Politics and Insights from History

Republicans are crippling America. At least, that is according to Obama. Once again Obama is out there giving Town Hall meetings and utilizing his ACORN skills to rally people to help him push through his new Jobs Bill. This time he is on the west coast and is basically preaching to the choir. Everyone knows that both the east and west coasts are highly liberal as they are more populous. And his speech making didn’t stop him from participating in a fundraiser.

Once again Obama is back to blaming others for an economy he created. Even though America was slipping towards a recession at the end of Bush’s term, Obama put us in the thick of one and has made certain that we never left it.

What is it about Republican policies that cripple America? Hard to say. Obama never specifies what it is Republicans have done to cripple the economy. (Other than the tired mantra of: tax breaks for the rich.) His big issue with Republicans is that they are saying no to his policies. If that is what is hurting the country, then I’m Mickey Mouse.

Who is really crippling America? Is it the people who wish the government to behave responsibly by cutting spending and reducing that amount of money that is borrowed? Or is it the people that spend wildly, borrow excessively, hike up taxes, play the blame game, and never met a government regulation they didn’t like? It is Obama and his policies that are crippling this country. He has gotten practically everything he wants. And when he can’t get Congress to go along, he just uses his executive power to get it. We have already had at least two bills passed that were supposedly focused on creating jobs. They didn’t work. Another one isn’t going to bring different results, but it will waste money.

Obama claims that his jobs bill will provide tax cuts, unemployment benefits, and public works projects. However, he is going to pay for it by raising taxes. How can you push a bill claiming it provides tax cuts, and then pay for by raising taxes? Doesn’t this seem a bit illogical? Some will say that taxes will only be raised on the rich. This has never happened. Whenever liberals propose making the rich pay their “fair” share, taxes go up for everyone.

Obama knows that he and his party are responsible for crippling America, but he doesn’t care. After all, he belongs to the party that thinks you have to pass a bill to know what’s in it. He is in campaign mode and focused on winning re-election. That means his is on the attack and will do anything to fuel hatred for Republicans. This means that he and the Democrats will blame the GOP and the Tea Party for all their problems. He is also going to participate in class warfare and racial warfare. He needs people pitted against each other because the more conflict there is, the better his chances of winning. Don’t let him succeed.

With all this talk about the looming deadline for a debt ceiling deal, you’d think the world was going to end on August 2. The truth is, even if the debt ceiling is not raised, there will be no dire economic consequences. the only real consequence will be the Obama and the Democrats might have to think twice before spending trillions of dollars we do not have. Think about it. Say you have a credit card and it’s maxed out. You ask you creditor to up the limit on it, but the refuse. Do you declare bankruptcy just because your credit limit was not increased? No. As long as you maintain payments you’re fine. The same principle applies here with the debt ceiling. All the Democrats want is an increase in their credit limit, and for once the Republicans are standing firm with a resounding “no”. (I hope it continues.) As long as our government continues make payments on its loans we’ll be fine. If they can’t maintain payments, raising the debt ceiling will solve the problem. In fact, the continued raising of it in years past is part of the problem. It’s like taking out another credit card to pay off one that is maxed out. You’re still in debt.

Besides, what is the point of having a debt ceiling if we keep raising it? We’d be better off giving Congress unlimited credit. Congress can raise the debt ceiling now, but they will blow through that credit in a matter of months and in two years time we will be back with the same debate.

The tragedy of this entire debate is that the Democrats and liberals are calling Tea Partiers all sorts of names; like they always do when anyone stands up to them. I don’t know what happened to their call of civility, but now they are linking Tea Partiers to terrorists groups like Hezbollah. Why? Because the Tea Party movement is against raising the debt ceiling and against raising taxes or imposing new ones. The Tea Party insists that Democrats for once cut spending. And not defense spending, which seems to be the only place they are willing to cut, and has been cut the past two years under Obama. We need to cut entitlement spending. Not a few billion here or there, but trillions, since we are now spending trillions. Half of our population is on some form of welfare and does not pay taxes. We need to get rid of farm subsidies and corporate welfare. And federal funding for individual members of Congress’ pet projects must stop. Privatizing Social Security and Medicare, giving individual people more control over it, would save the government billions upon billions.

