Our bureaucratic federal government’s opinion of your intellectual capacity is appalling.

NEW FEDERAL PROGRAMS REQUIRED BECAUSE OF YOUR INCOMPETENCE!

Consider how frequently you hear a Democrat politician interviewed on the news, or giving a speech trying to convince everyone that they really can’t function without government intervention, or some new $billion program.

WOMEN ARE STUPID!

Consider women who have babies. This may come as a surprise for government officials and bureaucrats, but women have been having babies for a long time now. Yet we hear about the need for the government to provide food for these women and children and just one program costs $7 billion a year. If only women had the common sense to know they would need to eat, we could save all this money!

The government spends more $billions providing counseling for new mothers; to show them how to nurse a baby for example. Who knew women were so ignorant?

PUBLICATIONS AND WEBSITES TO HELP YOU

We spend hundreds of $millions on publications teaching people things. Mostly things they should have learned in school, from their parents, or from private businesses. There are hundreds and hundreds of documents available free from www.kids.gov – they even host blogs for teachers to “gab.” Who hosts this website? How much does it cost for techies to maintain this site year after year?

We pay for another site called www.pueblo.gsa.gov. Be sure to check out their helpful links! Here you can learn What to do in Case of a Disaster. What valuable information! We need water, food, and a plan to meet up with other members of the family – we would never have thought of that!

But wait there’s more! You can learn How to Prepare a Cover Letter, Your Resume; and, Filling Out an Application! Thank God for these government geniuses! What would we do without them?

Learn How to Garden with Native Plants. Get all the latest Information on Holidays and Upcoming Special Events, How to Choose a College, How to Exercise and Get Fit, Learn Interesting Games, and How to Choose a Career.

Learn How to Spend Your Money Wisely, How to Save Money (thank God our federal government is there to teach us about these things).

How to Sell and do Marketing, How to Earn Money, The Performing Arts, Music Basics, Math Basics. Learn How to Help Disabled Youth Grow, Retirement Planning, A Step by Step Guide to Purchase an New Car, A Step by Step Guide to Purchase a Used Car, How to Get Good Deals on a New Car (courtesy of General Motors and government subsidies), How to Get Good Deals on a Used Car, How to Lower Your Auto Insurance…

MORE PUBLICATIONS TO HELP YOU!

Student’s Guide to Community Service, (this could actually get you elected President!) How to Save for College (2 different publications), How to Make Smart Financial Decisions After a Job Loss, How to Talk to Your Kids about Alcohol, and the ever popular, Burials at Arlington National Cemetery.

A Guide for Disability Rights, Your Rights to Federal Records, Child Support Enforcement – A How-to Guide; and How to Keep Your Pets Active, Safe, and Pain Free; and Pet Turtles: A Common Source of Salmonella, – who knew?

Listeria – Guide to a Bacterium; Food Safety at Home, Food Safety for Seniors – food safety for seniors being a quite different thing probably. Restaurant and Takeout Safety, Cosmetics: How to Use Them Safely; this is important, women are dying right and left from the improper use of makeup.

Hair Dye, and Hair Relaxers, Sunscreens and Tanning, Tattoos and Permanent Makeup Safety; and The Healthy Woman: A Complete Guide for all Ages, The Birth Control Guide (who needs Planned Parenthood?) Straight Talk on Braces.

Depression: Medicines to Help You, (Who needs a doctor’s prescription?) Sleep Disorders: Medicines, Diabetes Medicines, Liposuction Guide, Menopause (3 publications for this one), High Blood Pressure: Medicines to Help You.

Smoking: Medicines to Help You, Lasic Laser Eye Surgery Guide, How to Use Medicine Wisely (I’m sure this is the one Pharmacists use when you ask them questions about your prescription.) Your Glucose Meter, Be Active Your Way – Consumers Booklet for Adults.

MORE PUBLICATIONS TO HELP YOU!

The Flu, The Road to a Healthy Life, Fibroids, Loss of Bladder Control (order this one right away), Mortgage Information for Consumers. How to Buy a Home with a Low Down Payment (probably written by Chris Dodd and Barney Frank), Renter’s Insurance; and the indispensable, Your Home Inventory.

12 Ways to Lower Your Homeowners Insurance Costs, Living Trust Offers, and this from the government: Managing Your Money in Good Times. Green Scaping: The Easy Way to a Greener, Healthier Yard; How to Prune Trees, and another favorite from the government: 66 Ways to Save Money. (I’m not making this up.)

