There are government programs a-plenty to help those in need. Created to right wrongs in society and protect and help the little guy in America, they're often a way of making up for inequities that the law doesn't cover. And today these programs are coming out of government in clubs, hearts and diamonds.  But despite the law and these many safety nets, today I'm feeling a little like Dorothy at the moment the witch appears in the crystal ball and mocks her.

Now, I've read that Frank Baum filled the Wizard of Oz with representations of economic and political elements in the Populist Party view of America in the late 1800's. The heartless industrial workers, brainless farmers, cowardly investors and so on. Everything represents something. East, west, the water that destroys the witch, even the name “Oz” represents the ounce measurement of coinage. America's banks and lenders who regularly destroyed the brainless little guys were represented by the villainous wicked witches.

In my own search for a place where troubles melt like lemon drops, I've found that the yellow brick road has been paved over in pastels. And in following it, I've lost my way somewhere between the talking trees and the poppy fields.

When a member of A&B Mortgage Brokers of Munchkin City forged my name to a mortgage, the DA was found to be too bogged down in his workload. And so, negotiating with the broker's attorney David Lane, he settled on securing a guilty plea. But not for all eight forgeries. Only one forgery. And which of the eight, they weren't saying.

Now, despite the starkly infantile attempts to copy my signature, the Emerald Title Company (Land America) filed, insured and passed the forgeries on to the Wicked Witch of Mortgage Fraud, Argent Mortgage Co, who has paid out hundreds of millions in recent judgments. Argent paid off the old witch, and then ignored the forgery allegations since I was still making payments. Then, to my utter surprise, they sold it to the Wicked Witch of Delaware, DLJ Capital, who had her flying monkeys at Select Portfolio Servicing continue the policy of ignoring me. Now it became even more important to get a forgery conviction, and my return to Kansas (literally) for work got delayed.

When I stopped making payments, they stopped ignoring me and began running plays from the Guidebook for Wicked Flying Monkeys. Obviously the forgeries didn't represent the terms I had originally wanted, but they tried to convince me to sign them anyway. Well, I may have just crashed in a house, but I didn't just fall off the turnip truck! "Thanks, but no thanks."

And so they offered new terms. But monkeys can talk really fast, and I had to ask them to repeat themselves many times before I realized that they were really offering to only slightly change the terms. And in the mean time, they sent faxes to the DA declaring that they themselves believed the documents were forged. With these declarations the DA had his case, and the coroner declared the defense dead. Well, actually he declared it officially limping on a bunion. But monkeys never quit.

Amid my requests that the flying monkeys convert the loan to the originally intended terms, or take all and leave me free and clear, they offered to give me a ride on a horse of a different color, by re-qualifying me for a new loan. But the ride was very short. You see, the monkeys' negative reporting on my credit now disqualified me for the loan they were offering. And any other monkey's offering for that matter. I simply didn't have a banana to give them.

The guilty plea seemed to mean nothing to them. And they flipped the foreclosure hour glass over three times trying to force me to hand over the ruby slippers. The Good Colorado Attorney General of the North got wind of my predicament and took it upon himself to convince the Wicked Witch to let me and others, keep our ruby slippers. But monkeys always lie, and they told him that they and I were already working things out amicably. And then they sent the Good AG a letter, with a copy to me, admitting the forgeries again, but asking the AG to convince me to submit to their processes. Whoa! According to the laws of the Emerald City, using government agencies to influence consumers is a big no no. But it turned out to be no big deal. The Good AG didn't really notice.

Following the monkeys' own practice, I decided to record a phone conversation with the head legal monkey, who boldly stated that the AG had specifically declared to him that he had been given the authority to negotiate terms on my behalf. This I doubted very much because the AG's website states as big as skywriting that “The Attorney General does NOT have the authority to represent individual residents or consumers.” Now, either the AG or the monkey was lying. But monkeys always lie. And the AG, even though aware of this monkey business, is really too busy calling monkeys to deal with violations of the law. So nothing happened.

Finances being what they are, I started looking into the law myself, and decided to take up my axe and answer with my own suit that would require the wicked witches to show cause why the documents should not be declared invalid. However, I rusted solid in the procedures, proving only that the note was forged. The deed of trust still stood and the witches prevailed.

Predicaments demand that one looks at his options and take the best road. Now I've tried, and I've failed. If I had her crystal ball, I may have done things differently. But like Dorothy, I've had to learn things for myself. And in doing so, I've found that the brick road is winding and often forks. The wicked witch has developed an immunity to water, and in court, her midget dances around and slaps you silly with a lollipop. First they took my legs off and they threw them over there! Then they took my chest out and they threw it over there! That's what happens to nobodies who refuse to be led down dark paths and dares to stand up to the spell casting mistress of the land.

And the wizard, well, I don't think President Obama has anything in his black bag for me. And his quick getaway balloon is only built for one. So, no amount of heel clicking is going to keep me in my home. The foreclosure goes through. Now homeless, jobless, deeply in debt and with huge stains on my credit, I can't come back! I don't know how it works! I'm just going to do my part in keeping the economy going by paying an attorney to file my bankruptcy. Good-bye folks!

