What is it in the COTUS that leads some to the conclusion that “elections have consequences”?
When I read the COTUS I conclude that the federal government is elected to fulfill specifically delineated responsibilities within the purview of specifically limited authorities; and to “preserve, protect, and defend the COTUS”: only this and nothing more.
Article II does grant the president authority to “appoint” Justices to the SCOTUS with the advice and consent of the Senate. Since both the president and the senators are solemnly sworn to defend the COTUS it stands to reason that the appointment should be a no-brainer: someone who can be counted on to defend the COTUS. However, this president has an abominable record of appointing to high office those who not only do not defend the COTUS but are avowed enemies of the COTUS. Therefore the rightful role of the Senate is to assure that the appointee to the SCOTUS can be relied on to defend the COTUS in the event the president fails to do so in his appointee.
There is no provision in the COTUS for appointing a ‘liberal’ Justice or a ‘conservative’ Justice, and there is no authority for either political party to do so. Whoever is appointed must be approved based solely on their demonstrated proclivity to defend the COTUS in all cases.
I also believe that the Senate is shirking their responsibility to hold this president accountable for his many failures to honor his oath of office: including but not limited to; his extortion of the bond holders for GM and Chrysler; his suborning of the bankruptcy laws of the US; his failure to ‘take care that the laws of the US are faithfully executed’; and his failure to appoint to high office those dedicated to defending the COTUS.
There is no basis in the Constitution for the statement “elections have consequences”. In fact the COTUS stands firmly opposed to that concept.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Why Politicians fear the Tea Party Movement
Why are Party Politicians so afraid of the Tea Party Movement?
The left, including the Lame Stream Media is grasping at any straw possible to attempt to marginalize and condemn the TPM. False claims of racism, homophobia, sexism, ageism, violence, intolerance, yada, yada, yada; represent desperate efforts to suggest to reasonable folks that they shouldn’t be attracted to this truly grass-roots response to tyrannical federal government.
The TPM is a real threat to big government: be it Democrat or Republican. The federal power abusers are on notice that Americans are fed-up with elected representatives and their minions who run rough-shod over the Constitution; and in the process enslave free Citizens.
For several generations progressive Republicans and Democrats have been chipping away at the COTUS and the protection of inalienable rights we get from our Creator. In the process they have corrupted a federal government created to protect private property and transformed it into a government intent on confiscating private property.
There was a time, specifically between 1950 and 1970 that American economic power was at it’s zenith in the absence of competitive global manufacturing capacity destroyed in WWII. Generous Americans didn’t interfere as politicians and unions decided how the resultant surplus revenue would be distributed for social objectives nowhere authorized in the COTUS.
Rather than funding a “leveling of the playing field” as promised, our elected representatives used this revenue to create a permanent government dependent underclass at the expense of productive Americans. This also explains the progressive support for illegal alien amnesty. The number of tax revenue consumers has expanded to the point that their votes can trump the tax revenue producers at the polls. This is a dangerous condition not seen in America since 1850.
When producers have no effective legal recourse against property confiscation by non-producing consumers, bad things are likely to happen.
The TPM is an effort by COTUS-loving Citizens to restore a Constitutional America because history has clearly demonstrated that the principles inherent in the COTUS are the most effective means to set-free individual initiative and creativity for the benefit of all.
Government cannot create prosperity because it can only consume. Every tax-funded job not essential to protect private property detracts from prosperity for all by consuming resources that could be used more effectively by the Free Market.
The Free Market is most efficient because it is consumer-driven: consumers reward effective solutions with their business while simultaneously culling ineffective providers. Government is incapable of doing the same because politicians are most concerned with political self-preservation, not consumer satisfaction. We have innumerable examples of government intervention causing economic catastrophes’. Elitists solve problems that only they see, while the Free Market solves problems consumers have.
The Constitution was created by some of the greatest minds in human history. It defined a government of strictly limited powers; with strictly limited responsibilities; designed to eliminate obstructions to developing and acquiring property (the rightful fruit of one’s labor and intelligence).
The TPM represents the reawakening of American Citizens to the power, simplicity, and genius of the COTUS. If this movement is successful it will spell the end of tyrannical federal government; and it will reverse the many perversions of the COTUS implemented over the past 100 years. Followed to it’s logical conclusion, success of the TPM spells the end of the political party system as we know it because political parties do nothing to enhance a Constitutional America: In fact they do quite the opposite. Political parties exist to corrupt the electoral process.
To restore America, restore the Constitution.
The left, including the Lame Stream Media is grasping at any straw possible to attempt to marginalize and condemn the TPM. False claims of racism, homophobia, sexism, ageism, violence, intolerance, yada, yada, yada; represent desperate efforts to suggest to reasonable folks that they shouldn’t be attracted to this truly grass-roots response to tyrannical federal government.
The TPM is a real threat to big government: be it Democrat or Republican. The federal power abusers are on notice that Americans are fed-up with elected representatives and their minions who run rough-shod over the Constitution; and in the process enslave free Citizens.
For several generations progressive Republicans and Democrats have been chipping away at the COTUS and the protection of inalienable rights we get from our Creator. In the process they have corrupted a federal government created to protect private property and transformed it into a government intent on confiscating private property.
There was a time, specifically between 1950 and 1970 that American economic power was at it’s zenith in the absence of competitive global manufacturing capacity destroyed in WWII. Generous Americans didn’t interfere as politicians and unions decided how the resultant surplus revenue would be distributed for social objectives nowhere authorized in the COTUS.
Rather than funding a “leveling of the playing field” as promised, our elected representatives used this revenue to create a permanent government dependent underclass at the expense of productive Americans. This also explains the progressive support for illegal alien amnesty. The number of tax revenue consumers has expanded to the point that their votes can trump the tax revenue producers at the polls. This is a dangerous condition not seen in America since 1850.
When producers have no effective legal recourse against property confiscation by non-producing consumers, bad things are likely to happen.
The TPM is an effort by COTUS-loving Citizens to restore a Constitutional America because history has clearly demonstrated that the principles inherent in the COTUS are the most effective means to set-free individual initiative and creativity for the benefit of all.
Government cannot create prosperity because it can only consume. Every tax-funded job not essential to protect private property detracts from prosperity for all by consuming resources that could be used more effectively by the Free Market.
The Free Market is most efficient because it is consumer-driven: consumers reward effective solutions with their business while simultaneously culling ineffective providers. Government is incapable of doing the same because politicians are most concerned with political self-preservation, not consumer satisfaction. We have innumerable examples of government intervention causing economic catastrophes’. Elitists solve problems that only they see, while the Free Market solves problems consumers have.
The Constitution was created by some of the greatest minds in human history. It defined a government of strictly limited powers; with strictly limited responsibilities; designed to eliminate obstructions to developing and acquiring property (the rightful fruit of one’s labor and intelligence).
The TPM represents the reawakening of American Citizens to the power, simplicity, and genius of the COTUS. If this movement is successful it will spell the end of tyrannical federal government; and it will reverse the many perversions of the COTUS implemented over the past 100 years. Followed to it’s logical conclusion, success of the TPM spells the end of the political party system as we know it because political parties do nothing to enhance a Constitutional America: In fact they do quite the opposite. Political parties exist to corrupt the electoral process.
To restore America, restore the Constitution.
Taxation is NOT the core value of Citizenship
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/04/12/the_true_patriotism_of_paying_taxes/
Mr. Carroll appears to re-write history to fit his uber-liberal interpretation of how life should be. Liberals are always driven by their elitist disregard for realities other than their own misperceptions.
A simple reading of the Constitution makes it clear that the Founding Fathers intended to deny to the federal government any authority to directly tax Citizens, funding the federal government through duties on exports to be paid by foreigners. Unfortunately the 16th Amendment removed this most important safeguard against government tyranny that continues to grow daily. The 16th Amendment can, and must, be repealed.
Mr. Carroll misrepresents what did happen with what should have happened. To suggest that submission to taxation is the “core value of citizenship” is perversion beyond comprehension.
Mr. Lincoln went to war for one reason only: to preserve the taxes he needed to fund his beloved “internal improvements” (government spending programs that produced no tangible benefits beyond lining the pockets of his cronies). Ft. Sumter was a Tax Office, not a slave market. 85% of the federal revenue came from duties on cotton sold to Great Britain; and 100% of those revenues were spent in the North or funded policies detrimental to the South: thus the justification to secede.
Obama worship of Lincoln has nothing to do with emancipation; it has everything to do with expansion of oppressive federal government. It was Lincoln that changed the balance of power between the Sovereign States and the federal government created for their convenience: at a cost of 600,000 dead and more than 1 Million wounded.
Read the Constitution Mr. Carroll and you will learn that the government was created to protect property, not confiscate it. You probably believe that ObamaCare is about healthcare: you know the bill that doesn’t add a single health care provider, but does add 16,000 new IRS agents.
You also misrepresent the Tea Party Movement. It is about restoring Constitutional government; not just protesting taxes.
Every government decision is subject to prior sale. Concentration of power in DC does nothing more than provide a single point for corruption. It is virtually impossible to bribe 300 Million Americans, but it is ridiculously easy to corrupt a handful of politicians: as history continues to prove. The “severe economic downturn” that troubles you was entirely the result of federal government policies magnified by intentional Congressional malfeasance.
You will find nothing in the Constitution that authorizes the federal government to be a “safety net”; nothing that authorizes federal charity; or federal ‘social engineering’. What you will find is a very carefully crafted organization model designed to make it very difficult to impose federal will on Citizens; and devoid of the financial resources to do so. We need to restore that model.
If you want socialism, there are hundreds of countries in the world from which to choose. America is not one of them. Delta is ready when you are!
Mr. Carroll appears to re-write history to fit his uber-liberal interpretation of how life should be. Liberals are always driven by their elitist disregard for realities other than their own misperceptions.
A simple reading of the Constitution makes it clear that the Founding Fathers intended to deny to the federal government any authority to directly tax Citizens, funding the federal government through duties on exports to be paid by foreigners. Unfortunately the 16th Amendment removed this most important safeguard against government tyranny that continues to grow daily. The 16th Amendment can, and must, be repealed.
Mr. Carroll misrepresents what did happen with what should have happened. To suggest that submission to taxation is the “core value of citizenship” is perversion beyond comprehension.
Mr. Lincoln went to war for one reason only: to preserve the taxes he needed to fund his beloved “internal improvements” (government spending programs that produced no tangible benefits beyond lining the pockets of his cronies). Ft. Sumter was a Tax Office, not a slave market. 85% of the federal revenue came from duties on cotton sold to Great Britain; and 100% of those revenues were spent in the North or funded policies detrimental to the South: thus the justification to secede.
Obama worship of Lincoln has nothing to do with emancipation; it has everything to do with expansion of oppressive federal government. It was Lincoln that changed the balance of power between the Sovereign States and the federal government created for their convenience: at a cost of 600,000 dead and more than 1 Million wounded.
