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More Proof Obama’s White House is Red: Communists in American Government

Jeffrey Immelt–Obama’s jobs council head and the CEO of General Electric proved that he is a far inferior replacement to his protégé Jack Welsh when he said about China’s economic power that one thing “actually works” in governance and that is “state-run Communism” in China.  Such comments show a lack of worldly understanding about demographic tendencies between people in the East versus the West, and a lack of understanding about what makes China work as an economy—and how dependent they actually are on The United States economy, and technology developed under capitalism. China has been good at stealing Western technology through an intense spy network, and forcing their workers to do things that would be unheard of in The United States, and these are the sources of their modern-day success, not a superior political philosophy.  For more about the conditions of China from the standpoint of a citizens living under communism in that country refer to a previous article I have written by CLICKING HERE.

CEOs and political pundits often don’t understand how facts are strung together behind the scenes; they tend only to look only at bottom-line results, or just a small piece of the overall picture.  They look at China and see over 1 billion people who are outpacing the GDP of America but they don’t see the crash course that China is on culturally.  Communist China would easily be in jeopardy if America turned its policies of socialism back to capitalism preventing so much manufacturing from fleeing to China to avoid organized labor in the states.  States in America are doing just that by passing right-to-work legislation to stop the manufacture bleeding that has been taking place, and if such things become common place in America, along with tax breaks, businesses will flee China for America in a heart beat.  But such things were not on the mind of Charlie Rose who brought up “the ‘growth rate’ of China has been falling from double digits to about eight percent,” as Immelt chimed in, “Look, I think it’s good for China,” he said. “To a certain extent, Charlie, 11 to 12 percent is unsustainable. You end up getting too much stimulus or a misallocation of resources. They are much better off working on a more consumer-based economy, less dependent on exports, driving technology and innovation harder. Really, the one thing that actually works, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but their government works.”  You can read more about this at the link below:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/head-of-obamas-jobs-council-state-run-communism-actually-works/

The reason the Chinese government works under communism is because the people of China are collectivists by their nature—dictated by their religion and other cultural background criteria.  Americans are not, but the public education system driven by current government policies are attempting to make Americans into collectivists so that communism will be received as a world-wide philosophy.  This was one of the key attempts of The Department of Education when it was founded in 1979, and is not news that comes out of conspiracy theory.  The information is clear for anyone who wishes to Google it—but few desire to acknowledge such a terrible truth—because it’s inconvenient.  But for a validation of the depth of communist penetration into the American government, and public education system read this American Thinker article:

  http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/pay_no_attention_to_the_commun.html

Communism only works if the society is mindless, and inquisitively evasive.  It takes “no thinking” to make a society into a communist one, and it doesn’t take a miracle to produce 1 billion brain-dead drones who can manufacture goods for a fraction of what it costs in The United States, if those drones do not question their reality.  And many communists are willing to trade thinking for comfort, which is the clear message in today’s public schools.  Young people are taught to take orders, follow directions, and comply with authority.  They are not taught to rebel, to think for themselves, to revel in their own independence.  Those types of behaviors are discriminated against in the society of government workers, and their brain-dead products.

People like Jeffrey Immelt and his boss Barack Obama don’t value individuality even though Immelt is politically listed as a Republican.  Such Republicans are of the “progressive” type, which is clearly indicated by his statement about China.  America, as it is now, would never comply with government orders, put up with the government restrictions on personal liberty, and absorb the loss of such personal luxury as the Chinese do while still showing up to work each day to work for bread and water.  Only a communist country of conquered people can get by with something like that—and the big government types are trying in America—but they will fail.

If China were held to the same regulatory standards as The United States is with socialist labor unions, aggressive EPA regulations, and a standard of living that expects more than 1000 SF of living space per person and all the food they can eat, China will find it’s economic growth evaporate in a flash.  And in the future, that is how America can beat China economically, by loosening the regulations, the taxes, and the socialism from labor unions, then America will thrive once again—because behind the mind of Americans is a thriving mind that craves individual freedom, and behind the oriental is a dominated collectivist that is easily controlled by authority lacking imagination as an entire country totaling millions upon millions of blank thinkers.  All together, they cannot compete creatively with the average American not because their minds are less—but because their political and spiritual philosophy limits them to restrictions of their imaginations—which are the ultimate fuel behind economic development.

Government looters ignore such facts, and it is for those reasons that they are so incredibly inept as managers, leaders, and financial tycoons.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Doc Thompson Fights for Detroit: Michigan becomes a Right-to-Work State

The biggest mistake that all organized labor advocates make is that they believe collective bargaining is a viable device for gaining wages, which it is not. From the employer’s point of view, wages are the way employers can motivate the best and brightest of their work force to excel, which ultimately sifts the bad workers from the good, the lazy from the ambitious.  In the game of football and other sports, there is a tryout process, and players that excel because of their skill and ambition are the ones who often end up making the most money.  Collective bargaining destroys this entire discovery endeavor.  It imposes upon the revenue generating entity an equal distribution of wages that all the employees do not deserve, because not all employees perform equally.  It is this very economic misconception that has destroyed the economy of Detroit, and is why the city is considering Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy protection after years of gradual decline.  The city was built by the car industry, and the unions killed the car making business in Detroit.  To understand why, just read Atlas Shrugged written in 1957 for the long answer.  Here is a USA Today article on the issue.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/10/march-toward-bankruptcy-detroit/1758305/

It was good to see my old friend Doc Thompson who is now doing radio in Detroit acting as he did when he was in Cincinnati and that is pointing out where the discrepancy is in perception between public sector unions and economic reality.  As Michigan has looked at Detroit and learned some hard lessons, they have come to realize that the best way to bring business back to the state is by passing right-to-work legislation as Indiana has, and Wisconsin.  As predicted the unions have taken to the streets in an all out assault to defend their legal rights to loot and pillage from the American tax payer.  Doc had some wonderful appearances on the Kudlow Report on CNBC talking about this very volatile issue.

