America’s breathtaking ignorance on our decline

World According to America

By John Blythe

The photograph above is one that I found on the internet and it is meant to be funny, although it certainly illustrates how ignorant America has become on just about everything, while we continue to experience increased decline at an accelerated basis.

Newsflash: We’re not a superpower anymore and we’re not number 1 anymore!

For the third year in a row, we have had an annual budget deficit of over $1.3 trillion. Unfortunately, many Americans have no idea how staggering this is becoming. Since 1976, we have had negative trade deficits every single year because the United States does not produce enough of its own product. In other words, we spend more than what we take in. America has become the principal world consumer, if you will.

Currently, the U.S. federal tax revenue is roughly over $2.2 trillion, while our national debt is more than $14 trillion and the unfunded liabilities is now more than $116 trillion.

Does anyone have any idea how much $116 trillion is? It is unsustainable. This is the money that is supposed to be used for Medicare and Social Security programs. So for someone that is currently 25 years of age, by the time they turn 65, that is if the United States is even in existence at that point, they will most likely not receive any of those benefits.

According to the National Inflation Association, even if you taxed everyone in this country 100% of their personal income, it still would not be enough to fully fund the U.S. Federal Government. Even if the antisemitic sycophant himself, George Soros gave his entire multi-billion fortune to the government, it would only fund this nation’s budget deficit for about two weeks. But we have people out on Wall Street shouting tax the rich!

Wall Street protests spread worldwide

Rome protests (AP)

By John Blythe

The Occupy Wall Street movement spread worldwide this weekend. The protests, which started in New York City about a month ago with people on the left, on the right and down the middle, are calling for reforms to government, stopping corporate corruption, voicing social inequality and providing the redistribution of wealth.

On Saturday, protests in the United States continued in cities such as Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis and Oklahoma City; and spread rapidly across the globe to Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax, Tokyo, Seoul, Manila, London, Sydney, Paris, Munich, Madrid and Cape Town.

While a majority of these protests were peaceful, this was not the case in Rome. The protests turned into a mass riot, as participants set fire to vehicles and the Italian police had to use tear gas to maintain civility, while in London, there were reports that the British police use batons to beat some of the activists who were too out of control.

In Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, some protesters held up photos and signs of the “so-called” Cuban revolutionist Che Guevara. Do any of these protesters realize that Guevara, despite being a communist, was also a racist and a fascist? Besides, Bosnia seceded from Yugoslavia to escape the collapse of communism during the 1990’s and now here we have protesters calling for communism to return.

Or am I wrong?

Is George Soros funding Wall Street protests?

George Soros

By John Blythe

As the Wall Street protests continue to gain momentum throughout America, several people are wondering who may be the real “perpetrator” behind this movement. One name that continues to come up and always seems to come up in just about every revolution known to man kind in recent years, is 80 year old George Soros.

The far left Hungarian-born stock investment billionaire, is one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, and while he may be unknown to some, Soros hass been a major influence to world finance and politics by fueling his agenda through his organizations including MoveOn.org, Media Matters for America and the Open Society Institute in the disguise of “global philanthropy”. Soros has also provided necessary funds to countries that have gone through revolutions and trained students to practice in Gene Sharp theory protests.

Among the laundry list of regime changes through divide and conquer that Mr. Soros has been involved in through recent years: the 2000 “Bulldozer Revolution” toppling Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia; the 2003 “Rose Revolution” forcing Eduard Sheverdenze in Georgia out of power after Soros provided funds to the U.S. State Department to prop up his puppet, Mihkeil Saakashvili; the 2004 “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine, the 2005 “Cedar Revolution” in Lebanon and Soros recently helped remove Hosni Mubarak from power in Egypt and is further contributing to the destabilization of the Middle East as we speak by financing the “Arab Spring”. He has also been an outspoken critic of Israel citing that because of the country, there has never been true democracy in that region of the world. It also doesn’t hurt to mention that when Mr. Soros was a child growing up in Hungary, he watched Jews being sent to the Nazi death camps.

