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Medicare, we read here, is in a fiscal crises and totally unsustainable. How could that be? The Tea Party has awakened to the fact that the American people have been taken to the cleaners. What is the Tea Party to do? My answer all along to seniors: “It is entirely up to you. You should have been prepared.”
First, I’d like to bring to your attention that there is a member of my family, now in her fifties, who has never accomplished anything in her life worthy of mention. It galls the living daylights out of me. She had a good background. Why is she is now jobless and currently living in a small trailer with a druggie, on welfare? In my youth she’d not have gotten a thin dime from government or family. Tragically, thanks to government giving people a right to goof off, this woman with a pickled brain has three children, all with emotional problems.
Welfare is a growing cancer on society. It absolutely drives me up a wall. This case I mention is not an unusual phenomenon in twenty-first century America. It happens in the best of families. It is happening for a reason. We Americans live in a hothouse environment, waiting for government to pull levers and turn valves. One cannot help but notice the number of grossly obese young people. Sorry Michelle, it is not the government’s role to control the kind of foods we eat. It’s the parent’s job.
An oncologist, who also practices alternative medicines, was told by an FDA bureaucrat that he must first offer chemotherapy, with its dismal record, but being a $200 billion a year industry, money talks. Why would anyone want to commit suicide in a very painful way by subjecting themselves to chemo? In many forms of cancer, chemo has little of no positive effect and can cause your cancer to spread. I knew someone who died only yesterday. She had lung cancer and was put on Chemo. Unnecessarily, par for the course and a crying shame, a few months later she died of brain cancer in her sixties. If she had only known, she’d more than likely be living a normal life. Alternative medicine is curing the terminally ill.
Talk about reducing health care costs, there are myriad ways, but first, get government out of health care.
A school teacher wearing a necklace with a small cross was told she could not wear it by reason that it might offend somebody. “That’s Obama for you. He’s as nutty as a fruitcake.” American Muslims dress in garb that lets you know they are Muslim. It’s funny that it is their right. In all cases, it has been Muslims who bomb airliners out of the sky. Wouldn’t you be a bit concerned to see someone in Muslim garb on your airliner. In order not to racially profile we must grope all airline passengers. It doesn’t occur to Obama intellectuals that a little old American lady is not likely to be carrying a bomb in her panties, but she has to be felt. Whoopee Goldberg says if they want to feel her that’s O.K. “It’s a heck of way to get your jollies, Whoopee. You are as stupid as you look.”
I was a single working on a minimum paying job. My employer deducted 20 percent of my income for Uncle Sam. It was very discouraging. My wages were withheld and the IRS confiscated my property. Think about that family member on welfare and me busting my butt trying to survive on my after tax income. I was locked out for non-payment of rent. The socialists in control of America are deliberately flushing us down the toilet. History gives us a record of what happens when the people don’t take action against government treachery. I did not succumb. I took my tax case to the U. S. Supreme Court. It’s all in the record.
I offer you Flast v Cohen, a taxpayer case. The Court speaking in Flast (1968):
“Federal judicial power is limited to those disputes which confine federal courts to a role consistent with a system of separated powers and which are traditionally thought to be capable of resolution through the judicial process.”
As to capable of resolution through the judicial process, in Butler, Justice Stone, dissenting on the redistribution of incomes question before the Court, “The power to tax and spend is not without constitutional restraints. One restriction is that the purpose must be truly national. Another is that it may not be used to coerce action left to state control. Another is the conscience and patriotism of Congress and the Executive. It must be remembered that legislators are the ultimate guardians of the liberties and welfare of the people in quite as great a degree as the courts.” Does court policy on redistribution of incomes consider Justice Stone’s objection? Hardly. The IRS told me that Congress had unlimited authority to tax my income.
In Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry Co v. May, Justice Holmes: “A tortured construction of the Constitution is not to be justified by recourse to extreme examples of reckless congressional spending which might occur if courts could not prevent expenditures which, even if they could be thought to effect any national purpose, would be possible only by action of a legislature lost to all sense of public responsibility.” Do America’s courts consider congressional spending extreme? Hardly. The IRS, backed by the federal judiciary, as proven in my case, is a lying fraud.
