Category: Taxes

The Pot Smoking Friend of George Soros: Meet Peter Lewis–head of Progressive Insurance

Who is Peter Lewis? Well, he’s not John Galt—that’s for sure. In fact, Lewis is the complete opposite of that fictional character from the great novel Atlas Shrugged. If you have Progressive Auto Insurance, which is the third largest in the United States then you are about to become upset if you didn’t know it already. Because Peter Lewis of Cleveland, Ohio has been the CEO of Progressive Insurance Companies and is the poster boy for the kind of man who seeks to destroy traditional America with a progressive philosophy that is true to the name of his insurance company.

I told my wife months ago well before I knew anything about Peter Lewis that I would never get Progressive Auto Insurance because of the name. I joked that I couldn’t stand progressives, and I hated insurance to begin with, so those two things together in the same name spelled double jeopardy. Each time one of those stupid commercials came on I couldn’t help but notice how similar the photography was to the Tides Foundation videos shown in school advocating the evils of capitalism to school children. I thought it was strange that Progressive Insurance seemed to be going out of their way to provide insurance to motorcyclists. The tone of the commercials seemed totally out-of-sink with the kind of people I know who are motorcycle riders. But Progressive seemed to know what they were doing because they were dominating the insurance industry and made enough money to purchase airtime on television continuously.

Unfortunately, my instincts about the name of the insurance company turned out to be true and I am very proud to say that I do not own any Progressive Insurance, and if I did, I would dump it right now. Here’s why—it turns out that Peter Lewis is a big time leftist working hand in hand with George Soros to advance progressive politics in America. Lewis seeks nothing less than the destruction of traditional America. As head of Progressive Insurance, the name of the company is the name of his political philosophy and now that he is worth more than a billion dollars, he gives tremendous amounts of money to progressive causes. Here’s just a few.

• Princeton University (A Gehry designed science library, $60 million; the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, $55 million; arts initiative, $101 million. Total $233 million to date.)
• Case Western Reserve University (The Weatherhead School of Management Peter B. Lewis Building, another Gehry design, $36.9 million, out of $61.7 total building cost)
• Marijuana Policy Project (Donated $3,000,000 to MPP in 2007.)
• The Guggenheim Museum ($50 million)
• America Coming Together and MoveOn.org (with George Soros matching his $10 and $2.5 million, respectively)
• American Civil Liberties Union $15m
• The Democratic Party
• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies-sponsored MDMA/PTSD Research in the US, Switzerland and Israel $750,000 [www.maps.org]
• Menorah Park (Peter B. Lewis Aquatic & Therapy Center)
• Traction
• Support of California’s Proposition 19 also known as the Regulate, Control & Tax Cannabis Act (Donation of $159,005 on 10/15/2010)
You can see the reference material for the above at this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_B._Lewis

The looters of government are looking toward “pot” (marijuana) as a way to raise additional tax revenue for their massive government programs, while at the same time dummying down the American population with cannabis infestation. Peter Lewis is himself a pot head, who was arrested in New Zealand for his drug use in the year 2000, and advocates the same boring diatribe of those old hippies from yesteryear. Legalization of marijuana is a progressive dream and these days it is the head of the Progressive Insurance Company who is leading the charge.

My thoughts on marijuana are the same now as they were when I was young. I have always despised the drug and the people who use it. I have lost many friends over my rigid stance against marijuana because I see smoking marijuana as a weakness of character. As a matter of fact, I feel nearly as strong about alcohol as I do marijuana. Seeking to numb the pains of life with chemicals is emotionally weak and is a violation to the individual soul. Anything that is ingested into the lungs through the form of smoke is a bad thing. I cannot see purposely smoking anything, let alone a drug that helps take the edge off pains. I seldom ever take aspirin or any pain killer, and there is no situation that would provoke me into cannabis use to alleviate any kind of pain and I have had just about every kind of pain imaginable. So needless to say I am against the legalization of marijuana, I am against the manufacture of it, I am against the taxation of it, I have never used it, and I will never use it. If I had it my way I’d punish every drug dealer with any means possible. I’d prosecute every drug manufacturer as domestic terrorists. And I would personally challenge any individual user. I have been to rock concerts when I was younger where I have been in massive fights with others who blew the smoke in my face passively. I hate drugs now more than I did when I was younger. It is a weak drug for weak minded people and the people who make it, use it and distribute it are lucky there are laws that protect them from people like me. I won’t break the law to show my anger, but I feel that strongly about drugs to say as much.

I know many people reading this have tried it. I have been friends with people who use it, even while they knew me, but I have never bent my opinion of it. My opinion of people who use the drug is a low one. I leave room for redemption later in life, but I do not respect current users. This makes people like Peter Lewis my mortal enemy, because if he uses his billion dollars from his insurance company to legalize marijuana so that I have to smell pot in public places like Kings Island, or the shopping mall, he is undoing the America that I love in favor of one that I hate.

On top of all this, Lewis is a trustee of Princeton University, so that says a lot about the intentions of that particular education institution. I have said for years that colleges were infested with progressivism, and now this is the proof. A major marijuana advocate and extreme political progressive is one of the leaders of that so-called esteemed university.

So the next time you see a commercial for Progressive Insurance, you are seeing the product of an extreme progressive and if you read here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom, Lewis is your mortal enemy. Knowing what I know now about Progressive Insurance, it is every bit as sinister as the name it carries—because they are one in the same. Progressives advocate American counter culture and are a menace to themselves and the values that made America great. Progressives get what they want by being misleading, their foundations are built upon stacks of lies. And they require an audience of non-thinking drug induced fools to follow them. That is why they advocate marijuana use so openly, because they need the masses to hunger for pain relief and non-thinking, because thinking people see through their scam, and despise the attempt.

For those who thought that George Soros was the only one they had to watch out for they are wrong, there is a man in Peter Lewis who is every bit as sinister. The chances are you are giving him money in some way by purchasing his insurance. He then takes that money to help undo America. So if you give Progressive Insurance money, you are helping to destroy your own country. Peter Lewis like the rest of the progressive types use the ACLU and other organizations to transform America into a vision of their pot smoking dreams—a world of peace, love, and drug induced hallucinations. President Obama has bragged about his drug use, and like Peter Lewis, has inhaled frequently. People like Peter Lewis and George Soros have funneled a lot of money into the art community, which includes the film industry to push for the gradual acceptance of marijuana among our youth. The result is that most young people think smoking dope is cool and that being strong is unfashionable. It is because of people like Peter Lewis that young people aspire to “get wasted” instead of making themselves stronger to endure anything.

The selfish goal of the progressive is to make a slave like society of servants who seek drug use, both alcohol and illegal, to weaken the mind of the population. By robbing the American people of their wits, the progressive leader wishes to rule them from the lofty heights of academia, which to me is simply a scam. Peter Lewis appears to consider himself one of the rulers, and he uses the money he funnels from his insurance company to weaken the resolve of the average American culminating in the climax of a hippie fantasy invented in the 1960’s. Such people are detrimental to the America I wish to live in, and I despise the air they breathe. I actually despise some of each breath I take knowing that a small portion of that air left the lungs of a human being like Peter Lewis, a parasite on American society in the worst of ways, a person who has become rich offering a product to the masses that they trust, then like leading them like cattle to slaughter. He attacks them with the money he made off them. And he will continue to do it so long as people continue to give Progressive Insurance money through their premiums. So think about all this the next time you see one of his stupid commercials come on your TV.

If you doubt what I say here, read this article from the Cleveland Plains Dealer and you’ll learn all you need to know.

http://www.cleveland.com/morris/index.ssf/2011/05/puff_puff_pass_peter_b_lewis_m.html

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Why Americans Love the Bald Eagle: The crows, buzzards, and ducks of our government

I have always had a conflict when watching air shows at the concept of formation flying.  Of course this idea of formation flying comes from watching birds like geese flying in a triangular pattern.  Mankind wishing to fly adopted this tendency, so when airplanes were invented, we executed the practice in reality.  The trouble is flying; or rather the romance of it is a solitary endeavor.  It’s an achievement of mankind’s success to be able to take to the skies and reach for the heavens under the power of a machine invented in the mind of man. 

 

But as any game hunter will tell you who are hunting ducks, or geese, they love the tendency of those collective oriented birds to fly in formation because it makes them easier to shoot down.  When I look at a duck, or a goose, I do not think of independence or the freedom of flight.  I just see a stupid creature that travels in packs blindly following a leader and I despise such creatures.  When I look up into the sky and see a flock of birds flying about I do not have envy of any kind for them, even though they have the added dimension of flight in their physical abilities.  I see them as unintelligent, just as I do when I see human beings behaving in flocks on the ground. 

This is why America adopted the American Bald Eagle on June 20th 1782 as its national symbol.  The bald eagle was a large creature that had a solitary nature and once they found a mate they stayed together until one died.  Eagles are strong, they can fly up to10,000 feet and are at the top of the food chain regarding the bird species.  They resembled the idea of what an American is.  Because of these traits they were adopted as a national symbol for America.

Eagles are not collectivists.  They don’t even migrate with their young, and often not even with their mates.  Eagles tend not to nest near other eagles unlike buzzards and other collective oriented raptors.  Eagles spend most of their time alone and like it that way.  It would simply be an insult to come to a tree full of eagles hanging around socializing and waiting for something to eat.  Such a thing just does not happen in nature.   If such a thing were to be seen it would cheapen eagles dramatically. 

The reason we do not respect crows, buzzards, geese, ducks and dozens of other bird species is because we innately see them as a weaker class due to their tendency toward collectivism.  If an eagle were to be shot by a hunter with the same gun that had just killed a buzzard even though both raptors are large and majestic, we would feel a profound sadness for killing the eagle, and probably nothing much for killing the buzzard.

Human beings see such creatures as buzzards and crows as predatory scavengers who wait for something to die so that they can swoop down and eat a carcass.  They are nature’s welfare recipients.  They are collectivists and we tend to look down our noses at them.

But the blad eagle is a creature that hunts their prey and kills it cleanly—with work and superior speed.  We admire the eagle because they are the best at what they do, and they don’t look for help in doing it.  It is for reasons like this that we admire the bald eagle as representatives of American citizens.  Bald eagles are what Americans know they should strive to become, individual predators for their own welfare.   

This is why I think it is disgraceful to see a flock of American warplanes flying in formation.  When I met the Thunderbird pilots a few years ago at an air show, I did not look at them with awe.  I admired their piloting abilities, but as I shook their hands, I realized that they were simply collectivists who followed orders from their military superior.  They flew in formation like geese and did what they were told.  Because of that, I had less respect for them. 

It is for these reasons that the old Tom Cruise movie Top Gun is still revered as a classic American film.  There’s a bit of Maverick in all of us—the kind of person who wishes to go it alone and march to the beat of their own drummer, to thumb their nose at authority and give them the finger while doing it.  Americans were never intended to fly in formation.  They were not intended to cooperate with the crows, the buzzards and the geese of the world.  Can anyone imagine an eagle sharing its food with a group of buzzards?  How about an eagle sharing its kill with a flock of crows?  What about an eagle plucking off little bits of flesh from a slain fish to feed to a flock of ducks swimming around helplessly on the surface of a lake?  Such thoughts are absurd.  Yet our modern government of ducks, buzzards, and crows proclaim that all the American Eagles of society should do just that. 

In nature, which the tree hugging parasitic hippies seem to worship, the bald eagle would eat the ducks if they got in its way.  They’d slaughter a whole tree of buzzards because the buzzards are individually cowards who do not know how to fight.  And a whole flock of geese could be slain by one eagle should the eagle desire to do so.  This is why Americans are the eagles of the world and why they tend not to be politicians.   Buzzards and crows become politicians, and they have tried to bend nature with rules of their own requiring eagles to hunt for them as they sit in the tree and wait for a dead carcass to be delivered to their feet in the form of taxes. 

No matter how politicians attempt to frame the issue, or Hollywood tries to glorify collectivism, Americans do not like collectivists.  Their favorite movie stars are individuals.  Their favorite movies promote individualism.  And their military heroes are solitary, not collective.  At air shows it is not the acrobatic collectivism that amazes audiences, but the one Marverick in those planes that would break out of formation and shoot down 5 of the enemy all by themselves.  The thought of such a thing are what puts smiles on the faces of the young and old alike.  The reason for it is the same as why America selected the bald eagle as its national symbol.  It is also why progressives would like to change the national symbol from an eagle to a flock of ducks. 

Enjoy your Fourth of July, and honor the eagle with a special respect as you fire off your fireworks defying the law—which has proclaimed them illegal in most states.  The Fourth of July is about honoring the eagle in each of us, and that is not to be taken lightly. 

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The Evil of Obamacare: Insurance actuaries conduct a parasitic symphony

The reality of Obamacare is not that it will help poor people have health insurance even though that’s the way it was sold. It’s about creating more government jobs at the IRS. It’s about creating more college degree positions as insurance actuaries. And it’s about giving near monopoly power to insurance companies. To hear the numbers for yourself listen to Nathan Bachrach from the show Simply Money on 55 KRC speaking with Darryl Parks on 700 WLW.

Government healthcare is about job creation and using tax money to create those jobs. It has nothing to do with healing the sick, but in keeping more people sick longer so that the medical profession can profit off that sickness. Insurance actuaries are one of the fastest growing professions in the United States right now. By looking at the link below it can be seen what they are projected to make each year, and the year to year growth of that industry. The reason for the growth is the government takeover of healthcare or rather the threat of it over the last 20 years.

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Math/Actuaries.htm

I personally seldom claim against my insurance. When I get a cut on my skin, I fix it myself. When a tree falls on my house, I take care of it. When my cars are in accidents, I most of the time handle it myself. I do not go to the doctor unless something is really wrong, and I seldom ever get sick. To an insurance actuary I am a gift to the insurance company because I never use it, yet I pay for the service. Insurance companies make most of their money off people like me. Insurance works by having more people pay into a service than they actually use. If more than 25% of the contributors file claims, the insurance company has some serious problems since the payout often well exceeds what individuals have contributed unless they’ve participated in the insurance for a decade or more.

Insurance actuaries help the insurance companies assess these risks so that they can hedge their finances and make a profit. If the insurance provider has too many customers who are high risk, the insurance company will go out of business. When government gets involved such as they did in the 80’s when they mandated car insurance for all drivers, they did not do it for the good of the people, but for the job security of the insurance actuaries who were concerned that the risk of driving a car placed numerous unforeseen statistics into their equations and made profit nearly impossible for the insurance companies who had to compete with other companies in the free market for business. To compete insurance companies had to lower their rates to dangerous levels that did not give the insurance actuaries much to work with on profit forecasts. A good driver could randomly be hit by a bad driver, which completely wrecks the work of the insurance actuary with unpredictability.