Read the Constitution Mr. Carroll and you will learn that the government was created to protect property, not confiscate it. You probably believe that ObamaCare is about healthcare: you know the bill that doesn’t add a single health care provider, but does add 16,000 new IRS agents.
You also misrepresent the Tea Party Movement. It is about restoring Constitutional government; not just protesting taxes.
Every government decision is subject to prior sale. Concentration of power in DC does nothing more than provide a single point for corruption. It is virtually impossible to bribe 300 Million Americans, but it is ridiculously easy to corrupt a handful of politicians: as history continues to prove. The “severe economic downturn” that troubles you was entirely the result of federal government policies magnified by intentional Congressional malfeasance.
You will find nothing in the Constitution that authorizes the federal government to be a “safety net”; nothing that authorizes federal charity; or federal ‘social engineering’. What you will find is a very carefully crafted organization model designed to make it very difficult to impose federal will on Citizens; and devoid of the financial resources to do so. We need to restore that model.
If you want socialism, there are hundreds of countries in the world from which to choose. America is not one of them. Delta is ready when you are!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
It's Decision Time America
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/04/06/race_and_politics_105052.html
As usual Dr. Sewell offers sage advice. He also makes a clear observation that president Obama appears more interested in retribution and punishment of an economic system and a political system that he thinks is flawed because he believes that it has disadvantaged people of color than he is in actually advancing society.
As is usually the case when emotion trumps reality Obama has it backwards. Ideologues embrace a notion regardless of the facts of it's implementation. Communism and Socialism and Marxism and Progressivism all sound like Utopia if people would simply embrace them. But in reality when those economic systems are imposed on people they are rejected. Those who would impose them then "weed out" those who oppose them to eliminate the negativity of objectivity. As those who would follow (rather than those who would lead) also reject the idealism of the ideology, measures to force their compliance become increasingly Draconian. History proves this without exception.
What is so amazing about our Founding Fathers is that they championed individual liberty coupled with individual responsibility realizing that when a person is free to pursue that which motivates him greatest, as long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of others, the general public will benefit greatly. History has proven that too.
They created a form of government unique in all history, committed to protect the right of individual property (the fruit of individual labor and intelligence) and severely restricted from confiscation of property or subjugation of free speech and ideas.
The Free Market is so wonderfully efficient precisely because production is controlled by the consumer without extraneous overhead or third-party management. Overhead offers no inherent value and third-party management instantaneously engages in decision-making to serve their needs rather than those of the producer or the consumer.
Third party management (Government intervention and control) of the economy dooms it because it can offer nothing but harmful interference with the natural operation of the Free Market in pursuit of governance self-preservation. Government interference expands until the Free Market is paralyzed and can no longer function effectively. There are no better examples of this than our tax code; our environmental regulations; and now health care insurance regulations all of which are incomprehensible not because of their inherent attributes but because of the government controls embedded to manage and enforce them.
President Obama has many times stated that his objective is to “fundamentally transform the USA” to advantage people of color at the expense of all others. His objective is a Fool’s Errand because it cannot be done without destroying advantage for all: especially those he most wants to advantage.
It bears noting that so many immigrants come to America with no resources and often unable to even communicate in English and within a generation or two achieve objective success because the Free Enterprise system enables them to do so. At the same time we have generation upon generation never moving off government handouts. The difference is the former grabs for the fruits of free enterprise while the latter grabs only for it’s crumbs. The fault is not in the system, it is in the individual.
History proves that government can never hope to mandate prosperity: at best they can offer the barest of subsistence unless they dedicate themselves to the elimination of impediments to free market prosperity.
Every dollar confiscated by government is a dollar that will never create prosperity. Every dollar mandated to non-value-added products or services through government regulation or restriction is a dollar that will never create prosperity.
America is at a decision point: we can either embrace the economic system that has created the greatest, most prosperous, most inclusive, most productive; most generous; and most inventive society in human history; or we can embrace the universally discredited ideology of a bigoted president who has no experience and has never accomplished anything of value who is clearly dedicated to destroying that economic system. The choice is clear. The outcome is not.
As usual Dr. Sewell offers sage advice. He also makes a clear observation that president Obama appears more interested in retribution and punishment of an economic system and a political system that he thinks is flawed because he believes that it has disadvantaged people of color than he is in actually advancing society.
As is usually the case when emotion trumps reality Obama has it backwards. Ideologues embrace a notion regardless of the facts of it's implementation. Communism and Socialism and Marxism and Progressivism all sound like Utopia if people would simply embrace them. But in reality when those economic systems are imposed on people they are rejected. Those who would impose them then "weed out" those who oppose them to eliminate the negativity of objectivity. As those who would follow (rather than those who would lead) also reject the idealism of the ideology, measures to force their compliance become increasingly Draconian. History proves this without exception.
What is so amazing about our Founding Fathers is that they championed individual liberty coupled with individual responsibility realizing that when a person is free to pursue that which motivates him greatest, as long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of others, the general public will benefit greatly. History has proven that too.
They created a form of government unique in all history, committed to protect the right of individual property (the fruit of individual labor and intelligence) and severely restricted from confiscation of property or subjugation of free speech and ideas.
The Free Market is so wonderfully efficient precisely because production is controlled by the consumer without extraneous overhead or third-party management. Overhead offers no inherent value and third-party management instantaneously engages in decision-making to serve their needs rather than those of the producer or the consumer.
