SHOVEL READY DEMOCRATS

We all remember the Watergate scandal and how from the first Washington Post story by Woodward and Bernstein that broke on the front page the country was riveted and immersed in little focus of much else. Watergate’s time in America was akin to a virgin’s morning confession to a naïve group of unmarried Americans that had believed in the fairy tale aspect of the Princess’s wedding but yet still innocent of the adult game.

The 60’s wasn’t a time very different politically then today but the American public was very different. The public was still proud to be god fearing nation and expected morality to live out in everyday endeavors including and perhaps especially in public service.

Watergate shocked the people when the favors game of political bribes, hush and slush monies spilled out of the otherwise locked closet that voters never requested a key to unlock. The 60’s was a grown-up moment for Americans to view politics without the euphoniums and delicate metaphors. Americans finally saw politics in Washington as it really was, a prostitution’s promotion of self interest that had made most lose faith in anything coming out of the beltway brothel.

That combination of voter distrust of Washington corruption and cynicism of the political seasoned candidates wrought America Jimmy Carter in the 1976 campaign as the electorate thought that the pure hearted peanut farmer was one of them. The voters quickly realized that Carter was a mistake.

However, to learn from a mistake one must know specifically where one erred. The election of Barak Obama in 2008 proves what America has yet to learn about the importance of character and how the ideological left has nothing in common with the common American.

In every way and on every issue the Democrats has been the Party of big government solutions, greater government intrusion, and increased government spending, agitating and dividing Americans into economic and social class enemies while being feckless in their diplomatic foreign policy and National Security leadership.

Carter weakened America home and abroad, Clinton solidified our enemies’ belief in our weakness by Mogadishu cowering and cruise missile pot shots. Now Obama has replaced the cruise missile approach with predator drone assassinations and an overall foreign policy strategy that ignores strong ally relationships and rewards those countries rife with anti-American sentiment.

Domestically one might argue that Clinton unlike Carter and Obama had the country on a successful economic road. Yet in business there is an understanding of the difference between short term profitability and long term solvency. The Big government anti-capitalist Democratic Clinton policy of banking reform was a Wall Street boom until the bubble it created burst open at the tail end of the Bush administration.

We have seen the havoc reaped by Democratic policies both in their control of Congress and the White House since the agitate generation of the 1960’s arose to reject the moral restraint and restrictions of their parent’s America.

Since those Watergate days the battle for party popularity created a manipulative dance by both parties to win favor from a socially fractured nation. Freedom began to mean being freed from consequences of immoral behavior. Free from early morning church attendance on Sunday. Free from societal shame regardless of how depraved it descended because no one was victimized because everyone is a victim.

So the Democrats moved further left once the children of that new social morality or “flower power” generation grew up and infiltrated the party. Yet they pretend to be the so-called Clinton centrists Democrats in their quest to disguise and appear less radical to the voting public.

While the Republican Party waltzed away from Reagan by both the father and son of Bush Republicans that moved the party further into the center from the right side of conservatism. Wrongly thinking that by splitting the social baby they would appear more palatable to the indoctrinated amoral face-pierced tattooed offspring of the pot smoking tie-dye jeans 60’s generation that still cling to their anti-establishment protests as a warrior keeps a medal of valor.

However, deep down under the window dressing put up by the two parties there exist a very long standing set of timeless core distinctions that can be traced back to the Hamilton and Jefferson antagonisms.

Democrats have intoned Jefferson but have embraced the Hamiltonian ideology of big centralized government. Republicans have lived Jefferson but have allowed the Democratic Party to paint them as big corporation elitists.

In the area of Washington scandals and corruption Democrats have been allowed to skate away from most of their many sordid affairs by eating their own and claiming them as aberrations. While they continue to walk their Party away from traditional Judeo-Christian morals in the shameless 60’s values of anti-anything-American-established.

While Republicans still faithful to the puritan notion of honor and integrity handle their scandals with a self-flagellating acceptance that their character is flawed and deserves to be placed on the pillory by their Democratic rivals.

Today the obvious evidence of radical take down of America by the ideological left-wing Democrats both in Congress and in the White House is no longer theory that their aim is to ruin capitalism and weaken our reputation abroad because of their disdain for American tradition.

If Americans are a center-right nation politically then why are we expecting an ideological left leaning Party and its presidential candidates to do anything but fail us and the country?

