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Bernie Hunhoff uses political correctness and calls "The Daugaard Deception" regarding the budget surplus "a guise of frugality"

South Dakota Democratic House Minority Leader Bernie Hunhoff responds (as I did) to the Mitchell Daily Republic's glorification of Governor Daugaard:

A recent Daily Republic editorial proclaimed “good news” that our state finished the fiscal year with a $47 million surplus. Yes, $47 million is good, but there’s no news there.

We’ve balanced our budgets in South Dakota since statehood. That’s 123 straight years. And in recent years we haven’t even come close to being in the red. State government is awash in cash. We now have $134 million in official reserves, plus another $725 million in trust funds and as of right now it looks like we could see millions more in surplus for the current fiscal year.

Remember, news happens when a man bites a dog. News is when we don’t balance the budget. Our state constitution requires it.

The real news is this latest confirmation that we unnecessarily slashed school spending by $52 million, and when the federal government sent $26 million the Pierre bureaucracy kept that in their own coffers. Then we slashed spending for children’s health programs, nursing homes and hospitals.

Frugality is a virtue. But we’ve taken it to the extreme in South Dakota. At some point it becomes a vice — like a well-to-do father who won’t buy shoes for his kids.

Despite a guise of frugality, the current administration has started a litany of new programs — many of them for big corporations. One example is the Manpower program that will spend $5 million to help a few companies recruit workers from out-of-state. That’s what often happens with exorbitant surpluses: they are reclassified as one-time monies and then spent in areas that are low priority, if necessary at all. Thus, frugality turns into waste.

Here is a mathamatical description of the "guise of frugality":

If you look at Daugaard's proposed budget as of January 2011 his $1,136,463,152 General Fund budget is only $12,365,660 less than the revised 2011 budget. That is $12 million, not $127 million.

But what is really interesting is page 4 of Daugaard's complete 2012 budget analysis which shows the projected revenue for 2012, as of January 2011, to be $1,138,768,298, leaving a pojected surplus of $2 million. The actual 2012 revenue was $1,282,385,593, or an increase of $144 million. If only $48 million went to reserves, then the other $96 million must have been spent, along with the $2 million projected amount! Now, were is that being reported? So a second Daugaard Deception regarding FY2012 is the surplus...it was $146 million (the $144 million extra revenue plus the $2 million projected surplus), not $48 million.

Bernie goes on to complain about the "age-old line" that is used to further the "guise of frugality" and provides details that would point to corruption instead of his terms, "frugality turns into waste":

The age-old line from the Pierre bureaucracy is that we dare not risk an adequate investment in education because disaster could be lurking — a flood, a forest fire, beetles, drought or recession. But our penny-pinching has caused a disaster for schools, for property taxpayers in South Dakota and for many community health care facilities.

Your editorial board accused me of playing politics with the “good” budget news this week. I suppose anything can be construed as politics — giving your wife flowers on her birthday, for example. But the only reason many of us are even involved in politics is because we want to improve the lives of South Dakotans.

Is your life better because the state salted away tens of millions of your tax dollars rather than making smart investments in health care and education and keeping property taxes down?

Amazing that it is a Democrat who brings concern to higher property taxes, while the SDGOP leadership's plan is to raise property taxes to raise the local effort portion of the state aid formula so that the state can spend money in other areas. What Bernie does not undestand is that some of the redirected funds is going into education, but not to schools. Instead they are using funds to build the bureaucratic controls within the Department of Education necessary for implementation of a global economy. Details on the latest revelations coming in my next post.

Daugaard Deception on budget surplus exposed

On Saturday the Mitchell Daily Republic published a letter I wrote exposing Daugaard's deception on the state budget:

Your July 18 Our View regarding the state budget was based on faulty numbers. Gov. Daugaard’s 2012 budget proposal was only $12 less than what was budgeted in 2011 and not anywhere close to the $127 million figure that continues to be claimed by his administration and various South Dakota media sources.

