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December 10, 2012
The Unions of Detroit: Wisdom from Mark Etterling
Below is a guest article from Mark Etterling. For more about Mark, CLICK HERE.
I was listening to the news today as they discussed the Right to Work legislation currently pending before the Michigan State House. As is usually the case there was the obligatory union boss pontificating about how passage of such legislation would automatically doom any and all future labor to an abyss of virtual corporate slavery. As is also the usual, the person holding the microphone never even bothered to ask the most basic of follow-up questions like “Can you elaborate on that statement?”. Since the modern-day media is obviously nothing more than a sorry bunch of ideological hacks I thought I would do their job for them by asking the question myself.
Hey Union Boss! Explain in to me. You make such asinine statements, but the facts don’t agree. There are currently 23 states that have already passed RTW laws and from an overall economic standpoint those states are doing just fine without the need to force employees to accept union membership as a condition of employment. To the contrary, union laden cities like Detroit, Flint,Toledo, and Cleveland are collapsing in on themselves as the former jobs of those cities are being migrated to the more friendly confines of the southern RTW states. After having passed RTW last year Indiana picked up over 13,000 new manufacturing jobs. In that same time span Michigan has lost over 8,000 with their current “closed shop” attitude.
If you listen to the union battle cry they will chant sophomoric rhyming slogans about how it’s all about workers rights. Okay, great, now explain that as well. Exactly how is it an invasion of someone’s rights to simply give them the freedom of choice about joining a union versus being forced to do so? There is nothing in the pending Michigan legislation (or RTW in general) that prevents union membership. In fact, Taft-Hartley guarantees the right of employees to unionize. Therefore, no one’s rights are being threatened in the least by RTW legislation. So explain your statement, because quite frankly it doesn’t pass the smell test.
If you ask a hardened union member they will tout all of the good things that unions do for their members. Great! If that’s really true than the unions shouldn’t feel the least bit threatened simply by giving people the option. It’s like taking vitamins. If I see a real benefit from taking them I’ll gladly pay for them. I’ll use them freely where I don’t need someone to force me to do so. However, if I don’t see a real benefit than why bother? We shouldn’t be forcing people to join unions any more than we should be forcing them to take vitamins. If unions are as great as advertised than keeping up membership up without force should be a piece of cake. However, as Wisconsin and many other states have recently proven, that’s not the case.
So what’s this really all about? Well, as is usually the case, it’s not rocket science. As I mentioned above, in the first year after Wisconsin passed RTW the public employee union membership dropped by 56% as all those employees with a new-found freedom exercised that freedom. 56% fewer members translate into 56% less dues. So in reality this is all about union membership dues and the political power that those dues represent and has nothing to do with anyone’s “rights”. When fully 95% of union political contributions go to a single party it’s pretty obvious that party can’t live without the unions anymore than the unions can live without that party. It’s a marriage of convenience to say the least.
The Democrats tried unsuccessfully to get card check passed in order to enhance union membership by forcing open ballot voting. It didn’t work simply because the Democrats couldn’t come up with a single legitimate argument as to why it was necessary to permit such a coercive act without any justification. When it comes to losing all these states to RTW they keep losing that debate as well for the very same reason. The unions can hold all the statehouse rallies their little hearts desire, but what they can’t do is justify their own actions. In the mean time they have become a caricature of what a democracy is supposed to look like simply because the exercising of the freedoms democracy offers should at least have a purpose, and this debate has none.
Mark Etterling
Rich Hoffman
December 9, 2012
Understanding The Laffer Curve: Why tax increases of any kind won’t work
Before any intelligent discussion can be made about taxes and how much a society should contribute to them, the general economic theory of the Laffer Curve must be explored. For those who have no idea what the Laffer Curve is, the video below will teach you in a very concise way. Understanding the Laffer Curve is paramount to grappling the most compelling arguments of modern politics.
Many people who work in and around government without question are the type of people who are willing to contribute 50% to 70% of their incomes to paying taxes—after all, all the money they make comes from the community treasuries, so anything they receive is more than they would have had to earn on their own merits. This is also why government work tends to pay so well, because they are expected to support extra costs like union dues and excessive taxation without protest. The Laffer Curve for government workers who lean in the direction of socialism is statistically over 50%. However, for a person like me, my Laffer Curve is around 10%. Anything more than 10% of my income I consider to be a waste of money on government services I don’t want, need, or philosophically support. For a person like me, it is not worth opening a new restaurant, opening a new coal mine, or even building a rocket to explore space because the taxes on my earned income exceeds my personal Laffer Curve.
I may be willing to lend myself to other businesses as a “hired gun” to help them deal with their business troubles even if my income is taxed above 30% because I can negotiate in my loss to the government in my fee. It doesn’t matter to me so long as I get my money, and the purchaser of my services gets what they are hiring me for. But to carry all the responsibility of opening, operating, and maintaining a business when the taxation rate exceeds 10% for me is just not worth it. So I will not contribute to the economy in this fashion because the Laffer Curve is too radically on the wrong side of the chart for me. The people who think like I do are what the American economy might consider “underutilized capital.” We tend to tinker in our garages and write books instead of doing other things America might consider more economically productive because the Laffer Curve on our taxable income is too high. It is these kinds of people who pull the statistical Laffer Curve chart hump to the 33% mark. Government types support a Laffer Curve of 50% to 70%–and people like me support a Laffer Curve of 10%. That is how 33% is reached as an average.
When Obama and the minions of communist oriented government insist on higher taxes on the “rich” they are essentially pushing the Laffer Curve too far to the right statistically causing more of the productive to take their bags of money and quit, joining me in the garages of life playing with their Craftsman tools, building cars, working on motorcycles, and thumbing their noses at government. Obama assumes that the “rich” will be just as motivated to deal with all the headaches of business ownership if their personal Laffer Curves are moved to percentages increasingly over the 50% mark, and that is where the failures occur. Many will not and proportionally the higher the percentage of taxable income moves higher on the Laffer Curve, the more people will drop off the chart, cut their losses, and not participate economically.
Obama doesn’t understand this kind of thing because he was trained to be a communist by his mentors, he never tried to operate a business prior to his political career, and he is currently a public parasite—meaning he lives off tax money as a government employee. He is not a value added citizen—meaning his existence does not contribute positive dollars to any economy, he simply takes by the essence of his life. Obama learned in college that the Laffer Curve is way out there at the 70% mark, and he believes it to this day. He looks at people like me who reside at the 10% mark and get angry with us. He signs Executive Orders by the stacks fantasizing that if he strong arms enough, that my type of people will decide for our own health and well-being that we will move our Laffer Curve up to 30% to 50%. But he is wrong and foolishly naive. In response, my type of people will simply go “pirate” and find other ways to shield our assets from the government trolls who wish to steal our property, starting with our money. Instead of complying with the government we will seek ways to undermine it, and gain back the values lost to looters like Barack Obama and his tax grabs.
It is because of the Laffer Curve that Obama’s “tax the rich” scam won’t work. The radical activists whom serve his private council are people like Richard Trumka, Van Jones, and other radical progressive/communist supporters and their Laffer Curves are well above the 50% range, because they are not the type of productive people who make anything. So anything that comes their way is more than they would have obtained if they just sat on their couches at home and watched TV. So they clearly support higher taxation on the Laffer Curve since they directly benefit with very little investment on their part. What their vision does is destroy the incentive for people who reside with a Laffer Curve of 10% to 20% to stay home and not play the game—which means less wealth is created, and the economy will recede instead of expand.
Many CEO types, many of the rich, many of the movers and shakers of the American economy attempt to stay on the good side of government with charity work, political contributions, and celebrity appeasement. Even the “rich” like Warren Buffet who supports the higher taxes on Obama’s Laffer Curve cozy up to people like Obama to keep the government from stealing too much of his wealth while he uses new federal laws he helped to fashion to crush his competition—which is why he supports Obama’s tax increases. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE. CEO’s try to play the game of politics to keep the Laffer Curve from moving too high up the graph. The closer to 0% the better, and when the Laffer Curve gets up over 40% the value of the efforts given to operate any kind of economic endeavor diminishes considerably—and retiring to a fishing village in Florida becomes much more preferable.
Government cannot change human nature, and they will never achieve acceptance of higher percentages on the Laffer Curve no matter what effort they employee, whether it be attempted force, or political maneuvers. Every human being has their cut-off point, and the further up the Laffer Curve the taxes go, the fewer people there are to contribute to a thriving economy. It is that simple. The foolish assumption by communists and political utopia builders is that financial producers will feel compelled to contribute equally to a world vision created by half-baked politicians and academic theorists—but producers won’t, because the value of those government fools is flushed out in the real world by what they contribute economically–which is very little. That is why the economy is tanking under Barack Obama, because he does not understand the Laffer Curve and like every pinhead dim-wit in the academic halls of universities, they have allowed their naive world vision to corrupt their logic and deny them the understanding of how the world works—and for them this is reflected on their personal Laffer Curves that are far up the ladder. The higher the tax rates on personal income Americans will decide with increasing frequency to withdrawal from economic creation and join me turning wrenches in their garages and simply watching football games all day on a Saturday afternoon and to say to hell with business and the government that loots off its back. That is what the Laffer Curve is and what it means to society.
Rich Hoffman
December 8, 2012
Communism in Public Educaton: The California Teachers Union Video
Growing up at the end of the Cold War like I did, communism was a dirty word, and was a constant threat. Many today think that the threat of communism went away after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which started in the early 60’s and was observed by intelligence officers as far back as the Cuban Missile Crises. The Soviet Union was going to collapse, it was just a matter of time when. They were collapsing because their political philosophy of communism destroyed ambition and productivity, leaving all of Russia and the gigantic land mass of China to turn those countries into the economies of the third world. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO. Communism is an evil political philosophy because it demands national collectivism to work, which requires individual support—violating personal sovereignty. Communism cannot work without destroying individuality, and in the process, destroying the kind of ambition that manufactures productivity.
But communism is not gone from the world—it has never left. It is alive and well today through the labor movement, through the Obama presidency, through any nation’s tendency toward big government. All that has changed with communism is that advocates have changed the names around to hide their true intentions. This makes it hard to identify who America’s friends are from their foes when the red flag of the U.S.S.R is removed from the face of communism and is replaced with Barack Obama’s smiling mug advocating progressivism. The threats to individual sovereignty is the same as it always has been, but the marketing of the ideas did change to appear less threatening, so that the idea of communism could spread all across the world—as was always the plan. And no place in America is communism more present than in the public education occupation—exclusively because education is controlled by massive government backed teacher unions who plan to teach our children on the merits of communism while forcing them to live under a rainbow-colored umbrella of communism in their everyday lives. The communists look and act like any other person in our general society—that is, until they open their mouths and begin to spew the long-held philosophic ideas of Karl Marx. The dead giveaway that a person is a communist is that they advocate high taxes for the “rich” and wealth redistribution for the “middle class.” For proof of this radicalism, look at the video produced by the California Teachers Union narrated by long time respected actor Ed Asner. What is being advocated in this video is communism. This is what our kids are learning in school with tax payer money off our property values. This is the result of a communist attack from within America that has proven far more dangerous, and sinister than even the Cuban Missile Crises was during the Kennedy years.
I know this video and the producers of it are communists in spite of their declaration that they are “progressives” because their beliefs have been tried before, most notably in the Russian Revolution in 1917 Petrograd—known today as St. Petersburg. For anyone wishing to learn more on this communism idea they should read We The Living by Ayn Rand, published in 1936 during the “Red Decade” here in America as a warning to those in The United States who were thinking of pushing communism during our own Great Depression. The book is widely available at any book store today as Ayn Rand books are flying off the shelves as people are going back and learning what she was trying to say during the first half of the American 20th Century. CLICK HERE TO READ MY REVIEW OF WE THE LIVING. Communists today fear Ayn Rand’s books, so they will ridicule anyone who attempts to read them. In Ayn Rand’s novels—particularly We The Living she shows how the process happens, and it begins by demonizing the “rich,” those who produce jobs and generate the wealth of a country. Communists wish to remove these “wealth producers” so that the government does not have any competition for that kind of activity. In a communist country government wishes to be the job creators by distributing the looted wealth collected from the masses, so they must eliminate those who actually make things. That is why they attack the “rich.”
