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FARM ANIMALS – 2009
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
George Orwell – Animal Farm
The United States has gradually degenerated from an republic based on individual freedoms socialized to an oligarchy run by a little exclusivity. The country was founded on the platform individual rights. We have declared our independence from Great Britain because of excessive regulation and taxation. The Americans fought for the right to live their lives free from the subjugation of an authoritarian government agency. The founding fathers declared our independence from these immortal words:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is people's right to alter or to abolish it and institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing it in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Since the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the United States has continued to personal responsibility for our own lives to addiction the Government to take all decisions in our lives. Over there are 306 million Americans and we failed in our responsibilities to govern this nation to 535 corrupt politicians, 10 "too big to fail" banks, a secret Central Bank, 17,000 corporate lobbyists and thousands of government bureaucrats. Essentially 306 million citizens are managed by thousands of elite leaders. Famous novel by George Orwell's Animal Farm was inspired by a scene he witnessed:
"I saw a small boy, perhaps ten years, driving a huge draft horse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever tried to turn. It seemed that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat. "
Orwell wrote the novel during the War world and published in 1945. It was a scornful indictment of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. He acknowledged that propaganda and abuse language could easily control the opinions of enlightened intellectuals in democratic countries. He saw through the prism of the Soviet propaganda real evil of Stalin and his KGB Dogs. Intellectuals in Great Britain Ministry of Information has tried to censor his right to publish the book because it would undermine their supposed ally of Joseph Stalin. He knew the truth, while the intellectuals were horribly wrong. Stalin murdered over 700,000 Russian citizens Great Purge of the 1930s.
The plot of Orwell's Animal Farm is very simple. It follows the Russian Revolution of 1917 to 1944. Three pigs-Snowball (Leon Trotsky), Napoleon (Joseph Stalin), and Squealer (Vyacheslav Molotov) develop Old Major's (Vladimir Lenon) principles into a philosophy called animalism. Animals defeat the farmer Mr. Jones (Czar Nicholas II) in a battle, running him off the ground. They rename the property Animal Farm (Soviet Union). The horse Boxer (working class of Russia) is dedicated to the cause with particular passion, urging his great strength to the prosperity of the firm and the adoption as an axiom of the personal statement "I will work harder." Napoleon (Stalin) and Snowball (Trotsky) argue more on the future farm, and they begin to fight among themselves for power and influence among other animals. After a speech, nine attack dogs (KGB) burst into the barn and Chase Snowball (Trotsky) from the farm.
Napoleon (Stalin) took the leadership of Animal Farm (Soviet Union) and declares that There will be no more meetings. From there, he said, the pigs alone will make all decisions for the good of all animals (workers). Napoleon (Stalin) begins expanding his powers, rewriting history to snowball (Trotsky) a villain. Napoleon (Stalin) also begins to act increasingly as a human being, sleep in a bed, drink whiskey, to engage in trade with farmers neighbors. The original principles Animalist strictly prohibits such activities, but Squealer (Molotov), Napoleon's propagandist, justifies every action to other animals, convincing them that Napoleon (Stalin) is a great leader and he is making things better for everyone despite the fact that the common animals are cold, hungry, and overworked. Who watched some of the pigs and farmers through the window closes, the common animals can not say what the pigs that are human beings.
The perversion of fundamental principles is not confined to communist countries. At the farm, there were the Seven Commandments Original:
- Whatever works on two legs is an enemy.
- Everything is on four legs or has wings, is a friend.
- No animal must wear clothes.
- No animal shall sleep in a bed.
- No animal shall drink alcohol.
- No animal shall kill another animal.
- All animals are created equal.
All The Seven Commandments are finally broken by the pigs for their own benefit. Squealer (Molotov) is constantly changing the commandments to have pigs, taking advantage of other animals. Through the manipulation of language, pigs accumulate more power and privileges:
- No animal shall sleep in a bed sheets wit h
- No animal shall drink alcohol to excess
- No animal not kill another animal without reason.
Finally, summarize all the commandments in one command:
- All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Is this degeneration founding principles to occur in the United States? The distressing answer is that it already has. It has accelerated at a breakneck pace since 2000. Orwell's themes are as true today as they were in 1944.
