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Since the recent elections, there is a lot of soul-searching among the conservative politicians about what went wrong. Why didn’t at least 51% of the voters go along with their agenda? What can they do to reverse what appears to be a trend against conservative leadership?
Maybe they should look to history for their answers.
Historically, the American conservative movement dates back to the Salem Witch Trials, which were conducted by conservative leaders of that time and place who feared that witches were taking possession of young girls in Salem, Massachusetts.

By the time our founding fathers were preparing to fight for our independence from England, a strong conservative movement led by church leaders opposed all talk of revolution. Conservative leaders strongly advocated obedience to the Crown, and steadfastly refused to join the revolution. In fact, when the founders met in Philadelphia in 1776 to sign the Declaration of Independence, there was not a single church leader among them. There were planters, lawyers, soldiers, bankers, surveyors, farmers, ship captains, artisans, and all manner of merchants – but not one religious leader was willing to ink his name to the document.
Conservatives warned that it was unnatural to rebel against our Sovereign Lord, King George III, and that doing so would plunge the colonies into disorder.  They  assured  us,  as  the father of conservatism, Edmund Burke echoed, that social stability would come from the small group of wealthy aristocrats ruling over the poor majority. Conservatives reiterated that it was the duty of the poor to obey their “betters.” Their reward, after all, would come in Heaven.

A few years later, when President Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase, the conservatives went berserk. Jefferson had no constitutional right to make such a deal, and the hefty price would bankrupt our government, they claimed.
Then, in the 1840s, when President Andrew Jackson fought vigorously against the Central Bank, conservatives stood solidly against his efforts to free the government from that expensive and parasitic early model of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Conservatives divided by 1860, and went to war against one another. Conservatives in the South wanted to keep their “peculiar institution” of slavery, while religious conservatives in the north were unwilling to compromise and prepared to go to war over the issue. Moderates on both sides were drowned out in the conservative gridlock which made that horrific war inevitable.
After the war, as commerce began to expand westward, conservatives opposed regulating business in any way, fighting to prevent laws which outlawed child labor, made working conditions safer, and required foods and medicines to be pure and safe for consumption. They fought to stop the government from breaking up business monopolies which were damaging to our economy and causing massive poverty and hardship across the country. They fought to keep the government from regulating railroads, banking, and all forms of manufacturing. They openly supported the use of armed troops to attack and even kill workers who went on strike.
As women began to organize themselves to obtain suffrage – the right to vote – the conservatives came out solidly against them, essentially telling them they needed to get back in the kitchen and bake cookies, and leave the politics to men, who were better qualified.
Conservative ministers preached that electricity was the work of the devil. They said automobiles were the work of the devil. Then it was airplanes. Then radios and phonographs. Then it was the movies and music. As each new technological advance made its’ debut, there were conservative preachers there to explain why this was just more of Satan’s work.

It was during this era that conservatives succeeded in one of their only pro-active efforts: The 18th Amendment, which established prohibition. Conservatives during this era also strongly opposed the waves of immigration from southern and eastern Europe – an immigration from which 40% of present-day America is now descended. It was also during this time that there was a resurgence of conservative thought which swelled the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan and other right-wing groups.
When the Great Depression hit, the conservatives didn’t want the government to get involved in “bailing out” people and places hit hardest by the disaster. They opposed President Roosevelt’s “New Deal” projects, like the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and other programs to provide jobs. They called him a Socialist. Leading conservatives like Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh sang the praises of the miracles being wrought in Europe by leaders like Hitler and Mussolini, and encouraged America to take a similar path.
The conservatives hated FDR, and particularly they hated the Social Security Act. They opposed many progressive causes of the time, including: The minimum wage, time-and-a-half for overtime, the 40 hour work week, and the banning of child labor.
Even after Hitler invaded France and went to war with Great Britain, conservatives would not authorize our government to provide assistance to England, insisting on strict neutrality. They fought tooth and nail to prevent the lend-lease program which certainly saved Great Britain from becoming a German province. They only relented after Pearl Harbor.
After the war ended, conservatives fueled the Cold War for 40 years by insisting on a constant buildup of nuclear weapons and a continuous string of proxy-wars around the globe. During this time, conservative administrations set up and supported dictatorships in Chile, Argentina, Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, the Philippines, Cuba, and dozens of other countries. These were not regimes in which the citizens had a voice – they were fascist dictatorships, supported by the United States.
During the 1960s, conservatives favored drafting 18 year-olds and sending them off to die, but didn’t want them to have the right to vote. They fought hard to stop President Lyndon Johnson from signing bills that would create public housing, Medicaid, food stamps, integration of schools, affirmative action, voting rights, and other civil rights causes.
In the 1970s conservatives worked hard to stem the tide of environmental regulations. They fought a running battle against “tree huggers” to keep our air and water foul and polluted by plants which spewed toxic poisons, and by pesticides which were proven to cause birth defects.

By 1980, conservatives were making a comeback with Ronald Reagan riding at the front of their attack on all things progressive. For the entire decade, unions were increasingly marginalized and government regulations on business were done away with.  They won their greatest victory during this era when the Cold War ended, ushering in a time of economic prosperity.
It was during the Reagan revolution that religious leaders became increasingly prominent among the conservative leadership. The longstanding conservative hatred of gay people was a natural outgrowth of the “Moral Majority” which constituted the first conservative Tea Party.
Conservatives have recently championed causes that most Americans oppose: Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; Tax cuts for the rich; Blank check appropriations to Israel; and privatizing of Social Security.  They have opposed things that most Americans want, including affordable health care, increases in the minimum wage, stem cell research, and ending the wars we are fighting.
Time after time, conservatives have found themselves on the wrong side of history. They have vigorously opposed nearly every positive step as our American civilization has advanced. Yet, as P. T. Barnum might have said, a new conservative is born every minute.

