Monday, October 28, 2013

The Plain Truth: Let Hypocrisy Ring! Can You See It?

The Plain Truth: Let Hypocrisy Ring! Can You See It?: The Obama administration is no stranger to hypocrisy. In fact, it seems as though President Obama and his cohorts are backpedaling every t...

Let Hypocrisy Ring! Can You See It?

The Obama administration is no stranger to hypocrisy. In fact, it seems as though President Obama and his cohorts are backpedaling every time we turn around. I guess it’s the only way this administration knows how to run the government.
For example, when President Obama was a senator, he opposed the Patriot Act. He even signed a letter, along with eight other senators, stating that the act would, “allow government fishing expeditions targeting innocent Americans.” He even campaigned against such measures during his first presidential run. Yet the NSA is guilty of a few fishing expeditions of their own that all took place under Obama’s watch…
And let’s not forget that Obama, Vice President Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry recently supported military action against Syria without Congress’ authorization. In the past, though, each man had supported executive action against military threats only when Congress gave approval. But, of course, that was under the Bush administration. The rules changed when Obama took office. That’s just how this administration works.
History Repeats Itself
With such a history of hypocrisy, it should come as no surprise that the administration is flip-flopping on gun control, too.
Not long after the Sandy Hook shooting, Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s Executive Vice President and CEO, argued that every school in America should have armed guards: “[W]hen it comes to the most beloved, innocent and vulnerable members of the American family – our children – we as a society leave them utterly defenseless, and the monsters and predators of this world know it and exploit it. That must change now… I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school — and to do it now…”
At the time, the president was happy to blast the idea. He gave speeches (surrounded by armed guards) demanding fewer guns across the board. But it’s funny how the left will attack a man’s opinion and then turn around and do exactly what he’s suggested.
You see, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced last week that it’s allocating nearly $45 million in grant funds to place armed guards in schools. The DoJ’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) department will provide the grants that will cover the cost of 356 new school resource officer positions in schools across the country.
Attorney General Eric Holder stated that Newtown, Connecticut would receive $150,000 to put officers in its schools: “Just over nine months after the senseless mass shooting at Sandy Hook, we remain committed to providing every resource we can to ensure that the children of Newtown can feel safe and secure at school and elsewhere. And as we hold lost loved ones in our thoughts and prayers, we resolve to continue to support and protect this community — and to help them heal together.”
Don’t be fooled. This is just another move by the Obama administration to convince Americans that we’re not as bad off as we thought. Chances are that it’s a ploy to get our guard down – if only for a short while. You can be sure that President Obama hasn’t changed his mind about guns or gun control. He’s just giving us an inch so that he can eventually take another mile.

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The Plain Truth: We Need Gun Safety, Not Gun Control! Tell Congress...

The Plain Truth: We Need Gun Safety, Not Gun Control! Tell Congress...: We’ve all heard the calls to ban assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. We’ve heard the emotionally-charged speeches after tragic sho...

We Need Gun Safety, Not Gun Control! Tell Congress!