Protecting Yourself from Overdraft and Bounced Checks. (I didn’t order this one, but my guess is that it will teach you how to borrow even more money to cover your overdrafts and bounced checks.)

Bank Accounts are Changing, Building a Better Credit Report (perhaps Mr. Obama should read this one) Consumer Guide to Financial Self Defense, Saving and Investing: A Roadmap to Your Financial Security Through Saving and Investing. What can I say?

Mutual Funds: A Guide for Investors, Diversifying Your Workforce, Consumer Action Handbook.

For the Birds: How to Attract Different Species of Birds, Feed Them, and Provide Them Suitable Homes. Your tax dollars at work.

Funerals: A Consumer Guide; Jigsaw puzzles, Word Searches for Fun, Radio PSA’s Over the Years, Renowned Print Ads, (No, I’m not making any of this up) How Catalogue Covers Evolved Over Time; Benefits, Grants, and Financial Aid; and the Public Service Announcement Video Contest.

All this helps demonstrate the liberal understanding of why they need more of your money: you are an incapable, inefficacious, undereducated, foolish, stupid dolt.  Without government help, you don’t have enough sense to come in out of the rain.  This from a legislative body that includes Barney Frank, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, Maria Cantwell, and Barbara Boxer.  Enough said.

We show up at rallies only to be called an unwashed mob, Nazis, obstructionists; we show up at town hall meetings with our elected representatives and are pushed out of the meeting by union thugs, delayed until the room is filled with supporters only, ignored, denounced, degraded, treated like junk.  We are considered evil by the mainstream media outlets even as they are going broke for loss of audience share.  Without doubt we terrify the assorted communists, fascists, socialists, pinkos, bureaucratic totalitarians, and new age relativists in power now; we would ruin their (almost completed) takeover of American cultural, economic, political, and religious life.  We point our that their vaunted new clothes are only imaginary, and their naked hatred of the human condition is unsightly.

We are aghast at why they insist on instituting programs that stifle the human spirit; why they think the imposition of their utopian ideas is a better approach than the principle of liberty.  We are baffled by their naïve, child-like approach to evil wherever it exists in the republic itself or the world at large. 

For 23 years I did talk radio in Portland, Oregon, and one of my most memorable interviews was with British philosopher Dr. Roger Scruton regarding his book The West and the Rest, ISI Books 2001.  Recently Dr. Scruton wrote a brief essay titled “Totalitarian Sentimentality” you can (and should) read the essay here.   Purchase the book at a discount here.

“Conservatives recognize that social order is hard to achieve and easy to destroy, that it is held in place by discipline and sacrifice, and that the indulgence of criminality and vice is not an act of kindness but an injustice for which all of us will pay.  Conservatives therefore maintain severe and – to many people – unattractive attitudes.  They favor retributive punishment in the criminal law; they uphold traditional marriage and the sacrifices that it requires; they believe in discipline in schools and the value of hard work and military service.  They see welfare provisions as necessary, but also as a potential threat to genuine charity, and a way both of rewarding antisocial conduct and creating a culture of dependency.” 

“Liberals are of course very different.  They see criminals as victims of social hierarchy and unequal power, people who should be cured by kindness and not threatened with punishment.  They wish all privileges to be shared by everyone, the privileges of marriage included.  And if marriage can be reformed so as to remove the cost of it, so much the better.  Welfare provisions are not rewards to those who receive them, but costs to those who give – something that we owe to those less fortunate than ourselves.”

For liberals, “Far preferable to the hard life in which disciplined teaching, costly charity, and responsible attachment are the ruling principles is the life of sentimental display, in which others are encouraged to admire you for virtues you do not possess.  This life of phony compassion is a life of transferred costs.  Liberals who wax lyrical on the sufferings of the poor do not, on the whole, give their time and money to helping those less fortunate than themselves.  On the contrary, they campaign for the state to assume the burden.  The inevitable result of their sentimental approach to suffering is the expansion of the state and the increase of its power both to tax us and to control our lives.”

 Read this essay; read the book – you’ll love them both.

•             Just take a scenic drive
•             Keep water skiing
•             Use your quad
•             Keep you pickup for work
•             Use your snowmobile
•             Keep using the family dune buggy
•             Afford a vacation
•             Watch NASCAR racing
•             Enjoy drag racing

I could go on, but you get the idea.  If you want to keep something, you want to “conserve” it.  To conserve is “to keep in a safe or sound state;” Webster says.  Conservatives are not just those who are pro-life, support the death penalty, and oppose gay marriage, but that’s the conclusion you could reach by listening to those who want to divide us so they conquer.  Conservatives are those who believe in free speech, freedom of religion, freedom from unreasonable searches, no criminal charges without Grand Juries, separation of powers in the federal government, civilian control of the military, a republican form of government, keeping the river and the air clean…we are all conservatives!