Instead we get a barrage of outrageous claims from the left which spouted everyday on the major networks. Comparing Tea Party members to terrorists is ludicrous. Since when has anyone from the Tea Party attempted to blow up a shopping mall of hijack an airplane? Claiming that Republicans want to force people into homelessness or force them to eat dog food is equally insane. Yet, nobody calls the left on these outlandish accusations.

The Democrats’ only solution to this mess is to raise taxes to bring in more revenue. Bringing in more revenue is fine, but raising taxes won’t do it. The big thing is, what is the point of generating more revenue for the government, if Congress continues to spend more than they bring in? If our government continues to spend more than they bring in income, we will remain in this debt crisei indefinitely. There is more than enough tax revenue generated to pay for all of the vital functions of government. It’s just big government kooks think they need to spend more than that. If we operated our individual budgets they way Congress operates theirs, we would be in serious trouble and possibly facing jail time. Well, the Democrats’, and the Rhinos’, spending spree has landed the country in serious peril. And Obama’s insistence, as well as Reid’s, that we continue down the same path is sheer stupidity.

Here’s the deal. You all need to ask yourself some questions:

Would you be happy if the Republicans just give into the Democrats like they have done routinely in the past?

Do you really want the debt ceiling raised? If so, then should we even bother with one?

Is increasing the amount of debt we take really to help the U.S. economy, considering that our burdening debt is what is crushing us?

Raising the debt ceiling will not solve the problem, it just postpones the inevitable. Most importantly, it will give Obama the chance to push the problem on the next president’s shoulders assuming he loses in 2012. Not raising the debt ceiling will barely impact the normal functions of government. Social Security checks will still go out as well as other forms of welfare. In actuality, what we need in not an increase in the debt ceiling, but a 2012 budget that we can actually afford and based on common sense.

Back in the 1930s during the Great Depression we were introduced to the forgotten man. The poor guy that lost everything or had opportunity taken from him. F.D.R. initiated a series of government run programs to help these forgotten men during this time of turmoil. Since then the government has grown adding to these programs to help all those who are disadvantaged. The are probably more government subsidies than stars in the sky. We have programs to help feed children, welfare for the poor, food stamps, housing subsidies, disability checks, Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security to provide for retirement, grants, federal financial aid to go to college, tuition subsidies even for illegal immigrants, unemployment benefits, worker’s compensation; you name it and there is probable a government program for it.

With all of these programs you would think that America has finally figured out haw to care for the forgotten man. Not so according to Obama and members of the Democrat party. They insist that we still need more school lunch programs for the children and a government run health care system to ensure that the poor are taken care of and not forgotten. For 70 years America has been adding to the list of government programs to make certain that no one is forgotten when times are tough. The problem is in all that time we still have not remembered the forgotten man. The forgotten man is not the poor guy down the street that happens to be down on his luck. It’s not the single mom that is working hard to provide for her children. Nor is it the aspiring college student that wishes to continue his education. The real forgotten man is the honest taxpayer and small businessman (or woman).

All the money that government spends to ensure that the poor or disadvantage are able to survive comes from the taxpayer. It is the taxpayer that spends his life working hard and saving what he can to provide for his family. Most times he works more than one job or decides to take that leap and start a business. Working diligently he manages to make it successful. Before he knows it his work has paid off and he is able to hire some employees and has a college fund for his children and a nest egg for him and his wife. But then the government decides that a new federal program is needed so the taxpayer’s taxes go up. He is taxed on his business, for the number of employees, on his income, even on his savings. Eventually the taxpayer is forced to let some employees go as the higher taxes cut into his business. Then, he is forced to shut the doors to his business as the government insists that he pay more in taxes because he is what they deem as too rich. Now unemployed, the taxpayer is forced to tap the money he saved for his kids’ college fund and retirement just to get by until he can find a job. Except now he is one among many that need work and everything he worked for is gone simply because the government decided to be compassionate and even the playing field for those minorities that never seem to have enough opportunity despite all of the federal programs out there.

