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Today’s MUST DO

Today, I have a MUST DO for you (and your posterity…)

I want to recommend a book that is a literal gold mine of history, ideas and strategies for Conservatives.

The book is TAKEOVER by Richard A. Viguerie.

Viguerie’s style and story-telling is entertaining and informative. He provides great insight into the political machinery that is enamored with using the utopian ideals from a failed progressive platform to harm today’s Constitutional Conservatives. And, all within the Republican party.

Reading the book will be the easy part.  Restoring America to its founding principles, those of self-governance, free-markets and individual liberty, will not be as easy.

For right now, let’s not get bogged down in the seemingly impossible but concentrate on the do-able and get the book!

While you read, enjoy the knowledge, wit, wisdom and history that Viguerie presents. In the end you will see the value of simply remaining true to your common-sense desire for freedom. The ideas we carry concerning liberty are not complex. They are simple, self-evident and part of our American heritage. Clarence B. Carson, a historical economist, writes in his book, The American Tradition:

“That the central American tradition was erected around the goal of liberty is manifest in the great documents of our history. It was explicitly stated in the Declaration of Independence and implied in the structure of government provided for in the Constitution of 1787. Liberty was declared to be the object of the Massachusetts Body of Liberties of 1641, and was undoubtedly the purpose of the first ten amendments to the Constitution.”

Therefore, it will be worth your while to get a copy of TAKEOVER and contemplate the ideas and associated actions that will be necessary to restore our American tradition of individual liberty.

Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder and President of Tea Party Patriots, wrote the Forward which I will share here:

Q_openThere is a bitter political civil war taking place that will determine whether America remains a constitutional republic. It is a timeless struggle between those who have power and those who desire to be free. The modern version of this struggle is not between Democrats and Republicans, but within the Republican Party itself.

This civil war began over one hundred years ago and not with the rise of the Tea Party movement in 2009.

It is a civil war between limited-government, constitutional conservatives and the progressive, establishment wing of the GOP. And make no mistake: the establishment wing of the Republican Party is progressive, and has been ever since conservatives stymied Teddy Roosevelt’s attempt to reclaim the Republican presidential nomination in 1912 and make progressivism the governing philosophy of the Republican Party.

In the years since 1912, this civil war has been playing out, and for the majority of that time, from the Taft-Eisenhower campaign of 1952 to the Tea Party’s battles to nominate and elect limited government constitutional conservatives in 2010 and 2012, Richard Viguerie has been in the thick of the battle.

Richard’s objective in writing this book is to provide a plan for conservatives to win this civil war based on the lessons he has learned—from both success and failure—in over fifty years of being active in the conservative movement at the national level.

It is a plan for constitutional conservatives to take over the GOP so that we may restore the liberty and opportunity that the Founders intended and protect that great document, the United States Constitution.

The millions of Americans who are drawn to the Tea Party movement understand that progressives in both the Democratic and Republican Parties have usurped power and overrun the Constitution. The Obama administration is the most extreme example of progressive rule, but the road to where we are today was built with the willing participation of establishment Republicans.

James Madison foresaw the likelihood of this civil war, although not within a political party, in Federalist No. 44, where he wrote, “In the last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people who can, by the election of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.”

Madison’s “remedy” must play out within the Republican Party since the Democratic Party has been completely taken over by progressives whose policies cannot succeed without ignoring and violating the Constitution.

In TAKEOVER Richard shows us that the ballot box of the Republican primaries is where we must begin to fulfill Madison’s remedy of electing “more faithful representatives.”

Time is running out, and if we fail in this task, our children, grandchildren—our posterity—will never know the America for which millions have sacrificed their labor, capital, lives, and limbs. Unless the Republican Party fulfills its promise and becomes the constitutional alternative to the progressives, I fear the “American experiment” is over.

The rise of the Tea Party citizenry and the election of young, principled constitutionalists to the Congress and in state legislatures is a sign that this war is about to turn, and in TAKEOVER Richard Viguerie gives us a road map to make it turn in our favor.

Where we are now is the culmination of decades of struggle, which is why the younger people in our movement especially must know what has worked and what has failed up until now.

