George Washington Quotes That applies today

“The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will be recalled.”

George Washington, 1787

“One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.”

George Washington, 1796 On the Constitution

What Democrats do not know

It is interesting to hear some Democratic members of Congress claim, when speaking about H.R. 3200, the government healthcare bill, they like to quote from the Constitution by stating, “That men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness”. The only problem with this argument is that this is not written in the Constitution but the Declaration of Independence. It only goes to show that many members of Congress have no idea what is in the Constitution and this is why they are trying to have government control of all aspects of our lives that is something we fought against England over 230 years ago. Now it appears that some Americans want to roll over and be stomped by government elitist who claim to know better than 300 million + Americans. Borrowing from the 1960’s, Power to the People.”

Something the U.S. Supreme should think about when debating a case.

On every question of construction, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the test, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

Thomas Jefferson

Speech of the past that applies today

An interesting speech that was made on August 3, 1857 and reflects on what we see in the town hall meetings of today. This speech was given by abolitionist Frederick Douglass reminding Americans of the cost of freedom.

“The general sentiment of mankind is that a man who will not fight for himself, when he has the means of doing so, is not worth being fought for by others, and this sentiment is just. For a man who does not value freedom for himself will never value it for others, or put himself to an inconvenience to gain it for others.

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.“

The Obama Administration

In discussing the czars that President Obama has appointed one wonders if he is now singing “radicals to the left of me and radicals to the right of me”. Many of these czars are avowed socialist, communist and believe government is the answer and people are the problem. What is the difference between President Obama and Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin? Only about 100 years.

Truth or Consequences

The Obama administration has admitted that the economy will falter another 2.5% this year that is another percentage point above what they were predicting last January. The country’s debt is going to increase another 2 billion dollars over and above the 7 billion this administration originally predicted last spring. In fact there will be a tremendous increase in debt for the next 10 years. So, the question is why are we pushing to spend money on programs like Cap and Trade, Stimulus and Government Healthcare that is projected even by the Congressional Budget Office that will further increase our debt. In fairness to President Obama, he claims the Government Healthcare will be deficit neutral. Now when was the last time our government was ever involved in any program that was deficit neutral? Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are billions of dollars in debt that will increase with the addition of the baby boomers and we can expect the same with any program the government gets its’ hands on. We have history on our side that we can say with certainty that this will be the result. The Obama administration only has their word. If you believe Obama, I know a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.

Town Hall meetings

If you attend town hall meetings and protest government spending, stimulus packages, bailouts and their attempt at healthcare reform, you are considered, Un-American, a mob or a group associated with some right wing extremist organization. You are just an average American and when it comes to being politically active you were just a couch potato. This no longer applies and your elected representative cannot not face the fact that his or her constituents are speaking out. Now with reckless spending, stimulus money spending for political favors and the opportunity for this administration trying to gain control of your healthcare decisions you began to become vocal to express your displeasure against what this government is attempting to do. Most of your elected officials are outraged and how dare you disagree with their position. You now know that these elected officials on either party don’t represent you as much as they do themselves and their political party. Country first and their constituents that help put them in office are just tertiary thoughts that really do not apply. As for so called blue dog Democrats, they are more concerned about getting re-elected in 2010 and keeping their party in power rather being really concerned with the healthcare debate. They will, like just about every other Congressional representative, do anything that can get them re-elected. And you thought they were really concerned. Shame on you.

White House E mails

Send E-mail to the White House and low and behold you are on their E-mail list for propaganda they wish to send. And if you think they are going to remove your name or your political affiliation based on what you sent, then you do not know Chicago politics. As Michele Malkin has indicated in her book “Culture of Corruption”, this administration is Chicago politics at it’s best or worst, depending on your point of view.

Pharmaceutical Companies

On Friday August 7, 2009, President Obama signed an agreement with the Pharmaceutical companies that will allow these companies to extend to 2 times the number of years they can sell their medications before companies can make generics. It does not take a brain surgeon to know that some type of agreement was made between both parties. And they wonder why we oppose this healthcare bill.

Gingrich shreds Obama's economic policies

President Obama's penchant for social-program spending is creating a society where people rely too much on the government, says the former House speaker. "Because a country in which you rely on somebody else to give you everything is a country in which you just gave power over your life to somebody else," he warns.

Something Fishy Here?

We now have big brother watching us on what we say or do as a way of trying to intimidate us into complying with the Obama Administration’s attempt at a government healthcare plan. Congress and the President may have not read the bill that they are promoting but the public has read part or all and we do not like what we read. However, in order to combat the rhetoric against this bill and the turmoil that our elected officials are seeing at their town hall meeting because they support a bill they did not read, the White House has established a web site that they want the public to write to on all those who are writing or talking against the healthcare bill. If there is something fishy about this what the White House is doing it is the smell they are emitting. I guess some day I will get a visit by some people in a black Chevy Suburban with wires coming out of their ears.