How We Move Toward Socialism
Jan 16, 2009 Political
What do Socialist countries have in common?
They have leaders who are “elected” time and again and basically serve for life. Hugo Chavez is a good example as was Saddam Hussein. The election results in those countries usually come in with an unusually high percentage for the dear leader. Those who voted for others might never be heard from again…
The United States did not have term limits for the president until 1951 when the 22nd Amendment was ratified. Up until that time presidents served two terms in order to prevent a monarchy type system where one person ruled forever. Franklin Roosevelt was elected to 4 terms and died a few months into his fourth term. Many cite his popularity and World War II as the reason for his continuation past two terms.
Two terms was an unwritten rule that many believe George Washington instituted by deciding not to run after his second though many scholars say he decided not to run because of his age. In 1807 Thomas Jefferson wrote:
“if some termination to the services of the chief Magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution, or supplied by practice, his office, nominally four years, will in fact become for life.” Thomas Jefferson: Reply to the Legislature of Vermont, 1807
Most presidents honored the unwritten rule though a few ran for more than two terms. Those who did, with the exception of FDR, were defeated.
Many Americans like term limits and their only regrets on the matter is that they do not extend to Congress. Jefferson warned about the chief Magistrate serving for life but he failed to mention the members of Congress who, for the most part, get elected and have a job for life. This is why their performance is poor and their approval ratings low.
It has been said that continuing to do the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. The American people keep reelecting the same people (with a few exceptions) to office over and over. Why do we expect that their performance will be any better than it has in the past?
Why mention it? It is important because now that Barack Obama has been elected the left is looking for a president for life. They are betting that this oh so popular sensation will be a hit and could keep getting reelected time and again but the XXII Amendment is a bit of an obstacle. In steps Jose Serrano (D-NY) to provide a remedy for that pesky little problem. It is called House Judicial Resolution 5: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. Here is the text:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
‘Article–
‘The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.’. Gov Track
I doubt this will see the light of day and if it does make it to the full Congress I am fairly certain it will not be passed. They need two-thirds of each house which means they do not have enough votes without Republicans supporting it and there is no certainty that all Democrats will. Then they would need three-fourths of the states to ratify it so it is a safe bet that it will never make it anywhere.
However, the fact that this guy has introduced it is disturbing. We can’t get these people to pass Flag protection Amendments. I know the liberals will say that the courts should handle it (like Hillary did) but when the states enact rules the courts rule they are unconstitutional. I have a better solution than an Amendment but that is beside the point.
The reason it is hard to amend the Constitution is so that it will not be changed in a haphazard fashion.
Thank God our Founders had the sense to do that or the liberals would change it all the time.
In any event, this is what they are pushing for, Socialism with a leader for life who we can all bow down to and worship. A leader who can send government forces after us if we don’t march in lock step with them.
First they go for the guns, then they impose their will on those with no means to resist. It worked for Hitler and they think it will work for them. The tyranny is about to begin.
The most dangerous weapon in the world is an American with a gun who is trained to use it.
Maybe that Russian was right about a coming civil war here.
Buy guns and ammo…
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Tags: Democrats, gun control, monarchy, Obama, socialism
Abandoning The Free Market Will Not Fix It
Dec 17, 2008 Political
The economic tough times we are going through are the result of many things. But one thing is certain and that is the tough times are not the result of free market principles. The free market takes care of issues unless there is intervention from outside influences. In this case, the socialistic practices and greed of past administrations and American businesses have combined to cause the problem.
The idea that we need to give people loans for houses they cannot afford is not a free market principle. Forcing companies to pay a minimum wage that government sets based on some arbitrary target rather than the supply and demand of a workforce is not free market. Allowing businesses to hire illegals for well under the market price for a job is not part of the free market. Developing gimmicky investment vehicles in order to turn a quick buck at the expense of others is unethical and not free market. Too much government intervention is not part of the free market and it stifles growth. Combine this with politicians lining their pockets at our expense and we have a recipe for disaster. These are the reasons we got into trouble.
However, President Bush and the Congress failed to see all this and they decided that the best way to fix things was to interfere even more in the free market so that it could go further into chaos. The financial bailout was an intervention that should never have happened. The economic collapse should not have happened but politicians decided that everyone needed a home and investors decided that they needed get rich quick schemes. Then, when it all went south the government got more involved and infused taxpayer money into the mess. The 700 billion dollars has morphed into trillions of dollars in bailouts and there is no end in sight. None of it has helped the economy because the infusion of money only prolongs the pain and delays the inevitable.
