CART WILLIAMS

Always crusty, sometimes cranky,
always on the right, seldom if ever wrong
yet hardly ever dangerous.

On a mission to impose a one hundred and
eighty degree course correction on a confused and
divided nation headed in the wrong direction.

In San Antonio one member of the audience wore an Oath Keepers T-shirt. Oath Keepers are a group of veterans, soldiers or police officers who fear their own government is about to attack the American people or round up conservatives into concentration camps. The oath they have sworn to keep is to refuse to obey such orders.

Instead her speech was a complex walk through her extreme anti-government philosophy, citing sources as varied as the Austrian school of economics, St Augustine and modern French philosophers.

She said she wanted to get rid of property taxes and allow Texans to do whatever they wanted with anything they owned, whether that was dig for oil or build an extension.

There was, she said, no constitutional basis for a federal Department of Education or an Environmental Protection Agency or the Federal Reserve.

Texas should assert its rights almost as a nation-state, controlling over its own National Guard units. The disdain for government was visceral. The American way, she said, was simple.

Over 30 percent of German women are childless; among German university graduates, it's over 40 percent. And for the ever-dwindling band of young Germans who make it out of the maternity ward there's precious little reason to stick around.

Why be the last handsome blond lederhosen-clad Aryan lad working the late shift at the beer garden in order to prop up singlehandedly entire retirement homes?

And that's before the EU decides to add the Greeks to your burdens. Germans, who retire at 67, are now expected to sustain the unsustainable 14 monthly payments per year of Greeks who retire at 58.

Think of Greece as California: Every year an irresponsible and corrupt bureaucracy awards itself higher pay and better benefits paid for by an ever-shrinking wealth-generating class. And think of Germany as one of the less-profligate, still-just-about-functioning corners of America such as my own state of New Hampshire: Responsibility doesn't pay.

You'll wind up bailing out, anyway. The problem is there are never enough of "the rich" to fund the entitlement state, because in the end it disincentivizes everything from wealth creation to self-reliance to the basic survival instinct, as represented by the fertility rate.

If some people don't have the money or the achievements of others, that too is society's fault, in the eyes of those for whom personal responsibility is an outmoded idea.

Academic institutions, think tanks and schools have altered their curricula and agenda to accommodate what was seen as the global warming "consensus."

Mounting evidence suggests that claims of manmade global warming might turn out to be the greatest hoax in mankind's history.

Immune and hostile to the evidence, President Barack Obama's administration and most of the U.S. Congress sides with Climate Czar Carol Browner, who says, "I'm sticking with the 2,500 scientists. These people have been studying this issue for a very long time and agree this problem is real."

A year ago, the socialists, even as they were juggling and falsifying their books, were bragging that the Wall Street meltdown was a referendum — and capitalism was doomed.

The person delivering it is not a donor but a bureaucrat, and the recipient is a case with a number. Both know that the bureaucrat gives nothing and wouldn’t even be there were he not getting paid.

The recipient knows there is no donor, as the money was extracted from people who, almost invariably, didn’t want to give it.

The aid is generally delivered in a cold, antiseptic, assembly-line fashion. Thus, while the government can become a nanny state, it can never nurture. Its charges will at best feel like neglected children.

This is why, even in authentic charity, there should be as few intermediaries as possible. It is also why purposely replacing charity with government redistribution is evil: To whatever extent you kill charity, you kill bonds among the citizenry.

Of course, the state can provide food, shelter and many other things. But there’s something it can’t provide.

Love.

In all the debates about how best to aid the needy, it’s forgotten that man does not live on bread alone. True charity is an ethereal transaction. Love is given — and love is received.

At this point of this disaster, there will be no voting our way out of it. The prevailing epistemology doesn't permit it: there simply are not enough people out there who know how to think. The dominant ethics of the culture won't have it: everybody wants to live at the expense of everyone else, and freedom is not a value in this country, anymore.

And stereotypes were OK, if instantly backed by empirical evidence and if not pressed too far.

In contrast, one reason I disliked academia was that in such a dry, bored self-created landscape, pretense trumped action, and one’s tribe, not one’s essence, was the key to career advancement.

I never heard a Mexican neighbor say he was Mexican or an Armenian vineyard grower talk of his vaunted heritage or the German claim privilege — they all succeeded or failed on their own ability, or lack of, to grow food at a profit.

