To understand what is wrong with many modern-day progressives just read their response to the Lebanon Tea Party post-election statement about how America will be well on its way to open socialism now that Obama has been re-elected. The link below is the smart-ass editorial from City Beat magazine apologizing to the Tea Party for helping to elect a socialist. Similar comments were heard on 700 WLW and other media outlets that quickly jumped on the Obama reefer truck after the election along with the other miscreants.
Most of the children who work at City Beat were literally born yesterday and the 1950’s seems like an entire century ago, and all they know about that time is what their public school teachers taught them. But it’s good to learn how those poor young people think—that youth who is so sure of their world-view that they are willing to flaunt a communist flag in the face of people who are genuinely concerned about the direction of the country, primarily because young people like the author of that article are so destitute in their thinking.
The reason people feel that the election of 2012 is a turning point for the country is because it is now obvious that logic has been suppressed most likely forever by stupidity and short-sightedness. The rebellious gestures of the modern progressive youth are functioning from a broken philosophy that will destroy America. To understand why, the video below frames the reason well. The belief system of a country makes up its philosophy and in those definitions are the success and failure of a civilization.
I have heard it asked “what happened to the Tea Party, why are they so extreme, and talking about socialism all the time.” Well, the reason is that it has been learned that it is socialism that we are dealing with, and anyone who chooses to read a book instead of drinking a pitcher of beer at BW3’s with a group of friends would know—because knowledge contributes to the philosophy of a nation—mindless evasion perpetuates the destruction.
I see the same kind of sarcasm shown in the City Beat article that is heard from kids in their twenties complaining about their parents as they declare their social independence. They often state how stupid their parents are, how overly dramatic, and out-of-touch. But what those kids don’t know is how hard it is to build a good life, and once they get a taste of it and pop out a couple of kids of their own to care for, they mature considerably, and adversely become more conservative as they get older and learn how the world works. That is why the political philosophy of fools targets the young, and influential, who are too lazy to read a book or learn things on their own—rather they just repeat what others have told them like a mindless parrot, and maintain the “hip” social norm—without working to discover who made those social norms “hip” to begin with. It is those types of people who elected Obama, and now like a child you’d like to help not fall on their face in life, they will feel the wrath of their philosophic commitment. The loss felt by those who struggled to leave them a good country is a slap in the face by those young City Beat employees. The Lebanon Tea Party has been fighting to prevent the inevitable, and they were ridiculed not only in the loss but by the snot nosed kids who mocked their effort.
Now we have to watch it happen, and happen it will, socialism will overtake capitalism and restrict the economic growth that made America what it has always been to most of us who have lived long enough to remember. When it does the smart ass kids at City Beat will then understand the meaning behind the Lebanon post-election statement—and they won’t think it’s so funny. Freedom requires intelligence and self-reliance, and those are traits in American philosophy that are no longer present by the youth who think they know everything already. It was those kinds of people who put Obama in The White House, and they will have to live with the consequences, which will come quickly.
Wait till they find out how expensive Obama Care is—that is the first step that will show the impact of their massive mishap.
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
–Woodrow Wilson
Within hours of Obama’s re-election, long time media allies to the Tea Party were distancing themselves as they recognized that associating with a group who referred to the modern progressives as socialists was dangerous for their careers. It is dangerous to their careers because the bosses in the progressive party were putting down the clamps with memos and emails now that they had won four more years in The White House, and it was their intention to move the goal posts of America even more to the left than it was already, and those who stood in the way would find themselves out of a job quickly.
In the wake of the election there was a tinge that something wasn’t quite right. It wasn’t just because my guy had lost, but due to all the things that weren’t covered during the election that were very obvious–Benghazi, Obama’s past and presidential record, his radical association of friends—and many more issues were given a free pass. And quickly on election night the stars all lined up for Obama—one of the biggest jokes of a president in my lifetime. As I watched the smoke clear on the day after—I didn’t see any resemblance of my representative Republic known as America. Instead I saw a mob ruled democracy of fools claiming that they had won a great victory when in fact they had won only half the country + 1 welfare recipient desiring a Obama phone. They considered this a mandate to proclaim an overwhelming victory, and their behavior almost came as though it were scripted—even expected.
None of this made any sense to me until I thought of a book I read by Jim Marrs over a decade ago called Rule By Secrecy. Reflecting on that book, suddenly much of the election of 2012 seemed to become clearer. Shamefully it was the vast conspiracy theories of Marrs in that book that illustrated clearly my observations in the wake of that treacherous day in American history. It would seem that Jim Marrs, who can be seen below in the lecture series that he gave years ago was much more right than wrong. I highly recommend watching what Jim Marrs has to say in this very revealing lecture to put into perspective the events of modern politics.
There are no other directions to turn when it is learned that the election process can be manipulated by thieves who can overload the electorate with emotional voters who simply want the government to play Santa Clause in their lives. The plan utilized by so many members from the media all through the political halls of power is so predictable and self-serving that the system is not working the way it was intended, leaving people who do not agree with the politics of progressivism nowhere to turn. The politicians in office do not represent my values. Obama is not my kind of president. Congress is too manipulative—and soft, and the Senate seems like they come from a different planet. Yet listening to them speak on the day after, so many people believe that the progressive party’s narrow victories was a mandate to impose their will on the rest of us, and I can report that such a thing will not happen. Instead, I look to the work of Jim Marrs to understand why I don’t have a representative republic—because his view seems to be the only one that makes sense—even if it falls outside the realm of social acceptability.
As for me and many of the people I call friends, my America is the one that is old-fashioned. I like strong families, I hate drugs, I don’t like to drink or get drunk. I like to read books, I like to learn—I like to take care of my children and be close to them. I like to shoot guns and keep my life to myself. In other words, I like most the America of yesterday, and I want it for my children tomorrow. I do not want what the thugs, goons and imposing creeps of modern progressivism wish to give me and my family. It doesn’t matter if it comes from the Tri-Lateral Commission or just a socialist in the White House, they do not have a right to my life, and they will be denied when they come to my door. When they do my black flag will greet them, because I no longer believe in the political system. I’ve seen enough.
