This is the sixth part in the Government Is The Problem Series.

GUNS ARE GOOD

In America and any other country that has Progressives trying to strip rights of citizens, you will hear the argument that guns are a bad influence on culture and should be heavily regulated, then ultimately taken away. The reason this is dangerous is that guns protect regular people from criminals, and if times get desperate, even the elected criminal.

*Food For Thought:

If Adolf Hitler didn’t ban guns in Germany, do you think that the Jews would have been so easily marched to their deaths? Also, if Joseph Stalin didn’t have bans on guns do you think that the 20-50 million people that were killed in the name of socialism would have accepted their deaths either? I am pretty sure that we can all agree that if they were allowed to own firearms, the magnitude of these mass genocides would be a lot smaller if any at all.

To read more about the similarities between Hitler’s gun control and our own click here.

Lets look at an interesting fact shall we?

According to Don B. Kates and Gary Kleck in their book “Frequency of Defensive Gun Use”, handguns are used five times more in the US to stop crime than they are used to commit crimes.

The truth of the matter is, that our Founding Fathers understood the importance of a citizen being armed. It kept criminals nervous and the government from infringing on the people with military force. This is not only a part of our heritage, but also a point that preserves our freedoms.

Look around the world. Any country that has heavy gun regulation and gun bans, has citizens with very few rights. Europe has very strict gun laws in almost every country and they have a high rate of socialism and government intervention. Why? Who is going to stop the government from marching on over the people and their God given rights? Definitely not a group of unarmed citizens. Victor=Government.

Everyone in America is familiar with the Columbine School shooting. Two boys came to school with guns and killed 12 students and teachers, while wounding 21 others. If there was a teacher or someone in the school who had a concealed firearm the amount of life lost would have been slim to none. Imagine the same situation at Virginia Tech or any other school shooting, bank robbery, rape or murder scene. The results would have been more favorable.

Even though guns have been proven to deter crime more that promote it, the far Left in America still tries to take them away and make very difficult to acquire them (unsuccessfully so far). They do this by making them look and sound dangerous. The call semi automatic firearms “assault weapons” to make a normally operating rifle sound extremely dangerous.

Here is a video that explains the difference between an “assault rifle” (which requires a lot of certification to own in America) and a normal rifle that most Americans can purchase:

All in all, when it comes to gun control, the Government Is The Problem. By taking firearms and regulating them more than they are already, they are doing the American Citizens a huge disservice. Guns protect women from rape, families from burglary, murder and other heinous crimes. They also keep our elected officials honest. They help people hunt for food and bring people together for some good old fashion fun. The serve as a way to get people out doors. They offer sporting opportunities like shooting Trap and Skeet.

But most of all they are part of our American Heritage. The armed citizen helped us win the Revolutionary War, and kept the union together in the Civil War. We need guns in America to keep ourselves safer and to preserve the future.

Stay Strong!

-Keith

If any of you listen to the Glenn Beck Show on the radio or watch it on TV you would know that President Obama has appointed “Czars” in his administration. These Czars only answer to the President but have a direct impact on policy and have the ability to create laws without the consent of congress. As of now there are 32 Czars that we know of. Taking on what Glenn Beck has started, I am going to list some of these Czars and what they are capable of doing.

(This info is straight from GlennBeck.com)

Energy and Environment Czar – Carol Browner

Title: Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change
Salary: $172,200
Reports to: President Obama
Appointed: January 2009
Agency that might have handled similar issues: EPA

• Coordinates energy and climate policy, emphasizing regulation and conservation.
• Was Environmental Protection Agency administrator in the Clinton administration (1993-2000)
• Was Florida Secretary of the Environment (1991 to 1993)
• Founded and continues to serve as a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm led by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Also a principal of Albright Capital Management, an investment advisory firm that concentrates on emerging markets.
• Worked on the Socialist International’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which argues that the global community must work collectively to address environmental policies
• Described Bush administration as the “worst environmental administration ever”
• While orchestrating private discussions between the White House and auto industry officials on vehicle fuel efficiency standards, kept the talks as quiet as possible. Mary Nichols, the head of the California Air Resources Board, said, “We put nothing in writing, ever.”
• 2003: A federal judge held the Environmental Protection Agency in contempt for destroying computer files during the Clinton administration that had been sought by a conservative legal foundation. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also ordered the EPA to pay the Landmark Legal Foundation’s legal fees and costs because the agency disobeyed his order to preserve the electronic records of Browner, the former EPA chief.

