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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Quote of the Day
Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization’s history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. The only thing that creates an increased standard of living is giving someone a job.
Charlie Rangle is guilty of a number of violations of City, State, Federal laws and Congressional rules. Yet, he still retains Chairmanship of the House Way and Means Committee.
Charlie’s committee writes tax law.
Charlie is a member of the Privileged Class and the rules that we are held accountable to do not apply to him.
His Violations:
1) Fails to report over $1 Million in outside income and $3 million in business deals required by United States House Of Representatives financial disclosure rules.
2) Failed to list $650,000 in assets as required by United States House Of Representatives financial disclosure rules.
3) Failed to report $75,000 in rental income to the IRS.
4) Uses Congressional Letterhead to solicit donations for a educational center bearing his nave at the City College of New York. A violation of House rules.
5) Violates State Law by claiming three primary residences.
6) Breaks New York City regulations by maintaining four rent-controlled apartments.
7) Delinquent in paying New Jersey property tax on two properties.
8) Fails to report the sale of a $1.3 million Brownstone.
Don’t try this at home folks, Charlie is a trained professional, a member of the Privileged Class. He can get away with it.
The Federal Reserve chose a labor leader to succeed a former Goldman Sachs executive as the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of New York’s private-sector board of directors.
Denis Hughes, president of the New York state branch of the AFL-CIO, had been serving as acting chairman of the New York Fed board since May, when Stephen Friedman stepped down from the position.
Denis Hughes, president of the New York state branch of the AFL-CIO as a chairman of a Federal Reserve Bank - What!
Usually this goes to the financial elites not the President of the New York AFL-CIO union. This sure doesn’t meet the smell test.
A U.S. Marine’s response to his Congressman’s use of the word “Brown-Shirts.” Democrats don’t want you to examine history but the word NAZI stood for the National Socialist Party. During Hitler’s reign they took over the financial industry, the auto industry and (drum roll please) Health Care.
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who caught it in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama as president.
The old rancher said, ‘Well, ya know, Obama is a ‘Post Turtle’‘.
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘post turtle’ was.
The old rancher said, ‘When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘post turtle’.
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain. ‘You know he didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong up there, and he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there, and you just wonder what kind of idiot put him up there to begin with’!
“If you want to know what liberals are up to, just listen to what they accuse conservatives of.” Ann Coulter
The Obama administration called out their “Union Goons” to suppress the true “grass roots” effort of conservatives to make their voices herd. See if you can spot the Nazi Brown-Shirt’s in this video!
The struggle between between liberty and tyranny continues.
President Ronald Reagan wrote a great piece in his own hand for Independence Day in 1981. I have included it in it’s entirety below. Reagan reminds us about the vision and sacrifices of our founding fathers calling it the “only true philosophical revolution in all history.”
In the closing remarks he reminds us, “Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people.”
I know the rulling political elite in Washington DC have no idea of this concept today? That would include the “Duplicitous Despot” Barack Obama, who is not only in opposition to Ronald Reagan’s ideals but in opposition to the ideals of the Founding Fathers!
What July Fourth Means to Me
By Ronald Reagan
For one who was born and grew up in the small towns of the Midwest, there is a special kind of nostalgia about the Fourth of July.
I remember it as a day almost as long-anticipated as Christmas. This was helped along by the appearance in store windows of all kinds of fireworks and colorful posters advertising them with vivid pictures.
No later than the third of July – sometimes earlier – Dad would bring home what he felt he could afford to see go up in smoke and flame. We’d count and recount the number of firecrackers, display pieces and other things and go to bed determined to be up with the sun so as to offer the first, thunderous notice of the Fourth of July.
I’m afraid we didn’t give too much thought to the meaning of the day. And, yes, there were tragic accidents to mar it, resulting from careless handling of the fireworks. I’m sure we’re better off today with fireworks largely handled by professionals. Yet there was a thrill never to be forgotten in seeing a tin can blown 30 feet in the air by a giant “cracker” – giant meaning it was about 4 inches long. But enough of nostalgia.
Somewhere in our growing up we began to be aware of the meaning of days and with that awareness came the birth of patriotism. July Fourth is the birthday of our nation. I believed as a boy, and believe even more today, that it is the birthday of the greatest nation on earth.
There is a legend about the day of our nation’s birth in the little hall in Philadelphia, a day on which debate had raged for hours. The men gathered there were honorable men hard-pressed by a king who had flouted the very laws they were willing to obey. Even so, to sign the Declaration of Independence was such an irretrievable act that the walls resounded with the words “treason, the gallows, the headsman’s axe,” and the issue remained in doubt.
The legend says that at that point a man rose and spoke. He is described as not a young man, but one who had to summon all his energy for an impassioned plea. He cited the grievances that had brought them to this moment and finally, his voice falling, he said, “They may turn every tree into a gallows, every hole into a grave, and yet the words of that parchment can never die. To the mechanic in the workshop, they will speak hope; to the slave in the mines, freedom. Sign that parchment. Sign if the next moment the noose is around your neck, for that parchment will be the textbook of freedom, the Bible of the rights of man forever.”
He fell back exhausted. The 56 delegates, swept up by his eloquence, rushed forward and signed that document destined to be as immortal as a work of man can be. When they turned to thank him for his timely oratory, he was not to be found, nor could any be found who knew who he was or how he had come in or gone out through the locked and guarded doors.
Well, that is the legend. But we do know for certain that 56 men, a little band so unique we have never seen their like since, had pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. Some gave their lives in the war that followed, most gave their fortunes, and all preserved their sacred honor.
What manner of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists, 11 were merchants and tradesmen, and nine were farmers. They were soft-spoken men of means and education; they were not an unwashed rabble. They had achieved security but valued freedom more. Their stories have not been told nearly enough.
John Hart was driven from the side of his desperately ill wife. For more than a year he lived in the forest and in caves before he returned to find his wife dead, his children vanished, his property destroyed. He died of exhaustion and a broken heart.
Carter Braxton of Virginia lost all his ships, sold his home to pay his debts, and died in rags. And so it was with Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Rutledge, Morris, Livingston and Middleton. Nelson personally urged Washington to fire on his home and destroy it when it became the headquarters for General Cornwallis. Nelson died bankrupt.
But they sired a nation that grew from sea to shining sea. Five million farms, quiet villages, cities that never sleep, 3 million square miles of forest, field, mountain and desert, 227 million people with a pedigree that includes the bloodlines of all the world. In recent years, however, I’ve come to think of that day as more than just the birthday of a nation.
It also commemorates the only true philosophical revolution in all history.
Oh, there have been revolutions before and since ours. But those revolutions simply exchanged one set of rules for another. Ours was a revolution that changed the very concept of government.
Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people.
We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should.
“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
Former Army General and Secretary of State Colin Powell AKA turn coat Republican is getting buyers remorse. No kidding General! You were expecting something different?
Powell said:
I’m concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them
one of the cautions that has to be given to the president—and I’ve talked to some of his people about this—is that you can’t have so many things on the table that you can’t absorb it all. And we can’t pay for it all
What did you expect from the most left wing anti American president in the history of our nation General? He’s out of control and you know it!
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst—and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us.
President Herbert Hoover - May 1930
we’re starting to see progress. And if we stick with it, if we don’t flinch in the face of some difficulties, then I feel absolutely convinced that we are going to get this economy back on track.
If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
The Democrat and Republicans In Name Only, (RINO)s, have lost touch with the American People. They have become the political elite and We the People have become "fly-over country." I am not a Nazi, a terrorist, a member of the KKK, a racist, or a member of an angry mob. I'm not a birther, teabagger, truther or astroturfer. I do, however believe in the original intent of the Founding Fathers, the United States Constituton and the rule of law. I believe that Government should serve the People, not the other way around. I’m an American and conservative to my very core.