There are only three possible scenarios that have delivered America to four more years of Obama. The first scenario is that half the country is diabolically stupid, and has been so dumbed down by public education and television, that they can no longer think for themselves. The second is that voters have simply lost their minds due to years and years of smoking dope and were simply HIGH when they voted for Obama, because only someone under drug induced euphoria could possibly think that Obama had done a good job. Or third, that David Icke has been correct all along stating emphatically a reptilian species of inter-dimension parasites are ruling our world from the confines of secrecy and dangle the world’s politicians from their finger tips. Such a thought was the topic of a recent episode of Conspiracy Theory with Jessie Ventura, on Tru TV.
I enjoy the work of David Icke as he is very knowledgeable and entertaining. I typically accept his theories as I would have any science fiction author—as a way to connect the dots with fantasy the things that don’t quite make sense in reality. Icke travels the world giving marathon lectures that are filled with massive amounts of information to support his arguments. One such example can be seen below, and should be watched in its entirety—because after witnessing the re-election of Barack Obama, many of the fantastic claims made by Icke make a lot more sense.
The goal all along has been to keep the populations of the world in a foolish state so that they are easy to rule, and the world will always be at war when intelligence is attacked, and foolishness is praised. Whenever such conditions exist, Washington will be full of politicians like the looter Obama supported by an army of pot smoking losers intent to be effortlessly ruled by a hidden army of lizard people obsessed with ruling Earth as just one planet in a universal empire. It’s the most plausible theory available to explain how America could have possibly elected such a terrible President in Obama to a second term. Nothing else seems conceivable. Surely there aren’t that many stupid people?
To win the fight that we are all currently in, the proper targets must be properly identified, and dealt with. In this case, the evidence points to an aspect of conspiracy that I didn’t want to believe. But there is no other conclusion as to what happened in the election of 2012. The foreign investment in America has spoken against the wishes of United States sovereignty. In the case of Romney versus Obama, Romney was most prone to strengthening the American currency, which goes against the plan of global planners, who were very much invested in the American election.
So to learn who these people are and how they are all connected; watch this video by Jim Marrs speaking about this topic in Australia. I personally like Jim, so much so that he is currently reading my book Tail of the Dragon for a cover blurb satisfying a portion of my 2013 marketing plan. I’ve read many of his books and in several cases did not want to believe what he was reporting, as he has a reputation as a conspiracy theorists. His newest book is a New York Times Bestseller called The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy. He’s a great journalist, public speaker, and a damn good researcher and the burden to disprove his theories falls on his critics. It is evident to me that much of what he says in the video below is the cause of the election that went against American value, and more toward the collapse of American currency purely for the profit of the puppet masters who have their hands in most of our lives.
To be free as we desire in America, we will have to cut our strings to these influences, which reside behind the façade of President of The United States, and must admit to ourselves that the system is broken beyond repair, and must be replaced with a return to Constitutional principles. There is no compromise with people, who are willing to kill to see their intended results, and those are the kinds of people we are dealing with at the highest level, and they must be the new focus of any liberty movement that is to survive.
To the small-minded progressive types, the Koch Brothers are the ultimate evil in that they–along with Rupert Murdoch support conservative causes, which are at odds with leftist diabolical schemes. Progressives often do not connect the influence of billionaires like George Soros with the funding of their causes, because they don’t understand how the dots connect. This leaves them victims in the schemes of billionaire battles between people like the Koch Brothers and George Soros who disagree with how to move planet Earth into the future. Soros wishes socialism, the Koch Brothers wish for capitalism. The people of the world have to decide where they fall on that battlefield of ideas but it is apocalyptically foolish to assume as the puppeteer in the below video does that it is the evil Koch Brothers who want to end the world as we all know it.
The world for progressives should end, because I believe as the Koch Brothers believe that capitalism should be the ruling economic force in America in the purist form possible. That means an end to the progressive platform, so the puppet chick has good reason to fear that the changes she wishes to see happen will be reversed, because I don’t want to stand shoulder to shoulder with people like her. I don’t want to hold hands with her. I don’t even want to breathe the same air as she does. I don’t want to hear her ideas. I don’t want anything to do with her view at looking at the world and if that makes me a big mean guy, then so be it. I’ve been called worse.
But you know what; I have my opinion completely free of the Koch Brothers or any money given from the Republican Party. In fact, I’ve never taken money from any conservative groups like the Koch Brothers or otherwise, yet I have my own conservative opinions that I advocate completely on my own. This runs counter to how progressives think—most of whom can be bought for cheap prices and used ideologically to advocate that the sky is pink, and the leaves on the trees are blue just because some progressive leader said so. Naturally, these idiots believe that everyone in the world is just as easily mislead as they are, and their platform is built to protect themselves from their own stupidity—and they fully expect the rest of the world to come down to their level. That’s why to them anybody who has a mind and can think for themselves are greedy, mean people.
I have presented over the last couple of years multiple scenarios to show how destructive and parasitic progressives are. I have shown with great detail how the power vacancy they leave in their wake can usher in radical forms of socialism and radical Islamic elements fully intent to take America over with their corrupt ideologies, and are a million times more dangerous to our lives than the money the Koch Brothers give to political candidates. In the video below is just one small example of how Muslim extremists intent on a world-wide caliphate have sought to destroy America from within. This is certainly not science fiction, but fact. Listen carefully.
Yet Muslims are not the only ones looking to overthrow America, communists are still at their radical behavior hiding their global intentions behind progressive politics, and they are probably more active in our public affairs than the Muslims have been. They are just better at hiding their radicalism since the back lash they faced in the late sixties. Fools like the puppet girl above who are angry at the conservative movement financed by people like the Koch Brothers have paved the way for letting the aggressive factions of radicalism all over the world set their sights on America as a playground for possible destruction. History now has facts, and progressives are dangerous to America because they are too stupid to defend themselves intellectually, and physically, and are attracted to ultra aggressive political movements to hide behind. So self-made men and women are scary to them, so scary that progressives shutter in their shoes at the mere thought that someone like me, or the Koch Brothers, or Governor Kasich will tell them to pull their own weight and shut the hell up. Instead they lobby for more collectivism, which invites outside infiltration into our country to wipe from the face of the Earth the only free country that there ever was, or ever will be.
