This country is really good at measuring things. All sort of things..How tall we are, how much we weigh, how much we make, how much we have, what our life expectancy is, etc….With the goal being a use the numbers as tool for us to use so we can assign values to whatever it is. What we are not so good at is measuring values of relationships. Fathers day is here…A day set aside for celebrating fathers in general and our fathers specifically. The fathers value to every son and daughter is mostly felt without any need to measure. How we walk, talk, move through the world, raise our kids, conduct all aspects of our lives is to a greater of lesser extent directly related to our relationship to our fathers. What is often not realized is the impact of our grandfathers and great grandfathers have had on our lives. Usually we know little about our grandfathers and less still about their fathers yet without our knowing how they also had a hand in directing and molding our lives. For many of us our fathers are gone but none has or will be forgotten.
Happy Fathers Day.
Took some time off from reading news letters, special reports, sorted stories of congressmen's latest behavior outright lies printed by the liberal press, data packaged in incomplete ways coming out of the many governmental departments, tornados after tornados, floods after floods, leaving my head feeling more like a pinball in a pinball machine being thumped by really good pinball players. Got my wife packed in the car and headed north into northeast Tennessee to the Cumberland Gap area.
I hadn't been to the Cumberland Gap since I was young and much too young to understand the significance of that mountain gap or why the forty thousand are so people a year who traveled through it. Both of my grandfathers' fathers came through that gap with their wives and children in tow. Each had little or nothing and asked little or nothing from anyone. Just chasing a dream of having a place to call theirs. Many died and many were killed fighting Indians. Daniel Boone lost his brother and two sons fighting Indians.
Over time and some generations later one side of my family found their way in to Pontatoc County and the other into Lafayette County. One of the grandfathers did his growing up in Lafayette and marrying in early 1900…Bought this farm I am currently living on in 1921 and produced lots of aunts and uncles and they in turn produced nineteen first cousins for me to grow up with.
Not being 'bombarded with the news' every day gave me time to think about all this history. Trying to look at the relationship between back then and now. I know the DNA is still in tact but everything else is just wild guessing. Could we today take a little piece of land and feed ourselves? Could we raise our children without doctors? What would we do if the crop failed? What would we choose to teach our children? How would relationships be different? What we think of our then government or would we think about it at all?
Well, our government thinks about us and has answered all of the above questions and solved all of the above problems. Government decided what our children should learn…feeds us if the crops fail…pays Doctor bills… There is about half of us in this country who think that is a good thing. The other half doesn't…
Tea Party folks question what government is doing for us. Government tells us they are doing all these things for us because that is what 'good' government does…They say they know what's best and are shocked that we don't seem to appreciate their efforts. I mean, after all, who doesn't want something for nothing?
Government has become an enigma wrapped in convoluted logic. Effort is taxed and non-effort is rewarded. (Go figure.) We have some forty nine million on food stamps and other social programs. Many have been of food stamps and social programs for generations. A working person doing productive work supports ever government worker and all the other people who are not working. If the people pouring through the Cumberland were told this is what will happen if you migrate through the mountains, 1) Would they ever have believed it, and 2) If they believed it would they have come through the gap?
Those pilgrims knew if they didn't work they would starve. Their life and the decisions they made became very simple very quickly. Today our life is not so clear and not so simple.
We have a mass of low poorly educated people who would work IF there were jobs they could do. These kinds of jobs are fewer and fewer. We have tens of thousands baby boomers retiring who have been financing a large part of these social programs for this mass of people. We have millions of college graduates coming into the job market each year discovering there aren't many jobs waiting for them and often with a choking burden of student loans. As more people come the to American table, the American apple pie is being sliced thinner and thinner.
European countries and, one can assume, Obama sees socialism or central government deciding who gets what. We have a front row seat watching Greece, the birthplace of the democratic form of government implode each night on our TV tube. We know what is going on in other governments in Europe and yet our leaders are in total denial that the same could happen here. But it has happened here and it is happening in this moment. (Turn on your 'debt clock' and watch the individual and family debt climb.)
I am lobbying for a new law that requires all computers must have a 'debt clock' that loads each time on the home screen and can't be turned off for five minutes. I have no supporters and am making no headway with this new law. However, I think it's a good idea. Be sure you put the debt clock on your home page, please. A cup of coffee and reading the debt clock, I promise, will start your day with a bang.
I want our next batch of office seekers'to uphold the constitution. I want them to overturn any and all laws that impinge on our personal freedoms. I want them to defund and close most government departments, etc…..Also, and just as important I want to know if 1) they see the problems this nation faces clearly, and 2) what are their ideas on fixing these problems…., and 3) do they understand corporations don't pay taxes. They are tax collectors for the federal and state governments… and 4) do they understand regulations inhibit business growth..and 5) do they understand we are not the 'mother' of the world…
Without this clarity we are voting, once again, for a pig in a poke.
I was happy to see that parts of the Tea Party are going after the long time incumbent Orin Hatch in Utah…. We have got to instill fear in the borderline sitting Republicans congressmen. Its seems the Dems thinks he's a Dem pretending to be a Repub. He sure has voted like one.
