THE OBAMA RUINATION RANT

My current President is nothing more than a constant embarrassment at best and at worst he’s a huge threat to this nation and all it has come to represent over the past two hundred thirty some-odd years.(see related video) The man is no more than a caricature, a clown, and a thorough buffoon! This guy makes that Georgia peanut farmer of the 1970’s look like a wise and sage statesman instead of the saboteur he actually was. Electing Obama to the Presidency is very much akin to telling a star high school baseball pitcher that next season he’ll be starting for the New York Yankees or perhaps the Boston Red Sox. The young fellow’s gonna get creamed, chewed up, and spit out. He’s just not ready to play in the Major Leagues with the grown ups! The Hypocrite-in Chief has held only two actual, bona-fide jobs in his entire life and has never assumed the mantel of executive. He’s run nothing except for his mouth! Nada, Zip, Zero.

After graduating from Harvard, he worked on Wall Street for roughly six months and decided he either didn’t care for it or couldn’t handle it and quit. There’s nothing wrong with that, by the way. It’s better to find out early that you despise what you’re doing rather than thirty years down the road after you’ve spent most of your adult life doing it. Years later, he wrote of his venture on the “Street” that he felt like he’d been dropped behind enemy lines. Enemy Lines?!? Let’s see, the leader of the free world in the most Capitalistic society ever created which has produced the highest standard of living in the history of mankind views Wall Street and Capitalism as the enemy! That’s an absolutely remarkable statement and is hugely revealing. Remember folks, his books weren’t written in his young, formative years but rather by a fully mature adult whose world view had already been shaped. As we get older, we tend to look for those things that reinforce and strengthen our beliefs and the President is just such an individual.

His second “job” after Wall Street was taking a post as a “community organizer”, whatever the Hell that means. I’ve never seen a written description of that “profession” nor have I come across the rigorous and demanding qualifications required to achieve such a lofty, exalted, and responsible position. I’ve seen no course of study offered by colleges or universities to obtain degrees in that field and I’ve yet to locate a core curriculum that includes course work that prepares someone to assume that role. I’m also unaware of where one might go to master updated techniques and methodologies in order for someone in the field to maintain their edge so as to remain fresh, current and not become stale and irrelevant. Perhaps he received exclusive one-to-one tutoring from that racist load of excrement, the ever so influential and learned Good Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Hey Rev, let’s forget about God damning America and work on God damning you! By the way, where did you earn your Degree in Divinity? Perhaps one can also receive special lectures from the team of Jackson and Sharpton as well. I’m also convinced that our first black President has memorized verbatim Saul Aulinsky’s classic, The Rule Book for Radicals!

He then discovered his true calling, his life’s work, and an occupation worthy of his great intellect, lofty ambitions, and planet-sized ego. He became a proud member of the corrupt Daley Political Machine without whose approval nothing gets done in the Windy City. This nation hasn’t seen this kind of dirty, crooked politics since Boss Tweed ran the Big Apple all those years ago! Yup, young Barry was up and running!! First, local Chicago politics and after getting the blessing of Daley and the Boys, off to the national scene as an Illinois Senator where he got his first taste of real power and has been absolutely crazed with it ever since. After spending approximately one hundred and forty days as a politician on the Federal level (by the way, his most frequent vote was neither Nay nor Yea but rather PRESENT. Yessirree, that’s what’s known as really taking a tough stand on the burning issues of the day!) he announced his intention of seeking the Presidency which in and of itself is a full-time job and left virtually no room for him to perform his sworn duty to the citizens of Illinois. The man had become a professional politician and his election to the Presidency has more than reinforced my deeply held conviction that there are far too many of my countrymen out there who are way too stupid to live and just far, far too damned dumb to die!

I realize he’s only been in office for just ten months (actually, he’s rarely in the office but instead has become something of a “jet-setter” President) but let’s take a brief glance at what he’s done to date. At the moment we’re embroiled in an extremely heated and sometimes venomous health-care reform debate in Obama’s zealous attempt to relegate our nation to the status of liberalized and feminized Western Europe. The Brother wants the government to control between one-sixth and one-fifth of our economy which would give it far more power than the Founders ever envisioned. If he gets what he wants, you’ll be facing health care rationing as people must wait two to three years or more to receive crucial life-saving or life-altering procedures. Additionally, when you get to that stage of life at which you’ve got far more years behind you than you have in front of you you’ll be introduced to the concept of what’s called “end of life counseling.” That’s a very euphemistic phrase which simply means you’re too fucking old and we’re not wasting precious time, energy, and resources on some ancient Bastard who no longer meaningfully contributes to society. Think about it. The government will now decide who lives or dies, who does and does not receive treatment. If that pain becomes too excruciatingly unbearable, our Supreme Leader will generously give you enough pills to transform gramps and grandma into mindless Zombies! Can anyone say Orwellian or perhaps Euthanasia? Know this and make no mistake: it’s coming. The Buffoon-in-Chief and his minions will absolutely succeed in destroying the finest health care system on the planet and reduce it to the God-awful levels of England, France, and Sweden!

