Posted on 03/11/2017 1:06:10 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Our big spending national government—whether Republican, Democrat or whatever—ran up a national debt approaching ten trillion dollars during the 220 and some odd years prior to Obama taking office. During Obama’s 8 year term, our big spending government nearly doubled that debt. No one’s fault (cough, cough), but we and our posterity are now staring at an unbelievable, unmanageable, unsustainable, unpayable mountain of twenty trillion dollars in accumulated debt with no let up in sight! In fact they want to continue the wholesale printing and spending of money we don’t have and they’re planning on raising the debt ceiling to do it.
What happened to our founders concept of LIMITED government?
Someone please take the bill writing, treaty making, money printing and check signing machines away from these blithering idiots and cut up their credit cards!!
And that’s precisely why we the fed-up people elected Republican majorities in the house, senate and the majority of our local and state governments and elected Donald J (You’re Fired) Trump to the presidency!
Unless we want to see our economy and our nation crash and burn, we must stop the fiscal insanity! NOW!
Emergency FULL STOP and reverse course!
We are on the path to destruction on a biblical scale, but God has given us one more chance. And I sincerely believe that this is our last chance. We have one shot to get it right and if we fail, our nation will be following Europe and the rest of the world down the tubes. Global depression. Nothing but scorched earth and desolation for all of western civilization. Don’t think it can’t happen. God has a history of proving you wrong.
We have no choice but to immediately stop the spending. I’m very sorry Mr. President, but the federal government is broke and cannot “take care” of the medical problems for all the people. Having the federal government take care of the people is what got us where we are. The tenth amendment clearly reserves “taking care of the people” to the states AND the people themselves. It’s not your job!
If Mr Ryan and Mr McConnell, et al, send you a bill that fails to repeal every word of the unconstitutional ObamaCare federal health care power grab and or if the replacement plan continues even one iota of federal mandate or control over health care, then it must be vetoed and sent back. We must repeal every word of it as you and every Republican pledged to do during the primaries. Nothing less than full repeal and return to free markets will suffice. As you have stated many times, Obamacare will implode and self-destruct on its own. And so will RYANcare. It’s unworkable, unsustainable and unconstitutional. If the congress fails to repeal it, we must let it die on its own. Meanwhile, we can strip it where we can, cut funding where we can, eliminate roadblocks to free market solutions where we can and let the states take over where we can as the founders intended.
Mr. President, you are the greatest negotiator in the world and you have our full and devoted attention. The press, the people and the entire world listens intently to your every speech and tweet. We are crying for government restraint and a return to fiscal and social sanity. Please use your God-given talents to sell the naysayers in the media and big government circles (and us) that by cutting government, cutting regulations, repealing ObamaCare, cutting spending, cutting taxes, securing the borders, securing the nation, making better treaties and trade deals, etc, will improve the economy, improve conditions for economic investment and jobs, will lift all boats and will bring more money into the treasury and will help us to begin reducing the debt for a change, Oh, and of course, that drilling, mining and manufacturing will put us back on the path to national prosperity and security.
Your passion and devotion to God and country coupled with your commonsense solutions, grasp on sound financial and economic principles, salesmanship and God-given natural communications talents and ability to bypass the media got you elected.
Please do not stop campaigning and please do not stop convincing your fellow Americans that freedom is far superior to godless socialism and please keep your eye on the prize. Do not allow Ryan, McConnell, the GOPe, the democrats or the media or anyone else sway or distract you from the path you are on. You have been on track for what we the people have been starving for ever since the day you came down that escalator.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
Cut, baby, cut. Drill, baby, drill!
Free-markets, free people or bust.
Like the man said, what do we have to lose? Continue with godless big government socialism, we lose it all.
Paraphrasing William F Buckley, someone must stand athwart history and yell STOP! That was us, Mr. President. When we sent you to Washington.
Right on target - MAGA!
Buy gold, silver and farmland.
Ping.
WOOOOHOOOO JimRob!!!
There are times where you must remain vigilant and fully invested in precious metals. I’m talking cold steel, brass and hot lead.
The finest analysis I’ve seen of our countries plight. I think everyone of the Republican congress critters need a copy of it in their hand!
You first yoke all the rats that got us here and then you yoke the rinos that were right being them!
Maybe a World War will snap us out of it.
The irony is that if the debt were paid off, there would be no more, of what people think of these days as, money.
ML/NJ
Yes.
Democrats can do nothing.
It’s wide open and Republican House, Senate and Executive can do anything.
No excuses.
Amen...President Trump has got to stand and do this. MAGA!
100% with you all the way!
Possibly the best most timely thing I’ve read on FR
(or anywhere) in all the years you’ve let me be here.
Perhaps he should read The Author of America's Declaration of Independence and Third President of the U. S., Thomas Jefferson's 1801 Inaugural Address, wherein Jefferson laid out the principles for his Administration, along with a closing summary of what should be done if "we wander from them. . . .":
(Jefferson's First Inaugural, as reformatted and quoted in Our Ageless Constitution, p. xiv)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;
- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;
- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter
—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
- Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,
- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;
- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;
- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;
- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;
- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;
- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;
- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;
- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
God will only help those that help themselves, most of us are trying, but the ‘deep state’ is doing everything it can to drown us...
They are tieing PTrump’s hands at every turn...I fully believe that PTrump is letting RINO RYAN to take enough rope to hang himself and those that want to hang with him...look at his backers, RINO RYAN it has been documented is getting money from George Soros, and I don't care if it was one penny, this man is EVIL...
I don't have all the answers to this RYANCARE, but I can tell you this: It's not the right plan for Americans, only those to pad their pockets more!!!
If the Republicans could just balance the budget year after year, they could start paying the debt down. If the debt were eventually paid off, then we wouldn’t need to use future tax revenues (or borrowing) to pay interest and principal on maturing bonds. We could either use it for the general welfare of all our countrymen or return it to our citizenry through tax relief....oh Happy Day!
A very smart person once said “I do not know what weapons will be employed in the Third World War but in the Fourth WW, it will be sticks and stones”.
Don’t forget brass, copper and lead.
Good thing I’ve been collecting knives.
Einstein
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