What can we do?

Pat; Thanks for your comments – I’ll touch on your question.

Mike; good to hear from you, I hope everything is good with your family. Aren’t you glad you didn’t get into the solar energy craze?

 What can we do?

The question is what can we do to stop this politically driven downward spiral of just about everything in this country?  The answer is – NOTHING. We the people of this country, collectively, don’t have enough sense to wear a coat on a cold day. If you took all the common sense of Congress and the White House, made it into a ball and rolled it down the edge of a razor blade – it would be like rolling a BB down a 6 lane highway. We don’t have the sense or the gumption to do anything to stop this flight of fancy. I can tell you what I am doing but you already know about most of that, nothing dramatic just good common sense. I can assure you I will survive no matter how it goes down. There is a glimmer of hope on the horizon for we the people, whether we can transform that into a growth pattern for our economy is questionable.

The Republicans, Boehner, Ryan, Cantor, Rubio and my favorite Carl Rove are busy trying to make us the Democratic Lite party and are sending us down the creek with no paddle, so much for leadership. The Democrats are trying to take advantage of their momentum and permanently change the social fabric of our country but their house of cards is showing signs of weakness – that’s what happens when you build on a foundation of lies.

Obama is out of gas – he will lose on gun bans, his political capital is gone, his advisors are jumping ship, his appointees are getting out while they still can, he will lose on killing American citizens without evidence by drone, 7 million people won’t be able to keep the insurance they have like he promised, Egypt is forming an alliance with a nuclear Iran, North Korea has specifically targeted the U.S. with a nuclear attack all while the sequester that he signed into law – which he said would never happen - will cut the military budget by 7.3% and is already having a negative effect happen or not. He is very unlikely to get favors from the Senate this term because he has nothing but failure to offer them and they want to be re-elected. 11 states are considering their own currency based on the gold standard, the number of law suits against him are mounting, states and counties across the country are trying to trump federal laws (10th amendment), the federal deficit that he said he would halve is still growing by leaps and bounds. The effects of his first term are coming home to roost and we all know human nature – you don’t pay any attention until it affects you.

Are we the people smart enough to take advantage of the chink in the armor? Our representatives certainly are not, it’s the democrats not the republicans that are raising a ruckus. The consolation prize is what we have been talking about for the last 8 months – high high inflation, a big drop in the stock market, currency devaluation, tax increases, a single payer health care system, amnesty for 11 million illegal’s, lots more unemployment, more social programs. These are all the things that happen when we follow FDRs policies, something Obama said he wants to continue doing in his inaugural speech. FDR made it illegal to own gold, 91% income tax (100% on business), federal employment to offset the high unemployment, hundreds of executive orders creating the social program mess we have been dealing with since, terrible cuts to the military and veteran’s benefits. If it weren’t for the Second World War we would still be in that depression but Obama wants to continue the experiments of FDR, he said so in his inaugural speech. The worst president in our history but the most loved by the people, doesn’t it sound like that is what Obama wants? To be loved by the people by giving them free stuff, regardless of the consequences to the country.

Obama has no foreign policy except to wait for something to happen then lie to the public about how it wasn’t his fault. We could be drawn into another war by Iran, Egypt or North Korea lobbing a nuclear missile at us, I mean how strong are our missile defenses; we can’t even secure our own borders. What a terrible way to end a depressed economy. It certainly looks like he could care less about that compared to waging class warfare right here in the U.S..

Welcome to the new normal, that’s where we are headed, sooner than you think. We don’t learn from history, we repeat it and we have been given the model – FDR, by a man who thinks there are 57 states and a moderate Taliban. If you think I am out of my mind take a look at legislation on the House floor right now – today there is a bill to allow Presidents to serve unlimited terms, now that would requires a 3/4ths  vote by the states for a constitutional amendment. The fact that our representatives could even think this guy should be allowed to hold the highest office in the land for longer than the Constitution allows gives you some idea of how messed up this country is.

Brace yourself, we’re going there. There is no way around it, the damage has already been done. The emphasis should not be on what we think we can do to stop this eventuality but what we can do to survive it.