The Australian Tea Party has just crossed the two million members mark. That may not sound like a big number to us but in a country of twenty one million that’s a lot of mems. That percentage swings elections. (At-a-boy Australian's Teaers.)
The Tea Party movement is not some small group tied to one country. People are waking up. (Except in Greece.)
The Oxford Tea Party through many articles over the last few years has been focused on the important tool of "recalling" an elected official. Recalling an elected official at any level of government is the beginning of The End Game. Recalling is not always successful but if scares politicians like few other things…
Next is a article by Robert Knight and comes from Town Hall.com…(This site is a good read.) It’s a long article but please plow through it.
In Wymore, Conn., citizens got fed up with a councilman who kept leaving meetings. So last Tuesday, May 10, they voted him out in a recall election.
It’s part of a nationwide pattern, as citizens discover that they don’t have to wait until the next election to throw the bums out.
In Chattanooga, Tenn., a recall effort against Democrat Mayor Ron Littlefield has been tied up in court since September. But organizers who filed an appeal are not giving up, and say they expect the case to go to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
In Florida, tax-happy Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez, a Republican, was recalled on March 15 when 88 percent of voters gave him the boot.
In Omaha, voters on Jan. 25 narrowly failed to remove Democrat Mayor Jim Suttle. As Ballotpedia puts it, “Under Suttle's mayoral stint, property taxes increased 15%, despite a campaign promise not to do so. The 'wheel tax' on cars grew more than 40%, from $35 to $50. Restaurants were also handed a 2.5% tax increase.”
In Akron, Ohio, USA Today reports, “lawyer Warner Mendenhall led a failed 2009 effort to recall Mayor Don Plusquellic, a Democrat who has been in office 23 years. ‘The spending has gotten out of hand,’ says Mendenhall, who calls himself a liberal Democrat. ‘The mayor had spent us into a deep, deep hole and needed to go.’”
Of course, recall is a two-edged sword. In Wisconsin, nine senators – six Republicans and three Democrats – are facing recall elections this summer over Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s bold move to end much of the state’s collective bargaining with public employee unions.
In Ohio, public employee unions are pushing a bill aimed at recalling Republican Gov. John Kasich for his backing of a new law that sharply curbs public union power.
In Illinois, voters approved a new law in November that allows recall of the governor. In 2003, California voters dumped Democrat Gov. Gray Davis in a recall election.
In West Virginia, which allows cities to recall elected officials, a bill was introduced to extend recall to federal elected officials but did not pass before the legislature adjourned on March 18.
In January, four Republican legislators in Hawaii co-sponsored HB 197, a broadly worded recall law that could include federal officials. It did not get a hearing in the Democrat-dominated Judiciary Committee before the session ended on May 5.
And so it goes across the land. Recalls have become such a threat to incumbents that the U.S. Conference of Mayors (COM) released a video on April 12 at the National Press Club entitled “Recall Fever: Stop the Madness.” The 30-minute documentary looks at recall campaigns in Omaha, Miami, Akron and Chattanooga. A panel of mayors addressed “the destructive and costly impact of local recall elections [and] to share survival strategies.”
A COM press release noted that 57 mayors “faced recall attempts last year, up from 23 in 2009” and that 15 mayors had already been targeted in 2011. At their upcoming meeting June 17 to 21 in Baltimore, the conference will hear from embattled politicians, including Nancy Pelosi. Now, there’s a canny selection. If anyone can give tips on how to keep a tin ear regardless of public sentiment, that would be the former House Speaker and now Minority Leader.
Sacramento-based Tea Party activist Christina Botteri, a founding member of the National Tea Party Federation and Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, said that recalls appeal greatly to Tea Party members, who are growing impatient with both parties.
“Across the country, people are getting wise to the fact that they don't have to suffer under the wrath of a bad elected official until election day,” she said. “We're seeing more and more constituents, outraged at misrepresentations by their office holders, taking matters into their own hands through the recall process.”
Tom Cochran, CEO and executive director of the mayor's conference, told USA Today:
“There is inside this country right now an anti-tax, anti-spending mood. It's a new thing in America: We're going to kick you out of office. They don't have to wait anymore.”
Actually, recall has been around since before the American Revolution (see www.recalltherogues.org), and most current state recall laws were enacted at the turn of the 20th century. Nine states have such broadly worded recall laws affecting “any, all or every” elected official that they may include U.S. senators. Another 29 provide for recall of either state or local officials.
New Jersey’s recall law, enacted in 1995, explicitly includes members of Congress. Last year, New Jersey Tea Party groups tried to recall Democrat Sen. Robert Menendez over his votes on Obamacare and other spending, but the state Supreme Court delayed a decision on the petition, making the issue moot because Menendez will be on the 2012 ballot.
In light of an increasingly restive public, Ms. Botteri has some advice for office holders who might be tempted to write off “recall fever” as a temporary ailment: “If I could send a message to those politicians defying their constituency: Take a few minutes today to become familiar with the recall process in your state. I guarantee your electorate is.”
Recall is in place in most states because history has taught us that time and people change. It teaches us that people fib and do a mired of other things to get elected. Mostly history has taught them that once they are elected they don't have to keep promises and they are safe till the next election cycle. That is the history and our passivism is the cause.
