{"id":934,"date":"2010-10-25T23:59:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T05:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2010-10-25T23:59:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T05:59:23","slug":"the-last-democrat-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"The Last Democrat Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Futurist Gerald Celente, CEO of Trends Research Institute<\/a>, predicted in 2008 that, by 2012, America would become \u201can undeveloped nation, that there will be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches, and that holidays will be more about obtaining food, not gifts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to see the end of the retail Christmas\u2026 we\u2019re going to see a fundamental shift take place\u2026 putting food on the table is going to be more important than putting gifts under the Christmas tree.\u201d\u00a0 He suggests that the situation will be \u201cworse than the great depression.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s going to go through a transition the likes of which no one is prepared for,\u201d Celente warns, noting that people\u2019s refusal to acknowledge that America was even in a recession highlights how big a problem denial is in being ready for the true scale of the crisis.<\/p>\n

As prescient as Celente has been\u2026 he correctly predicted the fall of the Soviet Union and the Crash of 1987\u2026 he is arguably wrong about two things: \u00a0First, his timing is a bit compressed.\u00a0 The collapse he predicts is likely to occur between 2012 and 2015.\u00a0 And finally, if his dire prediction does come true, it is not \u201cdenial\u201d that will cause the American people to be blindsided.\u00a0 They will be caught off guard and unprepared simply because, for the past half century, or more, they have been consistently lied to, misled, and propagandized by liberals, Democrats, and the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

The Social Security System is a case in point.\u00a0 When the Social Security System began making monthly payments in 1940, there were 16 workers paying into the system for every retiree drawing benefits. \u00a0By 1950 that ratio was at 16.5-to-1, it is roughly 3.3-to-1 today, and by the year 2040, or before, it will be 2-to-1, or less.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Social Security System was never intended to be a retirement program for the elderly; it was intended only as a supplement to personal savings and private retirement plans.\u00a0 Nevertheless, in the decades since the early 1940s, Democrats have led their target audience\u2026 those in the uneducated and the lower economic classes\u2026 to the mistaken belief that they could rely on Social Security for their primary retirement income.\u00a0 In promoting that myth, they have turned Social Security into a political \u201cfootball,\u201d the deadly \u201cthird rail\u201d of American politics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first monthly Social Security check, in the amount of $22.54, was issued on January 31, 1940 to Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont.\u00a0 Ms. Fuller, a retired legal secretary, had paid a total of $24.75 into the system during the three years that her employer had deducted FICA taxes from her paycheck.\u00a0 She was 65 years of age when she retired and she died in 1975 at age 100.\u00a0 In the 35 years that she collected Social Security benefits she received a total of $22,888.92.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While an extreme example, Ms. Fuller was only the first of millions who\u2019ve drawn far more out of the system than they\u2019ve paid in.\u00a0 But this was not unexpected.\u00a0 When the architects of the New Deal conceived the Social Security System in 1935 they knew that the day would come when the dependency ratio would approach 2-to-1, but they also knew that when that day arrived they would be long gone from this Earth and it would be someone else\u2019s problem to deal with.\u00a0 In the meantime, liberals and Democrats could use the system to great political advantage.<\/p>\n

The sole voice of reason in the Roosevelt Administration was Treasury Secretary Morgenthau.\u00a0 Morgenthau argued that Social Security should be operated on an actuarially sound basis, but he was overruled by the big government spenders and the social welfare advocates in the Democratic hierarchy.\u00a0 Instead, the Social Security Trust Fund has been used like a giant piggy bank, providing funds to finance wars and every conceivable kind of social welfare scheme.<\/p>\n

Just as Barack Obama had his chief strategist, Chicago political thug Rahm Emanuel, who insists that \u201ca crisis is a terrible thing to waste,\u201d FDR had his Harry Hopkins, a senior advisor described in declassified KGB documents as a Soviet agent of \u201cmajor significance.\u201d\u00a0 After Democrats had gained prohibitive majorities in both houses of Congress in 1932, Hopkins is quoted as saying, \u201cBoy, this is our hour.\u00a0 We’ve got to get everything we want \u2013 a works program, social security, wages and hours\u2026 everything\u2026 now or never!!\u201d<\/p>\n

