Tag: Down the Rabbit Hole

Geithner’s Insult to America: What Progressives Really Want

Lucky for Tim Geithner that I wasn’t sitting across from him when the White House instructed him to tell the Republicans on the Hill that cuts to the deficit were not on the table during the “fiscal cliff” negotiations and only tax increases to the wealthy were an option. I don’t blame Mitch McConnell at all for bursting out into laughter at such a ridiculous proposal. I recognize that McConnell and Speaker Boehner have enriched themselves greatly as public servants, but they are at least functioning from the real world when it comes to matters of finance. Geithner and Socialist Obama aren’t even functioning from this planet—but rather are hell-bent on their Marxist dreams concocted during college pot parties about destroying the rich so the poor can thrive—attacking the bourgeois class then giving power to the proletariat through legally sanctioned theft. Geithner and Obama represent the destructive socialist nature of the modern academic, and are not at all interested in managing the finances of America by reducing the debt. Their only concern is to act as domestic terrorists by wreaking the economy so that the wealth of America will be redistributed throughout the world. You can read about Mitch McConnell’s reaction in the Huffington Post, CLICK HERE.


As people who have had to sit across from me in these kinds of talks can attest—with much less at stake, I would have likely knocked Tim Geithner’s fu**ing head clean off and kicked it across the Atlantic Ocean back to Europe where Geithner and Obama’s world vision belongs, upon hearing such a ridiculous and insulting negotiating position. It is offensive to listen to these progressive fools utter the kind of nonsense that they are advocating in this current fiscal crisis. It would appear that all progressives no matter what level of office they hold perform in the same terrorist fashion. They evade the truth, build their case with emotion, and look for consensus among the ill-informed and down-right stupid to back their infantile strategies hoping that democratic thuggery can trump intelligence in the court of public opinion. They use fear to sell their distorted ideas and that makes them terrorists by any definition.

Even in my local school district of Lakota where I was on the front line of three tax increase defeats progressive education specialists refused to listen to the will of the voters and instead lobbied for yet another tax increase attempt—just like the idiots in the current White House. The people who backed me on the tax defeats told the school to simply reduce their labor costs by 5% so the district could live within their current budget—which would have required the school management to instruct the labor union to take a 5% cut in pay—or take a hike—which progressive management refused to do. Infuriated I let my anger explode at the ridiculous progressive policies that had emerged from educators in my community as it became clear that financial sustainability was not the objective of the school, but a radical wealth-redistribution scam advanced by labor unions hiding behind the façade of government support. The goal of the tax levies was not to educate children, or to even have a good school. It is to increase taxes to the extent that the “wealthy” pay more in the form of higher taxes on their property so that wealth redistribution can take place. Progressives in education are willing to destroy anything that gets in their way, including the communities they pretend to serve, in order to advance their radical agendas, and they do it with the same selfless conviction of a World War II kamikaze pilot from Japan.

Geithner and Obama are doing the exact same thing in the macrocosm of national politics that I have seen at local schools everywhere—it is all part of the same progressive battle plan. It has nothing to do with money management, and everything to do with radical change in stealing from the bourgeoise and strengthening the proletariat without the wealth being earned by those characters—and they get by with it because nobody understands history or the definitions of what progressives are really up to. Geithner thought he could pull the wool over everyone’s eyes with his gross insult to America and not propose cuts to the deficit. But only an attack on capitalism was put on the table to curb spending that Obama is guilty of perpetuating. Geithner is lucky he is dealing with politicians who have soft hearts because they have gotten wealthy off the public dime, like McConnell and Boehner—and Obama. McConnell only laughed at the ridiculous proposal. I see it as an invasion of my country by domestic enemies from academia.


The only issue that should be on the table in 2013 is a reduction of the deficit. At $16 trillion dollars there is no other matter of importance that should be on anybody’s mind. Even I said two weeks ago that Republicans should cave on the tax increases so that the socialist Democrats can choke on their decisions. But my concession was based on budget cuts which it would be assumed would be a foregone conclusion. However, Democrats have shown their cards at the negotiating table and they are not playing the same kind of game that the rest of us are playing. They are looking to undermine America with even more debt and to break the ideological back of tradition with a fury that no American is comfortable in admitting. Geithner showed his hand, and that is the intention, which is why my reaction would have been much more violent than McConnell’s. The strategy of Obama and his goons is insulting and obvious to anybody with basic intelligence. Unfortunately many people have shown that they are willing to look the other way so long as Obama, Geithner and the other White House terror squad are willing to steal on behalf of the proletariat and level the playing field for the lazy, the corrupt, and the destitute in exchange for a vote at election time.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Politicians Who Ask for Tax Increases: They are all guilty of mismanagement

Sadly, the days that online sales will remain tax-free are coming to an end as money-grubbing politicians addicted to altruism look to every crevice of the economy to loot money satisfying their name-plate addictions.  California has already taken such steps and given the massive amount of online sales conducted during the 2012 Holiday Season, politicians strapped for cash and needing even more taxes to cover their gross mismanagement look for additional revenue to disguise their tendency to legalized theft for the political class.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81239.html

What big government advocates neglect to consider is that small tax supporters see the management of the current tax structure as pathetically foolish.  Who in their right mind would give more money to a spending addict, and that is what almost every politician in office is, no matter how big or small the office.  Politicians are disconnected from the money because it isn’t theirs to begin with and once they learn that they can gain great power by doing favors for demographic groups of voters, and that power enriches them in ways they could never achieve in legitimate business, they are hooked for life—so only an idiot would advocate giving more money to those kinds of people.  The situation is really reprehensible, and I simply don’t wish to support legalized theft.  The theft is legalized because it is law makers who make up the laws that they use to gain wealth from normal every day people who elect them to manage governmental affairs, then discover too late that they must pay their taxes at the amounts the politicians dictate, or go to jail.  That is why it is called legalized theft.

