According to a recent report from Jerome Corsi at World Net Daily, when one adds together all of our current debt obligations including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid we now have a total National Debt of $65.5 trillion. This is larger than the GDP of the entire world! That means that it would take the yearly output of every country in the world to equal the amount of our current debt.
Thomas Jefferson considered this kind of debt immoral:
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt…the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
How does it make sense then to spend over $800 billion in the Obama stimulus package? Why do Liberal politicians take it as an article of faith that going further into debt to spend more public money will somehow improve our economic condition? The answer can be found in Keynesian economic theory and the debt-based monetary system.
Everyone’s heard about the $50 billion Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernie Madoff. This was a scam where Madoff lured investors with the payment of huge returns that were financed, not by profits, buy by money received from new investors. The idea is that each investor can make a significant return as long as more suckers are found to feed the system before it dies from its own inevitable decline. On the front end, investors reap exponential rewards but only as long as they can enlist a perpetual, exponential number of new players!
Our Social Security system is configured in this same unsustainable manner as well. In the beginning, there were 16 workers contributing for every one recipient. Today, there are only three.
FDR’s New Deal was supported by the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes. The basic thrust of this school of thought contends that government-based deficit spending is a stimulus for the economy. Jobs and wealth are supposedly created when governments go into debt to spend taxpayers money on politically-favorable projects, aka pork. However, it was FDR’s own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, who testified to its failure. In May 1939, before the House Ways and Means Committee Morgenthau stated, “after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started, [17%], and an enormous debt to boot."
The second component to our problem is our debt-based monetary system. Every dollar that is issued, or that is in circulation, represents one dollar of indebtedness plus interest owed. In other words, at any given time, there is always more debt than actual money in existence. For example: if I loan you a dollar today at interest and there’s no other source of money- you could, conceivably, pay back the dollar of principle but where do you obtain the additional interest?
The secret is to stretch out the repayment schedule so you can acquire the additional amount from others in the economy who are also operating on borrowed dollars. So you see, at any point in time it would be impossible to retire all debts. There’s always more debt than currency. The trickery is further disguised by what is known as the fractional reserve banking.
All banks are insolvent. At any given time all depositors could go to their bank, demand their deposits, and the bank would have to close. Why? Because our Federal Reserve Banking System allows banks to count deposits as both assets and liabilities. The same money can be used as an asset to leverage loans while also being a liability owed to the depositor. Keeping one-tenth of the money in reserve is the fractional system. It is inflationary and usurious by design and the real reason why we need such massive taxes. The tax collections serve to siphon-off excess currency.
Until we get free of our debt-based monetary system, fractional reserve banking and the Keynesian model of perpetual debt through New Deal ventures like the current stimulus, we’ll never break free. We have approached the time of reckoning where the Ponzi scheme begins to fail. If we don’t reclaim our sovereignty and property rights soon, all of America will be in receivership!
Thomas Jefferson also warned, “if the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” (send comments to WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757)
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
George Soros and President Obama
Money is the mother’s milk of politics. In the case of President Obama, that dairy trail leads directly to one man- George Soros.
Soros is the 28th richest man in America. He is a hedge fund manager who is the single, largest investor in Obama. Soros gave $3.65 million to Democrats in 2008, but his track record involves much, much more.
“The man who broke the Bank of England” and who got convicted of insider trading in France, helped create the extremist organization MoveOn.org. This organization of 4.5 million far-Left activists gave over $88 million to Obama’s campaign.
Soros spent over $20 million in 2004 trying to defeat Bush, calling it “the central focus of my life, a matter of life and death.” “America under Bush,” Soros declared, “is a danger to the world, and I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is.” Would that kind of political fanaticism motivate this hedge fund crook to go as far as wrecking the American economy in order to get his way?
One must remember that McCain was leading in the polls before the announcement of the economic Bailout. President Bush, following the advice of Treasury Sect. Henry Paulson, advocated the $700 billion plan. The purpose was to mitigate the toxic “subprime” loans clogging-up the credit markets and jeopardizing Wall Street.
Paulson proved not to be a dependable choice for Treasury Sect. Bush likely appointed him only because he could easily pass Democrat confirmation. Truth is: much of Bush’s second term could be characterized as expending political capital in order to maintain support for the Iraq War.
It may come as a shock to many, but Paulson is a Democrat and had previously worked for Goldman Sachs, a very Democrat-leaning investment firm. Seventy-three percent of Goldman’s 2008 campaign contributions, (nearly $4 million), went to Democrats. Obama’s number one financial “bundler” was Goldman Sachs! So, it’s safe to say that Paulson is not exactly a friend to Republican policies.
In the crisis of September, Paulson acquired virtual dictatorial powers with the TARP money that, curiously, also included authorization to bail out banks in China! This is particularly interesting given the fact that Goldman Sachs has been the leading underwriter of Chinese equity services as well as a chief adviser for Chinese mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, Chinese financial institutions own more than $30 billion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac paper!
