Take Back Your Government: The Financial Crisis – Cause and Effect

Take Back Your Government: The Financial Crisis – Cause and Effect

Update on 2008 post about the Financial Crisis - It Still Continues

As we all know, Barack Hussein Obama won the 2008 election promising "change."  As we enter 2014, halfway through his second term, I think most of us realize that any changes that have been made have only made conditions worse.  The federal debt ceiling has been raised repeatedly, making the whole idea of a "ceiling" ludicrous.  There seems to be no ceiling on how far in debt our politicians are willing to put us.  The national debt now exceeds $17.2 Trillion Dollars, up another $6 trillion from 2008.  Yet net wages and salaries are down, and starter jobs for our recent high school and college grads are almost nonexistent.

Politicians get themselves elected and quickly forget that they were elected to represent us, to protect our rights from infringement by the government.  Instead they believe they were elected to RULE us and lose no time in making more rules to restrict us and further restrict the free enterprise "capitalist" system that made America great.

Some of the "changes" include ObamaCare, misnamed "The Affordable Care Act", which was rammed through Congress without being read by any representative or senator.  In the words of the inimitable House Majority Leader at the time, Nancy Pelosi, "We have to pass it to see what's in it."  What's in it has caused havoc within the medical insurance industry.  Existing policies are being cancelled because they don't comply with the new law, businesses are downgrading their employees to part-timers so they don't have to comply with the law requiring them to provide insurance for all of their full-time employees, doctors are giving up private practice to avoid all the red tape (some of them going into politics).

The wars against terrorism continue to cost a trillion a year and have accomplished little toward eliminating terrorism and have instead produced more hatred toward Americans by those who have lost loved ones and property in U.S. attacks.  U.S. military fatalities continue to rise.  In Iraq, the casualties have declined steadily since the so-called "handover" in 2004 with only 256 deaths since Obama's 2009 inauguration.  U.S. wounded during same period totaled 15,036.  In Afghanistan, our dead numbered 569 at the time of Obama's inauguration.  As of 31 Dec 2013 they stand at 2,162.  Wounded over 23,500 under Obama's watch.  The Veterans Administration is years behind in processing disability claims of wounded veterans, even those that should be no-brainers, those who've lost limbs or suffered permanent brain damage.

The IRS and NSA scandals have raised the hackles of many, but not much has been done to correct or restrict either agency.  The Affordable Care Act included the addition of 30,000 IRS agents and auditors to insure that everyone who chooses not to purchase insurance is fined (read taxed) each year.  How many of them were actually hired to persecute Obama-bashers, liberty-seekers, and tax protestors I can only guess.

But life in America goes on, and we will survive this depression as our grandparents or parents survived the 1930s.  Hopefully, we won't have any more world wars and people will eventually learn to get along with each other.  After all, "people" don't start wars, politicians do.  When we withdraw our consent and start limiting the assumed power of the political class, we will begin to see more freedom, more self-rule, and less of being ruled by others who don't have the good sense to leave well enough alone.

Make 2014 the year we start questioning authority at all levels and start holding our elected officials accountable to us, the People.

Joy and abundance,

Cory Layne
Reno, Nevada, America