Corruption
"All political thinking for years, has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future if it coincides with their own desires, and made the most grossly obvious can not be ignored when they are unwelcome. Political language … is designed to make her respectable is truthful and murder, and give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
George Orwell
Our elected officials are supposed represent the will of the citizens who elected them. They derive their just powers from the governed. In the early days of our Republic, citizens can freely enter the White House without hesitation. Federalist Papers 55 and 56 explicitly promised, unconditionally, there would be a representative for every thirty thousand inhabitants. The framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights provided that the total congressional districts did never exceed 50,000 to 60,000. Currently, the average size of the population of the districts is around 700,000 and, therefore, the principle of proportional representation was fairly abandoned. Our elected officials no longer represent the people. They represent 17,000 corporate lobbyists who spend 3.3 billion dollars a year for "persuading" them what is best for their interests. Therefore a congressperson can receive 9-1 calls from their constituents against the bailout 700 billion dollar bank bill and still vote for the bill. Ideals of our young republic were corrupted by politicians who have sold their souls to corporate interests and banking.
Corruption became more insidious creation of the Federal Reserve and the imposition of taxes on federal income in 1913. The levers of printing money and raise taxes gave the Pigs select (few) ways to control and manipulate the working population. Debt and taxes are the friends of a corrupt politician. The Cabal of bankers who control the Federal Reserve has been printing money for 96 years to the point that the U.S. dollar has lost 96% of its purchasing power relative to gold. However, with Orwellian irony of our government leaders to proclaim a policy of "strong dollar". This is a lie. The only way out of the current dilemma of the huge debt, by allowing our currency is depreciate even more debt that is less burdensome in terms of dollars. The national debt is now 11.6 million trillion. The national debt in 1913 was 2.9 billion. Therefore, the national debt has increased 400,000% in 96 years. HUNDRED THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED! I had to go back and check my calculations on three occasions. The people elected to Congress, we have spent 11.6 billion dollars more than the government has generated income, with 10 billion dollars it has accumulated since 1981.
- Despite this "investment" spending by our elected officials, the country's infrastructure is crumbling, we import 66% of our energy supplies over 28% in 1982, our public education system is on par with third world countries, our health care system is bloated, expensive and corrupt, and we have accumulated another $ 56 trillion in future liabilities unrealistic promises made by our myopic leaders. The bills passed by Congress (written by lobbyists) can not exceed 1,000 pages, with profits and pork for constituents, corporate contributors and other influential allies. These bills are not even read by our leaders before being adopted. Hundreds of pages of amendments were added at 3:00 am. As the pigs in power in Animal Farm are slowly corrupted They take the loot while the proletariat working class toils for nothing. Congress and the bankers are the Pigs in power, we're overloaded with animals joint work. Talk is cheap and lies are expensive.
Do as I say not as I do because
The shit so deep you can not escape
I beg to differ on the contrary
I agree with every word you say
Talk is cheap and lies are expensive
My wallet is fat and so is my head
Hit and run and then I'll hit you again
I am a little clever but I play dumb
Set standards and broke all the time
Control the chaos behind a gun
Call it like I see it though
I was born deaf, blind and dumb
Losers win big in lottery
Rehab rejects still sniffing glue
Constant refutation with myself
I am a victim of taking 22
Green Day - Walking Contradiction
The class oppression
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
George Orwell
The American Revolution was fought for the ideals that "all men are created equal" and we had the right to " life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. " The Russian Revolution of 1917 was based on the idealistic Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, who opposes the oppressors cons the oppressed. Communism was supposed to be a system in which the property was owned in common and accessible to all needs. The ten conditions for a transition to communism are the following:
- Abolition of the land application of all rents of land to public purposes.
- A progressive tax on income or heavy graduated.
- Remove any right of inheritance.
- Confiscation of Property of all emigrants and rebels.
- Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, through a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
- Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
- Extension of factories and instruments production belonging to the state, the cultivation of wastelands, and improvement of soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
- Liability equal to all the work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
- Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and countryside, a more egalitarian distribution of the population.
- Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of factory work for children in its current form. Combination of education with industrial production.
