The Agenda 21 Rant


Have you ever heard of something called Agenda 21? Me either and I have always prided myself on being a pretty well informed type who has managed to stay current pertaining to the important issues facing our nation and its future. The things that seem to matter greatly to most citizens and about which so many folks are ardently passionate produce in me nothing more than a giant yawn and a heart-felt Ho-Hum. I cannot, for example, tell you whether or not the New York Yankees play in the American or National League. I have no clue who the reigning NASCAR champion is and I have absolutely no idea who won last year’s Super Bowl. I am blissfully and purposely ignorant regarding such matters and I regard them as no more than mere trivialities and distractions. But hey, that’s just me. I certainly do not fault or criticize those who get excited about such things and even admire them to an extent. They are dedicated to a sport or a team and the true “fan” is steadfastly and unwaveringly loyal regardless of how well or poorly his favorites fare from one season to the next. This is both laudable and admirable but in the end frivolous and meaningless. No matter who wins or loses, life will go on as it has and the disappointed sports aficionado can always look forward to next season with its renewal of hope and optimism.



Issues that I view as important regarding the fate of the nation and its continued greatness and prosperity are matters about which I do become excited and passionate and over which I will never compromise, prevaricate, or turn away from. Defending and upholding our magnificent Constitution is just such an issue as is maintaining a strong, vital, and modern military. Strengthening and safeguarding our peerless Free Market Capitalist system which has transformed the United States into the wealthiest, most powerful, and most generous nation the planet has ever seen is always a task worthy of taking on as is maintaining our superb institutions, traditions, and history. These, and many more, are the things that keep me awake at fretting and worrying about the fate and future of my two little granddaughters. Will they grow up, I wonder, with the same opportunities and advantages that I have been fortunate enough to experience? Will they enjoy the same freedoms that I have been blessed with by virtue of having been born in the greatest nation that God ever gave mankind? Will their futures be bright with hope and promise the things that the United States has always been so famous for and is the impetus for the tens upon tens of millions of immigrants who have struggled – and died – just to get here? Yes, I do worry and fret about such issues and have been repeatedly admonished to find an outlet or release for myself, something that might distract me for awhile. Hey, maybe I’ll become a wild-eyed, fanatical sports fan!



Well, that’s not happening. I seem to focus more and more upon what I view as the purposeful, willful, and malicious attempt to destroy our nation, undermine its very foundations, and transform it into something it was never intended to be. Who would attempt anything so sinister? Well, certainly we have enemies out there who delight at the very prospect of taking us down. Do I worry about some known – or unknown – foreign government that commands large and modern armed forces declaring war on the United States? Not particularly. Do I worry about terrorists destroying America? No, for while they can certainly hit us from time to time, they can’t bring us down. Whom, then, do I see as the only enemy that can and if given the opportunity certainly will bring about the end of this great nation as envisioned by the Founders and presently constituted? There is but one answer and it’s almost too painful to contemplate let alone verbalize. Sadly, even tragically, the enemy is us. Fellow Americans, fellow citizens would love to destroy this nation and institute their vision of what the United States should and must become. It’s not a pleasant or happy thought yet it is reality and therefore must be faced, understood, fought, and defeated. It’s difficult to wrap your minds around that isn’t it? It’s not a comfortable vision or prospect. It is nonetheless true.



Who are these enemies of America? Who are these fellow countrymen that loathe and despise their own great nation to the point that they blame the United States for all of the world’s ills? From poverty and hunger to war and disease we are said to be the chief culprit. They view us as greedy and grasping, as power-mad despots determined to bend the world to our will. We are accused of raping the earth, stealing its resources, destroying the environment and so much more that we can never atone for or make right the wrongs we have perpetrated since our very founding over two centuries ago. In their view, we must fundamentally be destroyed for our sins are seen to be so heinous and vile. Who are these Americans who feel this way? I call them the LFE (Liberal Fucking Elite) and they are extreme, Far Left Wing Americans who desire nothing less than our literal demise as a sovereign entity. The earth must be cleansed of our evil existence and we must forever pay for the malfeasance we have wrought on the rest of the globe and its population. These type are animated first, foremost, and always by their hatred of the United States and they cannot be reasoned with, placated, or appeased. They must be defeated for there is no middle ground or room for compromise. They constitute our nation’s most dangerous, destructive, and vicious enemy. They are the folks that bring us schemes and plans like Agenda 21.



What, then, is this thing called Agenda 21? It is nothing less than a very serious attempt to literally destroy our history, our cherished traditions, and institutions. It is the Far Left’s plan to turn America into but one more failed Socialist state modeled on what has already taken place for so long throughout Western Europe. Its advocates are utterly passionate in their desire to destroy Free Market Capitalism and replace it with a system which not only doesn’t recognize the value of merit and competition but actually punishes both. In their world view, failure must be applauded and rewarded while individual success, initiative, and creativity are not to be tolerated or excused. These are the misguided zealots who refuse to keep score in children’s sporting events for fear of hurting someone’s feelings and perhaps causing low self-esteem. There can be no winners or losers in life but everyone is guaranteed a trophy or medal. There is no first place and by definition, therefore, no last place either. Mediocrity must reign supreme while excellence must always and forever be sacrificed on the alter of Statism!



They are One-Worlders and forever prattle on about creating that fabled New World Order. They despise qualities like freedom, self-reliance, and rugged individualism and instead espouse what might be termed “Big Brotherism” and the collectivist mind set. They constantly malign and denigrate the amazing contributions America has made to the world and mock and excoriate anyone and everyone who still celebrates the United States and recognizes it as the most amazing force for good that the world has ever seen or will ever see again. Those on the Left champion “open” borders, do not recognize American sovereignty, and reject the notion and concept of American Exceptionalism. They are sympathetic to despotic, brutal, and inhumane regimes all over the globe that routinely murder their own citizens by the tens of thousands, destroy concepts like human rights, and as a matter of course enslave their own people. They despise concepts like patriotism and nationalism and view America as certainly no better and in many ways far worse than even the most dictatorial and murderous of nations.

These are the ones that champion such schemes as Project 21. A piece entitled, “Agenda 21 Today (http://americanfreedomwatchradio.com),” maintains that, “Agenda 21 is the 21st century plan for a new world order through global governance,” and that it is, “the ELITEST plan to control your life demanding you do as I say not as I do. You will be required to give up your individual freedom, your personal property and redistribute your wealth. Gone forever will be American exceptionalism, American nationalism and the western way of life as all will be classified as unsustainable.” As with most statist-collectivist schemes, to understand the Agenda and its focus one must suspend one’s notion of definitions, reality, and common sense. These folks are masters of “double-speak”, prevarication, dissembling, and propaganda. They will never say what they truly mean right out loud in front of God and everyone else for that would provoke very angry reactions from far too many Americans. They use language we all think we understand but most of us are simply not fluent in Liberal Speak.



Advocates of Agenda 21, for example, use language that we think we’re thoroughly familiar and comfortable with. The piece speaks to the four “E’s” of Agenda 21 and correctly asserts that, “they are not what they appear.” Those four “E’s” include Education, Equity, Economy, and the Environment. Well, simple enough you say and if there is any confusion or doubt, the Webster’s is right there on the book shelf in our home-office. Not so fast there, Skippy! The word Education according to the Agenda 21 mob really means, “Indoctrination into believing that nature is more important than man and the group is more important than the individual,” and that the, “new purpose of education is to learn values not facts. Students must become global, not American citizens.” Huh, who woulda thunk it? The term Equity is equally distorted to mean, “theft of private property, open borders, remove God, morality, and responsibility.” Does that sound equitable to you? Economy is redefined by this crowd to mean, “Redistribution of America’s wealth to foreign countries by outsourcing jobs, factories and technology creating massive unemployment,” while the term Environment is perverted to mean that nature, “is more important than man. The new god is Mother Earth. Phony science creates phony regulations destroying energy independence and industry. Each policy and regulation is in place to control more and more of your life.”



Let’s face it, folks, Agenda 21’ers are nothing more than Socialists-Communists who despise this country and all it has come to stand for over the past 236 years. They care not a whit for our long standing traditions and institutions. They are collectivists and statists in the extreme and the individual counts for nothing but must be subordinated to some vague and fuzzy notion of the, “greater good.” Your dreams, hopes, and aspirations are meaningless and we have become no more than the smallest, most inconsequential cogs in a Far Left Juggernaut Hell-bent on trampling our precious and hard-won rights and freedoms!



Well, what do you think of this Agenda 21 thing so far? Are you comfortable with what these Socialist miscreants and malcontents want to do to our magnificent country? Stay with it, because it only gets worse from here. In a piece entitled, “What is Agenda 21? (www.teaparty911.com),” the writer poses questions that could only come from those wigged out, wacky Tea Party rabble rousers. Oh wait, I am one of those wigged out, wacky Tea Party rabble rousers! The author asks, “If you were to hear in the very near future that the United States will have no privately owned property, no air conditioning, no dams, no paved roads, no way to correct rivers for flood control, no golf courses, no pastureland for grazing, would you believe it?” Well no, most Americans could not comprehend such a scenario and would think that anyone who suggested such a bizarre state of affairs must be some kind of conspiracy nut whose hold on reality is tenuous at best. After all, who could envision such a bleak and dark picture of our not too distant future? These are the kinds of priorities that are at the very top of Agenda 21’s wish list and they spell out a literal death knell for the American way of life. Our demise has been planned, worked, and fought for by those on the Far Left and they will not be discouraged or deterred from pursuing their ultimate goal of transforming America into something that is the very antithesis of what most Americans hold dear.



The Tea Party article referenced above informs us that this is a United Nations brainchild and virtually all of that body’s members constitute no more than an anti-American, anti-Western Civilization club and that within the pages of Agenda 21 can be found a, “substantial attack on the American Declaration of Independence and our Constitution,” and that, the primary target for the changes proposed . . . is the United States of America.” What are some of these changes which constitute nothing less an outrageous attack on the American way of life? Well, let’s see. On page 337 of the document we note that ski runs will be deemed unsustainable and therefore must be eliminated. Furthermore, we see that on page 350 grazing of livestock will be prohibited and on the very next page we discover that there must be no more, “disturbance of soil, surface plowing of soil,” or the building of fences. Moving on to page 728 we are informed that, “commercial agriculture, modern farm production, chemical fertilizers, fossil fuels, etc.,” will be but distant memories. Just these four proposals, a mere fraction of the document’s suggestions, should be enough to scare the living shit out of anyone who loves this country. We are talking about the complete destruction of our economic system, all prospects for future prosperity, entire industries shutting down, and unemployment that will make the Great Depression and our current deep recession look like a Sunday picnic in the park. Proposals like these portend the destruction of our entire way of life. It’s obvious that these Agenda 21’ers despise the ski industry, ranchers, and commercial farming which all generate billions upon billions of dollars to the economy and employment to who knows how many millions of us!!



But wait, it only gets worse. On page 730 of the document under consideration we note additional activities that have been deemed unsustainable and must therefore be denied to us. Any industrial activity – read that ANY INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY – will be forbidden as will construction of any and all single family homes! Well, there goes the rest of our shrinking industrial-manufacturing base as well as a defining element of the fabled American Dream: you know, the part that maintains that a man’s home is his castle. That single but utterly crucial characteristic of our national culture and collective psyche has fostered more productivity than virtually anything else you can possibly think of or imagine and it has animated hope and hard work for literally generations of Americans. It is one of those things that truly sets us apart from and above billions of people across the globe that are prevented from realizing this kind of hope and optimism. We further notice on the same page of Agenda 21 that technology, range lands, and plantations will also come under the Socialist knife.



Further traditional American activities deemed unsustainable included in the hit list we are analyzing are: harvesting timber and modern hunting; power line construction; and a vague notion of, “economic systems that fail to set proper value on the environment.” Well, might that last mean virtually anything? Emphatically NO! It refers only to our Free Market Capitalist system which these folks loathe and despise to the point of outright fanaticism. Remember, this has been an extremely perfunctory look at the goals and priorities of those that champion such destructive and negative goals as are found in the Agenda 21 camp. You know, it’s been my experience that most bad guys, the evil doers, will actually tell you what their plans are if you just learn how to properly listen and pay attention. For example, way back in the 1920’s there was this fellow you may have heard of – Adolf Hitler. Remember him? He wrote a book entitled Mein Kampf and it was nothing more than his blueprint for what he would do if the world but gave him an opportunity. He wasn’t taken seriously and was deemed by most at the time as just another raving lunatic with a book and a microphone. Well, we know how that turned out don’t we? Osama Bin Laden – recently deceased – did exactly the same thing back in 1996. His formal declaration of war on our country was all over the internet back then in which he boldly and unabashedly spelled out in very simple language what he planned to do if given the opportunity and Boy, did he ever! Rule of thumb folks. When someone tells you that he intends to do you serious bodily harm or even kill you, it’s best to take them seriously. The world is now and has always been governed by the aggressive use of force and to deny this reality of human nature is done only at our own peril!



Similarly, those of the LFE have been warning us of their intentions for at least fifty to sixty years and it’s more than time that we take them damned seriously for they are not kidding or just blowing air. They see the United States as history’s darkest blight on humanity. We are the quintessential embodiment of pure evil incarnate and crippling us and bringing this nation to its knees is viewed as the highest of all planetary virtues. We are seen as no more than greedy, selfish, and callous brutes who have harmed mankind in many more ways than can possibly be enumerated without losing one’s very sanity and sense of balance. We are no more than Darth Vader and the Evil Empire come to life. According to the Liberal elites both here and throughout the world, the United States as a nation must not be tolerated or forgiven but must be destroyed if not literally then certainly virtually. As a nation, we must surrender our sovereignty to international organizations like the United Nations and the World Court that represent humanity’s best interests while we, conversely, constitute humanity’s most dire threat and danger.



They are flat out telling us their intentions and unfortunately far too many of us are not listening, we are not taking them seriously, and we refuse to see them as the dire threat they represent to our sovereignty, national identity, and our very way of life. By the time enough Americans wake up and face the threat that is the LFE it may be too late to save and restore our country. The best we’ll be able to do is look around, ask what in the Hell happened and why didn’t we see it coming? These are not difficult questions to answer if we are but honest about and to ourselves. It’s happening because we have allowed it to happen. As a nation, we have become far too fat, happy, lazy, indolent, and complacent. We have stopped jealously protecting and safeguarding our precious rights and freedoms. Our Founders long ago warned us as to the consequences of such sloth and indolence. We have stopped being vigilant and have taken our liberties for granted for so long that we have failed to realize or appreciate how fragile and delicate they are. We have ignored what made us great and have placed in mortal danger our status as the freest, most independent, wealthiest, and most powerful national entity the world has ever witnessed or experienced. We have thrown out our heritage and with it perhaps our future. It’s time to once again take our enemies at their word because they are deadly serious about their intentions.