Third party management (Government intervention and control) of the economy dooms it because it can offer nothing but harmful interference with the natural operation of the Free Market in pursuit of governance self-preservation. Government interference expands until the Free Market is paralyzed and can no longer function effectively. There are no better examples of this than our tax code; our environmental regulations; and now health care insurance regulations all of which are incomprehensible not because of their inherent attributes but because of the government controls embedded to manage and enforce them.
President Obama has many times stated that his objective is to “fundamentally transform the USA” to advantage people of color at the expense of all others. His objective is a Fool’s Errand because it cannot be done without destroying advantage for all: especially those he most wants to advantage.
It bears noting that so many immigrants come to America with no resources and often unable to even communicate in English and within a generation or two achieve objective success because the Free Enterprise system enables them to do so. At the same time we have generation upon generation never moving off government handouts. The difference is the former grabs for the fruits of free enterprise while the latter grabs only for it’s crumbs. The fault is not in the system, it is in the individual.
History proves that government can never hope to mandate prosperity: at best they can offer the barest of subsistence unless they dedicate themselves to the elimination of impediments to free market prosperity.
Every dollar confiscated by government is a dollar that will never create prosperity. Every dollar mandated to non-value-added products or services through government regulation or restriction is a dollar that will never create prosperity.
America is at a decision point: we can either embrace the economic system that has created the greatest, most prosperous, most inclusive, most productive; most generous; and most inventive society in human history; or we can embrace the universally discredited ideology of a bigoted president who has no experience and has never accomplished anything of value who is clearly dedicated to destroying that economic system. The choice is clear. The outcome is not.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Government is the problem, not the solution!
Too many pundits and politicians are totally clueless about business, profits, taxes, entitlements, and jobs.
The Founding Fathers denied the federal government any authority to tax Citizens because politicians can't be trusted with that authority. Our current crop of corruption in DC is excellent proof.
We now have one of the most business and economics-ignorant presidents in our long history. We are straddled with an incompetent, corrupt, and incorrigible Congress that has no interest beyond misappropriating as much wealth for their individual members as possible. Both moronic groups think they can confiscate all private wealth and miraculously expand it to do the impossible as public wealth (while first taking their generous cut of course).
Government is incapable of creating worthwhile jobs because all such spending will be directed to the personal interests of the most powerful decision-makers. Government can only establish an environment where meaningful private sector jobs can be created. However, in order to do so they must give up power and control, which those in government will almost never willingly do.
The US in the 1950s and 1960s when so much of our existing infrastructure was built was a much different land than now. We dominated global manufacturing without real competition; meaning we had excellent high paying jobs generating taxes that could fund internal improvements. That US no longer exists and will never return.
Insatiably greedy politicians; and industry-destroying unions have seen to that. Socialist programs and Political Correctness (Affirmative Action, Minority set-asides, high minimum wage, Welfare, never-ending industrial and agricultural subsidies, protected classes etc) have driven competition and excellence out of our industries, our schools, our businesses and our government.
When the Interstate highway system was originally built, every penny came back in to the US economy to spur growth in support and service industries. Today, whatever we spend to restore our infrastructure, more than 50% will leave America as immigrant laborers send their wages home. No new labor pool will be trained because itinerant illegals (most with forged documents) will be around only as long as the job lasts.
Deficits must first be eliminated before there can be jobs. Entitlements don’t create jobs or employment, they destroy them. Every dollar confiscated by the government is a dollar that will never see productive use. Government jobs can’t create revenue, they can only consume revenue.
As we look at public sector employment that pays 40% more than the private sector; as we look at federal employment that pays 75% more than the private sector we see a real problem: how can the private sector, the only source of revenue, possibly pay more for government employment than they pay for their own employment? Can the allowance you pay your children be more than you make?
Only unfettered competition is capable of continuous quality improvement and cost reduction. Government can’t because corrupt politicians always take their cut first, and distribute the rest to keep themselves in power: they have no motivation to innovate or improve productivity. When was the last time a government job or program was eliminated as unnecessary or ineffective?
The so-called Stimulus program did nothing beyond continue to fund government jobs (federal, State, and local) in the absence of tax revenue that evaporated with the brutal contraction in the private sector (caused entirely by government interference in the free market). This creates a situation where we are paying a 40%~75% premium to maintain revenue-consuming jobs at the complete expense of restoring revenue-generating jobs.
Government can’t create “green jobs”. Only market demand can create any real jobs. When the government manipulates the allocation of resources by adding non-value-added expenses like Cap and Trade taxes (or any tax), EPA restrictions and regulations, forced unionization (which are always non-value-added) it serves only to drive innovation and the jobs thus created elsewhere. We certainly have ample proof of that.
FDR didn’t bring America out of the Depression, the explosive industrial expansion required to support World War II did that. With industrial capacity destroyed by the war everywhere but America; and with America having fine-tuned manufacturing proficiency by the war effort it is no wonder that we had unimaginable prosperity for the 20 years following WWII. Those days are gone and will never return. The free spending and outrageous social spending that enabled is equally gone, not to return.
If America is to survive, it will only be with a massive reduction in government and government spending. Unfortunately we have a president who is too dumb to understand that; too arrogant to learn it; and a Congress too corrupt to allow it.
Reagan was right: Government isn’t the solution, it’s the problem!
The Founding Fathers denied the federal government any authority to tax Citizens because politicians can't be trusted with that authority. Our current crop of corruption in DC is excellent proof.