There are only 506 days, 2 hours, and 20 minutes before the poll close on the 2012 elections. Do you know who your net convert will be?
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani
And he calls out, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
From earliest Hebrew history one prophet after another keeps warning the people they are not keeping faith with God. They, the people, had forsaken God and there was a price they would pay..Let us leap forward a few thousand years into our short history, and in times of great sorrow, crisis, sickness, turmoil, our people also have called out, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani, Lord why have you forsaken me, us, we, them, or the nation….?
Could we consider for a moment that God is responsible for the 'fact' of our freedom but we humans are responsible for the 'acts' of our freedom. God is responsible for the "fact' of food and shelter. It is we who are responsibility for our food and shelter as well as meeting all the other needs of our lives. This includes being responsible for a government that is responsible and responsive to the needs of the people and the nation. God did not send a plague of locusts to Washington to destroy us. We sent each of those congressional members there and our apathy keeps them there.
Apathy is an insidious thing that very slowly winds its' way into our behavior and impacts everyone and every aspect of our lives. Obama is president because of the apathetic way we have conducted ourselves particularly in regard to our State and Federal government. Each time government has offered in someway to take care of us we have said, "Right on bro."
Obama is simply the logical next step in this long governmental road towards the socialist system of governance wherein individuals have no responsibility. We cannot point to our president and say, "He started all of this. He is the one at fault. He is the one to blame for the problems we are having." Even if we were to look back over many congresses and many presidents it is hard to identify where this idea took hold in American government to redefine itself as the seat of all knowledge with a mission to control and direct all aspects of our personal, social, and business lives. Certainly no one involved historically would have dared to state this new mission….Most likely the men involved in the earliest stages of this change would have never imagined where the ideas would lead the nation. However, through one new law at a time, one new regulation at a time, and with a smidgen of apathy thrown in by the voters the new federal mission is well on its way of being accomplished. Had the Dems been able to hold the 'House' in November's election it is my belief Obama could have put the final nails in the coffin of freedom in America. The GOP with it lack of mission and leadership doesn't get a 'pass' for what has happened and neither do we.
It makes no difference if it was liberal voters or conservative voters, DEMs or GOP's it was we, the American voters, who kept saying to these congressional folks, "Your doing a good job, you are on the right tracks", by reelecting them."
Although Holy week has now passed it is not time for us to stop reflection, prayer, and fasting.
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
The Gospel of Matthew 27:35-37, 45-53
Redemption is not easy to come by as the old prophets warned and as we are discovering.
This country, our people, and people around the world are in transition. We are seeing this struggle for change in the mid East that no one has seen in their life time. We see the people here (Tea Party and supporters of similar beliefs) are up against our form of entrenched government in a way we've not seen before and no matter the color, nationality, or religion, behind it all is the cry for freedom and a lash against governments no matter what they are called or the form they have hidden behind.
The Ayn Rand ideas have been around a long time and she came to our attention in her novels Atlas Shrugged and Fountain Head. All of Ayn Rand writings can be summed simply: Reason is everything. Religion is a fraud. Selfishness is a virtue. Altruism is a crime against human excellence. Self-sacrifice is weakness. Weakness is contemptible. "The Objectivist ethics, in essence," said Rand, "hold that man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose, that he must not sacrifice himself to others, nor sacrifice others to himself."
Tying all her individual ideas together in a paragraph allows us to see how hideous and destructive these ideas are. However, if we tear the paragraph apart and scatter the ideas around we see a large part of our society following her philosophical world of Objectivism as a way of life. Whatever society/nation in history that has embraced these ideas, she compiled in her many books, those nation crumbled and always from inside out. Rand's achievement was to turn a life phase (adolescence) into a philosophy, that has embedded itself into the fabric of America and a way of life for so many citizens, many of whom become our politicians. (Which of our congressional leaders will vote for any bill that they think will lose them votes or even one congressman who offers to cut their salary or their pension benefits when so many don't have a salary?)
If any of this litany seems familiar, it is because most of us had a difficult period in our younger adolescent life. Where we experienced the same invincible self-involvement, testing moral boundaries and prone to stormy egotism and hero worship. (Most parents pray weekly sometimes daily that their children will get through adolescence stage before their last drop of patience runs out.)
Many if not most of us did grows out of adolescence, eventually discovering that the quality of our lives is tied to the benefit of others. The Tea Party reflects this daily as we try to save our country.
No nation or group of nations can take this country down….(Not socially, economically, or militarily) BUT the boys and girls inside the beltway are working, daily as if on a religious mission, supported by a 'mass' of the American voters, still saying, "At a boy…to these ensconced congressional leaders."
How is this possible? What are we seeing that they don't see?
One thing they don't seem to see is the fairly simple math, concerning the national debt their children and grandchildren will have to pay off. Another thing we see is a nation built on simple ideas of individual freedom and liberties being morphed into a nation where individuals have little or no control over their lives. They seem to feel that they are safer and more secure with government calling the shots. (Government calling the shots was the core problem that caused the original American rebellion.) Growing up I thought this battle has been fought and won. Our forefathers thought this battle had been fought and won. However, many of the 'founders' also believed so long as there was a central government this issue of personal freedom will never be safe... Clearly the Tea Party along with lots of help from others are refighting this fight for personal freedoms with this president and this congress and we will continue to fight this fight.…. When won, and it will be won. Lets make sure that congress does not erect any boundaries again around their power as well as presidential powers. Never again…..We need to make sure of this because we don't want our adult grandchildren looking back and thinking we were slack in our duties as they pay off these national debts our generation incurred. Also, we never want them to have to refight the fight, we are in the throws of.