Make no mistake, those who advocate Agenda 21 are our enemy. I realize it is not comfortable for many of us to view as an enemy fellow Americans, but as painful as it may be to contemplate it is nevertheless our present reality. The article explains that the Agenda 21 crowd, “have laid the groundwork for an agenda of global control,” that completely destroys national sovereignty and thus freedom and independence. For example, “a controlled media would dictate the flow of information and ideas and prevent dissent,” while, “control of international development manages and redistributes wealth.” Additionally, “full disarmament would put the power structure into the hands of those with armaments,” and, “tying environmentalism to poverty and economic development would bring the entire agenda to the level of an international emergency.” We’re literally facing the prospect of, “one world, one media, one authority for development, one source of wealth, one international army.” This will in the minds of these dictatorial Bastards facilitate what they term the “just society” with, “political and social equality rather than a free society with the individual as the sole possessor of rights.”



Most people instinctively understand that a free society cannot and has never existed unless it is firmly rooted in the concept of individual rights, opportunities, and freedoms. We must remember that Agenda 21 is first, foremost, and forever a United Nations scheme and that immediately makes it suspect in the extreme for that mob is, for the most part, virulently anti-American, anti-Capitalist, and anti-Western Civilization. Anything and everything it proposes or even contemplates is utterly antithetical to the sovereign interests of the United States and these folks aren’t at all shy about it. Let’s see what the UN had to say about it. The organization explains that, “Agenda 21 proposes an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by every person on earth . . . it calls for specific changes in the activities of all people.” Additionally, “effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all humans, unlike anything the world has ever experienced.” Quite ambitious, don’t you think?



Well, if Agenda 21 is so pernicious, so destructive, and so evil then why have virtually no Americans ever even heard of its existence let alone its substance. If you just randomly surveyed your family, friends, and acquaintances you would get many blank and/or confused stares and expressions. If you broadened your inquiries to include the general public you’d get the same reaction but just on a much broader scale. Americans have always been ready to fight and defeat a recognizable foe and threat but if we can’t see it and clearly identify it we simply can’t comprehend that a threat exists. In the past we have jealously fought to protect our freedoms, rights, and liberties from all who would destroy them. This, however, seems not to be so in the case of Agenda 21. Perhaps it’s because that group includes many American citizens and not since the Civil War have we faced that kind of internal threat. Well, make no mistake for we are in the midst of another civil war in our country and the sides are clearly drawn. This time, it’s not the North versus the South and has nothing to do with the preservation of state’s rights or slavery.



This time it’s a war between those who love freedom and independence against those who would destroy both. It’s about preserving our American way of life or completely destroying it. It’s between those who cherish American national sovereignty and exceptionalism and those who view those virtues as vices. Yes, the threat is that real, it is upon us now, and most of us don’t even see the danger. The Far Left has perfected what might be termed its stealth technique of societal destruction. It’s pernicious, insidious, and ever so very gradual. It has taken them fifty or sixty years to get us to the point where we now stand and it has been fed to us incrementally, a little at a time, so that we have been lulled into comfort, safety, and inertia. Their very language is lofty and grand and completely void of any danger signals unless one knows how to read them. When you hear words like “sustainability” do you feel threatened, do warning sirens begin to shriek? Of course not. After all, what could be threatening about something so innocuous as sustainability? When we hear folks who only want to preserve the environment and “save the planet” do evil intentions come to mind. No they don’t but they should for in “real speak” they translate into destroying America, discarding Capitalism, and subordinating our nation to the will of the Globalists and One-Worlders.



In a piece entitled, “Why Are Americans Ignorant of Agenda 21 (www.newswithviews.com),” the author posits that if, “you were to ask at random the question, ‘Have you ever heard of Agenda 21?’ the answer would be an overwhelming ‘No’, although it is being implemented in every local community.” The author defines it as, “the global plan to change the way we eat, live, learn and communicate because we must save the earth.” Well, who could argue with saving the earth? Who could possibly be against such a noble endeavor? Who but we Far Right, out of control, out of touch Conservative Neanderthals? Sure, until you accept the proposition that the earth doesn’t need saving from us puny, weak, and virtually powerless human beings. The planet is far more resilient and recuperative than anything we mere mortals could possibly do to it or even imagine. Compared to the awesome power of Mother Nature, we mortals are about as significant as a flea on a hound dog’s ass! I give you as merely two examples: the devastation wrought by Mount St. Helens blowing its top and the Exxon Valdiz oil spill in Alaska. The first, of course, was an all natural event while the second was caused by evil mankind and our wanton disregard for the environment. In both cases there was damage and in neither did man’s puny efforts contribute to the healing process. Mt. St. Helens is once more a pristine forest and the Alaskan coast has returned to the beauty it has always been noted for before the devastation. Mother Nature, once again, healed herself and there’s no denying that immutable, unalterable fact. As usual in our boundless hubris and overly developed sense of self-importance, we humans tend to vastly overestimate our own power.



The article continues that Agenda 21’s, “regulations would severely limit water, electricity, and transportation – even deny human access to our most treasured wilderness areas, it would monitor all lands and people. No one would be free from the watchful eye of the new global tracking and information systems.” Does the “Agenda” sound so benign anymore? A gentleman named Maurice Strong who was the head of the UN Conference on Environment and Development back in 1992 maintained that the, “current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat consumption and large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and workplace air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable. A shift is necessary which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations.”



You might want to read Mr. Strong’s statement again for it is very telling and instructive. One would think that as an influential member of this international organization, he might be interested in such things as decreasing world poverty and striving to achieve America’s middle class standards for the impoverished, starving, sick, and dying billions that represent the mass of humankind globally. You’d think that wouldn’t you? No, instead he attacks the middle class, its values, and affluence. The condescending, arrogant Son of a Bitch seems to want those his organization purports to champion to remain forever in a state of squalor, filth, and misery. His statement is nothing more than an attack on the American way of life and that of Western Civilization. Instead of desperately wanting to improve the lives of those he is supposed to help, he attacks the single most successful enemy of poverty the planet has ever seen. This makes no sense whatsoever to most of us unless one understands the ultimate goals of the LFE.



These hypocrites do not desire that people lift themselves out of poverty and achieve a middle class existence. It serves their interests to maintain a poverty stricken world for that is where they get their support and power. An end to poverty puts these phony Bastards right out of business for it destroys their power base. Without a constant pool of poor people, they have no one to demagogue and no dependent class to do their every bidding. Additionally, these folks depend on class warfare to continually fan the flames of discontent and agitation. If their “constituents” were ever to reach the level of even the poorest American, they could no longer be bamboozled and scammed and would be far less malleable, pliant, and easily led. Furthermore, if the poor world-wide ever reach any real level of affluence they would be free to think about the future and that of their kids and grandkids, as do most Americans. Life would no longer be only a struggle from one meal to the next nor would they routinely die of dehydration by contracting something so mundane and curable as Diarrhea. Once life’s necessities have been secured, people are not so easily led nor are they content to merely follow.



Once they have even the slightest glimmer of hope the folks who devise and implement destructive schemes like Agenda 21 might actually have to go out and find some form of real, gainful, and productive employment as they could no longer merely mooch off the more affluent. These people would pass out cold at that horrific prospect for they are probably not competent to do anything but blow air and hatch insidious Socialist plots bent on destroying Capitalism, prosperity, and hope. As author Joyce Morrison concludes, one “of the main goals of Agenda 21 is to redistribute the wealth to third world countries and to bring our great nation to its knees in the name of socialism, fascism, communism or some other “ism.” She’s right. Agenda 21 is being pushed by those who despise the United States and want to irreparably harm it. I would expect this around the globe from those who absolutely despise us and all that we stand for. Tragically, the Far Left in our own country is completely on board the Agenda 21 program and will do everything they can to implement it in America. They are both destructive and insidious and must be stopped.



