The 2012 Screwtape Letters — Satan’s Op-Ed Regarding The GOP

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: Not Even a Single Mention of My Infernal Glory? What Gives? By Satan

(Inspired by Cultural Correspondent on February 28, 2012)

All the buildup and excitement was for naught. The broadband cable I had installed throughout the dark reaches of Hell so my minions and the damned could watch the GOP candidates debate each other… for nothing. I thought I’d be the man of the hour, the name on everybody’s lips, the only guy that everyone hoped CNN Debate Moderator John King would ask about.

But did he ever mention my name?

Not once!

You have to go back to the early 19th Century to see my name being used as a weapon against another candidate as frequently as it is today.

If my name were a registered trademark, Rick Santorum would owe me big time!

I don’t mind being interjected into politics, per se. I get sort of a vicarious thrill out of it. But when Rick Santorum said that I was specifically targeting the United States of America, I nearly spit out my brimstone biscotti.

I look at the warlords of Africa as they steal and hoard food sent by humanitarian organizations while their people die miserable, starvation-induced deaths; I look at the former Soviet Union as their Mafia fiat governs more than their legally elected representatives. All you have to do is take a look at the Middle East. Nice people, but here they are, killing each other because of the name they use to refer to “You Know Who.” (I am technically forbidden from using His name.)

With all of that said, Rick Santorum still thinks I’m targeting the United States of America for special treatment?

I haven’t actually done anything in America since placing James Brady between John Hinckley and Ronald Reagan back in 1981. Reagan had much more work to do for me, and damned if I was going to let some little piss ant with a “Taxi Driver” fixation spoil that.

Let’s put it this way: the United States is in my crosshairs but so are all peaceful, freedom loving people. The sooner I can get you all fighting each other over stupid things like the proper way to say the word “route,” the sooner my plans will be realized.

I’m probably giving away more than I should, but this is the reason I made such a point of getting Barack Obama elected in 2008. And no, it’s not for the reasons you’re thinking. He is neither evil nor Muslim nor Kenyan. He’s a good man and a fine singer.

I got him elected because I knew what it would do to my unwitting servants in the United States — they just can’t stand having a “Head-(N-word)-In-Charge.” You know these folks, the people who can spout chapter and verse from the Bible and just as easily go against the very things their Big-Guy-In-The-Sky commanded them to do during their time on Earth!

This is precisely why I invented the Tea Party.

I knew that the very presence of a black person (HNIC) in their precious White House would so infuriate my unwitting racist minions that they would go absolutely crazy and start saying the most ridiculous things.

My willing servant, Rupert Murdoch, used his worldwide conduit to your brains to help spread this message. And believe me, nothing makes me happier than to see you idiots fighting with each other over The Other Guy’s name.

But still, imagine my infernal anger after being the subject of such controversy over the last few weeks. First, New Jersey Governor Christie (he is mine!) blathers about me and Whitney Houston in the same breath! Then, Santorum even called me “the father of lies.”

Santorum just won’t get off it; consider these remarks he made in a speech back in 2008, for example:

“This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war at all. This is a spiritual war,” said Santorum. “And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies, Satan, would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country: the United States of America.”

And you can’t forget what he said about homosexuality and the Democratic Party: “Woodstock is the great American orgy. This is who the Democratic Party has become. They have become the party of Woodstock. The prey upon our most basic primal lusts, and that’s sex. And the whole abortion culture, it’s not about life. It’s about sexual freedom. That’s what it’s about. Homosexuality. It’s about sexual freedom.”

Right, because that’s how I plan to drag America and all its precious souls screaming and kicking to Hell: By making them realize that “You Know Who” created them with organs that make them feel good when they love each other, and that it doesn’t matter who you love as long as you love.

Yeah. That’s me. I’m corrupting the human race by making them all love each other.

