Oldie but Goodie

Ponder This

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

"Pull off the Band-Aid, eat (y)our peas." --BHO

May I just add: "After you, Sir, after you.  You have exponentially increased the number of Federal employees, you have buried the middle class under crippling and largely wastrel spending, you have deceived, connived, and flat-out lied about your agenda, your pending sprees, your goal of reducing America to a Western Hemisphere Kenya.

You have used backroom fiat to sell guns to drug lords, and then tout the "statistics" about American-bought guns in Mexico, guns sold to Mexican gangs upon your orders! Guns used in the murders of two Border Patrol Agents whom YOU took an oath to protect!  And you have the unmitigated gall to tell the American people that you "agonized" for 16 hours before ordering the taking out of Osama bin Laden!  That was a tough call for you?  Why wasn't your illicit action against Qadaffi an equally tough call?  

You dragged your feet in response to the Gulf oil spill, increasing the environmental damage by weeks of lethargy, your lethargy, and then you sent in a crack team of lawyers, all charged not with cleanup, but "finding whose ass to kick."  You desire $10-a-gallon gas for Americans, but free computers and wi-fi for the third world nations which still use elephant dung as cooking fuel.  You have promised to "bankrupt" any company foolish enough to establish a "clean coal" (your very words) operation in America, and yet you offer massive tax "incentives" to companies which produce the most expensive and least efficient wind-and-solar-and-"biofuels" which are largely the imaginings of carnival barkers and other snake-oil salesmen.

You have never "saved or created" a damn thing:  not a non-taxpayer-supported job, not an authentic "autobiography," not even a birth certificate which wasn't a blatant forgery.  You can't even "save face" effectively.

You are adept at voting "present," as your known history proves.  You "served" as a Senator for two years, producing less than ONE bill proposal, and another two years campaigning in "fifty-seven states."  Without your carefully-scripted and teleprompter-assisted orations, you have a gerbil's grasp of the English language; a faulty and malevolent view of the Constitution, and hubris rivalling Napoleon and Mao.  You schmooze with the Saudi's and the "Pock-ee-stahni's" and the Muslim Brotherhood, yet you grossly insult, TWICE, the Queen of England, the Prime Minister of Israel (who, as you surely recall,later took you to the diplomatic woodshed) and the PM of Germany as boot.  Do you honestly think that you will be able to offend all of America's allies and woo all of America's sworn enemies without repercussion?

If indeed you are "the smartest guy in the room," your roommates must be Moe, Larry and Curly.  Judging by your Attorney General, your Department head of Homeland Security, and your choice to head the CIA, and your personal "life insurance," Joe Biden, it is no great accolade to be "the smartest."

I so eagerly await your removal from the White House and from public view, as you hold only disdain for both.

Goodbye, so long, auf wiedersehen, goodnight, adieu, ta-ta, just Leave, already!"

Hat Tip: Ralph

Your Borrowed Tax Dollars @ Work, Democrat-Style

There were approximately 2.4 million fewer Americans working in June 2011 than there were when President Barack Obama signed the economic stimulus bill on Feb. 17, 2009, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
When the  "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act"  was created, Mr. Obama promised that the then-$787-billion spending package (all of which was borrowed money) would "create or save 3.5 million jobs," saying it would "preserve the American dream” for millions of people.
“We have begun the essential work of keeping the American dream alive in our time,” Obama said on Feb. 17, 2009 in a speech marking the signing of the stimulus bill.

June, 2011 marked the 29th straight month that unemployment has been higher than the 8 percent level Obama promised it would stay below when the stimulus was signed.

However, the Ministry of Truth officially disclaims those facts, saying that "This the REAL 'Summer of Recovery' and there would be far fewer jobs without the Stimulus.  The Stimulus is working, citizens!  All hail the O, the Great and Powerful!!"

Soooo, how's that whole hopey-changey thing workin' out for you? 