An article entitled, “UN Agenda 21 – Coming to a Neighborhood Near You (www.americanthinker.com),” is particularly useful for it goes to the issue of tactics. If the champions of this anti-American claptrap tried to ram it down our throats at the national level it would go down in flames never to be resurrected. The Far Left strategists are, however, more politically savvy than that. They hope over time to implement it successfully all over the nation on the local level – on the community level. Once it has been implemented in town after town all over the nation, the Socialists will take their Agenda to the state level and then finally to the national level. It will take years but these guys are ever so patient and persistent and they are very aware that success nationally is yet decades away. This matters not a whit to them for if nothing else, they take the long view. They plan to keep hammering away in local communities and they depend on “community organizers” at the local level to convince localities that implementing Agenda 21 is not just good for them but good for the nation. Once it becomes common place and generally accepted locally, it is certain to one day be implemented nation wide and once that occurs America as we have come to know and love it will be over having been transformed into but one more failed, miserable Socialist state.



The authors of the piece correctly note that, “most Americans are unaware that one of the greatest threats to their freedom may be a United Nations program known as Agenda 21.” They further inform us that, “The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division of Sustainable Development created Agenda 21 as a sustainability agenda which is arguably an amalgamation of socialism and extreme environmentalism brushed with anti-American, anti-Capitalist overtones.” This is exactly one hundred percent dead-on accurate and can only be denied by those who don’t know anything about Agenda 21or the ultimate goal of the LFE which is the destruction of the United States. The United Nations and the proponents of Agenda 21know this Socialist, anti-American tactic would be rejected out of hand by the vast majority of Americans so they resort, as always, to subterfuge, deceit, and outright lying. It’s their way and that leopard will absolutely never change its spots!



In fact, the United Nations purposely recommends avoiding the term and suggests a cleverly named alternative: “smart growth.” This is an excellent example of Liberal Speak, for who could possibly object to anything labeled smart growth? Americans have always been growth oriented for that is part of our heritage and the smarter we do it, the better off we are for it. It’s been that way throughout our history and it’s one of the hallmarks of our national experience. This euphemism fits exactly into the American psyche and lexicon. It is a term we can all naturally feel comfortable with. What, after all, can possibly be negative or threatening about the concept of smart growth? The authors of the piece explain that participating, “in a UN-advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the conspiracy-fixated groups and individuals in our society such as the National Rifle Association, citizen militias and some members of congress.” Clever guys, these UN types.



The piece continues that this, “segment of our society who fears one-world government and a UN invasion of the United States through which our individual freedom would be stripped away would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined the conspiracy by undertaking LA21. So, we call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management, or smart growth.” Authors Scott Strzelczyk and Richard Rothschild correctly maintain that, “residents of any town, county, or city that treasure their freedom, liberty, and property rights couldn’t care less whether it’s called Agenda 21 or smart growth.” Whatever it’s called, most of us who pay attention know when we’re being threatened and by whom. Those who advocate for this nation’s demise count on the hope that the majority of citizens are lazy, unaware, and uninformed. November’s looming Presidential election will go a long way toward explaining whether they are right or wrong. The piece concludes by noting that, “regardless of political orientation, two indisputable facts remain. Agenda 21 is a direct assault on private property rights and American sovereignty, and it is coming to a neighborhood near you.”



The Liberal, Far Left scheme to destroy our country has not gone unopposed. On January 13, 2012, the National Federation of Republican Assemblies approved a resolution that exposes Agenda 21 as a, “disregard for American freedom, private property rights, and a key player in the leftist, move toward one world government,” and that it, “assaults the very foundation of America.” (www.republicanassembies.com). The resolution clearly insists that Agenda 21 is, “a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control,” and that it is, “being covertly pushed into local communities throughout the United States of America.” Additionally, this “plan of radical so-called sustainable development views the American way of life of private property ownership, single family homes, private car ownership and individual travel choices, and privately owned farms all as destructive to the environment . . . .”



The Far Left’s plan is both un-American and anti-American at its very core. It attacks and seeks to destroy our most basic and important rights and freedoms and constitutes a vicious and unwavering assault on at least 236 years of our history and national identity. Whether or not these Socialist-Communist malcontents and saboteurs succeed is entirely up to us. Even if they fail, it is enough to know that they are out there, they are deadly serious, and they hate everything our country represents and stands for. These fellow “citizens” rely on the very Founding Documents that they are actively trying to destroy. The rights that others sacrificed and died for gives the Left license to spout this crap and the fact that they do it through the graces of the United Nations tells us everything we’ll ever need to know about them and their Agenda 21.



A brief piece entitled, “Stop Agenda 21: The Constitution Should be our Only Agenda (http://tedcruz.com),” explains that Agenda 21 constitutes, “a dangerous United Nations plan that takes aim at the American economy – and American freedom – in the name of environmental reform,” and that, “under the guise of world sustainability the plan establishes a regime of rules that attempt to bypass Congress and the American people, handing over power over vast areas of the U.S. economy to unelected UN bureaucrats.” How many of you are comfortable with this nightmarish proposition? No one who cherishes American uniqueness and exceptionalism can be anything but disturbed by the prospect of the United Nations interfering so blatantly in the affairs of our sovereign nation. No one who gives a damn about individual freedom and rights can be in any manner sanguine about what the United Nations has planned for our country.



The problem is that only a tiny percentage of Americans have ever heard of Agenda 21 let alone its goals and priorities. It gets virtually no coverage in the major media – you know, all the usual suspects – and I have rarely if ever heard it discussed in what has been dubbed the “alternative” media. It seems to have successfully flown completely undetected under our radar and I believe that as improbable as it may seem its advocates have at least a reasonable chance of succeeding. The author of the piece frankly states that Agenda 21, “attempts to abolish unsustainable environments, including golf courses, grazing pastures, any paved roads, and that it hopes to leave mother earth’s surface unscratched by mankind.” Additionally, “Agenda 21 dehumanizes individuals by removing the very thing that has defined Americans since the beginning – freedom.” Those who champion such Socialist schemes despise and abhor the very notion of free individuals freely making decisions that they deem in their own best interests and in the interests of America. That must be left to others who obviously know far better how life should and should not be lived!



A piece entitled, “Al Gore, Agenda 21 and Population Control (http://endoftheamericandream.com,” speaks directly, succinctly, and very realistically about life in America should Agenda 21 ever become a full-fledged, bona fide reality. It posits, “imagine going to sleep one night and waking up many years later in a totally different world. In this futuristic world, literally everything you do is tightly monitored and controlled by control freak bureaucrats in the name of sustainable development and with the goal of promoting the green agenda.” What would this mean to the average American citizen? Well, “an international ruling body has centralized global control over all human activity. What you eat, what you drink, where you live, how warm or cold you home can be and how much fuel you can use is determined by them.” Furthermore, anyone who “dissents or tries to rebel against the system is sent off for re-education.” It gets even better for the, “human population is 90 percent lower than it is today in this futuristic society, and all remaining humans have been herded into tightly constricted cities which are run much like prisons. Does all of that sound good to you?” Come on, that would never happen in America, would it? Well, according to the piece, thus far 178 nations have signed on to Agenda 21 and I believe there are only about 192 nations out there.



Much Luv Y’all and Have a Great Day!

The Fifth Horseman

(Dr. David M. Rich, Ph.D.)