Even more suspicious is Sect. Paulson’s effort in 2006 to create a new U.S./China economic arrangement while owning a $25 million Goldman Sachs’ investment in the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
Back in September, President Bush announced the SEC would be stepping up enforcement action “against illegal market manipulation.” The SEC (Security and Exchange Commission) issued a statement indicating their intention to require disclosure regarding short selling, fraud and market manipulation. Hearings were proposed where: “hedge fund managers, brokerage dealers and institutional investors with significant trading activity in financial issues or positions in Credit Default Swaps, (CDS) [would] be required, under oath, to disclose those positions to the Commission.”
These Credit Default Swaps played a huge role in the financial collapse. Lehman Brothers was the seventh largest ‘counterparty’ in the CDS market, underwriting billions of dollars of debt-financed contracts. When they defaulted, the resulting exposure sent shock waves throughout the $62 trillion global, CDS market. Consequently, this large-scale leveraging of derivatives had disintegrated into a large-scale de-leveraging.
Hedge funds like these, especially with the “mark to market” rule, give investors like George Soros an unfair opportunity to manipulate values for private gain. In 2005, Soros fought the SEC’s proposal to impose more regulations on hedge fund managers!
Democrats have a lot of interesting ties to hedge funds. Chelsea Clinton works for Avenue Capital Group. Joe Biden’s son Hunter is president of Paradigm Companies and is currently involved in a fraud scandal. Former presidential candidate John Edwards works for a hedge fund that was a major player in subprime mortgages.
So, what does George Soros want? His Open Society Institute advocates a variety of New Age-type programs with operations in 60 countries. Soros strongly supports the legalization of drugs, but his chief aim is to end American supremacy. He wants to strengthen global institutions like the International Criminal Court (ICC), so as to usher in a World Government.
Vice President Biden has expressed agreement with these goals in a Wall Street Journal article entitled, “How I Learned to Love the New World Order.” George Soros, not so coincidently, wrote a book in 1993 called, “Toward a New World Order.” In time, I believe we’ll all discover: this political milk is sour. (send comments to: WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to P.O.B. 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757)
Soros is the 28th richest man in America. He is a hedge fund manager who is the single, largest investor in Obama. Soros gave $3.65 million to Democrats in 2008, but his track record involves much, much more.
“The man who broke the Bank of England” and who got convicted of insider trading in France, helped create the extremist organization MoveOn.org. This organization of 4.5 million far-Left activists gave over $88 million to Obama’s campaign.
Soros spent over $20 million in 2004 trying to defeat Bush, calling it “the central focus of my life, a matter of life and death.” “America under Bush,” Soros declared, “is a danger to the world, and I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is.” Would that kind of political fanaticism motivate this hedge fund crook to go as far as wrecking the American economy in order to get his way?
One must remember that McCain was leading in the polls before the announcement of the economic Bailout. President Bush, following the advice of Treasury Sect. Henry Paulson, advocated the $700 billion plan. The purpose was to mitigate the toxic “subprime” loans clogging-up the credit markets and jeopardizing Wall Street.
Paulson proved not to be a dependable choice for Treasury Sect. Bush likely appointed him only because he could easily pass Democrat confirmation. Truth is: much of Bush’s second term could be characterized as expending political capital in order to maintain support for the Iraq War.
It may come as a shock to many, but Paulson is a Democrat and had previously worked for Goldman Sachs, a very Democrat-leaning investment firm. Seventy-three percent of Goldman’s 2008 campaign contributions, (nearly $4 million), went to Democrats. Obama’s number one financial “bundler” was Goldman Sachs! So, it’s safe to say that Paulson is not exactly a friend to Republican policies.
In the crisis of September, Paulson acquired virtual dictatorial powers with the TARP money that, curiously, also included authorization to bail out banks in China! This is particularly interesting given the fact that Goldman Sachs has been the leading underwriter of Chinese equity services as well as a chief adviser for Chinese mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, Chinese financial institutions own more than $30 billion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac paper!
Even more suspicious is Sect. Paulson’s effort in 2006 to create a new U.S./China economic arrangement while owning a $25 million Goldman Sachs’ investment in the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
Back in September, President Bush announced the SEC would be stepping up enforcement action “against illegal market manipulation.” The SEC (Security and Exchange Commission) issued a statement indicating their intention to require disclosure regarding short selling, fraud and market manipulation. Hearings were proposed where: “hedge fund managers, brokerage dealers and institutional investors with significant trading activity in financial issues or positions in Credit Default Swaps, (CDS) [would] be required, under oath, to disclose those positions to the Commission.”
