Ron Observes The REAL State of the Union – Part 2
Ron Boat
Recently we were exposed to Obama’s perception, or delusion,
of the State of the Union. This article as well as Part 1 deals more with the
REAL State of the Union as experienced by real people who are, or should be,
realizing the controlling, threatening, dictatorial thuggery of Chicago
politics emanating from the hallowed halls of our own capital.
I’m increasingly suspect of the news pouring with much “enthusiast
glibbery” from the White House or Washington in general. Job numbers
manipulated; laws passed without being read; others blatantly broken and
covered up with denial, lies and misdirection; leaders deceive us making
decisions based on their personal weaknesses of power, greed and wantonness.
Money is irresponsibly borrowed, spent and wasted with disregard to our future
and the consequences. All of this leads not to a state of the union which is
relaxed and productive – or real.
The REAL State of the Union for me is what down to earth, real
intelligent people around the country and the world really experience and think
about our country in two main areas: Our ability to productively work and
produce, and to live free without intrusion and authoritarian loss of rights
and much valued freedoms. These make up the REAL state of the union in my mind.
When these work, we see a truly efficient working population, happier and all functioning
together for the good of themselves, each other and with the country as the
ultimate beneficiary.
Again, I'm blessed to have input from some valued friends
and professionals. People with “real life” insight into the issues that shape
our current world, and who possess governmental, business, financial and religious
foundations and awareness of the circumstances we find ourselves faced with.
·
Bernie
Finn:
Parliament of Victoria,
Australia
Member of the Legislative Council · Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia
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Dorina
Lanza:
CEO of White Tiger Group, LLC
Strategy and International Business Consultant, Business Mentor, and Speaker
Adjunct Faculty Northeastern University School of Business and Department of
Mathematics
MBA in Strategic Planning and International Business
PhD Candidate in Applied Mathematics at Northeastern University
·
Erik Rush:
Columnist and speaker
FOX Contributor
Author - “Negrophilia:
From Slave Block to Pedestal ~ America’s Racial Obsession,”
·
Todd
Feinburg:
Tufts
University graduate in political science
Evening, late morning and most recently morning drive time talk radio host on
WRKO in Boston
Named three times to Talkers Magazine's “Top 100 Most Important Talk Hosts in
America”
With
the insight and opinions of these valued contributors, I present the following to
see if we’re really living the American dream or just dreaming of an America
once great, now being lost. Each answer is their own rational and poignant
opinion, quoted exactly as presented by them.
Part
2 -
4) Where do
you feel we are in the area of national security as it relates to economic,
social and military factors?
Bernie: “The role of
the US has long been for the good of peace in the world. Wherever freedom has
been under threat, America has more often than not stepped in on the side of
liberty. With the debt crisis and an administration that undervalues the US
defense forces, that role may well be under threat itself. Without a strong US,
the future of the Free World is bleak.”
Dorina: “Economic and social national security are not real concepts. They
are empty phrases. Military national security has been misguided since 1946. We
should not be saving the world. And, the US has no business kowtowing to the
whims of all of the wackos out there. It is an embarrassment and a massive show
of weakness. We should be defending US citizens.”
Erik:
“The attacks on
September 11, 2001 were a great example of how threats to our national security
can harm the economy. This administration has substantially compromised our
national security, so it’s only a matter of time before another event or series
of events begins to have even more serious effects.”
Todd: “With national security, we tend
to talk about areas such as Libya and Syria and the more conventional methods
of war, when threats and the potential of threats are more to do with our
systems and internet. Chinese hackers are running wide in our systems and our
power grid, financial and defense systems are at risk. Banking could see
problems along with personal information – that’s the future of real warfare.
Military muscle of the future will be dealing with hackers rather than bombers.
In general we’re facing future technology wars rather than conventional wars of
the past. The military is bloated and over funded and needs to be pared down to
become more efficient and faster to respond and able to fight differently.
Washington is fearful of not spending its money and the military is part of it.
Power structures live and benefit from the status quo and change is not desired
by those in power.”
5) What do
you suggest and how do you feel about our REAL short and long term future as a
free country, economic powerhouse in the world, and a beacon for real growth
and potential?
Bernie: “It
goes without saying that the killing of almost 56 million American children
over the past 40 years is strongly indicative of a deep national moral malaise.
Many Americans are fighting to turn this around, as shown by the over half a
million people marching thru DC, but the fact remains the current President is
the most overtly promoter of abortion to ever hold that office and there is no
end to this mass slaughter coming anytime soon. As Blessed John Paul said when
Pope, “Any nation that kills its own children has no future.” Difficult to
argue with that!
I am desperately keen to see a strong USA leading from the front but fear those
days might be rapidly coming to an end.”
Dorina:
“There are only two
suggestions that are compelling enough to include in this short essay. First,
our mental horizons, beyond which we cannot see, project, predict, or
calculate, need to keep expanding in the same way the science of weather
prediction keeps pushing forecasts to be more reliable and further out in the
future. Those horizons control our rate of progress.