The 2012 budget was based on $1.138 billion in projected revenues. The actual revenues for 2012 came in at $1.282 billion, a $144 million increase. Since only $48 million of that increase was put into reserves, the other $96 million was increased spending. So the 2012 actual spending was $84 million (96 minus 12) more than what was in the 2011 budget.

It is totally false to attribute the $48 million surplus to Daugaard’s claim that he cut the 2012 budget $127 million, when the 2012 General Fund spending level was higher than any other year in the history of South Dakota. It is also false for Daugaard to claim that the surplus was accomplished without tax increases, when tax revenues actually increased $144 million.

For those departments that spent less in 2012 than 2011, such as the Education Department’s state aid, they not only need to be told where their cuts went to, but where did that extra $84 million go.

And don’t bother asking our District 20 legislators about this issue. Their job is to protect the governor, and tell folks that a CPA with a master’s degree in accounting doesn’t know what he is talking about. I am sure they loved your July 18 glorification of the governor.

The Daugaard Deception regarding the state budget continues with the help of the Mitchell Daily Republic

Today the Mitchell Daily Republic's "Our View" promotes more deception put out by Daugaard regarding the state budget:

Gov. Dennis Daugaard and his administration deserve a pat on the back today.

Just two years ago, when Daugaard was running for governor, South Dakota was facing a projected budget shortfall of $127 million. During his first months in office, he swiftly proposed and shepherded through the legislative process a package of cuts that balanced the budget. It was a bold move, especially considering that the man he succeeded and served under as lieutenant governor, Mike Rounds, had only weeks earlier proposed a milder set of cuts and the use of reserves to balance the budget.

Monday, we learned the state ended its most recent budget year in June with a $47.8 million surplus.

Again we have the Mitchell Daily Republic promoting a Daugaard Deception that takes credit for reducing the 2012 budget $127 million. If you look at Daugaard's proposed budget as of January 2011 his $1,136,463,152 General Fund budget is only $12,365,660 less than the revised 2011 budget. That is $12 million, not $127 million.

But what is really interesting is page 4 of Daugaard's complete 2012 budget analysis which shows the projected revenue for 2012, as of January 2011, to be $1,138,768,298, leaving a pojected surplus of $2 million. The actual 2012 revenue was $1,282,385,593, or an increase of $144 million. If only $48 million went to reserves, then the other $96 million must have been spent, along with the $2 million projected amount! Now, were is that being reported? So a second Daugaard Deception regarding FY2012 is the surplus...it was $146 million (the $144 million extra revenue plus the $2 million projected surplus), not $48 million. And the MDR continues on with a very confusing response by the Democrats:

Of course, a surplus creates its own set of problems.

Immediately upon hearing the news Monday about the surplus, Daugaard’s adversaries in the Democratic Party began trying to spend it.

House Democratic Leader Bernie Hunhoff, of Yankton, didn’t mince words.

“It’s time the governor’s staff invest in communities across South Dakota instead of hoarding our tax dollars in Pierre,” Hunhoff said in a written statement.

My, how times change. Just two years ago, the Democratic candidate for governor, Scott Heidepriem, was telling anyone who would listen that the state faced a budget “crisis,” and that Daugaard wasn’t sufficiently concerned about it. Now Democrats are accusing Daugaard, who cut many millions from the state budget, of “hoarding.”

The last sentence contains two falsehoods. As shown above, Daugaard did not cut many millions, he simply redirected where it was spent. Second, Daugaard did not hoard all of the $146 million surplus, he spent $98 million some place.

So because of these two Daugaard deceptions, the MDR comes to this faulty conclusion:

The Democrats are playing politics, pure and simple, but there is a valid point buried within the rhetoric. That point is about surpluses, and the state’s responsibility to spend and invest them wisely.

So far, the extra money has been stashed in a reserve fund. We’ll have to wait until December to hear Daugaard’s next budget speech, and we suppose he and legislators will have plenty to say then.

Meanwhile, we should take a moment to appreciate what has transpired. When Daugaard proposed his drastic cuts two years ago, he envisioned a future in which budget deficits would no longer be an annual discussion topic.

That future has arrived, and the problems of surpluses certainly seem preferable to the problems of deficits.

