Utopia

The Left in this country has a plan. The plan is to create Utopia here on Planet Earth. However, this is Utopia for them and Hell for the rest of us.

Liberals envision planned communities where people live in "sustainable" housing, ride bikes or walk to work, and use public transportation to get from point A to point B. The love the idea of planned communities where everyone lives, works, shops, and recreates in the same location. Exactly how will this be achieved?

First of all, take a look at the current planned communities out there. Everyone one of them, except for Greenbelt, Maryland, which was conceived by President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, caters to the upper middle class exclusively. Go to King Farm or Kentlands in Montgomery County, Maryland sometime. All the residential units start in the $600,000 range and go up. You are not going to see any working class or lower middle class "undesirables" polluting their Utopia. Yes, it's OK for them to work there serving their masters, but at the end of the day they will need to return to the "slave quarters," which will be planned communities that are a nice safe distance from Utopia. Here they will live in crowded tenement style housing, shop in stores that will sell only the food and other goods approved by the Mandarin classes residing in Utopia, and then ride the bus to their job serving the masters on the "plantation."

The question that arises, however is such: Just how many "slaves" are necessary to to provide services to the upper middle class "masters," and at what point do the rest of them become a costly liability? At what point do the lesser human beings no longer become "sustainable?"

Do you thing that maybe including mandatory body mass measurement requirements and information about drinking and smoking in electronic medical records, information that is going to be used to ration medical care, is not a tool to help "cull the herd" of "little people" that are going to be the slaves on the Utopia plantation?

We are living in dangerous times. The Eugenics movement of the last century, coupled with the Progressive movement and America's march to Marxist Fascism seems to be running full steam ahead. More to follow...

Streamline the government

Daniel Mitchell of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, has published an article on the Cato Institute website that states that too little government is just as bad as too much government. Basically, things should fall according to a Laffer Curve, but the midpoint where things are most efficient is at a 17.5% GDP. The last time this occured was in 1965. Right now the cost of government is running about 40% of the GDP and growing larger. There are some that predict that if we don't stop the growth of government, we will be looking at the cost of government to exceed 60% GDP by the end of 2010 and 90% by the 2012 election. We have to reverse course. If we don't, we will end up with economic collapse. This will lead to a world-wide economic collapse, followed by mass famines, mass violence, and possibly a nuclear World War III. What would be left after that is anyone's guess.

Let's face it, the size of government in the United States has grown into leviathan proportions. We can not sustain it. I agree with Mitchell. Yes, we need government, but we need smart, unbloated, efficient government. I will add to this and write subsequent articles for this blog on how I would fix the government problem in this county over the next several articles. Stay tuned.

Christie for president would be a good start

I'm quickly becoming a big fan of New Jersey's governor, Chris Christie. I like his no holds barred, straight talking mannerism, and the fact that he is not afraid to go toe to toe with special interest groups, especially the teachers' unions and the public employees' unions. Personally, I think this is the kind of candidate that the Republicans should run for president in 2012.

Can you imagine the debates between Governor Christie and President Obama? Christie would eat him for breakfast. Can you image the rage from the Left? I would love to see it.

The problem with the Republicans, and the Right in general, is the fact that they try to be too nice. You can't be nice when you are dealing with the Left. They are spoiled, self-centered, overgrown children who are in badly need of some serious discipline. We allowed them too much leeway, and look what happened. They were able to get a Marxist elected as our president, and they are systematically tearing down this country one brick at a time. However, now they are doing it 20 bricks at a time, because they think that there is no way for the Right to stop their impending Communist revolution. The Right has basically shown the Left that it is not going to stand up to their agena. They are only going to slow it down. Well excuse me, but a march to Communism, whether fast or slow, is still a march to Communism. The Right needs to grow a pair and start standing up for this country again. Electing someone like Chris Christie as president would be a good place to start. Then we could start tackling once and for all the failed Socialist agenda of the Left, and hold them in the contempt that they so greatly deserve. In subsquent articles I will address issues like education, public employee unions, government workers in general, crime, and the military. stay tuned.

Rolling Stone Article

OK, I read the article in Rolling Stone about General Stanley McChrystal called, The Runaway General. I don't get it. Why would an Army Four Star grant access to, or even talk to a reporter from a far left hippie magazine like Rolling Stone? The article by Michael Hastings drips with anti-military condescension of the worst kind, and labels General McChrystal and his staff as uneducated morons who's sole purpose in life is violence and eating at McDonald's. What was the general thinking?

Having been in the military myself for 26 years, I have seen support for the military among the majority of the population wax and wane depending on what administration is in power, and what is the real world threat to our mere existence. One thing that never changes, however, is the Far Left's contempt for the military.

I believe that the Left hates the military, because the Left hates any form of authority, unless it's their authority and they get to control the shots. You would think that the Left would love the military, because the social structure of the military is absolute top down Totalitarian Socialism, which is what the Left loves.

You get to wear a uniform, just like China under Chairman Mao. The further up the Aparat you go, the more privileges you get just like in the USSR. You get free medical, dental, and housing. Sounds like Utopia to me. They have free shuttle buses that take you all over the base, including the housing areas, and on some bases, the shuttles run 24/7. You can get hammered at the club, and then ride the bus home. They have exchanges and commissaries, bowling alleys, gyms, jogging tracks, golf courses, MWR facilities where you can sign out all sorts of recreational equipment ranging from skis to kayaks. Some even have marinas where you can park your boat. Gee, doesn't this sound like a Socialist paradise?

