RULES ARE MEANS TO ACHIEVE GOALS.

RULES ARE MEANS TO ACHIEVE GOALS. By Claudia Roazen
Machiavelli’s the Prince “end justifies the means”. Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals “Does this particular end justify this particular means?”
“The goal and the means should equally be called into scrutiny and be required to answer to the same test of righteousness, intent and morality. The goal achieved or unachieved should of its own definition, be determined moral minded or corrupt, good or evil and to history famed or defamed. The means should equally be judged effective or not by its own definition, moral or savage, respectful or cruel and to history celebrated or abandoned.” Claudia Roazen

The power presently in place has purposefully outraged the haves against the have not’s and the Republicans against the Democrats and Middle Class Conservative voices against the Affluent Liberal Elite using the eleven rules of tactics of the Alinsky’s method. I will paraphrase Alinsky’s list of eleven rules below in his Rules for Radicals.
Rule 1 Power is the perception of power not the reality of power. Convince your opponents that you have power.
Rule 2 Keep your method, tactic and message within the boundaries of their comfort zone or risk losing their direct support by confusion, fear and retreat.
Rule 3 Do go out of the comfort zone of your opponent so that they become confused, fearful and retreat.
Rule 4 Hold them to their own rules and beliefs and expose their inability and failure as the weapon to diminish their position by hypocrisy.
Rule 5 Ridicule that hypocrisy and your opponent to incite their reaction. Ridicule and insults that are counterattacked debase the opponent or leave them silent.
Rule 6 Tactics must be fun, a sport and a game that thrills the supporters.
Rule 7 Change and refresh tactics before boredom sets in and your energetic supporters are less inspired.
Rule 8 Spread your tactics, extend your issues keep momentum and ratchet up greater pressure on your opponent to cause a reaction.
Rule 9 Never underestimate the power of threats, even a losing poker hand can be played to win the game and cause the other players to react by folding.
Rule 10 Be ready to offer a solution or Alternative and never be caught with a victory without a plan.
Rule 11Target tangible and specific people or things with a laser beam focus to stay unyielding and undistracted from your main target. Be marksmen and cite the bull’s eye, and ignore all else, focus the frame and gather all marksmen to the same bull’s eye.

These rules have been and continue to be employed in some form or another to the politics of the day whether knowingly or un-wittingly by political puppets and their political puppeteers. How then do those in the crosshairs react, survive, win the argument and defeat their agenda? I list below a partial list of rules I have been taught or have conjured and practiced in my life to try and stay of good character.
Rule 1 Be informed and be educated of the mindset, tactics, intent and ultimate goals of those wishing to align you or malign you. Ignore them and stay strong and respectful in unyielding principle.
Rule 2 Exercise in example everyday those principles of belief you understand to be accorded both to yourself as well as those who are without principle.
Rule 3 Acknowledge but do not accede to the imperfections of your character, opinions and beliefs by accepting defeatism to the ideal. Know that a character that continues to seek elusive perfection always and ever strived for: is a good character kept sound, both with smaller and more modest failings. The ego’s best weapon of attack against sound and moral conscience is rationalization.
Rule 4 “Never wallow in the mud.” An expression I was constantly taught along with, “you are as responsible for your reactions as you are your actions.” Meaning they can throw mud upon you but cannot make you dirty, only when you reach down in that same mud pile and throw it back, are you now both of equal disdain. Actions may be easier to control than reactions, but your responsibility to control them and the consequences that follow them are owned by you equally.
Rule 5 Always remember your glass house when criticizing others but, never be afraid to stand up for what you believe even if it means your house stands alone.
Rule 6 If your head can’t tell you which is more ethical of two or more choices then and only then should your heart be the arbiter.

Quack Quack or Quack?

Our President and the Media cackle at the truth, while the quacking ducks flock and accumulate with full reign and nest over the White House.
By: The Speaker in the House.
Claudia Roazen

