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]
How come this is in a Blogger?
Eastbound!! Good to see you!
I posted it in bloggers, because it came from a blog. Didn't want to push my luck.
China putting tariffs on our products and us rolling over.
I'm a big free trader, you know that. China is a problem. And it is their long term strategy to undercut our industrial base in certain products. We need to put the thumbscrews on the bastards. Whatever they make that we no longer make can be just as esaily made in the Tawian, the Phillipines, etc. Allied countries that would also benefit if we come down hard on China. Starting with their artificially low currency.
HMPH
you should put her on it anyway :P
Pinging her again so she'll know she's being talked about lol.
I won't do that. I'll make her ask....politely. LOL
lol hell man make her BEG :P
LOL!
That's your definition of foreign price support?
I'm a big free trader, you know that. China is a problem.
Yes, the Chinese Communists suck and I can't wait for the day when they're finally out of power.
Whatever they make that we no longer make can be just as esaily made in the Tawian, the Phillipines, etc. Allied countries that would also benefit if we come down hard on China.
And Central and South America. And Eastern Europe. We need trade agreements with all these areas.
Starting with their artificially low currency.
Yes, I hate it that they sell their stuff so cheaply. And that they overpay so much for what they buy. Doing that is a sure way to get rich.
Anyone know where GulfBreeze has been?
They do not overpay for our products, they peg their currency to the dollar. Thought you might want to know that. If they let their currency float like other countries, they would go up significantly versus the dollar. Making our products cheaper and theirs more expensive. I don't buy any of their crap anyway, but the shelves are full of it.
Yes, we need trade agreements with whoever we want to do trade with. And we need them to be on the level, and negotiated by the USA and not give decision making power to bodies not controlled by the US. The WTO is a farce.
Wait a minute! Put me on what? Hey, I just turned my 'puter on, got a bunch of messages to sort through. Be patient you guys, it's not easy being popular. Just take a number and sit quietly for awhile, you'll get your turn. :P
Duncan Hunter is also being ignored in most of the polls and on most cable news stations. The GOP and their cronies are trying to hush up the only true conservative in the bunch, which says a lot about the GOP. They've already treated Tom Tancredo like he had leprosy, and I believe it's also because of what you said above.
We have cheap due to the blood of others
Reminiscent of the slave labor companies paid the Reich for.
Reminiscent? Or the same?
Thanks, Aunt B. Great post.
Using cheap foreign slave wage labor gets ya rich for sure. That is precisely why the US had slavery. But somehow, for the better, we've survived without it, until we started using communist slave labor from China,etc.
Some of us value humanity above $.
bump
Worse.
Actually, it's a hell of a lot more than that. The median price is about a half-million. No way on God's green earth you're buying a half million dollar home on 70 grand. Even if you could somehow come up with $50 grand to put down, you're still looking at $3400 a month for a mortgage payment once you figure in taxes and insurance and at $70 grand a year, if you're LUCKY you might bring home $3800 after taxes...
Now more and more information has been coming out about China building their military.
Duncan Hunter told us about that a long time ago.
The country NEEDS Duncan Hunter!
LOL
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