THE TAXMAGEDDON RANT

     Taxmageddon?  Taxamageddon!?!  I hadn’t heard that term until relatively recently.  Now, of course, it seems I can’t avoid hearing and reading about it.  It seems to be following me around, perhaps even stalking me.  It’s funny how that seems to happen so frequently.  We move along from day to day, week after week totally oblivious to a concept, a word, or a thing and then it seemingly explodes onto our consciousness, grabs you, and simply won’t let go.  You ever have that happen to you?  Apparently, it’s a fairly common phenomenon.  The word intrigued me because of its obvious relation to the term Armageddon which most of us are thoroughly familiar with whether we adhere to its precepts or not.  According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Armageddon refers to, “the last, decisive battle between the forces of good and evil.”  Similarly, The Oxford Dictionary of Current English explains that the term means, “the last battle between good and evil before the day of Judgment,” or, “a catastrophic conflict.”  Most of us also know the upshot of that final struggle:  massive, cataclysmic death, destruction, madness, and mayhem.  The truly faithful will survive and experience a bliss in Paradise so beautiful as to defy all description or definition.

     Taxmageddon, however, has no upside whatsoever.  It has no redeeming features or qualities.  It has no saving graces or ameliorating properties unless you wish to see the utter destruction and devastation of the entire American way of life as envisioned by our Founders and presently constituted. It is a purposeful, well thought out strategy designed to tear this nation down, destroy its institutions, traditions, and values and institute full-blown Socialism here in America.  It is being foisted upon us by the usual suspects:  those on the Far Left.  They are led by a core cadre whom I refer to as the LFE (Liberal Fucking Elite) who unabashedly and unapologetically despise the United States of America.

 

     The current leader of that Mob is, of course, none other than the Socialist-in-Chief President Barry-Boy Obama.  In my view, this damned Poltroon stands at the helm of this nation’s worst presidency bar none and that includes the Georgia Peanut Farmer’s back in the mid and late 1970’s.  The man is an utter Fucking Disaster in every possible way and by any possible measure or yardstick.  He is busy on a daily basis destroying our magnificent Free Market Capitalist system and introducing Socialism with every new policy and regulation he forces upon us.  He desperately does not desire to see our citizens enjoy more prosperity, opportunity, or progress but fosters the growth of ever more government dependence at the expense of our individual liberties and freedoms.  He imperiously refuses to “permit” us to develop our own vast natural resources especially as it relates to oil and gas and thus actively promotes energy dependence on foreign sources many of whom view us as the Great Satan and Evil Personified!

     He doesn’t want to encourage more employment but actively destroys it thus creating even greater government dependence.  He wants to destroy the finest health and health care system the world has ever witnessed and “Obamacare” is a tribute to that desire ( see the Obamacare Rationing Rant of 4/15/12) and in so doing has literally socialized fully one-sixth of our nation’s economy!  He has purposely set out to destroy the entire private insurance industry as it relates to health and health care.  He has crippled our once proud automobile industry and has vowed to personally destroy America’s coal producers.  All of this is part of his overall scheme to destroy our country and bring it to its knees!  From this point of view, then, his first term in his own mind and to those of his lemming-like, unthinking, sycophants and toadies has been wildly successful and if given one more chance he will succeed in completely destroying our nation!

     Additionally, to further his cause he must never allow our taxes to come down to what might be termed at least reasonable rates but must forever jack them up to unheard of and unprecedented levels.  He simply can’t allow us poor slobs out here, we unenlightened boobies, to keep and control more of the wealth we earn for this would diminish dependency on government and no true and faithful Socialist can or will allow such an eventuality!  Thus we face the prospect of Taxmageddon.  Alrighty then, exactly what is this thing anyway?  Simply put, it is the highest, most crippling, most dangerous tax hike ever seen in the United States of America!  Yeah, yeah – I know.  Ho Hum, Yawn, Been There – Done That.  There is nothing new in the prospect or concept of our government stealing ever larger chunks of our income and wasting it on useless, undeserving, destructive, and nonsensical projects, entitlements, and boondoggles.  We have become so used to this type of behavior from government regardless of which party is in power that we view it as normal and mundane.

     Well, just because we’ve grown accustomed to something doesn’t mean that it’s not dangerous.  To constantly and increasingly tax and spend in true Keynsian fashion is beyond merely dangerous but is, in fact, deadly.  As more and more of the nation’s wealth is ripped away from the private sector and given over to our already bloated, fat, and horribly wasteful public sector the Free Market Capitalist economic system which made America the wealthiest society ever known to man is further eroded and destroyed.  Without it, the America we know and love can’t survive but rather faces certain doom!  There can be no other outcome – it’s just not possible.  In the words of Thomas Jefferson, “I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. . . To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. . . We must make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude(please note that all references to our past presidents are taken from The Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution by Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin).”  Well, El Destructo has certainly made his choice and it’s taking this country straight to Hell!

     I’m sure you’ve heard that old parable about putting a frog in a pot of water and very, very gradually  - incrementally if you will – turning up the heat.  That frog will not notice the rise in temperature until it kills him.  He became so used to it and the fact that his environment had turned deadly that by the time the warning bells sounded, it was too late.  Kermit got cooked!  We and our country are, in fact, that frog.  Our taxes along with government spending and waste have been gradually escalating for at least fifty to sixty years and the boiling point has finally been reached.  If the temperature is not precipitously lowered this nation is over, kaput, finished, through.  We have allowed ourselves to be “taxed and spent” into full-blown, out and out, and massively destructive Socialism!  That particular philosophy always and invariably destroys freedom, opportunity, choice, and liberty.  It never misses.  Just look around the globe where it exists and the results are the same.  This is exactly and precisely where the Far Left is taking America for that is where they want it to go!  Every word uttered by the Anointed One, every policy announced is designed to further that nefarious and destructive end.

     The author of an article entitled, “Taxmageddon in One Table (www.washingtonpost.com),” explains that, “I call it the dual-trigger nightmare.  Hill staff call it taxmageddon.  Ben Bernanke calls it the fiscal cliff. Whatever you call it, at the end of 2012, we’re scheduled to see $7.5 trillion worth of tax hikes and spending cuts happen automatically.”  Writer Ezra Klein notes that this, “would, on the one hand, solve our deficit problem.  It would also trash our recovery.”  We now see the “T” word being casually tossed around like it’s no big deal.  We never used to speak in terms of trillions for virtually none of us can truly comprehend these numbers.  Hell, most of us have difficulty with the concept and consequences of billions.  We simply can’t conceive of what things like “Billions” let alone “Trillions” actually mean in the real world.  It’s literally mind-boggling.  It’s overwhelming and it’s numbing.  What the Hell do you do with something like trillions?  When government officials, economists, and pundits start throwing numbers like these around, my eyes begin to glaze over, my brain seizes up like a car engine without any oil, and I just can’t put together a cogent thought.  I do know, however, that when we’re talking trillions worth of debt-deficits my kids, grandkids, and great, great, great, great grandkids ad infinitum are not free people and will have no chance whatsoever of living in the America I grew up in and can’t possibly experience anything even remotely resembling freedom, independence, opportunity, choice, or hope.  They will have become slaves not in the chattel sense but definitely in the economic sense.  Economic slavery is easily one of the most cruel manifestations of that particular scourge and this is exactly where I see my nation going!  President Jefferson spoke cogently to this point when he said, “I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.”  Jefferson wrote this prophetic warning back in 1799 and we’re still not listening.  Just ask any member of the LFE, and they’ll adamantly insist that those long dead white guys are no longer relevant to our times.  Oh, really?