Yes, both will happen and the same party (the tea party/conservatives) will be blamed for both. The question is; how much violence can we tolerate before we lose control?

As you have pointed out repeatedly the “blame Bush” mantra of the left is still in full swing, this is by design so that when their policies fail it’s not their fault but the fault of those who opposed them. It’s the message they will use to rally the government unions to the streets.

There is one other message from the left, it is; “it’s not my fault”. (Ayn Rand wrote the script for the left and they are following it to the T). The left cannot produce any wealth and they cannot take responsibility for not doing so but they are experts at dreaming up ways to steal wealth from the wealth creators but they won’t take responsibility for that either.

From the conservative side it must be continually pointed out that the “blame Bush” mantra of the left is simply being used to avoid responsibility for their own actions, something the left has always done.

The other conservative message has to be the medicine of reform, tough love, serious belt tightening and a positive picture of the incredible shrinking government and the benefits that will result.

Yes the conservatives will be rightly blamed for removing the parasites from the backs of the tax payer. The parasites won’t like it. They will scream loud and long.

(What happens when people have access to guns but no access to food, shelter, and health care? That is the American nightmare.)

9-11 propagandists like Hanson stir up racism against Muslims in order to keep Americans in thrall to the oligarchy of Bernie Madoff, Bill Gates, and the Texas oil barons who are poisoning are our Mother Earth so she can no longer sustain our lives.

(I wonder if Hanson believes he will be able to secure a place in one of the Forbes 400′ self-contained biospheres that will become the only places capable of sustaining life once our Mother dies.)

Poor Europeans take to the streets and protest because sometimes their governments hear their cry and respond with compassion, sometimes, but not always, the effects of US imperialism and the racism of their colonial past can mean callousness like is typical in America.

Obama’s intentions are the destruction of America above all else. He has 3 years remaining to further his cause.

His present efforts and words are largely a smoke screen toward that end ie concern over debt, jobs, nuclear power,transparency on and on. He has made it his business to create divisions on numerous fronts.

Revolution is likely in our future as elections have failed their purpose – to clense out the corrupt, incompetent, greedy, and statists.

When taxes exceed 50% (California) then you are indeed a servent to the government and ever more dependent there on. A ship of fools. Being afraid is appropriate in these times.

To find the answer, answer this first:

B) which Country, which People have defended Freedom all over the world and defeated the USSR ?

You get the answer to B, you get the answer to A.

And they are doing it, and our pundits keep criticizing the “mistakes” of this administration.

This administration isn’t making any mistake.

A tiny fraction went into the con artist’s pockets….only a few hundred billion, but that’s all they expected in Round 1. The real riches will flow to them in Round 2, as the remaining 70% of the wealth of America is squeezed dry in the next few years.

The remaining fraction of the wealth so far stolen was destroyed so the con men could get their tiny fraction.

(1) Much to “entitlements” that the ignorant blow on ipods and sneakers.

Exclude Social Security and Medicare reimbursements (more on them later) from that.

These “entitlements” are subsidies for the lazy not to work but to vote Democrat, subsidies for illegal’s to vote Democrat when they are made citizens before 2012, and subsidies for blacks to vote Democrat. Call those “Deadbeat Subsidies”.

(2) Much to all forms of graft, kickbacks, and payoffs. Put the “stimulus” in that column, and the billions siphoned from Medicare yearly. Call that “Friends of Obama”.

(3) Some to pure vote buying. Acorn, stealing elections. $50 an election to millions of “voters”. Call that “Voter Fraud”.

(4) Much to crony capitalists of all types to buy their support, and contributions to the cause. Call that “the Chicago Way”.

(5) Some to “green entrepreneurs” who are working so hard to save our planet. Call that “Greenmail”, and (6) An astonishing amount burnt or shoveled to Goldman Sachs, AIG, George Soros, and others, in the multiple market manipulation scams of 2008, all designed to get Obama elected: the historic Stock Market crash, the unprecedented oil run-up and crash, the impossible Money Market meltdown scheme, the creative Derivatives Con, the life changing Real Estate crash. Call that “Barney’s Little Scheme”.

And where are the “lucky” souls who managed to navigate those financial landmines, thank you very much? Perhaps knowing their names will help illustrate the root causes of the destruction of America.

We abandoned the work ethic. We stopped thinking about transmitting something of real value in the course of our business transactions. Everyone wanted to “make” money when in actuality all they were doing was accumulating money and extracting money from the economy in numerous ways without creating or transmitting anything of real value.

