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11.08.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement part 019

A view of the globe, as seen through current politics, religion and humanity's social fabric.

“Global Government” Part 01

You mention that term and the main-stream media will automatically accuse you of having a lifetime subscription to “Black Helicopter Monthly.” I didn't even bother to Google that name, to see If such a publication exists. This new series is for people and organizations that want to think and participate on a positive realm. The main-stream media will judge this series according to their own bias and immediate need for sensationalism.

I can't change that and I'm tired of wasting my time trying.

I choose the topic of global government not as a jumping off place for a new movement writing, but as a further evolution of The Movement itself.

For the very first time in human history we have the technological capacity for a global government, therefore lousy leaders around the world will pervert such a premise.

Why? Because it allows them more power and greater historical context for a life resumes.

Most leaders cannot turn down such a prospect. It is the nature of the politician and the system they serve. Lousy leadership around the world, breeds a culture of indifference, and global government waits in the wings.

Lets start with the sub-text: Religion

For those of you new to The Movement, my sister died almost three years ago. Carla was my twin. I have the political mind but Carla was the one who studied the Bible.

I want that context to be out there, so you understand my limitations on this part of Global Government analysis.

I do believe Mathew 24 plays a significant role in our present day and the “end of days” as it were. From talking with an old friend from high school, who is very knowledgeable on the Bible, there may also be a parallel between Mathew 24, John 15 and several chapters in Revelation. John 15 and Revelation may become part of this series, or I may write them as independent columns. I have to study them first and get a lot of tutoring from several Christian friends, who understand the Bible far deeper than myself.

I sure wish my sister were still here. Carla could really describe and put into “sister speak” Mathew 24, so that I could translate it into a good political theme. Siblings just have a certain knack to make us understand, you know?

Mathew 24:

Verse 3: And as he sat upon the mount of olives, the disciples came to him privately saying, tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

Verse 4: And Jesus answered and said unto to them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

Verse 5: For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Verse 11: And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

Verse 36: But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels in Heaven, but my Father only.

My first “refined” perception is the sub-text again. Jesus explains a general state of humanity and a general darkness of the human condition. I see Jesus in his primary role here, as teacher. Educating his Disciples on what to look for, at his second coming. Knowing that none of them will actually be alive, Jesus, in Mathew 24 is teaching them on how to “teach” all of us future generations, on the signs leading up to end of days, the final battle at Armageddon and the after-math where mankind will rebuild. A world where a whole new type of leadership understands the first goal of humanity, is to serve in the glory of God, and serve each other through respect and serenity.

To that end, we have work to do.

I may spark a huge debate with that, as I know many Christians consider Jesus here on earth, in the primary role as savior of humanity.

I don't disagree with that, but only through the timing and order of how God the father wanted his son to accomplish the task.

Jesus is born into human form, allowing him to properly teach. As a teacher he tells humanity that this is how you came to our current place, this is where you are, and these are the tools and gifts I am teaching you, so that you may serve my father, God, and serve each other in his name.

Jesus at the crucification, is the part where God allows him to become savior. Only through the sacrifice of his son and the spilling of his “human blood” is Jesus able to “show” humanity that ultimate sacrifice. That God already knew his son would be crucified by humanity, in order for the spirit of a living Jesus to save all of humanity's soul.

I hope that can serve as my thumbnail impression, on how Jesus as teacher was his primary role. With his sacrifice being pre-ordained by the father.

I've called it “Lousy leadership” on many occasions, and will here. The whole world is suffering from horrible, corrupt politicians, that have made their way into the highest offices around the world. Very small people, with very narrow views on how the world should be organized under their control.

This state of general darkness will not go away in the coming decade, or the next, or maybe even the one after that.

It is, as always, a matter of hydraulics.

We have an entire generation of leaders in their 40s, 50s and 60s that are running the world's governments, banks, corporations, media and schools. We have to work through their control and the darkness they have and will bring. It is having ourselves properly educated, informed and aware, so that we may rebuild everything they are and will destroy.

The hydraulics surrounding a general darkness in global politics is in place and we must work through it. You cannot stop what is in motion, as the laws of physics do apply here.

I think that is more than enough to serve this Movement writing. All of which we have all heard before, throughout our lives. Some of us in church, Bible study, or open discussion. Some of us have heard more of it, some less. Some through structured classes and more through independent study.

For the first time the world is truly different, in so much as we have a global community infrastructure. You can effectively communicate with the entire planet. We can transfer money around the world, transfer labor, ideas, etc.

Deception and false prophets? They are everywhere, at all levels. A false prophet does not have to be someone at a very high office of Senator, or president. False prophets can exist in the petty behavior of one man trying to con 1000 people out of money or property.

There has always been deceivers however, and what separates a great deceiver of the 10^th century from today?

What I gather most from Mathew 24 is that Jesus Christ will not return until a great deceiver and an anti-Christ have global reach, scope and power at their disposal.

So this takes us to a time-line. How long is the end of days and when did it start?

One requirement is that the city of Jericho must be occupied by Hebrews. This was met 42 years ago when Israel took control of the city, during the '67 war.

Was Hitler the anti-Christ? Maybe the second one, but not the final anti-Christ. Hitler didn't have global reach and power, thank God.

I do not believe Osama Bin-Laden is the final anti-Christ. He doesn't have global power, but he does have global reach. He is certainly evil enough, but has no false religion surrounding him. He has hijacked the religion of Islam for his own evil ways, but has not created, if you will, an actual false religion. All that being said I certainly still want U.S. Troops to find him and send him to his maker. For the man has brought real evil upon America, and our Christian nation has been made to suffer.

Mathew 24 does bring that home, that believers in Christ will suffer. They will suffer through ridicule, war, abandonment and deception.

It leads us to the hardest part of Mathew 24 to accept, which is we are powerless to stop the wars, deception, suffering of mankind. An anti-Christ must do battle with the second coming of Jesus Christ, so that a reign of peace will fall upon mankind.

For a great deceiver to succeed, a false religion must be formed around them. For an Anti-Christ to gain power over the world, they must also be accepted within the context of their false religion.

I see several candidates on the world stage today. Some very well known and some only known to a handful that follow politics and economics.

It may serve everyone well to open up to Mathew 24 in your Bible, or Google it on line. Understanding that chapter may give all of you needed insight as we enter the next Movement writings.

I choose my wording there precisely, because I am going to return to Mathew 24 now, and do my own fair share of further research, so that I can hopefully facilitate properly, the next part of this discussion.

If you are reading this, then you are The Movement.

“Post Script Muse”

There at least six books of the Bible that we know are missing, one of them is the Gospel according to Mary. It would seem, for Christians around the world, that we are using an incomplete Bible.

Question: Whether you are Catholic or not, do you think it is the appropriate time for the Catholic church to convene a Vatican three, and consider adding these missing books to the Bible?

 

11.01.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, 8^th inning stretch

Sorry folks, extended intermission before FRN Newsletter dives into the dark reality of a growing global government infrastructure.

note

• *I want to start this foreign policy movement writing by saying our president is not well served by his two principle advisors, Rom Emanuele and David Axelrod. Neither man believes in the whole picture. Neither man sees the awesome need to serve the office of the president in thoughtful forward thinking context. This is dangerous and America will suffer greatly at the hands of these two advisors. In a word, they are both reckless. There I said and I'm glad I did. * *

“Marginal Value”

Those were the descriptive words the Obama administration used for Afghanistan. We will now have a lengthy look at the truth and desperation that is this western Asian nation.

A word of continuing advise to the Obama administration, no nation on this planet should be assigned the term “marginal value.” I'll bet you ten bucks the DNC came up with that term and gave it to Robert Gibbs to spew out at the press briefing. . .

Lets break it down, the way only FRN can:

• This area of the middle east and western Asia is a region of tribes, clans, war lords and despots. Many centuries has seen this region controlled by Tribal governments, extended clan families, war lords controlling provinces or “nation states” and empires now gone. Before World War One, this region had very little use for actual borders. A leader was regaled as much for charisma as his ability to ride a horse. The romantic-historical part of my brain doesn't find all of this bad. I grow weary of powerful nations inflicting border lines and puppet governments on sovereign people, anywhere in the world. Which means all of you can expect another column soon, on Afghanistan's sister country in suffrage, Kurdistan.

• Afghanistan is poor. I mentioned that recently. More than poor, Afghanistan has very few natural resources. The only thing it has going for it, is geography. Huge sections of this nation are rugged, mountains, and wasteland. It is their location between their collective neighbors, that gives them value. Also copper deposits, which I will touch on.

• It all started in 1978 when then national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, went to the CIA with an idea. Brzezinski suggested funneling radical/fanatic Muslims into Afghanistan, to destabilize their government. At this point their government was a very weak Democratic republic. One wonders why a U.S. National Security Advisor would want a democratic form of government, though weak, to be destabilized. Brzezinski's idea was to give the USSR a reason to invade Afghanistan, as the Soviet Union was hoping to buffer their southern provinces and push further south for deep warm water ports. Brzezinski and the CIA were hoping the Soviets would get bogged down in a guerrilla war that they were not properly trained to fight. It worked very well.

• Though I warn you now, be careful the monster you create. These Muslim fanatics started off just protesting the current Afghan government, but when the Islamic fundamentalists took power, they hated America as much as the Russians. It all started with the CIA setting up safe houses for the Islamic-Muslim fanatics inside Afghanistan. It should be pointed out that a very disgruntled son of a wealthy Saudi family ran one of the safe houses. A very young and already fanatic Osama Bin-Laden. I firmly believe from studying and researching Bin-Laden that it would not have mattered where he started his fanatic road to destruction, he would've become the man he is; evil, insane and deeply hateful of America. The Islamic fundamentalist government that took power in '79 would eventually become a Soviet backed communist government. The collapse of the USSR would see more radical elements take power. From 1992 to the rise of the Taliban, warlords and tribal leaders fought endlessly across impoverished Afghanistan. This constant warfare makes for a very unhappy sovereign people, would you not agree?

• A quick side fact here, at this point Afghanistan had about 10 million land mines inside its borders. Think about that.

• Rise of the Taliban. There was no Pastun representation in Kabul, and this gave birth to the Taliban. Over 2 million refugees growing up in camps. Coming mainly from Pakistani educated Madrases. The Taliban was only recognized by three nations around the world, as a legitimate government of Afghanistan.

• Another quick note here on how poor this nation is. Afghanistan has minerals, including copper. China is currently putting in a bid to mine and transport copper back to China. China does share a common 46 mile border with Afghanistan, along the Walkeinn mountain region. China would bring in many sub-contractors, so much of the mining and railroad transport would fall to foreign workers, not citizens.

• Recent stories on network news have said that America has only been doing actual fighting in Afghanistan for 1 year. Wrong! The U.S. Has been fighting or supporting fighters for over 31 years.

So over a 32 year period, the United States, USSR, China, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, North Korea, Britain and the united nations, have been the top tier influential outside forces involved in Afghanistan politics. Deeply and intimately connected at all levels.

Assignment of value. The U.S. Certainly assigned “value” when we wanted to see the Soviets bogged down 30 years ago. We continued to finance elements of either the resistance or one of the governments for the last 30 years. Then when the Taliban gave safe haven to Al-Qaida, we did nothing. Then Al-Qaida hit us, and Afghanistan again had value to us, so we helped the Northern Alliance kick out the Taliban.

So Mr. President, we have been assigning value to this war torn nation for three solid decades.

Mark my words America, as of this moment, the President wants to make a non-decision. He is hoping the Pakistan military, involved in an offensive against the Taliban and Al-Qaida will be very successful. Allowing Pakistan to do the heavy lifting and “hard work” that he is to weak and indecisive to do. Also if the president sends in as many troops as the good general wants, then he sees our military presence in Afghanistan being very visible during the 2012 election cycle.

Yet again, here we are, another president incapable of making decisions and sticking to a policy.

But I digress.

You see Iraq has intrinsic value, because it sits on the middle east's second largest oil reserves. This matters since Saudi Arabian production costs are now at $20 per barrel of crude, Iraq is only at $6.50 per barrel.

We assigned value to Afghanistan when we wanted to bog down the Soviets in an expensive war, and now the current president wants to forget the ravaged and raped nation that we helped to create.

The only southern and eastern border Afghanistan has, is on a map. Routinely, Taliban and Al-Qaida elements move across the border, hitting targets at a whim.

President Obama wants to concentrate forces on the populous cities.

Thats a good idea, but it doesn't matter if the nation doesn't have secure borders.

Get ready I'm going to use the most hated word in all of politics, the one word that scares politicians the most. The “L” word, LEADERSHIP.

I would argue, with 31 years of records, data and information to back up my argument, that our overall policy towards Afghanistan is usury and failed. Usury on a desperate scaled, and failed beyond recognition of any policy cohesion.

We are not alone, the Soviets raped the country and left it for dead, as well as other nations who tried to influence the Afghan political structure.

This is one of those moments where a real leader steps forward and says “no more.” Then decides to right any wrongs and do it with humility and straight forward action.

It is hard work for a president, but it is presidential work alone.

Is former President George W. Bush partially to blame, definitely. Advisors gave him recommendations which sat on his desk for eight months before the November 2008 elections.

Why? The same old reason, he didn't want to make a military decision that would hurt Domestic political policy and the Republican party's chance to keep the White House. Thats my theory, and President Clinton made the same type of decision by not going after Al-Qaida eleven months before the November 2000 elections. What a lack of leadership, it makes me sick.

Allowing Al-Qaida and Taliban forces and fanatics a foothold in the Afghanistan and Pakistan border region, is a clear and present danger to the security of the United States. I choose my words precisely here.

I don't care if troop build-up spills over into daily headlines during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles. I just don't care how the media chooses to spin it or not spin it.

I don't care.

Time for leadership Mr. President, the indecisions of your predecessors DOES NOT MATTER, it is now your responsibility. Secure that border and eliminate Afghanistan as a host country for Al-Qaida and the Taliban. It is proper, practical and necessary foreign policy.

I was going to end the movement writing at this point, but it is Sunday night and I rarely write on Sunday nights.

I fear being mis-understood at this critical point of my foreign policy thinking. I don't think at all, that the Afghan borders need to be defined and secured because America has somehow “abused” the nation over the last 31 years. I'll leave that level of thinking and criticism to college professors. You see, abusive, is a very heavy descriptive word. As the President's press secretary said, Afghanistan only has marginal value.

I am currently starting the beginning work on outlining a new political book, which I am loosely calling “Brutal Honesty.” To be brutally honest here, all nations use and abuse other nations through foreign policy. Other nations also benefit greatly by “allowing” themselves to be abused for a certain period. This may or may not be the case with the United States and Afghanistan, it really is not my place here, or my goal, to say.

We are in a period here in modern human history, where we have general lousy leadership and lack of leadership throughout all the world. The world has mostly self-centered, petty and weak leaders.

I think we need to accept that is where we are, before we can plot a course for changing it. We also need to accept that while we are changing it, the world will suffer even greater set backs. This being due to the fact that all the bad policies and “non-decisions” of lousy leaders will still be filtering across the globe.

This is my greater point and honest “political hope” for President Obama, that he will see the practical clear and present danger of a non-defined and porous Afghan border. See the need to protect America, by securing that border with Pakistan.

It could be the one shining foreign policy star of his Administration. It could easily take the next three years and all his ground work could see the credit given to the president after him. A responsible president is fine with this and does not seek credit for administrating the office in a way that bears fruit after his tenure.

But I am a practical political analyst and realistic economist.

I know President Obama will follow in the foot steps of five presidents before him and make a 80% non-decision on Afghanistan.

Then the world will suffer even more general darkness from yet another lousy leader only interested in padding his life's resume.

If that brutal honesty is more than some can digest, then remember it is Sunday night and I generally don't lay down additional thought at this time.