The problem is, you will never hear about the real forgotten man. No politician truly cares about the taxpayer that is always stuck with the bill for the government’s acts of good will. If you pay your taxes, own a business, and work hard every day to meet your obligations, support your family, and save what little you can for later in life, then you are that forgotten man.

Dear Mr. President,

I decided to wait and see if there would be any change in the course you have decided to take this country. Apparently you are hell bent on taking the United States into the deepest and darkest hole imaginable. Since you have taken office inflation has skyrocketed, jobs have been lost, more people have lost their homes, taxes seem to be going up, and nobody respects the United States. You have signed every spending bill that has landed on your desk while claiming that spending a trillion here and there will cut the deficit. How does spending money and printing money cut the deficit?

You have also managed to take control of the auto industry, the health care industry, the banks, credit card companies, the student loan industry, and the mortgage companies. And now you are attempting to take over the internet. The FCC, with your blessing, is set to vote today on whether or not they should police the internet. Both Congress and the Supreme Court told you that you cannot regulate the internet because it is unconstitutional. But when have you cared about the Constitution?

Only tyrants seize power over the people’s communications and try to control speech. You have proven yourself to be a thug, a tyrant, a dictator, megalomaniac, narcissist, and an incompetent fool when it comes to true leadership.

There is only one reason why you wish to take over the internet: control. The internet has been the last true vestige of freedom in this country. If the FCC follows your orders that will be gone, allowing you to shut up any one critical of you. It will also allow you to control any online businesses. This amount of control could allow a person to determine what people see, say, do, and hear on the web. It even paves the way for spying on people’s emails and posts on social networking sites like Facebook. But you were not influenced by this were you?

You claim that this is all done in the name of safety, national security, and fairness. This is nothing of the sort. Who are you to determine what is fair? What gives you the right to institute your vision of fairness by denying people their individual freedom? How are we safe when the government controls the internet (and everything else) and has the ability to punish those they deem are threats? And the only threats you see are people who are opposed to you.

Government cannot institute any law for the sake of fairness. To do so requires the violation of the people’s individual rights and liberties. Rights that should never be infringed upon. As President of the United States you should know this best of all. But you do not care. That is what is frightening. You do not care about the Constitution, individual rights, or the freedom and prosperity of America.

Your lack of leadership is costing us greatly. You have disgraced the office of the Presidency. But what can be expected from a man that shirks his presidential duties especially on important American Holidays? How can anyone expect true leadership from a man that throws a tantrum whenever something does not go his way and whenever people dare to question him? Who can respect a President that calls a press conference and then leaves ten minutes into it? And how can anyone call your actions the past two years leadership? You have allowed your party to run wild, spending whatever amount of money they wish while funding their own special interest projects. The bill that you signed last week into law is the latest testament to this trend.

Mr. President, I have come to the conclusion that you are a spoiled brat that has yet to grow up. Your vampiric ways are draining the lifeblood of this country to the point that there will be nothing left. You, and those like you, are worse than the rodents that spread the plague in Europe. Why some Americans chose to elect a toddler to be president I will never know, but this is what you have shown yourself to be. I can only hope that history will be just and shed light on your corruption and lust for power. You are man steeped in Marxist ideology, a belief system full of hatred and greed. Only time will tell if America can survive your treachery.