So, my little idiot from Pennsylvania has been in the news for a week now, using my name at every opportunity, and that damn John King from CNN doesn’t even ask a single question about me during Tuesday’s debate? He doesn’t give Santorum the time or airspace to glorify me, to spread more falsehoods, to – if you will – spray his foamy, frothy jets of deception all over the faces and bed sheets of the American public?

What happens instead? He gets softball questions.

John King has displeased me.

CNN has displeased me.

Rick Santorum is my most useful tool in America and he will be heard.

- Satan, formerly known as Lucifer, is the dark lord of the underworld and creator of all pain and suffering. He also is a cribbage aficionado.

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Santorum -

“I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute,” he said. “The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.”

Study Shows Fox News Viewers Less Informed on Major Stories

No news is better than Fox News when it comes to information, according to a university study.

(Well, we intellectual elites have known this truth for quite some time. We get into arguments with our ill-informed Fox News-loving family and friends all the time.)

According to a study by Fairleigh Dickinson University, if you watch Fox News you are significantly less likely to know the correct answer to current events questions than if you mostly avoid news shows and newspapers all together.

After controlling for factors such as partisanship, education, and other demographic factors, the pollsters found that Fox New viewers were 18 points less likely to accurately know the answer to a current event issue than their non-active news consuming counterparts. This applies to very general news such as, for example, the status of the Egyptian revolution or whether the Syrian uprising has yet to succeed.

“Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just driven by Republicans or other groups being more likely to watch Fox News,” said Dan Cassino, a Fairleigh Dickinson political science professor who took part in the analysis of the PublicMind data. “Rather, the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all.”

The poll surveyed 612 adults, asking them where they got their news from in the previous week and then a handful of questions about current events. Respondents were given 12 possible news options: NPR, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a Sunday morning political news show, a national newspaper like the New York Times or USA Today, a political blog or news website, a national news broadcast, CNN, MSNBC, a talk radio show, a local newspaper, a local television news broadcast and Fox News.

For comparison, other media sources appeared to boost respondents’ knowledge. From the PublicMind report:

[P]eople who report reading a national newspaper like The New York Times or USA Today are 12-points more likely to know that Egyptians have overthrown their government than those who have not looked at any news source. And those who listen to the non-profit NPR radio network are 11-points more likely to know the outcome of the revolt against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. However, the best informed respondents are those that watched Sunday morning news programs: leading to a 16- point increase in the likelihood of knowing what happened in Egypt and an 8-point increase in the likelihood of knowing what happened in Syria.

One more interesting conclusion from the report (conducted Oct. 17 through Oct. 23 before Newt Gingrich’s recent rise):

Only 55% of those polled were able to name correctly either Mitt Romney or Herman Cain as the Republican candidates most recently leading in the polls, with 37% saying that Romney is ahead, and 18% saying that Cain is. Watching Fox News didn’t help or hurt respondents on this question. MSNBC, however, helped: Watching MSNBC was associated with a 10-point increase in identifying Romney as the leader, and a 5-point drop in the likelihood of identifying Cain compared to those who got no exposure to news at all.

“Given the amount of time and effort the media spent covering these candidates, the fact that only about half of the public can name one of the front-runners is embarrassing,” Cassino said. “The fact that Fox News, the preferred media outlet for many of the candidates, doesn’t do better in informing viewers is very surprising.”

Fox News, however, wasn’t the only cable news network to confuse some of its viewers. Watching MSNBC, for instance, was associated with a 10-point increase in the likelihood of misidentifying the Occupy Wall Street protesters as predominantly Republican. Argh!

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* Truth told, I don’t think this study is statistically significant or broad enough in scope to fully make the claims stated, but, hey, it’s just fun to pick on Faux News lovers : )

Occupy Wall Street Message? First Declaration Makes Clear

Since the occupation of Wall Street first began on September 17th, the mainstream media criticized the general assembly for lack of a cohesive list of complaints or demands.

On the night of September 29, 2011, Occupy Wall Street participants voted on and approved the first official “Declaration of the Occupation of New York City.”

