Unintended Consequences

Where Are The Real Conservatives?

How many of you watched in dismay as Pelosi and Reid continued to set the agenda in the “lame duck” Congress? How many of you sat there in abject horror as the “conservative” GOP went to bed with the enemy?

The new Congress, taking office next month had better find new leadership because Senator Mitch McConnell has shown himself to be a feckless leader! Why in the hell did this man allow any significant legislation to reach the floor for a vote? He proved he is just another Harry Reid: Making “deals” behind closed doors with no input from anybody! Mitch McConnell is as transparent as lead! He rolled over and “played dead” for Mr. Obama and the ‘progressives’ and that makes Mr. McConnell my enemy and the enemy of every freedom loving American!

McConnell says, “It was the best deal we could get and it shows what bipartisanship is!” Easy words from an accomplished liar! We will never know if it was “ … the best deal …” because we saw no fight from the GOP on this deal. What we saw was the GOP “leadership” so anxious to save the Bush tax cuts, they agreed to spending more money we do not have! We saw cowards leading cowards; still heading for financial disaster because they don’t know how to lead!

The American People gave the Congress a clear mandate on November 2^nd, and it should have been taken as a clear warning but, obviously, McConnell cannot read or doesn’t have the “cojones” to ‘just say NO’! The man has been drinking the D.C. Kool Aid too long and has a terminal case of Potomac Fever! A true conservative leader needs to be selected and I would nominate Jim DeMint or Tom Colburn for that role!

My cousin, Pat, advised me I shouldn’t condemn the new members of Congress before they get sworn in and I want to make it clear I am referring to the current Congress. But, the new members need to know that they are on probation; the “R” behind the name lost any meaning of Responsibility decades ago! The grassroots voters have adopted Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mantra: “To be judged not by the color of the skin but by the character of the person.” The same can be said of the letter behind the name!

We will be watching the House more closely also and I hope the “rookies” coming in take their direction from the promises they made while running for office and not from John  Boehner! Mr. Boehner has been drinking the D.C. Kool Aid since 1995, so we will have to determine whether or not he has contracted Potomac Fever like McConnell. The People cannot put up with feckless leadership in both Houses, so we shall see.

But we do not need Congressman Darrell Issa as saying: "It's pretty clear the American people expect us to use the existing gridlock to create compromise... They [the American people] want us to come together after we agree to disagree." Mr. Issa and the current members of the House had better come to the realization  that we are at war with the ‘progressives’ and compromise to them is stealing more of our freedoms, a little at a time! There can be no compromise on American principles; stick to the restrictions of the Constitution and the ‘progressives’ lose! We have to follow Ronald Reagan’s strategy on the Cold War: “We win; they lose!”

All of you were elected with that thought in mind and if you fail in your promised duty, we will find somebody with the intestinal fortitude to get the job done! No compromise! None! Nada! The ‘progressives’ shoved these bills down out throats and we will not compromise our principles! Every time you “compromise” with ‘progressives’ they win a little more, that is how we got here! That is why we have said there is not 10¢ difference between the parties because the GOP has “compromised” away its principles for the appearance of being “bipartisan”!

What happens if the GOP lives up to their campaign promises only to have Obama veto them? Keep in mind, those of you with slow wits or weak conviction, Mr. McConnell: You have a mandate from the People and if Obama vetoes the “will of the People”, the People will elect more conservatives so you can get the job done!

We got this bad off because we, as a nation, forgot our heritage and why our founders created the form of government we originally had; I think Patrick Henry stated it best: “It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”

I repeat his quote daily because I had forgot about American exceptionalism! We cannot afford to forget it again!

We have reached a turning-point today and if we do  not turn back toward our Creator; if we do not beg for His guidance and forgiveness, we are doomed to the annals of history and I don’t think it will speak kindly of us! Because we will have squandered our freedom  of individualism and self-reliance for the appearance of security!

We must, once again, become the Beacon of Liberty for the world, so that the people of other nations will try to emulate us out of envy! We must turn away from meddling in other nation’s affairs because we now know that causes them to hate us!

The King and His Court ...

The following is a short speech I wrote for our first Tea Party Rally, April 15^th, 2009, held in John  Dam Plaza, Richland, Washington. I reprint it now because as effective as the Tea Party movement has been in these last 20 months, the only one of the idiots mentioned in it will be gone in January, 2011, and he had to retire! Chris Dodd retired; Pelosi, Reid, and Frank were reelected!

That tells me the Tea Party groups have a big job ahead of educating the people as to the differences between Free People and Sheeple who keep returning these elitists to rule over us! Just a thought.

