Runaround Hsu

Murtha Confronted

Great dodge, look at him run into the elevator once he realized that Jason Mattera, of the Young America’s Foundation wasn't a lobbyist wanting to hand him an envelope.

Socialism 101

Today Obama visited Wall Street and basically cussed them out for being capitalist and Hillary launched her newest vision of Hillarycare. Two fine examples of why we don't need either one of them as President.

The problem is that their comments sound feasible and they play to those that can't differentiate between socialism and capitalism. The liberals have done a bang up job portraying capitalism as a system designed to make the rich richer and keep the poor poor. Quaint notion but it couldn't be farther from the truth. Capitalism is a system designed to give everyone the ability to be financially successful... if they are willing to do the work.

And there lies the problem. Work isn't fun. Sitting back and letting the government hand you entitlements is easy. I am not saying the government shouldn't provide help to those who need it, I am saying they should provide help "only" to those who need it.

This notion that the government should provide as services paid for by taxation is simply socialism. Ask the USSR how well that worked. It doesn't, socialism retards economic growth and Robin Hood entitlement programs do the same thing. Increasing taxes upon the business and the rich hurts our economic growth it doesn't help it.

If you remove tax cut incentives and replace it with huge tax increases on the rich what happens? Do you think that when a board of directors is forced to pay more taxation they will absorb that increase themselves? No they will not, they will still live in their million dollar homes and have their corporate jets. The increase will just be passed on. In the form of price increases and less capital investment in their business. Both of which don't hurt the rich, but the middle and lower class.

Supply side economics 101 you do not make poor people rich by making rich people poor. In fact the notion that overtaxing the rich will help the poor is pure foolishness. In fact when you look at the taxation reforms Democrats propose its nothing more than income redistribution, that is socialism.... period.

I Remember

It was a little after 8:00 AM on a Tuesday, a kid that worked for me walked up to me where I was pouring over a set of electrical blueprints spread across the hood of my truck. He asked me if I had heard about a plane hitting "those two big buildings in New York" as he put it. I asked him if he meant the Twin Towers and he said yes. I turned the radio on in my truck and was listening to the news just as United 175 slammed into the second tower. I was stunned and knew that this was it, the attack that James Marshall told me about.

James Marshall was a Naval Intelligence officer that I met in 1988. I was at a conference at Seymour Johnson AFB where he gave seminar and disclosed a somber prediction. That the United States would see a large scale terrorist event inside its borders within 10 to 20 years and such an attack would most likely be directed at a high profile target like the World Trade Center. And he was right...... twice. That was 1987, six years before Ramzi Yousef conspired to blow up the WTC and Fourteen years before Al Qaeda succeeded. But, James Marshall nailed it and our government missed it... twice.

The fact that the United States government missed it is not that surprising. Our govenment is a mess. The bureaucratic quagmire in DC is never going to change until we start at one end of Pennsylvania Avenue weeding out every functionary who's sole existence is to leak sensitive information to the NYT on our dime. That most likely will not happen in our lifetime.

In truth if truly do want these madmen to attack this country again it will require our very society to change. The apathy which has ruled this nation has to stop. The lack of interest we have toward the daily operation of government has be replaced with accountability. The tolerance of partisan antics and grandstanding needs to stop. Our system is broken and we have to see that it is fixed. We need to carefully elect our officials and throw out the people that aren't working for the good of this nation.

The most important thing that each of must embrace is to never forget who this enemy is. It does not matter why they are. They have proven time and time again that they can not be reasoned with. The only thing that will appease them is the destruction of this nation.

Unfortunately our greatest asset is also our greatest weakness. Our freedoms have to be used responsibly, if we do not we play right into their hands. They understand us better that we understand ourselves. They are committed, they are determined, and they do not forget.... neither should we.