Tag: Free Will

Zombies in Politics: Stories of voter fraud and Black Friday Madness

On Halloween Doc Thompson did a radio program committed to demonstrating how the dead walk among us that foretold in an eerie way the election results that would eventually favor Barack Obama just a week later.   Dead people miraculously have emerged from their tombs and voted on Election Day!  Listen to Doc Thompson present his case on 1270 AM in Detroit of how the dead walk among us and voted for Democrats.

But the dead aren’t just showing up to vote in elections, they are also functioning in full form on events like Black Friday where labor unions attempted an insurrection among the employees of Wal-Mart in a hostile employee socialist take-over of that large company while participants gathered early on Thanksgiving to be the first to snag up door buster prizes designed to jump-start economic behavior for the Holiday Season.  This lead to some ridicule and in isolated cases violence on Black Friday that was captured very well by this apocalyptic chastising by Mark Dice as he called the people in line at Best Buy members of the zombie apocalypse as they rushed mindlessly to be the first to buy consumer goods at better than bargain prices.

I found myself torn while watching Dice do his work.  I support vibrant economic activity but I have to admire Dice’s ability to call things out as he sees them, as he did a fabulous job of showing how paralyzed the masses are when they are told to their face what mindless followers they are.    What Doc and Dice are pointing out are the evils of collectivism in many different forms that have very negative aspects on daily life in America.  A zombie is looked down upon because they become non-thinking entities that are easily used as pawns in the many political games that have polarized modern life all over the world and the cause is in the sheer fact that while we all share equal rights to vote and participate in a republic oriented democracy we are not all equal in the efforts we place into thinking, which is the backbone of any society.

A society of non-thinking fools look for a leader to tell them where to stand, what to eat, what kind of education is important to them, what they can do on their properties, because they are too lazy to challenge the status quo.   Just the same, the people in the Best Buy line that were yelled at by Mark Dice had  mindlessly showed up to be a part of the non-thinking masses who had gathered like herds of cattle to be slaughtered by their own ignorance as part of a consumer culture using non-thinking as their primary driver.  They were so lazy that they didn’t even feel motivated to yell back at Dice to defend themselves—rather the surrendered their efforts to collectivism, the same as the cops in the video.  They are all part of a system and they didn’t question their placement in that system which makes them mindless zombies.

Collectivism is a determent to American life no matter what political affiliation the zombies of non-thinking are participating in.  It doesn’t matter if the act of evil is consumer based such as in the Best Buy example on Black Friday, or if crooked poll workers are inserting dead voter ballots into the system to skew results in favor of their candidate.  It is the mindless participation into a system that defies the purity of individual authenticity that demands such people be referred to as zombies who walk among us.  They have all the same rights—yet they are much more dangerous because their actions do not come from their minds, but from the strings that pull them along through life which leaves society open to dialogues of further corruption and debauchery.  The evil committed is non-thinking as it leads to an erosion of social quality that is indisputable and lowers the standards for all of mankind when the perpetrators believed from the start that they were good in doing what was expected of them without question.  People who think in these terms are simply zombies bringing about on Earth the apocalypse of New Testament legend.

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

  

Obamanomoics Opoly: The new version of Monopoly for socialist game players

Since the socialist Barack Obama is now president for another long four years it is time to re-invent the game of Monopoly to one that more reflects the kind of economy America has under the Obama Presidency.  Monopoly is a game of capitalism which is no longer relevant under the socialist push by progressives.  So it is only appropriate to change the rules of the game to reflect the Obamanation of The United States under socialism.  Doc Thompson from CBS Radio’s 1270 AM in Detroit found just such a person who had taken the game of Monopoly and updated it to reflect Barack Obama’s economy and it’s called Obamanomics Opoly.  Listen to Doc speak with the inventor in this interview below.