These Credit Default Swaps played a huge role in the financial collapse. Lehman Brothers was the seventh largest ‘counterparty’ in the CDS market, underwriting billions of dollars of debt-financed contracts. When they defaulted, the resulting exposure sent shock waves throughout the $62 trillion global, CDS market. Consequently, this large-scale leveraging of derivatives had disintegrated into a large-scale de-leveraging.
Hedge funds like these, especially with the “mark to market” rule, give investors like George Soros an unfair opportunity to manipulate values for private gain. In 2005, Soros fought the SEC’s proposal to impose more regulations on hedge fund managers!
Democrats have a lot of interesting ties to hedge funds. Chelsea Clinton works for Avenue Capital Group. Joe Biden’s son Hunter is president of Paradigm Companies and is currently involved in a fraud scandal. Former presidential candidate John Edwards works for a hedge fund that was a major player in subprime mortgages.
So, what does George Soros want? His Open Society Institute advocates a variety of New Age-type programs with operations in 60 countries. Soros strongly supports the legalization of drugs, but his chief aim is to end American supremacy. He wants to strengthen global institutions like the International Criminal Court (ICC), so as to usher in a World Government.
Vice President Biden has expressed agreement with these goals in a Wall Street Journal article entitled, “How I Learned to Love the New World Order.” George Soros, not so coincidently, wrote a book in 1993 called, “Toward a New World Order.” In time, I believe we’ll all discover: this political milk is sour. (send comments to: WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to P.O.B. 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757)
Friday, January 23, 2009
Roll Over Abe Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln must be rolling over in his grave. A government of the people, by the people and for the people with an emphasis on freedom is not what President Obama represents. To say the inauguration was ‘over the top’ in all of its hype, symbolism and Lincoln references is as understated as saying Garth Brooks loves the spotlight. This was nauseating!
Lincoln said, “you can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” This is why Obama will fail.
A majority of Americans are Conservative. It just so happens a good portion of them got bamboozled into voting for Obama while another sizable group stayed home out of disgust for moderate McCain. That’s how Obama won.
Lincoln understood the Constitution as an expression of the sovereignty of the people, not a suicide pact for exploitation. When the South seceded, Lincoln saw it as an unconstitutional infringement upon the people. The people had formed the Union, not the states, so they were being oppressed by the Confederate rebellion. Lincoln sought to save the Union, under the Constitution, thereby preserving the rights of the people. His Gettysburg Address defends this great theme. Europeans, and others, were still very distrustful of representative democracies where authority was vested in the people. They believed authority must come from some central figure like a King, Pope or Master in order to be legitimate.
Like the Europeans, President Obama is compelled, by his Liberal ideology, to distrust the people and to doubt the benevolence of freedom. His governing philosophy is no secret. He compiled the number one most Liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate. What does this mean?
Obama distrusts people and freedom. To do as you please with your own private property in the marketplace is a threat to elitists like Obama. As a Liberal, Obama is blind to freedom because his philosophy respects groups not individuals. Furthermore, he sees America as the enemy causing all of the world’s problems. He recognizes Christians and orthodox Jews as impediments to global peace. He vows to “share the wealth” through global schemes of wealth redistribution that undermine our Constitutional sovereignty. And, he sees America’s use of energy as an offense to the world that must be stopped no matter the cost.
Lincoln was for the common man. He said the Lord must love common folk because he made so many of them! Unlike Obama, Lincoln wasn’t praised by the media of his day. They called him the Original Gorilla, a Monster, and a Tyrant unfit for office. Obama, on the other hand, is treated like an American Idol capable of producing thrills up the legs of news anchors. Symbolism is all that matters, there’s nothing of substance. Well, nothing he can be honest about! Obama’s task is impossible. He must somehow maintain his superficial popularity while pursuing unpopular goals. A majority of Americans disagree profoundly with Obama on a whole range of substantive issues, so this great divide is sure to be exposed.
Americans don’t want defeatism, appeasement and multilateralism in foreign policy. They don’t want higher taxes and the chains of socialized medicine. Americans won’t go along with Global Warming dictates that demand a decrease in their standard of living. They don’t want homosexual marriage, unrestricted abortions, gun control, the Fairness Doctrine, ACLU ascendancy and liberal judges. Americans want “Right to Work” states not a return to union superiority via “Card Check.” They want better schools not higher taxes to fund failing ones. Americans oppose open borders and will not put up with more benefits going to increasing numbers of illegal aliens. They want to get the bad guys in the War on Terror, ala Jack Bauer, and not be put at a disadvantage by the constraints of domestic law enforcement.
Obama is facing a Lincoln-size complexity of issues, but his heart is not Lincoln’s heart. Lincoln fought tenaciously for an independent America, free from the old colonial ties exploited by the British in the South. Conversely, Obama wants to put America onto a global plantation where we get a small cabin at the UN in the slave quarters next to Zimbabwe. Socialism, after all, is very similar to plantation slavery: free healthcare, food, clothing, housing in exchange for your labor and total subservience. You have cradle to grave benefits, but you can never be free to do what you want as God intended. Your soul is captured and caged all in the “sacred” name of the collective good. That ain’t America and that ain’t Lincoln. Excuse me while I barf. (send comments to WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757).
