Fear! Made in the USA... Patent Pending...

It is time for the Government to Scare the Old and the Poor half to death. They warned us now watch as the Obama machine ratchets up fear. (play "Jaws" music)

Rahm Emmanuel has said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” He then went on to clarify 5 points the government hoped to deal with: Healthcare, Energy, Taxes, Education, and Financial Regulation. Hillary Clinton said the same thing with regard to the climate and if you look at everything this administration has done, it has use fear as its tactic. This government has created a “Crisis” in all of these areas.

We had the crisis of too big to fail? Surely the heavens will fall if… the Banks, GM, Chrysler, Beanie Weenies. (Just kidding about the Beanie Weenies, they are still fine.) Then we had the “these tea-partiers are really scary” and you need to worrrrrry about them. Another goodie is that the Ice Cap is thawing and this signals that the earth will burn up soon if the Oceans don’t flood everything to the Rockies.

Sure, all of these things have something to be said for or about them but the Obama administration does everything by fear. Why? Fear works. Fear makes doing the wrong thing for the wrong reasons somehow look sensible. Fear makes people who claim to have solutions seem desirable. Fear makes you needy and no one likes needy like a politician looking to take over your life.

If this administration continues to follow its pattern it will continue with fear. I think they are ready to go after the Poor and the Elderly. Yep! I think they are going to threaten their checks. Think about it. The government is broke. Just now they are starting to say how broke they are. They need money. Where will they get the money? Taxes! Of course it is taxes but how will they get the people behind the idea of taxes. They will get the people who don’t pay them to vote for them. Let me repeat. The poor and the elderly don’t pay taxes. Only a percentage of those in between pay any. As election time comes and everyone hopes for change they will whip up a fresh batch of fear.

I can hear it all now. “You have to vote for this and that or you won’t get you pills or your check or your check will bounce. You must stop the “Tax Paying Americans” from their wants and needs. If the taxpayers get their way you won’t get your check. Your section 8 housing will dry up and you will die. Oh what can you do? First support Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants. Then they will vote with the poor and the elderly and you can keep all that free money. After all, they have way too much and you have way too little.”

Mark it Down! There will be fear spewing from a TV near you. Fear! Manufactured by the fine folks at Obama Fearmongering.com. Save yourselves and to hell with the rest of America! It’s the Obama way!

Afraid to Say...

The other day I was speaking with a woman who stated that she and her husband were gravely concerned about the future of America. Even more telling was that she described going to hear Laura Ingram speak and fearing that damage might be done to their car or worse. Her fear describes all too well the feeling many Americans have. Who would have ever thought that our nation would have become a place where your freedom to speak would become overshadowed by your fear of retaliation?

Truthfully, I have wondered if my blogging might not get me extra scrutiny from the IRS or some other government Agency. I know how many visit my blog and so for now I think I am just another unknown. Do not misunderstand me. If you are going to speak out against this government I think there is a certain amount of risk that goes with it. How much is hard to tell and probably has much to do with how you speak out and to whom. Doesn’t the very thought of this just give you the creeps. America has become a Gestapo State and her people feel under siege.

While I do feel that efforts are being made to eliminate our freedom of speech or at least our “freedom to speak”, I am not yet thinking that the masses are in any real danger for having dissenting opinions. Yet that day will come. Think about it. We never thought that the things that happen now could have ever happened and yet they do. In a nation where our president feels comfortable to lord over the people, will he not also feel equally comfortable to sentence them to some punishment at his whim? When a congress has become so dysfunctional as to go against the will of the people, will they not also turn on those same people and demand allegiance? Most assuredly they will. Our president and our congress have both reached the point where they no longer are bound by the Constitution and they know it.

If our government were still beholding to the Constitution, they would not be able to pass laws requiring every citizen to buy anything, let alone their product: insurance. Even if insurance is a good thing, to require every American to buy anything is against our Constitution. The Constitution could be amended to provide for such a law but that would take a two-thirds majority in both houses. This administration can’t get that many votes for their agenda but neither do they need it. Why bother with Amending the Constitution when you can just ignore it? This administration has shown that they can do as they wish and we are powerless to stop them.

Now let me make a simple distinction of what Obama intends and what he Promises. Obama has made dozens of campaign promises and has yet to make good on the first of them. However, when Obama says he will do something, he does. He will not be stopped. Whether it requires hiring, firings, threats or bribes he will see it through. He said he will see Healthcare Reform and he will have it. Obama is sailing on a sea of congressional corruption in a ship named “Devious”. He has prepared his whole life to “fundamentally change” America and is within grasp of it and he has done this before our eyes. He knows we will do little, particularly if we are too afraid to speak up.

Liberty? Certainly. But, at what price?

There is a condition borne by mankind whereby individuals will tolerate abuses and injustices rather than risking action with uncertain consequences. Surely, we have all had times whereby we have endured or even encouraged wrongdoing rather than risk ridicule. As a young person I found this within myself and as a very mature person I find it still there. I remember making fun of people who were different and often when I didn’t want to. Perhaps you too can remember similar acts in your past as ways to try and fit in or to avoid being the brunt of ridicule. As you read on, you may get the urge to stop reading. Please don’t quit.

Certainly there is a time and an age when we must begin to do the right thing regardless of the consequences. Far more intelligent people than I have pondered this thought. Thomas Jefferson comes to mind when he wrote this in the Declaration of Independence:

“…accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

He was writing about the suffering of the people at the hands of government. In 1776 he knew that the masses would suffer evils rather than correct them. I bring this up because we find ourselves with a government that has a great number of us nervous and even alarmed. As I consider this I wonder what price will I pay, or for that matter, will anyone pay to right these wrongs. Experience and history has taught me not to expect too much from anyone, let alone myself. So, I pose this question to you. What will you pay to right the wrongs, to maintain the Constitution, to continue as a Republic, and to insure the future of America in the way we have enjoyed it.

Currently I blog, I gripe, I speak out when appropriate (and sometimes when inappropriate), I write emails and faxes. It shames me to say I have not been at a Tea Party yet I promised myself to go. Even now I wonder if I will attend or am I only fooling myself. The one town hall that I could’ve attended I skipped with the excuse that “there will be so many there I will never get in”. I didn’t see my standing outside as anything beneficial enough for me to give up my evening for. My thinking was clearly clouded by convenience and not illuminated by purpose.

Now my point is this: This is a normal human condition. I suspect everyone has this character trait to some degree. My goal is not to guilt anyone into acting or doing anything but to stimulate thought as to what price is doable for you. Listening to conservative radio and reading blogs is informative but accomplishes little else. Sending a link to someone to these blogs may be some better and of course you can tweet. I suspect that the bulk of blogs and tweets inform but produce very little real effort.

In my heart I know that I don’t want to be the first one to the microphone, or leading the march, or protesting congress. Still I know it has to be done. I am convinced with every cell of my body that our nation is in trouble that only the American people can fix. And I also know that history has shown that you and I both “prefer the pain we feel over the pain we fear”.

Thanks for reading. Keep me in your thoughts and prayers that I might have the wisdom and courage to change the things I can. Good luck to you.