Under Obamanomics Opoly the Community Chest is gone, it is now Community Organizing.  Designed with American Ingenuity, & Built in the U. S. A. Obamanomics-Opoly Is the New & Creatively Unique board game that will educate people on the miserably failed economic policies of the Obama administration & forever remind people of the disastrous effects those policies will have on “We the People” It features all of your favorite, “Political Hot Button” Issues like Banking reform, cash for clunkers, QE1 & QE2, legislation on C-Span for all to see, (yea right)! And also includes…. the infamous, GSA junkets to Las Vegas, Secret Service agents in Cartagena…and the “ongoing fiasco” known as Fast & Furious, and does it in an entertaining way that’s fun & easy to understand. But most of all it highlights the 2 most disastrously failed policies, Immigration Reform & Obama Care! You see, there is a space on it called “Health Care Tax”. When you land on it, You don’t pay the Tax, instead, your opponents equally share, and pay the tax for you… (here comes the twist) Anyone who owns Lugosi Lane, or Read Road, is Exempt. . . and does “Not” have to “Pay their fair share” of the Tax. Sound Familiar! It includes all of your favorite “not ready for prime time politicians” like… Nancy Lugosi, (The blood sucking, “Nosferatù Vampire” from the west) along with Harry Read, Jeremiah Right, Bill Errors, Hank Paulsin, Barnie Franks, Erick Holdurr, Joe the Plumber, and of course, our Top Gun Helicopter Pilot himself, Ben Barnakey. (You’ve got to love this crew!) It’s loaded with rampant foreclosures, QE1 & QE2 and all of the “pay your fair share” and “spread the wealth” Fed stimulus you can handle! It’s upgradeable too! Hope & Change “expansion packs” coming soon will keep your game timely & fresh!

The best way to navigate through the Obamantion of America is by adapting to the socialist economy that supports it, and with the new Obamanomics Opoly game players can learn how socialism works under the new rules of American decline.  So during this holiday season give the gift of survival to a loved one—buy them Obamanomics Opoly.  When Health Care taxes begin to kick in during 2013 people will want to know where all their money is going and the best way to show them is through a game how their money is spent and on what.  So buy your copy today, you can find it at Amazon.com.

http://www.amazon.com/Outside-the-Box-Games-Obamanomics/dp/B008SDISTQ

Benghazi expansion packs coming soon!  DON’T MISS IT! 

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Doc Thompson Exposes “Obama Phone” Scam: As Heard on the Glenn Beck Program

I have a magician friend who gets very perturbed when members of the audience reveal to him during a show how the tricks he is doing on stage are preformed.  He knows that for many of his magic tricks to work that the audience must suspend their logic and be willing to believe in hocus pocus before the onstage illusions can be accepted as reality.  So it is with some insight that I see the same level of anger coming from progressives like Barack Obama and his merry band of federal thieves, radicals and despots when they wish the public to believe in their magic tricks on a stage of illusion that the national media lapdogs assist in creating for the public.  Progressives wish the entire world to believe that Barack Obama was re-elected in November 2012 because America is a progressive left-leaning nation of “enlightened” souls.  But the reality behind the trick is that Democrats bought audience suspension of belief with “gifts.”  Obama bought the election by giving things away to labor unions—money stolen with taxes and given to powerful bloc voting groups—such as the new TSA union that we all have to deal with at airports now.  More people are on food stamps than they ever have been, thanks to Obama’s socialist stance of taking from the rich and giving to the poor.  But the most disgusting of all is the Obama Phones given out to residents of the inner cities—particularly Cleveland, Ohio where free phones and minutes were apparently given out to key voting blocs with the intention to purchase votes in the upcoming election—which worked.  Some of these voting districts where Obama Phones were handed out didn’t cast one vote for Mitt Romney in the election giving Obama 100% of the turnout……….mysteriously.  It is kind of like magic—right.

Well my ol’ buddy Doc Thompson is one of those irritating audience members who refuse to let a band of manipulative magicians scam the public unimpeded.  He has sifted through the facts of this whole Obama Phone issue and had a little fun with it on his radio show in Detroit, Michigan.  On Black Friday Doc was filling in for Glenn Beck with a broadcast footprint of over 10 million people and it is then that Doc played the very funny audio clip about Obama Phones shown below.  Have a listen.

My wife and I were taking our oldest daughter out to lunch since she had to work Black Friday and I was still laughing while we were driving to the restaurant from that broadcast clip when Doc Thompson called me to wish my family a Happy Thanksgiving and wonderful Holiday Season.  (to non-progressives that means CHRISTMAS)  Doc had just finished up with the Glenn Beck Radio Show and took a minute to talk to me a bit off-air.

