It's Morning in America

Do you find yourself just awakening? Not recognizing the America your awakening to? Can't tell if it's the American Revolution or the fall of Russia? It's time to pick a side. We have Tories in the White House. What are Tories? Do you remember your history? A Tory was someone who wanted America to stay aligned with England. They wanted a King in charge of America. Well, we have a President who wants to go back to being like all of Europe. And he wants to set himself up as King.

You may wonder why that's a bad thing. Have you taken a look at the economy over there? Our founding fathers wanted an economy that was independent of everyone else. They wanted something that had never been done before. They wanted CONGRESS to coin money. They also wanted CONGRESS to determine the value of our money because they wanted no more paper money than we had silver and gold to back it up. That would mean no inflation. If you don't have the money, you can't get it. It will be hard to go back to that, but it's something we need to do as a nation.

Let me ask you this: If you did this as a household, what would they do to you? If you said, "I want this, and I don't have any money. I think I'll go print some more." Or if you said, "I don't have enough money, I'll borrow massive amounts of money from the bank with no intention of paying it back." And when you reached your credit limit, you just TELL the bank to raise your credit limit? You would either go to jail, or the bank would not only say no, they'd say HELL NO! And we, the American People have just rolled over and said, OK, go ahead. Or they, Congress and the President haven't even asked our permission. That's rape.

In order to justify all of their wants do you know what they're doing? They are trying to turn you, America, into a nanny state. They want to get you dependent on the gravy train so that you won't complain. They figure they'll borrow money FROM YOU (because it's your taxes paying for it) to give to you in the form of benefits, to get you addicted to it, so that you will fall for a transformation into a socialist America.

But let me ask you this: If they keep raising taxes to pay for the gravy train....and people start losing their jobs, where is the money going to come from? Let's say Joe Public has a $250,000 job. He's the evil high paying job that Obama is talking about. Let's say he's a small business owner. He doesn't REALLY get all that money because he has to pay not only his own taxes, but taxes on his business. He's taxed twice. Didn't realize that, did you? But we'll ignore that for a minute. He's the evil business owner who deserves to pay. So we only raise HIS taxes. Now he can't afford to hire 4 people, so he lets 2 people go so that he only has to pay 2 people their wages and can keep some of his own money. Now 2 more people are on unemployment that weren't before. His business is making less money, so there's less profit. He's making less, so now, he's making $200,000 a year. His taxes go down. There's less money in the government's coffers. What is the government going to do? Either raise taxes or broaden the tax base to keep him in it. Let's say they broaden the tax base to include everyone making $200,000. Where do they stop? Sooner or later it will drop to include everyone.

And if you don't believe that Obama is setting himself up to be king, take a look sometime at all the executive orders that he's written. Executive orders were set up for emergencies, not to get your agenda pushed through when Congress and the American People didn't agree with you and you wanted to get done any way. And this President stood in his State of the Union Address and called down the Supreme Court. He is a constitutional Lawyer. He taught constitutional law. He knew full well the implications of the law he was talking about. He knew he was lying. And he knew they couldn't respond. Then he had the nerve to call them down again when they responded viscerally to a lie. I think I would have stood up and left, en masse, the whole Supreme court. It was "bad form." But he has most of the Supreme Court in his back pocket.

So, I hope America wakes up before it's too late. We will become Russia. We are on the threshold of transforming from a once great nation into a has been. We are on the precipice. We are teetering on the edge. Only the American People can wake up. We, the few who blog, are screaming from the Ramparts, trying to wake you up to the facts. Open your eyes America. Watch the real news. Watch who the White House ridicules. Do they ridicule CNN? Do they ridicule CBS? Do they ridicule ABC? Are any of those stations breaking news of corruption? No, FoxNews is. Is the White House trying to get you to NOT watch FoxNews? Yes, they are saying that FoxNews is just commentary. Yes, there are commentary shows on Fox. They come out and say they are commentary. Glenn Beck never once said he was a news station. That doesn't give them the right to dis' the news aspect of Fox. There are commentary shows on all the other networks, too, and they don't necessarily come out and say they're commentary shows, do they? They sneak commentary right into their news and try to pull it off as news. I wanted to be a photo-journalist in high school. In college I was taught to never let your personal opinions color your reporting. Like they follow that now.

So, I will continue to scream from my Rampart, America, until I wake everyone up. It's morning in America, and I'm your coffee break. It's expresso time. And don't ever call me a progressive.

Lori Ann Smith