I am also listening to music right now, which I never do when framing a column in first draft.

For those that it may be of matter, I'm listening to “Passion” by Peter Gabriel, which would become the soundtrack for Martin Scorsese's movie “The Last Temptation of Christ.” A novel by a Russian author, adapted by a Catholic film director. Sort of complicated movie and soundtrack making. Though I feel after 20 years of listening to it, that the music has a real bounty and “spiritual honesty” to it.

Again, for those that care, that is the sub-text of where my thoughts are.

Foreign policy is at the very least hard work. Strong leadership is a needful premise.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

“Post Script Muse”

We're going to try something here. I made a new friend this week and she recommended posing a question, for the American readership. So this is what I'm going to do, offer up a weekly question, either on topic or whatever flows from my brain.

If you feel like responding please do. If you want your response published on the FRN website, please indicate as such.

So lets jazz it up: What should be the State department's responsibilities to the Kabul government, while NATO and U.S. Troops secure the countryside?

 

10.25.2009

“Words from the Several States”

A “Movement” 7^th inning stretch

Come on, Streeeeetch! ! ! There you go, get all that good oxygen into the lungs, clear the head. Anyone need a monster or red bull?

OH! Happy Anniversary to the FRN Newsletter weekly column. It has now been four years that this weekly economic/political muse has been picked up by several national media outlets, as well as local newspapers and regional political parties. A very special thanks to the Raiders news Network for giving us the Internet platform and forum that serves us so well. Finally a special thank you to the people at American Patriot Friends Network (www.apfn.org). This network does the heavy lifting of providing information on the Internet that rarely hits the main-stream media. FRN Newsletter is thankful every time they pick up our column.

The Movement is going to explore a very realistic yet dark aspect of the world, in a new series of columns; as we look at the growing infrastructure surrounding a coming global government. Not conspiracy theory, but hard information, based on the Bible, economics, current political practice and evolving social fabric. Explore the topic from hopefully a new and three dimensional perspective.

For now I want to transition into that series by discussing what the main-stream media hates the most, American Greatness.

To be an American, is to have a singular place in all of human history. We are free, we have freedom based on the idea that government serves the people. Only in the United States of America has this been true. Human Rights and natural rights flow from God, not government.

I sing the praises of our bounty and the glory of our history, because we are at a moment in history, when this chorus must ring loud and proud.

33 years now, I've watched three consecutive generations tear this nation down. Why?

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect union . . . .”

Those words, let them absorb into your skin like fresh sunlight. Let them fill your mind as if they were gentle prose from God himself.

Let the idea of individual liberty enter your soul as you fully consume the reality that we are Americans.

I strongly believe it is the first duty of every elected official in this nation, to constantly remind other officials around the world, that America is exceptional. Not from a point of arrogance, from a point of fact.

America is a free nation, with a servant government. All other nations were governments with a nation to rule.

When you think about how special and blessed we are, as a people, inside that context; you cannot help but be filled with pride.

In America when:

• something is broken, we fix it.

• Problems arise, we solve them.

• Machines wear out, we invent better ones.

• A vision for a new goal appears, we grab it.

• Injustice occurs, we push forward and find justice for all.

In this nation your rights flow from an all loving God, from the divine power that governs and created the universe. In America, at the very moment of conception, you are protected as a living human being. In this country, you do not need a government to define who you are. You are defined by the individual role you choose to play in society. You have control over your own destiny.

This is the burning patriotism inside of me, as it is in the huge majority of Americans. Though to hear the main-stream media and our current federal officials tell it, we are all angry at America.

This dynamic will change, as the media and our officials start to learn the truth about America, once again, from a truly organic political movement and point of view.

As is spelled out so nicely in the “growing” Tea Party Movement, patriotism has never left America. It just isn't a sexy story for the headline news cycle.

Think about that, patriotic Tea Party movements are not considered a worthy news item on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, etc.

We enter a period of human history where so many expect and think the government is the only way to solve problems.

Wrong !

The problem is that government has grown so large, at the very same time that our nation grew so wealthy, at the very same time that our education system dropped in quality. All of this happened as the quality of elected leaders slid down into an Abyss.

In all, a perfect storm for so many to be seduced by Socialism and the tyranny of government that ALWAYS follows Socialism.

TIME magazine even put on their cover “We are all Socialists now.” Thankfully they print in a free nation, where such lies can be put out there.

I see dark times ahead for our world, as we work through this current crop of lousy leaders, and I see America taking the hits for such a continued perfect storm of general apathy.

Then I see a rising Phoenix from those ashes.

Greatness, and belief in greatness; that will save the world, and American liberty will again forge a new path, for everyone to follow. America leads the world in Freedom, always has, always will. We are a transforming people and culture.

I can go anywhere in America, round up a group of engineers, toss them a problem, and they will solve it.

In America, I can go anywhere, round up a group of mechanics, toss them a broken engine and they will fix it.

In America, I can go anywhere, round up a group of people and with Hammers, saws and one T-square, teach them to build a house.

That, is American exceptionalism.

Anywhere else in the world, people turn to their master, the government and cry out “solve this.” Most of the time that government will shout back, “No way” “suffer with your lot in life.”

I will not, as a patriot, allow the current apathy to consume anymore of my nation. I will do my small part, as a responsible citizen, to contain and stop the root cause of that apathy.

Join me, on this next evolution of The Movement, As America enters a new era of greatness, as we plot a new course, for humanity to realize the meaning of genuine liberty and the essence of freedom.

If you are reading this, then you are The Movement.

10.18.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement part 018

• * * Point of Fact * * *

• The Nobel was named after the inventor of dynamite. I man who in his later days wanted to see standing armies dis-mantled. A world rid of military force. Truly a complex man.

“Foreign Policy” and how the Nobel Peace prize became “Inbrued”

To Inbrue, which means to taint or to stain.

All you Liberal elitists out there and lapdogs of the media, pay attention; as “The Movement” evolves into the teaching tool it always should have been.

Friday October 9, 2009 5:15AM, my blackberry vibrates. I check the voice mail and become very concerned. R.H., my close friend has called. In 20 years of his friendship, R.H. has never called me in the early morning.

His message: “President Obama just won the 2009 Nobel Peace prize. I'm going to go find a wall to bang my head against.”

It is now 51 hours later and I believe the majority of this story within the main-stream media has run its course. I have watched:

• People say this is wonderful, well deserved and Obama surely will lead America to a new reality within the world structure.

• I listened to NPR try and down-play and back peddle on the immediate self-congratulatory nature of generic media support. A very weird position for NPR to have, during any news cycle.

• I watched President Obama give a garden variety speech of acceptance in the Rose garden. Though I concede his bewilderment looked genuine.

• Along with hundreds of millions, I listened to the Nobel committee try and explain and justify the award; to themselves, the media and the world at large. Only now, six days later, does it appear that three of the five Nobel committee members were pushed into a position. FRN Newsletter will see how this small story may or may not develop.

Most world figures win the Nobel prize for peace, after years or even decades of hard work. Usually surrounding foreign policy. As was the case with former President Jimmy Carter.

Sour grapes, right? Thats is what the Liberal elitist mindset is thinking I am feeling, conveying, musing and offering up for critical review.

They couldn't be more wrong. I have come to realize that the Liberal elitist mindset will never understand “The Movement.” Never understand my quest for honest dialog that leads to citizen participation; which leads ultimately to civic duty fully played out, as the founding fathers wanted.

I hear the cries of racists in the black community, who believe President Obama deserves it, because of slavery, being the first black president or just being better than every other president that came before him. I guess that section of the black community will never wish to join the movement. Thats fine, the bare knuckle hard work, being in the trenches for freedom has always fallen to a small few, who lead everyone else.

I can say that, because I have 10,000 years of recorded human history to back me up.

America was born from a very small group of people who saw they were living under British tyranny and their rights as human beings were being systematically destroyed.

They banded together with no training in how to be a free nation and created one.

Hard work ands lots of sacrifice is what made it happen. Freedom for an American republic didn't just happen, men died, people laid down there colonial differences and became a federation of free states, United States of America.

The Nobel committee said they gave President Obama this award to help keep him centered on his vision of a world free from nuclear weapons, and the great promise he brought, for inspirational view of how a new America will engage the world.

Boil it down and President Obama just received the Nobel for giving a few speeches.

Oh yes, I hear the liberal elitists crying out again, “Chris you're just being bitter and close minded, you cannot accept the fact that President Obama will lead America to a new position, where all nations of the world are equals, and we become a global community.”

Well to the elitists out there who think that people like me think like that, I guess you got another column in the wings.

Urgency, my fellow patriots, it is now and has been for nearly 30 years, about urgency.

The Nobel committee just gave the sitting president their highest award, as a promissory notes for what he might do in the future.

As R.H. And I discussed last Sunday, President Obama has “soft hands”, he does not understand, nor will he ever be involved in hard work.

I know that level of brutal honesty is more than some can digest. How can any sitting president not understand hard work, right?

All of you, whatever your political or philosophical background, take a look at your hands.

I'm not joking, stop right now and look at your hands; or I'll turn this column around and head straight home.

Have you spent your life working at an office job that barely covers your bills, but has allowed you to put food on the table and provide for a family? Have you done that kind of meaningless work due to situation and circumstance, but done it none the less, because you as a citizen, need to survive through everyday life?

Thats hard work, working a job with no gratification beyond the fact that you did not have to take from someone else. That you survive through your own hard work.

Look at your hands, all of you in the State department.

Yes, all of you in the foreign service bureau, that spend a lifetime pouring over data, writing reports, in hopes that a deputy secretary will understand your analysis and hard work. That they will then use all that profound effort to further foreign policy, for a secure America and better international relations.

Thats hard work, as the information your hands touch will tire the mind, after long days of serious cortical thinking.

Look at your handsaw, all of you that manufacture goods, products and “things” in this great free nation.

Your hands are like mine, split skin on fingers, cuts, knuckles banged and messed up. Tired sore backs, tired eyes and aching muscles. I worked in a manufacturing plant, I know first hand, the hard work. But we made things. You and I are part of the greatest industrial base the world has ever known. It didn't happen through government programs or fancy ideas from really smart politicians.

No! It happened from everyone getting up, slugging down a cup of Joe and heading off to a factory, to build the very essence of working class/middle class America.

Thats hard work, as your hands build the prosperity for a free nation.

Look at your hands all of you farmers sweating in the fields.

Yes you, the ones that feed the nation and the world. Sun up to sundown down, from planting to harvest time. Whole winters spent fixing, repairing equipment, to start it all again. Free nations are the ones that can feed themselves. This is the one part of human history that will never change.

Farming is the ultimate hard work.

Look at your hands, all of you inventors.

Coming up with better ways and better items, to make a better world. Thats hard work.

Look at your hands, everyone who serves this nation in uniform.

Thats all I need to say. Some of you may not have a hand or two, as that is the price you paid, for us to be free,

That is hard work.

The rest of you, as I could go on for thousands of pages. All you teachers, priests,, engineers, nurses, bankers, pipe fitters, welders, truck drivers, cops and so forth and so on.

Hard work one and all.

Her name is Dr, Paula Dobriansky and she has spent years at the CFR and State department, doing the very hard work of developing and implementing foreign policy. I mention her because no one else will. She is one of those people who has dome decades of hard foreign policy work. Worthy of the Nobel prize for peace, in my humble opinion. She has served this nation well. It is an honor for me to mention her name and work.

Then there is one of the other 205 nominees for 2009. A lady in Afghanistan who started a women's rights group and movement. I find myself amazed that this lady is still alive. All of you really smart Liberal elitist out there, especially in the media. I invite you to research the history of Afghanistan, I will not do the hard work of that, for you here.

Suffice to say, If I sat on the Nobel committee, she would have received my vote. Bringing women's rights to Afghanistan, that is hard work.

Soft hands America, You need to understand that our sitting president has soft hands. He has never done hard work. The President has held positions of ease, where outcome and personal performance don't matter. Can anyone name a Illinois State bill, that he sweated over and worked his butt off, to pass? I looked into his State senate career, back-bencher all the way. .

I can tell you the type/style of foreign policy that will be birthed of this administration. It will be foreign policy born of Appeasement and non-decision. Foreign policy based on a president who travels the globe and apologizes for America's greatness.

Foreign policy born and raised by a man who wants to give into dictators, in hopes that his personality will change the world.

President Obama's foreign policy is based on a fantasy utopia that cannot happen.

The Nobel committee will look back on the 2009 award given, and find themselves living in a far more dangerous world, because President Obama has soft hands.

R.H. and I were talking about Senator Carl Levin, a democrat from Michigan. Neither one of us like his politics and are truly disappointed that he has abandoned the classic democratic principles he used to embody.

Then R.H. and I stripped even that away and said to each other, at least Carl Levin understands hard work. As he worked the auto factories of Michigan as a young man. Thats hard work.

Only the Liberal elitist who read this will not understand that a Nobel prize of peace is born of hard work.

I see how the world is setting up President Obama, and a growing deception that is born of situations like this Nobel award.

That is for future movement writings to explore.

By the way Mr. President since you work for me, I have something to say, a word of advice regarding how I want you to improve your job performance.

Hard work is it's own reward, no matter where or what the context or task in hand. It does not lend itself to a prize or self-congratulation.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

10.11.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement part 017

I just got done watching C-span and looking through some information at the CIA's world's fact book web page. It is 8pm Saturday evening and I know what you're thinking, “Hey this guy Chris really knows how to spend a Saturday night.”

I realize now that there absolutely must be a companion piece to that last column on foreign policy. The subject is to big and far to complex to just let it go where I did.

I want to concentrate on the very small and very nuanced components of foreign policy. This “sub-text” if you will matters more than I believe the president understands.

I parallel that thought by reminding all of you that I firmly believe President Obama is a very smart man. Not just well educated at two of America's IVY league universities, but at his core, an exceptionally brilliant man, who just happens to be a Liberal elitist. More on Obama's brilliance later.

Now to the very small. Foreign policy broken down, is about problem solving. I am a life-long fan of engineering and how things work. I spent five years studying engineering in high school and community college. My only regret is that I didn't take more classes.

Anything in this world, can be broken down into parts, components and pieces so that the engineer better understands them. Be it cars, houses, rockets, dams, nations, political parties or social theories. Everything has parts and pieces. Everything can be broken down, explained and put back together.

Afghanistan:. I certainly will not cover all of that nation here, but as an engineer let me take you through one very small part of the infrastructure, that lends itself to understanding the back-drop, if you will, of foreign policy.

Briefly, The Pashtun tribes were united in 1747 and Afghanistan was founded. Winning independence from Great Britain in 1919, with a stab at democracy until 1973. Since 1973 the nation's political structure has been brutal communist-dictator and the nation has been mostly at war, invaded or both since then,

Afghanistan is poor, very poor. The economy of West Virginia was $31 billion in 1992. Afghanistan's GDP was $22 billion in 2009. The nation is land-locked and sits between an incredibly complex area of neighbors. It would be quite common to hear Afghans in the north, speaking dialects of Tajik or even Uzbek. Very complex area.

But lets talk about the state of their central banking system, circa 2001 when our troops arrived.

Every nation has some form of a central banking system these days. I came across the story of Afghanistan's central bank merely by accident. It was housed inside one shabby building in the capitol, and had four computers inside. That was 2001.

This is where the “understanding” of foreign policy begins, by absorbing and digesting details like that.

By way of comparison, this is a breakdown of the computer hardware in my house. I have four computers in my computer room/office. All of them are old, out-dated and two are refurbished units I bought at the Gibraltar trade center. All four are newer than what was inside the Afghan central bank in 2001. I also have three computers in the basement, at different levels of “cannibalization” and four spare monitors. Plus a couple of boxes of parts, cables, power cords, about four spare keyboards and maybe 10 mouses.

I would've inherited a fourth computer to part out, but my friend tossed in the trash instead. Can you believe he did that to me?

Well you get my point, my computer room in my small 1200 sq/ft ranch has more computing power than the entire central banking system of Afghanistan did in 2001.

How does a new government coming in, build a new central banking system? That is a problem in need of a solution.

First you need a comparison to understand the context of the task at hand. The United States has 316 million Internet hosts, with the largest domain hosts being .com, .us, .mil, .net, .edu and .org.

Afghanistan has 31 Internet hosts. Thankfully their communications are rapidly growing with the new tele-kiosks in Kabul.

So, for a central banking system to work you need basic infrastructure:

• secure Internet hosts to carry your data to the rest of the world and receive their data.

• Internal secure hosts to carry the central banking data to your nation's system of banks, brokerage houses, finance houses and to tie in with other government agencies.

• You need satellite dishes, hard lines, cellular back-up and interface.

• You need a reliable source of power to make sure all this happens and a back-up power system that is also reliable.

• You need computers, routers, main-frames and back-up for all of this.

• You need a secure central location, so that Taliban or Al-Qaida insurgents don't come along and blow up your central bank, cut your power supply or communication's network.

• You need I.T. People to make sure all of this stays up and running. People to staff the central bank.

• You need hard currency to pay everyone.

• Then you also need things like banks around the world that will accept your currency, a bench-mark to monetize it against.

• You need commodities both tangible and intellectual for trading, so that capital will flow into your central banking system.

• Last but most important, you need a stable government structure that undersatands the need for reliable central banking. Not to mention allies in other treasury ministries that will go to bat for you, when economic times are tough.

Those are the bare-bone basics of what you need to rebuild a central banking system in a nation so poor, their GDP is 2/3 of that what West Virginia was 16 years ago.

I know the new government that took over in Afghanistan had many other problems to solve along with the U.S. Military based there.

This is where I come back around to understanding and President Obama being personally a brilliant man.

The very smartest of people will always defer to the experts in their own field, and allow them the resources and freedom to solve problems that they know how to solve.

Our top commander in Afghanistan is a general who came up through special forces. This is good, special forces are very adaptive to problem solving. It is one of their main functions when out in a situation.

General McChrystal has asked for more troops. The debate continues state-side as to whether he will get those troops and the resources that come with it.

Problem solving breaks down like this inside government: You have a team or staff of experts in any field, this being how the U.S. Military can facilitate breaking the Taliban's hold on nearly 1/3 of Afghanistan.

Those experts put together a plan for McChrystal to review, and then he puts together a briefing, plan and back-up research for the President and Secretary Gates to decide policy from.

A smart President will “understand” that McChrystal and his staff are trying to solve a problem, they do not have any political ax to grind, no horse-trading to do in the halls of congress. McChrystal was given the assignment to secure Afghanistan and transfer the internal and national security of that nation to a properly;y trained police force and military.

A smart president would understand all of this and give the general what he needs to solve the problem at hand.

The last thing any President wants to do is micro-manage the situation. Presidents don't have time to do that, which is why a president has secretaries, advisors, generals, admirals and staff, to carry out all these operations.

My greatest fear is that President Obama considers himself so brilliant that he knows the Afghan situation better than the people on the ground.

Recipe for disaster, as it has been many times in the past, with many presidents who thought they knew/understood the entire world of foreign policy.

I used half this column just to spit out a few basic points on infrastructure needed, to revamp the central banking system of Afghanistan.

It is the small details, the sub-text that matters. Truly smart Presidents understand the value of these details and sub-text and give their staff and advisors tools, people and support to problem solve.

Leadership, McChrystal is hoping for good leadership from the president he serves.

As I entyer the final editing if this column, news reports are not good. President Obama is consiodering letting Taliban leaders have a role in the Afghan government and giving McChrystal part of what he needs. Sounds like a nice middle-of-the road “non-decision.” Kind of what I said in last week's column. I pray the President has a change of heart and mind.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

 

10.04.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, part 016

Foreign policy is always best when served cold.

I'm not being funny or philosophical here; I'm being serious.

Foreign policy is about sitting down with honest intent, bringing parties together and working out a respectful positive solution. Many times this leaves a president out in the cold, administrating his office through foreign policy, when forces are working against him. Foreign policy is not catering to “hot button” or knee jerk issues. Foreign policy is not conducted by taking a series of polls.

You only need one ingredient to make sure all of that happens, leadership. If you are engaged in discussions with a dictator who would rather see your nation crumble to the ground, and they walk away from the table, spitting in your face, at least you have bargained in good faith. There is no shame in that and your nation will love you for it.

I think foreign policy has been handled from as many different angles as there have been American presidents. It is truly the one part of the office that a President can affix their own specific brand, or lack thereof.

Foreign policy also lends itself to great failure, which is why the sitting President must have some kind of concrete vision. Not blocking out new ideas, but an overall understanding of where America should fit into world affairs, and how you as the President must facilitate that.

I would say our last six Presidents have been near total disasters. With the possible exception of how Reagan took the proper firm stance on the USSR implosion.

President Obama is very new to foreign policy, but his early outings make me believe that he will be added to the un-remarkable list of Presidents who just don't get foreign policy.

President Obama takes the approach of “Lets monitor the situation and then see what the polls say and then make some kind of middle of the road non-decision.”

This comes square at a time, when we need real leaders on the world stage.

President Obama's lack of leadership stems from an academic indoctrination and perception of the world. As a Liberal elitist from academia, President Obama enjoys discussing and thinking about wonderful theories of how the world should be one, bright colored patch-work of harmony and mutual respect amongst all the world's people and cultures. The world as an endless tapestry of rhythms that compliment each others inherent ethnic traits, moors and distinctions.

It sounds so wonderful, even to write it down. A peaceful world of order and acceptance.

All of this is obtainable, as long as the world adheres to an Obama picture, creed and template.

President Obama's world is the world of fantasy, ignorance and simplistic theory.

He has no understanding of how the world really works and does not work.

“But Chris don't you want to see a peaceful world with no terrorist threats and no more famine and war?” Of course I do.

I have a word of advice and direction for this new President, good foreign policy equals constant hard work.

No President swoops down into a foreign policy situation, delivers one exceptional speech, kiss a few cheeks, shakes a few hands and mystically changes the dynamic through sheer force of personality.

President Obama never has been interested in the hard work of foreign policy and he never will be. His calculated political choice of Senator Clinton for Secretary of State is proof positive.

Obama may think he has enough force of personality to sway foreign diplomats his way, but he must recognize the opposite reality.

President Obama is seen as yet another American show horse President, with little deep knowledge of global history and relationships. Again, it is the people you surround yourself with and how they also conduct themselves.

A small example that goes to heart of foreign policy gone bad.

An office in the west wing of the White House is the most cherished prize for anyone in D.C. Seeking to pad their resume and be self-important.

President Obama came into office and some positions that were traditionally west wing “eligible” office space, were transfered to the east wing or to the Old Executive Office Building (OEOB) just across Pennsylvania ave. This caused a huge firestorm deep inside white house personnel politics. As I am sure it has in previous administrations when the new President designates someone who has been in the west wing to pack up their desk and move “off planet” to the netherworld of the East wing or OEOB.

Feelings get hurt, egos are bruised, revenge is planned early and often.

Why am I spending so much time on some advisors who had to pack a few copier paper boxes of family pictures and move three hundred feet to the East wing?

Well, I agree with Obama and any other president that rearranges a few desks and chairs in the west wing. It is their decision which advisors and staff will be nearest him in the west wing.

Mainly because of mail volume, but the White House has two zip codes, one for the West Wing and one for the rest of the building. This is serious business to a lot of people, which zip code is on their in coming and out going mail.

Any decent, hard working, earnest human being would be so honored to serve the office of the president, they would gladly do it by flashlight, in a storage room, several levels below the surface of the white house proper. A patriot, willing to serve the office of the President, would stand up inside a white house closet for nine hours a day, tapping a keyboard with one hand, and holding up the monitor with the other. Good people willing to serve freedom are just like that.

But no, America's citizenry is grossly under served by those who swagger around the west wing, carefully measuring their office space every week and bragging about how close they are to the oval.

Thoughtful far-reaching foreign policy? Please. Not when the sitting President is in love with his own academic theories of a fantasy world, and his west wing advisors search IKEA websites for just the right credenza to slap on their government expense report. Foreign policy through disciplined leadership is not a graduate paper theory, it is bare knuckle hard work.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

09.27.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, part 015

I would like to add a few bullet points of “ripped from the headlines” history, regarding the FED, IMF and where our glorious leaders are taking the U.S. Economy and Monetary system.

001. Barely eight months ago, Treasury secretary Geithner “mis-spoke” when reacting to a story, that China is seeking a global currency. Geithner first said that he was not opposed to such a discussion. The stock market tanks and Geithner revises his remarks that afternoon, that the U.S. Dollar will be the world's reserve currency for many decades to come, so forth and so on.

002. China, Russia, Brazil and India hold a summit where they discuss using their currencies as part of global reserve currencies, and further discuss the idea of a global currency.

003. Just two months ago the United Nations goes on record that the discussions of a global currency is something that needs to be discussed, and they are willing to do that. How kind.

004. Just hours ago at the G-20 in Pennsylvania, there is further talk that something needs to be done, about reworking how currencies work, and some kind of new system of bench marking needs to be discussed. In the same meeting the IMF is given even more authority to act as an economic developer and forecaster for the world's nations. Building even more on the IMF's growing global presence after $1 Trillion in additional funding was given during the last G-20 held in Europe.

005. Former FED chairman, Paul Volcker is the chief advisor to President Obama, on matters of economic recovery and proper ways to sift through the lingering mess of the mortgage and banking system.

Everything that I have ever feared, regarding global currency, increase in FED power, more international agency control over America, is all coming true. Not black helicopter stuff, actual head lines. Not conspiracies discussed in bars, but actual government policy.

All of this violates Article one, section eight, clause five of the U.S. Constitution. All of this will cause the U.S. Dollar to be completely de-based through inflation and eventual replacement.

I know the general public reaction is “well lets see what happens, and see of our leaders can fix it.”

Yeah, okay, these are the very leaders causing the problems and the very leaders who ignore the Constitution.

And it surprises me not one bit, that Paul Volcker has returned to a position in Washington, at this very moment in time.

Signatures my fellow patriots, keep getting those signatures. We the People can stop them.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

09.13.2009

“Words from the Several States” A special column edition

“Government 'health care' wouldn't save my sister”

An open letter to Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and Sean Hannity

Gentlemen,

I have been doing a lot of thinking as to what my contribution to this fight against socialized health care should be.

I have a unique perspective on both the big picture and the very small details.

I am going to be 42 come November, and have already been intimately involved in seeing health care provided to both my mother and twin sister Carla; both of whom are no longer with me.

All of what follows is very hard to write, I simply ask you to make the journey with me, in the world of government agencies, government workers, long waits , long letters and more government forms than any human being should ever witness.

My mother was diagnosed with mental illness three years before my twin sister Carla and I were born.

My mother suffered terribly from multiple personalities and horrible paranoia. For 17 years my Dad dealt with getting her treated, hospitalized, forms, bills and more bills. My Dad even had to work a couple of jobs at a time, to pay for all the medical bills.

I don't know how he did it all those years, and trying to raise two kids in the process.

At the age of 21 I became legal guardian for my Mom and took over her daily care.

The English language cannot possibly allow me to describe what is involved in taking care of a mentally ill mother, who had many other health problems.

Thankfully I worked an afternoon shift and was able to make all the rounds of doctors, specialists, hospitals and ever growing piles of government forms. There simply is no way to describe the amount of paperwork.

14 years I took care of my Mom, and I just want to thank God for all the wonderful doctors, nurses and specialists who saved my Mom's life time after time. I'm thankful to all those hospital workers, who keep the ER waiting rooms clean, so that I could get three or four hours sleep, on countless nights I had to rush my Mom to different hospitals.

I am again thankful to so many doctors whom I got to know and who wrote off so many bills to Medicare, because they knew they would never get paid for the treatment they just got done giving my Mom.

These highly trained medical people are doing the Lord's work day in and day out. My Mom lived a longer and better life because of their gentle and practiced care.

My sister had her first mental breakdown at age 28. A whole new world I entered there. It was nothing like taking care of Mom, much harder, far more stressful, and far more complex, since I wasn't Carla's legal guardian.

Carla used to blame me for her mental illness during her breakdowns. Thats very normal by the way, for the mentally ill person to blame those who are trying the hardest to get them care and treatment.

I had already taken care of Mom for seven years by this point, so I thought I was “prepared” to do all the “right” things and make all the “right” decisions for Carla.

First of all there is no such thing as being prepared or making all the right decisions when you are trying to help mentally ill family members. In fact, you fly by the seat of your pants and just start signing forms.

Over 11 years My Dad and I had Carla hospitalized six times. During her treatment, I would make all the rounds of phone calls, forms, passing on all information between doctors, government agencies, employers, specialists and an endless sea of other people. Then two weeks later I'd start the rounds and phone calls all over again.

My twin died on January 31, 2007. The last mental breakdown was horrible and far different than all the others. There are never two mental breakdowns that are ever the same.

In Carla's mental state, her actions were dangerous to say the least. My wife-to-be was scared and Carla had threatened to kill me. She tried to get me fired from my job, blamed me for everything that was wrong in her life, blamed me for a failed marriage.

Finally at one point I had to do the unthinkable and get a PPO against my own twin sister, because i had a future wife to protect and my own life.

I hope no one hearing this letter ever has to make this kind of impossible decision.

10:16pm I got a voice mail from the landlord's wife, to call Lincoln Park PD and she begged me to please let her know if I would need any help.

It is a very surreal world you enter, when the afternoon watch commander sits you down and tells you your sister was found dead in her apartment.

You make a lot of decisions real quick inside your head, when things like this happen. I told the watch commander I would identify my sister's body and I made a decision to myself to handle everything of Carla's funeral, taking care of the apartment and handling the legal end of things. I made this decision because my Dad had to bury his daughter and that is something no parent should have to do.

I won't go into the details of the eight days that followed my sister's death. It is to painful, I still feel a lot of guilt and I guess the details don't matter, accept to me, my Dad and my older brother.

After 14 years of taking care of my Mom and the 11 years I helped my dad with Carla, the government agencies never made anything easy.

I shutter to think how hard it would've been to take care of Carla, if we had full fledged socialized health care to deal with.

Gentlemen, I promise you this, that if I ever see one more government medical form, it would be way to soon.

I have been active in politics since I was ten years old. I have read the and studied the Constitution many times. In 1993 I read every paragraph of Clinton's 1368 page health care bill. I spent five days in DC, as a private citizen on my own dime, in August of '93 fighting against Clinton's plans to socialize America's health care.

I plan on sending this letter to the President, to Congress, to newspapers, to everyone.

So gentlemen if you please I have a few choice words, phrases and clauses for the President of the United States.

Number one: “Don't tread on me.” I wonder Mr. President if you know the origin of that phrase, during the very infancy of our quest to be a free and Constitutionally limited republic.

Number two: Mr. President I have been through every single word of article one, section eight of the U.S. Constitution, you and the current Congress have no legal ground to stand on. There are no powers granted to Congress that allow for the federal government to control health care or even health care insurance. There is no mechanism in place that grants and authorizes anything of this nature.

Number three: Mr. President I directly challenge you or any of your staff to a debate on the Constitution in regards to your health care proposal. I may not have a law degree from Harvard, or be a Constitutional scholar in your league, but I know I can properly and fully discredit any arguments you may present, on how you think it is within the power of your office to even introduce socialized health care.

