"Never confuse motion with action."

Bizzarro Date 10/11/2009

   The Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony is drawing near, December 10, 2009 to be exact. So I propose that we celebrate this historic night by giving our President another award. One that he has actaully earned. (Unlike the NPP) This man should be honored for what he has actually achieved through his nine months in office. Let us spare no expense on this gala.  (After all, we spent approximately $100,000,000.00 alone on his failed attempt at hosting the Olympics) Why not invite all of the world leaders who support his doings?  I invision the guest list as follows:

1. Kim Jong-il                      ( North Korea )
2. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad    ( Iran )
3. Vladimir Putin                  ( Russia )
4. Fidel Castro                     ( Cuba )

   If we are going to put together a "wish list" of people that would appreciate Obama's first months of action, then allow me to make exception and "bring back" a few men that really shared many of his same views.

1. Adolf Hitler                  ( Germany )
2. Benito Mussolini           ( Italy )
3. Joseph Stalin                ( U.S.S.R. )

  I can hear it now. "Mr. President, will you please step foreward and accept this 'Most Likely to Turn His Country into a Socialist State Award'." Now this may seem a little radical to some, but here me out. During the first nine months of Obama'a term he has managed to pass legislation that gives the government partial control in the banking industry, the auto industry, and now is frantically trying to pass into law government control of the health care industry. I wonder if this is what our founding fathers envisioned?
   Joseph Stalin
   I know, I know, how do these actions make Obama like these former dictators? Well, Stalin once said "A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."  There's probably not too many middle class Americans that would disagree with that. I don't recall anything during Obama's campaign that talked about government control of the "Big Three". About dictating a budget for the banking system to follow. Where does it say that the government can dictate what a CEO of a company can make? What is the term they use for government run and owned businesses? Oh yeah, SOCIALISM. Throughout history, businesses fail and businesses succeed. In our infinite greed and failure to face the consequences of our actions, the American people have allowed the government to get their hands into the cockpit of our corporate world. Does anyone here think that there is room for more greed and less guidance in Corporate America? Stalin also said "When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope we use." I have seen first hand how the government runs its business and it is a catastrophy. I have one word for their failures. FEMA.
   Benito Mussolini
   Another of the failed dictators of the twentieth century gave us this quote. " Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." How is this not EXACTLY where we are headed? Are we not in the midst of merging health care with government? I personally am scared to death of the road we are on. The days of thinking "that won't happen to me" are far behind us now.  The American public is is no more in control of the government than they are of the tidal changes. Our public relations with the world are horriffic. When is the last time you turned on your television to see another country's people praising America? When do our foriegn failures stop? Mussolini also told us "We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance." Is this what we are trying to do? Alienate ourselves from everyone. If so, I think we are doing a great job. The Middle East, Asia, most of Europe, and South America all have ill-will towards the United States.
   Adolf Hitler
   It goes without saying that this was definitely one of the most controversial leaders of the last century. Once again, we cannot change history, but should at least learn from it. Hitler envoked gun control laws that later crushed much of his opposition. Overnight he took control of his political party and waged a personal campaign against all that opposed him. It seems that even though he blatantly broke the Versailles Treaty by strengthening his country's army, the world stood by and some even praised his actions. He was even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1938. This was just a year before the start of World War 2. One of the most disturbing things Hitler said, that sadly mirrors our society today, was "How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."  Is that what we have become? A nation of non-thinkers. A nation that claims men like George Washington, Benjamin Farnklin, leaders in technological advances in medicine and many other fields is now reduced to non-thinkers?
  This country was not founded by men who were told what was right and wrong. But by men who could not help but to do the right thing. It is time for us, as American citizens, to demand that our elected leaders do no less for this country than their forefathers did. Obama has put on a front of action that is masked with grave undertones for this country.  " Never confuse motion with action." Benjamin Franklin