 

When Doc was in Cincinnati as a radio personality he hosted a debate between factions involving Ohio’s Senate Bill 5 which was in essence an attempt to make public unions a right-to-work option, which of course the unions attacked heavily out of fear that if employees had the freedom to join a union without coercion, that most employees would elect to not pay the union dues—which is all the unions really care about.  The money they make off union dues gives them lobby power over politics.  Doc handled the radical crowd fairly.  CLICK HERE FOR A REVIEW.  I was a much bigger supporter of Senate Bill 5 than Doc was at the time because I saw it as a chance to take control of our local government politics away from public sector unions—which was essential to keeping taxes minimized.  But now that Doc is in Detroit, he can see clearly what the unions have done to that once great city, and he has stepped up to the front line to fight the parasite that the unions have made of themselves at the expense of South Michigan’s entire economy.

The villain of Detroit is the labor unions that are rooted in communism that is forced upon employers with “collective bargaining.”  Labor unions controlling management that are in the business of making goods like cars, cans of beer, and paper find that through “collective bargaining” the cost matrix of operating a business pushes up their labor costs way too much for a business to properly function, so the business locates to a state, or a country where they can control their labor costs.  Labor union’s answer to this trend is to spread communism to every corner of the world so that businesses have nowhere to go and thus no option but to pay employees through “collective bargaining” extraordinarily high wages that most of them do not deserve.  This is why public schools are failing, because bad teachers and good teachers all make the same amount of money no matter what they do, so failure is incentivized.  Businesses, like sports and other entertainment have survived under high organized labor costs because the public has so far supported the extraordinary mark-ups in the product to subsidize the collective bargaining impact.  But even those industries are about 10 years away from total collapse of their profit profiles.  Movie actors are paid too much as ticket prices at the box office have capped out, which will lead to a recession in the movie business.  And sports franchises are hitting the same cap, the public can’t afford in general to spend more than $200 for a football game so the profit matrixes for the NFL are about to hit a brick wall as well.  But that brick wall hit Detroit many years ago as companies like Toyota, and Honda have made better cars cheaper than the union wages of Detroit, leading to a collapse of that industry.

Michigan will be a right-to-work state, and Ohio will follow shortly thereafter.  They will become freedom to work states because the economy demands these actions.  Anything else leads to direct socialism, which will choke off the economy and send too many American citizens to welfare programs to survive, which will collapse the GDP of our nation, so there isn’t a choice.  The only fools who haven’t received the memo are the union workers who want to believe that pixy dust will save their hides from their own stupidity—and the Keynesian economics that politicians like Barack Obama subscribe to, which is destroying the economy of Europe presently, will have to be abandoned.  These are facts that cannot be ignored, even though all politicians who cozy up to organized labor practices “evasion” in denying the facts of economic reality.

No economy can flourish if the potential for profit from the job creators is taken away, and labor unions take away from management the tools designed to produce wealth.  Once a company loses its ability to manage their costs, and can no longer raise their price to off-set the labor costs, they have no choice but to file bankruptcy, or move their business to a more business friendly environment.  However, in the case of Detroit, the entire city cannot just pick up and move, it will simply fail, and become part of a long list of once thriving areas that prospered economically for a time, then failed under their own stupidity.  Detroit will join cities such as the Native American city of Cahokia, the mysterious, Teotihuacan, or Ankor Wat all which found their previous flourishing economic periods erode away due to droughts, disease, poor crop yields, or just political corruption which had the city of Chichen Itza on decline before the Spanish ever set foot on the Yucatan Peninsula.  Detroit is failing because it cannot manufacture goods to export, and people are abandoning the city because there are no jobs, and those jobs where ran out-of-town because of labor unions.  The economic failure is unlike those other ancient cities.  Detroit is a victim of self-imposed greed, and lack of proper economic understanding.  I feel honored to know Doc Thompson personally and see that he is still fighting for what’s right, even when it might otherwise be unpopular, or socially unfashionable.  The fix to Detroit’s problems, or America’s are not to glaze over the obvious economic facts of organized labor failures, but to fix the problem before one of America’s once great cities becomes only a distant memory.  Right-to-work cannot come soon enough for the poor state of Michigan.

Read more at the link below:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/angry-union-protesters-shout-down-tea-partiers-in-michigan-and-state-rep-tweets-violent-threat/

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

The Joys of Christmas: What to put under the tree this year?

I do love Christmas for all the reasons that tradition holds.  I suspect that many people are lost to those reasons as culturally society has failed them.  I noticed the longing gaze in the eye of a bank teller the other day when I took out the money to buy my wife’s Christmas present. I could see that she was married, and wished that somebody went to the trouble that I was for my spouse to see that she had a good Christmas.  I revealed my plans to the young lady because of the amount of money that I was taking out in cash, which most people wouldn’t feel comfortable carrying around with them.  I explained that this was the only way I could keep the present a secret from my wife with the hope of lasting till Christmas Day.

She let out several long gasps as she counted the money in stacks of hundred-dollar bills and I could tell that she wished for the same kind of cloak and dagger type maneuvers from her own spouse.  I told her to be patient, that if she could stay married for a quarter of a century like my wife and I have, that such a thing would be possible in her own future.  She smiled, at that and seemed to perk up as she lost track of her count and had to start all over again.

For what Christmas means to me, CLICK HERE and learn what my favorite Christmas song is and why.  I don’t think I will ever tire of Christmas morning, and waking up to unleash the many devious plots that I had been pondering for months toward all the people in my family that were carefully concealed acts of espionage designed to make them happy.  I truly enjoy those magical mornings of cold winter delight as for just a moment the world takes a deep breath and enjoys the company of one another.  And I truly love surprising people, especially my wife, since she is so incredibly hard to catch off guard.

In all our years of marriage, there have only been a handful of times that I have been able to “catch” her with a surprise of any worth.  Some years it is a treasured book that is hard to get, some years it is a gift that she would never buy for herself.  Of recent years, I was able to give her a slick monokini from Victoria Secret that she could wear in the streets of Key West and Cancun without being too over-the-top, and not look like a 17 year-old-girl.  Hard to do with her, and not cheap, since she is extremely picky—extremely.   That was over four years ago, and I haven’t been able to get her quite that good since—until this year.

