Both parties are being driven by the 'Progressive' elements of their organization. For the progressives, this has been a long time coming, and it isn't so much about the content of each of these bills as it is two other things.
First, is the need to overwhelm the current system: everything that has crossed The Øne's desk this year has been at least a thousand pages long. Nobody in Congress reads them; mostly because nobody in Congress could possibly have the time under the rapid pace these monstrosities come flying at them. They're part of an Alinsky-esque plan to overload the current system in place (remember how The Øne promised he was going to "re-build" America?), in order to cause it's collapse.
The second factor is what's actually in the bills that nobody's reading. While The Øne and the Congress-shits have been distracting everyone with debates and entirely to public attempts to ramrod through the most controversial and least well polled aspects of each of these things, what nobody talks about is the underlying infrastructure that is being laid into our contry's legal framework. For example: while 'single-payer' or 'public option' health insurance plans may not be in the text of the bill currently being greased through the Senate, 170-some odd NEW federal bureaucracies are, along with all of the tax hikes and a whole string of regualtory powers meant to lay the groundwork for single-payer sometime in the near future.
The progressives have been patient for over 100 years in their slow, methodical corruption of the Federal Government. They're not about to be impatient now, when the plum is about to drop into their laps.
Hi,
i think you are on to the game. Democracy and freedom was a great thing and I suspect will not give it up quite so easily. Once they get the old farts dead the next generation won't have anything to compare it to.
Before I head for the sack, I will add what my friend and i concluded today.
You aluded to Sol Alinsky and overwheming the system. Totally agree, it is all about wealth redistribution. My wife came in to me today and said one of the provisions of the bill is a 9% tax on people making over $200,000.00 a year. Now having been self employed, by the time you added both halves of my social security and medicare to my income taxes i paid just a hair under 50% of my income to the federal government. Well, were I still working it would be 59%, plus another 3% as I recall once the Bush tax cuts are rescinded. of course you must factor inflation which is going to skyrocket and pretty soon $200,000 will be the mean income and it won't buy a whole heck of a lot, but the government will suck 90% of the earned income out of the system for taxes and redistribution to those who keep them in power.
Now add the cap and trade which basically will tax people with nice cars, big homes, anything that is a product of achievement, boats, planes, 4-wheelers, snowmobiles......all the toys that are a result of people working hard and enjoying the fruits of their labors.
By the time you add the state and local taxes on top of that you will totally destroy the middle class and have sucked a tremendous amount of wealth out of the economy, which by the way costs thousands of jobs when folks who make and service all those industries are out of work.
Sol Alinsky said collapse the system, then goes to anarchy, then people will sacrifice freedom for security as some savior comes in and vows to stop all the violence if only you give them the power to do so.......kinda like Hitler did. People do not realize what happened until it is too late.......Castro did the same thing.
My friend and I honestly concluded that there are lot of democrats who feel that indeed will be the result and they will end up in the ruling class as part of the proletariat. Somehow I suspect that the system will collapse in time for Obama to suspend elections or the government will find a way to get around presidential term limits because he is the only man on earth that can save us from the impending doom.
So far the only way we can see that not happening is when they try to dump term limits or stop an election. That is when a Tommy Frank or McCrystal goes in and takes over the military and tells the commies the party is over. It will be a military person who has the moral authority to lead that the military will follow.
Much like Glenn Beck has said, God I hope we are wrong and this does not happen.
regards,
5412