I am currently reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstroy. I bought it because I wanted to read about the society of Russia before it was destroyed by communism in 1917. Like an archaeologist I want to see what Russia was like in the middle 1800’s from a book that was published right after the Civil War here in America. I am curious to how such an opulent society could have been ravaged blank in just a few short years, because it is obvious that there are global factions that want to do the same thing to America, and we are currently not very far from it. If not for the money that the Koch Brothers and others have spent to preserve conservativism in America, it may well have been swept away ushering in the destruction of everything we know and cherish. Ayn Rand’s book We The Living made me interested in War and Peace because I want to stop such movements from happening in America.
The puppet girl above is a wonderful metaphor for progressive politics. She like her puppet are simply caricatures for people like George Soros and other wealthy philanthropists who have lost touch with reality, and feel guilty that they made so much money off the capitalist system. They turn to socialism not because it is the wisest political philosophy, but the one that will preserve their own legacies by cutting the legs out from their potential competition. Unlike Soros, billionaires like the Koch Brothers aren’t cowards afraid that if they preserve capitalism that future wealthy people might challenge their supremacy. Unknown to many progressive fools it is such an elementary notion that drive these political movements to the antics of sock puppets to make their final argument. And in such notions reside the intelligence of their entire position.
There is nothing I like more than to hear new people coming out front and speaking on 700 WLW from the land of West Chester defending liberty, and protecting conservatives from the vile ruthlessness of the typical progressive. Over the last couple of months George Lang has been that person, appearing on WLW a couple of times. His latest was an important one as he spoke of the Romney/Ryan visit that he had a very big part in bringing to West Chester as one of the three trustees and the only one who isn’t a typical do-nothing politician. George was on WLW to discuss the actual poll numbers for Butler County in favor of Romney and the direction Ohio would take in the upcoming election. Entertaining, smooth, and articulate, George didn’t forget to mention his support of Sharon Kennedy for Supreme Court which he and I enthusiastically prop up over the incumbent and former social worker Yvette McGee Brown.
The rally that Lang spoke about turned out to be quite dramatic. West Chester—and Butler County more specifically is one of the most intense hot beds for conservatives in the entire country. Critics will look at the crowd who attended and instantly criticize that there was a sea of 30,000 white faces with little diversity among them, or any poor. Those same critics would be part of the problem that is infecting America right now with an emphasis on all the wrong things that make up a successful society. Diversity, fairness, social justice are the policies of the progressive/socialist and the people who attended the Romney event for the most part support all those types of things, but not at the expense of wealth production and the general pursuit of goodness.
I view the typical resident of West Chester as a member of a lost tribe that has had to move away from their city homes in the past to seek refuge in the suburbs to avoid the abysmal taxation that goes on in dense population centers filled with progressive politics. Even in West Chester there are progressives who are currently attempting to turn West Chester into a city so they can collect more taxes to expand government more aggressively with more hyphenated nameplates on the desks of future bureaucrats. They have an unfathomable appetite for more, and more government services built on the backs of irrational emotion. Lucky for West Chester there are not many politicians who embody these traits. Two of the three trustees do, but George Lang by himself off-sets them dramatically. He will need a partner in the next election to win one of those Trustee seats away from the vile progressives that currently out-vote him. And the public school of Lakota has many progressive minded people running it, consisting of the school board, the superintendent and most of the employees which is typical for a government institution. Public school enterprises attract progressive minded people, which is a real problem.
As Kid Rock played “Just the Good Ol’ Boys” opening up for Romney’s appearance on November 2nd 2012 the crowd chanted “FOUR MORE DAYS” repeatedly in a not too disguised battle cry to oust the diabolical, lying, scandalous, manipulative, small-minded, thieving, parasitic, obtuse, puppet progressive President Obama from the seat of much destruction that he has personally ushered in to America on the backs of the “good” and at their expense. West Chester as a community does make more money than other places in the country and Obama’s schemes target them specifically for tax increases to pay for his progressive re-distribution attempts. It is because of many Obama type politicians in the past that most of the people in the large crowd moved to West Chester to begin with, because they want to be away from crime ridden public housing projects, schools filled with parents raising their kids on welfare programs, away from apartment dwellers who can vote property tax increases without actually owning property. So if the crowd is too much of one color, and has more money per capita than the average crowd, it is not the fault of the crowd, but of the progressive politicians who attempted to loot them in the past causing them to take refuge in West Chester.
But like George Lang’s interview on 700 WLW some of the most prominent Republicans in the entire country came to this grand event to partake in a movement that has been a long time and coming. As I watched the participants, Romney and Ryan specifically, on the heels of speeches by Speaker John Boehner, Governor John Kasich, Senator Rob Portman and many, many others I noticed a long—evolving plan that had been many years in the making evolving on stage that was culminating in West Chester.
Way back in 1993 there was a special election for an emergency House of Representatives seat that was coming open that spring and Portman was on 700 WLW fighting for it. He was on-air debating seven other candidates in the studio at Mt. Adams back when the station was located down in Cincinnati, but left to avoid the terribly high taxes—(see a common theme here.) I spoke to the radio host for permission to film the Sunday prime time event for my friends within the Reform Party which was a group that Ross Perot had started. Out of all the candidates Portman was clearly the most qualified and honest and I took an instant liking to him. You could tell upon meeting him for the first time that he was not the typical scum bag politician and that he sincerely cared about becoming a member of the House. I told my friends within the Reform Party that if Washington had more politicians like Rob Portman that America would explode with prosperity and goodness. Portman after the debate actually came to some of our Reform Party events, most notably the one at Longworth Hall where my friend and I hung a giant American flag off the top of the building that extended all the way to the bottom. It was half as big as a football field and it took all our strength to tie off such a large flag without it pulling us off the roof. In 1996 when I was manufacturing t-shirts with the logo, “TAKE AND AX TO OUR TAX” Rob Portman sent me a $7.50 check to buy one, which is what they cost me to make at the time. Over the years Portman had never really buckled as a pinnacle of goodness in the cease-pool of Washington politics, and I always admired him for it.
