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"We The People", may fast becoming, "We The Enslaved", IMHO.

I read and listen to the news daily. As of late, I am starting to fear what I am hearing. (For those of you who may at first say to themselves that I probably watch only Fox News, WRONG.)

I do watch Fox News. I also watch CNN, BBC, NBCLA, CBSNY. I read the NY Times, Reuters, AP, CBS, ABC...................... it looks of interest I click on it.

And what I am hearing and reading makes me wonder if we don't need Senator McCarthy back in Washington.

O.K. McCarthyism may be a bit strong as an antidote, but

"we gotta do something!" if "We The People" stand silently still for too long, "We The People" may cease to exist.

AM I ALONE HERE IN FEELING THIS WAY??

Am I??

I hear and read of our Law Makers in Washington D.C. enacting selective legislation to punish only the AIG executives who were given legal bonuses. (Or will this legistlation affect others??..Hum??)

IMHO, if these people were not offered retention bonuses they would have probably jumped ship and left AIG to look for other jobs.

A Retention Bonus is what an employer offers an employee to keep them from leaving a failing, or merging company. As per human nature, when a situation is perceived as endangered the first impulse is to flee. These people at AIG had/have a unique skill set that IS/WAS needed at AIG.

IMHO any effort not taken to retain these employees would have been paramount to malpractice.

Now I see our Lawmakers in Washington D.C. trying to work their way into MORE private businesses. Making it their business how much money a person can earn at selected positions. Are they attempting to create a NEW CLASS SYSTEM?

I watch as Cuomo, (N.Y. State Attorney General) tells those who received bonuses at AIG that unless they return the bonus monies he will publish their names on a list. Pure Extortion IMHO.

What, or WHO gives Andrew Cuomo the RIGHT to EXTORT money from the AIG execs?? Any one here smell the ghost of Joseph McCarthy[ism] here???

And then I wonder what next?? If TPTB in Washington decided that certain people earn too much money and begin to force down the pay that people in a high paying field receive.....Will they not pay less in taxes?

Less Earned=Less Taxed (in an ideal world) Are they not, to paraphrase, "Shooting the golden goose." In this scenario, my taxes go up. Your taxes go up.

Let's not forget:
Card Check Forced Unionization.
Universal Health care Socialised Health care.

And more that I just don't bring to mind at the moment.
Oh, Yeah! I am tired of being called names by the Government.

..Nation of cowards..., United States Attorney General Eric Holder, Feb., 2009.

With all of this at the forefront of my mind, I am ending my post, and going to look for my pitchfork and torch. (In these times it might not be paranoia.)

I might need them when the mob starts.