by Michael Snyder, from his excellent website, TheTruth.com

Read full article at: http://thetruthwins.com/archives/america-1950-vs-america-2010

America 1950 Vs. America 2010

1950: The total U.S. national debt is about 257 million dollars.

2010: The U.S. national debt is increasing by over 4 billion dollars per day.

1950: If a member of Congress doesn’t tell the truth it is a felony.

2010: If a member of Congress doesn’t tell the truth they are just playing politics.

1950: Americans dress up in suits and dresses to get on an airplane.

2010: Americans are forced to walk through full body security scanners that give gawking security workers a clear view of their naked bodies before they can get on an airplane.

1950: American schoolchildren openly read the Word of God and pray in public schools.

2010: Attempting to read your Bible or pray in a public school will get you slapped with a lawsuit by the ACLU.

1950: Wealth redistribution is considered communist and anti-American.

2010: Wealth redistribution is the official policy of the U.S. government.

1950: The U.S. Constitution is deeply loved and highly revered.

2010: Federal authorities are instructed to be on the lookout for anyone who talks about the U.S. Constitution too much because they might be a domestic terrorist.

1950: Mass murderers are executed and unborn babies are protected by law.

2010: Unborn babies are being mass murdered and mass murderers are protected by law from being executed in many states.

1950: We mobilize the entire U.S. military to protect the borders of South Korea.

2010: The U.S. government barely lifts a finger to do anything about the millions of gang members, drug dealers and serial criminals that
are pouring across America’s borders.

1950: We actually attempt to parent our children.

2010: We pump our kids full of Ritalin and let video games and television raise our children.

1950: If a company makes too many bad decisions they go out of business.

2010: If you have connections in high places or you are “too big to fail” your business gets bailed out by the U.S. government.

1950: Socialized medicine is considered a bizarre scheme that only communist nations would be stupid enough to attempt.

2010: Congress and the president ram a bill down the throats of the American people that they did not want which basically socializes our entire health care system.

1950: The American people believe that the free market should run the economy.

2010: The American people are told that the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve should run the economy.

1950: American industry provides great jobs for hard working Americans and the United States has the biggest middle class in the world.

2010: Giant global predator corporations ship our manufacturing base and millions of great jobs to the third world and our politicians pretend that it is our fault when we can’t get jobs.

1950: Cities such as Detroit, Michigan are shining examples of the great American economic machine.

2010: Cities such as Detroit, Michigan are decaying, rusted-out war zones where houses sell for as little as one dollar.

1950: The United States lends more money to other nations than any other country in the world.

2010: The United States borrows more money from other nations than any other country in the world.

1950: The American people are the envy of the world.

2010: The American people are some of the fattest people on the planet.

1950: The American people are extremely well read and are deeply interested in politics.

2010: The American people are obsessed with American Idol, Dancing With The Stars and with how their favorite sports teams are doing.

1950: If children act up they are tanned on the behind and taught a lesson.

2010: If children act up they are told they have ADHD and pumped full of pharmaceutical drugs.

1950: Communists and socialists are considered dangerous extremists and the American people are taught to love the U.S. Constitution.

2010: Those who love the U.S. Constitution are considered dangerous extremists and we have a communist in the White House.

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Comment: Democrat Congressman Joe Crowley (NY) on the House and Ways Committee is a typical liberal-socialist Democrat with a looting mentality. He said in this interview that, “I think the wealthy can afford to pay a little more to live in the best and greatest country the world has ever known.”

So now “the wealthy” are considered anyone who makes over $250,000 a year. It used to be that a wealthy person was considered a person who made over $1 million. Under the socialist Obama administration, it seems we have lowered our sights considerably, and now a “wealthy” person makes only $250,000 a year. This economically-ignorant Congressman Crowley, who represents a district where the vast majority of his constituents make less than $250,000 a year, naturally sees no problem in looting those who make over $250,000 a year with higher taxes.

The only problem is, as intelligent Rep. Ryan explains in this video, is that many small-business owners who are successful make over $250,000 a year. So such a tax increase would hit the majority of successful small-business owners, the same business owners who create most of the new jobs in this country. But the ignorant Democrats don’t really care about creating jobs. Their tax increase on “the rich,” pathetically now defined as anyone making over $250,000 a year, is simply another vicious, socialist  measure to “loot the rich” by envy-eaten, looter-mentality liberal-socialists who love to punish “the rich” for being more successful than they are. Too many Congressmen, especially liberal Democrats, who would be incompetent losers in the real world of business and the free market, prefer to be a Congressman or Senator to loot and have power over those who are successful and competent in the real world. The liberal-socialists have always had this mentality to “soak the rich”. They envy and hate “the rich” for being better, more successful, more competent than themselves.

Let’s be clear about “the rich”, at whatever level of income we now define them as being “rich.” The vast majority of “the rich” in a free society and free economy, EARN their money and wealth. They earn their money with their willingness to risk their own money in a business venture, their intelligence, their perseverance, their courage, and their business competence. Let me repeat this — they EARN every penny of profit they make. So any attempt by liberal-socialist Democrats such as Mr. Crowley to punish successful “rich” businessmen with higher taxes to pay their “fair share,” is just an attempt to loot money from successful Americans to then “redistribute” this money to parasites who get unearned “entitlements” through hundreds of government entitlement programs.

Congress has no moral or Constitutional  right to loot “the rich” at ANY level of income because “the rich . . . live in the best and greatest country the world has ever known . . .”, as Congressman Crowley blathered. This country is the best and greatest precisely BECAUSE of the business genius, courage, and perseverance of the small-business owners who created our unbelievably rich country and economy and the millions of jobs and high standard of living that came from the businesses they created. In effect, Congressman Crowley was saying that, since you benefit by living in American, we’re going to loot and punish you for your success. This is the “philosophy” of all liberal-socialist looters.

Solution: Vote Congressman Crowley and ALL liberal-socialist Democrats OUT of office come November, so we no longer have an economically-ignorant Congressional majority in power who thinks that the way to create wealth and jobs in this country is to loot and punish those who create that wealth and those jobs.

Because, sure as hell is hot, our economy will continue to deteriorate under the socialist Obama. As a result, to cover exploding government spending and deficits, the looting Democrats will need more tax revenues. Then Obama will “revise” his definition” of “the rich” to those making less than $200,000 a year, then less than $150,000 a year, then less than $100,000 a year, until YOU in the middle class will be getting hit with looting higher taxes. If you think it’s OK to “loot the rich”, I advise you to look over your shoulder, as it won’t be long before YOU will be defined as “the rich.”

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Jul 25, 2010 10:52 AM by Laura Curtis

Read full article at:  http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/25/never-let-an-oil-spill-go-to-waste-create-a-new-government-agency/

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Comment: My sentiments exactly. To impeach Obama, come November we must take control of the House and Senate. Vote EVERY Democrat and liberal Republican out of office. Vote only for true conservative or libertarian candidates. Then Congress can impeach Obama. Maybe even deport him to the communist paradise in Cuba, where he belongs.

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Comment:  Here’s my theory on Obama’s REAL agenda for his drilling Moratorium in the Gulf. In this video, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal can’t seem to fathom Obama’s utter indifference to wrecking the offshore oil and gas industry in Louisiana with his dictatorial Moratorium. He can’t understand Obama’s seemingly utter contempt and indifference to the tens of thousands of Louisiana workers who work for, or depend on the oil industry in the Gulf, who will lose their jobs if the Moratorium continues.  Governor Jindal is a good but, in this case, somewhat naive man who does not understand that this Moratorium could be a deliberate and ruthless act of political calculation by radical socialists in the Obama administration.

Mr. Obama and his cohorts do not like to waste a crisis to promote their radical-socialist agenda. I believe the oil spill presented a perfect opportunity for Obama to take control of and/or strangle the oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico, a major source of energy for America.  Now why would Obama, President of the United States, want to deliberately strangle oil and gas drilling in the Gulf that would throw thousands of Louisiana oil and gas workers out of a job? Consider this. Obama is a radical socialist. Obama is a student and admirer of  the marxist radical “community organizer,”  Saul Alinsky. As a radical socialist, Obama believes that the end justifies the means. As a radical socialist, he wants to totally control and regulate the American free market. Why? Power. Power to control your life, which is the lust of every elitist radical socialist who believes that HE knows best how we should lead our lives and spend our money. Radical-socialist control of our economy and your life requires having total control over every aspect of our economy (banks, health care, etc.). The oil and gas industry is a crucial sector of our economy.

So along comes this oil spill, which, I believe, Obama sees as a perfect opportunity to promote his radical-socialist Agenda by shutting down oil and gas drilling in the Gulf. He hides his secret agenda by claiming that he imposed the Moratorium to prevent other “devastating” oil spills at other drilling rigs in the Gulf. He needs six months or more to “inspect” these other drilling rigs for safety. Do we really believe the six months might not turn into a permanent Moratorium to “protect the environment” ? Major oil companies have drilled hundreds of wells in the Gulf over the last 30 years with very few accidents or oil spills, an excellent safety record. When accidents have occurred, the oil companies have paid compensation to the fishermen or other residents who were financially harmed by the spill. End of story.