Un-friggin believable! The White House of the U.S. is keeping my email address on record and sending me propaganda. The email is below. This is not the limit of any kind of influence to be exerted by Progressive Socialism.

Let me remind you of one example of many glaring facts that compromise Republicans do not want to face. They try to convince us that real foundational issues are peripheral to just keeping them in power. Roe v. Wade, taxes, borders, etc. They simply look at abortion as a compromise issue to be reasoned over. Conservatives must be "reasonable" and leftists must not fight so hard to get what they want. Instead of simply being outraged that anyone would want to institutionalize abortion they give up in a dignified manner.

I recognize the Republican party is like the Father of America and the Democrats are the hormone washed mother. Whatever mom wants, she gets, and the father soothes the kids into accepting it. "Just do it kids, or I'll never hear the end of it." The very foundation of compromise is the quieting of a loud voice. This Progressive Socialism will keep coming as it has because it is emboldened by Republican compromise that's only claim to fame is an ability to slow Progressive Socialism I don't think Americans are going to accept fast or slowed socialism though. I won't.

Some of us zealots are not willing to hand our children a world of massive impositions and restrictions in their lives. We will stand up and say something. We, however few of us there are, will not accept it.

There will be a breaking point. And when that happens, either the socialists will see that they are exposed and then they will run away weeping and gnashing their teeth. They'll all move to Europe for a while and hang out with reality twisting artists. If they don't run, they will do the outrageous again. They will deputize half the population as informants and begin the enforcement that will cause a civil war in America.

They are capable of such drastic moves. This last election was their greatest haymaker. With the lowest favorability polls in history, they pulled out all the stops and decided they were going to play the people of America. They took a guy who won't even say the Pledge of allegiance, and made him President of the US. It's the greatest insult of our history. They divided and conquered. They shamelessly split the country in half. One half they hammered with accusations of racism. The other half they told two things; "Let's get rich people", and "Vote for little Frodo as he bravely climbs mount Doom against all the odds". C'mon Frodo! We can do it!

Political correctness won't let this be spoken of in the open, even by the people it has been done to. And even while the Progressive Socialists are in the position to pull it off, some still do not believe they are capable of One Giant Waco.

But they know where we all live, they have our email addresses. And let me remind you that more than half of Americans have twice now been identified, for all intents and purposes, as enemies and potential enemies of the state. Of course they retracted this when they were exposed, so we're all safe now. Turns out it was just a few rambunctious under-staffers. Darn kids.

These people are capable of doing anything and shaping the opinion that lets them get away with it. With government money paying to get the young and impressionable to vote for change, tens of millions in foreign influence money, and with an army of media promoters they made a socialist politician into a rock star.

Suckers all. That's how they look at us, and that's what we are.

Now, "reasonable" Republicans would say that we should do whatever it takes to avoid a civil war. And they have always implied that people who are not willing to steadily compromise their children's future are somehow weak minded, undiplomatic and zealously immature; and the big one; "unrealistic". Yes that is what they mean when they scold us.

Well how about if the Progressive Socialists just say outright, "Hold still while we do this to you."

What if, before every tax, every corruption, every assault on morality and responsibility, etc, they were required by the constitution to say "Hold still while we do this to you."?

How funny would the compromise Republicans feel about it then? Would it begin to gnaw on their realistic, diplomatic and very civil thinking? Or would they still vote to keep the ol' lady happy?

For those of us who are not willing to put chains on our feet, they are all beginning to look like cowards. And the more they speak, the more they become insulting cowards.

Anyone who is still calling for reason, and calm walks to the gas chambers, really, really need to wake the hell up!



from info@messages.whitehouse.gov, it came with a link to Obama's speech.

Hello -

As a Senior Advisor to the President, I'm here in Cairo, Egypt where I watched President Obama deliver an unprecedented speech calling for a new beginning for the United States and Muslim communities around the world.

We all know that there has been tension between the United States and some Muslim communities. But, as the President said this morning, if all sides face the sources of tension squarely and focus on mutual interests, we can find a new way forward.

The President outlined some big goals for this new beginning in his speech -- including disrupting, dismantling, and defeating violent extremism. It was a historic speech, and since many Americans were asleep at the time it was given we wanted to make sure you had a chance to see it:

Majority-Muslim countries around the world are filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives, just as in America. Indeed, part of what makes America great is having nearly seven million Muslim Americans living here today and enriching our culture and communities.

We can extend that kind of relationship abroad. It won't always be easy, but if we make an effort to bridge our differences rather than resigning ourselves to animosity, we can move toward a more peaceful world over time.

Thank you,
David Axelrod
Senior Advisor to the President

Change – the political and economic expansion and transfer of the limited power of corporations over the finances, property and lives of common men into an unlimited power under government.

The Progressive Socialists are Right.

There's something I never thought I would hear myself say. But as of today, I am going to say that I agree with them one hundred percent about one thing. Ever since Marx and Engels penned their manifesto in the 1800s, socialists have risen up around the world to decry the gap between the wealthy and the poor, and denounce the evils of corporate greed. And with these they declare all men equal and encourage the common man to tear down the wealthy, take over the corporations and the government, and bring all under an all powerful one party rule.

Despite whatever has happened under this set of circumstances, I have to now agree from personal experience that corporations, at least enough of them for me, are inherently evil. I've watched them do evil to individuals and whole populations. Some grow to have economies that are greater than many nations. And many do this by massaging and milking consumers. They do, not what is in the best interest of consumers, but whatever practices ensure the most profits. If by their designs they cause some of us to utterly fail and crash, without codifying it, their policy deems it acceptable. Not only acceptable in the sense that they are willing to sacrifice some of us for their ends, but also in the sense that they have procedures for mitigating any problems that may follow sacrifice. Sometimes, a consumer must be dealt with. Corporations, by practice, have discovered that they can get away with many things, even while under the immediate view of the legal system.

I guess I've known of this evil all along, but my puritanical patriotism has suppressed any willingness to solidify this into a firmly held position. However, now that I have been firmly dealt with in this manner by a corporation, at least on this one subject, I'm willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with today's socialists, the Progressives, and yell “Power to the proletariat”.

Following a flyer, I refinanced my home two years ago and discovered the broker had forged my name to a different loan. I did what I thought was supposed to be done. I called everybody. The broker vanished, the district attorney had them arrested, the title company looked worried, and the mortgage company ignored me. Not completely though. They said they were investigating. Meanwhile I made payments on the forged mortgage, and blinked my eyes in bewilderment that the mortgage company was not rushing to fix the documents with me as soon as possible. I was told that “Mortgage companies do not work that way.”

While the investigation ensued, the return date to my out of state employment was coming, and I began to think I'd have to delay it in order to ensure that there was a conviction. But then I got a letter telling me that the mortgage was being sold. At that point I began to feel a little unloved. Before this assignment, I called the new note holder, and was told that they would deal with the forgeries when they received them. Both companies had me fill out fraud paperwork, and the second requested I do this nine or ten times. But nothing seemed to come from these.

By now, returning to my employment was far less important than getting a forgery conviction to be able to bring the mortgage company to the table. Problem was, I could no longer afford to pay it, and I stopped. It was then that they stopped ignoring me. While dealing with their daily calls to get me to make payments, I pushed and pushed until I got to a resolution specialists. The first thing he said was “We've got to get these (forged) documents signed.” He couldn't see me blinking through the phone. Then he suggested some new numbers. But they differed only slightly. Meanwhile, I put the DA in touch with him, who convinced him to provide a fax indicating the specialists own belief that there were forgeries. Boom, we had a guilty plea!

I started to relax. Surely now they would sit down to the table and do something to amicably resolve this. And then I could go through the update training to return to my employment. I was wrong. At their request, I submitted two loan applications that they denied. Are you ready for this? Because my income and my credit, which was damaged by them, disqualified me. This specialist and then a half dozen other specialists suggested I conduct a short sale, suggested more bad terms, even suggested I just submit myself to their full control. But my suggestions that they revert the loan to the terms I originally signed, and for them to even take my home, leaving me free and clear didn't even get a curt review. By now I had made more than eighty calls to them and spoken to nearly 30 different people.

Then began the foreclosures and the involvement of the Colorado Attorney General's office. At their request, I visited Denver to explain my predicament. And under some 'make nice' program, an assistant AG called the loan servicing company to encourage them to seek solutions. While I was fighting the third foreclosure, I got a call from an AG attorney who told me that they were glad I was working things out with the servicing agent. “Whoa! Stop.” There's nothing being worked out except the loss of my home. But that's what the servicing agent told them.

It was then that I received a cc of a letter that was address to the Assistant Attorney General. It read as though the servicing company was addressing my attorney, and it gave me instructions to follow. Now, whenever I had spoke to the servicing agent they would ask if they could record the conversation. This I discovered rarely actually happened. But I decided this is what I should have been doing since the beginning of this fiasco. I called the servicing agent specialist that had sent the letter and had a most remarkable conversation that he even agreed to allow to be recorded. In it he said that the assistant AG had told him that he had been authorized to negotiate loan terms on my behalf. He threw a few “agreed to” figures around, and then took them away again in the next breath.

Needless to say, the assistant AG was unhappy. The AG's website states “The Attorney General does NOT have the authority to represent individual residents or consumers.” And it turns out that it is a crime to use the AG's name to influence a consumer. It's also a crime to possess and attempt to enforce documents that you may have reason to believe are forged. They also violated several laws with regard to credit reporting.

I discovered a law that says that forged documents can be removed from the public record if it can't be shown that they are not spurious. I filed this on my own and had the foreclosure put on hold. But it turns out that the forgery artist is also an escape artist. The subpoena she was served was hand delivered by a stranger to the court saying they didn't know what it was.

The court day finally came, and based on the guilty plea the judge declared the note a forgery. But since the refinance paid off my previous mortgage, he couldn't declare the deed of trust a forgery, and the foreclosure was ordered. The lawyer they got was a word-smithing jackass of course, but he wasn't able to get away with all of his assertions.

And with this, the mortgage company put the finishing touches on my financial destruction. They wanted me to just keep paying the forged mortgage terms, and so they ignored and attempted to manipulate me so that it forced me to lose my employment. They ruined my credit, left me with a second mortgage and no house to live in.