Welcome to you all to our Tea Party! And we’re gonna party like it’s 1773! (And we did – Over 1500 people showed up and  railed against our out of control government spending!)

Last Fall, our own “King” George scared the Congress into passing the biggest bailout in American history! This wasn’t King George III, this was “King” George W. Bush! After Congress caved in, like a house of cards, and with the stroke of a pen, “King” George made the Treasury Secretary the most powerful Treasury Secretary in history!

And so as not to waste a good panic, they set about to nationalize our banking industry and our insurance industry; almost immediately, the Big 3 auto makers wanted to be bailed out; even flew in on private planes to cry, “Poor me, poor me!” to Congress!

That didn’t happen until we changed “kings”! Now we are saddled with King Barrack Hussein Obama, Princess Nancy Pelosi, Prince Harry Reid, and his Court Jesters Barney Frank and Chris Dodd!

This isn’t something new ~ It’s just the first time we noticed what Washington, D.C. is doing to us ~ By the way ~ The D.C. is short for District of Criminals! And what they are doing is nothing short of criminal!

As I said: This is not something new ~ The congress has been passing “laws” that fly in the face of our Constitution for almost 100 years and we let them! Some of the more egregious ones: In 1913, they enacted the Federal Reserve Act, which made 10 banking families, mostly European, our central bank ~ The Constitution calls for the U.S. Treasury to mint our coinage ~ Paper money would have taken a Constitutional Amendment and they’d already enacted 2 Constitutional Amendments: The Sixteenth, which they use as the justification for the income tax, and the Seventeenth, which is when we started electing our senators!

In 1933, Congress enacted, and FDR signed into law, the 1933 War Powers Act ~ Question: Who were we at war with in 1933? Some constitutional scholars put forth the notion they declared war against the People! It is the law FDR used to confiscate privately held gold bullion, in exchange for Federal Reserve Certificates!

Congress hasn’t passed a Constitutional Declaration of War since WWII ~ They have sent our young men and women in harm’s way with U.N. Resolutions, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and the 1973 War Powers Resolution! They pay lip service to the greatest document created by men building the richest and freest nation ever witnessed by anyone!

Where are our freedoms and liberties today? We have let the government become so powerful, they “allow” us the use of our God-given liberties when it serves their purpose! We have to take our country back and this is but the first step in a long journey and may God help us to victory!

My father's love letter

Quantitative Easing?

“History 
records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, 
deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments 
by controlling the money and its issuance.” – President James Madison

This quote came to mind when I heard Mr. Bernanke tell the world that he was buying government bonds to “ … prevent deflation and stimulate the sluggish economy … ” and he called this maneuver “quantitative easing”! Why that sounds almost empirical; so soft and gentle and with such ‘fatherly concern’ – Almost! “ … money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means … ”! It’s like changing “shell-shock” to “post-tramatic-stress-disorder” – Soften the language to explain a very bad condition! The original term used for “quantitative easing” is “monetizing the debt” and this has nothing to do with ‘deflation’ or ‘stimulating a sluggish economy’! Bernanke is lying, which is what you expect from a Liar and Mr. Bernanke is an accomplished LIAR!!

If you want to see exactly what Bernanke did, look up the Weimar Republic, at the turn of last century (1919) – Monetizing the debt doesn’t prevent ‘deflation’; it causes hyperinflation! I am not an economist but I have studied history! The German Weimar Republic shoved millions of German Marks into the sluggish economy and when the economy turned around, they couldn’t pull the extra Marks out of the economy fast enough and hyperinflation destroyed the German economy, leading to Hitler and his National Socialist Party (Nazis). There is a famous picture in history books and you can find it on the internet of a man with a wheelbarrow full of German Marks heading to the bakery to buy a loaf of bread!

Stand by, this is our exciting future with the Fed’s “help” – Thank you Mr. Bernanke! He was touted as “a student of the Great Depression” – I used to say he flunked the course but I think I was in error – This evil person learned exactly what to do to destroy the economy and, with this administration’s and the Congress’ approval, Bernanke is doing exactly that!

“The 
issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought 
sooner or later is the People vs. The Banks.” – Lord Acton, Lord Chief Justice of 
England,
1875

That is where we are at: The “issue” is at hand and the banking system, with this ‘fiat’ money is winning because they own America’s wealth; they’ve been headed this way since 1913, with the creation of an unconstitutional central bank, called the “Federal Reserve Act of 1913”!