Government mandated that all drivers who wished to have the “privilege” of driving in their state purchase insurance so that insurance companies would no longer have to drive down their prices to compete with each other to lure customers. Insurance companies were given an oligopoly of power by state and federal government to guarantee insurance companies a share of all drivers on the roadways so insurance actuaries would have stable numbers to work with in their statistics analysts.

Because the insurance was mandated by the state, insurance companies were able to charge whatever they needed through their oligopoly power. If a high portion of the drivers on the roadways had too many accidents then insurance rates could increase collectively upon the advice of their insurance actuaries to maintain their profits. One insurance company did not have an advantage over another because they were all guaranteed a portion of a state’s driving population. This made life predictable and profitable for insurance companies, and the state governments were also able to make money through their court system by imposing fines (taxes) they otherwise wouldn’t have had—such as the DUI laws designed to generate so much revenue from the courts. All this was the result of extensive lobby power in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. The original villain was insurance actuaries attempting to get stable statistics for the companies they worked for.

Now, as to healthcare, government through public sector unions already has their hands in the nursing profession. They already use Medicaid and Medicare to inject money into the system that it might not have through natural competition which has artificially propped up the level of medical activity. Because of Medicaid and Medicare people use medical services because they can, which really screws up the life of the insurance actuary by wrecking statistic models. On top of that, doctors have been involved with false billing that has really put stress on Medicaid and Medicare since the money is easy to get through the government bureaucracy.

Government has went to a lot of trouble to encourage citizens to take up occupations in the medical industry such as nurses, doctors and everything in between through the university system set up by the Department of Education, and government now has to guarantee that there are jobs for all those people even though it would appear that medicine is moving away from the traditional pharmaceutical treatments and more to regenerative health. Insurance actuators do not like that prospect. They need people to use their service and regenerative health would mean that high cost medical treatments might be a thing of the past. After all, doctors need to have patients, and nurses must care for the sick, otherwise there isn’t any job for those people to do. So insurance actuators aware of this situation have informed their company CEO’s of the danger, and those CEO’s have lobbied congress on K-Street to help bring stability to their industry in these changing times. After all, with the avalanche of an aging United States population coming, they want to keep traditional medicine rolling along to support the financial empires they’ve built the industry into. So they want government to do what they did for auto insurance—they want the government to bring stability to the market for their benefit—so their actuaries will have stable numbers. Once the entire population is mandated to have health insurance, the actuaries will have real numbers to access risk and will be able to adjust their rates according to the demand.

Obamacare is essentially about manipulating the market with “crony” capitalism which is a long way off from the pure capitalism that I talk about all the time. It’s about creating more government jobs that are propped up with tax dollars those jobs would not have access to any other way. And it destroys competition by creating powerful oligopolies in the insurance industry. Insurance companies have traded their independence from government for financial stability and a guaranteed portion of the future business of the aging nation in America. And it all started with insurance actuaries, then lobby power in Washington to manipulate the situation to their advantage using government to do it.

Progressives like Obama have a goal of global government control so the deal works out well for them. By the time the government power is out-of-control within the decade; the people who operate these insurance companies will have taken their money and ran, leaving the mess to the next generation. And it will be done on the backs of people like me who despise insurance, never use insurance, and act out of self-reliance by using preventative medicine that does not require the current medical system who will pay the most.

Obamacare is a scam that takes away competition, takes away innovation, and will create a society of dependent drug induced derelicts seeking to fulfill their prescriptions at Walgreens in massive herds. Obamacare was created by the pharmaceutical lobby in Washington while holding hands with the insurance industry. And greedy politicians seeing a power grab bit down on the trap enslaving the rest of us for centuries to come, all because of the inadvertent evil conducted in the cubical of insurance companies all across America from the computers of the insurance actuary and their desire for safety, security, and “clean” statistics.

Yet again the path to hell is paved with good intentions and a desire for “safety” to help sell to the American population a concept that will ultimately lead to the destruction of everything we value. Insurance is a collective money racket that kills freedom and forces collective salvation. It hides the grim reality that if none of us were forced to purchase insurance of any kind, or pay for Social Security, or Medicare, that we would more than double our yearly incomes and gain the ability to pay cash for those tragedies that come our way instead of relying on predatory insurance companies to do it for us, which is simply a cleverly disguised form of social contract that attaches the weakest of society to the work of the strongest in a vain attempt at utopia leaving us all victims to the very greedy.

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The Storm of Obama’s Presidency: Land of the Free, home of the Brave and broken limbs

The sky was turning black to the north as I rode my motorcycle at approximately 4:35 PM on June 29, 2012 in temperatures of 101 degrees. The sun was beating down on me as I rode home after a tough day, but cumulus nimbus clouds near my home were shooting up into the sky 8 miles away. I knew I was going to hit hard weather before I arrived home and it was going to be painful. I left my home earlier without a cloud in the sky and the heat was intense, so I left my helmet on its hook. All I had was a leather jacket and my Gargoyle sunglasses to protect me from what was coming.

As I approached Beckett Ridge, the sun was blotted out by the quick-moving storm moving south-east quickly. Lighting struck a mile ahead and I could see the distant hills embroiled in a mist. That usually means heavy rain. But not this time. This time the visual obstruction was something worse.

These kinds of things are not felt within a car the way they are on a motorcycle which is the primary reason I ride a motorcycle every day. Life is experienced much more sharply from a motorcycle seat. And most of the time, it is an exhilarating feeling. But when passing through massive storm cells on the open road, it can be very painful, and this was going to be one of those times.

Ahead about a mile down the road I saw the traffic lights and roadside signs begin to kick around violently. My location was without a breeze of any kind and was still a stagnate 101 degrees. The traffic light I was sitting at didn’t move a bit. So I knew I was looking at an oncoming weather front that moved just ahead of the terrible storm. I braced myself by holding onto my handlebars with extra strength so the oncoming wind would not push me off my motorcycle as I ground my teeth together to endure the invisible wave.

The phone on my hip began to vibrate. It was my wife. She knew I was riding home, yet she called over and over again. I knew she wouldn’t do that unless there was a very serious situation. My first thought was that somebody had died. But I could not answer because I had to hold on with all my strength as the traffic light I was stopped at suddenly went horizontal as the wind grabbed hold of it and ripped it about its mooring like a toy. My wife wanted to tell me that a terrific gust of wind had struck our home and toppled trees. That that vacuum from the sudden drop in pressure had blasted open windows, and displaced attic seals. She wanted to tell me that she thought our house had been hit by a tornado and that it was headed straight for me.

On my motorcycle I could not answer the constant attempts to call me because the wave of air hit me hard. Debris caught in a powerful gust of wind struck my face as my Gargoyle sunglasses deflected the hundreds of tiny pebbles away from my eyes. Cars around me pulled off the road as dust, parts of cloud, sheets of rain, and many small particles blasted south like millions of individual projectiles. I held on, gave my big motorcycle gas and just plowed through the wind directly.

I was still angry over the health care ruling by the Supreme Court the day before and the storm I found myself in seemed to be an appropriate metaphor for my feelings. The defection by Justice Roberts hit me in a similar way as this storm did, like a gust of gut busting wind coming from nowhere in the intense heat carrying with it millions of tiny dangers. My wife was calling me to get me off the road, to find shelter someplace. But I was not in the mood to avoid danger, but instead headed straight into it with my motorcycle defying logic.

