71% of the voters in Missouri recently cast their votes in opposition to the main component of Obamacare. 29 out of every hundred voters don't mind if the government uses its force to coerce the purchase of personal health insurance. The remaining 71 people still value their freedom and reject the concept that Barack Obama and his henchmen and henchwomen can order you under the threat of financial penalty to purchase a product that you may not want and may not even need. Of course the members of the Democrat party and the supporters of this overreaching administration understand why 79 out of every 100 voters in Missouri said "no". They are stupid, that's all. Just listen to the proponents of forced health care insurance describe the reason for this outcome.
Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, who backed the health care law, said the results reflect the fact that voters have been bombarded with anti-government criticism of the new law and aren't fully aware of its positive aspects.
"'Big government, bad government, don't trust 'em' is a pretty simple message," said McCaskill.
When Democrat Senator McCaskill says it's a pretty simple message what she is saying is that the people who equate big government with bad government are simple people and all they can understand is a simple message. This leaves me wondering whether the folks who have voted for the likes of Senator McCaskill and President Obama realize how little respect they have for the American public. If the majority of American voters don't realize now that these Big Government folks are telling them that they are smarter than you and they know what's good for you, in spite of your beliefs and misgivings, we are in a sorry state.
I am certain that a small portion of the electorate does in fact feel that they need the government to be a parent and are willing to give up their independence in order to have the security of someone else making their decisions and promising to take care of them. I am also certain that this does not represent the majority of the American electorate. It does not represent the people who have made this country one of the great historic nations. It does not represent the people who have sacrificed for their families to provide a better life for their children and sacrificed their treasure and lives to make this a better and freer world for people from all four corners of the Globe.
Now we no longer sacrifice for the next generation. We spend their money and expect the next generation to pay the bill. What a slight of hand. From a nation of people who sacrificed for the generations to follow we now create a system which will require generations to come, even those not yet born, to sacrifice for us.
The self proclaimed Progressives, and those who support them, have perpetrated a scam on the American public. They have made promises that cannot be kept and incurred expenses that they cannot pay for. But I would suggest that the people of this nation are not as stupid as Claire McCaskill believes them to be nor as stupid as the President of the United States believes them to be. They may have been fooled by this reckless cadre of liberals who promised themselves into power but the game is up. Come November leaders who trust and believe in the people will come rolling into Washington in a huge tidal wave. The House will be controlled by fiscal conservatives and the progressives will lose their overwhelming majority in the Senate. The President will have to put down his whip and deal with legislatures who will stand for the majority and not the elite. In 2012 a new President will be elected. The only question is how much damage this President and his followers can do in the meantime. The only thing that could possibly prevent this change would be if the electorate were as stupid as Claire McCaskill and Barack Obama think they are. McCaskill and Obama are wrong about a lot of things - and one of the things that they are wrong about is the intelligence of the American voting public. It is truly the time to "throw the bums out"
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
The Emes #5
Moses he isn't- but who is?
"Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth." (Numbers 12:3)
Barack Obama is no Moses, but only Moses was so this is not a cause for complaint. The American people are not, individually or collectively G-d, but there is only one G-d so this is not an expectation that we should have nor should we be disappointed by our status. But should Barack Obama and the American people learn something from the relationship between Moses and G-d that would be beneficial to the office of the President and to the American Public?
We learn that the characteristic most associated with Moses was his sense of humility. It was this sense of humility that made it possible for Moses to converse with G-d and transfer what he learned to the people, Israel, who were slaves in the land of Egypt. Moses knew where his greatness was coming from. He understood that all his talents were G-d-given gifts and not the result of his own talents or abilities. As a result of this special relationship Moses was one of the most transformative individuals in history. He led his people out of slavery, he led his people through the barren desert, with the help of G-d for forty years, and he led his people to the gates of, but not into, the Promised Land. Moses heard what G-d had to say, debated with G-d in support of his people, and, with the exception of his violation of G-d’s instruction regarding bringing water from the rock, heeded G-d’s wishes. Only when Moses displayed a loss of humility by publicly striking the rock with his rod notwithstanding the instruction by G-d to Moses that he merely to talk to the rock, that Moses fails the test of leadership and loses the privilege of leading the Hebrew children into their Land.