CHANGE

by Jessica Contreras

Bringing the End The Fed message to OccupyLA

By Jason Mahakian

FrontierlandPost.com

October 8, 2011

 No more than 15 people along with myself from the EndTheFed Group of Los Angeles held a Protest at the Federal Reserve Branch in Los Angeles On Saturday, October 8.  I’m happy to report that there were two members of Oathkeepers with us as well.  We held our picket signs there for about an hour and a half, under the watch of private security guards, no LAPD here.  What I first noticed was that there was no signage on the building save an engraved brass door handle, obviously wanting to draw little attention to itself.   On the sidewalk, the organizer with a bullhorn led the rest of us with raised voices proclaiming various facts pertaining to The Fed, receiving support from cars that honked as they passed by.

Obama inciting the Wall Street protests

President Obama (AP)

By John Blythe

President Obama’s “so called” stance on civility seems to be dwindling to an end these days. Yesterday, he called the GOP leaders in the House of Representatives to prepare to “get run out of town” because they have not voted on the jobs bill.

Here’s a news flash to the President: Members of your own party in the Senate won’t even support your jobs bill!

As reported in a recent commentary of Independent Word, there are major discrepancies of the jobs plan including how to save American jobs from being exported to communist China and how it will be paid for. The President said it would already be paid for and it would not affect the deficits. Well, he ended up lying about that one, didn’t he?

And his inconsistent statements are having an impact on the Wall Street protests. While President Obama has come out now to support the Wall Street protests, Vice President Joe Biden recently stated that he compared the protests to the Tea Party members. Remember, Tea Party protesters were upset over government spending which the President ignored, and now he is essentially supporting the same angry group of protests on Wall Street.

It wouldn’t hurt to also mention that a large sum of the President’s campaign contributions come from Wall Street.

The larger picture is that we are fighting fascism in this country. Wall Street owns the Federal Government. This is no secret. Tea party members protested the bail outs and government spending and now Wall Street protests are calling for an end up corporate greed and corruption. Certainly, there are some striking parallels between the two and the news media tends to lean one way, while politicians and celebrities like Michael Moore who don’t know what the hell is going on, use this as a catalyst to support Obama.

What needs to happen is for the Tea Party and the Wall Street protests to forget both parties and identify the problem: That Wall Street owns the Federal Government and it is all interconnected in a plan to create a new world order dominated by communism.

President Obama is supporting and manipulating the protesters because he realizes that his re-election is headed for a disaster. He has proven to be an ineffective leader with poor communication with both Congress and the American people and his policies have failed this country.

At the moment, he is desperate to try anything, even if it means brainwashing the people that want to see and feel a real change and experience a real revolution.

The Looting of America

Michael Calpino

by Michael Calpino

Throughout her history, the political discussion in America has encompassed a very wide range of issues.  In the last two or three years, however, the discussion has focused on one thing-money.  Whether its the economy, taxes, debt, spending, waste or corruption, it all comes back to money.  One of the primary reasons for this is the unheard of scale of the spending and on what that money is being spent.  Waste measured in millions was bad enough.  Now the graft, corruption, kickbacks and favors are measured in hundreds of billions or even trillions.  We have allowed government to grow so large that the accompanying corruption has become too big to ignore.

     There are two seemingly unrelated stories that illustrate not only the corruption but the reasons for it.  The first is the case of Solyndra.  The basics of this case are as follows.  Solyndra was a solar panel manufacturer hyped by the President as part of his “green energy” initiative that declared bankruptcy earlier this month.  Normally, this wouldn’t have attracted attention beyond Wall Street but in this case, there was half a billion dollars of taxpayer money involved.  Money that is now gone.  Your money.  Five hundred million dollars doesn’t sound like much when we are accustomed to a government in which only amounts over one hundred billion count as real money.  However, what if you, personally, were on the hook for it?  How long would it take you to come up with half a billion dollars?  For the vast, vast majority of us-never.  For an individual in America, a worth of half a billion dollars puts one in the rarefied atmosphere of the “super-rich”.  In most cases, we would have to confiscate the money from all the citizens of whole towns to come up with that kind of money.  However, because it is spread out among all of us, it “only” amounts to about $1.65 for every man, woman and child in America.  $1.65 of your money up in smoke.  Take a dollar out of your wallet and burn it, throw the change down the sewer.  Gone.  (In case that doesn’t get your dander up, “what’s a buck sixty and change?” your personal share of the first stimulus slush fund is over $2300.  Still want to stand there with your wallet and a lighter burning hundred dollar bills?)

