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Welcome Back, Carter!

Barack Obama’s energy policy is not going to be “Jimmy Carter lite.”

 

Instead, it’s going to be Jimmy Carter on steroids, complete with ‘roid rage.

 

Obama tipped his hand in a little coded doublespeak on 60 minutes.

 

Obama is going to have Carter’s bad policy ideas, but unrestricted by the humility of a peanut farmer. Humility will be replaced with the arrogance of a Community Organizer who believes he knows more than the community itself, mixed with the self-righteous anger of a Green Peace environmentalist who woke up one day and found himself in charge.

 

Jimmy Carter may have had good intentions in 1977 when he asked us all to conserve energy.  He was responding to the energy mess that followed the OPEC embargo in 1973. 

 

Carter also wanted prices to stay up so we would use less fuel.  His energy policy put in place to accomplish that was, in farmer’s terms, about as effective as a milk bucket under a bull.

 

Jimmy Carter levied a “windfall profit tax” on oil companies. 

 

Profits are profits and there really is no such thing as “windfall” profits.  It’s an antiquated legal term stemming from an old law that said you couldn’t cut down and sell your trees, but if the wind fell your tree, you could sell it at a profit.  Thus “windfall” profit.

 

So Carter had to create this artificial definition for windfall profit:  The difference in price the government wanted oil sold for, using 1979 as the standard, and the actual price the oil company sold it for.

 

Simplified, if an oil company made more than it made in 1979, it got taxed. 

 

To Carter’s bewilderment, prices still dropped.

 

The lesson Carter learned was that oil prices are governed by far more than just an American President gouging domestic companies for taxes.  All he did was take money from them that they could have used elsewhere – like in research.

 

The windfall profit tax was repealed as useless in 1988.

 

Now Barack Obama, never to be confused with a student of history, wants to give it “the old Jimmy Carter try” and bring back the windfall tax. 

 

We already knew that though.  Here is the new part:

 

Now that gasoline prices have shot down to the lowest levels in years, Obama revealed his desire to put his hand in between you and the gas pump.  He told 60 Minutes this regarding the drop in gas prices:

“You know, oil prices go up, gas prices at the pump go up, everybody goes into a flurry of activity. And then the prices go back down and suddenly we act like it’s not important, and we start, you know filling up our SUVs again.

And, as a consequence, we never make any progress. It’s part of the addiction, all right. That has to be broken. Now is the time to break it.”

Note the reference to you and your SUV.  Obama thinks you’re a wasteful SOB.

He won’t just put a tax on the oil company profits; he wants to tax your personal consumption at the pump directly, too.

Remember during the campaign when John McCain and Hillary Clinton wanted to declare a “gas tax holiday” and suspend the federal 18.4-cent federal tax on a gallon of gas last summer?  Obama slapped the idea down harder than Naomi Campbell slaps her maid. That should have been our first clue that Obama would be our Presidential pickpocket.

Carter tried gas tax hikes too, but it didn’t pass, even with a Democrat controlled congress.  Today, Congressional Democrats can’t see past bogus Global Warming claims. Labeling a gas tax “green” is all it will take to get one passed this time. Artificial anabolic “green” claims will empower Obama.

If you thought wrestling your wallet away from Jimmy Carter was hard, wait until it’s Jimmy Carter on steroids.

NJ Atty General Ann Milgram Will Now Run Your Business, And Find You A Spouse

Ann Milgram recently came to a settlement with eHarmony, a website that matches couples based upon research they have done on compatibility between men and women.

A gay man felt discriminated against because eHarmony wouldn't find him a boyfriend. 

It mattered not to Milgram that eHarmony has no research on compatibility for homosexual men. 

Milgram said eHarmony had to do it, so now they are tasked with determining once and for all if Liza fans and Cher fans really can get along. 

Embolden by her self-created state power, Milgram has announced the following new "equality initiatives" she sees as entirley within her control:

• Vegan Restaurants will now serve steak;
• The NFL will play Baseball Games;
• Heart surgeons will conduct brain surgery;
• ACORN will have to register one Republican voter;
• Everyone must use Arianna Huffington's accent so she feels included;
• Joey from Friends will snag an Oscar;
• The Cubs will win a World Series;
• and, under the Fariness Doctrine, The Church will give equal time to Satan.

Good Grief.

I Thought The World Was Supposed To Love Us Now?

Yea right.

The audacity of our enemies not to "hope" and promise to "change."

House Slave.

They hate you no differently than our last Cowboy President.

What are we gonna do about that, pardner?

IT'S FASCISM, STUPID. NOT SOCIALISM

People should stop saying the recent round of bailouts is "Socialism."

 

It isn’t.

 

In Socialism, after the government socializes business losses, they socialize some of  the profits, too.  So after Socialists take all your money, they at least have the decency to give you back some free stuff.

 

If I’m going to live in a nation dooming itself to “Socialism,” I’ll move to a country where the healthcare is free and my kids go to college for nothing.  I’ll blissfully have no worries (until demand outpaces government production and the nation collapses).

 

Without “redistributing the wealth” back to the people, it can’t be Socialism.

 

These bailouts certainly aren’t free market capitalism, either.