It is time to bury the myth that there exists a yet young unknown Kennedy re-incarnation in the Democratic Party. The Democrats have moved their party so far left that even if a new Kennedy was born he would much more likely run as a Republican. One could easily envision Kennedy beseeching the Occupy Wall Street whiners by saying “ask not what your country can do for you” to a stirring public’s agreement furthered by “ask what you can do for your country” to which most Americans would loudly shout go home and clean up your act.

It is equally time for Americans to bury the Watergate Nixon reputation of the Republican Party that has been the drum- beat for over forty years by Democrats to scare voters away from traditional values.

Today, we have two political parties and two political ideologies that have been described as left versus right, socialists versus capitalists, big versus small government, social justice versus individual rights, religious versus atheistic, and most importantly faithful to the Constitution versus anti-Republic.

Americans need to grow up from the 1960’s social and political protest and recognize what that time in our history really meant. It was then and still is a tantrum by selfish youth wanting what all youth wants; freedom from rules and personal accountability that was infiltrated and directed by a small group of radicals seeking to bring down America’s representative Republic from the inside by communism.

Interesting that Americans today readily accept the notion of radical Islamic sleeper cells in the United States that might cause another mass civilian terror plot but laugh and scoff both then and now that McCarthyism was a right-wing paranoia trip.

However, as the radicals now sit in the established seat of power and continue to fan the flames of anti-American class warfare shouldn’t we hard working Americans see finally the face of the Democratic Party behind their many masks?

Who does the Occupy Wall Street crowd support: Republicans or Democrats? What are the Occupy Wall Street youth advocating: capitalism or communism? What morality is most associated with their beliefs: Judeo-Christian or secular humanism? What are they threatening to do if they don’t get their demand of the rich Wall Street tycoons and bankers being taxed into socialism: peace march or violent destruction? Who do they want to see as America’s president in 2012: a traditional constitutionally loyal President or a Marxists thief of your Bill of Rights?

“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!”


(Nikita Khrushchev)

“I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.”

TEA AND SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

Once again Americans are being manipulated by the liberal media and by politicians into believing that anti-Americanism is American tradition? In the Press's twisted logic the Occupy Wall Street crowd of socialists along with a number of American hate groups are being compared to the Tea Party Movement.  Moreover the Occupy Wall Street socialists are apparently more deserving of sympathy than law abiding Tea Party Movement patriots who have been called everything from racist to terroists.

It has been long charged by conservatives that liberals always want to “blame America first” for all and any ills that affect our Country or the world in general.  Now with Occupy Wall Street Kabuki theater the ultra left has gone further to exposed their true agenda intention for blaming America. Simply; they hate America and all for which she stands.

They hate her capitalism. They hate her Constitution. They hate her flag waving. They hate her Judeo-Christian values. They hate her Bill of Rights except for the rights they want to cherry pick out in order to use to their advantage. They are against the 2^nd Amendment wanting to strip guns out of the hands of citizens but they idolize the 1^st Amendment that they utilize to demonize America.

The Tea Party Movement conversely LOVES America and has seen the minority of left-wing socialists abetted by corrupt Republicans grow a tyrannical Federal government that has been eating into our individual liberties slowly but steadily for half a century.

The protests of the Tea Party movement have not only been peaceful, respectful, lawful they have been politically successful in changing the discourse in Washington awakening a vast swath of otherwise silent Americans.

I will grant unfortunately that there are millions of Americans not plugged into what goes on nationally or even locally as their heads are buried in their egocentric world of dispassionate ignorance of politics. Most don’t vote and those that do have a wealth of naïve and sometimes childlike reasons for choosing their representatives using the “Eeny-meeny-moe” technique.   

Constantly swinging  the pendulum from left to right because there is a pox on both political parties has given the American people both gridlock inaction on reforms at best and greater government tyranny at worst.

Finally the average American being ignored and disparaged by a snubbing and intrusive federal government decided to wake up and come together to try and wrestle back the power intended to be in their hands per the Constitution.

They realize that the tyranny they were facing was reminiscent of the hold King George III had over the colonies prior to America’s revolution. The first act of notable defiance by the colonists born by the growing despotism of the King’s edicts was the Boston Tea Party. The name was adopted for its analogy to today’s kinglike control of the federal government over State and individual citizen rights.