President Bush says that he abandoned free market principles to save the economy. He is only partly right. Free market principles were abandoned a long time ago. He is only doing more of the same of what has been going on and it will not help one bit. George Bush is using Socialism to try and fix a free market system when Socialism caused the problem.
Businesses should make it or fail on their own. Bankers and Wall Street tycoons should be left to fail. When they made billions of dollars they did not rush to DC to give money to the government and they did not hand it out to the taxpayer. When they got in trouble they had their hands in taxpayer pockets for help. They should fail. There will always be another ready to step in and take their place. This goes for the Big Three auto makers as well. If they are unable to make it then they should go under and someone can take over and buy them out or they can cease to be.
George Bush saying that he abandoned free market principles to save the economy is like a priest saying he abandoned religion to save people’s souls. It is like saying that we abandon morality to make people more moral. It is ridiculous and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
We need to get BACK to free market principles and let the situation influence the outcome. Employers can pay what the market will bear not what politicians dictate. People who cannot afford their homes can lose them and learn from the experience. Auto makers can file for bankruptcy and renegotiate the contracts with the UAW or they can go under and the union workers can be unemployed.
The reality is, we need to use the free market to get out of this mess and stop creating bigger problems by throwing more and more money down a hole. More money will not help and it will certainly make things worse because we do not have the money and must borrow it. We are going deeper and deeper in debt in a scheme that will not work.
We need to get government out of our business and let the market dictate what business survives and what does not. Darwin had that part right.
George Bush cannot abandon the free market and expect things to change. They will not get better and things will certainly get worse. We only need to look at the Great Depression to see that government intervention allowed it to go on much longer than it should have.
Mr. President, one does not fix the free market by abandoning the free market. One allows it to correct itself as it has done time and again when politicians were not screwing things up.
Sacrificing free market principles is what caused this mess in the first place.
Source:
Breitbart
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Tags: bailout, Bush, free market, socialism, wall street
Obama Illegitimate Until He Proves Otherwise
Dec 7, 2008 Political
There has been an issue with Barack Obama since well before the general election and that is, is he qualified to serve as president? This issue does not deal with his skill to hold the job (in that case he is definitely unqualified), no in this instance it deals with his qualification under the Constitution. Is Barack Obama a natural born citizen as required by our Constitution or has the biggest con game in America been perpetrated by the man who wants to move us to Socialism and his henchmen in the DNC?
Before we go any further let’s dispense with the fraud that his supporters will undoubtedly bring to light. No you morons, Obama did not provide a copy of his birth certificate and his BIRTH CERTIFICATE was not verified by anyone. A Certificate of Live Birth (COLB) was released. It was verified as real, big deal. A COLB is just proof that a birth is registered in Hawaii, not that the bearer was actually born there. Hawaii allowed foreign births to be registered up until the mid 1970s and it is possible that the reason Obama has not released the vault copy of his BIRTH CERTIFICATE is because he was not born in the US. For you moonbats who insist that this is a closed issue because The One has demonstrated his US birth, you are delusional and your argument lacks credibility. The COLB is not, nor will it be, a valid proof of citizenship.
At issue here is whether Barack Obama is a natural born citizen of the US. There are many indicators that he is not and thus not qualified to serve as president. Two years ago, Sarah Herlihy, who has ties to Obama, wrote this:
The natural born citizen requirement in Article II of the United States Constitution has been called the “stupidest provision” in the Constitution, “undecidedly un-American,” “blatantly discriminatory,” and the “Constitution’s worst provision.” Since Arnold Schwarzenegger’s victory in the California gubernatorial recall election of 2003, commentators and policy-makers have once again started to discuss whether Article II of the United States Constitution should be amended to render naturalized citizens eligible for the presidency. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution defines the eligibility requirements for an individual to become president. Article II provides:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Although these sixty-two words are far from extraordinary, the natural born citizen provision is controversial because it prevents over 12.8 million Americans from being eligible for the presidency. Source
Does anyone on this planet think she actually had any concern for Arnold Schwarzenegger? Does anyone really think her concern was for poor Arnie or was she laying the groundwork for the future of the Lightworker? Admittedly, this piece does not mean Obama is not natural born, it is just one piece of an interesting puzzle.
Obama’s grandmother in Kenya says that she was at the bedside when he was born. She has stated this a number of times and she has not changed her story. The media pay little attention to this but she has said it more than once. The people in Kenya have stated they are having celebrations in Obama’s birthplace (and it is not in Hawaii).