Sincerely,

It appears that the bill which would extend the current tax code, has become another ominous spending bill. Last week the Republicans caved in to Obama’s demand that unemployment benefits be extended for 13 months in exchange for a two-year extension of the current tax code, which includes what we call the Bush Tax Cuts. Now, let’s get something straight. Many on the left have purported the same lie that only the wealthy are getting a tax cut and not the middle class. There is no tax cut! No one is getting a tax cut! All the Republicans proposed was that the current tax code, which expires January 1, 2011, be extended. If it is extended then your tax rates will stay the same. If it is not, then your taxes will go up.
The Democrats in Congress, especially in the Senate, are fighting to ensure that tax rates go up in January. Remember, the current tax code expires in January, meaning that tax rates will increase. Now ask yourself this, why are the Democrats so opposed to keeping the current tax code? Why are they insistent that the Bush Tax Cuts should expire, which will increase taxes on everyone, rich and poor?
The Senate, led by Harry Reid, is porking up the bill. They have added a bunch of provisions: more federal subsidies for ethanol, bio-diesel fuel, energy efficient homes and appliances, rum production, mining production, and federal handouts to the film and TV industry. None of these industries deserve federal money. They should be left to the private sector. But the bigger question is: why are these industries receiving federal money?
This bill, which started out as a simple extension of the tax code and unemployment, has gone from costing $55 billion to a whopping $855 billion thanks to all of the additions made by the Senate. That is just over a 15% increase in the amount of money being spent. This bill has become a place for every Senator to get their pet project through that couldn’t get passed otherwise. And most of the provisions in the bill for alternative energy credits were in the currently halted Cap and Trade bill. Harry Reid put them in this bill to get them passed.
This bill is no longer about extending the current tax code. It has become another spending bill for the Obama administration. Obama will sign in into law because if passed he ultimately wins. This bill allows him to acquire what he failed to get passed in the last two years. If the economy suffers another downturn, which it will if this passes, Obama and the Democrats will blame Republicans and their insistence on extending the Bush Tax Cuts.
But know this: if the economy suffers another downturn it will be the fault of the Democrats in Congress and President Obama. The only thing that the Republicans are getting out of this is a two-year extension of the current tax code. The Democrats are getting at least $800 billion worth of their pet projects. Remember who added all the pork.
One can only hope that this bill fails to make it out of Congress. But if it does pass, the American people will suffer greatly.

Something has been lost in this country: a sense of identity and being. People are reluctant to be proud of their country. In fact, it is fashionable to be ashamed of being an American. We seem more likely to be proud of being Indian (American Indian), black, Hispanic or from any descent other than American. We are never proud to be just Americans.

There was a dream that was America. But it has been lost. Many will tell you that the American dream is owning a house with a white picket fence, having two cars, and being rich. But that is not and never was the American dream. It is much more. It started during Colonial times as settlers from Europe fled political repression looking for a better life. The Declaration of Independence sums it up stating that people have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

To understand the true American dream, you must first understand her foundation for the dream is written within it. The principles that make up America’s foundation are faith, liberty, justice, and a thirst for independence.

First there is a faith, a belief not only in the Christian God but that our rights and liberties come from Him and Him alone. The Founding Fathers and Mothers acknowledged that not only did God exist, but that He guided the destiny of a nation if that nation allowed him to. They believed that He participated in the affairs of men, especially if asked. Incorporated with this belief is the notion that our rights come from God. If a people believe their rights come from other men or the government, they do not flinch when those rights disappear. But if a people believe that they are born with certain rights and that those rights come from an authority higher than man, then they are apt to fight for them.

There are those that claim that the Founders were deists. Read their writings and you will learn that these men were anything but deists. Within the last century rose the theory of Evolution and the widespread notion that there is no God and that everything is a matter of chance. This belief has permeated us as a nation to the point that Americans no longer look to God for any guidance, much less acknowledge his existence publicly. But consider this: how is it the Founders all lived in the same era so that they could come together to create a nation? Is it really coincidence that the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the participants of the Constitutional Convention, our first few presidents and ambassadors lived in the latter half the 18^th century and in the same region? Is it chance that they were all committed to freedom? Coincidence and chance only explain so much. It’s almost as if something gave this country exactly what it needed to be born.

As a people we have lost this foundation of faith. We are no longer taught Christian morality in school. The Bible has been practically banned from schools. Public prayers are virtually outlawed. Nativity scenes around Christmas time are becoming increasing rare. Atheists have managed to make the words “under God” in the pledge of allegiance a crime. And we now have a president that insists we are a Muslim nation and scoffs at anyone who thinks we should return to our Judeo-Christian heritage. The American people have allowed a minority group of malcontents to dictate when and where Christians may display their faith and to strip away the Christian foundation of this country. No other religion in this country has been under such attack.

The next pillar is liberty, especially individual liberty. People are free to live their lives as they see fit, to govern themselves, and to determine their own future. A government cannot oppress a people that maintain their individual freedom. With liberty comes responsibility. Individuals must guard their freedom taking charge of their own lives. They cannot depend on any one person of governing body to provide for them.

With the growth of the welfare state, Americans are losing their individual freedom. The government continues to grow in size and liberty’s foundation erodes. People have forsaken personal responsibility and liberty for the chains of a government safety net.

There has also been this rise in the notion that the Founding Fathers did not believe in equal rights because some of them owned slaves and they did not grant rights to women. To tarnish their achievements with our pettiness insults them. To think less of them because they did not solve all of the ills of their times is wrong. They were men, human beings doing their best to achieve the unattainable. We think little of them because they did not achieve equal rights for women of blacks, but they gave us much more. They gave us a foundation of principles to allow us as a nation to achieve the rest. They gave us independence. Without it what difference would the rest make?

Another part of America’s foundation is justice. Equality before the law has always been a part of The United States’ justice system. The Founding Fathers believed that no one was above the law. It does not matter if a person is a convenient store clerk or a head of state, the law deals with them equally. The law is supposed to be blind to social stature, race, and gender.

Unfortunately this is not always the case. People being what they are sometimes cater to their own prejudices instead of justice. Charlie Rangel’s punishment for ethics violations—granting official favors (bribery), not reporting income from his villa in the Dominican Republic, etc.—is a good example of how the foundation of justice is disappearing. The only punishment Rangel received for the 11 ethics violations he was found guilty of was a censure within Congress. Now compare this to James Traficant who was also found guilty of ethics violations—taking bribes and not filing income on his taxes—within the House of Representatives. Traficant went to prison for his crimes. Both are guilty of the same transgression, yet suffer different punishments. Why?

The fourth cornerstone of America is independence. The Founders wanted American independence where the United States determined her own destiny free from foreign influence and oppression of global powers. They wanted the American people to be free from tyrants both at home and abroad. As colonists, Americans governed themselves before England decided to pay attention to her colonies. The Founding Fathers felt that America should maintain that right to self government.

American independence has been rapidly disappearing. The United Nations has actively sought the destruction of America since its inception. Each year the U.N. grows in influence resembling a global governing body instead of a mediating ground for countries to work out their disputes. President Obama is willing to sign any agreement with the U.N. sending America’s wealth abroad, shrinking our influence in the world just so he can have an excellent global image. Obama seeks to sign a treaty (G-20 summit) with other members of the U.N. that would shrink American industry and the economy while sending what little money we do have to countries that are less developed industrially. China has bought up most of our debt. One could say that since China owns our debt, it owns America. We cannot claim to be a free and independent nation while we are indebted to China, or any foreign power. All these measures threaten American sovereignty and security.

How does all of this tie in with the American dream, you might ask. The American dream harbors the same principles as her foundation. Simply put, the American dream is the provision of a place where all men and women can live free from government tyranny and oppression, to keep what they work hard to earn, worship according to conscience, and to have the opportunity to improve their lives and be more than they are. That is the American dream.

Why is it this is not taught to children in schools? Why do people not know this? The answer is simple. In the early 20^th century a group of people known as progressives rose up wanting to change America into what they think it should be. To do this, they had to chip away at America’s identity. First they wiped out America’s Christian Heritage and our belief that our liberties come from God. Then, they made us ashamed of being Americans by reminding us constantly of our more negative history, such as slavery. (The Civil War never ended the slavery issue; it is alive and well even today.) They incorporated the notion that all cultures are equal and that we should be tolerant of everyone. However, anyone that is openly proud of being an American is call bigoted, racist, and humiliated publicly. All of this has whittled away at our American identity to the point that many Americans do not know who they are.

We must imprint the American dream, and her foundation, in our hearts and our minds. Teach it to your children. This dream is a fleeting one. If we do not grab hold of it, cherish it, live it, and pass it on to future generations it will be lost to the ages.

Remember, if we do not know who we are as a nation, how can we know what our dream is? How can we know where we are headed? And what is to stop a bunch of tyrants from robbing us of our freedom and turning us into slaves?

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Now that the election is over it is clear that the Republicans are being given a second chance to prove themselves as the party that is for the Republic.  This is also their last chance.  People are fed up with the Democrats and the nonsense they have participated in for the past two years.  The bailouts, Obamacare, the Financial takeover, and continuing to rack up more and more debt has angered many Americans and woke them up to reality.  But the behavior of the Democrats is hardly surprising.  They have always been for more government and more spending.  But we expect better from Republicans.  They always run on the platform of less taxes, less government, and less spending.  This is their chance to prove they are worthy of our trust.

This is what Republicans should do after being sworn in.  I hope they are listening.

1. Institute permanent tax cuts across the board for everyone who pays taxes.

2. Repeal Obamacare.  Don’t just change a few bits and pieces of it.  Repeal the entire thing.  And do not allow anything resembling it to take its place.

3.  Pass a budget and put a permanent cap on federal spending.

4. Repeal the financial reform bill.

5. Repeal the stimulus package of January 2009 and give GM back to private ownership.

6.  Tell the unions to take a hike, along with all lobbyists.

7. Get rid of the EPA.  The EPA is an unconstitutional organization that has an extraordinary amount of power over businesses and people’s lives.

8. Get rid of the Department of Education.  It is another unconstitutional organization with way too much power over our school system.

9. Eliminate the Capital gains tax and cut taxes on corporations and business.

10.  Close the borders and deport all illegal immigrants

11.  Address the Muslim threat within our own borders as well as without.  We as a nation cannot allow Sharia law to take any hold in this country. Muslims that want to emigrate here must swear allegiance to the U.S. Constitution and adhere to Constitutional law.  They must abandon Islamic law.  This also means rooting out terrorist organizations within America and getting rid of them.

12. Privatize social security

13.  Privatize Medicare and Medicaid.

14.  Eliminate all other welfare programs and get rid of the welfare state.

15.  Repeal the current tax code and institute a flat tax of 10%.  Make sure this is a permanent rate that cannot be changed by future Congresses for a period of 200 years (2 generations).

16.  Reign in the Federal Reserve

17.  Get rid of the Country Club Republicans and all Rhinos.  The Republican party needs to return tho its conservative roost and stick by them.

18.  Institute Term limits.  It is time to get rid of career politicians.

19.  Do not, under any circumstance, compromise with Obama and the Democrats.

Now I realize they may not be able to get everything done.  But the Republicans in Congress should push for these statutes and keep pushing for them.   Don’t give up and do not Compromise.  Do not do anything in the name of bipartisanship.

And for all American voters: keep your elected officials in line.  If they fail to deliver on their promises and if they turn into the Washington establishment, get rid of them on the next election.  It is our job as free citizens to keep our elected representatives honest and replace them from time to time.
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“A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.” Ronald Reagan said these words in his 1964 speech at the Republican National Convention.

Never before have these words been more true. Can anyone name a government program that was repealed? Probably not. But I am certain that you can name government programs that are still in effect and are bankrupting this nation. And yet, Congress continues to fund them and pass more.

For those of you who hate conservatives, have we ever been wrong concerning the growth of government? In a 1961 address, Ronald Reagan warned that medicine was a way for the government to inch its way into our lives. Ask yourself this: after the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, did the government ever stop meddling in medicine? Since 1965 Congress routinely passed amendments to Medicare and Medicaid, or established new programs altogether. Funding for both programs increases each year because as always happens, the government underestimated the cost. In 1965, when Medicare was signed into law, the public was promised that funding for Medicare would not reach $9 billion until 1990. In 1990, the U.S. government spent more than $66 billion on Medicare alone.

In 1997 SCHIP—health insurance for children—(also known as CHIP) was passed. In 2009 President Obama expanded the program. Those who stood against it were labeled as insensitive and uncaring. Isn’t it uncaring for a government to force people into dependency? No decent human being desires to harm children; that is why progressives use them as a means to expand their big government agenda. But why is the government needed to provide health insurance to children? What happened to the economy to make it where parents can no longer afford medical care for their kids? The answer is simple. The government overtaxes, overspends, and over regulates thus weakening the economy by destroying the value of the dollar, lessening consumer buying power, and destroying our liberty.

In March of 2010 Congress passed the Health Care reform Bill. President Obama giddily signed it into law.  Even now Congress is discussing amendments to this bill.  This bill was supposed to solve all of our woes concerning health care.  If that is the case, then why is Congress drafting amendments for it before it has even gone into effect?

Do not let the name of the bill fool you. This health care bill will do nothing to reform the health care industry, but it will destroy it by complicating it. This bill expanded government well beyond the confines of the constitution. For the first time Congress has mandated the purchase of a commodity. This bill introduces new taxes and regulations that will further limit the freedom of patients to choose their doctors and the care they receive. It also limits the freedom of doctors to choose their patients.

The bill sets the stage for a single payer system by mandating the purchase and provision of health insurance. The exchanges that the bill establishes will kill competition and force insurance companies out of business. The government sets the rules for these exchanges. Insurance companies are to provide the same benefits at roughly the same cost. People will end up with the same benefits packages regardless of their needs: whether sick or healthy, single or married, young or old, man or woman. Insurance companies will be banned from denying coverage and dropping coverage. Being forced to provide a set standard of benefits for everyone will result in higher costs. Insurance companies will be hard pressed to meet these costs forcing them to close their business. This will make it difficult for people to comply with the insurance mandate, thus leaving the door open for the government to step in as our “savior”. The federal government will do one of three things:

1. Bailing out insurance companies, thereby indirectly taking them over and giving us the illusion that they are still independent.

2. Step in with a Public Option and slowly choke out insurance companies.

3. Declaring a National Emergency where the government proclaims that they must take over health insurance companies for the public good.

Whatever course of action the federal government chooses will ultimately close insurance companies permanently leaving us with what Washington offers. After all, what business can compete with an entity that has the power to support itself with taxes?

Reagan warned of government’s slow encroachment upon our lives. The health care sector is just one area that the government has seized control. With the passage of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act the feds took over the auto industry and the banks. They even tried taking over the individual states with the bailouts that were listed in the bill. The Financial Reform Bill of 2010 allows the government to control the financial industry. This is all done for our protection, or so they claim. But who protects the people from a government that insists on owning everything within the economy? When will we the people stop listening to the politicians in Washington and starting listening to common sense?

It is time for us, the American people, to stop looking to the government for solutions to our problems. Government is never a solution. But it is always a problem. The Founders understood this. That is why they wrote the Constitution in a way that limits the federal government’s power. These “negative rights”, as President Obama put it, are to prevent the government from becoming tyrannical. But one thing is certain: the day we stopped abiding by the U.S. Constitution was the day we signed the death warrant for the Republic. When the American people allowed progressives to step in with government programs so as to “save” them, they were inviting government to run their lives.

This is a 45 minute presentation that explains briefly what Trickle Up, Trickle Down, and Supply Side economics are.  Hope you all find it helpful.   (Note: In the the first video when you here “9 million”, it’s supposed to be “9 trillion”.)

February 5, 2010

Dear Mr. President,

I may be a little late in commenting on your State of the Union address, but it is filled to the brim with sewage that it would take days for any sane person to shovel their way through it. This speech differed little from the many you have given the past year. I often wonder when you will shut your mouth and actually start defending this country.

Instead of reporting on the State of the Union, people are more aware of it than you, and the 18 pages you spent selling your socialist agenda. It was the typical push for universal health care, cap and trade and a government takeover of energy production, another stimulus (the Jobs Bill), blame Bush, and more of your ego inflation. But there are a few points I want to address specifically.