1984 George Orwell's Animal Farm and biting condemnation of the USSR Union, its perversion of the ideals of the revolution and the tyranny of the class that eventually expanded his company. The American Republic was built on individual liberty and freedom. After reading the list of conditions above, the United States are at least 50% of the way to a perverted form Communism as our leaders have introduced a progressive tax on income, restricted the right of inheritance through taxes, centralized credit in the hands of the State, permits for entrepreneurs dominate agriculture along to provide tax relief and protective tariffs, obtained in bed with the military-industrial complex, the banking industry and the automotive industry, providing free public education to the working class during they send their poor children to private schools. By satiating the poorer classes who work with bread and games such as aid programs social, easy credit, no income tax, television cable, fast food, cheap alcohol and drugs, the ruling classes are able to reap obscene wealth by the systematic rape of the American public through the use of inflation and taxes on the middle class.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell
The success of any system of government is ultimately dependent on the integrity, honesty and honor its leaders. If they become corrupted by power and money, the system will collapse. It may be a natural progression in all Companies that intellectuals of superior intelligence benefit of those who perform physical labor. The intelligentsia in Animal Farm is the pig who learn to walk on two legs, wear clothes, sleep in beds, drinking alcohol and consider the animals that walk on four as their lower legs. They have perverted the founding principles of the revolution. The intelligentsia of the United States has perverted the founding principles that all men are created equal and we are each entitled to each of our freedom. The ruling elite are the 1% richest Americans and the politicians they bought. The top 1% own 35% of the net worth of the country. They have as much as the bottom 90% of Americans. They "win" 22% of income and pay 40% tax in the U.S. I suggest that the majority of the intelligentsia have used their PRIVATE EDUCATION, Washington Wall Street connections and the ability to manipulate the financial system and policy to continue to enrich themselves at the expense of the average American.
Credulous Working Class
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising; Therefore, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear they may have to stop using if the word was subject to a direction.
George Orwell
The definition of democracy is government of the people. Today, the United States was democratic than name. The political class, which supposedly represents the people, has perverted the original concept of representative democracy. Our representatives were supposed personal sacrifices by taking leave of their daily professional life doing what was best for the country. After doing this noble task, they were return to their original purpose. Instead of 40% of Congress is lawyers, their goal is to make a career in Washington DC and after leaving Congress, They seek wealth as lobbyists. Once elected, they use power and money earned outside to maintain that position Permanent. This is why incumbents win elections by 95% of the time. In 2004, cardholders spent 700 million dollars for re-election, while the challengers spent $ 200 million. These obscene sums of money have perverted the original intent of the founders.
The candidate status
U.S. House
U.S. Senate
Starters
$ 456,859,509
$ 223,964,295
Challengers
$ 112,498,172
$ 79,852,117
Open-Seat Candidates
$ 127,051,491
$ 238,890,389
TOTAL
$ 696,409,172
542,706,801 $
SOURCE: Federal Election Commission
The combination of a permanent political class with an undereducated, disinterested, gullible, naive electorate has the rare power to exercise the vast majority. In Animal Farm, the working class is represented by the Boxer the workhorse. It is hard work thinking animal that repeats repeatedly that "Napoleon (Stalin) is always right." It is representative of those who believe everything Barack Obama says the gospel. Ultimately, Boxer is sacrificed for that pigs can live more luxuriously. A highly educated electorate involved would be dangerous for people in power. A system of atrocious Public education is beneficial to the pigs. There are 34 million Americans without a high school degree, constituting 15% of those over 18 years. 112 million have graduated from high school without progressing further in their studies. Many of these people are functionally illiterate, can not add, can not specify, I do not know when the Second World War happened, or who is the vice-president. Only 69% of students 9th of entering the public school system graduate high school. Graduation rates and educational outcomes for minorities are considerably worse than these numbers. Only 26% of the population has a bachelor's degree, with only 6% with a master's degree.
The proliferation drug among the poor keeps them stunned and sedatives. Various welfare programs and credit easy to prevent riots, because they can "buy luxury cars and electronic gadgets which have higher grades. Bad debts are borne by taxpayers. As a further control, those in power have put 2.3 million people in prisons, most of whom are poor and 60% are minorities. By diverting the majority of people in the countries with entertainment cable TV, Internet, Twitter, cell phones, sports, movies and malls, pigs who run the show are able to oppress and control the masses. The highly educated people use the idiocy and naivete of oppressed to their advantage by using the financial system rigged to generate even more wealth for themselves. The banker gods schemes peddled mortgage fraud across the world to get rich. When it exploded in their faces, they turn to their government co-conspirators (Hank Paulson Ben Bernanke, and most of Congress) to keep their wealth. Their Congressional supporters forced by stealing billions from taxpayers and redistributed classes cows running Goldman Sachs, Citicorp and Bank of America.