The fundamental flaw that all communists suffer from is that they do not understand what makes wealth. They believe that money is finite, that it is not a renewable resource generated from the ideas in an individual’s head and implemented by the companies that they create. So communists attempt to steal the wealth that has so far been created, and then they sit on that looted wealth by redistributing it to the poor and middle class. Then they wonder why their economies failing, because the value for things goes down as the wealth leaves the country like water running through a screen door. Committees do not produce wealth, corporations do not produce wealth, and governments do not produce wealth. All those collectivist organizations can only “manage” the wealth created by individuals. America has had more wealth than any other nation because it has produced individuals who could think in such a fashion to manufacture wealth. If those individuals are looted by their government, the individuals will stop manufacturing wealth, and soon the nation will fail with devalued currency, and become a society of middle-class looters looking to government to send a check they can live on in the mail. When they don’t get it, they will protest—just like what is happening in Greece.
The California Teachers Union along with the rest of the public employees of that state are bankrupting it with their commitment to socialism/communism, and their mentality that was wonderfully evident in their video hosted by Ed Asner. Communists are certainly alive and well, and if you send your child to a public school, they are being taught by communists, as classically defined. Communists thrive in public education because there is no competition, so government has paved the way to spread communism into the minds of young Americans without any fear of competing ideas interfering. If parents don’t like their children being taught by communists at their local school, they don’t have much choice but to home school their children (as my wife and I did for a time) or send them to a private school. Sadly, it is time to stop kidding ourselves of the value of public education when it is now so obvious that public schools are teaching children the values of communism, instead of becoming productive capitalist in a thriving economy.
If you are an older person and can remember the Cold War, you should withdrawal your support from your public school any way possible. If you send them your money, you are helping spread the communist message to our next generations. CLICK HERE FOR PROOF THAT THE KGB INFILTRATED PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE 1960′s AND NEVER LEFT. Younger parents, who did not grow up in such a time, won’t know what is going on because they are still too immature to see history playing out before their eyes, and they will not understand. But for those of us who do, communists have to be removed from public education, and the best way to do that is to starve them out of their hiding places. For more proof of this communist plot in all public schools, CLICK HERE, watch the video there before assuming that I’m pulling your leg. Because I’m not, sorry to say.
Rich Hoffman
December 7, 2012
A Lesson on Government from George Lang: how things are supposed to work
Below is an example of how local government is supposed to work—at least as a sample of the type of debate that should transpire between the participants. This is true no matter what kind of government is presented, whether it is a school board, a group of trustees for a township which is the example below, or a city council—the elected representatives are supposed to argue and hash out issues with passionate narrative in order to arrive at a proper conclusion. In the example provided, West Chester Trustee George Lang argues against the proposal of trustee Cathy Stoker, and Lee Wong who are voting in favor of a contract renewal with the Fraternal Order of Police that has very lucrative benefits included. Many of the employees being discussed make very close to six figures a year. CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW MUCH AND WHO THEY ARE (there’s over 80 comments on that link that are very entertaining). So the employees are already well compensated, and this new contract more than insures more of the same behavior, which Lang argues West Chester may find balancing a budget will be difficult in the coming years. Watch for yourself:
George Lang was outvoted 2 to 1, but he still went to the trouble to make the public argument for the good of West Chester, and this is why it’s important to vote in favor of more representatives like Lang at election time. In West Chester, Cathy and Lee’s seats are coming up for re-election, so there is a chance for West Chester to vote big spenders like those two trustees out of office in favor of managers who will behave more like George Lang.
The trend in most political organizations such as school boards, trustees and city councils is to try to achieve group consensus and this is where politics fails. When the members of the governing body are more concerned about winning a popularity contest, or being accepted by the other governing members, the chance for spirited debate is effectively squashed, and does not happen very often. In Lang’s situation of course his position will not make him popular with the public sector unions, but he is not concerned about those kinds of things—he is trying to manage the impact of the contracts cost against the ability of the tax payers of West Chester to pay the bill without tax increases, which is how the process is supposed to work.
Ultimately the video above reveals a much more sinister evil that is at the heart of every government deal involving any public sector union, and illustrates why school boards and other management organizations lose control of their costs—third-party arbitration. In the video Cathy Stoker discusses that if the contract is not accepted by the trustees that a third-party will be called in to resolve the dispute and force the hand of the trustees against their will. This third-party arbitration is exactly why school boards do not have the stomachs to fight teacher unions to manage their costs, because the union will force the dispute into arbitration and trump the elected school board. School boards don’t want to be trumped, so they go along with whatever teacher unions’ support to avoid the third-party embarrassment.
The same threat is present when involving fire fighter unions, and police unions. In West Chester, Cathy Stoker showed in the video that she is very concerned about third-party arbitration forcing upon them costs that exceed the contract they are agreeing to, while George Lang suggests that the trustees should force the issue into arbitration and fight it out in an effort to save the costs against the tax payers of West Chester. Lang knows that if they lose their arbitration hearing, he would then have the leverage in the media to blame the arbitration process for the high taxes imposed by the third-party. So he is willing to roll the dice, whereas Stocker and Wong aren’t. But at least the debate happened and all three trustees didn’t mindlessly accept the contract without spirited discussion.
When electing these kinds of politicians it is more beneficial to elect fighters instead of people who will just lie down and say “uncle” in the face of third-party arbitration. It is this threat that drives up the cost of all these public sector workers with teachers, fire fighters, and police departments. Public sector unions should be illegal, and third-party arbitration by un-elected officials should also be illegal. The laws that protect this system are a travesty against the tax payers. But thank God not all politicians are mindless “yes men” who just go through the political motions so they can have the social popularity of a name-plate upon their desks. Some politicians like George Lang actually try to manage the costs that impact his community, which is what he was elected to do.
