A Vent About Politics

I had the opportunity to have several extended conversations with a gentleman originally from East Germany who owns his own very successful business in the US. It’s amazing and interesting to hear the stories of people who have lived under socialist governments. They tell stories of governments simply making the accusation of fraud and destroying peoples lives, threats by police and the intimidation of the tax collectors. I take every opportunity to listen to those who have experienced it.

This gentlemen told how at 11 years old his family fell out of favor with the government when his 15 year old brother escaped. At 11 years old the police took him to a cell where he was tied to a chair with bright lights in his face where they screamed, threatened, promised and intimidated him to try and get the location of his older brother. The interrogation culminated with the dry firing of a handgun against the side of his 11 year old head.

At 13 his Mother and Father packed everything they could carry into four suitcases and took a train which passed through uncontrolled territory. The train was scheduled to make a single stop and continue on its way. The family of 3 ran from the train. German guards held machine guns pointed at the families backs, American guards had machine guns trained on the Germans. Noone fired. The 13 year old boy, his mother and actually very sick father lived that day.

This event happened about 40 years ago, and the first thing I want to say is that this is yet another of the millions of examples where the USA put our own son’s on the line to do the right thing for the world. Europe would do well to remember these not too small favors. The second thing I would like to say is that the staunchest conservatives in America are not those raised in religious households but rather those who know the ugly side of government.

This man fears everything about what America is becoming. The striking similarities in taxation and government response. Politicians living outside the law. How many politicians have been recently caught not paying their taxes and getting away without punishment. What would happen to us if we did that? How many politicians have committed what would be considered crimes for us and been exonerated? This gentlemen sees the parallels very clearly!

What he fears more, is the importing of millions of illegals which is going on at a moment by moment basis. They cross his property and have no understanding of what our US government is intended to be. They do know they receive shelter from our Democrat party and in return they vote illegally for Democrats so they can be free.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi stood proudly before a gathering of many illegal aliens and declared they are “…very, very patriotic.” Our country’s federal ICE agents, responsible for helping control illegal aliens, are damaging the very core of our heritage, the family, according to her. These agents risking their lives to help control the challenges of illegal aliens, are suddenly unpatriotic.

Nancy Pelosi is the worst example of an evil and immoral politician who craves power above any sort of reason. She is also very powerful, enough so that I fear her a bit while writing this blog. She does not stand for freedoms, she does not stand for our success, she supports nothing but personal power, taxation and subjugation dressed up in a saccharine smile and double talk. Yet people fall for it.

My new friend described how the constant message of the East German government was helping the little people, the disheveled, those without proper food, health, education and wealth redistribution. Those of us who already know this aren’t surprised in any way, this is the happy message of socialism. The same message which has resulted in the death of millions, poverty, starvation and the stifling of individual thought.

Global warming is actually the recent keystone of the movement, all solutions are attacks on the very thing which drives our prosperity—energy. Biofuels, solar and geothermal and conservation cannot work, there’s not enough energy. Nuclear fission, clean coal and others which do work are considered bad alternatives.

The recent cooling of the earth is creating a huge problem for the politicians so the initial policies need to be formed this year if possible before the public realizes the problem is vastly exaggerated. Cap and trade is just the beginning, it is an obvious mechanism to make large industry which drives the world prosperity, less effective. Small industry cannot build cars and planes, it’s simply impossible. The taxation can only be effective in it’s stated goal by reduction/destruction of prosperity, the effects of which are obvious across the world.

While our expatriated socialist friends warn of the coming storm, our foolish masses indoctrinated en. mass by the government controlled liberal school systems, drive forward directly into the trap. The only way all the global warming facts on policy vs solutions fit together is if the global warming movement is a political one rather than a scientific one. A political movement to socialism and added power for those in charge. Of course none of this means that some global warming may be true.

I’ll leave you with a comment from our unAmerican president which to me says it all.

Barack Obama: I think that… we have been slow to move in a better direction when it comes to energy usage. And the president, frankly, hasn’t had an energy policy.* And as a consequence we’ve been consuming energy as if it’s infinite. We now know that our demand is badly outstripping supply with China and India growing as rapidly as they are.

CNBC’s John Harwood: So could the (high) oil prices help us?

Barack Obama: I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that this is such a shock to American pocketbooks is not a good thing. But if we take some steps right now to help people make the adjustment, first of all by putting more money in their pockets, but also by encouraging the market to adapt to these new circumstances more rapidly, particularly U.S. automakers…

You don’t have to be a genius to read between those lines. You do need to be a fool not to….