Posted by Robert Lee/Pam Geller on May 13, 2009, 1:55 pm, in reply to "Re: White House Deficit to top $1.8 Trillion dollars!"
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I guess we both agree about this woman's conclusions....maybe you would like to pass it on too.
Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs
This was written by Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs,
not to be confused with the book "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand,
Although Ms. Geller seems to share Ayn Rands political philosophy.
It is well worth the short read to reflect on the direction we
are headed and the future of our Nation. Ms. Geller tells us
what the media refuses to tell us to help us realize what is
actually happening in America. It is a scary scenario!!
"Thought Provoking" by Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs.
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written
15 books in six languages, and have studied history all my
life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot,
and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a
mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes, these exist but
they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that
is only now coming into a sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can
sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks
like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may
be brewing, but there is something happening within our
country that has been evolving for about 10 - 15 years. The
pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demand and then codified into law the requirement that
our banks make massive loans to people whom we know could
never pay back? Why? We learned recently that the Federal
Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone,
has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is
$2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not
tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our
money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700B
we all argued about so strenuously just this past September.
Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the
terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized
it? I thought this was a government of "We the
People," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders.
Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally
de-industrializing our economy. Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our
history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we
are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students
by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or
articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not
picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every
close election (now violently in California over a
proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage
to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think
such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have
corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected
judges to write laws that radically change our way of life,
and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to
turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what
purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are
in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking
system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is
nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government.
Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college
and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is
staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is
potentially 1929 x 10. And we are at war with an enemy we
cannot name for fear of offending people of the same
religion who cannot wait to slit the throats of your
children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about,
who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town
as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and
alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of
employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip,
is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard
him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory
civilian defense force stronger than our military for use
inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would
never play that for you over and over and then demand he
answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000
wardrobe is more important.)
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one
word: Change. Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my
children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people
together, something he has never, ever done in his
professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us
along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to
realign the pieces into a new and different power structure.
Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never
see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning.
I thought I would never be able to experience what the
ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those
times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser
from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to
nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with
groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with
whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political
stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times
were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great
speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even
newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his
"brown shirts" would bully them into submission.
And then he was duly elected to office, with a
full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great
Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of
government power, department by department, person by
person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth
Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think.
How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising
jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for
the military-industrial complex. He did it by
indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health
care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to
re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe,
and across the world.
He did it with a compliant media - Did you know that? And
he did this all in the name of justice and . . . change.
And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up
if you think I am exaggerating.) Read your history books.
Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called
names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill
pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in
the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime
Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy
troublemaker. He was right, though.
Don't forget that Germany was the most educated,
cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art,
museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in
less than six years - a shorter time span than just two
terms of the U. S. presidency - it was rounding up its own
citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning
children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors.
All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell
is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional
decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the
objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me
cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting
to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope
I am wrong, close my eyes, have another latte and ignore
what is transpiring around me.
Some people scoff at me; others laugh or think I am
foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never
been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly
what I believe - and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong.
But, I do not think I am.
About the author via Google...
Pamela "Atlas" Geller began her publishing career
at The New York Daily News and subsequently took over
operation of The New York Observer as Associate Publisher.
She left The Observer after the birth of her fourth child
but remained involved in various projects including American
Associates, Ben Gurion University and being Senior
Vice-President Strategic Planning and Performance Evaluation
at The Brandeis School .
After 9/11, Atlas had the veil of oblivion violently lifted
from her consciousness and immersed herself in the education
and understanding of geopolitics, Islam, terror, foreign
affairs and imminent threats the mainstream media and the
government wouldn't cover or discuss.
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