On the backside of the wind gust was a 35 degree sudden drop in temperature that could be felt within 5 seconds of first being hit by the wind. The gusts of wind wanted to knock my motorcycle into the other lanes of traffic. So I leaned into them to stay straight on the road. The more this happened, the faster I went. At one point I had moved my speed up to 70 MPH to offset the force of the wind counting on my forward momentum to help keep me on the big bike. Being aggressive has a way of helping maintain control when danger is near. I was able to go faster the closer to home that I got as more cars left the road to wait out the storm. Small pellets of rain were beginning to fall and they felt like a thousand bee stings anywhere I didn’t have protection for my skin.

As I pulled into my driveway I could see some minor damage to my house and the results of downed trees. The area around my house was a debris field of broken limbs lying across the road and leaves torn from their branches. At one point an entire branch laid across the road completely blocking my path and rather than attempt to go around it, I plowed right through as my motorcycle cut through the branch like a saw, which surprised me. I expected a violent bump, but instead it was the branch that yielded. That was the kind of mood I was in as I parked my motorcycle in the garage calmly to find out who had died.

I was relieved to find out that my wife was simply worried about me, although needlessly. The damage around our home had made her worry what would happen when I hit the same thing on the open road. We’ve been in violent storms before on that motorcycle, but now that she wasn’t with me, she wasn’t thinking the way I was, which was turning to attack mode to deal with the crises.

As I looked the damage over from the fallen trees I simply thanked the storm for knocking out of my yard all the trees that were too weak to survive. I realized that it had been a while since we had a good storm, and many of the area trees had grown heavy with branches they could not structurally support under difficult conditions. So when those conditions arrived, the trees and their branches simply broke.

I realized that the same thing had happened to our country over the health care ruling. The weak branches of our society will be ripped from their growth. They will be knocked from the trees that support them, and they may not survive. I realized that unconsciously this is why I ran over that branch in the road instead of simply going around it. I had contempt for the branch because it had broken—because it could not withstand the heavy wind—because it allowed itself to grow unstable, like our national economy.

When confronted with the crises I leaned into the wind and plowed through it the way I do everything. People who behave like this are those who survive. Those who simply yield and break find themselves victims to the storms of this world. I explained to my wife that I would not have gotten off the road even if I saw a tornado in front of me, because I was not about to be turned away from my destination by the force of another condition. As I said it, I knew I wouldn’t drive straight into the heart of a tornado, but I would certainly do the absolute minimum deviation from my path to avoid it.

Like the branch, I did have contempt for those who pulled off the road seeking safety in grocery store and bank parking lots. They were like that big branch I ran over, yielding to the force of nature and becoming a victim to a force greater than they are. But during my ride home I did see hope. Traveling south, the opposite way as me, was another motorcycle rider who waved to me as he passed by laughing like a child on their first amusement park ride. He was caught up in the wind gust and riding it like a surfer does an ocean wave, and he was having the time of his life. He wore World War 1 style flying ace goggles with a business suit soaked to the bone and a neck tie flailing about over his shoulder. The dangerous trip home was worth it just to see that guy on the road with me laughing at the storm’s menace and embracing the adventure of a volatile day. It was worth the pain and danger to see that there are still Americans out there who embody the characteristics of “bravery.”

It’s in the storms of life that we discover what we are made of. That’s when we learn who are destined to become broken branches and downed trees. Who will pull off the road and hide, and who will barrel on through. And who will live and who will survive—by enduring tragedy. The health care vote by the Supreme Court was a giant storm that hit our nation. And it was painful to watch and listen to. But the bad guys have been caught in the wind, and those who are weak and have grown too big to endure have found themselves lying on the ground like so many downed trees.

As I looked at one of my downed trees I suddenly had the thought that I was looking at the Obama Presidency—a large tree that had grown quickly and without proper support. A large wind had exposed its weaknesses and it had broken under its own weight and was now a failure laying about in my yard. And such things are not useless entities that had completely failed in their life. The tree in my yard will make excellent firewood, just like the Obama Presidency. This winter, that tree will burn well in my fireplace. And the memory of Barack Obama will also be used for firewood to keep the fires of liberty burning long after the storms of the day have passed.

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“Hostile Takeover”: An interview with Matt Kibbe

It is appropriate in the wake of the health care ruling by the Supreme Court that Matt Kibbe’s new book, Hostile Takeover was just released. In case you don’t know who Kibbe is, he’s the CEO of FreedomWorks, which I’m a proud member. If you are not a part of FreedomWorks, then you need to be. You can join it by my link at the end of this posting. Click on it, and you’ll find me there where you can sign up if you haven’t already. America is in the middle of a Hostile Takeover as defined in Matt’s new book. So if you’re feeling helpless about right now and want to strike back, grab Matt’s book and give it a read, then sign up for FreedomWorks today.

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Rich Hoffman
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Ignorance of the Marxist Obama: Follies of a school teacher gone mad

One of the most disturbing comments made by President Obama after Justice Roberts tipped the Supreme Court scales in favor of upholding the tyrannical Obamacare law as Constitutional was a reference to the greedy CEO’s of insurance companies who collect huge bonus checks. (It’s at the 1:40 mark on the video below)  Upon hearing this it reminded me of the heart of Obama’s problems. It displays why the President is having a hard time raising money these days, because he is essentially against the wealthy in America. The people who do give him money are those who work in fields that have little appreciation for money, such as actors and philanthropists who have lost touch with reality. The President even though he denies it, is a functioning socialists going as far as an extreme Marxist. No advocate of capitalism—the blood of the American economy—would say the kinds of things he does about the wealthy if they in fact embraced capitalism. Obama does not. He’s anti capitalism, which is defined by the stupid statements he has made about the wealthy.

Obama’s hatred for those who create wealth explains why he does not understand why his health care law is bad for the American economy. Since I know Obama’s people read my site regularly, let me help him understand why he is such a menace to American business, and why he is suffering economic failure during his term.

Obamacare targets businesses that have 50 employees or more, and requires them to cover insurance costs or pay a penalty enforceable by the IRS. This means all small companies like department stores such as Walmart, Costco, Target, Kohls, Home Depot and thousands of others will now be required to provide insurance to their employees. Of course the employees will think that’s a wonderful thing, because employees who are making minimum wage or just a little better will now have good insurance that is very affordable. The cost of that insurance is coming directly from the ownership of these businesses. The employee cost for these employers will dramatically increase as a result of Obamacare. Obama’s answer to the CEO’s of those companies is that those owners should not receive million dollar bonus checks for running a good business because in Obama’s eyes, the CEO has an obligation to pay those bonus checks to their employees. That is a philosophy right out of Karl Marx—and is essentially Marxism. The belief that the wealthy have an obligation to the employee is Marxism. This move will force companies to keep their employee hires under 50 employees to avoid Obamacare. They will now get rid of cashiers and use self check out, and utilize every method of minimal staffing to keep the amount of employees under 50 so they don’t have to live with the mandates of Obamacare.

But the real impact of Obamacare will come to the middle-sized manufacturing business with sales of 10 to 100 million per year. Typically these companies have employees of 75 to 1000 and often pay just a bit better than department stores like Walmart so the one great benefit they have to offer to their employees to entice them to work for their company is health insurance. In many of these companies I would predict 25% of the employees work for these types of manufacturing companies as opposed to Walmart because the manufacturing company offers insurance where the others do not. That is free market selection and it’s natural. Walmart has determined that they are happy to have workers who just want to make extra money, and are not looking for health insurance options. And the medium-sized manufacturing company is looking for the kind of workers who want more out of their employment than just money. Employees in the medium-sized company also want security.