Furthermore, the MAN wants to increasingly saddle an already ailing economy with his devious and devastating Cap and Trade scam which will cost the average American an additional three grand annually! It should be more properly termed Cap and Tax or the one I most prefer Tax and Crap! This is merely a very poorly disguised effort to cripple our nation’s oil producers and move toward pie-in-the-sky green energy alternatives that simply won’t meet the needs of this nation and never will. This Bogus Bullshit is merely yet another way to massively increase taxes on those to whom HE gave his solemn oath that under HIS Presidency only those people earning over $250,000 per annum would pay anything additional in taxes! He knew that wasn’t true even as he uttered the statement. He and all Democrat “pols” are about nothing but power and control and once they control your income by taking more of it in taxes they assume greater and greater hegemony over the lives of citizens.

A lack of economic freedom which Obama and his ilk desperately want is no less than one of the cruelest forms of slavery that ever existed. As the government takes away ever larger portions of your income, your liberty and freedom become severely curtailed. You will be able to make fewer and fewer choices, you’ll not be able to do those things that please and satisfy you, nor will you be able to take advantage of opportunities for you and your family. You’d better be absolutely aware that this man wants and intends to have more and more of us dependent on government to provide our most basic needs. Do you really think for one moment that when he speaks so sincerely and solemnly about ever-rising unemployment and all its attendant horrors that he means one fucking word of it? Balls and Bullshit!! I’m willing to bet the damned ranch that when alone with his trusted lackeys and cronies they are high-fiving and victory-dancing as the unemployment rate keeps rising.

Don’t you get it? As more and more of us lose our jobs, the more dependent upon government we become: in this case I give you the old unemployment insurance check! Those out of work become ever more dependent on government and that’s what all true Socialists must absolutely have! There is no doubt that your newest President is an absolute Socialist and pines for the day when he can utterly destroy free market capitalism! If this Tax and Crap ever becomes law, its only effect will be to virtually impoverish this nation and eventually move it into third world status. If you haven’t noticed, you should be aware that those third world shit-holes are pretty much exempt from the bullshit about greenhouse emissions, global warming, catastrophic climate change, and the rest of this anti-American. anti-Western swill. They’re out to bring us down to their pathetic levels and that an American President is aiding and abetting their cause is thoroughly nauseating!!

Let’s not forget about his much touted bail-outs of some of our major industries that were deemed Too Big To Fail! The case of General Motors is instructive. Supplicants from such household names as Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac, etc. came to Washington on bended knee with outstretched hands. After they were thoroughly and publicly chastised for arriving in their Gulf Stream jets business, of course, commenced and it absolutely shouldn’t have. In a Capitalist, free market economy companies often go under. They declare some form of bankruptcy, restructure, and eventually end up on their feet again. Take Delta Airlines some years back. They went bust yet remained viable and survived. The difference is back then America’s President was not a raving Socialist Hell bent on destroying Capitalism!

Now, of course, thanks to multiple billions of tax-sucker dollars bestowed upon the auto makers by His Majesty, the government along with those UAW types literally own the automobile industry! Sounds like more government control of private industry with an accompanying further erosion of freedom and responsibility. What the fuck is the government doing in the business of manufacturing cars!?! Still, some people including The Anointed One himself insist that the man is not a Socialist but we all realize that they know better. As I recall, the government ran the car business in the defunct Soviet Union and other command economies like Cuba and Vietnam. Would you buy a car from them, Hmmmmm

You’d better get ready for the day when government officials will dictate and severely limit your choices as to the kinds of cars you’ll be able to own and it’ll be done under the guise of protecting us and the environment from our wanton destructiveness, callousness, and lack of vision. As any good Socialist will be more than happy to point out, it’s obvious that we regular folk, the schlubs and the common slobs are too feeble-minded to properly take care of ourselves and our families so that task must be left to Big Brother! We are too stupid and irresponsible not to destroy the environment as well as the planet (you talk about arrogance and hubris – these folks have a virtual monopoly on those two traits) so we must be treated as severely retarded children and be forced to do the things that the adults have deemed in our own best interests. Here are just a few examples of what we can expect.

Lest you feel this is no more than one old fart’s paranoia bubbling to the surface yet one more time look up the following acronym: CACHE. These constitute Obama’s plans to drastically increase our MPG’s as we go about our daily business and it is also a craven, perhaps desperate bid to curry favor with those “green” types in their drive to destroy this nation’s economy and saddle us with Socialism. For example, under these standards by roughly a decade from now each car maker’s entire fleet must average just under forty miles per gallon. What’s wrong with that, you ask? It’ll save gas and improve air quality nation-wide! How could anyone with a pure heart and a compassionate soul object to this plan to save the planet?!? I must be some kinda racist!! Well let’s see now, how might such a plan be implemented? Very simply. Once more Obama and the Boys are going to severely limit our choices and destroy our freedom this time in the name of saving the planet. We must be forced into doing what is best for us because these visionaries have the truth and the rest of us Schmucks had just better shut the fuck up and keep “sheeping” along!

