Once again we Americans are facing a “Storm Over The Land” much like the one Carl Sandburg wrote about in is book by the same title. He was describing the lead up to the” war between the states”, or Civil War, but the cycle of events can be paralleled when describing the situation we are experiencing now.

Our storm started brewing after the resignation of President Richard Nixon for Watergate cover up. The first clue was the ending of another war which we were wining when the United States Congress pulled the funding and hundreds of thousands people were killed and mascaraed as the result. The liberal media was portraying the Vietnam action has lost and the American people bought into it demonstrating on college campuses and in the streets. Gerald Ford took over and pardoned Nixon of all crimes past, present or future.

Sound Familiar, Harry Reid comes to mind.

The economy was exploited by the liberal left as in the tank much like their doing now. Gerald Ford was not reelected, because of the Nixon pardon, and the people were ready for the “change”.

Then out of no where came a peanut farmer from Georgia with a message of “change” which seemed to resonate with the people, much like Obama’s message of “change” is perceived today. Jimmy Carter was a southern gentleman who talked about what we’ve been through, and after the trauma of Watergate, he sounded good enough to convince the masses to vote for him. His slogan was “Hi, I’m Jimmy Carter, I’m running for President”. Sitting in his rocking chair next to the fireplace, in his sweater using his southern twang, during his so called fireside chats with the American people, he actually mesmerized the majority of the population and defeated Ford handedly.

Carter, being from the south, the American people figured he was conservative enough to get us out our problems. The first bolt of lighting came when gasoline supplies became very limited and Carter decided big Government could solve this problem. He decided to implement gas rationing which was not thought out and caused the unintended consequence of extra long waiting lines at all the gas stations, tempers flared, and fighting broke out and people were being were stranded and killed all across the country. This was the first inkling that Carter was not what everybody thought, he was just whistling Dixie.

Has it turned out, Carter had no idea how to deal a sagging economy. He started throwing money at problems and spending more than was coming in and then he taxed some more. Interest rates reach and all time high of 17%, the lines at the gas stations were still long.

Then the Iran hostage crisis happened and again with no foreign policy experience every thing he did to free the hostages ended up being a great embarrassment to the United States.

As far as the American people were concern this was a crisis of major proportions, which we should have learned from. They could not buy the things they needed, the unemployment rate was at an all time high and they could not buy a home. They were riding bicycles, taking buses, or walking to work. 

Now Obama has made a case that our current economy is in the tank and the hedge-fund,     home mortgage sub-prime market, and the price of oil was all caused by the Bush administration policies. Ask him to explain just what Bush did to cause it he will say the war in Iraq. Obama also believes that we have the worst health care in the world and we have millions of poor people who can’t afford it. He believes that we should model ourselves after the European Union. He might want to pick one country to model because all 27 countries have different plans. He says the he will give everybody the opportunity to have the same health plans as congress, which is basically the French model. 

But Obama’s message of “change” which is big government rule is exactly why this country was founded. Obama does not look back into history, but this is so fundamental, that the pilgrims came to these shores to escape intrusive government and to have freedom from government mandated religions.  

The Carter administration was a disaster and the words of the cowboy actor, Ronald Reagan, “are you better off today than you were four years ago” rang clear and were enough to bring down Carter’s hope to have another try at being President. Reagan’s message was that we need less government in our lives, less taxes and a strong military to end the cold war with the USSR.

This is the message we need to hear today. We are facing a more perfect storm, the war on terror. This is not WW II, Korea or Vietnam as the Neanderthals in Congress would have us think. This is a radical religious war, one with no boundaries, terrorists with no other purpose but to kill anybody and everybody who doesn’t agree their ways or believe in radical fundamentalist Islam. As long as there is one radical Islamic alive, this war will continue.

To make our storm a more perfect one we have, Liberal Europeanism alive and well within the Congress of the United States and leading the charge is Barack Obama. This man is perfect for the job because he is totally inexperienced and he can be guided by the Neanderthals in Congress who want total control of the people through taxing as much as he does.  

 The liberal left did a good job of demonizing just about everything the Republicans have done and especially the President. They feel it is the time to trounce on the public who fell for this nonsense before and just want “change”. I would say that the people do want change, after all the big Government we have currently and, along with radical environmentalist, the Hollywood set, and labor union lobbys all who has their claws into the Democrat party. They fund and endorse the left in congress and do the same with the radical left web-sites and BLOGS. They have convinced the mainstream media both, print and television, that they should be their reporting arm. The socialist labor unions are dictating foreign policy and trade agreements. Labor unions have control of the employee employer relations, using strikes and contract restrictions that have tied the hands of our manufacturing industry so much so that they have had to send their business to other States that have right to work laws, or overseas. Labor unions have organized just about all civil service agencies and in my opinion all have become diasterous.

The liberal left has control of all levels of our public schools and colleges, have allowed  our country to be inundated with illegal immigrants and support making them dependent on our social services.

This is why this election is about “change”. The question is what kind of “change” do we want? Obama wants massive governmental control of the people and wants to build on what his socialist Democrat party has managed to get through the Congress in order get more control and reelected.

I saw a TV news segment showing a woman standing in the midst of the aftermath of the recent horrendous earthquake in China. Everything was leveled and she was the tallest object in view. She was asked by a reporter from an international news service what she was going to do next. Her answer was I will just wait here for the government to take care of me.

In my opinion, anybody who would allow themselves, to be dependent on the Government for their “daily bread” they will eventually have to submit to the demands of the Government.

This is the type of government Obama is talking about. He will get control of us utilizing massive tax increases and more government entitlements. This has already started, about 1/3 (GAO) of our population depends on the government, for their livelihood. Our school dropout rate running about 50% or more, the influx of uneducated, non-speaking illegal and legal immigrants is beginning to climb even more rapidly. If the Democrats get overriding control of congress even with out winning the Presidency you could see massive amnesty Bills, which could easily raise the government dependency to over 50%. At this point we will be living the European life style and the Democrats will have their day. They will create alphabet soup agencies just like FDR did. They will allow Union control of  all Government agencies. The rate of people working for the Government will climb to the point they will exploited with their own tax money.

Socialism and Communism come to mind. 

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is endowed by our creator not from our Government. We are supposed to have them, and our Democracy demands, a government abides by the rules of law, is transparent and accountable to the people, a government not in control of our educational system, and one that does not prevent our military or security agencies from protecting our country. We must have a free and unbiased press and be able to freely trade with the international community.

Yes, this election is about “change” and we have clear and definitive differences between the two parties. We can either vote for a continuation of the expansion of socialism or for a Democracy as it was meant to be. We made this choice four years ago (2004) when we reelected Present Bush along with enough seats in both houses of Congress to provide a clear path to regain our democratic principals. However the Republican Party decided not to exercise their majority position, instead they decided to be like Democrats and spend like there was no tomorrow as well as get entangled with lobbyists and morality issues. They were right there was no tomorrow and in 2006 they lost control of both houses but still maintained a filibuster position in them. I am sure they learned their lesson.

We must elect people who are not looking to just keep getting elected. We need people who will focus on the Constitution of the United States. We must get Neanderthals out of our Government.   We must appoint judges who will understand what their jobs are. We can only use our vote to do it and it must be done at every level of Government, local, County, State, and school boards. We must decide how long they should be in office, such as three terms for US Senators and four terms for a US House Representative, when they complete their terms vote them out of office no matter what. The Governments will not, in most cases, a vote to allow term limits for themselves, especially at the federal level, but we, the voters, can take matters in our own hands and just vote them out when their time comes.

A John Adams Quote:

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases”.

Campaigns must also be controlled. There is no reason a US Senator or US House Representatives have to go out of their State or District soliciting campaign donations. There is no reason anybody should receive money form PACs, labor or other lobbing organizations, DNC or RNC or local special interest groups. Each elected official, except the President of the United States, should get campaign funds only from the individuals they represent.