Both parties are playing politics and the MDR don't have the accounting talent to understand it. As I have been saying for two years, there was no $127 million budget crisis in the first place. It was fabricated in order to justify actions that have resulted in higher property taxes and an initiative that proposed to increase sales tax rates 25%.

Perhaps the MDR should stop disregarding the free consulting they have been offered from a CPA who has a masters degree in accounting, and stop listening to those deceptive politicians who tell them not to listen to that CPA who has a masters degree in accounting.

Keloland also joined in by promoting a third Daugaard Deception:

In a written statement, Governor Dennis Daugaard said he is happy the economy is getting stronger.

"We continue to meet the goal of balancing the budget in a conservative manner without raising taxes," Daugaard said.

Senator Deb Peters, (R) Hartford, said she did not expect this much money to be left over. 

"Obviously we were a little too conservative," Peters said.

How can you claim you did not raise taxes when revenues increased $144 million? Have you looked at your latest property tax bill and your latest license plate fees? And how can increased spending of $98 million beyond the original budget be considered conservative? And to top it off, schools are still operating under the reductions put into place two years ago (which makes the Democrat's hoarding charge seem true) and that is why your property tax bills have gone up. When will we have an investigative report by the media that cuts through "The Daugaard Deceptions" and tells us the truth about were our tax dollars are actually being spent? Perhaps they should look into the pockets of special interests whose lobbyists spend so much time in Pierre during the legislative sessions.

UPDATE: Would a true conservative consider tax decreases when revenues are unexpectedly up? Not Daugaard:

The governor said he is pleased that South Dakota's economy is strengthening faster than projected. The improved economy and growth in tax revenue means the state can continue to increase spending in important areas such as education, public safety and Medicaid, the state-federal program that cover health care costs for low-income people, he said.

And not Deb Peters:

"We want to use the taxpayer money the best we can to educate our community, provide for the elderly and take care of the folks who can't take care of themselves," Peters said.

We only need a Conservative Congress to stop the tyranny of Obamacare by starving the beast

Many thought the Supreme Court would save us from Obamacare, but that idea went down in flames. Instead of relying on the Supreme Oligarchy, another way would be to starve the beast:

The U.S. House this week voted to repeal Obamacare, a move that even attracted support from some Democrats, but there’s more that can be done to relieve Americans of the burden of Barack Obama’s strategy to impose one of the largest tax hikes in American history, members of Congress say.

That would be a simple refusal to appropriate money to set up the programs Obamacare needs to function.

That’s according to a letter being circulated by Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Tea Party Caucus Chairman Michele Bachmann.

They are urging members of the House to sign onto the letter “urging our leadership to defund the implementation of Obamacare” by noon on Friday.

The letter is addressed to House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

It explains, “We are outraged by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to rewrite and largely uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), as we know you are as well. And we know that our sentiments are in line with the vast majority of Americans who believe that healthcare should be controlled by patients and doctors, not by the government.”

The letter continues, “We appreciate your willingness to schedule a vote on the full repeal of Obamacare. We should continue efforts to repeal the law in its entirety this year, next year, and until we are successful. However, in the meantime, there is more we can do in Congress.”

The letter points out that “much of the implementation of Obamacare is a function of the discretionary appropriations process” and that “most of the citizens we represent believe that Obamacare should never go into effect.”

“We urge you not to bring to the House floor in the 112th Congress any legislation that provides or allows funds to implement Obamacare through the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Health and Human Services, or any other federal entity. We also urge you to take legislative steps necessary to immediately rescind all Obamacare-implementation funds,” the letter suggests.

Quoting Federalist No. 58, the letter cites James Madison’s comment that the “power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon … for obtaining a redress of every grievance…”

Dozens of names already have been posted on the letter, and organizers are hoping to add many more before the Friday deadline at which time it is expected to be forwarded to the House leadership.

Bachmann said after the vote to repeal, which is not expected to be duplicated in the Democrat-controlled Senate at this time, “It’s been two years since President Obama signed into law one of the most expensive and invasive pieces of legislation in the history of the United States. More and more we are seeing what then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi meant when she said the bill would have to pass in order for us to figure out what was in it. The more we learn about the scope and reach of Obamacare, the clearer it becomes that it isn’t about ‘affordable care’ – it is about bureaucratic control.”