If you hate Mexicans, queers, and blacks; If you believe that the rapture will occur soon; If you believe that life is sacred but favor the death penalty; then there is no other option for you.
The pendulum will swing conservative again, and at some point in the nebulous future we will see them marching off to Washington to once more stand solidly against all progress while pounding their Bibles and screwing their secretaries. Or vice versa.

Higher taxes mean bad news for the trophy wives: Fewer foo-foos and diamonds, as profits are forced back into the business.

On the heels of their narrow victory in the recent elections, the Demoncrats are already plotting to raise taxes on the wealthy. That means us – if you are a business owner. They are going to take a larger slice of the pie.
If the tax burden on us one-percenters goes up significantly, there is only one basic strategy to avoid paying huge amounts of our money over to the government: Tax writeoffs.
If you own a business, as most of us in the top 1% do – you won’t have to look very far to find a tax shelter: It’s the place where you go to work – your business.  Of course, any money you legitimately spend on your business is considered tax-exempt.  It’s considered a part of the cost of doing business.
So, instead of taking money out of the business in the form of salary and bonuses for yourself, the course most of us will be forced to take is to reduce tax exposure by plowing profits back into our businesses. This is the only way to avoid taxes, while keeping the money close to home.
What are some of the ways to put money back into your business that will pay the best rewards? Expand by opening new locations; buy a new fleet of trucks; build another warehouse; add additional staff; invest in new equipment; patch the roof; offer employee pay incentives; advertise your brand; and a million other things, all of them tax-deductible.
If they are wisely deployed, these improvements should cause revenues and profits to increase, while avoiding expensive and confiscatory taxes.
Of course, there will be a negative side-effect: Rolling profits back into growth will create jobs, and unemployment will drop. Labor costs and wages will begin to increase. We may even have to improve employee benefits in order to retain the best people. A low unemployment rate will begin to re-empower labor.
However, there is no other course to take if our government insists on raising taxes on the wealthiest citizens.
Let’s hope that day never comes. Hopefully, the public will continue to believe (however ridiculous the theory may be) that lower taxes on the wealthy somehow creates jobs. We must continue to espouse that theory at every opportunity, or else we may be forced into an unwanted and expensive cycle of economic growth.    (GATOR)

Ahhh, weed. You can bet I enjoy the buds. But never did I dream that my favorite little plant could save the world. Now, Cannibus Sativa has emerged as the possible solution to what Spiro Agnew might call a plethora of plagues, problems, and plundering perpetrated by plutocratic pecuniary pimpsters.

Marijuana, if legalized, and hemp in general, can fix a lot of problems in America.

Legal Marijuana would cause an immediate and profitable new sector in our economy. Retailers, wholesalers, growers, and manufacturers would all have to be established. About 500,000 new domestic businesses would spring up, each employing an average of ten people. That’s 5 million jobs, which is five-sixths of the people who are unemployed now. This industry would conservatively generate $30 billion in federal taxes each year – enough to cover ALL of the government bailouts, cut taxes for millionaires, AND pay for Obamacare.

An entire element of America, potheads, would no longer be criminals – they would be entrepreneurs. The hundreds of thousands of marijuana offenders in jail could be released. This would leave plenty of room in our prisons for sexual predators, murderers, spammers, war criminals, and those who actually are A Menace To Society. This would also move about 5 million Americans from the category of “offenders” into that of “law abiding citizens” (not to mention taxpayers).

Now, this could not happen with “medicinal marijuana” and I am NOT in favor of medicinal legalization, because it causes too many problems. First, you can’t have any unless you’re sick. That’s stupid. Second, once you make something a “medicine”, you assure yourself that it is going to be expensive to get, and controlled by the health care and pharmaceuticals industry. Once those guys get it, it will never “go public”. So I am against “medicinal marijuana” for the same reasons I would oppose “medicinal booze.”

What I am referring to really would not require a Constitutional Amendment, just a broad interpretation of the 21st Amendment which repealed Prohibition. In fact, if the marijuana were converted into an “intoxicating beverage” it would already be legal under federal law!

Wouldn’t it be great to visit one of the new “bars” that would spring up, and order a cup of Sensimilla Tea, while listening to Benny Brasket playing a Grateful Dead tune? You damn right it would!

Benny Brasket

The legalization of marijuana would be to President Obama a striking parallel to FDRs restoring the booze during his first term. We would all know that we really are getting “a new deal.” Legalizing weed would tell the world that it really is a new era in the Land of the Free.

The folks who are against legal marijuana are mostly parsimonious, cunning, religiously hypocritical, pompous, and devoid of reason. They are the exact same people who will tell you with a straight face that they believe dinosaurs and humans co-existed, that there used to be giants, and that the sun stood still in the sky for 24 hours so some guys could slaughter some other guys and take away their wives and land.

However, the fucknuts whose great ideas and fine moral values have got us circling the drain need to sit this one out. We don’t need your ignorant witchburner opinions right now, we need action. We need jobs. We need new industries.

Legalize pot. It’s high time.