For those reading this who are my community neighbors thinking of running for an office there are three school board seats coming up at Lakota, two seats coming up for the West Chester Trustees, and Liberty Twp has some seats coming up, it would be advisable for you to run for one of those seats. If you need help getting in touch with people who can help with money to run for office, then feel free to contact me, and I’ll put you in touch with those who can help with your campaigns—because I’d like to see more people like George Lang in these local positions fighting on behalf of the tax payers in the years to come. That is the key to solving many of our future problems circulating around sustaining community growth and maintaining a positive economic future, electing politicians locally who will actually do the job as well as George Lang does.
On the other side, an example of how the job is done poorly can be seen in the video below.
See the difference? No wonder Detroit is broke and looks the way it does.
Rich Hoffman
December 6, 2012
Progressives are at Fault for Most Gun Violence: Why the 2nd Amendment is “REALLY” needed
I have heard enough about the gun argument that took place after the Jovan Belcher shooting/suicide which occurred at Arrowhead Stadium, in Kansas on Saturday December 1st. Belcher for all the reasons that impassioned youth build up a fury in their minds saw no way out for himself but suicide after he shot his girlfriend—the mother of his young baby during an argument. Many people have had such arguments with a loved one, and many times the rage can build up to a desire to obliterate the other person, even if deep down inside the love is great. The mind often distorts reality when perspective is misplaced, and people often do stupid things when they are angry. But as I’ve listened all week to the pundits fume for more gun laws, like what the big cities have around America—which are also Obama Zone voting blocs, the reality of the situation must be placed into perspective and not be allowed to migrate to the progressive arguments of rhetoric not based on reality.
The strongest case that progressive minded gun grabbing fools have for more gun laws is that the urban population is killing each other ruthlessly, and putting guns in the hands of such people is dangerous. Jovan Belcher is a product of this ruthless urban culture that is so highly praised among the media—and it is the creation of this dependent based urban culture that is the cause of many of society’s modern troubles—including gun violence. Progressives seeking to hide the crimes of their folly are pursuing fewer guns in society to cover up their political failures as a general philosophy. Much of that urban culture progressive creation can be heard in modern rap music which many young people like Belcher listen to often. The music is often violent, and contains a lot of race based anger, meant to fuel support of progressive philosophy, such as more welfare programs, an expanded and defined middle class, a destruction of American traditional value in favor of more global awareness with less individual sovereignty—along with a host of other platform points all of which can be seen in the Obama Administration. When pictures of Jovan Belcher are sought online, he is often seen wearing headphones which is common among athletes before a game starts—and I would be willing to bet that the music he was listening to was not Mozart, or Bach. If a young person puts garbage into their minds, of course garbage will come out in their behavior, so when young people like Jovan find themselves angry and insecure over being a new parent with a young baby that is depending on them to be a good person, and the spouse in a relationship has a whole set of values that are different from Jovan’s upbringing, conflicts are bound to happen, and Jovan dealt with the crises in the manner that he built the ideas in his head with like music, movies, television, and most likely large doses of meditating on the merits of “urban culture.” To understand that culture all one needs to do is play the video game Grand Theft Auto. I’m sure Jovan Belcher played that video game a lot. In fact—I’d bet on it.
(YES THE VIDEO BELOW IS THE REAL GAME AS KIDS PLAY IT EVERY DAY.)
But that doesn’t mean that guns should be outlawed because Belcher used a gun to commit crime, or video games because they allowed Belcher to fantasize about being a street thug—shooting and raping “bitches” so you can score points in a game like players do in GTA. It doesn’t even mean that music should be edited in any manner. If people like the urban stuff, the market has a right to exploit that consumer need. But who created that market need—where does it come from? Progressives—they are the ones who made the welfare culture, they are the ones who created the modern ghetto, they are the ones who are responsible for much of the gang violence that goes on, the drug use, the sex driven diseases like AIDS, the out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and progressives are responsible for destroying the modern family leaving many young people like Jovan Belcher without a good role model in their lives in the form of a father. Progressives have attacked the America father of tradition and attempted to replace them with a central government, and that is the cause of most social failures. The gun violence is just the symptom of the sickness created by progressives in urban neighborhoods, which nobody in their right minds would want to live in.
Where I live I would say that 90% of the homes within a mile of my home are armed with at least two guns and I can report that we do not shoot each other—ever. The guns are there for target shooting, for personal protection, and on occasion hunting. But there is an even more important reason for having those guns—they are there in case the military fails us, and the government moves too far to the left for our liking, we will need to use those guns to take back our country from a military that we have wasted a lot of money arming and training only to be used against us as a weapon.
One year ago President Obama with the support of the House and Senate passed the NDAA Act which gives permission to whoever is president at the time to arrest and indefinitely detain Americans violating their 5th Amendment rights on only the suspicion of terrorist activity by the president as defined by that same Executive Brach holder. I can say that if such a thing happens, I will no longer recognize the laws created by the thieves in Washington and an armed revolution will become necessary to overthrow the tyrannical government. That’s why we have guns, because government cannot be trusted except when the threat of armed revolt is present. If the government goes bad, the armies, and militias that are talked about in the Constitution become the weapons of that government leaving Americans defenseless.
In case political pussies like Bob Costas and the other progressive cry babies in the modern media didn’t notice, most of America did not vote for Barack Obama, by land mass. It is the urban vote that did–the costal regions and cities with huge sections of Section 8 housing and strong labor union presences. America as a whole is not in agreement with the idiots of New York and their progressive gun bans because deep down inside of everyone I talk to from all walks of life there is a strong belief that our guns will be needed to preserve our independence from progressives such as The United Nations and other members of Socialist International. The U.N. is making their global land grab using the same progressive philosophies that helped shape the mind of Jovan Belcher. It’s just a paper conquest as opposed to a traditional siege. (And for my older readers here, sorry for my use of strong language, but it’s needed in this case. There is more coming at the end, just to warn you) The characters who want to grab our guns today are the same type of people we will have to fight tomorrow, and to surrender our defense against their parasitic aims would be a fool’s paradise.
