Political – Wanderings

Making of a Conservative Black Man

joe September 4, 2011 0 Political conservative, republican

With all the hub bub about the Tea Party, I’m getting a little sick of the “racist” cry. It was that cry about the John Birch Society in the sixties that turned me into a radical conservative. It seemed that every liberal black or white person you ran into, “knew” that the John Birch Society members were rabid racists.

The longer and louder they screamed at me about those blankety blank people my resolve became stronger. There was a reason…

There was this lady in my church – I’ll call her Alice. She and her husband Alan were members of the dreaded “Society.” Only problem was, they never demonstrated any racist attitudes toward me. Not only did she want to sing in a choir with me, or occasionally have me tell her what to do (assistant choir director); or that we talked about issues of the day; and the two of them tried to make sure I got invited to their house. That sure did not seem racist to me!

Lest you think that I was too “white” to not know they were being racist, remember, I grew up in Jim Crow Oklahoma. A state where negroes still got chased, had to ride on the back of buses and attend segregated schools. I was born in an all black community that was three miles from an all white town, and they didn’t want any of “us” living there. Working there was alright, but “we don’t want any ‘n……’ living here!'” As a black person, you were very careful not to go outside your community at night. And forget camping! Yep, I knew what racists were, what they looked like and how they talked. Oh, don’t forget the “colored” bathrooms, food at the backdoor of restaurants and perfect movie seats in the rear of the balcony

So, that kind of clinched it. If supposed racists are not racists, (as demonstrated by Alice and Alan) then maybe the rest of what the liberals talked was a lie as well.

The downfall of the liberals was that I could read. Off to the libraries and bookstores. What did the “Birchers” really believe? What did they want for the country? Were their positions on the issues they talked about tenable?

Amazing what you can find out when you read what people say and believe, rather than listen to somebody tell you what they said or “what they really mean!” The liberals were the ones lying. The more I read, the more convinced I became that bending the laws wasn’t the way to get to a better world. Maybe I shouldn’t have read the Bible at the same time. Bending the laws always got the people in trouble – over and over.

So there I was, no longer stuck on the horns of a dilemma.

Maybe that’s why there are people in the world who don’t want our kids to learn to read, or find books in the library. Maybe we should leave the books in English, but not teach anyone to read that ancient language. Then, we skip having the kids and new citizens learn anything about history – good or bad. We just tell them about how bad some things were…not that there were some people who wanted a change for the better. And those people weren’t the supposed saviors of the black people. It was the dreaded racist Republicans who voted for laws that ended segregation and separate schools. Read your history people!

Getting the picture?

It may be a pain, but read! “You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.”

Just so you know, this was during a period in my life where about once a week, I visited a printing supply store…next door was the John Birch Society “Book Store.” Yes, I did eventually wander in and read some of their publications. Even got a subscription to their magazine. Never did find that they said anything racist. Very high quality articles written by people with Masters and Doctoral degrees. This was some more convincing.

Obfuscate Me!

joe August 14, 2009 Political Healthcare

Don't let the big word confuse you. There is a definition, and that is "To make so confused as to be difficult to understand or to render indistinct or dim."

That's what the government is trying to do with the great all-American Healthcare reform known as HR3200.

If you think you are going to get better health care, just think about doing your taxes. Do you understand what all those blanks refer to or what the words mean or what exactly you should put there? I was so obsessed with all the retoric coming from Congress and Mr. Obama that I downloaded the entire 1017 pages of the bill.

Reading this bill is a joke!

They have sections that refer to sections that refer to sections that change other sections by leaving out words or paragraphs! If you don't believe me, get your own copy and try reading it.

If you want to know why our government is in such sad shape, this should give you a clue. No wonder the people who do the "Town Hall Meetings" are getting blasted. How could anyone know what is in the bill, when it is so convoluted!

Just because I am a "give me the facts" man, I wanted to check it out and see if the Right Wing Boogie Men were speaking the truth. Just checking out two of their "facts" got me to the truth. Here are two examples:

While citizens who do not have health care will be taxed (a penalty), non-resident aliens are exempt from paying the tax [Section 59B, Page 170, Line 1]
When you pay your taxes, you usually get some credit for taxes you have paid the government, but this bill says "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax imposed by this chapter for purposes of determining the amount of any credit under this chapter or for purposes of section 55 [Section 441, Page 203, Lines 14 and 15]

I don't know who Nancy, Harry and Barack think they are. They can continue to obfuscate who ever you want in Washington, but we the people are tired of being obfuscated on. We don't need any more laws that no one can figure out, much less that get passed off to a bureaucracy (like IRS) to write a bunch of rules that no one can change.

Oh, by the way. Have you noticed that of the eight – yes eight co-sponsors of HR3200 only one has the guts to hold a Town Hall Meeting. If the people who put their name down as being willing to sponsor this thing don't have the guts to go around the country and explain it, that ought to tell you something. Maybe they don't know what it says – "just sounded like a good thing to get my name on."

You can check out everything yourself by going to Library Of Congress. You can get the document from the Government Printing Office by following a link at the Library of Congress or HERE

Mandatory Health Care Failing…AGAIN!

joe June 23, 2009 Political

Doing some checking on the Administration's plans for "Universal Health Care.", and ran across an article that documents the failure of Massachusetts' "Mandatory Health Care" program. Failing just like Canada and England where you have to wait for an appointment or some government bureaucrat to decide if or when you can have a particular treatment.

This was not a short article from The Objective Standard, but a very in depth look at the reasons the Massachusetts plan is not working and why it keeps costing more and more.

They stated "Yet two years after its inception, the Massachusetts plan has failed to achieve either of its goals. The plan did not lower health care costs, nor did it achieve universal coverage. Thus, given the growing popularity of mandatory health insurance, Americans would do well to take a close look at the results of the Massachusetts plan