Internet sales have been thriving largely because sales tax on the internet has not been collected allowing profit to drive online businesses with almost pure capitalism that has been one of the saving graces in the American economy.  Brick and mortar stores are complaining that online businesses are free of the kind of restrictions that they are under—which is true.  Even companies like Best Buy are considering shutting down their real stores in favor of an online model similar to what Amazon.com function under—mostly to avoid the cost of those buildings—driven largely by looting tax laws.  That is after all what happened to Blockbuster Video.

The correct direction for America would be to eliminate sales tax for all retail shopping, so pure competition can determine winners from losers, but that will never happen without bloodshed now that politicians have become addicted to the tax revenue from sales tax.  More taxes allow poor management to hide their incompetency, and all politicians no matter what their ideological stances are managers who have been hired to manage the affairs of the electorate.  When a politician asks for more money they are admitting that they have failed in their management of taxes, and in America, California has been the worst of the worst culprit in mismanaging tax revenue.  This is why they are now taxing online sales revenue in a hopeless bid to keep their brick and mortar businesses from fleeing the state from high tax rates. Meanwhile politicians can throw more stolen money to their public employees and other grossly mismanaged mishaps for a few more years with the additional revenue without a care as to the long-term peril that their actions will have on the national economy as a whole.

Tax increases are the demands of the incompetent and addicted driven personalities of over-indulgence, and they should be eliminated by starving them out of existence.  Giving such lunatics more of anything is only perpetuating evil as it feeds off the collective welfare of the good and productive.  Taxes are therefore a form of evil, because they allow bad and corrupt personalities to rule over their intellectual betters with the legal mechanisms of democratic rule.  Such realizations have been glazed over as the last refuge of the freedom minded has fled online to hide in cyberspace from the long arm of the bureaucrat.  But not anymore, taxes are coming to the internet because enough people didn’t stand their ground and fight off the fools. Instead they yielded like they always do to more tax grabs by the very worst that human society produces, the popularity contest propelled politician and their vanquished souls of mismanagement.  It is because of such politicians that the American economy suffers, and it is the fault as well as all who are complicit with their silence.  The economic downward spiral of modern society has the blood of all such people on their hands with both their simplistic power plays and their mild acceptance of such evils operating with full understanding of a treacherous tomorrow ushered in by the follies of politicians.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Death by Hyphen: Wisdom from Mark Etterling

A guest article from Mark Etterling.  For more about Mark, CLICK HERE

 

Throughout history many lands have fallen at the hands of foreign invaders.  Still many more have succumbed to financial ruin, natural disaster, and disease.  However, by far the single greatest cause for the demise of most nations has been the hyphen.  I realize this might sound a bit strange, but it’s true.  A simple little punctuation mark has caused far more chaos to mankind than any invading army could ever dream of.
 
We are told about how wonderful the concept of multiculturalism is because it allows everyone to be accepted for who they are.  It all sounds wonderful, at least on paper.  We are shown these magical fantasies of everyone from every walk of life getting along in a grand melting pot of tolerance.  However, reality paints a completely different picture from what the brochures of multiculturalism describe.  We are told that because we are all allowed to be different multiculturalism makes us great.  In reality what truly makes us great is when we are able to function as a nation united as one regardless of our differences.  What most people don’t understand is that there is a very profound difference between tolerating our differences and celebrating who we are versus living in a multicultural society.  It is the understanding of that difference that determines whether we are to be a true melting pot society, or one that destroys itself from within.
 
In our modern society we have become accustomed to the hyphen.  We see it every day in the descriptions that we use.  The modern lingo uses terms like African-American, Jewish-American, Hispanic-American, Middle-Class American, etc. when what we should really be using is the simple term American.  Societies should always seek to promote those things which unite instead of those things that divide.  Sure we all come from differing backgrounds, but what is ultimately of the greatest value is the glue that holds us together.  My best friend is an immigrant who came here from Ireland, but he’ll be the first to correct you if you call him an Irish-American.  He’ll tell you he is first and foremost an American.  He just happens to be of Irish descent.  He gets it.  Two of the greatest Americans to have ever lived, Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also got it.  It was Lincoln who stated that “A nation divided cannot stand”.  Dr. King’s message wasn’t for us to focus on dividing people by race, but to focus on all people as one regardless of race.
 
The problem with living in a hyphenated society is that there are an infinite number of possible criteria to divide us by.  How can we ever promote the idea of true equality when the very act of division is only useful for highlighting inequality?  In a hyphenated society there will always be those who are perceived as the “bully” class and those who are perceived as the “victim” class.  The roll of the victim is to demonize the bullies and seek preferential treatment as compensation for having been victimized. Unfortunately, we can’t all be allowed to play the victim roll.  This means that at some point every victim class will attempt their turn at jumping to the front of the line in order to secure their preferential status.  What we should be doing is seeking out the wisdom of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment whereby all people are viewed through a cultural blindfold to ensure equality.  Instead, it’s like watching shoppers at a Black Friday sale where everyone is attempting to push and elbow their way to the front of the line whereby the inevitable fight breaks out and chaos ensues.  This is why the net result of multiculturalism is ultimately civil war.
 
Patriotism is the antithesis of multiculturalism.  By definition patriotism promotes a singular national agenda above all others.  We can respect each others background, but only under the umbrella of first and foremost being a people united.  The brain trust of the Left fully understands this which is why they demonize the Right as being overzealous when it comes to patriotic themes.  It’s why they attempt to remove the Pledge of Allegiance and the flag at any opportunity.  The true sinister reason that the Left loves the concept of multiculturalism is because it gives them the opportunity to wield the hyphen as if it were a sword in order to divide and conquer.  You don’t have to take my word for it, just look at all the various ways they attempted to divide us in the last election.  They accused the Right of being racist, of declaring a war on women, of being anti-Hispanic, of being homophobic, of being anti-Islamic, and even of being puppets of the hated 1%.  That way they could go to each group and proclaim to be their protectors to prevent them from falling victim to such bullies.  In truth it was to exploit the use of the victim moniker to secure someone’s trust and thus their vote.
 
