To see our exalted elected servants grilling executives from Goldman-Sachs for possible financial malfeasance is either high comedy or unprecedented hypocrisy. Probably both. Those in the federal government who are responsible, either directly or indirectly for the Goldman Sachs irregularities which might amount to a few billion dollars; are themselves directly responsible for egregious mishandling of public funds to the tune of trillions and trillions of dollars. Yet they puff and preen before the sniveling cameras about these horrid atrocities at Goldman Sachs and others and feign shock and disgust while demanding that justice be done for the good of the people. However, we are expected to look the other way while our paychecks and our kids’ and grandkids’ future livelihoods are ransacked to cover the profligate spending of this Congress and Regime. Pardon me—reaching for airsick bag.
First, isn’t the SEC (a federal government entity) supposed to watch over and regulate these financial entities to protect the people from these sorts of mishaps? That is unless they are too busy watching porn on their government computers during office hours when they are supposed to be protecting us. And doesn’t Congress oversee the SEC? That is unless they are too busy filming porn in their Congressional offices. Adds new meaning to the term ‘watchdog.’
Second, didn’t Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and the CEO’s of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (just to mention a few) create this whole financial mess by their dictates to banks about lending requirements and then the bundling and reselling of worthless loan packages? We and Goldman Sachs and many others are where we are today directly because of the malfeasance and misguided directives of the federal government. To see them now berating and threatening executives of these financial institutions that were brought down by such federal policies reeks of historic hubris (everything in this Regime is historic don’t you know). Pot, kettle, black.
Finally, the most egregious financial malfeasance going on today is the federal budget, the deficit and the national debt. That is strictly the responsibility of the Congress and the Regime. They have heaped on trillions of dollars of new debt in a ridiculously short period of time, placing our very national economy and credit worthiness in dire jeopardy while saddling multiple future generations with debt that they cannot possibly ever repay, much less service the interest. Greece’s credit rating has just been reduced to junk status, are we next? If this does not amount to a high crime, or at least a misdemeanor then just exactly what would? Good grief, we put Martha Stewart in prison for peanuts! These federal con artists should be pounding rocks at Leavenworth for many, many years.
No matter how you slice it, our federal and private financial mess is a direct result of the intentional behavior of elected and other public servants. They should be held personally accountable and responsible for the disaster. No Congressional or Executive immunity. Impeach the whole rotten lot them and throw them in the clink for a long, long time!
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Hello McFly!
The State of Arizona affirms that it is indeed illegal to be illegal there and the Dunce-in-Chief calls it 'misguided.'
Friday, April 16, 2010
The Path to Tyranny: Federal Dollars=Federal Mandates
Surprise, surprise, surprise. I wake up the morning after Tea Party Tax Day to read, shazam; god-emperor Barry has issued another mandate. Hospitals (private businesses) that accept insurance payments on behalf of patients from Medicare/Medicaid must now allow visitation and other rights to partners of homosexual patients. Now, some hospitals already do that. Also, I am not personally opposed to such policies. What I am opposed to is a President (or any other government representative) telling private businesses what their policies must be simply based upon the fact that they have received insurance payments from a government health care insurance fund. What’s next, dictating the color of the carpet in the hospital lobby? Does Blue-Cross/Blue-Shield have the same authority to dictate policy to hospitals accepting their payments? I don’t think so. Gee, if I buy a television at Best Buy can I now have them change the color of their employee’s shirts to something more to my liking? These same federal policies permeate all of society, from colleges and universities that accept federal grants or students on federal loans to states which accept federal transportation dollars and must set their speed limits in accordance with federal dictates. How did this all get started?
More importantly, how do we end it? The writing on the wall is becoming crystal clear. This is the path to tyranny. The federal government does not have to pass legislation in the light of day to destroy our freedoms and liberties and impose totalitarian control over every aspect of society. It merely has to subtly and gradually lure every person and every institution into accepting a little federal financial help and before we know it they have their hooks in everything and control it all. That is why Barry is raising taxes, destroying the economy, taking over businesses and passing all of these bailouts. When everyone becomes so strapped that they can’t survive without some kind of government assistance, we take their help and, boom; we are theirs. They can now dictate all sorts of insanity without even having to debate it in Congress and pass laws subject to judicial review. We then have tyranny; totalitarian control over every aspect of society.