The
second recommendation is to take every single action necessary to preserve
liberty within society. Freedom has been a critical enabling factor in the
success of our past and present society. There is reason to believe that it
will continue to be the most important factor in the success of our society. So
accept no limitations on nor substitutes for liberty. “
Erik: “Being
a person of faith, I have to remind myself and others that all this isn’t
ultimately in our hands. That said, I think that things will continue to
decline as long as this administration is in power. Unless we come to a
realization as a nation that the policies of the left are singularly
destructive and reverse course, it will continue even beyond that. If Obama and
the soft socialists in our government (some of whom are in the GOP, by the way)
are allowed to continue this evolution toward their oligarchical collectivist
model, then America’s days as a dominant economic concern are over.”
Todd: “We have potential, but whether we can save the country from
expansion of government and reckless overspending as a form of paying
voters is suspect. We’ve been so corrupt, we’re a replicate of the old
soviet union (ineffective, and can’t respond quickly to changes and needs).
Potentially we’re going to crash and burn in some in some manner. Possibly
revolution, in one form or another, hopefully nonviolent. We are the titanic,
we can see the iceberg but the people in authority are too happy with the
course to make changes. People who ran GM knew it was going to implode but from
the penthouse you have your retirement package and the perks and you go on…
living well and everything is fine for you, so why stir the pot. People running
this won’t tell you the truth any more. People take theirs and go off somewhere
and leave the problems for everyone else because they’re ok…everything else is
other people’s long term problem.”
6) If an
amount of fraud and deception happened within our recent electoral process, is
there now an irreversible long term harm to our union, and the trust we must have
in our governing bodies?
Bernie: [Being a citizen and resident of Australia,
Bernie felt his firsthand knowledge of this was inadequate to answer.]
Dorina: “No. Voter fraud and deception has been going on for 238 years. It
is nothing new. When people want accurate elections they will get them. We have
the technology for secure, anonymous, and verifiable voting. The fact that we
don't use that technology is because "we" don't want secure,
anonymous, and verifiable voting. The technical definition of trust is
"the condition necessary for betrayal." Our citizens prefer ignorant
trust to informed reliability.”
Erik: “Yes.
Definitely. As with so much of what has gone on in this administration, there
was ample evidence to investigate the practices in the 2012 general election,
but it was not done, due to the complicity of the press and cowardice on the
part of Obama’s political opponents.”
Todd: “Yes and it’s been that way -
it’s just become more visible to us. If you look at people like Al Franken, his
seat was taken by political shenanigans. Ted Stevens was removed from office in
Alaska by corrupt prosecutors. But these sorts of corrupt games
aren't new. The Jack Kennedy election was bought, with people going around
with suitcases of cash buying votes using Joe Kennedy's money. It’s a
well-known part of our culture, yet Americans have such an ingrained sense of
the goodness and integrity of our country that they don't put two and two
together. The stories we hear about Chicago politics, or stolen millions in New
Orleans, or dead people voting - they're assumed to be anomalies. The word
corrupt, in the mind of most voters, describes other, undeveloped societies.
Not us.”
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Through these writings and views
of others in my circle, I’d like to say that I was looking forward to a more positive
expression. But I fear that the reality of America may well be staring us in
the mirror, for we are seeing ourselves diminishing in the world, our future
reflected in our own apathy. With a lessoning of regulation and invasion of our
personal and business lives; with a return to morals, values and real authentic
governance, without racial or class warfare, then the REAL state of our union would
be improved… but alas, consider that it’s not to be for at least the next four
year and possibly a generation or more.
Unlike many talk show hosts and
others who are either blind, or feel some sort of “courtesy” respect and
allegiance to the president, I don’t. Since before his first term when running
for office, my personal research and consideration of his background,
upbringing, family, social and educational mentors revealed a disturbing
pattern of hatred for America and our way of life. His own social actions and words
in his books show this distaste for American life and capitalism, and alleges our
domination of countries throughout history, stripping away their wealth and
resources. People should have paid more attention to that comment to Joe the
plumber. The Socialist concept of “redistribute the wealth” is coming back to
haunt us in spades.
I truly see this man as having an
agenda, a goal to, as he said “fundamentally change America” and I don’t like
it and I'm not going along with it. You don’t radically change something that
has worked pretty well and has been a beacon of freedom and opportunity for
over 200 years – unless you have other goals.
It’s time that America woke up –
at least the 49% that aren’t living off the government teat and making their
own way in life. Start fighting to regain our country from the strangle hold
we’re experiencing from the weight of supporting the 51% and the overbearing
governing elected. We can’t continue down the path of destruction we’re on. We
can’t nor should we live under the rule of one man’s misguided obsession for
our country. We can’t sustain this insufferable debt. We can’t continue to live
governed by unpatriotic, selfish people out for their own personal good but not
for the country they serve. We can’t continue to have oppressed people living
under threat of excessive taxation, over regulation, loss of God given rights
and religious freedoms. Dare I say tyranny?
Even though Bernie lives and
works in Australia, his grasp of our future may be most foretelling: “In a nutshell, it seems the United States
is in an advanced state of decay on a number of fronts. I am desperately keen
to see a strong USA leading from the front but fear those days might be rapidly
coming to an end.”
God bless each of you and God
bless the REAL America.
#freedom
#stateoftheunion
#america
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