Lincoln said, “you can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” This is why Obama will fail.
A majority of Americans are Conservative. It just so happens a good portion of them got bamboozled into voting for Obama while another sizable group stayed home out of disgust for moderate McCain. That’s how Obama won.
Lincoln understood the Constitution as an expression of the sovereignty of the people, not a suicide pact for exploitation. When the South seceded, Lincoln saw it as an unconstitutional infringement upon the people. The people had formed the Union, not the states, so they were being oppressed by the Confederate rebellion. Lincoln sought to save the Union, under the Constitution, thereby preserving the rights of the people. His Gettysburg Address defends this great theme. Europeans, and others, were still very distrustful of representative democracies where authority was vested in the people. They believed authority must come from some central figure like a King, Pope or Master in order to be legitimate.
Like the Europeans, President Obama is compelled, by his Liberal ideology, to distrust the people and to doubt the benevolence of freedom. His governing philosophy is no secret. He compiled the number one most Liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate. What does this mean?
Obama distrusts people and freedom. To do as you please with your own private property in the marketplace is a threat to elitists like Obama. As a Liberal, Obama is blind to freedom because his philosophy respects groups not individuals. Furthermore, he sees America as the enemy causing all of the world’s problems. He recognizes Christians and orthodox Jews as impediments to global peace. He vows to “share the wealth” through global schemes of wealth redistribution that undermine our Constitutional sovereignty. And, he sees America’s use of energy as an offense to the world that must be stopped no matter the cost.
Lincoln was for the common man. He said the Lord must love common folk because he made so many of them! Unlike Obama, Lincoln wasn’t praised by the media of his day. They called him the Original Gorilla, a Monster, and a Tyrant unfit for office. Obama, on the other hand, is treated like an American Idol capable of producing thrills up the legs of news anchors. Symbolism is all that matters, there’s nothing of substance. Well, nothing he can be honest about! Obama’s task is impossible. He must somehow maintain his superficial popularity while pursuing unpopular goals. A majority of Americans disagree profoundly with Obama on a whole range of substantive issues, so this great divide is sure to be exposed.
Americans don’t want defeatism, appeasement and multilateralism in foreign policy. They don’t want higher taxes and the chains of socialized medicine. Americans won’t go along with Global Warming dictates that demand a decrease in their standard of living. They don’t want homosexual marriage, unrestricted abortions, gun control, the Fairness Doctrine, ACLU ascendancy and liberal judges. Americans want “Right to Work” states not a return to union superiority via “Card Check.” They want better schools not higher taxes to fund failing ones. Americans oppose open borders and will not put up with more benefits going to increasing numbers of illegal aliens. They want to get the bad guys in the War on Terror, ala Jack Bauer, and not be put at a disadvantage by the constraints of domestic law enforcement.
Obama is facing a Lincoln-size complexity of issues, but his heart is not Lincoln’s heart. Lincoln fought tenaciously for an independent America, free from the old colonial ties exploited by the British in the South. Conversely, Obama wants to put America onto a global plantation where we get a small cabin at the UN in the slave quarters next to Zimbabwe. Socialism, after all, is very similar to plantation slavery: free healthcare, food, clothing, housing in exchange for your labor and total subservience. You have cradle to grave benefits, but you can never be free to do what you want as God intended. Your soul is captured and caged all in the “sacred” name of the collective good. That ain’t America and that ain’t Lincoln. Excuse me while I barf. (send comments to WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757).
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
America’s Grassroots Republic
Last week a true American hero passed away. Juanita Hill Baird, of Jacksboro, TN, was the quintessential American. Her decades long activism in Republican politics exemplified the best of what Benjamin Franklin could have ever hoped for.
When Franklin left Independence Hall on Sept. 17, 1787, at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, a woman asked him, “what kind of government have you given us, Dr. Franklin?” He replied, “a republic if you can keep it.”
Implicit in that statement is the core foundation for our American system of government. Franklin knew that the Convention had placed all of its trust in the conscience of American citizens who would have the responsibility for proper administration and maintenance.
Juanita Baird accepted that responsibility with the gusto of a Paul Revere or Betsy Ross. She volunteered wholeheartedly and worked tirelessly in a variety of civic roles. She served 28 years on the Tennessee Republican Executive Committee and was District Treasurer for the Tennessee Republican Women’s group. In all things, she was found to be eminently trustworthy.
Locally, Mrs. Baird was the backbone of the Republican Party serving as president of the Campbell County Republican Women’s Club for several terms. In 1985, she was named the Tennessee Republican Woman of the Year. Mrs. Baird was profoundly respected for her integrity, her passion and her optimism that never failed. She kept the flames burning for 93 years, and left a legacy that will endure in the charmed memory of her many friends.