Every idiot who called out for more gun control in the wake of this most recent tragedy is one of the types of progressive minded people who helped shape the mind of Jovan Belcher in the first place. If Belcher did things in his life my way, he would learn to hunt and fish on his own, he’d know how to fix his own things in life both mechanically and psychologically, and he’d be listening to classical music on his iPod instead of urban rap, and he would have paid attention. Young people love leadership, they soak it up like a sponge, and it says a lot that Belcher went to see his coach in the darkest hour of his life—probably because that was the strongest male figure in his life at the time. Most of the urban crimes in society could be solved if the world had more strong fathers for young people to look up to, because the progressive experiment of destroying fathers is what caused Belcher and many other troubled youth to not have the mental faculties to deal with crises in their lives. The fault is progressives and their urban culture policies, and the fix is in introducing young people like Belcher at an early age to more self-reliance, and positive role models. Progressives have sought to destroy positive role models so that society would have a greater need for a more centralized government who cared for everyone and everything, and the world with its current miseries is their fault. So with that said it was not the gun that caused the terrible events at Arrowhead Stadium, it was progressive philosophy, and for that they can all hang their heads in shame.
And to my conservative mild-mannered friends—don’t be afraid to call people like Costas a pussy—because he is. He makes a living interviewing celebrities and commenting on sports—the worlds great distraction. He had no right to bring his ass kissing ways to our living rooms when all we wanted to do was watch grown men run into each other at full speed and knock the shit out of one another. Costas should have kept his mouth shut and not stuck his nose into an issue he is not qualified to speak on—since he has made a living as a “yes man” not a defender of liberty or even a man of self-reliance which to me is the only kind of man there is. Tyranny and slavery are built on the backs of people like Bob Costas who seek to fix the symptom, not the cause so that the bright lights of a football game can resume without guilt.
Rich Hoffman
December 5, 2012
France Calls Obama a Socialist: ‘World of Warcraft’ is all about CAPITALISM
It might be recalled that I have discussed in great detail free to all that the world willing to read that global governments are moving toward socialism because they lack the financial strength and productivity of America and can only hope that socialism will save their skins from years, and years of government mismanagement. (CLICK HERE FOR THE MAP to see how socialism is infecting earth with a destructive political ideology.) In America since socialism is a public relations nightmare—or at least it used to be, the word “PROGRESSIVE” has been used instead, and has been slowly sold through the public education system to naive young minds as busy parents simply needing a baby sitter didn’t pay any attention. The result has been in America a mixed ideology of capitalism and socialism which is kind of like being in a marriage where the couple hates each other, but stay together for the kids. Socialism is always looking to undermine capitalism as peace is just not an option, the two cannot co-exist.
I have declared openly that Obama is a functioning communist. It looks as though he was raised as a communist and it’s all he knows. And as anyone who understands such things knows, socialism is a big step toward communism. Socialism is like having a diet Pepsi where communism is a regular Pepsi. They are both sodas, but one is loaded with all kinds of nasty things, whereas the diet drink is intended to simulate the regular drink while avoiding all the nasty stuff. Because Obama is a communist advancing the diet drink of socialism with great abundance the American economy is suffering terribly, and nobody wants to discuss it because socialism is a bad word in America. So nobody calls it out by name.
Socialism started in America with labor unions and really kicked into gear during the Red Scare in the 1930’s leaving the progressive president FDR to enact many socialist American programs in his New Deal to respond to global communism that was sweeping the planet. This is how we ended up with Social Security and many other intrusive government programs. But socialism didn’t stop there of course and is now advancing aggressively under Obama into nationalizing industries by the Federal government so that central authority control can be put in place—which has been the intention of communists all along—supported openly by many politicians, Obama simply being the latest.
It is hard for many people to believe, but the truth is what it is. In Europe, which politicians like Obama love as an example of governance—but traditional Americans despise–socialism is out in the open. In fact France has a socialist president. In England socialism was hidden behind the name of the Labour Party and of course in America it was sold as the party of Democrats and the umbrella of Progressive politics. But now Greece and Spain have openly supported the actual title of socialism.
Of course all these countries functioning under socialism are failing economically because socialism takes away personal responsibility and allows the weak and unproductive to feed off the exploits of the productive, and such a theory will never work in a million years. It’s naive at best. So after the French president was criticized for his high taxes on the rich, and companies threatened to shut down because they are owned by “the rich,” he simply replied that France could nationalize its industries instead of them functioning under private ownership, and he pointed at Obama as his gleaming example for what was going on in the United States. Click the link below for more info.
It cannot be denied any longer. Socialists are attacking our American way of life and they are doing so ruthlessly. They are in essence predatory parasites, meaning they function as a collective of weaklings that require the looted efforts of strong backed individuals to carry them through life. So it is time to meet them on the battle field and stop coddling them like infants crying for a pacifier. Without capitalism America will fail, and for all the young kids reading this who thinks that what I’m saying won’t affect them, let me provide an example of capitalism and socialism that they might understand. In the world of video games, over 10 million people play World of Warcraft. Many of those 10 million people spend 5 to 6 hours a day playing that massive online game in a world of their own making with other players all over the world. On weekends they spend over 12 hours per day. It is likely that many of those 10 million either voted for Obama or support him without knowing why. The idea of extended unemployment benefits, higher minimum wages, food stamps and many other government programs is very appealing to these young gamers, because it gives them more time to play their favorite online game with their virtual friends. But the reason these people play the game of World of Warcraft is because in the real world, their lives are much more limited, and heavily regulated. In the game of W.O.W a game player can spend all day working hard for their currency and leveling up their characters because they can see the results. W.O.W. is a successful game because it frequently rewards players keeping them interested in playing the game. But imagine playing W.O.W all day every day and then having the makers of the game tell players that they must send 50% of all the credits they’ve earned, and the skills their characters have acquired back to the video game manufacture as part of their fee for keeping the game operating. Or that the game designers wish to give new players in W.O.W some of the other players money so that World of Warcraft would be more “fair and even” for new players who wouldn’t have to feel so bad when they were playing with and against players who have invested 200 to 1000 hours of time on W.O.W and have leveled their characters up to become very powerful. If the makers of World of Warcraft did such a thing, the game would become very unpopular, and people would leave. That is the difference between capitalism and socialism. W.O.W. is a very capitalist system. Players pay a small fee to play the game but get to keep most everything they make and produce within the game. That is why W.O.W is successful, just like any economy, real or virtual.