You pick the venue, rules of debate and the moderator, all I need to know is what time to be there. I'll even bring you one my copies of the Constitution, in case you need it. I am perfectly comfortable working from memory alone.

Number four: Mr. President I publish a web-based newsletter that deals mostly with economics, fiat money and politics. I suggest you bone up on my newsletter so you know exactly how deeply trenched I am for this fight. How well I am versed and how serious my economic and constitutional arguments are, for not having socialized health acre.

Gentlemen in closing I just have a few words to say, to you three, the tea party movement and the town hall goers.

Those words are, “Hold this line” this far and no further. I am in the trenches with all of you right to the end. I will do anything within my power to work with the tea party movement and all those people filling up the town halls with strong cries for liberty and freedom.

President Obama and his advisors along with Congress, have come back for round two. So we “Hold this line.”

If they manage to go against the will of the people, then we all must take it to our state legislators and governors, to make sure they “Hold this line” on the 9^th and 10^th amendments.

I sent the president a one page health care proposal, that allows the free market to solve it's own problems and keeps the federal government as far away from health care as possible.

Hold this line gentlemen. I am honored to be in this trench by your side. It is the very least I can do for fellow patriots.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

09.13.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, part 013

Money! Those little pieces of paper and coin we use for commerce big and small.

Back to the egg folks, as this new column dives head first into what FRN Newsletter does best; finding new and more enlightening ways of describing the perils of debt based currency.

It occurs to me that I have never done a historical bullet point presentation of how fiat money changed America, and put us on the road to serfdom.

Here you go my thoughtful readers, the perfect bunny trail you can send to all your friends and shove in the face of an elitist main-stream media:

• Thursday, August 16th, 1787. In my analysis the single most important day of the federal convention and the framing, debating and voting, that would be the Constitution of the United States. The day the infant states voted a 9 to 2 majority to strike the words “Emit bills of credit.” When, as a nation you decide that your money will not be worthless pieces of paper notes, backed by nothing more than a promise, you have decided that your money must be backed by something of value. Gold and Silver were the two precious metals we used all the way up to 1974. If anyone in the media needs to fact check my column, then you should go right to the source material, “Journal of the federal convention kept by James Madison.” Pages 542 and 543 as a point of fact. I re-read that section of Madison's journal from time to time, just to inspire myself to keep plugging away. The founding fathers really did understand that debt-based worthless “fiat money” was the root cause of inflation. They understood that such a monetary system would lead America down the road to eventual bankruptcy, if ever employed. The founding fathers understood the history of humanity, and voted to start our nation off with an honest money system, backed by gold and silver.

• A quick note on the relative size and power of America's federal government from 1787 to 1918. Our federal government was small and seen as weak, as compared to much larger governments around the world. You could have a handful of businessmen and bankers dominate and control practically every facet of the small federal government. Unlike today, where the federal government is so large (1/5 of our GDP) and it controls nearly everything.

• The marriage of American banking and the political establishment un-officially began in. November of 1910. An assistant secretary of the treasury, a powerful Senator, four representatives of America's largest banks and one agent from a German investment house. These seven men laid down the framework for what would become the world's most powerful central bank, capable of creating debt-based money at a whim, having the full authority of the federal government and fully independent of the federal government. A private banking cartel with government power, known today as the Federal Reserve System. The goal was to protect and keep power within a select few money-center banks, to create debt-based money as needed, to purchase Treasury notes and finance a growing federal government's debt and manage the global banking system.

• December 23, 1913 at 6:02pm, a thoughtful but unsuspecting President Wilson signs the federal reserve act into law. In February of 1914, the very first “Federal Reserve Notes” are printed and added to the money system. At this very moment began the war between U.S. Notes backed by gold/silver and federal reserve notes that were backed by faith in the federal government and nothing more. They were pure inflation in 1914, they were pure inflation in 1974 when they destroyed our gold standard, they remain inflationary today, as we spiral out of control.

• 1933 – 1935. Glass-Steigel is passed, separating regulation duties by type of bank. Investment houses go largely unregulated.

• 1969, Gold is devalued from $35/ounce to $42/ounce. This was due to collective inflationary effects of a growing federal government debt, deficit and general size of government. Inflation in general, caused by worthless federal reserve notes, was starting to crowd out gold/silver backed U.S. Dollars.

• 1973 – 1974, President Nixon takes America off the gold standard and to a global system of fluctuating currencies and interest rates. China is the only major power that still bench marks it's currency and does not play along with fluctuating rates.

• 1974 – 1983, in the span of one decade, COLA goes up nearly 50% due to inflation from the sole use of federal reserve notes in the U.S. Marketplace. Life-styles change completely as house holds move from a single wage being enough, to needing two incomes for a family, or even just couples. Let alone how single home owners get hit. Inflation has changed our very lives, and not for the better. Working/Middle class Americans are getting crushed by inflation and I want us all to rise up and stop it.

• 1981, total federal debt of the government, $986 Billion. If the federal budget had been indexed to grow at the rate of inflation from 1982 to 1991, through economic growth alone, we could've paid off the entire federal government's debt by 1992. We could've done this and secured America's freedom and growth for the next 50 years. It also would have allowed us to return to a gold/silver standard under far more pleasant banking conditions. But the federal government's leadership did not do this, in fact we started spending on a scale unheard of in the history of humanity.

• From 1982 to 2009 we have racked up $10.7 Trillion in new federal government debt. That is 11 times the amount of debt we racked up from 1787 to 1981. The majority of this government dent was merely wealth transfer from the working/middle-class wallet to the government, to programs slated to benefit the poor. Yet poverty is worse and more pronounced today, than in 1981. Behind every bit of our current $11.7 Trillion debt, are worthless federal reserve notes.

• 2009. The federal government will spend $1.8 Trillion more than it will take in. The single largest deficit ever.

Most economists either don't know, or will not admit that you stop debt creation and finance by employing two measures. One obviously, is that the federal government balance their budget. A hard task, but one that will benefit us individuals, through less taxation, more private sector job growth and a stronger banking system. Two, we must go back to the solid, honest and realistic monetary system of a Constitutionally required gold/silver standard. It is the only way to stop inflation. It is the only free market based money system that has ever worked throughout all of human history. The very moment any nation or empire decides to use debt-based currency, you are dooming the working class into eventual poverty. Human history does not lie.

Think about it. In 1972 a single wage earner could support an entire household. If you were a single person back then, working a decent job, you could pay all your bills with two pay checks a month, and the other two you could save, spend or do both.

Now, a mere 36 years later, inflation through a lack of a gold standard, has pushed the majority of the working/middle classes into a “pay check to pay check” life style. Nobody saves money, as we spend almost everything just to survive.

The fact is, when you adjust wages for inflation, most workers are making less than they were 25 years ago. All of this is due to inflation, the insanity of federal government spending and excessive taxation.

Last week Professor and noted Economist Walter Williams was a guest host for Rusk Limbaugh. Which is always a treat for economic analysts like me, to hear one of the world's leading economists discuss the federal reserve banks and debt-based currency. Dr. Williams has always been a source of inspiration and a consistent party for me to check my premises against. I figure if the economic analysis I am laying out for people, is within the ballpark of Dr. Williams, then I am on very safe ground.

Sp I use that and these bullet points on debt-based currency, to rally once again, all of you to take notice of this giant impediment to our constitution and our economic freedom.

I am glad to see people attending these grass root town halls and organizing the tea parties. As I mentioned in my previous movement writing, this level of citizen participation would make the founding fathers happy. I suggest that one of our next great issues to solve, is that of fiat money, and return America to an honest gold/silver standard.

I have enclosed the FRN petition signature page, as I always will. The only way we will ever see the insanity of inflation stopped, is by citizens just like us, grabbing the bull by the horns and forcing Congress and the White House to obey the Constitution. There is no other rational or realistic way to make it happen, then for everyone to get four signatures and mail them in. Pass it along, lets use the power of the Internet to our advantage.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

 

09.06.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, part 012

I was going to consult with Scott the FRN editor-in-chief, before I started this movement writing. I may still, but as of this second, I am a pen unleashed, a keyboard untamed, a political mind over-flowing to, I dare say, absorb the better grace of any editor's tongue.

I am a political consultant/journalist/author pushed beyond the gates of reason . . .

Hold on America, this column is now entering hyper-space.

That reflective mood I was in is gone. Now I just feel a certain vagueness towards the American body-politic.

The ray of light:

On one side I see a small awakening in working/middle class America, as they head off to town halls and give our federal legislators hell, for even considering socialized health care. Almost all the surveys show 75% of Americans are against this un-Constitutional government power grab of our rights and wallets, under the guise of national health care.

It is a small ray of light, that both humbles and gives me optimism that maybe, if we all work hard for the next 40 years, we can reclaim this nation. We may even replace the entire power establishment with good honest people, in all high offices of power and trust. The ray of light, that shines bright from the tea parties, makes me hopeful that they will be a force magnitude of 100 soon enough.

The Pits:

Then I slide back into my personal political reality, where I analyze every feasible angle, every news cycle and every back-room deal going down. And Brother! There are a lot of back room deals these days.

I don't like “the pits”, I see a president now seeking to have the sole authority to shut down parts of the Internet, in the name of cyber-security. This new proposal (S. 773 Cyber-Security Act of 2009) should leave every American stunned and in shock. It should then lead you to a phone, keyboard, type-writer or blackberry; to notify your Congressional delegation that they better not tread on the first amendment. In fact here is the opening language. It is the Phrase “and for other purposes” that scares me, because we know exactly how that can be abused. The very worst of all legislation is filled with these open ended phrases.

S. 773 Cyber Security Act 2009 To ensure the continued free flow of commerce within the United States and with its global trading partners through secure cyber communications, to provide for the continued development and exploitation of the Internet and intranet communications for such purposes, to provide for the development of a cadre of information technology specialists to improve and maintain effective cyber security defenses against disruption, and for other purposes.

This “let us do it for you” elitist mindset, that one person can mange a crisis or attack, no individual rights will be violated, and the cyber-hackers will be brought to justice.

For me personally, I always thought the best way to stop cyber-terrorists/hackers, was to hunt them down, capture them for trial, or eliminate them if they resist.

But hey, thats just me making a pointed decision, instead of a president who will take away just a few more rights and ask you to thank him for it.

What I am trying to say, is everyone in America who has an e-mail address, needs to e-mail their elected federal officials and tell them where to shove this proposed bill.

If this bill even gets voted out of committee, everyone on that committee should be thrown out of office.

I'd also like to point out that even proposing this bill, the sitting president is violating three different areas of the Constitution.

I wonder if the collective brain-trust of the main-stream mush media could name those three areas for me. I'll buy three rounds for the first main-stream anchor who knows the answer.

There are many other political reasons to be in the pits, but S. 773 should enrage everyone to march on Washington.

The Crucible:

I hate to see people used. I hate to see a free society lied to, served sugar candy and then abused even further. It is during the daily crucible of fighting against all the political lies, that I wish for the use of a magic political wand. Just once.

But that is fantasy and I use it only to take a breath and then move on with the time consuming hard work of being an active citizen.

I sometimes sit at my computer, lean back, as I just did, and wonder what “event” or level of rights taken, will spur the general population into being consistently active citizens.

It is further fantasy for anyone to think that we all can be informed and fight against all bad political things all the time. No one person can do that. You stay reasonably well informed and educated on everything going on, and then pick a few issues that will garnish the majority of your passions and warrant the proper amount of time.

It is a singular journey, that we all must travel. What things matter to us, that we are willing to say in loud voice “Don't tread on me.”

All these tea parties and heavily attended town halls across America, is a good start. As more of us start to see and realize the full level of socialism being pushed on us. I'm confident the number of enraged citizens will grow, for that remains the crucible of a free society, citizens standing up and saying don't tread on me.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

 

08.30.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, part 11C

“Manufactured reality, that will not work”

Verses

“Simple reality, that one must accept it's function”

Pretty deep sub-title, huh? Lets see if my quill is now equal of such a tease.

I've now spent two movement writings, defining the two major political philosophies of the human condition, and how both have been sanitized by America's two dominant political parties.

Lets take it all the way now, by comparing the manufactured reality offered by modern liberalism, and the simple organic truth of Conservatism as a function of the human spirit and “sweat from thy brow.”

Section 01: Government as “provider”

Modern Liberalism subscribes to the notion that America needs to be something different and better than what it is. Only classical and older governments , such as the ones found in Europe, can truly offer Americans the society Liberals want for us.

That it is “okay” to have 9.5% unemployment, as long as the government is providing “nanny-state” services to over half the population. Surely we must surrender a sizable portion of freedom, according to Liberals, to embrace the un-remarkable socialist bread basket, that will always be more than half empty.

Liberals find this appealing, seductive and worthy of your sacrificed freedom.

Recently a new friend mentioned to me, that one of her son's friends didn't see how the Constitution still applies, since it was written so long ago.

This alone, I would call a crucible within our education system. That somehow a “protective document” of individual liberties is now out-dated.

I think Liberals overall, get annoyed by the Constitution for many reasons. It doesn't allow the Liberal mindset to engineer society to the European “Utopian” model and it doesn't allow for group rights.

Darn tootin it does not, and thank almighty God for that.

Classic Conservatism is what allowed the Constitution to be written. I also know that a lot of Liberals are just upset that the Constitution was written by white men, who were the revolutionaries of the day.

Well, that history, so get over it. Tough noodles, ya know? If it were written by Indians, someone else would've been made about that. You can't win for losing on this issue.

All you Liberals out there who hate America so much, for being so free, listen to me good. Does it really matter who wrote and amended the Constitution, or does it simply matter that it was written when it was, and has protected our God-given rights, the way it has?

Sorry folks, that last rant was directed towards the main-stream mush media, which is Liberal/socialist and hates America for being free. Ask them, they will tell you.

Back to the function of classic conservatism.

Conservatism is more work than Liberalism. Conservatism demands we all be really big boys and girls and do everything for ourselves, that individuals should be doing. That a Government, federal to be exact. Does only the things granted power to do, under the Constitution and nothing more.

Has the federal department of Education improved America's education system since 1961? No, it has not, in fact our education system, as a whole, is in a steady decline. Most of it due to a changing idea of what society values, but a federal department cannot save the day. It can only take in money, administrate it, waste it, then pass it along to others, who did not earn it. It is a classic example of how Liberal mindset believes you can create an agency and good things will flow and nurture America. Nurture America, so that we all bow down and thank Liberals for making it so.

As a basic function, conservatism says shut down the education department, allow parents and local school boards to keep all that money within their own districts and put corporal punishment back in schools.

The dept. of education is a manufactured reality of what Liberals want people to believe is good for them. Keeping your tax dollars under your own local school board control is a simple conservative function, that is organic and real.

Now a modern Liberal would read that entire section 01 and sat “But Chris, there are people out there who are less fortunate, we must help them.” Then the modern Liberal would go out and create a huge government agency, take even more tax dollars out of the private sector, dump it into the wasteful abyss of government spending, and dish out funding for programs that will not work. Then ask for more money next fiscal year, so the agency can be even a bigger failure.

The average Conservative reads section 01 and simply says “Hey Brother, can I help you? Give me your hand, lets work through your situation and get you back on your feet.”

Section 02: Media spin verses hard news.

The last 15 years has seen an amazing transformation within news delivery and consumption. Today, you can be anywhere in the world, and get news, from a 100,000 sources, simply by pushing buttons on your blackberry or i-phone. The word “amazing”, barely seems to cover it.

Unfortunately, the downward spiral in journalistic temperament, has caused so much news to be “Manufactured propaganda.”

Oh my God Chris! Did you use the word propaganda in relation to the American media?

Yes, i did and i meant it.

What is offered up as new by the main-stream media, is in a word, horrible. Lacking total journalistic integrity and zero level of substance. Main-stream media news broadcasts are manufactured propaganda.