There's a reason we have so many consumer protection laws. To address the problems that the socialists complain about. But I'm not ready to become a card carrying Progressive Socialist because I would just be a one-issue voter. I hate evil corporations, but I'm not yet willing to give control of my money, property, children, and my life to people who want to outlaw wealth and have their fingers deep into everything else in the universe.

Therefore I'm taking a cue from the socialists and writing my own manifesto:

Corporations have policies. So should consumers. Corporations require consumers to follow their rules and there is no reason an individual consumer's policies shouldn't be codified, and respected in the market place and in the courts.


Policy 1 – a consumer should never respond to a corporation's attempt to engage them in commerce. Consumer's are smart enough to research products and seek them out themselves.

Policy 2 – out of common sense, a consumer should never buy something they haven't sought out themselves. Most adult consumers have been called by a corporation to offer a service that begins without the consumer even understanding the policies, immediately charging the consumer's credit cards, and having the handy feature of being able to be rescinded in the future. Of course these are no more than milking programs that play the odds, knowing that people will cancel, but probably not right away, and probably without even receiving any services. If a product exists, it can be found by the consumer.

Policy 3 – a consumer should engage in commerce on their own terms. Dealing fairly, a consumer can determine what is fair and what they are willing to do and pay.

Policy 4 – corporate invoices are not any more authoritative than a consumer's notes. Many corporations illegally practice confusing policies and invoicing, inflating fees and hiding extra costs among the valid. Cell companies are famous for this because they have so many customers with constantly changing figures to regular billings. When the consumers are better empowered, simplified billing and charges will follow.

Policy 5 – a consumer should not do business with a corporation that has ambiguous terms and policies.

Policy 6 – corporations cannot be trusted. And therefore all contracts with them should be written in terms the common man understands.
Policy 7 – corporations often present themselves as caring institutions, and some may be. But they do this largely because corporations do not love consumers, and consumers know this.

Policy 8 – consumers should deal honestly with corporations.

Policy 9 – consumers should deal with corporations in a trustworthy manner.

Policy 10 – consumers should display loyalty to corporations only as long as corporations deal honestly and fairly with them.

Policy 11 – boycotting is not drastic or extreme. It is a natural part of commerce that evokes the desired changes in markets. Many lists exist on the internet. And the Better Business Bureau is a prime example of this.  We use it to discover who is bad and who is good.  It is just not intensively used.

Policy 12 – corporations do not have a problem wasting consumer's time on telephone hold, in lines, and waiting rooms. This wasted time calculated with the rates of pay must be stratospheric. We will never have that time back again. But our time is valuable, and before being made to wait for a corporation, it's not inappropriate to inform a corporation of your rate of pay for waiting.

Policy 13 – it is not illegal to record conversations as long as one party is aware of it. recording conversations protects the interests of consumers.

Policy 14 – a consumer's information is private, and when disclosed, it empowers corporations. Most transactions and lines of credit do not warrant full access to credit information.

Policy 15 – consumers should require corporations to destroy personal and private information of consumers immediately after it is used for it's authorized purpose. And a personal information policy should include severe fines for using such information for other purposes.

Policy 16 - Many industries are, by default, regulated by those who practice in them. Consumers should think of this whenever they look at a contract or purchase a product.

Suggestions

The standards for credit that corporations impose on consumers should be imposed in kind. Consumers should standardize ratings for the corporations that consumer laws are supposed to protect us from, but don't.

Consumers should consider saving and investing money, and not seeking to be in debt. Although various arguments abound in this, it is still true that a borrower is a slave to whomever he owes. Our nation's debt is going to drown our children.

Consumers should codify their practices into normalized commercial policies to be referred to when dealing with corporations. Colorado Consumer Policy 4, etc. Therefore it should be normal practice for a consumer to record a conversation with a corporation's representative where they are informed of the consumer policy that the corporation must must oppose if it does not intend to agree to it. thanks for letting me rant.>

I realize that many here at Townhall are Republican first and Conservative second (I got mostly criticism for refusing to hold my nose for McCain.) 

I get a lot of flak for being a no-compromise Conservative who doesn't think "realistically".  According to them, I'm responsible for Obama being in the White House.  It's ok.  I understand the "united we stand, divided we fall" principle.  But I don't put tradition into that mix as a trump card.  Some things you don't want to change, like meatloaf-Thursday.  But some things can change like when Tevia allowed Tseitel to arrange her own marriage.

And on that note I'd like to say, - first to Conservatives who no longer compromise their votes (hold their noses), and second to Republicans (pardon all the generalities), I'd like to point out that, as much as the left are denouncing and ridiculing Tea Parties and the rest of conservative America, they are truly hoping we get enough traction for a third party to split the Republicans.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't encourage anyone to stay Republican and have to put up with Michael Steele scolding you for having been "unrealistic".  No, I would say the opposite, if we can not (near completely) gut the Republican party and replace them with candidates who will begin rolling back the socialist and pseudo-socialist policies of the last century, then we should replace the actual party itself.