Know that no matter how many wins we have had and no matter how much noise we make the 'inside the beltway folks' still think they are safe and continue business as usual. Look at what is going on now in terms of budget debate and debt ceiling ….I pulled this paragraph out of a Redstate article which makes sense. "One of the old sayings in Washington is that there are two parties — the stupid party and the evil party. Occasionally the stupid party and evil party will get together and do something that is both stupid and evil and it will be hailed as a bipartisan compromise. The media is complicit in this because just about every bipartisan compromise gets referred to as the adults coming together in a room."
Don't you love their definition of adult….
To think America can be understood or known by looking at a map of the world or seeing it through news media blips is to miss the point of America. American is an idea, values, beliefs, and freedoms that can only be known and understood by looking into the heart of the American people. That is where it is located and that is what it is. When someone(s) starts messing with what America is then who ever 'they' are will face the wrong end of a stick willed by 200 million maniacs on a mission.
540 days, 7 hours, 40 minutes till the 2012 polls close…Do you know where the next new conservative voter will come from?
Lots of Tea Party things going on around the country.. Things are heating up and groups are getting better organized with many getting out front and in front of these potential candidates….
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
From earliest Hebrew history one prophet after another keeps warning the people they are not keeping faith with God. They, the people, had forsaken God and there was a price they would pay..Let us leap forward a few thousand years into our short history, and in times of great sorrow, crisis, sickness, turmoil, our people also have called out, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani, Lord why have you forsaken me, us, we, them, or the nation….?
Could we consider for a moment that God is responsible for the 'fact' of our freedom but we humans are responsible for the 'acts' of our freedom. God is responsible for the "fact' of food and shelter. It is we who are responsibility for our food and shelter as well as meeting all the other needs of our lives. This includes being responsible for a government that is responsible and responsive to the needs of the people and the nation. God did not send a plague of locusts to Washington to destroy us. We sent each of those congressional members there and our apathy keeps them there.
Apathy is an insidious thing that very slowly winds its' way into our behavior and impacts everyone and every aspect of our lives. Obama is president because of the apathetic way we have conducted ourselves particularly in regard to our State and Federal government. Each time government has offered in someway to take care of us we have said, "Right on bro."
Obama is simply the logical next step in this long governmental road towards the socialist system of governance wherein individuals have no responsibility. We cannot point to our president and say, "He started all of this. He is the one at fault. He is the one to blame for the problems we are having." Even if we were to look back over many congresses and many presidents it is hard to identify where this idea took hold in American government to redefine itself as the seat of all knowledge with a mission to control and direct all aspects of our personal, social, and business lives. Certainly no one involved historically would have dared to state this new mission….Most likely the men involved in the earliest stages of this change would have never imagined where the ideas would lead the nation. However, through one new law at a time, one new regulation at a time, and with a smidgen of apathy thrown in by the voters the new federal mission is well on its way of being accomplished. Had the Dems been able to hold the 'House' in November's election it is my belief Obama could have put the final nails in the coffin of freedom in America. The GOP with it lack of mission and leadership doesn't get a 'pass' for what has happened and neither do we.
It makes no difference if it was liberal voters or conservative voters, DEMs or GOP's it was we, the American voters, who kept saying to these congressional folks, "Your doing a good job, you are on the right tracks", by reelecting them."
Although Holy week has now passed it is not time for us to stop reflection, prayer, and fasting.
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
The Gospel of Matthew 27:35-37, 45-53
Redemption is not easy to come by as the old prophets warned and as we are discovering.
This country, our people, and people around the world are in transition. We are seeing this struggle for change in the mid East that no one has seen in their life time. We see the people here (Tea Party and supporters of similar beliefs) are up against our form of entrenched government in a way we've not seen before and no matter the color, nationality, or religion, behind it all is the cry for freedom and a lash against governments no matter what they are called or the form they have hidden behind.
The Ayn Rand ideas have been around a long time and she came to our attention in her novels Atlas Shrugged and Fountain Head. All of Ayn Rand writings can be summed simply: Reason is everything. Religion is a fraud. Selfishness is a virtue. Altruism is a crime against human excellence. Self-sacrifice is weakness. Weakness is contemptible. "The Objectivist ethics, in essence," said Rand, "hold that man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose, that he must not sacrifice himself to others, nor sacrifice others to himself."
Tying all her individual ideas together in a paragraph allows us to see how hideous and destructive these ideas are. However, if we tear the paragraph apart and scatter the ideas around we see a large part of our society following her philosophical world of Objectivism as a way of life. Whatever society/nation in history that has embraced these ideas, she compiled in her many books, those nation crumbled and always from inside out. Rand's achievement was to turn a life phase (adolescence) into a philosophy, that has embedded itself into the fabric of America and a way of life for so many citizens, many of whom become our politicians. (Which of our congressional leaders will vote for any bill that they think will lose them votes or even one congressman who offers to cut their salary or their pension benefits when so many don't have a salary?)