The first declaration from Occupy Wall Street, is reprinted in its entirety (Seems to be a very clear message):

As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

• They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
• They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
• They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
• They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
• They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these practices.
• They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
• They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
• They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
• They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
• They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
• They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
• They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
• They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
• They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
• They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.
• They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
• They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.
• They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
• They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
• They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
• They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
• They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
• They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*

To the people of the world,

We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.

To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.

Join us and make your voices heard!

*These grievances are not all-inclusive.

Reactionary America 1951-2011 — Same As It Ever Was

Modern America History Lesson: When threatened, we revert to ingrained fears.

               1950′s                               2010′s

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               2010′s                               1950′s

We can do better than this. We are better educated than this. We are better than this.

Georgia’s Governor — “Shady” Deal — Unethical… Maybe Criminal

Last week, it was revealed that Governor Nathan Deal secretly paid $90,000 in campaign funds to his own daughter-in-law — who, reportedly, is not licensed to provide the supposed services rendered to her father-in-law during his election campaign. No mention of Denise Deal’s name appears in any of the company records available to the public.

The following day, Deal retaliated by using state troopers to bar the FOX5 TV news crew that revealed this information from a public event at the State Capitol for the signing of Georgia’s discriminatory anti-immigration bill. One of the troopers told Reporter Gray, “We’re following the governor’s press office’s instructions to prevent you from coming in at this time.”

Take this LINK to view the state troopers blocking reporters from a public event.

Georgia State Troopers Block Media at a public event for "Shady" Governor Nathan Deal

The Marietta Daily-Journal said it best, “(Deal) was inaugurated governor last January, not anointed king.”

Governor Deal is trying to squash reporters, cover up his finances, and use Georgia’s law enforcement to protect him from the press… unethical!

All the information listed by the Governor’s campaign about the daughter-in-law’s company was false. The mailing address and more — wrong. Georgia’s Fox 5 news also reported on this, as well as other local and national news media.

Gov. “Shady” Deal wasn’t pleased about the release of the video or the story coverage. So, when he signed historic and controversial immigration bill into law the other day, all media were welcome to cover the signing except for Georgia’s local Fox 5. They were barred from entering the event.

Past Is Prologue For “Shady” Governor

Of course, the “Shady” Governor’s office denies any wrongdoing. But… this is the same fellow who resigned his congressional seat as he was about to be brought up on charges within the United States House of Representatives.

And, until elected Georgia’s Governor, “Shady” Deal was embroiled in bankruptcy proceedings and about to have his home foreclosed upon… this related to massive loses he incurred in “shady” dealings with another relative.

Deal was branded one of the “Fifteen Most Corrupt Members of Congress.” Now, barely four months into another office, and “Shady” Deal has the Fox News Channel hounding him for more corrupt dealings. He went into the governorship bankrupt; he’ll likely leave a millionaire once again.

Even Deal’s own former campaign manager admitted in interviews with Fox5 News that he and the governor’s campaign knew the arrangement with his daughter-in-law would be controversial and have all the hallmarks of ethics violations. He maintained, however, that everything is legal and the candidate approved moving forward despite the ramifications.

Denial of wrongdoing, retaliation against a news company, and avoidance of directly answering questions (as seen in the original video) creates a smoke screen preventing the light of day from illuminating the truth. We have not heard the end of this story, yet.

Fox To End Glenn Beck Show. Yes!

While His Show Will End, the Racist Lunatic Will Pop Up Somewhere, Sometime…

 

Glen Beck’s program on Fox News Channel will come to an end this year.

For Progressives and rational, thoughtful citizens, this change is an important and hard-fought victory. Through the advocacy organization, Color Of Change, more than 285,000 citizens spoke out in a petition campaign against Fox and Beck, leading to a loss of over 300 advertisers from his top-rated show.

The New York Times reported today:

Mr. Beck is a hugely popular figure on Fox News, averaging 2.2 million viewers each weekday, though his ratings have fallen somewhat in the last year. He is beloved by his fans for speaking out against what he sees as threats from progressives, socialists and people he deems “radicals.” His opponents — and there are many — condemn him for his conspiratorial views and apocalyptic predictions.