We’ve all heard the calls to ban assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. We’ve heard the emotionally-charged speeches after tragic shootings. We’ve heard President Obama go on like a broken record, repeatedly telling the American people that we have to do whatever it takes to stop gun violence.
Meanwhile, Obama and the anti-gun crowd continue to cherry-pick statistics that distort reality and support stricter gun laws. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the left wants to take our guns.
But the truth is that gun control advocates aren’t the only ones hurting our Second Amendment rights. In fact, gun owners themselves are giving President Obama all of the ammunition he needs to push his gun control agenda.
You see, the mainstream media likes to focus on tragic events that inherently support stricter gun control. And many of these events are the fault of irresponsible gun owners.
Earlier this week, for instance, a story broke about a 13 year old who was shot and killed by police in California. The teenager was carrying a pellet gun that resembled an AK-47. Unaware that the gun was only a pellet rifle, police shot the boy when he wouldn’t put the gun down after being repeatedly told to do so.
Another story came to light this week about a five year old in Texas who shot himself with a .40 caliber pistol while his 19-year-old babysitter slept nearby. Every day the media pushes stories like these. Meanwhile, they ignore stories that support the Second Amendment, like the pastor in Indiana who used a pistol to stop a robbery last week, or two gun owners who stopped a carjacking in Jacksonville, Florida earlier this month.
It’s not that tragic stories should be silenced – they shouldn’t be. But we need to learn from them and stop giving anti-gun advocates so much to work with.
In August, a three year old fatally shot himself after he found a gun on the floor of a closet in his home. The gun belonged to a family friend who lived with the boy and his family. Not long after his son’s death, the father took to Facebook: “I have nothing [against] with guns. It’s [what] this country was built on. I will still support the Second Amendment. All I ask is that everyone please, please safety first[:] Lock it up and put it out of reach of anyone that has no business being around a gun, especially kids. Gun safety people! My boy would still be here if it was put away like it should have been.”
Simple precautions should always be taken to prevent such tragedies, spare the lives of children, and keep the left from using tragic events to further their anti-gun agenda.
Like most people in the rural South, I grew up around guns. I don’t remember there being a time when guns weren’t in our house. However, my parents taught me gun safety and gun laws from an early age. I knew not to touch a gun without their permission, and I knew to treat every gun as if it’s loaded. Preventing a child from shooting himself can be as simple as locking up the gun or putting the weapon out of reach.
Yet many gun owners are failing to follow safety protocol and weakening the argument for gun rights. If you give a politician an inch, he’s going to take a mile. And if we continue giving the left more ammunition to attack the Second Amendment, we’re going to be the ones who suffer for it.
Clint Eastwood said, “I have a very strict gun control policy: If there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.” We should all be in control of our guns… even when they aren’t being used. Do it to protect the Second Amendment, and especially… do it to protect your kids.
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

The Plain Truth: Should We Trust Iran?

The Plain Truth: Should We Trust Iran?: New Iranian President Hasan Rouhani seems to have softened his tone toward Israel and, for the first time since the Islamic Revolution of ...

Should We Trust Iran?

New Iranian President Hasan Rouhani seems to have softened his tone toward Israel and, for the first time since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the president of the United States has had direct communication with the leader of Iran. Does this signal a real change for the better? Can we really trust Iran? I seriously doubt it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is having none of it, telling reporters on his way to America (and with reference to his speech to the U.N.), “I will tell the truth in the face of the sweet-talk and onslaught of smiles.”
Is this then just a smiling façade, an Islamic ruse to pacify America and the international community while Iran continues to develop its nuclear capabilities?
On the one hand, Rouhani shocked the world with his Jewish New Year tweet on Sept. 4, wishing “all Jews” a happy Rosh Hashanah. Who saw this coming?
Then, after initially sidestepping an interviewer’s question as to whether he denied the Holocaust, as his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad infamously did, he replied during a subsequent interview on CNN, “I can tell you that any crime that happens in history against humanity, including the crime the Nazis created toward the Jews, is reprehensible and condemnable. Whatever criminality they committed against the Jews, we condemn.” (It’s important to note, though, that he reiterated that he was not a historian and therefore could not comment on the extent of the Holocaust, which means he could still hold to revisionist views.)
These are certainly extraordinary gestures by an Iranian leader, but there are still strong reasons for deep skepticism, including:
1. Although Rouhani is the president of Iran, he answers to the nation’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and there is not the slightest hint that Khamenei has moderated his anti-Israel, anti-Western views.
In fact, shortly after Rouhani’s CNN interview with Christiane Amanpour, the hardline Iranian news agency claimed, “American news channel CNN fabricated the remarks made by Iranian President Hasan Rouhani in response to the network's question about the Holocaust.
“The CNN aired its interview with Rouhani on Tuesday but the news channel added to or changed parts of his remarks when Christiane Amanpour asked him about the Holocaust.”
2. Iran remains deeply committed to Islamic terror groups like Hezbollah.
As reported by Reuters last week, there are claims that Iran has invested $30 billion in Hezbollah over the last 30 years, and there are no signs of that support abating.
Speaking of Hezbollah’s current involvement in Syria, a Lebanese security official who would not disclose his name to Reuters stated, “Even if [Hezbollah] has its wise men, the decision [to fight in Syria] is not theirs. The decision is for those who created and established it. They are obliged to follow Iran’s orders.”
3. Iranian-backed groups within Iraq continue to foment unrest in that nation as well as directly attack Americans.
Within the last month, it was reported, “Iranian-backed Shiite militias are threatening to retaliate against American interests inside Iraq if the United States goes ahead with strikes against the Tehran-allied government in neighboring Syria, according to Iraqi security officials and militants themselves.” And these reports have been taken seriously in Iraq—for good reason, given the many American and Iraqi deaths that can be attributed directly to such groups.
4. Despite a rising reform movement in Iran, the nation still remains militantly opposed to Israel.
Recent elections have given evidence to a movement that opposes Iran’s Islamic radicalism, and there are also reliable reports pointing to the dynamic growth of Iran’s underground church (consisting primarily of converts from Islam), but the national sentiment remains rabidly anti-Israel (and, by and large, anti-America), as evidenced by the annual Jerusalem Day celebration, this year taking place in early August.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians joined together for this major event, one which is important to potential and current political leaders as well, including President Rouhani, who spoke at this year’s celebration two days prior to his inauguration.
The crowds burned Israeli flags and chanted “Death to Israel,” a refrain that BBC News notes “sounds as familiar to Iranian ears as any political slogan can get. The speeches and sermons are a repeat of the same narrative over and over: Israel is a usurper regime—not a country—and as a state, it lacks legitimacy.” Rouhani’s speech emphasized that point as well.
So, while the new president may be more measured in his speech than his predecessor, who was a notoriously loose cannon, and while we can certainly hope that Iran will one day change its tune, I, for one, don’t see that happening anytime soon—at least, not as long as the Khameneis of the world rule the roost.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

