We need America back...and we need Lake County to be rescued from the crooks.

Why has the criminal Democratic Machines ruled North Lake County for decades?   You think a County Income tax is anything but a grab by crooked politicians from Gary and East Chicago and Gary to continue to fund their scams by stealing it from South Lake County.   The only way to save Lake County and Indiana is to fix Washington and Indiana as well as Lake County, too.   We need to be smart and fight.  Be smart and fight.  Be smart and fight!!!

Obama Versus the Founding Fathers

There is perhaps no other American president who stands in such stark contrast to the US Founding Fathers than Barack Hussein Obama. By almost every measure, his reign of error is completely at odds with what the Fathers envisaged.

Whole books could be written about Obama’s demolition job on the American vision, his desecration of the US Constitution, and his utter disregard for the basic principles upon which the nation was founded. In fact, they already have been written.

So let me here just focus on his latest act of blatant anti-Americanism. On Sunday he delivered a commencement address at Ohio State University. In it he said this: “Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works; they’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.”

Now isn’t it odd that a president who seems to be doing his best to turn America into a PC dictatorship should tell these graduates to not listen to those who warn about these very things? This is of course the exact opposite of what the Founding Fathers said.

America of course was established as an act of resistance to tyranny. And this right to be wary, to be on guard, to be vigilant, and if need be, to resist tyrannical rule, was at the very heart of the thought and practice which went into America’s founding. Consider just a few – of many – representative quotes:

-“Rebellion to tyrants is Obedience to God.” Benjamin Franklin
-“A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.” George Washington
-“It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.” James Madison
-”The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” Thomas Jefferson
-“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” Thomas Jefferson
-“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson
-“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.” Thomas Jefferson
-”The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” Patrick Henry
-”If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants.” William Penn
-”…no civil rulers are to be obeyed when they enjoin things that are inconsistent with the commands of God…. All commands running counter to the declared will of the Supreme Legislator of heaven and earth are null and void, and therefore disobedience to them is a duty, not a crime.” Jonathan Mayhew

These sentiments could not be further afield from those expressed by BHO. He seeks a submissive, compliant populace which asks no questions, dares not rock the boat, and slavishly does whatever their political masters tell them to do. The Founding Fathers would be rolling in their graves to hear such idiocy.

Ben Shapiro has just commented on this. He says, “Government, in Obama’s view, is the great guarantor of rights. Never mind that government – yes, government in America – has routinely stripped its citizens of rights. Never mind that state governments stripped black people of their basic personhood for decades, enshrining slavery with the help of the federal government. Never mind that for a century after slavery, state governments, with the silent assent of the federal government, enshrined Jim Crow. Never mind that the federal government stripped thousands of Japanese citizens of their rights during World War II and the unborn of their rights in 1973.

“None of that matters to Obama. He said, ‘This country cannot accomplish great things if we pursue nothing greater than our own individual ambition.’ The Founders believed, to the contrary, that government’s job was to protect our most basic rights so that we could pursue the individual dreams and ambitions that truly make America great – the dreams and ambitions that created Edison and Ford, Jobs and Gates.”

He concludes: “Obama’s rhetoric here is more than perverse — it is supremely dangerous. American rights cannot be removed by a limited government. They can be, and have been, removed by a government actively seeking to remove rights. The Founders knew that. That’s why the system they set up was designed to check interest against interest, to prevent consolidation of power in any one branch or any one person. The Founders were skeptical of government and feared government tyranny. That’s why they rebelled against the British crown. And that is why the system of checks and balances they created – a system that has gradually been overthrown and replaced by leftists from Woodrow Wilson to Obama – was designed to stop such tyranny through complexity and balance.

“A people that does not fear government oppression is not a free people. It is a subject people. A people that believes that the government somehow invariably guards rights is not an American people – it is a Rousseauian rabble prepared to accept the yoke of tyranny. God gave us rights. The Founders gave us a messy system of government to allow the government to protect those rights while preventing the government from usurping them. Worshipping government achieves neither of those purposes.”

And Gary DeMar asks these questions: “Would Barack Obama have spoken out against Stalin or Hitler before their governments degenerated into full-orbed tyrannies? Would the President have supported the Polish Solidarity movement over against the Communist tyranny?

“Would he have joined the 52 signers of the Declaration of Independence? Here’s the opening paragraph: ‘When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.’

“In fact, the signers of the Declaration described the king of England as a tyrant: ‘The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world’….