We made crap and marketed the heck out of it. We sold snake oil and didn’t care if the infirmed got taken to the cleaners.

We became selfish as we tried every way imaginable to get on the money train. We became so obsessed with getting on the train that we forgot that someone had to either push, pull or otherwise cause the train to move.

Now, along with junk food, junk entertainment, junk art, junk government and a junk legal system, we now have a junk economy.

We did this to ourselves as we looked the other way when our legislators used their offices for personal gain as opposed to serving the people.

We thought we could vote money into our pockets. We just went with the flow as we abandoned common sense and proper behavior. Now only we can right the wrongs by embracing discipline, education, common sense, hard work and ethical conduct.

Over50:

As a Texas resident, and long ago California resident, my immediate concern is that California, NY, Michigan and similar states are working hard to make their debts and obligations, national debts and obligations. Unfortunately, given the power of the Federal government, I think they will succeed.

I’ve liquidated investments in US companies and invested in China and India. I’m encouraging my children to think not just about the US but other countries as places to consider for opportunities.

The weapon should be austerity.

The target should be Academia.

We can simply not provide student loans to person getting frivolous liberal arts degrees, instead focus on math and science.

No more money for Post Colonial Studies or Critical Theory!

Decades of teaching children that not only is hard work beneath nice people, it’s also an evil assault on mother earth has yielded a generation or two that believe it’s an insult to expect them to work and a tragedy to produce rather than consume what’s produced elsewhere (let “them” live in an evil industrial society, not us).

The most corrupting money spent on politics is spent on what passes for education and is allocated as if it were not political spending. It is, however, the most political of all spending and has yielded the results the “progressive” crowd intended when they created the federal “education” department and systematically took control of education away from the states.

Depends on where you live.

I suspect in California, Michigan, Illinois and the rest of the heavily unionized, entitlement rich “bleu states” you will see rioting and anarchy complete with burning cities. Those who have always had everything given to them by the state do not have any respect for the property of those who have actually worked for everything they have.

That includes people like politicians, city/state unionized “public workers” the “professional students” and “academics” like Cedric.

The governments of those entities will not be able to handle it because of their “progressive” attitudes and laws which leave the productive segments of society at the mercy of the hooligans.

Those productive members of society will bail out ASAP leaving nothing but the welfare state leeches and the politicians. Those who can have already left or are leaving before it comes to that-see California and Greece for fine examples of that.

In other states that have healthier economies and laws it will go on but to a lesser extent. For example in Texas they might try to riot, burn and loot but a heavily armed general population and the “Castle Law” will put a stop to that fairly quickly-it is hard to keep on rioting, burning and looting when you get a face full of buckshot.

In general there will be a “revolution” of sorts, in fact it has already begun. It isn’t the revolution that the liberals/progressives/Marxists wanted, though. The sleeping giant is awake and it is pissed.

On the other hand, as the money runs out, will state workers, pensioners, and entitlement recipients accept that there are too few wealth-creators to fund their pay-outs, or, as in Greece, hit the streets in protest, teenager style, each time some adjustments are necessary?

They will riot. They are all “junkies” and we all know what happens when junkies have to go cold turkey. See the above for what the reaction will be to that.

On a related note…

There is an immutable fact that our leaders are ignoring, to the peril of the country: People need things. Dr. Hanson points this out. Modern life commands modern devices, and we’re not making them.

We could be and we should be. Our way of life requires the manufacture of things like cell phones, computers and autos. Our govnerment has allowed businesses to sell out its own citizens in the form of NAFTA and other treaties that consider American workers last, if at all.

When we awaken from our slumber and begin to elect politicians who understand that capitalism is the best and only engine to improve the life of man, we’ll begin to make those things that modern life needs.

As money represents labor, wealth begins with a shovel going into the ground.

Wealth comes from the earth. (Land, labor and capital).

The trouble is the manipulators are always inherently more politically powerful because politics is about persuasion. Worse, the manipulators are completely oblivious to their own ignorance about the materially creative. Even when they approach a problem with a sincere, unselfish intent to do good, their insular subculture prevents them from understanding the practicalities of material production.

So we end up with an elite political class that functions as did the mandarins of China who were so prideful of their distance from material production that they grew their fingernails to ridiculous lengths to intentionally cripple their hands. They could not even feed themselves and were proud of it.