If you listen to the post election punditry the common theme is that Romney lost because he failed to address and embrace all of these different divides.  He didn’t address the issues of the Black community, or women’s issues, or Hispanic concerns. The problem is that he shouldn’t have had to.  The role of the President should be to address the issues that affect us all.  To do anything else would be to promote the very divides that are breaking us apart.  We have allowed ourselves to be sold into the self-serving ruse of multiculturalism by accepting our own hyphenated rolls instead of embracing the singular role as Americans.  Each demographic embraced their own description as victim instead of playing out their primary roll as Americans.  In doing so, we have allowed ourselves to move one step closer to the abyss.
 
Even recent history has not been kind to those who ignore the evils of the hyphen.  In Rwanda it was the Tutsi’s and Hutu’s who had attempted to coexist as separate tribal cultures instead of as a unified nation.  Ultimately they ended up massacring each other for it.  In places like Chechnya and Bosnia it has been a divide defined by religious differences that has brought about war.  In South Africa it was a divide of race that cost so many their lives.  In this country we are being pitted against each other in a multitude of ways in an all out divide and conquer strategy.  As I stated earlier and history proves, it is civil war that represents the ultimate climax of a multicultural society.  Therefore, we must do our best to heed the words of men like Lincoln and King.  Otherwise, the greatest nation the world has ever known will fall victim to the same fate as so many others before.  It will have been destroyed by a simple hyphen.
Mark Etterling

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Russia Says Obama is the Same as Lenin: Modern Progressive = Traditional Communist

It is no longer a secret of great urgency.  Communism is out in the open in America after 80 years of slow erosion and denials, communist infiltrators focusing on the American education system have overtaken logic in much the same way that Vladimir Lenin did in Russia during the Revolution of 1917.  Barack Obama in 2012 just newly re-elected by a society of fools is uttering exactly the same kind of rhetoric that Lenin did to usher in a communist take over of Russia a century ago.  Obama’s push for tax increases against the “rich” is exactly the same type of thing, and like all insecure academics Obama seeks a “consensus” of others to validate his communist theories.  This is why he brings in middle-class citizens to back him during White House speeches, to show that the “masses” are with him.  Lenin did the same kind of thing when advocating the creation of the Soviet Union.

I have shown at this site the detailed history of how all this happened, how labor unions are direct advocates of communism in America during the 1930’s especially and how they reside within Progressive politics.  I have shown what the McCarthy Hearings were all about and why they were important.  I have shown how KGB agents helped create the “hippie” movement in America during the 1960’s and are now within the “green” movement which is just the hippie movement renamed.  I have shown here how the Department of Education was created to bring about communism into every classroom and to protect the movement through bureaucracy in 1979, and the results are easy to see today for anyone with courage to look at the facts.  I have said these things because that is where the research leads when the investigation is conducted impartially.  America has been consumed by the enemy of The Cold War discreetly in a war that many Americans didn’t even know they were fighting, because they were playing checkers when the enemy was playing chess.  I have even went so far as to provide for you here dear reader the entire post-Thanksgiving Day show of my friend Doc Thompson as he filled in for the Glenn Beck Radio Program.  All three hours are below for you to listen to so that you can see that the evidence is not just being reported on these pages, but is moving into the mainstream where it belongs.  Now the Communist news group Pravda which was the official propaganda arm of the USSR during the Cold War has identified the Obama Presidency in the same way that I have.  Have a look at what they had to say about the communist movement in America, and specifically Obama.  Click the link below.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/russian-news-outlet-pravda-previously-the-official-press-of-the-ussr-labels-obama-a-communist-in-scathing-oped/

Since I began uttering these facts about communism embedding itself in public education many members of the media whom I have had very open relationships with previously have naturally sought to distance themselves from my opinion, because progressives have successfully suppressed any discussion of communism as an “out-dated” term left over from the “old days.”  This has been equivalent to the “cheating husband” who says to his wife, “I’m not sleeping with other women while on business trips,” all the while the husband has hundreds of text messages on his phone from women he is sleeping with, none of whom know of the others.  The husband thinks of himself as a slick character who can tell a lie with a straight face and he laughs at the chaos he creates in the lives of all his lovers.  So too does the communist proclaim that their “progressive” ideas are not part of the Cold War attack against America, which public education has conveniently erased from public scrutiny, but rather is focused on the well-being of all human beings.  The real goal is suppression and control of people everywhere with the sinister aims of communist rule intent on the destruction of individual endeavor and advocating collectivism.  SEE MY ARTICLE ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FOOTBALL AND SOCCER IN AMERICAN SPORTS.  The moves against America are subtle and very careful taking place outside of the attention spans of generations, over a long—and patient strategy that started with The Communist Manifesto.

Pravda understands all too well what is happening in America because it already happened in the former Soviet Union.  And they are not handcuffed by the American media into advocating progressive ideas, so they can report the facts as they see them, much the way I have.  The media people I know are uncomfortable with this truth because it requires them to admit that they have been a part of undermining America and that reality is tragically terrible to their minds.  But the facts are the facts—anyone who advocates progressive politics is advocating communist strategies against America.  Changing the names does not change the intention, which is the destruction of American capitalism, self-reliance, and a belief in small government independence.  The communists are alive and well today, and are functioning out in the open from the modern White House which is a disgrace to everything America stands for.