Media Matters for America, a Progressive organization fighting against Fox “News” highly stilted brand of — dare I even use the word in this context — “journalism,” remarked that Beck’s imminent departure was “no surprise,” given that advertisers had rejected Mr. Beck’s show ever since he labeled President Obama a racist, summer 2009.

ColorOfChange.org launched a national campaign aligned with other advocacy groups against Beck in July of 2009 after he capped a week of race-baiting directed at President Obama with the most stunning statement of them all — he called Obama a “racist” who has “a deep-seated hatred for white people, or the white culture.”

Within days the organization approached Fox News’ advertisers, requesting they cease supporting Beck’s poisonous statements with advertising dollars. Fox steadfastly refused to acknowledge the clear impact a loss of more than 300 major advertisers had on their bottom line, yet Beck’s remaining advertisers consisted of lower-tier brands that earned Fox much reduced revenue — thus turning a show that should have been a top earner into a financial liability.

ColorOfChange.org released a statement saying:

Beck’s voice, his incessant conspiracy theories, his dangerous incitement to violence, his casual race-baiting — all of these will be gone from television by year’s end.

Nonetheless, Beck maintained an audience of more than 2.2 million Americans. The “Ugly American” still exists in large numbers, and they will be scanning the channels for a new outlet affirming their regressive views… stay vigilant!

Responsible citizens must continue the effort driving home the message that “deception and race-baiting are not acceptable for a ‘news’ network.” Everyday, mindful people must hold accountable those who are responsible.

The "Ugly American" still exists in large numbers; they will be scanning the channels for a new outlet

IMAGINE PEACE 2011 by Yoko Ono Lennon

IMAGINE PEACE 2011

Yoko Ono Lennon

18 February 2011

Dear Friends,

Today, February 18th, 2011, I am 78.

We are at a point in human history when we have to wake up and realize that the only people who can save the world are us.

Every hour that goes by without us doing anything about it affects us, and affects the world that we love so much.


In his State of the Union Speech, President Obama said we should do “big things.” Well, we are already doing the biggest thing anybody in the human history could ever hope for.

Together, we are creating a world of Peace, Love and Freedom, all while the negative forces try their hardest to stop us.

With their power, they want to control the whole world. But we will not let them.

That’s big.


The way we are doing it is by being conscious of the “Power of Togetherness.”

The negative forces do not have that. They are an elitist minority, dipping their heads in arrogant madness.

They always play the same game – using violence, changing laws for their convenience, and seducing us with words to get what they want.

They say if we do things their way, we will all be rich. Well, that’s not happening. It never will. Once there is great wealth, they will want to keep it for themselves.

They also use fear tactics, saying the world will be in a great mess if we don’t do it their way. Well, the world is already in a mess. Why? Because we followed them.


It’s Time for Action. It’s Time for Change.

We, the people of the world, are not dumb. We understand what the “Blue Meanies” are trying to do. We just don’t know how to stop it. And wonder if we can at all.

But we can!

We are doing it.

IMAGINE PEACE is a powerful, universal mantra that we should all meditate on.

With it, we will achieve the impossible. Hopefully, without bloodshed.

Look at all the courageous people who are now being hurt in marches and thrown in prisons for no other reason except for carrying “Peace, Love and Freedom” in their hearts and voicing it.

I don’t want you to get hurt. You shouldn’t have to.

7 billion of us, people of the world, have the birthright to live with a healthy mind and body at all times.

You should not even get one scratch on you, and you won’t, if you don’t allow it.


So keep IMAGINE PEACE in your head.

Have a clear picture of where we stand, what we are doing, and where we want to be.

Know that we are connected in our hearts and minds.

War Is Over, if you want it!