When they reached that state, their administration of the empire became delusional and the collapse of the dynasty soon followed. Then the cycle would repeat itself.

Now, we too are governed by a class of people who see no value in material production. Oh, they value the nebulous “jobs” but they think any job is as valuable as any other and so see no problem with driving the materially productive out of their communities and eventually the country as a whole. They are actively proud that they shutdown factories, farms and prevent the construction of infrastructure. They sneer at the materially productive for being greedy even while their own lives are fully devoted to obtaining more coercive power over their fellow human beings.

Perhaps, as in many things, the Chinese are the template for all human civilizations. Perhaps the talkers are in the long run destined to always dominate and then destroy every polity. Perhaps we too must suffer through collapse, destruction and rebirth.

Joseph Kennedy comes to mind as a prime example, but any eco-loon march in Berkeley is replete with the offspring of wealthy parents demanding the cessation of economic activity which might affect one of their playgrounds.

And rational thoughts never enter their minds. The most perfect example is that all the eco-loons DEMAND that every auto be replaced with an electric version, yet at the exact same time they oppose nuclear power and virtually every other energy source which will be needed to power all these new electric eating autos?

Where bureaucrats are honest, no one can cut through their Laocoönian coils: their procedures, no matter how onerous, antiquated, or bloody-minded, must be endured patiently. Such bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense.

That's McGoofy on Obama during the run up to the Presidential Election in 2008.

Here are things J. D. Hayworth has said that appear most contradictory to McCain's stances.

"The American people likewise want to see enforcement first -- no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws."

McCain did not have enough votes in either 2007 or 2008 to qualify for a score.

In 2006, his composite conservative score was 56.7, putting him in 46th place, or the top 46%. Only nine of 55 Republicans scored lower than McCain, including Arlen Specter, who later joined the Democratic Party, and Lincoln Chafee, who retired from the Senate and endorsed Barack Obama for president.

McCain's economic, social, and foreign scores were 64, 46, and 58, respectively. His economic score was 36th-most conservative, his highest ranking in any category that year.

I have long suspected that countless Californians have remained in the state only because of their inability to sell their property at a decent price. How many of them feel a sense of obligation to stay until the bitter end? And why should they? Do these individuals owe anything to their shockingly immature friends and neighbors who have brought California down to its knees?

I don’t get the impression that most of California’s voters are ready to truly bite the bullet. They merely wish to continue procrastinating and hope some sort of miracle occurs.

The odds that this current crisis will be satisfactorily resolved are no better than perhaps thirty percent.

California’s government unions are the deciding factor. I can’t imagine the typical forty-nine year old prison guard who is getting ready to retire next year with a ninety thousand dollars annual pension listening to reason. They are not going to gulp hard and accept a more modest package requiring them to retire at sixty-five with only an annual pension of thirty-five thousand dollars.

I have long suspected that countless Californians have remained in the state only because of their inability to sell their property at a decent price. How many of them feel a sense of obligation to stay until the bitter end? And why should they? Do these individuals owe anything to their shockingly immature friends and neighbors who have brought California down to its knees?

I don’t get the impression that most of California’s voters are ready to truly bite the bullet. They merely wish to continue procrastinating and hope some sort of miracle occurs.

The odds that this current crisis will be satisfactorily resolved are no better than perhaps thirty percent. California’s government unions are the deciding factor.

I can’t imagine the typical forty-nine year old prison guard who is getting ready to retire next year with a ninety thousand dollars annual pension listening to reason. They are not going to gulp hard and accept a more modest package requiring them to retire at sixty-five with only an annual pension of thirty-five thousand dollars.

I think his weird logic is: “Bush’s bad deficits made me trump them by a factor of four.” When the Commander-in-Chief expects the populace to believe that, or drops real unemployment figures and talks instead of theoretical jobs saved, or flip-flops on everything from evil Wall Street bankers now suddenly good, or bad nuclear power now vital, then we have about as much hope as we would have under Jimmy Carter.

Remember January 2009? In the era of Democratic supermajorities in Congress, a new JFK in the White House, and a media proclaiming Obama “a god,” we were all grass-roots saints, who threw out the Bush bums and had at last a great workable Congress and White House — and were a daring electorate eager for hope and change from a non-traditional president.

Yes, life was good and we, in the pre-tea-party age, were the salt of the earth that earned an Obama.