Green Jobs Czar – Van Jones

Title: Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Head of Council on Environmental Quality Nancy Sutley
Appointed: March 2009
Agency or department that might have handled similar issues: Environmental Protection Agency; Labor

• Will focus on environmentally-friendly employment within the administration and boost support for the idea nationwide
• Rose from near obscurity in the Oakland, Calif., grassroots organizing scene to the leader of a national movement to spur the green economy.
• Founded Green For All, an organization focused on creating green jobs in impoverished areas
• Also co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Color of Change, which includes Bay Area PoliceWatch, a group devoted to “protect the community from police misconduct”
• Published New York Times best-seller The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, in October 2008
• Started career as a prison-reform advocate in Oakland, Calif., lobbying for reform of the juvenile justice system and youth-violence prevention programs
• Has law degree from Yale
• 2007: worked on the Green Jobs Act with then-Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.), who co-sponsored the bill in the House
• 1993: was arrested at the Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of cops in the Rodney King beating. “I was arrested simply for being a police observer,” says Jones, who had just graduated from Yale Law School and was working with the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco.
• 1999: was arrested in the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization
• Excerpt from a Nov. 2005 interview in the East Bay Express:
Jones had planned to move to Washington, DC, and had already landed a job and an apartment there. But in jail, he said, “I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’” Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. “I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.” In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,” he said. “By August, I was a communist.” In 1994, the young activists formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia. They protested police brutality and got arrested for crashing through police barricades. In 1996, Jones decided to launch his own operation, which he named the Ella Baker Center after an unsung hero of the civil-rights movement.

Glenn Beck on Van Jones:

Urban Affairs Czar – Adolfo Carrion Jr.

Title: White House Director of Urban Affairs
Salary: $158,500
Reports to: President Obama
Appointed: February 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Housing and Urban Development

• Job entails coordinating transportation and housing initiatives, as well as serving as a conduit for federal aid to economically hard-hit cities.
• Has undergraduate degree in world religions from Kings College; became an associate pastor at a Bronx church; earned his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College
• Was Bronx Borough President (2001-2009); President of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (since 2007); City Council member (1998 to 2000)
• Many reporters say he has higher ambitions and will probably run for New York City mayor in the next ten years.
• Was an active campaigner for Obama, travelling across the country to speak on his behalf. He focused particularly on states with large Hispanic populations.
• The NY Daily News reported numerous developers made tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations to Carrión around the same time he was considering approving their projects in the Bronx.

The main point is that there were already ways to handle the problems these Czars were appointed to fix. The problem is that now there are people who report only to the President instead of elected officials who report to us the American people. At this point, on at least 32 issues we have no more direct impact on policy. In this circumstance, our rights as Americans have been taken away.

The government is the problem. As children of a divine creator, each and every person on earth has capabilities and motivation to be everything we were meant to be. The only thing that can get in our way (as it was originally intended) is ourselves, but on top of our own downfalls we are taxed to high heaven and told that we need to report to a group of egotistical people called our government. The Constitution (capitalized for its importance) allows our government a strict and small amount of power, but if you look around you will find that the thin red line given to public servants by our Constitution has been crossed one too many times.

If you want to read about all of the Czars click here

Thanks!

-Keith

Here is part 3 in our Government Is The Problem Series.

The bailouts that Washington D.C. has offered are hurting America and Americans more than you would think. The recent “craze” that is giving private industries government tax money to stay afloat, is reverse logic and quite stupid logic if you look at it through capitalistic glasses. If you gave every American a check for $2,500 it would cost the same as the Obama stimulus (3.27 trillion), but it would give the American worker immediate buying power, and we could make decisions for the market based off of our current needs.

This means if majority of that stimulus went to the automotive industry to buy Ford Rangers, then Ford would know that Americans crave Ford Rangers, and they would restructure their operations accordingly, making them more money and keeping them in the game for the long haul. Instead the money went directly to the companies and corporations (just pick one) with mandates from the public sector (the government) so what happens in the market isn’t based off of what the buyer needs it is based off of the government wants.

There is still hope though. General Motors or GM created an innovative automobile called the Chevy Volt . The Volt gets 230 mpg and is the definition of American ingenuity. There is no mandate from the feds, but Chevy still delivered based off of the American buyers needs. All businesses should take note of what Chevy has done. Try to create something that has never been done before, create a new idea, a new way to travel or a new way to live, then build it here and sell it here and you will find that we are the solution to the problems that have been created by those in Washington.

Obama loves to mention “politics as usual” well we can no longer to afford to do “business as usual”. We need to evolve and grow as a country of entrepreneurs and show the world that America is still the country of dreams come true.

Thanks!

-Keith