It seem and feels
like I have awakened in some science fiction future… I assume much like
characters in Orwell's book 1984…. In our lifetime I can't believe any of us
expected to see a President, his administration, and government departments
behave in ways that say so clearly that they govern without regards to the will
or interest of the people or the nation and the constitution and will punish
whoever opposes them…. At the very least from of this debacle I have a better
sense of what the children of Israel felt when God finally decided to punish
them for their misdeeds. I suspect they, like us, got to that point slowly by cutting corners,
losing sight of goals, and mission as well as their moral compasses.
Is this not where we are? We the children of America…
For sure we have
lost our way. Not in some "bang" moment but over generations and many
congresses and presidents. With each new law and regulation we have lost a bit
here and there thinking that what we are doing is the right thing to do….. Trying
to solve real and imagined problems.
Long before Obama
became president the people, on the whole, had lost faith in their elected
federal government as well as many in their state governments. Nixon at his
swearing in ceremony said that government is too big to manage. Could it be
that is the core of our problems? Reagan said government was the problem. Are
our government departments to big and too complicated to manage? Is the
population too big to manage?
As more laws, rules,
and regulations are passed it takes more people to enforce them. As more people join the social programs it
takes more people to manage them. Government grows and will continue to grow so
long as there is growth in the population. The idea of cutting the growth of
government so long as these conditions are in place is simply a pipe dream. It
doesn't matter who we send to Washington…. It doesn't matter what they say as
candidates. They can only slow the train down.
(Maybe not even that.)
In our lifetime has
there ever been an election where most candidates didn't promise to cut taxes?
Change the tax codes… Even when the elected got one tax cut they added another somewhere else… Like an
old shell game..
Federal government
has lost its way… This IRS scandal is nothing more than a reminder…
The good guys in
Syria that Obama is wanting to help out are bad guys. We can't tell, in the
Mideast, who are the good guys are any longer.
If we ever could. Maybe there aren't any…The question is when do we
acknowledge and realize this part of the world has been killing each other
since - forever. .. Over many years many administrations have tried to buy
their friendship and they can't be bought.
In different ways
this country is also divided. Obama and his group of appointees along with the
liberal media have defined the American good guys and the American bad guys.
This is not new. We have always been divided in some ways such as rich and
poor, producers and takers, farmers and city folks but there was core elements
back then we could all rally around… Our beliefs, our values, our government,
and our country…. We are now a fragmented bunch organized around mostly silly
self-interest. Fear grows and in this fragmentation government flourishes. It
grows and garners more power to rule… More and more this government power lies outside congress. Its members also
live in fear of their positions and personal power. How they vote on
legislation alters how voters vote for them.
The Tea Party offers
some hope. Some rallying place where the conservative voice can be spoken.
Where the notion of a government for and by the people is an old but valued
mission.
Given where the
country is today you would have to have forty fingers to point to who, what,
where, and why this has happened… This is a wonderful trick that keeps everyone
dazed and confused…. However it's not the rich folks nor the poor folks on the
myriad of social programs…. The linkage to all of these problems finds their
way back to government and the elected. No matter what we are told or how well
the White House staff and the news media edits and interprets reality, it is
government that is the wellspring.
TJ say:
The evils of this deluge of paper money are not to be
removed until our citizens are generally and radically instructed in their
cause and consequences, and silence by their authority the interested clamors
and sophistry of speculating, shaving, and banking institutions. Till then
we must be content to return, quo ad hoc, to the savage state, to recur to
barter in the exchange of our property, for want of a stable, common measure of
value, that now in use being less fixed than the beads and wampum of the
Indian, and to deliver up our citizens, their property and their labor, passive
victims to the swindling tricks of bankers and mountebanks. –Thomas Jefferson,
in a letter to John Adams, 21 March 1819.
Can
anyone imagine the majority of our elected go to lunch and discuss these same
problems that Jefferson and Adams were discussing almost two hundred years ago.