Since assuming the office of the Presidency Barack Obama has failed at virtually every turn to demonstrate the characteristic of humility that is the true sign of a great person and a great leader. Faced with overwhelming opposition from American public opinion he has used not the humility of Moses to debate and ultimately compromise with the American people but the power of Pharaoh, aided and abetted with his Potiphar team of Harry Reid and Nancy Pilosi to force his agenda down the throat of an unwilling population. With virtually every unbiased poll showing the majority of Americans in opposition to the President’s program he has barreled ahead in the belief that he knows better than the millions of Americans who have been activated and express their dismay at the direction of this administration. The ironic analogy is that Moses was a poor and stuttering speaker and reluctant in his early period to use his voice as a tool to transform the Hebrew slaves into a free nation. Barack Obama, on the other hand, uses a gift of speech not to channel our American dream for freedom but to override it and make our majority a slave to his personal causes.
By denying us our freedom Barack Obama does not fit into the mold of the humble Moses. Does he fit into the Mold of the arrogant Pharaoh who at first belittled Moses’s attempt to deprive him of his slaves? The American people have demonstrated over and over again that by a substantial majority they recognize the quagmire that this Pharaoh is leading us into. Will we find our Moses to lead us out of the desert?
"Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth." (Numbers 12:3)
Barack Obama is no Moses, but only Moses was so this is not a cause for complaint. The American people are not, individually or collectively G-d, but there is only one G-d so this is not an expectation that we should have nor should we be disappointed by our status. But should Barack Obama and the American people learn something from the relationship between Moses and G-d that would be beneficial to the office of the President and to the American Public?
We learn that the characteristic most associated with Moses was his sense of humility. It was this sense of humility that made it possible for Moses to converse with G-d and transfer what he learned to the people, Israel, who were slaves in the land of Egypt. Moses knew where his greatness was coming from. He understood that all his talents were G-d-given gifts and not the result of his own talents or abilities. As a result of this special relationship Moses was one of the most transformative individuals in history. He led his people out of slavery, he led his people through the barren desert, with the help of G-d for forty years, and he led his people to the gates of, but not into, the Promised Land. Moses heard what G-d had to say, debated with G-d in support of his people, and, with the exception of his violation of G-d’s instruction regarding bringing water from the rock, heeded G-d’s wishes. Only when Moses displayed a loss of humility by publicly striking the rock with his rod notwithstanding the instruction by G-d to Moses that he merely to talk to the rock, that Moses fails the test of leadership and loses the privilege of leading the Hebrew children into their Land.
Since assuming the office of the Presidency Barack Obama has failed at virtually every turn to demonstrate the characteristic of humility that is the true sign of a great person and a great leader. Faced with overwhelming opposition from American public opinion he has used not the humility of Moses to debate and ultimately compromise with the American people but the power of Pharaoh, aided and abetted with his Potiphar team of Harry Reid and Nancy Pilosi to force his agenda down the throat of an unwilling population. With virtually every unbiased poll showing the majority of Americans in opposition to the President’s program he has barreled ahead in the belief that he knows better than the millions of Americans who have been activated and express their dismay at the direction of this administration. The ironic analogy is that Moses was a poor and stuttering speaker and reluctant in his early period to use his voice as a tool to transform the Hebrew slaves into a free nation. Barack Obama, on the other hand, uses a gift of speech not to channel our American dream for freedom but to override it and make our majority a slave to his personal causes.
By denying us our freedom Barack Obama does not fit into the mold of the humble Moses. Does he fit into the Mold of the arrogant Pharaoh who at first belittled Moses’s attempt to deprive him of his slaves? The American people have demonstrated over and over again that by a substantial majority they recognize the quagmire that this Pharaoh is leading us into. Will we find our Moses to lead us out of the desert?