The intent of the modern day Tea Party Movement is to use the same methods that the two party politics have used against the voter for years, divide and conquer. First, rid the government of as many Democrats and ultra left-wing radical representatives as possible in an election cycle, while equally replacing corrupt Republicans in primary elections with constitutionally loyal candidates. The 2010 election was a success in the House, not so successful in the Senate but widely successful in awakening Americans that change and reform is possible if we use our collective will.

More importantly its membership is not as important as is its growing sympathy throughout the country for its sane rational message of smaller, honest and constitutionally faithful representation.

The Occupy Wall Street protests on the other hand are filled with America “haters” that decry capitalism, private ownership and want to be handed wealth out of marxist's logic that one man’s gain is another man’s right to claim or commonly referred as redistribution of wealth.

Worse however than being a group not organized under a simple ideologically banner of socialism the Occupy Wall Street encampment is riddled with every selfish tantrum of egocentric leftist demand that contains no plan of achievement other than to camp out and scream invectives.

Will they go home when the snow starts falling in the north and head to warmer squatter’s lands to the south or will this group of Soros backed useful idiots turn violent?

Regardless of what becomes of Occupy Wall Street one thing is sure, they don’t and won’t occupy the average American’s sympathy for their hating cause and they won’t grow and attract responsible citizens given their connections to Nazi and Islamic brethren in solidarity.

However, most importantly Americans are not as dumb as we might look at times, as we always clearly see through all the haze of liberal media’s magical distortion of otherwise clear lines between righteousness and just plain wrong.

 To compare the Tea Party Movement in any way to the Occupy Wall Street is as opposite as heads versus tails, right versus wrong, good versus evil, patriotic versus traitorous, law-abiding versus lawful, American lovers versus American haters and God fearing versus devilish atheism.  

“Just as every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints, as heads is tails just call me Lucifer cause I’m in need of some restraint... Pleased to meet you hope you guessed my name.” (Rolling Stones)

A DISORGANIZED COMMUNITY

The president is out on the campaign trail pretending to instead stump for a jobs plan for America. He has intoned a highly partisan (per usual) teleprompter message meant to rally his base and debase the GOP.

He is not satisfied with just trying to promote his “throw more money away” stimulus spending Jobs Bill that even the Democrats in his own party can’t fully embrace but he must take political shots at the GOP Jobs bill proposal.

The bills that the Republicans have passed in the House that sit DOA on the Senate floor includes lowering the corporate tax rate, repealing Obamacare and Dodd Frank financial reform, streamlining energy exploration permits and placing a moratorium on federal regulations.

Obama’s legislative man on the inside or bouncer of GOP plans is Harry Reid. The re-elected Senate Majority leader from Nevada seems to have the Chicago political way in his blood as he has made a re-election career of blocking Republican legislation and amendments.


This defensive planned interference by Reid’s Senate affords his party leader Obama to play offensive with the opposition by either calling them naysayers to wanting to support police, firefighters and construction workers jobs or curmudgeons for wanting “dirtier air and dirtier water.”

Apparently “dirtier” White House politics is fine with the president that has all but crippled this country’s trust of the Commander and Chief’s veracity on any given subject at any given time.

The bully pulpit has become the taradiddle teleprompter replete with Alinsky rules for radicals no longer even thinly disguised by this president desperation to win a second term.

He spews his invectives against any reasonable alternative to his Marxist ideology condemning Republicans and Tea Party Movement ideas as compassionless and or intellectually inept.

Beyond the president’s over-inflated budget, huge growing debt, ever expanding executive power grabbing his personal ego seems to have become hyper-inflated.

If the president really thinks that beyond his minority Kool-aid dwindling drinking base of unwavering support, he can win over independents and moderates with his attack campaigning bus tour by continuing to bash common sense ideas then he needs a wakeup call.

Wake up Mr. President the 2008 elections are over and you won the Presidency stop campaigning. Wake up Mr. President the 2010 elections are over and your coattails have been snipped into a sports jacket please stop campaigning. Wake up Mr. President the average American does not like to be called names because they disagree with your policies and they know you are still campaigning.

Wake up Mr. President most Americans are glad that there is at least the gridlock in Washington to slow down you and your cabinet of Czars from raiding the treasury to the point of no return for America’s future. Okay now you can campaign.

Your minions have so many varying ideas it will be hard for you to remember their long list of “give-me-for-nothing” while you try and organize their disunity into an Acorn like ballot bully push for votes. Good luck firing up the selfish base laddered with individual agendas that you expect to propel you for another four years in the White House.

