Government

Why do we Americans continue to put up with this Government? Today`s news tells us that Government is about to vote on regulating the Internet in an effort to silence free speech. See link:

http://theintelhub.com/2011/12/14/in-less-than-24-hours-congress-could-vote-to-change-the-internet-forever/

Earlier this week we learned that Government is about to pass a bill which will allow Government to arrest and detain indefinitely American citizens without charge or trial. Our public servants have forgotten their place in American society. You people ARE public servants. You are NOT our rulers. Regulating free speech on the Internet stinks. They want to silence the American citizens to freely pass along information. They want you to only get your information from the Liberal mainstream media. Biased news.

I saw tee shirts for sale online a few months ago that said: Our Forefathers Would Be Shooting By Now. I bought one. And it`s true. Everything that`s wrong with America today can be traced to Government. This recession for example. Affordable Social Housing where Government forced the banks to open up billions of dollars a year in new credit to millions of Americans who previously did not qualify. Government bankrupted the banks. Then they blamed Wall Street. And they blamed George Bush even though Bush warned Congress something like 34 times about the dangers of Affordable Social Housing and the effect it could have on the entire economy. Bush was ignored. Barney Frank was the voice of reason... Thanks Barney for killing the economy.

Gun sales are at an all time high. Ever wonder why? It`s the people arming themselves because our President is waging a Class War. Our leader is telling the masses, it`s OK to hate anybody who has more stuff than you. Disgusting. And they are listening. The media will not even touch all the stories out there about these flash mobs going into American businesses in large numbers and just walking out with what they want. Mass looting. The stories are out there. Google it. ABC-DNC won`t touch these stories. They know why it`s happening. So do I.

ABC-DNC never told the people about Obama`s Radical Marxist past. They didn`t want you to know about it. He was NOT vetted by the media. He was asked hard hitting questions like: "How are you holding up on this grueling campaign trail?" Did they vet Herman Cain? Yes, they did.

Our Government is the problem. Our LAPDOG media to the Marxists is also a problem. Mark Twain once wrote: "If you don`t read the newspaper, then you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, then you are misinformed..." Twain got it right.

The ObamaCare mandate is a disaster in waiting. After Government successfully takes over paying for all our health care, they will then turn around and regulate what you eat. What you can and cannot drink. What you do. Where you can and cannot go. It`s a disaster. So much for Liberty and Freedom.

The people MUST not allow Government to silence free speech on the Internet. Call, write or email your Congressman (RULER) today and tell them what you think about Government regulating the Internet.

"The U.S. Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."

Mark Steyn gets it.

Where do you go to...? by Mark Steyn

Liberalism, as the political scientist Theodore Lowi put it, "is hostile to law," and has a preference for "policy without law." The Law itself doesn`t really matter so much as the process it sets in motion - or as Nancy Pelosi famously told the American people regarding health care, "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what`s in it." When Lowi was writing in the Seventies, he noted that both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Consumer Product Safety Administration (CPSC) were set up by a Congress that didn`t identify a single policy goal for these agencies and "provided no standards whatsoever" for their conduct. So they made it up as they went along.

Where do you go to vote out the CPSC or OSHA?

Or any of the rest of the unaccountable acronyms drowning America in alphabet soup. For more and more Americans, law has been supplanted by "regulation" - a governing set of rules not legislated by representatives accountable to the people, but invented by an activist bureaucracy, much of which is well to the left of either political party. As the newspapers blandly reported in 2010, the bureausrats weren`t terribly bothered about whether Congress would pass a Cap and Trade mega bill into law because, if faint-hearted Dems lose their nerve, the EPA will just "raise" standards all by itself.

Where do you go to vote out the EPA?

Congress stripped provisions for end-of-life counseling (the so called death-panels) out of the ObamaCare bill, but Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, put`em back on her say so. And why shouldn`t she? As Philip Klein pointed out in the American Spectator, the new law contained 700 references to the Secretary "shall", another 200 to the Secretary "may", and 139 to the Secretary "determines." So the Secretary may and shall determine anything she pretty much wants. Plucked at random:

The Secretary shall develope oral healthcare components that shall include tooth-level surveillance.

