when one partakes of different thinking
then brought about by artificial means
assaults on a desperate mind sinking
beneath reality’s intended scenes
cannot your inner self survive alive
amidst life’s crying pressure to succeed
entreating passion never to deprive
when fondest fantasy can not recede
your end lingers in shadows yet unseen
mustering deadly forces to deploy
wake up your inner self to intervene
before the shadow’s forces do destroy
       hear not silent whispers of life’s last breath
       before the Lord’s hand conquers demon’s death

discussions, part 3 expressions #190. Copyright © 2012 by Ken Gilbert. All rights reserved.

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Obama wants the government to control healthcare, banking, energy, the environment, and much more. He thinks that the government and government bureaucrats know what’s best for individual Americans. Even better than we know for ourselves, and for our families.

Obama is really not that different from Johnson, Carter, Clinton, or even Bush 41 or Bush 43, when it comes to putting the welfare of society ahead of the welfare of the individual and of the family.

He is just more in your face about it. His Alinsky social activist training in the halls of Chicago politics serve him well in this regard.

Obama doesn’t care what the American people want. He doesn’t even care about our democratic rule of law when it comes to pushing his social and economic leftist agenda. He does what he and his leftist handlers want through executive orders, without the oversight and consent of Congress.

And Congress and the Supreme Court have been so emasculated by political correctness and the doctrines of fairness that they cower in the corner, letting him do whatever he wants to the American republic, and especially to the future security of the American people, and to the future security of the American family.

But this is probably not anything new to anyone who is reading this post!

This has been a slowly progressing cancer in the body politic for as long as I can remember.

Social progressivism has had some good effects on the American way of life, such as the institution of child labor laws, and especially the civil rights movement and the institution of civil rights legislation.

However, some of its successes, such as education, unionization, and regulation, have turned sour with the passage of time and with the solidification of political power within the federal government.

So then, here we are in the second decade of the twenty-first century, trying to live with the rotting fruit of the socialist progressive agenda.

Today, our educational institutions are more concerned with teaching political correctness, social justice, and the doctrines of fairness than they are in the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Today, our unions are more concerned with consolidating political power and destroying the individual’s right to work in a non-union shop than they are with the well being and equitable treatment of employees under their protection.

Today, our federal government, and especially Obama’s administration, are more concerned with regulating healthcare, banking, energy, the environment, and every aspect of business and life than they are in making sure we have a secure, prosperous, and free society that protects the individual’s rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Today, our society is so divided along ideological lines and so concerned with winning the ideological battles that we have lost sight of the true goal of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Our founders wanted to create a land where individuals could live free from tyranny and oppression, free from a government that controlled every aspect of life, and business, and religion.

However, in our battle of ideologies we have forgotten about the individual, the family, the community, the local business, and the local church.

We have forgotten about God, and His precepts of loving your neighbor, of turning the other cheek, and of helping those who are less fortunate among us.

When a society takes God out of the education of our children and out of the halls of our government and out of the fundamental fabric of our society, what do you think the result will be?

Well, just look around. You cannot miss the effects. You cannot miss the way people disrespect each other, and the way our political battles are fought in the gutters of social discourse. There is no longer any civility in how we deal with one another.

Shouldn’t we expect more of ourselves? And from each other?

It’s like each side, the left and the right, is trying so hard to make the other side say uncle. It’s like each side is waiting for the voice of the mythical John Galt to come booming out of nowhere to tell us we have lost sight of the real goal of our founding fathers.

It’s like we are waiting for him to whop us upside the head and tell us to get our society back on track.

But John Galt cannot save us!

There is only one Savior! He came more than two thousand years ago; and He only saves individual souls from destruction, not society from itself.

So it’s time to stop waiting. It’s time to act!

Now is the time to bring order and civility back into our society. Now is the time to bring back the founding principles of our once great nation.

If you and I don’t, then who will?

blessings,
ken

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In a little over a week all Americans must file tax returns with the IRS; but only 53 % of us will actually have to pay taxes on the money we earned, while the other 47% will not.

Income redistribution is alive and well in the United States of America, and has been since the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1913.

Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution allowed for taxation in a variety of ways, but all were required to be “uniform throughout the United States”; that is, equally applied to the states according to their respective populations.

This was interpreted then to mean that the percentage was to be applied equally to each individual, not progressively, according to each individual’s income.

That’s why an amendment to the Constitution was needed to create a progressive income tax.