Hat Tips: CNS, Federal Government

E-Mailed July 08, 2011 to John Boehner

Dear Mr. Speaker,  @  http://www.speaker.gov/Contact/

Please do not subject our already-beleagered country to Mr. Obama's financial plans for ruining the rest of America's faltering economy.  By that, I am saying that He has engineered an $800 billion "stimulus" package that created nothing but governmental spending, pork-barrel rewards for political favorites of the liberal left, and an even deeper wound to an already bleeding national economy.  As if a trillion-dollar "porkulus" bill were not enough, we citizens, you know, all those "little people" that pay His bills, were forced to accept the cost of "bailing out" companies already bankrupted by abysmally poor business practices and labor union thuggery, and, as icing on his fiscal "cake," forced to accept 'Obamacare" under threat of dire penalties for "disobedience."  But the best part of this narcissist's quixotic delusions is that the United States of America is now the world's leading DEBTOR**, surpassing Greece, Ireland and Portugal.  His ludicrously prodigious spend-then-tax "economic plan" is literally straight out of Marxist philosophy as to the engineering of the RUINATION and TAKEOVER of a resistant government in order to usher the Marxist "Workers' Utopia" which Mr. Obama, with guidance by George Soros, wishes to impose upon a formerly free America.  "Hope and Change" my eye!

PLEASE, Mr. Speaker, Please DO NOT "COMPROMISE" on His "budget" plans:  NO tax increases, PERIOD.  Oh, sure, it's the economic drain caused by retirees living far too long and needing "unfair" access to healthcare.  I remind Mr. Obama that seniors such as myself have been FORCED BY LAW to "FEED" a portion of our incomes into the chimeral Trust Fund which now holds a drawerful of Congressional "I.O.U.'s" and no cash.  Since the imposition of the "Great Society" we have been FORCED to contribute to Medicare.  Gosh, where did all that money go?
Well, gosh, somebody must've "spread it around" and it's all gone now.  Sor-ry!

That, Mr. Speaker, is what the REAL world calls "embezzlement," and the perpetrators of such a crime who are not in Government's hallowed halls spend decades in prison for such a crime.  Bernie Madoff has nothing on the elites in our nation's Capitol.  With 114 TRILLION DOLLARS*** in 'Unfunded Liabilities," Congress should be looking to hold a garage sale, not "debating" about increases in taxation.  The time for rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic is long, long past.  Blaming Bush, blaming the tsunami, blaming the oil companies, blaming Wall Street, none of that works on the citizenry anymore.  This mess is no one's responsibility but the current occupant of the White House, and virtually EVERYONE in this country, among others, recognizes that fact.

Yet Mr. Obama still seeks to demonize any and all who opposes his Peter Pan Syndrome-based pipe dreams. Perhaps he should blame his Treasury Secretary, the one who doesn't understand TurboTax.
It is one thing to be a skilled orator, at least when the Teleprompter is functioning; it is quite another to actually be able to voice a genuine solution to the breakneck pace of forcing this entire country into debtors' prison.
Stand fast, Mr. Boehner, stand fast.  If not you, then who?  If not now, then when?  And how dare you assume that my grandchildren will rejoice over paying a $50,000 annual interest payment on some past President's egotism?

I await your reply, and I look forward to your sentient actions

** https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2187rank.html

**  http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=316773

*** http://www.usdebtclock.org/

The Vision of the Framers

Hat Tip: Ralph

In a related story, from National Review Online:

NRO POLL
The White House is reportedly discussing tax and entitlement reforms in debt-ceiling talks. 

Can they be trusted?

Yes
No

Yes	1 %
No	99 %

5,112 votes

The Logical Future of Federalized Mass Transit

The ''Wall of Separation,'' and the Abuses Thereof

To: the Department of Veterans' Affairs, Washington, D.C. re:

Why does the Houston National Cemetary, under the direction of one Arlene Acasio, disallow the mention of "God" or "Jesus" in burial services for fallen servicemen and servicewomen even when requested by their survivors?
Why does the Cemetary require greiving families to submit prayers in advance for "official approval?"
Why is the Cross and the Bible no longer available in the Chapel?
Why are services monitored by VA officials in order to ensure compliance with this ban?
And exactly where does that cemetary obtain the authority impose the State's will on the Church's services?

"Oh! thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation,
Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto, "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."

That, sirs, is the 4th stanza of your own National Anthem which unabashedly thanks God for "making and preserving" this great nation, and provides the words which were later adopted as the American National Motto (examine any dollar bill), "IN GOD WE TRUST."  This stanza addresses one of the Constitutional Freedoms for which these soldiers died in order to ensure for you and all citizens of America.

Please respond.

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/110630-va-god-allowed-at-cemetary
http://donttearusdown.com

Hat tip: JOG