America is perhaps the only country in the world with a governing foundation that requires and anticipates such heroes as Juanita Baird. The “Spirit of 76” was truly a revolutionary idea unlike any other. Modern Americans seem to have forgotten that.
According to Constitutional scholar Earl Taylor, Jr., “the question of independence hung precariously on the single, slender thread of whether or not the people were sufficiently ‘virtuous and moral’ to govern themselves. Self-government was generally referred to as ‘republicanism,’ and it was universally acknowledged that a corrupt and selfish people could never make the principles of republicanism operate successfully.”
Franklin agreed, saying, “only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
James Madison defined our Republic as “a government that derives all of its powers from the great body of the people [and] not from an inconsiderable proportion or favored class of…tyrannical nobles.”
America represented a totally new type of republic. The Founders rejected the two most familiar brands, (parliamentary and confederate), because of their inherent flaws. The legislative supremacy of parliaments had proved to be just as tyrannical as monarchy, and the state supremacy of the Articles of Confederation proved to be too weak during the Revolutionary War. The Founders, therefore, avoided both kinds in favor of a new republic built upon two ideas: power would be invested in the people, and the people would exercise their power through elected representatives chosen by each state.
The concern at the Convention was whether the people were capable of exercising the serious and sacred responsibility of self-rule. Thomas Jefferson’s answer to this quandary was to bind public officials under the restraints of a written constitution. “In questions of power,” Jefferson said, “let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
According to Taylor, “only under a Constitutional Republic do the people enjoy the full right of self-rule. The privilege of self-rule has not been had by many people throughout the entire history of the world. Americans must consider themselves especially blessed people.”
It’s important to note that we have a Constitutional Republic and not a democracy. James Madison, “the Father of the Constitution” warned, “democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
Grassroot-patriots like Juanita Baird, all across our country, represent the true constitution of our government. By their faithful vigilance, they serve as the guarantors of America’s promise of liberty and justice for all.
“It is in the political area,” Taylor contends, “where we vote for God’s plan of freedom or Satan’s plan of slavery where we indicate whether we belong with the just or the unjust, and whether we are able to overcome the disposition to abuse authority.”
May God grant us more heroes like Juanita Baird to fortify the ongoing work of keeping America on the right track! (send comments to WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757).
When Franklin left Independence Hall on Sept. 17, 1787, at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, a woman asked him, “what kind of government have you given us, Dr. Franklin?” He replied, “a republic if you can keep it.”
Implicit in that statement is the core foundation for our American system of government. Franklin knew that the Convention had placed all of its trust in the conscience of American citizens who would have the responsibility for proper administration and maintenance.
Juanita Baird accepted that responsibility with the gusto of a Paul Revere or Betsy Ross. She volunteered wholeheartedly and worked tirelessly in a variety of civic roles. She served 28 years on the Tennessee Republican Executive Committee and was District Treasurer for the Tennessee Republican Women’s group. In all things, she was found to be eminently trustworthy.
Locally, Mrs. Baird was the backbone of the Republican Party serving as president of the Campbell County Republican Women’s Club for several terms. In 1985, she was named the Tennessee Republican Woman of the Year. Mrs. Baird was profoundly respected for her integrity, her passion and her optimism that never failed. She kept the flames burning for 93 years, and left a legacy that will endure in the charmed memory of her many friends.
America is perhaps the only country in the world with a governing foundation that requires and anticipates such heroes as Juanita Baird. The “Spirit of 76” was truly a revolutionary idea unlike any other. Modern Americans seem to have forgotten that.
According to Constitutional scholar Earl Taylor, Jr., “the question of independence hung precariously on the single, slender thread of whether or not the people were sufficiently ‘virtuous and moral’ to govern themselves. Self-government was generally referred to as ‘republicanism,’ and it was universally acknowledged that a corrupt and selfish people could never make the principles of republicanism operate successfully.”
Franklin agreed, saying, “only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
James Madison defined our Republic as “a government that derives all of its powers from the great body of the people [and] not from an inconsiderable proportion or favored class of…tyrannical nobles.”
America represented a totally new type of republic. The Founders rejected the two most familiar brands, (parliamentary and confederate), because of their inherent flaws. The legislative supremacy of parliaments had proved to be just as tyrannical as monarchy, and the state supremacy of the Articles of Confederation proved to be too weak during the Revolutionary War. The Founders, therefore, avoided both kinds in favor of a new republic built upon two ideas: power would be invested in the people, and the people would exercise their power through elected representatives chosen by each state.
The concern at the Convention was whether the people were capable of exercising the serious and sacred responsibility of self-rule. Thomas Jefferson’s answer to this quandary was to bind public officials under the restraints of a written constitution. “In questions of power,” Jefferson said, “let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
According to Taylor, “only under a Constitutional Republic do the people enjoy the full right of self-rule. The privilege of self-rule has not been had by many people throughout the entire history of the world. Americans must consider themselves especially blessed people.”