The Plain Truth: Nine Reasons We Need to Solve Our Debt Problems No...

The Plain Truth: Nine Reasons We Need to Solve Our Debt Problems No...: This morning, I had a chance meeting with Senator Mike Lee of Utah. At age 42, he hasn’t been corrupted by the ways of Washington yet. In ...

Nine Reasons We Need to Solve Our Debt Problems Now! While We Can!!

This morning, I had a chance meeting with Senator Mike Lee of Utah.
At age 42, he hasn’t been corrupted by the ways of Washington yet. In fact, Senator Lee stayed up all night helping Texas senator Ted Cruz strip Obamacare from the Senate continuing resolution (CR).
But in the end, they failed. They weren’t able to overcome the legislative willpower of Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Senator Lee admitted, “It has been a tough week.” He complained that the media wasn’t covering the controversy fairly and said, “I am from the reddest state in America, and even in Utah the media is liberal.”
Now that Reid has secured exemption from Obamacare for himself and his Senate staff and colleagues, he’s all in for subjecting the little people to the Affordable Care Act.
The Senate has approved a CR that includes Obamacare funding, and now the action has turned to the House of Representatives. The leaders of the House are still holding the line against Obamacare, and Obama is still unwilling to negotiate. The impasse will likely result in a temporary shutdown of non-essential government services.
There are a number of things you should know about this temporary shutdown. Government shutdowns don’t usually last long, and they rarely have long-term effects. They can be a nuisance if you planned a vacation to a national park, but once the backlog of visa applications is caught up, few people will feel much pain.
The worst part will be listening to both parties bluster and pontificate on Capitol Hill. The screeching and fearmongering is unbearable. Our representatives are unwilling to solve problems rationally, and so they govern from crisis to crisis. Few are willing to recognize that the debt and spending problems must be dealt with, and I applaud efforts to solve it now. With that in mind, let’s revisit the fundamental causes of our problem…
  • Our debt-to-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio is anywhere between 103% and 202%, depending which off-budget programs are counted. This means our debt exceeds the size of our entire economy. And that’s bad. Our debt-to-GDP ratio is comparable to many European countries now experiencing riots and chaos. It’s worse than France, Spain, Ireland and the European average.  Any debt-to-GDP ratio over 90% is considered both dangerous and harmful to the economy.
  • Our debt-per-capita is now higher than Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain – all countries that are on the verge of collapse. The real debt burden per family is around one million dollars.
  • Obama has created $6.2 trillion in debt in four years, which is more debt than ALL American presidents combined have incurred.  Debt has gone from less than a trillion under Reagan to over $16.5 trillion under Obama.
  • Our debt is projected to hit $25 trillion by 2022.
  • The real federal debt is now at $140,000 per taxpayer.
  • If the government confiscated every cent of every American who earns more than $66,000, it still wouldn’t even come close to digging the government out of its hole.
  • Obama’s proposed second term programs will increase the debt by $4.4 trillion over the next four years, hitting $20.3 trillion by the end of his second term.
  • The interest on the debt is quickly becoming a larger number than the total revenue collected by the government.  This means that in order to service the debt, entitlements will have to be cut, something most politicians refuse to do.
  • Federal government spending as a percentage of GDP is at 25%. The norm is around 20%.  This is the highest in American history (barring the WWII years).
The longer these problems are allowed to metastasize, the worse the final economic dislocation will be. The voices of fiscal sanity need to hold the line here. My biggest concern is that America will suffer through the pain of a government shutdown without really solving the problems. The sooner we solve our fiscal imbalances, the smaller the pain will be. If we continue to put off the inevitable, the ultimate day of reckoning will be much worse. The Plain Truth!

The Plain Truth: Arms Trade Treaty Will Strip Constitutional Rights...

The Plain Truth: Arms Trade Treaty Will Strip Constitutional Rights...: While America was distracted by Senator Ted Cruz’s marathon speech earlier this week, Secretary of State John Kerry attended the United Na...

Arms Trade Treaty Will Strip Constitutional Rights Thats For Sure!

While America was distracted by Senator Ted Cruz’s marathon speech earlier this week, Secretary of State John Kerry attended the United Nations General Assembly meeting. While there, Kerry signed the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), a highly controversial treaty that many Americans and a number of lawmakers aren’t happy about.
The treaty was adopted by the General Assembly last year in order to regulate “the international trade in conventional arms, from small arms to battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships. The treaty will foster peace and security by putting a stop to destabilizing arms flows to conflict regions. It will prevent human rights abusers and violators of the law of war from being supplied with arms. And it will help keep warlords, pirates, and gangs from acquiring these deadly tools.” The intention to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals may seem noble, but I assure you there’s little that’s noble about this treaty.
Those who support the ATT, like Kerry, claim that it’ll “lift other countries up to the highest standards” because it’ll regulate the transfer of arms and it’ll keep irresponsible arms exporters from sending guns to other nations. Much like people who support stricter gun control in America, those in favor of the ATT argue that it’ll keep weapons out of the hands out of criminals, but Ted R. Bromund of The Heritage Foundation doesn’t agree: “The inanity of the idea that a mere treaty will be able to do what U.N. Security Council sanctions have been unable to achieve—i.e., stop nations such as Cuba from shipping arms to North Korea—would be laughable were the subject not so serious.”
Designed to Destroy Our Rights
Many think that the treaty only affects weapons designed for war, but that’s not the case. It actually highlights “small arms” and “light weapons” and could result in limitations to the importing and exporting of such firearms. Keep in mind that the United States is the number one arms exporter and that 35% of the America’s new firearm market is made up of imports. Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton stated that the U.N. “is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there is no doubt that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control.” If it goes into effect, the ATT could have a greater impact on American gun-ownership than the treaty’s supporters care to admit.
In fact, Americans stand to lose a lot if the ATT is implemented by the United States. You see, the treaty gives the American president more power over gun regulations and even gives him the ability to hinder the U.S. market for firearm imports and to determine what firearms can be imported into the nation. Because of the treaty’s ambiguity, these decisions would be left solely to the discretion of the president. The ATT allows the president to deem a gun or class of guns as “inappropriate,” or a danger to “women and children”… squelching the Second Amendment. The treaty goes a step further in ensuring that the Second Amendment is crushed, too.  Unlike the U.S. Constitution, the treaty doesn’t guarantee a person’s right to “keep and bear arms.” Instead, it states that it is “mindful of…legitimate trade and lawful ownership…where…permitted or protected by law.”
The ATT is also likely to require an international firearm registration. After all, if the United Nations desires to limit the exportation of firearms, it’s going to have to use some sort of intrusive registration system to keep up with them, again threatening the Second Amendment.
Congress? Who Cares About Them!
While the Obama Administration and Kerry seem all too pleased about the ATT, they lack the necessary support of Congress. In order to be implemented, the U.S. Senate has to ratify the treaty, which is unlikely to happen. Over the summer, 130 Republican members of the House sent President Obama a letter warning against signing the ATT. They wrote, “…the U.N.’s actions to date indicate that the ATT is likely to pose significant threats to our national security, foreign policy, and economic interests as well as our constitutional rights.” They also argued that the treaty poses a threat to the “fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms.”
Earlier this week, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker wrote a letter also warning the Obama Administration against signing the treaty. According to Corker, “The ATT raises significant legislative and constitutional questions.  Any act to implement this treaty, provisionally or otherwise, before the Congress provides its advice and consent would be fundamentally inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution, law, and practice.” Corker goes on to say that the Constitution requires the “advice and consent” of Congress before a treaty goes into effect and that Congress hasn’t given such, meaning that the executive branch has no authority to implement the treaty. He also stated that the ATT contradicts current federal legislation which would have to be rewritten before the treaty takes effect.
While it doesn’t seem likely that the Senate will ratify the treaty, we should still be concerned. It wouldn’t be out of character for the Obama Administration to circumvent Congress and move forward with implementing the ATT. President Obama has made it very clear that his agenda is to continue to push for increased gun control… and the ATT is no different. Needless to say…  Americans shouldn’t let their guards down.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

The Plain Truth: Obamacare shutdown,Hoax!: President holds entire n...

The Plain Truth: Obamacare shutdown,Hoax!: President holds entire n...: The government "shutdown" is a hoax. It is pure theater designed to make life as miserable as possible for Americans while the go...

Obamacare shutdown,Hoax!: President holds entire nation for ransom with contrived closings!

The government "shutdown" is a hoax. It is pure theater designed to make life as miserable as possible for Americans while the government keeps collecting taxes, racking up debt expenditures, running foreign wars and doing all the unconstitutional things government does these days. It is now becoming obvious to nearly all Americans that the Obama administration is running a pernicious, punitive, selective "shutdown" that's designed to hold the American people hostage until Obama gets his way. His "ransom demand" is total capitulation to his demands for endless spending, the total takeover of medicine by Obamacare, and the centralization of power in the hands of the few.

The Obama administration ran a similar gambit a few months back when it started releasing thousands of felony criminals from U.S. prisons, claiming it was forced to do so because of sequestration budget cuts.

Today, the Obama administration has barricaded World War II memorials, shut down access to private businesses, closed parts of the OCEAN, closed tourist viewing areas of famous landmarks and gone out of its way to attempt to inflict suffering and inconvenience upon the People of America. It has punitively blocked access to a private hotel and even kicked people off private lands as part of the government's shutdown theater.

Preventing tourists from enjoying national monuments

American Thinker magazine reports that, "Feds [are] placing cones along highway viewing areas outside Mount Rushmore barring visitors from pulling over and taking pictures of the monument - and then lying about the reason. That's right. The National Park Service is trying to prevent people from even seeing Mount Rushmore."

As the Washington Times reports:

The Park Service appears to be closing streets on mere whim and caprice. The rangers even closed the parking lot at Mount Vernon, where the plantation home of George Washington is a favorite tourist destination. That was after they barred the new World War II Memorial on the Mall to veterans of World War II. But the government does not own Mount Vernon; it is privately owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. The ladies bought it years ago to preserve it as a national memorial. The feds closed access to the parking lots this week, even though the lots are jointly owned with the Mount Vernon ladies.

Just yesterday, the government was caught in a total hoax of faking a shutdown of the Amber Alert website. The whole thing, much like everything else in the Obama administration, was utterly contrived.

The entire USDA website is now following the same hoax pattern, feigning death even though bandwidth providers never cut off service. This is yet another contrived example of "shutdown theater."

What the Obama administration wants to keep open, of course, stays open. For example, an immigration rally has just been approved to take place on the "closed" national mall. What's clear from this is that Obama's cohorts will magically open federal lands for their own favored projects while selectively closing federal property for projects desired by the People.

I call it "crony shutdown-ism."

Obama holds America hostage to his outrageous demands

Everything you are witnessing here isn't a "government shutdown," folks. This is Obama holding a gun to the head of the American people, keeping the nation hostage until Obama gets 100% of what he wants: unlimited debt spending, a socialist sick-care system called "Obamacare," and a blank check from Congress to bury our nation in even more debt from which we can never escape.

What's next, are they going to shut down all the interstates? Block deliveries of gasoline? Halt food supplies to local grocery stores? At what point does this "shutdown theater" equate to acts of state-sponsored terrorism against the American people?

The message from Obama is clear: Give me all your money or I'll make life miserable for everyone. This is the tactic of a mafia organization, not a legitimate government.

Obama administration utterly abandons its duty to the People

That our own government would turn to such tactics is absolutely disgusting. In order to force Obamacare down the throats of everyone, Obama would dishonor our war veterans, intentionally interfere with tourists, fake a government website shutdown, and even order park rangers to make life as miserable as possible for visitors.

This administration has no sense of integrity, nobility or serving the interests of the American people. Like any mafia group, the Obama administration exists solely to serve its own interests and increase its power at any cost, regardless of the cost to society.

Can you imagine the outcry from the mainstream media of George W. Bush had selectively closed a World War II veterans memorial? He would have been accused of dishonoring America's greatest generation. But somehow when Obama does it, the media applauds. That'll show 'em! Shut it down, 'Bama!

In this theater of the absurd, you are now watching the final act play out

This staged government shutdown isn't the only theater taking place in Washington today. I'm hearing more and more rumblings about the looming global financial implosion, and the Fed is furiously trying to print money as fast as it can in order to create the theatrical illusion that the economy is fundamentally sound.

The Obamacare delusion is pure theater as well. Virtually the entire national IT infrastructure for the system is non-functional. Online exchange signups are hitting a 99% failure rate. The person that Obama rolled out as a "successful" enrollee turned out to be a total fraud.

No one in the media can seem to locate any large number of people who have actually signed up. The White House is now refusing to answer questions asking how many people have actually enrolled (probably because they can't find anyone who actually has). The entire system is a hoax. Underneath the Obama mesmerism and cult followers, there's almost no one who is actually enrolled in Obamacare after millions of people already tried!

It's also an IT nightmare. Now in its second week, the Obamacare online exchange system and Healthcare.gov is admittedly suffering from "design flaws" and critical errors. These are far more than mere glitches; this is a wholesale faulty design from the start. This ship ain't gonna sail, folks, and the whole project is going to have to go back to the drawing board to be re-designed from scratch.

As the Wall Street Journal reports:

Information technology experts who examined the healthcare.gov website at the request of The Wall Street Journal said the site appeared to be built on a sloppy software foundation. Such a hastily constructed website may not have been able to withstand the online demand last week, they said.

Americans are fed up

In many ways, you are now watching the final act of government theater. It's not over 'til the "fat lady sings," as they say, but she's most definitely warming up and preparing to belt out her final operatic performance.

Millions of Americans are completely fed up with the shenanigans of bad government. They've had it. Coming up in a few days, thousands of truckers are about to converge on the highways in D.C. and shut the roadways down. They're even threatening to arrest traitorous members of Congress who have violated their oaths of office.