Justice Warren in Flast: “Additional uncertainty exists in the doctrine of justiciability because that doctrine has become a blend of constitutional requirements and policy considerations. And a policy limitation is not always clearly distinguished from the constitutional limitation.”
“The many subtle pressures which cause policy considerations to blend into the constitutional limitations of Article III made the justiciability doctrine one of uncertain and shifting contours . . .”
“As we understand it, the Government’s position is that the constitutional scheme of separation of power, and the deference owed by the federal judiciary to the other two branches of government within that scheme, present an absolute bar to taxpayer suits challenging the validity of federal spending programs. The Government views such suits as involving no more than the mere disagreement by the taxpayer with the uses to which tax money is put. According to the Government, the resolution of such disagreements is committed to other branches of the Federal Government and not to the judiciary. Consequently, the Government contends that, under no circumstances, should standing be conferred on federal taxpayers to challenge a federal taxing or spending program. An analysis of the function served by standing limitations compels a rejection of the Government’s position.”
“The fundamental aspect of standing is that it focuses on the party seeking to get his complaint before a federal court and not on the issues he wishes to have adjudicated. The gist of the question of standing is whether the party seeking relief has alleged such a personal stake in the outcome of the controversy as to assure that concrete adverseness which sharpens the presentation of issues upon which the court so largely depends for illumination of difficult constitutional questions.”
The taxpayer had standing in Flast, but, alas, the Court decided that the amount the tax took was too small to consider. The taxpayer was complaining of his tax money being given to church schools, which amounted to pennies. What about my case? My tax case, in which thousands of dollars were lawlessly snatched by the IRS, why was my case dismissed by the Supreme Court without a word? Because it can get away with it. It can get away with it because if it isn’t you being ripped off it is none of your concern.
In the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (rule 41[e], 18 U.S.C.A.) I was entitled to file suit. Huge corporations have. I was able to show existence of “special and extraordinary circumstances sufficient to bring a case within some acknowledged head of equity. My case demonstrated that the United States could not establish its tax claim.” The IRS claimed in the Supreme Court that it made an “error,” and that it was corrected. It was not corrected. The IRS corrected the error and then made it again in violation of a Tax Court Order. The facts and evidence showed that the IRS made many errors, including thumbing its nose at a Tax Court order. The IRS corrected its second error, after I filed a complaint in the District Court, corrected its error again, and then made the same error again. Yes, I could file a claim. It could file claims the rest of my life, but as a matter of policy, no court would hear me. It took public exposure to stop the IRS.
Your government is a liar and a fraud. Because you have not been concerned, this I report could be your concern one of these days. By court policy, it is open season on taxpayers. The IRS can and does by “mistake” put taxpayers on the street, and never pays for its crimes. I’m one of those the IRS put on the street. I’d still be on the street if I had not fought.
I’m not a taxpayer anymore. I receive a government check. The socialists in America are moving right along in their agenda, and I would not slap the hand that feeds the mouth.
After Hitler took over, in Nazi Germany’s courts, on record, government was permitted to murder 6 million Jews. The German gentiles didn’t make it their worry, and ended with their nation flat on the ground. I was there. What the German people did wasn’t too smart. I want to know what makes American judges, morally, any better than German judges?
Threatening death is the best way we know to get the people’s cooperation. Take note that governments never know they can do wrong until the people tell them. A fitting Tea Party resolution in 2011 would be to take legal action to gain back the individual’s inalienable rights, lest, at government’s discretion, for the good of all, of course, we end dead.
Happy New Year!!
We have had a great year in some ways and not so great in others. The great silent majority awoke and found its voice. Although it fell on many deaf ears in the halls of Congress, it was deafening at the ballot box in November.
2010 was the year that gave us Obamacare, confirmation of Justice Elena Kagan, Senate ratification of the new START Treaty, repeal of Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell and the Dodd-Frank Finance bill to name just a few of the not so great.