The Emes #1
Illusory - Produced by, based on, or having the nature of an illusion; deceptive:
Illusory Contract - Many contracts include "satisfaction clauses", in which a promisor can refuse to pay if he isn't subjectively satisfied with the promisee's performance. Strictly speaking, this is an illusory promise, since the promisor has no actual legal burden to pay if he chooses not to.
Obamacare - An attempt to enter into an illusory Contract with the American people.
Most Americans are aware that Obamacare is an attempt to place more power in the hands of the Washington Power Elite at the expense of the citizens. Power, in the universal sense, is neither expanded or diminished. When one entity gains more power it can only be at the expense of another entity. No one can make a serious case for Obamacare not increasing the power of the government in reference to health care in the United States. If the maxim that power is neither expanded or diminished is accurate, and I suggest that it is, some entity is losing power at the expense of the Government's gain.
The clear and obvious conclusion is that we, the people, are surrendering our freedom of choice, our power to make our own decisions, if we permit the power hungry folks in Washington to increase theirs. Are we really ready to do this with health care? Have we fallen so far from our founding principles that we will meekly surrender the control over our own health care decisions? Are we ready to turn over 14% of the economy to Washington? If so what is next?
Face the truth. Those who favor Obamacare do so for only one of two reasons. The first possible reason is that you are Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi or B. Obama and will gain power at the expense of the people. Of course, since you know more and are smarter than the American people, that must be a good thing because the folks out there in our towns and cities don't know what is good for them as indicated by every meaningful poll. The second reason is more distressing. After all we can understand that human nature being what it is there will always be people seeking to gain power by any means but what about those who meekly surrender and give up their freedom for illusory security. To that second group of supporters of Obamacare - you should be ashamed of yourself. Not only do you support the loss of your own freedom but you want to take mine away as well. How dare you?
Do you think that this is the last power grab by this administration? This group thinks big. Let's not start with the small stuff and work our way up - lets make a grab for the big ones, health and energy - and if we can control those the small stuff will come easy. So folks be ready to continue to buy your cars from government owned companies, borrow your money from government owned banks, get health care, for what it may be worth, from government run hospitals and forget the American dream. Who do the bells of tyranny ring for - it rings for you.
Illusory Contract - Many contracts include "satisfaction clauses", in which a promisor can refuse to pay if he isn't subjectively satisfied with the promisee's performance. Strictly speaking, this is an illusory promise, since the promisor has no actual legal burden to pay if he chooses not to.
Obamacare - An attempt to enter into an illusory Contract with the American people.
Most Americans are aware that Obamacare is an attempt to place more power in the hands of the Washington Power Elite at the expense of the citizens. Power, in the universal sense, is neither expanded or diminished. When one entity gains more power it can only be at the expense of another entity. No one can make a serious case for Obamacare not increasing the power of the government in reference to health care in the United States. If the maxim that power is neither expanded or diminished is accurate, and I suggest that it is, some entity is losing power at the expense of the Government's gain.
The clear and obvious conclusion is that we, the people, are surrendering our freedom of choice, our power to make our own decisions, if we permit the power hungry folks in Washington to increase theirs. Are we really ready to do this with health care? Have we fallen so far from our founding principles that we will meekly surrender the control over our own health care decisions? Are we ready to turn over 14% of the economy to Washington? If so what is next?
Face the truth. Those who favor Obamacare do so for only one of two reasons. The first possible reason is that you are Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi or B. Obama and will gain power at the expense of the people. Of course, since you know more and are smarter than the American people, that must be a good thing because the folks out there in our towns and cities don't know what is good for them as indicated by every meaningful poll. The second reason is more distressing. After all we can understand that human nature being what it is there will always be people seeking to gain power by any means but what about those who meekly surrender and give up their freedom for illusory security. To that second group of supporters of Obamacare - you should be ashamed of yourself. Not only do you support the loss of your own freedom but you want to take mine away as well. How dare you?