It sure was nice when Doc was in the Cincinnati market at a local radio station broadcasting his unique brand of radio program that is old-fashioned in many respects, but hard hitting like Howard Stern without the vulgarity.  I felt privileged when he was in Cincinnati, and his vacancy is very much missed but Doc is working on a syndication deal that could put him all over The United States which would be great for America—but until that time it is a real treat to hear him covering for Glenn Beck from time to time—because not many radio hosts do the kind of hard hitting reporting that Doc does without losing their sense of humor.  And that is what Doc is best at—no matter how serious the situation is—Doc Thompson finds a way to have a little fun with the material to dull the blunt impact of the grim reality.

Make no mistake about it however—Barack Obama’s election was not legitimate in regard that he won it straight up—without magic tricks.  No, he bought the election with “GIFTS” and progressives might wish to conceal that information, but the facts are what they are.  It is no different than when government school levies pass because parents believe that they are getting a free education for their child when in reality the money used in public education is money stolen from property owners who no longer have kids going to the school—then a portion of that money is given to powerful labor unions to elect Democratic politicians who then set the stage for progressive magic tricks that many of us are no longer believing.  The Obama Phones are just the most recent example of how disgusting the political magicians have become and to what extent they are willing to lie and manipulate their way into power.  With those kinds of diabolical social menaces in the world it is wonderful to know that Doc Thompson has the opportunity to take to the air waves and rattle the cages of these perpetrators of doom who try to hide their true intentions of wealth redistribution with the suspended belief in magic that allows them to commit the crimes.  Doc Thompson isn’t having any of it, and he wasn’t shy in letting millions of people know about it.  And during the Thanksgiving Season as my family sat down to give my daughter a nice Black Friday lunch—I realized that I am most thankful to know people like Doc Thompson and that the fight for truth carries on beyond the reach of the sinister manipulation designed by the Obama Phone giveaways.

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

  

Views from the Heartland: The voice of common sense by Mark Etterling

 

Mark Etterling is in the leadership at the Liberty Twp Tea Party and has been a school board candidate in the past for Lakota, and I hope he is a future candidate because he’s a good guy who is a whole lot nicer politically than I am, and is willing to work with people on the other side.   It takes all kinds to make the world go around and Mark is certainly one of the first-class people functioning in the world.  As a local author he contributes frequent articles about the state of America that are quite good and balanced.  He has been a guest pundit on CNN and other media expressing Tea Party views articulately and I enjoy his work.  Because of that I am going to begin featuring some of his work here at the OW to expose his efforts to a larger audience.  So enjoy!

The looming economic debate that’s taking over the headlines has to do with Republicans seeking spending cuts while at the same time Obama wants to raise taxes on the wealthy.  The ever popular battle cry of the Left is that we should be demanding the wealthy pay their “fair share”.  In reality the first thing that we should be doing is forcing the Left to officially declare once and for all exactly what they believe constitutes a fair share.  It is an act which they will never do knowing that it would destroy the very demon their rhetoric relies upon.  However, I have an even bigger question for Obama and his cohorts on the Left.  Why do they keep insisting on aiding wealthy people while crushing the hopes and dreams of the poor?  Yes, you read that correctly.

Billionaire Warren Buffett recently stated that he wouldn’t mind paying more in taxes and everyone on the Left immediately saw Mr. Buffett as some sort of a hero based on his statement.  Personally, I see him as a villain.  First of all, if Warren truly believed what he was saying he wouldn’t still owe over $1 Billion in back taxes based on existing tax rates.  Plus, there is nothing to have ever prevented him from overpaying his taxes in the first place if he was in fact a true believer in what he espoused.  But I digress.  The real reason for Buffett’s statement and Obama’s actions is far more self indulgent.  The Left itself is merely playing the role of the mindless minions to this sinister plot through their shear ignorance.