We now have one of the most business and economics-ignorant presidents in our long history. We are straddled with an incompetent, corrupt, and incorrigible Congress that has no interest beyond misappropriating as much wealth for their individual members as possible. Both moronic groups think they can confiscate all private wealth and miraculously expand it to do the impossible as public wealth (while first taking their generous cut of course).
Government is incapable of creating worthwhile jobs because all such spending will be directed to the personal interests of the most powerful decision-makers. Government can only establish an environment where meaningful private sector jobs can be created. However, in order to do so they must give up power and control, which those in government will almost never willingly do.
The US in the 1950s and 1960s when so much of our existing infrastructure was built was a much different land than now. We dominated global manufacturing without real competition; meaning we had excellent high paying jobs generating taxes that could fund internal improvements. That US no longer exists and will never return.
Insatiably greedy politicians; and industry-destroying unions have seen to that. Socialist programs and Political Correctness (Affirmative Action, Minority set-asides, high minimum wage, Welfare, never-ending industrial and agricultural subsidies, protected classes etc) have driven competition and excellence out of our industries, our schools, our businesses and our government.
When the Interstate highway system was originally built, every penny came back in to the US economy to spur growth in support and service industries. Today, whatever we spend to restore our infrastructure, more than 50% will leave America as immigrant laborers send their wages home. No new labor pool will be trained because itinerant illegals (most with forged documents) will be around only as long as the job lasts.
Deficits must first be eliminated before there can be jobs. Entitlements don’t create jobs or employment, they destroy them. Every dollar confiscated by the government is a dollar that will never see productive use. Government jobs can’t create revenue, they can only consume revenue.
As we look at public sector employment that pays 40% more than the private sector; as we look at federal employment that pays 75% more than the private sector we see a real problem: how can the private sector, the only source of revenue, possibly pay more for government employment than they pay for their own employment? Can the allowance you pay your children be more than you make?
Only unfettered competition is capable of continuous quality improvement and cost reduction. Government can’t because corrupt politicians always take their cut first, and distribute the rest to keep themselves in power: they have no motivation to innovate or improve productivity. When was the last time a government job or program was eliminated as unnecessary or ineffective?
The so-called Stimulus program did nothing beyond continue to fund government jobs (federal, State, and local) in the absence of tax revenue that evaporated with the brutal contraction in the private sector (caused entirely by government interference in the free market). This creates a situation where we are paying a 40%~75% premium to maintain revenue-consuming jobs at the complete expense of restoring revenue-generating jobs.
Government can’t create “green jobs”. Only market demand can create any real jobs. When the government manipulates the allocation of resources by adding non-value-added expenses like Cap and Trade taxes (or any tax), EPA restrictions and regulations, forced unionization (which are always non-value-added) it serves only to drive innovation and the jobs thus created elsewhere. We certainly have ample proof of that.
FDR didn’t bring America out of the Depression, the explosive industrial expansion required to support World War II did that. With industrial capacity destroyed by the war everywhere but America; and with America having fine-tuned manufacturing proficiency by the war effort it is no wonder that we had unimaginable prosperity for the 20 years following WWII. Those days are gone and will never return. The free spending and outrageous social spending that enabled is equally gone, not to return.
If America is to survive, it will only be with a massive reduction in government and government spending. Unfortunately we have a president who is too dumb to understand that; too arrogant to learn it; and a Congress too corrupt to allow it.
Reagan was right: Government isn’t the solution, it’s the problem!
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Barack Obama is No Friend of America
Those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it.
President Obama is a self-proclaimed proponent of Lincoln and has gone out of his way in an attempt to establish parallels between himself and Lincoln. Maybe we should have paid more attention to that affinity and what it may mean.
160 years ago America faced a Constitutional crisis. New England, the section that most benefited from the trade in slaves; and in the tax revenue derived from their labor (federal revenue was limited to the duties on exports-predominantly cotton) became a hot bed of Abolitionism, campaigning vociferously for the immediate end of slavery.
There is no benefit to address the morality of slavery. It is a vile institution that existed from the beginning of time and persists even today in many countries governed and predominated by people of color. According to the Constitution however, slavery was a protected institution that existed in every colony at the time of adoption of the COTUS.
The Constitution establishes the federal government and dictates that all government spending bills originate in the House. The representation in the House is based on population. The influx of immigrant population, especially from 1850 concentrated in the North because immigrants knew that they couldn’t compete with slave labor for jobs.
This population shift favoring the North resulted in a continuously diminishing voice of the South in the House; and subsequently in the allocation of government spending. 85% of the federal revenue came from the export of cotton from the South but all the spending was going to the North. For the South it was “Taxation without Representation” all over again.
Lincoln’s War, erroneously but commonly referred to as the Civil War (which it was not) was the result of oppressive taxation of the South; uncontrolled non-productive government spending for infrastructure in the North; and un-Constitutional restriction on slavery and it’s expansion into opening territories that denied Southern interests any hope of restoring voice for their interests in the House.
Lincoln freely admitted that even if he had an interest in ending slavery (which he denied), he had no Constitutional authority to do so. While proclaiming his interest in avoiding war, Lincoln deceitfully prepared to resupply Ft Sumter (a Tax Office, not a Slave Market) knowing that doing so would force the South to fire the first shot and thereby fallaciously give the North the ‘moral high-ground’ in the war of his making.