 

In Capitalism, private industry controls production through “competition.” Competition results in better and cheaper products. 

 

Put two burger joints in one town.  Competition causes them to fight to serve better tasting, leaner burgers at cheaper prices.  The consumer wins and the slob selling high priced, undercooked mystery meat will fail.  Capitalism only works if the better business wins and the lesser business fails.

 

These bailouts are allowing “McRancid Burger” to stay in business despite his high prices and chewy beef.  That’s not Capitalism and it isn’t fair to the consumer, or the guy who worked harder to cook a better burger.

 

So these bailouts aren't Capitalism.

 

What these bailouts are is Fascism. 

 

People forget that besides frenzied racism, Fascism was also an economic policy.  It attempted to be a hybrid of Capitalism and Socialism.

 

Fascism socialized business losses through bank takeovers and creating government/business cartels, but privatized the profit, ultimately allowing profit to remain with the corporate entity.

 

Basically, Fascists took the people's money and gave it to the corporations, but nothing went back to the people in the deal.

 

Now that’s EXACTLY what these bailouts are doing!!!

 

In Fascism, the government directed business production by tight controls.  When we bailed out AIG, one of the sales pitches was that the bailout came with stricter government regulation.  That’s the very model of Fascist economics – private enterprise controlled by government.

 

Another principle of Fascism was “corporatism.” Corporations were not only more important than individuals, but corporate survival equaled the “national interest” itself.

 

Compare that to today's rhetoric.  The government and Wall Street are telling you that AIG is “too big to fail” and GM is “too big to fail.”  Fanny and Freddie were “too big to fail.” Allowing them to fail would be bad for the “national interest.”  

 

That’s a scare tactic out of the Fascist playbook.  They want you to conclude that if these companies fail, America itself will fail. If there is no more AIG, if there is no more GM, there may be no way to continue America and sustain her government.  The corporations and the government are therefore one interest.

 

That was Benito Mussolini’s motto.  He said, "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."

 

If you are really looking for something to scare you, compare the recent actions of Henry Paulson to the rhetoric of Mussolini.

 

Paulson appeared before the nation and asked for $700 Billion, which was supposed to be used to buy up failed mortgages, and then negotiate with the people directly to help them out of their foreclosures.

 

Once we gave him the money to help out our neighbors, he announced he would not use it on them.  He funded the cororations directly, instead of the people, judging corporations more important than people to the "national interest."

 

Here areMussolini's thoughts on whether governments should see corporations or individuals as more important:

 

"TheFascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with the State. It is opposed to classical liberalism [that] denied the State in the name of the individual."  

 

``The maxim that society exists only for the well-being and freedom of the individuals composing it does not seem to be in conformity with nature's plans.''  ``If classical liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government.''  *

 

Paulson and the American government are not racial fascists, but there is no denying that by confiscating your money and distributing it to corporations as if they and not you are the national interest, they are acting as Economic Fascists.

 

If  the companies we are bailing out are "too big to fail," then someone please wake up the guy running the Justice Department Anti-trust Unit and kick his rear-end.

 

I don’t believe for a second that those companies are “too big to fail.”  I think they have too many friends in high places to fail.

 

Does AIG have competitors selling insurance?  Does GM have competitors selling cars?  Do Fanny, Freddie and American Express have competitors offering credit deals?  Yes.  I can buy from their competitors.  Let capitalism do it's job.

 

Ignore anyone who tells you this is Socialism. 

 

To really understand what is happening to you today, you are better served reading a book on the political rhetoric used to support the rise of Economic Fascism in early 20^th century Europe.

 

 

*  Mussolini quotes credited to Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Economic Fascism

Which Democrat Would You Bring To A Bar Fight?

Let’s say you’re going to get into a bar fight.  You can bring only 1 of 3 people to help you – John Kerry, Bill Richardson or Hillary Clinton.  Who ya gonna call?

 

You wouldn’t hesitate for second. You’d choose who I would – Hilldog!

 

If I have to have a Democrat as Secretary of State, I’m at least going to have one who knows how to bite.

 

Can you imagine our genteel new President having to face down Medvedev and Putin with only a blue-blooded Brahmin like John Kerry at his elbow?  We’d have to pray a fight doesn’t break out.  Our guys would look like two Metrosexuals arriving for a Community Organizer’s tea party.

 

Hillary would fight with them.  Plus she has experience in spotting just when a man is lying.

 

Bill Richardson?  He has a problem with fidelity. No, not that kind.  I mean disloyalty to his friends.

 

Bill Clinton made this guy. Appointed him Ambassador to the U.N. and Secretary of Energy.  Clinton liked him so much he sent Monica Lewinsky to him for a job (now that’s a friend!).  Richardson then punk’d Clinton by endorsing Obama for President.  Even James Carville called him Judas Iscariot.

 

I’m afraid if I brought Richardson into a bar fight he might turn and punch me if things weren’t going our way.  He had no problem sticking it to his friend Bill Clinton; he doesn’t even know me so what loyalty can I expect?

 

Hilldog wouldn’t turn on me  – we KNOW she’s loyal for better or for worse till death do us part.

 

Hillary for Secretary of State.  I’m not saying I’m crazy about it, but I understand.