There is an economic concept that Buffett and others like him understand that the Left simply doesn’t get.  The Left is so caught up in the falsity of their own rhetoric that they never bother to think things through far enough to understand reality. The truth is that Warren already has far more wealth than he could ever spend in a lifetime and he has also acquired all the material toys he could ever dream of from that wealth.  What he seeks is power.  What wealthy people like him understand is that the power derived from wealth doesn’t come from how much someone has.  It comes from the difference between how much they have versus everyone else.  For example, anyone can become a millionaire in Zimbabwe.  However, a million in Zimbabwe currency might only buy you a loaf of bread, so big deal.  Again, it’s not the numbers that matter.  It’s the difference in the numbers that counts.  What Buffett also understands is that we don’t tax based on wealth in this country.  We tax based on the acquisition of wealth.  In other words we tax income.  The easiest way for wealthy people like Buffett to maintain the power of their wealth isn’t by adding yet another $ Billion to their pile.  It’s by preventing everyone else from being able to “catch up”.  The best method to accomplish this is through punitive tax rates.

Here’s a simple explanation.  Even if Warren Buffett shows a net worth of $50 Billion and you show a net worth of only $50K, on January 1st of each year, as far as the IRS is concerned, you and Buffett are considered equal with neither having yet earned any income for the new year.  At this point the fortune he has already amassed is irrelevant as far as future taxes are concerned.  Again, we don’t tax wealth.  We tax the acquisition of wealth.  So basically, if Warren decided to bury his $Billions in the dirt and didn’t bother to earn anything for next year he would still be a Billionaire, yet his tax bill at the end of that year would be $0.  Therefore, if you and Warren both happen to earn the same amount for this year you would both pay the same in taxes regardless of whatever that tax rate might happen to be.  To Warren that extra cash is irrelevant since his bank account already has more digits than he knows what to do with.  However, to you that extra cash could mean the difference between moving up a bit more on the economic ladder or remaining stuck on a lower rung.

To illustrate this concept in a slightly different manner think of the act of achieving wealth as being similar to climbing the stairs of a tall building.  The Left claims that they want to see everyone have the opportunity to climb up as many floors as possible.  Yet raising tax rates actually prevents this from happening because with higher tax rates the faster you climb, the faster you get shoved back down.  The Buffett’s of the world are already living in the penthouse as it is, so they don’t need to concern themselves with climbing faster.  However, if you are at the lower levels and fighting hard to advance yourself it is far easier to climb when you get to take 10 steps forward in income for every 1 step backward in taxes compared to being forced to take the 5 steps backward in taxes that you experience from higher rates.  The Left is constantly pointing out the ever widening divide between the wealthy and the poor while at the same time they naively espousing the very tax rules that allow such a widening to occur.  If the Left were truly as compassionate about the poor as they claim they would be demanding lower tax rates at all levels to enable opportunity for advancement instead of stagnation.

Mark Etterling

You can find Mark’s published work at the link below:

http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/mark-etterling/common-sense-a-view-from-the-heartland/paperback/product-18607690.html

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

  

The Future: A strategy guide to meeting it politically, philosophically and through religion

Much of the work I do here, and why I conduct it so fervently, is because the human race is at an impasse, and the quality for which we deal with that issue will determine our species fate.   When I blast away at the progressive political platform it is not just to embrace the values I find valuable which might be summed up in every John Wayne movie ever made, or the tone of Walt Disney’s America shown gallantly in the television series Davy Crocket.   What I love about America is captured in those artistic tributes to traditional value, because within those tabernacles of virtue is a formula for human prosperity.   Progressives on the other hand are stuck in an old version of human fairness pursuit from a world that predates the Industrial Revolution and are functioning from a philosophy that is dangerous to themselves and everyone on this planet—the concept of collectivism.  The reason why is in what is coming up rapidly for the human race—because each and every one of us must come to grips with it very soon—as in thirty years or less.  That perilous impasse that is meeting us faster than we are meeting “it” is called THE FUTURE.  Watch the below videos carefully and take notes.

