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]
Thanks for pointing out this thread, AuntB. Excellent!
Bookmarking.
Thank you or yet another commendable thread, AuntB.
B4DH! :)
RR, sounds like what we need is another depression, where housing and farm prices drop, and the bankers can pick them all up for nothing, enriching their already gold lined pockets. Get into a major war, to further line those pockets. Last time it worked. In the ‘40’s and 50’s houses that now bring $500-700 hundred thousand sold for $4-10,000! There were good times after WWII. Then taxes began to spiral.
Why do I think they’re trying to do it all over again issuing cockamamie loans to unqualified buyers?
One good thing RP suggests is to go back on the gold standard. But look what happened to JFK when he was considering that move!
Nobody uses the gold standard any more. We’ve had a more stabilized and faster growing economy without one.
But that doesn’t matter...gold is pretty and shiny.
Why would that be good?
But look what happened to JFK when he was considering that move!
We were on the gold standard while JFK was president. LOL!
I think we went off the gold standard many years before JFK’s administration.
Nixon took us off the gold standard.
Between 1946 and 1971 countries operated under the Bretton Woods system. Under this further modification of the gold standard, most countries settled their international balances in U.S. dollars, but the U.S. government promised to redeem other central banks' holdings of dollars for gold at a fixed rate of $35 per ounce. However, persistent U.S. balance-of-payments deficits steadily reduced U.S. gold reserves, reducing confidence in the ability of the United States to redeem its currency in gold. Finally, on August 15, 1971, President Nixon announced that the United States would no longer redeem currency for gold. This was the final step in abandoning the gold standard.
What you say about the gold standard is only part of the story, Toddler. Re: your source, 1880-1914 was the classic gold standard period. During WWI it broke down.
In 1933, FDR nationalized all gold owned by private citizens. Amazing that he was permitted to do that!
Then we operated under a modified version of the gold standard from ‘47.
Before his assassination, JFK had intentions of fully restoring us to the gold standard.
Then Nixon gave it the final axe because the US was low in gold supply. Very sad. We should have pulled in our belts, and done everything we could to maintain the gold standard, for today our money is actually worth absolutely nothing by itself.
But nothing has been done without the deliberate intention of the Establishment. Even today, our economy is being manipulated to the advantage of the world bankers. If we had remained on the gold standard, this chance would have been far less possible, if not completely impossible.
I've never heard that before. Do you have a source?
No. Only memory.
Let’s see. The World Bankers?
All the bankers in the world? Why?
Now why do you suppose, Toddler?
LOL!
I believe that the Franklin Roosevelt administrations were the greatest domestic disaster that we have suffered. President Roosevelt's contempt for the Constitution was manifest in his behavior, particularly evinced I feel in his executive orders, such as the ones implementing his seizure of privately owned gold.
Yes, I remember the day he passed away. I saw no tears that day. He was another CFR member.
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