Do you think that this is the last power grab by this administration? This group thinks big. Let's not start with the small stuff and work our way up - lets make a grab for the big ones, health and energy - and if we can control those the small stuff will come easy. So folks be ready to continue to buy your cars from government owned companies, borrow your money from government owned banks, get health care, for what it may be worth, from government run hospitals and forget the American dream. Who do the bells of tyranny ring for - it rings for you.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Theemis #4
IN TOUCH WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 1988 - George W. Bush, the first Bush President, was running for reelection. He was running against William Jefferson Clinton and, as usual for a Republican, against the mainstream media. During the campaign he visited a grocer's convention. While at the convention he expressed amazement at the technological advancements taking place in the industry with a specific comment on the ability to scan products at the register so that the price would be entered electronically into the register and did not have to be entered by hand. Despite the fact that the President was a regular visitor to small grocers in Kennebunkport, Maine, and ample evidence to demonstrate that he was well aware of the way that people shopped, the media went after him with a vengeance. In particular Andrew Rosenthal, a writer for the New York Times, not present at the time of the incident, wrote that this was a clear demonstration that the President was out of touch with the American Public. The story, and the implication, became the hot item of the campaign with the suggestion that President Bush, a Texan with Connecticut Yankee roots, was just out of touch with the American people. 22 years later Joe Biden visits a small custard shop in Milwaukee. In response to his question to the manager asking for the price of the custard he purchased the manager told him if you can cut our taxes the custard is free. Biden's response "Don't be a smart ass". How elegant, how in touch with the American Public, how ignored by the main stream media. If this were an isolated incident it could be marked up as just another slip of the tongue from the very slippery tongue of the Vice-President. The fact of the matter, however, is that this is not an isolated incident and is representative not only of the Vice-President's failure to be in touch with the American Public but is representative of the entire administration. From the failure of the Administration to have any concern for the overwhelming opposition of the American people to the outrageously expensive health care bill that we will have to live with and which our children will have to pay for to the opposition of the American people to the out of control spending by this Administration putting us into unsustainable debt to our adversaries in the world to the opposition of the American people to the Administration's failure to act in response to the illegal immigration crisis to the opposition of the Administration to respond to the American people's demand that all possible means, including accepting help from foreign sources, be used to stop the destruction of the Gulf region resulting from the BP oil spill this Administration has been so out of touch with the American people that one might think there is life on Mars and that is where Obama and company reside.
And I ask - where has the media, which chided George Bush over a phony issue having to do with operating grocery scanners, been in reference to its job to keep the public informed and to report the truth. The main stream media apparently has found a nice comfortable place on the planet Mars with the Administration. Here is to Washington coming down to Earth in November and regaining touch with all of us - The American people.
And I ask - where has the media, which chided George Bush over a phony issue having to do with operating grocery scanners, been in reference to its job to keep the public informed and to report the truth. The main stream media apparently has found a nice comfortable place on the planet Mars with the Administration. Here is to Washington coming down to Earth in November and regaining touch with all of us - The American people.
Theemis #2
The Emes #2
A popular, though perhaps unfair canard during the World War II era was that "Britain would fight to the last Frenchman". In view of the fact that Churchill and the Brits fought long after the French had succumbed to the Nazi war machine and turned on its own Jewish population I think it is reasonable to put this long held comment to rest. I think, however, that it is easily and accurately replaced with an accurate statement that the Obama Administration will appease to the last Israeli.
These so-called intellects who spent their time learning about everything with the exception of Western Civilization as they went through the liberal halls of our Ivy league and so-called elite institutions of higher education failed to learn the most basic principles o statehood and diplomacy. Bullies devour the weak. Bullies chew up the weak and spit them out. Obama, Biden and Clinton have demonstrated in the last few months, weeks and days their utter misunderstanding of how diplomacy works.
As these American pols attempt to negotiate away the sovereign rights of the State of Israel to a people and government that has never been and was created completely out of thin air as the puppet state of Arab and other Muslim extremists for the purpose of destroying any vestige of a Jewish presence in its historic and biblical homeland and take with it any hint of a free and democratic future for the mideast our blind leaders don't understand that Israel is the Canary in the mine.
