2010: All Hands on Deck

1. Where We Are Now

Tumultuous is possibly they only word to accurately describe 2009. The liberal-statists found themselves with big majorities in both houses of Congress and the “moderate” President kept his word to “fundamentally change the country”.

They pushed every agenda item liberal-statists have been trying to achieve for over 100 years. The government now controls our financial institutions, two-thirds of the domestic auto industry, has a hand in about 90 percent of the home mortgages, has taken full control of college loans, is on the verge of destroying the finest health care system in the world in order to cover 30 million people who didn’t have insurance and, if they had their way, would turn 21st century America back into a nation of 300 million looking to government for everything necessary to sustain life.

Fortunately, there’s been a backlash. They pushed too hard, too fast and scared the hell out of a lot of Americans who believed our country was great, had the most freedom and the highest standard of living on the planet because of the very things the liberal-statists were changing.

Conservatives who, by the nature of their political beliefs, just want to be left alone in pursuit of life, liberty and happiness were awakened from their somnambulistic state, moderates and independent voters who, in large measure, helped elect Obama found disenchantment replacing hope. Usually Democrat-voting seniors now see that they were used by the liberal-statists and are facing cuts to the programs they’ve come to depend upon.

There was also the birth of the Tea Party movement, average citizens alarmed by the direction of the government, angry at the mounting debt they and their children and grandchildren were being saddled with, disgusted by the blatant corruption of their elected officials.

Tea Parties were organized around the country and in Washington to show the displeasure of these citizens to the proposals and actions of their government. In the main, media ignored them. When not ignored by the media and their elected officials they were usually denigrated, lied about, scorned and even slandered.

We can continue to be angry, unhappy, concerned citizens. We can continue to wail at what we see as injustice and the destruction of the America we were raised in and love. We can continue to tweet and blog about what they are doing to our country. Or…

2. What We Need To Do Now

There’s lots of talk on Twitter and elsewhere about the upheaval in November’s mid-term elections. That’s ten months and a couple of days away. Besides only the vote is held in November.

Candidates are chosen far earlier. What good is an election if the choices are evil and slightly less evil? Too often in the past that has been what we have been presented with.

If you want to change the course of our government, our country — yes, even history — then you must act now. You — and I — must step away from our computers, our Twitter streams; we must stop our bitching and moaning, our (sometimes) pompous preaching about the Constitution and, yes, the wisdom of our Founding Fathers.

Only bold action, leaving our comfort zones, standing up for the principles we believe in can save our country from this tsunami of liberal-statist activism.

Most candidates come out of the party organizations so that’s the place to start. Being registered as a Republican means nothing. It just puts you on a list to be solicited for money to fund the campaigns of the people the party selected to run. Go online. Find your local party chairman. Call and tell him/her you want to be involved, to work, to have a say in who the party puts up for public office.

In most cases it’s really a small group of people who control your Congressional district. With enough new — conservative — blood coming in there’s a good chance you and those who believe as you do can control the candidate selection process.

The old-guard, if it doesn’t agree with your political views, will resist. Too bad. They contributed to the sorry state of affairs we find ourselves in. If you find yourself outnumbered, then get on the phone and recruit your friends and neighbors to join you. This is a fight that must be won so that we have true choices in elections at every level.

Don’t ignore your town or township. If they stood up for the principles of limited government, of the lowest level of government being the most responsive to the needs of their citizens it would help in the fight against Federal expansion and encroachment.

Unless you become a candidate you will never be completely satisfied with another person’s position on every single issue. Find candidates who believe in the Constitution, in the concept of enumerated powers that tells Congress what it can do and leaves everything else to the states or to the individual citizen.

Avoid litmus tests. Yes, I know how strongly people feel on both sides of the Pro-Life/Pro-Choice argument, on the Federal Reserve, on gay marriage. No candidate will pass every litmus test that can be conceived by you and your neighbors. Good — even great — candidates will be discouraged and lost because they disagree with you on one issue. That’s why the liberal-statists keep advancing; they will take a piece of the pie knowing that more and more will be available down the road.

There’s one more area of vital importance, an area where you must get involved: the local school board. There are 95,000 of them around the country and they control what is taught to your children and grandchildren, what textbooks are purchased. We have lost generations to the liberal-statists who took control of our schools and push their diversity/socialist/anti-capitalist/non-theology agenda.

