Conservative Refocus

As the TSA executes their mission of harassment and molestation at American airports, while concurrently ferreting out X-rayed IUD's, the economic news continues to be "not so good" overall. Unemployment rates have ratcheted upwards, yet again, to 9.8% while even certain members of the liberal news media report that the stock market could crash by December the 15th. The reason? Capital gains rate on stock sells will clang back up from 15% to 20%. Now, a majority of the liberal twits within the drive-by media report this as being a 5% increase; however, the real  increase will actually be a 25% overall smackdown in taxation from the current rate.

This will, invariably, incite many stockholders, who both want and need as much money as possible in our fecklessly managed economy, to get it now rather than waiting until next year when the Government will actually take 25% more. Think about it--what would you do? Are your stocks anticipated to rise by a greater than 25% margin next year? How about the next two years? If not, and your desire is to realize a hefty yield after taxes, then...

Meanwhile, Obama and the Democrats have continued to essentially twiddle their thumbs over allowing this pending US tax increase to go forward. One must, additionally, remember that this particular increase is still being mystifingly and misleadingly called "a tax cut."  Many within the media, whether disingenuously or otherwise, are increasingly referring to the current rate of taxation continuation as a tax cut, which is totally incorrect in its historical and actual meaning. The liberals, being easily led by mis-logic or propaganda--take your pick--have grown overtly militaristic over actually wanting a both wasteful and sloth government to take an increasing amount of both their and our money from us, and then throw it back down the black hole of redistributive bureaucracy that our government has become.

To illustrate simplistically, if your stock sell nets you a $5,000 gain at 15% the amount of taxation that would be $750.  At 20%, the amount which goes to your government under the new tax laws would become $ 1,000. Now, if these numbers seem trifling, just add an equal amount of zeros, as desired, to each of the above figures and you can begin to get a feel for what could amount to a huge cache' of cash for our ravenous Uncle Sam.

The Sunset of America's Economy and The Eurozone

The simple fact is that what the Democrats and Republicans are heatedly arguing over is whether or not we should have a tax increase in the middle of one of the deepest and darkest recessions in American history. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what this debacle is all about, and the media have been successful in portraying this tax issue as something that it certainly isn't--that being a tax cut. When George W. Bush actually signed his lower tax rates into law back in 2001 and 2003, the only way he could get the Democrats on board was to include a Sunset Provision within the bill, which would bring the tax rates back up to their historical levels of the prior ten years, reactivating on January 1 of 2011. That time has now come--but at the worst of all times as the economic limping continues.  However, the US is not the only wounded Federation on the planet, it would seem.

The Eurozone  has also continued its financial crumble due to an apparent governmentally viraled inability to grasp sound economic policy. The growing economic quagmire that is the Eurozone is not actually being correctly reported by the overall media, much as in the US, with failed Keynesian economic policies being outed in a train wreck spectacle of abject failure. Ireland is now, most likely, in the process of being bailed out with both Spain and Portugal coming up in the not too distant future. And when Spain is bailed out, there will be no more Eurozone funds left for further bailouts--as the domino effect will most likely continue.  So, what does this all mean in a nutshell? Answer: The experiment of Statist Globalism in Europe, it would appear, has come to a screeching halt due mainly to the good ole' US of A's financial meltdown.

To explain, what arguably began as a possible liberal plot to ruin the US economy enough to bring down the Republic and spark a Statist/Progressive revolution (rooted within the Community Reinvestment Act and later the election of Obama) has become an event that may actually prove to take down the Global Government impetus which actually began in the Eurozone. This ruination will over time work, and is even now working, to circle back around and eventually reinstate the US powers of our Republic as originally formed. Nigel Farage, who is a Minister of the European Union, gave the most succint and eloquent explanations on what is happening in the one world governance order of Europe available, and what will ultimately transpire in the upcoming future.

Just Who In The Hell Do You People Think You Are?

Farage essentially reamed out the leadership of the European Union when they had indicated that, in order for the bailout of Ireland to go forward, they would require the Irish Government to withhold new elections for the collapsing Government until a budget had been put together and approved by the EU.  Farage took issue with this particular authoritarian stance by the Eurozone leaders as an extreme form of tyranny perpetrated on a sovereign people. Farage further pointed out that the Irish would have been better to forego the Union altogether and probably should have. Farage then stated to each of the Ministers, "just who in the hell do you people think you are?"  In retrospect, this statement was an extreme form of irony, echoing the exact same thing that the Tea Party in America has been yelling at its increasingly tyrannical Government.

Farage went on to point out, to the entire leadership, that the Eurozone had failed and the Globalistic Government goals of the EU financial leadership had also failed, as each country would soon fall in a domino effect. The fanaticism, the obsession in their efforts at creating a Eurostate proved that the EU leadership were a very, very dangerous people indeed. Farage went on to exclaim that he hoped they were happy that Democracy was being destroyed and that untold millions would suffer and be put out of work as a result of their Statist goals. Farage concluded that he could only hope that the Euro project would be destroyed by the financial markets before the people, robbed of their identities and democracy, were only left with the specter of Nationalism and violence.