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“Imagine all the people living life in peace”
John Lennon

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality”
Yoko Ono Lennon

Muslim Charity Fundraiser Brings Out America’s Tea Partying Hatred

Angry, Hateful Crowd Protests Muslim Fundraiser for Women’s Shelters (Video)

The Southern California chapter of a Muslim charity called Islamic Circle of North American Relief USA held an event in Orange County (Los Angeles) last month in hopes of raising about $350,000 for “women’s shelters, fighting hunger and homelessness in the area.” So, of course, hundreds of angry, mob-mentality citizens showed up to protest, chanting “go back home” and “Muhammad was a pervert.”

The video, below, shows all too clearly, an irrational, emotional danger percolating in America today.

The danger to such venting of American hatred — displayed here toward families of the islamic faith — is that it is subject to easily, emotionally, violently, suddenly redirecting toward new targets… to the new “them”… other human citizens being true to themselves, others with rights under our constitution… perhaps making you or me “them” and thus a new target.

When will America’s hatred come full force to the other “them?” The Fags, Dykes, Cripples, Diseased, Niggers, Spics, Heebs, Chinks, Ragheads, Artists, …

Whom do you hate America? Because these “identities” are all you.

Does America suffer from self-hatred? An ignorance of who an American is in reality?

Well, one thing is certain, group protests such as this should make us all feel embarrassment for America… feel that we have failed to properly educate our population in the basics of “Civics.” America feels as if it grows more and more ignorant every day… and more reactionary.

Is this the America for which our soldiers have placed their lives on the line? I certainly hope it is not.

Hate comes to Orange County

The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) released a video of a rally organized by anti-Muslim bigots to protest a February 2010 fundraising event held by an American Muslim relief group for relief work and charity in the U.S.

A few hundred protesters showed up to the rally, which was sponsored by groups such as:

• “We Surround Them OC 912″ (a local Tea Party group),
• Rabbi David Eliezrie of Chabad – Yorba Linda,
• North Orange County Conservative Coalition,
• ACT! for America, and
• Pamela Geller (whose group “Stop the Islamization of America” has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center).
• Elected officials Congressmen Ed Royce and Gary Miller, and Villa Park Councilwoman Deborah Pauly also attended and spoke at the protest rally.

The event — held at Yorba Linda Community Center, a facility that has been frequented by Muslim families and businesses over the years — first became a target of anti-Muslim bigots over two of the fundraiser’s speakers, who were to speak on the importance of charity in Islam.

Initial attempts of some groups to have the Yorba Linda Community Center and the Yorba Linda City Council cancel the fundraising event failed… followed by the protest.

In a statement, CAIR-LA said:

We support the First Amendment right of protest\ors anywhere in America to voice their concerns, dissent, and even hatred. However, when our nation’s foundational values of inclusiveness, pluralism and equality are attacked by some in favor of calls for advocating hate and violence, then all Americans have a responsibility to challenge and expose such bigotry and those who enable it.

As the video shows, the rhetoric of the protesters became increasingly venomous toward the families and children who came to attend the ICNA Relief fundraising dinner. Protesters shouted invective statements such as “Go home terrorist,” “Muhammad is a pervert, Muhammad is a child molester,” “Go home and beat your wife, she needs a good beating” at the event-goers.

Even more disturbing was the participation and encouragement of elected officials in promoting the hateful protest rally. Villa Park Councilwoman, Deborah Pauly, while addressing the crowd at the rally, appeared to threaten Muslim event-goers. Congressman Ed Royce (R-40), in a troubling trend of disparaging Islam and its followers, added fuel to the fire by encouraging protesters to continue on with their hate-mongering. The attendance of Congressman Gary Miller (R-42) was a clear surprise, since he previously has engaged with all constituents, including Muslims, toward a better America.

We strongly urge all elected officials in attendance to distance themselves from such an exhibition of hate and bigotry. We further ask residents and elected officials of Yorba Linda, Orange County and other parts of our nation to speak out against such hateful rhetoric and the continued Islamophobia that plagues our nation.

