Posted on 02/17/2009 9:31:47 PM PST by Libloather
Requiem for a Republic
Michael Reagan
Posted: 02/17/2009 03:01:43 AM EST
It is not true that grown men don't cry.
I'm grown and I'm on the verge of tears. A Republic I have loved all my life is being is being murdered and the crime is an inside job.
If you hear a whirring sound in the background, it is my dad Ronald Reagan, who loved and served this nation, spinning in his grave as his latest successor plunges a carving knife into America's vital organs.
In his wildest dreams Ronald Reagan never thought that a president of a United States, now in the throes of a serious economic crisis, would adopt a solution to the problems of our economy that would not only worsen the situation, but set in motion the beginning of a transition of the government of the United States from a Constitutional Republic into a coercive quasi-Marxist regime where Washington is the master of our people instead of their servant.
Let it be said loud and clear: Barack Obama's so-called stimulus bill, feverishly embraced by his sticky-fingered Democratic minions in the House and Senate (and three craven Republican senators), will not do a single thing to revive our ailing economy. Nothing.
Instead it will put Washington's grasping hands into every nook and cranny of America's economic and social life, and bankrupt an already penurious nation for generations to come.
Think about it — nearly a trillion dollars to be squandered on a host of pork-laden projects, payoffs to pet leftist groups and causes grasping for their share of the booty, and a few bucks to create jobs, mostly in the public sector.
A trillion dollars we don't have and will need to borrow from our grandchildren and their offspring. A trillion dollars created out of thin air that will drastically reduce the value of the dollars in our pockets in an orgy of runaway inflation.
It wasn't all that long ago that spending a billion dollars on government projects and programs was viewed with alarm. As the late Sen. Everett Dirksen once said, "A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
A trillion dollars is $1,000 billion, a sum that the imagination cannot comprehend.
If you could have spent a million dollars every day since Christ was born you would not even come close to having spent a trillion dollars, yet Mr. Obama and his wastrel Democratic stooges on Capitol Hill have no qualms about spending that amount — and more — on programs that will do nothing to alleviate the current economic crisis, and in many ways worsen it.
Have we forgotten what Thomas Jefferson warned us when in 1791? He said, "To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we (will then) be taxed in our meat and our drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they (will) be happy."
Jefferson would have refused to believe that a free people would allow their government to saddle them and their children and grandchildren with a debt so enormous they could not even begin to comprehend.
Nor would he have even dreamt of the government wasting money on projects noted by former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr, such as a billion dollars to subsidize money-losing Amtrak, $20 billion to expand the already-bloated food stamp program, about $2 billion diverted from the wallets of hard-working Americans to subsidize childcare, and $2.8 billion to fund advocacy programs studying the global-warming hoax.
There's another $600 million for newer cars for government bureaucrats $44 million to refurbish the Department of Agriculture, $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts, and $150 million to spruce up the Smithsonian buildings and more than $400 million to promote anti-smoking programs and programs to fight sexually transmitted diseases.
That's what future generations of Americans will be paying for. I'm sure they'll thank us.
Mike Reagan, the elder son of the late President Ronald Reagan, is heard on radio stations nationally as part of American Family Radio (www.afr.net).
"See, it's a brave man that weeps; how great the agony of persuasion then!" - Starbuck, in Moby Dick
Amen, Michael.
I am with Michael, but I don’t feel like “calling my senator” or “calling my representative” or “calling the switchboard,” or emailing or writing letters, or just talking to people about it. GAWDDAMMIT! I am ANGRY! I AM PISSED!!! I WANT TO FIGHT!!! I WANT TO HIT SOMETHING!!! I WANT TO END THIS MADNESS NOW!!!
Sorry, I have not been this angry in a long, long time.
“...and the crime is an inside job.”
Like Glenn Beck said the other day: Forget about conspiracies: They’re doing it in broad daylight right under our noses.
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“A Republic I have loved all my life is being is being murdered and the crime is an inside job.”
It’s as much a public mugging as it is an inside job. And the citizenry is just sitting and watching. Maybe the majority has bought into the “victim” mentality. Maybe they don’t want to have to pay rent.
We are now living under the HOG; the Hussein Occupation Government..
The American people have spoken. They want socialism. They want abortion on demand. They want surrender to Islam.
They will get what they want.
Michael Reagan - you speak for us and you speak for your Dad. Thank you!
How did we let this happen? HOW?
have sold us, our children and our childrens children into indentured slavery to pay off the trillions of dollars of debt that they call a stimulus package.
We are no longer a free people. We are now owned by our Washington Plantation owners. A sad, sad day for America.
I cried on Nov 4, 2008. Since then, I’m spittin’ mad...and preparing to fight....NEVER GIVE UP...never, ever, ever...ever...give up.
I’m telling all my friends to start writing a diary of their memories...they’ll need it when they want to tell their grandchildren what America was like when it was free.
Oops, too late.
This has been a steady deterioration over the last 90 years, most of the morons voting for the likes of Pelosi, Frank, and Hussein from Kenya don't know Franklin from a hole in the wall.
The GOP was complicit in passing all of the amendments and laws expanding the Franchise.
This genie won't get put back in the bottle at the ballot box.
Any commentator who isn’t pointing out that Obama poses an EXISTENTIAL THREAT to the U.S. is a fake.
And Obama has always INTENDED to be an existential threat to the U.S.
Obama HATES the U.S. and the American people.
Obama is a Marxist-Communist traitor—in the White House.
One type of “conservative” column I don’t read is one that starts out with advice to Obama on how to govern better. That is a waste of time. Obama is TRYING to crash the economy, TRYING to get a U.S. city nuked, TRYING to bring the U.S. to a formal, definitive end.
REPEAL
ABOLISH
IMPEACH
INDICT
RECALL
These are words I would like to hear from some politician.
Repeal the 16th, 17th, and 19th Amendments, the New Deal, the Great Society, and the Porkulus bill.
Abolish Labor, Commerce, Interior, HHS, Energy, Education, Transportaion, HUD, EEOC, EPA, etc.
Impeach Obama, Ginsburg, Stevens, Souter, Breyer, etc.
Indict Clinton, Clinton, Clinton (Yes! Chelsea, too!), Emanuel, Geithner, Daschle, Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, etc.
The anti-stimulus bill, will kill any economic recovery, is nothing but a payoff for friends of the Democrats as the author states, and has changed us into a socialist nation. Obama may not suffer financially because of it, but we will and dearly.
We have got to change the majorities in the house and Senate in 2010 and recapture the presidency in 2012. Republican officeholders, where ever they may be, must pledge now to undo this bill at the first opportunity. We may still lose most of the money, but at least we can reverse expanding the welfare state and other socialist mandates of the bill. And we must shout down any Republican like Lindsey Graham who wants to nationalize the banks.
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