Recent example:

Impassioned angry citizens, unhappy with the proposed socialized health care bill, take to town halls for a redress of grievance, as provided for in the First Amendment.

Main-stream mush media calls the protesters “Mobs” and “will the members of congress be safe” at their respective meetings?

The story no longer is an active citizenry communicating a redress of grievance, it is now completely different, angry mobs out of control, will Congress be safe.

Manufactured news, manufactured news-cycles and I scream out for a little journalistic control.

When I hit the “power” button on my remote and start skimming the networks' news hours, I barely hear the words anymore. Essentially I just take in how a particular anchor is angling a particular story for that news cycle. Subject to tweeking in the next hour, you know?

News-Talk radio, AM radio to be exact, has become in my mind, the only place left, where you can find investigative journalism, lengthy interviews and solid commentary, that does not take away from the content or context of the hard news being presented. TV news has become almost 100% theater and info-tainment.

Section 03: Generational dependency/poverty verses job creation:

So how is that LBJ war on poverty coming? Any winners on the horizon? We've been fighting this war for over 40 years and I think it is high time for someone, anyone, to throw in the towel.

Talk about a series of Liberal-elitist programs that fundamentally changed America, this one wins top prize.

No long phrases, no two pages or another 1500 words. Jobs and consistent job creation, through lower taxes across the board and less regulations. Jobs at every end of the spectrum for people, that is what will eliminate poverty.

Government programs do only one thing, reward people for not working, and take money away from people who are working, to pay for it.

So much of what we fear, hate and despise about society can be fixed by a strong job base. You will never “fix” any of society's woes, by turning over more money to larger governments. It is a flawed premise throughout all of human history.

Liberalism and Socialism have spent nearly 100 years infiltrating and destroying the American experiment, true conservatism is the only way of life, to bring America back. It will takes decades, maybe 40 years. That is reality.

Everything else is just background noise.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

08.23.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, part 11B

“True Conservatism” & “The Beltway cocktail circuit”

Lets now take a long, deep, thoughtful, pronounced and fully realized look at this other major political philosophy called Conservatism.

I'll go nice and slow, so that the elitists and brilliant brain-trusts of the main-stream media are able to keep up. To the rest of my readership, I apologize.

Trust me folks, a day of reckoning is coming for the media, and they will eventually re-discover the trade skills of journalism.

The Latin route word is “to save or preserve.” In modern western society, where you have a Constitutionally limited democratic-representative republic, the translation would loosely be in political-suffrage terms; “to save or preserve the rights and sovereignty of the individual.” That is as exact as I can break it down.

I would further, and more properly expand on that political term, to say that “Conservatism” is a mindset, a way of living ones life, a way of feeling about the society and social norms around you.

We then could get down into sub-sets of thought, such as “Liberal Conservatism”, which would be people who champion free markets, as that allows for a strong economic base, job creation and less poverty through solid vitality of business-growth action.

There are about five other sub-sets of Conservatism, but that will truly have to be another series of columns.

The modern day GOP-Republican party has hijacked and grossly perverted conservatism.

I would ask all the members of the main-stream mush media to now overlay my definitions of Classic Liberalism and Conservatism, and see how extremely close they are in context.

Okay, back to bashing the republican party, a favored blood-sport here at FRN Newsletter, if only because they are so deserving.

The robber barons came in during the 1880's and literally stole the GOP away from its base as a responsible common man's party.

Now, after 130 years of media spin and collective public ignorance, there is this insanely simplistic belief that the GOP is the party of the “Big guy”, the business man. Specifically White rich businessmen. The last 50 years has seen the worst abuse.

As with the Liberal base now controlling the Democratic party through group think, the GOP is controlled by a very small group of people who feel the power should lay within their hands for all of time.

The GOP doesn't believe in smaller government, at least not much smaller than Democrats. One could argue that President George W. Bush presided over the largest expansion of government, though we have to see if President Obama can out do him.

What has happened to the GOP over the last 130 years is even worse than what travesties besieged the Democrats. The Conservative base is still there, maybe 20% of the party. Yet look at the candidates the RNC tosses up for selection, Reagen, Bush sr., Bush jr., Dole and McCain. Ambassador Alan Keyes is a far better man and a true conservative, but he would see an end to GOP power held in the same old collection of to few hands.

So come on all you true Conservatives, its time for you to hit those party meetings and “Take them over.”

I mean it, keep going to the party meetings until you have changed the leadership.

“The Beltway Cocktail Circuit”

Now this is where the real political party in America comes to play, and network. The cocktail circuit has become an out-growth (read mutation) of large government, wealthy Liberals, think tank membership, powerful journalists, academics and rich business people who want the intellectuals to like them.

It is the same old group of people and their off-spring waiting to take over. The same group of people who make up the power establishment. The people who really want all of us to believe the media vomit, that Democrats are for the little guy and the GOP is for the rich. I don't know about you, but I surely do not want America to go another 100 years, with 99% of the political power in the hands of the same two corrupt parties.

It is a rotation process. A young person graduates from Yale (read Harvard, Princeton, etc.) and gets a job through either their family or “connections” with a senator's office. After four years they become a deputy assistant secretary in one of the government's many bloated departments. Five years later they go back home and run the statewide party for five years and maybe teach a lecture class on the side. That person then gets tapped to be an advisor to a presidential campaign. If the candidate wins, they surely will have a plum position in the White House, if not, they will continue their trek through the power establishment on another course.

The same group of people, circulating from Government, business, banking, academia, Think tanks and the media. David Axelrod's son has just got his first real job, at the Huffington Post. You see my point? The next generation now taking root.

This cycle has seen the now sprinting spiral downward for America. We didn't have this culture of “Political inbreeding” when the federal government was only 3% of America's GDP. Simply because it was not big enough to support a “Political power class.” That was before World War One, today the federal government is 20% of our GDP and plenty large enough to support and self-sustaining endless breeding of drones and drone-children. President George W. Bush was born into this system of power on one end, while President Obama happily sold his soul to the Chicago machine, to be a political insider. In my mind there is zero difference between the two presidents.

The cycle must be stopped and the power must be taken away. There is only one way to do it, more political parties need to get their candidates elected and the federal government must be whittled down to a respectable 6% or 7% of GDP. This can happen, it must happen. It will take 25 years or more, but it must happen. Classic Liberals must take back their Democratic party, Conservatives must take back the Republican party, we all must be more politically involved and educated. One more thing, If those two parties cannot be saved, then they must be abandoned by the common man, and new parties must support the Constitution. This is a practical political statement.

Finally, we must never let the Constitution be hijacked by thugs, socialists and elitists. I want to pistol-whip conservative talk radio for awhile, if you don't mind. They drive me crazy to, with their mean hatred of third parties. Rush is the biggest abuser. I know it is his show and he can comment on anything he wants, but he does not get it.

Two of the largest third parties are the Libertarians and the Constitution party. Both parties have true conservatives and Classic liberals in their ranks. Both parties are totally free of special interest money.

I think Rush has this simplistic belief that if a Libertarian candidate for president should win, that they would have no mandate for change. Congress could just ignore them. Wrong, simplistic and ignorant.

Plenty of room, in America, for many political parties, independents and

I want Conservative talk radio, as a whole, to stop hedging their bets on a Republican party owned by special interests. I want Conservative talk radio to start thinking outside the political main-stream box.

If you are reading this, then you are the Movement.

08.16.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, part 011A

“Classic Liberalism”

I am still in this kind of “mood” when it comes to political/economic writing. Mainly because I see so clearly how the war for America's future is starting to unfold. I don't know if what follows could be a series of columns or me just trying to see the “fourth Dimension” of where we are headed. Thankfully I have this very particular group of readers, fully capable of seeing things with me. I need that right now, re-assurance that I have more than one muse.

I had lunch with a very close old friend today, haven't seen each other in a very long time. She is a Liberal, a true progressive. Far smarter than the entire DNC brain-trust if you ask me.

I guess our conversation over lunch sparked me to keep my fingers tapping on this keyboard and to never give in to watered down journalism.

“Classic Liberalism” is as mis-understood and improperly represented these days, as Conservatism.

Hey! You in the main-stream media, I'm talking about you, as my definition unfolds.

The individual's liberties must be protected from restraint, usually at the hands of an oppressive government. Property rights are respected as well as Natural rights. Equality under the law, with a Constitutional limitation on government. This includes but not limited to, a gold standard to protect against free market abuse in general. Specifically to have fiscal responsibility within government and actual free trade for the globe.

The Latin root of “Liberal” is “freedom” or “to be Free.”

Liberalism has been hijacked by the Democratic party and more specifically by the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which sets Democratic party policy on the national level.

The DNC has perverted Liberalism to the point where most people, when hearing the “CNN/MSNBC spin” think the Democratic party is going to take care of the “little guy” and government programs replace individual responsibility.

There, I can describe Classic Liberalism and the hijacking no more basic than that.

If any of you really smart people in the main stream media are offended by this, then maybe you need to take a civics class, or a class in basic Latin.

Okay enough of using the media as my punching bag. But ya know, they just don't take the time to do the heavy lifting.

This is why, for many years now, I consider myself a “Jeffersonian Liberal.”

Most people deep down inside know the truth. That the more we allow political parties to control the political spectrum, the more they will control all the governments in America, and the less freedom, We The People will have.

Police, Fire departments, local school boards and local public services of trash, lighting road and medical facilities remain the most important “government decisions.”

I often wonder how the great democratic party became the “coalition of interest groups” that it is today. It was once a proud example of a working-common man's party. Exactly like the Republican party of the mid 1800s, as a point of fact.

It is now an example of what happens throughout all of human history, when “groups” pass themselves off as “champions” of the little guy.

All the groups came, two by two. Unions, associations, sudo-suffrage groups, special interests and lobbyists and so on and so on, forever.

They perverted the Democratic party into believing it could only exist through the application of government power to obtain group rights.

Well there are no group rights in America.

Let me repeat that for the Liberal Elitists in the main-stream mush media, because their IQ's are so high. Group rights are NOT provided for in any article or amendment to the constitution. Real suffrage was provided for and handled through the 9th. 10th, 13th, 14th, 19^th , 24^th and 26^th amendments.

Oh yes, now the media has to go to their copies of the Constitution and do some research. Oh My Gosh Chris! You want the main-stream media to engage in “investigative Journalism?” Thats right little Susie, I do.

Anytime and every time a group right styled proposal becomes law, you lose just a little bit more of your individual rights and liberties.

The DNC knows this, the media elites know this and you and I both know they know this. So everybody knows but no one will go to a Democratic party meeting and “take it over.”

I mean really take it over, where you have enough classic liberals show up and change the party leadership. Whether it be at the local, county, state or national level, it all matters.

Up to the mid 1950's the party still had some real integrity. Its gone, all gone. Combine this with a public mindset that believes it is the federal government's duty to give us “stuff”, programs, grants, jobs, etc. What you now have is a DNC stew that everyone wants to eat, even though it is not on the Constitutional menu.

Every time a liberal member of government votes to tax us just a few dollars more, to fund the next great government plan, we slide further into an abyss of socialism.

How well this nation would be served if a handful of Classic Liberals were to start taking back the government, taking back the real Democratic Party.

Classic Liberals? I know you're out there, time to take action, this nation needs your vision. I stand by your side, as a real classic “Jeffersonian Liberal” and will fight in the trenches with you.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

 

08.09.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, part 010D

I guess that last column has put me in some kind of reflective mood or muse, so I'm not going to fight it. Just let it run it's due course.

First, let me shake your hand and say “Great Job.” Have you heard the news, you are now a mob. Yes, active citizens going to town-hall meetings, expressing their concern and disapproval for socialized health care. It is no longer civic duty, debate between public officials and the public, it is now labeled as “mobs” shouting down the poor little office holder.

Hey, you Liberal elitists in the main-stream media, “We the People” are standing up and putting this government on notice, you cannot shove socialism, in any form, down our throats.

I am proud of you America, your “Citizen Participation” brings a genuine smile to my face and a political tear to my eye.

I only got three words, “Keep It Up.” Whenever the main-stream government lapdog media refers to individual citizens taking part in the debate as “mobs”, then you know you are stopping bad government policy in its tracks.

We The People won the first round, Congress will not have a full floor vote on socialized health-care until after the recess.

Did you hear White House press secretary Gibbs, stating that the Mobs at the town-hall meetings were “Manufactured.”

Actually manufactured mobs is something David Axelrod and President Obama are intimately familiar with. They both have long careers and a skilled hand at such a devilish creation.

Now here is the truth Secretary Gibbs n co., those are nothing more than concerned citizens who have studied the health care bill and have come to ask questions and not let their leaders off the hook with simple lies and slight of hand.

This is called a “growing movement? and I am over-flowing with pride.

Neighbors getting together in their front yards, around a kitchen table or at a local diner and say to each other “we have to do something, we have to be the ones to make the change.?

They form a group and then start contacting other people who may be on the same Constitutional wave-length. The founding fathers called this an “active citizenry.”

I've heard a lot of allegations from the main-stream media that these “mobs” are controlled and funded by right-wing and republican leaders. Show me your proof, show me your journalism and investigation to back your allegations. Oh, thats right, you don't have any proof, you just toss it out there to spin the story. There is no one controlling or funding these people going to the town-hall meetings. They are citizens who have come together on their own and using their own resources.

I call it beautiful and say keep it up.

All this genuine citizen participation must really naw at the power establishment, for they have worked so hard to pull the wool over our eyes this one more time. For this, their crowning achievement of trying to take 17% of the private sector ands put it in their hands to control, and make us obey.

Wrong Wrong WRONG ! ! !

The power establishment is not more powerful than the educated active citizen who has now stood up and said with abundant clarity “Don't tread on Me.”

I am so ready for the second battle, in September, after they crawl back to D.C., to their “safe” offices, far away from active citizens, where they will try again.

We The People will defeat them again.

The line that was drawn in the sand is now engraved in stone. Americans as a whole have now consumed the truth about socialized health care, and what the government really wants to do.

We will not turn back, we do not want “end of life” counseling from the government staffer, trying to make sure “old people” don't suck up to much health care.

Some of President Obama's staff have already started to hint, that if socialized health care goes through, they might have to raise taxes on everyone to pay for it. They said it very nicely on the weekend shows, that no form of revenue was going to be taken off the table. See how they are setting us up for tax increases. Higher taxes serve only to rob people of more money and destroy more jobs through even worse economic downturn. Again, very simple economics that the main-stream media needs a certified “FRN” course in.

Keep it up all you citizens and patriots of this blessed “still free” republic.

Dig in deep and do not let some elitist on CNN calling you a Mob, stop you from taking action. Wear it as a badge of honor. You are smarter and better informed than they ever could be.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

 

08.02.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, part 010C

“Land of Opportunity” verses “Opportunist”

I have stayed away from doing general opinion pieces on racism in America for several reasons:

A. This newsletter focuses on Economics, fiat money and the politics thereof.

B. There are plenty of columnists, racists, opportunists and general haters in this nation already shouting their heads off about racism, 24 hours a day. I don't have anything in common with those people so I like to stay away from their close minded hatred for people and America in general. They add nothing to constructive dialog and are, in my opinion, a negative factor on society's ability to evolve.

100. I am an “American.” I am not a white-American or a Polish-American, I am just an American. Yet I get the sense that most people still want to categorize me as some kind of American. To this end, I feel anything I may offer up on racism, no matter how sincere or thoughtful, will be dismissed outright because “I couldn't possibly understand.”

