I was just reading some of the most recent news. I read that 75 percent of American youth are ineligable to serve in our armed forces. Why? Because an overwhelming percent of youth today are either too stupid, too fat, or too dishonest. Simply stated we live in an over priveleged generation it's time to say no!
We see it every day in every aspect of life. The government giving out money to bail out everyone possible. People going bankrupt to get out of debt they have gotten themselves into. Youth who think they should be able to have everything they want when they want it. Young couples who want a bigger better house than their parents have now. Children who don't want to do their homework. People who don't want to work but think they deserve the money. People who want the house without having to pay the mortgage. People who want a new car that they really can't afford instead of an old one. People who want to get paid for doing nothing, and the government is paying them to do nothing. People who want a government to feed them cloth them and give them everything they want and need, but they don't want to think about the cost in the long run.
It's time to say, NO!! The only way America is going to return to what it once was is if someone starts saying no. The only way to get this country out of debt is not to keep printing money, it's to say no. We won't make any new programs because we need to be fiscally responsible as a country! We need legislators who aren't afraid to say no. We need people who aren't willing to take something when they haven't earned it. We need a President who doesn't give into every whim of every person on this planet without thinking about the cost to the individual. We need people who are willing to tell their children no when they want something that they haven't earned. In short if what we have is important to us and we want to keep, and improve it, we need to start saying NO, NOW! Then, and only then will America return to the moral, free, economically thriving country that it was, and continue to improve, to become what it is destined to be!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Consequences
One of the most unnerving parts about the Obama administration is its inability to look at the consequences of its actions. It's obvious that they don't want us to think about them either, because it really isn't that often that they are the ones that mention them, at least not the real ones.
Just a couple of examples:
First and foremost the stimulus money, there really are only a few people who are thinking about the consequences of that one. We are living in an ever more privileged, selfish society who wants something for nothing and think it's deserved. People think free money that’s amazing way to go Obama. Don’t know how he did it, but he’s giving us FREE money. But there are those nasty consequences again. What happens when you get something from nothing. Well, in case you didn't know you can't get something for nothing, it's not possible there is a price for everything and if it isn't paid immediately it will be paid eventually. Obama just keeps printing money, if there's not enough just print more right, why not, it's free. Wrong there is a great cost. Right now the value of our currency is steadily falling and no one wants our money when there is nothing to back it. So suddenly our money has no value and our entire economy is collapsed. But it looks like that's what is wanted by the current administration anyway. It's a whole lot easier to take over an insolvent country than it is an economically stable one
Cash for clunkers- First of all it didn't work in the first place because the dealers were never getting the money that they were promised by the government. But they did sell more cars, more money went out of the hands of consumers into THAT market. I say THAT market because what the Obama administration didn't think about was the fact that there are also used car dealers. When you sell more new cars what happens to used car dealers, oh wait, they sell less used cars. Hmmmm, interesting how that works isn't it. You can make choices but you HAVE to think about the consequences of your actions. If it were an isolated situation I might think that it was coincidental. That it might not happen again, but it is not the first and it certainly won't be the last.
Just a couple of examples:
First and foremost the stimulus money, there really are only a few people who are thinking about the consequences of that one. We are living in an ever more privileged, selfish society who wants something for nothing and think it's deserved. People think free money that’s amazing way to go Obama. Don’t know how he did it, but he’s giving us FREE money. But there are those nasty consequences again. What happens when you get something from nothing. Well, in case you didn't know you can't get something for nothing, it's not possible there is a price for everything and if it isn't paid immediately it will be paid eventually. Obama just keeps printing money, if there's not enough just print more right, why not, it's free. Wrong there is a great cost. Right now the value of our currency is steadily falling and no one wants our money when there is nothing to back it. So suddenly our money has no value and our entire economy is collapsed. But it looks like that's what is wanted by the current administration anyway. It's a whole lot easier to take over an insolvent country than it is an economically stable one
Cash for clunkers- First of all it didn't work in the first place because the dealers were never getting the money that they were promised by the government. But they did sell more cars, more money went out of the hands of consumers into THAT market. I say THAT market because what the Obama administration didn't think about was the fact that there are also used car dealers. When you sell more new cars what happens to used car dealers, oh wait, they sell less used cars. Hmmmm, interesting how that works isn't it. You can make choices but you HAVE to think about the consequences of your actions. If it were an isolated situation I might think that it was coincidental. That it might not happen again, but it is not the first and it certainly won't be the last.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Are We Ready to Give America up to Communism?
This is not an issue about Democrats or Republicans, it hasn't been for a very long time. This is an isssue between people who love and support this great nation, The United States of America, and people who simply do not. There are some who would have a change in our system, let me make it more clear what they mean when they say that. They mean they hate capitalism, and they think that Marxism will work better.