Anyone who takes an oath to defend the American Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic has an obligation to defeat the progressive communists who are seeking to undermine that same Constitution from insurgency within American politics.  Communists in America are domestic enemies and its time to deal with them as such.  They wish to destroy the American economy, the minds of the children, and put controls on every single human being on the planet.  And so far, they have been very successful, because the people of The United States have treated them with fairness, which has not been extended from the other side.  So no quarter should be given to these domestic enemies no matter where they reside, whether it be a local school board, a trustee, a congressional representative, a senator, a media personality, or even a member of The White House.  If they advocate progressive philosophy they are advocating the goals of communism and are domestic enemies to all who protect the Constitution.  History proves this and can best be seen in the novel We The Living.  It’s happened before and is happening again.  The evidence is clear.  All people need to do is accept the grim reality as fact, then act on that knowledge.  For more on this read my review of We The Living, written in 1936.  It looks like Joseph McCarthy was correct in his assertion of McCarthyism.  It was the battle over McCarthyism that allowed subversive elements to act in the open from our schools, from the media, and within government as the saboteurs succeeded in labeling McCarthy and his supporters as extreme radicals while many court cases protected communism under the same Constitution that the communists behind the mask of progressivism sought to destroy, eventually leading to a communist in the White House which progressives had been trying to achieve for over 100 years.  Now that they have The White House their first strategic target is the “rich” otherwise known as the bourgeoisie class.   That is the one and only goal of the tax hikes.  It has nothing to do with dealing with the deficit.  It’s all about a political checkmate in a chess game between communists and capitalists.

For more, I suggest reading We The Living.  It’s easy to get at your local book store.  And if you wish proof of what I said about the Department of Education CLICK HERE.  

Want proof of KGB spies starting the hippie movement CLICK HERE.

Read more about McCarthyism here:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

Want more proof?  CLICK HERE. 

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Obama in PEE PEE: Glenn Beck shows he’s not a ‘Coward’

Finally a media personality with testicular fortitude, and rightfully it is the author of the recent book COWARDS who illustrated wonderfully the progressive hypocrisy so evidently on display in American society.  Glenn Beck came under predictable fire when he dropped a bobble head representation of President Obama into a container full of metaphorical piss to exercise his First Amendment rights, and I applaud him for the stunt.  Obama is a symbol of progressive politics and it is time that progressives get back some of the antagonism that they have dished out for years.  See the stunt below.

Conservatives have been losing a public relations battle with progressives for decades because they have always taken the high ground, and such strategic positions are not enough when the enemies are soulless radicals hell-bent on American destruction.  So force must be met with force.  Rhetoric must be met with rhetoric.  I know well what Beck experienced and why he did what he did, as I have my own experience with such things.  CLICK HERE FOR A REVIEW.  Progressives do not like it when they are given back the kinds of harassment they conduct on a regular bases against American traditionalists who despise progressivism and they scream like babies when acts like Beck performed are shoved back in their faces.  Progressives have been doing such things for many years, and it is time to give them a dose of their own medicine.

It is also time to recognize that we are not in a peaceful exchange of differing opinions—we are at war—traditionalists against progressives and progressives were the ones who fired the first shots with their multiple desecrations of traditional American beliefs—everything from the harassment of housewives to “fight for equal progressive rights at the expense of their families” to literally defaming religious icons that founded The United States.  Progressives have done everything in their power to rip to shreds the firm and knowledgeable family father, the solitary cowboy, and the enterprising business tycoon with the bumbling Homer Simpsons on modern TV, the homosexual activist, and the altruist who sacrifices their lives for the sake of mankind.  The war is well documented, and is raging with a fury.  And it is finally wonderful to see a media personality who represents traditional American value with an old fashioned swagger that is needed worse than a drought laded country needs water across a harsh, scorched desert landscape.

Bravo Glenn Beck!  I’ll fight with you any day.   Sadly most everyone else are COWARDS.   Read more, CLICK HERE.

After all, will we let liberty go with politeness and a negligent whimper?  I’m not.  That’s why we have the first and second amendments—to defend liberty from domestic enemies like progressives.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

A Lesson on Capitalism as Opposed to Socialism: Views from the criminal underground

Sadly many people young and old alike have forgotten what the difference between capitalism and socialism is, so the arguments provided by the Tea Party movement recently against the government growth progressives is lost to them as they were taught in public school and college to hate money.  They were taught that money and capitalists are evil, and they spend half their lives learning otherwise—sadly.  So it becomes increasingly necessary to educate people on the difference between capitalism and socialism—because it is socialism that the Obama White House is advocating.  In fact George Bush both daddy and son along with their good friend Bill Clinton have slowly used elements of socialism to advance their own political careers.  Sadly, since World War II only two presidents have acted in a beneficial way to promote capitalism in America, one is John F. Kennedy because of his commitment to NASA and all the technology that spawned off the moon effort, and Ronald Reagan who was able to pull America from the brink of left-winged politics and cast it back into capitalism during the 1980’s to fight the Soviet Union during the Cold War.    For many young people they don’t understand how this cast of characters plays out in historical context and what the fundamental differences are between the various economic systems.  So for those inquiring minds, have a look at this clip from the film I Want Your Money where Ronald Reagan teaches Barack Obama the difference between his version capitalism and Obama’s socialism.

I had the good fortune to have grown up in the 1980’s when capitalism was king under the Reagan years.  He did such a good job that the carry-over effect lasted until the tragic event of 9/11 2001, prompting George Bush Jr., to inject government interference into the economic equation which began the downward economic spiral seen today.  Growing up I never lacked a job, because there were so many opportunities.  I often worked two to three jobs all at the same time two of them full-time jobs and one of them part-time, and I worked 7 days a week.  I’ve worked on all sides of making money.  I’ve done work as a gunsmith,  repo man, an inventor, a graphic designer, a fund-raiser, a videotographer, a salesman, a grill cook, a waiter, landscaper, tree trimmer, a middle manager, even a top rung manager, and done a lot of work as a writer both ghost and traditional.  And of course most people at this site know me as a political activist that may seem like a large part of my life, but in reality is only part of one chapter in my life that is turning out to be a very large book.