Language Abuse
The most pointed criticism George Orwell's political leaders was their abuse of language to pursue their evil agendas. It exposes the scandalous abuse of words in 1984 and Animal Farm. The ruling elite to manipulate the language as an instrument of control over the masses.
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between real and declared aims, one turns, as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a Squirting ink of cuttlefish.
George Orwell
The intelligentsia has that the masses can be manipulated with convincing talking points and misleading slogans. Politicians never tell their voters they're certain expenses Pork barrel. Every dollar of new spending is spun as "capital expenditure". We've obviously made 11.6 billion trillion "placement in our national debt. Somehow we have adopted the "reform campaign financing" and still manage to spend $ 1.3 billion on political campaigns. Our beloved Numbskull Vice President Joe Biden last week, "We need to go spend money for do not go bankrupt. " President Bush said: "I have abandoned the free market principles to save the free market system". President Obama has insisted that the only way to save our country from the disaster caused by excessive debt has been to borrow 700 billion of dollars to spend on infrastructure projects, of which only 3.5% was attributed to our crumbling infrastructure. During the Vietnam War, an American major said: "It became necessary to destroy the village to save it." In 1947 the government changed the name of the department War Department of Defense, as we have today garrison of 100,000 men in 117 countries. The Department of Homeland Security, Patriot Act and the war against terrorism are all misleading names and slogans clearly intended to deceive Boobus Americanus.
"In our time, there is no such thing as' keeping out of politics. "All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "
George Orwell
President Obama and his acolytes hammer farther than 47 million uninsured Americans. It is a lie but this does not discourage to continue the claim. The last census report shows that within the borders of the United States to From 2007 there were 45.65 million people without health insurance. But this figure included 9.73 million foreigners, leaving only 35.92 million Americans who were uninsured. Among the uninsured in the United States, there were also 9.1 million people earning over $ 75,000 per year who did not choose not to buy health insurance. Therefore, we impose a solution trillion dollars to 28 million people who are poor and uninsured. Which is 36,000 dollars per person while imposing a huge bureaucracy encroaching on the lives Of the 278 million other Americans. The masses believe lies.
Green extremists have convinced the children and dunces that global warming is destroying the planet. They explain their position as that is, when their case does not meet the criteria of the scientific method as a fact. Their assertions are based on computer models. Our system Financial was also based on financial models that said that mortgages were really worthless gold. We know how it worked. The facts are that the earth has warmed before the industrial revolution and has cooled. The sun, water vapor, orbit the Earth, volcanoes, interstellar clouds, cosmic rays, plate tectonics, land use, CO2, Sunspots, gravitational attractions, ocean currents and solar flares all the land of impact. It is far too complex to say we know what happens. Let's get weather will be tomorrow's forecast first right. Men plan and God laughs.
The Orwellian Big government is transforming the people into malleable material. It lulls us into passive acceptance of more and more taxes while encouraging our dependence on a transfer board and administered by the bureaucracy of corrupt politicians career and supported by corporate sugar daddies. Wall Street crooks have mastered the art or twist and distort the reality their own benefit. Subprime loans that triggered the worldwide financial crisis, have been called "inferior". The billions loans worthless toxic sit still on the books of our biggest banks in the original price is now designated as "loans Legacy . How quaint. Lowest rated corporate bond worst are called "high-yield debt, and not junk bonds. We describe our economy as "free market". There is nothing further from the truth. Salvaging of corporate failures and reward policyholders of excess risk is not characteristic of free market capitalism. Government takeovers of banks, insurance companies and corporations automobile are not free market capitalism. It is a perverted form of corporate fascism – the intertwining of state and corporate the benefit of a few. Kevin Depew of Minyanville.com Orwell describes the lies of Hank Paulson, as he sat before Congress to explain his crime last fall:
"Paulson said in his testimony that he, almost alone averted economic collapse "and, moreover, that we should be thanking him. Assembling ugly half-truths, obfuscation, evasiveness and sycophantic gesture would be difficult embarrassed Bernie Madoff. But it was not Bernie Madoff. He is a former U.S. Treasury Secretary. "
Myopia
"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."