I guess the reasons why the Left despises the military has to do with its mission and what it has accomplished for many fine Americans...keeping America's enemies contained overseas in order to keep them out of this country. That goes against the Lefts World Citizen world view. All cultures are equal, except for the American white male culture. Another reason is the fact that the military has been a vehicle that has allowed many members of the underclass to escape the Left's "plantation." I have seen many black men from the ghettos become military leaders with advanced college degrees, and retiring after 30 years service as senior enlisted managers. Many of them used the college degrees to get into Officer Candidate School or Officer Training School, to become commissioned officers, who then work their way up into the executive ranks of the military. They become commanding officers, and some become flag officers in charge of major commands. What's there not to like?

Maybe there is another side of the Left's hate for the military, and it goes beyond the Left's contempt for authority. It has to do with the fact that many on the left don't have what it takes to serve their country. They are weak and they know it. Therefore, they have to tear down that which exposes them for what they really are. I've always said what a lot of the hippies in this country need is two years of compulsory military service, and make sure that that service includes boot camp. I think that experience would straighten out a lot of attitudes, including the holier-than-thou condescension of Michael Hastings.

Remember General Betray US from moveon.org?

Back in 2007, when George W. Bush was president, moveon.org ran a full page ad in the New York Times about General David Petraeus called "General Betray Us." Remember it? Remember the hatred that the Left had for him as well as President Bush? Well guess what hippies, your messiah has now appointed General Petraeus as the new commander in Afghanistan. As soon as President Obama made the announcement, the ad which was on the moveon.org website since 2007, disappeared? How come? Is Petraeus OK now that "Hopeandchange" has put him in charge of military operations in Afghanistan? Come on now hippie hypocrites, explain this to me, the Almost White Trash Old Sarge.

Regardless, I agree with columnist Pat Buchanan, who says that Afghanistan is now Obama's war, and only Obama's war. You can't blame Bush anymore. Everything that goes wrong over there, and if, Heaven forbid, we LOSE over there, it's now owned lock stock and barrel, by Barack Obama. I hope that the Right now pins every casualty, every setback, every problem over there on Obama, just like the Left did with Bush in Iraq. Turn about is fair play. OK hippies, it's now your war. Let's see if you have the fortitude to bring this to victory as soon as possible, with as few casualties as possible...or are you now in denial, trying to still blame Bush and looking for some dry diapers.

McChrystal "Resignation"

President Obama has accepted the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal, who in my opinion had a major league lapse of judgement when he and his staff criticized the civilian leadership of the United States Military, and their policies concerning the war in Afghanistan. I was in the military for 26 years, and it is a violation of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (88 USC) to do so. Its called insubordination, which is a court martial offense. Now there has only been one military member ever court marshaled for under 88 USC, and that was in the 1950s. It's very unlikely that General McChrystal will meet the same fate. However, the president was 100% right to relieve him of his command and show him to the door.

I have mixed feelings about McChrystal. He is a great general and an expert at counter-insurgency. However, it's his rules of engagement that put the lives of Afghani civilians over the lives of American and Coalition forces that I don't agree with. If you are going to fight a goddamn war, fight the goddamn thing. Do what we did during World War II. We put the moral blame on the enemy for the death of their civilians, and we kicked serious ass, until we completely broke the enemy both in means and in spirit. This is what needs to be done to our enemies in the Middle East.

There is an upside to this unfortunate chain of events. General McChrystal can now apply for retirement. That can take about 60 days. After that time, he would be able to run his mouth every chance he got. Maybe we will see him every day on Fox News tearing the administration a new asshole. Let's see...starting in September and the election being in November...that's just about the right amount of time to turn the majority of Americans against Congress and the current administration and its policies. This could get quite interesting...More to follow...

The Humane Society Soiree

Nelson (my Chesapeake Bay Retriever) and I had a great time at the Montgomery County Humane Society happy hour fundraiser yesterday. He made lots of friends both dog and human. The downside of the event was the rain. We were outside at a Spanish restaurant, and the downpours started. Everything got soaked, human and animal...and there is nothing like the smell of a wet Chespeake Bay Retriever.

Different vendors were giving out samples of their doggie treats and dog food. One lady who either works for, or owns a soon opening high end pet food store was trying to "guilt" me into switching Nelson from Purina One dry food, which is what he eats, to some high end $2.40 per can organic, no animal byproduct food, that she sells. I'm sure it's good food, but my vet told me that there is nothing wrong with Purina One. A former pet store owner told me that the difference between Purina One and Purina Pro Plan is one is sold in grocery stores, and one is sold in pet stores for more money. The formulas are identical. The idea was to "guilt" me into buying high end food. The condescention was dripping from every word she spoke. Well, I've got news for you. I don't care about animal byproducts and neither does Nelson. I happen to like scrapple. You don't want to know what's in scrapple. That's why they call it SCRAPple.

Ah, another example of Montgomery County guilt ridden elitism. I find it amusing and annoying at the same time. I don't worry about organic food, and neither does my dog. I think he's read the same reports that I have, about organic being no better for you than regular. It just costs more, so it makes certain people feel that they are more important than the "little people" like myself. Now I think I'm going to go make myself some bacon and eggs with white bread.