In fact, it is partly because of this massive online gaming presence that members of the United Nations under control of Socialist International are looking to regulate trade and access to the internet. They have seen that online games are a threat to their global philosophy. Games like WOW that has over 10 million active users, and Star Wars: The Old Republic which has over 1 million and growing since it’s a very new release, along with the many millions that play Call of Duty on Xbox live every day, or Madden Football, or any number of releases are enjoying online PURE CAPITALISM because there is no limit to what they can do, only what their minds and time can produce. When politicians and even parents wonder what the great appeal is to online gaming with kids, it is that games are pure capitalism still, and Socialists International fears that realization because they control every other aspect of human life in some form or another—and have come to realize that they must gain control of the online world in some way soon—starting with an online sales tax. When it is asked why kids don’t want to play outside anymore, think about it—half the neighborhood neurotic mothers who also vote for school levies pad their kids up for safety instead of letting them get bumps and bruises. Making playing outside difficult with knee pads and helmets just to ride a bicycle pushes kids somewhere else where they aren’t so restricted, just like any businessman. Kids go online and play games where they can be free.
Socialism takes away the ambition to do anything. I feel it myself. There are a lot of things I would do that society would greatly benefit from, but to be honest, I don’t want to deal with the pin-headed bureaucrats to make those things happen so I stay out of the market place. If things were deregulated, I might do more that would benefit society, but since doing anything productive these days requires a major pain in the ass investment of time and money, it is simply not worth it. So I write books, because looting socialist bureaucrats have not yet found a way to tax the ideas that come out of my mind since they don’t control my thinking. And there is a part of me who understands young people who would rather play a video game than to start a new business. Because in the game, even though none of it is real, the player at least gets to keep what they earned while investing their time. In real life, politicians guided by socialism want to take some of what everyone earns, so many young people just lock themselves in their bedrooms and play World of Warcraft filing for food stamps and other welfare programs rather than get a real job that’s unsatisfying, because they want more time to play their games.
Socialism is the culprit that is ruining the lives of Americans, and it is politicians like Obama who are advancing that destructive political philosophy most aggressively. It doesn’t matter how much he smiles, or speaks, and manipulates, he is a socialist who also happens to be a lawyer with a proven history of taking great liberties with the truth. Whoever supports a person like Obama is a damned fool and is directly responsible for the destruction of America. Because once Obama and his fellow socialist have nationalized the world’s economy, they will come after the video game industry to eradicate from the minds of mankind any trace of capitalism forever. That is when the young people playing W.O.W. will have wished they paid as much attention to politics as they do the story lines of their video games, because if they had, they may have been able to stop the spread of socialism that destroyed everything they knew and loved.
Rich Hoffman
December 4, 2012
Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers: The 2005 meeting attempt and progressive agenda against marriage
I kept waiting for other media outlets to pick up this story, but nobody has, so here it is. A few did, but it died on the vine rather quickly, and deserves some considerable attention. Back in the 1990’s the story of the Gennifer Flowers affair with Bill Clinton was quite a scandal—and in many ways it served progressives well by providing the template of lies, and deceit that a politician can now engage in—which was always a progressive agenda item. Bill Clinton is a hero to the progressive cause because he was one of the first of his kind of politician to lie so openly, dodge federal prosecution, and still win the hearts of America with a favorable memory of his two disastrous terms in office. It was Bill and Hillary Clinton who taught modern progressives as lawyers how to lie straight into the lens of a camera and gain public approval to crush investigations before they had a chance to happen. The tactic that Bill Clinton used in the 1990’s is the same type of tactics that Barack Obama uses today—also an attorney—and that is to win the jury in the box in spite of the evidence that is presented to a judge. Bill Clinton was and still is the master of deception. In fact, he is so arrogant about his ability to lie, cheat and manipulate the public that as recently as 2005, after denying the affair he had with Flowers for over 20 years he showed up at Flowers house to attempt to re-establish contact with her. Watch a recent interview with her below and wrap your mind around the level of deceit and treachery that she is claiming—then consider that the show she is on is a very small program of little significance. Such a story should have been plastered on every network all over the country, but story editors have long ago determined that going after Bill Clinton is a losing proposition.
Even to the extent of lying about their relationship over such a long period of time, Clinton obviously with the full knowledge of his wife Hillary—currently serving in the Obama White House—attempted to establish contact knowing that every eye in the world is watching him. He did not care, and did it anyway because he knew he could always wiggle out of it if he were caught. I have written a lot about Bill Clinton and to review some of those articles and what Clinton is really after in life, CLICK HERE. But for the case of this instance, have a look at the video below and watch the classic 60 Minutes episode where Bill and Hillary completely staged the revelation of the Flowers affair then denied it so that he could boost his name recognition. That interview put him into every living room in America at the time. Compare the video below with the video above to gain insight into just how scummy these politicians can be, and often are. Keep in mind that the purpose of the affair release was to put money in Flowers pocket, boost their presidential platform exposure to a national audience, Hillary knew everything about the affair and was alright with it—which points to the fact that Bill and Hillary have an “open marriage” and that both of them had no problem lying about the facts to achieve their political goals—and did so at whatever cost.
Most people have a strain of evil in them, and it comes out from time to time in little instances usually provoked by stress or tragedy. But they are not so maniacal to plot and scheme to such a treacherous level as people like Bill Clinton have and not worry at all whether or not they could lawyer their way out of the mess. Clinton showed progressives how to beat the system, he is the “case law” of progressive politics and that is why he is a hero in the minds of progressives even to this day. They do not care about the essence of Clinton’s character; they do not care if he is a confirmed liar, a master manipulator, or a parasite to the human race—because most progressives are. In the social collectivism they so adamantly support they do not find the individual behavior of Bill Clinton reprehensible because their continued focus is always on the greater good—which might seem like a lofty goal—but that lofty goal is often set by liars, cheats, and womanizing freaks like Bill Clinton, and is imposed on the rest of us for all of American history. The video below shows to what celebrity status Clinton has managed to maintain among his progressive base. He played a huge part in the re-election of Barack Obama using the same old manipulative tactics he used during his own presidency, and progressives love him for it. Notice the song they introduced him with at the DNC Convention—listen to the words. Welcome to the mind of the progressive and the scum and villainy they perpetuate upon mankind, as they try to convince America that “yesterday’s gone” and the only direction is the progressive “Move Forward” slogan designed to carry America away from its traditions, including traditional—monogamous—sexual relationships with their spouses. They desire a world of Orgy Porgy. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.