Are you curious what happens next? Go to this website and sign up for their email alerts: http://inflation.us/ Read what they have said to date and prepare yourself and you family for a very bumpy ride!

The War on Christianity!

As we near the time we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, when we should be happy and in a festive mood, we are again going into battle with 'progressives' in our government and our courts, the ACLU, and the atheists over our freedom to celebrate Christmas! Yes, I’m cranky!

It is time we stand up and be counted! I am so-o-o tired of this war on Christianity! I want everybody to remember what Patrick Henry said, “It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”

What part of that is so difficult to understand that we now have to fight for our very existence? The spokesman for the atheists say they are just having a dialog ~ That is a lie! Their posters and signs belie this statement; they are offensive to every Christian I know because they don’t question our beliefs, they state that Christians are living a lie! That’s not looking for “dialog”, that’s trying to pick a fight! They succeeded! Consider me one of God's Warriors and it is time to kick ass!

If they can block off Madison Avenue once a month so the Muslims can pray to their Moon God, celebrate Ramadan without billboards proclaiming they are living a lie, and live their lives freely in this country to practice their religion, why can’t Christians be afforded the same respect?

Why haven’t we seen billboards proclaiming Buddha and his followers are living a lie? Why don’t we see billboards proclaiming the Hindu religion is making people live a lie? Why aren’t there billboards proclaiming the Jewish faith is a lie? Why is it only Christians being accused of living a lie?

One of God’s gifts to man is “free will” and even the atheists should rejoice for that! He has given us all the free will to choose how to worship Him or not worship Him; we, as individuals choose our religion! Atheists have chosen not to believe the Bible, so that is their religion and they do not have to answer to me, you, or the government for not being a “believer” ~ They will only have to answer to God on Judgment Day!

I am a Christian and I believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ! I do not pray often enough but my prayers are sincere when I ask for forgiveness. I have belonged to two (2) churches in my life and did not agree with some of their interpretations of Christ’s teachings so I do not attend a church with any regularity. I have practiced tolerance all my life, knowing I do not have all the answers but I will debate most subjects and try to maintain an open mind (very tough for me to do! LOL!) But I sincerely try!

I do not believe there is “one true faith” and would argue that the one true faith is a falsehood because there is no such thing as “collective salvation”, anymore than there is “collective rights”! For proof I would offer that when I go before the Lord, I will face Him, knowing Jesus died for my sins and have asked for forgiveness through His name! He will not be asking if I was a good Catholic, Presbyterian, or Baptist! Even “God’s chosen People” are not guaranteed a reward in Heaven because they are judged by Him as individuals.

Enough about my faith; this Blog is about the War on Christianity, being waged by 'progressive' in our government and courts to separate the People from God, and their henchmen: The atheists and the ACLU! Every session of Congress begins with a prayer, yet the government will not protect our right to worship anyway we see fit ~ The government tells us we shouldn’t “offend” other beliefs with Thanksgiving and Christmas! Bite me!!

I point, once again to Patrick Henry: “It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”

They say atheists are being discriminated against because we don’t celebrate an atheist holiday; I beg to differ! It was ruled, in court, that an atheist holiday is celebrated every year ~ April 1^st in the atheist holiday of April Fool’s Day ~ I cannot think of anything more appropriate!

Another thing to remember is this war: If the 'progressives' succeed and separate our nation from God, we will have lost our Individual Rights because they come from God, not from man! That is the enemy’s goal!

Christians are taught to turn the other cheek and I have tried to do that but my cheeks are so bruised … I have had enough of it and have turned the “other” cheek ~ I had to lower my pants and turn around but now that this cheek is exposed, the atheists can kiss it and get over it!

Speak out loudly!!!

Becky Kelley - Where's the Line to See Jesus - OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

What Do We Do About The Fiscal Disaster Coming Our Way?

“If Americans aren’t prepared for the hard choices needed to control the national debt, most voters here must have missed the memo…. Cutting the deficit and debt is the preferred prescription for the economy among 39% of Americans, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll conducted Nov. 19-21 shows. That tops other options, including raising taxes on the wealthy, cutting taxes and increasing stimulus spending.” (USA Today)

First of all, a “thank you” to all the politicians who dug this abyss we’re looking at today and to those who elected them to office (That’s all of us folks!)! That’s correct – We all had a hand in this fiasco! And if you “stayed home” and didn’t vote, don’t think for a minute you don’t deserve some of the blame – It’s our country and we’ve been treating her like a whore!