It is politicians and so-called ‘interest groups’ who profit by putting us into categories like “conservative” or “liberal.”  It helps them create constituencies, demonize others, raise money, get elected, stay elected, and institute their agenda.  Politicians of every stripe, and fund raisers on every side do this. 

My appeal to you is: get beyond the stereotype; refuse to permit others to categorize you; and quit defining yourself by the general category of “conservative” or “liberal.” 

All of us are willing to give up some things, and unwilling to give up others.  We are all willing to trade some things we hold for other things we do not.  Before you permit yourself to be captured by those who want to use you, always define what you what you want to keep, and define what you are willing to give away.  You cannot define yourself as a conservative – only as wanting to “conserve” certain things.  Likewise, you cannot define yourself as a liberal - only as willing to give away, or trade, or lose specific things your may never get back in favor of other things. 

Some people, of course, are very shortsighted and want something today and are willing to trade something very important for it only to later mourn the loss of what they can never reclaim.  Like Esau who was very hungry trading his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of lentils - the lentil soup seemed more important at the time; but what was lost could never be reclaimed.  It was gone forever.

As an exercise, take a bit of time to jot down a list of the things (perhaps some of them mentioned above) that you really want to keep; to conserve.  Then think about the things you are willing to lose forever and are willing to have them replaced with something else.  My guess is that you will find you want to “conserve” much more about country, government, economics, family, and culture than you previously considered.  Let’s keep the right to discuss what we want to keep and what we are willing to give away; that’s a conservative principle.  Now you think about that.

Well, I have a few questions about all this.  First, when the child of a prominent Hollywood star and supporter of PETA gets head lice from friends at school, do they pick up something from the pharmacy to kill the lice?  What about the other kinds of parasites that can inhabit humans: tapeworms, roundworms, pin worms, liver flukes – there are lots of them.  (I know this is gross, but these are important issues.)  Perhaps Hollywood families and other PETA supporters are never exposed to any of the sources where you can get these parasites; I hope so.  But if they really want all animal life to be treated with equality, they must have some time to lie down with the dog and cat from time to time.  Do they go to the doctor and hire him or her to kill the parasites?  What about the dog and cat, for that matter?  When your dog gets heart worm or fleas it must be a real moral dilemma for members of PETA.

These are legitimate questions because the toxins and poisons they may purchase from a pharmacy are designed to kill these little human companions.  Surely if you spend a few moments thinking about what a caustic substance does when one of these little guys encounters it, it’s pretty gruesome.  It scalds their skin right off, cute little worms and lice writhing in pain, and in the end, they die!  (Perhaps in their archives, PETA has undercover pictures of these creatures in their death throes.)  I think we are driven to one of two conclusions: either they do not kill these beloved members of the animal world in which case, you should never get too close to supporters of PETA; or they do kill them, in which case they are guilty of outright discrimination.  This is problematic because Ingrid Newkirk, President of PETA is famous for having said, ”A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They’re all animals. …” so they are officially on record as opposing discrimination.  (Although as a guy, I did pick up a bit of gender bias in that quote.)  Think of it! members of PETA discriminating! dying to save chickens, but killing lice with no regard whatsoever.  (Well, now, PETA discriminating…that… just doesn’t sound right for some reason – sounds like it might be an oxymoron.  I’m not sure.)

My second question regarding supporters of PETA is whether or not they bathe; showers or baths, it doesn’t matter.  As your mom correctly taught you, taking a bath gets rid of the bacteria, and other small members of the animal kingdom that land on your skin, set up shop, have lunch, make baby bacteria, and so on.  The only real reason for bathing with some frequency (aside from enjoying the act of lying in the warm water) is to kill millions of these human companions.  An associated area of concern would be the use of mouthwash.  Do they have any idea of how agonizing it is for bacteria when you swish Listerine around in your mouth FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF WANTONLY KILLING THEM?  Most people bathe, and brush so when they are with friends their friends don’t kill them.  Perhaps that’s why PETA people only hang around with other PETA people; after a period of time you get used to it. 

There is another issue of credibility, and that goes to the use of deodorants.  A deodorant is designed by scientists for the sole purpose of killing bacteria!  It’s like pesticide - Egad!  For most of us this it seems reasonable to use deodorant, because one of the side effects of the accumulation of too many generations of bacteria along with the; uh.. detritus of their life-cycle is that you stink.  We admit it publicly: the murder of millions of the these critters is not a matter of great moral concern to us, but we frequently have to listen to the lectures of members and supporters of PETA, so I think the questions are legitimate.  Don’t you?

My third area of concern is whether or not any of the supporters of PETA slap a mosquito when they become a target.  Now, this question can easily be expanded: do they slap a mosquito when it is about to bite their own child?  Do any of them use those mosquito-zappers when they are visiting one of their vacation homes in the Rockies, or Ozarks; do they stay in a resort that uses a zapper when they are on safari in Africa?  Seems to me like they should support the mosquito population by freely providing a tiny amount of their blood to facilitate reproduction – they’re all part of the one big family.  Not that I’m encouraging this…

Then, of course, there are flies; do any of these people own a fly swat?  Do they use the sadistic flypaper?  My question is, if not, why not?  Now, most of us are concerned about the spread of what we would – with some insensitivity – call disease; but I wonder about members of PETA.  Consider moths that may invade their homes, bedbugs (which I understand can be found at some of the posh hotels where these people stay), fleas – magnificent little creatures, have you ever seen them jump and do circus acts?  Amazing.  Then there are beetles, ants, wasps, spiders, and other critters that can all be found in a PETA member’s bedroom.  All God’s creatures great and small…

I am concerned about supporters of PETA, though.  I have to admit that I have never been close – as far as my nose could tell – to one of these people, but I do think if they preach to us about how to treat the members of the animal kingdom, they should at least practice what they preach.  I admit it; I love to eat barbecued chicken, beef, and pork.  Now, I know that involves animals that have been killed and butchered so I can enjoy my meal.  (At least - I tell myself - they weren’t zapped, poisoned, squashed, or pesticided to death!)  But these animal people! they scrupulously refrain from eating meat, chicken, or fish; but they are monsters! they are willing to kill billions of bacteria, and thousands of parasites: flies, lice, worms, bedbugs, spiders, and mosquitoes FOR NO PURPOSE AT ALL!  Perhaps if they ate them, it would make some sense.  Well…  But no…who am I to judge? 

One of the ways these people seek to get their message across is to go naked through the streets or a store declaring that they refuse to wear anyone else’s skin.  I have not seen the whole naked deal – it’s usually blurred out where I watch TV, but it looks like some of these women are quite attractive.  However when you consider their consistent refusal to kill animals, it would be advisable for us not to get too close – especially if you’re behind on your vaccinations.  Might want to stay upwind too.

I admit I have had reservations about posting these thoughts – you never know who may be reading the blog.  Perhaps these people haven’t been educated about the suffering they bring to lice, fleas, roundworms, flies, bedbugs, and liver flukes; and if they choose to follow the truly consistent path, the rest of us may have more to fear than we previously thought.  Er… Honey, where are the children?

Arrange for a place large enough to accommodate a large crowd – you won’t be paying anything for the room anyway, might as well have a large one.  After all we’re dealing with major issues and a great deal of the people’s money so we need lots of people to show up. 

Make sure the public address system is sufficient to overcome crowd noise so you can actually hear and be heard. 

It’s best to have an associate open the meeting stating that the Representative (or Senator) will be coming to the podium to listen, and to answer questions the people have. 

Announce that the Representative or Senator wants to hear everything you have to say, wants to know your thoughts about the general idea of what the government needs to do, what you think the issues are; and also wants to deal with specific concerns or questions you may have about any of this.  

State that the Representative or Senator will stay as many hours as necessary, will listen to every concern, will answer – or find the answer- to every question.”

He should have said… “State that you have provided microphones so every question will be heard, and recorded so you miss nothing.  You will get everyone the answers they seek.  You might consider having a staff member write a few of the questions at a time on a large whiteboard, so everyone can see the question, then you can find out which issues are the most important, and give time for follow-up questions.  When you are introduced, drop the ‘honorable Representative So-and-so from the 5th district of…nonsense.’  They don’t think you are very honorable anyway.  Use that stuff at political rallies, not here. 

After you are introduced, tell the crowd that water is available for everyone in the room; and if the meeting goes beyond 4 hours, your office will bring sandwiches for everyone who wants to stay and deal with the issues.  Remember, you may think you have lots of work to do, but many of these people are now working only part-time, or have used vacation time to come be with you.  Respect on your part would be welcomed, and would really help us with the problems we face in the country.

Request that the questions come one at a time so you can hear what’s being said, and that you will either respond immediately if you know the answer, or you will provide a written response to every constituent in the room within a week.  

