As we outlined in Part I, there are powers at work that are trying to bankrupt the United States. (And if you haven’t read that piece, we recommend that you do for background purposes.)

We believe that the economic roller coaster of the past few years has been an intentional effort on the part of various Progressives to use the free market system against itself. They know how the free market system works, they know that the free market system does, in fact, work, and they are using free market principles against the free market in an effort to bring it down.

The current stock market prices defy all logic. Unemployment is officially over 10%, and in some areas of America it’s double that. Consumer spending is down. Yet stocks are on the rise? There is no reason that stocks should be as high as they are, especially stocks of companies making consumer goods. If you ignore the statements by the White House and the mainstream media that “we have turned the corner” and “the economy is on the rebound”, look deeper. Look at the unemployment rates. Look at the ads on TV that are pitching products as ways to save money. Look at the stores that are going out of business and the remaining stores that are positioning themselves to try harder then ever to get your business. Look at the uptick in telemarketers selling “extended auto warranties” and the increasing number ads encouraging you to keep your older car and change your own oil to save money. Look at the headlines saying that advertising sales are down… There’s no better indicator on the state of the economy than looking at the advertising market.

Look around you… pay attention. The economy is still heading south, and there’s no rebound any time soon. That is the reality.

Listen to the White House and the parrots in the media tell you the opposite.

What is going on here? (more…)

Now, we’ve been called conspiracy theorists for some time. Heck, we even have a column heading called “Paranoia Corner.” We do temper our conspiracies with a dash of common sense. For example, we don’t believe Oswald acted alone because logically it would have been impossible for him to do things like change the parade route. But we don’t, however, believe that 9/11 was “an inside job.” Common sense tells us otherwise.

So while we don’t believe that there’s some “secret conspiracy” — such as the Skull and Bones Society, the Bohemian Club, the Freemasons, or the Bilderberg Group – that is pulling the string to move us toward some “New World Order”, we do believe that there are a bunch of like-minded people who are looking to take advantage of opportunities to advance their agendas. That said, let us briefly explain how we believe politics work in America:

While every politician has an agenda, there are effectively only two types of politicians: tacticians and strategists.

Tacticians have a narrow-scoped agenda. And, since most politicians are horrible private sector employees, their agenda is to keep their cushy public sector job, with its high salary and a truckload of fringe benefits. So everything they do, every vote they make, is tied to “how do I keep my job? (more…)

Our weekend update included a little factoid worth repeating and spending a little more time on.

If you print the Constitution on 8 1/2″ x 11″ paper, single-sided, with normal margins and without the Amendments, it takes up 9 pages. The Founding Fathers spent 116 days debating the Constitution which works out to roughly 13 days per page.

The current healthcare bill comes in at 1,990 pages. If the current Congress would spend the same amount of time to this current bill, it would take 25,870 days — almost 70 years — to fully debate this bill. We think that if “healthcare reform” is so important, that the current Congress should take the same amount of time — 13 days per page — that the Founding Fathers took in crafting the Constitution.

So rather than contact your representatives in Congress and the Senate and tell them how you want them to vote, call and request that they put a motion on the floor to require at minimum 13 days of debate per page of the healthcare bill, and support any other Congressman or Senator who brings forth such a motion. Tell them that they should take the same care in crafting the healthcare bill that the Founders took in creating the Constitution, because We the People deserve no less. And when you’re done telling your Congressmen and Senators, tell your family and friends to demand the same: 13 Days.