To see Portman on stage with Romney, Kasich, and Boehner along with all the rest who can all tell similar stories of their own, I saw assembled a great climax that was 20 years in the making. For the first time, Republicans had assembled a group of politicians who could actually push back against the progressive, ever-imposing impositions of parasitic existences, and do it without being equally scummy. The people gathered on stage under the flag of Mitt Romney were generally decent people who had built their lives around good family principles and stood for the values of the people gathered hoping that these men and women could stop those progressives because the planet has become so small that there isn’t anywhere else to run. West Chester is the product of good people running away from parasites—people who insist they must live at the expense of someone else. And for those who don’t wish to get picked apart any longer by such people, they flee, just like WLW did from Mt. Adams to Kenwood, and almost every one of the 30,000 people who showed up in the cold to see Romney and friends speak on a breezy November evening.
For the first time in a number of years I am waking up in the morning after such a rally and I can actually see a light at the end of the tunnel. Under a Romney administration it won’t take much to work with Governor Kasich to get the oil fields in Ohio flowing again, and coal will become a major industry bringing great wealth to Ohio. And I know that technologies like thorium will get a serious look as a future alternative to the dirty fossil fuels. Education will be reformed, because it has to be. And it won’t be the methods of old, which Romney made very clear in his speech, but one that embraces competition between schools to raise the performance and lower their costs to the community, which is what I have personally been fighting to help usher in. Just two years ago School Choice was a dirty word, and teacher unions attacked anybody who criticized them. Now politicians like Romney can give a speech without even caring if it makes the unions angry, because they have been neutralized and seen for what they really are. Their masks have been ripped off, and they will have to adapt to a new way of thinking, and Ohio will play a central role in that change. The best way to avoid the extortions of the past, the strikes, the busing cuts, the sports fees is to give parents the power to pick their child up and move them to another school that isn’t playing that kind of game. I believe that within one year of a Romney/Ryan administration the economy will dramatically improve, because in their case all they have to do is turn on the facet, where Obama and his gangs of thugs have turned it off deliberately to induce wealth redistribution on a global scale.
Listening to George Lang on WLW, then seeing the Romney event for myself, I have the feeling that the angry contentions that I have been a part of for many years may finally be coming to an end. There will always be a need to be vigilant. Even Rob Portman voted for the NDAA Act which is a major concern for me, but like most things, good intentions that are actually quite bad are not so obvious to the people who are up close and personal with such issues. They are only obvious in the long view, which I have made something of a living framing for some of these same people for quite a long time now. But finally, there appears to be a day when we can wake up on the morning and not think about what a scum bag is in The White House, or what kind of looting governor is trying to steal money from the rich and give it to the poor just to get himself re-elected again, or that politicians like progressive trustees would embark on a well-planned smear campaign to lash out at Lang for going on WLW to speak his mind. The momentum is shifting—finally for the better and for the first time since the 1992 election when I sat on the steps of a plush Cincinnati hotel and watched with grimy anger a speech by Bill Clinton that was going to be in The White House, I have the kind of hope that I last felt in 1980 as a young 7th grade student at Lakota who had campaigned openly for Ronald Reagan in my class rooms, giving speeches on how the Soviet Union could be crushed with a military build-up and how Jimmy Carter had screwed up the magic of capitalism. Those same youthful eyes watched on that election in 1980 state by state a national election that was a landslide win for Reagan I have wished for a return to that kind of America—the kind of America that brought hope to the 80’s, made a lot of people rich, and crushed global communism. After watching Mitt Romney and the rest speaking in West Chester, I had the feeling that Mitt Romney was more qualified to go well beyond what Ronald Reagan accomplished and that the reverberations of those actions will propel America in a direction of goodness that hasn’t been seen or felt in well over 100 years.
With all that said, Kid Rock was the perfect musical artist to perform on the cusp of such a moment in a land created out of reaction to the imposing policies of progressives for an offensive that will soon flatten them with their stubborn refusal to see reason through the actions of American goodness that is about to turn from blue states to red states on a massive scale. I’m not saying that everything will be fixed on November 7th 2012 when Romney is the next president. But, it is a step in the right direction. The next steps that meander off into the darkness are ones that will require a whole new way of thinking, but that will come in time, and I’ll help usher it in. But to see where the country has a potential to go in a fight that we have all been involved in for over 20 years is wonderfully exciting, and the “Good O’ Boy’s never sounded so good. This is not the Republican Party of the Lawrence Welk days. These are the days of Clint Eastwood passing the torch onto Kid Rock, Mitt Romney and the rest of us who are sick and tired of progressives who want to ruin our lives by giving our freedoms away to the same idiots who cloaked Europe into 1000 years of darkness. It will not be tolerated and will be met with peaceful elections, and if that doesn’t work, then something else. Hopefully Romney will give us the former, so the latter won’t become needed.
In the games of politics however, I am happy to let George Lang take the high road path of Mitt Romney in the arena of elections. George is very good at it, and it has its place. I on the other hand will be in the dirt with Kid Rock where the blood is spilled because it takes both to win a movement, and is what conservatives have been missing for most of a century. But no longer, and it is good to see both elements finally present at the same conservative rally!
If you pay tax money to a public worker, especially firefighters, you are sending some of your money to the socialist Obama and his intellectual superior, Joe Biden, because the communist oriented International Association of Firefighters Union supports those kinds of politicians. Union employees who get their lush salaries from tax payers often convert their money into political power that often works against the public who may resent having their money spent on politicians that do not reflect their politics. Look at the latest IAFF union ad against Mitt Romney then read below how much money these same employees make and what kind of political tricks they are using to secure those wages into the future. Then tell me that they are really concerned as they report in this video below that “they care about their neighbors.” What they really mean is that they are actually well paid mercenaries—there’s a big difference.
The trouble with public workers like teachers, firefighters and police are that we have allowed radicalism from the union ranks to prevent the management of those labor costs. It is now considered taboo to even discuss intelligently the financial value of these employees because they involve the safety and well-being of our youth and our elderly with protective services. However, some have challenged these notions and made political ground that is snow balling the other way. The great weakness of the labor union argument against public sector workers is the justification for their enormous salaries which have greatly outpaced private sector incomes by more than double in some cases. Now that voters realize this discrepancy the tide is changing. Levies have not passed for schools, and recently police and fire levies have began to fail—halting the insane progress of public sector wages skyrocketing without end.