So let’s stop the “blame game” and face the tough choices we are going to have to make if we want to avert a total financial meltdown! We also need to abandon this “class warfare” the ‘progressives’ are foisting on working families. The richer among us are not our enemies and shouldn’t be singled out to pay for what we all helped create!

Don’t like the “tough words”? Well then, you ain’t gonna like the tough solutions coming down the pike! First I will lay out our ultimate goal to save our nation from bankruptcy and then we’ll list the steps we will need to do to allow for financial health for the nation.

You see, we do not have an “undertaxing” problem, we have an “overspending” problem! We, for much too long, have allowed our federal government to stray into areas not authorized by our Constitution and that has led us to the edge of the financial abyss. This just didn’t happen under Obama, although his congress has sped the problem up, and it didn’t start under Bush, although he and his Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, pushed the envelope out a little further with the TARP; this fiasco has been building since 1913!

Under Woodrow Wilson, a real scumbag, the 16^th and 17^th Amendments were ratified (supposedly) and the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act was passed, creating a private central bank owned by ten (10) banking families. Each one of these events contributed to what we are reaping today and all three events must be reversed or this will happen again and again!

Whether or not the 16^th Amendment was properly ratified is a moot point at this time but it is being applied improperly on the American People! It is a lie that the federal government can assess a personal income tax on your compensation but they have been doing it since the end of WWII! The Supreme Court, on three (3) separate occasions, has ruled that the 16^th Amendment gave Congress no new taxing authority! But through “words of art” and “color of law”, the IRS will throw your butt in jail if you refuse to pay the tax! But even this is a moot point today because the government has thrown enough Americans in prison, you will not find enough people willing to sacrifice their physical freedom to end the practice. The easiest way to correct this is to repeal the amendment!

The 17^th Amendment drew us closer to the democracy our founding fathers feared. With it’s passage, the Senators became elected officials instead of appointed by the several states’ legislatures! This has hurt us in more ways than can be counted. The Senators were to be in the Senate to protect the interests of the State. One of the “checks & balances” of our founding document was virtually destroyed with the passage of this amendment! Since 1913, the Senators have been a “popularity contest” and the position became just another way to vote money from the Treasury and destroy the 10^th Amendment! Whether or not the 17^th Amendment was properly ratified is just wasted energy; we need to repeal the Amendment or wait until the next financial crisis to rear it’s ugly and it will!

But the ugliest of the ugly was the passage of the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act of 1913! There is no provision, even today, for a privately-owned “central bank” in our Constitution! The Federal Reserve is tasked with deciding the United States monetary policy. What? I thought that was Congress’ responsibility: Article I, Section 8 – Powers of Congress, Line 4 – “To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;” (Sounds to me as if Congress is shirking it’s responsibilities once again!) Not only must we audit the fed, we must repeal the Federal Reserve Act! Creating the “Fed” was just the beginnings of the atrocities against America’s wealth!

Take a look at the Fed’s track record, remembering that their task was deciding our monetary policy: Preventing depressions was number 1 on their “hit list”. Need I say more? The Great Depression? How did they recommend to avert this debacle? “Raise taxes on the Corporations” is what Hoover did after the stock market crash of 1929. Today we know that just slows down a financial recovery. This action actually pushed us closer to the depression! Along comes FDR, you know, the ‘progressives’ hero! How did the Fed help out here? They recommended Keynesian Economics be applied and not only pushed us smack-dab into the worst depression the world has ever seen but prolonged the United States recovery by 8 to 10 years! Even Henry Morgenthau, FDR’s Treasury Secretary, recognized the error of the “New Deal” when he said, “Eight years and all that money spent and it did no good whatsoever!”

Obviously, the Fed cannot prevent depressions, recessions, or financial meltdowns, in fact, they exacerbate them!

Okay, but have they helped us in our monetary policy? In 1913, the United States was on the Gold Standard, and the Congress had frozen the gold price at $18.00 to $20.00 per ounce (Our “Double Eagle” was a 1 oz. gold coin; makes it easy to remember). Prior to the creation of the Fed, the U.S. Treasury only coined money, by Constitution, and when you deposited your gold and silver in the bank, the bank would issue you “Bank Notes” that you could redeem for merchandise from any merchant who recognized the Bank Note; otherwise you withdrew some of your gold or silver to purchase merchandise – Not a real convenient system but an honest one! The Fed started issuing “Gold Certificates” and “Silver Certificates” so you could leave your gold and silver in the Federal Reserve Bank and most merchants were willing to accept the certificates because they were redeemable at any Federal Reserve Bank and not just at the bank of issuance (as the Bank Notes were). This worked just fine and the people were lulled into apathy on the issue and it limited the amount of money the federal government could borrow because we were still on the Gold Standard, which meant the government could only borrow up to the amount of gold and silver owned by the federal government – A spending check that hadn’t been destroyed yet! Then comes the 1933 War Powers Act – Quick question: Who were we at war with in 1933? I have come to the conclusion that FDR and the Congress declared war on the American People in 1933! Using the powers given to the President under this egregious act, FDR confiscated all gold bullion and coinage he could locate from the American People! They confiscated the gold out of the Peoples’ home safes, as well as commercial banks and safe deposit boxes! They confiscated the precious metal and gave Federal Reserve “Silver Certificates” in place of the gold and took the United States off the Gold Standard, placing us in the Silver Standard!