We have Change in America as the President promised on the campaign trail. We have the beginnings of Fundamental Transformation as he equally promised.
Now the word to describe that change…the word that has been equally transformed from a definition of a political system and or a political governance ideal to…to an apparent vitriolic pejorative that makes it utterance by anyone a radical, paranoid, ignorant and bigoted accusatory noun or adjective. What is the word? Do I dare being a moral minded; social respectful, educated, intelligent, unbiased, open-minded, patriotic, law-abiding, non-activist and average taxpaying citizen… dare say it?
Perhaps as the ducks continue to gather we don’t need to say it. Why should anyone need to state the obvious? Oh…you will expose yourself to the charge of being crazy…loony…kooky and all around nutty!
Okay then let’s take a gander at the facts without defining their reality;
America now owns General Motors a once (private enterprise) car company
America owns AIG a once (private enterprise) Insurance and Investment firm
America owns and controls Banks once (private enterprises)
America has made the once (private) Student loan enterprise a Government Program
America has created a Government Health Insurance Program to rival and compete with (private enterprise) HealthCare Insurance companies while retaining the power to set the marketing rules, prices and mandates to every citizen.
Those are the changes that have already been undertaken while the President’s agenda has yet to begin to check off the long list of changes to come such as Immigration Reform, Energy Reform and Finance Reform and so on and so on.
Does anyone see a pattern while swatting away the gathering feathers ridding the current political air of arrogance and denial from our leadership? How if we were to deny and avoid the utterance of the heretofore accurate but yet unspoken word, to describe this list of changes should we instead refer?
How about Capitalistic Reformers, Free Enterprise Reformers, Constitutional Reformers, Redistributors of Wealth Reformers, Democratic Republic Reformers or Representative Government Reformers? No…No those identifications do not fit the plumage of the species we are dealing with in American politics today.
Therefore in the spirit of the honesty and courage I was raised to exercise, whether truth prides me or harms me, I shall called the duck that walks and quacks and is molting it’s feathers all over the American Democratic Republic and her Capitalist System what it is…SOCIALISM and at the risk of being “tarred and feathered” or being arrested or fined for hunting out of season I further state that our President has Socialistic ideals and goals.
Now I better duck and dawn an umbrella because the new feathers are preened and ready to fly and reign down… (Like all birds) that stuff that drops so foul fowl.

A LETTER TO THOSE AFRAID OF TEA!

A LETTER TO ALL THOSE AFRAID OF TEA!
By Claudia Roazen
First, do not be fooled that the tea party is an organized political party or a puppet of the Republican Party or any other organized political machine. It is not a third party; it is called the Tea Party strictly as a metaphor of the historic BOSTON TEA PARTY revolt in which colonists solidified with each other’s want of freedom as it expressed to British rule that it would rather go without their beloved British Tea than continue to be subjugated by “Taxation without Representation”.
Second, it is not a “Patriot group” or a cult or a group that espouses hatred, violence, bigotry, insurrection of any kind to the government. There is no connection and no affiliation with radicalism.
Third, one needs not to be of just one party to join the Website and or affiliate with those in the movement. Democrats, Independents, Republicans and even those who have never registered, or voted or have taken in interest in politics prior can be in the group, provided that they agree with the Tea Party beliefs and are not trying to infiltrate the group and disrupt or corrupt it’s message.
Fourth, it is a basic, simple and apple pie straightforward message. Keep America’s unique Constitution based Democratic Republic and Capitalist System safe from a liberal camp that has been trying to socialize her, undermine her Constitution, demonize her Capitalism, alter through propaganda her past history and seek to change her future away from her Forefather’s roots.
Fifth, members and likeminded sympathizers are not zealots, ill-educated, bible thumping proselytizers or old fogies that want to return to horse and buggy days but instead are average, patriotic, law-abiding, civil minded, taxpaying Americans wanting integrity to be restored to our institutions. These average citizens have concerns and Ideas such as;
Representatives in government should represent the people not special Interest groups, lobbyist or those with most campaign monies to contribute.(Corruption) Laws and or legislation should be enacted that solve problems not create problems or make problems worse or in any way undermine Americans constitutional rights.(Healthcare Mandate) That the Federal Government should be constrained to its size, power and scope as was the intent of our Forefathers in understanding that we are the UNITED STATES not the FEDERAL AMERICA that our leaders in Washington have been power grabbing for years from distorted and contorted interpretations of the Constitution.(Commerce Clause) Protection of our borders from illegal immigration not Amnesty. (We welcome legal immigration and are not bigots) That if the Federal Government is using taxpayer monies to bail out companies like General Motors then it is both hypocritical because it is not bailing out small business that suffers bankruptcy as well as undermining the Capitalist System by owning private enterprise. (Socialism)
These are just some of the concerns of people who have joined or who are thinking of joining the Tea Party movement there are other concerns as well.
What is this group’s devious plan of action you might ask? It is to do the un-thinkable as they communicate and band together on web sites. They plan to, they are going to…I’m not sure I should say…it is just so scary radical…it’s just so politically un-apathetically historic…it’s just so novel and inventive…okay I’ll reveal the secret plans to everyone…they are going to register if not registered already and then…then…then..VOTE!

"Sham and Shame on You!"