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Sitting Out The 3rd Economic Revolution To Sit At A Tea Party

The Third Economic Revolution: Is It Boom or Bust for America?

Seems like Congress may be chock-full of able self-described historians, but they fail miserably as futurists and leaders of change.

InsaniTea Party

Sadly, we continue to witness a series of American leaders failing to choose to change and perhaps make progressive history, preferring to remain with the status quo and threatening to turn America’s once-and-future competitiveness into history while attending Mad Hatter Tea Parties.

Our country, joined by the rest of the world, is living through the most profound, the most significant, and the most transformative economic revolution in the history of the world.

But, where • the first economic revolution — the agricultural revolution — took 3,000 years, and • the second — industrial revolution — took 300 years, • this third economic revolution will take only 30 years.

And if we’re not quicker, it will be over before we knew it began.

As President Obama reminded in his 2011 State of the Union address,

“In a single generation, revolutions in technology have transformed the way we live, work, and do business.”

America cannot confront the challenges we’re facing with constituency groups operating in separate silos or like-minded individuals failing to combine their voices. Our country’s failure to break loose from conventional wisdom (which some embrace as “common sense”) and embrace the future serve as the biggest threat to America’s future.

The President spoke out about a 2011 “Sputnik moment.” In 1957, Americans were shocked to discover that the Soviet Union had successfully launched the world’s first satellite into space… and… this country responded to the news with a patriotic effort to join the Soviets in space by launching Explorer I and creating NASA.

It should have actually been that the 2008 Olympics in Beijing served as the other “Sputnik moment” for Americans, when they saw the striking evidence of China’s economic might. Americans had the chance to respond to China’s reality with a plan as quickly and effectively as we did to Sputnik. It would have been the signature test for our generation and a history making moment for the children’s future.

Beijing: Power center of an economic and social dynamic whose middle-class already exceeds the entire population of the United States

We missed that “Aha” moment…

Now, two years after the Beijing Olympics and • in an increasingly global economy, • with workers having endured both a jobless decade and • three decades of virtually no wage growth, • capped off by an economic collapse… America still has no plan to keep the American Dream alive or compete globally in the face of this third economic revolution.

Our Sputnik moment lacks the energy and political cohesion for lift off while China keeps rolling along.

New Congressmen and Tea Partiers pay homage to the free market as their economic cure-all, despite clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.

• Our employer based health care and pensions systems, by putting the cost of benefits on the price of our products, is a drag on American competitiveness, but politicians seem more comfortable designating “Obamacare” as the real root of all evil, while the “Supreme” Court seems stacked against its survival.
• Our competitors’ VAT taxes allow them to tax our exports while we let their imports into our country tax-free.
• While China promotes unions to raise wages, many US elected officials and leaders in our business community want them to disappear.
• Our health care system costs 3 to 7% more of GDP than our competitors, but we continue to brag that it is the best in the world when, in fact, it delivers the worst health outcomes.
• And now the middle class jobs in legal, pharmaceutical research, and medical care, to name a few, are being shipped overseas in a trading system were America obeys the rules and others flout them.
• White collar parents who played by the rules and made sure their children had a college degree are asking this century the same question that was dismissively cast aside when raised by blue collar parents’ last century — where are my kids going to find a job?

President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address, coupled with his 2008 campaign message, his 2009 New Foundation speech at Georgetown University, and recognition that this is not our father’s or grandfather’s economy establish his futurist credentials.

Yet, most of the political class in Washington mistakenly believe we can drive into the future looking in the rearview mirror of a Ford Pinto — with a Bible in our lap and a gun at our side.

Today, Americans are embroiled in a very different revolution than the one our forefathers engaged while fighting for liberty in 1776. Still, the truth is that this revolution, the third economic one, is the defining contemporary moment for our nation’s greatness.

Team USA needs a 21st century future oriented plan to make this a truly a country that works for everyone and where the dreams of the children still can come true.

Our future is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice.

And it is time to decide!

Empty your Tea Cup and cast an eye to the reality future!