In 2010 “we the people” took a stand and stopped the Dream act, Harry Reid’s Omnibus funding bill, the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill, the Employee Free Choice Act (Card Check) and many others. We took back 63 House seats, 7 Senate seats and 6 Governorships as well as 675 plus seats in state legislatures nationwide.
Now the big question is, what’s next? We have to keep the momentum going until 2012 when we can take another big step in restoring our country by electing more leaders and a president that represent our values and not those of some academic elite or European model. We do that by taking care of some issues we have remained silent on for too long; by going out into our communities and talking up what has happened. It is not just about the lawmakers and judges losing sight of the Constitution, it is about us losing sight of the importance of families and communities, and our religious heritage and how the mores and laws of our modern civilized society has it’s roots in that heritage.
Don’t think for one minute that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levine and others can get the job done, they can not, because they are preaching to the choir! The liberals have been inoculated against the conservative media and middle America is busy putting bread on the table, getting kids through school, paying taxes, worrying about their jobs and trying to find a little happiness.
Nope….it is up to each and everyone of us to go out and be disciples of liberty, to teach and illuminate our heritage, so that others can appreciate our rich history and understand exactly what has made America so great. Bit by bit our Judeo-Christian heritage is being stripped from the public venue, even though it embodies beliefs that the vast majority of Americans embrace. Our Judeo-Christian heritage is undeniable, that is until the liberals finish stripping and rewriting references in our history books; the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, other founding documents and those produced by Presidents and Congresses for over 200 years; and before they begin removing vestiges of it from our public buildings in Washington DC where one of the richest displays of our Christian heritage exists, on and within nearly all of our important buildings including the Whitehouse, the Supreme Court, the US Capitol, the Senate chambers, the House chambers, the monuments, our money, our motto….yikes, what a kick in the teeth for President Obama to say we are not a Christian nation!
It is through a strong sense of family, community and Country that we may unite and restore those principles and values to the forefront of American’s thinking. We must speak up, we have been silent too long, we have let the liberals have the stage for too long, we have tried to be politically correct (A progressive liberal tool to place the most important principles and values for conservatives on the back burner; out of sight-out of mind; convincing many to go along to get along) for too long! It is time for all conservatives, Christians, Jews and others to drive a stake through the heart of political correctness and take our country back.
Since when does a tiny minority, be they LBGT, Atheist, Agnostic, Marxist, Socialist, Communist or other drive the conscience and public conversation in America? Well, they have been getting away with it for a long time and it is high time the majority stepped up to the plate and started preserving and protecting their way of life! We outnumber them; we are more compassionate than them; we are smarter than them (although not always as vocal), but we must be willing to work harder than them as we have this past year or so!
You can start in your churches, at the veteran’s service organizations, at your local service organizations…yeah, I know, they have to remain neutral, but that goes for the Non-profit organization, not the members! Silence is not golden, at least, when your Country and way of life are at stake! This is a time when we reflect on past years and set priorities for the future, what better time to speak with family, friends and acquaintances about the state of your country and opportunities to re-prioritize and turn our culture around. You don’t want to have your grandchild on your lap someday and find yourself explaining why professing to be Christian/Jewish or American is a bad thing in a new world where secularism and world citizenry is revered!
I don’t know about you but I swell with pride when we start conservative or Republican meetings of any kind with a prayer, the Pledge and the Anthem. And man o’ man when any crowd starts shouting USA…USA…USA what a rush that is!
Americanism, Nationalism call it what you may, we Americans are exceptional and not anything or anybody should stand in the way of us realizing our dreams in our pursuit of life, liberty and happiness for ourselves and future generations. It has been said that only an enemy from within could confront the American spirit and conquer it.