Short term income taxes had already been implemented before; but they were equally applied, not progressive.

We are experiencing today the inequalities imposed by the Sixteenth Amendment’s progressive income tax.

If 47% of the people pay no taxes, then they don’t care if the Obama administration increases the tax rates on the “rich”, on everyone making more than 200 thousand dollars, or on every single person in the country.

It’s no money out of their pockets!

But the 47% do care about electing people into office who will continue to protect them from the 53%, and from paying their fair share of the cost of running our federal government.

It makes me realize how prescient our founding fathers were in wanting taxation to be applied uniformly throughout the country.

They knew that non-uniform application of laws would lead to a severely divided country, as it has.

Jefferson was the most vocal about how the laws being passed by Congress would favor the northern bankers over the southern farmers. He may have gotten a little over exuberant in his arguments, but his point is well taken, given the outcome experienced in today’s socio-economic divide.

Obama, because of his communist leaning and his Alinsky training, is the worst of all our American Presidents in perpetrating this divide on the American people.

His administration and policies are adept at using every major issue facing this country to divide us along social and economic lines. Just look at his policies and actions on taxation, spending, debt, energy, the environment, unemployment, and more.

Obama is also adept at using these issues to keep we the people so wrapped up in trying to pay our bills, keeping a roof over our heads, and keeping our families fed, that we will sit by silently and do nothing while he is transforming our country from a strong federal republic into a weak, socialized, and pathetic third world dictatorship.

Do you like the path our once great country is currently following?

It’s a path to the destruction of every American principle we hold near and dear, and for which American blood has been spilled since the mid eighteenth century.

Now is the time for every patriot and great American to stand up to the Obama administration and say “This far, and no farther!”

If we wait and let Obama get reelected it may not be possible to turn the tide back to the freedom and liberty promised in the Constitution of the United States of America.

If we wait, it may be too late to stem the advancing tide of the progressive left and their divisive elitist attitudes and actions.

It’s time to act!

It’s time to speak up in the public forum.

blessings,
ken

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House budget chairman Paul Ryan has put together an alternative budget proposal, alternative that is to the Democrat’s plan of out of control spending with out the limitations of a budget, that focuses on cutting spending, cutting taxes, and reducing the national debt.

It’s about time that someone in Washington, Democrat or Republican, is willing to stand up for the American people, and against business as usual in Washington, with a real proposal to fix the crushing economic problems facing our country.

This is a great start!

If we do nothing, and allow Washington to continue its out of control spending, then we will follow countries like Greece over the cliff to financial ruin.

I urge everyone to contact your Representatives and Senators in Washington, and tell them to support the Ryan Budget plan.

When the people speak up, Washington changes direction.

Now is the time to speak up in the public forum.

blessings,
An Observer
Tags: budget, debt, Paul Ryan, spending, taxes

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Radical In Chief
Posted March 10, 2012

Andrew Breitbart came up with a great video from Obama’s Harvard days, which shows Obama for the radical he is; especially when he says “Open up your hearts and your minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell”. Hannity shows a clip of Bell where he says he “lives to harass white folks”; and then he goes on to interview Thomas Sowell to discuss Derrick Bell.

blessings,
An Observer
Tags: Derrick Bell, Obama, radical

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prices soar beyond reason’s demanding
for necessities and fossil fuel
politicians now together banding
’round economic destruction cruel
progressives attack conservative foes
finding only incompetence at home
both driving prosperity to new lows
and recording all in history’s tome
blogs abound with righteous indignation
fervently warning against freedom’s loss
politically forced deprivation
enslaving everyone in double cross
       where then find we liberty’s defenders
       hidden among despotic contenders

discussions, part 3 expressions #189. Copyright © 2012 by Ken Gilbert. All rights reserved.
Tags: destruction, economy, poem, sonnet

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in the streets wailing and lamentation
for growing hunger never satisfied
mourning faces bright in expectation
for a people turned away horrified
not now knowing even where to begin
or how to help a world in groaning pain
Christ’s community must now turn within
for simple ways to fight poverty’s gain
people helping with food clothing shelter
all who silently plead for help indeed
cannot tenderness displace disaster
with determined patients sowing His seed
       poverty stands not sorrow’s chance this day
       when grace abounds with love to all display

discussions, part 3 expressions #188. Copyright © 2012 by Ken Gilbert. All rights reserved.
Tags: hunger, poem, poverty, sonnet

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