I have written extensively here about such a future.  I have written about flying cars, cancer treatments, a real understanding of human history through unpopular revelations in the field of archaeology    I have talked about advanced horticulture methods, and the miracles of the energy source Thorium.  I have done all this to begin to place in your mind dear reader the changes that have been placed before us and to measure the value of correct decisions.  If it seems that I am particularly obsessed with education, politics, and even religion it is because those three things most corrupt the purity of the future with unnecessary impediments caused by functioning from the wrong philosophy.  This is why I often gush over the fictional stories of Star Wars, because I understand the power of myth all too well, and how myth shapes the philosophies of mankind.  Once philosophy is built for the human mind, then religion is constructed to represent those values for the masses—and the philosophies of old, much of it that is collectively based must be cast away otherwise the future will be very dangerous place.  Individually based philosophies will lead to great human achievement and prosperity for all.  In the modern world Star Wars offers this type of philosophy as well as a way to meet the startling changes the future holds through technology—so I am a big fan.  George Lucas has done a brilliant thing, he has shown how society can advance into the realm of our present future without destroying ourselves spiritually, or politically because the struggles of Star Wars are essentially over those concepts.

In the immediate future—I’m talking about decades, it will become optional to die a natural death.  An aging body is a ridiculous concept that can now be controlled through stem cell construction.  A body should be able to rebuild new tissue throughout its entire life even if that lifespan is 1000 years as was quite common for Biblical figures in the Old Testament.  Modern pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies, (and now Obamacare) are holding back this technology to maintain their profit profiles, but it will not hold.  The technology is about to surpass the restrictions of the medical field out of the sheer need for financial sustainability.   The key to Social Security and Medicare is not more money, but less, because people will soon live to be 200 to 300 years old and they will still be working well past the age of 55 and 65 years old.  Mankind will have to give up the idea of “the golden years” and traditional retirements because aging is about to become an unnecessary hardship.

With computing power being what it is now, and what it will be within 10 years, the mysteries of the human brain will be solved and the idea of what a “soul” is will become clear.  Human being will gain the ability to UPLOAD their identities into other bodies which will prevent even accidental death by tragedy.  In fact, sex, race, and even human ability such as strength, height, and physical attractiveness will all be options in the world of tomorrow.  The idea that has been introduced to us all though avatar creation through social websites like Facebook and Twitter as well as the online gaming world are metaphorical instances of a reality that is coming to our daily lives.  Online gaming such as seen on games like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and many others will become a reality for our own bodies—especially as the younger generation moves into their 40’s and 50’s.  They will have no problem making these difficult psychological adjustments as they have been playing computer games their entire lives and have created thousands of online characters all representing key aspects to their human souls.  The body those souls reside in do not matter as much as the essence of the spirit behind the soul.

Education of tomorrow will be as simple as uploading a new program into your home computer.   A child could reasonably have uploaded onto their brains the entire wealth of knowledge of the human race in just a few decades from now completely eliminating the need for classrooms known so well in traditional education which has proven ineffective.  12 to 18 years of study in schools is unnecessary in the world of tomorrow as knowledge is simply an upload not created by neuron building through repetition as it is today, but data directly implanted onto neurons constructed upon an upload of the data.  So holding on to the old, archaic formula that the government is driving is a foolish gesture that only holds society back unnecessarily.

There are literally millions of such difficult technical advances that are coming our way within the next hundred years so it is important that during these transitions government is reduced to a minimal amount, because these new technologies will be devastating in the hands of overreaching government dictators.  It is best to eliminate these threats to the human race now rather than deal with them later when ousting their power will be much, much more difficult.  But they will be ousted.  Their days are numbered because I can say that the youth that grew up with online gaming will not put up with such restrictions.  In video games many of the environments are best reflected by laissez-faire capitalism.   It is this type of economy that is most prevalent in the online world because politicians have not learned how to loot off of it—but it’s too late.  Too many people have had a taste of pure capitalism online, and will expect it in the years to come.  Once they learn that the economy of the real world is caused by political tampering, they will become very angry—and active.  Currently many citizens tune out of politics preferring fantasy evasion over grim reality so long as they have enough money to buy new video games and pay for their basic living needs.  But if that is threatened, they will expect laissez-faire capitalism and won’t understand the politics of United Nation power grabs like Agenda 21 or the fairness merits of socialism.  In the world of computer gaming no such fairness is appreciated since all computer users are equal—they can be as big and strong, fast or slow as they desire when they set up their avatars.  What separates the good from the bad is effort and commitment something the most devout video gamer understands very well.  It is only a matter of a few years that those kinds of options will be available to the masses in reality.