In order to achieve this type of gas mileage, you can kiss your large, roomy, comfortable and SAFE automobile good bye! You know, that SUV you recently purchased for its spaciousness and peace of mind. You can forget about owning anything even approaching the luxury of a Lincoln Town Car or a Jaguar with a V-8 or V-12 engine! I know damned well that in the not too distant future there’ll be laws prohibiting these types of vehicles accompanied by huge fines and possible jail-time! Paranoid, my sorry old ass! You silly bastards might just consider removing your heads from your rectums and look around at what’s happening to our nation. It’s being fucking destroyed and we’re letting it happen! You’ll be driving a “Mini” or one of those supposed “smart cars” which simply put are just death traps – no more than coffins on wheels! If you’re approaching six feet in height or better, enjoy that lovely seven or eight-hour car ride with the wife and kids. If you make it to your destination alive and can actually extricate yourself from this clown mobile, it’ll take at least a week to straighten out and feel even close to normal again! Smart Car this, Mr. President!

How about our once at least somewhat improved welfare system? We finally got to the point of “workfare” wherein if you desired to receive money you hadn’t earned then you must do something to gain the benefit. Not perfect, but at least a positive step. Well, the ‘Bama ended that! Under his “system” virtually anybody who wants to can qualify thus creating ever- increasing dependence on government to fulfill our needs. Yeah, that’s just great because it’s exactly what this country needs – if you happen to be a hard- core, full-blown Socialist bent on utterly destroying Capitalism! Care for a bit more? Tough shit, ‘cause here it comes. The Federal Government is now so involved in the banking and mortgage industry that it may as well be termed the Obama Home Ownership Program! You’ll need government permission to own your own home in the United States of America. That loud crashing and booming sound you hear is merely the American Dream being jack-booted underfoot by your own damned government!

Obama also seems Hell bent on completely bankrupting this nation by adopting policies that increase our national debt to heights never before seen. That’s a sure-fire way to kill Capitalism and steer America on an invariable course toward Socialism. If he is allowed to continue, it does indeed spell the death of this great country, destroys American Exceptionalism, and sends us spinning and careening straight into third-worldism and utter misery! His almost one trillion dollar stimulus package has thus far stimulated virtually nothing save for 30,000 jobs on the Federal level! How the Hell much is that per job and they’re not even in the private sector?! Remember all those “shovel-ready” projects? Except for perhaps pot hole repair here and there they didn’t exist. The man has spent only roughly 15% of that stolen loot and plans to spend the rest as reelection time approaches so he can look good spreading all that pork around!

The only thing his “Porkulus” bill has accomplished (please note the Limbaughism here) was to take one trillion dollars out of the private sector but since he wants to literally destroy it anyway at least he’s being consistent! That trillion can no longer be invested in expanding existing business so more employment is created thus insuring continued growth and prosperity. Similarly, entrepreneurs can no longer risk that money to start new ventures in the hope of achieving further success, prosperity, and employment. It’s a brilliant fucking plan – if your goal is to destroy the greatest economic engine ever created since Homo Sapiens began standing on two feet! The same can be said for his creation of the largest Federal budget in the history of this country standing at a grossly obscene three and one-half trillion smackaroos! It is projected that our national debt will skyrocket to upwards of $12,000,000,000,000 in about a decade and nobody gets out alive! We will be paying off that debt for multi, multi, multi generations and it will ensure the demise of this great country which is exactly and precisely what he desperately wants to accomplish!

His evil machinations will also lead to another phenomenon never before seen in America’s history: the domination of the United States by foreign powers! I swear the Brother-in-Chief must go orgasmic just contemplating the thought. As China and other nations buy up more and more of our debt they also begin to control us. Don’t you get it? If someone loans you five million, you owe them and you become dependent. Your freedom is being taken away. There’s no other way to look at it. Just ask our former BJ-in-Chief and mention campaign contributions from – you got it – Communist China. This fits in perfectly with what the Bamster’s trying to pull off and if he’s successful, we’ll have no one to blame but ourselves. Alright, you misguided feel-good Liberals elected him once. Yeah, I’m sure it’s very cool to brag that you helped elect America’s First Black President just to prove you’re not a racist! Well, if you folks haven’t seen how wrong-headed and obtuse you really are and manage to get him a second term then you deserve everything discussed above and more. If those of us on the other side can’t articulate our Conservative ideas and plans any better than we did in 2008 and find a candidate who is unafraid to do the same then we deserve whatever the Hell we get as well!

