States Want A Bailout
Apr 23, 2020 Political, Tyranny
The Democrats like to say never let a crisis go to waste. That is particularly true with regard to the Corona Virus. Democrats have used it to impose authoritarian rule, to limit what people can do and to ignore the US Constitution.
This crisis, if you want to call it that, has demonstrated that states were woefully unprepared for the pandemic. It is the responsibility of the states to have plans in place and to have adequate supplies for the beginning of a problem. The federal government is there to provide help to hot spots and coordinate movement of items among the states. It has bulk supplies to supplement the ones the states are supposed to have. As an aside, it is also the responsibility of hospitals to have supplies and plans in place.
When these things occur there is a fouled up response and then they have meetings, blue ribbon panels meet and they come up with plans to “ensure this never happens again” and then they put the plans in a drawer and the next time there is an emergency it happens again. And each time they encroach on our liberties.
Now it looks like these liberals are going to use this emergency (or try) to take more of our money. All these states that were screaming about being in control and not having the feds run their show are now saying they will need BILLIONS of our tax dollars to recover from the pandemic. If you think they mean to recover from Corona related items you are only partly correct. These liberals (and no doubt a few RINOs) want the federal government to pay for failing pension systems, budget shortfalls and billions of dollars worth of other shortcomings that states have had for years.
The Democrats in Congress are all on board making bold statements that the next stimulus (you know I hate stimulus packages) will include money for states to make their public sector pensions whole. There are plans to include money in the recovery to help states pay off debt including debt that was there BEFORE COVID-19. New York was 7 Billion in debt prior to the outbreak. Under the ideas floated by the Democrats, this debt would be paid off by the federal government as part of a stimulus package.
Why exactly should we pay the debt of the states? How is it the states can scream they have rights and the feds need to butt out (all very correct) and then say we need you to pay our bills, past and present? I hate stimulus packages but if the feds are going to take money from workers in each state then some of that needs to go back to the state to make things whole BUT only things that are a direct result of COVID-19.
States are already inflating COVID death numbers to get higher reimbursements. Now they expect the feds to pay all their bills, cancel out all their debt and make them whole again. I do not see that as being the way to go. States are responsible for the pensions of their public sector employees so they need to make those systems whole. Perhaps they should use this crisis as an opportunity to pare down those lucrative pension plans.
Fortunately, Mitch McConnell says that he and most Republicans will not be on board with bailing out the states. He says they might want to consider filing for bankruptcy. I agree 100%. States can pay their own bills or they can file for protection.
Keep in mind, government has the ability to tax you to death (and after you die) so in the long run you will pay for this. If your state has to foot its own bills it will raise taxes (and they will never go back down) or impose new ones (and they will never go away) to pay the bills. States are looking for the easy way out by spreading their misery to all the other states. It is important to remember if the feds pay the bill the federal taxes will need to be raised in order to pay the bills so everyone pays even if they are in a fiscally responsible state.
I am not in favor of paying the bills of the states. I am all for as little government as possible. Government has gotten too big and has imposed tyranny on us in the face of another “crisis”. We need to put an end to this mess. We are speeding toward 25 TRILLION dollars in debt and members of Congress and the leaders (or so called leaders) in the states are stomping down on the throttle.
And they are doing that because they will be dead long before their malfeasance destroys the nation. All of them are old and they will be dead before the mess they are causing has any affect. They will not be bothered by it so they do not care.
But your grandchildren will. Do not allow these cretins to further destroy our nation.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Tags: corona virus, government tyranny, state's rights, taxes
Media Finally Agree With Framer’s Intent?
May 20, 2013 Political, Second Amendment
[note]”That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms … ”
— Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Pierce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)[/note]
I have always believed that a point of view depends upon whose ox is being gored. With the Second Amendment the media are silent with regard to what our Founders intended and will help push an agenda for anti gun (and anti American) liberals. In order to ignore what our Founders said and what they clearly intended the media will gladly tell us that the Constitution is a living document and that it must evolve with the times. Things change for the media when the right under attack is the one that affects them the most.
The idea that the Constitution is a living document is an incorrect assessment of the Constitution. It is not a living document subject to interpretation based on a particular point in history. It is the Supreme Law of the Land and the Founders did not intend for it to be interpreted this way or that. What they did was give us a method to change it should things change or should new situations arise.
In any event, the media love to bash the Second Amendment and tell us how things have changed. That point of view changes when the right attacked is the one that affects the media.
In light of the Justice Department’s infringement of the AP’s First Amendment right the media, at least the AP, have suddenly decided that the Constitution is not a living document and that the infringement by the Justice department is wrong. Here is what Gary Pruitt, the president and CEO of the AP, had to say about the incident:
Pruitt told CBS’ ”Face the Nation” that the government has no business monitoring the AP’s newsgathering activities.