If any of this litany seems familiar, it is because most of us had a difficult period in our younger adolescent life. Where we experienced the same invincible self-involvement, testing moral boundaries and prone to stormy egotism and hero worship. (Most parents pray weekly sometimes daily that their children will get through adolescence stage before their last drop of patience runs out.)
Many if not most of us did grows out of adolescence, eventually discovering that the quality of our lives is tied to the benefit of others. The Tea Party reflects this daily as we try to save our country.
No nation or group of nations can take this country down….(Not socially, economically, or militarily) BUT the boys and girls inside the beltway are working, daily as if on a religious mission, supported by a 'mass' of the American voters, still saying, "At a boy…to these ensconced congressional leaders."
How is this possible? What are we seeing that they don't see?
One thing they don't seem to see is the fairly simple math, concerning the national debt their children and grandchildren will have to pay off. Another thing we see is a nation built on simple ideas of individual freedom and liberties being morphed into a nation where individuals have little or no control over their lives. They seem to feel that they are safer and more secure with government calling the shots. (Government calling the shots was the core problem that caused the original American rebellion.) Growing up I thought this battle has been fought and won. Our forefathers thought this battle had been fought and won. However, many of the 'founders' also believed so long as there was a central government this issue of personal freedom will never be safe... Clearly the Tea Party along with lots of help from others are refighting this fight for personal freedoms with this president and this congress and we will continue to fight this fight.…. When won, and it will be won. Lets make sure that congress does not erect any boundaries again around their power as well as presidential powers. Never again…..We need to make sure of this because we don't want our adult grandchildren looking back and thinking we were slack in our duties as they pay off these national debts our generation incurred. Also, we never want them to have to refight the fight, we are in the throws of.
Know that no matter how many wins we have had and no matter how much noise we make the 'inside the beltway folks' still think they are safe and continue business as usual. Look at what is going on now in terms of budget debate and debt ceiling ….I pulled this paragraph out of a Redstate article which makes sense. "One of the old sayings in Washington is that there are two parties — the stupid party and the evil party. Occasionally the stupid party and evil party will get together and do something that is both stupid and evil and it will be hailed as a bipartisan compromise. The media is complicit in this because just about every bipartisan compromise gets referred to as the adults coming together in a room."
Don't you love their definition of adult….
To think America can be understood or known by looking at a map of the world or seeing it through news media blips is to miss the point of America. American is an idea, values, beliefs, and freedoms that can only be known and understood by looking into the heart of the American people. That is where it is located and that is what it is. When someone(s) starts messing with what America is then who ever 'they' are will face the wrong end of a stick willed by 200 million maniacs on a mission.
540 days, 7 hours, 40 minutes till the 2012 polls close…Do you know where the next new conservative voter will come from?
Lots of Tea Party things going on around the country.. Things are heating up and groups are getting better organized with many getting out front and in front of these potential candidates….
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
Monday, April 25, 2011
Liars and Lies
By this time most of The Oxford Tea Party members know our feeling about Mr. Erickson and the good work he and others at RedState do…..We often refer reader to his articles and often quote from the articles. Today we are sending along a complete article on the debt ceiling.
For the next few weeks the liberal media will be spinning the tale of destruction of the nation IF the debt ceiling is not raised. Using their skills to continue raising the level of doubt and fear for citizens…..It is debt ceiling itself that is causing some of our many problems. Once the ceiling is raised then the question congress will face is 'where does the money come from to pay the debt.' A never ending burden on working voters.
How the GOP leadership handles this is very important to watch. No smoke and mirrors can hide a 'fixed debt number.' They will be telling us they are negotiating reduction in the current budgets as if this will placate us or offset the impact of spending more money than government has….
Posted by Erick Erickson
RedState
Monday, April 25th at 5:00AM EDT
Reporters, Democrats, and even some Republicans have begun repeating an infectious lie in the prelude to the debt ceiling debate. Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner started it off and it has been repeated by reporters in print, on radio, and on television, including Fox News.
The lie is very simple: a failure to raise the debt ceiling will cause a default on American debt.
This is utterly and categorically a lie. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar.
As Senator Pat Toomey noted the other day,
Next year, about 7 percent of all projected federal government expenditures will go to interest on our debt. Tax revenue is projected to cover at least 70 percent of all government expenditures. So, under any circumstances, there will be plenty of money to pay our creditors.
Moreover, as the Congressional Research Service has noted, the Treasury secretary himself has the discretion to decide which bills to pay first in the event that a cash flow shortage occurs.
Nonetheless, the media and Democrats keep repeating the lie. And it is a lie.
Veronique de Rugy and Jason Fichtner chronicled debt ceiling fights in the Washington Times and, from their writing, we can categorically show it to be a lie to claim a failure to raise the debt ceiling will cause a default on American debt obligations.
In 1985, Congress waited nearly three months after the debt limit was reached before authorizing a permanent increase. In 1995, 4 1/2 months passed between hitting the ceiling and congressional action. And in 2002, Congress delayed raising the debt ceiling for three months. In each case, the U.S. and the economy survived.