Come on brothers and sisters, fellow patriots let’s make 2011 a year of Renewal and work to restore faith in God, Family and Country, to shine a light on our heritage that there be no mistaking who we are or where we came from. Let us remain with open arms and welcome others as our forefathers have done, but let them that come know, we have accepted them, to join with us in strengthening America and what she stands for, not remaking America in their vision. And to those that have worked against God, the Constitution, the family, American nationalism/exceptionalism and our heritage, let them be known as the “enemy within” and continue working to identify and defeat this enemy.
Shine a light on our roots; they are strong, honorable, compassionate and reverent; nurtured by God. Cling to them as you would your bibles and guns and protect them for posterity!! We are the conscience of America it is time to exercise that conscience!!
Have a Blessed and Happy New Year
Tom Whitmore
"The tea party's success has drawn hundreds of politicians and groups seeking to fasten themselves to the movement, steer it and speak for it. Millions of dollars have flowed in from corporations and rich donors, all of whom have their own ideas about what the tea party should be. This struggle for the soul of the movement has left many of its original activists facing agonizing decisions: Do they, should they, still belong?" Washington Post 12/31/10
The Tea Party claims to be pro business and anti big bureaucracy, including big government. It believes that government stifles entrepreneurship and destroys creativity of its citizens. There is too much power centralized in government and thus diminishes the power and freedom of our citizens.
"Jan Hatzius, the chief United States economist at Goldman Sachs, said the economy was likely to grow at an annualized rate of around 3 percent this quarter. Goldman projected last week that the growth rate would be 4 percent for most of 2011. Morgan Stanley, which raised its growth forecast for 2011 to 4 percent, is even more optimistic, forecasting a rate of 4.5 percent this quarter" New York Times 12/24/10
Is there really a Santa? Did he really deliver a sleigh full of merriment and optimism? Or were the reporters at the New York Times and several economists across the country taking part in too much spiked eggnog?
http://www.freedomworks.org/publications/2010-year-in-review
records the highlights of a mixed but, on balance, quite positive year 2010 for those of us who value and are willing to speak up and act to maintain America’s freedoms. Among the seven negative events mentioned, the three biggest lowlights of the year are clearly the signing into law of Obamacare; the one-year anniversary of the Obama stimulus with negative results on the jobs front at a cost to the taxpayers of $787 Billion; and the passage of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul which, like Obamacare has the potential to prove itself one of the least principled government boondoggles in history.
Among the thirteen positive events FreedomWorks listed, the top five arguably were these:
A. The one year anniversary of the Tea Party protest movement championing fiscal- and Constitutional-conservativism and smaller, more competent government was celebrated.
B. The Defeat of the Disclose Act (which even the ACLU was against) was a huge step for freedom of expression.
C. The Election Day shift in paradigm from government-as-usual to government by the people.
D. The Sound Money Panel was held on Capitol Hill.
E. A Virginia judge has declared the mandated requirement of taxpayers to buy health insurance “Unconstitutional.”
Other lowlights listed by Freedomworks included Elena Kagan’s nomination and confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court; Ben Bernanke’s Quantitative easing which threatens to exacerbate inflation concerns; the “mini-TARP” Small Business and Credit Act became law; and the International Monetary Fund (The IMF largely financed by America) agreed to bail out Greece. The FreedomWorks site also ran . . .
http://www.freedomworks.org/publications/top-10-ways-the-obama-budget-wastes-taxpayer-money
their top ten ways Obama’s been wasting taxpayer money. Rajjpuut strongly agrees with the first four items on this FreedomWorks list; generally sees the strength of their position on items #5-9 and thinks they missed the boat altogether on item #10 which he’d regard as vital for technological breakthrough and national defense. The reader is advised to visit the site and make up his/her own mind.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
Looking at the birth of Christ, and the following 2,000 years of orthodoxy—authoritarianism—and at the current economic and moral decline in Europe and the United States, a significant clue of what is to come is unprecedented government intervention to ward off the domino effect, ending, ultimately, it can easily be predicted, in the collapse of western economies. In the meanwhile, China, having already gone through a socialistic dictatorship rampage under Mao, and now moving economically forward, with her gigantic cheap labor pool and western knowhow, a meteoric movement in economic growth in China is a continuing sure thing. What comes around goes around. A thousand years ago, while Europe suffered the Dark Age, Song China’s free enterprise system (960-1279) brought with it prosperity.