Another year, my oldest daughter caught me off-guard with a book called Way of the Fighter, which I had been looking for over 20 years.  (CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW)  It’s a rare out-of-print book that costs over $100 dollars from used book venders.  During one of my trips to Los Angeles as I had time to kill from my business there, I spent entire days at the large used book stores on Brand Boulevard looking for a copy of that book from some deceased celebrity’s estate where the kids sold off all the things they thought didn’t have value.  But to no avail.  Somehow, my daughter had tracked down a copy of that book and gave it to me on Christmas, which to date is one of the greatest gifts I have ever received during all my many Christmases over the years.

But the gist of the gifts have not always been about the money, or how much they cost, it is the value of the thoughts behind them, the scheming all in the name of love that goes on in behalf of coaxing just a bit of joy out of a loved one for just a moment.  It is the selfish joy of seeing someone you care about open a gift that you carefully prepared, and plotted to give under the cloak of secrecy for the sustained joy of the gift’s intended recipient.

I suspect Christmas at my house this year will be one of the good ones, and I worked hard to position it that way, and the payday is on the morning of December 25th—and I frankly can’t wait.  But as we wait for that fateful day, if there is a freedom fighter in your family, or a Tea Party patriot, a young NASCAR fan, a hopeless romantic, an avid reader, or just a rebellious renegade then might I suggest you give them for Christmas my book, Tail of the Dragon.  Aside from a last-minute plug for the book, it is a story that will continue giving well into 2013, and they will love you for it.  So if you order one now from the links below, the book should arrive well before shipping companies close down for Christmas, with Saturday the 22nd being the last day.  Amazon.com has been sold out for most of December, but my publisher just sent them a heap of books to fill the need.  And I’m pretty sure that Barnes and Noble has been able to keep up their stock.  So this is just a friendly reminder for the last of those gifts you wish to give that special someone who are truly unique, there is still a chance to put Tail of the Dragon under the tree before Christmas.

For my readers here, I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.  No matter how dark and dreary things appear at times, it is always the human qualities that are best expressed on Christmas morning that ensure that the human race will always persevere over tyranny and chaos to find joy on a new day as the best of what’s in all of us come out on that wonderful—joyous day of December 25th each and every year.

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TheNovelRich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Star Wars: The Old Republic: ‘Deceived’ — A book review relevant to modern America

We live in a dangerous time, the progressive utopia of collectivism is failing dramatically worldwide, and every cog in that machine is collapsing primarily impacting teachers, firefighters, police officers, nurses, politicians, and virtually every government employee.  The world of progressive vision is failing and the participants are thrashing about like fish just caught and thrown upon a dry deck moments before being cooked over a propane oven—and we all know it.  The failures of that society are due to a focus on all the wrong human attributes, and have materialized into massive economic failures.  Those who bought into those progressive social fantasies are in store for serious social unrest and are now beginning to panic like guests on the Titanic once it had been realized that the ship will sink—slowly, and they will all find themselves soon in the freezing water fighting for their lives.

People like me, and my readers here knew as soon as the ship of America hit the iceberg, that the ship would sink, and we immediately took action to save ourselves.  We knew that when America was faced with life or death in the icy water that it would take individual effort to save ourselves, and collectivism of any kind would result in drowning.  We were wise to not embed ourselves into any collectivism, so that when the ship of our nation sank, we could swim freely, and be away from the chaos—driven by shock that will surely follow.

But it is painful to see my fellow countrymen suffer needlessly, because I tried to warn them—we all did.  But they did not listen—expectantly.  They thought we were pulling their leg, that we were “conspiracy theorists” that we were radical right-wingers—which of course does not justify why we are prepared for the detriment of the fiscal cliff, and they are not.  I was asked the other day what I do to stay sane during the whole ordeal, and I replied that I read.  In fact, I read a lot.  Right now, I’m averaging three books a week, completing one about every 3 to 4 days.  The only exception is that I spent about a week and a half on War and Peace, and before that, about the same amount of time on The Golden Bough.

Out of all the books that I have read lately however, one book jumped out at me as being wonderfully reflective of our times here in modern America, and how I personally feel about it.  Oddly enough, that novel was a Star Wars book from The Old Republic series called Deceived which takes place 3650 years before the action of the popular films that are so well-known.  I found that book to be extremely relevant to what is happening all across the contemporary earth, particularly in United States politics.  The gist of the book is that the Sith Empire has made a move against the Republic stronghold of Coruscant to destroy the Jedi Temple who are the guardians of peace and justice throughout that fictionalized universe in events that took place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.    The villain of the novel utters to the Jedi prior to the Sith attack, “Our time has come.  For three hundred years we prepared; we grew stronger while you rested in your cradle of power believing your people were safe and protected.  You were trusted to lead the Republic, but you were deceived, as our powers of the dark side have blinded you…you were deceived and now your Republic shall fall.”

I couldn’t help but be a little haunted by how relevant, and current some of the drama was in that novel.  It was extremely compelling and I highly recommend reading this fine book, even if science fiction is not the normal preferred type of reading material.  Deceived is a novel that explores what happens to people on the microcosm and macrocosm of political failure and how it affects individuals and multi species demographics across the face of an entire galaxy.  I enjoy most of the Star Wars books for the obvious reasons of big ideas, and fun fantasy, but this Deceived novel was quite impressive.  The novel follows the events of the attack shown in the above video advertising the new MMO computer game from Bioware titled Star Wars: The Old Republic.  And no, Old Republic is not just a simple video game—it cost $200 million to produce and counting, and is the absolute cutting edge standard in online computer game play.  It is stunningly epic.

Ultimately, the novel hit a theme that I spend a lot of time considering, and that is how do you re-build a society once it has crumbled?  What do you do when it is realized that the ship of society that we are all floating on is destined to sink into the abyss?  What is the proper method of maintaining integrity in the face of so much devastation and destruction?  For me, the ideas were explored in the novel Deceived and were wonderfully relevant, and a much-needed vacation from the treacherous events of the real world, and the many plots of destruction that are unfolding upon the American landscape where it is now obvious that we have all been Deceived in nearly the exact way that the Sith characterized in that very good Star Wars novel from the Old Republic Era.

I like the guy in the hat. He has the right attitude on how to deal with the crises that befalls us.  And to learn more about Star Wars and hear an interview that I have done on this subject with Matt Clark on WAAM……….CLICK HERE. 