It’s important to note that we have a Constitutional Republic and not a democracy. James Madison, “the Father of the Constitution” warned, “democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
Grassroot-patriots like Juanita Baird, all across our country, represent the true constitution of our government. By their faithful vigilance, they serve as the guarantors of America’s promise of liberty and justice for all.
“It is in the political area,” Taylor contends, “where we vote for God’s plan of freedom or Satan’s plan of slavery where we indicate whether we belong with the just or the unjust, and whether we are able to overcome the disposition to abuse authority.”
May God grant us more heroes like Juanita Baird to fortify the ongoing work of keeping America on the right track! (send comments to WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757).
Monday, December 29, 2008
Power Shift for Israel
There’s an old saying in politics- Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line. This is really instructive given what’s going on now in Israel.
At the time of this writing, Israel is engaged in a full assault on Gaza. They are bombing enemy targets and planning a ground invasion of 10,000 troops in the coming days. Thousands of soldiers are being called-up for the campaign. It’s the worst fighting since 1948, when Israel first became a nation.
International leaders are calling for a return to the cease fire that had been in place over the last six months. Of course, Hamas has not been honoring that agreement. They have launched thousands of rockets into Israel throughout 2008, and have been increasing their attacks since mid-December. Now they have declared a third Intifada. It seems, only when Israel responds in self-defense do we see the world call for a truce! Should this new counter-offensive come as a surprise? Not if you’ve been paying attention.
Republicans rallied around their candidate this year begrudgingly. McCain was not the idealistic candidate for Conservative principles, but then again, Conservatives are not overly idealistic. They go into elections with both eyes open and vote pragmatically for the lesser of two evils.
Democrats, on the other hand, “fall in love.” Unfortunately, love is often blind. There’s nothing wrong with imagining a better future, but “hope” and “change” without specifics doesn’t make for good, practical policy in an evil world.
Jesse Jackson said the most important “change” we would see from Obama is in the Middle East. Obama’s church embraced the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, made “diplomatic trips” to Qaddafi’s Libya and printed Hamas propaganda in their church bulletins! Leaders in Iran praised and endorsed Obama while Israel clearly preferred McCain in all of their polls. But, if you’re in love with your candidate and you have a fawning media,
it’s easy to get confused.
Samantha Power has been an advisor to Obama since 2005. She left the campaign last March after calling Hillary a “monster.” Despite that credential in her favor, she represents a “change” in the wrong direction for America’s foreign policy. A couple of weeks ago she was brought back to join Obama’s transition team. She will be advising Obama on appointments and strategic policy. Power’s views, if implemented, would mark the first time America has turned its back on Israel. This is something very serious for those who believe in the biblical admonition regarding the treatment of God’s “chosen” nation. There have been numerous times over the years where America’s vote in the UN was the only thing preventing the world from ganging-up on Israel.
Power, unbelievably, has expressed doubts about Iran’s nuclear threat. In addition, she conveniently ignores Iran’s stated policy of genocide towards
Israel. “Wiping Israel off the map” and declaring Israel a “rotting corpse” are not serious threats in Power’s view. She believes the U.S. should send forces to the Middle East, not to protect Israel, but to impose a settlement favorable to the Palestinians currently governed by Hamas terrorists. She also supports giving billions in aid to bolster the Palestinian military. Her advocacy, known as the Walt-Mearsheimer view, discounts Israel’s own security assessments.
Power has referred to the “long-standing structural and conceptual problems in U.S. foreign policy” as being too unilateral and too dependent upon the Israel lobby. Similar to the opinions of George Soros and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, Power believes Israel is guilty of war crimes. Sound familiar? It should. The same language has been used by the Left to condemn the war in Iraq. Power believes that it was the Israel lobby that provoked us into that war. Thus, all geopolitical sins reduce to a simplistic, anti-Semitic foundation for Power and company.
The Bush administration issued a statement declaring Hamas the villain in this latest round of violence. The policy wonks soon to take office with Obama, however, take a contradictory view!
Could this have been predicted? Yes. Israel is naturally acting in her best interest of self-preservation. It is clear, the geopolitical landscape will be shifting with Obama and Israel is taking precautions now to prepare for the worst. Those who view the world with a rational expectation of human frailties understand it. Those who naively believe in fairy tales of utopian fantasies, never will. Too bad we have to live now with the consequences of the latter. (Send comments to WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757)
At the time of this writing, Israel is engaged in a full assault on Gaza. They are bombing enemy targets and planning a ground invasion of 10,000 troops in the coming days. Thousands of soldiers are being called-up for the campaign. It’s the worst fighting since 1948, when Israel first became a nation.