     The same article details the, “Fiscal Impact of Policies That Expire or Activate in or After 2012,” and it constitutes but a partial list.  Under the heading, “2001/2003/2010 Tax cuts,” we note:  the expiration of the American Opportunity Tax Credit which is a long way of saying that the college tax credit is no more.  We also note that the Child Care Credit is cut in half; expiration of EITC expansion; elimination of the 10% bracket; increase in rates from 25/28/33/35 to 28/31/36/39.6; expiration in reductions in marriage penalties; increase in capital gains taxes from 15% to 20% and dividends taxes from 15% to be taxed as ordinary income.  The hated Death Tax rises from 35% to 55%.  The list is much longer than this but it points to only one possible conclusion.  Whatever you earn, whatever is left to you by others is not really yours but rather belongs to the government run by the “elites” who are convinced that only they know best how to spend what you’ve worked so hard and long for.  Only these condescending, arrogant, and hubristic Far Leftists can make decisions for us low-life working stiffs who are not fit for anything more than quietly and passively rubber-stamping their plans to bring this country to a grinding and sickening halt!

     An outfit known as, “The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget” put out a white paper entitled, “Between a Mountain of Debt and a Fiscal Cliff (crfb.org/@budgethawks).”  This group informs us that at, “the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013, many major fiscal events are set to occur all at once.  They include the expiration of the 2001/03/10 tax cuts, the winding down of certain jobs provisions, the activation of the $1.2 trillion across-the-board sequester, an immediate and steep reduction in Medicare physician payments, the end of current AMT patches, and the need to once again raise the country’s debt ceiling.”  When all of this and much more occurs simultaneously it constitutes what Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke refers to as a “fiscal cliff.”  The report notes that policies, “set to take effect at the end of the year could seriously harm the short-term economy without making the changes necessary to address the drivers of our debt or strengthen the economy over the long-term.”  This will lead to a loss of confidence in our leaders, “ability to govern that could set off a dangerous chain reaction in markets.”  In fact, statements “from major credit rating agencies, especially Moody’s, have indicated that such actions could result in downgrades of our debt.  Downgrades aside, extending the policies currently in place would put our debt on an upward and ultimately unsustainable path.”

     I submit that we are already well down that unsustainable path created by our Liberal Elites and I maintain that this is what they want and have planned for decades.  The chaos, both economic and social, will further aid them in their rush to destroy the United States as the world’s beacon of freedom, opportunity, and independence.  The problem here is that too many Americans still cannot accept the fact that an American President and so many of our fellow citizens eagerly await this outcome.  It is beyond the ken of most of us to even comprehend such a phenomenon and yet the Bamster’s first victory in 2008 should have come as at least a rude awakening that something has gone radically wrong in this Republic.  Should he be granted yet another term, then we have no one but ourselves to blame and we will deserve whatever we get!

     The same source cited above insists that, “these policies . . . would increase the debt in 2022 by almost $7.5 trillion above current law.  This means that debt would rise from 70 percent of GDP today to 88% by 2022 if lawmakers continued current policies compared to current law where debt is scheduled to fall to 61%.”  Read that last just one more time.  We’re headed toward a debt that just about equals the entire value of our whole economy!  That’s not merely Orwellian but is absolutely suicidal!  Can you imagine if you ran up your own debt to 88% of your annual income?  You’d end up homeless, on the street with a tin cup and a sign!  The report goes on to insist that failure, “to make the hard but necessary choice now on our own terms will lead to much harder and more severe choices later to control rising debt.  In the meantime, the strength of the economy could begin to suffer, as well as confidence in the economy’s future and the ability of elected officials to address it.”

     The LFE amongst us are delighted at the coming crisis of confidence that they single-handedly and purposely created.  A lack of confidence in our economic system, in our cherished values, traditions, and institutions exactly suits their template, their premise that America is a blight upon the world and must be defeated and overwhelmed by Liberalism with its attendant command and control economy, a lack of choice, opportunity, and freedom.  A lack of confidence creates a sense of doubt and doubt breeds both fear and failure and we simply cannot afford to fail.  That is not an option.  This nation has become not only the world’s last best hope but, in fact, we are the world’s ONLY hope left!  No other nation in planetary history has done or given so much to the rest of humanity as has the United States of America!  Can you imagine a world without this great nation as envisioned by the Founders and currently constituted?  I know I wouldn’t even want to contemplate such a dire scenario but the Far Left sees that as their ultimate Utopian Dream, their absolute Nirvana on earth!  If this Imposter-in-Chief, this enemy of America is granted a second term, we’re looking at a future for our nation and our citizens that I know I don’t want to live long enough to experience!

     A piece entitled, “Taming Taxmageddon (www.washingtontimes.com),” states that, “Americans will see taxes go up $494 billion, starting at the beginning of 2013,” and that’s just for one year.  The piece goes on to report it, “all breaks down to one of the most sizable tax bills in history.  Every household in America would face an average tax increase of $3,800 – in a single year.”  That’s every single household!  Whatever happened to the Exalted One’s solemn promise made in the most somber and serious of tones that no household earning less than $250,000 per annum would ever see any increases in their Federal income taxes – not one red cent!  Once again, the Dissembler-in-Chief flat out lied!  He did not merely misspeak nor did his tongue just slip and he certainly wasn’t experiencing anything like a “senior moment.”  He’s an out and out unapologetic, chronic liar.  It’s one of his signature characteristics and like all congenital liars he can’t help himself.  It’s really worse than the almost four thousand dollars noted above.  We know that fully 50% of Americans pay no federal taxes whatsoever.  That obviously means that those of us who still do must pick up the slack for those who don’t or won’t.  As a rule of thumb, expect exactly the opposite of what he says, proclaims, and promises.  If this Jackass-in-Chief (apologies to all of you jackasses out there) tells me it’s dark outside, I’m goin’ to the window and have a peek.  If he tells me it’s bright and sunny, I’m going to have yet another look.  The man is not to be trusted!  That’d be akin to trusting one William Jefferson Clinton to treat your twenty-five year old daughter with even a modicum of honor, respect, or decency.  It just ain’t gonna happen.  That dog don’t hunt and that damned mule just don’t plow and like leopards, liars just can’t change their spots.

     Author Ed Feulner goes on to state that it’s, “a near perfect storm – occurring just after a major national election, no less.”  Among the tax breaks that are expiring:  the Bush tax cuts implemented in 2001 and 2003, the payroll tax cut and the tax cut from the 2009 stimulus.  Of course, it doesn’t end there – not by a long shot for the, “estate tax, known more accurately as the death tax, rises to 55 percent.  The 100 percent exemption for business investment goes away.  Also among the soon-to-be missing:  the patch that lawmakers passed to ensure that the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) doesn’t snare more and more middle-income earners (instead of the super-rich it was originally designed for).”

     The Super-Rich, by the way, are particularly hated by our Far Left Liberal Elites.  They are despised, loathed, and constantly maligned, castigated, and insulted by the Far Left and their mindless minions.  The class envy here is palpable, unmistakable, and all too real for who are the Super-Rich?  You got it, they are our ultimate – no, make that penultimate – success stories.  They epitomize the American success story coupled with realizing the fabled but very real American Dream.  They are the real live Horatio Algers among us.  They are huge risk-takers who have availed themselves of every opportunity, freedom, and possibility that this greatest of nations provides.  They are not afraid of failure nor do they fear success.  They are the achievers, the entrepreneurs, and the innovators and ask for nothing from nobody except the level playing field that government is supposed to maintain.  They are the best that Free Market Capitalism has to offer and represent the very epitome of what America promises to anyone who is born here or who comes from far away places.

