How many of you are asking yourself right about now if  Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America lately? Is he the Messiah as many had hoped?

President Obama made history when he became the first African American elected to the nation’s top office with 53% of the vote, or nearly 67 million voters. Early on in his presidency he enjoyed a 70% approval rating, that number has now fallen.

Despite the poll numbers which are the lowest approval ratings among recent Presidents, perhaps history will be kind and reflect Obama as the catalyst of America’s swing back to greatness. He has pushed the country into levels of debt which none of us could have ever imagined, he’s nationalized health care regardless of fierce resistance nationwide, unemployment is unacceptably high and is slated to remain this way for the next decade, TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little effect on our national economy, he’s pushed unprecedented entitlement programs which are at unsustainable levels,  he’s been hell bent on sound bites to create a racial divide, he’s offered up a self-serving agenda about immigration reform, he’s displayed a deliberate delay of handling the gulf oil spill, and now with the passing of the Financial Reform Bill we have taken further steps toward the abyss. This last passage is not about regulation, this is state sponsorship, this is pure statism. This is a disaster, and the disaster will be clear in the weeks and months ahead as we watch the lock come down on the American money as the regulators take over.

We are watching the slow boil of seething anger in the populace. The simple fact is that there is a lot of anger and frustration out there aimed squarely at Washington, and with good reason. So has Barack Obama been a good thing for America?

First Lady Michelle Obama added to the agenda this week riling up the convention crowd with her idea of black vs. white America while speaking to the NAACP’s National Convention in Kansas City. She advanced the idea of two Americas: “When African American communities are still hit harder than just about anywhere by this economic downturn, and so many families are just barely scraping by, I think the founders would tell us that now is not the time to rest on our laurels. When stubborn inequalities still persist — in education and health, in income and wealth — I think those founders would urge us to increase our intensity, and to increase our discipline and our focus and keep fighting for a better future for our children and our grandchildren.”

“We are living today in a time where we’re decades beyond slavery, we are decades beyond Jim Crow; when one of the greatest risks to our children’s future is their own health. African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. Nearly half of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives. People, that’s half of our children.”

Further, why would the Department of Justice side with the New Black Panthers against voters who just want to exercise their right to vote?

Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, working, enjoying their families, spending weekends doing what they like best, have now gotten off the fence. They’ve definitely awoken, there is a level of political activism now so beyond what we’ve seen in the past.  Barack Obama has been the catalyst who has sparked the consciousness, he’s ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction on unrest.

Slowly we’ve learned to tolerate unjust policies as we went on with our lives. Over the last fifty years liberalism has sought to restructure America which was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all people of the world. Our welfare policies has encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families and a cycle of dependency. Debt was regarded as the excelsior to lubricate the economy. Legislators believe Americans cannot be trusted to defend their own homes and continually attack second amendment rights to own firearms.  Our children have been taught they are exceptional while many cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy.

And now, America has former communists in paid government positions in the White House who advised our President daily. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. Auto companies are taken over and the auto workers union whose contracts make no economic sense is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out the investment bankers and insurance companies who pay their executives outrageous bonuses.  One year ago Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail and then the world economy collapsed. Government regulators missed all of the obvious warning signs, as bankers over-leveraged their companies and were richly paid in return. This forced the government to pump billions of taxpayer dollars into the financial industry. And the coup de grais, Barack Obama pushed a health care plan that will restructure one-sixth of our economy.

But it is “the economy stupid.” Deficits from growing health care costs, government stimulus packages, bank and auto bailouts, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are adding trillions to the national debt. Why do we still have troops based all over the world? Why do we still pay out so much in foreign aid? Huge deficits are likely to lead to serious inflation and higher taxes. They are being underwritten by China and Japan, and threaten to severely weaken America globally. Our children and grandchildren will be left with a legacy of debt and serious problems.

And, what is Obama busily working on today, a new bill, called the Cruise Line Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2009 … … Cruise ship safety is now the concern of Congress and President Obama. … requiring the cruise industry to comply with many new regulations, yep, higher railings, video surveillance systems, cabin door peep holes, etc. Does anyone else see this as  priorities skewed? I thought so……..

You either believe in a Constitutionally limited government, a free market and individual rights or you don’t. It’s ok if you don’t…this is still America, we have choices. But, don’t play some silly game believing there is some kind of intelligent compromise.  Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They’re organizing, they are studying the Constitution and the Federalist papers. They’re showing up at rallies and meetings, and a ton of conservative candidates are jumping into the race.  There is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically restructured. Americans are moving to a period of reflection. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace “political correctness” there will be a backlash….a repudiation of the liberal nonsense. Politicians are too focused on scoring short term political points and securing corporate donations for their campaign. This is the most serious political problem facing our nation today, and there is no incentive or willingness to change the status quo. No wonder everyone is so angry.

As a defender of free markets, individual rights and limited government…….. will history perceive November of 2010 as the time when America got back of the right footing? As many have previously stated, maybe we should thank Barack Hussein Obama.

Has Obama sent more people to the Gulf to suppress the story than to clean up the mess?

On July 3^rd, Coast Guard Admiral  Thad Allen issued a new rule that does not allow the media or anyone with cameras to get closer than 65 feet to any response vessel or boom without the permission for the Coast Guard Captain of the Port of New Orleans. Violations of this rule carries a $40,000 fine and a Class D Felony charge. While we have seen the media blackout evolve, no fly zones initiated, etc. over the time line of this disaster, this latest action is especially alarming. With the issuance of this ban, the cover-up of the BP Gulf Oil Spill now directly violates the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The alarming part is they aren’t even hiding it.