Some of the great quarterbacks of old from the game of Football is Doug Flutie and Joe Montana—both guys were about 5-10 weighting about 190 to 200 pounds.  Just twenty years later most quarterbacks are 6-5 and weigh 240.  Evolution is happening and technical advances will soon make quarterbacks that are 7 foot tall and weigh 300 pounds.  These advances will occur because the game will demand it through competition.  And if a player gets injured, instead of going on the IR for the rest of a season, he will simply upload himself into a new body that he has constructed to use as a backup while their primary body heals.  Paralysis and handicaps will be a thing of the past.  These things will happen whether or not we are ready for them, so it is our job to get ready for them, and to focus our philosophies and religious on ways to train our minds to contend with the adjustments.     But the path of the political progressive is a doomed one.  They are literally clamoring to outdated ideas that were put into motion a 100 years ago and are trying to hold society back politically to preserve them from the changes that are about to flood society with the dawn of a new age just as revolutionary as the Industrial Revolution.

Speaking for myself I never plan to retire.  I don’t see myself living in a Florida condo taking 20 pills a day just to stay alive and watching the sun rise and set waiting to die.  Rather 100 years from now I plan to still be active doing all types of projects pursing the ideas my mind craves to consume, and I plan to run over any political ideology that gets in the way of my doing it.  I’m not in love with power or politics in any fashion.  I just want to be left alone to live my life in the fashion I want to live it.  And in the future it will only be easier—not harder to do such.  The impediments of our age are manufactured and false made uselessly cumbersome to protect the empires of old and their out-dated thinking that runs counter to what’s coming.  It does no good to pander to these types of people because it only delays the inevitable.  The future is an exciting place but it will be radically different from the lives we live today.  That is why it is important to preserve the American Constitution as the blueprint to a healthy society of tomorrow so that they power grabbers of corruption can inflict minimal damage in the days to come with archaic beliefs that are a century out-dated trying to hold back a future that is coming at us with a fury.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Invasion of the United Nations: How Agenda 21 is coming after you and your neighborhood

If you ever wondered why your community is building sidewalks to nowhere, or cities seem hell-bent on constructing streetcars, or your local public school constantly uses terms like “global marketplace” and learning initiatives it is because your school, your city, and your community are following United Nations Agenda 21—and the goal of this diabolical scheme is foreign control of The United States with a gradual massive redistributive wealth plot spread across the entire world.  In essence, the intention of Agenda 21 is designed to steal the wealth of America along with the tendency of freedom that only exists on the North American continent and replace it with a centrally controlled government functioning within the U.N. in Europe.

Agenda 21 has already been at work for over 20 years and it is only now that the intentions of robbing Americans of their freedoms are becoming evident.  The strategy has been to gradually get Americans to accept government regulations they would otherwise reject by selling them little bits of goodness like parks and sidewalks in suburban areas so that trust will be earned in surrendering freedoms to a foreign entity, in this case a coalition of nations.

In my neighborhood of the ultra conservative Liberty Twp., Ohio Agenda 21 is showing up in the Vision Plan Committee as seen at the link below.

http://www.liberty-township.com/Planning-Zoning/2012-Vision-Plan-Update-2076.html

In the city of Cincinnati Agenda 21 is showing up in a program called Plan Cincinnati which can be seen here:

http://www.roxannequalls.com/home/plan_cincinnati_the_comprehensive_plan.html

I know Roxanne Qualls personally and can state emphatically that she is an ultra political progressive along the lines of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Mayor Mallory—Obama’s personal buddy.  When questioned about Agenda 21, people like Qualls will laugh about what a conspiracy such a thing is—and she believes she is on the high side of morality, and will attack anyone who thinks differently from her.  For context, I once gave Roxanne Qualls while she was Mayor of Cincinnati in 1996 a t-shirt in her office stating “TAKE AN AXE TO OUR TAX” to encourage her to vote for tax decreases.  She of course laughed at me—as predicted and thanked me for the shirt which I’m sure she threw away as soon as I left her office.  For the rest of the contents of that meeting it found its way in fictional form into my novel Tail of the Dragon where Chet Watson speaks to Governor Royce.  That scene was based on my discussion with Foxy Roxy the ultra progressive. She has been advocating Agenda 21 since it’s creation in 1992 whether or not she called it out by name.