     They are therefore hated, vilified, and crucified by those on the Far Left and the Socialists amongst us.  They must be torn down, criticized, and castigated at every turn and opportunity and are accused of amassing their great wealth on the backs of the poor.  That old and tired accusation is demonstrably ignorant, wrong, and just plain stupid!  How can anyone get rich on the backs of the poor who by definition have nary two pennies to rub together nor the proverbial pot to piss in?!?  Logic, reason, and common sense have never prevented our Liberal Elites from espousing nothing more than massive amounts of verbal diarrhea, class warfare, envy, jealousy, and vitriol!!  Those on the Far Left delight in punishing success and rewarding failure and they do it under the fake, phony banner of compassion.  The more successful one becomes, the more one is punished.  These subversives take so much of what we make away from us that there is very little incentive to go out there and produce.

     Why take the risks entailed in developing an idea or product at tremendous cost when the government stands poised to take most of it away from you?  The fewer the rewards, the fewer will be the entrepreneurs amongst us and thus a certain decline in creativity, ingenuity, inventiveness, and progress.  Just think about all of the life saving and extending progress this nation has achieved in the field of medicine.  Do you think that government came up with things like intricate heart surgery or drugs that can help maintain blood pressure and cholesterol at healthy levels?  Do you think Big Brother had anything at all to do with the amazing progress we have achieved in fighting devastating diseases like cancer?  Of course not.  This and so much more are only made possible through the private sector and our Free Market Capitalist system.

     Risk takers will no longer be willing to take those risks if the potential rewards all but disappear and there is absolutely nothing at all wrong or unfair about this.  Do you think folks like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Donald Trump, Carnegie, or Rockefeller would have done what they did and accomplished so much if the prospect of great rewards were not at least possible?  No way in Hell!  The so-called Super Rich among us and anyone else who succeeds at any level should be applauded and emulated.  They are American heroes and should serve as examples to the rest of us that our ingenious system works like nothing else the world has ever seen.  What people can accomplish in America can be rivaled no where else on the planet and no other political-economic system approximates even a close second!  Well, the Far Left wants to destroy all of that and more.  If they are even marginally successful the United States will no longer be recognizable in any meaningful shape, manner, or form.  If these Liberal Sonsabitches succeed we as a people will lose our freedoms – all of them – right along with any sense of optimism, hope, or progress.  We will experience the same collectivist Dark Ages that most of the planet has had to endure for thousands upon thousands of years right down to and including the present day.  Just look around the planet and be afraid – be very afraid!  If the Cretin-in-Chief is once again elected because too many of our fellow citizens have broken that crucial bond that has linked us to our proud and glorious past then this nation is indeed over !!

     A piece entitled, “Marching Toward Taxmgeddon (http://spectator.org),” places the entire issue of taxation into a perspective that most of us can readily appreciate and easily relate to.  The author begins that, “Americans effectively stop paying for government on Tax Freedom Day,” and notes that this, “year Tax Freedom Day falls on April17.  That is four days later than last year, primarily due to higher federal income and corporate tax collections.”  In fact, “Americans will work 107 days into the year from January 1 to April 17, to earn enough money to pay this year’s combined 29.2 percent federal, state, and local tax bill.”   I have even read that Tax Freedom Day actually extends from January through June because it does not include the massive and overbearing costs of paying for all those thoroughly destructive government regulations forced upon us and author Doug Bandow recognizes that, “Regulations act as a huge de facto tax.”

     So depending on how you look at it those of us who still pay taxes are working anywhere from three to six months just to cover the cost of our bloated, fat, and wasteful government.  Even with all of that, we still face something like a 17 trillion dollar short-fall because our leaders on both sides of the aisle keep spending our money like it belongs to them!  It’s a sickening and revolting thought when we realize that our Founding Fathers wisely created an extremely limited government with only a very short list of delegated or enumerated powers.  They purposely and specifically included the Bill of Rights in our Constitution that stated uncatagorically what our government must NEVER do to us.  They, of course, were thoroughly familiar with exactly how dangerous and destructive of liberty an all-powerful, highly centralized government always becomes.  Government by its very nature always garners more and more power unto itself invariably at the expense of the citizen with a concomitant loss of individual freedom and rights.  This they determined must never happen to the United States of America.  If they could but see what has happened to their creation they would have no choice but to insist on staging yet a second American Revolution because the one they fought through has been effectively nullified and voided.  It’s just a tad ironic that the British all those years ago with the finest and most powerful armed forces in the world couldn’t defeat us but our own citizens and leaders might!  Thomas Paine got it right when he said that, “It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from his government.”  His words were true during his time and are even more so today.  Ah, but I forget that he is just one more of those irrelevant, long dead white guys!

     The piece referenced above goes on to note that tax collections, “represent a sizable amount by any measure.  The total is even more in comparison with other expenditures.  Americans devote less time working to buy what almost everyone considers to be necessities – clothing, food, housing – than to pay taxes.  And the value we get from the former is far greater than most of what we get from the decisions of irresponsible and spendthrift public officials.”  Talk about stating the obvious – well, I guess!  Mr. Bandow comes up with an interesting way to summarize just how badly we are being raped – uh, I mean taxed.  He explains that a, “month, 32 days goes for the income tax.  Federal Social insurance levies – that is Social Security and Medicare taxes – account for 23 days.  State and local sales and excise taxes consume 12 days.”  Tell me, just how does it feel to be a de facto employee of the Federal Government when you are in fact paying your employer instead of the other way around?

     Additionally, we note that state and local property taxes take up yet another dozen days while the, “federal corporate income tax fills nine days.  State and local income taxes come in at eight days.”  I’ll bet you had no idea just how much of your time and effort are devoted to satiating the rapacious beast that is our damned government!  The litany goes on.  The piece informs us that other, “state and local exactions consume four days.  Other federal taxes hit three days.  Federal sales and excise levies run two days.  State and local corporate taxes consume a day.  It’s an imposing list.”  Imposing is not quite the word I’d have chosen to describe what’s going on here but I’m sure you get the point.  We are literally being enslaved by a tax structure that punishes industriousness, hard work, and perseverance while at the same time rewards laziness, sloth, and irresponsible behavior.  The whole damned system is ass backwards, topsey-turvey, and just damned wrong!  Ronald Reagan got it right when he commented that, “Government is like a baby.  An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”  Seems about right to me.

     The author of a piece entitled, “Taxmageddon Cometh (www.lawson4house.com),”  maintains that, “it is my opinion that we would be patently unwise to assume the federal government is poised  - or even motivated to – rescue us from this pending national financial disaster.  What they will most certainly do is make political hay out of it.”  Anyone who doesn’t agree here is either remarkably naïve or is not a keen observer of what’s been taking place in our nation for far too long.  It seems to be the case, unfortunately, that our leaders be they Republicans or Democrats place party before country and the only goal is winning the next election in order to hold on to whatever power they have managed to amass.  What’s good for the country, what benefits our citizens have become at best mere afterthoughts.  The concept of patriotism is no longer taken seriously by our elected representatives but is merely dragged out and dredged up every election cycle to be employed in vacuous and self-serving “stump” speeches so the sound-bytes keep coming.

     Our Founders’ vision of “public service” was that an individual who is granted the high honor and sacred duty of elected office would go to our nation’s capitol for one or two terms and that was it!  They never envisioned statesmen becoming mere political hacks who held their sinecures for ten, twenty, thirty, and forty years!  It was assumed that one would do his civic duty faithfully and honestly and then return to the real world and resume their chosen professions and vocations.  Elected office was never intended to be a life long proposition for those men knew the utter truth of that old axiom that power does indeed corrupt.  That much power is indeed a heady thing and politicians are famous for getting drunk on it.