Also, you need to remember that as you embrace the retro-hippy crowd (OWS) that echoes a fondly remembered community organizing past, there is a still an invisible siege afoot.

 A waiting quiet, a steely determined group ,

an angst anticipating citizen group , a mainstream majority group that is not holding signs, not defecating on the street, not spitting hatred and not even aware of your bus as it parades into their neighborhoods.

No Mr. President common sense patriots haven’t gone away, we have not given up hope. We see the time get nearer and the lies and propaganda get clearer and clearer that soon, we will answer your alienating American class warfare message with a simple secret ballot casting rebuttal in 2012.

 

I hope your people sleeping on the streets remember to register because this time they will only be able to vote once. Lincoln holds the sear’s message as to your future; “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”

I PAID FOR THE STICK NOW HIT ME HARD!

Obama is the poster boy of Wall Street campaign money receiving 11.8 percent of his 2012 campaign funds from the financial district and 6.9 percent from lawyers which represents a lion’s share of all his contributors.

The word hypocrisy seems exhaustibly overused in light of both Obama and the Democratic Party’s sympathy overtures to the Occupy Wall Street protesters that rail against Wall Street influence.

It seems oxymoronic that these rich capitalists would be bankrolling those that want to over-regulate them, tax them excessively and now backstab them by sympathizing with those that want to shame them for being rich and successful?

Is this what happens to people who are successful in this country? Do they acquire wealth and equally acquire masochist complex about being rich and successful?

By giving money to a Party and a candidate that bites and slaps the hand that feeds the class warfare against them makes the average American perplexed. Why? Why is Wall Street giving money to Obama? Why is Wall Street giving money to the Democratic Party that wishes to bridle their future earnings through socialist’s policies?

Are they so ashamed of how they earned their wealth that they want a public pillory to whip their well fed backsides raw to cleanse their rueful pangs of guilt when they see so many others struggling?

There is a difference between Warren Buffett and the Koch Brothers in the viewing of wealth. Buffet believes in social justice which is fascinating given the fact that he earned his wealth in the Wall Street casino game. He never produced a product but instead invested and traded on the success of American business.

 The Koch Brothers inherited Koch Industries from their patriarch Fred C. Koch who developed a new method for refining heavy oil into gasoline. Koch Industries is an example of an American entrepreneurial success story that produced a highly marketable product.

 Both Buffet and the Koch Brothers have been charitable with their wealth yet the contributions are as different as one’s left hand is to one’s right foot.

Buffet is bankrolling Obama and is fully immersed in the social engineering belief that money and power is to be used to play favorites in redistributing wealth.

Koch Brothers have donated countless monies for fostering entrepreneurial opportunities along with conservative think tanks like The Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute as well as giving the Tea Party Movement support.

One is showing appreciating for the opportunity they realized through the capitalistic American Dream by giving back that hopeful prospect to other Americans to materialize that same chance at success.

While the other wants to play god on earth believing philanthropy used to change American society is part of the responsibility of wealth achievement.

The political ideological differences of the rich may be as divided as the two party system of American politics yet in this economic climate of class warfare orchestrated by a highly partisan administration why are the wealthy buying mace and self flagellating by continuing to support Obama?

This whole notion of class warfare in America has been orchestrated from the beginning by the Democratic Party, Socialist Party, Unions and other anti-capitalists left-wing groups in their constant speech mantra that blames the haves (rich) success for the have not’s (poor) failure.

The Democratic Party has been indoctrinating the notion of “blame everyone but self” undermining America’s long tradition of rugged independent individual responsibility for years.

The notion of equal justice in which law is the equal playing field of rules for all Americans, has been systematically undermined by Democratic policies. For far too long Democrats have exercised social cronyism or “social justice” by preaching to minorities and low wage earners that the fault lies “in the stars” not in their own individual control.

It is a Marxist tactic to foment anger at capitalism and create a government dependent class (worker) against the (wealthy) class business owner.

It is not remotely similar to Tea Party protests when Van Jones an avowed communist, cynically co-opts American ideals by calling his group the “Return the American Dream” protest a “spirit of Madison” movement. He purposefully perverts American history and expressions for his sophistry knowing the Marxist socialist’s agenda is finally undressed exposed and repugnant to the majority of Americans.