What can be imagined is that they gathered and discussed what he or she said on
last night's news or this morning's news article, or scores of the football,
baseball, or basketball scores. Or some scheme to be used in some way by their
political party or themselves for some imagined political gain. To try and
label some good and some bad is simply a waste of time. They are who they are
and they are a reflection of the times we find ourselves in….
We
must replace them. Particularly the older, been around a long time, good old
boys… So long as they are in place they will make sure the system of government
they have had a hand in crafting will continue. This secures their power. The
growth of their personal wealth is directly linked to the number of days they
have been in elected office as well as the number of people indebted to them
who will contribute to their next political campaign. Period.
Know
that the values, beliefs, and principles that are held by Tea Party members are
viewed by many as dangerous…The President and the media say we are dangerous.
Certainly our values run counter to theirs. We are their political enemies. The
current administration and the various federal departments such as the IRS are
being brought to bear on any and all groups such as ours. It is the core of
Chicago politics to not just beat the
opponents but to destroy them at a personal level so they can never challenge
again.
Certainly
the Tea Party is in the sights of the Obama's administration. This will not
stop.
Another
Trivial Thing:
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
The DHS appears to have finally found a use for all
those bullets it’s been buying. At a Tea Party protest outside an IRS building
in St. Louis yesterday there were no regular police – only armed Homeland
Security guards
In 2011, the DHS asserted that it had every
right to spy on peaceful protest groups and had been using Federal Protective
Service (FPS) agents to do so since at least 2006.
In March, Arkansas State Fusion Center Director
Richard Davis admitted that the federal agency spies on Americans deemed
to be “anti-government,” noting that the DHS concentrates on, “domestic
terrorism and certain groups that are anti-government. We want to kind of take
a look at that and receive that information,” so-called threats which included
people, “putting political stickers in public bathrooms or participating in
movements against the death penalty.”
A 2012 Senate subcommittee investigation of DHS
data fusion centers found that millions of dollars had been spent not on
gathering important anti-terrorism information but on collating “a bunch of
crap,” which was “unrelated to terrorism” and in fact targeted Americans
peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.
In its promotional material for the ‘See Something,
Say Something’ snitch program, the DHS has routinely portrayed white,
middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists. Mock news reports and
security drills run by the DHS have also depicted gun owners and homeschoolers
as violent terrorists.
It’s no surprise that the DHS is now deploying its
agents to defend the IRS against the ire of the American people given that both
federal agencies have gone to extreme lengths to target law-abiding,
conservative, or God forbid “anti-government” Americans as domestic extremists
and even terrorists. (www. Infowars.com)
In
closing let me suggest to all the Tea members in Mississippi and all other Tea
folks around the country to look at the
Democratic party activities in you town. Monthly meeting and training in all of
them. They are well funded and organized. We may have right on our side but
come the 2014 elections that is not what turns voters out. If the DEMS get control of the House back,
the last two years with Obama will be like no other in our history. He will, in
those two years, write a socialist legacy for himself that will be difficult if
not impossible to change.
Last
go around the rumor spread that most or the people who voted for Obama would
not vote for him and he could be beaten by a wimpy white rich guy who made it
through one term as governor and managed to create the failed health program in
the state he governed. Clearly that rumor was started by the elite
political group that runs the GOP. What
will they concoct next election cycle? The national GOP believes that we have
to go along no matter who they decide on.
Or do
we?
Another
trivial thing:
Today's Polls: New Rasmussen Reports national
telephone survey shows that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters now have a favorable
opinion of the Tea Party. That's up 14 points from January but still down
from April 2009's high of 51% when the Tea Party protests against
President Obama’s spending policies first erupted.
Another
NOT so trivial thing:
2000 of the students graduating last week from
Mississippi High Schools could not pass the reading test.
(I
guess we can be grateful they didn't publish the results of the math test.)
532 days
- 6 hours - 32 minutes till the next round of voting…..
Ron
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