Whenever I hear the “global warming” alarms being sounded, I grit my teeth and pull out my wallet. Tears come to my eyes when I think about the dismal future my grand-children may be facing, because I know that there is little I can do as an individual to stop the madness. When this storm is over, I see little possibility for rainbows.

The economy is going to hell in a hand basket. The government is spending money faster than it can print it, and it is printing at nearly the speed of light. Our national debt has already quadrupled since November and is expected to double that figure again over the next 10 years if President Obama gets most of his proposals through Congress.

Congress seems unlikely to stop this march toward economic chaos and ruin. It appears, for now at least, that the majority of Congress want the same things as President Obama does. They want to control the automotive industry, the financial industry, the health care industry, the tobacco industry, and much, much more. Of course they deny their desires, even as the government continues one take over after another and grow like Jack’s beanstalk.

The financial industry got into the mess it’s in because of government, despite denials by Representative Barney Frank, D-MA and Senator Christopher Dodd, D-CT. They were the two geniuses who coerced executives at Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac to issue loans to unqualified buyers and to buy up mortgages from other banks who also issued troubled loans under duress. Their intent was to offer the “American Dream” to low income families in an attempt to raise up the “down trodden”.

I guess they never considered that these people were the “down trodden” for a reason. Of course, with a miniscule amount of observation they would have seen why by observing how willing these people were to sign loans without understanding the terms. Most never questioned the long term impact of no down payment, no interest for a year, and low interest rates that could vary greatly on a moment’s notice. One has to wonder why a government and its officials would risk the economy in order to put a few poor people into home ownership instead of rental.

Here in Massachusetts, we have some unique programs that are also designed to raise up the lower class at the expense of the middle class. We have Governor Patrick wanting to give automobiles complete with paid gasoline, insurance and AAA memberships to the “working” poor. We have 40Bs being jammed down our throats in Billerica, again to help the poor rise up from the bottom to become part of the American Dream middle class. We have “free” school lunches for the children of poor families, again, paid for by the very generous and devoted middle class.

Because of onerous taxes on business to make up for short falls in paying for programs to raise up the lower class (as opposed to them raising themselves up), we have businesses closing and leaving in droves. We will have more of that due to the increase in the State’s sales tax to 6.5%, again, to fund programs that better the lower class.

Yes, there are some elderly, some sick, some people with non-addictive based disabilities who are deserving of assistance. But the majority of this class are people who chose to drop out of the educational system without graduating. People who graduated, who cannot read, write of perform even perfunctory mathematics. We have drug addicts who also have long criminal histories. We have alcoholics who have damaged not only their own lives and the lives of their spouses and children, but the lives of innocent people, as well. We have those people who cannot hold a job because when it is time to go to work, they choose to remain in bed, or to get up for a drink or a hit of doobage. We have others who think the world owes them a living and know that they will be supported even better than the average “pay me, I’m poor” recipient the more recalcitrant they become.

The middle class gets by on hard work, while the majority of the lower class get ahead by being unreliable, difficult, moronic, childish, criminal or otherwise illegal. All the while, the politicians say that the rich will pay. But, just as we know, the pols also know that the rich don’t have enough money to pay the freight for so many pathetic and vile people who should be out earning a living, no matter how meager, by performing work! So, in the end, it is always the middle class who ends up paying; either through forced “giving”, or through price hikes to ensure the rich don’t get poorer.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. – Alexis de Tocqueville

This brings me to global warming. Global warming is a big hit with progressives and the far left. Even some Republicans are looking at the “problem” as a way to generate new revenue. As de Tocqueville once said:

“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.” – Alexis de Tocqueville

President Obama is moving to nationalize the energy industry through CAFE standards, fuel composition standards, taxes, and ultimately, federal meters that will place additional taxes on consumption and give the feds and the State some cover justification for restricting individual usage from going beyond a particular quota.

To accomplish all of these goals, a cap and trade (read tax) system going through the Congress will ultimately pass that will provide the basis for new energy taxes and controls. The money collected will pay for national programs to correct immediate problems; while most of it will go to poor third world nations to help them develop and reach their version of “the American Dream”. Of course, all of this will be done on the back of the middle class.

So, why is there such an endless concern for feeding the poor and keeping them happy by looting from the middle class both directly and indirectly and to a lesser extent the upper class?

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money. – Alexis de Tocqueville

The more votes one can get, the longer one can remain in power. The rich is the smaller group, but most influential , the poor is the largest and most easily manipulated class, and the middle class is much smaller than the lower class, without much influence, and too busy earning a living to support their families and communities to notice anything else going on, even when being abused. Sooner or later, though, the middle class will pick up its head – most likely when things are calm and appear to be going well. It’s then that they will remember that tyranny and totalitarianism are the best ways to force change upon a population. The new Left has already remarked about how wonderfully quick the Chinese were able to get their population to stop using plastic.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. – Alexis de Tocqueville