As the impeached perjurer yucks it up, disparaging Dubya's good name to groups of other card carrying socialists, let's examine his last big lie.

The Clinton cabal said it first: "It's the economy, stupid!" And so it is. The free ride is over. The chickens are coming home to roost. We've had a long period of "economic expansion," better known on the street as inflation, and now comes the recession.

What few people know, or care about, was that Clinton had Robert Ruben form a stock and bond market instant response team to artificially prop up the markets. Furthermore, they had a Federal Reserve worker in the New York office playing around with billions of our dollars in overseas accounts to help insure that our markets looked good.

Historically, there always has been a sliding relationship between gold, the dollar and the bond market. One could hedge and/or park capital somewhat safely in gold and/or bonds when the market got shaky. That's not true anymore. Our government, in cooperation with others, took the play out of the gold market and gold has been relatively stagnant for quite some time.

Little of that outwardly bothers most people on mainstreet, U.S.A. But it does stealthily raise prices significantly. Ask whoever buys the groceries at home how prices have changed during the Clinton administration. Some things have actually doubled in cost.

Many price increases were hidden, though. For instance, a Big Mac hamburger costs the same but is now the size of a little Mac. Many cans and packages that once held one pound of product now hold twelve or fourteen ounces for the same or higher price. The only reason some clothing and small household appliances have not increased in price lately is because they are made in China or some other third world country. Even so, the price may have stayed relatively the same but, in many cases, the quality greatly decreased.

Energy is also a major problem. Short of nuking all our foreign oil suppliers, it's hard to see exactly how the Clinton administration could have made a bigger mess, even if they had tried. Heating oil and propane are in short supply, gasoline prices skyrocketed and thousands of over the road truckers are going bankrupt because of the high cost of diesel fuel. On top of that, Clinton's obnoxious EPA is relentless in its quest to bother every single person in the nation about any little thing they can possibly think of.

Congress, of course, is totally impotent on these issues. Rather than take charge, they have unconstitutionally handed off their authority to the politburos of dozens of administrative agencies. Which brings us back to Clinton.

One major lie is that there is a budget surplus and they are "paying down the national debt." Clinton's own Treasury Department proves that is a lie. The supposed budget surplus will not materialize because Clinton & company threw us into a recession. The national debt has increased $1,661-Billion under Clinton, and continues to increase at a rate of $123-million per day. And that's after he stuck us with the largest tax increase in our nation's history. (For more on the national debt, see the references below.)

Unfortunately, with Bush's choice of Christine Todd Whitman to honcho EPA, no relief is in sight there. She's about as far left on environmental issues as they come. However, it appears Bush did cajole the Fed into lowering interest rates, which will be felt favorably on the street about June. The Bush team will also correct many of the energy problems by authorizing more power plants and encouraging oil exploration to make our country more self sufficient. And, if Bush is able to ram a tax reduction through Congress, it will help to stimulate the economy and hence also to increase tax revenues.

Meanwhile, save your pennies because the economy is headed south for a while. The auto and other industries are already laying off and all prices will have to increase because truckers will have to charge more or go out of business. The problem will be temporary. But it will be very noticeable to many of us.

Luckily, we will have Bush as President. Like Clinton were he allowed to stay in office, Gore, would probably have caused a full blown depression.

Clinton is a master at propaganda, but nothing else. History will show that the scandalous Clinton presidency was a failed presidency in every parameter studied. But, help is on the way -- five more days.

One thing many of us out here in fly-over country are beginning to realize is that someone better tap President Elect George W. Bush on the shoulder and tell him to take his campaign vehicle out of cruise control and downshift into second gear. There is a big hill coming up and he's pulling a lot of weight with all those proposed cabinet members riding in back.

Listening to the liberal blowhards these past three weeks reminds me of an old friend who thought it would be fun to buy a couple pot bellied pigs for pets. They were cute and cuddly little buggers for a long while, quick to learn what the rules were and how much they could get away with.

However, they were still pigs. So, when his cute little darlings approached the 200 pound porker size, they began getting out and eating just about everything in the neighborhood they could get in their mouths. And, when they were hungry, they did not listen to reason from any righteous humans. Rather, one of them appeared to relish the leg of any angry humans disturbing their feasting. Thereafter, the pigs had to be removed from the presence of that (previously) peaceful human habitat.

Some say that nearly half of the population of our country now have strong socialist tendencies. If we listen to the national media, they would have us believe that to be true, anyway. However, the fact is, at least

75% of the people of this nation would prefer to have absolutely no contact with the central government or its agents whatsoever. What they want, in fact, is just to be let alone.