America’s federal judiciary has put government entitlement ahead of the inalienable right of life, liberty, and property. In the wisdom of socialist judges, busing poor children into affluent neighborhoods has a positive effect. This has not been the case. Socialist Obama speaks of collective salvation. Socialists reason that do-good people have a positive influence on do-bad people. With America under George Soros’ Nazi socialistic model, impoverished—he’s pulled it off several times—and, naturally, authoritarian government, this is where America is headed.
Out of love of my country, I became a combat rifleman in Nazi Germany during World War II. Due to the fact that the individual comes last now in America, under socialist philosophy, the income tax put me on the street. It is all recorded. I was a responsible family man. My children say they were happy children. Irresponsible parents, under socialism, get the same treatment as responsible parents. The record proves that neither they nor their children become responsible. Thanks to socialism, the irresponsible are a growing cancer on American society.
Science has now acknowledged that nothing could exist without consciousness, and that the smallest subatomic particle is conscious. Who or what determines the degree of conscious awareness in humans? Is a federal judge or the President more consciously aware of my needs than I? The law in practice says yes. Socialism does not give credit to the fact that we humans are created with reason and logic. Man has never been successful in turning society into herd mentality. The idea of doing for the good of all overriding the God-given rights of the individual has never worked and never will. But what I say counts for naught. I’m forced to obey the laws socialists pass.
On the positive side, the energy is building in America to take the nation back—to put the individual back in control of his life. With China’s economy growing by leaps and bounds—the Chinese more in control of their lives—there is that commonality. Thinking logically, while this is taking place, an unbelievably innovative free enterprise networking system currently in the works, causing the world economy to soar to never before dreamed proportions, logically, a rising tide of independence will be the result. As for the too big to fail policy in place now, we are coming to the point that a thriving enterprise will suddenly be replaced by a better idea. No industry will be too big to fail.
When people all over the world have an abundance of the material things, what will the result be? Keeping in mind that science now admits without consciousness nothing could exist, based on the universe reduced to numbers logic, here’s what Astrologer’s Handbook says the numbers say. By the way, we are leaving the Age of Pisces and entering the Age of Aquarius. The ages have an influence on society. If we link the ages, we can understand that we are here with increasing purpose.
“Pisces is a sensitive sign and those born under it are extremely responsive to the thoughts and feelings of others. They unconsciously absorb the ideas and mental outlook of those around them. They desperately want to do the right thing, but as a rule they do not have strong will power. Therefore, they are easily influenced by external factors. They must learn to stand alone and face the unknown with simple faith. . .”
“The symbol for Pisces is two attached fishes, one swimming upstream and the other downstream, implying the drastic duality of emotions in persons born under this sign. Pisceans are unable to make up their minds. . . They are not combative. . .They are indecisive in thinking and acting. They will generally suffer injury rather than fight for their rights. . .”
Here’s what Astrologer’s Handbook says about Aquarius.
“Individuals born under the sign of brotherhood and fraternity have as their symbol the water-bearer, who spills out to mankind the life-force and spiritual energy. Since the planet Uranus rules Aquarius, friendship and companionship are extremely important to Aquarians. Those whom Aquarians befriend have their unswerving loyalty. . . Born under a fixed sign Aquarians have eccentric temperaments and are determined and stubborn. . .”
“There is no affectation or snobbery in the Aquarian personality but a dislike of spurious imitation and hypocrisy in any form. Aquarians operate as equals among equals. However, they are not dependent on their environments for their security, because they derive this from being in the company of others. . .”
“In earth as it is in heaven,” said Jesus. Jesus said we are our brother’s keeper. Where does the collective consciousness of the universe begin? Science has found that the smallest subatomic particle is conscious. Man simply cannot change the Higher Law, the background of the U. S. Constitution. We Americans need to prepare now for the hard times ahead socialism brings, so we can will ourselves, individually, a bountiful future.