International leaders are calling for a return to the cease fire that had been in place over the last six months. Of course, Hamas has not been honoring that agreement. They have launched thousands of rockets into Israel throughout 2008, and have been increasing their attacks since mid-December. Now they have declared a third Intifada. It seems, only when Israel responds in self-defense do we see the world call for a truce! Should this new counter-offensive come as a surprise? Not if you’ve been paying attention.
Republicans rallied around their candidate this year begrudgingly. McCain was not the idealistic candidate for Conservative principles, but then again, Conservatives are not overly idealistic. They go into elections with both eyes open and vote pragmatically for the lesser of two evils.
Democrats, on the other hand, “fall in love.” Unfortunately, love is often blind. There’s nothing wrong with imagining a better future, but “hope” and “change” without specifics doesn’t make for good, practical policy in an evil world.
Jesse Jackson said the most important “change” we would see from Obama is in the Middle East. Obama’s church embraced the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, made “diplomatic trips” to Qaddafi’s Libya and printed Hamas propaganda in their church bulletins! Leaders in Iran praised and endorsed Obama while Israel clearly preferred McCain in all of their polls. But, if you’re in love with your candidate and you have a fawning media,
it’s easy to get confused.
Samantha Power has been an advisor to Obama since 2005. She left the campaign last March after calling Hillary a “monster.” Despite that credential in her favor, she represents a “change” in the wrong direction for America’s foreign policy. A couple of weeks ago she was brought back to join Obama’s transition team. She will be advising Obama on appointments and strategic policy. Power’s views, if implemented, would mark the first time America has turned its back on Israel. This is something very serious for those who believe in the biblical admonition regarding the treatment of God’s “chosen” nation. There have been numerous times over the years where America’s vote in the UN was the only thing preventing the world from ganging-up on Israel.
Power, unbelievably, has expressed doubts about Iran’s nuclear threat. In addition, she conveniently ignores Iran’s stated policy of genocide towards
Israel. “Wiping Israel off the map” and declaring Israel a “rotting corpse” are not serious threats in Power’s view. She believes the U.S. should send forces to the Middle East, not to protect Israel, but to impose a settlement favorable to the Palestinians currently governed by Hamas terrorists. She also supports giving billions in aid to bolster the Palestinian military. Her advocacy, known as the Walt-Mearsheimer view, discounts Israel’s own security assessments.
Power has referred to the “long-standing structural and conceptual problems in U.S. foreign policy” as being too unilateral and too dependent upon the Israel lobby. Similar to the opinions of George Soros and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, Power believes Israel is guilty of war crimes. Sound familiar? It should. The same language has been used by the Left to condemn the war in Iraq. Power believes that it was the Israel lobby that provoked us into that war. Thus, all geopolitical sins reduce to a simplistic, anti-Semitic foundation for Power and company.
The Bush administration issued a statement declaring Hamas the villain in this latest round of violence. The policy wonks soon to take office with Obama, however, take a contradictory view!
Could this have been predicted? Yes. Israel is naturally acting in her best interest of self-preservation. It is clear, the geopolitical landscape will be shifting with Obama and Israel is taking precautions now to prepare for the worst. Those who view the world with a rational expectation of human frailties understand it. Those who naively believe in fairy tales of utopian fantasies, never will. Too bad we have to live now with the consequences of the latter. (Send comments to WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757)
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Twas The Night Before Christmas in Iraq
Back in 1882, Clement Clarke Moore, wrote the famous poem, The Night Before Christmas. Throughout the years, it has become a tradition in many families to read the poem every Christmas season along with watching Christmas Vacation and It’s a Wonderful Life.
Last year, I received another poem from a dear friend, referred to as a Different Christmas Poem whose author is unknown. This poem described a dream that a gentleman had regarding a soldier standing guard outside his home on a snowy night on Christmas Eve.
The poems had me contemplating about our brave men and women in uniform in Iraq and wondering what they will be doing on Christmas Eve. What will their spouses and children be doing that night while their loved ones are so far away?
How does it feel to be 5,000 miles from home sacrificing everything for a country whose Congressional leaders do not support your mission and call you invaders and murderers?
With boots on the ground in Iraq, liberal leaders, like Sen. Harry Reid, Democrat-Nevada, have provided propaganda to Al-Qaeda by saying, “The war is lost.” Rep. John Murtha, Democrat-Pennsylvania, emboldened our enemies by saying, “U.S. Marines killed innocent civilians in cold blood.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat-California, demoralized our troops by calling the war, “A grotesque mistake.” Senator and President-elect Obama said our troops are “air raiding villages and killing civilians.”
Thanks for the support and, by the way, have you heard? The surge worked. London’s Sunday Times called it ‘the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.’
Our country has never invaded another country to rule it, only to free it. On Normandy Beach in 2002, President Bush noted that since the U.S. Civil War in the 1860's, "our nation's battles have all been far from home. In all those victories, American soldiers came to liberate, not to conquer. The only land we claim as our own are the resting places of our men and women."