Unfortunately, the perception to many is like my friend's squealing pigs running unrestrained throughout the neighborhood: There might be 300 peaceful humans living there but all you hear about are those damn pigs scrounging around.

And so it is with the socialists. The unions and the media feed on each other. Tax free foundations finance the far-left organizations. They join together to elect more Social-Democrats to government and work to create more socialism. The squealing little piglets and their demanding parents look like they're everywhere. But they are not. It's just that they are noisy. And, like the adult pot bellied pigs threatening peaceful humans who try to shoo them away, they are destructive to our liberty.

We now have a right to expect that President Elect Bush will be the protector of liberty throughout our land. But, to do that, he must first put his campaign in low gear and get ready to do some heavy pulling. It's time Americans had at least a few people in government we can trust, and the cabinet is a very good place for them to be.

Previous Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez is a very good person and would have helped a lot of people from a position in the Bush administration. It was very disturbing to many thousands of us to learn that the Bush team cut her loose simply because the unions and media dislike her act of kindness to someone in their time of need.

The truth is, Linda Chavez has a long history of helping people in need. The socialists don't like that because the needy are not then trapped in government programs. But, isn't this type of kind help exactly what candidate George W. Bush professed?

It is. And that is what makes it so disturbing that President Elect George Bush did not support her in the face of baseless attacks from the radical left.

Now comes John Ashcroft for attorney general. It would be welcome to have honesty and integrity in the Justice Department again. However, an honest prosecutor would greatly rock the boat in Washington. And, if Ashcroft started looking into all the vote fraud around the country, the campaign money laundering and the sources for those millions of dollars of "walking around" money the Democratic party uses to pay for their nefarious tricks, the courts would be jammed for two years.

Can't have that, say the socialists in the unions, government and the media. Honor and integrity are no longer allowed at Justice. So, here comes the public destruction of John Ashcroft. Will Bush support John Ashcroft or dump him, too?

If Dubya wants the respect of all of us out here who helped put him in office, he had better get it in gear and get ready to do some heavy pulling. And that works both ways. Bush better damn well understand that there are a few million people out here willing to back him up. All he need do is ask.

It seems that all socialists and communists throughout the world have the same poor attitude. Simply put, they fear the people. That is, they all seem to realize that most people soon become weary of their totalitarian form of top-down government and would work for change.

So, there are two things that must always be squelched by actual and would-be dictators: the self determination of the common people and the ability of the people to keep and bear arms.

Russia, and China to a limited extent, hold elections. But, the outcome is rather predetermined because the government counts the ballots. Therefore, government can make whoever they wish the winner.

Here, we have massive vote fraud by the left in urban areas, but it's not yet pervasive enough to easily throw a national election. In most precincts and districts, the left owns the whole election system and there is zero in the way of poll watchers, or any type of scrutiny, from the right. So, it's no wonder the far-left candidates always win by wide margins in those areas.

Sure, if we listen to the propaganda tossed out regularly, it sounds like all inner-city people vote for the left so they'll get more handouts. In truth, probably about 60% of them tend to support the left. But, few of them even vote. On the other hand, those who tend to be Republican usually vote.

This is definitely not what is reflected when the ballots are tabulated, of course. That's the problem.

Some inner-city precincts reported 80 to 90% voter turn out. We know historically that is never true. Worse, a few urban precincts around the country actually had more ballots cast than registered voters. Unfortunately, the national media didn't think any of this obvious vote fraud newsworthy because the vote count went 90% for Gore and other socialists.

The other topic is guns. According to the radical left, those of us on the "right" have way too many guns. They also worry that a large number of us know how to use them properly. Those on the radical left are getting tired of taking over incrementally. Some are getting old and want results in their lifetime. But, they understand they must first get rid of the guns in private possession.

Generally, most people on the political right are law-abiding, peaceful folks who do not bother others. But, that could change. The only thing stopping a quick and complete takeover by the radical left is that they fear all those peaceful folks out in flyover country who are well armed. After all, most on the right have already started grumbling about the decline in quality of government schools, high taxes, welfare, socialized medicine, the regulatory bureaucracy, gun laws, and many other restrictions on liberty. The left realizes that it might not take more than a couple more socialist sparks to ignite a firestorm of protest around the country from those on the political right -- as well as a few on the political center.

In fact, from the point of view of the radical left, the outward protests of the normal people of the country may have already started. They point with appall at the many demonstrations in favor of Bush this past fall, sputtering that people on the right are not supposed to do things like that. Protests are a tool of the left, not the right. Those on the right are supposed to be a complacent lot, occupied with family and work, not affecting politics, en masse, like that.