In case you’ve forgotten, here is the text of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which is a part of the Bill of Rights.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. “

This amendment ensures that Freedom of Speech is not violated by making sure the media can operate without the interference from an overreaching government. Yet, this is exactly what we are seeing here, interference by the Government on behalf of a corporation that is directly infringing upon the Freedom of the Press.

While America is ending plans to return to the moon, in addition to scrapping the successor to the space shuttle, cancelling the agency’s Constellation program, redirecting NASA to study, “climate change”/”global warming”….now, the coup de grais of NASA receiving direct Presidential orders to have a Muslim love fest. Remind me, when did international diplomacy become within NASA’s orbit? Doesn’t the “S” stand for Space? Just more remnants from the Obama Cairo junket.

Let’s be “perfectly clear” here, Obama couldn’t be speaking more loudly or clearly about his intentions or his vision for the United States and its place in the world. The NASA fiasco alone tells it all. But, add in the federal government in conjunction with Mexico suing Arizona over immigration enforcement, canning the missile defense shield, printing Monopoly money hand over fist, isolating and rejecting Israel, favoring Unions, taking over private industries, the Democrats drooling over a VAT, Holder shelving the  Black Panther intimidations, the list goes on and on.

If my guess is right, voter turnout will be historically high this year and in 2012. If so, we’ll have a divided government going into 2011. There will be pressure for the government to govern in a more limited fashion because of the influence coming from the independent voter.

America became lazy, too trusting of government and too apathetic because of a sense of powerlessness. But, the internet and protest movements have given the public confidence in its ability to create change. We might be a pluralistic country which is culturally changing, but the blood of basic American principles still run deep in our veins….even if these principles are not clearly identified. I believe it’s a mixture of limited government, conservatives and the classic independent spirit. Reminiscent of the Hamilton/Jefferson mixture, which sans the failed and thoroughly discredited socialist and authoritarian influences beginning at the turn of the 20^th century.

It’s a common sense mixture, uniquely American and representative of a unique country that can do pretty well when we work together and build rather than destroy….when we make our way rather than weakly submit to power.

Wake up America, remember in November.

Saturday, May 15, 2010 by Nick Rizzuto

In the winter of 1847, The Communist League met in London to sketch out a platform for the international communist movement. Previously, the communist movement was made up of disparate factions of various national, ethnic, and even religious flavors. What emerged from this congress of communist revolutionaries was a united movement. Following the meeting in London, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels took up the task of forging the preeminent radical polemic of the international socialist, the Communist Manifesto. Their movement thenceforth, and to the detriment of civilization, moved forward as a united international juggernaut. The communist’s drive to organize themselves into an ideological powerhouse was not the first of its kind, but one that profoundly influenced much of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Multi-national political movements are indeed an old concept. It should strike us as curious then that there has never been, as far as I can tell, an international movement focused on the tenets of individual liberty. Perhaps this is owed, in part, to the fact that those who advocate for liberty tend to be individualists, preferring self-sufficiency and individual effort to the collective mobilization that is inherent in large movements. Whatever the reason, it appears that while other, more destructive movements have risen to the international stage, the liberty movement has lagged in its ability to organize in such a way.

While there have indeed been revolutions inspired by the ideas of liberty they more often than not were limited to national stages and were of varying levels of success. The American Revolution, which acts as the primary inspiration for our current Tea Party movement, is the clearest example of the success of these ideas, but there have also been revolutions, similarly inspired, that failed to achieve the ends of they had set out to achieve. The French Revolution, for example, was inspired in large part by the same philosophy as the American, but it fell victim to revolutionary excesses and violence. Post-revolutionary France fell into a state of bedlam until the rise of the dictatorial Napoleon put the final nail in the coffin of their revolution.

While international organization might have been deficient for the liberty movement historically, it appears that that is on the verge of changing. For the first time, there appears to be a growing international liberty movement, springing forth from the roots of our current American civic reawakening.

In recent months, inspired by what they are observing here in the states, Tea Party organizations have begun to rise in up the furthest corners of the world. While these organizations might have different concerns, ones that are specific to their particular nations, it is clear that each has formed around the same concepts: limited governance and individual liberty.

Ironically it was England, who in the 18th century was at the unpleasant end of a Tea Party, which was the first outside of the US to hold a Tea Party rally, launching their national movement in February of this year. In addition, Tea Party organizations have popped up in Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia, and Japan. Most recently, we have learned that Israel is planning on staging its first Tea Party in Tel-Aviv.

This nascent international movement owes its rise to several factors: First, the financial collapse has sent ripples throughout the economies of most western nations. In doing so, many people have begun to question the ability of governments to effectively control their economies. Ideas like central banking, heavily regulated industries, and progressive taxation appear more and more to be the cause of our current crisis rather than the solution.

Second, modern communication has allowed us to transmit news and ideas in a way that is historically unprecedented. Our ability to network with one another has been a key to the national Tea Parties and is central to the growth of the international movement a well.

Finally, the international Tea Parties are most certainly a reaction to the international progressivism that has been the dominant force in politics for several decades now. Western nations have given in to the temptation of establishing generous welfare states that have caused the slow decay of society from within. The results of these policies can be seen all over Europe including states that are in what might be considered to be long economic dormancies, as well as those that are in danger of full collapse, as in the case in Greece.

Cumulatively, these factors have made the landscape ripe for a movement that rejects the precept that big governments are prepared to take on the burdens they currently shoulder.

An international liberty movement is an idea whose time has come. As a matter of fact, it is one that’s long overdue. We are truly living in interesting times.