We must not only stop this process now, but roll it back. This whole notion that accepting some government money somehow relinquishes control of your business or life to the feds is nonsense and must be squashed. A private business defines its products, services and policies and then says to consumers, ‘If you like what we have and do then come do business with us. If you don’t you are free to take your business elsewhere. But don’t tell me how to run my business. The market will do that.’
Here’s a mandate for Barry and his regime; go straight back to Chicago, do not pass Go and do not collect $200.
More importantly, how do we end it? The writing on the wall is becoming crystal clear. This is the path to tyranny. The federal government does not have to pass legislation in the light of day to destroy our freedoms and liberties and impose totalitarian control over every aspect of society. It merely has to subtly and gradually lure every person and every institution into accepting a little federal financial help and before we know it they have their hooks in everything and control it all. That is why Barry is raising taxes, destroying the economy, taking over businesses and passing all of these bailouts. When everyone becomes so strapped that they can’t survive without some kind of government assistance, we take their help and, boom; we are theirs. They can now dictate all sorts of insanity without even having to debate it in Congress and pass laws subject to judicial review. We then have tyranny; totalitarian control over every aspect of society.
We must not only stop this process now, but roll it back. This whole notion that accepting some government money somehow relinquishes control of your business or life to the feds is nonsense and must be squashed. A private business defines its products, services and policies and then says to consumers, ‘If you like what we have and do then come do business with us. If you don’t you are free to take your business elsewhere. But don’t tell me how to run my business. The market will do that.’
Here’s a mandate for Barry and his regime; go straight back to Chicago, do not pass Go and do not collect $200.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Roe v. Wade v. Nebraska
The recent enactment of a law restricting abortion in the state of Nebraska has the pro-abortion zealots in a snit. They supposedly fear for their sacred Roe v. Wade ruling. Don't they realize that the ruling is ancient history? It was handed down in 1973 by seven men. How could old men have anything to say about abortion and women's rights? These rulings are living, breathing things; they change and evolve over time to suit the current societal climate. And everyone knows that they are full of penumbras and emanations that can be twisted into all sorts of interpretations beyond the original text of the ruling. We can't be bound by the strict original text and interpretation; how are we to know what was in the heads of the men who wrote it such a long, long time ago? Not to mention that words meant different things in that era than they do today. No, to hold us to the strict interpretation of that court ruling would mean that we must also apply that same standard to interpreting the original text and meaning of the Constitution. Surely we can't have that. What folly.
Klaatu barada nikto
There has been some controversy over the whereabouts of President Obama this past Saturday morning. The official White House line is that he went to one of his daughter's soccer games. The particulars don't really jive with that story though. I have it on good authority that he had to go to a secret location to have his memory chip downloaded and erased and his batteries changed. All is well now.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Compassion vs. Constitution?
How have we come to the place where compassion or at least purported or perceived compassion trumps the constitution? Why do we look to the federal government instead of our state and local governments for help? Does it have that much better of a track record? I don’t think so. The Founders and Framers never intended for the federal government to be the benefactor of all nice and good things to all people in the country. James Madison remarked that charity is not a befitting function of the federal government. Our Republican form of government hinges on the principle that the government closest to the people best serves their needs. Sadly today that idea has been turned upon its head and Uncle Sam has become Uncle Santa Claus to everyone for nearly everything we need and want. Need a retirement plan? Here’s Social Security. Need medical care? Here’s Medicare and now Obamacare. Just overlook the fact that none of this tomfoolery is authorized to the federal government in the constitution. We have become a nation ruled by whimsy instead of law. The states are perfectly within their rights to offer these goodies to their citizens, so why don’t they. Simple; they don’t have the power to steal money from other states. It takes the strong arm of the federal government to do that. But one can quickly surmise that such a policy is destined for financial insolvency. There just isn’t enough money to go around. And surprisingly (not) Social Security and Medicare are currently bankrupt and soon destined for the ash heap.