If the Islamic fascists succeed, with the help and aid of the Obama administration in destroying the free Jewish State, the only true ally of the U.S. in the region, the only Country that shares common values and goals with the majority of the American nation (excluding those now in the seats of power) what comes next.
May I address your attention to one of the most important books written in the past ten years. Mark Styne's "America Alone" is a well researched and detailed description of the Islamization of Europe as those Europeans with traditional Judeo-Christian values fall sway to the old Zero Population Growth philosophy of failing to reproduce themselves in numbers and quickly turn themselves into a minority population in the nations that they have created.
It is not a difficult stretch, considering the freedom of worship that we see in Saudi Arabia and its fellow Islamic Dictatorships what comes next in Europe once the Islamic majority is in place. Do you know has happened to the Christian cities of Bethlehem and Nazarus? They aren't Christian cities any longer. The Christians have been forced out and they have become Islamic cities fled by Christians for their own safety. Is this the future for a Jerusalem as envisioned by Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. If they deny that this will be the end result of their interference with internal Israeli politics they are either lying or just plain dumb. You know, with the exception of Joe Biden, I don't think they are so dumb, just malicious.
So as goes the Arab Mideast and Israel as configured by Obama, et al so goes Europe. Where does that leave the United States? Isolated, that is where. As we continue to host the United Nations our sovereign status will be diminished because we certainly want to fit in with world opinion. And what will that mean to the civil liberties in the United States? To those of you who of a liberal or progressive political bent - do you support gay marriage. Forget about it because under the new world order homosexuality will be discouraged in what the spy novels call "in the extreme". Women's rights and equality - put on your burkas because that is the frame of mind that you support when you support the dilution of a free Israel by the threat of an ever expanding Palestinian control over Israel's natural and Bibilical borders resulting in the next diaspora. Elections - line up to vote in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, and Syria. Your vote will count as much.
Israel is only the test. As Israel goes, so goes Europe and so goes the United States. Ask yourself before you cast your next vote, which may become a less significant matter for your children, what kind of world do you want to live in. It is time to take off your blindfolds and fight for the future of your country in the way that we fight best - in the ballot box. This may be the only way that we can avoid the calamity that the world faces in appeasing the fascists that we now chat with - without conditions precedent.
Harvey Alford
A popular, though perhaps unfair canard during the World War II era was that "Britain would fight to the last Frenchman". In view of the fact that Churchill and the Brits fought long after the French had succumbed to the Nazi war machine and turned on its own Jewish population I think it is reasonable to put this long held comment to rest. I think, however, that it is easily and accurately replaced with an accurate statement that the Obama Administration will appease to the last Israeli.
These so-called intellects who spent their time learning about everything with the exception of Western Civilization as they went through the liberal halls of our Ivy league and so-called elite institutions of higher education failed to learn the most basic principles o statehood and diplomacy. Bullies devour the weak. Bullies chew up the weak and spit them out. Obama, Biden and Clinton have demonstrated in the last few months, weeks and days their utter misunderstanding of how diplomacy works.
As these American pols attempt to negotiate away the sovereign rights of the State of Israel to a people and government that has never been and was created completely out of thin air as the puppet state of Arab and other Muslim extremists for the purpose of destroying any vestige of a Jewish presence in its historic and biblical homeland and take with it any hint of a free and democratic future for the mideast our blind leaders don't understand that Israel is the Canary in the mine.
If the Islamic fascists succeed, with the help and aid of the Obama administration in destroying the free Jewish State, the only true ally of the U.S. in the region, the only Country that shares common values and goals with the majority of the American nation (excluding those now in the seats of power) what comes next.
May I address your attention to one of the most important books written in the past ten years. Mark Styne's "America Alone" is a well researched and detailed description of the Islamization of Europe as those Europeans with traditional Judeo-Christian values fall sway to the old Zero Population Growth philosophy of failing to reproduce themselves in numbers and quickly turn themselves into a minority population in the nations that they have created.
It is not a difficult stretch, considering the freedom of worship that we see in Saudi Arabia and its fellow Islamic Dictatorships what comes next in Europe once the Islamic majority is in place. Do you know has happened to the Christian cities of Bethlehem and Nazarus? They aren't Christian cities any longer. The Christians have been forced out and they have become Islamic cities fled by Christians for their own safety. Is this the future for a Jerusalem as envisioned by Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. If they deny that this will be the end result of their interference with internal Israeli politics they are either lying or just plain dumb. You know, with the exception of Joe Biden, I don't think they are so dumb, just malicious.
So as goes the Arab Mideast and Israel as configured by Obama, et al so goes Europe. Where does that leave the United States? Isolated, that is where. As we continue to host the United Nations our sovereign status will be diminished because we certainly want to fit in with world opinion. And what will that mean to the civil liberties in the United States? To those of you who of a liberal or progressive political bent - do you support gay marriage. Forget about it because under the new world order homosexuality will be discouraged in what the spy novels call "in the extreme". Women's rights and equality - put on your burkas because that is the frame of mind that you support when you support the dilution of a free Israel by the threat of an ever expanding Palestinian control over Israel's natural and Bibilical borders resulting in the next diaspora. Elections - line up to vote in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, and Syria. Your vote will count as much.
Israel is only the test. As Israel goes, so goes Europe and so goes the United States. Ask yourself before you cast your next vote, which may become a less significant matter for your children, what kind of world do you want to live in. It is time to take off your blindfolds and fight for the future of your country in the way that we fight best - in the ballot box. This may be the only way that we can avoid the calamity that the world faces in appeasing the fascists that we now chat with - without conditions precedent.
Harvey Alford
Theemis #3
AS GOES THE BALANCE OF POWER - SO GOES THE NATION. The founding Fathers knew about despotism first hand at the hand of King George and the British Parliament. They also knew that in order to avoid that fate in this new land there would have to be a balance of power among those who strive to control others or the power hungry, who from the beginning of recorded time managed to wrest freedom away from the individual, would manipulate the American experience and turn it into another text book case of a revolution gone sour. To avoid this result they developed a cross hatch of power sharing measures to prevent any one individual or group from obtaining a position of domination from which they could not be removed.
The first concept was one of a Federalist nation with a small "r" republican form of government in which the states would share power with the federal government. All powers not specifically granted to this new federal government was, in our Bill of Rights, specifically reserved to the states and the individuals therein. The second concept was that of balancing power between three coequal branches of government. The legislative branches of Congress were created to make the law, the Courts to interpret the law and the Executive to execute the laws only as created and interpreted by the Congress and the Courts.
So what has happened to this design created within our Constitution and Bill of Rights to create a perpetually free American Community of people? The whittling away of the balance of power has certainly been going on for years. Franklin Roosevelt attempted to pack the Supreme Court of the United States by increasing the number of justices, fill the new seats with his cronies, and render the Supreme Court a puppet in the hands of the Executive Branch. Often the reductions in the balance of power have been in the name of good causes, such as the Commerce Clause being expanded beyond recognition for the purpose of putting an end to the evils of segregation and the deprivation of civil rights to segments of our society. But the problem has been that once the evils, many actual and many perceived, were dealt with legislatively on the federal level under the Commerce Clause, the precedent had been set and the ideal of a republican form of government sharing power between the federal government and state governments was fatally ruptured.
The Statists, recognizing that the Constitutional guarantees could now be treated as subjective as opposed to objective guarantees set their sights on that other troublesome balance between the supposed coequal branches of government. Socialist author, George Orwell, wrote in "Animal Farm", his short satire about a farm taken from the farmer and run by the animals as a commune, that "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others". That appears to be the core belief of those who would continue to diminish the authority of the Congress and the Courts and enhance that of the Executive.
