Thoughts on "The Obama Recovery"

"The Obama Recovery" upon deep thought and observation it is now appropriate and accurate to view such a term as a 21st century addition to George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four "Newspeak".  For the term means exactly its opposite.

To illustrate the point this "Recovery" has so far created a national unemployment rate of over ten percent with a Bureau of Labor Statistics u-6 unemployment rate at a European level 17%.  An increase in Federal and State spending, borrowing, debt issuing, with increased taxes by a thousand small increases. Government bailouts of failed institutions, government enterprises, and private companies that in the free market would have been absorbed by its healthier leaner competitors or been forced by competition and survival to adapt and change.  A continuing increase in foreclosures even after multiple programs meant to steam that tide.  Lessons in capitalism from the Communist Chinese, whom own our national debt.  Job creation by way of transferring terrorist from Guantanamo Bay to Illinois.  Never mind the small detail of those terrorist, who have sworn to kill as many innocent lives as possible would be granted Constitutional rights and protections should they set foot on American soil.  A "TARP" program meant to buy toxic assets only to be used to buy in essence stock in banks and finacial firms, then used those same funds to bailout General Motors and Chrysler muscling out pre-existing law on contracts in commerce in favor of the auto Unions whom helped elect the majority in Congress passing all this.

It is the absolute display of arrogant ignorance to look at the evidence and say "give him (Obama) a chance".  The media has put his face all over the place for two years, one may as well start referring to Obama as "Big Brother".

Gross Domestic Product, GDP, was up some, yes, it would because government spending has gone up.  The pace of unemployment has stabilized, and why wouldn't it at this time of year.  Unemployment offices are closed, folks can't fill out the forms.  Some businesses hire seasonal help and wouldn't you know the holiday season is over.  The stock market is up, ok, but that doesn't tell the whole economic barometer; what of inventory, commodities, pay roll, productivity, imports, exports, new orders, profits, losses, tax burden, regulation compliance impacts on time and resources, and so on.

What is worse than "The Obama Recovery" being a part of the latest edition of the Newspeak dictionary is that by its very nature this endeavor is the polar opposite of what our nation not only needs but stands for.  It is a methodology proven to make things worse, FDR's New Deal prolonging the Depression, LBJ's Great Society ruining urban centers.  And the antitheses of the known positive results brought to us by Ronald Reagan, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence.

Bailout from the Federal government.  No, cut investment taxes.  Raise the income tax, on the so called but always refined downward, rich.  No, lets try a 15% flat income tax across the board.  Taxation and regulation of every breath we take.  No, thank you, governments scope and power is going to have to shrink.  Trillions of dollars in spending, debt, deficits, obligations, and liability.  O' no you don't, Congress, The White House, and our State capitals are going to have to spend less.  

That means duplicate programs get consolidated, redundant agencies merge, pet projects stop, expenditures outside those mandated by the Constitution get rolled back, Constitutionally emphasized areas of responsibility get prioritized.  Some things will have to go, some bureaucrats will lose their jobs, some will take pay cuts, some governmental powers will go back to the people or the states respectively.  Some new checks and balances might be in order.  Some fiscal restraint is a must.  And a lot of accountability by we the voters is due.

Personally speaking, I have no interest in seeing anymore parallels arise in my homeland and the works 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, or Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.

-Ulysses S. Arn

The Coming Year

2010 is upon us, and we conservatives have a lot of work to do.  From the primaries to the general election in November a tremendous amount of effort is going to be needed in order for the conservative movement to triumph at the ballot box.  We are going to have our work cut out for us having discussions with friends and family, writing to newspapers, posting on the web, assembling and rallying, and engaging in as many ways as possible our fellow citizens.

There are many battles that lay ahead, from the transfer of enemy terrorist to an Illinois prison, to tax increases and out of control spending, liberty stealing regulations, to smears from elected Democrats and members of the media.  Yet one thing will be undeniably clear in this coming year, each and every time, at every turn,  the conservative movement is going to stand on its philosophical and historically proven principles.

Government is to be a limited tool used by "we the people" to ensure our liberties, not so massive and onerous that it impedes our ability to lead our lives the best way we see fit in accordance with a civil society.

So when the Democrats seek to grow the size of our federal and state governments, spend massive amounts of money that can only be repaid by robbing from the future of children not yet born, intend to regulate each and every facet of daily life, while displaying weakness to our enemies who have but only one goal kill Americans.  We of the conservative movement will not be quiet, we will not back down, we will not surrender, tire, waver, wane, or quit.

Each time Governor Quinn seeks to raise our taxes, we will confidently say no.  The corrupt and ethically challenged politicians have spent too much of our tax dollars on things we don't need as a state.  Instead of burdening the people in difficult times by taking more away from them.  It is time government at all levels big and small to learn how to do with less, how to prioritize, how to become more efficient, and ultimately how to leave us alone.

Every time Senator Durbin tells us that bringing our enemies to our great state is good because it will create jobs.  We will start saying no before the sentence is finished.  With double digit unemployment nation wide, millions of jobs need to be created, not a handful.  And the way you go about creating millions of jobs is to cut capital gains taxes, cut income taxes, cut taxes on small business, cut government spending.  I.E the things Ronald Reagan did to get us 25 years of economic good times after the mess called Jimmy Carter, not insult the American people by bring terrorist pukes to the Midwest calling it economic activity.

And when President Obama reaches yet again into the socialist grab-bag of wished for European style government domination of society policies and justifies it with his tag lines "over the last eight years" or "the previous administration".  We will kindly object with passion.  The American experiment was a 180 degree departure from European sentiments.  We would each be responsible for our own development, government would be of, for, and by the people, every individual would be secure in their natural rights, and the Constitution restrains governmental power.  All things incompatible with pay czars, government motors, civilian trials for enemy combatants, government run health care, quadrupling our nation's debt, crushing our job creation with higher taxes, and everything in Karl Marx's manifesto.

Get used to the conservative message in 2010, smaller limited government, lower taxes, energy independence, and victory in the war on terror.

*as submitted to the rockford paper

With the availability now of e-mails and other documents from the University of East  Anglia's Climate Research Unit demonstrating that man made global climate change is a fake fraudulent hoax.  I hope I never again have to hear about the ineffective and unsustainable use of windmills, solar panels, and "green energy," as the solutions to meet our nations energy requirements.  Nor should anyone have to put up with legislation, treaties, or agreements that would succeed in reverting the human race backwards 2,000 years by destroying capitalism, personal freedoms, and individual choice.

What I do hope to hear about in the near future is the creation of thousands of jobs because new nuclear power plants have been built to supply abundant electricity.  New oil drilling operations and new refineries making the fuel our economy runs on affordable and readily available.  While simultaneously I wait with eager fascination for our scientist, researchers, inventors, and entrepreneurs to develop the next generation of ways to bless humanity with bountiful energy improving the quality of our lives via geothermal power, hydrogen fuel, or capacitors to store the energy of lighting among dozens of possibilities.  None of which has the prerequisite of complete submission to socialism.

*as submitted to the Rockford Register Star for printing

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