Since the inauguration of President Obama we’ve seen tremendous, rapid changes take place in the U.S.; in a bastion of free enterprise and freedom we are witnessing an administration moving our country toward socialism.
Even as the pundits and talking heads debate the merits or drawbacks of each sweeping change in policy, many are still trying to get their minds around the fact that we are, indeed, on the verge of giving up the fundamental elements that set our country apart from the monarchies, theocracies and tyrannies that dot this planet.
If you are concerned, if what you see unfolding troubles you, there is much you can do. Join a local Tax Tea Party effort, discuss current politcal events with friends and explain to them how current and proposed polices will impact them and make sure you vote in the upcoming 2010 midterm elections.
As Dante so famously said, “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of crisis, do nothing.”
More to come. Be strong.
Socialism has never been far underfoot. It is the American way, and to run fear up the flagpost again is a tactic we’ve grown weary of. Your first sentence implies a correlation between President Obama and these “tremendous, rapid changes”. I submit you’ve left out a lot of history and a few more relevant names than his responses to the problems we have. Isn’t he amazing that this one man, in 6 month’s time, can put us on the verge of giving up our fundamental elements. No, I think you’re leaving out the most important name: us! A majority of us asked for him. We are responsible. We wanted respite from the things that made us feel bad about ourselves. Now, I call that a democracy. With another limit of 4 years to prove himself, and if we don’t like the direction, we do our jobs again. But don’t base your fear on Obama or the last 6 months – it’s intellectually dishonest.
There are many valid responses to crises. Doing nothing is as valid as doing many other things. It is not up to you or Dante to decide whether my choice guarantees a place in hell. Sheherazade said “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those that reserve places in hell for others based on their own personal expectations”.
There are also many responses to the situation at hand (it is not a crisis), and you mentioned several good ones. I consider the North Korean ship going up the coast of China right now to be approaching crisis, so if you have some responses to that, it would be helpful.
To be fair to the feeling you have and are trying to rally, I am considering starting a garden only for the reasons you express here, so I am not far from what you’re trying to say. And I agree that free market trumps government. But your opening sentence indicates a bias that President Obama – in his short 6 months of inherited mess – and the American people don’t deserve.
Be fair before being strong.
I look forward to hearing more of what you have to say.
I too am a concerned conservative as is my husband. We feel the country is headed in the wrong direction under the Obama regime. What can we do to correct the current course.
You make an excellent point.
It does come back to an informed, involved voting public.
After all, these people were legally elected.
This brings up another issue: Term Limits. Do you think there should be term limits for congressmen?
Scot
2008:
US Secretary of the Treasury has informed the China Development Bank that the US has shipped $800 Billion of a new currency called the Amero, which is to be based upon the merging of the economies of The United States, Mexico and Canada into what is termed as The North American Union.
The current American debt obligation to China, currently based on the US Dollar, is now estimated to be the staggering sum of $2.5 Trillion, and which this new Amero will be exchanged for $400 Billion of this debt as the current American currency is set to be devalued by 50 percent before the end of the year.
Virtually unknown to the American people is that their current leader of the US Department of Treasury, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., has been tasked by President Bush to lead the efforts to join the economies of the US, Canada and Mexico and is also the head of the North American Development Bank, the bi-national financial institution established by the United States and Mexico to further the merging of their economies, and the leader of the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC), the organization created by the governments of the United States and Mexico to further the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
This is important to note as the final provisions of the NAFTA Agreement were implemented on January 1, 2008, leaving only the final merging of the economies of the US, Mexico and Canada into a North American Union to be accomplished, of which we can read:
“President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration’s true open borders policy.
Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.
President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming, much as the European Union has formed.”
It is also interesting to note that American economists have been warning about the replacing of the US Dollar with the Amero, due to pressure from China, for nearly two years, and as we can read in this December, 2006 report titled Analysts: Dollar collapse would result in ‘amero’, and which says:
“As WND reported earlier this week, in an unusual move, the Bush administration is sending virtually the entire economic “A-team” to visit China for a “strategic economic dialogue” in Beijing Thursday and Friday. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are leading the delegation, along with five other cabinet-level officials, including Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez. Also in the delegation will be Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, Energy Secretary Sam Bodman, and U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab.
But Chapman doubts the trip will help the Fed to engineer a slow dollar slide.
“The Chinese are going to do what the Chinese want to do, not what we want them to do,” he said. “I believe the Chinese are going to send Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke home packing, with little or nothing to show for the trip.”
How severe will the coming dollar collapse be?
“People in the U.S. are going to be hit hard,” Chapman warned. “In the severe recession we are entering now, Bush will argue that we have to form a North American Union to compete with the Euro.”
“Creating the amero,” Chapman explained, “will be presented to the American public as the administration’s solution for dollar recovery. In the process of creating the amero, the Bush administration just abandons the dollar.”
Thanks Vlad, interesting AND scary. I’m also struggling with the call for a global back-up to the US dollar as a baseline currency.
Thanks for the input.
Scot