I can't stand “Opportunists” of any kind. The ones out there that use skin color, a handicap, sexual orientation, etc., to get special treatment and media coverage. These people add no value to society. They serve only to stir up general populist emotions, grab some air time and promote a cause, only to serve their needs. Politicians do it all the time. I would say people like President Obama, David Axelrod, Carl Rove, Vernon Jordan, Clark Clifford, Secretary Clinton, Rev. Jessie Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, etc. They are all examples of opportunists, who believe only in the “next big thing” that can further their careers, crush an opponent or help them consolidate more power.

Opportunists punctuate for me, how America is sliding down into two classes of people, the super insulated establishment and “regular folk.”

The four most recent examples of opportunists of the super insulated establishment.

1. David Axelrod. I guarantee you, he was the genius behind telling President Obama to go on TV and make a brief announcement as the Iranian elections were only six hours old. Axelrod saw an opportunity for the President to score some political points off an election that could be spun to include Obama's Cairo speech.

2. Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jessie Jackson both have made careers out of being opportunists. Literally, the last 15 years for Jackson have been his bouncing from headline to headline, hot button issue to hot button issue. Micheal Jackson dies and there they are, “spokesmen” for the Jackson family. Disgusting.

3. President Obama, using a local news piece as a “teachable moment” on racism. I blame his staff equally on this one, for allowing the question and further allowing the President to diminish the office by opening his mouth.

A “teachable moment”, right? President Obama said it like he had some kind of grasp on the human condition, some deeper soulful understanding of the essence of life that was far beyond us regular folk to comprehend. As if we needed him, and only him, to guide us through the troubling times and turmoil of a Harvard professor's four hours at the police station.

I think Professor Gates wanted to be arrested, because his friend is the president and that is worthy of national media spotlight. I think professor Gates is tired of always being in the huge shadow cast by Cornell West, who always gets the CNN invite.

The police didn't act stupidly and a beer at the White House will do nothing towards race relations.

I single out President Obama's transgression over the other three because he is the man in the Oval office.

Perhaps I have just been more fortunate than the President. I was lucky to grow up with a very loving father, who taught me that we are all Americans first, last and always. We can celebrate and revel in our ethnic heritage and truly accept each other on the spirit in our words, deeds and thoughts. To love one another as brothers and sisters in the light and truth of Jesus Christ and to reject anything less than this, for our own edification.

Then I realize that President Obama grew up with a huge number of people sacrificing so that he could have many opportunities. And why not? This is the Land of Opportunity.

That answer two Wednesday's ago and three news cycles later, him throwing his good friend under the bus. It solidifies what I have known since the summer of 2004, Obama is an opportunist who cares very little for the Nation that gave him endless opportunities.

I think this nation has endless decades of work, before our mindset evolves beyond racism and finger pointing.

At the end of the day, on a intellectual and philosophical level, I pity President Obama and can only pray for his soul. For he has gained the Oval office, but cannot see beyond the next opportunity to promote his Liberal Elitist theory and tap his desk, expecting our obedience for his next teachable moment.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

 

07.26.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement part 010A

WARNING:

This column is long, picks on the establishment and offers real world solutions.

I know I know, all my columns are like that. Well, at the very least I am consistent.

Resources. I have used that word so many times when describing America's rebirth, and I will dust it off here and now.

There is no permanent “fix” to America without having the necessary resources to accomplish the task(s). Certain things must happen first, so that more resources are freed up, to allow everything else to come into fruition. It is the hydraulics that propel the liberties of a free republic.

Resource number one: Mindset

“We The People”. . . everything starts with us. It is the absolute mindset that each and every voting age citizen must embrace. It does not matter how powerful and destructive the federal government is, it can never be more power than we the people, unless we allow our mindset to take us there.

I choose, as an individual citizen, to completely reject the negative-energy mindset, that one person cannot make a difference. I choose to believe in positive-energy and proactive political involvement in our system of government. I choose to make a difference and make it happen.

We are Americans, we can do anything, including save our republic from dark political forces.

Embrace the mindset and we release the abundant resources of our will and spirit to do right by our nation and constitution.

Resource number two: information.

This is easy, because it is everywhere. It only becomes a matter of gathering and digesting quality independent information.

I will resist the temptation to point anyone in a certain direction for quality news and information. My personal method for gathering and digesting news and information will vary from yours, and so on.

Resource number three: Time

I wish I could “manufacture” more of it. Seriously, I need a 30 hour day, 24 is no longer a personal option.

“One evening a month” If any citizen wants to be involved with getting our republic back to true greatness, and our federal government back inside the Constitution; It will take time, your time. There is no substitute for making available to yourself and your family, the one evening a month needed, to be involved.

I hammer away at this point once again in this writing, because adding political activism to your monthly schedule shows a level of commitment needed, for us to succeed.

America will not be saved by 127,000 political activists doing 98% of the work day in and day out, while 210 million voting age citizens sit back and watch. No, America will be saved by 210 million citizens committing to one evening a month. I know that ruffles feathers, to bad. America is dying and only you can do your share.

Resource number four: “The Fire in your belly”

Inside each of us, is a passion that burns white hot, regarding this issue or that issue. Abortion, campaign finance reform, political party reform, new tax system, smaller government, strong military, good schools and so on.

Pick the issue that is fiercely important to you. The issue that makes you yell at the radio and TV, when the idiots in main-stream media do not express it as well as you know you can.

IF you do not have any one issue that burns you up, then that is okay because your humble political consultant has a few suggestions.

Well, I lied, actually just one suggestion. Everything begins and ends with money, so you could direct your talents and energy towards getting the federal reserve and their worthless fiat money out of your country. Out of our system, banks and wallets. OUT OUT OUT ! ! !

So thats my suggestion.

Resource number five: Organize

How you organize your political involvement does become a resource unto itself, as you maximize the time you put into your particular battle. I offer up the following ideas after decades of being involved. They work for me, may not work for you. You will find your own organizational system and when you do, please let me know so that I can learn from you and we lift each other up. I'm very serious on this point, flood my inbox.

Organizational ideas:

1. Open up a separate email account for your political activism. It just makes it so much easier and keeps you from losing an important email buried in all the crap that we all get everyday. I wish I had done this years ago, but now it is literally impossible for me to start a new account. Please learn from my ignorance on this.

2. Open up a new folder in “My Documents”, title it however you see fit. Steal one of your teenager's CD-Rs or flash drives, and use that to back up your file folder every month or whenever you feel you need to. If your teenager is out of CD-Rs or flash drives, then make then go to the store and buy you some. It is the very least they can do for you, after you gave them life and are now actively involved in making it a better nation for them to sit back and listen to their ipods, while you fight for the Constitution.

3. Develop a simple yet functional letterhead. This will help you not was time, when drafting letters, e-mails, responses, editorials, etc. A letterhead template saves time, trust me.

4. A good solid copier paper box and some folders or 10 X 13 envelopes. To organize all the responses, letters, brochures you may get in the mail, once you start becoming an effective political activist.

5. Space. Set aside a small corner in your spare room, where your computer is, or your den, library, kitchen counter, etc. That space is your political work space and it is sacred. This sounds corny but it helps bring seriousness to your particular political battle. Let everyone in the family know, that if they enter your political space, they better be prepared to dive into the mud of political activism and help you with your cause. If they do not, then they must leave your space alone.

6. Network. Everything you do, every letter, e-mail or information you send out, share it with everyone in your e-mail address book. Ask all of them to get involved and to network your information to everyone in their address books. We have this incredible tool of the Internet, lets us it. Some people will e-mail you back and ask you to stop sending them stuff, no biggy; delete them from your distribution list and move on.

7. When you start getting the contact names and information of people in office and those around them, save it. Make a separate contact log and make sure you keep a hard copy and also back it up on the flash drive you stole from your teenager. You keep the name and current contact information of everyone you deal with. I wish I had done this 29 years ago but I didn't.

8. Don't yell. When you talk to political leaders and their staff, don't yell or be dis-respectful. It will not help your cause. Like so many political activists I shouted, yelled and screamed during my “early years” and all I accomplished was giving myself high blood pressure. You want to engage public officials on an intellectual level of dialog, debate and facts. This is how the average citizen effects serious change. I have been doing this long enough now, that I can say with absolute certainty, that when you elevate your issue and engage that way, you have a far greater impact, then just a three second clip of you on the local 10p.m. news, waving a sign.

Resource number six: The Moment of Action

Welcome to the world of taking political action, there is no turning back. You are now part of the movement.

This is where I transition into how I think we should proceed with the proper order for fixing this nation and her federal government.

There is no absolute best way to proceed, there is only the way we choose and then refine along the path.

Goal # One:

Money. Everything in a free market society will always begin and end with money, most certainly how it affects every citizen, every day on an individual level. There is no sustained economic vitality if a nation's money is based on debt. Eventually the value of that debt-based currency will return to zero, leaving two classes in America; the very poor and the very very insulated wealthy. It has happened to every nation and empire over all of human history. Every nation or empire went bankrupt. America is now 25 years down the path of being a “debtor nation.”

How Money and debt financing work:

• Our current “Fiat Money” is based on debt and federal laws that force you to use debt-based currency. Under the Constitution our money is supposed to be backed by a standard of gold and silver. The federal reserve act of 1913, designed to protect the wealth of large money center banks and create an elastic currency changed all that. The federal reserve act directly violates the Constitution and directly affects your ability to save and purchase, as your money is depreciated in value through inflation. The federal government is very much aware that the federal reserve and the debt-based money they create out of thin air, violates the Constitution; and furthermore aware that you are suffering under artificial inflation, yet they do nothing. Even though they have taken a sacred oath to protect and preserve the Constitution. The President and Congress either do not care or do not have the political courage to stand up for us, the Constitution and repeal the federal reserve act.

• Once the FED has created $100 Billion lets say, to buy up Treasury notes to finance federal government debt, where does that money go? It goes into the marketplace and has now added $100 Billion in debt to our nation's balance sheet. It does not buy goods or services, it sits out there as pure inflation. It drives up the price of everything you buy, drives down the value of your property, and drives down the value of the U.S. Dollar around the world.

• You and I, through higher taxes, are then responsible to pay the interest payment on that debt back to the federal reserve. How do you feel about that? All your money going to pay interest service to an un-constitutional entity? The elected officials in D.C. Just sit back and say “Ah Shawks, nothin we can do . . .”

This is the part where it truly becomes all about you. The main stream media will never take the time to do an honest investigation into the federal reserve and their illegal authority over the economy and your money. Without trying to be mean, 98% of the journalists inside the main stream media do not have the economic, history and political training to understand the gold standard, how it was destroyed and how the FED violates the constitution. Inside their liberal elitist minds they have already decided that “regular folk” can never understand such a concept. The main stream media has always been a willing accomplice during the age of Television.

I know for certain, this will always fall to a handful of authors, publishers and journalists like myself, to do the heavy lifting of establishing a national dialog on the issue of fiat money. Thats fine, I am up to the task of doing my share.

So as i said, it is now about you.

Within yourself, you have made a decision to get involved and better your nation. Don't concern yourself with how big the task is, especially when it comes to fiat money.

Concern yourself with spreading this Movement writing to everyone you know, and get your five signatures on the petition page. Then make sure you stay on top of all your contacts and make sure they are spreading this petition and this column.

It took over 40 years of government debt and fiat money to bring America to the state of bankruptcy. We have already lost huge amounts of freedom because of it. It will take at least 8 to 12 years to turn it around, get back on a gold standard and remove ourselves from the shackles and chains of the federal reserve.

This is a goal worthy of your one hour a week or “one evening a month.”

It is a positive energy political task, to embrace the constitution and defend it from all the dark political forces in our nation.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

 

07.19.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement part 009

Though FRN Newsletter does not have the global influence of the New York Times, we have one thing they do not, fierce independent journalism and commentary.

Unless you are an alien that just landed on our planet, then you know Gov. Palin is resigning her office, effective mid July. Everyone wants to know why. Even though she very clearly told us why, I fear the main-stream mush media refuses to listen and report accordingly.

Gov. Palin is the real thing. I have stated that for over a year now and will never waiver. She is what we all say we want in a statesman and her popularity resonates.

So again, FRN newsletter will do the main-stream media's job and break it down like only we can:

Reasons why “they” hate her:

1. The political establishment hates Gov. Palin because she is not one of them, but yet very successful in politics. She is young, has a natural talent for doing what is right and is loved by Americans at large. She is just a regular girl who grew up working class in Alaska. She is 45 and already serving a term as Governor. The political establishment hates her because she is what they can NEVER be, genuine, real and an outsider who believes in the Constitution.

2. The RNC hates Gov. Palin for almost all of the same reasons listed in number one, except they want to “use” her in a monetary supporting role. They surely don't want to see her as president, but they want her populist appeal to fill the RNC coffers for 2010 elections and beyond. Newt Gingrich barely likes her, but surely wants to be President in 2012 and will not let her stand in the way. Newt pulls his punches, Palin does not, she is a genuine conservative and Newt would make a great Secretary of State, in a 2012 Palin administration. Sorry Newt, your time was 2000, Palin is the real deal. One more thing all you RNC insiders, stop the crap about her being from a small state. Palin's conservative governing style is the only thing that could save a California or a Michigan. You know it, I know it, the media knows it, but I'm the only one brave enough to speak the truth. One more “one more thing”, Gov. Palin has no idea I'm doing this piece and I am getting zero dollars and zero cents for it. The truth is free, so that it will set you free. Here ends the lesson for the RNC.

3. The DNC and Democratic party at large hates Palin. They know she is the real thing, an average middle class person who busted her ass, and with some political savy, became Governor in her early 40s. They know she can raise enough money in a national campaign and beat them in 2012. They are scared of her and that is the main reason why they are attacking her. It is the reason then Senator Obama and David Axelrod sent an army of lawyers up to Alaska last year, to destroy her. It is a particular form of hypocrisy that annoys me no end, practiced by this President who claims “The Agent of Change” mantel, as he and Axelrod were buying “Anchorage or bust” plane tickets for all those lawyers. Axelrod knows that if Palin runs in 2012, he has no defense against an honest, genuine person, who holds conservative Constitutional values.

4. The main-stream media hates her because she only went to community colleges and doesn't have an east coast establishment/liberal elitist, Ivy league indoctrinated-education. That is why they say she is nothing, only good enough for Alaska. As if her governing ideals would be any different if she were “guv” of California. If Palin were “guv” of Ca. Then that state would be in much better shape. Lower taxes equal more revenue and more jobs. Simple easy math that the media elitists can never understand. The Media doesn't want to report the truth, because they know she is the real thing. They hate her, because she is smart and didn't need Ivy league colleges to get her to the governor's office. They hate her for loving life and being a positive person. They hate her because she is everything the mainstream media isn't. They hate her because she has got real talent and skills. They hate her for being a strong woman, and not a victim of society.

Reasons why average Americans love or should love her:

Regular folk like Gov. Palin for all the reasons listed above. Sarah Palin breaks the myth that hangs over American politics. The myth that you must have an Ivy League education and be part of the establishment to “know” how to run a government.

We must see this myth destroyed.

I admit that I get easily offended at times. Some issues just light me up like an H bomb.

Nothing lights me up faster than politicians who talk down to me, as if they are the only ones who can administrate government.

Gov. Palin is not like this, she is what she is; a small-town girl who got involved because she wanted to be a part of the solution.

Most people get into government because they want power, control or to impose their “grand design” on all of us. Then there is the very small category of the “Sarah Palins” who get into government so they can keep government out of the way of regular folk living their lives.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

Petition: Draft Palin for President 2012

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07.12.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement part 008

Oooouch! My editor Scott just poked me with that big fat political finger of his, reminding me I was supposed to do a writing on Lobbyists.

Specifically, my ideas for stopping their near un-stoppable influence on Government.

I can think of many “ways” to stop lobbyists, most of them fall under the category of “cruel and unusual.”

A single cell Ameba, one of the simplest protozoa in nature. The lowest form of life.

I would classify lobbyists as a single cell protozoa, but then I realize that protozoas are a key building block for all of life and therefore they have value in this world.

Lobbyists add zero value to life, in fact they are a negative factor on all of humanity.

So, for the sake of this movement writing, we will refer to lobbyists as their own unique category.

If any Amebas or protozoas have been offended during this opening segment, the entire staff of FRN Newsletter begs their forgiveness as no harm was intended.

How we stop lobbyists:

1. We vote for public officials who vow not to accept lobbyist and special interest money. This is the easiest and most direct way to stop their influence. If it sounds over simplified, thats because I am relying on a plurality vote for such matters. I think we can make it happen.

2. Cut Congressional staff. The reason there is so much political access for lobbyists is the huge support staff to handle all the meetings and all the lobbyist money. The less staff members have, the less influence to special interest and more time serving the Constitution. Cut staff by 70%. That would still leave each member of Congress a staff of 10 to 15, and a general Congressional staff of 5,000. Current Capital Hill staff numbers over 33,000. That is an entire city of staff folks.

3. We cannot pass laws to limit how much lobbyists and special interest groups give to elected officials. You can regulate the edges, but nothing more. To that end, I would suggest all lobbyists, PACs and special interest groups must register every payment to public officials on a national website. The contributions must be registered before it is given to the office holder, 14 days in advance. I think this would help a lot with spot lighting the amount of foreign money and groups “contribute” to our elected leaders.

4. I would like to see the $2300 personal contribution cap lifted. This will benefit the wealthy of course, but it is also a limitation on individuals across the board. It is also a violation of the 14 amendment. This may have only a window dressing improvement on the lobbyist problem, but it will level the financial playing field. I suspect this will not be very popular.

5. Another rather technical idea, is to eliminate the very biased and very political Federal Elections Commission and replace it with a 12 member citizens board. The federal election laws in this nation benefit the two major parties and everybody knows it, but we never actually do anything about it. 12 regular citizens will see that problem solved. On of the best ways to stop the influence of lobbyists is to have far more political parties get membership elected at all levels of government.

6. Increase the salaries of state and federal public office holders. I know how unpopular this is. I can't believe I even bring it up, but if you want to stop the scum that are lobbyists, you have to think out of the box. If we paid members of Congress $2 million a year, then the federal budget only goes up $1 Billion. Very small price to pay for helping to eliminate the lobbyisrts scourge on federal government.

My first suggestion really is the only full proof method, though I think all six makes a more realistic approach.

For now, lets start a new round of calls and e-mails to all State and federal officials, that no incumbents will receive our vote, if they continue to take lobbyist money. Citizens must once again show and prove to our office holders that we hold the power, not lobbyists.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

 

07.05.2009

“Words from the Several States: The Movement part 007

I watched “Frost/Nixon” the other night and this morning, you guessed it, I was watching C-span . . . No please don't run, it will be okay. It is only when I write after C-span viewing that I feel one with the political forces brewing and bubbling through out D.C.

President Nixon was a smart politician who knew how to grab up power in Washington. He was also a man who deeply understood foreign affairs and where the world was headed.

Nixon could make a decision and stand by it, no matter what the fallout.

So when he saw that there were enough votes in the House to impeach him, Nixon knew it was time to resign.

All his brilliance, all his good political instincts, and at the end he was a small man, devoured by his own pettiness and bittered desire to destroy enemies inside the beltway.

A disparate man, who led an entire generation to believe that all of government was corrupt and indecent.

A legacy that continues today, in both major parties, on a scale so large, it threatens the very infrastructure of our Constitution.

So what does all that have to do with early Sunday morning C-span?

They had a journalist on who has written an in-depth book on Pakistan, which has nothing to do with Nixon, but everything to do with Light bulbs.

Huh?

Come on guys hang in there, this is not to far fetched.

I don't mean to tease, my illustration is that of a complex world, where the U.S. President who governs the least and leads the most, usually will succeed more, than if the inverse were true.

Nixon did best when he led the world through foreign policy, instead if allowing his chief of staff to hire burglars.

The journalist who was interviewed for his book on Pakistan properly conveyed the multi-layered realities and complexities. I doubt if anyone, besides a true expert, could understand what we should be doing towards Pakistan. Though I salute any President who takes a leadership role and does not assign it to a flunky.

And light bulbs? Yeah . . . thats another painful story. Pull up a chair.

Two days ago a host of federal regulations, designed to help us all with energy consumption, were high-lighted by the President in the Cap and Trade legislation, that passed the House.

Cap and Trade will now go to the Senate where with our activism, will get defeated.

Lets break it down:

• All industries will be taxed on the front end, for their level of carbon emissions. The logic being it will force industries to adopt standard to cut back on carbon emissions. Truth be known, those additional costs on the front end, will be passed on to you and I, through higher energy rates, as consumers. You and I will pay $3000 to $4000 more, per household, under Cap and Trade.

• This will force multi-national corporations to send jobs over seas, where there are no cap and trade regulations. You see, America already has the highest pollution standards and someone ought to tell our Harvard Lawyer president as much.

• You will NOT be able to sell your home, until federal regulators come in and make sure it is up to their codes on energy efficiency. This will put housing sales in the toilet, again!

• You will be told to replace your current light bulbs with the new ones that President Obama demands you get all excited over.

• In straight dollars, Cap and trade is the single largest tax increase in American history.

These are the facts, I cannot sugar coat or make this stuff up. It is horrifying, job destroying and will make us more dependent on foreign oil to boot.

The number remains the same to the U.S. Congress main switch board, 202.224.3121.

The executive branch and legislative branch of the federal government telling me what kind of light bulbs to use. Could someone please copy/paste the specific section of the Constitution, that allows this and send it to me.

Okay, Mr. President, members of Congress listen, read and absorb this next section very carefully:

I will NOT use the light bulbs you insist on, nor will I adhere to any cap and trade regulations regarding my home. This legislation is a direct violation of the 10^th amendment and quite possibly the 14^th as well.

Federal carbon emissions regulators will not be allowed on my property and I will have country sheriff's deputies arrest any federal employee who peeks in my door, trying to scope out my light bulb situation.

Have I made myself clear?

My phrase “Sprinting Socialism” becomes reality, as Obama n crew try to ram as much legislation through the congress as possible, before his numbers fall in the polls.

Final thought . . . there are many people who will say “But Chris, this isn't real socialism, Obama just wants us to save energy.”

Wake up! This is the federal government taking over more and more and more, it is socialism and control over your household. This is the same concept as Russians standing in four hour bread and cheese lines. Many have trouble making the connection because they don't think it can ever come to that.

Carbon Dioxide is not even classified as a pollutant, it is an innocuous gas. In the last 150 years of industrialization, mankind has seen carbon dioxide increase from 3./100 of 1% of the atmosphere, to 3.84/100 of 1%. In other words an increase so small of “other trace elements” that you need an advanced technology society to even measure it. Now that is the real science.

Cap and Trade will double energy costs for the lower and middle classes., and you will be subject to even more federal regulations.

If Cap and trade passes, I personally will be able to afford to keep my home.

This is the problem with Liberal elitists, they think the private sector has an endless supply of extra money, to pay an endless increase of taxes.

Mr. President, one more time for the record, you cannot tax a society into growth.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

 

06.28.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, part 006

Lets peek at the principles who designed the economy and global banking mess we all are paying for.

Quick note: Citigroup is going to be giving huge raises, as they are receiving TARP money..Currently taxpayers are on the hook for over $350 Billion of Citigroup assets, either through direct cash influx, or guarantee of their debt.

Paul Volcker and Dr. Alan Greenspan

The global banking disaster we are in was not by accident or bad luck. Some very smart people helped design (sic) this new system. And it is precisely that, a new economic system thrust upon us.

It starts where it always starts, with bankers and politicians, stroking each others wallets.

Where we are:

• The global economy has a current GWP (gross world product) of $60.7 Trillion.

• The U.S. Is about 24% of that, $14.7 Trillion GNP.

• The planet itself, if real value were assigned to land and “assets”, is worth about $2,800 Trillion. This figure matters because the Earth is an asset, a commodity and it does have real intrinsic value.

• If you add up all the man-made leveraged debt, including financial derivatives; all debt in the world is $1,400 Trillion.

Lets break it down further. Bankers, governments, corporations, you and I have created over $1,400 Trillion in debt, but world output is about 1/24 of that.

The overwhelming percentage of that global debt was created in the last 25 years. Through ever increasing use of derivatives and other very complex financial vehicles.

In short, the entire human race and all her governments are not only bankrupt, but leveraged 24 times the amount of global output; and further leveraged to half the value of the planet itself.

There is no way to ever pay off all those Trillions in debt.

I mean you literally cannot sell half the planet off, unless you had some kind of global government structure to enforce it. The entire human race would have to accept “shares” in the planet itself, as collateral for their government's debt. It is mind-boggling to even write such words. The economics surrounding this kind of math border on insanity. How did we ever take our eyes off the ball, and let politicians run amuck.

In all honesty, this is a perfect time for governments around the world, to slowly start building a case for a global currency, managed by the IMF, UN, etc. This is not conspiracy “Black Helicopter” stuff, this is ripped from the headlines. Recently China, Brazil, Russia and India held a summit on this very topic. All four want their currencies used as global reserves. The main-stream media dismissed it as nothing more than a symbolic meeting. Well FRN Newsletter remains way ahead of the mush-media on such topics, and I see them shoving a global currency down our throats within ten years. That is right around the corner folks. Instead of the Treasury issuing silver certificates to help stop the debt-madness, they are going to wait for hyper-inflation to hit us in the next three years, and use that as the next excuse to take even more rights away.

Pretty gloomy huh?

Sorry, but when I started this movement, I told myself to never pull a punch and start pointing fingers at the architects.

At the center of all this debt, will always be the one and only Paul A. Volcker.

Mr. Volcker has been involved in global financial decisions, in many capacities since his career started at the federal reserve in the mid 50's.

Volcker was assistant treasury secretary for international affairs under Nixon. Volcker was the man who flew around the world and put together the fluctuating exchange rates when Nixon took us off the gold standard. He was president of the New York federal reserve bank and then appointed FED chairman in 1979. He has also been the U.S. Commissioner of the Trilateral commission, advised the U.N. And is now the principle banking recovery advisor to President Obama.

Paul Adolph Volcker is thew ultimate insider. He once said in the late 80's that the standard of living would have to come down in America, so that the rest of the world could come up. He has made a life time career out of making sure his prediction is realized.

Volcker also happens to be the world's greatest living economic theorist, in my opinion. When it comes to money, banking and economics he simply is smarter than everyone else in the room/

Dr. Alan Greenspan.

Greenspan served on the council of economic advisors, chairman of the FED for 20 years and the man who created the derivatives market.

Then after the housing bubble, Greenspan turns around and says we need more government regulation.

Amazing.

This guy personally oversaw the transfer of Trillions of dollars of wealth to even a smaller select group of banks, people and governments, and then calls for more regulation, after his creation wipes out the wealth of hundreds of millions of regular folk around the world.

I remember sitting there in horror, as Greenspan testified before Congress, that he did not see the housing bubble on the horizon.

NO SALE HERE ! !

Dr. Greenspan was FED chairman for 20 years, he created that bubble, and knew there would be a wealth transfer through his derivatives market and that a government bailout would put taxpayer dollars into bank coffers.

There is most certainly a crime here. The federal reserve has created illegal U.S. Tender during its 96 year history, and has created a mystifying quantity during this current recession.

Technically speaking, you could have a U.S. Attorney issue a warrant to arrest all officials at the FED, on charges of counterfeiting. Then you could have a detail of secret service agents go arrest them. Though I also think, technically, you would need U.S. Marshals to accompany them.

This will never happen, and in my opinion is a waste of resources.

Yes FED officials break the Constitutional law everyday, but they are to powerful and the Treasury dept. will never sign off on agents doing the deed.

As with electing better leaders, this one is up to us.

Signatures folks, and lots of them. We need a national referendum and it must start yesterday.

Please forward this movement writing to everyone, and lets get the “one evening a month” plan up and going.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

 

06.21.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement part 005

It has been awhile since I've be-labored the subject of abortion, but something I heard on the radio really made me think.

Obviously the most helpless category of U.S. Citizens are the ones currently growing in their mother's womb.

For the Liberals, Elitists and non-believers out there, who have not read my writings, I am pro-life.

I know deep inside my heart and soul, that President Obama is pro-choice, not because he has been surrounded by Liberals, Radicals and Elitists his entire life; simply because as a trained lawyer, he sees no life to assign rights to.

It is the reasoning behind why he voted for the Infanticide bills while in the Illinois senate. Passage of the bill provided that a doctor does not have to extend medical treatment, during an abortion that goes wrong and the baby lives.

The live aborted baby (as happened several times) can be tossed into a dumpster, and the doctor cannot be sued for a botched medical procedures, etc.

That is how a Liberal elitist lawyer views the Constitution you see. Life does not begin until birth, if an aborted baby survives, then we must have some technical legal clause to protect the doctor and keep malpractice premiums down.

Thankfully, with the latest generation of super computers, scientists can actually crunch the numbers and see that there are patters and “designs” to cell creation and “life.”

The scientists are still in the infancy stage on assigning mathematics to the design of life, but they are far enough along to stipulate that life and creation are not accidental. That there is some kind of design, planning and intelligence behind even single cell structure.

What scientists mean is that there is some kind of divine power or intellect that created and allowed for life as we know it.

So why the biology and theology sermon?

Because the Bush administration used water boarding on three terrorists, thats why.

Now you got to admit, me bringing terrorists into an abortion discussion really leaves you thinking if I can make the connection.

Hunker down my movement members and read on . . .

President Obama has an established record of legally denying Constitutional protection of inalienable rights to babies that are U.S. Citizens, yet he will extend Constitutional protection to Terrorists who are not U.S. Citizens.

This guy studied Constitutional law? Are you scared yet?

Mr. President, please dust off that Harvard law degree and follow my Constitutional logic:

Life does begin at conception, not only according to religious dogma, but according to a ever growing scientific database of proof, as I laid out above.

At the moment of conception, a baby becomes part of posterity (all future generations). That baby now has Constitutional protection under the 14^th amendment. The federal government cannot deny an unborn baby liberty under the limitations of the Constitution, and the government cannot deny an unborn baby life. If the federal government or any of its elected officers deny a baby life, or pass laws as such, they are directly violating the limitations of the Constitution.

Back to terrorists captured on the battlefield.

Side note, most of these “illegal combatants” we are extending Geneva convention treatment to, even though they do not qualify for such consideration.

Terrorists are NOT U.S. Citizens and cannot have any part of the Constitution extended to them. They are not even prisoners of war.

Mr. President, terrorists are not engaged in a criminal act and cannot be offered Miranda protection and advisement.

Since they are captured on a field of battle, they can only be offered a maximum of a military tribunal hearing and decision. Which is far more than anything provided to our troops, when terrorists capture them.

Again, only a Liberal Elitist Harvard trained lawyer could mangle, mutate and mis-apply the Constitution to terrorists.

The Current administration will offer Constitutional liberties to a terrorist seeking America's destruction, but will not lift one finger to make sure an unborn U.S. Citizen can have the most basic right of Life.

And Congress? They sit idly by and barely even offer up a sigh of despair.

This President is now guilty of a crime against the Constitution, plain and simple, with Congress complacent through silence.

I have to go now, time to call my federal officials and demand impeachment hearings be set on the House docket.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

05.31.2009

“Words from the Several States” Movement, part 002

Lets start this movement the only way I know how, with getting really good honest information out there. Consider these next few writings basic data you need, and facts all those you forward it to need; for understanding how the federal reserve works and affects all of us, every day.

But!!! With a twist to keep it fresh and new. And! As a bonus feature, I will point the finger at specific people who are responsible.