How will Obama accomplish his dream of America’s demise and to whom will he turn to transform that dream into reality? First and foremost to the non-thinking boobies who elected this huckster-snake oil salesman. Additionally, of course, he will have the unwavering support of all Liberal Democrat politicians who invariable place party over country. It’s been one of their trademarks since at least the 1960’s. He, however, will depend more than any other President on the use of his so-called “Czars” which more simply stated translates into hit men or enforcers. As most half educated sixth graders can tell you, a Czar was the equivalent of an emperor and for many centuries ruled over the Russian Empire as absolute tyrants and claimed Divine Right as their justification. Yes, their power came directly from the Almighty and the Czar was his earthly representative. Not a bad gig if you can get it and I believe that El Presidente thinks the same thing about himself. The Romanovs were the last ruling family until 1917 when the Bolsheviks brutally ended their tenure and savagely slaughtered them but hey, payback’s a bitch ain’t it? There have long been questions concerning those few of God’s chosen who may have survived but that mystery has finally been solved. They’re all gainfully employed in the current administration as “Czars”.(see related video)

I realize, of course, that other Presidents have used similar individuals or “special advisors” in their White Houses. Brother Obama, however, eclipses them all in numbers and the extraordinary powers that they have been accorded. We all know what happens once one gets a taste of power: they always want more and will fight like a lioness protecting her cubs if ever that power is threatened or diminished. A web piece from Politifact(www.politifact.com)cites John McCain’s now famous quote that, “Obama has more Czars than the Romanovs – who ruled Russia for 3 centuries.” The Brother-in-Chief has hired approximately forty of these folks who, of course, are funded by all of us tax-suckers out here. The Head Honcho, however, apparently doesn’t care for the word czar because it probably sounds far too authoritarian and dictatorial and he desperately needs to keep the dolts and boobies out there from learning the truth about his real intentions and agenda.

It should be more than obvious to anyone with an IQ of an asparagus that he despises this country as presently constituted, hates and loathes Capitalism, and wants nothing more than to redistribute the wealth earned by hard-working Americans and give it to those who don’t deserve it. Politico points out that, “the Obama administration attempts to avoid the use of ‘czar’ terminology,” as illustrated when Press Secretary, the ever glib wordsmith Robert Gibbs, corrected a reporter who questioned him about the appointment of so many of these Czars. Gibbs objected to the term and said, “No, I think the title is special master.” Special master? I thought we got rid of the masters with the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865. Something about a guy named Robert E. Lee and a place called Appomattox if memory serves.

Even such a luminary as that red neck cracker Senator Robert Byrd notes the possible danger inherent within Barry’s Czardom when he correctly posited that the President’s appointments clearly make a mockery of our system of checks and balances which has stood us in good stead for the last few hundred years. In a piece entitled, “Obama’s Czars” from www.campaignforliberty.org the author astutely points out that these people are, “immune to subpoena, Congressional oversight and review,” and answer to the President, and the President only.” Additionally, the Czars “need not be approved or confirmed by any other branch and have supreme rule over the agencies” of which they are in charge. The author also correctly notes that their salaries need not be disclosed and that collectively, “the Obama czars oversee up to $2 trillion.” These Boys and Girls control a huge portion of our annual budget and with that control comes, obviously, huge power. This, of course, is in total “sync” with Obama’s plans and personality.

The author also points out that these, “people make policy decisions under the table, out of reach of both Congress and the American people.” He concludes by saying that the, “authority and power of an agency is transferred to one unaccountable person within the Executive branch.” He wonders that with the ability to unconstitutionally create Czars, “at which point will we have an outright oligarchy, held accountable by no one?” Think about it folks. The Bamster’s sights are set on destroying our democracy and our representative republic. Political cartoonists used to lambaste President Andrew Jackson and referred to him as King Andrew complete with royal robes, sepulcher, and crown. Well, Andy, move the fuck outa’ the way ‘cause Barry Boy’s now the new sheriff in town!

This whole Czar thing has become so problematical that some folks in government are actually trying to do something about it. Representative Jack King out of Georgia has introduced his Czar Accountability and Reform Act (H.R. 3226). The politician points out that, “since being sworn in, President Obama has appointed as many as 34 czars to oversee and implement a wide array of his agenda ranging from the automobile industry to global warming to the Great Lakes.” He continues that, “with a salary of up to $172,000 in addition to staff, office, and travel budgets,” the Congressman sees these sinecures as a growing problem which will cost tax payers millions (www.traditionalvalues.org). King concludes on an ominous note saying that, “at this rate, we’ll have 272 czars by 2012 . . . and it seems President Obama is in the midst of forming a parallel government to push his policies.” He notes quite correctly that, “not only do they duplicate existing Senate-confirmed positions, they are completely unaccountable.” Therein, of course, lies the rub.

Far too many of these Czar-types exist within already long established Cabinet posts and while the power struggles and vicious infighting that is inevitable will be entertaining to witness, it will further complicate and slow down an already massive bureaucracy and will lead to still more government inefficiencies. Referring back to The Politico, author Shawn Dietz notes that there can’t help but be an overlapping of responsibility. He states that, “the Department of Energy has Steven Chu yet President Obama has named a new Energy Czar,” and the writer wonders why. He further explains that the same is true for other Cabinet positions such as the Department of Health, Department of Labor, the Department of Transportation, the Department of State, and the Department of Commerce.

