Why Are We Fighting Our Government?

A few weeks ago I found out that I "offended" a blood relative because I am the Coordinator of the Tri-Cities Tea Party. I was accused of being against everything my father and uncles worked for and accused of being anti-union! The more we talked, the more agitated he became and I could see there was no reasoning with him at that point so I ended the conversation.

When somebody becomes that agitated, they start spewing things they probably don’t even believe themselves; either that or he has been drinking too much of the Obama Kool-Aid! The ‘progressives’ have been pouring their Kool-Aid for a long time and we have many union members who have been sipping the stuff; the Kool-Aid dulls the senses and allows you to believe their lies and, pretty soon, you stop thinking for yourself and you have become another socialist zombie!

Do I think that is what happened to this relative? I hope not; I am hoping he will think it out for himself and realize I have always been the same ~ I have always believed in individual Liberty and American exceptionalism! My father and his father were strong advocates of this; that is probably the biggest factor in my libertarian approach to life!

My father was a quiet man but a natural leader and the family patriarch; his younger brothers followed him from job to job during the Depression. The 3 of them tried to enlist in the Army; my uncles were accepted but my father was rejected due to a double hernia. My uncles were taken prisoner at Corregidor, Phillipines, and spent most of the war in a P.O.W. camp in Manchuria, China. I had a third uncle who fought in WWII: My mother’s brother fought in Europe and was taken prison by the Germans. Luckily, all 3 of my uncles survived their imprisonment and were liberated by the end of the war.

But, suffice to say, my uncles fought socialism in WWII and my father and my uncles continued the fight against socialism and communism by working at Hanford, supplying plutonium for the nation's nuclear defense and I honor them every day by fighting for Liberty!

I worked with one of my uncles at Hanford; we belonged to the Teamsters union and my uncle was our Shop Steward; he always concerned himself with defending individual Teamsters and making certain they were treated fairly by management. My father, my uncle, and I went on-strike in 1966, for higher wages (a very dumb thing to do!). After 6 weeks, the same union officials who convinced us to go on strike, recommended that we settle for the same contract language we had been rejecting for 5 weeks! We were livid and it left a bad taste in our mouth! My uncle and I went to Seattle to find work so we wouldn’t have to return to Hanford and the Teamsters union. We couldn’t find any jobs at that time so we returned to work with the Teamsters but my uncle and I said we would leave as soon as we had another job; we had families to support so we didn’t allow our pride to harm our families financially. My uncle opened his own business within a year after that and I went to work for another business.

When I went to work at Energy Northwest, a union was trying to organize the security force, of which I was a member; I fought the union coming into our work place but we lost the battle by one vote! I refused to be my squad’s Steward because of the hard feelings between me and the union. But 4 years later, I was approached again to be steward; this time I accepted and served as Shop Steward for 4 years before I resigned from the task (it is a thankless job). I was approached several times after that to be steward again and I kept refusing because it takes so much time from your family but I always consulted with the steward with ideas to make the task easier. I was approached the year I retired to be steward to help secure a new contract with the company (we had been working without a contract for 4 years) and the new security management was violating every established contract guideline, trying to break the union ~ I accepted the task, much to my wife’s chagrin, and we began filing new grievances to re-establish the labor rules the company had been violating ~ We were busy! But we were successful and we were offered a reasonable contract, which the security force accepted. My wife and I went to another security officer’s retirement party several weeks ago and several of my former work mates greeted me with statements like: “It’s changed since you left and we need you back!”

I’m not telling you this to “blow my own horn” but to explain my support of unions because there’s a line I have defined in my work career that also explains my “line” in this fight with our government. I believe in the union locals;  not in the national or international unions! The old adage: “All politics are local!” applies to unions as well! If you are a member of a union, make certain your union local is free of corruption and support your local by volunteering and running for offices there; become a steward, learn how to represent your fellow union employees to the company and never be afraid to confront abuse or corruption in your union local or the company you work for! The toughest thing to remember is the union local works for you; not the other way around! Do not let them dictate what you want in your contract, you, the union members, dictate to them what you want in your contract! Above all: Always think for yourself! You study the issues; you research the facts; and you decide what is best for you, your family, and the nation! The International will not like you ~ They hated my guts because I would call them on their propaganda they tried to push off on us as “fact”! Was I always right? I like to think I was always right and true to me and my principles. I didn’t concern myself with what the big union bosses thought of me because I don’t answer to them; I answer to myself, my wife and family, and I will answer to the Lord, Jesus Christ!

The corruption in the national and international unions is monumental and to clean them up will be just as difficult as cleaning up Washington, D.C. (“District of Criminals”) ~ That is the revolution we are embroiled in and it is our fault it has come to this: Our apathy and “party loyalty” brought us this far down into the political slime we find in the nation’s capital today! The same is true for the corruption we see in the international and national unions ~ That’s a fight I do not have time for ~ That’s a fight union members must wage for themselves, their families, and the nation if they are to survive!

We won the Cold War! We defeated communism/socialism and now we have elected officials trying to turn us into a communist/socialist state and I will die before I let that happen!

We won at the Ballot Box on November 2^nd; by “we” I mean the American People and specifically the Liberty groups: The Tea Party movement, The 9-12 Projects, Campaign for Liberty, and Independence Caucus. But that is just the first battle in this Second Revolution to save American exceptionalism and re-establish God in our nation! We will throw off the yoke of oppression we have allowed our servants to place on us once and for all! We must re-establish our history in the school books, lest we forget why we established a Representative Republic and not a democracy!

Is the President Going to Mentally Survive His Term?

Many are starting to ask that question. Myself, I hope he survives so he can be destroyed at the Ballot Box!

In ways, I pity the man; he didn’t have a chance for a normal childhood: (1) Abandoned by his father, a communist, at the age of 2; with no father/son relationship; (2) Abandoned by his mother, a socialist, at the age of 10, to be raised by his grandparents who, apparently, were communist sympathizers or communists; (3) Grandpa Dunham felt the need for Obama to have a black male mentor and selected Frank Marshall Davis, a poet, an avowed communist, and former editor for the communist newspaper of Chicago, The Star; (4) Apparently, in an effort to be like his uncaring father, Obama, Sr., Barack, Jr. adopted the political philosophy of his father: Marxism! (5) Now there is evidence surfacing that his parents were never legally married and couldn’t be married in the United States because Barack, Sr. already had a wife in Kenya; which would make Barack, Jr. a “woods colt” under United States law! As I said, “He didn’t have a chance to be his ‘own master’!”

The only political philosophy he ever felt comfortable with was socialism but then, it was the only philosophy he was ever exposed to as a child so why are we surprised when he adopts the ‘progressive’ mantle?

Where did I find my facts for this Blog? You can search the internet; there's lots of information there. A couple of the sites I found information were:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_from_My_Father

http://rightvoices.com/2008/04/15/who-exactly-raised-obama-was-his-mother-a-welfare-abuser/

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html

I was raised to distrust communism and socialism; it was called the “Cold War” and the communist party was illegal because they espoused the violent overthrow of the United States form of government! Are you old enough to remember that? I am! But what I didn’t realize was the Marxists adopted a new description to hide their agenda; they became ‘progressives’ and, under the current congress’ radical agenda and a total lack of leadership from Barack Obama, Jr., they are bankrupting the nation! I do not just “mistrust” communism and socialism, I despise communism and socialism!

First, you must understand the difference between the 2 philosophies and there is but one discernable difference between them: Communism is socialism imposed by the barrel of a gun!

Next, you come to realize that these philosophies will rob every man, woman, and child of American exceptionalism: The ability to select their field of endeavor, or develop a “better mousetrap” and reap the rewards of that better idea, or just be the best you can be, no matter what it is! The government decides what you will be, based on what fields “need” more workers! The government decides how much you will be paid and how much you can earn on a new idea! The government decides how long you will be allowed to live, based on a cost analysis of what you have to offer the government and how much it will cost to keep you alive; so, for most of us, the government wants us to stop “wasting” air, food, and water ~ Just die! After all, it will make it better for the utopian society they envision!

Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. has never had to work at a “job”; he’s been coddled by the ‘progressives’ because, in him, they seem to feel he is the ‘messiah’! He is not! He is a very troubled and confused young man with no strong family base and too old and arrogant to learn the truth from his own studies of Liberty and Freedom, as opposed to socialism and communism!

That is why I want to see him mentally survive until November 5^th, 2012: To see him soundly rejected by the American People and our “Ship of State” turned from the brink of disaster and returned to the path directed by Divine Providence!

God bless America!

American “Exceptionalism” – What Is It and Is It Real?

It is real! It is obvious to every other nation but marginalized by our own government! To what end is our government dismissing American Exceptionalism? I believe it is part of the ‘larger plan’ of the ‘progressives’ to enslave the American People so they can create their one-world utopia! But because American Exceptionalism is part of our American DNA, they will fail and fail miserably! At the same time, because of the Bush/Obama, Democrat/Republican ‘progressive’ agenda and spending spree, they may very well bankrupt this nation!

Even if they succeed in bankrupting us, we will survive because that is part of our exceptionalism! Legal emigrants come to this nation and are assimilated; part of the assimilation is American exceptionalism. To understand American exceptionalism, you must study this nation’s history and how our Constitution was created. It was created by very wise men who studied history of governments and mankind; they saw what worked and what didn’t work – That is why we are a Republic and not a democracy!

Democracy is another lie spread by the ‘progressives’ in both parties – Never, in the history of mankind, has a democracy succeeded and every time a democracy fails, an oligarchy or a dictator becomes the government!

We are a nation of laws, not of men! If a law needs to be changed, as they do from time to time, you change the law – You do not ignore it and allow it to be broken at-will! But that is another subject for another Blog.