When the Flowers story broke in 1992 the media was a different animal, and so was America. The Clintons used a Trojan Horse strategy to get themselves into the White House so they could write their own rules in the game of politics, and they changed it forever. It is because of them that a goofball like Barack Obama can get by with such a terrible record, a checkered past and never be expected to do anything while president and still have the cheers of the crowd, because progressives reside in the very heart of evil itself. Their lives are built upon collective salvation and do not function from individual possession and traditional American principles. They are a menace to our country and cannot be trusted for anything they utter, because they have proven a willingness to look society in the eye and lie to achieve the aims of the collective for goals unspecified. And that is the real danger, that nothing they say can be trusted. Yet to the minds of many, these liars are believe heroes who have set the moral groundwork for the America of tomorrow, which has always been their sinister aim, even way back when Bill and Hillary sat on a couch during a 60 Minutes interview, Hillary’s hair cut to look like a typical modern woman, her arm placed behind her husband lovingly, and told a straight-faced lie to millions of Americans without a thought or a care as to being caught by the impropriety. They knew that once elected, they would change the rules that all of society functioned under—and to a large extent they have, to the cheers of millions.
Evil carries with it many siren songs of fatality—meant to be lucrative; otherwise the ideas would be utterly rejected. Dear reader, did you think that evil would show itself with horns and a pitchfork? The only fork one is likely to see with these modern examples of pure evil is that of the tongue that utters mountains of lies built on a foundation of progressive manipulation.
Rich Hoffman
December 3, 2012
Understanding the “Fiscal Cliff”: Promises to Obama’s Jakarta playground friends
One of the big reasons that it is important to know what kind of person the President of the United States is, why they should be born in America, why they should not have communist parents, why they should at least have attend school in the States, is to avoid catastrophes like what we are all facing with the upcoming “fiscal cliff” negotiations, where I have pointed out over and over again that Obama has only one goal, to spread the wealth as he learned from the ideas of Marxism not just across America, but the entire world. Many people forget that the little boy Obama as a grade school lad did not attend education in America for his entire youth, it was in Indonesia. When he played outside, it was not in America that he played, but in the third world country of his mother’s second husband, and his world view was certainly shaped by those events, as has become exceedingly obvious. Obama clearly wishes to drain the wealth of America so that places like his childhood home of Indonesia can prosper and he is using the theories of communism to justify his wealth distribution policies. However, many people don’t know these things about Obama. They simply know that he is the first black president and for them that is good enough. They do not care that Obama does not have the management skills to pay one 14-year-old to cut his grass, let along manage the affairs of the Executive Branch. They also do not care that Obama’s communist background is at the core of his willingness to send America over the fiscal cliff that is coming up at the end of December. In fact, many Americans have no idea what the “fiscal cliff” even is, so for them I present my radio friend from Michigan, Matt Clark on 1600 WAAM as he explains very well what the average person needs to know about this upcoming crises. Have a listen.
As far as I’m concerned the Bush Tax Cuts are too high, so the discussion of anything more is not even on the radar. I view the federal government as a bunch of crooks that are unable to do anything else productive in their lives but steal money through taxation. The only way they can give value to their lives is by stealing money from the public through taxes, then doing something through wealth redistribution to the less fortunate so they can feel they’ve done something useful in their pathetic lives. Meanwhile, they enrich themselves well out of the range of financial suffering with crooked back-room deals all up and down K-Street where just a few blocks from The White House where Obama tucks his children into their beds at night, prostitutes and drug dealers perform every reprehensible task imaginable, and many of the law makers on Capitol Hill are in on the act in some way or another. So more taxes no matter who they are on means only more criminal behavior from the looters who serve as law makers in Congress, the Senate, and Executive Branch, and I wouldn’t think of giving any of those idiots even a tip at a restaurant let alone more money. They have done a reprehensible job of managing the American economy and shouldn’t be awarded.
Obama however appears to be living out a promise he made to boyhood friends on the playgrounds of Jakarta, living in a Menteng Dalam neighborhood in the Tebet subdistrict, then from 1970 in a wealthier neighborhood in the Menteng subdistrict. From ages six to ten, Obama attended local Indonesian-language schools: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School for two years and Besuki Public School from one and half years, and even the nicest of these places would be considered “dumps” by American standards. Obama seems to want to steal the wealth of America so his old neighborhoods in Jakarta can prosper off the loot. This is why he doesn’t care if the American economy tanks, if the whole system collapses, because his loyalties are not to American citizens, but his boyhood friends from Indonesia. There is nothing about Obama’s behavior that leads me to believe he has any patriotic American sensibilities, and this is the kind of person that Republicans are negotiating with. Obama is an Islamic sympathizer who pretends to be a Christian, and he’s a communist who pretends he’s a capitalist. He is as misleading about his background and intentions fiscally as Bill Clinton is socially—always saying one thing, while meaning something else entirely.
So as the “fiscal cliff” draws near, understand that you have all been warned. The personalities driving the train to the cliff are a variety of radicals all with different agendas. But Obama’s is the most foreign of them all. Obama is not functioning from greed, political strategy, or even concern over his own legacy. Obama wants to end America. His actions speak of no other intention and his background supports the theory. The “fiscal cliff” is a chance for Obama to run America into a wall of debt, worthless money, and a morally corrupt people, all of which he has had his fingers in helping to create. So don’t be surprised when things go badly, because they will. Obama has nothing to lose and everything to gain from ending America. He does not want a balance budget, he does not want peace. He does not want American productivity. At the end of his presidency, he’ll take his money and move to Hawaii, and curry favor in future United Nations initiatives. By then, under progressive calculations, America will have lost its sovereignty, its superpower status, and its influence throughout the world. Obama will be a global hero by removing America from the international scene paving the way for Socialist International to unite the world under communism once and for all. Obama will be set for life, and the rest of us will wonder how we let it happen. That is what the “fiscal cliff” is all about and what’s at stake. This is also why Republicans should play hard ball and hang the price tag from the big ears of Obama and let him have responsibility for the recession that follows. Trying to ease the pain in this case will actually end American sovereignty, so let Obama and his minions of evil hit the wall with the rest of us.
