Divide and Conquerq

I think it is about time that someone tells you of the history of what is happening in our country today.

There are two other times in recent history that the idea of divide and conquer has been used on an entire country. It might be better to state it as "Class Warfare", but we will go with divide and conquer for this discussion for simplicity sake.

In Russia, in the late 18Th century and early 19Th century, the Russian people were going through tough economic times. Along came a man, very persuasive, charming and articulate. This man, ran and was elected to the position of Leader of the Soviet Union. After being elected, he started the "Command Economy", which was a five year plan. During this time, he started making statements that the leaders of the corporations were the cause for all the economic trouble the Russian Economy was going through. At the same time, he started the same accusations against the farmers, stating it was their fault that the Russian people were going hungry, because the farmers were getting rich off of the work of the Russian people. Because Stalin had such a command presence and because he was able to bring fear and hunger in with the disenfranchisement, the Russian people fell for the divide and conquer plan. Their was a great uprising in Russia, the citizenry went out and killed all the business owners and all the farmers. Stalin then gave all the businesses and all the farms to the people. Needless to say, the people did not know how to run business and did not know how to run a farm. Within just a couple of years, Russia had collapsed into chaos. Their were mass Starvation's occurring throughout the Russian Empire until a young, fledgling country came to their aid, that country was The United States. This is a brief explanation of what happened in the Soviet Union due to the divide and conquer technique used by their leadership. To read the whole story, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

Now, the second instance. Their was born a Austrian born man who in 1933 became the leader of Germany. The man's name is Adolph Hitler. Most people think that Hitler was German born, but they would be wrong, he was born in Austria in 1889.

Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 and quickly established a Totalitarian and Fascist Dictatorship. He started blaming all the trouble Germany was having a specific group of people, the Jews. throughout the Second World War, Hitler systematically eliminated the lives of over 6 million Jews. This is not the worst part, in that same period of time, he and the Nazi regime was estimated to have killed over 17 million civilians. Again, he was able to accomplish this by using the divide and conquer mentality to breed hatred against one segment of population so that the civilian population would be distracted by anger, therefore not watch what was happening with their own country. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

Now to present times. Here in the United States, the people are again being divided by hatred. First it was color, Black against White. Then when it seemed that we had made great steps toward bringing the races together, they again use the divide technique to keep us separated. This time it is Class Warfare. The Rich against the Poor. We have always been a country that knew that we had the opportunity to achieve whatever level of success our drive and motivation could carry us to. But in recent times, we have be told by our politicians that we can no longer achieve these dreams unless the Government gives them to us. Now they ( the Government ) is using the Rich as the escape goats to maintain their power over the populous. The government is saying that it is the Wealthiest people's fault the the economy is in the shape it is in. This could not be further from the truth.

Let me ask you, when was the last time you were hired by a poor person. When was the last time you needed assistance and the poor person gave you the help you needed. I am not putting down the poor. I am saying that the poor cannot provide jobs, they cannot be charitable. WE are villianizing the very people who have made this country great. Do you know that more that eighty percent of millionaires are self made? This means that they too, started out poor, but decided they were not going to remain there. They worked hard and overcame immense challenges, both personal and professional, to achieve the level of success they now enjoy.

Now, we have an administration who is telling us that is this "groups" fault for the shape our economy is in. Does this sound familiar to the two incidents I explained above? The wealthy are not the cause, they are the cure. We need to hold the politicians accountable for their actions in this economic crises. If it were not for the openly hostile legislation they have passed against business, if it were not for the laws that they have passed to make it nearly impossible for business to be competitive in this country, I do not think we would be in the shape we are in.

Our leaders for decades, on both sides of the political isle, have made it increasingly difficult for businesses to operate in this country. Now the the country is going through the hardships due to their legislation, they want to blame the business owners for the problems. Again, do you see any similarities?

We need to overhaul our Congress and Senate. In my next letter, I will give you my views on how we can fix our Congress and our Country. Until then, keep up the good fight. Earl