In fact it is the Marxist socialists Democratic government policies that have swamped the American landscape with so many laws, regulations and legal liabilities that today’s entrepreneur cannot bring good ideas to market.

So again why are rich Americans, corporations and Wall Street bankrollers still supporting Democrats and their class warfare agitators? Why are bundlers from Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and countless law firms still contributing to an ideological left that has put a bull’s eye on their backs?

Is this just about political hedge funding in which the game is to stay favorable with whomever Party owns the influence in Washington? Or is it that Corporations already own both political parties and by equally dolling out the money to (Marxist) left and (corrupt) right so they can disguise the otherwise visible puppet strings?

Now more than ever America needs the genuine patriotic spirit of the Tea Party Movement to grow stronger, recruit more participation, be alert and watchful and most importantly stay informed.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. (James Madison)

WE SHOULD FEAR THE MAURADING BAND

The political voices of the left show their true radical agenda and that should shame the Democratic Party voter that still thinks this party resembles anything like the party of John F. Kennedy.

Let’s just take a look at two examples of why conservative and moderate Americans are raising their eyebrows in scorn at socialists leaning politicians that promote ideas dangerous to America’s constitutional freedoms.

Governor of North Carolina Beverly Perdue states that “I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover.”

When this was met by a public outrage the liberals all went to her defense claiming she was joking even before the Governor herself claimed it was merely hyperbole to highlight the problem of gridlock.

Well let’s ask ourselves this question. Is the Governor saying that if it were not for those pesky interfering voices called constituency then politicians would be freed to make decisions unilaterally for the good of the people?

Clearly she is suggesting even in jest that the problem isn’t with her Party’s recalcitrant views on cutting spending and continued to promotion of Keynesian economic stimulus but the majority center-right electorate that wants cost cutting and reform.

Does anyone find the suspension of voter’s rights funny? Does anyone think that if there was a constitutional provision to legally do this that Barak Obama who has no respect of our Constitution when he has called it “flawed” would be granting himself another term in office?

Is Governor Perdue unaware that it is the Senate Democrats that are the ones standing in the way of the “will of the people” on the many pieces of legislation that have already passed the Republican House of Representatives?

Her comments are instructive of the anti-American mindset of the radical socialist leaning politicians alive in the Democratic Party. A Party I might add that was sent a message by the electorate in the 2010 elections but continue to this day to ignore and minimize its meaning.

Although a vast majority of Americans would like to see Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders not be voted into their offices by radical districts and far left-wing States we tolerate the minority rights to be represented as much as the majority. North Carolina voters must be having an “Obama-regretful” moment about elected Beverly Perdue as the spokesperson of their State.

In another liberal State Massachusetts we have the Senate run of Elizabeth Warren trying to un-seat Scott Brown in the upcoming 2012 elections. She expresses a sobering upside logic of capitalism through the prism of social justice out of a Saul Alinsky seminar on socialism. Elizabeth Warren campaign explanation of capitalism in HER America;

“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did.

“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless — keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

Unbelievable, I am almost at a loss to explain how nutty and ridiculous this explanation of free enterprise and its ipso facto taxpayer ownership diatribe passes as lucid, even considering it is lefty logic. Karl Marx might have a problem with Warren’s version of the socialist’s model of productivity and responsibility.

She is out there trying to convince the public that because taxpayers are asked to build a road, (for all to access not just business) that the taxpayer therefore has bought stock in the local business. She goes on further to suggest that taxpayer dollars are used to educate workers? I guess she doesn’t agree with the notion of education for education’s sake?

Worse she moves on to Police and Firefighters being paid by taxpayers to protect (apparently only business interests not the public at large) as another example of taxpayer investment and therefore ownership in the businesses. Saving them from marauding bands of (goons I presume) to seize all their factory possessions. I guess where taxpayers have police and firefighters in farming communities everyone owns everyone else’s farms in Warren’s ditzy world of taxpayer's automatic stockholder status.

This is not worth my explaining to anyone reading this post why this reasoning if you can refer to it as having sense at all, should be counter pointed. Let's just say beyond being an outright theft of someone's else property by a squatter's self-serving pronouncement it bespeaks a bandit's mentality as well.

Isn’t that the kind of extortion talk of the Mafia they used back in organized crime heyday of the 1930’s thru the 60’s of warning business that if they didn’t pay them for protection their businesses could be burglarized or burned to the ground? Warren generously says to self-made entrepreneurs “keep a big hunk of it” meaning their business and its financial reward but give us our hunk because we the owner, the taxpaying owner own you and control you.

