I have long had an interest in governance and history which was originally sparked by two high school teachers, Everett Neese and Larry Sayers. Initially inspired to teach social sciences in secondary education, my goals evolved while in college where I met Dr. Sam McKinstry. Doc Sam, as he liked to be called, motivated students to search themselves for answers after a thorough review of applicable case studies, reading assignments, etc. I soon gravitated toward a major in Political Science and minor in History. Although a graduate program was not in my immediate future and my desire to teach waned, our most recent election cycle reinvigorated my interest in the discipline.

My studies included classes in the Supreme Court, political culture, and surveys in world history and, yes, I took a class simply titled “Marxism.” The teaching assignment alternated between the philosophy and political science departments. I had a philosophy professor and happened to have scored a “C.” Be it as it may, I did not need Joe the Plumber to question candidate Obama in a rope line to sense the righteous wind of the Proletariat blowing at our backs.

As I have grown, matured and had some successes along life’s path, I admit to being more aligned on position with the Bourgeoisie but, frankly, do not believe in contrived class struggles. I believe in fairness, justice, honor and integrity; traits I see across all walks of life. My fellow citizens deserve my respect no matter their income, education, trade, religion, sexual preference, and so on.

Of late I have reacquainted myself with our nation’s founding documents and experienced an epiphany of epic proportions. Regardless of leadership in either the presidency or congress, our federal government has overstepped their provided authority by leaps and bounds. They have exercised flagrant disregard for fiscal responsibility and are too oft rightfully accused of corruption. The Congress, in particular, work diligently to create a crisis to fix when we all may be better served if they revisited the Tenth Amendment, which states “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” This was ratified as an assurance of a small, unobtrusive federal government.

The 111^th Congress passed a 1,000 page bill which, in part, authorized bonuses to corporate executives of federally bailed out companies if the bonus was negotiated prior to a certain date. Our President signed the stimulus bill into law. When public outcry become to hot to handle, Congress passed an ex post facto bill of attainder to tax these bonuses at 90%. I may not agree with executives of bailed out companies getting bonuses but I agree a great deal less with Congress violating two specific limitations on its power. Without a doubt, I certainly disagree with the US government owning controlling interest in any US company and am not convinced of their authority to spend our tax dollars in such a manner.

Our country has evolved to one with the federal government owning 80% of the largest insurer of wealth in the world, namely AIG. The Chrysler bankruptcy and Fiat merger was choreographed by the White House yielding the UAW (short for Proletariat) 55% ownership while shirking the investors in secured debt (the Bourgeoisie). The President fired the CEO of General Motors, pulled advertising dollars from Chrysler’s budget and has set extreme fuel efficiency goals for future automobiles while insisting that his administration has no intention of running car companies. Anyway we slice it, this IS socialism and while Obama’s supporters run from that term like it’s the plague, with apparent shame of their chosen ideology; I feel it’s important to be honest. I’m not sure why they are so ashamed since our government has been practicing the redistributive tenets of Marxism for decades via Social Security; nothing more than a ponzi scheme designed to take my earnings from expended labor to provide a federal pension payment to another. 

Recently fifty-two percent of Americans voted for candidate Obama’s policies and currently his job approval rating is sixty-one percent. It now appears time for me to reacquaint myself with The Communist Manifesto over a glass of Kool-Aid (with vodka).