We must take the schools back. How short-lived a political victory would be if we lost it again to the next generation or the one after that.

While we’re doing all that there’s still one more thing. We must continue to resist the current administration’s attempt to control every aspect of our lives. We must continue to demonstrate, continue to fight their legislation, continue to resist the loss of personal freedom and liberty and opportunity that they would impose upon us.

There are many who are trying to organize protests and demonstrations. They can’t all be in Washington. Not enough people can get there to participate. And, of course, the lame stream media will try to ignore or minimize them.

Just as with political involvement we need to make ourselves heard at every level. It would only take a dozen people outside a small township meeting to show displeasure; a few hundred outside the country courthouse; perhaps a thousand or so could surround the state capitol. Local media is far more likely to give you/us some coverage than MSNBC or ABC. The local newspaper knows that local names and local faces sells papers. Weeklies shouldn’t be neglected.

I’ll provide the names of anyone trying to organize these resistance demonstrations or who provide a clearing house to coordinate anyone’s efforts in this direction. For now I offer @battlstations on Twitter. Leave a comment with the names of others engaged in similar efforts and I’ll post them here — and on Twitter. With enough RTs the word can spread.

2010 may very well represent a now or never opportunity to stop the liberal-statist takeover of the country, the destruction of the greatest nation in the history of the world, the loss of our personal freedoms and liberties.

Amazingly, it is up to us. What will you tell your children you did to defend their future freedoms?

Let’s Do It…Let’s Spread The Wealth!

Candidate Obama told Joe the Plumber, that spreading the wealth helped everyone.

It’s obvious that President Obama and his minions are working to that end. We need to help them!

Here’s the plan: during the coming census we gather statistics on everyone’s net worth — everything…stock portfolios, assets over liabilities, equity in houses, jewelry, cash on hand — and then divide it by the number of adults citizens.

The Federal Reserve estimated that as of September 30, 2008, the net worth of U.S. households was $56.5 trillion. For those who like to see the zeroes that’s $56,500,000,000,000.

There are an estimated 200 million adults in the country. That works out to $282,500 per adult citizen — $565,000 per husband and wife.

Assuming a 40 percent tax rate each adult would pay the government $113,000, leaving each adult citizen with $169,000 ($338,000 per couple). The government would collect — in one year — $22.6 trillion…enough to pay off the entire national debt and end (at least temporarily) social security, medicare, medicaid, all welfare programs and unemployment insurance.

Oprah helped give us this president so it’s only fitting we get approximately $1,000 each from her estimated $2.3 billion net worth. And, I’m willing to accept thousands more from Bill Gate’s $50 billion and Warren Buffet’s $40 billion. I’m especially grateful to get about $6,000 from George Soros’ $13 billion. And, I really appreciate some of the President’s Nobel Peace Prize money.

Think of the benefits to this plan — besides saving our children and grandchildren from unspeakable debt. People could pay off their homes, buy new cars and electronics, fund retirement accounts, pay their doctors and hospital bills, set aside money for their children for college.

The home builders would boom, auto factories would hum, stores would do record business, restaurants would be full. Of course, in the short term wages would soar because, after all, who really needs to work?

For one brief, fleeting moment we’d all be equal. The great and the peon, the producer and the consumer, the frugal and the wastrel. Take a picture so you can remember that moment because within days the picture would begin to shift.

Oprah would still be making more money than anyone else on television, Buffet’s stock’s would soar, Gates would be selling software faster than Window7 can boot up and Soros would go long on the dollar and recoup his contribution to the cause of equality.

Millions would waste their money, fail to provide for their futures, be hoodwinked and soon the inequality would return. It would happen because all men and women are created equal in the eyes of their God and the law but not in their abilities. It would happen because the Constitution guarantees equal rights but not equal results.

Millions more would start new businesses, invest in new ideas and in successful companies. Eventually — actually much quicker than most would imagine — wages would return to more normal levels as those who had gone through their windfall found themselves needing to work.

Soon their would be billionaires and multi-multi-billionaires again. And poor people once again looking to the government for help.

But, for one brief, shining, moment we’d have all been equal.