     Where did it go?  Ahh, that is the real rub.  The whole thing was a scam to begin with.  No businessman worthy of the name (unless they graduated from Harvard with the president) would look at a business model that manufactured an item for $6 and sold it for $3 as viable.  It is, however, just the sort of thing those brainwashed in government ideology would consider brilliant.  So a bunch of con men went to the administration, contributed the “pay to play” fee, capitalized on their fanatic ideological adherence to Al Gore’s hoax, and walked away with half a billion dollars of our hard earned money.  They looted the treasury.  Just like GE, GM, the unions, ACORN, Planned Parenthood, and thousands of other businesses and organizations with personal or ideological connections.  Political contributions that ensure reelection paid back with taxpayer dollars.

  

9/11: Ask the Right Questions and Face the Truth

by Ron Paul

 

Congressman Ron Paul

Ten years ago, shocking and horrific acts of terrorism were carried out on U.S. soil, taking nearly 3,000 innocent American lives. Without a doubt this action demanded retaliation and retribution. However, much has been done in the name of protecting the American people from terrorists that has reduced our prosperity and liberty and even made us less safe.

This is ironic and sad considering that the oft-repeated line concerning the reasoning behind the attacks is that they hate us for who we are – a free prosperous people – that we must not under any circumstances allow the terrorists to win. Though it is hard for many to believe, honest studies show that the real motivation behind the 9/11 attacks, and the vast majority of other instances of suicide terrorism, is not that our enemies are bothered by our way of life, neither is it our religion or our wealth – rather it is primarily occupation. If you were to imagine for a moment how you would feel if another country forcibly occupied the United States, had military bases and armed soldiers present in our hometown, you might begin to understand why foreign occupation upsets people so much.

Robert Pape has extensively researched this issue and goes in-depth in his book “Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It”. In fact, of the 2,200 incidents of suicide attacks he has studied worldwide since 1980, 95% were in response to foreign occupation. Pape notes that before our invasion of Iraq, only about 10% of suicide terrorism was aimed at Americans or American interests. Since then however, not only is suicide terrorism greatly on the rise, but 91% of it is now directed at us.

Yes, the attacks of 9/11 deserved a response, but the manner in which we responded has allowed radicals in the Muslim world to advance a very threatening narrative about us and our motivation in occupying their lands. Osama Bin Laden referred to us as “crusaders” with a religious agenda to convert Muslims, westernize their culture and take control of their resources. If we had targeted our response to only the thugs and criminals who attacked us, and refrained from invading countries that had nothing to do with it, this characterization would seem less plausible to the desperate and displaced. Blaming Islam alone is grossly misleading.

Instead, we chose a course of action that led to the further loss of 8,000 American lives, 40,000 wounded, and has left hundreds of thousands seeking help from the Veterans Administration. We are $3 to $4 trillion poorer. Our military is spread dangerously thin around the globe at the expense of protection here at home. Not only that, but we have allowed our freedoms to be greatly threatened and undermined from within. The PATRIOT Act, warrantless searches and wiretapping, abuse of habeas corpus, useless and humiliating circumstances at the airport, are just a few examples of how we have allowed the terrorists to win by making our country less free. Suicide terrorism did not exist in Iraq before we got there. Now it does. There are no known instances of Iranians committing suicide terrorism. If we invade and occupy Iran, expect that to change, too.

Sometimes it can be very uncomfortable to ask the right questions and face the truth. When a slick politician comes along and gives a much more soothing, self-congratulating version of events, it is very tempting to simply believe what we would like to hear. But listening to lies does not make us safer, even though it might make us feel better about ourselves. The truth is that ending these misguided wars and occupations will make us safer, more prosperous and more free.

The coming of an "American" Spring?

Wall Street protests

By John Blythe

Thousands of protesters organized on Wall Street two weeks ago and since then, protests have spread across the country from New York to Chicago and Los Angeles. Over the weekend more than 700 protesters were arrested for blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge while demanding for the reform of corporate America.

There are some interesting parallels with relation to the Tea Party and the Wall Street protests. The liberal left in the country has criticized the Tea Party since 2009 because they have called for smaller government, less taxes and decrease in federal spending. Now the conservative right in this country are calling the Wall Street protests an act of trying to reform capitalism.