It is to the younger generation, who has the most “skin in the game,” that TAKEOVER is addressed. Those who join us in this civil war are fulfilling an obligation to our children, grandchildren, and generations yet to be born that I dare say is no less consequential than that of the Founders.

Q_closeThe goal of Richard Viguerie’s TAKEOVER is for limited-government constitutional conservatives to take over the Republican Party and govern America in 2017. I urge you to read the book, follow the plan, and get in the fight today.

 

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Forward was originally published at ConservativeHQ and can be read here: Permalink

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Inflation, Debt and Crumbling McMansions

Fundamental Transformations

Tim McMahon identifies an important under-current in the progressive shape-shifting of words and their meanings.  Our post-modern era is littered with the constant barrage of changing ideas about our words and therefore, our history.

“Marriage” doesn’t mean what it used to, nor does “gender”, or “inflation.” In particular McMahon notes the confusion with words used to describe economic reality. For example, debt is now a good thing, although entirely contrary to old adage about “the borrower becoming the lender’s slave.”

McMahon writes, “between 1983 and 2000 the definition of inflation appears to have shifted from the cause to the result.”

According to the 1983 Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary the definition of “inflation” is:

“An increase in the amount of currency in circulation…”

Yet in 2000, The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition,  defines “inflation” as:

“A persistent increase in the level of consumer prices or a persistent decline in the purchasing power of money…”

This confusion is easy to understand. Most of us routinely describe things in terms of results instead of causes. Like, “Un-wed pregnancies are on the rise.” While this may be true it avoids the causes. Therefore, half-witted solutions may rise to the surface quicker because the counter-balancing evidence is not presented.

Without properly identifying the true causes of inflation, or the true results of inflation, the statists remain in control. The  professional deceivers who are supposed to be representing our true interests are actually defrauding us.

Inflation

Inflation is really a transfer of wealth from creditors to debtors. It appears as higher prices but it is really a loss of buying power. Where did your buying power go? Did you really misplace it? Or, was it stolen?

The US Federal government has the largest net-debt on planet earth. More than twice as much debt as the 2nd place nation – Japan. No nation owns more debt than our nation.

This means that the government, as a debtor, gets to make payments with currency that is worth less than when the debt was assumed. Inflation dismisses government debt so that the full value of what is borrowed is never recouped. Ultimately, this is an enormous transfer of your wealth, as a taxpayer, to the bureaucracies in Washington.

Inflation is both dishonest and deliberate.

The political elites in Washington, DC have no desire to stop this chicanery. Reducing the federal budget would mean less power and control for them, while furthering free market independence for us. Politicians do not want to reduce their own ability to lavish rewards on their business cronies and acquaintances.

The creation of new money allows innumerable bureaucrats to grow their respective organizations while throttling businesses, private property owners, and families with extensive, costly and unjustified regulatory actions.

This is power. This is what politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, want to keep.

Our unbalanced budget is the main mechanism that the FED uses to justify creating more money. The Government could tell the current citizens that they are going to increase taxes to provide necessary services. But, this is political suicide, because the tax-paying public would howl like banshees.

Only this slight-of-hand can allow these deceivers to place that burden on citizens of future generations. Will your children grow up to express their gratitude for the debt on their shoulders? Do you really think those who are not yet born will accept the burdens we willing place on their backs?

No, they won’t.

You and I are responsible

You and I are accountable.

You and I must act with prudence or America will not survive.

When more is spent than can be raised by taxes, the government makes up the difference with fiat money. This occurs because our Representatives in the Republican-controlled House are unwilling to cut Pres. Obama’s gargantuan spending plans. (House passes Obama’s $1.1 trillion budget.)

Instead they choose monetary debasement by increasing the money supply. It is a dishonest scheme where government force is used to take wealth from people and spend it. Central banks throughout the world have become modern day versions of legalized counterfeiters.

In today’s podcast discusses an article from David Stockman’s Contra Corner,  Greece and Euroland’s Crumbling McMansion of Debt, by Charles Hugh Smith.

Please listen and enjoy while you learn…

 

Recommended Books…

“Good Books on this and related subjects”
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Last Night’s Pizza-box and your 2nd Amendment Rights

Over-Stepping the Boundary Line

The anti-Federalists recognized the dangers of arbitrary,  capricious or whimsical actions by a nation’s ruling class. The anti-Federalists also understood that it didn’t matter if the ruling class was comprised of an individual like our US President, or a monarch like King George III. They knew danger could also arise from oligarchies, or democracies when  government oversteps it’s boundaries.

Over-stepping occurs constantly because of Republican traitors and Democratic idealists. The Democrats love big government and they are simply following their natural ideological bent.

Republican platforms at the national, state and county levels all oppose big government (cf., Ending Groundhog Republicanism). Although Republican statists claim they are against big government they rarely vote against big government. It turns out to be a convenient campaign ploy to retain votes from their conservative base.

The Republican elites in Washington, DC know all too well how to use their positions to threaten industries, extort corporate contributions, or legislate market disruptions that bring rewards to certain beneficiaries.

My words here are well chosen. You may think of treason as “acting to overthrow one’s government.” There is another definition which I intend. It is, “the betrayal of a trust or confidence, or a breach of faith.”

You and I have been betrayed

The Republican ruling class has placed their bets on a house of cards. They have wagered our children’s futures for their rewards today. They have immunity from ObamaCare. Do you? They hinder your job prospects while opening the field for themselves and their friends. They create factions among us and set contradictory and unattainable priorities.  This not only confuses citizens, it confuses markets.

Businesses need accurate information for making sound and efficient use of their resources. Are production capacities at optimal levels? Should the product mix be modified to take advantage of changing circumstances, supplies, or increases in market demand? No business can make an informed decision when the market is distorted by government intervention. There are false incentives, unwarranted subsidies, cheap money and limited access to natural resources. Each of which negatively and artificially impacts business decisions.

These contradictory and unattainable priorities confuse and hobble working people in our communities. Their unattainable priorities  are really false promises. Pennsylvania’s anti-federalist delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1776 recognized this. They identified the political maneuvering behind these false claims which were, “exciting [the Federalists] hopes of greater advantages from the expected plan than even the best government on earth could produce….”

anti-Federalist Proposals

The anti-federalists also documented their dissent for the proposed Constitution because it did not include a provision for the right to bear arms.  Their desire was to include wording which would guarantee no future jurisdictions could subvert this natural right for personal and family defense.

“That the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and their own state, or the United States, or for the purpose of killing game; and no law shall be passed for disarming the people or any of them, unless for crimes committed, or real danger of public injury from individuals; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up: and that the military shall be kept under strict subordination to and be governed by the civil powers.”

In particular, notice the phrase “and no law shall be passed for disarming the people or any of them”.

You and I have been told the 2nd Amendment covers this and protects our right to bear arms.  You may even believe that it’s language is complete. You may be of the opinion that the phrase in our 2nd amendment which reads “shall not be infringed” is as good as gold.

Yet, our 2nd Amendment right is the right most often infringed. Our Democratic led Oregon state legislature is intent on infringing this right daily during the current legislative session.

Additionally, Constitutional Amendments can be repealed. The 18th Amendment (Prohibition) was repealed by the 21st Amendment.

What defense is there for stopping devious, disingenuous  or corrupt men after they gain office?

First, arm yourselves with facts.

Did your Republican representative vote for the $1.1 trillion CR/Omnibus budget? This improvident legislation fully funded Pres. Obama’s scheme to “fundamentally transform America.” Obama received his needed wink and nod from two weak-kneed RINO’s,  Speaker Boehner and Rep. Walden. Those two RINO votes made the difference as it passed 214 to 212 on its initial journey through the House.

The only legislative restraint on Obama’s takeover of one-sixth of the US economy (healthcare), his executive amnesty plans and the EPA’s unprecedented assault against America’s natural resource sector was funding. Not any longer – the House fully funded all of Obama’s initiatives.

Our Turn Now

Use your knowledge and power in your local elections. Your proximity gives you more power in the local arena. Use it or lose it – vote for Liberty.  Elect conservative men and women to your County Commissioner positions. Encourage your County Commissioners to support the 2nd Amendment by passing legislation prohibiting the funding of activities which violate your inherent rights.

