I laugh to myself every now and then when I observe the kids today and remember how smart I was when I was their age. I can honestly remember looking at my parents and thinking to myself, “When are you going to get a clue?” So then, after a good laugh, a more sobering realization settles in, “The older I get, the less I know what I know.”

It’s kind of like…I’ve always considered myself an environmentalist. How could anybody not be an environmentalist? You’re either an environmentalist or you’re against the environment, right? And for much of my youth, I counted myself as a Liberal for sort of the same reasons. It’s awfully close to that word Liberty which we all know is a good thing, and besides I wasn’t going to pick up any girls using my Conservative credentials. On the other hand, just mentioning a radio program that I happened to hear on NPR has gotten me well beyond second base on a few occasions…in my younger day!

And so it is with Social Justice; just another one of those expressions that conjures one image while stealthily delivering an entirely different pay load. Are we starting to notice a pattern here? Social=good, justice=good…well hell’s bells!! Social Justice must be good too! Do you understand that they are coming at us with Environmental Justice now? What is amazing about Social Justice is how it connects to all of the things that are essential parts of the “fundamental transformation” of this country being perpetrated by Obama and the Progressive Elite. Just listen to how they sell it to you. They tell you that to not pass Obamacare would be socially unjust…which is way more despicable than if we were to reject it based on cost. You can run this same Social Justice scam using Global Warming (sorry…Climate Change), Immigration Reform and Border Security. At the end of the day, it is all about collapsing the evil and heartless Free Market Capitalist Monster and folding it into the wise, wonderful and compassionate Wizard of Oz of Statism!

Well, at least Dorothy had Toto to expose the truth behind the curtain. Not only do we not have Toto, but this Wizard has his own lap dog media which does a very, very good job of maintaining curtain security! Anyway, speaking of Oz…I really know what it must have felt like to feel like you’re not in Kansas anymore. Because I just don’t recognize this place at all! In many ways on a very superficial level it is much the same…but when you scratch a little deeper, there are some very important things out of whack! They want to demand justice from us? I say its time for us to demand it right back from them!

 I had a “realization” while listening to Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt this morning. They were talking about the evolving sovereign debt crisis, the fate of the Euro and how Angela Merkel and Germany are responding to it all. When one of them made a comment about the German anger over subsidizing the Greek Euro-Citizen’s retirement at age 50…At that very moment all of the planets shifted into alignment and formed a new constellation called Social Injustice!

This is the very root of why we are no longer in Kansas, or any other place recognizable on planet Earth! From Dublin to Athens to Frankfurt to Wichita, we are all victims of the same social justice scam! People who work hard, live by the rules, sacrifice, pay taxes and give to their communities are being forced to pay for those who don’t work, break the rules, live beyond their means, avoid taxes, and take from their communities!!

 Tonight in his State of The Union Address, our President will lecture the former about “Investment” and “Civility” while promising the latter more…Social Justice! I literally have no more tears to weep for the country I love so…For those of you with the courage to scratch a little deeper, I offer the following:

 The Unsustainable Meets the Irresistible, by John Mauldin http://www.investorsinsight.com/blogs/thoughts_from_the_frontline/archive/2011/01/22/the-unsustainable-meets-the-irresistible.aspx

And, Dependence Day, by Mark Steyn http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Dependence-Day-6753