The list of these tyrannical thugs is seemingly endless or soon will be and is readily available on the internet. Let’s note just a few. We have an Aids Czar, a Bailout Czar, and a Border Czar. We then have additional such positions for: Cars; Climate Change; Counter Terrorism; Cyber Security; Domestic Violence; and Drugs. There exist two of these types that deal with the economy as well as an Education Czar; a Food Safety Czar; an Energy Czar; a Government Performance Czar; and even a Great Lakes Czar. We must, of course not forget the monarchs in charge of the: Green Jobs; Guantanomo Closure; Health; Infotech; Intelligence; Latin America; Mideast Peace; and Mideast Policy. Also certainly worthy of note are the Bamster’s: Pay Czar; Regulatory Czar; Religion Czar; Safe Schools Czar; Science Czar; Stimulus Oversight Czar; Tarp Czar; and Technology Czar. This shit is wearing me out but the point is that when laid out in front of you, it paints an extraordinarily disturbing picture which makes anything done by Dali seem normal! This absolutely cannot be good for the nation or its citizens. It’s overwhelming in scope and size and involves huge transfers of power to people who are virtually accountable to no one but the Head Honcho – in – Chief. This is completely unacceptable, dangerous, and yet it is a reality! (for a more complete list of Czars see www.noisyroom.net).

At www.ihatethemedia.com there exists a short list of other possible beaurocratic fiefdoms and based on the Bama’s track record he just might go for it. The web piece suggests:

The Biden Czar – to keep him from opening his big mouth and saying stupid things that embarrass His Majesty!

The Teleprompter Czar – to keep that device always working!

The Pantsuit Czar - to insure that Hillary wears only pantsuits!

The Limbaugh Czar – to regulate Conservative talk radio!

The Middle Name Czar – to prohibit the name Hussein from ever being uttered!

The Double Speak Czar – to keep track of Obama’s new terminology as in changing “Terrorism” to “Man-Caused Disaster”!

The Power Grab Czar – To be the Czar of all Czars!


While obviously ending this piece on a somewhat lighter note, don’t ever lose sight of the fact that this charlatan is attempting no less a feat than the destruction of the greatest, freest, wealthiest, and most powerful yet beneficent nation God ever gave mankind! Nothing like this country has ever been witnessed on the planet nor will it ever happen again. Those out there who want to tear it down and destroy it know exactly what they’re doing and they’ve been dreaming and planning for it for many, many years. Foreign armies can’t defeat us and while terrorists will sting us from time to time they certainly can’t bring us down. It is our internal enemies, the saboteurs, who constitute the real and present danger. It is these people, these back-stabbers, these ungrateful scum that will one day destroy us if we let them. As of now, it’s still not too late but if this imposter of an American President, this bogus Commander-in-Chief, this player at Chief Executive wins a second term in just a few short years that will seal America’s fate. The rot will have so impregnated itself into the very fabric and institutions of the nation that one day Americans will only be able to look back query, “What The Fuck Happened?!?”

I wonder just how long it’ll be before Obama embarks on his next Apology for America Tour? The first one was a huge world-wide success!! Ah, now we know why this "yutz", this imposter of an American President received the much sought after Nobel Peace Prize. He's told the rest of the world that they are right and the global community has rewarded him for it!!


Much “Luv” Y’all and Have a Great Day!


The Fifth Horseman

THE GHETTO VALUES RANT

The values that built this nation and turned it into the single greatest country God ever gave mankind are overwhelmingly Judeo-Christian. The Ten Commandments – perhaps you’ve heard of them – have constituted this nation’s playbook since its inception. Emphasis on qualities like hard work, the rule of law, and rugged individualism are key to having built and maintained our magnificent experiment. Civility, equality, and justice are all hall- marks of American civilization and the concept of limited government has been but one foundation underlying the creation of the single greatest economic engine in world history. Anyone lucky enough to have been born here or emigrate from abroad has been blessed like no other people on the planet.

Sadly, however, most great nations or civilizations have a lifespan of approximately two hundred and fifty or so years before they peak, fade, and finally crap out. Just think Roman Republic or ancient Athens. America is in its two hundred and thirty third year and it appears that the rot has set in and turned gangrenous. The telltale rancid stench is unmistakable and to be ignored at not just our peril but at our very destruction. As with ancient Rome, the barbarians are not merely at the gates but have successfully stormed them. They live amongst us and have slowly but thoroughly sabotaged and eroded our magnificent American value system and civilization and have substituted for it instead what might be termed their Ghetto Value System and Culture. I’m afraid that the only light to be seen down those tracks at the end of the tunnel is the one signaling that apocalyptic civilizational train wreck that is headed for us with amazing speed and absolute certainty!

Ghetto values are the complete antithesis of normal civilizational values and ghetto culture is overwhelmingly crude, crass, rude, vulgar and, unfortunately, infectious. Just as the parasite eventually destroys its host by draining the essential life forces, the ghetto scum among us will undoubtedly destroy their host, America, unless exorcised and excoriated. A ghetto can be defined as “part of a city occupied by a minority group,” or perhaps more succinctly put, “a slum.” Within the ghetto normally reside society’s subcultures which are unified groups, “or movements within a culture from which it is in some way distinguished.” Perhaps even more germane a definition would be “a cultural group within a larger culture having beliefs or interests that are different from those of the larger culture.” All well and good as far as it goes, but the ghetto culture in question here does not only have beliefs or interests that are merely different but absolutely antithetical to the continued existence of the dominant culture.