Elect true conservatives at every level of local government (even the County Dog Catcher if that position is an elected office.)

Elect true conservatives in all State and National races, whether House or Senate.

If your representative violated your trust, just throw ‘em out,  along with last night’s pizza-box.

Recommended Books…

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Break the Monopoly!

School Choice has the power to undo the Left’s purposeful destruction of our Founder’s ideals.

The ideals of America were once well-known but aren’t any longer. My contention is this is not an accident.

This PatriotUpdate article describes our Founder’s world-view:

“It was a vision of self-government by free people who were willing to govern themselves so that government did not have to. It was a vision of personal responsibility, individual liberty, free markets, and limited government. This is why liberals are rewriting history. None of these things comport with the left’s agenda of big government, burdensome regulations, entitlement, statism, and lifelong dependence.”

The current school choice dilemma originates from a very simple statist strategy for control.  They plead with heavy hearts for your children’s safety, future and prosperity, yet are destroying those very things through their policies. The bureaucracy is getting well-paid and they will get handsome retirement benefits while young graduates can’t find employment.

Compared to worldwide industrialized nation rankings America’s graduation rates are in the doldrums, reading skills are non-existent, and science and math acumen have drastically fallen. The progressive politicians identify the problem – they need more money, more time in class and tougher truancy laws.

The National Education Association’s (NEA) monopolist’s strategy is just like the Fed/IMF/ECB policy for Quantitative Easing (QE) we’ve been witnessing for the past several years. Government policy relies on transmission, traction, and time consistency. Stephen Roach explains,

The impact of those policies hinges on  the “three Ts” of any regulatory policy: transmission (the channels by which  policy impacts the target); traction (the responsiveness of the public to those policy actions); and time consistency (the unwavering credibility of the authorities’ promise to reach specified targets). In monetary policy these would be things like full employment and price stability.  In Education Policy it shows up with promises for higher graduation rates and better test scores.

Transmission is easy when there is an enormous monopoly that controls what gets transmitted – the curriculum.

Traction is also simplified because there is no meaningful resistance. The kids start in pre-school or at 5 years of age. They have no knowledge, no understanding of history and their young lives will be filled with absorbing the material that is presented.

Time-consistency is rock-solid. The shear number of years that a young captive spends in the chair all but ensures the thoroughness of the indoctrination.  In Oregon, Gov. Kitzhaber wants to add a couple more years to the overall scheme by including 0 through 20 years in the state’s education plan.  Kitzhaber says, “I am committed to securing more resources for education and making new investments in a zero-to-20 education system.”  This means he’ll be looking for more taxpayer funding.
No doubt, his policy goals will absorb enormous amounts of money aiming at a target that does not belong to the state but properly belongs to parents. I’m certain he simply wants to keep any nasty parents from ruining their own children’s futures.

Yet, this “fourth T” never gets mentioned – the Target.

What if the target is the wrong target?  What if the government entity has no business making these targets for our children. What can the bureaucrats in Washington, DC possibly know about your child’s individual talents, gifts, skills or preferences?  Can they possibly adjust the curriculum to meet your family’s goals?

If their goals were valid why is it that all of these economic resources have never struck the target? Not in math performance. Not in science , or reading assessment tests. Not in graduation rates. Not in college attendance or college graduates employment opportunities.

 

Monopolies produce two things, higher prices and inferior products.

 

Break the monopoly!

  1. Call your Federal Representatives
  2. Call your State Representatives
  3. Vote for pro-School Choice neighborhood school district board members
  4. Choose alternatives for your children
  5. Private school options are great
  6. Homeschooling opportunities are fantastic

 

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Praise for the Bill of Rights

Today’s article will be quick and I’ll point out some historical facts about the anti-Federalist position during the Founding Era.

First, the anti-Federalists are responsible for bringing to us, what is commonly know as, The Bill of Rights. These first ten amendments to the constitution are the most important features of the modern constitution because they document the limits of government and highlight our individual rights.

The original constitution basically describes the machinery of the federal government. It gives details about how the various branches (legislative, judicial, and executive) were designed to mesh together. The original intent was to create a natural system of  checks and balances that would balance power within a representative republic. It was necessary to cement cooperative power within strict boundaries because the founders feared our human tendency for fickleness and fervent passions. They sought a balance which would hinder, “[m]en of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs.”

The constitutional proposal was a well-designed, tension filled political structure that would, if used properly, bind and protect the interests of the “several free and independent states.” This new political arrangement would necessarily consider various perspectives before coming to any legislative decisions. The goal was to conform power within the narrow limits of defined responsibilities so that productive work could be accomplished. It was designed with opposition in mind, much like the opposing muscles that make the human arm so ingenious. Opposition in this sense is not bad, despite the modern, media-led rhetoric of a need to “work together.”

The anti-Federalists knew that there was an inherent weakness in this design. James Madison documented their fears in Federalist #47, “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

It was the anti-Federalists who realized that the smallest member of society, the single individual, was not well-represented. The machine was well-documented but the user manual neglected the smaller parts – the individual, their towns, counties and state governments which give the federal machine its true purpose. The founders designed a machine which would, “secur[e] the Blessings of Liberty to Ourselves and our Posterity.”

The anti-Federalists made that a reality. They refused to ratify the US Constitution in its native form and demanded the inclusion of a Bill of Rights.

In your mind, try to imagine how America would look today, if the Constitution had never been amended.

  • What security would you have if you freely spoke your mind?
  • Could you exercise your own conscientious decision-making without fear?
  • Would you be able to defend yourself or your children from violence or harm?
  • Would you be required to house troops, feed troops, give them whatever they demanded?
  • If you tried to resist this plunderous activity would you have a firearm?
  • Would you have any say in local governance?
  • Would you have a say in any Self-Governance?

This last bullet caught me a little short.

Do you have any freedom for self-governance today?  –  Very little!

What little you do have belongs solely to the anti-Federalist movement during our nation’s founding.  The anti-Federalists realized, like William Penn who lived a century before their era:

“I know what is said by the several admirers of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy, which are the rule of one, a few, and many, and are the three common ideas of government, when men discourse on the subject.

“But I chuse [sic.] to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.”

Charter Of Liberties And
Frame Of Government Of
The Province Of Pennsylvania In America — May 5, 1682

Next week some more details…

 

 

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Iron Handed Despotism

“Miserable is the lot of that people whose every concern
depends on the WILL and PLEASURE of their rulers.”

– Dissent of Pennsylvania Minority

In the article, Under the Guidance of an Arbitrary Government, I mentioned the anti-Federalists and I have received several questions about their ideas. Aside from, “Who are those guys?”, I received many questions about the motivations of the anti-Federalists, and their recommendations during the Constitutional convention of 1787.

Today I’ll start a series answering those questions and I’ll show you the similarities between their positions and the mindset of today’s Tea Party patriots. The Federalist and the anti-Federalists were both vibrant contributors to the creation of our Nation, our Constitution  and our Bill of Rights.

Wikipedia explains…

Anti-Federalism refers to a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the Constitution of 1788. The previous constitution, called the Articles of Confederation, gave state governments more authority. Led by Patrick Henry of Virginia, Anti-Federalists worried, among other things, that the position of president, then a novelty, might evolve into a monarchy.

The anti-Federalists were the Tea party heroes of the day because they recognized the sublime, self-evident and universal truth of Lord Acton’s statement, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

A Pulitzer Prize historian, Leonard W. Levy, notes, “The Framers and their supporters are known to us as the Federalists, and those who opposed ratification are the Anti-Federalists. The name Anti-Federalist was an opprobrious (shameful) epithet artfully fastened on those who opposed ratification by those who shrewdly called themselves the Federalists. (History is written by the victors.)”

The “victors” knew the power of propaganda in swaying the public mind. We see the same distorted and inaccurate clamor in today’s issues like “environmental justice”, “income equality”, or “a women’s right to choose.”  The terminology or language of the debate is framed purposefully so that the opposite view automatically gets a negative sounding connotation. For example, the “pro-choice” position was chosen rather than the more accurate title “pro-abortion”. This makes those holding the opposing view sound tyrannical because they are against choice and freedom. When the stated position is positive, what is left but negativity?