As I prepare for my 86th year on Earth—my New Year’s resolutions: loose weight, exercise more, learn about the right foods to eat—I happened to find a note on my desk. I don’t know how it got there. It was a note my daughter Holly wrote to me several years back.
“To think about what it was like to be a happy child,” the note read, "I remember playing in the playhouse you built. I remember, especially, too, the flower garden, the large blue flowers against the house, and the patio you built. I also remember when you helped me learn to ride a bicycle. I remember it wasn’t easy for me.”
“I think about how lucky I was to have parents who cared about me. I was a happy child. I really was. I loved playing in the trees, riding horses, coloring. Thank you, Dad.”
My daughter Shelley sent me a collage I treasure—photos taken when my girls were young children, captioned, “What Makes a Great Father.” Under the photos, “Comforting,” “Nuturing,” “Loving,” “Playing.”
In spite of my memory, the rulers of Iran look at the United States and Americans as the “Great Satin.” Islam and Christianity have been at war since the Christian Crusades. They say all is fair in love and war.
Do say! President Obama is a Christian when he’s talking to Christians and a Muslim when he’s talking to Muslims. I guess I don’t know what love is about. I just thought I did.
Did man make a mistake when he created God or did God make a mistake when he created man. It’s when people in power get the notion that they represent God, and make laws that support that notion—the law of might makes right—everyone doing his best to be the mightiest, that we go to war. God is on the side of the mightiest.
We know about how fair war is. What about love? Does God or man give us a right to good health care? I loved my girls. I worked so they could have good health care. Does President love us when he “gives” us health care? No, it is not fair to say he gives us all good health care. He doesn’t work so we can all have good health care. And in any case, God doesn’t give us good health care.
What God gives us is inalienable rights, rights that can’t be taken or transferred. What President Obama “gives” us is redistribution of the nation’s wealth, in the interest of what he figures is fair, taking the inalienable rights from working people and redistributing them. It that love? I don’t think so. For the good of all is not love. It’s a manmade construction. A construction is not natural law, God’s law, or any kind of law. In America, the law replaces the divine ruler. President Obama says he has a problem with that idea. He wants to transform America—from what to what? I guess I don’t know what love is about.
Obama so loves the world that he wants to do what is for the good of all, in a word, give us Socialism. He wants to replace God-given rights with government entitlements. In other words, for the good of all the individual has no God-given right to life, liberty, or property. The same idea is in place in Iran. My idea of love is other people’s idea of Satin. It goes with the idea of all is fair in love and war. Look around and see how well man treats you under Obama’s idea of love. It is essential that you make a distinction between God-given rights and government entitlement. It the latter case, you give up your love of God; you turn your life over to government, to do with you—and your children—what it will.
Two State assembly seats are up got grabs in California.
District 17 and District 28.
Filing apparently closes Monday. 03 January 2011.
Here is a link to the article if you are interested.
Not only is Obama a sneaky, underhanded something or other, with a missing link he hides from the public—unqualified to be our president—but his Obamacare, with his underhanded scheme in 2,400 pages aimed at making you think government is giving 30 million people health care at no cost, if it sounds too good to be true, it is.
The U. S. gives selected people health care with the idea that it is right, good, and proper. It is proven in Canada and England that socialized health care does not give many needing health care the care they need. If it is right, good, and proper for government to give people health care, it is certainly right, good, and proper to give people food, clothing and shelter. Guaranteed health care is but one cog in the wheel of cradle to grave security, compliments of government, government producing nothing. Government is merely people acting as redistribution agents. What makes them more right than those who produce? Nothing. It is people with the power to make might right, good, and proper.
In order to reduce the cost of health care, so that the 30 million new recipients can get theirs, the U. S. is paying doctors to advise senior citizens to not take advantage of costly treatments, but rather to let their lives end. Since senior heath care is responsible for most of the cost, and government is obliged to pay it, government should have the right to cut the cost, but the question: why should government be at all involved in the decision of whether we live or die? Why should government be involved in our health care at all? Since government’s involvement, the cost has skyrocketed. Because of government’s involvement in our personal lives, giving and taking at will, the national debt is out of control. Just since Obama took over, the debt has increased more than the total debt created since America’s beginning.