“Sham and Shame on You!”
By; The Speaker in the House
Claudia Roazen

The left-wing Progressive Democrats are all smiles and happily exclaiming victory over their Healthcare Bill but are they being precipitous and premature? First, this law will be challenged by the Supreme Court on whether the Federal Government has the Constitutional power to mandate Americans to buy Health Insurance or be fined.
I know that the argument is that State’s requires car owners to buy insurance but there is a distinct difference, driving is considered a privilege not a right because the State creates and the State maintains roadways for said privilege. The State does not force you to buy a car or a driver’s license. In fact; if you owned a large piece of property and you bought a car to drive only on your private property then you would not need a valid license nor would you have to register or insure that vehicle.
The Health Care Insurance mandate however would be imposed by the federal Government based solely on one being a living American citizen. It would change my right to living; to being a privilege to live. There is no argument that can be made that the government controls life and that therefore because it created life and maintains life it can then require us to be licensed for life. This is a clear violation and over reach of the commerce clause and the Bill of Rights. This brings up an interesting notion contained in the HealthCare Bill about rationed care and government panels dealing with the issue of death! Are they already setting us up for the Orwellian tomorrow?
If the Supreme Court allows the government to require us to buy Health Insurance then what is next? Will the government then control the buying and selling of property, foodstuffs and personal grooming products? I as well as the majority of Americans are outraged by the “Big Brother” Bill that passed the House and is about to be signed into law by President Obama. However I and most Americans should be happy that they cast their votes out in the open and have exposed their devious political Progressive plans so that we know their names and faces. We should vote them out, not just Novembers’ elections, but in 2012, 2014 and any election year they and their new comers run for public office. We must be vigilant not vigilante, we must be decidedly decisive, and we must not fall for the messages of messiahs in the future. They may have won this battle but we can stop them from winning the war of our American freedoms. Fool us once “Shame on you!” Fool us twice “Sham and Shame on us!”

"PUT THE LIME IN THE COCNUT AND MIX'EM BOTH UP."

“PUT THE LIME IN THE COCONUT AND MIX ‘EM BOTH UP.”
By; The Speaker in the House
Claudia Roazen

The President and the Democrats are still campaigning and pushing this HealthCare Bill to Americans and the reality is that we both need medical attention from an ear, nose and throat specialist. The President and the Democrats in Congress apparently have listening trouble because they can’t hear the American people so maybe the doctor can clear out the wax plugging their ears. We need the doctor to check out our throats because this Healthcare Bill is being shoved down it and we all are experiencing a collective gag response. Meanwhile everyone needs to have their noses checked because the smell of the backroom deals are so rank and putrid with corruption that it has destroyed our taste buds for government as a whole.
The President is onstage in staged audience gatherings to hear his own words on the HealthCare Bill while people are struggling to pay their mortgages and hope they find work before losing their homes. Why is he so determined to pass HealthCare over our objections and why is this his main focus in light of the unemployment rate in America?
Being out of work or underemployed is America’s illness right now! A doctor knows that ignoring a patient’s real threatening condition while only treating minor symptoms is failing the patient. The President is failing the American people by not addressing the real issues of our current malaise. Massive debt, huge deficit spending, credit crunch, deflating dollar power, hidden inflation at the supermarket and unemployment have not been stimulated by the oxymoronic economic solution of going into more debt to get out of debt!
If our government instead drew up plans to create a flat tax, cut all non-essential government programs, rescinded all pork barrel projects, actively attacked waste, fraud and corruption in all government agencies including Medicare and Medicaid, made long term plans to reduce the debt, divest itself from owning Car companies and banks and gave a tax incentive to all business investment and expansion plans regardless of their being green, blue or any other color of the rainbow we would see the recession start to fade quickly.
Then and only then would a practical one small Bill at a time approach to reducing Health Care costs be acceptable to the American people as a way to fix not change our Health Care system so that it continues to be the envy of the world.
Why are the Democrats and our President so determined to change our HealthCare system so that it becomes a government run debacle? I don’t know but perhaps we need to ask ourselves why we voted in Democrats and this current administration into office? Perhaps along with ear, nose and throat doctor we should send a psychiatrist to Washington because it appears they are not acting with the greatest of mental stability and they are making me nauseas. “Doctor is there nothing I can take to relieve this bellyache!”

The Smith's can't save us from Washington in fact we need to save them!