It's the damn Ross Perot effect that has me worried.  Conservatives cast the most votes in 1992, but the liberals won office because 20% of the total vote went to Ross Perot.  I know there are some who'll say we should just stick to the Republican party and just spice it up a bit.  Hire a promoter, put on a hat, change the lighting, maybe sing a few more patriotic songs.  That's what they are planning to do already.  Frankly, as a Conservative it insults the hell out of me.  Well, I'd rather give blood through my tongue.  If so many believe we should be "realistic" and keep the party strong, the answer from Republicans to Conservatives should not go "compromise, compromise, yeaaaaah compromise!"  No, it should be "help us clean house here."

The Republican Platform should be rewritten.  It should not consist of fourty-four pages of "We believe", "We affirm", "We recognize", because when the day is done and Conservatives say to Republicans that they didn't stay true to what they believe, they sound like liberals and give a bunch of excuses for why everything has been COMPROMISED.  Instead, it should read "We the Republicans will seal the border.  We the Republicans will abolish the nanny state.  We the Republicans will institute a fair tax by 2014."  Etc.  That is what the Contract With America was, only on a much lighter scale.  That's a major cause for the Republican win in 1994.

Just thinking in my "unrealistic" terms, because I'm, well, Conservative, I will zealously hold to my principles and vote my principles when the time comes.  If leftists win the next election, Republicans can blame me again, or they can blame themselves.  Either way I don't really  care.  But I'm laying out for everyone what to expect from me.  Either the Republican party gets gutted and their platform is founded on real conservative values and promises, or I go to another party that does.

If Republicans want my votes, they had better be "realistic".

Because there are many who still don't understand suicide economics:

Ronald Reagan said in 1981 that "A trillion dollars would be a stack of thousand-dollar bills 67 miles high." That means that the debt that has just been created would be equal to a stack of thousand-dollar bills reaching 737 miles high.

Keynesian economics. Fiat money. Future-value loans and debt. An economy that is largely based on a numbers-game cannot be maintained indefinitely. Why not? Here it is, as simply put as possible:

A home is valued at $60,000 based on population, buying and selling, local income, etc. but the value of the home is said to be $100,000 because it has been artificially inflated. Along with all the other homes, this numbers game increases the profits of those in the sales process when they cash-out, or buy and sell quickly.

Then to push this game even further, the homeowner is given a loan at 125% of its value. That's $125,000 for a home that is worth $60,000 in the true scheme of things. Over the course of the loan, the homeowner would pay $270,000. The more often homes are sold, the more often the numbers are fudged and the value goes up even more. If an economic situation causes people to stop buying and selling homes, the values stop increasing. Greater economic problems cause values to go down. The greater the problem, the greater the decrease in values and the burden on the homeowner to make payments.  And when value is artificially inflated, these value drops tend toward those actual values very quickly.

But the homeowner is hoping the home will be worth more than that in the future, so he can sell or refinance and maybe make a profit in the future-inflated-value of his home. This is the simplified future-values game.

Now to a bigger picture. The lender immediately sells the loan he just made along with hundreds of other loans, to another company that is also banking on the future-value of the loan. This future-values game is called "securitizing".

If one homeowner loses his ability to pay his mortgage, the purchaser of the loan forecloses, sells the house and takes a loss on their investment.

Keynsian economics (our government's economic policy) says that that foreclosure is ok because the majority of loans can be kept afloat. By a moderate but steady inflation of the costs in all markets, there is an increase in everyone's salaries, and thus the economy is adjusted to follow this numbers-game and support the increases and losses. The actual value of the home may be $70,000 next year. And this boosts the ability to increase the fudged loan value to $130,000. More people are made wealthy in these games. And they'll continue to be played just as long as we are willing to ignore the truth of the numbers with regard to the value of the products they are based on. And we are on a path to play this game just as long as some retain the power to play with the numbers.

But what if something causes many people to lose their ability to pay their mortgages? Many companies taking many losses can cause investors to try to sell their stock in those companies before they lose too much. This crisis is called "a run". If people run, others tend to do the same in other places, and when many people pull their investments out of companies, the companies must pay them. The objective of companies is to make money, not give it away. If companies give away too much money, they fail and then their people lose their jobs.

An even bigger picture. Government, though not empowered by the Constitution, has been addressing these crisis with a new numbers game. A new future-value game is created to cover the crisis that was created by a future-values game. Money is simply printed and given to support the system. This is largely done, not to keep homeowners afloat, but to keep investors investing. Because, if investors stop investing, the economy stops growing. If the economy stops growing, what people produce with their hands goes strait to their mouths. People don't buy iPods or new cars, and the people who make those things lose their jobs. When people lose their jobs, taxes don't get paid, and without taxes the military doesn't defend, bridges aren't built, roads fall to ruin. The economy (the money we make and spend or invest) stagnates or goes backwards.

The goal in this new game of course is to sooth investors into ignoring any future problems that might occur in the numbers game, and rely on the next numbers game to fix things. But with every numbers game, the risk of our economy going backwards and the irreversibility of this increases toward inevitability.

A problem with fiat money (money based on the value of nothing but hope) is what it does when it is put together with commodity money (money based on something tangible). Diamonds are worth lots of money. We'd all love to have lots of diamonds! But if suddenly ten pounds of diamonds were discovered buried on each persons' property, the value of diamonds would drop to 1/10,000th their value. And by value, I mean, how much of something a diamond will buy. Because everyone now has lots of diamonds, the value goes down, or rather, the prices of all things would go up. Massive inflation.