Every American should now sit up and take note of the following fact.

If most Americans, political persuasion aside, actually think that the problems and the efforts being exhausted within the EU are not inextricably connected with the efforts and the failures being applied in US failures of governance, then they have not been paying adequate attention. It was the US Government who aided the EU bailout. It was also the US Government, the EU and Ireland, who just a few days ago, agreed to extend the financial largess of the International monetary fund, to aid the EU in its global Statist efforts. The question then quite logically becomes, why are the American taxpayers being dragged into this--the illicit affairs of a Statist/Socialist government?

If the One World government efforts of the Eurozone fail, then the efforts that have been facilitated to entangle the US within the One World machination that is the EU, will have also failed. President Obama and his formerly powerful party of Socialist Democrats have increasingly fed the globalist hunger exhibited by the power-hungry elites who run the EU. You have just now seen where one of its own ministers indicated to both the leadership, and all of us common folk listening, that the EU is a power for nothing more nor less than destroying Democracy and Freedom.

From Hoax to Conspiracy, Global Warming Politics Is Finished

We can, even now, see this happening in America also. The connection is there; it is unmistakable, and it is linked by an America's provision of bailout funds that the country simply cannot afford, along with the other failures at global interventionisms. Under the global warming hoax, even now being perpetuated in Cancun, we have also seen the Wikileaks cables where the US government actually performed Government espionage and extreme measures of coercion in order to get other countries to intermingle their efforts at global control of energy usage through the now nearly defeated global warming hoax.

But as the EU continues its meltdown, the Conservatives in America, meanwhile, are beginning to wonder if certain Republican young guns are nothing more than easily charmed young-uns who are gladly, if not cluelessly, sliding down that happy trail of Statism's birth canal and the singular contrivance that advances its emergence as being Government-controlled Healthcare. You see, Obama, who has been bad-mouthing Americans in general and Republicans in specific for better than three long years, had requested a meeting several weeks ago with the newly powerful Republican leadership in order to get things off on the right foot.

No doubt, the President's former predisposition of getting things off on the left foot will now be far more difficult--making his need to charm the GOP and get his way more urgent, if not far more precarious. The Republicans had, in fact, blown off the President's initial meeting requests, probably as a form off payback, as they have been both vilified and ignored since the President ascended to his anti-capitalism throne. However, the Republicans did finally agree to a meeting with his Hiney-ness, and here was where the fun began.

The media had been transfixed leading up to and during the meeting, no doubt,  in a breathless urgency of hubris, wondering how this clash would turn out--the answer wasn't long in coming. When Obama and the Republicans finally emerged from their meeting, it was as if the pupa of pugilistic partisanship had transformed itself into a beatific bi-partisan butterfly. The participants were all aglow at how productive the meeting was, with both shiny thoughts and glistening quotes.  Many of us half expected a resounding rendition of Kum Ba Yah to break out at any moment among the purring politicos.  John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Eric Cantor all emerged with uncharacteristic praise for the President, Cantor even stating that the President "had put his best foot forward," to which we would respond... ahem, Mr. Cantor, that was part of his cross-over dribble entendre, which is normally followed by a head-fake and then a trick pass to one of his Centers.

Eric The Red-Faced Meets Obama, Becomes Hypnotized

Eric Cantor, who has been bad-mouthing Obamacare, along with virtually every other true Republican, for what seems as an eternity, has seemingly done an about face. The Hill even reported that Cantor now seems to be re-cantoring at least parts of his formerly principled stance, by reporting that Cantor indicated that "Republicans would not be seeking to completely recant the Healthcare law."  Which made many of us fit to be tied. The Hill later ran a more complete story which then stated that Cantor wanted to repeal Obamacare while concurrently passing new law which would allow children to stay on a parent's plan until age 26 and also would keep insurance companies from denying pre-existing conditions in health plans.

This left many Americans scratching their heads as to Cantor's sudden apparent misunderstanding of the hows and the whys of healthcare financial intricacies. But we were also a bit miffed that the former Firebrand had now become what amounts to a water buffalo, in Cantor's glowing words concerning the Presidential meeting. Yes, dear, dear Eric, we can all hear you lamenting that common ground must be found and that you must somehow meet with Obama to bring things forward like any responsible politico. We do understand that viewpoint--and yet we fully and totally reject it within its entirety. Apparently, you might wish to hit the rewind button and listen to a raft of speeches and television appearances which you have made since 2009. You have "forgotten" your position, Sir, and you have also begun sipping, albeit surreptitiously, from the Kool-aid, but it is not too late.