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DEATH NOTICE: The Tooth Fairy died last night of complications related to obesity. Born Jan. 1, 1946, the Tooth Fairy is survived by 400 million children living largely in North America and Western Europe, known collectively as “The Baby Boomers.” “We’ll certainly miss the Tooth Fairy,” one of them said following her death, which coincided with the 2010 British elections and rioting in Greece. The Tooth Fairy had only one surviving sibling who will now look after her offspring alone: Mr. Bond Market of Wall Street and the City of London.

Sitting in America, it’s hard to grasp the importance of the British elections and the Greek riots. Nothing to do with us, right? Well, I’d pay attention to the drama playing out here. It may be coming to a theater near you.

The meta-story behind the British election, the Greek meltdown and our own Tea Party is this: Our parents were “The Greatest Generation,” and they earned that title by making enormous sacrifices and investments to build us a world of abundance. My generation, “The Baby Boomers,” turned out to be what the writer Kurt Andersen called “The Grasshopper Generation.” We’ve eaten through all that abundance like hungry locusts.

Now we and our kids together need to become “The Regeneration” — one that raises incomes anew but in a way that is financially and ecologically sustainable. It will take a big adjustment.

We baby boomers in America and Western Europe were raised to believe there really was a Tooth Fairy, whose magic would allow conservatives to cut taxes without cutting services and liberals to expand services without raising taxes. The Tooth Fairy did it by printing money, by bogus accounting and by deluding us into thinking that by borrowing from China or Germany, or against our rising home values, or by creating exotic financial instruments to trade with each other, we were actually creating wealth.

Greece, for instance, became the General Motors of countries. Like G.M.’s management, Greek politicians used the easy money and subsidies that came with European Union membership not to make themselves more competitive in a flat world, but more corrupt, less willing to collect taxes and uncompetitive. Under Greek law, anyone in certain “hazardous” jobs could retire with full pension at 50 for women and 55 for men — including hairdressers who use a lot of chemical dyes and shampoos. In Britain, everyone over 60 gets an annual allowance to pay heating bills and can ride any local bus for free. That’s really sweet — if you can afford it. But Britain, where 25 percent of the government’s budget is now borrowed, can’t anymore.

Britain and Greece are today’s poster children for the wrenching new post-Tooth Fairy politics, where baby boomers will have to accept deep cuts to their benefits and pensions today so their kids can have jobs and not be saddled with debts tomorrow. Otherwise, we’re headed for intergenerational conflict throughout the West.

David Willetts, a British Conservative candidate and the author of a new book, “The Pinch: How the baby boomers took their children’s future — and how they can give it back,” told me that the Tories’ most effective campaign ad was a poster showing a newborn baby under the headline: “Dad’s eyes, Mum’s nose, Gordon Brown’s debt.” Beneath was the caption: “Labour’s debt crisis: Every child in Britain is born owing £17,000. They deserve better.”

What is most striking about the British election, said John Micklethwait, editor in chief of The Economist, was that it may be the first Western election “based on pain.” All the leading candidates warned voters that “cuts are coming,” but none were even close to honest about how deep.

Here is how The Financial Times described it on April 26: “The next government will have to cut public sector pay, freeze benefits, slash jobs, abolish a range of welfare entitlements and take the ax to programs such as school building and road maintenance.” Too bad no party won a majority mandate in the British elections to do this job.

After 65 years in which politics in the West was, mostly, about giving things away to voters, it’s now going to be, mostly, about taking things away. Goodbye Tooth Fairy politics, hello Root Canal politics.

It’s no fun. Just ask Greek parliamentarians, who, in the wake of announcing radical austerity measures, found their Parliament besieged by rioting anti-austerity protestors reportedly chanting, “Burn it down! That brothel Parliament!”

My takeaway is that U.S. and European politicians — please don’t laugh — are going to have to get a lot smarter and more honest.

To be the Regeneration, they’ll have to figure out how to raise some taxes to increase revenues, while cutting other taxes to stimulate growth; they’ll have to cut some services to save money, while investing in new infrastructure to grow economic capacity. We have got to use every dollar wisely now. Because we’ve eaten through our reserves, because the lords of discipline, the Electronic Herd of bond traders, are back with a vengeance — and because that Tooth Fairy, she be dead.

A version of this article appeared in print on May 9, 2010, on page WK8 of the New York edition.

Obama File 102 America’s Little Lenin? Joel Rogers and the Obama Movement.

It is becoming increasingly clear that Barack Obama did not create a movement. A movement created Barack Obama.
One of the key leaders of that movement is a Madison, Wisconsin, law professor and sociologist - Joel Rogers.
While not widely known outside “progressive” circles, few people have exercised more influence in more strands of the movement that selected and elected Barack Obama, than has Joel Rogers.
Obama’s former “Green Jobs” Czar, the Marxist-Leninist Van Jones has been part of Rogers’ network for some years.
Rogers has served with Jones on the board of the Apollo Alliance , a radical led coalition of green groups and labor unions that had considerable input in writing Obama’s massive “stimulus package”. Rogers has served as Senior Policy Adviser to Jones’ Oakland based Green For All – the Northern California affiliate of the Apollo Alliance.
In the video below Van Jones, takes time in his address to the January 2009 Mayors Innovation Project conference to praise his friend Rogers.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Jones points out three “great gifts” that Joel Rogers “has given our movement”.

Firstly, there is “a new economic model …high road development …the best thinking that he represents is now reflected in the White House.”

Secondly , “...the New Party, which is now the Working Families Party…the idea of a ‘new politics’ that you could actually have in this country bringing together labor, civil rights, feminists…and actually make a difference…is the basic framework for what just took over the White House.”