This placated the Federal Reserves owners until 1965 – Called the “Johnson Sandwich” coins, the United States Mint began producing coinage made up of nickel and copper, instead to the silver coins we used since 1796! Named after Lyndon B. Johnson, President at the time, the “sandwich” doesn’t taste like any sandwich you would want to eat! It was at this time, that the United States was removed from the “Silver Standard” and the Federal Reserve began issuing “Federal Reserve Notes”. If you remember anything about Accounting 101, a “note” is the acknowledgement of a debt! In other words, the Federal Reserve began producing “fiat money”. A money with no backing but the good name of the borrower!

Thus began the enslavement of the future generations of Americans to the banking families of the Federal Reserve Bank! Yes, Congress had to have known they were enslaving us but they do not care; their only thoughts are getting reelected! Even Ronald Reagan, one of my heroes, couldn’t stop and reverse this  perverse trend; all he could do was slow it down! Essentially, the Fed will print as much fiat money as Congress wants to spend and they put it on contract to repay over time – They used to say that the national debt was money we owed ourselves but that was a lie told to us so we wouldn’t see the devastation of enslavement of the American People to the banking families and now to China and Japan!

Russia and China have reached agreement on oil production from Russia to China and it is not based on the dollar value! The rest of the world will be following suit because we have defaced and now set to devalue the dollar; the world has lost it’s standard due to our overspending by an out of control Congress!

We must repeal the Federal Reserve Act and put this nation back on the Gold Standard so our dollar will be trusted once again by other trading partners!

If we could accomplish all three (3) things today, (repeal the 16^th and 17^th Amendments and repeal the Federal Reserve Act) it will not save us from the financial meltdown that is imminent. The meltdown is so imminent, we have to do several other things to solve our immediate financial problems; those things are going to hurt! It’s like taking medicine for an illness: The cure tastes terrible but the alternative is death!

Initially, we must cut spending by 50%! We must eliminate entire departments, slash federal employment numbers, and slash entitlement programs! This cannot be an “across the board” cut; it must be targeted cuts that will reduce federal spending by 50%. That’s why it’s gonna hurt! It’s going to hurt because the federal government is trying to be all things to all people and are messing in areas not authorized by Constitution and most of these areas are better handled at the state or local levels!

Everything must be “on the table” for consideration for elimination but a few departments that come to mind immediately are the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Homeland Security, and Labor; except for Homeland Security, the rest of these departments are not authorized by Constitution and are better handled by the states or locally and Homeland Security doesn’t need to be a department unto itself – It’s function could be absorbed and be a Division of the Dept. of Defense! Other departments could be eliminated and their roles absorbed but you can see there are an over-abundance of bureaucrats and they generate no revenue; they only cost us more tax dollars!

Next, we have to evaluate the entitlement programs with an eye to reducing or eliminating them altogether! Entitlements include Social Security, Social Security Disability, Medicare, and Medicaid. From my perspective, Medicaid and Social Security Disability should be state programs, if there is to be a program at all! It used to be that the family unit took care of disabled family members or hired somebody to care for them and it should be that way today! If the government wasn’t stealing so much from Americans, we could take care of our own – a time honored tradition!

Medicare is another unauthorized federal program we can do without! I had much better coverage before the feds forced me onto Medicare and if I were able to buy my insurance across state lines, opening up competition, I daresay I would get better coverage and my health care professionals would be much happier than today, when they are paid only a pittance by Medicare!

Social Security cannot survive as it is administered today and I hope there is a way to save it for those who rely on it today as their sole income for retirement but it will be forced to change. Again, this is a program that is better suited for the states, rather than the federal government. Government closest to the People governs best, with the consent of the governed!

There are no real answers in this article, just the problems and areas of solution. We need to create solutions for Congress and we had better do it quickly!