In fact, Cantor now states that a number of measures under Obamacare are actually beneficial and that the Republicans will seek to keep those precepts among certain few others when their session begins. Our take on this would have to be the Republicans have obviously made a grievous error in their meeting with Obama and his Disciples of Doom. We have tried to make it crystal clear, time and time again, that you must never look into the Dark Lord's eyes, especially when in his presence.

Truthfully, if one must be involved in a situation of extended contact with the President, modern folklore experts suggest that one would do well to bring along certain powerful  talismans in order to counter the President's considerable supernatural effect.  Wooden Christian crosses, silver medallions with extended length chains, and a considerable appropriation of concentrated garlic are all recommended. Powerful sunglasses are also rumored to be an effective counter-agent to the President's swirling gaze, along with copious amounts of holy water--if things become harrowingly dire. However, we would recommend against both overtly obvious and stridently offensive artifacts such as wooden stakes and the like, as they are not conducive to good governance and may also get the President's Security Team riled.

Unyielding Partisanship Critique From The Partisan In Chief

The Republicans who attended the meeting with Obama and the Democrat Leadership consisted of John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor and John Kyle. Also attending were the two Einsteins of the administration, Tim Geithner and Joe Biden. The meeting apparently brought up a range of issues, not the least of which is the President apparently desires the Republicans to combine with him in his increasingly successful efforts to weaken America. Reducing our Nuclear arms, along with the Russian's, was the first order of very important business--we have all grown understandably weary at the number of nuclear weapons being launched and detonated on a weekly basis.

Unemployment was also brought to the table where Obama wants to lengthen the terms of unemployment again from the current, stubbly diminutive duration of 99 weeks, to another unindicated amount of time. Our point, in this regard, would be to point out that if Obama would actually get behind a few Conservative measures for meaningfully rehiring those individuals who are out of work, there would be no need to continually lengthen unemployment benefits.

The interesting thing, in this case, is that Obama, unlike the Republicans apparently, is painfully aware of what happens to both he and his leftist minions' approval numbers if a large sub-section of the electorate were actually forced to undergo the full ravishes of Obama's painstakingly engineered economic nightmare.

Obama stated, after the meeting, that "the American people did not vote for gridlock," to which we would respond "oh yes we did!" The American people just cleaned out the house of the Democratic infestation that resided there. In the face of the damage that has been done to the American economy over the past two years, gridlock would be a Godsend at this point, and perhaps that's how we should see the November triumph. In fact, we received word today that an insurance carrier that has been writing personal health insurance for years has suddenly ceased to underwrite it as a result of Obamacare. Obama further stated that "Americans did not vote for unyielding partisanship," to which we would note, "yes, we did!" Apparently the President mistook the message from the American people, or more likely is endeavoring to totally ignore it.

Liberals Want Answers Instead Of Criticism? OK, Read Em' And Weep

The simple fact that we should now put forth to every politician within our Nation, especially the Republicans who do seem to have a clue, is simply this:  Our Country is even now in a tail-spin, the wings are on fire, there are few if any parachutes. The time for business as usual politics and gamesmanship is over. Whether Obama and the Democrats are trying to transform the Country or turn it into something unrecognizable, which is even now occurring, is neither here nor there, as the time for action is now. The measures which will need to be taken can no longer be an academian exercise in unproven theory. Obama and the Democrats have tried all of those and each has failed miserably.

• We know that we need to slash every program there is by 10 to 20%; our current spending is "unsustainable" as has been indicated by virtually every credible Government and private institution.
• We know that we need to cut out Government give-aways, especially to those who are using the system for superfluous gain rather than for life.  That correction would amount to hundreds of billions.
• We know that we need to cut out programs which fund certain groups that can operate in the private sector just as easily as on the public dole. Those would most likely reach up into the hundreds of billions, as well, in aggregate.
• We know that our businesses must be given a breath of life by repealing Obamacare, which has proven, even now, to be disastrous to our Seniors and is even now viraling out into the entire marketplace where carriers are opting out.
• Businesses and their owners also need to be sure about rate of taxation for the future, meaning, no new taxes or increases.  This will spur growth in and of itself.
• The Department of Education is a proven joke--dismantle it and repatriate state and local schools with part of the remaining funds while re-utilizing the rest.
• Government bureaus such as the Department of Energy, EPA and other such entities need to be severely curtailed, consolidated and or canceled.
• Entitlements need to be tackled next. Those individuals who have sufficient retirement assets, met by common sense rather than by arbitrary rules, need to be disallowed from Social Security. It's for those in need, not those in plenty.

Those Citizens who are cut out can be given other ostensible repatriation factors to be determined. These are just beginnings; however, it is a well-known fact that a vast majority of experienced American Small Business owners could enter, review and in short order essentially half government largess, while most Americans would never know the difference.

Regardless, what is happening in Europe is quickly coming America's way.  Now is the time, and playing nice, being civil and adulating for favor is no longer an option for those whom have exacerbated the problem within our Government and Country in the first place.

Barry Secrest