Thirdly, …”his idea of a new energy paradigm. His founding the Apollo Alliance. I believe the stimulus is going to put something like $80 billion in this direction…”

Jones credits Rogers with dreaming up the White House economic model – basically a 21st century “green” version of corporate socialism. Rogers also allegedly masterminded the electoral alliance that put Obama in the driver’s seat. He then founded the organization that helped write the “stimulus bill”, which is now funneling billions into a movement primarily designed to keep the Obama and the Democrats in power.

That’s a lot of influence for one man. Does Van Jones exaggerate? Let’s investigate.

The New Party which Rogers and Dan Cantor founded in the early 90s, was an attempt to to unite the poor, Blacks, Latinos , labor and “community groups” to work with and inside the Democratic Party to elect large numbers of leftist candidates to public office.

The party was essentially amalgam of four organizations -radical Washington DC “think tank” the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

The first strategic meetings to plan the New Party were held in Joel Rogers’ home in Madison Wisconsin in the very early 1990s. Present were Rogers’ wife Sarah Siskind, Dan Cantor (now leading the New party spin-off Working Families Party in New York) , ACORN leaders Wade Rathke , Zach Polett , Steve Kest and Jon Kest and IPS linked activists Steve Cobble , Harriet Barlow and Sam Pizzigati .

The very first meeting included Gerry Hudson from DSA and SEIU and early ACORN leader and IPS affiliate Gary Delgado. Anthony Thigpenn, from Los Angeles was also approached, but though supportive, did not wish to play a leadership role.

Incidentally, both Delgagdo and Thigpenn were later supporters of Van Jones’ anti Iraq War magazine War Times.

The party was socialist in character, but only revealed its true nature to friends.

In March 28-30 1997 Democratic Socialists of America convened their annual Socialists Scholars Conference at Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York. Barack Obama, incidentally, attended some of these conferences in the early 1980s.

The 1997 conference was themed “Radical alternatives on the eve of the millenium”.

Invitees were asked to join the debate on “changes in the labor movement, Marxist theory, the state of the economy, market socialism, and other areas where theory and practice meet…listen to the United States’ only independent and socialist congressman, Rep. Bernie Sanders…”dialogue with Joel Rogers of the New Party… ”

Barack Obama joined the New Party in Chicago, during his 1995 Illinois State Senate run. Obama was also a leader of the Chicago New Party sister organization , Progressive Chicago, as far back as 1993. Other Progressive Chicago leaders included Keith Kelleher of SEIU and ACORN, Kelleher’s wife, Madeline Talbott (ACORN) and Ron Sable, Danny K . Davis and Lou Pardo of DSA.

The New Party relied on “fusion” voting for its success. Candidates ran on both the Democrat and New Party lines, combing the vote totals from both. This practice was illegal in many states, so in 1997, Rogers and his wife Sarah Siskind took a case to the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the state bans.

According to the The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel December 5, 1996;

With allusions to possible electoral chaos, justices of the U.S. Supreme Court expressed skepticism Wednesday over an effort to overturn 40 state laws that forbid nominations of the same candidate by more than one political party.

The high court heard arguments in a case from Minnesota that was orchestrated by a Wisconsin couple Joel Rogers, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor, and his wife, Madison attorney Sarah E. Siskind.

Rogers is a co-founder and national chair of the New Party, which describes itself as progressive and claims 10,000 members nationwide. The party has elected candidates for local offices in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

The case failed and ‘”fusion” voting was ruled unconstitutional. Deprived of its main tactic, the New Party, went into sharp decline, surviving under the Working Families Party banner in New York and a few other states.

Coincidentally, Sarah Siskind worked for the the Madison Wisconsin office of Barack Obama’s Chicago law firm, Miner, Barnhill and Galland.

In 2002 Sarah Siskind represented ACORN in a successful class action against sub-prime mortgage lender Household Finance Corporation.

According to Miner, Barnhill and Galland.;

For the last ten years, the firm (principally Sarah Siskind) has also represented individual consumers and organizational plaintiffs in class action lawsuits challenging predatory lending practices. These include a series of deceptive practices actions brought in Illinois, California and Massachusetts against Household Finance Corporation, and recently consolidated in In re Household Lending Litigation, Case No. C-02-1240 and Related Cases, N.D. Ca.) and settled for $152 million in benefits and future practice change relief…

Siskind won a settlement against Household Finance Corporation which gave delinquent borrowers interest rate reductions, waivers of unpaid late charges, deferral of accrued unpaid interest and principal reductions.
It was a socialist “win-win” situation. Siskind and Miner, Barhill & Galland made money, ACORN was able to force another mortgage lender to make more soft loans to its “core constituency” and the 2008 sub-prime mortgage collapse was brought one step closer.
Some commentators have surmised that some socialists leftists, working through ACORN and similar groups may have deliberately promoted sub- prime lending as a way of creating economic chaos, thereby provoking a subsequent increase in government involvement in the economy.
They point to the now famous Cloward-Piven Strategy devised in th e 1960s by Richard Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven. The “Cloward-Piven” plan involved enrolling as many people as possible onto state welfare programs. The point was to overload and collapse the state systems, leading to a Federal takeover of welfare.
Interestingly, when Richard Cloward died in 2001, 500 people gathered at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City to celebrate his life and work. Speakers included Frances Fox Piven, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, (all New Party founders and DSA members) Gus Newport (DSA member) Howard Zinn (New Party founder) , Joel Rogers and Miles Rapoport.
Coincidentally Rapoport was the president of the New York based “think tank” Demos, an official partner organization of the Institute for Policy Studies and a close ally of ACORN.
Barack Obama helped establish Demos in 1999-2000 and became a Trustee of the organization. Van Jones also later served as a Demos Trustee, but is currently on leave.
In 1998 Chicago DSA activist and IPS affiliate James Weinstein presided over a major Chicago “Back to Basics” conference designed to re-align the U.S. left back to “class politics”

To explore how we (the Left) can increase our presence in the mainstream of American political and intellectual life.