There exist a number of common traits shared by those who have truly internalized and embraced their “ghettohood.” They absolutely despise the majority culture and value system and their animosity toward anything Caucasian is all pervasive and thoroughly boundless. Additionally, they view America, this land of unbridled opportunity where the only limits to individual achievement and success are self imposed, as despicably evil. The United States, they are convinced, is the root cause of all the world’s ills and especially their own lack of success on any and all levels.

The high school in which I teach is populated largely by ghetto dwellers. They reside in places like Bushwick and East New York where life is all too often nasty, brutish, and tragically short. Death by gun shot or stab wound is so commonplace that they are macabrely referred to as “natural causes.” Yeah, it really is that bad. The young people that come to school and regularly attend classes, it must be noted, are absolutely not the subject of this rant nor are they in any way to be grouped with those types referred to above. While they live in some of the worst neighborhoods in New York City and must daily contend with conditions that no one their age, or any other for that matter, should be forced to endure they have not embraced, internalized, or romanticized “ghettohood.” They are inner-city kids and most are tough as nails. They have to be. Virtually all of them have suffered the untimely loss or severe injury of loved ones and all know family and friends who have been the victims of violence and crime. They want out and this explains their academic endeavors. All of them have post-graduation plans that include legitimate, honest employment, trade and or technical training to learn a marketable skill, and perhaps even college. I applaud and admire them and wish them every success. They know that the deck is grotesquely stacked against them but they do their best to fight on, persevere, and succeed.

Now, before those unthinking boobies out there mindlessly haul out the “R” charge and label me a racist, bigot, cracker, Neanderthal, or something really original like “white mother fucker,” go back and read the last paragraph – every word. The subjects referred to here have been thoroughly and totally “ghettoized” and have surrendered to the streets. They lead lives with virtually no positive options and not a chance or a shred of hope. They have completely twisted and perverted what most folks perceive as normal. They mock and ridicule pretty much every standard Americans have come to cherish over the past few hundred years. It’s not unlike what Alice must have experienced as she stepped through that looking glass. Now please and by all means remember the above mentioned admonition. This in no way reflects on all those good, decent folks trying to rise out of the ghetto and provide better lives for themselves and their loved ones.

Most of us, for instance, try to live up to in some manner or fashion the old Golden Rule of do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It’s a good rule to live by because it sounds and feels right. The ghetto creatures we speak of here, however, preach a modified version which goes something like “Do Unto Others Before They Do It Unto You!” This is an example of a typical ghetto value and you’d better believe that they practice what they preach. They have taken what the dominant culture values as healthy behavior and turned it into something bizarrely surreal.

The concept of hard work is another cherished standard appreciated by most Americans. We do it, of course, for the money but also for its own sake. Hard work and working hard have other than monetary rewards. It is satisfying, fulfilling, and instills both a sense of pride and virtue. True ghettomeisters, however, assiduously eschew not just the concept of hard work but rather the entire work ethic philosophy itself. Some years ago when the idea of workfare instead of welfare came into vogue one female freeloader complained on camera that forcing her to work in exchange for taxpayer largesse was literally cruel and inhumane treatment. She explained that no one should be forced to work “cause there ain’t no more slavery no more.” She felt that the three to four hours it took to fill out all the forms and waiting on long lines was enough to justify her “entitlement.” Any more than that was just too over the top and she just wasn’t having it! This attitude is not the exception but rather the rule in far too many of our inner-cities in contemporary America. There is no shame in the concept of receiving someone else’s money in return for no services rendered and a society without shame is a society without a soul.

Some years ago, however, two of my so-called students (so-called because while in the building during cold or inclement weather they had long ago stopped attending classes) approached me seeking work related advice. I remember thinking that this is unusual and even somewhat refreshing. The dilemma, it turned out, was that these two young fellows had been doing really well and came to the notice of their boss. Their employer was so impressed that he offered them both substantial raises, a change of location, and more responsibility. It seemed to me that these two kids were on their way and I wondered what their problem was. They explained with straight faces and serious expressions that they were look outs for a local neighborhood drug dealer. They carried walkie-talkies and immediately reported any and all suspicious or unusual behavior to their employer. It could be police activity, undercover cops, rival gang members, you name it. Now they were being offered an opportunity to get off the street, work inside, and handle the product – in this case heroin.

They explained their quandary thusly. As look outs they never came into contact with or in any way handled the heroin. If the police ever raided the premises those working inside got arrested and sent to jail while the cops wouldn’t touch the two “students” of mine. They wanted my opinion as to whether or not the increased rewards justified the accelerated risks! I immediately advised them to drop the fuck out of school, move indoors, take the raise, and get busted so they’d have to learn to deal with Bubba and the Boys in the Big House! I was incredulous, shocked, and younger then. My tone and expression told them that I was less than pleased. They responded with a somewhat confused, “What the fuck’s wrong with you, Doc?” I never saw them again.

