The Full Alinsky – a wall of noise technique

Normally I don't watch much television – its too depressing. But once in a while when I can't sleep, I brave the big knob. That is how I came to watch part of FOX news' Bill O'Reilly program.

O'Reilly's segment was about voter fraud – some states want to make it more difficult to commit fraud during balloting. Of course, election fraud is something no good American wants. But some people in politics have no scruple about their own power.

O'Reilly featured Caroline Heldman, a woman from the far Left. He asked Heldman why the “Democratic” Party objects to photo identification being used to reduce voter fraud. Then it was off to the races. Heldman insistently asserted voter fraud was not a problem, and that as many people are struck by lightning as will commit voter fraud (thus showing the “Democratic” Party is not even slightly interested in proper election procedure). She went on to assert that voter identification laws were being promoted by the Koch Brothers, which made them a bad idea. O'Reilly tried to make her explain the reference to the Koch Brothers (which makes no sense), but Heldman shouted him down.

Heldman steadfastly stonewalled any of O'Reilly's questions. When Heldman posed a question of her own, she shouted down O'Reilly when he began to reply. Heldman wasn't merely displaying bad manners, she was displaying the far Left's “discussion.”

From the instant she knew her microphone was live, the woman's mouth was full of accusations and attack. She stated that people should be allowed to vote without having to produce photo identification because some people and old people were unable to get photo identification. She cited some "study" which she said exactly proved her point. She would brook no questions; everything she said had to be accepted exactly as she said it or else it would provoke another blistering attack.

There was no moment of consideration, no thoughtful pause – just a relentless wall of noise.

Normal people prefer a more reasoned, calm approach that this terroristic style. This Leftist tactic is the mindless, uncaring attack style of The Full Alinsky.

You can watch the video here.

75% of Americans think the voter should show identification to vote.

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Afterthought.

You can recognize when you've been Alinskied: You will have conversation which turns into a confrontation. You feel as though you lost. That is what the left is after - to make you feel defeated. They know if America feels sad and down, we will feel depressed. If we feel depressed, we will have a harder time throwing off this economic depression. They hope we will become dependent on the government they control. So confound the DemocRats -- Smile and have a good time today.

The Party to Occupy Wall Street.

Sex, drugs and open air latrines... what could be more fun? Did you really think the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations were about Wall Street greed?

Just as the Democrats were trying to co-opt the Occupy Wall Street iPhone toting crowd, OWS became more unfocused. The Democratic Party must be pleased they have support of so many fugitives and hedonistic muddle heads.

There's crime, reported the New York Post:

“I got warrants. I’m running from the law,” boasted Dave, 24, a scrawny, unshaven miscreant in filthy clothes from Stamford, Conn. “I’m not even supposed to be here, but it’s as good a spot as any to hide.”

Wanted for burglary, the drug-addled fugitive said some of his hard-partying pals clued him in that the protest was a good place to be fed, get wasted and crash.

There's drugs and sex, reported the UK Daily Mail:

Conspicuously living among the politically active in the makeshift village in Zuccotti Park are opportunistic junkies and homeless people - making the most of the free food on offer.

Also present and infuriating the hard core of activists are a number of teens looking to turn the gathering into an urban rave.

Among the banners and flags are now discarded packets of condoms, cigarettes and bottles of spirits, while naked youngsters happily get together with just sleeping bags covering their modesty.

There's other parties demonstrations reported The Boston Herald.

The downtown protest group Occupy Boston threw its proverbial doors open yesterday, and played host to supporters of accused terrorist Terak Mehanna, who are looking to raise awareness of the Sudbury man’s upcoming trial.

The Daily Mail picked up on a less appealing event -- the Wall Street demonstrator taking the dump on the police car. The photo can be found here.

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If the ambition of the demonstrators is the destruction of Wall Street, they may get their way. The Atlantic Wire says 10,000 Wall Street employees could lose their jobs next year.

The pause in the "recovery"

The stock market predicts the future of the economy. Generally speaking, the more income generated by optimists in the stock market, the more successful America will be. The stock market average indices are thermometers of the future prosperity of America.

Its always important to follow the money -- the economy benefits everyone, as during an expansion, the money goes everywhere people want to work. If the economy benefits only a few, as during a contraction like we're in, it is important to see who is getting ahead. The politically connected Leftist 'ruling class' are getting ahead.

But political affiliation can blind some people and result in very odd economic analyses. The establishment-liberal Zacks Investment Research published this:

"Friday's dismal jobs report shocked investors. For the second month in a row, job creation wasn't even close to where it's supposed to be at this, or any, stage of the recovery cycle. It's almost hard to believe that it's been nearly 3 years since this crisis first began and jobs are still stuck in the neutral zone. Why isn't there more job creation?

"It all comes back to the very thing that started the financial crisis: housing. New home construction creates jobs. Right now, we're still near record lows for new construction starts. Until we get more new home construction, we won't see the big job growth we need to spark the economy."