Most of the time the advocates of Agenda 21 have no idea how the plan came into their minds—they just know they support it without question.  This is the case of Karen Mantia the current superintendent of the Lakota School District.  After many years as a teacher, and furthering her education to obtain a doctorate in the field of education, she had to run the minefield of Agenda 21 studies that were pounded into her head for two decades.  People who are successful in education learn to say yes to Agenda 21.  Outcasts who question it find themselves unemployed and on the outside looking in.  So the higher the degree of study in modern-day university, the more committed to Agenda 21 they are.  There are a few exceptions that I can think of right off-hand, but without fail, those exceptions have very strong families to help those students off-set the global oriented training that is provided in both public education and colleges.  Many advocates of Agenda 21 accepted in their education days to blindly acknowledge such concepts and if they deny the teaching they either drop out of school to preserve their own ideas, or they fail their classes—because tolerance of other opinions is not what college is all about—or public education for that matter.  In fact the goal of public education is not to inspire children to learn—but to teach children what social class they belong to—so that Agenda 21 can sort out the beneficial to their cause from the malcontents.

It is likely that many of the teachers employed under Lakota Superintendent Mantia as well as the school board have never heard of Agenda 21, because they see themselves as simple cogs in the wheel and do not question such things.  Agenda 21 is a machine of many such wheels all connected to shafts that drive the machine in ways that each part of the machine seldom analyzes and this is how such things get advanced against the wishes of mankind—and how tyrants rise to power.  Well-intentioned fools blindly follow the follies of some United Nations power grabber in a plot designed to rob America of freedom and wealth and distribute it to the entire world with a one world government superseding the elections held in The United States.  That is the world these people are pushing for and it all starts with a sidewalk in your local community, to subtly gain the approval of the public through a very manipulative game designed to rob humanity of freedom in a naive preservation of Mother Earth.

Agenda 21 is in its simplest form an attack on American sovereignty without destroying the cash cow that supplies The United Nations with most of their funding and military might.  The hope by these progressive insurrection artists is that a slow conversion in America from an individual based capitalist nation to a collective based managed economy ruled by Socialist International can occur without disrupting the global economy, much of it still at the mercy of The United States.  The progressives themselves are collectivist oriented old hippies still trying to bring about the kind of world they imagined while they were experimenting with drugs in the 1960’s and 70’s, and they are a disgusting lot.  The only places that such a world can be created under such impractical market values is in government where they can steal tax money to build the world of their distorted dreams—because all such thoughts would be snuffed out in the competition of the private sector.   Progressives are the greatest threat to modern freedom, because they are selfless entities serving a collective idea centered around Agenda 21.  If allowed to continue, within twenty years suburb living will be illegal, land will not be able to be purchased in any capacity, and all businesses will be collectively owned by the state—run by the United Nations.  This is why progressives must be defeated in public education, local politics, state politics, labor unions, and environmental goof-ball organizations.  We must get progressives out of our pockets and out of our lives otherwise they will never stop until they have taken every last liberty from America.  It must be acknowledged that the national debt is part of this take over strategy because it takes away the power of the United States to manage their own affairs as a sovereign nation.  Debt too is part of Agenda 21.  So the threat is very, very real, and it is up to each and every American on how they deal with this crisis—because a crises it is.  Ignoring Agenda 21 will not make it go away.  Silently dismissing progressives won’t dull the knives they intend to stick in the heart of personal liberty.  Playing nicely with those who think differently will only result in more loses to the radical left which is behind Agenda 21—even though it was George Bush Sr., who helped bring it to being in 1992.  Without fighting for our freedoms, we will lose them to those who wish to sell freedoms away because they are not strong enough, or mature enough to handle their own individual lives responsibly.  And the first of those yielded liberties evaporate with the construction of the community side-walk through a designated “green space,” and a school levy to maintain the power of progressive teacher unions.  These evils begin there and must be dealt with as threats to life itself.  There is no middle ground on this.  The proof is all around us.

For more on Agenda 21 CLICK HERE.

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