“And if they restrict that apparatus … the people of the United States will only know what the government wants them to know and that’s not what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment,” Washington Post
Well isn’t it interesting that Pruitt mentions what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment? When it comes to the Second Amendment the media will tell us that things have changed, the framers could not have anticipated modern firearms (they did anticipate which is why they do not mention a specific type. People can have what the government has). They tell us that it is a living document and that we need to advance with the times. They dismiss any argument that claims if people are disarmed there will be no way to fight a tyrannical government as if the government is wonderful and would do no wrong.
It looks like the AP incident and Pruitt’s words now reveal that the media were wrong. The incident shows the tyranny of government and Pruitt indicated that this kind of tyranny leads to people only getting the information government wants it to.
I imagine it will be difficult for many anti gun zealots to see that these two issues are one in the same. Many, and I imagine Pruitt would be among them, will not see how the framer’s intent applies as much to the Second as it does to the First (and all parts of the Constitution for that matter). They will continue to dismiss the valid concerns of gun owners and tell us how we need to change with the times while crying foul over what the government did to them.
Mr. Pruitt, conservatives are on your side because we know all parts of the Constitution need to be defended against all enemies foreign and domestic. We know that the erosion of one right will lead to the erosion of another until the domino effect takes place. We wake up one day and are North Korea where people are disarmed, totally dependent on government and fed only the news government wants.
Mr. Pruitt, you and others in the media are responsible for this. You media folks pushed an agenda for liberals for decades. That was the anti gun agenda and it allowed for the slow erosion of the right to keep and bear arms. You folks in the media carried their water on this issue while cheerfully claiming that things have changed, this is a living document, the framers could not have anticipated the future, blah, blah, blah…
While you were helping with the slow erosion of our Second Amendment right you were putting in place the mechanism that allowed government to start going after the other rights. You allowed the camel’s nose to get under the tent and now you are feeling the effect of your failure.
Without a Second Amendment there will be no protection for the First or any other. Without a well armed citizenry there will be government tyranny. You helped bring this upon us by ignoring or dismissing the framer’s intent when it came to our right to keep and bear arms.
[note]”The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.”
— Adolph Hitler, Hitler’s Secret Conversations 403 (Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens trans., 1961)[/note]
You in the media became stenographers for the liberals in government. You abandoned your obligation to the people and stopped being our watchdog. YOU enabled government to encroach further and further on our rights and into our lives. You failed us and now you are reaping what you have sown.
How about you get on board and start supporting the Second Amendment the way you want the First supported? How about you push the message of the people and tout the intent of our framers with regard to the right to keep and bear arms? What say we the people and you the media work together to keep government in check?
Let me help you out with it:
- “Whereas civil-rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as military forces, which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.” — Tench Coxe, in Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution
- “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.” –Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787)
- “What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” — Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356
- “No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” — Thomas Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334,[C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950]
- ” … to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” — George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380
Quotes from the George Mason webpage of Walter E. Williams
I along with most conservatives do not like what took place with regard to the AP. We do not like the violation of a Constitutionally protected right because we support all of those rights. It is time for the AP and all other media outlets to get back to doing their jobs.
You can’t cry that your Constitutional right has been violated when you willfully ignore your responsibilities under that right.
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Tags: ap, first amendment, government tyranny, Second Amendment
Free Speech Gets Travelers More Scrutiny
Apr 17, 2011 Political
Be wary air passengers, the TSA is on the lookout for those of you who voice your disgust at the methods they employ in the name of safety. Part of their profiling system includes looking for passengers who are “[V]ery arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures.” In other words, if you express your opinion they get to decide if it is arrogant and full of contempt and then they can subject you to more invasive screening. Since these are arbitrary it is solely up to TSA to decide.
One civil rights group explains it as such:
“Expressing your contempt about airport procedures — that’s a First Amendment-protected right,” said Michael German, a former FBI agent who now works as legal counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. “We all have the right to express our views, and particularly in a situation where the government is demanding the ability to search you.”
“It’s circular reasoning where, you know, I’m going to ask someone to surrender their rights; if they refuse, that’s evidence that I need to take their rights away from them. And it’s simply inappropriate,” he said. CNN
There is, of course, a difference between being unruly or disorderly and expressing dissatisfaction with how things are done. The TSA however, gets to decide on the matter and will use more in depth screening as a punishment (rather than a security tool) should a traveler decide to express an opinion about how the TSA is doing its job.
This is another attempt to silence the traveling public and get it to accept what is being done without uttering a peep. It is an effort to gain more acceptance of the loss of rights.
The Fourth Amendment is violated and now the First Amendment joins an ever growing list of individual rights that are being eroded by the government.
And if you don’t like it, armed people will surround you and force you to submit.
Just as my friend Ogre always points out.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: constitution, government tyranny, lies, rights, tsa