Obama’s travels as a youth and young man tend to indicate that he was not an American citizen because he went to places Americans were not allowed to go. If he had an American passport he would not have been allowed to enter. If he had any other passport he is not natural born because he would have given up his American citizenship because the US did not recognize dual citizenship with these countries because they would not recognize them.
Obama has refused to release his college records. Those records could very easily demonstrate that he was registered as a citizen of another country. Of course they could show that he was registered as an American though one would think that he would release anything that helps prove his claim. Perhaps he was registered as a Muslim and he does not want people to know that because he said he was never a Muslim (and the media gave him a pass on that lie).
No hospital on Oahu claims to have had Obama or his mother as patients. I realize that calling hospitals for information is a shot in the dark and what you get might not be accurate because of confidentiality but Obama and his sister said he was born there and they named different hospitals. Both of those facilities claim that Obama and Obama-momma were not there. Once again, this is the least reliable because people are asking about events from nearly 50 years ago. Do we expect the hospitals to be able to find old paper records now? That is what birth certificates are for.
And therein lies the issue. The easiest thing that Obama could do to clear the issue up is to release his vault copy birth certificate. It would cost about $10 to get it and I am willing to bet that Hawaii would wave the fee for Obama. Instead, Obama has spent untold amounts of money to keep his birth certificate under lock and key. His records in Kenya, where one reporter alleges to have seen a Kenyan birth certificate, have been locked up tight. In Hawaii, whatever documents the state has on the Messiah are locked away as well.
I am not convinced that Obama is qualified under our Constitution to be president. I realize that there are those who will claim that this is sour grapes because he won but this is not accurate. This issue has been out there since he was still slugging it out with Hillary. It has been ignored by the media and the public. I readily admit that I did not want Obama as the president but he won. If he is qualified then good for him and bad for America. However, he has failed to demonstrate his qualification. I don’t care how many of his buddies think the Constitutional requirements are stupid, the fact is they are the law and they apply to Obama just like they do everyone else.
I realize that Democrats believe that our Constitution is one of convenience. If they want something they will jump all over the issue of the Constitution but if they do not agree with something they will say it is living and that it is subject to interpretation. The fact is, it is not a living document and it says what it does for a reason and it is our duty as citizens to ensure it is followed by the lawmakers who work for us.
This is my entire issue. I don’t care if it is Obama or Ronald Reagan, if they fail to demonstrate they are Constitutionally qualified then they should not hold the office. Unfortunately, there are many who think we have bigger fish to fry. This, to them, is not a big deal. None of the news networks are interested in covering this. Where are Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and all the other voices of conservatism? Have they begun practicing for the imposition of the fairness doctrine? Of course, I imagine if Obama’s birth certificate is revealed and it shows him unqualified these entities will be all over the airwaves telling us how they were on top of it. Bill O’Reilly, who is silent on the issue, would tell us he caused it to happen and that he is looking out for us….
As it stands right now, the issue will be up to the courts ruling on any number of the lawsuits filed challenging Obama’s status.
I predict the Supreme Court will take a pass on the issue. The Court lacks the testicular fortitude to do the right thing no matter how hard it is. Some of them will worry about riots if they rule The One unqualified and others will worry that they looked partisan and had agendas. They will worry that they will be viewed in a bad light when in reality they will only be doing their job under the very Constitution that they have sworn to uphold.
If this issue is not important enough to pursue then we lose standing. In the future, how can we expect the courts to take us seriously when we have an issue with them in regard to the Constitution? What happens to our standing in the future when they make some rule denying free speech or taking guns away or if they require people to perform so many hours of (non punitive) community service without recompense? All these would violate the Constitution but if we allow them to dictate the terms on which items are challenged then we will certainly lose standing and in the not too distant future our founding documents will be little more than words on paper.
Those who fear riots are cowards. The people who wrote our Constitution knew they would be at war when they signed it and they did so anyway. Those who allow fear to decide their protection of our Constitution dishonor the men and women who have spilled blood protecting it and those it governs since our country was formed.
If Obama fails to actually be transparent like he swore he would when he was pandering for votes then his legitimacy will remain in question. If he cannot obey the law then why should the rest of us obey anything he and his Congress comes up with? Screw them. They have no regard for the law so why should the rest of us worry about anything they put forward. Until Obama proves he is qualified to be president, anything he signs is not legitimate.