Don’t forget, Friday, December 14th is Star Wars Dress up day.  Support Katie Goldman.  (CLICK HERE)


 

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

David P. Little Protests at Boehner’s Office: Lap dog reporters get their bellies scratched

I always imagined that activist David P. Little from Progress Ohio who came after me personally a couple of years ago, looked a lot like Jeffery Stec who is currently parading all over the Lakota School District with Karen Mantia attempting to cushion the blow of their next tax increase attempt using their “Community Conversations” campaign.  Jeffery is a younger guy who worked on the streetcar issue in downtown Cincinnati—one of those progressive utopian projects designed by Agenda 21 to be a people mover once high taxes and excessive regulation nudge people back into the cities where authorities can have more control over populations and their behavior.  No, David P. Little is not what I imagined once I saw recent pictures of him.  2 years ago Darryl Parks and I exposed the progressive activist on 700 WLW after Little directly attacked my character calling me a “wealthy businessman” (sound familiar) among other things for my opposition to the Lakota School Levy.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW THAT EPISODE. 

The videos below are from Progress Ohio so it can be seen what kind of people are involved in that organization.

After the incident I communicated with Little through email, as I was just a bit enraged over the incident.  Up to that point I hadn’t yet become the target of leftist progressive radicals, so they really didn’t know what to make of me in a conflict.  I didn’t imagine that Little was just another “flower child” from the sun-baked 60’s generation, which is what he has turned out to be.  (CLICK HERE TO SEE HIM.)  I thought he was a young guy like Stec trying to make a name for himself with progressive politics.  In that story, Little representing Progress Ohio did a “hit” piece on me that Michael Clark from the Cincinnati Enquirer tipped me off to, and I was thankful that he did.  Back then, Clark and I got along fine, and fairly and he gave me the heads up to what Little was doing against me.  Sadly, just a few years later when a similar “hit” piece was being assembled against me after the third levy defeat, Clark played the other side of the fence as many people warned me he would, so it wasn’t a big surprise, just a disappointment in such predictable human behavior.    CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  However over the David Little incident, Clark came through which allowed me to answer the story right out of the gate. 

Well, David Little has been back in West Chester politics as he was recently heading up a protest outside of John Boehner’s office urging the Speaker of the House to cut the industrial military complex that is “nation building” throughout the world in lieu of the upcoming “fiscal cliff.”  Little at the protest argued that there would be more money for things like education, and public employees if the military industry in America were diminished to nothing and all the evil contractors would perish into joblessness.  Here is the link to the Pulse Journal article from the reporter covering the story.

http://www.pulsejournal.com/news/news/group-rallies-outside-boehners-local-office/nTPZ3/

I don’t blame the Pulse Journal for not doing proper research into who David Little was.  When Little came after me way back then that particular reporter was probably drawing in coloring books in grade school, as the reporter turn-over rate at the Pulse Journal is excessively high, and their editorial staff has been looking for lapdogs to act as public relations spokesman for Lakota and other community advocate groups.  So the young reporter wouldn’t know the history of Little and his involvement in Lakota, or myself over the years.

Back when I first encountered Little I only argued that costs needed to be brought down in public education.  Since then I have learned what groups like Progess Ohio and public education really have in mind for America, and I have been very vocal about it, which is why many of the reporters who used to speak to me on a regular basis no longer do, because everyone’s comfort level has been smashed when dealing with the actual facts of these stories.   The Pulse Journal as a paper would never reveal how radical Progress Ohio is or their progressive philosophy of undermining The United States with mush minded ideas and pixy dust politics.  But I have went on record calling Little and the groups he fronts for what I think of them, which of course leads to tension—which is my right to do since it was they who drew blood first.

It was cute to see 15 miscreants show up at Boehner’s office with David Little as the spokesman and argue for the dismantling of the military complex in America to pay for a debt that progressive politicians have intentionally driven up to cause the current financial crises in the first place.  The debt is being driven by the old Cloward and Piven strategy of economic collapse to force “change” which is what this whole fiscal cliff idea really comes down to.  The economic perils are part of an attack offensive driven by progressive politics and it is good to see that David Little is at the forefront of the movement.

It is sad that The Enquirer and the Pulse Journal did not report the activity of David Little for what it was, but subtly attempted to pile on the opposition against Boehner as the fiscal cliff nears with the opinion of a fossilized flower child and his progressive philosophy of destruction.   But in these days of social media and changing roles, it is the citizen journalists who are tasked with the traditional roles of watchdog observation, as the current crop of reporters are in league with the masters of destruction implementing a plot of terror that is quietly lethal all because such positions are convenient.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

The Unions of Detroit: Wisdom from Mark Etterling

Below is a guest article from Mark Etterling.  For more about Mark, CLICK HERE.

I was listening to the news today as they discussed the Right to Work legislation currently pending before the Michigan State House.  As is usually the case there was the obligatory union boss pontificating about how passage of such legislation would automatically doom any and all future labor to an abyss of virtual corporate slavery.  As is also the usual, the person holding the microphone never even bothered to ask the most basic of follow-up questions like “Can you elaborate on that statement?”.  Since the modern-day media is obviously nothing more than a sorry bunch of ideological hacks I thought I would do their job for them by asking the question myself.
 
Hey Union Boss!  Explain in to me.  You make such asinine statements, but the facts don’t agree.  There are currently 23 states that have already passed RTW laws and from an overall economic standpoint those states are doing just fine without the need to force employees to accept union membership as a condition of employment.  To the contrary, union laden cities like Detroit, Flint,Toledo, and Cleveland are collapsing in on themselves as the former jobs of those cities are being migrated to the more friendly confines of the southern RTW states.  After having passed RTW last year Indiana picked up over 13,000 new manufacturing jobs.  In that same time span Michigan has lost over 8,000 with their current “closed shop” attitude.
 
If you listen to the union battle cry they will chant sophomoric rhyming slogans about how it’s all about workers rights.  Okay, great, now explain that as well.  Exactly how is it an invasion of someone’s rights to simply give them the freedom of choice about joining a union versus being forced to do so?  There is nothing in the pending Michigan legislation (or RTW in general) that prevents union membership.  In fact, Taft-Hartley guarantees the right of employees to unionize.  Therefore, no one’s rights are being threatened in the least by RTW legislation.  So explain your statement, because quite frankly it doesn’t pass the smell test.
 
