The day the Supreme Court refused to uphold American law when asked by Chrysler bondholders – those greedy, evil teachers and working-class, tax-paying folks whose corrupt fund managers had invested their hard-earned monies in the most secure and legally-protected of Chrysler bonds – to look into the Chrysler bankruptcy is the day America, as we know and love her, died. Now the despots in Washington are dancing on her grave.
Not only was Inspector General Gerald Walpin shamelessly, unceremoniously, and wrongfully fired for doing a proper and quite fine auditing job of watching over how OUR government is spending OUR tax dollars by giving grants to “service” organizations like AmeriCorps, but this week the International Trade Commission told its acting inspector general, Judith Gwynne (who is not subject to White House authority) that her contract would not be renewed. After it was revealed that concerned questions had been raised about the ITC not allowing her access to information to do her job. And let’s not forget Neil Barofsky, hired as an independent Inspector General but suddenly now considered to be on the Treasury Department’s leash.
What I want to know is just who the hell do President Obama, all his czars, and almost every non-representing representative in Congress think they are? Who died and conferred divinity upon them? Who gave them the right to blatantly ignore not only the wishes of the majority of Americans but to subvert and pervert the very laws they swore to uphold and defend?
I am beyond snark. I am beyond stunned. I am furious.
Not only am I angry at the grasping, gaping greed that no longer scuttles, rat-like, along the shadows but instead runs roughshod with impunity in broad daylight over everything for which America once stood, I am angry at the average American citizen who is sitting there drooling in their ignorance or impotently wringing their hands. I watch what is happening in Iran, seeing parallels to what is happening here, and I watch average Iranian citizens willing to be gunned down in their own streets to stand up for the principles of fairness.
You remember fairness, don’t you? That simple way of conducting yourself, once closely associated with honor and integrity? The one thing that allowed us to trust one another, and to trust those we send to Washington to oversee the general affairs of our country? The real stimulus – of the American Revolution?
The Iranian people are willing to die for it but we Americans won’t even get up off our butts to write a letter, make a single phone call, or march en masse to protest what are equally unfair and equally dangerous actions being taken every single day by a President who looks the other way at the murder of Iranian citizens, and by a Congress who just can’t be bothered, any more than it can be bothered to read the bills it churns out as fast as the Treasury is printing money.
What’s wrong with you, America? Since when do Iranians, or anyone else for that matter, have bigger cajones than us? Do you look at them and figure they’ve nothing to lose so why not die trying to get something? Don’t you understand that by doing nothing we, America, are fast ending up in exactly the same place as the citizens of Iran – under the thumb of a group of powermongering, tyranical despots – who will do anything and stop at nothing to get and keep a nation of people enslaved and under their control?
Open your eyes, America. See the despots merrily dancing. Why else is the President “hosting” an hour of prime time television on a national network (ABC) to talk about a financially-irresponsible national health care plan that will end up with more people NOT having health care than is the case today and not allowing even a commercial that disagrees with him? This isn’t transparency, it’s another campaign speech full of meaningless rhetoric in order to sell Americans on paying more taxes. (Oh yes, this will raise your taxes, bunky.) Why aren’t you saying no? No to ABC. No to President Obama.
Why else are we even considering given the Federal Reserve, that Wilson-era dinosaur, little more than a black hole and even more secretive and hidden than former Vice-President Cheney’s bunker (until Biden opened his big mouth, anyway) and, along the same lines as Ben Bernacke, its current chairman, believes it caused the Great Depression so also the place to rightly lay blame for the current Wall Street meltdown, even more power to wrap the government’s strangling tentacles around the private sector? Like Obama’s jackbooted czars, they answer to no one. So, of course, President Obama thinks this fox should be given even freer reign inside the henhouse.
Why else is Nancy Pelosi suddenly fast-tracking Waxman’s cap & trade bill (H.R. 2454) and its inherent crushing blow to the U.S. economy to a vote next week? Have you read this monstrosity and do you understand the impact of creating a government-controlled commodity – tradeable for cash and such trading to be managed by rancid corporations like GE – out of slapdash science perceptions of pollution and the bad science behind the liberal progressive mantra of global warming? More importantly, have you read the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of it? This now-derided as a conservative, low-balling group makes it clear the slim benefits to the government will come directly from tax increases and, surprise, sections of the bill allow the federal government to preempt state governments.
I was proud to the very bottom of my soul to be among the literal thousands who took part in the Tax Day Tea Party I attended. I do not back away from the weird looks that sometimes accompany my talking about it. Instead I chastize those who seem to think that our government servants are somehow smarter than the rest of us. I remind them that we let them borrow our power, but it remains our right to take it back.
And, indeed, it has now become our duty to take it back. Now. Every day that goes by means more of our freedoms slip through our fingers. I will not allow that to happen. Neither should you. It’s time to be angry. Very, very angry. It’s time to voice that anger and let the message be heard clearly from sea to shining sea, more loudly than the citizens of Iran raise their voices in ringing protest every night. Ameria doesn’t need a messiah. America doesn’t need a daddy or a nanny. America needs Her independence and only the oldest of the most old-fashioned honorable and honest representation. At all levels of a much smaller federal government.
What will it take, America? Another attack on American soil? Is the end of our nation’s history destined to come with a whimper instead of a bang?
Blood was shed to give you the right to sit there and do nothing. How dare you let those brave, wise souls deaths end up in vain for little more than promises of bread and circuses?