The federal reserve is both central banking system and private banking cartel. If you call the public affairs office at the FED (202.452.3204) they will begrudgingly admit the FED is made of private banks, working as a consortium.

This is why the FED was created, to protect the money interests of the largest American banks. Part of that power included the unconstitutional authority to create money based on debt, or what is referred to as “emitting bills of credit.” This was an authority specifically voted out of the draft of the Constitution, so that America would not serve at the knee of large banks and a Federal government entity empowered to protect those banks. For those of you who want to read the actual source material on this Convention vote, Please go to pages 542 to 543 of “Journal of the federal convention kept by James Madison.” In fact I suggest you copy and paste this one paragraph into letters, sent to your congressional delegation. Since I doubt seriously any of them, save Rep. Ron Paul, has ever read the volume of notes Madison kept of the federal convention that drafted our Constitution.

So most of those reading this for the first time are asking two questions, “How and why does this affect me, living my daily life?” and “We are living under the knee of global banks and the Fed as you describe Chris, so how the hell can us little nobodies stop the most powerful banking cartel on Earth/”

How it affects us all, everyday, every dollar, every paycheck is simple; by us being responsible for all the debt created by the federal government, purchased and held by the federal reserve.

I love the way the main-stream media frames this debate. They frame it that the Federal reserve does a good job of trying to manage interest rates and finance government debt. The media frames this as if it were a normal function of the federal reserve to work with the federal government. Of course 98% of Americans believe this is all “normal”, “correct” and “legal” because it is being reported on the news, so it must be reasonably true, and the media is reporting on what our leaders are doing, and they must be acting in our best interest.

When in reality it is complete insanity and unconstitutional .for the federal reserve to create debt based currency and for the federal government to finance their budget as such.

So lets bullet point the illegal process of debt money creation:

• The Treasury department must finance the government's budget. Since federal government spending exceeds revenue, that deficit must be financed.

• The Treasury dept. issues treasury notes and bonds in the equivalent of the amount of government debt they need to finance.

• Those treasury notes and bonds are then offered on the open market for banks, foreign nations and the federal reserve to buy.

• When the federal reserve buys treasuries, it creates out of thin air, federal reserve notes, in the equivalent of the amount they need to buy the Treasury bonds.

• This is where inflation comes in. Those federal reserve notes are now out there in the market, being used to finance government debt. They are pure inflation. The interest payment back to the federal reserve by the Treasury dept. is also pure inflation.

• This is the very core of debt based currency. There is no mechanism under the Constitution that allows for debt creation and the printing of money that is backed by only a government promise.
  
  

The final factor of debt based money is how it washes through the system as inflation. That worthless money has to go somewhere and into something. It has to join all the other worthless money that was created before it. It winds up as inflation, jacking up the prices of everything. Which always hits the poor, working class and middle class the hardest, since we have the smallest amount of disposable income.

The truly sick and twisted part, is that some of our leaders know this will happen, but they allow the debt to be created and financed anyway. Then they go on TV and tell you how much they are doing to change America.

I would like to wrap up the answer to the first question by pointing out that most of our leaders do not understand how money is created as debt and how the federal reserve works. Their ignorance or stupidity does not excuse them, this group of leaders has now become another group that we must either do the heavy lifting for, or vote them out. I choose the latter.

But I digress.

Question two, that everyone asks, how do we stop these bastards?

Signatures baby! Forward this movement writing along with the signature page, and get signatures.

These is no substitute for doing the leg work, or in this case the mouse clicking and signing work.

What follows is a real-world example of why signatures and a national referendum are the only way. Last night I was watching a panel discussion on C-span, which included George Soros, who outright admitted, that he made a lot of money off this last recession causing mortgage bubble.

This is the guy who supports Move-on.org and strictly democratic politicians. The media paints him as a champion of the little guy.

Wrong! George Soros is one of the world's wealthiest insiders, who has made a career of knowing when to dump a nation's currency (shorting a currency, as it is known), and making Billions before the currency hits bottom. Knowing full well that when he is dumping his stake in that currency, he is causing it to hit the floor.

Soros has direct access to the President and all the major DC players.

The only way to stop his influence directly, and return America to a gold standard, is to do an end-run around, using a national referendum. Soros and his gang cannot be fought head on.

None of these people or leaders can be fought head on. Thankfully, we have the power of the pen and the Internet.

I know we will gather enough signatures over the next five years or so. It will be honor and pleasure to march down those halls of Congress in say seven years, and plop them on the desk of the House speaker and say “get to work, the people have spoken.”

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

 

06.07.2009

“Words From The Several States: The Movement, part 003

China's end game and will conservative talk radio be in the trenches with us.

I was watching C-span the other night. Man it's been awhile since I started off like that.

There were several China “experts” on a panel.

These panels I tell ya. Panels upon panels, put together by all the really cool think tanks in DC. Did you know there are approximately 100 think tanks in DC? Did you know there are about 575 nationwide? Did you ever think I would waste 16 seconds of your life to read those two previous sentences?

One day, I'm going to do a “Movement writing” on think tanks, and you may consider this fair warning.

Sigh . . . .

The panels went into a small bit of detail, beyond the talking heads of evening news. I feel as though they are positioning themselves for good camera time, so they can use it for their Amazon or you-tube book hawking purposes.

Disappointing at best . . . .

So lets break it down, the way FRN Newsletter only can:

• China's GDP in 2008 was $4.222 Trillion

• Last year their economy grew at a rate of 9.8. A bad economic year for China, since they grew 13% the year before.

• If China grows at 10%/annual for the next decade, they will easily hit a GDP of $11 Trillion.

• China's economy is poised to surpass Japan, soon enough to make them the world's second largest economy.

• China has a 400 million strong “middle-labor class” that will become a true middle class.

• China still has 800 million people living in their rural regions. Again, this point can never be stressed enough, China literally has a inexhaustible supply of cheap labor. No matter how many Chinese move squarely into a “Middle/management class” status, the central government can plan an economy based on labor for pennies. Only in a Communist nation, of a culture like China's, is this possible. India has the same level of population, but a very different culture and government system.

These bullet points mean that China can remain communist, have a consumer based middle class, and shift part of their manufacturing base, to satisfy domestic purchasing.

China does not need the USA for a market. In ten years or less, they will have a middle class capable of sustaining their economic growth at a robust 8%. Slow for China, very fast for the rest of the world.

America is entering a “dark age” of economic growth, for the next ten years. I level of debt we have will keep us from growing more than 3%, it is a simple fact of hydraulics. China will still make tons of cash off our market, but we will be stagnate, as they flurish.

China is signing energy deals with everyone. They buy raw materials from everyone.

China's endgame is to keep an economy going off of domestic middle -class purchasing, throw a political bone or two to small villages, and remain communist at the top.

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Leaders in Beijing do not sit around deciding all the details of how to “plan” economic growth for the next ten years, or the past ten years. But America must remember this, China does have a planned economy. They know they want more capacity in coal fired plants, nuclear plants, auto production, mining, plastics, oil imports, computers and heavy weapons. The Beijing leadership does decide on these things.

In Ten years China will have a 400 million strong middle-class that will purchase enough goods to grow the economy. When that happens China will turn to the world and demand a global currency.

This is where American leadership has failed miserably after the Nixon Administration. In the last 35 years America has rolled out not one cohesive China policy, beyond the fact that our companies want plants there and want to sell them Coca Cola and Blue Jeans. We failed on the jeans and the soda, and China just keeps on writing checks, buying our plants.

I see no one within the Obama administration who has a light bulb on.

Hey Washington! China has a plan!

Now lets move on to conservative talk radio, which leaves me almost as un-satisfied as our China policies.

Maybe it's me, I have been cranky these last 31 years, as I expect a lot from leaders, elected and un-elected, within our republic.

Several conservative talk radio hosts have gained true national caliber of power, and global appeal.

This is a good thing. Any one who works there butt off 12 hours a day in radio, and has talent, should reap all the success they can.

But I'm not interested in that part. I'm talking now of the war in America, between Freedom and Socialism.

I use these blunt terms because we are so far past having time to be neat and cute about all of this.

As I have stated before, and will do again in an up coming piece, certain things do need to happen in a certain order.

Number one will always be, that we stop the FED from printing (creating) worthless fiat money. It remains the only way to break the cycle of debt financing and the only way to take true power away from those who seek to bankrupt America.

Number two, we must eliminate the IRS, federal income tax and the capital gains tax.

Number “2.1” is to gut federal government spending, at the same time you are doing number two, so that true sovereignty is returned to state control and levels, and people regain control over their lives.

Number three, is trade deals that are fair, free and simple.

These things must happen in order, so that you are stopping the destroyers ability to destroy; at the same time that you are opening up resources that all of us can touch, use and benefit from.

This is not my theory on how things should happen. This is the plain simple truth of how you begin to restore our Constitution, our economy and our freedom as individuals.

When push really comes to shove, and there becomes a real intellectual war in this nation (which started about five years ago). I want to know if conservative talk radio hosts will be on the side of the Constitution, or if they will sheepishly support the republican party, trying to convince their audiences that, all we have to do is return Republicans to Congressional and white house control, and they will do all this.

Thats a bunch of crap.

Reagen, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. had 20 years between them in the oval office, and there was never one word about total elimination of our current tax code or repealing the federal reserve act, etc.

I am certain that Mike Savage will be in the trenches with me, fighting for FED elimination , a new gold standard, and so on.

Mark Scott, God rest his soul, would have led the charge.

Mark Levin is almost there, but every now and then, he backs off, and starts talking about how we have to return the republican party to conservative control. But when the real war for America hits a high gear, I think he will be next to me in the trench.

Rush and Hannity? Now here is where i must really call them out, right?

These two have huge audiences, they know how big they are.

These two guys could truly lead a national movement, for the four things I listed. But they almost always fall short.

I'm sure it is just a matter of education, when it comes to the federal reserve system. Both would understand, maybe I should send them my early columns and get them up to speed.

Both men still seem to have some love affair with the system and a belief in the republican party. It is not a bad thing for them to believe this waty, they live and breath a conservative life style.

I do expect more from them, because of the huge power they hold in conservative talk radio.

I don't believe either man will be in our trenches, when it comes to the gold standard, repealing the FED, ripping out the tax code, etc.

I just don't see that they have the hearts of real warriors.

I hope i am wrong.

What is funny about the two big guys of Conservative talk, is that everyone else thinks they are to far to the right. Whatever the hell that means. As if political theory and ideology can been graphed against a straight line.

Go ahead main-stream media, slug it out with Conservative talk radio, at the end of the day, it leaves me still hoping for an elevated debate.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.

 06.14.2009

“Words from the Several States” The Movement, part 004

What follows will also be sent to five conservative talk radio hosts, because I know they will spread the word for the common man.

An open presentation on where we are about to go as a nation:

It is time to check the oil on our Constitution.

Oh! Would you look at that! We are a quart low.

I hear a lot more people these days, shouting their heads off and warning about the continued problems of “creeping socialism.”

That is an old term, used for many decades now and no longer accurate. Socialism in America has a face, an agenda and government endorsement. Today in America, socialism is running around, putting a sugar pill in every adult's hand and a “bill for services” in every cradle.

I also hear a lot more people these days, talking about how we have to see what President Obama and current congressional leadership are going to do. How they are going to fix things for us, and make America better.

If only I could look collectively at this huge group of Americans and say “WAKE UP.”

I know it takes time for everyone to eventually come around to the true darkness of socialism, and the 10,000 year record of its utter failure, as a system of government.

I have been active in politics and economic discussion for 30 years, so maybe my patience has just about run out.

My fears are being realized as I see the Liberals, Socialists, Moderates and cocktail conservatives are about to bring national health care upon us.

To those of you who do not listen or choose to casually ignore, you better listen now.

I am not some talk radio host trying to keep an audience informed. I am a “nobody.”

By trade I am a world weary international trade analyst of 20 years, a political consultant and economic theorist of 16 years and a Jeffersonian Liberal in my heart and hopefully, my political thinking as well.

President Obama and his people have one overall goal, get some type of government run heath insurance plan through Congress and an executive branch health review and regulatory board.

Nothing else matters. Let this “nobody” say it again nothing else matters. Once the president has that, then there is no corner of your life, no part of your privacy and no section of your wallet that is safe.

Providing of health care will become “commerce.” Not in those words, and definitely far more subtle, but commerce through and through. The individual and their desire to control their own health care will become a novelty, a relic of America gone by.

President Obama and all his key advisors are lawyers. Trained, “educated” and indoctrinated at Ivy League schools. They wreak of socialist theory and Liberal elitism. I find it personally disgusting and politically a crying shame, that the civil administrative duties of the office of the President, have been turned over to political thugs with no back bone, no passion for freedom and a complete disdain for liberty and her endless wisdom.

They do not see the Constitution as a protection device for inalienable rights or as a limitation mechanism on the federal government. President Obama has no Constitutional understanding of what “providing for the commons” entails. It surely does not include health care insurance and I believe Thomas Jefferson and James Madison would agree with me.

Obama and crew see it as legal document to try and sneak around, and when that fails, then just ignore the Constitution all together. Which they are able to do most of the time, because main stream media does not understand the Constitution, much less care, and most people have not been properly educated in school, on this singular important document.

Back to Commerce and health care. President Obama and company will use legal terms and lots of media fire power, to make sure the commerce clauses within the Constitution can be mis-applied to health care insurance. This will allow them to lie to the nation, and sucker as many people in as possible, to a government plan. All government oversight and decisions will be played out as “regulating commerce” among the several states.

Most people will never even know this is happening.

Yes, health care in this nation is expensive and the highest rates of cost increase belong to? You got it! The federal government's twin 3000 pound elephants, Medicaid and Medicare.

You see, all those who must start listening, we have government controlled health care already. These two programs are massively wasteful, complicated beyond an NSA super-computer to understand, and down right impossible to fix. America would be far better served, to see these two programs privatized, placing the individual in charge of their own care.

I speak from experience, I spent 14 years taking care of my mentally ill mother who also had many other health problems. Doctors, hospitals and Medicare were a constant part of my life.

You do not know real frustration, until you have spent days navigating the phone menu of Medicare, trying to get answers. I do not recommend this exercise for the faint of heart unless you are in a position to consume large qauntities of liquor while on the phone.

Also, I have the insight of being a trade analyst, where daily I deal with no less than five government agencies. You cannot make health care more affordable by paying government to provide insurance. You would be far more successful trying to raise the Edmund Fitzgerald with a pair of tweezers.

To the five talk radio hosts I am sending this to, I say to you specifically; people need to hear this from someone like me. A regular working class guy, who has seen government failures up close and very personal. Someone who has watched Medicare pay over $10,000 for a wheelchair that cost $950.

Socialized health care failed in the Soviet Union, it is failing across Europe and President Obama wants to drop this elephant in our laps.

Sorry Mr. President, no sale here.

Health care must be centered around the individual making their own decisions. It is the only way cost will come down and quality will stay high.

A small question to all those who say “But Chris the government has to do something,”

If health care is so great in the rest of the world, how come America is responsible for over 90% of new drugs, medicines, procedures and medical patents?

While you are pondering an answer, muse this. Of the 49 million un-insured, half choose not to carry insurance, at least 9 million are illegal aliens. So we are actually left with about 13 million, and those people will never go without care.

I need all of you sitting on the fence, waiting for the government to give you things and the media to tell you how great those things are; I need you off the fence and in the real world.

America is in the first stages of socialism and I need everyone of you to help stop this insanity.

You cannot look around and say “well someone needs to stand up and do something.”

NO! Not good enough, we all must make the time to do our share. No one else can do your share.

So man up and lets restore the Constitution and be one nation under God.

I am proud to stand by your side and take this fight to the government.

If you are reading this, then you are the movement.