Tell them that you have staff present to make a list of their concerns and you will be bringing up these concerns at future hearings and debates in Washington.  You know we need to make some changes, but you want to move at a pace where we can insure we make the right moves for everyone; and you oppose spending any more of their money.

Tell your audience that you respect them (first consider whether or not that is the truth, and if it isn’t close the meeting and resign); you need to hear what they are saying, and that neither you nor anyone else in Washington including the people in the White House has all the answers.  So you need input from the audience.  Be sure they have your office phone numbers in your district, and in D.C.  Introduce the people who answer your phones and the questions when they call.  Make sure they have the physical address of your district office, and your email addresses.  Don’t try to hide.

Remind them that you are aware that we have a constitutional republic, and what the people want is of paramount importance.  You consider it your task to fight for what they want; that’s why you are having the meeting.”

He should have said… “Cut out all BS.  Don’t talk in bureaucratic, policy wonk speech – people are insulted when you attempt to divert their questions by giving them a string of canned, prepared, focus-grouped, diversionary, Party-approved political rhetoric.  Forget ‘staying on message,’ we are not giving you a ‘message;’ the real ‘message’ is what your constituent is asking or telling you, and what you say in response.  You are conversing with an individual person, not making profound statements to the world for posterity, so cut the crap. 

Remember, you do not work for the Democrat Party, the Republican Party, or for the White House – you work for that little platoon of ordinary and magnificient people in front of you.  Hold a real conversation with them, not an entirely different conversation that you alone want to have; don’t lecture – it won’t be welcome.  In this regard, always answer the question that is asked, not a different question that you prefer to answer.  

Don’t let them even smell pretense.  If you demean people by pretending that you are so pure you don’t need to shower, they get insulted, and you can expect to get yelled at.  They know much of what you said to get elected is pure, unalloyed scat; so you will have some serious fence-mending to do.  This would probably be a good time to keep your peace and remember the admonition of Jesus to ‘turn the other cheek.’  If you sincerely do this, respect for you will swell; and even your political enemies will speak well of you.  It isn’t us vs. them; it is all of us together.  We are the people too, so don’t pretend you are above any of them, because you’re not.  They may be more or less articulate than you but your unalterable, genuine respect for each of them must be evident.  If it isn’t, please go join the other Party. 

Always remember that you are employed by a government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people; it really isn’t all about you.  In addition, remember that the people you are facing in the room pay the generous salary that you get to set, your trips to Washington and back home, the foreign junkets we take, the healthcare we all enjoy that none of those people in the room will ever have; they pay for the special passageways at work enabling us to avoid the crush of real people, the staff who serve us, the generous retirement you get that none of them will never get, the subsidized haircuts, and subsidized lunches we enjoy.  Remember, many of the people in front of you have to make their own sandwiches for lunch; and some probably have their wife cut their hair to save money, but you are not worth more than any of them.  It may be hard for some of you, but humility on your part would be welcomed by the people.  None of them believe you are smarter than anyone else, or worthy of any more honor than their next door neighbor anyway.  This is America; they just don’t buy it.  Keep the phrase, ‘I’m a public servant,’ uppermost in your mind.”

He should have said… “Do not permit your staff or anyone else to pack the room with your supporters – you don’t need to persuade them anyway.  It’s those who didn’t vote for you, and who oppose your political views you need to listen to; and these are the ones who need to hear you.  Don’t divide your constituents, learn from them, and seek to persuade them. 

You frequently make life and death decisions for those people in the room with you.  The success or failure of our republic rests on the shoulders of that little group in front of you; not on how smart you are, how educated you are, or how clever you are.  You have the power – at least until re-election time; but in the meantime they only have the right to speak, to sound off, to tell you they support you or oppose you; don’t attempt to rob them of that opportunity or demean them for their clothing, background, friends, or their inarticulation.  Speaking out to you is all they have; don’t steal that opportunity, or treat them as unimportant. 

They don’t make policy and they can’t make decisions about the constitutionality of policies.  But you do make policy affecting their future dreams, their economic opportunity, how warm they can keep their home, and whether or not they will be able to keep it.  These are real people, and now would be a great time to face the real people who are affected by your policies; separate yourself from the abstract political power plays going on here in Washington. 

Refuse any offer of, or attempt at intimidation – gentle or otherwise – by union members, ordinary citizens, or anyone on any side of the issues at hand.  Keep police at a distance – don’t make it look like you are weak, fearful; a sissy.  When speaking privately, in public; and most importantly to the press, always be complimentary regarding the people in general and your constituents in particular.  Always be deferential; always remember who you work for.  Being a member of Congress or the Senate is not your right – the power is not yours, you are only a steward or it; the people hold the power.  