You talk about the suffering of the people. You even throw in a few sob stories and supposed letter written to you just to prove that you understand our pain. You understand nothing. You insist that the economy downfall and our suffering is the result of the change you promised not coming quickly enough. And you blame Republicans for that. 1) The Republicans do not have a majority. Democrats do. Republicans couldn’t stop a bill from passing even if they all voted against it. It is people in your own party that has slowed down your ghoulish legisltaion. Blame them not the GOP. 2) You are either delusional or lying. I believe it is both. You truly believe that destroying America and turning it into a socialist country will make the country and the world a better place. You are also lying because you want the public to believe that our refusal to accept your regulations has furthered this economic slump. The reality is that the change you brought to Washington, your economic policies have prolonged the recession turning it into a depression. Your big government solutions took a problem and expanded it.

A second point I wish to make is that you are now attempting to rewrite history. You throw out a bunch of numbers and figures to prove that your stimulus bill actually saved the economy from total collapse. The numbers do not add up. There is no evidence that your spending spree saved the economy. There is evidence that it made the economy worse. Unemployment skyrocketed, businesses loss money, employers stopped hiring and began laying more people off, consumer spending dropped, banks stopped lending, and the stock market has yet to show any sign of recovery.

You mentioned tax cuts that you passed. Where are they? Tax rates are still the same and are due to increase when the Bush tax cuts expire later this year. That is considered a tax increase for those who do not understand basic economics. You have passed tax credits, but those are not tax cuts. A tax cut means that tax rates have decreased and will remain that way. A tax credit is a temporary refund that a person is forced to pay back when he is taxed on it at later date.

In 2009 you passed a tax credit on people’s paychecks that amounted to an additional $10 a paycheck. When filing taxes in 2010, those who received that credit will be charged income tax on that extra money along with the rest of their income. Explain how this is a tax cut. Simple, it’s not.

You have blatantly shown contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law. The Senate blacked a bill of yours that would have established another bureaucracy known as the Fiscal Commission. Instead of respecting the political process you are going to issue an executive order to create this Fiscal Commission and get what you want. How childish! You cannot override the House and Senate every time you do not get your way. This is an abuse of your executive power. This very act is something a dictator does. But then, you said once that you would rule this country.

Lastly, you have already demonstrated you desire to take over health care, businesses, and banks, but now you want education. The education in America is already largely controlled by the federal government, but you want more. You want a bill that will allow the government more control of education all in the name of protecting the children. The Department of Education already regulates schools including universities. Yet, many college graduates still cannot read anything longer than a magazine or even discuss current world events. And you have the gall to insist that more government legislation will fix this? You have the audacity to tell students that if they take out a student loan to pay for college they will not have to pay it back after ten years if they get a government job, or twenty years if they get a regular job. Instead the government will absorb the loan. Not only is this financial suicide for the United States since we are trillions of dollars in debt and have no money, but this is insulting to those who took responsibility for their debts and paid off their loans. I am one of those people. I paid for my education. I paid my student loans. Not the government.

How dare you insist that people need the government’s help to pay for anything. How dare you encourage young people to not take responsibility for themselves and their education but instead to let the government handle it. Your big government policies will breed yet another generation of people who refuse to work for anything, refuse to be self reliant, but instead believe that they are entitled to everything. They will believe that government should provide for them. This is not only a violation of the U.S. Constitution but an insult to the American character.

Like any tyrant this does not concern you. You want people to believe that you are doing all of this out of compassion because you care. You are an arrogant fool who cares only for yourself. You refer to yourself so much it is difficult to believe that you care for anything else. You wish for us to look upon you as our Savior and the savior of America. Mr. President, you are one of many that has helped destroy this country. There is one savior and he died on a cross. Would you do the same? You talk about Americans making sacrifices. You talk about how it is time for Washington to tighten its belt. Where are those sacrifices on the part of Washington? Where are your sacrifices? What are you willing to sacrifice?

When it comes down to it, Mr. President, your mouth is a black hole that spouts empty words.

Sincerely,

Lady Liberty