     The writer of the piece correctly insists that our, “leaders on both sides of the aisle have seldom risen to the occasion on our behalf if there is another alternative action, like doing nothing.”  He goes on to ask, “So what are we to do?”  Given what’s coming at us on January 1, 2013, that’s a particularly germane and relevant question and we’ve got to find ways with which to effectively answer it.  He further queries, “Shall we wait for taxes and inflation to destroy what little savings we have left?  Shall we emulate what our national leaders have historically done and do nothing until we cannot pay our bills or feed our families?”  How did we let conditions get to the point of absolute crisis?  How did we get so close to the precipice of complete financial ruin that there is exactly no more room for error.  One more misstep will send us hurtling over the cliff and into the abyss!

     The writer notes that for, “creating this mess we can thank a long list of current and past presidents, appointees and czars, congressional representatives, senators, lobbyists, and union/non-union civil service employees since 1913.”  The piece goes on to insist that, “pretending to care for the environment has taken precedence over maintaining a stable economy and morally pure youth.”  Ominously, this “has not been accidental but according to well executed plans meant to jealously destroy our God-given freedoms.”  It is utterly crucial that we never lose sight of that ever so important point.  What is happening to the United States is part of the Far Left’s grand strategy to destroy America and transform it into something it was never intended to be.

     Gradually, over time the LFE amongst us has eroded and so corrupted our core values and principles to the point where they are effectively moribund.  There are those of us out here who seriously question if we can ever return to the nation we so love, cherish, and revere or have we reached the point of no return?  The piece concludes that we, “let our kids be brainwashed with collectivism groupthink.  Easy grant money has skewed the education system toward worshipping the environment and created a willing audience for costly green projects that contribute nothing to our productivity.  Conjured up crises de jour siphon precious time, money, and talent from other matters of higher priority from a government that is supposedly of the people and for the people.”  The author says no for, “this is too serious to leave to those who care more about their political careers than saving the greatest country the world has ever known.”  Amen, Brother!

     As the author suggests, all of this coming mayhem can be directly attributed to members and leaders of both political parties and there is plenty of blame to go around.  Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, Conservatives, the so-called Independents – pick your target for they’re all guilty and there are no innocent bystanders.  As a died-in-the-wool Conservative, I blame Liberalism while the Liberals blame “flat earthers” like me.  The “Dems” blame the mindless and heartless Republican cave dwellers, while the Republicans blame those whose party is appropriately symbolized by a jackass.  The blame game is in full force and nothing gets Fucking Done!  Folks, it’s time for a little introspection here, a little soul searching, and a giant dose of honesty and reality.  As Pogo famously quipped, “we have met the enemy and he is us!”  That’s exactly right for in the final analysis we have no one to blame but ourselves and absolutely no one else!

     We let it happen. We stopped cherishing and guarding our precious freedoms and hard fought for rights.  Instead of displaying constant and steadfast vigilance we have become horrifyingly slothful, lazy and ungrateful.  We take for granted what others have bled and died to give us and we simply stopped honoring their sacrifice.  As we are now finding out, we do so at our own peril.  For example, it is demonstrably true and undeniable that fewer and fewer citizens even bother to go to the polls when election time rolls around.  Fewer and fewer Americans are even engaged in the debate as to the direction our nation has taken and what must be done to keep our great country from following in the footsteps of all the others that came before us.  Our apathy as a people has become one of our defining characteristics and that constitutes a death knell for a representative republic like ours.

     The Founders knew full well that for our system and nation to survive and prosper we need an engaged, interested, and educated populace with strong moral underpinnings.  We have let our system of education come under the control of Leftists, Socialists, and anti-Americans who have brainwashed our young into believing the worst about our country.  Our virtues and amazing accomplishments are no longer taught in our schools at any level.  Patriotism is no longer taught and celebrated in our homes and then reinforced in our educational institutions and the proud American Flag is seen adorning fewer and fewer American abodes.  Our Founding Fathers knew that democracy is fragile and fleeting and must be taught and reinforced from generation to generation as must be pride in country and nationalism.  This, sadly and tragically, is no longer the case. At the Constitutional Convention all those years ago, Benjamin Franklin had apparently left the hall to take some air.  A woman approached and asked him what form or type of government they would give us.  Franklin famously replied, “a republic, Madam, if you can keep it.”  Well Ben Old Buddy I’m sorry to say that outcome is in serious and grave doubt in the 21^st Century!

     We have allowed ourselves to be literally taxed and spent to death.  A representative republic cannot survive when those elected to lead govern against the will and consent of the governed.  It’s an impossibility.  Overwhelming numbers of citizens were absolutely opposed to Obamacare, yet it was rammed down our throats anyway.  The same can be said of those failed bail-outs and stimulus packages as well as Quantitative Easing 1 or 2.  Our citizens did not want them, knew how dangerous they would be, and the horrifically negative impact they would have on our economy, prosperity, and future.  The vast majority of us knew the dangers of living beyond our means and amassing such unimaginable debts and deficits.  We knew and so did those elected to guide America through perilous and uncertain times but once again, these things were forced upon us by a government that has become at best imperious and at worst tyrannical!

     A piece entitled, “Are You Ready for Taxmageddon (www.askheritage.org),” states, “Here’s why you should be worried.  For starters, remember that this is the same President who in 2009 promised, ‘if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime.’  That’s a vow he’s broken, and in 2013, things are going to get even worse if this year Obama doesn’t lead and Congress doesn’t act.”  Well, Obama’s leading all right – he’s leading us straight to Hell in a hand basket and it seems that Congress is nothing but one bad farcical act!  The piece reiterates that almost, “34 percent of the tax increase from Taxmageddon come from the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts.  These cuts are best known for reducing marginal income tax rates, but they also reduced the marriage penalty, increased the Child Tax Credit and the adoption credit, and increased tax breaks for education costs and dependent care costs.”

     Obama has killed all that. Furthermore, another “25 percent of Taxmageddon comes from the expiration of the once temporary payroll tax cut, the expiration of the patch on the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) – which would raise the income threshold over which families qualify for the AMT to prevent middle-income families from paying this tax that is only supposed to impact the rich – accounts for 24 percent of the total 2013 tax increase.”  Finally, the “balance of the tax hikes comes from in part new taxes under Obamacare, the expiration of tax cuts in the 2009 stimulus, the expiration of a group of policies known as tax extenders, changes in the current policy on the death tax (in 2013, it will rise from 35 percent to 55 percent and the exemption will fall from $5 million to $3.5 million), and the expiration of business’ ability to fully expense new capital investments.”

     The damage that our Cluster Fuck-in-Chief is purposefully inflicting upon America is virtually incalculable.  It is so staggering as to be absolutely unfathomable.  The Heritage piece goes on to correctly explain that while, “Americans must plan for tomorrow, the tremendous uncertainty about tax policy makes the future much more uncertain, thus discouraging the investments and other actions needed to spur the economy to create jobs faster today.”  This uncertainty is, “slowing job creation and stopping many of the millions of unemployed from going back to work.”  Hey, you guys at the Heritage Foundation – what do you mean uncertainty?  Under this Socialist Scum Dog America is most certainly and totally FUCKED!  There is no doubt or uncertainty about it.

     Unless America wakes up in one big damned hurry and throws that venal, America-Hating Son of a Bitch out of office in November, we are looking at the absolute death, the total demise of this once great and peerless nation!  Perhaps John Adams said it best when he admonished us to remember that, “Democracy never lasts long.  It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.  There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”  That’s right, folks, we’ve done it to ourselves!

Much Luv Y’all and Have a Great Day!

The Fifth Horseman

(Dr. David M. Rich, Ph.D.)