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The Message is all wrong

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on August 4, 2013
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The Message is all wrong

For quite some time now I have been struggling with the juxtaposition of Religious doctrine espoused weekly in our local churches against their growing toe dipping into the political sphere.  They are of course following the lead of their Diocese, conferences, etc., and it is a centuries old story.  Church corruption and the manipulation of God’s plan to suit social and political ideologies have been a root cause of repression, aggression and obsession for millennia; the rise and fall of the Holy Roman Empire, the Crusades, the Reformation, etc.  It’s not new in our Time or in our culture.

In my lifetime and especially of late, I am increasingly finding myself at odds with Church and state.  God’s message of Love, caring, responsibility and good works have transgressed itself on the pulpit into social political commentary relative to division of the societal classes being exacerbated by our nation’s current socialist political leanings.  The targeted political divisiveness strategy now being employed by our country’s leadership for political expediency of advancing the Socialist agenda has ripped more than one hole in the underlying fabric of our Liberty and harmony as a nation. More has been done in five years to purposefully divide our Union than in the last two hundred and thirty-seven.

So I am dismayed to have been sitting in a small town Methodist sanctuary this morning listening the a mature but new Minister to this congregation degenerate a message about God’s Calling of the Heart and His imploring of His flock to seek Him through their Love and their deeds at all costs and with every fiber of their total capability, into a wealth is Evil and the Wealthy are Damned message.

It was clearly not his intent.  I believe somewhere in his conscience, his heart was true.  But wrapped up in all the orchestrated propaganda afflicting our lives each day, he just could not help himself.  The truth of his political leanings had to come out and his personal message of redistributed wealth over shadowed the beauty of God’s word.  In watching the Congregation and their reaction to his words, I would suspect he did some damage to the foundations of his Church this morning.

The dominant offshoot of the class warfare strategy is that it has divided the society into producers and consumers, givers and takers.  So many people are being cultivated to Take and Expect and to Believe they are Entitled to what others have made and earned  that the generosity of the producers is being tested to the core.

I personally no longer give like I used to, I still give generously, but I pick and choose my Charities VERY carefully after fully vetting their social leanings, their commitment to those they seek to help and the needs of those they provide for.  The Lord says we are not to sit in judgement of others, but He also compels us to be wise in using His Gifts to do good in the world.  We must be wary of Charlatans and Deceivers.  We must be just as wary of those who manipulate His Message for the advancement of political ideology as we must of those who do so for their own personal gain.

Knowing that the head of a Religious organization to which I could offer more of my time and talents in his heart believes I am evil for not writing a bigger check to his Church so that he can redistribute my time and talents for me makes my decision a lot easier.  I shall continue to give generously to do good in the world with organizations who will wisely use my gifts and not squander my talents to advance a redistributive political policy.

 

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It All Started with the School Bus

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on May 14, 2013
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I don’t know about you, but I need a break from Benghazi, Wire Tapping of our Press, the IRS politically targeting conservatives and Jews, and the Criminal Society, which has become our current executive administration in Washington.  So let me tell you a light-hearted (by comparison) story about how I discovered the root of our entitled class problem in this country.

A few years ago while at an art show, I was lamenting the overreaching of the entitled class to the very liberal wife of a local artist I admire when she surprised me with a decidedly insightful viewpoint that changed the way I viewed the root cause of the problem.

“It all started with the school bus”, she told me in an off-handed almost weary dead pan droll.

She went on to explain, “The moment, sometime in the early 1940s, that most states began requiring that all productive movement stop in deference to Little Johnny getting on or off a School Bus because his Mom and Dad were too dim-witted to educate the little tyke on the dangers of stepping in front of a 2 ton piece of machinery traveling at 30 miles per hour, our society as we know it was screwed.”

And, upon some deep contemplation I have determined that she is most likely correct.   That this pint sized patent zero of the entitlement class, shrouded in this new air of invulnerability, unwittingly ushered in the age of self aggrandized importance.  Yes, suddenly, Little Johnny, sweater mis-buttoned, shoes untied, hair uncombed, who managed to make it to the school bus by way of awkward uncoordinated bipedalism, only after spitting out his gum …. was special.

Someday, some right thinking anthropologist will gleefully point to that moment in time as the precursor to grading on a curve, the participation trophy, sports where they don’t keep score, creative spelling, and new math.

But in a more modern and more dire perspective we have, with that simple act of over-protection, blossomed into a society of WIC, Food Stamps and EBT cards, Affirmative Action, quotas, free school breakfast, free lunch, free healthcare, free birth control, free abortions, free cell phones, free daycare, section 8 housing, heating credits, tuition subsidies, tax credits, free bus passes, free internet, and government cheese.

People from around the world, ( those that are not trying to kill us ) are striving everyday to make it to the new Utopia of freedom.  Freedom from work, responsibility, and productive contribution that is.  Welcoming them to a land of unbridled handouts and government subsidies, where we treat our uneducated and undeserving children like child stars who should never want for anything, and our illegal alien law breakers as honored guests complete with welcome wagon like coupons for all types of free stuff on the backs of the 1%.

To a land where because of the subversion of our education system our young people cannot name a single Cabinet Member, but know to vote for the cool guy who promises them free stuff.  Who, without the need to succeed, believe that appearing, as an idiot on Jaywalking, is a badge of honor.  Who show up for interviews in flip flops, with their pets, friends and even answer text messages during the process.  Who often show up late because they could not afford bus fare but sport new iPhones, elaborate tattoos and expensive piercings.  Whose addresses oddly match those of their parents well into their thirties and who’s ambitions go no further than beating the next level on a new $100 video game on their $600 gaming console while decrying their inability to afford fuel to get to, heaven forbid, a job interview.  They don’t have the sense to do the simple math necessary to know that the Occupy stupidity cannot economically succeed in anything but homelessness and cannot make change from a $20 dollar bill if they had one.

And how did we ever get here as a society?

… It all started with the School Bus.

The Ideology of Greed

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on April 5, 2013
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There is a problem with our 2 party political system which may not be obvious to some, (besides the fact that this whole one person one vote, or one person two vote thing isn’t working so well lately).

Being a Conservative, I am always looking for reasons why liberalism survives and thrives.  Especially in the face of the toll it is taking and historically has taken on the middle class.  The lie of “Free Stuff” is so transparent to us on the real right that it is difficult to rationalize how it can be so broadly bought into by those it ultimately hurts.

When looking at the differences between the two ideologies, liberal left, represented mostly by the Democratic Party and the Conservative right, represented mostly, and at least superficially by the GOP, the real differences in perspective and patience crystalize.

The Left is an ideologically driven movement.  It has been throughout history.  Today’s Democrats are masters at message manipulation.  Since the party was first hi-jacked by the Progressives in the fist and middle parts of the 20th century they have worked hard to build a machine that promotes collectivism, socialism, indoctrination, class warfare toward the creation and mobilization of the “Entitled” class.  They have been very patient.  The previous surge of the Social Democrats, exposed and run underground by the McCarthy trials slowed them down, but also allowed them to regroup and refine the divisive and subversive tactics that have gotten us here today.    They have used the gift of time wised by systematically infiltrating our schools and universities, our mainstream media, our civic intuitions, labor unions and many of our local governing bodies as well as the United Nations, to now capitalize in a very “Organized” way on the recent phenomenon of social media to organize and mobilize, indoctrinate and reeducate our youth toward the Liberal ideology.

It was Lincoln who said: “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

And so we have set the stage through our free society that allowed the enemy to rise from within and shake the foundations of our house divided.

There should be a counter to the internal attack on the Foundation of our free society.   One would assume it would be the Conservative ideology, governed by fairness and logic, free will, entrepreneurship, capitalism and personal responsibility.   By alas here lies the problem.

True Conservatives who believe in the ideology, live it, breathe it and work tirelessly to advance it are in the minority.  People like Trey Dowdy, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan and a few others are forced to fight an ever-uphill battle internal to their GOP party.  That internal battle is against greed.

As feverishly as the Liberal movement focuses every breath they take on the advancement of the Socialist Ideology, the mainstream and establishment Conservative counter to that is an equally tireless effort to seek the best vehicle for building personal wealth, Republic and ideology be damned.  It is why we see Conservative Icons like Karl Rove, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, John Mica, etc. attacking and denigrating the upstart true Conservative Tea Party activists recently elected into office.  The threat to the status quo and the potential breakdown in the flow of power and cash is so great, they are willing, no more than willing, driven, to throw the precepts of our Founding Fathers overboard to retain that power and access to money.

It’s a sad state of affairs that the true conservative leaders of today are forced to fight a two front war for the survival of our free society.  And both exist internally.  One from the ideologically opposed Left, and one from the greed driven self interested Establishment Right.   It is probably already too late to turn the drift to Socialism around through activation of counter measures targeting the Left’s Social Driven campaigns focused on our youth.  Most likely it will be impossible without the full faith and trust of the GOP behind that effort.  That it not going to happen.  Instead the Leadership of our Grand Old Party is going to work tirelessly to make sure they have a safe landing in the new Socialist paradise and the free Republic can go to Hell.

With the Entitled class, growing in numbers everyday by appealing to the naivety of our youth to causes such as Agenda 21, Gun Control, Civil Rights, etc. and with illegal immigration amnesty adding to the Democratic rolls with the promise of raping “The Rich”, what chance do we have?

I wish I could think of a positive end to this article.   But it is beyond my horizon today.   Maybe another unifying act.  Maybe North Korea is about to do us a favor.  The only thing we can be sure of is the America we knew, is no longer the America we know.

Catching Pigs

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on March 4, 2013
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I wish this was originally mine, but it is not.

I don’t know who the author is.  It was sent to be in an email but I thought it was so relevant I wanted to share it here on the PoliticallyUnEZ blog.

More and more we are seeing this play out in society.  It has already caused the destruction of our way of life and before the next four years are over, maybe our Republic.  This isn’t a new concept.  But it is the first time in my lifetime I can remember seeing it so masterfully played out by the left.  The Socialists and the Communists currently infiltrated within our Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches are hard at work and have created a tremendous machine far more talented than our Conservative opposition.  I think they have two sides of the pen already in place with healthcare and immigration.  As they complete the third side with gun control and disarmament, all that is remaining is the nationalization of our banks, industry and finally our food supply to have us penned in.

There is nothing wrong with what Justice Scalia said today.  We need more like him, within our government to stand up, ignore the political correctness, and call a spade a spade, and call out entitlements for what they are which is the furthering of the Socialist ideal.

Enjoy the story.

CATCHING PIGS

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked: “Do you know how to catch wild pigs ?”

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.

The young man said that it was no joke. “You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. “When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. “They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. “The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.”

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America .. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.

One should always remember two truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.