Using the pamphlet, entitled “Dissent of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention” from December, 1787, as a sample we can see the clear articulation of sound anti-Federalist ideas.

The anti-Federalist believed in local governance and representation, just like today’s Tea Party. They  accurately predicted these potential problems with consolidated power under the Constitution:

  1. “[M]ust necessarily annihilate and absorb the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of the several states”
  2. would produce, “one consolidated government, which from the nature of things will be an iron handed despotism”
  3. “The powers of Congress… are complete and unlimited over the purse and the sword, and are perfectly independent of, and supreme over, the state governments; whose intervention in these great points is entirely destroyed.”

 

Couple these well-warranted fears about state sovereignty with Jefferson’s dream of many thousands of small government jurisdictions composed of local communities and you can see the beauty of dispersed governmental power. With these historical insights we can understand why liberty-loving Americans are so disappointed with Speaker Boehner and the establishment Republicans in their efforts to consolidate more federal power under President Obama’s recent “CROmnibus” legislation.

As citizens, you and I are supposed to carry the ultimate authority.  Our ability to have meaningful engagement becomes evermore diluted as federal consolidation diminishes our voices. Jefferson agreed. In his correspondence with Abigail Adams he admitted, “If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one [a nation] of the most extensive corruption; [it will be] indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface.”

The fears and questions raised by these Founders are the same ones I have today:

  • Is the “majority” always right?
  • How does the minority get represented when the majority is unwise and abusive?
  • How will we ensure local authority vs. control from those in far distant cities?
  • How do we hold those who have violated our trust accountable?
  • Is there a “higher law” to which men are accountable?

Thoughtfully consider these questions and send me your comments.

Check in next time as we tackle more of the fundamental ideas voiced by the anti-Federalists and read their recommendations for our future.

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Hogwash!

This morning every news outlet across America is priming the pump for President Obama’s upcoming State of the Union Address. It appears this administration believes hogs can get cleaned up with a good dose of statistical magic and some bright red lipstick.

White House spokesman Eric Schultz recently said that Obama’s upcoming schedule will be part of a “three week run-up” to the address that will “highlight the progress we have made in the economy.”

The State of the Union speech is scheduled  for January 20 on Capitol Hill.

What Schultz didn’t bother to tell us is that with the full $1.1 trillion dollar “CROmnibus” funding  in place the President’s agenda has much more than a speech planned. (Don’t forget to send your Thank You cards to Speaker Boehner and his traitorous minions.)

The bureaucratic hog washers can’t wait to get their hands dirty as they hone their language skills for misleading the the hard-working folks who are still holding onto their jobs.

Specifically, I’m referring to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics sharing the glorious news that December 2014’s unemployment numbers fell.

The high-gloss front page reads, “The US economy added 252,000 jobs in Dec.” The BLS reported that the unemployment rate dropping to 5.6% is the best employment statistic since 1999.

Thankfully, just in case children are watching Google News alerts, the blood red details have been carefully removed from any mainstream media stories. Here are the details:

  • Unchanged – long-term unemployed.
  • Little changed – involuntary part-time workers. These individuals, who would have preferred full-time employment, were working part time because their hours had been cut back due to ObamaCare implementation.
  • Little changed – marginally attached labor. These were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
  • Little changed – unemployment rate for adult men.
  • Little changed – unemployment rate for teenagers.
  • Little changed – unemployment rate for whites, blacks, Asians and Hispanics.
  • Little changed – marginally attached. (Those who are not searching for work.)
  • Down – Civilian labor participation. (In December, the employment-population ratio was 59.2 percent)

If each of these statistics show “little” or “no change” and if the number of people working as a percentage of the overall workforce declines, “Where does the great news come from?”

The happy headlines apparently originated from this one tidbit:

  • Down – the unemployment rate for adult women. It fell .2%

Do we really believe that the entire 252,000 December hiring surge was composed of attractive retail clerks wrapping gifts and selling perfume for Christmas?

These pitiful statistics are simply the muddy slop from an inept administration designed to camouflage the real issues that American’s face. The real problems are the insurmountable piles of debt being laid at our feet and the ever growing federal bureaucracy.