They may want you to do something quite different than what you want to do.  If you think what they want is folly, you must persuade them that it’s folly and that there is a better way. If you can’t, it’s probably you who is in the wrong. Remember, we, the small ‘d’ democrats of all political parties have always believed that the grand wisdom is in the hearts of the multitude.  Sometimes they will make mistakes.  So be it; we will correct it later.  Historically it has consistently been lousy leadership that made all the big mistakes anyway, not the people.”

He should have said… “It wasn’t the powerful who created the Magna Carta, the Declaration of our Independence from the elites in London, or the Constitution of the United States of America – it was ‘the people.’  I live in ‘the people’s house,’ we are engaged in ‘the people’s business,’ we spend ‘the people’s money,’ the U.S. Constitution is ‘the people’s document,’ – none of it belongs to any elected or appointed officials any more than it belongs to that slightly overweight person on the center aisle three rows back at your townhall meeting.  Respect ‘the people.’  

We curse the idea of governance without consent of ‘the people.’  Persuade them or accommodate them, but we will not do governance without consent of the people!  The future of freedom in the world depends on them not you.  The security of the United States depends on them.  The permanence of our form of government depends on them.  So learn to trust them.  I’ll see you all in September.”

So those of us who point out that the Emperor’s plan is naked are denounced by elected government officials.  When did it get to be okay for official representatives of the federal government to dehumanize and malign the citizens who pay them?  Like the “useless eaters” expression under the Nazi’s, I guess it’s always right before they intend to get rid of you.  

When we use our constitutional right to “peaceably assemble to seek redress of grievance,” we are told that we are illegitimate; our clothes were too nice for us to be real people, we are carrying swastikas, we are a mob, and we are rushing the stage intimidating all those fine elected officials.  We have reached the state where it is government against the people; using their positions of power, their access to the media to denigrate their own citizens.  Liberalism as a political movement historically began in earnest to fight against the Divine Rights of Kings to do basically whatever they want to do.  The King owns all the land, controls taxation, and doesn’t answer to anyone.  Liberalism’s cry against this was “All power to the people!”  The cry of today’s Democrat Party is, “All power from the people!”  I think it’s time to reinstate the rallying cry of democracy – “Power to the people!” 

This is a revealing historical moment; for once we are hearing what your Senators and Representatives really think about you.  They are not calling you names because it is helping their cause; they really think you are part of a fascist mob, that you are unwashed rubes, and the only well dressed people who show up at these townhall meetings are emissaries sent from wealthy corporations to embarrass the Senators’ Royal Hindquarters.  We know this is their real opinion of you because the Democrat Representatives and Senators had to be called into the White House by the king of astroturfing – David Axelrod – and told to change the message.  Don’t tell them what you think of them for crying out loud; instead reframe the message as “health insurance reform,” and talk about “portability,” and “equal access.”  

This won’t work, of course, because almost all the people who have actually read the proposed bill in the House are certainly not our Representatives; but rather ordinary citizens – and we know what they are trying to do.  The Legislators on the other hand don’t know what’s in the bill, and have no intention of reading it – that would require two days and two lawyers to understand it.  That should give us some indication about their intellectual horsepower.  The President doesn’t know what’s in it either which is why he is stumped when asked questions about it.  Trust us, they say.  Yeah, right. 

Most of us probably never thought we would reach the stage in the America where the federal government would confiscate your tax money even before you are paid, then use that money to push you around; to vilify you for having made money, demonize you, and manipulate you.  You never thought they would take your hard-earned money and give it to ACORN and send them to harass you.  You never thought a President would call for union goons to come to townhall meetings to intimidate senior citizens preventing them from exercising a constitutional right.  You never thought our government would give your tax dollars to the Legal Services Corporation so they can fight legal cases to grant citizenship to people who refuse to obey immigration laws; and so that these illegals are guaranteed a driver’s license, bank accounts, welfare, subsidized housing, and voting rights – so you can safely be sidelined and ignored as Nazis.  You never thought your $millions in your tax dollars would be spent preventing cities from limiting abortion centers and pornographic stores from locating near schools; and you never thought the Congress would again permit hundreds of $millions given to the LSC to be used again for filing class action lawsuits against companies the left doesn’t like.  If they can characterize you as a mob, they don’t have to listen to you.  If you are accused of carrying a swastika, you can be dismissed as unworthy of a hearing.  Sure beats having to read the legislation and answer questions.  Damn the questioner and you can safely dodge the question and get on with what you want to do.  All power to the King! 