It is amazing that in 2000 when George Bush won the lawsuit that Al Gore filed, the left went bonkers and called Bush the Illegitimate President. Now, eight years later, they have their own guy who might actually be illegitimate and they are ignoring it.
I said before that if he won he would be my president but he will not be my president until he proves that he is qualified under the rules contained in the document he will swear to uphold. Until Obama proves he meets the criteria then he is illegitimate.
Barry, spend the $10 and put this issue to rest.
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Tags: birth certificate, constitution, crime, fraud, Obama, socialism
Bars Open Until 5 am, Kennedy Must Be Ecstatic
Dec 4, 2008 Political
Obama Welcomes the Peasants
The coronation of The One will take place in DC on January 20th (unless he is disqualified by then) and the DC politicians have decided to cash in on a good thing. Since it is estimated that millions of people will arrive for the ceremony the pols have decided to allow establishments to remain open around the clock for the week. Establishments that serve alcohol will have to close at 5 am which means Kennedy can leave the bar and head to work, assuming he is still alive by then.
It is amazing that the liberals want to cash in on Obama. That seems like such a capitalistic thing to do. What happened to all the “spread the wealth” ideas? Shouldn’t these hotels and bars be required to give away their services? Maybe they should be required to close at their regular time so that people can get in and avoid being murdered by the thugs who hang around and prey on tourists.
The stars will certainly be out for the coronation. Oprah Winfrey will do her show from DC for the entire week. Certainly she wants to cash in on the man she helped to win. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have a week of Oprah interviewing people talking about Obama. I have never watched her show and that week looks like a good time to continue that trend.
For those of you coming to DC for the first time, be aware that it is not a quaint little country village. It is a city full of criminals and murderers and those are just the people in Congress. The place has high prices and if you venture down the wrong street you might not make it back out. The subway is top notch and easy to use and safe but there will be more people there than ever before (if estimates are close to correct) so you should plan to leave early for your destinations. There will be a lot more police there but they will not be able to control that many people. Keep in mind, not everyone there is in the same jovial mood you will be and some just want to take what you own.
I see no reason not to warn those who have never been there. Call it my gift to you.
If Obama is not disqualified by then there will be huge crowds. If he is there will be riots. Buy ammo.
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From Kool-Aid To Cookies, Obama’s Magic Touch
Nov 28, 2008 Political
The Obama Kool-Aid is a potent concoction so strong that about 53% of the country tasted it and sold their souls to the devil in order to follow him down the path of destruction. Barack Obama is a smooth talker who could charm the rattles off a snake but he is inexperienced and his paper thin resume coupled with his Socialist desires spells trouble for the greatest country on Earth. His mantra of Change has been debunked as a myth by the old Clinton retreads he selected for his administration and he will soon break one promise after another. The left will not be happy with him (the right never was) and that is just fine. We need the total chaos of complete Democratic control to wake people up. Add the Socialism and those people will soon realize they are awakening from a nightmare.
Obama is ready to apply change to tackle the economy and he tells us to have no fear because “Help is on the way”. Ronald Reagan once said “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'”
So we should all be terrified because Obama is from the government and he is here to help, or so he says. Obama will hit the ground running when he takes office but his ideas on the economy are not new and they will not bring about any kind of rapid recovery. We are in for some dark and dismal days before things get better (and to be fair that would be true no matter who is president). The reality is, Obama brings with him ideas that have been tried unsuccessfully in the past. He will take us back to the days of Carter and double digit inflation. The selection of people who have been around the block more times than the Good Humor man shows us that he is looking to the past for solutions and that is not the “change we need.”
However, there is good economic news for at least one company because of Obama. A cafe in Iowa has been swamped for orders of cookies that Obama said he likes. Evidently, the Obama camp visited Baby Boomers Cafe in Des Moines and it was recently discovered that he (and his kids) like a certain cookie. It is now the Obama Cookie and people are ordering them by the dozens. It seems that the Kool-Aid magic extends to these cookies because they, like Obama, can cure the world. According to co-owner Rodney Maxfield:
“I think everybody just … thought, ‘Oh, great cookie, great president—the world is a happy place. Barack’s going to fix all the problems and if I have a bite of this cookie it’s going to make me feel good.'” Breitbart
The Jim Jones complex is evident. “Everyone just take a bite and you will feel better.” Don’t worry The Messiah and the cookie will make you feel good. There is nothing better than a cookie with a Kool-Aid chaser.
There is no word if the cookie has half white chocolate and half dark chocolate chips…
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