It’s all about redistribution and the transfer of Wealth, all of it. Obama’s plan is to level the playing field. He said as much to Joe the Plumber. But he under-stated the magnitude of his intentions. He misrepresented his real agenda. Let’s take a look at the pending Obama proposals.

First we had the stimulus package which although mostly unspent, will impose a massive tax at some point, probably on our children. The money is going to “infra-structure” which means government projects which usually means unions. I’m not even mentioning ACORN and STORM who got money from the stimulus plan. (O.K. I mentioned them) It doesn’t matter really, the folks paying for it will only get a pittance of it back. It is generational theft. McCain at least got that right. It is redistribution. It’s a transfer of wealth.

Next, Health Care. A two trillion dollar package. Who will pay for it? Employers, entrepreneurs, small businesses, the tax payers which means fifty seven percent of the population will pay for one hundred percent of the cost of health care. Certainly it will not be those who don’t pay federal income taxes which is forty three percent of Americans. As a criminal defense lawyer, I see those who pay no federal taxes and if you think these folks are going to pony up, I’ve got some swampland in Florida to sell you. Again, the transfer of wealth.

Next. Cap and Trade. The White House Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, Jason Furman told Senate Staff the energy tax scheme would actually raise “two-to-three Times” the budget’s official $646 billion revenue estimate which means the cost will be between 1.3 trillion and 1.9 trillion. The White house says that everybody will get a tax cut based on the revenues. But forty-three percent of folks don’t pay federal taxes but they’ll get money. It’s not a tax cut, it’s a transfer of wealth. Again.

Next, bail outs. The Unions have been handed Chrysler and General Motors, with our money. AIG got a bail out, with our money, or our kids. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Dido. Wall Street? Dido. Sure the Feds made some money off Wall Street, but did they or did we? Are we getting tax rebates based on the profits Washington is making on the Wall Street Bail outs? Nope. We the tax payers bailed them out. They got the money. The Feds got the profits. We got the bill, or again, our kids got the bill. Was there even a whisper in Washington like, “Hey, the tax payers bailed out Wall Street. We/Washington made some money. Maybe we should give some back to the tax payers?” Yeah, right. Not a whisper. Another transfer of Wealth.

Next, Localism. Localism is the code word for the Fairness Doctrine which is set forth to make sure that all media has a balance of opinions, regardless of market for a particular opinion. Except the proposal of the diversity Czar, the guy who administers localism, is to tax one hundred percent of a media outlet’s operating budget. So let’s say you own a radio station. You spend a million a year running it. You pay a million a year so an alternative voice can set up their own radio station. A massive transfer of wealth.

Lastly, for now, the impending tax increases on those who pay taxes and yes, this means you middle class. Math dictates as such. They can take all the income of the rich and it won’t come close to cleaning up our financial house. So middle class, get ready for lie number? I’m not sure which lie number it is. Let us review: I count the following big ones:

1. No ear marks lie (about 9000 on the stimulus plan).
2. I’ll go line by line on every bill and cut waste lie. (he didn’t read the stimulus bill. He hasn’t read the health care bills)
3. I won’t go back in time and prosecute those who interrogated terrorists lie. (He is)
4. There will be no rationing lie. (Increased demand and decreased supply will cause rationing)
5. You can keep the same doctor lie. (Not under his plan and it’s impact on Medicine)
6. You can stay in the plan you have if you want it lie. (Not if it changes one iota and not after five years for certain. Read the bill.)
7. There will be no “death panels” lie. (Rationing and boards that will advise elderly to take pain pills, his words, will effectively have life and death dispositive impact on one’s life)
8. Illegals won’t get coverage under my health care lie. (Nowhere does it say this in the bill)
9. Obama care won’t pay for abortions lie. (Nowhere does it say this in the bill and Amendments desired to be added do say the opposite.)
10. I’m going to reach across the aisle lie. (Google reconciliation and the threat to use it to pass health care. I haven’t heard Obama comment on the use of reconciliation which is definitely not reaching across the aisle. He didn’t reach across the aisle on the Stimulus bill)

So lucky lie number eleven is, drum roll, “I’m not a socialist.” What’s the saying, “if it looks like and sounds like a duck, it’s a duck.” Right on point.

