Corruption Out In The Open
June 11, 2009 by Bridget Blanton
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I actually remember the Sixties, but then I was still a kid in ’68 when the ‘Summer of Love’ was happening. Life for an 8-year-old was pretty far removed from the anti-war/hippy culture. We were aware of pop culture because Madison Avenue quickly capitalized on it. The dirty hippy look was cleaned up and thoroughly commercialized for the masses and suddenly everything became hippy chic.
In case you haven’t noticed, they’re at it again. I need only point to the Obama-inspired Pepsi logo and the “hope and change” CBS sit-com promo spots that ran just prior to Inauguration Day. I didn’t vote for the guy, but that’s beside the point. The idol worship of ‘the one’ and subsequent commercialization is annoying, lame, and as uncool as the celebrities and aging rockers all clamoring to be close to this deliberately unvetted Chicago politician.
When my generation came of age in the ’70s, the ideas from the ’60s had become institutionalized. I didn’t buy into the whole cache of catchy phrases except the one about “questioning authority.” That one I could identify with. As far back as I could remember, I loved the very idea of free speech and the fact that we as individuals could challenge our government.
My youthful embrace of the American Dream was rooted in the truth that anything was possible if you worked for it and that freedom was the most precious commodity that this nation had to offer. The political elites in Washington are shopping the polar opposite these days. Thanks to the dual re-education forces of media and Madison Avenue, dependence on big government and politically correct thinking are the latest fads sweeping the nation. What happened? When did freedom become so unpopular?
Somewhere along the way, the radicals of the Sixties became the very essence of all that they despised. Questioning authority is no longer tolerated by the intolerant Left; in fact, dissent is just an Executive Order away from becoming an outlawed activity.
What the heck happened on the way home from Woodstock? These same anti-establishment hippies turned into ‘the man’ and now they’re hell bent on growing a government even more sinister, secretive, and powerful than the one they sought to overthrow back in the ’60s. What does it feel like to realize that not only have you become ‘the man,’ but you’re a far more twisted version of ‘the man’?
For me, it’s always been about freedom. Not the Sixties version of freedom that, from my vantage point, led to multiple messed-up lives, but to the type of freedom as is protected by the Constitution. Today everything I believe in is at risk because the enemies within are in control of the government; having been voted in by brainwashed Stepford voters who goose stepped over a cliff this past November. To maintain control as they pursue their singular purpose of power, Socialists keep these voters on a short leash and a steady diet of lies, fear, blame, victimhood, and entitlements.
While my father and his brother were working themselves to the bone trying to build up an honest, profitable business amidst the rampant corruption of Democrat-controlled Chicago, Leftists were infiltrating every last nook and cranny of the free world like bloodsucking leeches as they lived off grants financed with confiscated tax dollars. While good people worked hard to pay bills and raise their kids, the Leftists were plotting, propagandizing, and feeding off government like undetected parasites.
Over the years, the old timey Leftist propaganda has deteriorated into sloppy, blatant lies. To be sure, the art of indoctrination requires skill, but they don’t even bother with that anymore. They’ve sold themselves on the idea of their own power. No talent is required to spew forth treacherous, hypocritical, pathological lies. The problem lies in the fact that Leftists must lie because they know truth will derail their quest for power.
It’s mind-boggling to witness Socialists like Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer, and Christopher Dodd as they perpetrate fraud on the American public. While placing the full weight of blame for the sub-prime meltdown on the Bush Administration, they completely deny any personal responsibility. Outrageous? Shifty? Well, yes, but actually it’s just business as usual for Democrats who use the lapdog media to downplay Democrat lies, corruption, and tax evasion.
Not to be found anywhere in all of the coverage was the truth that the Bush administration tried to regulate this bubbling cauldron of sub-prime fraud 17 separate times…each attempt shot down by Pelosi, Reid, and their gang of thugs. This is not government at work; this is corruption out in the open.
Having authored the economic mess and covered up their part in causing it, these same Leftists have been caught in another lie better known as the so-called Stimulus Package: a.k.a. ‘porkulus’ or ‘pork-a-palooza.’ Unless you’ve got your hands over your ears as you scream “nah, nah, nah, nah,” you know that this legislation is just a bloated Socialist policy orgy engineered to permanently institutionalize the entitlement system and keep Democrats in power. This legislation freak show shows sinister preference for their ‘pet’ projects, funneling billions towards indicted ACORN, notorious for committing voter registration fraud on behalf of Democrats. Billions, no, trillions are needed to prop up this piece of pork and Democrats won’t hesitate to build a monument unto themselves on the backs of our children.
More lies and fraud perpetrated on the American public, along with more cover up by the complicit and deceptive media; yet suddenly patriotism is back en vogue. There’s nothing like failure-prone Socialist policies, rampant Democrat corruption, and unfettered abortion to bring out the patriot in close-minded Lefties across the land.
If there ever was a time to question authority, that time is now.
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This is very well written, thanks for putting words to my thoughts. In spite of all the people protesting the hijacking of our freedoms by the progressive, socialist movement in this country, I still hear people cheering every time Obama gets on the campaign stump, and it makes me sick. Don’t listen to his words, watch his actions. Our government has been taken over by criminals who have shredded our Constitution. “We the People” need to control the Federal and State governments and the only way I see that this can happen is to take back our money. How do we do this without going to jail? Can we get millions of people to change their withholding exemptions to the maximum and then when we file our taxes on April 15th, don’t pay the government? Is their another way? Someone, please tell me if there is another way.
Isn’t it boggling how the general population think?. For example they think that they know the truth behind the housing market because they heard the truth on The View. Take for example Martin Sheen, he thinks he has what it takes to be POTUS because he played one once. Take Leonardo Decrapio; he met some dude named Al Gore so now he thinks he is an expert on the world’s greatest hoax ever pulled off on mankind. Only thing, he like hundreds of millions of people don’t view gorebal warming is a hoax.
People are so easily fooled because of idol envy; he was on my favorite program or she was awesome on American Idol they are awesome so when they accept their award for best actress and they talk about everything politics but nothing acting, people think they know everything because he said she said.
Here is something that know it all’s will never hear from the news media which happened last week. Well let’s go back 3 months ago. Because the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac debacle could no longer be swept underneath the carpet, tighter regulations were imposed. What do you think, too little too late? Not exactly if you ask Barney Frank, who by the way is one of the folks who blame everything on the Bush administration.
Just last week Barney asked Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to ease up on the home buying restrictions because the current regulations in play (just 3 months old) were hurting the condominium housing market. Can you believe that? Hello, you must first fix a hurting housing market before you can hurt a hurting housing market! I worked on jobs that had probationary periods longer than 90 days. Barney wants to replace a 3 month old change of plans for a proven failed system.
Did you know that if the entire bunch of buffoons in Congress (mostly Democrats) were working in the private sector and they made the identical mistakes that they keep repeating over and over, they would have been fired never to use their screw up on a resume for fear of being proven under qualified?
In the private sector they would never have had so many chances, they are a bunch of living, breathing, walking, talking failures that the general population thinks are their knight in shining armor because Whoopi suck do Goldberg, Sean Penn, Barbara Streisand, Charlie Gibson, Matt Lauer and the likes say so.
Oh, by the way, Arnold was elected governor because he was reaaly cool on the Terminator!