Now lets take a look at what has happened in this great Country in the last eighteen months. What has been the impact of the Health Care bill on the balance of power? As an incidental matter, to those who don't care about individual freedoms and the meaning of the Constitution, and having nothing to do with Health Care other than making a sham attempt to demonstrate that the plan will cost less than a trillion dollars, the student loan program was taken away from individual private banks and put in the hand of the federal government. If you want a student loan you no longer see your local banker you see your locally appointed government official. But that of course, to those who put no value on keeping power out of the hands of politicians, is just incidental. States capitals have been replaced by Washington, far away from most of us, as the place where decisions regarding health care will be made. What most people fail to realize is that the thousands of pages that constitute the Health Care bill represents only a fraction of the rules and regulations YET TO BE WRITTEN AND IMPLEMENTED by agencies appointed by the Executive Branch. In other words the law is not complete as written. Hundreds upon Hundreds of questions that the most astute readers of the law have posed cannot yet be answered because the regulations have not been written and the Congress has taken itself out of the regulation phase of this bill and handed it over to the Executive. This Congress has made a fallacy of the concept of Separation of Powers by groveling at the feet of the Executive and writing itself out of the decision making process to its peril and to the peril of all Americans. So as the use and abuse of the Commerce Clause created a precedent to write and enforce laws by the folks in Washington, that were never intended to be within Washington's power but specifically left to States and local communities, the act of Congress in handing over the real meat of the Health Care bill to the Executive Branch will create a precedent speeding up the process of creating a Royal Executive.
What about the demotion of our Court system. Just look at what has taken place as a result of the BP disaster. The idea created by this administration that no crisis should be wasted was never truer. This is not only a disaster for our ecology and economy, it has also been a disaster for our system of government. A test. Which coequal branch of government is responsible for overseeing the determination of liability for both negligent and intentional wrongdoings? Which coequal branch of government is responsible for overseeing the determination of the damages to be paid by individuals and businesses who cause loss to others as the result of their negligent or intentional acts. If you guessed that it is the Courts you used to be right.
Apparently we don't need the Courts for this purpose anymore since we now have an Executive Branch that will replace the Courts in determining liability, figuring out how much should be paid by the wrongdoer, and who should get how much. And who will hand out the money? It will not be judges with lifetime appointments to prevent them from being swayed by political considerations it will be the politicians themselves who have proven that every move that they make is swayed by political considerations. Political appointees will determine who has been naughty and who has been nice and hand out the Twenty Billion Dollars in candy as they determine. Congratulations United States of America, a financial Star Chamber has been created by your elected officials.
This Country is faced with a political class that is successfully diminishing the authority of the States, local communities, the individual, Congress and the Supreme Court. Liberals who have traditionally been concerned that States Rights is a code word for violation of civil rights will not have to worry any longer because there will be no states rights left. Conservatives who have traditionally been concerned about activist judges will not have to worry any longer because the judges will have nothing left to act upon.
AS GOES THE BALANCE OF POWER - SO GOES THE NATION. The founding Fathers knew about despotism first hand at the hand of King George and the British Parliament. They also knew that in order to avoid that fate in this new land there would have to be a balance of power among those who strive to control others or the power hungry, who from the beginning of recorded time managed to wrest freedom away from the individual, would manipulate the American experience and turn it into another text book case of a revolution gone sour. To avoid this result they developed a cross hatch of power sharing measures to prevent any one individual or group from obtaining a position of domination from which they could not be removed.
The first concept was one of a Federalist nation with a small "r" republican form of government in which the states would share power with the federal government. All powers not specifically granted to this new federal government was, in our Bill of Rights, specifically reserved to the states and the individuals therein. The second concept was that of balancing power between three coequal branches of government. The legislative branches of Congress were created to make the law, the Courts to interpret the law and the Executive to execute the laws only as created and interpreted by the Congress and the Courts.