Lincoln went to war to preserve the taxes that were essential for his support of “internal improvements” (government spending programs). Lincoln violated the COTUS repeatedly; jailed over 3000 newspaper editors and owners for the crime of disagreeing with his war policies; suspended habeas corpus; issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a War Powers Act in hopes of fomenting revolt of slaves against the women and children left on the farm (it failed); he directed his battle-hardened armies to make war on Southern civilians; among many other un-Constitutional acts. He did not do these in support of his Constitutional responsibilities, he did them to advance his personal agenda that even he understood would not pass Constitutional muster. He put preservation of “Union” above Constitutional government despite that there is no Constitutional justification for doing so. In other words, Lincoln blatantly and illegally placed himself and his administration above the Constitution in order to accomplish his agenda: he fundamentally transformed the USA at a cost of 600,000 killed and more than 1,000,000 wounded in the bloodiest war in US history. As a result, Lincoln is rightfully considered the father of oppressive federal government.
Barack Obama has promised to ‘fundamentally transform the USA’ and Lincoln is his model. He has already established government control over major financial institutions, two thirds of the American auto industry; forced banks to invest in worthless Treasuries to finance his ever increasing debt; and now at least temporarily, taken control over the insurance industry essentially giving him complete control over health care that represents over 16% of the US economy. In the same act he has taken control of college loan processes that enable 35% of all US college students to fund their education.
Obama has issued executive orders that suborn US Sovereignty to the World Court; exempted Interpol from public accountability and from compliance with Constitutional protections of US Citizen rights. Obama has insulted our staunchest allies even as he has prostrated himself to foreign despots. He has put people in critical policy positions that undermine everything that a Constitutional America holds sacred.
Obama has long-established connections with ACORN and with SEIU: ACORN has a well-earned reputation for fraudulent voter registration and misuse of government funding while SEIU succors dues from millions of (mostly government) union members to fund political contributions and provide election manpower both widely used to determine the outcome of elections in America.
Obama has publically stated that he has no appreciation for the restrictions placed on the federal government by the COTUS; he has publically suborned the laws that he is sworn to assure are faithfully executed; he has nominated a Supreme Court Justice with a proven record of racism and sexism; he has appointed self-proclaimed Marxists and Maoists to the highest levels of government; he has publically embraced despots and snubbed republicans.
He has repeatedly gone behind the backs of the Congress and the American people to forged deals in darkness counter to the best interests of America and Americans. Clearly he is not to be trusted.
It is long past the point that Barack Obama be given any benefit of the doubt. He is a self-proclaimed threat to the American way of life. He must be treated accordingly; by responsibly questioning his every statement; investigating his every action; elucidating his every relationship; and most of all by holding him accountable to the COTUS and his sworn responsibilities.
Barack Obama is no friend of America or the American people. The sooner we remove him from office, the better it will be for freedom, liberty, and prosperity for all Americans.
President Obama is a self-proclaimed proponent of Lincoln and has gone out of his way in an attempt to establish parallels between himself and Lincoln. Maybe we should have paid more attention to that affinity and what it may mean.
160 years ago America faced a Constitutional crisis. New England, the section that most benefited from the trade in slaves; and in the tax revenue derived from their labor (federal revenue was limited to the duties on exports-predominantly cotton) became a hot bed of Abolitionism, campaigning vociferously for the immediate end of slavery.
There is no benefit to address the morality of slavery. It is a vile institution that existed from the beginning of time and persists even today in many countries governed and predominated by people of color. According to the Constitution however, slavery was a protected institution that existed in every colony at the time of adoption of the COTUS.
The Constitution establishes the federal government and dictates that all government spending bills originate in the House. The representation in the House is based on population. The influx of immigrant population, especially from 1850 concentrated in the North because immigrants knew that they couldn’t compete with slave labor for jobs.
This population shift favoring the North resulted in a continuously diminishing voice of the South in the House; and subsequently in the allocation of government spending. 85% of the federal revenue came from the export of cotton from the South but all the spending was going to the North. For the South it was “Taxation without Representation” all over again.
Lincoln’s War, erroneously but commonly referred to as the Civil War (which it was not) was the result of oppressive taxation of the South; uncontrolled non-productive government spending for infrastructure in the North; and un-Constitutional restriction on slavery and it’s expansion into opening territories that denied Southern interests any hope of restoring voice for their interests in the House.
Lincoln freely admitted that even if he had an interest in ending slavery (which he denied), he had no Constitutional authority to do so. While proclaiming his interest in avoiding war, Lincoln deceitfully prepared to resupply Ft Sumter (a Tax Office, not a Slave Market) knowing that doing so would force the South to fire the first shot and thereby fallaciously give the North the ‘moral high-ground’ in the war of his making.
Lincoln went to war to preserve the taxes that were essential for his support of “internal improvements” (government spending programs). Lincoln violated the COTUS repeatedly; jailed over 3000 newspaper editors and owners for the crime of disagreeing with his war policies; suspended habeas corpus; issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a War Powers Act in hopes of fomenting revolt of slaves against the women and children left on the farm (it failed); he directed his battle-hardened armies to make war on Southern civilians; among many other un-Constitutional acts. He did not do these in support of his Constitutional responsibilities, he did them to advance his personal agenda that even he understood would not pass Constitutional muster. He put preservation of “Union” above Constitutional government despite that there is no Constitutional justification for doing so. In other words, Lincoln blatantly and illegally placed himself and his administration above the Constitution in order to accomplish his agenda: he fundamentally transformed the USA at a cost of 600,000 killed and more than 1,000,000 wounded in the bloodiest war in US history. As a result, Lincoln is rightfully considered the father of oppressive federal government.