Here’s the real truth. The Tea Party does have active liberals who want to see a decrease in major government and the Wall Street protests also has conservatives who are fed up with corporate greed and corruption. Some on the right are saying that the Wall Street protests should be held in Washington, D.C. There is some truth to this, because the root of our problems stem from Washington D.C. I can’t think of anything better than to see the Tea Party and the Wall Street protesters unite as one! We could have a real revolution for a change.

But we sometimes fail to acknowledge that the real people that put our failed politicians in Washington to begin with, are the powers of Wall Street and the powers of unions. After all the $700 billion blank check bailout was specially designed for them and their cronies, kindly paid for by you, the American tax payer.

Some of the protesters on Wall Street have called for rather radical changes such as replacing capitalism with communist ideals. In this country, communism cannot work. We saw the dismantling of communism in countries in the late 1980’s: Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia as people wanted real democracy. But it seems like some people in this country which established democracy, want to see the United States revert to communism because it is more “fair” even though the people of those European and Asian countries fled to escape its wrath!

Obama angry with Congress over delay in passing "jobs bill"

President Obama (AP/Chris Carlson)

By John Blythe

President Obama is a little angry with Congress right now, because they have delayed with passing his “jobs bill”.

It has been more than weeks since President Obama gave a speech during the joint session of Congress, in which he introduced the jobs plan to put Americans back to work and repeated the now famous phrase “pass this bill” at least twenty times. Or at least that is what it seemed like. The speech ended up becoming more annoying, than it was with bridging a path to progress in job creation in this country.

Something else the President repeated over and over again, was the fact that there was “nothing radical in this bill” which as it turns out, there are looming questions about where the money is coming from and how many jobs will actually be created as a result. Even members of his own party have questions, which is why Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has chosen to delay a vote on the bill. The Republican controlled House meanwhile already mentioned that the president’s jobs plan was “dead on arrival”.

The jobs plan does indeed have many looming questions. More than $400 billion will be spent on this plan, despite the fact that President Obama and his economic recovery head Jeffrey Immelt insensitively laughed at the notion that the initial $850 billion in stimulus money that was pushed down the country’s throat in 2009 and did nothing to create jobs or stimulate the economy in any way. So what good is an extra $400 billion? The President says that this plan is already paid for, but we know this is not true. It will come from future tax increases, which is why the House of Representatives indicated that this bill is dead on arrival. Republicans have vowed against tax increases. Period.

Other issues within the bill include the payroll tax cuts, which will more than likely do little in job creation. The current payroll tax cuts have not done much to slow down the unemployment in this country as we speak. Yes, this is a good decision to try and keep more money into the pockets of Americans, but this can only last for so long. Furthermore, Obama wants to extend unemployment assistance by nearly $50 billion. This is not job creation, this more of an encouragement to those individuals already on unemployment assistance or the millions of Americans that do not have a job and are not receiving any assistance. And the President is also proposing another $50 billion in infrastructure financing. Yes, this is another good decision to address our country’s deteriorating infrastructure problems, but the jobs created in this area, is only temporary. The plan also calls out for an essential bailout of states across the nation to keep teachers, police officers and firefighters from loosing their jobs, but this is more along the lines of “saving current jobs” and not “creating jobs”.

Then we can start addressing what this jobs bill does not do. The plan does not stop ridiculous regulations on small businesses and entrepreneurs, which due to these regulations, makes the United States economy less competitive in the global marketplace. The plan does not address the enormous cost of Obama Care because small businesses are more than likely expected to terminate employee health insurance plans because it will cost employers more money. The plan also does nothing about stopping jobs from being exported overseas nor bringing jobs back into the United States, because in countries such as China, employers do not have to provide health benefits or comply with strangling regulations and they don’t have to pay the same labor wages.

Finally, Obama has insisted that this jobs bill will not contribute to our already skyrocketing deficits. If the plan is going to be paid for with tax increases, then it actually makes our deficits and national debt worse. You can only tax the American citizen so much, before there is nothing more to tax. Taxation problems means the country will have difficulties in servicing its debt obligations. If tax and spending skyrockets, this means the economy declines because people do not have the money to spend.

So is this really a mystery why Congress is not passing Obama’s jobs plan? Even the Democrats are starting to see the writing on the wall.