Or… as I have come to know you… my fellow American Patriots

Now before I get too far into this piece let me explain that I do not care very much for most politicians of any party. I simply do not trust them. While I may be conservative in my beliefs, I have come to understand that instead of we the American people and our elected officials as our supposed allies in having a common bond, sharing common goals, and in sharing a common vision of what our Country is striving to become, most politicians, regardless of their party affiliations, have instead become a very dangerous enemy of the American people. It has also become as plain as the nose on Lincoln's face that today's American citizens have nothing in common with today's American politicians.

I will openly admit that these government servants are an enigma to me. Rich, powerful, educated but self-serving individuals who have reached their elevated status because they had at one time promised to obey, and fulfill, the will of their constituents. These representatives of The People have all taken an oath to uphold the Constitution, a Constitution that far too many of them have repeatedly wiped their feet on while blatantly stomping on our Freedoms and Individual Rights. Due to their political power, money connections, lack of good conscience and layered falsehoods, once elected into office they are as impossible to dislodge as that deeply embedded, blood sucking tick planted square in the middle of a lone camper's shoulder blades.

These 'honored' statesmen swear that they are only doing what is best for our country, and our citizens, and will eloquently state that their greatest achievement in this life would to be remembered upon their demise as an honest and great American who faithfully and honorably served this country and its people. You know, just like the dear and recently departed Teddy was so shamelessly eulogized. The crazy part is that they have the power and authority to do just that, if they only had the moral fiber and good conscience to actually do what was best for our country. But instead of inspirational leaders that we can follow into a better and more prosperous future, we end up with self-serving, special interest lackeys who constantly sell us, and our children, out for their own profit and power base. Instead of the everyman's heroes that we could strive to emulate, we end up with common thugs, tax evaders, schemers, scammers and other voracious villains, most of who should be behind bars.

What the politicians, and the American people, have forgotten is that these public servants were only elected, or hired, to run the business of running our country, not to run our lives, or to save us from ourselves. They are the hired help, not even our bosses; let alone our masters or saviors. And what should be absolutely clear to every single man, woman and child in America is that no politician, or group of politicians, are elected to "Change" our Republic into their own personal vision of what he/she, or they, believe our country should be.

Somewhere along the course of our shared history the mutual respect that we were to display towards each other has become a one way street with these pampered, arrogant political aristocrats demanding that we call them "Senator," because they have worked so hard to earn that title. While it is rightfully required of us to respect the office that they hold, through their damning rhetoric and all too often criminal actions, they have continually abused this beneficiary respect by disrespecting these esteemed offices themselves. Meanwhile we Americans are all just nameless voters to them, or worse when we disagree with their power hungry policies. If we question or disagree with them we are stupid, rightwing extremists, Nazis, fools, or racists, all of these derogatory terms, and worse, have been used to describe our countrymen in just the past month.

But perhaps the most galling part of all in this now accepted institutionalized political insanity, which was once known as our federal government, is that these elected politicians and their cronies treat us like ignorant, helpless, and naive children while they are the all knowing parents. To them the only intelligent thing we citizens have ever done was being smart enough to elect them in the first place. Even at that they snicker behind closed doors at our stupidity in continuing to re-elect these scoundrels back into office. Yet as they mock us it matters little to these hacks that this re-election curse, which has been cast upon the American public, has more to do with the lack of choice that is given to us by the corrupt two party system, which they have created and perpetuate, than with the voters' lack of intelligence. Unfortunately we are fully aware of what we are getting when we are continually forced to vote for the lesser of two evils, but what other choice do we now have?

If we continue to question their policies then we are looked upon as wayward, rebellious teenagers who just don't understand what is best for us. They have even stated that we are not smart enough to understand the important legislation they intend to pass even if we were given the chance to read it. So even though these politicians have promised to post all future bills and legislation before they vote, since they feel that we cannot understand what is being read, why bother posting them on the Internet? In fact, as far as our elected representatives are concerned, We The People are so stupid that even if they tried to explain these complicated bills to us we surely wouldn't understand, so why should they even bother reading it themselves? So like frustrated yet determined parents who are only trying to save us from ourselves, these elected officials continue to preach, insult, reprimand and cajole until finally they just pass whatever legislations, policies and laws they deem necessary, or merely desire, in spite of our collective objections. Such legislation, we are constantly instructed, is always for our own good, safety or our prosperity as they nobly stand before us displaying their smug self assurance in that they only did what was best for us like the concerned mother who has just administered the castor oil. In the meantime we, and our future generations, are always stuck with the bill and the burden for their blurred vision, phony compassion and false generosity, as they once again stuff theirs' and their masters' greedy little pockets.

To get away with this thievery these politicians use the divide and conquer philosophy by conducting an us against them party strategy in dividing the American people. But no matter what your political philosophy, what all Americans must understand is that we are all in this together when it comes to being at the mercy of our politicians. In fact the only people in America who are not affected, or ruled by the laws, regulations and legislations passed by these elitist politicians, are those same politicians and their masters who have contrived to pass these laws, regulations and legislation.

A perfect example of this is the number of tax evaders that are currently in Congress or hold appointed offices in this present administration. Do you think any of us could get away with owing the IRS tens of thousands of dollars, year after year, and not be prosecuted? Not without changing our names and going into hiding we couldn't. Yet these tax evaders in Washington have remained in the public eye and are not held accountable for years. They are rarely brought to justice for their crimes and even after years of evading the paying of their taxes, when they are finally called upon to do so they are only required to issue a public apology and to pay the back taxes. Even then this obedience of our tax laws is usually only to appease the public as these tax evaders have been awarded with an administrative appointment moving them higher up the government food chain. Meanwhile the average citizen would have been unmercifully persecuted by the IRS and would have lost everything they own, gone directly to jail or both.

Right now many of these flimflam scoundrels are trying to shove a national health care plan down our collective throats. Yet none of these same politicians who now claim that our nation's health care system is in crisis will have to take part in the same health care plan that we will all be subjected to or will be fined and or imprisoned for not complying with. Think about that for a moment. They are arrogantly telling us that we must have national health care, which will ultimately be dispensed equally to all Americans alike, that is except for themselves and their own families. So while you and your child are waiting for months to see a pediatrician, Senator Joe Privilege and his family will be immediately getting the best medical care our tax dollars can buy.

And please don't argue that this is not true because the single payer option is dead or that we will be given a choice to retain our own health insurance. This national health care agenda has nothing to do with taking care of our citizens' health needs and everything to do with control and power through a bigger, more powerful, Federal government. This health care scam is about building an even larger dependency on the Federal government that wants be too big to fail or to oppose. Without the single payer option nationalized health care fails in accomplishing that core goal of becoming a government monopoly on health care. So even if something is passed now without the single payer option it will be included behind closed doors by the time this national health care takes effect.

Today a large portion of our society belongs to a welfare state. These people depend on the Federal government for all of their needs. Their entire lives are owned and controlled by the Federal government. But the Feds want to control the entire population, yet they understand that not everyone can be on welfare, as someone has to work, produce and provide the tax revenue for the government to continue. To reach the ultimate political goal of all of our citizens' governmental dependency private health care insurance must be eliminated and the only way that can be accomplished is for the Federal government to be the single payer of all health care. To the Feds the single payer option is not optional; it is a necessity.

A very big problem with this national health care business is that we just cannot afford it! Yet here is the biggest problem with this national health care plan, it is unconstitutional on many levels. Nowhere in the Constitution does it empower the Federal government to nationalize health care, private industry, restrict private citizens, i.e. doctors, in what they may charge for their services, require mandatory compliance of every citizen to buy health care insurance, or to buy anything else for that matter, and it is unconstitutional to penalize said citizens with a fine or imprisonment, if they do not comply with this unlawful mandate to purchase personal health insurance.

These shameless abusers of our Constitutional rights have mindlessly pointed out that Canada, Cuba and many countries in Europe have national health care so it is only right that we should too. That it is bankrupting those countries, that it is simply not working, and that it provides less care than what we Americans already expect and receive makes little difference to these dimwitted, bogus humanitarians. Apparently their mothers never asked them if just because their friends jumped off a bridge would they jump off that bridge too? Much more to the point is that Canada, Cuba, Germany, Britain and all of these other nations with national health care are not bound by our Constitution.

Likewise these energy conscience and environmentally concerned politicians want to burden us with cap and trade legislation to protect the environment, reduce our consumption of energy and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Excuse me, did I say burden us? I meant, and so do they, want to break us with this cap and trade legislation. It matters not to these self-centered, power hungry money grabbers that this cap and trade legislation will raise the costs of every single thing that our citizens must buy to even survive, food, water, clothing, shelter, energy sources and so on and on. Nor does it matter that this legislation will do little in what they insist it is meant to do, save our Planet from the bogus global warming scam.

As far as reducing our dependence on foreign oil; well some day historians with be scratching their collective heads and wondering why a free nation that was so rich in its own natural resources refused to use those resources for the benefit of their own citizens and their Nation's economic fortunes, even when the majority of that nation were demanding that their elective, representative government to do so? As national health care is a power grab, cap and trade is a money grab, and with money comes more power.

Yet once this cap and trade thievery is passed none of these self appointed aristocrats will worry about cutting back on their energy use, or carbon footprints, as it has been repeatedly shown that the biggest Global Warming alarmists are actually the biggest environmental saboteurs. The private jet flying, globe trotting, pleasure yachting, limousine riding, polo playing, castle/mansion residing Prince Charles of England demanding that we Commoners of the World cut back on our lifestyles and energy consumption is a joke. Al Gore tells us that we must all do our part to help the environment and to stop Global Warming. He tells us we must all cut back on our energy use while he mainly resides in a huge mansion that burns more energy in a month than most American single-family homes use in a year. Gore, like most of these false alarmists, owns more than one home that contributes to the everyday pollution of our environment. When not at one of his many homes attacking the ozone he, Pelosi, Obama and thousands of others of these elitist scammers fly around in their private jets while telling us we should walk or ride a bike to work!

You see, by their Liberal elitist reasoning, while they are all just one person who really can't make a difference, we are all one persons who, if we all just do as they say and not as they do, collectively we, as in us peons, could make a difference by just making sacrifices for our, or is it theirs', Planet, thus making their Planet a better place for them to globe trot around!

I know it's a long sentence but Liberals do have a way of making out long thought processes that don't make much sense. While we're at it, here's another example.

Last January Obama told us to turn down that thermostat in our tiny abodes during the winter and just learn to shiver a little for the good of all mankind. He actually said it was time for every American "to tighten our belts." Yet within days of this supercilious demand Obama's senior White House adviser, David Axelrod condescendingly joked with the press about Obama's personal warmth in the massive White House by saying, "He's from Hawaii, okay? He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there." Here all Americans were supposed to chuckle and mumble, "oh how cute" as we sat around wrapped in a blanket with our thermostats set at 60 degrees.

For some reason, I just don't get Axelrod's joke. I wonder, am I really just too stupid to get it, or just not arrogant enough? I also have to wonder just how stupid, conceited, and pretentious these clowns really are who are now running this country when one day they tell us we must all suffer a little for all mankind, and a couple of days later they are joking about how warm it is in the White House? So while they're joking about how they're all sweating in their cozy White House offices, we're supposed to bundle up the kids with that extra Jimmy Carter sweater when the little tykes are saying their prayers and going off to bed. Honestly these so-called leaders of our nation have no sense or shame.

But perhaps the most telling example of how much in contempt we citizens are held by these publicly elected elitists and their cohorts was the taxpayer funded corporate bailouts, which was followed by their acrid responses to those of us who protested the continued insane spending by this present administration.

With our economy in crisis, who did the government feel needed the money more? Was it the banks, unions and corporations who, along with the government, were mainly responsible for this huge economic failure? Or should the government give the money to the individual citizen taxpayers, whose money it was to begin with, and who could use it to stimulate the economy in a widespread and feasible manner? Well except for a couple of hundred bucks, that if you have a job was doled back out to you at the rate of about ten bucks a week, we all got the answer on who and what were going to get stimulated. Meanwhile we citizens just got stroked, again.

While politicians may not be the brightest bulbs on the porch, they do know what side of their bread is buttered on. So while some private citizens may send them anywhere from twenty to a thousand dollars in contributions, unions, bankers, corporations and private interest lobbyists contribute billions. As much economic sense that it makes there wasn't a chance in hell that private citizens were going to get anything but lip service when it came to bailouts or tax cuts in stimulating the economy. Besides, there was no way that Mom and Dad government was going to trust us wayward, irresponsible, ignorant children with all of that money or the responsibility of refreshing our economy! So by the billions the taxpayers' money went out to the 'other guys' and we're now facing a national unemployment rate of 10% eight months later. Meanwhile those blanketheads in D.C. feigned shocked surprise when bailout millions simply disappeared or was paid out as excessive executive bonuses, none of which surprised us kids.

So there it is my fellow children, for now. What we are witnessing is the final chapter of what I have come to believe was the raping of America that has taken sixty years to result in the victim finally being straggled to death. When I was born in 1950 our nation was the industrial and agricultural leader of the World. As a vastly rich, prosperous and growing nation we had only good times ahead for our future generations. As a God loving Christian/Judean nation we honored and respected our family based culture. Top to bottom, our schools were among the World's finest. With our industrious, generous, inventive and resourceful people, our vast natural resources and mineral wealth, our defining Constitution, Individual Rights and Freedoms, our collective futures could only remain prosperous, rewarding and fruitful. We were the Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free.

Yet that has all but disappeared. We are no longer the industrial or agricultural giants of only a few years ago with many of our own companies shipping American jobs overseas. We are no longer a rich nation but a vastly indebted one, in fact we are barely balancing on the verge of economic chaos. While many of us remain industrious, generous, inventive and resourceful, far too many now are content to live off of the sweat of others on the government dole. In 1950 only 26% of all Americans received some form of compensation from the government. As of 2007 that figure had risen to 52.6% and we must remember that our population now far exceeds that of 1950. While our vast natural resources and mineral wealth still remain they have become untouchable to American interests and industry. God is longer welcomed in many of our homes while single parent families have become the rule not the exception and marriage is in decline. Sadly our Constitution and our individual rights and freedoms no longer matter, as the singular rights of the individual plaintiff have overruled them all. The land of the taxed and the regulated has replaced the land of the free. By this current American administration we have been deemed, "A nation of cowards." And they actually got away with it.

So you ask, what happened?

That answer is just one overbearing, insufferable, all ruling and greedy word: government.

Over this past sixty years our Federal government has become what our Founding Fathers feared the most, an overbearing, and oppressive aristocracy. King George had nothing on the scoundrels we must serve today.

Our government has not only allowed our jobs and economy to be sent overseas, they have willingly helped to advance this exodus through taxation, regulation and harmful treaties.

Through misguided regulations and priorities our government has all but cut off our all-important national resources and minerals and have consistently undermined all progress in our nation becoming energy self-sufficient. This traitorous economic sabotage was executed under the guise of protecting our environment for future generations while enslaving those same future generations with a never-ending debt.

Under the government's watchful eye and with the help of the liberally dominated unions and faculties our schools have become a disgrace teaching revisionist history, Ebonics, English as a second language and racial division resulting in drop out rates and scholastic skills respectfully reaching all time highs and lows.

Regulations and taxation now reward the unmarried single parent, punishes the two-parent home and discourages marriage.

Our Constitution is no longer regarded as the uncompromising Framing Document for our laws, liberties and freedoms, but is now foolishly and contemptuously considered to be a living entity that can be reread and reinterpreted as it pleases the reader.

Our Federal government has taken God out of our society, prayer out of our schools and Christ out of Christmas.

In the last sixty years, this is what has been forgotten.

It was the American people who made America great, not the Federal government.

In fact it was the American people who made America the greatest nation on Earth despite the constant interference of the federal government.

Like revisionist historians these modern day politicians have somehow come to the conclusion that it was they, or the government, that made America a great nation.

So as politicians are always talking about change; it is time we gave them some.

It is time to revise these revisionists' fabrications and make them understand just whom they work for, that their goals for our nation will be the same as that of our citizens, and if they don't understand or comply, we will hire someone else that does.

We are not stupid, we are not children, racists, rightwing extremists or Nazis.

We are American Patriots who pay your salaries.

It is time We The American People, We Patriots, once again become our own Boss.

I'll see you at the polls.

(All of this and I still didn't even get to our military and National defense!)

God Bless America

Semper Fi,
Mike

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