My employers have been mobsters, drug dealers, corporate raiders, corrupt politicians, power grabbers, publicly traded corporations and traditional capitalists—all of them look on the up and up at the interview, but over time you learn a lot about people and personal philosophies will clash, and they have—many times.  But during all that I have learned a lot and managed to see every side of ugly, and stayed out of jail because I always found the path of goodness even in the darkest depths of hell.  I have tested thoroughly my moral compass and it has always pointed in the correct direction even if the path seemed complex at times.  I will say in a heartbeat that the world is better off under the rule of all those different degrees of capitalists than they are under the fairness of government redistribution which is currently choking the economy.

Capitalism is about opportunity, not protecting life from the thugs, the goons, and the killers who share life with the rest of us.  “Hit men” are people too, and they have families like anyone else.  To them, killing is just a job that gets them paid.  And most of them stay out of jail because they are friends with judges and police detectives who know all too well what they are up to.  In many cases such people thrive under big government because it is those relationships with authority that prevents competition in the field of killing, which might sound extreme, but is a thriving business.  For every death reported in the newspaper, there are many others who never get reported or discussed.  Relative to Cincinnati, Ohio the bodies are dredged out of the Ohio River down in Louisville by the locks at The Falls, and they go “unsolved” most of the time.

I point this out because in a society that is functioning under pure capitalism there is actually less of this destructive behavior because there isn’t so much profit in government to look the other way to maintain a monopoly between organized crime and government—as we all suspect is behind the current presidency, just as it was during the Kennedy presidency—most likely leading to his death.   The misperception is that thugs and crooks are fewer under a heavily regulated society, but nothing could be further from the truth.  The difference is the criminals move out of the shadows and instead into a suit and begin doing government work for The White House, the IRS, the CIA, the FBI or the local police department instead of working in the backroom of a seedy restaurant running a mob arm away from the heart of Chicago, or using a car dealership as the front organization for a drug smuggling operation and money laundering scam.  Safety in society is in more capitalism and having a bigger gun than the other guy—it is not in government.

When I was a very young man I attended a dinner with a highly decorated Judge from Sharonville along with his wife, known killers, drug dealers, and other mob types.  I was being “groomed” into service because I had elements to my temper that they liked.  I learned at the dinner how the world worked—as the judge was very open in revealing that he knew damn well what all the criminals at the table were up to and how they made their money.  I also know that many of these organized elements began during the Ford and Carter years under more regulation and the concern that Ronald Reagan was de-regulating many industries was a concern for them, because if markets opened up, they couldn’t jack up their smuggling rates of delivery.  Free market competition was a threat to the criminals who looked for an alliance with government to preserve their monopolies.  The judge wasn’t sitting at our table to talk about sports, even though two former Bengal players were at the table as well serving as the public front to divert attention away from the true intentions.  (Life on Chester Road in the 80’s)  No, the judge was there to help maintain the criminal monopoly, to keep competition shut down and to legally block for the criminal underground.

Once I caught on to that life and what it was, and proved to myself that I had the nerve of steel that I always wished to test myself against—as a young man needing to know I had the guts to do anything, I took an honest job at a very dangerous factory under the coaxing of my wife, who wanted to live a somewhat normal life.  Some people join the military to test themselves, but I was never willing to take orders, so I found other ways—and living to tell about it is the most important part.  Because the experience gave me a unique perspective on capitalism even from the seediest aspects of it, and I have seen firsthand how socialism works.  The idea of fairness is how it’s sold, but what really happens is government thugs gain the legal title to steal, and pillage instead of having to hide their behavior.  That is the only difference.  The less capitalism there is the more crime that will occur.   The more capitalism there is, the criminals become easier to spot and their hiding places move into the dark corners of society as opposed to right out in the open.

So for those safety freaks out there who are afraid for your children’s life and think that more socialism will protect them—think again—because nothing could be further from the truth.  Do not look to government to protect you and your children from the big “mean” people of the world.  And certainly don’t look to government to educate, and care for your children.  I’ve known the worst kind of people God has created, and they are just as worse as the people who currently reside in public education.  The only difference is that they took off the cheesy suits from the 80’s and now wear business attire learned from their university.  But they are all thugs if they advocate the looting of personal wealth for their own well-being at the expense of the innocent.

And yes, my children know all about my life.  Much of it I wrote about in my 2004 book The Symposium of Justice which is available on the Nook for $3.59 for those curious enough to read more.  Truth is often stranger than fiction.  But fiction based on truth is even stranger–and more exciting.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Saving Our Schools: Wisdom from Mark Etterling

Efficiency is key to the success of any economic endeavor.  The reason I’m a conservative is because logically that is where economic efficiency is best found.  Let’s face it, the liberal bureaucratic bound approach to all of life’s issues requiring potential monetary endowments also represents the antithesis of efficiency.  I defy a single Liberal to step forward and explain the logic behind the socialist economic theories liberalism espouses, let alone provide examples of how those theories can actually create efficiency.
 
Last year I ran for an open school board position in the district where I live.  I was a literal unknown challenger in a group that included an incumbent, an existing member of the District Finance Committee, and a former Board President.  Needless to say I was a long shot.  Even though I didn’t win I still managed a good showing, even beating out the former Board President.  The reason I was able to do as well as I did was because of my approach.  I didn’t waste time demonizing my opponents or any particular group such as the teachers union.  Instead, I focused my message on the concept of creating true efficiency within the district.
 
Efficiency comes in many flavors.  The teachers union openly feared me because they also fear the word efficiency.  Understandably, the reason is that whenever they hear that word it typically translates either into layoffs, pay cuts, or both.  However, had they actually listened to my message, they would have realized that approach wasn’t necessarily the efficiency I was talking about.  That type of efficiency is what I call the cheap status quo model.  For example, how cheap can I get by when negotiating on copier paper when the real question should be what other options are there to send out information other than in printed form?  When it came to our district I was seeking to think beyond just the simple cheaper status quo model.  I was seeking to rethink everything we do, not just negotiate a cheaper price on things we may not even need in the first place.
 