Imagine if every adult in America were to win a million dollars in the lottery. If you owned a saloon, how much would you charge for a beer? Four dollars? Not likely. You would charge $75 dollars for a beer because everyone can afford it. And the keg you tap to pour the beer would no longer cost you $110, it would now cost $7,500.

Having a $10,000 diamond would now mean nothing, because a loaf of bread now costs $5,000. This is the simplified explanation of the process behind the steady increased costs we see every day in all the products we buy.

The money that is printed and given to mortgage lenders by the government, is a loan to the government from the Federal Reserve (money printers, bank controllers, government partners). And because this is just a game, there is no intention of ever paying it back. But just like the homeowner's mortgage, these loans are up for sale. Now just imagine if these printed-money-loans were purchased by someone that has animosity for America. Say China, for example. These loans that China buys are in the form of Treasury Notes or Bonds. And China would have purchased these loans based on their future-value. You can buy a $25 bond for $18, and then in several years you give it back to the government and they give you $25. If $18 dollars today buys a DVD, inflation makes a DVD in several years cost $30. If the $25 I get can't even buy a DVD, I may have increased my investment from $18 to $25, but the value of that $25 is now less than the $18 used to be.

As I said, putting just-printed money into the economy drops the value of all the money. And if, like the investors, China sees the value of their investments dropping rapidly, at some point they are going to avoid a loss, and pull out their money. If they pull out their money, that means they have to get paid. Government would print more money and we would all have to pretend even more, that our money is not worth less.

If our money becomes worth less and less, soon it will become worthless. And that means China's money becomes worth more and more here in the US. That means that China could, if they wanted to, buy American land and companies at very cheap prices.

Now stick with me on this. If China owns our debt, and can suddenly demand to redeem their money, thereby dropping the value of our money and increasing the value of theirs, they could conceivably, in deliberate fashion, weaken our economy and buy up enough property and companies to take control of America. Actually, they are buying these things right now. But the game players are not really talking about it.

At present, that stack of thousand-dollar bills reaching 737 miles high is what we are pretending doesn't exist. And we have been getting away with ignoring it for quite some time. But we are now in a crisis, and this numbers game is being played with, let's say, tremendous enthusiasm. The game is kept going with even more pretense. These and other factors that are holding this game together are beginning to swing wildly. In the last six months, in their attempt to get their money before it is lost, investors have been selling their stocks. Like the depreciated bond, but now instantly, the value of the stocks people buy in companies has gone down. This is a loss of the value of our money that equals a 201 mile high stack of thousand-dollar bills. And during this present crisis, with hope to make a quick profit in the downturn, investors caused a jump of more than 10% in the whole market value 4 times. That has happened only 4 times in history. Once before the 90s recession and 3 times before the Great Depression. The economy is rocking like a cheap swing set that is overloaded with fat grown-ups, and they are making the legs come off the ground. If the timing of events become anymore synchronized, it's going to flip over. This game is dangerous.

This explanation is overly simplified. And it does not address the concerns that the fiat money used by government to artificially support failing corporations, comes with government control strings. What exactly is it called when together the government, banks, and corporations control the economy? Hmmm?

What is actually happening in our economy is not something that is openly discussed by those who play these numbers-games. Perhaps they don't want everyone to think about it.

Eliphas Levi profoundly wrote in the 1860s:

"The masses are not in need of absolute truths; were it otherwise, progress would be arrested and life would cease in humanity; ... The masses know it full well, and so they quickly desert their doctors and seek out charlatans and quacks. Some ... too often resemble the children playing at charades, who quickly turn out those who know the answer already, lest the game should be spoiled ... ."

 

Liberals overtly calculate, and manipulate groups into compromising what is right for the sake of some other spiteful or selfish goal, or to avoid some fear.  Anything to win.

Conservatism articulates values positions, educating people of its merits.

Republicans ran the presidential campaign on the former, assuming the group called “Right Wing” would still vote to preserve a sliver of a remnant of a memory of conservative principles in government.  The Palin pick tried to counter our inevitable protest.

90% of blogs addressing the Conservative sit-out were dedicated to scolding us for our zealous ignorance.  Blaming us if Democrats were elected.

The liberal tenets are the play-book again for the future in most “Remaking the GOP” blogs, where Conservatives should be realistic and fall in line.  A group.  No different than the Log Cabin Republicans.  A few banners, some choice rally words is all it should take to get us back in line while nothing really changes.

But radio voices that actually educate are still being scolded by the calculators for being extreme.  And conservatives are still fed the overwhelming message that conservatism is unrealistic and the 'mature' 'consensus' by the smart people is that compromise for the sake of the calculated numbers is the game.  

If Republicans had been conservative over the last 30 years, we wouldn't have so many compromises on security, abortion, family, taxes, government power, borders, morals, foreign influence in our elections, and on and on.  There's nothing left to conserve but the GOP itself.  Every conservative issue is on a slippery-slope.  Conservatives can now only 'hope' that one day the GOP will be in power again and won't do what they did with it the last times they were in power.