If you ask a hardened union member they will tout all of the good things that unions do for their members.  Great!  If that’s really true than the unions shouldn’t feel the least bit threatened simply by giving people the option.  It’s like taking vitamins.  If I see a real benefit from taking them I’ll gladly pay for them.  I’ll use them freely where I don’t need someone to force me to do so.  However, if I don’t see a real benefit than why bother?  We shouldn’t be forcing people to join unions any more than we should be forcing them to take vitamins.  If unions are as great as advertised than keeping up membership up without force should be a piece of cake.  However, as Wisconsin and many other states have recently proven, that’s not the case.
 
So what’s this really all about?  Well, as is usually the case, it’s not rocket science.  As I mentioned above, in the first year after Wisconsin passed RTW the public employee union membership dropped by 56% as all those employees with a new-found freedom exercised that freedom.  56% fewer members translate into 56% less dues.  So in reality this is all about union membership dues and the political power that those dues represent and has nothing to do with anyone’s “rights”.  When fully 95% of union political contributions go to a single party it’s pretty obvious that party can’t live without the unions anymore than the unions can live without that party.  It’s a marriage of convenience to say the least.
 
The Democrats tried unsuccessfully to get card check passed in order to enhance union membership by forcing open ballot voting.  It didn’t work simply because the Democrats couldn’t come up with a single legitimate argument as to why it was necessary to permit such a coercive act without any justification.  When it comes to losing all these states to RTW they keep losing that debate as well for the very same reason.  The unions can hold all the statehouse rallies their little hearts desire, but what they can’t do is justify their own actions.  In the mean time they have become a caricature of what a democracy is supposed to look like simply because the exercising of the freedoms democracy offers should at least have a purpose, and this debate has none.
Mark Etterling

Rich Hoffman

Understanding The Laffer Curve: Why tax increases of any kind won’t work

Before any intelligent discussion can be made about taxes and how much a society should contribute to them, the general economic theory of the Laffer Curve must be explored. For those who have no idea what the Laffer Curve is, the video below will teach you in a very concise way. Understanding the Laffer Curve is paramount to grappling the most compelling arguments of modern politics.

Many people who work in and around government without question are the type of people who are willing to contribute 50% to 70% of their incomes to paying taxes—after all, all the money they make comes from the community treasuries, so anything they receive is more than they would have had to earn on their own merits. This is also why government work tends to pay so well, because they are expected to support extra costs like union dues and excessive taxation without protest. The Laffer Curve for government workers who lean in the direction of socialism is statistically over 50%. However, for a person like me, my Laffer Curve is around 10%. Anything more than 10% of my income I consider to be a waste of money on government services I don’t want, need, or philosophically support. For a person like me, it is not worth opening a new restaurant, opening a new coal mine, or even building a rocket to explore space because the taxes on my earned income exceeds my personal Laffer Curve.

I may be willing to lend myself to other businesses as a “hired gun” to help them deal with their business troubles even if my income is taxed above 30% because I can negotiate in my loss to the government in my fee. It doesn’t matter to me so long as I get my money, and the purchaser of my services gets what they are hiring me for. But to carry all the responsibility of opening, operating, and maintaining a business when the taxation rate exceeds 10% for me is just not worth it. So I will not contribute to the economy in this fashion because the Laffer Curve is too radically on the wrong side of the chart for me. The people who think like I do are what the American economy might consider “underutilized capital.” We tend to tinker in our garages and write books instead of doing other things America might consider more economically productive because the Laffer Curve on our taxable income is too high. It is these kinds of people who pull the statistical Laffer Curve chart hump to the 33% mark. Government types support a Laffer Curve of 50% to 70%–and people like me support a Laffer Curve of 10%. That is how 33% is reached as an average.

When Obama and the minions of communist oriented government insist on higher taxes on the “rich” they are essentially pushing the Laffer Curve too far to the right statistically causing more of the productive to take their bags of money and quit, joining me in the garages of life playing with their Craftsman tools, building cars, working on motorcycles, and thumbing their noses at government. Obama assumes that the “rich” will be just as motivated to deal with all the headaches of business ownership if their personal Laffer Curves are moved to percentages increasingly over the 50% mark, and that is where the failures occur. Many will not and proportionally the higher the percentage of taxable income moves higher on the Laffer Curve, the more people will drop off the chart, cut their losses, and not participate economically.

Obama doesn’t understand this kind of thing because he was trained to be a communist by his mentors, he never tried to operate a business prior to his political career, and he is currently a public parasite—meaning he lives off tax money as a government employee. He is not a value added citizen—meaning his existence does not contribute positive dollars to any economy, he simply takes by the essence of his life. Obama learned in college that the Laffer Curve is way out there at the 70% mark, and he believes it to this day. He looks at people like me who reside at the 10% mark and get angry with us. He signs Executive Orders by the stacks fantasizing that if he strong arms enough, that my type of people will decide for our own health and well-being that we will move our Laffer Curve up to 30% to 50%. But he is wrong and foolishly naive. In response, my type of people will simply go “pirate” and find other ways to shield our assets from the government trolls who wish to steal our property, starting with our money. Instead of complying with the government we will seek ways to undermine it, and gain back the values lost to looters like Barack Obama and his tax grabs.

It is because of the Laffer Curve that Obama’s “tax the rich” scam won’t work. The radical activists whom serve his private council are people like Richard Trumka, Van Jones, and other radical progressive/communist supporters and their Laffer Curves are well above the 50% range, because they are not the type of productive people who make anything. So anything that comes their way is more than they would have obtained if they just sat on their couches at home and watched TV. So they clearly support higher taxation on the Laffer Curve since they directly benefit with very little investment on their part. What their vision does is destroy the incentive for people who reside with a Laffer Curve of 10% to 20% to stay home and not play the game—which means less wealth is created, and the economy will recede instead of expand.