-- Tracey Ryniec

This analysis shows how very turned around 'liberal' analysts can be. Housing did not start the current downturn. The US housing market was distorted by Leftist political manipulation into a bloated valuation. Think Barney Frank & Co. The dramatically increasing valuations of housing dragged along the value of everything else, resulting in a mass euphoria. Meanwhile everything became very pricey. When the political manipulation could not hold out the actual market anymore, mere anarchy was loosed. Housing values went into free fall.

Housing starts do not create wealth any more than Obama's "spreading wealth around" creates wealth. Housing is an indicator of how optimistic people are about the future, and how much cash they feel they have right now.

Sort of like the stock market, the housing market is a thermometer of the people's general expectations. The two markets should move more of less parallel each other. But one does not control the other. They both move in accord with expectation.

Things will recover some day, once we get a responsible government. Obama's method of punishing success in the market is not the way.

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Analysis and politics

Before the housing collapse, housing got very expensive. This fueled a despising of those who owned a house before valuations became ridiculous. Those who supplied housing, i.e., builders and banks, became political targets. Obama's "spreading the wealth around" sounded plausible to a majority of the electorate.

Clearly, the economy was out of hand - someone was to blame - Someone better take the fall! Too bad the public found solace with the same Leftists who corrupted the economy in the first place.

The country lurched left - and lives were ruined. Government was called upon to redistribute everything. Only the ruling class of politicians, crass manipulators, and the bureaucratic Left benefited. They Left has no idea how national prosperity is created, and that is not their interest anyway. The Leftist vision of "economic justice" is controlling who uses product and assigning blame. The Left fatten themselves on whatever they deem theirs.

The ongoing process of Leftist "deeming" means no government budget will guide government spending. Witness the 2 years of Democrat rule. There was no budget and government tossed billions of dollars after whatever they wanted. Mostly they gave money, our money, to their political allies.

Presently grabby Obama seeks more of the same. He and his cronies will crab about "Republican tax cuts for the rich" when those cuts will work to everyone's benefit. Obama and Co will complain about ruinous cuts in government spending, when those cuts are absolutely required for prosperity.

The Leftist Democrats had no idea how much they were spending; they had no budget to guide them. It bugs the ruinous Obama and the Left that control is slipping away.

The way out of the mess is the same as always. Take the control away form government and put it back in the personal hands of the people. The method was discovered centuries ago. It is the free market. Free markets have been involved in mass suffering, because the free market is the people, the free market is us.

Freedom has never caused any suffering. Its takes a self-absorbed politician to do that.

The Dreariness of Pointless Change

I wish I had a bone of hope to gnaw on….

What’s wrong with modern American liberalism and the “Democratic” Party.

A lot of people out there still think the purpose of government is to restrict/control people. Instead of a land filled with the possibilities of human life, America has become a land of "No, you can't."

The "can’t-ers" short circuit all the great prospects of life. Instead of affirming the people who soar high and open up the vista of life, they seek to cage life in little, safe packages. Mediocrity is enforced. Plainness is required.

Weirdly, this impulse to stifle is growing in intensity. Soon, all of life in the land of the formerly free will be dirty rat gray. No one will be allowed to excel, no one will be allowed to stand out.

An interesting historical footnote is that? Mr Ted Kennedy drafted much of the content of the Bush educational act popularly called "No child left behind." Teachers widely vilified the act as "No child gets ahead."

Compared to any of his brothers, the late Ted Kennedy was drab personality. Ever since his date with his secretary, and her consequent drowning at Chappaquiddick, Teddy used all of us who are still breathing. He orchestrated her death after he used her. He orchestrated the death of the vibrant American in the same spiteful sport.

It figures the alcoholic rat-gray Teddy Kennedy, running from his conscience, would draft the act which would suck the life out of American youth.

The paragon and hero of the "Democratic" Party sought this result to assure an enhancement of their power base among the helpless and plain. Its paying off very well for them.

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Under democracy, whatever the majority decides is law. The majority can change at any moment and the law changes in an instant. There is no stability, no security, no safety.

In a republic, basic rights are secured for everyone. The human rights part of law does not change and society grows on a firm foundation. In a republic, the strong are just, the weak secure and the peace preserved.

The best system would combine the strength of democracy and republic. The security of a republic, with the stability of protecting the rights of the minority, would be reinforced by the use of democracy to check the aggressions of an ambitious politician.

Yet, here in Bizarro world, the worst tyrannies call themselves "democratic republics."

The American system is failing because the People have been taught the democratic political system is all that matters. The republican ideal of equal right before the law is something to be taken away from people. They no longer care nor understand that the instability in a pure democracy will collapse the political system, destroy their wealth and make them miserable. Inevitably, the nation is headed into poverty, dictatorship and civil war.

Democide.

Billions in Equality!

Many private US companies have billions of dollars in cash reserves. Today's stylish Leftist is insisting those private companies ought not to be driven by profit, but ought to be forced by government to use up cash reserves to hire people and "end the recession." The indignant whiner will say, "profit" as though it were an obscenity.

Yep. This indignant Leftist rave was heard this morning on CNBC, the television arm of the the General Electric (Obama's pet corporation).