When it comes to our schools we must start doing better.  We are already screwing over our heirs when it comes to burdening them with the disastrous results of our approach on overspending and debt.  I see no reason why they must also suffer at the hands of a failed approach to education as well.  The current system we have is an unmitigated disaster.  We are relying on a model that was created nearly a century ago.  It is a system that is so outdate, over bloated, over controlled, and inefficient that actual learning takes a back seat to far too many other self serving and inefficient agenda’s.  Furthermore, it fails to meet the skill set required for the modern workforce.
In 1979 President Carter created the Department of Education thus placing oversight over the nation’s educational system under federal control.  His idea was that he could fix all of our educational ills and make everything “equal” at the same time.  Instead it proved to be a huge mistake.  We currently have twice as many people working in our public educational system today as we did in 1970.  At the same time our public school enrollment has only gone up by 8.5%.  Even after adjusting for inflation we dump exponentially more dollars per student into public education than we did in 1970 yet test scores haven’t budged in all those years.  If anything, we’ve gone down in our educational rankings against the rest of the world.  In the mean time the bureaucracy that Carter created is so overwhelming that attempting to make any significant structural changes is like trying to turn around a battleship in a fishing pond.  If you attempt any movement at all you’ll only find yourself sinking further in the muck.
 

The first thing we need to do to right this ship is to get rid of the Department of Education and send that function back to the states.  Not only will that unload a huge layer of unnecessary bureaucracy, but in all honesty, those that have the best interest of the children are those that can be found closest to the children themselves.  That means even the state should surrender the bulk of control back to the local districts.  After all, it’s the parents within the district that care the most for the educational welfare of their own children.  Yes, I get the whole concept of economic disparity, but what we are talking about here is control.  The best method for equalizing the economic disparity and also provide parental control at the same time is through a voucher system whereby parents are granted choices and quality is promoted through competition.
 
The answer we’ve always gotten ever since Carter took over education is that rather than actually addressing the real needs of our kids, we simply need to continually pour an ever increasing amount of money into an ever increasing bureaucracy that does nothing to fix our failing schools.  However, there is no model whatsoever that proves such a correlation between money and a quality education actually exists.  When kids in 3rd world countries are proving everyday that it’s possible to learn even in grass huts and bombed out buildings than more money isn’t the answer.  When it does come to money we need to get personal agenda’s out of education.  It makes no logical sense whatsoever for a district to be forced to pay a gym teacher and a chemistry teacher on the same pay scale.  There is no logical reason for denying parents choices when it comes to their kid’s educational opportunities simply based on personal income either.  For their part parents do need to become more active participants in their child’s education instead of viewing schools as nothing more than glorified daycares.  Practically every study out there confirms that the single biggest factor in the quality of our schools is parental participation.
 

We need to modernize our approach to education in general.  That means we need to stop simply teaching to a standardized test.  Yes, it’s important that our kids understand things like reading and writing.  However, much of what is being taught today isn’t really learning as much as it is memorization in order to pass those standardized test.  What we should really be teaching our kids is critical thinking skills.  We need to understand and accept that in the modern world things are changing at such an incredible rate that much of what a freshman learns today won’t even be relevant by the time they graduate.  Therefore, we need to be teaching them the skills necessary to perpetually adapt to an ever changing environment.  We can’t do that by being wed to an antiquated inefficient model.
 
There seems to be universal agreement that what we are currently facing is an educational crisis in much the same manner as we are facing a very real debt crisis.  In both cases there are sound answers that can be found simply by looking to both logic and efficiency to find the answers.  We are already threatening to enslave the next generation to the will of our debt holders.  There’s no sane reason that we should also be taking tomorrow’s potential leaders and turning them into the menial labor force of a foreign master as well.
Mark Etterling

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Hobby Lobby faces $1.3 Million in Daily Fines: More “hidden” costs of the Obamanation

David Green the CEO of Hobby Lobby has had to take action to protect himself from the terrible costs of mandated government health care advocated by President Obama and his gang of government thugs.  Below is a letter from Green in an attempt to get his story out.  This is not a new action, but given the re-election of Obama by the rule of the stupid and foolish looking for a social hand-out as opposed to American self-reliance, this story regarding Hobby Lobby needs to be told so others facing similar issues can figure out how to deal with Obamacare, or fold in order to protect the hard work they have amassed over many years of productivity.  Now might be a time to cash in and check out before government invades your businesses forever.

A Letter from Hobby Lobby Stores CEO
By David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

When my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were working out of a garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling miniature picture frames. Our first retail store wasn’t much bigger than most people’s living rooms, but we had faith that we would succeed if we lived and worked according to God’s word. From there,Hobby Lobby has become one of the nation’s largest arts and crafts retailers, with more than 500 locations in 41 states. Our children grew up into fine business leaders, and today we run Hobby Lobby together, as a family.

We’re Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles. I’ve always said that the first two goals of our business are (1) to run our business in harmony with God’s laws, and (2) to focus on people more than money. And that’s what we’ve tried to do. We close early so our employees can see their families at night. We keep our stores closed on Sundays, one of the week’s biggest shopping days, so that our workers and their families can enjoy a day of rest. We believe that it is by God’s grace that Hobby Lobby has endured, and he has blessed us and our employees. We’ve not only added jobs in a weak economy, we’ve raised wages for the past four years in a row. Our full-time employees start at 80% above minimum wage.

But now, our government threatens to change all of that. A new government health care mandate says that our family business MUST provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our health insurance. Being Christians, we don’t pay for drugs that might cause abortions, which means that we don’t cover emergency contraception, the morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary to our most important beliefs. It goes against the Biblical principles on which we have run this company since day one. If we refuse to comply, we could face $1.3 million PER DAY in government fines.