Speakers included Dr. Quentin Young (DSA member , New Party founder , Barack Obama long time friend , mentor and physician) Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (a San Francisco based activist and comrade of Van Jones’), plus DSA comrades Christine Riddiough, Joseph Schwartz and Roberta Lynch.

Joel Rogers, founder of The New Party, listed people’s concerns: education, campaign finance reform, environment, raising the minimum wage, and concern about global capitalism. Neither Democrats nor Republicans take this list seriously. Liberalism relied on favorable government regulation and mass politics to deal with problems. A new time calls for new politics, emphasizing economic strategy, citizen participation, and electoral strategy.

In 2004, Joel Rogers from the Center On Wisconsin Strategy, and Robert Borosage from IPS enlisted DSA friendly Steelworkers President Leo Gerard and SEIU President Andy Stern, to propose a new alliance of labor, environmental groups, business and “social justice” leaders – the Apollo Alliance. The Alliance, which soon included over 200 supporting organizations, released a report “High Road or Low Road? Job Quality in the New Green Economy” arguing for a ten-year program of investment in a “clean energy, good jobs” economy.”

Joel Rogers was the Alliance’s founding chairman and continues to serve on its board. Borosage is also a board member, as is Leo Gerard. John Podesta from the Center for American Progress also serves, but took a break while co-chairing President Obama’s “transition”, where he

“coordinated the priorities of the incoming administration’s agenda, oversaw the development of its policies, and spearheaded its appointments of major cabinet secretaries and political appointees.”

Podesta also looked after another Apollo Alliance board member Van Jones, giving him a job with Center for American Progress , when Jones was forced to exit the White House.

Besides Rogers, two old New Party affiliates are involved in the Apollo Alliance. Gerry Hudson of DSA and SEIU serves as a board member. Anthony Thigpenn serves on the Apollo Alliance advisory board and runs the Apollo affiliate in Los Angeles – which trains “anti racist environmental organizers.”
Thigpenn is a former member of the Maoist leaning Black Panther Party, but that’s pretty mild by Apollo standards. The former head of the New York Apollo Alliance Jeff Jones, once led the terrorist Weather Underground Organization with he and President Obama’s ‘s mutual friends , Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Former DSA youth leader and SEIU organizer Ron Ruggiero, serves as Apollo Alliance National Field Director.
It’s a safe bet that a good portion of the “stimulus package” $80 Billion dollars will be going to Van Jones’ Green For All in San Francisco in San Francisco, to Anthony Thigpenn’s “environmental anti racism” trainers in Los Angeles and Jeff Jones’ former crew in New York.

Any good Leninist will tell you. It is not gaining power that is important, it is the KEEPING of power.

Joel Rogers’ New Party, modeled the movement that put Obama in power. His Apollo Alliance provides a means for holding that power.

It is essentially a massive patronage system, where huge amounts of taxpayer’s money is channeled into radical led “green” camouflaged mass organizations.
These “green” armies will be the vote herders of the future. They will confront the Tea Party movement and other patriots on the streets of America. They will be the paramilitary armies used to intimidate the very people who fund them.
In a January 2 2009, tribute to late to Democratic Socialists of America founder Michael Harrington, Gerry Hudson of the Apollo Alliance/SEIU/DSA wrote;

It’s tragic for so many reasons that Michael died too young; his voice and his wisdom are sorely needed. How he would marvel at the election of Barack Obama and the promise that this victory affords all of us on the democratic left! He is sorely missed. But were he alive, I would hope—and expect, that he and others who are informed by this vision of democratic socialism would join with us in SEIU as we seek to take advantage of a moment most of us have spent our lifetimes only dreaming of.

Joel Rogers is the glue that ties many of these threads together – Institute for Policy Studies, Democratic Socialists of America , ACORN, SEIU, New Party, the Apollo Alliance – even possibly the sub -prime mortgage crisis.

I believe, had there been no Joel Rogers, there likely would have been no President Barack Obama

According to the Tax Policy Center, a Washington, D.C., research organization, nearly half of U.S. households will pay no federal income taxes for 2009. That’s up from the Tax Foundation’s 2006 estimate that 41 percent of the American population, or 121 million Americans, were completely outside the federal income tax system. These Americans pay no federal income tax either because their incomes are too low or they have higher income but credits, deductions and exemptions that relieve them of tax liability. This lack of income tax liability stands in stark contrast to the top 10 percent of earners, those households earning an average of $366,400 in 2006, who paid about 73 percent of federal income taxes. The top 25 percent paid 86 percent. The bottom 50 percent of taxpayers paid less than 4 percent of federal income taxes collected.

Let’s not dwell on the fairness of such an arrangement for financing the activities of the federal government. Instead, let’s ask what kind of incentives and results such an arrangement produces and ask ourselves whether these results are good for our country. That’s a question to be asked whether or not one has federal income tax liabilities.

Having 121 million Americans completely outside the federal income tax system, it’s like throwing chum to political sharks. These Americans become a natural spending constituency for big-spending politicians. After all, if you have no income tax liability, how much do you care about deficits, how much Congress spends and the level of taxation? Political calls for tax cuts and spending restraints have little appeal. Survey polls revealed this. According to The Harris Poll taken in June 2003, 51 percent of Democrats thought the tax cuts enacted by Congress were a bad thing while 16 percent of Republicans thought so. Among Democrats, 67 percent thought the tax cuts were unfair while 32 percent of Republicans thought so. When asked whether the $350-billion tax cut package will help your family finances, 59 percent of those surveyed said no and 35 percent said yes. Tax cuts to many Americans mean just one thing: They pose a threat to the federal handouts they receive.