Not only did the economy survive, but the United States did not default on its debt obligations, the United States did not lose its credit rating, and interest rates did not go up as a result of the default.
To say that failing to raise the debt ceiling will cause a default is a lie and anyone who says it is a liar.
If we fail to raise the debt ceiling and do default, it will not because of a failure to raise the debt ceiling. It will be because Barack Obama and Tim Geithner chose to default for political gain.
Again, as Senator Toomey points out
As the Congressional Research Service has noted, the Treasury secretary himself has the discretion to decide which bills to pay first in the event that a cash flow shortage occurs. Thus, it is he who would have to consciously, and needlessly, choose to default on our debt if the debt ceiling is not promptly raised upon reaching it. It takes a lot of chutzpah to preemptively blame congressional Republicans for a default only he could cause.
This article requires no comment from me….
At some point it seems we must accept that all the old guard politicians need to be replaced. We know what the mission is but how will each of us make sure these goals are met. One person, one voice, and one vote.
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
For the next few weeks the liberal media will be spinning the tale of destruction of the nation IF the debt ceiling is not raised. Using their skills to continue raising the level of doubt and fear for citizens…..It is debt ceiling itself that is causing some of our many problems. Once the ceiling is raised then the question congress will face is 'where does the money come from to pay the debt.' A never ending burden on working voters.
How the GOP leadership handles this is very important to watch. No smoke and mirrors can hide a 'fixed debt number.' They will be telling us they are negotiating reduction in the current budgets as if this will placate us or offset the impact of spending more money than government has….
Posted by Erick Erickson
RedState
Monday, April 25th at 5:00AM EDT
Reporters, Democrats, and even some Republicans have begun repeating an infectious lie in the prelude to the debt ceiling debate. Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner started it off and it has been repeated by reporters in print, on radio, and on television, including Fox News.
The lie is very simple: a failure to raise the debt ceiling will cause a default on American debt.
This is utterly and categorically a lie. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar.
As Senator Pat Toomey noted the other day,
Next year, about 7 percent of all projected federal government expenditures will go to interest on our debt. Tax revenue is projected to cover at least 70 percent of all government expenditures. So, under any circumstances, there will be plenty of money to pay our creditors.
Moreover, as the Congressional Research Service has noted, the Treasury secretary himself has the discretion to decide which bills to pay first in the event that a cash flow shortage occurs.
Nonetheless, the media and Democrats keep repeating the lie. And it is a lie.
Veronique de Rugy and Jason Fichtner chronicled debt ceiling fights in the Washington Times and, from their writing, we can categorically show it to be a lie to claim a failure to raise the debt ceiling will cause a default on American debt obligations.
In 1985, Congress waited nearly three months after the debt limit was reached before authorizing a permanent increase. In 1995, 4 1/2 months passed between hitting the ceiling and congressional action. And in 2002, Congress delayed raising the debt ceiling for three months. In each case, the U.S. and the economy survived.
Not only did the economy survive, but the United States did not default on its debt obligations, the United States did not lose its credit rating, and interest rates did not go up as a result of the default.
To say that failing to raise the debt ceiling will cause a default is a lie and anyone who says it is a liar.
If we fail to raise the debt ceiling and do default, it will not because of a failure to raise the debt ceiling. It will be because Barack Obama and Tim Geithner chose to default for political gain.
Again, as Senator Toomey points out
As the Congressional Research Service has noted, the Treasury secretary himself has the discretion to decide which bills to pay first in the event that a cash flow shortage occurs. Thus, it is he who would have to consciously, and needlessly, choose to default on our debt if the debt ceiling is not promptly raised upon reaching it. It takes a lot of chutzpah to preemptively blame congressional Republicans for a default only he could cause.
This article requires no comment from me….
At some point it seems we must accept that all the old guard politicians need to be replaced. We know what the mission is but how will each of us make sure these goals are met. One person, one voice, and one vote.
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Under Heaven
There is a time for every purpose under heaven. Now is our place in time.…Now is our moment in history and our purpose is clear... We have returned to the path our forefathers created. A road forgotten by many. We have become the reminders…the guides... models for our younger… we are the unelected leaders…and if not us who and if not now when…?
The road we travel, absent of foot prints, is overgrown and hard to see. There are no sign posts and none are needed. We remember.. The farther we go the more familiar the road seems. Good stewards cut this road with axes and sweat and left hidden notes pinned here and there saying "go this way", "don't go that way', and always assuring us the we can do it. Our confidence builds with each step taken. We just forgot the simple lesson taught and it was that freedom is never free. Liberty did not come down to us in perpetuity. We simply lost sight that we and the generation before and after us must pay the toll. The creation of this nation was about the pursuit of life and liberty, and the operative word is pursuit. There was never a promise from anyone at anytime that we would own freedom, that it would simply exist for us. Only the idea itself was set in concrete...What our founders assured us is that government would be pursing its quest for power over people relentlessly. Yet another lesson forgotten. Forgotten even with their dire warnings that we should always keep our guns for a time we must protect the nation from external enemies as well as the enemy within. In our time our votes are the guns... experientially as well as intuitively. The forefathers knew that government, no matter what shape or form, would always strive to secure it position and garner power/control over the people it had sworn to serve and protect.
