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Think About This

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Everyone can’t help but think about money these days.  We’re seeing less of it in our paychecks, we’re spending more of it for goods and services, we’re paying more of it in taxes (yes, Virginia, this year’s stimulus credit will be next year’s tax liability), and it continues to be news every day as Wall Street continues to wobble like a Weeble and Pater Obama and the Family take over more and more of private enterprise.

As it has been noted here and elsewhere in the non-Democrat-dependent media, the government got us into this mess in the first place and, throughout modern history, when the government makes a financial mess, they’ve never yet been able to clean it up.  Since this administration is using previously-failed tactics, there’s no reason to think we’re going to come out of the current crisis with anything that resembles the original United States of America.

There have been rumblings for some time that the “average person” isn’t really savvy enough when it comes to investing, and various proposals hit the table time and again about how the government should step in and save them from themselves.  If you believe that, folks, I have another bridge to nowhere for sale.

Here is a good piece that helps put remove the liberal’s hocus-pocus and puts the reality of the government’s deep dive into the private sector  into better focus.

Destined to Repeat?

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It’s been said that those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.  And so it is that the Obama administration has ushered in not an era of hope and change but, frighteningly, is instead now putting the seal onto the very worst that humans have devised in terms of government.

Consider the two great motivators:  fear and hunger.  They have always been, and are now, how the calculating turn a temporary crisis into a permanent one.  As we look back to the stock market collapse in 1929 and the Great Depression that followed to find a clue about how to solve the problems on Wall Street and with our banks today, it becomes more clear that the roots of both those and today’s ills first took hold earlier in the early 20th century.  Self-proclaimed “Il Duce”, aka “His Excellency Benito Mussolini, Head of Government, Duce of Fascism, and Founder of the Empire”, was a high-profile “progressive” (like Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR; and now Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) and before things went south was admired by the likes of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, uber-pundit Will Rogers, and praised by the eternally-liberal New York Times:  “Mussolini is a Latin Teddy Roosevelt, who first acts and then inquires if it is legal.  He’s been a great service to Italy at home.”  In the beginning, even Winston Churchill called Mussolini “the greatest living lawmaker.”

Yet for all the fawning admiration of the American “intellectual elite”, Benito Mussolini set Italy on the side of Germany to became part of the Axis during WWII.  Eventually, at the urging of his own son-in-law, the Italian parliment ousted Il Duce and restored full constitutional powers to the king.  It was Marshal Pietro Badoglio who then secretly dissolved the Italian Fascist Party and negotiated an armistice with the Allies, signed on September 3, 1943.  Despite the resulting turmoil, Italy finally declared war against Nazi Germany and the rest, as I shall call it, is common history.

Progressive poster boy Benito was summarily executed in April 1945 by Communist Italian partisans, then his body was hung upside-down in the Piazzale Loreto in Milan for public viewing, to assure people the monster was really and truly dead.  Along with his lover and 13 other high-ranking Fascist officials, and some other Fascist hanger-ons.

The “progressive movement”, then, that darling of the Ivy League “intellectual elite”, is the answer to the question, “How did America get here?”

Glenn Beck put together a recent show that explores the parallels.  Please watch.  Please learn.  Then, please, stand up and help us return America to her foundation.  For as will become obvious, the progressive movement and narcissistic siblings socialism and fascism, didn’t work then and, as Americans know first-hand,  it is not working now.

Introduction:

 

The happy side of fascism:

 

Progressives Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt:

 

Some words of wisdom: