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The Lilliputians Have Crippled America

Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2011 at 11:28 AM

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With determination and purpose the "little people" in Gullivers Travels, relentlessly threw their tiny ropes over the sleeping Giant. Although each "rope" was really a thread compared to the giants size, the sheer number of them provided the strength to keep him subdued.

After six years of the left being able to sway the agenda, two of which they had absolute control, we can see the results of their handiwork and the "giant" (Americas economy) has been immobilized.

It took time, but the ropes of "green energy" are sending fuel prices sky rocketing. Domestic oil and coal exploration are being regulated out of existence. Obama said under his plan of "cap and trade" electric power bills for our homes will "necessarily skyrocket". People have to make decisions between eating or putting gas in their cars so they can get to work. That is if they have a job to go to..... But they are acceptable casualties in the war on "global warming".

The anti-business climate ropes under the direction of Obama leftists has prompted a statement by the leader of the Black Chamber of Commerce of America to say: "Obama is anti-business and the policies are starting to look Marxist to me."

The left's idea of a cure-all for everything and anything our country faces are the many ropes of bigger government and more government programs. For the first time in the history of our country over 50% of the population is receiving some sort of income or assistance from the government.

Even Americas pre-eminent investor, Warren Buffet a former Obama confidante, seems to be distancing himself from the leftist tilt that we find ourselves in. He made a statement the other day at his shareholders meeting saying that "capitalism is what made America the greatest country on earth and capitalism will be the solution to get America out of its economic morass...not government."

Time for the strapped down giant to break his bonds. Time for real adult leadership in Washington DC.

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maloney | May 20, 2011, 09:48 PM EDT

you go ratboy. you would be hell if ya had a brain.

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suzandpej | May 19, 2011, 10:07 AM EDT

America looks to be hopeless. But one thing some may forget about American people. We may screw up a lot, but we will never fall. There will come a dayi when, indeed, the common people will obtain the country we used to have. When we get back to our Constitution. History often takes a long time to be made.

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Billg99 | May 16, 2011, 10:09 PM EDT

Right On Socialism and undeserved welfare handouts cripples a peoples' will to work.

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Ratslayer | May 11, 2011, 06:14 PM EDT

Can we get some REAL ADULT WRITERS on this website??!! Enough of these lizard-brain teabaggers!

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seanomelbourne | May 10, 2011, 07:07 PM EDT

Mman your sounding like a radio preacher lol.

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charlie0491 | May 10, 2011, 03:04 PM EDT

Just proves that Pot is legal in Cal.

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Monsoonman | May 10, 2011, 11:49 AM EDT

Well Perfesser, lets you, Seanmelbourne and I walk the path of enlightenment together. When the Lad first started walking with me he was an avowed communist and atheist. I just heard he was attending a baptist church that is affiliated with the Tea Party. He is speaking in tongues and handling rattlesnakes at the same time.

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TheOldPerfessor | May 10, 2011, 11:38 AM EDT

Okay, Monsoonman - I respect your opinion even though I think you are wrong.

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Windmaker | May 10, 2011, 11:26 AM EDT

WalterEllis- here is a fact your class warfare group might like to consider. Given your "instruction" of others, have some of this. The top 5% of earners in the USA pay 63% of all income tax receipts Payroll taxes pay for medicaid and social security only. That means that the richest 5% of americans pay for the government services of the majority of americas' needs you ingrate. Coupled with that, 50% of americans pay no income taxes at all and are net recipients of government subsidies. Is this "fair"? How much more should the "rich" be taxed. Those that believe that the "rich" are an immutable grouping should note that 72% of the richest americans, over 20 years, only appeared in that category once year on year. That means the richest americans are a fluctuating group, not a tribe elevated to a permanent feature of American life. Get over your class warfare instincts and you might become one WalterEllis. 40 million whom the government wont insure? Disingenuity of the highest order. Again, that figure doesnt take into account those between jobs and those who DONT want to pay for health insurance. European citizens are wealthier? Yes, thats a good one. Maybe you should come live in Europe. See how far your euro goes. Your progressive mindset is so evident: us "Europeans can afford to pay more for gasoline"!!. We have no choice you fool. We would wilfully pay less. It is crippling people at the moment. The reason we pay more is we have little if no continental production and dont have the worlds reserve currency in which oil is usefully traded. We can afford to pay more? As for the fact that we have better infrastructure, again, you appear to be talking out of your proverbial. Our infrastructure is crumbling. Our populations are dwindling, we cant replace our deceased so who is going to pay for those pensions and welfare cheques in years to come? Might have to get real and become more like America...

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Monsoonman | May 10, 2011, 11:13 AM EDT

Perfesser, I have been "poor"/homeless in America and didn't like it. I worked in Mickey D's not walmart, does that qualify? I became "unpoor", and understand what it is like from both sides. Thank you for listening carefully to me from now on and since you are going to hang on my every word, here is my first bit of wisdom thrown your way:....."Obama's administration is like an ice cream sundae. Double-Dip recession and all the nuts are on top".

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kevinhayes | May 10, 2011, 11:04 AM EDT

What a load of drivel. It's hard to know where to start to refute it and tempting just to ignore it, it is so low level. "Obama leftists", "former Obama confidante" are just plain lies. The old canard about American regulation affecting world energy prices is just economic ignorance - might have been true around 1911, not 2011. If the "over 50%" statistic is true (Farnan gives no source for it) it is an indictment of the right's economic philosophy, which has previaled for the last 30 plus years of increasing inequality, as the Clinton and Obama essentially adopted the right wing meme. The majority of Americans see President Obama as he is, a moderate centrist who is trying to get a modicum of economic fairness for middle class Americans. Any American who earns less than $500,000 and is voting Republican is voting against his own economic interests. There are always useful idiots like Farnan who will try to fool them.

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TheOldPerfessor | May 10, 2011, 10:50 AM EDT

Monsoonman: I will respect your point of view if you would be willing to spend a night in a homeless shelter and a day working for Walmart at minimum wage.

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Monsoonman | May 10, 2011, 10:49 AM EDT

Looking at THE Bin Laden "mansion" in Pakistan, he would be qualified for all kinds of assistance if he was living in the USA. He didn't even have a flatscreen and NO internet access.

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Monsoonman | May 10, 2011, 10:43 AM EDT

Lad! The truth doesn't need to be dressed up, doesn't need a clintonesque/lawyerese explanation, real truth is simple.....If America is such a horrible place, why are people flocking here? Answer that one. Then you'll get your answer as to why our poor kick the azz of the rest of the worlds poor. To be "Poor" in America, is to be rich in the rest of the world.

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seanomelbourne | May 10, 2011, 01:54 AM EDT

Mman "our poor are better than their poor" disappointed Mman surely you can mount a better argument than that.

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