What you are watching is the Democrat Party equivalent of running for cover; of covering their ears, and making “la, la, la, la,” sounds, or repeating “I can’t hear you!” over and over.  They do this to drown out the call for clarification about what they really intend to do; and the call for a minute of their time to let them know what we want.  Can’t be bothered with that; All Power to the King!

I say sit down, listen to the people, answer their questions if you can, take some input regarding what people want.  Quit insisting that you know everything worth knowing; quit insisting that you get to do whatever you want.  Get with it; get out of the way; or get run over.  Power to the people!

Alas, the last full measure of devotion by those who fought to preserve such a government no longer holds our devotion; the work remains unfinished; it remains to be seen whether they have died in vain.  In a foreboding perversion of his famous  statement about the government being “of the people, by the people, and for the people;” the Democrat Party has finally revealed its real belief: the people exist for the government, not the government for the people.  It’s time to admit that Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards was right; there are two Americas.  There is the America where most of us reside; and there is an elitist America. 

Real America is a place where we want to keep the country we were given – imperfect, but with the heart and the means and a history of making corrections; a country where freedom is the organizing principle.  Elitist America is a place where dilettante levelers make the rules others must follow because freedom doesn’t provide the outcomes they desire; where limits are set, and where freedom is seen as the right of the few to lead; and the duty of the many to follow. 

Real America is a place where we do honest work, pay our bills, stay out of other people business, and want to provide well for our families.  Elitist America is where the few don’t have to hold a job, they sponge off the accumulated labor of others; it’s where they don’t have to pay their bills, and they have other people provide for their families. 

Real America is a place where people believe in innovation, creativity, and risk taking in order to build a better life.  Elitist America is where you don’t create anything, but get to decide which innovation is rewarded, which creativity receives government grants, and where the labor of others builds you a better retirement. 

Real America is where we all assume responsibility for our own successes and failures.  Elitist America is where you get to blame others for the mistakes you make freeing you to make more of them. 

Real America is where you are so concerned about the plight of another struggling person you choose to deny yourself some things in order to give your substance freely to the person in need.  Elitist America is where you care so much for a certain voting constituent that you will confiscate any amount of someone else’s money in order to grant your favorites an entitlement. 

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Real America is where we struggle to make ends meet in a recession caused by government foolishness.  Elitist America is where you spend $200 million $550 million ordering eight private jets when the Air Force requested one during the recession because you don’t want to sit on an airplane with the large unwashed crowd and all their untidy babies; and want to have your taxpayer paid travel made even more convenient. 

Real America is where we don’t really care one way or the other about the skin color of our co-workers.  Elitist America is where we must always take notice of skin color; count noses, keep records; and hand out the benefits of society based on the statistics. 

Real America is where we aren’t interested in the sexual behavior of anyone else.  Elitist America is where we must know every nuance of everyone’s sexual behavior; and we must all help them celebrate what they choose to do. 

Real America is where we budget our money and shop at WalMart.  Elitist America is where the taxpayers pay for your European vacation with 20 Secret Service vehicles, an unknown number of personnel; and you make the French President circumvent the law to keep the stores open on Sunday so you can shop.  It’s also a place where when you show up at a soup kitchen to help feed the poor you wear $650 sneakers. 

Real Americans are proud of their country, wear a Lakers hat, or Mickey Mouse ears when they visit another country; they’re proud of its doctors, and businesses; its athletes; its inventions.  You’re proud to be a dentist or doctor or nurse who travels at your own expense to distant places in the world providing surgeries, clean water, and relief.  Elitist America is where you announce that the world’s problems have all been created by Americans, and that you’re sorry we have great medical care, successful businesses, amazing athletes, and that we invented everything you benefit from; You’re especially sorry that aside from government American citizens freely and personally give tens of $billions every year to help people in trouble everywhere in the world, and that American health workers keep showing up around the world.

Real America is where we want to keep what little health insurance we have.  Elite America is where you have someone else pay for your gold-plated, bulletproof health insurance; and in order to keep it, you put everyone else in a crummy system run by incompetent bureaucrats. 

Real America is where discriminating against another person because of the color of their skin is called discrimination.  Elitist America is where discriminating against another person because of the color of their skin is called “fairness,” and “equity.”

Real America is where you say something and if it’s worthy, others will listen; in conversation you give and take.  Elitist America is where you get to do all the talking without interruption; where when you are asked a question, you don’t have to answer it but can answer any question of your choice – one you like more than the real question; and when you are shown to be a liar, you get to call those who point it out “Nazis” and ”mobsters.” 

