Mohammed

The so called prophet Mohammed was a gigantically influential religious zealot who employed violence in the name of God to further a political agenda. Not much has changed in the last 1500 years since his reign of terror and fear mongering.  The Muslim faith, while intensely meaningful to some, was and is a largely corrupt religion.  Why?  The answer is simple and obvious, they say, believe in our Allah as we do or die! This is not faith in God but faith in the sword.  If one really believes, one would be able to suffer through the slings and arrows of the doubters.  There are Muslims that believe this deeply but they remain silent as the radicals of death corrupt their religion.  This is why the religion as a whole is corrupt.        

G.Goslaw
Landers, CA

Playing Nice

Some time ago the our household received a phone call from the principle’s office.  We were informed, “your son has been fighting on the playground and we need to talk”.  The talk involved a lecture about fighting with no concern for the cause which was bullying and the establishment of a schoolyard pecking order.  The school administration was reacting in the same way as the Obama administration in the face of the slaying of four, supposedly diplomatically protected Americans, including our Ambassador to Libya.  The Clinton state department and the President say, “we must take the long view despite the evil intentions and actions of the Muslim Brotherhood”.

A now famous LA video star asked a question from the city courthouse steps,  “can’t we all just get along?” The answer to that question and the continuing dysfunction in the Middle East should be a resounding no, we can't!  Somewhere there has to be an American leader who will admit that politically and religiously motivated humans will never just get along.  There will always be bullies on the school yard playground, eventually we will have to stand up like a man.  Instead, this cow tailing president insists on playing nice with those who wish us and ours dead!

G.Goslaw
Landers, CA.

Liars

The political conventions are over and one reality is very apparent, truth in politics is a scarce commodity.  There are no good guys and bad guys when it comes to the truth, both political parties are liars, willing to say or not to say everything and anything in order to win an election.  Machiavelli in his book, “the Prince”, extolled the supposed virtue of the philosophy that “ the ends justify the means”.  With the end of political power in mind, Democrats and Republicans are performing as royalty, falsely claiming that they know what is best for the people.  Therefore, it is O.K. to be a liar and that is the state of our politics.

Both parties assume that we the voters are easily beguiled by the lie. The Democrats are the most obvious distorters of the truth.  Almost every day their talking points include at least one such lie.  The latest is the chairman of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, accusing the Republicans, particularly conservative evangelicals, of unfaithfulness to the state of Israel and the Jewish cause.  She falsely quoted an Israeli ambassador when speaking at a training session for Florida Democratic election workers.  Her Machiavellian motives are obvious.  This lie follows a long list of lies from Democratic mouthpieces intended to degrade Republicans and Mitt Romney.  Our royal President is slightly more camouflaged when speaking a lie.  His way is to use words like “free enterprise” in his acceptance speech, assuming that the listener will not question whether his policies are friendly to such an environment. This slight of hand was not utilized in his presidential campaign of 08, when he portrayed himself as the centrist Democratic candidate.

One Presidential critique of the Republicans has yet to be explained by Mitt Romney.  Why would America want to return to the policies of the Republican Bush years since those policies gave us such a devastating economic catastrophe?  The Republican silence at this point is a lie.  A lie that must be addressed rationally if Mitt Romney hopes to win election.  Every political observer is aghast at the closeness of the election as forecast by the polls, considering the dismal economic numbers.  The question for the voter is whom shall we trust, a dismal looking economic future with the Democrats or more Republican led criminal economic catastrophes.  It is as if the polls are screaming, how can we trust the Party that won’t come to terms with it’s own past?

At this point, only Mitt Romney can do a meaningful apology to the American voter for past Republican failures, failures that have to be acknowledged and put into truthful context.  He must explain the causes of the catastrophe and name all the responsible parties, both Democrats and Republicans.  Why is it that no one has been prosecuted and sent to jail?  Does anyone really care that the American worker has had to suffer such economic turmoil?  The extremes of both parties have staked out there positions but to influence the middle America voter and win the election, we want to hear the truth from Mitt.

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

Stupidity

It is almost September, the November national election is fast approaching.  Regrettably, the news and the political conventions won’t let us avoid the dirty little war between the Democrats and the Republicans, a war that consumes almost every minute of airtime, the campaign bank accounts and the political obligations of the adversaries.  A blow by blow description of this war is not the purview of these words for we are all over saturated.  Instead, this post is an attempt to evaluate the voters of America as we choose our future.  What are we thinking?  The polls are showing the O’bama and Romney forces in a virtual tie.  How can such a close election happen in this harsh economic environment?      
 
America is enduring an economic disaster almost unparalleled in our history.  Both parties are experts at blaming the other for the theft of our futures and our children’s futures.  The truth is that both political parties are to blame for our national pain. The government, our American government, has proven itself to be a criminal enterprise on a grand scale.  Bernie Madoff, please move over.  The politicians of both parties are criminally aligned with their co-conspirators on Wall Street, particularly the Goldman Sachs crowd in and out of government.  In exchange for  political funds and support, Democrats and Republicans are planning the next grand heist upon the American taxpayer. The election will decide only who will be in control when the plan is hatched.

Forest Gump quoted his mother about his lot in life, “stupid is as stupid does”.  Forrest was a little slow mentally but he was not stupid as his actions in life proved.  Only our actions at the ballot box will prove the mental capacity of the American voter, are we stupid enough to believe the lies from both parties?  The Democrats lie when they insist that their big spending, big government agenda will bring an economic revival, if not in four years then in eight.  The Republicans lie when they insist that a new Republican administration that enables the free enterprise system will cure the economic ills of America.  In theory this claim may have the ring of truth but “the proof is in the pudding”.   The proof is also in the details.  Will a Romney administration make happen a new Washington, a new city for the people, a Reagansk “shinning city on the hill”?

Already the gang of President George Bush is surfacing at the RNC convention, smelling an opportunity for another bite at the apple.  The Obama administration is a dismal failure but the Bush administration was a close second, both of whom marched and are marching to the tune of big money instead of the people.  An American conservative agenda is desperately needed now or we as a country will drift off into the night of an empty national sameness.   We will no longer be whom we are!    Will such a Republican conservative administration happen?  The picking of Paul Ryan to be Romney’s sidekick for the campaign gives conservatives a smidgen of hope but as we all know, the vice president has no real influence in any Washington  administration.  The pick may only be a duplicitous attempt to marshal the conservative wing of the party.

In consideration of the above facts, allow me to chart a course for the political future of America, at least in the short term.  As we gather to listen to the words of Mitt Romney tonight, let us evaluate whether his vision is truly a conservative small government vision.  If so, does he mean it or will we be stuck with another establishment Republican administration that accomplishes nothing but manages the nothing a little more efficiently.  We proud extremist conservatives have no choice but to vote for Mitt Romney but we are not stupid,  it is up to Mitt to prove his intellectual capabilities, not in his rhetoric but in his actions should we give him the opportunity.

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

Dependence Day

At first glance you might assume this title to be an egregious error.  Please stay with me, in this new century, we American citizens may celebrate the 4th of July not as “Independence Day” but as “Dependence Day”.   We are fast becoming that kind of country.  Life has increasingly become a search for a “sugar daddy” governmental angle which, for many, will take care of their daily needs, at least the financial ones.  Welfare benefits with it’s pyramid of bureaucracy, the disability lifestyle, food stamps, housing assistance, the unemployment lifestyle, false disability insurance claims and excessive taxpayer funded salaries, benefits and pensions, have all exploded in the last four years of President O’bama.  

These programs are no longer disrespected in our country.  In fact, those who work and earn their own living  are considered saps when compared to this new national ethic.  Are we to forget about individual initiative, creativity, personal responsibility, risk, courage and dreaming beyond our own personal circumstances?  Are we to expect our government to make personal financial failure the remotest of possibilities?  The growth of big governmental programs would seem to indicate that our citizenry wants that kind of Americana.  The voter says to each political personage, “what can you do for me?”  The question has always been a part of our politics but in our present self absorbed culture, has not the citizen voter become blind to any of the other greater American values like patriotism, community, sacrifice and a shared understanding of the common good?  What or who is your sugar daddy?

In the upcoming presidential election we are staring at the same politic used by the Democrats to win the election of Jerry Brown as Governor of California in 2010.  An election that will happen this time on the national stage.  On Brown’s team were the big government forces that included the hard political left, the public sector unions, the welfare crowd and the influence of the ethnic minorities.  President O’bama is now busy rallying all these same forces in the hope that they will do for him what they did for Governor Moonbeam.  All these voters have a financial interest in a bigger government that promises to take care of the people and supposedly meet their every desire.

Will such a political strategy work on the national stage?  We shall see but a dependent America is not the historical America that we older citizens have treasured.  Our time is fast passing to be an influence upon younger generations and the future America.  Those Americans who follow us have the right and ultimately will decide this issue and design America anew.  As difficult as it may be, freeing the youngsters to decide and letting go of the future of America is a part of the life cycle.  But for now, as far as this writer is concerned, America will not have a “sugar daddy government” that makes Americans dependent persons.

G.Goslaw
Landers, CA  

Gratitude

Thank you, John Roberts, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.  Yesterday’s deciding opinion on the Obama healthcare plan was an absolute stroke of genius, regardless of your intent. No longer is the presidential election of 2012 about the competency of the respective candidates, it is now about defining America. Who are we as a country? What will our founding principles be going forward?

Are we to be a big government institution with politicians picking winners and losers? If that is your preferred governmental model, clearly vote for Obama and the Democratic ticket. If you don’t like the idea of politicians getting into your junk, vote and then insist on a country that treasures the American uniqueness, the personal freedom of each individual.