Well, let me tell you something, it won't, EVER! All we need to do is look at history and we will learn all we need to know about the truth. I have personally seen what communism does to a country, having lived in a "formerly" communist country for two years and trust me we don't want to get anywhere near it. Sure our system isn't perfect, but it is the best system this world has ever seen, and if we would make steps to return it to what it originally was, we would see a system that is as close to perfect as this world will ever see. Of course we need some changes, we need to step back and take another look at the constitution and live by it. But first we have to stop the direction it is heading, only then can we turn around!
Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Van Jones, in His Own Words
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Well, let me tell you something, it won't, EVER! All we need to do is look at history and we will learn all we need to know about the truth. I have personally seen what communism does to a country, having lived in a "formerly" communist country for two years and trust me we don't want to get anywhere near it. Sure our system isn't perfect, but it is the best system this world has ever seen, and if we would make steps to return it to what it originally was, we would see a system that is as close to perfect as this world will ever see. Of course we need some changes, we need to step back and take another look at the constitution and live by it. But first we have to stop the direction it is heading, only then can we turn around!
Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Van Jones, in His Own Words
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
MSNBC
You Must watch this, you have the obligation as a patriotic American
MSNBC & The Great Liberal Narrative: The Truth About The Tyranny of Political Correctness
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MSNBC & The Great Liberal Narrative: The Truth About The Tyranny of Political Correctness
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
There are many minority groups which have made an enormous difference in the world for the better. I believe that it is time for the moral majority to make a difference!
I will not disguise who I am, I am a Christian and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with a strong belief in God. We may even differ in some of our religious convictions, but surely you understand that this is not just an issue of politics. Part of the reason that I feel so strongly is because I have spent the last two years of my life in countries where freedoms such as we enjoy are dreamed of, and I was dissapointed when I returned to see this great nation declining further into that very direction. I feel that a change must be made, and it is time to make one! I echo the words of the Founders of this great Nation. One Nation under God!! As a great man once said, and I now echo "I seek not for power but to pull it down. I seek not for honor of the world, but for the glory of my God, and the freedom and welfare of my country"This is a group reserved for all those who are willing to stand strong to defend the freedom and moral character of The United States of America! I am not willing to stand back and watch our great nation be destroyed from the inside. Everything is not ok in America, it has not been for a very long time! We must look at the world as it is not as it ideally might be.For surely what Benjamin Franklin said so many years ago still applies today,"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately"
THE MISSION STATMENT
1. Restore moral character to the nation, that includes patriotism and god! "I sought for the key to the greatness of America in her harbors; in her fertile fields and boundless forests; in her rich mines and vast world commerce; in her public school system and institutions of learning. I sought for it in her democratic Congress and in her matchless Constitution. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America ceases to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville
2. Gradually rid our nation of the destroying socialism which has crept in. Ezra Taft Benson said it well: In a primitive state, there is no doubt that each man would be justified in using force, if necessary, to defend himself against physical harm, against theft of the fruits of his labor, and against enslavement of another. This principle was clearly explained by Bastiat: "Each of us has a natural right - from God - to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties?" (The Law, p.6)Indeed, the early pioneers found that a great deal of their time and energy was being spent doing all three - defending themselves, their property and their liberty - in what properly was called the "Lawless West." In order for man to prosper, he cannot afford to spend his time constantly guarding his family, his fields, and his property against attach and theft, so he joins together with his neighbors and hires a sheriff. At this precise moment, government is born. The individual citizens delegate to the sheriff their unquestionable right to protect themselves. The sheriff now does for them only what they had a right to do for themselves - nothing more. Quoting again from Bastiat: "If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right --its reason for existing, its lawfulness -- is based on individual right." (The Law, p. 6)So far so good. But now we come to the moment of truth. Suppose pioneer "A" wants another horse for his wagon, He doesn't have the money to buy one, but since pioneer "B" has an extra horse, he decides that he is entitled to share in his neighbor's good fortune, Is he entitled to take his neighbor's horse? Obviously not! If his neighbor wishes to give it or lend it, that is another question. But so long as pioneer "B" wishes to keep his property, pioneer "A" has no just claim to it. If "A" has no proper power to take "B's" property, can he delegate any such power to the sheriff? No. Even if everyone in the community desires that "B" give his extra horse to "A", they have no right individually or collectively to force him to do it. They cannot delegate a power they themselves do not have. This important principle was clearly understood and explained by John Locke nearly 300 years ago: "For nobody can transfer to another more power than he has in himself, and nobody has an absolute arbitrary power over himself, or over any other, to destroy his own life, or take away the life of property of another." (Two Treatises of Civil Government, II, 135; P.P.N.S. p. 93)Students of history know that no governement in the history of mankind has ever created any wealth. People who work create wealth. James R. Evans, in his inspiring book, "The Glorious Quest" gives this simple illustration of legalized plunder: "Assume, for example, that we were farmers, and that we received a letter from the government telling us that we were going to get a thousand dollars this year for plowed up acreage. But rather than the normal method of collection, we were to take this letter and collect $69.71 from Bill Brown, at such and such an address, and $82.47 from Henry Jones, $59.80 from a Bill Smith, and so on down the line; that these men would make up our farm subsidy. "Neither you nor I, nor would 99 percent of the farmers, walk up and ring a man's doorbell, hold out a hand and say, 'Give me what you've earned even though I have not.' We simply wouldn't do it because we would be facing directly the violation of a moral law, 'Thou shalt not steal.' In short, we would be held accountable for our actions."The free creative energy of this choice nation "created more than 50% of all the world's products and possessions in the short span of 160 years. The only imperfection in the system is the imperfection in man himself."
3. Restore the power to the hands of the people. The federal government was never intended to be the juggernaut that it has become. Things should be done on the smallest local level with little reliance upon the federal. If it can be done by the people it should be, if it can be done by the county it should be, if it can be done by the state, it should be. If, and only if it can be done on no other level should it be turned over to the Federal government, and even then only what the state cannot do!
4. Restore incentive to earn a living and work hard. Restore balance to this nations economy, in the only permanent way! Remove tax brackets, this means that everyone is taxed on an equal level, now you may not think this is very significant, but think about it for just a moment. What happens if you tax the people in a high earning tax bracket more? They have no incentive to work because the government is taking all of the money that they have worked so hard to earn, and the people who already are not working have no motivations to start because the government is paying them not to work. So in short the rich become poor, and the poor become poorer. So no one is paying taxes, yet the government is spending more money than ever, eventually leading us to national insolvency! Now do you see the significance?Thomas Jefferson understood this principle very well and explained it this way: "The way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. Let the national government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations; the State governments with the civil rights, law, police, and administration of what concerns the State generally; the counties with the local concerns of the counties, and each ward direct the interests within itself. It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best. What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body." (Works 6:543; P.P.N.S., p. 125)It is well to remember that the states of this republic created the Federal Government. The Federal Government did not create the states.
5. Tip the criminal scale back to the right side. Restore power to the police. We are discouraging the protectors of our nation more and more every day with the way we pass laws restricting their efforts, and freeing criminals as quickly as they are arrested.6. Restore to our educational system the importance of freedom and the absolute destruction which is brought through socialism. In accordance with that should be the important role which the founders have played in our nations history, and why they worked so hard to protect her. If you'd like to make a difference you can begin by inviting everyone you know to join in our effort to restore American independence.
I raise a title of liberty as was raised a very long time ago-- In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children-- Let us make a difference that has been so crucial for so very long! Let us not turn away because the road is unsure, this nation needs us more than ever, if we intent to keep our freedom, it is time to do something about it!
I will not disguise who I am, I am a Christian and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with a strong belief in God. We may even differ in some of our religious convictions, but surely you understand that this is not just an issue of politics. Part of the reason that I feel so strongly is because I have spent the last two years of my life in countries where freedoms such as we enjoy are dreamed of, and I was dissapointed when I returned to see this great nation declining further into that very direction. I feel that a change must be made, and it is time to make one! I echo the words of the Founders of this great Nation. One Nation under God!! As a great man once said, and I now echo "I seek not for power but to pull it down. I seek not for honor of the world, but for the glory of my God, and the freedom and welfare of my country"This is a group reserved for all those who are willing to stand strong to defend the freedom and moral character of The United States of America! I am not willing to stand back and watch our great nation be destroyed from the inside. Everything is not ok in America, it has not been for a very long time! We must look at the world as it is not as it ideally might be.For surely what Benjamin Franklin said so many years ago still applies today,"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately"
THE MISSION STATMENT
1. Restore moral character to the nation, that includes patriotism and god! "I sought for the key to the greatness of America in her harbors; in her fertile fields and boundless forests; in her rich mines and vast world commerce; in her public school system and institutions of learning. I sought for it in her democratic Congress and in her matchless Constitution. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America ceases to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville
2. Gradually rid our nation of the destroying socialism which has crept in. Ezra Taft Benson said it well: In a primitive state, there is no doubt that each man would be justified in using force, if necessary, to defend himself against physical harm, against theft of the fruits of his labor, and against enslavement of another. This principle was clearly explained by Bastiat: "Each of us has a natural right - from God - to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties?" (The Law, p.6)Indeed, the early pioneers found that a great deal of their time and energy was being spent doing all three - defending themselves, their property and their liberty - in what properly was called the "Lawless West." In order for man to prosper, he cannot afford to spend his time constantly guarding his family, his fields, and his property against attach and theft, so he joins together with his neighbors and hires a sheriff. At this precise moment, government is born. The individual citizens delegate to the sheriff their unquestionable right to protect themselves. The sheriff now does for them only what they had a right to do for themselves - nothing more. Quoting again from Bastiat: "If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right --its reason for existing, its lawfulness -- is based on individual right." (The Law, p. 6)So far so good. But now we come to the moment of truth. Suppose pioneer "A" wants another horse for his wagon, He doesn't have the money to buy one, but since pioneer "B" has an extra horse, he decides that he is entitled to share in his neighbor's good fortune, Is he entitled to take his neighbor's horse? Obviously not! If his neighbor wishes to give it or lend it, that is another question. But so long as pioneer "B" wishes to keep his property, pioneer "A" has no just claim to it. If "A" has no proper power to take "B's" property, can he delegate any such power to the sheriff? No. Even if everyone in the community desires that "B" give his extra horse to "A", they have no right individually or collectively to force him to do it. They cannot delegate a power they themselves do not have. This important principle was clearly understood and explained by John Locke nearly 300 years ago: "For nobody can transfer to another more power than he has in himself, and nobody has an absolute arbitrary power over himself, or over any other, to destroy his own life, or take away the life of property of another." (Two Treatises of Civil Government, II, 135; P.P.N.S. p. 93)Students of history know that no governement in the history of mankind has ever created any wealth. People who work create wealth. James R. Evans, in his inspiring book, "The Glorious Quest" gives this simple illustration of legalized plunder: "Assume, for example, that we were farmers, and that we received a letter from the government telling us that we were going to get a thousand dollars this year for plowed up acreage. But rather than the normal method of collection, we were to take this letter and collect $69.71 from Bill Brown, at such and such an address, and $82.47 from Henry Jones, $59.80 from a Bill Smith, and so on down the line; that these men would make up our farm subsidy. "Neither you nor I, nor would 99 percent of the farmers, walk up and ring a man's doorbell, hold out a hand and say, 'Give me what you've earned even though I have not.' We simply wouldn't do it because we would be facing directly the violation of a moral law, 'Thou shalt not steal.' In short, we would be held accountable for our actions."The free creative energy of this choice nation "created more than 50% of all the world's products and possessions in the short span of 160 years. The only imperfection in the system is the imperfection in man himself."
3. Restore the power to the hands of the people. The federal government was never intended to be the juggernaut that it has become. Things should be done on the smallest local level with little reliance upon the federal. If it can be done by the people it should be, if it can be done by the county it should be, if it can be done by the state, it should be. If, and only if it can be done on no other level should it be turned over to the Federal government, and even then only what the state cannot do!
4. Restore incentive to earn a living and work hard. Restore balance to this nations economy, in the only permanent way! Remove tax brackets, this means that everyone is taxed on an equal level, now you may not think this is very significant, but think about it for just a moment. What happens if you tax the people in a high earning tax bracket more? They have no incentive to work because the government is taking all of the money that they have worked so hard to earn, and the people who already are not working have no motivations to start because the government is paying them not to work. So in short the rich become poor, and the poor become poorer. So no one is paying taxes, yet the government is spending more money than ever, eventually leading us to national insolvency! Now do you see the significance?Thomas Jefferson understood this principle very well and explained it this way: "The way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. Let the national government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations; the State governments with the civil rights, law, police, and administration of what concerns the State generally; the counties with the local concerns of the counties, and each ward direct the interests within itself. It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best. What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body." (Works 6:543; P.P.N.S., p. 125)It is well to remember that the states of this republic created the Federal Government. The Federal Government did not create the states.
5. Tip the criminal scale back to the right side. Restore power to the police. We are discouraging the protectors of our nation more and more every day with the way we pass laws restricting their efforts, and freeing criminals as quickly as they are arrested.6. Restore to our educational system the importance of freedom and the absolute destruction which is brought through socialism. In accordance with that should be the important role which the founders have played in our nations history, and why they worked so hard to protect her. If you'd like to make a difference you can begin by inviting everyone you know to join in our effort to restore American independence.
I raise a title of liberty as was raised a very long time ago-- In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children-- Let us make a difference that has been so crucial for so very long! Let us not turn away because the road is unsure, this nation needs us more than ever, if we intent to keep our freedom, it is time to do something about it!
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