Based on how they treat us, they must calculate us in the following manner:  

Liberal - NO
Nose Holder - NO
Willing to sit silently - NO

Category - SCOLD, APPEASE, MARGINALIZE, IGNORE.

To those conservatives who have known all along that BigTent Republicanism was a doomed experiment from the beginning, and to those who have finally given up on it as a way to keep conservatism relevant, perhaps we can now begin speech about the rebuilding of the GOP from the ground up.  There have been many references to this, but I have not seen any serious attempts to get the ball rolling.

The natural place to begin is with the platform.  The Republican Party platform in the early nineties was a bullet list of principles and positions.  Now it's a bunch of paragraphs listing the excuses and methods for compromising each of them.  Delete! Delete! Delete!

First I believe we should seriously consider the fact that we actually imbue in our very speech and writing, the incredibility and guilt we are accused of by liberals.  We speak in the PC of the day, and then complain that John McCain doesn't hit hard.  We ask for a Teddy Roosevelt and get Marty Milktoast.  We shun those who speak the truth openly because we are wanting to be what?  Nice?  We are nice, we care about liberals too.  But speaking the truth is not mean.  It's just been called that for so long that we become robotic to whatever fingerpointing we experience.  We should stop negotiating around the insult of accusation and say what is right intelligently and forcefully.  Stop being sorry for our races, sorry for not calling someone by their latest demanded moniker.  We can be smart while we do it though.  For example, in referring to Obama's communism, we don't call "a spade a spade".  That just makes it too easy for someone to call us racist, whatever our own color.  You call a communist a communist and then you explain what that means.

We should stop with the planning being handed to us in how we should be considering a new approach to our compromised conservatism and throw out the compromise altogether.

A new platform, supported with bold and intelligent speach.  No compromise on the part of the part for each bulleted item, but demand compromise on the part of those who come to understand and support most of the platform.

1- Republicans are pro-life.

etc. 

If you are a Republican but do not believe in the pro-life value, then you compromise your own beliefs and not expect the party to compromise to keep your votes.

more ranting later. 

When I lost a video game to my 10 year old daughter in 2001 and asked for a rematch, she said "C'mon Dad!  Don't be like Al Gore."

This struck me and I began to think.  She does not even watch the news nor even speak of politics, but Al Gore's whining-3rd-grade-sore looser attitude was something she picked up on nonetheless, because it was on the television.  Of course, now at 17 she is a powerfully critical thinker with an intellect to back it up.  But the point is, just what has been said can be a powerful influence on what people think. 

So then how powerful was it when the media deliberately told the public that the Florida polls were closed in 2000 before they actually were?  Or when they called the election for John Kerry when it wasn't true?

I predict the Obama friendly media will jump-the-gun this election with these same tactics again, hoping that the momentum will trump wrongdoing.  But if McCain still wins, there will be riots.  And people will die as they do in these things.  And the Republicans won't do more than try to smooth things over.

We are so nice.  Leftists in the media have been doing both of these for decades and we just smile at them.  "It's Ok.  We understand.  Just got a little overly excited and jumped the gun."  Has anyone gone to jail or paid a serious fine for this type of election tampering?  Not enough to stop it or even curb it.  That is the reason they don't fear to do it again. 

You know, I consider a liberal pointing their finger at me as a badge of honor.  I wish the Republicans would all take courage like Sen. Joseph McCarthy.  Damn the consequences!  Do what's right.

God save America!

Read Karl Rove article on poll jumpers.

 

“People are not in need of absolute truths; were it otherwise, progress would be arrested and life would cease in humanity; the ebb and flow of contrary ideas, the clash of opinions, the passions of the time, ever impelled by its dreams, are necessary to the intellectual growth of peoples.  The people know it full well, and therefore they would quickly avoid a real doctor to gather themselves around hucksters who sell quack medicines.  Some of these hucksters that are thought of as great thinkers, especially, too often resemble children playing charades.  They quickly avoid those who know the answer already, lest the game be spoiled by depriving the puzzle of the question of all its interest.”

“black Magic may be defined as the art of inducing artificial mania in ourselves and in others.”  Eliphas Levi

In case this bit of history has escaped anyone.  The parallels to today are uncanny.  One major difference is, the Rescue Package in the 1930s (New Deal leap into Red Socialism) didn't occur until we were already fully into a depression.  But for this generation, it is being done simultaneously.

The stock market crash occurred in three phrases - black Thursday, black Monday, and black Tuesday.  All three are appropriate, for the crash was not a one-day affair. The initial crash occurred on black Thursday (October 24, 1929), but it was the catastrophic downturn of black Monday and Tuesday (October 28 and 29, 1929) that precipitated widespread panic and the onset of unprecedented and long-lasting consequences for the United States. The collapse continued for a month.

Greatest Stock Market Gains

6 Oct 1931  14.8%

30 Oct 1929 12.34%

21 Sep 1932 11.36%

13 Oct 2008 11.1%

21 Oct 1987 10.15

In the days leading up to black Tuesday, the market was severely unstable. Periods of selling and high volumes of trading were interspersed with brief periods of rising prices and recovery. Economist and author Jude Wanniski later correlated these swings with the prospects for passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which was then being debated in Congress.  After the crash, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) recovered early in 1930, only to reverse again, reaching a low point of the great bear market in 1932. The Dow did not return to pre-1929 levels until late 1954, and was lower at its July 8, 1932 level than it had been since the 1800s. 