“The Second Amendment prohibits the Federal Government from forbidding people in the various states from ‘keeping and bearing arms’ for ‘the security of a free state.’ It is the duty of the states to protect its citizens against the usurpation of their constitutional rights. Ours is a slow moving tyranny. An iron fist in a velvet glove.”

We have nothing to fear from a citizenry zealous to defend freedom and guard against tyranny. But we do have very much to fear from a president who criticises such people, and claims their concerns are simply unfounded.

www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/us/politics/obama-tells-ohio-state-graduates-hes-optimistic.html?_r=0

townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2013/05/08/will-tyranny-ever-come-to-america-n1590337

politicaloutcast.com/2013/05/president-obama-sometimes-tyrannies-do-lurk-around-the-corner/

There will be an income tax in Lake County

The County Commissioners opted not to veto the Council's income tax (1.5%) and now Lake County becomes the final county in the state to adopt an income tax.  

Thoughts?

Just in from Indianapolis

For Immediate Release

April 25, 2013

GOVERNOR PENCE CALLS AGREEMENT FOR 5 PERCENT INCOME TAX CUT AND INHERITANCE TAX REPEAL “GREAT VICTORY” FOR HOOSIER TAXPAYERS

“Today Hoosier taxpayers won a great victory. The agreement reached between our administration and legislative leaders will be the largest state tax cut in Indiana history. The combination of a 5 percent individual income tax cut, inheritance tax repeal and additional tax relief for businesses is the right tax relief at the right time and will give a much needed boost to working families, small businesses and family farms.

I am grateful for the leadership of Senate President Pro Tem David Long,  Speaker Brian Bosma and other key fiscal leaders for working diligently with our administration to craft this historic package of tax relief. Their efforts demonstrate the commitment of the General Assembly to put taxpayers first.”

Chavismo

We in this blog, and almost all conservatives on the whole, try to win the electorate over by convincing them of the bare, dry facts.  Liberals tug at the heartstrings and try to win with emotion.  Conservatives also aim for consistency in their candidates and officials, and readily throw out those who let them down with their personal behavior as well as public voting record.  Liberals don't care what the person is like as long as they get their liberal points advanced.

This is shown often in Region politics.  A sitting Lake County surveyor had the FBI raid his office and copy all of his records, and he waves it away saying, "It's important for everyone not to jump to any conclusions. This is not the first time the FBI has been in a governmental office here, nor will it be the last time, I'm sure."[1]  He wins reelection handily.  A person who the county Democrat chairman begged to get off the ballot due to the controversies surrounding her barely lost the county race for Assessor.[2]  Over the state line, Jesse Jackson III (with his $43,000 Rolex watch) easily won re-election to the U.S. Congress in spite of his lack of campaigning since he was in the nuthouse during the race.[3]

Do conservatives miss the boat by trying to win people with facts rather than charisma?  Why can't we find someone who we know backs our take on the issues while at the same time make the voters swoon?  Bueller?  Where are you, Bueller?

Watching the fuss and fluster over the Hugo Chavez funeral got me thinking about this.  In spite of the litany of destruction his policies effected, a huge contingent of the population loves him still.  Read this short list and visit the source at [4] for the homework.  Venezuela:

• Is the second world's unfriendliest country toward visitors and tourists (1st. unfriendliest, Evo Morales' Bolivia) World Economic Forum Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013.

• Is at the bottom in global competitiveness, 126th of 126.

• Is the fourth from the bottom in Economic Freedom (Ahead of Zimbabwe, Cuba, and North Korea, but behind Eritrea) - 2013 Index of Economic Freedom.

• Ranked 165 of 176 in perceived corruption (Ahead of Iraq but behind Haiti. Haiti!!)

• Ranked 117 of 179 in press freedom (Ahead of Nepal but behind Macedonia).

• Ranked an average of 89 of 97 of 8 factors defining Rule of Law. In the Criminal Law factor alone, it ranked at the botom, 97 of 97.

• Major drug-transit country, facilitated by pretty much all of the above.

A liberal gets these results, and yet is worshiped to where they're looking to embalm and display him so he could still be there for the people who he ruined loved.  Liberals ruined Detroit and Gary with unopposed policy setting, yet only a liberal can win in those cities.  A conservative can beat a liberal like a rug over every issue, yet it does not win him or her the election.  Biden can make gaffes three times a week and it's ok, but the biggest gaffe Palin made she did not even make, and it's held against her for life: Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live in a skit said, "I can see Russia from my house."

How can one be a conservative, yet win like a liberal?

Bibliography:
[1] Times article about the Surveyor's raid
[2] Times article about Carol Ann Seaton
[3] Mr. & Mrs. Jackson charges
[4] Vivicat blog post with the list

Is the United States a Nation of Frogs?

