Red Seal, New Deal

"The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs (and freedom) of the people under the pretext of progress." --Disraeli, "Speech in London"

A Red New Deal with a Soviet seal

Endorsed by a Moscow hand,

The strange result of an alien cult

In a liberty loving land.

FDR supporter Merle Thorpe wrote in 1935, "We have given legislative status, either in whole or in part, to eight of the ten points of the Communist Manifesto of 1848; and, as some point out, done (sic) a better job of implementation than Russia."

Religious leader Colonel Eugene N. Sanctuary's pamphlet 'Is the New Deal Communist?' made a 35 point comparison of it to Marx's 1848 program.

I'M SO TIRED OF IT ALL

I'm so tired - Oh so tired - of the whole New Deal;

Of the juggler's smile; the barker's spiel.

Tired of taxes on my ham and eggs;

Tired of payoffs to political yeggs.

I'm tired of farmer's goose-stepping to laws;

Of millions of itching job-holder's paws;

Of Fireside Talks over commandeered mikes;

Of passing more laws to stimulate strikes.
I'm tired of the hourly-increasing debt;

I'm tired of promises still to be met;

Of eating and sleeping by Government plan;

Of calmly forgetting the Forgotten Man.

I'm tired of every new brain-trust thought;

Of the ship of state - now a pleasure yacht.

I'm tired of cheating the courts by stealth;

And terribly tired of sharing my wealth.

I'm tired and bored with the whole New Deal;

With its juggler's smile and barker's spiel.

SOME NEW DEAL FIGURES :)

U.S. Population (1935)...120,000,000

46,000,000 Eligible for Old Age Pension

30,000,000 Children prohibited from working

30,000,000 Government employees

13,999,998 Unemployed

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119,999,998

Left to produce U.S. wealth = 2

Just you and me - and I'm all worn out!

Thanks to the link embedded in the title and written here: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/fdr.html

Diplomacy

Diplomacy has been in action for the past eight years as evidenced by the now familiar Condi Rice, and soon to be Hillary. The question I ask, Will it be enought to stop a nuclear hot spot like the India and Pakistan tension?

And here to the south of Texas we have an undeclared war going on with enough blame to go everywhere. Events like this are daily, terrorism or house cleaning from within, it will be just a small step to organise into an organised force.

The Cartels and drug Lords are on the verge of becoming a revolutionary army between us and Mexico. The recipe is already mixed, supply line in place, just add a little Chavez, stir in Russia support and wella!

It's the events that shape a presidency, how well the president handles it is the measure of the man. Not a position that many would volunteer for in todays world.

Hillary just accepted!!

Just a thought

2008 vs. 1984

Proles, your name inspired some research and recollection of 1980's, thank you. Though you may be of the outer party mocking us proles, it matters not. For I am a prole, the working class with a....

Ah, I can see it now, soon our "Ministry of Love" will take over a Guantanamo, the newly formed "Ministry of Peace", will begin the end of conflict, even if it requires a bigger war to attain economic balance,.. er,..peace.

What brings this up that with the ever increasing unemployment, here in the United States where real numbers suggest over ten percent currently in Texas, and in the rust belt to twelve percent and higher,.. though the 'official' number is just five to six percent, and 'slightly' higher.

How is China doing? The number of people make even low unemployment percentages devastating, how to maintain control becomes the real issue. Just as in Orwells book;...that the motivation of the Inner Party is not to achieve a future paradise but to retain power, which has become an end in itself.

And the ever shifting alliances maintained an ever existing war, not for property or control, but to maintain the economic engine while controlling the population numbers through patriotism and war.

In my short lifetime since 1954 we've (U.S.) warred with China through Vietnam and Korea, then been friends in economic boons. Been in a cold war with Russia and allied in the UN. We've sided with Iran to only now wonder about Iran, Set up Qaddafi to take him down, the same with Saddam. Noriega comes to mind as well.

The "Ministry of Peace" at work.