To just discount the ranting of this avowed socialists of the Democratic Party Elizabeth Warren as nuttier than a Payday candy bar is to underestimate the applause she received from the audience she was addressing.

We are witnessing a convergence of two strange phenomena’s happening in America today. One is the brazen openness of socialist’s ideas being preached in the public square and no longer confined behind the walls of the theoretical liberal college walls. Two the dumber-down graduates (some might say indoctrinated) lemmings lapping up these socialists public lectures as though they are just political differences of opinion and not attacked as flawed reasoning and anti-American in principles.

We are in a struggle in America that is far bigger than gridlock, corruption and culture class warfare the struggle we are witnessing is an organized creep of growing weeds of socialists infiltration planted long ago in our education system that now can’t disguised itself any longer.

Many of us have seen those seeds of socialism when we were being educated and experienced that the brainwashing got stronger when we raised our own children. Perhaps we saved ourselves from unintellectual mumblings but America has raised too many people infected by this pervasive mind numbing social justice "we all live in a yellow submarine" drivel.

Those that think that only the 2012 elections or the political success of traditional American values will be all that’s needed to wrestle back control of American senses need to think again.

America needs systemic reform to our education both academic and ethic scholarship.
We are not excused from accountability because “everybody else did it” and we are not excused from being ignorant because “it is the popular notion of the day”.

  

Take your schools back, take your children back take your country back because the creeping socialist’s agenda IS THE MAURADING BAND we should fear.

THE RICH'S HYPOCRITICAL OATH

Warren Buffet, George Kaiser, George Soros, George Lucas, (Star Wars) David Geffen, (DreamWorks) Steven Spielberg, (ET) Eric Schmidt (Google) Bill Gates, (Microsoft) Mark Zuckerberg, (Face book) Terry Semel (Yahoo) have given money to Obama and or the Democratic Party.

Check out the list below and then read my commentary on why this is hypocritical;