Many CEO types, many of the rich, many of the movers and shakers of the American economy attempt to stay on the good side of government with charity work, political contributions, and celebrity appeasement. Even the “rich” like Warren Buffet who supports the higher taxes on Obama’s Laffer Curve cozy up to people like Obama to keep the government from stealing too much of his wealth while he uses new federal laws he helped to fashion to crush his competition—which is why he supports Obama’s tax increases. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE. CEO’s try to play the game of politics to keep the Laffer Curve from moving too high up the graph. The closer to 0% the better, and when the Laffer Curve gets up over 40% the value of the efforts given to operate any kind of economic endeavor diminishes considerably—and retiring to a fishing village in Florida becomes much more preferable.

Government cannot change human nature, and they will never achieve acceptance of higher percentages on the Laffer Curve no matter what effort they employee, whether it be attempted force, or political maneuvers. Every human being has their cut-off point, and the further up the Laffer Curve the taxes go, the fewer people there are to contribute to a thriving economy. It is that simple. The foolish assumption by communists and political utopia builders is that financial producers will feel compelled to contribute equally to a world vision created by half-baked politicians and academic theorists—but producers won’t, because the value of those government fools is flushed out in the real world by what they contribute economically–which is very little. That is why the economy is tanking under Barack Obama, because he does not understand the Laffer Curve and like every pinhead dim-wit in the academic halls of universities, they have allowed their naive world vision to corrupt their logic and deny them the understanding of how the world works—and for them this is reflected on their personal Laffer Curves that are far up the ladder. The higher the tax rates on personal income Americans will decide with increasing frequency to withdrawal from economic creation and join me turning wrenches in their garages and simply watching football games all day on a Saturday afternoon and to say to hell with business and the government that loots off its back. That is what the Laffer Curve is and what it means to society.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Communism in Public Educaton: The California Teachers Union Video

Growing up at the end of the Cold War like I did, communism was a dirty word, and was a constant threat.  Many today think that the threat of communism went away after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which started in the early 60’s and was observed by intelligence officers as far back as the Cuban Missile Crises.  The Soviet Union was going to collapse, it was just a matter of time when.  They were collapsing because their political philosophy of communism destroyed ambition and productivity, leaving all of Russia and the gigantic land mass of China to turn those countries into the economies of the third world.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.  Communism is an evil political philosophy because it demands national collectivism to work, which requires individual support—violating personal sovereignty.  Communism cannot work without destroying individuality, and in the process, destroying the kind of ambition that manufactures productivity.

But communism is not gone from the world—it has never left.   It is alive and well today through the labor movement, through the Obama presidency, through any nation’s tendency toward big government.  All that has changed with communism is that advocates have changed the names around to hide their true intentions.  This makes it hard to identify who America’s friends are from their foes when the red flag of the U.S.S.R is removed from the face of communism and is replaced with Barack Obama’s smiling mug advocating progressivism.  The threats to individual sovereignty is the same as it always has been, but the marketing of the ideas did change to appear less threatening, so that the idea of communism could spread all across the world—as was always the plan.  And no place in America is communism more present than in the public education occupation—exclusively because education is controlled by massive government backed teacher unions who plan to teach our children on the merits of communism while forcing them to live under a rainbow-colored umbrella of communism in their everyday lives.  The communists look and act like any other person in our general society—that is, until they open their mouths and begin to spew the long-held philosophic ideas of Karl Marx.  The dead giveaway that a person is a communist is that they advocate high taxes for the “rich” and wealth redistribution for the “middle class.”  For proof of this radicalism, look at the video produced by the California Teachers Union narrated by long time respected actor Ed Asner.  What is being advocated in this video is communism.  This is what our kids are learning in school with tax payer money off our property values.  This is the result of a communist attack from within America that has proven far more dangerous, and sinister than even the Cuban Missile Crises was during the Kennedy years.

I know this video and the producers of it are communists in spite of their declaration that they are “progressives” because their beliefs have been tried before, most notably in the Russian Revolution in 1917 Petrograd—known today as St. Petersburg.   For anyone wishing to learn more on this communism idea they should read We The Living by Ayn Rand, published in 1936 during the “Red Decade” here in America as a warning to those in The United States who were thinking of pushing communism during our own Great Depression.   The book is widely available at any book store today as Ayn Rand books are flying off the shelves as people are going back and learning what she was trying to say during the first half of the American 20th Century.  CLICK HERE TO READ MY REVIEW OF WE THE LIVING. Communists today fear Ayn Rand’s books, so they will ridicule anyone who attempts to read them.  In Ayn Rand’s novels—particularly We The Living she shows how the process happens, and it begins by demonizing the “rich,” those who produce jobs and generate the wealth of a country.  Communists wish to remove these “wealth producers” so that the government does not have any competition for that kind of activity.  In a communist country government wishes to be the job creators by distributing the looted wealth collected from the masses, so they must eliminate those who actually make things.  That is why they attack the “rich.”

The fundamental flaw that all communists suffer from is that they do not understand what makes wealth.   They believe that money is finite, that it is not a renewable resource generated from the ideas in an individual’s head and implemented by the companies that they create.   So communists attempt to steal the wealth that has so far been created, and then they sit on that looted wealth by redistributing it to the poor and middle class.  Then they wonder why their economies failing, because the value for things goes down as the wealth leaves the country like water running through a screen door.  Committees do not produce wealth, corporations do not produce wealth, and governments do not produce wealth.  All those collectivist organizations can only “manage” the wealth created by individuals.  America has had more wealth than any other nation because it has produced individuals who could think in such a fashion to manufacture wealth.   If those individuals are looted by their government, the individuals will stop manufacturing wealth, and soon the nation will fail with devalued currency, and become a society of middle-class looters looking to government to send a check they can live on in the mail.  When they don’t get it, they will protest—just like what is happening in Greece.

The California Teachers Union along with the rest of the public employees of that state are bankrupting it with their commitment to socialism/communism, and their mentality that was wonderfully evident in their video hosted by Ed Asner.  Communists are certainly alive and well, and if you send your child to a public school, they are being taught by communists, as classically defined.  Communists thrive in public education because there is no competition, so government has paved the way to spread communism into the minds of young Americans without any fear of competing ideas interfering.  If parents don’t like their children being taught by communists at their local school, they don’t have much choice but to home school their children (as my wife and I did for a time) or send them to a private school.  Sadly, it is time to stop kidding ourselves of the value of public education when it is now so obvious that public schools are teaching children the values of communism, instead of becoming productive capitalist in a thriving economy.

If you are an older person and can remember the Cold War, you should withdrawal your support from your public school any way possible.  If you send them your money, you are helping spread the communist message to our next generations.  CLICK HERE FOR PROOF THAT THE KGB INFILTRATED PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE 1960’s AND NEVER LEFT.  Younger parents, who did not grow up in such a time, won’t know what is going on because they are still too immature to see history playing out before their eyes, and they will not understand.  But for those of us who do, communists have to be removed from public education, and the best way to do that is to starve them out of their hiding places.  For more proof of this communist plot in all public schools, CLICK HERE, watch the video there before assuming that I’m pulling your leg.  Because I’m not, sorry to say.  

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

A Lesson on Government from George Lang: how things are supposed to work

Below is an example of how local government is supposed to work—at least as a sample of the type of debate that should transpire between the participants.  This is true no matter what kind of government is presented, whether it is a school board, a group of trustees for a township which is the example below, or a city council—the elected representatives are supposed to argue and hash out issues with passionate narrative in order to arrive at a proper conclusion.  In the example provided, West Chester Trustee George Lang argues against the proposal of trustee Cathy Stoker, and Lee Wong who are voting in favor of a contract renewal with the Fraternal Order of Police that has very lucrative benefits included.  Many of the employees being discussed make very close to six figures a year.  CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW MUCH AND WHO THEY ARE (there’s over 80 comments on that link that are very entertaining).  So the employees are already well compensated, and this new contract more than insures more of the same behavior, which Lang argues West Chester may find balancing a budget will be difficult in the coming years.  Watch for yourself:

George Lang was outvoted 2 to 1, but he still went to the trouble to make the public argument for the good of West Chester, and this is why it’s important to vote in favor of more representatives like Lang at election time.  In West Chester, Cathy and Lee’s seats are coming up for re-election, so there is a chance for West Chester to vote big spenders like those two trustees out of office in favor of managers who will behave more like George Lang.

The trend in most political organizations such as school boards, trustees and city councils is to try to achieve group consensus and this is where politics fails.  When the members of the governing body are more concerned about winning a popularity contest, or being accepted by the other governing members, the chance for spirited debate is effectively squashed, and does not happen very often.  In Lang’s situation of course his position will not make him popular with the public sector unions, but he is not concerned about those kinds of things—he is trying to manage the impact of the contracts cost against the ability of the tax payers of West Chester to pay the bill without tax increases, which is how the process is supposed to work.

Ultimately the video above reveals a much more sinister evil that is at the heart of every government deal involving any public sector union, and illustrates why school boards and other management organizations lose control of their costs—third-party arbitration.  In the video Cathy Stoker discusses that if the contract is not accepted by the trustees that a third-party will be called in to resolve the dispute and force the hand of the trustees against their will.  This third-party arbitration is exactly why school boards do not have the stomachs to fight teacher unions to manage their costs, because the union will force the dispute into arbitration and trump the elected school board.  School boards don’t want to be trumped, so they go along with whatever teacher unions’ support to avoid the third-party embarrassment.

The same threat is present when involving fire fighter unions, and police unions.  In West Chester, Cathy Stoker showed in the video that she is very concerned about third-party arbitration forcing upon them costs that exceed the contract they are agreeing to, while George Lang suggests that the trustees should force the issue into arbitration and fight it out in an effort to save the costs against the tax payers of West Chester.  Lang knows that if they lose their arbitration hearing, he would then have the leverage in the media to blame the arbitration process for the high taxes imposed by the third-party.  So he is willing to roll the dice, whereas Stocker and Wong aren’t.  But at least the debate happened and all three trustees didn’t mindlessly accept the contract without spirited discussion.

When electing these kinds of politicians it is more beneficial to elect fighters instead of people who will just lie down and say “uncle” in the face of third-party arbitration.  It is this threat that drives up the cost of all these public sector workers with teachers, fire fighters, and police departments.  Public sector unions should be illegal, and third-party arbitration by un-elected officials should also be illegal.  The laws that protect this system are a travesty against the tax payers.  But thank God not all politicians are mindless “yes men” who just go through the political motions so they can have the social popularity of a name-plate upon their desks.  Some politicians like George Lang actually try to manage the costs that impact his community, which is what he was elected to do.

For those reading this who are my community neighbors thinking of running for an office there are three school board seats coming up at Lakota, two seats coming up for the West Chester Trustees, and Liberty Twp has some seats coming up, it would be advisable for you to run for one of those seats.  If you need help getting in touch with people who can help with money to run for office, then feel free to contact me, and I’ll put you in touch with those who can help with your campaigns—because I’d like to see more people like George Lang in these local positions fighting on behalf of the tax payers in the years to come.  That is the key to solving many of our future problems circulating around sustaining community growth and maintaining a positive economic future, electing politicians locally who will actually do the job as well as George Lang does.

On the other side, an example of how the job is done poorly can be seen in the video below.

See the difference?  No wonder Detroit is broke and looks the way it does.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Progressives are at Fault for Most Gun Violence: Why the 2nd Amendment is “REALLY” needed

I have heard enough about the gun argument that took place after the Jovan Belcher shooting/suicide which occurred at Arrowhead Stadium, in Kansas on Saturday December 1st.  Belcher for all the reasons that impassioned youth build up a fury in their minds saw no way out for himself but suicide after he shot his girlfriend—the mother of his young baby during an argument.  Many people have had such arguments with a loved one, and many times the rage can build up to a desire to obliterate the other person, even if deep down inside the love is great.  The mind often distorts reality when perspective is misplaced, and people often do stupid things when they are angry.  But as I’ve listened all week to the pundits fume for more gun laws, like what the big cities have around America—which are also Obama Zone voting blocs, the reality of the situation must be placed into perspective and not be allowed to migrate to the progressive arguments of rhetoric not based on reality.