And soon to be passed here is the "Fairness Doctrine", where freedom of speech is taken away for 'fairness'. Any 'right wing' publication and news letter, radio show or broadcast will be "Required" to be fair,.. but who makes that decision?
Maybe the new "Ministry of Fairness"

just words.....

Ethnically ambiguous

I found this interesting that according to this BBC link embedded in my title, the world now see the United States as 'progressive' on one hand in that we elected an African American President,.. and in the other hand state how he is not actually from 'slave' stock. Matts article says way more than that and puts it very well, a perspective I had not considered. Here is a section just about Barack:

Barack Obama's election is indeed an inspiration.

But we should not not forget that America's first black president is also half white.

He was raised by a white mother and white grandparents.

He thrived in the largely white ivory towers of Harvard and Columbia.

He is not the descendant of african slaves but the son of a Kenyan economist, who was educated at American universities.

So if Barack Obama is post-racial it is also because he is ethnically ambiguous enough for most Americans to feel comfortable with him.

In that sense too he is the Tiger Woods or Lewis Hamilton of American politics: cool, concentrated and ethnically mixed.

Remember, the biggest hurdle at the beginning of his campaign was not that he was black but that he was not black enough.

By Matt Frei BBC News, Washington

I think the bottom line should be one that makes you think, I know this one surprised me from the same article above:

The Middle East is lost for words that a man called Barack "Hussein" Obama can be at the helm of the Great Satan.

Obamas Employment Plan

So what do all think of "Obamas plan to create 2.5 million jobs" fixing bridges, roads and wind energy? I can see the clerk from the local defunct clothing store Mervyns that just went belly up looking forward to digging in the dirt, hammering forms and finishing concrete. Heck, can't be nothing to building a bridge, we all have played with 'Legos' and 'Lincoln Logs'.

What a crock of re-warmed liberal stupid soup, er kool-aid,... touted by all the networks (include the BBC) as "wonderful" and an answer to the stuggle of unemployed middle managers in thier fifties everywhere. You can bet every overweight paper pusher is just dying to work in the elements and live in man camps in the wild and desolate areas of the Mid West.

All those former coffee servers from nearly defunct Starbucks will be glad to live in the desolate midwest of Wyoming or western Texas setting up wind towers, setting the base forms, tying the steel and pouring/finishing the concrete. Heck, once you do that it's easy to step into a crane and erect a wind tower without years of training and experience. Just give them 'Cake' eh Obama.

And the disenfranchised Auto worker from Detroit would love to leave his home for a mobil home in the tornato rectangle, rigging and wiring poles and setting up an electrical grid, heck, its just like installing the dashboard in a Ford Focus.

Two million four hundred thousand and swarming into unknown fields with out training or experience,.. ya'll got to be crazy not in seeing that this is nonsense.

Just words, just speeches and the masses will say 'sieg heil'.... OMG..

White Guilt is Dead

Follow the link that make the title, there you'll find a letter written by Tom Adkins. Interesting to say the least that the thought of this is alive and well. I have to wonder just how guilty a man must be to feel this way.

Comedy is Funny

Comedy is good for the soul,.. I think it is anyway. One of my brothers sent me this piece written by 'unknown', and thought it was funny enough to share.

A teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.

The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories. There were all the regular type stuff, spilled milk and pennies saved. But then teacher realized, much to her dismay, that only Ernie was left. 'Ernie, do you have a story to share?' Yes ma'am. My daddy told a story about my Aunt Karen. She was a pilot in Desert Storm and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol and a survival knife.

She drank the whiskey on the way down so the bottle wouldn't break and then her parachute landed right in the middle of twenty enemy troops. She shot fifteen of them with the gun until she ran out of bullets, killed four more with the knife, till the blade broke, and then she killed the last enemy with her bare hands. ''Good Heavens' said the horrified teacher. 'What kind of moral did your daddy tell you from this horrible story?

'Stay the fuck away from Aunt Karen when she's drinking!'