"Tooth-level surveillance": from colonial subjects to dentured servants in a mere quarter-millennium.

Where do you go to vote out "the Secretary"?

And so "We the People" degenerates into "We the regulators, we the bureaucrats, we the permit-issuers, we the czars." Dancing with the czars is unrepublican. "Ignorantia juris non excusat" is one of the oldest concepts of civilized society: ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Where do you go to vote out the Czars?

Bill Whittle

http://youtu.be/x-oS4WLui3Q

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Wow. A week and a half before Christmas and I still have not bought the first gift. Thank God for my wife Cindy who always shops early for our kids. I usually wait until the 23rd or 24th to do my shopping. This year will be about the same. It`s a tough economy out here. My job which I have been employed for over 20 years seems to be slowing still. Could be a tough winter in the ready mixed concrete business. Hope for the best.

I have not had a raise in over 4 years but the costs of everything just keep going up. We are doing some things to make up for the difference. We traded cars and cut our car payment in half. We are working on a home refinance at a better rate and should save alot per month with it. Just taking care of what matters. We had a rental property we did a short sale on last spring and we had to cut a check for about $4,600.00 to make things right. Done.

My kids make me so proud. Adam works his tail off and has always had straight A`s and in this his Junior year, he has at least five different advanced placement classes. Colleges send him stuff everyday. They are actively trying to recruit him even as a junior in high school. Katie makes me proud too everyday. She`s such a great kid and a real JOY in my life. She has a lot of my traits. I can see some of me in her. She has a big ole sweet heart. She gets up for 5th grade with no issues at all. She also gets great grades. She loves her friends and her family although, she never gets to see them much. My sister Donna sent her a gift and she simply adores it. Thank YOU Donna! (it relates to Mom Trent)

My Cindy. What can I say about my wife/best friend. We joke about "it`s us against the world." And it`s true. We also joke about "Just Keep Swimming" (Nemo) when one of us is having a tough day. I love her with all my heart and I know I am blessed because of her. Life is good!

I am not perfect. I make mistakes. However, I do not apologize for being an individual or a free thinker. I make some people mad and I don`t mean too. I`ve been called a lot of mean and nasty names over the last few years by people who should be close to me. People can be so intolerant...

I miss the days of big family get togethers at my Moms house when I was growing up. Such Good Times. The house would be full of just happy people. Nobody seems very happy these days and nobody ever really wants to get together anymore. Life`s tough, I know.

I read something about a month ago - "Sometimes there comes a point in your life where you realize, who really matters, who never did, and who always will." Pretty sure I know about that and I like it. That`s great. Anyway...

Life is great. I have a great family. My wife and I both work hard and we are raising good kids. What else is there?

Occupy Protester pushes elderly lady down steps...

http://nation.foxnews.com/occupy-wall-street/2011/11/07/occupy-dc-goons-push-elderly-woman-down-stairs

Obama`s Children by Neal Boortz

By Neal Boortz

Barry’s Brats held a little “occupy” demonstration in Naples over the weekend. The drew 100 people. You can get more than 100 people at a fish fry around here … 100 people for an “occupy” demonstration is barely worth a second glance. I did enjoy some of the pictures though, and I noticed that some of the people identified in the news coverage were the same leftist loons I see regularly writing letters to the editor of the local newspaper. Those letters are better than the comics.
I mentioned the pictures, didn’t I? Nothing like the sight of a gnarled old lady holding a clenched fist aloft. Probably a flashback for her to the ‘60s. What an exciting time, right old girl? But the signs were the most entertaining.

• People not Profits
• This is what democracy looks like
• We are the 99%

OK .. if I may have the ear of the people carrying those signs for a moment. A few words if you please. First … I couldn’t help but notice that pretty much all of the signs were prepared by the same person. Is that how these protests work for you? You show up and grab a sign created by someone else with words chosen by someone else and then you march around presenting those words as your own? In Atlanta the local labor unions get people from homeless shelters and pay them minimum wage to hold “shame on” banners around town. Some small business owner will rent space in a building that was built with non-union labor, and these urban outdoorsmen will hold up a banner (which they can’t read) saying “Shame On So-and-So” for a few hours for twenty bucks. Tell me how they differ from you? Oh .. that’s right. You can read your signs and you’re not getting paid. You also don’t stay out there as long as the shelter sign holders do either.
But let’s consider your signs one-by-one.
PEOPLE NOT PROFITS
Would you mind putting your sign down for just a moment and explain this to me? People earn profits. People spend profits. People not Profits makes about as much sense as Gerbils not Grapefruits. In fact, if you were to wander into an OccuTard protest with a “Gerbils not Grapefruits” sign you would suddenly see dozens more. Your fellow useful idiots would think that some sort of an immensely deep political thought is being expressed.
Now there is a website out there, www.peoplenotprofit.com, which has the subtitle “Beyond Capitalism.” I notice on that website the liberal (so-to-speak) use of the word “comrades.” I’ve done some studying on that word, and its first use was in Marxist circles in Europe in the late 1800s. It was also a common form of address for Communists throughout the existence of the Soviet Union. So we combine the “beyond capitalism” line with the use of traditional communist rhetoric and what do we have? Communists? Well, in some cases that is most certainly true. (See “useful idiots” below). Most of Obama’s Children though are not communists. They’re just anxious ignoranuses carrying signs with slogans they couldn’t write a three sentence essay defining. They sense that something is wrong – and something most certainly is. But they either haven’t made the effort to see just what it is that has gone awry and how to fix it, or they simply don’t have the mental capacity to understand it.
So … what are you saying? Are you saying that a businessman should take his capital – his money – and start a business with no intention of ever making money off that business? You’re worried about jobs, right? And you do know that about 70% or more of all new jobs come from small businesses, right? So you think that some individual should take whatever wealth they have, and borrow more money on top of it, to put into a new small business or to expand an existing one? And for what purpose? People? Sure … this guy is going to put his wealth at risk for “people.” God forbid the individual might want to actually earn any money in the process, for if he did … if he were to have money left over after hiring and paying 100 people and selling the products they produced … that money would be (gasp!) PROFIT! Now you have some fool carrying a sign somewhere that is mightily pissed off at you! Your very participation in these “occupy” protests is indication enough that you haven’t put a great deal of thought into your protests … but do you really want to remove the profit motive from entrepreneurship? If a corporation decided that it no longer wanted to earn a profit … how long do ou think it would take for the shareholders to bail? How many people lose their jobs when that happens?
THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE
There you are … marching down the street chanting “This is what democracy looks like.” The trouble is you don’t realize just how right you are; and that would be because you’re basically ignorant as all purified hell about just what democracy really is. You didn’t know that our founding fathers abhorred the idea of a democracy, did you? And there’s not one of you who could correctly guess the number of times the word “democracy” appears in our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, or the constitutions of all 50 states. The answer? Zero. Not once. And not one of you would know – it would take actually studying our history – that the word “democrat” used to be an epithet. If you were to read “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation” by Joseph Ellis, you would learn that “democrat” referred to “one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses.” As it was then, so it is now.
But back to your protests and your “This is what Democracy looks like” signs. Democracy is best defined as mob rule – majority rule. Define it as you might, but it will always be three wolves and one sheep deciding on what’s for dinner. Have you ever heard of the “Rule of Law?” That’s what our founding fathers gave us. That was supposed to be our operating system, so to speak. Sure .. we chose representatives to represent us in local and federal governments using democratic processes, but they, as we, are then required to abide by the laws of the land .. and that includes the Constitution. But this rule-of-law thing doesn’t really appeal all that much to Barry’s Brats, does it?

