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THE BLIMP AND THE COLD DEAD HAND

Posted by Mike Silverman on Friday, September 04, 2009 10:51:56 AM
Trial balloon time.  Obama's Brigades have been floating a colorful blimp up there into the wild blue yonder, a great big gas bag like the grand old Zepplins of yester-year, and they've named it "Trigger".  But instead of helium the blimp is filled with excrement and is floating around with the notion that perhaps legislation will arise from that creepy old cobweb-filled Frankenstein's laboratory in congress where our national mad scientists rub their hands together in wild eyed glee as they stitch together pieces of a monster that they hope to bring to life.  The monster will be the moldy zombified hand of Obama Care reaching out from under the sheets of  the secret Democrat laboratory to put a death grip on the throats of private insurance companies.  The hand, attached to a warped head and abnormal brain will threaten the Insurers that if they don't comply with the wishes of the mad scientist Obama and his shifty-eyed assistants Pelosi, Reid, Frank, and the others...., by doing what those creepy villians want, basically something that the private insurers can't possibly do and still maintain a semi-reasonable premium rate, ( offer everyone the same level of insurance regardless of existing preconditions or any other factors...)  that it will reach up to that floating blimp called "Trigger" and burst it open, sending the excrement raining down on everyone until we're drowning in it.  The excrement will be the universal public healthcare system that Obama and the hard left desperately want.  It will of course include massive tax increases and witling private insurance agencies, that will drive masses of people like a huge herd of goats into the public healthcare corral..  Don't buy into the latest incarnation of proposed government controlled universal healthcare that they are calling, "the trigger".   It's just more of the same kind of government system that nobody wants.
 
- Mike Silverman
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HANGING THOMAS JEFFERSON...,

Posted by Mike Silverman on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:45:21 AM

The crux of the debate regarding GM and Chrysler and AIG and all the others is not the minutia of should the CEO be fired or not, the debate is on the principles of government's role versus the role of private business.  If we don't look at that, then we lose to the central planners, to the big government socialists who want our attention diverted precisely to the smaller argument of who should be running GM at the top, and the bonuses at AIG, and not the debacle of government taking over operations of privately owned business. I know it's difficult , with all the excitement and controversy, to step back and keep the big picture in focus, but if we lose that big picture we lose everything. This not a random romp by government egos who are trying to help one or two businesses stay afloat, this is nothing short of a complete flip of the government's role in limited interference. You have to understand that our freedom as citizens depends entirely on a very limited role of a central government. Up until the Obama Presidency, we have had some measure of restraint on this front. There has been a weak, but maintained modicum , a spark of respect for the principles of self determination and freedom to succeed or fail, allowing capitalism to absorb the failures and make successes from them.   But mass ignorance, driven by populist emotions have carried a radical socialist to the highest chair in government, and given him a fully functional right and left arm in the Senate and the House or Representatives that are working in conjunction with him put a hangman's noose around the necks of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Ben Franklin and all the founders of our nation whose brilliance long ago gave us a foundation of freedom to grow a nation upon. We are fast forgetting what freedom is and what it means to lose it.   It was those great figures from our past who declared their freedom from a self ordained Monarch, a singular power-grabbing authority who in some ways is very like Barack Obama today. The founders of our nation were willing to fight to have their freedom from an oppressive King and to be able to choose their own destinies, to rise or fall by the merit of their individual efforts rather than to have their futures and lives determined by an overlord. The fight is not about whether AIG should give out bonuses, or GM should lose it's CEO, it's about whether we rule ourselves, or the government rules us.  It's about whether we declare for freedom, or lay down and let the central government crush us under it's boot heel. We need to remember how to be free, and not willingly tie puppet strings to our own arms and legs and let our government play us like fools in a side show in the name of saving us from ourselves.

- Mike Silverman

 

