, 4.4 million contractors, and 2.5 million grantees. Plus 3 million actual employees in government

Now we have young blacks roaming the streets beating up white people just for the fun of it. We have the gay activist finding 5 year old political donations by business persons and bringing pressure to fire them because they did not agree with their position. There excuse is they have been oppressed by the white dominate culture, In fact they have been coddle by a nanny state that has given them living basics for the price of self esteem and self control. This is just one of 1000's of examples of unintended consequences. The most glaring is the, Roe, V Wade decision based on a woman right to privacy. What a great decision, women now have abortions in private. We now kill 1.3 million babies a year, in private. Just think if all those babies were here and participated in the work force. What was sold to the public as a woman's right to choose. The right to choose has become a selfish behavior of convenience where the state chooses to not protect the most vulnerable of societies members. All this for a made up right to privacy, not in the constitution. This was the beginning of the lefts willingness to do whatever they needed to do in order to get government to do for them what they could not get done within the society at large. At least not as fast as they wanted it done. In order for the left to accomplish this they needed a much larger government and they got it. Starting with President Johnson's Great Society. This was the enabling legislation for the next 50 years of welfare growth. 

There are literally 1000's of unintended consequences and we could never deal with all the problems they have created.  However,  there is some small hope and that is this experiment in socialism will not work just as the other experiments in government funded families has not worked anywhere in the world.  The original experiment (1776 to 1963) conservative constitutionalism,  was working but maybe to slow for some but we have now been run over by all the helping promised by government.