Here’s the real dirt from the federal pig pen:

  • Only 171 million individuals pay income taxes out of a population of 320 million.
  • The current U.S. national debt exceeds $18 trillion. (Realtime debt clock)
  • Every minute each man, woman, child and newborn citizen’s debt (approx. $56,000 each) grows.
  • Every minute each taxpaying citizen’s portion of the debt (approx. $154,000) also grows.

The final irony comes from our betrayal by the Republican led House of Representatives. The House should have defunded ObamaCare, stopped the President’s executive amnesty initiative and reined in the regulatory bureaucracies that are stifling American prosperity.

The last-minute deal between President Obama, the Democratic Senate and House Speaker John Boehner pushed through 1,603-pages of “CROmnibus” funding onto our backs and I can guarantee that no one read it.

The estimates for our individual portion of this particular tragedy range from $450 to $500.

If Americans remain complacent Congress will set to work to repeat their successful strategy of deceit. This $500 bill, like the other $56,000 we each owe the federal hog-washers, will get added to the tabs of our children and grandchildren.

Dear friends, this federal pig-farm is awash in the economic debris of excessive spending, unmanageable debt, and perpetual deficits.  The US House fully funded the President’s artful designs and the House is ultimately responsible!

 

 

 

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Under the Guidance of an Arbitrary Government

Biggest Upset in 100 Years

Matt Kibbe, of FreedomWorks, reported today that over 13,000 phone calls and 20,000 messages were received by the U.S. House encouraging House members to vote against Rep. Boehner for Speaker of the House.

In his correspondence Kibbe told supporters, “You more than doubled the number of Republicans standing up to Boehner when you got 25 Republicans to vote against the Speaker– the biggest number in 100 years.”

This is fantastic because these true representative heroes, (although, “defectors” from the elite Republican ruling class), stood on principle. They did not stand on personal gain, enhanced standing or promises for committee chair positions. They stood on principle!

This incident, with only twenty-five “defectors”, reminds me of a historical event – the Dissent of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention.

On December 18, 1787, twenty-three men wrote out their well documented and succinct reasons for opposition to the ratification debate regarding the proposed U.S. Constitution. They had numerous reasons, including taxes, standing armies, debt, and a well-founded fear that, “under the guidance of an arbitrary government, they may be made the unwilling instruments of tyranny.”

These twenty-three men, faced tremendous ridicule and harassment in their public lives. The start of the ridicule came in regards to some dire predictions (all of which have actually come true) and they were accused of voicing arguments whose, “harangue is long and insidious.”

The daily newspapers distributed rebuttals which also labeled them, “among the weak, the wicked and designing.” These twenty-three men were falsely accused of being of a, “disposition, beyond all conception, obstinate, base, and politically wicked.”

The anti-Federalists were actually right!

It is not the degree of political rancor that makes one decision right and another wrong. Neither is it determined by public sentiment or personal choice. It is not this particular vote or that one. Rather, right and wrong are stipulated by underlying principles. Right and wrong aren’t ever-changing, or indeterminate and they must be confirmed by historical experience.

For example, through the ages, murder and theft have been decidedly wrong. It does not matter how big your army is, or how ruthless your neighborhood gang might be – it is wrong to murder and steal.

The underlying principle concerns human rights and the unjustified killing of innocent human beings or the inherent self-evident rights of persons with regard to their property.

I think our experience today, confirms their good reasons for skepticism.  Let’s see what these twenty-three patriots had to say:

“…the powers vested in Congress by this constitution, must necessarily annihilate and absorb the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of the several states, and produce from their ruins one consolidated government, which from the nature of things will be an iron handed despotism…”

AND…

“…the question then will be reduced to… whether… the people of America are now willing to resign every privilege of freemen, and submit to the dominion of an absolute government, that will embrace all America in one chain of despotism; or whether they will with virtuous indignation, spurn at the shackles prepared for them, and confirm their liberties by a conduct becoming freemen.”

Like these men, I too want to avoid becoming “the unwilling instruments of tyranny” and I want to thank you and these men for “conduct becoming freemen.”

Keep up the good work and don’t let your establishment Rep., whether Republican or Democrat, rivet any shackles around your ankles.