This'n'That; November 25th[Liberty-Can We Save It?]

Ya Know...........??

***I don't work every day; I work part-time, about three or four days for a "big-box" retailer, delivering appliances and building supplies. I have a lot of time now-having been injured in a workplace accident. I've been off for the past 8 or 9 weeks with very limited mobility; I fractured the lateral tibial plateau in my right knee.

***Currently, I have a lot of time to listen to Glenn Beck, Bob Lonsberry and Rush Limbaugh. Even during a normal work week, I listen to each of them about three days a week at home, on work days in the delivery truck when I can. I've often said that I am way to-the-right, politically; somewhere between Limbaugh and Beck!! So far right in fact, that I joined "We Surround Rochester [NY];" one of the organizations to sprout from the summer's nationwide tea parties.

***One of the recent days I was listening to either Beck or Lonsberry and he brought up the Statue of Liberty and the speech President Reagan made on the statue's 100th anniversary. All these talkshows are background "noise" while I paint and repair this double house the "Young Miss Lovely" inherited, so I sometimes miss the details of the broadcast. Well, I missed the point of the "Statue of Liberty" topic so I had to look up some of the information after my day ended.

***What really brought the topic to the fore with me is the country's current political climate. We all know that Fluffy and I will never be "buds," but he's not alone in this trip down the fascist road to "trickle-up poverty." The entire cast of the Congressional Moron Caucus, algore and many, many others are "playing dictator" as well. Look at all the crap that's being foisted upon us; the on-going hoax of global warming/climate change is finally unravelling [ClimateDepot.com], obamaCare is going forward even though just 38% of the public supports the legislation [RasmussenReports.com] and the revelations concerning the global warming hoax should Cap-and-trade a moot point, but that's STILL going forward!!!

***I don't know if yours does, but when I'm doing manual labor, my mind wanders..... A LOT!! My mother said that I "built air castles; My dad- "schemes-and-dreams." In my mind I saw someone with three or four very young children forced to go to great lengths to feed, house and care for his young'uns. I'm quite sure that the average "Mr Someone" is a fine, upstanding and honest individual; but desperate men do desperate things in desperate times!! I can see with the lymphatic domestic and economic policies, without a change in direction and without the addition of educated financial leadership-desperation ain't far off!!

***In my "air castle" the upcoming desperation will cause many-maybe hundreds-of men to assault Liberty Island to strip the statue's pure copper outer sheathing-purely for it's scrap value [$3.12/lb; Dec'008=$1.25/lb]. These commodity prices don't rise just for the fun of it; it's either demand driven-which it's not; there's little manufacturing or home construction to support a 250% increase-or it rises relative to the value of the US Dollar-which it is; the presses have been printing dollars 24/7/365, practically since the "Clown Prince" took office!!

***Now, we come to the Statue of Liberty, herself: A gift from the French citizenry commemorating the centennial of the signing of the US Declaration of Independence. The statue was placed on Liberty Island and dedicated on October 28th, 1886. The bronze plaque with the inscription below IS NOT on the outside of the base as is sometimes depicted; but on the second floor of the pedestal. This is the entire inscription-the bold, italicized portion is the most quoted:

• Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
• With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
• Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
• A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
• Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
• Mother of Exiles.
• From her beacon-hand
• Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
• The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
• "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
• With silent lips.
• "Give me your tired, your poor,
• Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
• The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
• Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
• I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

***The inscription requires further study; more reflection. My guess is that the average moron would read it as: Send your country's worthless citizens; all the lazy-asses; all the trashy lowlifes, from all the world's third world ratholes to America. We'll "leave the light on" for 'em.......

***What I, being a somewhat above average moron, get from it-as inspired by Glenn Beck-is

• Send those poor souls to America;
• Those poor souls you've kept under your boot-heel for generations;
• Those poor souls who know there is a better life for them, somewhere;
• Those poor souls who desire nothing but the opportunity to succeed;
• Those poor souls who desire to demonstrate a work ethic cultivated by starvation;
• Those poor souls who have been discarded by the ruling class.