Beginning in the 1930s, Democrats have purchased the farm vote with crop subsidies, price supports, and land banks.\u00a0 They\u2019ve purchased the black vote with welfare payments, food stamps, rent subsidies, and sub-prime mortgages.\u00a0 And they\u2019ve purchased the votes of blue collar workers with uneconomic minimum wage rates, protectionist trade policies, and anti-business workplace intrusion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In more recent times they\u2019ve purchased the votes of trial lawyers with protection from tort reform and with the burgeoning growth of lawyer-friendly government bureaucracies.\u00a0 They\u2019ve purchased the votes of environmental activists with endangered species lists, wetlands land grabs, oppressive air and water quality regulations, and job-killing cap-and-trade legislation.\u00a0 They\u2019ve purchased the votes of gays and lesbians with promises of support for same-sex marriage, hate-crime legislation, and repeal of the military\u2019s \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d policy.\u00a0 And they\u2019ve purchased the votes of classroom teachers with ever-increasing education spending, shrinking class sizes, and protection from private and parochial school competition.<\/p>\n

By its very nature, the Democratic Party is, and always has been, a coalition of special interests with but one thing in common: they are all in it because they want something from<\/em> government.\u00a0 And now they\u2019re hot on the trail of yet another political prize\u2026 the Hispanic vote.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

As an indicator of how obtuse their political thinking is, Democrats are accustomed, as we all are, to producing some form of personal identification when they\u2019re pulled over by a traffic cop; when they make credit card purchases; when they apply for Social Security or Medicare benefits; when they apply for a visa or a passport; when they apply for or renew a driver\u2019s license; when they check in at an airport or train station; and when they cash a $10 check at the local Wal-Mart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In all of these instances they, more than conservatives and Republicans, happily provide the necessary ID.\u00a0 However, what they do object to, and violently so, is: a) the notion that anyone should be required to prove their identity when they attempt to vote on Election Day, and b) that illegal aliens should be required to identify themselves when they are stopped by local police or federal immigration authorities. \u00a0That\u2019s where liberals and Democrats draw the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If one did not understand that it is liberals and Democrats, almost exclusively, who clamor for a broad amnesty program to give citizenship and voting rights to 20 or 30 million illegal aliens, their position on Arizona\u2019s new immigration law would be totally incomprehensible.\u00a0 But once we understand that what liberal and Democratic elites are interested in is not a better life for the poor and downtrodden who flock across our borders, but the addition of 20 or 30 million new Democrat voters to the registration rolls\u2026 it all becomes crystal clear.<\/p>\n

The American people, Democrats and Republicans alike, are devoutly opposed to illegal immigration\u2026 just as they would be devoutly opposed to burglars who might sneak into their homes in the middle of the night.\u00a0 What they have not caught onto as yet is the high stakes gamble that Obama and his Democratic allies are taking with our national sovereignty.<\/p>\n

For the first 223 years of our nation\u2019s history, from 1787 until the present day, we have been able to indulge the fantasies of those who insisted that a big, all-powerful federal government was the answer to all problems.\u00a0 Our economy was big enough and strong enough to withstand their most outrageous excesses.\u00a0 But NO MORE.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is of little consolation that some of the brightest political pundits and the late night comics are belatedly catching on to who and what Obama is. \u00a0Clarice Feldman of American Thinker<\/em> tells us that Obama is failing \u201cbecause fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.\u201d<\/p>\n

Geoffrey Hunt has written in American Thinker<\/em>, \u201cBarack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0has written that, \u201cHe is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them.\u201d<\/p>\n

As we observe Barack Obama in action, one could almost be convinced that his primary purpose is to make Gerald Celente\u2019s most dire predictions come true.\u00a0 Our job\u2026 yours and mine\u2026 is to stand in his way.\u00a0 And once he is gone from the scene and we have begun the impossible task of cleaning up after him, let us resolve that his will be the last\u2026 <\/em>i.e. the final\u2026<\/em> Democratic administration to ever occupy the White House.\u00a0 And if independents and independent-minded Democrats should ever wonder why, they will have Obama\u2019s two appointees to the Supreme Court, Sotomayor and Kagan, to refresh their memories.\u00a0 They will be his sad legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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