Guest Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 by Gary DeMar When my business partner and I started Godfather Politics we had the mafia in mind. The mafia is not much different from the way our government works. When my oldest son was about four, we were at the check-out line at a Blockbuster video store when he noticed a video-tape display promoting The Godfather trilogy. “Dad, are these about God?,” he asked. A reasonable question from a four-year-old given the title and his always curious nature. Knowing that he would not care to hear a long retelling of the plot, I summed up the storyline by telling him that The Godfather saga was about an alternate form of government. The leaders are like politicians who start out caring for people but later exploit them. That was enough for him. All he could say was “Oh.” The man standing behind us in line overheard our conversation and made the following comment. “I never thought of it that way, but you’re right. Don Corleone is a lot like today’s politicians. He’s the man in charge. He grants political favors. He makes and enforces laws. He even collects taxes. The Mafia is run like a government.” The government as a mafia regime was confirmed to me when I visited the ‘Mob Museum’ in Las Vegas. It tells the story of how crime bosses came to power in the United States. By the way, they weren’t all Italians. Jews (the Hyman Roth character in The Godfather Part II was based on the life of Meyer Lansky who said, “We’re bigger than US Steel.”) and Irish (Road to Perdition) were also involved. Those who did business with the mob had to follow the mob’s rules. As long as you did not get involved in the ‘services’ rendered by the mob, you were mostly free of the mob’s influence. This isn’t the case when it comes to the people who have been elected to govern. They’re worse than the mob. We can’t escape their rule or tyranny. There’s no rival mob gang to come to our defense. When George W. Bush proposed a tax cut for all wage earners in 2003, Alan M. Webber, founding editor of Fast Company magazine, presented the classic plunder-to-satisfy-the-wants-of-the-people worldview. “At the community level,” he wrote, “ordinary folks want jobs, they want benefits, and they want reassurance. This is the time, not for tax cuts, but for Democratic-style spending programs: temporary job creation, targeted public works expenditures, extended unemployment benefits.”[1] These are the comments of someone who believes that government is really run by mob bosses. Weber believes that confiscating money from wage earners, passing it through a huge bureaucracy, and then distributing a lesser amount of money to the helpless masses is better than allowing wage earners to keep their money, save it, spend it, and invest it. This is mob politics in action. Real jobs are created, and fewer people remain dependent on the State when consumers make their own economic decisions. But then, dependency isn’t created. All mobs need the people to be dependent on them and fearful of what they can do. Webber believes that a complex and multifaceted economy is better managed by bureaucrats than the billions of economic decisions made every day by consumers. The only ones who benefit by “public works expenditures” are the politicians who create the programs and those empowered to implement them. The losers are the productive members of society who are plundered and those who become dependent on confiscated wealth given to them in the name of compassion. It’s no different today. There are drones in the skies, a hit-list of political undesirables, a bought-off complicit media, continued tribute (taxes) to the bosses, laws passed to drive out competition, subsidization of supporters of the regime, and support of unions. The Mob is alive and well in Washington. Some enterprising person should erect a ‘Government Mob Museum’ in our nation’s capital. The only problem is that there probably isn’t a plot of ground big enough to house all the criminal acts of our government. On second thought, just take a tour of DC. You can see the mobsters in action when Congress is in session. http://godfatherpolitics.com/9644/our-government-is-worse-than-the-mob/#ixzz2M9depEx7 Quote
joeb Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Wow. You are ever so politically incorrect to be posting this stuff, RLH. I'm sure glad I'm not like that.... Quote Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville
Ted Oplinger Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Wow. You are ever so politically incorrect to be posting this stuff, RLH. I'm sure glad I'm not like that.... But it is something I've been saying since the Clinton years..... That's not Dixie I hear being whistled somewhere, is it? Blessings, Quote "As iron sharpens iron, so also does one man sharpen another" - Proverbs 27:17 "The offense of the cross is that the cross is a confession of human frailty and sin and of inability to do any good thing. To take the cross of Christ means to depend solely on Him for everything, and this is the abasement of all human pride. Men love to fancy themselves independent. But let the cross be preached, let it be made known that in man dwells no good thing and that all must be received as a gift, and straightway someone is offended." Ellet J. Waggoner, The Glad Tidings "Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" - John Wayne "The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated" - Ronald Reagan
Members phkrause Posted February 28, 2013 Members Posted February 28, 2013 And I've been saying that since the Nixon years! Probably should go back to the Johnson years. And if we believe what was written about how Kennedy won, probably back to than and maybe even back before that. But since I don't recall much before Kennedy, I wont add them into it. Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
bonnie Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 And I've been saying that since the Nixon years! Probably should go back to the Johnson years. And if we believe what was written about how Kennedy won, probably back to than and maybe even back before that. But since I don't recall much before Kennedy, I wont add them into it. The difference is that most did not know at the time.Now we know and are comfortable with it. Most did not know what a total moral sleeze Jack Kennedy was. When Clinton proved to be the same moral sleeze that was greeted by many as "So what"? Rarely is there anything new but the accelerated pace and the acceptance as "good' concerning Obama and his many lies,half truths and the direction he is leading this country is different. Quote Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make, period ... ... Wish more people would realize this. Quotes by Susan Gottesman
joeb Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 But it is something I've been saying since the Clinton years..... That's not Dixie I hear being whistled somewhere, is it? Blessings, Not at all. I am having a problem getting my tongue out of my cheek though. Quote Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville
Ted Oplinger Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 Originally Posted By: Ted Oplinger But it is something I've been saying since the Clinton years..... That's not Dixie I hear being whistled somewhere, is it? Blessings, Not at all. I am having a problem getting my tongue out of my cheek though. Ah, the ancient syndrome of tongue-in-cheekiness have lapsed into that many times myself! Blessings, Quote "As iron sharpens iron, so also does one man sharpen another" - Proverbs 27:17 "The offense of the cross is that the cross is a confession of human frailty and sin and of inability to do any good thing. To take the cross of Christ means to depend solely on Him for everything, and this is the abasement of all human pride. Men love to fancy themselves independent. But let the cross be preached, let it be made known that in man dwells no good thing and that all must be received as a gift, and straightway someone is offended." Ellet J. Waggoner, The Glad Tidings "Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" - John Wayne "The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated" - Ronald Reagan
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