Our government threatens to fine job creators in a bad economy. Our government threatens to fine a company that’s raised wages four years running. Our government threatens to fine a family for running its business according to its beliefs. It’s not right. I know people will say we ought to follow the rules; that it’s the same for everybody. But that’s not true. The government has exempted thousands of companies from this mandate, for reasons of convenience or cost. But it won’t exempt them for reasons of religious belief.

So, Hobby Lobby ? and my family ? are forced to make a choice. With great reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this mandate before it hurts our business. We don’t like to go running into court, but we no longer have a choice. We believe people are more important than the bottom line and that honoring God is more important than turning a profit.

My family has lived the American dream. We want to continue growing our company and providing great jobs for thousands of employees, but the government is going to make that much more difficult. The government is forcing us to choose between following our faith and following the law. I say that’s a choice no American ? and no American business ? should have to make.

The government cannot force you to follow laws that go against your fundamental religious belief. They have exempted thousands of companies but will not except Christian organizations including the Catholic church.Since you will not see this covered in any of the liberal media, pass this on to all your contacts.

Sincerely, 

David Green, CEO and Founder of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

The Wonders of Capitalism: American Football Versus European Soccer

The motivating driver behind communism for the proletariat—(the workers) has always been a false sense of fairness in the marketplace.  For that fairness communists of old and progressives of new have sought to replace capitalism with socialism and in America this has been attempted through labor unions.  Anyone who participates in a labor union either public or private is functioning from a communist economic social engineering experiment that is designed to attack capitalism which is the economic engine behind freedom in an American lifestyle that puts a lot of pressure on the tyrants of the world to adopt.  Those power-hungry tyrannical responses however have been to attempt to destroy America through the sponsoring of international alliances—primarily through the United Nations, and spread labor unions as a direct attack on Americas brand of capitalism.  To understand why capitalism is so important to America the video below will position the argument wonderfully, and needs to be watched.

After the failure at Hostess, and in response to an article I wrote about it which can be reviewed by CLICKING HERE, I received a comment by a union supporter who is using the same old tired proletariat argument that public education teachers use, unionized steel workers, electrical workers, firefighters, police departments, even grocery store workers—that it’s not fair that the rich bourgeois class in management enriched themselves at the expense of the worker.  In fact this is exactly the same rhetoric that Barack Obama ran on to get re-elected in an open avocation of socialism by pandering to the masses and their ignorance about economic engines.  During my discussion with this poor lost soul I explained the reasons why the situation at Hostess was fair for the workers who lost their jobs at the expense of management by comparing the economic conditions to those who drive a car.  The conversation can be seen below:

  • Communist Union Lover:   Um, why does this have no discussion of how horrendously management f’cked up in this situation by giving themselves all between 60-300% raises when the company was already soaked with debt?
  • Rich Hoffman’s response:  Because it is irrelevant. It is the ownership and managements job to operate the company, not the employees. Collective bargaining is a destructive enterprise. Think of it like everyone in a car trying to drive that car. Everyone wanting to turn in different directions. It doesn’t work, yet that is what collective bargaining does. It is the driver’s job to drive the car, and that is management. If the driver crashes and kills all in the car by their mistake that is very sad, but the responsibility for driving the car is the driver, not the passengers. If you think the management is bad and is going to wreck the car, then get out of it and find some other car to carry you around. That is the choice, and luxury of the employee. It may not pay the same, but it gives more freedom of movement than those in management who take all the hard risks.
  • Communist Union Lover:   Ok, let’s get something out-of-the-way first: collective bargaining inevitably exists in the free market since we all pursue self-interest, and the employees of a company like Hostess share common individual self-interests. It doesn’t matter if collective bargaining is “destructive” because it is going to exist in the free market no matter what, minus a concerted effort by the government to destroy union labor. Public sector unions are a different issue.   A large part of why Hostess failed is because they have not adapted to the marketplace and their staple products have lost popularity. That is not anyone’s fault but the better judgment of the American people. The company carried a lot of debt but whether or not debt or union contracts was the main issue is not really what’s important to me. Management was trying to cut Bakers’ pay by 8%, benefits by 32% at the same time that the CEO gave himself a 300% raise and nine other executives received 60-100% raises and they owed $160M to the employees’ pension. I want to know what kind of management team looks at their company, sees how terrible of a condition its in and undertakes such venal measures at the expense of the employees and then expects people to believe that the union destroyed the company. Anyways, apparently the employees would rather let management be the victims of their own decisions than continue with the company. The free market at work.
  • Rich Hoffman’s response:  That’s a reasonable response. I would bet that the employees saw the writing on the wall and probably should have stepped out of the car at a stop sign–since the driver was apparently drunk. The driver too (management) knew the condition of the car was bad so they drank more to forget about it making the situation worse for everyone. The CEO and key management knew the bankruptcy portion would be painful and an insult to their leadership so they padded their pockets for the exit while the decision was still theirs. The employees who lost their jobs will find other jobs if they want them. But the CEO and management might have more difficult time. After all who wants to hire a management team from Hostess that ran the company into a tree?

It is sad that so many people in America have been infected like progressive zombies this hatred of capitalism.  It is odd that the same mouths that utter such support against capitalism will spend their entire weekends watching American Football which is essentially a game of capitalism invented to reflect Americas economic engine compared to the game of soccer that the rest of the world plays.  American Football is a game of capitalism whereas soccer is socialism.  I say that primarily because the fundamental rules of the game dictate such suggestions.  Football is all about gaining yards on the field of play and scoring eventually as an enterprising team moves the ball down the field.  In American Football a defense becomes offsides when a player jumps into the neutral zone prior to the ball being snapped.   In Soccer a player is offsides when an offensive forward or halfback gets behind a defensive fullback when the ball is lobbed down the field.  In American Football this kind of outmaneuvering is considered great.  In European Soccer, it is penalized.  This is in essence what every labor union is trying to impose on every business, this idea of fairness that one might find in soccer where two teams might smack the ball around for two hours and only score 2 points.  In American Football a good score would be in the 20’s or 30’s.  That is the big difference between capitalism and socialism, one produces many more points but might be considered unfair for those not fast enough or strong enough to keep up with the various offenses in the games of life.  Socialism—always leading to communism makes fairness the primary motivator, but leads to a boring game where the ball just bounces randomly all over the field until someone just so happens to get lucky and score.