Chris Albrecht, HBO chairman
Big Kenny Alphin, recording artist
Marc Andreessen, Internet pioneer
Jennifer Aniston, actress
Rosanna Arquette, actress
Tyra Banks model, talk show host
Lawrence Bender, producer
Halle Berry, actress
Valerie Bertinelli, actress
Arthur Blank, Falcons owner
Judy Blume, author
Steven Bochco, producer, writer
Andy Borowitz, satirist, writer
Zach Braff, actor
Steve Brill, Court TV founder
Christie Brinkley, model
James L Brooks, producer, director
Jackson Browne, musician
Warren Buffett, billionaire
Mark Burnett, game show producer
Ken Burns, independent filmmaker
Peter Buttenwieser, political fundraiser
Kate Capshaw, actress
Michael Chabon, author
Jay Chandrasekhar, director, writer
Peter Chernin, News Corporation president
Richard A Clarke, security expert
George Clooney, actor
Cindy Crawford, model
Drew Curtis, fark.com founder
Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
Larry David, comedian, writer
Laurie David writer, activist
Barry Diller, media mogul
Paul Dooley, actor
Michael Douglas, actor, director
Michael Eisner, Disney CEO
Kenneth Feinberg, attorney
Tom Ford, fashion designer
Jodie Foster, actress
Jamie Foxx actor, comedian
Morgan Freeman, actor
David Geffen, Dreamworks co-founder
Jami Gertz, actress
Charles Gifford, Bank of America chairman
Cuba Gooding Jr., actor
Berry Gordy, record producer, entrepreneur
Lou Gossett Jr., actor
Brian Grazer, producer
Jasmine Guy, actress
Herbie Hancock, musician
Tom Hanks, actor
Tom Hayden, activist, author
Dennis Haysbert, actor
Christie Hefner, Playboy CEO
Hugh Hefner, Playboy founder
Cheryl Hines, actress
Bruce Hornsby, recording artist
Ron Howard, director, producer
Phil Jackson, NBA coach, player
Samuel Jackson, actor
Scarlett Johansson, actress
Michael Jordan, basketball star
Vernon Jordan, Washington power broker
Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dreamworks co-founder
Gayle King, editor, Oprah’s BFF
David Koepp, screenwriter
Cedric ‘the Entertainer’ Kyle, comedian
Christine Lahti, actress
Sherry Lansing, Paramount Studios CEO
Sharon Lawrence, actress
Norman Lear, television producer
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
Seth MacFarlane, animator, screenwriter
Tobey Maguire, actor
Norman Mailer, author
Natalie Maines, recording artist
Barry Manilow, singer/songwriter
Stephon Marbury, pro basketball player
Branford Marsalis, musician
Greg Mathis, TV judge
Bette Midler, singer, actress
John Morgridge, Cisco chairman
Rob Morrow, actor
Alonzo Mourning, NBA star
Eddie Murphy, actor, comedian
Paul Newman, actor, philanthropist
Craig Newmark, craigslist.org founder
Leonard Nimoy, actor
Edward Norton, actor
Rosie O’Donnell, actress, comedian
Stan O’Neal, Merrill Lynch CEO
Adrian Pasdar, actor
Holly Robinson Peete, actress
Sidney Poitier, actor
Ellen Pompeo, actress
Maury Povich, talkshow host
Penny Pritzker, hotel heiress
Harold Ramis, director, actor
Phylicia Rashad, actress
Jerry Reinsdorf, Chicago White Sox owner
Paul Reiser, comedian, actor
Chris Rock, comedian, actor
Robert Rubin, US Treasury Secretary
Edward Rust, State Farm CEO
Susan Sarandon, actress
Thomas Schlamme, producer, director
Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO
Terry Semel, Yahoo CEO
Ben Silverman, NBC Universal chairman
James Sinegal, Costco CEO
Tom Skerritt, actor
Emmitt Smith, pro football player
Jada Pinkett Smith, actress
Will Smith, actor, recording artist
George Soros, financier
Steven Spielberg, filmmaker
Leigh Steinberg, sports agent
Fisher Stevens, actor
Ben Stiller, actor
Oliver Stone, director
Christine Taylor, actress
Richard Thalheimer, The Sharper Image CEO
Heather Thomas, actress
Garry Trudeau, cartoonist
Denzel Washington, actor
Isaiah Washington, actor
John Wells, television producer
Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone CEO
Tom Werner, Boston Red Sox co-owner
Forest Whitaker, actor, director
Paula White, megachurch “life coach”
Bradley Whitford, actor
Gene Wilder, actor
Rita Wilson, actress
Oprah Winfrey, talk show host, actress
Joanne Woodward, actress
Jeffrey Wright, actor
Robert Wright, NBC Universal head
Andrew Young, civil rights activist
Edward Zander, Motorola chairman
George Zimmer, Men’s Wearhouse CEO

The list of famous billionaires and multi-millionaires in business and entertainment that have contributed to the Obama socialist re-distribution of wealth vision making the hard working average American that believes in our capitalistic system apoplectic.

Why are these rich and famous tycoons who benefitted from our capitalistic economic system contributing to its demise? Why would wealthy successful upstarts want to change the rules and for the many want-a-be rich and famous dreamers awaiting their chance at success?

I can only think there are two answers. One they did not know before they contributed to Obama’s campaign that he was a socialists and like all people influenced in a small insular circle of like-minded friends they went along with “Hope and Change” assuming the best at its inference. Some might refer to this as ignorance lives as well with the rich as it does with the poor.

Or two they really begrudge the way they earned their riches in America and look down their noses at the rest of us that contributed to their fame and fortune. This self-rich loathing tends to shift from hand-out charity for the poor to looking to find the panacea answer to cure poverty.

The rich suffer from what I will call the “What’s next” syndrome after they arrive at the apex of their wealth and fame. They are freed from the ardors of the climb to success but their ambition still hungers to achieve the next venture. Giving away money or being a patron for others to follow in their footsteps is not as ambition lustful as changing the world.

I believe that when the charity of the rich extends beyond reseeding the field in apreciation of where its wealth bloomed but instead decides to reengineer the soil from others by experimenting with a new crop it shows a miserly ego that reaps a cynical harvest of ingratitude.

The notion that money buys you the power to change the rules for everyone else is what is wrong with the corruption of money and politics. No one waiting to be the next successful owner of wealth and fame begrudges those who won before them by achievement. For that merely proves that success lives hopeful for their dreams but if winners then re-write the rules; the game is for patsies.

Celebrities have a right to believe in whatever whimsical thought crosses their mind and equally they have the right to throw money at their personal causes.
However, I am hard pressed to call any celebrities or titans of industry who donate to causes that change the rules for America’s capitalist system that they advantaged truly generous and charitable Americans.

Moreover, when we all paid to see your movies, read your books or bought your products we did not know we were supporting the liberal success story that would then crush our American dreams.

You must remember you earned your fame and wealth as much out of the hard working conservative wallet as the liberal left portion of the little guy’s paycheck! Or did you forget that fact!

I don't buy the argument that an equal dole out to both political sides makes you neutral against being charged with hypocrisy and criticism.

Leave my country alone and stop supporting anti-American policies in your quest to save the United States with your own ego-maniacal vision of what America should be.

 If you want to truly pay back the country and people who allowed you to acquire your wealth and fame then stop giving to politicians supporting socialist big government intrusion over our Republic of individual liberty.

We the poor struggling nameless faceless rift raft beseech you to buy a library and immerse your mind and soul in the many books available to help you understand why you were successful in America. You have no right to use your wealth against the many Americans that are left standing in line waiting their turn at the chance for what you enjoy.

How can you want to lock the barn door to me and my children’s capitalistic dreams when you enjoy your notoriety and comfort from no other than its rage to riches promise?

“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.” (Socrates 469 BC – 399)

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We have been hearing the president talk about his focus on jobs since he took office. There has been little change in his speeches or political solutions that sounds straight out of the “tax the rich more, spend for the poor more” Democratic Party idea book.

Not only is nothing new in Obama’s latest JOBS proposal except that the word “stimulus” is purposely avoided, his Jobs Plan is being used as a political talking point for Obama’s re-election bus tour and is blatantly cynical.

Yet he and his party have the cheek to suggest that the Republicans are the party of NO and just wishing to keep the economy weak in order to defeat Obama in 2012.

If the Democrats and Obama want to say that the Republicans are blocking real growth and job creation then okay call the bluff.

Why not call the Republicans and see if they join you Mr. President in allowing oil drilling production to proceed by loosening regulations? Why not call them out by suspending all EPA regulations? Why not call them out by giving the Republicans all the cuts, and proposals they have asked for to see if they say NO?

Why not? I think all Americans know why not. The reason is that Republicans would pass those reforms and the country would start to see the economy grow. You don’t want Republican ideas to succeed where you and the Democrats Keynesian policies proved abysmally unsuccessful.

Solyndra the bankrupt poster child solar panel company for stimulus back green job energy alternatives reflects three truths about socialist’s policies, failure, incompetency and corruption.

Whether we call it socialism or crony capitalism the objective and the results mirror the same truth of why government run or backed private industry is an oxymoron. The simple fact that if a company was either successful or had the potential to be successful to private sector investors then the company would not need government financing nor want it.

What company wants to have the government peering over its books or making edicts about how to run its business? The fact that Solyndra could not find private investors until it secured a half billion dollars in federal loan money shows it was a risky venture. The capitalist system has a cure for risky business it is called failure, collapsing as a company and selling off assets or bankruptcy.

Solyndra was begging for government funds to keep it afloat and not only was it awarded half a billion dollars of taxpayer money but also received investment from the Kaiser Foundation that co-incidentally is connected to the President by George Kaiser a big donor to his campaign. This impropriety reeks of corruption well beyond cronyism.

Lastly, we turn to incompetency which must first start with the premise that the only companies standing in a government line for a government handout are already suspect as to their risk. Then you add a bureaucratic cadre of civil servants making determinations as to whom should be favored with taxpayer money and expect them to due diligence with the same vigor as if their own money was on the line.

Moreover, beyond number crunching most private investors know that having or utilizing the brain trust of people knowledgeable about the different industries is vital in the ultimate determination of risk return investment decisions.

 The bureaucrats in government have a vast ignorance of practical application relying more heavily on theoretical business models.

Yes, like Keynesian economics which works great as a college theoretical discussion but has proven time and time again in the practical world to be a huge flop!

Solyndra was Obama’s poster child of success until it went bankrupt. Many questions will be asked of this administration as to whether there was corruption in the form of bribes, pressure applied to regulators or quid pro quo proof of buying White House influence.

One thing is certain; this administration continues to extol capital cronyism and socialists policies in its never-ending bullying of America's capitalists that want the opposite economic policies returned to Washington.

The President may have stopped a personal habit of blowing smoke but when it comes to his desire to ruin this country’s capitalism and turn her into a socialist’s Republic he continues to blow smoke into American faces that just want to have a job.