Our founding fathers, for the most part, were Christians; probably the least religious of the founders was Ben Franklin and even he prayed for Divine guidance but the founders also didn’t want the government to establish a national religion – That was one of the reasons they had left England was the King imposed the Church of England and our founders believed in freedom of religion; a national church would quash that dearly held freedom. I believe Patrick Henry summed up the founding fathers thinking on this subject best of any of them when he said, “It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” That philosophy is part of our American Exceptionalism – No other nation had been established with religious freedom at the forefront of it’s founding!

And because we were founded on the gospel of Jesus Christ, we receive our Liberties from God, not from man! That is the real threat of ‘progressivism’ ~ The ‘progressives’ are doing their best to remove God from everything about this nation; specifically, they want Christianity vilified with the intent of making us godless! If they succeed in that endeavor, we will no longer have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and property! Without God, our freedoms come from the government and what the government gives, it will take away. One way they are destroying our Christian faith is through false “ministers" who are now preaching ‘collective salvation’ and ‘collective rights’ – There is no such thing as ‘collective salvation’ and ‘collective rights’ is a fallacy of the ‘progressives’! That is like saying the only ones who will make it to Heaven belong to one church; that would make the teachings of Christ a lie and we know God is not a liar – Only Lucifer and man can lie! We were granted Individual Rights from God, not from the government! Our Bill of Rights is not rights granted by the government; the Bill of Rights is part of the contract restricting the government’s intervention with the People!

Another part of our exceptionalism comes from the fact we believe in self-governance – Liberals and Conservatives voice this equally but both sides forget that self-governance is individual freedom of choice! Self-sufficiency and self-reliance allows for self-governance but our government is hell-bent on destroying these traits for their own self-interest! We must not allow that to happen or we become Europe, allowing the ‘progressives’ and George Soros to win – We must not let losers win this war or we all become enslaved losers!

It matters not whether you are first generation, fifth generation, or, in my case, 1648 is when Francis Howard emigrated to the colonies and three generations later, three half-breed Cherokee Howard’s fought with George Washington in the Revolution, we are all exceptional! American Exceptionalism is an acquired DNA trait or we wouldn’t have ‘progressives’ in America!

To preserve American Exceptionalism, we must dismantle the “Nanny State” the ‘progressives’ in both parties have assembled while we, the People, were asleep at the wheel and steeped in apathy! The Nanny State is failing and we have one shot at dismantling it the right way or letting it happen naturally – If we do it as it should be done, it will be very painful but if we wait for nature to dismantle it, it will be catastrophic and chaotic! I hope we elect to dismantle it the right way!

In summary, American Exceptionalism is a result of our individual God-given Liberties, our self-sufficiency, our self-governance, and our ability to think and reason for ourselves! As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “We will overcome!” We will overcome our present dire economy and Marxist infestation from the ‘progressives’ in both parties because we are Americans and Americans are exceptional!

FANNIE & FREDDIE FAILING STILL!

The People have said from the beginning the bail-outs wouldn't work; that the gov't would have to steal more of the People's wealth to try and shore up these failed institutions and here we go again! NO MORE BAILOUTS!! We must change the face of Congress NOW to have a shot at a real future for our children and grandchildren! Be sure and VOTE Nov. 2nd and before you vote, forget the "What's in it for me?" and vote for the future of the nation and the future of our Liberties!

Now they’re saying Fannie and Freddie will need an additional $73 Billion, perhaps as high $215 Billion to meet their financial obligations! Is there anybody in Washington, D.C. with half a brain?! Obviously not!

But, according to Barney Frank, Fannie & Freddie are doing just fine and, in fact, they’re doing so well, when they put the new regulations in place to stop this meltdown from ever happening again, they didn’t put any new restrictions on Fannie & Freddie! Thanks, Barney; you lying, thieving piece of bovine feces! You should be in prison with a roommate named Bubba! You bring dishonor to the homosexuals and they have troubles enough already!

What’s next? Government Motors and MoPar coming back for another handout? Rest assured, they will also be back because they did nothing to fix the inherent problems plaguing them that caused their initial failure! The only car manufacturer succeeding is the one who refused the “loan” in the first place ~ Ford! They did it the right way: Negotiated new contracts with the unions, new contracts with their suppliers, and did it without screwing their shareholders! Remember what Obama did with GM and Chrysler shareholders? If your 401K or pension funds were invested with either of those companies, you received 10¢ on the dollar for your investment so Obama could “save” the UAW pensions, who got their full amount! Doing that did nothing for those pensions, which are 65% funded, except delay the inevitable failure from under funding!

President Bush, Sec. of Treasury Paulson, President Obama, Sec. of Treasury Geithner, and the ‘progressives’ in Congress have done exactly what FDR did in 1932, when the New Deal began; they have extended a bad recession, which would have corrected itself in 3 to 6 months, and turned it into the longest recession in history! If it doesn’t lead to the financial failure of the world’s last greatest hope, the United States, it won’t be for a lack of trying on their part! Paulson will go down in history as this nation’s worst Sec. of Treasury and Geithner will go down as the poster child for white-collar thief!