Now? Suddenly in our media and politics the people are stupid, full of ingratitude, often racist, the system broken, the Congress bankrupt, all of us undeserving of our one chance in a lifetime state agenda.

Here in California we idle farmland, though we have the water, expertise, and soil to produce far more food than we do. We put vast swaths of both land and sea off limits to gas and oil production, though we could produce far more petroleum and natural gas than we do. We snub nuclear power, though our population steadily increases and its desire for electronic appurtenance grows, not shrinks. We like “wilderness areas” (who doesn’t?) where we build no roads, harvest no timber, and build no dams. We strangle Silicon Valley with all sorts of labor and business regulations until it fabricates and outsources abroad. In other words, we are creating no real new sources of concrete wealth as we nuance the shrinking capital we inherited.

We Are Still Humans For a Bit Longer

Hollywood is great. Tourism keeps San Francisco alive. Napa Valley produces great wines. We have strong finance, insurance and plenty of regulators. But ultimately our generation lost sight of the fact that we must eat and therefore grow food; we must clothe ourselves and therefore need fibers; we must move from place to place and therefore need fuel; and we must have shelter and therefore have wood, cement and glass.

Yes, we can import all this from the Chinese or the Canadians or the South Americans, but at some point one needs the real capital created by real wealth to pay for it all — not nuancing and adjusting and tinkering with money. Money is simply a representation of stored capital that comes from real production of some sort. Talking about “millions of green jobs” and “a wind and solar future” and “high-tech sector” is well and good. But ultimately Western man has not yet (as we learn from his consumptive habits) evolved to some sort of ethereal existence. Even Harvard Review grandees need real fuel to power Air Force One to get to Copenhagen.

In any case, the president — immune from criticism from the hard Left, which is angrier about conservative presidents waterboarding known terrorists than liberal ones executing suspected ones — has concluded that one way to win in Afghanistan is to kill as many terrorists and insurgents as possible.

And while the global public will praise his kinder, gentler outreach, privately he evidently thinks that we will be safer the more the U.S. marines shoot Taliban terrorists and the more Hellfire missiles blow up al-Qaeda planners.

Why otherwise would a Nobel Peace Prize laureate order such continued offensive missions?

Victory is most easily obtained by ending the enemy’s ability to resist — and by offering him an alternative future that might appear better than the past.

There is a reason today why Obama is not pushing for an absolute revolution, like Lenin or Hitler sought: Obama practices Fabian Socialism. He works to erode our liberties step by step. He tries to create constituencies who may not be socialist themselves, but who will become addicted to some program in the socialist agenda.

Well, generally speaking, conservatives are in a state of flux just like everyone else; they are the caboose being pulled along by that haphazard engine of change, liberalism.

In one age conservatives are against civil unions, in the next they’re for them (and as a recent poll of young “conservatives” indicated, we can expect conservatism to tolerate faux marriage in the future).

In one place they’re against socialized medicine, in another they’re for it.

There will always be conservatives because political spectrums will always have a right side. But where will the spectrums be relative to the ultimate center, Truth? Ah, that’s a different matter.

On the other hand, if you would like to believe that all this talk of anger and rebellion might be about something more than warming over the inside-the-Beltway talking points that Palin spouts, then the CPAC result has to be encouraging.

I can’t wait to hear what “high-profile” means. Explain health-care reform while parting the waters of the Potomac?

Anticipating gains in November, Republicans will not give Obama any new taxes before then. After November, their ranks swollen by tea-party support, they will be even more intractable.

Where does that leave Obama – and us?

Later this year or early next, to avoid a debt crisis, Obama will ask Congress to raise taxes and pare back entitlement programs.

Republicans will fight the taxes to the last ditch. Democrats, having lost dozens of colleagues in the November massacre, will rebel against the cuts in social spending.

"President Obama is leading a horse to water but he can't make the Republicans drink. The party of "NO" is not willing to co-operate with the president resulting in the polarization of the country.

It is not only the president's duty to unite the country but the duty of all of us.
We must come together and compromise.

The far right must stop being so extreme and actually realize that they are hurting the country by disagreeing with everything the democrats put forth.

"Kumbaya, let's all come together and surrender our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor? Not bloody likely.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Federal authorities are investigating the following Web posting linked to Joseph Stack, the pilot of the single-engine plane that crashed into an Austin, Texas, office building that housed IRS offices.

If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken.

Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”.