• The law says you can’t camp out overnight in the parks, you ignore it. Mob rule over the rule of law. Democracy.
• The law says you need a permit for demonstrations and marches on public streets? You ignore those laws. They just don’t suit your purpose. Mob rule over the rule of law. Democracy.
• The law defines and protects property rights. But you and your fellow occupiers want to destroy some private property – trash some ATMs – bust out some bank windows – trespass into private businesses. You have the numbers, so to hell with the law. Mob rule over the rule of law. Democracy.
• Hundreds of workers at the Port of Oakland lost a day’s pay so that you could throw your little anti-capitalist temper tantrum and shut down the port. You broke the law in doing so, but what the hell. Mob rule over the rule of law. Democracy.
• People have the right to the wealth earned through their labors and through the sacrifice of portions of their lives. You want that wealth seized and given to people who neither worked for it nor earned it. There are more of you than there are of them. So hand it over. Mob rule over the rule of law. Democracy.
• Dozens of people who work in the area of Zuccotti Park in New York City, the gathering place for Obama’s Children, are now out of work. Your protests have so disrupted those businesses that some have closed and others have cut back on hours and workers. Doesn’t matter. You are the 99%, right? Those business owners are the evil 1%. Mob rule over the rule of law. Democracy.

So … turns out you’re right. This IS what democracy looks like. Mobs of unthinking people destroying private property, denying people their livelihoods, attacking police, trashing public parks … and spreading no small amount of sexually transmitted diseases in the process. Unthinking mobs. Lookin’ good, Barry’s Brats!
WE ARE THE 99%
Really … just what in the hell does THAT mean? The 99% of what? Oh .. I know where you got that 99% bit. You’ve been listening to your figurative father, Barack Obama, haven’t you?
WE ARE THE USEFUL IDIOTS
You Occutards do realize, don’t you, that more and more you’re being referred to as “useful idiots.” The phrase is even featured in a website you probably visit often, UrbanDictionary.com. Here – I’ll give you the definition from Urban Dictionary so you won’t have to look it up. After all … someone else might be using the community computer to search for treatments for head or body lice and for STDs.

Today, it refers to brainwashed liberals and leftists the world over (usually college students that aren't necessarily idiots, but just misinformed, naive, and ignorant of facts due to being indoctrinated with liberal/socialist propaganda through their public education) who believe that George W. Bush has committed more crimes against humanity than leftist darlings like Saddam Hussain, Yasser Arafat, and Osama Bin Laden, and still defend Communism, the cause of over 100 million deaths to this day.

The phrase actually originated in the days of Lenin and the Communist revolution. It was used to identify people who blindly supported the Communists even as people like Lenin and Stalin murdered hundreds of millions of people.
Useful idiot? Useful to who? Well, labor unions for one. The Democrat Party and Barack Obama for another. As you first gathered in Zuccotti Park it was clear you didn’t really know what you were protesting and what solutions you might propose. You issued a list of demands including the forgiveness of all debt everywhere in the world. That was enough to label you as idiots. All that was left to be done was to figure out how to put you to use. Experienced leftists went to work immediately. The labor unions started sending people to your encampments with aid and suggestions as to what you might want to protest. They arrived along with the Communist Party USA, The American Nazi Party, the Socialist Party USA, the Marxist Student Union and others. They knew that you were uninformed but motivated … and ripe for manipulation. You certainly haven’t disappointed them. Now your encampments and demonstrations are filled with signs promoting the various causes of those who have put you to use. Congratulations.
KNOWN BY THE COMPANY YOU KEEP.
Let’s finish off here with a list of some of the known supporters of the so-called occupy movement. We covered some above .. but here’s a more comprehensive listing:

Communist Party USA. The American Nazi Party. Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran. The North Korean government. Louie-the-Lip Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. The Revolutionary Communist Party. David Duke. Hugo Chavez. Barack Obama. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The Black Panthers. Socialist Party USA. CAIR. Nancy Pelosi. The Communist Party of China. Hezbollah. Marxist Student Union. Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

Wow. That list of supporters must make you very proud.

GOP

The candidates. Mitt Romney was for everything before he was against everything. I don`t trust him. No thanks. Rick Perry is just another career politician who once supported Al Gore and is soft on illegal immigration. No thanks. Herman Cain has the expierence that our Country needs to turn this economy around.

The Democrats seem to only want to help Government workers and union workers which is only about 11% of the US workforce. What about the other 109,000,000 US workers? Herman Cain will help all of us. He will reduce the WORLD RECORD deficit spending and the debt. He will create the atmosphere for growth. Big government does not work for all of us.

Warning!

I don`t do Politically Correct Speech. I`m big on Free Speech. If I offend you then by all means, use your Freedom granted to you by our US Constitution and read something else!

Scott Trent