So, this year, while I was putting my ACLU and global warming ornaments on my “holiday” tree, I came up with another poem regarding our soldiers who are truly the best of the best. It consolidates parts of both poems to make them pertinent to the present-day crisis our armed forces, which are in harm’s way, face everyday and I named it, Twas The Night Before Christmas in Iraq:
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through my home, not a sound could I hear, not even the phone.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
I flipped on the TV and saw a soldier standing there.
It was a young man, perhaps a Marine, with a desert in the background, it was a lonely scene.
And I thought, ‘He’s so far from home and should be on leave, He should be here with his family on Christmas Eve.’
Then the soldier said, “It’s really all right,
I’m over here by choice; I’m here every night.
It’s my duty to stand, at the front of the line,
That separates all of you, from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask, or beg or implore me,
I’m proud to stand here, like my fathers before me.
Grandpa died at Pearl Harbor one December, then he said, “That’s a Christmas, Grandma always remembers.”
“My dad stood his watch, in the jungles of Nam,
And now it’s my turn, and so here I am.
I’ve not seen my own son, in more than a while,
My wife sends me pictures; he’s sure got her smile.”
Then he bent and carefully, pulled from his bag,
The red, white and blue, an American flag,
He said, “I can live through the heat, and being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand firm at the front, against any and all,
To ensure for all time, that this flag will not fall.”
I wondered how I could repay him, for all he’s done, for being away from his wife, his home and his son?
Then I saw in his eye, a tear that held no regret,
“Just pray for us every day, and never forget.”
For when we come home, it will be payment enough,
To know we mattered to you, as you mattered to us.”
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you,
Jesus Christ and the American Soldier. One died for your soul; the other for your freedom.
Dennis Powers
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All I Want for Christmas is a Senate Seat
There is one for sale in Illinois - if the price is right. From Gov. Rod Blagojevich to Tony Resko to Rev. Jeremiah Wright to Father Michael Pflegor to William Ayers, the Chicago cesspool of politics is very deep.
One peculiar thing is that Chicagoan President-Elect Obama knows little about them, what they have been saying or what they have been doing. He, who is said to be one of the most intelligent politicians ever, is completely oblivious to what has been happening in Chicago, or his church for that matter, for the past 20 years. Or, is he?
Chicago is the place where the dead are still allowed to vote and where Al Capone coined the phrase, “vote early and vote often.” Chicago is also the place where politics are so corrupt that Blagojevich said he wasn’t going to quit and doesn’t think he has done anything wrong!
I remember one belligerent Democrat Congressman, Dan Rostenkowski, who ran Chicago’s political machine and was brought down in 1994 for paying “ghost” employees, who at this time of the season, could have been named the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
The scandal involving the ghost employees, along with trading postage stamps at the Capitol Hill post office for cash (which is like someone working at the bank stealing ink pens), put him in jail for 15 months before he was pardoned by Clinton.
And it’s not just the Democrats in Illinois. The previous Republican governor, George Ryan, who had just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for issuing a moratorium on executions, was convicted on corruption charges in 2006.
Apparently, Gov. Ryan had failed to issue a moratorium on selling drivers licenses to unqualified truck drivers and tried to make a few bucks on the side.
I don’t even think an author on Oprah’s Book Club, with a new fiction novel, could chronicle the events that have transpired in the political landscape of Illinois this year. It would be too far-fetched, even for the fiction section.
Incidents like these tend to give politicians a bad reputation when, actually, there are many we can trust. What often happens is that someone runs for office with good intentions and ideas, but gets caught up in the corruption of the political machines.
Others go into office with the intention of using the office for their own personal gain. Gov. Blagojevich is one of these. His $1M price tag on a Senate seat which pays $164,000 per year, is his way of saying to the taxpayers, ‘The only reason politicians run for office is to pillage and plunder the government coffers and assist their friends and family.”
I think all politicians have constituents requesting jobs for themselves and their family members or they want some government handout program, but most politicians can distinguish between right and wrong.
Obama recently said, “We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."
Apparently, the guys from Chicago just don’t get it. It looks like we are moving from Chicago-style politics to a one-world government with no stop in-between. I’ve got news for the new president - I’m going to drive an SUV if I want, eat as much as my doctor will allow, keep my thermostat on 72 and I could care less what other countries think.
All Conservatives want from those who govern is for them to vote and legislate according to the Constitution and the best interests of the people for whom they represent. We don’t want a job, a pardon or a bailout and we sure don’t want a bunch of politicians in office who think it is acceptable to use our tax dollars for their benefit.
In many campaigns, the character of the candidate often comes into question, and after seeing the corruption in politics, it should be apparent that we need to elect men and women of faith and integrity.
As Ben Franklin said, “I have lived sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?” Character matters.
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