He’s presided over a 10 trillion dollar corporate welfare/bail-out package to banks, Wall Street, etc, paid for by the taxpayer(read: middle class).

He just went to Congress to ask for a record 70 billion for GWB’s two wars.

This is someone Saul Alinksy would have approved of?

I don’t think so.

It is my opinion that Saul Alinsky understood precisely what he was doing. He understood the cycle of power, and he wanted to get whatever share of power that he could get. That’s the bottom line of his motivation. (i.e. A big egoist filled with fatal conceit that wanted to acquire his own brand of power).

It is very important to remember that there are/were some exceptions to this cycle of power. Ben Franklin was just one of the greatest of these exceptions that mankind will ever see. More about him in a minute.

I know this is a little off topic, but I’d like to say that I miss Mr. Ringer’s inspirational posts. Being the highly negative, pragmatic, and jaded
person that I am, inspiration is a very important factor in staying somewhat balanced in my outlook.

It is the start of a new year, and I’d like to share some inspirational advice that has served me very well over the years. I’m not into new years resolutions, but if I was then this would be it. It
has become my favorite motto.

“Do something today for the person
that you will be five years from now.”

This type of long term-thinking, when applied properly to matters of health, education, finance, and personal relationships, will pay you
out compound interest in long term happiness.

Speaking of long-term thinking, I’d like to share one of my all time favorite true stories about Ben Franklin. In his will he left $4,500 to the city of Philadelphia with the stipulation that the money be
invested at 5% interest compounded annually for a term of one hundred years. At the end of the term, the principal would be nearly $600,000.00.

But the will, and Mr. Franklin’s long term thinking, didn’t stop there. At the end of one hundred years the city was not allowed to spend all the money. The city was required to reinvest $150,000 of the
money for another one hundred years. This $150,000 would now become almost $20,000,000.00.

I still remember the 200th anniversary of Franklin’s death when the city of Philadelphia announced that it had only made two million instead of the twenty that it should have made. Franklin also gifted the city of Boston the same amount of money with identical terms.
Boston made five million.

One of the morals of the story is that long-term thinking has been negated by expedient politicians and the hoards of bureaucrats that have taken over the government in the last one hundred years.. The
people who run the government think so differently than the people who founded it. The people who founded our government wanted those living hundreds of years after their deaths to have a better future. Contrast that with those who currently run the government, and how they are stealing the future from us and those the future generations. Contrast that with Saul Alinsky (aka The Evil Genius) who came up with a modern blueprint to destroy America.

Personally, I don’t see one politician out there—not even one—that comes anywhere near the greatness of men like Ben Franklin. We need a true American hero like Franklin. And we need him now. Currently, my opinion of Glenn Beck is rising. Since January 4, 2010 he has had a spot on message. Did you see his amazing commentary on Saul Alinsky? It’s the best that I’ve ever seen Mr. Beck perform. My respect for him is growing. He has common sense, now he needs the “uncommon sense” that F.A. Hayek so adroitly wrote about. It is so imperative to educate people on the long-term benefits of our Constitution. I think that Mr. Beck is going to do a fine job in that regard in 2010.

Specious short-term thinking is what destroys nations. (i.e.BHO, thinking) This destructive short-term thinking is now being executed worldwide on a massive scale that has never before been seen by man. And it’s happening right now, before our very eyes.

Let’s hope that someone like Ben Franklin appears to help lead the way during this historic era.

The “living document” crowd makes these little word NUDGES all the time. A good example is how this was done to the first amendment, and how the meaning was changed with THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE. The phrase “make no laws respecting an establishment of religion”, where “establishment” is a noun) has an entirely different meaning than “make no laws respecting the establishment of religion” where “establishment” is a verb. A tiny little change can have enormous impact!

Being judgmental and being astute and sagacious enough to be able to define right from wrong, moral from immoral, ethical from unethical, and ground reality from psychotic/neurotic delusions, are the only foundational criteria that can save the United States from further decline and eventual Ouroboros-like implosion.

People need to agree on a valid and realistic set of real world values, based on historical experience and precedent, that applies to all politicians, regardless of what label they stick on their foreheads.

Both major parties are compromised and after we begin to clean house of the traitorous democrats in the next election, who are clearly the much greater threat to individualism and liberty, then we need to turn a more critical eye to the rotten and corrupted demagogues in the Republican party, who have not been representative of long established party values and who have been seduced and corrupted by the intoxicating effects of wealth and power.

We are all allowing ourselves to be taxed into incremental servitude on all government levels (inclusive of local, state, and federal bodies of so called “representatives”). These governments are all implacably voracious when it comes to empowering themselves, and those of us who know better and recognize the danger are being unwillingly dragged into an Orwellian style government, along with the ignorant, uneducated, and short-sighted who either believe this Orwellian dystopia is actually beneficial to a society, or are too foolish to know what restrictive horrors, enslavement, and even death of which these governments subject ALL their citizens when politicians steal or are given the power, in their twisted and delusional minds, to play God.