Conservative talk show host Mark Levin is now warning that Obama is running what is essentially a "coup" to overthrow the Constitution and remove Congress from all future spending decisions. This effectively turns the office of the President into a dictatorship. Congress will become nothing more than a useless vestige of the old republic.

Even other nations are starting to worry about the impending collapse of the U.S. government and its debt. China issued a stern warning today, urging America to "ensure the safety of the Chinese investments" by making sure the U.S. doesn't go into default. China, you see, holds hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. debt. And it doesn't want America to go belly up anytime soon (although China surely knows it's headed that way sooner or later).

Obama's position is that the U.S. should be indebted even more to China, Japan and the rest of the world. That's why he's demanding the debt ceiling be raised. The problem with socialism, of course, is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money. But there's a lot of damage that can be done until that day of reckoning arrives, so Obama and his cohorts are going to suck the finances out of the entire global economy to fund their socialist programs such as Obamacare, Obama phones, the fast-expanding government food stamp program, and any other popular giveaways they can dream up.

Remember: This is all being done to enforce a rip-off, monopolistic health care nightmare -- the Affordable Care Act -- that's so unpopular, Obama has to hold the entire nation ransom in order to try to shove this monster down people's throats.

The end of government credibility

What you are really watching here, folks, is much more than merely the last act of government theater: You are watching the end of government credibility in the minds of the American people.

The idea that government functions as an institution "for the People, by the People and of the People" is now a cruel joke. Obama has turned government into a weapon to be used against the People in order to force their compliance with a blatantly unconstitutional, unethical, unworkable law that is the cornerstone of Obama's disastrous legacy.

Your government is now your mafia. Your doctor is your dealer. Your health plan is a shakedown. The playbook of Obama lackeys is a tome of dirty tricks. Remember, this is the administration that literally smuggled illegal guns into Mexico in order to cause an explosion of gun violence that could be blamed on gun owners. This is an administration that now shoots dead a young black mental patient who makes a wrong turn at Capitol Hill with her car.

This is an administration that believes it has the legal right to force you to buy anything it wants you to buy, including rip-off health insurance policies, because it now claims ALL authority over ALL commerce, including what you decide to do with your own discretionary income (if you have any left after paying taxes, anyway).

This is an administration that selectively targeted "patriot" non-profit groups for harsh IRS audits. This is an administration that promised to label GMOs then betrayed the American people by secretly negotiating an international treaty that would outlaw GMO labeling globally. This is no longer a representative government at all: it is a tyranny of force and firepower. Obama is not the President; he is the head of an occupying criminal mafia.

100% chance the government will confiscate your private wealth as it collapses

It is now clear to me that as this government goes into its slow-motion collapse, it's going to wreak total economic havoc on the entire nation and destroy as much as possible as it falls. I am making a public prediction right here -- with 100% confidence -- that this government will, without any hesitation, seize private bank accounts and pension funds in order to avoid going into default itself. This will of course be described by the thieving government as a way to "protect" your private funds and back them up with the "full faith and credit of the United States government."

But what faith and credit are they talking about? Faith has been destroyed. "Credit" has already gone far beyond the point of no return. This government is never paying back its creditors. The plan at this point is to simply ride out the explosion of the money supply for as long as possible, and then declare Martial Law when the whole thing collapses and the masses lose everything.

Obamacare itself is not even the real problem in all this. Obamacare is merely the symptom of a disease called "government greed and corruption."

Like anybody else, people in government desire unlimited power, and they are willing to do absolutely anything to get it, including holding a gun to the head of the American people and making ransom demands that must be met if we all want government services turned back "on."

It's all just "shutdown theater." It's the Cirque du Soleil of Big Government, except that in this circus, all the acrobats are over-medicated diabetics, and therefore the entire show is pulled off with high wires, smoke and mirrors instead of actual acrobatic talent.

That's the Obama way. Pure theater. 100% illusion and rhetoric. And you have a front row seat to watch all the B.S. unfold right before your very eyes... how fortunate!As Allways The Plain Truth!