Wait, I thought of another one. “No lobbyists in my administration.” So “I’m not a socialist” is actually big lie number twelve.

It’s a transfer of wealth, plain as day, all of it.

It’s true that most taxes have some element of wealth transfer in them. But the size of the transfers that Obama is proposing is ghastly. It’s un-American and because of the size of the debt he’s creating and our politicians’ addiction to taking care of everybody who supposedly needs and who will supposedly vote for the wet nurses satisfying the needs, it’s another transfer of wealth. And here’s the mantra that’s being imposed on us. Obama won’t say it, but think about it. He has communists working for him, so here’s his unspoken mantra: From each according to his abilities. To each according to his needs. Marxism? Maybe not? Maybe only acute socialism. Aren’t we lucky. Hurray, we’re only on our way to becoming socialists. Don’t get discouraged Marxists. There really is no total communist economy. Black markets ruin communist perfection every time.

These policies are ruining our nation, just like these policies have ruined every nation they’ve ever been employed in. Period. Show me one it hasn’t done so. There aren’t any. And don’t start preaching Sweden or France. But for our freedom and non-socialist principles they’d be speaking either German or Russian.

So support Obama’s policies if you like and if you are eager for the result of his programs, if you just can’t wait, cut to the chase and move to Cuba or Venezuela or some other place where these programs have suppressed the people contrary to our founding principles. Because that’s where we are headed. What? You don’t want to move to Cuba? Then I ask you Obama policy supporters, what in the world are you thinking? Because you’re bringing these countries’ policies here, to America. You should be ashamed, really. You say we’re not bringing these policies home? Let’s take a look. Socialized medicine, state control and ownership of manufacturing, insurance and finance, state control of media through localism, salary caps, mandatory civil service core, huge government, high taxes, attacks on wealth and productivity. . . I’m sure I’m missing a few.

This is where we’re headed. Unless the Tea Parties work, and damn, it looks like they just might. And I’m loving it. So if you love our country, keep going to tea parties, keep protesting, keep writing, keep confronting those who are destroying our country with their time and time again failed agendas.

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Brett Reetz

With bail out season in high gear, we continue to hear our politicians and some business leaders lecture us about the need for bail outs. We are told that no bail outs would be worse, setting of a catastrophic domino effect that would destroy the economy. So, we need to spend trillions according to our leaders. I disagree. This is real money we’re spending, real debt actually. The government has no money, it has borrowing ability, the best on the planet. From whom do they borrow? Us, our children, our grand children and likely our great grand children. So AIG, Citi, GM, Chrysler, and more, get billions of cash. We get billions of debt that will require higher taxes. It is not a situation where a parent goes to savings account and lends cash to their kids. It is quite different. It is simply a balance sheet maneuver. Those bailed out get cash, the taxpayer gets debt. The asset value of the nation does not change. It is a taking and it is generational theft. Today, the government put another trillion dollars into the economy, a trillion they don’t have. A trillion of new debt. Again, a simple balance sheet maneuver.

Our economy is in a free fall and what does our government do? Spend, spend, spend. Think about this; if your family were in debt up to its ears, would you spend more? No, because it doesn’t work. Never did, never will. Historically, every time our government has tried to spend us out of financial peril, it only increased the duration of the recession or depression. Our government spending is bleeding us to death on a daily basis, killing us by a thousand cuts. Lately, they’re using a butcher knife which is what our politicians should be, butchers. It would teach them about bottom lines, responsibility, quality, waste, economy, sales, costs, and about a million other things these idiots don’t have a clue about.

So let’s do this. Let’s vote them out, every one of them, because if we don’t, we’re committing national suicide.

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Brett Reetz