The Smith’s can’t save us from Washington in fact, we need to save them!
By; The Speaker in the House
Claudia Roazen
Voting for new representation to try and change both the tone and direction of Washington is unfortunately never going to work without systemic change to the institution itself. Two major problems face newly elected congress men and women from the moment they are sworn into office. One, they are freshman, green and naïve and without any independent advocates. The party leaders take them under their wing and explain to them that they will never get anything done in Washington unless they play ball with the senior membership. That means they will never be appointed to any of the prized legislative committees or be able to have bills sponsored unless they ask how high when asked to jump. Two, they are immediately made aware of the need to fund raise their political war chest if they expect to ever become a senior member of congress and contribute anything useful to their constituency. The cynical truth is that Washington’s corruption is institutionalized and ubiquitous.
It is no wonder why voters continue to re-elect the same old faces knowing that they have attained power and stature in Washington while a new Senator or Representative would be powerless and ineffective regardless of their good intentions. Equally sad is that by the time these new representatives get the opportunity to make their voices heard they sound eerily similar to the old representatives. When we the people try and change the old guard, the system corrupts and indoctrinates the new blood in the ways of Washington and it becomes “meet the new guard, the same as the old guard.”
The real problem here is that in order to change the system we must rely on the fox guarding the hen house to make changes. Does anybody really think true campaign and systemic political reform will come out of Washington? No, nothing will change in Washington unless we outfox the fox. Our forefathers did think of everything because we do have a way around a corrupt legislature and that is the right of States to call for a Constitutional Convention to propose Amendments.
It appears to be our only option given that congressional corruption is so entrenched and the power so usurped from the people. We need to assert States’ Rights and speak with serious voice to our State legislatures about either repealing the 19th Amendment (federal income tax) or proposing another Amendment to the constitution that limits terms, length of time and money spent campaigning as well as making committee selection be more equitable by drawing straws as oppose to kissing backsides. We know that the mere thought of a Constitutional Convention in the past has caused Congress to keel to the will of the people. We have repealed Amendments in the past as in the 21st amendment that supplanted the 18th allowing us to toast one another with our glasses filled with our favorite libation. The mere threat of the 19th Amendment being repealed should hasten Washington to get the budget and debt under control. If we really want systemic change and a return of Washington back to being the people’s house then we need to scare away the fox and protect Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

SHALL WE AT LEAST SHAME THEM WITH THE BILL?

SHALL WE AT LEAST SHAME THEM WITH THE BILL?
By; The Speaker in the House
Claudia Roazen

Why does Congress spend our money so frivolously whether they claim to be Liberals or Conservatives? All Americans know that both Democrats and Republicans pork barrel equally to help buy votes back home. Both parties campaign on fiscal responsibility but never do they cut the size of our government or appreciably downsized the budget. American business has learned to run leaner and meaner while Congress continues to grow ‘biggy and piggy’.
Why? Simple! They have little motivation because it’s not their money! When we don’t have personal responsibility or liability we act differently. When it is someone else’s money or property we operate with less prudence. We all know that when the company is paying for our lunch we order Lobster but when we have to reach into our own wallet, we’re satisfied with the tuna melt. When we rent a car and take out the cheap Insurance policy, we drive more recklessly because we don’t own or car about the vehicle. Therefore we know why Congressional politicians and government procurement offices spend and waste our money without guilt or reprisal and there is little we taxpayers and Americans can do about it. Voting them out of office only works temporarily to scare those not up for re-election but then Washington quickly returns to ‘business as usual’.
However, there may be an interesting alternative solution to the problem. When there are scandals in Washington involving the president and or his Administration they always call for an Independent Council. To avoid a perceived or real conflict of interest by the Justice Department and to assure all that the investigation was thorough and unbiased. We Americans need an Independent Budget Oversight Committee consisting of people who pledge to go through the Congressional budget looking for programs that are fraudulent, wasteful, and redundant or just plain corrupt to give American voters knowledge.
NBC NEWS has being doing a series that others have done called the “Fleecing of America” in which its news reporters expose government waste and fraud. What if we promoted to Congress that it adopt and allow this Independent Tea Party Panel to review the nation’s budget and then report back to the American people how much is being wasted and how much could be saved. They could alert Americans by using a grade system for Programs and expenditures that would scale from A to F thereby requiring politicians to either rescind the worst graded programs or be held accountable at the ballot box. This would give the taxpayer knowledge and targeted voting power to put political pressure on both Democrats and Republicans to be more judicious in creating and keeping government programs.
This Independent Budget Oversight Panel would revolve every four years changing out members to ensure that both Lobbyist and Congress does not corrupt the members and that the members themselves don’t develop a ideological bias to grade bad policy or programs with high marks. Its members should be retired professionals, business people, and homemakers in an eclectic mix of a cross section of the average American citizen. There would be no salary except that the Tea Party would help pay for their room and board while working in Washington. It could work as a Jury works in that all twelve or ten members would have to unanimously agree on the grade of any program. They could ask for expert advice from other retired accountants, lawyers, bankers or use other knowledge gathering and fact finding consultants to help them with their assessments.
Now, I know that there are already a number of groups out there commenting and watch dogging for the American taxpayer but this idea would be different in two ways. One, it would get the acceptance, approval and credibility of Congress and two the panel would revolve and involve average non-activist citizenry. People could sign up much like a Jury pool and have their names be randomly picked to serve.
Both parties are out of control. The Spendocarats and the Shoplicans have both used the American taxpayer’s wallet with reckless abandon. If we can’t cut up their credit card, shall we at least shame them with the bill?