Here’s my perhaps politically incorrect question: If one has no financial stake in our country, how much of a say-so should he have in its management? Let’s put it another way: I do not own stock, and hence have no financial stake, in Ford Motor Company. Do you think I should have voting rights or any say-so in the management of the company? I’m guessing that the average sane person’s answer is no. You say, “Williams, just where are you heading with this?” I’m not proposing that we take voting rights away from those who do not pay taxes. What I’m suggesting is that every American gets one vote in every federal election, plus another vote for each $20,000 he pays in federal taxes. With such a system, there’d be a modicum of linkage between one’s financial stake in our country and his decision-making right. Of course, unequal voting power could be reduced by legislating lower taxes.

This is not a far-out idea. The founders worried about it. James Madison’s concern about class warfare between the rich and the poor led him to favor the House of Representatives being elected by the people at large and the Senate elected by property owners. He said, “It is nevertheless certain, that there are various ways in which the rich may oppress the poor; in which property may oppress liberty; and that the world is filled with examples. It is necessary that the poor should have a defense against the danger. On the other hand, the danger to the holders of property cannot be disguised, if they be undefended against a majority without property

If you been watching Glenn Beck, you probably know Dr. David Barton. He is the Founder and President of WallBuilders (http://www.wallbuilders.com) a national pro-family organization representing America’s history and prominent figures. The emphasis of this organization is on America’s moral, religious and constitutional heritage.

Dr. David Barton is a true historian and understands historical facts as well as the Biblical truths of our founding. He describes how Oministry is breaking down our religious freedoms before our eyes in a well-documented paper entitled: The White House Attack on Religion Continues: Repealing Conscience Protection. Steps have already been taken by this current administration which include: eliminating the faith based section of the White House website, changing the policy regarding the hiring practices by faith-based organizations to include restrictions on stimulus funds to higher education institutions that allow religious activities on their campuses, reducing tax breaks for charitable giving, and a recent announcement that it plans to repeal “conscience protection” for health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions.

While he is an expert of the subject of whether or not the United States was founded as a Christian Nation, he’s recently made some comments regarding President Obama’s platform and leadership. They are as follows:

“Respect the Office? Yes. Respect the Man in the Office? No, I am sorry to say. I have noted that many elected officials, both Democrats and Republicans, called upon America to unite behind Obama. Well, I want to make it clear to all who will listen that I am not united behind Obama. I will respect the Office which he holds, and I will acknowledge his abilities as an orator and wordsmith and pray for him, but that is it. I have begun today to see what I can do to make sure he is a one term President. Why am I doing this? It is because:

-I do not share Obama’s vision or value system for America

-I do not share his abortion beliefs

-I do not share his radical Marxist’s concept of redistributing wealth

-I do not share his stated views on raising taxes on those who make $150,000+ (the ceiling has been changed three times since August)

-I do not share his view that America is arrogant

-I do not share his view that America is not a Christian Nation

-I do not share his view that the military should be reduced by 25%

-I do not share his view of amnesty and giving more to illegal’s than our American Citizen who need help

-I do not share his views on homosexuality and his definition of marriage

-I do not share his views that Radical Islam is our friend and Israel is our enemy who should give up any land

-I do not share his belief on how to rework the healthcare system in America

-I do not share his strategic views of the Middle East

-I do not share his plan to sit down with terrorist regimes such as Iran

Bottom line: My America is vastly different from Obama’s and I have a higher obligation to my Country and my God to do what is right. For eight years the liberals in our society led by numerous entertainers who would have no platform and no real credibility but their celebrity status have attacked President Bush, his family and his spiritual beliefs. They have not moved toward the center in their beliefs and their philosophies and they never came together nor compromised the personal beliefs for the betterment of our country.  They have portrayed my America as a land where everything is tolerated except for being intolerant. They have been a vocal and irreverent minority for years. They have mocked and attacked the very core values so important to the founding and growth of our Country. They have made every effort to remove the name of God or Jesus Christ from our society. They have challenged capital punishment, the right to bear firearms, and the most basic principles of our criminal code. They have attacked one of the most fundamental of all Freedoms, the right to free speech.

Unite behind Obama, never! I am sure many of you who read the think I am going overboard, but I refuse to retreat one more inch in favor of those whom I believe are the embodiment of evil. President Bush made many mistakes during his Presidency, and I am not sure how history will judge him. However, I believe that the weighed his decisions in light of the long established Judeo-Christian principles of our Founding Fathers.

Majority rules in America, and I will honor the concept; however, I will fight with all of my power to be a voice in opposition to Obama and his “goals for America”.

I am going to be a thorn in the side of those who, if left unchecked, will destroy our County. Anymore compromise is more defeat. I pray that the results of this election will wake up many who have sat on the sidelines and allowed the socialist-Marxist, anti-God crowd to slowly change so much of what has been good in America. “

“Error of Opinion may  be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.” Thomas Jefferson

“God bless you and God Bless our Country. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” Ronald Reagan

“I want the American way of life back, In God we Trust.” Dr. David Barton

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April 25, 2010 By Save America

Thousands of immigrants flock to the U.S. every year in pursuit of big dreams. But, the current economic crisis and this administration’s ideologies causes fear that some dreams might not be so attainable……. anymore.  Today, the pursuit of this opportunity is a challenge for all future generations of Americans. So, are we to only to face tougher hardship in the U.S.?