If this idea is so great why not, in the name of compassion; give everyone a 3000 square foot home with central air and heat? Why should I have to pay the utilities to heat and light that home? Why not a Mercedes in every one of those garages with free gasoline? How about free lobster and filet minion on all of those tables? Food, housing, transportation, water and electricity are all necessities, so shouldn’t a compassionate society provide them for free, or nearly so? And what’s with this $7.25/hour federal minimum wage? How can you call that compassionate? If we’re going to do it (it’s not authorized in the constitution anyway) then let’s really do it right…jack it up to $50.00/hour! Or why not let everyone take a turn at being CEO of Berkshire Hathaway? Where does the madness end? The mind reels. And there’s the rub, the madness never ends. Giving away other people’s money is akin to a gambling addiction or alcoholism. The deficits and debt just spiral out of control. It used to be that a billion dollars was a big deal, now it’s a trillion, what’s next? We will never pay back our current national debt and it is growing at an unparalleled exponential rate. Let the party rock on!
The constitution was written as a foundational law for the creation and restraint of the power of the federal government. The Framers knew that men, left to their own devices would become corrupt and in turn corrupt the federal government and the nation. We are, after all created a little lower than the angels. If men were angels no government and no constitution would be needed. But being fallen, we need a Supreme Law of the Land. The constitution serves as our fixed point of reference, our anchor, something that doesn’t move or easily change and can be counted on in a storm. For Christians that is the Holy Bible, for Jews the Torah, for Muslims the Koran. For many years this philosophy worked. But as the ratification of the constitution faded into history and new generations of politicians sprang up with no personal memory of the Revolutionary War or the writing of the constitution it became easier and easier to gradually begin to ignore and subvert its purpose and power. What was once revered is not reviled, once sacred now scorned. Politicians today publicly announce their ignorance of constitutional tenets as if that were a badge of honor. Some gleefully and boldly denounce it as a meaningless relic and take great pride in proclaiming their intention to willfully disobey its clear commands. They almost dare someone to call them on it as a show that they can violate this most crucial law with impunity; that the people pose no threat and have no means of reprisal. Those of us who still cling to the notion that Supreme Laws of the Land should probably be obeyed are looked upon by these erudite public servants as some sort of retarded mutant simpletons, throwbacks to a different era and fodder for a good laugh. Surely we and our archaic ideas cannot be taken seriously in this enlightened present day. These hucksters on high will argue that the constitution was meant for a simpler time; the Framers could not possibly have foreseen the complexity of 21st century society. And the amendment process is too slow and cumbersome in such a fast-paced microwave world. Thus it must be viewed as a malleable, living, evolving document which can mean anything to anyone at anytime to fit the need of the current issue at hand. (This of course truly means that it means nothing under such an interpretation.) They see it full of penumbras and emanations only visible to the trained eye of the seasoned politician or activist Supreme Court justice. We simple folk just cannot appreciate the nuances which must have been secreted into the document by the wise Framers. The DaVinci Code has nothing on the Constitution. So today we must entrust the covenant between the people and their federal government to the sole interpretation of basically five people, five Supreme Court judges. We must not question their intellect, their insight, their powers of divination, their motives or their objectivity. They are above mere mortal temptation and could not possibly have a personal or political agenda. What rubbish! The constitution was written in plain language that all can read and understand. It means just exactly what it says and absolutely no more than that. It was written by the people as a covenant document between them and the federal government that they, and thus it created. The people are the ultimate arbiters of the meaning of the constitution, acting through their respective states and state governments. There are no penumbras or emanations and the amendment process was supposed to be long and difficult. The powers of the federal government were supposed to be few and severely constrained while the states retain most of the governing authority. The federal government is supposed to serve the people, not vice versa. Rights come from God, not the government and the role of government is to protect those rights. When governments become abusive of that trust and charge the Declaration of Independence serves as a reminder of how to deal with such tyranny.
My fellow Americans it is time for the people to resume our rightful role as keepers of the constitution and reverse the course of the federal government dictating to us what the constitution says and means and what they are going to do to us and what we must do for them. We the people must loudly proclaim what the constitution says and means and what the federal government is and is not going to do for us. We must take back the constitution and take back our federal government in order to save the republic from decline and ruin, or worse a fall into tyranny. Time is very short, we must act now.