Many of these medium-sized companies are headed by owners who spent 20 to 30 years building up their businesses. I personally know many of these people so I know what is on their minds. They offer a slightly better wage than Walmart but cover insurance costs so they can have a secure employee base to manufacture the goods they’ve spent a lifetime developing with customers and suppliers to fulfill a market need. The company owner has done the work of taking a risk in developing a new idea or product, and they hire a work force to deliver those products to the marketplace.

Often, because the workforce has been trained in public education by Marxist teachers like President Obama they may look with jealousy at the owner of these companies and dare proclaim that the owner and his top management employees should not drive exotic cars—they should not own condos in Florida, Hilton Head, or Hawaii, and they do not deserve to go out to eat at nice restaurants everyday, or have the ability to take the afternoon off to play golf. The employees typically believe they are entitled to some of that wealth of the owner because they equally share in the business.

Well, the employees do not share equally in the business. At the end of the day, the typical employee goes home and thinks nothing of their jobs till the next day. The difference between the worker and the owner is the owner takes the risk, and that risk in America is rewarded with riches. That’s capitalism, and it makes the entire economy work. The owner and his top-level managers take their work with them everywhere they go. They answer the phone at 2:30 AM from an overseas call when a supplier fails them. They worry when FedEx leaves their “hot” package on a dock in Mississippi when it should have arrived in Louisville 5 hours ago. When there are a lot of employees in a company at least 5 to 10 times a year there are lawsuits from former employees, workman’s comp claims that are bogus, FMLA restrictions that are abused and other legal issues that the employer must contend with just to stay in business. On top of that, there are federal compliance inspections, state compliance inspections, and local arm twisting that goes on requiring money to be thrown at the problems to make the trolls go away.

The life of the business owner at best is difficult, and they deserve to drive the nice car, they deserve to have a summer home in Florida, and they deserve to eat well—because they took the risks and shouldered the burden of creating a job so the employees have somewhere to work. Without the owner doing these things, there is no job. If the owner decides that it’s not worth it, they will toss in the towel and close shop putting hundreds of people out of work. I’ve seen it happen many more times than once personally. I’ve seen it happen so bad that I do not blame such people when they decide it would be easier to just work a job like everyone else rather than deal with a new legal issue every month, and all the other pains of business only to be told that no matter how much the owner has given—it’s never enough.

The business owner up to the legalization of Obamacare offered their employees insurance out of the kindness of their heart. They offered it as an incentive so they can get a higher quality of employee. Now, Obamacare has taken that act of kindness and personal initiative away from the owner. Now the owner is required to provide the same thing without their choice. It’s now a requirement, not a choice. Obama sees this as “social justice.” Because he’s a Marxist Obama wishes to empower the workers of the world to take away from the economic elite so everyone is equal. Obama foolishly believes that health insurance providers and business owners will continue to shoulder the burdens of doing business with all the barriers that currently exist if there is no profit in the end for them to enjoy. Obama through Obamacare is taking away the fruits of the ambitious—the people who wish to have a better than average life—and is giving to the 14 million who do not. Obama wishes to make the average worker equal to the business owner so everyone can have a summer home, and everyone can drive a luxury car, and everyone can be equal in the world. But Obama’s ideas are naïve, ill-conceived, and are a parasite to capitalism.

The wealth of a nation will depend on the amount of capitalism a country participates in. Obamacare infects 1/5 of the entire American economy with open Marxism. Combined with the socialism of Social Security, and the Medicare acts from the 60’s, the scales of capitalism will not survive. Obamacare is an attack on business owners who take the chance to create a business. Business owners already have public schools digging into their pockets, local politicians on city councils, county trustees all who wish to increase taxes to usher in a project to legitimize their personal political legacies. State and federal regulations are imposing. The legal system is parasitic and the only incentive that a business owner has is “profit” to continue with the headaches involved in operating a business every day. Obamacare takes away that profit, which is the only thing that motivates many of these people and that does not make them evil—not in the least. Obamacare is the ultimate “leveling” of the playing field in favor of the workers—which is Marxist rhetoric created by a poor despot that has ruined Europe by the name of Karl Marx.

Obamacare and progressivism must be eradicated from the American language. It’s no longer cute or even funny to just simply make fun of how stupid Barack Obama and his legions of looting politicians are, because they are attacking a way of life that has been the best in the world—even for the poor. It’s time to call a spade a spade, and a joker a joker. Obamacare is an attack on the way of life for every American in a hope to delude America to the will of the weakest links—and it’s appealing. Obamacare must be repealed—repealed—repealed! Then it must be stepped on—spit on—and torn to shreds! Then it should be flushed down the toilet where all the worst of human waste goes to join its brothers and sisters in the sewers of our civilization with items of like-mindedness. Because it’s time to take the gloves off and fight with bare knuckles and defend those who create from those who simply loot, rob and steal. That is the essence of Obamacare, and now the highest court in the land has made theft an act of collective salvation—and that’s where the line was crossed.

It’s time to call the lazy—lazy. It’s time to call out the looter—as a looter. It’s time to ridicule the social parasite for what they are. It’s time to stop tap dancing around the sensitivity that progressives use to destroy our society with kindness. It’s time to identify the values of what makes America great and expose what doesn’t, and from now on, this site will be dedicated to that task as if it wasn’t already. For now on, the greatness of America will have a voice—and I will make sure I do my part in giving it to those who haven’t had it up to this point. Obamacare has infuriated me to a level I have not recollected feeling. It is in essence an attack on my country, my way of life, and every person I care about—and I don’t take that lightly.

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Rich Hoffman
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ObamaCare Tyranny: The Supreme Court Lets America Down and PUNTS

Speaker Boehner instructed the Republican Party members not to spike the ball at the Supreme Court ruling on Obama Care. But it wasn’t the Republicans who had the ball; it’s was the looters of the Democratic Party starting with Obama given to them by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the individual mandate for that tyrannical legislation under the ability of congress to tax American citizens, so the ball is now in the court of congress where it should be repealed.

The ruling by the Supreme Court shows just how dangerous it is to allow members of congress to act as activists as they did under the congress of Nancy Pelosi, to the marching orders of Barack Obama. Because the Supreme Court passed the responsibility to congress they have essentially stated that the people of our nation have a responsibility to vote in favor of the law or to strike it down, and that must come from the upcoming election in 2012.

Right now the Republicans could repeal the entire law, but the Senate which is still controlled by power grabbing progressive Democrats will not allow the repeal to go through. So that means that the type of politicians, typically Republicans, who will vote Obama Care down must gain a majority in the House and Senate in the elections of 2012 otherwise Obama Care will impact our society in a major way by the year 2014. The Supreme Court ruling of June 28, 2012 puts the responsibility completely on the quality of the American people to decide what kind of government they want.

Progressives of course desire an America that is made up of stupid, half-witted, lazy, drooling mouthed Neanderthals who will mindlessly bobble head yes to anything the power grabbing reformers of our Constitution like President Obama wish to impose. This is why no matter what the President does, almost half of the American people will say yes because they are lazy, welfare yielding sloths that seek to live their lives at the expense of the economic activity of others. Half the nation has been bred in the American public education system to be mindless drones sitting in the nest of mother government waiting for a worm to be fed into their mouths. The other half still rebels against that imposing mother and those are the ones who are outraged at this Supreme Court ruling that will have lasting consequences.

