If you are Catholic and if you are not... If you are Conservative...and if you are not...

The passage below was taken from my very first post at this website. I wanted it to set the tone for my political philosophy and to remind the reader that the origins of today's conservative thought surely stemmed from such writings. It was this belief that John F. Kennedy preached (which is further proof that those who support Ted Kennedy's views cannot honestly say they also supported JFK...the brothers were 180 degrees apart from one another politically). ~ Norman E. Hooben

"....so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.

To remedy these wrongs the socialists, working on the poor man's envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that by thus transferring property from private individuals to the community, the present mischievous state of things will be set to rights, inasmuch as each citizen will then get his fair share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are, moreover, emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community.

It is surely undeniable that, when a man engages in remunerative labor, the impelling reason and motive of his work is to obtain property, and thereafter to hold it as his very own. If one man hires out to another his strength or skill, he does so for the purpose of receiving in return what is necessary for the satisfaction of his needs; he therefore expressly intends to acquire a right full and real, not only to the remuneration, but also to the disposal of such remuneration, just as he pleases. Thus, if he lives sparingly, saves money, and, for greater security, invests his savings in land, the land, in such case, is only his wages under another form; and, consequently, a working man's little estate thus purchased should be as completely at his full disposal as are the wages he receives for his labor. But it is precisely in such power of disposal that ownership obtains, whether the property consist of land or chattels. Socialists, therefore, by endeavoring to transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thereby of all hope and possibility of increasing his resources and of bettering his condition in life. (Circa 1891)

Read the full text here: ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON CAPITAL AND LABOR

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Paulson Blackmailed Congress...that's not all he did! (ps: And why has Goldman Sachs suddenly made a bundle?)

The American economy remains in dire straits, with one worker in six unemployed or underemployed. Yet Goldman Sachs just reported record quarterly profits — and it’s preparing to hand out huge bonuses, comparable to what it was paying before the crisis. What does this contrast tell us? Read more at the New York Times (link)

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Paulson Threatened Great Depression and Food Riots To Get Bailout Bill Passed

Source: PrisonPlanet.com

More information concerning ex-Goldman Sachs CEO’s blackmail of Congress revealed

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, July 17, 2009

More information has come to light regarding former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s threats to Congress last fall that martial law would ensue unless they passed the bailout bill.

During Paulson’s first appearance on Capitol Hill since he left office yesterday, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs said he told Congress privately that if they rejected the bailout bill another great depression would ensue, that there would be a breakdown in law and order as well as food riots and civil unrest, adding that he couldn’t reveal such things publicly for fear that the situation would “terrify the American people and lead to an even bigger problem”.

The threat of martial law was subsequently proven to be made on a fraudulent pretext because Paulson’s justification – that the money was needed to buy up toxic debt – was abandoned almost immediately and the money was directly injected into banks – and even forced upon financial institutions who tried to reject TARP funds.

The fact that the entire purpose of the bailout was switched as soon as it was approved by Congress proves that Paulson’s threat was nothing less than financial terrorism and a successful effort to blackmail Congress with hastily manufactured doomsday scenarios.

“The Bush administration and Congress discussed the possibility of a breakdown in law and order and the logistics of feeding US citizens if commerce and banking collapsed as a result of last autumn’s financial panic, it was disclosed yesterday,” reports the London Independent today.

“Paul Kanjorski, a Pennsylvania Democrat, asked Mr Paulson to reveal details of officials’ concerns, which were relayed to Congress in hasty conference calls last year.” “The calls included discussion of law and order and whether it would be possible to feed the American people, and for how long, according to Mr Kanjorski.”

“In a world where information can flow, money can move with the speed of light electronically, I looked at the ripple effect, and looked at when a financial system fails, a whole country’s economic system can fail,” Mr Paulson said. “I believe we could have gone back to the sorts of situations we saw in the Depression. I try not to use hyperbole. It’s impossible to prove now since it didn’t happen.”As we reported at the time, on October 2, Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman gave a stunning speech on the House floor during which he decried the fact that, “Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day, another couple of thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no.”

A few days before, Rep. Michael Burgess also told the House, “Mr. Speaker I understand we are under Martial Law as declared by the speaker last night,” referring to a temporary suspension of the rules and procedures of Congress by its leaders so that a bill can be passed quickly.

The origin of the threat was later revealed by Senator James Inhofe to have been Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Asked by KFAQ radio host Pat Campbell where the threat came from regarding martial law and civil unrest, Inhofe responded, “That’s Henry Paulson,” responded Inhofe, “We had a conference call early on, it was on a Friday I think – a week and half before the vote on Oct. 1. So it would have been the middle … what was it – the 19th of September, we had a conference call. In this conference call – and I guess there’s no reason for me not to repeat what he said, but he said – he painted this picture you just described. He said, ‘This is serious. This is the most serious thing that we faced.’”

Inhofe said that Paulson told members of Congress the crisis would be “far worse than the great depression” if Congress didn’t authorize the bill to buy out toxic debt, a proposal “which he abandoned the day after he got the money,” added Inhofe.

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Where's the outrage? Health care goes to hell, Clinton supports dictators, ...

Sorry folks for not keeping up with the latest while on the road...
There's altogether too much going on in the world today that is leading us into one direction and if the people don't soon react we could see nothing but devastation throughout the land.

I listened intently to the Senate hearings on Obama's selection for the Supreme Court...the so-called lady lied upon lie with most of her replies...and Americans did not respond with the needed outrage...
Then we have Hilary Clinton supporting the would be Honduran dictator Manuel Zelaya who in turn is supported by the American dictator, Obama...and no outrage!

The forced upon us health care package now before the Senate is sure to create some outrage especially among the elderly...I guess if the eldery are forced to die off sooner than expected the Obama-ites will have a larger voting block after these old nags get out the way. Here's a little outrage from Gerry Phelps

Health Care Bill Outlaws Private Insurance

At www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=332548165656854 On page 16 of the 1002 page document, it is spelled out that no one can get new private health insurance after the Health Care bill passes.

That would mean if someone changed jobs, they could not take their health care insurance with them. If a new child was born after that deadline, new health care insurance could not be bought for them. Etc.

What this means is that if the bill passes, private insured health care is on its way out. There would soon be no way out of the system. Eventually, there would be no more possibility of private health care outside the government program. It would be whatever was offered then in government care, or nothing.

But read it all for yourselves

Socialized Health Care...How long are you willing to wait...and wait...and wait