But if your secret agenda is to shut down a major oil-producing sector of our economy, what better cover for your agenda than to pretend that you are concerned about “the environment?” Then you seem like the good guy who is only trying to protect the pelicans and salt marshes.  But it gets worse. Here’s another reason Obama might want to deliberately strangle our oil and gas industry. Notice that he is also pushing for “cap and trade” legislation that would tighten the regulatory noose around our oil and gas industry’s neck. What would that accomplish? If oil and gas production in America sharply decreased because of his Moratorium and environmental regulations, then we would have to adopt “green” energy alternatives that “save” the environment. Obama promotes the fraudulent notion of global warming to push his radical-left Agenda. If oil and gas production sharply decreased because of his Moratorium and strangling environmental regulations, Obama and his eco-radical cohorts in Congress can then say, “See, we don’t have enough oil and gas production. We need billions of dollars more in stimulus money to subsidize solar and wind-power systems,” which are expensive and inefficient substitutes for oil and gas.

But more important, the oil spill has allowed Obama, through his Moratorium and proposed “cap and trade” environmental regulations, a perfect excuse to push for total government control over our energy industries, just as he has taken over General Motors, our banking system, our health care system, and more to come. Governor Jindal was rightfully upset and confused about the Moratorium on Gulf oil drilling. His fatal error was in assuming that Obama and his minions have good intentions. But what if they don’t? What if their intentions are a deliberate attempt to impose their radical-socialist Agenda on America? Then Obama’s actions make perfect sense.

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The estate tax, also called inheritance tax, has always been nothing more than a socialistic measure to engineer an egalitarian society in which all of us would be financially equal, but increasingly poor.

Read full article at: http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/socialism_and_the_inheritance_tax/

Comment: The notion by Obama and his socialist cronies in Congress that we should “redistribute” people’s income through income and estate taxes is nothing but another vile marxist attempt to loot money from those who earned it during their lifetime, to then “redistribute” to parasites who think they have a right to YOUR money. The hallmark of the Marxist mentality is their poisonous envy and hatred for others who are more successful than they are in a free, capitalist society. They mask their self-hatred behind a smoke-screen of wanting to “help” others, with YOUR money. They are the “humanitarians” with the guillotine. Like the income tax, the estate tax is a tax on virtue, the virtue of productive Americans who had the ambition, intelligence, and perseverance to make money and create wealth during their lifetimes.

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WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE
Discover why his administration loathes the most exceptional nation in history
–WorldNetDaily.com

Read full article at:  http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=173

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by — John Stossel, RealClearPolitics

Read full article at: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/14/attacks_on_freedom_106299.html

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07-13-2010 • Cracked.com

Because civil forfeitures are so simple, over 40 percent of police executives admitted their budgets depend on cash from them. That means each year, those stations have a quota of forfeitures to fill and technically there is really no stopping the . . . .

Read full article at:   http://www.cracked.com/article_18620_6-completely-legal-ways-cops-can-screw-you.html

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Comment: What always puzzles me about important businessmen who head major corporations is how they can be so brilliant in business and so dense about judging the political agenda of candidates like Obama who they vote for and support. The first time I heard Obama tell Joe the Plumber on the campaign trail that we need to “redistribute the wealth”, I knew immediately that Obama was a Marxist. A Marxist is fundamentally anti-business, anti-American, and will seek to wreck the free-market system which he despises. Yet these big businessmen commit, in effect, business suicide, by supporting marxists like Obama who will wreck our economy and their business with his socialist-Marxist policies.

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By Phil Kerpen

Published July 11, 2010

| FoxNews.com

Read full article at: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/07/09/phil-kerpen-obama-recess-appointment-dr-donald-berwick-senate-baucus-medicare/

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07-08-2010 • Prison Planet
“Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.”

Read full article at:  http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/071544-2010-07-08-obamas-new-health-care-czar-we-must-redistribute-wealth.htm

Comment:  THIS is the essence of foul Socialism — the presumption by liberal-fascist politicians and bureaucrats that they have the right to loot YOUR hard-earned money to “redistribute” to their favorite groups who keep voting them back into office to keep the free goodies flowing. The strategy is to make millions of Americans totally dependent on government handouts so these groups will keep voting for the liberal-fascist Democrats. These foul Socialists seek nothing less than total power over every aspect of your life, including your health care, as if they thought we are living in Cuba or the Soviet Union. How is a liberal-fascist any different than a mugger on the street who puts a gun to your head and demands your money so HE can have a better life with your money? The socialist Democrats in Congress believe that their primary role is to be a fence for stolen property, YOUR stolen tax dollars.