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STILL THE CHILDREN CRY....,

Posted by Mike Silverman on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 10:17:37 AM
  As a nation we've been psychologically neutered. We have given psycho-chiatrists along with willing culprits in the liberal children's interests and congressmen, the status of GOD and have not challenged them when they say that children are so all important that we can not punish them, nor reprimand them, nor actually give them failing grades or losing scores when they fail in academia or competition, nor deny them any sexual exploration they choose to engage in but instead foster it by helping them with condoms. We have been convinced that children are little ceramic angels on a shelf that we need to tend carefully, not jostle in any way, and treat like priceless objects of art that can do no wrong. We have been liberalized. It's one of the 100% wins for liberalism. We can't dare speak out against anyone proposing higher spending and taxes when it's labeled as "for the children". The liberals have really bamboozled the masses on this one.  This is liberalism at it's most deadly, at it's darkest. When liberalism attacks the foundation of normal , natural learning at the elementary level, and implants in the minds of children that they are deities who rule, rather than ignorant children who must learn, it sets them up for absolute destruction. Liberals may think it builds thier self esteem ( though I don't think they really believe that... I think there's another agenda behind this...), but it does precisely the opposite. It will send children into confusion, despair and morbidity as they grow up when they finally confront the fact that thier every whim is not going to be carried out... when they finally realize that they are very, very fallible creatures. Those are the sheltered coddled kids who suddenly will realize that the world is far more unfair than they were led to believe and fall into a morbid form of self pity. In an almost ingenious way, however, it sets up liberal ideologues to hold power over the resulting adults who can not fend for themselves because they never learned how. This is an age of cultural decay and the rot is thick in some places. By tiny steps and little nudges that don’t upset the apple cart, we have been inching toward a society that will welcome a socialized form of government as way of life. Life is complicated, often filled with more failures than successes, stresses and emotional strains, joys and tragedies. But that’s life. If we allow our financial failures to be mitigated by tax money, our personal failings to be blamed on others or on society, and our moral vestment in the ethic of working for what we need and for what we want… to be superseded by an attitude of entitlement …, then we are not engaged in life. Such a scenario places us in a plastic bubble controlled by a faceless societal leviathan known as our Federal Government who will take the role of surrogate parent from prenatal to postmortem. This should be relegated to the vistas of science fiction and fantasy, not a part of our real world.

 - Mike Silverman,

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AN INCREMENTAL DESTRUCTION OF FREEDOM

Posted by Mike Silverman on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:56:27 AM
That it's even being considered to bail out the auto industry ( again ), is a crime against the founding principles of our country, and puts the government ( and thus the nation)  squarely onto the slippery slope of fascism, in fact at this point we have already fully engaged a part of our economy in fascist measure, with the tether of the lone rope keeping us from falling into the black hole below fraying at the edges. You must realize what it means to have the government taking ownership of formerly private industries. Does the name Hugo Chavez ring a bell?  For "the good of the country" he took away private ownership of all oil companies in Venezuela. There is a theory called incrementalism, which states that the masses will accept anything if it is done gradually, allowing slow acclimation by the public.  We are THERE. We are in the midst of incremental government takeover, inch-by-inch,  of any industry on which the wealth of the nation is measured. The only brake we have is the right to vote, and possibly the Supreme Court, if it will intervene in this ..., which is itself questionable. The right to vote has proven USELESS in this past election cycle since the masses have voted in the most liberal president in history and given him a majority party control of the congress. The blindness of the public eye to the incrementalism of the weakening of free market capitalism is ASTOUNDING. Not that McCain would have been a lot better, after all he voted to allow Paulson to do the ridiculous things he's done so far with his multi-billion dollar budget. This is why we need genuine Conservatives to win the positions of power in our government, to stop this incremental destruction of our system of capitalism and economic freedom.
   
- Mike Silverman, Milford MA
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HOLD EVERYTHING - THE GOVERNMENT IS ABOUT TO KICK YOU IN THE GROIN

Posted by Mike Silverman on Friday, September 19, 2008 11:14:49 AM
 
To our Representatives and Senators, our Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, our President, and to all US citizens, please... step back and take a breath, stay calm, don't panic. Let's not make a bad situation worse. Take a look at what happened on wall street overnight. News, not actual passage of legislation, but the news that the government intends to form a new 400 billion dollar regulatory agency to oversee bad debt and buy up that bad debt and bad loans. Markets have rallied, the DOW is up, wall street is celebrating, and nothing has actually happened yet to build this monstrosity of a new bureaucracy that will mortgage the future of our country's children. What does it tell you, when markets rally only on news..., it means that the markets are effected by something as simple as a few ideas being thrown around in DC. This also means that markets can be effected by leaders harping on bad news and depressing investors and consumers. We don't need this 400 billion dollar gorilla sitting on the backs of the public. Secretary Paulson, men and women of the Legislature, back off... sit down..., let this rally that has happened on the news of a monster bailout boost the confidence of the public and the world markets, and let the idea of a new government entity to buy bad loans, die a quiet death. We don't need it. If you want to do something noble , go bailout Galveston TX , where lives have been horribly destroyed by Hurricane IKE. We need to be far more afraid of what the government will do to our economy than what will happen from the market's credit fallout. This is OUR government and we need to remind those legislators that they are not kings and queens who can proclaim from on high that they will now become rulers our financial industries by using our own tax money against us. If you are a bank and you grant a large loan to a business, or an individual, and then you find that the business failed or the individual never had the ability to repay it, you don’t have to sweat. If this new government entity is created, the government will knock on your bank door, buy that bad loan off your books, and as a bank owner you can go merrily down the road making more bad loans knowing that the US government will be using tax money to keep you solvent no matter what bad loan decisions you make. It's party time for bank owners everywhere.  For the rest of us it's time to watch more and more our hard earned money fly off to the pockets of these banks making those bad decisions. Do you have any better use for that money?  I know I do.
 
- Mike Silverman, Milford MA
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