Very astute BatK, I never looked at it from that angle before.

http://www.theonion.com/conten.....ent_issues

Another key issue is tourism – namely in the Cayman’s – where the wife and I honeymooned and had a chance to chat with both the locals and a few business owners.

Many people specifically vacation there because they have business or accounts there – a new multi billion dollar “corporate complex” is being built (about 2 miles from the airport), 3 new resorts and the active growth market is getting investments to the Cayman’s – which they spend about $100M alone in ad, marketing, conferences, etc. The temp workers are mainly Canadian and European, being it is a British West Indies Isle – as you mentioned – with a higher cost rate for just about everything. They are also proud of almost non existent crime and are a religious nation. Most imports to their nation come from Miami or Tampa – I believe nearly 85%, even the “local” TV coverage is Miami-based. Fox News in paradise was something… but I digress.

i.e. – the Cayman’s have flourished due to capitalism and free market principles. They are just one of many island nations who would be hit extremely hard in both the short term and long term because of investment opportunities lost, job loss and tourism lost – literally overnight.

They may be a British entity – but are driven by America, through and through.

Also, after that little bit about of news that Obama might be reconsidering not bringing the gitmo prisoners. You get a second of good feeling. But, remember everytime Obama says something, expect him to being the opposite.
Well, apparently, he is going to ignore the Senate and do it anyways.

This is not a democratic POTUS. He does the represent the people. Only himself. He does not undertand majority, and whats good for the general.
This John Edwards attack, though he’s a creep, is still a grudge thing. Obama hates America. He said at that town hall meeting last week, how good it felt to get there and be out of Washintong DC where they have no common sense. One of his many lame jokes. When the massage therapist asked him if her type work would be included in ‘his” Obama’s health care, he paused, then pretended his back was aching, and needed help, she said I’d be glad to help you flirtiously, and he everyone giggled. The he explained what what he might consider, like he’s a doctor? She acted like she assumes that we are going to have federal hosptials and doctors only.

Just like he said he wasn’t looking at gun control, then trying to give China and Pelosi
sneaked in federal gun control legislation.

Don’t forget Maxine Waters drilling the Banks, repeatedly asking if they had money off shore. She’s a dog, why dont’ she just sniff and find it.

Sure, maybe the Jews will become the brunt of it once again but I also think that the idiot in charge is just smart enough to not go there or he will risk showing how bigoted he really is. He has to walk that fine line of entertainer/soothsayer and keep the people hanging on his words, just like episodes of whatever crap passes for TV these days. “always leave them wanting more”.

My point was, and is that the parallels to Germany in the 30’s is remarkable. He’s saying all the right things, doing the “right” things by “taking action” against those nasty, dastardly companies that would fail after stealing billions from the people. It’s a false argument and anyone with any lick of sense knows it. But, unfortunately, by naively taking the people’s money in bailouts, the companies have become fools for the king. I guess what surprises me is that the liberals think that we are too sophisticated and evolved to believe any such thing could happen in modern day USA. “He’s just doing what must be done” And when you bring up socialism they retort “Oh…you have no clue, do you? It’s not SOCIALISM…you silly little prat, it’s simply the government taking control for the benefit of the people….my god you’re dense”.

And the mind boggles. I’ve heard 5 people say that to me in as many days. Now, I wasn’t a stellar student when it came to Development of Western Civilization, but I DID follow the parts on socialism and communism, as well as things like “totalitarianism”, “dictatorship” and so on.

But somehow because the black stick is an elected official, the libtards think somehow that our system is intact and operating just fine. Thence comes the ultimate fallacy that “the government is supposed to take care of the people” the ancient (and wrong) line from that side of the house that has rung so hollow for years.

Ann Coulter is still right. You can’t talk to a liberal. Even whipping out a copy of the Constitution itself and asking them to point to where it says you get free health care…or a house…or anything.

Then they start with the “living document” crapola and how it has to be changed to meet the times.

And suddenly, in my brain, I feel a few more cells die from frustration or absolute disbelief.

As I’ve often said, the conversation then usually ends with them telling me I’m a racist or just mean. But for me, I take great satisfaction that the founding fathers put forth a document that was authored while calm, sober and respectful of the English language; The language of their birth and of the nation from which they wanted to be released.

Indeed the Declaration Of Independence had no words that said, “You haters, you need to jump off a building. You need to do the honorable thing.” Quite the opposite. It was polite but direct.

Nope they just laid it out, said it plainly and clearly. I’m sure when it was read to King George he was annoyed as to its straightforwardness.

And you can say, that the modern day would-be oppressors of this nation, the liberals, are just as agitated by a conservative’s preponderance of fact and reality.

Well said.

What’s the first thing out of Obamy’s mouth whenever he’s asked about a problem? “It’s not my fault”

Everything that is wrong is someone else’s fault, so let’s just get the losers together and take what we want, with the power of the federal government behind us. Then everything will be just fine.

However, the artsy-fartsies and virtually half the population are already behind this power grab, and apparently hungry for socialism so this administration’s task is not nearly as daunting as Hitler’s.

There do seem to be a great number of people who think socialism is the answer. Apparently, they were either absent the days that the history of WWII was taught, or the days when Stalin’s Russia was taught…or is it that they were just in a pot-induced fog? Or, perhaps…there’s that old notion that “today….here and now…we can PROVE that it can work” regardless of the monumental failure it has been everywhere it’s been tried.

The human rights violations, the crime, the absolute drive into poverty for every citizen. People didn’t listen but I did when I heard the professor explain that all of Russia has more natural resources than the US could ever have.

http://www.russianamericancham.....house.html

http://www.russiansabroad.com/.....y_200.html

Imagine if they had embraced capitalism—oh the competition we would’ve had, not on the military side of things, but the production of planes, cars, TV’s, computers, etc. Instead they stagnated and festered in the Utopian misconception of “equality through force”. Reading books by Russian authors, to include their most prestigious military members is an exercise in the unbelievable.

How the human spirit was crushed there and how it caused artists and writers and movie makers to leave.

As did Germany in the 1930’s, if they could.

Yet these modern day idealists think that this government actually cares about them. Perhaps that’s the hardest thing of all to swallow. That they, not for one minute, have taken the time to understand human nature and how power corrupts and how soon-to-be absolute power will corrupt, absolutely.

It makes me sick to ponder the condition this nation is in and will be in when the Obama National Socialists finally come out of hiding and playing with innuendo and come to the front of the balcony with their armbands and spanking new uniforms. No, they will not imitate the Nazis, but instead will have a whole new look. Or, maybe no look at all, which like Chairman Mao’s “non-uniform” uniform, or the unpretentious look of a plain suit without adornment.

Whatever the look, “the party” is growing and gaining momentum. If the economy should follow its natural course and start a slow but steady recovery, the ignorant masses will flock to kiss the feet of the the new supreme leader. For lack of anything, the ignorant masses always want, above all else, a miracle.

Hitler gave Germany a miracle by “taking action” and punishing those who kept Germans from their rightful place.

Is the concept that Obama is using much different? If you study the rhetoric used by Adolf Hitler during his campaigning and after “he won”, you will find a great many similarities, though the “articulate negro” has updated and polished them for the 21st century.

He says what the dependent-thinker wants to hear. Thus, he brings up a FEELING of salvation. It’s the reason many people go to church…and no, I’m not knocking on the religious. They go for that feeling of comfort that no matter how awful a sinner, there is teh chance of salvation. But the problem is, nothing Obama ever says has to do with the individual calling upon themselves to look at themselves and see what they can do for themselves so the government doesn’t have to.

No, it’s all, “I will give you” and “See those people over there? It’s THEIR fault you’re poor or out of work or lost your house”. And nothing rallies a group of people together, large or small, than the common ground of who to blame. Case in point? The great explosion of US Flags that appeared after 9/11.

For lack of a better way to put it, it’s a “pitchforks and torches” mentality.

Whenever I hear, read a liberal say, “But he’s doing SOMEthing”….I know that they have shut down their brain and prefer to let the thinking be done by others as all-the-while they still claim to be a critical thinker. Critical thinking, as I was taught, begins with self.

Thus, when we can criticize ourselves and recognize our own failures and mistakes, are we able to more accurately and fairly assess the behavior of others. But, there is no outcry from anyone when the leaders in our government are found delinquent on their taxes, or that they cannot seem to stick to the same story from day to day or even hour to hour. Why? Because they, themselves lack the ability to look themselves in the mirror and blame themselves for their situation. If misery loves company, hell, failure loves a barn-dance.

So, as a nation, just like Germany in the 30’s, our comfortable lifestyle that has afforded us the ability to enjoy life, has now also fostered the unsatisfied of those who cannot succeed except at the expense of others. They cannot reason that they are their own first investment and instead look to tear those down who make them feel small, insecure and less important. Again, they fail to realize that those feelings are the result of their own failures and as any psychologist will tell you, blaming others is the first method of rationalization.

But a whole nation is now rationalizing that CEO’s with huge salaries are the reason they stick needles in their arms, or that they steal or that they can’t get a job because they have a rap sheet that takes up three pages. It’s easier than WORK. WORK means first, getting up off your ass, looking yourself in the mirror and saying “I must not fail”. But today the acceptable standard is, “there are no winners, no losers…everybody gets to play” and that once quaint daycare philosophy has come to bite us squarely in the ass.

“It’s THEIR fault” is now the new phrase that America owns. Not, “We built this” or “We protected that” or “My country, right or wrong”. For indeed, almost half of our fellow citizens are actually ashamed to be Americans. This is the direct result of a permissive society that has existed since at least the 60’s. And it didn’t help that the entertainment industry made its money exploiting that concept.

Over time, gone were the concepts of personal responsibility, rights of the individual, or even good manners. (Just watch how people act at WAL-MART).

So, is it any wonder these spoiled have-nots who want everything but don’t want to work for it are now clamoring at the doors of Washington to get the goose that lays the golden eggs?

As Hitler and Goebbels knew….you can’t possibly give them everything they want…but if you can get them to fall in love with an IDEA…then you have them.

And has them, he does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJN2B-eEv4