The killing field:

Monday – July 11, 2011

The killing field:

The FORUM from last Friday covered a lot of material. When I started to write two years ago on a daily basis, I was lucky if I could fill a half sheet of paper. I am not trying to put a lot of words on the sheet now so that it weighs a lot in hopes that it passes with a good grade.

What I am finding out is that there is so much material. There are so many facts and there is so many ways of posturing my thoughts and conveying those thoughts in a well articulated way so that my argument is well positioned, but better yet, my proof in defending my argument is understood and one that could be considered. I am not trying to change minds. What I am trying to do is make people think twice about their position and what effect their position has on the survival of our liberty and our freedom which is now under assault.

I wrote on Friday: “If I were fortunate enough to be representing the people today, I would be looking to find the answers through the prism of what Jefferson and Adams view was. I would be testing legislation through the Constitutional litmus rather than the entitlement litmus that runs Washington today. I would be looking at tax and spending issues through the prism of wealth generation and not through the prism of shared responsibility and spreading the wealth. I would be looking to create equal opportunity and not making an attempt to equalize the results of equal opportunity.

If I were fortunate enough to represent the people, I would not make a career out of it but rather to create the view of what was seen through the creation of these words: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

In order to grow a more perfect union, our posterity must be given the chance to experience the promotion of general welfare, not through entitlements but through free enterprise, free markets and the freedom that our way of life brings if unaltered and if kept alone. Those who believe in liberty and who were taught to respect the law and who through moral standards create the wealth are the ones that will create an environment for our posterity to do the same. This is what I believe was the first view that our forefathers saw.”

These words could be a part of a future campaign speech or it could be a part of what I truly believe. Seeing that it is not a speech yet, you can trust that this is what I truly believe.
I was stunned when I heard what Bill Maher said last week. When I consider what I believe and what people like Bill Maher believe, I ask that you go to your higher sense and let him know that he is absolutely wrong and that his ignorance has now made him a part of the killing field.
Maher said: “If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it you are a dumb****. If you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stop paying taxes you’re a Republican. Yes, Republican base, you are just like that jury. It is pathetically clear who’s killing the middle class but you keep letting them get away with murder.”

His remarks were in reference to the Casey Anthony verdict by a jury of her peers. How he got from there to what he said is any ones guess. What he didn’t say is, like it or not, our system worked for Ms. Anthony. I don’t blame the jury. I blame three people for the verdict. I blame Nancy Grace, I blame the judge and I blame the prosecutor. I would like to know what political party they attach themselves to. You’ll notice that I didn’t blame one Republican.
Our jury system and our court system are connected by strands of legalese, legal posturing and legal evidence. The facts Mr. Maher didn’t fit into his pathetic monolog was that the prosecutor failed to convict the defendant. The prosecutor overcharged the defendant. The judge didn’t manage the trial and Nancy Grace sensationalized it from the get go. If the case were not sensationalized, it would have become a local court case, with a verdict that was in line with the alleged crime. In the end, after three years, Ms. Anthony was not proven guilty. The verdict was not the result of a Republican, nor was it because the rich don’t pay taxes.

How Mr. Maher got from murder to taxes and then interjecting the Republicans is beyond me. I don’t think I want to get into the mind of Bill Maher, because it just might scare me to much. Oh by the way, 100% of the O.J. jury were all registered Democrats, but who is keeping score?
Some other facts that Mr. Maher didn’t work into his monolog is that the income tax breakdown in the US lets the poorest which constitute 40% of tax payers, pay nothing. My source for this information comes from the tax foundation analysis of the IRS. It was also George W. Bush who took the poorest off the tax roles when he proposed his tax cuts. This part of the tax cut should be repealed.

The problem we have in the country today is 9.2% unemployment and that rate is rising. Last month only 8,000 jobs were created. That breaks down to just 1 job created for every 1000 people out of work. This statistic and the creators of this statistic are part of the killing field that I am writing about today.

As the debt ceiling debate continues in Washington, the lawyers, the strategists and the politicians are making their arguments. At the same time, the only city in the country that has posted gains in home values, and that has posted huge increases in housing sales is Washington D.C. At the same time, the only city that is showing job gains in America is Washington, D.C. It is the rest of the country that has posted the largest drop in home values since the great depression and it is the rest of the country that is posting more jobless claims. It is the rest of the country, not Washington, D.C., that has become the killing field by those in Washington, DC.
In Washington this week a new bill called - The better use of the light bulb act – will be sponsored. This bill is designed to let consumers buy the kind of light bulbs they want. In January of 2012, incandescent light bulbs, the one Thomas Edison lit the world with, will be outlawed in the United States. The new ban will require every American to buy the new Compact Fluorescent Bulb which contains Mercury.

The typical 100 watt Incandescent light bulb has a cost of (.60) sixty cents per bulb. The typical 25 watt CFL which contains mercury cost ($3.40) three dollars and forty cents per bulb. These new light bulbs are not made here in the United States they are made solely with 100% content coming from China. You tell me who killed the light bulb jobs and the industry here and then sent it to China. It was not the Republicans, like Bill Maher would have you believe. It was not the Casey Anthony jury that Bill Maher would have you believe. It was your local Democratic party, headed up by the job killer himself, the President in Washington D.C. I have one question. How many homes and how many people were employed in Washington D.C., to kill this industry in the killing field of America?

What ever happens in Washington this week, there still will not be a growth agenda from this administration. High growth equals low unemployment levels. Bad economic policies by the Administration and the Democrats equal high unemployment levels like the current level of 9.2% that was reported last week. Either of which could never be determined by the Casey Anthony jury, Mr. Maher.

One statistic from the G.W. Bush Institute reports that a 1% increase in growth each year for ten years would cut $750 billion dollars a year from the deficit if jobs were being created that kept American dollars here at home. Low deficits mean low unemployment rates. In order to do this, the Corporate Tax rate in America must be lowered; currently it is the highest in the developed world and is the main cause of businesses moving off shore.

I hope that I have offered some new evidence to back up my argument about the killing field that is occurring all over the great map of America.

This great map two centuries ago illustrated what the Eastern part of the country meant to a new country’s liberty and freedom after a Declaration of Independence was written. The great map, as you moved west a century later, pictured Detroit as its future manufacturing capital which was surrounded by the majesty of The Great Lakes. Moving further west, you would have found the land of 10,000 lakes, which has at its tip a great river called the Mississippi, which connected North and South with commerce, the trade in those days was primarily produced here at home. The golden prairies followed on that great map and at its core the typography that outlined the grandeur of the Rockies held the stories of the great men of the mountains that paved the way so trade and intellectual property could be sent to the West Coast, where it was illuminated by the sunshine that starts every morning to its east. This was the goal by those who created it all.

I still believe in this great map, but it can no longer remain the killing field by people who either don’t understand or would like to change what that great map once represented.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: The killing field must now become the field that creates new economic life through ideas of great people who are willing to take great chances at their personal expense. Entrepreneurs that made the great economic contributions of the last two centuries can still be the example today to new entrepreneurs if given the same great chance and the same great opportunities. But these opportunities cannot be killed in the field by those who don’t understand the great map.

Today’s FORUM is dedicated to two great friends, Dan and Glen. Thanks for the support!