The strongest case that progressive minded gun grabbing fools have for more gun laws is that the urban population is killing each other ruthlessly, and putting guns in the hands of such people is dangerous.   Jovan Belcher is a product of this ruthless urban culture that is so highly praised among the media—and it is the creation of this dependent based urban culture that is the cause of many of society’s modern troubles—including gun violence.  Progressives seeking to hide the crimes of their folly are pursuing fewer guns in society to cover up their political failures as a general philosophy.  Much of that urban culture progressive creation can be heard in modern rap music which many young people like Belcher listen to often.  The music is often violent, and contains a lot of race based anger, meant to fuel support of progressive philosophy, such as more welfare programs, an expanded and defined middle class, a destruction of American traditional value in favor of more global awareness with less individual sovereignty—along with a host of other platform points all of which can be seen in the Obama Administration.  When pictures of Jovan Belcher are sought online, he is often seen wearing headphones which is common among athletes before a game starts—and I would be willing to bet that the music he was listening to was not Mozart, or Bach.  If a young person puts garbage into their minds, of course garbage will come out in their behavior, so when young people like Jovan find themselves angry and insecure over being a new parent with a young baby that is depending on them to be a good person, and the spouse in a relationship has a whole set of values that are different from Jovan’s upbringing, conflicts are bound to happen, and Jovan dealt with the crises in the manner that he built the ideas in his head with like music, movies, television, and most likely large doses of meditating on the merits of “urban culture.”  To understand that culture all one needs to do is play the video game Grand Theft Auto.  I’m sure Jovan Belcher played that video game a lot.  In fact—I’d bet on it.

(YES THE VIDEO BELOW IS THE REAL GAME AS KIDS PLAY IT EVERY DAY.)

But that doesn’t mean that guns should be outlawed because Belcher used a gun to commit crime, or video games because they allowed Belcher to fantasize about being a street thug—shooting and raping “bitches” so you can score points in a game like players do in GTA.  It doesn’t even mean that music should be edited in any manner.  If people like the urban stuff, the market has a right to exploit that consumer need.  But who created that market need—where does it come from?  Progressives—they are the ones who made the welfare culture, they are the ones who created the modern ghetto, they are the ones who are responsible for much of the gang violence that goes on, the drug use, the sex driven diseases like AIDS, the out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and progressives are responsible for destroying the modern family leaving many young people like Jovan Belcher without a good role model in their lives in the form of a father.  Progressives have attacked the America father of tradition and attempted to replace them with a central government, and that is the cause of most social failures. The gun violence is just the symptom of the sickness created by progressives in urban neighborhoods, which nobody in their right minds would want to live in.

Where I live I would say that 90% of the homes within a mile of my home are armed with at least two guns and I can report that we do not shoot each other—ever.  The guns are there for target shooting, for personal protection, and on occasion hunting.  But there is an even more important reason for having those guns—they are there in case the military fails us, and the government moves too far to the left for our liking, we will need to use those guns to take back our country from a military that we have wasted a lot of money arming and training only to be used against us as a weapon.

One year ago President Obama with the support of the House and Senate passed the NDAA Act which gives permission to whoever is president at the time to arrest and indefinitely detain Americans violating their 5th Amendment rights on only the suspicion of terrorist activity by the president as defined by that same Executive Brach holder.  I can say that if such a thing happens, I will no longer recognize the laws created by the thieves in Washington and an armed revolution will become necessary to overthrow the tyrannical government.  That’s why we have guns, because government cannot be trusted except when the threat of armed revolt is present.  If the government goes bad, the armies, and militias that are talked about in the Constitution become the weapons of that government leaving Americans defenseless.

In case political pussies like Bob Costas and the other progressive cry babies in the modern media didn’t notice, most of America did not vote for Barack Obama, by land mass.  It is the urban vote that did–the costal regions and cities with huge sections of Section 8 housing and strong labor union presences.  America as a whole is not in agreement with the idiots of New York and their progressive gun bans because deep down inside of everyone I talk to from all walks of life there is a strong belief that our guns will be needed to preserve our independence from progressives such as The United Nations and other members of Socialist International.  The U.N. is making their global land grab using the same progressive philosophies that helped shape the mind of Jovan Belcher.  It’s just a paper conquest as opposed to a traditional siege.  (And for my older readers here, sorry for my use of strong language, but it’s needed in this case.  There is more coming at the end, just to warn you)  The characters who want to grab our guns today are the same type of people we will have to fight tomorrow, and to surrender our defense against their parasitic aims would be a fool’s paradise.

Every idiot who called out for more gun control in the wake of this most recent tragedy is one of the types of progressive minded people who helped shape the mind of Jovan Belcher in the first place.  If Belcher did things in his life my way, he would learn to hunt and fish on his own, he’d know how to fix his own things in life both mechanically and psychologically, and he’d be listening to classical music on his iPod instead of urban rap, and he would have paid attention.  Young people love leadership, they soak it up like a sponge, and it says a lot that Belcher went to see his coach in the darkest hour of his life—probably because that was the strongest male figure in his life at the time.  Most of the urban crimes in society could be solved if the world had more strong fathers for young people to look up to, because the progressive experiment of destroying fathers is what caused Belcher and many other troubled youth to not have the mental faculties to deal with crises in their lives.  The fault is progressives and their urban culture policies, and the fix is in introducing young people like Belcher at an early age to more self-reliance, and positive role models.  Progressives have sought to destroy positive role models so that society would have a greater need for a more centralized government who cared for everyone and everything, and the world with its current miseries is their fault.  So with that said it was not the gun that caused the terrible events at Arrowhead Stadium, it was progressive philosophy, and for that they can all hang their heads in shame.

And to my conservative mild-mannered friends—don’t be afraid to call people like Costas a pussy—because he is.  He makes a living interviewing celebrities and commenting on sports—the worlds great distraction.  He had no right to bring his ass kissing ways to our living rooms when all we wanted to do was watch grown men run into each other at full speed and knock the shit out of one another.  Costas should have kept his mouth shut and not stuck his nose into an issue he is not qualified to speak on—since he has made a living as a “yes man” not a defender of liberty or even a man of self-reliance which to me is the only kind of man there is.  Tyranny and slavery are built on the backs of people like Bob Costas who seek to fix the symptom, not the cause so that the bright lights of a football game can resume without guilt.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com