My friend Solomon P. (aptly named) recently wrote an essay and I would like to present it to you.  We certainly have a lot of frogs and sheep in this nation but that is not all...if we had more lions, this nation would not stand for the boneheads and users and good old beltway boys that populate our government!  Solomon identifies seven animals that typify the population of our nation.  

Nation of Frogs?

The other day I saw an old and a bit overused analogy about how we don’t notice our rights being eroded and our wealth being stolen, because it’s happening so slowly, the analogy compared us to frogs in a pot.

I disagree with this analogy I believe that just as we have many points of view, we have a myriad of different animals to choose from when it comes to comparing our nation.

First there are the Sheep-

Sheep are lead to the slaughter with no hesitation. These are the ones out yelling; “raise my taxes, take away my guns, and do it for the children.” They have no idea about freedom or wealth or economics or even the true sources of crime.

Next we have the Hermit Crab-

He seeks refuge in his shell of ignorance. He doesn't want to be bothered with politics, and insists he can’t change anything anyway. He doesn't understand that many of our forefathers felt the small and insignificant at one point or another in their life and they broke free from the insignificance only to construct the greatest nation on the planet. He also doesn't realize that by doing nothing, he’s doing just what his enemies need him to do, as they push him further into insignificance.

Next we have the Pig-

This guy makes a lot of noise but in all reality is very lazy. Not only is he lazy but often finds himself in the mire of the left whilst he thinks only of himself. He waits for his government check every month while talking on a tax payer funded phone to his friends and neighbors and refuses to even try to work, after all he shouts there just aren't any jobs to be had. Often times the pig is illiterate and teaches his offspring to be the same.

Number 4 is the Parrot-

Here is an animal that loves to be heard, and loves to repeat that which others tell him. The problem with the parrot is that he can’t really think for himself and his source of information is tainted by liberal spin. One week he’s worried about Sequester and the next he’s worried about banning guns, never looking past the diversions and never repeating anything worth hearing.

Eagles are next on the list-

These beautiful birds are the envy of the natural world held aloft by an economy never seen in the history of the world, but most of them don’t realize that with the winds of chance they will soon plummet to the ground and become extinct, at least here in the USA. There wealth may allow them to stay elevated beyond that of the average animal down here but when that’s been taxed away, that’s when that real pain begins.

Next is the Lion-

Lions are become far rarer every day. Lions are self sustaining, independent and above all else leaders. They know no one else will give them the lifestyle they want so they have to go get it, themselves. They are innovators and industrialist thriving despite the negative spiral the politics of today. They roar the truth of Individual liberties and the responsibility everyone has to themselves and to their family. Lions are not happy with mediocrity they are constantly striving to better their lot as they eye the next prey. Lions feed on truth and innovation.

Finally we have the Jackals-

 

These are fierce and ugly, but they are mere scavengers and only hunt when there are no carcasses to pick clean. They have a little bit of fight in them but when face to face with a lion they will back down more often than not. Jackals are known for a conniving attitude. They will write laws they are above. They despise the truth for it doesn't further their lifestyle. Do not be fooled, just because they haven’t turned toward you drooling in angst and hunger as tax dollars dwindle, doesn't mean they won’t. Jackals run in packs to keep outsiders from exposing them. They pass bills that are overly complicated so as to impose their will in a malicious manner. They use diversion, subversion and propaganda to build the pile of taxes higher and higher. Bitter from birth, they will not rest until they have all the spoils they are entitled to.

Roar if you are a lion.

Solomon P.

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If you believe you have the right to succeed, good for you!   If you think you deserve to succeed, you are mistaken.   There is no right to be fed or housed or to receive medical care.  No one deserves the government to support them.   The amount of people in this country who think otherwise is appalling!

 

So I would say there is also the Wolf - The same people who are taught to expect the government to care for them are the ones who do not believe they could care for themselves.  So they accept living in a run-down apartment or trailer and perhaps sell drugs, prostitute themselves, rob houses, play the numbers and other underground economy activities typical of the poor parts of cities and large towns. Really, if we pay women to have children but punish them if they marry, do we expect the traditional family model to thrive in the ghetto?  Do we expect fatherless children to succeed in life?  Why do you think gangs prosper?  It isn't just the peer pressure, it is also the concept that a gang is kind of a family unit.  Gangs actually rule areas of some cities near my location.  I know areas the police try to avoid and will warn people to stay away from in Chicago and Gary for certain.

