Posted on 03/05/2007 8:24:25 AM PST by AuntB
Those of us who have been involved in property rights battles appreciated Helen Chenoweth-Hage. What a great loss to all of us due to her untimely fatal accident last year. Talk about your dream ticket for the presidential race.
A poster from Idaho, Helen's home state, on a polictical forum states:
"We are very particular about our conservatives.We like principles and backbone. We elected Helen Chenoweth/Hage and Bill Sali. Helen loved Duncan Hunter and spoke of him often, that is why I loved him before he ever decided to run."
Helen and Duncan had a great appreciation for each other and accomplished much while they were both in congress, especially protecting private property rights.
It was announced this week that the Mt. Soledad Cross, which the ACLU sued to have removed, will in fact remain per the Supreme Court, largely due to the actions of Duncan Hunter.
In a field hearing held by COMMITTEE ON RESOURCES on the Endangered Species act in 1999 in Hemmet, California, Chenoweth and Hunter were in the forefront to protect the average American citizen property owner. They questioned, with little mercy, the bureaucrats who through archaic regulations and unnecessary paperwork were thwarting use of private land by it's legitimate owners. Hunter's comments speak for themselves.
Mr. HUNTER: I think that shows some of the misguided policies, and, Mr. Chairman, I think this falls on our back as well as those of the Administrators. In this effort that is to protect the environment and the perversion that I think we have made of some of the regulations, we have actually damaged the environment. We have massive traffic jams that are a result of people not being able to afford homes in the areas where they work. One reason they cannot afford homes is because we are protecting their environment in the communities where they work. So we have them put out tons of smog on the freeway to get 60 miles away where they can afford a home. So I think that working America has a real stake in seeing to it that we pull back regulation, make it more reasonable and make it more applicable to folks like the gentleman who was in here, Mr. Turecek. I do not know if you saw him, but average people that have pieces of land that they want to develop, to give them a fighting chance at it. Mr. Kading, I appreciate all of the witnesses, but I especially appreciate you being here and laying out the perspective of a working man."
Recently, Hunter has stated this concerning property rights and the Kelo property rights/eminent domain decision by the Supreme Court:
"I am deeply concerned with the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision greatly broadening local government’s use of eminent domain in Kelo vs. New London and believe it is important that Congress protect the property rights of private landowners and curb the government from excessive regulatory takings. It is for this reason that I voted in favor of expressing the grave disapproval of the House of Representatives regarding the majority opinion in the Kelo case.
Additionally, I cosponsored H.R. 3268 , the Eminent Domain Tax Relief Act of 2005, which abolished the capital gains tax on private property taken by the government through eminent domain. I also voted in favor of a legislative amendment offered to H.R. 3058, the FY2006 Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, prohibiting federal funding from being used to improve or construct infrastructure support on lands acquired through the use of eminent domain of private property for private development."
Hunter was awarded the American Farm Bureau Federation Friend of Farm Bureau award for the 105th Congress. The "Friend of Farm Bureau" is given each session of Congress to those members of Congress who were nominated by their respective state Farm Bureau and approved by the American Farm Bureau Federation Board of Directors.
Helen and Duncan worked on other projects such as controlling trade agreements like Nafta and getting out of the World Trade Organization.
Afta NAFTA - "GOP sponsors of the NAFTA Accountability Act in the 104th Congress included such high-profile conservatives as Duncan Hunter, Zach Wamp, Helen Chenoweth, and Gerald Solomon. In a speech before Congress on March 12, 1996, Hunter claimed that between one and five million jobs had been lost to corporate downsizing over the past three years. "We seem to be giving our own country away" through NAFTA, GATT, the World Bank, and foreign adventurism, he said: "billions and billions to other countries while our own people head for the unemployment office or have to settle for jobs in fast-food restaurants."
From March 27, 2000: Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has managed to win seven co-sponsors so far for a resolution that he introduced earlier this month calling on the United States to withdraw from the World Trade Organization. Responding to the congressman's call to co-sponsor the measure, issued in a letter March 10, have been Reps. Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho), Duncan L. Hunter (R-Calif.)........
This morning we read an article about Diane Alden, who has been an important journalist in the property rights battle and conservatism in general.
The bio on Adlen states, " Diane's heroes include Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Joan of Arc, St. Padre Pio, Lou Dobbs, the Minutemen, Phyllis Schlafly, Helen Chenoweth-Hage, Barbara Cubin, George Putnam, Marc Bernier, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Jeff Sessions, Mark Kirkorian, Frank Gaffney, Steve Farrell, Peter Brimelow, William Hawkins, her dad Neil Alden, as well as the unsung heroes who have blogged and supported real conservatism and American interests as opposed to the partisan or corporate variety. Most particularly her heroes include the men and women of the Armed Forces of the United States who lay it on the line every single day." [snip]
Oh my, I do hope you're right.
I think it is coming hope to roost. I can't help but wonder if the stock market has anything to do with the bonds Cede & Co. flipped to AES China.
Many have started coming due 2006. Some are due 2007. And we all would love to know what 'assets' were used to back the Global Notes that are needed to pay them.
At the link, see the legal contract on the notes being flipped to AES China
http://justwhatithink.com/blog/index.php?y=2006&m=10&d=5
Cede & Co. c/o
The Depository Trust Company
7 Hanover Square
New York, New York 10004
See my post #18
See post #67
Duncan Hunter: "But it is also a story of tragedy, because 617,000 Americans lie in cemeteries across this country and in the oceans of the world and the battlefields of the world as people who were killed in action saving the world for freedom in this last century.
Many of them fought in wars for which we were unprepared; that is a tragedy of the 20th century. But the greater tragedy, which could be the tragedy of the 21st century, could happen if this country, having fought and bled and sacrificed to dissolve the Soviet empire, through a massive infusion of cash produces, by our own hand, another military superpower, and if the cemeteries of this country one day hold the bodies of Americans in uniform killed with weapons purchased by American trade dollars. That will be the greatest tragedy of this new 21st century.
Mr. Speaker, let us avoid that tragedy. Vote no on PNTR.(perm trade relations w/China)
Of course their exports are lower priced, and they found a comfortable level, pegging their currency to the dollar, to keep the built in advantage they have. Now if they were buying billions MORE from us instead of selling Billions more TO us, then they would not be doing this would they? So they make profits by the sheer volume of exports, and buy little in return by comparison.
And on top of that, they cheat as well...constantly.
Ben Bernanke sees China's devaluation as a problem for the US and a way they keep an advantage as an export driven economy. And he's not even talking about the security implications of such.
No my friend, you can toot China's horn all you want, but they are strategically taking advantage of the trade with us, lining thier pockets with cash to buy weapons to use against us. We should treat them as the enemy they are. Giving them unfettered, artificially low priced access to this country is no ones interest but their own.
If we're de-industrializing America how is it that we make and export more today than at any other time in our history? When our manufacturing moves to China it doesn't mean the Chinese own it. Sixty percent of what China exports is made by foreign owned firms.
and he has no use for anyone other than the USA having authority to govern our trade.
Who has authority over our trade decisions if not us? If the WTO tells us to do something we don't want to do who is going to force us to do it? Witness the Canadian softwood debate.
He is no Buchananite
Hunter is a protectionist. That's the opposite of being a champion of free trade, real or otherwise.
Hunter is right on many issues. Trade is definitely not one of them.
How difficult is the concept that government shouldn't interfere with trade which is merely an extension of capitalism?
Supply and demand. Nothing more complicated than that.
When government interferes, it manipulates the market making things more expensive for everyone. If it would just butt out, the markets would work their magic and everyone would benefit. The gospel of Adam Smith really does make sense.
But Hunter wants government to manipulate the markets and he's considered a friend of the farmers because he wants to use your tax dollars to manipulate agriculture as well.
He's just wrong about that. There's nothing conservative and certainly nothing libertarian about wanting the government to micromanage the economy. It's the fatal mistake the Soviets made.
If Hunter is the Republican nominee, which I strongly doubt he will, I will support him. But it will be in spite of this serious flaw in his political character.
Okey Dokie, AuntB. Nice to see you too! And all the other trench-trompers here. Good work!
That's why you never hear him complain about Japan, Britain, Austrailia, etcetera...
When our manufacturing moves to China it doesn't mean the Chinese own it. Sixty percent of what China exports is made by foreign owned firms.
That may be so, but it's certainly a national security risk if they ever take hostile actions against us (it'd be kind of hard to access those manufacturing plants in China if they don't let us in...and I certainly hope it never comes to that, but better safe than sorry).
Not even close. If he were a protecionist, then he wouldn't spend time singling out China, our enemy. He'd be going after egyptian cotton, Aussie wool, Tawainese electronics, Chilean wine, etc. He is going after China, who yoou apparently thinks is not manipulating trade to undercut us.
Unless the cheat. And they do. All the time. Hence, Hunter will put an end to that.
Easy to feed and keep. Fast breeders. Taste like chicken.
They 'interfered' when they gave tax break/subsidies to NGOs for relocating over seas.
They 'interfered' when they let corporations write trade legislation.
They interfered when they refuse to enforce immigration and trade laws.
I agree, get the government OUT of trade.
He's opposed to CAFTA. Costa Rica doesn't even have an army. What hostile designs do they have against us, wanting to beat us in soccer?
Trade occurs between individuals who mutually benefit. From his words quoted in the article, it would seem he wants to restrict this process, and not just for matters of national security.
This is the language of a protectionist who is interested in restricting trade with more countries than just China. We're not giving our country away nor are millions losing their jobs because of this. Creative destruction has been going on for a long time and there is no way any amount of protection is going to stop that process without hurting our economy. To believe that we're becoming a nation of hamburger flippers is the kind of hyperbole and ignorance I would expect from Lou Dobbs and Pat Buchanan, not from a real conservative in the mold of Ronald Reagan.
Reference please.
bttt!
Slaves make wages?
That is from this article which you yourself posted.
Is he a "friend of farm" because he gets out there himself and bales hay? His voting record is public.
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