Does that mean a vote for a moderate Republican candidate and a Republican party that is as self-involved as are the Democrats? Yes, that is the only hope for the peoples politics. Should Romney and the Republicans win, the peoples politic remains a long way off but if we the people stay engaged, the peoples America will happen. If Obama wins reelection and another four years, the big government model will be cemented into the nations fabric for as long as we remain a country.

My hope is that I am overstating the consequence of this election. The election is, however, a clear choice between two Americas. The American way to make such a momentous choice is to take a vote of all the people, a pivotal vote in 2012, what do we the people want?

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca.

The Simple Fix

Here we go again!  The knowledgeable conservative voter has no real choice in another Presidential election.  Please forgive me as I mention the last thirty two years of the historical record.  In the presidential race of 1988 and 1992, George H. W. Bush was the Republican establishment choice, in 1996 Senator Robert Dole was the chosen one, in 2000 and 2004 George W. Bush was elected by the narrowest of margins and in 2008 the inept Senator John Mc Cain lead the Republican party to a resounding defeat, giving us President Barack Obama.  In the upcoming presidential election of 2012, Mitt Romney has won the job of confronting Barack Obama in his reelection bid.  The last quasi conservative presidential candidate or President was Ronald Reagan, who won election in 1980 and 1984.

The unifying character of all these Republicans, except Reagan, is that each one is an establishment moderate Republican politician, meaning that they are timid political adolescents who will inevitably  decide “to go with the flow”.  George W. Bush raised taxes despite a no new tax pledge.  He thought he could appease the liberal Democratic call for higher taxes to support bigger government.  The Democrats responded to his courage by refusing to cut spending as promised.  Senator Dole was a good man and a war hero but he had no real message, persona or governing experience to ignite the electorate.  As a result, William Jefferson Clinton was elected our forty second President.  President Clinton began by governing as a typical big government Democrat but his sexual scandal in the White House forced him to embrace some conservative policies in order to survive politically.  Surprisingly, for the first and only time since President Reagan, smaller government programs with the resulting lower cost and lower taxes produced good economic times for working, tax paying Americans.

George W. Bush was elected or crowned by the Supreme Court as President 43.  To King George’s credit, he never claimed to be conservative thinking, just another moderate establishment Republican, advancing bigger government programs in education, the supposed war on terror and feeding the insatiable dollar appetite of our war economy.  In addition, the insane expansion of housing programs for those folk who cannot afford to buy a house was pushed by Democratic liberal mentalities in Congress.  The Republicans offered little resistance as they were busy warmongering.  They stood by passively or even assisted when Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac were allowed to insanely expand.  Home ownership had become the unreal expectation of every American.

These good times were short lived, as we all know, the resulting economic pain from the bursting economic bubble threatened and profoundly impacted every American.  Well, it was painful for almost every American.  Our bumbling politicians bailed out the Wall Street banks who were largely responsible for the housing collapse.  Our bumbling politicians poured billions of taxpayer money into major industries, particularly union companies.  Our bumbling politicians enacted a “one trillion dollar” stimulus bill that was supposedly to ensure a speedy economic recovery.  Instead, most of the money was used to expand the governmental public sector and ensure for them a pain free recession.  The federal workforce was increased, little wonder that real estate prices in Washington D.C. went up when the rest of the country was losing equity.  Then our bumbling politicians sent a majority of the money to the states to fund the public sector, teachers, police, firefighters and emergency workers.  And of course, our bumbling politicians in every context were shielded from economic pain.

The private sector has been abandoned by our bumbling politicians to shoulder most of the economic pain.  The job creators of our economy were left to fend for themselves straddling ever increasing governmental regulation.  Is there any doubt as to why the unemployment numbers have remained so high?  Is there any doubt why so many Americans have given up hope for a job?  Is there any doubt why so many have elected to go on Social Security early?  Is there any doubt why the welfare and food stamp rolls have ballooned, in some cases doubling?  Is there any doubt why our college graduates have dismal prospects for employment in their field of study?  Is there any doubt why our high school kids can’t find a part time job?  Is there any doubt why our young adults are choosing to live with their parents into their thirties?  President O’Bama talks about economic fairness when his recovery policies are the exact antithesis of fairness.  Such rhetoric is so unjustified as to be simply a lie.  In cowardly fashion, those working in the government, the public sector and the unions support the lie.

Again, I apologize for this historical recitation but doesn’t the history make we voting taxpaying Americans wonder why we have been so stupid?  We support politicians who fail us and then they take no responsibility by dodging to blame the politicians of the other political party.  They are con artists and we keep playing their gamers.  Possibly it is time for the voting public to stop tolerating the political games and insist upon authentic conservative leadership.  We have yet to try that simple fix.  That kind of president will lead us toward smaller government, true tax reform, a balanced budget and a working America.  Why would we want to  accept anything less?

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca.