 Welcome to sensor number 135 entitled feel the burn USA exceptionalism by William J. Eisenman PhD and before I begin I'd like to read a couple of scriptures that it seems Republican conservatives either have censored out of their Bibles or can't seem to find them in their Bibles prove all things hold fast that which is good one Thessalonians 5 21 he that oppresses the poor to increase his riches and he that gives to the rich shall surely come to want Proverbs 22 verse 16 he that makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent Proverbs 28 verse 20 and as the nail sticks to the stone so sin sticks to buying and selling Ecclesiastes 27 verse 2 unicef ranks the United States 34th in the percentage of children living in poverty in reading our kids are number 17 and in science they rank 20 20th in math they are 27th our health care system ranks 33rd in the world inequality in America is fourth highest behind Turkey Chile and Mexico according to the happiness index we rank 17th but don't lose heart we are number one in people in prison military spending and the most gun deaths of any developed country presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is packing in the crowds his campaign is only taking money from the little people yet Hillary Clinton and her surrogates are saying Sanders does not have the prosaic governing skills necessary to be an effective president does anyone remember the lack of governing skills we suffered through the eight years with GW Bush the outpouring for Sanders is because he is hitting all the right issues the ones practical politicians run from after all if the big Wall Street banks are supporting them how can they say they would break up the big banks if they became president Americans are discontented with government policies that favor the top 20% of us especially the 1% it has become common knowledge that this system is rigged our form of capitalism has failed 80% of us to grow the middle class and lift the poor out of poverty we need a high minimum wage and to make sure that normal wages rise naturally inequality should not occur within the 80% there is a hunger for Bernie Sanders and his message many of us have finally come to understand that government is not the enemy a lot of us are coming to the knowledge that socialism is not totalitarianism and nor is it a bad thing some of us are aware of the other name for socialism utopia tens of millions of us are finally demanding that our government work for us other industrialized countries can offer their citizens free health care free schooling and good jobs these are true liberal positions unlike the democratic leadership council's positions throughout the 1990s that promoted tax cuts no increase in the minimum wage NAFTA welfare reform and tough on crime policies that left America with more people in jail than any other country in the world many pundits are calling Bernie Sanders positions radical and this is to cast his positions in a bad light however the word radical means to get to the root of things a compliment not a put down we should not be calling Islamist extremist radicals many pundits agree that there is zero chance of Sanders radical doctrines being adopted they say the Congress will block Sanders at every turn Sanders is called idealistic and that his universal health care is a pipe dream many say Sanders is a danger to Democrat excuse me Democrats because winter lose he won't be able to achieve his goals but Americans are ready for bold proposals it's not now when Americans are tired of policies politics as usual in the primaries this can result in a turn to the right or to a more progressive era it all depends on us the voters Bernie Sanders is drawing in youths and Trump is getting new faces to Sanders is a truth teller that is not beholden to Wall Street corporations or millionaires and billionaires many see Sanders as the candidate who can bring about a more just society others contend his goals are impractical yet if not now when inequality poverty and a rigged political system are serious matters and Sanders is calling for a revolution in order to get us to understand that this government is ours does not belong to just a few good luck to Barney the most important subject in the 2016 presidential race is the economy but when it comes to the economy most people's eyes glaze over and an overwhelming desire to sleep overtakes them it is this attitude that has gotten us to where we are concerning the economy while we were dozing the bad guys took over we ended up with a bloated federal budget a huge national tax cuts for the rich and the robbing of the poor in the middle class crony capitalism prospered president Reagan left us with a structural deficit president bill Clinton left G. W. Bush a surplus of a hundred and twenty five billion dollars while G. W. Bush left president Obama a one point two trillion dollar deficit free markets and our democracy were corrupted after 2007 2008 financial meltdown we learned that bailout the bailouts were unnecessary the meltdown was strictly confined to Wall Street Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley were economic predators public good was never involved president Ronald Reagan began a military buildup that turned out to be a wasteful binge so much money was thrown at the Pentagon that we saw six hundred dollar hammers and nine hundred dollar toilet seats crony capitalism under Reagan amounted to about one trillion dollars in today's money and this was only in 1981 Reagan signed six tax increases to recover 45 percent of the revenue base after destroying it in the deficit reduction act of 1984 Reagan raised the social security payroll tax the entire Reagan legislative program was a disaster it raised taxes on the working class there was full prosperity under Reagan between 1966 in 1979 the cost of living rose 125 percent in 1971 a barrel of crude oil cost only one dollar and forty cents in 1975 it rose to 13 dollars a barrel while in 1980 it was up to 40 dollars a barrel the food stamp program has nothing to do with nutrition it's an income transfer paid in alternative currency and it's only interested in full bellies the national debt in 1913 was only 1.2 billion dollars but by the end of world war two it was up to 260 billion dollars unlike a good conservative who believes in smaller government GW Bush increased the size and cost of government in 1954 the deficit stood at 12 billion dollars chicken feed by today's standards president Eisenhower saw surpluses in 1956 1957 and 1960 he was the last republican president to preside over surpluses Eisenhower balanced the budget without tax cuts as the top rate at that time was 91 percent warfare spending does not represent a true gain in national wealth war spending destroys economic resources and diminishes consumer utility the gains in GDP are a statistical illusion GDP measures spending not wealth yet every republican presidential candidate is complaining our military has been destroyed it's too small we don't have enough ships in the Navy yet military spending is 57 percent of the budget the US spends more on its military than all other nations the United States has 900 military bases around the world and the Pentagon can't account for trillions of dollars and the waste and abuse is tremendous the Federal Reserve panders to Wall Street it juices Wall Street speculators in 1997 the capital gains tax was cut to 20% at the same time that at the same time the ordinary tax rate was 39% under GW Bush the capital gains tax was cut to 15% and the top rate was set at 35% then there is all this republican talk about the free market in the financial system there is no honest free market monetary inflation deforms the financial markets the Federal Reserve transformed Wall Street into a casino hedge funds and the like do not deal in a free market government's tax to pay bills when taxes are cut revenues go down each time loopholes are drawn ordinary americans get screwed there is a loophole in our tax system that allows companies to move their headquarters abroad and avoid the internal revenue service while they keep their executives in america it's called tax inversion regulations like this rob the treasury tax inversions began in 1983 when the construction company McDermott International changed its address to Panama to avoid paying for more than 200 million dollars in taxes taxes a high-powered tax lawyer masterminded this scan also profits are not taxed until they come back to the United States that is they are repatriated this allows companies to hoard money outside the United States some billionaires and millionaires are giving up their citizenships to avoid taxes companies are hoarding 2.1 million dollar trillion dollars in profits overseas this is about 500 billion dollars in avoided taxes at present few companies pay the 35 corporate tax rate even though profits are up 21 percent since 2007 and corporate america's tax bill has fallen by 5 percent since the 1970s government regulations have been disappearing lack of regulations allowed the 2007 2008 financial meltdown to take place the republican party is the party of businessmen and financiers the only regulations republicans like are those that control a woman's body lack of regulations benefits to haves and to have mores these are things bernie sanders would fight against there has been no economic recovery for main street the federal reserve's printing of easy money has not helped main street the fed's monetary policy fuels speculative urges of wall street not the economic health of main street in 2012 the real jobless rate was 13 percent and more like 20 percent today main street america is flat broke the recovery benefited a small segment of americans at the top of the economic ladder the top 10 to 15 percent of households that own 90 percent of america's financial assets it was a true recovery for the top 1 percent for the rest of us between 2000 and 2012 energy prices rose 100 percent and food prices rose 50 percent defense output contributes nothing of economic value and unnecessary defense spending is a waste by 2012 the fence spending was 700 billion dollars in most instances defense spending is a government job producer private contractors use the pentagon as a milk cow it keeps them in business president eisenhower had a military minimum which in 2012 dollars would amount to 425 billion dollars bernie sanders would be making some changes at the pentagon the united states has a depleted revenue base we can't keep getting shortfalls from the middle class and the poor pretty soon the rich and the corporations must pay their fair share each time there is a tax break for the rich we pay for it at this time job growth is anemic and we would be lucky to produce 7 million in the next 10 years adults not working will rise from 82 million to 113 million means tested programs like disability insurance unemployment insurance and food stamps in 2002 cost about 160 billion dollars which by 2012 had grown to 270 billion dollars this did not happen because of more moochers getting on the dole 80 percent of americans are hurting as the american economy continues to fail again bernie sanders is aware of all of this and none who are beholding to big corporations billionaires and billionaires and wall street can or will change any of this when you vote vote smart vote in your own interest vote for bernie sanders and a real revolution to get your own copy of censor go to www.newslettercensor.com the end welcome to how to defeat a conservative part number 13 by william j eisenman this particular book was circa 1990s this was complete integration of church and state all of this fueled religious reformation in 1369 john wycliffe wrote a treatise challenging roams authority over the souls and minds of men martin luther taught that the bible was above the pope in 1536 william tindale was burned at the stake for writing an english bible there were many religious martyrs during the reign of queen mary bloody mary the first organized press censorship was carried out against the puritans religious pamphlets which were considered to be illegal libels richard cartwright preached that the same state was below the church and that ministers were to have control of doctrine ceremony and public morals these martin mar prelate directed against the anglican church reinforced feelings against religious dissent of all kinds the general public and officialdom did not sympathize with the separatist doctrine of the gathered church a community of believers bound together in a self-sufficient religious and social unit the stern act of 1593 mandated imprisonment banishment and death for anyone persisting in this obnoxious course of action after the first offense the struggle for religious freedom in england was waged by pamphleteers early on because newspapers as we know them did not come into existence until 1588 after each of the national protestant churches established themselves they persecuted other protestants and catholics even the colonists who settled virginia made laws to persecute each other in 1611 in virginia some capital crimes were failure to attend church services blaspheming god's name and speaking against the known articles of the christian faith any man who failed to hold a clergyman in all reverent regard was to be whipped three times and was to publicly admit his crime and that his punishment was just speaking evil of the king or the london company was punished by death the pillory was used on those who spoke out against the governor or the council these founding fathers of virginia were not christian enough to understand that god the god of the bible created us free moral agents through repressive laws early american christians tried to mold the minds of their flocks into obedient sheep separatists considered themselves independent of the state in matters of religion it was their duty to resist state intervention in religious affairs some separatists were called brownists and independence separatists like john copping elias thacker and ja john pennrey one of the riders of the mar prelate tracks were hanged in 1583 the separatists aboard the mayflower that landed at pillimeth rock were considered to be traitors they left england without passports and settled in holland and in 1620 they came to america their trip was underwritten by thomas weston and other merchant adventurers for seven years they were to work in a communistic manner and then all profits above their subsistence had to go to the underwriters the pilgrims chartered the speedwell and the mayflower to take them to america but the speedwell leaked and its passengers were crowded onto the mayflower historians say 99 to 111 people came to america on the mayflower which left plimeth england on september to sixth 1620 the voyage across the atlantic ocean took 65 to 66 days they came ashore and cape cod and while exploring the new territory in a small boat they found plimeth rock the pilgrims came to america in search of religious freedom and to live comfortably they also wanted to advance the gospel of the kingdom of christ in the remote parts of the world the pilgrims wanted their churches to be modeled along new testament lines without regard to custom or tradition they did not want bishops deans no sacraments except baptism and holy communion they wanted no set prayer book no ritual no altars no candles no organs and no incense the pilgrims honored oaths they did not celebrate christmas when william bradford was governor reverend john lyford who had been expelled from his irish episcopal apiscopal parish for playing wolf with some girls in his congregation tried to overthrow new plimeth's government governor bradford had formed an early fbi and read lyford's mail new plimeth's government was not a democracy only free men were allowed to vote candidates for free men had to be sober peaceable and orthodox in their in the fundamentals of religion quakers and baptists were excluded there was no separation of powers the church conducted political business in order to qualify as a deputy a man had to favor suppression of quakers the pilgrims were religiously intolerant they prosecuted others just as they were prosecuted in england in 1642 there occurred an outbreak of crime among the pilgrims and governor bradford's explanation is interesting in light of wilhelm reich's work on the function of the orgasm governor bradford blamed the devil he said if streams are damned up they break forth with more violence wickedness being here stopped by strict laws it searches everywhere and at last breaks out where it gets bent the pilgrims were not keen on free enterprise and did not gather wealth at the expense of others won corinthians chapter 10 verse 24 private property was okay but its social duties and obligations were stressed all industry was regulated and the mill was a public utility and was not allowed to charge what the traffic would bear here price fixing was important and in virginia the price of tobacco was regulated idleness was a sin new plymouth's government was an interfering and nosy type big religious brother was always watching the puritans came to america and settled at salem massachusetts in 1628 john endicott led the puritans as christians and men of god the puritans believed they had priority over heathens john winthrop believed it was the duty of his chosen people to rule the puritans blamed satan for pathological or harmless acts and libertines did not espouse any church were punished among the puritans land was given to families according to need the puritans did not tolerate any forms of eccentricity john gatchel was fine 10 shillings because his hair was too long women were fined for wearing silks in tiffani alice flint was brought to court for wearing a silk hood church and state were united under the puritans in 1630 john winthrop and his followers arrived in charleston charlestown massachusetts they later migrated to boston where they instituted a theocracy these christians were also intolerant john cotton said that democracy was not a god-ordained fit government for the church or the commonwealth when roger williams arrived in 1631 he maintained that the indians owned the land and he advocated that women wear veils the puritans did not like roger williams the puritans did not like things out of the ordinary they were the forerunners of today's right wing religious conservatives salem's laws against the centers were harsh and the puritans disliked quakers who were whipped and banished all quaker literature was burned and some quakers were mutilated and hanged luxury was condemned in salem and the puritans disliked religious competition samuel gorton and his family of love sect were banished from plantation to plantation they were whipped put into irons and forced to do hard labor and hutchinson who believed in grace for that for what one was rather than what one did was arrested and tried in 1637 for her beliefs she and her children were banished the puritans were religious bigots ous young was hanged for infernal practices in 1647 margaret jones was hanged for being a witch insane people like darthy tallball tallbee excuse me were made worse by being whipped she killed her child and was later hanged in boston both mr. holder and copeland had the right ears cut off in 1658 william robinson marma duke stevensson and mary dire were friends who were hanged for rebellion sedition and undermining the government the puritans disliked happy children they believed that good spirits in young boys were the sign of the devil and had to be driven out with frequent beatings with the rod puritan children grew up precocious did not smile much they had no toys and were not allowed to hear fairy tales the children of the puritans were always looking to do the forbidden several girls and a slave were thought to be bewitched and they in turn accused others of being witches some people were accused because they wore bright clothes one of these was briggett bishop and she was hanged on gallows hill cotton mather rode into town on his white horse to watch reverend george burrows hanged guile's quarry was crushed to death because he refused to be tried by the law of the land it took three days for him to die and as he was dying his tongue protruded and the sheriff pushed it back in his mouth with his cane even governor fifth wife was accused he finally dismissed the killing commission and reprieved all who were still facing the death penalty at this time it was taken for granted that the law and the commonwealth could do no wrong when robert caliph wrote about these insane atrocities increase mather burned the book at hovert college today religious conservatives assure us that their motives are pure but increased mathers modus were pure and sincere however they were pure and sincerely wrong this was a time of little feeling and compassion and when increased mathers child was born with a birth defect he blamed it on witchcraft at this time will have rags emotional plague ran rampant throughout new england insanity ruled there was much sexual repression the pilgrims saw misconduct nearly everywhere misconduct included an addiction to sports as well as robbery some historians claim that massachusetts was not a theocracy because a man could not be a magistrate and a ruling elder in the church at the same time they maintained that the influence of the clergy was unofficial and not sanctioned by law but magistrates were considered nursing fathers of the churches they had jurisdiction over all offenses involving idolatry blasphemy breaking the Sabbath the fitness of the clergy and they rooted out all types of heresy puritan men who own property were rarely punished with the whip drunken masters were sometimes punished but the poor and servants were always punished thomas mall a friend wrote truth set forth and maintained in 1695 against the killing of witches and dissenters the book was filled with slanders against the government and the churches mall was tried before the governor and council and was found not guilty the court disliked the verdict because it represented an unprecedented independence of judgment the puritans detested individualism the puritans of massachusetts bay thought themselves as the chosen people of god they were meant to create a pure church and a city of god in the wilderness like many religious conservatives of our day the puritans believed they had all the answers to life's questions when people like philip ratcliffe spoke out against the government they were arrested fined and whipped and sometimes had their ears cut off by these noble christians when people ask why those who had done no wrong had to be treated like animals general denison said that there is no room for both quakers and puritans he maintained that now the power was in their hands and the strongest must fend off in 1703 the general court made a public gesture of atonement for their wrongs by voting indemnities to the heirs of those who had been condemned and executed many of the judges confessed that they had aired and begged for forgiveness for what they had done in 1692 the puritans wanted to be the only church in town roger williams rejected the idea of the divine right of government he believed in individual freedom the cornerstone of the american revolution an objective view of american history reveals that 1776 was not about christian principles it was about individual freedom and self-government these concepts are not well understood by modern conservatives who whose populism is nothing more than condescending elitism America was not founded on christian principles to be continued the end