Real America is where you know what constitutes art, and if you like something beautiful, you purchase it and hang it on your wall.  Elitist America is where you have no idea of what art is, but if something is pornographic it must be art; and you like it so much you use other people’s money to insure that the artist’s work is displayed prominently. 

Real America is where you save up for a vacation; or, when times are bad, do a “staycation:” stay at home, camp out in the backyard, build forts with blankets and chairs, watch DVD’s from Netflicks, and order take out Chinese food and pizza.  Elitist America is where when the people suffer, are out of work, and are losing their businesses you take a vacation to New York City, go to a Broadway play, eat out, and have someone else pay for it; because you’re special and you need a break. 

Real America is where you eat too much fast food because you are working two jobs and don’t have the time to eat right.  Elitist America is where you complain about the price of arugula at Whole Foods. 

Real America is where you own a few guns, and use them to hunt game and birds.  Elitist America is where you believe that beef, pork, and chicken come from the grocery store.

Real Americans are proud of the sacrifices its young men and women have made around the world.  They are proud that America has conquered more territory than any country in history then gave it all back to its rightful owners and demanded no tribute; proud of the tens of thousands of white crosses and Stars of David on American and foreign soil – testimony of our willingness to, “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”  Elitist America is where you apologize for America’s arrogance in the interest of toppling dictators and monsters, killers of civilians; for the presence of Americans in other parts of the world; for setting the captives free; it’s where you simply declare victory, go home, and do nothing to assure the survival and success of liberty; but rather do all to constrict it.

Real America is where you don’t step out on your wife.  Elitist America is when you step out on your wife, she stands by you while saying she is not standing by you; and the people love your roguish behavior so much they elect you President. 

Real America is where it’s impolite to call good people names.  Elitist America is where you call people stupid when you have no idea about who they are or what they have done.

Real America is where the use of our name is a sufficient form of dignity.  Elitist America is where you demand to be referred to by your title since it took so much money to purchase it. 

Real America is where you believe in God; that He saves you, and that someday you will have to stand in front of Him to give an account of your life’s work.  Elitist America is where you believe god is the earth, you save her; and you don’t answer to anybody for what you do. 

Real America is where you believe our founding documents mean what they say.  Elitist America is where you believe the founding documents mean what you say. 

Real America is where you believe in speaking the truth about things.  Elitist America is where you call missiles, “peacekeepers,” where government controlled access to a doctor is called “public option;” where giving your money to their friends is called an “investment” or “stimulus;” where an economic disaster is called a “jobless recovery;” where creating a secret enemies list is called “speaking the truth;” where rationing energy in order to control your behavior is called “cap and trade;” where global cooling is called, “global warming;” where abortion is called, “choice;” where a mountebank is called a “community organizer;” and where an apology is called, “recalibration.” 

Real America is where we turn the elitists out of office so they have to get a real job.

Said another way, you borrow from your enemies; require your family members -without their knowledge – to pay the loan back; then encourage other family members to indebt themselves to purchase something they don’t want; then turn the borrowed money into junk.  We call this hope and change.

The problem with all this, of course, is that someone else needs to pay for it.  Once you depend on someone else to guarantee the benefits of life for you, you are no longer in control; and what the government giveth, the government can taketh away. 

My, how the mighty have fallen!  Last week we celebrated the 40^th anniversary of U.S. astronauts landing on the moon.  That event took place because Democrat President John F. Kennedy dreamed it, willed it, and motivated us to action.  He challenged American ingenuity and creativity; and in less than a decade the impossible became an accomplished feat. 

During his Inaugural speech in 1961, President Kennedy said, “Together let us explore the stars, conquer the desert, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depth, and encourage the arts and commerce…Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” 

Today’s Democrat party and Democrat President and Democrat Congress want none of this.  Rather than explore the stars, they want to nationalize healthcare and raise taxes; rather than conquering the desert, they want to control the amount of electricity you can use, and how warm you can keep your house and raise taxes; rather than eradicating diseases, they want to ration the medical help you can receive and deny you service to save money and raise taxes; rather than tapping the ocean depth, they forbid tapping it for America to remain energy independent, and raise taxes on the fuel you use; rather than encouraging commerce, they want trade barriers to raise the cost of goods you have to purchase; and raise taxes. 

Today’s Democrat party has turned John F. Kennedy on his head; the current liberal Democrat mantra is: “Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your country can do for you.”