The Cruel Fruits of Progressivism

The reasons for the burgeoning number of fatherless children in all families with black families being particularly hard hit can be traced to the Progressive policies enacted back in the 1960's under Lyndon B. Johnson. He had his War on Poverty and his Great Society ideas which made matters worse by rewarding mothers for being single parents and encouraging fathers to stay out of the family picture—robbing untold numbers of children of a male figure to protect and guide them in their home. While the goals of reducing poverty are noble on the face of it, the policies were ill thought out and have caused a cruel legacy for the children who were and are born into the homes of women who took advantage of the promise of those programs. The black community has been severely undermined. The government attempted to take the place of the father figure for the generations since these policies were enacted and the results have been nothing short of a disaster for many black families. All families are most secure when there is a solid family unit that strives to do the best for their children and protect them from harm; but, by allowing Uncle Sam to become daddy for their children, they have let the fox in the hen house.

Government uses taxes to punish behavior it wants to see curtailed and it uses entitlements and subsidies to encourage behavior it wants to propagate. This is why Progressives want the people who actually get married to get hit with a tax penalty just for being married and they want to give entitlements to those who have children out of wedlock and never get married.

If we want to encourage responsible behavior among ALL of our citizens, we should get out of the business of using taxes and entitlements to coerce the formation of a society that government thinks is best. Cut out entitlements and personal Income Taxes and replace it with a Consumption tax for everyone. People would once again be rewarded for the labor that they do instead of being punished for it and only pay taxes voluntarily whenever they made a purchase. People would then have more money to spend raising their children or to donate to churches and charities if they so choose which would use that money to help the poor and simultaneously encourage moral behavior that would put an end to the skyrocketing rate of children born out of wedlock.

Our government learned long ago that they had carrot and stick capabilities with taxes, deductions, entitlements, and subsidies. The seeds of Progressivism have begotten rotten fruit and we cannot allow another generation to fall victim.

Illusionary Finances

The year was 1913 when we started on this long road towards financial bondage. Congress slipped a couple of things by us that forever changed how we think about our money, our independence, and our government. This is when congress abdicated its constitutionally mandated responsibility to coin money and bestowed it upon The Federal Reserve which is a banking cartel with inherent profit motives that run contrary to those of the United States. Our founders warned us mightily against taking such an action. We give the Federal Reserve the privilege of printing money out of thin air or by adding zeros to an electronic bank account and then we borrow this money from them and pay it back with interest. Why on earth would we ever agree to such a scheme? The reason seems to be that congress has an insatiable spending appetite and wants to spend as much as it wants to without ever feeling the pinch. It wants to perpetually hand the bill to the next generation. Refinancing the old debt rolled together with new debt and handing the bill to their children seems to be the way congress now finances its shenanigans.


Americans are becoming serfs and our wealth is quickly being absorbed by this powerful international banking cartel called the Fed. The congress is weak but could still turn this thing around by repealing the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. We have reached a tipping point. S & P just bestowed upon us a negative outlook rating. This should be a wake up call to every American. This gravy train is coming to a screeching halt. We have to make drastic, across the board cuts and rethink the place of government. We need to put it back into the box that the constitution intended for it. Will we determine to live as a free and independent people or are we destined to serfdom? It remains to be seen whether or not there is the will left in the heart of the American people to continue this experiment called America.

Why Being a Natural Born Citizen Matters

Being a natural born citizen is crucial because our leader needs to be one of us so that he or she understands what makes Americans uniquely American—how can Obama possibly understand this when he did a lot of his growing up in a foreign land. The formative years are crucial for laying the foundation for what you believe about your country. To compound the issue, he had a mother, father, stepfather, mentor, and grandparents who were socialist/Marxists who didn't care for our system of government and were only using it to transform it into something altogether different.

 

So he was indoctrinated from an early age and never really understood what the root of what American exceptionalism really is. He tends to blame America for every ill that the world suffers from. Just exactly who is Obama leading anyway? It should be no shock to any observer that he was giddy about an apology tour designed to downplay the role of America in the world and to try to shame Americans into submitting to some new World Government. 

It is no surprise either that Obama went to the UN before he attacked Libya but never consulted with the legislative branch which constitutionally has that power. It is easy to see why Obama would want to redistribute the wealth of America to the rest of the world through Cap ‘n Tax and through bail outs of foreign banks when he thinks of himself more as the president of the world than he does of merely an American president. 

Our founding fathers were wise to include the requirement of natural born citizenship for people who wish to hold the office of president. Whether or not Obama was natural born is almost beside the point because of the way in which he was raised, it sort of gives us a glimpse into what the founders were trying to avoid when they put that clause in the constitution. They merely wanted an American who has our best interests at heart to hold the highest office in the land and I tend to agree with them.