Recognizing the public push-back against public sector workers, but still wishing to keep political peace with the unions, the City Council members of Mason, Ohio have proposed a ballot initiative called Issue 7 which creates a new method of funding for safety, fire, and EMS services. The great concern for these council members is that their fire department will be coming off a 5-year property tax that expires in 2013. The Mason School System is also considering a levy in 2013 leaving politicians very concerned that the tax increases will not be passed for both issues, because there is great risk that neither will be passed. Many political insiders are praying to the presidential gods that Mitt Romney will be elected so the economy will stabilize and voters will once again have extra money to throw at altruistic causes. Others in the unions hope that Obama will retain power and continue to loot from the rich so that he will give to the middle-class—the labor unions of the proletariat. But there is big trouble on the horizon in Mason that the City Council wishes to avoid with Issue 7.
Issue 7 is a potential tax on every property owner in Mason. The current effective millage rate for Mason is 4.4 mils under the current tax levy. A new levy, voted in at 5.0 Mils, gives council the right to charge the property owners of Mason a full 5.0 Mils – which would be a tax increase. But, they can shift that burden over to the non-property non-voting individuals of the Mason Community with an Income Tax levy, and reduce the property tax millage based on any difference – or they could max out both the new income tax and the property tax. Basically, should this pass, they can do either, or both – without your vote. Issue 7 is a permanent levy that allows council to get the money they need with a vote instead of having to go back to voters during contentious future elections that are on the horizon.
This is a problem because it does not address the outrageous wages that the public sector workers in the loosely defined safety professions charge for their services. The way that Issue 7 is written safety could mean anything from additional police services to raises for firefighters—which on the surface seems practical, even attractive, until the reality of the situation is examined. Firefighter wages in Mason from 2000 to 2009 (most recent comparatives) rose 29.20% – a more than 10% rise above inflation and more than 21% greater increase than Ohio Median Household Incomes. The Business Owners, Employees, and Property Owners footing the bill for these services, in many cases have lost jobs and/or have not seen a pay increase for years. The average working wage in Warren County in 2011 was $791 per week, or $41,132.00 per year (United Sates Dept. of Labor) – and that has slipped even farther recently: Median Income in Ohio hits 27-year lows – http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/09/14/median-income-in-ohio-hits-27-year-low.html
In Mason a fire department with an annual budget of close to $6 million dollars of which over 83% goes to wages and benefits, includes:
Fire Chief – Annual Compensation Package – $171,328.00
Deputy Fire Chiefs (5) – Annual Compensation Package- $114,000.00
Fire Lieutenants (6) – Annual Compensation Package – $103,000.00
Firefighter/Paramedic (22) Annual Compensation Package – $91,000.00
Assorted part-time and full-time positions at a cost of approx. $930,000
The trouble with Issue 7 is that it avoids dealing with the decision of continuing the practice of paying safety employees the kind of wages seen above, and deciding whether or not 5 Deputy Chiefs are even needed at a cost of over $500,000. Instead, Issue 7 allows city council to increase taxes to make the problem go away without having to go to the voters for a fire levy that competes with a school levy for voter approval. The wording of the Proposed Charter Amendment specifically states “for Safety, Fire, and EMS” – leaving an opening for spending under the “Safety” language that could mean anything. Again, an issue that could cause future problems should the governing bodies determine safety to mean stop signs, traffic signals, police needs, water & sewer, etc.
To learn more about all the reasons voters in Mason should vote against Issue 7 the website http://www.voteno7.com/ will do the job. But for those outside of Mason who are facing similar issues, it is important to watch closely the tricks of your public officials who are looking for a way out of the corner they have painted themselves in to. They have allowed for too many years unionized public workers to give themselves pay increases at the expense of tax payers not only for a fair wage, but an excessively wealthy wage that far outpaces reality. I have no doubt in my mind that there is a value of having teachers care for children all though I’d argue that they are teaching them the wrong things, and it is nice to have paramedics and police to help keep things socially in check. But they are not worth twice as much as the average employee who is paying their wages. Mason is a wealthy area to live and their average resident wage is $41,132.00. Deputy Fire Chiefs and Fire Lieutenants are not worth six figure incomes. It may be possible to have one or two of those positions filled but not 5 to 6 in a single community. These are the problems caused by collective bargaining agreements that inflate the wage levels of public workers to insane levels, and must be pulled back into reality, and such things will never happen if tax payers throw money at those positions without doing the hard act of managing the costs with a NO vote.
Dear reader, as you head to the voting booth on November 6th keep these things in mind. Voting to not take responsibility for the outrageous costs of public employees will not solve the problem and that is what proposals like Issue 7 try to do. They are attempting to sneak a tax increase under the door by taking away a contentious levy in the future by voting for giving the ability to city council today. And such a trick must not be allowed to be played on the taxpayers. And they will be played until voters stop allowing them to happen with across the board NO votes.
I know my son-in-law cringes when he comes to my house and sees my political signs for president Mitt Romney, Ohio Supreme Court Sharon Kennedy, State Representative Margie Condit, and Senator Josh Mandel in preparation for the upcoming election. Since he has become a citizen of The United States he has moved politically toward libertarians in a quest for the kind of American freedom he always dreamed about. He cringes because to him the entire American complex of statism is a failure and is destined to be replaced with elements of anarchy or fall into an out-right empire one step away from collapse. In fact, he wrote a wonderful article on statism complete with 5 very important videos that can be seen at this link:
My son-in-law and I have had many hours of conversations about these issues and I know where he’s coming from. On the other hand, out of those four signs in my yard, I know two of those politicians personally, and they along with many of the media I also know in Cincinnati, business owners, and other politicians, are wondering if I have moved too far to the right and have become an extremist since most of my conversation these days are anti-communist history lessons, progressive bashing, and a determined desire to defund government at every level with severe tax decreases. Over the last three years they have watched me make very valid arguments that once uncovered have made me very angry. And being the kind of person who fixes things—which I have done my entire life from dishwashers to businesses, the evidence cannot be escaped—America is being crushed by statism and pretending that it isn’t a problem won’t make the problem go away.
