Op- Ed Thread

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New York Times Admits Reaganomics Worked

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The Drum Beat Rolls On -- Part 10

Overload the system and the system will collapse. This is exactly what is occurring today! We can recognize it for what it is or we can continue to deny that it is what is taking place. When you look at any news report about what is actually occurring in our government today with the fact that we are having to borrow and print money at alarming rates to cover for out of control spending, one only has to deduce that this is not an accident but a planned out approach.

For years progressives have espoused that we need to fundamentally change our society, and on all accounts that is exactly what they are achieving. Across the full spectrum of our society we have been fundamentally changed but it is only the beginning. The long war strategy or the "long struggle" to be in line with their Marxist verbiage has slowly whittled down every core principle and value that we as Americans were founded upon. Look at today's media and pop culture alone and you see that we went from Shirley Temple to Honey Boo for examples of what little girls in the limelight are looked upon as icons. In our schools today our children have been slowly indoctrinated to adhere to political agendas from the whole Global Climate issue to supporting socialized medicine. If children attempt to speak out against this or if parents do they are immediately targeted as we have seen reported many times now.

Traditions from Christmas to placing value in the principles of individual liberty founded in our constitution have been assaulted to the extent, that if you are one that still uphold and stay true to them you are now considered an enemy of the state in a sense.

What all of these assaults are aimed at is dissipation of the spirit or will to resist collectivism and state control. When the system collapses, people will have to turn to the strongest power for assistance and salvation. The steps along the way to get us there are wrought with eventual disobedience and strife. So many Americans have become complacent to the fact that we were founded on everything opposite of what is occurring today. We rebelled against oppression that a government places upon citizens. Today we have citizens calling for greater and greater oppression by their government, and have been conditioned over the years into acceptance that such is a good thing. We have dumbed down our society to such an extent that they do not even understand this any longer.

The chains of tyranny will be wrapped around the necks of each and every one of us if we do not stem the overload of the system. Those that have been working in this direction have seized upon current events and current power holders have used it to their advantage. When we look at the two party system that we have in this country we need to be honest and recognize that those that have gotten to this level will do everything in their nature to consolidate their power. There is little difference among many of the members of those two parties, and when you have those that stood out from the established power structure you have noticed a complete backlash and targeting to discredit them.

That is all fine and good that they are showing their true nature in doing so! It now allows those of us to truly break away and for the coalitions to combat those that want to fundamentally transform this nation from individual liberty to government controlled and sponsored oppression. We warned them that we would hold them just as accountable as those that were more open in their intent to take us down that road, and this is really why they have come out in the open now as well. That is a good thing really because just like our founders we are underestimated and dismissed in large part. We hear pundits and those that wish that the spirit and human nature of independence and freedom will fade by the overload of the system stating that we will go away or fail. What they forget is the fact that this nation is split down the middle, and once it becomes more and more apparent and starts to affect every individual more will turn away from those that are calling for that collectivism.

Just as it was a mistake to dismiss those on the left going as far back as Woodrow Wilson, it is a mistake to dismiss those that will retain the fundamental core principles of individual freedom and independence! Just as those embracing and implementing these changes feel that today is the day they need to seize to bring about what they have worked for years to bring about, today is actually the day that we will seize and embrace to counter it.

The opportunities now are endless as we can once and for all break away from the cycle that has locked us into those two parties. You will be called every name in the book, heck you already have been! You will be looked upon as someone that does not conform to the norm or "new norm" and that is ok as well! Just as those that founded this nation and stood against oppression people will dismiss you and say that you have no chance, but remember one thing, the British Empire and those that supported it said the same thing. Embrace the fact that those working against your freedom will say those things and attempt to dismiss you, because we did the same thing for them, and that was the mistake that we made just as they will make the same mistake by doing so with us.

Remember it does not happen overnight, and those that underestimate human nature of survival and independence will in the end be those that fall pray and be victims of their own demise as history has shown time and again to be true. Many casualties may take place along the way and no one should be fooled that they will not occur, but in the end even if it takes many years people will throw off those chains as they always have and a new rejection of the path that we are headed down will take place.

[Toby]

The West is signing its own death sentence

Capitalism is, by its nature, dynamic. George Osborne's attempt to engineer the 'perfect society’ undermines the logic of the free market

The West is signing its own death sentence - Telegraph

[Toby]

The Royal Presidency

The Royal Presidency - National Review Online

Snooki Gives Kate Middleton Advice on Being a New Parent.”

Great! Maybe Kate could return the favor and give Snooki and her fellow Americans some advice. About fiscal prudence, for example. Say what you like about a high-living, big-spending, bloated, decadent, parasitical, wastrel monarchy, but, compared to the citizen-executive of a republic of limited government, it’s a bargain. So, while the lovely Duchess of Cambridge nurses her baby bump, the equally radiant president of the United States nurses his ever more swollen debt belly. He and his family are about to jet off on their Christmas vacation to watch America slide off the fiscal cliff from the luxury beach resort of Kailua. The cost to taxpayers of flying one man, his wife, two daughters, and a dog to Hawaii is estimated at $3,639,622. For purposes of comparison, the total bill for flying the entire royal family (Queen, princes, dukes, the works) around the world for a year is £4.7 million — or about enough for two Obama vacations.

According to the USAF, in 2010 Air Force One cost American taxpayers $181,757 per flight hour. According to the Royal Canadian Air Force, in 2011 the CC-150 Polaris military transport that flew William and Kate from Vancouver to Los Angeles cost Her Majesty’s Canadian subjects $15,505 per hour — or about 8/100ths of the cost.

[Toby]

Peter Schiff: The Fantasy of a 91% Top Income Tax Rate

A liberal article of faith that confiscatory taxes fed the postwar boom turns out to be an Edsel of an economic idea.

Peter Schiff: The Fantasy of a 91% Top Income Tax Rate - WSJ.com

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Obamacare's Cruel War On Patient-Centered Healthcare - Forbes

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The American Spectator - Today's Headlines

And You Thought the Housing Crisis Was Over!

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Full steam ahead on Obama's theft of IRA?s and 401k?s

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Our Government-Created Financial Crisis - Walter E. Williams

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Sorry Protesters: Your Jobs Are Being Sent To China And They Aren’t Coming Back