George Orwell
Animal Farm represents the entire human society, whether capitalist, socialist, fascist or communist. The leaders are likely to be corrupted by power in all forms of government. The short-term thinking of the pigs in Animal Farm will eventually destroy the farm. Orwell's novel ends with the animals, watch pigs mingling with farmers through a window. They could not tell the difference between the revolutionary and those deemed to have fought. If he had looked forward, he would have seen that the Soviet Union would decay within the few corrupt have come to believe their own lies and propaganda. She collapsed 44 years later as a corrupt, bankrupt shell of a country. The combination of myopia, greed, malice, ignorance and indifference is a beverage that lead the United States the same way. As pigs in our society have enriched the average American have seen their real standard of living stagnate over the past 40 years. Pigs were handled inflation statistics from the government for the masses think they are getting ahead.
- The shortsightedness of our politicians put the country in a difficult situation that we can not escape without pain and considerable suffering. In order to maintain their positions of power, they have passed laws for decades that trillions promise more goodies than we can pay. They paid no thought to long-term consequences of their actions because they do not care. Future generations do not relate to power hungry greedy pigs. During the eight years of the Bush presidency, the ruling class used tactics fear and propaganda to force the adoption of laws that allow the government to monitor the movements and communications of all Americans. Freedoms have been stripped and freedoms have been curtailed. Now President Obama is attempting to gain control over some aspects of our lives that remain relatively Free. The term Orwellian "Cap & Trade" sounds much more innocuous than an energy tax of $ 1,500 on every household in America which will drive manufacturers out of the country, with millions of jobs. "America's Affordable Choices Health Act" is the Orwellian name for a bill that will create a massive new bureaucracy would cost at least $ 1 trillion, the cost of small businesses billions more in costs health, ensure the government's final decision on whether you are worth saving, and provide tickets for the poorest Americans. This allows sedation to keep poor and less likely to cause trouble for the ruling class.
The bill of frights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances, except when the Department of Homeland Security determines that you are a domestic terrorist who is a member of the Libertarian Party and attend Tax Day tea parties.
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, people's right to keep and bear arms shall not be violated unless the government is afraid that you will use these weapons against them.
ARTICLE III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but a manner prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of citizens to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against searches and seizures justified shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and without particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized if we suspect you're an activist terrorist or anti-government.
Amendment V
No one shall be held to answer for a capital, or crime otherwise infamous, except with a presentation or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces or militia when is in active service in time of war or public danger; no one can for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or his body and never be forced into a criminal case to testify against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, no property private, may be taken for public use without just compensation, unless politicians decide a mall would be a better use of your private property.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused have the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to confront witnesses dependent; have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have counsel for his defense Unless you classify as a non-combatant and put you in jail for two years without charge or your own counsel.
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, that under the rules of law do you wait two years for your speedy trial.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted if approved by Dick Cheney.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people that if activist judges decide otherwise.
Amendment X
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, except that these powers have been usurped by the federal government.
"During times of Universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. "
George Orwell
As we look out the window to the raucous celebration among pigs and farmers, it is impossible to distinguish between the imperial monarchy that has taxed the colonies to such an extent that it caused a revolution and revolutionaries that have adopted the same characteristics and traits of those they revolted against. The American people are like sheep led to slaughter. Our Founding Fathers said that the people were in control. Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it's right People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government. The time has come to abolish the system of corruption and institute a new government.
Innocent passage of your time in the pasture, away;
Only vaguely aware of some concern in air.
You better watch out,
There may be dogs about
I looked over Jordan, and I saw
Things are not what they seem.
What you get by pretending the dangers not real.
Meek and obedient you Follow the leader
In the well trodden corridors into the valley of steel.
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes.
Now, things are really what they seem.
No, not a bad dream.
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do what you're told.
Leave the road if you want to grow old.
Pink Floyd — Sheep
About the Author
James Quinn is a senior director of strategic planning for a major university.
James has held financial positions with a retailer, homebuilder and university in his 22-year career. Those positions included treasurer, controller, and head of strategic planning. He is married with three boys and is writing these articles because he cares about their future. He earned a BS in accounting from Drexel University and an MBA from Villanova University. He is a certified public accountant and a certified cash manager.
These articles reflect the personal views of James Quinn. They do not necessarily represent the views of his employer, and are not sponsored or endorsed by his employer.
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