My thoughts as well as those of countless millions of others were probably valid from the statue's inception until the early 1930s. The late '20s and early '30s were the birthing ground for the modern era of America's "ruling class."

In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt was elected president on the back of the 1929 stock market crash and the impending depression. Mr Roosevelt's campaign hinged on his promises of returned prosperity.

The FDR presidency's socialist economic policies dramatically extended the length and devestation of the depression. World War II's demand for war materiel was instrumental in ending the economic downturn.

The depression era 'alphabet' programs were nothing more than welfare, with the ruling class gaining the most benefit; the serf class earning "slave wages."

FDR nearly succeeded in reforming the American government from a representative republic to a manarchy. He was the first, last and only president to serve more than two terms. Had he lived, he most probably would have campaigned again and again, until he was defeated.

The modern era of welfare began with the enactment of the Social Security Act in 1935. The act, amended in 1939, established a number of programs designed to provide aid to various segments of the population; unemployment compensation and AFDC are two of the programs that still exist today.

President Johnson's "Great Society" programs continued to support those who decided they didn't need to work, but needed to have more children to increase their benefit checks. The Great Society created the food stamps program; Upward Bound-assistance for high school students; Community Agitation Programs-the probable forerunner of ACORN.

One plank of "Slick-Willie" Clinton's campaign platform was welfare reform. He reformed it, all right!! To make the welfare numbers look better, he transferred many of the recipients to the Social Security give-away programs. Essentially, the number of recipients went UP, NOT DOWN, with may of them drawing social security checks rather than welfare checks.

Those oft-quoted lines on the Statue of Liberty plaque........?? They've evolved to really mean nothing at all!! America is now populated with both legal and illegal immigrants as well as born Americans who choose not to work. We now have the "Clown Prince" who is intent on destroying any liberties left in America:

• obama started his reign with an on-going "Worldwide Apology Tour, 2009." In a short ten months, he's managed to apologize to most of the world's potentates for The American Spirit and the American's drive for success.
• obama started and continued to run America into the ground!! The much celebrated Porkulus Bill that was to cure America's ills, is nothing more than a "presidential slush fund."
• obama has two programs near and dear to his heart which will accomplish his primary goal. He and the Congressional Moron Caucus are promoting govenment takeover of 18% of the American economy through health care reform.
• In June, the House Moron Caucus passed the Cap-and-Tax bill [H.R.2454] which even "the tree-huggers" see as a corporate MONEY-GRAB!! Both of these pieces of moronic legislation do nothing more than feed his desire to destroy the serf class in America.
• These blatant attempts at wealth redistribution do nothing more than reduce the American standard of living to that of most third-world ratholes he admires, but won't live in one.
• The "Clown Prince" demonstrates daily, his distain for the military of the United States. It's now taken him nearly six months to decide what to do militarily in Afganistan. His chosen general in charge, Stanley McChrystal needed 40 to 80,000 troops back in July-so the clown decides he'll authorize 34,000 troops!! And that's OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT YEAR!!! What dam' good is that?!?!?!

Almost daily since the "Clown Prince" reign-of-power began, our liberties have been eroded!! If it's not the "Clown" himself, it's Nancy Porklosi or Scarry-harry reid or Chuckie-Cheese Schumer or Geeze-Louise McIntosh Rodham Slaughter or any number of others in the Congressional Moron Caucus!!! Ya know what the "Hell of it" is.....?? All these morons have grown to believe they're entitled to their positions as members of the ruling class!! Practically everything done sofar, amount to several impeachable offenses...... When are the hearings going to start??? A better question might be when will the "Clown Prince" and the Congressional Moron Caucus going to uphold their oaths of office??

I'm pissed off and I never intend to vote for an incumbent, ever again!!!

Til Nex'Time....