This is the danger of electing lawyers as President. This is also the danger of electing Constitutional teachers who are Marxist activists who bend the rules of the Constitution to fit their radical agenda. The Supreme Court elected not to have an opinion on the wisdom of such a law as they stated that it is Congress, the body of government that is supposed to directly represent the people of the United States who have the responsibility to either keep or repeal Obama Care.

It is a very dangerous slope that we are currently on, because under the law, lawyers have demonstrated that they can manipulate any line of dialogue in a law to mean anything they wish it to. By upholding the individual mandate the Supreme Court has empowered generations of power grabbing presidents yet to appear to attempt the same type of activism that Obama and his cronies endeavored to pass ObamaCare through strong-arm tactics and massive public manipulation. The Supreme Court has just allowed my unborn grandson to become a victim before he’s even born. He must buy government health insurance just because he lives. The moment my daughter delivers him into the world, he will become obligated upon adulthood to buy healthcare by mandate of a tyrannical president, and a progressive congress of thieves who desire to steal from him so that those who do not have the ambition to care for themselves can have health care.

Obama and his minions are simply drug pushers who seek the weak and downtrodden to buy into their addictive services of government servitude, and under ObamaCare they have now been given a free pass by the Supreme Court to force the strong and productive to care for those who lack ambition. Obama and his aggressive activists have crossed the line. The Supreme Court was our last defense on the rule of law, and they chose to pass—which is fine. They put the burden on the people to pass or fail ObamaCare based on the elections of 2012.

If Americans want ObamaCare, then vote for a hippie tree hugging, boot licking, globalist Democrat. If you want ObamaCare repealed vote for anyone with a party affiliation of Republican. Government will continue to grow if people continue to feed it, and by voting for politicians like the looter Obama. Politicians who get elected by promising to give away free stuff will be more of a threat in the future than they ever have now that the “individual mandate” has been upheld by the Supreme Court. Their lack of decision means that the quality of our politicians must go up dramatically. America cannot allow congress to be filled with the kind of looters that it has traditionally. CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT KIND OF CONGRESSMEN ARE CURRENTLY IN GOVERNMENT. It is truly frightening that the Supreme Court has put the fate of our nation in the hands of those people. But that is the situation and we must deal with it as a nation.

I had less faith in the nation and the legal system at the end of the day than I did at the beginning. I think the system is irrevocably broken and is driven by the worst kind of people in the human race—the politician. My opinion mirrors Justice Kennedy. It was Justice Roberts who was appointed by President Bush, which made the deciding ruling. Bush was a progressive just as Obama is now. Now America can see how dangerous it is to allow activist presidents like Obama and Bush to place into the Supreme Court weak willed legal annalists. It was Roberts who should have been the vote that repealed ObamaCare, and that did not happen. Now we have a tragedy of epic proportions and the American people will have to clean it up.

The first step to improving our government will be on the Fast and Furious Contempt vote that extends into the Congress over Eric Holder. With the evidence being so overwhelming that the Obama gang is the modern version of Al Capone’s Chicago only without the open murders, Congress can begin by showing they have a backbone by sending some people to jail for their open crimes against American society. If the people do not support Congress in these actions, then the game is already over. At that point it would indicate that there are too many Obama addicts with their hands out, and the democratic process of our republic no longer functions, and new measures will have to be enacted. The Supreme Court declared today that they cannot rescue America through legislation. Only the American people can by starting at the voting booth. And if that doesn’t work, then more severe measures will be required. Because I will not personally leave a society to my grand kids that requires them to pay others just for the act of breathing—that will not happen on my watch.

As to health care, to learn more about how the entire industry is changing, CLICK HERE. ObamaCare will stop this progress. The free market will speed it up. And the success or failure of that progress will determine directly whether you live or die. That is what’s at stake.

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Rich Hoffman
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The Heart of Freedom: How to avoid being a slave

It is sad to see a man wither under the ominous storm clouds of his occupation. In between breaks, he migrates, half-asleep, with one eye fixed on the clock that will liberate him. No longer selling his time, he claims his freedom from the shackles of employment only after the bell rings. Upon such sleepy minds grow the roots of tyranny.

That paragraph is very first lines of exhibition from my new novel Tail of the Dragon. I do not include it here as just a promo for that new book but to articulate an issue that means a great deal to me. In fact, this book is the next logical step in my arguments over why high taxation is irresponsible, encroaching government is dangerous, and the need for human beings to function from their own accord is of paramount importance. Because the crucial issue of our day that is at the crux of the school levy problems, the expansion of government, politicians making deals with other countries in Rio over Agenda 21, Duke Energy and their “smart meters,” a failing economy, racism, and virtually every other modern problem is the idea of modern slavery. In that regard, there is only one other person besides me that I know of who feels virtually the same way about the impact of modern slavery and what the definition of it is as Glenn Beck, seen in the video below.

The purpose of my new book is to put on the table what many people suspect about themselves, but can’t quite get their minds around, the idea that they are modern slaves. In America we have allowed skin color to define the idea of slavery, and that is simply one barbaric form of slavery. The rest of America is enslaved by monetary debt, social expectation, and personal addictions which goes beyond the accepted definitions but are ultimately proper. With so many Americans victims of modern slavery, the idea of freedom is a far-fetched concept so they don’t know how to defend it.

Most people I know do not think they are so far in debt that they can’t even fathom real freedom, but they are. Most of them rely on a spouse for 40 to 50% of their household income which is cutting things too close, because many Americans find they cannot distinguish their inability to make plans for their own lives because they must have their jobs just to provide the basics in living requirements. To compensate for their lack of freedom, most people purchase material items to balance out their lack of options with the illusion of financial purchasing power. But it is just an illusion. The ability to buy a new purse, or go out to eat cannot compensate for the freedoms lost in providing a primary, or secondary income. Unfortunately, these days most Americans have accepted this as a reality.

In my new book the word freedom is used 23 times and I place many scenarios on the table to display how important it is to our every day lives and to what extent people are willing to fight for it. In my book, the characters are already close to freedom in their own lives, so they easily recognize encroachments on it, so they know when it’s time to fight. Most people however are so in debt morally and financially that they view new debt as just one more link in their personal chains, and they don’t take it too seriously.

This is why most people vote in favor of new taxes for schools, or for street cars—or police and fire levies, because people strapped for resources often can be made to feel that voting for tax increases are something they control in their lives, and they feel good to give money away to causes that exist outside of their meager lives. But the situation is the trick of parasites in government, because they are simply taking advantage of people already enslaved who have a tendency out of habit to say, “Yes sir, yes master. I will pay the new tax if it pleases you.” The taxpayer simply puts the new tax on their credit card because they put everything else there. They are already so far in debt morally and physically that one more link in the chain means nothing to them.