Barack Obama has promised to ‘fundamentally transform the USA’ and Lincoln is his model. He has already established government control over major financial institutions, two thirds of the American auto industry; forced banks to invest in worthless Treasuries to finance his ever increasing debt; and now at least temporarily, taken control over the insurance industry essentially giving him complete control over health care that represents over 16% of the US economy. In the same act he has taken control of college loan processes that enable 35% of all US college students to fund their education.
Obama has issued executive orders that suborn US Sovereignty to the World Court; exempted Interpol from public accountability and from compliance with Constitutional protections of US Citizen rights. Obama has insulted our staunchest allies even as he has prostrated himself to foreign despots. He has put people in critical policy positions that undermine everything that a Constitutional America holds sacred.
Obama has long-established connections with ACORN and with SEIU: ACORN has a well-earned reputation for fraudulent voter registration and misuse of government funding while SEIU succors dues from millions of (mostly government) union members to fund political contributions and provide election manpower both widely used to determine the outcome of elections in America.
Obama has publically stated that he has no appreciation for the restrictions placed on the federal government by the COTUS; he has publically suborned the laws that he is sworn to assure are faithfully executed; he has nominated a Supreme Court Justice with a proven record of racism and sexism; he has appointed self-proclaimed Marxists and Maoists to the highest levels of government; he has publically embraced despots and snubbed republicans.
He has repeatedly gone behind the backs of the Congress and the American people to forged deals in darkness counter to the best interests of America and Americans. Clearly he is not to be trusted.
It is long past the point that Barack Obama be given any benefit of the doubt. He is a self-proclaimed threat to the American way of life. He must be treated accordingly; by responsibly questioning his every statement; investigating his every action; elucidating his every relationship; and most of all by holding him accountable to the COTUS and his sworn responsibilities.
Barack Obama is no friend of America or the American people. The sooner we remove him from office, the better it will be for freedom, liberty, and prosperity for all Americans.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Obama fiddles; America burns
At a time when many Americans are worried about keeping their jobs, their homes, and putting food on their table, the federal government has just voted to confiscate up to an additional 20% of their income to pay for health care insurance under threat of prison. ObamaCare does nothing to add health care providers to handle the increased demand, but it does add 16,000 IRS agents to make sure that everyone buys health care insurance: a fact that speaks volumes about the true purpose of this legislation!
Those who are clueless about economics proclaim this as a victory of monumental proportions, but it is quite the opposite. In Massachusetts, RomneyCare promised all the glowing benefits of ObamaCare. Rather than reducing the cost of health care, MA now has the highest insurance premiums in the nation, exceeding the national average by a whopping 27% even as they continue to increase at 10% per year. But even that isn’t enough as they are now asking for $1.5 Billion in federal subsidies to keep RomneyCare solvent for another year. 50% of the physicians in MA are no longer accepting new patients, making actual health care unavailable for most, and those who can get in to see a doctor wait an average of 44 days. This of course drives sick people to the emergency room with more than 50% of services provided there now consumed in non-emergency services. In anticipation of reduced demand, reimbursement payments to hospitals for uninsured patient services have been reduced (even as actual demand has increased) driving many MA hospitals into bankruptcy.
The icing on the cake in MA is that new business starts are down 16% since the implementation of RomneyCare as entrepreneurs choose New Hampshire instead of MA for their new enterprises. With the implementation of ObamaCare, moving jobs to a different state is no longer an option so they will move off-shore.
All of the ‘blue-sky’ benefits promised by proponents of government health care insurance have proven to be the opposite of the realities.
The New England Journal of Medicine recently reported that 46% of primary care physicians claim that they will leave patient practice on the passage of ObamaCare; a number comparable to what has been experienced in MA.
Of much greater concern, passage of ObamaCare forces citizens to purchase a service, from the government, equal to up to 20% of their income, or face possible fines or imprisonment. Obviously not all citizens are going to be able to afford health care insurance, so they will have to be subsidized by those who can meaning that some citizens will be unequally taxed; a violation of Article I, Section 8 of the COTUS.
Fines for employers whose employees fail to purchase the required government insurance range from $695 to $3000 per year depending on the income of the employee. Is there a rational mind anywhere that cannot understand how this will reduce employability of those on the lowest rungs of the employment ladder? Is there a rational mind anywhere that cannot understand that adding such costs to the price of products and services of a business will make them non-competitive; thus threatening the continued existence of those jobs?
ObamaCare is the product of irrational wishful thinking by those who believe that they are entitled to something for nothing. The proponents proclaim this legislation to be the equal of Social Security and Medicare without noting that Congress has stolen from Social Security every cent contributed over the past 70 years and replaced it with a Ponzi Scheme that now represents a non-funded liability in 2009 of approximately $18 Trillion (yes that’s a “T”). Medicare, including Parts A, B, & D represents in 2009 an unfunded liability of $89 Trillion (yep, another “T”). How is this anything but a disaster?
Proponents claim that health care insurance is a right. Ben Franklin invented insurance in 1752: how can it be a right? Government has no authority to grant us new rights. The federal government was created solely to protect the inalienable rights that come from our Creator and nothing more: as the Constitution makes patently clear.
Proponents claim that federally mandated health care insurance frees people from linking health care insurance and employment, but it actually enslaves them. No business starts without sacrifice and privation. America already had the second highest taxes in the Western World; adding the 20% required by this health care insurance mandate not only enslaves all Americans, but it robs them of the revenue usually employed to create and expand new business opportunities.
This president and this Congress clearly fail to understand that all government jobs are revenue-consuming; funded solely by taxes on private sector employment. Every dollar diverted from the private sector to fund government employment and entitlements is a dollar denied to the private sector to create and sustain actual revenue generating employment. Every dollar of mandatory entitlement increases the cost of private sector products and services, making them less competitive against global competitors. Prepare to see even more jobs leave our shores in search of lower costs for survival.
The dancing of proponents will soon end as it comes time to pay the Piper. The federal government has operated on debt for so many years, but now those who have been buying our debt (our enemies in China and the Mid-East, and our friends in Japan) have stopped doing so. As a result the Fed is printing worthless script that the federal government is lending to banks for free and demanding that they use to buy Treasury debt at the exclusion of providing survival cash-flow loans to the small businesses that drive our economy. Not only will these higher taxes kill our businesses, but inflation will destroy our dollar even as the Baby Boomers move to fixed income status.
This mandated federal health care insurance legislation is no different than Nero’s fiddling even as Rome was burning. Rather than concentrating on reducing taxes to fund real job growth; and reducing debt to shore-up the strength of the dollar, this government foolishly and recklessly expands unfunded entitlements. Those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it. Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!
Those who are clueless about economics proclaim this as a victory of monumental proportions, but it is quite the opposite. In Massachusetts, RomneyCare promised all the glowing benefits of ObamaCare. Rather than reducing the cost of health care, MA now has the highest insurance premiums in the nation, exceeding the national average by a whopping 27% even as they continue to increase at 10% per year. But even that isn’t enough as they are now asking for $1.5 Billion in federal subsidies to keep RomneyCare solvent for another year. 50% of the physicians in MA are no longer accepting new patients, making actual health care unavailable for most, and those who can get in to see a doctor wait an average of 44 days. This of course drives sick people to the emergency room with more than 50% of services provided there now consumed in non-emergency services. In anticipation of reduced demand, reimbursement payments to hospitals for uninsured patient services have been reduced (even as actual demand has increased) driving many MA hospitals into bankruptcy.
The icing on the cake in MA is that new business starts are down 16% since the implementation of RomneyCare as entrepreneurs choose New Hampshire instead of MA for their new enterprises. With the implementation of ObamaCare, moving jobs to a different state is no longer an option so they will move off-shore.
All of the ‘blue-sky’ benefits promised by proponents of government health care insurance have proven to be the opposite of the realities.
The New England Journal of Medicine recently reported that 46% of primary care physicians claim that they will leave patient practice on the passage of ObamaCare; a number comparable to what has been experienced in MA.
Of much greater concern, passage of ObamaCare forces citizens to purchase a service, from the government, equal to up to 20% of their income, or face possible fines or imprisonment. Obviously not all citizens are going to be able to afford health care insurance, so they will have to be subsidized by those who can meaning that some citizens will be unequally taxed; a violation of Article I, Section 8 of the COTUS.
Fines for employers whose employees fail to purchase the required government insurance range from $695 to $3000 per year depending on the income of the employee. Is there a rational mind anywhere that cannot understand how this will reduce employability of those on the lowest rungs of the employment ladder? Is there a rational mind anywhere that cannot understand that adding such costs to the price of products and services of a business will make them non-competitive; thus threatening the continued existence of those jobs?
ObamaCare is the product of irrational wishful thinking by those who believe that they are entitled to something for nothing. The proponents proclaim this legislation to be the equal of Social Security and Medicare without noting that Congress has stolen from Social Security every cent contributed over the past 70 years and replaced it with a Ponzi Scheme that now represents a non-funded liability in 2009 of approximately $18 Trillion (yes that’s a “T”). Medicare, including Parts A, B, & D represents in 2009 an unfunded liability of $89 Trillion (yep, another “T”). How is this anything but a disaster?
Proponents claim that health care insurance is a right. Ben Franklin invented insurance in 1752: how can it be a right? Government has no authority to grant us new rights. The federal government was created solely to protect the inalienable rights that come from our Creator and nothing more: as the Constitution makes patently clear.
Proponents claim that federally mandated health care insurance frees people from linking health care insurance and employment, but it actually enslaves them. No business starts without sacrifice and privation. America already had the second highest taxes in the Western World; adding the 20% required by this health care insurance mandate not only enslaves all Americans, but it robs them of the revenue usually employed to create and expand new business opportunities.
This president and this Congress clearly fail to understand that all government jobs are revenue-consuming; funded solely by taxes on private sector employment. Every dollar diverted from the private sector to fund government employment and entitlements is a dollar denied to the private sector to create and sustain actual revenue generating employment. Every dollar of mandatory entitlement increases the cost of private sector products and services, making them less competitive against global competitors. Prepare to see even more jobs leave our shores in search of lower costs for survival.
The dancing of proponents will soon end as it comes time to pay the Piper. The federal government has operated on debt for so many years, but now those who have been buying our debt (our enemies in China and the Mid-East, and our friends in Japan) have stopped doing so. As a result the Fed is printing worthless script that the federal government is lending to banks for free and demanding that they use to buy Treasury debt at the exclusion of providing survival cash-flow loans to the small businesses that drive our economy. Not only will these higher taxes kill our businesses, but inflation will destroy our dollar even as the Baby Boomers move to fixed income status.
This mandated federal health care insurance legislation is no different than Nero’s fiddling even as Rome was burning. Rather than concentrating on reducing taxes to fund real job growth; and reducing debt to shore-up the strength of the dollar, this government foolishly and recklessly expands unfunded entitlements. Those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it. Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!
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