 

 

 

During my long life, I have spent time living in the ghetto and also spent a couple of years walking the mean streets seeking to give the gospel of Christ to anyone who would listen.  There are a lot of kids who think that, unless sports or music can take them to fame and fortune, the only thing to do is join a gang and be a banger for the rest of their lives.  Some of them attempt to do both at once.  I promise you that there are many more murders in Chicago than the official totals.  There are people living in places the city doesn't know about and there are plenty of people who wind up in landfills, unreported deaths by gangsters of one stripe or another.   I am not even mentioning the old-fashioned organized criminals who are like leeches on the typical big city Democratic Machine and "wet their beaks" through intimidation.  These folks know how to do it while looking legitimate.  

 

 

 

Go ahead, check out any big city with an entrenched Democratic Machine running things.  Chicago may be the most effective of them all, as they manage to let the big animal keep enough blood to be effective.  But places like Gary and Detroit are, well, you would almost have to see it to believe it. Detroit has a population of wild dogs that have actually become speciated enough to be identifiable. They resemble the Wild Dog of Africa!  Detroit and Gary have many places where buildings are crumbling, any power is being used is stolen from the power company, dogs and gang-bangers run the streets and God help you if you get lost and drive into the area.  If you are spotted, you may not live to see another day.  More likely you will be deliberately smacked by a vehicle and, when you get out to exchange insurance information you will be robbed.  

 

 

 

 

There should be a special place in hell for Lyndon Baines Johnson and everyone who helped him craft the Great Society legislation that created a mass of pigs and sheep in the inner cities.  Now walking tall and looking for trouble, the wolves that are inner city gang-bangers run in packs and feed off of the sheep and pigs and any other animal weak enough to be defenseless against them.   Now imagine how many good people are stuck in the inner cities and try so hard to raise their children right?  Burdened by tax foolishness if they are married, sending kids to schools where few teachers give a rip, looking for a way to afford to get the heck OUT OF THERE!

 

I do my best to inform the sheep and pigs and crabs and get the parrots to THINK for once.  Eagles think they do not have anything to worry about so rarely do they deign to even read something like an obscure worldview blog.  I am usually fighting the parrots and jackals.  I am a lion.  I work for my living, I have built my own business despite a couple of horrific accidents that would have allowed me to go on the government dole.  I have not even considered it and only use the handicapped moniker to allow me to park right in front of stores.  I believe this nation was founded by lions and every man and woman in the USA ought to be lions!

However, there are lions who disagree with me, I do not mean to say a "Progressive" or a "Darwinist" cannot be a lion.  I believe any such lions will eventually come over to my side because I am for traditional morals, the Constitution of the United States, capitalism and innovation and against a strong central government but rather believe that more power should go to the state and local governments.  Lions tend to be individuals who cherish the freedom to succeed and are willing to work for it.  So my hope is all the Lions will eventually join forces and become Kings of the Jungle again, and in doing so returning power to the people = One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all...with power distributed to the States and Local entities as the Founding Fathers had envisioned us. 

I think Solomon only missed one other animal:

The Hyena - They are opportunistic and carnivorous and love to eat what another animal has caught by outnumbering the predator and chasing him away.   One on one, a lion will defeat a hyena and so would a leopard or a tiger.  But a pack of hyenas can chase away outnumbered big cats.  

 

Washington, DC has a lot of lions, but they also have a lot of jackals and hyenas...and parrots.  There are also the jackasses but everybody knows there are going to be a lot of them in politics!   Hmm, I suppose there are jellyfish because some politicians I know have no backbone?   In any event, while this post is a bit off the subject, consider for yourself what the USA has become.  We were once a nation populated by lions, but the other animals have reproduced much faster than the lions and therefore the gullible and the uncaring have helped begin the destruction of the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet.  

Kevin Tracy on why you should be a Republican

A three part series that some of you may have missed this month, all three worth reading and pondering:

Why Libertarians Should Vote Republican

 Why Young Voters Should Be Republicans

Why Union Workers Should Vote Republican

Love him or hate him, his writing draws debate and conversation to the surface.   

Charley Reese's Final column! Food for thought...

Charley Reese's final column for the Orlando Sentinel... He has been a journalist for 49 years. He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN.

This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!

545 vs. 300,000,000 People
-By Charlie Reese

"Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. ( The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.)

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House?( John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. ) If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to. [The House has passed a budget but the Senate has not approved a budget in over three years. The President's proposed budgets have gotten almost unanimous rejections in the Senate in that time. ]

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ..

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees... We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!"

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

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