This is also why politicians in Rio, Brazil thought nothing of negotiating in favor of regulations in the fulfillment of United Nations Agenda 21 requiring Americans to pawn away more of their freedoms to make it happen. Such things are just a few more links in the chains of slavery and people already enslaved will not have the mental capacity to even comprehend how these impositions into their freedoms will alter their lives, and their children’s lives. It’s very hard for most people to admit that they are modern-day slaves when they have expendable income to go to a baseball game and eat a hot dog, or to visit a strip joint and pay for a lap dance. Most Americans would consider a trip to Las Vegas to be a wonderful vacation, but Vegas is a town of slavery. It requires gamblers to spend $2000 to $10,000 on a chance to break free of their daily slave driven routines in hopes of winning a jackpot. It requires thousands of employees to sell themselves cheaply as entertainers and servers. And it requires prostitution to one degree or another particularly from women. Las Vegas is the home of the modern showgirl, whether she’s a topless dancer, or an escort, sex is a form of human slavery. It’s what a woman who wishes to use the basic primal instinct of men needing physical sex as a way to fund the woman’s life that she selects as her chain. The allure of Vegas is the chance to be superior to other slaves for a change, and a chance to become free by luck—even if it’s just for a few hours. Vegas would not be such a popular destination if most Americans did not see themselves slaves in their own lives. Vegas and gambling in general are symptoms of modern-day slavery.

Slavery is so common today that nobody even considers it as abnormal. Instead, they look jealously at others who demand freedom and they become angry with them. The views in my book are of course the same as my own in relation to what a man’s relationship to his wife should be. In Tail of the Dragon there is a lot of talk about the main characters decision to make it so his wife does not have to work for a living. I have always viewed forcing a wife to work as a weakness of the modern man. If women want to work for their own identities, that’s one thing. But to force a woman to work because the family is too far in debt or because their cell phone packages are expensive, cable bills, dining expectations, and other material needs are ridiculously high, because most women would prefer not to be a part of the rat race. Most people view their jobs as an unhappy daily endeavor, so to compel two parents to such a life is foolish—then to ask public education to cover the emotional gaps that children require is like asking the slave master to raise the child of the slave. Most families make the choice openly, because they don’t know how to say no to family members, to neighbors, to friends, or to politicians.

I have never required my wife to work. She has at a few times in the past, but I never expected her to. I always viewed her as a part of me, so it was always an act of rebellion to know that at least she could wake up in the morning on her own terms, go to the store whenever she wanted and pretty much design her daily schedule anyway she desired. Anyone who raises a family knows how tough it can be to pay a mortgage, car payments, weekly food expenses and the enormous amounts of insurance that are required these days. But it was always my gift to her to keep her as free of that burden as possible.

Of course family members and friends never understood. They always felt they needed to inject themselves into our lives to explain that we were doing it all wrong, and as a woman she needed to have her “own thing.” I would tell them they were dead wrong and out of their minds and often these arguments would cause rifts that would last forever. I was always willing to bend and put on the shackles for the sake of my family, but I was never willing to put my wife through the same ordeal. The basic argument against my wife and my decisions were that the rest of society were doing things a certain way, and as progressive politics intended the destruction of the American family, they wanted the mothers out of the house and busy with chains of their own they could have unfettered access to the children through public education.

If that sounds like a sinister plot from a James Bond movie, that’s because it is—it’s the result of a philosophy that embraces collectivism. No one person comes up with the plan, but in the case of collectivism, it is an unconscious commitment to the destruction of the American family and the indoctrination of the youth into service of the collective whole, much the way oriental cultures are structured that is the real villain. Destruction of the individual for the sake of the collective whole is the goal, and in such a society slavery is not a big deal—because individuals are not important so long as the collective lives. In collectivist societies it is not called slavery, it is called an occupation. The occupation serves the collective society, not the individual performing the task. This is an important distinction.

Most Americans know and feel what I’m saying, but they cannot come to grips with it. They have no definitions in their daily dialogue that articulates their feelings about it. So they go through the motions and do pretty much what they are told—even though they suspect that it’s wrong somehow.

I have always questioned the rationality of this behavior. To me, a government bureaucrat does not have a right to manage my life for me by approving taxes with this collectivist’s mentality. They do not have a right to put a “smart meter” on my home so they can track my energy usage and sell that information to others interested in watching me. They do not have a right to tell me how to educate my children; they do not have a right to approve a new deck I might want to build. They do not have a right to decide from a far away land what I should do to care for the earth. They do not have a right to decide that I should buy insurance of any kind. They do not have a right to pull me over to see if I’m wearing a seat belt. They do not have a right to demand I enslave myself more to pay for the debts they incur with their reckless diatribes. To me I see the slavery clearly because I work every day to not be a slave. I do not spend any of my time trying to figure out what others might think of my behavior, because my entire being is all about not acting as a slave to anyone else. So it’s obvious.

I see the understanding of living free and being a slave as the most important distinction in front of America today. Accepting the $15 trillion-dollar deficit is accepting slavery. Not accepting the debt is to do as I do and that is to write and pick on those who make decisions which attempt to put more shackles on my freedom through their ignorance. Without that basic understanding Americans are just deer in the headlights of the oncoming crash that will pummel them at some point in their lives through their own inaction. To decide to avoid responsibility for one’s own freedom and to willingly put on the shackles of slavery because of laziness is irresponsible and quite tragic. Such types do not have the right to impose upon me or my family their laziness by accepting slavery through collectivism then demanding my participation into their evil acts.

To know if you are a slave or not, think how you feel when you get up in the morning and who decides what you will do and when you will do it. Then look at all those influences in your life that plan entire weekends for you without your input. If the answer is that most of the times you do what others tell you, then you are a modern slave. Asking such people to sympathize and appreciate freedom is a far-fetched stretch that is beyond their comprehension. That is why the concept of freedom is so important to me, and why I discussed it so intensely in my new novel. It’s also why Glenn Beck is one of the only modern commentators who deal with the issue directly—because it’s an obscure concept—freedom. We all talk about it, but few of us actually have it, mostly due to self-imposed tragedies where the chains were put on our legs out of fear and a desire for safety—then we wonder why the government is so big, and arrogant, because we made them that way out of laziness—without defending freedom.

Freedom isn’t about firing off fireworks, or having the option of going shopping whenever one wants. It’s much more complicated, and all-encompassing than that. Freedom is about responsibility, and courage which are required to feed such a mythical creature. Without those two ingredients, freedom dies through neglect and the chains of slavery are attached to its body out of fearful superstition that the individual would ever stop supporting the collective without a sense of guilt, and desire to be removed from the body of unified entities under the umbrella of utopian socialism.

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Rich Hoffman
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The Evil in Greece: Trying to lead those who refuse to open their eyes

To those who wonder why I personally spend so much time writing about the evils of socialism and the general degradation of the human race the world over, I would like to direct your attention to the clip below. The video I have in mind is at the 4 minute mark, but the whole bit by Glenn Beck on his GBTV show sums up quite wonderfully what drives me.

I remember very well when Beck over a year ago on his Fox Television show predicted much of what is now going on in Greece and Egypt. Many in the industry wanted his head for his wild speculations about socialists and Nazis in Europe working their way into American politics. The clip above shows just how real the situation is.

It is not my fault that most people cannot add up the facts of what they see. Even worse, many people have a hard time even seeing the facts for their true worth. Glenn Beck obviously does not have this handicap which is a relief. I have never had it, and have spent much of my life spotting problems well before anyone else even thought there was a problem. Make no mistake, communism is here in America. It’s in our businesses, our schools, and our government. Socialism was brought to America by naive politicians after World War II as presidents like FDR experimented with socialism and over a long period of time people gradually accepted it. But the end game is what we can see in that video. That is what tomorrow brings if it is not stopped right now. It is to avoid that future shown in the above video that I put forth so much effort, because understanding it now will alleviate a lot of violence later. There is no denying that the world is fracturing even though most people chose not to see it. For those who do refuse, or are so tainted by ignorance that they cannot see, send this story to them so they can learn, and understand what the cost of compliance is. Refusing to act when decisions are required is the same as taking aggressive action in favor of turmoil when surrendering decisions lead to the perpetuation of tyranny among free people.