So what has happened to this design created within our Constitution and Bill of Rights to create a perpetually free American Community of people? The whittling away of the balance of power has certainly been going on for years. Franklin Roosevelt attempted to pack the Supreme Court of the United States by increasing the number of justices, fill the new seats with his cronies, and render the Supreme Court a puppet in the hands of the Executive Branch. Often the reductions in the balance of power have been in the name of good causes, such as the Commerce Clause being expanded beyond recognition for the purpose of putting an end to the evils of segregation and the deprivation of civil rights to segments of our society. But the problem has been that once the evils, many actual and many perceived, were dealt with legislatively on the federal level under the Commerce Clause, the precedent had been set and the ideal of a republican form of government sharing power between the federal government and state governments was fatally ruptured.
The Statists, recognizing that the Constitutional guarantees could now be treated as subjective as opposed to objective guarantees set their sights on that other troublesome balance between the supposed coequal branches of government. Socialist author, George Orwell, wrote in "Animal Farm", his short satire about a farm taken from the farmer and run by the animals as a commune, that "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others". That appears to be the core belief of those who would continue to diminish the authority of the Congress and the Courts and enhance that of the Executive.
Now lets take a look at what has happened in this great Country in the last eighteen months. What has been the impact of the Health Care bill on the balance of power? As an incidental matter, to those who don't care about individual freedoms and the meaning of the Constitution, and having nothing to do with Health Care other than making a sham attempt to demonstrate that the plan will cost less than a trillion dollars, the student loan program was taken away from individual private banks and put in the hand of the federal government. If you want a student loan you no longer see your local banker you see your locally appointed government official. But that of course, to those who put no value on keeping power out of the hands of politicians, is just incidental. States capitals have been replaced by Washington, far away from most of us, as the place where decisions regarding health care will be made. What most people fail to realize is that the thousands of pages that constitute the Health Care bill represents only a fraction of the rules and regulations YET TO BE WRITTEN AND IMPLEMENTED by agencies appointed by the Executive Branch. In other words the law is not complete as written. Hundreds upon Hundreds of questions that the most astute readers of the law have posed cannot yet be answered because the regulations have not been written and the Congress has taken itself out of the regulation phase of this bill and handed it over to the Executive. This Congress has made a fallacy of the concept of Separation of Powers by groveling at the feet of the Executive and writing itself out of the decision making process to its peril and to the peril of all Americans. So as the use and abuse of the Commerce Clause created a precedent to write and enforce laws by the folks in Washington, that were never intended to be within Washington's power but specifically left to States and local communities, the act of Congress in handing over the real meat of the Health Care bill to the Executive Branch will create a precedent speeding up the process of creating a Royal Executive.
What about the demotion of our Court system. Just look at what has taken place as a result of the BP disaster. The idea created by this administration that no crisis should be wasted was never truer. This is not only a disaster for our ecology and economy, it has also been a disaster for our system of government. A test. Which coequal branch of government is responsible for overseeing the determination of liability for both negligent and intentional wrongdoings? Which coequal branch of government is responsible for overseeing the determination of the damages to be paid by individuals and businesses who cause loss to others as the result of their negligent or intentional acts. If you guessed that it is the Courts you used to be right.
Apparently we don't need the Courts for this purpose anymore since we now have an Executive Branch that will replace the Courts in determining liability, figuring out how much should be paid by the wrongdoer, and who should get how much. And who will hand out the money? It will not be judges with lifetime appointments to prevent them from being swayed by political considerations it will be the politicians themselves who have proven that every move that they make is swayed by political considerations. Political appointees will determine who has been naughty and who has been nice and hand out the Twenty Billion Dollars in candy as they determine. Congratulations United States of America, a financial Star Chamber has been created by your elected officials.
This Country is faced with a political class that is successfully diminishing the authority of the States, local communities, the individual, Congress and the Supreme Court. Liberals who have traditionally been concerned that States Rights is a code word for violation of civil rights will not have to worry any longer because there will be no states rights left. Conservatives who have traditionally been concerned about activist judges will not have to worry any longer because the judges will have nothing left to act upon.
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