The fact that these ghetto denizens simply had nary a clue as to why our bizarre conversation struck me as absolutely horrific speaks volumes about attitudes in current inner-city America. These felons in waiting viewed me as the abnormal part of their life’s equation. I was the one who didn’t get it. The same can be said of the welfare bum referenced earlier. If they view the rest of us as “off”, wrong-headed, and misdirected then I’m betting that there are millions of like minded mother fuckers out there who with puzzled demeanor scratch their collective heads and wonder what’s wrong with us. The fact that they have completely perverted the entire concept of honest, gainful employment and all its rewards, the idea that they have turned the noble into the ignoble is absolutely accepted in the ghetto subculture of which they are a part. They view themselves as normal because in their world they are. I fear their normalcy and distorted values are rapidly growing while those of us in the so-called dominant culture retreat virtually without a fight.

Perhaps I’m just being paranoid here and it’s time for me to get a grip. Maybe a sharp slap in the face would end my hysteria. Really? Have you never heard of the concept of multi-culturalism? Of course you have because it’s championed all over this country in the media, in our schools, and in any other outlet you can possibly fathom. It is yet another example of the subculture dictating to the dominant culture which continues its headlong retreat into oblivion. Multi-culturalism is completely antithetical to our American culture and Western Civilization that built this nation. There is no doubt that the multi-culturalists are winning this battle handily while those of us who know the crucial importance of instilling our American culture in future generations are too afraid of being branded racist to even defend our way of life. Diversity is yet another phony concept being bandied about ad nausea in our inner-city neighborhoods nationwide. Let’s celebrate our differences instead of those characteristics that bind us together as a nation and a people. That’s nothing more than a giant load of Happy Crappy and is but one more tactic used by those who would destroy what is left of the American culture! Any intelligent ten year-old realizes that emphasizing diversity leads to further differences that can only widen the gap already existing between and among our nation’s disparate groups. If this trend continues, what occurred in the Balkans some years back will seem like a Sunday go to meeting picnic when it explodes in this country!!

Both diversity and multi-culturalism are but two examples of inner-city ghetto values that have wormed their way into the so-called mainstream. Still another would be our old friend Affirmative Action. Sure, it’s been around for a long time but that only makes it more not less insidious. Only the ass backwards culture of the inner-city ghetto could elevate something so heinous to such lofty and haughty heights! Anyone who argues that the destruction of our meritocracy is the solution to appeasing our minority subcultures is not just merely out of his fucking mind but wants to see this nation completely ruined and reduced to the status of some third world shit hole! When quotas supercede quality, when pigmentation replaces proven performance it is time to reevaluate the direction in which America is heading. Merit should be the only standard when deciding who gets hired or fired, accepted or rejected. Skin color, race, ethnicity, and perceived injustices have no place in deciding this nation’s future. Unless we quickly restore those values upon which America was founded the end of the United States as we know it is not a matter of if but merely of when. It is an absolute certainty.

Yet another glaring example of ghetto values is the phenomenon of making no long range future plans. Those who have become truly ghettoized live strictly in the moment and think only in the short rather than the far term. Long range plans seem unrealistic since they are thoroughly convinced that a racist America denies them the opportunity to succeed and that they will end up in jail or die very hard and very young. This attitude or “ghettitude”, if you will, is obviously not merely self-defeating but overwhelmingly self-destructive. It destroys such values as patience, perseverance, and persistence. It leads to the glorification if not the worship of the concept of instant gratification. What is the point, for example, of investing time and effort in education if one believes that he or she is preordained to fail? Why bother to waste one’s energy in fruitless pursuits like high school or college when the endeavor seems completely pointless?

By the time they are in their early to mid-teens, true ghettoites know they are failures at least in terms of the dominant cultural values and mores that have nurtured America over the centuries. If they can’t succeed in the mainstream culture then they’ll succeed in their sub-cultural groups by adopting and acting on those ghetto attributes deemed worthy of respect by their peers. Education then is obviously out and could even lead to a charge of “acting white,” something to be shunned at all costs. Getting arrested and doing time, however, is something perfectly accepted and respected in this topsy-turvey perversion of an American value system and culture that is rapidly spinning out of control. Doing time is considered a badge of honor, a ghetto right of passage. Upon release, the convict has instant street credibility and is treated with increased respect and admiration. This newfound status precludes any and all possibility of conforming to mainstream norms and values and has created yet one more enemy of American beliefs and traditions. No, enemy is not too strong a word for the true ghettoites for they have indeed declared war on us and want this nation destroyed as it presently exists. They desire nothing less than the transformation of America into their own perverted image and unless the rest of us wake the fuck up pretty damn quick they’re going to win the culture war before most of us even realize that such a conflict even exists!