Denise Ross opens up a big can of worms: Rounds sets up the Norbeck PAC to fund the RINOs' hold on legislative leadership

Denise Ross provides the readers of the Mitchell Daily Republic with this yesterday:

Former Gov. Mike Rounds plans to use his six-month-old political action committee named for early 20th century politician Peter Norbeck to help fund the campaigns of a certain flavor of candidate.

The one-time state Senate majority leader known for his loyalty to the GOP is sticking to helping the ranks of his own party, but he is also assisting legislative candidates who aren’t “afraid” of government’s role in modern American society, he said.

“I am primarily looking for folks who understand that private enterprise is a good thing and that conservation is a good thing, like Peter Norbeck had done,” Rounds said. “I chose Peter Norbeck as an example of good government. Here was a guy who was a successful businessman, yet he stayed actively involved in the political scene. He was responsible for the creation of Custer State Park. ... He was actively engaged in the highway system in South Dakota. He wasn’t afraid of government investment in infrastructure.

“He was looking not just at short-term stuff, but looking long-term for the state.”

In late 2011, Rounds seeded the fund with $50,000 from his still-open governor’s candidate fund, which now has $207,000 in remaining funds. The Norbeck PAC also has received $10,000 from First PREMIER Bank President Dana Dykhouse of Sioux Falls and $5,000 from the GPS PAC, funded by First PREMIER founder T. Denny Sandford.

Not surprised to see bankers involved in the "government’s role in modern American society", especially since the money is used to control the government:

Rounds said. “The last couple of years, Republicans have been very successful picking up seats in the House and Senate. It might be a stretch to fund them all using traditional methods, using Republican Party dollars. This is one more way to get people actively involved in selecting candidates for long-term leadership.”

This is exactly how RINOs end up in leadership positions. Ross opens up a big can of worms on the MDR blog and provides insight into how the media hides the liberal agenda that is being executed by the South Dakota Republican Establishment :

South Dakota’s most revered Republican leader was a Progressive, with a capital “P.” This fact could not be ignored when I referred to his Wikipedia page while writing a story about a more recent governor, Mike Rounds, founding a political action committee named for Norbeck.

As  the son of a Norwegian and a Swede in 1870, Norbeck rose through the political ranks during Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive era.

I had it in mind to reference the Gilded Age, but I was pretty sure that would miss the mark by a few years. After a few clicks to refresh my historical memory, the “P” word could not be avoided.

This from Norbeck’s Wikipedia page:

After being elected to the first of three (state Senate) terms, he joined Coe Crawford‘s inner circle of Progressives.

Mike Rounds judiciously avoided this word during our phone conversation even while praising Norbeck’s recognition of government’s role in American life. I, too, chose not to include it in the story given its loaded connotations in modern political discourse.

Loaded connotations means progressives are socialists and communists of the political left. And it also explains the loaded connotation of Rounds' "assisting legislative candidates who aren’t “afraid” of government’s role in modern American society" as the defintion of a RINO. Ross adds this:

Much of the results of Norbeck’s work have left lasting impacts in the Black Hills, including Sylvan Lake – the site of my wedding – and Iron Mountain Road – one of my favorite spots in all of South Dakota. He also worked to bring Gutzon Borglum to carve Mount Rushmore and, as Rounds noted, founded Custer State Park.

There’s a lot more to tell about Norbeck, but that’s enough for now.

Lets not stop now and run with Norbeck's interest in Gutzon Borglum:

Leaders from South Dakota were looking for a tourist attraction to bring revenue to the state and contacted Borglum about carving some faces on Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of their state. They suggested regional heroes, but Borglum told them it would be better to use national heroes, so they settled on presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt [A Progressive with a capital 'P'], and Abraham Lincoln.

He told his 12-year-old son, Lincoln, "Nothing but the Almighty can stop me from completing this task."

Borglum made a model of the figures before he started. One inch on the model represented one foot on the finished sculpture; a 1-to-12-inch scale. You will notice that more of the body and arms are shown in the original model. You can still see this model today when you visit the Sculptor's Studio at Mount Rushmore.

Senator Peter Norbeck became his ally and helped him raise money for the project. Norbeck invited the president, Calvin Coolidge, to visit the site and convinced him to arrange for the government to pay part of the cost.

So much for Rounds' claim that Norbeck believed in the private sector. But the Borglum story gets even more interesting:

Borglum was an active member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons (the Freemason), raised in Howard Lodge #35, New York City, on June 10, 1904, and serving as its Worshipful Master 1910-11. In 1915, he was appointed Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of Denmark near the Grand Lodge of New York. He received his Scottish Rite Degrees in the New York City Consistory on October 25, 1907.Borglum was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

He sat on the Imperial Koncilium in 1923, which transferred leadership of The Ku Klux Klan from Imperial Wizard Colonel Simmons to Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans. Later, he stated, “I am not a member of the Kloncilium, nor a knight of the KKK“, but Shaff and Shaff add, “that was for public consumption.”  The museum at Mount Rushmore displays a letter to Borglum from D. C. Stephenson, the infamous Klan Grand Dragon who was later convicted of the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer.

Check this out… bet you didn’t know this. He was asked to build a monument in Stone Moutain, Georgia that would memorialize Conferdate (so-called) heroes. Here are the details.

In 1915, he was approached by the United Daughters of the Confederacy with a project for sculpting a 20-foot (6 m) high bust of General Robert E. Lee on the mountain’s 800-foot (240 m) rockface. Borglum accepted, but told the committee, “Ladies, a twenty foot head of Lee on that mountainside would look like a postage stamp on a barn door.“

Borglum’s ideas eventually evolved into a high-relief frieze of Lee, Jefferson Davis, and ’Stonewall’ Jackson riding around the mountain, followed by a legion of artillery troops.

After a delay caused by World War I, Borglum and the newly-chartered Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association set to work on this unexampled monument, the size of which had never been attempted before. Many difficulties slowed progress, some because of the sheer scale involved. After finishing the detailed model of the carving, Borglum was unable to trace the figures onto the massive area on which he was working, until he developed a gigantic magic to project the image onto the side of the mountain.

Carving officially began on June 23, 1923, with Borglum making the first cut. At Stone Mountain he developed sympathetic connections with the reorganized Ku Klux Klan, who were major financial backers for the monument.

Guess who are also on the list of famous South Dakota Freemasons:

Peter Norbeck - Governor & Senator

James Abdnor - Senator

Frank Farrar -  Governor

Joe Foss - War hero, governor, commissioner of the AFL and TV personality

Hubert Humphrey - born in Wallace, SD, senator from MN, vice-president, presidential candidate

Vern Larsen - State Auditor

George McGovern - War hero, senator and presidential candidate

Arthur Melette - governor

George Mickelson - Governor

Senator Karl E. Mundt, Evergreen #17, Madison. The accomplishments of Senator Mundt almost defy belief. He was instrumental in obtaining federal funding for the Missouri River dams and hydroelectric power plants; the Interstate Highway System, with I-90 and I-29 crossing in Sioux Falls rather than in Sioux City, IA; the EROS Data center near Garretson, SD; federal funding for Joe Foss Field, Sioux Falls; federal dollars for the levee system around the Big Sioux River in Sioux Falls.

George A. Pettigrew - Surgeon Dakota National Guard, Grand Master of Masons, Grand Secretary

R. F. Pettigrew - Senator, Minnehaha No. 5, Cyrene Commandry No. 2 and one of the founders of Sioux Falls

Josiah Lake Phillips - founder of Sioux Falls (Phillips Ave.), Civil War Veteran, (16th Iowa, Surgeon), Member, Minnehaha Lodge No. 5.

George Wuest - Chief Justice of SD Supreme Court

The Borglum saga gets even better:

According to Judith Tolnick, Gutzon Borglum extolled John Ruskin as "the most marvelous, magnificent, unappreciated genius the world has ever known." The statuette of Ruskin is based on sketches that Borglum created during his stay in London, ca. 1893 through 1902. It was completed in bronze in 1904. . . . The pensive pose of the subject is remarkably similar to those of ancient Greek figures of philosophers who hold scrolls in one hand and unusually support their bearded chins with the other.

The big can of worms gets really smelly as John Ruskin also has some very interesting history:

Joan’s second book, The United Nations Global Straightjacket, documents how British Fabian Socialists/Communists following the teachings and plans of John Ruskin and Cecil Rhodes have created the United Nations Organization. She explains in depth how the British oligarchy control the UN with other key global agencies such as the Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, IMF, World Bank, and Bank for International Settlements that have been set up to bring in their dictatorial, Fascist, New World Order world government.

[Joan’s website is: www.womensgroup.org]

On page 68 of her revealing book, The United Nations Global Straightjacket, Joan writes:
“During his life, Cecil Rhodes was greatly influenced by his mentor, socialist John Ruskin (on whose grave is the swastika, the symbol of the Thule Society to which Hitler belonged) (Cuddy, 3). Ruskin was one of Rhodes’ professors at Oxford University. Over 60 years later, another student of world government – a Rhodes scholar by the name of William Jefferson Clinton – would give credit in his first inaugural address to his mentor, Professor Carroll Quigley from Georgetown University, who was one of the people responsible for his appointment as a Rhodes Scholar.”

John Ruskin and Cecil Rhodes were the “founding fathers” of British Fabian Socialist/ Communist globalism. Indeed, they were the founding fathers of modern world Fascism. Socialism was born in London, Oxford and Cambridge.

Borglum's "most marvelous, magnificent, unappreciated genius the world has ever known" is actually very creepy:

Bishops Westcott and Hort, who produced the Westcott and Hort Text underlying all modern New Age Communist bibles, like Cecil Rhodes, got much of their “Nazi/Communist” socialism from John Ruskin. The following is what Bishop Westcott said about Ruskin in a letter to the Rev. J. L. Davies, 20 January 1900:
“…The aspect of Ruskin’s character on which you dwell is of very great interest. The sentence which seems to me to sum up his later teachings, “There is no wealth but life,” is another side of it. All my reading of him is less than 10 years old, but he has been one of my best teachers since I came to the North …” (Life and Letters of Brook Foss Westcott, Volume 2, by Arthur Westcott, p.312).
The liberal churchman, Dean Stanley of Westminster, was a close friend and contemporary of Westcott and Hort. (Stanley was a leading figure on Westcott and Hort’s Old and New Testament Revised Version Committees.) He was buried in 1881 among the kings and queens in Westminster Abbey in the Henry VII Chapel near the tomb of the monarch himself. In a book about him entitled Dean Stanley of Westminster by Peter Hammond, p.199, the author has this to say:
“On his return from Russia, Stanley, though now somewhat circumscribed in his activities by the need to attend to his ailing wife, continued to speak, to lecture and to argue. In April 1874, six weeks after their return, Mrs Annie Besant knocked on the deanery door to request that he might bring the sacrament to her dying mother, who wished this but refused to receive unless her daughter received with her. By this time Annie Besant was separated from her husband … had lost her belief in Christ and was well on the way to atheism, so that, not surprisingly, two clergymen had already rejected her request … Stanley, therefore, suggested that he call on her mother at Brompton that afternoon, which he did and where he spent half-an-hour, and he returned the next day to celebrate the communion, no doubt taking the view that in those circumstances the needs of the mother outweighed the views of Mrs Besant. Her mother died two days later and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. Annie Besant went on to campaign for Theosophy, systematizing and developing Madame Blavatsky’s speculation on the mystics of the east, but she retained a respect for Stanley whose views, broad as they were, could hardly have stretched so far as to cover her later beliefs.”
Interestingly, the Theosophical Society was founded in New York City the following year, in 1875, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry S. Alcott, William Q. Judge and several others. The society went back to the Neo-Platonist/Gnostic philosophers of Alexandria in Egypt for the name and aims of the Society (taught by John Ruskin). The quintessence of religious thought gathered from India, Egypt, Babylon, Palestine and Greece was in the first centuries A.D. called ‘Theosophia’ meaning ‘divine wisdom’ by the Neo-Platonists.
In 1885 H.P. Blavatsky completed her Luciferian book, The Secret Doctrine, and it appeared in 1888 in two large volumes. This book is considered the most important Theosophical book ever written by Blavatsky. Hitler followed its occult teachings and kept a copy by his bedside. Blavatsky died in London in 1891.
The emblem of the Theosophical Society is a serpent biting its tail, a Star of David hexagram, an Egyptian Tau, a reverse Nazi swastika, and the Sanskrit letters of the occult sacred word ‘AUM’. Theosophists claim that the Nazi swastika on the emblem represents the Holy Spirit and the sacred word ‘AUM’ represents the Trinity. The Society publishes a bi-monthly magazine called Sunrise, a name that is synonymous of those who worship the sun.
Interestingly, John Ruskin’s gravestone at Coniston in Britain has a Nazi swastika on it surrounded by a circle representing a serpent biting its tail. It also has an intricate carving of a sunrise carved on it!
Annie Besant’s mother was living in Brompton. Could there be some connection between the ‘Holy Spirit’ at Holy Trinity Brompton, the Alpha course, and the Neo-Platonist Gnosticism taught by devious characters like John Ruskin, Annie Besant and H.P. Blavatsky? There is of course, and this important question will be answered later in much greater detail in chapter fifteen, How the Babylonian Eucharist became the Star of Lucifer.

Remember Gutson Borglum, a member of Freemasonry and the Ku Klux Klan, said Ruskin was "the most marvelous, magnificent, unappreciated genius the world has ever known":

Although not widely recognized, in the opinion of this author, John Ruskin’s “Gnostic/Fascist/Nazi/Communist” Luciferian teachings have had more impact on the last hundred years or so than any other modern author in the world.
As a devout Freemason, Ruskin derived many of his occult beliefs directly from Plato. Ruskin was devoted to the creation of a master/slave society based upon the principles of eugenics largely derived from Plato’s Republic (Malthusian Eugenics is the socialist philosophy of depopulation through the planned reduction of inferior races).
Ruskin envisaged a race of “human thoroughbreds” led by a British socialist elite ruling class, whose sole purpose was ultimately to dominate, own and rule the world under a globalist government using the British Commonwealth of Nations structure as their preferred model.
Malthusian ‘Darwinism’ population control techniques, (which include the deliberate neglect of populations or killing off undesirable populations or ‘useless eaters’), were practiced by National Socialism (Nazism) in Germany and International Socialism in Marxist Russia. This philosophy is now once again being followed by the Marxist/Fabian Socialist/Fascist oligarchy that fund and run the United Nations Organization and European Union.

The Mitchell Daily Republic has it work cut out if it wants to tell its readers the whole truth about the legacy behind Norbeck and Borglum and why Rounds' Norbeck PAC provides what "government’s role in modern American society" really is...modern New Age Communism that rejects America's founding fathers so they can be replaced with the “founding fathers” of British Fabian Socialist/ Communist globalism. Perhaps now we know why both Rounds and now Daugaard's economic development and education policies are driven by "the global economy", and why they willingly violate the separation of powers and interfere as executive branch members with the election of members to the legislative branch.

It is also interesting that two of the economic and education policy ideas passed by the SDGOP legislature have been referred to a vote this November by the South Dakota Democrats. Both laws, tax subsidies for big projects including wind energy and the teacher merit pay plan, are policies that Obama would agree with. Certainly they would be policies that true conservatives, libertarians, and Tea Party activists would reject. 

Conservatives should give pause when they hear RINOs demonize Democrats and Obamacare. At the same time, far-left Democrats at the Madville Times have attacked me for exposing the New Age Theocracy that is setting up the New World Order right here in South Dakota. What is really sad is how most people don't understand that the establishments of both political parties are for a one-world master/slave government, thanks to the media who is afraid to violate the laws of political correctness and not explain the truth behind things like "Progressive".