Many of the people who know me best wonder how I went from a levy fighter of great respect to a radical right-winged extremist (in their view) to the author of the new novel Tail of the Dragon. The answer is that my new novel is my answer to the statism problem I discovered in those previous endeavors without going to the extreme example shown on my son-in-laws displayed videos by Stefan Basil Molyneux. I understand what Molyneux is proposing and why. But I also understand that his view is radically different from what mainstream Americans view as reality that they will simply reject the ideas as dangerous to protect themselves from responsibility of action. But Stefan is right about state run schools advocating terrorism, Stefan is right about taxation being the weapon of larger government for an end only onto itself. He’s also right about the free-range slavery. I know he’s right because I have seen the process up close and personal and can verify the truth.
My answer was to write the novel Tail of the Dragon using the character of Rick Stevens to serve as the vehicle to showing how statism crushes individuality. By having Stevens be the type of character who had grown into manhood without ever being emotionally, or physically broken at any point in his life, to show what the idea kind of man could or should be not only in America, but in the world, I needed a character and a story to hold the image valiantly. Stevens in the Tail of the Dragon is as close to a perfect man as I can imagine making it into his middle years after having children, maintaining a career, maintaining a marriage, paying a mortgage yet never giving up on his pursuit of individual freedom. For Stevens, he had a car which sat in his garage that served as a symbol of freedom from his youth, before taking on the obligations of all the above which are normal for most people. Rick Stevens knows that he is a member of society being deliberately farmed as a serf but he has maintained his resistance in as healthy a fashion as possible, so not go insane—or lose himself along the way.
The plot of Tail of the Dragon almost follows point for point without intending to the issues described in Stefan Molyneux’s videos, even to the point of Stevens being arrested for not joyfully participating in an elaborate tax scheme perpetuated through police traffic citations and being thrown in jail for it. While in jail he is abused in the way that Molyneux suggested, except that Rick fights back and gets himself into all sorts of trouble because he simply refuses to submit. This is what leads Rick Stevens to provoke and flee the law into what becomes the greatest car chase in story telling history
People are often shocked to learn that most of what Rick Stevens went through in the book I have seen firsthand, and is not the work of over-the-top fiction. The plot of Tail of the Dragon is not a commentary on anarchy even though Rick Stevens and his wife Renee openly, and quit audaciously break every law known to the legal system. But it is an attempt to show the reader through a likeable character in Rick Stevens what the world could look like if a person could break free of those chains of serfdom that Molyneux speaks about in his presentations. Rick Stevens is not happy to live as a free-range servant to statism and he seeks to do something about it“.
Additionally, what is different about Tail of the Dragon that sets it apart from other car chase epics in films like Smokey and the Bandit, The Dukes of Hazzard, or even Speed is that the hero has fans working behind the scenes in politics who want what he wants, they don’t wish to be a part of statism, even though they are the people who have helped build such a condition. Often, just like in real life, they find they are servants to a system that grew beyond their control and they do desire to do something about it. Most of the people I know in politics, and the media, are these kinds of people and fancy themselves as free thinkers even though in public they show something else completely. Even people I know in labor unions and on the opposite side of me in political issues are good people when spoken to one on one. Even my most diabolical rival, the superintendent at Lakota Karen Mantia and I had a nice discussion once about motorcycle riding and the island of Key West on more civil shores of political discourse. But what makes these people bad, or evil are the institutions they serve, the steps toward statism that they help build—most of the time without knowing it.
Tail of the Dragon is my answer to three years of needing to put into an artistic format these very difficult problems in a summary that fits contemporary life. If my desire is to fix the problem, I have realized that such a thing cannot be done conventionally, through political office, serving as yet other state lobbyists for specific causes, or even picking a political side and sticking with it indefinitely. The character of Rick Stevens in Tail of the Dragon does not turn his back on his country, as is the temptation regarding his anger over statism. Instead he takes the $20 million dollars he acquires and restores his old car, the symbol of his own private independence into a war machine against the state—against America—but he paints on the roof of his car the old Spirit of 76 flag from the American Revolution to make it clear that he is not giving up on the ideas that founded the freest nation on earth, but rather the mechanism that drove it toward an imperial tyrant headed for its own destruction through statism. His fight for freedom is the fight of every man, woman, and child in the world and it is through him that the reader touches the face of life without the chains imposed by statism upon their minds and bodies.
For me personally, even though I am a bit of a recluse these days not socializing much around town, lashing out at latté sipping prostitutes with real anger, my signs in my front yard are my own personal Spirit of 76 flags declaring that I am still willing to fight for the kind of ideas that built America, even if the system is flawed. I will support those politicians who favor the lowest possible taxes, since it is low taxes that directly fight statism. The minute those candidates support any taxes, they will become my mortal enemy, because in real life I want to see an end to statism and would prefer to bring it about legally even if the extraordinary fantasy shown in Tail of the Dragon attacked statism directly, and gallantly with a fanfare that is dynamic. It is no secret that the ambition in that novel comes from the heart of the author in a frustration observed with real eyes that watched more than one election produce results edging American more toward the abyss of cataclysm than ever produced success. But there is a romantic in me that keep hoping for success, and is manifest in the actions of Rick Stevens in the action packed novel, Tail of the Dragon. In real life, I will vote for people who I think will buy into my anxiety against statism today, or who I think might listen and become converted tomorrow.
The thinking that is required is not one fashioned from team sports, public education, or any other collective organization—because they all point toward a social disposition of statism. As radical as such a concept might appear, only a philosophy against statism will preserve America and serve as the beacon of light the world expects. That is why it is no longer important who thinks what, who belongs to what group, or what political affiliation anybody is. What matters is whether or not individuals are dedicated to freedom for the real sake of it, and not the contrived definition sold as modern serfdom. All that matters is that people get their minds around the necessity to think differently and it is my hope that Rick Stevens will help the pill go down a little bit easier so that the journey toward understanding can begin.
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. . . . To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
It is now obvious that the White House knew about the terrorist attack against the four Americans in Benghazi that claimed the life of Ambassador Chris Stevens, two former Navy Seals and a State Department official. The terrorist group Ansar al-Sharia took credit for the killings and the body mutilation of Sevens. In fact a drone and other reconnaissance aircraft observed the final hours of the fight. The White House knew two hours into the seven hour attack that American officials were under assault by terrorists which is deeply disconcerting considering The White House after seeing the evidence wished to deflect attention away from the idea of a terrorist assault that occurred on 9/11 2012 even though Sevens had even warned about the activity prior to the attack. Instead The White House insisted that the violence was instigated by an anti-Muslim American movie—but it didn’t work—The White House, apparently the CIA and many other manipulative federal agencies had been caught with their hands in the cookie jar attempting to create a “false flag” event. Watch the videos below for further clarification of who knew what and when they knew it. The situation is extremely serious and looks to make the Fast and Furious event look like a misdemeanor—which of course Obama invoked Executive Privilege to protect Eric Holder and himself from further implication. What has occurred under this Obama White House may well be the most corrupt and destructive since Al Capone ran his famous organized crime syndicate in Chicago during the Prohibition. The actions taken by many people just between the Fast and Furious scenario and now Benghazi deserve prison terms and possibly capital punishment. They are reprehensible actions and I am personally ashamed that these kinds of people are the face of my country.
The trouble with the Middle East, and all other places in the world is that America uses the CIA to manipulate governments, topple regimes, and pit factions against each other so that America can profit off the chaos. Any rational mind can see these activities in their simple local governments, and the situation is greatly magnified on the world stage where a lot of money and crony capitalism reigns supreme. The political left wishes to address the problem with socialism, with a feeling of fairness to eliminate such global terror that often follows America’s own Central Intelligence Administration. The political right looks to align themselves with the crony capitalists who hold the power of a particular regime.
America has made it a habit of using the CIA specifically to implement a thousand James Bond plots all over the world without the stereotypical villains and the beautiful women in casinos. But the manipulative plots conjured up to protect American interests are deplorable, and if used in a sporting event would be equivalent to cheating. The Obama White House has been caught doing what the Bush Administration has done, the Clinton Administration has done, the Reagan Administration has done, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnston, Kennedy, all the way down to World War I essentially—and that is to use clandestine activities to advance American interests while also maintaining the public ability to shake hands with those same countries at the table of The United Nations. It is the American participation in The United Nations that causes the need for back-stabbing actions by bringing into the equation politics showing the public a nice smiley face when in fact the various factions hate each other and want nothing to do with peace.
I would rather see all sides of an argument spit in each others face and go to war over their ideas than to shake hands in public and assassinate each other behind the cloak of secrecy. I would rather live in an America that out produces the rest of the world with laissez-faire capitalism than to use the CIA to get two sides fighting so that America can sell them both items made in America. I would rather win by truly being superior than by invoking manipulative schemes to topple our enemies from within their own cultures. If a president wanted to get rid of Kaddafi, I would have rather that president announce it clearly instead of using an Ambassador to funnel guns to the rebels who were actually connected to al-Qaeda and knew it—but also knew that the American people would never support such alliances, so the whole thing was done under the cloak of manipulation.
People seem to forget that Saddam Hussein was created to invoke war with Iran during the Reagan years to help stabilize the situation there to American advantage. And Osama bin-Laden was created to help Afghanistan fight against the Soviet Union. Currently the war in Afghanistan could be argued not to be about fighting the Taliban but in protecting the opium trade of which Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer. Have a look at the article below and the date:
Now look at the same paper reporting the situation 10 years later, and any mind with a brain can see that opium production has steadily increased each year since the 9/11 event in America.
Does this mean that President Bush started a war with Afghanistan to protect world-wide opium production? No. But his advisors who are not elected but appointed who clearly get their marching orders from political donors do have a vested interest in the billions of dollars produced by Afghan opium production. Those same donors give money to Obama, and both presidents have learned that even though they may publicly oppose drug use and opium production must turn a blind eye to the actions of their political contributors who need to maintain a façade of philanthropy while cashing in on the drug trade in Afghanistan, because the Taliban had tried to put a stop on the practice for spiritual reasons in 2001, just a few months before 9/11. Such a case is purely hypothetical, but none of it would surprise me. It can be seen how such tangled webs can snare so many good people to endorsing a reprehensible evil that nobody in the public wishes to acknowledge. So often, the CIA is sent in to fix up these loose ends and keep all the dirty business away from the public eyes, including Presidents of The United States.
There are a lot of Chris Stevens in the world who are killed and wiped from the earth with no eyes to witness. The attackers of Stevens knew there was blood on the hands of powerful people in America and they dared those powerful people to challenge them by maiming the body of Stevens in a deplorable manner. And just as they figured the guilty actions of all involved in the Benghazi debacle–the powerful people in America hid like cowards and attempted to blame a film maker for the violence that was started through area manipulation—that went wrong.
I am not against the aggressive protection of freedom throughout the world, the crushing of tyrannical despots, and authoritarian regimes. But I am against shaking hands with such people in the halls of the United Nations, then sending assassins to cut off their heads in the night so the blood is off the hands of public opinion. I would rather see America do such things in the light of day with full declaration of their bold intentions. It would be advisable going into the future for the power brokers who whisper into the ears of naive Presidents to stay out of the protection of illegal, reprehensible drug trafficking, the modern slavery of the sex trade, and a whole laundry list of financial despots who wish to rule the world not with a crown, or a kingdom, but with bank accounts that control politicians like mindless puppets to play the entire world—including America—as pawns in their vast schemes of power grabbing all in the name of philanthropy.
Such days of cloak and dagger games are ending because the world is shrinking, and such things can no longer be hidden. And in the future, such honesty is required so that courage can be truly awarded to those who are the best, and not the most sinister.
Since my own personal Judas………Michael Clark of the Cincinnati Enquirer has written yet another apologist’s article in favor of public education it requires clarification of the matter at hand, which is the issue of school report cards issued by the Ohio Department of Education, where the highest grade possible is an Excellent with Distinction. The article Clark wrote can be seen below as it was reported by the West Chester Buzz.
(Watch an interview I did with a Michigan radio station over this issue)
Based on that article, any intelligent skeptic would deduce that Superintendent Mantia of Lakota is indicating that she is going to let the rating of Lakota drop to just Excellent following what Mason has done recently. Mason and Lakota have very similar demographics, but like Lakota have not passed a school levy for a number of years and have had to change out superintendents due to intense pressure from tax resistance groups. Mason has a strong tax resistance group and now Lakota has two. Yet Mason was lowered by the ODE to push voters into supporting a future school levy. Little Miami was also punished by the ODE because of their multiple levy failures where Fairfield who just passed their levy last year was increased on their report card. The ODE designation is purely a political scheme designed to increase taxes on property owners in favor of the radical union influence, and reporters like Michael Clark who have a personal stake in maintaining the status quo education system as it is, ignore the mechanisms of the scheme hoping that nobody notices.
For the record I have for nearly two years now favored complete education reform with 100% School Choice in the State of Ohio and I want nothing to do with a teachers union. Teachers should have a right to opt out of a union and until that discussion takes place, I am completely against the current education models that the Ohio Department of Education represents. With that said, the report card system of the ODE is a foolish, corrupt, and out-dated system that favors political pull more than actual results and since reporters like Clark won’t do their job and uncover these types of stories because it might make their wives or reporting contacts angry, then I’ll gladly do the work in their place.
I speak with school board members all over the state and am personal friends with several former school board members, and I will relay to you what they have relayed to me. Schools all across the state sometimes win their ratings by destroying the tests of low scoring students. (proof below) Superintendents make it their task to stay on good political terms with ODE personnel and staff so to keep the eyes of that board from looking too closely at the activity that actually produces the test results. In schools like Lakota and Mason where the social demographics produce students who test better than schools like Princeton, CPS, or Lockland, there are more tests that must be excluded from the sampling and the risk of getting caught is much higher. But superintendents have more or less in their power the ability to pass or fail their ratings at will.
It should be noted that the superintendent of Little Miami stated that their testing suffered because of the 8 failed levies in previous years. By saying such a thing he is declaring publicly that he failed in his job as superintendent, and politically he is playing the game of warning the public that if they don’t pass their school levies, their districts will also suffer a poor rating from the ODE. Mason due to their finances need a levy in 2013 so they have been downgraded to attack the egos of the Mason residents with displaying a lack of school pride so that when their next levy is put on the ballot, the residents will pass it. Lakota has a teacher’s contract that is up in 2014 and it will need a tax increase to pay for the bloated salaries of its employees when the pay freeze expires, so Mantia–the effervescent quarter million dollar politician–is planting the seeds for passing that levy by threatening to become downgraded as Mason was.
The Ohio Department of Education gladly puts on the blinders to this behavior, and they are very aware of what they are doing and why they are doing it. They will of course publicly deny that such things are going on, but in the field of public education, it is the radical unions who run everything at every level, leaving the Ohio Department of Education members without any real teeth to hold any real authority. Since most of the people working in education make extremely good money for maintaining the status quo, there is absolutely no desire to change anything, or question anything even when the red flags are glaringly obvious.
Just to show that the ODE is doing their job they will occasionally pick a school to crack down on—to make a sacrificial victim of—and this year they focused on Southwestern Ohio because of all the levy resistance that has went on in the region—mostly by my personal friends and associates. In fact, I am happy to report that we have tax resisters in almost every school district in these regions and yes—we all talk. Recently the ODE targeted the lowly school district of Lockland for cheating on their test scores because the results were so obvious that nobody could claim to turn a blind eye away from the data. Lockland is already on the verge of a major restructuring from the state, so there was no skin off the back of the ODE to crack down on them in order to show the public that the “system works” prompting the media to report the incident in a public relations campaign designed to attract the attention of the public while all the other schools in the region continue the same practice. The ODE operates very similar to a traffic cop who tends to pull over red sports cars rather than family mini vans even though both are doing the same speed. The driver of a red sports car is potential trouble to the status quo, so they usually get the ticket while the driver of a mini van is probably a responsible citizen who is just in a hurry trying to do their jobs in society, at least in the mind of such cops. Lockland was the red sports car, Lakota I wouldn’t be surprised to learn, is the mini van. Mantia in her political wisdom with the wink and a nod from the ODE may allow Lakota to become downgraded in 2013 so that the community will be incentivized to pass a levy by 2014 when the new teacher’s contract must be negotiated.
For the proof of what has just been said here below is the article of Lockland getting caught by the ODE eliminating 36 low scoring students to improve their state score, just to prove that such activity goes on. As school board vice-president of the Lakota school board, Julie Shaffer likes to say about me, that I “rant” when bringing such activity to public light, be it known that Lockland is simply a small fish and punishment by the ODE does little to affect the education culture that is so defective in Ohio. Somehow I get the feeling that Shaffer won’t post this little bit of info on her Facebook page as she has other things that I’ve written here. Enjoy those lattés ladies.
The sad reality of the entire report card situation is that it is all about job protection and money wrapped up in collective bargaining agreements that are sold on the backs of children. And everyone who has participated in such a folly should be extremely ashamed of themselves. In my first hand experience, the education culture from reporters like Clark all the way superintendents like Mantia is treacherously destructive to a beneficial society because they know better, yet put on the blinders for their own interests that I do not hesitate to describe. I am as aghast at their behavior as anybody and believe me the proof stacks up high. People just choose not to see it. I do not wish to participate in their actions with my endorsement—or silence. The report card evaluations from the Ohio Department of Education have only one purpose and that is to bring in more money in the form of taxes to the schools of their districts. For districts that have shown they won’t pass their levies, the report card scores have been lowered, and for those who have passed their levies, the scores have increased taking into account a one year lag period, such as in the example of Little Miami. And in the case of Lakota, the threat is that the district rating will be lowered as other areas of Lakota’s district show great promise such as the new Liberty Way shopping complex and the 2013 Homearama exhibition in Carriage Hill boosting the real estate world with an inflection of interest that neighboring communities will benefit from. The politician Mantia is positioning herself for another levy run on the backs of these prideful events as some of those same real estate brokers whisper in her ear how best to proceed. And you can bet that The Ohio Department of Education will work with her in every way possible to bring about the results they mutually desire—which is a preservation of an education monopoly that favors the teachers unions at the expense of the children and their parents.
The Overmanwarrior 