After an amazing five-year run when the world saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) increase in value fivefold, prices peaked at 381.17 on September 3, 1929, The market then fell sharply for a month, losing 17% of its value on the initial leg down. Prices then recovered more than half of the losses over the next week, only to turn back down immediately afterwards.  The decline then accelerated into the so-called "black Thursday", October 24, 1929. A record number of 12.9 million shares were traded on that day. At 1 p.m. on Friday, October 25,  Richard Whitney, vice president of the Exchange, with the bankers' financial resources behind him, placed a bid to purchase a large block of shares in U.S. Steel at a price well above the current market. As amazed traders watched, Whitney then placed similar bids on other “blue chip” stocks. This tactic was similar to a tactic that ended the Panic of 1907, and succeeded in halting the slide that day. In this case, however, the respite was only temporary

On Monday, October 28, the first "black Monday", more investors decided to get out of the market, and the slide continued with a record loss in the Dow for the day of 13%. The next day, "black Tuesday", October 29, 1929, about 16 million shares were traded.  The volume on stocks traded on October 29, 1929 was "...a record that was not broken for nearly 40 years, in 1968." Author Richard M. Salsman wrote that on October 29 — amid rumors that U.S. President Herbert Hoover would not veto the pending Hawley-Smoot Tariff bill—stock prices crashed even further." 

William C. Durant joined with members of the Rockefeller family and other financial giants to buy large quantities of stocks in order to demonstrate to the public their confidence in the market, but their efforts failed to stop the slide.  The DJIA lost another 12% that day. The ticker did not stop running until about 7:45 that evening. The market lost $14 billion in value that day, bringing the loss for the week to $30 billion, ten times more than the annual budget of the federal government, far more than the U.S. had spent in all of World War I.

An interim bottom occurred on November 13, with the Dow closing at 198.6 that day. The market recovered for several months from that point, with the Dow reaching a secondary peak (ie, dead cat bounce) at 294.0 in April 1930. The market embarked on a steady slide in April 1931 that did not end until 1932 when the Dow closed at 41.22 on Jul 8, concluding a shattering 89% decline from the peak. This was the lowest the stock market had been since the 19th century.

The New Deal was the name that President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of programs he initiated between 1933 and 1936 and with the goal of giving work (relief) to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and recovery of the economy during The Great Depression. 

Whatever the reason, whatever the excuse, whatever the stated need or the perceived good it can do, every time government steps in, we lose freedom.  This time it is an enormous loss, and we are all standing at the feet of the Duke and the Dauphin asking for it.

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929}

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal}

That's what the headlines would read if Republicans weren't a bunch of weiners.  And that is why I refuse to vote for them.  What do Republicans think they will accomplish with their milktoast attitudes? 

Personally, I think Republicans sit around thinking, "Even though I'm a Republican, I think Senator Kennedy likes me.  I think he was smiling at me yesterday!"

They probably worry they'll upset someone if they ask for real dairy products in the congressional coffee mess.

Their inactivity causes me to either believe the above, or that they actually welcome our socialist future.

is "He Who Must Not Be Named"

After all the derision from nose-holders for standing on my principles and refusing to vote for
      "McCain!  Not conservative, but better than Obama".

-It turns out the McCain Palin ticket will lose this election not because of my principles, but because of John McCain's principles.

He thinks opening his mouth is dirty fighting.

Irony to the nth degree.  

Ha ha ha.

Congress created the problem with FannieMae and FreddieMac.  That and numerous other problems they created; $4 per gallon at the pump, allowing millions of illegal aliens to undercut the American poor they put in their campaign ads, over taxation, most-favored nation trade status, etc, have made our great economy perilously distended. 

The Russians have attacked our allies and now have stationed nuclear weapons to the south of us.  Terrorists are praising Barak Obama.  China has ICBMs with US technology guiding them.  World market are all over the place, and an election to put a socialist or a socialist lite in office is coming up.  Socialist Democrats practically pose on the guns that shoot our warriors while Republican congressmen cringe at their pointing fingers.

And Congress just played an arrogant game of tease to our markets that caused us to have the worst DOW drop in history, with an attempt to not only retain control of a large sector of our economy, but to make it ten times bigger.

The cry to Washington is still "SAVE US!"

when it should be -

"Get your control and your rules out of the FREE MARKET!"

Why I'm not voting for you.

1- I'd be surprised to know that McCain's people even reads conservative blogs, because McCain tells people what they should think.  He doesn't listen.

2- McCain thinks that as a conservative we are all going to vote for him already.  That shows me that he doesn't understand conservatism.

3-McCain does not vote conservatively.

4- McCain acts as though he is afraid of appearing conservative all the time.

5- McCain should be saying to the American people and Obama that while Americans don't want to be slaves to corporations, we are even less interested in giving control of our lives to government.  But he won't because he does not believe this  himself.

McCain  is going to lose this election with a smile on his face.