Bureaucracy/Statism

This beautifully produced and executed video spells out exactly what the statists have been up to. The people running this country right now are doing all of these things and want to ramp it up.

President Obama has been working hard to make sure you lose your rights. Think that’s absurd? Even Democrats admit it on video. Incrementalism is whats killing us.

Politicians of both parties pass laws that are illegal under the constitution but they don’t care because they only get struck down if they go to court and lose in the Supreme Court. It takes millions of dollars to try a case that far usually. So few people challenge these laws and there’s no guarantee that challenging them will even work. Obama wants to stack the courts with ideologues who don’t care about the constitution. If he gets reelected he may get more justices into the courts and that would be detrimental to everyone. So make no mistake, this election is critically important.

The Obama Administration just issued a executive order on the weekend where it won’t get noticed that allows martial law under peace time whenever they decide.

Under this order the heads of these cabinet level positions; Agriculture, Energy, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Defense and Commerce can take food, livestock, fertilizer, farm equipment, all forms of energy, water resources, all forms of civil transporation (meaning any vehicles, boats, planes), and any other materials, including construction materials from wherever they are available. This is probably why the government has been visiting farms with GPS devices, so they know exactly where to go when they turn this one on.

Specifically, the government is allowed to allocate materials, services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate. They decide what necessary or appropriate means

Basically it gives the state the right to seize all means of production when they want to, just like a totalitarian government would but “im sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for all this recent stuff going on in an election year where Obama’s poll numbers are plummeting.

And this comes after the president wanted it put in the NDAA that the state can arrest and hold citizens without charge or trial for as long as they want, in spite of this being completely anti-constitutional.

Oh, and the government is building super-complex in Utah to spy on all American’s communications.

I’m sure it’s all a big coincidence. You would have to be crazy to think otherwise. Right?

UPDATE: More on the spying on citizens that will make you well the state really cares about you.

I’m a fifth generation Californian. When I was a kid it was the greatest state in the union and became the 8th largest economy in the world. Everyone wanted to come here. And the the Democrats took over and its becoming Michigan.

California’s income tax, which is the tax many small-business owners pay, is the nation’s third highest; the 9.3% rate kicks in at $46,349 in annual income for those who file as individuals, and the 10.3% rate applies to income over $1 million a year.

Then there’s the highest sales tax (7.25%, plus local levies in some areas) in the country, the fourth-highest capital gains tax (9.3%) and the second-highest gasoline tax (an average of 65 cents a gallon).

There’s also the vicious regulatory environment that businesses have to negotiate.

“California’s anti-business climate is worse than ever because many politicians are making a career out of treating businesses as an object of scorn vs. a resource to be appreciated,” says Joe Vranich, an Orange County relocation expert who tracks business movement out of the state and provided the exit numbers cited above.

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“Hence, we see efforts to increase taxes, regulations, fines and fees on businesses.”

The benefit of leaving California is immense. Vranich says businesses save 20% to 40% a year in costs after their out-of-state moves are completed.

Businesses are fleeing the state in droves and with them goes jobs and tax revenue. The current governor Jerry Brown is a typical Democrat. He thinks the solution to everything is more taxes.

When statists take over, states fail. Bureaucracies are cancers. They grow exponentially and destroy the very thing they are supposed to serve. California is the most bureaucratic state. Its legislature is made up mostly of no-so-crypto-marxists who think capitalism is bad and big government is good. We’ve seen how well this worked out for Russia, China and blue states like Michigan which was once, believe it or not, a wealthy magnet state.

But like the Eagles sang: “Call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye.”

No, eurocrats and statists are.

Well, he gave his state of the union address which was full of lies and false promises, not to mention class warfare arguments that are a huge part of the Democrats message this year. Glenn Beck gave a run down on some of Obama’s many lies here and its worth watching even if you don’t like Beck. He lists the many lies and false promises Obama has made since taking office. And its an ugly list.

The fact is this president is damaging our economy on purpose. Damaging our liberties on purpose. Doing serious harm and his administration is easily the most blatantly corrupt since Harding. This is going to be an ugly year, watch and learn. Obama is beatable but we have to wonder what criminal acts will be performed by these people to stay in power. That are very blatant about what they’re doing and no one is seriously challenging them on it.

Today my Mom told me about a guy she knows who made 60 cupcakes for his kid’s school only to learn that they were sent back because Mrs. Obama isn’t allowing sweets from home to come into the classrooms. Parents are no longer able to put cookies in their child’s lunchbox, they will be taken away. I don’t know if this is a local school policy from the guidelines given by the first nightmare or not, but iof this is going on across the country i suspect there will be a lot of angry voters in November not happy with the president. Let’s hope.

Tonight the glorious leader president will give what will hopefully be his last State of the Union address. The state of the union is horrible. But he wont tell you that. He will try to tell you what a great job hes been doing. He will kick off his reelection campaign a series of lies and deceptions which he will use throughout the year.

So let’s look at the facts as Joe Curl has provided them.

The unemployment rate when Mr. Obama was elected was 6.8 percent; today it is 8.5 percent — at least that’s the official number. In reality, the Financial Times writes, “if the same number of people were seeking work today as in 2007, the jobless rate would be 11 percent.”

In addition, there are now fewer payroll jobs in America than there were in 2000 — 12 years ago — and now, 40 percent of those jobs are considered “low paying,” up 10 percent from when President Reagan took office. The number of self-employed has dropped 2 million to 14.5 million in just six years.

Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, it’s $3.39 — that’s a 102 percent increase in just three years. (By the way, if you’re keeping score at home, gas was $1.40 a gallon when George W. Bush took office in 2001, $1.68 when he left office — a 20 percent increase.)