But wait, GE! Private companies are saving that money to pay huge new health care taxes imposed by greedy Democratic Party politicians. Obama's minions say the companies must have the tax money or else.

What about some companies are making profit! How about taxing that away to hire people to do something. After all it would be compassionate to "put people first," or some similar pack of garbage. The greedy "Democratic" politicians ignore the fact that we need to have profitable companies if we are ever going to get out of this depression.

The American Economic Depression is caused by government re-allocation resources in a way which is so wasteful that no one can make plans. If the Left were truly serious about easing unemployment and starting economic recovery, they would celebrate whenever a company made profit.

The greedy Democratic Party sees a patch of green in the economic landscape and they start screeching about "profit! profit! profit!" They go set fire to the profitable living spot of the economy, to make sure there is nothing for everyone.

That's equality!

Democratic Party versus....

Democratic Party versus the truth?

Some people, mostly the stupid, or uninformed, or Democrats, think the President makes law. The President makes suggestions, but Congress makes the law of the land, which the President then signs. When George W Bush was President, it was the Republicans in Congress who made us prosper.

Democratic Party members insist George Bush's policies failed. If so, the timing is interesting, because it wasn't until after the Democratic Party took full control of Congress the economy began to wobble. When the Democratic Party took control of the Presidency too the nation's economy collapsed.


The stock market crashed and partly recovered (2 year view).


The dollar dropped 35% against the Yen (2 year view).


And unemployment nearly doubled to 9.5% (Ten year view).

The Democratic Party must believe George Bush has spooky influence now that he is out of office for more than a year and a half.

Clearly the policies of the Democratic Party have failed. And no wonder. Their policies are based on the notion that central planning works. If that were so, the militaristic Soviet Union would still be around. Central planning requires force.

The economy is failing, but not because of the people or the ghost from a past administration. Capitalism did not fail --- freedom is under attack. The Democratic Party is attacking the American way of life. They are doing this out of pure partisan greed. We must stop them any way possible.

It does not need to happen.

The Clear Taker

The Dow average crossed the 10,000 mark again. And again.

The Dow first crossed 10,000 in 1999. Since then the Dow has crossed 10,000 up and down probably 100 times. Today, the Dow hovers around 10,000, right where it was in 1999. For 11 years, American investors, as a class, have not made money. There is no one to take your stupid vengeance on, arrogant Democrats.

The clear "taker" in recent history has been the American government. This is not good. Big Government is good for no one except lying politicians. If you are waiting on Mr Obama, he has no interest in revitalizing the economy. Things are right where he wants them to be.

Insane Spending Based On Insane Taxation

The Carbon Fraud

The Obama Carbon Tax will cost each family $3,100 each and every year. That's $260 per month per family. That's around $61 per person per month... $2 per day. This is the price of the privilege of having power drunk Leftists lord it over you.

At this time of national economic disaster, a new tax is reckless at least. "I am become death, the Destroyer of worlds," the Hindu god Shiva said (Bhagavad Gita). Being no Christian, Mr Obama seems to relish the task.

Nancy Pelosi has promised Mr Obama sweeping health care taxes in July.

The hate-filled Leftists have in hand the means to destroy the America. You still have some personal freedom left. If you don't fight back, they will wipe you out.

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Fight back --- How?

Get the Republican Party to re-grow its spine, the same spine they had when they started their twelve year run of Success For America in 1994. During one of the wildest (up 'til then) Democreep tax-crazed administrations, The Republicans took control of Congress and reduced the burden on ordinary Americans.

Force the Republicans to remember us, and remember 2010. If the Republicans won't remember us, toss out everyone and start a new American Revolution Party. We've got to do it now.

Blameless and worse

A friend tried to argue the Democrats are blameless by pointing out the current slowdown started during the Bush presidency. That's a pretty stupid remark if you recall that Congress is where the law and economic policy are made. A quick review of the timeline is in order.

2000 - Bush is elected President in a hotly contested race. Leftwingers never forgive him.
2001 - 7 months into his first term, terrorists attack America, and cause 3000 deaths. Crazy Leftists cheer.
2003 - War in Iraq, Saddam is crushed and flees.
2004 - Bush wins re-election. Leftist controlled press corps winge and slag Bush.
2006 - Democrats win majority of Congress
Remember - US Congress, not the President, controls the purse strings of government. (US Constitution, Article 1, Section 7).
2007 - Rep. Barney Frank (D.-Con) head of Banking and Finance Committee, sees to it real estate loans are rigged to lose banks money. US and world economy hit a high point in October, and wobbles. (Oh, yeah, the Surge in Iraq worked. Insurgents sign on with new Iraqi government.)
2008 - Economy slumping accelerates --- Democrats yelp only they can fix this (even though they caused it). They must have the Presidency, so they have unchecked power....

Although only the Democrats controlled Congress in 2007 and therefore only they made fiscal policy in 2007, the public inexplicably blame President Bush and the way outnumbered Congressional Republicans, sending even more Democrats to Congress in 2009. Stupid American public.

Democrats proceed to screw the electorate. Unless the public wakes up, its only going to get worse. Leftists hate you, America.

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"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
-- Thomas Sowell