Our economy has successfully created opportunity and economic mobility for all American families, but the scale of recent illegal immigration — and especially of poorly educated immigrants — could be cause for future concern. Immigrants from all over the world have come to the United States of America in hope of a better life for themselves and their children. This dream was fueled by the hope of one day leading a happy and prosperous life in a land that allows far more freedom, liberty and opportunities than any other. The American Dream was the idea of an individual overcoming all obstacles and beating all odds to one day be successful in the freest nation. Immigrants from all over the world, at the beginning of the twentieth century, came to America with the hopes of establishing new lives different from the way they lived in Europe and other parts of the world. America was that land where anything was possible. People who lived in poverty, without any way of making their lives better, could come to America and start over. Dreams could come true in America.

So is the American Dream dead or alive?   Martin Luther King Jr. said that he too had a dream “that on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood”. Since then, many aspects of Martin Luther King’s dream for the American people have come true, but some still remain a dream.

It has often been said that America is a nation of immigrants, but few people understand how deeply this is true. It is not just that America was settled and built almost entirely by people from somewhere else–from English settlers in the 18th century, to Irish, Italian, and Eastern European immigrants who came at the turn of the 20th century, and from then on every other racial and ethnic group in the world. The deeper reason America is a nation of immigrants is that the motives and goals of immigrants–and the moral outlook they represent–are the essence of the American character.  These immigrants believed it was their privilege and duty to work hard and integrate to become a real part of their new community.  They took pride in learning English and sought work, some taking two or three different jobs.

America was founded on the idea that all men are endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And how is happiness pursued? By hard work and ambitious effort. To become an American, this is the only creed one has to accept: the political ideal of liberty, the economic ideal of a free market, and the cultural ideal of individualism. Many immigrants today do not have a full, explicit understanding of all of these ideas. But they do know that they are escaping from stagnant and corrupt nations in which little was possible for them. Today, the notion of the ‘American Dream’ have morphed beyond the ideas of political and religious freedom, to a more economically oriented platform. The United States has little by little become a consumer-based society, so the idea of ‘success’ is now measured by the shallowness of material wealth. For some, the American Dream has become all about just having the resources to fulfill their definition of material success, namely, material wealth. We also have an administration that believes in the concept of re-distribution of this wealth from the hands of those hard-working Americans.

The American dream is not about a paternalistic government cradle to grave entitlement programs aimed to redistribute hard working Americans’ earnings;  it is about succeeding through your own effort. It’s not about the ‘Nanny State’ always taking care of you, because you don’t know what’s best. The days when you have the freedom to indulge in guilty pleasures without being punished by your government may be coming to an end. Our bodies are gradually becoming socialized. The choices we make about how to live, what to eat and drink and what pleasures we enjoy are increasingly to be guided by the hand of the state. Underlying all of this legislating is the theory that society must collectively dictate individual behavior for the purpose of making society collectively healthier, controlled and equalized. Individuals will must be stamped out and replaced with the will of the state. The American  dream is not the cowering vision of a people who believe that they can never make it in the world if they are exposed to the demands of free competition, free enterprise and capitalism. The American dream is the vision of a proud, self-confident people who know they can make it on their own–and who have often welcomed hard-working immigrants from around the world to join them in pursuing success.

This is the real American dream–and we should do whatever we can to protect it. The voters won’t be fooled. The hard-working Americans — blacks, Latinos, women, recent legal immigrants, and just every day working Americans who put these politicians in charge — are paying close attention. Don’t kill it off, don’t close the doors  on the aspirations and the ambitions of the millions of families seeking to build a better life for themselves. This is the history of our culture……. the American people deserve no less.  If we as Americans,  don’t stand up and oppose this dramatic enlargement of the nanny state now, while we have the chance, we will find our choices narrowed year after year until we wake up one day with little control over any decision that the self-appointed experts deem a potential risk  — which is more or less everything these days.

We are losing our Republic piece by piece. While our founding fathers realized a stronger government was needed in America, they also feared a government that was too powerful. These men who wrote the Constitution strove to compromise and work together, but above all they maintained a desire to keep government from interfering in the lives of citizens as much as possible. We do not have to go down this path converting America into a social welfare state.

Rep. Paul Ryan points out that 20% of Americans today get 75 percent of their income from the Federal Government, and yet another 20% get 45 percent, while 60% of Americans get more benefits in dollar value from the Federal Government than they pay in taxes. Obama’s budget moves this to 70% of Americans. We’re reaching a tipping point in this country, after which the majority of Americans are more dependent on the government than they are upon themselves.

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April 6, 2010 By Save America

How many of you out there haven’t caught on yet? Listen up and get interested as to what is about to take place across this nation on April 15^th…..and take a hint, look beyond the lame-stream media. Do you really think America is moving away from our history and has chosen a different type of society? Are you fat-cats or slim-cats really interested in an income shift to be directed by the corruptocrats up on the hill? At last this administration is starting to admit what their real agenda is…..if you haven’t figured it out yet, the goals are socialism and redistribution of your wealth!

After Obama took office, he told us what he was going to do, but most of the people refused to believe or failed to listen:

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DNC Chairman Howard Dean removed all doubt that the new Democrat/Progressive Party equals Marxist/Socialism:

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Obama and many in his administration and Congress clearly subscribe to the Cloward/Piven school of thought. Obama the great community organizer also subscribes to the ‘communitarians’ school of thought. When those opposed to the concept tried to make it an issue, it was shut down and ridiculed by the media, just like we keep hearing now ‘sit down and shut up’. So, what’s up with Dean suggesting we never had a debate of capitalism versus socialism. Who wanted it? These people are the greatest threat to our Constitutional Republic. Perhaps the greatest thing for conservatives would be a debate on the Constitution, capitalism and freedom versus Socialism, ‘nanny state control’ and larger government.