The way to solve America’s economic problems is to ban all aspects of socialism in favor of pure capitalism.  Just like in American football, more rules lead to fewer points.   More rules lead to the game of soccer, which is what Europeans call—(football).  They do not think the way Americans do, and their opinions on matters of goodness, fairness, and economic fortitude need to be cast aside for the good of the world, because like the union lover shown above—they do not have the intellectual understanding to help themselves, much less anyone else.

In modern America it is only the Tea Party who today is advocating the health of capitalism and for that they are called “terrorists” by supporters of progressive socialism.  That makes it very easy to see who the enemies of America truly are.  But the path to limited government and strong fiscal business markets is in more capitalism and less socialism—and it is the goal of the Tea Party to help re-teach Americans about capitalism as the labor unions have spent so many years teaching a hatred for the primary economic force that stands behind individual freedom—which is capitalism.

This is what we are fighting to keep!

In America we do everything better–BECAUSE of CAPITALISM

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Van Jones and the Tea Party: The punch in the mouth is coming

Don’t kid yourself into thinking that inaction will lead to peace. Van Jones declared himself a communist in 1992 and has been a big part of the ground game of progressive politics since those early days of the present attack on American liberty. So when Jones says that the Tea Party is threatening to destroy America, what he means is that the return to Constitutionally based principles is a threat to the gains that communism has made in The United States with small amounts of socialism that has been implemented gradually over a long period of time. You can read more about Van Jones at the link below.

LEARN ABOUT VAN JONES–CLICK HERE

When he calls the Tea Party “terrorists” he is simply reacting to the resistance against progressive tactical movements toward open socialism in America. If not for the rise of the Tea Party, people like Van Jones would have had unfettered dominion over many passive minds into furthering the cause of global communism.

Because he fulfills the communist agenda put down in 1958 through the book, The Naked Communist, (CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW, read that list and say all this is a conspiracy), he has been placed on every television network friendly to open national socialism, and media outlet who wishes to advance the 45 points described in that book as a way to change America from what it was into what they want it to be. Make no mistake about it—Van Jones and his kind of people are attacking America to change it into socialism—followed by communism—and the only resistance they have is the Tea Party.

Now that Obama has been re-elected to another term, with a lot of help from the Van Jones ground game, progressives are seeing the anger of middle-America and they are a bit shocked by it. The gun sales are way up as many citizens of Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Southern Ohio along with many other secure Red States are rushing out to buy fire arms to defend themselves from the obvious communist plot that has been at a slow boil in Washington—even while many Republicans helped turn up the heat ever so slightly. In the days after the 2012 Election many people went to the White House website and signed a petition to secede from the Union, and this has raised some insider eye-brows.

So it is noticeable that Van Jones has shifted his gears in calling the Tea Party a bunch of crazy terrorists radicals—which the media and many young influential college students have been happy to repeat—to calling them an “impressive” organization. He is not saying such things to appease the ego of the Tea Party, he is changing his tone to lull back to sleep the anger that is emerging, so that the Tea Party does not resort to the kind of tactics that he has been guilty of for 20 years—radical insurrection as both a political outsider with an aggressive ground game, and a political insider with the ear of the president.

If you’ve ever been in a fist fight with another human being—where you were coaxed into stepping out into the parking lot to beat the hell out of the punk, and once there, the big mouth seeing your willingness to fight complimented you on your courage and offered to buy you a drink, you’ll see the same tactic now being played by people like Van Jones. The provocateur knows you are about to kick his ass, and he knows by the anger on your face that he doesn’t stand a chance, so he seeks to appeal to your good side and calm you down again—since his bluff has been called. That is what Van Jones is doing now in the wake of Obama’s re-election.

The communist progressives are trying to separate the Republicans from the Tea Party because they believe that will take away the voice of the Tea Party in national government—and they are quick to point out the losses the Tea Party had in the last election—as they hope this trend will continue.

But the difference is that the Tea Party is not playing checkers against the communists who have been playing chess all along. No, the Tea Party is playing a combination of Chess and Battleship both at the same time. What Van Jones and the rest of the progressives are worried about is that they have just awaken a sleeping giant in the core of the United States and they are climbing on board with the resistance movement against progressives. Many people assumed that Obama would lose because he was such a diabolical president the first time around, so they didn’t vote—and shame on them. Meanwhile, the communist progressives like Van Jones brought their backers to the voting booth and did whatever they had to do to skew the numbers in their favor. The victory was hardly decisive as many Americans have given up on the election process and are now cleaning their guns anticipating trouble. Obama won because collectivism works in their favor—their people are all functioning from the same play book, but conservatives are divided on how to defeat progressives—but the anger of seeing progressives continuing to ruin the nation can unite such divisions.

In the wake of the election Romney’s comment about half the country being “takers” is correct, and the other half of the country knows it—but out of kindness, nobody speaks about it. Well, not any more, because the game is on the table, and people see what’s happening, and they know they have been manipulated, and taken advantage of. And it is for that reason that there is a pause in the progressives step and a bit of reconciliation in their voice, because they know they are about to get punched in the mouth—and it is going to hurt.

The division among conservatives is not whether or not the progressives will be punched in the face, it’s only a matter of how hard. My thoughts are to knock their damn heads clean off while others wish to simply slap their cheeks. But either way, trouble is coming for the progressives and they know it. Peace is not the path to the preservation of American freedom, and no amount of name-calling can stop that now.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com