Elections have consequences, and this is what 51% of America voted for. So let the idiots have it.
Rich Hoffman
December 2, 2012
Teacher Kelsey Hartmann from Huber Heights: Having sex with kids to keep a market edge
I knew there was a reason I always liked Darryl Parks from 700 WLW. On his first Saturday show of December 2012 he offered an excellent reason why Kelsy Hartmann from Huber Heights—was caught having sex with one of her 16-year-old students in her husband’s car while pretending to do some last-minute shopping on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. According to Kelsey’s latest evaluation she was an excellent teacher, leaving Darryl to conclude that Kelsey was simply doing what many other teachers have been doing in the competitive field of public education, and that is to personally reach out to their students to give them something unique that all the evolving education tools are doing better, such as the modern computer. One thing that a computer can’t do for young students is have intercourse with them to keep their interests so during these very difficult times when school budgets are shrinking, and work forces are being reduced teachers like Kelsey have determined to stay on top of their students–quite literally. Maestros de escuelas públicas de amor tener sexo con hombres jóvenes y chupar sus penes! No wonder so many parents support public education for their needy young sons. And no wonder so many students take to the streets to tear down the signs of tax opposition when school levies are attempted. The young boys of public education know they can’t get sex this easy anywhere else but in their classrooms, so they defend their sexually charged teachers with a fury. Check out the pictures of Kesley at Darryl’s blog posting, and then listen to his Saturday broadcast below.
Read more: http://www.700wlw.com/pages/onair_parks.html#ixzz2DtP4w9z8
I think Darryl is right; Rosetta Stone software has changed the field of foreign language education. In these modern times of 2012, it is rather easy to learn a foreign language should one wish to, completely invalidating the old archaic style performed in front of a classroom. The two years of mandatory high school foreign language education is absolutely out of date—because the modern computer does a much better job than a traditional teacher. So credit must be given to Kelsey and her barrage of other public school teachers and their labor unions all around Ohio who have tener mucho sexo con hombres jóvenes y tragar su semon en cantidades tales que los maestros beben su hombría por la taza con el café. And we thought teachers were drinking coffee in the morning……………………..apparently not.
A computer can teach young students in high school better than just about any teacher in any course these days—math, science, history and especially foreign language. Since most people learn by visual stimulation, the computer is much better equipped to perform most of the modern education tasks with far superior results than the traditional teacher, and the computer is a lot cheaper on labor too. But a computer will not steal the keys of her husband’s car and meet with students on the side of a road and have sex with them to keep their interest in public education like Kelsey and her other tri-state teachers will. That is the one thing the computer cannot do better, and that is actually provide such “hands on” training.
So whenever a school levy is voted for, and support for public education is declared, think of the over the top and under the covers antics of many fine teachers like Kelsey Hartmann and how dedicated to their students they truly are—so much so that they are willing to stay on top of their students needs—literally. Kelsey le encanta sentarse sobre el pene de sus alumnos en el asiento trasero de un coche. Auuuuhhh…………….public education at its finest.
Rich Hoffman
Dear Speaker Boehner: When will you decide to impeach the President?
John Boehner, do you remember when I sent you a letter one year ago urging you to impeach President Obama over the appointment of Richard Cordray for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? To refresh your memory I stated: “Obama used a loophole in the recess rules to appoint Corday and he’s not the first president to do so. Both Bush’s used this practice, Reagan did, Teddy Roosevelt did, but Obama has taken it to a new level with this “bending” of the interpretation of the Constitution terminology with an activism that is shockingly disrespectful.”
You can see the original letter as I wrote it at the link below. Your office also has a copy of the letter.
http://overmanwarrior.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/impeach-obama-domestic-enemies-must-be-dealt-with/
I know at the time you thought my statements were extreme, and a radical utterance from one of those crazy gun wielding right-wingers that lives down the road from your house. You didn’t listen because you shook hands with the president, played golf with the guy, and you thought you were in a better position than I to understand the character of the president.
However, I would say that you have found yourself seduced by an intoxicant that Obama spews from every pour when he engages people with voice and touch. You know you’ve received it when he places his hand on your back after a handshake to pat you like a dog for your loyalty. I’ve watched him do it to you, and I know you’ve been seduced by it, because I can see it in your eyes.
But John Boehner of West Chester, Ohio, you have to fight off that seduction by such a destructive human being. Obama is playing a dangerous game of conquest not with bows and arrows, tanks, or even armies, but one of peaceful ideology that corrupts the body of America the same way that the plague of Europe killed off a large part of that population before anybody knew they were sick. Obama is a sickness for America and I think you are beginning to see it.
With this sudden realization now that some history is behind my words, have a look at my letter again shown at the link above, and consider how much pain you could have saved if you had listened to what I said then. Think of the benefit to the economy, think of the lives that would have been enhanced, think of the power you have lost in just one year now that Obama has been re-elected. You better learn from the past and act properly in the future; otherwise you won’t have a House in Congress to be the leader of. You better start to fight America’s domestic enemies with the kind of ruthlessness that they use to attack, and come to grips with the actions they are conducting of which you are in a position to rebuke.
I thought the appointment of Richard Cordray was an impeachable offence, but a year later, Obama’s unconstitutional power grabs seem silly relative to the other crimes he has committed against the same Constitution you and he were sworn to protect. Obviously Obama is attacking the Constitution, and through your behavior, you are unintentionally complicit. I would advise that you get serious about this game and use the power you have been given to stop the progress of the kind of domestic enemies who wish to change our way of life at the expense of our own good-will. And I would also suggest that you do not ignore the warning signs from your constituents when they are given to you. It might save you tremendous headaches in the future.
Rich Hoffman