Would any elitist liberal-fascist in Congress seriously want to live, or have his family live, in Cuba, Venezuela, or the old Soviet Union? If they were sick, would they want to be treated in the hell-whole socialized-medicine system in Cuba? We do not see our liberal-fascist politicians in Congress running to Cuba for their health care, do we? Yet these foul Socialists want to reduce the superlative American health care system, and our standard of living, to the misery the Cuban people must endure.

Solution:  Vote ALL Democrats and liberal Republicans out of office come November. Vote only for true Conservative or Libertarian candidates. Literally, your life, your children’s future, and the future of America as we know it are at stake.

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July 1, 2010 04:08 PM by Doug Powers

Read full article at:  http://michellemalkin.com/2010/07/01/pelosi-unemployment-checks-best-way-to-create-jobs/

Comment:  There seems to be no limit to the truly bizarre statements this woman makes. So, according to Nancy, if we wanted full employment, the government should give unemployment checks to 300 million Americans. All that government funny-money in circulation would then solve the unemployment problem. Only one problem, Germany printed the same funny-money in the 1920′s, and soon the hyper-inflation caused by the inflated fake-money supply destroyed the German Mark, the German economy, led to a severe Depression in Germany, and led to the Nazi takeover after Germany’s economy collapsed.  Nancy seems to think jobs can be created by government-fiat and funny-money. Has this woman ever taken a basic course in economics 101?

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Comment:  Do you believe the utter arrogance of this “representative” of his California constituents? What is even more unbelievable is that he has been in office for almost 38 years! Have the voters in his district been that stupid or on drugs to have kept this guy in office for so long? I guess you get the representative you deserve. But, judging from the angry comments from his constituents at this town-hall meeting, it looks like Pete Stark’s time in Congress will soon be coming to an end. I urge the voters in his district to put this guy on the unemployment line come November.

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06-29-2010 • Dailymail.co.uk/
‘If there are increases in cancers as a result of irradiation of children, they would most likely appear some decades in the future. It would be prudent not to scan the head and neck,’ he added.

Read full article at: http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/071037-2010-06-29-airport-body-scanners-radiation-20-times-higher-than-first-thought.htm

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Jun 21, 2010 12:15 PM by Ed Morrissey

Read full article at:   http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/21/texas-congressional-nominee-wants-to-impeach-obama-opposes-un/

Comment:   Another conservative-Republican Congressional nominee with brains and guts.  These are the kinds of candidates we need to vote for come November.

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Read full article at:  http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/070597-2010-06-21-sen-kyl-president-admitted-he-purposely-doesnt-secure-mexican-border.htm

Comment:  States need to FORGET ABOUT this President helping them secure the borders. All states with immigration problems need to pass immigration laws like Arizona’s.

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THE OBAMA WATCH

Peter Ferrara | 6.16.10 @ 6:09AM

He can’t imagine how anyone else could think differently.

Read full article at:  http://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/16/the-green-pied-piper-from-chic

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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS

George Neumayr | 6.17.10 @ 6:09AM

More confiscatory socialism from the White House.

Read full article at:  http://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/17/the-oilers-vs-the-stealers

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Comment:  It’s far worse than a “shakedown”. Obama has literally spit in the face of our legal system. In common law, people who believe they have been injured by a company’s actions can, with the help of lawyers, file a massive class-action lawsuit against the company, and the guilt or innocence of the company is determined by facts in a court of law. Obama sees himself as above the law. He thinks he can obliterate common law and a company’s basic property rights and simply bully $20 billion from an oil company, without going through the “incomvenience” of the legal system that the rest of us have to obey.

Obama’s action is a slap in the face of law itself. He has now arrogated to himself the right to shakedown any company he sees fit, for any reason he sees fit, at any time in the future, and his actions become a precedent for any future president to do the same. Obama’s action is, in effect, the act of a politician who thinks our legal system means nothing, and that he is above the law. The precedent he is creating with this arbitrary act of coersion against BP without the oil company being able to present its case in a court of law, is far more destructive for Americans and their liberty than the losses of local Louisiana fisherman and others by this oil spill. BP said they would compensate all parties for the damages from the oil spill, and there are ALREADY a dozen class-action lawsuits filed against them. But Obama doesn’t trust the legal system or the rule of law. He simply assumes he has the right to shakedown a company, and the rule of law be damned.

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Bill Randall, a North Carolina Republican candidate for Congress, is calling for a “thorough investigation” into whether President Barack Obama’s administration colluded with BP to allow the Gulf oil spill.

Read full article at:  http://www.prisonplanet.com/republican-candidate-obama-bp-‘colluded’-to-make-oil-spill-happen.html

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