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This is what people are saying about my new book–Tail of the Dragon

“Just finished the book and am sweating profusely. Wow, what a ride !!!  Fasten your seat belts for one of the most thrilling rides ever in print.“

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Rich Hoffman
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Emperor Obama’s Circle of Monarchs: Protecting the boss any way possible–just like the mob

The more that Emperor Obama’s circle of monarchs attempt to deflect away from their boss his involvement in the Fast and Furious case, the more foolish they sound. It is truly the act of cowards to even suggest that the entire investigation is a Republican “witch hunt” in an election year. It is even worse to suggest that the investigation of Eric Holder and Barack Obama is racially motivated since both public employees are black men. The issue is rather simple, Emperor Obama and his administration got caught manipulating a gun running operation that ended up costing American lives, and somebody must be held responsible. The gun running operation was started way back in 2006 under the Bush administration. But in 2009 a gun grabbing new President Obama in a quest for firearm reform laws under a Democratically controlled House and Senate escalated the operation to what is now known as Fast and Furious and it backfired. Obama only has himself to blame.

Congress has no choice but to act. To do the job they were elected to do, there will need to be people in the Obama administration that must go to jail and lose their jobs. The signs of a cover-up are obvious. We’ve been through this kind of thing with Watergate, and Nixon lost his job. We’ve been through this with Reagan over Iran Contra, and heads did fly. We’ve been through this with Clinton and his multiple scandals most notably Lewinsky Gate where he lied to prosecutors and attempted to delude the crime much the way Obama is, by legal justification over the dialogue used. All those presidents in spite of what good they may have done during their terms were severally injured in the context of history and Obama will certainly be remembered most for this epic debacle.

It is insulting to see Emperor Obama’s employees as defiant as they are, counting on the foolish and uneducated to rally to his defense with emotional pleas. The Obama administration got caught in doing what many have always suspected, committing crimes while in the White House and seeking to rewrite the Constitution through bench legislation and legal challenges to hide those crimes.

It is true that Emperor Obama has a right to invoke Executive Privilege. But he does not have a right to control the impression such a privilege has on a public who has been burnt by these abuses of power before. Nixon will always be known as a crook because of his use of Executive Privilege. Reagan will always be known as accident prone and a forgetful man because of his use of Executive Privilege. Clinton even to this day is thought of as Slick Willie because of his frequent use of Executive Privilege to hide his crimes from public eye, and now Obama joins the list.

Emperor Obama would not have invoked that right if he were innocent. If his hands were clean, he’d gladly show them to all, but invoking Executive Privilege has the same implication as taking the Fifth in a court of law. It may be a right to use, but taking it means guilt to those who hear it. What is being denied is the evidence to prove the guilt. But the impression is created in the act of hiding the evidence.

If there is evidence that our education system has produced too many lawyers all one has to do is look at this Fast and Furious case. All the reasons that our legal system is failing can be seen in the comments coming from The White House attacking Republicans for even investigating Holder. Like a typical lawyer who is defending their client in court over a crime that is obvious to everyone, the typical lawyer will twist the words of logic any way they can to defend the guilty. In Holder’s situation he lied to Congress openly, and that is very serious. Obama’s team attacks the investigators by saying in general terms, “He lied because the question should have never been asked—as determined by us.” The Obama defense has implied that the only reason there was an investigation over Fast and Furious was to bring down Emperor Obama which is simply disingenuous to any concept of the law which is typical of a group of lawyers who do not respect the law as much as their ability to manipulate it.

The ultimate sign of guilt is when a guilty party attempts to hide their crimes behind a skin color, and that is certainly prevalent in this case. The progressive use of “racism” as a way to shut down any opposition to their advancements is now as useless as schools who claim that their bad behavior is “for the children.” The way to easily detect a progressive is that they use emotional arguments as a defense to hide their true guilt. To see what they are really after, all one has to do is look behind the accusations to the actual behavior.

In Fast and Furious it is now evident that there is much to hide in the documents Congress attempted to subpoena and The White House is directly guilty otherwise they wouldn’t have evoked Executive Privilege to keep them from the public. Because of Obama’s actions through his minion Eric Holder he will go down in history as one of the most corrupt presidents and it won’t be because he’s black. And it won’t be because he was or wasn’t born in the USA. Obama has chosen to associate with radical extremists in his past, and he has attempted to paint a picture of himself that is clearly not true. As a president, he is a power hungry tyrant addicted to attention. He speaks out of both sides of his mouth and appears to have no strong convictions about anything. President Obama is guilty of being an activist administrator who like so many judges in our judicial system has ruled from the bench. Obama wanted to push for more gun grabbing laws and being inexperienced in his first years in office was way too aggressive in the things he said through emails and letters proving that activism. It is that political activism which cost lives of that he is guilty.

Obama has been known to use the Justice Department as his own personal political enforcement wing. Most notably I think of the way the Justice Department encouraged the Black Panthers of harassing voters at a key polling place and how the Justice Department is suing Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona because it has been Sheriff Joe that has been so aggressive against illegal immigration and in going after Obama’s birth certificate. The Justice Department under Emperor Obama has certainly gone after individuals because they attempted to stand in the way of Obama’s power grabs.

In our government it is for this very reason that we have checks and balances, and Congress has no choice but to go after the criminals in this case, such as Eric Holder, and apparently now Emperor Obama along with anyone else. The cost of not doing so tells history that only certain people are required to live within the law. Lawyers/teachers like Obama can exempt themselves from the law if they are pursuing social justice since they are in pursuit of “collective salvation.” This his how Obama will justify his crimes as an American President to his own mind, but in the context of the law, he is simply just another criminal who used the power of his position to break the law, and attempt to rewrite legislation as he went along to make his crimes legal through popular consensus.

Heads must roll in the Fast and Furious case, and those heads will go all the way into The White House, and this situation could very well prove to be bigger than Watergate was for Nixon. But don’t ever expect Emperor Obama to step down like Nixon did once he was caught. Obama, because he has nothing else in his life but the power given to him through elected office will fight and manipulate any fact he must to survive one more day—because as a political looter he has nothing else to offer. His fear is that when he must return back to the private sector, he will be ridiculed forever as a thief and a fool. He will no longer have the world bow at his feet like the Emperor that he pretends he is. He’ll be just another common person without an idea in his head, or the effort to create one. He’ll be a “has been” in the worse extreme, a figure that was used by Democratic Machine politics to win The White House for one term and will be kicked to the curb as soon as it is discovered that Obama is useless.

In just a few short months not even Hollywood will host a party in Obama’s benefit because nobody wants to associate with a known thief even if the information has been suppressed through Executive Privilege. Everyone, even apologists know that doing such a thing is an indicator of guilt and that is a reality no lawyer can pave over. This is how Emperor Obama will be remembered as Congress will systematically decimate the layers and layers of crime committed under his presidency now that the smoking gun can be seen. And the fault will not be on anyone but Emperor Obama himself, and the minions who followed his order even to their own demise—like Eric Holder.

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