So, when the group from Free Republic were joined by others in front of the vice-president's mansion night after night chanting "get out of Dick Cheney's house," the radical left became worried. When hundreds of thousands of good Americans joined together in friendly demonstrations around the country to show their unified support for Bush, the radical left became very worried. And when many hundreds of good Americans joined together in Florida to loudly protest for the end of those bogus ballot counts, the radical left had to refill their Prozac prescriptions.

"The Republicans are rioting," the radical left's cheerleaders in the national media cried into their microphones. "They've turned into an angry mob!"

But there were no angry mobs. There were only good American people voicing their frustration with the illegal, unethical, immoral, and unconstitutional tactics of the socialists on the far left.

That was a beginning. THE beginning. ONLY the beginning. The demonstrations were but an outward sign that, fool with us, and we shall quickly become the radical left's worst nightmare. Those demonstrations and protests set the tone for what may come. Because, real people, good American folks, learned something from those demonstrations: Not only do they get results, they are fun.

This may well be the year the war on socialism begins. Good Americans from coast to coast are completely fed up with all the lying, cheating, illegal activities and unconstitutional laws, rules and regulations supported by the socialists. It's time for change.

Will the new broom sweep clean? Maybe. If the Bush team goes after these perpetrators of un-American activities, the administration will soon learn that they will be supported by many millions of American people. And, some of that support will be outwardly expressed through peaceful demonstrations.

So, OK, we came back a little early from our proposed vacation. That's because writing rants becomes a habit after a while. And that habit needs care and feeding.

And, so we start a new millennium, a new century, a new decade, and a new year with our fifth year of weekly publication. Now it's time to tell a little secret about myself; one reason this newsletter exists.

Quite a few years ago, when I was forced to retire as a researcher, I went around looking for something constructive to do. I always liked to write when I had the time and most of what I wrote over the years was political commentary and was published. Even in high school, whenever I could find a good typist (and someone to correct my spelling) I would fire off something or other to one of the local major newspapers.

I even wrote a few stories to sell to the pulp fiction magazines that were popular back then. In today's market, the money was not too good. But, for a poor Polish boy on the streets of Detroit back then, those checks were great.

Besides, the self satisfaction of being published for pay did a lot for the ego of a kid who was just barely sneaking through English classes in school. The editors, of course, never knew they were dealing with a high school kid.

So, there came a time, a few years ago, when a major editor I knew had a columnist position open for a long time. I took him to lunch one day and did a little arm twisting.

Now, this editor knew I was good at keeping a word count and he also liked my writing. So, I felt sure he would give me a shot, even if it was only on a trial basis. He didn't though. What he said was that I was good enough for the position but did not have the experience in journalism to be consistently able to find topics to write about twice a week. Therefore, when I started writing regularly, six years ago, I always wrote four columns a week just for spite. And, I have yet to come close to running out of topics. (Tom . . . are you reading this?)

Some branch of government is always doing something in violation of the rights of the people. I find at least ten strong cases of that every week, just in my morning reading. I would prefer to write about Supreme Court opinions and those ominous federal regulations so destructive to liberty. But, often common politics takes precedence. So the fact remains, I will never run out of material.

There are a couple of editors taking notice of this publication lately. Which means, there may come a time when I have a shot at syndication. And, in truth, I would be very interested in such an arrangement because a little extra jingle in my pocket would be very beneficial to the remodeling schedule of this old house. Besides, nearly all newspapers could use a voice in support of our Constitution.

Meanwhile, many more subscribers are distributing this newsletter to friends this year than were at the beginning of last year. The growth over these past few years is actually becoming phenomenal -- exponential, almost. In truth, that was not expected when the newsletter was started.

We also learned that a few people who do not wish to subscribe wait for Forest to post on his web page and read it anonymously there. I learned that because I am a lurker on a journalist's e-mail list.

A few of the latest editions of the newsletter can also be found on the OpinionNet web site, along with articles from some more popular writers. We thank them for that exposure.(1)

And, we must also mention the many kind words over the years from James P. Hogan, a famous author of many novels on the "hard science" end of the science-fiction spectrum. For those who like a mix of hi-tech and mystery, Hogan is a good read.(2) And, for you programmers out there, Jim has a very interesting nonfiction book on artificial intelligence and parallel processing titled "Mind Matters." Asimov's called it "one of the more interesting in the recent flurry of books on this developing field." It is. And there are a couple chapters posted on the web page for those who want to check it out.

Politically speaking, this is going to be a very interesting year. The Bush team is going to run into some very significant problems with the Washington socialists and their sycophants in the media. And, I plan to be here ranting about it.

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(2.)  http://www.jamesphogan.com

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