Our current president has, along with elected governmental officials, pursued governmental powers over citizens like no other government before in our history. They overwhelm us daily with some new law, regulations, or social program that takes not only more or our income but burdens us with debts that we cannot pay in most of our lifetimes.
Without liberty and freedom happiness can't be achieved. Nor a sense of safety, well being, or stability for ourselves or for our children.
Below is the congressional history of not passing a budget and shutting down our government. Many of our readers lived through all of the 'shut downs'. They have occurred so often and for so long it means nothing more that a big YAWN. And yet, the president, the DEMs, and the press were still able once again to frighten the citizens with suggestions that the country was coming to an end with the potential shutdown.
How easy it is to manipulate naive citizens. All of this to-do about shutting down the government and the disasters that would follow. As you look at the list note what congress did, in terms of shutting down the government, in 1977…All of us lived through this political silliness many times before. It is as if the American voter doesn't understand that 'shutting down the government' during budget negotiations is a political ploy that has been used and reused by GOP and DEMS. How is it we forget this?
Government shutdowns
Started Ended No.Days
9/30/76 10/11/76 10
9/30/77 10/13/77 12
10/31/77 11/9/77 8
11/30/77 12/9/77 8
9/30/78 10/18/78 17
9/30/79 10/12/79 11
11/20/81 11/23/81 2
9/30/82 10/2/82 1
12/17/82 12/21/82 3
11/10/83 11/14/83 3
9/30/84 10/03/84 2
10/3/84 10/05/84 1
10/16/86 10/18/86 1
12/18/87 12/20/87 1
10/5/90 10/09/90 3
11/13/95 11/19/95 5
12/15/95 1/06/96 21
We are coming to the same moment with the 'raising of the debt ceiling'. The drums are already beating…The DEMS along with their brothers in the media are already chanting that the world as we know it will come to an end if we don't raise the debt ceiling. What nonsense, the world as we know it would be happy if we don’t agree to go into to debt ceiling….Tax money flows into Washington every day. There is plenty of money to pay the bills. What is obvious to those of us who do not work on the east side of the Potomac, just put some projects on hold. Cut other projects and extend some payments for thirty days. The same thing every business in America does when money gets tight. This is Econ 101.
The question is will government, with support of the press, be effective in frightening the citizens over the debt ceiling issue? If so the ceiling will be raised again… Like the list above another list can be made around the raising of the spending levels. Each time a big to-do is made and in the end and without the voter's consent the debt ceiling has been raised.
Raising spending ceiling = more long term debt
More long term debt = greater tax burdens on our children
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken a couple of week ago finds that only 26% of Likely U.S. Voters feel that the spending cuts proposed by congressional Republicans will significantly reduce federal spending and deficits. Fifty-three percent (53%) recognize that the proposed GOP cuts will have little impact on overall levels of spending and deficits. One-in-five voters (21%) are not sure.
While recognizing they won’t make much of a difference, voters still support short-term budget cuts. Fifty-seven percent (57%), in fact, think making deeper spending cuts in the federal budget for 2011 is more important than avoiding a government shut down.
Voters expressed similar feelings about the three-year freeze on government discretionary spending that President Obama proposed in his State of the Union speech last year. While most approved of the freeze, 81% said it would have no impact on the nation’s historic-level budget deficits.
It’s not energy or tax dollars we’re in short supply of. It’s vision in which we have a deficit. We have no leaders who can fill the American canvas with a picture of a positive future and then lead us there. Instead, we have the leadership of failure and diminished expectations, as if by design.
We are being told by the president that the future will be rationed, portioned off, each according to his needs with Big Brother watching over every aspect of production from healthcare to energy, from retirement to immigration enforcement- defining for us who gets to stay here and who does not, instead of letting the law decide. We have a government of men, now, not laws.
Shenanigans pure and simple….. What are the poor voters to do? AND the answer is just what we are doing….We are in the throws of replacing as many of the 'old guard' as we possibly can each election cycle after another at the Federal and State levels. The GOP leaders in the House must go….either by leaving office or by adding more new members to override them. Same is true with the Senate. Senator's Ryan's budget he says will bring the nation to a balance budget in 2025. Who cares…2025 this man doesn't know where he will eat breakfast next Tuesday much less what congress will be doing a decade from now.
Not only is the GOP leadership an embracement and they are just as destructive as the DEMs. For sure, neither has our best interests at heart.
American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox once wrote that “to sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards of men.”
562 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes till the polls close on the 2012 elections. The way to predict the outcome is to enlighten and co-op one person a day to the Tea Party mission.
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
The road we travel, absent of foot prints, is overgrown and hard to see. There are no sign posts and none are needed. We remember.. The farther we go the more familiar the road seems. Good stewards cut this road with axes and sweat and left hidden notes pinned here and there saying "go this way", "don't go that way', and always assuring us the we can do it. Our confidence builds with each step taken. We just forgot the simple lesson taught and it was that freedom is never free. Liberty did not come down to us in perpetuity. We simply lost sight that we and the generation before and after us must pay the toll. The creation of this nation was about the pursuit of life and liberty, and the operative word is pursuit. There was never a promise from anyone at anytime that we would own freedom, that it would simply exist for us. Only the idea itself was set in concrete...What our founders assured us is that government would be pursing its quest for power over people relentlessly. Yet another lesson forgotten. Forgotten even with their dire warnings that we should always keep our guns for a time we must protect the nation from external enemies as well as the enemy within. In our time our votes are the guns... experientially as well as intuitively. The forefathers knew that government, no matter what shape or form, would always strive to secure it position and garner power/control over the people it had sworn to serve and protect.
Our current president has, along with elected governmental officials, pursued governmental powers over citizens like no other government before in our history. They overwhelm us daily with some new law, regulations, or social program that takes not only more or our income but burdens us with debts that we cannot pay in most of our lifetimes.
Without liberty and freedom happiness can't be achieved. Nor a sense of safety, well being, or stability for ourselves or for our children.
Below is the congressional history of not passing a budget and shutting down our government. Many of our readers lived through all of the 'shut downs'. They have occurred so often and for so long it means nothing more that a big YAWN. And yet, the president, the DEMs, and the press were still able once again to frighten the citizens with suggestions that the country was coming to an end with the potential shutdown.
How easy it is to manipulate naive citizens. All of this to-do about shutting down the government and the disasters that would follow. As you look at the list note what congress did, in terms of shutting down the government, in 1977…All of us lived through this political silliness many times before. It is as if the American voter doesn't understand that 'shutting down the government' during budget negotiations is a political ploy that has been used and reused by GOP and DEMS. How is it we forget this?
Government shutdowns
Started Ended No.Days
9/30/76 10/11/76 10
9/30/77 10/13/77 12
10/31/77 11/9/77 8
11/30/77 12/9/77 8
9/30/78 10/18/78 17
9/30/79 10/12/79 11
11/20/81 11/23/81 2
9/30/82 10/2/82 1
12/17/82 12/21/82 3
11/10/83 11/14/83 3
9/30/84 10/03/84 2
10/3/84 10/05/84 1
10/16/86 10/18/86 1
12/18/87 12/20/87 1
10/5/90 10/09/90 3
11/13/95 11/19/95 5
12/15/95 1/06/96 21
We are coming to the same moment with the 'raising of the debt ceiling'. The drums are already beating…The DEMS along with their brothers in the media are already chanting that the world as we know it will come to an end if we don't raise the debt ceiling. What nonsense, the world as we know it would be happy if we don’t agree to go into to debt ceiling….Tax money flows into Washington every day. There is plenty of money to pay the bills. What is obvious to those of us who do not work on the east side of the Potomac, just put some projects on hold. Cut other projects and extend some payments for thirty days. The same thing every business in America does when money gets tight. This is Econ 101.
The question is will government, with support of the press, be effective in frightening the citizens over the debt ceiling issue? If so the ceiling will be raised again… Like the list above another list can be made around the raising of the spending levels. Each time a big to-do is made and in the end and without the voter's consent the debt ceiling has been raised.
Raising spending ceiling = more long term debt
More long term debt = greater tax burdens on our children
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken a couple of week ago finds that only 26% of Likely U.S. Voters feel that the spending cuts proposed by congressional Republicans will significantly reduce federal spending and deficits. Fifty-three percent (53%) recognize that the proposed GOP cuts will have little impact on overall levels of spending and deficits. One-in-five voters (21%) are not sure.
While recognizing they won’t make much of a difference, voters still support short-term budget cuts. Fifty-seven percent (57%), in fact, think making deeper spending cuts in the federal budget for 2011 is more important than avoiding a government shut down.
Voters expressed similar feelings about the three-year freeze on government discretionary spending that President Obama proposed in his State of the Union speech last year. While most approved of the freeze, 81% said it would have no impact on the nation’s historic-level budget deficits.
It’s not energy or tax dollars we’re in short supply of. It’s vision in which we have a deficit. We have no leaders who can fill the American canvas with a picture of a positive future and then lead us there. Instead, we have the leadership of failure and diminished expectations, as if by design.
We are being told by the president that the future will be rationed, portioned off, each according to his needs with Big Brother watching over every aspect of production from healthcare to energy, from retirement to immigration enforcement- defining for us who gets to stay here and who does not, instead of letting the law decide. We have a government of men, now, not laws.
Shenanigans pure and simple….. What are the poor voters to do? AND the answer is just what we are doing….We are in the throws of replacing as many of the 'old guard' as we possibly can each election cycle after another at the Federal and State levels. The GOP leaders in the House must go….either by leaving office or by adding more new members to override them. Same is true with the Senate. Senator's Ryan's budget he says will bring the nation to a balance budget in 2025. Who cares…2025 this man doesn't know where he will eat breakfast next Tuesday much less what congress will be doing a decade from now.
Not only is the GOP leadership an embracement and they are just as destructive as the DEMs. For sure, neither has our best interests at heart.
American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox once wrote that “to sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards of men.”
562 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes till the polls close on the 2012 elections. The way to predict the outcome is to enlighten and co-op one person a day to the Tea Party mission.
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
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