Enter the drug cartel. The drug industry has bought government and medicine. Chemo medicine alone is a $300 billion a year industry in the U.S. The results of chemo are absolutely dismal, with oncologists making millions, and Uncle Sam, the goon squad, protecting them. There are cancer cures that work, and at a fraction of the cost. Chemo does not work. The drug industry is putting out billions fighting sure cures.
The way America’s government has heretofore paid its debt is mostly by controlled inflation, watering down the value of the dollar with printing press money. The mighty, to keep inflation from hurting a weak economy, make printing press money. Monopoly money has reached an unprecedented amount. The mighty have the thought that it is better to loan money to the nations about to fold than to let the world’s economy go up in smoke.
I’m not interested in control. So I ask: why is it better to put off this manmade disaster? The only assurance we have is the public’s confidence that this pie in the sky will not come down in flames. Sooner or later, when people lose confidence in the dollar, we will have uncontrolled inflation. We know what happens in uncontrolled inflation. The mighty take total control; the people become slaves. Obama is not an American. He is hiding his identity. A something or other Obama is part of a worldwide plan engineered by people who have convinced themselves that they have the answers for all of the world’s problems. They start with a desired end and then force all the pieces to fit. We are in that process. When we reach the point of moral, spiritual, and fiscal bankruptcy, desperate for the answer, the mighty will have their answer for the whole world. They think they can take the place of God. We’ll see. I say they don’t have a chance.
Cheerfully on U.S. Constitution AGAIN!
To progressives, liberals, socialists, Marxists and other Obama fans, this is literally “less than nothing.” To living, breathing, feeling, thinking patriotic Americans the latest two outrages against our constitution and common decency enacted by the Obama administration are the final insults and a declaration of war against America and decent Americans . . . before we get to the latest desecration of the American Way of Life, let’s look at the serious Constitutional principles involved . . . .
Any intelligent American knows that the system of checks and balances written into the Constitution by the Founding Fathers and the separation of the branches of government by giving us independent judiciary, house, senate and executive branches was done to protect our freedoms and allow the nation’s business to be conducted in a sensible and orderly fashion. Laws are not supposed to be created from the bench; or from the Oval office . . . that is the province of the house and senate.
ITEM: When any judge can decide to tell the military how to run their business (for example: when a Riverside, California judge can order an injunction on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policies which will take action in 60 days) over-ruling congress without even a high-level appellate court getting involved and, by the way, unenthusiastically opposed in court by the Obama Department of Justice, that is an outrage.
ITEM: When failing to pass Cap and Trade legislation in early 2009; the Obama administration can order its Mean Greenies (willing to sabotage jobs and other human good for their distorted reading of ecological “necessity”) in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a new regulatory standard on emissions declaring “Carbon dioxide is a toxic emission . . .” thus bypassing the congress and defiling the EPA’s own charter that is an outrage. When a legal challenge reminded EPA officials that they were required to do a study on their own and not allowed to rely on outside “research” before making such a move . . . and the EPA backed off and now . . . ten months later, not having done any legitimate study the EPA is once again calling CO2 (which plants need to live and to use to provide us with oxygen) a dangerous emission . . . that is a horrific outrage.
ITEM: When the EPA can make another such edict and stop farmers in Central California from irrigating their vegetable fuels (thus putting lots of people out of work and driving the cost of foodstuffs higher) citing danger to a 2” long fish (the delta smelt) rather than coming up with a cheap and efficient and effective way to stop the danger (EPA could surely come up with a smelt-danger pheromone, for example) to keep the dumb fish from getting near the irrigation intake, no? Why is it the farmer’s problem?) and thus putting much of the area around Fresno, California into 40% unemployment, that is a disgustingly short-sighted outrage.
