Happy Kwanzaa, whatever the heck that is.  To give you a little history lesson, this supposed holiday was invented by Ron Karenga in 1966, when it was branded as a black alternative to Christmas.   Karenga, a convicted felon and former professor of black studies at Cal State Long Beach,  postulated seven principles: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith, each of which gets its day during Kwanzaa week, which begins today.

Along with this racist holiday, Karenga devised a flag of black nationalism and a pledge: "We pledge allegiance to the red, black, and green, our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle, and to the land we must obtain; one nation of black people, with one G-d of us all, totally united in the struggle, for black love, black freedom, and black self-determination." Yes, I am most certain Karenga and Jeremiah Wright were cut from the same cloth.

What all Americans must realize is that there is no part of Kwanzaa that is not fraudulent. The term comes from matunda yakwanza, a Swahili term for first fruit.   The last time I checked, Swahili was an East African tongue which has little relevance for black Americans who are descendents of slaves that were generally taken from west Africa. The cultural gap between west and east Africa is as dramatic as comparing Indiana to Indonesia. 

While Kwanzaa purports to celebrate a harvesting ritual, it is somewhat suspect that this would occur in December, a time when harvesting just does not occur.   Kwanzaa supposedly stands for human dignity but how does this reconcile with the common practices in Africa of female circumcision, stoning and polygamy? Kwanzaa celebrates corn, a crop that is indigenous to Mexico, not Africa.   Maybe Karenga, or the followers of this made up holiday could explain the celebration of an Ur-African culture that doesn't even exist in a continent where rival tribes slaughter each other for game.   

The truth is that Kwanzaa is just another excuse by its inventor to promote Marxism.   It has been embraced by liberals, who share a similar ideology and promote this fiction in an attempt to garner support for their nanny state multicultural agenda.

Bill Clinton went so far as to take a hiatus from messing up blue dresses to sign the Kwanzaa proclamation claiming that "The symbols and ceremony of Kwanzaa, evoking the rich history and heritage of African Americans, remind us that our nation draws much of its strength from our diversity."

The truth is that Kwanzaa is a sham. It is a made up holiday with no historical significance. It is a celebration by racists and black seperatists who seek to divide our nation using using fancy terms and outlandish costumes to promote redistribution of wealth. It is a call for blacks to celebrate Marxist concepts that have resulted in failure the world over, just as they are proving to do in our very own nation.  

The economic conundrum should come as no surprise to any American. Rather, it should be viewed as the inevitable result of confiscatory taxation and bureaucratic regulation that has strangled the capitalist intent of our forefathers.   Way back when, a few folks gathered to throw some tea into Boston Harbor to protest government excess that was far less egregious than we are witnessing today.  

While unaccountable government officials decided “what is best” for you and I, we are commanded to sit idly by as Wall Street and the Big Three get cash that is seemingly spent on executive outings and corporate jets.   Wouldn’t it be nice if someone inside the beltway actually recognized that the solution to the problem isn’t a solution from the top down, but rather from the bottom up?   Perhaps that person may exist in the form of Texas Representative Louis Gohmert who is proposing a two month tax holiday for all Americans. 

Mark my words, this will get no publicity from the Treason Times, AP Obama or the Clinton News Net, but it’s getting some attention from yours truly. According to American Solutions, an organization founded by former Speaker New Gingrich, Americans pay $101.6 billion per month in personal income tax and $65.5 billion per month in FICA tax. Under Gohmert’s proposed plan these taxes would not be paid during January and February, 2009.   This is money that would stay in the hands of the people who earned it in the first place and no better than any government bureaucrat how to spend it.   For less than half the cost of the current bailout proposal, this would likely have exponentially more impact on the economy. 

Will this happen? Don’t count on it because liberals in congress will do their best to muzzle any word of this plan, just as they plan to muzzle your right to free speech in the coming session. Remember, liberals are all about power and control and if they were to let Americans see how much money is actually being seized out of their paychecks it could lead to an all out taxpayer revolt. Then again, maybe that’s not such a bad thing. 

Perhaps this should be taken one step further.   How about we repeal the insidious 16^th Amendment that permitted the government to steal money from our paychecks in the first place.   Just as Americans are being forced to do without as the result of government irresponsibility, maybe it’s time for them to do without.   Just how many ridiculous social programs, bridges to nowhere or butterfly farms on the moon could we do without? Just how many union jobs could we axe in federal, state and local governments that contribute absolutely nothing to our society?  

My suggestion is that you immediately write your Congressional Representative and tell them to support the Gohmert plan.   Tell them to nix the idea of a silly stimulus and their $50 million dollar mailings to advise us that a check is in the mail.   We need something that actually matters, like the right to keep what is rightfully ours to begin with.