Each day, more and more of the radical left show their true colors. Slowly, America is waking up with a growing awareness of Obama’s change for our country. With each piece of legislation they pass the Progressives are pushing us down a path from which recovery will become increasingly difficult.  The seminal question for this year, coming in November is exactly that…HAVE YOU HAD IT?

How tired are Americans of being taken with 29.9% credit card interest rates while the banks borrow at zero from the Fed and use the money to speculate in the markets? Are you tired of hearing ‘too big to fail’? Are you enraged yet that this economic mess was not an accident? Do you realize we have fixed nothing with all of the TARP, stimulus and an ever increasing deficit which has quadrupled since Bush left? Obama owns this one. The bad loans are still there, millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and the economy is not recovering despite what they say.

Nothing has been fixed, the bad debt is still there……. and, we were told all of this was necessary.

As Max Baucus stated, this is about an income shift:

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How many of these institutions underwent a full audit? Instead Countrywide Financial, Washington Mutual, Merrill Lynch were all absorbed into Bank of America and JP Morgan/Chase. We were told they were too big to fail and they were made bigger and more powerful. There can be no economic security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic security with the United States.  Government growing beyond our consent will dismantle the free opportunities and threaten the very root of our freedom.

So what will bring our nation back? The resolve, courage and common sense of the American people who have underlying faith that this nation is ‘One Nation Under God’.

Restore the Republic and reject the agenda of the Progressive left!  Make your voice heard this April 15^th and demand the return to a Constitutional Republic, free market capitalism and American liberty.

March 31, 2010 By Save America

“May God hold accountable the slanderers who are smearing the most loving, spontaneous, patriotic, genuinely American movement of political expression seen in generations. May the truth stand as a behemoth among the lies of this administration and the smear machine of the government-media complex. Behold, what really happened in DC on March 20 & 21, 2010…

Hear Us Now” The Story of The “Kill the Bill” Rally March 20 &21, 2010

On March 20th and 21st, 2010 history was made on Capitol Hill; two events which foreshadow Americas potential future. One was the passage, by use of the nuclear option, of radical, leftist healthcare legislation. The other was an unprecedented, spontaneous showing of opposition by ordinary, patriotic Americans, who, standing shoulder to shoulder, heralded the call for a new direction in American history. These two influential forces were on polar opposites of moral, philosophical, and political worldviews. One was forced through by a few left-wing elites using other people’s money, and the brute power of partisan politics, while the other was embraced by salt-of-the-earth, middle and working class Americans, who were not forced or funded, but with passionate conviction used hard-earned income to come from across the nation to be heard! Although reflecting diverse classes, races, genders, and interests, they were unified in their opposition to the radical agenda of the current administration.

Why did Tea Party protesters from many different grass roots movements go to DC?

They went to exercise their God-given right, as stated in the Constitution, to Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances. The common thread of opposition expressed by these citizens, was based on appeals to personal freedom, political liberty, and fiscal responsibility. Put simply, they declared themselves free citizens of a republic, not willing to stand for Centralized Government hijacking a huge section of the economy. They believed an encroachment on free markets is an attack on freedom. They came to confront the duplicity of the fiscal projections of the legislation. History shows that all budgets for centralized health programs have exploded well beyond forecasts. They believed the CBO was fed manipulated numbers for a desired outcome. The Tea Partiers insisted We cannot afford this legislation!

What did Tea Party protesters do in DC?

On Sat, March 20th, they gathered on the west lawn of the capitol and had an energetic rally, attended by tens of thousands of citizens. NBC and MSNBC reported 1,500 to 2,000 in attendance. This was a bold lie. Survey this crowd, and consider the way Americas media lies to the public. They cannot be trusted! Capitol police have released a diagram whereby crowd size can be estimated. By this objective tool the attendance, indicated in dark red, measured between 40 and 50 thousand. After the rally they fanned out to visit their representatives offices. Few representatives supporting the bill were willing to open their office doors, and the citizens left notes pleading with them to vote NO. Representatives available to petition were hospitable and appreciated the visits. Eventually the protesters regrouped on the west lawn and began a march around the capitol complex. They surrounded the Capitol with a steady stream of singing, chanting citizens, for the first time in history. Then, as evening fell, they gathered en masse before the east steps and heard from various Representatives; as they sang, chanted, and prayed. Never has a grass-roots movement comprised of ordinary citizens been so patriotic; singing God bless America, America the Beautiful, The National Anthem, and reading from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the pledge of allegiance to the flag, and The Lord’s prayer. These are representative of the rallying cry of the movement. 60s radicals marched and protested, but it was against America as the Founders established it, Tea Partiers march and protest for the Founders vision! 60s radicals burned the flag, Tea Partiers pledge allegiance to it, they vilified the military, Tea partiers profoundly support it, they called the police pigs, we cheer the police, they promoted drug use and free sex, Tea Partiers celebrate traditional lifestyle and work ethic! 60s radicals said:

Without mass struggle there can be no revolution.
Without armed struggle there can be no victory.

But Tea Partiers kneeled down and prayed and then rose to hear quotes from our Founding Fathers, chanting Freedom, freedom, freedom!

On Sunday morning Tea Partiers gather on the west lawn for a worship service, then congregated on the south side to chant to the representatives as they walked to the Capitol building. After the parade of Representatives had ended, Tea Partiers came together on the south lawn and chanted towards the Capitol building.”

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