If this idea is so great why not, in the name of compassion; give everyone a 3000 square foot home with central air and heat? Why should I have to pay the utilities to heat and light that home? Why not a Mercedes in every one of those garages with free gasoline? How about free lobster and filet minion on all of those tables? Food, housing, transportation, water and electricity are all necessities, so shouldn’t a compassionate society provide them for free, or nearly so? And what’s with this $7.25/hour federal minimum wage? How can you call that compassionate? If we’re going to do it (it’s not authorized in the constitution anyway) then let’s really do it right…jack it up to $50.00/hour! Or why not let everyone take a turn at being CEO of Berkshire Hathaway? Where does the madness end? The mind reels. And there’s the rub, the madness never ends. Giving away other people’s money is akin to a gambling addiction or alcoholism. The deficits and debt just spiral out of control. It used to be that a billion dollars was a big deal, now it’s a trillion, what’s next? We will never pay back our current national debt and it is growing at an unparalleled exponential rate. Let the party rock on!
The constitution was written as a foundational law for the creation and restraint of the power of the federal government. The Framers knew that men, left to their own devices would become corrupt and in turn corrupt the federal government and the nation. We are, after all created a little lower than the angels. If men were angels no government and no constitution would be needed. But being fallen, we need a Supreme Law of the Land. The constitution serves as our fixed point of reference, our anchor, something that doesn’t move or easily change and can be counted on in a storm. For Christians that is the Holy Bible, for Jews the Torah, for Muslims the Koran. For many years this philosophy worked. But as the ratification of the constitution faded into history and new generations of politicians sprang up with no personal memory of the Revolutionary War or the writing of the constitution it became easier and easier to gradually begin to ignore and subvert its purpose and power. What was once revered is not reviled, once sacred now scorned. Politicians today publicly announce their ignorance of constitutional tenets as if that were a badge of honor. Some gleefully and boldly denounce it as a meaningless relic and take great pride in proclaiming their intention to willfully disobey its clear commands. They almost dare someone to call them on it as a show that they can violate this most crucial law with impunity; that the people pose no threat and have no means of reprisal. Those of us who still cling to the notion that Supreme Laws of the Land should probably be obeyed are looked upon by these erudite public servants as some sort of retarded mutant simpletons, throwbacks to a different era and fodder for a good laugh. Surely we and our archaic ideas cannot be taken seriously in this enlightened present day. These hucksters on high will argue that the constitution was meant for a simpler time; the Framers could not possibly have foreseen the complexity of 21st century society. And the amendment process is too slow and cumbersome in such a fast-paced microwave world. Thus it must be viewed as a malleable, living, evolving document which can mean anything to anyone at anytime to fit the need of the current issue at hand. (This of course truly means that it means nothing under such an interpretation.) They see it full of penumbras and emanations only visible to the trained eye of the seasoned politician or activist Supreme Court justice. We simple folk just cannot appreciate the nuances which must have been secreted into the document by the wise Framers. The DaVinci Code has nothing on the Constitution. So today we must entrust the covenant between the people and their federal government to the sole interpretation of basically five people, five Supreme Court judges. We must not question their intellect, their insight, their powers of divination, their motives or their objectivity. They are above mere mortal temptation and could not possibly have a personal or political agenda. What rubbish! The constitution was written in plain language that all can read and understand. It means just exactly what it says and absolutely no more than that. It was written by the people as a covenant document between them and the federal government that they, and thus it created. The people are the ultimate arbiters of the meaning of the constitution, acting through their respective states and state governments. There are no penumbras or emanations and the amendment process was supposed to be long and difficult. The powers of the federal government were supposed to be few and severely constrained while the states retain most of the governing authority. The federal government is supposed to serve the people, not vice versa. Rights come from God, not the government and the role of government is to protect those rights. When governments become abusive of that trust and charge the Declaration of Independence serves as a reminder of how to deal with such tyranny.
My fellow Americans it is time for the people to resume our rightful role as keepers of the constitution and reverse the course of the federal government dictating to us what the constitution says and means and what they are going to do to us and what we must do for them. We the people must loudly proclaim what the constitution says and means and what the federal government is and is not going to do for us. We must take back the constitution and take back our federal government in order to save the republic from decline and ruin, or worse a fall into tyranny. Time is very short, we must act now.
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