ITEM: When rather than backing up and taking the time to do right by a major piece of legislation, President Obama can flim-flam an idiot like Bart Stupak to swinging the dozen or so so-called anti-abortion Democrats in the house to back Obamacare by giving him a single sheet of paper with the president’s promise that no federal funding of abortion is authorized under Obamacare and four months later we find out that the very earliest covered Obamacare “medical treatments” include federally-funded abortions . . . that is a monstrous outrage.
ITEM: When Obama promised that control over health issues by you and your doctor was inviolate and would be preserved by Obamacare that was the ultimate lie as you’ll see . . . .
ITEM: When for the first time in a lame-duck session a nuclear arms-reduction treaty is passed based upon President Obama’s promise (oral, this time) that the treaty will not affect U.S. missile defense that is an utterly dangerous outrage.
ITEM: When the Democratic dominated congress does not fulfill its most basic function and pass a budget while driving the country deeply into debt and Unfunded liabilities by passing outrageous spending bills and huge government boondoggles (like Obamacare); and passes several thousand page bills which have not seen the light of day in committees; are not even read or posted; and never offered up for meaningful debate or amendment; and told we can’t find out what’s in them until after they’re passed . . . that is Constitutional outrage of the highest order.
What do all these outrages have in common? Every one of them is a refutation of Obama’s word on bi-partisanship; openness; transparency; and meaningful change; as well as a deliberate spitting upon the Constitution of the United States. And now we see a couple more acts in the continuing drama Barack Obama Uses the Founding Documents for Toilet Paper . . . in a series of end runs, Obama shows us once again his total contempt for our Constitution and all great things American . . . .
Among Obama’s other lies about Obamacare (not one dime added to the debt; no abortion funding; you can keep your present insurance; etc.) was the promise that no “death panels” were created by the bill. “Death Panels” also called “review boards,” mean government-conducted oversight of potential treatment to the elderly; the very young; the very sick; and severely injured people; and government-decision making allowing operations and treatment under these circumstances or denying circumstances . . . thus the name “death panel” is fitting. The death panel’s encouragement and authorization of “end of life consultations” (“Do you want to pull the plug?” “How about now, should we pull the plug?” “Have you thought this over real carefully, shouldn’t we just go ahead and pull that nasty old plug?” “Are you there yet --- ready to pull the plug?” “Are you there yet . . . ?) enraged the public so the provisions for it were removed in the Obamacare law that was passed.
Now, however, these hideous laws are back with a vengeance courtesy of the Obama administration and its bureaucratic fiats from Medicare officials. Representative Earl Blumenauer and Senator Jay Rockefeller who led the Democrats’ effort in Congress to pass Section 1233 of pending Medicare legislation, which would have paid doctors to include "end of life" counseling in their patients' physical checkups, the Congress as a whole voted to delete that provision from the original bill so Obamacare would have some hope of passing. Now that an even worse regulation has been created and added to the health care processes of the nation . . . Blumenauer has sent out an e-mail asking his supporters “not to say anything, as his office on the one hand praised the Medicare bureaucratic action but warned: "While we are very happy with the result, we won't be shouting it from the rooftops because we are not out of the woods yet." If this new regulation is so wonderful, why NOT shout it from the rooftops and alert the citizenry? Here’s why . . . .
Speaker of the House designate, John Boehner, objected mightily to this provision in 2009, saying: "This provision may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia." Now as Boehner feared we have not only “gone down the treacherous path toward government-sponsored and government-rewarded euthanasia” . . . we have done so by virtue of the actions of a lowly bureaucrat, someone we’ve never elected!!!
The great columnist Thomas Sowell put it this way, “Whatever the merits or demerits of the proposed provision in Medicare legislation, the Constitution of the United States makes the elected representatives of "we the people" the ones authorized to make such decisions. But when proposals explicitly rejected by a vote in Congress are resurrected and stealthily made the law of the land by bureaucratic fiat, there has been an end run around both the people and the Constitution.”
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut