Look at NJ. It’s doing the unthinkable. The people are taking their state back. It’s not impossible. It takes a true leader, a Reagan, someone who understands how to use the levers of power to reverse established patterns. One of the reasons for previous failure has been the weakness of the GOP establishment and its business-as-usual attitude toward governance. We need to take over the party and then make the tough calls no matter how much the left starts squealing. We need to sweep it all away, political correctness, evironmental aggression, academic indoctrination, public school subversion–and stop worrying about how we’ll be portrayed in the media as we pursue our revolutionary agenda. The backlash will only be beginning in November.

Except for the remark about needing a Reagan. Unlikely there is a Reagan around. What we need is for millions of people to be so motivated that they do whatever it takes to stop this. With that level of motivation, a Reagan is not needed. Without it, even Reagan couldn’t roll this back (and, substantially, he in fact did NOT)

I don’t have the time to go through line-by-line why it’s too negative, but it definitely is.

Suffice it to say, America isn’t Canada, and Americans aren’t Canadians. And I doubt that’s ever going to change.

Maybe there are a few genuine ideologues who really believe that government knows best, but for the majority of the Leftists, it is about power. They do not care a hoot for the people; we are just common folk to them, like ants in an anthill to be squashed. Concentrating power and money in the hands of a few, some percentage of the population, takes away the middle class – which has economic and political power – and creates an even bigger group on the lower end of the socio-economic scale, from which they cannot rise up.

IMO, the real tragedy has been the incremental Socialism that has been foisted upon us for several decades. Look around, we already have the Nanny state everywhere, our schools, our neighborhoods, and even our churches. Infringement on freedom for the individual to make their own choices based on their own efforts and consequences of what they do or fail to do. The Founding Fathers tried to set it up for us and get us started.

I don’t know if there will be enough people to hold this administration accountable for the destruction.

Senior citizens aren’t “addicted” to government. They’re simply trying to recoup their forced contributions. They rightly claim that since they were taxed for these programs they have every expectation to get their money back. When you ask workers not yet on SS or Medicare and who are 45 or younger many, and the number increases as age decreases, will say that they would willingly forsake all previous contributions if they could opt out going forward. When I mention to my retired father the unfairness of Social Security and that I think it should be abolished he gets angry and says that he was forced to pay for it and there was no way he would give it up. That’s why Social Security reform has to be a decades long process aimed primarily at the young.
The health care isn’t Social Security. The middle class won’t be happy about paying more to get the same or less in “benefits”. The addicts are those that don’t contribute, the parasites, the Democrat voter.

The Dems are willing to take a step back to gain ten steps forward. They assume some day they’ll be running the Britain like administrative government which will guarantee their total dominance. The Republican establishment is willing to trade seats back and forth because neither will lose much power and all will have a chance to make millions and ensure their families get picked for that elite upper crust.

The rest of us? Drones and indentured servants.

Who’s for digging up Jefferson, Washington and Adams and seeing if we can’t get some DNA for cloning?

150,000 new jobs. That’s the other hook. Who’s going to vote for a Congressman that will legislate to end their job, or that of their family or friends.
Would you?

not promoting or calling for a bloody revolution, but, rather a stern warning of just what we are looking at with Obama and the Progressives in control.

You are so correct that the people must be weaned off the cocaine or opium of entitlements. This massive expense for the federal government has been spiraling out of control for years. The can keeps getting kicked down the road by both parties. Because most politicians are more concerned with their re-elections, they refuse to even breathe entitlement reform. Sure, it has to be done incrementally, to not just pull the rug out from those who have lost chunks of their earnings for many years.

I read an article recently that made the point that SS and Medicare are fairly new entitlements, in the history of our country. How many older posters here remember their grandparents depending on SS or Medicare for their old age? My grandparents never collected any of those government handouts.

dependence of drugs and the dependence of government because both are made of a LAZY heart

Here’s some hard truth. The reason we are in the mess we are in can be boiled down to one word: Apathy. For so many years we ignored the government while they did exactly as they pleased–and they go used to it. Sure, some people would bitch but they’d be ignored because life was good in America and no one ever believed that we’d elect a communist or that the media would stop being our watchdog. All of this shit happened when we weren’t paying attention–we had a nice standard of living, the wolf wasn’t at the door for most of us and we were secure in our jobs. Then the lawyers started advertising and all of a sudden we started suing everyone because everyone wants to get rich by winning a big lawsuit for millions instead of working for it and political correctness made us afraid to speak up and our kids got dumbed down and taught not to question that the government is all knowing and benevolent.. While this was happening, America got more and more involved in our lives and we have taken a big turn towards Socialism in the last two decades–and everyone ignored it because life was still good and anytime they wanted something, they borrowed money against the big charge card they lived in. Then the housing bubble exploded and suddenly America realized that not only are we broke, we are severely in debt with a government that seems to know no restraint on borrowing more money from the most evil regime the world has seen since the fall of the USSR (by the way who now have a viable economy and the same political dogma) who have been stealing our jobs because we priced ourselves out of the market. The unions want $30 an hour and benefits for a factory job that pays $120 A MONTH in China–what are the odds that with free trade in place we will ever be able to compete with them–but I digress. The government of China has a wonderful work incentive–work or die. If you are able-bodied and don’t work, they will put you in a forced labor camp and MAKE you work until you are released which is usually about until the day you keel over and then they send you to your family to take care of or if you have no family to take care of you; you get to live in the street until you starve to death or die some other way. We are trillions of dollars in debt to these people. Now the government has decided that in addition to GM (a payoff to the union for putting Obama in office) and the banks and the student loans, they want to run health care because of the profit potential in siphoning off money for their corrupt pals. Since they are used to getting away with doing anything they want to do, they are sure that America will just forget about it come election time–or they’ll lose a few seats and they’ll get them back because historically we don’t care what they do because life is good in America. Now the TEA parties and 9-12 groups are stirring up America and the average American is at lease AWARE of what’s going on if not actively fighting it. If they pass this health care, there needs to be a blood bath in Congress and it needs to be repealed–a bill I will have in my hand when they swear me in January 3, 2011. I pray to the God that America has forgotten that it’s not too late to turn our country around and there are going to be very tough times ahead for the “me” generation.
The one tiny shining light is that the apathy that has gripped America for so long is fast becoming a thing of the past and we are uniting in a 2nd American Revolution and if we can elect some honest people who want to do what’s right for AMERICA and not each other, we may be able to turn it around and bring it back. I hope so–otherwise we will spend our golden years either far from our beloved America or in fear of our government. Neither option is appealing to me, so I’m trying to get rid of the corrupt Costello and try to do what’s right for America before it’s too late–if it isn’t already.