Electricity bills have also skyrocketed, with households now paying a record $1,420 annually on average, up some $300.

Some 48 percent of all Americans — 146.4 million — are considered by the Census Bureau either as “low-income” or living in poverty, up 4 million from when Mr. Obama took office; 57 percent of all children in America now live in such homes.

Since December 2008, a month before Mr. Obama took office, food-stamp use has increased 46 percent. Total spending has more than doubled in just four years to a record high of $75 billion. In 2011, more than 46 million people — about one in seven Americans — got food stamps. That’s 14 million more than when Mr. Obama took office.

Median household income has dropped nearly 7 percent in the last six years, taking inflation into account. What’s more, nearly 20 percent of males age 25 to 34 now live with their parents.

Low- and middle-income Americans 65 and older now hold more than $10,000 in credit card debt, up 26 percent since 2005. The average age of the American car is 10 years; in 1990, it was 6.5 years old (by the way, in 1985, Americans bought 11 million cars; in 2009, less than half that, 5.4 million).

On the macro side, America’s annual budget has jumped to $3.8 trillion — and yet the United States brings in only about $2.1 trillion in revenue. The U.S. trade deficit for 2011 was $558 billion. America’s total public debt stands at $15.23 trillion; in January 2009, the debt was $10.62 trillion. Mr. Obama is on pace to borrow $6.2 trillion in just one term — more debt than was amassed by all presidents from Washington through Bill Clinton combined. The debt is rising by $4.2 billion every day — $175 million per hour, nearly $3 million per minute.

Remember that part about electricity bills skyrocketing? That was no accident. Here’s Obama promising that is what his policies will achieve if he got elected. He believes that coal plants are evil. They provide 60 percent of the power to the US and he’s forcing many of them to close. And others are being made to make unnecessary changes that are costing billions of dollars.

Mind you, he’s closing down many power plants by using the EPA illegally to do so when congress said no to his Cap and Trade bill. It’s shutting down a large chunk of this countries power plants when there aren’t any coming online to replace them. Not for years. Which will cause power shortages and a lot of other problems, just like in a third world country. Which is kind of the point apparently. That’s what he’s been turning us into. An openly corrupt police state. That’s the real state of the union.

A very ominous and scary meeting of the world’s “elites” in Davos making a predictable statement.

Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as “outdated and crumbling.”

“We have a general morality gap, we are over-leveraged, we have neglected to invest in the future, we have undermined social coherence, and we are in danger of completely losing the confidence of future generations,” said Klaus Schwab, host and founder of the annual World Economic Forum.

“Solving problems in the context of outdated and crumbling models will only dig us deeper into the hole.

“We are in an era of profound change that urgently requires new ways of thinking instead of more business-as-usual,” the 73-year-old said, adding that “capitalism in its current form, has no place in the world around us.”

Some 1,600 economic and political leaders, including 40 heads of states and governments, will be asked to come up with new ideas as they converge at eastern Switzerland’s chic ski station for the 42nd edition of the five-day World Economic Forum which opens Wednesday.

The problem isn’t capitalism at all. It’s corrupt government institutions and leaders who are using stateist bureaucracies to steal more and more money from businesses and individuals to fund their mismanaged and corrupt governments which are inherently dysfunctional.

All governments become a mess in time, the larger and richer ones get more decadent over time because the political will to keep it working properly isn’t there.

We can only hope that these so called elites do not try to foister more socialism on us, but that is exactly how they think and want things to be. Socialism fails worse and harder than capitalism ever has. But they never get that. There are still lots of people who yearn for failed socialist states of the past that were horrible and downright evil. Because people aere lazy and love the idea of some government taking care of things. The problem is that simply never works. Witness Europe, Canada and now the U.S.

I’ve read the Senate plans to kill SOPA but both need to be opposed because they will enable the government to shut down any website they don’t like based on excuse like “copyright infringement” just as the War on Terror and the War on Drugs have been used to take away many constitutional rights and protections Americans once enjoyed. A lot of people have been imprisoned or robbed by the state on false pretenses based on those laws. And this one is another call to give abusive powers to companies and the state. So it needs to be stopped. This video explains it.

Its a nice enough message but anonymous has been tilting at windmills a lot lately. A lot of the revolutions happening around the world are often but by other fascists trying to impose their totalitarian state (see Egypt), but i think the overall message here is good, Global elites need to be on notice that they are not in power like they once were and the world is changing rapidly. There are too many disturbing trends, even in the states that show a move toward more statism and not less by those in power. If anonymous actually focused on that instead of some of their odd side quests we might get somewhere.

I remember well how up in arms the lefties were in England in her time because she was tearing down the welfare state that the socialist labour party had created before her. A state that was on its way to bankruptcy, just as we are under the Obama government and decades of statism which was ramped up even but so called conservatives like Bush 41 and 43.

All government programs are paid for by tax dollars. Meaning dollars taken from you and others. And government doesnt know how to spend wisely. They have no motivation to. They are forcing you to pay them and they can force you to pay more if they want to.

Thatcher was a rare politician who was honestly exposing the problem and why it leads to economic collapse. We can see from the state of Europe now that European socialism is a failure that is falling apart at the seams and our own system is rapidly disintegrating under the weight of our unsustainable debt. Our debt is larger than the economy itself. That has to stop.

Governments are a poor answer to problems because bureaucracies largely make things worse. States like California are going broke and businesses are fleeing the regulations and tax burdens created in those places. Statism is a failure and it should always be fought and dismantled.

A little chart to show you what I mean about the current administration. This was made before he added more trillions to the debt and he’s requesting more. So a new chart would actually show no decreases.

What I’ve been saying for a long time.