Gang membership is yet another ghetto honor to be bestowed only upon those deemed worthy enough. One simply can’t ask to join one of our many “social clubs” but instead must be invited and sponsored by an existing gang-banger. It’s really heart warming in a twisted, perverse fashion. The prospective “applicant” must endure a brutally painful initiation process before being considered a “made” man. For aspiring male members it may consist of sustained and vicious beatings by his soon to be brothers or it may involve committing a vicious violent crime against an unsuspecting citizen. For females the initiation is often repeatedly being gang raped by every male member of the organization for a week or more. The new gang member can now proudly wear the colors and use the hand signs that announce to the world that he or she has finally arrived. Just think of it as a debutant ball, a coming out party of sorts, only ghettoized. It’s really quite touching isn’t it?

Lest we think that gangs are but a passing ghetto fad please be aware that some outfits like the Latin Kings have existed literally for generations and show no sign of going anywhere soon. I’ve had students who were members and whose fathers and grandfathers are still currently active. A family that plays together…? Years ago King Tone, a Latin King chieftain, was actually a student of mine for a time. He’s now serving a life sentence without, I believe, any possibility of parole. Yup, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside: one of my guys reaching such exalted heights! As more and more ghetto dwellers member-up, so to speak, these communities become increasingly tribal in nature. A tribe is defined as a “group of people united by common ancestry and customs, forming a community under a chief or elders.” Another definition aptly describes a tribe as “a social group in a traditional society consisting of linked families or communities sharing customs and beliefs.” Each inner-city tribe has its own territory or turf not unlike an old medieval fiefdom. Territory is jealously guarded and violently defended when necessary and each gang specializes in certain activities. One may have the market on protection rackets while another deals only in certain types of illegal drugs. Others control prostitution and yet another may be solely involved in car theft or blackmail. They are literally self-sustaining, self-perpetuating, and self-governing entities and have no use for and completely disdain the norms, mores, and standards that most Americans hold dear. Whitey, not surprisingly, is always the enemy.

Still another ghetto perversion of one of our most cherished and essential institutions is the concept of the stable, two-parent family. For thousands of years it has been society’s most important foundation and without it nations do not long survive. The nuclear family is completely over in Ghetto America and it is never coming back – no way, no how. As the family goes so too goes the nation. The family, complete with two married parents and children, has been the single most important societal building block not just for this country but for all of Western Civilization. The family is where habits are taught, values instilled, and where patriotism is handed down to the next generation. Neither governments nor schools can accomplish these essential tasks unless they are first learned at the family level.

Virtually none of the men who are so adept at making babies hang around long enough to make strong, effective families. The out of wedlock teen pregnancy rate in your typical inner-city ghetto is now approaching 75-80%! We see fourteen and fifteen year-old mothers and sixty year-old great, great grandmothers running around. It is so commonplace that not even the proverbial eyebrow is raised. There is absolutely no one around to teach the “kinder” any values save those of the ghetto. It relates back to that mindset referenced earlier where doing things like long range planning for the future have become thoroughly irrelevant. If one thinks of oneself as strictly temporary why bother to think or plan ahead? A day to day lifestyle makes perfect sense in the fabled “hood.”

The problem here is one of containment for I believe we have reached the point of no return in so far as rectifying the situation. The patient is terminal and the prognosis is hopeless. We have allowed this to happen and therefore probably deserve it. Oh, I don’t know – something about reaping what you sew? We have sewn a total fucking whirlwind and it’s come back to bite us squarely in our soft, weak willed, pathetic collective ass! Have you been out to the suburbs of any major metropolis lately? Go for it. You’ll see gang-banger wannabes galore. Go to any mall and you’ll see what can only be termed as pure “white bread” trying to imitate ghetto scum. They dress the part and copy the hip hop lifestyle to a tee. You’ll hear the same language and see the same hand gestures. You’ll go deaf from the level of so called rap music and you’ll notice the same tattoos. Not one of these lily white suburban “thugs” - whose parents are usually hard working professionals or folks in the trades – would last ten fucking minutes where I work. They’d absolutely be devoured!

You see, the ghettitude is metasticising and spreading its evil influences all over this nation: slowly at first to be sure. Adding to the danger is the fact that more and more ghetto dwellers are actually relocating to suburbia. As they and their ilk move into neighborhoods do they try and emulate their neighbors’ essentially middle class values? Nope, they mainly bring their ghetto values and habits with them and just as in the city they have helped turn what were once pleasant, livable communities into total shit holes! What’s that ancient piece of wisdom? Oh yeah, you can take the person out of the ghetto but you can’t take the ghetto out of the person! It’s absolutely true and if allowed to continue it augers the death of this great country and all that it has stood for over the centuries. If this were being perpetrated upon us by a foreign power we’d be at war within twenty-four hours. But alas, in the words of that great philosopher Pogo, “we have seen the enemy and he is us!” We have literally Frenchified ourselves and have raised the white flag without even putting up a fight and now we’re really gonna fucking pay for it!!


Much Luv Y’all and Have A Great Day!

The Fifth Horseman